{"id":11640,"date":"2015-11-01T19:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T02:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/?p=11640"},"modified":"2015-11-01T19:00:55","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T02:00:55","slug":"in-the-words-of-jesus-part-1312","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/01\/in-the-words-of-jesus-part-1312\/","title":{"rendered":"IN THE WORDS OF JESUS\u2013Part 1312"},"content":{"rendered":"

ON LOVE; PART\u00a0CMLI<\/span><\/h2>\n
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GoodWill\u00a0IS Love in Action<\/span><\/h2>\n
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FIRST IS THE GREAT COMMANDMENTS: “The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these<\/em>” (Mark 12:29-31).<\/span><\/p>\n

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WHAT THEN IS LOVE? In a general sense love is benevolence, good will; that disposition of heart which inclines men to think favorably of their fellow men, and to do them good. In a theological sense, it includes supreme love to God, and universal good will to men. While this IS from an older definition of Charity, which IS rendered in the King James Bible from the same Greek word agape<\/em> which IS generally rendered as Love,\u00a0we should amend our own definition here to include the idea that in the reality of Love a man will accord to ALL men ALL things that he would accord to himself and to say that Love IS our thoughts and attitude\u00a0of the equality of ALL men regardless of their outward nature or appearance…that ALL ARE equally children of Our\u00a0One God<\/span><\/p>\n

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PLUS THE EVER IMPORTANT AND HIGH IDEAL TAUGHT TO US BY THE CHRIST: “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them<\/em>” (Matthew 7:12).<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the last essay we took leave of our topic to address United Nations Day 2016 which we did by posting the ‘proclamations’ of the President of the United States and those who run the United Nations….the Secretary General and the President of the General Assembly. At its heart<\/em><\/strong> we should try to see that it IS the reality of Jesus’ words that IS the prime motivator of the United Nations as a group of countries, some of whose ONLY alliance IS through this world body. This reality can be seen as\u00a0True in the United Nations Charter and while this world body may fall short of the high ideals that it has set for itself, it IS the ONLY best hope for Peace in the world today. It IS the reality of that Love that the Master teaches us, NOT the emotional and mental attractions and attachments of men but the deeper aspects that ARE found in the reality of the Great Commandments and the Golden Rule that we repeat again at the top of our essay, that IS the foundation for ALL world progress toward Peace and this IS True regardless of one’s nationality or one’s religion as ALL men ARE bound by the timeless teachings that the Master gave us 2000 years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

As we resume our current study of the Apostle Paul’s words to the Galatians that show us, in definitive terms, “the works of the flesh<\/em>” and the\u00a0“the fruit of the Spirit<\/em>” we should try to remember that the common understanding of the apostle’s words misses the greater Truths that he IS giving us. These ARE\u00a0spiritual Truths that show us the way of the man in the world whose focus<\/em> IS NOT upon the things of God compared to the way of the man whose focus<\/em> IS upon that Truth. In our previous essays we discussed how that the first segment of Paul’s words IS in regard to a man’s relationship with God according to the first of the Great Commandments and how that\u00a0adultery, fornication, uncleanness<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0lasciviousness,\u00a0<\/em>along with the ideas of\u00a0idolatry<\/em> and witchcraft,\u00a0<\/em>ARE contrary to the True spiritual objective of ALL men….that they\u00a0shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The second segment of the apostle’s words IS directed toward the relationship between a man and his brother, his neighbor and the stranger who qualifies as both. Here we have redefined hatred<\/em> to be enmity<\/em> as many other bible translations DO and we have come to see variance<\/em>\u00a0as dissension and controversy as this IS based in the disagreements of men that flow freely in their own sense of self which IS fed by the greater ideas of emulation<\/em> which IS, as Vincent defines for us,: a\u00a0spirit of self-devotion\u00a0<\/em>4<\/sup>. The reality of the ideas behind the Greek words as they ARE rendered IS that these thoughts, attitudes and actions ARE clearly carnal and we should try to see how that ALL men ARE afflicted save for the man whose focus<\/em> IS clearly upon the things of God. This IS the reality of Paul’s saying that “the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same<\/em>” (Romans 8:20) and here we should understand that this subjection IS simply the way of Life in this world….a way from which men must escape<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

It IS in one’s “having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust<\/em>” (2 Peter 1:4)\u00a0that the True Promise comes which IS to “be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God<\/em>”\u00a0(Romans 8:21) and we should see this Promise as the same that the Apostle Peter shows us saying that in such escape<\/em> we become “partakers of the divine nature<\/em>”\u00a0(2 Peter 1:4). We repeat Paul’s\u00a0words again saying:<\/span><\/p>\n

“For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.\u00a0But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.\u00a0Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,\u00a0Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,\u00a0Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.\u00a0But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,\u00a0Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.\u00a0And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts<\/em>” (Galatians 5:17-24).<\/span><\/p>\n

As we continue with the apostle’s words that ARE “the works of the flesh<\/em>” we come to the next word which IS rendered as wrath<\/em>. This\u00a0Greek word thumos<\/em> IS rendered by ALL translators in terms of wrath<\/em> and anger<\/em> and we should see here that this IS NOT the same Greek word that IS used by Jesus to show that the effect of anger<\/em> IS the same as the seemingly more carnal act of killing.<\/em>\u00a0The Master tells us that “Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill ; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:\u00a0But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment<\/em>” (Matthew 5:21-22).<\/span><\/p>\n

While the King James Translators add the idea of “without a cause<\/em>“, this IS NOT the way that this IS rendered by most others who leave out the whole of the idea engendered by the Greek word eike<\/em>\u00a0as this DOES NOT appear in their working manuscripts. Additionally we should try to see how that \u00a0this idea of “without a cause<\/em>” IS rendered according to the ideas of men and how that\u00a0the lexicon shows us that the idea behind eike<\/em>\u00a0IS as\u00a0in vain<\/em> or vainly\u00a0<\/em>2\u00a0<\/sup>which can shed quite a different light upon Jesus words. And the reality of anger<\/em> as an equivalent to killing<\/em> shows us the Truth that the Apostle James captures as he tells us “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.\u00a0For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law<\/em>” (James 2:10-11).<\/span><\/p>\n

While this may seem to be off of our discussion of Paul’s words, the greater Truth IS that this helps us to define his ideas which lie behind the word thumos<\/em>\u00a0which IS also rendered as fierceness<\/em> and indignation<\/em> by the King James Translators. There IS a relationship in these ideas that Paul\u00a0shows us saying that “But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath<\/em>“; here thumos<\/em> IS rendered as indignation<\/em> and the root of Jesus’ word for angry<\/em>, orgizo<\/em>, is rendered as wrath<\/em>. In ALL of these ideas from Jesus and from Paul we should get the idea that anger, wrath, indignation<\/em> and any other similar emotional response IS among those things that cause a man to “not inherit the kingdom of God<\/em>”\u00a0and we should understand how common an affliction this IS for most ALL men.<\/span><\/p>\n

It IS in the idea that sin IS ONLY those evil things that ARE taken out of the Master’s words and the words of His apostles that the reality that sin and evil ARE but a man’s focus<\/em> upon the things of the self and the self in the world IS lost. It IS in this view of the carnal Life that the apostle’s words are seen in the context of sexual deviation and the outright hating<\/em> attitudes that come to us in the Greek ideas that ARE seen in terms of hatreds<\/em>\u00a0and attitudes wrath<\/em> which John Gill sees as:\u00a0violent emotions of the mind, moving to revenge, and seeking the hurt and mischief of others<\/em>\u00a08<\/sup>. In ALL this the deeper message of a man’s focus<\/em> IS lost and while this IS the easier and more convenient way for men to believe,<\/em> it IS NOT in accord with the words of Jesus, the words that make our trifecta,<\/strong><\/em> which we repeat here again:<\/span><\/p>\n