Ephesians 1 commentary on Precept
https://www.preceptaustin.org/ephesians_19-10.htm
According to (2596) (kata) means not out of but according to. If billionaire gives you $10 it is out of his fortune (a portion) but if he gives a million dollars it is according to his riches (a proportion). His making known this mystery is in proportion to His kind intention.
Today, the Lord blessed me with my brother. Thank you Father for my brothers who are in Your Son.
After we hung out I ruminated on the word co-laborer (in Christ). I saw that I was co-laboring with Christ. The Lord gave a word of knowledge to me on a few things while hanging out with my brother. My inner man was quickened during and after.
According to Philemon, when we hear His voice there is a co-mingling of His faith in us creating godly energy, His will. Glory!
I saw His will in me. Even His willingness. This creates co-laboring.
So, if I feed the homeless then what is that? If I give money to a church what is that? I think it goes back to by revelation, the good, perfect and acceptable will of God. Today, I believe it was all three. For me, at times, I think the others are good and acceptable, but are they perfect? What is perfect? I think today was the third.
Perhaps it goes back to sanctification. For example, I have a butter knife. I use it to turn a flat head screw; that is acceptable and probably good. I use it to cut and spread butter on my toast; that is perfect. The knife is being used willing (figuratively speaking) for the toast. The hand and knife are co-laboring. The willingness of the hand works with the knife to fulfill purpose. Purpose of the knife Creator.
That is what I saw today.
1 Corinthians 10:29,
I am referring to the other person’s conscience, not yours. For why is my freedom being judged by another’s conscience?
Romans 3:31,
Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.
“If Christ is in us the fulfillment of the law is in us. The law has been written in our hearts not to do the law, but to be a fulfillment of the law.” -learner
We are walking testimonies and proof of fulfillment of the law. Even the law written in our hearts. We walk with “unveiled faces” manifesting the fulfillment. This is what John saw in 1 John 1:1-2,
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;(For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)
This is also what was spoken of in Acts 1:8. The believers being witnesses of the fulfillment of the law in the power of the Spirit. The Apostle Paul was a pattern of this.
It is not just about eating, but everything. Why is that? Romans 1:17.
Romans 14:23,
But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.
If I:
1The KJV translates Strongs G1252 in the following manner: doubt (5x), judge (3x), discern (2x), contend (2x), waver (2x), misc (5x).
which IS NOT faith then I am putting myself based on my vain imagination, presumption, assumption, soulish knowledge, guess and the like under that expectation based on that imagination, presumption, assumption, soulish knowledge or guess.
I plainly miss it. Positionally, I am not condemned, but I am empowering the old nature by creating the expectation through doubt. The old nature is death, enmity towards God and intrinsically incapable of pleasing God because is diametrically opposed to faith. Now, faith comes by hearing His voice based on the word.
The parable of the sower describes situations in which the word is not successfully sown. I was thinking we have all these expectations in our lives always trying to pull at us and even more so the word in us. Then the thought came to mind,
The Word will meet all expectations. And that is called hope. He is the hope of glory in me.
Thank You Lord for Hope. One of the three that remain.
And hope predicates on faith. I am persuaded both and His love are always in present pluperfect tense or always now in us by faith and revelation.
Romans 12:1-2,
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Transformed here is present tense and passive voice. I see now after 27 years Paul is saying, “You will be transformed when rhema (quickened word) manifests. And when it does it changes your will, purpose & intent insomuch that you are able ‘to recognize as genuine after examination’ & ‘to see whether a thing is genuine or not’ regarding what actually is the good, acceptable & perfect will of God.” In turn, this puts the enable power, will and energy of Him in us to be willful living sacrifices.
Romans 4:5, But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
Even if I am missing it I am the righteousness of God by grace through faith and revelation of Him and it has nothing to do with me, but Him through me. Thank You Lord.
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Likeness (3667) (homoioma from homoioo = to make like) refers to shape, similitude (= a visible likeness, a thing or sometimes a person that is like or the counterpart of another) or a resemblance.
Thomas Constable is careful to point out that…
“Likeness” (homoioma) does not mean exactness (eikon – 5104). Even though Jesus had a fully human nature, that nature was not sinful. Every other human being has a sinful human nature. Moreover Jesus had a divine nature as well as a human nature.” (Tom Constable’s Expository Notes on the Bible)
Later in Romans Paul adds that…
“what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness (homoioma = “likeness” is crucial, for it indicates that Jesus was a true man but not a sinful man) of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh (Ro 8:3–note)
How important is this doctrinal truth? John explains that…
By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; (1John 4:2)
Reference: https://www.preceptaustin.org/philippians_25-11.htm#likeness
06/24/13
Hebrews 4:2
For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard [it].
https://www.olivetree.com/learn/articles/meditating-on-gods-word.php
The English word muse, though only a translation of the biblical word in Psalm 77:12, mentioned above, offers a window into a life of interacting with God in the Scriptures. Coming from a Middle French word that means to idle or loiter, to muse means “to become absorbed in thought” (Webster’s Third New International Dictionary), and its primary synonym is the word ruminate, from a Latin word which meant to chew the cud. This is the natural process whereby some animals, many of them domesticated, chew and chew and chew their food, then swallow, regurgitate, and chew some more. By this means, they obtain the maximum nourishment from what they eat, digesting it thoroughly. Not without significance, animals in the Old Testament were considered clean and suitable for food if they split the hoof and chewed the cud (Lev.11:3). By analogy, we could say that a person who “chews the cud” in relation to God’s word is made clean and fruitful by the word (John 15:3,7); just as Christ’s glorious church is cleansed by the washing of the water of the word (Eph 5:26).
Though the word ruminate may not be found in your Bible, the concept of chewing is a biblical one, for the Greek word used by the Lord in John 6:57 for eat may imply to chew, masticate, gnaw, crunch, or nibble — more or less constantly, like snacking:
“As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that eateth me, he also shall live because of me.”