YOU HAVE BECOME....

1 Or
do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law),
that
the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?
For
the woman
who has a husband
is bound
by the law to her husband
as long as he lives.
But
if the husband dies,
she is released
from the law of her husband.
3 So then
if, while her husband lives,
she marries another man,
she will be called an adulteress;
but if her husband dies,
she is free from that law,
so that she is no adulteress,
though she has married another man.

4 Therefore,
my brethren,
you also have become dead
to the law
through the body of Christ,

that you may be married to another
--to Him who was raised from the dead,
that we should bear fruit to God.
5 For when we were in the flesh,
the sinful passions
which were aroused
by the law
were at work in our members
to bear fruit to death.
6 But now we have been delivered from the law,
having died to what we were held by,
so that we should serve in the newness
of the Spirit
and not in the oldness
of the letter.




7 What shall we say then?
Is the law sin?

Certainly not! On the contrary,...

BLESSED IS "THE GOOD GROUND"

16 "But
blessed are your eyes for they see,
and
your ears for they hear;
17 for assuredly,
I say to you that many prophets
and righteous men
desired to see what you see,
and
did not see it,
and to hear what you hear,
and
did not hear it.
18
"Therefore
hear the parable of the sower:
19
When anyone hears the word of the kingdom,
and
does not understand it,
then the wicked one comes
and
snatches away what was sown
in his heart.
This is he who received seed by the wayside.
20
But
he who received the seed on stony places,
this is he who hears the word
and immediately receives it with joy;
21
yet he has no root in himself,
but
endures only for a while.
For
when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word,
immediately
he stumbles.
22
Now he who received seed among the thorns
is he who hears the word,
and the cares of this world
and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word,
and
he becomes unfruitful.
23
But he who received seed on the good ground
is he who hears the word
and understands it,
who indeed bears fruit
and produces:
some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty."
Matt 13:16-23 (NKJV)

THEREFORE WE MUST GIVE THE MORE HEED.....

Therefore
\ we must give the more earnest heed to the things
we have heard,
lest
we drift away.
For
if the word spoken through angels
proved steadfast,
and every transgression
and disobedience
received a just reward,
how shall we escape
if
we neglect so great a salvation,
which at
the first began to be spoken by the Lord,
and was confirmed to us
by those who heard Him,
God also bearing witness
both with signs
and wonders,
with various miracles,
and gifts of the Holy Spirit,
according to His own will?
Heb 2:1-4 (NKJV)

THE RIGHT TO BE BORN OF GOD

1 In the beginning
was the Word,
and the Word
was with God,
and the Word
was God.
He was
in the beginning with God.
All things were made
through Him,
and without Him nothing was made
that was made.
In Him was life,
and the life was the light of men.
And the light shines in the darkness,
and the darkness did not comprehend it.

That was the true Light
which gives light to every man
coming into the world.
He was in the world,
and the world was made through Him,
and the world did not know Him.
He came to His own,
and His own did not receive Him.
But
as many as received Him,
to them
He gave the right
to become children of God,
to those who believe in His name:
who were born,
not of blood,
nor of the will of the flesh,
nor of the will of man,
but of God.

"BELIEVE IN ME...."

"Let not your heart be troubled;
you believe in God,
believe also in Me.

In My Father's house are many mansions;

if it were not so, I would have told you.

I go to prepare a place for you.
And
if I go and prepare a place for you,
I will come again and receive you to Myself;
that
where I am,
there you may be also.
And where I go you know,
and the way you know...."

"I am the way,
the truth,
and the life.

No one comes to the Father except through Me.
John 14:1-6 (NKJV)

For God so loved the world
that He gave
His only begotten Son,
that whoever believes in Him
should not perish
but have everlasting life.
For God did not send His Son
into the world
to condemn the world,
but that the world
through Him might be saved.

He who believes in Him
is not condemned;
but
he who does not believe
is condemned already,
because he has not believed
in the name of the only begotten Son
of God.
And
this is the condemnation,
that the light has come into the world,
and men loved darkness rather than light,
because their deeds were evil.
For everyone practicing evil hates the light
and does not come to the light,
lest his deeds should be exposed.
But
he who does the truth comes to the light,
that his deeds may be clearly seen,
that they have been done in God."
John 3:16-21 (NKJV)


KOINONIKOS

THE FIRST AND THE LAST

"Listen to Me, O Jacob,
And Israel, My called:

I am He,
I am the First,
I am also the Last.

Indeed My hand has laid the foundation of the earth, And My right hand has stretched out the heavens;
When I call to them, They stand up together

Isaiah 48:12-13 (NKJV)


"I am the Alpha
and the Omega,
the Beginning
and the End,"
says the Lord,
"who is and who was
and who is to come,

the Almighty."

I, John, both your brother and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was on the island that is called Patmos for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet,
saying,
"I am the Alpha
and the Omega,
the First
and the Last,"
Rev 1:5-11 (NKJV)

Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.

.Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel, And his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts:

'I am the First and I am the Last;
Besides Me there is no God.
And who can proclaim as I do?

Then let him declare it and set it in order for Me,
Since I appointed the ancient people. And the things that are coming and shall come,
Let them show these to them.
Do not fear, nor be afraid; Have I not told you from that time, and declared it?
You are My witnesses.
Is there a God besides Me?
Indeed there is no other Rock; I know not one.' "
Those who make an image, all of them are useless, And their precious things shall not profit;
They are their own witnesses;
They neither see nor know, that they may be ashamed.

Who would form a god or mold an image That profits him nothing?
Surely all his companions would be ashamed;

And the workmen, they are mere men.
Let them all be gathered together,
Let them stand up;
Yet they shall fear,
They shall be ashamed together.

The blacksmith with the tongs works one in the coals,
Fashions it with hammers,
And works it with the strength of his arms.
Even so, he is hungry, and his strength fails;
He drinks no water and is faint.
The craftsman stretches out his rule,
He marks one out with chalk;
He fashions it with a plane,
He marks it out with the compass,

And makes it like the figure of a man,
According to the beauty of a man, that it may remain in the house.
He cuts down cedars for himself, And takes the cypress and the oak;
He secures it for himself among the trees of the forest.
He plants a pine, and the rain nourishes it.
Then it shall be for a man to burn,



For he will take some of it and warm himself; Yes, he kindles it and bakes bread;
Indeed he makes a god and worships it;

He makes it a carved image, and falls down to it.
....he makes into a god,

His carved image.

He falls down before it and worships it,
Prays to it and says,
"Deliver me, for you are my god!"

They do not know nor understand; For He has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see,
And their hearts, so that they cannot understand.

....And shall I make the rest of it an abomination?
Shall I fall down before a block of wood?"

..."Remember these, O Jacob, And Israel, for you are My servant;
I have formed you, you are My servant;
O Israel, you will not be forgotten by Me!
I have blotted out, like a thick cloud, your transgressions,

And like a cloud, your sins.

Return to Me, for I have redeemed you."
Isaiah 44:6-22 (NKJV)



KOINONIKOS

JERUSALEM--O' JERUSALEM

Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it, saying, "If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation."
Luke 19:41-44 (NKJV)




Seventy weeks are determined..."For your people and for your holy city,
To finish the transgression,
To make an end of sins,
To make reconciliation for iniquity,
To bring in everlasting righteousness,
To seal up vision and prophecy,
And to anoint the Most Holy.
"Know therefore and understand, That from the going forth of the command To restore and build Jerusalem Until Messiah the Prince, There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks;
The street shall be built again, and the wall, Even in troublesome times.

"And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself;
Daniel 9:24-26 (NKJV)
"Seventy weeks are determined...."
"weeks" Hebrew Word: shaw-boo'-ah
Root: properly, pass part of as a denom. of
Cross Reference: TWOT - 2318d Part of Speech: n m Vine's Words: Week
Usage Notes: English Words used in KJV: week 19 seven 1 [Total Count: 20]
or shabua`, shaw-boo'-ah; also (feminine) shebu`ah, sheb-oo-aw'; properly passive participle of (shaba`) as a denominative of (sheba`); literal sevened, i.e. a week (specifically of years) :- seven, week. —Strong's Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary

In the Septuagint LXX–the Greek Old Testament translation used by Paul.
“Messiah” is translated Xristou. which is transliterated “Christ” in English.