Nr. 509:
They shall all be taught of the Lord!
The knee of an open Bible, it's the best job a person can have. The Apostle Paul lived as he preached: Ephesians 3 1.a why cause I bow my knees, I, Paul, prisoner of Christ Jesus. Alone with God, something better and bigger than it's not. Illustration shows a person who is alone, my out among other people in the park. We can be alone with God both there, in the car, at home, wherever it may be.
Isaiah 54:13 And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord, and your sons will be great.
When I was baptized in the Holy Spirit and fire, so I read without someone had explained or put me through the whole Bible in one month. Through this I got a totally different idea of the word of God, and the Bible was an open book to me. Before that it had been a "closed" book.
The personal care and daily intercourse with the word of God and prayer is of utmost importance.
I believe in a structured and regular Christian life. But the most important thing is that you read, pray and study the scriptures well on their own. Such as those in Berea.
Acts 17th 10 But immediately sent the brothers Paul and Silas away to Berea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. 11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the scriptures daily, whether it was just as it was told unto them. 12 Therefore many of them believed, and not a few prominent Greek women and men.
We read: "These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the scriptures daily, whether it was just as it was told unto them."
Being of a noble mind, it is scriptural testimony to investigate and study God's Word daily. And see if it is preached matches the font. In our relations with the Word of God which is crucial here.
Major conferences, meetings and other things can never replace the personal and regular relations with the Word of God. Where we are within its God alone, in silence and seek His guidance, revelations, and we interview him and he gets the opportunity to communicate with us. Jesus himself encouraged this.
Matt. 6 6 But you, when you pray, go into your room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
Scripture says, "pray to your Father who is in secret."
Thus God is present in our lives when we are "private" with him, do we use this? For he will hear and answer our prayers, Hallelujah!
The basic text it says here: Just like going to the toilet, where one does not want anyone to see you. Furthermore, it says that you should shut the door. It has to close all other thoughts, impressions, and everything else for the private and intimate contact and intercourse with God.
Furthermore, it says that God is waiting for us to come to him privately freely translated. Secondly, that where he will answer us, because he has us to himself. So could this verse has been translated so as our Norwegian language does not cover completely the Greek language.
Matt. 6 6 But you, when you pray, go into your room, close your door as you close the door to the toilets and for there to pray to your Father who is in secret to wait on you, he shall reward thee openly with joy after you have requested.
The first Christians also prayed regularly. It is a good rule, but the most important thing is that you pray and find a way to live the Christian life works and that gives pleasure and desire to pray and live for God.
It's all about loving God, than also want to be with him in private.
My wife wants to be with other people, it is because one is healthy and normal. But she also wants to be with me alone, it's mutual. So it is with God, the Christian community is in its place, but it can never replace being alone with God - in private.
God word also encourages us to need us in God, because resistance to experience him is so great both in ourselves and in the external impact. Secondly, you must do as Abraham did God always able to speak and communicate with him. We read of Abraham that he always built an altar. He stated closer to God and he sat down, worked not for God to make voice. Stopper slightly at:
1 Genesis 18 1 And the Lord appeared unto him in Mamre oak-grove, and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.
Abraham received revelation when he was sitting. It is important to work, serve God and their fellow man. But God will have come to so do but to stop. Refrain from work, service and everything else. So that one is alone with God. Abraham had learned this, therefore God also revealed to him again and again. How is it for me, and so can and should be well for you if you do not experience it dear friend!
Final comment:
I started this article with this passage: Isaiah 54:13 And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord, and your sons will be great.
God wants and will have personal dealings with the individual. In the OT God was personal and confidential intercourse with only a few, such as the priest, judges, prophets and kings. But in the new covenant is not so, as he his dealings and confidential contact with all their children, but they only want and desire.
This is from my commentaries Hebrews 8 1 The main point in what we are talking about here is this: Such a high priest is what we have, and he sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven.
Now Paul concludes and summarizes what he would have said. To sit at the right hand of the Father was only given to the Messiah. When Jesus has proven to be the Christ would be futile to leave him.
2 Where does he ministry in the sanctuary, the true tabernacle, which is not raised by humans, but by the Lord.
The Old Testament sacrifices and the Levitical worship was temporary and which pointed forward to what came to Christ.
Kol. 2 17 All this is only a shadow of what was to come, but the body is Christ's body.
3 Every high priest is appointed to offer up gifts and sacrifices. Therefore Christ also have something to offer.
Here we see that they held on to the old covenant was not human ordinances, but God-given decrees. The priest and especially the high priest brought their sacrifices were essential to Israel spiritual life.
4 If he had been on earth now, had he not been a priest, for there are others that the law brings out the offerings.
However, in this context, Jesus had never come up. He was not of the right tribe. But the Levites who carried the victim did the right thing as long as the Old Testament worship was intact. That was it until Jesus cried it is finished or completed that he actually cried. Just the same as the high priest did on the Day of Atonement after he had finished all the sacrifices for themselves, their families and the children of Israel.
5 But they minister in a tent that is only an imitation and shadow of the heavenly. We see the word Moses received from God when he was building the Tabernacle: "See that you make everything according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain."
Moses decreed that the Old Testament worship did it for a heavenly picture he had seen. In other words, the original and the copy in Heaven on Earth.
6 But now Christ has been given a much higher priesthood, for he is the mediator of a covenant that is so much better and rests upon better promises.
When Jesus is both priest and the chief priest of the original temple, the first temple. What the Levitical priesthood is a weak shadow and imitation have ceased and will never come back to his old form. When we talk about it after the pleas. Unfortunately, Israel will again be enticed to start with this that Christ has abolished 2,000 years ago.
7 For there had been no criticism of the first testament, but the reason to put another in its place.
Actually it was the Old Testament doomed to fail since it was a copy of the heavenly as was the original and it's perfect. Had it not been fulfilled by the Levitical priesthood examples had Jesus works both on earth and in heaven in vain.
8 But God has a concern about it when he says to the people:
Behold, days are coming, says the Lord,
when I create a new covenant
with Israel and Judah,
Even the prophet in the Old Testament prophesied something better and perfect to come. But here the church was about to slip away from this. So tragic and serious.
9:01 covenant is different
than the one I made with their fathers
the time I took them by the hand
and brought them out of Egypt.
For they were not alone in my covenant,
and I did not care about them, says the Lord.
The output from Egypt was delightful. But the glory of Jesus led the church into from the day of Pentecost was far more glorious and more. It was the fulfillment of God's promises in a completely different way.
Kol.1. 27 God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the gentiles: Christ among you, the hope of glory!
10 No, this is the covenant that I will make
with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord:
I will put my laws in their minds
and write them in their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.
This happened even outpouring at Pentecost. It was the fulfillment of what everyone in the Old Testament looked forward to. That we would have God's Spirit in us so that we would have the ability and desire to do God's will for our lives.
Isaiah 54 13 All thy children shall be taught of the Lord, and great will be the peace of thy children.
11 Then shall no longer teach his neighbor,
or his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord'
For they shall all know me,
from the least to the greatest among them.
It is not big, bigger and biggest. Here we shall all know the Lord personally and have fellowship with him.
1 Joh. b 1 3 That which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, that ye should have fellowship with us, we have fellowship with the Father and His Son Jesus Christ.
12 For I will look at their injustice with mercy
and no more will remember their sins.
In fact, many scripture and passages in the Old Testament, New Testament filled with faith and thinking as they also under the old covenant had owned and Christ and the Spirit of God.
1 Pet. 1 10 This salvation was the prophets pondered and explored, as they prophesied of the grace you would get. 11 They tried to find out what time the Spirit of Christ which was in them was referring to, and how that time would be. Spirit testified of how Christ would suffer and then exalted in glory. 12 It became obvious to them that it was themselves they earned with their message, but you. This message has now been told you by those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. These are things that even angels would like to look into in.
13 When God speaks of a new covenant, he has to say that the first is obsolete. But it is getting old and outdated will soon be gone.
An old and worn out garments needed to be replaced by a fresh and new. When the old has done his work, was happy for what it had done and brought the blessing. But when one gets a new garment and the old is exhausted can with good reason and good conscience throw the old and bring in the new user. Thus it is with the old and the new covenant as well.
Related links: http://the-heavenly-blog.janchristensen.net/2012/02/nr-246.html
http://the-heavenly-blog.janchristensen.net/2011/09/nr-51-be-regular-and-structured-to-god.html
http://the-heavenly-blog.janchristensen.net/2011/06/nr-12-how-to-pray-and-prayer-is-needed.html
http://the-heavenly-blog.janchristensen.net/2013/05/nr-504-lebesby-man-anton-johansen-new.html
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