25 – 27 February 2025 PART 2 OF 2
Isaiah 52
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3 For thus says the LORD, You have sold yourselves for naught; and you shall be redeemed without money.
4 For thus says the LORD God, My people went down aforetime into Egypt [where they were ruled by oppressors, and learned the ways of oppression] to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them [as do the communists now, hating us] without cause.
5 Now therefore, what have I here, says the LORD, that my people is taken away for naught? they that rule over them make them to howl, says the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
6 Therefore my people shall know my name [My identity, a man of war and peace]: therefore they shall know in that day that I Am he that does speak: behold, it is I.
7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that brings [these] good tidings, that publishes [shama’ – hears His voice and obediently speaks the same words of] peace; that brings good tidings of good, that publishes [shama’ – hears His voice and obediently speaks with the same voice of] salvation; that says unto Zion, Your God reigns!
8 Your watchmen [who’ve seen this by the eyes of the LORD] shall lift up the voice [exalting His word above all other voices]; with the voice together shall they sing [repeating this same words with me]: for they shall see eye to eye [seeing as the LORD sees], when the LORD shall bring again Zion [His kingdom on the earth, reigning in the minds of man].
9 Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem [the ruin upon which the New and Heavenly is built]: for the LORD has comforted [led into all truth] his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The LORD has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth [ending the old and beginning the new] shall see the salvation of our God.
11 Depart you, depart you, go you out from thence [leave the old and corrupt behind], touch no unclean thing; go you out of the midst of her; be you clean, that bear the [holy] vessels of the LORD.
12 For you shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your reward.
13 Behold, my servant [doing My work, speaking My words] shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled [My voice in him above all others], and be very high.
14 As many were astonished at you; his visage [outward appearance] was so marred [mishchath – disfigured by men’s corruption] more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
15 So shall he sprinkle [the blood and water of this necessary sacrifice upon] many nations [those who don’t know the LORD, because His visage is so marred by the corruption of men]; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them [taught by their corrupt teachers] shall they see [by the LORD revealing it by His sight]; and that which they had not heard [shama’ – this word they haven’t heard as the voice of the LORD, and therefore haven’t obeyed] shall they consider [biyn – understand].
John 5
17 But Jesus answered them, My Father works hitherto [to bring us to this point], and I work.
18 Therefore the Jews [all the religious who think they are the chosen of God] sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath [interrupting their wickedness spewed from their cesspools], but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Truly, truly, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do [interrupting your work, evil misleading, as necessary]: for what things soever he does, these also does the Son likewise.
20 For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all things that himself does: and he will show him greater works than these [as He has], that you may marvel.
21 For as the Father [by His correction] raises up the dead, and quickens them [thereby raising them from death into life]; even so the Son [by the same interruption and correction] quickens whom he will.
22 For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment unto the Son:
23 That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son honors not the Father which has sent him.
24 Truly, truly, I say unto you, He that hears my word, and believes on him that sent me [believing they, my words, are His voice heard], has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed [over, quickened] from death unto life.
25 Truly, truly, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead [here in the flesh] shall hear the voice of the Son of God [as the voice of the Father]: and they that hear [it as His and therefore obey] shall live.
26 For as the Father has life in himself; so has he given [by His word] to the Son to have life in himself;
27 And has given him Authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.
28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming [and now is here], in the which all that are in the graves [here in hell] shall hear his voice,
29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
30 I can of my own self do nothing: as I hear [the Father’s voice and obey], I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not my own will, but [I obediently do] the will of the Father which has sent me.
31 If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
32 There is another that bears witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesses of me is true.
37 And the Father himself, which has sent me, has borne witness of me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.
38 And you have not his word abiding in you: for whom he has sent, him you believe not.
39 Search the scriptures; for in them you think you have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
40 And you will not come to me, that you might have life.
41 I receive not honor from men.
42 But I know you, that you have not the love of God in you.
43 I am come in my Father’s name, and you receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive.
44 How can you believe, which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that comes from God only?
45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuses you, even Moses, in whom you trust.
46 For had you believed Moses, you would have believed me; for he wrote of me.
47 But if you believe not his writings, how shall you believe my words?
When the LORD speaks of these men not believing Moses’ words, and therefore not believing His, it is referring to them not knowing (being ignorant of) the meaning therein, where He is, I Am, the head of the ONE BODY, is spoken of many times as the Rock, Christ, the prophet like unto Moses, from where all the word of the Godhead flows.
The word Godhead appears three times, only in the New Testament, from three different words: Acts 17:29, Romans 1:20, and Colossians 2:9. The words, respectively, are, theios, used only three times; theiotes, used this one time; and used once, theotes, all speaking of the Divine power manifested in One God who is the Father (the known presence), the Son (the Father in the flesh, also known as Christ), and the Holy Spirit (the Father unknown working and speaking, in and near {with} us).
Deuteronomy 32
1 Give ear, O you heavens, and I will speak; and hear [shama’ – hearing His voice, obey], O earth, the words of my mouth.
2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb [bringing life again from the earth on this third day], and as the showers upon the grass:
3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe you greatness unto our God.
4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
6 Do you thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he your Father that has bought you? has he not made you, and established you?
Acts 17
22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill [Aireos Pagos – at the “peak of martial,” of God’s people to this battle], and said, You men of Athens [now when man is certain of nothing, and all knowledge is corrupted by an inability to separate truth from opinions: delusions], I perceive that in all things you are too superstitious [deisidaimonesteros – literally meaning they are afraid, fearing the gods of this world, to receive the treasures that will strengthen them: giving certainty to the uncertain].
23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To The Unknown God. Whom therefore you ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is LORD of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands;
25 Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he gives to all life, and breath, and all things;
26 And has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined [horizo – from where the sun rises] the times before appointed [protasso – prearranged, prescribed: before written, per ordained], and the bounds [horothesia – laying out the limit: the termination point] of their habitation;
27 That they should seek the LORD [first], if haply they might feel after him [after He has effectually worked in us], and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
28 For in him [only do] we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring [in whom He will live, if we become His prepared habitation].
29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead [theios] is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device [enthumesis – only appearing four times, all others rendered “thoughts;” here in context discerned to be men’s fictitious writing].
30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commands all men every where to repent [and purge out the blinding corruption]:
31 Because he has appointed a day [a sun rising, after the darkness: ignorance], in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he has ordained [horizo – who is the place from where the sun rises, beginning this new day: age]; whereof he has given assurance unto all men, in that he has raised him from the dead [out of confusion, out of hell, into life in heaven: full understanding].
32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear you again of this matter.
Deuteronomy 32
11 As an eagle stirs up her nest, flutters over her young, spreads abroad her wings, taketh them, bears them on her wings:
12 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey [strength – good words] out of the Rock, and oil [shining understanding] out of the flinty Rock;
14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan [fruitfulness], and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and you did drink the pure blood of the grape [the pure life in this nourishment].
15 But Jeshurun [God’s people in prosperity under Him] waxed fat, and kicked: you are waxen fat, you are grown thick, you are covered with fatness [the result of prospering, and not working out corruption when it progressively forms in the body: God’s people]; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations [they put in God’s place] provoked they him to anger.
17 They sacrificed unto devils [misleader among them leading into evil], not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
18 Of the Rock that begat you you are unmindful, and have forgotten God that formed you.
19 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
20 And he said, I will hide [cathar – cover with their own ignorance] my face [paniym – presence] from them, I will see what their end [‘achariyth – what their last days] shall be: for they are a very froward generation [that has twisted and perverted truth into confusion, delusion, and is ending in mass insanity in church and state], children in whom is no faith [refusing to believe He is always with them and sees all this for them, as He must, because they are blind, and insane, without any living brain activity]
Romans 1
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth [prisoner] in [their] unrighteousness;
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God has shown it unto them [revealing their ignorance in His correction].
20 For the invisible things [before here hidden] of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made [the things that now appear from their hidden places, good and evil], even his eternal power and Godhead [theiotes – who reveals them, one God and Father of us all, working and speaking, known to the righteous, and unknowable to the wicked who reject Him, even after seeing His power]; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations [the delusions of their own minds, thinking their corrupt opinions had any affect or effect on Him or those who know Him], and their foolish heart was darkened [making them ignorant and blind to their own ignorance].
22 Professing themselves to be wise [thinking their foolish delusions are wisdom], they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness [their own corruption, which they now insanely can’t distinguish from reality, which is consuming them] through the lusts [desiring delusions and rejecting reality from which they cannot escape] of their own hearts [childish minds], to dishonor their own bodies between themselves [destroying themselves and none of them dares admit it’s happening]:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature [the creation, dead flesh and inanimate matter] more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
Deuteronomy 32
28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end [‘achariyth – these last days of darkness]!
30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up [closing their mouths by opening His against them]?
31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
33 Their wine is the poison of dragons [men as whales and serpents, with their wide open mouths swallowing men into the belly of hell], and the cruel venom of asps.
34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures [reserved for Me alone to reveal in this time of war]?
35 To me belongs vengeance and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand [now arrived], and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he sees that their power is gone [as it now is], and there is none shut up, or left [with understanding].
37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock [false Christs] in whom they trusted,
38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.
39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live forever.
41 If I whet my glittering sword [this word of God], and my hand [this work] take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
Colossians 1
1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus [I Am] [y]our brother,
2 To the saints and faithful [who do believe this report] brethren in Christ which are at Colosse [from the same root as the eye “salve” of Revelation 3:18; here referring to those joined with the LORD by their {and the Laodiceans’} cured blindness] grace be unto you [that have receive these treasure], and peace, from [One] God our Father and the LORD Jesus Christ.
3 We give thanks to God and the Father of our LORD Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
4 Since we heard of your faith [believing] in Christ Jesus, and of the love [agape – Your Christian charity, giving this word of God, declaring Him alive, and reporting that you have seen Him] which you have to all the saints,
5 For the hope [of entering His kingdom, standing in His presence] which is laid up for you in heaven [in this understanding received], whereof you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
6 Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and brings forth fruit, as it does also in you, since the day you heard of it, and knew [this is] the grace of God in truth:
7 As you also learned of Epaphras [all those the LORD has loved, this now awakening generation of God’s people] our dear fellow-servant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;
8 Who also declared unto us your love [agape – giving this word to all the world, as received] in the Spirit.
9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
10 That you might walk worthy of the LORD unto all pleasing [doing His will, willingly obey His command to give this word, His word, as received], being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power [to change men’s minds and thereby quicken them into life], unto all patience and longsuffering [God in us not willing that any should perish, but that all would come to repentance: the preparation to receive Him] with joyfulness [knowing we are laborers joined with the LORD alive in us];
12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which has made us meet [appropriately prepared] to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light [this Divine understanding]:
13 Who has delivered us from the power of darkness [the ignorance of this totally corrupt and perishing world], and has translated us [methe – removed us from the old world] into the kingdom of his dear Son:
14 In whom we have redemption through his blood [this necessary sacrifice, in us, the flesh He has prepared for Himself, to speaks His word as commanded], even the forgiveness of sins [the errors of ignorance]:
15 Who is the image of the invisible God [is the manifestation of Father in the son], the firstborn [brought from obscurity and declared in the world] of every creature [ktisis – meaning “original formation (properly, the act; by implication, the thing, literally or figuratively):–building, creation, creature, ordinance.”]: [John 1: 10 He {God the Father, unknown as the Holy Spirit, to be revealed in the Son in this new creation} was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. 11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not. 12 But as many as {by their faith} received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name {His identity veiled in the flesh}: 13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of {the will of} God {by the His light, His understanding given in this manner, which quickens men’s mind into the same life}. 14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace {these treasures from heaven} and truth.]
16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now has he reconciled [apokatallasso – speaking of the translation described in verse 13 above: here saying, apo: “taking away” the old; kata, by “bringing down” their power to deceive; allasso, and by doing so, “changed” us – allasso is the same change Paul speaks of in 1 Corinthians 15, saying “51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep {with dead minds}, but we shall all be changed {allasso}, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye {as stars of God rising with His light in our eyes}, at the last trump {now calling all to Gather to Join Him}: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed {allasso}. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is {by the opened mouths of His children} swallowed up in victory. 55 O death, where is your sting? O grave {hell}, where is your victory?]
22 In the body of his flesh through death [and here in hell with us, rising from it, to rescue us from its power], to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
23 If you continue in the faith grounded [themelioo – meaning “to lay a basis for, i.e. (literally) erect, or (figuratively) consolidate” and settled [hedraiso – immovable], and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel [God’s power in this word, to change minds and raise men from death into life], which you have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul [I Timothy] am made a minister;
24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his [ONE] body’s sake, which is the church:
25 Whereof I Am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God [His word given, to be dispensed as received] which is given to me for you, to fulfil [pleroo – to fill you with] the word of God [which is our perfection];
26 Even the mystery which has been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles [those who don’t know Him]; which is Christ [God the Father alive] in you, the hope of glory [as He, through His word in His children, reveals Himself]:
28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
29 Whereunto I also labor, striving according to his working [in, through, me], which [God Himself] works in me mightily.
Colossians 2
1 For I would that you knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them [the lukewarm, ignorant of their need to be saved from death] at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh [have not yet seen the LORD is present in my flesh];
2 That their hearts might be comforted [that their minds would thereby be, by Him, led into all truth], being knit together in love [Joined with God by His word heard as Him speaking directly], and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God [alive in His children who receive Him], the Father, and of Christ;
3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.
5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
6 As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the LORD [at His coming to you in His word], so walk you in him:
7 Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith [knowing He is with us, in us], as you have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain [worthless] deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments [stoicheion – the “elements,” the corrupt foundations] of the world [which Peter tells us melt away in the same fires they’ve caused and end the now old heaven and earth], and not after Christ.
9 For in him dwells all the fulness [pleroma – full filling] of the Godhead [theotes] bodily [somatikos – only appearing here, meaning “physically;” the Thayer’s Greek Lexicon giving the additional meaning “of the exalted spiritual body, visible only to the inhabitants of heaven”].
10 And you are complete [pleroo – filled full] in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
11 In whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision [removing the flesh that covers the head] of Christ:
12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also you are risen with him through the faith of the operation [removing the flesh] of God, who has raised him from the dead.
13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, has he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; [I Corinthians 15:55 O death, where is your sting? O grave {hell}, where is your victory? 56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, which gives us the victory through our LORD Jesus Christ. 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be you steadfast, Immovable, always abounding in the work of the LORD {giving this word as received, manifesting His presence in the corrupt world}, forasmuch as you know that your labor is not in vain in the LORD.]
15 And having spoiled principalities and powers [in church and state, where the spiritually wicked sit thinking their policy of deception can hide them], he made a show of them openly [that they are the dead leading the world into death], triumphing over them in it.
16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
17 Which are a shadow of things to come [their spiritual meaning here and now revealed by the living God alive in us]; but the [ONE] body is of Christ.
18 Let no man beguile you [out] of your reward (in a voluntary humility and) [These parentheses are added by me because it’s a dubious translation of the word they are rendered from, thelesis, the same word rendered “would” in verse 1 of this chapter and verse 27 of the previous. The context here is a warning against following fallen angels, speaking their own words as false Christs, beguiling silly women, as the devil did Eve. It is here saying these men “would” have you worship them in God’s place] worshipping of angels [the messengers, who, if God were truly speaking through them, would be speaking according to this word, and wouldn’t allow men to worship them, which is reserved for the Father alone. These men are fallen angels who left their first estate, speaking their own words and not the LORD’s, putting themselves in the Father’s place] intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up [with pride] by his fleshly mind [which they refuse to circumcise],
19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increase with the increase [filling them to the full] of God.
20 Wherefore if you be dead with Christ from the rudiments [stoicheion – the corrupt element] of the world, why, as though living in the world, are you subject to [the corrupt] ordinances,
21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
23 Which things have indeed a show of [worldly] wisdom in will worship [ethelothreskeia – only used here, meaning “voluntary (arbitrary and unwarranted) piety, i.e. sanctimony], and [feigned] humility, and [needlessly] neglecting of the body: not in [that there is] any honor to the satisfying [plesmone – filling up] of the flesh.
Colossians 3
1 If you then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God.
2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
3 For you are dead, and your life is hid [krupto – concealed, a secret kept] with Christ in God.
4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear [phaneroo], then shall you also appear [phaneroo] with him in glory.
5 Mortify [nekroo – deaden] therefore your members [the parts of the body] which are upon the earth [abstaining from these things that deaden the spirit]; fornication [porneia – idolatry, which is intercourse, interaction and joining with those who put themselves in God’s place], uncleanness [impurity, the things these men corrupt and defile with the creations], inordinate affection [pathos – suffering for worthless things, deprivation these men falsely say are necessary], evil [kakos – harmful] concupiscence [epithumia – forbidden things into which these men have trespassed], and covetousness [pleonexia – extortion by fraud], which is idolatry [eidololatreia – worship mammon, worldly wealth]:
6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience [who refuse to hear His voice and obey] :
7 In the which you also walked some time, when you lived in them.
8 But now you also put off all these; anger [orge – your own vengeance], wrath [of man, that doesn’t work toward the repentance], malice [with the desire to injure – do no harm], blasphemy [vilification of the word and work of God], filthy communication [defiled by the ways taught: the degenerate corruption of church and state doctrine] out of your mouth.
9 Lie not one to another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds;
10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
11 Where [according to the flesh] there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but [according to, in agreement with] Christ is all, and in all.
12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do you.
14 And above all these things put on charity [agape – giving this word as received], which is the bond of perfectness [that joins us together in His ONE BODY].
15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also you are called in ONE BODY; and be you thankful.
16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the LORD.
17 And whatsoever you do in word or deed, do all in the name [identity] of the LORD Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the LORD.
19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
20 Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the LORD.
21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God;
23 And whatsoever you do, do it heartily, as to the LORD, and not unto men;
24 Knowing that of the LORD you shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for you serve the LORD Christ.
25 But he that does wrong shall receive for the wrong which he has done: and there is no respect of persons.
Psalms 19
1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament [this exposition] shows his handywork [the work of His hand, in which His glory is revealed].
2 Day unto day [understanding sent to give understand, giving His light, He] utters speech [through His children], and night unto night [in this time when ignorance covers the earth in darkness, He speaks to the ignorant, to] show knowledge.
3 There is no speech nor language, where their [His children’s] voice is not heard.
4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their [His children’s] words to the end of the [old] world. In them [His words in His children] has he set a tabernacle for the sun [His dwelling place in His people, whose rising with Him is the new day come],
5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber [to join with all His people at large], and rejoices as a strong man [the Almighty] to run a race [this course set before us].
6 His going forth is from the end of the [old and corrupt] heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it [ending the old and beginning the new]: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof [all His treasure, hidden as if frozen in a Stone, are revealed by Him in this trial by fire].
7 The law of the LORD is perfect [tamiym – fill us to completion], converting [shuwb – returning to Him] the soul: the testimony [‘eduwth – kept, guarded and preserved in the ark] of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD [that we speak this word as received] is pure, enlightening the eyes.
9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter [in our mouths] also than honey and the honeycomb.
11 Moreover by them is your servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
12 Who can understand his [own] errors? Cleanse [by Your correction] me from secret faults.
13 Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins [presuming things that aren’t true]; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression [of those who’ve trespassed into things forbidden].
14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
