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MorningSong
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We can NEVER Fully understand God and His Word with
just our "mind"... God is SPIRIT..... we must come to God in SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH..... NOT via the "mind "........ This is why one must be BORN AGAIN , in order to FULLY Understand and Fully SEE TRUTH. When we are born again, our spirit which was dead from sin, is Now made ALIVE again...and our spirtual eyes which were BLIND , are NOW OPEN ...so that NOW we CAN SEE . 
We CAN SEE NOW that GOD'S WORD is True... and that The Bible IS GOD'S WORD and GOD'S WORD STANDS TRUE FOREVER . Amen. 
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Wed 03/07/12 06:00 PM
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fixed it....
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Actually, YOU are ,CeriseRose !!!
You have been FAITHFULLY Posting Uplifting Messages That Give
HOPE and That ENCOURAGE Us , and That Help Us to TURN OUR EYES ON JESUS .... Ever Since You Came On This Site !!!
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Wed 03/07/12 05:26 PM
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Jesus did NOT protest the payment of taxes !!!
Jesus said, "Give unto Ceasar what is Ceasars." PLEASE Look up the scripture on the diciples finding the money in the mouth of the fish, to GIVE UNTO Ceasar what is Ceasars. Jesus did NOT break ANY laws. Jesus was without sin.
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Wed 03/07/12 05:18 PM
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John 10:17-18
Jesus Said , 17 "Therefore My Father Loves Me, because I LAY DOWN MY LIFE that I May TAKE IT UP AGAIN. 18 NO ONE TAKES IT FROM ME, but I LAY IT DOWN OF MYSELF. I have Power to Lay it Down, and I have Power to Take it again. This command I have received from My Father." NKJV
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Edited by
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Wed 03/07/12 04:56 PM
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Matthew 26:3-4 tells us that “the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, assembled together to the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas. And they consulted so that they might take Jesus by guile and kill Him.” The Jewish leaders demanded of the Romans that Jesus be put to death (Matthew 27:22-25). They couldn’t continue to allow Him to work signs and wonders because it threatened their position and place in the religious society they dominated (John 11:47-50), so “they plotted to put Him to death” (John 11:53). BUT...... The ROMANS were the ones who ACTUALLY CRICIFIED Jesus (Matthew 27:27- 37). Crucifixion was a ROMAN method of execution, authorized and carried out by the ROMANS under the AUTHORITY of Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor who senteneced Jesus ( although he found no guile in Jesus}....but even so , it was NOT the jewish people who crucified Jesus.... but the ROMAN SOLDIERS WHO DROVE THE NAILS into His hands and feet....and the ROMAN TROOPS WHO ERECTED THE CROSS ,and a ROMAN SOLDIER WHO PIERCED HIS SIDE (Matthew 27:27-35). HOWEVER...... ULTIMATELY, and perhaps somewhat amazingly, IT WAS GOD HIMSELF Who put Jesus to death. This was the greatest act of divine justice ever carried out, done in “the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God” (Acts 2:23) and for the highest purpose. Jesus’ death on the cross SECURED THE SALVATION of countless millions and provided the only way God could forgive sin without compromising His holiness and perfect righteousness. Christ’s death was GOD'S PERFECT PLAN for the eternal redemption of His own. Far from being a victory for Satan, as some have suggested, or an unnecessary tragedy, it was the most gracious act of God’s goodness and mercy, the ultimate expression of the Father’s Love for sinners. GOD PUT JESUS TO DEATH FOR OUR SIN so that we could LIVE in sinless righteousness before Him, a righteousness only possible because of the cross. “He MADE HIM WHO KNEW NO SIN to be sin FOR us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21). So we who have come to Christ in faith are guilty of His blood, shed on the cross for us. He died to pay the penalty for our sins (Romans 5:8; 6:23). In the movie "The Passion of the Christ," the director, Mel Gibson, was the one whose hands you see actually driving the nails through Christ's hands. He did it that way to remind himself, and everyone else, that it was OUR sins that nailed Jesus to the cross. gotquestions.org
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Thank You For Sharing This , CeriseRose.
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Psalm (NIV) 1 I will exalt you, Lord, for you rescued me. You refused to let my enemies triumph over me. 2 O Lord My God, I cried to you for help, and YOU RESTORED my health. 3 You brought me up from the grave, O Lord. You kept me from falling into the pit of death. 4 Sing to the Lord, All you Godly ones! Praise His Holy Name. 5 For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime! Weeping may last through the night, but joy comes with the morning. 6 When I was prosperous, I said, “Nothing can stop me now!” 7 Your favor, O Lord, made me as secure as a mountain. Then you turned away from me, and I was shattered. 8 I cried out to you, O Lord. I begged the Lord for mercy, saying, 9 “What will you gain if I die, if I sink into the grave? Can my dust praise you? Can it tell of your faithfulness? 10 Hear me, Lord, and have mercy on me. Help me, O Lord.” 11 You have turned my mourning into joyful dancing. You have taken away my clothes of mourning and clothed me with joy, 12 that I might sing praises to you and not be silent. O Lord My God, I will give you thanks forever !!! ((((((((((( LUV)))))))))))
Beem Praying Here For You Precious ,
To Be Completely Healed and Made Whole.
God Loves You and So Do I !!!
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Edited by
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Wed 03/07/12 01:51 PM
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Fencepost... Welcome to Christian Singles, My Brother
in Christ .
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John 10:7-18 ................ Jesus the Good Shepherd.................. 7Then Jesus said to them again, "Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. 8 All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. 9 I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. 11 "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. 12 But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. 13 The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own. 15 As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. 16 And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd. 17 "Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. 18 No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father." NKJV
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Wed 03/07/12 03:16 AM
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Question: "What did Jesus mean when He said 'I AM The
Way and The Truth and The Life' (John 14:6)?" Answer: “I AM The Way and The Truth and The Life” is one of the seven “I Am” statements of Jesus. On the last night before His betrayal and death, Jesus was preparing His disciples for the days ahead. For over three years, these men had been following Jesus and learning from His teaching and example. They had placed their hopes in Him as the Messiah, the promised deliverer, yet they still didn't understand how He was going to accomplish that deliverance. After the Last Supper, Jesus began speaking about His departure, which led to questions from His disciples. In John 13:33, Jesus said, “My children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: Where I am going, you cannot come.” This prompted Peter to ask where He was going (v. 36). Peter and the others did not understand that Jesus was speaking of His death and ascension to Heaven. Jesus' response was “Where I am going, you cannot follow now, but you will follow later.” Peter was still misunderstanding and declared that he would follow Jesus anywhere and even lay His life down if necessary. As Jesus patiently continued to teach His disciples, He began speaking more plainly about heaven, describing the place He was going to prepare for them (John 14:2-3). Then Jesus said “You know the way to the place where I am going” (v. 4). Speaking for the others, Thomas said they did not know where He was going, so how could they know how to follow Him there? It was to this question that Jesus uttered one of the seven famous “I am” statements. I AM – In the Greek language, “I AM” is a very intense way of referring to oneself. It would be comparable to saying, “I myself, and only I, am.” Several other times in the Gospels we find Jesus using these words. In Matthew 22:32 Jesus quotes Exodus 3:6, where God uses the same intensive form to say “I AM the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” In John 8:58, Jesus said “Truly, truly I say unto you, before Abraham was, I AM.” The Jews clearly understood Jesus to be calling Himself God because they took up stones to stone Him for committing blasphemy in equating Himself with God. In Matthew 28:20, as Jesus gave the Great Commission, He gave it emphasis by saying “I AM with you always, to the end of the age.” When the soldiers came seeking Jesus in the garden the night before His crucifixion, He told them “I AM He” and His words were so powerful that the soldiers fell to the ground (John 18:4-6). These words reflect the very Name of God in Hebrew, Yahweh, which means “To Be” or “the self-existing One.” It is the Name of power and authority, and Jesus claimed it as His own. The Way – Jesus used the definite article to distinguish Himself as “The Only Way.” A way is a path or route, and the disciples had expressed their confusion about where He was going, and how they could follow. As He had told them from the beginning, Jesus was again telling them (and us) “Follow Me.” There is no other path to Heaven, no other way to the Father. Peter reiterated this same Truth years later to the rulers in Jerusalem, saying about Jesus, “Salvation is found in no One else, for there is no other Name under heaven given to men by which we must be Saved” (Acts 4:12). The exclusive nature of the only path to salvation is expressed in the words “I AM The Way.” The Truth – Again Jesus used the definite article to emphasize Himself as “The Only Truth.” Psalm 119:142 says “Your Law is the Truth.” In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus reminded His listeners of several points of the Law, then said “but I say unto you...” (Matthew 5:22, 28, 32, 34, 39, 44), thereby equating Himself with the Law of God as the authoritative standard of righteousness. In fact, Jesus said that He came to Fulfill the Law and the Prophets (Matthew 5:17). Jesus, as the Incarnate Word of God (John 1:1) is the source of All Truth. The Life – Jesus had just been telling His disciples about His impending death, and now He was claiming to be the source of all Life. In John 10:17-18, Jesus declared that He was going to lay down His Life for His sheep, and then take it back again. He spoke of His authority over Life and death as being granted to Him by the Father. In John 14:19, He gave the promise that “because I live, you also will live.” The deliverance He was about to provide was not a political or social deliverance (which most of the Jews were seeking), but a true deliverance from a life of bondage to sin and death to a life of freedom in eternity. In these words, Jesus was declaring Himself the great “I AM,” the only path to righteousness, the only true measure of righteousness, and the source of both physical and spiritual life. He was staking His claim as the very God of Creation, the Lord who blessed Abraham, and the Holy One who inhabits eternity. He did this so the disciples would be able to face the dark days ahead and carry on the mission of declaring the gospel to the world. Of course, we know from Scripture that they still didn't understand, and it took several visits from their risen Lord to shake them out of their disbelief. Once they understood the Truth of His Words, they became changed people, and the world has never been the same. So how do we follow Him today? The same Way the disciples did long ago. They heard the words of Jesus and Believed them. They took His Words and Obeyed them. They confessed their sins to Jesus as their Lord and God. They believed that He died to take the punishment of their sins and rose from the dead to give them new life. They followed His example and command to tell others the Truth about sin, righteousness, and judgment. When we follow Him in “The Way,” we can be assured of following Him All the Way to Heaven. gotquestions.org
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Topic:
Defining a Christian
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RELIGION is Not the Problem......
" BROKEN RELATIONSHIP " is The Problem......
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Edited by
MorningSong
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Tue 03/06/12 11:35 PM
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Jesus is God...means... Jesus is just AS much God AS
The Father is God ( as is also The Holy Spirit just AS much God AS The Father and Son is God) ...and the 3 Persons in ONE GODHEAD = ONE GOD. Point being....when we say Jesus is God, we are NOT saying Jesus The SON is God The FATHER..... what we are saying is: all 3 Persons(Father,Son,Holy Spirit) within the One Godhead are all 3 EQUALLY GOD....AND ALL 3 PERSONS WITHIN THE ONE GODHEAD ARE GOD. ALL 3 PERSONS MAKE UP ONLY ONE GOD!!! THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD ALMIGHTY !!! ONLY ONE GOD WE SERVE !!! PERIOD!!! Question: "Is Jesus God? Did Jesus ever claim to be God?" Answer: Jesus is never recorded in the Bible as saying the precise words, “I am God.” That does not mean, however, that He did not proclaim that He is God. Take for example Jesus’ words in John 10:30, “I and the Father are one.” We need only to look at the Jews’ reaction to His statement to know He was claiming to be God. They tried to stone Him for this very reason. “… you, a mere man, claim to be God” (John 10:33). The Jews understood exactly what Jesus was claiming—DEITY. Notice that Jesus does not deny His claim to be God. When Jesus declared, “I and the Father are one” (John 10:30), He was saying that He and the Father are of one nature and essence. John 8:58 is another example. Jesus declared, “I tell you the truth, before Abraham was born, I am!” The response of the Jews who heard this statement was to take up stones to kill Him for blasphemy, as the Mosaic Law commanded them to do (Leviticus 24:15). John reiterates the concept of Jesus’ deity: “the Word was God” and “the Word became flesh” (John 1:1, 14). These verses clearly indicate that Jesus is God in the flesh. Acts 20:28 tells us, “Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.” Who bought the church—the church of God—with His own blood? Jesus Christ. Acts 20:28 declares that God purchased His church with His own blood. Therefore, Jesus is God! Thomas the disciple declared concerning Jesus, “My Lord and my God” (John 20:28). Jesus does not correct him. Titus 2:13 encourages us to wait for the coming of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ (see also 2 Peter 1:1). In Hebrews 1:8, the Father declares of Jesus, “But about the Son He says, ’Your throne, O God, will last forever and ever, and righteousness will be the scepter of your kingdom.’” The Father refers to Jesus as “O God” indicating that Jesus is indeed God. In Revelation, an angel instructed the apostle John to only worship God (Revelation 19:10). Several times in Scripture Jesus receives worship (Matthew 2:11, 14:33, 28:9, 17; Luke 24:52; John 9:38). He never rebukes people for worshiping Him. If Jesus were not God, He would have told people to not worship Him, just as the angel in Revelation did. There are many other verses and passages of Scripture that argue for Jesus’ deity. The most important reason that Jesus has to be God is that if He is not God, His death would not have been sufficient to pay the penalty for the sins of the world (1 John 2:2). A created being, which Jesus would be if He were not God, could not pay the infinite penalty required for sin against an infinite God. Only God could pay such an infinite penalty. Only God could take on the sins of the world (2 Corinthians 5:21), die, and be resurrected, proving His victory over sin and death. gotquestions.org
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Peter-pan...this here will much better explain :
Question: "What does it mean that Jesus is the Lamb of God?" Answer: When Jesus is called the Lamb of God in John 1:29 and John 1:36, it is referring to Him as the perfect and ultimate sacrifice for sin. In order to understand who Christ was and what He did, we must begin with the Old Testament, which contains prophecies concerning the coming of Christ as a “guilt offering” (Isaiah 53:10). In fact, the whole sacrificial system established by God in the Old Testament set the stage for the coming of Jesus Christ, who is the perfect sacrifice God would provide as atonement for the sins of His people (Romans 8:3; Hebrews 10). The sacrifice of lambs played a very important role in the Jewish religious life and sacrificial system. When John the Baptist referred to Jesus as the “Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29), the Jews who heard him might have immediately thought of any one of several important sacrifices. With the time of the Passover feast being very near, the first thought might be the sacrifice of the Passover lamb. The Passover feast was one of the main Jewish holidays and a celebration in remembrance of God’s deliverance of the Israelites from bondage in Egypt. In fact, the slaying of the Passover lamb and the applying of the blood to doorposts of the houses (Exodus 12:11-13) is a beautiful picture of Christ’s atoning work on the cross. Those for whom He died are covered by His blood, protecting us from the angel of (spiritual) death. Another important sacrifice involving lambs was the daily sacrifice at the temple in Jerusalem. Every morning and evening, a lamb was sacrificed in the temple for the sins of the people (Exodus 29:38- 42). These daily sacrifices, like all others, were simply to point people towards the perfect sacrifice of Christ on the cross. In fact, the time of Jesus’ death on the cross corresponds to the time the evening sacrifice was being made in the temple. The Jews at that time would have also been familiar with the Old Testament prophets Jeremiah and Isaiah, who foretold the coming of One who would be brought “like a lamb led to the slaughter” (Jeremiah 11:19; Isaiah 53:7) and whose sufferings and sacrifice would provide redemption for Israel. Of course, that person was none other than Jesus Christ, “the Lamb of God.” While the idea of a sacrificial system might seem strange to us today, the concept of payment or restitution is still one we can easily understand. We know that the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23) and that our sin separates us from God. We also know the Bible teaches we are all sinners and none of us is righteous before God (Romans 3:23). Because of our sin, we are separated from God, and we stand guilty before Him. Therefore, the only hope we can have is if He provides a way for us to be reconciled to Himself, and that is what He did in sending His Son Jesus Christ to die on the cross. Christ died to make atonement for sin and to pay the penalty of the sins of all who believe in Him. It is through His death on the cross as God’s perfect sacrifice for sin and His resurrection three days later that we can now have eternal life if we believe in Him. The fact that God Himself has provided the offering that atones for our sin is part of the glorious good news of the gospel that is so clearly declared in 1 Peter 1:18-21: “For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake. Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.” gotquestios.org
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Edited by
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Tue 03/06/12 07:49 PM
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Those that believed in God before Jesus
Incarnation,were accounted for righteousness...and when Jesus ascended into heaven,He took those in paradise up to heaven WITH Him..... but all those that believed on Jesus while on earth, and all those who came after Jesus's ressurrection ,can ONLY come to the Father thru JESUS now....cause Jesus became the final sacrifice offered up as the attonement for all our sins..... and all we need to do is believe and receive this free gift of GRACE offered.... and there are no works reguired of us to add either...all we have to do is just open up our hearts and believe and receive Jesus....while God is drawing us and knocking on our hearts door..... and patiently waiting for us to ask Him to come in . ......
so we too, can be made the righteousnes of God , which comes now thru Jesus Chrisit ... and also ..so we may have eternal life with God.....and fellowship again with God.
Again...Jesus was the final attonement made for sin...there is no more sacrifice made for sin...Jesus was the final sacrifice..once and for alll....... all those who had already died prior to his coming, Jesus already took up to heaven with Him .
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Edited by
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Tue 03/06/12 07:24 PM
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Bible predicts or reveals MAN'S corruption,NOT the
bible's......simply because there is NO CORRUPTION WHATSOEVER found in God's Holy Word. God IS The WORD !!! The LIVING WORD !!!! The SWORD of thr Spirit.... sharper than any 2 edged sword !!!! Also....in the old testament, sacrifices for sin had to be repeated.....because they only offered temporary atonement for sin, until Jesus came, that is.... but when God offered up His Son Jesus as A FINAL sacrifice for our sins, Jesus became the PERMANENT AND FINAL ATTONEMENT FOR ALL OUR SINS... ONCE AND FOR ALL. And NO man can come to the Father now but by Jesus. NO OTHER WAY. ONE WAY JESUS. Jesus said, " I AM The WAY, The TRUTH , and The LIFE .... NO man can COME to the Father BUT by Me." Now Peter_Pan...... you can choose to believe Jesus was telling the Truth, and accept Him into your heart... OR..... you can choose to believe Jesus was telling a lie..... and reject Him. Your choice. God is already tugging on your heart strings.... But God will never go against your free will to CHOOSE...that is Why God allows YOU to choose........either to accept His Son Jesus whom He sent...or to reject Jesus whom God The Father sent to SAVE us. Your choice.
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CHRISTIANITY IS NOT THE PROBLEM.
IT IS THE MISUSE AND ABUSE OF CHRISTIANITY, THAT IS THE PROBLEM.
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AND JESUS WAS NOT PASSIVE !!!!!!
TO BE FULL OF LOVE, JOY ,PEACE, FORBEARANCE, GOODNESS, MERCY, FAITHFULNESS, SELF CONTROL ,PATIENCE , KINDNESS AND MEEK AND MILD OF MANNER , GENTLE OF HEART, AND LONG SUFFERING AS JESUS WAS..... DOES NOT MEAN JESUS WAS PASSIVE !!! JESUS IS ALSO KNOWN AS THE LION ..NOT JUST THE LAMB.
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Edited by
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Tue 03/06/12 05:54 PM
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Question: "What did Jesus mean when He instructed us to turn the other cheek?"
Answer: The entire section of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount in which this verse is found can be understood as one where Jesus actually serves to elevate the importance of following Israel's moral law beyond the letter to the spirit of the law. Much of the material therein complements the nature of His coming characterized by mercy, sacrificial love, and longsuffering toward sinners while at the same time affirming the "last is first" principle upon which the kingdom of God is based. For instance, we are told to go the extra mile for someone who abuses us and to pray for enemies instead of resisting them. All of this can be generally summarized by saying WE NEED TO BE PURE INSIDE AND OUT and should be as accommodating as possible for the sake of a lost world. HOWEVER...... To "turn the other cheek," does NOT IMPLY PACIFISM, NOR DOES IT MEAN WE PLACE OURSELVES OR OTHERS IN MORTAL DANGER !!! Like the principle of the eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth in Matthew 5:38, turning the other cheek refers to PERSONAL RETALIATION, NOT CRIMINAL OFFENSES OR ACTS OF MILITARY AGGRESSION. Clearly, Jesus did NOT mean to NEGATE ALL GOD'S LAWS AND INJUNCTIONS PROTECTING US AGAINST VIOLENT CRIME OR INVADING ARMIES !!! Rather, Jesus is speaking here of the PRINCIPLE OF NON-RETALIATION to AFFRONTS AGAINST our own DIGNITY, as well as lawsuits to gain Oones' personal assets (v. 40),infringements on one’s liberty (v. 41), and violations of property rights (v. 42). He was calling for a full surrender of all personal rights. Turning the other cheek means...that we are NOT TO RETURN INSULT FOR INSULT in RETALIATION, which is what most people expect and how worldly people act. Responding to hatred with Love just might grab someone's attention and afford us a chance to share the gospel. When we respond in a manner that is unnatural, it displays the supernatural power of the indwelling Holy Spirit. Jesus was the perfect example because He was silent before His accusers and did not call down revenge from heaven on those who crucified Him.
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