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Then, now and until

" I have glorified thee on earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do ."  John 17:4  Authorized King James Version [AKJV]. "When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said,  It is finished : and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.  John 19:30 [AKJV]. Note: all passages reference are from the Authorized King James Version In John 17:4 it is written that "I have finished the work" but the crucifixion wasn't completed until John 19:30.  To me, God, the Lord Jesus Christ shows His omniscience.  He, Jesus being the incarnation of the only true God knows the future from the past as He lives in our now.  All I have is the memory of the past, the trials of the present, and the hope of the future.  So then, when I read passages as Ephesians 1:3 although I'm in the present, after believing the gospel 1 Corinthians 15:1-4, God now sees me in my future, in Him.  "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of...

What did He come to do?

  "He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? " Matthew 16:15, Authorized King James Version [AKJV]. Peter [Matt 16:16], Martha [John 11:27], the Ethiopian Eunuch [Acts 8:37], and Saul [9:20]; but is that for us today? I think not. In those passages, there wasn't mention of His death, burial, and resurrection as there now is for us [humanity] today. We are instructed now to believe?  But to believe what then, do you have a scripture passage for that?  Yes, yes I do. "Moreover brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.  For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he arose again the third day according to the scripture."      1 Corinthians 15:1-4. I say in...

Why the "authorized" KJV?

"Wherefore art thou  red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat."  Isaiah 63:2 [in context read 63:1-6]  " A certain man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it , and digged a place for the winefat,"  Mark 12:1b and c.   While listening to a recent TV minister I observed what I thought at the time a miss-spelling in the text of the Bible I currently use, in which I have found several.  It's a King James Version "Authorized", and have often wondered what's the difference between the given as "authorized" and the other not.   After some research and consideration, I saw this.  Thinking it was a textural error I checked several other KJV authorized and non-authorized finding they all used the word winevat.  But the authorized used both "vat" and "fat".  So why the disparity in the spelling and only used in those two places in scripture? To me, it was getting interesting.  I have lear...

From the heart

 Some know but most don't and even fewer believe.  The Gospel that saves in this "the dispensation of the grace of God"  Ephesians 3:2 which was given Paul [Romans 2:16] to give to us in this time we now live.   "Moreover brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.  For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he arose again the third day according to the scripture"  12 Corinthians 15:1-4 AKJV Believe God, what he has said of you:  "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God." Romans 3:23.  That "For the wages of sin is  death,  but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."   I plead with you, be...

Salvation: recieved from debt or of thankfulness?

"This is a faithful saying, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners;" 1st Timothy 1:15a Authorized King James Version [AKJV]. So if in Christ ["Therefore if any man be  in Christ,  he is  a new creature", not born again [Jeweish] but a "new creature old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new"] 2 Corinthians 5:17.  So then do you do what you do as if paying a debt or from thankfulness?  And how is that debt paid if you deem payment due?  Likewise, if by thankfulness how is that thankfulness shown.  Again why do you do what you do?      To consider:  "K nowing that a man is not justified by the  works  of the  law , but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the  works  of the  law : for by the  works  of the  law  shall no flesh be justified."  Galatia...

Today, now, the gospel!

  Romans 2:14-16   Authorized (King James) Version:   “For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and  their  thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another; in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.” Rest assured that Paul’s gospel wasn’t “come to Jesus”; “accept Jesus and be saved”; “Just pray this prayer, Jesus: and then repeat whatever the one telling you to say says.   “Jesus died for all your sins, believe and be saved”.   On and on it goes but rarely does one hear the gospel let alone read for themselves what Paul teaches in scripture of the gospel.   The gospel also isn’t the first four books of the new testament.   The gospel isn’t John 3:16.   But what is...

When God died?

  Matthew 27:45-46 Authorized King James Version [AKJV]:   “ Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.   And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”.   Comparative scriptures from the gospels: Mark 15:41-32; Luke 23:26-49 and John 19:17-27 Sidebar: Different writers of the gospels [so called not as we have now in this the dispensation of the grace of God Ephesians 3:1-7] wrote from different perspectives as the Holy Spirit directed [2 Timothy 3:16-17].     Sidebar:   Could the Centurion of Matt 27:54, Mark 15:39 and Luke 23:47 be the same as recorded in Acts 10 by Peter?   It is most possible.   Sidebar:   The darkness as I understand it is the absence of Gods presence as seen in 2nd Thessalonians 1:8-10. Also concerning g darkness see Exodus 10:21-29, Matthew 6:23 concerning both...