I just keep extending this section as we grow in the knowledge of all that the LORD Jesus has done and provided for us by these words, 'it is finished' as He hung on the Cross as witness to these things and then was raised to new Life as proof of this. So with this post I will draw from a few areas of this truth.
The first is in Acts 20 verse 30 where Paul writes: "Now, brethren, I commend you to GOD, and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified." What does the word "sanctified" mean, here's the Strong's meaning of G37 with this: hagiazō hag-ee-ad'-zo From G40 {hagios hag'-ee-os From ἅγος hagos (an awful thing) compare G53, [H2282]; sacred (physically pure, morally blameless, ceremonially consecrated): - (most) holy (one, thing), a saint.}; to make holy, that is, (ceremonially) purify or consecrate; (mentally) to venerate: - hallow, be holy, sanctify. (How was or is this possible?)
My next passage is also taken from what Paul has stated in Colossians 1 verses 5 and 6 where we find this: "For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; Which is come to 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 the grace of GOD in truth." In this one we find the word G1680 which is translated as "hope:" elpis el-pece' Fromἔλπω elpō which is a primary word (to anticipate, usually with pleasure); expectation (abstract or concrete) or confidence: - faith, hope.
Okay, now for my last one for today, we find it in Romans 10 where Paul speaks of "faith and the word" picking up at verse 17 this thought: "So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of GOD." In this passage there is one word repeated twice to draw our attention to it, it is G189 translated as "hear or hearing," the Strong's translates it as: akoē ak-o-ay' From G191 {akouō ak-oo'-o A primary verb; to hear (in various senses): - give (in the) audience (of), come (to the ears), ([shall]) hear (-er, -ken), be noised, be reported, understand.}; hearing (the act, the sense or the thing heard): - audience, ear, fame, which you heard, hearing, preached, report, rumor.
So, all being true and on equal ground have you heard GOD, at anytime? For this is the meaning of this whole practice from the first day in 2007 (this area I deleted as it did not sure GOD'S purpose) when I first began in 2009, this blog thru to today, for as I stated a day or two ago on FB; I am a John 15 and 17 kind of person. For hearing is inspiration or revelation of the spoken word heard with our inner ears and sees with the eyes of our inner man from whom the beam has been removed.
Jesus is speaking here in Matthew 7:3-5 carrying on with the Sermon on the Mount, where we have this: "'And why behold you the mote that is in your brother's eye, but consider not the beam that is in your own eye? Or how will you say to your brother, Let me pull out the mote out of your eye; And, behold, not the beam is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of your own eye; and then shall you see clearly to cast out the mote out of your brother's eye.'" This is repeated by Luke in chapter 6 beginning at verse 40: 40-42 "'The disciple is not above his Master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master. And why behold you the mote that is in your brother's eye, but perceive not the beam that is in your own eye? Either how can you say to your brother, "Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in your eye," when you yourself behold not the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of your own eye, and then shall you see clearly to pull out the mote that is in your brother's eye.'"
Now each passage has one word in common with the other it is G2595 the Strong's translates it as "mote," and gives it this meaning: karphos kar'-fos From κάρφω karpho (to wither); a dry twig or straw: - mote. The other is translated by them as G1385 to which they assigned the word "beam," and give this meaning: dokos dok-os' From G1209 {dechomai dekh'-om-ahee Middle voice of a primary verb; to receive (in various applications, literally or figuratively): - accept, receive, take.} (through the idea of holding up); a stick of timber: - beam. My question is when was this beam or mote received by humanity? My answer is in the Garden of Genesis 3's narrative, or it could have taken place after the flood of Noah, but my inclination is Genesis 3. Now let's compare another word of Strong's G2983: lambanō lam-ban'-o A prolonged form of a primary verb, which is used only as an alternate in certain tenses; to take (in very many applications, literally and figuratively [probably objective or active, to get hold of; whereas G1209 is rather subjective or passive, to have offered to one; While G138 is more violent, to seize or remove]): - accept, + be amazed, assay, attain, bring, X when I call, catch, come on (X unto), + forget, have, hold, obtain, receive (X after), take (away, up). Now I venture to say that the Cross is the point of G138 to take or seize by or with force. For it duplicated the events of Genesis 3 when Adam bit into the fruit, for at that instant there was great force that darkened mans mind set as verse 15 describes by the word heel (H6119 from H6117) that we have already examined.
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