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The Law of the O.T. was made to condemn, not make righteous.
The Law of the Spirit of life in Christ has made me free from the O.T. Law(Law of sin and death).
It's TRUE!!
Abram had one of those also. He had a hard night.I love your playful way. It is so important for us to take the Word of God seriously . . . BUT NOT [THAT] Seriuous. So again, I really appreciate your light heartedness.
Have you noticed scriptures like the one below, where it talks about Israel being in a deep sleep? In fact, the Curse of Adam and Eve is what placed all people into a "sleep" of confusion . . . for this is exactly what the Curse of Adam and Eve did . . . we couldn't do the things we knew that we should be doing.
Isaiah 29:10 NLT - "For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has closed the eyes of your prophets and visionaries."
This "sleep" wasn't only applied to the prophet and visionaries, but to all of Israel, and if this sleep applies to all of Israel, how much more for the Gentiles and those of the Seven Nations?
Romans 11:7-8 NLT - "So this is the situation: Most of the people of Israel have not found the favor of God they are looking for so earnestly. A few have--the ones God has chosen--but the hearts of the rest were hardened. 8 As the Scriptures say, "God has put them into a deep sleep. To this day he has shut their eyes so they do not see, and closed their ears so they do not hear."
Except those who Christ has lifted of the Sinful Nature (in the Old Testament), all people were "asleep" and there is / was nothing that could be done about it.
Have fun with that! :)
Abram had one of those also. He had a hard night.
Maybe it's a blessing, a kind of ignorance.
But what Abram dreamed was his seed going into captivity for 400 years. That would be the Exodus prelude.
Gen 15:12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
Gen 15:13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
Gen 15:14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
If you kind of compare this with Adam. Adam has a rib removed.. I just found that it represents a "branch" .
And that branch was Eve which became the mother of all living.
In the case of Sarah she became the mother of many nations.
Gen 17:15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.
Gen 17:16 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.
This is before Abram laughed and Ishmael was born, and then Sarah laughed and Isaac was born.
And Ishmael laughed and got thrown out of the family... how rude.
Anywhoo..
This deep sleep occurs many times. I'm thinking about Lazarus.. He wae dead but Jesus calls it sleeping.. so, intereting study that will make.
I just started working on Virtues.. so maybe after that.. lol
I only got so many shovels :)
Hugs
That's the day star.. The Light..The study that we must all know is the Plan of how Christ pulls us out of this deep sleep. If we don't get that, all other studies are fodder.
That's the day star.. The Light..
2Pe 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
You have to come to the Light and let it shine :)
I wish that were true.My Bibles all say the exact same thing. And I am so thankful for that!
I wish that were true.
Read the KJV only.:)The 14 to 15 translations that I have [don't] confirm the Doctrine of Circumcised Hearts? Of course, they do. The Catholic Bible is clear, and so is even the Jewish Tanakh. I'm not sure how you can say what you've said, but hey, what can I do about that? :)
Read the KJV only.:)
What is callous heart?
feeling no emotion. b : feeling or showing no sympathy for others : hard-hearted a callous indifference to suffering.
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Eze 11:19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
Eze 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
Rom 2:29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Col 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
Mat 15:17 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
Mat 15:18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
Mat 15:19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Mat 15:20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
Psa 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Psa 119:11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.