Blessed is the name of the Lord. 2/6/15

Day 36 - Reading the New Testament in one year.

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/Matt.23

Matthew 23:23-39

23 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. 24 You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel. 25 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean. 27 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. 28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. 29 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. 30 And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ 31 So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. 32 Go ahead, then, and complete what your ancestors started! 33 “You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? 34 Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town. 35 And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 Truly I tell you, all this will come on this generation. 37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. 38 Look, your house is left to you desolate. 39 For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’[a]”

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

February 6th   A state of perfection February 6th

“I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect into one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.” JOHN 17:23
When the Lord prayed, “that they may be made perfect,” He used the perfect tense of the Greek verb. The perfect tense indicates that the effect of what happened in the past continues to be a present state and reality. This tells us that He was not referring to a process of being perfected. He was identifying a state of perfection that we are in. Kenneth S. Wuest, in his Expanded Translation of the New Testament, translates verse 23 in a way that expresses the significance of the perfect tense: “I in them and you in me, in order that they, having been brought to the state of completeness [or, perfection] with respect to oneness, may persist in that state of completeness [or, perfection] . . .” In other words, being brought to a state of perfection is simply equal to Christ indwelling us with the Father. The “I in them” is inseparably linked to the “You in Me.” “I in them”means that the Son is in us.“You in Me”means that the Father is in the Son. So we have the Father in the Son as the Spirit flowing into us as our state of perfection. This perfection is the perfection of the oneness existing between the Father and the Son. That oneness comes into us when Christ comes into us. Therefore, perfection is not what we attain; it is what we receive when we receive Christ. In every relationship in the Body of Christ, recognize the existing perfection, and then persist and continue in it.

Pray Until Something Happens (PUSH)

A cure for the Ebola virus and the D-68 virus, Areyda, Cameron-God's plan for her life, Cassie, Charlie, Cookie, Daina, Cy, Debbie, Derithia, Heather, Marquis, Monig-get her voice back, Nicole and family, Pastor Ford, and Willie

Health and Healing

Vonetta's mom and Willie

Support and Comfort

Ivette and family

Praise Alert
Kyle has recovered!

National
Passengers in Westchester train wreck.

Conflict between citizens and  police officer. 

International

Israel and Palestine
Iraq

Syrians

Ukraine

Missing plane and passengers.
Missing Nigerian Christian girls.

Song(s) of the Day.
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