Kindness

Gods Infinite Wisdom In Easter

Gods Infinite Wisdom In Easter

Do kindness beyond reason. Defy terror with beauty. Combat darkness with infinite light.”

Tsvi Freeman

Putting it in todays Jewish terms: Eph 5:15-33 “Therefore look carefully how you walk, not as unwise but as wise.16 redeeming your time, because the days are evil. 17 Because of this do not be foolish, but you must understand what the will of the Lord is. 18 And do not get drunk on wine, which is debauchery, but you must continually be filled with the Spirit, 19 speaking to one another in Psalms and singing praises and spiritual songs, singing praises and playing stringed instruments from your heart to the Lord, 20 giving thanks to God and Father always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Messiah.

Being subject to oner another in reverent fear of Messiah 22 wives to their own husbands as to the Lord, because a husband is head of his wife as also the Messiah is head of the congregation, He is savior of the body: 24 but as the congregation is subject to the Messiah so also should wives be subject to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, you must continually love your wives, just as the Messiah also loved the congregation and gave Himself over on her behalf, 26 so that he would sanctify his wife, the congregation, the bride, making her pure by washing with the word of Torah, 27 in order that he would present for Himself the glorious congregation, not having spot or wrinkle or any of such things, but so His bride would be holy and without blemish. 28 In this way husbands are obligated to love their own wives as their bodies. The one who loves his own wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh but nourishes it, just as also the Messiah nourishes and cherishes the congregation, 30 because we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and be faithfully devoted to his wife and the two will be in one flesh.” (Gen 2:24) 32 This mystery is great: now I say this in Messiah then in respect to the Congregation. 33 But then you one by one, each must continually love his own wife just as himself, and that the wife should respect her husband.”

       William J. Morford.  The Power New Testament. Third Edition. Published by Shalom Ministries, Inc. copyright 2003. ISBN 0-9664523-2-1. www.thepowernewtestament.com   

The KJV says is like so:

Eph 5:15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Eph 5:16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Eph 5:17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. Eph 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; Eph 5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Eph 5:20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; Eph 5:21 ¶ Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Eph 5:22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. Eph 5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Eph 5:24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Eph 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; Eph 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, Eph 5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. Eph 5:28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. Eph 5:29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: Eph 5:30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. Eph 5:31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. Eph 5:32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Eph 5:33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband

Ro 6:1 ¶ What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? Ro 6:2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Ro 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Ro 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. Ro 6:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: Ro 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. Ro 6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin. Ro 6:8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: Ro 6:9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. Ro 6:10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Ro 6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Ge 22:7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? Ge 22:8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

Re 5:6 And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.

Re 7:17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

In the Final analysis to simplify and put it in perspective. The Spirit has joined itself to the souls of the Saints as a result of the First Easter. Easter the the simple way of saying “Crucifixtion and Resurrection.” Another way to put it is The Supreme Sacrifice and Supreme Glorifying of the Lamb of God.

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