Vertrouwen, Geloof, Roepen en Toeschrijving aan Jehovah #5 Gebed #2 Getuigen zonder taalbarrieres

Posted on May 17, 2013. Filed under: Geloven en Geloof, Jehovah יהוה YHWH JHVH God Elohim Yahweh Jahweh, Naam van God, Verkondigen en Verkondiging | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Getuige en Lof voor de Naam

Elke dag zouden wij onze Schepper moeten herinneren. Wij zouden ook moeten proberen om Zijn Stem te horen, die Hij aan Zijn mensen zal laten horen. Omdat hij bereid is te horen zouden wij bereid moeten zijn te spreken. Wij kunnen tot Hem met eenvoudig gesproken woorden spreken, of wij kunnen zelfs tot Hem zingen. Wij kunnen stil of luid tot Hem spreken. Wij kunnen tot lof van Jehovah Zijn Naam onze woorden verheffen.

Sing to Jehovah, Jehovah's Witnesses' current ...

Zing tot Jehovah, ook de titel van een liedboek van de Getuigen van Jehovah.

In de Bijbel kunnen wij vele plaatsen vinden waar het advies wordt gegeven om de Naam van God te aanroepen. Alsook wordt er met aandrang verzocht die Naam van God kenbaar te maken over de gehele wereld worden en het goede nieuws dagelijks af te kondigen… het nieuws van hoe Hij redding brengt. Aan alle naties zouden wij over Zijn glorie moeten vertellen, en van over Hem en Zijn wonderen spreken alle volkeren benieuwd makend naar meer.

Jehovah is groot en waardig van lof; Hij is te vrezen meer dan alle andere goden. Omdat de goden van de naties allen valse goden zijn of enkel voorbijgaande idolen, door mensen gemaakt geworden of verheven. Maar het is Jehovah die de hemel schiep en die eeuwig is. Vóór Hem zijn schoonheid en lof; heilig en majestueus is Zijn Heilige Plaats.

1 Zing tot יהוה {Jehovah} een nieuw lied, zing voor יהוה {Jehovah}, geheel de aarde! 2 zing tot יהוה {Jehovah}, zegen Zijn Naam, kondig Zijn bevrijding af van dag tot dag. 3 Verklaar Zijn achting onder de natie, Zijn wonderen onder alle volkeren. 4 Omdat יהוה {Jehovah} groot is en zeer geprijsd moet worden, (en) vooral moet Hij gevreesd worden boven al de machtigen. 5 Voor alle machtigen van de volkeren zijn kwesties van onbelangrijkheid, maar יהוה {Jehovah} maakte de hemel. (Psalmen 96:1 – 5 De Geschriften 1998+)

Geen taalbarrière

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Geen kwestie van welke natie waartoe wij behoren of welke taal wij spreken, wij kunnen tot God in onze eigen woorden, in onze eigen taal spreken. Voor hem zijn er geen taalbarrières. Hij begrijpt niet alleen de woorden van de mensen hij kent zelfs het hart van hen, en niets voor hem kan worden verborgen.

Maar יהוה {Jehovah} zei aan Shemu‘ ĕl, „Bekijk niet zijn verschijning of de hoogte van zijn gestalte, omdat ik hem heb geweigerd, voor niet zoals de mens ziet, voor de mens bekijkt de ogen, maar יהוה {Jehovah} bekijkt het hart.“ (1 Samuel 16:7 De Geschriften 1998+)

„Ik, יהוה {Jehovah}, onderzoek het hart, ik probeer de nieren, en geef elke mens volgens zijn manieren, volgens de vruchten van zijn daden. (Jeremia 17:10 De Geschriften 1998+)

„Hij openbaart diepe en geheime kwesties. Hij weet wat in de duisternis is, en het licht verblijft bij hem. (Daniel 2:22 De Geschriften 1998+)

„Voor wat verborgen is zal worden geopenbaard, en wat er ook geheim is zal worden gekend en zal aan het licht komen. (Lukas 8:17 De Geschriften 1998+)

In onze eigen taal, op onze eigen manier van spreken kunnen wij tot de Hoogste Elohim spreken en giften aan dragen tot Jehovah; hem zowel glorie als eer brengend, omwille van Zijn Naam.

Wij zouden vóór Jehovah moeten neerbuigen en alle naties vertellen dat hij Jehovah onze Machtigste Koning van koningen is! Het is Hij die de mens zijn huis vestigde, zodat het nooit zal beven. Voor, Hij zal de volkeren in rechtvaardigheid beoordelen!

Bij de aanwezigheid van יהוה {Jehovah}. Want Hij zal komen, want Hij zal de aarde komen beoordelen. Hij beoordeelt de wereld in oprechtheid {1}, en de volkeren met Zijn waarheid. {Voetnoot: 1 zie ook 98:9, Handelingen 17:31, Openbaring der apostelen. 19:11.} (Psalmen 96:13 De Geschriften 1998+)

9 Buig je voor יהוה {Jehovah}, in heerlijkheid van apart geplaatstheid {of heiligheid}! Beef vóór Hem, geheel de aarde. 10 Zeg onder naties, „יהוה {Jehovah} zal regeren. De wereld is ook gevestigd, onwrikbaar. Hij beoordeelt de volkeren in eerlijkheid.“ 11 laat de hemel zich verheugen, en laat de aarde blij zijn; Laat de zeeën brullen, en alles dat het vult; 12 laat de velden juichen, en alles dat daarin is. Laat alle bomen van het bos dan schreeuwen voor vreugde, 13 bij de aanwezigheid van יהוה {Jehovah}. Want Hij zal komen, want Hij zal de aarde komen beoordelen. Hij beoordeelt de wereld in oprechtheid {1}, en de volkeren met Zijn waarheid. {Voetnoot: 1 zie ook 98:9, Handelingen 17:31, Openbaring van de apostelen 19:11.} (Psalmen 96:9 – 13 De Geschriften 1998+)

Maak geloften tot יהוה {Jehovah} uw Elohim, en betaal hen. Laat iedereen rond Hem geschenken tot Hem die men moet vrezen. (Psalmen 76:11 De Geschriften 1998+)

Laat de naties blij zijn en van vreugde zingen! Voor U berecht de volkeren in alle rechtvaardigheid, en leid de naties ter wereld. Selah. (Psalmen 67:4 De Geschriften 1998+)

9 Zij doen geen kwaad noch vernietigen (zij) iets op Mijn apart geplaatste {heilige} berg, want de aarde zal (stellig) worden gevuld met de kennis van יהוה {Jehovah} zoals de wateren de zeeën {1} bedekken. {Voetnoot: 1 Hab. 2:14.} 10 En op die dag zal er een Wortel van Yishai {Isaï} zijn die, daar als banner voor de mensen zal staan. Naar hem zullen de niet Joden {heidenen, ongelovigen} {1} zoeken, en zal Zijn rust achting zijn. {Voetnoot: 1 Of naties.} 11 en het zal op die dag zijn {Het zal dan geschieden} dat יהוה {Jehovah} Zijn hand opnieuw een tweede keer plaatst om de rest van Zijn mensen terug te krijgen, van Ashshur {Assyrië) en van Mitsrayim {Egypte}, van Pathros en van Kush {Kusch}, van Ěylam {Elam} en van Shinʽar {Sinear}, van Ḥamath en van de eilanden van overzeese gebieden. 12 En Hij zal een banner voor de naties oprichten, en outcasts van Yisra’ ĕl verzamelen, en zal de verstrooiden {verspreiden} van Yehuḏah samen brengen, van uit de vier hoeken van de aarde. 13 En de afgunst van Ephrayim {Efraïm}zal zich afwenden, en de tegenstanders van Yehuḏah worden afgesneden. Ephrayim zal Yehuḏah niet benijden {zal niet jaloers zijn op}, en Yehuḏah zal voor geen problemen zorgen voor Ephrayim.
14 Maar zij zullen op de schouder van Filistijnen naar het westen neer vliegen; samen plunderen zij de mensen van het oosten, hun hand uitstrekkend vooruit naar Eḏom en Mo’ aḇ, en de kinderen van Ammon zullen aan hen onderworpen zijn. 15 En יהוה {Jehovah} zal onder de tong van het Overzeese gebied van Mitsrayim {Egyptische zee} afsnijden, en Hij zal Zijn Hand over de rivier zwaaien met de kracht van Zijn Geest, en zal het in de zeven stromen smijten, en zal mensen ertoe bewegen om het in sandalen te betreden. 16 En er zal een hoofdweg voor de rest van Zijn mensen zijn, diegenen van de linkerzijde van Ashshur, net zoals het voor Yisra’ ĕl in de dag was toen Hij omhoog kwam uit het land van Mitsrayim {Egypte}.  (Jesaja 11:9 – 16 De Geschriften 1998+)

Zeg onder naties, „יהוה {Jehovah} zal regeren. De wereld wordt ook gevestigd, onwrikbaar. Hij beoordeelt de volkeren in eerlijkheid.“ (Psalmen 96:10 De Geschriften 1998+)

6 De hemel zullen Zijn oprechtheid verklaren {Zijn rechtvaardigheid verkondigen}, en alle volkeren zullen Zijn achting zien. 7 Iedereen wie gesneden beelden dienen worden tot schande gezet, Diegenen die opscheppen over kwesties van onbelangrijkheid. {Zij die zich op goden beroemen die niets waard zijn (of van generlei waarde zijn).} Buig u zelf voor hem neer, alle u machtige, {goden}. 8 Tsiyon {Sion} zal horen en zal blij zijn, en de dochters van Yehuḏah {de onderhorige plaatsen van Juda} verheugen zich wegens Uw juist-uitspraken {vanwege Uw juristuitspraken of rechterlijke beslissingen}, O יהוה {Jehovah} 9 voor u, {Jehovah} יהוה, bent de Aller Hoogste over heel de aarde, U zult zeer verheven worden, boven alle machtigen {goden}. 10 U die van יהוה {Jehovah} houdt, haat kwaad {haat het kwade}! Hij bewaakt het leven van Zijn vriendelijken {loyalen/ hen die Hem liefhebben}, Hij levert hen uit de hand van de verkeerden {Uit de hand van de goddelozen bevrijdt Hij hen}. 11 Het licht wordt gezaaid voor de rechtvaardigen  {Het licht gaat op voor de rechtvaardigen.}, en verheuging voor de oprechten van hart. 12 Verheug in יהוה {Jehovah}, u rechtvaardigen, en geef dank bij de herinnering van Zijn Apart geplaatstheid {heiligheid}. (Psalmen 97:6 – 12 De Geschriften 1998+)

5 Zing tot יהוה {Jehovah} met de lier, met lier en de stem van een lied, 6 met trompetten en het geluid van een hoorn; Hef een schreeuw op vóór יהוה {Jehovah} {Juicht of Verheug u in Jehovah}, de Soeverein. 7 Laat de zee brullen, en dat alles wat het vult, de wereld en zij die daarin verblijven. 8 Laat de rivieren in hun handen klappen, laten de bergen samen voor vreugde zingen vóór יהוה {Jehovah}, 9 want Hij zal de aarde komen beoordelen. Hij beoordeelt de wereld in oprechtheid, en de mensen in eerlijkheid. (Psalmen 98:5 – 9 De Geschriften 1998+)

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  21. Vrees hebben voor de juiste persoon
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  23. Prijs en zeg dank tot God de Allerhoogste
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  • Meaning of Elohim (gnosticwarrior.com)
    In the Hebrew language and the Old Testament, the meaning of ”El” is the noun singular form of the word God, and “Elohim meaning Meaning of ElohimElohim” is the plural version “gods.” The name Elohim appears 33 times in the story of creation in the opening chapters of Genesis.
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    Jehovah is a Latinization of the Hebrew יְהֹוָה, a vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH); the name of the Hebrew national god of the Iron Age kingdoms of Israel and Judah in the Hebrew Bible.  YHWH is also been transcribed as “Yehowah” or “Yahweh“, but the  Rabbinic Judaism teaches that the Tetragrammaton (י-ה-ו-ה), YHWH, is the ineffable and actual name of God, and as such is not read aloud in the Shema, but is traditionally replaced with אדני, Adonai (“Lord”).The royal court and temple of Israel had promoted Yahweh as God of the entire cosmos, possessing all the positive qualities previously attributed to the other gods and goddesses. In modern Judaism, the name Yahweh is replaced with the word Adonai, meaning Lord. Most scholars believe “Jehovah” to be a late (ca. 1100 CE) hybrid form, derived by combining the Latin letters JHVH with the vowels of Adonai. Adonai — often translated as “LORD”, it is read in place of YHWH.
  • Jehovah Jirah (asatisfiedspirit.com)
    Of all God’s names and characteristics Jehovah Jirah speaks most loudly to me.  There are actually several interlacing characteristics to this Hebrew term. First, He is the One who sees.
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    As the Creator of ALL that is, was, and is to come, there is nothing that is not at His disposal for me (us).  It is His to give whether it be physical or spiritual.  And more than that He wants to!!!!Worship Him in song!     Jehovah Jirah
  • Why Are You Called Jehovah’s Witnesses? (illustrationstoencourage.wordpress.com)
    Jehovah’s Witnesses designates us as a group of Christians who proclaim the truth about Jehovah, the Creator of all things.
  • Strengthened and walking in the name of the Lord (dailymedit.wordpress.com)
    Paul admonished that we should be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might (Ephesians 6:10-18). You can come weak but by the application of the oil of the spirit, your healing will manifest and being fed on the word, you get spiritually energised.
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Trusting, Faith, calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #3 Voice of God #6 Words to feed and communicate

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Trust, Faith and Prayer

Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #3 voice of God

Hearing the Voice in the Holy Scriptures

Words to feed

Continuing reading the Words of God in the Holy Scriptures the Holy Spirit shall feed us. He shall be prepared to come close to us and to answer our questions or prayers. But for being able to hear the Voice of God we do need to take on the right attitude. We must humbly let the Scriptures teach us, reprove us, set things straight for us, and discipline us in righteousness. Jehovah knows what we need, for His thoughts are so much higher than our thoughts. By His inspired Scriptures, He tells us what is beneficial for us so that we may be fully equipped and competent for the good work of witnessing to His name and Kingdom. Paul gives this outstanding advice in the context of describing the “critical times” that come “in the last days”: “All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness that the man of God may be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work.” May all of us survive these critical times by giving heed to this inspired advice! (Romans 15:4; 2 Timothy 3:16-17)

The title page to the 1611 first edition of th...

The title page to the 1611 first edition of the Authorized Version Bible. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

6 Seek יהוה {Jehovah} while He is to be found, call on Him while He is near. 7 Let the wrong forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to יהוה {Jehovah}, who has compassion on him, and to our Elohim, for He pardons much. 8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares יהוה {Jehovah}.9  “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. 10 “For as the rain comes down, and the snow from the heavens, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, and give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, 11 so is My Word that goes forth from My mouth – it does not return to Me empty, but shall do what I please, and shall certainly accomplish what I sent it for. 12 “For with joy you go out, and with peace you are brought in – the mountains and the hills break forth into singing before you, and all the trees of the field clap the hands. 13 “Instead of the thorn the cypress comes up, and instead of the nettle the myrtle comes up. And it shall be to יהוה {Jehovah} for a name, for an everlasting sign which is not cut off.” (Isaiah 55:6-13 The Scriptures 1998+)

When we read the Bible we can listen to God His Word. By listening to His voice and by sticking to Him we shall be able to get answers and to get full breath of life, for He is your life and the length of your days.

19 “I have called the heavens and the earth as witnesses today against you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore you shall choose life, so that you live, both you and your seed, 20 to love יהוה {Jehovah} your Elohim, to obey His voice, and to cling to Him – for He is your life and the length of your days – to dwell in the land which יהוה {Jehovah} swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Yitsḥaq, and to Ya’aqob, to give them.” (Deuteronomy 30:19-20 The Scriptures 1998+)

Great should be our joy and gratitude that we can read and reread, study and restudy, and meditate on these precious truths, for truly “all Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial,” leading on to eternal life either in heaven or on a paradise earth. (John 17:3; Ephesians 1:9-11) Then everything will be ‘holiness to Jehovah.’(Zechariah 14:20; Rev. 4:8.)

Bible part of the free conversation

With the Word of God in the Holy Scriptures Jehovah, the Creator of all things, provided a means to get in conversation with Him. In the Holy Scriptures we are able to find answers to our many questions. It would be wrong just to take the writings as uninspired human penstrokes. We may not simply read words. When we encounter the words on paper in front of us, we should remember that it was the Voice of God who inspired the human writers to put down the Words of God.

We should visualize the situations about which we read, imagining the voices of those who are quoted.

As you read the opening chapters of the Bible, hear Jehovah Himself reveal, step by step, what is done in making the earth fit for man. Listen as He tells that the time has come to bring the first humans into existence. Picture the scene: Adam and Eve rebel, God passes judgment on them and, subsequently, He ousts them from Paradise. (Genesis, chaps. 1-3) Feel a sense of awe when you read that a Voice from heaven identifies Jesus Christ as the Son of God, the beloved, the one sent by God to lay down his life for mankind. (Matthew 3:16, 17) Try to imagine the apostle John’s reaction when he hears Jehovah declare: “Look! I am making all things new.” (Revelation 21:5)

With the 66 books of books God gave the world the Book of Life. We should not for a minute let this Book of The Revelation be out of our mind. This Book full of instructions and laws shows us the way how to live and how to survive. We should ponder and meditate on it day and night, making sure we practice everything written in it. Then we shall get where we’re going; then we shall succeed and find out that our way may be prosperous.

“Do not let this Book of the Torah depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you guard to do according to all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and act wisely. (Joshua 1:8 The Scriptures 1998+)

Coming together to study the Word of God in the Holy Scriptures

Coming together to study the Word of God in the Holy Scriptures

The Biblical contemplation of nature and man starts from and ends in God and is kept alive by the Breath and the Voice of God. The very smallness of man makes the revelation of God in His dealings with him great. For every Christian Jehovah God, should be the only One brilliant Lord of Lord of lords and a household name. We might be a shimmering reflection, visible to every eye upturned from “this dim spot which men call earth.” But we should know that the Creator does find it important that people get to know Him by His Name and would love to see it shine all over the earth as the majestic name in all the earth.

O יהוה {Jehovah}, our Master, how excellent is Your Name in all the earth, You who set Your splendour above the heavens! (Psalms 8:1 The Scriptures 1998+)

5 Let them praise the Name of יהוה {Jehovah}, For He commanded and they were created. 6 And He established them forever and ever, He gave a law and they pass not beyond. 7 Praise יהוה {Jehovah}, from the earth, You great sea creatures and all the depths, 8 Fire and hail, snow and clouds, Stormy wind that does His word, 9 The mountains and all hills, Fruit tree and all cedars, 10 Wild beasts and all cattle, Creeping creatures and flying birds, 11 Sovereigns of the earth and all peoples, Rulers and all judges of the earth, 12 Both young men and maidens, Old men and children. 13 Let them praise the Name of יהוה {Jehovah}, For His Name alone is exalted, His splendour is above the earth and heavens. 14 He also lifts up the horn of His people, The praise of all His kind ones; Of the children of Yisra’ĕl, A people near to Him. Praise Yah! (Psalms 148:5-14 The Scriptures 1998+)

We are best to act wisely by directing our eyes onto the Words of God in the Holy Scriptures. When we allow those Words from God come from the paper into our heart we shall feel that God shall come with us and shall be willing to come to our aid to understand the many words in those Holy books. The more time you spend reading the Bible, the greater will be your satisfaction as you grow in knowledge of God’s will for you. You shall become less frightened because you shall know that God is close to you. You shall not have so many moments to panic. The assurance that God is with you shall make life so much easier. There’s no need to fear for Jehovah is your God when you are willing to accept Him as the Only One God. He shall give you strength. He shall help you. He shall hold you steady, keep a firm grip on you.

‘Do not fear, for I am with you. Do not look around, for I am your Elohim. I shall strengthen you, I shall also help you, I shall also uphold you with the right hand of My righteousness.’ (Isaiah 41:10 The Scriptures 1998+)

When you listen to all those words coming from the Most High Powerful God, you shall feel that reading the Bible is as going into a very deep conversation. Such a conversation can also be called a prayer. Going into deep meditation about what is written in the Bible, shall bring you closer to your Creator. Truly, reading God’s Word in this way is a delightful experience!

When you do your Bible reading, take time to ponder the meaning of what you read — what it tells you about Jehovah, how it can influence your life beneficially, and how you can use it to help others.

When your regular reading provides you the help you need to deal wisely with problems, you will feel like the psalmist who said: “Your reminders are wonderful. That is why my soul has observed them.” (Psalm 119:129) You too will rejoice as you discern from the Scriptures principles that help to mould your thinking and your desires in a godly way. It might surprise you that Gods way shall not always be your way, but that when you follow God’s way you shall find it to be the most easiest way. But remember that Jehovah does not think the way you think. The way you work isn’t the way He works. God His thoughts are most sublime and His ways our much higher than our ways. Jehovah His Decree should be the most important one to follow for us and should enable us to return or to come closer to the Almighty Elohim Jehovah God.

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6 Seek יהוה {Jehovah}, while He is to be found, call on Him while He is near. 7 Let the wrong forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to יהוה {Jehovah}, who has compassion on him, and to our Elohim, for He pardons much. 8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares יהוה {Jehovah}. 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. 10 “For as the rain comes down, and the snow from the heavens, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, and give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, 11 so is My Word that goes forth from My mouth – it does not return to Me empty, but shall do what I please, and shall certainly accomplish what I sent it for. (Isaiah 55:6-11 The Scriptures 1998+)

Continue reading the inspired record, and you will come to know Jehovah as a Majestic and Awe-inspiring Person. You will feel strongly drawn to this One who loves us, deals mercifully with us, helps us if we humbly keep trying to do His will, and shows us how to enjoy success in all that we do.

As we read the Bible, we will sense that Jehovah is coming near to us and that He, as a loving Father, who knows what problems will result when we give in to imperfect fleshly desires, provides moral guidance that shields us from harm and shows us the right way. He does not want us to suffer the terrible consequences that will inevitably come from flouting His high moral standards. Jehovah God is a loving caring Father who wants us to enjoy the best way of life. Our reading of His Word helps us to appreciate more fully what a blessing it is to have him as our God and heavenly Father.

Daily Words of comfort

When we do love God, we shall be prepared to listen to His Wise Words regularly. We do not have to go to theological colleges or to hang out at Sin Saloon, not slinking along Dead-End Road, not going to Smart-Mouth College. Instead you thrill to God’s Word, you chew on Scripture day and night. You would not mind becoming a tree replanted in Eden, bearing fresh fruit every month, Never dropping a leaf, always in blossom. You do not want to be like the common wicked people, who are mere windblown dust.

1 Blessed is the man who shall not walk in the counsel of the wrong, And shall not stand in the path of sinners, And shall not sit in the seat of scoffers, 2 But his delight is in the Torah of יהוה {Jehovah}, And he meditates in His Torah day and night. 3 For he shall be as a tree Planted by the rivers of water, That yields its fruit in its season, And whose leaf does not wither, And whatever he does prospers. 4 The wrong are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind blows away. 5 Therefore the wrong shall not rise in the judgment, Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. 6 For יהוה {Jehovah}knows the way of the righteous, But the way of the wrong comes to naught. (Psalms 1:1-6 The Scriptures 1998+)

Daily Bible reading shall bring Gods Word every day close into our heart and shall feed us as the necessary breast-feeding for the baby. Regular reading and application of what is in God’s Word will enable us to succeed in everything that involves our relationship with Jehovah.

Ecclesia in Brussels hotel

Getting together at the Ecclesia in Brussels hotel to study the Bible and have a service of Breaking of the Bread

Even when we do not see it any more in this world and cannot follow this world we shall find the necessary solution in the readings of the day and will be blessed when we’re at the end of our rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule. Others may call us the poor ones, but we should not mind. We may be the poor in spirit, but knowing our spiritual need, we shall be the ones looking forward to the hope coming true, for God His kingdom may be ours. (Matthew 5:3)

This shall only be true if we are prepared to adjust ourselves to that Word of God. If we adjust our priorities so as to read a portion of the Bible each day, we should think about those words we read, and put them to work in our lives. We should receive the Word with all readiness of mind and search the Scriptures daily to see if those things were and are so. (Acts 17:11)

As the first Christians let us follow their example and also have open minds, recognition of need, searching minds, daily application, and enthusiasm.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think you possess everlasting life in them. And these are the ones that bear witness of Me. (John 5:39 The Scriptures 1998+)

It is never enough to be knowledgeable in the Scriptures in a theoretical sense. The study of God’s Word must lead us to find who is the Messiah and to embrace Christ, with our whole heart and mind. Knowledge by itself is sterile. But intimate, personal experience of Christ brings about deep and lasting changes in our lives, and leads on to the eternal life that may be possessed only through him.

“Scripture is the royal chariot in which Jesus rides, and it is paved with love for the daughters of Jerusalem. The Scriptures are the swaddling bands of the holy child Jesus; unroll them and you find your Saviour. The quintessence of the word of God is Christ” (CHS).

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Trusting, Faith, calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #3 Voice of God #1 Creator and His Prophets

Trusting, Faith, calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #3 Voice of God #2 Instructions and Laws

Trusting, Faith, calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #3 Voice of God #3 A voice to be taken Seriously

Trusting, Faith, calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #3 Voice of God #4 Words in Scripture

Trusting, Faith, calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #3 Voice of God #5 To meditate and Transform

Next: Trusting, Faith, calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #4 Transitoriness

Dutch version / Nederlandse versie: Vertrouwen, Geloof, Roepen en Toeschrijving aan Jehovah #3 Stem van God #6 Woorden tot voedsel en communicatie

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  7. Bible in the first place #2/3
  8. Bible in the first place #3/3
  9. Bible in a nutshell
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  13. God about His name “יהוה“
  14. Another way looking at a language #5 Aramic, Hebrew and Greek
  15. Knowing old sayings to understand the Bible
  16. Use of /Gebruik van Jehovah or/of Yahweh in Bible Translations/Bijbel vertalingen
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  18. A god between many gods
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  24. Titles of God beginning with the Aleph in Hebrew
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  26. The NIV and the Name of God
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  29. Praise and give thanks to God the Most Highest
  30. Praise the God with His Name
  31. The Importance Of Scripture
  32. The importance of Reading the Scriptures
  33. Fear of God reason to return to Holy Scriptures
  34. Absolute Basics to Reading the Bible
  35. Finding and Understanding Words and Meanings
  36. Listening and Praying to the Father
  37. Breathing to teach
  38. That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us
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Posted on February 11, 2013. Filed under: Being Christian, following Jesus Christ, Bible Study and Bible Reading, Holy Scriptures, Jehovah יהוה YHWH JHVH God Elohim Yahweh Jahweh | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

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Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #3 voice of God

Hearing the Voice in the Holy Scriptures

We have the opportunity to hear the Voice of Jehovah God. We have His Words in the Holy Scriptures so we can read and hear His Voice which is on the waters; the God of glory thunders; Jehovah above many waters, in power, in majesty. He breaks the strong ones also making them to skip like a calf, like a young wild ox. The voice of Jehovah goes through flames of fire, shakes the wilderness; causes the does to calve, and uncovers the forests; and in His temple all of it is saying, glory! Therefore we, the humble and the mighty, should give to Jehovah glory and strength. We have to give to Jehovah the glory due to His name; worship Jehovah in the beauty of holiness. Jehovah sits as king forever on the highest throne and will give strength to His people; Jehovah will bless His people with peace. That is assured in the Writings of the ancestors of Gods people. (Psalms 29:1-11)

Excerpt from Johann Leusden's Latin translatio...

Excerpt from Johann Leusden’s Latin translation of the Bible book of Psalms (1688, Sefer Tehilim Liber Psalmorum, pp. 5, A2). “JEHOVA” is used for transcribing the Tetragrammaton (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

We should love Jehovah and His Words because He hears our voice and our prayers and according to His judgment He the Life giver, Creator of all things, give us life. (Psalms 116:1; Psalms 119:149)

14 Yah is my strength and song, And He has become my deliverance. 15 The voice of rejoicing and deliverance Is in the tents of the righteous; The right hand of יהוה {Jehovah} is doing mightily. 16 The right hand of יהוה {Jehovah} is exalted, The right hand of יהוה {Jehovah} acts mightily. (Psalms 118:14-16 The Scriptures 1998+)

Instructor’s Voice to come to the rescue

Jehovah is ready to come to the rescue of righthearted ones. The Grand Instructor will no longer hide Himself, so He gave His Words to the world and asked the eyes of the people to become eyes seeing their Grand Instructor. For it is He Only, Elohim the Creator, who has no equal as a teacher. Through history Jehovah revealed Himself through His prophets, whose words are recorded in the Bible. (Amos 3:6, 7) Today, when faithful worshipers read the Bible, it is as if God’s fatherly voice is telling them the way to go and urging them to readjust their course of conduct so as to walk in it. Each Christian should listen carefully as Jehovah speaks through the pages of the Bible. Let each one apply himself to Bible reading, for ‘it means his life.’

18 And therefore יהוה {Jehovah} shall wait, to show you favour. And therefore He shall be exalted, to have compassion on you. For יהוה {Jehovah} is an Elohim of right-ruling. Blessed are all those who wait for Him. 19 For the people shall dwell in Tsiyon at Yerushalayim, you shall weep no more. He shall show much favour to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears, He shall answer you. 20 Though יהוה {Jehovah} gave you bread of adversity and water of affliction, your Teacher {1} shall no longer be hidden. But your eyes shall see your Teacher {1}, {Footnote: 1Or teachers. See also Joel 2:23}. 21 and your ears hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the Way, walk in it,” whenever you turn to the right, or whenever you turn to the left. (Isaiah 30:18-21 The Scriptures 1998+)

6 If a ram’s horn is blown in a city, do the people not tremble? If there is calamity in a city, shall not יהוה {Jehovah} have done it? 7 For the Master יהוה {Jehovah} does no matter unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets. 8 A lion has roared! Who is not afraid? The Master יהוה {Jehovah} has spoken! Who would not prophesy? (Amos 3:6-8 The Scriptures 1998+)

46 he said to them, “Set your heart on all the words with which I warn you today, so that you command your children to guard to do all the Words of this Torah. 47 “For it is not a worthless Word for you, because it is your life, and by this Word you prolong your days on the soil which you pass over the Yardĕn to possess.” (Deuteronomy 32:46-47 The Scriptures 1998+)

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Bible (Photo credit: Sean MacEntee)

17 Thus said יהוה {Jehovah}, your Redeemer, the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl, “I am יהוה {Jehovah} your Elohim, teaching you what is best, leading you by the way you should go. 18 “If only you had listened to My commands! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea. 19 “And your seed would have been like the sand, and the offspring of your inward parts like the grains of sand. His name would not have been cut off nor destroyed from before Me. 20 “Come out of Babel! Flee from the Chaldeans! Declare this with a voice of singing, proclaim it, send it out to the end of the earth! Say, ‘יהוה {Jehovah} has redeemed His servant Ya’aqob!’ ” (Isaiah 48:17-20 The Scriptures 1998+)

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Dutch version / Nederlandse versie: Vertrouwen, Geloof, Roepen en Toeschrijving aan Jehovah #3 Stem van God #4 Stem in het Schrift

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  5. יהוה , YHWH and Love: Four-letter words
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  111. Rest thy delight on Jehovah
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  113. Make a joyful noise unto Yahweh, rejoice, and sing praise unto Jehovah
  114. Prophets making excuses
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  116. Blind leading the blind
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Vertrouwen, Geloof, Roepen en Toeschrijving aan Jehovah #3 Stem van God #4 Stem in het Schrift

Posted on February 9, 2013. Filed under: Bijbel Studie en Bijbel Lezing, Christen zijn en Christus volgen, Heilige Schrift, Jehovah יהוה YHWH JHVH God Elohim Yahweh Jahweh | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

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Vertrouwen, Geloof, Roepen en Toeschrijving aan Jehovah #3 Stem van God

De Stem horen in de Heilige Schrift

We hebben de kans om de stem van Jehovah God te horen. We kunnen Zijn woorden in de Heilige Schrift. In dat Boek der Boeken, de Bijbel, kunnen wij de geschiedenis van de mensheid lezen en zien hoe de Schepper Zijn Stem over de aarde heeft laten klinken. Wij kunnen er in vinden hoe Gods Stem over de wateren ging; hoe het klonk als donderslagen; hoe Zij krachtig klonk boven berg en dal, overal in macht en Majesteit uittornend. Het is God Zijn Stem die er in slaagt de sterken te breken en hen als kalfjes onbeholpen te laten rondspringen. De stem van Jehovah gaat door vlammen van hevig vuur, schudt de wildernis; veroorzaakt het kalven, en onthult de bossen. En in zijn tempel kan men “glorie” horen zeggen! Daarom moeten wij, de bescheiden en de machtigen aan Jehovah glorie en kracht geven. We moeten aan Jehovah de heerlijkheid geven die Zijn Naam toekomt. Aan Hem alleen horen wij de hoogste Glorie te geven en Zijn Naam te prijzen. De Elohim, Jehovah God is de Enige welke wij horen te aanbidden in de schoonheid van heiligheid. Jehovah zit als koning voor eeuwig op de allerhoogste troon en zal kracht geven aan Zijn volk; Jehovah zal Zijn volk met vrede zegenen. Dat is verzekerd in de geschriften van de voorouders van Gods mensen. (Psalmen 29: 1-11)

Stilleven met bijbel, Vincent van Gogh (1885)

Stilleven met bijbel, Vincent van Gogh (1885) (Photo credit: Pachango)

Wij moeten van Jehovah en Zijn Woord houden omdat Hij onze stem en onze gebeden hoort en volgens Zijn oordeel, Hij de Gever van leven, Schepper van alle dingen, ons leven zal geven. (Psalm 116: 1; Psalm 119: 149)

14 Yah is mijn sterkte en lied, en Hij is uitgegroeid tot mijn bevrijding. 15 De stem van vreugde en bevrijding is in de tenten van de rechtvaardigen; De Rechterhand van יהוה {Jehovah} doet het machtige {spreidt vitale kracht ten toon/doet sterke daden/is krachtdadig}. 16 De rechter hand van יהוה Jehovah verhoogd zich {is verheven}, de rechterhand van יהוה {Jehovah} fungeert krachtig {spreidt vitale kracht ten toon/doet sterke daden/is krachtdadig}. (Psalm 118: 14-16 De Geschriften 1998 +)

Instructeur’s stem tot redding

Jehovah is klaar om tot de redding te komen van de rechtgaarden. De Grote instructeur wil Zich niet langer verbergen, hierom gaf Hij Zijn woorden aan de wereld en vroeg het volk haar ogen te openen zodat hun ogen hun ‘Grand instructeur’ konden zien. Want het is Hij alleen, de Schepper, de Elohim die geen gelijke heeft als leraar. Doorheen de geschiedenis openbaarde Jehovah zich door middel van Zijn profeten, wiens woorden zijn opgenomen in de Bijbel. (Amos 3:6, 7) Vandaag, wanneer de trouwe aanbidders de Bijbel lezen, is het alsof God’s vaderlijke Stem hen verteld welke weg moet bewandelt worden. Het lezen van de Bijbel brengt mee dat de Stem zich laat horen en richting geeft. Het is de Stem die hen er aan herinnert hoe zij zich horen te gedragen, hoe zij hun leven moeten opbouwen en hen laat verstaan dat het dringend tijd is om hun natuurlijk gedrag aan te passen. Elke Christen moet zorgvuldig luisteren als Jehovah door de pagina’s van de Bijbel spreekt. Laat elkeen er zich op toe leggen om regelmatig de Bijbel te lezen en zich bereid voelen om zich volgens de richtgevingen van die Bijbel zich om te vormen en aan te passen volgens Bijbelse normen, omdat het spreken vanuit de bijbel het leven betekend en het de ‘ onderscheiding’ in zijn mens zijn zal zijn.

18 En daarom zal יהוה {Jehovah} wachten, om aan u voorkeur te tonen. En daarom moet hij verheven worden, om medelijden met u te hebben {om zich over jullie te ontfermen}. Want (de heer) יהוה {Jehovah} is een Elohim van rechtvaardigheid {een Allerhoogste god van recht}. Zalig zijn al degenen die wachten op Hem. 19 Want de mensen zullen in Tsiyon te Yerushalayim wonen, u zal niet meer huilen. Hij zal veel gunst aan u tonen bij het geluid van uw geschreeuw; Wanneer Hij hoort, zal Hij u beantwoorden. 20 Al gaf (de heer) יהוה {Jehovah} je brood van tegenspoed en het water van ellende, zal uw Leraar {1} niet langer meer verborgen zijn. Maar uw ogen zullen uw Leraar {Onderrichter} {1} zien {voetnoot: 1of leraren. Zie ook Joel 2:23}. 21 en uw oren horen een woord achter je, zeggende: “Dit is de Weg, wandel er op“ wanneer u ook naar rechts draait, of wanneer u ook naar links draait.{ Dít is de weg, wandelt daarop!, wanneer je naar rechts wilt en wanneer je naar links wilt.} (Jesaja 30:18-21 de Geschriften 1998 +)

6 Indien in een stad de ramshoorn klinkt beven haar inwoners dan niet?Als er ramp in een stad is, zal יהוה {Jehovah} het dan niet hebben gedaan? 7 Zo doet de Meester יהוה {Jehovah} geen kwestie tenzij Hij zijn geheim aan zijn knechten, de profeten heeft geopenbaard. 8 Een leeuw heeft gebruld! Wie is niet bang? De Meester יהוה {Jehovah} heeft gesproken! Wie zou niet profeteren? (Amos 3:6-8 de Geschriften 1998 +)

46 Hij zei tot hen, “Richt uw hart op alle de woorden waarmee ik u vandaag waarschuw {Neem al Mijn Woorden, waar ik vandaag u waarschuw, ter harte.}, zo dat u uw kinderen opdraagt {de opdracht geeft} om te waken al de woorden van deze Thora te doen {om zich strikt te houden aan deze wetten.}. 47 “Want het is niet een waardeloos {of onbeduidend} woord voor u, want het is uw leven, en door dit woord zal u uw dagen op deze aardbodem verlengen, in het land over de Yardĕn {Jordaan} dat gij in bezit gaat nemen.” (Deuteronomium 32:46-47 de Geschriften 1998 +)

Bible and Scroll for the Study of Word of God

Boekrol en Bijbel voor Studie van het Woord van God

17 Aldus zei de Ene יהוה {Jehovah}, uw Verlosser, de Ene Apart Geplaatste {Heilige} van Yisra ‘ ĕl, “Ik ben יהוה {Jehovah} uw Elohim, u onderrichtend wat het beste is, u leidend volgens de wijze dat u hoort te gaan. 18 “Als je alleen (maar) had geluisterd naar Mijn opdrachten {Mijn geboden}! Dan zou uw vrede zijn geweest als een rivier en uw gerechtigheid als de golven van de zee. 19 “En uw nageslacht” zou als het zand geweest zijn en de nakomelingen van u {uw kroost} zoals de korrels van dat zand { uw nakomelingschap als het stof der aarde;}. Zijn naam zou niet zijn afgesneden, noch vernietigd van vóór Mij. “20 Gaat uit van Babel! Ontvlucht de Chaldeeën! Verklaar dit met een stem van zang, verkondig het, zend het uit tot aan het einde van de aarde! Zeggend, ‘ de Heer יהוה {Jehovah} heeft zijn dienaar Ya ‘aqob verlost!’ “(Jesaja 48: 17-21 de Geschriften 1998 +)

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Voorgaand: Vertrouwen, Geloof, Roepen en Toeschrijving aan Jehovah #3 Stem van God #3 Ernstig te nemen zegenende stem

Vervolg: Vertrouwen, Geloof, Roepen en Toeschrijving aan Jehovah #3 Stem van God #5 Meditatie en transformatie

English version: Trusting, Faith, calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #3 Voice of God #4 Words in Scripture

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  2. Breng glorie aan Jehovah God de Allerhoogste
  3. Breng glorie aan Jehovah God de Allerhoogste
  4. Belangrijkheid van Gods Naam
  5. Heer, Yahuwah, Yeshua of Yahushua
  6. Zonder God geen reden, geen doel, geen hoop
  7. De Afstraling van Gods Heerlijkheid
  8. Een Naam voor een God #10 God  en goddelijkheid
  9. De boekrol
  10. Mondelinge of schriftelijke overlevering en aantal auteurs
  11. Het betrouwbare woord
  12. Heilige Schrift Woord van God
  13. Waarom wij in de Bijbel moeten geloven
  14. Onzeker over relevantie Bijbel
  15. Nut van het lezen van de Bijbel
  16. Mogelijkheid tot leven
  17. Zuivere woorden vol Adem van de Allerhoogste
  18. Lezen wat er staat geschreven
  19. Symboliek in de Heilige Schrift
  20. Zeggingskracht van beelden in de Bijbel #2 Vorm van beeldtaal
  21. De kunst van het neerschrijven
  22. Kennis en wijsheid door een Oud Boek
  23. De Bijbel als instructieboek
  24. De Bijbel onze Gids
  25. De Bijbel voor u en voor uw leven
  26. Woorden in de Wereld
  27. Kroniekschrijvers en profeten #1 Boeken van het Oude Testament
  28. Het schrijven van de Pentateuch
  29. Deuteronomium en profetenboeken
  30. Kroniekschrijvers en profeten #2 De Wet
  31. De Bijbel in 451 talen beschikbaar
  32. Hebt u een Engelse Bijbevertaling?
  33. Wat staat er in de Bijbel
  34. Door moeilijkheden zien dat de bijbel waar is
  35. Bijbel boek voor het heden
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  37. De weg ten leven
  38. De Bijbel volgens Calvijn kostbaarste goed
  39. Bijbel als een waterplas
  40. Zeg het toch maar
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  46. Zoeken naar waarheid, studiemateriaal, Jehovah Getuigen, ex-Jehovah Getuigen en anderen
  47. Leven in dankbaarheid opent glorie van God
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  51. Schoonheid van heiligheid
  52. Eerlijkheid begin van heiliging
  53. Helden en heiligen
  54. Weest heilig
  55. God maak ons heilig
  56. Johannes 1:18 wat zegt de Bijbel
  57. Werken aan de Bijbel aanvoelend als vernieuwen van bedradingen in een oud huis
  58. Oudste Hebreeuwse tekst
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Trusting, Faith, calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #3 Voice of God #3 A voice to be taken Seriously

Posted on February 7, 2013. Filed under: Being Christian, following Jesus Christ, Faith, Jehovah יהוה YHWH JHVH God Elohim Yahweh Jahweh | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Trust, Faith and Prayer

Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #3 voice of God

A voice to be taken serious

David remembered how the Almighty God had spoken His words to all with a great voice and how those Words were written down to be remembered and taken at heart.

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The Voice of the Creator coming out of the Darkness, Creating from the void.
- Darkness Over Eden with overshooting domes of thunderstorms in the background
Photo taken by Kabir Bakie in Eden Park Cincinnati Ohio May 2004

22 “These Words יהוה {Jehovah} spoke to all your assembly, in the mountain from the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a loud voice, and He added no more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me. 23 “And it came to be, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders, 24 and said, ‘See, יהוה {Jehovah} our Elohim has shown us His esteem and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire. Today we have seen that Elohim speaks with man – and he lives! 25 ‘And now why should we die? For this great fire is consuming us. If we hear the voice of יהוה {Jehovah} our Elohim any more, then we shall die. 26 ‘For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living Elohim speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and does live? 27 ‘You go near and hear all that יהוה {Jehovah} our Elohim says, and speak to us all that יהוה {Jehovah} our Elohim says to you, and we shall hear and do it.’ 28 “And יהוה {Jehovah} heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me, and יהוה {Jehovah} said to me, ‘I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken. 29 ‘Oh, that they had such a heart in them, to fear Me and to guard all My commands always, so that it might be well with them and with their children forever! (Deuteronomy 5:22-29 The Scriptures 1998+)

Jehovah is a living God who speaks and hears and is willing to be with those who are willing to listen to His Voice. But He wants that we walk after Jehovah our God, fear Him, and keep His commandments, and obey His voice, and that we shall serve Him and hold fast to Him.

“Walk after יהוה {Jehovah} your Elohim and fear Him, and guard His commands and obey His voice, and serve Him and cling to Him. (Deuteronomy 13:4 The Scriptures 1998+)

“After Jehovah YOUR God YOU should walk, and him YOU should fear, and his commandments YOU should keep, and to his voice YOU should listen, and him YOU should serve, and to him YOU should cling.” (Deuteronomy 13:4 NWT)

And when we cry to Jehovah, the God of our fathers, like in previous times, Jehovah will hear our voice and look on our afflictions and our labour and our oppression, and we also should set out blessings before Jehovah our God, and worship before Jehovah our God, and we shall rejoice in all the good which Jehovah our god has given to us, and to our family. (Deuteronomy 26:7, 10-11) That we may listen to the voice of Jehovah our God, and do according to all that He has commanded us. (Deuteronomy 26:14)

16 “Today יהוה {Jehovah} your Elohim is commanding you to do these laws and right-rulings. And you shall guard and do them with all your heart and with all your being. 17 “You have today caused יהוה {Jehovah} to proclaim to be your Elohim, and to walk in His ways and guard His laws, and His commands, and His right-rulings, and to obey His voice. 18 “And יהוה {Jehovah} has caused you to proclaim today to be His people, a treasured possession, as He has spoken to you, and to guard all His commands, 19 so as to set you high above all nations which He has made, for a praise, and for a name, and for esteem, and for you to be a set-apart people to יהוה {Jehovah} your Elohim, as He has spoken.” (Deuteronomy 26:16-19 The Scriptures 1998+)

A Blessing Voice

“1 “And it shall be, if you diligently obey the voice of יהוה {Jehovah} your Elohim, to guard to do all His commands which I command you today, that יהוה {Jehovah} your Elohim shall set you high above all nations of the earth. 2 “And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of יהוה {Jehovah} your Elohim:
3 “Blessed are you in the city, and blessed are you in the field. 4 “Blessed is the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your livestock – the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks. 5 “Blessed is your basket and your kneading bowl. 6 “Blessed are you when you come in, and blessed are you when you go out. 7 “יהוה {Jehovah} causes your enemies who rise against you to be smitten before your face – they come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways. 8 “יהוה {Jehovah} commands the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and shall bless you in the land which יהוה {Jehovah} your Elohim is giving you. 9 “יהוה {Jehovah} does establish you as a set-apart people to Himself, as He has sworn to you, if you guard the commands of יהוה {Jehovah} your Elohim and walk in His ways. 10 “And all peoples of the earth shall see that the Name of יהוה {Jehovah} is called upon you, and they shall be afraid of you. 11 “And יהוה {Jehovah} shall make you to have plenty of what is good, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land of which יהוה {Jehovah} swore to your fathers to give you. 12 “יהוה {Jehovah} opens to you His good treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. And you shall lend to many nations, but you do not borrow. 13 “And יהוה {Jehovah} shall make you the head and not the tail. And you shall be only on top, and not be beneath, if you obey the commands of יהוה {Jehovah} your Elohim, which I command you today, to guard and do. 14 “And do not turn aside from any of the Words which I am commanding you today, right or left, to go after other mighty ones to serve them.  (Deuteronomy 28:1-14 The Scriptures 1998+)

Torah inside of the former Glockengasse Synago...

Torah inside of the former Glockengasse Synagogue in Cologne (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

8 “And you shall turn back and obey the voice of יהוה {Jehovah} and do all His commands which I command you today. 9 “And יהוה {Jehovah} your Elohim shall make you have excess in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground for good. For יהוה {Jehovah} turns back to rejoice over you for good as He rejoiced over your fathers, 10 if you obey the voice of יהוה {Jehovah} your Elohim, to guard His commands and His laws which are written in this Book of the Torah, if you turn back to יהוה {Jehovah} your Elohim with all your heart and with all your being. 11 “For this command which I am commanding you today, it is not too hard for you, nor is it far off. (Deuteronomy 30:8-11 The Scriptures 1998+)

19 “I have called the heavens and the earth as witnesses today against you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore you shall choose life, so that you live, both you and your seed, 20 to love יהוה {Jehovah} your Elohim, to obey His voice, and to cling to Him – for He is your life and the length of your days – to dwell in the land which יהוה {Jehovah} swore to your fathers, to Ab’raham, to Yitsḥaq, and to Ya’aqob, to give them.” (Deuteronomy 30:19-20 The Scriptures 1998+)

14 “If you fear יהוה {Jehovah}, and shall serve Him and obey His voice, and not rebel against the command of יהוה  {Jehovah}, then both you and the sovereign who reigns over you shall follow יהוה {Jehovah} your Elohim. 15  “But if you do not obey the voice of יהוה {Jehovah}, and shall rebel against the command of יהוה {Jehovah}, then the hand of יהוה {Jehovah} shall be against you, as it was against your fathers.  (1 Samuel 12:14-15 The Scriptures 1998+)

We should know by now that Jehovah does not so much need offerings and sacrifices but prefers that the people obey His Voice. To listen is better than the fat of rams or any offering. (1 Samuel 15:22; 1 Kings 20:36; 2 Kings 18:12)

As David cried to Jehovah with his voice, and He heard him out of His holy hill (Psalms 3:4), so shall Jehovah hear us when we direct our prayer to the Most High and Only One God.

In my distress I called upon יהוה {Jehovah}, And to my Elohim I cried; He heard my voice from His Hĕk’al {Temple}, And my cry went before Him, into His ears. (Psalms 18:6 The Scriptures 1998+)

And יהוה {Jehovah} repays me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands before His eyes. (Psalms 18:24 The Scriptures 1998+)

יהוה  {Jehovah} is The Ěl – His way is perfect and His Word is tried, tested by many, He shields all who take refuge in Him.

27 For You save the afflicted people, But bring down those whose eyes are haughty. 28 For You Yourself light my lamp; יהוה {Jehovah} my Elohim makes my darkness light. 29 For with You I run against a band, And with my Elohim I leap over a wall. 30 The Ěl – His way is perfect; The Word of יהוה {Jehovah} is proven {1}; He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him. {Footnote: 1Ps. 12:6, Ps. 119:140, Prov. 30:5.} 31 For who is Eloah, besides יהוה {Jehovah}? And who is a rock, except our Elohim? 32 It is Ěl who girds me with strength, And makes my way perfect, (Psalms 18:27-32 The Scriptures 1998+)

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Preceding: Trusting, Faith, calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #3 Voice of God #2 Instructions and Laws

Continues: Trusting, Faith, calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #3 Voice of God #4 Words in Scripture

Dutch version / Nederlandse versie: Vertrouwen, Geloof, Roepen en Toeschrijving aan Jehovah #3 Stem van God #3 Ernstig te nemen zegenende stem

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  1. Creator of heaven and earth and everything aroundיהוה The Only One Elohim who creates and gives all
  2. יהוה , YHWH and Love: Four-letter words
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  4. Only one God
  5. I am that I am Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh אהיה אשר אהיה
  6. For Jehovah is greatly to be praised
  7. Praise the God with His Name
  8. Song of Praise for the Elohim Set-Apart
  9. Praise and give thanks to God the Most Highest
  10. Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name
  11. God should be your hope
  12. The giving and protecting God
  13. God my fence, my hope for the future
  14. Some one or something to fear #6 Faith in the Most High
  15. Some one or something to fear #7 Not afraid for Gods Name
  16. Fearing the right person
  17. Humility and the Fear of the Lord
  18. Trusting, Faith, calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #2 Calling upon the Name of God
  19. A Living Faith #2 State of your faith
  20. Experiencing God
  21. Hope does not disappoint us
  22. When discouraged facing opposition
  23. Not all will inherit the Kingdom
  24. Fear not tomorrow. God is already there
  25. Truth never plays false roles of any kind, which is why people are so surprised when meeting it
  26. The big agenda item
  27. I Only hope we find GOD again before it is too late !
  28. Observing the commandments and becoming doers of the Word
  29. What Jesus did: First things first
  30. No prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation
  31. Incomplete without the mind of God
  32. God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supplies
  33. God loving people justified
  34. God is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him
  35. When we love we do not need laws
  36. No fear in love
  37. Happy who’s delight is only in the law of Jehovah
  38. That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us
  39. Love will cure more sins than condemnation
  40. If we view the whole world through a lens that is bright
  41. Our political systems and juggling with human laws
  42. No man is free who is not master of himself
  43. Be like a tree planted by streams of water
  44. Testify of the things hear
  45. Wisdom lies deep
  46. A secret to be reveiled
  47. Being of good courage running the race
  48. God wants to be gracious to you
  49. Control your destiny or somebody else will
  50. Be a ready giver
  51. Blessed are those who freely give
  52. Your New Job Description — Bless!
  53. Count your blessings
  54. Even in tough times remembering the blessings
  55. Forgiveness is a blessing for the one who forgives
  56. Thanking God by thinking of people
  57. Being thankful
  58. Better loaves when the heart is joyous
  59. A treasure which can give me everything I need
  60. People who know how to pray to move God to take hold of our affairs in a mighty way
  61. If you want to go far in life

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    In the Jewish (and some Christian) mystical schools of thought a person is thought to be a vessel. Each with the ability to receive as much or as little of the Divine Presence as they are willing to accept. This is the “breath of life” that was breathed into us from the very beginning.
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Trusting, Faith, calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #3 Voice of God #2 Instructions and Laws

Posted on February 5, 2013. Filed under: Faith, Jehovah יהוה YHWH JHVH God Elohim Yahweh Jahweh | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Trust, Faith and Prayer

Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #3 voice of God

Instructions and Laws brought by the Voice

7 And He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, when I dwell in the midst of the children of Yisra’ĕl forever, and the house of Yisra’ĕl shall no longer defile My set-apart Name, they nor their sovereigns, by their whoring and by the corpses of their sovereigns on their high places. 8 “When they placed their threshold by My threshold, and their doorpost by My doorpost, with a wall between them and Me, they defiled My set-apart Name by the abominations which they have done. So I consumed them in My displeasure. 9 “Now let them put their whoring and the corpses of their sovereigns far away from Me, and I shall dwell in their midst forever.
10 “Son of man, explain the House to the house of Yisra’ĕl, and when they are ashamed of their crookednesses, they shall measure the measurements. 11 “And since they shall be ashamed of all that they did, make known to them the design of the House and its structure, and its exits and its entrances, its entire design and all its laws, and all its forms and all its Torot. And write it down before their eyes, so that they observe its entire design and all its laws, and shall do them. 12 “This is the Torah of the House: Upon the mountaintop, all the boundary of it, all around, is most set-apart. See, this is the Torah of the House. (Ezekiel 43:7-12 The Scriptures 1998+)

Moses with the tablets of the Ten Commandments...

Moses with the tablets of the Ten Commandments, painting by Rembrandt (1659) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

And He said to me, “Son of man, thus said the Master יהוה {Jehovah}, ‘These are the laws for the altar on the day when it is made, for offering burnt offerings on it, and for sprinkling blood on it. (Ezekiel 43:18 The Scriptures 1998+)

The instructions which the Voice of God gave were followed up by Abraham and his people. It came from the air of from the bushes (Exodus 6:4) and made itself know as the voice of the One who is, was and ever shall be, the “I am”, the “Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh,” “I am that which I am” (I am/will be what I am/will be) God of Moses his father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Jehovah, whose Name is forever, from generation to generation, surely saw the affliction of His people which He heard crying and for He knew their sorrows. (Exodus 3:6-7, 14-16) More than once Jehovah replied to those crying people that he was surely be with them. He also sent signs to them so that they could know that He, the Elohim was with them. But He also asked them to come up to Jehovah and worship Him as their Only One God. (Exodus 3:12; 24:1) He made a decree and a law for them and when people would listen to the Mighty Voice they would be healed and safeguarded. (Exodus 15:25) And Moses came and told the people all the words of Jehovah, and all the judgments. “And all the people answered with one voice and said, all the words which Jehovah has said, we will do.” And Moses wrote all the words of Jehovah, and built an altar for God (Exodus 24:3-4). It was unto Moses that God gave the Commandments we should keep. In those early times God spoke all these words, saying that He is Jehovah our God, who has brought His people out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. We shall have no other gods before Him and we should not make to ourselves any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. (Exodus 20:1-5)[1]

1 And Elohim spoke all these Words, saying, 2  “I am יהוה {Jehovah} your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, out of the house of slavery.
3 “You have no other mighty ones against My face.
4 “You do not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of that which is in the heavens above, or which is in the earth beneath, or which is in the waters under the earth, 5  you do not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, יהוה {Jehovah} your Elohim am a jealous Ěl, visiting the crookedness of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6  but showing kindness to thousands, to those who love Me and guard My commands.
7 “You do not bring{1} the Name of יהוה {Jehovah} your Elohim to naught, for יהוה {Jehovah} does not leave the one unpunished who brings His Name to naught. {Footnote: 1Or lift up, or take.} (Exodus 20:1-4 The Scriptures 1998+)

A leading and caring Voice to be heard

God’s voice led people through deserts, waters and mountains, in easy, but more often in difficult times. It was like He carried them, as a man carries his son. But often people did not believe the Voice of God and made Him angry, because they did not trust Him, the Adonai, who gave His Word. (Deuteronomy 1:34-37) Though they should know when we will do that which is right in His sight, and will give ear to His commandments, and keep all His laws, God would be with them that listen to His voice and help them, because all the words which Jehovah has said, He we will do, as Jehovah our God is, in all our calling on him. (Exodus 24:3; Deuteronomy 4:7)

When David‘s life was endangered at the rebellion of Absalom, and when the Kingdom of Israel was under great strain, David remembered his ancestors and who guided them. He wanted to build a House for God and did love it already before it was build. He sought to dwell in the house of God. When he was in trouble he also repented for what he done wrong and remembered all the good things God had done for him. He also as others returned to Jehovah his and our God and was obedient to His voice. (Psalms 27:4-7; Deuteronomy 4:30)

David like some other biblical writers dared to speak to the One who’s Voice they heard. They were also convinced that the One whom they heard speaking to them was also listening to them. David also believed that God would conceal him in his shelter on the day of evil and that the Listener God would place him on a high rock. David wanted to sacrifice in his tent with shouts of joy; singing and making melodies to the Most High Elohim. He called upon God and asked him to hear his voice. His mind recalled the voice of God who said several times to His people to seek His face. When David asked God to show His face, he was convinced that God had been his help. When he asked God not to abandon or forsake him, he was convinced that the God of his salvation would gather him up, teach him the way of God and lead him on a level path. He believed that he would see goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living.

4 One matter I asked of יהוה {Jehovah} – this I seek: To dwell in the House of יהוה {Jehovah} All the days of my life, To see the pleasantness of יהוה {Jehovah}, And to inquire in His Hĕk’al. 5 For in the day of evil He hides me in His booth; In the covering of His Tent He hides me; On a rock He raises me up. 6 And now my head is lifted up above my enemies all around me; And I offer in His Tent with shouts of joy; I sing, yea, I sing praises to יהוה {Jehovah}. 7 Hear, O יהוה {Jehovah}, when I cry with my voice! And show me favour, and answer me. 8 To my heart You have said, “Seek My face.” Your face, יהוה {Jehovah}, I seek. 9 Do not hide Your face from me; Do not turn Your servant away in displeasure; You have been my help; Do not leave me nor forsake me, O Elohim of my deliverance. 10 When my father and my mother have forsaken me, Then יהוה {Jehovah}does take me in. 11 Teach me Your way, O יהוה {Jehovah}, And lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies. 12 Do not give me over To the desire of my adversaries; For false witnesses have risen against me, And they breathe out cruelty to me. 13 What if I had not believed To see the goodness of יהוה {Jehovah} In the land of the living! 14 Wait on יהוה {Jehovah}, be strong, And let Him strengthen your heart! Wait, I say, on יהוה {Jehovah}!  (Psalms 27:4-14 The Scriptures 1998+)

In 1 Chronicles 17:1-8 we have the request of David that he might build God a house. The reply of God was “haven’t I always been with you anyway?” The comment on this in Acts 7:46-49 is “the Most High does not dwell in temples made with hands”.

44 “The Tent of Witness was with our fathers in the wilderness, as He appointed, instructing Mosheh to make it according to the pattern that he had seen, 45 which our fathers, having received it in turn, also brought with Yehoshua { Joshua} into the land possessed by the gentiles, whom Elohim drove out before the face of our fathers until the days of Dawiḏ, 46 who found favour before Elohim and asked to find a dwelling for the Elohim of Ya’aqoḇ, 47 but Shelomoh built Him a house. 48 “However, the Most High does not dwell in dwellings made with hands,{1} as the prophet says: {Footnote: 1See 17:24}. 49 ‘The heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. What house shall you build for Me? says יהוה {Jehovah}, or what is the place of My rest? {(Isaiah 66:1)} 50 ‘Has My hand not made all these?’ (Acts 7:44-50 The Scriptures 1998+)

We, like David, can forget that God’s concern is not with material things, but with spiritual. God’s dwelling place is in heavenly places, and not in earthly. So how had David dwelt with God? Every time David was in trouble, he put his trust in God. His faith and hope was in God. David’s salvation was in God, and none other. His trust was in heavenly things and not earthly. David lived in faith. He lived in faith in God.


[1] So you can wonder why those who take Jesus to be God, go against this command and do make images of Jesus and pray before portraits depicting Jesus and saints and worship crosses and other statues.

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Preceding: Trusting, Faith, calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #3 Voice of God #1 Creator and His Prophets

Continues: Trusting, Faith, calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #3 Voice of God #3 A voice to be taken Seriously

Dutch version: Vertrouwen, Geloof, Roepen en Toeschrijving aan Jehovah #3 Stem van God #2 Instructies en Wetten

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  4. Only one God
  5. God is one
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  10. A Living Faith #9 Our Manner of Life
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  12. Set free from any form of mental torment or self-condemnation
  13. Were allowed to willfully break the Law of Moses
  14. Observing the commandments and becoming doers of the Word
  15. God loving people justified
  16. The Law of Christ: Law of Love
  17. When we love we do not need laws
  18. Our political systems and juggling with human laws
  19. If we view the whole world through a lens that is bright
  20. No man is free who is not master of himself

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Other interesting posts to read:

  1. You Blind Guides! You Strain Out a Gnat But Swallow a Camel
    one could possibly keep the commandment about not committing murder, but who among us has not looked across our neighbor’s fence and not thought the grass greener on his side?
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    Even the law against idols was practiced not because the people enjoyed a personal relationship with God (for one thing they were forbidden to approach God directly without Moses’ intercession), but because they feared the wrath of God!
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    The Law might be perfect, but those who attempt to carry it out are abominable.
  2. Wanna be prosperous? :: Strong and Steadfast
    Be steadfast in observing what God has commanded you to do, without weakening under the pressures of a world that is in enmity with God
  3. Born Identity
    We have a choice or free will to be obedient.  It is a daily decision we must make.  I know that as we obey God he will show us what it really means to have joy in abundance
  4. Love – Bond for Perfection
    To God, we must love Him fervently, with all our heart, mind and soul. We should devote our lives to Him and Him only. For God commanded us that we should have no other Gods before Him. While we are willing to sacrifice our time and energy on things we desire,
  5. Fr Junjun Amaya from Barrio Catolohan Dalaguete, is an ordained Catholic priest who looks for a personal journey with Jesus…as his priest…  According to him too much familiarity breeds contempt. He agrees Jesus has identified himself as the content, the fulfilment of the prophecies of the prophets, but he can not accept that Jesus would be a real man of flesh and blood. Though he sees that as a prophet, “Jesus was just being true to himself and to his mission. So no matter what other people say or think of him, he went on.” he says.  As a prophet, he not only sees and observes his surroundings, he also speaks out what he has seen and has witnessed. He is a true prophet indeed even if his own folks wouldn’t recognize him. And that is the big problem his church and other Christian believers still have to face. Jesus, the writer agrees, proclaims God or tell God’s message to his people, he also reveals the beauty of our God to us, creatures. This is why it is so important for us to have faith in Christ, because only He is our way to God, the truth of God and the life for us. Apart from him, we can do nothing.
    It is interesting to read how he reviews  three  important aspects of our being a son or a daughter of God. > Getting to know Jesus in faith and in love
  6. From the same tub is being looked at human beings conceived in the womb who always grow up to be the kind of seed they are—Adam and Eve seed.  The Seed Bears Fruit According to its Kind–Sexagesima Sermon (edited) (2013) tells us that the world we live in is full of quiet witnesses to the wisdom, power, and goodness of God.  He is able to concentrate abundant life into the tiniest of containers, as He does with seeds.  And He does it all the time.  But the world doesn’t tell us that God who is able to make life will restore life to humankind.  It tells us that each new human seed that grows up in the world dies just like the one before it.
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    Because we know the Father and are His children, He hears us.  Because the Holy Spirit teaches us through the Word of Christ, we not only are changed into the image of Christ, but we learn to pray according to God’s will.  We learn what God has promised and what He has commanded, and we pray for the things He has promised.
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    The writer rightly questions: Do you find that you don’t have time to give much attention to God’s Word, or that many times there are other things you would rather do?  Do you often live as if the Word of God is fine as long as it is kept in its proper place and not allowed to spill out into other areas of life?
  7. Jesus was not trying to teach the disciples behavior modification techniques.  He was not trying to teach them if you do this God will do that.  He was not teaching them how to manipulate the Heavenly Father.  Jesus did not put the cart before the horse nor did he dangle a carrot before the mule to lead him.  Everyone that dared to follow, he warned to count the cost.  When his following got huge, it seemed like a natural reaction to teach the deeper things that would scare a majority away.  Because the true people of God follow Jesus because he is the Christ and not a miracle worker. > Cart Before the Horse

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  • Count-your-Daily-Blessing – Day Four (lostemerald.wordpress.com)
    I convinced two men that Jehovah is a loving God and does not try people with hardships.  They were so happy and relieved to learn that, my heart beat.  Knowing the truth about Jehovah and the Bible, having the privilege to help others getting to know it too and serving by Jehovah’s side are priceless blessings.  It is comforting to know the truth, wonderful to be able to share it with others and it feels oh so good to know God approves of you.  #ProudToBeJehovah’sServant
  • The Secrets Of Psalm 91 (dianasymons.com)
    God promises to protect and bless if we literally live in His secret place. But it’s a secret place! If it’s a secret, how are we supposed to find it? How do you know if you live in His secret place? It’s like reading the menu in an expensive restaurant, if you have to ask you don’t have it.
  • You Are Never Alone. (greatriversofhope.wordpress.com)
    God is with you. He never leaves or forsakes you (Hebrews 13:5). Never proceed alone. The enemy will seek to isolate you from other Christians and from the Word. Pray in agreement, for there is power when two agree in prayer (Matthew 18:19).
  • Psalms 25 (afellowpartaker.wordpress.com)
    Jehovah is good and upright; Therefore He instructs sinners concerning the way.
  • The Writing Of An Ancient Book (lacykitkat.wordpress.com)
    Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, “I am not permitted to go to the temple of Jehovah. Therefore you go and read in the temple on the fast day the words of Jehovah from the roll which you have written at my command. You shall read them to all the people of Judah who have come from their towns. Perhaps they will pray to Jehovah and each turn from his evil way; for great is the anger and wrath of Jehovah against this people.
  • The Prophet Of Fire (lacykitkat.wordpress.com)
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Vertrouwen, Geloof, Roepen en Toeschrijving aan Jehovah #3 Stem van God #2 Instructies en Wetten

Posted on February 2, 2013. Filed under: Geloven en Geloof, Jehovah יהוה YHWH JHVH God Elohim Yahweh Jahweh, Naam van God | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Vertrouwen, Geloof en Gebed

Vertrouwen, Geloof, Roepen en Toeschrijving aan Jehovah #3 Stem van God

Instructies en Wetten die door de Stem worden gebracht

7 en hij zei aan mij, „Zoon van de mens {Mensenzoon}, dit is de plaats van Mijn troon en de plaats van de zolen van Mijn voeten, wanneer Ik in het midden van de kinderen van Yisra’ ĕl voor altijd blijf stilstaan, en het huis van Yisra’ ĕl niet meer Mijn apart geplaatste Naam zal bezoedelen {belasteren}, zij noch hun soevereinen, door hun afgoderij en door lijken van hun soevereinen op hun hoge plaatsen. 8 „Toen zij hun drempel bij Mijn drempel plaatsten, en hun deurpost bij Mijn deurpost, met een muur tussen hen en Mij, vervuilden zij Mijn apart geplaatste Naam door walgelijkheden die zij hebben gedaan. Zo verbruikte Ik hen in Mijn ongenoegen {zodat Ik hen vervolgens uitroeide in Mijn toorn}. 9 „Laat hen nu hun hoererij {afgoderij} en lijken van hun soevereinen ver afgelegen zetten van Mij, en Ik zal in hun midden voor altijd blijven stilstaan. 10 „Zoon van de mens {Mensenzoon} verklaar het Huis aan het huis van Yisra’ ĕl {licht het huis van Israël in omtrent het Huis}, en wanneer zij van hun onbetrouwbaarheid {achterbaksheid} beschaamd zijn, zullen zij de metingen meten. 11 „En aangezien zij van dat alles wat zij deden beschaamd zullen zijn, maak aan hen het ontwerp van het Huis en zijn structuur gekend, en zijn uitgangen en zijn ingangen, zijn volledig ontwerp en al zijn wetten, en al zijn vormen en al zijn Torot {Voorschriften/ ordinantiën /inzettingen en bepalingen/regelingen en bepalingen.}. En schrijf het vóór hun ogen neer, zodat zij haar volledig ontwerp en al haar wetten naleven, en deze zullen doen. 12 „Dit is Torah van het Huis: Op de bergtop, al de grenzen ervan, alles er rond omheen, is bijzonder apart geplaatst. {Op de top van de berg is het hele gebied ervan rondom allerheiligst geplaatst / een heilige der heiligen zijn;.} Zie, dit is de Torah van het Huis {Dit is de Wet voor het Huis}. (Ezechiël 43:7-12 De Geschriften 1998+)

File:Foster Bible Pictures 0060-1 Moses Sees a Fire Burning in a Bush.jpg

Mozes hoort de Stem van God uit de brandende braamstruik – 1897 Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us: Containing 400 Illustrations from the Old and New Testaments: With brief descriptions by Charles Foster

En hij zei aan me, „Zoon van de mens {Mensenzoon}, aldus zei het Hoofd {de Meester} יהוה {Jehovah}, `dit zijn de wetten {inzettingen} voor het altaar op de dag wanneer het gemaakt is, om daarop brandoffers op te leggen en bloed op te sprenkelen. (Ezechiël 43:18 De Geschriften 1998+)

De instructies die de Stem van God gaf werden opgevolgd door Abraham en zijn mensen. Zij kwam uit de lucht of van uit de struiken (Exodus – Uittocht 6:4) en maakte zich als Stem kenbaar van Hem die is, was en ooit zal zijn, de „Ik Ben“, „Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh,“ „Ik ben dat die ik ben“ of “ik Ben die Ben” (Ik zal zijn die ik ben) God van Mozes zijn vader, de God van Abraham, de God van Isaak, en de God van Jakob. Jehovah, waarvan de Naam, van generatie tot generatie voor altijd bestaat, zag zeker de kwelling van Zijn mensen die Hij hoorde schreeuwen en wie Hij hun verdriet kende. (Exodus 3:6-7, 14-16) Jehovah antwoordde op die schreeuwende mensen meer dan eens dat Hij zeker met hen was. Hij verzond ook tekens naar hen zodat zij konden weten dat Hij, Elohim met hen was. Maar Hij vroeg hen ook om tot Hem, Jehovah te komen en Hem te aanbidden als hun God. (Exodus 3:12; 24:1) hij maakte een besluit en een wet voor hen en wanneer de mensen naar de Machtige Stem zouden luisteren, zouden zij geheeld en beschermd worden. (Exodus 15:25) en Mozes kwam en vertelde de mensen alle woorden van Jehovah, en alle oordelen. „En alle mensen antwoordden met één stem en zeiden, alle woorden die Jehovah heeft gezegd, zullen wij doen.“ En Mozes schreef alle woorden van Jehovah op, en bouwde een altaar voor God (Exodus 24:3-4). Het was tot Mozes dat God de Bevelen gaf die wij zouden moeten houden. In die vroege tijden sprak God al deze woorden, zeggend dat hij Jehovah onze God is, die Zijn mensen uit het land van Egypte, uit het huis van bondage of uit slavernij heeft gebracht. Wij zullen geen andere goden vóór Hem hebben en wij zouden ons geen gekerfde beelden mogen maken, of om het even welke gelijkenis van om het even van wat daarboven in de hemel is, of dat eronder in de aarde is, of dat in het water onder de aarde is. (Exodus 20:1-5)[1]

jehovah-Exodus

jehovah-Exodus (Photo credit: ideacreamanuelaPps)

“1 En Elohim sprak al deze Woorden, zeggende, 2 “ik ben יהוה uw Elohim, die u uit het land van Mitsrayim bracht, uit het huis van slavernij. 3 U hebt geen andere machtigen tegen {tegenover } Mijn gezicht. 4 “U maakt voor uzelf geen gekerfd beeld of gelijkenis van datgene dat in de hemels boven is of dat in {op } de aarde eronder is of dat in de wateren onder de aarde is, 5 u buigt niet naar beneden naar hen noch dient u hen. Omdat Ik, יהוה uw Elohim een jaloerse Hij {Ěl } ben, de oneerlijkheid van de vaders op de kinderen tot de derde en vierde generaties van diegene die Mij haten bezoekend, 6, maar vriendelijkheid tonend aan duizenden, naar diegenen die houden van Mij en Mijn bevelen bewaken {Mijn geboden bewaken/behouden }. 7 U brengt de Naam יהוה uw Elohim niet tot niets {neemt de Naam יהוה uw Elohim niet op tot het onbelangrijke }{breng de Naam יהוה uw Elohim niet tot iets onbelangrijks of nietszeggend }, voor יהוה laat diegene niet ongestraft die Zijn Naam naar het onbelangrijke brengt. {laat niemand ongestraft die Zijn Naam tot niets brengt. }” (Exodus 20:1-7 De Geschriften 1998 +)

Een leidende en bezorgde Stem om te worden gehoord

Gods Stem leidde mensen door woestijnen, wateren en bergen, in gemakkelijke, maar vaker in moeilijke tijden. Het was alsof Hij hen droeg, zoals een ouder zijn kind vervoert. Maar vaak geloofden de mensen de Stem van God niet en maakten Hem boos, omdat zij niet op Hem vertrouwden, ook al gaf Hij, de Adonai, Zijn Woord. (Deuteronomium 1:34-37) Hoewel, zij zouden moeten weten wanneer zij datgene zullen doen dat juist is in de ogen van God, en gehoor geven aan Zijn bevelen, en al Zijn wetten zullen houden, zou God met hen zijn die naar Zijn stem luisteren en hen helpen, omdat alle woorden die Jehovah heeft gezegd, hij zal doen, als Jehovah onze God, wanneer wij Hem uitnodigen in ons geroep. (Exodus 24:3; Deuteronomium 4:7)

Wanneer David’s leven in gevaar was tijdens de rebellie van Absalom, en toen het Koninkrijk van Israel onder grote druk lag, herinnerde David zijn voorouders en Wie hen gidste. Hij wilde een Huis voor God bouwen en hield reeds er van alvorens het gebouwd was. Hij wilde in het huis van God vertoeven. Toen hij in problemen was getuigde hij ook spijt van de fouten die hij begaan had. Eveneens herinnerde hij al de goede dingen die God voor hem gedaan had. Hij als ook anderen keerde terug naar Jehovah, zijn en onze God, en was gehoorzaam aan Zijn Stem. (Psalmen 27:4-7; Deuteronomium 4:30)

David zoals andere Bijbelse schrijvers durfde het aan om te spreken tegen Diegene die Zijn Stem had laten horen. Zij waren ook overtuigd dat Diegene Wie zij hoorden spreken ook naar hen luisterde. David geloofde ook dat de God hem in zijn schuilplaats op de dag van het onheil zou verbergen en dat de Luisterende God hem zou verhogen door hem op een hoge rots te plaatsen, het is in een waardige functie zou voorzien. David wilde in zijn tent offergaven brengen met geschreeuw van vreugde liederen; het zingen van en het maken van melodieën voor de Aller Hoogste Elohim. Hij verzocht God en vroeg Hem om zijn stem te horen. Zijn geest herinnerde zich de Stem van God die meerdere keren aan Zijn mensen zei om Zijn gezicht te zoeken. Toen David God vroeg om Zijn gezicht te tonen, was hij overtuigd dat God zijn hulp was geweest. Toen hij God vroeg om hem niet te verlaten of achter te laten, was hij overtuigd dat de God van zijn redding hem omhoog zou voeren, hem de wijze van God zou onderwijzen en hem op een effen pad zou leiden. Hij geloofde dat hij goedheid van Jehovah in het land van het levenden zou zien.

4 Één kwestie die ik aan יהוה {Jehovah} heb gevraagd – dit streef ik na {dit zoek ik}: Om in het Huis van יהוה {Jehovah} te blijven stilstaan Alle dagen van mijn leven, om de aardigheid van יהוה {Jehovah} te zien, en Zijn Hĕḵal {waardering} te onderzoeken. 5 Want in de dag van kwaad verbergt Hij me in Zijn cabine { binnenste van Zijn tent/hut/plaats}; Onder een beschermend dak van Zijn Tent {loofhut} verbergt hij me; Op een rots heft hij me omhoog. 6 En nu wordt mijn hoofd opgeheven boven mijn vijanden rondom mij; En ik bied offers aan in Zijn Tent met kreten van vreugde; Ik zing, ja, ik zing lof aan יהוה {Jehovah} .7 Hoor, O יהוה {Jehovah}, wanneer ik met mijn stem roep! En toon me gunst, en beantwoord me. (Psalmen 27:4-7 De Geschriften 1998+)

8 Tot mijn hart hebt U gezegd, „zoek Mijn gezicht.“ Uw gezicht, יהוה {Jehovah}, zoek ik. 9 Verberg Uw aangezicht niet voor mij; Wijs Uw bediende in ongenoegen niet af; U bent mijn hulp geweest; Verlaat me niet noch laat mij in de steek, O Elohim van mijn bevrijding. 10 Wanneer mijn vader en mijn moeder mij hebben achtergelaten, dan neemt יהוה {Jehovah} me binnen. 11 Onderwijs me Uw weg, O יהוה {Jehovah}, en leid me op een vlot pad, wegens mijn vijanden. 12 Geef me niet over aan de verlangens van mijn tegenstanders; Want valse getuigen zijn tegen me opgekomen, En zij ademen wreedheid uit over mij. 13 Wat als ik niet geloofd had om de goedheid van יהוה {Jehovah} te zien In het land van de levenden! 14 Wacht op יהוה {Jehovah}, wees sterk, en laat Hem uw hart versterken! Wacht, zeg ik, op יהוה {Jehovah}!  (Psalmen 27:8-14 De Geschriften 1998+)

In het 1ste boek van Kronieken hoofdstuk 17:1-8 vinden wij het verzoek van David dat hij God een huis zou mogen kunnen bouwen. Het antwoord van God was „Ben Ik hoe dan ook niet altijd met u geweest?“ De commentaar hierop in Handelingen 7:46-49 is „De Allerhoogste verblijft niet in tempels die met handen worden gemaakt.”

44 „ De Tent van Getuigenis was met onze vaders in de wildernis, aangezien Hij benoemde {overeenkomstig zoals Hij benoemde}, Mosheh opdragende om het volgens het patroon te maken dat hij had gezien, 45 die onze vaders die, het beurtelings hebben ontvangen, ook brachten met Yehoshua {Joshua} in het land dat door niet-Joden {heidenen/ongelovigen} wordt bezeten, die Elohim vóór het gezicht van onze vaders verdreef tot de dagen van Dawiḏ {David}, 46 wie gunst vond vóór Elohim en vroeg om een woning te vinden voor Elohim van Ya’aqoḇ {Jakob}, 47 maar Shelomoh {Salomo}bouwde Hem een huis. 48 „Nochtans, blijft de Allerhoogste zich niet ophouden {wonen/verblijven} in woningen die met handen worden gemaakt, {1} zoals de profeet zegt: {Voetnoot: 1 zie 17:24}. 49 `De hemel is Mijn troon, en de aarde is Mijn voetenbank. Welk huis zal jij voor Mij bouwen? zegt יהוה {Jehovah}, of wat is de plaats voor Mijn rust? {(Jesaja 66:1)} 50 `Heeft Mijn hand dit alles niet gemaakt?’ (Handelingen 7:44-50 De Geschriften 1998+)

Wij, zoals David, kunnen vergeten dat God niet bekommerd is om materiële dingen, maar geïnteresseerd is in het spirituele. Gods verblijfplaat is in hemelse plaatsen, en niet in aardse. Zo hoe kon David dan met God verblijven? Telkens als David in problemen was, stelde hij zijn vertrouwen in God. Zijn geloof en hoop waren in God. Redding van David was in God, en in niemand anders. Zijn vertrouwen was in hemelse dingen en niet in aardse. David leefde in geloof. Hij leefde in geloof in God.


[1] Zo kan men zich afvragen waarom zij die Jezus als God aanschouwen, tegen dit bevel ingaan en beelden maken van Jezus en vóór portretten bidden die Jezus en heiligen afschilderen, kruisen en andere standbeelden of voorwerpen (zoals monstransen) aanbidden.

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Voorgaand:

Vertrouwen, Geloof, Roepen en Toeschrijving aan Jehovah #1 Konings Geloof

Vertrouwen, Geloof, Roepen en Toeschrijving aan Jehovah #2 Aanroepen van de Naam van God

Vertrouwen, Geloof, Roepen en Toeschrijving aan Jehovah #3 Stem van God #1 Schepper en Zijn profeten

Engelse versie / English version: Trusting, Faith, calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #3 Voice of God #2 Instructions and Laws

Vervolg: Vertrouwen, Geloof, Roepen en Toeschrijving aan Jehovah #3 Stem van God #3 Ernstig te nemen zegenende stem

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Vindt aanverwant:

  1. Woord van God
  2. Zuivere woorden vol Adem van de Allerhoogste
  3. Opgetekend in je hoofd wat is neergetekend
  4. Wanneeer wij liefhebben is er geen nood aan wetten
  5. De Wet van de Liefde, basis van alle instructies
  6. De geboden observerend, uitvoerders wordend van het Woord
  7. De verdwijnende heerlijkheid
  8. Oude en al of niet aangepaste Wetten
  9. Jood of Christen zijn
  10. Wereld waarheen? #2 Gebed om de komst van de koning
  11. Wereld waarheen? #3 De Wortelscheut van David
  12. Geen mens is vrij die geen meester van zichzelf is
  13. Beter een arme die in oprechtheid wandelt
  14. Eigen godsbeelden scheppen
  15. God te vertrouwen schuilplaats, veiligheid en geborgenheid
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Trusting, Faith, calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #3 Voice of God #1 Creator and His Prophets

Posted on January 27, 2013. Filed under: Environment and Ecology, History, Jehovah יהוה YHWH JHVH God Elohim Yahweh Jahweh, Life and Death, World | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Trust, Faith and Prayer

Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #3 voice of God

Speaking and bringing unto being

The “I Am who I am” or the “I am that I am”, at the beginning of the universe let His voice come over everything, so that it came into being.

In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth. And the earth came to be {1} formless and empty, and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of Elohim was moving on the face of the waters. {Footnote: 1Or the earth became}. And Elohim said, “Let light come to be,” and light came to be. (Genesis 1:1-3 The Scriptures 1998+)

The Creator of everything said each time that it had to come to be and it became. Over which His breath came He also gave a name. Elohim called the light ‘day’ and the darkness He called ‘night.’ He called the expanse ‘heavens.’ Elohim called the dry land ‘earth,’ and the collection of the waters He called ‘seas.’ He soon came to give with His voice blessing over the all earth.

An artist's impression of a protoplanetary disk

An artist’s impression of a protoplanetary disk (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

11 And Elohim said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the plant that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth.” And it came to be so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, the plant that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And Elohim saw that it was good. (Genesis 1:11-12 The Scriptures 1998+)

20 And Elohim said, “Let the waters teem with shoals of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth on the face of the expanse of the heavens.” 21 And Elohim created great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters teemed, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. 22 And Elohim saw that it was good. And Elohim blessed them, saying, “Bear fruit and increase, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” 23 And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, the fifth day. (Genesis 1:20-23 The Scriptures 1998+)

A voice calling in the Garden

The things which came into existence by the Voice of God pleased Him. He always looked at what came into being and saw that it was good. So God decided to make human beings; which would be like Him and resemble Him, what does not mean they would become like Him. Adam, Eve, Moses, Joshua, Samuel, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Jesus, were all made in the image of that One and Only One God. They received power over the fish, the birds, and all animals, domestic and wild, large and small. Male and female were created and blessed. To those first human beings God said to have many children, so that their descendants will live all over the earth and bring it under their control. It was the Creator God who put those human creatures in charge of the earth, the fish, the birds, and all the wild animals. From the beginning the Elohim God also provided all kinds of grain and all kinds of fruit for them to eat.

25 And Elohim made the beast of the earth according to its kind, livestock according to its kind, and all that creep on the earth according to its kind. And Elohim saw that it was good. 26 And Elohim said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the livestock, and over all the earth and over all the creeping creatures that creep on the earth.” 27 And Elohim created the man in His image, in the image of Elohim He created him – male and female He created them. 28 And Elohim blessed them, and Elohim said to them, “Bear fruit and increase, and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over all creatures moving on the earth.” 29 And Elohim said, “See, I have given you every plant that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed, to you it is for food. (Genesis 1:25-29 The Scriptures 1998+)

Adam and Eve heard the Voice of Jehovah God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. In the beginning it looked like the Voice of God was soft and caring, creating all goodness. But after the wrong going by Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden, when Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Jehovah God in the middle of the trees of the garden (Genesis 3:8), more than once God had to let His Voice be like thunder.

English: The story of the Eden Garden. The tem...

The story of the Eden Garden. The temptation of Adam & Eve by the devil. Pedestal of the statue of Madonna with Child, western portal (of the Virgin), of Notre-Dame de Paris (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

יהוה {Jehovah} thundered from the heavens, And the Most High sent forth His voice. (2 Samuel 22:14 The Scriptures 1998+)

2 Listen, listen to the trembling of His voice, and the sound that comes from His mouth. 3 He lets it loose under all the heavens, and His lightning to the ends of the earth. 4 After it a voice roars. He thunders with the voice of His excellency, and He does not hold them back when His voice is heard. 5 Ěl thunders wondrously with His voice; doing great deeds, which we do not understand. 6 For He says to the snow, ‘Be on the earth,’ also to the gentle rain and the heavy rain of His strength. 7 He seals up the hand of every man, for all men to know His work. (Job 37:2-7 The Scriptures 1998+)

Prophets hearing the Voice

Many prophets heard the voice of God, some, like Ezekiel as the sound of wings, like the sound of roaring water and wrote down what the voice of the Almighty dictated to them. God’s glory rose above the cherubs and filled God’s House (the temple) with the brilliance of the Creator’s glory. The sound of the wings of the cherubim, reminiscent of the voice of the Sovereign God when he speaks, could be heard as far as the outer court of the temple.

4 And the esteem of יהוה {Jehovah} went up from the keruḇ, over the threshold of the House. And the House was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the brightness of the esteem of יהוה {Jehovah}. 5 And the sound of the wings of the keruḇim was heard in the outer court, like the voice of Ěl Shaddai when He speaks. (Ezekiel 10:4-5 The Scriptures 1998+)

And see, the esteem of the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl came from the way of the east. And His voice was like the sound of many waters, and the earth shone from His esteem. And His voice was like the sound of many waters, and the earth shone from His esteem. (Ezekiel 43:2 The Scriptures 1998+)

It was this Voice of God that could lift up the prophets and give them inspiration to write down that what God wanted them His people to know. By way of His Voice God gave His commandments and asked people to do certain things for Him.

And the Spirit took me up and brought me into the inner courtyard. And see, the esteem of יהוה filled the House. (Ezekiel 43:5 The Scriptures 1998+)

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Preceding article: Trusting, Faith, calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #2 Calling upon the Name of God

Dutch version: Vertrouwen, Geloof, Roepen en Toeschrijving aan Jehovah #3 Stem van God #1 Schepper en Zijn profeten

Continued: Trusting, Faith, calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #3 Voice of God #2 Instructions and Laws

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Read also:

  1. I am that I am Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh אהיה אשר אהיה
  2. Creator of heaven and earth and everything aroundיהוה The Only One Elohim who creates and gives all
  3. A god between many gods
  4. God of gods
  5. Only one God
  6. Attributes to God
  7. Jehovah Yahweh Gods Name
  8. God about His name “יהוה“יהוה , YHWH and Love: Four-letter wordsTitles of God beginning with the Aleph in Hebrew
  9. Hashem השם, Hebrew for “the Name”
  10. The Divine name of the Creator
  11. Pure Words and Testimonies full of Breath of the Most High
  12. With God All Things Are Possible
  13. A viewpoint on creation
  14. The World framed by the Word of God
  15. Cosmos creator and human destiny
  16. Creation gift of God
  17. Without God no purpose, no goal, no hope
  18. God’s Word is like the rain
  19. Heavenly creatures do they exist
  20. Who are the Angels?Why did God Create Angels? The “Sons of God” Man Made Lower than the Angels The “Mighty Ones”Because men choose to go their own wayApple of Gods eyeMoving around looking for a homeland
  21. Satan or the devil
  22. Lucifer
  23. Angels with Names Angels Preach the Gospel The Angels in World Affairs Angels at the Second Coming of Christ Can Angels Help Us? Guardian Angels? “The whole family in heaven and earth” How Can the Angels Serve Us Now?
  24. God doesn’t call the qualified
  25. Jeruzalem Gods city
  26. Signs on the earth and in the skies
  27. Words in the world
  28. The manager and Word of God
  29. Man made life
  30. Finish each day and be done with it
  31. Tu B’Shvat, the holiday of the trees

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Additional readings

  1. The floodgates of heaven
    There is the fountain of the deep and the windows (floodgates) of heaven, both of which were outlets of the water that flooded the earth.
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    just as the  water of the  Holy Spirit can be for judgment, a heightened, pointed  expression of the presence of God in wrath, it can also stand for a heightened experience of God in the supernatural blessing  and spiritual vitality.  While that of judgment brings death, the positive expression brings life.
  2. It’s Raining
    God is raining spiritual blessings upon his people. Although it’s raining naturally, I believe God has opened the windows of Heaven and is pouring out blessings in abundance on the saints of God today.
  3. Exhortation: The Voice of Yahweh
    The words of God change the world. When he speaks the world respond.

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  • In What’s in a name? (quest4light.net) there is not made a difference in titles and in first and surnames, but according to us a beloved one we would prefer to talk to with his or her own name and not with a tittle. The I am that I am Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh אהיה אשר אהיה is too much an important figure we should all love and consider as our own Father that we would not speak to Him the Most High or Lord of the Lord of lords with a title like the distant  “Lord”. Other titles like Creator, or Most High would than be much better, but also not appropriate when we speak to Him. though when you speak about Him, the Elohim Hashem Jehovah, you could naturally use such titles as God or Allah. But remember always that God wanted His Name to be known all over the earth. (Read our articles about Gods Holy Name)
  • Also The Name of the True GOD (shanecloud.com) has an other look on the Most High Name which has always been and shall always be.
  • Genesis Expression seems to doubt that the Elohim is really a supernatural being as the God of gods in Adam, Eve, Where are you? (genesisexpressions.wordpress.com) because she uses the word “if”. The writer wonders why Elohim is asking Adam & Eve where they are?  forgetting that the All Knowing very well knew where the two human beings where. The Omniscient One did not lose them. He knew very well where they where, because nothing can be hidden for Him. God is everywhere, sees everything and knows every heart. So he could see Adam and eve, though they tried to hide for him, meaning that they did not believe any-more that God could see everything.
  • The Dominion Continues! (genesisexpressions.wordpress.com)
    Adam, being the first human created, does not have any one who has gone before him who could be an example or to teach him how to rule, or more precisely, to reign as a Vassal King.  Risky enterprise on Elohim’s part, I think!  Just handing over authority to a neophyte and walking away is tantamount to setting someone up for failure. But remembering Father God’s character as being based in love, somehow I am thinking that failure for Adam is not the plan.
  • True Peacemakers of Elohim (daileytalks.wordpress.com)
    The law of Yahweh promote peace and those who follow them are the Peacemakers.
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    Study the law and live it, it is for your good. Know God, Know Peace. No God, No Peace.
  • God the Father made a bond-ship with His first son, giving him the trust and the believe that he could do it. Also when he and his wife proofed to have dishonoured Jehovah God, the Father showed His love by giving them a second chance a by giving humanity a solution to restoration, in Christ Jesus (Jeshua) in whom we can find the restorer of the peace. The relationship with the first man and woman (mannin) may have been broken and we also do have our faults and see many people and things go wrong, so we may cry, shout and sound the alarm like Caddo’s Seven Word Sundays! (burningfireshutinmybones.wordpress.com) writes. He   direct people to go direct toward Jesus, but forgets that we now can go direct to God. Jesus may and should be our help, because he is the only way to the restoration between the Most High Creator and man. But his ransom has bought us free and open the gates to go directly to Jehovah God.
  • The Secrets Of Psalm 91 (dianasymons.com)
    Psalm 91 is an extraordinary psalm. It is the promise that God will protect you from sickness and danger, no matter how many people standing right next to you fall. It is the promise that He will answer when you call. It is the promise of long life and salvation. But not for everyone.
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Vertrouwen, Geloof, Roepen en Toeschrijving aan Jehovah #3 Stem van God #1 Schepper en Zijn profeten

Posted on January 23, 2013. Filed under: Geschiedenis, Jehovah יהוה YHWH JHVH God Elohim Yahweh Jahweh, Milieu en Omgeving | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Vertrouwen, Geloof, Roepen en Toeschrijving aan Jehovah #3 Stem van God

Het spreken en tot ontstaan brengen

Bij het begin van het heelal liet de „Ik Ben die ben“ Zijn Stem over alles komen, zodat het tot stand kwam.

1 in het begin schiep Elohim de hemel en de aarde. 2 en de aarde kwam tot stand {of: de aarde werd} vormloos en leeg, en de duisternis was op het gezicht van het diepe. En de Geest van Elohim bewoog zich over het gezicht van de wateren. 3 En Elohim zei, „laat licht komen te zijn,“ en licht kwam te zijn.(Genesis of Ontstaan 1:1-3 De Geschriften 1998+)

De Schepper van alles zei telkens als dat het moest komen te zijn en het werd. Over wat Zijn Adem kwam gaf Hij ook een naam. Elohim noemde het lichte ‘dag’  en de duisternis noemde Hij ‘nacht’ . Hij noemde het uitspansel of de uitgestrektheid`hemel’. Elohim noemde het droge land `aarde’, en de inzameling van de wateren vernoemde Hij ‘zee’. Hij kwam spoedig met Zijn stem zegeningen geven over de gehele aarde.

11 En Elohim zei, „laat de aarde gras voortbrengen, planten die zaad opbrengen, en de fruitboom die fruit volgens zijn soort opbrengt, waarvan het zaad op zichzelf is {zelfzaaddragende plantengroei}, op de aarde.“ En vervolgens kwam het zo te zijn {werd het zo/ En zo geschiede/ Aldus gebeurde het}. 12 En de aarde bracht gras voort, de plant waaruit zaad volgens zijn soort voortkwam, en de boom die fruit opbrengt, waarvan zaad op zichzelf is volgens zijn soort. En Elohim zag dat het goed was. (Genesis – Ontstaan 1:11-12 De Geschriften 1998+)

20 En Elohim zei, „laat de wateren samenkomen met scholen van levende schepselen, en laat vogels vliegen boven de aarde op het gezicht van de uitgestrektheid van de hemel {in het open firmament van de hemel/langs het vlak van het hemeluitspansel}.“ 21 En Elohim schiep grote zee schepselen en elk levend schepsel dat zich beweegt, met wat krioelde in de wateren, volgens hun soort, en elke gevleugelde vogel volgens zijn soort. 22 En Elohim zag dat het goed was. En Elohim zegende hen, zeggende, „draag fruit en vermeerder, en vul de wateren in de zeeën, en laat de vogels vermeerderen {vermenigvuldigen} op de aarde.“ 23 En daar kwam de avond en er kwam ochtend, de vijfde dag.{En het werd avond en het werd ochtend, de vijfde dag.} (Genesis – Ontstaan 1:20-23 De Geschriften 1998+)

Een stem roepende in de Tuin

De dingen die in bestaan kwamen door de Stem van God stelden hem tevreden. Hij bekeek altijd wat er tot ontstaan kwam en zag dat het goed was. Zo besliste de God mensen te maken; welke als Hem zouden Zijn en op Hem zouden lijken, wat niet betekent dat zij dezelfde als Hem zouden worden. Adam, Eva, Mozes, Joshua, Samuel, Jeremia, Jesaja, Jezus, waren allen gemaakt in het beeld van die Éne en slechts Één God. Zij ontvingen macht over de vissen, de vogels, en alle dieren, huisdieren en wild, groot en klein. Het mannetje en het wijfje, man en vrouw, werden gecreëerd en werden gezegend. Aan die eerste menselijke wezens gaf God de opdracht  om vele kinderen te hebben, zodat hun nakomelingen helemaal verspreid over de aarde zouden komen te leven en deze onder hun controle zouden brengen. Het was de Schepper God welke die menselijke schepselen verantwoordelijk stelde voor de aarde, vissen, vogels, en alle wilde dieren. Van bij het begin verstrekte de Elohim God ook allerlei granen en allerlei fruit voor hen om te eten.

25 En Elohim maakte het dier van de aarde volgens zijn soort, vee volgens zijn soort, en al dat kruipt op de aarde volgens zijn soort. En Elohim zag dat het goed was. 26 En Elohim zei, „laat ons in Ons beeld {naar onze beeltenis} de mens maken, volgens Onze gelijkenis, en laat hen heersen over de vissen van de zee, en over de vogels van de hemel, en over het vee, en over geheel aarde en over alle de kruipende schepselen die op de aarde kruipen.“ 27 En Elohim schiep {ontwierp} de man naar Zijn beeld, in het beeld van Elohim creëerde hij hem – mannetje en wijfje {als man en vrouw creëerde Hij hen}. 28 En Elohim zegende hen, en Elohim zei aan hen, „draag vrucht en vermeerder, en vul de aarde en onderwerp haar, en heers over de vissen van de zee, en over de vogels van de hemel, en over alle schepselen die zich op de aarde bewegen.“ 29 En Elohim zei, „Ziet, Ik heb u elke plant gegeven die zaad op zich voortbrengt op het gezicht van de gehele aarde, en elke boom waarvan het fruit zaad opbrengt, aan u is het voor voedsel. {Ik heb u alle zaaddragende plantengroei die op de gehele aarde is gegeven, en elke boom waar zaaddragende vrucht aan zit, het is voor u tot voedsel/voeding.} (Genesis – Ontstaan 1:25 – 29 De Geschriften 1998+)

Adam en Eva hoorden de Stem van God Jehovah die in de tuin in de koelte van de dag liep. In het begin leek het alsof de Stem van God zacht was en verzorgend, al goedheid creërend. Maar na het verkeerd gaan door Adam en Eva, in de Tuin van Eden, toen Adam en zijn vrouw zich van de aanwezigheid van God Jehovah in het midden van de bomen van de tuin verborgen (Genesis 3:8), meer dan eens moest de God Zijn Stem als donder laten zijn.

“יהוה {Jehovah} donderde van uit de hemelen, En de Allerhoogste zond Zijn Stem vooruit. {En de Allerhoogste liet Zijn Stem weerklinken}. (2 Samuel 22:14 De Geschriften 1998+)

2 Luister, luister naar het beven van Zijn stem, en het geluid dat uit Zijn mond komt. 3 Hij laat het los onder alle hemelen, en Zijn bliksem tot aan de einden van de aarde. 4 Daarna brult een stem. Hij dondert met de stem van Zijn excellentie, en Hij houdt ze niet achter wanneer Zijn stem wordt gehoord. {en Hij houdt ze niet terug, wanneer Zijn Stem wordt gehoord.} 5 Ěl dondert wonderbaarlijk met Zijn stem; grote akten doende {grote daden verwezenlijkend}, die wij niet begrijpen. { Ěl op wonderlijke wijze donderend met Zijn Stem verricht grote dingen die wij niet begrijpen.} 6 Want hij zegt aan de sneeuw, “Wees op de aarde”, ook aan de zachte regen en de zware regen van in haar sterkte van Hem. 7 Hij verzegelt de hand van elke mens, voor alle mensen om Zijn werk te kennen. {Hij legt een zegel op elke mens zijn hand, opdat elke mens Zijn werk zou kennen.} (Job 37:2-7 De Geschriften 1998+)

Profeten die de Stem horen

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De Cherub of cherubijn Michaël de Aartsengel die de poort van de Tuin van Eden bewaakt en Adam en Eva niet meer binnen laat.- Giusto de’ Menabuoi ca. 1377.

Vele profeten hoorden de Stem van God, wat, zoals bij Ezechiël klonk als geluid van vleugels, zoals het geluid van het gebulder of gedender van water en schreven neer wat de stem van de Almachtige dicteerde aan hen. Glorie van God nam boven cherubs toe en vulde het Huis van God (de tempel) met de schittering van de glorie van de Schepper. Het geluid van de vleugels van cherubim, herinnerend aan de stem van de Soevereine God wanneer Hij spreekt, zover als het buitenhof van de tempel kon worden gehoord.

4 en de achting van יהוה {Jehovah} ging van keruḇ, over de drempel van het Huis uit. En het Huis werd gevuld met de wolk, en het hof werd gevuld met de helderheid van de achting van יהוה {Jehovah}. 5 En het geluid van de vleugels van de keruḇim werd gehoord in het buitenhof, zoals de stem van Ěl Shaddai wanneer Hij spreekt. (Ezechiël 10:4-5 De Geschriften 1998+)

En zie, de achting van de Elohim van Yisra’ ĕl kwam uit de weg van het oosten. En Zijn stem was als het geluid van vele wateren, en de aarde glansde van Zijn achting. En Zijn stem was als het geluid van vele wateren, en de aarde glansde van Zijn achting. (Ezechiël 43:2 De Geschriften 1998+)

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Vorig hoofdstuk: Vertrouwen, Geloof, Roepen en Toeschrijving aan Jehovah #2 Aanroepen van de Naam van God

Engelse versie: Trusting, Faith, calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #3 Voice of God #1 Creator and His prophets

Vervolg: Vertrouwen, Geloof, Roepen en Toeschrijving aan Jehovah #3 Stem van God #2 Instructies en Wetten

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Vindt ook:

  1. Ik ben die ben Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh אהיה אשר אהיה
  2. יהוה Schepper van hemel en aarde en alles er op en eraan
  3. De Wereld tot stand gekomen door het Woord van God
  4. Bestemming van de aarde
  5. Wat is Gods doel met de aarde
  6. Begin van leven op aard: schepping of evolutie
  7. Schepping geschenk van God
  8. Elk schepsel is een goddelijk woord omdat het God verkondigd

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Ook mogelijk interessante lectuur:

  1. Bij aanvang van het burgerlijk jaar gaat de schrijver van In the beginning terug naar de aanvang der tijden.
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    It is a time of new beginnings: in the secular world a new year has begun, in the academic world a new semester has begun, and in my world a new class in Old Testament survey has begun. So we begin with the beginning, in this case a meditation on the beginning, with some contemporary sidetracks in and some personal reflections that go well beyond survey classes.
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    only God created and that there is only One who is God, whatever agents or means that God may have used. 
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    And so, if in the beginning God created, and if in the beginning human beings attempted to take over God’s role and throw off their dependence, then in the beginning (or at least as the story of the  beginning plays out) came alienation and violence. That is content of the rest of the “prehistory” of Genesis
  2. De Stem van God kwam over het oneindige door de Wijsheid van God. In God’s Wisdom in Creation bespreekt de onderzoeker van de Spreuken de opzettelijkheid van de creatie uit Gods wijsheid die enkel maar hoefde te Spreken en alles kwam tot ontstaan.
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    God’s creation of everything, including you, was not accidental. God thought creating you was a good idea, not a bad one.
  3. Door Gods stem konden dingen tot ontstaan komen en verandert worden. De Ontstaansgeschiedenis leidde tot de Wet of Thora.  De Schrijfster denkt dat God uit rauw materiaal creëerde, ook al denken velen dat Hij dat “creation ex nihilo” uit het niets deed. Zij vergeet echter dat het Boek Genesis in die eerste verzen aanvangt met de schepping van hemel en aarde uit de vormloosheid en woestenij. ““1  In het begin schiep God hemel en aarde. 2 Maar de aarde was nog ongeordend en leeg, over de wereldzee heerste duisternis, en Gods Geest zweefde over de wateren.” (Genesis 1:1-2 CANIS)” In the Beginning… brengt een verslag uit over die ruwe materialen waar God mee te werk ging.
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    They were the raw materials God started with.  I don’t think that made the Creation any less remarkable, because creation is not just about building something. It’s being able to envision something new out what’s already there; that’s real creativity.
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    De auteur die  houdt van het ingrijpende verhaal, de grote universele thema’s, de poëzie en beelden van Bereshit (Genesis) merkt op dat het verhaal ook over personen en hun gezinnen gaat, met een hint van tribale gemeenschap” aan het einde met alle Jakobs zonen. Zij brengt in Bo: Come, eat…if you can. aan dat het een geboorte moment is, compleet met schreeuwen (de Egyptenaren schreeuwen op de 10e plaag, de dood van de eerstgeborene in het land) en bloed (slachten van het lam in elk huishouden en markering ruimte met bloed op de deurposten).  Maar het laat haar ook niet los dat dit verhaal ook één van vele vragen is, die misschien ook wel door יהוה  God zijn geschapen: Bereshit: In the beginning God created questions
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    En daar is dan natuurlijk die onvermijdelijke verbondenheid met  tzelem  het Beeld en de d’mut of  Gelijkenis. Bereshit : Image and Likeness
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    “Tzelem (image) tells us we each have the Divine holiness, we’re all walking around with that God-spark of creation.  But now we spend the rest of our lives chasing that d’mut, that likness….we have to learn to act like God.  Our actions are determined by our choices. We may start from a divine-image beginning, but it’s up to us to infuse our actions with divine-likeness. “
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    Be’shallach: Toggling between two pillars
  4. Wat lacykitkat zijn of haar hart beïnvloed toen hij of zij het scheppingsverhaal las was de realiteit dat al deze spectaculaire bepaling van God een geschenk zijn van Hem aan ons. Het is gratis, diep maar prachtig eenvoudig, bevredigend, altijd vers, altijd nieuw, en intrigerend divers. Het stimuleert zijn of haar emoties, triggers de nieuwsgierigheid, en doet iets goeds diep van binnen. De auteur van The Best Things in Life Really are Free ziet naar al de rommel die de mensen maken en op de schroothoop belandt terwijl er die prachtige dingen zijn rondom ons welke gratis zijn, en dan is hij of zij het eens met God toen Hij zei dat het “goed is.” Het is echt goed!
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    “So, bravo for God, who once more outstrips all the best efforts of any competitor and provides something to take me beyond my tiny, usually disappointing world. And to think that He made us with the capacity to appreciate and enjoy all that He has made! How dull it would be if He had made this greatest show on earth and not wired us with the equipment to be enraptured by it all.”
  5. Men kan zich natuurlijk afvragen wie men als bron wil hebben. Yshatar kijkt naar een steeds evoluerende God in My Take On God
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    “So whether we worship Buddha, Krishna, Christ, whatever, God is in all things, there is no God above the other if all point back to the same God, if one God created all there is then all there is, is God. I believe God, the great God created us lesser Gods, we are all manifestations of Gods love, sparks of this creative energy that willed itself in to being.
  6. Intellectual pitfalls
    Genesis informs us that when God completed creation, He saw that “it was very good.” Surprisingly enough, these luminous words can easily be misread or misinterpreted.
    God is  clearly telling us that every single being to which He has freely granted “to be” is not only benefiting from the nobility of existence, but moreover  that all these beings not only  “are” but moreover have qualities  and perfections which, according to a huge scale, reflect God’s infinite beauty.
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    The greatness of God’s creation teaches us one of the most fundamental metaphysical laws: exemplarism.
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    whatever God brought into existence was ontologically “good,” being a reflection of its Creator. But obviously “good” does not refer to moral qualities. These can only be found in persons having free will. It makes no sense to refer to the “generosity” of mountains, or the humility of a blade of grass.
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    To use Dietrich von Hildebrand’s terminology, all existing beings created by God have ontological value. This is true even though the scale between a human person and a blade of grass is huge indeed.
    All ontological values call for our respect. Moreover, one either possesses this value or one does not. One cannot be “more or less” a person and “more or less” an elephant: either one is one or one is not one.
  7. Gods woorden vertellen ons wat Hij kan maar ook wat wij kunnen. Zoals uit volgende berichten in deze reeks zal blijken hangen wij af van dat Woord van God maar kunnen wij ook in wederwoord gaan met Hem. “We now rely on communication from God that is mediated by Scripture” schrijft Too Low, Too Human, Too Safe
  8. He may found a kingdom and empire which shall be literally ‘universal’
    The purpose of God in creating the world, and in bringing it to its present political constitution, by checking the full manifestation of the evil that exists, is that He may found a kingdom and empire which shall be literally ‘universal’ (Dan. 2:44; 7:14), and under the government of which all nations may be blessed (Gen. 7:3; Psa. 62:11).

 

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Trusting, Faith, calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #2 Calling upon the Name of God

Posted on January 21, 2013. Filed under: Endtimes, Faith, Jehovah יהוה YHWH JHVH God Elohim Yahweh Jahweh, Life and Death, Naam van God | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Trust, Faith and Prayer

Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #2 Calling upon the Name of God

Soon in the time of the created universe people got to understand they had to call upon God. Men began to call upon the name of the Most High Elohim יהוה Jehovah. More than once things went wrong and more than once men opposed to their Creator, but every time He was willing to come to them and to help them. At the early times they knew the importance of calling the Creator God by His Name, who was Holy.

“And to Shĕth, to him also a son was born. And he called his name Enosh. Then it was begun to call on the Name of יהוה {Jehovah}{1}. {Footnote: 1The first record of “calling on the Name of יהוה {Jehovah}” (Genesis 4:26 The Scriptures 1998+)

English: The Geneva Bible (1560): God's name I...

English: The Geneva Bible (1560): God’s name Iehouah (in older Latin transcription form), that is Jehovah. Greek/Ελληνικά: Η μεταγραφή Ιεχουά (Ιεχωβά) στο εδάφιο Ψαλμός 83:18, από την Βίβλο της Γενεύης (Geneva Bible) του 1560. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“So Aḇram left, as יהוה had commanded him, and Lot went with him. And Aḇram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Ḥaran.” (Genesis 12:4 The Scriptures 1998+)

“ 7 And יהוה {Jehovah} appeared to Aḇram and said, “To your seed I give this land.” And he built there an altar to יהוה{Jehovah}, who had appeared to him. 8 And from there he moved to the mountain east of Bĕyth Ěl, and he pitched his tent, with Bĕyth Ěl on the west and Ai on the east. And he built there an altar to יהוה{Jehovah}, and called on the Name of יהוה{Jehovah}.”  (Genesis 12: 7-8: The Scriptures 1998+)

Many times people were wrestling with many problems, often caused by themselves because they did not keep to the Commandments of God or did not listen to His Voice. Multitudes of commands and myriads of promises were given to God His people. Many blessings came over them, but oh so often they forgot quickly what He had done for them.

But every time God was there again to come close to them and several times God appeared to His chosen people to tell them what to do and to tell them about future happenings.

“23  And from there he went up to Be’ĕrsheḇa. 24  And יהוה {Jehovah}appeared to him the same night and said, “I am the Elohim of your father Aḇraham. Do not fear, for I am with you, and shall bless you and increase your seed for My servant Aḇraham’s sake.”
25  And he built an altar there, and called on the Name of יהוה {Jehovah}, and he pitched his tent there, and the servants of Yitsḥaq dug a well there. “ (Genesis 26: 23-25: The Scriptures 1998+)

The Creator told His chosen people how He was to be called and that His Name should be known all over the world.

And He said, “I am the Elohim of your father, the Elohim of Aḇraham, the Elohim of Yitsḥaq, and the Elohim of Ya’aqoḇ.” And Mosheh hid his face, for he was afraid to look at Elohim” (Exodus 3:6 The Scriptures 1998+)

“And now, see, the cry of the children of Yisra’ĕl has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Mitsrites oppress them.” (Exodus 3:9 The Scriptures 1998+)

“14  And Elohim said to Mosheh, “I am that which I am.”{1 } And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Yisra’ĕl, ‘I am has sent me to you.’ ” {Footnote: 1The Heḇrew text reads: ’eyeh ’asher ’eyeh, the word ’eyeh being derived from hayah which means to be, to exist, but the Aramaic text here in v. 14 reads: ayah ashar ayah. This is not His Name, but it is an explanation that leads up to the revelation of His Name in v. 15, namely: יהוה (Jehovah). } 15  And Elohim said further to Mosheh, “Thus you are to say to the children of Yisra’ĕl, ‘יהוה {Jehovah } Elohim of your fathers, the Elohim of Aḇraham, the Elohim of Yitsḥaq, and the Elohim of Ya’aqoḇ, has sent me to you. This is My Name forever, and this is My remembrance to all generations.’ ” (Exodus 3:14-15 The Scriptures 1998+)

"Jehovah" at Exodus 6:3 (1611 King J...

“Jehovah” at Exodus 6:3 (1611 King James Version) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“2 And Elohim spoke to Mosheh and said to him, “I am יהוה {Jehovah}.” 3 “And I appeared to Aḇraham {Abraham}, to Yitsḥaq {Isaac}, and to Ya’aqoḇ {Jakob}, as Ěl Shaddai {The One Most High; The Almighty}. And by My Name, יהוה {Jehovah }, was I not known to them? 4 “And I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Kena’an, the land of their sojournings, in which they have sojourned. 5 “And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Yisra’ĕl whom the Mitsrites are enslaving, and I have remembered My covenant. 6 “Say, therefore, to the children of Yisra’ĕl, ‘I am יהוה {Jehovah}, and I shall bring you out from under the burdens of the Mitsrites, and shall deliver you from their enslaving, and shall redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments, 7 and shall take you as My people, and I shall be your Elohim. And you shall know that I am יהוה {Jehovah} your Elohim who is bringing you out from under the burdens of the Mitsrites. 8 ‘And I shall bring you into the land which I swore to give to Aḇraham, to Yitsḥaq, and to Ya’aqoḇ {Jakob}, to give it to you as an inheritance. I am יהוה {Jehovah}.’ ” (Exodus 6:2-8 The Scriptures 1998+) (Exodus 6:2-7 The Scriptures 1998+)

“Go, and you shall gather the elders of Yisra’ĕl together, and say to them, ‘יהוה {Jehovah} Elohim of your fathers, the Elohim of Aḇraham, of Yitsḥaq, and of Ya’aqoḇ, appeared to me, saying, “I have indeed visited you and seen what is done to you in Mitsrayim; (Exodus 3:16 The Scriptures 1998+)

“And in that day you shall say, “Praise יהוה {Jehovah}, call upon His Name; make known His deeds among the peoples, make mention that His Name is exalted.” (Isaiah 12:4 The Scriptures 1998+)

“13 For “everyone who calls on the Name of יהוה {Jehovah} shall be saved.” 14 How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without one proclaiming? 15 And how shall they proclaim if they are not sent? As it has been written, “How pleasant are the feet of those who bring the Good News of peace, who bring the Good News of the good!” 16 However, not all obeyed the Good News. For Yeshayahu {Isaiah} says, {Jehovah } “יהוה, who has believed our report?”  17 So then belief comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Elohim.” (Romans 10:13-17 The Scriptures 1998+)

Whatever God has made prominent in his Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives. He wanted us to get to know Him properly and to choose out of our own free will, to go for Him and to call upon His Name.

God insisted that people followed His Words and that they would call upon Him and not on other gods. More than ones He showed others how useless it was to call upon the gods of the earth. In the many stories of the Old Testament we can see how even great people, being ‘gods’ in their time did not manage to compete against the God of gods in heaven.

““And you shall call on the name of your mighty one, and I, I call on the Name of יהוה {Jehovah}. And the Elohim who answers by fire, He is Elohim.” So all the people answered and said, “The word is good.” (1 Kings 18:24 The Scriptures 1998+)

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Moabite Stone or Mesha Stele: YHWH, the god of Israelites as mentioned in the Moabite inscription in line 18 (context: and I took from there t[he ves]sels (or [altar he]arths) of YHWH and I dragged them before the face of Kemosh). Transliteration (modern Hebrew characters): יהוה

Ordinary people but also higher placed people, priest s and kings had to remember Jehovah, who is great and terrible, (Nehemiah 4:14). The great King David knew that Jehovah God was the El Shaddai, Almighty One God to whom he always was ready to offer the thanksgiving sacrifice and pray in the name of the Adonai Elohim Jehovah. And for those who called on His Name, God was willing to pour out His Spirit. The ones who loved Him dear He promised that their young men will see visions and that He even will pour out His Spirit on the servants, men and women both. He’ll set wonders in the sky above and signs on the earth below. Before the Judgement Day of God, the Day tremendous and awesome. Whoever calls, ‘Help, Jehovah!’ gets help. On Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be a great rescue — just as the Elohim God said.

“16  O יהוה {Jehovha}, I am truly Your servant, I am Your servant, the son of Your female servant; You have loosed my bonds. 17  I bring You a slaughtering of thanksgiving, And call upon the Name of יהוה {Jehovah}. 18  I pay my vows to יהוה {Jehovha} In the presence of all His people, 19  In the courts of the House of יהוה {Jehovah}, In your midst, O Yerushalayim. Praise Yah! “(Psalms 116:16-19 The Scriptures 1998+).

Excerpt of the book of Exodus from the The Gre...

Excerpt of the book of Exodus from the The Great Bible (entitled The Byble in Englyshe), publ. 1540. The English form Iehovah (Jehovah as the “J” stands for both I and the later J) is used for the Tetragrammaton at Exodus 6:3. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Jesus also learned the people around him to pray to his Father and to tell that His Name is Holy and should be honoured as the Holy Name.

““This, then, is the way you should pray: ‘Our Father who is in the heavens, let Your Name be set-apart,” (Matthew 6:9 The Scriptures 1998+)

“And He said to them, “When you pray, say: Our Father in the heavens, let Your Name be set-apart, let Your reign come, let Your desire be done on earth as it is in heaven..” (Luke 11:2 The Scriptures 1998+)

“Then Mosheh said to Aharon, “This is what יהוה {Jehovah} spoke, saying, ‘By those who come near Me let Me be set-apart! And before all the people let Me be esteemed!’ ” And Aharon was silent.” (Leviticus 10:3 The Scriptures 1998+)

“26  “And let Your Name be made great forever, saying, ‘יהוה {Jehovah} of hosts is the Elohim over Yisra’ĕl.’ And let the house of Your servant Dawid be established before You. 27  “For You, O יהוה {Jehovah} of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, have revealed this to Your servant, saying, ‘I build you a house.’ Therefore Your servant has taken heart to pray this prayer to You. 28  “And now, O Master {Jehovah} יהוה, You are Elohim, and Your words are true, and You have spoken this goodness to Your servant. ” (2 Samuel 7:26 The Scriptures 1998+)

“24 So let it stand fast, and Your Name be great forever, saying, ‘יהוה {Jehovah} of hosts, Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, is Elohim to Yisra’ĕl. And let the house of Your servant Dawid be established before You.’ 25  “For You, O my Elohim, have revealed to Your servant to build a house for him. Therefore Your servant has found courage to pray before You. 26  “And now, {Jehovah} יהוה, You are Elohim, and have promised this goodness to Your servant. 27  “And now, You have been pleased to bless the house of Your servant to be before You forever. For You have blessed it, O יהוה {Jehovah}, and it is blessed forever.”.” (1 Chronicles 17:24-27 The Scriptures 1998+)

“4  Then Yĕshua and Bani, Qadmi’ĕl, Shebanyah, Bunni, Shĕrĕbyah, Bani, Kenani stood on the stairs of the Lĕwites and cried out with a loud voice to יהוה their Elohim. 5  Then the Lĕwites, Yĕshua and Qadmi’ĕl, Bani, Ḥashabneyah, Shĕrĕbyah, Hodiyah, Shebanyah, Pethaḥyah, said, “Rise, bless יהוה {Jehovah}, your Elohim forever and ever! And let them bless Your esteemed Name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise! 6  “You are יהוה {Jehovah}, You alone. You have made the heavens, the heavens of the heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that are on it, the seas and all that are in them, and You give life to them all. And the host of the heavens are bowing themselves to You.
7  “You are יהוה {Jehovah}, the Elohim who chose Abram, and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham, 8  and found his heart trustworthy before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Kena’anites, the Ḥittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Yebusites, and the Girgashites – to give it to his seed. And You have established Your words, for You are righteous,” (Nehemiah 9:4-8 The Scriptures 1998+)

“17  Let His Name be forever, His Name continue before the sun; And let them bless themselves in Him; Let all nations call Him blessed. 18  Blessed be יהוה {Jehovah} Elohim, Elohim {The Most High} of Yisra’ĕl, He alone is doing wonders! 19  And blessed be His esteemed Name forever! And let all the earth Be filled with His esteem. Amĕn and Amĕn. .” (Psalms 72:18 The Scriptures 1998+)

God provided His only son so that a ransom could be paid for His people, so that none of His children would perish. There is no greater sacrifice than giving up your only son for the sake of our salvation. That is truly the greatest provision that our Heavenly Father has given us. He ordered His Covenant kept forever. He’s so personal and holy, that we too should call upon Him and call back and forth one to the other, “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Most High God, Jehovah-of-the-Angel-Armies. His bright glory fills the whole earth.

“9  He sent redemption to His people, He has commanded His covenant forever. Set-apart and awesome is His Name. 10  The fear of יהוה {Jehovah} is the beginning of wisdom, All those doing them have a good understanding. His praise is standing forever. ” (Psalms 111:9-10 The Scriptures 1998+)

“And one cried to another and said, “Set-apart, set-apart, set-apart is יהוה {Jehovah} of hosts; all the earth is filled with His esteem!”” (Isaiah 6:3 The Scriptures 1998+)

We also should put His great and holy Name that has been ruined in so many countries, the name that so many blackened wherever they went, on display. Today it is more than high time that the nations will realize who the God of gods is. The whole world should get to know the Only One Almighty God. Who He really is, that He, Jehovah is God. When He shall show His holiness through us, we shall be pleased that they can see it with their own eyes.
Perhaps it will not take long any more that God will show the world how great He is, how holy He is, because He, the Adonai will make Himself known all over the world. Then they’ll realize that He is GOD. Jehovah God will be king over all the earth, one GOD and only one. What a Day that will be! He shall be honoured all over the world. And there are people who know how to worship Him all over the world, who honour Him by bringing their best to Him. They’re saying it everywhere: “God is greater, this GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies.” “Jehovah His Name shall be The One, Great under all nations”.

“And I shall set apart My great Name, which has been profaned among the gentiles, which you have profaned in their midst. And the gentiles shall know that I am יהוה {Jehovah},” declares the Master יהוה {Jehovah}, “when I am set-apart in you before their eyes.  (Ezekiel 36:23 The Scriptures 1998+)

“for the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the esteem of יהוה {Jehovah}, as the waters cover the sea {1}! {Footnote: 1Isa. 11:9.}” (Habakkuk 2:14 The Scriptures 1998+)

“And יהוה {Jehovah} shall be Sovereign over all the earth {1}. In that day there shall be one יהוה {Jehovah}, and His Name one. {Footnote: 1 Isa. 24:23, Dan. 2:44, Rev. 11:15.} .” (Zechariah 14:9 The Scriptures 1998+)

“For from the rising of the sun, even to its going down, My Name is great among nations. And in every place incense is presented to My Name, and a clean offering. For My Name is great among nations,” said יהוה {Jehovah} of hosts..” (Malachi 1:11 The Scriptures 1998+)

“28  “And after this it shall be that I pour out My Spirit on all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men dream dreams, your young men see visions. 29  “And also on the male servants and on the female servants I shall pour out My Spirit in those days.
30  “And I shall give signs in the heavens and upon the earth: blood and fire and columns of smoke, 31  the sun is turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of יהוה.
32  “And it shall be that everyone who calls on the Name of יהוה shall be delivered {1}. For on Mount Tsiyon and in Yerushalayim there shall be an escape {2} as יהוה has said, and among the survivors whom יהוה {Jehovah} calls. {Footnotes: 1 Acts 2:21, Rom. 10:13. 2 Isa. 4:2-3, Obad. v. 17, Rev. 14:1.} ” (Joel 2:28-32 The Scriptures 1998+)

Coming closer to those End-times it is begetting more important that people call upon Jehovah. For the Time is near. But you don’t have to be unprepared for the tests and trials when they come.

In these times we have to look forward to the Jehovah Jireh, God the provider, the One who provides in all things pertaining to life, the Rock which we stand upon. But we do have to show to Him that we are willing to stand on Him. If we are prepared to give ourselves to Him He is willing to accept our being with all its faults and deficiencies. So, we do better ask God and trust that He, as a loving Father, will listen to us. In prayer we can build up our life and prepare ourselves for times coming. By prayer we are preparing our heart and our mind for the battle ahead. Let us rest ourselves upon Him. He is our refuge, let us hide in Him; He is our strength, let us array ourselves with Him; He is our help, let us lean upon Him; He is our very present help, let us repose in Him now.

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en: The Holy Bible in Modern Greek by Neofitos Vamvas. At Exodus 6:3 the divine name of God, the sacred Tetragrammaton, is rendered “Ιεχωβά” (Ieová/Jehovah). La Cle publications, 1979. el: Το όνομα Ιεοβά (Ιεχωβά) στην Παλαιά Διαθήκη. Νεοελληνική Μετάφραση (Βάμβα), έκδοση La Cle, 1979. Απόσπασμα από το βιβλίο της Εξόδου. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

We must give to God the necessary appropriate glory which He deserves and is worthy off. We must follow His wishes. Under those wishes it has been confessed to make God His name be known. Concerning His Name God wishes that His name be known all over the earth. We can work for it and must help with that. We do have to love Gods name and give it all honour. We should consecrate His name above all names, declaring it to be holy, set apart, sanctified. Above all names we must esteem This One highly. This totally different god than the many gods worshipped at the moment, all over the earth, is the Elohim, Most High over all, the אהיה אשר אהיה  “I AM WHO I AM” the very Source of life and of all good that is made up in this world.

We should want to give God this glory, in our speech and foremost in our prayer, especially because this stipulates the tone for the rest of our prayer. It requires of us to shrink back in apprehension for the omnipotent God. It does make us tremble our for this big and most important God, who we all have to give honour and to whom we are conversing with by His grace. He is the only person to whom we should pray and must take our refuge. He is the One to whom we can confide everything and commit everything to His charge. If we know His value and Greatness and Power and realise what He has already done and still can do for us, we will not doubt make work of it to address Him regularly in love. We then will not recoil with Him to step in conversation. Also we will not recoil to converse by His grace. To him we all must bring praise for no other reason then that He exists in independence and holiness, contains Power and Love, which we cannot quite comprehend. It is not that we must pray from apprehension, fearing God, but of respect and with faith that He wants to be as the most perfect Father, who is prepared to listen to His children and to give them what they need.

“And I say to you: ask and it shall be given to you, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you. (Luke 11:9 The Scriptures 1998+)

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Vertrouwen, Geloof, Roepen en Toeschrijving aan Jehovah #2 Aanroepen van de Naam van God

Spoedig in de tijd van het gecreëerde heelal kregen de mensen te begrijpen zij tot God moesten roepen. De mensen begonnen de naam van Hoogste Elohim יהוה Jehovah te verzoeken. Meer dan eens gingen de dingen verkeerd en meer dan eens deden mensen tegengesteld aan hun Schepper Zijn wensen, maar telkens was hij bereid om weer tot hen te komen en hen te helpen. In de vroege tijden kenden zij het belang om de Schepper God met Zijn Naam die Heilig was, aan te roepen.

“En ook tot Sheth was er hem een zoon geboren. En hij gaf hem de naam Enos. Daarna werd begonnen met een beroep te doen op de Naam van יהוה {Jehovah} {1}.” {Voetnoot: 1De eerste optekening van “een beroep doen op de Naam van יהוה” of “de naam van Jehovah te verzoeken.“
(Genesis 4:26 De Geschriften 1998 +)

“Aldus vertrok Abram, zoals יהוה {Jehovah} hem geboden had, en Lot ging met hem mee. En Abram was vijfenzeventig jaar oud toen hij uit Haran weg trok.”
(Genesis 12: 4: De Geschriften 1998 +)

“7 En יהוה {Jehovah}verscheen aan Abram en zei: “Aan uw zaad zal Ik dit land geven.” En hij bouwde aldaar een altaar voor יהוה {Jehovah}, die hem verschenen was. 8 En van daar ging hij naar de berg ten oosten van Bĕyth El { bethel}, en hij sloeg zijn tent op, met Bĕyth El { bethel } op het westen en Ai in het oosten. En hij bouwde aldaar een altaar voor יהוה {Jehovah}, en riep de Naam van יהוה {Jehovah} aan.”
(Genesis 12: 7-8: De Geschriften 1998 +)

Vele keren worstelden de mensen met vele problemen, vaak veroorzaakt door hen zelf omdat zij zich niet aan de Bevelen of Geboden van God hielden of niet naar Zijn Stem luisterden. Massa’s bevelen en horden beloften werden gegeven aan God Zijn mensen. Vele zegens kwamen over hen, maar oh zo vaak waren zij deze snel vergeten. Vlug hadden zij geen oog meer voor wat God voor hen had gedaan. In hoge nood wisten zij Hem echter weer te vinden en vond hun god het niet erg om terug tot hen te komen.

Telkens was God daar opnieuw om dicht bij hen te komen en meerdere keren verscheen God aan Zijn gekozen mensen om hen te vertellen wat ze moesten doen en te vertellen over in de toekomst nog te gebeuren zaken.

“23 En van daar ging hij naar Be’ĕrsheba. 24 En יהוה {Jehovah}verscheen hem in die zelfde nacht en zei: “Ik ben de Elohim van uw vader Abraham. Wees niet bang, want Ik ben met u, en zal u zegenen en uw zaad vermenigvuldigen omwille van mijn dienaar Abraham. ‘ 25 En hij bouwde daar een altaar, en riep de naam van יהוה {Jehovah}, en hij sloeg zijn tent op, en de dienaren {bedienden} van Yitsḥaq groeven daar een put.” (Genesis 26: 23-25: De Geschriften 1998 +)

De schepper vertelde Zijn gekozen mensen hoe hij aanroepen moest worden en dat Zijn Naam helemaal over de wereld zou moeten gekend worden.

“En Hij zei: “Ik ben de Elohim van uw vader, de Elohim van Abraham, de Elohim van Yitsḥaq, en de Elohim van Ya’aqoḇ.” En Mosheh verborg zijn gezicht, want hij was bang om naar Elohim te kijken (Exodus 3:6 De Geschriften 1998 +)

“En nu, zie, is de kreet van de kinderen van Israëlieten tot Mij gekomen, en ik heb ook de onderdrukking gezien waarmee de Mitsrites hen verdrukken {onderdrukken}. (Exodus 3:9 De Geschriften 1998 +)

“En Elohim zegt aan Mosheh, ik BEN wie ik BEN (“Ik Ben die Ben” of “Ik Ben die Is”): en hij zegt, zegt zo aan de zonen van Yisra El, Ik Ben heeft mij naar u gestuurd. En opnieuw zegt Elohim aan Mosheh:, „ik ben dat wat ik ben. “ {1} en hij zei, „zo zult u aan de kinderen van Yisra’ ĕl, ‘zeggen: “De Ik Ben heeft mij naar u gestuurd.’’ (Voetnoot: 1 De Hebreeuwse tekst leest: ‘ eyeh’ asher’ eyeh, het woord eyeh uit hayah afgeleid betekent te zijn, maar de bestaande Aramese tekst hier in v. 14 geeft te lezen: ayah ashar ayah. Dit is niet Zijn Naam, maar het is een verklaring die tot de revelatie van Zijn Naam in v. 15 leidt, namelijk: יהוה.) En Elohim zei verder aan Mosheh, „zo moet u aan de kinderen van Yisra’ ĕl zeggen, ‘יהוה Elohim van uw vaders, Elohim van Ab’raham, Elohim van Yitsḥaq, en Elohim van Yaʽaqoḇ, heeft me naar u gestuurd. Dit is voor altijd Mijn Naam, en dit is Mijn herinnering aan alle generaties.’ (Exodus 3:14-15 De Geschriften 2011 Vertaling)

“Ga, en gij zult de oudsten van de Israëlieten verzamel en tot hen zeggen: ‘יהוה {Jehovah } Elohim van uw vaderen, de Elohim van Aḇraham, van Yitsḥaq, en van Ya’aqoḇ, verscheen tot mij, zeggende”: Ik heb u inderdaad bezocht en gezien wat u wordt aangedaan in Mitsrayim; (Exodus 3:16 De Geschriften 1998 +)

“Jehovah” at Exodus 6:3 (1611 King James Version) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

2 En Elohim sprak tot Mosje {Mosheh/Mozes} en zei tegen hem: “Ik ben יהוה. 3 “En ik verscheen aan  Aḇraham {Abraham} , Yitsḥaq {Isaak}, en Ya’aqob {Jakob}̱, , als El Shaddai {De Ene Almachtige; De Enige Allerhoogste}. En bij mijn naam יהוה {Jehovah}, was ik niet bekend bij hen? 4 “En ik vestigde ook Mijn verbond met hen, om hen het land van Kena’an {Kanaän} te geven, het land van hun verblijven {oponthouden/ het land van hun oponthoud of van hun vreemdelingschappen}, waarin zij als vreemdeling hebben verkeerd. 5 “En ik heb ook het gekerm {weeklaag} gehoord van de kinderen van Yisra’ĕl {Israël} welke de Mitsrites {de Egyptenaren} tot slaaf namen, en ik heb aan Mijn verbond gedacht. 6 “Zeg dan ook, aan de kinderen van Yisra’ĕl {Israël}: ‘Ik ben יהוה {Jehovah}, en ik zal ulieden uitleiden van onder de lasten van de Mitsrites {Egyptenaren}, en zal je bevrijden van hun slavernij, en zal u verlossen door een uitgestrekte arm, en door grote gerichten {gerechtsuitspraken }, 7 en neemt u als Mijn volk, en ik zal uw Elohim zijn {Ik zal u tot een god zijn}. En gij zult weten, dat Ik ben יהוה {Jehovah} uw Elohim {de Eeuwige, uw God}, die je brengt van onder de lasten {last, lastdiensten}van de Mitsrites {Egyptenaren}. 8 ‘En ik zal u brengen naar het land dat Ik gezworen te geven aan Aḇraham {Abraham}, Yitsḥaq {Isaak}, en Ya’aqob {Jakob}, om het te geven aan u als een erfenis. Ik ben {’Ik ben die ben’ Adonai} יהוה {Jehovah}. ‘” (Exodus 6:2-8 De Geschriften 1998+)

“En voor deze reden heb ik u omhoog opgeheven om u Mijn macht te tonen, en om Mijn Naam over de gehele aarde te verklaren.” (Exodus 9:6 De Geschriften 1998+)

“En op die dag zult u zeggen, “Prijs יהוה {Jehovah }, aanroep (of verzoek) Zijn Naam; maak Zijn daden onder de volkeren bekend, maak vermelding dat Zijn Naam verheven is.” (Jesaja 12:4 De Geschriften 1998+)

“13 Omdat “iedereen die de Naam יהוה {Jehovah} aanroept zal gered worden.” 14 Hoe dan zullen zij hem dan uitnodigen in wie zij niet hebben geloofd? En hoe kunnen zij dan in hem geloven van wie zij niet hebben gehoord? En hoe zullen zij zonder één afkondiging kunnen horen? 15 En hoe zullen zij kunnen verkondigen als zij niet worden uitgezonden? Zoals het staat geschreven, „hoe aangenaam zijn de stappen van hen die het Goede Nieuws van vrede brengen, zij die het Goede Nieuws van het goede brengen!“ 16 Nochtans, gehoorzaamde niet iedereen het Goede Nieuws. Mits Yeshayahu {Isaiah/Jesaja} zegt, “יהוה {Jehovah}, wie geloofde ons rapport?“ 17 Zo komt dan het geloof door te horen en, het horen door het woord van Elohim.” (Romeinen 10:13-17 De Geschriften 1998+)

Wat God ook in Zijn Woord prominent heeft gemaakt, Zijn bedoeling was opvallend in ons leven te zijn. Hij verlangde er naar dat wij Hem goed zouden kennen en dat wij voor Hem zouden kiezen totaal uit vrije wil. Alsook verlangde Hij er naar dat wij Hem bij Zijn Naam zouden noemen.

God drong erop aan dat de mensen Zijn Woorden zouden volgen en dat zij Hem en niet op andere goden zouden roepen. Meer dan eens toonde Hij anderen hoe nutteloos het trouwens is om de goden van de aarde te verzoeken. In de vele verhalen van het Oude Testament kunnen wij zien hoe zelfs de grote of voorname mensen, die ‘goden’ waren in hun tijd, er niet op konden om met de Hemelse God van de goden, te concurreren.

“En gij zult op de naam van uw machtige roepen, en ik, ik roep de Naam van יהוה {Jehovah} aan. En de Elohim die door vuur antwoordt, Hij is Elohim. “Zo antwoordde al het volk en zei:” Het woord is goed. ” {= Heel het volk stemde met dit voorstel in.}
(1 Koningen 18:24 De Geschriften 1998 +)

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Jehovah – Gods Naam_ (Photo credit: ideacreamanuelaPps)

De gewone mensen maar ook de hoger geplaatste personen, de priester s en de koningen moesten Jehovah herinneren, die groot en vreselijk is, (Nehemiah 4:14). De grote Koning David wist dat de God Jehovah de Almachtige God was aan wie hij altijd bereid was om het dankzeggingsoffer aan te bieden en in naam van Adonai Elohim Jehovah te bidden. En voor zij die Zijn Naam aanriepen, was die God bereid om Zijn Geest uit te storten. Degenen die het meest van Hem hielden beloofde Hij dat hun jonge mensen visies zouden zien en dat Hij Zijn Geest op de bedienden, de mannen en de vrouwen allebei zelfs zou uitstorten. Hij ontvouwt wonderen in de hemel hierboven en geeft tekens hieronder op de aarde. Vóór de Dag van het Oordeel van God, de enorm en ontzagwekkende Dag. Eenieder die vraagt, “Help, Jehovah!” zal ook hulp krijgen. Op de berg Zion en in Jeruzalem zal er een grote redding plaatsvinden- zoals de bovengenoemde God Elohim ook zei.

“16 O יהוה {Jehovah}, ik ben echt Uw knecht, ik ben Uw dienaar, de zoon van uw dienstmaagd; U heeft mijn banden losgemaakt. 17 Ik breng U een slachting van dankzegging, en doe een beroep op de Naam van יהוה {Jehovah}. 18 Ik betaal mijn geloften aan יהוה {Jehovah} In aanwezigheid van geheel Zijn volk, 19 In de voorhoven van het huis van יהוה {Jehovah}, in uw midden, o Jeruzalem. Lof zij Yah! {Geprezen zij Yah} (Psalmen 116:16-19 De Geschriften 1998 +)

Jezus, leerde ook de mensen rond hem tot zijn Vader te bidden en Hem te vertellen dat Zijn Naam Heilig is en als Heilige Naam zou moeten worden geëerd.

“Dit, is dan de manier waarop u zou moeten bidden: ‘Onze Vader die in de hemel is, laat Uw Naam uitzonderlijk zijn,” (Mattheüs 6:9 De Geschriften 1998 +)

“En hij zei tegen hen: ‘Wanneer jullie bidden, zeg dan: “Onze Vader die in de hemelen zijt, Uw Naam worde afzonderlijk gesteld {Uw Naam worde geheiligd}, laat Uw heerschappij komen, laat Uw wil geschiede op aarde zoals in de hemel.” (Lukas 11:02 De Schrift 1998 +)

“Toen zei Mosheh {Mosje/Mozes} tegen Aharon { Aaron}:” Dit is wat יהוה {Jehovah} zei, laat me apart geplaatst worden {geheiligd} door hen die dicht bij Mij in de buurt komen! En vóór al het volk laat Mij geacht zijn! {tot aanschouwen van het ganse volk wil ik verheerlijkt worden.}”" En Aharon was stil { Aaron zweeg}. “(Leviticus 10:03 De Geschriften 1998 +)

“26 En laat Uw naam groot worden gemaakt voor altijd {tot in de eeuwigheid}, zeggende: ‘יהוה {Jehovah} der heirscharen is de Elohim over Yisra’ĕl.’ {Jehovah van de hemelse machten is Elohim, Allerhoogste God over Israël of ‘voor de Israëlieten’}.’ En laat het huis van Uw dienaar Dawid {David} worden vastgesteld vóór U. 27 “Voor U, O יהוה {Jehovah } der heirscharen, de Elohim van Yisra’el, hebt dit geopenbaard aan Uw dienaar, zeggende: ‘Ik bouw je een huis.’ Daarom heeft Uw dienaar het zich ter harte genomen om dit gebed te bidden tot U. {daarom heeft uw dienaar het hart gehad om tot u te bidden.} 28 “En nu, o Meester {Jehovah} יהוה, U bent Elohim, en Uw woorden zijn waarachtig, en U heeft deze goedheid tot Uw dienaar gesproken. {U hebt dit goede tot uwen knecht gesproken.} “(2 Samuël 7:26 De Geschriften 1998 +)

“24 Laat het aldus vast staan en Uw Naam groot zijn voor altijd, te zeggen: ‘יהוה {Jehovah } der heirscharen {Jehovah van de hemelse machten }, Elohim van Yisra’ĕl, is Elohim te Yisra’ĕl. {Allerhoogste van Israël, Allerhoogste over Israël. }En laat het huis van Uw knecht Dawiḏ {David}worden vastgesteld vóór U. ‘ {en laat het (konings)huis van uw dienaar David altijd vóór u standhouden.} 25 “Voor U, O mijn Elohim, hebt aan Uw dienaar geopenbaard om een huis voor hem te bouwen. Daarom heeft Uw dienaar moed gevonden om te bidden vóór U. 26 “En nu, יהוה {Jehovah}, U bent Elohim {U bent de Allerhoogste}, en hebt dit goede aan Uw knecht beloofd. 27 “En nu, bent U al blij het huis van uw knecht te zegenen om voor altijd vóór U te zijn. Want U hebt het gezegend, o יהוה {Jehovah}, en het is voor altijd gezegend. {Omdat U Jehovah het gezegend hebt is het voor altijd (eeuwig) gezegend.}”.” (1 Kronieken 17:24-27 De Geschriften 1998 +)

“4 Toen Yĕshua {Jeshua} en Bani, Qadmi’ĕl, Shebanyah, Bunni, Shĕrĕbyah, Bani, Kenani op de trappen van de Lĕwites {Levieten} stonden en met een luide stem riepen tot יהוה {Jehovah} hun Elohim {Allerhoogste}. 5 Dan zeiden de Lĕwites, Yĕshua en Qadmi’ĕl, Bani, Ḥashabneyah, Shĕrĕbyah, Hodiyah, Shebanyah, Pethaḥyah: “Sta op, zegen יהוה {Jehovah}, uw Elohim voor eeuwig en altijd! En laat hen Uw gewaardeerde naam zegenen, die verheven is boven alle lof en prijs! 6 “U bent יהוה {Jehovah}, U alleen. U heeft de hemel, de hemel der hemelen, en allen die er in zijn, de aarde en alles wat er zich op bevindt, de zee en al wat er in is gemaakt, en U hebt leven gegeven aan hen allen {dat alles}. En de gastheren van de hemel buigen zich voor U.
7 “U bent יהוה {Jehovah}, de Elohim {Allerhoogste} die Abram koos, en hem uit Ur van de Chaldeeën bracht, en hem de naam gaf van Abraham, 8 en zijn hart voor U te vertrouwen vond, en een verbond maakte met hem door het land te geven van de Kena’anites, de Hethieten, de Amorieten, en de Ferezieten, en de Yebusites, en de Girgasieten – om het aan zijn zaad te geven. En U hebt Uw woorden vastgesteld, want U bent rechtvaardig, “(Nehemia 9:4-8 De Geschriften 1998 +)

“17 Laat Zijn Naam voor eeuwig zijn, Zijn Naam voortgezet voor de zon, en dat zij zich zegenen in Hem; Laat alle volken Hem gezegend noemen.
18 Gezegend zij יהוה {Jehovah} Elohim, Elohim {de Allerhoogste} van Yisra’el, Hij alleen doet wonderen!
19 En gezegend in eeuwigheid Zijn gewaardeerde naam! En laat de ganse aarde gevuld zijn met Zijn achting. Amen en Amen. . “(Psalm 72:17-19 De Geschriften 1998 +)

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Op de muur achter de preekstoel wordt Gods naam JHWH met Hebreeuwse medeklinkers aangetroffen in de oude kerk van Ragunda

De allerhoogste God der goden verstrekte Zijn enige zoon zodat een losgeld voor Zijn mensen zou kunnen worden betaald, zodat niemand van Zijn kinderen zou omkomen. Deze zoon had alles over voor zijn Vader en bood zich dan ook aan als Zoenoffer om zo het nodige Losgeld te betalen. Er is geen groter offer dan uw enige zoon op te geven omwille van onze redding. Dat is echt de grootste voorziening die onze Hemelse Vader ons heeft gegeven. Hij gaf opdracht om Zijn Overeenkomst voor altijd te behouden. Hij is zo persoonlijk en heilig, dat ook wij hem steeds zouden moeten verzoeken en roepen tot de anderen, „Heilig, Heilig, is de Aller Hoogste God, Jehovah-van-de-engelen-legers. Zijn heldere glorie vult de gehele aarde.” “Heilig is Zijn Naam!”

“9 Hij zond verlossing naar Zijn volk, Hij heeft zijn verbond voor eeuwig opgedragen. Apart geplaatst en ontzagwekkend is Zijn Naam. 10 De vrees voor יהוה {Jehovah} is het begin van wijsheid, Al die dat doen hebben een goed begrip. Zijn lof is voor altijd staande. “(Psalmen 111:9-10 De Geschriften 1998 +)

“En de een riep de ander toe,” Apart geplaatst, apart geplaatst, apart geplaatst {Heilig, Heilig, Heilig} is יהוה {Jehovah} der heirscharen {gastheer van de hemelse machten} van de gehele aarde! Gans de aarde is gevuld met Zijn achting {Geheel de aarde is vervuld van zijn heerlijkheid/hoogachting}”" (Jesaja 6:3 De Geschriften 1998 +)

Wij ook zouden Zijn grote en heilige Naam moeten plaatsen. Die Naam welke in zo vele landen is verguisd en geruïneerd. Die Naam die zo velen waar zij ook maar gaan, op vertoning zwart maken. Voor jaren heeft men de Naam van God in de vergeethoek willen doen krijgen. Men heeft al het mogelijke in het werk gesteld om de Naam van God te doen verdwijnen. Maar Gods Naam is zo bijzonder dat de Allerhoogste er zelf voor gezorgd heeft dat deze onuitwisbaar is.

Vandaag is het meer dan hoog tijd dat de naties zullen realiseren wie de God van goden is. De gehele wereld zou een duidelijk beeld moeten krijgen van die Allerhoogste God, het Opperwezen. De wereld moet de Enige Ware God leren kennen. Wie Hij werkelijk is, dat Hij, Jehovah God is. Wanneer Hij Zijn heiligheid door ons zal tonen, zullen wij worden tevredengesteld dat zij het met hun eigen ogen zullen kunnen zien. Misschien zal het niet zo lang meer duren vooraleer de God de wereld zal tonen hoe groot en hoe heilig Hij is, omdat Hij, de Adonai, zichzelf over de gehele wereld zal laten kennen. Dan zullen zij realiseren dat hij GOD is. Jehovah God zal koning over geheel aarde zijn, één GOD en slechts één zijn. Wat een Dag zal dat zijn! Hij zal helemaal over de wereld worden geëerd. En er zijn mensen, over de gehele wereld die het weten hoe Hem te aanbidden, die Hem eren door het beste van zichzelf aan Hem aan te bieden. Zij zeggen het overal: „God is groter, deze God-van-de-engelen-legers.“ „Jehovah Zijn Naam zal groot onder alle naties zijn “.

“En ik zal Mijn grote Naam apart zetten {heiligen}, die ontheiligd is geworden onder de heidenen, die gij ontheiligd hebt in hun midden. En de heidenen zullen weten, dat Ik ben יהוה {Jehovah}, “verklaart de Meester יהוה {Jehovah},” als ik apart geplaatst ben in u voor hun ogen. {Wanneer ik geheiligd ben in u voor hun ogen.} (Ezechiël 36:23 De Geschriften 1998 +)

“Want de aarde zal vervuld worden met de kennis van de achting van יהוה {Jehovah}, zoals de wateren de zee bedekken {1}! {Voetnoot: 1 (#Isa 11:9)} “(Habakuk 2:14 De Geschriften 1998 +)

“En יהוה {Jehovah} zal Soeverein zijn over de ganse aarde {1}. In die dag zal er één יהוה {Jehovah} zijn, en Zijn Naam één. {Voetnoot: 1 Isa. 24:23, Dan. 2:44, Openbaring 11:15.} {Op die dag zal blijken dat Jehovah één is en Zijn Naam één zal zijn}. “(Zacharia 14:9 De Geschriften 1998 +)

“Want van de opgang der zon, tot zelfs haar ondergaan, is Mijn Naam groot tussen de naties. En op elke plaats wordt wierook aangeboden aan Mijn Naam, en een zuiver aanbod {een zuivere offergave/ een rein offer}. Voor Mijn Naam is groot onder de naties {Want Mijn Naam is groot onder de naties.}”, zei יהוה {Jehovah} der heerscharen. {Zebaôth./ De Ene Jehovah van de hemelse machten}.” (Maleachi 1:11 De Geschriften 1998 +)

“28″ En na dit zal het geschieden, dat Ik Mijn Geest uitstort op alle vlees. En uw zonen en uw dochters zullen profeteren, uw ouden zullen dromen dromen, uw jongelingen zullen gezichten zien. 29 “En ook op de mannelijke bedienden en op de vrouwelijke bedienden zal Ik Mijn Geest uitstorten in die dagen.
30 “En ik zal tekenen in de hemelen en op de aarde geven: bloed en vuur en zuilen van rook, 31 de zon wordt omgezet in duisternis, en de maan in bloed, vóór de komst van de grote en ontzagwekkende dag van יהוה {Jehovah}.
32 “En het zal zo zijn dat ieder die de Naam van יהוה {Jehovah} uitspreekt zal bevrijd worden {1}. Want op de berg Tsiyon en in Yerushalayim zal er een ontsnapping zijn {2} zoals יהוה {Jehovah}heeft gezegd, en onder de overlevenden, die יהוה { Jehovah} aanroepen. {Voetnoten: 1 Handelingen 2:21, Romeinen 10:13. 2 Isa. 4:2-3, Obad. v. 17, Rev 14:1.} “(Joël 2:28-32 De Geschriften 1998 +)

Dichter bij de Eindtijd komende wordt het nog belangrijker dat mensen Jehovah God aanroepen. Wij moeten beseffen dat de Tijd steeds dichterbij komt. Maar wij mogen niet onvoorbereid voor de tests en de proeven komen te staan wanneer zij komen.

In deze tijden moeten wij ons op Jehovah Jireh, de leverancier God verheugen. Jehovah is de Voorziener die voor elk leven zorgt. Zonder Hem is er gewoon weg geen leven. Hij voorziet al het nodige. Hij is de Persoon betreffende het leven, de Rots waarop wij ons bevinden. Maar wij moeten aan Hem tonen dat wij bereid zijn om ons op hem te verlaten. Als wij bereid zijn om ons aan Hem te geven is Hij bereid om ons zijn met al haar fouten en tekortkomingen goed te keuren. Zo kunnen wij beter aan God het nodige vragen en op Hem vertrouwen stellen in plaats op de gewone mensen rondom ons; Hij is de meest toegewezen persoon om ons verder vooruit te helpen in dit leven. Als wij ons voor Hem ter beschikking stellen zal Hij ons ook tegemoet komen. Dit omdat Hij de meest perfecte Vader is en ook van ons houd als onze Vader, die naar ons zal luisteren.

In gebed kunnen wij ons leven opbouwen en ons voorbereiden op de komende tijden. Door gebed bereiden wij ons hart voor en bereiden wij onze geest voor om tegen de komende moeilijkheden bestand te zijn. Laten wij onze hoop stelen op de Allerhoogste, de Voorzienier in Rechtvaardigheid. Laat ons in Hem berusten. Hij is ons toevluchtsoord, in Hem kunnen wij ons verbergen; Hij is onze sterkte. Laten wij ons opstellen met Hem; Hij is onze hulp, laat ons op Hem berusten; Hij is onze aller huidige hulp, laat ons nu al in Hem berusten.

Wij moeten God de nodige gepaste glorie geven die Hij verdient en waardig is. Wij moeten Zijn wensen volgen. Onder die wensen is het bekend maken van Zijn Naam. God wenst dat Zijn Naam over de gehele aarde zal gekend zijn. Wij kunnen en moeten daar aan mee werken. Wij horen God Zijn Naam te beminnen en alle eer toe te brengen die deze verdient. Zijn naam horen wij boven alle namen te verheerlijken. Wij moeten die Naam als bijzonder beschouwen, verhogen, apart plaatsen of ‘heiligen’. Boven alle namen moeten wij Hem hoogachten. Deze totaal verschillende god dan de vele goden die over de hele aarde, op dit ogenblik worden aanbeden, is de Aller Hoogste, de Elohim, meer dan alle. Hij is de אהיה אשר אהיה „ik BEN die Ben.” de eigenlijke Bron van het leven en van al het goede dat er in deze wereld wordt gemaakt.

Wij zouden God deze glorie moeten willen geven, in ons gebed, vooral omdat dit de toon voor de rest van het gebed bepaalt. Het eist van ons om in vrees terug te deinzen voor de Almachtige God. Het doet ons beven voor deze grote God, welke wij alle eer verschuldigd zijn. Hij is de enige persoon tot wie wij horen te bidden en onze toevlucht moeten nemen. Als wij Zijn Waarde en Grootsheid en Macht kennen en beseffen wat Hij voor ons al gedaan heeft en nog kan doen, zullen wij er niet aan twijfelen om Hem regelmatig in liefde aan te spreken. Wij zullen er dan niet voor terugschrikken om met Hem in gesprek te treden. Ook zullen wij er dan niet voor terugschrikken om door zijn gunst te converseren. Aan hem zouden wij alle lof moeten toebrengen om geen andere reden dan dat Hij in onafhankelijkheid en heiligheid bestaat, een macht en een liefde bevat, die wij niet bepaald kunnen begrijpen. Het is niet dat wij uit vrees moeten bidden, maar uit eerbied en met vertrouwen dat Hij als de Meest perfecte Vader wil zijn, die bereid is om naar Zijn kinderen te luisteren en hen te geven wat zij nodig hebben.

“En Ik zeg u: vraag en het zal je gegeven worden, zoek en je zult vinden, klop en u zal opengedaan worden. (Lukas 11:9 De Geschriften 1998 +)

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Voorgaand: Vertrouwen, Geloof, Roepen en Toeschrijving aan Jehovah #1 Konings Geloof

Engelse versie / English version: Trusting, Faith, calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #2 Calling upon the Name of God

Volgend: Vertrouwen, Geloof, Roepen en Toeschrijving aan Jehovah #3 Stem van God

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  29. Kroniekschrijvers en profeten #3 Poëtische boeken
  30. Fragiliteit en actie #8 Eerste Wetsvoorziening
  31. Redding, vertrouwen en actie in Jezus #4 Mogelijkheid te kennen en te weten
  32. In de hand #5 Niet bang zich te geven
  33. Aanbid enkel de Schepper van alles

In het Engels raden wij aan ook te lezen:

  1. The Bible and names in it
  2. Creator of heaven and earth and everything aroundיהוה The Only One Elohim who creates and gives all
  3. Does He exists?
  4. The wrong hero
  5. A god between many gods
  6. God of gods
  7. Only one God
  8. Attributes to God
  9. Jehovah Yahweh Gods Name
  10. God about His name “יהוה“
  11. יהוה , YHWH and Love: Four-letter words
  12. Titles of God beginning with the Aleph in Hebrew
  13. Archeological Findings the name of God YHWH
  14. I am that I am Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh אהיה אשר אהיה
  15. Hashem השם, Hebrew for “the Name”
  16. The Divine name of the Creator
  17. I Will Cause Your Name To Be Remembered
  18. Some one or something to fear #1 Many sorts of fear
  19. Some one or something to fear #2 Attitude and Reactions
  20. Some one or something to fear #3 Cases, folks and outing
  21. Some one or something to fear #4 Families and Competition
  22. Some one or something to fear #5 Not afraid
  23. Some one or something to fear #6 Faith in the Most High
  24. Some one or something to fear #7 Not afraid for Gods Name
  25. For Jehovah is greatly to be praised
  26. Praise the God with His Name
  27. Lord or Yahuwah, Yeshua or Yahushua
  28. Prophets making excuses
  29. Another way looking at a language #5 Aramic, Hebrew and Greek
  30. The NIV and the Name of God
  31. Use of /Gebruik van Jehovah or/of Yahweh in Bible Translations/Bijbel vertalingen
  32. Without God no purpose, no goal, no hope
  33. Developing new energy
  34. Praise and give thanks to God the Most Highest
  35. Listening and Praying to the Father

Andere aanverwante artikelen op niet verbonden websites:

  1. In Names Of God en Old Testament Names For God worden verscheidene titels of graden van God opgesomd. Nog uitvoeriger kan u deze vinden in ons basisartikel: Eigenheden aan God toegeschreven of in Attributes to God en Titles of God beginning with the Aleph in Hebrew
  2. Die titels van God zijn van wezenlijk belang, en wij zouden deze beter kennen. Een visueel overzicht van enkele voorname wordt gegeven in de tabel Your Need, Is His Name.
  3. Als wij god beter willen kennen, kunnen wij best Zijn Woord, de Bijbel ter hand nemen en veelvuldig lezen maar ook het aan Hem zelf vragen dat Hij Hem leert kennen. Alsook kunnen wij best vragen om zijn Wil te leren opvolgen. Teach me to do your will of “Leer mij Uw Wil te doen” zou dagelijks op onze lippen moeten zijn.
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    Considering Gods will turn to precise definitions, as both King David left us, excellent examples of this issue and tried to see things from God and his will.
    David had great respect for the name of Jehovah.
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    We can cultivate our faith in God in everything we do every day. For example, we can open discussions about the Bible. The courageous like David relied on God while working and so build their faith.
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    When we study the Bible, it is wise to contemplate what we read, and we keep our hearts in order to discern what pleases the Lord in every case.
  4. God heeft zich zelf tot Mozes beschreven. Hij vroeg zich ook af Wat Gods Naam eigenlijk inhield. >  So What Is In The Name We Choose To Call GOD (YHWH)? De schrijver gaat dieper in op waarom God de naam koos “Ik ben die ben.” (אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה, ʾehyeh ʾašer ʾehyeh). Over namen in de Bijbel verwijzen wij u ook naar ons artikel: The Bible and names in it
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    The uncreated creator who has always existed with no beginning nor end, Mankind’s redeemer and Lord, always with us in the present plus will be in the future.
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    The power in God’s name is to create life and free us from death.
  5. I Will Sing the Praises of the Name of the Lord Most High
    Jesus talks specifically about not showing off about your acts of giving, fasting and praying.  Do it discreetly, he says.  And as for some guidance on praying, Jesus gives us a template
  6. Have Mercy On Me and Hear My Prayer kijkt naar de antwoorden die God gaf aan hen die Hem gehoorzaamden. zij verzoekt haar lezers hetzelfde vertrouwen te hebben als de vroegere Bijbelse figuren. > May it be that we have the same degree of confidence in taking our petitions to God.
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    David is direct and honest in his plea to God when he says:
    Answer me when I call to you,     my righteous God.  Give me relief from my distress;    have mercy on me and hear my prayer.
  7. Partakers of the Promise.
    Covenant people live under an open window of God’s blessing. You have a right to live in the land of blessing and prosperity that God will lead you to when you obey the laws of the land (Deuteronomy 28).
  8. The Old and the New Covenant kijkt naar de verkeerde denkwijze dat de idee van eeuwig leven niet Joods maar Christelijk zou zijn. Koning David zijn psalmbede wordt als goed voorbeeld aangehaald.
    King David was preaching of something that is going to last longer than mortal men.
  9. Ook dansen maakt onderdeel van het gebed uit. Zo kan men ook zingen: Tambira Jehovah – dance for the Lord
    one of the praise team leaders at the worship service I attended introduced the Zimbabwean praise song “Tambira Jehovah” and it truly unleashed a spirit of joy and praise and dance among God’s people.
  10. Jehovah Rophi, de God die Heelt en Voorziet, wonderen vervult in de wereld en wat nog belangrijker is, belofte van bescherming geeft die eeuwig zal duren.
    Why would a place with undrinkable water take precedence over a long awaited oasis?
  11. Een andere visie op de Naam van God kan u vinden in The Name of the True GOD waarbij men vele argumenten kan oproepen voor de ene versie van naam keuze of de andere. De schrijver haalt ook de Hebreeuwse wortels aan van het Christendom, welke door velen wel eens vergeten worden.
    The name of the Creator, YHWH, has been in the Holy Scriptures since they were originally written, in every generation since the time of Moses.  All that is needed to prove this is to consult the Old Testament in the Hebrew language, and there it is!  The four letters (the Tetragrammaton), the sacred name YHWH.  All Hebrew Scriptures contain the name YHWH, and have done so since about 1,490 B.C.E.
  12. U kan zich afvragen of het wel belangrijk is om een bepaalde naam zus of zo uit te spreken. En wat zit er eigenlijk in een naam? Er is een tijd geweest dat men niet veel belang hechtte aan een naam. Maar in de Oudheid was het wel belangrijk en vooral Bijbelse namen zijn van grote betekenis en onthullen veelal de aard van hun drager . What’s in a Name gaat zo onderandere in op de naamsweiziging avan Abram naar Abraham. De schrijver maakt het duidelijk dat de ”H” in het Hebreeuws staat voor Gods adem, en toen Hij de H in Abram’s naam brachtblies Hij nieuw leven in het kinderloos echtpaar.
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    God says we are His people which are called by His name (2 Chronicles 7:14). In Christ, we have a new name. Jesus has promised, “Him that overcometh-.-.-.-I will write upon him my new name” (Revelation 3:12).
  13. How do I know that your god is The One, True God: Q18?
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    The Mesha Stele relict, what should be one of the most important archaeological specimens in all of Judaism as well as Christendom (not so much in Islam). Popularized in the 19th century as the “Moabite Stone”, it is a black basalt stone bearing an inscription by the 9th Century BCE ruler Mesha of Moab in Jordan.
  14. A Sermon With Charles Spurgeon
    God often delays in answering prayer.
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    God knows that delay will quicken and increase desire, and that if he keeps thee waiting thou wilt see thy necessity more clearly, and wilt seek more earnestly; and that thou wilt prize the mercy all the more for its long tarrying.
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    The Abrahamic god’s personal name was YHWH, which in Hebrew is pronounced YO-VAY (It is NOT pronounced YAH-WAY).
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    If Jave/YHWH is the One, True God, he lied and misrepresented himself to two different populations for some inexplicable reason. We say this because the theology of the two religions is not consistent. These are two different religions too similar to have independent origins.
  15. Whose God Is It?
    In the biblical stories, God is often referred to as YHWH, sometime spoken Yahweh, by the ancient Hebrews. Much later, Yahweh would be given the name Jehovah which is a name that is still in use today. Among other things, Yahweh was said to have created Adam and Eve and later would enter into a covenant with Abraham which would eventually lead to the creation of the nation of Israel. Such was the basis for Judaism and their worship of one god, and the beginning of monotheism as a form of worship.
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    down through the ages man has made a habit of using the name “God” to describe the deity of their own personal belief system.  All one can say, at best, is that such a deity is in reality only “a god”, or the God Below God as I like to refer to him.
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Ek sal u prys, o Jehovah, met my hele hart

Posted on January 10, 2013. Filed under: Afrikaanse artikels, Jehovah יהוה YHWH JHVH God Elohim Yahweh Jahweh | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

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Ek sal u prys, o Jehovah, met my hele hart;
Ek sal al u wonderlike werke bekend maak.
Ek sal bly wees en jubel in u,
Ek sal u naam met melodieë besing, o Allerhoogste.

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“5  Dit gaan goed met die mens wat sy hulp van die God van Jakob ontvang, die mens wie se hoop gevestig is op die Here, sy God. 6 Die Here het die hemel en die aarde gemaak, die see en alles daarin. Hy bly vir altyd getrou,” (Psalms 146:5-6 AF83)

“8 die Here laat blindes sien, Hy ondersteun dié wat bedruk is. Die Here het die regverdiges lief. 9 Hy beskerm vreemdelinge en help weeskinders en weduwees, maar Hy versper die pad vir die goddeloses.” (Psalms 146:8-9 AF83)

“Al die mense wat oor is uit die volke wat teen Jerusalem opgetrek het, sal jaar na jaar kom om die Koning, die Here die Almagtige, te aanbid en om die huttefees te vier.” (Sagaria 14:16 AF83)

“As iemand hulle kwaad wil aandoen, kom daar vuur uit hulle monde uit en verteer hulle vyande. Só moet elkeen doodgemaak word wat hulle kwaad sal wil aandoen.” (Openbaring 11:5 AF83)

“’n Psalm van Dawid. Ek roep na U, Here, kom tog gou na my toe, luister tog na my, ek roep na U.” (Psalms 141:1 AF83)

“2 (142:3) ek stort my klag voor Hom uit en vertel Hom van my nood. 3 (142:4) Ek het alle moed verloor, U weet wat ek moes deurmaak. Op die pad waar ek loop, het hulle vir my ‘n strik gestel.” (Psalms 142:2-3 AF83)

“1  ’n Pelgrimslied. Kom, prys die Here, julle almal wat Hom dien, julle wat in die nag in die tempel van die Here staan! 2 Hef julle hande in gebed op na die heiligdom en prys die Here! 3 Mag die Here jou seën uit Sion, Hy wat hemel en aarde gemaak het.” (Psalms 134:1-3 AF83)

“Die Here jou God, Hy alleen is God, die Here: die groot God, die magtige, wat wonderdade doen, wat vir niemand partydig is nie en ook nie omkoopgeld aanneem nie.” (Deuteronomium 10:17 AF83)

“1  Prys die Here, prys die Naam van die Here, prys Hom, dienaars van die Here, 2 julle wat in die tempel van die Here staan, in die voorhowe van die tempel van ons God! 3 Prys die Here, want die Here is goed, sing tot eer van sy lieflike Naam. 4 Die Here het Jakob vir Hom gekies, Israel as die volk wat Syne is. 5  Ek weet, die Here is groot, ons Here is verhewe bo al die gode. 6 Alles wat die Here wil, doen Hy, in die hemel en op aarde, in die see, in al die oseane. 7 Hy laat die wolke opkom oor die horison, Hy maak die weerligstrale vir die reën en bring die wind te voorskyn.” (Psalms 135:1-7 AF83)

“want die Here is die magtige God, die groot koning oor al die gode.” (Psalms 95:3 AF83)

“Die Here is groot, al die lof kom Hom toe, ontsagwekkend is Hy bo alle gode.” (Psalms 96:4 AF83)

“Ek wil U loof, want U het my op ‘n wonderbaarlike wyse geskep. Wat U gedoen het, vervul my met verwondering. Dit weet ek seker:” (Psalms 139:14 AF83)

“1  Vir die koorleier: op die wysie van “By die dood van die seun”. ‘n Psalm van Dawid. (9:2) Met my hele hart wil ek U prys, Here, wil ek van u magtige reddingsdade vertel. 2 (9:3) Oor U wil ek my verbly en vrolik wees, u Naam wil ek besing, o Allerhoogste.” (Psalms 9:1-2 AF83)

“U het al die nasies gemaak; hulle sal voor U kom buig, Here, en aan u Naam die eer gee,” (Psalms 86:9 AF83)

“Elke nuwemaansfees en elke sabbat sal al wat leef, voor My in aanbidding kom buig, sê die Here.” (Jesaja 66:23 AF83)

“(22:8) Almal wat my sien, spot my, hulle steek vir my tong uit en knik met voldoening die kop en sê:” (Psalms 22:7 AF83)

“1  Vir die koorleier. ‘n Lied. ‘n Psalm. Juig tot eer van God, almal op aarde! 2 Sing tot roem van sy Naam, gee Hom die eer wat Hom toekom! 3 Bely voor God: Hoe ontsagwekkend is u werk! U mag is groot, u vyande kruip voor U. 4 Alle mense moet voor U buig, hulle moet sing tot u eer, hulle moet sing tot eer van u Naam. Sela” (Psalms 66:1-4 AF83)

“Prys die Here, alle nasies, loof Hom, alle volke,” (Psalms 117:1 AF83)

“(48:11) Net soos u Naam, o God, so strek u lof oor die hele aarde. U mag het groot redding gebring.” (Psalms 48:10 AF83)

“1  Vir die koorleier. ‘n Psalm van Dawid. ‘n Lied. (65:2) Aan U, o God, kom ‘n lofsang toe in Sion: geloftes moet betaal word 2 (65:3) aan U wat die gebed verhoor. Na U toe sal alle mense kom” (Psalms 65:1-2 AF83)

“(65:14) die velde wemel van die kleinvee, die vlaktes staan vol koring; hulle juig en hulle sing.” (Psalms 65:13 AF83)

“13 Met ‘n drankoffer sal ek van sy redding getuig en die Naam van die Here aanroep. 14 My geloftes aan die Here sal ek betaal in die teenwoordigheid van sy hele volk. 15 Vir die Here is die dood van sy troue dienaars geen geringe saak nie. 16 Ek is u dienaar, Here, van my geboorte af is ek al u dienaar: U het my vry gemaak. 17 Ek wil U loof met ‘n dankoffer, ek wil die Naam van die Here aanroep. 18 My geloftes aan die Here sal ek betaal in die teenwoordigheid van sy hele volk, 19 in die voorhowe van die huis van die Here, binne-in jou, Jerusalem! Prys die Here!” (Psalms 116:13-19 AF83)

“21 Ek sal die lof van die Here verkondig. Laat al wat leef, sy heilige Naam vir altyd prys. 146:1  Prys die Here! Ek wil die Here prys.” (Psalms 145:21-146:1 AF83)

“Ek wil die Here prys so lank ek lewe, ek wil die lof van my God besing so lank ek daar is.” (Psalms 146:2 AF83)

“11 maar Hy stel prys op dié wat Hom dien, dié wat hulle hoop vestig op sy trou. 12  Loof die Here, Jerusalem, prys jou God, Sion! 13 Hy het die sluitbalke van jou poorte sterk gemaak, jou inwoners geseën, 14 Hy het in jou grondgebied vrede gegee, jou met die beste graan gevoed. 15 As Hy die aarde ‘n bevel gee, word dit vinnig uitgevoer.” (Psalms 147:11-15 AF83)

“1  Prys die Here! Prys die Here vanuit die hemele, prys Hom in die hoë hemel! 2 Prys Hom, alle engele, prys Hom, alle hemelwesens! 3 Prys Hom, son en maan, prys Hom, alle sterre! 4 Prys Hom, hoogste hemele, en waters in die hoë hemelruim! 5 Laat hulle die Naam van die Here prys, want Hy het beveel en hulle is geskep; 6 Hy het hulle vir altyd hulle vaste plek gegee, vir hulle ‘n orde neergelê waarbuite hulle nie kan beweeg nie. 7  Prys die Here van die aarde af, seediere en al die oseane,” (Psalms 148:1-7 AF83)

“1  Prys die Here! Sing ‘n nuwe lied tot eer van die Here, sing tot sy lof in die vergadering van sy troue dienaars. 2 Laat Israel hom verheug in sy Maker, laat die volk van Sion jubel oor die Here hulle koning. 3 Laat hulle sy Naam prys met koordanse, laat hulle speel tot sy eer op tamboeryn en lier. 4 Die Here is goed vir sy volk, Hy kroon die hulpeloses met oorwinning. 5 Sy troue dienaars juig oor sy mag, jubel selfs as hulle op hulle beddens gaan lê. 6  Die roem van God klink uit hulle mond, en in hulle hand is die swaard, alkante geslyp,” (Psalms 149:1-6 AF83)

“1  Prys die Here! Prys God in sy heiligdom, prys Hom hier onder sy magtige hemelgewelf! 2 Prys Hom oor sy kragtige dade, prys Hom in sy magtige grootheid! 3 Prys Hom met die ramshoring, prys Hom met harp en lier! 4 Prys Hom met tamboeryn en koordanse, prys Hom met snaarinstrumente en fluite! 5 Prys Hom met simbale, prys Hom met galmende simbale! 6 Laat alles wat asem haal, die Here prys! Prys die Here!” (Psalms 150:1-6 AF83)

“(21:14) Laat u mag seëvier, Here, dan sal ons u krag besing en daaroor roem.” (Psalms 21:13 AF83)

“1 ¶ Nie aan ons nie, Here, nie aan ons nie, maar aan u Naam kom die eer toe, want dit is U wat liefde en trou bewys. 2 Waarom sou die heidene kan sê: “Waar is hulle God nou?”” (Psalms 115:1-2 AF83)

“Here, U is my lewe, U sorg vir my. Wat ek ontvang, kom alles van U af.” (Psalms 16:5 AF83)

“(80:19) Dan sal ons nie weer van U af wegdraai nie. Hou ons aan die lewe, dan sal ons u Naam aanroep!” (Psalms 80:18 AF83)

“(65:6) In u trou antwoord U ons met kragtige dade, o God, ons Verlosser, op wie ook die mense in afgeleë lande en op verre seë vertrou.” (Psalms 65:5 AF83)

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Nederlandse versie: Prijs en zeg dank tot God de Allerhoogste

English version: Praise and give thanks to God the Most Highest + For Jehovah is greatly to be praised

Portion of column 19 of the Psalms Scroll (Teh...

Portion of column 19 of the Psalms Scroll (Tehilim) from Qumran Cave 11. The Tetragrammaton in paleo-Hebrew can be clearly seen six times in this portion. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Praise be to God

Song of Praise for the Elohim Set-Apart

Songs of Moses and the servants of God

Worship and worshipping

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Self-development, self-control, meditation, beliefs and spirituality

Posted on November 26, 2012. Filed under: Being Christian, following Jesus Christ, Faith, Manners and Association, Meditation, Religion | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Do you have a concept of an ultimate or an alleged immaterial reality; an inner path enabling a you to discover the essence of your being? Are you looking into yourself to find the  deepest values and meanings by which you or other people live? Do you want to get in touch with your spiritual side through private meditation, quiet reflection, prayer, yoga, repetitive movements, t’ai-chi, sitting quiet on a bench or a mountain, or even long walks?

Origin and coming into being

When we look at the world we can wonder how it all came into existence, believe either in a Big Bang, Darwin Theory, other evolution theories, many ideas of many people having brought forth many religions.  We all want to explain things or require an explanation for everything? But the world is so complex and our brain so limited that hunman beings can not explain everything. They are not able to find an answer for everything. They may be smart but they are all limited.

Perhaps because we do know our limitation and that of others we are happy to agree with purpose-based explanations for natural states of affairs. We also sometimes like to link such purpose-based explanations to thinking that someone (e.g., a god) accounts for the purpose. Even young children have the intuition that purpose is best accounted for by someone willing that purpose to be.  So, perhaps it is a part of human nature to accept purpose-based explanations which also supports belief in a God or gods. As such people made up gods and created many religionswhich are not just a quirky interest of a few, it’s basic human nature.

English: Brain in a vat. Famous thought experi...

Brain in a vat. Famous thought experiment in analytic philosophy. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Looking for answers in science

From the 1960s onwards more people started wondering and doubting all the behaviours around God and gods and tried to find more answers in science.  There has been a desecularization in academic philosophy departments since the 1960′s, according to naturalist (that is, atheist) philosopher Quentin Smith. By the middle of the 20th century, atheism was the dominant view of mainstream analytic philosophy.  By the second half of the twentieth century, universities and colleges had been become in the main secularized. The standard (if not exceptionless) position in each field, from physics to psychology, assumed or involved arguments for a naturalist world-view; departments of theology or religion aimed to understand the meaning and origins of religious writings, not to develop arguments against naturalism. Analytic philosophers (in the mainstream of analytic philosophy) treated theism as an antirealist or non-cognitivist world-view, requiring the reality, not of a deity, but merely of emotive expressions or certain “forms of life” (of course there were a few exceptions, e.g., Ewing, Ross, Hartshorne, etc.).

Naturalists

But realist theists were not outmatched by naturalists in terms of the most valued standards of analytic philosophy: conceptual precision, rigor of argumentation, technical erudition, and an in-depth defense of an original world-view. Naturalists passively watched as realist versions of theism, most influenced by Plantinga’s writings (God and Other Minds, in 1967 a.o.), began to sweep through the philosophical community, until today perhaps one-quarter or one-third of philosophy professors are theists, with most being orthodox Christians.

Several naturalist philosophers reacted by publicly ignoring the increasing desecularizing of philosophy (while privately disparaging theism, without really knowing anything about contemporary analytic philosophy of religion) and proceeded to work in their own area of specialization as if theism, the view of approximately one-quarter or one-third of their field, did not exist. Quickly, naturalists found themselves a mere bare majority, with many of the leading thinkers in the various disciplines of philosophy, ranging from philosophy of science (e.g., Van Fraassen) to epistemology (e.g., Moser), being theists. The predicament of naturalist philosophers is not just due to the influx of talented theists, but is due to the lack of counter-activity of naturalist philosophers themselves. A large number of publications advancing theism have come onto the scene by such philosophers as William Alston, Robert and Marilyn Adams, Peter Van Inwagen, Eleonore Stump, Nicholas Wolsterstorff, and Linda Zagzebski. Arguing for theism is no longer “an academically unrespectable scholarly pursuit.

Quentin Smith points out that in the past decade one catalogue of Oxford University Press, which is arguably the top publisher of contemporary philosophy, included 96 books on the philosophy of religion. 94 of these argued for theism, while the remaining 2 discussed both sides of the issue. I would add that since this time, with the advent of the new atheists, the publication numbers may not be as one-sided. Still, this is a radical shift that would have been unthinkable 60 years ago.

J.P. Moreland and William Lane Craig say that philosophy aids Christians in the tasks of apologetics, polemics and systematic theology. It reflects our having been made in the image of God, helps us to extend biblical teaching into areas not expressly addressed in Scripture, facilitates the spiritual discipline of study, enhances the boldness and self-image of the Christian community, and is requisite to the essential task of integrating faith and learning.

Oppression by religion

Sceptics have been around all the time. Fundamentalist we can find everywhere. Strange consequences may also be found. When religion is put onto people there is going on something wrong. For example when in Kentucky, a homeland security law requires the state’s citizens to acknowledge the security provided by the Almighty God this is imposing something on a whole community which is a matter of personal belief. The law and its sponsor, state representative Tom Riner, have been the subject of controversy since the law first surfaced in 2006, yet the Kentucky state Supreme Court has refused to review its constitutionality, despite clearly violating the First Amendment’s separation of church and state.

The law states, “The safety and security of the Commonwealth cannot be achieved apart from reliance upon Almighty God as set forth in the public speeches and proclamations of American Presidents, including Abraham Lincoln’s historic March 30, 1863, presidential proclamation urging Americans to pray and fast during one of the most dangerous hours in American history, and the text of President John F. Kennedy‘s November 22, 1963, national security speech which concluded: “For as was written long ago: ‘Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.’”
The law requires that plaques celebrating the power of the Almighty God be installed outside the state Homeland Security building–and carries a criminal penalty of up to 12 months in jail if one fails to comply. The plaque’s inscription begins with the assertion, “The safety and security of the Commonwealth cannot be achieved apart from reliance upon Almighty God.”
Tom Riner, a Baptist minister and the long-time Democratic state representative, sponsored the law. He forgets that God does not want to be imposed on others. Condemning people because they do not believe in God, nor forcing people to accept that there is a God shall bring those people closer to God. To constrain a faith onto people does not get people to adhere that faith.
“The church-state divide is not a line I see,” Riner told The New York Times shortly after the law was first challenged in court. “What I do see is an attempt to separate America from its history of perceiving itself as a nation under God.”
In this instance clearly God and His Law are mis-used to limit people in their freedom of choice. God commits nobody to His Laws or to any faith. He does not compel people to undertake to do co-operate.

Dependence on God may be essential to come to the best form of living. In the end we shall get the best ‘political’ or ‘theocratic’ constitution or condition with the Kingdom of God. But as long as Jesus does not return we shall have to do it with human constitutions. In the Law of God, God demands people to make the choice and He does not force them. Though there are many people who want to force their ideas of Christianity, what to believe, what to chose  and how to behave  on others. It are them who do not allow freedom of mind, though they often call onto the constitution to say that provides for Freedom.

Saudi atheist “Jabir,” talking to Your Middle East:

Isn’t it a basic right for humans to believe or not believe freely! I know this is only a dream in Saudi, but it doesn’t change the fact that people will have different views and believes [sic], whether society will allow it or not.

Thanksgiving and Christmas

On Thursday in America they had  Thanksgiving which nearly every year means it’s time for the ‘Religious Right’ to start carping about the so-called “war on Christmas.” The American Family Association (AFA) has released its annual “Naughty Or Nice” list of retailers. Traditionally, release of this list, which the AFA published on November 15, marks the beginning of the annual Religious Right whine-fest about the war on Christmas.

In Santa Monica, California, a large display depicting the nativity of Jesus had been erected for several years. Last year, an atheist group requested the right to use the space too, so city officials decided to hold a lottery. Atheist groups won most of the spaces in 2011, and there was some discontent over this – mainly, intolerant residents trashed the atheist displays. This year, the city has decided to shut down the forum rather than host any displays.

Lots of Christians do not recognise all the heathen elements in this so called Christian high-feast. Many even think it is an essential part of their faith and they can not come into a spiritual right state without celebrating Christmas.

Others do find that thankfulness is one of the distinguishing traits of the human spirit and therefore Thanksgiving should be the most important Christian holiday.

They may be right to point to the necessity to say thanks, and we realize we ought to be more grateful than we are. We furthermore perceive that we are indebted to (and accountable to) a higher power than ourselves — the God who made us. According to Scripture, everyone has this knowledge, including those who refuse to honour God or thank Him.

Indebted in a human being

Because Scripture tells us that the Creator of heaven and earth has given every part of creation something of Him and the knowledge of the Supreme being, we should not worry about forcing the knowledge of God onto others.

We are conscious that ingratitude is dishonourable by anyone’s reckoning. In case people willfully are ungrateful toward the Creator we do have to accept their choice to deny an essential aspect of our own humanity. The shame of such ingratitude is inscribed on the human conscience, and even the most dogmatic atheists are not immune from the knowledge that they ought to give thanks to God. Try as they might to suppress or deny the impulse, “what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them,” according to Romans 1:19.

Every person born gets from the moment he or she can think a confrontation with everything what is around its person. He or she gets confronted with many ideas and questions about the ‘whys’ and ‘whats’. Each person while growing up shall come to think about existence.  More than once in a person’s life the man or woman in question shall think about the reasons why he or she exist and what he or she comes to do or has to do on this earth. A question about beliefs and religion shall also arise.

In many people’s conception if you really can’t be religious, at least you should try to be spiritual. If you are not, then you must be a damned selfish materialist according to them. If taking the word ‘Spriutality’ literally as if you are spiritual you believe in spirits (not of the alcohol-laden type), to be averse to the idea that matter and energy are all there is to the universe. This would not translate into someone being a better, more moral and hence more contactable person.

Indicating someone who devotes part of her time and energy to cultivate her “spirit,” as opposed to just being concerned with “material” things is the better part of the spirituality. It is where we try to get into our life an extra sense. Naturally we are not born with the materialistic mind. We have it in our selves to think about more important matters than just the material ones. It is our wealth which brings our head on the roller-skates. We do not originally think of our life as a dichotomous enterprise in the course of which we have to provide material/energy food for our stomach to process, as well as an entirely different kind of nourishment for our “spirit.” Our mind, whatever the detailed explanation of how it works, is a product of our brain, and the two simply can’t be disconnected, upon penalty of the first one simply ceasing to exist.

The soul of a person is his being, his breath, his thinking. It is not an other sort of spirit being accommodated in a physical body. Without breath we can not survive. Without thinking we shall also not be able to survive, because the brain lets us take care of the thoughts to preserve our body (it is our soul). From the start of the existence we had to get to know it was important to breath, to eat and to drink. We learned we had to provide for nutrition. Nourishment , we learned did not exist only as a power supply, we learned bad food or malnutrition would bring us in problems. Strangely enough many people did not get to see that malnutrition on the psychical part also would bring a person in in-balance and in problems.

From the beginning it was also indebted that we should take care of cultivating and reflecting on our ethics, our way of behavement, certainly because we are not on our own in this world, so we should take care of the others around us. when born soon we learn to react to our environment.  The people around our cot let us make certain reactions. We learn from them and we continue to learn from reactions others make in our life. We do have to learn behaving justly and compassionately toward our fellow human beings, and of nurturing our aesthetic sense through arts and letters. This learning process is so different by all that it makes some people more reflective than others, some more compassionate, some more inclined to read literature and go to art museums or concerts (the latter activities also of course greatly depending on one’s means and education, not just our natural propensities).

Odysseus in Dante’s Inferno says: “Fatti non foste per viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza” (We were not made to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge). No matter if a person is religious or not, it is part of our nature that we have our brains to let us think about matters. Every  person has the basic notion about compassion and ethics. We all have a feeling about manners and how to behave to get on in our society. For this reason some think an interesting human being doesn’t need to be either religious or spiritual. He just needs to be human. But this being human, according to us, just demands using the brains to think about everything to get the own soul in unison with the rest of the world. Spirituality is the way to get in line with the surroundings. Religion may help to get oneself sorted out and to have moral qualms.

Question of spirituality

Traditionally, many religions have regarded spirituality as an integral aspect of religious experience. Among other factors, declining membership of organized religions and the growth of secularism in the western world have given rise to a broader view of spirituality. {Michael Hogan (2010). The Culture of Our Thinking in Relation to Spirituality. Nova Science Publishers: New York.} The term “spiritual” is now frequently used in contexts in which the term “religious” was formerly employed; compare James‘ 1902 lectures on the “Varieties of Religious Experience”. {James, W. (1985). The varieties of religious experience. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Original work published 1902) + Gorsuch, R.L., & Miller, W. R. (1999). Assessing spirituality. In W. R. Miller (Ed), Integrating spirituality into treatment (pp. 47-64). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.}

Many people do come to an evaluation of a particular individual’s durable moral qualities. Virtues such as integrity, courage, fortitude, honesty, and loyalty, or of good behaviors or habits are questioned. Thought and excellences of character are being questioned.

The Bible defines character as any behaviour or activity that reflects the character of God. The Book of Genesis says that God created man in his own image. (Genesis 1:27) Though we are created to act in accordance to the will of our creator, we are given the freedom to expand, to rule the earth and to use our brains in the manner we would like to use it. But humans should know that Christian character can only be  “Fruits of the Spirit” . (Galatians 5:22-23)

Looking for ‘luck’ people have wondered who or what was behind the creation and if they did need to come to a spiritual form to form themselves and to create happiness around and for them. Many people hoped to find peace for  their mind in spiritual practices such as mindfulness and meditation. Nearly everybody looks for human fulfilment without any supernatural interpretation or explanation. Spirituality in this context may be a matter of nurturing thoughts, emotions, words and actions that are in harmony with a belief that everything in the universe is mutually dependent; this stance has much in common with some versions of Buddhist spirituality. Sometimes it looks like every human being wants to go into an individual battle with himself and with the ‘existence‘.  It seems we want to go into a struggle with the issues of how our lives fit into the greater scheme of things. This is true when our questions never give way to specific answers or give rise to specific practices such as prayer or meditation. We encounter spiritual issues every time we wonder where the universe comes from, why we are here, or what happens when we die. We also become spiritual when we become moved by values such as beauty, love, or creativity that seem to reveal a meaning or power beyond our visible world. An idea or practice is “spiritual” when it reveals our personal desire to establish a felt-relationship with the deepest meanings or powers governing life. {Fuller, Robert C. Spiritual, But Not Religious. }

In broad terms “spirituality” stands for lifestyles and practices that embody a vision of how the human spirit can achieve its full potential. In other words, spirituality embraces an aspirational approach to the meaning and conduct of life – we are driven by goals beyond purely material success or physical satisfaction.

Spirituality is connected and particularly shaped to any individual. it can not be imposed by others onto some one else. The human mind wondering and putting ideas in a certain order, trying to coop with behavement according those thoughts,  is individually-tailored, democratic and eclectic, and offers an alternative source of inner-directed, personal authority in response to a decline of trust in conventional social or religious leaderships.

Quest for the sacred

“Spirituality involves a search for “meaning” – the purpose of life. It also concerns what is “holistic” – that is, an integrating factor, “life seen as a whole”. ” writes Philip Sheldrake in “Is spirituality a passing trend?”. He continues: ” Spirituality is also understood to be engaged with a quest for “the sacred” – whether God, the numinous, the boundless mysteries of the universe or our own human depths. The word is also regularly linked to “thriving” – what it means to thrive and how we are enabled to thrive. Contemporary approaches also relate spirituality to a self-reflective existence in place of an unexamined life.”

The great wisdom traditions suggest the adoption of certain spiritual practices and it is this aspect of spirituality that attracts many contemporary people. Forms of meditation, retreat, physical posture or movement such as yoga, chanting or prayers, disciplines of frugality and abstinence (for example from alcohol or meat) or visits to sacred sites and pilgrimage (for example the popular practice of walking the “camino” to Santiago de Compostela) are among the most common. The point is that spiritual practices are not merely productive in a narrow sense but are disciplined and creative. A commitment to the regularity of a spiritual discipline like meditation gives shape to what may otherwise be a fragmented life. Many people also experience their creative activities in art, music, writing and so on as spiritual practices. {Is spirituality a passing trend? Philip Sheldrake}

Spirituality integral part of life

Spirituality is actually concerned with cultivating a “spiritual life” rather than simply with undertaking practices isolated from commitment. It offers a “value-added” factor to personal and professional lives.

Spirituality also expands ethical behaviour by moving it beyond right or wrong actions to a question of identity. Senior Research Fellow in the Cambridge Theological Federation (Westcott House) Professor Philip Sheldrake says “We are to be ethical people rather than simply to “do” ethical things. Character formation and the cultivation of virtue then become central concerns.”

The world moves on and many forms of meditation and ways to come to spirituality have been created. Many forms of meditation, physical posture or movement such as many forms of yoga, disciplines of frugality and abstinence (for example from alcohol or meat) or visits to sacred sites and pilgrimage (for example the popular practice of walking the “camino” to Santiago de Compostela) are among the most common.  People try  to get their mind to settle inward beyond thought, to experience the source of thought or come to pure awareness. They do hope that they shall be able to come into a state of restful alertness, where their brain shall be able to function with significantly greater coherence so that their body can gain deep rest. The main concern for many is to experience higher states of consciousness at this critical time for humanity.

Every year people seem to come out with a new form of ‘coming to the own self”.  The cocooning spirit wants to find a  growing diversity of new forms of spirituality as well as creative reinventions of the great traditions.

Sheldrake says: “The language of spirituality continues to expand into ever more professional and social worlds – for example urban planning and architecture, the corporate world, sport and law. Most strikingly there are recent signs of its emergence in two contexts that have been especially open to public criticism – commerce and politics. Equally, the Internet is increasingly used to expand access to spiritual wisdom. So, on current evidence, spirituality appears to be less of a fad than an instinctive desire to find a deeper level of values to live by. As such, it seems likely not only to survive but to develop further into many new forms.”

Careful with spiritualist forms

As Christians, followers of Christ Jesus, we should look to the Master Teacher Jesus, how he meditated and found a way to honour his Father.

太極拳 / 太极拳 Taijiquan or T’ai chi ch’uan in Lanzhou

We should be very careful how we want of if we want to incorporate meditation forms or prayer practices from one faith tradition into another. The last few years we see that for many this seems so natural to them. Many people have a fear of other religions and a nervousness about incorporating any elements drawn from other faith traditions into their own religious practice. And they have good reason. But we must also see that certain forms can be un-connected from the religions where it is associated with. To our mind you may be doing yoga or t’ai-chi without being a Buddhist or without committing yourself to Buddhism or integrating Buddhism in your Christian Faith. The only problem is that we notice certain people doing that.

It is not because many Christians in many parts of the world have long looked to Buddhism and other Eastern religions for spiritual nourishment, that this would be acceptable in the eyes of God. Such a going away from the Biblical guidance has shown that many also abandoned their Christianity altogether. In several regions we can see more pagan rites are taken in to the worshipping  and many other have already incorporated Zen meditation or Theravadan vipassana meditation into their Christian prayer.

Many find it hard to focus their mind, but God has also provided ways for them to come at ease. In His Word He provided enough information to come at peace with the own self. It also gives advice to come at peace with other people around you.

St. Francis de Sales, French saint and Bishop of Geneva, said: “If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently…And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back, though it went away every time you bought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Each of us can take a moment in the day to just take time for him or her self. Taking  a few minutes just to put all the happenings of the day in the collection box of our mind and to analyse everything what happened that day.

When it is difficult to get a moment of rest, wonder what is of hindrance. If you cannot silence your mind, take the opportunity to become aware of what your mind is going on about.  Self-awareness is an important skill! Every bit of effort you put into meditation and mastering your mind is time well-spent, even though the process may sometimes seem slow. Meditation, taking time to think or to let your spirit wonder over thoughts, and prayer are very closely related in that they are periods of intense focus, however meditation can be a purely secular practice of relaxation, mind control, and self-mastery. Meditation techniques may differ from one culture to another. Often different meditation techniques are suited to different personality types. Some techniques are expansive and allow for the free flow of thoughts and their observation whereas some types are concentrative that involve bringing focus into one’s thoughts.

A liberating spirituality

Take the Bible in your hand and open it wherever it falls open and start reading there. See if you can find guidance in those text which came in front of your eyes. Next, try to take every day a moment to continue reading the Bible according a plan, for example each day one chapter of a Bible Book.

The Spirituality God has to offer in His Word brings ‘insight’ and shall after some time give you the ability to see things as they really are, attained through a process of self-observation. It means identifying one’s own nature, recognizing the bad elements and consciously eliminating them from the system. When you shall continue to read the Holy Scriptures you shall find that those Words shall be able to transform you. When you are willing to put aside all previously learned doctrines you shall see that the Word of God can set you free of rites and shall help to develop wisdom. The great surplus the Words from the Bible shall give is that it will change your thoughts from being negative to positive. Focusing more on within our self, letting the Word of Goddoing its work we shall becoming free of negativity, transforming yourself, your thoughts, and recognizing the negative thoughts, and changing them into positive and peaceful thoughts.

The Bible compass for life

The Bible shall set your mind free and give a spiritual feeling which brings you further on the road of self-development.

No one can control eradicate adversity in life but you can master the way you respond in regards to your thinking processes. Giving yourself in the hands of the Most High Supreme, shall offer you an open gate to a spiritual world where you shall be able to encounter many more souls with the same free mind. Those people having found the liberating power of the son of God, are prepared to come together too spirituality as Brothers and Sisters in Christ.

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Please do read:

  1. The Metaphilosophy of Naturalism by Quentin Smith
  2. A Year in Jail for Not Believing in God? How Kentucky is Persecuting Atheists
  3. ‘Tis The Season To Be Cranky: Religious Right Gears Up New Round Of ‘War On Christmas’ Claims
  4. The atheist’s Thanksgiving dilemma  Whom to thank when there’s no recipient?
  5. Is spirituality a passing trend? by Philip Sheldrake
  6. Religion and spirituality
  7. Church sent into the world
  8. Unfair to characterize atheists’ activism as evangelism
  9. Casual Christians
  10. The truth is very plain to see and God can be clearly seen
  11. Life is too precious
  12. Soul
  13. The Soul not a ghost
  14. A Living Faith #5 Perseverance
  15. A Living Faith #10: Our manner of Life #2
  16. Seeing the world through the lens of his own experience
  17. If you have integrity
  18. Christmas, Saturnalia and the birth of Jesus
  19. Wishing lanterns and Christmas
  20. Christmas customs – Are They Christian?
  21. Newsweek asks: How ignorant are you?
  22. If we, in our prosperity, neglect religious instruction and authority
  23. To mean, to think, outing your opinion, conviction, belief – Menen, mening, overtuiging, opinie, geloof
  24. Doctrine and Conduct Cause and Effect
  25. The business of this life
  26. Quakertime

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Of interest:

  1. If you have integrity
  2. Choices
  3. It is a free will choice
  4. We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace
  5. Not enlightened by God’s Spirit
  6. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
  7. No man is free who is not master of himself
  8. Only the contrite self, sick of its pretensions, can find salvation
  9. For those who make other choices
  10. Are Christadelphians so Old Fashioned?
  11. Quit griping about your church
  12. Unconditional love
  13. Your life the sum total of all your choices
  14. Choose you this day whom ye will serve
  15. Merry Christmas with the King of Kings
  16. Honour your own words as if they were an important contract
  17. Be like a tree planted by streams of water
  18. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love
  19. Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked

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  • New Books in Theology, Philosophy, & Apologetics – November 2012 (greatcloud.wordpress.com)
    Philosophy, archaeology and science are hot topics in Christian circles, perplexing many believers about how these issues relate to faith.
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    Do people hold to a particular religion just because of an accident of geography? Is believing in Jesus as arbitrary as believing in Zeus? Why would God order the slaughter of infants or send people to hell? How do you know you’re really real, and not just a character in someone’s book?
  • William Lane Craig lectures against naturalism at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland (winteryknight.wordpress.com)
    Dr. Craig was in Scotland to lecture at a physics conference, but a local church organized this public lecture at the University of St. Andrews.
  • “Indeed, it is theism, not naturalism, that deserves to be called ‘the scientific worldview.’” (insightscoop.typepad.com)
    For too long, Mr. Plantinga contends in a new book, theists have been on the defensive, merely rebutting the charge that their beliefs are irrational. It’s time for believers in the old-fashioned creator God of the Bible to go on the offensive, he argues, and he has some sports metaphors at the ready.
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    Theism, with its vision of an orderly universe superintended by a God who created rational-minded creatures in his own image, “is vastly more hospitable to science than naturalism,” with its random process of natural selection, he writes. “Indeed, it is theism, not naturalism, that deserves to be called ‘the scientific worldview.’ ”
  • Naturalism and science are incompatible (openparachute.wordpress.com)
    Well, that’s what the Christian apologist philosopher Alvin Plantinga claims. And he has written a book to “prove” it - Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism. Apparently its required reading for students of theology and the philosophy of religion. Probably because he declares there is a “deep concord between science and theistic belief,  . . . .  and deep conflict between science and naturalism.”
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    all philosophies or ideologies are incompatible with science in the sense that science does not, and should not, a priori, include any of these ideological/philosophical presumptions.
  • An Imperfect God (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
    You often hear philosophers describe “theism” as the belief in a perfect being — a being whose attributes are said to include being all-powerful, all-knowing, immutable, perfectly good, perfectly simple, and necessarily existent (among others). And today, something like this view is common among lay people as well.
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    Philosophers have spent many centuries trying to get God’s supposed perfections to fit together in a coherent conception, and then trying to get that to fit with the Bible. By now it’s reasonably clear that this can’t be done. In fact, part of the reason God-bashers like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris are so influential (apart from the fact they write so well) is their insistence that the doctrine of God’s perfections makes no sense, and that the idealized “being” it tells us about doesn’t resemble the biblical God at all.
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    As Donald Harman Akenson writes, the God of Hebrew Scripture is meant to be an “embodiment of what is, of reality” as we experience it. God’s abrupt shifts from action to seeming indifference and back, his changing demands from the human beings standing before him, his at-times devastating responses to mankind’s deeds and misdeeds — all these reflect the hardship so often present in the lives of most human beings.
  • Theism, Naturalism, and Morality (psychologytoday.com)
    philosopher J.P. Moreland argues that there are several aspects of reality which naturalism is unable to account for, while theism can: consciousness, free will, rationality, morality, value, and a substantial human soul.
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    The sense of guilt one feels for falling short of the moral law is best explained if a good God is the source or ultimate exemplification of that law. As Moreland puts it, “One cannot sense shame and guilt towards a Platonic form” (p. 147).
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    Evolutionary explanations fall short because of what is selected for in evolutionary processes on naturalistic versions of evolutionary theory.
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    the theist can offer a variety of reasons to adopt the moral point of view–the moral law is true; it is an expression of the non-arbitrary character of a good, loving, wise, and just God; and we were designed to function properly when living a moral life.
  • Believe It or Not (dedicatedtothegame.com)
    Dr. Kim wants to know if the relationship in question is describable and thus knowable to us as we know other things. He frames his question in terms of a “pairing problem” to lay out how we think of causation. We must somehow be able to “locate” or identify events and objects in relationship to each other to establish a cause and effect relationship between them. He concludes that our understanding of causation requires some shared context. Space-time provides such a relational context for physical objects, but what of the immaterial, wholly separate divine substance?
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    The knowledge of a separate substance could only be a direct knowledge. It must be a thing out of context, unextended. . Anything we can know about it is thus available only through “revelation”, “faith”, “intuition” – whatever you want to call pure, non-contingent experience, if such a thing exists, and so, as Kant says, our awareness of the other stuff’s existence must be the full extent of what we know about it.
  • Plantinga Reviews Nagel (maverickphilosopher.typepad.com)
    What excites the theists’ approbation, of course, are not Nagel’s positive panpsychist and natural-teleological suggestions, which remain within the ambit of naturalism, but his assault on materialist naturalism.
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    Materialist naturalism cannot explain belief, cognition, and reason.
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    As for natural teleology: does it really make sense to suppose that the world in itself, without the presence of God, should be doing something we could sensibly call “aiming at” some states of affairs rather than others—that it has as a goal the actuality of some states of affairs as opposed to others?
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    What is Reason? How Did it Arise? Nagel and Non-Intentional Teleology + Nagel’s Reason for Rejecting Theism
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Zoek uw Toevlucht bij God

Posted on November 15, 2012. Filed under: Bezinning, Christen zijn en Christus volgen, Jehovah יהוה YHWH JHVH God Elohim Yahweh Jahweh, Jezus Christus Jesus, Jeshua, Jahushua de Messias | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |


“De eeuwige God zij u een woning, en van onder eeuwige armen; en Hij verdrijve den vijand voor uw aangezicht, en zegge: Verdelg!” (De 33:27 STV)

De eeuwige God zij U een toevlucht. {De 33:27}

Het woord toevlucht ken ook vertaald worden “woning” of “schuilplaats”; dit duidt de gedachte aan, dat God onze woonplaats, ons thuis is. Er is een volheid en liefelijkheid in dit beeld; want ons thuis is ons dierbaar, al is het de nederigste hut of de armoedigste zolderkamer; en veel dierbaarder nog is onze gezegende God, in wie wij leven, ons bewegen en zijn. Thuis gevoelen wij ons veilig wij sluiten de wereld buiten en wonen in kalme zekerheid. Evenzo, wanneer wij met onze God zijn, “vrezen wij geen kwaad.” Hij is onze toevlucht en onze schaduw, ons hoog vertrek. Thuis rusten wij; daar vinden wij de stilte, na de moeite en het werk van de dag. En zo vinden onze harten rust in God, wanneer wij, vermoeid van de strijd van het leven, ons tot Hem keren en vrede vinden voor onze zielen. Thuis openen wij ons hart: wij vrezen niet dat men ons misverstaan zal, of een verkeerde zin aan onze woorden zal geven. Evenzo, wanneer wij met God zijn, kunnen wij vrij uit met Hem spreken, en al onze geheime wensen voor Hem blootleggen. Want indien de “verborgenheid van de Heer is voor wie Hem vrezen,” zo behoren en moeten de geheimen van hen, die Hem vrezen, voor hun Heer zijn. Ons huis is ook de plaats van ons diepste en reinste geluk, en het is in God dat onze harten hun hoogste blijdschap vinden. Wij verblijden ons in Hem met een vreugde, die elke andere vreugd te boven gaat.  Het is ook voor ons huis, dat wij werken en arbeiden. De gedachte aan het thuis geeft ons kracht om de dagelijkse lasten te dragen, en maakt de vingers vaardig om de taak te vervullen; en in deze zin mogen wij ook zeggen, dat God ons thuis is. De liefde tot Hem bekrachtigt ons.  Wij denken aan Hem in het aangezicht van zijn geliefde Zoon, en een blik op het lijdende gelaat van de Verlosser noodzaakt ons om voor zijn taak te arbeiden. Wij voelen dat wij moeten werken, want wij hebben nog broeders die moeten gered worden, en wij moeten het hart van onzen Vader verheugen door de wederbrenging van zijn afgedwaalde kinderen; wij moeten gewijde blijdschap brengen in de heilige familie waartoe wij behoren. Welgelukzalig zij, die alzo de God Jakobs tot hun toevlucht hebben.

C.H. Spurgeon

God heeft ons Zijn zoon gegeven, die Hij al lang geleden beloofd had aan Zijn volk, Israël, en die bereid was om zijn leven neer te leggen voor de zonden van velen. In Christus zien we de glans van God. We horen zo te worden als of te komen in Christus als Christus was in God.

Zoals Jezus zijn vreugde in God was moet ook onze vreugde  in God zijn, door onze Heer Jezus Christus. In God kunnen we toevlucht vinden en er zeker van zijn dat niemand ons zal kunnen scheiden van de liefde van God, welke in Christus Jezus, onze Heer is . (Romeinen 8:39) Want God, die gesproken heeft dat licht uit het duister mag schijnen, heeft het doen schijnen in onze harten, om het tot licht van de kennis van de heerlijkheid van God te laten zijn in het aangezicht van Jeshua de Messias, die werd gepredikt onder ons en de apostelen zalfde. (2 Kor 1:21; 2 Kor 4:6) Tot God brengen wij onze bedanking want Hij is het die ons altijd doet triomferen in de Messias, en de reuk  van zijn kennis door ons in elke plaats  manifesteerbaar maakt.  (2 Kor 2:14)

Ons leven is met Christus verborgen in God, en onze ecclesia kan in God de Vader, en in de Heer Jezus Christus zijn, waar we ons zonder ophouden ons werk van het geloof herinneren, de inspanning van liefde en de volharding van hoop op onze Heer Jezus Christus, in de ogen van God en onze Vader, want wij komen samen als broeders en zusters in Christus, nadat hij aanhangers zijn geworden van de kerk van God die in Judea is, in Christus Jezus: want ook wij hebben geleden als onze eigen landgenoten, zelfs zoals de Joden dit hebben gedaan. (Col 3:3; 1e 1:1, 3; 1e 2:14) Wij in de gemeenschap van God, de ecclesia, zijn in Christus Jezus, die van God is geworden: ons wijsheid, rechtvaardigheid, heiliging en verlossing, in de kennis dat er voor ons er maar één God is, de Vader,  van wie alle dingen zijn, en wij tot Hem;. en één Heer Jezus Christus, die als bemiddelaar optreedt en door wie [zijn] alle dingen, en wij door hem. (1 Kor 08:06 )

“1  Voor muziekbegeleiding. Wijze: De dood van den zoon. Een psalm van David. (9-2) Met heel mijn hart wil ik U loven, o Jahweh En al uw wonderen vermelden; 2 (9-3) In U mij verheugen en juichen, Uw Naam, Allerhoogste, bezingen!” (Psalmen 9:1-2 CANIS)

“9 (9-10) Zo bleef Jahweh een toevlucht voor de verdrukten, Een wijkplaats in tijden van nood; 10 (9-11) Die uw Naam kennen, mochten steeds op U hopen, Want nooit verliet Gij, die U zochten, o Jahweh! 11  (9-12) Zingt nu voor Jahweh, die de Sion bewoont, Roept tot de volken zijn daden; 12 (9-13) Want de Bloedwreker blijft de verdrukten gedenken, Vergeet hun noodkreten niet. 13 (9-14) Jahweh, wees mij genadig; zie mijn ellende, door mijn haters berokkend, Trek mij omhoog uit de poorten des doods, 14 (9-15) Opdat ik overal uw lof mag verkonden, Om uw redding juichen in de poorten der dochter van Sion.” (Psalmen 9:9-14 CANIS)

“Een toevlucht is de oude God, Met eeuwig uitgestrekte armen. Hij dreef den vijand voor u uit, En sprak: Verdelg!” (Deuteronomium 33:27 CANIS)

“Door Hem toch behoort gij aan Christus Jesus, die ons door God geworden is: Wijsheid, Gerechtigheid, Heiliging en Verlossing;” (1 Corinthiërs 1:30 CANIS)

“voor ons is er slechts één God, de Vader, uit wien alles voortkomt, en tot wien we geordend zijn, en één Heer Jesus Christus, door wien alle dingen, door wien ook wijzelf zijn.” (1 Corinthiërs 8:6 CANIS)

“Immers ook Christus is éénmaal voor de zonden gestorven, een Rechtvaardige voor ongerechten, -om u te brengen tot God. Maar ter dood gebracht naar het Vlees, is Hij ten leven gewekt naar den Geest.” (1 Petrus 3:18 CANIS)

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Look for your Refuge by God

Posted on November 15, 2012. Filed under: Being Christian, following Jesus Christ, Jehovah יהוה YHWH JHVH God Elohim Yahweh Jahweh, Jesus Christ Jeshua the Messiah Jahushua, Thought | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |


“The eternal God [is thy] refuge, and underneath [are] the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy [them].” (De 33:27 AV)

The eternal God is your refuge. {De 33:27 }

The word refuge may be translated “mansion,” or “abiding place,” which gives the thought that God is our abode, our home. There is a fulness and sweetness in the metaphor, for our home is dear to our hearts, although it is the humblest cottage, or the scantiest attic; and far dearer is our blessed God, in whom we live, and move, and have our being.

It is at home that we feel safe: we shut the world out and dwell in quiet security. So when we are with our God we “fear no evil.” He is our shelter and retreat, our abiding refuge. At home, we take our rest; it is there we find repose after the fatigue and toil of the day. And so our hearts find rest in God, when, wearied with life’s conflict, we turn to him, and our soul dwells at ease. At home, also, we let our hearts loose; we are not afraid of being misunderstood, nor of our words being misconstrued. So when we are with God we can commune freely with him, laying open all our hidden desires; for if the “secret of the Lord is with those who fear him,” the secrets of those who fear him ought to be, and must be, with their Lord.

Home, too, is the place of our truest and purest happiness: and it is in God that our hearts find their deepest delight. We have joy in him which far surpasses all other joy. It is also for home that we work and labour. The thought of it gives strength to bear the daily burden, and quickens the fingers to perform the task; and in this sense we may also say that God is our home. Love for him strengthens us. We think of him in the person of his dear Son; and a glimpse of the suffering face of the Redeemer constrains us to labour in his cause. We feel that we must work, for we have brethren yet to be saved, and we have our Father’s heart to make glad by bringing home his wandering sons; we wish to fill with holy mirth the sacred family among whom we dwell. Happy are those who have thus the God of Jacob for their refuge!

- C.H. Spurgeon Morning {Daily Reading: Ac 4:1-6:15 } {Quick Study: Ac 10:1-12:25 }

God has given us His son,  which He had promised long before to His people, Israel, and who was willing to lay down his life for the sins of many. In Christ we can see the radiance of God. We do have to come into Christ as Christ was in God.

As Jesus his joy was in God our joy has to be also in God through our Lord Jesus Christ. In God we may find refuge and be sure that nobody shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:39) For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jeshua the Messiah, who was preached among us and anointed the apostles. (2Co 1:21; 2Co 4:6) Thanks be to God, which always causes us to triumph in the Messiah, and makes manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place. (2Co 2:14)

Our life is hid with Christ in God, and our ecclesia may be in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ, where  we remember without ceasing our work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father; for we come together as brethren and sisters in Christ, having become followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for we also have suffered like things of our own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews. (Col 3:3; 1Th 1:1, 3; 1Th 2:14 )

“1  …  I will give thanks unto Jehovah with my whole heart; I will show forth all thy marvellous works. 2 I will be glad and exult in thee; I will sing praise to thy name, O thou Most High.” (Ps 9:1-2 ASV)

“9 Jehovah also will be a high tower for the oppressed, A high tower in times of trouble; 10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee; For thou, Jehovah, hast not forsaken them that seek thee. 11  Sing praises to Jehovah, who dwelleth in Zion: Declare among the people his doings. 12 For he that maketh inquisition for blood remembereth them; He forgetteth not the cry of the poor. 13 Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; Behold my affliction [which I suffer] of them that hate me, Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death; 14 That I may show forth all thy praise. In the gates of the daughter of Zion I will rejoice in thy salvation.” (Ps 9:9-14 ASV)

“The eternal God is [thy] dwelling-place, And underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy from before thee, And said, Destroy.” (De 33:27 ASV)

“But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:” (1Co 1:30 ASV)

“yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him.” (1Co 8:6 ASV)

“Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;” (1Pe 3:18 ASV)

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Dutch version / Nederlandse versie: Zoek uw Toevlucht bij God

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  1. Trust God to shelter, safety and security
  2. God is my refuge and my fortress in Him I will trust
  3. Gaining Christ, trusting Jehovah + Gain Christ, trusting Jehovah
  4. God my fence, my hope for the future
  5. A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses
  6. It is not try but trust
  7. Walking in love by faith, not by sight
  8. Courage for every day living
  9. The radiance of God’s glory and the counsellor

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Doemdenkers en ons lijden

Posted on November 6, 2012. Filed under: Jehovah יהוה YHWH JHVH God Elohim Yahweh Jahweh, Lijden | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

Op Christadelphia wordt in enkele artikelen in gegaan op hetgeen sommige doemdenkers ons over God trachten wijs te maken. Maar het zijn niet enkel zij die ons willen opzadelen met de gedachte dat het God is die de mensen straft met de problemen die over deze wereld komen.

Niet gelovigen lachen met hen die geloven in God en stellen deze in vraag. Vreemd genoeg komen zij bij elke milieu ramp of elke ernstige slechte gebeurtenis aandraven met de schuldvraag en de rol van God in dat afgrijselijk gebeuren.

Terwijl de doempredikers ons graag met doembeelden bekogelen worden veel mensen angst ingeboezemd door de vele verschrikkingen die hen als straf van God worden toegewezen. Bij “malheur” komen mensen ineens de naam van God naar voor brengen. Hem willen ze wel alle schuld in de schoenen schuiven. Is het trouwens geen makkelijke zondebok? Waarom zouden wij de schuld bij de mens zelf leggen terwijl vele mensen toch zulk een hoger wezen aanbidden en aanschouwen als de Schepper.

Hierbij vergeten zij dat wij die Schepper wel aanvaarden als de Maker van alles, maar dat dat niet hoeft in te houden dat diegene die alles kan ook “alles” doet of “veroorzaakt”. God kan wel de veroorzaker van alles zijn, maar om hem de bezorger van alle lijden te benoemen is Hem meer inde schoenen schuiven dan Hem toebehoort. God behoort het Goede. Hij wenst niet dat het Kwade over Zijn geliefde schepping komt.

Wij moeten ons terecht ernstige vragen stellen wanneer wij in de media zulke predikers bij hoog en laag horen beweren dat wij onze straf met deze gebeurtenissen verdienen. Zij beweren dat wij allen zondaars zijn die terecht moeten gewezen worden door God, de onmeedogende, onerbarmelijke. Maar in de Heilige Schrift leren wij juist dat de Onoverkomelijke de Erbarmende is vol met zachtheid en goedheid. God heeft juist erbarmen met die mensen die dikwijls tegen beter weten in handelen en die zich niet kunnen beheersen. De God van mededogen voelt werkelijk mee met ons en is bewust dat wij het moeilijk hebben om onze gebreken te overwinnen. God wil Zichzelf ook erbarmen over de mens, maar het is de mens die dikwijls weigert om God te erkennen als iemand die kan helpen.

Meermaals in de geschiedenis kunnen wij zien hoe God Zijn helpende hand heeft uitgestoken en hoe Hij leiding wenste te geven en mensen behoede voor meer kwaad.

Maar het kwaadis nu eenmaal heer en meester over deze wereld. Men zit vast aan elke tegenwerking die hier maar kan zijn. In het begin ter tijden is er een twistvraag geweest en God heeft de mogelijkheid gegeven voor de mens om zijn gelijk te halen. Dat zit trouwens nu als het ware ingebakken in de mens. Ook tegenover elkaar willen zij hun eigen gelijk halen. Dikwijls willen zij hun eigen mening aan de ander opdringen en kunnen zij het niet velen dat een ander er anders over denkt dan zij. Graag hebben zij het liefst alle touwtjes in handen. Dat heeft dan tot gevolg dat er meermaals wrijvingen ontstaan. De mens zijn machtswellust brengt onaangename ervaringen voor anderen mee. De geschiedenis is doorspekt met voorvallen waarbij de een over de ander wenste te regeren en hierover letterlijk over lijken ging.

Nederlands: Mens erger je niet

Het leven kan soms zijn als een spel Nederlands: Mens erger je niet (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Het lijden dat door de machtswellust van de mens over de wereld kwam ligt bij de mens zelf. De problemen die er in de natuur zich voordoen vinden ook dikwijls hun wortel bij het verkeerd ingrijpen van de mens, die denkt het steeds beter te weten. Onachtzaamheid voor de gevolgen van zijn daden brengen niet alleen de natuur, plant en dier, maar ook de mens zelf in gevaar. Ook daar kunnen wij doorheen de geschiedenis vele voorbeelden zien hoe de mensen verkeerd ingrepen in de natuur of hoe door hun wetenschappelijke ijver zij soms stommiteiten deden die een negatieve weerslag hadden op de wereld. Of het nu gassen of vaste stoffen waren die de mensen creëerden, soms dachten zij er onvoldoende bij na welke gevolgen die stoffen voor mens en dier konden hebben.

De media brengen die menselijke fouten nu meer voor het voetlicht en laten vele menselijke idiotismen zien naast de natuurrampen die toenemen. Wij kunnen hier bang op toekijken of de waarschuwingstekens onderscheppen.

Maar moeten wij die doemdenkers geloven die zeggen dat de wereld zal vergaan en de doemdenkers geloven die beweren dat het allemaal een straf van God is?

In Is Lijden een straf van God #1 wijzen wij er op hoe de mediagekte valse beelden kan opwerpen. De toename van zenders heeft niet steeds de juiste woordvoerders een spreekbuis gegeven. Zoals in het Boek Job kunnen wij denken hier vrienden aan het woord te horen die ons willen helpen. Maar helpen zij echt ons, of helpen zij hun geldbeugel aan te dikken?

Hun aankondigingen dat de rampen die over deze wereld komen een straf van God zijn die ons als waarschuwingsteken worden gegeven kan ons wel aan het denken zetten. Maar dat zij ons daarmee willen aansporen ons leven te verbeteren kunnen wij toch niet zo goed vinden. Er zijn andere middelen om de mens aan te sporen zijn houding te verbeteren en betere paden in te slaan.

Met veel poeha proberen die doempredikers de wereld diets te maken dat zij moet veranderen. Die verandering is zeker iets waar aan gewerkt moet worden. Maar het is niet God die die verandering als een despoot aan ons op legt. Hij gebruikt de zweep niet om ons tot het rechte pad te brengen. Met een vriendelijk gebaar geeft Hij ons wel richtlijnen. Ook hiervan vinden wij doorheen de geschiedenis bewijzen hoe God eerder getracht heeft om de mensen te helpen door goed te doen dan hen te bestraffen met kwaads.

Zelfs Gods zoon wees er op hoe zijn Vader wenste dat wij het goede zouden wensen ook voor hen die ongelovig zijn. Zelfs voor diegenen die God niet liefhebben moesten wij goed doen, zelfs hen beminnen. Zou diezelfde God, die ons verzoekt om goed te doen aan die mensen, dan kwaad brengen over hen én zelfs over mensen die wel voor God kiezen? Dit raakt kant noch wal.

God is een god van duidelijkheid. In zijn ordinanties is Hij dan ook zeer duidelijk. Misschien is het door tanende taalvaardigheid dat sommige woorden niet meer duidelijk zijn. Maar dat kan verholpen worden door daarover meer inzicht te verwerven.

Vele doemdenkers weten wel de kwetsende woorden te vinden en mensen voldoende bang te maken. Erger is het wanneer zij God dan ten onrechte gaan beschuldigen. Want dat is het wanneer zij beweren dat God het is die de mens straft als er over hem problemen komen.

Als wij ons oor te luisteren leggen bij het Woord van God krijgen wij een heel ander beeld van die God die de wereld geschapen heeft met een visie. Hij had een Plan waarbij er wereldvrede en veel vreugde zou zijn.
Weinig doempredikers halen echt teksten uit de Bijbel aan en als zij het dan doen valt het op dat hun citaten dikwijls helemaal uit hun verband zijn getrokken. Zo ook omtrent het lijden worden graag de vrienden van Job aangehaald alsof zij de volstrekte waarheid vertellen. Als men verder in het Boek van Job zou gaan lezen zou men echter tot een ander inzicht komen. In het laatste hoofdstuk kan men God vinden die de vrienden van Job namelijk op hun plaats zet en er op wijst waar zij fout gaan in hun redenering. Het goddelijk denken wordt niet aangehaald omdat het dan wel een heel ander beeld zou kunnen scheppen dan dat voor die predikers hun kerken goed zou zijn.

In Is Lijden een straf van God #2 wordt verder naar de oorsprong van het lijden gekeken, waarbij wij zelfs moeten terug gaan naar de tuin van Eden, waar alles begon. Eveneens wordt aangetoond hoe sommigen het beeld van god wilden verdraaien en Hem onterecht dingen toebedeelden die Hem in een slecht daglicht zouden plaatsen. zo kunnen wij de vrienden van Job aantreffen die beweren dat het God is die de arme Job bestraft.

Wel kunnen wij in dat poëtisch boek lezen dat deze zeer vrome man ook niet kon ontsnappen aan het vele leed. Hij werd er echt goed van voorzien. Geen gebrek hebbende aan problemen probeerden zijn vrienden hem nog meer kopzorgen te bezorgen, want hoe kon hij als godlievende man zo gestraft worden door die God die hij zo aanbad? Job vergoelijkte zich zelfs door God en de anderen er op te wijzen hoeveel goeds hij toch had gedaan. Men kon toch  niet naast zijn voortreffelijk gedrag zien.

In Is Lijden een straf van God #3 worden de geschriften aangehaald waarin wij de zwakke mens kunnen zien die zich tracht te verdedigen. Er wordt aangetoond dat “de Satan” de beschuldiger is die aanklager wordt bij God, die deze klacht ontvankelijk verklaart en de mogelijkheid geeft om het tegendeel te bewijzen.

Job kreeg te doen met tegenstanders. De tegenstander (in het Hebreeuws: satan) daagde God uit omdat het ongeloofbaar leek dat een mens zo maar God zou gaan eren zonder iets daar tegenover te willen hebben gesteld. Volgens de aanklager (de satan) zou de mens God alleen maar eren om al de goede de dingen van Maker te kunnen krijgen.

Best neemt u het Boek Job ter hand en leest u dat verhaal over Job en zijn vrienden helemaal door. U zal verwondert zijn hoe zulk een oud verhaal vandaag nog op gaat. Je zal versteld staan hoe het een licht kan opwerpen op de huidige toestand van de vele ongemakken die ons omringen.

Je zal kunnen zien hoe zulk een eerbaar man als Job ook zijn twijfels kreeg en hoe hij een uitweg zocht. Je zal merken dat vele mensen zich zullen kunnen projecteren in die Bijbelse figuur. Dat is trouwens één van de redenen waarom wij het een aanrader vinden om daarmee te beginnen om de Bijbel en God te leren ontdekken.

In het Boek Job zal je kunnen merken dat niettegenstaande de vele moeilijkheden een mens toch trouw kan blijven aan zijn Schepper.

Ook wij zouden Gods absolute soevereiniteit moeten erkennen zoals Job deed. Door Jobs getuigenis werd de satan verslagen en bleef het een tijd stil. Eerst bleef Jobs lijden voort bestaan en konden zijn vrienden hem verder bekogelen met beschuldigingen en wie weet ook met valse raad.

Voor Job die ziek en arm was geworden en zijn meest geliefden had verloren leek de wereld wel verloren te zijn. De ergste beproevingen waren over hem komen en hadden hem zelfs zijn dood doen verlangen.

Men kan echt zien dat het hem te veel is geworden. Voor iedereen die zulk een zware beproevingen moet ondergaan kan het echt te veel zijn om te dragen. Vooral als men er alleen door moet.

Job kan het niet meer alleen aan en roept ook hulp in van zijn vrienden. De steun die men zou verwachten draait wel wat anders uit, want in plaats van positief op hem in te praten gaan zij ook over om Job met beschuldigingen om de oren te slaan.

Vandaag zijn er nog veel mensen die willen vasthouden aan bepaalde traditionele stellingen zoals Jobs vrienden die er ook van uit gingen dat ellende en rampen een straf zijn op begane zonden. Job dacht wel beter te weten en ontkende dit heftig. Zo geraakten Job en de vrienden in heftige disputen.

De doempredikers van vandaag willen niet in discussie gaan. Meestal valt er met hen niet te discussiëren. Zij zullen eerder schuld willen leggen bij die genen die in vraag willen stellen. God heeft ons echter er op gewezen dat wij moeten durven in vraag stellen. Hij heeft ons aangeraden om de Schrift goed te onderzoeken en te overleggen met elkaar. Bijbelstudie is daartoe een zeer goed middel.

Graag leggen wij dan ook de Bijbelstudie voor van de ecclesia Brussel-Leuven waarbij dieper word ingegaan op het waarom van lijden en hoe wij er tegen aan moeten kijken en ons tegen kunnen bewapenen.

Door een kijk te nemen op het lijden van Job en zijn overdenkingen alsook door de reacties van zijn vrienden te bestuderen kunnen wij meer inzicht krijgen in het Lijden en in de positie van de mens in het wereldgebeuren en in de creatie van God. Verder kan het ons ook duidelijk maken hoe wij moeten opletten met raad van anderen, al zijn het misschien ouderen of belangrijke leermeesters of populaire figuren.

Zoals in de andere verhalen van de Heilige Schrift komt God uit zijn verborgenheid te voorschijn en antwoordt Job uit een storm. Die antwoorden waarin God zich ook vertoont in zijn majesteit moeten wij ter harte nemen.

Terwijl in  Is Lijden een straf van God #2 verder wordt in gegaan op die predikers die zeggen dat het verval in deze wereld ook wel zo hoog is als in Sodom en Gomorra, kunnen wij inzien dat er steeds hoogte punten en ogenblikken van verval zijn geweest in een cultuur. Wij kunnen er dan ook niet naast kijken dat onze westerse beschaving ook naar haar verval is aan het gaan. Maar dat betekend niet dat wij door dat verval moeten meegezogen worden. Het is niet omdat iedereen rondom ons een losbandig leven wil gaan leiden dat wij dat ook willen. Wij zullen er niet buiten kunnen om ook mee de gevolgen te moeten dragen van hun onbezonnenheid. Elke maatschappij krijgt namelijk datgene wat zij veroorzaakt te verwerken. Zij zal steeds de gevolgen van haar daden moeten dragen. En wij, als deel uitmakende van die maatschappij, zullen spijtig genoeg hier ook van gevolgen dragen. Dat is juist een van de redenen waarom ook wij onze verantwoordelijkheid moeten opnemen. Wij hebben namelijk de verantwoordelijkheid om die mensen die buiten de scheef gaan lopen terecht te wijzen. Zo kunnen wij reageren op de losbandigheid op seksueel vlak die de spuigaten uitloopt. De verwilderde zeden kunnen wij ook proberen aan te pakken. Zeker als anderen er ons willen mee betrekken kunnen wij onze afschuw er voor tonen.

Wij moeten er niet aan gaan houden om iedereen te vriend te houden. Ook moeten wij geen doempredikers worden. Maar laten wij eerder predikers van het Goede Nieuws worden om zo de mensen te laten inzien dat wij een verantwoorde levenshouding moeten aannemen.
Indien wij meer mensen kunnen laten inzien dat zij voorzichtig moeten omspringen met moeder aarde en met de mede schepselen kunnen wij al veel lijden uit de wereld helpen.

De doemdenkers moeten wij eerder ontkrachten met onze pacifistische houding die de liefde van God toont aan de anderen, zodat zij ook aangetrokken kunnen worden door die mooie beloften die God voor ons in petto heeft.

Mensen moeten gaan beseffen wat zij zelf kunnen veroorzaken, en dat het niet onze God is die het slechte veroorzaakt . Zij moeten er bewust van zijn dat ze niet zo maar aan kunnen modderen met moeder natuur. Zij moeten gaan inzien dat het gewoon de mensen hun eigen schuld is wanneer hun handelingen verkeerd, het is te zeggen tegen de regels van God waren.
God en zijn Schepping zullen steeds de bovenhand halen. De natuur zal steeds veel sterker zijn dan de mens.

De mens heeft de vrije wil en kan keuzes maken. Hij heeft de mogelijkheid gekregen om dingen te ontwerpen, zaken te verwezenlijken, waarbij ook wel het vernietigen van bepaalde dingen kan bij behoren. Maar hij zal steeds in acht moeten nemen dat hij de gevolgen van zijn daden zal moeten dragen. Daarom zal hij er maar best op toezien dat die daden jusite daden zouden zijn.

In de plaats van God de schuld te geven van de Bestraffer te zijn zouden wij beter eens goed kijken waar de schuld en waar de straf ligt en van waar de straf komt.
Laten wij het gepraat van de doemdenkers ter zijde leggen en eerder het inzicht ten goede aanwenden om ook anderen tot betere inzichten te krijgen.

Vindt meer uit over God die het niet is die straft maar God is die zegent.

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  1. Al of niet straf van God
  2. Is Lijden een straf van God #1 
  3. Is Lijden een straf van God #2
  4. Is Lijden een straf van God #3

En lees verder in de Engelstalige Bijbelstudie van de Christadelphian Ecclesia Brussel-Leuven.

  1. Bad things no punishment from God
  2. Profitable disasters
  3. Facing disaster fatigue
  4. Fragments from the Book of Job #1: chapters 1-12
  5. Fragments from the Book of Job #2: chapters 12-20
  6. Fragments from the Book of Job #3: chapters 21-26
  7. Fragments from the Book of Job #4: chapters 27-31
  8. Fragments from the Book of Job #5: chapters 32-37
  9. Fragments from the Book of Job #6: chapters 38-42
  10. Fragments from the Book of Job #7 Epilogue
  11. Let us recognise how great God is
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Breathing to teach

Posted on October 22, 2012. Filed under: Being Christian, following Jesus Christ, Bible Study and Bible Reading, Churchplanning, Faith, Holy Scriptures, Jehovah יהוה YHWH JHVH God Elohim Yahweh Jahweh, Jesus Christ Jeshua the Messiah Jahushua, Manners and Association, Meeting, Preaching, Witnessing | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Jesus has given us life-breath. He had only a little three years to go around in the area where he could come, around his habitat. Distances in his time took many hours to travel. Today we can be somewhere far away in a couple of minutes or just a few hours. What took days for the apostles to go somewhere, takes only a few hours today. but today we do hear more excuses than in Jesus time about having no time to teach others about the Kingdom of God or to have others to learn the Bible.

Travelling Master

To get others to know the Bible we do not have to go far. We even can do it from our home, today. We have marvellous tools which brings us very easily much further than the doorstep. Jehovah Witnesses for a long time took it for granted it was the best way to reach people by bothering them at any moment of the day, ringing the bell and talking to them at the doorstep. But it seems that they today, also have found the modern means of the computer and internet. On the internet they now seem to have opened up and present more literature to the general public. Which is nice, because they also have very good literature, which can bring many more people to God.

Kingdomhall in Essen

But, we should not let them do all the work, and let them get people in their Kingdom hall, while we have other thoughts of which we are sure they are also valuable for the people and leaving them more free. We should get others to know that there are other places of worship where honest God loving people can come together as a congregation.They may offer over there Theocratic Ministry School with a common global curriculum and nest to the weekly services with Watchtower-study they also may offer Pioneer Service School for full-time preachers, and the Kingdom Ministry School for elders and ministerial servants. The Kingdom Hall of the Jehovah Witnesses should be known as the only sort of kingdom hall the world offers good Bible teaching and worship to the One and Only God.

We should be more conscious that we also have a lot to offer to the unbelievers and those looking for the Truth. We Can offer the Truth, but than we may not stay in our little cocoon of our armchair at home. We should get off our ass and do something.

It is more than high time that more people would come out of their house and take up the task Jesus has given them.

Worldly and spiritual works

Jesus, in his three years of preaching, has spend a lot of breath, getting people to see the importance of getting to know his Father, Jehovah God. He also spend a lot of words on getting others to know the Gospel of the Good News, of the coming Kingdom of God. In his time he could find many people interested in him and gasping at his wonders, which he did in the name of his Father.

Interior of a Kingdom hall of Jehovah Witnesses, which could be identical as one of the meeting rooms of Christadelphians

All-right, it is true that our worldly works on their own shall not bring us far and it is not only by the works of the law that we shall be sanctified. Grace has come over us by the offer Jesus brought, but we should remember that without works our faith serves to nothing, because without works the faith is dead. We need the faith to be able to survive, and to be counted righteous we shall have to prove that we are worthy of the grace God has given to all.
Even if we would be Jewish by birth, not sinners from other ethnic backgrounds, we would  know that people are not declared to be righteous by obeying sectarian law , but by faith in Jeshua Messiah. All those who call themselves Christians should not only believed in Jeshua, whom they mostly call Jesus Christ. They should know that in order to be declared righteous by faith in the Messiah, and not by sectarian law they also should live accordingly to the Will and Law of God. Jesus has spoken about that many times and has given many parables of what could happen if we do not confirm to the Laws of God. Though no human being will be declared righteous by obeying sectarian law, if we, while trying to be declared righteous by the Messiah, have also been found to be sinners ourselves,  it does not mean that Jeshua Messiah is a of sin.

Words and Jesus living in us

Every Christian should take care to die to the Torah, so that he can live for YHVH/JHWH the Elohim Jehovah God. Sin in us should be crucified with the Messiah. From now on it is no longer us who live, but the Messiah who lives in us, and the mortal life we have lived before we became Christians may still be a live that can come onto an end in this world, but it should be a life full of hope by faith in God’s Son who loved us and gave himself for us. We do not disregard the compassion of Jehovah. Because if righteousness is attainable through sectarian law, then the Messiah died for nothing.

For as many as are of works of Torah are under the curse, for it has been written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all that has been written in the book of the Torah, to do them.” And that no one is declared right by Torah before Elohim is clear, for “The righteous shall live by belief.” And the Torah is not of belief, but “The man who does them shall live by them.” Messiah redeemed us from the curse of the Torah, having become a curse for us – for it has been written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs upon a tree.”1 – Footnote: 1Dt. 21:23. in order that the blessing of Abmight come upon the nations in Messiah יהושע {Jeshua}, to receive the promise of the Spirit through belief.  (Galatians 3:10-14 The Scriptures 1998+)

And we know that whatever the Torah says, it says to those who are in the Torah, so that every mouth might be stopped, and all the world come under judgment before Elohim. Therefore by works of Torah no flesh shall be declared right before Him, for by the Torah is the knowledge of sin.1 Footnote: 1Ex. 20:20, Rom. 4:15, Rom. 7:7. But now, apart from the Torah, a righteousness of Elohim has been revealed, being witnessed by the Torah and the Prophets, and the righteousness of Elohim is through belief in יהושע {Jeshua} Messiah to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the esteem of Elohim, being declared right, without paying, by His favour through the redemption which is in Messiah יהושע {Jeshua}, whom Elohim set forth as an atonement, through belief in His blood, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His tolerance Elohim had passed over the sins that had taken place before, to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He is righteous and declares righteous the one who has belief in יהושע {Jeshua}.  (Romans 3:19-26 The Scriptures 1998+)

“We, Yehudby nature, and not of the gentiles, sinners, knowing that a man is not declared right by works of Torah, but through belief in יהושע {Jeshua} Messiah, even we have believed in Messiah יהושע {Jeshua}, in order to be declared right by belief in Messiah and not by works of Torah, because by works of Torah no flesh shall be declared right. “And if, while seeking to be declared right by Messiah, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Messiah then a servant of sin? Let it not be! “For if I rebuild what I once overthrew, I establish myself a transgressor. “For through Torah I died to Torah,1 in order to live to Elohim. Footnote: 1See Rom. 7. “I have been impaled with Messiah, and I no longer live, but Messiah lives in me.1 And that which I now live in the flesh I live by belief in the Son of Elohim, who loved me and gave Himself for me. Footnote: 1Rom. 8:10, 2 Cor. 6:16, 2 Cor. 13:5, Eph. 3:17, Col. 1:27, 1 John 4:4. “I do not set aside the favour of Elohim, for if righteousness is through Torah, then Messiah died for naught.”
(Galatians 2:15-21 The Scriptures 1998+)

Honouring the Names

We may not blaspheme the honourable name that we bear and that we can only do when we  fulfil the Torah of Jehovah, the God Most High. And to help us God has given His Word in the Holy Scriptures, for generations to bear and hear. Lots of Christians do seem to forget that it is written in the Holy Scriptures, the Bible which we consider the inspired and infallible Word of God, that whoever obeys the whole Torah, yet fails in one point is guilty of violating the whole Torah! Yes it sounds hard, and it is reality.

But it is also for that reason that Jesus has given his body and blood as an Offer-lamb to his Father, so that we may be purified by his blood. But his death at the stake does not give us the permission to live like we would like and to go on living a frivolous and sinful live. Having been baptised we are cleansed and received a new start. But we should live up to it. From our transformation and baptism onwards we should speak and act like people who are going to be judged by the Torah of liberty.

Faith and works

Faith Without Works is Dead.
What is the use, Friends, if a man says, “I have faith”, but he doesn’t have any works? Can his faith resurrect him to Life?

If you truly accomplish the sovereign law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbour as yourself,” you do well, but if you show partiality, you commit sin, being found guilty by the Torah as transgressors. For whoever shall guard all the Torah, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all. For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of Torah. So speak and so do as those who are to be judged by a Torah of freedom.1 Footnote: 1See 1:25, and John 8:32-36. For the judgment is without compassion to the one who has shown no compassion. And compassion boasts over judgment. My brothers, what use is it for anyone to say he has belief but does not have works? This belief is unable to save him.  (James 2:8-14 The Scriptures 1998+)

Many people when they saw Jesus recognized him and his apostles. So the people hurried there by land from all the surrounding cities, arriving ahead of them to be sure to have a place where they could be close to him and hear all what he had to tell. Wherever Jesus came he began to teach the people around him many things. He taught them many things by analogies.

And He began to teach again by the sea, and a large crowd was gathered to Him, so that He entered into a boat, to sit in the sea. And all the crowd was on the land facing the sea. And He taught them much in parables, …   (Mark 4:1-2 The Scriptures 1998+)

And He went away from there and came to His own country, and His taught ones followed Him. And Sabbath having come, He began to teach in the congregation. And many who heard Him were astonished, saying, “Where did He get all this? And what wisdom is this which is given to Him, that such miracles are done through His hands?  (Mark 6:1-2 The Scriptures 1998+)

And having gone out, יהושע {Jeshua} saw a large crowd and was moved with compassion for them because they were like sheep not having a shepherd. And He began to teach them many matters.  (Mark 6:34 The Scriptures 1998+)

Jesus had learned everything from his Father. We also can learn a lot from this Father, because as Jesus read the Torah and knew it very well, we can read the Torah and further Holy Scriptures, study them, and try to understand them. Listening carefully to all the words in the Holy Scripture we shall be able to hear the Voice of God. The Bible writers worked for the Highest Author, the Elohim Hashem, whose name is Jehovah, the God of gods. Jesus is his son and showed us the way to follow. We also should try to hear everything what Jesus has to tell us. Christ his words are written down in the New Testament. that Bible Book is available in many languages, so we should not have any excuse that it would be in a language we could not try to understand.

Listening and opening up the mind

If we are willing to listen to Christ and God’s Words, we shall feel their breath over our lives. We shall feel that they want to be with us and if we are willing to open up our minds to what the Word of God is saying we shall hear more clearly what those words really meant in their time and what they mean in our time.

Hearing the call of Jesus to go out to preach so that the Word of God shall be know all over the world, we should be aware of this important task and take steps to do this, and not leaving it alone to the Jehovah Witnesses.
As they show the world their love  for the Word of God, all Christians should do that. In the love of Christ they will continue to grow with precise knowledge and spiritual insight, but they shall have to react according the knowledge they receive. By studying regularly the Word of God the Bible reader shall be able to recognize what is genuine, and be pure and blameless in the Day of the Messiah, being filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jeshua Messiah, to the splendor and praise of Jehovah.

Grace was said before the barbeque was served ...

Grace was said before the barbeque was served at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair (LOC) (Photo credit: The Library of Congress)

Heralding

Reading the Bible the reader should feel God’s Breath and be fulfilled by the Holy Spirit to become driven by the Good News and willing to share it by as many people as possible. Friends in the service of our Master should have courage to go out and to speak God’s Message fearlessly and bolder than ever.

Some actually herald out of envy and rivalry, but others do it out of good will and in the love of the Messiah, knowing that Jesus and his apostles have been appointed to defend the Good News. But those who herald the Messiah from motives of rivalry and selfish ambition are attempting to cause distress. But either way, whether by false or true motives, the Messiah is heralded and that is what Christians should bear on their heart.

We who would like to be honest Christians and go through life as Brothers and sisters in Christ, should love the work for the Lord and expect that no brother or sister will ever have anything to be ashamed of, but with resolute boldness will continue, now as always, to exalt the Messiah in our body, either by my our or by our death. Because for us, living should be for the Messiah, and if we die, we still  ‘win’.

“Go back to your house, and relate what Elohim has done for you.” And he went away proclaiming through all the city what  יהושע {Jeshua } did for him.  (Luke 8:39 The Scriptures 1998+)
For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the death of the Master until He comes.  (1 Corinthians 11:26 The Scriptures 1998+)
And this I pray, that your love might extend more and more in knowledge and all discernment, for you to examine the matters that differ, in order to be sincere, and not stumbling, until the day of Messiah, being filled with the fruit of righteousness,1 through  יהושע {Jeshua } Messiah, to the esteem and praise of Elohim. Footnote: 1Mt. 3:8-10, Rom. 6:22, Rom. 14:17, 2 Cor. 9:10, Eph. 5:9, Gal. 5:22, Col. 1:10, Heb. 12:11, Jam. 3:18. And I wish you to know, brothers, that what has befallen me has turned out for the advancement of the Good News, so that it has become known to all the palace guard, and to all the rest, that my chains are in Messiah; and most of the brothers, trusting in the Master because of my chains, are much more bold to fearlessly speak the word. Some indeed proclaim Messiah even from envy and strife, but some also out of pleasure – the former announce Messiah from selfish ambition, not sincerely, thinking to add distress to my chains, but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defence of the Good News. What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Messiah is announced. And in this I rejoice, in fact, I shall rejoice. For I know that this shall turn out for my deliverance through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of  יהושע {Jeshua } Messiah, according to my intense longing and anticipation that I shall not be ashamed at all, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Messiah shall be made great in my body, whether by life or by death. For to me, to live is Messiah, and to die is gain. (Philippians 1:9-21 The Scriptures 1998+)

No Postponing

Please do not wait until tomorrow. Do not postpone.

You can form a study group so that you are not alone and can develop long lasting Christian friendships. You can host Biblestudies on your blog, Twitter, Facebook, etc. It is also not bad to write devotions on a blog, for another blog, or even write a ebook containing a collection of devotions. If you do not know where to place them or do not want to start your own blog, try sharing them on blogs from others so that the blog can become a bigger platform, where like minded people can meet and others can find more information and more impressions about the Word of God.

There are also various ways online to host a class or workshop.  For those who do work in the community already, it is only a small effort to share the preparation work with others on the net. But you also may consider of conducting a class to teach lessons just like Sunday School on the net. You can invite people to your virtual classroom and allow them to interact, give handouts, and even record your lesson.

Preaching all over the world

All those who call themselves Christian should try to do what Jesus did. They should try to get the message across through scriptures, testimonies, prayers, songs, video’s and so on.

Growing up in the love of Christ, you should feel his breath in and aspiring you. With growing years of Bible study knowledge you should be getting to know enough to be able to share, even if it was a minimum of knowledge. Those who have a gift of writing and/or teaching should use those gifts to enlighten and encourage others, around them, in their community, parish, village, town, at work on their blog or webpages.

So, do not hesitate and use your breath to proclaim Christ Jesus and show the world how it can become more peaceful, and how people who love God can find a better life in the future.

Christ and the Good News of the Gospel should be preached all over the world and then the end can come. We all should be witnesses unto Jesus, like the apostles had to be both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

“But you shall receive power when the Set-apart Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses in Yerushalayim, and in all Yehudand Shomeron, and to the end of the earth.”  (Acts 1:8 The Scriptures 1998+)

“You know what word came to be throughout all Yehuḏah, beginning from Galil after the immersion which Yoḥanan proclaimed: how Elohim did anoint  יהושע {Jeshua } of Natsareth with the Set-apart Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for Elohim was with Him. “And we are witnesses of all He did, both in the country of the Yehudand in Yerushalayim, whom they even killed by hanging on a timber. “Elohim raised up this One on the third day, and let Him be seen, not to all the people, but to witnesses, those having been chosen before by Elohim – to us who ate and drank with Him after He arose from the dead. “And He commanded us to proclaim to the people, and to witness that it is He who was appointed by Elohim to be Judge of the living and the dead. {1 Footnote: 1 See 17:31, John 5:29, Ps. 96:13, Ps. 98:9, Rev. 19:11. }“To this One all the prophets bear witness, that through His Name, everyone believing in Him does receive forgiveness of sins.” (Acts 10:37-43 The Scriptures 1998+)

“And he said, ‘The Elohim of our fathers has appointed you to know His desire, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear the voice from His mouth. ‘Because you shall be His witness to all men of what you have seen and heard. ‘And now, why do you delay? Rise up, be immersed, and wash away your sins, calling on the Name of יהוה.’ (Acts 22:14-16 The Scriptures 1998+)

“But he who shall have endured to the end shall be saved.1 Footnote:1See 10:22. “And this Good News of the reign shall be proclaimed in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end shall come. (Matthew 24:13-14 The Scriptures 1998+)

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    The gathering included references to scriptures that might lend comfort in a time of crisis, said a congregational elder, but wasn’t materially different from a regular service.It was Saturday that emotions ran high, when the congregation mourned for Heichel at an impromptu gathering at the hall. Jehovah’s Witnesses from Gresham, Portland, Sandy, and Washington met there, said Jim Vaughn, a family spokesman and one of nine elders who lead Heichel’s congregation.
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Breathing and growing with no heir

Posted on October 9, 2012. Filed under: Being Christian, following Jesus Christ, Churchplanning, Ecclesia, Manners and Association, Meeting | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

God gives us a lot of answers. We may be happy He is willing to guide us. He also sheds light unto that what we do have to know.

We do have to have a vision and show others what we do believe. We have to share our faith.

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A happy carnival atmosphere at the climate camp in the city 2009

We do have to be concerned about others and have to care more about our people than anyone else, because we are called by Jesus to love people. It is not just because we do have to love others that we do take care of them. No, it is because we want to share the love of God with them. When people are cared for, they care for the things you care for, even more so than you ever could. We have a lot of different encounters in life good, bad, awkward, but there’s nothing better in life than what happens as a result of a God encounter. And we should make use of that, to meet others and show them the result of our experiences with God.

We live in a time where people are not interested in God as such, but many are looking for something they do not know or do not understand. The meaning of life is still something what brings a lot of minds working and questioning.  It are the searching souls that we can bring into action to look for a God encounter. There is no better time to pick up our cross and our burden for the city.

Some may think we aren’t called to just preach. Jesus has given the major task to his followers to go out in the world and to let the Good News be known wherever they go. We also as followers of Christ Jesus should let others know that marvellous Good News. Faith is also about doing what God has called you to do. He called Jesus to have the Name of the Creator be known all over the world. And Jesus, willing to preach to every one who wanted to listen, called those listeners to the same task. As such we as Christians follow up the work Jesus has done nearly two thousand years ago.

It takes faith in order to speak with others about the faith, to give them more information about the Word of God and about the Kingdom of God. Talking to others about God, His Laws, His son we can expand the ministry.

God doesn’t give us the perfect people for a perfect team. He gives us people to build up. And we should be happy that we with our shortages can create an appetite to bring all the flaws together to make a pleasant dish. Though it might be difficult we should allow our selves to be humble and to get discipled by our brothers and sisters in the community. All together should make ‘one unit’ in Christ.

Meeting with each other trying to make ‘church’ we should understand that everything needs time and that we have to be patient enough to let everything grow and fall into its right place. When the moment comes to make choices for who is going to do what, everybody should be prepared to be humble enough and to be willing to give all his or her power to build up the community. Just as Paul had Timothy come alongside and help in ministry we should do the same. The person who thinks he is in charge should not think he is  losing his job by delegating. It means he begins to train and equip those around him.

To build up the ecclesia all have to form one team. Choices shall have to be made, like looking for the person who has the right capacity, the character and who has the talents.

Ministry is much more than pulpit time. It is all about doing life together, that’s where discipleship happens. In life. When a person is picked or an action is proposed it should also be possible to ask others what they say about them.

Talent never trumps character when picking an heir. Leaders that live out their walk 24/7 have to be raise up. We have to have a shallow leadership pool, one that anyone can dive into. By constructing our ecclesia we do have to be willing also to construct an ark. Remembering that we might be amateurs, but willing to be under the leadership of a Masterbuilder. Day in day out looking for the hand of God on our students. It’s not their talents that will get them anywhere,  it is the hand of God.

We always should be enjoying what we are doing. We don’t quit we win. Our job is to fish, not to catch. It is not up to us to change people. God makes it grow.

Whatever we try to build we must believe in what we want to do in the name of God and not in our name. The ecclesia, the event, the group should always be built on faith and prayer. In our construction-work we should continuously evangelize, and encourage our students to evangelize. Their must discipleship and everybody should be wiling to ‘pasrot’ or shepherd them.

Together we should try to grow and inspire each other. It is all about doing life together, that’s where discipleship happens. In life. and for that life we should open our minds and be ready to jump in the life of many, trying to be with them and helping them forwards.

We do know that it was terrible what happened to Christ Jesus, but his willing to die for our sins gives us hope. God showed His love to the world by giving His son. And God’s son showed his love to the world by giving his body. We should share that love and give our spirit and enthusiasm. Love will always be greater than fear, therefore we do not prefer to teach fear but the bright promise God has made of the Kingdom of God.

We do not find the need for preaching fear and do not want to instil fear. We prefer to instil love so that fear has no chance to exist. We who respect and love Jesus look further than sin. When you are so in love with Jesus, you forget to sin. Repentance is not remorse, or resolution. Our faith shall work in us by keeping up the works of faith. Jesus died and rose again so sin would have to stay in the grave. We do not mind showing the world that we now have a life hidden with Christ in God. Christ releases us to live with him and to be accepted to come before his Father as children of God, and as brothers and sisters in Christ.

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Loving the Word

Posted on October 3, 2012. Filed under: Being Christian, following Jesus Christ, Bible Study and Bible Reading, Christadelphian | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Today let us to consider a portion of Psalm 119,  to the section of verses 97 to 104.

The first verse in this section expresses the Psalmists love for the words of God:
“O how I love thy law! It is my meditation all the day.” (Psalm 119:1).

Characteristic of faithful

Words have a power all their own

Words have a power all their own (Photo credit: Lynne Hand)

The loving of the law of God is a characteristic of the faithful, who search the Scriptures daily as circumstances allow, and this is by no means the only passage in the Psalms that expresses such a sentiment. The very first Psalm reads:
“Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of Yahweh; and in his law doth he meditate day and night”  (Psalm 1:1-2).

Notice the contrast here: rather than to conform to the ways of the ungodly, the righteous keeps himself separate – and the means by which he can achieve this, is to meditate in the law day and night. The Apostle cites this Psalm:
“I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members” (Romans 7:22-23).

Love for the Word of God and Desire to follow it

The context is to do with an internal struggle between two principles: the love for the Word of God and the accompanying desire to follow it, and the natural inclination of the flesh, styled in this chapter as “sin that dwelleth in me”. There is enmity between the two, as Paul expresses it elsewhere: “the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these things are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would” (Galatians 5:17).

We are yet “without strength” (Romans 5:6) to save ourselves, and overcome this sin that doth so easily beset us – but through Christ we achieve the victory, and can rejoice with Paul: “I thank God through Jesus Christ  our Lord. So then,with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh, the law of sin” (Romans 7:25). That is to say, his mind was dominated with spiritual thoughts, and when he sinned it was not of his own will, but a consequence of the sinful nature possessed by all of Adam’s progeny.

The first Epistle of John describes the means by which we might control our sinful desires: “whosever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God” (1 John 3:9). The mortal brethren in Christ do continue to sin: we do not have the strength to overcome our own flawed nature. But when they do, it is not the “inward man” that sins, but the old man of the flesh which raises its head from time to time, and which we seek to crucify daily. The seed of the word remains in our thinking, and influences our minds to become spiritual, that is, dominated by spiritual thoughts.

Meditation

In Psalm119, and Psalm1 (above), the Psalmist describes how out of love for the Law, he meditated upon it daily – in fact, all the day. It is a consistent principle of Scripture that we must continually attend to the Word, as opportunity arises:
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Timothy2:15).

English: Scroll of the Psalms

Combining the senses of these verses, we find that Christ’s brethren do not study the word out of compulsion, but of desire. We enjoy finding the hidden treasures of the Word, and delight in learning new things.

We might ask the question, how can we possibly meditate on the Word all the day long: we have other things which we must do; daily chores and work. The answer to the problem comes when we realize the meaning of the Hebrew word for “meditate”.
Literally, it means to “speak”: the Word speaks to us throughout the day. We seek to apply the principles of the Word in whatever circumstance we find ourselves. And as we conduct our daily business, we will find that verses of Scripture that we have committed to memory come to mind in particularly appropriate circumstances. We seek to follow those passages as a guide to how to conduct ourselves throughout the day. But if we do not study the word, it will not be dwelling in us, and we will lose the great strength and comfort that it can give.

Wisdom bringing Word

The Psalmist continues to describe the wisdom that the Word can give: “thou hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation” (Psalm 119:98-99).

This is another delightful effect of a continual application to the testimonies of Scripture: it will give us a wisdom that greatly surpasses those who do not engage in regular Bible study. Jeremiah portrays Israel, and the wise men thereof, as spurning the revealed Word:

“how do you say we are wise, and the law of Yahweh is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain. The wise men are ashamed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of Yahweh; and what wisdom is in them?” (Jeremiah 8:8-9).

Here were the great men of the age – but yet they rejected and spurned the Word of God. Professing themselves to be wise, they become fools by comparison. The same is true today: great men of the clergy portray themselves as wise authorities of the Bible, whereas their wisdom is seen to be but folly when compared with the faith of the humblest of Christ’s brethren. So “it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?” (1 Corinthians 1:19-20). The calling of God does not appeal to those who are wise in their own conceits: it is rather extended to those who would delight in, and embrace the Word of God, and the promises it contains. “ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called: but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty” (1 Corinthians 1:27).

Christ’s brethren therefore, in whatever circumstances they find themselves in, possess a wisdom that is greater than those who would profess to be teachers, and greater still than their enemies.
In these things, we have as a preeminent example in Messiah himself. Being but 12 years of age, he was in the presence of the “doctors” of divinity of their day, “both hearing them, and asking them questions. And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers: (Luke 2:47-48). At the tender age of 12, Christ’s wisdom was greater than the teachers in Jerusalem – teachers that soon became his foes.

To be implemented to avoid evil

Of course, it almost goes without saying that wisdom is something to be implemented.
It is the ‘doing’ part of knowledge: i.e.we act on and apply the knowledge of Scripture to the various circumstances of our lives. That is wisdom: the application of knowledge.

Verse 101 of our section of verses then, tells us the consequence of keeping wisdom:
“I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word” (Psalm 119:101).

There is a way that is evil, and which we must not walk along. Proverbs chapter 1 exhorts the student of the Word to avoid the path of the wicked: “My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path…” (Proverbs 1:15). Again, Psalm 1, which we just looked at, speaks the same sentiments: “blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful” (Psalm 1:1).

Words

A broad and a narrow way

“The way of sinners”, AKA, the “evil way” of Psalm119 is something to be avoided at all costs. Messiah himself taught that there are essentially two ways traversed by all of mankind: a broad way, able to easily accommodate the multitudes, and a narrow way, whose entrance must be diligently sought for:
“Enter ye in at the strait gate; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there by which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it” (Matthew 7:13-14).

The majority of mankind walk forward into destruction at the last, whereas Christ’s brethren walk a lonely path, with only a comparative “few” for company along the way – but theirs is the Way of Life. But how can it be so?

How can so many people have got it all wrong? Why should we suppose that we are in the right, considering that we are in the minority? The answer is in Proverbs 14:
“there is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death” (Proverbs 14:12).

This is the “broad way” – it seems to be right until scrutinized carefully in the light of Scripture, and being wide, it is able to accommodate all the things that ‘narrow minded’ brethren cannot accept. But it leads to no other destination, than death.

Going back to Psalm 119, verse 103 returns to the delightful aspect of the word: it is pleasant to partake of, comparative to sweet honey to the taste:
“How sweet are thy words unto my taste! Yea, sweeter far than honey to my mouth” (Psalm 119:103).
Psalm 19 speaks likewise:
“…the judgments of Yahweh are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold: sweeter also than honey, and the honeycomb. Moreover, by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward” (Psalm 19:10-11).

More precious than gold itself, the judgments of Yahweh are greatly to be desired.
There is pleasure in partaking of it: we have often found that even just the reading of the Word can calm the mind, and lift it to a higher plane. Truly, it is sweet to the Bible Student.

Psalm 34 also speaks in this vein:
“O taste, and see that Yahweh is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him” (Psalm34:8).

Making time

We must esteem the commandments of God as being of greater importance than our daily food, and “taste” them daily. For those who say they have no time for Bible Study: Do you find time to eat your food? Then why not the Spiritual food? Cut something out of your activities if necessary: turn the internet, radio, or television off, and read your Bible instead – the benefits will greatly outweigh the sacrifice.

This section of Psalm 119 ends with verse 104:
“through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way” (Psalm 119:104).

This aspect of hate is something that many of our generation do not understand. “God is love,” we are told, and we ought not hate others. Truly it is that “God is love,” but He is also a God of righteousness and judgment. He does not love those who corrupt His Word into another gospel, which is impotent to save. There is a time and place for all things: “a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace” (Ecclesiastic 3:8). Indeed, Proverbs defines the fear of Yahweh for us: “the fear of Yahweh is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the frowardmouth, do I hate” (Proverbs 8:13).

Beholding love and hate

As we come to focus our attention on the sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ, we behold both love and hate. Hatred of sin, but love extending to those who repent, and seek first the kingdom of God in their lives. In the death of our Master, we receive love and forgiveness, and in his resurrection, we have a hope of an endless life with him.
The commandments of God are able to make us wise unto salvation, and a love for them indicates a mind which is healthy in spiritual things.

The 1st Epistle of John has as it’s main theme, the aspect of love. Chapter two indicates those things that we ought not love:
“love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever” (1 John 2:15-17).

If we love the things of the spirit of God, we will inevitably hate those things that belong to the world. But our hope is not negative, focusing on those hateful things of the flesh, but positive, focusing on the forgiveness of God through the shed blood of His son. Here is the exhortation: if we love the Word, we will love those who follow that Word.

“Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God towards us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him…” (1 John. 4:7-9).

Token of Love

As we come to the emblems of bread and wine, we behold tokens of love, which speak to us of the sacrifice of our absent Master, and the certain hope that he will surely come at the time appointed by the Father. But the love which we behold, and seek to reciprocate is not a passive emotion, but something which finds its outworking in a practical reality: the crucifixion of the flesh. Even as Christ loved us,we ought to love one another, and help each other along the way. Here is the example of true love: the laying down of life for one’s friends (John 15:30). Even as Christ laid down his life for his brethren, we ought lay down our lives in service to each other, and to Him, seeing to reciprocate that love shown to us. And then, being amongst that band of men who love the appearing of Christ, we shall be given entry into the kingdom to come, to live and reign with Messiah throughout the ages to come.

Christopher Maddocks

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Condemnation of the World and Illustration of Justification

Posted on September 25, 2012. Filed under: Being Christian, following Jesus Christ, Bible Study and Bible Reading, Jesus Christ Jeshua the Messiah Jahushua, World | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Are we better off?

In the world we may find atheists, believers in all sorts of gods, and believers of all sorts of denominations in the one they call the Only One God.

Are those who think they believe in Jesus to be God, or those who think Jehovah being God the only righteous? They should know better, because according to the Gospel of the Apostles there is no one righteous, not even one, there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God. All have turned away, together they have become worthless; there is no one who shows kindness, not even one.

Ruin and misery are in the paths of this contemporary world. A world where we can see that there is no fear of God.

Some may think the world is going ‘berserk’ because the Judeo-Christian world is not taken serious, as being the only civilisation able to bring forth inventions ans wealth. But they should be aware that God allowed all people to leave on this earth, and that many of them, also those who do not believe, are able to do good works, and able to think and handle the right way, because all men are created in the likeness of God.

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God. For no one is declared righteous before Him  by the works of the law,  for through the law comes  the knowledge of sin. And that should make us think more. Being aware what evil really  is. Believing in Christ or God does not make us a more important person than somebody who does not believe at all, or does believe something different than us. For there is no distinction, for all have sinnedand fall short of the glory of God.

English: Reading of the Torah, Aish Synagogue,...

English: Reading of the Torah, Aish Synagogue, Tel Aviv, Israel. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

But the good thing about accepting Christ and believing in all the works he and his Father did is that we can become justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

Those who accepted Christ as their Saviour and are willing to read the Holy Scriptures, learning from them, may be blessed when they make work of it to live according those Words of God. Though we shall not be able to be without sin, our sins can be forgiven, when do have regret of what we did wrong and when we also can forgive those who sinned against us. Many their lawless deeds are forgiven, and many their sins are covered; blessed is the one against whom the Lord will never count  sin.

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Romans 3:1-4:25 The Scriptures 1998+

(1)  What then is the advantage of the Yehudor what is the value of the circumcision?
(2)  Much in every way! Because firstly indeed, that they were entrusted with the Words of Elohim.1 Footnote: 1See 2:20.

(3)  For what if some did not believe? Shall their unbelief nullify the trustworthiness of Elohim?
(4)  Let it not be! But let Elohim be true, and every man a liar, as it has been written, “That You should be declared right in Your words, and prevail in Your judging.”

(5)  But if our unrighteousness establishes the righteousness of Elohim, what shall we say? Is Elohim unrighteous who is inflicting wrath? I speak as a man.
(6)  Let it not be! Otherwise how shall Elohim judge the world?

(7)  For if the truth of Elohim has increased through my lie, to His esteem, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
(8)  And why not say, “Let us do evil so that the good might come”? – as we are wrongly accused and as some claim that we say. Their judgment is in the right.
(9)  What then? Are we better than they? Not at all, for we have previously accused both Yehudand Greeks that they are all under sin.

(10)  As it has been written, “There is none righteous, no, not one!
(11)  “There is no one who is understanding, there is none who is seeking Elohim.
(12)  “They all have turned aside, they have together become worthless. There is none who does good, no, not one.”
(13)  “Their throat is an open tomb, with their tongues they have deceived,” “The poison of adders is under their lips,”
(14)  “Whose mouth is filled with cursing and bitterness.”
(15)  “Their feet are swift to shed blood,
(16)  ruin and wretchedness are in their ways,
(17)  and the way of peace they have not known.”

(18)  “There is no fear of Elohim before their eyes.”

(19)  And we know that whatever the Torah says, it says to those who are in the Torah, so that every mouth might be stopped, and all the world come under judgment before Elohim.
(20)  Therefore by works of Torah no flesh shall be declared right before Him, for by the Torah is the knowledge of sin.1 Footnote: 1Ex. 20:20, Rom. 4:15, Rom. 7:7.

(21)  But now, apart from the Torah, a righteousness of Elohim has been revealed, being witnessed by the Torah and the Prophets,
(22)  and the righteousness of Elohim is through belief in יהושע Messiah to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference,
(23)  for all have sinned and fall short of the esteem of Elohim,
(24)  being declared right, without paying, by His favour through the redemption which is in Messiah יהושע ,
(25)  whom Elohim set forth as an atonement, through belief in His blood, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His tolerance Elohim had passed over the sins that had taken place before,
(26)  to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He is righteous and declares righteous the one who has belief in יהושע .
(27)  Where, then, is the boasting? It is shut out. By what Torah? Of works? No, but by the Torah of belief.
(28)  For we reckon that a man is declared right by belief without works of Torah.
(29)  Or is He the Elohim of the Yehudonly, and not also of the gentiles? Yea, of the gentiles also,
(30)  since it is one Elohim who shall declare right the circumcised by belief and the uncircumcised through belief.

(31)  Do we then nullify the Torah through the belief? Let it not be! On the contrary, we establish the Torah.1 Footnote: 1See 7:12.

(1)  What, then, shall we say Abour father, to have found, according to the flesh?
(2)  For if Abwas declared right by works, he has ground for boasting, but not before Elohim.
(3)  For what does the Scripture say? “Abbelieved Elohim, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness.”1 Footnote: 1Gen. 15:6, Gen. 17:1 and 26:5.
(4)  And to him who is working, the reward is not reckoned as a favour but as a debt.
(5)  And to him who is not working but believes on Him who is declaring right the wicked, his belief is reckoned for righteousness,
(6)  even as Dawidalso says of the blessedness of the man to whom Elohim reckons righteousness without works:
(7)  “Blessed are those whose lawlessnesses are forgiven, and whose sins are covered,
(8)  blessed is the man to whom יהוה shall by no means reckon sin.”
(9)  Is this blessing then upon the circumcised only, or also upon the uncircumcised? For we affirm: Belief was reckoned unto Abfor righteousness.
(10)  How then was it reckoned? Being in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
(11)  And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the belief while in uncircumcision, for him to be a father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for righteousness to be reckoned to them also,
(12)  and the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the belief which our father Abhad in uncircumcision.
(13)  For the promise that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abor to his seed through the Torah, but through a righteousness of belief.

(14)  For if those who are of the Torah are heirs, belief has been made useless, and the promise has been nullified,
(15)  for the Torah works out wrath, for where there is no Torah there is no transgression.

(16)  On account of this it is of belief, that it be according to favour, for the promise to be made certain to all the seed, not only to those who are of the Torah, but also to those who are of the belief of Abwho is father of us all –
(17)  as it has been written, “I have made you a father of many nations” – in the presence of Him whom he believed, even Elohim, who gives life to the dead and calls that which does not exist as existing,
(18)  who against all expectation did believe, in expectation, so that he should become father of many nations, according to what was said, “So shall your seed be.”

(19)  And not having grown weak in belief, he did not consider his own body, already dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb,
(20)  he did not hesitate about the promise of Elohim through unbelief, but was strengthened in belief, giving esteem to Elohim,
(21)  and being completely persuaded that what He had promised He was also able to do.

(22)  Therefore also “it was reckoned to him for righteousness.”
(23)  And not because of him alone was it written that it was reckoned to him,
(24)  but also because of us, to whom it shall be reckoned, to us who believe in Him who raised up יהושע our Master from the dead,
(25)  who was delivered up because of our trespasses, and was raised for us to be declared right.

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    Circumcision was a nation recognition that the house of Israel belongs to G-d to walk in holiness and purity.
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