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OUTLINE FOR SUNDAY, 11-1-26
“THE TOTAL MAN, SPIRIT, SOUL, & BODY, PT. III,”
1 THESS. 5:23 (KJV)
1 Thessalonians 5:23 (KJV)
23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
IN HIS IMAGE
There are several very powerful revelations in the Word of God that gives us much insight concerning the potential of the human spirit. The first is found in the book of beginnings, Gen. 1:26 ( KJV ):
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”
The word image in this verse is from the Heb. tselem, tseh-lem; which means to shade; a phantom, i.e. ( fig. ) illusion, resemblance; hence a representative figure, esp. an idol; -image, vain shew ( Hebrew-Greek Key Study Bible ). The word likeness in this verse is from the Heb. demuwth, dem-ooth; and means resemblance; concr. Model, shape; adv. Like:-fashion, like ( -ness, as ), manner, similitude ( Hebrew-Greek Key Study Bible ). God created the spirit of man after the image and likeness of God. We are as little gods. Now before you think that I’ve gone off on the deep end I introduce my second witness in Ps. 8:4-6 ( KJV ):
“What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet.”
The word angels in this verse is from the Heb. Elohim which means gods in the ordinary sense; but spec. used ( in the plur. thus, esp. with the art ) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative:-angels, exceeding, God ( gods ) ( -dess, -ly ), ( very ) great, judges, mighty ( Hebrew-Greek Key Study Bible ). This verse in Ps. 8:5 reads as follows in the New American Standard Bible:
“Yet Thou hast made him a little lower than God, And dost crown him with glory and majesty!”
The Interlinear Bible with the Hebrew, Greek, and English literal translation reads Ps. 8:5 as follows:
“For you have made him lack a little from God; and have crowned him with glory and honor.”
Ps. 8:5 (Amplified Bible): Yet You have made him but a little lower than God [or heavenly beings], and You have crowned him with glory and honor.
Once Believers understand who they are they’ll begin to conform to who God says they are. Proverbs 23:6–7 (KJV): 6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainty meats: 7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee.
Matthew 12:33–37 (KJV)
33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. 34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. 35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. 36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. 37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
As a man thinks, so is he. What we think of ourselves is who we become. What we should think of ourselves is what God says about us and not what men say about us. What we think is what we become because our thoughts leads to words, our words leads to actions, our actions become habit, our habit becomes our attitude, and our attitude determines our altitude. God changes us by first changing our thinking, Romans 12:2 (KJV): 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJV)
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Ephesians 4:17–24 (KJV)
17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: 19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 20 But ye have not so learned Christ; 21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: 22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; 23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; 24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Colossians 3:9–10 (KJV)
9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; 10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him.
As a people we must stop thinking of ourselves the way other people think of us. That’s why God gives us His Word that we may have faith in His Word, and that faith sets the thermostat of our hearts that we begin to become what we believe. We walk by faith and not by sight. Throughout the Word of God, He tells us and then reminds us who we are in Christ, and I emphasize “in Christ,” since it is our position in Christ legally that gives us access to His grace, but experientially these revelations are manifested in our lives as we act on what the Word of God says about us. In other words faith without works is dead faith, James 1:22–27 (KJV):
22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: 24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. 25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. 26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain. 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
God’s Word paints a picture of a people who have been given power and authority, Matthew 16:13–19 (KJV):
13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? 14 And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. 15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? 16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. 17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. 18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
1 Corinthians 15:24–27 (KJV)
24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. 25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. 27 For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith, all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
Ephesians 1:15–23 (KJV)
15 Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, 16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; 17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: 18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, 19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, 20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, 21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: 22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, 23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
Hebrews 2:6–8 (KJV)
6 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him? 7 Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands: 8 Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.
The disciples were men out of the hood who after having spent 3 yrs. at the feet of Jesus and after being filled with the Holy Spirit they were transformed into men of power and authority in the kingdom as well as becoming armed and dangerous to the enemy. ARMED AND DANGEROUS! When we examine scripture, the disciples came straight out of the hood. Jesus had to by-pass the religious elite Pharisees and find some rejects who would be willing to be instruments in the Master’s hand and filled them with His Spirit and turned them into Holy Ghost dynamos for the glory of God. Even Jesus was looked at as one from the hood, John 1:43–46 (KJV): 43 The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and findeth Philip, and saith unto him, Follow me. 44 Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. 45 Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. 46 And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.
Acts 17:5–7 (KJV)
5 But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people. 6 And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also; 7 Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.
Acts 4:13 (KJV)
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Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them,
that they had been with Jesus.
They were unlearned and ignorant men that they noted had been with Jesus and turned the world upside down. They were absolutely right because most of the disciples turned Apostles came straight out of the hood, men of humble beginnings, most of whom came out of Capernaum, which was despised by some in Jewish society and was even called “The Galilee of the Gentiles.”
Peter denied the Lord 3 times, but after he was filled with the Holy Spirit stood up and spoke to all within his audience, Luke 22:54–62 (KJV): 54 Then took they him, and led him, and brought him into the high priest’s house. And Peter followed afar off. 55 And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and were set down together, Peter sat down among them. 56 But a certain maid beheld him as he sat by the fire, and earnestly looked upon him, and said, This man was also with him. 57 And he denied him, saying, Woman, I know him not. 58 And after a little while another saw him, and said, Thou art also of them. And Peter said, Man, I am not. 59 And about the space of one hour after another confidently affirmed, saying, Of a truth this fellow also was with him: for he is a Galilaean. 60 And Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest. And immediately, while he yet spake, the cock crew. 61 And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. 62 And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.
Acts 2:14–17 (KJV)
14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: 15 For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. 16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; 17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
OUTLINE FOR BIBLE STUDY MONDAY, 11-2-26
“THE LAST DAYS,”
2 THESS. 2:9-12 (KJV)
2 Thessalonians 2:9–12 (KJV)
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
POWER, 2 THESS. 2:9, DEFINED
Greek dynamis, pronounced doo-nam-is, Strongs 1411, from <G1410> (dunamai); force (literal or figurative); specially miraculous power (usually by implication a miracle itself):- ability, abundance, meaning, might (-ily, -y, -y deed), (worker of) miracle (-s), power, strength, violence, might (wonderful) work.[1]
SIGNS, 2 THESS. 2:9, DEFINED
Greek semeion, pronounced say-mi-on, Strongs 4592, neuter of a presumed derivative of the base of <G4591> (semaino); an indication, especially cerimonial or supernatural:- miracle, sign, token, wonder.[2]
LYING, 2 THESS. 2:9, DEFINED
Greek pseudos, pronounced psyoo-dos, Strongs 5579, from <G5574> (pseudomai); a falsehood:- lie, lying.[3]
WONDERS, 2 THESS. 2:9, DEFINED
Greek teras, pronounced ter-as, Strongs 5059, of uncertain affinity; a prodigy or omen:- wonder.[4]
DECEIVEABLENESS, 2 THESS. 2:10, DEFINED
Greek apate, pronounced ap-at-ay, Strongs 539, from <G538> (apatao); delusion:- deceit (-ful, -fulness), deceivableness (-ving).[5]
STRONG, 2 THESS. 2:11, DEFINED
Greek energeia, pronounced en-erg-i-ah, Strongs 1753, from <G1756> (energes); efficiency (“energy”):- operation, strong, (effectual) working.[6]
DELUSION, 2 THESS. 2:11, DEFINED
Greek plane, pronounced plan-ay, Strongs 4106, feminine of <G4108> (planos) (as abstract); object fraudulence; subject a straying from orthodoxy or piety:- deceit, to deceive, delusion, error.[7]
“BUT THE [Holy] Spirit distinctly and expressly declares that in latter times some will turn away from the faith, giving attention to deluding and seducing spirits and doctrines that demons teach,” 1 Tim. 4:1 (Amplified Bible). The Amplified Bible reads that some will depart from the faith. Not only shall men turn away from the faith, but they will give attention to deluding and seducing spirits and doctrines that demons teach. In the latter days men will depart from the truth to accept lies, false teachings, and doctrines that come from demons. This is absolutely mindboggling to me, but as I look at the reality of what we see right before our eyes is men believing lies before the truth has a chance to lace up it’s bootstraps. Why is that in the midst of so much truth and revelation of the Word? Because outside of God, men are devoid of restraint against the flesh, human nature, and the senses.
1 Timothy 4:1 (KJV)
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.
DEPART, 1 TIM. 4:1, DEFINED
Greek aphistemi, pronounced a-fis-tay-mee, Strongs 868, from <G575> (apo) and <G2476> (histemi); to remove, i.e. (active) instigate to revolt; usually (reflexive) to desist, desert, etc.:- depart, draw (fall) away, refrain, withdraw self.[8]
In the latter days some shall depart from the faith, from the belief system in God, His plans, and His purposes for men in this life, and the life to come. Men shall depart from the truth, and in reality, from God Himself.
John 8:31–32 (KJV)
31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; 32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
John 4:23–24 (KJV)
23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
John 8:42–47 (KJV)
42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. 43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. 44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. 46 Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? 47 He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
[1] James Strong, “δύναμις,” in Strong’s Talking Greek and Hebrew Dictionary (WORDsearch, 2020).
[2] James Strong, “σημεῖον,” in Strong’s Talking Greek and Hebrew Dictionary (WORDsearch, 2020).
[3] James Strong, “ψεῦδος,” in Strong’s Talking Greek and Hebrew Dictionary (WORDsearch, 2020).
[4] James Strong, “τέρας,” in Strong’s Talking Greek and Hebrew Dictionary (WORDsearch, 2020).
[5] James Strong, “Ἀπάτη,” in Strong’s Talking Greek and Hebrew Dictionary (WORDsearch, 2020).
[6] James Strong, “Ἐνέργεια,” in Strong’s Talking Greek and Hebrew Dictionary (WORDsearch, 2020).
[7] James Strong, “πλάνη,” in Strong’s Talking Greek and Hebrew Dictionary (WORDsearch, 2020).
[8] James Strong, “Ἀφίστημι,” in Strong’s Talking Greek and Hebrew Dictionary (WORDsearch, 2020).
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