Elohim... The Trinity

Elohim is the first name given to God in the bible.
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
The father was there, so was the Word and the Spirit (Breath) of God.

1:2 The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.

John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Gen 1:26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

This implies that we are to be in the image of God the Father the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Elohim
1.(plural)
1.rulers, judges
2.divine ones
3.angels
4.gods
2.(plural intensive - singular meaning)
1.god, goddess
2.godlike one
3.works or special possessions of God
4.the (true) God
5.God
Adonai (The one true Lord) Elohim , the Lord God, with many characteristics. El-Qana (Characteristic of God) the jealousy of God.

The 3 are this...

God our authority who judges our actions, gave us Jesus. Our example of what our actions should, who left us his Spirit our guide. So we can live under the authority, by transforming us into the example.

Divorce

1 Cor 7:10 To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband.

Mathew 5
31 "It has been said, 'Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.' 32 But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.

Ro 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

The same Hebrew word for Divorce is used for the word separate. In Romans we can see that nothing will separate us from the love of Christ. It should be just as impossible for a marriage built on Christ's foundation to separate.

Now it is obvious if Marriage is built on Christ's foundation, we will avoid the prevision Christ set our for divorce.

More over we just must love our spouses as Christ loved the church.

Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

Freedom in Christ and the trap Legalism

MV for the week.

Gal 5: 1,13

It is for freedom that Christ set you free. Stand firm, then, do not let yourself be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. You my brothers are called to be free, do not use that freedom to indulge the sinful nature, rather serve on another in love.

We are free to worship Christ and be in commune with him however we want, as long as we do not abuse the freedom and sin. Grace God’s forgiving grace is not a freedom to Sin. However we are no longer bound buy rules.

Following rules should not take the place of our personal relation ship with Christ, because doing so could distract us from our relationship with him.

Gal 3: 10- 11
10 All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law."[a] 11 Clearly no one is justified before God by the law, because, "The righteous will live by faith."[b]

The Law points us to our sin but because we are justified in Christ we are free from the consequences of our sin. Our faith will lead us to righteousness, not following a set of rules (Legalism). Our change to righteousness can not be done by our own action; we have to rely on our faith in Christ.

Col 2:20-23
20 Since you died with Christ to the basic principles of this world, why, as though you still belonged to it, do you submit to its rules: 21 "Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!"? 22 These are all destined to perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings. 23 Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence

Legalism Got eve in trouble when she added to God’s command:

God Said, Gen 2: 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die."

Eve Said: Gen 3: 3 but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.' "

God never said touch, and by adding this Eve took the focus off what God’s command and added to his word, and this lead her down the wrong path.

I find it interesting that

Satan Said:
Gen 3: 4 "You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. 5 "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
Even Satan knew God’s command, and that it was eating that God commanded against.

Back to class.

It is hard to believe that a year ago, I was just starting down this road. God has been good to me, and opened my heart in many ways. The break has been good but I am anxious to get going again. Most of all to put Ezekiel behind me. Yikes what a book. I think it could take years of study to fully understand every aspect of that book. But again it proves God's jealousy towards anything that separates us from him, and his wanting to destroy what separates us from him.

So...

401 Starts tomorrow. I should be posting more, as the homework will pick up. I will be able to draw more from that.

I pray God continues to bless this group of men, and opens our hearts and minds to his word.

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Huckabee knows his God....

Genesis

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.