Laban's dream is told in little detail. Again it is treated as a visitation - "God came to Laban."
The message God gave is clear and literal - "Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad."
It is treated as a direct communication - "the God of your fathers spake unto me yesternight, saying..." (v. 28).
No record of Laban answering back or being anything other than a passive recipient of a message.
We'll call this Type 1a.
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Saturday, June 4, 2016
TG Mortality 16 - More Romans 8
The promises for those who become the sons of God by yielding to the Spirit are some of the most comforting in all of Scripture -
"All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose" (v. 28).
"If God be for us, who can be against us?" (v.31)
"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?" (v. 35)
"For I am persuaded, that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (v. 38-39).
"All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose" (v. 28).
"If God be for us, who can be against us?" (v.31)
"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?" (v. 35)
"For I am persuaded, that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (v. 38-39).
Friday, June 3, 2016
TG Mortality 15 - Romans 8:11
Romans 8 again reminds us that the choice our unaided efforts to be good are doomed to failure without the atonement
"For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walked not after the flesh, but after the spirit." v. 3-4
The trick is to yield to the enticings of the spirit and be transformed (Mosiah 3:19).
Again the implication is that there is a daily choice before us -
"walk after the flesh" "walk...after the spirit" (v. 1, 4)
"law of sin and death" "law of the spirit if life in Christ Jesus" (v. 2)
"they which are after the flesh" "they that are after the Spirit" (v. 5)
"mind the things of the flesh" "mind the things of the Spirit" (v. 5)
"carnally minded" "spiritually minded" (v. 6)
"death" "life and peace" (v. 6)
"in the flesh" "in the spirit" (v. 7-9)
"have not the Spirit of Christ" "the Spirit of God dwell in you" (v. 9)
"debtors to the flesh" "through the Spirit"
"live after the flesh" "mortify the deeds of the body"
"die" "live" (v. 12 -13)
"the spirit of bondage again to fear" "the spirit of adoption by which we cry Father" (v. 15).
And what is the conclusion?
"For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the Sons of God." (v. 14)
"For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walked not after the flesh, but after the spirit." v. 3-4
The trick is to yield to the enticings of the spirit and be transformed (Mosiah 3:19).
Again the implication is that there is a daily choice before us -
"walk after the flesh" "walk...after the spirit" (v. 1, 4)
"law of sin and death" "law of the spirit if life in Christ Jesus" (v. 2)
"they which are after the flesh" "they that are after the Spirit" (v. 5)
"mind the things of the flesh" "mind the things of the Spirit" (v. 5)
"carnally minded" "spiritually minded" (v. 6)
"death" "life and peace" (v. 6)
"in the flesh" "in the spirit" (v. 7-9)
"have not the Spirit of Christ" "the Spirit of God dwell in you" (v. 9)
"debtors to the flesh" "through the Spirit"
"live after the flesh" "mortify the deeds of the body"
"die" "live" (v. 12 -13)
"the spirit of bondage again to fear" "the spirit of adoption by which we cry Father" (v. 15).
And what is the conclusion?
"For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the Sons of God." (v. 14)
Thursday, June 2, 2016
TG Dream 2 - Genesis 28:12
In Genesis 28:11-22 -- the dream of "Jacob's ladder."
The Lord still speaks here in his own voice, the words are clear and authoritative.
There is symbolic content as well, the visual image of a ladder into heaven with angels ascending and descending.
Jacob does not respond, verbally, to the Lord until he is awake.
We will call this type of dream, Type 2.
The Lord still speaks here in his own voice, the words are clear and authoritative.
There is symbolic content as well, the visual image of a ladder into heaven with angels ascending and descending.
Jacob does not respond, verbally, to the Lord until he is awake.
We will call this type of dream, Type 2.
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