Thank you All for helping to reveal to me Gods true love!
1 Peter 4:6
16"However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name. 17For it is time for judgment to begin with God's household; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God? 18And,
"If it is hard for the righteous to be saved,
what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?"a
19So then, those who suffer according to God's will should commit themselves to their faithful Creator and continue to do good."
any help is greatly appreciated!
In his name!
Phil
"For for this an evangel is brought to the dead also, that they may be judged, indeed, according to men in flesh, yet should be living according to God, in spirit." (1 Peter 4:6)
"6 This difficult passage depends, for its interpretation, on the force of the interjected "indeed", which is usually omitted in translation. Even when present in the English, its force is not readily perceived. It must be evident to all that there is a turn in the argument, for the evangel is not the precursor of judgment from God, nor is it according to men. This judgment, then, is not God's but man's. Men judged them according to their own standards. They are judged, "indeed", but not in the judgment of the living and the dead just mentioned (5). The next statement, that they should be living according to God, makes it evident that the evangel was not preached to them after they had died. Men could not judge them, in flesh, nor could they live according to God, in spirit, after they had died. They are dead now, but the preaching and judging and living were all apart of their experience before they fell asleep." (Concordant Commentary on the New Testament page 361)
http://concordant.org/expohtml/ConcordantCommentary/CC00.htm
Thank you and God bless you so much! When I clicked on your concordance commentary reference book , I heard a bunch of halleluiahs! :banana:
I am now a kid in a candy store!!!
Quote from: God Chaser on October 08, 2013, 07:53:57 PM
Thank you All for helping to reveal to me Gods true love!
1 Peter 4:6
16"However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name. 17For it is time for judgment to begin with God's household; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God? 18And,
"If it is hard for the righteous to be saved,
what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?"a
19So then, those who suffer according to God's will should commit themselves to their faithful Creator and continue to do good."
any help is greatly appreciated!
In his name!
Phil
Jesus taught this in a parable and you may take comfort from it. I know I do.
[size=78%]Luk 12:47[/size]"The servant who knows the master's will and does not get ready or does not do what the master wants will be beaten with many blows.
Luk 12:48
But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.
Father is just.
Love Julie :HeartThrob:
Quote from: God Chaser on October 08, 2013, 09:47:17 PM
Thank you and God bless you so much! When I clicked on your concordance commentary reference book , I heard a bunch of halleluiahs! :banana:
I am now a kid in a candy store!!!
Here's something else.
http://concordant.org/online/index.html
http://concordant.org/
the kingdom of heaven is like three measures of leaven hidden in three bushels of meal until the whole is leavened. So it is with the incorruptible seed planted within us. So it is with the evangel sown into this world in the death, burial, resurrection and ascension of Christ.