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THE PREFACE:
CONNECTIONS
are not denying that a Truth can be held in one verse of Scripture but that other
verses are able to deepen, widen and heighten that one verse.
Each verse of Scripture
is true and with other verses that Truth can fulfil the whole purpose of the
matter, whatever aspect of the Gospel is being spoken about.
The many verses CONNECTED
ARE IN AGREEMENT WITH EACH OTHER, putting on flesh and GIVING THE SHAPE,
to God’s whole story that we are to know in all its fullness and intention from
the Old and the New Testaments.
The reader of God’s
Word should be able to look at a collection of verses and from them tell what
is its full message.
In
a list of Connections one can go straight from the middle to the end of them or
from the end to the beginning and the story will still hold because they are
all God’s Truth.
They compliment and
enlarge truth not simply to accommodate any of one’s convictions. They test and strengthen the frame of our
understanding.
May
the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ give you the Spirit of Wisdom and
Revelation so that you may know Him better as The Spirit of Truth, He will lead
into ALL HIS TRUTHS.
Ephesians 1: 17 John 16: 13-15 1 Corinthians 2: 9-10
Scriptures used N.I.V
WE ARE TO BE GUIDED INTO ALL TRUTH BY GOD THE FATHER
HIMSELF.
John 16: 13–15
1 Corinthians 2: 9-10 1 John 2: 26-27
By God the Father teaching us
His Truths, His Word will spread out and expand and deepen so that we gain the
appreciation, the strengthening of one’s inner mind and joy which
can only be achieved through God the Father teaching us.
God the Father, as the author of the written Word of God
and Jesus who was/is the Word of God taught by connections to lead us
into his Truths by these connections -
SCRIPTURAL WATER IN CONNECTION TO
BAPTISM WITH HOLY SPIRIT:
Isaiah 55: 11 Speaks of the wells of salvation.
Numbers 21: 16-17 is the Song that promised a well of God
given water from God the
John 1:33 Father
that is given by Christ, The Baptism with Holy Spirit.
John 4:13-14 The
Spiritual Water that Jesus promised to give when asked, is
John 14: 13-17 The Baptism with Holy Spirit, named
The Spirit of Truth which
Rev. 1: 4 is one
of God the Father’s Seven Spirits.
John 7: 37-39 Jesus
spoke of water that will flow out from our bellies, speaking of the Spirit that
was given at Pentecost. Acts 2: 4
Acts 2:
4 Joel 2: 28-30 Peter declared the fulfilment of Jesus’
words and Joel’s prophecy regarding the Day when the Spirit of God was poured
out upon all people.
Acts 11:
15-18 Was the realization of
this fact by the Apostles that God’s Spirit was and is to be continually poured
out on the Gentiles. God giving them
repentance unto Life.
Gal.
3:14 The believer
is redeemed in order to receive the Promised Spirit of God which is given by
Christ as Baptiser with Holy Spirit.
Eph.3:
14-19 It is God’s will
that all men are to know His Fullness by His Spirit, who
Eph.4: 5-6 would
be over, in, and through them.
Matthew 3: 11-12 John 3: 3-8 Hebrews 10:22b. All speak of the work achieved in being Born of Water and Spirit which is the living water of God the Father’s Spirit who spiritually washes our bodies by His Spirit through our being Baptised with His Holy Spirit, by Christ and to drink the One Spirit, which is the Spirit of The Father who makes our mortal bodies, alive.
John 14: 23 Is the result and fulfilment
of Ezekiel 36: 27-28 and Matthew 3: 11-12
Acts 1: 4-5 is
the command for all redeemed believers who have Christ’s spirit in them, but
NOT THE SPIRIT OF GOD.
The Command to be filled with the Spirit is to the already
baptised with Holy Spirit. This is
in regard to the outgoing of The Spirit in and through ministry IN THE WILL
OF GOD.
This relates to the Parables of the Ten Virgins. Matthew 25: 1-13.
Rom. 6: 3-14
Col. 2: 9-13 these texts are generally
used at WATER BAPTISM as a sign that this work has been done in the
believer at the time of coming to the Cross.
RATHER it is describing the Spiritual work of Christ and
of God being done BEFORE BAPTISM WITH HOLY SPIRIT.
The full work for man’s salvation was fully
accomplished on the cross. However
salvation is progressive and it is as we progress from The World to
Reconciliation with God that each step on that Way is to be recognized as to
what work is achieved. Each step
depends upon the believer ASKING OF GOD AND CHRIST, firstly for Redemption from
the curse of Adam AND THEN FOR BAPTISM WITH HOLY SPIRIT BY CHRIST WHO IS THE
WAY AND ACCESS TO GOD.
Romans 8: 10-11
Gal. 1: 1 Acts 8:
12 Acts 8: 14–17 Mark 16: 13-18 Romans 8: 1-2
Ephesians 2: 18-22
Isaiah 58: 8-9 to
be baptised with The Spirit of God-Living Water, God said:
“Then your light will break forth as the dawn and your
healing will quickly appear. Then your
Righteousness will go before you, and the Glory of The Lord will be your rear
guard. Then you will call and the LORD
will answer. You will cry for help and
He will say: “Here I am.” John 16: 23-28
CONNECTIONS RE THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH:
The Spirit of Truth is ONE OF GOD THE FATHER’S
SEVEN SPIRITS, which are manifested by His One Spirit. Revelation 1: 4 4: 5
GOD’S WORD – His Truth is Himself and He never changes. He will see to it that what He has designed AS THE WAY to Himself will not be moved because it would make Him out to be a Liar.
The Amplified Bible in Zechariah 3: 9 describes
the One God with Seven Spirits as The All Embracing Providence of God and the
Sevenfold Radiations of The Spirit of God.
John 15: 26 Truth,
Romans 1: 3-4 Holiness, Romans
8: 1-2 Life, Romans 8: 15 Adoption,
Ephesians 1: 17 Wisdom and Revelation, 1 Peter 4: 14 Glory, Hebrews 10: 29 Grace.
John 14: 13-23 Jesus
refers to The Spirit of Truth
2 Corinthians 1: 3
who is the Another
Comforter and Counsellor, God The Father
Acts 1: 4-5 whose
Spirit we are commanded to receive by Baptism.
John 15:
26 Jesus
was telling the disciples that the Counsellor/Comforter who proceeds from the
Father as the Spirit of Truth would testify about Jesus,
1
Corinthians 12: 3 through the
believer when baptised with Holy Spirit, saying Jesus is Lord. WHY?
Romans
2: 29 Because the believer
has been spiritually circumcised, raised out of Death Realm The believer is
Born Again of God’s Spirit, a new creation in the Spiritual body of Christ i.e.
‘In Christ’
1 Cor. 12: 18 where
only God the Father can place us.
Matt.15: 13
Romans 10: 9 It
is a condition of salvation to have testified Jesus is Lord by God:
Gal. 1: 1 believing
that God raised Jesus from the Dead.
Ephesians 1: 19-20
Rom. 1: 3-4 the Spirit of Truth who will
teach us what He has given
John. 16: 13-15 Jesus and
John 16: 8-15 convicts
the world of sin, righteousness and judgement.
John 6: 44 It
is The Father who points Jesus as The Way to Himself, and confirms Jesus
John 17: 3 as
The Son of God in whom all men are to believe if they would know
Eternal
life in The Kingdom of God.
John 4: 24 To
worship God in Spirit and in Truth can only be accomplished by those who do the
will of God the Father as
God alone, asking of Him ALL THINGS and giving Him ALL PRAISE, which we
can because of Jesus’ work.
John 16: 23-28
1 Corinthians 2: 10 Ephesians
5: 20
God the Father is God alone, who works by His Seven
Spirits and to the Baptised believer He is deliverer, provider, and healer,
to enjoy the Fullness of His New Covenant, by His writing His Laws that are all
Truth, on our hearts and in our minds.
We are to take the Belt of Truth, which is the knowledge of Truth
from which will cause us to be powerful against all His enemies, to be His
manifold witness, as we depend upon Him as The One True God.
Truth of God from God is not to be knowledge only for the
mind, but with determined dedication of heart and mind to Truth: this gives
continuity of the Spirit of life to our mortal bodies transforming us into the
likeness of Jesus Christ, and having the same aroma as he does.
Revelation 1: 4
Hebrews Chaps 8: 10-13
& 10: 15-18 1 Timothy 4: 10 Ephesians 6: 10-18
Eph.3: 10-12 John 17: 3 Exodus 20: 2-3 2 Corinthians 2: 14-17
THE CONNECTIONS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS: GOD’S,
CHRIST’S, OLD TESTAMENT BELIEVERS AND OURS
In ALL it is God ALONE WHO DETERMINES WHO IS RIGHTEOUS.
ALL the Old Testament Holy Ones were accounted Righteous by God.
Gen 4: 17-18
& 5: 21-24, Gen. 15: 10-17 Gen. 17: 1 Romans
Chapter 4 Hebrews 6: 13-15 Hebrews 11
Hebrews 11 Tells
us about the Holy Ones, who when they died were caused to wait in Paradise with
others such as Enoch and Methuselah who were before the flood because Heaven
was closed due to The Curse invoked by Adam’s sin.
John 3: 13
Romans 5: 12-14 1 Corinthians
15: 21
Matthew 27:51-53
Isaiah 26: 19 These
Holy Ones were raised at the time of Jesus’ death because they had
Heb. 9: 24 been
judged already righteous, by God at the time of their death.
Eph.4: 7-10 they
went with Christ when he ascended back to his God and Father
Acts 2: 31-36 to
an open heaven, which had been secured by Jesus’ blood
Eph.2: 18-22 they
have been positioned as the foundation of the Spiritual Temple where Christ is The Cornerstone.
1 Peter 2: 4-8
Isaiah 52: 7-10 They
will rule with Christ during Christ’s 1000 year
Rev. 20: 4-6 reign
on earth with those In Christ who have done the will of God the Father.
Matt. 7: 21-23 They
will have a part with God in the judgement of ungodly men.
Jude 1: 14-15 RIGHTEOUSNESS
AND JUSTICE KISS ONE ANOTHER.
They wait for us so that together we enter the Fullness of
God’s promises of an Eternal City.
It was the righteousness of The
Holy Ones to God and their bondage from receiving all God wanted for them due
to Adam’s sin, that God planned a Criteria of Salvation to deal with all that
stood against them and those who would please God.
Zechariah Chap.14
Heb.11: 39-40 Hebrews
11: 10 Revelation chaps. 21-22
THE NEW TESTAMENT BELIEVER’S RIGHTEOUSNESS: Psalm 71
Romans 3: 21-22
Philippians 3: 9-12
Gal.3: 5-6 God
has said that those who believe in the work of His Son shall know a
John 3: 16 work,
not possible under the Law of Moses.
Rom. 3: 1 They
could receive a righteousness, OF THEIR OWN from God,
Phil. 3: 7-10 judged
and given before physical death, received while mortal.
John 1: 29 First
the believer, is to repent towards God and believe on Jesus, as the
Acts 20: 21 Lamb
of God to be redeemed Gal. 3:14
Rom.3: 25 As
a result, past sins are forgiven by God and are given Christ’s Righteousness,
by
placing Christ’s Spirit in the spirit of the believer.
They are placed in Christ’s
Kingdom Not Heaven, Matthew 13:
37-42 NOT Matthew 13: 47-50
Rom.8: 10 BECAUSE
Rom 6: 6 The
Body of Sin must be dealt with to gain one’s own righteousness
Mark 16: 14-18 FROM
GOD to enter The Kingdom of Heaven. Unbelief
of this fact, one is condemned.
To
have Christ’s Righteousness is not enough.
Rom. 6: 3-14 Describes
THE POWERFUL AND A VERY IMPORTANT
Col.2: 9-13 INSTANTANEOUS
SPIRITUAL PROCESS, to deal with The Body of Sin
Rom. 8: 11 for
one to enter into a Covenant with God having no condemnation, having been raised
to life by God’s Spirit of Holiness, The Spirit of Life and all given their own
Righteousness.
Romans 8: 1-2
Romans 1: 3-4 Hebrews 8:
10-13 Hebrews 10: 15-18 John 14: 23
Hebrews 5: 13-14
we are to be taught righteousness and God will write His Laws on our
hearts and minds.
We are to do the will of God the Father and only those,
Sons of God, who continue in righteousness doing The Father’s will, will
inherit Eternal Life. This will be the
judgement of those In Christ by Christ.
2 Corinthians 5: 10
1 Thessalonians 4: 16 Matthew
13: 47-50. Matthew 7: 21-23
THOSE WHO ARE IN A COVENANT RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD:
Hebrews 8: 10-12 To
deliberately to continue in Sin is being like the First Adam.
Hebrews 10:
15-18 Those
who are said to be righteous by the work of God and Christ if
Hebrews 10:29-32 they are guilty of this, God has said
there is no further sacrifice.
THE CONNECTIONS OF THE ONENESS OF
GOD AND CHRIST:
When Jesus made his declaration that His Father and he
were one, he knew the authority he had been given by his God and Father, declaring
prophetically his works and his Father’s works in relation to each other and
mankind and their progressive spiritual work that was to come to pass. John 6: 29
John 10:
30 Jesus
had many discourses with the Pharisees before, BUT this
declaration of his oneness with His God and Father horrified the
Pharisees.
They believed he was saying that he was God as the Church, in error, does
today.
John 17:
7-12 Jesus’ prayer to God
his Father that all believers should have the same “oneness of one mind,
aim and purpose
is powerful for a believer to be a Son of God and co heir with Christ, to
know God’s will as Jesus did.
Phil.1:
29 - 2:2 As Sons of God in
whom God The Father’s Spirit is over all, in all and through all, are ‘In
Christ’ and are New Creations in the One Spirit.
We are expected to seek to have the mind of Christ to manifest the same Oneness
with God and Christ in our service to our living God in that we know and do
God’s Will in ALL MATTERS.
Ephesians 4: 5-6 Phil.1: 29 - 2:2
Romans 6: 3-14 & Colossians 2: 9-13 are the Instantaneous
Spiritual Process Romans 8:
15-17 Romans 12: 1-2
John17: 11 It
is oneness with God the Father, the ONE TRUE GOD, and with
Eph. 3: 10-12 Christ
as the Son of God, that the church is to be the Manifold Wisdom of God to
Principalities and Powers.
THE CONNECTIONS:
WHAT WAS FOR ISRAEL IS FOR THE WORLD WHO BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST.
Luke 2: 29-32 Simeon’s praise was to God at the sight of the child
Jesus who will be a
Light to the gentiles.
Luke 3: 4-6 through
him all mankind shall see God’s Salvation.
Gal.3: 14 The
covenants and promises made with Israel alone, have flowed on to
Heb.8: 7-13 whosoever believes, of Jew or
Gentile,
John 1: 29-34 in
the Full work of Christ as Lamb of God and Baptiser with
Acts 11: 17-18 Holy
Spirit.
Peter spoke revelation that the promise of God’s Spirit
was for Israel and is now for the Gentiles who come spiritually to Mt Zion and
The Spiritual Jerusalem, through Baptism with Holy Spirit.
Many gentile believers, believe that Pentecost was only a
sign for Israel, denying the need of God’s Spirit and to their loss, the
promise of inheriting Eternal Life together with those of Israel who deny
the coming of Jesus as God’s Son, The Messiah
Like Abraham who believed God’s promises by faith so must
we believe what Jesus has said of God’s Promised Spirit. To deny Jesus’ Words of command, regarding
Baptism, is to deny God’s Word and Christ’s place and work in it all. For God so loved the world that He gave His
only begotten Son in order that believers receive the promised Spirit of God.
Heb. 12: 24-28
Mk.16: 13-18 Acts 1: 4-5 Gal. 3:14 John 12: 44-50 John
14: 13-17 John 1: 29-34
In Jeremiah Chaps.38 and Isaiah 56 Dan. Chap.9 Dan. 10: 14 Dan.7:
9-14 Acts 1: 6-11 Zech. 14
and Rev. 20: 4-6 all speak of Israel and her restoration
This was the main concern of the disciples before Jesus’
ascension and to which Jesus said he did not know as it was in His Father’s
control. We know restoration to
Israel will be through Christ, as King for 1000 years and the world will be
blest and will see prophecies to Israel fulfilled.
Lev. 4: 3-21
Romans 8: 3 Matthew 1: 21 Jesus was specifically a sin offering for
Israel as was prophesied to Joseph by an angel
“He shall save HIS PEOPLE from their sins.” As those who had shed the blood of The Prophets and The Christ
they were obligated to shed their blood, which Jesus did for them as a Son of
Israel.
Atonement for this can only be realized for an individual
Israelite to say, “Blessed is he who comes in the name of The Lord God.” Matthew Chap. 23 *** As designated in Scripture by this, God
tidied up everything of The Old Testament to take His Blessings and an
Open Door to Himself to the whole world, by His Son as a Sin Offering
John 10:
34 Israel was seen by God as ‘gods’
because The Word of God had been given to them and God had established them as
a witness to Himself. At the Cross God
The Father was establishing a New Covenant and those of Israel who had
believed, before Jesus’ Death like the disciples had been sanctified by
believing God’s Word that Jesus spoke.
John 17: 14-19 John 12: 44-50
Romans Chap. 9 Israel must realize God the Father is The One who has
been and is over all to bring to fruition His Plan of Salvation through Christ
as Jesus who was of the community of Israel and his ministry to Israel was to
speak God’s Last Word to them, and introduce a
New Way to which they must come and adhere to in order to be saved.
The Word of God
in its prophecies has said that only a remnant of Israel will be saved during
the Last Terrible Days. Those who are
faithful will be recognized by God and delivered.
Revelation
Chap. 7 Joel Chap. 2: 32 Hebrews 11: 13 Matthew 7: 21-23
CONNECTIONS OF TONGUES TO BAPTISM
WITH HOLY SPIRIT:
2 Sam. 23: 3 The Spirit of God spoke
through David. That is recognized as
speaking
Acts 2: 4-16 in Tongues that the apostles
and believers spoke on the Day of Pentecost
Joel 2: 18 LIKE
THE SPIRIT OF GOD HIMSELF speaking
through David.
Mark 16: 15-17 Jesus
said that when the apostles were Baptised with Holy Spirit that they
John 15: 26 would speak IN NEW TONGUES On THAT
Day they would receive The
1 Cor.12: 3 Spirit
of Truth of God the Father who would testify through them,
Rom. 10: 9 “JESUS IS LORD” because the
believer had been raised by God from
Rom.2: 29 The
Death Realm and Baptised by Christ.
Out of Death and into Life.
Rom. 10: 9 Is
the Criteria for Salvation.
Acts 1: 4-5 Jesus
commanded the apostles to be Baptised, in order to
know a
strong spiritual work of Rom. 6: 3-14
Col. 2: 9-13 which is
A work
done by God and Christ to deliver us from the Body of Sin.
Rom.8: 27-28 God
by His Spirit declaring, “Jesus is Lord.” is the confirmation through the
believer of being Born Again and being a New Creature In Christ. It is the beginning of speaking the
spiritual language in tongues, by God, which is intended to continue by the
believer. This is NOT related to the
Gift of Tongues which is a spiritual Gift given selectively according to God’s
Will at Baptism, when the Baptised believer is Baptised by God into ‘the Body
of Christ’. The Prayer Language group
consists of God and Christ and the believer, which is to continue without
ceasing.
1 Corinthians 12: 3-18
John 14: 23 Romans 8:
26-27 Jude 1: 20 Ephesians 6: 18 1 Corinthians Chap 14
Romans 12: 2-8
THE DIFFERENCE IN THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE SPIRITUAL GIFTS
OF GOD AND CHRIST’S GIFTS:
There has been confusion in relation to the Gift of
Tongues many believing that not to speak in Tongues is O.K. not
realizing this means that the believer has not confessed Jesus is Lord by The
Spirit of God and are therefore not IN Christ.
All Baptised believers are given a Spiritual gift that
is listed in 1 Corinthians 12: 4-11.
ALL Baptised believers ARE TO SPEAK IN THE SPIRITUAL PRAYER LANGUAGE BY
TONGUES, BYTHE INDIVIDUAL, FOR THE INDIVIDUAL, TO GOD AND CHRIST FOR
FELLOWSHIP.
Jude 1: 20
Ephesians 6: 10-18 Romans
8: 26-27 1 John 1: 3
God the
Father and Christ speak to the Church as a Body, in the Spiritual Language by
Tongues.
Rev.22: 19 Ephesians
4: 7-11 God the Father is the
Spirit of all Prophet’s Words. The Gift
of Prophet is given by Christ and will not operate unless the believer is
baptised with Holy Spirit, because The Spirit and the Life of The Message is of
God as is the Gift of Interpretation, which is required to explain God’s
Message in our language.
Rev. 19:10 1
Corinthians 12: 10 Christ is the
Spirit of Prophecy which is a Spiritual Gift given by God to the baptised with
Holy Spirit, when He baptises the believer into The Body of Christ just where
He wants them to be. This is a message
from Christ as head of The church.
The Gift of interpretation works alongside the Gift of
Word of Knowledge, which will interpret the Prophecy, which is NOT the same as
The Prophet gift.
1 Cor. 12:3-11
The Gift of Tongues, like all other Spiritual Gifts are given by God to
whom He chooses, and are for the common good of the church / body.
Eph. 4:7-11
While the Gifts that Christ gives are Not Spiritual Gifts, all the
spiritual gifts of God and those of Christ are to work together to achieve
the Fullness of God for the church.
Spiritual Gifts given by God and Christ’s gifts belong to
the individual and they will be called to give an account as to their
faithfulness and obedience to Christ and God as to when and why they were used
in God’s purposes.
1 Corinthians 12: 27-31 John 16: 13-28
Ephesians 3: 14-19 Matthew 25:
14-30
Ephesians 3: 10-12
1 John 1: 3 1 John 2:
24-25 2 Corinthians 5 10 Revelation 20: 5-12
CONNECTIONS OF REDEMPTION TO RECONCILIATION:
Psalm 49:7 GOD
SAYS THAT NO MAN CAN REDEEM THE LIFE OF ANOTHER.
SO WHO CAN? RIGHT!
ONLY GOD CAN.
WHY DID MAN REQUIRE REDEMPTION?
Natural man is born under the Power and Penalty of Sin
because of Adam’s sin. They all
physically and spiritually reside in darkness and The Death Realm : Romans 5:
12-17.
Men who would seek God found it hard to carry out what
their spirit and desires were.
Men who would call upon the Lord; when they died,
waited in Paradise, because heaven was closed due to Adam’s sin.
The earth and its creative force had become cursed,
because of man’s continual sin.
Who, but God, could help.
Rom.5: 12 Rom.8:
18-22 John 3: 13 Heb. Chap 11 Isaiah 59: 14-16
Rev.2: 7/11/26-29 Rev. 3:
5/11-12/21 Isaiah 57: 1-2**
WHY DID GOD REQUIRE TO REDEEM MAN?
Because He is Love, and especially to those who seek
Him. Isaiah 57: 1-2
He needed to revoke The Curse and deliver
them into the position of being Holy and blameless as He had planned for them
when they were created by Him.
Ephesians1: 3-4
He needed to be in and through those Sons of God in order
for them to do His Will and be over-comers against all who would be His enemies
and theirs against them serving the Living God. Revelation 2: 17
Ephesians 4: 5-6
He needed to open heaven in order that all who
would obey Him, before their physical death, would be given spiritual entrance
into His immediate presence and into Heaven, where His Throne is. John 3: 13 Ephesians 2: 6
Ezekiel 43: 10-12
He wanted to create Sons of God to deal with the decay of
the creation.
Because all is the result of the Curse on mankind, and it
WAS GOD’S WORD: it was fixed and it is still so today to unbelievers. To be revoked for His New will to be a
surety for those who would believe HE MUST DIE.
John 3: 16
Hebrews 9: 15-18
God began His Plan immediately after The Flood and we saw
its fulfilment at the Cross.
Genesis 9: 5-6 is the plan of God who amazingly put
Himself into the position of obligation to mankind, who would be
obligated first to do His Will to shed blood to God. THE Word Obligation is the meaning of Justified, which calls for
reward if carried out but punishment if NOT.
God the Father always entered The Word IF.
THE PLAN: Genesis
9: 5-6 A COVENANT WAS DECLARED BY
GOD TO NOAH FOR ALL MANKIND. A COVENANT
OF BLOOD AND OF OBLIGATION.
It is a Redemptive Plan of miraculous proportion for man
if they shed their blood. In His Plan
the shed blood of animals was to be accounted for when men shed their
blood, by their animal, in obedience to God.
Just as God had caused man to be obligated
to shed blood to Him; therefore He would be obligated to shed His Blood BY
MAN, according to His Word and like men who shed blood of an animal in
their place, God the Father gave His only Son, A MAN, to be HIS LAMB, to die
in His place in order to say GOD DIED, and so God revoked His Curse and invoked
His New Word of Blessing John 3: 16
Romans 5: 16–17
appears to be contradictory to God’s Word in regard to the fact that God
had said that NO MAN CAN REDEEM ANOTHER: only God can.
Therefore it is clear that why God required A MAN: it
would be FOR THAT MAN to shed blood for God.
Jesus is that man.
So God planned that He would be IN THAT MAN in
order to reconcile all things to Himself, and so Jesus stood IN GOD’S PLACE,
with God’s Spirit in him to shed blood for God, to fulfil His
Criteria. God called him His
Lamb. God died by His lamb John 1: 29
FOR GOD TO SHED HIS BLOOD AND TO DIE:
God planned that He must be in the man who would be His
Lamb and die in His place in obligation to those who had shed blood to Him.
HOW? He was In
Jesus by the Fullness of His Spirit.
When this occurred we see Jesus,
as Immanuel, with God’s Spirit in him.
Jesus a MAN was God’s LAMB. This
is how God in Jesus reconciled all things to Himself, thus fulfilling in every
way God’s obligations to His own Criteria.
In love God brought the whole responsibility of redeeming
man to Himself.
John 1: 29-34
Matthew 1: 21-23 Colossians 1:
19-22 Acts 20: 28 Acts 20: 21
Matthew 1: 21-23
& John 1: 29 Reveal the strength of God’s deliberate plan
and purposes for Jesus as the redemption price of Israel and the world, in the
prophetic words of the angel to Joseph, and of John the Baptist.
John 1: 29 God said to John the Baptist that Jesus
would be The Lamb of God who would take away the SINS OF THE WORLD.
This was accomplished by the Guilt
Offering.
Matthew 1: 23 The angel said to Joseph that Jesus shall
be called Immanuel, which was fulfilled, at his Baptism, with the Holy Spirit
of God, and that accommodated God’s plan to dwell in Jesus as HIS LAMB in order
that His Criteria of Redemption was fulfilled to the world.
Romans 8: 3 Matthew 1: 21 Also Jesus will save HIS PEOPLE, ISRAEL FROM THEIR SINS: to fulfil their obligation for
shedding the blood of the prophets.
This accommodated God’s plan of His Criteria of Redemption by obligation
to the shedding of blood, by Jesus himself being a Sin Offering to God.
Matthew 23:
33-39
AT THE CROSS:
God The Father was in Jesus, the man who was God’s Lamb,
who shed blood for God as
THE GUILT OFFERING FOR GOD TO MANKIND Isaiah 53: 10
He shed his blood FOR GOD FOR THE WHOLE WORLD other than
Israel. John 1: 29 and
revoked the Curse for mankind and cancelled the Written
code and its Regulations that were against us and that stood opposed to us. He disarmed Powers and
Authorities, triumphing over them.
It was a Battle Zone for God. He
had His armour on.
Colossians 1:19-22
Colossians 2:14-15 Isaiah
59: 15- 20
The man the Christ the anointed of God, a Priest who died
as a SIN OFFERING to God
Played out and fulfilled the Day of Atonement described in
Leviticus 16 which we enjoy the benefits of today, as those who serve The
Living God.
Romans10: 38
Leviticus 4: 3-21 Romans. 8:
3
Jesus shed his blood as a Sin Offering,
For himself and for his household.
For those who had believed in him as the Son of God,
before the cross, and those in his Kingdom, they are his Household.
John 17: 19
Colossians 1: 13-14 Matthew
13: 37-42 Hebrews 3: 6 1 John 5: 1-5
Jesus shed his blood as a Sin Offering for
The Most Holy Place, this speaks of Heaven where God is in
The Inner Sanctuary of Ezekiel’s Spiritual Temple. It was his shed blood TO GOD, NOT FOR GOD, THAT OPENED HEAVEN MAKING
THE WAY INTO GOD’S PRESENCE, for the Holy Ones of Israel and for those of HIS
HOUSEHOLD who are to take his work as Baptiser with Holy Spirit in order to
gain this entrance into God’s presence.
His shed blood obliges the believer to shed theirs as a Sin
Offering to God in order to claim this work.
Ephesians 2: 6 Ephesians 2: 18-22
Ephesians 4: 7-10 Hebrews 9:
24 from Matthew 13: 37-42 to
13: 47-50 Matthew 3:
11-12 Romans 6: 3-14 Colossians 2: 9-13 Mark 16: 13-18
He shed his blood for The Tent of The Meeting.
This is speaking of the Sanctuaries of Ezekiel’s Temple,
not its Courts. It is where those
Baptised with Holy Spirit are placed by God and built into by Christ.
This is TO BE ‘IN CHRIST’, WHERE REDEMPTION WITH GOD IS
ACHIEVED.
Ezekiel 44 1
Corinthians 12: 18 1 Peter 2: 1-5
He shed blood for The Altar.
This stands in the Inner Court before the Door into the
Sanctuaries. The Altar to which those
of Christ’s Household are to come and be a Sin offering in order to claim the
work of Jesus as The Sin Offering for his Household, to gain entrance into
God’s Presence in The Kingdom of Heaven.
Ezekiel 43: 13-27
Hebrews 3: 6 Matthew 13:
47-50 Ephesians 2: 6 Romans 6: 3-14 Colossians 2: 9-13
Leviticus 4: 27-35
As a Priest, he shed blood for Israel.
Jesus, as a priest, as a member representing the community
of Israel, he atoned for Israel’s sins of shedding the blood of the Prophets
fulfilling Israel’s obligation to God for the shedding of this blood. Atonement to be received when they believe,
saying blessed is he who came in the name of The Lord, as it is for all who
would come to Redemption.
All the Sin Offering of Jesus was made by Fire, which
gained Atonement and Fellowship with God.
Zechariah 3: 1-2
Zechariah 12: 10 Matthew
23: 33–39 Matthew 1: 21-23 Lev. 4: 3-21
JESUS’ LAST WORDS CONFIRM GOD’S REDEMPTION FOR MAN.
Jesus, when on the cross, with
God’s Spirit in him, from the sixth hour to the ninth hour there was total
blackness with accompanying earthquakes.
It was at the ninth hour that Jesus called out ”My God why have you forsaken me?”
WHY did he say this?
Because God’s Work in The Guilt Offering for man through Jesus was
complete.
Can we believe that from three to nine the Guilt Offering
was in operation? Yes we can,
considering the strong Spiritual work that was accomplished.
Immediately Jesus was The Sin
offering to God for himself and for Israel, and like a burning stick snatched
from the fire, he called out
“Father forgive them for they know not what they do.”
WHY? Because God’s Obligation was moved by His
Spirit of Grace in answer to Jesus’ shed blood as their Sin Offering; Israel
was atoned for all the blood they had shed, by Jesus paying their Penalty. Zechariah 12: 10
Jesus cried,
”It is finished.” and he gave up his spirit.
What was finished was the work of God and Christ. Their work stands as the only Way for
mankind to be reconciled to God because the
Cross-and its work fulfilled the total purposes of the cross and its place in the Criteria of The Blood
and the obligation that it calls for from man
and God.
Genesis 9: 5-6
was fulfilled. God had paid His self imposed Obligations, by His beloved Son who
also for Israel was an Atonement.
The Gentiles had
never been in a Covenant Relationship to shed blood to God in sacrifices and
circumcision. God did not owe the
Gentiles anything to be in obligation to them but in the Covenant God made to
Noah, His Criteria of Salvation, blood
and obligation for all mankind are for whosoever would repent and believe. And that Word holds.
This work was accomplished for the
Gentiles in The Guilt Offering. John 3:
16
Praise God, His
New Word is that whosoever believes is redeemed and because
blood was shed for whosoever, the redeemed
believer is to fulfil his
obligation to God, by spiritually shedding his blood as a Sin Offering for God
to answer in obligation, His Promises relating to full
Redemption and reconciliation. God
always has an IF. We are justified by FAITH IN GOD’S WORD that tells us we are
obligated to Jesus’ shed blood to shed ours, if we would know Eternal Life.
John 3: 16 Galatians 3: 14 Leviticus 4: 27-35
Romans 12: 1-2 Galatians 2: 20
Romans 6:
3-14 Colossians 2: 9-13 Matthew 7: 21-23 Colossians 1: 23 1
John 2: 24-25
The evidence of
Jesus’ Words ”It is finished” was the resurrection of The Holy Ones and for
whosoever. The tearing asunder of the
Temple Curtain which symbolically declared the Way into The Sanctuaries of God,
of entering into God’s Presence in Heaven.
The Holy ones
have been settled with, having entered Heaven with Christ and were established
as the Foundation of God’s Spiritual Temple.
Paradise was cleared of the Righteous Ones and the unrighteous of The
Old Testament wait in Hades to be judged by God at The Final Judgement.
Matthew 27: 51-53 Ephesians 2: 18-22 John 3: 13 now Hebrews 9: 24
On the Cross Israel pierced God,
in Jesus.
Zechariah12:
10 1 Peter 3:18 Revelation
20: 10-12
MAN’S REDEMPTION IS PROGRESSIVE TO
RECONCILIATION WITH GOD:
Jesus was TWO named
sacrifices, as Guilt Offering for God and a Sin
Offering to God.
This fact reveals that man’s
Redemption IS PROGRESSIVE, BY THESE UNIQUE WORKS OF THESE SACRIFICES. The evidence of progression is found in the
plans of the Spiritual Temple of Ezekiel, which speaks of EXITS AND ENTRANCES
IN THE COMING TO GOD, which is all
based on the Blood. THIS WAS GOD’S PLAN.
He always has an IF.
Isaiah 53:
10 Romans 8: 3 Leviticus Chaps.1-7 Ezekiel 43: 10-12 Ezekiel 44: 5
TO BEGIN WITH -
The believer comes to the cross
and exits the World and enters the Courts of The Temple. The Redemption of Man’s Spirit is when God gives the
believer the Spirit of Christ, and is covered by Christ’s Righteousness, which
is the believer’s “Hope of Glory” of
becoming a Son of God.
Romans 8: 10
Colossians 1: 27
JUSTIFIED: God is obligated
to man because, he believes, by Faith and so God forgives past sins. He is freed from The Penalty of The
Curse; The Lake of Fire.
Rom.3: 25 John
3: 16 Galatians 3: 22 Revelation 20: 15
SANCTIFIED: God
separates the believer from the world and into the Kingdom of Christ, into
his household and delivers them from the Dominion of Darkness. However they are still in the Death Realm,
having the Body of Sin.
Ezekiel Chap. 40
Colossians 1: 13-14 Matthew
13: 37-42 Romans 8: 10 Hebrews 3: 6
RECONCILIATION to God the Father has not been completed because
of the Body of Sin that the believer has. Romans 8: 10
NEXT -
The Redemption by God of man’ s body while mortal, out
from the Death Realm, into The Spiritual Body called “In Christ”.
Romans 6: 6
Romans 8: 11 Colossians 1:
28 Ephesians 1: 2-14
JUSTIFIED: God fulfils His obligation to the believer
because of obedience to the command of Christ to be baptised with Holy Spirit.
The believer is then rendered holy and
blameless, and given their own righteousness.
All Sins are Forgiven and the believer is placed In Christ by God where
the Fullness of God is who makes our mortal bodies alive.
Acts 1: 4-5 John
14: 13-17 Matthew 3: 11-12 Ephesians 1: 3-4 Philippians 3: 9
Colossians 2: 13 1 Corinthians
12: 18 Ephesians 4: 5-6 Romans 8: 11
SANCTIFIED: In
obedience to Christ to be Baptised the believer has in obligation to God and
Christ offered themselves as a Sin offering and consequently is Spiritually
circumcised, and raised from THE DEATH REALM by God. The believer has exited from Christ’s
Kingdom and entered The Kingdom of Heaven, into the Sanctuaries of The
Spiritual Temple. They are IN
CHRIST, in
FULL RECONCILLIATION TO GOD. Because of THIS OBEDIENCE they have been enabled to participate
in the work that Christ as a Sin Offering did for them giving them entrance
into God’s presence.
John 14: 13-17
Galatians 2: 20 Romans 6:
3-14 Colossians 2: 9-13 Romans 2: 29 Matthew 13: 37-42 to Matthew 13: 47-50
Ezekiel Chap. 44
Colossians 1: 27 to 28 1 Corinthians
12: 18 2 Corinthians 5: 17-21 1 John 5: 1-5
While God, fulfils His Obligations to those who believe,
it is for Sons of God to fulfil their obligations to God and Christ to
gain an inheritance in the Eternal Kingdom of God.
The evidence of this is the judgements that Christ and God
are yet to do.
Those In Christ shall be raised first to be judged by
Christ. Those who have done the will of
God the Father, while being over-comers shall inherit Eternal Life to rule
and to reign with Christ and the Holy Ones for 1000 years. When all is complete they shall enter
the Eternal Kingdom of God.
Those In Christ who do not inherit will know the Fiery
Furnace or Outer Darkness.
Great privileges: call for great Judgement.
Matthew 7: 21-23
Colossians 1: 23 Hebrews
6:4-12 Hebrews 10: 26-31 2 Corinthians 5: 10 1 Thessalonians 4: 16 Mark 13: 23-31
Revelation 20: 11-12
Matthew 13: 47-50 Zechariah
14 Isaiah 52: 7-10 Revelation 19: 11 to 20: 6 Rev. Chaps 21 & 22
Those in Christ’s Kingdom, the unbaptised of this
dispensation, their judgements will be either the Fiery Furnace or Outer
Darkness because of not being Baptised with Holy Spirit they are
condemned. They were in The Book of
Life and will be blotted out.
Matthew 13: 37-42
Matthew 25: 1-13 Mark 16:
13-18 Acts 1: 4-5 Revelation 20: 12-13 Revelation 3: 5 Matthew 7: 21-23
THE FINAL REDEMPTION OF MAN WILL
BE WHEN HE FACES FOR REAL, GOD AND CHRIST, and their bodies are transformed
into a Spiritual Body that is in the likeness that is how we are known by
Christ. This will be the bodily
Resurrection in order to be judged by Christ.
2 Corinthians 5: 10
1 Thessalonians 4: 16 1
Corinthians 13:12 2 Corinthians 3:
17-18 Romans 8: 22-27
God’s plan can redeem man from The Death Realm and The
Body of Sin.
God’s Plan qualifies the believer to enter Heaven and
God’s presence.
God’s plan offers His armour and belt of Truth to overcome
all that would come against us.
God’s plan is that Sons of God can deliver the earth from
its decay, according to God’s purposes.
Romans 8: 31-39
WARNING To those In Christ who have entered the
Sanctuaries of God’s Spiritual Temple, while believing and trusting in Jesus as
God you are restricted to The Outer Sanctuary.
You must know that full reconciliation and the
fulfilment of God’s Redemption cannot be fulfilled, unless one repents.
Ephesians 2: 18-22
Ezekiel 44: 10-14 Isaiah 22:
20-25 John 17: 3 1 Corinthians 8: 6
CONNECTIONS OF THE KINGDOMS:
The Kingdoms of Christ, {God’s Dear Son}, The Kingdom
of Heaven and The Kingdom of God, are all spoken of in The Word of God, but it
is the Christian who generally cannot discern the difference because of the
fact that they are unaware of which Kingdom that they are in.
Those who would deny the fact that there is a
difference in each Kingdom from the other, is because they believe that
they are speaking of the one and same Kingdom and that there is no difference.
However, apart from the Naming of
these Kingdoms, it is in the SPIRITUAL STRUCTURE OF GOD’S SPIRITUAL TEMPLE THAT
DEFINES THE DIVISIONS OF THESE KINGDOMS.
Just as God the Father set divisions in the coming to
Himself in the Tabernacle and in His ongoing plan of the physical Temples built
by men, we see the same divisions, essentially in the exits and entrances in
Ezekiel’s Spiritual Temple.
Ezekiel 43: 10-12
Ezekiel 44: 6 Ezekiel Chaps.
40- 44
Christ himself made these Kingdoms, which are to
accommodate the living believers, in what is a Spiritual Kingdom in their
progress from the Cross - to the Father who is God.
Jesus is in charge i.e. of The Kingdom of Christ and of
Heaven but not The Kingdom of God.
He is Head of those in The Spiritual body I.e. those In Christ who are in
The Kingdom of Heaven. The evidence of
his authority will be his responsibility of judgement.
Colossians 1: 16-18
Matthew 13: 37-42 Matthew 13:
47-50 2 Corinthians 5: 10
THE KINGDOMS DIFFERENTIATE THE
WORKS OF CHRIST IN HIS EXALTED POSITION AS CHRIST AND LORD.
Throughout the study material on
Connections these Kingdoms have revealed their significance relating to the
Spiritual Temple in Ezekiel Chaps 40-47, which speaks emphatically of EXITS AND ENTRANCES from each Kingdom.
Matthew 13: 37-42 to
Matthew 13: 47-50 Colossians
1: 27 to 28 Ezekiel 43:
10-12 Ezekiel 44: 5
This is The Spiritual Temple which Paul speaks of in
Ephesians 2: 18-22 and Peter in 1 Peter 2: 4-12.which holds these Kingdoms.
THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST: Colossians 1: 13-14 Matthew 13: 37-42
This is the Kingdom of God’s Dear Son into which God
places those who come from out of The World {Exit} in belief to the Cross
AND ENTER THE COURTS OF THE TEMPLE.
They belong to Christ, as sons who are to inherit. They are his house. Hebrews 3: 6
Matthew 13: 37-42*** holds the Entrance
Condition and the judgement by Christ’s Angels as to their obedience to
Christ’s commands to love him and be baptised with Holy Spirit. They are to love one another, forgiving one
another. His warnings in regard to the
neglect of baptism are that those who do not believe to be Baptised are
condemned.
John 14: 13-17
Acts 1: 4-5 Matthew 3:
11-12 Mark 16: 13-18 John 13: 34
When they will die before the Coming of Christ, all have
been held in Paradise. Christ’s
Angels will judge them. Those who have
wilfully continued on in sin, the Angels will cast them into the Fiery Furnace
and the others will be held over for God Himself to judge when He judges those
of The World. It would appear that they
should be cast into Outer Darkness.
They will not be chosen because they did not obey Christ’s commands.
Matthew 13: 41-42
Revelation 20: 11-15 Matthew
25: 1-11 Matthew 22: 13-14
N.B. Those In Christ, who are the Baptised with Holy Spirit, their
judgement will be before, or near The End.
Mark 13: 24-29 2 Corinthians
5: 10 Matthew 13: 47-50
Those in the Kingdom of Christ who
are Unbaptised with Holy Spirit, their judgement will be right at The End of
All Things. Revelation 20: 11-12.
N.B. Those who have been in this Kingdom will never be
cast into the Lake of Fire, which is the judgement for Satan and all whose
names are not nor have never been written in The Book of Life. They were saved from this at the cross when
redeemed from the curse.
Those in Christ’s Kingdom are in The Courts of The
Spiritual Temple.
They have NOT been Born Again of God’s Spirit which
occurs only when one has asked for Baptism with Holy Spirit and therefore they
have NOT been Spiritually Circumcised from the Death Realm and are
NOT In Life. They are NOT “IN CHRIST” and
therefore have NOT been reconciled to God and are NOT Sons of God co-heirs
with Christ.
Those with Christ in them, those in Christ’s Kingdom and Christ
is their hope of becoming a Son of God by his work as Baptiser with Holy Spirit,
those who remain in The Kingdom of Christ shall never see or enter The Kingdom
of God unless Born Again of God’s Spirit through Baptism with Holy Spirit.
John 3: 3-8
Matthew 3: 11-12 Romans 6:
3-14 Colossians 2: 9-14 Matthew 15: 13 Romans 8: 10-17
Ephesians 4: 5-6
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN:
Matthew 13: 47-50
Only those who have entered the Kingdom of Heaven through
being baptised with Holy Spirit by Christ, have the hope of entering The
Kingdom of God. Their hope lies in
their doing the will of The Father. Christ
will be their judge, and today this depends upon knowing WHO IS GOD. Matthew 3: 11-12 Matthew 7: 21-23 Ezekiel 44: 10-14
Isaiah 20: 20-25 Romans
8:15-17
The Kingdom of Heaven is distinct from those who are in
Christ’s Kingdom.
Matthew 13: 37-42.
Matthew 18: 1-4 The essence of coming to gain entrance into the Spiritual
Kingdom of Heaven, where one is made to sit with Christ in the Heavenlies, is
Humility.
It calls upon the believer, in the Courts to love and obey
Christ’s Commands, in particular to be baptised in Holy Spirit.
The believer is to ask for Baptism and by doing this they
are offering themselves as a sin offering, a living sacrifice to
be spiritually crucified with Christ to be Baptised into Death by him and
raised out of Death by God Himself.
Christ will clear the believer from his Threshing Floor [the Courts]
and gather the believer LIKE WHEAT INTO THE BARN: into the Sanctuaries where
God is. They are taken from The Courts
into The Sanctuaries by Christ, as The Baptiser, as The Way and The Access to
God.
Romans 12: 1-2
Galatians 2: 20 Romans 6:
3-14 Colossians 2: 9-13 Matthew 3: 11-12 1 Peter 2: 4- 10
Ephesians 2: 18-22
This is the Work that is accomplished in order to
receive the PROMISED SPIRIT OF GOD, which is by Baptism with Holy Spirit by
Christ and then God the Father baptizes the believing into The Spiritual Body
of Christ that is In Christ.
This is the work that translates us into THE KINGDOM OF
HEAVEN.
Entrance is gained through Christ THROUGH THE DOOR into
the Sanctuaries. Firstly into the Outer
Sanctuary. Here those
Baptised with Holy Spirit are to minister in their spiritual gifts, which shall
be, judged as to their use to the glory of God our Father. As Sons of God, co-heirs with Christ one is
to know God’s Will in all aspects of our lives, and to actually do it. For this is The Criteria to enter THE
KINGDOM OF GOD IN ETERNAL LIFE.
The INNER SANCTUARY is where the Father is with Christ
but if the believer is trusting in Jesus as God then the Inner Sanctuary is
closed to them. God has said that they
cannot come near to Him nor know His Holy Things. Therefore His direct Will and Fellowship cannot be known.
They may serve in the Temple but they cannot enter the
Inner Sanctuary.
Ezekiel 44:10-14
Isaiah 22: 20-25 1 John 1-3
THOSE IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN:
Because they are baptised with Holy Spirit, they are In
Christ, there is no condemnation.
They are where Christ is the Head and God’s
Spirit is through all, in all, and over all.
Ephesians 4: 5-6
Ephesians 1: 22
Their hope of inheriting eternal Life in The Kingdom of
God is to do the will of God the Father, being over-comers for
which there is a great reward. Christ
has said that he will make those who overcome to be pillars in the Temple of
His God and write on him the name of His God and the name of the City of
his God, the New Jerusalem that is the eternal city of the Kingdom of God.
Revelation 3: 11-12
Revelation 2: 7/11/17/26-27
Rev. 3: 5/11-12/21 N.B. 1 John
1: 1-5
The believers are spoken of as fish because they are
supposed to be swimming in the River of God, walking in His Spirit. Ezekiel 47
WHEN THEY DIE they will remain where they were In The
Spirit while the were alive physically, in Mt Zion, the Heavenly Jerusalem the
City of The Living God.
Hebrews 12: 22–24
Ezekiel 43: 10-12
WHEN THEY ARE CALLED TO BE JUDGED BY CHRIST FIRST Christ’s
angels will come and separate them from those who have continued in the
righteousness that God had given them when Baptised with Holy Spirit. NO CONDEMNATION.
Hebrews 6: 4-9
Hebrews 10: 26–31 Philippians
3: 9 Mark 13: 26-27 Romans
8: 1-2
The wicked who have continued in SIN shall be cast into
the Fiery Furnace and those who have done the will of The Father, knowing Him
as God alone, and knowing His Will from Himself and doing it, shall inherit and
go on to rule and reign with Christ for 1000 years and finally when all has
been fulfilled shall enter into the eternal Kingdom of God. Christ’s Reign will be the physical Reign
NOT to be confused with Christ’s Spiritual Kingdom.
Revelation 20: 4-6
Revelation 20: 11-15
Revelation 21
All those IN CHRIST the Angels will clearly see who
are the wicked.
Revelation 20: 11-12
Mark 16: 14-18 Matthew 13:
37-42
These Kingdoms clearly display The Person who is in
charge: whose spirit the believer has and what place in the Temple they are
placed, and what will be their judgment.
THE KINGDOM OF GOD WILL BE THE ETERNAL KINGDOM, described
in Rev.21: 22
It will be here that we will drink with Christ who has
handed over the Kingdoms to His God and Father that God be ALL IN ALL. 1 Corinthians 15: 22-24 Luke 22: 17