The Rome Meeting

Saturday Night April 21, 2012

Did God Promise Life or to retire at 65, what examples

are in His word?

Adam created to live forever (Gen. 1:25). Why would God create oldness in a being created in His Image?

Image (defined):

1. Resemblance
2. outward face

Likeness (defined):

1. model
2. shape
3. manner
4. similitude

Gen. 2:15: And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

 16And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:



 17But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.



The dying process began.



Genesis 5:



Adam lived 930 years, Seth lived 912 years, Enos lived 905 years, Cainan lived 910 years, Mahalaleel lived 895 years, Jared lived 962 years, Methuselah lived 969 years, Lamech lived 777 years.






Enoch:



Gen. 5:21:24: And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:



 22And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:



 23And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:



 24And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.



Noah:



Gen. 7:1:And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.



Gen 9:29: And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.



Abraham:



Gen.17:15:And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.



 16And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.



 17Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?



Gen 21:1:And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.



 2For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.



And...



:5: And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.



Moses:



Dt. 34:7:And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.



Natural Force: Freshness, vigor, eye was not dim. His skin on his cheeks were not wrinkled and his freshness hadn't fled. (Hebrew word/meaning: undried and moist).



Dt. 8:4:Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years. ***God didn't even want their clothes old, when they left Egypt.



Caleb:



Josh. 14:10:And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.



 11As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.



 12Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.









Psa. 91:1:He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.



And...



:16: With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.



Psa. 103:5:Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.



Psa. 105:37: He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.



Eph. 6:2:Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;



 3That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.



Rom.8:1:There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.



 2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.



And..



6: For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.



And..



13: For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.



 14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.



John 7:38: He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.



Rev. 22:1:And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.



 2In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.



Life is forever provided for



I Corth. 15:22:For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.



And..



26: The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.



Lazarus



John 11:11:These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.



I Thes. 4:14: For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

The Rome Meeting Friday Night, April 20, 2012

The Rome Meeting Friday Night, April 20, 2012

Paul was to the New Testament what Moses was to the Old Testament

 The Hand

Acts 19:11: And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: 
 12So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them


. Ex. 14:16: But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea. 


 Ex. 17:9: And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.  
10So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 
  11And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. 
  12But Moses hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.  
13And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. 


 Exodus 32: 15: And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written. 
  16And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables. When Moses came down with the Law of God in his hand, the power was transferred to him.


 Luke 16:16:The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it


. Rom. 14:17:For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. Paul Preaching The Gospel of God 


 Rom. 1:1: Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,


 Gal. 1:15: But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, 
 16To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:


Acts 9:15:But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: 
  16For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.


 John 14:12:Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. Greater works example: 


 John 5:1:After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
  2Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. 
  3In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.  4For an angel went down at a certain seas on into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.  
5And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.  
6When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?  
7The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.  
8Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.  
9And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.

Apostle Paul's Epistle to The Romans part III

I apologize that these are out of sequence... I had typed this one out on my lap top.. as I was out of town.. and this is why... This is chapter 3


From the teaching 3/24/12


Apostle Paul's Epistle to the Corinthians part III



I Corinthians 3:1: And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

Mere infants in the faith of Christ


 2I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.

Even now you still have to be fed on milk

 3For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

A. You are still of a worldly attitude
B. You are still controlled by your own desires

 4For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

 5Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

 6I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

 7So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

 8Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
 9For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

Husbandry: You belong to god as His Field to be tilled, as his
building to be built, a structure of God's design.


 10According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.

Masterbuilder (defined):
A. Architect
B. The plan belonged to God, but the execution of the plan was
entrusted to Paul.

 11For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

 12Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;

Whoever he is let him be careful how he builds

 13Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.

Works are compared to these materials; gold, silver, precious stones,
wood, hay, stubble. Some become pure in the fire and others are
completely burned up. Fire will try every man's work. If his are gold,
silver, and precious stones, they will abide the fire and he will receive
a reward for his works. If they are wood, hay, and stubble, his works
will be burned up, yet he, himself will be saved from the loss of his soul.

 14If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.

 15If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

Judgment of the believer works and the time of this judgment is
between the rapture and the 2nd coming.
The place of this judgment is in heaven (Rom. 14:10 and II Corth 5:10)

 16Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

 17If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

 18Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

 19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

God uses man's own brilliance to trap him. He traps the wise in their own
cunning.

 20And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

 21Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are your's;

Let none of you make his boast in men. Everything belongs to you.

 22Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are your's;

He gives you All of the present and All of the future.
 23And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

But you belong to Christ and Christ belongs to God.

Apostle Pauls Teaching to the Corinthians, part V

Fron the teaching 4/7/2012


Apostle Paul's Letter To The Corinthians, part V



I Corth. 5:1: It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

A. Sexual immoraity so wicked that even the heathern don't do it.
B. A kind even the pagens condemn. OT Ref, A law against this to
the Israelites. DT. 22:30: A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.


 2And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.

A. You are puffed up over your gifts and so full of strife, and contention
related to your favorite teachers, you have neglected the discipline of
the church. Had you considered the greatness of the crime you would have
mourned and acted to put away the fornicator.

 3For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,

A. My judgement is already given as if I indeed were present.
B. I assure you as solumnly as if I were actually present before
your assembly that I have already pronounced judgement.

 4In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

 5To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

A. The purpose of delivering him to Satan was to destroy the flesh so as to
satan to afflict his body this prehaps bringing to repentance, that his
spirit may be saved in the end.
B. This was effective for in his second letter Paul wrote the church to
forgive him lest he should be swallowed up in over much sorrow.
(II Corth. 2:6-7).

 6Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

Leaven (defined): 1. yeast

A. Your ground for boasting about such a case is not good.
B. If you permit this incestuous person to continue in your midst
without judgement, the whole church will become ruined by
moral impurities.

 7Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

A. We have cleaned out every bit of the old yeast.

 8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

A. The passover being past, we are now living in the days of
the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

 9I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

 10Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

A. I didn't mean that you were to have no contact at all with the
immoral of this world, but I had in mind the sinners who are
outside of the church.
B. For it is not possible to keep away from such people without
going out of the world completely. You would need to get out of human
society all together.

 11But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

 12For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?

A. Is it my business to judge those who are outside the church?
B. But surely it is your business to judge these who are inside
the church.

 13But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

A. God does the judging.

Apostle Pauls Teaching to the Corinthians, part IV

From the teaching 3/31/2012


Apostle Paul’s Letter to The Corinthians part IV


I Corinthians 4:1: Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Steward (defined):

A. Administrators of the gospel truths of God.
B. Managers or overseers authorized to distribute
secret truths of God.
C. Trustees to handle God's uncovered truth.


 2Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

The first and final requirement is that they should prove
trustworthy.

 3But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.

 4For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

 5Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

 6And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

A. I have used myself and Apollos above as an illustration.
B. So that you might learn from us what I have said about
us to keep to what is written.
C. So that you may stop boasting of one teacher against
another.

 7For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?

A. What do you possess that has not been given you?
B. Why boast of it as if it were something you had
achieved yourself?

 8Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

A. Have you ascended your thrones without us to join you?
B. Have you already taken possession of your kingdom
without our help?

 9For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.



Spectacle: GK. Theatron pronounced: (theh-at-ron)

-theater

-a place of public show

a. God has exhibited us Apostles at the very end of the
procession like criminals, condemned to die in the arena
like doomed gladiators.
b. For we are to be gazed upon in a theater by the
whole world, both men and angels.

10We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.

 11Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;

 12And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:

 13Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.

Offscouring:

A. We are considered the scum of the earth.

 14I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
 15For though ye have ten thousand instructers in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

Though you have many who offer their services as your
instructors, you have only one by whom you were converted
and who has parental feelings for you.

 16Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.

 17For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.

 18Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.

Some are filled with self importance because they think I am
afraid to come and deal with you.

 19But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.

I'll find out if these proud men are just big talkers
or whether they really have God's power.

 20For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
For the kingdom of God does not consist
in talking empty words, but in Power.

 21What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?