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Thank you for choosing W4CY Radio. Draw me close to you.
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Never let me go Lay it all down again Till
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you say that I'm a.
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Friend Good day. The Almighty Creator desires a deep personal
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relationship with you. My name is James Robertson. I'm a researcher, publisher,
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and teacher regarding the matters and truths of the Almighty Creator,
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whose true name is Yah, the Eternally Self-Existing. I've been
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actively serving Him since 1993, over 33 years. If you're
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not actively serving Yah, then by default you're serving Satan.
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My objective is to show you how you can make
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a big difference on earth and qualify for a position
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of high esteem in heaven for eternity. It's important to
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understand that as a believer, just being good is not
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the point. It's relationship with YAH that counts. Without this,
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you'll be in a very unpleasant place in heaven with
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no way out. My aim is to show you how
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to get close to Father. If you're a good person
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without a clear relationship with YAH, then you're in a
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spiritual no man's land and you will not enter heaven
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when you die. The Creator has said regarding unbelievers, Why
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would I want someone to spend eternity with me when
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they do not believe I exist? Think about it. It
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makes sense. Yah is calling everybody on the planet to
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be involved and serve him and help him to have
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victory over Satan. Fundamentally, we each need to learn to
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see things on earth from Yah's perspective. So I'm going
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to continue with part three of the first letter of Shaul.
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incorrectly Paul, to the Corinthian believers, commonly called one Corinthians
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in the New Testament. This is part three. Overview. This
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book provides teachings to the Corinthian believers from Shaul, commonly
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but incorrectly called Paul. Note that the letters, epistles in
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the New Testament, give more teaching about the ways of
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Yah and the anointed life than the first five books
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from Matiyahu to Revelations. which give more in the way
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of examples of highly anointed believers, particularly Yahushua, as an
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example of how we should seek to live our lives.
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You will see from my footnotes that there are several
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statements by Shaul that I believe are not from Yah.
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Emissaries exist today just the same as at the time
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this was written, but many are not recognized as such.
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About a year ago, I broadcast the introduction to the
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New Testament in the ETI Bible version and also the
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book of Matiyahu. There's a lot of notes and commentary
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there that is applicable here to one current instance as well.
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So we're picking up part 3, chapter 12, verse 1.
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Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
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You know that you were hagoim, incorrectly Gentiles, carried away
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to these dumb idols, even as you were led. Therefore
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I give you to understand that no man speaking by
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the Spirit of Yah calls Yahushua accursed, and that no
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man can say that Yahushua is Adonai, in other words, Lord,
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but by the Set-apart Spirit. Now, there are diversities of
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gifts with the same Spirit, and there are differences of
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administrations with the same Adonai. There are diversities of operations,
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but it is the same Yah which works in all.
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So it's vital to understand that there are different roles
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in the body of believers. And so just because you
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don't understand somebody else's ministry and calling doesn't make them wrong.
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There's a tendency... amongst a lot of believers, to have
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a fairly narrow view of what a believer should look like.
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And then if you come in a bit differently, I'm
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a spokesman, a prophet, and I don't conform to what
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pastors do. It's a whole topic on its own right.
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Verse 7. The manifestation of the Spirit is given to
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every man to profit with all. But one is given
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by the Spirit the word of wisdom, to another the
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word of knowledge, by the same Spirit, to another imunah, faith,
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by the same Spirit, to another the gifts of healing,
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by the same Spirit. So if you have a gift,
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don't get proud of the fact that you have a
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gift and look down on people who don't have the
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same gift as you have. There's a good possibility they've
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got a gift that you don't have. It may not
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be so obvious. verse 10, to another the working of miracles,
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to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another
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various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
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I've left the word in prophecy in here. I've referred
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to prophets as spokesman and spokeswoman. But prophecy ultimately is
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your giving utterance. So a prophet, a spokesperson, spokesman, spokeswoman,
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is somebody that you are speaks to and they speak
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out what they hear from Yah. Verse 11. But all
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these works that one in the self same spirit, dividing
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to every man severally as he will. Whereas the body
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is one and has many members, and all the members
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of that one body being many are one body, so
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also is the anointed one of Yah, or the anointing
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of Yah. By one spirit are we all immersed into
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one body, whether we be Yahudi, incorrectly Jews, or Haggai,
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incorrectly Gentiles, whether we be bond or free, and have
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been all made to drink in one spirit. The body
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is not one member, but many. If the foot shall say,
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Because I am not the hand, I am not of
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the body, is it therefore not of the body? And
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if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye,
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I am not of the body, Is it therefore not
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of the body? And if the whole body were an eye,
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where were the hearing? And if the whole were hearing,
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where were the smelling? So he's making a strong point
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here that the entire collection of believers have got a
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diversity of gifts and callings and so forth. And this
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thing of saying, oh, we don't agree with you, so
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we're going to start another denomination or another religion or whatever.
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The reason that there are so many religions and so
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many denominations and so forth, there's something like 12,000 denominations
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in Christianity, is because people say, oh, I'm just going
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to stick to this little bit which I know, and
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you don't believe what I believe, so I'm going to
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shun you and I'm going to go out and start
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my own club. That's not right. There's one body. We're
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all members of that body, no matter how different we are.
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And in particular, there are Catholics and Protestants and Muslim
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people and Jews who are all part of the body.
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There are also Hindu, Yogi and others who are part
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of the body. Not necessarily the whole clump, But in amongst,
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these different groups are parts of the body, and they
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look very different, and they sound very different, and they
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believe very different. But Yah is huge. Continuing with this thought,
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verse 18, But now has Yah set the members, every
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one of them, in the body as it has pleased him.
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And if they were all one member, where were the body?
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And how now are they many members, yet one body?
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I cannot say to the hand, I have no need
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of thee, nor again the head to the feet, I
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have no need of you. No, much more those members
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of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.
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And those members of the body which we think to
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be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour,
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and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. So the
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human body has components, and this is what he's saying,
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that are regarded as almost unmentionable, sort of like the
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anus and the penis and the whatever. They're necessary. And
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so there are members of the body of believers who
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have strange roles. It doesn't mean they're not believers. Verse 24,
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For our company parts have no need, but YAH has
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tempered the body together, having given more abundant honor to
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that part which lacked. That there should be no schism
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in the body, but that the members should have the
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same care one for another, and whether one member suffers,
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all the members suffer with it. If one member be honored,
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all the members rejoice with it. And now you are
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the body of the anointed one of Yah, the anointing
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of Yah, and members in particular. And Yah has set
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some in the assembly, first emissary, secondary spokesman, The VR
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thirdly teaches after that miracles and gifts of healing, helps, governments,
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diversities of tongues. The fundamental roles that I've come to
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understand them are firstly spokesmen and spokeswomen, incorrectly prophets and prophetesses.
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They're hearing from YAH, they should give overall direction. Then
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evangelists going out and bringing recruits into the body of believers,
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also very strongly led by YAH. Then shepherds, pastors, and
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I'm sorry to disappoint you if you're a pastor. Shepherd
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is the most junior of those three ranks. It's an
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administrative role. You take the people the evangelist brings in
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and you train them up so they can go into
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ministry on their own. And this thing of having buildings
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with seats with people who've been there for 20 years
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doesn't cut it. As a pastor, as a shepherd, you
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have two years to raise up a new convert to
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a point where they have a relationship with Yah, they
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know what their ministry and their calling is, and they
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can go out on their own. Hard to swallow, but
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that's what Yah is saying. Have all the gifts of healing,
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to all speak with tongues, to all interpret, but covet
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earnestly the best gifts, and yet I show you a
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more excellent way. So there we see it for irks.
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There are offices, roles, the three that I mentioned, and
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then there are gifts within those. Chapter 13. Though I
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speak with the tongues of men and of messengers and
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have not chesed, chesed is covenant love, loving kindness. King
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James calls it charity. It's an extremely important passage, 1
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Corinthians 13, 1 to 8. I speak with tongues of
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men and of messengers, and I have not chesed, or
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incorrectly love, and become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.
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Now I have the gift of prophecy and understand all
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mysteries and all knowledge, and now I have all imunah, faith,
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so that I could move mountains, and I have not chesed,
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I'm nothing. Though I bestow all my goods to feed
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the poor and though I give my body to be
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burned and have not chesed, it profiteth me nothing. Chesed
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suffers long and is kind. Chesed does not envy. Chesed
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does not boast, is not puffed up, does not behave
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itself unseemly, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked,
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thinks no evil. So covenant love, the love that we
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just generally use in English is It's more erotic love.
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It's namby-pambing love. Covenant love, chesed, is tough. It's strong.
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The Greek is agape, agape. It's strong. It's committed. I
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love you, my brother, or my wife, or my husband,
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or my child, or whatever. I am committed to you,
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and I will stand with you, and I love you,
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and I will lay down my life for you. That's
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the sort of chesed that Yahushua had for us when
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he died. Continuing verse 6. Rejoices not in iniquity, but
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rejoices in the truth. Bears all things, believes all things,
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hopes all things, endures all things. So no matter how
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badly the other person treats you, You bear and endure
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all things, as Yeshua did when he hung on the
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stake and died an agonizing death in chesed, in covenant
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love for us. Chesed never dies. Folks, this is so important.
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If you have entered into chesed, covenant love, with another person,
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it will never go away. It will be there even
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when you get to heaven, if you get to heaven.
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And chesed can be murdered through treachery, through harsh treatment,
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through anger, abuse. But apart from that, it will never die.
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We speak of making love in the context of sexual lovemaking.
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This act brings chesed into existence and this will never
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die and will draw the partners back towards one another
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who are separated, no matter what happens. This is one
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of the reasons why frivolous and adulterous sexual intercourse is forbidden.
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It's also the reason why if a woman, a man
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leaves a covenant partner, a wife or a husband, the
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partner that's been aggrieved will feel really, really hurt and
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upset because of this chesed that they have. So continuing
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with verse 8, chesed never dies, but whether there are prophecies,
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they shall fail. Whether there are tongues, they shall cease.
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Whether there is knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we
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know in part and we prophesy in part. When that
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which is perfect is come, then that which is in
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part shall be done away. When I was a child,
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I spoke as a child. I understood as a child.
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I thought as a child. But when I became a man,
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I put away childish things. So he's speaking also metaphorically
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about growing up in Yah. But now we see through
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a glass darkly, but then face to face. Now I
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know in part, then I shall I know, even as
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also I am not. What he's saying is that in
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this life, we do not see the things of Yah clearly.
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We see the best we can as through a glass,
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a dark glass. It now binds imona, faith, hope, chesed, love.
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These three, but the greatest of these is a chesed.
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It's important to recognize that no matter how close one
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is to Yah, one only sees through a glass darkly.
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Once one is in Heaven one will see clearly. It's
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not wise to be adamant about revelation from Yah, unless
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one has gone to great lengths to verify what one
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claims to be hearing. Chapter 14 Follow after Chesed and
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desire spiritual gifts, but rather that you may prophesy. For
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he that speaks in an unknown tongue speaks not to men,
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but to Yah, for no man understands him. However, in
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the spirit, he speaks mystery. He's speaking now the gift
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of tongues, which is a gift that one receives. Some
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people receive, some people don't. Verse 3, But he that
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prophesies speaketh to men for edification and exaltation and comfort.
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But he that speaks in an unknown tongue edifies himself.
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But he that prophesies edifies the assembly. I would that