Now Get To Work (2)

But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,  keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.  Jude 1:20-21  NIV Keep yourselves in God’s love – The literal text places “yourselves in the love…

Impossible Journey?

“He who has My commandments, and keeps them, he it is who loves Me, and he who loves Me shall be loved by My Father, and I will love him, and will disclose Myself to him.” John 14:21  NASB Keeps them – From Adam until now, no man has been able to fulfill this requirement. …

Rearrangements

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith; 2 Timothy 4:7 Kept – In Greek, this sentence reads a little differently.  The direct objects come first (“The good fight I have fought, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept”).  This doesn’t seem like much…