Daily Bread - MAR/08/07
1 John 3:4 - "Everyone who acts sinfully also does iniquity, for sin is the iniquity."
The word "anomia" may be translated, "without law, lawlessness, transgression of the law, iniquity." In the Septuagint we read "Happy are they whose iniquities (anomia) were forgiven and whose sins (harmatia) were covered," Psalms 32:1. And in the New Testament in Matthew 13:41, "The Son of man shall send out his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that cause to stumble (scandalon), and them which do iniquity (anomia)."
It is translated by the Hebrew word "beleeaal" or "belial" in Psalms 18:4 KJV/18:5 BHS/17:5 LXX. Although, "belial" means "worthlessness, ungodly or wicked men" it became a technical term for the devil in both the community of Qumran and in the New Testament. 2 Corinthians 6:14-15 says: "for what partnership has righteousness with iniquity (anomia)? and what fellowship has light with darkness? And what common has Christ with Belial?"
We are not the sons of belieal that we should walk in iniquity and sin (John 8:44; Ephesians 2:2; 1 John 3:8). We are the sons of God and are to in every way imitate our Father which is in Heaven (1 John 3:1-2, 7; John 1:12; Ephesians 5:1).
Blessings,
Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
abidingplace.org
About Me
- Carol L
- San Diego area, California, United States
- I started this blog back in 2005, but in 2006 began dedicating it solely for the purpose of posting email messages called, Daily Bread, sent out Monday through Saturday by my pastor, Mark Spitsbergen. These daily emails contain fresh revelation that Mark gets from the Word of God by the Holy Spirit for that day for the church that God has called him to pastor, Abiding Place. 1 Peter 4:11 says, "If any man speak let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister let him do it as of the ability which God gives that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen." Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, (John 14:6), and He says, "The words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are Life." (John 6:63). For the Word of God is quick (alive), and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12).
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