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Bible Study The Marriage & Divorce Of Sin - A Mini Bible Study

Chopper said:
It's interesting how I view my past life of success. The Printing Company that I started was going to be my life long family business. I could not remember any one in my family who ever had a business that was passed down for future generations so I wanted to be the first.

My Son Skip was a teenager when I started the Company, and he really liked working with me in the shop. He was very good at running a few of my printing presses. We talked about him owning the business later on....Then I got saved. It wasn't long before I felt the call of God to go to Bible College to become a Pastor of one of His Churches. In almost a year, I was in College and my Son & Daughter were in Christian Academy on the same campus.

I have one regret about this. I feel bad because I promised my Son the Printing Co. As it turned out, I became the Pastor I trained for but my Son struggled thru several jobs until he, thru the gifts of carpentry that God gave him, he became a successful cabinet maker, remodeling kitchens etc.

Every once in a while I get a pang of remorse over this, but I know that just like Bill Taylor said, it's only temporary....
James 5:1 "Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
5:2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
5:3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days."

Both Skip and I know that this world is not our home. This life is not to be taken very seriously other than our relationship with Christ Jesus. Skip and I are just biding our time here on earth as pilgrims on a journey to our promised land the New Jerusalem. Once there, our Master Jesus will already have our occupation chosen for us in that new City of God not made with hands.
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I agree with Reba, your son will join you and your Pretty Woman walking down that street. I feel there can be no greater gift.
 
reba said:
What is a heavenly mansion ?
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I'm glad you asked that. The first time I read the relevant passages I accepted the generally taught Mansion for each person. But as I continued to study the Spirit troubled me to research deeper and the deeper I went the more convinced I became the each saved person would have their own room in the King's Mansion. And I love the idea that Bill Taylor, that scoundrel Willis D. Taylor, Sr. will, one day, live in my Saviour's Home.

So much better.
 
Why a room at all... Will we need sleep? heat, food, no need to keep bad guys out :) will we need clothes ... this tired wife say NO kitchen,,,
seems to me mansion is a human way of trying to explain something heavenly
 
reba said:
Why a room at all... Will we need sleep? heat, food, no need to keep bad guys out :) will we need clothes ... this tired wife say NO kitchen,,,
seems to me mansion is a human way of trying to explain something heavenly
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Move over Reba, Jesus is making room for all of us.


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reba said:
Why a room at all... Will we need sleep? heat, food, no need to keep bad guys out :) will we need clothes ... this tired wife say NO kitchen,,,
seems to me mansion is a human way of trying to explain something heavenly
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And I had my wife as the head chef and you in the second seat. Suddenly the old fossil screams. "REBA, Reba put that Rolling Pin down and then without warning he says, Deeter... now baby you know I only said that because I love you and you do make the very best cornbread in Texas or Louisianan. BABY, we're all good... right?
 
reba said:
seems to me mansion is a human way of trying to explain something heavenly
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I lean more that way, too.
The gem stones are descriptions of us, God's people--shiny, imperishable, of great worth in God's sight. The kingdom will be composed of such of these.

And just as there were rooms in the Temple for the priests of the old covenant, so there are rooms for us, the priesthood of the New Covenant, in the heavenly Temple. We just have to accept that we simply don't know what the life to come is literally going to be like. For now we know it according to various metaphors.
 
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reba said:
Why a room at all... Will we need sleep?
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Exactly. Why a room? Why not a mansion as already written? And as mentioned already, all such questions must be put on hold till we are actually there. We seem to forget that the New Jerusalem is a cube the size of a continent. Rooms would be meager, inadequate, scanty, paltry, poor, miserable and pitiful.
 
th1b.taylor said:
I'm glad you asked that. The first time I read the relevant passages I accepted the generally taught Mansion for each person. But as I continued to study the Spirit troubled me to research deeper and the deeper I went the more convinced I became the each saved person would have their own room in the King's Mansion. And I love the idea that Bill Taylor, that scoundrel Willis D. Taylor, Sr. will, one day, live in my Saviour's Home.

So much better.
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Wonderful Bill. Thanks for pointing that out. I think a room in our Fathers House is more appropriate, I like that, it'll be easier to keep clean than a big mansion.:lol
 
Malachi said:
the New Jerusalem is a cube the size of a continent.
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This is perhaps the biggest reason why I lean towards a less literal understanding of the descriptions given in the Bible about the life to come. Based on other scriptures, it's a symbolic, or metaphorical representation of what eternity will be like. Practically speaking, it doesn't really make any sense.
 
Malachi said:
Exactly. Why a room? Why not a mansion as already written? And as mentioned already, all such questions must be put on hold till we are actually there. We seem to forget that the New Jerusalem is a cube the size of a continent. Rooms would be meager, inadequate, scanty, paltry, poor, miserable and pitiful.
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I'm sorry, what are you envisioning going on in yo mansion?
 
I never cease to be amazed at how many different interpretations I keep hearing from people about the Book of Revelation.
I wonder if they have a pool going in heaven as to who guesses the closest as to how many different interpretations there are come the actual end.
 
Jethro Bodine said:
This is perhaps the biggest reason why I lean towards a less literal understanding of the descriptions given in the Bible about the life to come. Based on other scriptures, it's a symbolic, or metaphorical representation of what eternity will be like. Practically speaking, it doesn't really make any sense.
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1Pe 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
1Pe 2:6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
1Pe 2:7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
1Pe 2:8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
1Pe 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
 
reba said:
1Pe 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
1Pe 2:6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
1Pe 2:7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
1Pe 2:8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
1Pe 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
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We are on exactly the same page. :thumbsup
 
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