HEARING PERSONS GET CHANGED INTO SOMETHING
MUCH BETTER,
METAMORPHIZED
BY GOD
09-29-19
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God is Thought. The
brightness of our revelations depends upon the correctness of our
doctrines,
our building blocks (our
thoughts, one upon another).
OUR METAMORPHOSIS FROM A
LOWLY CATERPILLAR INTO A BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLY
(Rom 12:1,2) I beseech you therefore, brethren,
by
the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living
sacrifice,
holy, acceptable unto God, which is
your reasonable service. And be not conformed
to [Gk: the same pattern as] this
world:
but be ye transformed [Gk:
“metamorphose”:
changed, transfigured] by the renewing
[Gk: renovation] [re-newing] of
your
mind [thoughts], that
ye may prove [confirm by personal
evidence, show] what is
that good, and acceptable, and
perfect, will of God.
1.
(Rom
10:17)
So
then faith cometh
by hearing,
and hearing by the word of God.
2.
(Rev 2:7) He
that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit
saith unto the churches;
To him that overcometh [Gk:
to
subdue: conquer, prevail, get the victory]
[over your self, over your
natural man thoughts] will I give to
eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the
paradise of God.
THE TRANSFORMATION (METAMORPHOSIS)
OF SIMON INTO PETER
(Luke
5:1-3)
And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed
upon him to
hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of
Gennesaret [Heb:
harp-shaped] [Galilee: Heb: a circle,
circuit (a course of travel)] [7 miles wide; 12 miles long], And saw two ships [symbolically, the Old Testament and the New
Testament] standing by the
lake
[supported by the water, a symbol of
the Holy Spirit]: but the
fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing
[Gk: to rinse off] [preparing,
cleansing,
getting rid of the rubbish, the trash, the debris] their
nets [for the work of the
ministry] [a type of
baptism] [1]. And he [Jesus] entered
into one of the ships, which was Simon's [Heb: hearing] [i.e., the New Testament
ship], and prayed [Gk: requested] him
that he would thrust out a little from the land [evoking an appropriate sensual image of
“sowing seed”]. And he sat down [a position of authority, as covering the
audience], and taught
the
people out of the ship [out
of
the New Testament].
1.
(2 Tim 2:15)
Study
to shew thyself approved unto God,
a workman that needeth
not to be ashamed, rightly dividing
[Gk: to make a straight cut; fig. to
dissect (expound) correctly] the
word of truth.
a.
(Eph 5:26) That he might sanctify and
cleanse it [you] with
the washing of
water by the word,
(Luke 5:4) Now when he had
left speaking [to the (dry) people standing on
the sea shore, standing on dry land
without the Holy Spirit of God, and some wading out closer to Him], he
said unto Simon [Heb:
hearing], Launch out into the deep [Gk:
profound: depth], and let down your nets
for a draught [Gk: a catch, haul (of
fish)].
(Luke 5:5-7) And Simon
[Heb: hearing] answering
said unto him, Master [Gk:
teacher], we have toiled
[Gk: to feel fatigue, worked hard] all the night, and have taken nothing:
nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.
And when they [Simon
and his hired helpers (crew)] had
this done, they inclosed a great
multitude of fishes: and their net brake [Gk: to tear asunder: rend] [1].
And they beckoned unto their
partners, which were in the other ship [the Old Testament],
that
they should come and help them. And they came [with their hired helpers (crew)], and filled both the ships, so
that they began to sink [submerging
into the glorious depths of the
Holy Spirit, leaving this world, and entering into the next].
1.
Commentary: Why did the net
brake?
(Luke 5:8-11) When Simon
[Heb: hearing] Peter [Gk:
a piece of (the) rock] saw
it,
he
fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me;
for I am a sinful
man, O Lord. For he was astonished, and all
[including the hired helpers (crew)]
that were with him, at the
draught of
the fishes which they had taken: And so was
also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee [Heb: giving],
which were partners with Simon [i.e., they also “heard”].
And Jesus said unto Simon [Heb:
hearing], Fear not;
from
henceforth thou shalt catch men. And when they had brought
their ships to
land, they [the
“hearing”
Peter, James, and John] forsook
all, and followed him.
1.
Commentary: But what
happened to the hired helpers (crews)? Our Rescue Mission ship is like
that, we
have a few hearing
believers
in our crew, and many
hired helpers. So indeed
are today’s Churches.
Amen