"Chloe" - 04-06-14 Message Notes and Podcast link
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"What message is on your heart today Lord?"
He said, "I
want to talk about Chloe"
So I went and looked up the name Chloe in the dictionary:
Chloe - meaning
origin: Greek:
1. A green shoot. A
green herb. Young green foliage and shoots of plants.
2. Blooming. Verdant
glory. Verdant and blooming. Fresh blooming.
So then I looked up the word Verdant:
Verdant: To be
green with vegetation; to be covered with growing plants or grass, to be lush:
a verdant oasis.
It is found once
in: 1 Corinthians 1:11
1 Corinthians1:1 PAUL, SUMMONED by the will and purpose of
God to be an apostle (special messenger) of Christ Jesus, and our brother
Sosthenes, 2 To the church (assembly) of God which is in Corinth, to those
consecrated and purified and made holy in Christ Jesus, [who are] selected and
called to be saints (God's people), together with all those who in any place
call upon and give honor to the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord
and ours: 3 Grace (favor and spiritual blessing) be to you and [heart] peace
from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 4 I thank my God at all times
for you because of the grace (the favor and spiritual blessing) of God which
was bestowed on you in Christ Jesus, 5 [So] that in Him in every respect you
were enriched, in full power and readiness of speech [to speak of your faith]
and complete knowledge and illumination [to give you full insight into its
meaning]. 6 In this way [our] witnessing concerning Christ (the Messiah) was so
confirmed and established and made sure in you 7 That you are not [consciously]
falling behind or lacking in any special spiritual endowment or Christian grace
[the reception of which is due to the power of divine grace operating in your
souls by the Holy Spirit], while you wait and watch [constantly living in hope]
for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and [His] being made visible to all. 8
And He will establish you to the end [keep you steadfast, give you strength,
and guarantee your vindication; He will be your warrant against all accusation
or indictment so that you will be] guiltless and irreproachable in the day of
our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah). 9 God is faithful (reliable,
trustworthy, and therefore ever true to His promise, and He can be depended
on); by Him you were called into companionship and participation with His Son,
Jesus Christ our Lord. 10 But I urge and entreat you, brethren, by the name of
our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you be in perfect harmony and full agreement
in what you say, and that there be no dissensions or factions or divisions
among you, but that you be perfectly united in your common understanding and in
your opinions and judgments. 11 For it has been made clear to me, my brethren,
by those of Chloe's household, that there are contentions and wrangling and
factions among you. - AMP
ESV: 11 For it has been reported to me by Chloe’s people
that there is quarreling among you, my brothers.
1 Corinthians 11:18 For, in the first place, when you come
together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe
it in part,
1 Corinthians 3:3 for you are still of the flesh. For while there
is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in
a human way?
Galatians 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are evident:
sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife,
jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy,
drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before,
that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God
Ask yourself,
"What (or who) am I walking in today?"
In my flesh, or in
His Fruit? In my soul, or in His Mind?
In my human spirit, or in His Spirit that dwells in me?
It's not about what I
think; it's about what HE thinks!
Romans 13:13 Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in
orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in
quarreling and jealousy.
Bible Gateway: The
Verse of the day today: 1 John 3:16:
“Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down
his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.” KJV
By this we come to know (progressively to recognize, to
perceive, to understand) the [essential] love: that He laid down His [own] life
for us; and we ought to lay [our] lives down for [those who are our] brothers
[in Him]. AMP
(When the Glory is in the earth, so is the Civil War)
The Spiritual
Civil War:
Those in their flesh, and
those in their heads, at odds with those in their spirits.
If satan cannot stop
God from moving among and through you, the enemy will try to divide you from
within.
Verdant in the scriptures:
Jeremiah 50:6 “My people have been lost sheep; their
shepherds have led them astray and caused them to roam on the mountains. They
wandered over mountain and hill and forgot their own resting place. 7 Whoever
found them devoured them; their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they
sinned against the LORD, their verdant pasture, the LORD, the hope of their
ancestors.’ - NIV
Song of Solomon 1:15-17
NIV
(He) 15 How beautiful
you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes are doves.
(She) 16 How handsome you are, my beloved! Oh, how
charming! And our bed is verdant (lush).
(He) 17 The beams of
our house are cedars; our rafters are firs.
AMP: 15 Behold, you are beautiful, my love! Behold, you are
beautiful! You have doves' eyes. 16 [She cried] Behold, you are beautiful, my
beloved [shepherd], yes, delightful! Our arbor and couch are green and leafy.
17 The beams of our house are cedars, and our rafters and panels are cypresses
or pines.
The House of the
Lord:
The Habitation. The Planting
of the Lord.
2014: Going Through The
Double Doors
Isaiah 61:1 THE SPIRIT of the Lord God is upon me,
because the Lord has anointed and qualified me to preach the Gospel of good
tidings to the meek, the poor, and afflicted; He has sent me to bind up and
heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the [physical and spiritual]
captives and the opening of the prison and of the eyes to those who are bound,
2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord [the year of His favor] and the
day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, 3 To grant [consolation
and joy] to those who mourn in Zion--to give them an ornament (a garland or
diadem) of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the
garment [expressive] of praise instead of a heavy, burdened, and failing
spirit--that they may be called oaks of righteousness [lofty, strong, and
magnificent, distinguished for uprightness, justice, and right standing with
God], the planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified. 4 And they shall
rebuild the ancient ruins; they shall raise up the former desolations and renew
the ruined cities, the devastations of many generations. 5 Aliens shall
stand [ready] and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and
your vinedressers. 6 But you shall be called the priests of the Lord; people
will speak of you as the ministers of our God. You shall eat the wealth of the
nations, and the glory [once that of your captors] shall be yours. 7 Instead of
your [former] shame you shall have a twofold recompense; instead of dishonor
and reproach [your people] shall rejoice in their portion. Therefore in
their land they shall possess double [what they had forfeited]; everlasting joy
shall be theirs. 8 For I the Lord love justice; I hate robbery and wrong with
violence or a burnt offering. And I will faithfully give them their
recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant or league with
them. 9 And their offspring shall be known among the nations and their
descendants among the peoples. All who see them [in their prosperity] will
recognize and acknowledge that they are the people whom the Lord has blessed.
10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul will exult in my God; for He has
clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of
righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride
adorns herself with her jewels. 11 For as [surely as] the earth brings forth
its shoots, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring forth, so
[surely] the Lord God will cause rightness and justice and praise to spring
forth before all the nations [through the self-fulfilling power of His word].
The First Epistle to the Corinthians was written from Ephesus (1 Cor. 16:8) about the time of the Passover in
the third year of the apostle's sojourn there (Acts 19:10; 20:31), and when he
had formed the purpose to visit Macedonia ,
and then return to Corinth
The news which had reached him, however, from Corinth
The epistle may be divided into four parts:
(1.) The apostle deals with the subject of the lamentable
divisions and party strifes that had arisen among them (1 Cor. 1-4).
(2.) He next treats of certain cases of immorality that had
become notorious among them. They had apparently set at nought the very first
principles of morality (5; 6).
(3.) In the third part he discusses various questions of
doctrine and of Christian ethics in reply to certain communications they had
made to him. He especially rectifies certain flagrant abuses regarding the
celebration of the Lord's Supper (7-14).
(4.) The concluding part (15; 16) contains an elaborate
defense of the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, which had been called
in question by some among them, followed by some general instructions,
intimations, and greetings.
This epistle "shows the powerful self-control of the
apostle in spite of his physical weakness, his distressed circumstances, his
incessant troubles, and his emotional nature. It was written, he tells us, in
bitter anguish, 'out of much affliction and pressure of heart...and with
streaming eyes' (2 Cor. 2:4); yet he restrained the expression of his feelings,
and wrote with a dignity and holy calm which he thought most calculated to win back
his erring children. It gives a vivid picture of the early church...It entirely
dissipates the dream that the apostolic church was in an exceptional condition
of holiness of life or purity of doctrine." The apostle in this epistle
unfolds and applies great principles fitted to guide the church of all ages in
dealing with the same and kindred evils in whatever form they may appear.
Passover this year begins at sundown on Monday, April 14th, 2014.
According to www.hebcal.com:
Chag Kasher v'Sameach! We wish you a happy Passover.
Pesach begins at sundown on Mon, 14 April 2014.
Pesach begins at sundown on Mon, 14 April 2014.
Communion: The "Common Union
of Believers"
1 Corinthians 10:16 The cup of blessing [of wine at the
Lord's Supper] upon which we ask [God's] blessing, does it not mean [that in
drinking it] we participate in and share a fellowship (a communion) in the
blood of Christ (the Messiah)? The bread which we break, does it not mean [that
in eating it] we participate in and share a fellowship (a communion) in the
body of Christ? 17 For we [no matter how] numerous we are, are one body, because
we all partake of the one Bread [the One Whom the communion bread represents].
- Susan O'Marra
- 04-06-14
