REWRITE THE BOOKS 9-25-16 VIDEO
PAST CAUSES OUR FUTURE ONLESS IT IS CHANGED
Heb 11:15 If they had been thinking with [homesick] remembrance of that country from which they were emigrants, they would have found constant opportunity to return to it.
Heb 11:15 And if their hearts were still remembering what they left behind, they would have found an opportunity to go back.
Jer 8:5 So why does this people go backwards, and just keep on going backwards! They stubbornly hold on to their illusions, refuse to change direction.
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FORGET- to lose out of mind; by implication, to neglect: forgotten, given over to oblivion, uncared for.
Phil 3:13 I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my own [yet]; but one thing I do [it is my one aspiration]: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
14 I press on toward the goal to win the [supreme and heavenly] prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward. AMP
Phil 3:13 Friends, don't get me wrong: By no means do I count myself an expert in all of this, but I've got my eye on the goal, where God is beckoning us onward to Jesus.
14 I'm off and running, and I'm not turning back. MSG
Phil 3:13 I don't depend on my own strength to accomplish this; how-ever I do have one compelling focus:
14 I forget all of the past as I fasten my heart on the future instead. PASSION
Isa 43:18 "Forget about what's happened; don't keep going over old history. MSG
Isa 38:17 It seems it was good for me to go through all those troubles. Throughout them all you held tight to my lifeline. You never let me tumble over the edge into nothing. But my sins you let go of, threw them over your shoulder good riddance! MSG
2 Pet 1:8 Without these qualities you can't see what's right before you, oblivious that your old sinful life has been wiped off the books.
Isa 44:22 I've wiped the slate of all your wrongdoings. There's nothing left of your sins. Come back to me, come back. I've redeemed you." MSG
Acts 3:19 "Now it's time to change your ways! Turn to face God so he can wipe away your sins, pour out showers of blessing to refresh you, MSG
Col 2:14 Having cancelled and blotted out and wiped away the handwriting of the note (bond) with its legal decrees and demands which was in force and stood against us (hostile to us). This [note with its regulations, decrees, and demands] He set aside and cleared completely out of our way by nailing it to [His] cross
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Col 2:14 the slate wiped clean, that old arrest warrant canceled and nailed to Christ's Cross. MSG
Rom 4:7 Fortunate those whose crimes are carted off, whose sins are wiped clean from the slate.
8 Fortunate the person against whom the Lord does not keep score. MSG
Heb 8:12 For I will be merciful and gracious toward their sins and I will remember their deeds of unrighteousness no more. AMP
Heb 8:12 They'll get to know me by being kindly forgiven, with the slate of their sins forever wiped clean. MSG
Heb 10:17 He concludes, I'll forever wipe the slate clean of their sins.
18 Once sins are taken care of for good, there's no longer any need to offer sacrifices for them.
CHANGING THE BOOKS
Psalms 32:1 A David psalm Count yourself lucky, how happy you must be
you get a fresh start, your slate's wiped clean. MSG
Ps 51:1 David psalm, after he was confronted by Nathan about the affair with Bathsheba. Generous in love God, give grace! Huge in mercy wipe out my bad record.
2 Scrub away my guilt, soak out my sins in your laundry. MSG
Ps 51:1 God give me mercy from your fountain of forgivness! I know your abundant love is enough to wash away my guilt. Because your compassion is so great, take away the shameful guilt of sin. Forgive the full extent of my rebellious ways, and erase this deep stain on my conscience. PASSION
Ps 51:9 Don't look too close for blemishes, give me a clean bill of health.
10 God, make a fresh start in me, shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life. MSG
Ps 51:9 Hide my sins from your face: erace all my guilt by your saving grace.
10 Create a new, clean heart within me. Fill me with pure thoughts and holy desires, ready to please you. PASSION
DAVID SAID Ps 18:24 GOD rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes. MSG
Job 3:4 Let it be a black hole in space. May God above forget it ever happened. Erase it from the books ! MSG
Ps 19:13 Clean the slate, God, so we can start the day fresh! Keep me from stupid sins, from thinking I can take over your work; Then I can start this day sun-washed, scrubbed clean of the grime of sin. MSG
Ezek 33:14 "'On the other hand, if I tell a wicked person, "You'll die for your wicked life," and he repents of his sin and starts living a righteous and just life
15 being generous to the down-and-out, restoring what he had stolen, cultivating life-nourishing ways that don't hurt others he'll live. He won't die.
16 None of his sins will be kept on the books. He's doing what's right, living a good life. He'll live. MSG
MAN CAUSING GOD TO REWRITE
Jonah 3:8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.
9 Who can tell, God may turn and revoke His sentence against us [when we have met His terms], and turn away from His fierce anger so that we perish not.
10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God revoked His [sentence of] evil that He had said that He would do to them and He did not do it [for He was comforted and eased concerning them].
Isa 43:25 I, even I, am He Who blots out and cancels your transgressions, for My own sake, and I will not remember your sins.
26 Put Me in remembrance [remind Me of your merits]; let us plead and argue together. Set forth your case, that you may be justified (proved right). AMP
Ps 79:8 O do not [earnestly] remember against us the iniquities and guilt of our forefathers! Let Your compassion and tender mercy speedily come to meet us, for we are brought very low. AMP
Jer 31:34 They will no longer go around setting up schools to teach each other about God. They'll know me firsthand, the dull and the bright, the smart and the slow. I'll wipe the slate clean for each of them. I'll forget they ever sinned!" God's Decree. MSG
Jer 31:19 After those years of running loose, I repented. After you trained me to obedience, I was ashamed of my past, my wild, unruly past. Humiliated, I beat on my chest. Will I ever live this down?'
20 "Oh! Ephraim is my dear, dear son, my child in whom I take pleasure! Every time I mention his name, my heart bursts with longing for him! Everything in me cries out for him. Softly and tenderly I wait for him." God's Decree. MSG
NAME CHANGE
ABRAM-High father
ABRAHAM-Father of a multitude God changed his name as a sign of His promise that Abraham would be the father of many nations. (Genesis 17:5)
Sarai Argumentative
Sarah- my princess mother of nations. Despite Sarah's doubts, God intended her to be the mother of many nations as well. (Genesis 17:15)
JACOB-supplanter
ISRAEL-Having power with God Gen 32:28
SIMON- weak like a reed or grass like
PETER-Rock John 21:17
Judg 6:32 Therefore on that day he called Gideon Jerubbaal, meaning, Let Baal contend against him, because he had pulled down his altar. AMP
Mark 3:17 James, son of Zebedee, John, brother of James (Jesus nicknamed the Zebedee brothers Boanerges, meaning "Sons of Thunder"), MSG
2 Sam 12:24 David went and comforted his wife Bathsheba. And when he slept with her, they conceived a son. When he was born they named him Solomon. God had a special love for him and sent word by Nathan the prophet that God wanted him named Jedidiah (God's Beloved). MSG
named herself Ruth 1:20 But she said, "Don't call me Naomi; call me Bitter. The Strong One has dealt me a bitter blow.
21 I left here full of life, and God has brought me back with nothing but the clothes on my back. Why would you call me Naomi? God certainly doesn't. The Strong One ruined me." MSG
Rev 2:14 Let the listener hear what the Spirit says to the Churches: 'I will give the victorious some of the hidden manna, and I will also give him a white stone with a new name written upon it which no man knows except the man who receives it. PHILLIPS
A white stone -This old word for pebble was used in courts of justice, black pebbles for condemning, white pebbles for acquitting or casting his vote. The white stone with one's name on it was used to admit one to events.
A new name written- Not the man's own name, but that of Christ, for the name of God so written on one.
2 Chron 7:14 If My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves, pray, seek, crave, and require of necessity My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. AMP
Isa 43:7 Even everyone who is called by My name, whom I have created for My glory, whom I have formed, whom I have made. AMP
Phil 2:9 Therefore [because He stooped so low] God has highly exalted Him and has freely bestowed on Him the name that is above every name, AMP
Mark 16:15 These signs will follow those who do believe: they will drive out evil spirits in my name; they will speak with new tongues; they will pick up snakes, and if they drink anything poisonous it will do them no harm; they will lay their hands upon the sick and they will recover." PHILLIPS
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