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- May I ask a question to everybody ?

- I will let people time!

- Then I will answer too!

- There is no trap!

- WHAT IS ALL THE BIBLE ABOUT EXCEPT THE FACT THAT IT IS GOD’S WORD ?

- There may be different answers depending on the elements we have!

- If nobody answers, there is no problem !

- I won’t either !
 

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Matthew 5:

- Jesus tells us to be quick to settle matters
with our legal opponents before being at
court to avoid trouble!

- Because we will have to pay over our last
small coin!

- Thus we must always be careful!

- If we are in the wrong, we could get into
more trouble!

- But we live in a complicated world where
it is easy to get into trouble!

- And we need to learn how to defend ourselves!

- But it requires preparation!

- And the more we learn how to defend ourselves
the more we prepare ourselves to what may happen!

- If we don’t learn with what we live we will never
learn!


- And we must better be quick!
 

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Matthew 5:

- You must not commit adultery!

Jesus goes further by saying everyone who
keeps on looking at a woman so as to have
a passion for her has already commited
adultery with her in his heart!

- Man has never enough!

- He always wants more!

- It is in his brain!

- It makes its way inside the brain!

- When you think right, you do right things!


- When you think bad, you do bad things!

- Think about the devil!

- He was jealous of God and he wanted
all men to worship him and follow him
and go away from God!

- Think about the demons!

- They started to look at women!

- And they ended leaving everything to
go down the earth and get married with
women!

- And they lost their special relationship
with God!

- It was their choice!


- What about us?
 

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Matthew 5:

- Jesus says it is better to lose one of our
members than our whole body to be pitched
into Gehenna!

- To avoid a blood poisoning it is sometimes
necessary to cut a limb!

- It is easy to be contaminated or influenced!

- It is a question of choice!

- When we keep thinking about something bad,
then nothing can stop us to do it!

- When we are alone, we are not influenced by
others!

- When we are with a group, we can end doing
something we would have never done!
 

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Matthew 5:

- Jesus says that everyone divorcing his wife,
except on account of sexual immorality, makes
her a subject for adultery, and whoever marries
a divorced woman commits adultery!

- Marriage is sacred according to God!

- But the Israelites made it a piece of paper you
could throw away!

- And mankind has kept perpetuating man’s
tradition!

- Total corruption!

- Completely away from God’s word!

- After Jesus comes back, he will have a lot to
do to put everything in order even if many
wrongdoers won’t be there!

- And he won’t tolerate wrongdoers!

- That will change at least!


- Waiting for seeing that!
 

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Matthew 5:

- At the difference of the past, it is not permitted
to swear at all!

- When you read these words, it seems they have
nothing special!

- But in fact, it is really violent!

- Because it is exactly what they usually do!

- They invent stories!

- They swear!

- But when it is about respecting your word,
that’s another story!

- You see politicians, religious leaders and
businessmen making speeches and promises
but reality is different!


- And many people do the same!
 

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Matthew 5: At the difference of ‘Eye for eye
and tooth for tooth’, Jesus says you must go
in the other direction!

- We live in a society which is more and
more violent!

- When you watch TV, when you listen to
the radio, when you read newspapers or
your cell phones, when you play video games,
violence is everywhere!

- And Jesus tells us to refuse such a general
state of mind!

- Of course, it is difficult not to follow the trend!

- But this state of mind is destructive!

- And every time it is worse!


- There is no limit!
 

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Matthew 5:

-Jesus tells us to love our enemies and pray
for those who persecute us!

- Thus we may prove ourselves sons of God
because he makes his sun rise and rain on
both the wicked and the good and the righteous
and the unrighteous!

- If we love those who love us, what reward
do we have?

- Thus we must be perfect as our Father is
perfect!

- Are you always ready to speak about God’s
word to anybody!

- Are you always ready to speak about God’s
word even to those you think you waste your
time?

- When you speak about God’s word, we never
lose our time!

- Jesus was always ready to speak about God’s
word to anybody and especially the Pharisees!

- And he was often hard on them!

- And they were always fighting with him!

- And they weren’t sincere!

- Just selfish!
 

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Matthew 5: Jesus says we must not practice our righteousness in front of men to be noticed by
them!

- Otherwise we will no get any reward from God!

- in the same way, when making gifts of mercy,
we must not blow a trumpet ahead of us to be
glorified by men like the hypocrites do in the
synagogues and in the streets to be glorified by
men!

- Thus they have their reward in full!

- On the contrary, it is necessary to do it in secret
so God who looks in secret will repay those who
do it in such a way!

- It is interesting to have these words in mind
when we look at discussions!

- Sincerity is something important to check
what people say!

- It is also important if they use arguments
or not!

- They are people who like to listen to
themselves!

- Others really want to learn and look for!

- That’s the only way to find something!

- In the world they are many people who
look for different things!


- Many don’t find anything!
 

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Matthew 5: Jesus tells not to pray like hypocrites

who stand in the synagogues
and on the corners of the main streets to be seen
by men and who have their reward in full but to
pray into the private room in secret to be repaid
by God!

- When to pray we must not repeat all the time
the same things!

- Jesus’ words about how to pray tell us about
what is a real disciple of Jesus!

- We must not be hypocrites!

- We must not speak just to speak!

- We must defend our faith!

- It must be a living faith not a dead one!

- We must show energy and the will to evolve
to what is best!

- We must act like Jesus not like the Pharisees!

- We must speak with our heart!

- There is a strong need for a living knowledge
which can build up from the inside not a dead
one which collapses from the inside!

- One which can constantly renew itself!

- It must show our spiritual growth and not a
decaying one!


- We must look for the best of the Bible!
 

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Matthew 5: Jesus tells us to pray asking God to
sanctify his name!

- Imagine that!

- Jesus’ model prayer start by the sanctification
of God’s name!

- I had to go to page 91!

- There it is written:


- What is the true name of GOD and how does
one pronounce it? in Hebrew?

From my research it seems the true name of the
lord was lost or hidden for fear of misusing his
Holy name and break one of the commandments....

- We do not know a name for God other thand the
titles of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.. We may call
Him by Y Yahweh I am that I am.)

In Zephaniah we are taught that come the Kingdom
all will be given a pure language and one name to
call Him. Until then we must use titles, such as the
Trinity above, Almighty God, El and Elohim, Eternal
Father. Comforter, Counselor, Prince of Peace, Lord
of LOrds, The Holy One of Israel, Yeshua, Ruach
Chdesh (some will say HaRuach Chodesh), King of
kings, and so many more titles which cescribe Him,
yet not one is a name as thought of in this age today.

- This is a very important question you ask.
The Good News is that God clearly spelled out His
Name for us = Forever.

And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He
said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel,

I AM has sent me to you.’ ” Moreover God said to
Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel:
‘The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me
to you.
This
is My name forever, and this is My memorial
to all generations.’

God Abraham - Father
God Isaac - Son
God Jacob - Holy Spirit

You can find all THREE here - Matthew 3:16

When He had been baptized, Jesus came up
immediately from the water; and behold, the
heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the
Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting
upon Him. And suddenly a Voice
came from Heaven,
saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

And here: Acts 4: 8-12

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said unto
them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,
If we this day be examined of the good deed done
to the impotent man, by what means he is made
whole; Be it known unto you all, and to all the
people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ
of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised
from the dead,
even by him doth this man stand
here before you whole. This is the stone which
was set at nought of you builders, which is become
the head of the corner.
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is
none other name under heaven given among men,
whereby we must be saved.

- There are several things to note:

1. The name of God in the Hebrew Bible is simply
shown as four consonants YHWH. The scribes added
vowels so now it is pronounced as Yahweh. But it
was also written as Jehovah.

2. Jews refuse to pronounce the name of God out of
reverence and obedience to the Ten Commandments.
So instead they call God ha Shem (the Name).

3. Jesus called Himself "I AM THAT I AM" or simply
"I AM" when He spoke to Moses at the burning bush.
He also said that that was His name. So when He was
on earth He told the Jews that He was "I AM" -- the
God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

4. The Hebrew name for Jesus is Yeshua which is
derived from YAH + SHUA, which means that God
is our salvation. So when you say "Jesus" you are
using the name of God.


- Amen. You will notice that some of the modern
versions such as the NIV substituted the English
word "Messiah" for the word "Christ" (which is the
English equivalent of "Christos"). Which means that
they deliberately "interpreted" rather than translated.

So why would Christians revert to Messiah (which
really should have been Mashiach) unless they hated
the idea of speaking of Jesus as the LORD Jesus Christ?

And when Messianic Jews speak of Yeshua ha Maschiach
they are deliberately avoiding the word "Lord? Now is
they were saying Adonai Yeshua ha Maschiach, that
would be quite different. But they are skipping the
word "Lord" and that is a serious issue.


- The pronunciation of YHVH differs mainly because
of varied accents.

The name YHVH may be compared to the English
grammar rule of gerunds for it is derived from the
Hebrew verb HYH, to be.

To call knowing Hebrew or learning it for self
betterment a movement is just a tad stupid since
people jump to using Greek as though Jesus was
teaching in Greek. He only went to the sheep of
His people.

So we have the gerund, YHWH, which when
Yahweh uses it, simply means to Will to Exist
or Be. .

No man knows the name to be given when God
delivers a pure tongue to all as per the prophecy of Zephaniah.

So stop calling giving credence to the language of
our blessed Savior a movement or we would call
all the denominations of Christianity and
Christianity itself a movements. If I may be
colloquial, duh.


- Hint : your following Him .

and in Hebrew we pronounce his name “ Yeshuah”
but Remember the holy ghost speaks in many tongues
and languages I think Jesus is sufficient for my own
tongue . “ hey- sues” I believe in another but the
different language or pronounciation doesn’t mean a
barrier to God

he made the gospel to be preached in all nations and
tongues and his name can be called upon from any
language or tongue by any nation or kindred of men.
Jesus is God , finally revealed in person to mankind


- Apparently nobody knows Exodus Chapter 6!

-But it is essential to understand the Bible!

- Verse 2 God tells his name YHWH to Moses!

- Verse 3 God tells he used to appear to Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob as God Almighty but regarding to
his name YHWH he did not make himself known
to them!

- Verses 6 and the following explain how he made
himself known to the Israelites by his only real
name that is the God of the PROMISE when he
freed them from Egypt and led them to the
promised land and gave it to them!

- Yes, there is no other name of God!

- The God of the Promise, the one who always
keeps his promises!

- And God made the earth to become a paradise!

- And he will keep his promise!

- But first he must clean it and take away all those
who oppose his will!

- If we don’t understand that, WE WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE!
 

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Matthew 5:

- Let your Kingdom come.

- How many Christians are really waiting for
God’s Kingdom?

- Of course, it will come when it comes!

- And nobody can know exactly when it will
come!

- That’s why it is necessary to be ready
whenever it comes!

- Remember the Israelites!

- They were never ready!

- They got into trouble all the time!

- And finally God rejected them!

- Man is always impatient!

- Of course, man’s life is short!

- But it is a question of life and death!

- Remember the flood!

- Not many people survived!

- Man’s tradition is working against him!

- Man always forgets!

- He has a short memory or no memory at all!

- It is always a personal choice!

- Remember Adam when he rejected the
culpability on Eve!

- Man is so predictable!

- Man knows everything especially when he
doesn’t know anything!
 

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Matthew 5:

- Let your will take place, as in heaven, also on
earth.

- Not by politics!

- It is easy to understand where we are and where
we are going with human politicians!

- They have no interest in the future!

- They are only interested in their political survival!

- And it is short term!

- Only God can make things change!

- Then his will will be effective!

- But first he must get rid of his opponents!

- Then he will use his faithful servants to turn
the earth into a paradise!

- It was to be so at the beginning!

- It will finally take place in the near future
when God decides it!
 

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Matthew 5: When praying, we must ask God
to give us our bread for the day and forgive
us our debts as we do with our debtors and
not bring us into temptation but deliver us
from the wicked one!

- Of course, we need to do our part!

- But if we get into trouble!

- Or if we feel bad mentally and/or physically!

- We can ask God for help!

- Or to help us find a way to improve our
situation!

- Of course, we can find a lot of help in the
Bible!

- Because we have good examples of faithful
servants!

- And we must find new ways to improve
things!

- And of course, we mustn’t follow the bad
examples!

- Because it leads somewhere!

- But bad examples can also be interesting
because they show us dead ends!
 

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Matthew 5: Jesus tells us if we forgive men
their trespasses then God will do the same
with us!

- Otherwise he won’t!

- Once again, Jesus tells us to do our part!

- We can’t wait for everything to happen
without doing anything!

- In the Bible we are told that God and Jesus
keep working!

- Their angels keep working!

- It is a big organization!

- It can’t stop!

- But all the creation of God is made to keep
functioning!

- We were supposed to keep functioning
forever!

- The time will come for men to keep
functioning forever under God’s guidance!

- Everyone is supposed to have a part in
God’s organization!
 

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Matthew 5:

Jesus tells his disciples to fast not like the
hypocrites who make a show of themselves!

- On the contrary, he tells them to look like
if they were not doing it that is in secret!

- Then God will repay them!

- God wants us to do things for him not for
men!

- It is not possible to please both!

- We have to make a choice!

- Those who want to please both can only
please men not God!

- The Israelites try to do both!

- They were rejected!

- Humanity is trying to do the same!

- Men should know they can’t play with God!

- Thus when they are hypocrites it is only for
men!
 

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Matthew 5: Jesus encourages us to store treasures
in heaven where thieves don’t steal instead of on
the earth where thieves steal!

- Jesus adds that our heart is where our treasure is!

- The majority of people prefer to store treasures
on the earth!

- They don’t care about Jesus’ counsel!

- It is thus no surprise when Jesus says it will be
difficult to enter God’s Kingdom!

- Humanity always did the bad choices!

- Why should it change?

- Man is a specialist of repeating what doesn’t work!

- Children like to destroy!

- Their parents are not different!

- It seems that the earth and what ‘s on it are toys
for men!

- Sufferance is not a problem when it only concerns
the others!

- When Jesus will come, it will be a surprise even
if the Bible tells us about!

- But men usually don’t care!

- But when it’s too late, it’s too late!
 

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Matthew 5: Jesus tells us that the lamp of the
body is the eye!

- So if our eye is focused, our whole body will
be bright!

- According to the dictionary, when a person is
focused on something, they're paying attention
to it. When a camera lens or your eyes are focused,
they've made the adjustments needed to see clearly.
When a beam of light is focused on a thing, it's
shining on that thing!

- So the question is: are we looking for God’s interests
or for our own interests?

- Are we using our time for the best or are we using
it for futility?

- Are we using our time to build a strong relationship
with God?

- Do we make the right choices for now and for the
future?
 

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Matthew 5: According to Jesus, if our eye is envious,
our whole body will be dark!

- It doesn’t matter how we dress, we can’t always
hide what we really are!

- When we are envious, we only want more!

- We don’t care about the rest!

- We breathe selfishness!

- The result: an empty speech and empty words!

- When it is dark, there is no light, no heat to heat
the heart and the mind!

- Our mind and heart are cold!

- Where do we go?

- Nowhere!
 

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Matthew 5: Jesus says that if our light is darkness,
this darkness is really great!

- But light usually opposes to darkness!

- We can also remember that the devil can turn into
an angel of light!

- So we must be careful!

- If it gets dark inside, it must become really hopeless!

- Think about the demons!

- They were angels!

- They chose to turn into demons and get away from
God!

- When we are told about people possessed by demons,
it appears so dark!

- They are just waiting for their time to be imprisoned!

- They don’t have any hope of a better future!

- Only darkness!

- What about men without hope?

- The same darkness!
 
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