Thematic Bible: Activity
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Activity » Evil » General references to
[Isa. 59:7ff says], "Their feet [take them where they] are quick to commit murder.
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Be sensible and alert; your enemy the devil is prowling around like a roaring [i.e., hungry] lion looking for someone to [kill and] eat.
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Activity » The Call of Duty » Zeal in soul winning
For the Son of man came to save those who were lost.]}]}
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Are you not [always] saying, 'There are still four months before harvest time comes'? Look, I am telling you [disciples], lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white and ripe for harvest [i.e., people are ready to make a spiritual response].
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For I could wish that I, personally, were cut off from Christ [and lost] for the sake of my brothers, who are my physical relatives,
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Brothers, my heart's desire and [fervent] request to God is for the salvation of my fellow-Jews. [See 9:3-4].
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in hope that somehow I might stir up jealousy among my fellow-Jews, and thereby save some of them.
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I behaved like a weak person in front of weak people [See 8:9-12], in order to win them over [i.e., to help them become stronger]. I have become all things to all people so that, in every way, I could save some of them.
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Activity » Christ's zeal » General references to
And He replied to them, "Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I had to be in my Father's house [i.e., the Temple]?"
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Then Jesus' disciples remembered that it was written [Psa. 69:9], "Enthusiasm for Your [i.e., God's] house [i.e., the Temple] will consume me."
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Jesus answered them, "My food is doing what God, who sent me, wants me to, and accomplishing His work.
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While it is still daytime we must perform the acts of God, who sent me. Nighttime is coming, when no one can act.
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This message was about Jesus from Nazareth and how God specially chose Him [and signified it] by giving Him the Holy Spirit and power. He traveled all over doing good [for people] and healing everyone who was [being] oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.
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Christ » Christ's zeal » Activity » The Call of Duty » He must go to jerusalem to suffer
From that time onward Jesus began to explain to His disciples that He would have to go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the [Jewish] elders, leading priests, and experts in the law of Moses; [that He would then] be killed and [yet] raised up on the third day.
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Christ » Christ's zeal » Activity » The Call of Duty » To accomplish his work
But I have an immersion to experience [i.e., overwhelming suffering to undergo. See Mark 10:38-39], and what stress I am under until it happens!
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Christ » Christ's zeal » Activity » The Call of Duty » Doing His Father's Business
And He replied to them, "Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I had to be in my Father's house [i.e., the Temple]?"
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Christ » Christ's zeal » Activity » The Call of Duty » He must preach
But He told them, "I must go to other towns also to preach the good news of God's [coming] kingdom, for this is why I was sent [by God]."
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Christ » Christ's zeal » Activity » The Call of Duty » To work while the day lasted
While it is still daytime we must perform the acts of God, who sent me. Nighttime is coming, when no one can act.
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Evil » Activity » General references to
[Isa. 59:7ff says], "Their feet [take them where they] are quick to commit murder.
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Be sensible and alert; your enemy the devil is prowling around like a roaring [i.e., hungry] lion looking for someone to [kill and] eat.
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