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God has some very specific guidelines for understanding Scripture:
- "For by grace are ye saved through faith;
and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any
man should boast." Eph. 2:8-9
- "For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish
their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness
of God." Romans 10:3
- "In whom the god of this world hath blinded
the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel
of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." II Corinthians.
4:4
- Verse 14 "If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let
not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles."
- iniquity--"from an unusual root" to pant, to come to naught; strictly
nothingness; trouble, varity, wickedness; specifically an idol [an idolis
anything coming between a believer and God], mischief, mourners, mourning,
sorrow, unjust, unrighteousness, wickedness.
- hand--the open hand indicating power, means, direction
- away--cast, drive, remove, far away
- wickedness--evil, iniquity, unjust, perverseness
- dwell--to reside or permanently stay, abide, have habitation, remain,
rest
- tabernacles--a tent, covering, dwelling place, home
- Verse 15 "For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea,
thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:"
- lift up--accept, advance, arise, bear up, bring forth, help, hold
up
- face--the face (as the part that turns) [the neck--God says much
about a stiff necked Christian], also--countenance, favor, fear of, heaviness(self),
impudent, honourable.
- spot--stain or blemish.
- Verse 16 "Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it
as waters that pass away:"
- forget--to mislay, to be oblivious of, from want of memory OR attention
- misery--toil, wearing effort; worry, whether of body or mind: grievance,
grievousness, misery, pain(ful), sorrow, toil, travail, trouble, wickedness,
wearisome
- Verse 17 "And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday: thou
shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning."
- age--life, age, short time, world
- clearer--to rise, abide, accomplish, make good, help to lift up
again, make to stand up, strengthen.
- noonday--a light: dual double light
- shine forth--to cover with wings; or obscurity;
- morning--be clearer; *arise above
- Verse 18 "And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea,
thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety."
- secure--to hide for refuge, to trust, be confident or sure, make
to hope, trust
- is--root meaning to stand out or exist; there shall be, there should
be
- hope--literally a cord (as an attachment), expectancy, thing that
I long for
- dig--to pry into--to delve, to explain, to explore; dig, paw, search
out, seek
- safety--place of refuge, abstract safety--both the fact (security)
and the feeling(trust), confidence hope
- Verse 19 "Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid;
yea, many shall make suit unto thee."
- lie down--to crouch (on all fours legs folded like a resting animal),
make to rest, sit
- afraid--to shudder with terror, to hasten with anxiety, be afraid
- make suit--to be rubbed or worn; hence(figuratively) to be weak,
sick, be diseased, put to grief, be grieved, be grievous, infirmity, put to
pain, be wounded
- thee--the face (the part that turns); before thy face, against,
anger, at battle plus because of
- Verse 20 "But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall
not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost."
- eyes--affliction, dis pleasing countenance
- wicked--morally wrong, an actively bad person, ungodly man that
did wrong
- fail--to end--whether to cease, be finished, perish or to complete,
consume; utterly destroy, make clean riddance
- escape--a retreat; a fleeing
- hope--a cord, expectancy
- giving up--breathing out of life
- ghost--a breathing creature; vitality--bodily or mentally
So if you will prepare your heart (first
making sure you are saved) by freely surrendering your feelings, will, intellect,
understanding, and wisdom to God’s control and teaching through His Word and
His Holy Spirit-- He will give you hope and take you step by step to healing
victory.
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