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Sorry, you must have Windows Media Player 9 or higher. This is a large file which may take a few seconds to start Windows Media Real Audio MP3 Click HERE, or scroll down to view the diagram (Mark 5:9,10) And he [Jesus] asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion [a standard Roman legion consisted of 6,000 men]: for we are many. And he [Legion] besought him [Jesus] much that he would not send them away out of the country [“into the deep (abyss: bottomless pit,) “Luke 8:3 1]. Commentary: “My name is Legion: for we are many”= is a seemingly contradictory statement, until one receives the revelation that Legion is a single fruit (of bitterness and consequent rebellion) growing on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that has taken root, through our heritage from Adam and Eve, inside every human except Jesus. Legion is a single fruit of bitterness and consequent rebellion containing many seeds. Mary = Heb: Miriam bitterness and rebellion. Mary represents the body of the human race, mother earth, the ground into which the seed of God, the tree of life, is sown. Example: the seed of Jesus Christ, the tree of life, was planted into the midst of the body (Mary) of “bitterness.” Mary = Gk: Maria; or Miriam; of Heb. origin /II Miriam = Heb: rebelliously /// bitterness, i.e. (fig.) rebellion; concr. bitter, or rebellious: --bitter, (most) rebel (-ion, -lious) III to be (make) bitter (or unpleasant); (fig.) to rebel (or resist; to provoke):--bitter, change, be disobedient, disobey, grievously, provocation, provoke (-ing), (be) rebel (against, -lious). a. bitter = Dictionary: 1. having a harsh, disagreeable taste, like that of quinine. 2. hard to admit or receive: a bitter lesson. 3. hard to bear; grievous; distressful: a bitter sorrow. 4. causing pain; piercing; stinging: bitter cold. 5. characterized by intense animosity: bitter haired [“But his citizens hated him” Luke 19:14]. 6. harsh, sarcastic; cutting: bitter words. b. bitter = Hebrew: bitter (lit. or fig.); also (as noun) bitterness, or (adv.) bitterly:-- + angry, bitter (-ly, -ness), chafed, discontented, X great, heavy 11/to trickle; to be (make) bitter (lit, or fig.):--(be, be in, deal, have, make) bitter (-ly, -ness), be moved with choler, (be, have sorely, it) grieved (-eth), provoke, vex. THE FRUIT OF BITTERNESS AND ITS CONSEQUENT REBELLION IS SEPARATION FROM GOD (Gal 5:19-21) Now the works of the flesh are manifest [shining, apparent (fully revealed)], which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness [impurity], lasciviousness [filthy wantonness], Idolatry, witchcraft [pharmakeia; medication (‘pharmacy’), magic: sorcery], hatred, variance, emulations [envying, jealousy], wrath, strife, seditions [disunion, dissention], heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS HEALING OUR SEPARATION FROM GOD TOWARD ONENESS (Gal 5:22-25) But the fruit of the Spirit is [not so shining, nor so apparent (not yet fully revealed)] love, joy, peace, longsuffering [patience], gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness [humility], temperance [self-control]: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. crucified = Gk: to impale on the cross; fig. to extinguish (subdue) passion or selfishness: --crucify /// a stake or post (as set upright), i.e. (spec.) a pole or cross (as an instrument of capital punishment); fig. exposure to death, i.e. self-denial by impi. the atonement of Christ. SUMMATION: MAKING THE BITTER SWEET (Exo 15:22-26) So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water. And when they came to Marah [bitter], they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah. And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD showed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved [tested] them, And said, (1) If [CONDITIONAL] thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, (2) and wilt do that which is right in his sight, (3) and wilt give ear to his commandments, (4) and keep [guard, protect] all his statutes, [PROMISE] I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: [ON WHAT AUTHORITY?] for I am the LORD that healeth thee [Jehovah Rapha’]. 1. healeth = Gk: rapha’; to mend (by stitching), i.e. (fig.) to cure:--cure, (cause to) heal, physician, repair, X thoroughly, make whole. Amen Click here or on the diagram for a printable (PDF) version Previous Chapter Table Of Contents Next Chapter Click here to download a printable version of this message Click here to download a DOC version of this message
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(Mark 5:9,10) And he [Jesus] asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion [a standard Roman legion consisted of 6,000 men]: for we are many. And he [Legion] besought him [Jesus] much that he would not send them away out of the country [“into the deep (abyss: bottomless pit,) “Luke 8:3 1].
Commentary: “My name is Legion: for we are many”= is a seemingly contradictory statement, until one receives the revelation that Legion is a single fruit (of bitterness and consequent rebellion) growing on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that has taken root, through our heritage from Adam and Eve, inside every human except Jesus. Legion is a single fruit of bitterness and consequent rebellion containing many seeds. Mary = Heb: Miriam bitterness and rebellion. Mary represents the body of the human race, mother earth, the ground into which the seed of God, the tree of life, is sown. Example: the seed of Jesus Christ, the tree of life, was planted into the midst of the body (Mary) of “bitterness.”
Mary = Gk: Maria; or Miriam; of Heb. origin /II Miriam = Heb: rebelliously /// bitterness, i.e. (fig.) rebellion; concr. bitter, or rebellious: --bitter, (most) rebel (-ion, -lious) III to be (make) bitter (or unpleasant); (fig.) to rebel (or resist; to provoke):--bitter, change, be disobedient, disobey, grievously, provocation, provoke (-ing), (be) rebel (against, -lious).
a. bitter = Dictionary: 1. having a harsh, disagreeable taste, like that of quinine. 2. hard to admit or receive: a bitter lesson. 3. hard to bear; grievous; distressful: a bitter sorrow. 4. causing pain; piercing; stinging: bitter cold. 5. characterized by intense animosity: bitter haired [“But his citizens hated him” Luke 19:14]. 6. harsh, sarcastic; cutting: bitter words.
b. bitter = Hebrew: bitter (lit. or fig.); also (as noun) bitterness, or (adv.) bitterly:-- + angry, bitter (-ly, -ness), chafed, discontented, X great, heavy 11/to trickle; to be (make) bitter (lit, or fig.):--(be, be in, deal, have, make) bitter (-ly, -ness), be moved with choler, (be, have sorely, it) grieved (-eth), provoke, vex.
THE FRUIT OF BITTERNESS AND ITS CONSEQUENT REBELLION IS SEPARATION FROM GOD
(Gal 5:19-21) Now the works of the flesh are manifest [shining, apparent (fully revealed)], which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness [impurity], lasciviousness [filthy wantonness], Idolatry, witchcraft [pharmakeia; medication (‘pharmacy’), magic: sorcery], hatred, variance, emulations [envying, jealousy], wrath, strife, seditions [disunion, dissention], heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS HEALING OUR SEPARATION FROM GOD TOWARD ONENESS
(Gal 5:22-25) But the fruit of the Spirit is [not so shining, nor so apparent (not yet fully revealed)] love, joy, peace, longsuffering [patience], gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness [humility], temperance [self-control]: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
crucified = Gk: to impale on the cross; fig. to extinguish (subdue) passion or selfishness: --crucify /// a stake or post (as set upright), i.e. (spec.) a pole or cross (as an instrument of capital punishment); fig. exposure to death, i.e. self-denial by impi. the atonement of Christ.
SUMMATION: MAKING THE BITTER SWEET
(Exo 15:22-26) So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water. And when they came to Marah [bitter], they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah. And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD showed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved [tested] them, And said, (1) If [CONDITIONAL] thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, (2) and wilt do that which is right in his sight, (3) and wilt give ear to his commandments, (4) and keep [guard, protect] all his statutes, [PROMISE] I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: [ON WHAT AUTHORITY?] for I am the LORD that healeth thee [Jehovah Rapha’].
1. healeth = Gk: rapha’; to mend (by stitching), i.e. (fig.) to cure:--cure, (cause to) heal, physician, repair, X thoroughly, make whole.
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