Anyone, Anyone

From a letter written by the apostle Paul,

with Sosthenes,

to believers in Corinth and everywhere:

Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called. Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather. For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant. Ye are bought with a price: be not ye the servants of men. Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.-1 Corinthians 7:18-24***When Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) was 86 years old and his wife Sarah (Sarai) was 76, Ishmael was born to Abraham and Hagar, Sarah's maidservant. When Abraham was 99 years old, the Lord God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. Abraham and all of the males in his household, including 13-year-old Ishmael, were immediately circumcised. When Abraham was 100 years old, Isaac was born to Abraham and 90-year-old Sarah. On the 8th day after Isaac was born, Abraham circumcised Isaac. When Isaac was 40 years old, he married Rebekah, Abraham and Sarah's grandniece. When Isaac was 60 years old, fraternal twin sons Esau (Edom) and Jacob (Israel) were born to Isaac and Rebekah. Decades thereafter, Jacob married Rebekah's nieces Leah and Rachel, the daughters of Rebekah's brother Laban the Syrian. Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, and daughter Dinah were born to Jacob and Leah. Dan and Naphtali were born to Jacob and Bilhah, Rachel's maidservant. Gad and Asher were born to Jacob and Zilpah, Leah's maidservant. Joseph and Benjamin were born to Jacob and Rachel. Aaron and his brother  Moses were born into the tribe of Levi. When Moses was 80 years old and Aaron was 83, they led the Israelites away from Egyptian slavery, across the divinely parted Red Sea, and into the desert wilderness of Shur, according to the commands of the Lord God. In the desert wilderness of Sinai, in the region of Mount Sinai, the Israelites heard the voice of the Lord God proclaim the Ten Commandments to them, and the Lord God began giving Moses judgments, statutes and laws for the Israelites, his treasured and chosen people. Over 1,400 years after the Lord God gave Moses 2 stone tablets, 2 separate times, whereupon were written, with the finger of God, the Ten Commandments, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin. On the 8th day after Jesus was born to Joseph and Mary, Jesus was circumcised. Approximately 30 years after Jesus was born, Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River by Mary's relative John the Baptist, from the tribe of Levi. Jesus having prayed, the heavens tearing open, the Holy Spirit descended as a dove and lit upon Jesus. The Lord God in heaven audibly acknowledged his Son Jesus, and the Holy Spirit led Jesus into the desert wilderness. Jesus fasted for 40 days and nights and was tempted. Afterwards, Jesus was tended to by angels, and Jesus went to the area near John the Baptist, and John the Baptist proclaimed Jesus to be the Lamb of God taking away the sin of the world. In Galilee, Jesus told specific Israelite men to follow him, and Jesus began to preach, teach and perform miracles among the Israelites. Jesus revealed that:

-he had not come to abolish the law or the prophets, he had come to fulfill. 

-all the prophets and the law prophesied until John the Baptist, and the law and the prophets were until John the Baptist, and from that time the kingdom of God is proclaimed and everyone forces their way into it.

-the law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus the Christ. 

 

-the great and foremost commandment is to love the Lord God with all one's heart, soul, mind, and strength, and the 2nd greatest is to love one's neighbor as one's self, and there is no greater commandment. 

Less than 3 1/2 years after Jesus was baptized, Jesus and his 12 disciples and apostles were at the Last Supper together. Judas Iscariot left to betray Jesus. Jesus gave the 11 disciples and apostles with him the commandment to love each other as he loved them. Jesus told the 11 disciples and apostles that if they loved him they would keep his commandments, and they are his friends if they do what he commands. Shortly thereafter, Jesus was arrested, crucified, buried in a tomb, resurrected, and returned to heaven.  Paul (Saul) was an Israelite from the tribe of Benjamin and did not believe Jesus to be the Christ. Throughout Jerusalem, Paul persecuted and imprisoned Israelite believers. When Paul was journeying to the synagogues in Damascus, Syria, to find, bind, and take to Jerusalem any Israelite believers he found, Paul and those with him saw a light from heaven flash around them. Paul heard the voice of Jesus speaking to him, and Paul spoke to Jesus and obeyed Jesus. In Damascus, Paul was baptized. From thenceforward, Paul the apostle journeyed and wrote divinely inspired letters, teaching Israelites and Gentiles, people not born into the Israelite tribes, the good news of Jesus the Christ and everlasting life. Paul revealed that: believers are not under law, believers are under grace, Christ Jesus is the end of law for righteousness to everyone believing, the one loving the other has fulfilled the law, those who bear one another's burdens fulfill the law of Christ, and the entire law is fulfilled in 1 word: you shall love the neighbor of you as you love yourself.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers 20:1-29, 27:12;23, Deuteronomy, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 6:1-81, 8:1-40, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-34, 6:1-8:4, 9:1-28:31

Reference Information:

abide = meneto/meno = remain, continue

called = eklethe/kekletai = kaleo = summoned, invited

care = meleto/melo = object of concern or anxiety

circumcised = peritetmemenos/peritemno = to cut around, to cut off

rather = mallon = all the more, more than

servant = doulos = slave, enslaved, bondman or bondwoman

uncircumcised = epispastho/epispaomai = to draw over, eliminate the mark or appearance of circumcision

use it = chresai/chraomai/chre = take advantage, make use of

Reference Scriptures:

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.-1 Corinthians 6:19-20

But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:-1 Peter 1:15-19

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