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2021, Calendar Reading Notes from The WORD, Gospel of Matthew

Dust Shaking

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 Matthew 10

14 But if the people of a house or town will not welcome you or listen to you, leave it and shake its dust from your feet! 15 Yes, I tell you, it will be more tolerable on the Day of Judgment for the people of S’dom [Sodom] and ‘Amora[Gomorrah] for that town!   emphasis added
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In recent years I have learned it is well for me to search for an Eastern eye view of Scripture rather than trusting these Western eyes with which I was born. Scripture was not written in the West and when we read it that way, we often miss out. 

Shake the dust from your feet. 

I’ve read some Scholars think this directive sounds harsh. 
I don’t.
I think it was life and health for the disciples and a prophetic reminder/warning to those left behind (that sounds like mercy to me).

What do you think? 

Allow me to give you some reading materials that might shed some Eastern light. 

Shaking the Dust from their Feet

From Dust You Came. The Biblical Hebrew Meaning

Difficult Sayings  Shake off the Dust

We were made for this, 


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2021, Calendar Reading Notes from The WORD, Gospel of John, Salvation

To Give Permission

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John 14

1 “Don’t let yourselves be disturbed. Trust in God and trust in me.        
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Don’t let yourselves be disturbed He said. The New King James Version uses the word troubled.  Either way, disturbed or troubled. It’s a choice. 
Why would I say that? It’s a choice? 
Do you see that little word let?

What does it mean this word let? Glad you asked. 

To give permission or opportunity to; allow 
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For my soul to be disturbed or troubled I have to give myself permission to be so. 
In this crazy, hostile, evil, depraved, crazy – oh, I said that – world, how can I not be disturbed and troubled? The permission seems to come automatically. Yes. I agree. It does seem that way, but we can learn better. We really can! 

JESUS answered this dilemma for us. 

TRUST

Trust Him. 
Trust that what He says is true.
Trust that He is who He says He is.
Trust that He loves you.
Trust that He is always good.
Trust that He always has your best interest at His heart.
TRUST. 

When we trust, our disturbed, troubled, anxious, frustrated, aggravated,  ____________, souls will calm. 

Does it take practice?
Yeah. Lots of it! 

There’s so much more. I hope you will read John 14 for yourself. All of it.
Because if you do you will find for ALL those who TRUST JESUS, Heaven is for sure.
It’s a REAL place for REAL people.
You don’t want to miss it. 

HERE’S A POST I WROTE IN 2017, PERHAPS YOU WOULD LIKE TO READ IT TOO.
TROUBLED?

We were made for this,



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2021, Calendar Reading Notes from The WORD, Gospel of Luke, Questions

The Tenants

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Look for a moment with me, please, at Luke 20, in particular, verse 19; but first a little background. 

Yeshua has just given a parable to the people for their learning. The Scribes and Priests are also hearing this parable. 

19 The Torah-teachers [Scribes] and the head cohanim [priests] would have seized him at that very moment, because they knew that he had aimed this parable at them, but they were afraid of the people.   emphasis added.  source

Do you see that the Scribes the Priests KNEW the parable was about them?
If you read the parable via the link provided above you will discover they know they are the tenants of the parable.
Look and see what these tenants did. Luke 20. 

Will, we ever comprehend the depths of evil in the human heart wherein GOD is not on the throne of that heart?  

Again I say these Religious Leaders KNEW they were the tenants. They KNEW they were murders of the heart BUT they refused to repent.  

False Religion has done no good thing for us throughout all these millenniums. 
James 1:27

Life is in RELATIONSHIP with the ONLY BEGOTTEN SON of GOD. 

The Tenants didn’t want to do life with Yeshua (JESUS). 
They wanted to live life on their terms, not His. 
What about you? 

We were made for this,
Kathie

Your honest questions are always welcome here.