Demetrics and Pauline Roscoe

The book of Philippians is one of the most persuasive epistles from my understanding of the personality of our Messiah’s goal for being human. Also, the book demonstrates how Jesus worshiped His Father as His God. Throughout Philippians, Apostle Paul reveals the lessons that steered his own journey on the path of a higher consciousness regarding how much the Messiah sacrificed for a lost world.

Self-Love II

Editor: Val Gunter

Last week we reported on the use of “Idle Words,” as self-affirmations to encourage one another in different ways. But, are our self-affirmations bringing us into a self- alliance or into the submission to GOD’S will for our lives?

Even when a good-sounding phrase reverberates in our head, the words must be from the mouth of GOD, because satan makes his words sound as though they are from Heaven above.

Matthew 12:36
(CWSB)
³⁶ But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

Paul learned that those who are high-minded will start looking from the ground level after they have been knocked off their pedestals of arrogance.

Secondly, the Apostle learned as do all-powerful men and women who graduate from the school of hard trials, that those who walk with signs of Heaven following them are those who started from the ground up. As for Yeshua, the King of all kings, His path took Him all the way down to the underworld. In the underworld, Jesus Christ (because He was pure in heart) demonstrated total mastery over the Kingdom of demons and devils. Nothing could touch Him!

Hell is the station where monstrosities, such as disembodied demon spirits reside. The best way to try to understand demons is to think of computer hackers, people who take control of someone’s computer. Demonic spirits may not just take over people’s temperament, sometimes a spirit’s primary function is to oppress people and manifest themselves every once and a while.

Judas Iscariot, (died c. AD 30), one of the Twelve Apostles, notorious for betraying Jesus. Judas’ surname is more probably a corruption of the Latin sicarius (“murderer” or “assassin”) than an indication of family origin, suggesting that he would have belonged to the Sicarii, the most radical Jewish group, some of whom were terrorists. 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Judas-Iscariot

The devil did not have the power to drive Judas into betraying the Messiah. There is a lot of history with Judas one can research, for instance, in the Britannica. Let’s look at a couple of points, such as, Judas stole from the money bag, which belonged to Christ and the disciples. Judas had planned for a better cash payoff.

Please note, the majority of demon activity has nothing to do with being “spooky”, but they manipulate through traumatic experiences, mental challenges, damaged relations, and by even influencing God’s people to become self-centered.

Ephesians 4:7-10
(NLT)
⁷ However, he has given each one of us a special gift through the generosity of Christ. ⁸ That is why the Scriptures say,
“When he ascended to the heights,
he led a crowd of captives
and gave gifts to his people.”
⁹ Notice that it says “he ascended.” This clearly means that Christ also descended to our lowly world. ¹⁰ And the same one who descended is the one who ascended higher than all the heavens so that he might fill the entire universe with himself.

While many saw the Apostle Paul suffering in prison for the Lord, ADONAI’S plan was to set Paul aside to write four epistles for the New Testament.

While under house arrest, for 2 yrs., in Rome (A.D. 61-62) Paul used the time to write: Colossians, Ephesians, Philemon, and Philippians. 4 yrs. 

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“How much must he suffer?”

Different Bible translations speak into the fact that Paul’s suffering in prison had nothing to do with the devil, but GOD’S wisdom of setting him aside to compose the revelations from “Yeshua” (Jesus Christ of Nazareth).

Acts 9:16
(NIV 1984)
¹⁶ I will show him how much he must suffer for my name.”

Acts 9:16
(New Living Translation)
¹⁶ And I will show him how much he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

Acts 9:16
(Message Bible)
¹⁶ And now I’m about to show him what he’s in for—the hard suffering that goes with this job.”

Acts 9:16
(AMP)
¹⁶ For I will make clear to him how much he will be afflicted and must endure and suffer for My name’s sake.

Both Jesus Christ of Nazareth and the Apostle Paul were individuals who came from having high authority, but both were summoned to suffer for the cause of others. Yeshua the Jewish Messiah was under, ADONAI’S authority, while the Apostle Paul was under Jesus’ jurisdiction.

How many ordinary saints have been qualified for Divine Justification, where GOD is ready to pour out of Heaven because of what they have suffered for His namesake?

I Will Pour Out

Joel 3:1-4(Complete Jewish Bible 2016)
​ ^1(2:28)  “After this, I will pour out
my Spirit on all humanity.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions;
^2(2:29)  and also on male and female slaves
in those days I will pour out my Spirit.
^3(2:30)  I will show wonders in the sky and on earth —
blood, fire and columns of smoke.
^4(2:31)  The sun will be turned into darkness
and the moon into blood
before the coming of the great
and terrible Day of ADONAI.”

 

Philippians 1:6
(TLB)
⁶  And I am sure that God who began the good work within you will keep right on helping you grow in his grace until his task within you is finally finished on that day when Jesus Christ returns.

 

 

 

Philippians 1:12-14
(TLB)
²  And I want you to know this, dear brothers: Everything that has happened to me here has been a great boost in getting out the Good News concerning Christ. ¹³  For everyone around here, including all the soldiers over at the barracks, knows that I am in chains simply because I am a Christian. ¹⁴  And because of my imprisonment, many of the Christians here seem to have lost their fear of chains! Somehow my patience has encouraged them, and they have become more and more bold in telling others about Christ.

Divine justification ( great power) is given to the servants who learn that the transfer of power collapses out of Heaven upon them when they worship GOD in spite of their situations. The Holy Spirit will pour when God’s sons and daughters gain victory over selfishness.

Philippians 1:20-22
(TLB)
For I live in eager expectation and hope that I will never do anything that will cause me to be ashamed of myself but that I will always be ready to speak out boldly for Christ while I am going through all these trials here, just as I have in the past; and that I will always be an honor to Christ, whether I live or whether I must die. ²¹  For to me, living means opportunities for Christ, and dying—well, that’s better yet! ²²  But if living will give me more opportunities to win people to Christ, then I really don’t know which is better, to live or die!

Philippians 2:3-11
(TLB)
³  Don’t be selfish; don’t live to make a good impression on others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourself. ⁴  Don’t just think about your own affairs, but be interested in others, too, and in what they are doing.
⁵  Your attitude should be the kind that was shown us by Jesus Christ, ⁶  who, though he was God, did not demand and cling to his rights as God, ⁷  but laid aside his mighty power and glory, taking the disguise of a slave and becoming like men. ⁸  And he humbled himself even further, going so far as actually to die a criminal’s death on a cross.⁹  Yet it was because of this that God raised him up to the heights of heaven and gave him a name which is above every other name, ¹⁰  that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth, ¹¹  and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

 

Philippians 4:10-14
(TLB)
¹⁰  How grateful I am and how I praise the Lord that you are helping me again. I know you have always been anxious to send what you could, but for a while, you didn’t have the chance. ¹¹  Not that I was ever in need, for I have learned how to get along happily whether I have much or little. ¹²  I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of contentment in every situation, whether it be a full stomach or hunger, plenty or want; ¹³  for I can do everything God asks me to with the help of Christ who gives me the strength and power. ¹⁴  But even so, you have done right in helping me in my present difficulty.

 

 

Philippians 2:12-13
(TLB)
¹²  Dearest friends, when I was there with you, you were always so careful to follow my instructions. And now that I am away you must be even more careful to do the good things that result from being saved, obeying God with deep reverence, shrinking back from all that might displease him. ¹³  For God is at work within you, helping you want to obey him, and then helping you do what he wants.

 

Philippians 3:7-11
(TLB)
⁷  But all these things that I once thought very worthwhile—now I’ve thrown them all away so that I can put my trust and hope in Christ alone. ⁸  Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the priceless gain of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. I have put aside all else, counting it worth less than nothing, in order that I can have Christ, ⁹  and become one with him, no longer counting on being saved by being good enough or by obeying God’s laws, but by trusting Christ to save me; for God’s way of making us right with himself depends on faith—counting on Christ alone. ¹⁰  Now I have given up everything else—I have found it to be the only way to really know Christ and to experience the mighty power that brought him back to life again, and to find out what it means to suffer and to die with him. ¹¹  So whatever it takes, I will be one who lives in the fresh newness of life of those who are alive from the dead.

Philippians 3:17-21
(TLB)
¹⁷  Dear brothers, pattern your lives after mine, and notice who else lives up to my example. ¹⁸  For I have told you often before, and I say it again now with tears in my eyes, there are many who walk along the Christian road who are really enemies of the cross of Christ. ¹⁹  Their future is eternal loss, for their god is their appetite: they are proud of what they should be ashamed of; and all they think about is this life here on earth. ²⁰  But our homeland is in heaven, where our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, is; and we are looking forward to his return from there. ²¹  When he comes back, he will take these dying bodies of ours and change them into glorious bodies like his own, using the same mighty power that he will use to conquer all else everywhere.

 

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