CONVERSATION: the informal exchange of ideas by spoken words.
Sounds innocent enough, right? But is it really? The purpose of a conversation is not simply to exchange thoughts and ideas, but to bring the other into agreement with those thoughts and ideas. To be in agreement - the 'two become one'. The origin of this word is said to be from:
Middle English (in the sense [living among, familiarity, intimacy] ): via Old French from Latin conversatio(n-), from the verb conversari (see converse 1 ).
CONVERSATION - social intercourse - from its root is based in INTIMACY. Communication - communing with - is a form of 'intimate communion'. In 1 Corinthians 11 we are told that many are sick, and many sleep (die) because of 'unworthy communion' - unworthy communication. Rather than agreeing with the Word, there is agreement with the problem. The Word of God [Hebrews 4:12] is living and active. Think about it - LIVING and ACTIVE and able to perform what is spoken. The problem, in reality, is inert - - with or without the Word. With the Word, the problem is no more and you remain alive. Without the Word - the problem dies with its victim. Either way - the problem is gone.
A: OX L: HEART F: MOUTH
A: Jehovah / Jesus L: heart F: mouth
A: 'Jehovah (Jesus) L: teaching(his children) F: to speak.
In Genesis 1 [ALEF, by name MASTER of the universe] God calls forth His creation by a 'spoken word'. 'Let there be light, and there was'. Perfect agreement. He creates Adam / man in His image. And if we are observant - our first lesson is the 'calling forth of light' - the creative force of the spoken Word.
B: HOUSE Y: HAND T: CROSS
B: Son / wife Y: servant T: salvation
B: family relationship Y: grasping
T: true identity / faithGod calls his HOUSE a 'house of prayer'. Prayer is not 'just asking'. Prayer is truth from one's mouth in agreement with God's Word.
In Genesis 2 [BEYT, family RELATIONSHIP] God 'builds / banah hnb ' woman from Adam. B: relationship N: seed / kingdom offspring H: thoughts, words, actions.
1 Peter 2:5
you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house,
a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices
acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house,
a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices
acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Adam, following God's example, SPEAKS over woman, 'bone of his bone [etsem: self-same substance], flesh of his flesh'. Perfect agreement. And for this reason - God made them male and female, the 'two to become one'.
G: CAMEL M: WATER L: STAFF / HEART
G: Spirit M: Word L: teacher
G: Angel of death
M: Word (according to law) L: teacher
G: [law]/ spirit of life M: flowing L: from heart
A CAMEL carries water within itself allowing it to traverse the wilderness desert in the face of death. We, as believers, are to carry the 'water of the Word' within ourselves that we can traverse the wilderness of this world, in the face of death. GIMEL is known for REWARD and PUNISHMENT. As the 'angel of death', the LAW is also known (2 Corinthians 3:7) as the 'ministry of death. In learning to speak the Word, we become 'WEANED' [GaMaL] from the milk of the Word - to meat'.
In Genesis 3 [GIMEL: ANGEL of DEATH (ministry of law) death enters through ‘social intercourse’, the woman ‘conversing’: keeping company with (con: with + versare ‘TO TURN’) - TURNING, being twisted with - one with - the serpent. The wages of sin is death. The serpent speaks, the woman speaks and recalls that 'God has spoken'.
Genesis 3 [Gimel]
1 Now the serpent [#xn] was more
cunning [#: :STEWARD / FIRE x LIFE n: SEED/ OFFSPRING]
than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.
And he said to the woman, "Has God indeed said,
'You shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?"
2 And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden;
3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, '
You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.' "
Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus
has made me free from the law of sin and death.
2 Corinthians [Gimel] 3 [Gimel]
5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves,
but our sufficiency is from God,
6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant,
not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
7 But if the ministry of death [Fimel], written and engraved on stones, was glorious,
so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because
of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away,
8 how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?
9 For if the ministry of condemnation had glory,
the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
Galatians 3 [Gimel]
but our sufficiency is from God,
6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant,
not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
7 But if the ministry of death [Fimel], written and engraved on stones, was glorious,
so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because
of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away,
8 how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?
9 For if the ministry of condemnation had glory,
the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
Galatians 3 [Gimel]
24 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ,
that we might be justified by faith.
that we might be justified by faith.
25 But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
Has your faith come? Your conversation - your words - will be witness.
DALET
the DOOR
the TENT FLAP [TONGUE]
of BEYT
Life and death
is in the 'power of the tongue'.
There are 'two doors'
an 'entrance' and an 'exit'
You come in thru one: LIFE
You exit thru the other: DEATH
These 'door's are also reflected in
our TONGUE.
D: DOOR L: HEART T: CROSS
D: Door / Christ L: Teacher T: Salvation
D: DIE to I - LIVE to Christ L: with a HEART T: of faith
Genesis 4 [DALET] tells us that Cain and Abel were in the field - talking - when Cain killed Abel. When God spoke to Cain, He told him, ' sin lies at the DOOR and its desire is for you, but you should rule over it."
Genesis 4 [Dalet]
8 [CHET: LIFE] Now Cain talked with Abel his brother;
and it came to pass, when they were in the field,
that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed [DEATH] him.
8 [CHET: LIFE] Now Cain talked with Abel his brother;
and it came to pass, when they were in the field,
that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed [DEATH] him.
H: EXTENDED ARM A: OX
H: BEHOLD, look, point to
A: Jehovah / Jesus
H: thoughts, words, actions
A: submitted ( to Word)
John the Baptist pointed to Jesus and said, 'BEHOLD the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. We are always to 'point to' Christ in our thoughts, words, actions . Genesis 5 is the genealogy 'POINTS to' God's spoken promise of the Messiah Christ.
Conversation is not 'innocent' - it is meant to invite 'agreement'. Speaking the Word - praying the Word - is the number 1 [ALEF] priority of the Christian. . For those of us who do not learn this lesson there will be failures on many fronts. Consider that if you had a child and that child was not speaking within the first few years of his life, the parent would take the child to a doctor for an exam to see what was wrong. If that same child, now speaking, was constantly cursing, parents / teachers would be correcting the child. The same holds true for the Christian. If there are no signs of speaking the Word during the first few years, concern should be evident. If that same Christian is found continually cursing (giving his words to affliction rather than the Word) pastors and teachers should bring correction.
Agreement with the Word reveals our name - [BEYT] our relationship to God. As we become mature in Christ it is evident that we are weaned [GIMEL] to the Word, that Word on our tongue [DALET]. God is heard and seen in all our 'thoughts, words and actions [HEI] '.
SELAH
SHALOM!
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