Amazing and brilliant. Thank you lord for this inspired teaching where every word that came out Proff Gore pierced my soul and left me soul searching and scratching my heart. Did not know that I was 38 years an invalid and our calling to missionary work and purpose was very well spoken. Sunday school lesson awe! Eagerly looking forward to next week. Amen and amen
thank you Kandy for being backbone of teaching for without you whom would be adored as much as you 😇thank you for teaching Christ heart it is my feast a celebration knowing I am listening to his heart beatخدا را شکر هزاربار ) thank god thousand times)❤️ happy Valentine’s ✝️
Thank you Mr and Mrs Gore (Kandy, sorry I spelt your name wrong on a previous post) for your wonderful bible study. Please don't ever apologise for going off on a tangent, it is always extremely interesting and it works well. We truly appreciate your efforts. Kandy gets a huge thanks too as I am certain you both work as a team. Even if it is making a lemonade or some lunch, any contribution helps, so families like ours get the opportunity to learn from the other side of the world. God bless, The Everitt Family, outback Queensland, Australia. 😊
Brother Bruce, Wow, that is extremely wise and extensive teaching covering a very wide range of theological topics and above all, most practical applications how we ought to handle many struggles in life. Rich and wise teaching to challenge us to stand up and walk. Thanks! If I were the 38 years old paralytic man, I would have gotten used to this hopeless and pathetic living. One ought to be numb to such reality after 38 years of being neglected. Even if he were born with the heart of steel, that steel would have been frozen cold. It would have blown my mind away just to think of any other way of living that include holding down a job without any skill and in addition l would not know how to deal with the very noisy people around me. Just to think what I should do tomorrow is already overwhelming. I would not have done any planning in this pathatic life for the longest time. I could not have remembered when was the last time l planned to do anything. I wouldn't know how to handle the new social life. This was truly a dead man made alive. It's extremely threatening to anyone, for Jesus to ask such a unthinkable question, "do you want to be made whole?". This is frightening to anyone. Great coverage. I love your sharing. I am totally challenged by your probing.
@@ffda0012 thanks for sharing your thought. If l may expand a little of my thought. To be born again is frightening. Everything around you have changed despite they are still exactly the same as before. The unseen things in the previous state are now more and more visible. You are living in a completely new reality both physically, mentally and spiritually, despite nothing have changed apart from you being born again. It's no small potatoes. It's an downside up new life. Jesus said that He didn't bring peace to your family but sword. This is one of the biggest challenges. This flip upside down and downside up in your family can be extremely confusing till you go past that. Even then it's hard to handle in your mind how the family could become so messy coming to knowing Christ. Rightly so, as Jesus had forewarned. RC Spraul was once asked at the final session of a church retreat how he would think if he were in heaven looking down seeing his mother burning in hell. The short answer was to rejoice and praise God. He added to considering he were supposedly to be burning in hell with the mother, but mercifully saved. He spoke without any hesitation with inexpressible joy and gusto. Shocking one may add. He may sounded extremely cold and uncaring, but it's truly beyond anything we can do to receive this free gift of second chance to live with God all over again. Hearing our Sunday school's lecture prompted me to drill down deeper why this text is such a big deal. This message is truly about being born again - the question is profound, do you want to be made whole?
Why did Jesus choose me? Unfortunately He did not make that very clear to me when I was born from above. All I know for sure is I was living at the bottom of a pit of hell and He reached down and touched me and made me His own. Hallelujah! Glory to God. Thank you Jesus!
@@GoreBruce Mr. Gore, I’ve been a huge fan of yours for many years and you inspired me to write a commentary on The Book of Revelation. It would be a dream of mine if you read it and maybe let me know what you think. Thank you in advance for the consideration.
…🤔🧐Perhaps the stirring of the waters in the pool, is in reality a healing mineral hot springs of sorts, bubbling and gurgling up periodically, and the ancients attributed it to the activity of an angel? 🤔
Hello Dr. Gore! Slowly catching up on John! Question for you! Jesus tells the man in John 9 to "wash in the Pool of Siloam" after he heals him, but interestingly enough here, he does NOT tell the man to wash in this pool, and instead just tells him to go show himself to the leaders, bypassing jewish custom for healing protocol. I heard it taught that this was because at this pool there was some weird pagan-ish beliefs or superstitions (angels stirring up the water etc) and he did not want to affirm that ... but at the pool of Siloam he was happy to follow the Jewish law and customs. Thoughts on that angle? Thank you for excellent expository teaching as always.
As a rule, Jesus never heals in the same way twice. Sometimes he touches, sometimes not, he spits, he commands, he tests and questions, etc. I think it is ill-advised to think Jesus is doing any more than what is precisely needed in the specific circumstance in connection with the specific subject of his ministry.
Maybe MAYBE... The man who is healed was blaming God for allowing his disabilities. Then, MAYBE, when he's asked why he's carrying his mat, he blames God again for telling him to get up and walk. It's his fault! Not mine! Then Jesus goes and tells him to stop sinning. Blaming God for all his troubles. 45:24
And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass. Genesis 41:32 I've been aware of the Holy spirit in my life since 1953. I didn't think it was the Holy Spirit, but God, the father, because nobody around me seemed to have the same relationship with with whatever it was I was dealing with who should have assured me it was the Holy Spirit and then introduce me to the Bible verse above, Genesis 41"32, as the essential navigation guide for a working relationship with the Holy Spirit. A navigation device for a self-aware relationship with the Holy Spirit. It is infallible. This is the KJV translation. :":Doubling" is of the essence and supports the argument that the KJV is the indispensable English translation of the Bible for the serious English major in American liberal arts and, , I'm sure, the library of an Oxford graduate in any college with First graduate honors. Among other things, the KJV employs double negatives to emphasize the point. This is not a double negative but a test that seems to stumble over itself making it's point. And that quality is lost in any translation that does not literally employ "Double" in its meter. Your use of 38 in your explication of "Healing an outcast" is the first time you have actually employed the numerology of the Bible to enrich your already rich commentary. You may not be a scholar, but your research is the effort of a relentless para-legal. Number is woven into the narrative of the scripture like jewels into the gown of Elizabeth II, the sparkles on a Mardi Gras Drum Majorette. I would say that the Holy Spirit led you to 38 so that I could make some points regarding number in the Bible which you will find delighrgul and validating of your own faith. Now, my explications of all numbers begin with the Arabic symbols for those graphic figures and arithmetical value. I've researched these values using various graphic figures and the underlying matric values hold, whether it is Kabbalah or Egyptian numerology. I can't say that for Oriental numerology. I don't understand what is going on and my intuition suggests to me that the Asian adoption of Arabic symbolism arises more from the cultural pragmatism of their commercial colonial impulse as opposed to an organic cultural evolution. Anyway, as near as I can tell, everything that happens in the Gospels doubles something tin the Hebrew Bible in some way. Your 38 is an example of that, That's why I say the Samaritan Women and Tamar and Judah is the essential doubling and the issue is pregnancy. 38 is reduced to 11 and 2. The concept "Zero" didn't exist, per se, in classic numerology except as a null set. The Arabic symbol "0" came into existence in the 5th or 6th century and took a couple of centuries to be generally accepted in its current role. I use it in my own numerology because it's useful in commercial fortune telling and I could have been a quietly successful fortune teller in the 70s. But, anyway, 38 is the number of pedagogy. 38 reduces first to 11 and 11 is the number of the Teacher. 11 is one of the roles of Jesus in Him missionary. He's a 11 in the Parable of the Sower and the Sermon on the Mount. And both numbers are reduced to 2, which, in the process describes by the series of symbols from 1 to 9, is the number of Human Intelligence, as a reflection of Divine Intelligence. 1 is the number of Principle and "The One" as described in Revelation 4.2 and its planet is The Sun and the Moon is the planet of 2, which reflects the light of 1. So, your insight that the 38 represents. in this instance, the state of mind of the Children of Moses and this invalid, both of which represent the inertia of doubt, is like Joseph's interpretation of the doubled dreams of Pharaoh. Half-stepping is an Army term for slackers in a military organization< they are people who are going through the motions of active performance, but are basically phoning it in. Based on your interpretation, Jesus doesn't accept half-stepping as righteousness. The Christian life is a constant leap of faith. This sort of doubling of number is one sign, in John Mark's meaning of "sign", that the narratives of the Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of John were composed to be understood as a single intertwined narrative. The separate narratives converge in Mark 6 and John 6 at the feeding of the 5000 and converge again on Palm Sunday in Mark 11 and John 11. This is an example of the Doubling of the Mundane Numerology of the Bible. The 38 doubling is an example of what I call "Textual Numerology of the Bible", I don't try and deal with Numerics or the Bible. I can't speak or read Hebrew and, as a consequence, I can only approach Kabbalah superficially for that reason. My theory is that the Hebrew gematria began as a sort of periodic table for the symbols for numerical values for accounting purposes and the Hebrew alphabet evolved from that basis. In the Beginning was the Word, but, before the Word WAS, Number IS, the great I AM that I AM. Keep drilling down.
Thank You! 🙌
Amazing and brilliant. Thank you lord for this inspired teaching where every word that came out Proff Gore pierced my soul and left me soul searching and scratching my heart. Did not know that I was 38 years an invalid and our calling to missionary work and purpose was very well spoken. Sunday school lesson awe! Eagerly looking forward to next week. Amen and amen
Thank you for this amazing channel!
thank you Kandy for being backbone of teaching for without you whom would be adored as much as you 😇thank you for teaching Christ heart it is my feast a celebration knowing I am listening to his heart beatخدا را شکر هزاربار ) thank god thousand times)❤️ happy Valentine’s ✝️
In all thy ways, acknowledge him!
Thanks for the great Sunday school lesson. The letter of the law vs the spirit of the law seemed to be an important theme to me.
May God Almighty gives you good health and wisdom, I'm blessed with your Bible study. All Glory to God.
Thank you Mr and Mrs Gore (Kandy, sorry I spelt your name wrong on a previous post) for your wonderful bible study. Please don't ever apologise for going off on a tangent, it is always extremely interesting and it works well. We truly appreciate your efforts. Kandy gets a huge thanks too as I am certain you both work as a team. Even if it is making a lemonade or some lunch, any contribution helps, so families like ours get the opportunity to learn from the other side of the world. God bless, The Everitt Family, outback Queensland, Australia. 😊
Brother Bruce, Wow, that is extremely wise and extensive teaching covering a very wide range of theological topics and above all, most practical applications how we ought to handle many struggles in life. Rich and wise teaching to challenge us to stand up and walk. Thanks!
If I were the 38 years old paralytic man, I would have gotten used to this hopeless and pathetic living. One ought to be numb to such reality after 38 years of being neglected. Even if he were born with the heart of steel, that steel would have been frozen cold.
It would have blown my mind away just to think of any other way of living that include holding down a job without any skill and in addition l would not know how to deal with the very noisy people around me. Just to think what I should do tomorrow is already overwhelming. I would not have done any planning in this pathatic life for the longest time. I could not have remembered when was the last time l planned to do anything.
I wouldn't know how to handle the new social life. This was truly a dead man made alive. It's extremely threatening to anyone, for Jesus to ask such a unthinkable question, "do you want to be made whole?". This is frightening to anyone.
Great coverage. I love your sharing. I am totally challenged by your probing.
Amen, well thought.
@@ffda0012 thanks for sharing your thought. If l may expand a little of my thought.
To be born again is frightening. Everything around you have changed despite they are still exactly the same as before.
The unseen things in the previous state are now more and more visible. You are living in a completely new reality both physically, mentally and spiritually, despite nothing have changed apart from you being born again. It's no small potatoes. It's an downside up new life.
Jesus said that He didn't bring peace to your family but sword. This is one of the biggest challenges. This flip upside down and downside up in your family can be extremely confusing till you go past that. Even then it's hard to handle in your mind how the family could become so messy coming to knowing Christ. Rightly so, as Jesus had forewarned.
RC Spraul was once asked at the final session of a church retreat how he would think if he were in heaven looking down seeing his mother burning in hell. The short answer was to rejoice and praise God. He added to considering he were supposedly to be burning in hell with the mother, but mercifully saved. He spoke without any hesitation with inexpressible joy and gusto. Shocking one may add. He may sounded extremely cold and uncaring, but it's truly beyond anything we can do to receive this free gift of second chance to live with God all over again.
Hearing our Sunday school's lecture prompted me to drill down deeper why this text is such a big deal. This message is truly about being born again - the question is profound, do you want to be made whole?
@@walterwong1847thanks for sharing this.
Why did Jesus choose me? Unfortunately He did not make that very clear to me when I was born from above. All I know for sure is I was living at the bottom of a pit of hell and He reached down and touched me and made me His own. Hallelujah! Glory to God. Thank you Jesus!
Amen!
@@GoreBruce
Mr. Gore,
I’ve been a huge fan of yours for many years and you inspired me to write a commentary on The Book of Revelation. It would be a dream of mine if you read it and maybe let me know what you think.
Thank you in advance for the consideration.
@@rockyherrin4008 Contact me at bruce@brucegore.com.
…🤔🧐Perhaps the stirring of the waters in the pool, is in reality a healing mineral hot springs of sorts, bubbling and gurgling up periodically, and the ancients attributed it to the activity of an angel? 🤔
Take up your cross is best!
Hello Dr. Gore! Slowly catching up on John! Question for you! Jesus tells the man in John 9 to "wash in the Pool of Siloam" after he heals him, but interestingly enough here, he does NOT tell the man to wash in this pool, and instead just tells him to go show himself to the leaders, bypassing jewish custom for healing protocol. I heard it taught that this was because at this pool there was some weird pagan-ish beliefs or superstitions (angels stirring up the water etc) and he did not want to affirm that ... but at the pool of Siloam he was happy to follow the Jewish law and customs. Thoughts on that angle? Thank you for excellent expository teaching as always.
As a rule, Jesus never heals in the same way twice. Sometimes he touches, sometimes not, he spits, he commands, he tests and questions, etc. I think it is ill-advised to think Jesus is doing any more than what is precisely needed in the specific circumstance in connection with the specific subject of his ministry.
Maybe MAYBE... The man who is healed was blaming God for allowing his disabilities. Then, MAYBE, when he's asked why he's carrying his mat, he blames God again for telling him to get up and walk. It's his fault! Not mine! Then Jesus goes and tells him to stop sinning. Blaming God for all his troubles. 45:24
Wilberforce? The Didache? Try staying on the topic, Bruce!
And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass. Genesis 41:32
I've been aware of the Holy spirit in my life since 1953. I didn't think it was the Holy Spirit, but God, the father, because nobody around me seemed to have the same relationship with with whatever it was I was dealing with who should have assured me it was the Holy Spirit and then introduce me to the Bible verse above, Genesis 41"32, as the essential navigation guide for a working relationship with the Holy Spirit. A navigation device for a self-aware relationship with the Holy Spirit. It is infallible.
This is the KJV translation. :":Doubling" is of the essence and supports the argument that the KJV is the indispensable English translation of the Bible for the serious English major in American liberal arts and, , I'm sure, the library of an Oxford graduate in any college with First graduate honors. Among other things, the KJV employs double negatives to emphasize the point. This is not a double negative but a test that seems to stumble over itself making it's point. And that quality is lost in any translation that does not literally employ "Double" in its meter.
Your use of 38 in your explication of "Healing an outcast" is the first time you have actually employed the numerology of the Bible to enrich your already rich commentary. You may not be a scholar, but your research is the effort of a relentless para-legal. Number is woven into the narrative of the scripture like jewels into the gown of Elizabeth II, the sparkles on a Mardi Gras Drum Majorette.
I would say that the Holy Spirit led you to 38 so that I could make some points regarding number in the Bible which you will find delighrgul and validating of your own faith.
Now, my explications of all numbers begin with the Arabic symbols for those graphic figures and arithmetical value. I've researched these values using various graphic figures and the underlying matric values hold, whether it is Kabbalah or Egyptian numerology.
I can't say that for Oriental numerology. I don't understand what is going on and my intuition suggests to me that the Asian adoption of Arabic symbolism arises more from the cultural pragmatism of their commercial colonial impulse as opposed to an organic cultural evolution.
Anyway, as near as I can tell, everything that happens in the Gospels doubles something tin the Hebrew Bible in some way. Your 38 is an example of that, That's why I say the Samaritan Women and Tamar and Judah is the essential doubling and the issue is pregnancy.
38 is reduced to 11 and 2. The concept "Zero" didn't exist, per se, in classic numerology except as a null set. The Arabic symbol "0" came into existence in the 5th or 6th century and took a couple of centuries to be generally accepted in its current role. I use it in my own numerology because it's useful in commercial fortune telling and I could have been a quietly successful fortune teller in the 70s.
But, anyway, 38 is the number of pedagogy. 38 reduces first to 11 and 11 is the number of the Teacher. 11 is one of the roles of Jesus in Him missionary. He's a 11 in the Parable of the Sower and the Sermon on the Mount. And both numbers are reduced to 2, which, in the process describes by the series of symbols from 1 to 9, is the number of Human Intelligence, as a reflection of Divine Intelligence. 1 is the number of Principle and "The One" as described in Revelation 4.2 and its planet is The Sun and the Moon is the planet of 2, which reflects the light of 1.
So, your insight that the 38 represents. in this instance, the state of mind of the Children of Moses and this invalid, both of which represent the inertia of doubt, is like Joseph's interpretation of the doubled dreams of Pharaoh. Half-stepping is an Army term for slackers in a military organization< they are people who are going through the motions of active performance, but are basically phoning it in. Based on your interpretation, Jesus doesn't accept half-stepping as righteousness. The Christian life is a constant leap of faith.
This sort of doubling of number is one sign, in John Mark's meaning of "sign", that the narratives of the Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of John were composed to be understood as a single intertwined narrative. The separate narratives converge in Mark 6 and John 6 at the feeding of the 5000 and converge again on Palm Sunday in Mark 11 and John 11. This is an example of the Doubling of the Mundane Numerology of the Bible. The 38 doubling is an example of what I call "Textual Numerology of the Bible", I don't try and deal with Numerics or the Bible. I can't speak or read Hebrew and, as a consequence, I can only approach Kabbalah superficially for that reason. My theory is that the Hebrew gematria began as a sort of periodic table for the symbols for numerical values for accounting purposes and the Hebrew alphabet evolved from that basis. In the Beginning was the Word, but, before the Word WAS, Number IS, the great I AM that I AM.
Keep drilling down.