DAY 13
And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary,
there they crucified him, and the malefactors,
one on the right hand, and the other on the left.
And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee,
To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
Luke 23:34,43
"Luke 23:43 and misplaced commas
Spot the difference between these two phrases:
Mary Magdalene sought thus because she loved much.
Let us arouse ourselves to the same intensity of affection;"
Charles Spurgeon
1. "Verily I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise."
2. "Verily I say to you today, you will be with me in Paradise."
2. "Verily I say to you today, you will be with me in Paradise."
Exactly, the moving of the comma changes both the structure
and the meaning of the sentence.
*The original Greek had
no punctuation, so translators had to guess about where to place a
comma. They decided on the common rendering of the text.
But they got it wrong. It should read: “Verily I say unto thee today, shalt thou be with me in paradise.”
---Jesus is saying, even though right now I don’t look like a king, I’m
telling you right now that because you called me Lord and King, you’re
going to be with me in heaven.
*We know it’s a misplaced comma because
Jesus didn’t go to heaven that day!
Three days after that promise, Mary
saw Jesus after His resurrection and grabbed hold of His ankles. He
said, “Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father” (John 20:17).
He could not have been in heaven on Friday! The Bible makes it clear
that the thief did not go to heaven with Jesus Friday afternoon."
JM & AmazingFacts
@ = 1st Resurrection [at 2nd Advent]
@ = 2nd Resurrection [after Millennium]
For the living know that they shall die:
but the dead know not any thing...
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, @ some to everlasting life,
@ and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
And shall come forth;
@ they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life;
@ and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
... that there shall be a resurrection of the dead,
both of @ the just @ and unjust.
@ But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. --The
sea gave up its dead, and death and the grave gave up their dead. And
all were judged according to their deeds. Then death and the grave were
thrown into the lake of fire. This lake of fire is the second death.
@ Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection:
...that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
For the Lord himself
shall descend from heaven with a shout,
with the voice of the archangel,
and with the trump of God:
and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Ecclesiastes 9:5/Daniel 12:2/John 5:29/Acts 24:15/Revelation 20:5,6,13,14/1 Thessalonians 4:15-17
DAILY REMINDER
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, 
and have not LOVE, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
And though I have the gift of
prophecy, and understand all mysteries,
and all knowledge; and though I
have all faith, so that I could remove mountains,
and have not LOVE,
I am nothing.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not LOVE, it profiteth me nothing.LOVE suffereth long, and
is kind;
LOVE envieth not;
LOVE vaunteth not itself, is not
puffed up,
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not
easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
And now abideth faith, hope, LOVE, these three;
but the greatest of these is LOVE.
And from Jesus Christ, ....Unto him that loved us,
and washed us from our sins in his own blood,...
1 Corinthians 13:1-5,13/Revelation 1:5
"Let us learn from Mary Magdalene how to obtain fellowship with the Lord
Jesus.
Notice how she sought.
* She sought the Savior very early in the
morning.
* She sought Him also with very great boldness. Other disciples fled from the sepulchre, for they trembled and were amazed; but Mary, it is said, "stood" at the sepulcher.
* Note further, she sought Jesus earnestly-she stood "weeping." Those tear-droppings were as spells that led the Savior captive, and made Him come forth and show Himself to her.
Notice how she sought.
* She sought the Savior very early in the
morning.* She sought Him also with very great boldness. Other disciples fled from the sepulchre, for they trembled and were amazed; but Mary, it is said, "stood" at the sepulcher.
* Note further, she sought Jesus earnestly-she stood "weeping." Those tear-droppings were as spells that led the Savior captive, and made Him come forth and show Himself to her.
Some find it hard to stand by a living Savior,
but she stood by a dead
one.
Let us seek Christ after this mode, cleaving to the very least
thing that has to do with Him, remaining faithful though all others
should forsake Him.Mary Magdalene sought thus because she loved much.
Let us arouse ourselves to the same intensity of affection;"
Charles Spurgeon
Closing Thought for the Day
O wretched man that I am!
who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Romans 7:24
