LORD---The WORD and The Sabbath

1. In the beginning was the Word(Jesus), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God,

1. Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews.
2. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda ^[1] and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.
3. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie--the blind, the lame, the paralyzed--and they waited for the moving of the waters.
4. From time to time an angel of the Lord would come down and stir up the waters, the first one into the pool after each such disturbance would be cured of whatever diseace he had.
5. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
6. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"
7. "Sir," the invalid replied, "I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me."
8. Then Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk."
9. At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath,
10. and so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat."
11. But he replied, "The man who made me well said to me, `Pick up your mat and walk.'"
12. So they asked him, "Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?"
13. The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.
14. Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you."
15. The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
16. So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews persecuted him.
17. Jesus said to them, "My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working."
18. For this reason the Jews tried all the harder to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

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You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me,

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yet you refuse to come to me to have life.

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Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you many things like that.

Jesus Showed Himself As The WORD

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If he called them 'gods', to whom The Word(Jesus) of God came--and the scripture cannot be broken--

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what about the one whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, 'I am God's Son'?

The WORD Of God Is Living And Active, Judge The Thoughts And The Atitudes Of The Heart

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Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it.

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For we also have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith.

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Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said, "So I declared on oath in my anger, `They shall never enter my rest.'" And yet his work has been finished since the creation of the world.

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For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: "And on the seventh day God rested from all his work."

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And again in the passage above he says, "They shall never enter my rest."

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It still remains that some will enter that rest, and those who formerly had the gospel preached to them did not go in, because of their disobedience.

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Therefore God again set a certain day, calling it Today, when a long time later he spoke through David, as was said before: "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts."

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For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.

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There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God;

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for anyone who enters God's rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his.

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Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience.

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For The Word of God(Jesus) is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, (no 'it' in the Greek here, see also KJV)penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; (no 'it' in the Greek here)judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

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Nothing in all creation is hidden from His(the Greek Bible shows here that The Word of God has a personality) sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of Him, with whom to us is The Word(this is original meaning in the Greek text).

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just as they were handed to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of The Word(Jesus).

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Let The Word of Christ(Jesus Himself) dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one and other with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.

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for which I am suffering even to the point of being chained like a criminal. But God's Word(Jesus) is not chained.

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to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign The Word of God(Jesus).

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I write you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and The Word of God(Jesus) lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

JESUS, The WORD of GOD Will Judge The World

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He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is The Word of God(Jesus).