Good morning. As I
indicated before Paul again says: in Him all the fullness of deity dwells in
bodily form, and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head of all
rule and authority. Remember that the Gnostics believed Jesus only became deity
when the Holy Spirit came upon Him, and then went back to fully man because the
Holy Spirit left Him on the cross. But that's not true. He was Deity His entire
life and death – and then resurrection. We have been made complete - there is
nothing lacking. It is a done deal. He is head over all rule and authority, so
we don't need to be concerned that there is something greater than He is that
might come against us. In Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision
made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision
of Christ; having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also
raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the
dead. And if God raised Jesus from the dead, He will also raise us from the
dead. He didn't do all of this for us because we were super spiritual. When you
were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made
you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions. We were
dead and doomed. He made us alive and destined. He did not forgive us just some
of our transgressions, He forgave us all of our transgressions! Father thank
You that the reader is forgiven all of his/her transgressions. He/she will one
day be raised up with Jesus! Continue to meet all of his/her needs.
When considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, since even the fast was already over, Paul began to admonish them to not continue, because he perceived that not only would there be a loss of the cargo but also of their lives.
Good morning. When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, they proceeded to deliver Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion. Notice that “we“ returns. Luke has not been mentioned during the entire two years that Paul was at Caesarea. I guess it is safe to assume that he was in the area during this time. We will leave out the names of a bunch of places where they passed. They had sailed for a good many days and began to have trouble with the wind. This was a warning of what was about to happen. When considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, since even the fast (Day of Atonement) was already over, Paul began to admonish them to not continue, because he perceived that not only would there be a loss of the cargo but also of their lives. The centurion was more persuaded by the pilot and the captain of the ship than by what was being said by Paul. They did not want to get stuck for the winter in the port where they were located. They actually were only g...
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