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Fruit in Scripture

Real fruit is mentioned in Scripture. Some times the fruit, sometimes the tree.

Apple
the apple of Deuteronomy 32:10, Psalm 17:8, Proverbs 7:2, Lamentations 2:18, Zechariah 2:8
the apple tree Song of Solomon 2:3, 8:5, Joel 1:12

Almond
the almond tree Ecclesiastes 12:5, Jeremiah 1:11

Fig
Fig leaves Genesis 3:7
Fig tree
In the Old Testament Deuteronomy 8:8, Judges 9:10-11, 1 Kings 4:25, 2 Kings 18:31, Psalms 105:33, Proverbs 27:18, Song of Solomon 2:13, Isaiah 34:4, 36:16, Jeremiah 5:17,8:13, Hosea 2:12, 9:10 Joel 1:7,12, 2:22 Amos 4:9, Micah 4:4, Nahum 3:12, Habakkuk 3:17, Haggai 2:19, Zechariah 3:10
In the New Testament Matthew 21:19-21,24:32, Mark 11:13,20-21, 13:28, Luke 13:6-7, 21:29, John 1:48,50, James 3:12, Revelation 6:13

Grape
gather every grape Leviticus 19:10
blood of the grape Deuteronomy 32:14
unripe grape Job 15:33
the tender grape Song of Solomon 2:13, 7:12
sour grape Isaiah 18:5, Jeremiah 31:29-30

Olive
In the Old Testament olive leaf Genesis 8:11
oil olive Exodus 27:30, 30:24, Leviticus 24:2, Deuteronomy 8:8, 2 Kings 18:32, Psalm 52:8, 128:3, Isaiah 17:6, 24:13, Jeremiah 11:16, Hosea 14:6, Amos 4:9
olive tree Deuteronomy 24:20, 28:40, Judges 9:8-9, 1 Kings 6:23,31-33, 1 Chronicles 27:28, Haggai 2:1, Zechariah 4:3,11
olive branches Nehemiah 8:15, Zechariah 4:12
the olive Job 15:33, Habakkuk 3:17,
In the New Testament olive tree Romans 11:17,24, Revelation 11:4
olive berries James 3:12

Pomegranate
a pomegranate Exodus 28:34, 39:26, Song of Solomon 4:3,
a pomegranate tree 1 Samuel 14:2, Joel 1:12, Haggai 2:19

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God’s Grace

The Apostle Paul teaching on God’s Grace:
Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
2 Corinthians 12:9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Titus 2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
Romans 3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
2 Timothy 2:1 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Romans 11:6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
Romans 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
Hebrews 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

How to we take advantage of God’s Grace? How can we be sure we have God’s Grace? The Apostle explains how we obtain God’s Grace:

By believing the Gospel: 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

And then confessing that the Lord Jesus is God. Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

Believe in the death – burial – resurrection and confess that He (the Lord Jesus) is God.

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In Remembrance of Me -Part 2

Do you remember …. WAIT A MINUTE …… You weren’t there!
All this happened over 1900 years ago.
How could you remember? You hadn’t even been born.

Yes, you remember hearing stories about these things.
You remember a Preacher, Priest or someone preaching about these things.
You remember reading about these things. BUT you weren’t there.

Well, what meanest the Scripture “IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME”?
You truly are not eye witness’s of these events, you would be a fool to proclaim that you were.
So, what meanest the Scripture “IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME”?

Do you have a remembrance of the Lord Jesus?
Have you ever had contact with the Living Son of God?
If you are saved (believed 1 Corinthians 15:1-4, acted upon Romans 10:9) then you have a remembrance of the Lord Jesus.

You are a witness, not in his life and death, BUT in the NEW LIFE He is giving to YOU!

What is there to remember?
You were a sinner! Lost in a world of self-righteousness! Lost, separated from God!

It’s to remember that only by God’s grace, the love of Christ, that you’ve been made acceptable to God.

This is a remembrance you have of Christ, the remembrance you have of the time you believed, were saved, lifted out of the mire of sin, the sea of self-righteousness and placed in the heavenlies, the time when you passed from spiritual death and placed into spiritual life, life eternal, all because of the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Psalm 22

A very graphic description of the Crucifixion (which did not come into being until the Romans ruled). (read about the crucifixion as recorded in the four Gospels).

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
Words spoken by Christ as He hung on the cross. Mark 15:34
2-6 O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
7-8 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. Actions, works and words spoken by those around the cross as Christ was being crucified. Matthew 27:43
9-11 But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts. I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly. Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help. Sufferings of the Lord Jesus at His trial and crucifixion.
Matthew 27:27-42, Mark 15:16-28
12-17 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion. I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
Prophecy-Fulfilled Matthew 27:35, Mark 15:24, John 19:23
19 But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
21 Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
23 Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
25 My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
28 For the kingdom is the LORD’s: and he is the governor among the nations.
29 All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.

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Psalm 16

Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
2 O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;
3 But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight. The Apostle Paul write his epistles to the SAINTS at ….
Romans 1:7, 1 Corinthians 1:2, 2 Corinthians 1:1, Ephesians 1:1,
Philippians 1:1, Colossians 1:2
4-9 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips. The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.
I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
This verse speaks of Christ’s three days in the tomb, where he descended into hades and then rise gain three days later, and His body did not see corruption but was changed to a glorious one. Ephesians 4:9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?Acts 2:31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.Acts 13:35 Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. 1 Corinthians 2:9 …things which God hath prepared for them that love him. Philippians 1:23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
Ephesians 4:10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)

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Psalm 8

Speaks of the coming Kingdom on Earth.

O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
Peter preaching to Jews Acts 4:12 – Paul wrote to Romans Romans 14:11
2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
This was quoted by Christ in Matthew 21:16
3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
4-6 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
This was quoted by Paul in Hebrews 2:6-8
7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
The Lord Jesus created everything. Ephesians 3:9, Colossians 1:16
9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
Every knee shall bow to the Lord Jesus. Romans 14:11

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Epaphras

Epaphras is mentioned 3 times in the New Testament, in 2 epistles of the Apostle Paul; Colossians and Philemon.
Paul was in prison when he penned these Epistles and in Philemon he calls Epaphras “my fellow prisoner”. Did he mean Epaphras was in prison with him? Probably not. For he states “in Christ”. Paul considered himself to be a prisoner, a bond servant of Christ. It also appears Epaphras was “a minister to the Colossians”, he probably was the founder of the Colossian Church. It would also appear Philemon abode in Colossae.

Colossians 1:7-8 As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ; Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

Colossians 4:12-13 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. For I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis.

Philemon 1:23 There salute thee Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus;

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Psalm 7

A Meditation of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning the words of Cush, a Benjamite.

When David was under attack from Cush the Benjamite, all he could trust was God.

O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me: Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver. O LORD my God, If I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands; If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:) Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah. Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded. So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high. The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me. Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
1 Peter 4:18 IF THE RIGHTEOUS SCARCELY BE SAVED, WHERE SHALL THE UNGOLDLY AND THE SINNER APPEAR?

My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart. God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.
1 Samuel 16:7 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors. Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
Isaiah 59:4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate. I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.

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Amram

Exodus 6:18 And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three years.
Exodus 6:20 And Amram took him Jochebed his father’s sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven

More is mentioned in Numbers.
Numbers 3:19 And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
Numbers 26:58-59 These are the families of the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korathites. And Kohath begat Amram. And the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.

More is mentioned in 1 Chronicles.
1 Chronicles 6:2-3 And the sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. And the children of Amram; Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sons also of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
1 Chronicles 6:18 And the sons of Kohath were, Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
1 Chronicles 23:12-13 The sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four. The sons of Amram; Aaron and Moses: and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons for ever, to burn incense before the LORD, to minister unto him, and to bless in his name for ever.
1 Chronicles 24:20 And the rest of the sons of Levi were these: Of the sons of Amram; Shubael: of the sons of Shubael; Jehdeiah.

Mentioned indirectly in Hebrews.
Hebrews 11:23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment.

The other two:
A son of Dishon.
1 Chronicles 1:41 The sons of Anah; Dishon. And the sons of Dishon; Amram, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.

A son of Bani.
Ezra 10:34 Of the sons of Bani; Maadai, Amram, and Uel,

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Jochebed

Numbers 26:59 And the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.

She was a very brave woman expecting a baby, whom Pharaoh had ordered put to death (Exodus 1:22), she hid her pregnancy and bore a baby boy. She keep him for 3 months and then hid him in a basket placing him in the river trying to save his life.
(Hebrews 11:23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment.)

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Read the story in Exodus 2:1-10. When Pharaoh’s daughter found the baby, she needed someone to nurse him. Jochebed got that honor, so she was able to raise her sone for 3-5 years. This allowed Moses to learn about his family, before he was returned to Pharaoh’s daughter and be raised as an Egyptian.

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