Weir – part 1

 

… what is a weir …

… Weir … a structure that regulates the … direction … volume … or … flow speed … of water … for a specific purpose … we feel this is a pretty good definition and good examples include … a water race for an antique water wheel … or … the spillway of hydroelectric dam … or … a fish trap set in a river or stream … from a development time frame the fish traps were probably the first thoughtful development of the weir mechanism … then what developed were various solutions which turn the potential energy of flowing water into kinetic energy like a water wheel for the grinding of grain … in our current time period … more recent solutions enabled the utilization of flowing water kinetic energy to generate much larger amounts of energy in the spillways of hydroelectric dams … our reference for weir in this bible study is this same developmental sequence as applied to God’s project plan to return His creation to its original state at the end of the sixth day of creation … Jesus tells Peter James and John … I will make you fishers of men … the dual action of the Word of God with those who have faith that Jesus Christ is God Our Lord Our Savior Our Teacher Our Pilot our Friend … is … to provide a real space that we term the Christian Church in which others can find that faith and grow in relationship with God … the Spirit of God ( Holy Spirit ) provides the spiritual power for a new believer in Jesus Christ to live and function in what can be termed at best a world fallen away from a true knowledge of God … it is the dynamic active interaction of a believer in Jesus Christ that enables the presence of Jesus Christ in our heart and the Spirit of God ( Holy Spirit ) in our spirit to generate the power of God within us … the power throughout this growth is the Spirit of God ( Holy Spirit ) however it is our increasing relationship with God through our faith in Jesus Christ that permits that power to increase and manifest as we grow closer to God … an interesting concept which is one component of the return of all creation to its original state at the end of the sixth day of creation …

 

 John chapter 21, vs 1 - 14                   select verses in sequence

… Jesus Christ again showed Himself to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias ( Sea of Galilee ) … He showed Himself in this way … gathered at the shore were … Simon Peter … Thomas called the Twin … Nathanael of Cana in Galilee … James and John the sons of Zebedee … and … two others of Jesus’ disciples …  Simon Peter said  … I’m going fishing … and … they all said to Peter … we will go with you … so … they got into a boat … put off from shore and started fishing … but … that night they caught nothing … just after daybreak … Jesus Christ stood on the beach … they saw Him but the disciples did not know that it was Jesus … then Jesus said to them … children you have no fish … and … they answered Him … no … then Jesus said to them … cast the net to the right side of the boat and you will find some … so they cast their net to the right side of the boat …

  

Luke chapter 5, vs 1 - 11                       Jesus Christ speaking

… Jesus Christ was standing beside the Lake of Gennesaret … also called … the Lake of Galilee … or … the Lake of Tiberius … and … there was a crowd that was pressing in on Him to hear the Word of God … Jesus saw two boats at the shore of the lake … the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets … Jesus got into one of the boats … the one belonging to Simon … and … Jesus asked Simon to put out a little way from the shore … then … Jesus sat down and taught the crowds from the boat … when he had finished speaking … Jesus said to Simon … put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch … Simon answered … Master we have worked all night long but have caught nothing yet if you ask I will let down the nets … when they had done this … they caught so many fish that the nets were beginning to break … they called to their partners in the other boat to come and help them … they came … and … the fishermen filled both boats with fish so full that they began to sink …. When Simon Peter saw this he fell down before Jesus saying … go away from me Lord for I am a sinful man … for … Peter and all who were with Jesus were amazed at the catch of fish that had been taken … and … so also … were James and John … the sons of Zebedee … who were partners with Simon … then … Jesus said to Simon … do not be afraid from now on you will be catching people … when they had brought the boats to shore they left everything and followed Jesus …

 

John chapter 7, vs 37                              Jesus Christ speaking                            .

… if anyone is thirsty … come to Me and drink … for everyone who believes in Me … as the scriptures say … streams of living water will flow from within them …

 

John chapter 4, vs 13 - 14                    Jesus Christ speaking

… everyone who drinks this water ( e.g. from Jacob’s well ) will be thirsty again … but … everyone who drinks the water that I give will never thirst …indeed … the water that I give will become in them a spring of water welling up to everlasting life …

 

Isaiah chapter 12                      select verses not necessarily in sequence

12:1 ואמרת ביום ההוא אודך יהוה כי אנפת בי ישב אפך ותנחמני

12:2 הנה אל ישועתי אבטח ולא אפחד כי-עזי וזמרת יה יהוה ויהי-לי לישועה

12:3 ושאבתם-מים בששון ממעיני הישועה

12:4 ואמרתם ביום ההוא הודו ליהוה קראו בשמו הודיעו בעמים עלילתיו הזכירו כי נשגב שמו

12:5 זמרו יהוה כי גאות עשה מידעת זאת בכל-הארץ

12:6 צהלי ורני יושבת ציון כי-גדול בקרבך קדוש ישראל

… I will praise you … O LORD ( YHVH ) … You have comforted me … God is my salvation … I will trust and not be afraid … the LORD ( YHVH ) is … my strength … my song … my salvation … draw water from the well of salvation and give thanks to the LORD ( YHVH ) … call on His Name … make known among the nations what He has done … proclaim … His Name … let His Name be exalted … sing to the LORD ( YHVH ) … He has done glorious things … let this be known to all the world …

 

Ezekiel chapter 47, vs 1 - 12              select verses in sequence 

47:1 וישבני אל-פתח הבית והנה-מים יצאים מתחת מפתן הבית קדימה כי-פני הבית קדים והמים ירדים מתחת מכתף הבית הימנית מנגב למזבח

47:2 ויוצאני דרך-שער צפונה ויסבני דרך חוץ אל-שער החוץ דרך הפונה קדים והנה-מים מפכים מן-הכתף הימנית

47:3 בצאת-האיש קדים וקו בידו וימד אלף באמה ויעברני במים מי אפסים

47:4 וימד אלף ויעברני במים מים ברכים וימד אלף ויעברני מי מתנים

47:5 וימד אלף נחל אשר לא-אוכל לעבר כי-גאו המים מי שחו נחל אשר לא-יעבר

47:6 ויאמר אלי הראית בן-אדם ויולכני וישבני שפת הנחל

47:7 בשובני והנה אל-שפת הנחל עץ רב מאד מזה ומזה

47:8 ויאמר אלי המים האלה יוצאים אל-הגלילה הקדמונה וירדו על-הערבה ובאו הימה אל-הימה המוצאים ונרפאו המים

47:9 והיה כל-נפש חיה אשר-ישרץ אל כל-אשר יבוא שם נחלים יחיה והיה הדגה רבה מאד כי באו שמה המים האלה וירפאו וחי כל אשר-יבוא שמה הנחל

47:10 והיה יעמדו עליו דוגים מעין גדי ועד-עין עגלים משטוח לחרמים יהיו למינה תהיה דגתם כדגת הים הגדול רבה מאד

47:11 בצאתו וגבאיו ולא ירפאו למלח נתנו

47:12 ועל-הנחל יעלה על-שפתו מזה ומזה כל-עץ-מאכל לא-יבול עלהו ולא-יתם פריו לחדשיו יבכר כי מימיו מן-המקדש המה יוצאים והיו פריו למאכל ועלהו לתרופה

… I saw water … the water was flowing … and … he led me into the water … first it was ankle-deep … then knee-deep … then it was up to my waist … then it was a river that I could not cross … no one could cross … I saw a great number of trees … the water flows to the sea and makes the salt water fresh … where the river flows everything will live … fish of many kinds … fruit trees of all kinds … their leaves will not wither … nor … will their fruit fail … they will bear fruit each month … the fruit will serve as food … and … the leaves will be for healing …

 

Revelation chapter 22, vs 17 - 21                   Jesus Christ speaking

… come … let everyone who hears say … come … let everyone who is thirsty come … and … for everyone who wishes … they can take for free the gift of the waters of life … I AM coming soon …

 

Jeremiah chapter 2, vs 13                   God speaking

2:13 כי-שתים רעות עשה עמי אתי עזבו מקור מים חיים לחצב להם בארות בארת נשברים אשר לא-יכלו המים

… My people have committed two sins … they have forsaken Me the spring of living water … and … they have dug their own cisterns that cannot hold water …

 

Revelation chapter 21, vs 3 - 7                        Jesus Christ speaking

… now the dwelling of God is with humankind … He will live with them … they will be His people … and … God Himself will be with them … He will be their God … He will wipe away every tear from their eyes … there will be no more death … no more mourning … no more crying … no more pain … God says … I AM making everything new … then … He ( God Wh0 is Jesus Christ ) … said to me … it is done … I AM the Alpha and the Omega … the Beginning and the End … to everyone who is thirsty … I give without cost from the spring of the water of life … everyone who overcomes will inherit all this  … I will be their God … and … they will be My people …

 

John chapter 10, vs 7 - 18                                    Jesus Christ speaking

… I AM the gate of the sheep whoever enters by Me will be saved … and … will go in and out … and … find pasture … I came that they might have life and have it abundantly … I AM the Good Shepherd … the Good Shepherd lays down His life for the sheep … I know My sheep … and … my sheep know me … as … the Father knows Me … and … I know the Father … I lay down My life for the sheep … I have other sheep that are not part of this fold … I must bring them also … they will heed my voice … then … there will be one flock and one Shepherd … I know My sheep … and … My sheep know My voice … they listen to My voice … they will be one …  the Father loves Me because I lay down My life to take it up again … I have authority to lay it down and I have authority to take it up again … this I have received from the Father …

 

John chapter 4, vs 23                              Jesus Christ speaking

… a time has now come when true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit … and … in truth … for … they are the kind of worshipers which the Father seeks …

 

John chapter 3, vs 16 - 18                    Jesus Christ speaking

… God so loved the world that He gave His only Son … so that … everyone who believes in Him will not perish but will have everlasting life … for … God sent His Son into the world not to condemn it but that the world might be saved through Him … everyone who believes in Him is not condemned … but … whoever does not believe is condemned already …

 

John chapter 14, vs 16                           Jesus Christ speaking

… I will ask the Father … and … He will give you the Advocate ( e.g. the Holy Spirit ) … to help you … and … to be with you forever …

 

John chapter 14, vs 26                           Jesus Christ speaking

… the … Advocate … the Holy Spirit … Whom the Father will send in My Name … will teach you all things … and … will remind you of everything that I have said to you …

 

John chapter 15, vs 26                           Jesus Christ speaking

… when the Advocate comes … Whom I will send to you from the Father … this is the Holy Spirit of truth … Who goes out from the Father … He will testify about Me …

 

Romans chapter 8, vs 15                                    

… the Spirit of God (  the Holy Spirit  ) … that we received … brought about our adoption … and … it is by Him (  the Holy Spirit  ) that we cry Abba Father …

 

Galatians chapter 4, vs 6                                    

… God sent the Spirit of His Son Jesus Christ into our hearts the Spirit of God Who calls out Abba Father …

 

1 John chapter 3, vs 1                                                            

… great love the Father has lavished on us … for … we are called to be the children of God … and that is who we are … the reason the world does not know us is that it does not know Him …

 

1 John chapter 5, vs 1                                                            

… everyone who believes that Jesus Christ is God … is born of God … and … they are a child of the Father … whom the Father loves …

 

Matthew chapter 10, vs 20                 Jesus Christ speaking

… the Spirit of your Father will speak through you …

 

John chapter 12, vs 49                           Jesus Christ speaking

… I did not speak on My own … the Father Who sent Me taught Me to say all that I have spoken ,,,

 

Luke chapter 11, vs 13                           Jesus Christ speaking

… if we know how to give good gifts to your children … how much more will our Father in heaven give the Spirit of God ( Holy Spirit ) to everyone who asks Him …

 

Luke chapter 12, vs 32                           Jesus Christ speaking

… do not be afraid … your Father has been pleased to give to you the Kingdom …

 

Matthew chapter 19, vs 14                 Jesus Christ speaking

… let the little children come to Me  … do not hinder them … for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as these …

 

John chapter 14, vs 23                           Jesus Christ speaking

… everyone who loves Me … will follow My teaching ... My Father will love them … and … We will come to them … and … make Our home with them …

 

John chapter 12, vs 50                           Jesus Christ speaking

… all that I say is what the Father has told Me to say … His teaching leads to everlasting  life  with Him forever …

 

John chapter 14, vs 10                           Jesus Christ speaking

… the words that I say to you I do not speak on My own authority … rather … it is the Father living in Me … Who … is doing His work …

 

Matthew chapter 3, vs 1, 2, 6, 11   John the Baptizer speaking

... repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand ... and ... they were baptized by him ... confessing their sins ... John said … I baptize you with water ... He who is coming ... will baptize you with the Spirit of God ...

 

Romans chapter 14, vs 17

… the Kingdom of Heaven ( Kingdom of God ) … is not eating and drinking … but …  righteousness … peace … and … joy … in the Holy Spirit ( Spirit of God ) …

 

Luke chapter 17, vs 20 - 21                 Jesus Christ speaking

… the Kingdom of God ( Kingdom of Heaven ) is not found with careful observation … nor … can people say here it is … because … the Kingdom of God ( Kingdom of Heaven ) is within you …

 

James chapter 4, vs 8

... let us draw near to God and He will draw near to us ...

 

Galatians chapter 4, vs 9

... now that we have come to know God … or rather … be known by God ...

 

John chapter 3, vs 5 - 8                          Jesus Christ speaking                           

… unless one is born of water … and … the Spirit of God ( Holy Spirit ) … they cannot enter the Kingdom of God ( Kingdom of Heaven ) … that which is born of flesh is flesh … that which is born of Spirit of God ( Holy Spirit ) is spirit … the wind blows where it wishes … you hear the sound but  you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going … so also … it is for everyone born of the Spirit of God ( Holy Spirit ) …

 

Mark chapter 4, vs 26 – 29                   Jesus Christ speaking

… the Kingdom of Heaven ( Kingdom of God ) is like a farmer ) who scatters seed on the ground … night and day the seed sprouts and grows all by itself … and so … the soil produces grain … first the stalk then the head and then the full kernel of the head … as soon as the grain is ripe the harvest has come …

 

Luke chapter 4, vs 18                             Jesus Christ speaking

… the Spirit of the Lord is upon Me … because … He has anointed Me to proclaim good news to the poor … He has sent Me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners … to give the recovery of sight for the blind … and … to set the oppressed free …

 

Isaiah chapter 61                                      Messiah speaking                     select verse segments

61:1 רוח אדני יהוה עלי יען משח יהוה אתי לבשר ענוים שלחני לחבש לנשברי-לב לקרא לשבוים דרור ולאסורים פקח-קוח

61:2 לקרא שנת-רצון ליהוה ויום נקם לאלהינו לנחם כל-אבלים

61:3 לשום לאבלי ציון לתת להם פאר תחת אפר שמן ששון תחת אבל מעטה תהלה תחת רוח כהה וקרא להם אילי הצדק מטע יהוה להתפאר

61:4 ובנו חרבות עולם שממות ראשנים יקוממו וחדשו ערי חרב שממות דור ודור

61:5 ועמדו זרים ורעו צאנכם ובני נכר אכריכם וכרמיכם

61:6 ואתם כהני יהוה תקראו משרתי אלהינו יאמר לכם חיל גוים תאכלו ובכבודם תתימרו

61:7 תחת בשתכם משנה וכלמה ירנו חלקם לכן בארצם משנה יירשו שמחת עולם תהיה להם

61:8 כי אני יהוה אהב משפט שנא גזל בעולה ונתתי פעלתם באמת וברית עולם אכרות להם

61:9 ונודע בגוים זרעם וצאצאיהם בתוך העמים כל-ראיהם יכירום כי הם זרע ברך יהוה

61:10 שוש אשיש ביהוה תגל נפשי באלהי כי הלבישני בגדי-ישע מעיל צדקה יעטני כחתן יכהן פאר וככלה תעדה כליה

61:11 כי כארץ תוציא צמחה וכגנה זרועיה תצמיח כן אדני יהוה יצמיח צדקה ותהלה נגד כל-הגוים

… the Spirit of the LORD ( YHVH ) is upon Me … because … the LORD ( YHVH ) has anointed Me to proclaim good news to the poor … He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted … to proclaim freedom for the captives … and … the release from darkness for prisoners … to proclaim the year of the LORD ( YHVH )’s favor … the day of vengeance of our God … to comfort all those who mourn … to provide for those who grieve … to bestow on them a crown of joy … instead of ashes … the oil of joy … instead of mourning … and … a garment of praise … instead of a spirit of despair … they will be called the oaks of righteousness … a planting of the LORD ( YHVH ) … for the display of His splendor …                  

… note … the wrath and vengeance of God is directed at evil/sin and wickedness …

 

1 John chapter 4, vs 2

… this is how we can recognize the Spirit of God … everyone and every spirit that acknowledges that … Jesus Christ is God … Who has come in the flesh to humankind from God …

 

2 Thessalonians chapter 2, vs 13

… God chose us as first fruits to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit of God ( Holy Spirit ) … because … we believe in the truth …

 

1 Corinthians chapter 6, vs 11

… we are washed sanctified and justified in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ … and … by the Spirit of God  ( Holy Spirit )…

 

Romans chapter 8, vs 14

… everyone  who is led by the Spirit of God ( Holy Spirit ) … is … a child of God …

 

Romans chapter 8, vs 9

… we do not live in the realm of the flesh … we live in the realm of the Spirit of God ( Holy Spirit ) … and … the Spirit of God lives within us … we belong to Jesus Christ …

 

Ephesians chapter 4, vs 30

… we have been sealed by the Spirit of God ( Holy Spirit ) … for … the day of redemption …

 

2 Corinthians chapter 3, vs 3

… we are a message from Jesus Christ to the people of this world … not written in ink but written with the Spirit of the living God ( Holy Spirit ) … not written on a tablet of stone but on our hearts …

 

2 Corinthians chapter 3, vs 17

… the Lord is a Spirit … and … where the Spirit of the Lord ( Holy Spirit ) is there is freedom …

 

1 Corinthians chapter 2, vs 14

… everything that comes to us from the Spirit of God ( Holy Spirit ) is received recognized and revealed in us only by the Spirit of God …

 

1 Corinthians chapter 6, vs 19

… our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit … the Spirit of God … Who is in us … and … Whom we received from God … therefore …we are not your own … we are each a child of God redeemed by Jesus Christ …

 

Matthew chapter 6, vs 25 - 34                          Jesus Christ speaking

… do not worry … seek first His Kingdom … seek first His righteousness … and … all things will be given to you …

 

Matthew  chapter 6, vs 7 - 8                               Jesus Christ speaking

… ask and it will be given to you … seek and you will find … knock and the door will be opened to you …  for … everyone who asks will receive … everyone who seeks will find … and … for everyone who knocks the door will be opened …

 

Isaiah chapter 48, vs 17                                        God speaking

48:17 כה-אמר יהוה גאלך קדוש ישראל אני יהוה אלהיך מלמדך להועיל מדריכך בדרך תלך

… I AM … the LORD ( YHVH ) … your God … your Redeemer … the Holy One … I teach you what is best for you … I direct you in the way which you should go …

 

1 Thessalonians chapter 5, vs 15 - 24

… let us pursue what is good for both ourselves and for all others … rejoice always … pray without ceasing … give thanks to God in everything … test all things … hold fast to what is good … abstain from all forms of evil/sin … encourage the Spirit of God among us to lessen the gap between ourselves and God … for … this is the will of God in Jesus Christ for us … so … may the God of peace Himself sanctify us completely … so … that our whole … spirit … soul … and … body … will be preserved blameless … through the grace of Jesus Christ … for … the coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ … for … He Who has called us is faithful … and  … He will do it …

 

Mark chapter 4, vs 11                             Jesus Christ speaking

… the secret of the Kingdom of Heaven ( Kingdom of God ) has been given to you …

 

Acts chapter 1, vs 8                                 Jesus Christ speaking  

... you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you ... you will be My witnesses to the end of the earth ...

 

Ephesians chapter 3, vs 14 - 19

… I pray that the Father strengthens us through His Spirit ( Holy Spirit ) so that Jesus Christ will dwell in our hearts through faith … and so that … eachof us will grasp how … wide … long … high … and … deep … is the love of Jesus Christ …

 

1 John chapter 5, vs 6 - 8

… Jesus Christ came by water and blood … the Spirit of God ( Holy Spirit ) testifies to this because the Spirit of God ( Holy Spirit ) is truth … therefore there are three that testify … the Spirit of God ( Holy Spirit ) … the water … and … the blood … these three are in agreement …

 

Galatians chapter 2, vs 20

… we no longer live but Jesus Christ lives in us … the life that we now live in these current bodies we live by faith in the Son of God who loves us and gave Himself for us …

 

John chapter 20, vs 22 - 23                 Jesus Christ speaking

… peace be with you … as the Father has sent Me … I AM sending you … He breathed on them and said … receive the Spirit of God ( Holy Spirit ) … if you forgive anyone their sins they are forgiven … if you retain them they are retained …

 

… note that the English verb … breathed … is Greek verb … EMPHUSAO … in our modern English the noun … Emphysema … is from that verb … the roots of … EMPHUSAO … are two Greek words … the first is the Greek preposition … EN … Strong# Greek 1722 … good literal meanings include … in … or … into … or … on … or … by …   the second root word is Greek verb … PHUSAO … the best literal meaning is … to blow … therefore … perhaps a good understanding of this action is that Jesus Christ … blew into His apostles the Spirit of God ( Holy Spirit ) …

 

… the English verb … receive … is Greek verb …LAMBANO … Strong# Greek 2983 … the literal meaning is … to take hold of … so … note that the literal meaning in the Greek defines a needed action by those who are spoken to where the passage states more literally in meaning … He blew into them and said take hold of ...

 

… the words … forgive and forgiven … are Greek verb … APHIEMI … Strong# Greek 863 … the best literal meanings include … to send away … or … to permit to depart … the root of APHIEMI is two Greek words … first the Greek proposition … APO … Strong# Greek 575 … the literal meaning is … away from … and … the second word is Greek verb … HIEMI … the literal meaning is … to send … so … perhaps a good understanding of this action is … to send away from … or … to permit to depart from …

… the words … retain and retained … are Greek verb … KRATEO … Strong# Greek 2902 … the best literal meanings include … to be strong … or … to hold fast … the root of KRATEO is Greek noun … KRATOS … the best literal meanings include  … strength … or … power …

 

… so … as a alternative translation from our review of the literal meaning for select Greek words …

 

John chapter 20, vs 22 - 23                Jesus Christ speaking

… peace be with you … as the Father has sent Me … I AM … sending you … and … He breathed into them … and … said … take hold of the Holy Spirit ( Spirit of God ) … if you send sin away so that it departs from anyone the sin will depart … if you continue to keep possession of anyone and their sin you will continue to have them …