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Triune Aspects of Man in Scripture
by
Major David Laeger
I
THESSALONIANS 5:23 PARAPHRASED
The apostle Paul, due to persecution, was able
to stay in Thessalonica (Acts 17:1-9) for a short time,
perhaps only three Sabbaths, but he wrote letters of comfort
and correction to them about their endurance and accurate
understanding of the Parousia of Christ. This verse sums up
the manner of living in Christ until He comes.
Now
may
I desire this for you, that
the
God of peace Himself make holy
all of you together,
though
that requires each of you individually
to
be made holy
wholly
that is, in every part of our
humanity,
in every congregant and in all the congregation
together, that you be holy
and
that the whole part
of every fraction of every part
of
you
all
meaning, in all the faculties of each
aspect
of our humanity, I wish
the
spirit
that innermost room of our being
through
which we communicate with God
and
soul
that which identifies us as a human
creature
and
body
the earthly house of the soul through
which
expression
of the soul is made
(I
pray that these things that comprise your
humanity
to be as if it had already been
finished in you)
be
kept watch over
having been saved and sanctified wholly,
that He will diligently keep you
blameless
without defilement, having no spot of
the world
in
the Parousia
appearance of the King, when He comes
for
His own in rapturous glory
of
the Lord of us Jesus Christ.
MATTHEW 22:34-40 PARAPHRASED
Our Lord in His last week met with many confrontations from
the “religious” leaders – Pharisees, Sadducees, Herodians,
scribes, elders of the people, Roman soldiers, Pilate, and
Herod the tetrarch, the high priest and chief priests. On one
of those days a lawyer from among them asked Jesus about the
greatest commandment of God.
And a
lawyer from among them asked,
a scholar of the law
tempting Him,
because no one else had trapped
Him in
their
interrogations, this one must have
thought
himself more clever
and
saying,
in the process of asking, perhaps a
few times
“Teacher,
An address of courtesy,
though in context
the lawyer was probably sarcastic in His
question, testing the intelligence of Jesus
the answer should be a very fundamental
thing,
known even by children; however,
Mark
12:28 says the man was a scribe, and
that
account seems to present the questioner
as one more genuinely interested than this
paraphrase suggests of Matthew
which
is the greatest commandment
the law (Torah) has 613 commandments,
in
the law?”
which one of them is greatest would
be a
great task to conclude, unless you are Jesus
And
Jesus said to him,
no doubt with love and unshakeable
calm,
for He gives a summation
of all the law in
terms of love
“You
shall love the LORD your God
this is agape love, the love that exceeds
description and complete definition by man,
but may be experienced by and expressed
through a man
with
your whole heart
the heart produces the thoughts; love
God
with all of your thoughts, let His love in you
respond to Him likewise, passing every
thought through the fire of His love
and
with your whole soul
the soul is what we
are humanly; love Him
with all of the characteristics of your
personhood
and
with your whole mind.”
the Shema says
“strength” and Mark’s
account adds the Shema word, “strength.”
In both the word for mind implies the place
where thoughts are cross-examined
Love God with all your
intellect
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