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  • Carleton on John 20:16 - 2 years ago
    Another day another meditation: Thinking of the Holy Bible and the law and the Holy Ghost, I came across this quote that a few selected brethren in the Church of God were led to write within a book on Bible doctrines.

    "Tenor is the harmony of the whole, the intent and purpose of something written or spoken. The Hebrew word from which tenor is translated gives a hint of action: "to puff: scatter into corners" (Strong's concordance). In other words, even under Moses's Law, it took the breath of God, or tenor, to scatter the Lord's dictates into the corners of the hearts of men.

    It was this tenor that finally brought Saul (the unconverted Paul) to see his heart's need and pointed him to Christ

    ( Romans 7). Saul was "blameless" ( Philippians 3:6) concerning the statute law. But his conscience became sin-ridden when the breath of God scattered the real intent of the law into the corners of his heart. Such is the power of the law under the Holy Spirit's unction."
  • Carleton - In Reply on John 20:16 - 2 years ago
    One more quote from the Bible doctrine book in the same vein:

    "One should not endeavor to transpose Old Testament details into the New in a way that undermines or infringes on the tenor of the gospel.

    Then again, the liberty of the New Testament should not be considered to minimize the holiness of God as set forth in the Old. Jesus did not destroy the validity of the Old Testament; He fulfilled it ( Matthew 5:17). There must be a balanced spiritual understanding of the relationship of the two testaments."

    That the four corners of our hearts have equal amounts of the breath of God.



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