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Amrhrasach:
If this is not a testimony matter then move to the appropriate spot moderators.  Just didn't really know where to put it.


Yesterday I was reading Part 11 of LOF again.  As usual the second…or third…or ? time reading some word or sentence just melts away the crusty edges and penetrates.

Here’s what ‘penetrated’.  Honestly, I put the book down and just simply got lost in gaze thinking on the wonderment of what Ray describes here:

NOT FORSAKING THE ASSEMBLING OF OURSELVES TOGETHER

In Hebrews 10:25 were are admonished as follows:

"Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching."

That this is speaking of believers congregating together to worship and study God’s Word, there can be no doubt. However, there is a much deeper meaning to this "assembling" that few have ever seen. I never saw it myself until I read a paper by J. Preston Eby, entitled: "FORSAKE NOT THE ASSEMBLING."
I will quote an excerpt or two from his paper:

"The Greek word for ‘assembling’ is EPISUNAGOGE. The word, literally, is a verb meaning to synagogue. It is a compound of the Greek prefix EPI with the word SUNAGOGE from which we get our transliterated English word Synagogue. EPI means super – imposition – that which is above, higher than, highest, upon. SUNAGOGE means a meeting, assembly, or gathering. Putting these two words together, EPI-SUNAGOGE means THE ABOVE SYNAGOGUE, THE HIGHER MEETING, THE HIGHEST ASSEMBLY, THE HIGHER-THAN-ALL-GATHERINGS!

It bespeaks of something far greater than merely collecting so many breathing bodies together in one place.   

It is a meeting in a higher realm, on a higher plane, in the high places of the Spirit, and in the heights of Truth. It is a gathering together in a dimension above. It indicates an assembling IN THE SPIRIT…"
(All Caps belong to Mr. Eby).

……..

“WE are to episunagoge (assemble) on a higher plane, in a higher realm, in a spiritual assembly, IN THE SPIRIT!”

“Amazing, isn’t it. Jesus "assembled [Gk: episunagoge]" with His Father BY HIMSELF, ALONE. We can do the same. Not just on Sunday morning or Wednesday evening, with a crowd, in a building, but on every day of the week, and we can do it while we are ALONE.”


I am SOOOOO guilty of tossing bits and pieces to God.  Help me here Lord, or show me something Lord, or WHYYYYY can’t it be MY WAY this ONE time!!!!

No, this stopped me in my mental track and bowed me spiritually.    It may have been a ‘one' moment.

A ‘won’derful moment.

I believe God may have been holding the book so I could read that part.  It was an answer needed from him.  He listened and answered.  Nothing material, just spiritual.

Thankful here.

Gary

http://bible-truths.com/lake11.html

dave:
Praise Jesus! Yes my brother thats a nugget! the Lord lead me in reverse. I read it first by Eby, then by, Prinzning, and it all seemed to confirmed in LOF.

Dave in Tenn:
I'm thankful too, Gary.  Thankful that you worshipped and shared here, and thankful that such a thing is true.

Deborah-Leigh:



It is a very important truth that we are ever before Him and never alone. When I see others finding out the Truth, it makes me feel closer to HIm where I can feel His Peace and Joy.

Thank you for sharing that Gary.

Arc

Amrhrasach:
Thank you Micah, Dave and Arc.

So true Arc, “ever before him and never alone”.

Precisely.

Yesterday when I was dazed and amazed and smiling about this…. finer thing....that Ray has so exquisitely laid out before us all it absolutely consumed my thoughts for a few minutes on the magnificence and splendor of …..that future day…....when we will be, spiritually, in the presence of the Lord, T-H-E creator, to know him in his glory, to talk with him just as we can talk to each other today.

And then it hit me…….

 ;D

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