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OBTAINING PERFECT MEASUREMENTS.

While some attempts at translation of the Word of God have not proved entirely satisfactory in their interpretation of the original scriptural teachings, should one use this as an excuse to dismiss His Word and rely on worldly ideas and notions that are based upon imperfect lives full of error and that advocate a minimum of effort as to one's self-improvement? (Prov 3:5,6).

The New World Translation teaches to benefit where it says: "And quit being fashioned after this system of things, but be transformed by making your mind over, that you may prove to yourselves the good and acceptable and perfect Will of God." (Rom 12:2). In the Moffatt Translation it reads: "Instead of being moulded to this world, have your mind renewed, and so be transformed in nature, able to make out what the Will of God is, namely, what is good and acceptable to Him and perfect." By combining these two differently worded scriptures we obtain more understanding, not less, of this requirement of God. If you read an inaccurate translation, you will recognize the error by the following means: Firstly, through use: "For everyone that partakes of milk is unacquainted with the Word of righteousness, for he is a babe. But solid food belongs to mature people, to those who through use have their perceptive powers trained to distinguish both right and wrong." (Heb 5:13,14). Secondly, by meditation: Measuring oneself with the written Word of God and by prayerful supplications to Him. By these means you will learn to "distinguish both right and wrong."

Given that it says in Ecclesiastes 12:1, "Remember, now, your Grand Creator in the days of your young manhood", what about an old man who is still a babe as to righteousness? How may he learn righteousness? In 1 Peter 4:1,2 it says: "Therefore since Christ suffered in the flesh, you too arm yourselves with the same mental disposition; because the person that has suffered in the flesh has desisted from sins, to the end that he may live the remainder of his time in the flesh, no more for the desires of men, but for God's Will."

Curiously, many people say they have faith, and yet when one asks them about the spiritual requirements of God, they do not know or believe what is written in the Holy Scriptures! They have no concept of the purpose of God in connection with mankind!

THE PURPOSE OF GOD.
"And he gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelizers, some as shepherds and teachers, with a view to the readjustment of the holy ones, for ministerial work, for the building up of the body of the Christ, until we all attain to the oneness in the faith and in the accurate knowledge of the Son of God, to a full-grown man, to the measure of stature that belongs to the fullness of the Christ; in order that we should no longer be babes…" (From Eph 4:11-16).

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◄ He did not give us
     the hypocrites of the
     sectarian clergy. (James 4:4).

◄ Through The Christ's
     subjection of us by
     Holy Spirit from God.

A DOER OF THE WORK.
"...man's wrath does not work out God's righteousness. Hence put away all filthiness and that superfluous thing, badness, and accept with mildness the implanting of the Word which is able to save your souls. However, become doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves with false reasoning. For if anyone is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, this one is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself, and off he goes and immediately forgets what sort of man he is. But he who peers into the perfect Law that belongs to freedom and who persists in it, this man, because he has become, not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, will be happy in his doing it." (James 1:20 25).

◄ Then God can give
     spirit growth.

◄ Those who like to have their
     ears "tickled" are deceiving
     themselves with false
     reasoning and are not free
     in spirit for a future life of
     spirit perfection. (Rev 21:1-4).

(See also: 1 Cor 6:9-11. Rom 3:28,29. Rom 2:28,29. Rev 7:4. Zech 8:23).

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