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Your Imagination is key to your future
** Imaginations are listed over a dozen times in the Bible! WHY?
Date: 3/18/2022 1:27:48 AM ( 32 mon ) ... viewed 718 times
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Genesis 6:5
Note on Genesis 6:5
What a terrible thing. Mankind, whom God had created in glory and made to fellowship with, had degenerated to the point that everything inside them was evil. The imagination of the thoughts of their hearts was evil continually.
The unregenerate human heart is deceitful and desperately wicked (Jeremiah 17:9). Those who believe that mankind is basically good at their core are at odds with what God’s Word teaches
(see my notes at Romans 3:10 and 2 Timothy 3:13).
The New Testament Greek word that was translated “imagination” in Luke 1:51 is “DIANOIA,” and it means “deep thought” (Strong’s Concordance). That same word was translated “understanding” in Ephesians 4:18. The Hebrew word that was translated “imagination” here in Genesis 6:5 is “YETSER,” and it means “conception (i.e. purpose)” (Strong’s Concordance). The imagination of man is literally the womb of man, where all actions are conceived.
There can be no real transformation of actions without it first starting in the imagination. The corruption of man had penetrated all the way to the fountain; therefore, all the water that proceeded from that source was bad.
See these notes on imagination: Genesis 6:5, 11:6, 30:37, 39; Joshua 1:8; 1 Chronicles 29:18; Psalms 2:1, 5:1, 42:5, 103:14, 143:5; Proverbs 15:28, 23:7, 29:18; Isaiah 26:3; Matthew 22:37; Luke 1:51; Acts 4:25, 16:19, 27:20; Romans 1:21, 8:24-25, 15:4, 13, 29; 2 Corinthians 10:5; Ephesians 1:18, 2:3, 12, 4:18; 1 Timothy 4:15; and Hebrews 11:1.
Andrew Wommack's Living Commentary.
1 Chronicles 28:9
Note on 1 Chronicles 28:9
David had experienced the good that came from seeking the Lord and the bad that came from doing his own thing. He was speaking from experience, and much of that was painful. Solomon should have learned by his father’s mistakes, but like so many of us, he had to learn by his own hard knocks.
We have a better covenant than David and Solomon did (Hebrews 8:6). The Lord will never leave us or forsake us (Hebrews 13:5). But this doesn’t mean that our actions are without consequences. Romans 6:16 says, “Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?”
God won’t forsake us, but we give Satan great inroads into our lives when we live in submission to him and rebellion to God.
What a great truth this is to us all. Anyone who truly seeks the Lord will find Him. The Lord wants this more than we do, but we have to seek with all our hearts (see my note at Jeremiah 29:13).
Andrew Wommack's Living Commentary.
In the spiritual realm:
Most people do not realize that their imagination is where you conceive many of your most direct ideas!
Visual images are painted in your mind. Thus you will tend to act out whatever has been imprinted when some temptation and/or crisis comes to mind!
But if you can learn; how to control exactly what you watch or listen to - You can control your actions!
This will bring you to the place and time, where you do not SIN!
** This is done because you have learned how to get and keep your mind upon The Lord God!
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