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“World English Bible” is a trademark of Rainbow Missions, Inc. The Getty Museum is only a real life metaphor that reflects the real life truth of Jesus: “Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth,where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal; for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” ~Matthew 6:19-21 Former Princeton Theological Seminary’s George L. Collard Professor of New Testament, Emeritus, Dr. Bruce M. Metzger, in his textbook, The New Testament, studies the literary forms in which Jesus taught and communicated. It is not just what Jesus said but how He said it. When He spoke He often used: picturesque speech, puns, proverbs, poetry and parables.* Jesus knew how to capture the attention, minds and hearts of His listeners and followers. The Biblical design of this devotional follows Jesus’ style. God’s Word in red is no more and no less important than God’s Word in black. The purpose of Just Jesus is simply to love Jesus and focus on what He said in order to love Him and love others more fully. ALL of God’s Word is God breathed and inspired and we need to love, respect and obey ALL of it, not just what we want or feel is important. “And we have the prophetic word [made] firmer still. You will do well to pay close attention to it as to a lamp shining in a dismal (squalid and dark) place, until the day breaks through [the gloom] and the Morning Star rises (comes into being) in your hearts. [Yet] first [you must] understand this, that no prophecy of Scripture is [a matter] of any personal or private or special interpretation (loosening, solving). For no prophecy ever originated because some man willed it [to do so--it never came by human impulse], but men spoke from God who were borne along (moved and impelled) by the Holy Spirit.”
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