Art as expression – NOT as market campaigns, will still capture our Imaginations
The person in view, therefore, is the policeman, the legally constituted arm of human government, making the law-enforcement men of cities, states, and nations to be every where as much “ordained of God” as any minister of the gospel.
One could come nearer understanding it if Christ had been betrayed for some big reason, but the things which apparently motivated Judas were extremely small considerations.
Whatever the serpent was, he would appear to have been an UPRIGHT creature and to have been endowed with the gift of speech.
The number 777 is said to be “the number of God, Christ, grace and salvation for men.” The number 666 is therefore the crowding out of perfection “in Christ,” and the contradiction of all that is indicated in 777.
Certainly, one of the legitimate meanings is that of the eternal beauty and value of the church of the living God; but there is another very curious and intriguing possibility.
Continuing to walk in the Spirit, centering and continuing the thoughts and meditations of the heart upon the teachings of the Lord, actively seeking to maintain identity with the mind of Christ, consciousness of the indwelling Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – these things will indeed “crucify” the lusts and evil imaginations which feed them.
Seven baptisms are mentioned in the New Testament, three of which are mentioned in this verse. In spite of the fact that all these baptisms find mention in the New Testament, there is, nevertheless, but ONE baptism in force. See Ephesians 4:4.
