Then Jesus asked them, “When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?”
“Nothing,” they answered.
36 He said to them, “But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. 37 It is written: ‘And he was numbered with the transgressors’[a]; and I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me. Yes, what is written about me is reaching its fulfillment.”
38 The disciples said, “See, Lord, here are two swords.”
“That’s enough!” he replied.(Luke 22:35-38)
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Without any fleshly provisions the disciples lacked nothing when they were send by Jesus.
But now, even though Jesus ways was not lawless, he is going to be counted among the lawless.. purse bag and sword are the characters of the lawless ones.
Jesus is going to be counted among the lawless..(the gentiles-the common people that he was with) this is for the fulfilment of the word in him.because he came for this - to break the barrier of laws(jews and gentile) and reconcile them by cross creating a new man-who live by spirit.
But for this he had to be counted among one among them- to take their weakness of being lawless bearing all their sins upon him on cross..and to give himself for them. His life- the holy spirit.
He did it in perfect obedience to his father's will to fulfill his word.
The word of God when broken for the lawless ones considered not of god, broken amidst them, it gave mercy by forgiveness of sins be his blood and the strength of Holy Spirit to all who believe in his name.
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Ephesians 2/Romans 8/ Galatians
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