THE NUMBER 5 - There are five books of God's Law. The 4 Gospels plus Acts equals five books which, as a set, can be designated as "the New Testament Pentateuch." They reveal Jesus' teachings concerning the Law and the Prophets. The number 5 symbolizes God's grace, goodness and favor toward humans. Five is the number of grace and multiplied by itself, which is 25, is 'grace upon grace.' The Ten Commandments contains two sets of 5 commandments. The first five commandments are related to our treatment and relationship with God, and the last five concern our relationship with others humans. The number 5 symbolizes God's grace, goodness and favor toward humans and is mentioned 318 times in Scripture. Five is the number of grace and multiplied by itself, which is 25, is 'grace upon grace'. The Book of Psalms is divided into 5 major sections. The apostle John wrote 5 books centered on the grace of God and eternal life (the gospel of John, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John and Revelation). Jesus multiplied five loaves of barely to feed 5,000. The 'tabernacle in the wilderness' profoundly reflects God's grace in its use of the number 5. The Holy anointing oil, the ingredients of which were given directly by God, was used to consecrate the furniture of the tabernacle. It was comprised of 5 parts, for it was a revelation of pure grace. There are five books in the Bible that contain only one chapter (2 John, 3 John, Philemon, Jude and Obadiah).

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The Number 5

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There are five books of God's Law. The 4 Gospels plus Acts equals five books which, as a set, can be designated as "the New Testament Pentateuch." They reveal Jesus' teachings concerning the Law and the Prophets. The number 5 symbolizes God's grace, goodness and favor toward humans. Five is the number of grace and multiplied by itself, which is 25, is 'grace upon grace.'. The Ten Commandments contains two sets of 5 commandments. The first five commandments are related to our treatment and relationship with God, and the last five concern our relationship with others humans.

Meaning of Numbers

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The number 5 symbolizes God's grace, goodness and favor toward humans and is mentioned 318 times in Scripture.

Five is the number of grace and multiplied by itself, which is 25, is 'grace upon grace' (John 1:16).

The Ten Commandments contains two sets of 5 commandments.

The first five commandments are related to our treatment and relationship with God, and the last five concern our relationship with others humans.

Appearances of the number five

There are 5 primary types of offerings God commanded Israel to bring to him.

o   They are the Burnt Offering (Leviticus 1; 8:18-21; 16:24),

o  Sin (Leviticus 4; 16:3 - 22),

o  Trespass (Leviticus 5:14-19; 6:1-7; 7:1-6),

o  Grain (Leviticus 2) and

o  Peace Offering (Leviticus 3; 7:11-34).

The Book of Psalms is divided into 5 major sections.

Section 1 (Psalm 1 to 41) refers to the Passover, Israel's beginning, and the start of the God's plan of salvation that centers around Christ.

Section 2 (Psalm 42 to 72) sings about a unified Israel in the land and pictures the creation of the New Testament Church.

Section 3 of 5 (Psalm 73 to 89) bemoans the destruction of both God's Temple and Jerusalem. This section also hints at prophecies regarding the End Time Great Tribulation.

Section 4 (Psalm 90 to 106) rejoices over the 1,000 reign of Jesus and shows Israel gathered again.

Section 5 (Psalm 107 to 150) pictures a time when Judah (representing all Israel) shall again be delivered.

There are five books of God's Law (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy) commonly referred to as the Pentateuch ('Penta' means five).

The 4 Gospels plus Acts equals five books which, as a set, can be designated as "the New Testament Pentateuch."

They reveal Jesus' teachings concerning the Law and the Prophets.

The apostle John wrote 5 books centered on the grace of God and eternal life (the gospel of John, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John and Revelation).

Jesus multiplied five loaves of barely to feed 5,000 (Matthew 14:17).

How is the number 5 in God's tabernacle?

The 'tabernacle in the wilderness' profoundly reflects God's grace in its use of the number 5.

This tabernacle, whose design was given directly by God, contained

o  five curtains (Exodus 26:3),

o    five bars (Exodus 26:26-27),

o  five pillars and five sockets (Exodus 26:37) and

o  an altar made of wood that was five cubits long and five cubits wide (Exodus 27:1).

The height of the court within the tabernacle was five cubits (Exodus 27:18).

The Holy anointing oil (Exodus 30:23-25), the ingredients of which were given directly by God, was used to consecrate the furniture of the tabernacle.

It was comprised of 5 parts, for it was a revelation of pure grace.

The proportion of spices used in making the oil were a multiple of five, which then had a Hin of olive oil added to it.

o  Pure Myrrh, 500 shekels

o  Sweet cinnamon, 250 shekels

o  Sweet calamus, 250 shekels

o  Cassia, 500 shekels

Additional info on the Biblical Meaning of 5

There are five books in the Bible that contain only one chapter (2 John, 3 John, Philemon, Jude and Obadiah).

Moses wrote 5 books, the most of any Old Testament writer. In the New Testament, the apostle Paul wrote fourteen books.

Babylon's King Nebuchadnezzar was given, by God, a dream where he saw a giant statue of a man.

This statue, according to the interpretation given by the Eternal to Daniel, represented 5 periods of world-ruling empires.

The statue's head of gold represented Babylon (Daniel 2:32, 38).

The Chest and Arms of Silver symbolized the Persian Empire (Daniel 2:32, 39).

The Belly and Thighs of Bronze (brass) represented the Macedonian Empire under Alexander the Great.

The Two Legs of Iron symbolized Rome's Empire (Daniel 2:33, 40-43).

Period 5 are the Ten Toes of Iron mixed with Clay are the successors to the Roman Empire (Daniel 2:41-44).

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GRACE UPON GRACE - Each time we read a passage or scripture it may affect us differently from the last time we read it. An entirely new meaning may suddenly come to us, or it might “open up a greater depth” or “intimacy” of understanding with our Father. We know “He has always existed”. We know that is true, because of our faith, and love for Him, and we believe His Word, and His Word states it is true. He deserves all the glory and honor and praise, always. ‘For out of His fullness [the superabundance of His grace and truth] we have all received grace upon grace [spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing, favor upon favor, and gift heaped upon gift].‘ The Word is complex, and yet so simple. It is simple when we take the time to learn, read, and ask for God and His wisdom to open our eyes and ears, for a greater understanding. Even when we do grasp the truth and the meaning in our Father’s Words, we still have much to learn, every day of our lives on earth. Each time we read a passage or scripture, it may affect us differently from the last time we read it. An entirely new meaning may suddenly come to us, or it might “open up a greater depth” or “intimacy” of understanding with our Father. We know “He has always existed”. Psalms 90:2 says it so beautifully, “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.”

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Grace Upon Grace.

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Each time we read a passage or scripture it may affect us differently from the last time we read it. An entirely new meaning may suddenly come to us, or it might “open up a greater depth” or “intimacy” of understanding with our Father. We know “He has always existed”. We know that is true, because of our faith, and love for Him, and we believe His Word, and His Word states it is true - He deserves all the glory and honor and praise, always

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‘For out of His fullness [the superabundance of His grace and truth] we have all received grace upon grace [spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing, favor upon favor, and gift heaped upon gift].‘ - John 1:16 (AMP)

The Word is complex, and yet so simple.

It is simple when we take the time to learn, read, and ask for God and His wisdom to open our eyes and ears, for a greater understanding.

But, even when we do grasp the truth and the meaning in our Father’s Words, we still have much to learn, every day of our lives on earth.

Each time we read a passage or scripture, it may affect us differently from the last time we read it.

An entirely new meaning may suddenly come to us, or it might “open up a greater depth” or “intimacy” of understanding with our Father.

We know “He has always existed”.

Psalms 90:2 says it so beautifully, “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.”

We know that is true, because of our faith, and love for Him, and we believe His Word, and His Word states it is true.

But sometimes it can go beyond our understanding, because of His magnificence and His love toward us.

We are loved by Him, no matter what we look like, or where we come from.

We are His children, no matter our race or our citizenship.

He loves us all.

He deserves all the glory and honor and praise, always.

We can be sure that His Sovereign Reign will never end, and that we were created by Him and for Him.

Revelation 4:11 says, “You are worthy, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power. For you created all things, and they exist because you created what you pleased.”

In His infinite glory and power, He wants us to be with Him forever, and has given us His “book of instructions” to follow.

And when we do, everything will make sense.

May the superabounding grace for our Lord be with you today.

John 3:16, “For God loved the world so much that He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.”

Be Greatly Blessed!

Prayer:

Father, thank you for your superabounding grace.

Thank you for giving me strength in my areas of weakness.

Thank you for blessings me in the dry areas of my life.

Thank you for shining your favor upon me, when I face difficult people and situations.

For your grace turns evil into good.

One Word from you is more than enough to turn things around.

I’ll abide by your promises today. I’ll draw from your grace and not from my own strength.

Praise your Name Lord! For you alone are the author and finisher of my faith.

In Jesus’ Mighty Name,

AMEN!

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CHRISTMAS AND THE FULLNESS OF CHRIST - Praying for Fullness this Christmas - Paul prays that we would experience Christ’s fullness - not just know about it, but be filled with it. The fullness of God is the spiritual comprehension (experience) of the fullness of the love of Christ. It fills the Son of God and pours out on us. God did not send an angel but His only Son to deliver His fullness; the fullness of the Son is a fullness of grace. The “fullness of God” is experienced, as we are given the “strength to comprehend” the love of Christ in its height and depth and length and breadth. That is, in its fullness.

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Christmas And The Fullness Of Christ

Praying for Fullness this Christmas

by John Piper.

 

“From His Fullness We Have All Received”

The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. . . . For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. (John 1:14–16)

It was a drenching moment for me that Advent.

A man in our church had just prayed the words of John 1:14-16 in a pre-service prayer meeting.

God granted me in that moment that the word “fullness” fill me.

It was an extraordinary experience. There was a kind of Holy Spirit soaking.

I felt some measure of what the word really carries - the fullness of Christ.

I felt some of the wonder that I had indeed received grace upon grace from this fullness. And I was at that moment receiving grace upon grace.

I felt right then that nothing would have been sweeter than to simply sit at His feet - or read my Bible - all afternoon and feel His fullness overflow.

The fullness of God is the spiritual comprehension (experience) of the fullness of the love of Christ. It fills the Son of God and pours out on us.

Why did this fullness have such an impact on me - and why is it still to this moment affecting me unusually? 

In part because:

·       the one from whose fullness I am being drenched with grace is the Word that was with God and was God (John 1:1–2), so that his fullness is the fullness of God - a divine fullness, an infinite fullness;

·       this Word became flesh and so was one of us and was pursuing us with his fullness - so it is an accessible fullness;

·       when this Word appeared in human form, His glory was seen - His is a glorious fullness;

·       this Word was “the only Son from the Father” so that the divine fullness was being mediated to me not just from God but through God - God did not send an angel but His only Son to deliver His fullness; the fullness of the Son is a fullness of grace - I will not drown in this fullness but be blessed in every way by this fullness;

·       this fullness is not only a fullness of grace but also of truth - I am not being graced with truth-ignoring flattery; this grace is rooted in rock-solid reality.

The Love of Christ and the Advent Season

As I savor this illumination of Christ’s fullness, I hear Paul say, “In him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily” (Colossians 2:9).

I hear him say, “In him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell” (Colossians1:19).

And again, “In him are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” ^{(Colossians 2:3).}

Paul prays that we would experience Christ’s fullness - not just know about it, but be filled with it.

Here is the way I hear him praying for me: he prays that I “may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that [I] may be filled with all the fullness of God” (Ephesians 3:18–19).

The “fullness of God” is experienced, he says, as we are given the “strength to comprehend” the love of Christ in its height and depth and length and breadth.

That is, in its fullness.

This is remarkable: the fullness of God is the spiritual comprehension (experience) of the fullness of the love of Christ.

It fills the Son of God and pours out on us.

So when I hear Paul speak to the Romans of “the fullness of the blessing of Christ” (Romans 15:29), I hear him describing my experience.

How I long for you all to know this.

Give yourself time and quietness in this Advent season and seek this experience.

Pray for yourself the prayer of Paul in Ephesians 3:14-19 - “that you may be filled with all the fullness of God” - that you may have power “to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge.”

This article is adapted from The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent by John Piper.

John Piper (DTheol, University of Munich) is the founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and the chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. He served for thirty-three years as the senior pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is the author of more than fifty books, including Desiring God; Don’t Waste Your Life; This Momentary Marriage; A Peculiar Glory; and Reading the Bible Supernaturally.

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MORE TO FOLLOW - GRACE UPON GRACE - There is no need in our life, however great or small, that God does not know and which He will not fill if it were necessary for our temporal and eternal happiness.

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More to follow . . . grace upon grace . . . . 

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At the end of the day, a weary child is cradled comfortably at the lap of his loving father.

The thrills and cares of the day spin off from his mind as he fights his heavy eyelids. He runs his tender fingers at the face of his father, gathers himself together and draws his lips closer to his father’s right ear. 

Then he smiles as he whispers almost inaudibly, his hands feeling the sturdy arms and shoulders of his father. The father smiles and nods repeatedly, responding with that usual reassuring voice. 

The child’s voice faded into silence as he drifts off to a peaceful sleep.

He had his fill of today’s delights – but he has his cares and desires for tomorrow. His sleep is undisturbed as he had confided everything in his heart to his father. It is enough that his father knows! It is enough that he is in the arms of his father.   

It is enough that those strong hands embrace his fragile and weary body. The child believes that his father’s love will find a way to satisfy tomorrow’s needs. 

As Father, God is moved by love to provide for all of the necessities of His children. 

At times, fatherly love may find it necessary to withhold some physical blessings from His children. 

But the hand that withholds is also the hand attached to the heart that loves - and that is all we need to know. 

One of the most beautiful Bible passages is that section of the Sermon the Mount where Jesus speaks movingly to His disciples about the tender care of His Father for all His children. 

“Take no thought for your life,” He says, “what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink, nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on.  Is not the life more than meat, and the body more than raiment?  Behold the fowls of the air; for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them.  Are ye not much better than they? … Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.  And yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.  Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall He not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?  Therefore take not thought, saying, What shall we eat? Or, What shall we drink? Or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? …Your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.  But seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”

“Your Father!”  What a tender, reassuring touch these words give. “Your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.” 

Our heavenly Father does know our every want, desires and needs.  He is abundantly able and willing to provide. “He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?” (Romans 8:32). 

There is no need in our life, however great or small, that God does not know and which He will not fill if it were necessary for our temporal and eternal happiness.

“My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:19).

How can I be sure that each succeeding day will find a sufficient measure of His grace and goodness to see me and my loved ones through? 

John speaks of the heavenly glory of Jesus: “Of His fullness have all we received – and grace for grace.” Literally, “grace upon grace.” 

Christ’s goodness pours in upon us as the waves of the sea. As one wave comes crashing to shore, there is always another wave close behind. 

As the next waves comes frothing in, there is another wave closely following, and another … and another. 

Christ’s capacity and willingness to provide are like the unending waves of the sea …unlimited, inexhaustible - and eternal. 

A well-to-do man died and left instructions to his wife to give a sizable portion of his wealth to a poor pastor who had ministered to the family throughout the years. 

The widow thought it would be best to turn the money over to the pastor in regular installments. So she mailed him a check for P5,000.00 as a start. Inside the envelop she placed a slip of paper upon which was written: “MORE TO FOLLOW.” 

Every two weeks, without fail, the elderly pastor would receive a check with the identical message: “MORE TO FOLLOW.”

“MORE TO FOLLOW!” That is Christ’s unbreakable pledge to all that believe in Him.

THE BLESSINGS THAT WE RECEIVE TODAY ARE BUT A PLEDGE FOR THOSE THAT WE SHALL RECEIVE TOMORROW;

And those we receive tomorrow will bear the pledge of heaven: “MORE TO FOLLOW.” 

”… His compassions fail not.  They are new every morning: great is Thy faithfulness” (Lamentations 3:22-23).

¹⁰ And in Him you have been made complete [achieving spiritual stature through Christ], and He is the head over all rule and authority [of every angelic and earthly power]. Colossians 2:10 Amplified Bible (AMP) .

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There are times, when things in life doesn't conform to the way we want it, Trusting His Heart is the only way we can do.

Only God knows what is the best for us ... no matter how it hurts, We trust Him and pray and He gives comfort and satisfaction in our life.

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