THE ROADS CHURCH - NORRIS CITY & MT. CARMEL

Elements of Circumstance
Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?

Bear - bastazo - To cognitively accept or receive something difficult to understand

Conjunction - A word that functions to connect individual words, phrases and clauses in various ways

Contrastive conjunction - A conjunction that suggests an oppositional thought or relationship to the word, phrase, or clause to which it is connected.

Truth - aletheia - A reality or actuality that is firm, solid and binding

Actual truth, not the perceived truth or cultural truth but the reality or absolute truth

Eye hasn’t seen, nor ear heard - Natural realm; 5 senses

Nor have entered into the heart of man
Entered - To go up, arise, ascend
Comprehension - To begin to think or come to mind

Prepared - hetoimazo - To make ready or equip in advance for a particular purpose

Revealed - apokalypto - To take off the cover; to reveal, disclose, make known

Through - dia - The channel or means by which something happens

Searches - eraunao - To examine; to attempt to learn something by careful investigation or searching—to try to find out, to seek information

Received - lambano - To take, grab, seize or take hold of; to receive or accept an object or benefit for which the initiative rests with the giver, but the focus of attention in the transfer is upon the receiver

Know - oida - To understand and comprehend the meaning of something fully; fullness of knowledge.

Have been freely given - charizomai - To give or grant graciously and generously, with the implication of good will on the part of the giver

Natural - psuchikos - Human, physical, finite

Receive - dechomai - To accept, welcome, believe or hold as true

Foolishness - moria - Absurd, nonsense, silly or folly

Discerned - anakrino - To examine closely, scrutinize and evaluate carefully

3 Truths about the “THINGS” of God

1) God PREPARES the "things"