Dedicate Your Lives To Jesus (I Peter 3:8-12) God's Word and The Message Translations

GOD'S WORD TRANSLATION

8    Finally, everyone must live in harmony, be sympathetic, love each other, have compassion, and be humble.

9    Don’t pay people back with evil for the evil they do to you, or ridicule those who ridicule you. Instead, bless them, because you were called to inherit a blessing.

10  “People who want to live a full life and enjoy good days must keep their tongues from saying evil things,

        and their lips from speaking deceitful things.

11  They must turn away from evil and do good.  They must seek peace and pursue it.

12  The Lord’s eyes are on those who do what he approves.  His ears hear their prayer.  The Lord confronts those who do evil.”

THE MESSAGE TRANSLATION

8-12 Summing up: Be agreeable, be sympathetic, be loving, be compassionate, be humble. That goes for all of you, no exceptions. No retaliation. No sharp-tongued sarcasm. Instead, bless—that’s your job, to bless. You’ll be a blessing and also get a blessing.  Whoever wants to embrace life and see the day fill up with good, 

Here’s what you do:  Say nothing evil or hurtful; Snub evil and cultivate good; run after peace for all you’re worth.  God looks on all this with approval, listening and responding well to what he’s asked; But he turns his back on those who do evil things.

Continue To Do Your Work (2 Timothy 4:1-5) God's Word and The Message Translations

GOD'S WORD TRANSLATION

1  I solemnly call on you in the presence of God and Christ Jesus, who is going to judge those who are living and those who are dead. I do this because Christ Jesus will come to rule the world. 

2  Be ready to spread the word whether or not the time is right. Point out errors, warn people, and encourage them. Be very patient when you teach.

3  A time will come when people will not listen to accurate teachings. Instead, they will follow their own desires and surround themselves with teachers who tell them what they want to hear. 

4  People will refuse to listen to the truth and turn to myths.

5  But you must keep a clear head in everything. Endure suffering. Do the work of a missionary. Devote yourself completely to your work.

THE MESSAGE TRANSLATION

1-2  I can’t impress this on you too strongly. God is looking over your shoulder. Christ himself is the Judge, with the final say on everyone, living and dead. He is about to break into the open with his rule, so proclaim the Message with intensity; keep on your watch. Challenge, warn, and urge your people. Don’t ever quit. Just keep it simple.

3-5  You’re going to find that there will be times when people will have no stomach for solid teaching, but will fill up on spiritual junk food—catchy opinions that tickle their fancy. They’ll turn their backs on truth and chase mirages. But you—keep your eye on what you’re doing; accept the hard times along with the good; keep the Message alive; do a thorough job as God’s servant.

Those Who Hate Other Believers Are Still In The Dark (I John 2:7-11) God's Word & The Message Translations

^{GOD'S WORD TRANSLATION}
7    Dear friends, it’s not as though I’m writing to give you a new commandment. Rather, I’m giving you an old commandment that you’ve had from the beginning. It’s the old commandment you’ve already heard. 
8    On the other hand, I’m writing to give you a new commandment. It’s a truth that exists in Christ and in you: The darkness is fading, and the true light is already shining.
9    Those who say that they are in the light but hate other believers are still in the dark. 
10  Those who love other believers live in the light. Nothing will destroy the faith of those who live in the light. 
11  Those who hate other believers are in the dark and live in the dark. They don’t know where they’re going, because they can’t see in the dark.

THE MESSAGE TRANSLATION
7-8    My dear friends, I’m not writing anything new here. This is the oldest commandment in the book, and you’ve known it from day one. It’s always been implicit in the Message you’ve heard. On the other hand, perhaps it is new, freshly minted as it is in both Christ and you—the darkness on its way out and the True Light already blazing!

9-11  Anyone who claims to live in God’s light and hates a brother or sister is still in the dark. It’s the person who loves brother and sister who dwells in God’s light and doesn’t block the light from others. But whoever hates is still in the dark, stumbles around in the dark, doesn’t know which end is up, blinded by the darkness.

The Only Way to Know We’re in Christ (I John 2:2-6) God's Word and The Message Translations

GOD'S WORD TRANSLATION
2  He is the payment for our sins, and not only for our sins, but also for the sins of the whole world.
3  We are sure that we know Christ if we obey his commandments. 
4  The person who says, “I know him,” but doesn’t obey his commandments is a liar. The truth isn’t in that person. 
5  But whoever obeys what Christ says is the kind of person in whom God’s love is perfected. That’s how we know we are in Christ. 
6  Those who say that they live in him must live the same way he lived.

THE MESSAGE TRANSLATION

2-3  Here’s how we can be sure that we know God in the right way: Keep his commandments.

4-6  If someone claims, “I know him well!” but doesn’t keep his commandments, he’s obviously a liar. His life doesn’t match his words. But the one who keeps God’s word is the person in whom we see God’s mature love. This is the only way to be sure we’re in God. Anyone who claims to be intimate with God ought to live the same kind of life Jesus lived.

God Is Faithful And Reliable (I John 1:5-10) God's Word and The Message Translations

GOD'S WORD TRANSLATION

5   This is the message we heard from Christ and are reporting to you: God is light, and there isn’t any darkness in him. 

6   If we say, “We have a relationship with God” and yet live in the dark, we’re lying. We aren’t being truthful.

7   But if we live in the light in the same way that God is in the light, we have a relationship with each other. And the blood of his Son Jesus cleanses us from every sin. 

8   If we say, “We aren’t sinful” we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 

9   God is faithful and reliable. If we confess our sins, he forgives them and cleanses us from everything we’ve done wrong. 

10  If we say, “We have never sinned,” we turn God into a liar and his Word is not in us.

THE MESSAGE TRANSLATION

5     This, in essence, is the message we heard from Christ and are passing on to you: God is light, pure light; there’s not a trace of darkness in him.

6-7  If we claim that we experience a shared life with him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we’re obviously lying through our teeth—we’re not living what we claim. But if we walk in the light, God himself being the light, we also experience a shared life with one another, as the sacrificed blood of Jesus, God’s Son, purges all our sin.

8-10  If we claim that we’re free of sin, we’re only fooling ourselves. A claim like that is errant nonsense. On the other hand, if we admit our sins—make a clean breast of them—he won’t let us down; he’ll be true to himself. He’ll forgive our sins and purge us of all wrongdoing. If we claim that we’ve never sinned, we out-and-out contradict God—make a liar out of him. A claim like that only shows off our ignorance of God.

Guard Yourselves From False Gods (I John 5:16-21) God's Word and The Message Translations

GOD'S WORD TRANSLATION
16  If you see another believer committing a sin that doesn’t lead to death, you should pray that God would give that person life. This is true for those who commit sins that don’t lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I’m not telling you to pray about that. 
17  Every kind of wrongdoing is sin, yet there are sins that don’t lead to death.
18  We know that those who have been born from God don’t go on sinning. Rather, the Son of God protects them, and the evil one can’t harm them.
19  We know that we are from God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.
20  We know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we know the real God. We are in the one who is real, his Son Jesus Christ. This Jesus Christ is the real God and eternal life.
21  Dear children, guard yourselves from false gods.

THE MESSAGE TRANSLATION
16-17  For instance, if we see a Christian believer sinning (clearly I’m not talking about those who make a practice of sin in a way that is “fatal,” leading to eternal death), we ask for God’s help and he gladly gives it, gives life to the sinner whose sin is not fatal. There is such a thing as a fatal sin, and I’m not urging you to pray about that. Everything we do wrong is sin, but not all sin is fatal.

18-21  We know that none of the God-begotten makes a practice of sin—fatal sin. The God-begotten are also the God-protected. The Evil One can’t lay a hand on them. We know that we are held firm by God; it’s only the people of the world who continue in the grip of the Evil One. And we know that the Son of God came so we could recognize and understand the truth of God—what a gift!—and we are living in the Truth itself, in God’s Son, Jesus Christ. This Jesus is both True God and Real Life. Dear children, be on guard against all clever facsimiles.

Whoever Has The Son, Has Life (I John 5:11-15) God's Word and The Message Translations

GOD'S WORD TRANSLATION
11  This is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is found in his Son. 
12  The person who has the Son has this life. The person who doesn’t have the Son of God doesn’t have this life.  
13  I’ve written this to those who believe in the Son of God so that they will know that they have eternal life.
14  We are confident that God listens to us if we ask for anything that has his approval. 
15  We know that he listens to our requests. So we know that we already have what we ask him for.

THE MESSAGE TRANSLATION
11-12  This is the testimony in essence: God gave us eternal life; the life is in his Son. So, whoever has the Son, has life; whoever rejects the Son, rejects life.
13-15  My purpose in writing is simply this: that you who believe in God’s Son will know beyond the shadow of a doubt that you have eternal life, the reality and not the illusion. And how bold and free we then become in his presence, freely asking according to his will, sure that he’s listening. And if we’re confident that he’s listening, we know that what we’ve asked for is as good as ours.

This Son Of God Is Jesus Christ (I John 5:6-10) God's Word and The Message Translations

GOD'S WORD TRANSLATION
6  This Son of God is Jesus Christ, who came by water and blood. He didn’t come with water only, but with water and with blood. The Spirit is the one who verifies this, because the Spirit is the truth. 
7  There are three witnesses:
8   the Spirit, the water, and the blood. These three witnesses agree.
9   We accept human testimony. God’s testimony is greater because it is the testimony that he has given about his Son. 
10  Those who believe in the Son of God have the testimony of God in them. Those who don’t believe God have made God a liar. They haven’t believed the testimony that God has given about his Son.

THE MESSAGE TRANSLATION
6-8   Jesus—the Divine Christ! He experienced a life-giving birth and a death-killing death. Not only birth from the womb, but baptismal birth of his ministry and sacrificial death. And all the while the Spirit is confirming the truth, the reality of God’s presence at Jesus’ baptism and crucifixion, bringing those occasions alive for us. A triple testimony: the Spirit, the Baptism, the Crucifixion. And the three in perfect agreement.
9-10  If we take human testimony at face value, how much more should we be reassured when God gives testimony as he does here, testifying concerning his Son. Whoever believes in the Son of God inwardly confirms God’s testimony. Whoever refuses to believe in effect calls God a liar, refusing to believe God’s own testimony regarding his Son.

Those Who Believe in Jesus Are God’s Children (I John 5:1-5) God's Word and The Message Translations

GOD'S WORD TRANSLATION
1   Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah has been born from God. Everyone who loves the Father also loves his children.
2  We know that we love God’s children when we love God by obeying his commandments. 
3  To love God means that we obey his commandments. Obeying his commandments isn’t difficult 
4   because everyone who has been born from God has won the victory over the world. Our faith is what wins the victory over the world. 
5   Who wins the victory over the world? Isn’t it the person who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

THE MESSAGE TRANSLATION
1-3  Every person who believes that Jesus is, in fact, the Messiah, is God-begotten. If we love the One who conceives the child, we’ll surely love the child who was conceived. The reality test on whether or not we love God’s children is this: Do we love God? Do we keep his commands? The proof that we love God comes when we keep his commandments and they are not at all troublesome
4-5  Every God-begotten person conquers the world’s ways. The conquering power that brings the world to its knees is our faith. The person who wins out over the world’s ways is simply the one who believes Jesus is the Son of God.

No Fear Exists Where His Love Is (I John 4:17-21) God's Word & The Message Translations

GOD'S WORD TRANSLATION
17  God’s love has reached its goal in us. So we look ahead with confidence to the day of judgment. While we are in this world, we are exactly like him with regard to love.  
18  No fear exists where his love is. Rather, perfect love gets rid of fear, because fear involves punishment. The person who lives in fear doesn’t have perfect love.
19  We love because God loved us first. 
20  Whoever says, “I love God,” but hates another believer is a liar. People who don’t love other believers, whom they have seen, can’t love God, whom they have not seen. 
21  Christ has given us this commandment: The person who loves God must also love other believers\

THE MESSAGE TRANSLATION

17-18  God is love. When we take up permanent residence in a life of love, we live in God and God lives in us. This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and mature in us, so that we’re free of worry on Judgment Day—our standing in the world is identical with Christ’s. There is no room in love for fear. Well-formed love banishes fear. Since fear is crippling, a fearful life—fear of death, fear of judgment—is one not yet fully formed in love.

19    We, though, are going to love—love and be loved. First we were loved, now we love. He loved us first.
20-21  If anyone boasts, “I love God,” and goes right on hating his brother or sister, thinking nothing of it, he is a liar. If he won’t love the person he can see, how can he love the God he can’t see? The command we have from Christ is blunt: Loving God includes loving people. You’ve got to love both.

The Knowledge of Knowing We Live In Him (I John 4:13-16) God's Word and The Message Translations

GOD'S WORD TRANSLATION

13  We know that we live in him and he lives in us because he has given us his Spirit.

14  We have seen and testify to the fact that the Father sent his Son as the Savior of the world. 
15  God lives in those who declare that Jesus is the Son of God, and they live in God. 
16  We have known and believed that God loves us. God is love. Those who live in God’s love live in God, and God lives in them.

THE MESSAGE TRANSLATION
13-16  This is how we know we’re living steadily and deeply in him, and he in us: He’s given us life from his life, from his very own Spirit. Also, we’ve seen for ourselves and continue to state openly that the Father sent his Son as Savior of the world. Everyone who confesses that Jesus is God’s Son participates continuously in an intimate relationship with God. We know it so well, we’ve embraced it heart and soul, this love that comes from God.

Live Holy Lives (I Peter 1:13-21) God's Word & The Message Translation

God's Word Translation
13  Therefore, your minds must be clear and ready for action. Place your confidence completely in what God’s kindness will bring you when Jesus Christ appears again. 
14  Because you are children who obey God, don’t live the kind of lives you once lived. Once you lived to satisfy your desires because you didn’t know any better. 
15  But because the God who called you is holy, you must be holy in every aspect of your life. 
16  Scripture says, “Be holy, because I am holy.” 
17  So if you call God your Father, live your time as temporary residents on earth in fear. He is the God who judges all people by what they have done, and he doesn’t play favorites. 
18  Realize that you weren’t set free from the worthless life handed down to you from your ancestors by a payment of silver or gold which can be destroyed. 
19  Rather, the payment that freed you was the precious blood of Christ, the lamb with no defects or imperfections. 
20  He is the lamb who was known long ago before the world existed, but for your good he became publicly known in the last period of time. 
21  Through him you believe in God who brought Christ back to life and gave him glory. So your faith and confidence are in God.

The Message Translation

13-16  So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus arrives. Don’t lazily slip back into those old grooves of evil, doing just what you feel like doing. You didn’t know any better then; you do now. As obedient children, let yourselves be pulled into a way of life shaped by God’s life, a life energetic and blazing with holiness. God said, “I am holy; you be holy.”

17    You call out to God for help and he helps—he’s a good Father that way. But don’t forget, he’s also a responsible Father, and won’t let you get by with sloppy living.
18-21  Your life is a journey you must travel with a deep consciousness of God. It cost God plenty to get you out of that dead-end, empty-headed life you grew up in. He paid with Christ’s sacred blood, you know. He died like an unblemished, sacrificial lamb. And this was no afterthought. Even though it has only lately—at the end of the ages—become public knowledge, God always knew he was going to do this for you. It’s because of this sacrificed Messiah, whom God then raised from the dead and glorified, that you trust God, that you know you have a future in God.

Listening And Doing (James 1:19-27) God's Word and The Message Translation

James 1:19-27 (God's Word Translation)
19  Remember this, my dear brothers and sisters: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and should not get angry easily. 
20  An angry person doesn’t do what God approves of. 
21  So get rid of all immoral behavior and all the wicked things you do. Humbly accept the word that God has placed in you. This word can save you.
22  Do what God’s word says. Don’t merely listen to it, or you will fool yourselves. 
23  If someone listens to God’s word but doesn’t do what it says, he is like a person who looks at his face in a mirror, 
24  studies his features, goes away, and immediately forgets what he looks like. 
25  However, the person who continues to study God’s perfect laws that make people free and who remains committed to them will be blessed. People like that don’t merely listen and forget; they actually do what God’s laws say.
26  If a person thinks that he is religious but can’t control his tongue, he is fooling himself. That person’s religion is worthless. 
27  Pure, unstained religion, according to God our Father, is to take care of orphans and widows when they suffer and to remain uncorrupted by this world.

James 1:19-27 (The Message Translation)

19-21  Most this at all the intersections, dear friends: Lead with your ears, follow up with your tongue, and let anger straggle along in the rear. God’s righteousness doesn’t grow from human anger. So throw all spoiled virtue and cancerous evil in the garbage. In simple humility, let our gardener, God, landscape you with the Word, making a salvation-garden of your life.

22-24  Don’t fool yourself into thinking that you are a listener when you are anything but, letting the Word go in one ear and out the other. Act on what you hear! Those who hear and don’t act are like those who glance in the mirror, walk away, and two minutes later have no idea who they are, what they look like.
25  But whoever catches a glimpse of the revealed counsel of God—the free life!—even out of the corner of his eye, and sticks with it, is no distracted scatterbrain but a man or woman of action. That person will find delight and affirmation in the action.
26-27  Anyone who sets himself up as “religious” by talking a good game is self-deceived. This kind of religion is hot air and only hot air. Real religion, the kind that passes muster before God the Father, is this: Reach out to the homeless and loveless in their plight, and guard against corruption from the godless world.

Do Not Love The World (I John 2:15-17) God's Word & The Message Translation

I John 2:15-17 (God's Word Translation)
15  Don’t love the world and what it offers. Those who love the world don’t have the Father’s love in them.
16  Not everything that the world offers—physical gratification, greed, and extravagant lifestyles—comes from the Father. It comes from the world, and 
17  the world and its evil desires are passing away. But the person who does what God wants lives forever.

I John 2:15-17 (The Message Translation)
15-17  Don’t love the world’s ways. Don’t love the world’s goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him. The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out—but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity.

Jesus The Bread of Life (John 6:53-59) God's Word & The Message Translation

GOD'S WORD TRANSLATION
53  Jesus told them, “I can guarantee this truth: If you don’t eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have the source of life in you. 
54  Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will bring them back to life on the last day. 
55  My flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 
56  Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood live in me, and I live in them. 
57  The Father who has life sent me, and I live because of the Father. So those who feed on me will live because of me. 
58  This is the bread that came from heaven. It is not like the bread your ancestors ate. They eventually died. Those who eat this bread will live forever.”
59  Jesus said this while he was teaching in a synagogue in Capernaum.

THE MESSAGE TRANSLATION
^53-58 But Jesus didn’t give an inch. “Only insofar as you eat and drink flesh and blood, the flesh and blood of the Son of Man, do you have life within you. The one who brings a hearty appetite to this eating and drinking has eternal life and will be fit and ready for the Final Day. My flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. By eating my flesh and drinking my blood you enter into me and I into you. In the same way that the fully alive Father sent me here and I live because of him, so the one who makes a meal of me lives because of me. This is the Bread from heaven. Your ancestors ate bread and later died. Whoever eats this Bread will live always.”

⁵⁹ He said these things while teaching in the meeting place in Capernaum.

Today Is My Tomorrow

Today is my tomorrow. 

It’s up to me to shape it,

TO TAKE CONTROL

And seize every opportunity.

The power is in the choices

I make each day.

EAT WELL, I LIVE WELL.

I SHAPE ME

Live a Life that Matters

Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end.  There will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours or days.  All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten will pass to someone else.

Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.  It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.  Your grudges, resentments, frustrations, and jealousies will finally disappear.

So too, your hopes, ambitions, plans, and to-do lists will expire.  The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.  It won’t matter where you came from.

It won’t matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant.  Even your gender and skin color will be irrelevant.  So what will matter?

What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built.  Not what you got, but what you gave.

What will matter is not your success, but your significance.

What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.

What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage or sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate your example.

What will matter is not your competence, but your character.

What will matter is not how many people you knew but how many will feel a lasting loss when you are gone.

What will matter is not your memories but the memories that live on in those who loved you.

What will matter is how long you will be remembered and for what.

Living a life that matters doesn’t happen by accident,  It happens by choice…

From:   “For With God Nothing Shall Be Impossible-:Luke 1:37” page

Warning Against Unbelief (Hebrews 3:7-11) God's Word & The Message Translation

HEBREWS 3:7-11 GOD'S WORD TRANSLATION
7   As the Holy Spirit says, “If you hear God speak today, don’t be stubborn.
8   Don’t be stubborn like those who rebelled and tested me in the desert.
9   That is where your ancestors tested me,
10  although they had seen what I had done for 40 years.  That is why I was angry with those people. So I said, ‘Their hearts continue to stray, and they have not learned my ways.’
11  So I angrily took a solemn oath that they would never enter my place of rest.”

HEBREWS 3:7-11 THE MESSAGE TRANSLATION
6-11  Now, if we can only keep a firm grip on this bold confidence, we’re the house! That’s why the Holy Spirit says, Today, please listen;  don’t turn a deaf ear as in “the bitter uprising,” that time of wilderness testing!  Even though they watched me at work for forty years, your ancestors refused to let me do it my way; over and over they tried my patience.  And I was provoked, oh, so provoked!  I said, “They’ll never keep their minds on God; they refuse to walk down my road.”  Exasperated, I vowed, “They’ll never get where they’re going, never be able to sit down and rest.”

Being Enslaved by Sin Again (2 Peter 2:20-22 & Proverbs 26:11-12) GOD'S WORD & THE MESSAGE TRANSLATION

2 PETER 2:20-22 & PROVERBS 26:11-12 GOD'S WORD
20  People can know our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and escape the world’s filth. But if they get involved in this filth again and give in to it, they are worse off than they were before. 
21  It would have been better for them never to have known the way of life that God approves of than to know it and turn their backs on the holy life God told them to live. 
22  These proverbs have come true for them: “A dog goes back to its vomit,” and “A sow that has been washed goes back to roll around in the mud.”

PROVERBS 26:11-12
11  As a dog goes back to its vomit, so a fool repeats his stupidity.
12  Have you met a person who thinks he is wise?  There is more hope for a fool than for him.

2 PETER 2:20-22 & PROVERBS 26:11-12 THE MESSAGE
20-22  If they’ve escaped from the slum of sin by experiencing our Master and Savior, Jesus Christ, and then slid back into that same old life again, they’re worse than if they had never left. Better not to have started out on the straight road to God than to start out and then turn back, repudiating the experience and the holy command. They prove the point of the proverbs, “A dog goes back to its own vomit” and “A scrubbed-up pig heads for the mud.”

PROVERBS 26:11-12

11  As a dog eats its own vomit, so fools recycle silliness.

12  See that man who thinks he’s so smart?  You can expect far more from a fool than from him.

God Put Everything under Jesus' Control (Hebrews 2:5-9) God's Word and The Message Translation

HEBREWS 2:5-9 GOD'S WORD TRANSLATION
5  He didn’t put the world that will come (about which we are talking) under the angels’ control. 
6  Instead, someone has declared this somewhere in Scripture:  “What is a mortal that you should remember him, or the Son of Man that you take care of him?  
7  You made him a little lower than the angels.  You crowned him with glory and honor. 
8   You put everything under his control.”  When God put everything under his Son’s control, nothing was left out.  However, at the present time we still don’t see everything under his Son’s control. 
9  Jesus was made a little lower than the angels, but we see him crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death. Through God’s kindness he died on behalf of everyone.

HEBREWS 2:5-9 THE MESSAGE TRANSLATION

5-9  God didn’t put angels in charge of this business of salvation that we’re dealing with here. It says in Scripture,  What is man and woman that you bother with them; why take a second look their way?  You made them not quite as high as angels, bright with Eden’s dawn light; Then you put them in charge of your entire handcrafted world.  When God put them in charge of everything, nothing was excluded. But we don’t see it yet, don’t see everything under human jurisdiction. What we do see is Jesus, made “not quite as high as angels,” and then, through the experience of death, crowned so much higher than any angel, with a glory “bright with Eden’s dawn light.” In that death, by God’s grace, he fully experienced death in every person’s place.