{"id":2419,"date":"2024-02-23T07:40:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T18:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/?p=2419"},"modified":"2024-02-23T07:40:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T18:40:40","slug":"with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/2024\/02\/23\/with-me\/","title":{"rendered":"With Me"},"content":{"rendered":"
One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: \u201cAren\u2019t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!\u201d But the other criminal rebuked him. \u201cDon\u2019t you fear God,\u201d he said, \u201csince you are under the same sentence? We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.\u201d Then he said, \u201cJesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.\u201d Jesus answered him, \u201cTruly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.\u201d<\/em> Luke 23:39-43<\/p>\n Pete\u2019s Ponderings:<\/u><\/strong> Everyone\u2019s ideas of paradise are different. I see it in my grandkids,- God is present in a little child. The cross is the key .<\/p>\n Kevin\u2019s chewings<\/strong>: When the Hebrew bible was first translated into Greek, the word Paradeisos was used by the Hebrews for the Garden of Eden. So, a more literal translation could be \u201cTruly I tell you, today you will be with me in the garden of Eden\u201d This is an odd statement. Perhaps it is not so much about a place, but a relationship with a person! Where Jesus is, there is Paradise. <\/p>\n Questions for reflection<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: \u201cAren\u2019t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!\u201d But the other criminal rebuked him. \u201cDon\u2019t you fear God,\u201d he said, \u201csince you are under the same sentence? We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.\u201d Then he said, \u201cJesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.\u201d Jesus answered him, \u201cTruly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.\u201d Luke 23:39-43 Pete\u2019s Ponderings: Everyone\u2019s ideas of paradise are different. I see it in my grandkids,- God is present in a little child. The cross is the key . Kevin\u2019s chewings: When the Hebrew bible was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2420,"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419\/revisions\/2420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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