http://www.thetrinityinjersey.org THE Trinity in Jersey - a series of weekly newsletters under the title "info for islanders" linking the Bible, Jesus Christ and Jersey. Immediately after his resurrection and just before his ascension in AD 33, Jesus Christ instructed his key followers to make disciples of all nations. They were to do this in two ways: first, by immersing them into the name (all the attributes and facts about) the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; second, by teaching them to observe and obey all that he had commanded them. THE Trinity in Jersey "info for islanders" seeks to assist in both those ways in making disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ. en Sun, 20 Sep 2026 22:18:17 EDT http://www.thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=959 Bible Jesus Christ Sinner Syvret But they - the Pharisees possessing a love of silver - were hearing all these things and they were sneering at him. And he said to them, “You yourselves are those righteousing yourselves in the sight of the people, but God knows your hearts, in that the exalted thing among people is an abomination in the sight of God.” (Luke’s AD 60 research report re Jesus: Chapter 16: 14-31) . . Why were they “sneering at him”? He had “stated” a parallel – see Info CA – in which a “house-master”, on losing his position of trust with a “rich man”, had unrighteously reduced the “loan-debts” due to his “lord.” He did that so as to become “friends” with those debtors so that those new “friends” would provide him a home with them in future.“The Pharisees”, Jerusalem’s religious leaders, had been minimising the responsibilities of their wealthy “friends” to live for the Lord God in every aspect of their lives. By minimising “the Law and the Prophets” in the Bible’s Old Testament, they had made many such “friends” who shared their “love of silver.” Good “house-masters” of the Lord God? “The Law and the Prophets – until John. From then, the kingdom of God is announced good and everyone forces into it but it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one dot of the Law to fall. Everyone who sets free his wife and marries another is adulterous and the one marrying one set free from a husband is adulterous.” Were “the Law and the Prophets” only “until John” the Baptist? On him, see Info AJ. Some had forced themselves into “the kingdom of God” – into merciful forgiveness by Jesus. They still wanted to live as though “the Law”, from God through “Moses”, no longer applied to them. They wanted to live their lives as they wished – "silver", warts, and all. The two examples of an “adulterous” man need to be connected with the discussions so far. In both cases, the “adultery” arose, in Jesus’ view, not from the marital breakdown but from the actual “marrying.” Is it “adulterous” for one forgiven by Jesus is to continue to love self, and “silver” rather than the Lord God and his “the Law and the Prophets.” http://www.thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=959 Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 EDT http://www.thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=958 Bible Jesus Christ Sinner Syvret But he [Jesus] also stated to the disciples, “A certain man was rich, who had a house-manager, and this one was accused to him of wasting his belongings. And, calling him out, he said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give over the word of your house-management, because you no longer have power to house-manage.’” (Luke’s AD 60 research report re Jesus: Chapter 16: 1-13) . .. . At this stage Jesus had another “parallel” for his disciples to think about. There are many family offices in Jersey’s finance industry where all the wealth of a “rich man” or family is looked after by, as it were, “a house-manager.” In a way, each of us is a “house-manager” of ourselves and all that we have been entrusted with. Religious leaders also are “house-managers.”“But the house-manager said to himself, ‘What may I do, in that my lord takes away the house-management from me? I am not strong to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I know what I will do, so that when I may be stood-down from the house-management, they may receive me into their own houses.’"The “house-manager” knew he was fraudulent. But he still had authority to (appear to) adjust what was owed by others to the “rich man.” Note that the “house-manager” identified the “rich man” to be “my lord.” But he was thinking about his own future, knowing that he had lost everything. http://www.thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=958 Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 EDT http://www.thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=957 Bible Jesus Christ Sinner Syvret But he [Jesus] said, “A certain man has two sons and the newer of them said to his father, ‘Father, give to me the set share of the existence!’, and he divided the human-living between them.” (Luke’s AD 60 research report re Jesus: Chapter 15: 11-32) . .. .. . At this stage in Jesus’ life, around AD 30, he has been severely criticised for “welcoming sinful people and eating with them.” His critics were the Jerusalem “Pharisees and theologians.” Now he provides the “parallel” of “a certain man” with “two sons.” Asked by “the newer” for his “set share of the existence,” the “father” gives that to both, keeping nothing back. All “human-living”, theirs. Their free lives ahead of them.“And not many days later, the newer son, gathering all, journeyed away into a long distant region and there he wasted his substance, living life carelessly. But, having spent everything, a mighty famine came to be throughout that same region and he began to be lacking. And, going, he joined himself to one of the citizens of that same region and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs. And he was longing to fill his belly with the pods which the pigs were eating and no one was giving to him.” “The son” had nothing left, save a new porcine, consumptive identity. http://www.thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=957 Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 EDT http://www.thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=956 Bible Jesus Christ Sinner Syvret But the tax collectors and the sinful were all drawing near to him [Jesus] to hear him. And therefore, the Pharisees and the theologians were complaining, stating that, “This man is welcoming sinful people and eats with them.” (Luke’s AD 60 research report re Jesus: Chapter 15: 1-24) . .. .. .. . The despised “tax collectors and sinners” were welcome to draw near..But he said to them this parallel, stating, “What man among you, having a hundred sheep with one of them destroyed, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the lost one until he may find it? And having found, he places it upon his shoulders, rejoicing. And, coming into the house, he calls together the friends and the neighbours, stating to them, ‘Rejoice together with me, in that I found my sheep, the lost one.’ Similarly, I state to you that there will be more joy in heaven over one mind-changed sinful person than over ninety-nine nine righteous who have no mind-change.” “What man” would? A flock of “sheep” replenishes itself at lambing. Why bother about “one”? Why leave 99 at risk? Why waste celebration money? “Or what woman, having ten drachmae, with one drachma destroyed, does not touch a lamp and sweep the house and seek carefully until that one she finds? And having found, she calls together the friends and neighbours, stating, ‘Rejoice together with me, in that I found that destroyed drachma.’ Similarly, I state to you, joy comes to be before the angels of God over one mind-changed sinful person.” “What woman” would? A drachma, at today’s silver price is worth about £6. That’s a couple of flat-whites. Why waste celebration money? http://www.thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=956 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 EDT http://www.thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=955 Bible Jesus Christ Sinner Syvret But a certain one of those sitting down together, hearing these things, said to him [Jesus], “Blessed whoever will eat bread in the kingdom of God.” (Luke’s AD 60 research report re Jesus: Chapter 14: 15-35) . .. .. .. .. . Jesus had just instructed those present to invite to any “feast” any of them might arrange the “poor, crippled, lame, blind.” They would be “repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.” Hence, this unnamed person remarked, “blessed whoever will eat bread in the kingdom of God” – those receiving their repayment at “the resurrection of the righteous.” But the one said to him, “A certain one was making a great banquet and called many. And, at the hour of the banquet, he sent out his slave to say to those who had been called, ‘Come, because it is now ready!’ But they all together as one began to reject. In that connection, Jesus told them all this parallel of the “great banquet” to which “many” were “called.” When the day came “they all together as one began to reject.” Have you received an invite to the “great banquet”? An invitation to eternal life from someone who provided it by dying and rising again. http://www.thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=955 Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 EDT http://www.thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=954 Bible Jesus Christ Sinner Syvret And it came to be on the Sabbath, he [Jesus] himself coming to eat in a house of a certain ruler of the Pharisees, they were scrutinizing him. And (Look and see!) a certain man, full of water, was before him. And Jesus, responding, said to the legal people and Pharisees, stating “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?” But these rested and, taking hold of him, he cured him and set him free. And he said to them, “Who of you, a son or ox will fall into a pit on a Sabbath day, and you will not immediately draw him out?” And they were not able to respond against these. (Luke’s AD 60 research report re Jesus: Chapter 14: 1-24) . .. .. .. .. .. . Closely reading the above it seems that this “man, full of water” had been placed there by “the legal people and Pharisees” so as to trap Jesus into healing on the Sabbath, thereby condemning himself under the law. The two questions revealed their hearts. Each would save their own “son or ox” on a Sabbath even though they believed this would break the law. But no law may be broken to relieve the dire needs of others. Jesus, with no such self-motivation in the matter, “cured him and set him free” But he stated a parallel to those called, when he noticed how they were choosing the first places, saying to them, “When you may be called by a certain one to a wedding-contract, you may not be seated down in a first place so that if a more valued than you may have been called by him and the one who called you and him, coming, will say to you, ‘Give your place to this person!’ and then you will begin with shame to retain the last place. Instead, when you may be called, going, sit down into the last place! So that, when he who called you may come, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up to a higher place!’ Then you will be a glory before all those sitting down together with you. For everyone exalting himself will be made low, and he making himself low will be exalted.” How does this “parallel” connect with the “man, full of water”? Maybe, the “parallel” relates more to the inner orientation of those “called … to a wedding-contract.” For them, the whole point was their own demonstrable status – not the “wedding-contract.” Self-motivation drove them - again. http://www.thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=954 Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 EDT http://www.thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=953 Bible Jesus Christ Sinner Syvret And he was going through towns and villages, teaching and making way towards Jerusalem. But a certain one said to him, “Lord, those being saved - few?” (Luke’s AD 60 research report re Jesus: Chapter 13: 22-35) . .. .. .. .. .. .. . Who are these “saved”? Immediately before this question was asked, Jesus had reminded the crowd of the earth-shattering calamity arising from Adam and Eve which disastrously affected them and all their descendants, including you and me. See Info BU. Adam defied the LORD God and set the human race on our superiority worldview. Eve did the same by upholding her self-interest – her ME – ahead of loving the LORD God. And the one said to them, “Agonize to come in through the narrow door! Because many, I state to you, will seek to come in and will not have strength. From when the house-over-lord may have risen and shut fast the door, and you may begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, stating, ‘Lord, open to us!’ and, responding, he will say to you, ‘I have not known who you yourself are.’” Rather than answering the question, Jesus responded with deep concern for the questioner. “Agonize to come in through the narrow door!” Did you notice the “come in”? Is he already “in” as well as the way to “come in” and “be saved”? Is he also the “narrow door”? Those who “agonise to come in through the narrow door” and do “come in” are those who have become known to him. How awful to be told, “I have not known who you yourself are” after “the house-over-lord” locks the “narrow door.” http://www.thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=953 Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 EDT http://www.thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=952 Bible Jesus Christ Sinner Syvret But he stated this parallel: “A certain one had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit in it and did not find. But he said to the vinedresser, ‘Look and see! Three years from this time I have come seeking fruit in this fig tree, and I do not find. Cut it down! Also, for what purpose is it making the earth useless?’ But, responding, he states to him, ‘Lord, forgive it also this year until which time I may dig around it and may cast manures and if indeed it may make fruit into the future; but if not, you will cut it down.’” (Luke’s AD 60 research report re Jesus: Chapter 13: 6-21) . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . Jesus had just spoken to the crowds about avoiding the consequences of their present ways – Info BT. Above, he addressed the bigger picture. A fair proportion of those in the crowd classed themselves as descendants of Abraham (alive c. 1900 BC). Abraham had been blessed by the LORD God with an everlasting covenant and this covenant was extended to his grandson Jacob, later named Israel. He fathered 12 sons including one named Judah, from which we derive the adjective ‘Jewish’.The history of this family is recorded in the Bible’s Old Testament and it is one of continuing unfaithfulness to the LORD God. Do you think that Jesus, in the parallel, may have used “vineyard” to describe the earth and universe as a whole and used “fig-tree” to describe his chosen people? If so, the bigger picture would have been understood by many there to be a foretelling of future agony (“dig around … cast manures”) - for a while. http://www.thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=952 Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 EDT http://www.thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=951 Bible Jesus Christ Sinner Syvret “I came to cast fire upon the earth, which also I wish if it be already ablaze. But I have a baptism to be baptized, and how I am distressed until when it is accomplished.” (Luke’s AD 60 research report re Jesus: Chapter 12: 49-13:9) . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . The words above – from Jesus to his closest disciples – need some thought. “Fire”, although fearsome, speaks of total cleansing from corruption and harm – speaks of purification from dross. This was to be “upon the earth” and Jesus wanted it. A righteous human world.But, associated with that, was his own “baptism to be baptised” with. He wanted that – his death on the cross, to be “accomplished." Once “accomplished”, it would be the answer for those, seeing the “fire” and being in it, were thirsting for righteousness. He would take their place.“You think that I have come to be near to give peace on the earth. No, I state to you, but instead division. Because from now it will be five in one house divided three over two and two over three. They will be divided, father over son and son over father, mother over daughter and daughter over the mother, mother-in-law over her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law over the mother-in-law.” In the centuries from around BC 400 to AD 30, the Israelites were longing for their promised Messiah to come and rescue them from their enemies. He would bring “peace on the earth”, the overcoming of the Roman Empire, the establishment of Israel with hegemonic power. Not so, Jesus said. Instead “division” between individuals – regarding himself. http://www.thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=951 Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 EDT http://www.thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=950 Bible Jesus Christ Sinner Syvret “Fear not, little flock, in this! That your Father is well pleased to give the kingdom to you. Sell your belongings! And give mercy! Make for yourselves non-decaying moneybags that do not grow old! An unfailing treasury in the heavens, where no thief draws near and no moth destroys. For where your treasury is, there also your heart will be. Be!” (Luke’s AD 60 research report re Jesus: Chapter 12: 32-48) . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . What did Jesus mean when he commanded his disciples (above) “Be!”? As you can see he had just encouraged them to see themselves as sheep looked after by a loving “Father” who was (and is) “well pleased to give the kingdom to you.” By “Be!” was he commanding them to live (every part of their lives) in this new realization? Kind of, “Be born anew!”“Your hips having been dressed for service; your lamps being burning; and you yourselves like men awaiting the Lord of their own selves whenever he may move forward from the wedding contract so that, he coming and knocking, they may immediately open to him.” Jesus then indicated key things about this new “being”. Service ready. Light burning. Be anticipating your Lord to come to you. Be ready to open to him.But what’s this about “the wedding contract”? At that time, a “wedding contract” was a celebration of a permanent marriage contract. But it was not immediately followed by setting up home together. Instead, a groom went away to prepare the marital home. When that was done, he would return – often unexpectedly – to whisk away his bride into new life together.It seems that Jesus was referring to this. He would complete the “marriage contract” at the cross and resurrection and would return. In a later book (Acts of the Apostles), Luke records the return of Jesus in the form of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost around AD 30. He came to them there on earth. http://www.thetrinityinjersey.org/newsletter.htm?id=950 Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 EDT