One in Messiah
Congregation
Shabbat Shalom
March 1, 2008
God has His own
calendar
We are now in the
12th month - the month Adar 1 , 22nd day
Esth.9 [1] Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar
אדר a-dar - A primitive root; to expand, that is, be great or
(figuratively) magnificent: - (become) glorious, honorable – (Purim was last
week)
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Why are we here
today?
The 4th Commandment
is a part of the covenant given to us at mount Sinai
We read from law
and the prophets every Sabbath
60 times in the Gospels and letters it uses the word Sabbath
Acts 13 [13] Now when Paul
and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John
departing from them returned to Jerusalem.[14] But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia,
and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and
sat down.[15] And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of
the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word
of exhortation for the people, say on.
[27] For they that dwell at
Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of
the prophets which are read every sabbath
day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
[42] And when the Jews were gone
out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached
to them the next sabbath.
[44]And the next sabbath
day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God
Acts 15 [21] For Moses of old time hath in every city
them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
Luke 4 [16] And he, Yeshua / Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had been brought
up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.[17] And there was
delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias.
Part of a Torah Portion - KI
TISA ( When thou take- to lift, bear up, carry)
Exod. 31 [13] Speak thou
also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths
ye shall keep : for it is a sign between me and you
throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth
sanctify you.
[16] Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath
throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant .
[17] It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six
days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was
refreshed.
Ezek. 20 [12] Moreover
also I gave them my sabbaths,
to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that
sanctify them.
[20] And hallow my sabbaths;
and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the
LORD your God.
Luke.23 [56] And
they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
Messiah Yeshua speaking of the future: Matt.24 [20] But pray ye that your flight be not in the
winter, neither on the sabbath day:
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Topic for today:
A time
and a place to prepare
Sabbath
and the building of a Tabernacle
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A short
recap: Exodus
The Great
Deliverance from Egypt
The Passover
Unleavened Bread
One Law for all
Songs of Victory
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Wilderness
Murmurings -wanted flesh - Exod. 16
Received Manna
Sabbath
- 7th day
Chiding of the
children of Israel - water? - Exod. 17
Exodus 19-20 - 3rd
month Sivan
The Lord want us to
be a peculiar treasure unto Him above all people, a kingdom of priests, and an
holy nation
Sinai - The Lord comes down
Two Tables of Stone
made by God
The commandments
Exodus 21 - The
Judgments
Exodus 22 - The 3
feasts
15 -feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as
I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib;
16 - the feast of
harvest, ( feast of weeks ) the firstfruits of thy labours, which
thou hast sown in the field:
and the feast of ingathering,
( feast of tabernacles ) which is in the
end of the year,
Exodus 23 Idol -
Worship Forbidden
Exodus 24 - 74 people saw the God of Israel
The Tabernacle
Described
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Exodus 31
Sabbath described
again
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Exodus 32
[31] And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them
gods of gold.
[32] Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray
thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
[33] And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I
blot out of my book.
[34] Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken
unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day
when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.
[35] And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron
made.
Sin of
the golden calf
3000 die
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Two Tables of Stone
again made by Moses with God's writing
Exodus 34 - Second set
of the tables of the Covenant
The Ten
Commandments
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Today's Torah
Portion - Parshah (portion): Vayakhel
(and he gathered, assembled)
Exodus 35:1-38:20
Again, (a time) - the Sabbath, the offerings, and (a place) - the
Tabernacle Furnishings
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Let's
offer willingly, from our hearts
[5] Take ye from among
you an offering unto the LORD: whosoever is of a willing heart, let him
bring it, an offering of the LORD; gold, and silver, and brass,
[21] And they came, every one whose heart
stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, and they
brought the LORD's offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation,
and for all his service, and for the holy garments.
[22] And they came, both men and women, as many as
were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings,
and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered
an offering of gold unto the LORD.
[29] The children of Israel brought a willing
offering unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them
willing to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be
made by the hand of Moses.
The
Heart
Deut.4
[1] Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the
statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may
live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.
[2] Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye
diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God
which I command you.
[3] Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal-peor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you.
[4] But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of
you this day.
[5] Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD
my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land
whither ye go to possess it.
[6] Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your
understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes,
and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and
understanding people.
[7] For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them,
as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?
[8] And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this
day?
[9] Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy
soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them
thy sons, and thy sons' sons;
[10] Specially the day that thou stoodest
before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said
unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words,
that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the
earth, and that they may teach their children.
[11] And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain
burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick
darkness.
[12] And the LORD spake
unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw
no similitude; only ye heard a voice.
[13] And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to
perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon
two tables of stone.
[14] And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and
judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.
[15] Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner
of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you
in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
[16] Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the
similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
[17] The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any
winged fowl that flieth in the air,
[18] The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in
the waters beneath the earth:
[19] And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto
heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon,
and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest
be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided
unto all nations under the whole heaven.
[20] But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron
furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are
this day.
[21] Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should
not go in unto that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth
thee for an inheritance:
[22] But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye
shall go over, and possess that good land.
[23] Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD
your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness
of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden
thee.
[24] For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
[25] When thou shalt beget children, and
children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall
corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy
God, to provoke him to anger:
[26] I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye
shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to
possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be
destroyed.
[27] And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be
left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.
[28] And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and
stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
[29] But if from thence thou shalt seek the
LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him
with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
[30] When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon
thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;
[31] (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee,
neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
[32] For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee,
since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of
heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great
thing is, or hath been heard like it?
[33] Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of
the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
[34] Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of
another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a
mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all
that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
[35] Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else
beside him.
[36] Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might
instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his
great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the
midst of the fire.
[37] And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed
after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;
[38] To drive out nations from before thee
greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land
for an inheritance, as it is this day.
[39] Know therefore this day, and consider it
in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven
above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
[40] Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes,
and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with
thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest
prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth
thee, for ever.
Deut. 5 [29] O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and
keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with
their children for ever!
Jer. 17 [9] The heart is
deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Prov. 4 [23] Keep
thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Ezek. 20 [15]
Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not
bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey,
which is the glory of all lands; [16] Because they despised my
judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but
polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
Lam. 2 [6] And he hath
violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it
were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused
the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in
Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the
priest.
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Mark. 12 Yeshua said -
[30] And thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy
mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
[16] If any man have ears
to hear, let him hear.
[17] And when he was entered into the house from the people, his
disciples asked him concerning the parable.
[18] And he saith unto them, Are ye so without
understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
[19] Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
[20] And he said, That which cometh
out of the man, that defileth the man.
[21] For from within, out of the heart
of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
[22] Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil
eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
[23] All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Matt. 24
[42]
Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
[43] But know this, that if the goodman
of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have
watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
[44] Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an
hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
[45] Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made
ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
[46] Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so
doing.
[47] Verily I say unto you, That he shall make
him ruler over all his goods.
[48] But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth
his coming;
[49] And shall begin to smite his fellowservants,
and to eat and drink with the drunken;
[50] The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware
of,
[51] And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the
hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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Let's offer willingly from the heart
Let's Keep the Sabbath and our Tabernacle (our
heart) Holy
Eph. 2
[19] Now therefore ye are no more strangers and
foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and
of the household of God;
[20] And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Yeshua the Messiah - Jesus Christ himself being the chief
corner stone;
[21] In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth
unto an holy temple in the Lord:
[22] In whom ye also are builded together for an
habitation of God through the Spirit.
1 Pet. 2 [5] Ye also, as lively stones, are built
up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices,
acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
1 Cor. 3 [16] Know ye
not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
2 Cor. 6 [16] And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath
said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they
shall be my people.
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Still a Sabbath after the new heavens and the new earth
Isa. 66
[1] Thus saith the LORD, The
heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye
build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? [2] For all those things hath mine hand made,
and those things have been, saith the LORD: but to
this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
[15] For, behold, the
LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to
render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
[16] For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh:
and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
[17] They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens
behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and
the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the
LORD.
[18] For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come,
and see my glory.
[19] And I will set a sign among them,
and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan,
to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory;
and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.
[20] And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto
the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and
upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering
in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.
[21] And I will also take of them for priests and
for Levites, saith the LORD.
[22] For as the new heavens and
the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.
[23] And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another,
and from one sabbath to
another, shall all ( uncorruptible
) flesh come to worship before me, saith the
LORD.
[24] And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases
of the men that have transgressed against me: for their
worm ( soul ) shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they
shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
Yeshua quotes Isa. 66
Mark 9
[43] And if thy hand offend
thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having
two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never
shall be quenched:
[44] Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not
quenched.
[45] And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter
halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
[46] Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not
quenched.
[47] And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it
is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having
two eyes to be cast into hell fire:
[48] Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not
quenched.
Man
described as a Worm. Here are the scriptures:
Job 25 [6] How much less man,
that is a worm? and the
son of man, which is a worm?
Psalm 22 [6] But I am a worm,
and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
Isa. 41 [14] Fear not, thou worm
Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith
the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
Shabbat Shalom