One in Messiah Congregation
Shabbat shalom
Dec. 13th, 2008
The ninth month is called Chislev;ëÄñÀìÅå .
This is the 14th day.
Zech. 7 [1] And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word
of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chislev;
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Question:
Why are we here today?
Answer:
We were told to remember the
Sabbath Day to keep it holy
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The 4th Commandment is a part of the covenant given to us at Mount
Sinai in the 3rd month, Sivan
Ex. 20 [8] Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
[9] Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
[10] But the seventh day
is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter,
thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is
within thy gates:
[11] For in six days the LORD made heaven and
earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore
the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.
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Lev. 23: [3] Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath
of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no
work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
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Read also:
Isa. 56 - the stranger gets a special blessing for keeping Sabbath
Neh. 13:15, to the end of the chapter. It is evil to
buy and sell on the Sabbath of the Lord.
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60 times in the Gospels and letters it uses the word Sabbath!
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Ex. 20 [10] the seventh day is the Sabbath of the
LORD thy God
[13] If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and
shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor
speaking thine own words
[14] Then shalt thou delight thyself in
the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and
feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath
spoken it.
John says.. Rev. 1 [10] I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice,
as of a trumpet,
The Sabbath is the Lord's Day
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Friday at even to Saturday at even is the 7th day Sabbath
God's day starts in the evening
Gen. 1
[5] And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called
Night. And the evening and the morning were
the first day.
[8] And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and
the morning were the second day.
[13] And the evening and the
morning were the third day.
[19] And the evening and the
morning were the fourth day.
[23] And the evening and the
morning were the fifth day.
[31] And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it
was very good. And the evening and the morning were
the sixth day.
Gen. 2
[1] Thus the heavens and the earth were
finished, and all the host of them.
[2] And on the seventh day God
ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his
work which he had made.
[3] And God blessed the seventh day,
and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God
created and made.
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Another
example - The Day of Atonement is a sabbath on the 10th day of the
7th month (ha Ethamin)
Lev. 23 [32] It
shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and
ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of
the month at even,
from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
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Topic: Repent and don't just hear, Do - Today!
Which doer are you?
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The pagan feasts are
coming, what are you going to do? Time to make a Stand!
Jas. 4 [17]
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
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Two questions:
1 - Are you partial in the law?
2 - Which doer are you, the evil doer or the doer of the Law, and the
Word?
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Are you partial in the LAW?
ðÉùÒÀàÄéí
ôÌÈðÄéí áÌÇúÌåÉøÈä
"To lift up faces against the Torah"
Mal. 2 [9] Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base
before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been
partial in the law .
1 Tim. 5 [21] I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and
the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before
another, doing nothing by partiality.
Jas. 2 [4] Are ye not then partial in yourselves , and are
become judges of evil thoughts?
Jas. 3 [17] But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then
peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without
partiality , and without hypocrisy.
Prov. 30 [32] If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself,
or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.
Ezek. 31 [10] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast
lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick
boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height; [11] I have therefore
delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely
deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.
Dan. 5 [23] Belshazzar the king of the
Chaldeans
But hast lifted up thyself against the LORD of
heaven ; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and
thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them;
and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and
stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath
is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
[ 24] Then was the part of the hand sent
from him; and this writing was written.
[25 ] And this is the writing that was
written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
[26] This is the interpretation of the
thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
[27] TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the
balances, and art found wanting.
[28 ] PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and
given to the Medes and Persians.
[29] Then commanded Belshazzar, and they
clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a
proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
[30] In that
night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.[31 ]
And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years
old.
ðñä - ðùÒà nasa - nasah
- In this case, to lift or raise up, to lift
up the hand to do violence, carry (away), exalt ( self ) ( in pride), lift
(self) up, lofty, magnify, pardon (yourself from ) respect persons, partiality
G1252
διακρινω dee-ak-ree-no
From G1223 and G2919; to separate thoroughly ,
that is, (literally and reflexively) to withdraw from, or (by implication)
oppose; figuratively to discriminate (by implication decide), or (reflexively)
hesitate: - contend, make (to) differ (-ence), discern, doubt, judge, be
partial, stagger, waver.
Thayer Definition:
1) to separate, make a distinction, discriminate,
to prefer
2) to learn by discrimination, to try, decide
2a) to determine, give judgment, decide a dispute
3) to withdraw from one, desert
4) to separate one’s self in a hostile spirit, to
oppose, strive with dispute, contend
5) to be at variance with one’s self, hesitate,
doubt
Part of Speech: verb
Don't lift up your face (be partial)
against the Torah
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They say to Jeremiah and Ezekiel:
[31] And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before
thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they
will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their
heart goeth after their covetousness.
[16] Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for
the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest
for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
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What think ye?
Matt.21 Yeshua
talking to the chief priests and scribes:
[28] But what think ye?
A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard.
[29] He answered and said, I will not: but
afterward he repented, and went.
[30] And he came to the second, and
said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went
not.
[31] Whether of them twain did the will of his
father?
They say unto him, The first.
Yeshua saith unto them, Verily I say
unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before
you.
[32] For John came unto you in
the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the
harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward,
that ye might believe him.
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Matt.23 - Yeshua talking to the multitude, and
to his disciples about the scribes and the Pharisees:
[1] Then spake Yeshua
to the multitude, and to his disciples,
[2] Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:
[3] All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do;
but do not ye after their works: for they say, and
do not.
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Rom. 2 [11] For there is
no respect of persons with God.
[12] For as many as have sinned without law shall
also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged
by the law;
[13] (For not the hearers of the law are just
before God, but the doers of the law shall be
justified.
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James 1 [1] James says...
[22] But be ye
doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
[23] For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto
a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
[24] For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway
forgetteth what manner of man he was.
[25] But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth
therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a
doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
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Matt. 11 [20] Then
began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done,
because they repented not:
[21] Woe
unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which
were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented
long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
[22] But I say unto you, It shall be more
tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.
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Again –
Jas. 1 [25] But whoso looketh into the perfect
law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Be a doer today
Psalm 95 ...
To day if ye will hear his voice
[8] Harden not your heart, as in the provocation,
and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
[9] When your fathers tempted me, proved
me, and saw my work.
[10] Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It
is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
[11] Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my
rest.
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Do His commandments
Deut. 27 [10] Thou
shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I
command thee this day.
Pss. 111 [10] The
fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all
they that do his commandments: his praise
endureth for ever.
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[8] If that
nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent
of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
[9] And at what instant I shall speak
concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
[10] If it
do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of
the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
Rev. 2 [5] Remember
therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first
works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick
out of his place, except thou repent.
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Blessed are they that do
his commandments
Rev. 22 [14] Blessed
are they that do his commandments, that
they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates
into the city.
[15] For without are dogs, and sorcerers,
and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh
a lie.
[16] I Yeshua have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things
in the churches. I am the root and the
offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
[17] And the Spirit and the bride say,
Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And
whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
[18] For I testify unto every man that
heareth the words of the prophecy of this book,
If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that
are written in this book:
(No eternal security
here)
[19] And if any man shall
take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his
part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things
which are written in this book.
[20] He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen.
Even so, come, Lord Yeshua.
Be a doer today!
Shalom