One in Messiah Congregation ÷ÌÈäÈì àÆçÈã áÌÀîÌÈùÑÄéçÇ
Part of the Congregation of Israel òÂãÇú éÄùÒÀøÈàÅì
Shabbat Shalom
Today we use the Gregorian calendar
(From Pope Gregory, from the 1500's) – Jan.
16th, 2010
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God has His own calendar
We are now in the 10th month of God called Teveth in Hebrew, 29th day
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We watch for the visible crescent for
the new moon in Israel
The new moon, as we understand it,
could be tonight or tomorrow night
Phase of the Moon on 16 January: waxing crescent
with 2% of the Moon's visible disk illuminated
Phase of the Moon on 17 January: waxing crescent with 5% of the Moon's
visible disk illuminated.
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The eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, ùÑÀáÈè Shevat or Sh’vat
A few references to the eleventh month
Deut. 1 [3] And it
came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh
month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake
unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in
commandment unto them;
1 Chr. 27 [14] The eleventh captain for the
eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course
were twenty and four thousand.
Zech.1[7] Upon the
four and twentieth day of the eleventh month,
which is the month Sebat, ùÑÀáÈè Shevat or Sh’vat
- in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the
son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo
the prophet, saying,
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If you ever wonder why I ask this
question to you so many times, the answer is because some people are always
trying to get around this commandment.
Prov. 6 [23] For the
commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs
of instruction are the way of life:
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
We read from law and the prophets every Sabbath.
60 times in the
Gospels and letters it uses the word Sabbath
Ex. 20 [8] Remember
the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
æëø zâkar - zaw-kar'
- A primitive root; properly to mark (so as to be recognized),
that is, to remember; by implication to mention; make mention of, be mindful, recount, record (-er),
remember, make to be remembered, bring (call,
come, keep, put) to (in) remembrance, still, think on, well.
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Back to Ex. 20
[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.
Rev.1 [10] I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day - (The Sabbath)
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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.
The Sabbath is a "holy
convocation"
î÷øà miqra: convocation, convoking,
reading, a calling together, sacred assembly, something called out, that
is, a public meeting (the act, the persons, or the place); also a
rehearsal
÷ãùÑ kodesh: a sacred
place or thing; consecrated, dedicated, hallowed, holiness, saint, sanctuary,
apartness, sacredness, separateness, apartness, sacredness, holiness
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Today's Topic:
Let's look up a few words; you will see all these words are in the
same family.
A person that
has one will most likely have them all!
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Talebearer
Lashon Hara - Evil Tongue
Envy
Slander
Backbiting
Holding a
grudge
Talebearer - øÈëÄéì
raw-keel - a scandal monger (as travelling about): - slander, carry
tales, talebearer, slanderer, informer, a scandal-monger (as travelling about)
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Lev. 19 [16] Thou shalt
not go up and down as a talebearer among
thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the
blood of thy neighbour: I am Yehovah.
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Prov. 11 [13] A talebearer revealeth
secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth
the matter.
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Prov. 18 [8] The words of
a talebearer are as wounds, and they go
down into the innermost parts of the belly.
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Prov. 20 [19] He that goeth
about as a talebearer revealeth
secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth
with his lips.
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Prov. 26 [20] Where no
wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
[22]
The words of a talebearer are as wounds,
and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
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James 3
[1]
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater
condemnation.
[2]
For in many things we offend all. If any man offend
not in word, the same is a perfect man (or woman), and able also to
bridle the whole body.
[3]
Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they
may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
[4]
Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce
winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the
governor listeth.
--
[5]
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how
great a matter a little fire kindleth!
[6]
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity:
so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth
the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of
nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
[7]
For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the
sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
[8]
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil,
full of deadly poison.
[9]
Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith
curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
[10]
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and
cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
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[11]
Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
[12]
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either
a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water
and fresh.
[13]
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let
him shew out of a good
conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
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[14]
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts,
glory not, and lie not against the truth.
[15]
This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is
earthly, sensual, devilish.
[16]
For where envying and strife is, there is
confusion and every evil work.
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[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.
[18]
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace/
shalom.
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Here is what
"envy" does:
Envy ÷ðà qânâ' - kaw-naw' A primitive root; to be (causatively make)
zealous, that is, (in a bad sense) jealous or
envious: - (be) envy (-ious),
be (move to, provoke to) jealous (-y), very, (be) zeal (-ous).
Job
.5 [2] For wrath killeth the foolish man,
and envy slayeth the silly one.
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Prov. 3 [31] Envy
thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
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Prov. 14 [30] A sound
heart is the life of the flesh: but envy
the rottenness of the bones.
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Prov. 23 [17] Let not thine
heart envy sinners: but be thou in the
fear of the LORD all the day long.
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Prov. 27 [4] Wrath is cruel, and anger is
outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
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Matt. 27 [18] For he knew
that for envy they had delivered him.
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Mark. 15 [10] For he knew
that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.
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Acts
7 [9]
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold
Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
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Acts 13 [45] But when the (unbelieving) Jews saw
the multitudes, they were filled with envy,
and spake against those things which were spoken by
Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
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Acts 17 [5] But the Jews which believed not, moved
with envy, took unto them certain lewd
fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an
uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the
people.
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Rom. 1 [29] Being filled with all
unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of
envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity;
whisperers,
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Rom. 13 [13] Let us walk honestly, as in the day;
not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife
and envying.
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1 Cor. 3 [3] For ye are
yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying,
and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
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2 Cor. 12 [20] For I fear, lest, when I come, I
shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as
ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes,
backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
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Tit. 3 [3] For we
ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers
lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy,
hateful, and hating one another.
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Back to the "tongue"
1 Pet. 3 [10] For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil , and his lips that they
speak no guile:
Pss. 15 [1] LORD, who shall abide in thy
tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
[2] He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh
the truth in his heart.
[3] He that backbiteth not
with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor
taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
[4] In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He
that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
[5] He that putteth not out his money to
usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He
that doeth these things shall never be moved.
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Pss. 34 [13] Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
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Backbiting
tongue = being
slanderous
Prov. 25 [23] The north
wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance
a backbiting tongue.
[20] For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such
as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there
be debates, envyings,
wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings,
tumults: and lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that
I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the
uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
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Holding a grudge
ðèø nâṭar - naw-tar'
- A primitive root; to guard; figuratively, to cherish (in anger): - bear grudge, keep (-er),
reserve (anger)
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Lev. 19 [18] Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children
of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am Yehovah.
Jas. 5 [9] Grudge not one
against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
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Slander = defaming, evil report,
infamy
Pss.
101 [5]
Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look
and a proud heart will not I suffer.
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Prov. 10 [18] He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he (or she) that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
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Gal. 5 [15] But if ye
bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
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Rom. 1 [18] For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all
ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
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How can you say
you love God and hate your brother or sister?
Rom. 12 [9] Let love be without dissimulation.
Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
[10] Be kindly
affectionate one to another with brotherly love; in honour
preferring one another;
Dissimulation: To disguise (one's
intentions) under a feigned appearance. To conceal one's true
feelings or intentions. We want to be without dissimulation (without
hypocrisy), unfeigned - We want to be genuine!
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1 Thes. 4 [9] But as
touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye
yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
Heb. 13 [1] Let brotherly love continue.
1Pet. 2 [17] Honour all
men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour
the king.
1 John 3 [14] We know
that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren.
He that loveth not his brother (or sister)
abideth in death.
[15] Whosoever hateth
his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal
life abiding in him.
[16] Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life
for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
[17] But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth
his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of
compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God
in him?
[18] My little children, let us not love in word,
neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
1
John 2 [9]
He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother (or sister),
is in darkness even until now.
[10]
He that loveth his brother abideth
in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
[11] But he that hateth his brother (or
sister) is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth,
because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
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1 John 4 [20] If a man
say, I love God, and hateth his brother (or sister),
he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother (or
sister) whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
[21] And this
commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother (or sister) also.
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They which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Gal. 5 [19] Now the works of the flesh are
manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry,
witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings,
and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time
past, that they which do such things shall not inherit
the kingdom of God.
[26]
Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
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Remember
Num. 23 [23] Surely
there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel...
Shabbat Shalom