One in Messiah Congregation
קָּהָל
אֶחָד
בְּמָּשִׁיחַ
A part of the Congregation of Israel
עֲדַת
יִשְׂרָאֵל
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Shabbat Shalom
שַׁבָּת
שָׁלוֹם
Today, we sadly use the
Gregorian calendar from Pope Gregory; from the 1500’s.
Today’s date is Dec. 17, 2022
December -- the tenth month – now the 12th month
Middle English decembre
Old French decembre
Latin december "tenth month"
Latin decem "ten"
+ -ber (adj. suffix)
December had 30
days, until Numa when it had 29 days, until Julius when it became 31 days long.
The God of Israel has His own Calendar: we are
now in the 9th month of God, Chislev in Hebrew כִסְלֵֽו - in English, it is
called Chisleu - day 22
Zechariah 7:1 And
it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the
word of Yehovah came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the
ninth month, even in Chisleu…
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Today’s Topic:
Love of God
Beware of the "false image" of love out there.
To start, a few Psalms and
Proverbs:
[11] … let all those that put their trust in you (God) rejoice: let them ever
shout for joy, because you (God) defend them: let them also that love your name, be joyful in you. [12] For you, Yehovah will bless the
righteous; with favor will you compass him as with a shield.
Pss.11 [7] … the righteous Yehovah loves righteousness; his
countenance doth behold the upright.
David said:
Pss.18 [1] I
will love you, O Yehovah, my
strength.
Pss.31 [23] O love Yehovah, all
you his saints: for Yehovah preserves the faithful, and plentifully rewards the proud doer.
Pss.33 [1] Rejoice in Yehovah,
O you righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.
[2] Praise Yehovah
with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.
[3] Sing unto him a new song;
play skillfully with a loud noise.
[4] For the word of Yehovah is right; and all his works are done in truth.
[5]
He loves righteousness
and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of Yehovah.
Pss.34 [12] What man is he that
desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?
[13] Keep your tongue from evil, and your
lips from speaking guile.
[14] Depart from evil, and do
good; seek peace, and pursue it.
[15] The eyes of Yehovah are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto
their cry.
[16] The face of Yehovah is against them that do evil, to cut off the
remembrance of them from the earth.
[17] The righteous cry and Yehovah hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.
[18] Yehovah
is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saves such as be of a
contrite spirit.
[19] Many are the afflictions of
the righteous: but Yehovah delivers him out of them
all.
Pss.37 [28] …Yehovah loves judgment, and
forsakes not his saints; they are
preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
Pss.40 [16] Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: let such as love you salvation say
continually, Yehovah be
magnified.
Pss.45 [6] Your throne, O God, is forever and ever: the
scepter of your kingdom is a right scepter. [7] You love
righteousness, and hate
wickedness: therefore God, your God, had anointed you with the oil of gladness
above your fellows.
Pss.47 [1] O clap your hands, all you people; shout unto God with the
voice of triumph.
[2] For Yehovah
most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
[3] He shall subdue the people
under us, and the nations under our feet.
[4] He shall
choose our inheritance for us, the excellence of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
[5] God is gone up with a shout, Yehovah with the sound of a trumpet.
[6] Sing praises to God, sing
praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises.
[7] For God is the King of all
the earth: sing you praises with understanding.
[8] God reigns over the heathen:
God sits upon the throne of his holiness.
[9] The princes of the people
are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields
of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.
[1] Why boast yourself
in mischief, O mighty man? The goodness of God endures continually.
[2] Thy tongue devises mischief; like a sharp razor, working
deceitfully.
[3] You
love evil more than good; and
lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
[4] You
love all devouring words, O you
deceitful tongue.
[5] God shall likewise destroy you
forever, he shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place, and
root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
[6] The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:
[7] Lo,
this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of
his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
[8] … I am like a green olive tree in
the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God forever and ever.
[9] I will praise you forever,
because you hast done it: and I will wait on your name; for it is good before your
saints.
Pss.69 [36] The seed also of his servants shall inherit
it: and they that love his
name shall dwell therein.
Pss.70 [4] Let all those
that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: and let such as love your salvation say
continually, Let God be magnified.
Pss.78 [67] … he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not
the tribe of Ephraim: [68] But chose the tribe of Judah, the
mount Zion which he loved.
Pss.87 [2]
Yehovah loves
the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Pss.91 [13] You shall tread upon the lion
and adder: the young lion and the dragon shall you trample under feet. [14] Because he had set his love upon
me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he had known
my name.
Pss.97 [10] You that love Yehovah, hate evil: he preserves the souls of
his saints; he delivers them
Pss.116 [1] I love Yehovah,
because he had heard my voice and my supplications.
Pss.119
[47] And I
will delight myself in your commandments, which I have loved.
[48] My
hands also will I lift up unto your commandments, which I have loved; and I
will meditate in your statutes.
[97] O how love I your law! it is my meditation all the day.
[113] I
hate vain thoughts: but your
law do I love.
[119] you put away
all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love your testimonies.
[127] Therefore
I love your
commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
[132] Look you upon
me, and be merciful unto me, as you use to do unto
those that love your name.
[140] Your word
is very pure: therefore your servant loveth
it.
[159] Consider how I love your precepts: quicken me, O Yehovah,
according to your lovingkindness.
[163] I
hate and abhor lying: but your law do I love.
[165]
Great peace have they which love your law: and nothing shall offend them.
[167] My soul had kept your testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.
Pss.122
[6] Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall
prosper that love you.
Pss.145
[20] Yehovah preserves
all them that love him:
but all the wicked will he destroy.
Pss.146
Yehovah loses the prisoners:
[8] Yehovah opens the eyes of the blind:
Yehovah raises them that are bowed down:
Yehovah loves the righteous:
[9] Yehovah preserves the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the
wicked he turns upside down.
[10] Yehovah shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise Yah
Prov.3
[12] For whom Yehovah loves he corrects; even as a
father the son in whom he delights.
Prov.4
[5] Get wisdom, get understanding:
forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
[6]
Forsake her not, and she shall preserve you: love her, and
she shall keep you.
Prov.8
[17] I love them
that love me; and
those that seek me early shall find me.
[18] Riches and honor are with me; yea,
durable riches and righteousness.
[19] My fruit is better than
gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
[20] I lead in the way of
righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
[21] That I may cause those that love me to inherit
substance; and I will fill their treasures.
[36] …he that sins
against me (God) wrongs his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Prov.9
[8]
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate you: rebuke
a wise man, and he will love you.
[9] Give instruction to a wise man, and
he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
[10] The fear of Yehovah is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
[11] For by me thy days shall
be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.
Prov.10
[12] Hatred stirs up strife: but love covers all sins.
Prov.12
[1]
Whoso loves instruction loves knowledge: but he that hates reproof is brutish.
Prov.13
[24] He that spares
his rod hates his son: but he that loves him chastens him betimes.
Prov.15
[9]
The way of the wicked is an abomination unto Yehovah:
but he (God) loves
him that follows after righteousness.
Prov.17
[9] He that covers a transgression seeks love; but he that repeats a matter
separates very friends.
[17] A friend loveth
at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
[19] He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalts his gate seeks
destruction.
Prov.18
[21] Death and life are in the power of the tongue:
and they that love it
shall eat the fruit thereof.
Prov.19
[8] He that gets wisdom loves his own soul: he that keeps
understanding shall find good.
Prov.20
[13] Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your
eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
Prov.21
[17] He that loves
pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth
wine and oil shall not be rich.
Prov.22
[11] He that loves
pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.
Prov.2
[5] Open rebuke is
better than secret love.
Prov.29
[3] Whoso loves
wisdom rejoices his father: but
he that keeps company with harlots spends his substance.
Ecc.5
[10] He that loves
silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loves abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Ecc.9 [1] For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all
this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of
God: no man knows either love or hatred
by all that is before them.
[5] For the living knows that they shall die: but
the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory
of them is forgotten.
[6] Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now
perished; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done
under the sun.
[9] Live joyfully
with the wife whom you love
all the days of the life of your vanity,
which he (God) had given you under the sun, all the days of your
vanity: for that is your portion in this
life, and in your labor which you take under the sun.
[8] Owe no man anything, but to love one another: for he
that loves another had fulfilled the law.
[9] For this, you shall not commit
adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not bear false
witness, you shall not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is
briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, you shall love your
neighbor as yourself.
[10] Love works no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
[11] And that,
knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is
our salvation nearer than when we believed.
[12] The night is far spent, the
day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put
on the armor of light.
[13] Let us walk honestly, as in
the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not
in strife and envying.
[14] But put you on
the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, and make not provision
for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.
John.3
[16] … God so loved
the world, that he gave his only begotten
Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting
life. (If your repent and keep His commandments)
John.13
Yeshua / Jesus said:
[34] A new
commandment I give unto you, That you love one
another; as I have loved
you, that you also love one
another.[35] By this shall all
men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one to another.
John.14
Yeshua / Jesus told His disciples:
[15] If you love me,
keep my commandments.
21] He that had my commandments, and keeps them, he it
is that loves me:
and he that loves me shall
be loved of my Father, and
I will love him, and
will manifest myself to him.
[23] Yeshua answered and said unto him, If a man love me,
he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode
with him.
[24] He that loves
me not keepeth not my sayings: and the
word which you hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.
[28] You have heard
how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If you love me, you would rejoice,
because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
[31] But that the
world may know that I love the
Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do.
1Cor.16
Saul / Paul with some strong words:
[22] If any man love not the Lord Yeshua the
Messiah, let him / her be Anathema Maranatha.
Anathema Maranatha: At the Lord’s coming: a person, let
him / her be devoted to God without hope of being redeemed, a person doomed to destruction ,
a man or woman accused of God…
Rom.12
[9]
Let love be without dissimulation.
(Hypocrisy)
Abhor that which is evil; cleave
to that which is good
[10] Be kindly affectionate one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another;
[11] Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the
Lord;
[12] Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing
instant in prayer;
[13] Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to
hospitality.
1Cor.2 [9] But as it is
written,
Eye had not seen, nor ear heard, neither have
entered into the heart of man, the things which God had prepared for them that love him.
1Cor.8 [3] … if
any man love God, the
same is known of him.
Gal.5
[14]
For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; you shall love your neighbor as
thyself.
[22]
But the fruit of the Spirit is love,
joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
[23] Meekness, temperance: against such there is no
law.
[24] And they that are Messiah's have crucified the flesh with
the affections and lusts.
[25] If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
[26] Let
us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Eph.5
[2] … walk in love, as Messiah also had loved
us, and had given himself for us an
offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor.
Eph.6
[24] Grace be with all them that love our
Lord Yeshua the Messiah in sincerity. Amen.
1John.2
[3] And hereby we do know that we know him, if we
keep his commandments.
[4] He
that said, I know him, and keeps not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth
is not in him.
[15] Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not
in him.
1 John 4
[7]
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loves is born of God, and knows God.
[8] He that loves not knows
not God; for God is love.
[9] In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that
God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
[10]
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and
sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
[11]
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
[12]
No man had seen God at any time.
If we love one another, God
dwells in us, and his love is perfected in us.
[13] Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he had
given us of his Spirit.
[14] And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son
to be the Savior of the world.
[15] Whosoever shall confess that Yeshua
is the Son of God, God dwells in him, and he in God.
[16] And we have known and
believed the love that God had to us. God is love; and he that dwells in love
dwells in God and God in him.
[17] Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in
the Day of Judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
[18] There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear: because fear had torment.
He that fears is not made perfect in love.
[19]
We love him, because he first loved us.
[20]
If a man says I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves not his
brother whom he had seen, how can he love God whom he had not seen?
[21]
And this commandment
have we from him, that he who loves God love
his brother also.
1 John 5
[3]
For this is the love of
God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
2 John 1 [6] And this is love, that we
walk after his commandments. This is
the commandment, That, as you have heard from the
beginning, you should walk in it.
A few verses on being Perfect, too many great verses J
Gen.17
[1] And when Abram was ninety years old
and nine, Yehovah appeared to Abram, and said unto
him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be you perfect.
Job.1
[1] There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
2Cor.13
[11]
Finally, brothers and sisters, farewell.
Be perfect, J
be of
good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the
God of love and peace
shall be with you.
[14]
The grace of the Lord Yeshua the
Messiah, and the love of God, and the communion of the
Holy Ghost, be with you all.
Amen.
In closing for today,
Remember:
Beware of the spirit of error
Beware of the "false image" of love.
Beware of "false feelings and emotions".
These pagan made up feasts, bring on loneliness, depression, suicide and oh yes, great debt.
Be safe out there; keep your eyes open if you are
around crowds, malls etc…
As John said:
I have not written unto you because you know not the truth, but
because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
Shabbat Shalom