#18 - Torah Parashah Mishpatim (Laws of how to treat your fellow man)

[Music] you [Music] this morning's Torah portion is called mishpokhe team and Mishra team means judgments so there's different kinds of laws in the Torah and I will share with you the difference of a mission button which is like a moral judgment in how to live with your fellow man versus a hope which is something that God asks you to do that's not necessarily logical but will bring blessings into the life or an a vote which is a type of law that is a witness to God and to others so you can find it in your Bibles in Exodus chapter 21 and we'll be covering four chapters this morning through chapter 24 verse 18 and in this parish ah we're going to see in the first chapter the laws of servants and penalties for crimes against others and the compensation that comes when you do something that is a hurting your fellow man in 22 we go into the laws of restitution and in 23 the laws of being truthful and the laws of the lands rest and the lands of the laws of the holy days and then we see a hidden prophecy of mashiac and God's plan to deal with their enemies in chapter 24 we see an account of Moshe a going up on the Mount after six days and receiving God's Torah and instructions and in chapter 24 verse 12 it's amazing it lists three things he says come up to the mountain where I will give you the tablets of stone along with my Torah the commandments so he lists them as three separate things in our parties we're going to see some interesting correlations where the plain meaning is Moshe is presenting 53 specific Mishpatim these are these type of laws and how to deal with your fellow man and if you have any areas of conflict how to deal with them so we're going to look this morning in these 53 mission per team and break them down in understanding laws of accountability to one another laws of compensation and laws of restitution and of course in the Ramez just beyond the literal we see glimpses of God's character as the ultimate lawgiver and the righteous judge he knows how to rightly judge between two people with their issues and how to share with people how to be more selfless with one another even if somebody does something wrong to you where he dealt with Israel coming out of Egypt he might have said this person needs to pay you certain amount and you can expect that this is going to be paid but as he develops you spiritually you see Yeshua saying love your enemies bless those who curse you pray for those who despitefully use you don't expect anything from anyone and don't return evil for evil so we take this understanding of righteous judgments even further in our spiritual walk through Yeshua we see that Yeshua is the one who teaches us how to treat our fellow man as the Torah made flesh and the application for us today is whoever loves his fellow human being has fulfilled the Torah that's in Romans 13 verse 8 so we are all about not just having a memorization of the Torah but writing it on our hearts so that it can be naturally lived out and you can understand that whenever you serve your fellow man you're serving God and whenever you forgive your fellow man from a wrong done to you it opens up your spirit to understanding and receiving God's forgiveness more for you and this brings healing and health in the life we're gonna see some symbolism in the 22nd chapter where it deals with the six years of slavery and then you set your slave free in the seventh year and liken it to six thousand years of slavery to sin that we've been going through since Adam and Eve but we are set free in the seventh millennium in the year seven thousand when Messiah comes this is when we begin to be set free by him teaching us Torah and writing it on our hearts there's some interesting correlations also in that Moshe is presenting 53 mission a team in this parsha and if you look at the word yeshua who is the living example the living embodiment of what love looks like in action to your fellow man to the extent that even laid down his life we see that if you spell out Yeshua's name the letters in the Hebrew alphabet in the order in which they come this is a different type of gum a tree aware normally each letter is given a certain numerical value but if you just counted from the olive as number one the baton number two and so on all the way through the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet and you see the the yo'd is the tenth letter machine is the twenty-second letter the valve is the sixth letter and the ioan is the 16th letter it would add up to 53 which tells us there's a correlation between the laws of how to love our fellow man and Yeshua who came to be the living embodiment of that greatest reflection of God's love also what's interesting when you look at Torah the Tov is the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet the valve is the 6th the race is the 20th letter and the hay is the 5th you also get 53 so what an amazing correlation that we see in the laws of love and how to love our fellow man we see the living embodiment of Torah in Yeshua living out and exemplifying what this looks like and he took the Torah even further when he was with his disciples and he was walking this earth and he says you have heard it said you shall not murder but I say to you if anyone even is angry with his brother in his heart he's committed murder he took this spiritual principle outside of the application of physically doing something wrong to even thinking wrong he says you've heard it said you shall not commit adultery but I say to you anyone who lust in his heart over a woman has already committed adultery so he's bringing it to a heart and mind connection rather than just a physical reading the letter of the law and until somebody does something wrong acting out on it so I thought that was a beautiful correlation as well as the word mish cut team if you go to the regular form of Khmer tria you would see the mem equals 40 the sheen equals 300 the pay equals 50 the Tov equals 9 the Yoda is Tim and the mem of course is 40 again you would have in this word the name of our Harshaw a gamete ria of 479 and what's interesting about this number is it just happens to be the number of years that the Mishkan stood the Mishkan is the tabernacle that God gave the design to mo che in the wilderness and that he would take up and down whenever they would move and for 39 years in the wilderness because he had them build it he gave the instructions in the first year and they completed it one year later so they basically used this 39 years in the wilderness then when they entered the land Joshua set up the altar on Mount Ebal and there the Mishkan stood for 27 years and then it was moved to Shiloh where it stood with you know Eli the priest and Samuel this is where they officiated 369 years the children of Israel would come to Shiloh and gather around which is also in show Mehran so this is further north Mount Ebal if you look at our map the Israelites we're coming up this area east of the Dead Sea and crossed over the Dead Sea here then they had the Battle of Jericho which is right here and then they went up here to mount a ball and where Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal are and that's where the tabernacle stood then they came a little bit south in 369 years it spent in Shiloh then it was moved down here to head Ron and David reigned in Hebron as king after Saul seven years and the tabernacle stood there then when he moved the temple or the tabernacle to Jerusalem he reigned for another thirty three years and it was in the fourth year of Solomon his son that the temple was built the the permanent Solomon's Temple and so you can see this migration of the tabernacle coming from Egypt here where Sinai is down here and traveling all 39 years up here and then coming back down to the time where the permanent temple was built and an interesting correlation with mishpat team because what is the temple all about it's about God's Shekinah the spirit indwelling with man but man wasn't ready for the Shekinah to fully dwell he says build me a tabernacle that I might dwell in them but they weren't ready to be dwelt in and so he had this tabernacle which was a type of our body and of the heavenly tabernacle that was to be a place where these laws of love would be taught from and so there's a correlation between these laws of love to our fellow man and how we love God and how God can dwell in us with the 479 years that this Tabernacle stood so interesting little correlations that we find even in the Gamay tria if you have your Bibles with you turn with me to Exodus chapter 21 and we will see these initial laws dealing with accountability in the first 17 verses we're going to see that in this chapter it goes from accountability to then dealing with compensation and verse 18 and all the way till the end of the chapter and in chapter 20 - it begins to deal with restitution so we're going to look at taking these literal written laws like we said Yeshua did and then move it to a deeper spiritual understanding of the application in our life by looking at some New Testament texts in correlation with these these are the ruins the mishpokhe team you are to present to them God said if you purchase a Hebrew slave he is to work six years but in the seventh he is to be given his freedom so right off the bat he's dealing with the Israelites as slaves that he's redeemed from Egypt and one of the very first things he teaches them you might have been treated harshly as a slave and if you ever take slaves or if anybody ever does indentured servitude for you to be able to earn money for food or to help their families don't treat them like you were treated in Egypt this is one of the reasons why he dealt with the laws of slavery right off the bat and in Israel slavery was much different than it was in Egypt this is where you wouldn't take somebody by force but somebody would come to you and say can I work for you for six years can I be your servant and this would be a way that they could take care of their family and you would treat them like family you would give them the best of everything so he deals right away with how to even treat somebody that you're tempted to look down upon as a servant to raise their status up and do show that they're not only equal with you but they are also free they're not to be a permanent slave and you see this principle of six years and then the seventh you're set free just like the six days of creation and then the seventh day is Shabbat us observing the weekly Shabbat is a sign of our freedom in the Lord and the covenant that we are in between him and the six symbolic millennial days like Peter says a day is like a thousand years to the Lord you could draw a correlation between six millennial days of slavery but the seventh one which we look forward to where Messiah will set up his kingdom is when we will be set free and at the end of that is when sin and death are destroyed he says that the seventh needs to be given his freedom without having to pay anything if he came single he is to leave single if he was married when he came his wife is to go with him when he leaves but if his master gave him a wife and she bore him sons her daughters then the wife and her children will belong to the master and he will have to leave by himself but there were also laws that the servant didn't have to leave if he wanted to stay he could stay like a member of the family and there were certain symbol of piercing the ear that would symbolize that you're now a permanent part of the family and kind of a permanent worker in the household nevertheless if the slave declares I love my master my wife and my children so I don't want to go free then his master is to bring him before God and there at the door of the doorpost his master is to pierce his ear with an awl and the man will be his servant for life if a man sells his daughter as a slave she is not to go free like the men slaves if from master married her but decided that she's no longer pleasing him then he is to allow her to be redeemed he is not allowed to sell her to a foreign people because he has treated her unfairly so all of these laws of accountability are about treating each other fairly no matter who you are if he has her marry his son then he has to treat her like a daughter if he marries another wife he's not to reduce her food clothing or marital rights if he fails to provide her with these three things she has to be given her freedom without having to pay anything whoever attacks a person or causes his death must be put to death if it was not premeditated but an act of God then I will designate for you a place that you can flee these were called cities of refuge but if someone willfully kills another after deliberate planning you are to take him even from my altar and put him to death the cities of refuge were cities there were six of them around the land in different places and they were places where the priests lived so basically this this person who had accidentally killed somebody the family might be very angry and want to kill them but it wasn't really his fault so there was a place of safety he would have to attach himself to the high priest in essence kind of like we attach ourselves to the high priest who's paid the penalty for our errors and he had to stay there until the high priest died interestingly enough there's a lot of symbolism in this with Yeshua but if someone willfully kills another then that person must pay the penalty now it goes into whoever attacks his father or mother must be put to death this is likened to the commandment in Deuteronomy you shall not strike your parent this is God's way of teaching you know you're dealing with your fellow man on one capacity your servants with another capacity but you must show your parents the utmost respect now out of these 53 laws these 53 laws of accountability and restitution and how to show love to your fellow man 23 of these that we're reading are positive they're called imperative myths vote that's where he says you should do this like love your neighbor as yourself that's an imperative commandment it's affirmative there's times where he has to tell people what not to do also and those are called negative Commandments not that they're negative but they're they're the do nots you shall not do things and there's 30 of those in this parish aw whoever kidnaps somebody must be put to death regardless of whether he has already sold him or the person is found in still in his possession whoever curses his father or mother must be put to death so first you see attacking your father and mother then you see even speaking evil about your father and mother so it's taking it from the act to a little bit further spiritual principle to even speaking it and then we want to move people to even thinking a negative thought now if we look at the laws of accountability well in Joshua 82 he talks about what God gave here at Sinai he says mostly remained without an eye 40 days and 40 nights now Dan I instructed him in Commandments and judgments to impart is to Israel and this is what we've been reading these laws of accountability and Moshe came to the children of Israel and spoke to them all the words about a night and he taught them the Torah the myths vote and the mission-team three things are listed here in Joshua as well as what we're gonna see in Exodus 24 which ad and I had taught him so he's teaching what had and I had taught him and that's what each of us are called to do teach others what we are taught but not to just speak it it's more important that we live it first and then to teach others when they are ready for it here's a little overview of these different kinds of Commandments in the Torah there's three 613 of them of which some are who keen some are adult and some are Misha team and we're looking at just a mission team today who kiemce are not obvious or rational laws there what you also see translated in the English is statutes they're things like sacrificed a red heifer and then burn it on the altar and then take the ashes and mix it with water and then purify all of the temple furniture and and bowls with this purification and they might say why what does that have to do with anything being purified so they're not obvious or rational or kashrut these are the laws of cleanliness of like clean foods or what we would say being kosher and before science was able to show what a germ looked like or to show what cross-contamination does you just had to observe these by faith or speaking to a rock what about speaking to a rock is gonna bring out water and what does it symbolize these are not rational things but they have great meaning in the spiritual realm or even looking at a serpent and being healed these are different kinds of hoaxes and a note is a symbol symbolically foreshadowing law much like each of the holy days symbolically foreshadowed different aspects of Yeshua's ministry both his first coming and his second coming in the spring and the fall feast they're called also a witness just like the Ten Commandments are a witness of the greater 613 laws and if you looked at the 613 laws in Torah I'll just do it down here God is basically making a witness to these summing up all his laws of love all the hopes and all the mish pots and all the a votes in his Ten Commandments right and so you can sum up all of the Torah in these laws of love and if you break down the Ten Commandments you see the first five our laws of how to love God with all your heart mind and soul and the last five or how to love your fellow man but really like I just said loving God and loving your fellow man it's two laws that you could sum up all of the 613 but if you take it down even further it all boils down to one law and that law is the law of God's character it's the law of all energy in the universe that is the law of selfless love that me8 sout from him is light and it actually gives birth to new life so the very aspect of eternal life is returning to this one law of eternal love unfortunately because man is so hardened and the Israel had really been influenced by Egypt after 210 years in slavery he has to give break down different aspects if you see this do this if you don't see this do this and these 613 are just all different aspects of what Israel was dealing with at the time but it doesn't mean that these are the only laws in the universe actually you could take these 613 and see thousands more principles of selfless love in the universe and how to apply these eternal principles to our life there's loss of health there's laws of loving your fellow man there's laws of forgiveness there's laws of purity there's laws for the priest there's laws for women there's laws for being in the land and the agriculture ultimately we want to get into the place where that law selfless love is so written upon our heart that we don't ever have to refer to the written Torah this is the goal of the Millennial Kingdom thousand years of having the living Torah teaching Torah writing it upon our hearts and fulfillment of Jeremiah 31 the New Covenant where he says I will write my Torah upon your heart I'll give you a new heart and a new mind and so then you're living out all these other laws naturally so you see these Ten Commandments as being a witness of the greater law but also reflecting that one law that of selfless love Zizi also is a witness it's a type of a dote but today we're looking at Misha team which is judgments when man had a dispute with another man they would come and present themselves to Moshe and Moshe had to rightly divide the word that's what it means to be a true judge and he would share with them what the application of selfless love was in that case how could it be dealt with with God's law and so he would show them from God's law these laws are moral they're obvious they're logical the rationale there are often laws of relationship there are laws of charity they're things like don't steal don't kill anything that deals with your fellow man the hoaxes require faith they though it's reveal our faithfulness as we are a witness to others but the mission put team they don't require faith because you can see the immediate application okay I'm doing this because it's the right thing to do to my fellow man so we're gonna look at we just looked at 17 verses dealing with accountability whether you're dealing with a slave or whether you're dealing with your parents and the next verses we're going to go into compensation and restitution we're gonna see this theme being repeated throughout the whole Torah portion what is accountability its responsibility to our fellow man being able to live with him and to exemplify God's love to him and to deal fairly with him its trustworthiness its honest miss its virtuousness its stability reliability ethical laws and so when we're thinking of these things that we just dealt with think of how they were all dealing with being accountable to our fellow man whether he's a servant or whether he's your parent compensation is the act or process of pain someone back for something that either you owe them like a worker or something that you've taken from them that you owe or something they've limped to you and you need to pay back it's a type of recompense whereas restitution is the act of restoring to the rightful owner something that has been taken away lost or surrendered the act of making good or compensating for loss damage or injury or in dim enough replication so we're gonna look at this theme of accountability compensation and restitution these 17 verses that we just looked at if we take those principles further he's dealing with Israel that has just come out of slavery and Egypt probably had issues of less than honored to their parents and so he's meeting them where they're at but in the New Testament we see in Luke 17 Yeshua takes us even further he says watch yourselves be on guard basically of everything that you think everything you're tempted to say because when somebody does something wrong to you you're tempted to be what reactionary right but selfless love is proactive it doesn't take account of any wrongs it doesn't take anything personal it just loves for the sake of love a lon it expects nothing in return so he's warning us in love watch yourself if your brother or sister sins against you rebuke them it's okay to tell them where they've gone wrong and if they repent what are we called to do forgive them now I would take it even further even if they don't repent what are we to do forgive them because see you she was even meeting them where they're at at that time but ultimately the more we understand about God's character of celsus love we take it even further to the nth degree and we basically say God is the judge and he's also the one that says vengeance is mine says the Lord right when he says that it's not because he's going to pay back arbitrarily in punishment but their principle of his selfless love has a law itself and that is the law of cause and effect if somebody's gonna do something harmful to somebody else guess what it's gonna come back in some way or another whether the negativity causes a health issue or whether they remove themselves from the loss of God's blessing and protection and then the enemy has access to them in various ways we don't have to recompense evil for evil we can release and from our side forgive and be free of all bitterness and in that we can be eternal children of light and there's great healing in letting go and forgiving and those who hold on to bitterness and and remember the wrong accounts done against them that gets sick because all stress and all bitterness manifests itself as different forms of disease in the life so he's giving a basic principle here that's a little bit further than the Torah but we're gonna take it even further in Galatians 6:1 through five Paul says brothers and sisters if someone is caught in a sin you who live by the spirit should restore that person gently that's the Spirit of God but watch yourselves or you may be tempted what are you gonna be tempted about judgment right to not restore them gently to say good riddance right and we have to be so careful to try to seek to restore all people gently carry each other's burdens when we don't care what somebody else is going through or what their perspective is we're not carrying their burdens we need to carry their burdens and in this way we will fulfill the law of Christ now is the law of Christ anything different than the law of Torah no it's only that he's revealed it on a higher spiritual level so this is what it means that the law of Christ this is what I was referred to earlier when he says you have heard it said he's referring to the written Torah but I say to you he's taking it a little bit further it's nothing new it's the eternal principle from the beginning it's just God had to meet Israel where they were at if anyone thinks did you have a question yes like a crutch or your enable right so on an individual level we forgive but from a governmental level like in the kingdom of God there is cause and effect and there is certain punishments to teach a person the harmful effects of their wrong actions whether on themselves or to others and so we see two different things on an individual level we have to make sure to not put ourselves in the place of God's government or to be the judge and so we can forgive and let go but the state they might prosecute somebody for their wrongdoing and that's just and God's eternal principles and his energy is such that if you live out of harmony with it you're removing yourself from the very source of health and blessings and protection and you're going to reap what you sow and so there's a type of judgment that comes even though it's not God arbitrarily doing it it's just inherent in the laws of the universe yes yeah yeah and there's laws of wisdom as well so you can be totally free of any bitterness against somebody but you can choose not to associate with them and God even exemplified this with Israel he says don't give your daughters to the Canaanites right I don't want you to intermingle with these pagans and be influenced by them if you come into you the land and you see a high place destroy it so these things are beautiful laws of being a light to the nation's we have to have a separation between that which is holy and that which is yes and that's where balance and wisdom we don't have to associate with an evildoer but are we called to love them yes do we love their evil no but we love the evildoer and this is the way we begin to walk in the spirit so each one should test their own actions so now the focus is instead of me looking at somebody else and judging them and thinking what they did against me where's my focus I'm seen through God's eyes I'm not taking my eyes off of God because that's a trap also if you look at your own short fallings you can have guilt and self condemnation and then you only become like that which you are more through that guilt and self condemnation but when you look through God's eyes you see yourself the way God sees you and you test your own actions and you say oh oh I'm starting to operate in the realm of selfishness or self seeking and then you come back to letting go of the flesh and giving yourself over to be a vessel for God's service and to live that selfless love so this is what it means to test your own actions the testing begins here in the mind long before you hear yourself say something wrong or you see yourself do something wrong you're checking yourself in your mind saying oh is even my intention I'm saying this to this person but is there any form of manipulation that self is there any form of coercion that's self is there any form of violence or force trying to force somebody to do something for my agenda or something I can gain by manipulating my words a certain way even before it comes out you think of your intentions and this is what it means to test your own actions then they can take pride in themselves alone without comparing themselves to someone else for each one should carry their own load so let's look at some laws of compensation and then we will take it a little bit further just like we did with accountability the next verses 18 to 37 to the end of the chapter it's talking about compensation in the Hebrew what was amazing to me this year as I was reading in the Hebrew who got revealed to me something new that I didn't see last year and that's that this word compensation that's it's translated in the English is not really the same way that we think of compensation in the Hebrew see if if I think of compensation in the English I think of something you owe me right I did this so you owe me this but God says to give as a gift in the Hebrew this word isn't that taun so let's look at that and I'll point out at these different places where this Hebrew word in a ton is used this is where we get the name Nathan means gift of God or Neph m/l Nathaniel if two people fight and one hits the other with a stone or with his fist and the injured party does not die but is confined to his bed then if he recovers enough to be able to walk around outside even if with a cane the attacker will be free of liability except now this word compensation here to compensate them for the loss of time is to give them a gift now the difference between your compensating somebody because you've you've been forced to by the state or a or by the government or by the police or by the judge there's a difference if do I do it because I'd begrudgingly been forced to do it or do I do it from my heart because I feel so bad about what has happened I give it naturally as a gift see the big difference there one you're forced to do something it's not really a heartfelt action in the Hebrew this has a heartfelt action of give something compensate him from the heart as a gift for his loss of time when you do it that way you don't have to wait for somebody to impose this upon you by force you know that okay he took you to court and now you're forced to compensate him you are making things right to the best of your ability and taking responsibility for his care until his recovery is complete this is the way God's kingdom works verse 20 if a person beats his male or female slave with a stick so severely that he dies he is to be punished except that if the slave lives for a day or two he is not to be punished since the slave is his property remember Moses is dealing with Israel where they're at and the way that they saw Egypt deal with their slaves this doesn't mean that we deal you know that we take slaves and that we beat them or that is justifying beating them if people are fighting with each other and happened to hurt a pregnant woman in the process so badly that our unborn child dies then even if no harm follows he must be fined he must not on give the amount set by the woman's husband and confirmed by the judges so he's got to give it willingly even though they're gonna determine the amount but if any harm follows then you are to 'not on give life for life eye for eye tooth for tooth hand for hey so this doesn't mean that other people are gonna come and take it from you this means that you should be willing to give of yourself even to the point of your own life now this is a reflection of Joshua burn for burn wound for wound bruised for bruise remember Isaiah 53 it says he was bruised for our iniquities he was beaten for our transgressions and he gave this as an autonomous it translated as a free gift this salvation if a person hits his male or female slaves eyes and destroys it he must let him go free in compensation for his eye if he knocks out his male or female slaves tooth he must let him go free as a gift for the tooth or for the tooth sake would be a better translation here it's as if everything has value even everything in the temple of God which is our body when it's saying that you must let him go free for it's not for his sake the person's sake but it's actually for the tooth sake or for the eyes sake this is how you would read it in the Hebrew if an ox gore's a man or a woman to death the Ox is to be stoned and its flesh not eaten so this would be likened to or if the owner of the ox is negligent and he's used to going people and he lets him continue to Gore people it's like a drunk driver continuing to bring harm to life however a ransom may be imposed on him and the death penalty will be commuted if he gives in a time the amount imposed if the Ox Gore's a son or a daughter the same rule applies if the gore if the Ox scores a male or female slave its owner must 'not on once again give willingly their master twelve ounces of silver and the Ox is to be stoned to death if a person removes the cover from a well or digs one and fails to cover it now this are also laws of negligence and this is where we really need to be accountable proactively thinking about if not just the body but every aspect of the body is so important to God and have such value how can we live in such a way to always make sure to the best of our ability to protect that ain't no harm should come to anyone this is where seatbelt laws come in or where we put up a fence around a construction site so that nobody gets hurt or falls off a parapet since the owner of the well if he didn't cover the well must make good the loss by compensating the animals owner but the dead animal will be his if one person's ox hurts another so that it dies they are to sell the ox live there to sell the live ox and divide the revenue from the sale and there also to divide the dead animal but if it is knowing that the Ox was in the habit of goring in the past and the owner did not confine it he must pay ox Forks but the dead animal will be his if someone steals an ox or sheep and slaughters her cells that he is to pay five oxen for an ox for sheep for a sheep so here we see there are just laws of recompense if something should happen and there's supposed to only happen accidentally but there's still a just compensation now in the New Testament we see in Hebrews 10:38 vengeance is mine I will repay and again the Lord will judge his people why is this because if we take matters into our own hands and we go and say okay I'm gonna get that person if he's because he's done this to me then you're not allowing the natural cause and effect and you're breaking one of the laws of love the way God works he's not gonna arbitrarily bring vengeance but he's going to allow them to experience the negative consequences of their actions proverbs 20 verse 22 says don't say I will get even for this wrong wait for the Lord to handle the matter so there's a confirmation that we're on the right track with our thinking when you look at the whole of the scriptures where is it taking these poor principles even further Solomon was considered to be the wisest man who ever lived prophet Jeremiah and Jeremiah 1710 says I the LORD search the heart and test the mind to give every man according to his ways according to the fruit of their deeds so this confirms that that which a man shows that will he also read it's not God arbitrarily punishing anyone he in the same way with sin in the end we are alive because of the gift of God through Yeshua remember the wages of sin is what Romans 6:23 it's the death and it's not just the first death it's eternal death so what's amazing is and when sin is finally destroyed and those who hold on to the sin which is self seeking in the life God doesn't even have to punish in the final judgment all he has to do is give them over to the lust of their heart which means give them what they have chosen after so long of him seeking out to reach out to them and him even giving His only begotten Son on their behalf they didn't accept that gift they didn't adopt his laws of love and so what happens sin which is self seeking is self-destructive all he has to do is release them and you can't live in sin so it's a miracle that any one of us are alive it testifies to the gift of God even hasatan if you think about it or the Fallen Angels there's a time reserved for their judgment but when is that judgment when God finally releases them to like a one verse 2426 says God's wrath is giving us over to the lust of our heart when he does that then we experience the natural cause and effect of that sin which separates us from the source of life and it's like pulling a plug on a light bulb you know or on a lamp if you sever yourself from the source of life through sin and that's what isaiah 59:2 says sin has made a separation between you and your God then there is no life inheritance and it's only because of the lamb slain from the foundation of the world that we are allowed this time to live to learn how to return to that principle of selfless love and that's the real miracle Romans 12 verse 17 says do not repay anyone evil for evil this is the higher spiritual principle be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone as much as possible there's another place that says be at peace with all men as much as possible be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone so we don't even want to be a stumbling block if it is possible as far as it depends on you live at peace with everyone do not take revenge my dear friends but leave room for God's wrath for it is written it's mine to avenge I will repay says the Lord now many people not understanding his character could twist the scripture right they could misunderstand and think that oh he's a vengeful God that he's just waiting to take the vengeance for himself and that would be totally attributing evil to that which is good we know when God is saying that he's saying don't you worry about it he's relieving us of the responsibility to take vengeance and he's way is to let the natural cause-and-effect happen naturally on the contrary if your enemy is hungry now he's taking the spiritual principle even further what do we do he's our enemy he wants to kill us but he got her so like the Good Samaritan we've bundled him up and we care for him he's hungry we find him years later and because of his wrong practices he's brought a curse into his life and he's hungry now we could walk by and see him begging and we some remember years ago he stole so much from us or he hurt us right and we could laugh and point the finger and say you got what you deserve right and that's human nature or what is God's nature to get down on your knees and defeat him even though he is your enemy and he's done wrong if he's thirsty give him something to drink and everything we think say and do we're just exemplifying God's character of selfless love this is our calling this is what it means to be an overcomer to overcome that selfish nature which stems from the ego which stems from the false identity of thinking that this body is something that we need to protect is the Spirit of God that we need to protect and that is protected by living out acts of kindness and selfless love he says in doing this you will heap burning coals on his head and then Paul finishes up by saying do not become oh do not be overcome by evil but let us overcome evil with good yes the before areas somebody that did not have a basket on their head but they're in it and they but it falls in there and they would go from house to house and sell the holes to people to start a fire with when it got cold so when you eat coals on their head you're actually blessing them so you go to where they wouldn't have extra warmth now I loved it I wanted to bring that out and I could not remember the exact story of that so I'm glad that you brought that out because that's it's beautiful that's the right principle what's up okay so now in chapter 22 let's look at some of these laws of restitution if a thief is caught in the act of breaking in and he's beaten to death it is not murder unless it happens after sunrise so what is this saying in the dark of the night somebody jumps into you through your window and you're swinging to protect your family and to protect yourself and you have a right to preserve your own life life Trump's all and Torah so you're supposed to protect your family's life but you don't see what you're doing you don't see him you don't see where you're hitting him naturally so what this means is it's a type of accident yes you're supposed to try to restrain somebody but you're not supposed to intentionally kill them so if it's dark you're excused if it's past sunrise it's assumed that you can see because there's light coming in the window and then you shouldn't hit them in the places that would kill them so this is the way that this is hinting at this a thief must make restitution if he has nothing he himself is to be sold to make good the loss from the theft if he stole what is found alive in his possession he's to pay double okay so here we see a principle of paying 200% if you will twice as much we're gonna look at different cases in Torah and also a case in the New Testament where in some cases you pay double some cases you add a fifth which is 20% and we're gonna look at the case of Zacchaeus which actually gave four times what's the difference where we have to discern if a person causes a field or vineyard to be grazed over or let's his animal is in someone else's field he is to make restitution from the best produce of his own field and vineyard if a fire is started and it spreads to thorns so that the stacked grain and the standing grain or a field is destroyed because of somebody's negligence the person who lit it must make restitution if a person in trust a neighbor with money or goods so I'm going on a trip here I want you to take care of this for me in your house meanwhile while I'm gone somebody's broken into your house or I come back and you say somebody's broken into your house and sorry don't know where it's all that well even if they're stolen this is to prevent people from saying I'm sorry it was stolen it says that if the thief is found he must pay double but if the thief is not found then the trustee must state before God that he did not take the person's goods for himself so they would basically go and present themselves before the temple and make an oath now in this case we'll see later I'll show you in Leviticus that in cases of making an oath when something can't be proven when you were at the temple and you were making an offering to God and God convicts your heart later and you've lied to your fellow man about something being stolen from your house or from him in that case where you voluntarily go and you make restitution where you're not forced to you only have to pay 20% more which is a fifth in cases where you're caught red-handed you have to restore double and that's the difference between the fifth and the the two times and that's why it says but if the thief is not found then the trustee must state before God that he did not take the person's goods himself he makes an oath in every case of dispute over ownership whether an ox a donkey a sheep clothing or any missing property where one person says this is mine both parties are to come before God and the one whom God condemns must pay the other one double so if God reveals that this person is wrong he has taken this then the person is caught essentially by God red-handed and he has to pay double if a person trusts a neighbor to look after a donkey ox or sheep or any animal and it dies or his injured and is driven away unseen then the neighbor's oath before Adonai that has nothing that he has not taken the goods will settle the matter between them the owner is to accept it without the neighbor making restitution but if it was stolen from the neighbor he must make restitution for the owner if it was torn to pieces by an animal the neighbour must bring it as evidence and then he does not need to make good the lost if someone borrows something from his neighbor and it gets injured or dies with the owner not present he must make restitution if the owner was present he need not make good the loss if the owner hired it out the loss is covered by the hiring fee if a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged to be married and sleeps with her he must pay the bride price for her to be his wife if her father refuses to give her to him he must pay a sum equivalent to the bride price for virgins so in all of these cases it's about making something right if you damage somebody's property you restore it back to its perfect condition if you borrow a tool you want to bring it back the same or better condition then you took it in and so all of these things we can apply to our own day even though these are just dealing with what they were dealing with in their time we see in Leviticus 6 the issue of this oath that this man had to take before God and then he was set free from making restitution if he took a false oath and later he's convicted and he comes back voluntarily and he makes restitution he's supposed to add 20% or 1/5 it says the Lord said to Moses if anyone sins and is unfaithful to the Lord see this keyword here why is he unfaithful to the Lord if he stole something from his neighbor because he took an oath using the Lord's name I didn't do it and then later he's going to own up to it by deceiving the neighbor about something entrusted to them or left in their care or about something stolen see it's talking exactly about what we're learning in Exodus or if they cheat their neighbor or if they find lost property and lie about it or if they swear falsely about any such sin that they may commit so the whole issue is their unfaithful to the Lord because they swore falsely I didn't do that and the guy says ok I forgive you then years later what happens when they send in any of these ways and they realize their guilt they're convicted they must return what they have stolen or taken by extortion or what was no tax collectors would be considered extortion right and that's what we're gonna see in the case of Zacky or what was entrusted to them or the lost property they found or whatever it was they swore falsely about this the key issue here then they must make restitution in full adding a fifth of the value to it and give it to the owner on the day they present their guilt offering so you can't come and present a guilt offering to the Lord you can't be right with God until you make things right with your fellow man and this is what's not often explained people don't often correlate what we're learning in Exodus with what Leviticus is talking about what's the difference between paying double that's when you you should go to steal something and you're caught immediately you need to pay double for what you've sold but if you take an oath before the Lord and there's no proof they it's like you're presumed innocent until proven guilty and then later you're convicted and after swearing an oath you come to make restitution this is when you would add a fifth or 20% to whatever you took so you steal a thousand dollars what's 20% two hundred dollars you would need to add to that so this is for a thief caught in the act or revealed by God you would pay two times two hundred percent if you have sworn an oath falsely about something taken but convicted once convicted of you're wrong you voluntarily make restitution you add 20 percent to what was taken now what's amazing is Zacchaeus was a Jew he knew Torah but he's collecting taxes which is a type of extortion for the Romans right and he's living down in Jericho which is not such a good place to live and you shew us coming up from the Jordan Valley on his way to Jerusalem and passes through Jericho and Zacchaeus heart is print he wants to see the Saviour and he stood up after coming to Yeshua and he says look sir here now I'm so convicted I give half of my possessions to the poor now you sure did not say hey you've been stealing he didn't expose him so he didn't have to pay the double but he is paying double the double he's paying as if he was caught red-handed but doing twice as much as what the Torah asked him to do he says here I will give half of my possessions to the poor so here he's a mass great wealth everything that he has immediately he's going to start helping the poor with it and in addition to that if I've cheated anybody out of anything I will pay back four times the amount Yeshua said to him today salvation has come to this house because this man too is a son of Abraham for the Son of man came to seek and save the Lost which is beautiful when we really are convicted we start living in the most unselfish way this wasn't profitable for Zacchaeus to give half of his net worth or to pay four times the amount of what he had extorted from anyone I'm sure there was a big long line that people that came said hey last week you took taxes from me how much did you add to the head but beautiful so before we get into the haftorah we're gonna go through the rest of the tour portion thinking now wants you to think in your own mind I won't bring it out so specifically as I did in the beginning here but there's this cycle of laws dealing with accountability laws of dealing with compensation and laws dealing with restitution and I want you to think in your mind as we read each one what which one is this the all of these are mission by team but is it dealing with accountability how we treat our fellow man or is it dealing with having done something wrong and making compensation and restitution now the the subject kind of changes from restitution in verse 18 you see this accountability coming back up now the theme is starting over again and where are we accountable now instead of it being focused on your fellow man it's about your accountability to God you are not to permit a sorcerer's 2.2 live so this is an idol worshiper a necromancer a soothsayer a palm reader fortune teller all of these people who basically channel channeler demonic spirits these are called sorcerers whoever has sexual relations with an animal must be put to death see our bodies are the temple of God this is an abomination to the Lord anyone who sacrifices to any God other than Adonai alone is to be completely destroyed you must neither wrong nor oppress a foreigner living among you for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt you are not to abuse any widow or an orphan be accountable if you do abuse them in any way and they cry out to me I will certainly heed their cry and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword and your own wives will be widows and your own children fatherless so see that what you sow you shall also reap is what he's trying to teach them if you are unjust to the widow and the orphan he will make your own family experience what it's like to be widows and orphans if you loan money to one of my people who is poor you are not to deal with him as you would a creditor and you're not to charge him interest if you take your neighbor's coat as collateral you're to restore it to him by sundown be accountable to showing the love to your fellow man even if he owes you something because it's his only garment he needs it to wrap his body in in the night you know they would use their long garment like a blanket what else does he have to sleep with moreover if he cries out to me I will listen because I am compassionate and this is what God's ultimately trying to teach us is how to be compassionate thoughtful with one another you are not to curse God and you're not to curse a leader of your people you have a thought yeah you are not to delay offering from your harvest of grain olive oil or wine why not what does a delay mean you've reaped a big harvest now you're gonna go act selfishly create a big feast for yourself get drunk and when you don't attribute that all things come from the Lord by presenting your grain offering first it helps you live in a different way you know the way of gratitude a way of thoughtfulness to God so this is why we're not to delay even to give our offerings if this applies to a harvest of grain which was their form of money in the day what does that mean to us if we have tithes and offerings that we're supposed to give to the Lord or to help the poor with and we delay and we think no I might want to hold back on this I want a little buffer for myself it's robbing God exactly it's a type of self seeking selfishness the firstborn of your sons you are to give to me see all of these are about our accountability to God when we hold back selfishly we're robbing God you are to do the same with your oxen and your sheep it is to stay with its mother 7 days and on the eighth day you are to give it to me so people think why am I lose out you know I'm going to have less sheep or I don't want to give my children away but what you don't realize whenever you apply the principle of selfless love you give your child to the Lord like I've given each one of my children to the Lord and what happens when you dedicate your children to the Lord their lives are blessed abundantly God blesses them more than you could ever bless them if you withheld them from the Lord and so you're actually robbing not only God but you're robbing yourself and your children of this blessing or in the case of livestock you withhold the firstborn of the livestock from giving it to the Lord and what happens also in your livestock don't multiply as often or if you did give and here you're worried about losing you know a couple livestock amazing blessings come just like with Jacob and the flocks multiplied and you become richer than if you hadn't given so there's a principle of selflessness that you can't outgive the Lord and whatever we do let us fully live by faith giving our mind a body our spirit our children our wealth everything to the service of the Lord and he says see that I will not open up the storehouse of heaven and bless you in Malachi in regards to our tithes and offerings he says you are to be my specially separated people after all of these laws of accountability to him he tells us why and he wants his specially separated people to be not only a light to the nation's but to be such so blessed that the nation's are going to want to come to us and say wow what principles have you been living that you are so blessed I want to know more of this God in his ways and if we would really step out in faith and practice these on a selfless level we would be so attractive to the nation's therefore you are to not eat any flesh torn by wild animals in the countryside rather throw it out for the dogs for certain things as God's holy people that we're not smart take in like gossip chapter 23 verse 1 says you are to not repeat false rumors so if you hear something are we supposed to talk about it to each other do not join hands with the wicked by offering perjured testimony either so sometimes people will swear falsely in a court of law and perjure themselves do not follow the crowd when it does wrong and don't allow the popular view to sway you into offering testimony for any cause if the effect will be to pervert justice so this is all about testifying truthfully on the other hand don't favor a person's lawsuit simply because he's poor if poor person has done something wrong he deserves the same justice that a rich person so there's no partiality in verse four we see that God is telling us to uproot all forms of hatred or resentment or bitterness in our own hearts in the way that this is spoken is really unique he says if you come upon your enemy's ox or donkey strain you must return it to him if you see the donkey which belongs to someone who hates you lying helpless under its load you are not to pass him by but to go and help him set it free so the natural tendency with the selfish nature is to say that's this guy that doesn't like me so much look at he's lost his ox or his donkey and you just drive on by and you don't stop your car and you don't help them get it why because you've really got some bitterness in your heart you might be deluding yourself you might be deceiving yourself and thinking oh yeah well I've forgiven him but I'm not gonna help him you know hurt his cattle when they've broke through the fence right what God is saying is deal with the hatred in your heart the bitterness it's time to go out and help your enemy and in so doing you fight against your yetzer hara this is the evil inclination that all of us have that that selfish nature that tries to rise up and say huh huh he's getting his just deserve looking god probably is getting them you know giving him what he deserves by letting these cows break through the fence for an example but no God is saying you need to deal with this and even if this person hates you and he's your enemy you go it's your responsibility to go and help him set it free and by physically helping him you're helping him spiritually also set free his hatred and there's a beautiful return principle that when he sees the selfless love of God in your action he will be converted verse 6 says don't deny anyone justice in his lawsuit simply because he is poor keep away from fraud of all sorts and don't cause the death of the innocent and the righteous this is like our abortion laws there should be laws against abortion not for abortion this is directly against Torah because it's causing the death of the innocent and this commandment here is one of the four laws that brings judgment upon a whole nation in addition to oppressing the widow and the orphan and laws of homosexuality and bestiality these are laws that bring judgment against a nation he says for I will not justify the wicked you are not to receive a bribe for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of the righteous you are not to oppress a foreigner for you know how a foreigner feels since you were foreigners in the land of Egypt so time and time again he's reminding them you were slaves you need to have compassion on others the way that you would have desired to seek compassion given to you and this is the same thing that we had just read in a previous chapter 22 verse 21 remember what it's like to be slaves or to be foreigners and so we need to have compassion on people we were all slaves to sin at one time or another and sometimes when we see somebody else doing something wrong we're quick to judge but we need to have compassion because they're a slave to sin and we were once slave to sins but we were set free so our job is to not point the finger in judgment or condemnation but to help be facilitators of yah selfless love and showing them how to be overcomers and to help them in being freed from that type of slavery for six years you are to sow your land with seed and gather in its harvest but the seventh year once again we see this millennial principle you are to let it rest in life fallow and the Millennium is a type of millennial Shabbat a time of rest so that the poor among you can eat and what they leave the wild animals in the countryside can eat do the same for your vineyard and olive grove for six days you are to work but on the seventh day you are to rest he's really iterating the fourth commandment here so that also your ox and your donkey can rest and your slave girls son and the foreigners be renewed pay attention to everything I have said to you do not invoke the name of other gods or even let them be heard crossing your lips three times a year you are to observe a festival to me so these are all types of accountability to God still what are the three feasts harvest feast that we go up and present ourselves all males in Jerusalem Pesach which is Passover Shavuot and Sukkot yeah the feast of unleavened bread right Passover and so both Passover and Sukkot are week-long festivals of ingathering and Shavuot is the wheat in gathering in between keep the festival of matzah of unleavened bread for seven days as I ordered you you are to eat matzah at the time determined in the month of Aviv for it was in that month that you left Egypt no one is to appear before me empty-handed so as we remember our slavery in Egypt why do we eat matzah because leaven is a type of razor of the bread of type of what's another word for 11 years to rise in our lives so as we remember our freedom from slavery both physically and spiritually we also remember physically and spiritually the principles of no leaven in the life no self no ego no one is to appear before me Indy handed why if you appear empty-handed that's because you're thinking selfishly still right and you're withholding your offerings before the Lord so he's teaching you constantly it's a good thing to be selfless and the best way to practice this is by giving your offerings and your sacrifices and your tithes and your offerings the festival of Shavuot the festival of the wheat harvest the firstfruits of your efforts sowing in the field and the last one the festival of sukkot the festival of the ingathering at the end of the year when you gather in the fields the results of your efforts three times a year all your men are to appear before the Lord you are not to offer the blood of my Pesach sacrifice with leavened bread nor the fat of my festival to remain all night until morning you are to bring the best firstfruits of your land into the house of Adonai your God remember when they sacrificed the lamb and they roasted on the fire they had to eat every bit of it and none of it was to remain until morning and this was a type of Yeshua's body who would not remain on the cross to the night all of it was to be used for our salvation and yet you wouldn't see it in the morning and then he goes into you are to not boil a young animal in its mother's milk so this is even accountability to our animals just like giving them a rest on Shabbat we're also to have compassion mothers should not you know our mother's milk should not be used to cook its own child this is the principle it's not the principle of eating meat with cheese it's the principle of compassion of understanding where life comes from it comes from the mother seeing Genesis remember when God appeared to Abraham Abraham served Hashem the fatted calf along with Kurds so this proves to us that it's not the principle of eating a milk product with a meat product but that it's the issue of compassion and the source of life I am sending an angel ahead of you he says and now here we see a messianic prophecy or a symbol I'm sending an angel ahead of you to guard you on the way and to take you to the place that I have prepared pay attention to him listen to what he says this is just like the prophecy of mashiac in deuteronomy 18:15 where God says I'm going to send you a prophet like Adam O'Shea you shall pay attention to him listen to every word he says and he who does not listen to his words will be accountable to me see it's all about accountability here he's saying the same thing but in Exodus in these laws of accountability do not rebel against him listen to what he says pay attention to him because he will not forgive wrongdoing of yours since my name resides in him but if you listen to what he says and do everything I tell you then I will be an enemy to your enemies and a photo your foes so what does it mean that he will not forgive any wrongdoing of yours if you don't listen to what he says those that are claiming that because of yeshua sacrifice they can continue sinning and continue rejecting this Torah this is saying he will not forgive those type of wrongdoings if you don't pay attention to him the same word is used for the Torah he says here and do pay attention to my Torah listen to what I'm saying when he gave the Torah Covenant at Sinai these are the exact words that he's using and he knew that future generations would try to claim the beautiful sacrifice of the Lamb of God as a justification for continuing in sin which sin is the transgression of the Torah so here he's making you very clear very serious issue be sure to pay attention and to listen and don't rebel in any way what is rebel rebellion is any type of self that causes us to do something in opposition to the selfless love of God otherwise you won't be forgiven there's not going to be any wicked taken into the eternal Kingdom my name resides in him and this is part of God's justice if you listen to what he says and do everything I tell you then I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes when my angel goes ahead of you and brings you to the MRI they hit ty and the president priz I McCain and I the hefei and the EMU sy I will make an end of them you are not to worship their false gods you're not to serve them or follow even their practices their traditions so we could bring that down to our day to day following the traditions of pagan religions rather you are to demolish them completely and smash their standing stones to pieces now if Israel had followed this Torah law in 1967 when they regained Jerusalem there would be no issue over the Temple Mount today and they'd be able to rebuild the temple and hasten Messiah coming that much faster but because they left that standing stone it is a point of contention and will bring about the final tribulation you are to serve out an I your God and He will bless your food in your water I will take sickness away from you in your land your women will not miscarry or be barren and you will live out the full spans of your lives I will send terror the terror of me ahead of you throwing into confusion all the people to whom you come so this is God's original plan that he would use without killing the inhabitants of the land remember in another place he says that he would send a horde of bees and that they would flee and he would leave houses that were already built and vineyards already growing for them he says I will make all your enemies turn their backs on you I will send Hornets ahead of you to drive out the hivvie the Cain and I and the Hittite before you I will not drive them out before you in one year which would cause the land to become desolate and wild animals to become too many for you I will dry off drive them out from before you gradually as you come into the land until you have grown in number and can take possession of the whole land what a beautiful plan of God but Israel did not follow God in taking the land the way he said he would have given the land in the very first year that they were in the wilderness he brought them to the board of the land but they brought back a false report yes it's an eternal principle yes that's very heavy and and this is why I said it will end up bringing the very time of tribulation which could have been avoided but God doesn't predestined anything to happen what he's doing prophetically is telling history in advance because he knows the end from the beginning and so he saw the choices that they would make how it would lead up to a great time of trouble such as never was and this is how he was able to hide it in his word through the prophet Daniel and through John and revelation all because of this disobedience in this one principle like you said and we have to ask ourselves so we have the macrocosm and we have the microcosm what areas of our life are we still holding on to idol worship or to the traditions of the pagan religions we want to release it by faith no matter how near and dear it's been to us in the past let's release it and embrace the blessings that God is just waiting to pour out upon us when we step out in faith and follow his word he says I will set your boundaries from the sea of sooth this is the seat the Gulf of aqua by which they had crossed over in the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistine which is the Mediterranean in the West so here he's saying down here is the sea of sooth ok and he's telling you this is how I'm gonna bless you if you follow my laws from the sea of tzuf which is also called the Red Sea to the sea by the Philistines the Philistines lived in this area of Gaza here all the way up past the map to the Euphrates that's the original land grant that God is going to have his people living in and just distribute according to their tribal regions he says you are not to make a covenant with anybody in that area or with their gods they are not to live in your land remember who are these descendants he's Canaanites are descendants of homme Noah had sought God by choosing Lots for the three sons that he had which would get which land and the lot for this land was fell to Shem and his descendants but what did canaan do canaan came in and usurped that regardless of god's plan didn't take his inheritance to the south and stayed there and resided in shims territory so this is an element of self he's taking it regardless of what God has revealed he says they are not to live in your land otherwise they will make you sin against me by in sin sneering you to serve their gods and this is like one of those boundaries Mary Ellen that we were talking about where it's okay to be separate from people and to set boundaries because if they're going to continue in their sin we don't want it to contaminate us or our children or Yeah right praise God it doesn't it and it applies across the board back then today and tomorrow and we're gonna just keep growing yes you can constantly see that element of just like we're talking about Kanan versus Shem self versus selflessness and it is so simple this is what I teach children around the world is every choice you know theology theologians make things so complicated but really the gospel is so pure and so simple and even what we see in Yu Shu a sacrifice of total selfless love every choice that we have to make that starts in our mind our thought process about it can be boiled down to is it for the self alone or is it selfless is it for the good of all this is what we should ask ourselves about every decision that we have to make in life am i doing this for myself at the expense of somebody else or is it a choice that's gonna bless everyone and glorify God this is how we should look at every choice in life and then we will see the blessings that God desires to give us now in closing we only look at 18 verses of this chapter 24 and then we will see how the haftorah in Jeremiah 34 correlates with these principles of accountability compensation and restitution that we've been looking at Tim O'Shea out and I said come up to yo Dave Ave you Aaron made avi who and the 70 elders of Israel prostrate yourself set a distance while Moshe alone will approach me the others are not to approach and the people are not to go up with him Moshe came and told the people everything out and I had just told him with all of these mission pateen all of these laws of how to live out love to one another basically this is what prepared them to be in the presence of God God first instructed Moses that he sent him down taught him how to love one another to take their thought process higher so that they would be vibrating at a higher frequency so that they could be in his presence even at the base of the mountain but mostly it's the only one who's supposed to come into the cloud and approach out a knife mo che came and told the people everything that out and I had said including all the mishpat team the people answered with one voice once again they said their I Do's we will obey every word out and I has spoken this is part of the agreement of the original covenant that God is going to make the firstborn of Israel a kingdom of priests so motion wrote down all of the words of Adonai so out of night is giving the oral the Torah orally right Moshe is listening and then he goes and he communicates it orally and then he writes down so the writing down I was always secondary to the oral he rose early in the morning and he built an altar at the base of the mountain and set up right twelve large stones to represent the twelve tribes of Israel he sent the young men of the people of Israel to offer burnt offerings and sacrifices offerings of oxen to Adonai Moshe took half of the blood and put it in basins and the other half of the blood he splashed against the altar so he's sanctifying it blood always is a rata fire of the Covenant then he took up the book of the Covenant and he read it aloud so that the people could hear and they responded again everything that ad and I had spoken we will do and obey Moshe took the blood sprinkled it on the people and said this is the blood of the Covenant which Adonai has made with you in accordance with all of these words this is very similar to what Yeshua did this covenant shortly thereafter Israel breaks this covenant to make his peculiar people a kingdom of priests and it took the blood of the lamb to restore them back to the original covenant so this is why you schewe held up the cup at the final Pesach supper and he said this is the blood of the Covenant which adonai has made with you in accordance with all of these words the same thing he's now restoring or renewing the original covenant that had been lost for 1500 years Moshe Aaron Nadav and Avihu and the 70 elders went up and they saw the God of Israel and under his feet was something like sapphire stone pavement as clear as the sky itself this is the very stone that God took when he cut out the tablets of stone it says and you often think of concrete stone but it's this footstool of the throne sapphire that he made the original Ten Commandments and he wrote with his own finger and it could be seen from both sides it's transparent and it was like fire from within and in the English sapphires understood to be like fire stone or the stone with fire within and it comes from this source he did not reach out his hand against those notables of Israel on the contrary they saw God even as they were eating and drinking so why does it say this they saw him even as he was eating and drinking when Moshe would come into the presence of the Lord would he be eating and drinking no total selflessness this is why I promote fasting and meditation more and more as you grow in your spiritual walk why could the 70 elders not come into the cloud with Moshe they're a little bit further along spiritually than the people of Israel which are down at the base of the mountain but they're not as selfless as ma che and unless you are vibrating at the same resonant frequency of yaws selfless love you can't be in his presence because light eradicate starkness so here God says if he withheld that amazing glory it's they saw him but it was like this act of mercy they he allowed them to see him even while they're still feeding the flesh they're eating and drinking no one should be eating and drinking unless God commands them to be eating and drinking in his presence it's like we want to be totally devoid of self and when you're eating and drinking what are you thinking about feeding the false identity which is the body instead of the true identity which is the spirit the Spirit of God gets fed on what every word of God see when you're communicating with God you don't need physical food that's spiritual food suffice is for both physical and spiritual application but the physical food it only suffices for the physical body and the spirit dies the more you eat physically so this is another amazing principle of selflessness that these some of the elders didn't quite understand but God winked at their ignorance and it says they saw God even as they were eating and drinking out and I said to Moshe come up to me on the mountain and stay there I will give you the tablets of stone one with the Torah 2 and the midst mode 3 that I have written on them ok so three different things that he's saying I'm gonna give you so that you can teach them Moshe got up also yahushua his assistant and moshe went up onto the mountain of god to the leaders he said stay here for us until we come back to you see Aaron and her are with you whoever has a problem should turn to them Moshe went up onto the mountain and the cloud covered the mountain and the glory of out and I stayed on Mount Sinai and the cloud covered it for six days but on the seventh day he called the Moshe out of the cloud to the people of Israel the glory of out a night looked like a raging fire on the top of the mountain and Moshe entered the cloud and went up on the mountain he was on the mountain then 40 days and 40 nights now this is where these Mishka team ends and next week's torah portion is called terumah dealing terumah is different types of contributions or offerings continuing the aspect or the theme of selfless giving to the Lord and accountability to God but in closing I thought we would look at the haftorah in Jeremiah 34 we're gonna look at verses 8 through 22 and look at just like what you said does it still apply today and what happened later when Israel did not follow these laws the very first laws he gave them were you were a slave in Egypt I want you to deal compassionately with your slaves they're not permanent slaves here's to release them in the seventh year how did Israel handle this Israel came to the year the shemitah year and they were told it's time to release your slaves so they released them so that the outward appearance you know how the Scriptures tell us that the flesh the Spirit is willing but the flesh is weak another place that says that the Pharisees are like whitewashed tombs because they look good on the outside but inside they're dead what is the same sometimes we have the appearance of godliness but not the spirit there in Israel released he gave the appearance of following the Torah but then they went quickly and they captured him back and took them back in as servants they weren't really willing to practice that ultimate selfless act of freedom and redemption and releasing so Jeremiah 34 tells us of this prophetically he says this is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord after that the King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem to proclaim Liberty to them that every man should let his manservant and every man his maidservant being a Hebrew or a Hebrew Asst go free that none should serve Him of them should serve himself of them basically not having any servants that are fellow Jews or Israelites he's basically proclaiming Liberty to the whole land it's time to release all your Jewish servants that have been injured themselves to you now when all the princesses and all the people which had entered into the Covenant heard that everyone should let his manservant and maidservant go free that none of them should serve themselves of them anymore they obeyed and let them go but afterward they turned and caused the servants and the handmaidens whom they had let go free to return and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaidens again therefore the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord saying thus says the Lord the God of Israel I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them out of Egypt he's reminding them once again you were slaves and I freed you why don't you extend to others that same kind of freedom that you've been blessed with it's the same way that we forgive because we've been forgiven if you don't forgive someone it's because you don't you haven't really experienced the forgiveness of God you haven't really believed in the same thing he's reminding them that they were slaves and he took them out of Egypt and he said at the end of seven years let you go every man his brother and Hebrew what he's quoting he's reminding them of what he had instructed them in his Torah through Moshe at Mount Sinai what we just read he's saying don't you remember that I told you to release every seventh year those who are in bondage and when he had served you six years you shall let him go free but your father's hearken not to me neither did they incline their ear unfortunately even your fathers didn't follow Torah and you are not following Torah so he's speaking to him through the Prophet Jeremiah this is the sin that ultimately caused Nebuchadnezzar to be able to breach the walls of Jerusalem and come and besieged Jerusalem and take slaves because they didn't release their slaves guess who got taken his slaves Daniel his three friends many others this is the what led up to Daniel being taken captive no foreign entity would be able to capture the Israel or Jerusalem unless they had broken these laws and removed themselves from that protection of God yes they're caught in possession of their victims yeah they basically were forcing them others talk about them forcing them into slavery which is exactly what they're doing that's right free though they forced and kidnapped him another commandment once day a good point once they set them free these are free men and to by taking them by force you're now committing further sins just like Jeff had said last week when you can break the tenth commandment about coveting you've broken all the other ones the same way how this one sin led them to leave breaking the other sins which were more severe and incurred the penalty of death very good point ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name but you have turned you have not done right what is right in my sight in proclaiming Liberty every man to his neighbor you've turned and fluted my name you've caused every man and his servant and every man his handmaid whom you have set at liberty you set them free you've caused him by force to return you've kidnapped them and brought them back into subjection to be unto you servants this is self seeking self is office in opposition to selflessness selflessness is the source of life so when you're doing something selfish you're leading into the principles of death therefore says the Lord you have not hearkened unto me in proclaiming Liberty everyone to his brother and every man to his neighbor behold I proclaim Liberty for you says the Lord to the sword to the pestilence basically I'm gonna give you freedom from your bodies since you were so self seeking now you're gonna have Liberty in that you're gonna be killed by pestilence and by the sword and by disease and I'll make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth so this is what caused the Diaspora the beginning dies poor into Babylon we have to be very careful in how we never use the principle of force against another human being he says I will give the men that have transgressed this covenant which have not performed the words of the Covenant which they had made before me when they cut the calf in twain and pass between the parts when you would make covenant in ancient times you would cut a calf and a half and you would pass between the parts you see Abraham doing this with the Lord as well the princes of Judah and this is including Daniel the princes of Jerusalem the eunuchs the priests and all the people of the land which passed between the parts of the calf these are the people that make covenant they consciously said we will follow your words and now they've broken it I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of them that seek their life and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heavens and to the beasts of the earth and there's a little correlation between the sins that caused the exile and the attack from Babylon and so many of those in Jerusalem to be killed and their bodies eaten by the vultures very similar to the sins in the last days that caused those who are in the Babylonian system to be killed and remember what it says about the wicked while the righteous are having a feast in the heavenly sphere the wicked are their flesh is being eaten by the vultures the flesh of kings captains and mighty men so you see it's similar parallel and Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of them that seek their life and into the hand of the king of babylons army which are gone up from you behold I will command says the Lord and caused them to return to the city now what does he mean to return to the city in 606 BC Nebuchadnezzar had come against Jerusalem but the temple was not destroyed at that time it was twenty years later in 586 BC very similar to the Assyrians which in 742 I believe had surrounded Israel and then remember 186 thousand died and they fled away twenty years later because of the sins of Israel what they couldn't do twenty years before now they're able to come and capture Israel and the northern tribes were carried away same thing here when Israel was righteous Nebuchadnezzar couldn't destroy Jerusalem but now they're gonna come and they're gonna return to it and fight against it and take it and burn it with fire and this is when the Solomon's Temple was destroyed and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant so we see judgment came as a cause and effect of Israel acting selfishly and not fully embracing the selfless principles that would bring them blessings they had an hour appearance of godliness but not an inward heart change towards obedience and this very principle that we see hidden within the gamut ria of mishpat team-leading in our minds to remember the years of the Mishkan leading up to solomon's temple that was built through the sins of breaking these Mishima team Solomon's Temple is destroyed in the haftorah of this very portion amazing how God brings these things all together so may we in our pursuit to keep our eyes on the father and his character of selfless love pray that we can become change into that likeness and not just have a head knowledge of his laws and not just say our I do is verbally but to live out these principles of selfless love in every aspect of our lives without let's stand and we will close in prayer Abba Father we thank you Lord for revealing to us your torah your mishpat team judgments and how to love you by loving our fellow man and we just pray father that you would empowers through your ruach ha'qodesh to be able to live out all of your torah and to be able to be vessels for your service in selfless love to our fellow man and we pray that as we see the sins of our forefathers that have rejected your torah and have not walked in your ways that it has brought judgment upon them and that they had removed themselves from your blessings and that they experienced the natural cause and effect of their sins that father we would learn from their mistakes and that we would be repairers of the breach and that we would be able to return the lost house of israel and restore them as one in your hand and that we would be able to corporately return to your torah and be a light once again to your nations and fulfill which you have desired from the foundation of the world your original covenant that we would be a kingdom of priests to you father this is our desire and this is our hearts prayer and we thank you for the blood of Yeshua who has enabled us to be overcomers and the power of your Holy Spirit and we just ask for your blessing upon our lives and we submit ourselves we dedicate ourselves to you this day and we give of ourselves selflessly our bodies and our minds as vessels for your service this is our prayer and your holy name we pray amen you

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Length: 97min 1sec (5821 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 12 2018