#29-30 Haftarah Acharei Mot - Kedoshim - The Plan of Redemption for Israel as revealed by Amos

[Music] you [Music] you this morning's tour portion was a creme oat and Kota Sheen it was another double tour portion a knock remote is the 29th floor portion of the year from the time that we started in Genesis and Kota she MS xxx an author emote means after the death and so the Torah portion picked up where native and a/v who had died by going into God's presence harboring darkness and adding to his laws Kota Sheen means Holies and what this tour portion brings out is the importance of our holiness to be able to approach God's holiness but there's a hidden deeper meaning in that if you put these together why are they oftentimes put together to tour portions if you were to hear author promote in Kota Shing in Hebrew you would hear after death Holies and as truly after we learned to die to ourselves that we are made holy and the whole word for kodesh Kota she ms plural representing not only the Holy of Holies in the most holy place but all of us together corporately has been made holy so it's plural so we're going to talk about some of these laws that teach us how to die to self and live out the laws of love in holiness to God and loss of social justice which is how to live with our fellow man so really the two greatest Commandments are summed up in this Torah portion and this is the very Torah portion that you show up quoted when he referred to the second commandment has love the Lord your God with all your heart mind and soul as the first and he says love your neighbor as yourself the second commandment is in Leviticus 19 verse 18 and this refers to the laws of love to our fellow man and we're going to move from the we're gonna basically do a quick overview as to what some of these laws are but I'm gonna show you in the prophets how they parallel these laws and Ezekiel tells in the future how Israel didn't do these laws they transgress these laws they failed and whenever we live out of harmony with God's laws of love whether to him or to our fellow man we see a cause and effect in the life so Ezekiel what's amazing Ezekiel is the haftorah for our a mote that in the years that we study it by itself you would just read Ezekiel telling how Israel transgressed the very laws that the outcry mode described but because it's a double tore portion we're also going to look at Amos which is the haftorah for Kota Shing and Amos foretells of Israel's exile as the cause and effect to their transgression which God said back in the tour portion if you do not keep these laws the law of the land will vomit you out and so he is telling the fulfillment of God's Word to them that because you didn't keep these laws as Ezekiel revealed you will be exiled and sent in to all the nations of the world you'll be scattered amongst every different country he has a great promise God is going to return you to holiness in the Diaspora in this exile even where we're at here in America he's teaching us holiness on a whole nother level how to deny self how to do that die to self and then return to the land after returning to Torah and returning to the one true God then we'll be prepared to live in holiness in the land and the land will not spit us out in the future so there's great promise we're gonna see three phases the instructions in how to love God and your fellow man then Ezekiel tells how our forefathers failed in this area and then Amos tells of the cause and effect of why because of their sins they were scattered amongst all the nations but there's a beautiful promise in the future that he is going to be our teacher he is going to be the living Torah and he's going to instruct us in his ways for a thousand years he is going to write tour upon our hearts and return us to holiness and return us to the land so that God can dwell with us so that's just a quick overview of the progression of the Hopf Torrez in this double tour portion in the years that we do to Torah portions traditionally they only read amos but i think it's important to see where our forefathers failed so i'm gonna go ahead and go into ezekiel paralleling aakhri mode and then Amos paralleling coda Sheen but Amos is a prophet that we should get to know he was actually a Jewish prophet from the southern kingdom but he's speaking before the Exile of the Northern Kingdom and he's telling them of the cause and effect of their sins and how they will be scattered so he's a Jew prophesying to Israel kind of like me here in America in the Diaspora and his name almost means strong strong enough to carry the burden because when we see our brother or sister going into sin we have a heavy burden for them and sometimes we are reluctant mouthpieces and we don't want like Jonah to be the one to go and have to call the people to repentance or to tell them where they're going wrong and we know that many people will reject us and not understand the message that God has given but Amos was strong enough to carry this burden before anybody else you know if you look at all the major prophets and all the minor prophets Amos was one of the very first giving this message to Israel he was a contemporary with Hosea and even before Isaiah and Jeremiah and Ezekiel and the rest of the minor prophets so he's kind of the very first one to be given this message by God as to what is going to happen to Israel because of their sins and we have to take to heart whatever we see in our forefathers we can't just point the finger and say well look at how bad they were because we're all guilty of transgressing the Torah in different ways and seen the cause and effect throughout history of those that have transgressed Torah and the loss of blessings that is brought into their life we should really desire to return to God's ways and to return the blessings that God desires for our life he promises through the Prophet Joel I will return to you the years the locust has eaten if only you will return to me then the blessings will return and so this is our prayer for all of the nations as far as returning to God first and foremost having a love for his word by faith and by keeping our focus on him becoming changed into that same likeness and letting him recreate us and return the blessings that were lost Amos is writing roughly about 760 to 755 BC so this is about 35 years before Israel was captured by Assyria and it was a long enough time to call the people to repentance but they did not repent and so his prophetic word that they would be taken and scattered amongst the nations did come to pass we see that he's speaking of the sins of Israel that the very week that he's read this Torah portion the laws that Israel's breaking were the very study in the Torah portion today for this time of year and this is how it parallels the tour portion and how does it speak to us today we are called to be holy in this Torah portion God says be holy even as I am holy so this is a very high calling some people say well we're not really expected to be perfect right you hear people kind of make excuses but if God is saying I want you to be holy as my bride even as I am holy there's nothing more holy than God there's nothing more perfect than God this tells us the high calling that he's giving us and so we should never sell ourselves short by saying oh well we can never be an overcomer because Yeshua has showed us that we can be overcomers if we will stay connected to God into his word here's an overview of the Book of Amos and you can see he is like a sheep herder and he has a sheep herders vision in chapters 1 & 2 and then God gives him messages of love not only for Israel but for all the other nations as well and you can see these messages to Damascus up in Syria just like Jonah went to Damascus and he while he went to Nineveh which isn't too far from Damascus Denis has a message for Gaza then he has a message for Tiger II and tyrese up in Lebanon then he has a message for Edom descendants of Esau and Ammon and the Moab and then Judah where he's from and then Israel so it's all building up to the whole house of Israel these messages of rebuke and we see him say that if you do not turn from your sins there will be judgments on the land and he goes through a series of judgments in his vision about locusts and fire he has a vision about a plumb line he has a vision about ripe fruit he sees a vision of the Lord by the altar and so calling the people to repentance leads to if you don't repent this is what's gonna happen natural cause and effect it's not God arbitrarily punishing you this is you placing yourself on the domain of the enemy and these judgments will come upon you if you do not repent but the beautiful thing about God and his message is he always leads us with a message of hope so after proclaiming the future judgments upon Israel he gives a beautiful vision of the restoration of Israel in the last days and a return to the land so we will be looking at that as well today this week's haftorah foretells the exile and punishments that will befall Israel because they strayed after the ways of the heathens behavior that this week's Torah reading instructs Israel in and Ezekiel describes Israel as not following the the Prophet Amos delivers God's message reminding the people of God's kindness to them taking them out of Egypt and singling them out as his own chosen nation nevertheless because of their mindset God will remove the Northern Kingdom of Israel from the land but will not completely destroy the house of Jacob the Jews will be scattered amongst the nation's but eventually they will return to the land on the day of their Redemption it's looking forward to the second coming God will then reinstall the house of David through mushiya bin dahveed to its former glory and there'll be peace and abundance for a thousand years so going back to our tour portion look at some of the laws with some of the references that Israel was told to observe and then we're gonna see ezekiel calling out some of these exact same issues as being the very things that israel transgressed so the double tour portion goes from Leviticus 16 through Leviticus 20 and in that God says to his people I want you to be holy even as I'm holy don't do the disgusting things that the heathen nations are doing and then he defines what some of these disgusting practices are and we're gonna see these exact same words used by Ezekiel he says if you do do these disgusting things the land will vomit you out he says don't eat blood and don't even sacrifice animals just anywhere he actually tells him not even to kill animals unless they're bringing it up to the altar in Jerusalem unless they're out hunting so basically domesticated animals like lambs and cows and ox we're not meant to be just slaughtered it for your household and for your own food these were specific clean animals used for only sacrifices therefore he says anyone who even kills these animals outside of Jerusalem for the offering or for the sacrifice it will be held against him he's trying to teach us even compassion for the animals but he knows that human life Trump's all and there'll be a time where for maybe to save our own life we need to be hunting out in the field wild game so there's an allowance later for the hunting of wild game but you're not supposed to kill your domestic animals for these offerings and you're not to eat their blood so blood is very important to the Lord in Leviticus 17 3 and verse 10 and 13 and 14 in Leviticus 18 7 he says I don't want you to dishonor your father and your mother he reminds them of the fifth commandment and we're gonna see that this was one of the sins that Israel failed in in the vit against 1910 and 33 he says I want you to take care of the foreigners when they come into your land and take care of the poor and the orphans and then later he says I want you to revere my sanctuary my holy temple and everything in it is to for only holy use it's just like Shabbat this 24-hour period is not meant for common speech for common work for doing anything common he says anything that is holy is to be kept holy and so even the vessels in the temple remember that later belty Shazzer was using that was the day of his judgment he was using these holy things that were meant only for the Lord for his big party well Israel was doing the same thing in the land he also reminds the people in Leviticus 1930 to keep my Shabazz this is a part of your holiness remember how important my Shabbat is in Ezekiel chapter 20 verse 12 and 20 he says this is my sign between me and my people those that keep my Shabbat so if you want to be recognized by God as his people keeping Shabbat holy is like the diamond on the betrothal ring it is the sign that you are his that your betrothed to him he says in Leviticus 1916 do not spread slander or hate so you can see in these some of them relate to God like I said laws of holiness to God and some of them are laws of social of justice how to love your fellow man so as we're going back and forth from these different laws I want you to think about how they relate to either God or to your fellow man we just went from keeping Shabbat holy which is a law of love for God to do not spread slander or hate about your fellow man don't spread gossip don't use your tongue for anything but uplifting edification and for creating heaven on earth our word should be so loving so kind so gentle and if we don't have a kind word we shouldn't say anything at all he calls out those who spread slander or hate as a heathen practice and he says as my people you're not to do this he also says he reminds them don't do what the pagans do is right after and then he says no relation don't have sexual relations with any family member whether they're blood or whether they're married into your family have respect for those that are close to you do not defile or humble your sister or your daughter or your father's wife or your uncle's wife and so there's all these things spelled out specifically and we're gonna see that Israel fell even in this area and Ezekiel calls it out he also says respect your wife and the process of life that comes with each month with the administration called Neda in Hebrew when a woman is in her flow of blood she is to remain set apart because remember blood is holy to the Lord and when a woman is in her process of nidaa she's actually expelling the egg that's not fertilized from her body and so she's supposed to be kept set apart and there's not supposed to be such four relations between a husband and a wife during this time of menstruation and this was something that Israel also failed in he says don't be sexually promiscuous don't indulge yourself in fornication or adultery these were all sins that came from pagan cult worship you know the worship of Ishtar was a worship of fertility practice and this is the origins of male and female prostitution and sexual promiscuity so God says as my holy people do not engage in these practices then the famous scripture in Leviticus 19:18 love your neighbor as you would love yourself then he goes in to do not take interests on loans later in Leviticus and do not steal or defraud from each other so what is defrauding when I paint a pretty picture of how great this thing is that I'm going to sell you and it's really for my gain and this is an act of selfishness and we know that everything that comes from God's heart and God's character is teaching us how to live selflessly we're to love our fellow man as ourself we wouldn't want to be taken advantage of so we shouldn't take advantage of others and then he reminds them observe all my regulations and obey them because I am yo-dee-hey Vevey the one who makes you holy so he's showing us how to love him selflessly after dying to ourselves we will learn to love him and to live out his laws of holiness and after dying to self we will learn how to love our fellow man and so these are all laws that bring blessings and prosperity and health into the life there's so many different types of blessings if you think about physical health spiritual health mental health emotional health health within our relationships and our marriages there's so many different blessings that are lost when we act selfishly and this is what God is bringing out now in the very tour portion for our cream oh look at how Ezekiel in chapter 22 parallels the very sins that God had told an instructed Israel in the very torpor ssin for this day so we read Ezekiel the exact same day that we read this Torah portion and look at what he says this if you have your Bibles turn with me to chapter 22 and you can read along the Word of God and I came to me now human being you are prepared to judge are you prepared to judge the city drenched in blood look at how right off the bat he's saying that all these things how blood is so important to him they're engaging in all these bloody practices they're sacrificing animals when they shouldn't be sacrificing them they're engaging in relations with their wife when she's in her flow of blood they are killing one another for gain all of this he says you're drenched in blood in so many different ways then make her realize how disgusting her practices are look at the very term used from the Torah portion don't do disgusting practices God through Ezekiel says you are doing disgusting practices say that Adonai Elohim says city that she has blood within yourself thus speeding your own doom and that makes idols for yourself that defile you you are guilty because of the blood you have shed you are defiled by your idols that you have made and you have shortened your life and you have completed your years therefore I'm going to make you an object of scorn for the nations see the nations all knew that no one could conquer Israel that Israel was the apple of God's eye and so by Israel removing themselves from the blessings of God they're making themselves a scorn to the nations the nations are saying this very nation which no one could conquer and which God bless so abundantly look at how they have fallen look at all the loss of blessings now they're being captured by Assyria and he says you'll become a laughingstock in every country and that has happened through the years those close by and those far off will taunt you and you who have such a defiled reputation and such great discipline disorder the leaders of Israel in you all used their power in order to shed blood he mentions this very first thing that we were told in Leviticus 17 in you they make light of their fathers and mothers so here's the second one he's mentioning and they oppressed the foreigner and they wronged the orphans and the widows you can see him going right down the list of the laws that we were called to observe for our blessing you even treat my holy things with contempt so here the holy things came from the sanctuary we were called to revere them he's sayin you treat these things as common and you know we're guilty of that on Shabbat when we turn our TV on or when we choose to work and not trust God by faith in or we cause somebody else to work let's say by going to a restaurant and causing them or buying and selling these are ways that we're taking this thing that was set apart as Holy and making it common even though we don't have a holy temple any longer and we're not defining the holy artifacts there we still have my holy thing that's entrusted to us that we're to keep holy he says you also profane my Shabbat and notice how its plural he says keep my Shabazz so this is not only the weekly Sabbath but this is his annual holy days remember them keep them guard them and now he's saying you've forgotten them your profaning them ezekiel goes on in verse 9 in you people gossip to the point of hatred and inciting bloodshed so when you gossip about somebody and you caught slander and you go you know what i heard about this guy what you're doing is causing in somebody else's mind a negative hey for that person and what did you say he who hates his brother he says you have heard it said referring to the Torah right you shall not kill but I say to you anyone who hates his brother has already committed murder in his heart and so when we're causing someone to dislike or hate somebody by caught spreading slander we are a party to murder and this is why it's called character assassination then he goes on and you are those who go to eat on the mountains remember this fertility worship was always done in the high places in you that commit lewd acts and you that commit incest sin you they forced themselves on women during their menstrual impurity so here now we see he said don't do what the pagans do and how many of us today are even doing what the pagans do but we say that's not what it means to me even observing pagan days and pagan practices pagan holidays which are counterfeits of God's true holy days so see how by profaning his Sabbath's his shahboz his holy days then you're sucked into following pagan practices and these pagan practices lead to uncleanness whether it's what you're eating during these things or what you're doing he says in you one commits an abomination even with his neighbor's wife and commits lewd acts defiling his daughter-in-law still another person humbles his sister his own father's daughter so here you can see each of these they're having relations during administration their sexual promiscuous and adultery in fornication and now he says in you people take bribes to shed blood you demand an accept interest on your loans and in greed you make profits off your neighbors by extorting them and you have forgotten me so here we have bribes to shed blood interest on loans and Creedy extortion is basically the opposite of not defrauding each other so you can see how step-by-step what God is saying through Ezekiel who knows God's Word better than himself he's reminding them of all the laws in this very torah portion that deal with him and ourselves being holy and our fellow man and then at the very end he says you have forgotten me look at verse 12 and you people take bribes to shed blood you demand to accept interest on loans in greed you make profits off your neighbors by extorting them and you have forgotten me says yo hey Bob hey Elohim What did he in the Torah portion with observe my regulations and obey because I'm the one who makes you holy remember I'm the only one who makes you holy but through all these practices he sums them up by saying you have forgotten me therefore what is the it therefore now it's gonna tell the cause and effect that we are going to see more fully in the Book of Amos he says I am clapping my hands together in the ancient times clapping your hands together was so serious that it could bring about death and demise of a people it was like a form of judgment upon them you'll see other people of the patriarchs clapping their hands together and inciting fear he says I'm clapping my hands together because of your ill-gotten gains and the bloodshed in you can your courage last can your strength continue during the days which I deal with when I deal with you I add and I have spoken it and I will do it I will scatter you amongst all the the Gentiles and I will disburse you through the countries this is in direct fulfillment of what he said back in the tour portion where if you do not do these things the land will vomit you out it will spit you out and I'll disperse you to other countries thus but look at the beauty of this verse 15 he says I'm gonna scatter to you amongst the Guim and I'm gonna disperse you throughout all these countries thus basically in doing so I will remove your defilement so what is the purpose of our exile to remove the defilement so that we long to return to the land and we've realized our need to first return to his word so he calls us to be holy and when we're not holy he sends us in exile to bring us around full circle so that we will willingly allow God's Word to be written upon our heart and we will be made holy and in thus he says our defilement will be removed and you will cause yourselves to be profaned in full view of the then you will know that I am Yoda hey Ravi so here we have exact correlation from the Torah in areas that our forefathers failed but now look at how Amos is going to foretell of Israel's exile and future return in leviticus 19:18 we see that God desires social justice and Amos this is one of the three themes in the Book of Amos he really focuses on how God desires social justice and this is being a big error on the part of Israel how they're defrauding one another and hurting one another basically love your fellow man and holiness this is a big part of our holiness how can we say that we love God if we don't love our brother this is what John was saying in first John he says he who says he loves God but does not love his fellow man is a liar and so much backbiting and gossip and division goes on even within the professed believers within the body and so we see that we need this rebuke we need to be called back to showing our love for God more than going to church and more than talking about anything let's show our worship through our love to our fellow man the second thing that the torah portion really brings out that Amos has a theme on is God's holiness and omnipotence he says I am holy be you holy even as I am holy and the third major theme in Amos is God's divine judgment how he corrects us and draws us near him in holiness and that's what we just read in Ezekiel that through the Diaspora through the Exile he would remove our defilement from us and so there's three themes within the tour portion that we see these areas of instruction and holiness we deal with the laws of the holy day of atonement the one day a year in which we can come into his presence and go through the veil and it looks forward to after the Millennium the eighth symbolic day when God will come and dwell with man and we are going to be at one with him in holiness once again the tour portion also gave the rules of the holy land that we need to live in harmony with and if we don't how we would be expelled from the land and it also goes into the plan of redemption to return us to the land so I wanted to look at a little theme of how amos reminds the people of god of god's kindness that not only is he gonna disperse you but he's gonna bring you back and even in your dispersion it's part of god's greater plan to remove your defilement and to return you to holiness and that's well the desire of our heart is as we're studying torah together is to understand god's ways so that we can draw near to him the whole book of leviticus is all about how to draw near to him but we can't do it if we're harboring darkness light cannot coexist with darkness so we need to have all darkness removed from us and what is darkness but self-seeking any selfish act is a form of Darkness that's Harvard in the thoughts or the heart of man and so God's laws are laws of love of selfless love when we honor him by faith or we honor our fellow man we really have to let go of our own desires to do that and in this practice this is what prepares us for drawing near to him in holiness so Amos foretells the Exile will befall Israel due to the sins from Leviticus but he also reminds them of God's kindness and overall plan for them if you have your Bibles turn with me to Amos and we will find it in Amos chapter 7 sorry chapter 9 verse 7 through 15 he says people of Israel are you any different from the Ethiopians to me true I brought Israel up from Egypt but I also brought the Philistine up from calf tour now calf tour was a descendant of midstream midstream is the Hebrew name for Egypt so we can see that the Philistines are actually descendants of Mitzrayim through cush loom and we get that reference from Genesis 10 and first Chronicles 1 so in this very first introduction amos is reminding the people there's a beautiful plan of salvation that amos is going through the theme of he's gonna tell the people how God chose them which he just did how he delivered them from Egypt how he corrected them by scattering them and how he's gonna restore them in the last days to the land and then how he's going to reestablish them under the Davidic thrown under Messiah Ben David so you can see this theme from reminding them of God's love and desire for choosing them amongst all the nations - giving his instructions in the ketubah that was given at Sinai this betrothal covenant this Torah is actually laws of love as from a bride to a bridegroom and from a bridegroom to a bride and so after he gives us his instruction he teaches us how to live it out but when we go astray what does he have to do he has to deliver us and he has to correct us and sometimes he has to make us realize the cause and effect of our actions and through scattering us amongst the nation's he has actually blessed us because he has taken us to lands that have been abundant for our multiplication and our growth and he has also given us time to have our own desire through our own free will to return to his word where he's not forcing his tour upon us he's allowing us to be in exile long enough where we cry out to him to return to his land and to return to the Torah and then he promises to restore us so we're gonna see this theme just in these eight verses we're only reading from verse 7 to verse 15 and Amos 9 but look at this theme coming up so we just read about how God chose Israel amongst all the nations in Amos 9 7 and how he delivered them from Egypt verse 8 says look the eyes of Adonai Elohim are on the sinful Kingdom what is this saying Israel is not holy as he desires he's calling Israel the sinful Kingdom and he says I will wipe it off the face of the earth now did Israel die is this language language of wiping them out in Profeta to 'ti this is more the way the world looks at Israel in Israel the Land of Israel being blessed all of a sudden for 2,000 years it's like Israel disappeared now they hadn't died because they are being dispersed amongst the nations and their descendants forgot who they are but this is the biblical language he says I'm gonna wipe it off the face of the earth and that's what's happened for the last 2,000 years it says if Israel has been wiped off the face of the earth he says but I will not completely destroy it so isn't it interesting he's wiping it off the face of the earth in the eyes of the nation's and even Israel forgot who they are but he hasn't really destroyed them they've just gone underground so to speak amongst the nations Israel began to dress like the name they began to speak like the in the languages of the lands that they lived in they began to observe the pagan practices of the people in the foreign lands so for all intensive purposes Israel completely lost their identity and as they traveled north and west throughout Europe and then to the Americas people would identify themselves from the European countries that came from but had lost all sight of themselves as descendants of Israel so this prophecy we actually see fulfilled and it's part of step 3 that Amos brings out that God would correct them by scattering them amongst the nations he says I'm going to make them invisible for a time but they will not be completely destroyed the yeah the whole house of jacob says Adonai 4 when I give the order I will shake the house of Israel there among all the this is the same language that he just read in Ezekiel as one shakes with a sieve letting no grain fall to the ground all the sinners amongst my people who say disaster will never overtake us have you ever felt like that people that proclaim prosperity while they're still sinning and they're saying don't worry nothing bad will happen to you you your gods and if we sin we're removing ourselves from that protection and that blessing that God wants to lavish upon us and so we should not be so arrogant to say like our forefathers said disaster will never overtake us or confront us he actually says in your sin when you say this the sword will overtake you basically another nation will come in and conquer you there will be judgment on the land [Music] and so we see God telling them of their error and how he's gonna correct them but then in verse 11 he says when that day comes I will raise up the fallen suka of David this is the City of David beginning to be restored and we see it even in our in our day and it's future hope for Israel I will close up its gaps and I will raise up its ruins and rebuild it as it used to be and we see Jerusalem beginning to be rebuilt but ultimately this will even be more fulfilled through Yeshua through Messiah when he comes he says I'm going to have it rebuilt so that Israel can possess it and possess what is left of Edom remember the original land grant was from the Euphrates River in the north to the Nile in the south and southeast so the land of Edom which is east of the Jordan where Jordan currently is he's saying that in this timeframe that Messiah reigns this is going to be Israel's once again he's going to restore the original land grant which Israel at no time in history has fully lived in up to this day and he says and of all the nations bearing my name says Adonai who is doing this the days will come says Adonai when the Plowman will overtake the Reaper this is representing no gap in the harvest and the one treading grapes will sow seed this is basically the land is producing so much that there's no gap like wintertime has a gap between the harvest and then the next spring and the planting he's basically saying you will be blessed right up in join the harvest of the land right up to the time where you replant sweet wine will drip down the mountains and all the heels will flow with it and I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities they will plant vineyards and drink their wine and cultivate gardens to eat their fruit I will once again plant them on their own soil no more to be uprooted we will never go into exile again now this can't happen unless there's a holy people living in harmony with the laws of the land the laws of holiness to God and the laws of love to our fellow man this is why God in the Exile is waking our heart up to return that's what repentance is all about teshuva is returned to him return to his Torah returned to a love for the land and he's writing this upon our hearts to prepare us for the fulfillment of these prophecies and actually the fulfillment of these prophecies will be a byproduct of our living in harmony with his laws of love and so he promises that we will no more be uprooted from our land which he gave to our forefathers and this we see I Amos going from God choosing us from amongst all nations and delivering us and then correcting us and in between delivering us from Egypt what did he do he took us to Sinai and he gave us his instructions and how to love so there's this in-between step two and three you actually have his instruction given and then when we don't keep that instructions of love he lovingly corrects us even as a father lovingly disciplines his child and then God brings about our full restoration and restores us to the land in the last days and reestablishes us underneath the Davidic Kingdom which was a total United monarchy in Israel and this will be under Messiah Ben dahveed so here in eight verses you see the whole plan of salvation which is beautiful what a loving rebuke how could we be sad or scared from such a loving daddy who starts off his rebuke reminding us of our first love experience with him and then reminding us that even though we failed he's going to restore us and correct us so there's a work for us to do with our freewill and that's to submit to his will he's not gonna force us and not everyone will be saved only those who conform their lives to the practices of selfless love loving God with all our heart mind and soul and loving our neighbor as ourself proverbs 3 11 and 12 says my child when the Lord corrects you pay close attention take it as a warning there's still correction for us today there's still areas where we're in error we're thinking wrong we're thinking selfishly we're thinking negatively we're thinking rebellious Lee it's time to repent it's time to realize that the Lord has been lovingly correcting us because he wants to restore the blessings that our forefathers lost and so we should take this warning proverbs 3:11 Solomon says my child when the Lord corrects you play close attention and take it as a warning the Lord corrects those who he loves as a parent corrects a child of whom they are proud so in closing like us to remember Ezekiel 18:21 because there's profound wisdom in this where the plan of salvation is summed up in one verse how are we gonna be saved currently there's a false theology that says you don't need to do anything you just keep sinning Jesus has done it all he's gonna save you you'll be sinful forever basically the tour has been nailed to the cross so you can keep breaking Torah and God's gonna just allow this and endorse this sin but this is erroneous to scripture look at where true salvation comes from prophet Ezekiel says in chapter 18 21 but if the wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed and observes how many of God's statutes how many of his loss of love all of them all of my statutes and practice justice here's that element whenever it mentions justice it's talking about the laws to our fellow man the laws of love so we show God love by observing all of his Commandments and we show our fellow man love through practicing God's judgment and righteousness he says then you will surely live and not die so being saved from death is a byproduct of turning from our sins which first John 3:4 says sin is the transgression of the Torah so you schewe came not to endorse us to continued sinning but to show us how to be overcomers and how to perfectly live out these laws of love to God and to our fellow man this is putting Yeshua in his proper context what he has done is revealed the greatest revelation of selfless love in human form in laying down his life for his fellow man and in so doing honoring his father this is our example but it won't happen miraculously it only happens after a life of self-denial and this is what Yeshua lifts fasting and praying and doing acts of kindness and studying God's Word and writing it upon our heart so that when temptation does come we can give thus saith the Lord we can quote scripture and rebuke the enemy and his hold over tempting us and so let you show the true Son of God be our example as overcomers in turning from sin and observing all God's statutes and practicing justice and righteousness with our fellow man then we will truly live and enter into life eternal and as you schewe said I come to give it life and life more abundantly so with that let's stand and we'll close in prayer how the Father we thank you for revealing how to love you and how to love our fellow man not only through your written word but through your Living Word Yeshua and we thank you for this greatest example of selfless love that he showed us how to deny self and how to die and as the tour portion says after death holiness after we learned to die to ourself and to our selfish desires then we will enter into your realm of holiness which is devoid of all self and it manifests itself as selfless love so we thank you Father for taking the scales from our eyes and seeing the true plan of salvation even the that which our forefathers did not see and recognize we desire to walk in so we repent and we ask your forgiveness for our sins this very day father we ask for you to strengthen us and connect us to you so that we too can be overcomers and enter into life eternal this is our prayer in the desire of our hearts and we ask for your anointing and your empowerment of your spirit of truth to lead us into all truth so that we can enter into your holiness and draw near to you in intimacy and that one mint we look forward to this and we thank you for revealing this to us in your holy name we pray you

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Length: 48min 13sec (2893 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 21 2018