Post by alon on Oct 3, 2019 13:45:42 GMT -8
Name of Par’shah: Vayelekh (He went)
Par’shah: Deuteronomy 31:1-30
Haftara: Isaiah 61:10-63:9
Brit Chadashah: Romans 9:30-10:13; Hebrews 12:14-15
Darash: In our
portion, God commands His Instructions/Law be read to all Israel once a year at Sukkoth:
Deuteronomy 3:19-13 (ESV) Then Moses wrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders of Israel. And Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the set time in the year of release, at the Feast of Booths, when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God at the place that he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law, and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as you live in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.”
He also commands that His people “be careful to do all the words of this law, and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God.” Yet in our portion from the Kethuvim Shel Shaliachim we are told:
Romans 9:30-31a (ESV) What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith; but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law. Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works.
faith- πίστις pístis, pis'-tis; persuasion, i.e. credence; moral conviction (of religious truth, or the truthfulness of God or a religious teacher), especially reliance upon Christ for salvation; abstractly, constancy in such profession; by extension, the system of religious (Gospel) truth itself:—assurance, belief, believe, faith, fidelity.
All biblical history pointed to Yeshua as ha’Moshiach. If you trusted God, you would recognize Him in Yeshua.
Matthew 3:8-9 (ESV) Bear fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.
As always, God is interested in our heart condition and our relationship with Him. Now a good part of that relationship is seen in how well we keep His mitzvoth. However He sees the “why” of everything we do. Keeping the mitzvoth just because you are Jewish or Mesianic is not enough. It is not even enough to keep them just because He said to do it. As Rosh Hashanah draws near, our thoughts are turned inward as we examine ourselves. And honestly, this is where I often fall short. One of my favorite sayings is “God said it, we do it. Period!” No, NO, NO!!! No period. God said it, and we do it because we love Him. That is where He told us how to have a relationship with Him; to walk with Him as Adam did in the Garden.
El-Shaddai, Almighty God (Gen 17:1) is the One who will provide that “period.” And may it never be as in our haftara:
Isaiah 63:1-4 (ESV) Who is this who comes from Edom,
in crimsoned garments from Bozrah,
he who is splendid in his apparel,
marching in the greatness of his strength?
“It is I, speaking in righteousness,
mighty to save.”
Why is your apparel red,
and your garments like his who treads in the winepress?
“I have trodden the winepress alone,
and from the peoples no one was with me;
I trod them in my anger
and trampled them in my wrath;
their lifeblood spattered on my garments,
and stained all my apparel.
For the day of vengeance was in my heart,
and my year of redemption had come.
Because our God is not only a God of love. He is that to those who love Him. But to those who do not, He will be a God of vengeance. Those who miss the mark in His love will, no matter how well we keep taste His vengeance.
So in this season of repentance, may we truly repent our heart condition, improve our relationship and our halacha, our walk with El Chaiyai, the God Of My Life (Pslm 42:8). And that at the end of our journey we will hear “‘Well done, good and faithful servant. … Enter into the joy of your master.’” (Mat 25:23b,d ESV)
Par’shah: Deuteronomy 31:1-30
Haftara: Isaiah 61:10-63:9
Brit Chadashah: Romans 9:30-10:13; Hebrews 12:14-15
Darash: In our
portion, God commands His Instructions/Law be read to all Israel once a year at Sukkoth:Deuteronomy 3:19-13 (ESV) Then Moses wrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders of Israel. And Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the set time in the year of release, at the Feast of Booths, when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God at the place that he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law, and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as you live in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.”
He also commands that His people “be careful to do all the words of this law, and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God.” Yet in our portion from the Kethuvim Shel Shaliachim we are told:
Romans 9:30-31a (ESV) What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith; but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law. Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works.
faith- πίστις pístis, pis'-tis; persuasion, i.e. credence; moral conviction (of religious truth, or the truthfulness of God or a religious teacher), especially reliance upon Christ for salvation; abstractly, constancy in such profession; by extension, the system of religious (Gospel) truth itself:—assurance, belief, believe, faith, fidelity.
All biblical history pointed to Yeshua as ha’Moshiach. If you trusted God, you would recognize Him in Yeshua.
Matthew 3:8-9 (ESV) Bear fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.
As always, God is interested in our heart condition and our relationship with Him. Now a good part of that relationship is seen in how well we keep His mitzvoth. However He sees the “why” of everything we do. Keeping the mitzvoth just because you are Jewish or Mesianic is not enough. It is not even enough to keep them just because He said to do it. As Rosh Hashanah draws near, our thoughts are turned inward as we examine ourselves. And honestly, this is where I often fall short. One of my favorite sayings is “God said it, we do it. Period!” No, NO, NO!!! No period. God said it, and we do it because we love Him. That is where He told us how to have a relationship with Him; to walk with Him as Adam did in the Garden.
El-Shaddai, Almighty God (Gen 17:1) is the One who will provide that “period.” And may it never be as in our haftara:
Isaiah 63:1-4 (ESV) Who is this who comes from Edom,
in crimsoned garments from Bozrah,
he who is splendid in his apparel,
marching in the greatness of his strength?
“It is I, speaking in righteousness,
mighty to save.”
Why is your apparel red,
and your garments like his who treads in the winepress?
“I have trodden the winepress alone,
and from the peoples no one was with me;
I trod them in my anger
and trampled them in my wrath;
their lifeblood spattered on my garments,
and stained all my apparel.
For the day of vengeance was in my heart,
and my year of redemption had come.
Because our God is not only a God of love. He is that to those who love Him. But to those who do not, He will be a God of vengeance. Those who miss the mark in His love will, no matter how well we keep
taste His vengeance.So in this season of repentance, may we truly repent our heart condition, improve our relationship and our halacha, our walk with El Chaiyai, the God Of My Life (Pslm 42:8). And that at the end of our journey we will hear “‘Well done, good and faithful servant. … Enter into the joy of your master.’” (Mat 25:23b,d ESV)
