|
|
Niddah
Jan 14, 2016 8:32:49 GMT -8
Post by jimmie on Jan 14, 2016 8:32:49 GMT -8
Second Text:
"Ok but let's talk clean and unclean purification . You have missed the other 65 books of the Bible somewhere in your interpretation. Will you be making sacrifices to redeem your firstborn? Will you be clean (more holy and pleasing to God) by keeping kosher? No. This is lifestyle patterns you are setting up in your marriage. Not requirements of godly living in right relationship with God. Tread carefully before you pick and choose to implement legalism and not grace in your marriage. Not letting your husband touch you for 7 days every month is ridiculous."
Rivkah, I think your friend has a valid point which must addressed. It would be a sin on your part to fail to make a sacrifice to redeem your firstborn son, since that would be falling short of the written law (  ) of God. When we sin, we have an advocate with the Father, who is faithful and just, who forgives us of our sins. The way alon put it in another thread is that without the law there can be no grace. Your friend cannot experience hyper grace because there is no law for her to break. Should we break God’s law to experience hyper grace? As Paul says, “God Forbid.” Obeying God’s law is a blessing. Disobeying God’s law is a curse. To have the curse of our sin (breaking the law) removed and be given a blessing is hyper grace. |
|
|
|
Post by jimmie on Jan 6, 2016 8:54:38 GMT -8
This brings us to the Hebrew term- “b’racha,” blessing. The root of this word is “b’rech,” ררבָּ “knee.” Dan C This is where the English expression "Break a Knee" comes from. The "ch" makes the "k" sound. There is a fancy name for those types of saying but it escapes me. |
|
|
|
Post by jimmie on Dec 28, 2015 14:45:20 GMT -8
[quote author=" Elizabeth" source="/post/19907/thread" timestamp="1451059858 Jimmy did make some useful comments that I found informative though.[/quote] Thanks for your kind words. |
|
|
|
Post by jimmie on Dec 22, 2015 12:28:10 GMT -8
I suppose one could also say that the preparation, practice, costuming and such needed to play music, sing or preach seems like a display also. And indeed it would be, if its' purpose was to be seen of men rather than God.
|
|
|
|
Post by jimmie on Dec 22, 2015 10:32:29 GMT -8
When I first heard about Davidic Dance, my first question to the young lady telling me about it was to ask if it was done in the nude like David. She proceeded to tell me that David was dressed in a linen ephod or covering which Michal perceived to be an uncovering because it was a simple priests’ garment and not a royal garment. Ouch! Out of the mouth of babes and suckling thou hast perfected praise. Evidently rebuke also.
Michal should have been like Miriam, who went out with timbrels and dance Ex. 15:20 or Jephthah’s daughter Judges 11:34. She should have turned her mourning into dancing Ps 30:11. There is a time to mourn and a time to dance Eccl. 3:4. We should not dance when it is time to mourn Ex. 32:19
|
|
|
|
Post by jimmie on Dec 18, 2015 15:03:46 GMT -8
Paul walked among and read the pagan devotions on Mars Hill according to Acts 17:22 & 23. We can’t concluded from this that he was observing/honoring any of them. But what can be concluded, from his actions and those of Jesus in John 10:22-39, is their willingness to meet sinners where they are and correct them by telling them about the One True God. If that can be done during the Feast of Dedication, then by all means do so.
|
|
|
|
Post by jimmie on Dec 15, 2015 11:02:12 GMT -8
The second we start seeing ourselves in these prostitutes, the enemy looses a huge battle. True, when Tamar played the prostitute with Judah, he was unable to forgive her until he had a clear picture of himself. |
|
|
|
Post by jimmie on Dec 14, 2015 15:03:57 GMT -8
Looks as if Jesus wasn't the first to have compassion upon an adulterous woman. Had Solomon had the mindset of a Pharisees surely he would have had both women put to death. In II Kings 6:24-33 another king is faced with the same circumstance and his answer is to remove Elisha's head.
|
|
|
|
Post by jimmie on Dec 7, 2015 15:27:29 GMT -8
[quote author=" alon" source="/post/19852/thread" timestamp="1449518535 Even without the food and fellowship it brings people in the parent synagogue, just lighting the candles and saying the prayers helps me focus on Him in a time when the rest of the country is in a feeding frenzy over a pagan holiday. This is a holiday most if not all of us until relatively recently observed ourselves, so anything that redirects those feelings of loss over things of my pagan past is a good thing. I would think if you have young children at home this would be especially important. It is also a witness. Everyone knows I keep this tradition, and while they don’t want to hear how bad Christmas is, they are willing, even eager to talk to me about Chanukkah. Dan C [/p][/quote] I guess this is where my problem lies. Hanukkha appears to be a Jewish alternative to Christmas/festival of lights. I have studied many cultures and they all seem to have a festival of lights that occurs around the winter solstice. When I studied with the Jehovah Witness, shortly after getting married, I learned to esskew holidays that had pagan roots so I only celebrated one christmas after I got married. Before, that my family stopped celebrating any holiday's, when I was 7 years old. My father gave no other reason than I was to old for them now. So even though I have had young children in the house for 31 years, I don't have any longing to replace christmas. The information about Hanukkha being a delayed Sukkot does help me come to a deeper of my observance of Sukkot as well as the historical value of the original Hanukkha. |
|
|
|
Post by jimmie on Dec 7, 2015 10:55:40 GMT -8
You are in my prayers as well. May God bless and keep you.
|
|
|
|
Post by jimmie on Dec 7, 2015 10:54:37 GMT -8
you will be in my prayers as well.
|
|
|
|
Post by jimmie on Dec 7, 2015 10:51:33 GMT -8
alon,
I follow your logic of delayed feasts due to war. However we are not at war now, so why not keep the feast at the appointed time. Mark argues from silence: since scripture doesn’t say that Jesus condemned the feast he must have partook of it. The Feast of Dedication is mentioned in Mark 10:22 to set up the discourse between Jesus and the Jews that follows. The Jews wanted to know if Jesus was the Christ/Messiah/Anointed. He had shown the Jews works but they refused to see Jesus as Christ. Yet they believed that one day of oil lasted 8 days, even though they had not seen it. Weather Jesus kept the Feast of Dedication, I don’t know. But he did use it to show the Jews their errors. I don’t keep the feast, nor do I contemn those who do.
|
|
|
|
Niddah
Nov 25, 2015 15:27:51 GMT -8
Post by jimmie on Nov 25, 2015 15:27:51 GMT -8
This seems strait forward to me.
Lev 15:18 The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.
Compare with Deut 23:9-11 when it occurs during an army encampment.
|
|
|
|
Post by jimmie on Nov 25, 2015 9:59:49 GMT -8
Daniel was in a situation in which he could not keep all the commandments of God. He had no access to the temple as it had been destroyed. He purposed in his heart not to be defiled by the king’s meat. Was not Daniel keeping the heart of the commandments in his situation? He was close to God in spite of being in the throngs of national punishment for the disobedience of God’s Commands. Though he was cut off from sacrificing yet he obeyed. Though we are cut off from performing many acts prescribe in the commandments, we must still purpose in our heart to do what is commanded of us. Then we can be pleasing unto God just as Daniel was.
Easter was married to an unbelieving husband yet she had a heart of service and sacrifice unto the people of God.
Daniel and Ester didn’t focus on their inability and inopportunity to keep some commandments, but rather on those that they could. In so doing they not only drew closer to God but they also opened up avenues for others to draw closer to God.
Mark 9:24 And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.
We should cry out, “LORD, I obey; help though my disobedience.”
|
|
|
|
Post by jimmie on Nov 25, 2015 6:16:49 GMT -8
|
|
) of God. When we sin, we have an advocate with the Father, who is faithful and just, who forgives us of our sins. The way alon put it in another thread is that without the law there can be no grace. Your friend cannot experience hyper grace because there is no law for her to break. Should we break God’s law to experience hyper grace? As Paul says, “God Forbid.” Obeying God’s law is a blessing. Disobeying God’s law is a curse. To have the curse of our sin (breaking the law) removed and be given a blessing is hyper grace.
