SET APART - CHOOSING LIFE - 29 Aug 2015
29 Aug, 2015
~ 14 Elul 5775
Torah Parashah - Ki Tetze - D’varim 21:10-25:19 RSTNE p 154
The Torah Parashah = Ki Tetze - D’varim 21:10-2:19 RSTNE p 154
D’varim 22:9-11
p 154
“You
shall not sow your vineyard with different (seed) zera; lest the fruit of
your (seed) zera that you have sown, and
the fruit of your vineyard, be defiled (change
that word in RSTNE from kadosh to defiled!!!) and forfeited.
You
shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
You
shall not wear a garment of different sorts, as of wool and linen together.”
There are many teachings we can pull from this
Torah parashah... even from these 3
verses i just read....
For example we know that wool is a life giving
item because it has an electromagnetic frequency of 500, and linen also has a
frequency of 500... and the two combined = 0. -- etc....
But what i want to focus on is - the MIXING.
Remember when we learned that in B’re’shiyt
1:2 and the earth became - hay’tah tohu vavohu and
v’choshek.”
hay’tah = became
tohu = confused, empty and worthless
vovohu = shockingly confused... what hasatan does
to the “seen”.
and
v’choshek - DARK.
But He didn’t leave it like that!!
B’re’shiyt 1:3
Vay-yo’mer
Elohiym y’hiy ‘or vay’hiy ‘or.
And Elohiym said Let there be light: and there was
light.
B’re’shiyt 1:4
Vay’yar
Elohiym ‘et-ha’or kiy-tov vay-yav’del
Elohiym beyn ha’or uveyn ha chochek.
And Elohiym saw the light, that it was good: and
Elohiym divided the light from the darkness.
that word “divided” =
vay-yav’del =
root
= badal = vet-dalet-lamed
pictograph
=
vet=
house, family, divide
dalet
= door, move, hang, enter, open, path or way
lamed
= staff, lead, teach, yoke, forward, tongue, control
The
Etymological Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew says
Vet-dalet-lamed
= to separate for a purpose.
He separated dark from light....
and he vay-yav’del
-- ed His people....
Sh’mot (Exodus) 19:5 p 62
“Now
therefore, if you will obey My voice indeed and shomer My brit, then you shall
be a peculiar treasure to me above all peoples;
for all the earth is Mine.
Sh’mot 31:13 p
73
“Speak
also to the children of Yisra’el, saying, Truly My Shabbats you shall shomer; for it is an ot between Me and you throughout
your generations; that you may know that
I am YHWH that does set you apart.”
Wayiqra (Lev) 11:44-45
p 88
Wayiqra 19:2
p 95
Dan 1:8 p
435
I Thess 5:22
p 897
“Abstain
from all forms of evil.”
Kefa Aleph (I Peter) 1:14-16
p 824
Kefa Aleph 2:9
p 824
2 Corinthians 6:14-17
p 868
Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 50: 4-6
p 389
Yechezkel 14:1-11
p 402
Wayiqra 20:24-27
p 97
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Throughout the Torah, YHWH spends a lot of time
telling His people how to eat.
The first sin was about eating...
He calls us to eat different than the world.
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He separated dark from light....
and he vay-yav’del
-- ed His people....
YHWH calls us to be.
~~
He calls us to think differently than the world.
Romans 12:1-2
p 848
This is choosing hope and not fear and worry.
This is standing in defiant faith
Yochanan
Aleph (I John) 5:4-5
Gilyahna (Revelaton) 2:11, 17,
26
3:5,12,21
12:11
This is choosing to stand and walk in defiant
faith - that defies how it looks around us....
that
no matter how it looks, or feels,
no matter how “bad” the internet tells us things
might be...
standing and knowing that YHWH says He will never
leave us and He will never forsake us.
This is choosing to bow in gratitude for the things we have and the things He has
done and the things He will do for us...
This is choosing hope and not fear... because HE
said so.
**
We need to work on renewing our minds...
We do that as we study the Word.
We also do that focusing on what He has done.
Get out paper to write on....
So right now i want you to make list of 10 things you are thankful for.
write them down...
We also have difficult times remembering who we
are...
If i asked you to tell me a story about a time
when things were awful for you and you weren’t proud (pleased with) of
yourself, it would be easy to think of something...
and every time we think of those miserable
moments... we make that memory tree
stronger...
Since this is the month of ELUL.... the time of
teshuvah...
your home work is to ask YHWH to show you the
trees that need cleaned up... repent of
the sin in your life...
AND also repent of building stronger trees from
those places.
I want you to picture the tree with the
miserableness and I want to invite you to
renounce , repent and declare the truth... over
the issues i that tree...
and i want you to repent of growing that tree
bigger - focusing on that negative thing....
and then i want you to picture that tree
falling... melting away... and ask YHWH
to help you destroy it by no longer
thinking on that... you’ve repented - it is DONE....
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NOW i want you to think of a good memory... a time when you got to experience something
amazing.....
I want you to share that memory.... with someone near you...
What ever memory/ situation we think about /focus
on - that memory tree gets stronger...
That’s why it is important to intentionally focus
on what you are grateful for... b/c
those memories get stronger.
Fear and worry and hate and anger trees can get so
big they crowd the love and joy out....
but not any more... b/c we are called to be
overcomers...
we will no longer ruminate on the negative
things...
I want to invite you to repent of that and ask
YHWH to remind you/ point it out to you - every time you try and return to that
habit and then immediately make yourself go to a good memory where you were
amazing.
This is how we FIGHT.
this is how we stand in defiant faith....
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This is the month of Elul - and we need to be
preparing....
The fall Moedim are coming up...
Yom Teruah starts Sunday night Sept 13 and ends Monday night Sept 14.
Yom Kippur starts Tues night Sept 22 and ends Wed
night Sept 23.
Sukkot starts at sunset Sunday Sept 27 and goes through the 8th day -
Sun night Oct 4 - Monday night Oct 5.
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We need to remember that this month Elul - of which we are now to the 14th
day... is a month set aside for
repentance and teshuvah (returning to YHWH).
Actually the 1st of Elul starts the 40 days of favor. Repentance especially happens in the 10 days
of Awe - Yamim Nora’im.... From Yom
Teruah through Yom Kippur.
Prepare....
and we just talked about how we do that.
so I am inviting you to get a notebook/journal out
and start to do this work...
We have got to learn how to be overcomers and be
transformed by the renewing of our minds....
because then we will be continuing in His Word and
His Word (THE TRUTH) will set us free!!
So are you going to... or not?
Are you going to just push it aside... or are you
going to do it.
I’ve been reading about our brains and
exercise. I’ve been learning about how
exercise facilitates learning and how exercise kicks dementia.... and i can sit around and wait.... but i am not going to wait until i “feel like
it”... this is VITAL!!!
as is the renewing of our minds.
We have to stop being lazy and stop being too busy
and dig into His Word and retrain our brain - make new habits of thinking -
especially in those places where there is negativity.
May we know the Truth, and walk in it - with
defiant faith
deifying the things that we believed that were
lies....
may we choose and DO - LIFE this day...
because HE CALLED US TO BE DIFFERENT -TO BE SET APART FROM THE WORLD.... TO BE OVERCOMERS.
AMEIN AND AMEIN.
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