Justified/Sanctified... Sacrifices and Chaiym 3-26-16
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March 2016 ~ 16 Adar II 5776
Torah
Parashah - Tzav ~ “Give an Order”
Uyiqara
(Leviticus) 6:1(8) - 8:36
Ivrim
(Hebrews) 10
Torah:
Tzav - “Give and Order”
is
about sacrifice.... the Aahronic Levitical Priestly order and the sacrifices
involved in that system....
Remember
this system is after the Covenant that YHWH made with Avraham had been broken
by Yisra’el at Mt Sinai with the golden calf....
Pesach
is coming up and we want to look at what else there is - AFTER the sacrificial
system.
Ivrim
(Hebrews) 10: 1 - 25
p 820
Ivrim
(Hebrews) 10:1-4 p
820
“For
the Torah having a “only a” shadow of tov things to come, and not the very
image of the things,can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by
year continually, make those who draw near perfect.
2 Otherwise would they not have ceased
to be offered? Because then the worshippers once cleansed, should have had no
more awareness of their sins.
3 But in those sacrifices there is a
yearly reminder of sins.
4 For it is impossible that the dahm
(blood) of bulls and goats can take away sins.”
Matthew Nolan said.... “The sacrificial
rites were a band-aid to the relationship, they could never heal and restore
the relationship, let alone improve it!”
Ivrim 10:9 p 820
“Then
He said, Behold, I come to do Your will, O YHWH. He takes away (Greek = ananero) the
first sacrificial system, that He may establish the second (Melchizedek).
ananero = to abolish or
get rid of by execution, to destroy
Ivrim 10:10-14
10“By
that desire we aren now kadosh (sanctified) through the offering of the body of
Yahusha haMoshiach once for all.
11
And every kohen stands daily serving and offering the same sacrifices, which
can never take away sins:
12
But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins le-olam-va-ed, sat
down as the right had of YHWH.
13 Waiting from then on until all His
enemies are made His footstool.
14
For by one offering He has perfected le-olam-va-ed them that are being
set-apart.”
This
is interesting because the Kohen haGadol - stood until the last sacrifice of
the day was complete - and then he sat down - until the next day when it
started again!
Ivrim
10:14
“For by one offering He has perfected
le-olam-va-ed them that are being set-apart.”
We
don’t have to keep bringing sacrifices!
Praise Yahuah !
Yahusha was the ONE sacrifice that brought
atonement for us!!
~~
Look
back at
Ivrim 10:12-14 “But this Man,
after He had offered one sacrifice for sins le-olam-va-ed, sat down as the
right hand of YHWH; 13 Waiting from then on until all His enemies are made His
footstool.14 For by one offering He has perfected le-olam-va-ed them that are
being set-apart.”
-He is expecting - waiting, until the
fulfillment of Psalm110 (all his enemies being underfoot).
He’s
sitting and waiting.....because His work is finished! (Remember the Kohen HaGadol sat down when the
sacrifices were done for the day.)
Ivrim 10:14 “For by one
offering He has perfected le-olam-va-ed them that are being set-apart”
“Has perfected”
Strong’s
G 5048 = teleioō
1
to make perfect, complete, to carry through completely, to
accomplish, finish, bring to an end, to complete (perfect)
-add what is yet wanting in order to render a thing full
-to be found perfect
2 to bring to the end (goal) proposed
3 to accomplish
-bring to a close or fulfillment by event
-of the prophecies of the scriptures
Justification (salvation)
- a new position for those who repent...
OK - so what if we are - as Matthew Nolan
says .... “ assured of a permanent maintenance in right relationship with יהוה”
- because it says - “‘a permanent
perfection’ is brought to the saints.... ?
Nolan goes on to say - “The point is
driven home by use of the Greek verb, ‘teteleioken’ - ‘has perfected’
This
emphasizes the permanent nature of Yahusha’s sacrifice!
-
So
let’s make sure we can see this - in contrast to all the sacrifices that went
on in the Levitical priesthood!
Ivrim 10:10 and 10:14:
Ivrim 10:10 “By that desire
we aren now kadosh (sanctified) through the offering of the body of
Yahusha haMoshiach once for all.
Ivrim 10:14 “For by one
offering He has perfected le-olam-va-ed them that are being
set-apart (sanctified).”
Kadosh and being set-apart ====
== Both are Strong’s G37.....and this is a
present passive participle ‘hagiazomenous’ ‘them that are being set apart’.
What
is “kadosh” and “being set apart” in our bibles is “sanctified” in King James
Strong’s
G37 =hagiazō = to render or acknowledge, or to be venerable or hallow
2
to separate from profane things and dedicate to God
1
consecrate things to God
2
dedicate people to God
3
to purify
1
to cleanse externally
2
to purify by expiation: free from the guilt of sin
3
to purify internally by renewing of the soul
The
Greek word “hagiazomenous” / has perfected / “being set apart”
- “BEING set apart” is a continual work... an ongoing process!
This
is not - one prayer to repent and that’s it!
This
is an ongoing process ...
Halacha
= walk....
How
do you walk?? Are you walking kadosh??
~
Matthew
Nolan talked about how
“Pastors
amalgamate sanctification and
justification.”
amalgamated,
amalgamating.
1.to mix or merge so as to make a combination; blend; unite;
combine:
to amalgamate two companies.
Nolan’s
point is that if these words are mixed...
then this denies the believer -
the fear of Yahuah ...
-
by amalgamating sanctification and justification - they deny the fear of
YHWH...
Nolan says - “If you don’t understand
that the tenant of your salvation is justification = a positional change...
that then THRUSTS you - into a life long
race of sanctification.”
You are in trouble because you really
don’t understand the fear of YHWH.
Once you become justified - (I think
this is at TESHUVA), and this is a positional change - that is supposed to
thrust you into a life long race of sanctification... you never stop running
it.
So you come to understand you are a
sinner - and you repent and ask to be forgiven... = this is justification...
it is a positional change
and
You have no option...
.... the fruit of justification is = you
enter the race of sanctification....
This is what Shaul writes throughout his
works.
I Corinthians 9:24 p 857
“Don’t
you know that they who run in a race all run, but only one receives the
prize? So when you run run in such a way
that you may obtain it.”
Matthew Nolan taught -
“If you can change the terms, then you
can control the language then you can control the people... and that is what the church has
done...by amalgamating these two terms.”
I think he is making the point that in
Christianity - justification and sanctification seem to run together... both
sort of one thing....you get “saved”... and then you are just happy that “Jesus
loves you!” ...
... and you never learn how to have your
halacha so that Yahuah is pleased with you and blessed by you....
You’ve had a positional change.... meaning now you have done at least part of
TESHUVAH (repent and return to YHWH)... you’ve done the repentance... but
nobody teaches how to return to YHWH....
So you are in a new position, but you
haven’t necessarily taken one step....
and it is in the steps - the walk - the
halacha - that we are SANCTIFIED = made kadosh / holy.
The deal is supposed to be - you
recognize you are a sinner...
and there is not one thing you can do to
create atonement for your sins...
only the blood of Mashiach Yahusha
atones for me....
and this is where most of our society
stops.... “got saved”...
but we are supposed to become / live
kadosh (holy).... we are supposed to have our halacha in HIS instructions - His
Torah! (being sanctified)
and this walk... this halacha - is the
race that Shaul is talking about in
I Corinthians 9:24! :)
But if there is no
direction on HOW to have halacha in Torah - or even that one SHOULD...
Then the church is left
with one of three kinds of persons:
1. Immature but very HUNGRY -
desperately moving from one study to another looking for that Spiritual
“meat”....
2. Blind sheeple that have no idea that there
even should be more let alone - that there is more.
3. Persons who
leave the “faith” - because it is so empty and powerless.
So if we SEE - we come to
understand that JUSTIFICATION is just a positional change...
AND now you are at the
starting line - you have met Mashiach (Messiah) -the Living Torah - and now you
are ready to learn to run in the written Torah (instructions).
So, let’s talk about the story in
Mattityahu 20:1-16 = about the land
owner who went out in the morning and hired some workers....and then went out
again in the third hour and hired others, and then at the 11th hour he hired
some more workers .... and they all got paid the same!!!...
Does this bother you??
Why do we work so hard? Why are we, or why SHOULD we be - intentional at keeping Torah??...
Why should we live counter culture....???!!!
Well I was asking the same thing....
**
Let’s look at another
story:
The Rich Young Ruler
Matthew 19:16-30 p 694
Eddie
Chumney has some interesting things to say about this story...and I will base
what I am going to say to you on his teaching....
Eddie
said, “Almost 100% of the time when I have heard the rich young ruler preached
in church, it has been preached in the context of salvation.
But,
as I will explain, salvation was NOT the question or the explanation given.
- It was about being the GREATEST in
the Kingdom of Heaven.”
Matthew 19:16, the rich young
ruler asked:
“Tov Master, what tov thing shall I
do, that I may have eternal chayim (life) in the olam haba?”
(“Olam haba = world, or age to come;
The reward of the redeemed”)
Eddie
says - “Most commonly ETERNAL LIFE,
which is the Strong's word (2222) and is the Greek word, "ZOE"
has been equated within Christianity as
---- SALVATION.”
“But the Greek word ZOE means "the most abundant life their
is".
In Yochanan (John) 10:10 p 765 Yahusha said:
“I am come that they might have
chayim, and that they might have it more abundantly.”
“Chayim”
(life) = Strong’s 2222
“More
abundantly” = the highest form of life.
“The opposite of the ZOE life is the PSUCHE life.
The
PSUCHE life is the ‘life of the flesh; the fleshly life or the self-willed
life’.
”The ZOE life is the "life of the Spirit - completely
yielding your life in obedience to YHWH and His Will for your life".
- So
he came and asked - how can I be happy?... how can I have more?....
- we
know that the USA is one of the wealthiest countries - but most people are not
happy..... “stuff” doesn’t make one
happy.
- “Stuff”
doesn’t give one ABUNDANT LIFE!!
Yochanan
(John) 12:25 p
768
“He that loves his chayim (life) shall
lose it; and he that has no concern for his chayim in the olam hazeh shall keep
it to chayim eternal.”
"He
that loves his chayim/ life = Strong’s = 5590 = PSUCHE = self-willed
life
he
that has no concern for his chayim / life = (5590 = PSUCHE = self-willed
life)
in
the olam hazeh shall keep it to LIFE (ZOE = 2222) ETERNAL"
So, ZOE (2222) is the MOST ABUNDANT LIFE (John 10:10).
Zoe is the HIGHEST LIFE you can live.
The
PSUCHE life is the fleshly life that wars against the ZOE life.
We are to lay down our PSUCHE (fleshly life) to have the ZOE
(spirit life of Yahuah).
We
are to hate our PSUCHE life (the desires of the flesh that are at enmity
against Yahuah and His Will for our lives)
and
to seek the ZOE life (the Spirit life).
Yahusha
laid down His PSUCHE life (the will of the flesh),
to obtain the ZOE life,
which was to do the Will of Yahuah
and to die on the tree for the sins of
the world.
Yochanan
(John) 10:17
p 765
“Therefore does My Abba love Me,
because I lay down My chayim (psuche life), that I might take it again.”
In
the Garden of Gethsemane, Yahusha yielded his PSUCHE life for the ZOE life of
Yahuah.
Mattityahu
26:38 p 703
“Then said He to them, My being
(psuche) is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death: stay here, and watch with
Me.”
Chai
2416 is the corresponding Hebrew word for Zoe 2222.
Nephesh
5315 is the corresponding Hebrew word for psuche 5590
“So, the rich young ruler in Mattityahu 19:16 wanted to know
what he needed to do to have -- “ETERNAL
LIFE” (or ZOE = 2222 which is the
HIGHEST LIFE which spiritually BEGINS with salvation but really
refers to SPIRITUAL MATURITY).
Did
you get that?...
...Zoe life /chayim -
BEGINS with salvation - repenting of sins... a positional CHANGE - and then
begins the halacha - the running it out = the maturing!
The
rich young ruler indicates that he has kept the commandments of Yahuah (Mattityahu 19:17-19)
and
he then asked in
Mattityahu
19:20:
“All these things have i kept from my
youth up: what do I lack yet?”
and
Yahusha replied:
Mattityahu
19:21
“If you will be perfect, go and sell
what you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in the
shamayim; and come and follow Me.”
“perfect”
= teleios, Strongs G5046 = mature
This
corresponds with the Hebrew word tamim =
tamim
= “to be spiritually mature”...
=“which
is the same concept as having ZOE = the fullness of the Spirit led life of
Yahuah = abundant life!!!”
So Yahusha is answering the Rich Young Ruler -
-by telling him
that he needed to have
Zoe -
abundant life
and be
Teleios = spiritually mature
Even
the talmidim (disciples didn’t understand what Yahusha was saying .....
Spiritual Maturity IS the
Highest Reward in the kingdom of heaven ....
because
they asked in
Mattityahu
19:25
“Who then can be saved?”
Yahusha’s
response tells us that He was talking about: “what was required
to have the HIGHEST PLACE in heaven (the
Zoe) life of Yahuah....
just
like Kefa replied in
Mattityahu
19:27
“Then answered Kepha and said to Him,
See, we have forsaken all, and followed You; (unlike the rich young ruler- they
followed Yahusha completely) --- what shall we have therefore?”
Yahusha
says
Matthew 19:28
“Truly I say to you, Those of you who
have followed Me, in the regeneration (Olam haba, age to come, Messianic age)
when the Ben Ahdahm (Son of Man) shall sit on the kesay of His esteem, you also
shall sit upon the 12 thrones, (the HIGHEST PLACE AND RANK in heaven), administering mishpat over the 12 tribes of
Yisra’el (all the other believers who are less in the kingdom).”
*
So...
the Rich Young Ruler was asking what he needed to do to have the
HIGHEST PLACE (ZOE) in the Kingdom of
Heaven - LIFE RIGHT THEN.... he was
saying - i have stuff... but what do i do to have ZOE/TAMIM - abundant and spiritually
mature life???!!!
The
rich young ruler FAILED to give up his self-willed life (PSUCHE) and completely
follow Yahusha.
However,
the disciples DID - so Yahusha promised them that, unlike the rich young ruler,
...
... they will SIT ON
THRONES (highest position in kingdom of heaven, which corresponds to the
POSITION OF THE BRIDE .
This tells me there are levels in eternity... I don’t know what
that looks like... or means... but clearly not everyone is the same.
Rev
5:10
p 914
“And have made us melechim ad Kohanim
to our Aloah: and shall reign in the olam.”
“
and judge the twelve tribes of Israel (all the other believers who are saved
and in the kingdom of heaven).”
Tamim and Zoe are concepts of spiritual maturity which are
characteristic of the Bride of Mashiach!
***
I am reminded of the verse that stuck
out so clearly to me last Shabbat:
Yechezkel (Ezekiel) 22:26 p
410
“Her kohanim have violated My Torah, and have profaned My
kadosh things: they have put no
difference between the kadosh and profane, neither have they shown any
difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from My
Shabbats, and I am profaned among them.”
~ Nobody is teaching the people how to
run!!
~ Nobody is teaching the people how to
have halacha (your walk/run) - the way you live... in Yahuah’s instructions!!
~ So most people don’t know what is
kadosh and what is not kadosh, or how to live kadosh,
~ Most people don’t know the difference
between the clean and the unclean.... so they consume things that are not
food! (And we wonder why we have so much
disease!)
~ Most people do not have any
understanding of Shabbat - 7th day Sabbath Rest.
~ Most people do not know the name of
the Living Alohiym - they just call Him “God”... and so He has been profaned...
they have forgotten his name - or His name has come to a place of not being
used...
~~ And nobody is teaching them.
~They don’t even know...
= Very much a crisis state of affairs -
very apparent this weekend... as the pagan-ness burns brightly.
Ivrim 13:10-13 p 823
10“We have an altar, from which they
have no right to eat, who serve the earthly Tent of Meeting.
11For the bodies of those beasts, whose
dahm is brought into the Kadosh-Place by the Kohen HaGadol for sin, are burned
outside the camp.
12 Therefore Yahusha also,, that He might set-apart the people of
Yisra’el with His own dahm, suffered outside the gate.
13 Let us go forth therefore to Him
outside the camp, bearing His reproach.
Let us NOT go to the 3rd temple made by
man!
IT is horrific that they don’t know -
and this is a difficult way to live
BUT they only way those that are hungry
are ever going to have an opportunity is ...
if we, and people like us have our
halacha in Yahuah’s instructions - keeping His Torah....
Is it difficult?
To live counter culture? - you bet it is.
It is SACRIFICE....
BUT....
I don’t know about you - but I bow at
the altar outside the camp....
to the ONE whose sacrifice covers all of
sin for all time.
and in so doing... I choose to bear the
reproach He bore.
Because we are called to be
the Bride!
Justified with a positional
change because of our repentance...
and
Sanctified as we live - Zoe -
abundant life, and tamim - spiritually mature ....
Amein.
