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How to increase righteousness on the Earth (Isaiah 11; John 20; Ezekiel 18)
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How to be really slain in the Spirit (Isaiah 10:32–12:6)Forgiving sin: Breathe out death; breathe in Life (John 20:19–23)Death to the (old) man! (Ezekiel 18)When the wolf learns to love the lambHow the wicked become holySiblings reunited: Ephraim and Judah, Christianity and JudaismRemember when you were strange?Mark of the feast: We’ve seen the wicked, and the wicked were we
One theme we don’t typically associate with Passover and Matzot1 is ingathering of people. The Feast of Sukkot2 is the time primarily associated with the idea of ingathering. However, one can’t procrastinate if one wants to join God’s people.
For many of us, procrastination is a really bad habit that is very hard to break. There are few advantages to procrastination and many disadvantages and setbacks that come along when we procrastinate.
Ezekiel 18:21-32 tells us that if a righteous person decides to turn their back on God and decides to live the remainder of their life in wickedness and debauchery, God will consider them as wicked but if a wicked person turns their back on evil and decides to live the remainder of their live in holiness, God will accept them because He knows their heart.
It doesn’t behoove us to wait until the last minute to repent and turn to God, because we never know when our end will actually come. It could be tomorrow, it could be 10 seconds from now, it could be 100 years from now, we have no idea. We can not predict the date and time of our own death. It is very unwise to try to play the game of procrastination when it comes to repentance and holy living.
Since the start of Passover, we have started “counting the omer,” which is the counting of the 50 days from Passover to Shavuot. Counting the omer is not about counting the number of days; it’s about counting the people who are coming to a knowledge of God, who are on the same journey from bondage to freedom, from slavery to Torah.
Our goal is to be counted among the righteous, to be a part of God’s people, because we know there’s something beyond this life, this plane of existence.
How do we know this? Because God has told us.
How to be really slain in the Spirit (Isaiah 10:32–12:6)
This passage starts with a prophecy about the decisive downfall of Assyria. God was condemning, correcting and reprimanding His own people by allowing the Assyrians to take the 10 northern tribes of Israel into exile. God reprimands His own people is a good thing, even if He leaves the wicked unpunished in this life. Correcting a wicked person is not always useful, because they don’t receive the correction. They don’t care what is right, because they choose to do what is wrong regardless of the law.
“Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse, And a branch from his roots will bear fruit. The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, The spirit of counsel and strength, The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD. And He will delight in the fear of the LORD, And He will not judge by what His eyes see, Nor make a decision by what His ears hear; But...
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By Hallel FellowshipIn this study
How to be really slain in the Spirit (Isaiah 10:32–12:6)Forgiving sin: Breathe out death; breathe in Life (John 20:19–23)Death to the (old) man! (Ezekiel 18)When the wolf learns to love the lambHow the wicked become holySiblings reunited: Ephraim and Judah, Christianity and JudaismRemember when you were strange?Mark of the feast: We’ve seen the wicked, and the wicked were we
One theme we don’t typically associate with Passover and Matzot1 is ingathering of people. The Feast of Sukkot2 is the time primarily associated with the idea of ingathering. However, one can’t procrastinate if one wants to join God’s people.
For many of us, procrastination is a really bad habit that is very hard to break. There are few advantages to procrastination and many disadvantages and setbacks that come along when we procrastinate.
Ezekiel 18:21-32 tells us that if a righteous person decides to turn their back on God and decides to live the remainder of their life in wickedness and debauchery, God will consider them as wicked but if a wicked person turns their back on evil and decides to live the remainder of their live in holiness, God will accept them because He knows their heart.
It doesn’t behoove us to wait until the last minute to repent and turn to God, because we never know when our end will actually come. It could be tomorrow, it could be 10 seconds from now, it could be 100 years from now, we have no idea. We can not predict the date and time of our own death. It is very unwise to try to play the game of procrastination when it comes to repentance and holy living.
Since the start of Passover, we have started “counting the omer,” which is the counting of the 50 days from Passover to Shavuot. Counting the omer is not about counting the number of days; it’s about counting the people who are coming to a knowledge of God, who are on the same journey from bondage to freedom, from slavery to Torah.
Our goal is to be counted among the righteous, to be a part of God’s people, because we know there’s something beyond this life, this plane of existence.
How do we know this? Because God has told us.
How to be really slain in the Spirit (Isaiah 10:32–12:6)
This passage starts with a prophecy about the decisive downfall of Assyria. God was condemning, correcting and reprimanding His own people by allowing the Assyrians to take the 10 northern tribes of Israel into exile. God reprimands His own people is a good thing, even if He leaves the wicked unpunished in this life. Correcting a wicked person is not always useful, because they don’t receive the correction. They don’t care what is right, because they choose to do what is wrong regardless of the law.
“Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse, And a branch from his roots will bear fruit. The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, The spirit of counsel and strength, The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD. And He will delight in the fear of the LORD, And He will not judge by what His eyes see, Nor make a decision by what His ears hear; But...