RR Psalm 31:24 Part 20
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Psalm 31:24(23) – Part 20
Psalm 31:24 Love Adonai, all His kedoshim! Adonai preserves all the faithful, but the proud He pays back in full.
This verse has a few “moving parts.” First, there is a command to love God. “Check!” Then, we learn to whom this command should apply…. (All His Chasidim - I’ll come back to this in a moment.) Then, there are two more parts… first, Yehovah(YHVH) preserves (guards or watches over) the eternally truthful (faithful).
Secondly, “AND He repays the prideful completely.” How would God repay the prideful? He will help them realize the fruitlessness of their vanity. God will help the prideful have nothing about which to be prideful. Proverbs 16:5 Adonai abhors all the proud in heart. Be assured, they will not go unpunished. God has no opportunity to fill (bless) someone who is already full of him/herself. The outcome of such people is promised… Obadiah 1:3 The arrogance of your heart has deceived you—living in the clefts of the rock—his dwelling place is lofty, saying in his heart: ‘Who shall bring me down to the earth?’ 4 Even if you soar like the eagle, and even if you set your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down.’” declares Adonai.
The TLV translates “Chasidim” as “Kedoshim,” and they are similar, but they are not the same. Kedoshim are saints, God’s holy ones (set apart by obedience to God’s commands). “Chasidim” are defined by the Chabad movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chabad, (a sect of orthodox Judaism), as a people who deal with everything in the world (both physical and spiritual) on a spiritual level https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/222869/jewish/What-is-a-Chassid.htm.
Rabbi Trail: BTW, the Chabadniks have this wrong. There has only been one true perfect Chosed who ever lived (by their own definition, a Chosed is one who can control every thought) and His name is Yeshua HaMashiach, not the Lubavuche Rebbe. End RT.
Our subject verse specifically invites Chasidim everywhere to love God. In doing so, our love for each other is also perfected. 1John 4:7 Loved ones, let us love one another, for love is from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. But wait, there’s more… 1John 4:20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar. For the one who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
Love God, be faithful and don’t be prideful. Those are our take-aways for today. Tomorrow we will finish Psalm 31. Shalom shalom.
Daily Bread, reading plan by Lars Enarson (https://www.thewatchman.org/)
Wed2-July 20256th of Tamuz, 5785
Nu 20:14-21Jer 49Ezr 82 Co 10 Lk 7:24-50)
Psalms
Psalm 31:24(23) – Part 20
Psalm 31:24 Love Adonai, all His kedoshim! Adonai preserves all the faithful, but the proud He pays back in full.
This verse has a few “moving parts.” First, there is a command to love God. “Check!” Then, we learn to whom this command should apply…. (All His Chasidim - I’ll come back to this in a moment.) Then, there are two more parts… first, Yehovah(YHVH) preserves (guards or watches over) the eternally truthful (faithful).
Secondly, “AND He repays the prideful completely.” How would God repay the prideful? He will help them realize the fruitlessness of their vanity. God will help the prideful have nothing about which to be prideful. Proverbs 16:5 Adonai abhors all the proud in heart. Be assured, they will not go unpunished. God has no opportunity to fill (bless) someone who is already full of him/herself. The outcome of such people is promised… Obadiah 1:3 The arrogance of your heart has deceived you—living in the clefts of the rock—his dwelling place is lofty, saying in his heart: ‘Who shall bring me down to the earth?’ 4 Even if you soar like the eagle, and even if you set your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down.’” declares Adonai.
The TLV translates “Chasidim” as “Kedoshim,” and they are similar, but they are not the same. Kedoshim are saints, God’s holy ones (set apart by obedience to God’s commands). “Chasidim” are defined by the Chabad movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chabad, (a sect of orthodox Judaism), as a people who deal with everything in the world (both physical and spiritual) on a spiritual level https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/222869/jewish/What-is-a-Chassid.htm.
Rabbi Trail: BTW, the Chabadniks have this wrong. There has only been one true perfect Chosed who ever lived (by their own definition, a Chosed is one who can control every thought) and His name is Yeshua HaMashiach, not the Lubavuche Rebbe. End RT.
Our subject verse specifically invites Chasidim everywhere to love God. In doing so, our love for each other is also perfected. 1John 4:7 Loved ones, let us love one another, for love is from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. But wait, there’s more… 1John 4:20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar. For the one who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
Love God, be faithful and don’t be prideful. Those are our take-aways for today. Tomorrow we will finish Psalm 31. Shalom shalom.
Daily Bread, reading plan by Lars Enarson (https://www.thewatchman.org/)
Wed2-July 20256th of Tamuz, 5785
Nu 20:14-21Jer 49Ezr 82 Co 10 Lk 7:24-50)
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