RR Psalm 39:11,12(10,11) Part 6
Shalom,
Psalm 39:11 Remove Your scourge from me. I perish by the blow of Your hand. 12 With rebukes You chasten one for iniquity and You consume like a moth what he finds pleasure in. Surely all humanity is but a vapor. Selah
The first six verses of Psalm 39 end with this refrain… Psalm 39:6b Surely all humanity is but vapor. Selah. Likewise, the next six verses end with the identical refrain… See the RR from Monday, November 17th item #2 for my comments on verse 6b. These two - six verse refrains - are remarkably similar. In the first refrain, David is waiting on the Lord and guarding his tongue by keeping silent. In the second refrain (identically), David is waiting on the Lord and guarding his tongue by keeping silent.
King David seems to realize the truth that many people have spent a lifetime denying. God is righteous while we are not. Like in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31), Luke 16:26 Besides all this, between us and you a great chasm is firmly set, so that those who want to cross over to you cannot, nor can those from there cross over to us. The Hebrew word for “Hebrew” (Iv’ri) meaning “one who crosses over.”
Rabbi Trail: Abraham is called the first Hebrew because he crossed over from unbelief into faith (Genesis 15:6). Then Abraham had lunch with Yeshua (Genesis 18) and his faith was complete. See Asher Intrater’s book, “Who Ate Lunch With Abraham?” https://www.tikkunglobal.org/product-page/who-ate-lunch-with-abraham-1 Hint: the title of the book is also the title of the first chapter. End RT.
Because our mortal life is like a cloud (vapor), (It appears to be something, but is really made of nothing. One moment it is present, and the next moment it is blown away.) we must be “born again,” that is “born from above.” It’s interesting that we don’t have anything permanent and substantial (eternal) until this physical existence is born of the of the Spirit through faith in Messiah Yeshua.
John 3:3 Yeshua answered him, (speaking to Nicodemus) “Amen, amen I tell you, unless one is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.… 15 so that whoever believes in Him (Son of Man) may have eternal life!”
God is sovereign and will not be mocked. When we say, “God is sovereign” it means He must be obeyed immediately and without question. “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” When we pray “the Shema” (Deuteronomy 6:4ff) we are praying that all Israel (“all Israel” includes us, not them only, but us too) will obey the one true and living God and love Him with all their (our) hearts, souls and strength.
1John 4:13 We know that we abide in Him and He in us by this—because He has given us of His Spirit. 14 We have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son as Savior of the world. 15 If anyone acknowledges that Yeshua is Ben-Elohim, God abides in him and he abides in God.
Faith in Yeshua, is what gives our lives substance. Shalom shalom.
Daily Bread, reading plan by Lars Enarson (https://www.thewatchman.org/)
Thu20-Nov-202529th of Cheshvan, 5786
Ge 26:30-27:27Jdg 17-18 Ps 40Mt 28(Ro 11)
Psalm 39:11 Remove Your scourge from me. I perish by the blow of Your hand. 12 With rebukes You chasten one for iniquity and You consume like a moth what he finds pleasure in. Surely all humanity is but a vapor. Selah
The first six verses of Psalm 39 end with this refrain… Psalm 39:6b Surely all humanity is but vapor. Selah. Likewise, the next six verses end with the identical refrain… See the RR from Monday, November 17th item #2 for my comments on verse 6b. These two - six verse refrains - are remarkably similar. In the first refrain, David is waiting on the Lord and guarding his tongue by keeping silent. In the second refrain (identically), David is waiting on the Lord and guarding his tongue by keeping silent.
King David seems to realize the truth that many people have spent a lifetime denying. God is righteous while we are not. Like in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31), Luke 16:26 Besides all this, between us and you a great chasm is firmly set, so that those who want to cross over to you cannot, nor can those from there cross over to us. The Hebrew word for “Hebrew” (Iv’ri) meaning “one who crosses over.”
Rabbi Trail: Abraham is called the first Hebrew because he crossed over from unbelief into faith (Genesis 15:6). Then Abraham had lunch with Yeshua (Genesis 18) and his faith was complete. See Asher Intrater’s book, “Who Ate Lunch With Abraham?” https://www.tikkunglobal.org/product-page/who-ate-lunch-with-abraham-1 Hint: the title of the book is also the title of the first chapter. End RT.
Because our mortal life is like a cloud (vapor), (It appears to be something, but is really made of nothing. One moment it is present, and the next moment it is blown away.) we must be “born again,” that is “born from above.” It’s interesting that we don’t have anything permanent and substantial (eternal) until this physical existence is born of the of the Spirit through faith in Messiah Yeshua.
John 3:3 Yeshua answered him, (speaking to Nicodemus) “Amen, amen I tell you, unless one is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.… 15 so that whoever believes in Him (Son of Man) may have eternal life!”
God is sovereign and will not be mocked. When we say, “God is sovereign” it means He must be obeyed immediately and without question. “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” When we pray “the Shema” (Deuteronomy 6:4ff) we are praying that all Israel (“all Israel” includes us, not them only, but us too) will obey the one true and living God and love Him with all their (our) hearts, souls and strength.
1John 4:13 We know that we abide in Him and He in us by this—because He has given us of His Spirit. 14 We have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son as Savior of the world. 15 If anyone acknowledges that Yeshua is Ben-Elohim, God abides in him and he abides in God.
Faith in Yeshua, is what gives our lives substance. Shalom shalom.
Daily Bread, reading plan by Lars Enarson (https://www.thewatchman.org/)
Thu20-Nov-202529th of Cheshvan, 5786
Ge 26:30-27:27Jdg 17-18 Ps 40Mt 28(Ro 11)
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