RR Psalm 51:15 Part 14
Shalom,
Psalm 51:15 Then will I teach transgressors Your ways and sinners will return to You.
Here, in this verse, there is a turn. Up until now, David has been rather self-focused. First he is repulsed by his sin against God through adultery, murder and more. Then he repeatedly expresses the desire to be cleansed of sin. Now David takes on (what I would like to call) a kingdom mindset. This happens in two ways, bring people into God’s kingdom, and build people up in God’s kingdom. David has a vision for the Bride of Messiah. She needs to be developed into maturity.
Ephesians 4:12 to equip the kedoshim for the work of service, for building up the body of Messiah. 13 This will continue until we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of Ben-Elohim—to mature adulthood, to the measure of the stature of Messiah’s fullness.
This flies in the face of the “just as I am” mentality so prevalent in churches today. Yes, Yeshua will meet everyone at their point of need. He will reach out and find you, to help you realize what a mess you’ve made living according to your own wits. Then He pulls you up, out of the muck and into His loving embrace. Psalm 30:2(1b) I will exalt You, Adonai, for You have lifted me up, and did not let my enemies gloat over me.
The followers of Yeshua were originally referred to as “followers of the way.” Acts 24:14 “But this I confess to you, that according to the Way (which they call a sect), I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything written in the Torah and the Prophets. For every one of us, choosing to follow God’s ways (and not our own) requires change, and change is a process, not an event.
Luke 9:23 Then Yeshua was saying to everyone, “If anyone wants to follow Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross every day, and follow Me.
This is our daily process, not my will, but Thy will be done. We can’t help others along the road to Jerusalem until we are established in the way ourselves.
John 14:3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to Myself, so that where I am you may also be.
Yeshua is going to establish His holy throne in new Jerusalem, so that’s where we are going to BE together with Him. Zechariah saw it and prophesied (see chapter 14), and so did Jeremiah. Jeremiah 3:17 At that time they will call Jerusalem the throne of Adonai and all the nations will gather into it, to Jerusalem, in the Name of Adonai. No longer will they walk according to the stubbornness of their evil heart.
What’s better than that? Jerusalem will become new Jerusalem. Finally, Jerusalem is not geography, but the holy people who live and worship God there. Revelation 21:2 I also saw the holy city—the New Jerusalem—coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. Welcome fellow citizens. Shalom shalom.
Day 26 of the Omer
Daily Bread, reading plan by Lars Enarson (https://www.thewatchman.org/)
Thu30-Apr-202613th of Iyar, 5786
Le 23:23-32 Isa 61-62Job 172 Jn (Mt 17)
Psalm 51:15 Then will I teach transgressors Your ways and sinners will return to You.
Here, in this verse, there is a turn. Up until now, David has been rather self-focused. First he is repulsed by his sin against God through adultery, murder and more. Then he repeatedly expresses the desire to be cleansed of sin. Now David takes on (what I would like to call) a kingdom mindset. This happens in two ways, bring people into God’s kingdom, and build people up in God’s kingdom. David has a vision for the Bride of Messiah. She needs to be developed into maturity.
Ephesians 4:12 to equip the kedoshim for the work of service, for building up the body of Messiah. 13 This will continue until we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of Ben-Elohim—to mature adulthood, to the measure of the stature of Messiah’s fullness.
This flies in the face of the “just as I am” mentality so prevalent in churches today. Yes, Yeshua will meet everyone at their point of need. He will reach out and find you, to help you realize what a mess you’ve made living according to your own wits. Then He pulls you up, out of the muck and into His loving embrace. Psalm 30:2(1b) I will exalt You, Adonai, for You have lifted me up, and did not let my enemies gloat over me.
The followers of Yeshua were originally referred to as “followers of the way.” Acts 24:14 “But this I confess to you, that according to the Way (which they call a sect), I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything written in the Torah and the Prophets. For every one of us, choosing to follow God’s ways (and not our own) requires change, and change is a process, not an event.
Luke 9:23 Then Yeshua was saying to everyone, “If anyone wants to follow Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross every day, and follow Me.
This is our daily process, not my will, but Thy will be done. We can’t help others along the road to Jerusalem until we are established in the way ourselves.
John 14:3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to Myself, so that where I am you may also be.
Yeshua is going to establish His holy throne in new Jerusalem, so that’s where we are going to BE together with Him. Zechariah saw it and prophesied (see chapter 14), and so did Jeremiah. Jeremiah 3:17 At that time they will call Jerusalem the throne of Adonai and all the nations will gather into it, to Jerusalem, in the Name of Adonai. No longer will they walk according to the stubbornness of their evil heart.
What’s better than that? Jerusalem will become new Jerusalem. Finally, Jerusalem is not geography, but the holy people who live and worship God there. Revelation 21:2 I also saw the holy city—the New Jerusalem—coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. Welcome fellow citizens. Shalom shalom.
Day 26 of the Omer
Daily Bread, reading plan by Lars Enarson (https://www.thewatchman.org/)
Thu30-Apr-202613th of Iyar, 5786
Le 23:23-32 Isa 61-62Job 172 Jn (Mt 17)
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