"If I regard wickedness in mine heart, the Lord will not hear me."

Ps 66

Maturity sometimes brings a degree of embarrassment when we realize that our less mature thoughts and actions once caused trouble in our relationships. While we're dealing with that embarrassment, we can take heart that our Creator is glad we have finally come to understand what He's been waiting a long time for us to figure out.

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Maturity sometimes brings a degree of embarrassment when we realize that our less mature thoughts and actions once caused trouble in our relationships. While we’re dealing with that embarrassment, we can take heart that our Creator is glad we h

Have you ever unintentionally broken a promise or let someone down who was counting on you? If you are a person of character, the feeling you have from not being able to keep your word is primarily disappointment with yourself and that can be a good thing. That negative feeling of dissatisfaction with ourself can be a tool that we are able to use in the future to prevent it from happening again. David had that feeling of disappointment when he wrote Psalm 103, look at verses 2—5, “Bless the LORD, O my soul, and do not forget all His kind deeds— He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the Pit and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion, who satisfies you with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.” He remembers that even though he felt anguish, turning to his Creator would give him the answers he needed to do the right thing for everyone he had disappointed.

Thought for Today: Shabbat July 08:

Thank YHVH for all your daily handicaps, for through them, you can find yourself, your work and your Creator.

BIBLE STUDY LESSON 04

SERIES U --- THE EARLY CHURCH

SOMETHING IMPORTANT

HEALING AT THE BEAUTIFUL GATE

From Acts 3

One afternoon, Peter and John were on their way to the three o’clock prayer service at the temple. As they came near the Beautiful Gate of the temple, they saw some people carrying a man on a cot. The man’s friends brought him there every day, so that he could sit by the gate to beg from people as they went into the temple. The man had just settled down to beg as Peter and John approached the gate and he asked them for some money. Peter and John looked intently at the man for a moment. Then Peter spoke to him. [Look at us!] said Peter. The lame beggar did look at them, assuming that they would give him some money. [We have no money to give you,] said Peter. [But we have something more important. In the Name of Yeshua of Nazareth, get up and walk!] Peter held the lame man’s hand and lifted him to his feet. As the man arose, his feet and ankles grew strong instantly so that he leaped up and began walking. As Peter and John went on into the temple, the man went too, walking, leaping, and praising YHVH as he went. When the people saw him doing this and recognized that he was the lame beggar who sat by the Beautiful Gate, they were absolutely astounded. Crowds gathered there on Solomon’s Porch where the man was clinging to Peter and John. Now that Peter had a crowd, he saw the opportunity for a sermon. [Men of Israel!] said Peter. [Why are you so surprised? Why are you staring at us as though we had the power to make this man well by ourselves? The same YHVH whom Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob worshiped has brought glory to His Son, Yeshua. This is the same Yeshua whom you betrayed and rejected before Pilate, even though Pilate was determined to set Him free. Instead of setting Him free, you pardoned a murderer, then killed the Prince of Life. But YHVH raised Yeshua from the dead, and we have seen Him alive with our own eyes. The Name of Yeshua has healed this man, that is, our faith in Yeshua’ Name. You can see that he is the lame beggar and that he has been completely healed. I’m sure that you and your leaders didn’t realize what you were doing when you killed Yeshua. But YHVH let these things happen so that the prophecies about the sufferings of the Moshiach, His Son, could be fulfilled. Now turn away from the sin that you have done. Turn to YHVH and He will wipe your sins from your record. He will send you a new life in Adonai’s presence, and will send Yeshua the Moshiach back to you again. He will return from heaven to restore all things from their fallen state, which YHVH has predicted through His prophets since the beginning. Centuries ago Moses predicted, ‘Adonai will raise up a prophet from among you, as He appointed me. Listen to Him. Pay attention to everything He tells you. Those who do not listen will be destroyed.’ All the other prophets since the time of Samuel have told of these times. Now you are the heirs of the prophets and the Covenant YHVH made with our forefathers, to bless the nations of the world through our people, the Jews. After Yeshua arose from the dead, YHVH sent Him first to you Jews, to bless you by causing you to turn from your sinful ways.]

COMMENTARY

HEROD’S TEMPLE

Herod the Great died when Yeshua was a young child. But even though his throne was empty, Herod’s presence was strongly felt in Jerusalem during the days of Yeshua and the apostles. The temple, Herod’s greatest building project, was the centre of Jewish life. It was thought to be modelled after Solomon’s temple. The rabbis called it {the light of the earth,} and Jews from all over the Roman world travelled long distances to worship in the temple. For the people of Jerusalem, the temple was the heart of their city. There was always a crowd in the large outer courtyard that covered most of the thirty-two-acre temple platform. It was called the Court of the Gentiles because it was open to everyone, Jews and Gentiles alike. This outer courtyard was a very busy place. Merchants and moneychangers bargained with their customers while children played on the paved floor. Serious-faced scholars discussed matters of Jewish Law while delivery boys took shortcuts through the courtyard on their way to the different parts of the city. Nine gates opened on the Court of the Gentiles from all sides of Jerusalem. The Eastern Gate through which Peter and John entered the temple was the {front door.} Beggars often gathered there because so many people went through the gate on their way to worship. The courtyard was enclosed on all four sides by a covered porch. A double row of columns supported the flat roof. Only the Royal Portico or covered porch that ran along the southern side had a vaulted ceiling. Its peak was more than one hundred feet high. The porch that ran along the eastern side of the courtyard was called {Solomon’s Portico,} or {Solomon’s Porch.} The crowds gathered here to get a look at Peter and John.

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"Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord."

Col 3

Happy Preparation day and Shabbat shalom to Yisra’ĕl and Yahuḏah in the diaspora.

22And it came to be, on the sixth day, that they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one. And all the rulers of the congregation came and told Mosheh.

23And he said to them, “This is what יהוה has said, ‘Tomorrow is a rest, a Sabbath set-apart to יהוה. That which you bake, bake; and that which you cook, cook. And lay up for yourselves all that is left over, to keep it until morning.’ ”
Exodus 16

13“And you, speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, saying, ‘My Sabbaths you are to guard, by all means, for it is a signa between Me and you throughout your generations, to know that I, יהוה, am setting you apart.

14‘And you shall guard the Sabbath, for it is set-apart to you. Everyone who profanes it shall certainly be put to death, for anyone who does work on it, that being shall be cut off from among his people.
Exodus 31