In kind of a continuation of CvB #071, when people try to say we can't keep the Law, or just showing the disposition to evil/sin in mankind, these three men along with others are often pointed out. I've even seen memes go around social media proclaiming the men in the light of the left-hand side of this comic (Noah a drunk, Abraham a liar, David a murderer) and then stating: God can use you, too.
However, this is not the light the Bible paints these men in. Read those verses I have listed on the right. Would God say such things about someone who "is just a sinner"? Or who is as bad as Christians sometimes portray these men to be?
I am not saying they were perfect and never did wrong. I don't believe that is what the Bible states either. We know the wrong things they did.
HOWEVER, as I state all over my comics, it is all about their heart. What was their heart like? We know in the case of David, realizing what he had done broke his heart to the point of he knew he would be punished and accepted it! (2 Samuel 12)
There is a dcTalk song I like called "What if I stumble". We all may stumble sometimes. What we do after we stumble is what defines us, not the stumbling. If we are believers in Christ, we are not "sinners saved by Grace". We are set-apart, striving to live righteously.
Will we stumble and sin? Maybe, but that doesn't change who we are. We are no longer sinners. (Romans 6:1-7) Sinners are who we were, not who we are. Just like these men in the comic. The Bible does not define them by their sin, but by their walk.
https://thestraightandnarrow.cfw.me/comics/819
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Devarim, the Hebrew name of Deuteronomy, means "words" and is from Deuteronomy 1:1: "These are the words..." This book used to be called Mishneh HaTorah or "repetition of the Torah". Deuteronomos, the Greek name, means "second law" and also refers to the book's recapitulation of the Law. Although it primarily contains the spoken words of Moses, Joshua or Phinehas may have acted as his scribe.
Here are some apostolic passages to study alongside #torah Parsha #devarim (#deuteronomy 1:1-3:22), plus links to commentary and related videos: https://www.americantorah.com/....2021/05/09/parsha-de
The sages rightly liken the Torah to a rose in a number of metaphors and it’s extremely apt.
It’s especially exemplary in our treatment of Torah itself.
Like a rose it must be handled with gentle tender loving care. If grasped with haste and held tightly by the petals the flower will be crushed. And if grasped by the stem the thorns will cut us.
The same is so with giving it to others. If thrust upon them it itself will likely be broken and crushed or it will otherwise hurt those we offer it to.
Many try to keep commands without love but love is really the only way.
In our experience, there seems to be a disconnect in the Hebrew Roots movement between Torah and Yeshua as if They are one and another rather than then One and theSame.
One the Master and the other His Actions.
(Of course many interpret love as just being nice to others which is another mistake but that’s another matter 😎)
Question Everything
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The sages rightly liken the Torah to a rose in a number of metaphors and it’s extremely apt.
It’s especially exemplary in our treatment of Torah itself.
Like a rose it must be handled with gentle tender loving care. If grasped with haste and held tightly by the petals the flower will be crushed. And if grasped by the stem the thorns will cut us.
The same is so with giving it to others. If thrust upon them it itself will likely be broken and crushed or it will otherwise hurt those we offer it to.
Many try to keep commands without love but love is really the only way.
In our experience, there seems to be a disconnect in the Hebrew Roots movement between Torah and Yeshua as if They are one and another rather than then One and theSame.
One the Master and the other His Actions.
(Of course many interpret love as just being nice to others which is another mistake but that’s another matter 😎)
Question Everything
templecrier.com
The sages rightly liken the Torah to a rose in a number of metaphors and it’s extremely apt.
It’s especially exemplary in our treatment of Torah itself.
Like a rose it must be handled with gentle tender loving care. If grasped with haste and held tightly by the petals the flower will be crushed. And if grasped by the stem the thorns will cut us.
The same is so with giving it to others. If thrust upon them it itself will likely be broken and crushed or it will otherwise hurt those we offer it to.
Many try to keep commands without love but love is really the only way.
In our experience, there seems to be a disconnect in the Hebrew Roots movement between Torah and Yeshua as if They are one and another rather than then One and theSame.
One the Master and the other His Actions.
(Of course many interpret love as just being nice to others which is another mistake but that’s another matter 😎)
Question Everything
templecrier.com
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