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Robert, heed the sound of the shofar! Joel 2:1 Blow ye the trumpet (shofar in Hebrew) in Zion, and sound an alarm on My holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD is coming, for it is near at hand; Amazingly another year has passed and on Sunday night begins the feast of Yom Turah -- or Rosh Ha Shannah -- the Feast of Trumpets. At the end of summer, the Hebrews are commanded to blow the shofar -- the ram’s horn, all day long. The sound of the shofar was a sound of alarm -- it told the people to get ready. It marked in the calendar that the summer harvest was over and the day of atonement was near and it was time to stand before God. The feast of Trumpets is amazingly prophetic. Right now, we are in the midst of the great harvest and the next major event is the sound of the trumpet -- just before the great day of the Lord. Within the feast of trumpets contains a personal message for us. It’s God’s wake-up call: We don’t have forever! We only walk through this life once -- and as quickly as steam rises from hot water and quickly disappears, so it is with our lives. Soon it will be passed and we will stand before our Maker. If we are going to do great things for Him -- now is the time! If we need to repent for anything -- now is the time. The Lord commands us to arise and shine and let our light shine throughout the world! The shofar is sounding, the summer harvest is nearing completion, and the day of the Lord is near. Robert, become God’s shofar, sound His warning of judgment and radiate the love He’s given us through His Son, that those around you will be able to stand pure before God! Shabbat Shalom! Your family in the Lord with much agape love, George, Baht Rivka, & Obadiah Baltimore, Maryland

And this is another fine day in the Lord

Give us this day our Daily Bread.

Or

Nasb (alt)Give us this day our bread for tomorrow,

From comparing references between the two ways to use Semeron, A T Robertson in word studies points out that this word has been a trouble with Expositors. A T Robertson seems to lean toward….

seems to be “for the coming day,” a daily prayer for the needs of the next day as every housekeeper understands like the housekeeping book discovered by Debrunner.

Though I trust Robertson in my studies, Looking at the Noun Semeron throughout the bible it is always used for this very day.

So, I will humbly concede the point that we are dealing with in prayer is for the Day that is here.

What we take away from either is that we are praying to the Lord, and in that prayer, we are expressing our faith in the Lord to provide. And we may look at the prayer as a whole, when we are finished to see how in the light of the coming kingdom that comes the darkness before the dawn how this model prayer is that which we keep close to our hearts.

Also let me point out that as we are praying and trusting in the Lord to provide our daily bread, this does not mean that throw prudence out the window.

Paul had to address this topic as there were those who stopped working waiting for the Lord as he writes to them.

2 Thessalonians 3:7–10 (NASB95) — 7 For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example, because we did not act in an undisciplined manner among you, 8 nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but with labor and hardship we kept working night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you; 9 not because we do not have the right to this, but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you, so that you would follow our example. 10 For even when we were with you, we used to give you this order: if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either.

Proverbs 14:15 (NASB95) — 15 The naive believes everything, But the sensible man considers his steps.

Proverbs 21:20 (NASB95) — 20 There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise, But a foolish man swallows it up.

And when Jesus speaks that we will always have the poor among us, Jesus did not say that we will all be poor.

The point is that our dependence whether rich or poor, our declaration of dependance upon the Lord.

Matthew 6:12 (NASB95) — 12 ‘And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

40.8 ἀφίημιf; ἄφεσιςa, εως f; ἀπολύωe: to remove the guilt resulting from wrongdoing—‘to pardon, to forgive, forgiveness.’ἀφίημιf: ἄφες ἡμῖν τὰ ὀφειλήματα ἡμῶν ‘forgive us the wrongs that we have done’ Mt 6:12.[1]

88.299 ὀφείλημαc, τος n: (derivative of ὀφείλωd ‘to sin against,’ 88.298) the moral debt incurred as the result of sin—‘offense, sin, transgression, guilt.’ ἄφες ἡμῖν τὰ ὀφειλήματα ἡμῶν ‘forgive us our sins’ Mt 6:12.[2]

1 John 1:9 we have

1 John 1:9 (NASB95) — 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Some may have a question of sin after the fact when it was that our sins were all forgiven at the Cross.

The Judicial sentence of sin which is death as it is that

Romans 6:23 (NASB95) — 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

What Christ accomplished by way of cross was the judication of our sins past present and future. It was Christ who took our sins upon the Cross, and gave us His own righteousness.

Acts 13:38–39 (NASB95) — 38 “Therefore let it be known to you, brethren, that through Him forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, 39 and through Him everyone who believes is freed from all things, from which you could not be freed through the Law of Moses.

The term is Justification.

Justification is a Christian’s judicial acceptance by God as not guilty because his sins are not counted against him.

Justification is the judication of all of our guilt. We are no longer under the curse of sin of Adam it has been taken away.

1 Corinthians 15:22 (NASB95) — 22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

There is however the question of post salvation sins. Though our sins do not condemn us

Romans 8:1 (NASB95) — 1 Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

We are born again and cannot be unborn

We have been adopted, there is nothing that speaks of losing that adoption

Elected predestined

We are in the family God as we are taught to pray to our “Father in the heavens.”

But as it is with breaking the rules in the home our actions bring about a rebuke from our earthly Fathers. It is not that we stop being his son or he our father, but we are under the discipline of our father.

God does not overlook sin against his nature. And it is that Grace is not God’s provision that we might walk in sin and God overlooks our indefiance in sin.

Romans 6:1–4 (NASB95) — 1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? 2 May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

Looking back to the Leviticus offerings there were sin and transgression offerings. When one stumbles and commits sin against God there were offerings that were brought. But if those sins were outright defiance against God, there was nothing that one could do, and it was not until Yom Kupfer when that one would bring his sin offering to the priest to be cleansed. That means that however long the year was, that person was ceremoniously unclean not able to connect with God.

When the believer sins, it sets him outside of the relationship with His Father. In such a condition that believer cut off from his spiritual life and is no longer walking with the Lord but according to the flesh. He is a protocol having distance in his relationship with his God.

He is quenching (suppressing) the Holy Spirt (1 Thess 6:19) and grieving the spirit in (Ephesians 4:30)

As a result

1. Prayer life is paused.

Psalm 66:18 (NASB95) — 18 If I regard wickedness in my heart, The Lord will not hear;

John 9:31 (NASB95) — 31 “We know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He hears him.

2. No fruit is produced in the life

All works of the believer in Christ will be evaluated at the Judgment seat of Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:9–10 (NASB95) — 9 Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

1 Corinthians 3:12–15 (NASB95) — 12 Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, 13 each man’s work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man’s work. 14 If any man’s work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward. 15 If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.

When it is that all our worthy works while in the body are the product of a spiritual life which is fueled by the ministry of God the Holy spirit, there is no acceptable work when our lives are estranged from God in sin and quenching and grieving the Holy Spirit.

Perpetual sin leads down the road to discipline from God (Hebrews 12) and a shortened life for those that do not heed the warning of the discipline of God and one dies the sin unto death.

We will continue Monday morning Lord willing and Spirit guiding.

[1]Louw, J. P., & Nida, E. A. (1996). In Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament: based on semantic domains(electronic ed. of the 2nd edition., Vol. 1, p. 502). United Bible Societies. [2]Louw, J. P., & Nida, E. A. (1996). In Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament: based on semantic domains (electronic ed. of the 2nd edition., Vol. 1, p. 773). United Bible Societies.