Worship Call 0735 Clearing the Debt

Worship Call 0735

Tuesday September 27, 2022

Clearing the debt

shana tova oo-metukah! Isaiah 43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. As we just celebrated one of the highest holy days of all the feasts of the Bible, Yom Turah (Feast of Trumpets) known in modern times as Rosh ha Shana (Head of the Year). According to Jewish tradition, Rosh Hashanah is the Day of Judgment, the day when the righteous have their names inscribed in the Book of Life and the wicked are judged for their transgressions. It is a day to commemorate the creation of the world, the creation of mankind, and the Akeida, the binding of Isaac to the altar. On this day only the ram’s horn (or the shofar) is blown in synagogues all over the world to commemorate the ram that was provided in lieu of Isaac’s life and call us to repentance. After the sound of the Shofar, many eat apples dipped in honey and say "shana tova oo-metuka" (to a good and sweet new year)! For those of us who know Yeshua (Jesus), this is a day to remember our sweet redemption in Him. Every portion of Scripture that is read and remembered in this service paints a beautiful portrait of our salvation in Yeshua haMashiach. This is a time of conception of goals and aspirations of things we desire to attain for His Kingdom during the next year. It is a time to pray for the world to unite and press forward under the banner of Messiah. It is a day of salvation for all mankind both Jew and Gentile alike. Robert, let's take this opportunity to crown Him as King of our lives once again and determine to live every breath, every moment, every day for His honor and glory in this new year of 5783!! Your family in the Lord with much agape love, George, Baht Rivka, & Obadiah Baltimore, Maryland

And this is another fine day in the Lord.

Apologies for the lack of on line service yesterday. We had a total electronic melt down. But I believe that it was divinely orchestrated for it was just beck and I and the Boys, and as the lesson went on it allowed a more personal conversation with the young gentlemen that made up the congregation. I will attempt to preach tomorrow night what I couldn’t get to you yesterday.

Matthew 6:9–12 (NASB95) — 9 “Pray, then, in this way: ‘Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. 10 ‘Your kingdom come. Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven. 11 ‘Give us this day our daily bread. 12 ‘And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

The Levitical offerings, the sin offerings and the trespass offerings were those offerings that would be laid up on the alter and consumed with flames. It covered personal sins. Sins of omission and sins of commission along with those things that would make one ceremoniously unclean for corporate worship. but it did not cover blatant rebellion and sin against God.

It was only that one time per year that an offering was brought to the tent of the meeting and sacrificed up even for the blatant sins.

When the Lord said that it was “finished,” all of our sins past, present and future were judged upon the cross and those who will put the Lord will be forgiven and welcomed into the family of God, now and forever.

There are however post salvation sins. These come in three categories

1. Overt Sins

Acts of sin which fall into two Categories

a. Commission what we do

Romans 7:15 (NASB95) — 15 For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.

b. Omission what we fail to do

19 For the good that I want, I do not do,

We do what we are not supposed to do, sins of commission or the what are to do and don’t which are sins of omission.

2. Mental attitude sins.

These are the sins that takes place within one’s thinking

Bitterness, anger, Jealousy, worry, sins of arrogance, bitterness, self pity and sins like these

3. Sins of the tongue

Lying, Gossiping, slander, malice, and sins like these

It is impossible to lose your salvation, but what you are in danger of losing is your temporal relationship with the Lord.

No longer are you under the mentorship of God the Holy Spirit, but you are now in the process of quenching (1 Thess 5:16) and grieving (Eph 4:30) the holy Spirit. As a result

1. All spiritual growth stops.

2. No fruit

Only thing that the carnal believer can produce are dead works which are wood hay and stubble and will be burned up at the Judgment seat of Christ.

3. No effectiveness in prayer

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

James 5:16 (NASB95) —The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.

That means that God does not hear the prayers of a carnal believer.

4. divine discipline (Hebrews 4:12)

a. Warning

b. Intensive

c. Sin unto death

One does not lose one’s eternal life but will stand before Christ with nothing to show for a life that was given up on the sinners behalf.

There is always a danger of losing what we have gained in the spiritual life.

2 John 8 (NASB95) — 8 Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward.

Hebrews 6:1–6 (NASB95) — 1 Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, 2 of instruction about washings and laying on of hands, and the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment. 3 And this we will do, if God permits. 4 For in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6 and then have fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame.

As I often remind myself and others that

“There are no do overs,”

IN heaven we will see what we could have shared with Christ with rewards beyond imagination.

1 Corinthians 2:9 (NASB95) — 9 but just as it is written, “Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, And which have not entered the heart of man, All that God has prepared for those who love Him.”

2 Timothy 4:8 (NASB95) — 8 in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing.

Revelation 2 and 3 goes over the list of rewards for those who overcome.

Yes, there are those who say that they will be happy. Just being in heaven will be plenty enough for them. But while at the same time they are pursuing worldly gain with all their hearts, minds, and strength.

So yes, I am becoming more careful to my walk in the Lord. What I say, what I do and what I think.

Not only to protect me from any loss of reward in heaven but as I draw nearer to the Lord in maturity, my offensives grieves my own soul as the very act of sin offends the God in whom I love.

It is with a grievous heart that I come seeking forgiveness from the one who I have sinned againt. For all sin is against God.

Psalm 51:4 (NASB95) — 4 Against You, You only, I have sinned And done what is evil in Your sight, So that You are justified when You speak And blameless when You judge.

As one young in the faith, I was a little bit more flipped with my view on sins and my naming them for forgiveness. I did not think to much when it came to a sin that I could name, and God would be faithful and just to forgive me of that sin and move on.

It was like the expression that the younger generation uses when they recognize that they have made a mistake.

They hold up their hand and say, “MY BAD.”

Growing up a little, I began to realize how grievous my sin is to the Lord and what it cost Him that I should be forgiven of that sin. So, at that point I come to the Lord seeking that the books would be wiped clean of my transgressions against God.

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.

If ἐάνMaybe, we will and maybe we won’t,

The if depends upon at least two conditions

1. Our willingness to humble ourselves repent and name our sins

2. God’s willingness to permit it.

Pharoah of Egypt had one chance to repent and then it was the Lord who hardened Pharoah’s heart.

Romans 1 God hands the wicked over to a depraved heart with tells me the door to repentance is closed shut

And in Hebrews we read

Hebrews 6:3 (NASB95) — 3 And this we will do, if God permits.

Maybe we are willing to confess and maybe the Lord will not be willing to hear the request.

It is God prerogative if he grants the petition to hear Him. It is fully grace that He gives the carnal a hearing. If we are asking the Lord to forgive us our debts, there must be the grace and mercy of God extended that he will hear the plea and accept it.

Confess ὁμολογέω confess or admit, acknowledging to God who sits upon his throne

Our sins ἁμαρτία to act contrary to the will and law of God—‘to sin, to engage in wrongdoing, sin. It is an archery term that means missing the mark. The target is God’s righteousness and everything that falls short of God’s righteousness is sin.

HE God the Father in whom Our prayers are addressed.

Is faithful πιστόςc, ή, όν: pertaining to

being sure, with the implication of being fully trustworthy—‘sure.’

And

δίκαιοςa, α, ον: pertaining to being in accordance with what God requires—‘righteous, just.

God is not arbitrary to forgive. The Father forgives on the basis of what his son accomplished upon the Cross for you and for me.

With confession then God responses to forgive

ἀφίημιf; ἄφεσιςa, εως f; ἀπολύωe: to remove the guilt resulting from wrongdoing—‘to pardon, to forgive, forgiveness.

This is clearing the books. The Lord will never remember our sins.

Micah 7:19 (NASB95) — 19 He will again have compassion on us; He will tread our iniquities under foot. Yes, You will cast all their sins Into the depths of the sea.

Isaiah 43:25 (NASB95) — 25 “I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake, And I will not remember your sins.

Psalm 103:12 (NASB95) — 12 As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.

And to cleanse καθαρίζω to cleanse from ritual contamination or impurity—‘to cleanse, to purify, purification.’

Sin leaves one ceremoniously unclean. That means that if we are to approach God we must approach God on his terms and not our own. If I am to approach God I have to be purified that the king may look upon me in favor and not discuss because of the sin that I carry.

Righteousness and unrighteousness are mutually exclusive. I cannot be almost right but I have to come into the presence of the King having been purified of all sin.

Going Back to “If” we confess.

That if is not based on just the fact that we have the willingness to repent but it is also on the basis of whether God will grant the petition.

Hebrews 6:1–3 (NASB95) — 1 Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, 2 of instruction about washings and laying on of hands, and the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment. 3 And this we will do, if God permits.

Forgive us of our debt, knowing that I have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God and that sin is an insult to the very character of God In repentance I confess seeking to have my debt that is on God’s books wiped out and restoration to a relationship with the Lord.