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Worship Call 0735

Monday September 26, 2022

Clearing the debt

Lord Himself provided! Genesis 22:7-13 And Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. Then he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide Himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together. And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and placed the wood in order, and he bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. And Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. And He said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me. Then Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son. One of the major themes of Yom Teruah (Feast of Trumpets) is called Akedat Yitzchak, which means the Binding of Isaac. According to Jewish tradition, God told Abraham that the ram's horn – otherwise known as a shofar – should be blown on Feast of Trumpets to remind people of the sacrifice that God provided Himself when Abraham was about to offer Isaac on Mount Moriah. It's abundantly clear that this event in the life of Abraham and Isaac foreshadowed God the Father's offering of His Son, providing Yeshua (Jesus) as a sacrifice for all men. Robert, as we now are in the midst of the "Days of Awe" – traditionally, a time of repentance between Yom Teruah and Yom Kippur – let us take the time to examine ourselves, turning from sin again, toward our loving Creator, as we celebrate the fact that our names are written in the Lamb’s book of life. Through His perfect sacrifice, the Lamb of God, Yeshua, God's forgiveness is eternal and His love, everlasting. 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

b. Omission what we fail to 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. Loss of spiritual production

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. Prayer life comes to a halt

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

4. The believer is opened to divine discipline (Hebrews 4:12)

5. Continuing in carnality the believer will face more intensive discipline until God final takes the believer out 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 4 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 for the loss of reward in heaven but as I draw nearer to the Lord in maturity, my offensive 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. For all sin is against God.

Matthew 6:7 (NASB95) — 7 “And when you are praying, do not use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they suppose that they will be heard for their many words.

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 Maybe, we will and maybe we won’t,

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.

The alternative is that God hands us over to a depraved heart. (romans 1) and as the Lord did with Pharoah

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.