Sermon Tone Analysis

I. The Principle of Success

A. Old Testament Ordinance Formula

III.

The Price of Success

Ordina

A. Old Testament Ordinance Formula

4941.

מִשְׁפָּט mishpat (1048b); from 8199; judgment:—arrangements(1), case(5), case*(1), cause(7), charge(1), claim(1), court(2), crimes(1), custom(11), customs(2), decide(1), decision(2), decisions(1), deserving(1), destruction(1), due(1), injustice*(2), judge(1), judged(1), judgment(62), judgments(40), just(4), justice(118), justly(3), kind(1), manner(3), matters of justice(1), mode of life(1), order(1), ordinance(29), ordinances(79), plan(1), plans(1), practice(1), procedure(4), properly(2), regulation(1), right(8), rightful place(1), rights(2), rule(1), sentence(2), sentenced(1), standard(1), trial(1), unjustly*(1), verdict(1), way prescribed(2), what is right(2), worthy(1).[1]

[1] Thomas, R. L. (1998).

New American Standard Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek dictionaries : updated edition.

Anaheim: Foundation Publications, Inc.

(NASB95)

1 “Now these are the ordinances which you are to set before them:

2978 חֻקָּה (ḥǔq·qā(h)): n.fem.; ≡ Str 2708; TWOT 728b—1.

LN 33.333–33.342

regulation, decree, statute, ordinance, i.e., a clear communicated prescription of what one should do (); 2. LN 63.13–63.20 share, portion, i.e., an allotment of something as a part of a whole (); 3. LN 41.25–41.28

custom, tradition, i.e., a more or less fixed behavior generally accepted (, ; ; , ; )[2]

[1] Thomas, R. L. (1998).

New American Standard Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek dictionaries : updated edition.

Anaheim: Foundation Publications, Inc.

[2] Swanson, J. (1997).

Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains : Hebrew (Old Testament) (electronic ed.).

Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems, Inc.

Examples:

Exo

Exodus

Tend the oil for the lamps, priests wear undergarments, ceremonial washing, Sabbath, no eating blood, all sacrifices are holy, anointing of priesthood sacrifice, no wine for priests, Day of Atonement, Celebration of firstfruits, Feast of Weeks (Pentecost), Day of Atonement, Feast of Tabernacles, Feast of Trumpets, salt for purification, Priesthood bears iniquity for Israel, Red heifer, Cleansing after touch a corpse,

Boundary of the Sea and land

Offerings in the New Temple:

24 different ordinances (some repeated more than once) that were to be perpetuated in Israel.

This does not include all the regulations that do not have perpetual formula, but are implied.

Does the form matter to God - YES!

B. New Testament Ordinance Formula

Ordinance: 1. Commanded by Christ, 2. Pictures a spiritual truth, 3. To be continually in the church age.

Form without faith is useless.

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