It is I, the T man with you again. It is my pleasure to share my thoughts on the Torah portion with you this week. How the time has seemed to fly since I last wrote.
The name of this Torah portion is Yitro which means Jethro. (Moses' father-in-law) and the passage can be found in: Exodus 18:1-20:26 Isaiah 6:1-7:6; 9:5-7 and in Matthew 6:1-8:1
First of all, I want to say, I hope that each and everyone of you will read this Torah portion on your own. There is so much that we can learn if we were to get into The Word more then we do (I speak to myself as I write this). The Scriptures are full from beginning to end of instruction on how we are to live our lives.
It is up to us to decide whether we want to follow the perfect plan that YHVH our Creator has laid out for us ... or are we going to do it our own way and maybe throw in a little or a lot of Scripture here or there so that it looks like we are following Scripture, but in all reality we are taking the scriptures out of their context and making it sound a certain way so that we can justify how we live our life.
The more I read the scriptures, the more clearly I see how it is the same book from beginning to end, from Genesis to Revelation. Nothing has changed, as far as the commandments of YHVH are concerned, nothing has been done away with.
Even Yeshua said in Matthew 5:18-19 "For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches [them], he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven."
It is up to us to decide whether we want to follow the perfect plan that YHVH our Creator has laid out for us ... or are we going to do it our own way and maybe throw in a little or a lot of Scripture here or there so that it looks like we are following Scripture, but in all reality we are taking the scriptures out of their context and making it sound a certain way so that we can justify how we live our life.
The more I read the scriptures, the more clearly I see how it is the same book from beginning to end, from Genesis to Revelation. Nothing has changed, as far as the commandments of YHVH are concerned, nothing has been done away with.
Even Yeshua said in Matthew 5:18-19 "For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches [them], he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven."
You might ask, Ok Tommy, what does this have to do with the Torah portion? And my answer is, in a way it does not have anything to do with it and yet on the other hand it has EVERYTHING to do with it.
First things first, I did not have any of this planned. What I have written has poured out from my hands onto this keyboard. I had been praying about what to write and up until the time that I sat down to write, I had not gotten anything, however I knew that I was suppose to start writing and that YHVH would guide my hands and my thoughts. I give him praise that He is, because it is currently 1:20am as I write this and usually at this time of night I cannot think straight, much less put coherent words on a screen :) So back to how does what I have written tie in with the Torah portion.
In Exodus 19:3-6, we read: "Moses went up to God, and YHVH called to him from the mountain, saying, "Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob and tell the sons of Israel: 'You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings, and brought you to Myself. 'Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine;and you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words that you shall speak to the sons of Israel."
There are two things that jumped out at me when I read that. It says, "Speak unto the children of Israel". Who are we? Are we not the children of Israel? Through the blood of Yeshua the Messiah we have been brought in to the commonwealth of Israel (see Ephesians 2:12-13). If the scriptures are true (and I believe with my whole heart that they are), then does this not mean that YHVH is speaking to us here in chapter 19 of Exodus (not to mention all the other chapters in the Bible)? I believe He is.
So now is where part two comes in. It says in verse 5, "Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine;" In some translations it read "My commandments." So it looks like to me, that if we want to be part of YHVH's own possession, then we need to be living by the commandments that He has laid out for us.
So now is where part two comes in. It says in verse 5, "Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine;" In some translations it read "My commandments." So it looks like to me, that if we want to be part of YHVH's own possession, then we need to be living by the commandments that He has laid out for us.
I don't know about you, but personally I don't want to take any chance of not being part of YHVH's own possession. Does that mean that I am Mr. Perfect? By all means NO, because my flesh does not want to be part of YHVH's own possession and that is where we get to decide which road we are going to take. However that is another whole topic that I am not going to get into tonight, or more correctly this morning.
I hope and pray that this will bless each and everyone of you. Once again, this has been totally of the Father's doing, because I honestly did not have a clue of what I was going to write. There is so much more that I could share on this Torah portion; however it is now 2:00 am, so I am going to bring it to a close with one last encouragement ... to get into the Scriptures and read them for what they say, not what we want them to say.
Shabbat Shalom,
Tommy
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