Good Morning Sabbath Day…
Father, thank you for this NEW SABBATH DAY. ENLIGHTEN our minds WITH TRUTH. INFLAME our hearts WITH LOVE. INSPIRE our will WITH COURAGE. ENRICH our lives WITH SERVICE. PARDON us for what we have been. SANCTIFY what we are. It is YOUR GLORY FATHER, and our ETERNAL SALVATION through Your Son YESHUA, JESUS CHRIST, Our King, Messiah, and LORD of our lives. We praise you, ask Your Forgiveness for our transgressions against You, and request these things in His Mighty Name, just as You have shown us is The Way. Amen. A Big Thank You to Brother Martin G. Collins and berean.org for today's devotion. Now The Bereans were more noble-minded than The Thessalonians, for they received The Message with great eagerness and examined The Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true. Acts 17:11 - A Berean Breakdown: Letter and Spirit “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 (Torah) 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. For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter The Kingdom of Heaven.” Matthew 5:18-20 The Letter of The Law (Torah, Instructions) that the Pharisees tried to keep was not enough—especially for us. We have to exceed The Letter of The Law (Torah, Instructions). Here, Jesus was so specific about the continuance of The Law (Torah, Instructions) from The Old Covenant to The New that He referred to the smallest punctuation and pronunciation marks contained in The Written Law (Torah, Instructions), the "jot and tittle." Most modern theology discards The Letter in favor of The Spirit, but one extreme is as bad as the other. The true Christian needs both The Written Letter of The Law (Torah, Instructions) as well as its Spirit to keep it properly. To keep God's Law (Torah, Instructions) properly, we have to learn to recognize The Spirit of The Law. The Spirit of The Law means God's original intent or purpose behind each law. When God designed The Sabbath, for example, He intended it to be a blessing to human beings. He designed it to be a refreshing rest and an opportunity both to recuperate physically after six days of work and to draw close to Him in Love and to worship Him, as well as to deepen Love for the brethren through fellowship and outgoing concern. Jesus knew The Spirit of The Sabbath commandment. Therefore, He knew that the split second of divine effort involved in healing was a valid use of time on The Sabbath (Matthew 12:10-12). Because of Jesus' insight into the divine purpose behind The Sabbath, He freed the crippled worshipper of his burden. He experienced a wonderful and exciting blessing because Jesus understood The Spirit of The Law. God's Law (Torah, Instruction) is always a blessing to those who recognize The Spirit of The Law. Happy Sabbath and Shabbat Shalom My Brothers and Sisters! May Our Father and Savior’s Peace be upon you all!
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