RR Psalm 40:11(10) Part 9
Shalom,
Psalm 40:11 I did not hide Your righteousness within my heart. Rather I declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation. I did not conceal Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great assembly.
Yeshua spoke the truth about Himself!! All of it. John 14:6 Yeshua said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life! No one comes to the Father except through Me….15 If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.” We can’t get around it… Yeshua is “the truth” and the truth is obedience to God’s commandments. So, let me ask you… our Scripture (Psalm 40:11) says eternal truth and salvation were declared. Yes, grace (lovingkindness) and truth were shared in the great assembly. So, which is it grace or truth? Much of modern Christianity wants us to believe it has to be one or the other. However; the Scriptures tell us another story.
John 1:17 Torah was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Yeshua the Messiah.
Does your translation add a “but” in the middle of that verse? The original biblical texts contain no such word. Many translations put the “but” in italics for that reason. Moses gave us the Torah (Law). Yeshua didn’t replace the Law with Grace, he added grace to the Law. Isaiah 42:21 The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honorable. KJV Yeshua said this in His John 17 prayer in the garden… John 17:17 Make them holy in the truth. Your word is truth.
Sin is not whatever makes you feel bad. 1John 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. KJV. Yeshua lived the sinless life. 1John 2:5 But whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God is truly made perfect. We know that we are in Him by this— 6 whoever claims to abide in Him must walk just as He walked. John even tells us this is nothing new, but the commandments we have always had. 1John 2:7 Loved ones, I am not writing a new commandment for you, but an old commandment—one you had from the beginning. This old commandment is the word you have heard.
And let’s conclude today with this… 1John 1:6 If we say we have fellowship with Him and keep walking in the darkness, we are lying and do not practice the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of His Son Yeshua purifies us from all sin. Shalom shalom.
Daily Bread, reading plan by Lars Enarson (https://www.thewatchman.org/)
Thu4-Dec-202514th of Kislev, 5786
Ge 34:1-35:111 Sa 14Ps 56-57Mk 10:1-31(1 Co 7:1-24)
Psalm 40:11 I did not hide Your righteousness within my heart. Rather I declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation. I did not conceal Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great assembly.
Yeshua spoke the truth about Himself!! All of it. John 14:6 Yeshua said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life! No one comes to the Father except through Me….15 If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.” We can’t get around it… Yeshua is “the truth” and the truth is obedience to God’s commandments. So, let me ask you… our Scripture (Psalm 40:11) says eternal truth and salvation were declared. Yes, grace (lovingkindness) and truth were shared in the great assembly. So, which is it grace or truth? Much of modern Christianity wants us to believe it has to be one or the other. However; the Scriptures tell us another story.
John 1:17 Torah was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Yeshua the Messiah.
Does your translation add a “but” in the middle of that verse? The original biblical texts contain no such word. Many translations put the “but” in italics for that reason. Moses gave us the Torah (Law). Yeshua didn’t replace the Law with Grace, he added grace to the Law. Isaiah 42:21 The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honorable. KJV Yeshua said this in His John 17 prayer in the garden… John 17:17 Make them holy in the truth. Your word is truth.
Sin is not whatever makes you feel bad. 1John 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. KJV. Yeshua lived the sinless life. 1John 2:5 But whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God is truly made perfect. We know that we are in Him by this— 6 whoever claims to abide in Him must walk just as He walked. John even tells us this is nothing new, but the commandments we have always had. 1John 2:7 Loved ones, I am not writing a new commandment for you, but an old commandment—one you had from the beginning. This old commandment is the word you have heard.
And let’s conclude today with this… 1John 1:6 If we say we have fellowship with Him and keep walking in the darkness, we are lying and do not practice the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of His Son Yeshua purifies us from all sin. Shalom shalom.
Daily Bread, reading plan by Lars Enarson (https://www.thewatchman.org/)
Thu4-Dec-202514th of Kislev, 5786
Ge 34:1-35:111 Sa 14Ps 56-57Mk 10:1-31(1 Co 7:1-24)
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