Post by mommadee48 on Jun 10, 2021 20:08:34 GMT -5
I HOPE WHEN I SHARE "101 IMPORTANT WORDS of the BIBLE" THAT IT HELPS SOMEONE TO UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE IN A NEWER, DEEPER WAY.
WRITTEN BY: LEN WOODS; "MOSES" Israel's LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. (Exodus 33:11).
Remember that hypothetical "Mount Rushmore of Old Testament Greats" we mentioned a couple chapters back? If Abraham's face is carved on the far left, then next to him we have to add the mug of Moses.
Holy Moses---What a life! In infancy, Moses was nearly the victim of a genocidal Egyptian pharaoh---until the ruler's daughter saved him and took him as her own son.
He lived 120years. Someone has observed that Moses spent his first forty years in the royal palace thinking he was somebody, his next forty years in the deserts of Midian realizing he was nobody, and his last forty years seeing what God Almighty can do through a nobody who obeys him. Indeed, the Bible gives exactly one chapter (Exodus3-Deuteronomy 34) to his final forty years!
Pharaoh's daughter gave Moses his name. "Mosheh is derived from the Hebrew verb that means to "draw out". (Exodus 2:10) reveals she did this because she plucked him from the Nile River*.
At age forty, the adopted Moses---perhaps feeling guilty over his cushy life of royal privilege---tried to ease the suffering of his fellow Hebrews. His efforts backfired. He ended up fleeing Egypt and hunkering down in the deserts of Midian. There Moses consigned himself to a ho-hum life. He married and had a couple of kids. He tended sheep and probably figured his best days were behind him.
ONLY THEY WEREN'T.
Moses got "Moses-ed" (that is," drawn out") again! When he was eighty, Moses heard God call to him from the midst of a burning bush! That was the day the Lord plucked Moses from his dead-end life in Midian and sent him to " draw out" his captive countrymen from Egypt.
Truth be told, the name Moses doesn't matter a whole lot. But the "man" Moses---and his example ---surely does. This reticent leader (see EXodus3-4) courageously confronted the world's most powerful ruler. He guided the Israelites out of service to Pharaoh and into freedom of serving God. He humbly (Numbers 12:3) shepherded the Israelites for forty exasperating years, then brought them to the edge of the promised land. When they sinned grievously, it was Moses who interceded for them. When Moses died, God officiated his private funeral (see Deuteronomy 34)!
IF we could talk to Moses, odds are he'd tell us that the greatest miracle he ever saw---and he saw some doozies--- was the miracle of
God drawing him out: first, out of certain death as a baby, and later, out of a dull existence, in order to be His friend (Exodus33:11) and to send him to help others.
The rest of the Bible indicates that's precisely what God wants to do in each of our lives: rescue us from death and then use us to rescue others.
WRITTEN BY: LEN WOODS; " LAW " THE LEGAL CODE (OF INSTRUCTIONS AND PROHIBITIONS) THAT GOD JEHOVAH GAVE TO ISRAEL
The LORD said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction". (Exodus 24:12).
When someone mentions the law of God, most of us think immediately of history's most famous list: the Ten Commandments. In truth, God's law is much more involved.
Jewish religious leaders over the centuries codified all the restrictions and requirements given to Moses by God at Sinai. The laws: 365 don'ts and 248 mandates, or dos. It's not quite the US tax code. Even so, it's pages and pages of rules.
"TORAH" is the Hebrew word translated "law" in the Old Testament. Scholars tell us it comes from a root verb that means "to throw or cast". Think of a quarterback throwing a football into the area where he wants his receiver to run, and you're close to the idea.
Jewish people refer collectively to the first five books of the Bible as the Torah or the Law.* They further speak of the "Oral Torah", which consists of all the sayings, interpretations, and teachings of venerated rabbis and Jewish leaders down through the ages. ( They see these explanations and insights as implicit in the written law given to Moses. All together,+ they fill more than 6,000 pages.)
Why such a complicated system of law?
And why so many regulations? In brief, here's what the Torah reveals:
1. God's absolute holiness.
2. God's desire for His redeemed people to live in God-honoring and world-blessing ways.
Leviticus 20;26 expresses these twin ideas succinctly: "You are to be holy to me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own".
By carefully observing the legal and moral code given at Sinai, Israel was to be a light to the nations, showing the world how good it is to know and serve the one true GOD.
God's rules aren't arbitrary. They were all given to protect God's people from harm and to provide for them the most fulfilling life possible. However, the Bible both shows and states that the exacting requirements of God's law are impossible for us to follow perfectly (Romans 3:20; Titus 3:5). No one can do it. Not even a devout Jew like the apostle Paul, who was fanatical about trying to keep the law of God. Even he was finally forced to admit that the real purpose of the law was only to serve as "our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith" (Galatians 3:24).
Let God's law show you how holy God is. But then, instead of just trying to memorize and live out a boatload of rules, ask God's Holy Spirit to rule your heart and animate your life. That's the way to be holy and joy-filled. It's how to become the kind of person who causes others to wonder, "What makes him or he tick?"
WRITTEN BY: LEN WOODS; "MOSES" Israel's LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. (Exodus 33:11).
Remember that hypothetical "Mount Rushmore of Old Testament Greats" we mentioned a couple chapters back? If Abraham's face is carved on the far left, then next to him we have to add the mug of Moses.
Holy Moses---What a life! In infancy, Moses was nearly the victim of a genocidal Egyptian pharaoh---until the ruler's daughter saved him and took him as her own son.
He lived 120years. Someone has observed that Moses spent his first forty years in the royal palace thinking he was somebody, his next forty years in the deserts of Midian realizing he was nobody, and his last forty years seeing what God Almighty can do through a nobody who obeys him. Indeed, the Bible gives exactly one chapter (Exodus3-Deuteronomy 34) to his final forty years!
Pharaoh's daughter gave Moses his name. "Mosheh is derived from the Hebrew verb that means to "draw out". (Exodus 2:10) reveals she did this because she plucked him from the Nile River*.
At age forty, the adopted Moses---perhaps feeling guilty over his cushy life of royal privilege---tried to ease the suffering of his fellow Hebrews. His efforts backfired. He ended up fleeing Egypt and hunkering down in the deserts of Midian. There Moses consigned himself to a ho-hum life. He married and had a couple of kids. He tended sheep and probably figured his best days were behind him.
ONLY THEY WEREN'T.
Moses got "Moses-ed" (that is," drawn out") again! When he was eighty, Moses heard God call to him from the midst of a burning bush! That was the day the Lord plucked Moses from his dead-end life in Midian and sent him to " draw out" his captive countrymen from Egypt.
Truth be told, the name Moses doesn't matter a whole lot. But the "man" Moses---and his example ---surely does. This reticent leader (see EXodus3-4) courageously confronted the world's most powerful ruler. He guided the Israelites out of service to Pharaoh and into freedom of serving God. He humbly (Numbers 12:3) shepherded the Israelites for forty exasperating years, then brought them to the edge of the promised land. When they sinned grievously, it was Moses who interceded for them. When Moses died, God officiated his private funeral (see Deuteronomy 34)!
IF we could talk to Moses, odds are he'd tell us that the greatest miracle he ever saw---and he saw some doozies--- was the miracle of
God drawing him out: first, out of certain death as a baby, and later, out of a dull existence, in order to be His friend (Exodus33:11) and to send him to help others.
The rest of the Bible indicates that's precisely what God wants to do in each of our lives: rescue us from death and then use us to rescue others.
WRITTEN BY: LEN WOODS; " LAW " THE LEGAL CODE (OF INSTRUCTIONS AND PROHIBITIONS) THAT GOD JEHOVAH GAVE TO ISRAEL
The LORD said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction". (Exodus 24:12).
When someone mentions the law of God, most of us think immediately of history's most famous list: the Ten Commandments. In truth, God's law is much more involved.
Jewish religious leaders over the centuries codified all the restrictions and requirements given to Moses by God at Sinai. The laws: 365 don'ts and 248 mandates, or dos. It's not quite the US tax code. Even so, it's pages and pages of rules.
"TORAH" is the Hebrew word translated "law" in the Old Testament. Scholars tell us it comes from a root verb that means "to throw or cast". Think of a quarterback throwing a football into the area where he wants his receiver to run, and you're close to the idea.
Jewish people refer collectively to the first five books of the Bible as the Torah or the Law.* They further speak of the "Oral Torah", which consists of all the sayings, interpretations, and teachings of venerated rabbis and Jewish leaders down through the ages. ( They see these explanations and insights as implicit in the written law given to Moses. All together,+ they fill more than 6,000 pages.)
Why such a complicated system of law?
And why so many regulations? In brief, here's what the Torah reveals:
1. God's absolute holiness.
2. God's desire for His redeemed people to live in God-honoring and world-blessing ways.
Leviticus 20;26 expresses these twin ideas succinctly: "You are to be holy to me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own".
By carefully observing the legal and moral code given at Sinai, Israel was to be a light to the nations, showing the world how good it is to know and serve the one true GOD.
God's rules aren't arbitrary. They were all given to protect God's people from harm and to provide for them the most fulfilling life possible. However, the Bible both shows and states that the exacting requirements of God's law are impossible for us to follow perfectly (Romans 3:20; Titus 3:5). No one can do it. Not even a devout Jew like the apostle Paul, who was fanatical about trying to keep the law of God. Even he was finally forced to admit that the real purpose of the law was only to serve as "our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith" (Galatians 3:24).
Let God's law show you how holy God is. But then, instead of just trying to memorize and live out a boatload of rules, ask God's Holy Spirit to rule your heart and animate your life. That's the way to be holy and joy-filled. It's how to become the kind of person who causes others to wonder, "What makes him or he tick?"