Brit Chadasha Connection #44 Devarim
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Parashah #44: Devarim "
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Hebrews 3:7-4:11
By:
Rabbi Yehudah "
Strong Bow" ben Shomeyr
Here Rav
Sha'ul continues the theme of full and complete obedience to G-d's commands. He sites here in our selected passage a portion from
Numbers 12, as a proof text, to remind G-d's people the judgment that falls when one rebels or complies with only partial obedience.
Heb 3:7-11 Wherefore (as the
Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) (
Num. 12:7)
This is the main crux of what is so wrong with partial obedience.
Heb. 3:12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Rom 14:23b For whatsoever [is] not of faith is sin.
Hebrews 11:6 But without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Heb.
3:13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Don't think you are fooling G-d with your partial obedience.
Gal
6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Heb 3:19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
Partial obedience is lack of faith, and lack of faith is disbelief.
If you are fearful and doubtful regarding what G-d has commanded, that's okay, that is only human.
II Tim. 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Pray the prayer that the man with the demon possessed son prayed
Mark 9:17-24
And one of the multitude answered and said,
Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit; And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not. He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall
I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him unto me. And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foamingAnd he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child. And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us.
Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things [are] possible to him that believeth. And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears,
Lord,
I believe; help thou mine unbelief.
"L-rd, I believe, but help my unbelief."
For after full obedience comes rest.
Heb. 4:11
Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
Rest is so sweet, but no one promised that achieving it would be easy.
James 1:2-3, 22, My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience
... But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
James 2:17-18 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. Yea, a man may say,
Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
James 4:17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
I John 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
Rom 2:13 For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
It is ironic that you have to first rest in Him prior to taking the
Land to be able to achieve the rest afterwards.
Shabbat Shalom and Shavuah Tov!
-- Rabbi Yehudah