Verse of the Week: 1 Peter 2:24

“Yeshua bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live in righteousness. By His wounds we are healed.”

This statement by Peter is not merely a statement about forgiveness. It is a declaration concerning what Yehovah has accomplished through His Messiah and what that accomplishment is meant to produce in His people.

Yeshua did not bear our sins so that we could make peace with sin. He bore our sins so that we could be delivered from its dominion. The goal of redemption has always been to be a people who belong to Yehovah and walk in His ways. This is the pattern established in the Exodus. Yehovah first redeemed Israel from Egypt, then brought them to Sinai and taught them how a redeemed people were to live. Grace came first, but grace was never opposed to obedience.

This is why Peter says that we are to "live unto righteousness." In the biblical worldview, righteousness is not an abstract theological idea. It is a life ordered according to the ways of Yehovah. The Torah reveals His standards of righteousness, justice, holiness, mercy, faithfulness, and love. Yeshua did not suffer in order to abolish His Father's righteous ways. He suffered to cleanse and restore a people who would walk in them from the heart.

The imagery of Yeshua bearing our sins upon the tree also reaches deeply into the Torah and the Prophets. The Torah speaks of the curse associated with one who hangs upon a tree, while Isaiah describes the Servant of Yehovah bearing the sins and wounds of His people. At Golgotha, these strands of Scripture converge. Yeshua willingly carried the judgment that our rebellion deserved. The Shepherd was wounded so that wandering sheep could be brought back to Yehovah.

And this is an important part of the verse that we should not overlook. Peter is not describing a salvation that leaves us exactly where we were. The wounds of Yeshua bring healing. That healing includes restoration from the rebellion, corruption, and alienation caused by sin. We were wandering, but through Messiah we are being brought back under the care of the Shepherd and Guardian of our souls.

The gospel, then, is not the Torah versus grace. It is the story of Yehovah remaining faithful to His covenant purposes despite human rebellion. It is the story that begins in the Torah, unfolds through the Prophets, reaches its decisive moment in the suffering and resurrection of Yeshua, and will ultimately culminate when the Messiah returns, establishes righteousness, and reigns from Zion.

So, this week, let us remember that Yeshua did not bear our sins merely so that we could be forgiven while continuing to live according to our own ways. He bore our sins so that we might die to sin and live unto righteousness. Let us examine our lives, turn away from what Yehovah calls sin, and seek to walk faithfully in His commandments. May the wounds of Yeshua remind us of the terrible cost of rebellion, the extraordinary mercy of Yehovah, and the kind of people redemption is intended to produce: a set-apart, obedient, covenant-faithful people eagerly awaiting the return of our King.

“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.” -- Psalm 19 : 1

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How Much Is Your Word Worth? 🤔

Our words reveal our character. When we make a promise, accept a responsibility, or simply say, “I will,” we put our credibility on the line. Scripture reminds us that honoring our word is also a way of honoring Yehovah.

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We hope you’re having a blessed week. We invite you to join us as we continue our journey through Deuteronomy with this week’s Torah portion, Ki Tetze (Deuteronomy 21:10–25:19).

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Happy Summer! May your summer be all you want summer to be! Physically, I am well. But otherwise, I have been battling mental and spiritual turmoil. I have been struggling with direction, guidance, leading, hearing, perceiving; a sense of being off-course, being off-center, out-of-phase.

Two months ago I wrote this (in my phone notes). I have been of two minds whether to share it. It doesn’t put me in a very good light. Except that Truth is sorta my thing, so Truthful is what I believe I need to be.

TLT

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Hearing and Miss-Hearing God

My aim is ever to pray/ask/affirm that I ever and always seek and heed the leading of the Spirit of YHVH. Nevertheless, sometimes I miss-hear, miss-understand, or worse – ignore what it is I am to write about.

After my last article was published, I decided to quickly write another, and get it published so that I would be publishing an article a month. (What “the world” says a “blogger” should do.)

I decided on a Word Study. I decided to write about Forgiveness. It was to be a “Quick” Word Study. Quickly written. Quickly published.

Whoa, was I wrong!

The subject “quickly” (😆) became enormous, wordy, unwieldy. And disconcertingly, knowledge of Unforgiveness in my life was “brought to my remembrance.”

Wow …

How unexpected! How uncomfortable. How humbling.

So, I stopped writing.

I said to myself: “I’ll deal with that later. Then I can write about Forgiveness, and offer a process to forgive others.”(Ok, I’ll admit, a teensy little bit of hubris there.)

(BTW: The time to have a “monthly” article published had long passed.)

I then sought another topic, another “word” to study.

Another “word” for a Quick Word Study. Quickly written. Quickly published.

I began working on the Hebrew word “Torah,” which means more than merely the usual definition of “law” in English. It’s more like “Instructions” or “Directions,” than like the English word “Law.” Again, it became enormous, wordy, unwieldy. It “quickly” () exploded into many points to ponder, a need for historical explanation, lots more research, even much, much more.

Again, the article that was to be “quickly” written and “quickly” published began to take longer and longer to “get ’er done.”

And it’s still not finished. I stopped working on it. (For now. It may become something sometime.)

Why?

Why was I having such a hard time coming up with a topic that “worked” for the time I had to write it?

Why?

I finally realized that I had been writing on my own choice of topic.

NOT on YHVH’s. I finally realized I had been pursuing my own choice of spiritual and intellectual direction. NOT YHVH’s. I finally realized I had been working in my own strength. NOT in YHVH’s.

I had not prayed/ asked/ affirmed on what topic I was to share next. (And listened for the answer.) I had not prayed/ asked/ affirmed in what timeframe I was to work. (And listened for the answer.) I had not prayed/ asked/ affirmed in what priority of tasks my article writing I was to be. (And listened for the answer.) I had not prayed/ asked/ affirmed that what I was doing was what YHVH wanted me to do. (And listened for the answer.)

I was running ahead (without listening). I was doing what I thought I should do (without listening). I was doing what I wanted to do (without listening). And I was expecting Him to bless it. (Has anyone else ever “resembled” that remark?)

So, now I’m two four months “late” with my “monthly” posting (and not a written “word” in sight to post).

What next? I’m praying, in:

Adoration. Praise. Thanksgiving. Confession. Repentance. And I’m trying hard to listen!!! And read the Word. To sit in silence. To be.

Be still and KNOW that I am Elohim [God - Mighty One] ...

Psalm 46:10 KJV

And to await the “still small voice” of YHVH. … and after the fire a still small voice

1 Kings 19:12 KJV

And so, I pray:

Father YHVH, I pray/ ask/ affirm that You have given me “ears to hear.” (Matthew 11:15)

May I ever and only hear and know the Truth, Your Truth, Your whole Truth, and nothing except Your Truth, through Your Spirit.

May it be so. Make it be True.

Amen and Amen.

Until … ?

Blessings,

TLThomas

MyWordOnTheWord.com

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Be a Berean

The brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews. Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

Acts 17:10-11 NASB