YOUR WORD IS A LAMP UNTO MY FEET, AND A LIGHT UNTO MY PATH.

Shalom,

Our Teaching this morning will continue from Psalm 119.105-120.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, YOUR WORD IS A LAMP UNTO MY FEET, AND A LIGHT UNTO MY PATH.

And with that said, let’s read Psalm 119.105-120.

PSALM 119.105  YOUR WORD IS A LAMP UNTO MY FEET, AND A LIGHT UNTO MY PATH.

AS YOU WELL KNOW, THE WRITER IS WRITING ABOUT EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE THAT IS A LAMP UNTO OUR FEET, AND A LIGHT UNTO OUR PATH.

WORD IN HEBREW, AS IN, GOD’S WORD IS A LAMP UNTO MY FEET, AND A LIGHT UNTO MY PATH, IS DAH’VAHR, MEANING, ANSWER, COMMANDMENT, DECREE, JUDGMENT, MESSAGE, PROMISE, PURPOSE, REASON, SENTENCE, AS IN A JUDICIAL DECISION, AND OF COURSE, THE WORD THAT GOD SPEAKS.

SO EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE IS YOUR ANSWER, GOD’S COMMANDMENT, GOD’S DECREE.  THAT IS, GOD’S SPOKEN WORD IS LAW.  GOD’S WORD IS ALSO HIS JUDGMENT.  GOD’S JUDGMENT IS HIS DECISION, AND HIS SENTENCE FOR A CRIME.  AND GOD’S JUDGMENTS ARE LAW.  GOD’S SPOKEN WORD IS HIS MESSAGE, HIS PROMISE, HIS PURPOSE, HIS REASON.  AND GOD’S WORDS SPOKEN IN THE BIBLE ARE THE VOICE OF GOD TO GUIDE YOU IN THE WAY YOU SHOULD GO.

THEREFORE EVERYONE WHO CLAIMS TO BE GODLY IN MESSIAH YESHUA, WHO IS GOD ALMIGHTY, SHOULD TAKE HOLD OF GOD’S WORD FOR A LAMP UNTO YOUR FEET, AND A LIGHT UNTO YOUR PATH TO GUIDE YOU THROUGHOUT YOUR LIFE.

EVERY SPOKEN WORD OF GOD IN THE BIBLE INCLUDES GOD’S LAWS, TEACHINGS, AND INSTRUCTIONS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES IN THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE.  AND THEY SHOULD BE A LAMP UNTO YOUR FEET, AND A LIGHT UNTO YOUR PATH.

PSALM 119.106  I HAVE SWORN, AND I WILL PERFORM IT, THAT I WILL KEEP YOUR RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENTS.

WHY WOULD ANYONE SWEAR TO PERFORM GOD’S RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENTS?  WHY?  BECAUSE GOD’S RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENTS ARE LAW WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES.  AND LIVING BY GOD’S RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENTS ALONG WITH FAITH IN MESSIAH YESHUA FOR YOUR ATONEMENT IS THE GOSPEL, THE GOOD NEWS FOR YOU TO HAVE A GOOD AND SUCCESSFUL LIFE ON EARTH, AND ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN.

DEUTERONOMY 4.1  LIVING BY GOD’S JUDGMENTS, HIS WORD WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES, AND HAVING FAITH IN MESSIAH YESHUA FOR YOUR ATONEMENT IS LIFE, ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN.  THAT IS THE GOSPEL.

DEUTERONOMY 7.11-15  KEEPING GOD’S JUDGMENTS IS LIFE, EVEN ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN.  HAVING GOD’S MERCY, AND GOD’S LOVE.  AND GOD WILL BLESS YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN, AND YOUR CHILDREN’S CHILDREN.  AND GOD WILL BLESS YOUR WORK AND YOU WILL BE BLESSED ABOVE ALL PEOPLE, AND GOD WILL TAKE AWAY FROM YOU ALL SICKNESS, AND WILL PUT NONE OF THE EVIL DISEASES OF EGYPT UPON YOU, BUT WILL LAY THEM UPON THOSE WHO HATE YOU.  ALL BECAUSE YOU OBEY GOD’S JUDGMENTS, HIS LAWS WRITTEN IN TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES.

ISAIAH 51.4  GOD’S JUDGMENTS ARE HIS LAWS THAT ARE LIGHT.  THE LIGHT IS GOD’S TRUTH WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES FOR ALL PEOPLES AND NATIONS.  AND GOD’S WORD IS LIGHT THAT IS A LAMP UNTO YOUR FEET, AND A LIGHT UNTO YOUR PATH.

MATTHEW 12.18  MESSIAH YESHUA TEACHES JUDGMENT TO THE GENTILES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.  MESSIAH TEACHES THE GENTILES THE TRUTH OF THE LAW OF MOSES AND THE WORD OF GOD WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE THAT GENTILES MUST OBEY.   MATTHEW 13.8, 23

LUKE 2.30-32, SIMEON, A JUST AND DEVOUT JEWISH MAN PROPHESIED THAT MESSIAH YESHUA WOULD BE A LIGHT TO THE GENTILES BY TEACHING THE GENTILES THE TRUTH THAT IS WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE.  EVERY WORD SPOKEN BY GOD IN THE BIBLE THAT INCLUDES HIS LAW OF MOSES IS TRUTH.  AND GOD’S TRUTH IS TO BE OBEYED BY ALL PEOPLES AND NATIONS.  AND MESSIAH YESHUA, SIMEON PROPHESIED, WILL BE THE GLORY AND HONOR TO GOD’S PEOPLE ISRAEL.  MATTHEW 4.4, DEUTERONOMY 8.3

SO WHY WOULD ANYONE SWEAR TO PERFORM THE JUDGMENTS OF GOD?  BECAUSE LIVING YOUR LIFE BY GOD’S JUDGMENTS IS THE GOSPEL FOR A GOOD, SUCCESSFUL, AND HEALTHY LIFE ON EARTH, AND ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN.

PSALM 119.107  I AM AFFLICTED VERY MUCH.  QUICKEN ME, O LORD, ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD.

WE ALL KNOW WHAT AFFLICTION IS.  TROUBLES AND PROBLEMS.  THEY HAPPEN TO ALL OF US.  IT’S CALLED LIFE.

O LORD GOD, THE WRITER PLEADS, I AM AFFLICTED VERY MUCH.  QUICKEN ME ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD.  REVIVE ME, SAVE ME, DELIVER ME FROM THESE AFFLICTIONS, THESE TROUBLES AND PROBLEMS, O LORD ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD.

AND GOD WILL.  HE WILL DELIVER YOU FROM ALL YOUR TROUBLES AND AFFLICTIONS ACCORDING TO HIS WORD BECAUSE YOU LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND YOU LIVE BY HIS WORD. 

ISAIAH 57.15, PSALM 34.19

PSALM 119.108  ACCEPT, I BESEECH THEE, THE FREEWILL OFFERINGS OF MY MOUTH, O LORD, AND TEACH ME YOUR JUDGMENTS.

A FREEWILL OFFERING IS A VOLUNTARY OFFERING TO THE LORD. 

HEBREW BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 23.24, CHRISTIAN BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 23.23

THE WRITER IS OFFERING THE FREEWILL OFFERINGS TO THE LORD BY THE WORDS HE SPEAKS TO THE LORD. 

TEACH ME YOUR JUDGMENTS, O LORD.  TEACH ME YOUR TORAH, YOUR LAW OF MOSES, O LORD.  THAT IS WHAT WE SHOULD ASK GOD, TEACH ME YOUR JUDGMENTS, TEACH ME YOUR LAW SO THAT I WILL LIVE A GODLY LIFE IN YOUR SIGHT.  AND IF YOU ARE SERIOUS ABOUT LEARNING GOD’S JUDGMENTS, HIS LAW OF MOSES, GOD WILL TEACH YOU AND GIVE YOU UNDERSTANDING.  AND HIS LAW IS NOT DIFFICULT.  AND THAT IS THE PATH TO ETERNAL LIFE WITH FAITH IN MESSIAH YESHUA FOR YOUR ATONEMENT.  1 JOHN 5.3

PSALM 119.109  MY SOUL IS CONTINUALLY IN MY HAND, YET I DO NOT FORGET YOUR LAW.

MEANING, MY LIFE IS ALWAYS AT RISK.  BUT THE LORD YOUR GOD WATCHES OVER THE JUST, THOSE WHO OBEY GOD, THOSE WHO OBEY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE INCLUDING HIS LAW OF MOSES.

PROVERBS 1.33, PROVERBS 3.33, PROVERBS 12.21, PROVERBS 13.21, PROVERBS 15.3, PROVERBS 19.23, PSALM 91.7-16

PSALM 119.110  THE WICKED HAVE LAID A SNARE FOR ME.  YET I DID NOT ERR FROM YOUR PRECEPTS.

WICKED IN HEBREW IS RAH’SHAH THAT NOT ONLY MEANS WICKED, BUT ALSO UNGODLY.  SOME PEOPLE TRY TO TRAP US, OR TRICK US FOR WHATEVER STRANGE REASON.  BUT THE GODLY NEVER GO ASTRAY FROM GOD’S PRECEPTS, HIS TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES.

PSALM 119.111-112  YOUR TESTIMONIES HAVE I TAKEN AS A HERITAGE FOREVER.  FOR THEY ARE THE REJOICING OF MY HEART.

I HAVE INCLINED MY HEART TO PERFORM YOUR STATUTES ALWAYS, EVEN UNTO THE END.

HOW OFTEN DO WE HEAR A PREACHER SAY, EVERY WORD SPOKEN BY GOD IN THE BIBLE IS A REJOICING TO MY HEART?

THE WORD HERITAGE IN HEBREW IS NAH’KHAHL THAT MEANS INHERITANCE.

THESE ARE POWERFUL WORDS.  GOD’S TESTIMONIES ARE EVERY WORD HE SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE.  AND EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE IS YOUR INHERITANCE, EVEN UNTO THE END.  AND THERE IS NO END BECAUSE WHEN YOU OBEY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE, YOU INHERIT ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN WITH THE ALMIGHTY GOD, THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, YESHUA HA MAHSHIAKH.  BECAUSE GOD’S WORD IS A REJOICING TO YOUR HEART.

PSALM 119.113  I HATE VAIN THOUGHTS, BUT YOUR LAW DO I LOVE.

IN HEBREW, BUT YOUR LAW DO I LOVE, IS, V’TORAH’TEH’KHAH AH’HAHV’TEE.

HOW OFTEN DO WE HEAR A MESSAGE ON HOW I LOVE YOUR LAW OF MOSES?

WE OFTEN HEAR BELIEVERS IN MESSIAH YESHUA SAY, OH, I CAN’T WAIT FOR MESSIAH’S RETURN.

WHEN MESSIAH RETURNS AND ESTABLISHES HIS KINGDOM ON EARTH IN ISRAEL FOR 1,000 YEARS, EVERYONE WILL BE SAYING TORAH’TEH’KHAH AH’HAHV’TEE, YOUR LAW DO I LOVE.

WHEN JAN AND I WERE IN ISRAEL, WE SAW A LARGE GROUP OF YOUNG MEN PARADING DOWN A STREET IN JERUSALEM PLAYING ON BONGOS, WAVING ISRAELI FLAGS AND SHOUTING TORAH TOV, TORAH TOV, THE LAW IS GOOD, THE LAW IS GOOD.

THAT IS THE PATH TO SALVATION WITH FAITH IN MESSIAH YESHUA FOR YOUR ATONEMENT.  AND THAT IS THE GOSPEL OF MESSIAH YESHUA.  AND THAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN THE CHURCHES AND THE MESSIANIC CONGREGATIONS, TORAH TOV, THE LAW IS GOOD.

PSALM 119.114  YOU ARE MY HIDING PLACE AND MY SHIELD.  I HOPE IN YOUR WORD.

SO MANY PEOPLE SING AND SAY, LORD, YOU ARE MY HIDING PLACE.  AND IF GOD IS THEIR HIDING PLACE, WHY WILL THOSE PEOPLE NOT DO THE VERY BASIC THING GOD ASKS OF THEM, OBEY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE?

AND WHY WOULD THEY LISTEN TO A BIBLE TEACHER WHO TEACHES FALSE DOCTRINE THAT JESUS  ABOLISHED THE LAWS OF THE ONE WHOM THEY CALL THEIR HIDING PLACE THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES? 

AND WHY WOULD THEY LISTEN TO A FALSE DOCTRINE THAT JESUS SUPPLANTED THE WORD OF THE ONE THEY CALL THEIR HIDING PLACE THAT IS WRITTEN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT?

IS THAT LOVE AND RESPECT FOR GOD WHOM THEY CALL THEIR HIDING PLACE?  NO.

PSALM 119.115  DEPART FROM ME YOU EVIL DOERS FOR I WILL KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF MY GOD.

THAT IS A SAD COMMENTARY FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD WHICH ARE GOD’S LAWS WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES.  THE WRITER CALLS THEM EVIL DOERS BECAUSE THEY REJECT GOD’S LAWS, TEACHINGS AND INSTRUCTIONS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES.

LET’S SPEND A MOMENT ON SOME OF THE MYSTERIES WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE SUCH AS THE MYSTERIES OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, THE MYSTERY OF THE HIDDEN WISDOM OF GOD, THE MYSTERY OF MESSIAH, THE MYSTERY OF THE GOSPEL, THE MYSTERY OF THE FAITH IN A PURE CONSCIENCE, THE MYSTERY OF GOD, AND THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY.

A MYSTERY IS ANYTHING THAT IS UNKNOWN.  YET THE MYSTERIES SPOKEN OF IN THE BIBLE ARE KNOWN AND SOLVED IN THE BIBLE THAT THE WORLD DOES NOT SEE NOR CAN THEY SEE BECAUSE GOD HAS HID IT FROM THEIR EYES.  AND THE MYSTERIES ARE SOLVED IN THE LAW OF MOSES, AND THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE, AND IN THE WORDS THAT MESSIAH YESHUA TEACHES. 

AND THIS IS WHAT SOLVES THE MYSTERY; OBEDIENCE TO EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE THAT INCLUDES THE LAW OF MOSES, AND HAVING FAITH IN MESSIAH YESHUA FOR YOUR ATONEMENT.  THAT SOLVES THE MYSTERY, AND THAT IS THE GOSPEL FOR A GOOD LIFE ON EARTH AND ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN.

ISAIAH 6.8-10, MATTHEW 7.7-8, MATTHEW 13.10-11, MATTHEW 22.14, MYSTERY SOLVED LUKE 4.4, DEUTERONOMY 8.3 

THE MYSTERY IS THIS; OBEDIENCE TO EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE INCLUDING THE LAW OF MOSES THAT THE WORLD CANNOT SEE, HEAR, OR UNDERSTAND.  MATTHEW 7.21-23

PSALM 119.116-117  UPHOLD ME ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD THAT I MAY LIVE, AND LET ME NOT BE ASHAMED OF MY HOPE.

HOLD ME UP AND I SHALL BE SAFE, AND I WILL RESPECT YOUR STATUTES CONTINUALLY.

THE WRITER OF PSALM 119 HAS SOLVED THE MYSTERIES BY LIVING HIS OR HER LIFE ACCORDING TO THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD IN THE BIBLE.  ASKING THE LORD TO SUPPORT HIM, AND HOLD HIM UP ACCORDING TO HIS WORD.  AND ASKING THE LORD TO HELP HIM NOT TO BE ASHAMED FOR HIS HOPE.  BECAUSE HE KNOWS THAT SO MANY PEOPLE DISOBEY GOD AND DON’T EVEN KNOW IT, OR DON’T CARE, OR CAN’T SEE, HEAR, OR UNDERSTAND THE TRUTH WRITTEN IN THE LAW.  BUT THE WRITER WILL CONTINUE TO RESPECT AND HONOR THE STATUTES OF GOD, GOD’S LAWS, TEACHINGS, AND INSTRUCTIONS WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES.  AND SO SHOULD WE.

PSALM 119.118-120  YOU HAVE TRODDEN DOWN ALL THEM THAT ERR FROM YOUR STATUTES, FOR THEIR DECEIT IS FALSEHOOD.

YOU PUT AWAY ALL THE WICKED OF THE EARTH LIKE DROSS.  THEREFORE I LOVE YOUR TESTIMONIES.

MY FLESH TREMBLES FOR FEAR OF YOU AND I AM AFRAID OF YOUR JUDGMENTS.

THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY IS SOLVED WHEN YOU KNOW THAT SIN IS BREAKING THE LAW OF MOSES, AND YOU BEGIN TO LIVE BY THE LAW OF MOSES.

AND YOU SOLVE THE MYSTERY OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD HAVING ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN WHEN YOU LIVE BY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE WITH FAITH IN MESSIAH YESHUA FOR YOUR ATONEMENT. 

AND YOU SOLVE THE MYSTERY OF THE GOSPEL, AND THE MYSTERY OF GOD AND MESSIAH YESHUA WHO IS GOD ALMIGHTY WHEN YOU LIVE BY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE AND HAVE FAITH IN MESSIAH YESHUA FOR YOUR ATONEMENT.

THEN YOU REMAIN WRITTEN IN GOD’S BOOK OF LIFE, AND YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN. 

DANIEL 12.1-2, 1 JOHN 3.4

Shalom,

Ira Weinstein

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gmail.com

FOR EVER, O LORD, YOUR WORD IS SETTLED IN HEAVEN.

Shalom.

Our teaching this morning will continue from Psalm 119 Verses 89-104.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, FOR EVER, O LORD, YOUR WORD IS SETTLED IN HEAVEN.

And with that said, let’s read Psalm 119.89-104.

PSALM 119.84  FOR EVER, O LORD, YOUR WORD IS SETTLED IN HEAVEN.

Since The Bible reads, For ever O LORD, Your Word is settled in Heaven, why are we taught by so many Bible Teachers that The Law of Moses, which is The Word of GOD, is abolished, and The Old Testament, which has The Word of GOD Written in it, has been supplanted, or replaced by Jesus?

That is Fake News because no one can abolish The Words Spoken by GOD in The Law of Moses.

And no one can supplant or replace The Words Spoken by GOD in The Old Testament.

NO ONE CAN ABOLISH OR REPLACE ONE WORD SPOKEN BY GOD.

FOR THE PROPHET ISAIAH SAYS, THE WORD OF OUR GOD SHALL STAND FOREVER.  AND THE PROPHET MALACHI WRITES, I AM THE LORD, I DO NOT CHANGE.

BECAUSE EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD IS FOREVER AND IS SETTLED IN HEAVEN.

ISAIAH 40.8, MALACHI 3.6, DEUTERONOMY 8.3, MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4

ISAIAH 40.8  SO I LOOKED UP THE WORD STAND IN HEBREW AS IN, THE WORD OF OUR GOD SHALL STAND FOREVER.  AND STAND IN HEBREW IS KOOM,

THAT MEANS, THE WORD OF OUR GOD SHALL SUCCEED FOREVER, THE WORD OF OUR GOD SHALL BE A DECREE, OR LAW FOREVER, THE WORD OF OUR GOD SHALL ENDURE FOREVER, HELP FOREVER, PERFORM FOREVER, REMAIN FOREVER, AND THE WORD OF OUR GOD SHALL BE ESTABLISHED FOREVER, AND THE WORD OF OUR GOD SHALL STAND FOREVER.

SO WHAT IS THIS NONSENSE THAT THE LAW OF MOSES IS ABOLISHED, OR THE OLD TESTAMENT IS SUPPLANTED, OR REPLACED BY JESUS?  THEY ARE TEACHINGS THAT MAKE NO SENSE.  IN FACT THESE TEACHINGS THAT THE LAW OF MOSES IS ABOLISHED, AND THE OLD TESTAMENT IS SUPPLANTED BY JESUS ARE ANTI GOD TEACHINGS.

THE WRITER OF PSALM 119 IS THANKFUL THAT THE WORD OF GOD IS FOREVER AND SETTLED IN HEAVEN AS CAN BE SEEN IN VERSE 90.

PSALM 119.90  YOUR FAITHFULNESS IS UNTO ALL GENERATIONS.  YOU HAVE ESTABLISHED THE EARTH, AND IT ABIDES, THAT IS, THE EARTH STANDS.

GOD’S FAITHFULNESS IS TRUTH.  AND WE CAN ALWAYS RELY ON HIS WORD THAT IS TRUTH FOR EVER, SETTLED IN HEAVEN.

AND GOD’S TRUTH IS TO ALL GENERATIONS, FOR ALL THE WORLD TO OBEY AND LIVE BY FOREVER.

SO HOW CAN ANYONE WHO TEACHES FROM THE BIBLE OF TRUTH TEACH THAT THE LAW OF MOSES IS ABOLISHED?  HOW CAN ANY ONE TEACH THAT THE OLD TESTAMENT HAS BEEN SUPPLANTED OR REPLACED BY JESUS?

THAT NONSENSE IS NOWHERE WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE.  AND THE JESUS OF THE BIBLE IS GOD ALMIGHTY THE FATHER WHOSE WORD STANDS FOREVER AND CAN NEVER BE ABOLISHED. 

FOR EVER, O LORD, YOUR WORD IS SETTLED IN HEAVEN.

HEBREW BIBLE ISAIAH 9.5, CHRISTIAN BIBLE ISAIAH 9.6, JOHN 8.58, JOHN 12.44-45, JOHN 14.9

PSALM 119.91  THEY CONTINUE THIS DAY ACCORDING TO YOUR ORDINANCES FOR ALL ARE YOUR SERVANTS.

GOD’S ORDINANCES ARE HIS WORDS THAT ARE FOREVER SETTLED IN HEAVEN, AND THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH ARE ALSO HIS ORDINANCES.  ALL ARE HIS SERVANTS.

A GOOD EXPLANATION OF GOD’S WORDS BEING HIS SERVANTS THAT WILL ACCOMPLISH THAT WHICH GOD PLEASES IS WRITTEN IN ISAIAH 55.11, JOB 38.33

PSALM 119.92  UNLESS YOUR LAW HAD BEEN MY DELIGHT, I SHOULD THEN HAVE PERISHED IN MY AFFLICTION.

THE BIBLE TEACHES THROUGHOUT THAT GOD BLESSES THOSE WHO OBEY HIS COMMANDMENTS, HIS LAWS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES.  AND ALL GOD’S BLESSINGS WILL COME UPON YOU AND OVERTAKE YOU IF YOU WILL OBEY HIS LAW OF MOSES.

BUT GOD WILL CURSE THOSE WHO WILL NOT OBEY HIS COMMANDMENTS, HIS LAWS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES.  AND THOSE CURSES, GOD SAYS, WILL COME UPON THE DISOBEDIENT AND OVERTAKE THEM.  IT IS WRITTEN IN DEUTERONOMY 28.

SO THE WRITER OF PSALM 119 WRITES, UNLESS YOUR TORAH, YOUR LAW OF MOSES HAD BEEN MY DELIGHT, I WOULD HAVE PERISHED IN MY AFFLICTION.

THE LAW IS THE WRITER’S DELIGHT.  AND BLESSINGS CAME UPON THE WRITER OF PSALM 119 AND OVERTOOK HER BECAUSE THE LAW WAS HER DELIGHT.

HOWEVER JUST BECAUSE ONE OBEYS TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES, THAT DOES NOT ELIMINATE PROBLEMS FROM OUR LIFE.  BUT AS DAVID WRITES, MANY ARE THE AFFLICTIONS OF THE RIGHTEOUS, BUT THE LORD DELIVERS HIM OUT OF THEM ALL.  PSALM 34.19

THE RIGHTEOUS OBEY THE LAW OF MOSES AND EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE.

OBEDIENCE TO EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE AND HAVING FAITH IN MESSIAH YESHUA FOR YOUR ATONEMENT RESULT IN ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN.  AND THAT IS THE GOSPEL.

PSALM 119.93  I WILL NEVER FORGET YOUR PRECEPTS, FOR WITH THEM YOU HAVE QUICKENED ME.

GOD’S PRECEPTS ARE HIS LAWS, TEACHINGS AND INSTRUCTIONS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES.

QUICKENED COMES FROM THE HEBREW KHY THAT MEANS LIFE AND TO LIVE.  AFTER SOME DIFFICULTY, GOD WILL RESTORE YOUR LIFE TO JOY AND PEACE, AND REVIVE YOU, AND YOU WILL BE WELL.  AND GOD WILL CAUSE YOU TO PROSPER AND FLOURISH BECAUSE YOU NEVER FORGET GOD’S PRECEPTS.  YOU NEVER FORGET GOD’S LAWS, TEACHINGS AND INSTRUCTIONS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES.

THE BASIC FUNDAMENTAL TEACHING OF THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS 2.16-17 TO THE BOOK OF REVELATION IS TO OBEY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE. 

IN THE DAYS OF THE TABERNACLE, AND THE FIRST AND SECOND TEMPLES, ATONEMENT FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS WHICH IS DISOBEYING THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD THAT INCLUDES HIS WORD WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES CAME FROM THE SHED BLOOD OF AN ANIMAL SACRIFICE, AND DOING GOD’S REQUIREMENT OF OBEDIENCE TO HIS LAW OF MOSES.  1 JOHN 3.4

WITHOUT A TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM, ATONEMENT COMES FROM FAITH IN MESSIAH YESHUA’S ATONING DEATH, AND SHED BLOOD, FOLLOWED BY GOD’S REQUIREMENT OF OBEDIENCE TO EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE, INCLUDING THE LAW OF MOSES.

THAT IS THE PATH FOR A GOOD AND HEALTHY LIFE ON EARTH AND ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN.  AND THAT IS THE GOSPEL, THE GOOD NEWS OF MESSIAH YESHUA.

ROMANS 2.13

PSALM 119.94  I AM YOURS, SAVE ME.  FOR I HAVE SOUGHT YOUR PRECEPTS.

SAVE ME, IN HEBREW IS HO’SHE’AY’NEE.  THAT’S WHAT THE JEWISH PEOPLE CRIED OUT TO YESHUA THEIR MESSIAH, HO’SHE’AY’NEE, OR AS MOST CHRISTIAN BIBLES WRITE, HOSANNA.  SAVE ME.  BLESSED IS THE KING OF ISRAEL WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD.  JOHN 12.12-13

FAITH IN THE JEWISH MESSIAH YESHUA FOR THE ATONEMENT OF ALL YOUR SINS, AND LIVING YOUR LIFE ACCORDING TO GOD’S PRECEPTS, GOD’S LAWS WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES IS THE GOOD NEWS THAT RESULTS IN A GOOD, HEALTHY, AND SUCCESSFUL LIFE ON EARTH, AND ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN.

PSALM 119.95  THE WICKED HAVE WAITED FOR ME TO DESTROY ME, BUT I WILL CONSIDER YOUR TESTIMONIES.

THE WRITER WRITES ABOUT THE WICKED WHO WAIT TO DESTROY HIM.  BUT THE WRITER CONSIDERS, THAT IS THE WRITER THINKS CAREFULLY ABOUT GOD’S TESTIMONIES, THE WORDS THAT GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE.

AND THAT IS YOUR WISDOM, THINKING ON THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD.  LOOKING INTO THE BIBLE FOR GOD’S COUNSEL WHEN TROUBLE SEEMS NEAR.  FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU NOR FORSAKE YOU.

PSALM 119.96  I HAVE SEEN AN END OF ALL PERFECTION, BUT YOUR COMMANDMENT IS EXCEEDING BROAD.

I THINK WHAT THE WRITER IS SAYING IS THIS.  I HAVE SEEN AN END OF EVERY PURPOSE, EVERY GOOD AND BAD INTENTION OF MAN, AND THEIR WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE.  BUT YOUR COMMANDMENT, O LORD, IS EXCEEDING BROAD.  THAT IS, GOD’S COMMANDMENT, HIS TORAH, HIS LAW OF MOSES IS FILLED WITH GOD’S WISDOM THAT IS INFINITE, BEYOND MEASURE.

AND GOD’S LAW OF MOSES IS GREAT, EXCEEDING GREAT, FILLED WITH THE WISDOM OF GOD.

SO PEOPLE HAVE GOOD INTENTIONS OR BAD INTENTIONS.  THEY HAVE WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE.  BUT GOD’S TORAH, HIS LAW OF MOSES IS FILLED WITH GOD’S EXCEPTIONAL WISDOM.  AND GOD’S WISDOM IS EXCEEDING GREAT, BEYOND MEASURE, SETTLED AND ESTABLISHED IN HEAVEN FOREVER.

PSALM 119.97  O HOW I LOVE YOUR LAW.  IT IS MY MEDITATION ALL THE DAY.

IF THOSE BIBLE TEACHERS WHO TEACH FAKE NEWS THAT GOD’S LAW OF MOSES IS ABOLISHED, AND THE MASSES WHO FOLLOW THOSE FALSE BIBLE TEACHERS CHANGED THEIR WAY OF LIFE TO THE TRUTH THAT THE WORD OF OUR GOD STANDS FOREVER, AND IS SETTLED IN HEAVEN, THIS WORLD WOULD BE A MUCH BETTER PLACE TO LIVE IN.  BECAUSE PEOPLE WOULD OBEY GOD.  THEY WOULD LOVE GOD’S WORD AND HIS LAW AND MEDITATE ON IT ALL THE DAY.  AND BE BLESSED WITH THE ETERNAL BLESSINGS OF GOD.

THAT’S WHAT IT WILL BE LIKE IN THE 1,000 YEAR MESSIANIC KINGDOM ON EARTH IN ISRAEL AND THROUGHOUT ETERNITY IN HEAVEN.  EVERYONE WILL LIVE BY TORAH, GOD’S LAW OF MOSES.  THOSE PEOPLE ARE WRITTEN IN GOD’S BOOK OF LIFE.

EXODUS 32.30-33, ROMANS 5.11, ISAIAH 51.3

PSALM 119.98-100  YOU THROUGH YOUR COMMANDMENTS HAVE MADE ME WISER THAN MY ENEMIES FOR THEY ARE EVER WITH ME.

I HAVE MORE UNDERSTANDING THAN ALL MY TEACHERS, FOR YOUR TESTIMONIES ARE MY MEDITATION.

I UNDERSTAND MORE THAN THE ANCIENTS, BECAUSE I KEEP YOUR PRECEPTS.

ACCORDING TO STRONGS CONCORDANCE, THE WORD GENTILE IN HEBREW IS GOY THAT MEANS A FOREIGN NATION, HEATHEN, NATIONS AND PEOPLE.

GENTILE IN GREEK IS ETHNOS THAT MEANS A RACE, A TRIBE, SPECIFICALLY A FOREIGN NON-JEWISH TRIBE, PAGAN, HEATHEN, NATION, PEOPLE.

IF GENTILES WOULD LIVE BY EVERY WORD THAT IS SPOKEN BY GOD IN THE BIBLE THAT INCLUDES THE LAW OF MOSES, AS JESUS SAID, MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD, THE WORDS HEATHEN AND PAGAN WOULD DISAPPEAR FROM THE DESCRIPTION OF THOSE GENTILES WHO OBEY GOD AND LIVE BY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE INCLUDING THE LAW OF MOSES.

MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4, DEUTERONOMY 8.3

PSALM 119.101-102  I HAVE REFRAINED MY FEET FROM EVERY EVIL WAY THAT I MIGHT KEEP YOUR WORD.

I HAVE NOT DEPARTED FROM YOUR JUDGMENTS, FOR YOU HAVE TAUGHT ME.

AVOIDING EVIL AND LIVING BY GOD’S JUDGMENTS, HIS DECISIONS, VERDICTS, AND PENALTIES FOR A CRIME THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES REQUIRES YOU TO HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT.

YOU DO NOT RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT BY RAISING YOUR HAND IN CHURCH AND SAY, I BELIEVE IN JESUS.  YOU RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT BY OBEYING GOD.  OBEYING EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE INCLUDING THE LAW OF MOSES AND HAVING FAITH IN MESSIAH YESHUA FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF ALL YOUR SINS.  THEN GOD WILL GIVE YOU HIS HOLY SPIRIT, AND THEN YOU WILL AVOID EVIL AND YOU WILL NOT DEPART FROM GOD’S JUDGMENTS.  ACTS 5.32

AS A POINT OF INFORMATION, THE WORD EVIL IN HEBREW, AS IN, I HAVE REFRAINED MY FEET FROM EVERY EVIL WAY, IS RA THAT MEANS WRONG.  WRONG FOR NOT OBEYING GOD.  BECAUSE EVIL COMES FROM NOT OBEYING GOD, NOT OBEYING GOD’S LAWS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES, NOT OBEYING EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE.  AND EVERYTHING BAD, EVIL, MISERY, AND WICKEDNESS ARE FROM NOT OBEYING GOD.

PSALM 119.103-104  HOW SWEET ARE YOUR WORDS TO MY TASTE.  YES, SWEETER THAN HONEY TO MY MOUTH.

THROUGH YOUR PRECEPTS I GET UNDERSTANDING.  THEREFORE I HATE EVERY FALSE WAY.

LISTEN, BECAUSE OF THE HATEFUL TEACHING AGAINST GOD THAT HIS LAW OF MOSES IS ABOLISHED, GOD’S LAW OF MOSES HAS A TERRIBLE REPUTATION IN THE CHURCH.

BUT THE WRITER OF PSALM 119 WRITES THAT THE LAW OF MOSES IS SWEET TO HIS OR HER TASTE, SWEETER THAN HONEY TO HER MOUTH.

AND THROUGH GOD’S PRECEPTS, HIS LAWS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES, YOU GET UNDERSTANDING.  THEREFORE THE WRITER SAYS, I HATE EVERY FALSE WAY.

THEREFORE UNTIL THE CHURCH AND CERTAIN MESSIANIC CONGREGATIONS START TO TEACH THE TRUTH THAT THE LAW OF MOSES IS FOREVER, SETTLED IN HEAVEN, THERE WILL BE NO UNDERSTANDING.

Shalom,

Ira Weinstein

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gmail.com

LET, I PRAY THEE, YOUR MERCIFUL KINDNESS BE FOR MY COMFORT ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD UNTO YOUR SERVANT.

Shalom.

Our teaching this morning will continue from Psalm 119 verses 74-88.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, LET, I PRAY THEE, YOUR MERCIFUL KINDNESS BE FOR MY COMFORT ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD UNTO YOUR SERVANT.

And with that said, let’s read Psalm 119.74-88.

PSALM 119.74  THEY THAT FEAR YOU WILL BE GLAD WHEN THEY SEE ME BECAUSE I HAVE HOPED IN YOUR WORD.

FEAR GOD.  HOW MANY PEOPLE FEAR GOD?

The Hebrew Word for FEAR as in FEARING GOD is YAH’RAY that means AFRAID, FEARFUL, and REVERENT.

And when you FEAR GOD and you are AFRAID and FEARFUL OF GOD, AND REVERENT that is a good thing because you will do what GOD says to do that is Written in The Bible.

Because Fearing GOD and living by every Word that GOD Speaks in The Bible that includes obedience to Torah, The Law of Moses, and you have Faith in Messiah Yeshua for your Atonement results in Deliverance from sin and eternal death.  And you remain Written in GOD’S Book of Life for Eternal Life in Heaven.  DANIEL 12.1-2

So the writer of Psalm 119 writes in verse 74, They that Fear You, (THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY) will be glad when they see me because I have hoped in Your Word.

Those who Fear GOD and Hope in GOD’S Word find joy in being together with others who Fear GOD because it’s like being at a Festival of GOD with joy and happiness.

PSALM 119.75  I KNOW O LORD THAT YOUR JUDGMENTS ARE RIGHT, AND THAT YOU IN FAITHFULNESS HAVE AFFLICTED ME.

GOD’S Judgments are His Decisions and Verdicts that are according to The Law of Moses.  Therefore GOD’S Judgments are Right.

The Hebrew Word for FAITHFULNESS is EH’MU’NAH that means TRUTH.

Therefore in TRUTH according to Torah, The Law of Moses, GOD might Afflict us.  That is, GOD might Correct us with Punishment for whatever sin we have committed that violates any of GOD’S Laws Written in The Law of Moses.

For example, you might have eaten a ham and cheese sandwich that you know is wrong according to GOD’S Food Laws Written in The Law of Moses that says, Do not eat anything from a pig.  And GOD Corrects you with some sort of Punishment so that you will not eat a ham sandwich again or anything that GOD Says Do Not Do, or Do Not Eat.

DEUTERONOMY 14.3, 8

GOD LIVES BY TRUTH.  THE TRUTH IS THAT WHICH GOD HAD MOSES WRITE IN THE LAW OF MOSES.  AND THOSE WHO ARE GODLY LIVE BY THE TRUTH, FOR GOD SAYS, BE HOLY FOR I THE LORD YOUR GOD AM HOLY. 

THAT IS BEING HOLY, LIVING YOUR LIFE AS GOD ALMIGHTY LIVES HIS LIFE, BY EVERY WORD THAT GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE.  AND THAT INCLUDES EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE LAW OF MOSES.

LEVITICUS 19.1-2, ROMANS 6.22, EPHESIANS 5.25-27, 1 PETER 1.15-16, DEUTERONOMY 8.3, MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4

AGAIN, BEING HOLY IS LIVING YOUR LIFE ACCORDING TO EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE, AND THAT INCLUDES LIVING BY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES IN THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE. 

PSALM 119.76  LET, I PRAY THEE, YOUR MERCIFUL KINDNESS BE FOR MY COMFORT ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD TO YOUR SERVANT.

GOD SAYS, CALL UPON ME AND I WILL ANSWER YOU.  I WILL BE WITH YOU IN TROUBLE.  I WILL DELIVER YOU, AND HONOR YOU.  WITH LONG LIFE WILL I SATISFY YOU AND SHOW YOU MY SALVATION, MY YESHUA.  

PSALM 91.15-16

As Children of GOD living by His Written Word in The Bible, we should always ask GOD for His Merciful Kindness to Comfort us in times of trouble, and in times of sadness, and in times of sickness according to His Word Written in The Bible.  And Know and Believe that GOD will comfort you in those difficult times.

King David experienced troubles and sadness in his life just as we do.  And he always went to The LORD for Comfort.  And GOD always answered him, and comforted him.

LET’S READ PSALM 34.

PSALM 119.77 LET YOUR TENDER MERCIES COME UNTO ME THAT I MAY LIVE, FOR YOUR LAW IS MY DELIGHT.

GOD’S Mercies are His Compassion and Tender Love.

And we are privileged to call upon The LORD for His Tender Mercies, His Compassion, and His Tender Love because we delight in The LORD OUR GOD.  And you prove it by living your life according to GOD’S Torah, GOD’S Laws, Teachings, and Instructions that are Written in The Law of Moses.  And GOD will always answer you with His Love and His Tender Mercies.

LET’S READ PSALM 37.22-40.

PSALM 119.78  LET THE PROUD BE ASHAMED FOR THEY DEALT PERVERSELY WITH ME WITHOUT A CAUSE.  BUT I WILL MEDITATE ON YOUR PRECEPTS.

Better than fighting or arguing with someone, or worrying about a person who has wronged you without a cause, Meditate on GOD’S Precepts.  That is, Think Strong on GOD’S Word Written in The Law of Moses.

GOD told Joshua when he was ordained to lead The Children of Israel into the land of Canaan to defeat and conquer the Canaanites, a mighty people, to Meditate on Torah, The Book of The Law, day and night.  JOSHUA 1.1-11

As GOD Promised, The Children of Israel conquered Canaan from a River in Egypt to The Euphrates River that became The Land of Israel.  GENESIS 15.18-21

So the Writer of Psalm 119 writes that the proud who wronged me will be ashamed for his or her lies.  But I will meditate on Torah, The Written Word of GOD in The Law of Moses.  And that always brings comfort.

PSALM 119.79  LET THOSE WHO FEAR YOU TURN TO ME, AND THOSE THAT HAVE KNOWN YOUR TESTIMONIES.

The Word TURN in Hebrew, as in Those who fear You TURN to me, is SHOOV.  The Hebrew Word SHOOV often means to Repent and Return.  But here The Hebrew Word SHOOV means, to REFRESH.

So, for a person who Fears GOD and Obeys every Word GOD Speaks in The Bible, it is Refreshing when we are with others who also Fear GOD and Obey His Word.

Not only is the writer saying, Let those who Fear You Turn to me, but also Those who are Special who Acknowledge GOD and Know that GOD’S Testimonies, The Words that GOD speaks in The Bible are Truth.

Thus the writer says, Come and spend some time with me.  Because where People are who Fear GOD and Know that His Words are Truth, and they Live by GOD’S Testimonies, His Spoken Word, there The Holy Spirit is.  And great things happen when The Holy Spirit is among us.  ACTS 5.32

PSALM 119.80  LET MY HEART BE SOUND IN YOUR STATUTES THAT I AM NOT ASHAMED.

The Word SOUND comes from The Hebrew TAH’MEEM that means PERFECT, TRUTH, WITHOUT BLEMISH, and UPRIGHT.

SO THE WRITER IS SAYING, LET MY HEART BE PERFECT IN YOUR STATUTES THAT I AM NOT ASHAMED.

YOU CLAIM TO BE TAH’MEEM.  YOU CLAIM TO LIVE BY THE TRUTH OF GOD AND HIS UPRIGHTNESS.  YOU ARE A GODLY MAN OR WOMAN.  YOU FOLLOW MESSIAH YESHUA, THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, HA SHEM.  AND YOU LIVE BY TORAH, GOD’S LAWS AND TEACHINGS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES IN THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE.

THEREFORE BE PERFECT IN THE SIGHT OF GOD ALWAYS, WALKING IN HIS STATUTES AND KEEPING HIS COMMANDMENTS AND TEACHINGS SO THAT YOU WILL NEVER BE ASHAMED.

BEING PERFECT IN THE SIGHT OF GOD IS LIVING YOUR LIFE BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD THAT IS WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE.  AND THAT INCLUDES OBEDIENCE TO TORAH, GOD’S LAWS AND TEACHINGS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES.  AND HAVING FAITH IN MESSIAH YESHUA FOR YOUR ATONEMENT. 

THAT IS BEING PERFECT IN THE EYES OF GOD.

1 KINGS 8.61, MATTHEW 5.48

PSALM 119.81  MY SOUL FAINTS FOR YOUR SALVATION, BUT I HOPE IN YOUR WORD.

Let’s define a few words here.  The Hebrew for FAINTS, as in, my soul FAINTS for your Salvation is KAH’LAH, that means YEARN.  We YEARN for GOD’S Salvation.

SALVATION in Hebrew is T’SHU’AH that means, We YEARN TO BE RESCUED, TO BE DELIVERED, TO BE HELPED, TO BE SAFE.  WE YEARN FOR YOUR SALVATION, and WE YEARN FOR VICTORY.

BUT I HOPE IN YOUR WORD.

And we Yearn for Messiah’s soon Return to be with Him in The 1,000 Year Messianic Kingdom on earth in Israel, and throughout Eternity in Heaven, without problems, without pain, without sorrow, and tears, and without sickness or death.  For in The LORD GOD ALMIGHTY is Everlasting Joy.

ISAIAH 35.10, ISAIAH 65.17-19, REVELATION 21.16-27

And we have our Hope in GOD’S Word that what we Hope for will be given to us.

Thus the Writer writes, My soul faints for Your Salvation, but I hope in Your Word.  I know that everything You Say will come to pass.

PSALM 119.82-87  MY EYES FAIL FOR YOUR WORD, SAYING, WHEN WILL YOU COMFORT ME?  FOR I HAVE BECOME LIKE A BOTTLE IN THE SMOKE.  YET DO I NOT FORGET YOUR STATUTES.

HOW MANY ARE THE DAYS OF YOUR SERVANT?  WHEN WILL YOU EXECUTE JUDGMENT ON THEM THAT PERSECUTE ME?  THE PROUD HAVE DUG PITS FOR ME WHICH ARE NOT AFTER YOUR LAW.

ALL YOUR COMMANDMENTS ARE FAITHFUL.  THEY PERSECUTE ME WRONGFULLY.  HELP ME.  THEY HAD ALMOST CONSUMED ME UPON EARTH, BUT I DID NOT FORSAKE YOUR PRECEPTS.

In verse 83, the writer writes about becoming like a bottle in the smoke.

I understand that in the past, bottles in Israel and throughout the Middle East were made of animal skins.  And if one of those bottles made of animal skins was hung up in the smoke, it became parched and shriveled up, and loses all its strength.  And became unpleasant and unattractive, and useless.

Thus the writer of This Psalm at the time might have felt useless, unattractive and unpleasant from long bodily afflictions and mental distress.

Perhaps some of you can relate.

THE WRITER ALSO WRITES, LORD, WHEN WILL YOU COMFORT ME?  YET I DO NOT FORGET YOUR STATUTES.  I DO NOT FORGET YOUR WORD, YOUR COMMANDMENTS, AND YOUR APPOINTED TIMES.  BECAUSE ALL YOUR COMMANDMENTS ARE FAITHFUL AND TRUE.  HELP ME LORD, FOR I HAVE NOT FORSAKEN YOUR PRECEPTS.

LET’S READ PSALM 91

PSALM 119.88  QUICKEN ME AFTER YOUR LOVING KINDNESS.  SO SHALL I KEEP THE TESTIMONY OF YOUR MOUTH.

GOD ALWAYS REVIVES US.  THAT IS TO SAY, GOD ALWAYS RESTORES OUR LIFE TO US AFTER TROUBLES AND SADNESS, AND AT TIMES ELEVATES US TO A HIGHER PLATEAU.  BECAUSE WE KEEP THE TESTIMONY OF HIS MOUTH.  WE TRUST THE LORD OUR GOD, AND CONTINUE DOING WHAT THE LORD OUR GOD TELLS US TO DO IN THE BIBLE.  AND THAT IS THE FAITH THAT LEADS TO VICTORY IN THIS LIFE AND ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN WITH THE MIGHTY GOD OF LOVE AND MERCIES, AND COMFORT.  BECAUSE THE LORD YOUR GOD LOVES YOU WITH AN EVERLASTING LOVE, AND HE WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU NOR FORSAKE YOU.

Shalom,

Ira Weinstein

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gmail.com

YOUR HANDS HAVE MADE ME AND FASHIONED ME.

Shalom.

We will continue our teaching from Psalm 119 from Verse 73.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, YOUR HANDS HAVE MADE ME AND FASHIONED ME.

And with that said, let’s read Psalm 119.73.

PSALM 119.73  “YOUR HANDS HAVE MADE ME AND FASHIONED ME.  GIVE ME UNDERSTANDING THAT I MAY LEARN YOUR COMMANDMENTS.”

Of course, The Hands that the writer is writing about are The Hands of GOD Who Made us and Fashioned us.

The Hebrew Words for YOUR HANDS HAVE MADE ME are YAH’DEHY’KHAH AH’SU’NEE that have a ton of meanings for GOD Making every human being beginning with Adam and Eve.

THE HANDS OF GOD MAKE EVERY HUMAN BEING.  GOD PRODUCES AND CREATES EVERY HUMAN BEING, GOD APPOINTS EVERY HUMAN BEING FOR SOMETHING.  GOD GIVES EVERY HUMAN BEING A GIFT OR GIFTS, GOD FASHIONS EVERY HUMAN BEING, GOD KEEPS EVERY HUMAN BEING, GOD MAINTAINS EVERY HUMAN BEING.  THAT IS, GOD KEEPS EVERY HUMAN BEING GOING AND KEEPS EVERY HUMAN BEING IN EXISTENCE.  GOD ALSO OBSERVES EVERY HUMAN BEING.  THAT IS TO SAY, GOD SEES EVERY HUMAN BEING, AND HE WATCHES OVER EVERY HUMAN BEING.

JEREMIAH 23.24

GOD ALSO BRINGS IT TO PASS, MEANING GOD WILL BRING ABOUT WHATEVER GOD HAS DETERMINED FOR EVERY HUMAN, AND GOD WILL BRING IT TO A SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION.  GOD ALSO PROVIDES FOR EVERY HUMAN BEING, AND GOD SERVES EVERY HUMAN BEING, AND AT TIMES GOD VEXES EVERY HUMAN BEING.  THAT IS, AT TIMES GOD WILL BRING UPON EVERY HUMAN BEING TROUBLE AND DISTRESS FOR WHATEVER GOD’S REASON IS ACCORDING TO TORAH, GOD’S LAWS WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES.

CLEARLY SAID, GOD HAS MADE US ALL WHO WE ARE.

AND THE WORDS, AND HAVE FASHIONED ME, COME FROM THE HEBREW VY’KHONE’NU’NEE MEANING, GOD HAS PREPARED EVERY HUMAN BEING FOR WHATEVER HE HAS PREPARED EVERY HUMAN BEING FOR.  AND GOD HAS APPOINTED, ESTABLISHED, AND ORDAINED EVERY HUMAN BEING TO BE WHAT GOD HAS DETERMINED FOR EACH AND EVERY HUMAN BEING.  AND GOD HAS APPOINTED EVERY HUMAN BEING TO DO THAT WHICH GOD HAS DETERMINED.  AND GOD HAS PREPARED EVERY HUMAN BEING FOR WHAT GOD HAS DETERMINED EVERY PERSON TO DO IN HIS OR HER LIFE.

AND WHAT GOD HAS APPOINTED EVERY HUMAN BEING TO DO IS PERFECT IN GOD’S PLAN.

AND GOD HAS FASHIONED EVERY HUMAN BEING.  MEANING, GOD HAS MADE EVERY HUMAN BEING TO BE THE WAY HE OR SHE IS.  GOD HAS FASHIONED OUR BODY, OUR LOOKS, OUR PERSONALITY, OUR CHARACTER, AND EVERYTHING ABOUT US.

GOD HAS MADE US WHO WE ARE.

I THINK ON THE WORDS THAT GOD SPOKE THROUGH THE PROPHET ZECHARIAH WHO WRITES, GOD FORMS THE SPIRIT OF MAN WITHIN HIM. 

ZECHARIAH 12.1

THE WORD FORMS IN HEBREW, AS IN GOD FORMS THE SPIRIT OF MAN, IS YAH’STAHR, MEANING, DETERMINE.  GOD DETERMINES WHO EVERY HUMAN BEING IS AND WILL BE, AND GOD DETERMINES THE ENTIRE LIFE OF EVERY HUMAN BEING.

SPIRIT IN HEBREW, AS IN, GOD FORMS THE SPIRIT OF MAN, IS RU’AKH MEANING LIFE.  THE LIFE WE HAVE, AND THE LIFE EVERY HUMAN BEING LEADS IS DETERMINED BY GOD.

EVEN THE HOLY SPIRIT WHOM GOD GIVES TO THOSE WHO OBEY HIM.  GOD GIVES THE HOLY SPIRIT TO THOSE WHO OBEY GOD’S TORAH, GOD’S LAWS, TEACHINGS, AND INSTRUCTIONS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES, AND EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE. 

ACTS 5.32

GOD DETERMINES WHO WILL OBEY HIM, AND GOD DETERMINES WHO WILL RECEIVE HIS HOLY SPIRIT.  AND GOD DETERMINES WHO WILL BE SAVED.

THEREFORE GOD CAN PREDICT WITH COMPLETE ACCURACY BECAUSE GOD DETERMINES EVERYTHING.  HE KNOWS THE END FROM THE BEGINNING AND EVERY THING IN BETWEEN.

GOD PROPHESIED THROUGH THE PROPHET DANIEL THE EXACT TIME OF MESSIAH YESHUA’S FIRST COMING, 2,000 YEARS AGO. 

DANIEL 9.24-26, LUKE 19.41-44, DEUTERONOMY 8.3, MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4, ISAIAH 46.10-11, GENESIS 15.13-16, PROVERBS 16.1, 9, PROVERBS 20.24, PROVERBS 21.1, JEREMIAH 10.23, DANIEL 2.20-21, DANIEL 4.32, 35, EPHESIANS 1.11

SO, YOU MIGHT ASK SINCE GOD HAS DETERMINED WHO EVERY HUMAN BEING IS, AND GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME, WHY IS THERE SO MUCH EVIL IN THE WORLD?

GOOD QUESTION.  THE BIBLE HAS THE ANSWER AND WE WILL ANSWER THIS QUESTION AT THE END OF OUR MESSAGE.

LET’S START FROM THE BEGINNING.  EARLY AFTER THE CREATION SOME 6,000 YEARS AGO; NOW, YOU MIGHT DEBATE ME WHETHER I’M RIGHT OR WRONG ABOUT THE CREATION BEING 6,000 YEARS AGO.  BUT THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION REMAINS THE SAME NO MATTER WHEN GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH AND ALL THAT IS IN THEM.

SOME TIME AFTER THE CREATION, GOD CREATED THE FIRST HUMAN BEING, A MAN, AND GOD CALLED HIM ADAM.

AND GOD PLANTED THE GARDEN OF EDEN AND THERE HE PUT THE MAN WHOM HE MADE.

AND SOMETIME AFTER GOD CREATED ADAM, THE LORD HAD A SIT DOWN WITH ADAM.  AND GOD COMMANDED ADAM, SAYING, OF EVERY TREE OF THE GARDEN YOU MAY FREELY EAT.  BUT OF THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL, YOU SHALL NOT EAT OF IT.  FOR IN THE DAY THAT YOU EAT FROM THAT TREE YOU WILL SURELY DIE.

A SIMPLE COMMANDMENT.  EASY TO UNDERSTAND, AND EASY TO OBEY.

YOU ALL KNOW THIS.

AND SOMETIME AFTER CREATING ADAM, GOD CREATED EVE BY CAUSING A DEEP SLEEP TO FALL UPON ADAM.  AND GOD TOOK ONE OF ADAM’S RIBS, AND CLOSED UP ADAM’S FLESH.  AND FROM ADAM’S RIB GOD MADE A WOMAN AND BROUGHT HER TO ADAM.  AND ADAM NAMED THE WOMAN EVE, WHO LATER BECAME ADAM’S WIFE.

WITH ONLY TWO HUMAN BEINGS IN THE WORLD, ADAM AND EVE, GOD SENT SATAN IN THE FORM OF A SERPENT TO TALK TO EVE, IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN.

AND IT’S IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT GOD CREATED ADAM AND EVE SINLESS, TO LIVE FOREVER WITHOUT PAIN, SORROW, AND DEATH IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN.  A PLACE OF PERFECTION AND BEAUTY, WITHOUT SIN AND CURSE.

REMEMBER SIN IS DISOBEYING GOD, DISOBEYING THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD.

GENESIS 1.26, GENESIS 2.7, 15-17, 21-24, GENESIS 3.22, LEVITICUS 4.1-4 FF, 1 JOHN 3.4

NOW THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THE SERPENT WAS SUBTLE.  A WORD THAT MEANS DECEITFUL, TRICKY, DISHONEST, AND CRAFTY.

AND THE SERPENT SATAN SAID TO EVE, IS IT SO THAT GOD HAS SAID YOU SHALL NOT EAT OF EVERY TREE OF THE GARDEN?  AND EVE SAID TO THE SERPENT, WE MAY EAT OF THE FRUIT OF THE TREES OF THE GARDEN, BUT OF THE FRUIT OF THE TREE WHICH IS IN THE CENTER OF THE GARDEN, GOD HAS SAID, YOU SHALL NOT EAT OF IT, NEITHER SHALL YOU TOUCH IT, LEST YOU DIE.

AND THE SERPENT LIED AND SAID, “YOU SHALL NOT SURELY DIE”.

FOR GOD DOES KNOW THAT IN THE DAY YOU EAT OF THAT TREE, THEN YOUR EYES SHALL BE OPENED AND YOU SHALL BE AS GOD KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL.

SATAN TEACHES DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD.  AND SATAN IS A MURDERER AND A LIAR  FROM THE BEGINNING.  THERE IS NO TRUTH IN HIM.  JOHN 8.44

AND WHEN THE WOMAN SAW THAT THE TREE WAS GOOD FOR FOOD, AND THAT IT WAS PLEASANT TO THE EYES, AND A TREE TO BE DESIRED TO MAKE ONE WISE, SHE TOOK OF THE FRUIT OF THE TREE AND ATE, AND SHE GAVE THE FRUIT ALSO TO HER HUSBAND ADAM, AND HE ATE THE FRUIT AS WELL.

THEY BOTH DISOBEYED GOD AND LISTENED TO SATAN.

AND IN TIME ADAM AND EVE DIED AS GOD SAID THEY WOULD FOR DISOBEYING HIM.  AND THEY LOST THEIR ETERNAL LIFE IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN.  AND THE GARDEN OF EDEN DISAPPEARED FROM OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH BECAUSE OF SIN, DISOBEYING GOD.

GENESIS 3.1-6, 22-24, GENESIS 5.5

AND BECAUSE OF ADAM’S SIN OF DISOBEYING GOD, EVERY HUMAN BEING IS BORN IN SIN, BEING IN THE LIKENESS OF ADAM, DISOBEDIENT TO GOD.

GENESIS 5.3, GENESIS 4.1,8, PSALM 51.5

SO MOST PEOPLE CONTINUE THEIR LIVES IN SIN, DISOBEYING GOD THAT DOES NOT LEAD TO ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN.

BUT BECAUSE OF GOD’S MERCY, THE LORD GOD AS A HUMAN BEING IN THE PERSON OF MESSIAH YESHUA, JESUS, GAVE HIS LIFE FOR OUR ATONEMENT TO FORGIVE ALL OUR SINS AND HAVE ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN.  SUBJECT TO YOU LIVING A GODLY LIFE PLEASING TO GOD, LIVING BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE.  AND THAT INCLUDES TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES THAT HAS GOD’S LAWS, TEACHINGS, AND INSTRUCTIONS WRITTEN IN IT. AND HAVING FAITH IN MESSIAH YESHUA FOR YOUR ATONEMENT.

GOD CANNOT DIE PSALM 22.1, MATTHEW 27.46, DEUTERONOMY 8.3, MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4, MATTHEW 7.21-23, LUKE 8.21, ROMANS 2.13, ROMANS 3.31, ROMANS 5.11, ROMANS 6.1-2, ROMANS 8.6-7, ETC.

UNFORTUNATELY MOST PEOPLE ARE TAUGHT TO DISOBEY GOD. 

MOST PEOPLE ARE TAUGHT THE SATANIC LIE THAT THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD WRITTEN IN GOD’S LAW OF MOSES IS ABOLISHED OR OPTIONAL.  AND MOST OF THESE PEOPLE ARE ALSO TAUGHT THAT THE OLD TESTAMENT IS SUPPLANTED BY JESUS.  THAT JESUS HAS TAKEN THE PLACE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT AND ABOLISHED THE WORD OF GOD WRITTEN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.

THAT IS A TEACHING OF SATAN THAT WILL NEVER GET ANYONE TO HEAVEN.

LUKE 20.1  CAN YOU SERIOUSLY BELIEVE THAT WHEN MESSIAH TAUGHT IN THE TEMPLE, AND PREACHED THE GOSPEL, THAT MESSIAH YESHUA TAUGHT THAT HE WOULD ABOLISH TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES, AND REPLACE THE OLD TESTAMENT AT HIS DEATH?  THAT IS BLASPHEMY THAT TOO MANY BIBLE TEACHERS ARE TEACHING AGAINST GOD.  

YESHUA THE MESSIAH DID NOT COME TO DO AWAY WITH THE LAW OF MOSES OR THE OLD TESTAMENT.  MESSIAH CAME TO GIVE HIS LIFE AS A HUMAN BEING FOR YOUR ATONEMENT.

LEVITICUS 17.11

NO ONE CAN ABOLISH THE LAW OF MOSES, OR REPLACE THE OLD TESTAMENT WHICH CONTAINS THE WORD OF GOD.  NOT EVEN GOD HIMSELF CAN ABOLISH ONE WORD THAT HE SPOKE IN THE BIBLE, BECAUSE GOD SAYS THROUGH THE PROPHET ISAIAH, “THE WORD OF OUR GOD SHALL STAND FOREVER”.

ISAIAH 40.8, 1 PETER 1.23-25

AS YOU KNOW, GOD DESTROYED THE WORLD WITH A FLOOD IN THE DAYS OF NOAH, AND ONLY EIGHT PEOPLE SURVIVED.  NOAH, HIS WIFE, THEIR THREE SONS, AND THEIR WIVES.  THEY WERE SAVED BY GOD BECAUSE NOAH OBEYED GOD.  EVERYONE ELSE, THOSE WHO DISOBEYED GOD WERE DESTROYED BY GOD.

GENESIS 6.9, GENESIS 7.1

PHARAOH, KING OF EGYPT DISOBEYED GOD TIME AND TIME AGAIN, AND LOOK WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM AND HIS COUNTRY.  PHARAOH WAS KILLED AND HIS COUNTRY WAS DESTROYED. 

GOD SAID TO MOSES, YOU SHALL SAY UNTO PHARAOH, THUS SAITH THE LORD, ISRAEL IS MY SON, EVEN MY FIRSTBORN.  AND I SAY UNTO YOU, LET MY SON GO THAT HE MAY SERVE ME.

PHARAOH REJECTED GOD.

AGAIN, MOSES AND AARON WENT IN AND TOLD PHARAOH, THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, LET MY PEOPLE GO THAT THEY MAY HOLD A FEAST UNTO ME IN THE WILDERNESS.

PHARAOH AGAIN REJECTED THE LORD GOD OF CREATION.

AND AGAIN THE LORD SPOKE TO MOSES, GO UNTO PHARAOH AND SAY TO HIM, THUS SAITH THE LORD, LET MY PEOPLE GO THAT THEY MAY SERVE ME.

AND AGAIN PHARAOH REJECTED GOD.

EXODUS 4.22-23, EXODUS 5.1-2, EXODUS 8.1-2

AGAIN, AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN, PHARAOH, KING OF EGYPT REJECTED GOD’S WORDS.

SO FINALLY GOD KILLED THE FIRSTBORN OF EVERY EGYPTIAN FAMILY, INCLUDING THE FIRSTBORN OF PHARAOH, AND THE FIRSTBORN OF EVERY ANIMAL OWNED BY THE EGYPTIANS.

AND THEN GOD KILLED THE ENTIRE EGYPTIAN ARMY, AND PHARAOH HIMSELF IN THE RED SEA AS THE JEWISH PEOPLE CROSSED ON DRY LAND.

SO THE QUESTION IS, SINCE GOD HAS DETERMINED WHO EVERY HUMAN BEING IS, AND GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME, WHY IS THERE SO MUCH EVIL IN THE WORLD?

THE ANSWER.

BECAUSE THAT IS GOD’S DECISION.  THAT IS GOD’S DECISION AFTER THE COUNSEL OF HIS OWN WILL.

EPHESIANS 1.11  

BUT SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE, GOD SAID THROUGH THE PROPHET ISAIAH, GOD WILL DESTROY THE EARTH BECAUSE THEY HAVE TRANSGRESSED TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES, CHANGED GOD’S LAWS, AND BROKEN HIS EVERLASTING COVENANT.  GOD’S EVERLASTING COVENANT IS HIS WORD THAT IS LAW. AND FEW PEOPLE WILL BE LEFT. 

AND THE FEW WHOM GOD WILL SAVE ARE THE GODLY, THOSE WHO OBEY GOD. THOSE WHO OBEY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE INCLUDING TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES, AND HAVE FAITH IN MESSIAH YESHUA FOR YOUR ATONEMENT.

AND GOD WILL SAVE THOSE WHO BLESS THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL.  THEY WILL HAVE ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN. 

AND THAT IS THE GOSPEL.

GENESIS 12.3, ISAIAH 24.4-6, MATTHEW 25.31-46, EPHESIANS 1.4, 5, 11

SO THE WRITER OF PSALM 119 WRITES IN VERSE 73, YOUR HANDS HAVE MADE ME AND FASHIONED ME.  GIVE ME UNDERSTANDING THAT I MAY LEARN YOUR COMMANDMENTS.

I SAY TO THE FALSE BIBLE TEACHERS, RATHER THAN TEACH LIES THAT JESUS ABOLISHED THE LAW OF MOSES THAT HAS GOD’S LAWS, TEACHINGS, AND INSTRUCTIONS WRITTEN IN IT, TEACH YOUR PEOPLE TO ASK GOD FOR UNDERSTANDING TO LEARN GOD’S COMMANDMENTS WHICH ARE GOD’S LAWS WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES IN THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE.  AND TEACH THEM, AND TEACH YOURSELF TO LIVE BY THEM.  THEN YOU WILL BE TEACHING ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN, AND BIBLICAL TRUTH.

Shalom,

Ira Weinstein

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gmail.com