JEHOVAH-TSIDKENU. The Lord Is My Righteousness.
Isaiah 53:5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed.
Isaiah 53:12 Therefore will I divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong; because He has poured out His soul unto death: and He was numbered with the transgressors; and He bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Isaiah 55:1,2 Come, you thirsty, come you to the waters, and you without money; buy , and eat; buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money on that which is not bread? and labor, work, for that which satisfies not? listen to Me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Isaiah 59:1-3, 8, 12, 13 Behold, The Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither His ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness. (8) The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them[selves] crooked paths: whosoever goes therein shall not know peace. (12) For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them; (13) In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
The Lord is Righteous. We are unrighteous. While transgressions and iniquities are both sin, we may wonder why these words are used. Well, transgression is national revolt, moral revolt, religious revolt, rebellion, sin and trespass. Iniquity is fault, mischief, punishment of iniquity, perversity, sin. By using both words, all sins are covered. And, indeed, our sins are covered: under the blood of Christ. But only if that blood is applied to our soul: our hearts, the seat of our emotions and attitudes; our minds, the area wherein we reason and think. Then, and only then, can God see us and hear us; because the righteousness of Christ is upon us.
But, you say, my sin is not listed, therefore it is not sin. You are wrong and your words have declared you to be a liar and a thief. All sins against God are listed in the Bible, the written Word of God. All sins were laid upon Christ, the Living Word of God. All sins were named when God speaks, the Spoken Word of God. Don't just read the parts of the Bible that make you happy, read the whole Bible and start from the beginning, where God says, "Don't" to Adam. Genesis 2:17 "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you may not eat of it: for in the day that you eat of [this tree] you shall surely die."
Sin is disobedience to God. All sins are in this one sin. Because Adam and Eve's decision to disobey God and eat the fruit of the tree that was forbidden, sin entered into the whole world and the whole world and everything in it was cursed by God. (Genesis 3:1-19) Everything includes you and I. We have inherited a sinful nature within us, because of the sin that was in Adam and Eve. It was the tree of knowledge of good and evil that they ate. So they had an awareness now of what is right and what is wrong.
I would imagine they were not happy. They knew too much and it was overwhelming. This knowledge could have overwhelmed them to the point of self-destruction, but they knew God; they had enjoyed a relationship with Him that they never knew again in life. They would not see God again, nor hear Him until Christ died on the cross and rose from the grave, bringing all souls from paradise into heaven with Him. Because they didn't listen to God, all sin entered the world. Death. Hate. Anger. Pride. Greed. Lying. From these other sins branched out. Sin is unrighteous living.
It has been said that if you break one commandment, you break them all. It is true, you know. For the first commandment is to love God above all else. More than you love yourself. More than you love your spouse. More than you love your children. More than you love your life. More than you love His created world and His created animals and His created nature. And the second commandment? Don't make any graven images of heavenly things, earthly things, nor water things and don't worship them, nor serve them. This is sin.
God is a jealous God. He loves us and shows us mercy time and again now. Before Jesus Christ came into our world in the flesh, grace was only given to those who proved themselves righteous by obeying God. Those who did not obey God were judged immediately and sentenced to death. But when they repented of their sin, they were forgiven after they brought a sacrifice to their priest, who then would bring the sacrifice to the altar. No more is this necessary. For Christ became our sacrifice, The Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. He is our sacrifice, our priest, our mediator to God: He intercedes on our behalf when we are covered with His blood. Isaiah 1: 16, 18 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes; cease to do evil; Come now, and let us reason together, says The Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they [your sins] be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Only Jesus Christ, The Only Begotten Son of God, never broke any commandment. To imply otherwise is blasphemy and God is your judge. In the New Testament, Jesus always puts God first, when speaking. He always went to God when He was stressed, frustrated and tired. Though many people were healed during His ministry, the majority of them just walked away after thanking Him; not waiting to hear His messages. This was disheartening and He would find a quiet place somewhere and pour His heart out to God. As our example, this is what we should do when we are ignored or come against.
Jesus honored all the commandments because He is the law fulfilled. In Him is all righteousness. He is holy. He is pure. He is clean. You can see that He was without sin. He honored His father and His mother. We first learn of Him at His birth and early childhood: the wise men did not find Him until two years after the star appeared, for it had taken them that long to find Him. We see Him again at 12 yrs of age in the synagogue, speaking to the scholars there (Luke 2:46-52). Verse 51 tells us that He was subject unto them. In other words, He listened and obeyed His parents. Verse 52 tells us that He grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man. That is all we know of the next 18 years of His life, until He began His ministry at the age of 30.
Jesus never killed anyone. Nor was He angry enough to the point where He would do so. He did not commit adultery, nor was it on His mind. He did not steal: the thought of taking something away from someone else for any reason was not in Him. He did not lie: Jesus is Truth and Truth is in Him. Nor did He covet any thing that any one had. Jesus was with God when the world was created. Every thing that is in the world is His, for by Him were all things created. Why would He covet, or jealously desire, any thing, when He is every thing?
JEHOVAH-TSIDKENU. The Lord is My Righteousness.
In Jesus' Name is All Righteousness.
In Jesus' Name is All Power.
In Jesus' Name is All Wisdom.
In Jesus' Name is Creator of All.
In Jesus' Name is All Healing.
In Jesus' Name is All Forgiveness.
In Jesus' Name we pray. Amen.
[This concludes part one of this discourse]
Isaiah 53:12 Therefore will I divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong; because He has poured out His soul unto death: and He was numbered with the transgressors; and He bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Isaiah 55:1,2 Come, you thirsty, come you to the waters, and you without money; buy , and eat; buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money on that which is not bread? and labor, work, for that which satisfies not? listen to Me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Isaiah 59:1-3, 8, 12, 13 Behold, The Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither His ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness. (8) The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them[selves] crooked paths: whosoever goes therein shall not know peace. (12) For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them; (13) In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
The Lord is Righteous. We are unrighteous. While transgressions and iniquities are both sin, we may wonder why these words are used. Well, transgression is national revolt, moral revolt, religious revolt, rebellion, sin and trespass. Iniquity is fault, mischief, punishment of iniquity, perversity, sin. By using both words, all sins are covered. And, indeed, our sins are covered: under the blood of Christ. But only if that blood is applied to our soul: our hearts, the seat of our emotions and attitudes; our minds, the area wherein we reason and think. Then, and only then, can God see us and hear us; because the righteousness of Christ is upon us.
But, you say, my sin is not listed, therefore it is not sin. You are wrong and your words have declared you to be a liar and a thief. All sins against God are listed in the Bible, the written Word of God. All sins were laid upon Christ, the Living Word of God. All sins were named when God speaks, the Spoken Word of God. Don't just read the parts of the Bible that make you happy, read the whole Bible and start from the beginning, where God says, "Don't" to Adam. Genesis 2:17 "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you may not eat of it: for in the day that you eat of [this tree] you shall surely die."
Sin is disobedience to God. All sins are in this one sin. Because Adam and Eve's decision to disobey God and eat the fruit of the tree that was forbidden, sin entered into the whole world and the whole world and everything in it was cursed by God. (Genesis 3:1-19) Everything includes you and I. We have inherited a sinful nature within us, because of the sin that was in Adam and Eve. It was the tree of knowledge of good and evil that they ate. So they had an awareness now of what is right and what is wrong.
I would imagine they were not happy. They knew too much and it was overwhelming. This knowledge could have overwhelmed them to the point of self-destruction, but they knew God; they had enjoyed a relationship with Him that they never knew again in life. They would not see God again, nor hear Him until Christ died on the cross and rose from the grave, bringing all souls from paradise into heaven with Him. Because they didn't listen to God, all sin entered the world. Death. Hate. Anger. Pride. Greed. Lying. From these other sins branched out. Sin is unrighteous living.
It has been said that if you break one commandment, you break them all. It is true, you know. For the first commandment is to love God above all else. More than you love yourself. More than you love your spouse. More than you love your children. More than you love your life. More than you love His created world and His created animals and His created nature. And the second commandment? Don't make any graven images of heavenly things, earthly things, nor water things and don't worship them, nor serve them. This is sin.
God is a jealous God. He loves us and shows us mercy time and again now. Before Jesus Christ came into our world in the flesh, grace was only given to those who proved themselves righteous by obeying God. Those who did not obey God were judged immediately and sentenced to death. But when they repented of their sin, they were forgiven after they brought a sacrifice to their priest, who then would bring the sacrifice to the altar. No more is this necessary. For Christ became our sacrifice, The Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. He is our sacrifice, our priest, our mediator to God: He intercedes on our behalf when we are covered with His blood. Isaiah 1: 16, 18 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes; cease to do evil; Come now, and let us reason together, says The Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they [your sins] be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Only Jesus Christ, The Only Begotten Son of God, never broke any commandment. To imply otherwise is blasphemy and God is your judge. In the New Testament, Jesus always puts God first, when speaking. He always went to God when He was stressed, frustrated and tired. Though many people were healed during His ministry, the majority of them just walked away after thanking Him; not waiting to hear His messages. This was disheartening and He would find a quiet place somewhere and pour His heart out to God. As our example, this is what we should do when we are ignored or come against.
Jesus honored all the commandments because He is the law fulfilled. In Him is all righteousness. He is holy. He is pure. He is clean. You can see that He was without sin. He honored His father and His mother. We first learn of Him at His birth and early childhood: the wise men did not find Him until two years after the star appeared, for it had taken them that long to find Him. We see Him again at 12 yrs of age in the synagogue, speaking to the scholars there (Luke 2:46-52). Verse 51 tells us that He was subject unto them. In other words, He listened and obeyed His parents. Verse 52 tells us that He grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man. That is all we know of the next 18 years of His life, until He began His ministry at the age of 30.
Jesus never killed anyone. Nor was He angry enough to the point where He would do so. He did not commit adultery, nor was it on His mind. He did not steal: the thought of taking something away from someone else for any reason was not in Him. He did not lie: Jesus is Truth and Truth is in Him. Nor did He covet any thing that any one had. Jesus was with God when the world was created. Every thing that is in the world is His, for by Him were all things created. Why would He covet, or jealously desire, any thing, when He is every thing?
JEHOVAH-TSIDKENU. The Lord is My Righteousness.
In Jesus' Name is All Righteousness.
In Jesus' Name is All Power.
In Jesus' Name is All Wisdom.
In Jesus' Name is Creator of All.
In Jesus' Name is All Healing.
In Jesus' Name is All Forgiveness.
In Jesus' Name we pray. Amen.
[This concludes part one of this discourse]
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