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Tweets & Rants 16 March 2013: Matthew 26:17-35; Romans 10; Psalm 63; Deuteronomy 1-5

believes that Jesus is the main character of Daniel 9:24-27…He ended all sacrifice and offering by offering Himself. Mat 26:28 @WeeManWest

finds it unfortunate that sometimes a generation has to pass before the church can move on. Mat 24; Det 2:16 @WeeManWest

Matthew 26:18 God had prepared a “certain” man to take care of the Passover preparations through. We never know who that “certain” man is that God is going to bring into our lives.

Matthew 26:21 I’ve tried to place myself in that room, among His disciples, as He made this statement. I would almost think that initially the room would be silent in a stunned quiet. The hammer has essentially dropped. How would we respond if we were in the room?

Matthew 26:28 Jesus holds the first Lord’s Supper. We continue these today. Jesus’ words are what I’m drawn to in that He says His covenant is with many. This should call to our minds Daniel 9:27 in which the Prince who is to come of Daniel 9:25 makes a strong covenant (strong because it is in the blood of Christ) with manny for one “period” or covenant.

What brought this covenant into place? Daniel 9:24 states that it is about the holy city (Jerusalem) and that the 70 weeks would finish transgression, put an end to sin, atone for iniquity, bring in everlasting righteousness, seal up vision and prophecy and anoint a most holy place. This indeed is exactly what Jesus accomplished when He died on the cross! He is the anointed one in the text who comes and in cut off (He died on the cross).

Next we see that the city of Jerusalem and its sanctuary were to be destroyed, this indeed did factually occur in 70AD. It would take place in a war. It would leave the place desolate.

It says that he, which could refer to either the anointed one or the prince, will put an end to sacrifice and offering. Did not Jesus Christ bring all sacrifice and offering to an end with His own blood shed on the cross? Yes, He did indeed.

So who is the one who made desolate? The priests who would continue to make the offerings of the Law when the offerings had been brought to an end.

Matthew 26:31 Not only would there be one betrayer, but all of Jesus’ disciples would fall away. He would truly be left with nothing as Daniel’s prophecy stated.

Romans 10:4 We are so blessed to have Jesus Christ. He is the end all for those who believe.

Romans 10:9 Properly understanding what Paul is saying here is essential. We believe or have faith in our hearts. That faith will work itself out in our thoughts, words, and actions. Yet our unbelief is shown by our inaction.

A true belief in the resurrection of Christ will move our actions in Christ’s will.

Romans 10:18 The gospel had gone out to all the nations of the known world in Paul’s day. We should live with the goal of such thing happening again in our own.

Psalm 63:3 In an honest moment most of us will confess to loving our lives. We love the people in our lives, the things of our lives. Yet the love of God is so much better than this life. Believing this will truly motivate us in our walk with Christ to praise and worship.

Deuteronomy 1:8 The time has come, the wandering is over, Israel is about to take possession of the land they have been promised by God.

Deuteronomy 2:16 That generation had to pass before Israel could move on. Unfortunately, a lot of our churches are trapped in the same manner.

Deuteronomy 3:21 The vitories over Sihon and Og were intended to serve as a witness to Joshua, that God would give him victories in the same manner after they cross the Jordan into the promised land.

Deuteronomy 3:26 Moses had bugged God enough about going into the land. God would show Moses a final mercy and allow him to see the land from the mountain.

Deuteronomy 4:3 God will not tolerate compromise among His people. We cannot be wishy-washy fence-sitters. We are either with God or we are against Him.

Deuteronomy 4:6 God is exalting Israel for the sake of His name. His purpose in exalting this nation is that His own name would be exalted by all the nations because of them. God’s purpose for Israel was His own exaltation. Israel failed in that purpose and now God is using the church for His own exaltation. May we not suffer a similar fate!

Deuteronomy 4:22 Moses here serves to us as a picture of the Law. The Law can bring you to Christ, but only faith in Christ can bring you into His promises!

Deuteronomy 4:35 God did a special work in Israel that has never, and will never be repeated for the purpose that all would know that He alone is God!

Deuteronomy 5:29 God desires that we would have obedient hearts. We should desire the same for ourselves.

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Tweets & Rants 28 February 2013: Leviticus 23-27

is troubled that applying the death sentence to a murderer is inhumane but killing the unborn is permissible! Lev 24:17 @WeeManWest

Leviticus 23:3 We do no work for our salvation, we rest in Christ’s work. The Sabbath is a picture of our daily rest in the work of Christ.

Leviticus 23:5 Passover and the feast of unleavened bread are linked. This pictures Christ passing over our sins through His death on the cross as our sacrificial lamb. The unleavened bread pictures the cleansed life we receive from Christ through the cross.

Leviticus 23:10 The firstfruits is a picture for us of Christ, the first fruits of the resurrection and those of us who share in His resurrection by faith. This is the first resurrection, from death into life.

Leviticus 23:17 We received the leaven of God when we received the Holy Spirit of God. The feast of weeks pictures Pentecost.

Leviticus 23:24 It is believed by some that Jesus actual birthday is sometime around or near the feast of trumpets. Trumpets is a picture of God’s word coming to His people. The Trumpets also pictures the coming judgment upon Israel after rejecting Christ.

Leviticus 23:28 The Day of Atonement pictures both the atonement made for us by Christ and the coming judgment upon Israel for having rejected Christ and ignored the Trumpets.

Leviticus 23:34 Booths pictures for us the current age, in which we dwell in this wilderness, keeping His commands while awaiting our entry into the promised land of the new heavens and new earth.

Leviticus 24:2 The lamps represent the light that God shines in this world through His people. We should shine His light continually in all that we do.

Leviticus 24:7 The bread is our daily bread. It pictured the daily bread that God provides for His priesthood…which we all are in Christ.

Leviticus 24:17 We have become a culture of death. If only we would listen to the law of God and demand a life for a life. We could deter a lot of the violence. Instead, we find it inhumane to give a death sentence to a convicted murderer and permissible to rob an innocent unborn child of its life in the womb!

Leviticus 25:10 Christ provided our Jubilee. We are the trumpet sound throughout all the earth proclaiming liberty.

Leviticus 25:35 Note that even in poverty, they were to help one another. Yet, they were not to remain as freeloaders but as hired workers. We’ve become a nation of freeloaders.

Leviticus 26:12 God’s intention is to dwell among us. He desires that we obey His law. Christ fulfilled that and places His righteousness upon us so that God may dwell in us. Israel’s covenant was based on their obedience and they failed.

Leviticus 26:28 Here in this text we see 5 episodes of disobedience, 4 of which are punished 7 fold. What other book of the bible contains 4 sets of 7s? The book of Revelation. Revelation is the prophecy of the covenant vengeance upon Israel.

Leviticus 26:40 However, a day will come when the Israelite people return to Christ. Such day has not yet arrived.

Leviticus 27:29 Devoted things become holy to God. In Christ, we devote ourselves to death in Christ. His death becomes our death. His life becomes our life.

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Tweets & Rants 4 February 2013: Matthew 12:1-21; Acts 17:1-15; Psalm 27; Exodus 10-12

believes that God is more interested in our capacity for compassion than in our capacity for religiosity. Mat 12:7 @WeeManWest

thinks we should daily have the goal of being in the presence of God and seeking His face instead of only in troubles. Psa 27:4 @WeeManWest

wishes that waiting for God’s timing wasn’t such a difficult undertaking, nothing worth having comes easy. Psa 27:14 @WeeManWest

 

Matthew 12:5 So typical of those beholden to religion that they judge others by the standard of their religion rather than by the standard of God.

We tend to become so hypocritical when our emphasis is on our religion instead of upon our Savior.

Matthew 12:7 Jesus calls upon Hosea 6:6 and Micah 6:6-8 to lay out what God truly desires from man.

God isn’t interested in our religious capacity but is interested in our compassion capacity.

Matthew 12:8 Jesus is the Lord of the Sabbath. He has the right to decide what the Sabbath should be about and He desires the Sabbath be a day for merciful works.

Matthew 12:12 Jesus herein does away with the whole obedience versus mercy arguement. Mercy IS obedience…especially on a holy day!

This means we are not excused when we use our religious schedule as an excuse not to be merciful.

Matthew 12:20 We see the merciful nature of God as quoted from Isaiah 61:1-3 in which even the downtrodden are compared to bruised reeds and smoldering wicks.

Jesus seeks to mercifully stand the reed back upright and relight the smoldering wick rather than see either extinguished.

Acts 17:2 Paul used the Sabbath to show mercy by reasoning with people on the Sabbath to convince them of the necessity of Christ’s death and resurrection.

We must believe the necessity of the Gospel story before we can truly share it with others.

Acts 17:13 It is telling that the Jews couldn’t win arguments of persuasion and reason against Paul and the young  church so instead the resorted to effectually getting lynch mobs together after them from place to place.

It is one thing to not want Jesus, it is another thing altogether to take to preventing others from even hearing the message.

Psalm 27:4 The Psalmist has but one aim and that is to dwell all of His days in the house of the LORD and to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and inquire of Him in His temple.

We should be so similarly enamored with the presence of God that it is the one thing we daily desire.

Psalm 27:8 God desires that we seek after Him rather than after His benefits. David here seeks God’s face.

We should daily set ourselves to seek God’s face.

Psalm 27:14 We must wait for the LORD. This is honestly one of my own greatest struggles in the faith. Waiting for God’s timing.

Exodus 10:2 God isn’t just interested in what He can do through us. He is looking to the generations to come from us. We tell of His stories of glory to our children and grandchildren and to all our generations.

Put bluntly, if you have 2 children who grow up holy and marry and each have 2 children who are holy and grow up and marry and do the same suddenly 1 man of faith has become, with his wife also, has become 30 righteous within 4 generations.

Exodus 10:7 Statist like Pharoah do not care about national ruin. They will take ruin in order to maintain power. The heart of the Statist religion is power.

Pharoah was perfectly fine with a destroyed nation so long as it was HIS destroyed nation.

Exodus 10:11 Pharoah still believes that he controls the circumstances and terms of this exchange with God.

Pharoah’s pride is exposesd by Almighty God.

Exodus 10:19 God again graciously ends the plague and yet again Pharoah deludes himself into believing it is because he is something bigger than God.

Exodus 10:24 The darkness drives Pharoah to be willing to let all the people go, but not their herds. He still believes he controls the terms.

Pharoah probably saw the herds as the only way to rebuild Egypt.

Exodus 10:29 Pharoah couldn’t have uttered a more prophetic line. Moses agrees. Pharoah’s end is soon to come due to his overwhelming pride.

Exodus 12:2 God sets the Israelite calendar to begin annually on the Passover.

We have definitively seen the times and seasons changed have we not?

God’s year begins with the Passover, so should ours as well.

Exodus 12:3 Here we see the nature of God’s work and the reason for the authority He has established through the man in the household. God wants your household. The family unit is the basic unit for God’s work in this world.

He desires to win your household and then to win the world through your household.

Exodus 12:5 The lamb had to be unblemished, without spot or defect. Just as Christ our Passover Lamb. He was in this world yet remained unspotted by it.

Exodus 12:6 Twilight of the 14th day was the appointed time to kill the lamb. As the second 7 of the year ends and teh 15th day begins.

Exodus 12:7 The blood had to be on the cross, on the door, on the gate, on the entrance.

Just as this door was the entrance into the home, the covering for the family. In this home they were to eat the lamb.

We feast on the lamb, on Christ Jesus, as His blood covers us.

Exodus 12:8 The lamb was to be roasted in the fire. The fire must be applied to the flesh so that it be burned in the fire.

Unleavened bread  and bitter herbs as a reminder of the swiftness and bitterness of the coming judgment.

Exodus 12:10 None of the lamb is to be left until morning. What is left is to be consumed with the fire.

We must fully partake of the salvation we had in Jesus Christ.

Exodus 12:13 When God would see the blood He would passover the home. His judgment would not fall.

What an intimate glimpse of what occurs for us in Christ. His blood covers us and our former sins are passed over.

Exodus 12:15 Leaven had to be removed during this feast. Leaven reperesents here the corruptions that are within us all. The blood of Christ removes those things from us.

He alone can take away our corruptions.

Exodus 12:22 They were to touch with blood the lintel and doorposts. Just a touch, not a dousing, but a mere touch. Just as the woman merely needed to touch them hem of Christ’s robe to be cleansed her flow of blood. Just a touch of the blood-stained hyssop to the doorpost would provide the passover.

They were to remain in for the night. If we want the benefits of Christ we must remain in Christ.

Exodus 12:31 Pharoah finally, without terms, tells moses and the Israelites to leave. Yet, he is still not fully surrendered to God’s sovereign authority.

Exodus 12:36 The Israelites plundered the Egyptians by merely asking for their goods. The Egyptians were willing to give them anything hastily just to see them leave.

Exodus 12:46 We see another picture of Christ whose bones would remain unbroken in fulfilling the passover.

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