Love & Repentance Part 2(Passover)

Love & Repentance part 2 (Passover)

And thou shalt love the LORD thy G-D with all thine

heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

(D’varim)Deuteronomy 6:5

Seems cliche, does it not? Loving G-D with all your heart, soul and strength, the question becomes do we really do that? Sure we can say we do, but our actions prove other wise...it’s like the saying; 

“Actions speak louder than words”

Kind of puts a new perspective on (James 2:18) if you think about it...you know; “Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works”. This all goes hand and hand with “Love and Repentance Part-1”

You can claim to accept Messiah, and even claim to love Him...but where’s the proof? where’s the fruit?

Where’s the brokenness? Where’s the change, and the daily surrendering of self, and putting Him above everything else.

How dare we claim to love Him with all our heart and soul, and yet cling to the world...

How dare we say we are His children and we call Him Abba...but don’t show Him honor or give any reverence to His Torah(law). (Malachi 1:6)

But displaying grace unto thousands of them that LOVE me and keep my commandments.

(D’varim) Deuteronomy 5:10

exactly what Yeshua(Jesus) said;

“If you love me, keep my commandments”

John 14:15

Great peace have they which love thy law, and nothing shall offend them.

Psalm 119:165

We are so confused about what LOVE is, and yet we claim to have the author of life...We say we know His word but somehow miss the definition of it, we miss the context and the meaning between the lines. If ever we are in a quandary about what love is, we have the directions, we have the manual right at our finger tips.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, if you want to know what real love is than go read your Bible...because it does nothing but scream self-sacrificing love. I could also tell you to just go and read 1 Corinthians 13

Love is patient and kind, not jealous, not boastful,

not proud, rude or selfish, not easily angered...

ect ect ect..

And of course again, just look at our passover lamb Yeshua. But you see, the reason Love and repentance go hand in hand, is because we may know love when it is given to us, but how do we respond to it? How do we show love back becomes a key element. This is what I mean by Love and Repentance are a perfect marriage, For we wouldn’t know what real LOVE is if we didn’t know G-D, the author of love and creator of it, who first loved us before we even knew how to make a response. You see, G-Ds response is Love ours should be REPENTANCE, we show love in return to our Abba(father) by honoring what He honors, walking in His light, being led by His spirit, cherishing His torah(law), and abhorring what He abhors. 

For those that don’t know this is Passover week, This is the time we are called to remember what happened in Egypt with G-Ds chosen people(Exodus 12:14). Specifically G-D tells us in Exodus 12 that they were to slaughter a lamb or goat without defect on the 14th day of the month at dusk, and than they were to smear the blood on their door posts, and G-D would go through out Egypt slaying all the firstborn but passover the houses whose door posts were covered by the blood.

You may be asking: 

“And this has to do with Love and repentance..because?”

Well did G-D not show His love to His people by freeing them from slavery? Did they do anything to deserve it?  Most people say the “Old Testament” is full of an angry Holy god and the “New Testament” is full of a god of mercy and love...

I find that idea to be completely stupid, because I see G-D as exactly the same in “both” Testaments, and the bible makes it absolutely clear that He doesn’t change.

He is merciful to forgive and yet righteous and Holy at the same time, we absolutely see this in the sacrifice of the lamb of G-D Yeshua Ha’Mashiach. You see, Passover is symbolic of the crucifixion of Yeshua, passover should mean the world to us. Through the blood of the lamb we are freed from slavery of sin!

Through the blood of the lamb we see the absolute Holiness and Righteousness of G-D by fulfilling His wrath by crucifying His Son on a Tree, and His mercy,LOVE, and forgiveness by the same action.

So finally...and again I ask, what should our response to this be?

Psalm 22 = Christ

"My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?"

"Eloi, Eloi, lama Sabachthani?"

These words are said by Jesus in Matthew 27:46 and also Mark 15:34 while He was on that cross taking the wrath we deserved. Interestingly enough, what Jesus was doing was quoting from Psalm 22, which if you read Psalm 22  it is a perfect picture of our LORD and Savior, it is prophetic to use the correct term. 

My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?

Why are you so far from helping Me, and from the words

of My groaning? O My God, I cry in the daytime,

but You do not hear; And in the night season, and am

not silent.

But You are holy, Enthroned in the praises of Israel.

Our fathers trusted in You; They trusted, and You

delivered them. They cried to You, and were delivered;

They trusted in You, and were not ashamed.

But I am a worm, and no man; A reproach of men, and

despised by the people. All those who see Me ridicule

Me; They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

"He trusted in the LORD, let Him rescuer Him;

Let Him deliver Him, since He delights in Him!"

But You are He who took Me out of the womb;

You made Me trust while on My mother's breasts.

I was cast upon You from birth. From My mother's womb

You have been my God. Be not far from Me,

For trouble is near; For there is none to help.

Many bulls have surrounded Me; Strong bulls of 

Ba'shan have encircled Me. They gape at Me with their 

mouths, Like a raging and roaring lion.

I am poured out like water, And all My bones are out of

joint; My heart is like wax; it has melted within Me.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, And My tongue

clings to my jaws; You have brought Me to the

dust of death.

For dogs have surrounded Me; The congregation of the

wicked has enclosed Me. They pierced My hands and

My feet; I can count all My bones. They look and stare

at Me. They divide My garments among them, and for My clothing they cast lots.

But You, O LORD, do not be far from Me; O My strength, hasten to help Me! Deliver Me from the sword,

My precious life from the power of the dog. Save Me

from the lion's mouth and from the horns of the wild oxen!

You have answered Me.

I will declare Your name to My brethren; In the midst of

the assembly I will praise You. You who fear the LORD,

praise Him! All you descendants of Jacob, glorify Him,

and fear Him, all you offspring of Israel! For He has not

despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted;

Nor has He hidden His face from Him; But when He cried

to Him, He heard.

My praise  shall be of You in the great assembly;

I will pay My vows before those who fear Him.

The poor shall eat and be satisfied; Those who seek Him

will praise the LORD. Let your heart live forever!

All the ends of the world Shall remember and turn to the 

LORD, and all the families of the nations Shall worship before You. For the kingdom is the LORD'S, and

He rules over the nations.

All the prosperous of the earth Shall eat and worship;

All those who go down to the dust Shall bow before Him,

Even he who cannot keep himself alive.

A posterity shall serve Him, it will be recounted of the LORD to the next generation, They will come and declare His righteousness to a people who will be born,

that He has done this.

Psalm 22:1-31

Psalm 22 correlates with Christ, how anyone can read Psalm 22 and think otherwise is beyond me. From it speaking about Jesus and His Jewishness in the form of man in verses 4 and 5, (because He is speaking about His forefathers  trusting in God). To the verses talking about Him being persecuted and ridiculed in verses 6 through 8 exactly like He was while on the cross.

(Matthew 27:43)

And My tongue clings to My jaws;

You have brought Me to the dust of death.

Psalm 22:15

In John 19:28 Jesus said "I thirst" which correlates with Psalm 22:15 "And My tongue clings to My jaws".

And then you also have "You(Meaning God) have brought Me(Jesus Christ) to the dust of death"

We know Christ's whole purpose was to suffer the wrath

to take the cup of wrath that we should have drank.

He came to die, simple as that, it was all part of God's plan, and Isaiah 53:10 says "it pleased the LORD to bruise Him".

Then you have verses 16 through 18 of psalm 22…

For dogs have surrounded Me; 

The congregation of the wicked has enclosed Me. 

They pierced My hands and My feet;

 I can count all My bones. 

They look and stare at Me. 

They divide My garments among them, and for My clothing they cast lots.

Psalm 22:16-18

LORD we praise you, we honor you with the price that was paid. We know that there is nothing we can do to pay it ourselves, we know that we were bought and we now belong to you in Christ's name, bought in His holy pure blood. Father we recognize your abhorrence of sin, and praise you for cleansing us and making us what we were always called to be, and thats Holy.

Help us to walk in the light as you are in the light, to surrender all pride and selfishness, to pick up our own crosses and crucify this flesh daily. Only in You do we boast Jesus,Son of God, King of Kings, God in the flesh Holy un blemished lamb who became punishment for our wickedness.

All Glory to Him!