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40 Days Of Teshuvah To Yom Kippur 

Yom Kippur

Create In Me A Clean Heart Oh Adonai and Renew a Right Spirit Within Me
Psalm 51 
 
Day 7
Al Chet Prayer
 
The Goal Of Al Chet Is To Get To The Root Of The Problem.  To become more like Yeshua and to become conformed to His Image and Torah is a process, it does not happen over night.  The key is never to give up, because He does not give up on us.  We are all under construction and a work in process.
 
#6  And for the sin that we have sinned before You through immorality 
 
God is very serious about His people being set apart and holy Spirit, Soul and Body.
 
We are use to hearing the words 'But we are under grace we do not need the Law"!  What we have done was use 'grace' as a license to sin then repent.  
 
The Torah/Teaching and Instructions is very clear on immorality.  The problem is that if we think that the Law no longer applies to us, then that means we can do as we please.  NOT!
 
 Here is what the Torah - God's Word has to say about sexual sins.  These are 24 laws from the Torah regarding sexual immorality.    These Laws were given to His people to protect us from not only sexually transmitted diseases, but also moral decay and emotional breakdown as well.  When we transgress Gods laws of  moratlity and choose immoratlity we open our lives and the lives of our descendants to the curses found in Torah.  Again how many lives have been destroyed due to disregarding Gods Commandments?

We have seen these laws transgressed by a number of  Priests who have destroyed how many innocent lives due to sexual immorality.  Congregations destroyed because the Pastor had an affair and left his wife for another woman.  Churches that once preached the truth of Gods word, voting to ordain homosexuals and saying it is OK to live contrary to Gods standards.  Laws trying to be passed to protect the sins listed below.   Not to mention TV and Movies that are getting more and more sexually explicit.  We need to say NO TO SIN and not even LOOK AT IT.   If the Internet, TV or Movies are bringing temptation into your life then you need to TURN THE SOURCE OF TEMPTATION OFF! 
 
Forbidden Sexual Relations According to Torah
Not to indulge in familiarities with relatives, such as kissing, embracing, winking, skipping, which may lead to incest (Lev. 18:6) (CCN110).
Not to commit incest with one's mother (Lev. 18:7) (CCN112). 
Not to commit sodomy with one's father (Lev. 18:7) (CCN111).
Not to commit incest with one's father's wife (Lev. 18:8) (CCN113).  .
Not to commit incest with one's sister (Lev. 18:9) (CCN127). 
 Not to commit incest with one's father's wife's daughter (Lev. 18:11) (CCN128). 
Not to commit incest with one's son's daughter (Lev. 18:10) (CCN119) (Note: CC treats this and the next as one commandment; however, Rambam treats them as two). 
Not to commit incest with one's daughter's daughter (Lev. 18:10) (CCN119) (Note: CC treats this and the previous as one commandment; however, Rambam treats them as two). 
 Not to commit incest with one's daughter (this is not explicitly in the Torah but is inferred from other explicit commands that would include it) (CCN120). 
Not to commit incest with one's fathers sister (Lev. 18:12) (CCN129). 
Not to commit incest with one's mother's sister (Lev. 18:13) (CCN130).
Not to commit incest with one's father's brothers wife (Lev. 18:14) (CCN125). 
Not to commit sodomy with one's father's brother (Lev. 18:14) (CCN114).
Not to commit incest with one's son's wife (Lev. 18:15) (CCN115).  .
Not to commit incest with one's brother's wife (Lev. 18:16) (CCN126).  .
Not to commit incest with one's wife's daughter (Lev. 18:17) (CCN121).  .
Not to commit incest with the daughter of one's wife's son (Lev. 18:17) (CCN122). 
Not to commit incest with the daughter of one's wife's daughter (Lev. 18:17) (CCN123). 
Not to commit incest with one's wife's sister (Lev. 18:18) (CCN131). 
Not to have intercourse with a woman, in her menstrual period (Lev. 18:19) (CCN132).
Not to have intercourse with another man's wife (Lev. 18:20) (CCN124).
Not to commit sodomy with a male (Lev. 18:22) (CCN116).
Not to have intercourse with a beast (Lev. 18:23) (CCN117).
That a woman shall not have intercourse with a beast (Lev. 18:23) (CCN118).
Not to castrate the male of any species; neither a man, nor a domestic or wild beast, nor a fowl (Lev. 22:24) (CCN143).
 
The Brit Chadasha/New Testament also deals with immorality.  Read Romans 1,  1 Corinthians 5 just to name a few.
 
It is because  people have rejected God's moral standards as found in His Torah/His Word from Genesis to Revelation that we have the moral decay we are seeing today.
  
 *Journal - Food For Thought
 
 When the Torah speaks of immorality, it usually refers to sexual immorality. Since sex is the strongest human drive (next to survival itself), it can therefore be used to achieve the greatest degree of holiness, (within the confines of marriage between a man and a woman) or -- as we so often witness -- the greatest degree of debasement.

*Jewishroots.net Prayer-Rabbi Shraga Simmons (Aish Hatorah)
 
Ask Yourself:

Have I become addicted to viewing pornography or sexually explicit movies?
 
Have I commited adultry, even though I call myself a Christian?
 
Have I allowed myself to become dull to sin and allowed my flesh to dominate me rather then the Word?
 
Do I need to repent of these sins and make a commitment to live a life that is Holy and pleasing to God?

Do I realize how sexual immorality reduces the spiritual potential of future, more holy unions?


 
New Moon Report regarding  Month of Elul
 
On Saturday August 22, 2009 the new moon was sighted from Jerusalem by Devorah Gordon at 7:02, by Johan Schutte at 7:10, and by Dina Marcus at 7:22pm. We are still waiting to hear from some observers whether or not they sighted it from
Israel on Friday night.   Nehemiah Gordon
 
 
Shalom In Yeshua
 
May He Be Glorified in Every Thing We Say And Do
 

Scott & Deborah Brandt
Deborah's Messianic Ministries