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40 Days Of Teshuvah To Yom Kippur |
Create In Me A Clean Heart Oh Adonai and Renew a Right Spirit Within Me
Psalm 51
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Day 14
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 and this is the time to do spiritual house cleaning.
#13 For the sin that we have sinned before you willfully and carelessly
Willfull Sin;
Do we have a cut and paste Bible? What is a cut and paste Bible? It is when "we" decide what "we" will obey and not obey. We want the blessings but not the "If" clause. The "If" clause is where our Father says "If" you do this, or obey. We use the phrase, "We are not under the law" as an excuse not to obey. The law that you have been freed from is the law of sin and death, no where in the Word does it state that you are no longer "Under Torah/Gods teaching and instructions". To say that is a misinterpretation of scripture.
1John 3:4 Everyone who keeps sinning is violating Torah - indeed, sin is violation of Torah.
James 4:17 So then, anyone who knows the right thing to do and fails to do it is committing a sin.
Know - Greek 2. oida (Perf. of G1492), from the same root as eidon, "to see," is a perfect tense with a present meaning, signifying, primarily, "to have seen or perceived"; hence, "to know, to have knowledge of," whether absolutely, as in divine knowledge
Also means "Fullness of Knowledge".
We know what the Word says, but through a choice of our will, we choose not to obey.
Careless Sin or Unintentinal;
In other words we sinned out of ignorance of the Word or His Torah. We did not know we were being disobedient or acting contrary to His teaching and instructions.
But ignorance is not an excuse to keep on sinning, especially those of us who live in a country where we are free to read our Bibles. Not all people have that freedom, but we do in America.
Careless sins can be avoided by being a good student of the word of God and when we see a command that we can obey, we need to obey it.
This is where being a part of a God fearing, Torah submissive Messianic community is important and being under a Pastor/Rabbi and good teachers so we know how to walk out our salvation in reverence and obedience to God.
Eph 4:11 Furthermore, he gave some people as emissaries, some as prophets, some as proclaimers of the Good News, and some as shepherds and teachers.
Eph 4:12 Their task is to equip God's people for the work of service that builds the body of the Messiah,
Eph 4:13 until we all arrive at the unity implied by trusting and knowing the Son of God, at full manhood, at the standard of maturity set by the Messiah's perfection.
Romans 6:16 Don't you know that if you present yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, then, of the one whom you are obeying, you are slaves - whether of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to being made righteous?
Rom 6:17 By God's grace, you, who were once slaves to sin, obeyed from your heart the pattern of teaching to which you were exposed;
Rom 6:18 and after you had been set free from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.
Rom 6:19 (I am using popular language because your human nature is so weak.) For just as you used to offer your various parts as slaves to impurity and lawlessness, which led to more lawlessness; so now offer your various parts as slaves to righteousness, which leads to being made holy, set apart for God.
Rom 6:20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in relationship to righteousness;
Rom 6:21 but what benefit did you derive from the things of which you are now ashamed? The end result of those things was death.
Rom 6:22 However, now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you do get the benefit - it consists in being made holy, set apart for God, and its end result is eternal life.
Rom 6:23 For what one earns from sin is death; but eternal life is what one receives as a free gift from God, in union with the Messiah Yeshua, our Lord. (Complete Jewish Bible)
*Journal - Food For Thought
Willfully:
Did I ever "act out" in a desire to demonstrate my independence from God?
Unintentionally:
Did I make mistakes out of carelessness? Could they have been avoided?
Exploring the "Al Chet" Prayer by Rabbi Shraga Simmons (Aish Hatorah) |
