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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.
#21 For the sin that we have sinned before You against those who know and against those who do not know.
Many of us are probably more guilty of wronging people behind their backs then to their faces.
However this is the season to repent (of course we can repent any time of the year, but it is at this time that we truly to some deep soul searching and cleaning) of those wrongs and to determine not to do them again. It is so easy to critisize others behind their backs because it makes us feel more righteous. This is not righteousness in action but self-righteusness.
Have we wrongly accused or made judgements against people without hearing the facts?
Are we quick to listen to rumers about godly people from other people who are holding grudges and full of jealousy and deceit?
Do we take sides against someone based upon 1 side of the story? Have we ever bothered to get the facts before continuing to flame the destructive fire of these rumers?
When someone starts to speak evil of someone, do we stop the conversation by saying "Do you know that this is a fact or are you contributing to fire the flames of the rumers?
There is a scriptural way to deal with sins within the community layed out in Torah and the Brit HaDahsa/New Testament. We need to learn these rules so that our Communities will not self destruct because of this sin.
Our Congregations and lives are not in order because we have gotten out of Divine Order set up in Scripture. We do not want leaders, we all want to be our own leader whether we are anointed to do it or not.
Look up the word "Elders" in the Tenach and you will see that disputes were to be brought before them in order to make righteous judgements. According to Torah, if someone was accused, there had to be 3 witnesses and it had to be brought to the Elders or Leadership so that a righteous judgement can be made according to Scripture. We are to make righteous judgments and not pervert the law in order to accuse people as well. We see how corrupt leadership did this when they falsly accused Yeshua.
Yet when we believe gossip and lies and receive false accusastions against others without hearing the facts we are guilty of wronging others.
How are we to act in our Communities? First we are to walk by the greatest commandment of Love because if we do this we will not break the others as well.
Mat 22:36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
Mat 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Mat 22:38This is the first and great commandment.
Mat 22:39And the second isl ike unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Mat 22:40On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
1Co 13:4 Love is patient and kind, not jealous, not boastful,
1Co 13:5 not proud, rude or selfish, not easily angered, and it keeps no record of wrongs.
1Co 13:6 Love does not gloat over other people's sins but takes its delight in the truth.
1Co 13:7 Love always bears up, always trusts, always hopes, always endures.
1Co 13:8 Love never ends; but prophecies will pass, tongues will cease, knowledge will pass.
1Co 13:9 For our knowledge is partial, and our prophecy partial;
1Co 13:10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass.
1Co 13:11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, argued like a child; now that I have become a man, I have finished with childish ways.
1Co 13:12 For now we see obscurely in a mirror, but then it will be face to face. Now I know partly; then I will know fully, just as God has fully known me.
1Co 13:13 But for now, three things last - trust, hope, love; and the greatest of these is love.
How are we to treat Elders/Leadership within the Community?
1Ti 5:19 Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.
1Ti 5:20 Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.
1Pe 5:5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. (This is the greek word #4245 refers to leaders in the community) Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Ti 5:1 Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
1Ti 5:2 The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
How are we to handle disputes, wrong accusations, sin in the Community?
Mat 18:15 Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
Mat 18:16 But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
Mat 18:17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
We have covered now 21 of the 42 Al Chet Prayers.
For all these, O God of Forgiveness, Forgive us, pardon us, atone for us In The Name Of Yeshua Ha Moshiach.
Ask yourself:
Have I wronged people behind their backs?
Have I wronged people to their faces?
Exploring the "Al Chet" Prayer by Rabbi Shraga Simmons (Aish Hatorah) |
