Shabbat Service Thank you for joining us Be Holy As I Am Holy The Meaning of Holiness and How to Walk It Out Chag Sameach saw may ahk Chag Mishteh 46 feast banquet ID: 132163
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Slide2
Welcome to House of Israel’s
Shabbat Service
Thank you for joining us.Slide3
“Be Holy As I Am Holy”
The Meaning of Holiness and How to Walk It OutSlide4
Chag
Sameach
(saw-
may
-
ahk
)
Chag
–
Mishteh
(46, feast, banquet)
What Restrictions are Required For the Feast? A Reprise of the Discussion of Ridding Your Place of Leaven
Is the Command to Eat Unleavened Bread Also Intended To Benefit Us With a Natural Detox
?Slide5
At the end of today’s teaching you will be given an opportunity to
1. Ask Questions
2. Receive Prayer
3. Give your Tithes and Offerings to support the work of this ministrySlide6
A PrayerSlide7
“Be Holy As I Am Holy”
The Meaning of Holiness and How to Walk It OutSlide8
The Call to be Holy
As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.
But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy
." (1
Kepha
1:14-16)Slide9
Where is it written: “Be Holy For I Am Holy”?
Leviticus 11:44-45
Leviticus 19:2
Leviticus 20:7
Leviticus 20:26
Leviticus 11-22 is therefore called “the Holiness Code”Slide10
Dictionary.com–adjective
specially recognized as or declared sacred by religious use or authority; consecrated:
holy ground.
dedicated or devoted to the service of God, the church, or religion:
a holy man.
saintly; godly; pious; devout:
a holy life.Slide11
having a spiritually pure quality: a holy love.
entitled to worship or veneration as or as if sacred:
a holy relic.
religious:
holy rites.
inspiring fear, awe, or grave distress:
The director, when angry, is a holy terror. Slide12
A Little Abstract? Nebulous? Intangible?
Sacred
and
consecrated
are more of those abstract,
vague
terms that still leave us all
hazy, uncertain
and without a clear grasp of the meaning of
holy
. Telling us that its related to "religious use or authority" really doesn't help much either. We already know that holy is related to our religious walk of faith. But what exactly does it mean? Slide13
Did You Know…
That the Meaning of “Holy” and “Holiness” Does Not Have to Be a Mystery. These terms are Abstract and Fuzzy. But We Can Have a Clear Understanding of Its Meaning
We Do Not Have to Guess About How to Live a Holy Life
Living a Holy Life Can Be Easy to Understand and Attainable.Slide14
Brown, Driver, Briggs Lexicon (BDB)
Our
word comes from the Hebrew root
vdq
(pronounced
kădăsh
), which
comes
from the "poss. orig. idea of
separation, withdrawal
." Slide15
BDB goes on to further describe our word:
vd;Q
'
(
(
qadash
) v
b
. denom.
be set apart,
consecrated
, separated
vd,qo
(
qodesh
) n
.
m.
apartness,
sacredness
, one who is separated
vAdq
'
(
qadosh
) a
dj
.
sacred, holy; separate from human infirmity, impurity, and sin Slide16
The Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (TWOT)
says
vd,qo
(
qodesh
)
apartness, holiness, sacredness.Slide17
TWOT
The meaning "to separate" is favored by many scholars, but the fact that
qdsh
rarely, if ever, occurs in a secular sense makes any positive conclusion in this regard difficult because of the limited evidence on which to base philological comparison.Slide18
TWOTIn
the
Qal
the verb
qadash
is used most frequently to describe
the state of consecration
effected by
Levitical
ritual
. In
Exo
29:21, 37;
Exo
30:29 certain articles used in the
Levitical
service were consecrated to God and were thus recognized as belonging to the realm of the sacred. Slide19
Dictionary.com
consecrate
means "to make or declare sacred;
set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity
" or "
to devote or dedicate to some purpose
."
Slide20
TWOT - Transmission of the state of holiness to anything that touched a person or object so consecrated (
Exo
29:37;
Exo
30:29; Lev 6:18 [H 11], 27 [H 20]) does not necessarily imply that a transferable divine energy exists in the "holy." Rather,
it seems that the person or object entered the state of holiness in the sense of becoming subject to cultic restrictions
, as were other holy persons or objects,
in order to avoid diffusion of the sacred and the profane
....Slide21
So, then, Holy means…
T
he
noun
holy
should be understood as "something which is separate or set-apart (devoted) for a specific purpose."
The
verb
to make holy
or
to be holy
means
the act of “separating
something for a particular purpose
,"
The
adjective
holy
describes
something that has been set apart or separated for a particular purpose.Slide22
Principle of First Use
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day Elohim had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. And Elohim blessed the seventh day and
made it holy
, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done. (
Bereshith
[Genesis] 2:1-3
)Slide23
The Separations of Creation
(
Heb
bdl
–
divide,separate,distinguish
)
*Day 1- Light from Darkness (v4)
*Day 2 – Waters Above from Below (v6-7)
Day 3 – Land from Gathered Water
*Day 4 – Day from Night (v14,18)
(Day 6? – Woman from Man)
Day 7 – Sabbath Day from the other SixSlide24
How to Keep the Sabbath Holy
Remember
the
Sabbath
day
to keep it holy (set
it
apart).
For six days you may labor and do all your work
, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to
Yehovah
your Elohim;
on it you shall not do any work
, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your cattle, or your resident foreigner who is in your gates. (Ex
20:8-10)Slide25
Guard the day of the Sabbath to set it apart
just as
Yehovah
your
Elohim
has commanded you. You are to serve and do all your work in six days, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of
Yehovah
your Elohim.
On
that day you must not do any work, you, your son, your daughter, your male
servant,
your female
servant,
your ox, your donkey, any other animal, or the foreigner who lives with you, so that your male and female slaves, like yourself, may have
rest.
(
Deut
5:12-14)Slide26
Did You Know…
That When You Guard the Sabbath Day to Set It Apart,
Yehovah
is Setting You Apart from the World and All Pretenders?
In Doing So, You are Becoming Holy as
Yehovah
is HolySlide27
Setting Apart the Sabbath Sets Us Apart
"
Say to the sons of
Yisrael
, 'You must
guard
my Sabbaths. This will be a sign between me and you for the generations to come, so you may know that I am
Yehovah
,
who makes you
holy. Guard
the Sabbath, because it is holy to you
.’” (Exodus 31:13-14)Slide28
Now the One who created the heavens and the earth and
the sea and all that is in them
was establishing a permanent memorial of his creative acts
on the Seventh Day by
establishing the seventh day as that time when all mankind is to
stop all his
own activity and separate the Sabbath from the other six days to
honor and acknowledge
the Creator of
all. When we set the Sabbath apart for this purpose, we are keeping it holy.Slide29
Did You Know…
That When You Keep
Yehovah’s
Commandments You are Setting Yourself Apart from the World and All Religious Pretenders and
Yehovah
is Setting You Apart?
In Doing So, You are Becoming Holy as
Yehovah
is HolySlide30
Where is it written: “Be Holy For I Am Holy”?
Leviticus 11:44-45
Leviticus 19:2
Leviticus 20:7
Leviticus 20:26
Leviticus 11-22 is therefore called “the Holiness Code”Slide31
Yehovah
said to
Mosheh
,
"Speak to the entire assembly of
Yisrael
and say to them:
'Be holy because I,
Yehovah
your Elohim, am
holy
.
"
'Each of you must
respect his mother and father
, and you must
observe my Sabbaths
. I am
Yehovah
your
Elohim.
"
'Do not turn to idols or make gods of cast metal
for yourselves. I am
Yehovah
your Elohim
.
(Leviticus 19:1-4)Slide32
Holy Living – The “Law of Loving Your Neighbor”
Leviticus 19:11-18
Do
not steal.
Do not lie.
Do not deceive one another.
Do not swear falsely by my name and so profane the name of your Elohim. I am
Yehovah
.
Slide33
Do not defraud your neighbor or rob him.
Do not hold back the wages of a hired man overnight.
Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but fear your Elohim. I am
Yehovah
.
Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly. Do not go about spreading slander among your people
.Slide34
Do not do anything that endangers your neighbor's life. I am
Yehovah
.
Do not hate your brother in your heart.
Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in his guilt.
Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am
Yehovah
.
(19:11-18)Slide35
It is Yehovah
Who Makes You Holy
*Separate*
yourselves and be holy, because I am
Yehovah
your Elohim. Keep my decrees and follow them. I am
Yehovah
,
who makes you
holy
.
(Leviticus 20:7-8)
*Consecrate, dedicate, cause yourself to be separatedSlide36
The Law is Holy
So
then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good
. (Romans 7:12)Slide37
"'Keep all my decrees and laws and follow them
, so that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you
out.
You must not live according to the customs of the nations I am going to drive out before you
.
Because they did all these things, I abhorred
them.
But I said to you, "You will possess their land; I will give it to you as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey
. “
I am
Yehovah
your Elohim,
who has set you apart from the nations
.
(Lev 20:22-24)Slide38
Did You Know…
That When You Keep
Yehovah’s
Restrictions Regarding Sexuality You are Setting Yourself Apart from the World and All Pretenders?
In Doing So, You are Becoming Holy as
Yehovah
is HolySlide39
Paul’s Instructions About How to Live
Finally, brothers,
we instructed you how to live
in order to please Elohim, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Master
Yeshua
to do this more and more. For
you know what instructions we gave
you by the authority of the Master
Yeshua
.
(1 Thessalonians 4:1-2)Slide40
Holiness in the Sexual Arena
It
is Elohim's will that you should be
holy (set apart):
that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable
, not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know Elohim;
and that in this matter no one should wrong his brother or take advantage of him
.
Yehovah
will punish men for all such sins, as we have already told you and warned you.
For Elohim did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life
. (1 Thessalonians 4:3-7)Slide41
"You shall not commit adultery.”
(Exodus 20:14)
"You
shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor
.“ (20:17)
"
You shall not lust after your neighbor's wife. You shall not set your desire on your neighbor's house or land, his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor
.“ (Deuteronomy 5:21)Slide42
Flee
from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
Do
you not know that
your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit
, who is in you, whom you have received from Elohim? You are not your own; you were bought at a price.
Therefore honor Elohim with your body
. (1 Corinthians
6:18-20
)Slide43
Vayikra
(Leviticus) 18:1-24
According of some, these laws are done away with.
Is there any New Testament evidence that these
Levitical
Laws pertaining to sexuality are still valid for the followers of Messiah?Slide44
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that does not occur even among pagans: A man has his father's wife
. And you are proud! Shouldn't you rather have been filled with grief and have put out of your fellowship the man who did
this
?
(1Corinthians 5:1-3)
Vayiqra
18:8: "
Do not have sexual relations with your father's wife; that would dishonor your father
." Slide45
Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of
dough?
Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast-
- as you really are. For Messiah, our Pesach lamb, has been
sacrificed.
Therefore
let us
keep the Festival
, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with
bread without yeast
, the bread of sincerity and truth
. (1 Corinthians 5:5-8)Slide46
I have written you in my letter
not to associate
(separate from that one) with
sexually immoral people-- not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.
But
now I am writing you that
you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler
. With such a man do not even eat. (1 Corinthians
5:9-12)Slide47
Did You Know…
That Watching Over Your Body to Keep It Clean is a Spiritual Act of Worship?
In Doing So, You are Becoming Holy as
Yehovah
is HolySlide48
Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of Elohim's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to Elohim-- this is your spiritual act of worship
. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what Elohim's will is-- his good, pleasing and perfect will. (Romans 12:1-2)Slide49
I have written you quite boldly on some points, as if to remind you of them again
, because of the grace Elohim gave me to be a minister of Messiah
Yeshua
to the Gentiles with the priestly duty of proclaiming the gospel of Elohim,
so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to Elohim, set apart by the Holy Spirit
. (Romans 15:15-16)Slide50
Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness,
so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness
. When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness.
What
benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to Elohim, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life
. (Romans 6:19-22)Slide51
Did You Know…
That When You Keep
Yehovah’s
Dietary Laws You are Watching Over Your Body and You are Setting Yourself Apart from the World and All Pretenders?
In Doing So, You are Becoming Holy as
Yehovah
is HolySlide52
What agreement is there between the temple of Elohim and idols? For we are the temple of the living Elohim. As Elohim has said: "I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their Elohim, and they will be my people.
Therefore come out from them and be separate
," says
Yehovah
.
"
Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you
. Slide53
I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters," says
Yehovah
Almighty. Since we have these promises, dear friends,
let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness
out of reverence for Elohim. (2 Corinthians 6:16-7:1)Slide54
Vayikra
(Leviticus) 11:1-42
Do
not defile yourselves by any of these creatures. Do not make yourselves unclean by means of them or be made unclean by
them.
I am
Yehovah
your Elohim;
consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy
. Do not make yourselves unclean by any creature that moves about on the
ground.
I am
Yehovah
who brought you up out of
Mitzrayim
to be your Elohim; therefore
be holy, because I am holy
. (
vss
43-45)Slide55
"'Keep all my decrees and laws and follow them
, so that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you
out.
You must not live according to the customs of the nations I am going to drive out before you
.
Because they did all these things, I abhorred
them.
But I said to you, "You will possess their land; I will give it to you as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey
. “
I am
Yehovah
your Elohim,
who has set you apart from the nations
.
(Lev 20:22-24))Slide56
"'You must therefore make a distinction between clean and unclean animals and between unclean and clean birds. Do not defile yourselves by any animal or bird or anything that moves along the ground--
those which I have set
apart (!!)
as unclean for
you
.
You
are to be holy to me because I,
Yehovah
,
am holy
, and
I have set you apart from the nations to be my own
. (Leviticus 20:22-26)Slide57
Does the issue of clean\unclean really matter when it comes to salvation? Is it a “salvation issue”?
Make
every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy;
without holiness no one will see
Yehovah
.
(Hebrews 12:14)Slide58
Isaiah 35:8
And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness.
The unclean will not journey on it; it will be for those who walk in that Way
; wicked fools will not go about on it.Slide59
Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing! Come out from it and be pure, you who carry the vessels of
Yehovah
.
But
you will not leave in haste or go in flight; for
Yehovah
will go before you, the Elohim of
Yisrael
will be your rear
guard.
Isaiah 52:11-12Slide60
All day long
I have held out my hands to an obstinate people
,
who walk in ways not good
, pursuing their own imaginations-
- a
people who continually provoke me to my very face, offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on altars of
brick; who
sit among the graves and spend their nights keeping secret vigil;
who eat the flesh of pigs
, and
whose pots hold broth of unclean
meat
; who
say, 'Keep away; don't come near me, for I am too set apart for you!' Such people are smoke in my nostrils, a fire that keeps burning all day
. (
Isaiah 65:2-5)Slide61
Did You Know…
That When You Make Distinctions Between Clean and Unclean and Between Holy and Common You are Setting Yourself Apart from the World and All Pretenders?
In Doing So, You are Becoming Holy as
Yehovah
is HolySlide62
You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the unclean and the clean
, and you must teach the sons of
Yisrael
all the decrees
Yehovah
has given them through
Mosheh
." (
Vayiqra
10:10-11)Slide63
You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean
, between living creatures that may be eaten and those that may not be eaten
.'“
Vayikra
(Leviticus
)
11:47Slide64
How Does Yehovah
Feel About Eating Unclean?
Again
the word of
Yehovah
came to me: "Son of man, say to the land, 'You are a land that has had no rain or showers in the day of wrath.' There is a conspiracy of her princes within her like a roaring lion tearing its prey; they devour people, take treasures and precious things and make many widows within her. Slide65
How Does Yehovah
Feel About Eating Unclean?
Her
priests do violence to my Torah and profane my holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common; they teach that there is no difference between the unclean and the clean
; and
they shut their eyes to the keeping of my Sabbaths
, so that I am profaned among them. (
Yechezqel
22:23-26)Slide66
Did You Know…
That When You Are Disciplined By His Instructions About Holiness, You Are Preparing to See
Yehovah
?Slide67
The Discipline of Holiness
Our
fathers
disciplined
us for a little while as they thought best; but Elohim
disciplines
us for our good,
that we may share in his holiness
.
No
discipline
seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it. Slide68
The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines
discipline
as "training that corrects, molds, or perfects the mental faculties or moral character" or "a rule or system of rules governing conduct or activity." This is the kind of discipline Hebrews is talking about.
Elohim
wants to train us to walk in his ways in order to perfect our character to be like him. He does this by giving us the Instruction of his Word. And the Instruction for holy living and training in holiness is that which we have been examining from
Vayiqra
11-22.Slide69
The Discipline of Holiness
Therefore
, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees. "Make level paths for your feet," so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.
Make every effort
to live in peace with all men and
to be holy
;
without holiness no one will see
Yehovah
.
(
Ivrim
[Hebrews] 12:10-14)Slide70
How Can I Become Holy As
Yehovah
is Holy?
Set Apart the Sabbath Day
Obey His Commandments
Abstain from Sexual Immorality
Eat only What
Yehovah
Has Declared is Clean
Make Distinctions Between Clean and Unclean and Between Holy and Common
Be Disciplined By His WordSlide71
Worship in PrayerSlide72
The Aaronic BlessingSlide73