MESSIANIC LESSON

922 Dedication

SYNOPSIS: What does it biblically mean to dedicate your life to ELOHIM?  I read a very sad news article this week. It was entitled “Two cheers for assimilation this Hanukkah.” The holiday makes things simple, but if I'd been alive at the time, would I really have observed Jewish ritual and belief or would I have adopted Greek culture? With Hanukkah upon us, I find myself again wrestling with that question. On the one hand, the Hanukkah story is about how the Maccabees stood up to the cruel Syrian Greeks who outlawed Jewish practice and persecuted Jews. It is a story of how persecuted Jews fought and emerged victorious against their oppressors — that is a story that still resonates today. On the other hand — and perhaps less well known — is what happened after Judah the Maccabee died and the Hasmoneans took control. Not simply content to expel pagans from their territory, the Hasmoneans pushed for a theocracy, and that push eventually devolved into a Jewish civil war that brought the Romans to rule and ultimately expel the Jews from the Land of Israel. When I celebrate Hanukkah this year, I do so because lighting the menorah as a family is a lovely family tradition and because it’s good to kindle a light during the darkest days of the year. I celebrate Hanukkah because I celebrate Jewish heroism and Jewish independence in the Land of Israel. But I won’t celebrate the zealotry of the Hanukkah story and its aftermath because the last thing we need these days is more zealotry.

 

HASHABBAT LESSON: THE PURPOSE OF DEDICATION. 2 Chronicles 7:1-22 the dedication. Vayikra (Lev) 26:3-12 I will walk among you and be your God. 2 Chronicles 7:7, 9. 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 Don't you know that you people are God's temple. 2 Chronicles 7:7-22. Yesha’yahu (Isa) 56:2-5 I will give them power and a name greater than sons and daughters. 2 Chronicles 7:21-22. 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1 purify ourselves from everything that can defile either body or spirit.

 

 

HASHABBAT LESSON: THE PURPOSE OF DEDICATION. 2 Chronicles 7:1-22 the dedication.

2Ch 7:17  As for you, if you will live in my presence, as did David your father, doing everything I have ordered you to do, and keeping my laws and rulings; 

2Ch 7:18  then I will establish the throne of your rulership, as I covenanted with David your father when I said, 'You will never lack a man to be ruler in Isra'el.' 

 

DEDICATION: 1) an act or rite of dedicating to a divine being or to a sacred use

the dedication of the temple 2) a devoting or setting aside for a particular purpose the dedication of funds raised from the bake sale to the class trip 3) a name and often a message prefixed to a literary, musical, or artistic production in tribute to a person or cause 4) self-sacrificing devotion and loyalty 5) a ceremony to mark the official completion or opening of something (such as a building)

 

Two cheers for assimilation this Hanukkah

 

The holiday makes things simple, but if I'd been alive at the time, would I really have observed Jewish ritual and belief or would I have adopted Greek culture?

 

In October, we went on a family vacation to Greece. Listening to the tour guide at the Acropolis discuss what the ancient Greeks contributed to fields ranging from philosophy to government to medicine, I couldn’t help but wonder: had I lived during the Hellenistic period, to what extent would I have observed Jewish ritual and belief and to what extent would I have adopted ancient Greek culture?

 

2Ch 7:17-18

 

HOLD PLACE

 

Vayikra (Lev) 26:3-12 I will walk among you and be your God.

Lev 26:11  I will put my tabernacle among you, and I will not reject you, 

Lev 26:12  but I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people. 

 

Lev 26:3-4

 

2Ch 7:1-2

 

2Ch 7:7 

 

CONSECRATED: H6942 קדשׁ  qâdash BDB Definition: to consecrate, sanctify, prepare, dedicate, be hallowed, be holy, be sanctified, be separate

 

2Ch 7:9 

 

DEDICATION: H2598 חנכּה chănûkkâh BDB Definition: dedication, consecration

 

HOLD PLACE

 

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 Don't you know that you people are God's temple.

1Co 3:16  Don't you know that you people are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? 

1Co 3:17  So if anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you yourselves are that temple. 

 

2Ch 7:9 

2Ch 7:11 

2Ch 7:13 

2Ch 7:14 -15

2Ch 7:17-18

2Ch 7:18 

 

HOLD PLACE

 

Yesha’yahu (Isa) 56:2-5 I will give them power and a name greater than sons and daughters.

Isa 56:2  Happy is the person who does this, anyone who grasps it firmly, who keeps Shabbat and does not profane it, and keeps himself from doing any evil. 

 

Isa 56:4-5

 

2Ch 7:19-2

2Ch 7:21-22

 

2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1 purify ourselves from everything that can defile either body or spirit.

2Co 7:1  Therefore, my dear friends, since we have these promises, let us purify ourselves from everything that can defile either body or spirit, and strive to be completely holy, out of reverence for God. 

 

2Co 6:14 

2Co 6:16 

2Co 6:17 

2Co 7:1 

 

AMEIN & AMEIN!!!

Remember Yeshua the Messiah is the same Yesterday, Today and Forever.

He was and always will be a JEW!!!
 

"Jew & Gentile One in Messiah"

As it was in the beginning so it will be in the end-of-days

 

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