Nicodemus says he doesn’t understand. ‘How can these things be?’ He asks And Jesus said, ‘Well, you should understand what I’m talking about because you’re a teacher of Israel, you’re not one of the am erets (the common people). You should know these things, you should know the scriptures, you should know what God has to say.’ In fact, there are plenty of scriptures in the...
“Torah is the mysterious bridge which connects the Jew and God, across which they interact and communicate, and by means of which God fulfils His covenant with His people to sustain them and protect them.” So says Rabbi Shraga Simmons in an article on the Aish website about Shavuoth. He also tells us that: At Mount Sinai when the Torah was given, the entire Jewish nation – 3 million...
What is the sin against the Holy Spirit, the unforgivable sin? It’s a big question. I tell you it’s something serious and if you commit this sin, you can’t be forgiven in this age or in the age to come. Now there are two possibilities about how we understand this. That it is a sin which can be committed by anyone at any time and therefore it’s relevant to us now or,That...
ALSO PART OF THE ATONEMENT SERIES OF TALKS BY TONY: The full meaning of Atonement jesus our kippur Which brings us on to the subject of the sacrifices. So, let’s look at the Old Testament and how it relates to Yom Kippur as well when you come to the Old Testament the old covenant book of Leviticus, we see that there is a great deal there about offering of sacrifices to cover sin. The...
For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour, if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, or walk after other gods to your hurt, then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.
Jeremiah 7.5-7
I will put my law
in their minds
and write it
on their hearts
Jeremiah 31.33