Loving Like Cain

I wanted to read before we begin this the statement for almost thirty years. Now Church of the site has been at the brick Heritage congregation and I do this every so often just to remind people the type of car negation that you stumbled into maybe, you know, the type of place this is but in case you don't I read from some of our founding documents. This is the hebraic Heritage congregation as we want to listen to him speak. We want to walk with him as we walk through life. We want to join ourselves to his people his purpose and his passion. You sure are his disciples and his Believers were Jews who lived in the culture that studied and applied Jewish scriptures in the context first century Jewish scriptural tradition, and maybe you came in here thinking man. That's a lot of Hebrew in the song and I think these are some of the things that we do today twenty centuries and several cultures removed from the time of Yoshua. We desire to restore some of what has been lost in order to better talk with and worship our first century brother friend Rabbi and Lord through some appreciation of its culture and his historical context. Therefore we find Value in discovering a celebrating the rich rich Heritage of his face, which is also our faith. some active elements of this judeo Christian Heritage include Open acknowledgment. The issue is Lord and that he's King and then here's one with our God and Father and with the Holy Spirit recognizing the importance of unified single witnessing body made up of family members supporting and ministering to one another. Do regular practice of Lord's Supper? We appreciate all the scripture including both the first or sometimes called old and the 2nd. Sometimes called the cultural context and emphasizing a unified word of God. There's a statement about practice whether it's the 10 or the two great love the Lord your God and love your neighbor as yourself, which is really one command. Cuz I'm loving our neighbor we do love God. Things like banners and flags and dancing creedal statements. These are all things that the early followers to be sure did and we also embraced in recognizing the importance of the feasts.

Tessa shovel two coats as was talked about today, encouraging an analytical study of the entire Bible using language tools.

Using our gifts in didn't even it is included in the statement is depreciation for in the support of the Jewish people and for you spell since we see ourselves to Be Wild Olive branches to have been grafted into a cultivated Olive Tree, which is you swell whose roots to nourish the faith of Patriarchs in the the blessings made to them. I just want to remind remind those or explain to those who have come in. What church of Messiah is.

There are other congregations that we're that we connect with and we would be happy to see if we don't like to steal. Steal from other congregations. That's not the goal. We recognize this is a Saturday fellowship. And so if you go to a Sunday Tire gation you could do both but where wherever God puts you please make sure you're using your spiritual gift you're giving because that's what a spiritually healthy person does.

This is Church of Messiah. I have his picture to remind me to pray for you smile in the things going on in your smile. So I will pray since. You didn't stumble in here for nothing is my guess and many of you like me have a heart for what goes on there. So I'll pray Father in Heaven our hearts are heady. For your people the apple of your eye. through whom you have done a great story. Great story of mankind you have used them.

The images of the things that we've seen in the things that we heard. hard to watch Dear God our own psyche 4 months for years in this country was changed by what happened at 9:11 and 4th of Jewish peoples.

I think much more so because of the scale. And the brutality and we pray dear God that you would heal that you would be a God of Peace for them. We understand.

War is terrible and you hate it.

Cuz it hurts people we pray for protection for innocence. on all sides and we pray for Justice tempered with Mercy

For any combatants we pray dear God that you would protect.

Your Righteous will protect your people

accomplished you were will and you were time in your way.

Four friends who were there that we think of even now we pray protection. and covering Dear God the future plans

Ground troops which becomes so bloody. We praise our God for Supernatural wisdom.

People who are still missing family members. We pray comfort.

We pray for your will to be done in this world.

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I've also been having to sign up by Jason thoughts on this last week because the time is already quite long. I said I was going to read the full text of the issue one many of you know, that church is where you're not supposed to endorse candidates, but they can speak freely on issues. Like that's just legally we can say anything you want on issues and I don't speak even speaking about his real. I don't speak for the leadership of Church of Messiah. I only speak for myself. You are all thinking people is in here. You have your own thoughts. You can take what I say or what I think and you can do with it what you want to do that opinion right? I know I'm not telling you what to do. You know that I know that I'm not telling you what to do how to build or how to think right now was it doesn't work. I told you last week I was going to read the full text. I'm not because of the time but I will say that there is a symposium John wanted to run a symposium after regarding issue wanted to and I think that's a good idea. I could read this full text about two minutes, right? That's what's so weird about this. If you've seen issue to it's like 13 pages of really tiny type and lots of texts and issue one is a half a sheet of paper. I would say intentionally ambiguous.

and intentionally brought so I think that therein lies part of the problem.

Which we can flush out John go ahead. You want to say them?

As I said, it is a luster Dave at the one is so long and the other is too small like that can't be missed.

I called his teaching loving like Cain. Doing the best for my brother. It is out of its from satyr from Genesis 3 the way, we won't even be in Genesis 3, you know the stories and so I rely on your your knowledge of the text here are reading this for this week. I know this is a unique schedule that we've been doing is Jack mention for like over 7 years. Now lots of carnations have liturgies price Lutheran Church has a liturgy Episcopal church has a liturgy lots of churches have liturgies. This is the one that we've been using now for 7 years. One of the reasons we started investigating it is because we really believe that it was the one that you shoot himself. Grew up with especially these Moses readings and Associated off the road and the storms that got brought in in the homilies. We really believe that this was a liturgy in England. That's what the talmud says outside of the land. They read in the yearly annual cycle, which has prevailed in a most Jewish communities, but in the way, it seems like they read through every three and a half years or twice and 7 years. So part of the reason we began investigating this cuz we thought it was the life pattern of our Lord and break Heritage Car negation. We we say one of the InStep with what he does and so being understanding this reading cycle and Associated passages. I was one of the reasons we started investigating this

And there we created the New Covenant readings down there. So mostly will be in Sean today not reading cycle is by words, not the annual reading cycle which most Jewish peoples and Associates Messianic congregations to those Moses in profit readings are based on themes. This cycle is all based on workers rights are words and see what you could be in a lot of could be a link where did a lot of stuff done and then write this is why I chose this picture of the world beginning to cycle as we did it look for Shania does reading flips over and thinking about the Grand Story the grand pictures. That's why I have this picture of the world as a backdrop. We're thinking about the creation and the fall It's a it's a story that progresses and bills by my father-in-law does. He was in Wickliffe Bible knowing he was with new tribes for like 35 years and when they would go into a new tribe right to express to them God. They started before they would get the language translated into a Bible. They started by telling them stories about the history of the world and it always started where in Genesis right? Because that's the story of man. You have to understand who you are in God's grand plan for you can really understand the issue a So our words were stealing gone Evan in this in this week you Char straight up right? And Ash. I won't be dealing with these words a lot today because I wanted to stay and John 1st John 3. In fact because we have a referenced in 1st John 3 New Covenant scriptures to kai-ying want to Hebrews 1 in Jude there and one in 1st John. A picture I like to use pictures from Tissot. Do I really have have to say I don't find this picture very compelling for very accurate. I don't know what had happened to their clothes. I don't know why they look like this. I don't know why he has to have a bright red beard that looks like that. He looks like Neanderthal hanging around a bone I am not a big fan of this. I don't know the age difference between them of course, but I don't understand about this picture that strikes me as very lovely job on most of his pictures and this one. I don't know.

It's one of the references to Cayenne is in June.

Really? It's just talking about generally Wicked people. We don't get a lot of insight into what's happening with Tajin.

Those persons blasting everything. They don't understand all of the understand by Instinct. They are like your rational animal are these things are being destroyed these people traveled the way of seeing what you supposed to do because you've studied your Hebrew scriptures, you know, what the way of Colleen is either doesn't even say it. They've given themselves to their of Bill and I hope you know that are Avilla right you wanted you wanted money. It is piling all kinds of wicked people in one sentence. This is what they are but doesn't give us a great insight into what happened with Caillou in at, LOL. That's why I wanted to look out most clearly or most specifically was this one from 1st John. This is the message that you heard from the beginning of the word beginning without thinking of the cosmic beginning. You know, this is a different language anytime. They say my mind still goes back to Bear sheet, which we just passed and then we go to Colleen reference here. Think about the beginning the great plan of God right was for each individual human to recognize his sovereignty and yield to him in every area of their life recognizing his sovereignty. He's the Creator therefore. He has the right we talked about this the other day. This is the message from the beginning. Did you know the message from the beginning was that you should love one another? Is it the great beginning or the beginning of his book? Because it's also the beginning of his book that says reference. They should love one another. I don't love like cayenne and I'm thinking really Isn't that self-evident that you shouldn't love like tiny? What does that even mean? What do I want a little bit who was of the evil one and violently murdered his brother?

And what reason did he violently murdered his brother because his deeds were evil. Isn't this. self evident Do I need to be told not to love my brother by murdering him like? His deeds were evil. And the Deeds of his brother were righteous teachers of first John in case you haven't been there recently. It does appear to be meaning that the point was to teach something to these peoples. The setting has not cannot be nailed down. Some people think it was Ephesus or recent scholarship says it was likely something closer like a car gation in Syria. But the central theme definitely people who try to understand the Book of John don't agree on much the central theme does seem to be love beginning to end.

One of the didactic features, is that his argumentation spirals.

He seems to never really build but always like Montessori schooling always kind of goes back to the same scene and repeats them. There's also a great this is a great parallelism in the text to repeat words, like born of God do repeat words, like little children in our children beloved abide walk. These are the things he keeps going back to doesn't get very far. He always brings it back.

The author also the author demonstrates real dualistic mindset. Didn't bring very hebraic. He's always talking about light and dark Children of the devil children of God. He's got a really clear ways of light waves of dark. He's really to pass on a guy which can be found at qumran and other places this the two ways. They're really two great ways.

He uses the commentator even said this was one that I was reading catchwords or Associated words, and I thought of using a certain word and bringing you back in associating themes and ideas and passages with linking words. I think we have this picture again, and I was saying in Torah study, man. I was like knee-deep and commentary midrash this week on some of the things related to the story and it's like really swimming I could go on for probably an hour of where what is the nature of this conflict between cayenne and her Bell? Why are they at each other? How did it come about?

What was it that was in Colleen's heart that hurt him so badly.

Some suggested he had eaten the festival meal. I had given God as a sacrifice his leftovers.

This is what God wasn't happy with.

Some said that when he and when Colleen Isabel went out into the field, they were discussing how to divide up the world. They got into an argument some said they weren't arguing where should the temple be built in the future and they got into an argument so said they were arguing over who sells twin sister, right? Cuz each of these boys was born with a twin sister in order to free other humans in the world and Connie wanted his twin sister. Labuda this week that I was given. Pavel's twin sister's name Labuda and cayenne wanted her right keep all this stuff separate not not biblical. But because the text is so short commentators have always tried to fill in.

And as the car gation that appreciates the Traditions you want to listen to these because they teach us something about how people think about what they're reading. What else did we have? We had things like he was there was an argument about the first woman. And it's not Harbour why there's those traditions. I know that's how I feel about that one, too.

There are some that are even saying I want my only point this out because I want you to hear the first John in the different way. This is just a midrash Jewish tradition. I don't remember where this was. I think it was either either in the Zohar or Legends of the Jews that really Adam was not cayennes father. The serpent or hospital was kind of father. My wife said don't say that don't tell people that but I want you to hear it when you because when you read 1st, John and you hear that team was from the state and Seed.

You might understand that some of this tradition is being pulled in to the New Testament text. Okay, it's not saying it's real only that these two were considered like this one was considered. Wicked from the beginning

all of these are Traditions, here we go in first John. Sort of Love amazing. This love is the father has given us we should be called children of God like a cyclical words that get used. And that is what we are we are children. of God because of this the world does not know us because it did not know him. Dear friends. We are children of God. But we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever he is revealed. I supposed to talk about your shoe here. We will be like him because we will see him as he really is. anyone who has this hope In him purifies himself just as that one is pure or the one is pure. Everyone who practices sin also practices anti Torah cuz that's what the casinos anti Torah, right? Like that's that's what it is. It is against God's way.

That's the that's the Greek word here is against Torah.

And you know, that one was revealed that that one was revealed in order to take away soon in a cosmic way.

And in him, there is no sin. everyone who resides in him does not send now we know we're not talking about any individual seeing because he already addressed this at the beginning of the book of The Bookies talk to you and we have an advocate who plays on our behalf. Talking about an individual send that Kathy what he saying here, but if you abide in him you really cannot keep on seeing There Is Power to not

And I got to be honest. I'm going to come back to it at the end. This is one of the most encouraging things from the story of cayenne Isabelle. That our loving God comes the Cayenne before he murders his brother and encourages him that it can be different even in this hour. He says to him at the end I'm spoiling it, but I'm so moved by this the God himself comes to caillin and says Sin is crouching. It desires to take you. You can raise above it. You can Master it you can get over top of the sin. The one true God says this to him in this moment before. He killed his brother. How sweet how tender how wonderful a thought. God doesn't matter he didn't force him to do one thing or the other but told him you can Master it. I'm tired of all the weakness to saying I'm just a poor sinner. That's all that I am and I'm never going to change and I shouldn't have to change because she was blood covers me like God is telling God himself is telling kai-ying the first murder you can master your own stamp.

believes in him that much he knows the reality chooses otherwise

Continue the one who practices sin is of the devil in the devil has been stealing from the beginning again. My mind is going back to their sheets in beginning for this reason we have opposite we have Son of God for this reason. The Son of God was revealed in order to destroy works of the devil everyone whose father by God does not practice sin. It's an hour getting this very like. It is what you think. It's Seed of God does not sin because his seed resides at him and he's not able to send because he's been fathered by God.

But this is the children of God in the children of the devil and there are by this the children of God and the children of the devil are evident. everyone who does not practice great Deeds or righteousness is not of God. Namely the one who doesn't love his brother.

But this is the message that we heard from the beginning that we should love one another.

I called this loving like Cayenne some things from the last couple of verses what were the take with the message from the beginning was love though. I think this is what they've learned at the message from the great beginning. What's the love God like this is what he is is why the smile is so important but it should have said so regularly right before about 8 years ago in a terrible mistake. Like I told you that God wanted you to do all these things, but really what I think he wants Is Love from you.

You are to love the Lord your God like that. I know that you taught me that.

All the other things are absolutely important. The things that he's giving us to do to keep us happy healthy and safe. What is a really want from us? He wants us to love and loving neighbors loving God. So from the beginning of little brother equates to righteousness love is a righteous deed. Frank often reminds me easier. How can I love God? I don't see that's hard loving the dog. I can't see and really doesn't need anything from me. Loving neighbor that I can do it James, it's Estes. Claim to love God you don't even love you, brother.

What would you fly into love you, brother? You need to look at what you said the other way around.

Okay, once amusement rides tracked the other guy for me. It's easier the concrete.

This is the message we heard from the beginning. We should love one another not asking for stuff to equal 1 and violently murdered his brother. I'm reading it over and over I perseverating on this all week. Why is it saying that case we should love like pain. Where is the love? Anyways who would even say that maybe all he's saying is you can act like it was me say that. Why does he say we shouldn't love like tyene who killed his brother. I'm thinking everybody would know that you don't love someone by murdering them. That's not a very loving act doesn't matter what culture you're in you're going to figure that one out. right right

most culture say you don't murder your brother.

Let's fratricide.

Yes, I will be serving murder of Brothers today. DC. What is a Sony

I don't really. Okay, I will Dad gets a little like it's a little tricky nothing that I'm not sure. That's what this is addressing but it may be a consideration and I will talk about it later. What is it actually mean to love?

But I don't understand why the texture is asking me not to love like Tajin.

Okay.

I know that there is one principle in Judaism that if you know someone's going to murder you you're supposed to murder that recently killed him first until the fence so that they become a murderer. I don't know if that's exactly what's being said here.

Maybe how does Kane love?

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That is a very positive reading of cayenne. Yeah, some of the Traditions go that way right and some of the midrash says, you know, I didn't know I was going to kill him. I never seen anybody killed. How did I know that pelting him with rocks with killing the beer garden? You're the you're the one that protects humans. Like why did you lie to me? Let me do this dear God. I was just throwing rocks at him. I didn't know he would die until there is some of that because his punishment doesn't really seem like a punishment write the ground isn't going to give things up and you have to be a Wanderer.

He said man, this is too hard for me, but it doesn't really seem like a punishment. Do we think of a murderer? Okay last one and then I really have got to get my own thoughts.

Cuban people

So they don't.

It may have been an act of manslaughter it may have been. And they need Roch expresses. Trying to understand it. I'm wondering why not? Why command us not to be like Cain is not self-evident in Jonathan's like it's just drawing this real I'd like the dualistic his Works were evil. His Works were righteous. I actually the only thing I could think of.

And you know part of his name even though it probably comes from the word acquired or obtained also the same letters with the same sounding word with one letter change at the end Envy. We're jealous that I actually in the name doesn't actually have that letter on the end. It could come from either way either play. So I think that's probably what happened. You know what he loved about his brother think he loved his brother's relationship with God which is why they were practicing and maybe Sherry also, He loved the relationship his brother had his brothers offering was accepted his was not it wasn't regarded. His brothers was he wanted that relationship with Pete Pete Yorn for bath and got even told him if you do the right will it not be accepted? It will just do it the way I've asked you to come to me. There must have been some way but there must have been something also in his heart. Do the good.

How does chi in love him think what he loves about him and what he loves him, but he's showing that he's envious of his relationship. I think.

and in fact

I think from the text a brother also creates this potential for Love & Mercy. the fact that I have a brother that one of the Traditions is that when they got into their argument Caillou was on the bottom and her bail was on the top and I kind of like this one. They had been fighting and how they all got the better hand and his brother said to him Mercy merciful to me from underneath the merciful to me. He got up people say this to come to this conclusion because how can you rise up if you wasn't underneath this is what I rather like it in fact every time but the fact that I have a brother gives me a chance to be loving if I'm all out by myself. In the middle of nowhere Island all by myself, how am I loving to anybody, spreading God's love in the world knows I'm isolated myself. There's no love. A brother a fellow creative potential for me to be loving I can be more to extend and I have to do that with other people.

Also love promotes and demonstrates life, right? That's what it said at the end of the at the end of our passage love gives life. Persona 3 we know we have passed out of death into life. Children of God because we love Brothers whoever does not love lived in death.

Every time we hit the word love. I think the way we use it in the modern sense life love is love just love when it becomes very nebulous and Squishy and it begins to mean almost nothing. Whoever you want to love, however, you want to love them. Just love. And I don't think this is God's love. This is not the love that we were instructed from the beginning.

These are some of my ideas. Probably barely a person goes about loving.

I do truthful things. I speak the truth that's loving to speak the truth to someone. We also got to do it packed. So I said truth with tact.

I think we all understand this right there's some things you just don't need you don't need to say.

When you can love someone practically is not to listen or spread hurtful words about them. That is a real practical demonstration of how to love somebody.

Talking negatively. I don't even listen to it and I'm certainly not going to spread it.

Number 3 I prefer to translate this. Don't hate your neighbor in your heart from Leviticus. But love your neighbor as yourself, I prefer and translate it. Love your neighbor because he's like you. Because of that reminds me of his Humanity. That reminds me of her Humanity.

even in war we can ask you mainly towards people.

My neighbor has a struggle. My brother has a struggle.

He has things I don't even know about.

but when I look at him, I have to recognize that he

he's like me.

He has struggles. He has hurts. I don't even know about that affect why he acts the way he acts and so anything that he does that I see that really makes me mad when I respond in love. I am recognizing He is a human just like me. So I prefer that translation and then I think the greatest way to demonstrate loves Twitter brother. And this one I Think It's tricky because a lot of people receiving number for don't feel like they're being loved. When you do what is genuinely in their best interest? I've never had to cut a kid off who.

Has it ever grown up? That's in their best interest to cut them off because they're not growing.

What person has a psychosis just a second time? Who thinks there were tree and they stand in one spot and they put their feet in the ground and they so I'm a tree stand here in this spot cuz I'm free, too.

Reinforce to them if they are tree when in fact there was human it's not loving to them. It's not really in their best interest.

Now that one is a bit tricky okay time you wanted to say something.

Yeah, I like a relationship capital is there I could take things from my wife because I know she genuinely has my best interest at heart rather than somebody who I've had conflict with for 15 years and they're like to know what's wrong with you. Right, right.

I mean for a good day.

Where's your father?

Yeah.

Oh, oh, oh I see needed just in there. That's really interesting. God have noticed.

If we don't see the word jealous or zealous in there, but we do see I'm suggesting that I'm actually in his name is this word envy and you know, if that was why it who knows. I also agree that the punishment seems kind of light.

And if it's he noticed a zealous in him part of what Sherry's wow, that is a really positive view of cayenne. You know who the who knows why God does what he does, but I think he did see good there which is why he went to him personally and said you can Master it you can get above this. one last burst here

One last thought as I said earlier, this is my spoiler.

My big takeaway from this not only do I want to be careful of loving like Cayenne meaning and it to me, it means being envious of another's spiritual relationship loved what he had with God. I'll be careful of that my big takeaway from this whole section. with what God himself treats clean Telling him. Spain is there crouching there several words about lifting up? Why is your face fall in it can be lifted up or you can be lifted up. You can be lifted up above your skin. So we got falling and lifting here in the text. And then we get this word Master leshaw like Proverbs to ruler to govern. He says you can Master it and to me at this moment before he becomes a manslayer or a murderer hid the fact that he would go to him.

Tells me you can also master your weaknesses. You could also master your stands if he's telling this to caillin who in the first break tradition basically was a spawn of House of time and some of the tradition. They thought he was a spawn of acetone but yet he could still and then his ways God believes he could.

Psalm 31 uses this up-and-down blessed is the one and it some commentators bring this into our kai-ying story blessed is the one who are listed no forgiving lifted over his transgression. That's how certain exegete steak this first not that lifted up above his he defeated. He defeated his fans. Basically. He mastered his sins. Some will say this verse is a reference to Cayenne blessed is the one how happy is the one who gets up over his transgressions who gets up over his sin to master it. I've got told Colleen that he could do. Well, that's just a Hebrew pointing out. We've got this word Nassau being lifted up who? How happy is the man is the one lifted over sin who defeats his sin who's raised up over his skin.

You're doing what it's doing. Should you hold your head up high again? They're trying to capture this idea of being lifted his head high if you don't do what's good thing is there it wants you said wants you but you can Master it you can rule. I love the way this is captured here. You can rule over it all men all men.

I'll break.

Father and head. I don't know the author of First John when he was intending to say how we shouldn't love like kaiini. Maybe it's as simple as saying don't act like I ain't

good deeds are evil. I was envious of His brother his brothers offering with his brothers even relationship with you.

But I thank you for the words in the specificity of the words.

Because it helps me to look back you more closely at the story. Read many times to see unique things in the text. Thank you, dear God for this turn of a phrase.

I Want to Love Like You shua

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He says Don't Love Like Caillou.

wonderful example How your son love people?

Bending down to connect with all kinds of hurting people's.

Physically hurting spiritually hurting all kinds of peoples. Even his brothers have a feeling he loves his brother as well. even when they were so

unsure of him at various times, but he loves them. Well, I pray father for those in this room as we go about our weeks.

learning to love people in truth Learning to do what's best for them weighing what is in the very best interest of my fellow?

also recognizing

This great encouragement that we can be raised up over our sin. We can Master our sin. Thank you for your word. Which teaches us how many lessons? People been digging into your words for thousands of years. I thank you for their their insight and their ideas as wacky as some of them might be as off the wall as some of them might be they were written down for us so that we might learn something from them. Thank you, dear God.

Pray for my brothers and sisters here. this week They would love their actual brother and their their neighbors and their fellows love them. Well.