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What does it mean to be a Jew or Christian?
Sometimes as we live one may wonder what we are all about.
What does it mean to be a Jew or Christian?
What makes us really different?
Why should we pursue these things and put forth the effort it takes to live a life of obedience and humbleness?
If we summarize most of the Holy days they basically can be expressed as “ They tried to kill us.
They failed.
Let us eat.”
So from all appearances we are a people of survivors.
Is that it though?
Are we simply a people that are known for escaping tragedies or is their anything else?
There is absolutely more to being a Jew and a Christian.
That is what we will review today.
To begin with we will read in B’resheet to set this up here we see Adonai speaking with Abram.
Abram is trying to establish his descendant.
Adonai tells him Eli’ezer will not be his descendant but someone from his own body.
Then in verse 5 we read this:
5 Then he brought him outside and said, “Look up at the sky, and count the stars—if you can count them!
Your descendants will be that many!”
To begin with we will read in B’resheet to set this up here we see
David H. Stern, Complete Jewish Bible: An English Version of the Tanakh (Old Testament) and B’rit Hadashah (New Testament), 1st ed.
(Clarksville, MD: Jewish New Testament Publications, 1998), .
This is you, this is who you are.
You are an answer to a promise made by the creator of the universe to one whom he loved dearly.
When Adonai made this promise to Abram he was thinking of you.
You are one of the stars in the sky that night many thousands of years ago as Adonai and Abram sat outside the tent and looked in to the sky.
Abram was promised he would be made into a great nation.
We are that nation.
We are the children of promise.
Sha’ul affirms this in
28 And we, brothers, as Yitsḥaq was, are children of promise.
So consider this for a moment listen to these words and contemplate them in your heart.
You are part of Adonai’s promise to Abram.
Baruch Hashem it is enough that we are a promise but his has also made us the bringers of light.
So what is this light?
It is good to say and beautiful to read but what does it mean?
How are we the bringers of light.
We bring light in several ways.
The light of hope is carried by us the hope of justice to all peoples.
We have the prophecy of Yesha’yahu in
my chosen one, in whom I take pleasure.
I have put my Spirit on him;
he will bring justice to the Goyim.
2 He will not cry or shout;
no one will hear his voice in the streets.
3 He will not snap off a broken reed
or snuff out a smoldering wick.
He will bring forth justice according to truth;
4 he will not weaken or be crushed
until he has established justice on the earth,
and the coastlands wait for his Torah.”
David H. Stern, Complete Jewish Bible: An English Version of the Tanakh (Old Testament) and B’rit Hadashah (New Testament), 1st ed.
(Clarksville, MD: Jewish New Testament Publications, 1998), Is 42.
42 1 “Here is my servant, whom I support,
my chosen one, in whom I take pleasure.
I have put my Spirit on him;
he will bring justice to the Goyim.
2 He will not cry or shout;
no one will hear his voice in the streets.
3 He will not snap off a broken reed
or snuff out a smoldering wick.
He will bring forth justice according to truth;
4 he will not weaken or be crushed
until he has established justice on the earth,
and the coastlands wait for his Torah.”
We bring the hope of justice with us.
We bring a message that our God is just and righteousness is rewarded by him.
This prophecy is more than hope because it actually has come true.
We read it in
17 This was to fulfill what had been spoken through Yesha‘yahu the prophet,
18 “Here is my servant, whom I have chosen,
my beloved, with whom I am well pleased;
I will put my Spirit on him,
and he will announce justice to the Gentiles.
19 He will not fight or shout,
no one will hear his voice in the streets;
20 he will not snap off a broken reed
or snuff out a smoldering wick
until he has brought justice through to victory.
21 In him the Gentiles will put their hope.”
In Isaiah we can continue to read how this light or hope is not just limited to justice.
This light opens the eyes of the blind.
In other words this light is the cure to despair.
5 Thus says God, ADONAI,
who created the heavens and spread them out,
who stretched out the earth and all that grows from it,
who gives breath to the people on it
and spirit to those who walk on it:
6 “I, ADONAI, called you righteously,
I took hold of you by the hand,
I shaped you and made you a covenant for the people,
to be a light for the Goyim,
7 so that you can open blind eyes,
free the prisoners from confinement,
those living in darkness from the dungeon.
8 I am ADONAI; that is my name.
I yield my glory to no one else,
nor my praise to any idol.
9 See how the former predictions come true;
and now new things do I declare—
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