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Three Things That Remain
Vayechi = he lived
In this Torah portion we read about the end of Jacob’s life and the end of Joseph’s life.
It is very interesting that we get to see what really matters to a person at the end of their lives.
One of the main things that matter most at the end of our lives is family.
When all else passes away our family will still be there.
That is why it is so important to be reconciled one to another.
Joseph has had a rocky relationship with his family all through his life .
There is hatred, mistrust, betrayal, abuse, favoritism, alliances, lying, this is one big dysfunctional family.
But at the end of their lives his brothers want to be be reconciled.
And at the end of his life we see a key to restoration:
We can see the three things that remain in operation in Joseph’s life.
The other three things that I want to point out from the text is faith, hope, and love.
We see these three things also mentioned in 1 Corinthians 13:13.
Faith Hope & Love have become trendy wall decoration available at Target, Home Goods, Ross and Marshalls
But what is it about those three things that makes them so important?
In the Messianic Congregation of Corinth we see many of the same symptoms of a big dysfunctional family that we saw in the Joseph story of Genesis 50.
Pride, disunity & divisions, cheating, boasting, worldliness, perversion, lawsuits - and this in a Messianic Synagogue!
Remember that Messianic Synagogue in Corinth is mentioned in the book of Acts Chapter 18
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The Jewish leaders resist Paul, so he turns the Gentiles, but not just any Gentiles, he turns to the G-d Fearers.
Rabbi Paul stays in Corinth for a year and half and leads many Jews and non-Jews to faith in Yeshua.
But the Jewish leaders resist him and take him to court.
The Messianic Synagogue had Jews and non-Jewish Believers worshiping together, but they were a very dysfunctional family.
Rabbi Paul writes a letter of rebuke to them to bring correction to them and his conclusion of the matter is that above all they needed three things.
Faith, hope, and love.
He says that when everything else passes away, three things will remain.
Faith, Hope, and Love.
And he says the greatest of these is love.
As I was preparing this message I was reminded of the three things that we have above our doors at CBM.
According to Jewish tradition, there are three things on which the world stands.
Torah, Avodah, and G’milut Hasadem (Chesed)
I believe that there is a correlation between these things and faith, hope, and love.
Torah and faith have a connection.
You can not divorce the two.
Example of the Homeless person - staying in addiction for 7 years.
Faith and the Word of G-d have to go together.
It is not enough just to faith, you must have faith that is based on the Word of G-d.
James chapter 1 tells us that we need to be more than just hearers of the word of G-d, we need to be doers of the Word of G-d.
The Torah is the foundation - but we need to full counsel of G-d from Genesis to Revelation.
The same G-d that wrote with His finger on the stone “Thou shall not commit adultery” also wrote with His finger in the sand to protect the woman who was caught in adultery.
There is power in the word of G-d.
Yeshua upholds the entire universe by the power of His word (Hebrews 1)
All things were created through Him and for Him.
He is the image of the invisible G-d and He existed before all things and He holds all things together (Colossians 1:15-17).
There is power in the Word of Yeshua.
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The next connection that would like to make is between hope and avodah.
Avodah is translated as divine service, such as prayer and worship.
Because we have hope we can worship G-d, because we have hope we can pray and praise.
What is the difference between faith and hope.
Faith looks back to what G-d has said and what He has done in the past.
Hope believes that He will do it again in the future.
Because G-d did it back there we believe that He will also do it up there.
The last connection I would like to make is between love and acts of loving kindness (G’milut Chasedim)
Because we love G-d we will love others.
I would encourage all of us to have these things remain in our lives.
Faith that is anchored in Scriptures
Hope that manifests in prayer in praise
Love that expresses itself in acts of loving kindness to others.
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