Proverbs 14:23
In all labour there is profit:
But the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
Therein lies one of the big differences between the Greek culture that influences our society and the Hebraic mind that permeates the Jewish Scriptures. It is easy to love and praise God, to proclaim His Name and truth, to be sorry and repentant, to confess to new life and rebirth, all with the talk of the lips. People will listen to an emotional speech and confession and cry wondering how one could express such truths and not be real. Words will lure them into false doctrines and financial scams and in the end they will wonder how they could have been so dumb.
Words are cheap! Words fool us for action. Words rob us from the reality of action.
Greek grammar, like ours, revolves around the noun of the sentence. We talk about things. Hebrew grammar revolves around the verb: the action. We actually know very little about what the Hebrew Bible heroes looked like, but we know what they did. We know that because that’s what matters.
In all labour there is profit:
But the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
Therein lies one of the big differences between the Greek culture that influences our society and the Hebraic mind that permeates the Jewish Scriptures. It is easy to love and praise God, to proclaim His Name and truth, to be sorry and repentant, to confess to new life and rebirth, all with the talk of the lips. People will listen to an emotional speech and confession and cry wondering how one could express such truths and not be real. Words will lure them into false doctrines and financial scams and in the end they will wonder how they could have been so dumb.
Words are cheap! Words fool us for action. Words rob us from the reality of action.
Greek grammar, like ours, revolves around the noun of the sentence. We talk about things. Hebrew grammar revolves around the verb: the action. We actually know very little about what the Hebrew Bible heroes looked like, but we know what they did. We know that because that’s what matters.
Who cares what they looked like?
I told one of my students yesterday, “you can express repentance all you want, but until you have been faced with the same type of situation and made a different choice, it’s all just words”. The Hebrew mind believes that we praise and love God by our actions and decisions; that we proclaim His Name and Truth by our daily walk and attitudes; that we confess to new life and rebirth by showing ‘fruits meet for repentance’. Maybe this is why there was no revival in Jerusalem until Yeshua actually resurrected from the dead. Until them, as far as they were concerned, it was just words and tricks. But the resurrection was the action that sealed Yeshua’s words into Truth and verity, and that is when there was a revival in Jerusalem which eventually got flooded with disciples.
Let us not fool others, and especially not ourselves into ‘faith’ because of words easily and quickly spoken.
I told one of my students yesterday, “you can express repentance all you want, but until you have been faced with the same type of situation and made a different choice, it’s all just words”. The Hebrew mind believes that we praise and love God by our actions and decisions; that we proclaim His Name and Truth by our daily walk and attitudes; that we confess to new life and rebirth by showing ‘fruits meet for repentance’. Maybe this is why there was no revival in Jerusalem until Yeshua actually resurrected from the dead. Until them, as far as they were concerned, it was just words and tricks. But the resurrection was the action that sealed Yeshua’s words into Truth and verity, and that is when there was a revival in Jerusalem which eventually got flooded with disciples.
Let us not fool others, and especially not ourselves into ‘faith’ because of words easily and quickly spoken.
The ‘proof’, is in the proverbial ‘pudding’:
a life lived by His commandments:
And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, that, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
2 John 1:6
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