Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
When the Children of Israel arrived near the Promised Land, Moses reproved the people in the long discourse called: Deuteronomy. Moses signs off his reiteration of Torah with the following words:
When the Children of Israel arrived near the Promised Land, Moses reproved the people in the long discourse called: Deuteronomy. Moses signs off his reiteration of Torah with the following words:
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: Deuteronomy 30:19
Did Moses really put ‘life and death’ before the people, or was he simply God’s tool in the doing? How did God put life and death before the people? By words; words spoken through Moses His emissary. Yeshua also said of the words He spoke to the people from His Father: the Words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit and they are Life’; . that the Words He spoke to the people from the father as ‘word of life’.
How do we ‘choose life’? How do ‘love’ the ‘fruit’ of God’s ‘ tongue’? How does God’s tongue bring us ‘life and death’? Moses implied that the life or death would incur as per our obedience to these words that he spoke from God. The Words of God can only bring us life when mixed with obedience to the Commandments. Let us not deceive ourselves with the idea that the ‘believe’ in the promise of eternal life through belief in the Son, is a completely ethereal belief, empty of obedience. James warned us that faith in the Son without works is dead, and what are the works of our belief? Obedience to the commandments of the One we believe in. Our author believed that; here what he wrote in another place: For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. Proverbs 6:23-24. The flatteries of this evil woman lead us to death. God’s commandment keep us from it.
God has spoken from Mt Horeb. Moses has spoken in the plains of Jordan. Yeshua also came, spoke and sealed God’s contract with us with His blood. Yeshua explained the assignment and he said only God knew the deadline to turn it in. The next time He comes, we will be graded and the report cards will be given to God.
We are without excuse now. Let us therefore known and today ‘eat’ the Words that have been entrusted to us so our children enjoy their fruits in the generations to come.
Did Moses really put ‘life and death’ before the people, or was he simply God’s tool in the doing? How did God put life and death before the people? By words; words spoken through Moses His emissary. Yeshua also said of the words He spoke to the people from His Father: the Words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit and they are Life’; . that the Words He spoke to the people from the father as ‘word of life’.
How do we ‘choose life’? How do ‘love’ the ‘fruit’ of God’s ‘ tongue’? How does God’s tongue bring us ‘life and death’? Moses implied that the life or death would incur as per our obedience to these words that he spoke from God. The Words of God can only bring us life when mixed with obedience to the Commandments. Let us not deceive ourselves with the idea that the ‘believe’ in the promise of eternal life through belief in the Son, is a completely ethereal belief, empty of obedience. James warned us that faith in the Son without works is dead, and what are the works of our belief? Obedience to the commandments of the One we believe in. Our author believed that; here what he wrote in another place: For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. Proverbs 6:23-24. The flatteries of this evil woman lead us to death. God’s commandment keep us from it.
God has spoken from Mt Horeb. Moses has spoken in the plains of Jordan. Yeshua also came, spoke and sealed God’s contract with us with His blood. Yeshua explained the assignment and he said only God knew the deadline to turn it in. The next time He comes, we will be graded and the report cards will be given to God.
We are without excuse now. Let us therefore known and today ‘eat’ the Words that have been entrusted to us so our children enjoy their fruits in the generations to come.
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