"Obedience leads to true freedom. . . ." captures the essence of this Old Testament passage.

Leviticus 26:1-13 Basic Requirements, Conditions, and Results of Obedience

Day 28. Celebrating (not sure that’s the right word) 4 weeks of self-isolation, the first two of which were mandatory self-quarantine. Today I had the privilege of teaching the first day of a three-day on-line class to Human Resources personnel in Canada and the U.S. So, my socializing was via Zoom. It was a welcomed relief. My study in Leviticus continues even if later in the day. The stress of family and friends beyond our immediate household continues due to the isolation, the loss of work, etc. But God is still there and He upholds us. Thanks for joining me today and read on.

I do not often quote leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but I thought this quote of James E. Faust, a famous Mormon religious leader, lawyer, and politician, well reflected the contents of our passage today:

"Obedience leads to true freedom. The more we obey revealed truth,

the more we become liberated."

The Passage

26 ‘You shall not make for yourselves ^[a]idols, nor shall you set up for yourselves an image or a sacred pillar, nor shall you place a figured stone in your land to bow down ^[b]to it; for I am the Lord your God. ² You shall keep My sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary; I am the Lord. ³ If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out, ⁴ then I shall give you rains in their season, so that the land will yield its produce and the trees of the field will bear their fruit. ⁵ Indeed, your threshing will last for you until grape gathering, and grape gathering will last until sowing time. You will thus eat your ^[c]food to the full and live securely in your land. ⁶ I shall also grant peace in the land, so that you may lie down with no one making you tremble. I shall also eliminate harmful beasts from the land, and no sword will pass through your land. ⁷ But you will chase your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword; ⁸ five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword. ⁹ So I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will confirm My covenant with you. ¹⁰ You will eat the old supply and clear out the old because of the new. ¹¹ Moreover, I will make My ^[d]dwelling among you, and My soul will not ^[e]reject you. ¹² I will also walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people. ¹³ I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would not be their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.

Footnotes:

1. Leviticus 26:1 Or graven images
2. Leviticus 26:1 Lit over
3. Leviticus 26:5 Lit bread
4. Leviticus 26:11 Or tabernacle
5. Leviticus 26:11 Lit abhor

Thoughts on the Passage

David Guzik says that as a literary form, “this chapter is similar to ancient treaties between a king and his people; this is God the King, making a covenant with His people, Israel.

Idols or inanimate objects (pillars, stone, etc.) are out. Robert Jamieson says this about these pillars of stone:

[A pillar of stone] is, an obelisk, inscribed with hieroglyphical and superstitious characters; the former denoting the common and smaller pillars of the Syrians or Canaanites; the latter, pointing to the large and elaborate obelisks which the Egyptians worshipped as guardian divinities, or used as stones of adoration to stimulate religious worship. The Israelites were [urged and warned] to beware of them.

You don’t bow down to anything. You keep the Sabbath and reverence the Sanctuary of God. You walk in His statutes and keep His commandments.  That’s the input.

Here’s the outputs: In verse 4, God promises enough rain to yield corps and fruits. And these will be so good that your whole year will be taken up with the associated activities (verse 5). He also promises that we will have sufficient food and live securely in our land.

In verse 6, God promises peace – the kind of peace that allows us to sleep at night. [Unlike the sleep people had during WWI and WWII – being awakened by sirens when the bombing was about to start.] But not only peace from human enemies, but also peace from wild beasts.

In fact, God says (in verses 7 and 8) that the Israelites, His people, will be able to chase our enemies and conquer them, even if they outnumber us twenty to one, or 100 to one.

But better still, God says (verse 9), He will turn towards the Israelites and make them fruitful with offspring and confirm His covenant with them.

Verse 10 is an interesting verse which states that the Israelites will “eat the old supply and clear it out” because He will keep giving them a new supply. Jamieson puts it another way when he says the Israelites will have so much grain that they won’t be able to exhaust it before the next year’s crop is ready to store – so they’ll have to throw some out. That’s bountiful supply.

And then it gets better in verse 11. God will dwell among them and I love, His “soul will reject” them. Wow. Can you imagine that kind of assurance? That kind of promise? A promise that He will walk with them and be their God and they His people. What more could anyone with any amount of smarts would want?

And why would He do all this if they keep His commandments? Simple: Because He is the Lord their God Who brought them out of slavery, freed them, and broke their chains so they would never be slaves again, but instead they could walk “erect” like free men. You have to love that kind of God. Guzik says this about the verse:

This final blessing speaks of freedom and dignity. This passage almost feels like the New Testament, God proclaims the liberty of His people and then invites them to walk in it.

Chuck Smith points out the things that God promised the Israelites here are the very things men are looking for today – security and peace and growth. Jesus says we can have all these things but not if we seek them, but only if we seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness (Matthew 6:33).

Matthew Henry points out that in His promises, God covers all of man’s basic needs in one or another. This is amazing. God knows the man He has created and knows our needs. And His promises take care of all we need. From physical protection, to food, to family growth, and to respect or dignity.

And amazingly, even though this chapter is in the Old Testament, the same promises have been applied to God’s children today – through His Son, Jesus Christ.  What a passage this is.  Do the five things God wants us to do, and God will the myriad of things He promises. In business we would call this a “no-brainer”.  But yet so many miss out of the deal of eternity.

So just remember as you wait out this Covid-19 storm, as a Child of His, you are well taken care of. Throw the worry away. Throw the fear away. Today I saw this image on social media and I think it fits well here.

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Fear survives at the expense of Faith in God. Increase your Faith in God as your Provider of all your needs and reclaim your lost peace that your fear has stolen. 

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Why Achieving Trump’s “Ultimate Deal” Remains Elusive

Trump and the Jews

Author: David Rubin

Publisher: Shiloh Israel Press, USA, 2018

Full disclosure: I am a big supporter of President Trump and I have high regard for Israel and its people. Nevertheless, as much hope as this book attempts to convey, and it does so with excellence, it also, perhaps unwittingly, paints the canvas depicting why achieving the President’s “ultimate deal” is such a grueling and feasibly impossible task.

David Rubin is a former mayor in Israel and founder of Shiloh Israel Children’s Fund. He was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He has written several other books focusing on Israel and her challenges – all well-received by those who are interested in what is going on with God’s chosen people.  This current book brings the battlefield right to our front door as it relates what is going on in the Middle East to what is happening in Washington.

Rubin provides a historical background to Jews in America and how former leaders from Washington up the present President have regarded the Jews. That’s a fascinating read in itself. He shares how the relationship went from a strong one to a difficult one and what Presidents caused it to go south. There’s a chapter reserved for the Obama years alone clearly showing how the 44^thAmerican President was not just neutral towards Israel but became the first one to be blatantly pro-Islamic and Palestinian in his policies, actions, and comments. The write-up on Obama’s “shoe for Israel” is well worth the price of the book.

The book goes on to describe Trump (one of its two main characters) in some pretty detailed accounts about his life prior to becoming a Presidential candidate and then the incredible campaign that he ran. That’s followed by a chapter on the other key categorical ‘character’ of the book – the ‘American Jews’ – telling us who they really were and are. The history is fascinating. What comes out time and time again is the fact that there is no doubt that “American Jews (as immigrants). . . totally threw themselves into American life and culture.” While at the same time, they did not try to change it – instead they changed themselves. That is a contrast we often forget when considering other people groups. Throughout the book, solid statistics are presented on many of Rubin’s arguments from reliable sources.

But not all America’s Jews are fans of President Trump. Rubin explains which ones are not and why. He explains the challenges that go along with that for conservatives and Republicans like Trump.

With the background of what’s going on in America as it relates to Judaism, Rubin then steers his readers to the Middle East. He starts with a chapter on the “Far Left And Far Right” describing their two poles of intolerance. As with the rest of his book, this chapter too is filled with great examples as well as photographs and illustrations. Unfortunately, the polarization seems to be getting worse.

The author then takes us to the “land” itself – Israel and her search for peace. He takes us back to 63 AD (although he calls it CE for ‘Current Era’) and explains the original source of the term “Palestinian”.  This is done exceptionally well.  I’m sure you’ll be as surprised as I was. In this chapter, he also touches on the links between Arab leaders and Hitler, and their requests of the latter.

From there, we are ushered into the world of modern leaders of the opposing sides – Israeli, and Arab or Palestinian, as well as the role the current American administration must play.  There’s a chapter reserved for Iran and how it views the American-Israeli relationship entitled “Big and Little Satans”.  In it, he also delves into the Iranian nuclear deal and why Trump had to cancel it.

To the ordinary reader who watched most of this unfold on television news over the decades, this book was not only a reminder of what they may have experienced, but it also filled in all the gaps in my mind as to why certain things happened. It’s a must-read for those who want to understand what has occurred to date and what may be in store.

Rubin’s last chapter contains “Eleven Suggestions For Trump (From the Jews)”.  I think Trump would do well to follow as many as possible.  And as far as the “ultimate deal” is concerned, Rubin’s book, at least for this reader, does much to convince me that the real Dealmaker won’t be anyone less than the very God that had called Israel “His people” thousands of years ago.

Highly recommended.

·     Ken B. Godevenos, President, Accord Resolutions Services Inc., Toronto, Ontario, January 22, 2019, www.accordconsulting.com

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God's Response To Your Prayers For Others

Finding Favor In God’s Sight 

Exodus 33:12-16: Then Moses said to the Lord, “See, Thou dost say to me, ‘Bring up this people!’ But Thou Thyself hast not let me know whom Thou wilt send with me. Moreover, Thou hast said, ‘I have known you by name, and you have also found favor in My sight.’ Now therefore, I pray Thee, if I have found favor in Thy sight, let me know Thy ways, that I may know Thee, so that I may find favor in Thy sight. Consider too, that this nation is Thy people.” And He said, “My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest.” Then he said to Him, “If Thy presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here. For how then can it be known that I have found favor in Thy sight, I and Thy people? Is it not by Thy going with us, so that we, I and Thy people, may be distinguished from all the other people who are upon the face of the earth?”

We long to find favor in the sight of someone (a person we are devoted to) or we hope that circumstances will favor us (for a goal we are chasing). Having favor is a good thing. Some work to be the favorite son/daughter. Some work toward having the teacher’s favor or the the boss’s.  But throughout history, a few good men and women have chosen to desire the favor of God. And they weren’t losers. Contrary to what some people think, those with high IQs are just as likely to seek God’s favor as the rest of us.  Moses was one of those people.

In the preceding segment of our discussion, we learned that Moses was comfortable enough with God as he had the privilege of speaking with the Almighty ‘face to face’ figuratively speaking, as one friend speaks to another. With that kind of relationship that God and he had established, Moses was not afraid to challenge God lovingly, and he did, for good purpose – the saving of his people, the Israelites.

So Moses asks God to tell him who God intends to send with Moses and the people as he takes them to the promised land. “You want me to do this, God, but you won’t tell me who you are going to send with me, since you’re not coming.”  Wow.

And if that’s not enough, he continues: “God, You said You have known me by name; and that I found favor in Your sight. But if that’s the case, why are You not letting me know Your ways?” I think Moses was appealing to the fact that they had a good relationship, that they had spoken to each other as friends. And friends share their plans.

It is important to note here that because Moses has found favor in God’s sight, he expects to know the ways of God (to know what God was thinking or planning). But seeking that is not about having extra knowledge himself through which he could succeed in his own endeavors, but rather as the text says, he wants to know God’s ways in order that he may “know” God. Is that the end purpose for knowing God’s ways? Not really. Moses says, “I want to know Your ways so that I may know You and that will bring me right back to where I really want to be, in a place where I have found favor in Your sight.” You see, it is a circular process. We find favor in God through obedience; we learn His ways as He shares them with us; and in so doing we know Him better; and this in turn, gives us more favor with, or keeps us in the favor of, God. I think that any child of the Creator who follows that process sincerely and passionately, would be sending to God a sweet aroma of praise and adoration – music to His ears from His beloved child.

And then Moses keeps on going. “And look God, consider this. This is not just about You and me. This nation of the Israelites that I represent is your nation, your people. What about them?” Many of us who approach God find it so easy to ask things of Him on our own behalf. “God, I really need You to come through for me here. My little girl is hurting right now and I can’t bear it, Lord. I need this job Lord for my family. And so on.” We’re pretty good at doing that, even if it is with honorable requests as Moses had just asked of God – to know Your ways, in order to know You.

But what about entreating the Almighty strongly on behalf of many others? The extended family? The whole department at work? The entire class at school? The whole team you play with, including the opposing side? The body of believers you worship with? That’s a lot harder, isn’t it? And yet, I believe that God appreciates our sincere interest in others.

And how does God respond to Moses? Moses is concerned about his people and God’s people, and God responds to say His presence “shall go with you (singular) and I will give you (singular) rest.” It’s nice that Moses cares about the people, but God only promises to be with him and to give him peace and rest. What does that say to us? What does that say to us when we’re praying for the salvation of others? What does it say to us who may be praying for something with respect to our children – their family, their jobs, their health?

I think the message is clear: keep on praying for others and interceding on their behalf; that says a lot about us to God and He hears it; but what He promises in return is His presence with us and His peace and rest for us. Like the old Greyhound Bus Lines slogan, “Leave the Driving to Us”, we are to leave “the saving” or the “helping” to Him. And as far as whatever He does with respect to others, we can be certain of one thing that will help us with respect to His decisions – He will be present with us and give us rest and peace. I believe understanding that process of how we are to pray and react to God’s decisions on behalf of others is paramount to living a victorious Christian life.

But somehow Moses wasn’t there yet for he continues to push God. Instead of saying “thank you, God”, he comes back at the Almighty once more with the plural, avoiding the singular. “If Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here.” Still more evidence to God that Moses really cares about his people and he’s not in it just for himself.  If God wasn’t to lead the people, then He should not make them go forward for without Him they would perish.

God does not interrupt him. And Moses goes on with his last argument. And in so doing, appeals to God this time on the ‘singular’ level of the conversation on which He was focusing and promising.  “God, how will others know that I have found favor in Your sight,” but then adds the plural aspect because to him it is also about the people, “I and Your people?”  This was a rhetorical question to God; Moses already knew the answer and he tells God.  “Why, the only way for people to know that is for You to go with us.”

Our testimony is based not on what we do, but on God being seen by others to “go with us”. Moses says, “God, that’s what distinguishes us from all the other people on earth.” Wow.  Can’t wait to see how God responds to that.

But get the picture here. Is God with you today? Are you living a life of distinction from others by having God readily event in your life by how you talk and act and work? I pray that each of us reconsider these questions as we study this remarkable relationship between God and his friend, Moses.

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You Need "Sacred Space"

You Need “Sacred Space”

 If you are an observer of global, North American, national, state/provincial, and/or local news, you would likely agree with my own conclusion that we live in a very restless society. But go deeper than that – get down to our neighborhoods, our churches, our families, our marriages, and even just our own lives, and most of us would say, “We too are very much active participants in that agitated state in which the world and most everyone in it are struggling, doing our best just to survive.”

That is the setting for John D. Duncan’s book, Sacred Space: The Art of Sacred Silence, Sacred Speech, and The Sacred Ear in the Echo of the Still Small Voice of God, published by Austin Brothers Publishing, Fort Worth, Texas, 2014. It’s a setting that Duncan considers dangerous to our physical, social, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Writing from personal experience, he argues we need to slow down and renew our damaged souls.

Sacred Space describes one man’s formula for doing just that in three most dangerous steps. Dangerous because each one is capable of changing a person, changing how one faces life each day, and changing one’s impact on everything and everyone they interact with. Duncan first makes the case, backed solidly by scripture, of the need for moving out of noise into quietness through ‘sacred silence’. Only when we have mastered our ability to get there, does he push us on to ‘sacred speech’ whereby in communion with God we can turn our personal chaos into peace. And finally, Duncan shows us how to use what he calls our ‘sacred ear’ to both hear and obey God.

The author shares his personal experience finding himself, in essence, being told he needed to move on from a pastoral calling he loved. He shares how he struggled to know when it was the right time for him to make a choice about what came next. And he agonized wondering why God was allowing this to happen to him. What had he done wrong? And then it hit him like a train coming down a track.  He writes, “I had not taken time to create the sacred space in my mid-life that I did in my younger life both as a pastor and a human being.” Life goes amuck all too often because we have not sat alone in a quiet room, being silent, speaking to God, and hearing God.

In the book, Duncan describes each of the three steps of the process with great details and examples. He then asks us if we’re ready to practice each one. And not just as a passing moment of our day, but as a conscious ‘priority’.  I found myself saying ‘yes’ audibly. There was no argument that would come to mind for any other response.

While teaching us about the second step of his three-part formula, he points out that “stress, the mind, and the tongue can combine to form a lethal combination: chaos.”  Then he shows us how ‘sacred speech’ “like one coin with two sides includes, first, God’s Word speaking to you and second, you speaking to God.” He explains how every book of the Bible has it’s unique role to play as ‘sacred speech’ from God to help us “experience renewal, restoration, even salvation and the glory of a new day with a new outlook . . .” Duncan goes on to teach his readers how to elevate ‘sacred speech’ as prayer, which he says, quoting Frank W. Moyle, in The Book of Uncommon Prayer, is “the elevation of the mind to God.” And there are other appealing tidbits throughout the book like, “Stop the worry is the first step in prayer.”

Finally, in the portion of the book dealing with the ‘sacred ear’ he describes how it enables us to experience a “feast of joy thrusting us into life with God’s peace.” And in the process of doing so, he points out how many of us really miss the implication of Luke 18:11 for us today. Jesus says the “Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself . . .” Duncan points out how so many of us miss this. Too many of us use our imagination wrongly, he contends, praying with ourselves instead of with God or turning our mirrors inward to reflect upon ourselves instead of outward to reflect His image. The art of the ‘sacred ear’ allows us to turn that situation around, reflecting on Christ, “and listening with our ears and heart for what God has for us in that moment or in future days.” He shows us how the ‘sacred ear’ helps us keep balance in our lives during our falls and rises, learning the necessary wisdom at the feet of God.

I personally enjoyed his description of what happens to terrain after a volcanic eruption covers it with its spewed lava and dust. There is in due time a rebirth after the ashes. So it is, says Duncan, with the ‘sacred ear’ that transforms us renewed and prepared for greater future service for Christ and to people.

Near the end of the book, Duncan quotes from William Law’s book entitled A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life in which Law warns us, “then how poorly must they perform their devotions, who are always in a hurry; who begin them in haste and hardly allow themselves to repeat their very form with any gravity or attention!” This is indeed a dangerous book, just as we were warned in its forward, for time and again each one of us can find our own reflection among many of its pages.

I recommend it to anyone who knows there’s something wrong with life as he/she is living it and believes there’s something more. Duncan has found what that is and in his book he shares it clearly and directly, pulling no punches.

    -- Ken B. Godevenos, http://www.accordconsulting.com , Toronto, 15/04/07

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When God Acts, Many Try to Duplicate It, or Credit It to Science Exodus 7:8-13

Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, “When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘Work a miracle’; then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a serpent.’”  So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and thus they did just as the Lord had commanded; and Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent.  Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers, and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same with their secrets arts.  For each one threw down his staff and they turned into serpents.  But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.  Yet Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had said.

As I study this passage in Exodus, I learn that God knows in advance what is going to happen.  And He wants to prepare us for it one way or another.  In this case, God tells Moses exactly what Pharaoh will do or ask for, that is – “Work a miracle”.  And then God instructs Moses how to respond.  Have you had that experience?  I suggest to you that it comes when we walk close to God on an on-going basis.  It comes when He has an opportunity to whisper His direction to us in our hearts or our minds, both of which He should control.

Next I note Moses and Aaron, having received their ‘final and detailed instructions’ do not hesitate, but right away, the Scriptures say, “came to Pharaoh” and “did just as the Lord had commanded”.  Unless God’s instructions clearly convey a timetable in the future, our assignment, should we choose to accept it, is to carry it out right away.  [As I write this today, I recognized that I had as one of my assignments to call a brother who is in palliative care waiting to be called home to glory.  I made the decision that I could call him later and I commenced my devotions in the study of Exodus that I share with you.  I realized though that what lessons God gives me and I write down, must not only be for others, but also for me.  So, I interrupted my study right here and I went to call my friend and co-laborer, Allen H.  At his bedside now 24/7, his wife answered the phone as he slept.  We were able to encourage her and assure her of our prayers.  She needed that right there and then and was much appreciative.  ‘Later’ would likely not have been as beneficial to her need.]  And it is for that reason that we must carry out God’s directions to us in a timely manner.

The third thing I note about this passage is that the miracle here that took place was from God; Aaron and Moses were just carrying it out.  They followed His instructions.  We may not be in the practice of delivering physical miracles for God, but many of us are involved in carrying out some aspect of ministry whether it be in preaching, teaching, mediating, leading, etc.  We need to be careful to realize that what gets done is not because of us, but because He wills it to be.  He could easily render us ‘of no avail’.  But as long as we simply want to be His vessel and be used by Him for His glory, we will be able to see the results He allows us to have a part in.

And what does the world do?  Pharaoh immediately tries to demonstrate that what Moses and Aaron were doing were not real miracles by God but something that could be attributed to sorcery, magic, or secret arts, or in essence today, scientific explanation.  Acting much like the world does today, Pharaoh calls in his so-called sorcerers, magicians, and other ‘scientists’ of the day to duplicate what God had done in order to explain it away, giving him cause to ignore the demands of the Almighty.  You see, if we can attribute all of what is going on in our lives to chance, or to science, we do not have to address the need to have a personal relationship with God and to love Him, serve Him, and obey Him.

And how well do these learned men (and women) today do?  Well, they get to a certain point simply because God does often work within the laws of nature He Himself has established.  In this case here with Moses and Aaron, they too threw down their staffs and they turned into serpents.  Was God playing with them?  I think so but who knows. Or perhaps He wanted to show them that He could take over their own schemes as well, for the very next thing that happens is that their staffs were swallowed up by Aaron’s staff.  Science can only take us so far.  And it does not meet the needs of our hearts and soul.

You would think that with all that strong evidence of God’s involvement in what Pharaoh just saw, he would relent and bow down before Him.  But instead, just as God had predicted, his heart was hardened and he did not listen to the pleas of Moses and Aaron.  We may well argue, “Well, if God hardened his heart, of course not.”  Let us not be quick to blame God for this.  David Guzik in his study of this verse points out that Pharaoh did this in spite of the evidence, not because of it.  We allow our hearts to be hardened based on our disposition to the truth that is presented us.  We are all masters of our free choice to believe or not believe.

The lesson for us here as Christians is that we follow God’s instructions.  The lesson for those who oppose God is to be sure that you have peace with your decision.

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