Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

Bechukotai -In My Statues

Torah portion: Lev 26:3-27:34

After having studied the last Parashah: laws of the Sabbatical year: Shmita- and limits the debt service ration, now God tells us the consequences of staying in His statues or not

This is similar to what He commands in Deuteronomy

Blessings and Cursing

There are consequences to obedience to His statues

There are consequences to the disobedience as well.

What were we redeemed for?

To do our own thing?

No.

Many preach about the blessing only- what we are going to get, without explaining both obedience and disobedience have consequences

Obedience is the hallmark of our Salvation

If we belong to Him, we will obey

We will submit to His obedience

Presentation

OBEDIENCE - Blessing

Three actions: walk, keep and perform

1-הלך=(halaK) walk1

Walk= Halak

Go, walk, die, flow with, go behind, adhere to, walk around

to live or behave in a specified manner

WALK.

Of the very many occasions when this verb is used in Scripture, the vast majority have the strictly literal sense of moving along or making one’s way.

It was the normal activity of men, but where the ability to walk had been lost it was capable of being restored by Christ.

This outward healing corresponded to an inward renewal which Jesus claimed to be able to effect (Mk. 2:9).

Jesus is further represented in the Gospels as walking and enabling others to walk under conditions not normally given to men (Mk.

6:48).

Here

F. S. Fitzsimmonds, “Walk,” ed.

D. R. W. Wood et al., New Bible Dictionary (Leicester, England; Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1996), 1228.

2- שָׁמַר= (shemar) keep, preserve, be careful with, watch

3- עָשָׂה= vb.

do, make

Francis Brown, Samuel Rolles Driver, and Charles Augustus Briggs, Enhanced Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977), 793.

Out of the obedience, there will be fruit

Because of obedience, He will bless

There will be safety in our land

Because of obedience He will give us PEACE - Shalom

Courage

The enemy will be flee

The covenant of God confirmed

God will make a tabernacle in us

He will not dispise us - but love us

He will walk with us

We will belong to HIM

He has set us free from the enemy

So that we will walk upright

Walk with HIM

SANCTIFICATION is to walk with Him in holiness.

Remember this is the main message in Leviticus

A promise to save His flock - Israel

He will judge between SHEEP (Israel) and SHEEP ( the Gentiles)

with one Shepherd

DISOBEDIENCE

Consequences of Disobedience

Terror over you

Disease and fever

sorrow of heart

No fruit - but planting in vain

Enemies will benefit from your seed

Slave to those who hate you

7 times more pushment over your sins

Break pride

Heaven like iron (not able to hear) and earth like bronze (judgement)

No fruit

7 x More plagues to the measure of your sin

Wild Beasts

Children robbed

Destruction of your work

Reduction in number and isolation

Punishment 7 x more for sins

Sword

Vengeance of the covenant

Pestilence

Delivered to the enemy

Sounds like the Book of Revelation

Will eat and not be satisfied

Chastised 7 x for our sins

Each flesh

Destruction of personal altars and exaultation

Destruction of Idolatry

Not listen to your prayers

ASTONISH = שָׁמֵם

9037 I. שָׁמֵם (shemam): v.; ≡ Str 8074; TWOT 2409—1.

LN 20.31–20.60 (qal) be desolate, be devastated, destitute, laid waste, ravaged, ruined, deserted, i.e., be in a destroyed and ruined state, implying the object or area destroyed is now abandoned from all help, deserted, or in personal poverty

James Swanson, Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains : Hebrew (Old Testament) (Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1997).

The Land of Israel has already gone through the Astonishment

The Millenial reign is the 7th one thousand years - Last torah portion we talked about the land keeping a Sabbath

Here the Lord is saying the land will be paid the Sabbath at the end.

Making reference again to the Millenial Sabbath

Israel confession and repentance of sin

Israel humility and acceptance of guilt

Then the Lord will remember the covenant with Jacob - Issac and Abraham, and

Lord will remember the Land and restore

Remnant

Promise of the covenant

Witness to the Nations

Summary

The Lord came the first time to fulfill the scriptures

To open the way back to the father