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Pastor Pauline and Bishop Demetrics Roscoe

I wanted to start today’s blog from a Scripture taken out of the Complete Jewish Bible because in my opinion, some translations muddy the water when translating.

(1 John 4:19 Complete Jewish Bible)
19 We ourselves love now because he loved us first.

One can still get the meaning of the textual flow of John’s Epistle. For example, what John was merely saying was our Heavenly Father exhibited the most mind-blowing, fantastic display of love for fallen man which is invaluable and impossible to reproduce. I am completely blown away by the price of my redemption and the method of payment.

Below is a list of different translated ways of 1 John 4:19:

(NIV 1984)
19 We love because he first loved us.
1 John 4:19

The Message Bible
19 We, though, are going to love—love and be loved. First, we were loved, now we love. He loved us first.
1 John 4:19

New King James Version
19 We love Him because He first loved us.
1 John 4:19

(Amplified Bible – AMP)
19 We love, because He first loved us.
1 John 4:19[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”The Price of our Salvation” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:24|text_align:left|color:%23601993″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]For those groups, who are looking at Christianity and thinking we are missing the point and possibly clueless about the reason why Calvary’s Cross is so essential to our faith, may have a point. However, this is not critical regarding our salvation. Although Christians may not understand the Cross, we trust God’s process by faith.
Christians are very fortunate because our Lord employed the application of transferring guilt from the sinner to the Lamb of God as He covered for us. But the moving or shifting of our sins from us to Christ wasn’t the entire payment; it was only the beginning.
Accepting the Jewish Messiah as our personal Savior takes on a deeper meaning when placing the Salvation story back into the Jewish culture where we learn the significance and purpose of one word; the Hebrew – “kapparah” – simple meaning, atonement. When Christ covered us from the righteous requirements of the Law, by redirecting the guilt of our sins away from us onto Himself, He was found guilty as a result and executed.[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”Kapparah” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:24|text_align:left|color:%23601993″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The (kah-pah-RAH) Literally “atonement.” 1. An ancient custom performed on the eve of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement to symbolically transfer one’s sins–and punishment of death–to another object, mainly a chicken. In other words, the weight of the sins of humanity fell on our kapparah (Jesus of Nazareth) and taken off of us, where we became clean before God. But, the “kapparah” becomes filthy, offensive, and impure. The object of sorrow that bears (carry out our waste) is fit for destruction, both the sins and the beneficiary who carried our sins.

Adonai God of Israel gives the Prophet Isaiah a frightening dream and tells the prophet to write down this prophetic vision of the day when the Lord’s Christ takes on the sins of the world.

The Message Bible

2 “Father, remove this cup from me. But please, not what I want. What do you want?” 43 At once an angel from heaven was at his side, strengthening him. 44 He prayed on all the harder. Sweat wrung from him like drops of blood, poured off his face.
45 He got up from prayer, went back to the disciples and found them asleep, drugged by grief. 46 He said, “What business do you have sleeping? Get up. Pray, so you won’t give in to temptation.”
Luke 22:42-46

But this is where the story becomes even more incredible! Yeshua, the Jewish Messiah, calls Himself a “Door.” Isaiah’s vision penetrated through the entrance way and saw God’s servant. It was the Messiah purchasing our freedom.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”9520″ img_size=”400×300″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”The Door” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:24|text_align:left|color:%23601993″][vc_column_text]Easton Bible Dictionary
In the interior of Oriental houses, curtains were frequently used instead of doors.
The entrances of the tabernacle had curtains (Ex 26:31 -33, 36).

Complete Word Study Bible Dictionary
H6607. פֶּתַח peṯaḥ: A masculine noun referring to an opening, an entrance, a door, a doorway. It refers to the entrance itself in Genesis 4:7 in a figurative expression. It is used often of the door, the entrance into the sacred tent (Ex. 33:9, 10; Num. 12:5; 20:6); or Temple (1 Kgs. 6:33; Ezek. 8:16).

New Living Translation Study Bible
All watch Moses until he disappeared inside. 9 As he went into the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and hover at its entrance while the Lord spoke with Moses. 10 When the people saw the cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, they would stand and bow down in front of their own tents. 11 Inside the Tent of Meeting, the Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend.
Exodus 33:8-11[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”9564″ img_size=”medium” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]You see, when Yeshua gave his backside to the scroungers, men with whips that opened His flesh, they didn’t know that they were opening the Curtain of the Holy of Holies. And God came out of the curtain because Christ was the Tabernacle among men. Jesus Christ didn’t bleed human blood; what ran out of Yeshua was “דם,” daum, Hebrew for blood. The first Adam failed God, but “דם,” Adam the second came and reintroduced Adonai’s blood back into the earth. Transfusion. So Adam was the man with God’s “דם.”

The Message Bible

5 The Master, the God, opened my ears,
and I didn’t go back to sleep,
didn’t pull the covers back over my head.
6 I followed orders,
stood there and took it while they beat me,
held steady while they pulled out my beard,
Didn’t dodge their insults,
faced them as they spit in my face.
7 And the Master, God, stays right there and helps me,
so I’m not disgraced.
Therefore I set my face like flint,
confident that I’ll never regret this.
8 My champion is right here.
Let’s take our stand together!
Who dares bring suit against me?
Let him try!
9 Look! the Master, God, is right here.
Who would dare call me guilty?
Look! My accusers are a clothes bin of threadbare socks and shirts, fodder for moths!
10 Who out there fears God,
actually listens to the voice of his servant?
For anyone out there who doesn’t know where you’re going,
anyone groping in the dark,
Here’s what: Trust in God.
Lean on your God!
Isaiah 50:5-10
Glory to God!

So Adonai hid from us, not because He was afraid of us, but because His holiness would have destroyed us.
Christ’s agony was tragic and too painful to imagine, but because of His torture, the curtain in the temple was torn top to bottom, which was the veil of His flesh. Yeshua has made us look so good, that even the Holy Spirit approaches without hesitation.
Christ paid it all![/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”9565″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”right” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Our Lord Adonai took out payment on Jesus Christ because we as humans would not have survived; the ultimate payment for sin was ultimate death.

The Message Bible

29 Bow in prayer. Don’t ask questions:
Wait for hope to appear.
30 Don’t run from trouble. Take it full-face.
The “worst” is never the worst.
31 Why? Because the Master won’t ever walk out and fail to return.
32 If he works severely, he also works tenderly.
His stockpiles of loyal love are immense.
33 He takes no pleasure in making life hard,
in throwing roadblocks in the way:
34 Stomping down hard
on luckless prisoners,
35 Refusing justice to victims
in the court of High God,
36 Tampering with evidence—
The Master does not approve of such things.
Lamentations 3:29-37

The devil doesn’t mind us saying that we love the Lord; he hears the words all the time, but not always the true meaning of those words. Therefore it frequently becomes a cliche.
However, Satan cannot handle the saint who has a deep and intimate understanding of being a frail human being, only armed with trust in God. Our Heavenly Father’s Love was an urgent response to us, who had no hope at all. He prepared a zero-error plan that was complete in every detail, spoken by the prophets, and centered around His greatest sorrow and pain – carried out through the expense and mutilation of His Faithful Son. Therefore, we serve Adonai, not because of rules, but because He loved us before we were even born and it was a one-sided, unfair type of demonstrative love shown by an incredible action. That response included Him (Who was without blame) becoming a Sacrifice for us, redeeming our souls from eternal damnation. Christ was made to look like a loser and die so that we could be saved and live. Thank You, Jesus![/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”9566″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In other words, standing against the righteous requirements of the Torah system, if the Messiah had held on to His own merits, He would have won; but because He carried my sins into the verdict, His immediate and unjust sentence was death by torture.

Today, when the worship team says to “lift your hands and give Him praise,” I can look at my weak, beggarly hands (that cost me nothing, but cost His life), and now I know the reason why I am raising my hands. I am not only praising out of obedience, but I am giving my Lord and Savior an appraisal of how Awesome He is to me. Hallelujah![/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”9567″ img_size=”medium” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Complete Jewish Bible

10 Here is what love is: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the “kapparah” for our sins.

So, the God of Israel sent His Precious Lamb of God to soften the blow of Law and to give believers a Guide and Teacher in the person of the Holy Spirit.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Complete Word Study Bible Dictionary

(Gal. 3:25). Heb. 7:19 continues to say, “the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.” This declares that Christ was the goal of the Law and, when He came, God’s purpose of the Law was realized, for Christ is the better hope.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Complete Jewish Bible

24 Accordingly, the Torah functioned as a custodian until the Messiah came, so that we might be declared righteous on the ground of trusting and being faithful. 25 But now that the time for this trusting faithfulness has come, we are no longer under a custodian.
26 For in union with the Messiah, you are all children of God through this trusting faithfulness; 27 because as many of you as were immersed into the Messiah have clothed yourselves with the Messiah, in whom 28 there is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor freeman, neither male nor female; for in union with the Messiah Yeshua, you are all one.
Galatians 3:24-28

Complete Jewish Bible
7 Beloved friends, let us love one another; because love is from God, and everyone who loves has God as his Father and knows God. 8 Those who do not love, do not know God; because God is love. 9 Here is how God showed his love among us: God sent his only Son into the world, so that through him we might have life. 10 Here is what love is: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the kapparah for our sins.
1 John 4:1-10[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”8831″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Why was Christ tested anyway? He was examined to fail, but hold on; Christ’s exam was rigged! When the Messiah was making our profile records His own, filled with numerous recordings of sins against Heaven, the Messiah was teaching us to trust His Father’s process. So when love is our navigation system, and we love the Lord with all our heart, and love our neighbor as our self, the Lord loves us so much that He might give us a test to teach us more and greater wisdom of His Kingdom.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=”Some Scholars believe Isaiah’s prophesy about the Messiah came 712 years before the event.” css_animation=”right-to-left”][vc_column_text]The detailed prophetic words from Isaiah, about the sorrow that will befall the Messiah, as He takes up the cause of all the black sheep of the World.

 

The Message Bible

2 The servant grew up before God—a scrawny seedling,
a scrubby plant in a parched field.
There was nothing attractive about him,
nothing to cause us to take a second look.
3 He was looked down on and passed over,
a man who suffered, who knew pain firsthand.
One look at him and people turned away.
We looked down on him, thought he was scum.
4 But the fact is, it was our pains he carried—
our disfigurements, all the things wrong with us.
We thought he brought it on himself,
that God was punishing him for his own failures.
5 But it was our sins that did that to him,
that ripped and tore and crushed him—our sins!
He took the punishment, and that made us whole.
Through his bruises we get healed.
6 We’re all like sheep who’ve wandered off and gotten lost.
We’ve all done our own thing, gone our own way.
And God has piled all our sins, everything we’ve done wrong,
on him, on him.
7 He was beaten, he was tortured,
but he didn’t say a word.
Like a lamb taken to be slaughtered
and like a sheep being sheared,
he took it all in silence.
8 Justice miscarried, and he was led off—
and did anyone really know what was happening?
He died without a thought for his own welfare,
beaten bloody for the sins of my people.
9 They buried him with the wicked,
threw him in a grave with a rich man,
Even though he’d never hurt a soul
or said one word that wasn’t true.
10 Still, it’s what God had in mind all along,
to crush him with pain.
The plan was that he give himself as an offering for sin
so that he’d see life come from it—life, life, and more life.
And God’s plan will deeply prosper through him.
11 Out of that terrible travail of soul,
he’ll see that it’s worth it and be glad he did it.
Through what he experienced, my righteous one, my servant,
will make many “righteous ones,”
as he himself carries the burden of their sins.
12 Therefore I’ll reward him extravagantly—
the best of everything, the highest honors—
Because he looked death in the face and didn’t flinch,
because he embraced the company of the lowest.
He took on his own shoulders the sin of the many,
he took up the cause of all the black sheep.
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