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NASB | 1 Corinthians 9:25 Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 9:25 Now every athlete who [goes into training and] competes in the games is disciplined and exercises self-control in all things. They do it to win a crown that withers, but we [do it to receive] an imperishable [crown that cannot wither]. |
Subject: self control / spirit control |
Bible Note: Shalom Joe; Thank you very much for the welcome. I was recently introduced to this forum and have found it very interesting. It is always great to discuss scripture from differing point of views. I find it interesting that Christians have such a wide range of views when it comes to the Torah, some say they are still in effect while others say they are not. Others say they are only for the Jews and not for the gentiles. I find your belief that the moral laws are still for us today refreshing, after all who knows morality better than God himself. I actually hold to a more stricter view of Torah than most in this forum and would like to share a couple of observations from the scripture with you and others. You said in your post; For us, as post-Christ people of God, the ceremonial and sacrificial aspects of the Law have been abolished (Ephesians), because Jesus as our mediator makes unnecessary the ceremonial rituals to approach an infinitely holy God (Ephesians 2:13-16), and because Hebrews 10 makes clear that the sacrifices were but a foreshadowing of the atonement that is found in Christ alone. Let me post what Yeshua said in Matthew 5; 17 "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. 19 Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. According to Yeshua, not one jot or tittle will pass from the law until heaven and earth are destroyed and that we are to teach them. About the sacrifices, we do not do sacrifices today because the Temple is not standing. But when it was, even Paul was there doing sacrifices as we see in Acts 21. 20 When they heard this, they praised God. Then they said to Paul: "You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law. The believers in Yeshua were still zealous for the law. The passage continues stating that these zealots for the law have heard that Paul was teaching against the law and that to prove them wrong they ask him to take part in a Nazarite vow. 24 Take these men, join in their purification rites and pay their expenses, so that they can have their heads shaved. Then everybody will know there is no truth in these reports about you, but that you yourself are living in obedience to the law. 25 As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they should abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality." 26 The next day Paul took the men and purified himself along with them. Then he went to the temple to give notice of the date when the days of purification would end and the offering would be made for each of them. To show them that he still followed Torah, he participates in the vow which included the offering which according to Numbers 6 is a male lamb, a female lamb and a ram; 13 "'Now this is the law for the Nazirite when the period of his separation is over. He is to be brought to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. 14 There he is to present his offerings to the LORD: a year-old male lamb without defect for a burnt offering, a year-old ewe lamb without defect for a sin offering, a ram without defect for a fellowship offering, 18 "'Then at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, the Nazirite must shave off the hair that he dedicated. He is to take the hair and put it in the fire that is under the sacrifice of the fellowship offering. About your final questions. No I am not physically descended from Abraham but do call him my father. Not only does Yeshua exhibit the profile of “prophet” but he is the promised prophet of Deuteronomy 18:15. I do believe that Yeshua is the Messiah, but I find it interesting that the idea of a coming “Messiah”was a Rabbinic tradition rather than Biblical, while the Bible calls the coming one a “Prophet”. I do have a slightly different view of the Trinity than most Christians. I do subscribe to a Trinitarian view of YHWH, though my understanding of the Trinity comes from the Kabbalah (the probable origin of the Christian idea of a trinity). Shalom Joe and thank you for the great discussion. Simchat Torah |