This week's Statutes are about circumcision and some of the health laws...
WEEK OF April 15-21, 2018: Overview of this week's Statutes (#344-361):
STATUTE #344:
(#344) YHWH commands His people (who
are the seed of Abraham – Galatians 3:16 & 29) to keep His Covenant. The
Covenant of YHWH involves the shedding of blood and the entering into a bonded
relationship. In the Abrahamic Covenant (which all the righteous enter) both
YAH (Calvary) and Abraham (circumcision) shed blood. (#345) YHWH not only commanded
Abraham to keep His Covenant, He also commanded all of Abraham’s seed to keep
it in every generation. (#346) Every male child, who is a partaker of YHWH’s
Covenant, is to be circumcised. (#347) Circumcision means that we are to cut
away the foreskin, or the fold of skin surrounding the male organ. (#348)
Circumcision is the sign, or physical evidence, that we belong to YHWH and are
partakers of His Abrahamic Covenant. (#349) Male children, born in our homes,
are to be circumcised on the eighth day. (#350) Servants or people brought into
the household, that are not born in the house, still were to be circumcised.
Every male in the house of Abraham’s seed is to be circumcised. (Judgment) Failure
to circumcise as YHWH has commanded means that one has broken the Covenant and is
no longer numbered among YHWH’s people.
Genesis 17:9-14 “And God said unto Abraham, Thou
shalt keep My Covenant therefore, thou, and
thy seed after thee in their generations. This is My Covenant, which ye shall keep,
between Me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised. And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the Covenant betwixt Me
and you. And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every
man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with
money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed. He that is born in thy house, and he that is
bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and My Covenant shall be in your
flesh for an everlasting covenant. And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh
of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken My Covenant.”
STATUTES #351-353:
(#351) YHWH commands His people to be circumcised in our hearts. This means that the innermost person, our thinking and understanding, out of which flows our actions and words, is to have the “old man” of sin, cut away and removed (see Colossians 2:11-13). (#352) YHWH commands us not to be hardened in sin nor dense in understanding spiritual Truth. (#353) Our motivation for having circumcised hearts is to be our awareness that YHWH is THE ALMIGHTY.
Deuteronomy 10:16-17 “Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked. For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward.”
STATUTES #354-355:
(#354) YHWH not only commands His
people to be circumcised, He promises to perform this spiritual surgery, if we seek
it of Him (James 4:2). Not only does YHWH promise to circumcise our hearts, but
also the hearts of our children. (#355) YHWH’s people are to love Him with our
whole hearts, vitality, and breath. We are to love Him in choosing Him over
appetite. His pleasure is to be our own. When we love YHWH and are fully given
to Him, we are fully alive and made strong.
Deuteronomy 30:6 “The LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with
all thy soul, that thou
mayest live.”
STATUTES #356-361:
(#356) YHWH commands His people to
take care in choosing foods to eat. We are never to eat any flesh He has deemed
“abominable.” (#357) We may only eat meats of animals which chew the cud and
have a divided hoof. (#358) An animal which chews the cud but doesn’t have a
divided hoof is unclean. (#359) An animal which has a divided hoof, but doesn’t
chew the cud is unclean. (#360) YHWH’s people are not to eat the flesh of any
unclean animal. (#361) YHWH’s people are not to touch the dead carcass of any
unclean animal.
Deuteronomy 14:3-8 “Thou
shalt not eat any abominable thing.
These are the beasts which ye shall
eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, the hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild
goat, and the pygarg, and the
wild ox, and the chamois. And
every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and
cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them
that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and
the hare, and the coney: for
they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto
you. And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it
is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcass.”
WEEK OF April 15-21, 2018
Torah Reading for the week: Exodus 13:17-17:16
Statute Studies for the week:
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