Sunday, December 19, 2010
Tikkun Olam
It was the Jewish hope and it is the Christian hope to be used, as God's elect, "to perfect the world under God's sovereignty." In other words, when all people of the world abandon false gods and recognize YHWY, the world will have been perfected. YHWY is the Alpha and the Omega. The Beginning and the End. The purpose of it all. As Paul says we have been given grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith. To get to Him, there is a Way one must walk, a Life one must lead, a Truth one must manifest in word and deed. We must grow up into the fullness of Messiah. So we answer the call, we submit to His will, we receive His Spirit and we go where he sends us. We bring the good news that God's Kingdom is coming, it has been inaugurated, in Spirit and in Truth, the veil between Heaven and Earth, Creator and Creation has been torn and the two are becoming one. YHWY has summed up his plan for the whole cosmos in Jesus. Fully man, fully God. And so as John says, 'We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know YHWY. And we are in YHWY by being in his Son Jesus the Messiah. YHWY is the true God and eternal life. Dear children, keep yourselves from idols." YHWY is the Supreme King of Kings, the one from whom all authority is derived; this is the good testimony that our precious Lamb gave before Pilate, this is what we, as Christians have been grafted into, by the atonement offered to us by YHWY's anointed one, His Messiah, Jesus, whose advent we celebrate in jubilant wonder this Christmas season. Him who came into the world to preach the good news of the Kingdom,to destroy the works of the devil and to do so in and through those who believe in the name of the Father's only begotten Son.
So we exhort one another with the 'Aleinu' celebrating our Father and the privilege we have been afforded by His great love and grace, to serve in beautiful relationship with Him, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
It is our duty to worship the Master of all,
to ascribe greatness to the author of creation,
who has not made us like the nations of the lands
nor placed us like the families of the earth;
who has not made our portion like theirs,
nor our destiny like all their multitudes.
For they worship vanity and emptiness,
and pray to a god who cannot save.
But we bow in worship
and thank the Supreme King of Kings,
the Holy One, Blessed be He,
Who extends the Heavens and establishes the Earth
Whose throne of glory is in the heavens above
and whose power's Presence is in the highest of heights.
He is our God and there is no other,
Truly He is our King and there is none else
as His Word testifies, "You shall know and take to heart this day
that YHWY is God,
in the heavens above
and the earth below, there is no other."
Finally, we remind one another that the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven or ‘Who will descend into the deep?’ No! That completely misses the point. What we declare is that 'The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,' that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim. Or do you not know that you are God's temple, the place where He dwells in the midst of His people. That by the grace shown you a stream has been placed within you bubbling up to eternal life as the scriptures say 'There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.' and again, 'Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.' and again, 'Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.'
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