Untainted Truth
Part 2 of 4
Then, David says the commandment of our Lord is “pure”. He uses the word, “bar”, to describe the purity of the marching orders of our Master Commander. The word means “beloved”. In a perfect picture of us as the bride of Messiah, and He as the Bridegroom, I can’t help but think of the expression of the Shulamite woman in 2: 16 of the Song of Solomon, “My Beloved is mine, and I am His…”
In a time of trouble, David prayed to his beloved God with the same mind-set as the Shulamite woman, saying, “You have given a banner to those who fear You…that Your beloved may be delivered…” In 108: 5-6 of the Psalms, he prayed, “Be exalted, O YHVH, above the heavens, and Your glory above all the earth; that Your beloved may be delivered…”
Then, Solomon writes in v. 2 of the Song of Accents—Psalms 127—“It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows; for so He gives His beloved sleep”. Those that rest in the care of our Beloved need not fret evils of the day, or night.
Webster says “pure” means “unmixed with any other matter—free from taint”. The psalmist writes in 119: 140, “Your word is very pure; therefore Your servant loves it”. Of course, that is not the case with many. They have tainted the Word of our Beloved with the doctrines of men. Such had become the way of the religious leaders of Yeshua’s day. Paul wrote of them to the Colossians in 2: 20-22 when he said, “Wherefore if you be dead with Messiah from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are you subject to ordinances…after the commandments and doctrines of men?”
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