Truthful Benefits
Part 2 of 2
The benefit for us concerning this perfect law is seen in the words, “converting the soul”. For “converting”, David uses the word, “shuwb”, which means, “to turn back, or fetch home again”. For “soul”, he uses the word, “nephesh”, to portray the bodily or mental vitality of the living and breathing creature for which it was intended—mankind. Whether in mind or body, this perfect law of YHVH causes a conversion, or circumcision, experience in our minds—from our way of thinking to His.
The idea of circumcision of the heart was initiated with YAH’s covenant with Abraham. YAH says in Genesis 17: 1, “When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, I am The Eternal; walk before Me and be blameless (perfect)”. We know Abraham believed the Word of his Lord, and “it was counted for him as righteousness”.
There is another man that walked in the same manner and was blessed by YHVH. The writer of 2 Kings records the prayer of Hezekiah in 20: 3. “Remember now, O Lord, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what was good in Your sight”.
Abraham, Hezekiah, and many others walked before their Adonai in perfection. Please understand, their perfection was not in anything within their own power or of their own effort. There is only one way to be “perfect as our Father in heaven is perfect”. We trust in Him and then show our love for Him by walking in His ways.
Speaking of Ha’Mashiach and our hope of glory, Paul told the Colossians in 1: 28, “Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Yeshua, our risen Messiah”.
This is the “washing of water by the Word” that Paul spoke of to the Ephesians in 5: 26. Those that are perfect in our Lord “are the circumcision, who worship YAH in the Spirit”, as Paul told the Philippians in 3: 3. Any perfection we have is clearly aside from any personal efforts to adhere to His perfect “Torah”. Truly, it is as Paul told the Colossians in 1: 22, “In the body of His (Ha’Mashiach’s) flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight”.
Yes, there is not a more perfect revelation of the glory and majesty of our Adonai than the personification of His Word in our Lord, Yeshua our risen Messiah, of which the Torah is a central part. Of this Messiah, Jeremiah spoke in 31: 33, “But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; after those days…I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people”. Keep looking to Him! Implicitly trust in His “Perfect Covenant”, and bask in the glorious encouragement of His revivifying Son-light.
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