601 Striving for perfection

 

Mat 5:48

 

SYNOPSIS: What does the Messiah Yeshua mean when He says be perfect? Does He not know that no one can be perfect? So why did He say it then? What is the purpose? Was He having a bad spiritual day or is it something so much more? In this teaching we are going to explore meaning behind be perfect. How this statement by Yeshua Himself ties directly to each individuals trail in heaven when the book are opened. To be judged according to His standards.

 

THEME 1: STRIVING FOR PERFECTION. There is only one winner in a race. Each of us is in a race against themselves. Each person has the opportunity to be perfect says Yeshua. The key is do you know the 34? Mat 5:48, Rev 20:12, 1) books were opened 2) another book was opened 3) the dead meaning no more chances 4) Judgment in His court of Law 5) according to what was written in the book and the books 6) they had done, B’resheet (Gen) 17:1. Php 4:13. Vayikra 11:44. Vayikra 19:1-3 A holy Nation. Vayikra (Lev) 20:25-27 Belong to Him. D’varim (Deut) 18:9-14 not like those goyim nations. Luke 6:39-40, 2 Cor 7:1. Col 4:12. Ya’akov (James) 1:2-4 so that  you will be whole. D’varim (deut) 28:1-2 abundance both ways, V15 also. 

 

THEME 2: YEHOVAH WILL ALLOW TESTS. DO YOU PASS OR FAIL THE TEST. Mattiyahu (Mat) 4:1-11 the devil leads Messiah. Rev 20:12. B’resheet (Gen) 2:16-17 Tree of what? Mattiyahu 15:1-20 The doctrine of men will get you uprooted

 

THEME 3: WHAT WILL YOU DO TO BE PART OF THE 25%. Mattiyahu 13:3-9 Strive for the 25. B’resheet (Gen) 16:7-8 B’resheet (Gen) 24:62-63 the wife of the promise. Sh’mot (Ex) 15:22-26 No water leads to the wood that will make it sweet but they die. B’resheet 3:17-18 thorns

 

 

Mat 5:48  Therefore, be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

 

1) The “B” Verse 1-12 The teaching Yeshua gave to them starts out with what some people call the Beatitudes

2) 13-16 the light

3) 17-19 The perfect 100%

4) 20-32 points of the law

5) 33-37 vows are simple

6) 38-44 becoming the servant

7) 45-48 now that you know all that be perfect of at least try to

 

HOLD PLACE

 

Rev 20:12  And I saw the dead, both great and small, standing in front of the throne. Books were opened; and another book was opened, the Book of Life; and the dead were judged from what was written in the books, according to what they had done.  

 

6 parts to this verse if you want to get into heaven for it is not as simple as alakazam

 

1) books were opened

2) another book was opened

3) the dead meaning no more chances

4) Judgment in His court of Law

5) according to what was written in the book and the books

6) they had done

 

Mat 5:48  Therefore, be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

G5046 τέλειος teleios Thayer Definition: 1) brought to its end, finished 2) wanting nothing necessary to completeness 3) perfect 4) consummate human integrity and virtue 5) full grown, adult, of full age, mature

 

B’resheet (Gen) 17:1

Gen 17:1  When Avram was 99 years old Adonai appeared to Avram and said to him, "I am El Shaddai [God Almighty]. Walk in my presence and be pure-hearted.

 

Three parts to this sentence to comprehend

1) Yehovah appeared

2) Avram was asked to walk in His presence

3) the request be pure hearted

 

H8549 תּמים  tâmı̂ym BDB Definition:  1) complete, whole, entire, sound 2) sound, wholesome, unimpaired, innocent, having integrity 3) what is complete or entirely in accord with truth and fact

Part of Speech: adjective

1) G-d  2) Torah 3) Signs and Symbols 4) Prayer and Blessings  5) Love and Brotherhood  6) The Poor and Unfortunate 7) Treatment of Gentiles  8) Marriage, Divorce and Family 9) Forbidden Sexual Relations 10) Times and Seasons 11) Dietary Laws 12) Business Practices 13) Employees, Servants and Slaves 14) Vows, Oaths and Swearing 15) The Sabbatical and Jubilee Years 16) The Court and Judicial Procedure 17) Injuries and Damages 18) Property and Property Rights 19) Criminal Laws 20)Punishment and Restitution 21) Prophecy 22) Idolatry, Idolaters and Idolatrous Practices 23) Agriculture and Animal Husbandry 24) Clothing 25) The Firstborn 26) Kohanim and Levites 27) T'rumah, Tithes and Taxes 28) The Temple, the Sanctuary and Sacred Objects 29) Sacrifices and Offerings 30) Ritual Purity and Impurity 31) Lepers and Leprosy 32) The King 33) Nazarites 34) Wars

 

Php 4:13  I can do all things through him who gives me power.

 

Lev 11:44  For I am Adonai your God; therefore, consecrate yourselves and be holy, for I am holy; and do not defile yourselves with any kind of swarming creature that moves along the ground.

 

3 parts to this sentence

1) key-Consecration for Him

2) defilement

3) any

 

Consecrate - H6942  קדשׁ  qâdash BDB Definition: 1) to consecrate, sanctify, prepare, dedicate, be hallowed, be holy, be sanctified, be separate 2) tabooed 3)

to show oneself sacred or majestic 4) treated as sacred, to set apart as sacred, dedicate, devote, 5) to keep oneself apart or separate 6) to consecrate oneself

 

Vayikra 19:1-3 A holy Nation

Lev 19:1  Adonai said to Moshe,

Lev 19:2  "Speak to the entire community of Isra'el; tell them, 'You people are to be holy because I, Adonai your God, am holy.

Lev 19:3  " 'Every one of you is to revere his father and mother, and you are to keep my Shabbats; I am Adonai your God.

 

Vayikra (Lev) 20:25-27 Belong to Him

Distinguish H914  בּדל  bâdal BDB Definition: to divide, separate

 

Lev 20:26  Rather, you people are to be holy for me; because I, Adonai, am holy; and I have set you apart from the other peoples, so that you can belong to me.

 

1 holy for who

2 set apart from the pagans from the gentiles that want to celebrate whatever holiday they made up in their minds

3 real big key so that you can belong to who

 

D’varim (Deut) 18:9-14 not like those goyim nations

Deu 18:9  "When you enter the land Adonai your God is giving you, you are not to learn how to follow the abominable practices of those nations.

 

Deu 18:13 

 

Being wholehearted H8549 תּמים  tâmı̂ym BDB Definition: complete, whole, entire, sound, unimpaired, innocent, having integrity

 

Luke 6:39-40

Luk 6:39  He also told them a parable: "Can one blind man lead another blind man? Won't they both fall into a pit? Luk 6:40  A talmid is not above his rabbi; but each one, when he is fully trained, will be like his rabbi.

 

2Co 7:1  Therefore, my dear friends, since we have these promises, let us purify ourselves from everything that can defile either body or spirit, and strive to be completely holy, out of reverence for God.

 

6 parts to learn from this verse

1) promises

2) purify

3) everything

4) defile

5) Body

6) Spirit

 

Purify or cleanse G2511 καθαρίζω katharizō  Thayer Definition: 1) to make clean, cleanse 1a) from physical stains and dirt 1a1) utensils, food 1a2) a leper, to cleanse by curing 2) in a moral sense 3) to free from defilement of sin and from faults 4) to purify from wickedness

 

Col 4:12  Epaphras sends greetings; he is one of you, a slave of the Messiah Yeshua who always agonizes in his prayer on your behalf, praying that you may stand firm, mature and fully confident, as you devote yourselves completely to God's will.

 

Devote VERB give all or a large part of one's time or resources to (a person, activity, or cause):

"I wanted to devote more time to my family" · 

 

Completely G3956  πᾶς pas  Thayer Definition: 1) individually 1a) each, every, any, all, the whole, everyone, all things, everything

 

Ya’akov (James) 1:2-4 so that  you will be whole

Jas 1:4  But let perseverance do its complete work; so that you may be complete and whole, lacking in nothing.

 

Two parts to V4

1 Complete work

2 complete and whole

 

HOLD PLACE

 

D’varim (deut) 28:1-2 abundance both ways, V15 also.  

Deu 28:1  "If you listen closely to what Adonai your God says, observing and obeying all his mitzvot which I am giving you today, Adonai your God will raise you high above all the nations on earth; Deu 28:2  and all the following blessings will be yours in abundance - if you will do what Adonai your God says:

 

Deu 28:15  "But if you refuse to pay attention to what Adonai your God says, and do not observe and obey all his mitzvot and regulations which I am giving you today, then all the following curses will be yours in abundance:

 

Jas 1:4  But let perseverance do its complete work; so that you may be complete and whole, lacking in nothing.

 

Perseverance means G5281 ὑπομονή hupomonē  Thayer Definition: steadfastness, constancy, endurance

 

THEME 2: YEHOVAH WILL ALLOW TESTS. DO YOU PASS OR FAIL THE TEST. Mattiyahu (Mat) 4:1-11 the devil leads Messiah.

 

Mat 4:1  Then the Spirit led Yeshua up into the wilderness to be tempted by the Adversary.

 

Mat 4:2 

Mat 4:3- 4

Mat 4:5-7

Mat 4:8-10

Mat 4:9-10

 

Rev 20:12

 

B’resheet (Gen) 2:16-17 Tree of what?

Gen 2:16  Adonai, God, gave the person this order: "You may freely eat from every tree in the garden Gen 2:17  except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. You are not to eat from it, because on the day that you eat from it, it will become certain that you will die."

 

Mattiyahu 15:1-20 The doctrine of men will get you uprooted

 

Mat 15:11  What makes a person unclean is not what goes into his mouth; rather, what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him unclean!"

 

Mat 15:2

Mat 15:20 

Mat 15:8-9

Mat 15:12-14

 

Mat 5:48 

 

THEME 3: WHAT WILL YOU DO TO BE PART OF THE 25%. Mattiyahu 13:3-9 Strive for the 25

Mat 13:4  As he sowed, some seed fell alongside the path; and the birds came and ate it up.

 

Alongside G3844 παρά  para Thayer Definition: from, of at, by, besides, near

HOLD PLACE

 

B’resheet (Gen) 16:7-8

Gen 16:7  The angel of Adonai found her by a spring in the desert, the spring on the road to Shur, Gen 16:8  and said, "Hagar! Sarai's slave-girl! Where have you come from, and where are you going?" She answered, "I'm running away from my mistress Sarai."

 

B’resheet (Gen) 24:62-63 the wife of the promise

Gen 24:62  Meanwhile, Yitz'chak, one evening after coming along the road from Be'er-Lachai-Ro'i — he was living in the Negev —Gen 24:63  went out walking in the field; and as he looked up, he saw camels approaching.

 

Mat 13:5-6

 

HOLD PLACE

 

Sh’mot (Ex) 15:22-26 No water leads to the wood that will make it sweet but they die

 

Mat 13:7

 

HOLD PLACE

 

B’resheet 3:17-18 thorns

Gen 3:17  To Adam he said, "Because you listened to what your wife said and ate from the tree about which I gave you the order, 'You are not to eat from it,' the ground cursed on your account; you will work hard to eat from it as long as you live. Gen 3:18  It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat field plants.

 

Mat 13:8 

 

Mat 5:48  Therefore, be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

 

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