SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/27/2020 8:29 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Intro to “The Perversion of Rabbinic
Tradition”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew 5:43
Message of the
verse: “43
"You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate
your enemy.’
We will just be looking at the
introduction to this topic this evening and then we will take several days to
look at two sub-points this topic. The
first one is entitled “Perversion by Omission” and the second is entitled “Perversion
by Addition.”
Introduction: We will quote from John MacArthur to help us
understand this introduction. “As in
each of the first five preceding illustrations, Jesus repeats the essence of
the contemporary traditional teaching, in this case the teaching about
love. Love, said the ancients, was to be
reserved for those you get along with.
Enemies were to be hated.”
All I got to say about that teaching
is that I am totally happy that God does not do that to me, for I certainly was
an enemy of God the very second that I was born, and even though that was true
God loved me and still loves me to which I am very thankful.
We have to believe that the
Pharisees message had to come from Satan and his perversion of God’s revelation
almost always touch on the truth at some point as he always has a little truth
and that makes deception more believable and acceptable. History tells us that the rabbis and scribes
had kept a part of God’s truth about love.
We have already spoke of “You shall love your neighbor,” and this is
clear teaching that comes from the Old Testament. Leviticus 19:18 tells us “You shall not take
vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall
love your neighbor as yourself; I am the Lord.”
MacArthur concludes “In spite of
such clear revelation, rabbinic tradition had perverted Old Testament teaching
both by what was omitted and by what was added.”
9/27/2020 8:42
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