{"id":4039,"date":"2021-05-07T01:02:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T06:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/?p=4039"},"modified":"2021-05-15T02:32:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T07:32:02","slug":"bound-by-loves-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/bound-by-loves-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"Bound by Love\u2019s Promise…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"From our Torah this week (i.e., Bechukotai<\/a>) we read: \u201cThen [after all the various judgments have befallen the people] I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land\u201d (Lev. 26:42). Here we note the \u201cdeeper Torah\u201d of God\u2019s unconditional promise to the children of Israel that “contextualizes” the various tribulations they would suffer because of their disobedience to the terms of the covenant given at Sinai (Gen. 15). Therefore the Apostle Paul appealed to God\u2019s promises given to Abraham as the foundation for Torah, not to Israel\u2019s righteousness based on the covenant of the law (Rom. 9:31; Gal. 4:24-27). “For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law (\u03bf\u1f50 \u03b3\u1f70\u03c1 \u03b4\u03b9\u1f70 \u03bd\u1f79\u03bc\u03bf\u03c5) but through the righteousness of faith” (Rom. 4:13). The better covenant of Zion was prefigured at Mount Moriah – and hearkens back to Abraham and Isaac – not the later covenant made at Sinai (Gen. 22:16-18; Heb. 6:13-15; John 3:16). As for Israel in the galut (exile), God has promised: \u201cBut I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the LORD\u201d (Lev. 26:45). Note again that this covenant relationship was established when we were without anything \u2013 we had no Torah, no mitzvot, nor any good deeds to commend ourselves before heaven. Nevertheless, God chose us and called us his people, and all this comes from his great love.<\/p>\n

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From our Torah this week (i.e., Bechukotai) we read: \u201cThen [after all the various judgments have befallen the people] I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land\u201d (Lev. 26:42). Here we note the \u201cdeeper Torah\u201d of God\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-dvar","category-hebrew-reading-practice","category-torah"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4039"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4089,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039\/revisions\/4089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}