Adar 5
Congregation of the Righteous
“…Nor
sinners in the congregation of the righteous.” (Ps 1:5 ISR)
I
believe it would be safe to say that the opposite of “sinner” is one who is “righteous”. We have already discussed what a sinner is in
this series; however, let us look again at the definition given to us by Mr.
Webster, to refresh our memory: “One
that has voluntarily violated the
divine law; a moral agent who has voluntarily
disobeyed any divine precept, or neglected any known duty (emphasis mine).”[1] This is the group of people that will have no
part in the Kingdom of our Elohim.
What
does it mean to be righteous? According
to a leading Torah-teacher, righteousness is something we do, it is an action.[2] We often speak of “walking” Torah – is this
not something we are doing? Therefore, when we make the willing and
conscious decision to live a lifestyle of doing
what we know to be right, we are righteous.
This is not to be confused with the righteousness we receive through
Messiah Yeshua (see 2Cor 5:21; Phi 1:11).
The righteousness I am speaking of here is what we walk and live,
through our obedience to Torah (see 1Tim 6:11; Deu 6:25).
On THAT day – the day of YHWH our Elohim
(see Zec 14) – sinners will be removed from the congregation of the
righteous. For further confirmation on
this, we have the parable of the wheat and tares, taught to us by our Master
Yeshua (see Mat 13:24-30). And we have
HIS promise, the tares will be destroyed …
More
and more, our lives must be focused
on our Elohim, and His Torah. In fact,
our lives may depend on it.
‘Let both grow together until the harvest, and at
the time of harvest I shall say to the reapers, “First gather the darnel and
bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my granary.” ’ ” (Mat 13:30 ISR)
“But
you have not so learned Messiah, if indeed you have heard Him and were taught
by Him, as truth is in יהושע: that
you put off – with regard to your former way of life – the old
man, being corrupted according to the desires of the deceit, and to
be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the renewed man
which was created according to Elohim, in
righteousness and set-apartness of the truth.” (Eph 4:20-24 ISR,
emphasis mine)
©2018
[1] American Dictionary of the English
Language, Noah Webster, 1828
[2] Rabbi Steve Berkson, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ2suLjSxVQ&list=PLf9HOA0P9oX-n-iCNX83Z3UVGYcyOsmfD
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