Talmidim BeChukotei

Talmidim BeChukotei

Acts 2:14-4:37

Setting:  It is still Shavu’ot, 50 days after the Resurrection on Firstfruits.

Act 2:14  But Kefa, standing up with the Eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, “You men of Yehudah, and all you who dwell at Yerushalayim, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.

Act 2:15  For these aren’t drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day.

About 9am.

Acts, continued:

Act 2:16  But this is what has been spoken through the prophet Yo’el:

Act 2:17  ‘It will be in the last days, says Elohim, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams.

Act 2:18  Yes, and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days, I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy.

Act 2:19  I will show wonders in the sky above, and signs on the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and billows of smoke.

Act 2:20  The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of Adonai comes.

Act 2:21  It will be, that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.’

The above is a verbatim quote of the last few verses of this chapter 2 of Joel, but it leaves out part b of  the last verse of the chapter:

Joe 2:32  It will happen that whoever will call on the name of YHWH shall be saved; for in Mount Tziyon and in Yerushalayim there will be those who escape, as YHWH has said, and among the remnant, those whom YHWH calls.

As you can see, the primary fulfillment of this passage is yet to come.

Acts, continued:

Act 2:22  “Men of Yisra’el, hear these words! Yeshua of Natzeret, a man approved by Elohim to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which Elohim did by him in the midst of you, even as you yourselves know,

Act 2:23  him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of Elohim, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

Act 2:24  whom Elohim raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

Act 2:25  For David says concerning him, ‘I saw Adonai always before my face, For he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.

Act 2:26  Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced. Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope;

Act 2:27  because you will not leave my soul in She’ol, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.

Act 2:28  You made known to me the ways of life. You will make me full of gladness with your presence.’

This is a portion of Psalm 16:

Psa 16:1 <<A Poem by David.>> Preserve me, Elohim, for in you do I take refuge.   Psa 16:2  My soul, you have said to YHWH, “You are Adonai. Apart from you I have no good thing.”   Psa 16:3  As for the holy ones who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.   Psa 16:4  Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts to another god. Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take their names on my lips.   Psa 16:5  YHWH assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.   Psa 16:6  The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have a good inheritance.   Psa 16:7  I will bless YHWH, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.   Psa 16:8  I have set YHWH always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.   Psa 16:9  Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices. My body shall also dwell in safety.   Psa 16:10  For you will not leave my nefesh [being/body/breath] in She’ol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.   Psa 16:11  You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.

Acts, continued:

Act 2:29  “Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

That is where his nefesh is residing, still to this day.  It is dead.

Acts, continued:

Act 2:30  Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that Elohim had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Messiah to sit on his throne,

Act 2:31  he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Messiah, that neither was his soul left in She’ol, nor did his flesh see decay.

Yeshua alone of all creatures was not made of dust, and didn’t return to dust. His death was real,  don’t mistake that.  But our mortal flesh is not made of the type of atoms that can house  a being that is Elohim.  His body was made stronger than ours, but still able to die.  We are made of low-quality stuff, I guess you would say.  Perishable – we have an expiration date.  That is why when we are resurrected we receive an improved type of body made of different matter than this perishable matter we now have.  We will be  made incorruptible.

Acts, continued:

Act 2:32  This Yeshua Elohim raised up, to which we all are witnesses.

Act 2:33  Being therefore exalted by the right hand of Elohim, and having received from the Father the promise of the Ruach HaKodesh, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.

While it is true that the Ruach HaKodesh dwells in us, it does not make us immortal.  Only the Parousia or Resurrection accomplishes that.  The Ruach is our helper, it doesn’t transform us into perfect immortal beings – or else no believers would ever sin, on purpose or inadvertently!

Acts, continued:

Act 2:34  For David didn’t ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, “YHWH said to Adonai, “Sit by my right hand,

Act 2:35  until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”‘

David didn’t ascend into the heavens – he’s just dead, as are all other dead people.  David will rise at the Parousia, as Isaiah intends to (Isaiah chp 26).  The quote in this passage is from Psalm 116:

Psa 110:1 <<A Psalm by David.>> YHWH says to Adonai, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”   Psa 110:2  YHWH will send forth the rod of your strength out of Tziyon. Rule in the midst of your enemies.   Psa 110:3  Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.   Psa 110:4  YHWH has sworn, and will not change his mind: “You are a Kohen forever in the order of Malki-Tzedek.”   Psa 110:5  Adonai is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the Day of his wrath.   Psa 110:6  He will judge among the nations. He will heap up dead bodies. He will crush the ruler of the whole earth.   Psa 110:7  He will drink of the brook in the way; therefore he will lift up his head.

Like many prophetic passages in the Tanakh, the first verses refer to the First Advent, Messiah ben Yosef, and the latter verses refer to the second advent, when Yeshua returns to Earth as Messiah ben David, in the form of YHWH Incarnate, King of Kings.

Acts, continued:

Act 2:36  “Let all the house of Yisra’el therefore know certainly that Elohim has made him both Adonai and Messiah, this Yeshua whom you crucified.”

Act 2:37  Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Kefa and the rest of the emissaries, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

Act 2:38  Kefa said to them, “Repent, and be immersed, every one of you, in the name of Yeshua the Messiah for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Ruach HaKodesh.

Act 2:39  For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as Adonai our Elohim will call to himself.”

This was Yeshua’s message to us, and it is till the apostle’s message to us.  We must repent from sin, be immersed to be cleansed from all uncleanness and impurity.  To repent from sin means to turn away from it.  And we know, already, that sin, by definition, is the transgression of the Torah.  So to repent from sin we must turn away from transgressing Torah – there is no other definition of repentance.   And having turned away from transgressing sin, we cannot go back to transgressing the Torah or try to justify sinning.  If we do, we have given up repentance and returned to living in sin.   Those who are living in sin are not saved.

Acts, continued:

Act 2:40  With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!“

Act 2:41  Then those who gladly received his word were immersed. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

Act 2:42  They continued steadfastly in the emissaries’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

Act 2:43  Fear came on every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the emissaries.

The crooked generation from which they needed to distance themselves was the Pharisees and Scribes who had perverted the real Torah by adding their “oral law,” and from the politically appointed pro-Roman, pro-appeasement Priesthood and Officials who had been put in power in placed of the legitimate heriditary priesthood and leadership.

Acts, continued:

Act 2:44  All who believed were together, and had all things in common.

Act 2:45  They sold their [excess] possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.

We are not commanded to be homeless vagabonds, recruiting new members as a sort of Ponzi scheme to support earlier joining members.  This is a gross distortion of the teachings of Yeshua and the apostles.  We are commanded to be good stewards of our resources, and those resources include homes, agricultural lands, and commercial businesses.  What we are not to do is hoard wealth.

Luk 12:15  He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”   Luk 12:16  He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.   Luk 12:17  He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’   Luk 12:18  He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.   Luk 12:19  I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.”‘   Luk 12:20  “But Elohim said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared–whose will they be?’   Luk 12:21  So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward Elohim.”

The moral of the story is not that he shouldn’t have a home and job and wealth.  The moral of the story is that his abundance should have been used to provide for the poor and needy, not stored away for his own personal aggrandizement.

What we have in excess of our needs should be given in order to assure that all members of the assembly are cared for as equally as possible and so that everyone has the means to support themselves and study and learn Torah.  In this day and age, it would mean making sure every member of the assembly has employment, transportation, bibles and siddurs, food and clothing, medical care, decent housing, etc. – not much different from those days, really, except for perhaps internet access to keep watch on the world events and communicate with other believers.  This is what our charity should be, and not so much charities for political or ideological causes that don’t actually benefit the assembly of believers in their daily lives.  If that means taking in believers who have fallen on hard times – that is the spirit of having all things in common, not just giving a few bucks to the Red Cross.  We must be each other’s direct support with the resources that Elohim has given us.

Acts, continued:

Act 2:46  Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the Temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,

Act 2:47  praising Elohim, and having favor with all the people. Adonai added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

Let there be no mistake here – they met in the Temple daily.  That means all men were circumcised – and yes, the priests did “check.”  Every man wishing to enter the Temple grounds had to be immersed, naked, in the Mikvah, with a priest attending.  In the Messianic Kingdom, not only will the uncircumcised not be able to enter the Temple, they won’t even be allowed to enter Jerusalem at all!

Isa 52:1 Awake, awake, put on your strength, Tziyon; put on your beautiful garments, Yerushalayim, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.

Eze 44:6  You shall tell the rebellious, even to the house of Yisra’el, Thus says Adonai YHWH: you house of Yisra’el, let it suffice you of all your abominations,   Eze 44:7 in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, [to add] to all your abominations.   Eze 44:8  You have not kept the charge of my holy things; but you have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.   Eze 44:9  Thus says Adonai YHWH, No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners who are among the children of Yisra’el.

These are the words of Yeshua, as YHWH Incarnate, and they stand forever.  There are no exceptions.

Women could not enter the regular Temple grounds, but had to go to the “Women’s Court,” where they could immerse in private with a female attendant.  That means as a general rule, they were not included in the men’s prayers at the Temple.  They were separated.  It is for this reason that after Shabbat the Believers met in homes for smaller mixed-gender and family gatherings for fellowship, the after-sabbath closing meal, and community business and community prayer.

Acts, continued:

Act 3:1 Kefa and Yochanan were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.

Minchah prayers, about 3pm.

Acts, continued:

Act 3:2  A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Yafeh, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.

Act 3:3  Seeing Kefa and Yochanan about to go into the temple, he asked to receive gifts for the needy.

Act 3:4  Kefa, fastening his eyes on him, with Yochanan, said, “Look at us.”

Act 3:5  He listened to them, expecting to receive something from them.

Act 3:6  But Kefa said, “Silver and gold have I none, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Yeshua the Messiah of Natzeret, get up and walk!”

Act 3:7  He took him by the right hand, and raised him up. Immediately his feet and his ankle bones received strength.

Act 3:8  Leaping up, he stood, and began to walk. He entered with them into the temple, walking, leaping, and praising Elohim.

Act 3:9  All the people saw him walking and praising Elohim.

Act 3:10  They recognized him, that it was he who used to sit begging for gifts for the needy at the Yafeh Gate of the temple. They were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

Act 3:11  As the lame man who was healed held on to Kefa and Yochanan, all the people ran together to them in the porch that is called Shlomo’s, greatly wondering.

Act 3:12  When Kefa saw it, he responded to the people, “You men of Yisra’el, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk?

Act 3:13  The Elohim of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Ya`akov, the Elohim of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Yeshua, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.

Act 3:14  But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

Act 3:15  and killed the Prince of life, whom Elohim raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.

Act 3:16  By faith in his name has his name made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which is through him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

Act 3:17  “Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

Act 3:18  But the things which Elohim announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Messiah should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

Contrary to what you may have heard in history class, from childhood all Jewish males learned the scriptures.  They were neither ignorant nor illiterate.  But Torah scrolls were costly, and only wealthy households could afford to have their own copies written out for them – a process would took months if not more than a year.  Remember, this was prior to printing presses.  Most youths learned to read in synagogue.

Acts, continued:

Act 3:19  “Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of Adonai,

Repentance means, still, turning away from violating the written Torah and/or replacing it with the oral law [Talmud] of the Rabbis or the Torahlessness of the “church.”  .

Acts, continued:

Act 3:20  and that he may send Messiah Yeshua, who was ordained for you before,

Act 3:21  whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which Elohim spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.

That is, the time of the setting up of the earthly Kingdom.

Acts, continued:

Act 3:22  For Moshe indeed said to the fathers, Adonai Elohim will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you.

Act 3:23  It will be, that every soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.’

Actually, that’s a bit of hyperbole on Keifa’s part.  That verse is part of the passage which discusses how to tell a false prophet from a real one.  The passage actually says:

Deu 18:15  YHWH your Elohim will raise up to you a prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers, like me; to him you shall listen;   Deu 18:16  according to all that you desired of YHWH your Elohim in Chorev in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of YHWH my Elohim, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die.   Deu 18:17  YHWH said to me, They have well said that which they have spoken.   Deu 18:18  I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.   Deu 18:19 It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.   Deu 18:20  But the prophet, who shall speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.

Acts, continued:

Act 3:24  Yes, and all the prophets from Shemu’el and those who followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days.

Act 3:25  You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which Elohim made with our fathers, saying to Avraham, ‘In your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.’

Act 3:26  Elohim, having raised up his servant, Yeshua, sent him to you first, to bless you, in turning away everyone of you from your wickedness.”

That is the whole point of this exercise, for men to repent from their transgressions of Torah.

Acts, continued:

Act 4:1 As they spoke to the people, the Kohanim and the captain of the temple and the Tzedukim came to them,

Act 4:2  being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Yeshua the resurrection from the dead.

The Sadducees, who don’t believe in Resurrection because they did not consider the book of Daniel to be part of the Biblical Canon.  Yeshua, however accepted Daniel and taught extensively from it.  .

Acts, continued:

Act 4:3  They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening.

Act 4:4  But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

Act 4:5  It happened in the morning, that their rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered together in Yerushalayim.

Act 4:6  Anan the Kohen Gadol was there, with Kayafa, Yochanan, Alexander, and as many as were relatives of the Kohen Gadol.

Act 4:7  When they had stood them in the middle of them, they inquired, “By what power, or in what name, have you done this?“

The Rabbis are very insistant that a person can only teach what some other Rabbi has ruled on a subject or personally practiced previously.  They don’t accept that authority comes from Elohim.  They believe only themselves, the Rabbis, have authority.

Acts, continued:

Act 4:8  Then Kefa, filled with the Ruach HaKodesh, said to them, “You rulers of the people, and elders of Yisra’el,

Act 4:9  if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,

Act 4:10  be it known to you all, and to all the people of Yisra’el, that in the name of Yeshua the Messiah of Natzeret, whom you crucified, whom Elohim raised from the dead, in him does this man stand here before you whole.

Act 4:11  He is ‘the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.’

Act 4:12  There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!“

And while it is true that Elohim speaks English, “j-e-s-u-s” is not that name.  That is a name “given among men.”  Only the name “Yeshua” HaMashiach, YHWH Incarnate, the name given by Elohim by way of His angelic messenger Gabriel to Miryam, is the name by which we are saved.

Acts, continued:

Act 4:13  Now when they saw the boldness of Kefa and Yochanan, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Yeshua.

Meaning they had not study in any Rabbi approved schools of thought, such as the Pharisaic schools of Hillel and Shammai.  Obviously, studying under YHWH Incarnate Himself made them anything but unlearned and ignorant.

Act 4:14  Seeing the man who was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.

Act 4:15  But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,

Act 4:16  saying, “What shall we do to these men? Because indeed a notable miracle has been done through them, as can be plainly seen by all who dwell in Yerushalayim, and we can’t deny it.

Act 4:17  But so that this spreads no further among the people, let’s threaten them, that from now on they don’t speak to anyone in this name.”

Censorship is always the first line of attack when the Rabbinate is threatened by something.  Countless books by Jews have been censored and banned by the Rabbis for daring to express Biblical ideas or scientific ideas or historical ideas that are factually correct but contradict the “oral law.”  So nothing has changed much in 2000 years in that regard.

Acts, continued:

Act 4:18  They called them, and charged them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Yeshua.

Act 4:19  But Kefa and Yochanan answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of Elohim to listen to you rather than to Elohim, judge for yourselves,

Act 4:20  for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”

Act 4:21  When they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people; for everyone glorified Elohim for that which was done.

Notice, still, that they are far more concerned about appearances and their perceived power and authority in the community than they are about the wonderful work Elohim was doing!  Elohim only mattered to them to the extent that their entrenched control was supported.

Acts, continued:

Act 4:22  For the man on whom this miracle of healing was performed was more than forty years old.

Act 4:23  Being let go, they came to their own company, and reported all that the chief Kohanim and the elders had said to them.

Act 4:24  When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to Elohim with one accord, and said, “O Adonai, you are Elohim, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

Act 4:25  who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

Act 4:26  The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take council together, against Adonai, and against his Messiah.’

This is from Psalm 2:

Psa 2:1 Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?   Psa 2:2  The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against YHWH, and against his Messiah, saying,   Psa 2:3  “Let’s break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us.”   Psa 2:4  He who sits in the heavens will laugh. Adonai will have them in derision.   Psa 2:5  Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:   Psa 2:6  “Yet I have set my king on my holy hill of Tziyon.”   Psa 2:7  I will tell of the decree. YHWH said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.   Psa 2:8  Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.   Psa 2:9  You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”   Psa 2:10  Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth.   Psa 2:11  Serve YHWH with fear, and rejoice with trembling.   Psa 2:12  Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.

Acts, continued:

Act 4:27  “For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Yeshua, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Yisra’el, were gathered together

Act 4:28  to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.

Act 4:29  Now, Adonai, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness,

Act 4:30  while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Yeshua.”

Act 4:31  When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Ruach HaKodesh, and they spoke the word of Elohim with boldness.

Act 4:32  The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

Act 4:33  With great power, the emissaries gave their testimony of the resurrection of Adonai Yeshua. Great grace was on them all.

Act 4:34  For neither was there among them any who lacked, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold,

Act 4:35 and laid them at the emissaries’ feet, and distribution was made to each, according as anyone had need.

Act 4:36  Yosi, who by the emissaries was surnamed Bar-Nabba (which is, being interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,

Act 4:37  having a field, sold it, and brought the money and laid it at the emissaries’ feet.

Again, this does not mean people no longer had houses and businesses and fields – for as we will see, the Believers met in the homes of other Believers every Saturday evening, on the first day of the week, after Shabbat ended.  They had “day jobs” and continued to earn livings and live ordinary lives.  What they did not do is hoard wealth, not even for “retirement” or “college funds” or other future needs, trusting in Elohim to provide for the future, as Yeshua said He would.

The passage above in Luke, continued:

Luk 12:22  He said to his talmidim, “Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.

Luk 12:23  Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.

Luk 12:24  Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and Elolhim feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!

Luk 12:25  Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height?

Luk 12:26  If then you aren’t able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest?

Luk 12:27  Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Shlomo in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Luk 12:28  But if this is how Elohim clothes the grass in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith?

Luk 12:29  Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.

Luk 12:30  For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.

Luk 12:31  But seek Elohim’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

Luk 12:32  Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

Luk 12:33  Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

Luk 12:34  For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

If you’re treasure is in an investment brokerage firm, then it’s in the wrong place.

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