Embracing Obligation: A Journey of Love and Faith

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The obligation that extends throughout interpersonal relationships is first of all an obligation on the part of the individual to God, and they recognize God has provided this Deliverance. This Feast is a celebration of God's activity; therefore, they said we will obligate ourselves. You will notice verse 27 they obligated themselves and their offspring. [00:01:28]

The progression is vital. If it's not on your heart, you will never obligate yourself to it, and you'll never obligate your children to it. Just let me say something to you in passing. Our unwillingness to obligate if you're like those who are in the framework of our influence speaks to them about the things that are important and vital to us. [00:02:18]

You will notice how comprehensive this obligation is in verse 28, and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation. So this is not a sort of we'll do this for a couple of generations and let it go now. Every generation in every Clan, Province, and City, and that these days of Purim should never fall into disuse among the Jews. [00:04:13]

We never want to forget what God has done, so we're going to do this, and we're going to obligate ourselves to do it, and we're going to make sure our children understand it, and we're going to make sure that everybody everywhere on the 127 provinces both near and far that they all understand it as well, and we will never allow this to fall into disuse. [00:04:59]

The obligation of these people because they said we will never allow this to fall into disuse, we will never allow the generations of followers to be unaware of what God did when he intervened on our behalf. Loved ones, that jump ahead of myself, but that's the whole point about the nature of the gospel and the celebration of the gospel. [00:08:00]

The deliverances of the people of God in the Old Testament are pointing forward to the great Deliverance that is provided in the Messiah Jesus. That's why I say to you frequently it is important that we learn to read our Bible's backwards because when we read in the New Testament about the Deliverance that is provided in Jesus. [00:11:25]

For the one who was the Messiah of God, for the one who would intervene and ultimately grant them freedom from their enemies, set them free. But he came to his own, and his own did not receive him, but to those who received him, who believed in his name, he gave the power to become the children of God. [00:12:17]

Why was Jesus delivered up to the Cross? So that we might be delivered from the punishment that he bore on our behalf. He does the same thing when he writes to the Colossians. Colossians 1, he has again the word delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have Redemption, the Forgiveness of our sins. [00:15:48]

The great sadness that our Jewish friends refuse to reckon with the fact that the great relief from their enemies, the great deliverance from bondage, is actually in Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, that their prophets wrote of him when they wrote surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. [00:16:34]

In the same way, and in a far more miraculous way, here now in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, forgiveness is there for us. But Paul tells us, and you know his own Agony as he mentions it in Romans, how he agonizes for his own people. He wishes, he says, that he was accursed, that his own people would trust in Jesus as Messiah. [00:17:38]

Every Sunday is Easter Sunday. Every time we celebrate the sacrament or the ordinance, we do it in remembrance of Jesus. That's why Jesus gave to his followers just another simple feast. They were familiar with the Feast of Lights, the Feast of Tabernacles, all of those feasts. Now he says, listen, here, this is a feast, this is the New Covenant in my blood. [00:20:25]

Lord, as these people all these years ago gathered and shared food with one another, so when we come together on the occasion that we celebrate the Lord's Supper, we share food with one another too. And as they distributed their Provisions to those who were in need, so we recognize that you have asked us to do the same. [00:21:57]

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