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PART 2 - UNDERSTANDING OUR NEW BORN AGAIN SPIRITMAN from the Hebrew Letters in the word NESHAMAH - [Sermon Note]

Pastor Deborah




Only your spiritman has the real passion of God

Jealousy is of flesh, and not of spirit

Comparison


Unbelievers do not have new nature of God, they don't know God

When you divide yourselves up in groups, you are acting like without God


Adam nature influence


Feed on spiritual food for spiritman

Understand if we do not grow our spiritman, we will be just physically growing older and older and behave like babies


Inmature infants


We are asked to strive to know Christ

A person who is worried will manifest the flesh


Neshamah  (Hebrew: נשמה) is a Hebrew word which can mean "breath", "soul" or "spirit".


DESIRE.


In Hebrew, this is called ratzon.


Desire is a mighty force, inviting us to explore possibilities that rationality would show to be wrong or difficult.


If you walk with God, your every desire of your heart, God will give you.


Say, for example, you’d like to become successful in a certain occupation.

Even though you may have failed every class in school, you can persevere and succeed if you have the will and desire. Why?

Because you want to.


The power, the crown, of desire is so potent that it has the ability to transcend and actu­ally transform your intellect.


In turn, there’s another concept that even transcends desire, and that is pleasure (tainug).


If a person derives pleasure from something he will automatically gravitate toward it.


As a result he will mobilize his intellect and devise a strategy to attain it.


You will be at the top and not bottom


That’s why kesser is represented by the letter kaf—twenty—to teach us that there are two levels, or faculties, within the crown: desire and pleasure, with each faculty containing ten aspects.


These aspects are also known as the ten holy Sefiros (spheres), the ten building blocks of Creation.


For the answer we can look to the reason G‑d gave us the Torah.


We did not receive the Torah to have some nice stories to entertain ourselves with, to read to our kids as a bedtime story, or to analyze in a literature class.


On the contrary, the purpose of Torah is that we carry out His law, i.e.,

that we fulfill G‑d’s desire and in so doing give Him pleasure.


It therefore states in the Talmud: “Great is the study of TORAH,

for it BRINGS to ACTION.” 


Like the crown, Torah’s ultimate purpose is to GO BEYOND the HEAD,


BEYOND the INTELLECT, and PROPEL us to ACT in ACCORDANCE with G‑D’S WILL, thus REFINING us as people and COMPLETING G‑D’S PURPOSE in CREATION.


Faith is action


EZEKIEL 36:26 MSG

I’ll give you a new heart, put a new spirit in you.

I’ll remove the stone heart from your body and replace it with a heart that’s God-willed, not self-willed.

I’ll put my Spirit in you and make it possible for you to do what I tell you and live by my commandments.


ISAIAH 26:9 EASY

During the night, I think about you a lot.

When morning arrives, I want to be near to you IN MY SPIRIT.

When you come to judge people on the earth, then people will understand your justice.


Spiritman has new desires in Christ

G1939 desire

Original: ἐπιθυμία

Transliteration: epithumia

Phonetic: ep-ee-thoo-mee'-ah

Strong's Definition: From G1937; a longing (especially for what is forbidden) :- concupiscence, DESIRE, LUST (after).


GALATIANS 5:24-25 AMP

And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the

sinful nature together with its passions and appetites.


If we [claim to] live by the [Holy] Spirit, we must also walk by the Spirit [with personal integrity, godly character, and moral courage—our conduct empowered by the Holy Spirit].


Reckon yourself dead

i have the nature of Christ


Speak who you are in Christ

Dead man does not react

the old person is dead

when you see the old person dead, just declare you died already


Walk in the spirit, build your spiritman

Love is patient, love is kind


When the shin is representative of the intellectual dimension,

the three lines stand for the three intellectual faculties of the Sefiros:


the right line being Chochmah, the flash of an IDEA;

the left line being Binah, UNDERSTANDING;

and the centerline Daas, APPLICATION of KNOWLEDGE.


Finally, there is the dimension of the emotions, or middos.

Here the shin’s right line represents Chessed, kindness; the left line represents Gevurah, severity or discipline; and the center­line represents Tiferes, mercy or compassion.


Furthermore, the three lines of the shin can signify the three pillars upon which the world stands: the study of Torah, prayer and good deeds.


Yet another dimension of the shin’s columns is reflected by the

three Patriarchs. 


Abraham is represented by the right line, Chessed (loving-kindness), as he personified absolute kindness, an outward focus through connection to others, and the per­formance of good deeds. 


Isaac is represented by the left line, Gevurah (discipline and severity), indicative of his being intro­spective and demanding of himself; concentrating on self-refinement and intense prayer. 


We don't want to put ourselves under self-righteous anymore


Jacob is the centerline.

This is Tiferes, or harmony, because he took the qualities of Abraham and Isaac, kindness and severity, and synthesized them into mercy.


Jacob also represents Torah study, because the Torah blends the positive and negative commandments into a harmo­nious whole.


The letter shin actually has four different forms.

There’s a shin with a dot above the right column,a shin with a dot

above the left column, a shin with four columns instead of three,

and finally a silent shin.


Everything has a meaning


When the dot is on the right, the shin emphasizes Chessed,

the concept of kindness.


When the dot is on the left, the shin (pronounced “sin”) emphasizes the aspect of judgment or severity.


Guard our hearts, don't let rubbish enter

don't entertain half truth

fill our hearts with the word of God


These two forms are illustrated by the words shaar and sei’ar.

The shin of the word shaar (gate) has its point on the right,  שׁער,  as a gate allows people to pass in and out, an aspect of openness or chessed.


This shin is full of energy, potential and benevolence.

The shin in your spirit

you now have the ability to overcome evil

that ability is deposited in the new spirit man


If we switch the shin’s dot to the left side, which is Gevurah (i.e., contraction),

the resulting word is sei’ar,  שׂער,  or hair.

Hair has the properties of life, but a life-force that is

tremendously diminished or weak.


One can pull out or cut a strand of hair and not feel any pain,

unlike when one cuts a finger or other part of the body.


A hair is rooted in a follicle, a concentrated, restricted opening.


We thus say that the shin with a point on the left side

represents severity and constraint.


The shin with four columns is found on the tefillin that is worn on the head.


One side of the head tefillin has a shin with three lines and the other has one with four lines.


In his personal notes the Rebbe offers two reasons for this.


First, the four-lined shin is the shin of the Luchos, the Tablets of the Ten Commandments.


The four lines represent the awesomeness and holiness of the engraving of G‑d’s word into physical stone.


To visualize this, imagine the three lines of the shin etched into stone.


If you focus on the stone that remains around the shin, there will be four columns.


These are the four lines of this form of the shin.

They are the wake, the reflected light of the Luchos.

The second of the Rebbe’s reasons is that the four-pronged shin  represents the four mothers: Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah.


One can make a connection between these two interpreta­tions.


Like the Luchos, the teachings of our mothers are truly inscribed

upon our hearts and minds.


A mother teaches out of love and compassion.

Her lessons commence even before birth and make an everlasting impression upon her children.


Contrast this with the instruction of one’s father.

This begins slightly later in life, and often in an atmosphere of austerity and sever­ity.


The mother’s education is more fundamental, more indelible

and is therefore represented by the Luchos, which are engraved.


The father’s education is likened to the letters of the Torah,

ink on parchment, which can be erased.

Even though the father’s instructions are important, the mother has a more impression­able and permanent effect on the child.


Our mothers and the awesomeness of their teachings are therefore, like the Luchos, represented by the four-pronged shin.


We are cut off from Endemic nature

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