Paul’s Theology of Righteousness – Part 12

Review

• ⁷ To open blind eyes, To bring out prisoners from the prison, Those who sit in darkness from the prison house. Isaiah 42:7 NKJV
• ⁶ For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. Romans 5:6 NKJV
• ⁸ He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 1 John 3:8 NKJV
  • Destroy: to loosen (implies to release)
  • Jesus did not do away with what bound her, but He released her from it.
• Redemption was God’s way of making mankind righteous and releasing man from the works of the devil.
  • Redemption: to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God’s violated law (poverty, sickness, spiritual death)
• The seven redemptive names of God – God has given us the redemptive right to expect these in the name of Jesus.
  • Jehovah: He is that He is. He can’t NOT be.
    • Jehovah Jireh – the Lord will provide
    • Jehovah Shammah – the Lord is there (present)
    • Jehovah Rapha – the Lord Who heals you
    • Jehovah Tsidkenu – the Lord our Righteousness
    • Jehovah Nissi – the Lord our banner (victory)
    • Jehovah Shalom – the Lord our peace
    • Jehovah Raa – the Lord our shepherd

Jehovah Shalom

• ¹ But the Israelites did evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hand of Midian for seven years. ² And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of Midian the Israelites made themselves the dens which are in the mountains and the caves and the strongholds. ³ For whenever Israel had sown their seed, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them. ⁴ They would encamp against them and destroy the crops as far as Gaza and leave no nourishment for Israel, and no ox or sheep or donkey. ⁵ For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came like locusts for multitude; both they and their camels could not be counted. So they wasted the land as they entered it. ⁶ And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites, and the Israelites cried to the Lord. ⁷ And when they cried to the Lord because of Midian, ⁸ The Lord sent a prophet to the Israelites, who said to them, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt and brought you forth out of the house of bondage. ⁹ And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out from before you and gave you their land. ¹⁰ And I said to you, I am the Lord your God; fear not the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But you have not obeyed My voice. ¹¹ Now the Angel of the Lord came and sat under the oak (terebinth) at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, and his son Gideon was beating wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites. ¹² And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, The Lord is with you, you mighty man of [fearless] courage. ¹³ And Gideon said to him, O sir, if the Lord is with us, why is all this befallen us? And where are all His wondrous works of which our fathers told us, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt? But now the Lord has forsaken us and given us into the hand of Midian. ¹⁴ The Lord turned to him and said, Go in this your might, and you shall save Israel from the hand of Midian. Have I not sent you? ¹⁵ Gideon said to Him, Oh Lord, how can I deliver Israel? Behold, my clan is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house. ¹⁶ The Lord said to him, Surely I will be with you, and you shall smite the Midianites as one man. ¹⁷ Gideon said to Him, If now I have found favor in Your sight, then show me a sign that it is You Who talks with me. ¹⁸ Do not leave here, I pray You, until I return to You and bring my offering and set it before You. And He said, I will wait until you return. ¹⁹ Then Gideon went in and prepared a kid and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour. The meat he put in a basket and the broth in a pot, and brought them to Him under the oak and presented them. ²⁰ And the Angel of God said to him, Take the meat and unleavened cakes and lay them on this rock and pour the broth over them. And he did so. ²¹ Then the Angel of the Lord reached out the tip of the staff that was in His hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes, and there flared up fire from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. Then the Angel of the Lord vanished from his sight. ²² And when Gideon perceived that He was the Angel of the Lord, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord God! For now I have seen the Angel of the Lord face to face! ²³ The Lord said to him, Peace be to you, do not fear; you shall not die. ²⁴ Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and called it, The Lord is Peace. To this day it still stands in Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiezrites. Judges 6:1-24 AMPC
  • Peace in Hebrew: Shalom — whole, entire (nothing missing, nothing broken) not based on outward circumstances, but  inward condition

• ¹⁷ Gideon said to Him, If now I have found favor in Your sight, then show me a sign that it is You Who talks with me. ¹⁸ Do not leave here, I pray You, until I return to You and bring my offering and set it before You. And He said, I will wait until you return. ¹⁹ Then Gideon went in and prepared a kid and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour. The meat he put in a basket and the broth in a pot, and brought them to Him under the oak and presented them. ²⁰ And the Angel of God said to him, Take the meat and unleavened cakes and lay them on this rock and pour the broth over them. And he did so. ²¹ Then the Angel of the Lord reached out the tip of the staff that was in His hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes, and there flared up fire from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. Then the Angel of the Lord vanished from his sight. ²² And when Gideon perceived that He was the Angel of the Lord, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord God! For now I have seen the Angel of the Lord face to face! Judges‬ ‭6:17-22‬ ‭AMPC‬‬
  • The sacrifice points to Jesus.
    • If it’s really God, it will follow the pattern of scripture.
    • The goat is the sin offering (He died in your place). You are complete.
    • The unleavened bread is the meal offering (your walk with God is secure). Your sin is not you; sin is no longer the truest thing about those joined to Jesus!