16. To be attached to Torah scholars and their disciples.
17. To rise up before an aged man, and to honor a Torah scholar,
getting up before him.
18. To have a reverent fear of the Sanctuary. A reverent
fear of G-d's place. Not the physical
sanctuary but the spiritual sanctuary, to have just a reverent awe of
it.
19. To declare the Sabbath Holy, with words.
20. To rest from work on the Sabbath.
21. To be happy on the festivals.
22. To clear away Hametz, which is leavened food, on the 14th
of Nissan which is just before Passover.
23. To eat Matzah, unleavened bread, on the first night of
Passover.
24. To tell about the exodus from Egypt on the night of the
15th of Nissan - which is also the night before Passover.
To tell about the Exodus - to make it sound like it was
actually we who were taken out of the land of Egypt. We should
tell the children especially, but all of us, even the adults, should
understand that G-d set us free.
We were taken out of the land of Egypt. Without taking us out
of there, we never would have had the Abrahamic Covenant and
none of us would have been in it.
25. To rest from work on the first day of Passover.
26. To count seven whole weeks from the day that the Omer
was brought into the Sanctuary - until we have which day?
Until we have the day of Pentecost, 49 days later. On the day
of Pentecost, we go to the place of our meeting and we study
G-d's Word. The highest form
of praise is to study G-d's Word.
27. To rest from work on the seventh day of Passover - which
is another Sabbath.
28. To rest from work on the festival of Shavu'oth.
29. To rest from work on the first day of Tishri - which
is Rosh haShanah, the New Year.
30. To hear the sound of the Shofar, the ram's horn, on the
first of Tishri - which is Rosh haShanah.
31. To rest from work on Yom Kippur - which is the Day
of Atonement.
32. To fast on Yom Kippur. Why? We can say Yeshua
atoned for us, but we've got to stop and remember who we are. I've taught
this many times. We come to Rosh haShanah, which is the New Year.
Then we come into the 10 Days of Awe when everybody should go
through the Mikvah. Yeshua
did it so He wouldn't break the
Law. Did Yeshua do it or not? Yet,
we hear people say that don't have to do it as Christians because we
don't live under the law, the Torah.
My friends, you better smarten up on how we live and what Yeshua
told us to do. we're not living by grace, we're living by the mercy
of G-d. We're SAVED by grace. And
once we're saved, Yeshua says, "Why
do you call Me 'L-rd,
L-rd' and not do the things that
I say?" And we've got
scriptures like where James said "Show me your faith without
your works and I'll show you my faith by my works."
My friends, we've got to go out and do something. G-d
said get up and go to work doing the things I told you to do. So we're
supposed to be out there doing these things that we don't seem to be
doing. And, according to these commandments, there's not much here to
do. Let's go on: