to do more than the minimum for someone who is hurting: to truly love your neighbor as yourself.
The term is also applied to giving beyond the tithe to charities.
Therefore Ts’dakah is translated as
acts of loving kindness.
Ts’dakah is to be done in love,
cheerfully, with no thought of reward.
And
acts of loving-kindness
Romans 5:12
Heb. 1:8 your throne God is forever and ever and the scepter is the righteous scepter of your kingdom.
The word here is Gk. Euthutes which means:
uprightness, equity, impartiality;
which are a description of
righteousness.
We are the righteousness of God in Christ
Matt. 5:6
John 6:53
Righteousness in action 5v10
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness.
Righteousness
is doing the perfect will of God
so this is hungering to do His perfect will
seeking him and His righteousness
with the whole heart and with zeal
and not giving up.
Press on for the sake of righteousness.
A good biblical example is
Noach
ish tzaddik – a righteous man.
צַדִיק Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: tsaddiq Phonetic Spelling: (tsad-deek’) Definition: just, righteous
Noah/Noe/Noach –
B’resheet/Genesis 6:9 – 11:32
Righteous and he was wholehearted so that with God Noah did walk
His heart was set apart from others of his day
His heart was whole because he was full of God.
Ts D K is being wholehearted in the ways of righteousness.
Only our Heavenly Father can fill us, and give meaning and purpose in our lives.
We are cautioned not to look to the world to fill us.
B’resheet/Genesis 9:12-16
When we walk righteously with God we offer Him our trustworthyservice.
Sometimes in the face of YHVH/Yehoveh/Adonai’s faithfulness, we flaunt our strength in an arrogant attitude of entitlement. If we truly hope to walk with God and to be called righteous by Him, it will be according to His plan and not by our choice. Our desire then should be to live a life of devotion to God. Not satisfying our own wants or walking pridefully in our own strength, but instead, seeking after Him to fill us up and make us whole in heart.
V 14 you will be established by acts of loving kindness beyond righteousness.
Is 54 :17 acts of lovingkindness are of Me.
In Matt 9:13 when Yeshua/Jesus said,
I desire loving kindness not sacrifice:
He was quoting fromHos 6:6here;
the Hebrew text has
Hesed or chesed.
This word is often translated asmercy.
The ideal is not to have to kill something and sacrifice its’ blood to cover our sinful ways; but to be
a tsaddik – a righteous person
and going beyond the basic requirement of
righteous living,
to show,
and be,
and
do lovingkindness
in our dealings with everyday aspects of life.
This is the WAY the Truth and the Life.
It is how Yeshua/Jesus lived and told us to
follow Him by example
doing as He did.
This is our part of righteousness.
Matt 5:6 righteousness in action and…
Matt 7:12 doing unto others as…
Acts of loving kindness = doing unto others as you would want done to you; and as we sow, so we shall reap; often not from the same people or immediately, but, all actions have consequences.
In Hebrew these acts are called Mitsvot / Mitsvah.
מִצְווֹת mitzvoth/mitzvot/mitsvot
מִצְוָה mitzvah
the feminine noun mitzvah, meaning:
divine commandment.
Mitzvot are the expression of the will of God,
and include not only an order to do something;
in its primary meaning, the Hebrew word:
mitzvah ˈmɪtsvə /, means: commandment,
מִצְוָה , [mit͡sˈva],
Biblical: miṣwah;
plural מִצְווֹת mitzvot [mit͡sˈvot],
The plural is mitsvot and it means:
religious and moral obligations.
These obligations include all commandments, statutes, ordinances, observances, teachings and testimonies. Having no exact translation, it is rendered in different contexts as
good deeds, law or command
and can also mean:
duty or obligation
which is a key concept in Jewish law.
The expression in the
Greek language
is normally translated as either:
good deeds or good works;
but it can also include
righteousness
because
doing righteousness
is a common usage: tsadee
InMatt. 6:2 charitable giving in the Hebrew is either:
Ts’dakah or Mitsvah.
Ts’dakah is from the root
ts-d-k as in our post title
and as noted earlier means:
to do right to be just;
as well as in todays understanding referring to
charitable giving, which is going beyond the tithe.
In Biblical Hebrew Ts’dakah is translated
acts of loving kindness
meaning:
going beyond what is required (righteousness) by God.
Our salvation is NOT the result of our works but
it is the cause of our works.
We are not made righteous by our works
but we do good works/mitzvot because we are righteous.
Mitsvot are the evidence that we have been made
righteous by faith.
Gen. 15:6
Good deeds/Mitsvot
are the evidence of our relationship with our Heavenly Father and with Yeshua/Jesus.
As He Himself said in Matt 7:16 you will recognize them by their fruit.
Also in Acts 26:19 Paul said
Works worthy of repentance are also called
mitsvot/mitsvah or
doing righteousness.
mitsvah: commandment
Original Word: מִצְוָה Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Transliteration: mitsvah Phonetic Spelling: (mits-vaw’) Definition: commandment
Other references: Matt 7:21; 16:27; Luke 3:8; John 5:29 Acts 26:20; Rom 2:10,13; 1cor 3:8; Eph 2:10; 2Tim 4:14 Titus 1:16, 2:14, 3:8; heb10:24; james 2:14-26; 2Pet 1:5, 3:10;1John 2:4, 3:16-18; Rev 2:5;19:8;20:12,13; 22:12.
We are made righteous
by faith and grace
but
righteousness
is also ACTION.
This is often what we miss in this term
because
we think it is something
we have or become
and NOT
something we are
to DO
The word righteousness is
the noun form of the Hebrew root Ts d k .
ts d k and the Greek verb Dikaio
both mean
to do right, to be just.
They are
verbs that require action
by the subject/person identified by the verb.
When we are
made righteous by our faith
our behavior has to change.
If it does not
1 John 2:3-6 tells us a serious truth.
There are many times in the Brit Chadashah/New Testament that we have references like Acts 26:19 quoted by Paul.
And to him and all new testament authors, the word
believe
required
action
and as in that reference, this change in behavior
comes from above, as written in Pauls reference to the
gift of righteousness
in Romans 5:17 and 6:18.
There’s much we can do to be a better person yet we can do so much more when faith and commitment to God bring us the gift of righteousness.
The first part is identical to the common Hebrew word בית bayit meaning house:
The second part of the name
Bethesda
is thought to derive from the Hebrew noun
חסד hesed,
meaning kindness or fidelity:
חסד בית
Bethesda
pronounced bay-thes-dah
beth chicda’, house of mercy
or the flowing water,
It is the Hebrew name of a pool, reservoir or tank, with five porches; it was near the Sheep Gate of Jerusalem, upon which an angel of the Lord periodically descended and stirred the waters.
Bethesda
John 5:2
Beit Hesed
House of loving-kindness
Beit בית
The noun
בית bayit
means
house.
Hesed חסד
The verb חסדhasad means
to be good or kind.
The important noun
חסד hesed
means:
loving-kindness or allegiance in a legally binding way.
Adjective
חסיד hasid
means
kind or godly.
house of loving kindness
בית של חסד אוהב
Righteousness and holiness
are the
foundation of relationships
for all of humanity.
We all have relationships; one with our Heavenly Father, another with people, and even with animals.
We are called to: do right to be just in every endeavor and we are to keep ourselves pure.
A good guide for us is according to Jesus/Yeshuas’ words: whatever you have done to the least of these my brethren you have done unto me.
If we remember that what we do is as if we have done it to Jesus/Yeshua and how we treat others we are treating Him!
It may help us to rethink some of our actions.
That is our minimum standard we are required as
Lev. 11:45, to be holy as He is.
And although none of us is perfect while in this earthly body; each of us must strive to do right and to keep pure.
Our Heavenly Father knows the intent of our hearts and sees our faith and the Blood of the Lamb.
So long as we acknowledge Him, do right (Micah again), and keep ourselves pure, we know that we have eternal life.
This righteousness is called
Ts’dakah – acts of loving kindness.
And as we are the
house/beit
in which
His Spirit of Holiness/Ruach HaKodesh
abides/lives
we can become
His Bethesda!
John 5:2
Beit Hesed – House of loving-kindness
where Yeshua/Jesus said inJohn 7:38
From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water but this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive.
The rivers of living waters of
His Ruach HaKodesh/Spirit of Holiness
are flowing from within us as, without apology,
we live out our identity in Messiah and
DO the good works
He prepared in advance for us to DO.
So it could be said that Ts D K is found in Bethesda!
Beit בית
Hesed חסד
“house of loving kindness”
בית של חסד אוהב
Shalom shalom
‘Mishpachah’
‘Family/Tribe’
משפחה
Mish-pa-KHa,
friends, visitors and every reader…
Please don’t leave this page before making certain you are His
Beit בית
Hesed חסד
“house of loving kindness”
בית של חסד אוהב
and are truly born from above.
Know of a certainty that Jesus/Yeshua is
your Redeemer, Savior, Lord
and soon returning King
and that you have a personal relationship with Him.
You are greatly loved and precious in His sight.
It’s all about Life and Relationship, not Religion.
NOT SURE? YOU CAN BE..
SAY THE FOLLOWING FROM YOUR HEART RIGHT NOW…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry.
I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Our salvation is NOT the result of our works but
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