Parashah - Ekev (on the heel of)

Weekly Parashah

Scripture: 

Deut. 7:12–11:25

Torah

Adonai Desires to Bless

12 “Then it will happen, as a result of your listening to these ordinances, when you keep and do them, that Adonai your God will keep with you the covenant kindness that He swore to your fathers. 13 He will love you, bless you and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your soil, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that He swore to your fathers to give you. 14 From all peoples, you will be blessed—there will not be male or female barren among you or your livestock. 15 Adonai will remove all sickness from you, and He will not inflict on you any of the terrible diseases of Egypt that you knew, but will inflict them on all who hate you.

16 “You will devour all the peoples Adonai your God gives over to you. Your eye is not to pity them. You are not to serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you. 17 Suppose you say in your heart, ‘These nations are more numerous than I—how can I drive them out?’ 18 You are not to be afraid of them. You are to be sure to remember what Adonai your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt: 19 the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs and wonders, and the mighty hand and outstretched arm[a] by which Adonai your God brought you out. So will Adonai your God do to all the peoples you fear.

20 “Moreover, Adonai your God will send the hornet against them, until the survivors and those in hiding perish before you. 21 You should not be terrified of them, since Adonai your God is in your midst—a great and awesome God. 22 Adonai your God will drive away those nations before you little by little—you will not be able to put an end to them all at once, or else the beasts of the field will multiply on you. 23 But Adonai your God will give them over to you, and He will throw them into great confusion until they are destroyed. 

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Scripture: 

Isaiah 49 : 14 – 51 : 3

Haftarah

14 But Zion said: “Adonai has forsaken me, Adonai has forgotten me.”
15 “Can a woman forget her nursing baby or lack compassion for a child of her womb?
Even if these forget, I will not forget you.
16 Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of My hands.
Your walls are continually before Me.
17 Your children will come quickly.
Your destroyers and devastators will go away from you.
18 Lift up your eyes around and see: all of them will gather and come to you.”
“As I live” —it is Adonai’s declaration— “you will wear them all as jewelry and bind them on like a bride.”
19 For your waste and desolate places and your destroyed land will now be surely too small for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away.
20 The children of your bereavement will yet say in your ears, “The place is too cramped for me!
Make room for me to settle in.”

21 Then you will say in your heart, “Who has borne these for me?
Wasn’t I bereaved of my children— barren, an exile and wandering?
So who has raised these?
Behold, I was left alone— these, where were they?”

22 Thus says Adonai Elohim: “Look, I will lift My hand to the nations, and raise My banner to the peoples!
They will bring your sons on their chest, and carry your daughters on their shoulders.
23 Kings will be your guardians, their princesses your nurses.
They will bow down to you with their face to the ground, and lick the dust of your feet.
Then you will know that I am Adonai— those hoping in Me will not be ashamed.”

24 Can plunder be taken from the mighty, or captives of the righteous freed?
25 For thus says Adonai: “Yes, captives of the mighty will be taken and the prey of the tyrant will be freed.
For I will oppose your adversary.
I will save your children.

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Scripture: 

Jn. 13:31–14:31
Heb. 11:8-13
Rom. 8:31-39

Brit Chadashah

John 13 : 31 – 14 : 31

Leaving a Legacy of Love

31 Then when Judah had gone out, Yeshua said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him! 32 If God is glorified in Him,[a] God will glorify Him in Himself, and will glorify Him at once. 33 Little children, I am with you only a little longer. You will search for Me; and just as I told the Judean leaders, so I say to you now, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’

34 “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, so also you must love one another. 35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

36 “Master, where are You going?” Simon Peter said to Him.

Yeshua answered, “Where I am going, you cannot follow Me now; but you will follow Me later.”

37 Peter said to Him, “Master, why can’t I follow You now? I’ll lay down my life for You!”

38 Yeshua answers, “Will you lay down your life for Me? Amen, amen I tell you, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times!”

The Way to the Father’s House

14 “Do not let your heart be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in Me. 2 In My Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? 3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to Myself, so that where I am you may also be. 4 And you know the way to where I am going.”[b]

5 Thomas said to Him, “Master, we don’t know where You are going. How can we know the way?”

6 Yeshua said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life! No one comes to the Father except through Me. 7 If you have come to know Me, you will know My Father also. From now on, you do know Him and have seen Him.”

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Hebrews 11 : 8 – 13

8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place he was to receive as an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he was going. 9 By faith he migrated to the land of promise as if it were foreign, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob—fellow heirs of the same promise. 10 For he was waiting for the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

11 By faith even Sarah herself received ability to conceive[a] when she was barren and past the age, since she considered the One who had made the promise to be faithful. 12 So from one—and him as good as dead—were fathered offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven, and as uncountable as the sand on the seashore.[b]

13 These all died in faith without receiving the things promised—but they saw them and welcomed them from afar, and they confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.

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Romans 8 : 31 – 39

31 What then shall we say in view of these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? [a] 32 He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how shall He not also with Him freely give us all things? 33 Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. [b] 34 Who is the one who condemns? It is Messiah,[c] who died, and moreover was raised,[d] and is now at the right hand of God and who also intercedes for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Messiah? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written,

“For Your sake we are being put to death all day long;
    we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.”[e]

37 But in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Messiah Yeshua our Lord.

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