Bible Wonders - How To Get Your Masters In Repentance

Did you ever wonder? Did you ever wonder?

I do. Did you ever wonder? Why the sun always rises, but the stars never fall?

Why dry land is never satisfied by water? And why fire never says enough? Enough. What does it mean to you?

So, it's just a coincidence. and that Baal-Teshuvah, that Baal kinda has always gotten a bad rap, because we think of the people that worship Baal. He was a false god, but the concept of Baal is actually a master of something.

In fact, the word is used for Abraham in Genesis. But a Baal is a master, so when you put Baal in front of Teshuvah, a Teshuvah is one who repents. And what the Jews have taught for years is that the Baal-Teshuvah gets the higher seat at the table than does the Zadik. Now, we've talked about a Baal-Teshuvah, but the Zadik is a very important concept as well.

That Zadik we've talked about before in the show, but I wanted to revisit it. It means the righteous one and someone that serves righteousness, and certainly, it is a picture of Jesus, but in this case, it's the older brother, okay? So when you talk about the Baal-Teshuvah gets the higher seat at the table than the Zadik, what it's saying is that those who are righteous are one thing, but those who have fallen and found their need for God, like the prodigal, realized how bad he needed his father once he was sitting in the pig pen, then they have a special place in God's heart because those who have realized how badly we need God is a really special idea. So the two words, again, are Baal-Teshuvah, which both have to do, and the Zadik, which both have to do with righteousness, but one is finding righteousness. After he's fallen, he's coming back towards righteousness, and the other person sees things and they wanna make them right. If you've ever been around somebody who has to have all their clothes a certain way in the closet, or their shoes lined up a certain way, or maybe there's a way that they want the dishes in their cabinets, whatever that may be, you're looking at a Zadik, somebody that wants everything to be right, and quite often, if in your family, it was certainly that way in mine, that was my oldest sister, right?

She was a Zadik, and she had a certain way that she put things in her closet. My dad was a Zadik, and he had to make things right. Well, the challenge with those people who do everything right all the time, and they make everything right, is they begin to think that they are right because they do right, until they fall, like the older brother did, right? He fell in that he didn't realize how much the father loved the son, and he didn't share his heart for his father. It's a beautiful concept to see, but it happens so often in the church, and as Jesus was teaching this idea, the Baal Teshuva, he was actually talking about the older brother being Israel, the older brother to the Gentiles, that think they're right because they do right, but they didn't see that they were actually falling in their desperate need for Jesus. So, I find it fascinating that it's the Jews that teach this, that the Baal Teshuva gets a higher seat at the table than the Zadik, and I think Jesus made it clear, in the case of the prodigal son, when he is the one that got the calf dinner with his friends, which the older brother complained so much about. It's absolutely amazing, it gives me an idea of how God is the one that really makes me right.

And by growing in his word and consuming him, he is actually the lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, that beginning letter of that lamb is a Zadik, something to wonder about today on Bible Wonders. Do you ever wonder? Do you ever wonder? Do you ever wonder? Do you ever wonder? Do you ever wonder? Do you ever wonder? I do. I do. Thanks for watching!