![]() ![]() God’s forgiveness is like a ladder that we can use to climb out of that pit of guilt and shame. Sin has put us into a pit of shame, guilt and torment. In those days a ladder was commonly used by well diggers to get out of the pit that they dug. This is the word for a ladder or staircase that is used to take you out of a pit. Our next word is salam, Samek, Lamed, and Mem. He does not throw the baby out with the bath water. God just cleans us up of all our sins and throws them and not us in hell. Hell comes from the word Gahanna which was a garbage dump outside Jerusalem. Once God salah brushed those sins off of us through His forgiveness He then salal that is picks them up and discard them or toss them into a garbage heap and burns them away. It is used to express the idea of tossing something away that is worthless or just plain garbage. We see the next word in line is salal, Samek, Lamed and Lamed. The first thing God does when he forgives us is to completely brush all those sins off of us so that the stain and disfigurement of sin will be removed so he can see His beautiful bride. This word means to means to throw off, to shake off to remove from something. Our next SL word is salah Samek, Lamed and Hei. Let’s continue to follow the Alphabet here and see what is next. Forgiveness therefore means that we will not be consumed by the guilt and the consequences of our sins. Sin may burn us, it may leave some scars, but by the time we get to heaven there will be no trace of any of those burns or scars. As a good Baptist we could say it also means pulling those sins away from us so we will not get burned by the fires of hell. ![]() Forgiveness is God pulling all those sins away from us, separating from those sins so we will no longer get burned by them. It has the idea of pulling back or separating. This word has its origins in the swift pulling back of your hand when it gets too close to the fire. The next word is salad Samek, Lamed and Daleth. God now owns us and our sins, so what is He going to do with those sins? The moment we confess our sins to Him he promptly pays for them. Forgiveness then means that the price and penalty for our sins has been paid in full. ![]() So God came in human form to suffer a physical death to purchase those sins from Satan so we would not die a spiritual death. He wants to purchase us back but the old Buzzard demands a steep price, a life. God cannot fellowship with us, own us or even face us because of His purity and holiness. Hence the old saying, he is worth his weight in gold. In ancient times you would weigh the value of something you wished to purchase against the weight of something you would use to make that purchase. This word means to pay promptly, it also means to weigh against something. The first word we find is sala’ Samek, Lamed and Aleph. So let’s just look at the other SL words in Hebrew and see if it does not give us some insight into just what this forgiveness of God really means. Bricks, siding, and framing are all different words and exist independently and can have an independent usage, yet at the same time they all share a relationship to SL or a house which is their primary use. The siding would be SLB, the wood framing would be SLD etc. The word for the bricks used on the house would be SLA. So let’s use a pretend or made up language and I will say the word house in my pretend language is SL. A house has bricks, siding, wood framing etc. Sort of like the building material of a house. There are a number of Samek Lamed words and often in a Semitic language words built upon the dual root are often related. The word for forgiveness is salach which has a Semitic root SL. But what does that mean? Are our sins buried in the deepest sea, do they still exist somewhere? Does God’s forgiveness means that your sins no longer exist, are they just covered over, or are they really just forgotten by God? All it tells me is that it means pardon or forgiveness. But I never considered just what is this forgiveness that we get from God? I was hoping that my lexicon would give some deep insight into this Hebrew word salach which we render as forgiveness. I remember as a child there was a little Sunday School we would sing, practically every Sunday.Īs a little kid that was a fun song to sing. Psalms 130:4, “For with thee there is forgiveness (סלח), that thou mayest be feared.” ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |