Parashat Ki Tetze
God has mercy on His children, even when they have strayed. He goes out to find them. He seeks and saves the lost.
In His great compassion and mercy, God sent His Son Yeshua to bring the lost sheep of Israel back to God and to open the door to eternal life for all who would repent and put their trust in Him.
In Galatians 3, Paul argues that Yeshua, having been hung on a tree, is likened unto the accursed one hung on a tree spoken of in Deuteronomy 21. The condemned of that passage was guilty, yet Yeshua was innocent. In Yeshua’s death, He bore the curse of the law (i.e., the wages of sin is death) in place of those who are condemned to die because of their sin (everyone).
I will rescue my flock…And I will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he shall feed them: he shall feed them and be their shepherd. And I, the LORD, will be their God, and my servant David shall be prince among them. I am the LORD; I have spoken.
Ezekiel 34:22-24