As I begin this blog for the second time in as many days, I begin it with mixed emotions: The lady who cleans house for us has just lost her unmarried sister an hour or so ago to a premature death leaving her 9 year old daughter behind. This child will now become the responsibility of us all either directly or indirectly!
These cycles of life are inescapable, and dare I say, especially here in Africa whether we be servants of The Most High, YHWH El Shaddai or not!
These cycles of life are the tools by which YHWH chisels and forms us to allow us to arrive at the stations in our lives He has predestined for us & it would seem that the entire concept of sanctification after rebirth in and through Messiah Yeshua is a achieved by a series of Divinely sanctioned works in and around our lives.
These works may begin long before we are brought to the thresh-hold of initial rebirth so as to set up the ideal situation for our acceptance of The Messiah's proposal to us - basically the ground is tilled and prepared to accept The Seed of Life, The Word Himself in His perfect season.
These cycles of life are inescapable, and dare I say, especially here in Africa whether we be servants of The Most High, YHWH El Shaddai or not!
These cycles of life are the tools by which YHWH chisels and forms us to allow us to arrive at the stations in our lives He has predestined for us & it would seem that the entire concept of sanctification after rebirth in and through Messiah Yeshua is a achieved by a series of Divinely sanctioned works in and around our lives.
These works may begin long before we are brought to the thresh-hold of initial rebirth so as to set up the ideal situation for our acceptance of The Messiah's proposal to us - basically the ground is tilled and prepared to accept The Seed of Life, The Word Himself in His perfect season.
It is also imperative to understand that by the time we have arrived at this perfect season for the Seed planting we have in most cases been left to many years of seemingly unilateral decision making entirely based on our own humanistic opinions and observations of what is right and what is wrong. Read the parable of the Prodigal Son Luke 15 & Is. 45:1-7 esp. vs. 4-5.
One of the most erroneous and humanly comforting doctrines that we are taught is that once you "believe on The name of Jesus" it is plain sailing requiring no real change to outlives, habits and actions with the exception of attending a few religious rituals and doing what the Pastor says is right!
We have been taught a half truth - we are correctly taught that we need to be Blood washed through The Lamb of YHWH FULL STOP! However what we are never taught is that after our rebirth in and through Messiah Yeshua WE ARE TO WALK ACCORDING TO HIS RUACH (SPIRIT) AS DEFINED AND OUTLINED IN THE WORD OF YHWH, THE BIBLE!
We are never taught the importance of true sanctification as defined in the Word and as directed by The Ruach - we are instead taught that we are to follow the local denominations human interpretations of The Word (total denial of The Torah and the implementation of replacement theology).
We are also erroneously taught that we are to abide by and conform to the rules of the local church in all things be it dress code, date and times of worship, theological interpretations or whatever - but overall a uniformity and "niceness" so as to present a clinically clean but spiritually cold socially acceptable and liked "organisation" and "organ" of Christ is what we are "taught" to be!
Stop and consider the following if you will please: John 3:3-9 : Wow does Nicodemus not describe many of our religious leaders today, but it is not him I wish to focus on - it is what our Master Yeshua says in verses 6-8
People, this Elohim of ours is The Creator of NATURE AND NATURE IS WILD, UNPREDICTABLE, UNRELENTING & OFTEN SEEMINGLY DOWNRIGHT CRUEL!
This same Elohim, Who never changes, works the same way in us as HE does in Nature IF WE WILL ALLOW HIM! HE is like the wind; HIS Love is like a cleansing fire; HE is jealous to the EXTREMES OVER HIS NAME AND HIS PEOPLE -HE IS RADICAL; HE IS WILD; HE IS UNPREDICTABLE; HE IS UNRELENTING; SEEMINGLY DOWNRIGHT CRUEL AND COMPLETELY OUT OF THE BOX AND HE HATES COWARDS!!!! BUT PRAISE YHWH HE IS A MERCIFUL AND FORGIVING ELOHIM IN AND THROUGH YESHUA Ex. 20:5; 34:14; Deut. 4:24; Eze. 20:8 ff; Mat. 10:26-33; 1 Kings 8:23; Is. 45:5 again; 46:8-10; Is. 55:8-11; Ps. 138:8; Phil. 1:6; Deut. 20:8; Josh. 1:7-9; Rev 21:8.; 2 Sam. 24:14; Ps. 86:5; eph. 2:4.
We also need to understand that we are unable to do anything good out of ourselves! We are so often taught that we must die to self, great I say, but how do you do it? What about you must love your neighbour as yourself - again - great advice but how do you achieve this so that it is according to Elohim's way and not our perceived idea of right and wrong (remember the tree in the Garden?)?
Or what about do not be afraid!
My wife and I were talking yesterday morning and I made the statement that we all, regardless of who we may be, are motivated to a greater or lesser degree by fear!
One of the most erroneous and humanly comforting doctrines that we are taught is that once you "believe on The name of Jesus" it is plain sailing requiring no real change to outlives, habits and actions with the exception of attending a few religious rituals and doing what the Pastor says is right!
We have been taught a half truth - we are correctly taught that we need to be Blood washed through The Lamb of YHWH FULL STOP! However what we are never taught is that after our rebirth in and through Messiah Yeshua WE ARE TO WALK ACCORDING TO HIS RUACH (SPIRIT) AS DEFINED AND OUTLINED IN THE WORD OF YHWH, THE BIBLE!
We are never taught the importance of true sanctification as defined in the Word and as directed by The Ruach - we are instead taught that we are to follow the local denominations human interpretations of The Word (total denial of The Torah and the implementation of replacement theology).
We are also erroneously taught that we are to abide by and conform to the rules of the local church in all things be it dress code, date and times of worship, theological interpretations or whatever - but overall a uniformity and "niceness" so as to present a clinically clean but spiritually cold socially acceptable and liked "organisation" and "organ" of Christ is what we are "taught" to be!
Stop and consider the following if you will please: John 3:3-9 : Wow does Nicodemus not describe many of our religious leaders today, but it is not him I wish to focus on - it is what our Master Yeshua says in verses 6-8
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again. The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”That which I have underlined completely blows away any form of denominational or NWO/WCC religious ecumenical form and religion!
People, this Elohim of ours is The Creator of NATURE AND NATURE IS WILD, UNPREDICTABLE, UNRELENTING & OFTEN SEEMINGLY DOWNRIGHT CRUEL!
This same Elohim, Who never changes, works the same way in us as HE does in Nature IF WE WILL ALLOW HIM! HE is like the wind; HIS Love is like a cleansing fire; HE is jealous to the EXTREMES OVER HIS NAME AND HIS PEOPLE -HE IS RADICAL; HE IS WILD; HE IS UNPREDICTABLE; HE IS UNRELENTING; SEEMINGLY DOWNRIGHT CRUEL AND COMPLETELY OUT OF THE BOX AND HE HATES COWARDS!!!! BUT PRAISE YHWH HE IS A MERCIFUL AND FORGIVING ELOHIM IN AND THROUGH YESHUA Ex. 20:5; 34:14; Deut. 4:24; Eze. 20:8 ff; Mat. 10:26-33; 1 Kings 8:23; Is. 45:5 again; 46:8-10; Is. 55:8-11; Ps. 138:8; Phil. 1:6; Deut. 20:8; Josh. 1:7-9; Rev 21:8.; 2 Sam. 24:14; Ps. 86:5; eph. 2:4.
We also need to understand that we are unable to do anything good out of ourselves! We are so often taught that we must die to self, great I say, but how do you do it? What about you must love your neighbour as yourself - again - great advice but how do you achieve this so that it is according to Elohim's way and not our perceived idea of right and wrong (remember the tree in the Garden?)?
Or what about do not be afraid!
My wife and I were talking yesterday morning and I made the statement that we all, regardless of who we may be, are motivated to a greater or lesser degree by fear!
I am talking here of the fear motivated out of the flesh, the kind of fear Yeshua told us not to allow into our lives; I am not talking of the fear of YHWH - a fear derived from the spirit and founded in the awesomeness, power, authority and characteristics of YHWH Elohim, this is a totally different fear! Mat. 10:26, 28, 31; Luke. 12:5, 7.
The Word tells us that in true love there is no fear, and that Yeshua has left us with a spirit devoid of fear but full of power, love and a sound mind! 1 John 4:18, 2 Tim 1:7.
I see fear all around me, I hear it, I smell it, I recognise it - and why do I see it, hear it and recognise it?
Because I too know fear!
It is dishonest of us I believe to say that we do not have some form or degree of carnal fear in our lives - we fear our secular governments; we fear our peers; we fear rejection; we fear our employers; we do not want to offend, criticise, stand-out - man, today most of us even fear our children and spouses!
Unfortunately this fleshly fear is a foundational crack that each fallen person has in their flesh for as long as we are in this putrified and death ridden corpse we call a body, and the enemy (and us ourselves) massively exploit this crack.
Unfortunately this fleshly fear is a foundational crack that each fallen person has in their flesh for as long as we are in this putrified and death ridden corpse we call a body, and the enemy (and us ourselves) massively exploit this crack.
Why do we have this fear?
Well quite simply it is rooted in our inherited sinful nature!
I personally believe that when YHWH removed Adam and Chava from the Garden and transformed/transferred them from the Eternal Perfect Kingdom fully under HIS Authority, Protection and Provision; when HE removed the very source of all Eternal Life, Truth & Light from their presence and lives they experienced an emotion and a FEAR that we will never really understand precisely because they had seen His Glory and experienced intimately HIS perfect will, which we obviously have never seen or experienced as yet, therefore we still inherit these death traits or deformity in our character and fallen nature, and make no mistake that rejection & fear is still included in this deformity imbued and abiding in every human being on earth, and obviously only a re-uniting with YHWH Elohim through the Life giving blood of Yeshua will begin to heal that crack in our foundations.
I personally believe that when YHWH removed Adam and Chava from the Garden and transformed/transferred them from the Eternal Perfect Kingdom fully under HIS Authority, Protection and Provision; when HE removed the very source of all Eternal Life, Truth & Light from their presence and lives they experienced an emotion and a FEAR that we will never really understand precisely because they had seen His Glory and experienced intimately HIS perfect will, which we obviously have never seen or experienced as yet, therefore we still inherit these death traits or deformity in our character and fallen nature, and make no mistake that rejection & fear is still included in this deformity imbued and abiding in every human being on earth, and obviously only a re-uniting with YHWH Elohim through the Life giving blood of Yeshua will begin to heal that crack in our foundations.
We need to understand that because of what Adam and Chava did in the Garden, the enemy now has a legal right to exploit fallen mankind and he does through the world systems John 12:31; 2 Cor. 4:3-4; Gen. 3:6.
We as believers often hope that we are able to overcome these issues and deformities in our personal makeup through the waving of the "Divine wand of wishful thinking", well quite frankly that is ..... well, just wishful thinking. These deformities, including fear can only be healed through a Divine Work of YHWH The Creator once, as I have said, we are redeemed through Messiah Yeshua AND THEN BEGIN A RUACH (SPIRIT) ASSISTED AND INSPIRED WALK IN HIS COVENANT (TORAH) AS SET OUT AT Mt. SINAI. Ex. 23:25; Prov. 3:1-4; 4:1-2; 4:20-22; Is. 58:6-14; Hos. 6:1-2.
For all our philosophising and mind-games we play today in the churches we seem not to have discovered the Truth THAT THE WORD IS A PERSON & THAT PERSON IS YESHUA HAMESSIACH AND THAT YESHUA IS YHWH ELOHIM and HE is described in the TANACH (O/T) just as YESHUA Himself tells us in John 5:19-46 esp. vs. 45 & 46!
You may want to ponder the verses hi-lighted above this Shabbat - AND THEN TELL YHWH THAT HE HAS ANNULLED HIS MARRIAGE COVENANT - THE TORAH (Jer. 2:2-3) WHICH IS FOR OUR GOOD (Deut. 6:24; 10:12-13; 28; 11:26), AND NOW MADE SIN (THE BREAKING OF THE TORAH 1 John 3:4) THE ACCEPTED NORM OF THE CHURCHES TODAY! (Please note this is a complete reversal of The Way of YHWH).
I am needing to close this off now as I have much to do before the Shabbat breaks - but in conclusion I would need to say that I believe the time is very short, and that fear, possibly more than other sinful traits, will definitely derail us, and the only way we are going to overcome this fear is by repentance and returning to His Torah, His Ways of His Covenant, because by doing so we come back to His Ways and walk as Yeshua did, and equally importantly by applying His Ways (Torah) will cause much persecution to those so doing, espically in this day and age of Politically Correct Post-modern relative thought and social norms. To follow His Covenant today, to walk as directed by the Ruach today will need faith in HIM and we will not be able to do what HE requires should we be fearful - being fearful and not trusting HIM by walking in HIS Way is a gross lack of trust and faith in Yeshua YHWH!
Guarding, keeping and applying The Torah of YHWH as directed by the Ruach of YHWH Abba cost Yeshua HIS Life - can HIS betrothed expect any more than that if she wishes to become ONE WITH HIM?
His Ways and Thoughts are not ours, as stated these are the circumstances and chisels HE uses to form us now as His children after our rebirth - will we, His intended Bride, remain faithful to HIM and HIS Covenant (Is. 55:8-10)?
Please should you feel the need to repent and ask HIM to truly lead and direct your paths back to your first love, then please expect that the path will be anything but civilised and organised, IF WILL TEST YOUR COURAGE AND SHATTER MOST IF NOT ALL YOUR COMFORT ZONES AND ILLUSIONS IN EVERY AREA OF YOUR LIFE ESPECIALLY IN YOUR RELIGION and thus to that end I hope to begin the next part of something I started a long time ago and was prevented from completing - please see the blog entitled Tough Choices on the way to Mt. Sinai.
When I first wrote this blog I was distinctly aware that what I still needed to say regarding the way YHWH Elohim was and had been working in my life would undoubtably be a stumbling block to many well meaning saints - The diet was possibly a little heavy for many - BUT TIME, I BELIEVE, IS VERY SHORT AND SENSITIVITIES FOR FEELINGS AND EGO'S ARE UNPRODUCTIVE NOW AND I TRUST THAT YHWH WILL DO THE NECESSARY WHERE REQUIRED!
Again please remember we are all trying to find our way home, possibly none more that I, so please prayerfully check out all I am saying against prayer and The Word!
Shabbat shalom
Bo'az.
For all our philosophising and mind-games we play today in the churches we seem not to have discovered the Truth THAT THE WORD IS A PERSON & THAT PERSON IS YESHUA HAMESSIACH AND THAT YESHUA IS YHWH ELOHIM and HE is described in the TANACH (O/T) just as YESHUA Himself tells us in John 5:19-46 esp. vs. 45 & 46!
You may want to ponder the verses hi-lighted above this Shabbat - AND THEN TELL YHWH THAT HE HAS ANNULLED HIS MARRIAGE COVENANT - THE TORAH (Jer. 2:2-3) WHICH IS FOR OUR GOOD (Deut. 6:24; 10:12-13; 28; 11:26), AND NOW MADE SIN (THE BREAKING OF THE TORAH 1 John 3:4) THE ACCEPTED NORM OF THE CHURCHES TODAY! (Please note this is a complete reversal of The Way of YHWH).
I am needing to close this off now as I have much to do before the Shabbat breaks - but in conclusion I would need to say that I believe the time is very short, and that fear, possibly more than other sinful traits, will definitely derail us, and the only way we are going to overcome this fear is by repentance and returning to His Torah, His Ways of His Covenant, because by doing so we come back to His Ways and walk as Yeshua did, and equally importantly by applying His Ways (Torah) will cause much persecution to those so doing, espically in this day and age of Politically Correct Post-modern relative thought and social norms. To follow His Covenant today, to walk as directed by the Ruach today will need faith in HIM and we will not be able to do what HE requires should we be fearful - being fearful and not trusting HIM by walking in HIS Way is a gross lack of trust and faith in Yeshua YHWH!
Guarding, keeping and applying The Torah of YHWH as directed by the Ruach of YHWH Abba cost Yeshua HIS Life - can HIS betrothed expect any more than that if she wishes to become ONE WITH HIM?
His Ways and Thoughts are not ours, as stated these are the circumstances and chisels HE uses to form us now as His children after our rebirth - will we, His intended Bride, remain faithful to HIM and HIS Covenant (Is. 55:8-10)?
Please should you feel the need to repent and ask HIM to truly lead and direct your paths back to your first love, then please expect that the path will be anything but civilised and organised, IF WILL TEST YOUR COURAGE AND SHATTER MOST IF NOT ALL YOUR COMFORT ZONES AND ILLUSIONS IN EVERY AREA OF YOUR LIFE ESPECIALLY IN YOUR RELIGION and thus to that end I hope to begin the next part of something I started a long time ago and was prevented from completing - please see the blog entitled Tough Choices on the way to Mt. Sinai.
When I first wrote this blog I was distinctly aware that what I still needed to say regarding the way YHWH Elohim was and had been working in my life would undoubtably be a stumbling block to many well meaning saints - The diet was possibly a little heavy for many - BUT TIME, I BELIEVE, IS VERY SHORT AND SENSITIVITIES FOR FEELINGS AND EGO'S ARE UNPRODUCTIVE NOW AND I TRUST THAT YHWH WILL DO THE NECESSARY WHERE REQUIRED!
Again please remember we are all trying to find our way home, possibly none more that I, so please prayerfully check out all I am saying against prayer and The Word!
Shabbat shalom
Bo'az.
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