Our Doctrines and the Scriptures MUST Agree

This is a message that is finding so many ears that are open to hear! Praise Father for what He is doing in this age!

 

We must rightly divide the Word and study to show ourselves approved. The Scriptures and our doctrines MUST agree! Take the time today to surrender your beliefs to the Most High and only allow what the Word speaks to remain.

 

What is Your Motivation?

In my opinion, the often-overlooked part of this text, is the key - "for His Name's sake."

Why did Yahweh spare Noah and his family? For His Name’s sake. Why did He call Abraham? For His Name's sake. Why did He send His Son? For His Name's sake. Why did He set me free from the ways of the nations, religions of men and personal sin? For His names sake. Why did He extend His covenant to whosoever will believe, love Him and walk in His Ways? For His great Name’s sake.

I remember many years ago, when I first began to understand the proper meaning of “sanctification.” When one places a pair of eyeglasses upon their nose and opens their eyes to look through them, the glasses, by example, become “sanctified.” They have fulfilled their purpose. They are of course glasses when they sit upon a table, but they are of no use until they are used to accomplish why they exist.

We live in a religious environment that primarily highlights and promotes what we get “in Jesus.” We’re free. We’re delivered. We’re mighty and victorious. We’re empowered. We’re more than conquerors. We’re destined for wealth, advantage and advancement. “Get Jesus and get better!” All of that would take some time to properly unpack, but we must realize that these things are simply not the point at all. We receive covenantal blessings when we enter into it, yes. But this isn’t about us. Blessings (as Father defines them) are simply the fruit of Yahweh’s mercy and kindness towards us. This is about His great and mighty Name.

I’d be in foolish to leave out the prophecy is Ezekiel chapter 36 as we discuss this topic. Please take the time to see the connection and lay it beside your understanding of what the New Covenant is, and who we are in Messiah.

(22-24) Therefore say to the house of Israel, This is what Yahweh Elohim says: “It is not for your sake, house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for My holy Name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went. And I will vindicate the holiness of My great Name which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh,” declares Yahweh Elohim, “when I show Myself holy among you in their sight. For I will take you from the nations, and gather you from all the lands; and I will bring you into your own land.”

Let’s also read a few verses in Deuteronomy while we’re here. Many people have not yet seen the Full Gospel thread properly as it flows throughout the Older Testament as well. Lacking this understanding leads to the one-sided - it’s all about us - gospel that most of us have inherited.

Deuteronomy 9:5 It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you are going in to take possession of their land, but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that Yahweh your Elohim is driving them out from before you, and in order to confirm the oath which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Here we find ourselves, friend. The culmination of the ages is found within the ingathering of Father’s covenantal Family! Our very existence is to glorify our Creator. Only when the Creation yields to Its Creator will we find our purpose and true joy. We are created to be holy – set apart unto a specific purpose, consecrated, just as our Father. But not for our own glory. For His Name’s sake! Amen.

Is The Way Truly Narrow?

It’s almost unbelievable how much grief we’re given because we want to live holy lives, pleasing to Yahweh and believe that we should love the Scriptures above all other opinions, including our own. No one seemed to have any issues with anything we said or did back when we just “walked according to wind of the Spirit” and justified all manner of things.

But now? “You don’t even need Jesus anymore!” “It seem that you don’t know the Gospel these days.” “You think you can earn your salvation now, huh? Pharisee!” “It’s so sad to see that you’re ‘back under the curse of the law’ that Jesus freed us from.” By now, we’ve heard it all.

I still stand in awe at how angry people that claim to “know God” and “love Jesus” become when you say that you love Yahweh’s Law, personally quoting the exact same words that David penned in the Psalms (that ironically so many people claim to love so dearly.) That’s just Pharisaical bondage…. now. *sigh*

This walk is surely an interesting way to tread. Challenge the mainstream belief system and you’ll get a molecular taste of what Messiah endured as He reproved the religious sect of His day. Those who had abandoned His Father’s Torah and erected their own set of rules to live hated what Messiah presented. He told us that they would hate us too, and then He departed, sending the Promised Holy Spirit to His followers so that they (we) could walk as He walked. Power to leave the ways of the nations. Power to leave the religiosity of men. Power to remember His words. And religious strongholds surely function far outside the temple gates my friend. They’re in the hearts of men and travel as far as a religious vessel can take them.

If anyone’s listening today, embrace humility. Be willing to admit that perhaps there is error in what we have inherited. Just because millions of people embrace it, does not mean it is right. In fact, it generally highlights just the opposite. For goodness sake, ask questions. Wonder. Is there more? Is it remotely possible that we’ve inherited a lie just like the biblical patterns constantly reveal? When I study the Word, free from my own religious background bias, and ask Father to illuminate what is truth in His sight, I quickly see that there is error in me.

And if you're on the side of being told how wrong you are, for clinging to the Scriptures, be encouraged! Stay the course! Keep you eyes on the Promise that is yet before us. This is when your living for the Most High will draw you away, because the gate is narrow gate and the way is constricted that leads to life, and there are few who find it.” I hope that me and my household will be counted worthy to walk there. Selah.

 

A Yoke & A Burden

Yes, His yoke is easy. Yes, His burden is light. But let us not rush past the biblical fact that Messiah told us that He has a yoke. He has a burden. Can we talk about the yoke and the burden or do we feel provoked to immediately run into the easy and light?

If your Messiah does not present to you a yoke and a burden, then please search the Scriptures and begin to redefine Him properly. A false messiah is front and center and he offers full blown freedom to “walk in the spirit”, with few, if any, boundaries or restraint whatsoever. This figure will lead scores of people astray, just as it has been prophesied.

Sadly, many people believe that the Son was “removing His Father’s burdensome laws that no man could keep” in this text and enacting a life of “freedom from law” and ease. Yet we must remember that it was the heavy yoke that religious, hard-hearted men created that Messiah confronted and called out. It would be ludicrous to assume that Messiah, who spoke nothing on His own accord, would overrule and enact a new “freedom” from His father’s perfect Torah, that revives the soul.

In fact, it was His love of His Father that propelled Him to keep His Father’s Law perfectly, deeming Him the sinless, pleasing Son. The biblical authors didn’t confuse the two, as we read in 1 John 5:30 For this is the love of Elohim - that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome. They rightly understood, and conveyed to us, that Messiah would never refer to His Father’s Law as being burdensome.

Thereby, it's no coincidence that here, Messiah is found quoting His Father, from His own words through the prophet Jeremiah. In chapter 6 we read, This is what Yahweh says: “Stand by the ways and see and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; then you will find a resting place for your souls.” (v.16) No new ideas. No new words to state. And surely no need “remove His Father’s burdensome Torah.” Again, please consider this, slowly. In the text that so many people use to justify abandoning Yahweh’s perfect Torah… Messiah quotes It. Selah.

Think on your life today and your view of Messiah. What has developed your criteria of Who He is? In any way, do you follow a lawless one that supposedly set you free from a Law that was perfect and brings light and life, just like Him? Again, many are being easily led astray in this hour, into ungoverned living that is promoted as “freedom.” Don’t let that be you today, friend. Don’t let that be your family. Be discerning. Make sure that the Torah and the Prophets outline your criteria for the one, true Messiah.

Yeshua, the Son of the Most High. Praise Yahweh that we’re offered a yoke that is easy and a burden that is light! Yes! Messiah demonstrated that a man can walk in perfect obedience, just like the Scriptures have told us! Yes! He became a literal Example for us to look unto! And, let us equally remember - He offers us a yoke. He presents to us a burden. And that’s fine by me.

 

Have You "Crossed Over?"

I’ll admit from the very beginning, the next few paragraphs may be more of connecting patterns than literal, word for word translation connections.

In today’s reading, in John chapter 5, it stood out to me that Yeshua used the specific words that He did. When He states, “whoever hears My word and trusts the One who sent Me has eternal life” He continues to say that this one “has crossed over from death into life.” Today, the words “crossed over” stood out to me.

There doesn’t seem to be a direct Hebrew equivalent for us to follow, but the principle remains quite clear, in my opinion. “Depart; move; go” is the simplest meaning, in Greek. This, of course, took me back to Abraham, the first man referred to as a “Hebrew.” (Genesis 14:13) This translates as one who has “crossed over; one from beyond” and, over time, became the primary way to distinguish Yahweh’s set apart People from foreigners.

From the very beginning, Yahweh’s people were ones who were called out and found to be willing to go. This becomes a foundational principle that fills the pages of the entire Bible, from cover to cover. We even see this when Yeshua calls His talmidim (disciples) away to follow Him. They were simply regular men that were called out to become a student of the Master. We are no different.

To bring us back to John 5, I find it intriguing that Messiah used such similar verbiage to explain what takes place when a man places his trust in the Father and the Son and “crosses over” from death unto life. Could it be that the hearers of this message understood the deeper meaning that most of us have not noticed? I think it’s quite plausible.

You see, we’ve been invited into the covenant of the Most High and the way in today is the same as it’s always been. One must willingly leave all that he knows, forsake his own life and cross over unto what the Father has called us to. It is here where we find eternal life. Messiah invited His hearers to leave behind the ways of the nations – both religious and secular alike – and follow Him. And following Him was following His Father, just like righteous men like Abraham did so many years ago.

Praise Yahweh for the layers of His wonderful Word. May it change us from the inside out today. Shalom.