We are walking in today: Don't Be Lazy, This Is Personal!
This morning we are walking in the next 10 of the commandments or God's principles from the book by Rabbi Ralph Messer, Torah: Law Or Grace? Kingdom
Principles For Kingdom Living. Which can be ordered online here or in the store if you are in the Denver area here.
The First Commandment-Exodus
20:2-3 2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the
land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3
Thou shalt have no other gods before me. I am the LORD your God, Who
has taken you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.
21. You shall eat and be satisfied, and bless the Lord your God --Deuteronomy 8:10 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.
22. You shall cleave to the Lord your God --Deuteronomy 10:20 Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
23. You shall not add to the commandments of Torah --Deuteronomy 13:1
If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
24. You shall not subtract from the commandments of the Torah --Deuteronomy 13:1
25. You shall not listen to one who prophesies in the name of the gods of others --Deuteronomy 13:3-4
3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
26. You shall not practice divination --Deuteronomy
18:10
There shall not be found
among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through
the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an
enchanter, or a witch.
27. You shall not practice astrology --Deuteronomy 18:10
28. You shall not read omens or practice sorcery --Deuteronomy
18:10
29. You shall not practice the art of an animal charmer --Deuteronomy 18:11
Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
30. You shall not practice necromancy by inquiring of Ov --Deuteronomy 18:11
Matthew
23 is a great chapter where Yeshua is telling the people how things
should really be. True the Pharisees were to instruct the people, they
were to do what they were told and not what they see the Pharisees were
doing. Matthew 23:13-15 AMP 13 But woe to you, scribes and
Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you shut the kingdom of heaven
in men’s faces; for you neither enter yourselves, nor do you allow those
who are about to go in to do so. 14 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
pretenders (hypocrites)! For you swallow up widows’ houses and for a
pretense to cover it up make long prayers; therefore you will receive
the greater condemnation and the heavier sentence. 15 Woe to you,
scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you travel over sea
and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes one [a
proselyte], you make him doubly as much a child of hell (Gehenna) as you
are.
How
often has the monkey see, monkey do policy gotten many of us in
trouble? There is a better way! This Way is the Truth and the Life!
Thank You Yeshua for being the word that came and was wrapped in flesh
to lead us and point us--to the correct way back the our Father, Abba!
It is very important and becoming increasingly important to do and
follow what the Word of God is directing you to do! We can no longer
solely look to others alone to be our guide--what does His holy
scriptures say? Study and go deeper to find out what it means, you want
to be found doing the right things with the right intentions in your
heart. So many of us have done and may be doing the wrong things with
an intention of good in our hearts. Being out of order is still a problem,
but is it intentional disobedience? That would be one point that we,
should be careful and cautious to avoid as much as possible. Just as a
parent with a child that has actions of willful disobedience, has a totally
different response than a child that is disobedient without willful
intent. Fiveamprayer, will you seek and look to do all that the Lord
God Almighty has given you to do? When you fail, will you look to see
how to be successful the next time? I am looking to see my Heavenly
Father smiling at me in my heartfelt effort to please Him. To do what
His word instructs me to do--in how I live my life and how I treat
others. We are all His handiwork, His possessions and surely if we are
to be protected by Him, aren't others protected by Him also? Really
when we look at this we are only borrowing from Him, everything that we
have: our bodies, children, spouses, family and all our other possessions--all
on loan. Just as our worry and fretting does not protect or keep those
we worry over, we can not and did not create anything outside of God!
He, the Holy One gave us the ability and the idea to create and do all
that we have done or will ever do! Let us not think that we have done
this all on our own. Be honest, the things that you have done by
yourself, amounts to very little and even that little bit was still by
His permission but when we take credit then we will be responsible for
the up keep! Then we have the substandard results that we are all too
familiar with. Adonai permits it that we would come to know and see the
greatness of who He is--that we come to see His mercy and His grace.
Why would you delay or try to belittle the awesomeness of the Almighty?
As if you ever could! As we have seen over and over again in the Bible
and our own lives when we venture off on on own without His instruction
and direction--the result disaster! So the obvious answer is, to walk
in His teaching and instruction! Fiveamprayer all that we get to
experience is at the pleasure of the King, so if the King is displeased
with us and we choose to walk in disobedience what can we honestly
expect to receive? As we see in the chapter 23 of Matthew where Yeshua
is teaching that the Pharisees teach the laws but don't follow nor obey
the intention behind them. That they have even gone so far as to keep
others from going further to walk according to what Adonai has directed
and lead them to do. Now we are not to make choices for others, Elohim
gave us free will, now Him out of everyone would have the best case to
decide for us! He is the Creator and we the creation, there is not anything we
can do without His say so first! So why would any man on the earth be
able to choose for you?! That is why we must read the Bible for
ourselves, we must pray to God for ourselves--this is not only a
community relationship, this is personal! If you are too busy to make
time for Him, He will not continue to pursue you if you are not making
any kind of effort! Just the slight withdrawing of His presence will
cause all around you to be altered but if you are too busy to notice, it
may need to go from slight to substantial to drive home the point. All
to win you back to Him, that you be not lost in and separated from
Adonai! So to reiterate the point we have Matthew 5:19 Whosoever
therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach
men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but
whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the
kingdom of heaven. So how will you be known? As the one helping
to teach the good, right and holy way of the Lord God most high? Or in
the all grace camp? We have to know and understand that it is not all
the law nor is it all grace. You need grace to walk in the law, to seek
to keep the law. Remember these laws came from a good and perfect,
holy and righteous God. We are made of flesh and are surrounded by
fleshly influences. We need help, that is where grace comes in, to walk
in the law. The law alone could not save, nor can grace alone give us
the redeemed lifestyle that the law affords. Yeshua paid the price--that
we would have life and that more abundantly (John 10:1). Let us walk
in the abundant life full of His teaching, instruction and grace.
Sounds like knowledge, understanding and wisdom to me. To hear this again click here.
We seal this prayer in the precious blood of Jesus of Nazareth, the only Begotten of the Heavenly Father and by the Holy Spirit: Fiveamprayer, this is personal--what kind of relationship do you have with your personal Savior?! Study to show thyself approved!
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