WHAT WAS THE MISSION STATEMENT OF YAHUSHA??!!!

Exodus chapter 20




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Today we look to the word: RESTORE- H8421- shuwb- to come back; specifically to reply:—answer, restore, return (an answer).







The Torah testifies………….




Deuteronomy 22:2




And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore H8421 it to him again.










The Prophets proclaim………….






Jeremiah 30:17




For I will restore H8421 health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.







The Writings witness…….





Psalm 51:12

Restore H8421 unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.










THE ASSIGNMENT OF YAHUSHA: RESTORE THE KINGDOM





Everybody in the world was born to fulfill an assignment. The Most High Yah created each one of us to solve a problem. There is something that The Most High Yah wanted accomplished that required our existence—every one of us. None of us are an accident. None of us are here by mistake. Our place on this planet is related to an assignment that The Most High Yah had in His mind long before the very existence of our world. This makes us critical to His global plan.




REVERSING THE CURSE OF MAN’S DEFECTION




The Most High Yah’s purpose for us is the same as it has always been—to exercise dominion and authority over the earthly realm under His sovereign kingship. That has never changed. What has changed is our position. Adam and Eve’s abdication of their rightful place of authority allowed Hasatan, an unemployed cherub, to usurp the throne The Most High Yah intended for us to occupy. Relegated to the status of helpless subjects of a devastating kingdom of darkness, we cannot return to our original place without The Most High Yah’s help.




Fortunately for us The Most High Yah did not simply write us off, wipe us out, and start all over. His eternal purpose will never be thwarted; His perfect will shall come to pass. From the very beginning, The Most High Yah had a plan that would resolve our defection: “But when the time had fully come, The Most High Yah sent His Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons” (Gal. 4:4-5). The Most High Yah’s purpose was to restore us to our full status as His sons and daughters and bring us back into His Kingdom. He sent Yahusha as the Way. Faith in Yahusha Hamachiach as the Son of The Most High Yah and in His death for our sins and resurrection for our life is the doorway through which we enter the Kingdom of The Most High Yah.





A KING AND HIS KINGDOM





Not only was Yahusha the way into the Kingdom, but He was also the messenger who announced the arrival of the Kingdom on the earth. Before any of us could enter the Kingdom of The Most High Yah, we had to know it had arrived and where we might find the entrance. That is why Yahusha came. Yahusha purpose was twofold: to proclaim the arrival of The Most High Yah’s Kingdom and, through His blood, provide entry to the Kingdom for all who would come.




The Kingdom of The Most High Yah is central to His purposes in eternity. Everything The Most High Yah does relates to His Kingdom. Even in the physical realm, The Most High Yah’s Kingdom was at the forefront in creation and will be the central focus at the end of time. Yahusha said, “This gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come” (Matt. 24:14). If the Kingdom is central to all that The Most High Yah is and does, it is only natural to expect that it would also be central to Yahusha mission and message. Indeed it was, as Scripture makes clear.




THE MISSION STATEMENT OF YAHUSHA




Every successful organization, whether a business, a nonprofit group, a family, or whatever, needs a mission statement. Whether it is a formal written statement or simply an informal understanding, a mission statement should clearly define and crystallize the organization’s purpose, philosophy, and goals. Every person in the organization should internalize and understand the statement so that all are working together to accomplish the mission. A mission statement helps keep everyone on course, which is important because the organization’s product, service, or message will grow out of its mission statement.




According to the Gospel of Matthew, when Yahusha initiated His public ministry, His first public declaration was a message that reflected the mission statement for His life: “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near” (Matt. 4:17). As we have already seen, repent means “a complete change of mind and thinking—a whole new mentality— and a complete change of life direction.” The Kingdom of heaven refers to the sovereign presence and authority of The Most High Yah “invading” and impacting the earthly environment. Yahusha challenged His listeners to change from a mindset that ignored or denied The Most High Yah’s Kingdom to one that acknowledged and embraced its arrival.




Yahusha’s mission was to proclaim the Kingdom of heaven. This assignment from His Father reflects His mission statement, which He declared one Sabbath in the synagogue in Nazareth, His hometown: “The Spirit of the The Most High is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the The Most High’s favor” (Luke 4:18-19).




REINTRODUCING THE KINGDOM




More than simply revealing the Kingdom, Yahusha assignment was to reintroduce the Kingdom. He came to bring back to mankind a knowledge of the Kingdom of The Most High Yah, as well as to change their thinking so they might effectively live in that Kingdom. With a holy passion Yahusha pursued this heavenly assignment. Before He returned to the throne of His Father, He trained His disciples to continue this mission until its ultimate conclusion. This Kingdom mandate has been passed from generation to generation with varying degrees of success. Unfortunately, much of the Christian Church has lost sight of the message of the Kingdom and preaches alternative religious themes.




This is a serious problem, particularly because fulfilling the assignment of preaching the Kingdom is the key to the timing of the return of Hamachiach. Yahusha said that the end will come after the gospel of the Kingdom is preached to all nations. Every tribe, culture, and people group must hear the gospel of the Kingdom before Yahusha can return. The fact that Yahusha has not come back yet is proof that His assignment, which He delegated to His followers in every generation, has not yet been fulfilled.




I have a problem with the people today who are preaching and prophesying that we are in the “last days” and that the Second Coming of Yahusha is right around the corner. Let’s consider the facts: Yahusha will return after the gospel of the Kingdom has been preached to all the nations. Currently, the world population exceeds 6 billion. China alone has over 1 billion people, the vast majority of whom have never even heard the name of Yahusha. Only 1 percent or less of the Chinese people are believers and followers of Hamachiach. India’s population has now crossed the 1 billion threshold. Approximately 98 percent of Indians are Hindu, Buddhist, or Muslim. Again, 1 percent or less believe and follow Hamachiach. What this means is that in these two nations alone, more than 2.2 billion people do not know Hamachiach, and most of them have never even heard the gospel.




Over 800 million people live in Africa, many of whom are animists. Many others are Muslim. Although Christianity is firmly established in Africa, many African believers have never heard the gospel of the Kingdom of The Most High Yah. They know Yahusha, but they have never been taught about their status and rights as sons and daughters of The Most High Yah and citizens and heirs of His Kingdom.




Even in Europe and the West, including North and South America and the Caribbean, few people have heard the gospel of the Kingdom. Many have heard about Yahusha, and a large portion of the people in these places are followers of Hamachiach, but even many of these believers have never heard the Kingdom message. There is still much work to do before Yahusha assignment of preaching the gospel of the Kingdom to all the nations is fulfilled.





THE ASSIGNMENT OF YAHUSHA: PREACH THE KINGDOM





Everywhere He went, Yahusha preached the Kingdom. That was His assignment. Yahusha primary message was not the born-again message that dominates gospel preaching. In His entire recorded ministry, Yahusha spoke only once about being born again, and that was in the middle of the night to a Pharisee named Nicodemus who had come to Yahusha privately. Being born again is the way into the Kingdom— it is the necessary first step. But the gospel of the Kingdom involves much more.





Not only did Yahusha rarely speak about being born again, neither did He make these other themes the focus of His preaching: prosperity, healing, baptism in the Ruach Hacodesh, or many of the other things we preach so much about today. Yahusha taught about those things, and He demonstrated them in His day-by-day ministry, but He didn’t preach them. There is a big difference. Yahusha had only one message: the Kingdom of The Most High Yah. That was His assignment, and He passed it on to us. His assignment is our assignment.





He left the earthly realm in order to complete the work that He began. He sits on the throne of heaven directing that work through His representatives. Unfortunately, most of us do not really understand what Yahusha meant when He spoke of the Kingdom. That is why we need to study closely His message so that we can preach it accurately and help fulfill His assignment in preparation for His return. As Yahusha did, we need to proclaim that the Kingdom of heaven is near, that The Most High Yah is working to restore us to our original and rightful place as His children, as heirs to His Kingdom, and as rulers of the earthly dominion.





RESTORING OUR PLACE IN THE MOST HIGH YAH’S PLAN




Why is preaching the gospel of the Kingdom of The Most High Yah so important? Why did Yahusha focus so single-mindedly on that message? It all has to do with The Most High Yah’s unchangeable purpose. From the beginning, The Most High Yah’s intent has been to extend His heavenly Kingdom onto the earth through mankind. That remains His intent, despite the fall of man. At first, Adam and Eve were completely fulfilled, fellowshiping with The Most High Yah and exercising their dominion authority as He intended. However, their sin and disobedience caused them to forfeit their authority. They lost the Kingdom.





The gospel of the Kingdom reveals how The Most High Yah is restoring us to our place, how He is taking us back from where we came. This is an important point to understand. Many of us assume or have been taught that the gospel means that The Most High Yah is preparing to take us to heaven as our home. That is not true restoration, because we did not come from heaven. Restoration means to put back in the original place or condition. Since we fell not from heaven but from our dominion authority on earth, being restored means putting us back in our place of earthly dominion.





Imagine a book lying on a table. If that book falls to the floor and I pick it up and place it on a shelf, have I restored it? No, because I did not put it back where it came from, but placed it somewhere else instead. The book could not get itself back into its proper place; I had to reach down, pick it up, and place it there myself. In the same way, in our fallen state we could not regain our original place on our own. The Most High Yah had to come down, lift us up, and restore us to our former status.





WHERE IS OUR HOME?





Most of us have been taught to hope for heaven in the sweet “by and by.” The only problem is that heaven is not where we came from. It was Hasatan who fell from heaven, not man. We were made for the earth. The Most High Yah created us from the dust of the ground, breathed His life into us, and set us up as rulers over the physical realm. Ever since our fall He has been working His plan to restore us to the place from which we fell. Since we did not fall from heaven, it is not The Most High Yah’s ultimate goal for us.




One of The Most High Yah’s biggest challenges in getting His message of the Kingdom to the world is the fact that we who are His representatives on earth are so slow to understand the message. Dreams of golden streets and heavenly bliss have blinded us to our responsibilities on earth. We like to talk about heaven because, for us, it represents for us our highest goal and because it helps us get our minds off of our problems here in the earth realm. When we’re busy singing “I’ll fly away, O glory,” and “When we all get to heaven, what a day of rejoicing that will be,” it is easy to forget—for a little while—our car trouble, our overdue bills, the latest rent increase, or the job we just lost.




The Most High Yah’s desire is to restore us to our former and rightful place, which means returning us to the position of authority and dominion over the fish, birds, cattle, plants, and all the rest of the earthly realm. As sinners we were slaves of Hasatan in the kingdom of darkness, but as believers cleansed by the blood of Yahusha we are sons and daughters of The Most High Yah in the Kingdom of light. All along The Most High Yah has desired not servants, but true sons and daughters who would be citizens of His heavenly realm and live in continual relationship with Him.





RELATIONSHIP VERSUS RELIGION





The Most High Yah is more interested in having daily communion with us than He is in our having “perfect” worship services where everything is exactly “proper” and where all our traditions and rituals are exactly in place. Man wants religion while The Most High Yah wants a relationship. We are easily impressed by religious rituals constructed on the foundation of an improper understanding of The Most High Yah’s eternal purposes. Man seeks to relate to The Most High Yah through the principles of religion while The Most High Yah seeks to relate to man through the mystery of a personal relationship. It is clear that many do not have any real or deep relationship with the The Most High because they do not understand the nature or significance of the Kingdom.




There was no “worship,” at least, as we know worship, in the Garden of Eden. There were no altars, sacrifices, songs, clapping, dancing, Bibles, hymnbooks, sermons, or prayers—none of this stuff we call “religion.” There was only relationship: Adam and Eve walking and talking with The Most High Yah in perfect fellowship and harmony.




Man fell from this intense passionate relationship with The Most High Yah, and The Most High Yah is seeking to restore man back to the simplicity of the Garden experience. Furthermore, our kingly authority over the earth is something He wants us to exercise and enjoy now, not just some distant day in the future after we have died and gone to heaven.




Kingdom thinking means recognizing that we do not have to resign ourselves to live in poverty, pain, suffering, and trouble “here below” until the The Most High rescues us. We can claim and assert now our authority as sons and daughters of the King of the universe. We can experience the victory that is ours as people of the Kingdom.