FATHER IS ALWAYS WORKING!!!!

Exodus chapter 20




Today we are walking in: Father Is Always Working!!!!!








Today we look to the word-FATHER- H1 av--head or founder of a household, group, family, or clan; ancestor; of producer, generator











The Torah Testifies.............................








Genesis 4:21




And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father H1 of all such as handle the harp and organ.















The prophets proclaim...............






Jeremiah 7:25




Since the day that your fathers H1 came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:

















The writings bear witness.............










Joshua 14:1




And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers H1 of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them.




FATHER IS ALWAYS WORKING




The Jewish religious leaders took Yahusha to task for working on the Sabbath. Yahusha’ reply was that He simply was following the example of His Father: “My Father is always at His work...and I, too, am working.” What did Yahusha mean by this statement? Doesn’t the second chapter of Genesis tell us that The Most High Yah worked for six days in creation and then rested on the seventh? Wasn’t that day of rest commemorated and established as a standard for The Most High Yah’s people in the Sabbath law? Yet, Yahusha said that the Father is always working. Maybe we have misunderstood the meaning of the Sabbath. Perhaps resting on the Sabbath means changing our mode of work, such as enjoying what we work for.




The important point here is that Yahusha, as the Son of His Father, was committed to working whenever His Father worked, and doing whatever His Father was doing. Since the Father was always working, Yahusha was always working, whether or not it was the Sabbath. Besides, Yahusha plainly said, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is The Most High even of the Sabbath” (Mark 2:27-28). The Most High Yah never intended for us to be slaves, bound to a strict legalistic interpretation of the day of “rest,” but to live as free people in doing what is right and good at all times. By word and by example, Yahusha showed us that it is always right to do good, even on the Sabbath.





As children of our Father, we also should be working whenever He is working. Yahusha, as our elder brother, has set the example for us. The good work of the Kingdom of The Most High Yah never takes a holiday, and neither should we. Even when we are on vacation, and at other times when we are not at work at our jobs, we should still be working for the Kingdom. Too many times, when believers go on vacation they also take a break from the The Most High and His work; they don’t worship, they don’t study The Most High Yah’s Word, and they don’t talk to anyone about the The Most High and His Kingdom. This is not right. The work of the Kingdom never stops. Our Father is always working, and we should be working also.





A GIFT OF WATER




Yesterday I was working in my daycare and my hairstylist who does my hair called me. “Are you busy?” she said. When I said, “No,” she replied, “I have one of my stylists who is going through a lot and I was wondering if you could pray for her.” She said that she would call me back on a three-way call in a few minutes.




When my hairstylist called back, the young lady began to open up. “I’m at the end of my rope,” she confessed. “I’m almost at the point of losing my faith. When I woke up this morning I found out that another one of my aunts had passed away. I have lost 3 aunts in the span of a month’” She told me she was pregnant and she just found out that her baby would be born with severe birth defects. Her Uncle had also been rushed to the hospital and the doctors were able to resuscitate him but they have declared him brain dead and they would be pulling the plug today. She said, “I’m so tired.”

Then Yahusha’ words echoed in my mind, “My Father is always working, and I, too, am working.” I knew I had to take time for this woman in need.




No matter the time or the place or the circumstances, The Most High Yah is always working. He deliberately puts us in situations where we can minister to people. The Most High Yah is always working, and as His children, we must always be working also. That’s what the Kingdom is all about.






SON OF THE MOST HIGH YAH/SON OF MAN




Yahusha shocked the religious leaders of His day when He spoke of The Most High Yah as His Father. At this time, the Jews generally had no concept or understanding of The Most High Yah as Father in a personal way. Therefore, Yahusha’ claim of such intimacy offended them. Fatherhood implies source. When we claim someone as father, we claim him as the source of who we are, suggesting we are made of the same “stuff.” This is what Yahusha was claiming when He called The Most High Yah His Father. The religious leaders understood His claim, which is why they persecuted Him. Jew theology had no fatherhood image of The Most High Yah. They knew The Most High Yah was holy, just, and merciful, but they also saw Him as a terrifying judge, a consuming fire, a The Most High Yah to be feared. They did not know or see Him as a Father.




After His unprecedented claim to intimacy with The Most High Yah, Yahusha went on to compare His activities and authority with those of His Father. Essentially, they were the same. Yahusha exercised the same authority as His Father, particularly in matters of life and judgment:




For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom He is pleased to give it. Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son...I tell you the truth, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life. I tell you the truth, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of The Most High Yah and those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself. And He has given Him authority to judge because He is the Son of Man (John 5:21-22;24–27).




Yahusha stated that He had the power to give life and the power to execute judgment over men, both of which were the purview of The Most High Yah alone. It is significant that Yahusha refers to Himself as the “Son of The Most High Yah” in relation to His authority to give life, and as the “Son of Man” in relation to His authority to judge. Only The Most High Yah can give life, and since the Son of The Most High Yah is of the same essence—the same “stuff”—as the Father, the Son can also give life. On the other hand, the only one qualified or “legal” on earth to render judgment upon men is one who is an offspring of man. In order to qualify this offspring must be without sin, because only someone who has no sin of his own can bear the sins of others.




No one except Yahusha has ever met this qualification, but He met it perfectly. Born of a woman, born of a virgin, born into the ancestral line of David, Yahusha was a “son of man” because He was fully human. He was, as Paul said, the second “Adam.” Unlike the first Adam, Yahusha perfectly fulfilled The Most High Yah’s original plan. Yahusha did what Adam could not. Because He fulfilled His father’s will perfectly and without sin, Yahusha the Son of Man was qualified to judge the race of man. He passed that judgment at the crucifixion stake where He took our sin guilt upon Himself, becoming sin for us (see 2 Cor. 5:21), and sentenced Himself to death. After judging our sin as the Son of Man, He was able, as the Son of The Most High Yah, to give us life.




Everything Yahusha did in His earthly ministry—healing the sick, raising the dead, casting out demons, calming storms, feeding multitudes with mere handfuls of food— He did under His authority as the Son of Man. It was necessary for The Most High Yah to become a man in order to unleash His love and power in the earthly realms. By design, The Most High Yah gave dominion of the earth to mankind, and only humans have “legal” jurisdiction here. That is why whenever The Most High Yah wants to do something in the earth He seeks to work through human agents. In Yahusha He has the perfect man to initiate His work.




What does this mean to us? It means that even though Yahusha was the Son of The Most High Yah, in the flesh He had no inherent advantages over us. Many of us tend to assume that because He was The Most High Yah in the flesh, Yahusha was better equipped than we are. This is not so. Yahusha had the same human stuff we do. He had a physical body that got tired and knew pain. He needed regular rest just as we do. He got hungry and needed food, and thirsty and needed drink. He faced the same temptations, yet never fell into sin. He operated under the power of the Holy Spirit and later gave that same Spirit to us. In everything He did He claimed His authority as the Son of Man. Because we have the same stuff, we have the same authority on earth. In Hamachiach, we are authoritative on earth because we are human, just as He was.






A KINGDOM OF IGNORANT KINGS




The problem for so many of us is that we don’t know who we are. We have become a kingdom of ignorant kings: ignorant of our identity, ability, power, and authority. Long ago we forgot, (if we ever knew), all that the enemy stole from us.




Deposed, defeated, and dejected, like the prodigal son we sit in the mud and stench of the pigsty, nibbling on dry corn husks, never lifting the eyes of our spirit to behold the riches of our Father’s estate that are ours if we will only reach out and claim them.




Our greatest enemy today is neither Hasatan nor sin, because Yahusha defeated both at the crucifixion stake. Power is not the problem, either. We have power. That is why The Most High Yah did not send power to fix our problem. Our greatest enemy today is ignorance. What we don’t know is killing us; or at least depriving us of a full and abundant life. The antidote for ignorance is knowledge, so The Most High Yah sent us His Word—His living Word in the person of His Son. Hamachiach came to remove our ignorance about The Most High Yah and His Kingdom and to teach us of our heritage and kinship as children of the Father.




As long as we live in Hasatan’s darkness, we will never know that we are prisoners in our own territory, slaves of an illegal despot. We will never know we are the rightful rulers of this planet or that the devil is already a defeated enemy. Because we don’t know any better, because we don’t realize the power we have, we allow Hasatan to run our lives, ravaging our bodies with sickness, draining our finances, destroying our marriages, messing up our kids with drugs and alcohol, and generally wreaking havoc.




Yahusha is the light of the world. Light means knowledge. He came to show us who we really are and to expose the enemy’s false kingdom. To put it another way, Yahusha came to introduce us to ourselves and to call us to become the people The Most High Yah always knew we could be. He came to call us home.




Daniel 7:18 says that “the saints of the Most High will receive the kingdom and will possess it forever—yes, for ever and ever.” A lot of believers are confused about the word saint. Some have been taught that saints are super- spiritual believers who lived high above the plane of everyone else and were awarded this exalted title after their deaths. In truth, every believer is a saint. When the Bible uses the word saint, it refers to “every child of The Most High Yah, every person who has entered the Kingdom through faith and trust in Hamachiach as Savior and The Most High.” If you are a believer, you are a saint, and if you are a saint, you are an heir to the Kingdom of The Most High Yah.




The word saint comes from the same root as the word sanctified. To be sanctified means “to be set apart for a specific use; to be reserved for a special purpose.” Think about your or your parents’ wedding china. Is it set out for use on a common daily basis? Probably not. Fine china is usually reserved for very special occasions, such as major holidays when extended family members gather or when particularly honored guests are present. In this sense, the china is “sanctified” for use only on those occasions.




In the same way, we as saints are sanctified and set apart for The Most High Yah’s special purpose. Collectively, we are the Church, the ecclesia in Greek, which also means the “called-out ones.” We are the ones who will receive the Kingdom. We are the ones who will see our power, authority, and dominion restored. The Kingdom is not reserved for us alone, but for many, many others as well who are still outside and need to be brought in. That is why when Hamachiach saved us and brought us into His Kingdom, He made us ambassadors so that we could go out and bring others in.