We are all ministers of God whether we recognize it or not. We minister in the way we live, we minister in the way we dress. We minister in the way we talk and we minister in the way we act. And of course, we minister in the way we preach. The world is watching and they get their opinion about us in the way we minister. Today I want to talk about arrogance. This is something that we have to watch out for because, sometimes we forget why we are ministering and lose focus on our purpose and start making it out to be about us (me). I will give you an example of this.
There are a few Christian Jews/Hebrews on the Internet that are ministering and I personally believe that some of the Jews, while they recognize that we (Gentiles) are now a part of them, they love to remind us that it's because of them. That's an arrogant attitude. They are not doing like Paul where he explained this so that we Gentiles will not become boastful in our salvation, it's just because they feel they have to DE-program the Gentiles from thinking "Christianity" is our religion. I found this out when I visited a particular website. I do not remember the name because I did not stay on the website long. Also I am sending this because I am a big advocate for Christians learning Hebrew and I feel I should warn you about websites that are not on the same page as us (for lack of a better word)
I will say that I could tell that the man loves the LORD and that he have a lot of knowledge. He is working on his 3rd doctored degree and he have been teaching this for a little over 30 years.
He starts out by saying his message is highly controversial and that what he has to tell us is something that we are not use to hearing and if we don't like what he has to say than he would say things like "Don't bother to write me if you disagree with me because there is nothing you can say to change me and I will not read it because I have a filter for all the hate mail." "Even though I don't know it all, I've been doing this for 30 years so I've studied enough to know what I am talking about". He even said that if you don't like it, then you would serve best to do your own website. I will only say this in his defense that he probably got a lot of complaints and possibly hate mail from viewers and he felt the need to make a statement about that, however, this is no way for a minister of God to behave. Paul stressed in great details that without love, your work means nothing to God. One of the biggest dangers a messenger of God have is when they discourage a believer and cause them to doubt their salvation. Not based on because they are living in darkness totally against God's word like John explained in his three letters, but for example, because they believe salvation only comes to those who follow the law of Moses. Paul had a problem with members of this group all the time and this man is one of them. This is what you have to watch out for when you look for a place to study "Christian" Hebrews and I wanted to warn you about this.
He is a Jew that believes on Yeshua. He denies the name Jesus because he says this is not the real transliteration and that the real transliteration is Yeshua which is true that Yeshua is the true transliteration of His name. He says the believing Jews do not recognize the name Jesus nor do they recognize the name Jehovah for both are incorrect transliterations (because there is no "J" in the Hebrew transliterations). He also denies the word "church" because he says "the Gentiles got it all wrong, you belong to (our faith) not us belonging to (your faith)." He is right in that sense that some Gentiles may have forgotten how we became saved in the first place, meaning, we forgot that our roots are from the Jews and that they always had the truth and we are the ones who converted to their faith. He says the proper name, for us, is "THE WAY" which was the name given to them during that time. He also deny the name "Christian" because it was a derogatory name given to those who followed Jesus and that that name is tagged to those who persecuted the Jews. Most importantly, to him, the name "church" means that we think we are the true or new church and that we are trying to convert the Jews to join our church. Regarding forgetting where we came from, he is really dealing with "The Replacement Theology" group and he probably believe that most Christians think this way. NOTE: The replacement theology group does not have the correct understanding. He believes that the only reason Paul sent the letter to the Gentiles that they did not have to follow the law of Moses was because it was too soon for them to receive all the information at once so to resolve the separation issue with the Jews and the Born again Gentiles, is to have them to refrain from things that are offensive to the Jews but it was not intended for them to NOT obey the law of Moses. He says that anyone who does not follow the law of Moses is not truly saved and is not living a righteous life.
Well what I have to say about that is...
First, if that was the case than Paul would not have been so against the group telling the Gentiles about the law and circumcision since according to him, it is something that they need to do to be righteous. This is not the only account where Paul got after the Gentiles for believing the others who pushed the law of Moses on them. In Galatians when Paul saw that the Gentiles were observing the law he said who bewitched you Gal 3:1-5.
Second, he forgot that only Jesus Christ was the only one who walk on the earth as a true Torah observer. With that being said, that means that this man get no credit for his "so called observing the law" (using his expression) because it's the faith and the belief in Jesus Christ that has saved him and made him righteous, not of any works he is doing. He is in the same boat as the rest of us.
Third, he was born Jew not by work but because his mother and father are Jews. He does not get Brownie points for being born.
Fourth, as far as the name "church" and "Christian", he is putting too much emphasis on a name just to make himself look like he has something great to argue about. If the Gentiles called the gathering place a church, than so be it. It is not a thing that will make a difference in your salvation by using the name Church and Christian. The Bible that have been translated for the English speaking people have the words Church and Christian in it and both words were used before the publishing of the King James Bible. We are not sinning because we call the gathering of Christian people a church. Regarding the name "Christian" even if it was true that they called them Christian hoping to upset them, they gave us a word that is actually honorable because the word derives from Christ. Christian simply means Christ-like and that is how the world recognize it today.
He seems to hate anything that would appear to be the idea of a Gentile and that we must stop that and follow everything that they say for it is the only way and right way. When the disciples went to Antioch, that is when they first used the name Christian (notice the word church listed also) and yes, it was the Gentiles who used that name and I didn't hear anything about the disciples disapproving of it. Acts 11: 26 And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.
I've made a choice to embraced my spiritual heritage by learning the Jewish culture. I learn better by not only studying the word and going to school, but also doing/observing some of the things they do and celebrating with them some of the things they celebrate (Hebrew Christians). Again it's just to embrace the Hebrew culture, not because I think I will get brownie points from God. I also want to have fellowship with my Christian Hebrew brothers and sisters but that is because the Holy Spirit moved me in that direction and because I prayed and asked for this as well. It doesn't make me better or less in God's eyes. It is my desire and the LORD approves. This is why I appreciate the school that I am going to because he embrace and love the Gentiles and welcome us to get to know our new roots now that we are saved and he lovingly invite us to join them in how they live only if we choose to and if the LORD places it on our hearts. There is no pressure at all because it's not necessary.
No one has the right to boast about being saved or being born a Jew. It was all God's work and will period and He gets all the glory. We work because we love the LORD, not because we are made holy by works. Works make no one holy. Jesus was not holy because he worked however, because Jesus is Holy, He worked. He was holy first before doing any work at all. I will say it again, WORK DOES NOT MAKE YOU HOLY OR RIGHTEOUS!
This man's problem is that he want us Gentiles "to get it straight" and that is, the Jews are the true vine and their ways (Moses Law) is the only right way to live and if you are not obeying that law, you are not living righteously. What this man failed to realize is that God called Abraham righteous because Abraham believed God's word. What act did Abraham do that was so great that made him righteous compared to the works giving in the law of Moses that was given after Abraham? God gave Abraham the promise and Abraham believed God's word and it was then that God called Abraham righteous.
So the work that Abraham did that made him righteous was not only that he believed, but that he also ACTED on that belief. When God told Abraham to go, he went. When God told Abraham you will have a child (when Abraham was old), he believed. When God told Abraham to use his ONLY PROMISED son as a sacrifice, Abraham obeyed and followed and believed God. See the pattern? The work that Abraham did was faith.
Today God gives us a word on what to do through the Holy Spirit. We must live our lives and walk by faith. Being saved means truly believe on Jesus as the Son of God who is fully God and human and that He was the sacrificial lamb who carried our sins on the cross who died on the cross and who finished the work when He rose again the third day as it was prophesied and that He showed Himself to the disciples and others and that He accented into heaven and is currently sitting on the right hand of the Father making intercession for us. The Bible says if you will confess with your mouth and believe it in your heart, you are saved. And now the promise that was given to all people who believe on Him is the Holy Spirit who is our Teacher. Now if the law was our teacher than what is the need for the Holy Spirit when we already have a teacher? The Holy Spirit teaches us how to obey the LORD and law correctly. Love the LORD with all of your heart soul and might and to love your neighbors as yourself. As Christians, having the Holy Spirit in us, it is automatic that we will have no other gods before Him and that we know not to kill or steal and that we will honor our parents and we know not to covet and not to bare false witness and not to commit adultery and the Holy Spirit will show us through our walk what to do and what to say. Obeying the Holy Spirit is the same as obeying God's law because it's God's word and God's word or command is law. Jesus said that the Father works always even on the Sabbath and so does the Son. The same goes for us, our work is never done. We have liberty in our salvation and we serve the LORD always. Our lives and our living is a holy sacrifice unto the LORD. We don't stop helping people because it's the Sabbath. We are still at work if we go to church on a different day. God is working in the church on Sunday and God is working in the church on Saturday as well. And any other day that a person can go to worship the LORD, the LORD will be at work there as well. The LORD is always at work and never stop and we never stop. John 5:16-18
I am writing this because I hate for anyone to be discouraged over something that is not true. It's so easy to come across something like this on the Internet and feel bad about yourself. I know someone who constantly post on his Facebook page the same message that this man is saying and he is related to me. My main purpose on this blog is to encourage others but there are times when I will give a warning message about living right and checking yourself because God requires us to do that. I do it all out of love because when I write this, I am checking myself also. I do not think highly of myself more than anyone else. We all have to crucify our flesh and carry our own cross. We are all working out our salvation. Not saying we are not saved but living in sanctification. Walking in the word of God.
All foolish ego has to go and it has no place in our lives. We are saved ONLY because of what God has done. If God did not do it, we would all go to hell. It's just that simple.
Bless the LORD, oh my soul and all that is within me bless His holy Name!
As always I love you. God bless you.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
FREQUENCY this is my testamony
I mentioned before that I was going to every now an again use some of the writings I've written years ago. Well here is one I wrote back in 2006. This is my testimony.
Frequency
This is my story.
I can always tell when I am outside the will of God, because things become fuzzy. God's voice in my ear, in my heart becomes fuzzy. I start to question right and wrong, good and bad, good and evil.
I find myself rationalizing bad trying to make it sound good. I lose all spiritual senses. The bible tells us that God named his creation, including good and evil, right and wrong. We have no authority to change what God has made so.
I found myself trying to make wrong, right and trying to make right, wrong. This is a terrible sin and it put me in a place were l lost all spiritual sense. My relationship with God becomes fuzzy and sometimes null and void.
The first time I got caught up in a terrible sin, living in sin, God sent two people to rescue me. I believe that they were prophetess or messengers because they knew things about me and things that were happening in my house that they could not have known unless God revealed it to them. I was outside in public when they stopped me. They knew that I was living in sin, and I had my children mixed up in my sin. They knew I was serving in the Church while I was mixed up in my sin. God sent them to me to rebuke me, to comfort me, and to move me back into his will. He used great force.
I was immediately fine tuned back in with God and my eyes were opened. Bad become bad and good became good. I knew what I needed to do and I got out of that relationship.
It didn't take me long to fall right back into wrong. Once again I tried to rationalize wrong. Once again I put my kids in the middle of this wrong. The worse part about this is I married the wrong again. God told me from the beginning that this was wrong. He sent people in my life to tell me this is wrong. And if the truth be told, he didn't have to send anyone because it was obvious that this was wrong. Once again I rationalized wrong to make it right,(in my eyes). I committed a horrible, great sin. I married wrong! Of course nothing went right. How can this wrong be made right? I became confused. God's words become fuzzy the frequency was off. I kept mixing up wrong with right and right with wrong. I need to hear the fine-tunes of God. I heard wrongs voice loud and clear telling me in my ear how this wrong is so right. Even though it didn't make sense to me, I started to see this wrong in a right point of view. God’s message in my mind was twisted because of my sins. There was so much wrong, so much pain, and so much suffering.
I thank God for my suffering because I knew this suffering did not come from God which means this suffering was not by God but by him. God is right always. God is righteous always.
God was always speaking to me it was the frequency that made it hard for me to hear clearly. This time He didn't send two prophetess to rebuke me. I was tired of hurting God. I was tired of hurting my family, I was tired of hurting my friends, and I was tired of hurting myself.
I saturated myself with the word of God. I didn't wait for God to send someone again I went to him. As I started reading the word, things began to become clearer. God's voice in my ear became louder; his voice in my heart began to pound. I started to recognize the difference between God's voice and Satan's voice. I was in the right place to hear the voice of God.
I realize that when I am walking in darkness, things that are wrong seems right to me. I rationalize wrong. I listened to wrong. I followed wrong and my station with God become fuzzier and fuzzier. Wrong began to make sense to me. But, when I made a decision to walk in the word, all of a sudden, light began to shine through. Wrong became very wrong and I wondered how did I get the two confused? The frequency of God's voice became loud and clear, my new eyes were opening. I became confident. I started to rebuke wrong in the name of Jesus and accept it for what it is. I started to embrace right. It doesn't make things easy when you have to do what you have to do, but do it anyway.
I found myself holding back my tongue. I start to love those who clearly hate me. I started watching what I say, how I act, where I go. I started to surround myself with people who are healthy for me, and I for them. I started to recognize all sin, not just big sin and I stayed away from it. I learned how to love others and myself. I learned how important God relation to me is, and that I couldn’t live without his voice. I need that clear frequency. I started to hate sin. The more I Love God the more I hate sin, the more I hate sin, the more I hate wrong.
If you too are unsure of the direction you are going in life, you have lost your frequency with God. Just like a radio, you have to move in the right direction where you can hear the voice clearly.
These are some things that I would like to share that got me caught up in the wrong direction. I hope this will help you if you find yourself in a similar situation:
1.) Do not rationalize wrong. Keep wrong and right in its right place.
2.) Stay in the word daily, never miss a day. Buy something that will help you gain a better understanding of the word. I use the Nelson's Quick Reference Chapt-by-Chapt Bible commentary daily along with the Bible.
3.) Trust God always, trust your faith trust right.
4.) Be obedient. Stay away from things you know will lead to sin. You know your weakness. Develop yourself so that you will be strong against your weakness.
6.) Keep people who don't belong in your life away from you. Don't make friends with people who do not love the Lord and only have the cares of this world. That is how your thinking becomes twisted and things that are wrong seem good to you.
7.) Do well for someone else. If you have a lot of time on your hands the devil would love to keep you busy. Volunteer, do charity work. Keep yourself busy in well doing.
8.) Don't start None, won't be None. Don't start putting things in your heart that don't belong. Don't say to yourself, I'm not going to give 100% to my job or my marriage. Be at work on time. Do what you are paid to do regardless if you feel you are appreciated or not. You represent God at all times. He must be glorified at all times.
9.) Married people, don't act one way in public and another way at home. Don't be a hypocrite. Be kind to one another. Respect one another qualities they have to offer. Appreciate them. You are one unit! Don't grieve your mate with harsh words; remember you can't take them back. Show your love in all the ways God commanded. Lovemaking is a form of worship. It's the physical way to show how much you love one another you are one unit. Don't neglect the one you love. Learn to put your love in its rightful place. The bible says to love your mate more than you love your children. Remember don't confuse wrong with right. What seems right to a man isn't always right. That is why you need the bible.
I am speaking to Christian people so you know that I am not referring to abuse. If your husband or wife is abusing you, you must leave that unhealthy situation. We weren't always in Christian thinking and we may have gotten ourselves in a situation that was not pleasing to God and married the wrong person. However, if you are married to an unsaved person and you are saved, if they want to stay and there is no abuse, than stay and let God in you shine so bright that they have no choice but to choose God.
10.) Be ye separated from the world. Don't do what they do, don't respond like they respond, don't talk like they talk. Control your tongue. What you say out loud is what is in your heart. When God transform you heart, your tongue will reflect it.
Remember, if you have Christ in you, you don't have to say a word. They, the world, will see God in you. Keep that frequency connection with God. If what you hear is fuzzy. Check yourself. Pray daily for your family, yourself, your nation.
Add on: Isaiah 5:20-2120Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!
Add on: Isaiah 5:20-2120Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!
MARCH 2th, 2006
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
NO BREAKFAST IN HEAVEN
CHURCH ON TIME
Sunday, October 9, 2011
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