How many times we, as
followers of our Savior, our Messiah, our Mashiach, say something that we did
not plan or wanted to say? It happens to me at times, and I feel so rotten, and
feel so defeated like I can never become holy as Yehovah calls me to be. He is
Holy and we must be holy.
Wayyiqra/Leviticus 11:43-45
“You shall not
make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps; nor shall you
make yourselves unclean with them, lest you be defiled by them. For I am
Yehovah your Elohim. You shall therefore consecrate yourselves, and you shall
be holy; for I am holy.”
This chapter speaks about
the foods we can eat and those we cannot eat for they will defile us. We cannot
eat certain foods. Yehovah is saying that even when we eat foods He has not
created to be eaten, we get defiled. To be defile, first of all is because we
have disobeyed and done our own pleasure in spite of His command.
And we also become defiled
because those foods are not beneficial to our bodies, and we can become sick if
we eat them. Many believers die prematurely because they refuse to follow the
Scriptures. I am appalled how many believers die from cancer in the churches!
Disobedience is sin and can and will many times open the door to Satan to
afflict us.
So now we talk about sin.
Yeshayahu/Isaiah 59:1-3
Behold, Yehovah’s
hand is not shortened, that cannot save; nor His ear heavy, that it cannot
hear. But your iniquities have separated you from your Elohim’ and your sins
have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear. For your hands are
filled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies,
your tongue has muttered perversity.
Many times, even as
professed followers of our Mashiach-Messiah Yehoshua, we say something we
should not have. May exaggeration, which is a lie, or we were not walking in
perfect love toward someone, as we are commanded to do (See Devarim/Deuteronomy
6:5; Wayyiqra/Leviticus 19:18; Matt. 22:37-39)
We are commanded to love
Yehovah, our Heavenly Creator, King and Father with all our heart, and to love
our neighbor, which includes our enemies, with all our hearts. Are we doing
this? We need His grace, for we seem to be easily led to fall all the time to
our disgrace! The great apostle Shaul speaks on this issue in Romans 7:1-25.
I will write only some of those heart felt verses written by of our beloved
apostle.
Romiyim/Romans 7: 20-24
“Now if I do what
I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. I
find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good.
For I delight in the law of Elohim according to the inward man. But I see
another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me
into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body
of death? I thank Elohim-through Yehoshua HaMashiach our Adon!
When, many times, I read
this passage, I thought that the apostle Shaul/Paul was only writing it to
teach us, but he did not really feel that way.
However, through my own
experience in pursuing Yehovah and serving Him with all my heart, (although
many times not speaking what I wanted to say), but adding something, I came to
believe that maybe he was indeed speaking of himself.
I cannot even write how
miserable I felt when I missed the mark of perfection! I felt indeed wretched!
How can I go to Heaven, I thought.
Well, there is hope. We
go through Yehoshua HaMashiach. We cannot go to Heaven because we belong to a
particular church or because of our own “wonderful” good works! Our salvation
is received by His grace alone.
He has provided the
Atonement about 2000 years ago. Yehoshua hanged on the cross for six long
hours, and died to pay the penalty for our sins, which is death (Romiyim/3:23;
6:23).
Our sin was already
atoned when He took the penalty of our sin on His body. He suffered horribly
for you and me. All we are required is to fully and completely repent of our
sin, and be restored into His presence.
For, as we have read in
the prophet Yeshayahu book, Yehovah will not hear when we call upon Him if our
hands are filled with blood, iniquity, sin. He waits on our heartfelt
repentance. Will you today repent, as I do, and ask Him, Yehovah to forgive you
of your sin? Yehoshua has paid the full price for our redemption.
Yeshayahu/Isaiah 53
is one chapter that declares completely the work of Atonement Yehoshua paid for
the forgiveness of our sins. We are sinners, and we do need a Savior. Yehoshua
is our Atonement. I will write a few verses of this chapter in the Sefer
Yeshayahu.
4 – “Surely He has
born our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed stricken, smitten by
Elohim, and afflicted.”
5 – But He was wounded
for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for
our peace was upon Him, and by stripes we are healed.”
Qorin’tiyim 1/1Corinthians 6:20
For you were bought at a price; therefore
glorify Elohim in your body and in your spirit, which are Elohim’s.
I have gone through so many failures that I
cannot count. When that happened, I did not sense the presence of my Savior or
of my Father in Heaven, Yehovah. I also lost my joy. I felt that I was good for
nothing, and this is the complete truth. On my own I am a nothing. I live by
His grace alone. I am so thankful for His love toward me. He hanged on the
cross six hours, after He had been beaten, ridiculed, mocked, beaten, and a
crown of thorns was placed upon His head.
All this He allowed to be
done to Him, for He was dying even for those who were doing those atrocities to
Him. He did it for you and me. If we did not sin, He would not have to die for
us.
No one is without sin (Romiyim 3:23).
But we are called to be
holy. We must pursue Him and seek His grace to prevent us from sinning. But if we do sin, we must immediately run to
our Father Yehovah, who is in Heaven, and ask Him to forgive us.
He is faithful.
He knows us better than ourselves. He knows every hair in our heads. He knows
us by name. He is very personal, and I am thankful that now we also have learned
to call Him by His name.
Yehovah is holy.
Sometimes we may have to let go of some friends who with their speech defile us. We must choose our friends carefully. Always
keeping in mind that we belong to the Most Holy Elohim of Heaven and Earth.
1 Chronicles 16:28-29
Give to Yehovah, o families of the
peoples, give to Yehovah glory and strength. Give to Yehovah the glory due His
name; bring an offering, and come before Him. Oh, worship Yehovah in the beauty of His Holiness.
Psalm 96:9
Oh, worship Yehovah in the beauty of His
holiness! Tremble before Him, all the earth.
Let us do it now. Let us worship Him in the beauty of
His Holiness, and He will help us to be holy as He is Holy!
Yehovah- Called erroneously “the LORD”
Elohim- God
Yehoshua/Yeshua – Called erroneously “Jesus.”