Posted on 03/02/2014 3:59:10 PM PST by Errant
As the book of the Revelation comes to a close, we are left with some very important words. Keep his commandments, know his Torah, and make yourself ready to be the bride of the King. He is coming quickly. Join Michael Rood for the final episode in the series From Here to Eternity – Yeshua’s Famous Last Words: Amen, Emet, Truth.
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Here it is for you, blind man:
Grace is an undeserved opportunity to have your past sins deleted if you simply confess them, repent of them, and endure in Yehova’s commandments to the end.
That is what Yeshua asked of us and if you believe in him, that is what you will endeavor to do for the rest of your life. That is what is called belief.
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>> “Surely you can tell us if Jesus and the Father are two separate entities, one entity in two persons, or what?” <<
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Your whole belief system is man made jargon!
Entities, persons, what?
What is wrong with sticking to what the word reveals to us?
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Can’t bring yourself to admit that either there has to be two Gods or one God in separate persons ey?
I have my doubts about your ability to unlearn what ol' Satan has filled your head with CB.
But the first thing I can tell you CB, is you ought to stop your darn lying and being a false witness. Then you might try following what Yeshua told us to do.
After you've made it over those obstacles, perhaps then you'll be ready to dive into the finer points of theology and scripture. ;)
I do. But you can’t seem to tell us who whether there were two multiple Gods or just on in multiple persons. Jesus didn’t pray to Himself did He? Did He go sit at the right hand of Himself?
IOW, you make grace dependent on works, which is wholly rejected by the scripture.
Rom 9:16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
Rom_4:4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
Rom 11:6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
Rom 11:35 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
Grace is grace because it is gratuitous, absolutely not dependent on the works of any one, but, actually, given despite their works, according to the purpose of God's will:
"For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son. And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy." (Rom 9:9-16)
Works are merely the result of salvation, and not its cause. It is the grace of God which is the cause of salvation, and cannot be revoked, so that all those to whom it is given, never fall away: Joh_15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
Joh_6:37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
If you’re not one of them, then you’re not one of his sheep.
In fact, I'm not descended from Jacob at all.
Oh woe is me.
By posting John 5 are you advancing the position of “Oneness?”
Your position sounds a lot like that of the United Pentecostals.
Well, then, Lechaim! to you.
Who knew! Jesus kept a DayTimer???!!!
Ironically, the Law required that those who celebrate the feast days be circumcised and so those Judaizers who support the Hebrew roots movement MUST demand circumcision.
And yet Paul addresses that quite clearly and the the Holy Spirit through the Council at Jerusalem settled the issue once for all.
Colossians 2:8-23 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.
In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.
Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind, and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.
If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations—“Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch” (referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to human precepts and teachings? These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.
Romans 14:1-23 As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God. For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's. For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God; 11 for it is written,
“As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.” So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.
Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother. I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean. For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died. So do not let what you regard as good be spoken of as evil. For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Whoever thus serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men. So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.
Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats. It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble. The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who has no reason to pass judgment on himself for what he approves. But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.
I hear he also keeps a 'book of life'?!!!
“Yehova is Elohim, Yeshua is the very same Elohim, born into the body of a man when his spirit conceived in Mary’s womb....”
Don’t forget the Holy Spirit, now! That brings us up to three. And do please remember that the FIRST COMMANDMENT is rendered invalid by the conflicting recollections of the memories of Matt, Mark, Luke, and John.
Don't forget Deuteronomy 18:15 either: "The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him."
There is NO doubt that western churchianity has gotten a ton of things wrong and mixed-up, but we aren't he only ones.
Getting closer to the truth begins by understanding the Root...
When Moses came down, he found his people - folks who had only just witnessed the LORD’s greatest miracles - worshiping a golden idol. That says a lot about who we are, as people, and it explains Christians’ incessant justification for just about anything, including their insistence on calling themselves Jews.
“Grace is an undeserved opportunity to have your past sins deleted if you simply confess them, repent of them, and endure in Yehova’s commandments to the end.”
Very poor definition of grace.
I'm not sure if you understand the difference between what's termed the house of Israel and the house of Judah?
The house of Israel are the northern tribes whom the Almighty allowed to be conquered and dispersed among the peoples of the earth
Some returned out of Babylon to the land of Israel and united with the house of Judah. Others scattered to the four winds. Eventually as prophesied, the two houses will unite:
"The House of Judah shall walk with the House of Israel and they shall "come together out of the land of the North to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers." - Jer. 3:18
Don't confuse the above with the house of Judah returning from the diaspora brought about by the Romans in AD. And even if certain Christians do not share Hebrew blood from the root, they are still 'grafted' in to the trunk through the renewed covenant. We who believe are all a part of the Almighty's plan.
Luke 13:34 "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, just as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not have it! 35"Behold, your house is left to you desolate; and I say to you, you will not see Me until the time comes when you say, 'BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD!'"
>> “In fact, I’m not descended from Jacob at all” <<
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That is not very likely to be true, but you have no way of knowing that anyway.
Abraham’s genetic seed is without question the dominant population of this world.
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>> “IOW, you make grace dependent on works, which is wholly rejected by the scripture” <<
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Only in your limited cognition!
Grace is dependent on your complete Mikva, as Peter stated.
No surprise that you lack even a faint understanding of what is revealed to us in the word, that you read with darkly glazed eyes.
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