Contending For The Original Apostolic Belief

well are you ready to get into y'all's word today alright I want you to open your Bibles with me to Acts chapter 20 we're going to begin in just a moment with verse 17 and I've entitled this message today contending for the original apostolic belief now I'm not going to go into a long introduction here I'm just going to allow the scripture to speak for itself so Acts chapter 20 beginning with verse 17 this is Luke who is the author of the book of Acts and he's writing here in this portion about the travels of Paul and from Alito's he sent to Ephesus and called for the elders of the Assembly so Paul has called for the elders of the Assembly in Ephesus and when they had come to him they said to he said to them you know from the first day that I came to Asia how I was with you all the time serving the master with all humility with many tears and trials which befell me by the plotting of the yahudim the jews as I kept back no matter that was profitable but proclaimed it to you and taught you publicly and from house to house witnessing to yahoodi to the Jews and also to Greeks repentance toward Elohim in other words turning from sin which is the transgression of the Torah to Elohim and belief in our master Yeshua Messiah verse 22 and now see I go bound in the spirit to Yerushalayim all right it's the will of yah in the spirit that's what he's talking about not knowing what is going to meet me there except that the spirit the set-apart spirit witnesses in every city saying that chains and pressures await me so he knows he's going to be imprisoned and persecuted he doesn't know all the details but he knows by the spirit that he's going to be imprisoned and persecuted verse 24 but I do not count my life of any value to me in other words I'm will to forfeit my own life that's what he means by that so that I might accomplish my mission with joy such a powerful passage for all of us who are serious about accomplishing our mission Paul said I'm willing to forfeit my life to accomplish my mission and I'm going to do it with joy hallelujah and the service or the ministry which I received from the master Yeshua to bear witness to the good news of the favor of Elohim so I find it interesting that Paul is so powerfully enthusiastic about sharing the good news of the favor Valley about taking to all the world the wonderful good news of redemption that's come through the death of Yeshua on the tree I want you to turn to first Corinthians chapter 15 and verse 9 and I believe that Paul was sorry that he persecuted the Assembly and it appears that he regrets that very deeply and that's a key to why he worked so hard I think a lot of people that way we believe in Redemption we want to redeem our lives for the good when we've discovered that we've done something in error and I think that dynamic was at work in in Paul's life look at 1st Corinthians chapter 15 verse 9 Paul said for I am the least of the emissary's on the least of the Apostles well none of us would say that about Paul would we most of us think he's the premier apostle you know but but Paul in his own thinking he saw himself as the least of the emissaries who am not worthy to be called an emissary why because I persecuted the Assembly of Elohim see he realized that and that that's stuck with him in my opinion it stuck with him all his life I think it was a factor in why he worked so hard why he worked so diligently to spread the good news of redemption amen how many of you are glad to be redeemed praise yah well that all inspire us as well look at verse 10 but by the favor of Elohim I am what I am and his favorite toward me was not in vain but I laboured much more than they all yet not i but the favor of Elohim with me and so I believe he was inspired motivated empowered to labor as he did in the good news because of his Thanksgiving toward the Almighty for redeeming him and using him and really placing a value on his life that he felt like was it deserved how many of you could say that's your testimony I know it's not it's mine Amen so go back to Acts chapter 20 and verse 25 and now see I know that you all among whom I went about preaching the reign of Elohim shall see my face no more this is a bit of a sad moment actually he's with these with these men these elders that he's worked amongst for some time and developed a relationship with and he's letting them know you're not going to see me again verse 26 therefore I witnessed to you this day that I am clear from the blood of all now this is an important passage and a lot of times we just read right over it we don't understand why Paul is saying that Paul was very familiar with the scripture and so he's making a reference here to Ezekiel alright I'm going to show you that here just a moment let's read verse 26 again therefore I witness to you this day that I'm clear from the blood of all four I kept not back from declaring to you all the counsel of Elohim okay this is a clear reference to a passage that's found in Ezekiel it's actually several in Ezekiel but I'm just going to I'm going to take you to one Ezekiel chapter 3 verse 18 it says when I say to the wrong you shall certain died and you have not warmed him nor spoken to Warren the wrong from his wrong way to save his life that same wrong man shall die in his crookedness and his blood I require at your hand but if you have warned the wrong and he does not turn from his wrong nor from his wrong way he shall die in his crookedness and you have delivered your being so Paul saying men I have preached I have made it clear what's right and wrong in the Messiah I have labored among you I have not withheld any of the full counsel of the Almighty and my hands are clean there's no blood on my hands that's what he's saying there look at verse 28 of Acts chapter 20 therefore take heed to yourselves now he's going to charge these Shepherds take heed to yourselves and to all the flock among which the set apart Spirit has made you overseers in other words take my example do just like I did preach the full counsel to your flock to Shepherd the Assembly of elohim which he has purchased with his own blood declare the full counsel of elohim to the flock verse 29 this is so important and this is what I was talking about when I said we must contend for the original apostolic belief for I know this now this is Paul speaking prophetically that after my departure all right and I believe he's making reference here to his death because he says in another place he talks about his death being a departure that after my departure savage wolves shall come in among you not sparing the flock so they're going to infiltrate from the outside he says when I when I die when I depart something tragic is going to happen in the Assembly he's telling these these Shepherds to be careful and to keep an eye open because this will happen he doesn't say it might happen he says it will happen and it's going to happen just sort Lee after he departs okay now why am i making this point because I want you to see that the apostasy of religion began early on it's not just something that happens at the very end we're seeing Paul saying to these elders and Ephesus that shortly after I depart savage wolves are going to come in not sparing the flock there's going to be some damage that's going to happen to dissembling all right the apostasy begins the falling away these wolves who are coming in and they're not sparing the flock of yah okay verse 30 also from among yourselves or from inside the body so it's going to happen from the outside it's also going to happen from the inside men shall arise speaking distorted teachings all right now if we're paying attention we know there's a lot of distorted teaching going on right now but but Paul was saying shortly after I depart it's going to start because Paul was teaching what Yeshua taught and I'm going to show you a passage I showed it to you last week where Paul said if anyone teaches differently or if someone teaches something that disagrees with your shoe up withdraw from that person you see how he's warning the fact that after he departs the savage wolves are going to come in and and they're going to teach things that are different from your shoe ax and they're going to teach things that disagree with Yeshua and Paul tells us the found words the sound doctrine comes from Yeshua or he doesn't say anything about religion as a matter of fact he says to be careful about religion Yeshua never said follow religion he said follow me so what's happening today in the spirit there are people who are coming out of all kinds of religious backgrounds the different denominations and they're receiving revelation from the spirit that we're to follow your schewe and that's what matters we're to love what he loved and hate what he hated we're to say what he said and do what he did we're to walk in his ways before you could walk in his ways you have to discover his ways and I could tell you without any hesitation his ways are not the ways of religion as a matter of fact if you study your Scheuer you'll find out that he was constantly chastising religious leaders because they love their religious traditions more than they loved the written truth and Yeshua said I am the way the truth and the life and the scripture says the Torah is the way the truth and the life he said their burdens the burden of religion those burdens are heavy burdens hard to bear he's contrasting the burden of religion with the burden of the Torah he says that come to me all you who labor and are heavy laden with religion and I will give you rest take my yoke upon you see there is a yoke folks perverted grace says there's no yoke you get all the blessings but you have no personal responsibility I call that the doctrine of personal irresponsibility that's saying there is no yoke but Yeshua said there is a yoke he said take my yoke it's the yoke of the of the word take it upon yourself learn from me learn from the word for I am gentle and lowly and you'll find rest for your souls for my yoke is not heavy burdens hard to bear my yoke is easy and my burden is light amen so what is this movement it's getting back to the scripture it's getting back to your schewe it's discovering his ways and walking in them can you say Amen hallelujah praise yah look at verse 28 again therefore take heed to yourself and to all the flock among which the set-apart spirit has made you overseers to shepherd the Assembly of Elohim in other words make sure that they stay in the original apostolic belief which is purchased with his own blood for I know this that after my departure savage wolves shall come in among you not sparing the flock also from among yourselves from within the body men shall arise speaking distorted teachings why to draw away the taut ones are the disciples after themselves these are teachers that want to following see if you're in the ministry to create a following you have a perverted understanding of ministry you're not to get people to follow you you're to get people to follow your shoe up it's not your job to get people to follow religion or your denomination but we see that all the time in religion do we not as a minister it is our responsibility to charge people to follow your schewe to learn about his ways and to walk in his ways and we will be judged for whether or not we accomplish that well if it's all about you if it's all about your church so to speak amen it's all about your denomination that's a perverted way of thinking get people to follow your shul can you say men now first Timothy chapter 6 beginning with verse 3 this is the verse that I are the passage that I referenced just a moment ago Paul said this if anyone teaches differently and does not agree to the sound words who has the sound words those of our master Yeshua Messiah and to the teaching which is according to reverence he is puffed up he's proud and arrogant he understands nothing at all he's sick about questionings and verbal battles from which come envy strife slander wicked suspicions worthless disputes of men of corrupt minds and deprived the truth who think that reverence is a means of gain in other words ministry is a way to make money who think that reverence is a means of gain what does he say about these people with draw from such and this is a charge this is something the spirits placed in my heart that I'm going to keep preaching from the housetops if you're anywhere in a setting where the preachers preach it about himself or preaching the broth just his church or a denomination and the focus is on someone or something other than your schewe withdrawal from such if it feels like it's about making money withdraw from such that's why we offer our Sokoto and there's no strategy whatsoever from making money we don't believe in making money with the holy days of young that's just our belief can you say men Acts chapter 20 verse 31 therefore watch remembering that for three years night and day I did not cease to warn each one with tears so Paul warned about the apostasy the falling away of the assembly that would begin shortly after his death and I'm hopeful by showing you scripture today that you're going to to gain a an understanding maybe a new understanding that if you're thinking that the falling away is going to happen sometime in the future you're partially right because there will be a great falling away at the time of the revealing of the anti Messiah but I want you to see from Scripture that the authors of the opposite writings were saying that the apostasy was beginning in their day so if it was happening then can you imagine what the environment might look like today after 2,000 years of it that's my main point today so many of us were born in religion we were raised in religion we felt good about our religion we had confidence in religion we thought we were right in our religion we thought everybody else was wrong in their religion but now we've come to the place where we have to question religion because we've discovered the apostasy is not some time in the future only it started back in the first century Paul said when I pass when I depart savage wolves are going to come in from the outside and from the inside trying to destroy the flock and believe me it happened then and it's happened for 2,000 years and it's still happening today that's why we have to open our eyes and think clearly we have to be willing to resist religion test everything discover the truth and walk in the ways of your schewe because he's coming back for his own for his bride who's made herself ready amen here's another of Paul's warnings here's a warning that he gave to Timothy 2nd Timothy chapter 4 beginning with verse 1 this is such a powerful charge I want you to see the emphases that Paul places on this charge he says in the sight of Elohim I mean before yah and the master Yahshua Messiah who shall judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his reign I earnestly charge you so you're being charged before the almighty before the Messiah the one who's going to judge the living and the dead it is returned this is the charge that's coming to you okay now he's charging Timothy but we can to charge upon ourselves what does he say your Bible may say preach the word mine says proclaim the word and there's an exclamation point there in my translation so what's the big charge before the almighty before the Messiah before the one who's going to judge the living in the dead when he arrives the charges preach the word now can't imagine Paul thinking that preaching the word is telling a bunch of life experiences and using the word as an example for your life experience we see a lot of that these days it's become entertainment in a lot of ways and people choose what congregation what assembly they're going to attend by how well entertained they are and yet the scripture itself tells us what we're to preach it says proclaim the word shall being someone who had memorized much of the Torah to be a student of Gamaliel you had to have a very strong handle on the Scriptures if somebody like that says preach the word what do you think he means when the Holy Spirit says preach the word what do you think he means and you have chosen to sit under a ministry where we bring the word and why do we bring the word because we take seriously the charge it's the word that changes lives not entertainment our stories I'm not saying that you can't use a life experience to bolster and help support and help get into the minds of people the principle that you're teaching from the word but you better be teaching the word can you say good amen proclaim the word be urgent in season and out of season tickle their ears make them feel good say what they want to hear so they'll come back is that what it says it doesn't say that but it seems like some people are reading it that way what is it saying convict worn appeal with all patience and teaching now here's the warning for there shall be a time when they shall not bear sound teaching in other words they're not going to receive sound teaching now what it Paul say about sound teaching who who gives sound teaching Yeshua they're not going to want to receive what Yeshua taught they're going to take a twisted version of Paul's writings and make it say what they wanted to say and they're going to say yeshua was under the law and he taught people under the law we're not under the law so what he said doesn't apply to us but Paul never said that are you following me for there shall be a time when they shall not bear sound teaching but according to their own desires they shall heap up for themselves teachers tickling the ear they're going to have their favourite teachers alright the ones that make them feel good the ones that say what they want them to say and they shall indeed turn their ears away from the truth now what does the scripture say it's truth the Torah is truth all right read psalm 119 one read other passages in psalm 119 you'll find out over and over and over again the torah is truth okay and they shall indeed turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to myths on truths just because it's accepted doesn't make it true she brought in a way that leads to destruction and there are many who find it just because the many believe it doesn't make it true narrow and difficult is the way that leads to life and are few who find it so who's going to be right the many are the few welcome to the few now that doesn't mean that we have a small mentality as it relates to sharing the good news we have in all the world every creature mentality we're to go forward believing that all the world and every creature will receive and we cannot be discouraged when they don't so we preach like they will and we don't get discouraged when they don't some will amen alright quickly we're talking about Paul sounding the alarm to Timothy saying that they're not going to bear sound teaching but according to their own desires are going to heap up for themselves teachers tickling the ear and they shall turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside the myths is there any other place in the scripture where we might find that principle taught Isaiah prophesied the exact same thing in Isaiah chapter 30 verse 8 let's look at it really quickly and go write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it on a scroll that it is for a latter day a witness forever verse nine that this is a rebellious people lying children children who refuse to hear the Torah of yah who say to the seers do not see and to the prophets do not prophesy to us what is right speak to us what is smooth in other words what's attractive to the ears prophesy deceits or proclaim lies turn aside from the way what is the way so I'm 119 1 blessed are the perfect in the way who walk in the Torah of yah swerve from the path cause the set of part 1 of Israel to cease from before us ok Isaiah 59 verse 2 says but your crookedness is have separated you from your Elohim and your sins have hidden his face from you from hearing Jeremiah 5 verse 31 says the prophets have prophesied falsely and the priests ruled by their own hand and my people have loved it so see you're in the wrong crowd when you're loving false prophecy when you're loving what the religious leaders are doing and it doesn't line up with a word you're talking about oh how wonderful your assembly is and how great the pastor is and in all of the things that you think are wonderful the question is is your assembly and your pastor lining up with Scripture and that's the test you will know them by what they say is that what it says you will know them by their fruit see we're all called to be fruit inspectors let's see our society today says you know people say don't judge me don't judge me and even the body of Messiah has bought in to that to where you can't even in in most assemblies make a righteous judgement about something because you're going to be accused of judging people Yeshua never taught against a righteous judgment he taught against being judgmental fault-finding picking constantly at people looking for something wrong and he says you're not even qualified to help those people with their speck until you get your plank out of your eye you're a hypocrite this is not a teaching against righteous judgment folks we're supposed to make righteous judgment if you don't make righteous judgment you will be deceived because in these last days it's not that light and darkness are going to be so contrasted that you're going to be able to see clearly the difference it's the deception that's going to become so great to where it's difficult to make an appropriate judgment and people are going to going to call good evil and evil good and society is going to accept it and many in the quote Church are going to go along with it we have to make righteous judgments we have to be fruit inspectors can you say men but you may not be qualified to make a righteous judgement if you never read the scripture I don't want you sitting as a judge over me if you don't even know the scripture amen now I'm obviously not talking to anybody in this congregation let's be talking to somebody else and some other assembly amen it's time to grow up in the scripture folks that's what I'm talking about we've got to be mature these days are getting so dark and the deception is getting so great that if we don't mature in the scripture and in a relationship of the Spirit we're going to run the risk of being deceived amen look at Romans chapter 16 verse 18 Paul said for such ones do not serve our master Yeshua Messiah but their own stomach so these are these are people who are serving their own lusts and by smooth words and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the innocent like an innocent baby it's really talking about the immature if you're in mature you can be deceived with smooth words flattering speech so it's time to grow up Matthew 7 verse 15 Yeshua said but beware of the false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing there's that deception I was talking about and it's from within but inwardly they are savage wolves by their fruits you shall know them our grapes gathered from thornbushes or figs from thistles so every good tree yields good fruit but a rotten tree yields wicked fruit a good tree is unable to yield wicked fruit and a rotten tree to yield good fruit every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire so then by their fruits you shall know them all right now verse 21 is right on the heels of verse 20 so we've got to read them in the same context he says not everyone who says to me see you got to watch out for what they say because they're going to say one thing and then do something else do not be deceived by what they say watch what they do watch what they do not everyone who says to me master master shall enter into the rain of the heavens but he who is what doing the desire of my father in the heavens what is doing the desire of my father how do we learn the desire of the father in the Torah we we learn his will he makes it plain to us so this scripture says those that are obeying the scripture not cherry-picking it picking out the ones we won't obey and forget about the rest of it not saying well I just live out of this little sliver in the back of the book if we don't have a foundation in Torah we don't even know how to interpret the back of the book amen so Yeshua said we've got to be doing the will of Abba Father hey Ben verse 22 many shall say to me in that day so they're still talking and they're hoping that they're going to be able to convince the judge of the living and the dead by what they say he's not hearing what they say he's looking at what they do what they did in their lives many shall say to me in that day master master see they're declaring him master your Bible may say Lord have we not prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and done many mighty works in your name see this is all the flashy stuff all right false prophets prophesy in his name too and even those seven sons of sceva you know you had these itinerate Jewish rabbis that were going around trying to cast out and cast it out some demons I mean you can intimidate some demons if you yell out another because there's different levels of demons it says that they will say we did marvelous works mighty works in your name so does that convince him and then I shall declare to them I never knew you depart from me you who work lawlessness all right you who lived like there was no Torah you who disobeyed the written scripture and you said that you prophesied in my name you said you cast out demons you said you did wonderful ministry works but I'm going to look beyond what you say I'm going to look at what you really did in your life you lived like there was no Torah you followed religion and I don't know you see we have to have a deep personal intimate relationship with the king of kings and the master of masters we have to be willing to discover his ways and walk in his ways he's coming back for his own the one he knows and he only knows you when you've spent time with him he's not going to walk in Roman ways folks well I I thought I walked with you all those years focused on religion how many of you want to run that risk you want to follow religion and hope he doesn't say depart from me I never knew you anybody want to run that risk mm-hmm we want to discover his ways and walk with him in his ways amen all right another quick scripture Matthew chapter 13 starting with verse 44 Yeshua said the son of a domme shall send out his messengers or his angels and they shall gather out of his reign or his kingdom all the stumbling blocks all the causes of sinning and offense and those doing lawlessness he's referencing zebediah 1:3 those doing lawlessness notice it doesn't say anything about a mental ascension that he's Messiah that's what religion says that's all you need to do is just mentally ascend that he's Messiah no he he says himself you you need to do righteousness and not do lawlessness so he's going to send out his angels they're going to gather out of his kingdom all the stomach blocks and those doing lawlessness and shall throw them into the furnace of fire there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth then the righteous the righteous shall shine forth as the Sun in the reign of their father that's a reference to Daniel chapter 12 verse 3 he who has ears let him hear he's saying the same thing today who has ears who will hear this message this message is going to run contrary to those who are tickling the ears this message is going to run contrary to religious teachers no matter how sincere they might be in their own thinking he who has an ear let him hear let him hear what the Spirit is saying you know it's way past time for us to wake up and stop followed religion Malachi chapter 3 verse 18 then you shall again see the difference between the righteous and the wrong there is a difference between one who serves Elohim how do you serve him through obedience and one who does not serve him here's a very revealing passage Revelation chapter 22 beginning with verse 14 Yeshua said this blessed are those doing his commands so that the authority shall be theirs under the Tree of Life and to enter through the gates into the city but outside are the dogs and those who enchant with drugs and those who and the murderers and the idolaters and all who love to - falsehood blessed are those doing yaws commands so that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of life how many of you want to Eve eat of the tree of life well it's made clear right here how to have authority to do so obey the commandments and to enter through the gates into the city how many of you want to enter into the city how do you have the authority to enter into the city obey the commands but outside of the city are the dogs those who enchant with drugs those who core the murderers the idolaters and all those who love and do falsehood so this is describing those who disobey the commandments because there's a commandment against those things all right go back to 2nd Timothy chapter 4 we're going to finish up that passage 2nd Timothy chapter 4 we'll pick up at verse 5 Paul wrote but you be sober in all matters suffer hardships do the work of an evangelist he's charging Timothy to do these things accomplish your service completely for I am already being poured out and the time of my what my departure my death has arrived I have fought the good fight Paul is following a schewe and Paul said to be able to follow your shoe I had to fight a good fight and if you're going to follow your shoe you're going to have to fight the good fight religion tries to make it easy for everybody you get all the goodies don't have any personal responsibility one of the most popular messages floating around today the perverted grace message you get it all because yo has put himself into a corner and called himself love so had to love everybody the same way at all times so you get all the goodies even if you've rejected him you have no personal responsibility because then if you actually do anything you've fallen from grace and now you're into law keeping I say this a lot you probably know the answer by now but if you're not a law keeper what are you a law breaker he said I fought the good fight you're gonna walk with your Scheuer you're gonna fight a good fight it's a good fight but you will fight I have finished the race how many of you want to be able to say at some point I finished my race I have guarded the belief that's what this message is all about today you're going to have to guard the belief because religion wants to steal it your friends and neighbors and co-workers want to try to talk you out of it your former pastor wants to accuse you of being heretical all of those in your social circle are plotting and planning and intervention see it's funny but some of us know how real that is you're going to have to guard the belief but it's not religious belief it's the original apostolic belief that came from your schewe and his set apart emissaries I have guarded the belief if you want to finish your race with joy you have to guard the belief for the rest there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness which the master the righteous judge shall give to me on that day and not to me only this is a good part but also to all those loving his appearing how many of you are loving his appearing we're living for that day not so that we could have some mythological escape but so that we could be a part of the establishment of his kingdom on earth and walk with Him as his bride and rule and reign this earth for a thousand years of Shabbat of Shalom hallelujah how many of you believe you can endure anything if you know that's going to be the outcome of your faith your belief well I'm going to take on one more although I have two more let's go to first John chapter two verse one so the Apostle John warns the believers my little children I write this to you so that you do not sin what is sin transgression of the Torah and if anyone sins we have an intercessor your Bible may say advocate with the father Yeshua Messiah a righteous one and he himself is an atoning offering for our sins and not for ours only but also for all the world and by this we know that we know him so this is the litmus test how many of you ever studied chemistry you remember that little list litmus strip that you'd put in that chemical to see what color it turn do you want to know if you know him by this we know that we know him here it is if we guard his commands now is this the Brit hadashah yes it is I usually don't answer people but the office Tolly writings okay so here it is in the Alpha solid writings that says if you want to know if you know him how do you know it if you obey his commands that's how you know that you know him first for the one who says I know him and does not guard or obey his commands as a liar and the truth is not in him now it's not speaking to religious folks religious folks say I know him well I know him then the congregation I go to we we know him the litmus test is are you obeying his commands if you say you know him and you don't obey his commands the scripture says now see if I just preach that people say I tell you what that preacher preaches hard he called everybody that didn't obey the commands a liar no I did in the scripture dude I'm just the one who says I know him and does not guard or obey his commands the liar and the truth is not in him but whoever guards his word truly the love of Elohim or you could say our love for Elohim has been perfected in him remember what you shoe said if you love me keep my Commandments so I love for Elohim is perfected in the fact that we obey his commands by obeying his commands you're expressing your love for him by obeying his commands you're perfecting the love that you have for him verse six the one who says he stays in him your Bible may say abides in him and Yeshua ought himself also to walk even as he walked if you say you abide in your sewer you ought to walk that says even as you could say just as if you're truly abiding in him you're walking just as he walked and you're not making excuses for his ways you're not trying to decide what part of his ways that you're willing to walk in and what part of his ways you think you don't need to walk in anymore I mean he kept the Sabbath the seventh day Sabbath are you someone who wants to follow in his ways are you making a religious excuse and calling it Sunday or any day you've heard sincere preachers I I sooner sincere say well my my Sabbath is on Monday because they've taken the commandment and boil it down to a religious principle that it's just a time of rest but if you change it to any other day you mess up the prophetic picture that the Almighty has designed for it to represent six days of human history a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like a day after the sixth day comes the seventh day the seventh day is Shabbat when Yeshua comes back after six thousand years of human history he's going to establish his sabbatical Kingdom 1,000 years of Shalom if you move it to Monday you've just destroyed the picture if you move it to Sunday you've just destroyed the picture he never said it any day you decided to be that makes you Elohim not him he says it's on the seventh day but we're talking about walking in the ways of Yeshua Yeshua kept the festivals because all the festivals speak of him yes you would never kept the Roman holiday why because he didn't follow religion folks he says to us follow me because he doesn't want us following religion so you need to praise yah every day that he's given you ears to hear and eyes to see and you've been delivered from religion hallelujah praise yah all right look at first John chapter 2 verse 50 we're going to wind up here in just a moment first John chapter 2 verse 15 says do not love the world nor that which is in the world if anyone loves the world the love of the father is not in him well what is the love of the father how do you love the father through obedience if you love the world do you think you're going to be obeying the father you're going to be obeying your own lust the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life that's loving the world if you love the world you are not loving the father in other words you're not obeying the commandments to love the world is to disobey the commandments can you say men are you following me now if you if you grasp this this passage which you've read probably a hundred times will have a much greater meaning do not love the world is don't obey your own lust obey the commandments do not love the world nor that which is in the world if anyone loves the world the love of the father is not in him because all that's in the world the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life again you can trace it all the way back to the garden is not of the Father but is of the world and the world passes away so do you want to follow the world if you follow the world you're going to end up where the world goes the world passes away okay the world passes away and the lust of it here it is but the one who mentally ascends that Yeshua is the Messiah is that what it says no what does it say but the ones doing the desire of Elohim remains forever how do you discover the desire of Elohim you read the Torah you obey the Torah then you're doing the desire of lle so this is a promise of eternal life now you can't just obey the Torah apart from believing in Yeshua that was the problem that the Jews in those days had they want to just obey the Torah and not believe in Yeshua that was a great challenge that Paul was constantly dealing with in his writings you have to understand that to be able to interpret Paul correctly alright but if you believe in Yeshua the living Torah then you will be obeying Yeshua the living Torah amen your belief if it's a living belief produces obedience you remember how we've talked about the Covenant we have a covenant with with you through Yeshua this part of the Covenant is to answer our prayers to fulfill his promises our side of the Covenant is to have a belief that produces obedience if you have a belief it doesn't produce obedience your belief is dead and a dead belief cannot produce a living salvation it can produce religion all right first John chapter 2 verse 18 little children it is the last hour so here's the Apostle John he's saying he's sensing that we're in the last hour so the latter days is the two thousand year period after the Ascension of Yeshua he realized that it is the last hour and as you have heard that the anti-messiah is coming well Paul taught about the Animus ayah the one that would come at the very end right and you saying you've heard that that anti Messiah is coming but notice the next two words even now so so when did this mystery of lawlessness begin is it somewhere in the future or was it right then right then again my point being if the apostasy started back then if the false teachers were teaching back then if the people wanted their ears tickled back then if religion was being established back then what does it look like now after 2,000 years I wonder how many preach this kind of message in their assemblies or will this weekend we have to follow the spirit don't we you've heard that the anti Messiah is coming even now many Animus ayahs have come those who teach differently and in disagreement with Yeshua's teachings the anti messiahs all right this is how we know that it is the last hour when all these anti-messiah calm people that are teaching differently people that are teaching a disagreement with Yeshua you're in the last hour they went out from us see there was a falling away and apostasy but they were not of us for if they had been of us they would have stayed with us but in order that it might be made manifest that none of them were of us verse 20 and you have an anointing from the set of part one and you know all all right now this is this is John speaking to all of our highest potentials because we do have that potential if you're willing to submit to the Ministry of the Holy Spirit he's the Spirit of Truth and he will lead you in all truth if you believe that all right verse 20 and you have an anointing from the set of part one and you know all I did not write to you because you do not know the truth but because you know it and because no falsehood is of the truth who is the liar except the one denying that Yeshua is the Messiah this is the anti Messiah the one denying the father and the son no one denying the son has the father the one confessing the son has the father as well so this is referencing some believing Jews and fell away and denied your shoe as Messiah and of course the majority of Jews and Judaism have refused to believe that Yeshua is the Messiah but this is also talking about non Jewish believers who fall away from the original belief delivered by Yeshua and his apostles and they've embraced paganism and the false doctrines of the Roman Church so you've got to see it both ways you have to see it on both sides you've got those who have who have denied Yeshua because of the religion of Judaism or those maybe that believed at one point and fell away but then you also have those who are non-jews in religion who are not walking in Yeshua Yeshua sways they created it some new Yeshua they've created a new Messiah and they've couched him in paganism and the ways of Rome it's true you might as well say Amen and so there's been a falling away after 2,000 years of religion being established we don't even see hardly the one new man that's that's what brought me to the place where I am the day was that I was reading in Ephesians about the one new man this dynamic that was established through the blood of Messiah we're believing Jew and believing non Jew worshiped hand-in-hand as one that's what the blood of Messiah accomplished the one new man and the Spirit spoke to me and said in your experience have you seen the one new man and my answer was no not in my experience I haven't seen the one new man I was raised up in religion on the Christian side that's what I knew and there were others that were raised up in religion on the Judaism side but Yeshua came and died on the tree to pull down the wall of separation and to bring the believing Jew and the believing non Jew together the believing Don Jew has the lead paganism to be a part of the one new man the believing Jew has to leave the traditions of men in Judaism and we need to come together in the middle as the one new man that's what this is all about look at verse 24 as for you let that stay in you which you heard from the beginning in other words the the original teachings of Yeshua and his emissaries if what you heard from the beginning stays in you see this is contending for the original opposite belief you also shall stay in the Son and in the father and this is the promise that he has promised us what everlasting life verse 26 I have written this to you concerning those who lead you astray I'm warning you about those that will lead you astray you better open your eyes you better open your ears you better follow the ruach ha'qodesh the Holy Spirit or you have a great potential of being deceived but the anointing which you have received from him from your Scheuer stays in you and you have no need that anyone should teach you but as the same anointing does teach you up teach you concerning all and is true he's the Spirit of Truth and is no falsehood and even as it has taught you you stay in him does that mean follow Yeshua stay in him and now little children stay in him so that when he appears we might have boldness and not be ashamed before him at his coming if you know that he is righteous and we do you know that everyone doing righteousness that's obeying the Scriptures has been born of him we're going to close right there today next week I'm going to pick up in Jude because as you know Jew said I wanted to write concerning our common deliverance but I felt a necessity to write to you earnestly to contend for the belief Amen so we need to fight for the belief we need to fight the good fight as Paul said praise y'all amen hallelujah Oh

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Published: Fri Jul 28 2017