Praise YAH. Well I have a bit of a Bible study
for you today, are you ready to get into YAH's Word today? Amen. I am as well. I want you to open your
Bibles with me to Hebrews chapter three and we're gonna begin with verse 1 in just a moment we're
gonna continue in our series that we've entitled "Yeshua Our Amazing High Priest". Is He not amazing?
we've been talking about Him as our High Priest and all that the Bible says about Yeshua as our
High Priest and all of the amazing things that He has accomplished for us and so we're gonna get
a little deeper even today beginning with Hebrews chapter three and verse 1 it says, "Therefore set
apart brothers," This is talking about you, you're set apart unto Him. "partakers of the heavenly
calling," Aren't you glad to be protecting of the heavenly calling? "closely consider," Or think
deeply. "about the emissary," Or the sent one, another translation says the apostle. "and high priest
of our confession or our belief and who is that Messiah Yeshua who was trustworthy," Everybody
say trustworthy or you could say faithful or completely obedient to Him, who's it talking about?
YAH, to YAH. "who appointed Him," So YAH pointed Yeshua. "as descent one and the high priest of our belief
as also Mosheh," So Mosheg was also appointed so Mosheh was appointed by YAH and Yeshua is the Prophet
like Mosheh and they were both appointed by YAH so it says Messiah Yeshua who is trustworthy to
Him," To YAH. "who appointed him as also Mosheh in all His house." Now this is where religion goes
wrong because they begin to think that this is talking about Mosheh's house that Mosheh had a
house. Mosheh didn't have a house, this is talking about YAH's. So Moseh was appointed as a servant in
Yah's house, all right? This is talking about in all YAH's house not Mosheh's house, now that's important
because when we start talking about Yeshua people think that Yeshua came along and tore down Mosheh's house and built his house but that's not what the scripture says. So let's look at numbers
chapter 12 beginning with verse 6 and this will verify. Now this comes straight out of the Torah.
This will verify what I'm talking about that Mosheh didn't have a house of his own that he was serving
in YAH's house. "And he said here now my words if your prophet is of YAH I make myself known to Him in
a vision and I speak to Him in a dream not so with my servant Mosheh, he is trustworthy in
all my house." So Mosheh was trustworthy in all YAH's house. It goes on to say, I speak with him mouth to
mouth and plainly and not in riddles and he sees the form of YAH, we know he saw YAH's back at one
point. So why were you not afraid to speak against my servant Mosheh? I tell you before we open our
mouths and start speaking against people we need to be very concerned that the Almighty may come
to that person's defense against you, so we need to be cautious. So again Mosheh was trustworthy in
all YAH's house Yeshua was appointed over the same house. Everybody say the same house. See it's not
two different houses, Mosheh didn't have a house and then Yeshua came along and had a different
house, it's the same house. When Yeshua came He didn't again He didn't tear down Mosheh's
house and build a different house so this is very important because so many people in religion
want to say that Yeshua was a part of a different house and that the original house is no longer
something that we should consider. Well that's not true it's only one house and I'm gonna bear that
out in Scripture. So it says in Deuteronomy chapter 18 beginning of verse 15 that Yeshua prophesied
is coming to the same house. Verse 15 says, your Elohim shall raise up for you, speaking of Yisra'el, a
prophet like me from your myths from your brothers. So this is Mosheh speaking, a prophet like me. Mosheh
was appointed, was he not in YAH's house? And so is Yeshua. "listen to him," In other words shema him,
listen with your heart and obey with your actions. Verse 16, "according to all you asked of YAH your Elohim
and Horeb in the day of the assembly saying, let me not hear again the voice of YAH my Elohim
nor let me see this great fire any more or less die. So they were terrified of YAH and so they
asked for a mediator one to stand between them and Elohim and and so Mosheh was that mediator in the
original covenant. Now how do we know that Yeshua is the Prophet like Mosheh? Because He's the only
one who is a mediator, there are no other mediators, He's the mediator of a new covenant.
And so He's like Mosheh in many other regards as well but definitely in that regard. Verse 17 "and
YAH said to me, what they have spoken is good for safety now shall raise up for them," Now this is
YAH speaking for Yisra'el. "for them a prophet like you out of the midst of their brothers and
I shall put my words in his mouth," Just like YAH put His words in Mosheh his mouth. He's gonna put
His words in Yeshua's mouth. "and He shall speak to them all that I command Him," Isn't that what Mosheh
did? "and it shall be the man who does not listen to my words which He speaks," This is talking about
Yeshua, in my name. "I require it of Him." Or I will judge Him. So this is a Torah commandment that
commands the people to shema, to hear and obey the Prophet like Mosheh and we know that to be
Yeshua. So we have a Torah commandment for the people to obey Yeshua to not just mentally ascend
that Yeshua is appointed by Elohim or that He's the Son of Elohim but to obey Him. So in essence, if you
truly do follow Torah where does Torah lead you? To believe in Yeshua. So for them to say we trust
in the Torah and Mosheh but we don't believe in Yeshua that doesn't make them Torah obedient that
makes them Torah disobedient. Can you say amen? And and notice that there is no distinction between
Mosheh's house and Yeshua's house. Mosheh prophesied there's coming a prophet like me who's going to
speak to this house and YAH's gonna put His words in His mouth just like YAH put His words
in my mouth. Same house, folks, same house. And so the Torah came through Mosheh, the scripture says favor
and truth through Yeshua and this is another place where religion says, now see it says the Torah
came through Mosheh but favor and truth comes through Yeshua now does that not try to separate
the houses? There's no two houses in the sense of Mosheh had a house and Yeshua had a house. Look at
John chapter 1 verse 14 says, in the word or the law goes the logos the word of YAH became flesh
or was manifested in a human being and pitched His tent among us, the logos manifesting in the human
being lived in our midst and we saw His esteem esteem as of an only brought forth of a father
complete in favor and truth - your Bible may say grace and truth - Yohanan or John bore witness of Him
and cried out saying, this was He of whom I said, He who comes after me has become before me because
He was before me. So the the logos was before Yohanan, Yeshua was the logos manifested in a
human body and out of His completeness we all did receive and favor upon favor. Again you they say
grace upon grace, so these statements complement what we just read in Deuteronomy chapter 18
verses 15 through 19. It says, for the Torah was given through Mosheh, now if you have one of those
Bibles that says "but" the word "but" should be in italics because "but" is not in the original text.
When you look into the original text "but" is not there, it doesn't say for the Torah was given through
Mosheh but truth has come through Yeshua Messiah, it's just a dash there or there's nothing at all there.
So this statement is that the Torah came through Mosheh, you could even say and favor or grace and
truth has come through Yeshua Messiah come to the same house so the Torah was delivered to the
house the Prophet Mosheh speaking the words of YAH Mosheh prophesying that Yeshua was going to
come he also was going to speak the words of YAH, he was going to bring favor and truth of course we
know that the Torah is the truth. Can you say amen? Verse 18 "for no one has ever seen Elohim the
only brought forth Son who was in the bosom of the Father, He did declare Him." Or He did declare to
us the Father, Yeshua did not come to do something different, that's what people in religion have
in their minds that Yeshua came to abolish what had already been done, abolished the words that
had already been spoken by YAH through Mosheh and say something different but Yeshua did not come to
speak something different, He didn't come to speak some unique new message, He came to teach us how to
live out the Torah my favor in the Spirit that's what His mission was and He even said don't even
think that I've come to destroy the Torah of the prophets, I didn't come to destroy but to fulfill
or to fill it full you know fulfill sounds like in our understanding, Western understanding, it
sounds like do away with to complete it so it can be abolished but fulfill just means to fill it
up fill it full or to exalt the Torah and make it glorious, amen? And so that's what He did. He taught
how to obey the Torah by favor in the Spirit. Now we're talking about one house and not two separate
houses a house from Mosheh and then a house for Yeshua. Go with me to Revelation chapter 21
and we'll pick up at verse 10 and this is talking about the New Jerusalem, so we have to ask the
question two different houses or one house. Verse 10 "And he carried me," Yohanan. "away in the Spirit to
a great and high mountain and showed me the great city, the set-apart Yerushalayim, descending out of
the heaven from Elohim," Notice it's coming out of heaven from Elohim. "having the esteem of Elohim and
her light was like a most precious stone like a Jasper stone clear and crystal and having a great
high wall having twelve gates and at the gates twelve messengers, or twelve angels at the twelve
gates, and names written on them that," Notice this. "which are those of the twelve tribes of the
children of Yisra'el." So Mosheh was the mediator between Elohim and the twelve tribes of Yisra'el so
we're looking at the New Jerusalem in Revelation here and we see that the city has 12 and that the
gates are twelve angels and written upon the gates are the twelve tribes of Israel. That's interesting,
make note of that. "three gates on the east three gates on the North, three gates on the South
three gates on the west," In other words you're not getting in unless you come through four twelve
tribes of Israel. You ever thought about that? Some people are trusting their religion to get them in
but you're not getting in unless you come through Israel. You have to be grafted in. When we believe
upon Yeshua we are grafted into believing Israel, we become a part of Israel and you have a right
then in Yeshua to enter in the gates into the New Yerushalayim that are designated by the twelve
tribes. You can't get up to the messenger and say well I'm coming in because I was a Baptist or a
Catholic or a Presbyterian or Methodist because those gates are designated by the tribes you
have to be grafted into Israel, that's why so many religious people, Christians, they need to
learn about what's truly transpired if they have truly believed upon Yeshua they've been
grafted into Yisra'el. They don't even know it, as a matter of fact, some of them even have a latent
anti-semitic attitude about Jewish people and about Israel. You're not getting in unless you realize
you're in Israel, amen. Now let's move a little further, verse 14. "and the wall of the city had
twelve foundations and on them were the names of the twelve emissaries of the Lamb," Now does that
sound like two different houses? So the gates are marked by the twelve tribes and the foundations of
the wall that goes around the city has the twelve emissaries names on them, not two different houses,
same house. Can you say amen? So back to Hebrews chapter 3 picking up with verse 3. "for this One,"
Speaking of Yeshua. "has been deemed worthy of more esteem than Mosheh as much as He who built the house
enjoys more respect than the house," Again the same house. "Yeshua being the Son of the Father enjoys a
greater esteem than that of Mosheh for every house is built by someone but He who built all is Elohim.
And Mosheh indeed was trustworthy in all His house," Does that mean Mosheh's house? Whose houses is
talking about? YAH's house, in all YAH's house. Notice. "as a servant," So here's the difference between
Mosheh and Yeshua, Mosheh was a servant in YAH's house and Yeshua is the Son in the same house and Mosheh
indeed was trustworthy in all His house, YAH's house. "as a servant for a witness of what would be spoken
later," So Mosheh was a witness to Yeshua, he wrote that he was coming, Mosheh wrote and prophesied
that Yeshua was coming in Deuteronomy chapter 18 verses 15 through 19, we just read that. Mosheh
was clearer than many people in religion about all this. Mosheh wasn't trying to hang on to some
status, he knew that there was a prophet like him coming and he knew that he was a mediator and he
knew that this Prophet was going to be a Mediator, capital "M" Mediator. He knew that he was the servant
in YAH's house and that this prophet, like him, was going to be the Son in YAH's house and so those
who follow Mosheh no less than Mosheh about the plan of YAH, if they strictly follow Mosheh and
they don't follow Yeshua Mosheh knows more because he was expecting Yeshua, he was expecting
the Son to come. John chapter 5 and verse 45 Yeshua said this, "Do not think that I shall accuse you
to the Father," There is one who accuses you, Mosheh. So Yeshua doesn't have to accuse those who
refuse to believe upon Him because there is one who will accuse before the Father and that one is
Mosheh. It says, "Mosheh and whom you have set your expectation you've placed your hope in Him for
if you believe Mosheh you would have believed me since he wrote about me." So Mosheh wrote the Torah
as we know the first five books of the Bible and Yeshua said the Torah was written to reveal Him.
This is a very important point for people who want to abolish the Torah. If the Torah was written
to reveal Yeshua wouldn't you call that the Good News? So I don't think there's a single person
in religion who would say well I want to abolish the Good News but if you want to abolish the Torah
you're abolishing the Good news, you're abolishing a witness, Yeshua said Mosheh was His witness. If
you abolish Mosheh books you abolish Mosheh as a witness. Now you want Yeshua to be able to
stand up in court He's got to have His witnesses. So He has the Torah, He's got the Nevi'im, the
prophets, and He's got the Ketuvim, the writings, He's got three witnesses - out of the mouth of two
or three witnesses let every word be established - that's why you can't abolish any of the Bible, it
all stands because the Torah the prophets and the Psalms of the writings all witness of Yeshua those
are His witnesses. Yeshua said Mosheh wrote about me. Verse 47 "but if you do not believe his writings
how shall you believe my words?" Strong point. I wonder how many today don't believe Mosheh is
writings or they think they're something that we don't need to pay any attention to? We can't even
believe Yeshua's words if we don't understand in proper context and truly believe what Mosheh I
wrote in the Torah. Can you say amen? See we can't understand Yeshua, we can't interpret His
words correctly, we can't believe in Him the way He wants to be believed in if we don't understand
in proper context and truly believe what Mosheh wrote in the Torah because he wrote about Yeshua
There are people who are believing in a Yeshua of their own imagination, they've made up a religious
Yeshua. If you don't have a foundation in the Torah you end up making stuff up and they've made up
a religious made up Yeshua. You know, He usually has blonde hair and blue eyes, extremely
caucasian, very religious made-up a Yeshua. So you don't even get the proper perspective of
Yeshua if you don't read and understand Mosheh's words and then when Yeshua says certain
things that you can't get your mind around especially from a Roman-Greco-Western mentality
because you don't have a foundation in the Torah and you don't understand Mosheh and what he said and what
he meant, you end up trying to interpret the words of Yeshua from a Roman-Greco-Western context ,
and what happens when you do that? You end up making stuff up. You hear me say that all the time,
religion has made stuff up for 2,000 years so the only way we're going to understand Yeshua's
words and be able to believe Him like He asked us to believe Him is first, go study Mosheh. You got
to study as witnesses and once you have a handle on Mosheh and then you go on and you study
the prophets and you study the writings then you're prepared to interpret the Apostolic
Writings to understand Yeshua and what He says and especially, you need those tools if you're gonna
try to interpret Sha'ul, Apostle Paul, because that's really where religion twists things around. It even
says in Scripture that there'll be two thousand years or more of people twisting and perverting
Sha'ul's writings, Paul's writings, and we see it now we spent so much time in our ministry
untwisting that we spend a lot of time untwisting that's what these videos are doing? Going all
over the world. We're untwisting what religion has twisted concerning Sha'ul's writings and the words
of Yeshua and it takes a lot of doing because it's become so rooted in the hearts and minds of people
that when you tell them the truth you know they resist the truth because that's not what they've
been taught by religion. All right? Yeshua said if you do not believe Mosheh's writings how
shall you believe my words? And then quickly Luke chapter 24 beginning with verse 44 as I've already
mentioned the Torah the prophets and the Psalms are witnesses to Yeshua, look at verse 44. "And He,
Yeshua, said to them, "These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you that all
have to be filled that were written in the Torah of Mosheh and the prophets and the Tehillim, or the
Psalms, concerning me." Notice. The Torah, Mosheh, the prophets and the Psalms were written about Yeshua,
period. "Then He opened their minds to understand the scriptures." What scriptures? Had the Apostolic Writings been written at that point? What's called the New Testament? Did Yeshua say turn
in your pocket New Testament and let me open your mind to the Scriptures? No. He opened their minds
to understand the scriptures, the original Hebrew Scriptures, the Torah, the prophets, the writings,
the Tanakh, because if He opened their minds to understand the Tanakh they would understand Him
and if you want to understand Him you need to understand the Torah, the prophets, and the writings.
If you don't understand the Torah, or the prophets, and the writings you will not understand Him.
That's a strong point that I've been making and it's the truth because religion much of it
doesn't understand or has twisted it and made up a make-believe Yeshua. Verse 46 "and said to them,
thus it has been written, and so it was necessary for the Messiah to suffer and to rise again from
the dead the third day and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his
name to all nations beginning at Yerushalayim. It says, He opened their minds to understand the
scriptures, the original Hebrew Scriptures. And then he goes on to say, you ought to be able to
know through the original Hebrew Scriptures that the Messiah must suffer and die and rise again on
the third day and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in His Name to all
nations beginning at Yerushalayim, you ought to be able to see all of that in the original Hebrew
Scriptures. Now wouldn't you call that the Good News His death, burial, and resurrection and the
empowerment of the Spirit to go and preach the Good News all around the world? Wouldn't you call
that the Good News? So when people say what's the Gospel well you could start off by saying well
it's the Tanakh and they're like what the? What? Torah? Nevi'im, Ketuvim. You guys know
how I teach that, Tanakh it's the original Hebrew Scriptures that's the Good News, folks. The
original Hebrew Scriptures the Good News the Good News that Yeshua taught from the Good News that
every apostle that the Christian religion puts up on a pedestal taught from and if we are unable
to preach the Good News from the Tanakh then we are surely lacking, what is the Spirit doing in the
day that we're living in now? He's bringing us back to the foundational teachings of the Bible so we
really know the one that we say that we believe in because He's coming back for His own, folks. He's
not coming back for a foreign bride. Yeshua said follow me, you're not gonna be able to convince
Him to follow you in your made-up religion or in your ways. He's not interested in following your
ways or my ways or the ways of religion, He wants us to walk in His ways. If you say with your mouth
that you abide in Him you must also walk even as He walked. So it's a futile endeavor to try to
get Yeshua to walk in your ways, the Torah even prohibits a king from marrying a bunch of foreign
wives, we know that was the downfall of Solomon. So if it's in the Torah not to marry a bunch of
foreign wives do you think Yeshua is going to come back and marry a foreign wife? So this is
the generation that we live in and this is what defines the true message of this generation now
we are getting back to the ways of Yeshua, we are unlearning the ways of religion, we're casting off
the false teachings some of which were sincerely delivered by sincere people but you can be sincere
and sincerely wrong about things, amen? Because the bride truly is making herself ready. You say well
what about everybody that came before us, I'm glad I don't have to deal with that. I am NOT going to
be disobedient based upon some thought about the people that came before me. I know the Almighty is
merciful, I know that He's got a plan, I know that He's got progressive revelation and I know that
people of every generation received revelation began to walk in it and changes were made and
things needed to happen. For example the "charismatic renewal" of bringing the Spirit-
lead, Spirit-filled life into the center of religious thought and practice had to take place
because you can't do what we're doing without the Spirit, you guys know that because every Shabbat we
quote those verses and we quote Ezekiel 36 and we talked about how the Spirit takes that stony heart
out of our flesh and gives us a heart of flesh that's the want to and then He empowers us so we
have the want to and the power to what? Be obedient. We are robing ourselves in the clean white linen
of the bride and what is the white linen garment? It's the righteous acts of believers, it's not some
made-up statement, it's not some mental ascension - I believe that Jesus is the Christ - you're actually
living like the Messiah and obeying what He obeyed. Can you say amen? You're becoming like Him if
you're going to be married with Him. You're going to be one with Him, are you not? And like
a good bride, we are to submit to Him and follow His leadership, can you say amen? All right let's
get back to Hebrews chapter three, we'll pick up with verse 6. It says, "but Messiah as a Son over
His own house," Now why does it say that? Because what belongs to the Father belongs to the Son. If
you're the son and you live in your father's house, that's your house. How many of you when you were a
child in your father's house told everybody, yeah it's five o'clock I got to go back to my father's
house - did you say that? You said I'm going home it's your house. Hey you want to spend the night
this weekend? Yeah, why don't you come over to my house? Remember saying that? So what belongs
that the father belongs to the Son so Messiah is a Son over His own house but notice it says, "whose
house we are, if we hold fast the boldness and the boasting of the expectation firm to the end." So we
actually become that house, we are that house, one living stone upon another, a set-apart habitation
for the Almighty, we are His house. But it says we will remain that house only if we hold fast the
boldness and the boasting and in other words, our confession of our belief in Him firm to the end.
So you can be justified before the Almighty but we're not saved until we're saved. People throw
that word around all over the place - well I got saved back in such and such a day, I know what
you mean, you believed and you were justified if you're truly walking in belief but we're not saved
until we're saved we're not saved, until He comes back and gets us then we're saved. Can you say amen?
All right, so we have to hold fast till the end. Now quickly you've heard this before Matthew 24 and
verse 10 Yeshua said, "and then many shall stumble and they shall deliver up one another and shall
hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise up and lead many astray and because of the
increase in lawlessness living like there is no law the love of many," In other words love for
the Father and His commandments shall become cold because people are lawless, they've embraced a
lawless lifestyle. They're living like there is no Torah and when you live like there is no Torah
then you're not loving YAH the way YAH wants to be loved through obedience. So because they're
living like there is no Torah then their love has grown cold. Look at verse 13. "but he who shall have
endured to the end shall be," What? Saved. When you're going to get full salvation, complete salvation? In
the end, amen, when He comes back to get you. Alright. Let's go a little bit further Hebrews chapter
five, we'll pick up with verse one. Yeshua became the causer of everlasting deliverance to all those
obeying Him and my emphasis is going to be today on the two words, obeying Him. You want to know how
to really be saved? Obey. Bible salvation is not just some words that you say or raising your hand
or standing up or walking an aisle or repeating a prayer and then you buy a little piece of the
rock a little life-insurance policy and then you live any way you want to live for the rest of
your life and you go around telling everybody, I'm saved, I'm saved, I prayed that prayer, I'm saved -
that's not Bible salvation. Bible salvation is that you believe and your belief informs your
lifestyle and you begin to live like Yeshua and you follow Him and you become one with Him
and He obeyed the Father perfectly so if you're becoming one like Him, what are you doing? You're
beginning to obey the Father, amen? And your goal then would be perfection because doesn't the
scripture said be perfect for I am perfect. You say that's a high standard, yeah and He said it and
we realized that we missed the mark from time to time but that's the standard. We're working for
complete obedience and He did it and He provided the Set-apart Spirit for us to give us the want-to
and the power to so that's the bar. Hebrews 5 and verse 1 "for every priest taken from
among men," Speaking of the Levitical priesthood. "is appointed by YAH on behalf of men and matters
relating to Elohim to offer both gifts and offerings for sins being able to have a measure
of feeling or compassion for those not knowing or committing unintentional sin as being led astray
implying in their ignorance since he himself the Levitical priest is also surrounded by weakness,"
In other words, he also commits unintentional sin. "and on account of this he has to offer for sins
as for the people so also for himself," So he's offering up the sin offering for himself as well
as for the people because he is a man and he does miss the mark and he does sin even though it's
unintentional so he's got to offer up the sin offering for himself as well. Verse4 "and no one
obtains this esteem for himself," In other words no one chooses himself to be a priest. "but he who is
called by Elohim," In other words, Elohim does the choosing. "and He chose the sons of a Aharon to
be the Levitical high priest even as Aharon also was." Look at verse 5. "so also the Messiah," Speaking
of Yeshua. "did not exalt Himself to become high priest," So Messiah didn't choose Himself. "but it was
He YAH who said to Him, Yeshua, you are my Son they I have brought you forth," That's a quote of Psalm
2 in verse 7. As He also says in another place. "You are a priest forever according to the order of
Melchizedek," That's Psalm 110 in verse 4. "who in the days of His flesh," This is speaking of Yeshua when
Yeshua walked on the earth. "when He had offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears
to Him, to YAH, who was able to save Him," Speaking of Yeshua. "from death and was heard because of His
reverent fear," Or His complete obedience. "though being a Son in YAH's house He learned obedience by
what He suffered," So Yeshua had to learn obedience. He learned obedience through suffering, how do you
think we're gonna learn obedience? He suffered and said follow me, are you still wanting to follow
Him? Because you're going to be perfected the same way He was and He was perfected through the
things that He suffered so instead of cursing the suffering we ought to see it as an opportunity
to be perfected because He said follow me and He was perfected through suffering. It says,
though being a son He learned obedience by what He suffered. "and having been perfected He
became the causer of everlasting deliverance to all those what obeying Him." Does it say mentally
ascending that He's the Christ? Does it say some sort of religious belief? What does it say? To all
those obeying Him. So just as Yeshua issuer obeyed the Father and was delivered from death and the grave
we also receive everlasting deliverance through our obedience to Him. Was Yeshua delivered
from death? He was but He had to die first. Was He delivered from the grave? Yeah but He
had to enter it first. How do you think you're going to be delivered from death in the grave? By
following Him and being willing to suffer like He suffered and being obedient completely and fully.
Does that mean that if you missed the mark then you've lost your salvation so to speak or your
justification? No of course not, that's why we have a faithful High Priest but we don't go around
sinning intentionally as many people do, they plan out their sin because they think that repentance
is an apology. The Bible didn't say anything about an apology, teshuvah means to return to the Father
in obedience so you're not even repenting unless you're obeying so when they tell you, the perverted
grace people tell you don't repent because then you're doing something now you're keeping the
law that makes you a law keeper, don't listen to them. You can't even be restored without a
belief that leads you to repent and returning to the Almighty in what? Obedience. What did Yohanan the Immerser say? Bear fruit worthy of repentance. In other words, change your life, take
a different course, start obeying, start reflecting the Torah which is the light. Let your light so
shine that's obedience that men and women would see you're what? Good works, and have a desire to
glorify your Abba who's in the heavenlies. Alright so Yeshua became the calls are of everlasting
deliverance to all those obeying Him. Now quickly John 3:36 Yeshua said, "He who believes in the Son
possesses everlasting life but he who does not obey said what it says, he who does not obey the
Son, shall not see life but the wrath of Elohim remains on him." Alright so in the Bible belief
always implies obedience John 14:15, this ought to be pretty familiar to you. Yeshua said if you
love me you shall just say that I'm the Messiah, is that what it says? No, if you love me you shall
guard or obey my Commandments. John 14:23, "Yeshua answered him, "If anyone loves me he shall guard
or obey my word and my Father shall love him," So the father loves those who are obedient. "and we
shall come to him and make our stay with him. He who does not love me does not guard or obey
my words and the word which you hear is not mine but of the Father who sent me." Again Yeshua
didn't come to say something different, He came to speak the words of the Father. If you've made
Him out to be saying something new you're missing the mark, the language of the house hasn't changed.
There's only one house, we had a precursor, we had a prophet who spoke the words of YAH who wrote
about Yeshua and said He was coming. Yeshua the Son came as a Son over the house, you think
He changed the language of the house? You think He started talking about something different? No, He
explained how to do it by favor in the Spirit. Now why is that important? Because they failed in the
original covenant, did they not? There needs to be some instructions, there needs to be an example
and Yeshua lived it out He didn't just preach it He lived it out and said follow me, doesn't it
make sense? Do what I do, love what I love, hate what I hate. Obey the very same thing that I obeyed,
the Torah, the Bible, let me be the example, amen? Verse 24 "he who does not love me, does not guard
or obey my words, in the word which you hear is not mine," In other words the words I'm speaking.
I'm not making this stuff up. "but of the Father who sent me." John 15 verse 9 Yeshua said, "As the
Father has loved me, I have also loved you stay in my love." Now this implies that we can depart from
His love, folks. Does it not? If it's impossible to depart from His love why would He say stay in
my love and how do we stay in His love? He is going to tell us. If you guard or obey my commands
you shall stay in my love. Man, that is a wrecking ball to some of the most popular modern Christian
doctrines today about how YAH loves everybody the same way all the time unconditionally and
you can believe in Him and want to follow Him or you can reject Him completely and He just loves
everybody the same way and I see two types of biblical love, one is an invitational love that
is an unconditional love because the human race was in no condition to meet righteous conditions
so YAH within His will had His Son Yeshua take the sin of the world upon Himself and died on a
tree and this is an interesting fact and I want you to check it out whenever the Bible's talking
about the love of YAH for lost people for people who are not in covenant with Him. The Bible always
uses the word "love" in the past tense. The scripture doesn't say for YAH so loves the world that He
gave His only begotten Son, does it? It says for YAH so loved, loved, past tense, the world
that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever would believe upon Him would not perish but have
everlasting life. All right, why does YAH use the past tense? Because His love for a lost world
is defined by an event that happened in the past the tree where YAH loved first because we were in
no condition to respond with righteous actions we were lost and undone without Elohim so He had
to love first and now we have the verse in the Apostolic writings that says we love Him because
what He first loved us and that's in every case in every verse that talks about His love for a lost
world it's always in the past tense because it's defined by an event so He's loved everybody
and He's loved everybody unconditionally at the tree and He's invited everybody into covenant
with Him but when you say yes to the proposal, for marriage, you enter in then to covenant the love
and covenant the love is based on promises made it promises kept. We have marriage on this earth
as an example of what that looks like so we're married to the Almighty through Yeshua, we say yes
to the proposal that took place on the tree and by the witness of the Spirit and the conviction
we say yes we enter into covenantal love, all right? Within covenantal love the Almighty has
promised to be our Elohim our husband and He will be all that He says He is in the Bible and He will
fulfill all His promises in the Bible if we keep our side of the Covenant which is to what? Have a
belief that produces obedience. Man, once you get your mind and your spirit around what I'm talking
about it totally changes your understanding of the Bible and you will no longer be duped by these
flashy diamond like ear tickling doctrines that are out there that says He does it all and you
have to do anything. As a matter of fact, if you do anything then you've fallen from grace so
we've got to go deeper in the scripture, folks, to understand the true love of Elohim. Yeshua said
if you guard or obey my commands you shall stay in my love even as I have guarded my Father's
commands and stay in His love. Did He love His Father? How did He love His Father? He was obedient.
Was He perfectly obedient? He uses His love for the Father and His obedience as a standard for us. Does
He not? If you guard or obey my commands you shall stay in my love even as or just as I have obeyed
my Father's commands and stay in His love. Now is it hard to do? It's only hard to do when you don't
have the Spirit when you're truly born again and you have the want to and the power to then that
phrase in the Torah that obeying the Torah is not too hard to do becomes true in your life I'm
not stressing out over obeying the Torah. I love to obey the Torah, it's my life, it's my joy. It gives
me peace, I rejoice in obedience to the Torah as you know, I don't get up in the morning to go out,
man I gotta obey the Torah again today, you know it's not too hard to do. Acts chapter 3 and verse
22 Peter said this, "Mosheh truly said to the fathers, "YAH your Elohim shall raise up for you a
prophet like me from your brothers, Him you shall hear or obey according to all matters," So we're to
obey Yeshua according to what all matters. Now wouldn't that put Yeshua above Sha'ul? Now how
is it that religion puts Sha'ul above Yeshua? I thought Yeshua was the end-all for all matters? Now here, we have an emissary or an apostle saying in Acts chapter 3 verse 22 that Yeshua is the
end-all for all matters. Him you shall hear and obey according to all matters so I just want to
say to religion if you're putting Sha'ul or the Apostle Paul above Yeshua, you're breaking
scripture. The Apostle Paul never said he's above Yeshua, he never said I have a new revelation
in my revelation trumps Yeshua, he said if you imitate me, you will be imitating Yeshua. Did
he not? He called himself a slave of Yeshua, a servant of Yeshua, a called one of Yeshua,
so it's according to all matters. Whatever He says just you assess to you and it shall be that
every being who does not hear that prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people. Now
this is even firmer stronger terms than what we read the Torah, if you don't listen to Yeshua
you'll be utterly destroyed from among the people, if you don't obey Him how many of you believe
shall believe that? All right quickly just a few more verses here, first John chapter 1 verse
6. "If we say that we have fellowship with Him the Father and walk in darkness or walk in sin
sin and darkness are synonymous," In other words transgressing the Torah. "we lie," If we say we have
fellowship with the Father but we transgress His Torah, we lie. What does that do to people that say
that the Torah's been abolished? They may even be sincere in it, there's a lot of sincere people out
there and religion but it says if you say that you have fellowship with the Father but you walk in
darkness, you walk in disobedience to His Word to the Torah, then you live, notice, and are not doing
the truth. Doesn't say anything about no when the truths are quoting the truth it says, you're not
doing the truth so obeying the Torah is obeying the truth. We know that from Psalm 119 142, it says,
"Your righteousness is righteousness forever and your Torah is truth." Verse 7 "But if we walk in the
light," That's the opposite of the darkness. What is the light? Proverbs chapter 6 verse 23 tells us,
for the command is a lamp and the Torah a light so we know darkness is Torah disobedience and the
light is Torah obedience. "as He is in the light," So we walk in the light as He is in the light. YAH
and His Torah are one we have fellowship with one another because we're all in this together
and the blood of Yeshua Messiah His Son cleanses us from all what? Sin. What is sin? Transgression of
the Torah and we're going to find out that this is talking about unintentional sin. Verse 8 "if we say
that we have no sin, no transgression of the Torah, we are misleading ourselves and the truth is not
in us." The truth, the truth of Torah is not in us. "If we confess our sins our transgressions He is
trustworthy and righteous to forgive us the sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness." Yeshua
ever lives to make intercession for us, this modern doctrine of when you say Jesus is the Christ
then all of your sins past present and future are forgiven and you don't ever need to think
again about how you live or repentance or any of those kinds of things, it's just not scriptural.
Why would we need a High Priest who ever lives? To intercede for us if there's nothing for Him to
do in the future? And what about the verse that we just read? If we confess our sins and this is
two believers, he is trustworthy and righteous to forgive us the sins and cleanse us from all
unrighteousness sins being the transgression of the Torah. Now I mentioned that in sinning in the
Covenant that the sins are to be unintentional. We are not to have an attitude of planning out our
sin and executing our sin thinking that we can then just come apologize as I already mentioned to
you an apology is not part of the Hebraic context of teshuvah or true repentance, alright? It doesn't
mean you can't feel sorry for what you did but more than feeling sorry you need to change your
course of action, change your life. So quickly go to numbers chapter 15 we'll pick up with verse 27.
It says, "And if a being sins by mistake," This is in the Torah, so a transgression is done by mistake.
"then he shall bring a female goat a year old as a sin offering and the priest shall make atonement
for the being who strays by mistake when he sends by mistake before YAH to make atonement for Him
and it shall be forgiven him for him who does whatever by mistake there is one Torah both for
him who is native among the children of Yisra'el and for the stranger who sojourned in their myths,"
Verse 30, "but the being who does whatever defiantly whether he is a native or a stranger he reviles
YAH and that being shall be cut off from among his people because he has despised the Word of
YAH and has broken His command that being shall certainly be cut off his crookedness is upon
him." So there was a sacrifice for sin that took place unintentionally but there is no sacrifice
for defiant sin and much of the commands in the original covenant had death penalties associated
with them, you take the 10 words 9 out of the 10, had an immediate death penalty associated with it and
one could be implied you know this verse that says you shall not steal, doesn't have a death penalty
associated with it unless you steal someone's child or another person then that's kidnapping and
kidnapping does have a death penalty associated with it so some people just didn't follow the
Torah closely enough because of ignorance or by mistake. I'm talking about those prohibitions
that didn't have a death penalty associated with it. So there was a sacrifice for that but no
sacrifice for the one who sinned intentionally you say, well how are you gonna explain everybody's
life? I'm just gonna say I'm glad I'm not the judge. I don't want that job I never signed up for.
It never would sign up for it, He's the judge and He knows and He knows your heart so I would just
recommend to you that now that you know that the truth don't be planning out your sin, you may find
it's not as easy as you thought it was or that as religion taught you. Hebrews chapter 10 verse 26,
"For if we send purposely," Now this is the Apostolic writings is it not? Or what's called a New Testament?
Hebrews chapter 10 verse 26. "if we send purposely after we've received the knowledge of the truth
there no longer remains this slaughter offering or sacrifice for sins but some fearsome anticipation
of judgment and a fierce fire which is about to consume the opponents," There's a quotation of
Isaiah 26 and verse 11. "anyone who has disregarded the Torah of Mosheh dies without compassion on
the witness of two or three witnesses," He's simply quoting Deuteronomy chapter 19 verse 15.
Look at verse 29. "how much worse punishment do you think shall he deserve who has trampled the
Son of Elohim underfoot counted the blood of the Covenant by which he was set-apart as common
and insulted the spirit of favor," See this is not easier, folks, this is not lighter. This is
not as they would say greasy grace, light and fluffy. It says how much worse punishment. Now why
is that important? Because we have to realize that a covenant of better promises has with it more
severe punishments. If you want better promises better promises comes with more severe punishments.
That's why the verse in the very beginning of this message that we need to think carefully about
Yeshua the Emissary and High Priest of our confession. Just as Yeshua taught, you got a count the cost. If you want the blessings you got to understand that you have responsibility
associated with that, letting your light so shine is not just wearing a Jesus t-shirt or a WWJD
bracelet or a cross around your neck. Come on people, we're the light of the world. Yeshua said
I'm the light of the world, He said follow me. Once we start following Him and doing what He did,
saying what He said, believing what He believed, loving what He loved and hating what He hated, then
we become the light of the world. He said, now you are the light of the world. We're lighting the
darkness and what is darkness? We already talked about it, disobedience to the Torah. What is the
light? Obedience to the Torah. So when you obey the Torah, you're letting in light so shine and men and
women would see your good works as defined by the Torah and have a desire to glorify your Father
who's in the heavenlies. Alright how much worse punishment do you think shall he deserve who has
trampled the Son of Elohim underfoot that's what happens when you go around sinning intentionally
counted the blood of the Covenant by which he was set apart as common and insulted the spirit of
favor. Verse 30 "For know Him who has said vengeance is mine I shall repay says YAH. And again YAH shall
judge His people." This is Deuteronomy chapter 32 verses 35 and 36. Look at verse 31 here. It says, it
is fearsome to fall into the hands of the Living Elohim. A fearful thing, some translations say, to
fall into the hands of the Living Elohim. Alright. Hebrews chapter 7 and verse 26, "Yeshua our High
Priest has been perfected forever," This is good news. "for it was fitting that we should have such
a high priest ," Notice He's kind, He's innocent, He's undefiled, having been separated from sinners and
exalted above the heavens who does not need as those high priest who offer up slaughter offerings
day by day first for his own sins, he didn't have any, and then for those of the people. For this He
did once for all when He offered up Himself, He fulfills the sin offering, for the Torah points as
High Priest men who have weaknesses mortal men but the word of the oath, we talked about this and the
previous two sermons, which came after the Torah appoints the Son having been perfected forever.
So He's perfected forever, they don't get any more perfect, they don't get better, amen? They don't
get kinder, they don't get more innocent, they don't get more undefiled, they don't get more separated
from sinners, they don't get more exalted above the heavens, we have the ultimate One that's pretty
amazing, amen. And then the final verse, actually it's two verses, but we're in the final section
here. "Having boldness to enter into the Set-apart Place," John 14 verse 1. "Yeshua said, "Let not your
heart be troubled believe in Elohim believe also in me in my Father's house are many staying
places," What's He talking about? Religion will say that's heaven. It's not heaven, it's talking
about the New Jerusalem that's coming down heaven on earth. "in my Father's house," Same house Mosheh
was a part out, same house that has 12 gates with the 12 tribes on it and a wall around it with 12
foundations and the names of the emissaries of the Lamb, same house. All right. "and my Father's house
in many staying places and if not I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you and if I
go and prepare a place for you I shall come again," He's coming back to receive us. "and
receive you to myself that where I am you might be too," Where? Where will He be? He's going to Yisra'el. He's going to establish His Kingdom and rule from Jerusalem and heaven's coming down. "and where
I go you know in the way you know." Thomas said to Him, Master we do not know where you're
going and how are we able to know the way, Yeshua said to Him, I am the way and the truth. Well the
truth is the Torah, is it not, and the life? No one comes to the Father except through me. Doesn't say
anything about religion, doesn't say anything about your denomination, doesn't say anything about your
"church", doesn't say anything about your preacher, your elder, your deacon. The only way to get to
the Father is to follow the One who made it and that's Yeshua, He wants us to be like Him so we
better figure out what that looks like. Why do you do what you do? Because Yeshua did it. You know
that's the strongest defense you'll ever have when you stand in the judgment, why did you do what you
did? Didn't you know that religion abolished those things? Why did you do that? Because Yeshua
did it. That's your defense and it's the strongest defense you could ever have. He will not condemn
you because you say I did it because you did it. Why'd you keep Shabbat? Don't you know religion
says Shabbat's been abolished? I kept it because you kept it. Why'd you eat right according to
the biblical dietary instructions? I did it because you did it. Don't you know religion said
you're free from all that? Were you walking in bondage? Well if I was walking to bondage you
were walking in bondage. I did it because you did it. I'm telling you, and this is something that
I've come to after more than 50 years of studying my Bible, my strongest defense when I stand before
the Almighty and yours as well, will be I did it because you did it. It boils down to that. It's as
simple as that, so find out what He did and do it. Can you say amen? Religion complicates it. He said
I'm the way the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except through me. Hebrews chapter
10 and verse 19 "So brothers having boldness to enter into the Set-apart Place," Aren't you glad
you can get into the Set-apart Place now? When He died the veil of the temple was rent in two
from top to bottom the scripture says the veil was His flesh, when His flesh was rent on the
tree then the veil of the temple was rent as well He made a way where there was no way for
the common believer to go right in to the most Set-apart Place and have personal intimate
fellowship with the Almighty. That's enough to make a dead man shout amen and rejoice having
boldness to enter into the Set-apart Place by the blood of Yeshua. He can't get in there any other
way the blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sin and you're not going in there in your sins.
"by a new and living way which He instituted for us through the veil that is His flesh and having
a High Priest over the house of Elohim let us draw near with a true heart incompleteness of belief,"
In other words, a belief inspires and empowers obedience, that's completeness of belief. "having our
hearts sprinkled from a wicked conscience," Aren't you glad your hearts been changed? The old stony
heart of rebellion and resistance and that I don't want to heart has been removed now you have a soft
heart a heart of flesh that want to heart. Let us draw near with a true heart and completeness
of belief having our hearts sprinkled from a wicked conscience and our bodies washed with
clean water, that's water baptism, let us hold fast the confession of our expectation without
yielding for he who promised is trustworthy and let us be concerned for one another in order to
stir up love and what? Good works or obedience. So we come together to stir up obedience in
one another not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as is the habit of some, aren't
you glad you dodged that bullet today? You're here today. Hallelujah. But encouraging and so much
more as you see the day coming. And then I can't close this out without reminding us all about what
Yeshua has made available to us the promise that Elohim made to Abraham and his Seed, the
Messiah, has been fulfilled that through Yeshua and belief in Him every nation every kindred every
tribe every time can receive the promise of the Indwelling Set-apart Spirit and the wonderful new
birth experience which changes everything as we quote in every Shabbat gathering, you guys may
have it memorized at this point, Ezekiel chapter 36 beginning with verse 25. "And I shall sprinkle
clean water on you and you shall be clean from all your filthiness and from all your idols I
cleanse you and I shall give you a new heart and put a new Spirit within you and I shall take the
heart of stone out of your flesh and I shall give you a heart of flesh and put my Spirit within you
and I shall calls you to walk in my laws and guard my right-rulings and you shall do them." Hallelujah.
All because of our Great and faithful High Priest. Amen. And He's amazing, is He not? He is amazing.
Well let's give Yeshua a big hand. Hallelujah.
