A WAR for our SOULS - 19 June 2019
We are all on the battlefield of life - there is a war going on with Satan on one side scheming and plotting to ENSLAVE us to SIN - BLINDING our EYES and DEAFENING our EARS so that we would be UNABLE to RECOGNIZE the TRUTH.
RECOGNIZING OUR SINS:
LIFE is FULL OF CHOICES. To REPENT is also A CHOICE, but we CANNOT REPENT if we do NOT RECOGNIZE our WRONGS.
KNOW HIS WORD:
To be ABLE to RECOGNIZE our SINS we NEED to KNOW the WORD of YAHWEH God. We NEED to KNOW what He SAYS is RIGHT and what is WRONG. We NEED to FILL OURSELVES with HIS WORD by STUDYING IT.
To REPENT is of the UTMOST IMPORTANCE to live a LIFE WELL-PLEASING to our Father in heaven, and EVENTUALLY for ALLOWING us into HEAVEN.
Proverbs 28:13 "You will NEVER SUCCEED in LIFE in you TRY TO HIDE YOUR SINS. CONFESS THEM and GIVE THEM UP; THEN Yah will SHOW MERCY to you."
FRUIT CONSISTENT WITH REPENTANCE:
Let your LIVES PROVE your CHANGE of HEART:
John the Baptist preparing the WAY for MESSIAH - said in Matt. 3:8 "Bring FORTH FRUIT that is CONSISTENT WITH REPENTANCE - let your LIVES PROVE YOUR CHANGE of HEART."
Our SAVIOR BEGAN HIS MINISTRY with THESE WORDS:
REPENT - CHANGE YOUR MIND - AMEND your WAYS - hate your past sins:
Matt. 4:17 "... REPENT - CHANGE your MIND for the BETTER, HEARTILY AMEND YOUR WAYS, with ABHORRENCE of your PAST SINS - for the KINGDOM of HEAVEN is at HAND." (AMP)
The APOSTLE PETER'S WORDS:
REPENT - CHANGE your MIND AND PURPOSE - TURN AROUND - RETURN to YAH:
Acts 3:19 "So REPENT - CHANGE YOUR MIND AND PURPOSE; TURN AROUND and RETURN to YAH (God) that YOUR SINS MAY BE ERASED (BLOTTED OUT, WIPED CLEAN) ..." [AMP])
LETTING SIN GO (REJECTING IT - RENOUNCING IT):
To REPENT of our SINS ALSO MEANS:
To LET the SIN GO COMPLETELY ...
To SEE SIN as our ENEMY ...
To SEPARATE OURSELVES from our SINS ...
To TURN AWAY from our SINS as FAST as we COULD ...
To RECOGNIZE SIN as EVILNESS in YAHWEH God's SIGHT.
WITHOUT REPENTANCE - GIVING SIN UP - we ARE LOST:
WITHOUT REPENTANCE - TURNING AWAY FROM our SINS - LETTING IT GO COMPLETELY and then STAND in FAITH - we ARE LOST.
SIN is A SNARE of the DEVIL to STEAL our SALVATION:
2 Tim. 2:24 "Yahweh's servant must NOT be QUARRELSOME but KIND to EVERYONE, ABLE to TEACH, PATIENTLY ENDURING EVIL, :25 CORRECTING his OPPONENTS in GENTLENESS. YAH MAY PERHAPS GRANT THEM REPENTANCE leading to a KNOWLEDGE of the TRUTH, :26 and they MAY COME to their SENSES and ESCAPE from the SNARE OF THE DEVIL, after being CAPTURED by him to DO his WILL."
We CANNOT EXPECT our FATHER'S BLESSINGS while we - AFTER REPENTANCE - JUST KEEP ON LIVING in our OLD SIN - NOT REMOVING ourselves from it - NOT LETTING IT GO - for then we are DECEIVING OURSELVES and we are NOT in RIGHT STANDING with our CREATOR.
NOT FAIR?
In Ezekiel 18 the children of Yah COMPLAINED that is was "NOT FAIR" for YAH to BLESS and FORGIVE the UNRIGHTEOUS who repented, yet, would not FORGIVE and BLESS the CHOSEN ONES - the children of the COVENANT - but these children of the COVENANT CONTINUED to LIVE IN THEIR SIN.
THE SINNER WILL SURELY DIE:
Ezek. 18:1 "The Word of Yahweh came to me again, saying ... :4 Behold ALL the SOULS ARE MINE ... the SOULS THAT SINS ... SHALL DIE."
THE UNCOMPROMISINGLY RIGHTEOUS SHALL SURELY LIVE:
Ezek. 18:5 "But if a man is uncompromisingly righteous - upright and in right standing with Yah and does what is lawful and right ... :9 Who has WALKED in MY STATUTES and KEPT MY ORDINANCES ... he is TRULY RIGHTEOUS; he shall SURELY LIVE, says YAHWEH."
THE SOUL THAT SINS SHALL DIE (in HELL) UNLESS he REPENTS AND TURNS AWAY from HIS SINS:
Ezek. 18:20 "The SOUL that SINS, it is the one that SHALL DIE ... :21 But if the WICKED MAN TURNS FROM ALL HIS SINS that he HAS COMMITTED and KEEPS ALL MY STATUTES and DOES that which is LAWFUL and RIGHT, HE SHALL SURELY LIVE; HE SHALL NOT DIE.
:22 NONE of the TRANSGRESSIONS which he has COMMITTED SHALL BE REMEMBERED AGAINST him; for his RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH HE HAS EXECUTED for his moral and spiritual rectitude in EVERY AREA and EVERY RELATION, HE SHALL LIVE.
:23 Have I ANY PLEASURE in the DEATH OF THE WICKED? says Yahweh, and NOT RATHER THAT HE SHOULD TURN FROM HIS EVIL WAY AND RETURN to his YAH, and LIVE?
:24 But if the RIGHTEOUS MAN TURNS AWAY from his RIGHTEOUSNESS and COMMITS INIQUITY (immoralities, evils, sins, wickedness, injustices, crimes, corruptions, disobedience dishonesties ...) and DOES ACCORDING to ALL the ABOMINATIONS that the WICKED MAN DOES, shall he LIVE? NONE of his RIGHTEOUS DEEDS which he has done shall be remembered. In his TRESPASS that he has TRESPASSED AND IN HIS SIN THAT HE HAS SINNED, IN THEM SHALL HE DIE.
:25 Yet you say, The WAY of YAHWEH IS NOT FAIR AND JUST. Hear now, O house of Israel: IS NOT MY WAY FAIR AND JUST? Are NOT YOUR WAYS UNFAIR AND UNJUST?
:26 When a RIGHTEOUS MAN TURNS AWAY from his RIGHTEOUSNESS and COMMITS INIQUITIES (immoralities, evils, sins, wickedness, disobedience, injustices, crimes, corruptions, dishonesties ...) and DIES IN HIS SINS, for his INIQUITY (immoralities, evils, sins, wickedness, disobedience, injustices, crimes, corruptions, dishonesties ...) THAT HE HAS DONE HE SHALL DIE.
:27 Again, when the WICKED MAN TURNS AWAY from his WICKEDNESS he has COMMITTED AND DOES that which is LAWFUL AND RIGHT, he shall SAVE HIS LIFE.
:30 .... REPENT AND TURN FROM ALL YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS, lest INIQUITY be YOUR RUIN and so shall they BE A STUMBLING BLOCK to you.
:31 CAST AWAY FROM YOU ALL YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS by which you have TRANSGRESSED AGAISNT Me, and MAKE YOU A NEW MIND AND HEART AND A NEW SPIRIT. FOR WHY WILL YOU DIE ...?
:32 For I have NO PLEASURE in the DEATH of HIM WHO DIES, says YAHWEH. THEREFORE TURN - be CONVERTED and LIVE!.
Luke 15:10 "In the same way, I tell you, there is JOY in the PRESENCE OF THE ANGELS of YAH OVER ONE SINNER WHO REPENTS."
Matt. 3:8 "Do those things that will SHOW THAT YOU HAVE TURNED FROM YOUR SINS."
SIN WILL TRY TO COME BACK!
If we have acknowledged and RECOGNIZED our SINS - have REPENTED (asked forgiveness for it) - TURNED AWAY from it - recognized it as our enemy - REMOVED OURSELVES from it - it will SURELY TRIES TO COME BACK!.
RESIST THE DEVIL: but FIRSTLY SUBMIT TO YAH:
Scripture tells us in James 4:7 "Therefore SUBMIT to YAH (God)" then "RESIST the DEVIL and he will FLEE from you."
We will not be ABLE to STAND if we HAVE NOT FIRST SUBMIT to ABBA - our heavenly Father - Yahshua and Spirit - Who will GIVE US THE STRENGTH to RESIST the DEVIL. Without Him we cannot do it!
Scripture tell us that HE IS THE VINE, we are the BRANCHES. WITHOUT HIM we can DO NOTHING. (John 15:5 - in Messiah's own words)
IT IS OUR OWN STUBBORNNESS and UNREPENTED HEARTS that KEEP US FROM LIFE EVERLASTING:
Rom. 2:5 "But BECAUSE of your STUBBORNNESS and your UNREPENTANT HEART, you are STORING UP WRATH AGAINST YOURSELF for the day of YAH'S WRATH, when His RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT WILL BE REVEALED."
Thank You ABBA for YOUR FORGIVENESS - for YOUR MERCY AND YOUR GRACE. Thank You for not ABANDONING US to our MISTAKES but for REACHING OUT to bring us HOME. HELP US FATHER, to ACKNOWLEDGE and RECOGNIZE our SINS, to BRING IT TO YOU - REPENT OF IT - TURN AWAY FROM IT and TOTALLY LETTING it go. We want NEW HEARTS and MINDS AND SPIRITS - to WALK a PATH of COVENANT RELATIONSHIP with YOU. Father we SUBMIT to YOU WHOLEHEARTEDLY - to YOU the GIVER of LIFE - we PRAISE YOU - WORSHIP YOU - thank You MESSIAH for the FULL AND TERRIBLE PRICE that YOU PAID - so that we COULD LIVE. In YAHSHUA MESSIAH'S NAME. Amen.