Come Let Us Examine Ourselves

Examine yourselves to see whether you are living the life of trust

For me each day is a day of close examination to see if I am conforming to the Word of God and His teachings.

Each time a thought, memory that is being brought to the forefront of my mind I ask the Lord to deliver me from the source.

Yesterday evening I went along to my local Praise and Worship to bring in the Shabbat with some other local Messianic Believers, we were worshiping and praising God in English, Hebrew and Spanish, it is awesome to be able fellowship with Born Again Messianic Jews – those who are restored back the Yeshua, we also celebrate the Feast days that Appointed Times set forth according to the Scriptures of which were instigated by God himself throughout the Scripture in keeping with the way of Life the Messiah lives.

We are called to live Gods way, and share in His celebrations and His feast days and festivals, WE are called to Keep His Shabbats, and we are definitely called to Love our fellow man as He loves us.

On reading a book called:  Replacement theology – Its Origins, History and Theology by Derek C White. I can see just how far away we as a Gentile Church going populace have been misled throughout the centuries because of ignorance and illiteracy.  It is an incredible book and one well worth reading if you are indeed sincere in discovering how, when and why the split from our Jewish Roots has occurred.  I am not going to write a complete rewrite of Derek C Whites book, however I do recommend that you get yourself a copy as it is enlightening.

I myself from the earliest days of being a believer have found it amazing how much we do not comply with the Scriptures or the teachings of the Messiah and how we have been separated from the Truth by the false doctrines that arose over the centuries since the first Apostles of the Messiah. 

Paul warns us in his writings that there would be a time when people would be forced to receive a false teachings and diverse visions, and separation from the True Way of God.  Bearing in mind that to Follow Yeshua it is to follow in His footsteps, therefore by association we would be brought into living His way of life, keeping His fast days, Holy Days, Feast-times, festivals. Which were ordained by God to be kept forever, never to be changed nor altered.

We see from early writings of Paul that he is definitely warning the people to remain steadfast in their faith as they were taught by the Disciples of the Messiah.

We have unfortunately over the millennia been deceived by the writings of the so called “church fathers” John Chrysostom, Origen who was influenced by Plato – who in his day was classified as a philosopher at the school of Alexandria – who advocated for homosexuality to become the norm.  Which is totally contrary to the Word of God?  

When you read the teachings of John Chrysostom you soon discover his hatred for Gods people.  (I was baptised in the Greek Orthodox church in my younger days and was told to read the teachings as part of my education into being a “Christian”)  To me, his teachings are abhorrent as they are making Gods people to be evil and separated from God, when in fact they are not – they are Gods people and will always be God chosen people to be lights to the nations – even in their darkest days of the History of Israel and the Jewish people they still were lights to the nations.  For without their separation we would not have the opportunity as Gentiles to be grafted into the Olive Tree that is the Messiah – and Israel.    For Israel and the Messiah are one and the same.  He being born of Israel and brought up under the teachings of God which as a human being he lived his life according to Gods teachings, yet he himself is the Word of God – therefore He is the one who is showing us that we are to live according to His teachings – He being made flesh and dwelt amongst us showing us that we are to live Gods way, the Way he taught us through His precious Word. 

Therefore as Gentile being blessed with the knowledge that God sent his precious son into the World to bring us back in reconciliation to the Father through His death and resurrection and showing us the clear and precise path we are to live in accordance to the Scripture – not breaking away and separating ourselves from the Way of Life.

Bearing in mind that Yeshua, Himself says that only through Him we can come in the Way of Life – because He is the Way of Life and only as we surrender to living His Way will we have peace and harmony.

So, with this in mind I hope that you too will have the courage to start to study the scriptures and discover yourself what God has said and taught and ask God himself for the Wisdom and Knowledge to bring about the understanding of how to live and be free from fear and separation from your past lives.

For when we truly ask the Messiah into our lives we can truly see a change in our lifestyles and patterns of living.  We see that by our coming to Him for healing and revelation of how we are to live we see we have a lot to do to change our way of thinking and living.

For when you read the scriptures and decide to take it seriously about what is written there you too will have the opportunity to be completely transformed in the way of living and thinking.

For me, the change in my life is that I can say that the more I see of my own nature being exposed and dealt with the more peace I feel in my mind and heart and body. So go on, take a chance and examine yourselves before the Word of God, ask him to expose you to you and ask for forgiveness and be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind so that it will also may have a positive effect on your body too.

Even last night I was shown that despite my every effort to disguise who I am,  God exposes the truth.  I had been vain in my life to such a degree that I would want to be invisible – vanity is not only about how you great you look but also how bad you look, to such a extent that I had allowed myself to become obese in the hope of hiding myself – and as I did that I actually was making myself more visible.  Which is not what I had wanted, yet in my vanity of trying to hide I actually did the opposite.  Which is really very stupid – yet it was only revealed to me by Gods good grace to me last night – which enabled me to be freed from it.  Hence now, I shall no longer be afraid of how I look and will not any longer seek comfort in food in the attempt to hide my self-consciousness. Being a shy person growing up I found it difficult when people would speak to me or notice me, yet at the same time I felt really bad because I too wanted to be noticed but was terrified of being seen.  I am sure that there are many out there that also feel that way too.

I was able to be freed last night as I humbled myself before God in honesty and truth and was able to receive the blessing of knowing that I am truly forgiven by God and that In Christ I am an overcomer – for only through His word and way of life am I able to live my life to the full potential – whatever direction it may take. 

I commit my life and times into the Hands of the Father and ask Him to lead me to where He wants me to be.

I know longer am going to be shy of what God does in me for He does all things for His glory to be seen – for in Human weakness He is made Strong.  In my determination to live according to Gods ways, I know He will bless the works of my hands – after all they are His hands to work with according to His will and purpose.