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From:Wendy McNulty To: heb_roots_chr@hebroots.org Subject: JUSTIFEID TO SANCTIFY
JUSTIFIED TO SANCTIFY SANCTIFYING YAHUEH IN OUR LIVES BY LOVING OBEDIENCE TO HIS TORAH AND HIS APPOINTED TIMES
BY WENDY MCNULTY
IS HE BEING SANCTIFIED IN THE EYES OF THE WORLD THROUGH US?
JUSTIFICATION
"Much more then, having now been declared right (justified) by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him." Romans 5:9 In being the justification for our sins, Yahushua changes our standing before the Father to one in which it is JUST AS IF I NEVER SINNED!
Observing Torah, observing the 7th Day Shabbat, the Feasts, the traditions of the Fathers of Scriptural Judaic worship does not justify us - only Yahushua's precious blood can do that - but guarding His commands, observing Yahueh's 7th Day Shabbat and HIS Appointed Times can SANCTIFY US because in doing so, WE SANCTIFY (SET-APART) YAHUEH in the eyes of the world!
SANCTIFICATION Qadash (Hebrew); Hagiazo (Greek)
Qadash: Strongs H#6942, to cause to be, make, pronounce or observed as clean ceremonially or morally; to appoint, bid, consecrate, dedicate, hallow, be holy, keep holy, prepare, proclaim, purify, sanctify.
Hagiazo: Strongs G#37, to purify or consecrate (mentally), to make holy, to venerate, hallow, be holy, sanctify.
"And Elohim blessed the seventh day and set it apart (sanctified - qadash), because on it He rested (shabath) from all His work which Elohim in creating had made." Bereshith 2:3
"Then Moshe said to Aharon, `This is what Yahueh spoke, saying, `By those whom come near Me let Me be set-apart (sanctified)! And before all the people let Me be esteemed.' And Aharon was silent." Way./Lev. 10:3
"As a sweet fragrance I shall accept you when I bring you out from the peoples. And I shall gather you out of the lands where you have been scattered. And I shall be set-apart (sanctified) in you before the gentiles." Yehezekel 20:41
"And I shall set apart (sanctify) My great Name, which has been profaned among the gentiles, which you have profaned in their midst. And the gentiles shall know that I AM YAHUEH,' declares the Master Yahueh, `when I am set-apart (sanctified) in you before their eyes." Yehezekel 36:23
"Set them apart (sanctify) in Your truth - Your Word in truth." Yochanan 17:17
"But set apart Yahueh Elohim in your hearts, and always be ready to give an answer to everyone asking you a reason concerning the expectation that is in you, with meekness and fear, and having a good conscience, so that when they speak against you as doers of evil, those who falsely accuse your good behaviour in Messiah, shall be ashamed. For it is better, if it is the desire of Elohim, to suffer for doing good than for evil. (1 Kefa 3:15-17)
Yahushua told His followers: "I am come that they might possess LIFE and that they might possess it BEYOND MEASURE." (Yochanan 10:10)
You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free." (Yochanan. 8:32)
"If, then, the Son makes you FREE, you shall be FREE INDEED." (Yochanan 8:36)
IS OUR DEFINITION OF ABUNDANT LIFE AND FREEDOM THE SAME AS YAHUSHUA'S?
Why just subsist "on the edge" of His Messianic Truth, His Scripturally ordained Messianic worship ... In the spiritual, as in the physical, if we live on a starvation diet, we will soon fade away to nothing, as it were. However, if we live by Yahueh's prescribed guidelines for abundant life ...
"And Yahueh commanded us to do all these laws, to fear Yahueh our Elohim, for our good always, to keep us alive ... Debarim 6:24
"And Yahueh shall make you the head and not the tail. And you shall be only on top and not beneath, if you obey the commands of Yahueh your Elohim, which I command you today, to guard and do. Debarim 28:13
HEAR THE CRY OF FATHER YAHUEH'S HEART ...
"Oh, that they had such a heart in them, to fear Me and to guard ALL my commands ALWAYS, so that IT MIGHT BE WELL WITH THEM AND WITH THEIR CHILDREN FOREVER!" (Debarim 5:29)
WILL WE HEARKEN TO THE VOICE OF RAV SHA'UL?
"But now after you have known Elohim, or rather are known by Elohim, how do you turn again to the weak and poor elementary matters, to which you wish to be enslaved again? You observe days and months and seasons and years.* I fear for you, lest by any means I have laboured for you in vain. Brothers, I beg you to BECOME AS I AM, because I am as you are ..." Galations 4:9-12
(*Footnote on pg. 1129 of The Scriptures denotes "days and months and seasons and years" as a reference to gentiles practices.)
"Brothers, I beg you to BECOME AS I AM ..."
WHAT WAS RAV SHAUL ... APOSTLE PAUL?
"For I also am a Yisra'elite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Binyamin." Romans 11:1
"I am indeed a Yehudite, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamli'el, having been instructed according to the exactness of the Torah of our fathers, being ardent for Elohim ..." Acts 22:3
"Become imitators of me, as I also am of Messiah (i.e. an imitator). And I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in every way and keep the traditions as I delivered them to you." I Corinthians 11:1-2
Read Acts 21:15-24 - In these verses, the elders of the Assembly at Jerusalem affirm that Rav Sha'ul, as a believer in Yahushua, continued in Torah observance and the Scriptural practices of Judaism.
We are to follow Yahushua in accordance with Scripture. Yahushua warned His talmidim (disciplines) in Mattiyahu 10:4: "Do not go into the way of the gentiles ..." Yahueh, through Mosheh, warned the children of Israel in Debarim 18:9, "Do not learn to do according to the abominations of those gentiles." (See also Way. 18:3, Deb. 12:30, Yirm. 10:2, Yehez. 11:12, 18:19, Mikah 4:5)
Rav Sha'ul and the Apostles lived and taught the Judaic traditions of the Patriarchs and Mosheh - Judaic traditions that have always been Messianic in form and in complete accordance with Scripture, NOT the extensive system of rules and regulations added to Torah by Rabbinical Judaism over the years and recorded in the Talmud and Mishnah. This is what Yahushua criticized the Pharisees for in Mattiyahu 23 and many other places in the Gospels.
In contemporary society, we can learn from the example of believers who do follow the example of Yahushua and the Apostles, as set forth and witnessed to by the Scriptures, but our Head, our completeness, is in Messiah (Col. 2:10). Our means of connecting to our Head is through the Scriptures and the Ruach haKodesh.
Yochanan/John 6:63 "It is the Spirit that gives life, the flesh does not profit at all. The words that I speak to you are Spirit and are life."
THE AGE OF GRACE VS. THE AGE OF TORAH?
We have been taught that under Messiah we are now in the Dispensation or Age of Grace. Colossians 2:11-15 shows us that it was not Torah that was nailed to the stake by Yahushua, it was the record of our sins that rightfully entitled Yahueh to deliver the sentence of death upon us. This record of our wrong doings was nailed to the stake, done away with by the blood of Yahushua, so that ...
"And you, being dead in your trespasses and sin, and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, HAVING FORGIVEN YOU ALL TRESPASSES ..." Col. 2:13
THIS IS GRACE ... YES! But, it was also Yahueh's GRACE that spared the lives of Adam and Eve after He had warned them that if they ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil they would surely die, that spared Lot and his daughters, that spared Noah and his family, that spared the Israelites at the foot of Mt. Sinai when they committed idolatry with the golden calf, that spared the Israelites time after time when they rebelled against Him in the wilderness, that spared and restored King David after he commited adultery with Bathsheba, that spared King Solomon and allowed him to continue his reign after he turned his heart away from Yahueh and worshipped the false gods of his foreign wives, that enabled a small band of Maccabean priests to overthrow the mighty Greek army of Antiochus Epiphanes IV ...
GRACE BEGINS AT GENESIS AND CONTINUES TO REVELATION AND WILL CONTINUE FOR ALL ETERNITY BECAUSE YAHUEH ELOHIM IS GRACE PERSONIFIED. YAHUSHUA MANIFESTED HIS GRACE IN HUMAN FORM ... YAHUSHUA IS THE LIVING WORD (TORAH) OF YAHUEH. GRACE AND TORAH CANNOT BE SEPARATED.
IN THE OLD COVENANT TORAH THERE ARE 613 COMMANDMENTS ... IN THE RE-NEWED COVENANT THERE ARE 1055 COMMANDMENTS ... ALL OF WHICH FIND THEIR FOUNDATION IN THE OLD COVENANT SCRIPTURES. HAS YAHUSHUA DONE AWAY WITH TORAH? NO, YAHUSHUA HAS GIVEN US HIS SPIRIT BY WHICH WE CAN PROPERLY INTERPRET AND OBSERVE HIS TORAH COMMANDMENTS.
THIS IS NOT LEGALISM ... THIS IS LOVE FOR ELOHIM, THAT WE GUARD HIS COMMANDMENTS.
"If you guard My commands, you shall stay in My love, even as I have guarded My Father's commands and stay in His love. These words I have spoken to you, so that My joy might be in you, and that your joy might be complete." Yochanan 15:10-11
"For this is the love for Elohim, that we guard His commands, and His commands are not heavy," 1 Yochanan 5:3
"And now I ask you, Kuria, not as though I wrote a fresh command to you, but that which we have had from the beginning: that we love on another. And this is the love, that we walk according to His commands. This is the command, that as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it. ... Everyone who is transgressing and not staying in the teaching of Messiah does not possess Elohim. The one who stays in the teaching of Messiah possesses both the Father and the Son." 11 Yochanan 1:5-6, 9
READ EPHESIANS 4-6
"I call upon you therefore, I, the prisoner of the Master, to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, with all humility and meekness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, being eager to guard the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace - ONE body and ONE Spirit, as you also were called in ONE expectation of your calling, ONE Master, ONE BELIEF, ONE IMMERSION, ONE Elohim and Father of all, who is ABOVE ALL, and THROUGH ALL, and IN YOU ALL." (Ephesians 4:1-6)
The doctrines and traditions of man have divided Messiah's ONE BODY into more than 20,000 denominational parts! We have ONE standard of truth, ONE blueprint, ONE compass ... THE TORAH OF YAHUEH, from Genesis to Revelation, an eternal testimony, that changes not, manifested in word and in flesh by YAHUSHUA haMashiach.
"I know that whatever Elohim does is forever. There is no adding to it, and there is no taking from it. Elohim does it, that men should fear Him." (Qoheleth/Ecclesiastes 3:14)
"Stand, then, having girded your waist with TRUTH, and having put on the breastplate of RIGHTEOUSNESS, and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the GOOD NEWS OF PEACE, above all, having taken up the shield of BELIEF with which you shall have power to quench all the burning arrows of the wicked one. Take also the helmet of DELIVERANCE, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the WORD OF ELOHIM. (Ephesians 6:14-17)
THE COMPLETE ARMOUR OF ELOHIM (Ephesians 6:13-17)
TRUTH: "... as truth is in YAHUSHUA." Eph. 4:21 "Sanctify them by truth, your Word is truth." Yn. 17:17
RIGHTEOUSNESS: "For if you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone doing righteousness is born of Him." I Yn 2:29
GOOD NEWS OF PEACE: "... the enlightening of the Good News of the esteem of Messiah, who is the likeness of Elohim ...for we do not proclaim ourselves, but Messiah Yahushua, and ourselves your servants for Yahushua's sake." 2 Cor. 4:4-5
DELIVERANCE: "Wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this body of death? Thanks to Elohim through Yahushua our Master!" Romans 7:24-25
BELIEF: "Who is the one who overcomes the world but he who believes that Yahushua is the son of Elohim? 1 Yn. 5:5
WORD OF ELOHIM: "And the Word became flesh and pitched His tent among us, ..." YAHUSHUA
YAHUSHUA is the complete Armour of Elohim.
"But put on the Master Yahushua and make no provision for the lusts of the flesh." Romans 13:14
"Become, then, imitators of Elohim as beloved children." Eph. 5:1
"For in six days Yahueh made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed." Shemoth/Exodus 31:17
"Six days you labour and shall do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of Yahueh your Elohim." (Shemoth/Exodus 20:9-10)
"For the Son of Adam is Master of the Sabbath." (Mattiyahu 12:8)
"Between Me and the children of Israel it (the 7th Day Sabbath) is a sign forever." (Shemoth/Exodus 31:17)
The 7th Day Sabbath is regarded in Judaism as the "Sign of the Marriage Covenant" between Yahueh and His people. It is the wedding ring, so to speak, and observance of His Torah is the Ketubah, or marriage contract that defines the conditions and provisions of the marriage between Yahueh, in Yahushua, and His Bride.
If Yahushua is Master of the Sabbath, should not we, His Bride, join Him in celebrating it? If He rests and delights on the 7th day, as the Scriptures say He does, why do we not delight in doing likewise, to spend precious, intimate time with Him, to refresh Him with our praises and thanksgiving, delighting in His Name and His Word? Yahueh spoke through the Prophet Yehezekel that He would be set-apart in the eyes of the gentiles through His people. The eternal sign of that set-apartness is the 7th Day Sabbath. The Jewish people have always observed the 7th Day Sabbath. There is no doubt in anyone's mind the world over that the Jewish people are associated with Yahueh, the Elohim of Israel. Yahushua and Yahueh are echad, are ONE. Does not the Sunday worship tradition, ordained by man and not by Yahueh, attempt to divide the worship of the Son from the worship of the Father? Can Yahueh be divided? NO.
"Hear, O Yisra'el. Yahueh your Elohim, Yahueh is ONE." (Debarim/Deuteronomy 6:4)
"And Elohim said further to Mosheh, `Thus you are to say to the children of Yisra'el, YAHUEH Elohim of your fathers, the Elohim of Abraham, the Elohim of Yitshaq, and the Elohim of Ya'aqob, has sent me to you.
This is My Name forever, and this is My remembrance to all generations.'" (Shemoth/Exodus 4:15)
"Not everyone who says to Me, `Master, Master,' shall enter into the reign of the heavens, but he who is doing the desire of My Father in the heavens." (Mattiyahu 7:21)
HEAR THE CRY OF FATHER YAHUEH'S HEART ...
"Oh, that they had such a heart in them, to fear Me and to guard ALL my commands ALWAYS, so that it might be well with them and their children forever!" (Debarim 5:29)
"Many shall come to Me in that day, `Master, Master (Lord, Lord), have we not prophesied IN YOUR NAME, and cast out demons IN YOUR NAME, and done many mighty works IN YOUR NAME? And then I shall declare to them, `I never knew you, depart from Me, you who work lawlessness (Torahlessness)." (Mattiyahu 7:22-23)
In what name are "the many" prophesying, casting out demons and doing mighty works? DO THEY KNOW THE TRUE NAME OF THE FATHER AND THE SON? Or are they still in darkness, not knowing the Name that is above all Names, the Name that has been profaned and brought to naught through the Ages, but, in the grace of Yahueh is being revealed in these last days?
"For everyone who calls on the Name of Yahueh shall be saved. How the shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without one proclaiming? And how shall they proclaim if they are not sent? As it has been written, `How pleasant are the feet of those who bring the Good News of peace, who bring the Good News of the good!' However, not all obeyed the Good News. For Yeshayahu says, `Yahueh, who has believed our report?' So then belief comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of Elohim." (Romans 10:13-17)
"Proclaim the Word! Be urgent in season, out of season. Reprove, warn, appeal, with all patience and teaching. For there shall be a time when they shall not bear sound teaching, but according to their own desires, they shall heap up teachers tickling the ear, and they shall indeed turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to myths. But you be sober in all matters, suffer hardships, do the work of an evangelist, accomplish your service completely." (2 Timothy 4:2-5)
"See, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore, be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. But beware of men, for they shall deliver you up to sanhedrins and flog you in their congregations. And you shall be brought before governors and sovereigns for My Name's sake as a witness to them and to the gentiles. But when they deliver you up, do not worry about how or what you should speak. For it shall be given to you in that hour what you shall speak, for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking in You." (Mattiyahu 10:11-20)
"And you shall be hated by all FOR MY NAME'S SAKE. But he who shall have endured to the end shall be saved." (Mattiyahu 10:22)
"A taught one is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. It is enough for the taught one to become like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house of Be'elzebul, how much more those of his household!" (Mattiyahu 10:24-25)
"In the world you have pressure, but take courage, I have overcome the world." (Yochanan 16:33)
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