Biblical thought of the day:
Did you ever wonder why in Jesus time so many Jews converted to Christianity?
God explained to Jewish people that they are to test all prophet to Deuteronomy 13, this is how they were able to see if a person is with God or not.
Deuteronomy 13:1-5 KJV
If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.
For the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him.
Jesus (Yeshua) tried to teach mankind to follow our heavenly Father ( I AM ) commandment and decrees as he did.
As Jesus said in Matthew 5, that he did not come to change the Laws but to fulfill what has been prophesied in the Torah, which is the Old Testament.
Jesus (Yeshua) in his own Words says,
Matthew 5:17-20 ESV
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets;
I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.
Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven,
but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
As Jesus (Yeshua) observed God commandment and decrees.
God said in
Deuteronomy 6:24-25 ESV
And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are this day. And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us.’
And the Lord said in Deuteronomy 12:32 ESV
“Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. You shall not add to it or take from it.
Jesus did as God commanded and followed all the laws written down to Moses. If you are a child of God then you should do the same if you love our heavenly Father.
God says at the end he will send his messenger again to restore what once was as stated in Malachi 3.
Malachi 3:1-4, 6 ESV
“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me.
And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.
But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears?
For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap.
He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord .
Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord as in the days of old and as in former years.
“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.
God is always First and in order to serve our Lord, we need to follow his commandment and decrees as stated in the Torah which is the Old Testament, as Jesus (Yeshua) did.
Jesus Yeshua doesn't change as neither does our heavenly Father....
Hebrews 13:7-9 ESV
Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them.
Hebrews 13:8 ESV
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
This is the grace Jesus Yeshua gave us, so that we may know our heavenly Father.
Romans 11:13-16 ESV
Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them. For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead? If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole lump, and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
Jesus spoke say in Matthew 7:21-27 ESV
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, But the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’ “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”
I pray this helps you open your heart and mind to the true teaching of our Lord (I AM) and his son and our savior Jesus Christ for giving us a chance to get to know our heavenly Father through his sacrifice on the cross.
Jesus loved God so much that he did exactly as God commanded him to do.
Our Heavenly Father gave us instructions on how his people were to live, and if we consider ourselves God's people then we should do the same.
I hope and pray that we get to know our Heavenly Father.
Amen
Lady Dee
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