Tares & Wheat: The Great Separation Of The Harvest ... - Tshuvah

24 OTHER VARIOUS MESSIANIC-HEBRAIC TEACHING ARTICLES: There is a gap, a space the size of eternity, between knowing all about
God, and knowing Him!...
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There are many today, both Christian and Messianic teachers and leadership
included, who know all about ???? YHVH Elohim (The-LORD God); but don't
know Him. One is better off admitting they don't know or even believe in
God, than having convinced themselves that they do know Him, simply because
they know all 'about' Him.
I may know all about you, have read various articles about you, even having
seen your picture, and talked to your friends - but if I've never met you,
I don't really know you, nor you me.

The smallest child who knows YAH Elohim in Messiah Yeshua is safe in Him;
while the most brilliant scholar who only knows all about God, is lost.

Do you know Him? Does He know you?

- Time is short.
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Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is
the place where men ought to worship. Yeshua/(Jesus) saith unto her, Woman,
believe Me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor
yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. Ye worship ye know not what: we know
what we worship: for Salvation is of the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now
is, when THE TRUE WORSHIPPERS SHALL WORSHIP THE FATHER IN SPIRIT AND IN
TRUTH: FOR THE FATHER SEEKETH SUCH TO WORSHIP HIM. ELOHIM/(God) IS A
SPIRIT: AND THEY THAT WORSHIP HIM MUST WORSHIP HIM IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH.
The woman saith unto Him, I know that Messias cometh, Which is called
Christ: when He is come, He will tell us all things. Yeshua/(Jesus) saith
unto her, I that speak unto thee am He. - John 4:20-26.
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Justification THEN Sanctification: A reason why the 'Abrahamic Covenant'
came BEFORE the 'Mosaic Covenant'.....
[pic] This issue really is, and always should have been, simple enough for a
child to understand. In fact: If one goes simply by the Bible; and not by
the words of men who's doctrines and dogmas the Adversary/Enemy has
influenced by false-religious-spirits for centuries, either from one ditch
or the other, on this subject...it would still be simple for us to
understand today. No further explanation would be needed. Elohim/God is NOT
the author of confusion!... As a premise: The Bible states that you FIRST are Saved and Justified by
Grace through Faith, not of works; and THEN It goes on further to state
that you are Sanctified and Appointed to Good-works in Messiah Yeshua. This
premise is shown all throughout both the Tanakh/(The Old Testament) and the
Brit-HaChadashah/(The New Testament). I believe that everyone who is Born-
From-Above / (Born-Again) knows somewhere in their heart that they are to
live a Righteous life in Yeshua/Jesus Messiah in HIS Righteousness. I
believe even those who have known Messiah Yeshua/Jesus from their childhood
know this. That is what Messiah Himself taught. The question is then: What
is the Righteousness of God in Messiah Yeshua/Jesus? - "Most" Christians
are taught this is what they are to be in and walk in, but not all of them
are taught what that really means. Likewise "some" Messianics teach that it
means simply keeping the Torah/Law as best as you can through your own
efforts. - However both those understandings lack the simple meaning of
what the Word of God has to say on this matter..... In Romans we are given a very detailed key to this matter, as we read.... Rom.3:19-5:2 ¶ Now we know that what things soever the law/(Torah) saith,
it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped,
and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of
the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is
the knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God without the law is
manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the
righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon
all them that believe: for there is no difference: For all have sinned, and
come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through
the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a
propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for
the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To
declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and
the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It
is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Therefore
we conclude that a man is justified by faith Is he the God of the Jews
only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: Seeing it
is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and
uncircumcision through faith. Do we then make void the law through faith?
God forbid: yea, we establish the law. ¶ What shall we say then that
Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? For if Abraham
were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. For
what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him
for righteousness. Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of
grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that
justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as
David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth
righteousness without works, Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are
forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord
will not impute sin. ¶ Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision
only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned
to Abraham for righteousness. How was it then reckoned? when he was in
circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in
uncircumcision. And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the
righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he
might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not
circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also: And the
father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but
who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he
had being yet uncircumcised. For the promise, that he should be the heir of
the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through
the righteousness of faith. For if they which are of the law be heirs,
faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: Because the law
worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. Therefore it
is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be
sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that
also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, ¶ (As
it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom
he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things
which be not as though they were. Who against hope believed in hope, that
he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was
spoken, So shall thy seed be. And being not weak in faith, he considered
not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither
yet the deadness of Sara's womb: He staggered not at the promise of God
through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And being
fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. ¶ Now it was not
written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; But for us also, to
whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our
Lord from the dead; Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised
again for our justification. ¶ Therefore being justified by faith, we have
peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access
by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory
of God. So in short: Abram, while yet himself being a Gentile, BELIEVED Elohim/God
and THAT was accounted to him as Righteousness, and so that then was his
Justification. - And this was BEFORE he then obeyed in his later doing the
Command of Elohim/God for him to be circumcised - which then also then
resulted in his Sanctification. Doing 'something/whatever that may be in
one's own efforts' BEFORE Justification, will NEVER result in Justification
from YHVH; but rather it will be a simply a work of the flesh, and so it
will always be apart from the Ruach/Spirit of YAH. Again; as we see Yeshua/Jesus Messiah stated in His Own Words: Matthew 23:23 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay
tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters
of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and
not to leave the other undone. Here Messiah Yeshua/Jesus is saying the same thing as Paul also said:
Faith, is amongst the WEIGHTIER matters of the Law/(Torah), and so must
needs be done FIRST! - And THEN leave not the other undone! - Most of the
Pharisees sadly had it backwards! Even as Tanakh/(The Old Testament says) and is spoken of again in the Brit-
HaChadashah/(New Testament) as we see following: [O.T.]-Hab 2:4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him:
but the just shall live by his faith. - Ro 1:17 For therein is the
righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The
just shall live by faith. - Ga 3:11 But that no man is justified by the law
in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. -
Heb 10:38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my
soul shall have no pleasure in him. The Davidic Covenant also speaks the same in the Writings of the
Tanakh/(Old Testament): Psalms 32:1-2 - 1