Question 384: Can An Honest, Moral, Upright Life Save Anyone?
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People are constantly being misled in this matter because they fail to understand what salvation really is. Salvation is personal friendship and companionship with YHVH. It is hard to see how a man who is not a friend of YHVH at death will become one immediately after death. Being honest and upright does not really get us acquainted with YHVH. Paul was intensely moral before his conversion, but he found out later that he had been an enemy of YHVH all the time. Then too, salvation means humility and meekness. The man who believes he can save himself puts himself out of the Kingdom of Heaven by that very attitude of mind. For the Kingdom of Heaven is made up of people with childlike hearts, who have given up their pride and self-will. Nor will the mere naming of the Name of Moshiach and making a public confession make the necessary change. Yeshua said very distinctly: "Ye must be born again." It is extremely unwise and unsafe to quarrel or argue with Yeshua. He knows all about the human heart and all about the Kingdom of Heaven. The only thing to do is to accept His plan of salvation and let Him give us the new heart, the heart that is humble and obedient, that is not self-confident but trustful, the heart that loves YHVH and so will feel at home in YHVH's heaven. Scripture and experience alike teach that it is possible for one to have all the outward marks of religion, yet fail of possessing the real and vital thing. Saul of Tarsus was a most zealous man, trying to do the will of YHVH, but after his conversion he felt that his former life had been very sinful, because he had not submitted himself to the will of YHVH and accepted Moshiach's righteousness as his own. John Wesley's experience was similar and countless others of this and earlier days. It must be remembered that it is not outward conduct that makes the real believer; it is the inner life, the humility, the glad surrender to YHVH's will, the warm love felt for YHVH and for the souls for whom Moshiach died. It is not our good works that save us, but a simple, self-forgetful trust in Yeshua. This faith brings the life and love which constitute religion. A simple trust in the death of Yeshua as the remedy for our sin. A simple acceptance of Moshiach to be our righteousness and our salvation will bring the joy and power of a new life of real son-ship of YHVH and fellowship with Moshiach. See Romans 10:1-4; Philippians 3:3-9.
Question 383: Why Does YHVH Not Save The Entire Human Race?
Answer:
It is contrary to the Divine method of dealing with the human race, as we understand it, for Him to use compulsion with men. Apparently, His desire is to have a people who, being left free to choose, voluntarily choose righteousness. He draws them, He yearns over them, applies discipline, offers them His help, but beyond this He will not go in this life. A man who is good only because he is compelled to be good, is of a much lower type than he who, being free to become evil, seeks of his own accord to become good. It is this higher type that as we believe, YHVH is trying to produce.
Question 382: Is Trouble Sent As A Punishment?
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The Bible does not teach that all trouble comes from YHVH as a punishment. It recognizes the fact that trouble is in the world and, while it has some very definite things to say about it, it does not attempt to give a complete solution of the whole problem. Hebrews 12:5-11 declares that YHVH does in some instances, discipline or "chasten," those whom He loves, but this could hardly be called punishment. (See also Deuteronomy 8:5; Psalm 94:12; John 15:2.) Sometimes however, calamity is a definite punishment, as in many cases during the history of Israel and particularly in their exile. The book of Job is a beautiful explanation of a form of suffering which has the double purpose of disciplining the soul and glorifying YHVH. Nothing can bring such credit to YHVH as the demonstration made by a soul that trusts and praises Him in the midst of misfortune. Paul and the other apostles glorified in their opportunities to suffer for Yeshua' sake. They rejoiced "that they were counted worthy to suffer shame in His Name" (Acts 5:41). They felt that He had borne so much for them that they wanted to bear something for Him. The Bible nowhere encourages people to dodge suffering; it exhorts them to bear it, while at the same time it exhorts them to lessen the sufferings of others and help them bear their woes. See James 1:2-5; 1 Peter 4:12-19; Galatians 6:2.
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Question 381: What Is The Trinity; How Is It Possible; What Proof Is There Of It?
Answer:
These are questions that have bothered thousands of earnest believers. No one should feel discouraged if the doctrine of the Trinity seems difficult, because as must be remembered, the facts about YHVH are so much bigger than the brain of man that we cannot be expected in our present human state to comprehend them. The orthodox faith is that YHVH is Triune in person. believers feel by experience that YHVH is their Father, that Moshiach is their divine Saviour, that Ruach HaKodesh is their Comforter, Sanctifier and Strength. The Father is a person; the Son is a person; Ruach HaKodesh is a person; three distinct persons in one eternal undivided and indivisible essence. How this is possible is not beyond comprehension to Him that has learned to believe and know that to YHVH all is possible and all doubts may be banished by the beautiful thought that to all others there is here one more glorious mystery into the depths and wherefores of which we are to be introduced in the happy beyond. And the proof: 1.) What more convincing proof can be asked than the words of Him whom no one doubts, the Son of YHVH and of Man. He tells us "I and My Father are one," "He that seeth Me seeth Him that sent Me." In His farewell address to His disciples, He speaks of the Comforter which is Ruach HaKodesh whom the Father will send in My Name. At His baptism, the Father's voice is heard from heaven and Ruach HaKodesh descends in the form of a dove and lights upon Him. Yes, at the very beginning of things YHVH speaks of Himself in the plural, "Let us make man after Our Image," while all the while "the Spirit of YHVH moved upon the face of the waters." Truly proof sufficient for all who would believe.
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WORD FOR TODAY “Should you wear earrings”: Exo 21:6 then his master is to bring him before God; and there at the door or doorpost, his master is to pierce his ear with an awl; and the man will be his slave for life.
WISDOM FOR TODAY: Pro 29:2 When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, But when a wicked man rules, people groan.
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I have a lot of notes and replies to things I've kept over the years. Something that I have shared quite a bit outside of the comics is a series of questions and verses to answer those questions. Each question and answer builds on each other. I am going to do a comic for each of these questions. This is question #7.
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Thought for Today: Monday February 17
Often, we do not know why YHVH permits certain things to happen to us. We do know that evil is real, and we live in a world that is ravaged by sickness, death and sorrow – a world that is not the way YHVH intended it to be. Someday, our Moshiach’s victory will be complete and all this will be changed, but not yet. In the meantime, put your faith and hope in the Moshiach. He knows what it is to suffer; He went to the cross for us. And because He did, we have hope even in the midst of our darkest hours.
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