98% PURITY IS NOT ENOUGH – PART 1
If a cup of your drinking water was 98% pure with 2% sewage, would you drink it? I doubt you would! Why then have we made peace with the sin in our lives? The humanistic world tells us we will never measure up, so a [little sin] in our lives is okay. It lets us know we are only human. Guess what? I'm not of this world; I'm of the Kingdom of YHVH. Sin has no place in a believer’s life. We must strive to obey the Commandments of YHVH, which are the Laws of the Kingdom of YHVH. We all know the Ten Commandments and the Commandment Yeshua issued [Love your neighbour as yourself], but we are told we are under grace not Law. Sorry people, we are under the Law of YHVH forever! But what is Sin? 1 John 3:4: -- Whosoever commits a sin breaks the Law, for sin is the transgression of the Law.
YHVH’s Law is the Ten Commandments which Yeshua Moshiach obeyed and showed us how to fulfil. Yeshua also added an additional commandment as He was the One who gave us the original ten! -- John 1:1-3.
Exodus 20:3-17
1 -- You shall not have any other gods before Me. What do you place before worshipping YHVH? Money, liquor, cigarettes, drugs or pleasures of life?
2 -- You shall not make for yourself any graven image of anything in the heavens, on the earth or in the sea under the earth. Do you have little angel statues or pictures of Yeshua? These are graven images.
3 -- You shall not take the Name of your Adonai YHVH in vain”. Do you use YHVH’s Name as a curse word or to express something?
4 -- Remember the Shabbat day, to keep it holy. Do you observe the true Shabbat on Saturday?
5 -- Honour your father & mother. Do you honour & respect your parents?
6 -- You shall not kill. Yeshua said if you hate anyone you have already committed murder in your heart.
7 -- You shall not commit adultery. Do you look at Porn or lust after someone?
8 -- You shall not steal. Even paper clips from work count as being stolen or even time by leaving work 5 or 10 min earlier as what you should.
9 -- You shall not bear false witness about your neighbour. Do you gossip about anyone or talk bad about anyone?
10 -- You shall not covet. Do you wish you had so and so house or car? Stop Coveting.
11 -- Yeshua added an 11th Commandment: A new Commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have Loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another -- John 13:34–35. Do you love YHVH or your neighbour as you would want them to love you?
Yeshua said: If you want to enter into life, keep the Commandments -- Matthew 19:16-18.
Yeshua also said Thou shalt love Adonai thy YHVH with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great Commandment. And the second is like unto it. Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two Commandments hang all the Law and the prophets. -- Matthew 22:37-40
Does that mean that these two are most important? NO! It means they are the first and the last, just as Yeshua is the Alpha and the Omega. On these two Commandments hang all the Law and prophets. What was their testimony? YESHUA! Yeshua saves, not the Law. Following the Law is a step toward Holiness, and His righteousness. Seek first the Kingdom of YHVH and His righteousness, and all these things will be added -- Matthew 6:33). What will be added? Matthew 6:25-32: Provision. If you start living these rules stated above, then it will become easier to live holy. One thing Yeshua teaches us is to be holy and when you start to live holy it is easy to follow these Laws YHVH gave us. 1 Peter 1:15-16 – Be Holy because I am Holy. Walk according to the Laws of the Kingdom, deny yourself, pick up your cross daily and receive all that Adonai has for you. It is also easy that when you start to live according to these rules that it is easy to give to one another and be on the lookout for one another. The Bible states that: each seed reproduces after its own kind -- Genesis, if you sow nothing, you get nothing in return. In the measure you give you will receive -- Luke 6:38, if you don't give anything you will not get anything. This is a major reason 99.9% of us are in NEED!