PART 7 B

YESHUA EXPLAINS HALAKHAH [TORAH PRACTICE]

"Be careful that you do not give your gifts for the poor in front of people in order to look impressive. If you do it that way, you will not receive a reward for it from your Abba in Heaven. When you give your gifts for the poor, do not broadcast it everywhere, making a big deal of it, like the two-faced do in the worship centres and in the streets, in order to get the applause of people. Amen! I tell you, they have their reward. So, give your gift to the poor, but don't even let your left hand know what your right hand is doing. That way your gifts for the poor will be a secret and your Abba who sees all secrets will Himself reward you in the open. And when you pray, do not pray like the two-faced, for they love to pray standing in the worship centres and on the corners of the streets, so they can be seen by people. Amen! I tell you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, enter into your private room and then after you have shut your door, pray to your Abba in secret. And your Abba who sees all secrets shall reward you in the open. When you pray, do not perform useless repetitions, as the pagans do. They are deceived into thinking they will be heard due to the amount of their speech. In no way act like the pagans, for your Abba knows what you need before you ask Him. Pray like this: 'Our Abba in Heaven, YHVH, Your Name is holy. Please bring Your Kingdom to us, so that Your will is done on the earth the same way it is done in Heaven. Please provide us the bread we need today. And forgive us for breaking the Torah against Your will and covenant, for we forgive those who have broken trust with us. Please do not lead us into difficult testing, but keep us from the evil one. For unto You alone is the sovereignty and the power and the glory forever. Amen.' You see, if you forgive people their sins, your Abba in Heaven will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive people their sins, neither will your Abba forgive your sins. Also when you fast, do not be like the two-faced with sad faces, for they purposely deform their faces, so they appear to people as fasting. Amen! I tell you again, they have their reward. When you fast, comb your hair and wash your face. This way you will appear to people not to be fasting, except to your Abba who sees the secret. Your Abba, who knows all secrets, will reward you in the open. Keep asking Him and it will be given to you. Keep seeking Him and you will find. Keep knocking on His door and it will be opened to you. For everyone who continues to ask receives and the one who keeps seeking finds and the one that does not stop knocking will have it opened to him. Who among you will give your son a stone if he asks for bread? Or, if he asks for some fish, would you give him a serpent? If you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Abba in Heaven give good things to those who ask him? But, do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and rust ruin it and where thieves break in and steal it. Rather, store up for yourselves treasures in Heaven, where there are no moths or rust to ruin anything and where thieves do not break in or steal. For where you put your treasure is the place your heart will want to be. The window into the body is the eyes. If your eyes are pure, your whole body will be full of light. But, if your eyes look to see evil things, your whole body will be full of darkness. Therefore, if the window for light that is in you is dark, how great the darkness will be inside you! Can the blind provide guidance for the blind? Will not both of them fall into the trap? The disciple is not above his rabbi, but when a person is matured, he will be like his rabbi. So then, how can you see the splinter that is in your brother's eye, when you cannot see the log that is in your own eye? Why do you say to your brother, 'Let me pull the sliver out of your eye, while an entire beam is in your own eye? You are two-faced! First get rid of the beam from your own eye and then you will see clearly enough to get the speck out of your brother's eye. Therefore, whatever you want people to do for you, you do that very thing for them, for this is the intent of the Torah and the prophets. Therefore, personally condemn no one and you will not be condemned either. Release and you will also be released! Give and you will also receive! Not just a little, but a lot, compressed and running over the side! Whether good or bad, it will return to your very being in a comparable proportion to what you gave out. It is not possible for a person to serve two masters, for he will hate one and love the other or else he will cling to one and despise the other. So, you cannot serve both Elohim and the god of money. Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life; whether or not you will have enough to eat or drink or what kind of clothing you will have. Isn't living more than eating food and taking care of the body more than wearing clothes? Look at the birds of the air, for they do not sow, nor do they harvest and store into barns, yet your Abba in Heaven feeds them. And aren't you worth much more than they are? Who among you, by thinking about it, can add one inch to his height? So, why even give any thought to what you will wear? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They do not labour or create anything. Yet I tell you, even King Shlomo in all his majestic splendour was not adorned like one of these. Therefore, if YHVH is willing to clothe the grass of the field in this way, which is here today and thrown in the oven tomorrow, will He not adorn you with so much more? You have such little trust in Him! Therefore, worry no more saying, 'what will we eat?' Or, 'what will we drink?' Or, 'what are we going to wear?' These are things which consume the thinking of the Gentiles, not you. For your Abba in Heaven knows perfectly well you need all these things. But first before all, you are to be consumed with obtaining the Kingdom of Elohim and His righteousness. Then all these other things will automatically be added to you. You do not even need to think about tomorrow, for tomorrow will take care of itself. There is more than enough evil to handle today. You must enter into righteousness through the gate that is blocked with obstacles. For, wide is the gate and smooth is the way which leads to destruction and many people go that way. Because the gate which leads to life is strewn with all kinds of debris. Therefore, the narrow way is difficult to find for all but a few. Beware of lying preachers, who will come to you in sheep's clothing, but underneath they are ravenous wolves. You will discern them by their fruit. Do men harvest grapes from a thorn bush or figs from a briar patch? Thus, every good tree shows good fruit, but a corrupt tree shows bad fruit. A good tree cannot produce bad fruit; neither can a bad tree produce good fruit. Without exception, every tree which does not demonstrate good fruit is chopped down and cast into the fire. The good man speaks good things from his heart and the evil man speaks forth evil things, for from the abundance which is in the heart, the mouth speaks. For this reason, you will know what kind of tree they are by the fruit they produce. Note this! Not everyone who says to me, 'Adonai!' or ' YHVH!' shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven. No, only those people who do what Avi in Heaven has said to do. Many will come to me in that day and say, 'Adonai YHVH, have we not preached in Your Name? Through Your Name didn't we cast out deceiving spirits? In Your Name we also did many wonderful works!' Then I will declare to them, 'Why do you call me Adonai YHVH and yet you do not do the things which I have commanded you {in the Torah and the prophets}? I never knew you, depart from me, you who work against the Torah!' Therefore, whoever hears my eternal Word and does it, I will view him to be like the wise man, who built his house upon a rock. The rain descended, the floods rose and the winds blew and beat against that house and it did not collapse, for it was built upon a rock. But, everyone who hears my eternal Word and does not do it, I will view him to be like the foolish man, who built his house upon sand. The rain descended, the floods rose and the winds blew and beat against that house and it collapsed. In fact, it disintegrated!" When Yeshua had ended His Word, the people were struck with absolute awe at His teaching. He taught them as One who possessed supreme authority, which was not the way the Torah teachers taught.

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