A POWERFUL THOUGHT TO PONDER: Those who belong to ADONAI’s are NOT to associate with those who are committing deliberate sins. Take, for instance, at what Paul wrote:
1 Corinthians 5:9 In my earlier letter I wrote you not to associate with people who engage in sexual immorality. 10 I didn’t mean the sexually immoral people outside your community, or the greedy, or the thieves or the idol-worshippers — for then you would have to leave the world altogether!
11 No, what I wrote you was not to associate with anyone who is supposedly a brother but who also engages in sexual immorality, is greedy, worships idols, is abusive, gets drunk or steals. With such a person you shouldn’t even eat! 12 For what business is it of mine to judge outsiders? Isn’t it those who are part of the community that you should be judging? 13 God will judge those who are outside. Just expel the evildoer from among yourselves. (CJB)
NOTE: Breaking of bread is a timeworn Middle Eastern custom that is done only with family and friends. If you cannot eat with someone (as Peter tried to separate himself in Galatians 2:13), then you cannot associate with them at all. If the sinner was out of the assembly, you were not permitted to persecute them.
However, you could, and in fact you must, demand that such a person put away detestable habits if they are to join the assembly and partake of the communal and havdalah meals (ceremony that marks the symbolic end of Shabbat and ushers in the new week) that Yeshua and his disciples enjoyed.
Truth is, our testimonies glorify Yahweh in the highest way possible because they show His Grace and Mercy to a fallen world where lost humanity struggles to understand Him and to "be good enough" to enter heaven - which, by the way, is an impossibility without belief in Yeshua!
It is important to remember, once we accept Yahweh Elohim as our God, and His Divine Messiah as our Redeemer, we are "spiritual Israel," expected to walk as Yeshua (Jesus) walked - in total obedience:
1 John 2:5 But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in him. 6 He who says he abides in him ought himself also to walk just as he walked. (CJB)
Scripture tells us most will NOT enter that "narrow gate that leads to Life" (Matthew 7:13-14); therefore, sometimes our personal testimony is exactly what someone needs to hear to begin to realize the urgency of "getting themselves right with God" while there is still time, and before it's too late.
Psalm 71:1 In you, ADONAI, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame. 2 In your righteousness, rescue me; and help me to escape. Turn your ear toward me, and deliver me. 3 Be for me a sheltering rock, where I can always come. You have determined to save me, because you are my bedrock and stronghold. 4 My God, help me escape from the power of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and ruthless. 5 For you are my hope, Adonai ELOHIM, in whom I have trusted since I was young. 6 From birth I have relied on you; it was you who took me from my mother's womb. 7 To many, I am an amazing example; but you are strong protection for me. 8 My mouth is full of praise for you, filled with your glory all day long. 9 Don't reject me when I grow old; when my strength fails, don't abandon me. 10 For my enemies are talking about me, those seeking my life are plotting together. (CJB)
Luke 22:15-20
ReplyDeleteKing James Version
> PREAMBLE
15 And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:
> Declaration
16 For I say unto you,
I WILL NOT ANY MORE EAT THEREOF, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.
• (17) And he took the cup,
• and gave thanks, and said,
• Take this, and
• divide it among YOURSELVES:
> Verse excludes himself from eating.
> Declaration
18 For I say unto you, I WILL NOT DRINK OF THE FRUIT OF THE VINE, until the kingdom of God shall come.
> DETAILING HIS EVERY ACTION WITHOUT MENTIONING EATING
> Specifies the *bread is given *
> Specifies the *bread…is for them*
• (19) And he took bread, and
• gave thanks,
• and brake it, and
• gave unto them,
• saying, This is my body WHICH IS GIVEN FOR YOU:
• do this do in remembrance of me.
> Yeshua gives instructions that Passover is to be done in remembrance of HIM. Please take careful notice that Passover is mentioned many times in many definitions earlier in this chapter. Thus the pronoun is about the dominant subject.
20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
> DETAILING HIS EVERY ACTION WHICH CONTINUES AFTER SUPPORT WITHOUT MENTIONING HIS DRINKING. THE FAST 💨 HAS STARTED.
> IT IS APPARENT THAT HE DOES NOT DRINK HERE. HIS ABSTAINING IS “IN THE SAME MANNER” AS EARLIER
> Specifies the *CUP is the NEW COVENANT.* He is making a BRIT with HIMSELF.
> Specifies the *CUP is ….. SHED FOR THEM, as HE excludes HIMSELF AS A RECIPIENT AGAIN.
The Passover is a meal of forgiveness and salvation. During this year, we see the only example of him NOT eating at the Passover. He had already started a fast needed to focus upon the laws and His Father. The Lamb can’t be seen eating the lamb, auto-cannibalism. Some of the Jews already found the remote implication of cannibalism was gross and the Romans drew their line here as well.
It is a MIs-label, a doctrine of man to change Passover to communism.
Leviticus 23:1 say the feasts days belong to Elohim. Missing them can mean death. 7 new Sabbaths are reviewed.
Statute of limitations of these are in Leviticus 23:14,21,31, and 41. Forever is a long time.
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have a question. 🙋🏾♂️ As I seek to remove all falsehood from my path, the Last supper has disturbed me. Some things seem apparent if seen. I see Yeshua confronting death and it is found undesirable. HE is in a fasting state, already spoken to Avi ShebaShamayim and he teaching servitude to Talmidim for the last time before being lifted up.
It is your responsibility and business to respond to those sinning. They will interpret it as they want, but you can’t find your soul by another person’s interpretation. You must be who you are. You are a watchman.
ReplyDeleteEzekiel 3:18-19
King James Version
18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul..
James 4:17
“Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.”
Proverbs 24:11-12
“If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain.”
Isaiah 1:17
“Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.”
Proverbs 31:8-9
“Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.”
Luke 10:30-37
“But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him.”
1 John 3:17
“But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion…”
Galatians 6:9
“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”
Matthew 5:13
“Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?”
. Romans 12:21
“Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.”
Psalm 82:3
“Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.”
Matthew 25:45
“Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.”. Zechariah 7:9-10
“Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother.”
. Romans 13:10
“Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.”
Proverbs 3:27
“Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.”
Isaiah 58:6
“Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness…”
Titus 3:14
“And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.”
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
Luke 12:48
“For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required.”
. Ephesians 5:11
“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.”
. 2 Thessalonians 3:13
“But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.”
2 Corinthians 5:20
“Now then we are ambassadors for Christ…”
Psalm 94:16
“Who will rise up for me against the evildoers?”
Isaiah 58:10
“And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul…”
Proverbs 21:3
“To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
Leviticus 19:16
“Neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour.”
Job 29:15-16
“I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.”
Zephaniah 2:3
“Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth… seek righteousness, seek meekness.”
Jeremiah 22:3
“Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor.”
Amos 5:24
“But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.”
2 Timothy 1:7
“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”
1 Thessalonians 5:14
“Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak.”