Some days it is so hard to stay focused on the direction Adonai has for us ….
With all of the issues going on especially among Believers dividing…. before it was just doctrine’s…. NOW it’s actually over whether or not it’s okay to kill your babies or your children… because you might be going through post pardim depression.
And EVEN PRAYER RIGHT NOW being taken from the Canadian military…
MANY PEOPLE ARE LOOSING HOPE.
Let’s get back to the basics today.
WHO DO YOU SAY I AM ?
“But you,” He said to them, ” who do you say I am ?”
Mattiyahu/ Mathew 16:15 CJB
Who is Yeshua Hamashiach/ Jesus Christ ?
In Christianity, this is the most fundamental question we can ask, yet the answer is NOT simple because there is NO parallel to Yeshua anywhere in history….
There was a time perhaps when we could assume most people knew what Christians believed about their Christ, but in a predominantly secular world and with a myriad of religions and denominations to choose from…. most people have NO IDEA or at least VERY LITTLE knowledge of Yeshua…. and the evidence is becoming more and more clear….. on full display today more than ever, of how OUT OF TOUCH and DISCONNECTED from Adonai’s Holy Spirit they have become.
If we do not understand Who Yeshua is we will get everything else about the Messianic life wrong.
We recognize Who YESHUA IS… NOT by persuasive debate or having it ingrained in us…. BUT SOLELY by Revelation of HIS Holy Spirit/ Ruach HaQuodesh sent by the Father.
Yeshua asked His Tallmidian / Disciples ” who do you say I am?” Kefa / Peter answered ” You are the Messiah, Son of the Living God. “
Yeshua replied… ” Shim’on Bar-Yochanan,” Yeshua said to him… ” how blessed you are ! For no human being revealed this to you, no, it was my Father in Heaven. ” Mattiyahu/ Matthew 16: 16-17
When it comes to ARGUING and DEBATING ESPECIALLY MUSLIMS AND JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES over the DEITY or the SONSHIP of MESSIAH….we NEED to REMEMBER THIS….that we are UTTERLY and COMPLETELY DEPENDENT on the HOLY SPIRIT….. the SPIRIT of GOD REVEALING MESSIAH to us.
EVERYTHING we read about Yeshua in His life on Earth was the record of a man, BUT a man OBEDIENT to His Heavenly Father…. and TOTALLY DEPENDENT ON HIM.
Yeshua was NOT ONLY the Truth about Hashem / God revealed in flesh…. BUT He EXEMPLIFIED the TRUTH about how we should live.
He LAID aside all the attributes of divinity that WERE HIS ….and HUMBLED Himself in the form of a SERVANT….. living day by day as though He was NOTHING more than a man while at the same time NEVER being LESS THAN GOD.
YESHUA HAMASHIACH had to become who He was so that He could do what His Father sent Him to do.
Born from a human Virgin Miriam / Mary, He did not inherit a sinful nature, and though tested and tempted in every way we are ….. HE DID NOT SIN !!
HE WAS THE LAMB WITHOUT BLEMISH….
the ONLY living being to meet the criteria as our substitute to take upon Himself the sin of the World. 🌎
” WHO DO YOU SAY I AM “? Yeshua asked.
” THE MESSIAH THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD. “
We can read those words countless times and hear it said a thousand more times….
BUT … BELIEVING AND TRUSTING IT …. IS ENTIRELY THE WORK OF HASHEM’S HOLY SPIRIT / RUACH HAQUODESH INSIDE OF US !!!
IF… FOR WHATEVER REASON …we do NOT yet believe…
Adonai says: ” You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with ALL YOUR HEART. “
Yirmeyahu/ Jeremiah 29 :13
That is an ABSOLUTE PROMISE of Hashem, and the first one He longs to fulfill for EVERY SINGLE PERSON ….
HE WANTS NONE TO PERISH !!
PRAYER : Heavenly Father… Thank You with ALL my heart not only for Yeshua who died in my stead, but for His life that lives and works in me.
Thank You Heavenly Father for Your Holy Spirit Ruach HaQuodesh Who has revealed this to me.
Baruch atah Adonai Eloheinu avoteinu Elohei Avraham Yitz’chak Ya’akov Baruch atah Yeshua Hamashiach Adonai Amein