How to live by faith

Yeshua lived our faith perfectly!

        WE BELIEVE, TRUST, RELY UPON, AND EXPECT

* YHWH is our Father (maker, creator, provider, and generator) Matthew 3

* The gain of even needful material things are not a goal but a result of receiving YHWH's life living in and through us. Matthew 4:4

* The natural result of YHWH's shared life in us is every word and promise having a living manifestation in us (seeking the manifestation shows we have no faith in YHWH) Matthew 4:7

* To seek temporal things is to worship the temporal self even if we say it was given by God. We instead worship YHWH and seek the eternity of His life in us. Matthew 4:10

* Yeshua is the only begotten Son of YHWH and as such all that He is has come out of the Father and the Fathers life is the Sons life. John 10:30 and 14:9

* The work of the Father through the Son is to make a marriage covenant with man. All we have and are becomes the possession of Yeshua who suffered and carried away from us the reality of fallen men

Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form or comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.

He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? For he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

And he made his grave with the wicked and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: (why would this please the Father and Son? For the result that comes forth) when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors Isaiah 58

*the new creation of the new covenant in Messiah is us made one with Yeshua in marriage.  We are now restored into sonship as His spouse and are to be fruitful and multiply the glory and image of YHWH throughout the earth.

Who Yeshua is we are

What Yeshua did we do

He is the living word we are the living word

Our failures come from ignorance of what has been worked in us and unbelief that what YHWH says is true despite our experience, reason, and earthly wisdom.

 

I am saved: what does that mean?

There are times when a word comes to have a meaning in our understanding that is not necessarily its definition. The church is not immune to this effect and at times it is even guilty of changing the meaning of words to suite its own desires. When these skewed definitions last through several generations they become at times so accepted that they are not questioned.

One such word used in the church is saved. The commonly accepted thought of such a word deals with a moment in our life when our destination changes from hell to heaven. This definition of salvation allows for us to live out our lives without any effectual manifestation of YHWH’s living through us.

Where did this thought of salvation being about our final destination come from? There was a time when the church as a whole was seduced by worldly power and control of men. This spiritual adultery against our spouse led to a bride that was both selfish and controlling of all in her household. As a form of control she taught her children that must obey her else her husband would punish them to death and throw them out of the household. She locked her spouse out of his own house and moved in her abusive lover who brought destruction to both her (corporate church) and her children (individuals in the church). The lasting results of this adultery are that the children began raising the children though they lacked the experience of being raised in their Fathers love without the lies of bitterness, fear and unbelief.

If a man is drowning and I through him a floatation device then leave him in the water with a promise that I will come get him later only a skewed thinking would conclude I had saved that man. If we consider a biblical example then let us look at the children of Israel in Egyptian bondage. At what point by our modern definition where they saved?

• At prayer for deliverance
• At Moses call
• At Passover exodus
• At Red Sea
• At Sinai
• At manifestation of manna
• At the healing of the waters
• At the water from the rock
• At the serpent on a pole
• At the crossing of the Jordon

YHWH is salvation at each and every point of His effectual manifestation to save. It is not a position of standing given for a future event but instead it is sleeves rolled up power working in our every moment.

When we see this as true then we are not destroyed for a lack of knowledge but instead we are filled with an expectant hope of faith in the Fathers salvation through Yeshua His Messiah. How different does the witness of the apostles look when our eyes open to the active life of YHWH in us?

Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. Acts 4:12

And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?  And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. Acts 16:30-31

 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. Romans 1:16

 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Romans 10:9-10

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. Ephesians 2:8-9

Some may say well that sounds good but from what I’ve seen YHWH does not always save us. It may be true that you have seen that but as a believer you don’t walk by sight.

The children of Israel didn’t walk in the wilderness for forty years as a matter of YHWH’s hate but instead by His longsuffering love He was teaching them to trust Him to do what He promised. Our salvation also is found in Abba moving us from agreeing He can or will do what He says to believing has and is doing what he says.

I have a peach tree in my back yard. From the moment the seed sprang forth it has been a peach tree but for years it produced no peaches. I pruned back the branches that were not needed and this year it produced the fruit by which it is named. While the older branches are the support of the tree the fruit only grows on new growth.

In a similar way our relationship in the Father is living, growing, and producing as YHWH gives the increase. If you have put your head down and determined to persevere till you reach heaven then I encourage you to look up and see that your salvation is not far away but is running at you full force to wrap you in His arms.