Submit God's way

Submit God's way is an excerpt from Peter: the common man's apostle.

Peter continues in chapter three to show us what true liberty is. True freedom is in the heart and produces free acts of submission.

In example of this we can see that Daniel was free to serve YHWH in prayer because He was free in His heart. He did not dishonor or disobey the Kings decree; for the decree was no man shall request of man or god other than the king under penalty of being turned over to the lions. If Daniel had closed all his windows and went into a hidden place in order to seem to obey the decree of the king it would have shown that he did not honor the king and that he was a slave for he could not do that which YHWH had placed in his heart. However Daniel was free for he submitted himself to YHWH openly and also by doing this thing publicly with no attempt to escape the kings decree he also showed that he was submitted to the king for YHWH’s sake.

In like manner Yeshua who knew it was not robbery to be equal with YHWH submitted Himself as a son to YHWH’s redemption giving Him the freedom to suffer arrest, judgment, shame, and death.

 Also Paul driven by the Spirit to Jerusalem forewarned by the same Spirit through his brethren what awaited him there was submitted to the work of YHWH living in him that when men placed him in chains his liberty confesses “I am the prisoner of Messiah”.

So Peter has said in chapter two we submit ourselves to the decree of rulers by submission to YHWH first; making us free in our actions to do the work of YHWH with no fear of becoming a slave to men.

Peter will now bring this liberty by submission closer to home, literally. We must remember that Peter is not speaking of men and woman but husbands and wives. In Messiah every believer is one with YHWH by the Spirit and so also one with each other. YHWH is no respecter of persons but when we speak of relationship there is a set order.

Peter encourages wives to submit to their own husband by first submitting to YHWH in order that just as Daniel by his meekness submitted to a king who did not believe in YHWH as the one true God. In the same way that Daniels submission served to show the king the love of Daniel and the glory and power of YHWH so even an unbelieving husband can be shown the love and faithfulness of YHWH by the humble and meek heart of a wife who by her liberty in Messiah submits to her husband.

Peter uses the example of Sarah. Since Sarah was seeking the will of YHWH then to call Abraham lord did not make her Abraham’s servant but instead an equal servant of YHWH. Consider that Eve was not made to be a servant of Adam but a helpmate and could not be less than Adam in any way because she was made from Adam; only when the two became one could the promise of YHWH’s redemption be brought to pass. In the same way the promise of the seed spoken to Abraham could not come to pass without the ministry of Sarah.

Of note when Sarah and Abraham tried to bring the promise to manifestation in a way that Sarah was not the means of delivery YHWH would not have it; for Abraham and Sarah where one and when YHWH made His promise to Abraham it was equally to Sarah.

If we understand this then we also can understand why Peter tells husbands to live with their wife in knowledge giving them honor for our wife is a minister of YHWH by which the support of the ministry He gives us comes.

If we consider her somehow less than us then we believe the life of Messiah in her and the work of YHWH done in and through her are unworthy and make ourselves the enemy of YHWH’s will and work in ourselves.

Peters conclusion of how our liberty is lived out  is that we would be one with each other, by compassion giving all that is in us for the good of others and love for one another as equal brethren in YHWH’s household. We are to bless even in the face of attack as our Master gave forth blessing by enduring through love the attack of those who hated Him without cause.

So if need be we suffer for good we show ourselves in fellowship with Him who suffered for us. Those who have become one with Him He has proclaimed as dead to fleshly motives and actions by himself going into the grave. In like manner when the Spirit resurrected Him death passed away from all who have His fellowship.

In the day of Noah all men who put their trust in the ways of men were buried in death beneath the flood; only the eight souls of Noah’s family put their trust in YHWH’s ways and His prepared salvation.

This is an image of our baptism into Yeshua for the water is not to wash the dirt from the body but to bury the ways and thoughts of man witnessing them as both dead and buried that we may trust in only Him by the resurrection of Messiah.

Peter's new and living way: pillars part 4

1 Peter 2

 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.  Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light; Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well. For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king. Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

  For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

 

For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:  Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.  For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

 

 

Having received this promise of life Peter continues in chapter 2 to say since YHWHH Himself has given us His own life in us. Since His life is in us He has determined to live out His will through you; sharing with you His own purpose and working.

Think of that your creator living His life through you sharing His works with you. Peters matter of fact delivery requires us to stop and meditate on the magnitude of the things he says.

Since we have this life in us let us lay aside the tools by which the self-life of our flesh attempted to accomplish its own promotion:  the desire to be established without regard to the cost to others, manipulating others by sly and cunning actions, acting in ways that do not reflect our heart in order to get what we want, discontent and ill desire towards others because of their position or possessions, and all speaking badly about others to the end we might look preferable to our hearers.

Instead as children born again by the Spirit let us desire to see only those things described and promised by the mouth of YHWH formed in us by the living way of Messiah abiding in us. It is YHWH’s life shared in Him living with no leaven of self will or action that shows us the express image of our Elohim and makes Him a living cornerstone of the building of YHWH. This same life abiding and living and working in us makes us also living stones set by our cornerstone to be the temple of YHWH.

In Yeshua we are made both a living house of the living God and the ministers of His workings through us for in our complete trust in His death to take away the death of Adam and complete reliance that in his burial we are buried in Him, and in our complete expectation of the Spirit that raised Him from that death and burial into life to make that very same life of the Spirit to be our life make us one with His acceptable sacrifice. Those things he has done are that we can walk in them and by His sacrifice we become a living sacrifice unto YHWH.

To us who have been shown the corruption and futility of dependence on the self this gift of YHWH’s life in us is precious beyond words but to those who are blinded by self-elevation, trust, and belief that we can be as God is by self-consecrated to knowledge of how to do good and shun evil (believing the same lie the first Adam died by) it is an offence to believe YHWH is our maker. Such people may say they were made by YHWH but then why do they exhibit pride and arrogance over that which they claim God has given them. Like Cain, Korah, and Balaam before them they are offended that God and man would not recognize their person.   

Peter says it plainly that we have been called from darkness into a marvelous light. That which is a foundation for us who believe is a stone that causes the blind to stumble. Our salvation can be understood as forgiveness by the blind but they cannot see we have been given freedom from that which we had once been bound.

It is this liberty that makes us able to submit to YHWH, to our brethren, to rulers of men as to that which is used of YHWH to keep the evil in men’s heart at bay. In all these things the life in us is supporting the shared life of YHWH but life cannot submit to death any more than light can submit to darkness. I can never submit to my brother in a work of the flesh.

If my brother is the open hand of YHWH then I can be used as the arm to help extend him, but if he acts as his own hand then I can have no part in it nor can I not be used of YHWH to rebuke. In the same way as Peter was rebuked by Paul though Paul had before submitted to the first apostles to ensure he had not run in vain.

Our mind may go to the question which apostle was more favored of YHWH but such a question is blind. YHWH is one and His favor is infinite to all who are one in Him…for this reason it is impossible for Him to have a more favored one. Everyone who is one with His life is highly favored of YHWH though He may not work through us in the same way.

For this reason Peter warns not to use YHWH’s liberty as a way to promote or defend the self of a man for that is death and separation. If we suffer for the things we do that are wrong then we are just living in the result of our actions.

 If we have done nothing wrong and are made to suffer hardship and our reaction is to defend ourselves and demand fairness and what our good acts deserve then we are witnesses of the self and separated from the oneness of YHWH. If we allow self to remain crucified in Messiah and continue depending on the Spirit to live through us then we are one in fellowship with the Father and the Son for both have allowed men to buffet them with violent intent and lies to the longsuffering and forbearing end that some may be saved.

You are no longer alone but now you have been made one.

Peter's gospel: pillars part 3

1 Peter 1: 10-25

10 Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:

11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.

12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.

13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;

16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:

18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

When the modern church speaks of salvation more often than not they consider our salvation to be from hell, or punishment, or judgment. The scripture speaks of a tangible salvation from death and sin. Consider what death is and when men truly die. YHWH in speaking to Adam said “for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” yet we are told after the loss of Eden Adam lived nine hundred and thirty years and died. How can these things be reconciled?

The scripture warns us not to judge after the flesh and again Yeshua says the kingdom of YHWH is not with observation; if we look at death as when a man stops with physical activity then we have done exactly that. Death is a separation from the one shared life of YHWH in us; for YHWH breathed into Adam and he became a living soul.

When did Adam loose this shared life? In the very day and moment He decided to become a self-generator of His life. The idea of a zombie is popular in these times in which we live, a body of corruption and death yet still animated. So Adam became: he still walked but not as he had been designed, he still spoke but without understanding, he still ate but received no nourishment, and in Adams case he reproduced but only corrupt self-generating children.

Yeshua said He was the root or vine and we who receive His life by faith are the branches; the life in Him by the Spirit is manifested in us and brings forth fruit of that Spirit. If we look at this similitude and apply it to Adam then we see that the death of the self-life he took passed into His branches, all those born of his flesh, bringing forth a fruit of sin.

If we try to remove the fruit without destroying the root the plant actually flourishes. Many believe we are born with the penalty of this fruit within us but the problem is deeper. We are born in Adams image of being a self and therefore dead to the end that the same fruit is produced in us. This is the condition of every man born of the seed of a man.

YHWH did not leave us as orphans with no hope but instead He gave to Adam a promise of the expectancy of a savior who would bring redemption from the death of self into oneness with YHWH once more. This promise kept as the hope of the patriarchs from generation to generation began at Moses to be seen with greater detail.

This is the salvation that the prophets spoke of and desired to see both who He was and of the new covenant that went beyond describing life and would bring life into the hearts of men. Peter concludes that these things revealed and sought after by the prophets had been given to those who heard the message of Messiah and been made to partake of the breath of YHWH (Spirit) once more breathed into men making us a living soul.

Seeing that this life has been breathed into us let us no more place any trust in the self to generate who we are but instead  let our full reliance be on the grace (gift of the breath of YHWH abiding in us). As YHWH is separated from sin and death of mans ways so those with His life must be separated from every hint of the self.

For our redemption does not come from any corruptible source of the earth or man but from the pure blood of Yeshua. We see that YHWH’s redemption was before the fall for YHWH rested from all His work and made the promise that He was coming from the beginning.

This redemption is not to one day be released but is manifested now in Messiah. So let our full dependence and expectancy be toward the birth anf living of YHWH in us not with any remnant of trust in the corrupt excistance of Adam which is crucified with Messiah that we may live unto YHWH.

As Peter concludes all flesh is grass but the Word is eternal so the life of the flesh is bound to die but the life of the Spirit shall last forever

 

Peter common man's apostle: pillars part 2

1 Peter 1: 1-25

 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father,

 through sanctification of the Spirit,

 unto obedience

and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ:

 Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ

, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again

 unto a lively hope

 by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away,

 reserved in heaven for you,

Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

 

 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: Receiving the end of your faith,  the salvation of souls.

 

 

Peter says of Paul that He teaches from a wisdom given of YHWH that by faith with patience is salvation obtained both now and forever. Those who have not learned that Yeshua  the Messiah is life, He is the power of YHWH, He is love, He is righteousness, He is wisdom, He is knowledge of YHWH, He is truth, He is the resurection, He is walking in YHWH’s will, He is prosperity, He is peace, He is forgivness, He is holiness, He is sanctification, He is faith, He is the work of YHWH, He is the son of YHWH and the children, He is the temple, He is the creation, He is the garden, He is the fruit of the tree of life, He is Adams covering, He is the voice of Abel’s blood, He is Enoch’s translation, He is Noah’s  arc, He is Abrams call, He is Abrahams promise, He is Isaac’s blessing, He is Jacobs conqueror and His new name, He is the twelves reunion and supplier, He is the drawing out of Moses, the burning bush, the rod, the water becoming blood, the cleansing of leprosy, the plagues of Egypt, the Passover lamb, the red sea washing away the power of Egypt, the burning fire on Sinai, He is the law and the statutes and the ordinances, He is Moses’s grave, He is Joshua’s captain, He is the promised land, He is the inheritance, He is the kingdom, He is the temple, He is the beginning and the end, He is everything those who don’t know this struggle to add Him to these things.

Paul and Peter and all true ministers of YHWH’s grace have this same message but the way they deliver it is at times different. While James may focus on the living of Him in our day to day, Jude warns of trying any other way is separation, John speaks of the perpetual energy of His love both in and through us, Paul analytically shows from scripture He is the power source of His life living in us, but Peter simply states the facts of who He is and who we are as one with Him.

In example if we walked into a dark room and said we could not see…James tells us we must have a light on or we will never see,  John would tell us of how electricity is the way that a light becomes illuminated, Jude would warn that if not given its proper respect electricity can kill us, Paul would tell us how electricity is generated and travels and how it causes a light bulb to be illuminated, Peter would say the switch is on the wall. Now if our life and understanding depend on that light then everything  the apostles tell us is of the utmost importance, but it should be evident why we might want to start with Peter.

So though men struggle to understand Paul and come to conclusions that often require them to act as though he only said half of what he said with Peter much of what He said is simply missed, ignored, or repeated without real consideration.

In the first five verses of the first chapter of his first epistle he states as fact the following doctrines: election, foreknowledge, God our generator and maker, sanctification by the Spirit bringing forth obedience, the blood of Yeshua making us YHWHs consecrated temple, Messiah as born directly from YHWH, the rebirth of we who were born of Adam into YHWH, a living expectation of death passing away by resurrection of the living first fruit, that Yeshua has made us living partakers of an inheritance in Heaven (YHWHs life), the grace of YHWH’s being by trust reliance and expectation bringing us salvation to our manifestation as His children.

Peter in not a debater, he does not explain why you should believe him, he simply states the facts. This is not to say he does not explain anything as we will see in verse 6-9.

Wherein ye greatly rejoice

These things listed known as truth bring us great joy in our heart towards Yeshua who has delivered these things from our Abba into us by Their abiding life.

though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire

Those who wrestle to understand the scripture will often say if your faith is right you will not suffer sickness or lack or stress or fear or failure. Such an understanding seems to miss the obvious that one who has no sickness cannot be healed, if we are not chastised we cannot trust Him for peace, if our heart is not impure we cannot depend on Him to give us a clean heart, if that which transgresses brings no torment we will not rely on His forgiveness. Yeshua told those who were so sure YHWH respected who they were above common sinners that sought Him that those who were well had no need for Him.

I have also heard it said trials are a sign of a lack of faith. I am about to say something that all should know. Our Master is called a refiners soap and over and over the wheat is beaten to separate what is food from what is trash, gold and silver are not made pure without melting them to a point so hot that every impurity is burned away, clay is not usable unless it is made loose, screened, left to evaporate, then shaped then placed in the fire that they can hold that shape. No trials show a presence of faith that is being perfected.

Why does Peter say temptation instead of trial; because trials come from the outside and cause temptation on the inside but temptations can come directly from within also? Every temptation whether from fear, or frustration, or wrong desire, or outward trials has one purpose to make us stop trusting the life of Yeshua and the Father by their Spirit in us and drive us to lean on the self.

Why do we think the scripture says YHWH chastises those He loves? It is that all trust and reliance on the Adamic inheritance will be taken away we can fully live in the inheritance of our brother the only begotten of YHWH. Whose inheritance is the household of His Father who has adopted us as sons.

If you claim that by your perfected faith you have no suffering then you make Peter a liar or else you witness that YHWH is not your Father.

might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: Receiving the end of your faith,  the salvation of souls.

It is as your faith is pulled pressured and provoked you come to purified faith which trusts only in YHWH and by such are preserved. For in the birth of a Son does YHWH accept praise and claim His own glory as our Father. We are hidden in the womb of the life of Messiah in and through us being made in Him as one. This is our joy that we cannot put into words; for the result of our faith in Him is that everything not of Him is purged from us.

Living in the living temple of our Father: pillars part 1

Galatians 2:9

And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.

Psalm 118:22

The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone;

Isaiah 28:16

So this is what the Sovereign LORD says: "See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who relies on it will never be stricken with panic.

Zechariah 10:4

From Judah will come the cornerstone, from him the tent peg, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler.

Matthew 16:18

And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.

Luke 20:17

Jesus looked directly at them and asked, "Then what is the meaning of that which is written: "'The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone'?

1 Corinthians 3:9-11

For we are co-workers in God's service; you are God's field, God's building. By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should build with care. For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 2:6

For in Scripture it says: "See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame."

Revelation 21:14

The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

Matthew 5: 17-20

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

 John 5: 46

46For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.47But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?

Ephesians 2:19-22

 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

1 Corinthians 3:16

Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in your midst?

Ephesians 4:15

Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.

Colossians 2:19

They have lost connection with the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.

1 Timothy 3:15

if I am delayed, you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God's household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

 

 

 

Yeshua is the living temple of YHWH and by faith we are in Him as He is in us. This oneness and the fact that both Messiah and the Father abide in us by their Spirit make us also the temple of YHWH.

This is not a allegory that I have designed but the Lord and His witnesses, the apostles, have over and over set this before us.  A temple is not built as a house of cards with rooms formed by the whim of human builders who seldom have any idea about what is required to design a building that stands properly.

The measures and ways of the temples of stone and wood and gold recorded in scripture are not there to awe us or even to give us a design to rebuild them; they are a lesson that when the living temple would come we could know and understand Him and the life He is in us.

In construction there is an order in which things must be put together. Imagine what would happen to a temple roof built directly on the earth. Could it hold its form over weeks, seasons, years, decades, and centuries; or would it lose its cohesiveness and become separated, with some parts buried in the earth, others lying in shambles, with only glimpses of the beauty it was intended to have.

Is this not a fitting picture of the modern body of Messiah? The beauty of Yeshuas message through the apostle Paul was intended as the crown of His living temple in us, but men decided there was no need for pillars, no need of a foundation, and though they claim Christ if you take away the foundation there is no corner stone. Instead they tried to place the crown on the clay of earthen ways and cast away all else. The result is a message that was not Paul’s message but is the darkest and most binding teaching ever called a gospel.

It preaches a powerless Christ who loves you but just cannot take away your sin. He paid your debt from a God who would torture his own son to extract his vengeance and appease His wrath so that this Father would not later kill you. We conclude that the world just cannot understand this.

The true gospel teaches a Father who loved us though we had died by separating ourselves from Him and tried to steal, kill, and destroy His place as our maker. A messiah who took death on himself that He could destroy your sin and separation and give you a life shared in Him. Who neither forces you to desire Him as a stalker would or forces you to be one with Him as a rapist would but instead by patience, forbearing, longsuffering, kindness, and love brings you into trust, desire, and a love that surrenders itself to Him.

So in what way is a proper living temple of YHWH formed in us?

There is a foundation; this is Moses and the prophets with Yeshua as the cornerstone. The cornerstone is a part of the foundation but the foundation is formed by it. The cornerstone is the straight stone. Some teach the foundation determined the straightness of Yeshua but this is contrary. The cornerstone teaches what is straight in the horizontal width and length, and the vertical that is placed on that foundation.

Moses and the prophets witnessed of Yeshua not the other way around meaning what was written was determined by the living Messiah not the reverse.

The strength of a foundation supports the crown (roof) by the means of pillars. The Spirit tells of Paul being a wise master builder and who by the Spirit does this builder say are the pillars? The authors of the general epistles…Peter, James, John, and Jude are that which bring the strength of the foundation upward to the heavens where the writings of Paul rest.

Men desiring to make merchandise of men’s souls have tried to highjack the covenant that Yeshua established with Israel and grafted us into as something that is not Jewish. The Jews did not bring forth Messiah, but the seed brought forth the nation. They are His womb, He is their Father would he dishonor His mother and Father and cast them off is YHWH a hypocrite. NO

The scripture shows the importance of these epistles, regardless of men’s opinion, and so I would endeavor to bring to you a general overview of these writings.

In feel YHWH leading me to this so I will lean to His ability to speak through His children His words. I say that because there is so much understanding to be had from these relatively short epistles that I fear making short post will miss something.

Yet even as I write this the Spirit puts me to remembrance fear not only believe.