Repentance and Obedience Made Lasting
What will it take for us to finally see our purpose in Yahweh’s plan? Will the end time troubles which are prophesied to come upon us really cause any lasting repentance and how will our Israelite nations ever fulfil our responsibility and destiny as Yahweh’s servant people if we have not been able to do so in the past? How will we ever be expected to implement, administer and obey Yahweh’s perfect laws if we have always failed in the past?
Even after witnessing the most miraculous of miracles and being given the most favourable of conditions, including every possible help, assistance and blessing we have always quickly slid back into sin and disobedience. Despite being given the most dazzling inducements for obedience on the one hand and the most terrible punishments on the other if we did not obey did little to stir our love and obedience!
The truth is the whole direction of a man’s action is always determined by his will and man’s very nature is sinful. How then is it possible to change a man’s will so he desires to do what is right regardless of the consequences? How will he be changed so he desires his neighbour’s good rather than his own? Is there any hope?
The only remedy and hope for us and the rest of the world then must be in the power of Yahweh to change our hearts so our whole being desires to do good so we can at last fulfil the greatest commandments. To “love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind…And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” (Matt 22:37-39).
In our own strength we can achieve nothing and have little hope of ever achieving His standard of love and conduct. What hope is there apart from Christ, for He alone is our Savour and our only possibility of forgiveness, reconciliation and redemption?
“All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and Yahweh hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.” (Isa 53:6) “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.” (Isa 53:4-5) “for he shall bear their iniquities.” (Isa 53:11) “He shall save His people from their sins.” (Matt 1:21) After the death and resurrection of Christ, Peter to Israel “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.” (1 Peter 2:24)
Yes, having been forgiven and healed we were now to “live unto righteousness”, but again how? Thankfully in the hour Yahshua died for our sins, that we might be forgiven and be reconciled, a new covenant was also ratified by His blood as He had spoken of the night before “This is the New Covenant in my blood.” His very words in direct confirmation of the promise made through Jeremiah when Israel was already in captivity and Judah about to enter theirs.
“Behold, the days come, saith Yahweh, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith Yahweh: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith Yahweh, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.” (Jer 31:32-33)
What is this but the ‘will’ to do what is right and good! No longer will the law need to be imposed from without, a standard which man impossibly strives for, but rather Yahweh’s perfect law put “in their inward parts” and written “in their hearts”. Think of the command “to love thy neighbour as thyself”. Suppose the love for our neighbour was as deep in our hearts and as natural as our love for our mother and father or child? No longer driven by selfishness, lust and greed, rather with “a new spirit” and “heart of flesh” He will cause us to “walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them“.
“For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.” (Ez 36:24-28)
What a wonderful hope we have when He finally puts a new heart and spirit within us that will cause not only us, but the entire nation to walk according to His statutes and judgements!
For more answers continue reading:
His Good and Perfect Laws
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Even after witnessing the most miraculous of miracles and being given the most favourable of conditions, including every possible help, assistance and blessing we have always quickly slid back into sin and disobedience. Despite being given the most dazzling inducements for obedience on the one hand and the most terrible punishments on the other if we did not obey did little to stir our love and obedience!
The truth is the whole direction of a man’s action is always determined by his will and man’s very nature is sinful. How then is it possible to change a man’s will so he desires to do what is right regardless of the consequences? How will he be changed so he desires his neighbour’s good rather than his own? Is there any hope?
The only remedy and hope for us and the rest of the world then must be in the power of Yahweh to change our hearts so our whole being desires to do good so we can at last fulfil the greatest commandments. To “love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind…And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” (Matt 22:37-39).
In our own strength we can achieve nothing and have little hope of ever achieving His standard of love and conduct. What hope is there apart from Christ, for He alone is our Savour and our only possibility of forgiveness, reconciliation and redemption?
“All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and Yahweh hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.” (Isa 53:6) “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.” (Isa 53:4-5) “for he shall bear their iniquities.” (Isa 53:11) “He shall save His people from their sins.” (Matt 1:21) After the death and resurrection of Christ, Peter to Israel “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.” (1 Peter 2:24)
Yes, having been forgiven and healed we were now to “live unto righteousness”, but again how? Thankfully in the hour Yahshua died for our sins, that we might be forgiven and be reconciled, a new covenant was also ratified by His blood as He had spoken of the night before “This is the New Covenant in my blood.” His very words in direct confirmation of the promise made through Jeremiah when Israel was already in captivity and Judah about to enter theirs.
“Behold, the days come, saith Yahweh, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith Yahweh: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith Yahweh, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.” (Jer 31:32-33)
What is this but the ‘will’ to do what is right and good! No longer will the law need to be imposed from without, a standard which man impossibly strives for, but rather Yahweh’s perfect law put “in their inward parts” and written “in their hearts”. Think of the command “to love thy neighbour as thyself”. Suppose the love for our neighbour was as deep in our hearts and as natural as our love for our mother and father or child? No longer driven by selfishness, lust and greed, rather with “a new spirit” and “heart of flesh” He will cause us to “walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them“.
“For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.” (Ez 36:24-28)
What a wonderful hope we have when He finally puts a new heart and spirit within us that will cause not only us, but the entire nation to walk according to His statutes and judgements!
For more answers continue reading:
His Good and Perfect Laws
Keywords: british, repent, believe, faith, god, yahweh, yahshua, jesus, gospel, kingdom, truth, true, Anglo, Saxon, Celts, Celtic, Israel, Israelites, Britain, america, canada, people, nation, plan, purpose, destiny, australia, new zealand