Isaiah 49:6 ... I will also give You as a light to the Gentiles, that You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth.

 



















 


ARE YOU A "NEW TESTAMENT" CHRISTIAN?


Be very careful how you answer this question. Stop and think.

We have all read mystery novels. Have you ever read the last one third of a novel or seen the last 45 minutes of a movie and then decided you KNOW the book or the movie? I think we have all made decisions by getting partial information and then later, realizing we did not have the whole picture. We had formed our opinion on just one part of the whole picture.

Many times in our lives we make decisions based on part of the information or truth. Later when we learn there is more to the facts, we change our thoughts.

If you watched the continuous news coverage of the Hurricane Katrina in the USA, or if you watch any live news event, you hear the newscasters changing their own opinions and judgments. This was very prevalent during Katrina. All the newscasters were asking, "Where is the federal government? Why are they letting these people suffer?" Later as things began to become clear, the whole story came out. The local government waited too long to ask for help, the local governments allowed buses to be parked and flooded that could have been used to transport people away from the area. This is just an example of thinking that you "know" the truth.

The truth is there but the facts need to be seen in their entirety.

Many people are preached to every week in congregations all over the world that the "law" is done away with. You are not under the law any more. Many congregations do not even study the "old Testament" because they believe the lie that it was done away with. It is only used in an out of context manner to "prove" someone's "out of context" teaching from the "New Testament"

There is no "new testament" there is ONE book, the Bible, God's WORD, from beginning to end.

Remember, the law can not save you, it can only point to salvation but it is still relevant today and everyday.  With out the law we are "lawless"

Malachi 3:6  For I am the LORD, I change not..

2 Kings 17:37  And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods.

Proverbs 7:2  Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

Matthew 5:17  Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

Proverbs 28:9  He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.

We must remember that Yeshua, being Jewish (of the tribe of Judah) walked in the Words of His Father all the days of His life. He walked, talked, ate, slept and breathed the law with everything He did. He would not teach us to do anything different.

Every Word He spoke came from the Father and those where the Words He learned as He went to worship and learn in congregation each and every Shabbat. Each and every 7th day of the week.

Luke 16:17  And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.

Just by studying the last part of the Bible you can not possibly understand the whole Word of God. Remember, there was no written Gospel till much later. When Yeshua preached, He spoke to men and women who had been studying God's Word their whole lives. He did not have to start from the beginning to teach. So much of what He said at that point was for those who knew already the WORD. We have to start as beginners and go back and learn what every man, woman and child knew in the days He preached.

We have to accept that God does not change and every Word He gave us is for us. We do not have the right to pick and chose which Words we want to follow. The road is narrower and rockier, the door is much smaller than we think and when we get to the door, our key must be able to unlock the door.

We do not want to arrive at the end of our journey and find out the door will not open, for then it is too late.

Listen: Acts 13:47  For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.

Acts 13:48  And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.

Romans 2:13  For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

Romans 3:29-31  Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

Deuteronomy 4:2  Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

Deuteronomy 12:32  What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

Proverbs 30:6  Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

Are we learning things that are added to His Word or are learning to diminish God's Word?  This is forbidden by God. Yeshua, His Son did not do that and we may not either. It time for you to do some MAJOR re-thinking. Is it time for you to walk HIS road and not the wide, comfortable road we are offered everyday that leads us away from Him and our place in Eternity?

Matthew 7:14  Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Understand, without the sacrifice of Yeshua we could not be close to God because no matter how hard we try, we can not gain salvation through works or following the Word, the Law, because we are not that strong enough in ourselves. The Lord, our Father, gave us the sacrificial system to cleanse ourselves and He gave us in His love and mercy the greatest sacrifice of all, His Son, our Savior because by reaching out to Him we can be cleansed through HIS blood as the last sacrificial lamb every needed.

If you are following only the "New Testament" you are not receiving the total understanding you need. It is like trying to water a garden with a watering can. You may get some water here and there and you may get something to grow but it will never grow the same as if you gave the garden it's full amount of water from the well.

Open up and allow the root of the olive tree to send you your full portion of living waters for only with the full portion can you have full understanding and blossom to walk properly with Yeshua and draw close to our Father and for Yeshua to say to you Matthew 25:21   ..., Well done, thou good and faithful servant ..

Do as instructed

Acts 15:20  But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

And just as important but never quoted by "new Testament" believers

Acts 15:21  For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.

Blessings

Paul Sherbow
 

 










 

 

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