Battle for the minds of men

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Why haven’t the commandments been viewed as Yeshua did and say there is two...

First commandment - Love God with all your heart and here is how...

Ex 20:6 I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 7'You shall have no other gods before Me. 8'You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. 9'You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, 10but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments. - You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain. - Observe the sabbath day to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you. 13'Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 14but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant or your ox or your donkey or any of your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you, so that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. 15'You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to observe the sabbath day.

Second commandment is love your neighbor and here is how...

- Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, that your days may be prolonged and that it may go well with you on the land which the LORD your God gives you. - You shall not murder. - You shall not commit adultery. - You shall not steal. - You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. - You shall not covet your neighbor's wife - You shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field or his male servant or his female servant, his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor. These Ten Commandments are really the sacred vows of the Bride and Groom.

 

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Our God is sacred and we should worship only Him. Our God's being is sacred and we are not to make any likeness of Him. Our God's name is sacred, we should be very careful when we bring His name up and conscious that we have His attention every time we do say His name. Our God's time is sacred and He has set a time aside to meet with us.

Our God hold the family as sacred and we are to honor the order and sacredness of it. Our God considers the truth sacred and we are to not tell lies. Our God holds our life as sacred and we are not to kill or murder another's life. Our God holds the marriage relationship as sacred and we are not to allow anyone to take it apart or separate us from our mate for any reason. Our God declares that the gifts of talents, property, family, relationships, etc He has given us as sacred trusts and they are not to be taken away from us nor should anyone want what another has.
Is a committment to a marriage found in the ring on the finger, the vows before the whole congregation, or what is in the heart? Same with those who are committed to following God, follow His Ways in the same self-sacrificing nature. It is love that makes it real, and it must come from the heart. Any comittment we make on paper is not worth the paper it is written on if there is not a heart felt commintment. That is why God moved the very nature of Himself [foundation of the old law] to our hearts.

He who gave Eve to Adam as a helpmeet also performed His first miracle at a marriage festival. Thus He sanctioned the sacredness of marriage, recognizing it as an institution that He Himself had established. He ordained that men and women should be united in holy wedlock living a life that is sacred in its union.

 

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Christ honored the marriage relation by making it also a symbol of the union between Him and His redeemed ones. He Himself is the Bridegroom; the bride is the church, of which, as His chosen one, He says, "Thou art all fair, My love; there is no spot in thee." The family tie is the closest, the most tender and sacred, of any on earth. It was designed to be a blessing to mankind. And it is a blessing wherever the marriage covenant is entered into.
Those who are contemplating marriage should consider what will be the character and influence of the home they are founding. As they become parents, a sacred trust by God is committed to them. Upon them depends in a great measure the well-being of their children in this world, and their happiness in the world to come. To a great extent they determine both the physical and the moral stamp that the little ones receive. And upon the character of the home depends the condition of society; the weight of each family's influence will tell in the upward or the downward scale. Educating our young ones in these sacred trusts will go a long ways in a better world for them to live in.

 

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What is love? Most people think of love as a strong emotional feeling toward another person. And to some extent that's true. However, the "love" most often spoken of in the Bible is an outgoing concern for others as demonstrated by our actions. Demonstrated by our actions, it is far greater and more meaningful than any mere feelings. Scripture tells us that "God is love", and His laws, particularly as summarized in the Ten Commandments, show us the actions that demonstrate love toward others and first is toward God (as expressed in the first four of the Ten Commandments), and then toward our fellow man (as expressed in the last six). What a sacred privilege to be obedient to the God you love. Name the greatest commandment.... The sacred ten summed up by Yeshua

Matt 22:37-40 "‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets"

 

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Let us honor the sacredness that God has for us. These are the sacred vows that we as the Bride of Yeshua will vow. That explains why the Law is Holy.. That which is Holy and Sacred. We honor the Father as the Son asked us to.. We honor the Laws that are not changed as the Son indicated would not change until heaven and earth pass away.

They are part of God's sacred and His Holy institution. Do you believe God made inferior Laws? That would indicate that He is also inferior. I think not. I believe He is as sacred as His Laws and they should not be considered inferior by any created being. The sacredness of each Law is unique and has aspects that affect the Holiness of our own lives. “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me.”

 

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God is our only hope, He is the One true God, He loves us with devoted attention. He is the only one in the whole universe that is the Creator and Redeemer. The devotion He deserves from us is undivided, focused and very sacred relationship.

Today we look to be set free from the spiritual Egypt that holds us captive, like slaves. We are slaves to the economic governing system, to the financial world that puts the bread and butter on our table, to the monetary system that dictates what we owe and to whom. All the great patriarchs were owners of their businesses, and I think it is a sacred honor to have the Lord help us get out of spiritual Egypt, out of debt, and self sufficient in our own business which He can bless.

If God has redeemed you from your life of sin then you have a relationship with Him. Chances are you have made a sacred covenant with Him. In a sense, the authority of God is being rooted in the fact that he has helped you in the past. You owe Him in a big way and this sacred Law is intended to help you see that you don’t forget that relationship commitment.

 

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God defeated your former master, the tendency to sin, forgiving your sins and with His robe of righteousness covering you with love that you do not deserve. We, all, should acknowledge our indebtedness to God and accept the covenant he would make with us as sacred, and something no man can take away from us. Those who reverence the commandments of God as sacred, meditate on why God has chosen those commandments, what is required to be in obedience to His Kingdom, and after light has been given them, obey it without questioning the feasibility or convenience of such obedience. After all, God made man in His own image, He knows what we will encounter, and He will cover us in our obedience to Him.

“My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not [do not break one of God's sacred laws]. And if any man sin [breaks one of God's sacred laws], we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:”

 

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Meditate and live accordingly and the blessings will follow. As Paul said, “For I delight in the law of God after the inward man.”

Psalm 94:20 asks, concerning God's involvement with your life "Shall the throne of iniquity, which devises evil by law, have fellowship with you?" Of course, we know the answer. God cannot abide iniquity and we who are His children should not be a part of any evil [against God's law].
Sacredness of the Law is vital to the sacred life in Christ. Paul describes this current generation as men who have rejected God's will and supplanted it with gross idolatry and how they have become lovers of themselves, exalting the creation and their desires above the Creator.

Thou shalt have no other God before me. You can put anything that hold a valued position in your heart in the place of word “mammon” and it is still true, nothing should be above God. God's position is number one and that is a sacred position that is not to be touched or replaced. The Love He gives us, we should return to Him like a sacred trust. Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

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One of the reasons for holding His Law as sacred and not something to discard is because mankind is pursuing its own course for the present, human nature desires to remake all of God's institutions in its own image.

Another Law of God is all about marriage and family and are the very foundations of any healthy society and are a part of God's sacred Law. These two bedrocks of civilization are found in "honoring your mother and father" and "thou shalt not commit adultery' but today it is slowly being dismantled before our eyes. When these foundations, which God formed in righteousness, are being weakened further and it will prepare for a different foundation, one formed in unrighteousness to support the coming of the lawless one, the son of perdition, as II Thessalonians 2:3-10 foretells. The subject of the sacredness of God's laws is reflected in the marriage institution.

 

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God enacted the first sacred foundation for mankind relationship with one another when "And the Lord God said, 'It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.'" God sanctifies and makes Adam's relationship with Eve sacred by declaring that the two would be joined together as one flesh, that a man and his wife should leave mother and father, cling to each other, and become their own family unit. In other words, marriage was a sacred institution defined by God as a joining of one man and one woman.

A covenant is the contract of the two parties and is the relationship in which they work together. In the old covenant the fault lies with them so God's solution was move God's sacred laws written on stone into everyone's heart thus have a new covenant relationship with His people. What a sacred moment that was. The greatest expression of God can give is life. It is a new spiritual life in Him. Life is in the Blood. If you go to the lawyer today and tell him that you want a covenant drawn up for a relationship between you and someone else. The lawyer is going to write down the roles both parties are to uphold in this relationship. Same goes with God and man.

 

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God moved His Law from being just on stone to into the heart of the believer creating a new covenant relationship with His Holy Spirit playing a more active role in this new relationship. So that it is not us but His Spirit in us that keeps the covenant relationship with Him. His sacred law remains unchanged but moved into the heart of the believer for it to be lived out in faith.

 

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Like I said before it is not the sacred Ten Commandments that have changed other than their location. God has moved them from stone into the believer's hear to help with their transformation. "Teacher, what good deed must I do, to have eternal life?" To the young man who asked this question, Yeshua answers first by invoking the necessity to recognize God as "The One who is good," as the supreme God and the source of all good. Then Yeshua then goes on to tell him: "If you would enter life, keep the commandments."

The Ten Commandments have been written on tables of stone and kept in the Ark of the Covenant of the heavenly sanctuary as well as on tables of stone and preserved in the Ark of the Covenant on earth. Just think the sacred law of God written by the finger of God. Not many times can it be said that God wrote something down.

Those who, by faith enter into the Most Holy with Yeshua as their High Priest, before the Father's throne and behold the ark and the mercy seat, I am sure will be captivated by the glory of not only the Father's and Son's but also His Laws.
I will say that the sacredness of the Ten Commandments will be again revealed in a more physical manner just like they were when Moses presented them. God has not altered the thing which has gone out of His lips. His word will stand fast forever, as unalterable as His throne. When every case is decided in the courts of heaven, this covenant will be brought forth, plainly written with the finger of God. The world will be arraigned before the bar of Infinite Justice to receive sentence. It will either be a life measuring with the life of God for obedience, and death for transgression.

 

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With His own finger God wrote His sacred Holy commandments on two tables of stone. These tables were not left in the keeping of men, but were placed in the ark; and in the great day when every case is decided, these tables, inscribed with His Royal Sacred Holy Ten Commandments will be placed so that all the world will see and understand. The witness against them will be unanswerable, that is what I believe will come to pass on Feast of Trumpets when the books of people's lives will be opened up to them. They will have ten last days before the Day of Atonement is made and once that is finished, the book on their lives will be closed. The Heavenly Sanctuary service where Yeshua has been ministering on your behalf will be over, and He will lay down His Priestly robe and put on His King of King garments and come for us.

The holy sacred law of the ten commandments, written on tables of stone by the finger of God, and placed in the ark, is the standard of righteousness by which God uses to judge people.

 

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Before the obedient and the disobedient it will appear in the last great day, and all the wicked will be convicted. Because it is only fair that the Law be brought forth so that people will know by what standard they will be judged by.

They will see that their actions proceeded from a depraved character. They will see that the part they acted served to carry on the rebellion begun in the heavenly courts. They will see all the cruelty and all the wickedness that have dishonored their Creator and brought about the wretchedness that fills the world. Then we will all see the sacredness of His commandments and how they set the standard of righteousness that all men can obey.

God calls Himself "I am who I am"; in other words God claims by His holy name that He exists. Yeshua also says I am the Life and "before Abraham I AM". To separate the Father from the Son as two different identities and purposes is trying to break a sacred trust the Father has with the Son and the Son has with the Father.

The great I AM that was before Abraham, led Moses to Mount Sinai, and declared before the people in the first century is Yeshua. He didn't lie, it has been Him all along who is God.

The cross of Yeshua testifies to the sinner that the law is not changed to meet the sinner in his sins. Yeshua made an offering of Himself that the transgressors of the law might have an opportunity to repent. Yeshua bore the sins of every transgressor so the sinner who will not believe in Yeshua as his personal Saviour, can come to Him, forgiven, and can start a new life.

Those reject the light that comes to him, and refuses to respect and obey His commandments, those you know as the commandments of God, will find themselves in a difficult position when Yeshua takes His seat as the judge, and makes judgements based on these very sacred Laws and using Paul’s words will not be much help then. Like Paul, I too, struggled with the knowing and doing. God is right; His Laws are righteous. As I clearly outlined the whole Law was written in stone and spoken from Mount Sinai by the voice of God Himself. That what was written on parchment is the covenant relationship. That is the old covenant that Yeshua fulfilled when He became the Lamb of God to take away the sins of the world at the cross. The new covenant relationship is in Him. Doesn't change or move or do away with the actual sacred Ten.

 

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A young ruler came running to Yeshua, and kneeling, reverently saluted Him. "Good Master," he said, "what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?" Do you know what Yeshua's answer was? "If thou wilt enter into life," He added, "keep the commandments." The character of God is expressed in His law; and in order for you to be in harmony with God, the principles of His law must be the spring of your every action. Now put Paul's writings in harmony with Yeshua and you will see what I am saying.

Let's follow the conversation further. Yeshua does not lessen the claims of the law. In unmistakable language He presents obedience to it as the condition of eternal life. It is the same condition that was required of Adam before his fall. The Lord expects no less of the soul now than He expected of man in Paradise, perfect obedience, unblemished righteousness. The requirement under the covenant of grace is just as broad as the requirement made in Eden. And that is harmony with God's law, which is holy, just, and good.

To the words, "Keep the commandments," the young man answered, "Which?" He supposed that some ceremonial precept was meant, but Christ was speaking of the law given from Sinai. He mentioned several commandments from the second table of the Sacred Laws of God, then summed them all up in the precept, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

The young man answered without hesitation, "All these things have I kept from my youth up; what lack I yet?" His conception of the law was external and superficial which is where many fail to understand even today. Judged by a human standard, he had preserved an unblemished character. To a great degree his outward life had been free from guilt; he verily thought that his obedience had been without a flaw. Yet he had a secret fear that all was not right between his soul and God. This prompted the question, "What lack I yet?"

"If thou wilt be perfect," Christ said, "go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come and follow Me. But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful; for he had great possessions."

The lover of self is a transgressor of the law. Yeshua, I am sure, desired to reveal to the young man the true motives of his behavior, and He gave him a test that would make manifest the selfishness of his heart. He showed him the plague spot in his character but the young man desired no further enlightenment. He had cherished an idol in the soul; the world and mannon was his god. He professed to have kept the commandments, but he was destitute of the principle which is the very spirit and life of them all. He did not possess true love for God or man. In his love of self and worldly gain he was out of harmony with the principles of heaven.. Which was another way of saying he did not love his neighbor enough. Selfishness ruled in the heart. So it is today, your outward behavior fools no one and especially not God.

 

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Why does God want our focus to be on Him? "Do not make an image or any likeness of what is in the heavens above..."

This prohibits the construction or fashioning of "idols" in the likeness of created things (beasts, fish, birds, and people) and worshipping them. It also prohibits making an image of for use in worship. The sacredness of this focus can be seen in prayer, in reading of His Word and meditating upon it before Him. It is the dedication of the mind, heart and soul to serve Him. It is the high esteem we hold God's Word as a director in our life, that we may live in a way that is pleasing to Him. It is also holding God accountable for His part of the covenant relationship. No man shall take God away from us for it is a sacred relationship. No poor image substitute shall serve as a description or visual of what God is. God is infinitely more than our finite minds can comprehend and we need to have more faith in Him. He will gives us our daily bread in wisdom, understanding, and spiritual growth.

May we not look to anything man's hands can create as an example of God.

 

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The death of Yeshua on the cross was to be the convincing, everlasting argument that the law of God is as unchangeable as His throne. The agonies of the garden of Gethsemane, the insult, the mockery, the abuse heaped upon God’s dear Son, the horrors and ignominy of the crucifixion, furnish sufficient and thrilling demonstration that God’s justice, when it punishes, does the work thoroughly. The fact that His own Son, the Surety for man, was not spared, is an argument that will stand to all eternity before saint and sinner, before the universe of God, to testify that He will not excuse the transgressor of His law. “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”

When God's temple in heaven is opened, what a triumphant time that will be for all who have been faithful and true! In the temple will be seen the ark of the testament in which were placed the two tables of stone, on which are written God's law.

These tables of stone will be brought forth from their hiding place, and on them will be seen the Ten Commandments engraved by the finger of God. These tables of stone now lying in the ark of the testament will be a convincing testimony to the truth and binding claims of God's law. Oracles of God are the sacred Ten Commandments.

 

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In His goodness God has created a world in which man has been placed on top of all creation by being made in His image and gave them a sacred trust to take care of this earth as He would by giving us dominion over all creatures.

God created the first woman as a companion and helper of Adam the first man and man was given a sacred trust to be faithful to her as she is to be just as faithful to him. This is a sacred relationship that "no man is to put asunder". He decreed that a man will leave his father and mother, cling to his wife and the two will become one flesh.

Out of this union comes the fruit of their love which is their children as an expression of their love for each other and as the response to God's command "be fruitful and multiply" and the children of this union are also given a sacred call to "honor their father and mother".

It is by the grace of God that the gift of procreation has been given to a man and a woman with the objective of glorifying God by having children begotten in His image who will also glorify Him.The last part of creation was the creation of human beings which reflect the perfections of their maker. God is the true author of life, and even though we cooperate in the proliferation of life by the union of man and woman, life depends entirely upon the holy will and sacred trust of God.

 

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Adam and Eve were created in a state of perfection, innocence, purity and immortality which unfortunately did not last very long, due to sin entering the picture. They did not obey the command of the Lord and His sacred trust in them which resulted in death, the opposite of life. The relationship was marred.

God has written his law in our hearts so that we can always know what is good and what is wrong, through our conscience we come first to appreciate that life is sacred. The Lord revealed the ten sacred things by writting them on stone and we call them commandments. They are the rules by which we are to prove our love to God and to our neighbour.

 

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The Fifth commandment states "You shall not kill ". Yet we know life can be killed by both in words and in deeds. Our life and that of our neighbors is sacred and should be treated as such. God life in our hearts needs also to be treated as sacred. God has given us His commandments, not only to be believed in, but to be obeyed. The sacredness of this obligation is built upon the relationship of God and man.

This extraordinary and divine part of our human existence in Yeshua is the sacredness of life itself, it belongs to God not to us, we call it our lives, but it is actually God's property, we take part in the co-creation of life, the nourishing and fulfilment of life, but it is a holy gift, the most valuable of talents for which we have to render an account when we come to judgment before God. And when we truly understand that then we can truly appreciate the significance of God loving us so much that He would give His Only Begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him, shall have eternal life. God does not break one sacred trust for another.

God treats His relationship with mankind as a sacred commitment. No partial obedience, no divided interest, is accepted by Him who declares that the iniquities of the fathers shall be visited upon the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate Him, and that He will show mercy unto thousands of them that love Him and keep His commandments. It is not a small matter to rob a neighbor, and great is the stigma attached to one who is found guilty of such an act; yet he who would scorn to defraud his fellow man will without shame rob his heavenly Father of the time that He has blessed and set apart for a special purpose.

We should not rob God of what He asks of us all. The Holy Scriptures teaches us that faith without works is dead, and that the testimony of one’s life proclaims to the world whether or not he is true to the faith he professes. May we make our relationship with God sacred as He has made His life a sacred sacrfice for us. Don't do it outwardly by your human effort. Let the Holy Spirit reveal how to apply and allow God to work out the details in your life.