A NEW LIFE AMID GRACE

Within each aspect of life, Ha' Moshiach Y’shua (The Annointed One), always demonstrated love, compassion and grace before all to bear witness while among them the life of one completed in faith and the grace of Avinu (our Father), as well as embodying personal accountability and with an intimate piety. We have all heard many times others speak of 'walking the path of Y’shua'; His example is the entirety of the truth of what it means to stand firm in your faith in the promises of Elohim and in this are all acts, public and private, which serve to bear witness to our Creator not only our gratitude and high praise.

It remains that our inner most personal devotion and dedication to what He has commanded can be the only exemplification we may personally illustrate. In the finality of His sacrifice before His people, Y’shua assumed all the debt of sin and transgression of all the faithful who would follow Him onto Himself. In His love, the fullness of transgressions of the sons of man in one fell swoop declared the faithful clean and pure of heart; in this one ultraistic act, Ha' Moshiach would take upon Himself the sin of the world that all who believe in Him would be made worthy of the Kingdom of Heaven, despite the nature of man to naturally be drawn to the temptations of transgression. As we slide back into the form of our imperfect nature, as is inevitable, we are reminded that to remain upon this righteous path, we continue to in glory praise Elohim while venerating Him in His proper position of glory, honor and respect. In doing so we remain upon the path of Y’shua in underserved and blessed grace; we become strong and almost immune to corruption in the steadfastness of our devotion. Apostle Saul (Paul) himself, whose sole declared purpose was that of drawing of the Gentiles closer to Y’shua through His teachings and to follow the declared ordinances of Hashem Himsel. Saul took great joy and comfort to believe that as one of Y’shua’s chosen, he had in faith, spiritually and metaphysically died upon the tree in the forgiveness of all sin within the sacrificing of Y’shua. The Apostle Saul tells us this doctrine was much greater than a mere concept of faith.... he completely accepted its truth confidently, resting his hope and redemption upon it. Saul believed that by virtue of Y’shua’s death upon the rugged hewn cross, he himself, had answered to and satisfied divine justice finding great and celebrative reconciliation with our most gracious Elohim. And so, in tradition of the established Church and in faith, Saul is by most, venerated into a position of sainthood.

My dearest fellow Faithful, what a Holy experience is gained in us as our soul is lifted to higher ground in all thoughts of and in the presence of our most joyful Redeemer. Yet, Saul’s truest of meaning is greater than His remembrance. He not only believed in Ha’ Moshiach’s sacrificial death and gave it the greatest of weight, he more than spiritually, greater than physically felt the great death and rebirthing power of Hashem within himself, bringing about the death of his former sinful and self-centering nature. In Elohim's glory, after the divesting death of Y’shua which brings us to be renewed in the hope, spirit and faith in the miracle of Y’shua’s everlasting promises. The times Saul would come to cross paths with and encounter those wallowing in the pool of sin among the pleasures of forbidden transgressions, Saul would say, ‘I cannot enjoy these: I am dead to them in my Master.’ Such is the revelation of every true Believer. Having received Ha' Mashiach, Saul is to the world of man as one who is in finality dead. For those in experienced wisdom of the Holy Word who may sense the hypocrisy of deception within the holy books of other faiths, are also convinced the followers of Y’shua in the time of Saul knew of no such deception, clarity is distinguished, deception was often used to convince the ‘unclean’ as it continues to be this very day by a great many divisions of the wolves of which prey upon the faithful. In evidence, we serve up to you Saul’s very own brand of deception in the furtherance of converts: "For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to G-d, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you. – {Qorinti'im I/1 Corinthians 9:19-23}

"A Sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it."- {Book of Lukos/Luke 8:5} In a present-day comprehensive narrative, we shall bring to light the truest meaning of Saul's words: “Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law. To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from G-d’s law but am under Christ’s law), so as to win those not having the law. To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.” – {Qorinti'im I/1 Corinthians 9:19-23} We are reminded in our Master's own words 'the law has never changed or become irrelevant, for I have fulfilled the law which yet remains.' Yet, Saul, while conscious of death to the world, he can at the same time exclaim with Y'shua, "I live." While Saul fully alive in Elohie Emet (The G-d of Truth), there seems a blindness before the certain truths of Y'shua. Often a Faithful's life is a quandary. Those who deny Y’shua in living a life contrary to faith and the Covenants of our Father can seem to with any depth at all, understand this; even a great number of Faithful themselves fret to comprehend this.

While in our awakening of spirit we are dead to what we once knew as our nature, yet we live through our rebirth in Y’shua as we cast aside the barriers of our spirits resistance to our heartfelt redemption and the life-giving Baptismal waters. As the Faithful, we comprehend we are metamorphically crucified with Y’shua, and yet at the same time, we have risen from the dead as did He, to become pure in nature with Y’shua, and as well, in the all-encompassing newness of life in our gained knowledge and faithful experience and through the undeniable graces of Avinu Malekienu (our Father, our King) . We are one intertwined within our great suffering and tortured Redeemer who is Ben Elohim (son of G-d) and as we awaken to the deceitful world of man and to the truest natures and temptations of sin, we are the rejoicing souls, and we are refreshed in understanding of compassion and love. As we, like Y’shua before us, gather the lost and unguided children onto ourselves, may we also live in the love and sanctified joy of our Rock and Redeemer within the grace and blessings of the Almighty! Come ye tattered and tormented, gather round me and follow among the beauty of the path of grace and righteousness, garnering the favor of Elohim Ma'uzzi (G-d of my strength), Pastor Mark