THE PROMISE OF SUPERNATURAL REST STILL REMAINS FOR SOME TO EXPERIENCE, BUT MANY WILL FALL AWAY AND NOT MAKE IT . . . SO PAUL NOW EXPLAINS HOW WE CAN STAY ON THE RIGHT PATH AND BECOME MATURE - AND IT'S ALL ABOUT FOLLOWING YAHUSHA'S WORD !
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1 So since a promise still remains to enter into His rest, let's be fearful incase some of you fall short of entering it . . . . 11 So then let us do everything we can (strive) to enter into that rest, so that no one falls into the same example of disobedience. THAT YISHARAL DISPLAYED!
12 For the Word of Alahim is living, quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing through even to the dividing of body and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and able to discern and judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all are naked and laid bare before the eyes of Him Who we serve.
IN THIS VERSE WE HAVE ONE OF THE MOST WONDERFUL DESCRIPTIONS OF YAHUSHA’S WORD IN SCRIPTURE.
THE WORD OF ALAHIM
THE ‘DABAR’ (HEBREW) OF ALAHIM.
( IN THE BEGINNING WAS DEBAR )
PSALM 138:2 "I WILL WORSHIP TOWARD YOUR SET-APART TEMPLE, AND PRAISE YOUR NAME FOR YOUR LOVING-KINDNESS AND TRUTH: FOR YOU HAVE MAGNIFIED YOUR WORD ... AND ABOVE ALL YOUR NAME!"
12 For the Word of Alahim is living, quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword . . .
SWORD OF THE WORD!
YISHARAL REFUSED THE WORD SPOKEN. WHETHER THE PROPHETIC WORD, THE WRITTEN WORD, THE SPOKEN WORD, OR EVEN THE WORD MADE FLESH AS A NEW FIRST-FRUIT CREATION - ALL IS THE 'DEBAR OF ALAHIM', THE WORD OF ALAHIM - AND ALL OF IT ISRAEL REJECTED!! IT INCLUDES THE WHOLE OF THE OLD BLOOD-COVENANT WRITINGS AND THE NEW COVENANT WRITINGS ALSO . . . THE WORD IN COMPLETION.
CHECK OUT THE QUALITIES OF
THIS MIGHTY WORD OF ALAHIM :
1. THE WORD IS QUICK
MEANING 'ALIVE'. IT IS A LIVING WORD, AN ALIVE WORD. IT IS THE OPPOSITE TO DEAD AND DEATH … “TO LIVE, TO HAVE LIFE.” THE SINNER WHO BELIEVES IS STIRRED AND MADE ALIVE BY THE QUICKENING WORD! IT IS THE DIVINE, SET-APART SPIRIT OF YAHUSHA WHO QUICKENS THE WORD AND MAKES IT ALIVE. THE SPIRIT GIVES THE WORD LIFE, FOR THE SPIRIT IS ACTUALLY THE LIFE OF THE WORD BECAUSE THEY ARE ONE & THE SAME BEING/ENTITY. NOT THE DEAD LETTER OF INK, BUT WORDS WHICH ARE SPIRIT AND LIFE. SO THE WORD AND THE SPIRIT ARE TOGETHER IN THIS QUICKENING PROCESS! AND WITHOUT THE CORRECT DIVINE SPIRIT THAT WROTE THE TEXT, ALL IS HIDDEN (PARABLE). SO ... NO YAHUSHA IMMERSION? NO REAL SPIRIT - NO LIFE - NO TRUTH!
INK ON A PAGE (EVEN IN A TRUSTED INSPIRED SCRIPTURE-VERSION) CAN NEVER BE 100% TRUSTED AFTER SO MANY MILLENIA OF RELIGIOUS MISTRANSLATIONS AND ATTACKS ON THE WRITTEN WORD (TO STRIP IT OF IT'S REAL POWER AND TRUTH) - BUT THROUGH THE REAL SPIRIT OF YAHUSHA, EVEN THE DODGIEST TRANSLATION OF TEXT CAN BE ALIVE AND QUICKENED IF THE READER PLACES A PRIORITY ON LISTENING TO HIS STILL SMALL VOICE AND IS WILLING TO ENTERTAINMENT/MEDITATE NEW IDEAS (THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX), NOT LIMITING YAHUSHA'S LIVING WORDS TO MERE NATURAL WORKS OF LITERATURE ON THE PAGE.
2. THE WORD IS POWERFUL
THAT IS, FULL OF POWER, MAKING IT ACTIVE, OPERATIVE, ENERGISING AND EFFECTIVE. NOTE THE POWERFUL WORD IN OPERATION IN THE BOOK OF ACTS - WITH ITS CONVICTING, CONVINCING AND CONVERTING POWER OF DELIVERANCE!
IF YOU START ALIGNING YOUR CONVERSATION AND DIALOGUE WITH YAHUSHA'S WORDS AND BECOME FLUENT IN SPEAKING THE LANGUAGE OF HIS TRUTH (NOT QUOTING SCRIPTURES EVERYWHERE LIKE RELIGIOUS `FRUIT 'N NUT CAKES') YOU WILL SEE HIS POWER UNLEASHED IN SITUATIONS THROUGH YOUR BELIEF (WHETHER PEOPLE LET YOU HAVE IT OR NOT - IT WILL BE OBVIOUS) ... BUT WITHOUT THIS ACTIVE EXPERIENCE, YOU WILL STAY IMMATURE `IN THE LAND OF OOMPH' BUBBY, WORLDLY DIALOGUE, USELESS IN MATTERS OF THE SUPERNATURAL REALM - NO MATTER HOW MUCH HEAD-KNOWLEDGE YOU HAVE! .... WANNA SEE POWER?
3. THE WORD IS SHARPER
(THAN ANY TWO-EDGED SWORD)
THE ROMANS HAD A TWO-EDGED (DOUBLE-EDGED) SWORD SO THAT IT WOULD CUT ANY AND EVERY WAY IT WAS USED! IT WAS DOUBLY EFFECTIVE. SUCH WAS A MAN-MADE WEAPON, BUT THE LIVING WORD IS THE WEAPON OF YAHUSHA’S SUPERNATURAL SPIRIT. THIS WORD IS VERY MUCH SHARPER, AND MORE CUTTING THAN ANY WEAPON OF MAN - FOR HIS WEAPON CUTS THAT WHICH NO SWORD OF MAN COULD CUT OR EVEN DISCOVER TO CUT.
THE FLAMING SWORD WAS PLACED AT THE GATE OF EDEN'S GARDEN, AND IT TURNED EVERY WAY TO GUARD THE WAY TO THE TREE OF LIFE! IT MEANT DEATH AND JUDGMENT! THE TWO-EDGEDNESS OF THE SWORD CUTS BOTH WAYS! BOTH THE SPEAKER AND THE HEARER WILL BE CUT BY THE WORD - THE ACTIVE, LIVING AND ENERGETIC WORD. THE WORD IS THE SWORD!(DROP THE ‘S' AND IT IS STILL THE ‘WORD’. IT IS THE JUDGING ASPECT OF THE WORD OF ALAHIM.
REVELATION 1:6 "AND HE HAD IN HIS RIGHT HAND SEVEN STARS: AND OUT OF HIS MOUTH WENT A SHARP TWO-EDGED SWORD - AND HIS APPEARANCE WAS LIKE THE SUN SHINING IN ALL STRENGTH. AND WHEN I (JOHN) SAW HIM, I FELL AT HIS FEET AS THOUGH DEAD. AND HE LAID HIS RIGHT HAND UPON ME, SAYING TO ME, 'FEAR NOT, I AM THE ALEF AND THE TAU, THE FIRST AND THE LAST. I AM HE WHO LIVES ... YES I WAS DEAD, BUT LOOK, I'M ALIVE FOREVERMORE, AMEIN ... AND I HAVE THE KEYS OF DESTRUCTION AND DEATH".
4. THE WORD IS PIERCING
IE PENETRATING, CUTTING THROUGH, TO COME OR GO THROUGH! EVEN TO THE DIVIDING ASUNDER - DIVIDING OR SEPARATING INTO PARTS, RESPECTIVE PARTS OF BODY AND SPIRIT, AND IS A DISCERNER OF THE THOUGHTS AND INTENTS OF THE HEART … IN OTHER WORDS, THE WORD OF ALAHIM IS:
(A) A QUICKENING WORD
(B) A POWERFUL WORD
(C) A SHARP TWO-EDGED WORD
(D) A PIERCING WORD
(E) A DIVIDING WORD
(F) A DISCERNING WORD
12 For the Word of Alahim is living, quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing through even to the dividing of body and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and able to discern and judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
DIVIDING SPIRIT & BODY
NOTE THAT THE WHOLE OF MANKIND IS BROUGHT TO VIEW HERE IN THIS VERSE, AND IN RELATION TO THIS WORD. THIS DISCERNING AND DIVIDING WORD DIVIDES ASUNDER (1) SPIRIT AND (2) BEING - THE JOINTS AND THE MARROW. THE ONLY THING IN THE WORLD THAT CAN DIVIDE ASUNDER, SEPARATE, OR DISTINGUISH MAN IN HIS PARTS IS THE WORD OF YAHUSHA OUR ALAHIM! NO HUMAN EYE CAN SEE BEING AND SPIRIT - NO HUMAN WEAPON OR TWO-EDGED SWORD OF MAN CAN CUT ASUNDER THE BEING AND SPIRIT OF MANKIND.
THE WEAPONS OF MAN WILL CUT ASUNDER, AND DIVIDE THE BODY (THE PHYSICAL FLESH CARCASS OF MAN), BUT IT HAS NEVER YET DISCOVERED THE INNER BEING AND SPIRIT OF THE NEW MAN. SO THIS DESCRIPTION OF THE WORD REVEALS THAT IT IS OMNIPOTENT (ALL-POWERFUL), OMNISCIENT (ALL-KNOWING), AND OMNIPRESENT (ALL-PLACES AT ONCE). THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT SPIRITS/DEMONS
THE WORD OF ALAHIM ALONE CAN DIVIDE ASUNDER ALL CARNAL AND SUPERNATURAL ACTIVITY, WHICH MANIFESTS IN THE SPIRIT OR BODY. THERE IS THE NATURAL MAN, UNREGENERATE, THE CARNAL OR FLESHLY BEING. BRIDAL BELIEVERS, (IMMERSED, YET WALKING AFTER THE LUSTLY FLESH-LIFE) ARE SPOKEN OF AS BEING CARNAL BELIEVERS, (NOT SPIRITUAL). AND THEN THERE'S THE NEW SPIRITUAL MAN, WHO LIVES, WALKS AND BEHAVES IN THE SUPERNATURAL, THE DIVINE SPIRIT, IN THE SPIRIT OF ALAHIM YAHUSHA.
THE PURPOSE OF THE WORD OF ALAHIM IS TO SEPARATE, DIVIDE ASUNDER, PENETRATE, DISTINGUISH ALL THAT IS FLESHLY, BEASTLY AND CARNAL, FROM THAT WHICH IS SPIRITUAL IN THE LIFE OF YAHUSHA'S BRIDE! IN ISRAEL, THE WORD HAD THIS EFFECT. WHEN THE GOSPEL/ GOOD NEWS OF THE LAND OF REST WAS PREACHED TO THEM, IT ACTUALLY CAUSED YISHARAL TO EXPOSE THEMSELVES TO THEM-SELVES - THE WORD EXPOSED YISHARAL FOR WHAT THEY ARE! IT EXPOSED WHAT WAS ON THE INSIDE, IN THE HEART. THE FLESHLY AND CARNAL ANIMALISTIC TENDENCIES WERE MANIFESTED, AND THESE WERE NOT THAT OF THE SPIRIT OF BELIEF AND TRUST! THE WORD BROUGHT ALL TO THE SURFACE. EVERYTHING HIDDEN WILL BE REVEALED BY YAHUSHA.
IT IS THIS WORD THAT HAS TO DO ITS WORK, SEPARATING US FROM ALL THAT IS OF THE FLESH-LIFE (BODY) - THE CARNAL-LIFE, TRANSFORMING US INTO THAT WHICH IS SUPERNATURAL (SPIRIT) AND OF THE SPIRIT OF YAHUSHA. ONLY THE WORD `DEBAR OF ALAHIM' CAN DO THIS! IT IS SPIRITUAL AND ABLE TO DO THIS BECAUSE OF ALL IT IS!
YAHUSHA IS ALAHIM
12 For the Word of Alahim is living, quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing through even to the dividing of body and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and able to discern and judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
EVEN JOINTS & MARROW
PERHAPS THERE IS AN ALLUSION HERE TO THAT SWORD (KNIFE) OF THE HIGH PRIEST, AND THE PRIESTS IN THE OFFERING OF THE SACRIFICES IN YISHARAL AT THE BRAZEN ALTAR. FOR THERE, THE SHARP TWO-EDGED KNIFE WOULD CUT ASUNDER THE JOINTS AND MARROW OF THE SACRIFICE.
IT WAS SEEN SEPARATING, DIVIDING, CUTTING ASUNDER, PENETRATING IN ALL PARTS IN ITS EFFECTIVE OPERATIONS, THE PORTIONS THAT WERE DESIGNATED FOR THE ALTAR OF ALAHIM, AND THE PORTIONS THAT WERE DESIGNATED FOR THE PRIEST OR THE ISRAELITE OFFERING THE SACRIFICE.
BUT THIS WAS ALL ABOUT JUST THE FLESH - THE BODY! BUT THE KNIFE OF ALAHIM PERFORMS ITS OPERATIONS IN THE REALM OF THE INNER BEING AND SPIRIT, BECAUSE THIS IS THE SUPERNATURAL REALM OF ALAHIM! YAHUSHA OUR APOSTLE AND HIGH PRIEST KNOWS ALL THROUGHOUT OUR WHOLE BEING - AND WANTS EVERY PART OF US SOLD OVER AND SACRIFICED TO HIM ALONE!
12 For the Word of Alahim is living, quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing through even to the dividing of body and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and able to discern and judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
DISCERNING & JUDGING
'DISCERN' IS TO 'EXPOSE, TO SIFT, ANALYSE, TO JUDGE. IT IS TO PIERCE THROUGH, TO SEPARATE, PERCEIVE AND RECOGNISE, TO MAKE DISTINCTION'. THE WORD OF YAHUSHA DOES ALL THIS!
HAVEN'T YOU FELT IT??
NO HUMAN MIND CAN COMPREHEND THE THOUGHTS AND INTENTS OF THE HEART OF ANOTHER PERSON, LET ALONE HIS OWN HEART. BUT THE WORD CAN AND DOES! WHO CAN DISCERN OUR THOUGHTS BUT YAHUSHA? HE KNOWS OUR THOUGHTS FROM AFAR OFF. EVIL THOUGHTS COME FROM SPIRITS VIA THE CHANNEL OF THE MIND, HOWEVER YAHUSHA'S THOUGHTS TO US (AS MANY AS THE GRAINS OF SAND ON THE SEASHORE) FLOW DIRECTLY TO US THROUGH THE PORTAL ON OUR HEARTS.
IT IS THE MINISTRY OF YAHUSHA'S SPIRIT TO SEPARATE US FROM ALL UNBELIEF AND DISOBEDIENCE, SETTING US APART WHOLLY TO OUR ALAHIM AND MESSIAH YAHUSHA, OUR APOSTLE AND HIGH PRIEST, THAT WE MIGHT BE LIVING SACRIFICES, WHOLLY ACCEPTABLE TO HIM. INSTEAD OF BEING VESSELS FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS DEMONS TO LIVE THROUGH AND HURT THE PEOPLE AROUND US. DISCERNING OF SPIRITS IS ALSO A GIFT OF THE SPIRIT. IT IS A SOLEMN THING TO CONSIDER THAT YAHUSHA HEARS ALL THE THOUGHTS OF MANKIND AND THAT HIS WORD DISCERNS EVERY MOTIVE OF OUR HEART! OUR THOUGHTS IN THE HEAVENLY REALM ARE JUST AS LOUD AS OUR WORDS HERE ON EARTH!
13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all are naked and laid bare before the eyes of Him Who we serve.
YAHUSHA KNOWS ABOUT EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE. NONE CAN EXEMPT THEMSELVES FROM HIS PRESENCE. PEOPLE MAY HIDE FROM PEOPLE, DECEIVING AND BEING DECEIVED, BUT NO ONE IS OUT OF THE SIGHT OF YAHUSHA. ALL IS MANIFEST AND APPARENT IN ALAHIM'S ALL-SEEING EYES. OPEN AND EXPOSED, NAKED AND DEFENCELESS BEFORE THE EYES OF ALAHIM. HIS EYES ARE AS FLAMES OF FIRE IN THE MIDST OF THE SEVEN ASSEMBLIES. SEARCHING, SEEKING, PENETRATING - HE IS LIGHT FROM WITHIN.
NO ONE CAN HIDE FROM HIM
MANKIND MAY COVER UP, SEEK TO HIDE, CLOTHE HIS THOUGHTS OR ACTIONS, BUT EVERYTHING IS OPENLY EXPOSED TO THE EYES AND SIGHT OF YAHUSHA WITH WHOM WE HAVE AN ACCOUNT. WE MUST ALL STAND BEFORE YAHUSHA AND GIVE AN ACCOUNT 'IN THAT DAY OF JUDGMENT.' THE VARIOUS PARTS OF THE SACRIFICES WERE EXPOSED TO THE HIGH PRIEST AS HE CUT ASUNDER THE JOINTS AND MARROW. BUT WE ARE OPEN AND EXPOSED THROUGHOUT OUR WHOLE NATURE AND BEING AND SPIRIT, MIND, THOUGHTS, DESIRES, MOTIVES AND ACTIONS — ALL ARE CLEAR BEFORE OUR HIGH PRIEST AND HIS WORD.
WHAT STATE IS YOUR SUPERNATURAL ACCOUNT IN...CREDIT? ARREARS? DEBT? ARE YOU FIGHTING HIM ... OR SURRENDING TO THE STRONG HAND OF HIS TRAINING & DAILY DISCIPLINE ?
ARE YOU A GOOD WITNESS OF THE POWER IN HIS WORD? ... IS IT YOUR LIFE? ... YOUR EVERY BREATH? ... ARE YOU A GOOD EXAMPLE AND HELP TO THE YOUNGER ONES AROUND YOU ... TO LEAD THEM INTO YAHUSHA'S LOVE ??
Are you drinking from the fountain of eternal life constantly? You can only see it through His Word by the Spirit. If you are feeling marvellous all the time this is tasting eternity ... If not : SO SAD!
If you are struggling in life, check out if sin is at your door (or is it already inside, lounging with it's feet up on your new furniture?) We have Yahusha’s power to overcome wickedness by saying NO! When you do you will be flooded with His amazing love!
To think Yahuah changed Himself, from His throne-image, to take on human-flesh and have supernatural powers as a man - He did this before men and women who saw Him alive. How wonderful!
Yisharal and the Apostles never knew what Yahuah did (morphing Himself into Yahusha). They experienced Him in the flesh and couldn’t believe that a man could have such supernatural powers!
Today Yisharal and the believers are in a quandary as to why Yahuah would change when He said He never changes! If you can’t answer, then you don’t really know who Yahusha is or even know Him!
It’s obvious Yahuah changed His being and form, because of His conception and birth from Mary. Also because of the amazing miracles He did on earth. Yet no one realised what or who He really was! They all watched Him being taken up on a cloud. They saw it happen and were a gasp. It’s what happened in Heaven through John’s visionary accounts which reveals so much about Yahusha.
Why is the blood of Yahusha so powerful ? He said the life is in the blood. This is why Satan (through Yisharal) murdered Him. His blood cleansed all sin and Heaven, which is now clean. His blood gives sanity!
Yahuah did not take the human blood of Mary but used His own (when He took on flesh). He created a new everlasting being - one that is not Yahuah. He gave us a process how to overcome to join Him!
Yahusha’s blood is so powerful that if Yisharal/Satan was successful in killing Him, nothing in Creation could sustain itself. Can you see the plan Yahusha has for Yisharal today? It's manifesting on the global stage. What a mess she has made with His Word and His Name. The Middle East alone is a catastrophe as is everything she does!
Yahusha rebuked the Pharisees! (Today it's all those groups who are in the `Yahuah Only Doctrine', and call themselves Yisharal). Yisharal is the false-bride and the seat of Satan in this world! Yahuah left His Name and His Word with Yisharal (His former bride) to do what she wants with them. While He started something NEW apart from her influence, which He calls His New Covenant Bride!
I would much rather give Yahuah the scope to be and do who He is. If anything it would be so boring to restrict Him to what Yisharal the false bride says, staying in the shadow teachings.
Yahuah gave Yisharal the Scriptures to interpret how she wanted. How many different branches of belief are there? This is the work of Israel/Yisharal who controls the global economy.
Yahuah knew what Yisharal/Israel would do to mankind. He divorced Yisharal and cast her out, left the temple never to return. Yahusha returned to the restored temple as a man, where YAHUAH BECAME YAHUSHA. He said, “Your body is now the temple,” which proves that He is only interested in those who accept Him and move into His Reign, UNDER HIS NEW COVENANT. This includes those Jews who are willing to repent. Since those days, Yahusha has had nothing to do with Yisharal/Israel. He now has a NEW BRIDE WHO ADORES HIM and who are now knowing who Yahusha really is! So through all this, Yahusha has pointed out to me that yes:
YAHUSHA IS ANTI — SEMITIC !!!!!
HE HAS ALWAYS HATED THEIR BEHAVIOUR !!
The blood of Yahusha is so powerful it can cleanse us to start the process of us changing into an immortal being (from a sinful mortal being). It quickens the incorruptible seed planted in us. His love can then flow through us.
Most believers have no idea who Yahusha really is! He is loving-kindness personified! Why would you limit Yahusha and settle for man-made doctrines that will eventually destroy you. This is Yisharal’s aim!
Yahusha's New Reign is in Fellowship Assemblies. He is gathering sinners who want deliverance from Satan’s/Yisharal’s control over their lives. You must be genuine in your approach to Him. For if you approach Yahusha for His blood deliverance and are half-hearted, nothing will happen. If you are living sin and still want some of it ... remember a little yeast affects the whole batch!
This is why your commitment must be genuine, otherwise you will be driven (by your sin) from His presence. Many believers can’t fellowship because of sin. For it would be revealed in a Fellowship! Yahusha wants a clean Assembly and Bride. Sin cannot stand in the presence of Yahusha. Sin flees from the truth because it is unclean. We have His blood protection in our Assemblies.
Every Word of Scripture is true and eternal. It is a record of Yahuah’s dealings with mankind, right up to the time He became Yahusha and past that into today and the future too!