Author	Thread: importance in knowing the Feast of the LORD--I THINK YOU ALL SHOULD READ THIS
Admin	importance in knowing the Feast of the LORD--I THINK YOU ALL SHOULD READ THIS Posted : 14 Dec, 2009 05:32 PM As christians growing up in western Gentile churches we are not taught the Feast of the LORD. It is very important to understand them because YAHSHUA (JESUS) fulfilled the Spring Feast down to the last detail and HE will fulfill the Fall Feast when HE comes as judge. Mattithyahu (Matthew) 7:22-23 says "Many shall say to me in that day, Master,Master, have we not prophesied in Your Name, and cast out demons in Your Name, and done many mighty works in Your Name? 23 And then I shall declare to them, I never knew you, depart from Me, you who are lawlessness." In these verses HE is saying those who are lawless meaning those who do not keep HIS law meaning the Torah (the instructions). Those who go out and make up denominations and call them HIS. Those who do not worship on HIS appointed day, the Sabbath. Those who cast out demons, they will say they have done many works in HIS Name. Who does this sound like to you? Do you think that nonbelievers would say to HIM they cast out anything in HIS Name? NO it is the churches that have been misleading you into believing that you no longer need to keep the law. Many will preach to you and say JESUS did away with the law by shedding HIS blood on the cross. When really HE bought you with HIS blood and was the Passover Lamb, by which HE was fulfilling the Passover rehearsal they had been keeping since they came out of slavery. HE did away with the sacrifice you don't have to spill blood anymore cause HE did it for the last time. If they say that HE did away with the law then why would HE say in Mattithyahu (Matthew) 5:17-20 "Do not think that i came to destroy the Torah or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to complete. 18 For truly, I say to you, till the heaven and the earth pass away, one yod or one tittle shall by no means pass from the Torah till all be done. " (NOW READ THIS NEXT PART WITH UNDERSTANDING) " 19 Whoever, then breaks one of the least of these commands, and teaches men so, shall be called the least in the reign of the heavens; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the reign of the heavens. 20 For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall by no means enter into the reign of the heavens." When YAHSHUA came HE broke all of the rabbinic law that the Pharisees had put into place many of which we do the same of by saying things like well christmas means this to me and i think that HE doesn't really mean we should keep the old law that is old we are living in the new times. That my friends will get you a one way ticket to "depart from me". When HE says no yod or tittle will pass that means no yod or tittle until the end of the world. Meaning we keep these commands forever. Look closely at the part that says men teach others to not keep it, that is what religious systems are doing by telling you to worship on sungod day and not to keep HIS appointed times. If JESUS tells you to do something then what should you do? We misread Scripture to make it fit into our lives so we can live the way we want to live. YAHWAH has always wanted us to be servants of HIM to call HIM ELOHIM. Do some research on christmas and easter. For easter you can look up ,mithra and nimrod, and christmas just search origins of christmas and you'll see it is the birthdays of mithra,ra, and many other sungods that were being worshiped in those days and now. In 1 Thessalonians 5:1-6 " Now brothers, as to the times and the seasons, you do not need to be written to. 2 For you yourselves know very well that the day of YAHWAH comes as a thief in the night. 3 For when they say, "Peace and safety!" then suddenly destruction comes upon them, as labour pains upon a pregnant woman, and they shall not escape. 4 But you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. For you are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. 6 So then, we should not sleep, as others do, but we should watch and be sober." this is saying that they needed no writing about the times and the seasons ( The Feast of the LORD) for they knew already that it would come like a thief and if you know a thief is coming do you let them come? NO you know they are coming so you prepare for them. When he says like labour pains it means sudden, without warning. They will not be caught like that cause they are in the light and not in the dark about the true Messiah, not the one that has been made up to fit our pagan religious system. What do they teach you in religion peace and safety? If you go to church you will be okay? is that the way you think YAHSHUA taught? NO HE said keep the Torah keep the commandments. All we have to do is read them to understand them, dear brothers and sisters if we don't start to understand the Feast of the LORD we will be in darkness when HE comes,,the hour no man knows and that is the same as how no man knows the beginning of the Biblical year or the Feast dates until the new moon is sighted in Israel. And who controls the moon? It has been this way for as long as they have been there, but none of us know these things. We have been brought up in a system that does not tell us what we need to hear but what will get people in seats and smiles on faces. These verses are talking about being ready and understanding what is before us in our Scripture. YAHSHUA broke most of their laws(rabbinic laws) and that is why they killed HIM. HE taught that the Temple is not the Spirit the Spirit is alive in you not so building. He taught that the FATHER is alive in you. Little did they know it was all planned. If satan had known killing HIM was the will of YAHWAH, he would have tried to keep HIM as safe as possible. Remember the verse that talks about YAHSHUA being tempted and when satan said look see all the kingdoms of the world, i will give them to you if you kneel before me. YAHSHUA never argued that he didn't have the power to give them to HIM. HE just turned it down. From the second man fell he handed the deed to this world over to satan and this world is his brothers and sisters until YAHSHUA breaks the seals and reclaims what is in the hands of satan and his angels. So beware what you call HIS celebration and please get out and learn about the Feast of the LORD, read your Scripture for yourself stop letting preachers guide you into believing lies. They may not mean to it is just what they are taught too. Read Leviticus 23 for yourself pray and ask the HOLY SPIRIT to guide you not men. I beg you to listen to YAHWAH and come back to the Torah( the instructions) with all my love and prayers for your well being may the peace of YAHWAH our ELOHIM be with you always R Post Reply
View Profile History	importance in knowing the Feast of the LORD--I THINK YOU ALL SHOULD READ THIS Posted : 15 Dec, 2009 07:01 AM What is Legalism? Legalism could be definied as any attempt to rely on self-effort to either attain or maintain our justification before God. In Paul's Epistle to the Galatians he warned them sternly about such false understandings of the gospel when he asked the offenders: "After beginning with the Spirit, are you now trying to attain your goal by human effort?" (Gal.3:3). Legalism always seems to have one thing in common: it's theology denies that Christ is sufficient for salvation. That some additional element of self-effort, merit or faithfulness on our part is necessary. As an example, those who erroneously teach that a Christian can lose his or her salvation are, in essence, denying the sufficiency of Christ to save to the utmost. They believe sin to be greater than Christ's grace. But Christ's righteousness which he counts toward us is not only effecient for our salvation, but sufficient. His once for all sacrifice put away sin for all time in those He has united to Himself. His salvation also means that he not only saves at the beginning but preserves us to the end, sealing us in His perfect righteousness whose blood "reminds the covenant God" not to treat us as our sins deserve. Any attempt to add our covenant faithfulness as part of the price of redemption after regeneration is an "attempt to attain our goal by human effort" and thus a complete misapprehension of the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ. We must, therefore, reject any and all attempts to maintain a judicial standing before God by any act on our part. Salvation is of the Lord. Bill Baldwin has put together a brief definition of legalism which I think is helpful: 1. Using the Mosaic covenant as though it is the covenant between you and God. 2. Attempting to be justified by one's own works. 3. Attempting to be sanctified by one's own works 4. Suggesting that our worth or worthlessness, our self-esteem and self-satisfaction or lack thereof, rest on our own works. 5. Any attempt to please God judicially, or any supposition that our sin as believers has resulted in his judicial displeasure. [My note: any post-salvation attempt to maintain our judicial standing before God through good works, covenant faithfulness, merit etc..] 6. Teaching that we conform ourselves to our judicial standing in Christ (righteous and perfect) by our own works. 7. Attempting to attain godliness by a systematic change of behavior 8. Obedience that does not spring from a renewed heart a. As of an unbeliever who has no renewed heart b. As of a believer who has a renewed heart but whose righteous behavior does not spring therefrom. 9. Any supposition that externally righteous acts have any value on their own, even as conduct that prepares the way for either a. A renewed heart (preparationism as regards justification), b. The softening or further renewing of an already renewed heart (preparationism as regards sanctification. Note Romans 12:2-Transformation occurs through the renewing of the mind), or c. Any other work of the Spirit. 10 . Suggesting that faith is irrelevant in the accomplishment of some (or all) good works. 11. Trying to be justified by works that are created and inspired by the Holy Spirit. 12. Attempting to gain assurance of salvation solely or primarily on the basis of the sign of outward works In Christ Steve Post Reply
View Profile History	importance in knowing the Feast of the LORD--I THINK YOU ALL SHOULD READ THIS Posted : 15 Dec, 2009 07:08 AM we obey Christ because of our love for him not to justify ourselves or earn our salvation in any way if you do you are no better than the pharasees who probably obeyed the law better than most.....yet they were condemned,Christs work alone has the power to save,or keep you In Christ Steve Post Reply
View Profile History	importance in knowing the Feast of the LORD--I THINK YOU ALL SHOULD READ THIS Posted : 15 Dec, 2009 07:14 AM God will never reward the self-effort you exert to save yourself. He will not let you make the cross a meaningless act. He will not obligate Himself to save you because you do what you believe are good works. But there is a possible way because of Christ�the way of faith. "Now when a man works, his wages are not credited to him as a gift, but as an obligation. However, to the man who does not work but trusts God who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness." Rom. 4:4-5 In Christ Steve Post Reply
View Profile History	importance in knowing the Feast of the LORD--I THINK YOU ALL SHOULD READ THIS Posted : 15 Dec, 2009 07:18 AM Without the aid of the Holy Spirit and the understanding provided only through the Bible, every man reasons that he must earn God's favor. The Bible does not say that. It teaches that salvation is a gift received only by faith, "not by works, so that no one can boast." Eph. 2:9 It was this truth about salvation that turned the course of human history in 1516 as the Protestant Reformation began. Sola Fide, "faith alone," became the battle cry of the reformers during those revolutionary days. The reformers discovered a truth that had been hidden behind rituals and dogmas for most of society over hundreds of years. But it certainly wasn't new. The ancient patriarch Abraham had learned this transforming truth three thousand years before the Reformation fires ignited. Abraham discovered that being accepted as righteous before God, (called justification), does not happen by our good works, but through the exact opposite�faith alone. This faith is not in what we do for Him, but in what Christ has done for us. "If, in fact, Abraham was justified by works," says Paul, "he has something to boast about�but not before God. What does the Scripture say? 'Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.'" Rom. 4:2-3 If you could be accepted by God on the basis of your works there would be reason to boast. It would mean that you never sin. Since, however, we have never known anybody who is perfect outside of Christ, the "works" way to heaven must be the impossible way. But there is a possible way to be justified�through belief or faith, just like Abraham. Christ has fully paid the debt of those who are His. When He suffered and died at Calvary, everything was done for man's sin that could be done. This was an act of the greatest possible grace. For you to think that you could be accepted by your own efforts at being good makes light of the cross of Christ. Paul said, "I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!" Gal. 2:21 In Christ Steve Post Reply
View Profile History	importance in knowing the Feast of the LORD--I THINK YOU ALL SHOULD READ THIS Posted : 15 Dec, 2009 11:30 AM I never said once in what wrote that anyone was saved by works. I actually gave Scriptures talking against works as those that come to HIM saying we did many works in your Name. In no part of what i wrote did i say that the death of YAHSHUA was not important. If you read the topic it is about coming back to the Torah and out of the pagan religious traditions that we now serve and back to the Feast of the LORD. I see no mention of telling anyone they will be "saved" by doing any of this just that they need to learn the appointed times that our ELOHIM YAHWAH put in place and stop celebrating the man-made traditions that are not of YAHWAH. Dear brother take time to read it again and think about it before you run off blazing words that have no relevance to the subject at hand. I could understand if i had said learn the Feast keep the law that is the only way, but that is by no means what i wrote now is it. No where did i imply that only by keeping the law or the Feast would you be "saved" as you call it. If i say i have faith and truly believe,,and thats it, does that mean i am "saved"? Do i have to do nothing i can celebrate every pagan holiday go do whatever cause i believe that YAHSHUA died for my sins and that is it. Is that what you are saying? Of course not i know what you mean. And i am very thankful that you would defend the Scripture so well but brother read again what i have wrote and listen with your heart. Again in no way do i ever say that doing anything will get you "saved" i only said that you could get a one-way ticket to "depart from me" have a wonderful day dear brother,, may the peace of YAHWAH be with you always Post Reply
View Profile History	importance in knowing the Feast of the LORD--I THINK YOU ALL SHOULD READ THIS Posted : 15 Dec, 2009 07:42 PM ManofGod: I checked, it is not Bill, I think you mean Stephen Baldwin. at stephenbaldwin.com/ Blessings, Dave :goofball: Post Reply
Tarasye View Profile History	importance in knowing the Feast of the LORD--I THINK YOU ALL SHOULD READ THIS Posted : 15 Dec, 2009 09:14 PM Yes it is written that our works are like dirty rags on the floor, but it is also written in James that faith without works is dead. Our works cannot get us into Heaven, but when the Spirit of the Lord is within us, we want to be more like Him. The Holy Spirit cannot be within you without changing you to be more like Him, preparing us for the Kingdom, a place where we can live in Peace in the Obedience of His Way. We should all want to be more like Jesus, it is in the Nature of the Holy Spirit for us to want this. We are not meant to be dead in our faith, but to be Alive in the Spirit of Christ. Tarasye Post Reply
View Profile History	importance in knowing the Feast of the LORD--I THINK YOU ALL SHOULD READ THIS Posted : 15 Dec, 2009 11:48 PM Well stated, Tarasye. In Christ Garrett Post Reply
View Profile History	importance in knowing the Feast of the LORD--I THINK YOU ALL SHOULD READ THIS Posted : 16 Dec, 2009 05:05 AM 100 percent agree with you Tarasye,its just very important that the people no what salvation is! legalism is quite prevalent these days! people are working hard for something thats already been done......a true christian will naturally progress towards sanctafication.....its the proof of a changed heart.....its the fruit that grows naturally on a young christians tree! ceremonies and holy days and festivals....blah,blah blah this is not Christ! He looks at the heart! in Christ Post Reply
Tarasye View Profile History	importance in knowing the Feast of the LORD--I THINK YOU ALL SHOULD READ THIS Posted : 16 Dec, 2009 06:39 AM Amen, Steve, very well put. For some reason legalism always reminds me of Pharisees. It isn't legalism that will save us for that is old law, under the new law we are saved by Grace, but I do have to say that it sort of amazes me the people that do not seek the Word and want to stand in obedience of it, for why would anyone want to serve an unchanging God, if they don't like the things He has put down to protect us? I don't expect the rules to change under my unchanging God, yet I see a lot of Christians out there taking opinion polls like somehow that is going to change anything if you can get any one to agree with you. Nothing we can say or do will change the mind set of God. He is not going to adjust His thinking to suit us, yet constantly I run into people that prefer their buffet style Christianity, saying the Bible is outdated or that that they only believe certain things in the Bible. Talk about a giant mystery novel, I have to wonder how its all going to work out on the last page. So I guess I will continue to carry on as I know is right by the Word, and watch it all unfold in His Will. Have a Blessed Day, Tarasye Post Reply

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