And?
so can many today.
But CHRIST specifically said what HE said that Ye seek scripture thinking by this you have LIFE but it is this that TESTIFIES of ME
John 5:39 “You search the Scriptures, because you think you possess everlasting life in them. And these are the ones that
bear witness of Me."
Mat 19:17 And He said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good except One – Ylohim. But
if you wish to enter into life,
guard the commands.”
Luke 6:46, "And
why call Me; Ruler! Ruler! and do not the things which I say?"
He said that in John 5:39 to the Pharisee,s who made 23 volumes of their own law that transgressed the Law of the Most High...
Mark 7:5-9, "Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him;
Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands? He answered, and said to them: Well has Isayah prophesied of you hypocrites--as it is written: This people honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. But in vain do they worship Me, teaching as doctrine the commandments of men. For laying aside the Law of YHWH, you hold the tradition of men! Then He said to them:
How well you reject the Law of YHWH, so that you may keep your own tradition!"
HE also said you put your hopes in Moses but it is Moses who spoke of Me
Deut 18:18-19, "I shall raise up for them a Prophet like you out of the midst of their brothers. And I shall put My Words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him. And it shall be, the man who does not
listen to My Words which He speaks in My Name, I require it of him."
"
listen" is word #8085 שָׁמַע
shama` {shaw-mah'}
Brown-Driver-Briggs (Old Testament Hebrew-English Lexicon)
A primitive root; to hear intelligently (
often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively to tell, etc.)
Hebrew Word Study (Transliteration-Pronunciation Etymology & Grammar) - 1)
to hear, listen to, obey
And it is Christ alone who opens the mind to the Truth, if HE doesn't, the mind remains closed and a veil covers the heart lest one can see....THE TRUTH of the Glory of GOD in the face of JESUS
John (Yahchanan) 7:16-17 "Yahshua answered, them, and said:
My doctrine is not Mine, but His Who sent Me. If any man will do His will,
he will know about this teaching--whether it comes from YHWH, or whether I am speaking of My own authority."
John (Yahchanan) 12:48, "
He who rejects Me, and does not follow My words has One Who judges him. The word that I have spoken, the same will be used to judge him in the last day."
John (Yahchanan) 5:24, "Most certainly I tell you,
he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life."
Luke 6:46, "And
why call Me; Ruler! Ruler! and do not the things which I say?"
Paul spoke to young Timothy who had what is necessary to discern and understand the WORD of GOD.
THE outpouring of THE HOLY SPIRIT
Revelation 12:17
New American Standard Bible
So the dragon was enraged with the woman, and went off to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God
and hold to the testimony of Jesus.
King James Bible
And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God,
and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
ISR
Rev 12:17 And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to fight with the remnant of her seed, those
guarding the commands of Ylohim and possessing the witness of יהושע Messiah.
Isayah 8:20, "
To the Law and to the testimony:
if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them."