This leads us to ask the basic question as to why Yhvh did all this anyway. Was it to create a lot of pawns to serve His ego? Does He have an inherent desire to rule something? Does He just want someone to be cruel and demanding to? Or is He trying to establish a relationship of endearing friendships. The one thing Yhvh can not create is a true friend. Yhvh could easily have made servants who would bow down to Him and sing praises to His name all day long, (and saved Himself the agony of dying on a cross or bearing with the plethora of disappointments He endures from us) if that had been what He wanted.
To have a friend, a person has to choose to be that friend, any force or coercion would not harvest a true friend. We must, through our own "free will", choose to be friends with Lord. Friendship is not a thing that can be created, not even by the Master Creator! The difference is clearly a condition of the heart and a warning to all who stand behind the pulpit. The Pharisees and teachers of the law, to whom Yeshua spoke, taught what served them best. Those who teach from the pulpit today must not succumb to the Pharisees’ unrighteous practices but teach what serves God and His flock best, letting Lord worry about their needs.
Matt 7:21-23
"Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. "Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?' "And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.'
Each day I learn more about the controlling factors that misguide our desires from following our Lord in all his ways. Those in the shadows of the pulpit often create an influence binding the Spirit of God as they try to guide the pulpit by flexing the power of their flesh.
When the elders, deacons, or mentoring pastors of churches manifest control over the pulpit they stifle the Spirit of God. This arrogant assumption of power is not emanating from the Spirit of God but comes from the father of lies and through our own self importance.
As seems demanded the congregation is the loosening of the truths about God. It is manifest in the preaching of motivational, manipulative or patronizing speeches:
2 Tim 4:3
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.
Motivating or patronizing sermons serve not the heart of Yhvh.
Mark 7:7-8
BUT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING AS DOCTRINES THE PRECEPTS OF MEN.' "Neglecting the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men."
Rather than seeking God’s perfection of the body through trust, unity and good stewardship, we serve ourselves and when we feel good about hearing such things we proclaim them to be from Yhvh himself. This incites those pastors to preach the precepts of man even more.
Eph 4:14-16
As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Messiah, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.
In the days of Yeshua, Almighty God knew men of today would be following the same path as the Pharisees and that we would have to cease such practices before we would truly know who our Lord is in His heart and become one body, unified under the headship of Yeshua.
Matt 15:6
You have allowed the traditions of man to make null and void the Word of Yhvh. CJB
It is clear that our traditions themselves nullify the Word of God, making it as though He had never been. These things are all destined for change as we prepare the way for Lord’s return.
Eph 3:8-11
To me, the very least of all saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ, and to bring to light what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God who created all things; so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places.
The responsibility we have to walk fully in the truths that have been hidden up to now, carries a world changing consequence.
Jeremiah 7:22-24
"For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. "But this is what I commanded them, saying, ' Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you will walk in all the way which I command you, that it may be well with you.'
We swear that Yhvh ordered Israel to offer sacrifices from what we read in these very verses, (That Jeremiah warns about the scribes corrupting), yet we ignore this verse. Is Jeremiah lying here, was he lying when he said Yhvh accused the scribes of destroying the truths in the books of the prophets? It was reported to me that when Abraham set out to sacrifice Isaac that God was calling for sacrifice, yet it was God that did not allow the sacrifice to continue. Was it, therefore, a call to establish sacrifice or a call to establish obedience or Yhvh stopping Abraham from an ongoing tradition of man’s? Sacrifice was a way of the times in the day of Cain and Abel and beyond the day of Yeshua. From Jeremiah's statement, it was not the way of Yhvh, but the way of man. How long are we to continue to justify the ways of man by blaming our God? Why do we twist and reject the clues to the truths about the writings within the bible and accept the terrifying things Yhvh is accused of?
To have a friend, a person has to choose to be that friend, any force or coercion would not harvest a true friend. We must, through our own "free will", choose to be friends with Lord. Friendship is not a thing that can be created, not even by the Master Creator! The difference is clearly a condition of the heart and a warning to all who stand behind the pulpit. The Pharisees and teachers of the law, to whom Yeshua spoke, taught what served them best. Those who teach from the pulpit today must not succumb to the Pharisees’ unrighteous practices but teach what serves God and His flock best, letting Lord worry about their needs.
Matt 7:21-23
"Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. "Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?' "And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.'
Each day I learn more about the controlling factors that misguide our desires from following our Lord in all his ways. Those in the shadows of the pulpit often create an influence binding the Spirit of God as they try to guide the pulpit by flexing the power of their flesh.
When the elders, deacons, or mentoring pastors of churches manifest control over the pulpit they stifle the Spirit of God. This arrogant assumption of power is not emanating from the Spirit of God but comes from the father of lies and through our own self importance.
As seems demanded the congregation is the loosening of the truths about God. It is manifest in the preaching of motivational, manipulative or patronizing speeches:
2 Tim 4:3
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.
Motivating or patronizing sermons serve not the heart of Yhvh.
Mark 7:7-8
BUT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING AS DOCTRINES THE PRECEPTS OF MEN.' "Neglecting the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men."
Rather than seeking God’s perfection of the body through trust, unity and good stewardship, we serve ourselves and when we feel good about hearing such things we proclaim them to be from Yhvh himself. This incites those pastors to preach the precepts of man even more.
Eph 4:14-16
As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Messiah, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.
In the days of Yeshua, Almighty God knew men of today would be following the same path as the Pharisees and that we would have to cease such practices before we would truly know who our Lord is in His heart and become one body, unified under the headship of Yeshua.
Matt 15:6
You have allowed the traditions of man to make null and void the Word of Yhvh. CJB
It is clear that our traditions themselves nullify the Word of God, making it as though He had never been. These things are all destined for change as we prepare the way for Lord’s return.
Eph 3:8-11
To me, the very least of all saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ, and to bring to light what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God who created all things; so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places.
The responsibility we have to walk fully in the truths that have been hidden up to now, carries a world changing consequence.
Jeremiah 7:22-24
"For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. "But this is what I commanded them, saying, ' Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you will walk in all the way which I command you, that it may be well with you.'
We swear that Yhvh ordered Israel to offer sacrifices from what we read in these very verses, (That Jeremiah warns about the scribes corrupting), yet we ignore this verse. Is Jeremiah lying here, was he lying when he said Yhvh accused the scribes of destroying the truths in the books of the prophets? It was reported to me that when Abraham set out to sacrifice Isaac that God was calling for sacrifice, yet it was God that did not allow the sacrifice to continue. Was it, therefore, a call to establish sacrifice or a call to establish obedience or Yhvh stopping Abraham from an ongoing tradition of man’s? Sacrifice was a way of the times in the day of Cain and Abel and beyond the day of Yeshua. From Jeremiah's statement, it was not the way of Yhvh, but the way of man. How long are we to continue to justify the ways of man by blaming our God? Why do we twist and reject the clues to the truths about the writings within the bible and accept the terrifying things Yhvh is accused of?