No, they stiffened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a leader to return them to their slavery. However, they stubbornly turned their shoulders, stiffened their necks and refused to hear. Many years you extended them mercy and warned them by your Spirit through your prophets; yet they would not listen. For you have treated us fairly. It is we who have acted wickedly. Nehemiah 9:17 y 29-30 y 33
The same Yeshua you handed over and disowned before Pilate, even after he had decided to release him. You denied the holy and innocent one, and instead asked for the reprieve of a murderer! You killed the author of life! So that he might bless you by turning each one of you from your evil ways.” Acts 3:13-15 y 26
All this teaching from the Lord today is excellent as always, but the one verse which sticks out the most to me is the last one. “So that he might bless you by turning each one of you from your evil ways.” The short of that verse is he cannot bless you in your sin and evil ways. Even if those evil ways are not sin as we know it, they are still evil in the sight of God.
The other part of the teaching which struck me and is similar is the first one where it says In their rebellion they appointed a leader to return them to their slavery. We do not understand this one until you make the Lord God your God. In other words you hear him and obey him, not a man leader. That man leader might be a political leader or a religious leader or anyone. As an example right now one of our owners in our condo development is trying to take over things and get everyone to do things her way. I laid down the law this morning with her about it. Telling her if another owner has a problem with something involving me, then that person gets in touch, not you for them.
The second thing helps to define who God is, because the owners here want to finish the federal zone. I got it to a certain place where it looks OK, finished but not finished. I made it where the weeds are not growing and taking over things, but it still needs a final touch. Because I really do not care how it looks in the end, because I know the other owners are particular and will do something good. I let them have their way with it, I do not want to deal with them as they all have different ideas. But because of this one owner, I set some rules which the main one is they are not to take anything down already done. I watch her and she is never satisfied, she paints something and then repaints it, or changes something and then changes it again. Over and over. If she wants to stay in that dysfunction, she can do what she wants on her dime, but not on ours.
The point of this is, this is how God works with us, he gives us guidelines we are to follow. In the old days those guidelines they had to try their best to keep, they did not have the Holy Spirit to help them. Today we do “IF” you seek and ask for the Holy Spirit.
But the problem is many religious people think they have the Holy Spirit when they do not. There religion tells them they received it in some certain way like confirmation if you are catholic or a sinners prayer or other nonsense. But you have not received anything and it shows in your works (actions) or the way you live.
This is a slightly different message this morning, which is how the sheep (the people who just want to follow someone) how they follow whatever man leader who makes himself the boss. And who that boss worships and pushes.
In the old testament days, the Hebrews cried out for someone to set them free, and God sent Moses. And Moses did set them free from Egypt, but then they complained about their conditions in the desert. And the first moment Moses was gone for too long, another man raised up and took charge and they built a golden calf as their god.
This story repeats over and over, one generation is strong in God and full of wonderment at what he does, like parting the red sea and then drowning the Egyptians. And the next generation is looking for any opportunity to find another God, one that won’t give them a bunch of rules to follow and accept them the way they are.
I am watching people these days who demand we accept their emotional rollercoaster as being good and OK. They see themselves as good people, and do not even begin to understand the problems they bring to themselves and the people around them. They think they are right a=when they are wrong. And it is only the Holy Spirit who can show you this, because if a man tries to point things out, they rebel against it and call the prophets God has given judgmental and other things.
They run to their men teachers who tell them they are good and alright with God, that he accepts you as you are, just try your best or go to confession when you sin. But they do not ever fix the root cause of the sin. Much like the medical system, they treat the problem with drugs which then make things worse. Instead of finding the problem which normally goes back to eating poorly.
The Holy Spirit addresses two main things in us, both the same one thing. The Spirit shows you the root cause in you and your way of living, the lies you live in instead of the truth you should live in. and if you accept it and make the changes the Spirit shows you, then he heals you and your life turns to good. There is NO MAN teacher involved in this, so why do we go to a church and make a man teacher we call our pastor (when there is only one pastor, the Messiah). And listen to them instead of the truth in the Spirit of truth? This is your judgment of eternal salvation or damnation. Did you listen to God and obey him and stop following your men teachers who tell you what you want to hear, and die unto your emotions which keep you in dysfunction which leads to sin? Because this is exactly what your emotions do to you. No matter if you are a demanding person or a follower. A demanding person thinks they are always right and if you do not agree with them and do it their way, then you are selfish. A follower will do whatever the leader tells them to do, even if they know it is wrong. Many times they just want to be told what they are doing is OK, to which a demanding person will always tell them what they want them to do.
Neither is right with God, although it is easier for a follower to find his peace with God because they simply have to change their focus from following a man to hearing and following the Lord. But a demanding person, one who thinks they are the best and everyone needs to follow them, not the other way around. They have a very hard time coming to surrender to God, because in their religious beliefs they are the ones going to God and dictating how he should do things. They do not go to God asking how they should do things.
This world under the power of satan teaches us to be either one of these two types of people and to believe these men teachers are special and deserve our attention and it is of God to do so. But it is not, and the bible is full of examples showing this. But satan wants us to either just follow the crowd or if you are demanding that you follow your own emotional ways and he does everything possible to keep you out of the truth. Either type of person you are, he wins your soul. We must repent of our ways or follow the ways of other men and start to follow God and his ways in order to find peace and know you are on the right path to salvation. And to find the peace and good life we want while here in this world. We must move ourselves mentally from the Kingdom of men and satan and into the Kingdom of God which wells up inside us. In this Kingdom of God you will be living in the world but not of it. The religions allow you to live in the world and be of it while still being OK with God, and that is NEVER taught in all the scriptures for over 6,000 years.
This whole idea of denying yourself and dying onto yourself and living to the Messiah, just does not sound like a good idea to us, so we ignore this one simple truth we must follow to find our peace and salvation. They both escape us because we do not “seek first the Kingdom of God and its righteousness, so we get “the everything else.” Instead we seek men who tell us to “seek the everything else” and just go to church and give your money to them. And honor the government and give your money to them also. And what we do not understand is these organizations are keeping us broke financially and Spiritually, and destroying our bodies because of what they tell us and we believe enough to follow.
When you come to know God like I do, then you see clearly just how insane that is. Just how evil the spirit of men is. Until then we do not see it.
Now I am not saying we should go out and overthrow our governments and start a rebellion. God never taught this either, he gives us all free choice. But as a disciple, he commands me and everyone else who is a disciple to tell the people he is the way, truth and light and help them understand they will NOT find salvation in any other way. Their religion and government beliefs will not save them. We let the weeds grow with the wheat, and Yeshua with his angels will harvest the wheat in the end and take it to the barns, and then cut down the weeds and burn them in the fire.
Last point, which is over and over the Jews went from obeying God to disobeying and having major problems. The problem is what made them repent to come back to God because they ended up in bondage. The teaching today for mNehemiah tells this exact story of how the Jews were scattered to different countries and under the power of those Kings who made them slaves, using them in really evil ways. So they cried out and repented and eventually were set free by the Lord Adonai.
The question today is not if the people have abandoned sound doctrine and have followed their own evil desires of their evil heart or not. The question is as the men in charge of the world tighten the screws more and more daily, will you go along with it and allow it to happen? Because with AI and robotics and what they are doing, you will have no freedom, nor will you be able to buy and sell unless you follow their evil ways.
So one of two things happens, either there is a major war world wide. Not one of countries against countries but one of the people of the countries rising up against their men leaders and holding them accountable. And destroying the things they will use to control us. And people go back to seeking the true living God and obey him and he brings freedom and salvation to you.
Or this time is the end of time and the people are so brainwashed they remain in their sin and go along with the bondage and only complain and curse God for it, like it is his fault you decided to do things on your own instead of obeying him.
The other parietal solution is to just bug out of the man made kingdom and enter into the Kingdom of God where everything changes. Why? Because my focus is not of the things of the world, and what I will eat or wear. My focus is on doing the will of God and letting him feed me and cloth me and give me shelter. He has shown me the world is full of food, it is all around us. The deer and rabbits, raising a cow or sheep. Or chickens. Picking the apples and other fruits from trees around us. Gathering veggies and even what we call weeds which are extremely healthy for us like dandelions.
I did not pay taxes into the system they created to take all your money last year and for years I did pay into it, but very little legally based on what I made and how to use the system they created for themselves to tax the normal man while not paying into it themselves. And then how to direct those tax dollars into their pockets either with legal or illegal currput policies. But either way you are supporting their tyranny.
Once you stop making fiat money and start living a simple life off grid and not eating their trash foods that are making you sick and killing you, then you will feel even more freedom. And you will understand how by following the man made system it took your freedom. The problem is if everyone accepts the system and does not thing about it, letting these extremely evil men lead us while they rap our kids, kill them and drink their blood, give us vaccines as they call them which make us infertile and sick and kill many people. It will bring in the end of times and it will affect even men like me who check out of the system. Because how will you own land and be able to pay the property taxes, gas for your car… The few things you must be a part of in the system no matter what you do. Unless you live in a tent on some remote beach, fishing everyday and gathering. But according to the bible, those of us who do this, and check out of the system. They will find us and kill us, just like they have done for many years.
Our blood will be on the hands of those who obey and remain in the system. Along with all the other sin and evil they commit e in the eyes of God, and their judgment will be worse.