My friends:
Please listen to this Truth that my Father has shown me. I write this article in humility, as the Father speaks not only through me, but also to me. Yes I tell you, this is what it means to die daily!
My friends:
Our flesh wants us to do wrong.
Galations 5
17 For the flesh wants what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit wants what is contrary to the flesh. These oppose each other.
But we are commanded to die to our fleshly nature.
Ephesians 4
22 As far as your former way of life is concerned, you must strip off your fleshly nature, because your fleshly nature is thoroughly rotted by its deceptive desires; 23 and you must let your spirit and mind keep being renewed, 24 and clothe yourselves with the new attitude created to be like YHWH, which expresses itself in the righteousness and holiness that flow from the Truth.
That means that we are to reject ALL wrong doings!
Romans 12
9b Recoil from what is evil, and cling to what is good.
Romans 12
21 Do not be conquered by evil, but conquer evil with righteousness!
2Timothy 2
22 Run away from the evil things that young people long for. Try hard to do what is right. Have faith, love and peace. Do these things together with those who call on YHWH from a pure heart.
My friends, we must run from every sin!
For don’t you know that:
Galatians 5
9 "A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough."
Yes I tell you, one drop of poison will ruin the whole gallon of water!
In just the same way, a small snake bite can kill a man 10,000 times it’s size!
We must run from wickedness for it is truly the most contagious and deadly plague man has ever seen! This is a virus that has consumed every human being on the entire planet! Yes indeed, sin is the mother of all plagues! A plague that our flesh craves!
You see, our flesh is at enmity with YHWH!
Romans 8
7 For the mind that is controlled by the fleshly nature is hostile to YHWH, because it does not submit itself to YHWH’s Torah - indeed, it cannot.
Galations 5
17 For the flesh wants what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit wants what is contrary to the flesh. These oppose each other.
My friends,
We are commanded to Live According To The Spirit of YHWH.
Romans 8
6 Having one's mind controlled by the fleshly nature is death, but having one's mind controlled by the Spirit is life and shalom.
We must have our mind controlled by His Spirit!
This means that we are to love and obey the Spirit of His Torah!
*Note the word “Spirit”. If we have the “Spirit of Torah” that means that we have the “Mindset of Torah”.
In other words, our mind and our attitude is consumed and controlled by True Love for YHWH and our fellow man!
My friends, please re-read that last part.
Please try to understand:
If you are a woman, do you want your husband to buy you flowers because he has to, or because He loves you? If you are a man, do you want your wife to have sex with you because she has to or because she loves you and wants to?
Father Yah is searching for people who obey His Torah because they love and want to please Him, not because they have to!
Are you seeing what I’m seeing?
Our Father wants us to be in love with Him! Consumed with Him! Controlled by Him! Not because of physical actions of Torah, but because of Spiritual!
You see friends, when we “love” the “Spirit of Torah”, physical obedience will naturally follow and it will do so because of a right heart!
1John 3
9 No one who has YHWH as his Father keeps on sinning, because the seed planted by YHWH remains in him. That is, he cannot continue sinning, because he has YHWH as his Father.
My friends, this is what it means to serve Him in Spirit and Truth!
Yes, this was prophesied long ago!
John 4
23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 YHWH is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."
So my friends, turn from evil and seek to love YHWH with a true love!
Because no man can serve two masters. You cannot love righteousness and evil!
Matthew 6
24 No one can be slave to two masters; for he will either hate the first and love the second, or scorn the second and be loyal to the first.
So you can see that we each have an ultimatum:
By what will we be led? Spirit or Flesh.
My friends, we must not put the cart in front of the horse!
A cart does not pull a horse! No! A horse pulls a cart!
If we put the horse in front of the cart, then the cart will indeed travel with us; for the horse will pull it!
Here is what I am saying:
The horse is True Love.
The cart is physical obedience to Torah.
Please re-read that part again.
Meditate on it until you understand it completely, for in it you will find true life!
Dear people,
the first step to "Living According To The Spirit" is to want the desire to do right!
And what is “right”?
Doing “right” is “Loving YHWH!”
Matthew 22
37 "You are to love YHWH your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.' 38 This is the greatest and most important mitzvah.
39 And a second is similar to it, You are to love your neighbor as yourself.' 40 All of the Torah and the Prophets are dependent on these two mitzvot."
People,
No one can want to do wrong,....... but still do right.
Read that statement again.
You cannot want to do wrong, but still do right.
It is truly impossible to do so if you live by the Spirit of YHWH!
Also:
No one can love their flesh, yet live by the Spirit....... It just doesn't work!
John 12
25 He who loves his life loses it, but he who hates his life in this world will keep it safe right on into eternal life!
So what am I saying? I am saying that wherever your treasure is, that is where your heart will be also!
Matthew 6
21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
We must make our treasure the desire to do right!
As I stated above, no man can want to do wrong, and yet still do right!
But after we desire to want to do right.... then we can do right!
Again:
This is what doing right is:
Matthew 22
37 "You are to love YHWH your Elohim with all your heart!"
Whoever loves YHWH will surely follow YHWH!
John 4
24 YHWH is Spirit.
How do we follow YHWH?
Do as the the SPIRIT of YHWH does!
And what does the Spirit of YHWH do?
Galatians 5
22 But the fruit of YHWH’s Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, righteousness, faithfulness, 23 humility, self control. Nothing in the Torah stands against such things. 24 Moreover, those who belong to the Messiah Yeshua have put their old nature to death on the stake, along with its passions and desires!
My friends, if you are living by the Spirit of YHWH, then you will bear such fruit also!
Listen to me! Live by the Spirit, for Spirit is Life!
If any man is without this fruit of the Spirit, that man is truly dead!
Romans 8
6a Having one's mind controlled by the fleshly nature is death....
But if a man does produce this fruit of the Spirit, then the Father will prune him! This way he will produce even bigger fruit!
Romans 8
6b ...but having one's mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace.
John 15
1 "I am the real vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 Every branch which is part of me but fails to bear fruit, he cuts off; and every branch that does bear fruit, he prunes, so that it may bear more fruit.
My friends,
obeying Torah is useless for a person without a Humble Heart and a Right Attitude!
For such a person may as well eat and drink whatever he wants! Go ahead and party it up! For such a persons destination is the same as the heathen! His heart is far from Torah! Yes, although he physically obeys Torah, his heart is far from it!
Listen to what Yahusha says to such people:
Matthew 23
27 "Woe to you hypocritical Torah-teachers and P'rushim! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look fine on the outside but on the inside you are full of dead people's bones and all kinds of rottenness. 28 Likewise, you appear to people from the outside to be righteous and honest, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and far from Torah!
Luke 11
42 "But woe to you P'rushim! You pay your tithes of mint and rue and every garden herb, but you ignore justice and the love of YHWH. Yes you have an obligation to do these things -- but without disregarding the others!
My friends,
seek to desire true love!
We must give up control of our heart, so that YHWH can cause us to Truly Love Him!
Please re-read the last statement one more time.
My beloved friends, how critical this truly is!
Deuteronomy 30
15 "Look! I am presenting you today with, on the one hand, life and good; and on the other, death and evil - 16 in that I am ordering you today to love YHWH your Elohim, to follow his ways, and to obey his mitzvot, regulations and rulings.
My friends, YHWH expects our love to be true to Him! We must follow Him in Spirit (and in Truth)!
We MUST love Him with an honest heart!
My friends,
Matthew 5
48 Be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
Shalom!
Barabba
