Saturday, April 9, 2016

The Reason for His Instructions

Jude 1:3...  while I take all pains to write to you of our common life, it is needful for me to write to you, encouraging you to maintain a conflict for the faith which was once delivered to the Set Apart believers.

In doing a study on YHWH's set apart times, His fixed times that are popularly referred to as 'feast' days, I came to Deuteronomy 4 where Moses is summarizing the past 40 or so years. One should read all Deuteronomy and feel the emotions of Moses as he relates the past events and Yah's intentions, one final time, to that stiff necked people, who angered him so much yet he still stood before Elohim and interceded for them. 

The reason for the laws and rules:
 
To abide by them... to observe them Faithfully, for that will be Proof of our wisdom and discernment to other people, that YHWH our Elohim is with us and His laws and rules are as Perfect as all His Teaching.


Deuteronomy 4:35 YHWH has clearly demonstrated that He alone is Elohim and there is none beside Him - He is Elohim in heaven above and on earth below - there is no other.
Observe His laws and commandments that it may go well with you and your children.
Deuteronomy 6:3 Obey willingly and faithfully
Deuteronomy 6:21 We obey His instructions because we were slaves (to the world system, habits, traditions, doctrines of men etc...) and He freed us with a Mighty Hand... and will give us the land He promised to our fathers (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob).
Deuteronomy 6:24 We are to observe all the laws, to revere YHWH our Elohim, for our lasting good and for our Survival, as is now the case. It will be therefore to our merit before YHWH our Elohim to observe faithfully this Whole Instruction (found in Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy) as He has commanded us.
Deuteronomy 8: Yah tests us by hardships to learn what is in our hearts: whether we will keep His Commandments .... or not.




What does YHWH demand of us? Only this: to revere YHWH our Elohim, to walk ONLY in His paths, to Love Him and Serve Him with all our heart and soul, keeping His commandments and laws, For Our Own Good....

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