“If you are united with me and my teaching… you will bear much fruit that glorifies God and demonstrates you are my student” (John 15:7-8). We are to learn from Yeshua, who teaches us the inner meaning of Torah, how to be rightly-related to God, and how to love others bekhol levavkha, with all our heart. This is the education for eternity. We are to be united with his words, his heart, and his vision for life. We set the Lord always before us; we know Him in all our ways; we live in devotion to the truth he taught. What truth? That God Himself entered our world to die on our behalf, to overcome our separation from life (1 Cor. 15:3-4). Yeshua delivers us from the curse of death by means of his shed blood and his resurrected life: Because he lives, we also live. This is the truth that sets us free. People who think that “freedom” means be able to walk after the lusts of their imaginations are really enslaved to their lower nature. Sin is a sign of weakness and cowardice, not strength; it reveals sickness of the spirit, not life and healing... Blindly following the crowd or yielding to the dictates of evil passion is slavery of the soul. True freedom is the power to walk in the light that overcomes the darkness.
Posted on: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 23:49:12 +0000