Torah Reading:
Psa 50:1
The mighty El, even YHWH, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.Psa 50:2
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, Elohim hath shined.Psa 50:3
Our Elohim shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.Psa 50:4
He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.Psa 50:5
Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.Psa 50:6
And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for Elohim is judge himself. Selah.Psa 50:7
Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am Elohim, even thy Elohim.Psa 50:8
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.Psa 50:9
I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.Psa 50:10
For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.Psa 50:11
I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.Psa 50:12
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.Psa 50:13
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?Psa 50:14
Offer unto Elohim thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:Psa 50:15
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.Psa 50:16
But unto the wicked Elohim saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?Psa 50:17
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.Psa 50:18
When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.Psa 50:19
Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.Psa 50:20
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.Psa 50:21
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.Psa 50:22
Now consider this, ye that forget Eloah, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.Psa 50:23
Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of Elohim.
I Ain't Got No Message!
1Pe 2:11-12 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; (12) Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify YHWH in the day of visitation.
When people don't think they have a message to send.. they are wrong! We each send messages every day!!
What message are you giving with your life each day? What are you portraying to people? How do people view "YHWH" when you tell them that you are His Child??
Gal 1:13 For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of YHWH, and wasted it:
Conversation = Lifestyle
1Pe 3:1-2 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; (2) While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
Psa 50:23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I show the salvation of Elohim.
2Co 1:12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and righteous sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of YHWH, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
Heb 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Jas 3:13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
1Pe 1:13-18 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of YHWSHUA Messiah; (14) As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: (15) But as he which hath called you is Set Apart, so be ye Set Apart in all manner of conversation; (16) Because it is written, Be ye Set Apart; for I am Set Apart. (17) And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: (18) Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
2Pe 3:10-12 But the day of YHWH will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. (11) Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all Set Apart conversation and righteousness, (12) Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of YHWH, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
No corrupt comunication - Are we speaking words of life or death? Are people blessed or do we cause discouragement with our lips?
Eph 4:24-32 And that ye put on the new man, which after YHWH is created in righteousness and true holiness. (25) Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another. (26) Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: (27) Neither give place to the devil. (28) Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. (29) Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. (30) And grieve not the Set Apart Spirit of YHWH, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. (31) Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: (32) And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as YHWH for Messiah's sake hath forgiven you.
Col 3:8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Eph 5:4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
1Co 15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Does our lifestyle draw others closer.. or push them away from YHWH?
People killing Abortionists, kill the Muslims, Kill the Catholics.... etc
Disloyalty, impure language, blasphemy (how many times have you and I heard Believers swear using YHWH's Name in vain?), Causing schisms throughout His people. Little wonder that so many non believers say words to the effect ‘...if that’s a Believer...’.
So many believers walk in the flesh (and the lusts of the flesh).... no wonder the world says, "If THAT's a believer.. I don't want to be one!"
Eph 2:3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Eph 4:22-23 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; (23) And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
Php 3:17-20 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an example. (18) (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Messiah: (19) Whose end is destruction, whose Elohim is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) (20) For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Savior, the Master YHWSHUA Messiah:
Php 1:27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Messiah: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
1Ti 4:12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
1Pe 3:15-17 But sanctify The Master YHWH in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: (16) Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Messiah. (17) For it is better, if the will of YHWH be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
Do people see YHWH in us???
1Ti 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of righteousness: YHWH was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with YHWH, and the Word was YHWH.
Joh 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
How?
ONLY by our Love for All of YHWH's creation!
1Jn 4:7-13 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of YHWH; and every one that loveth is born of YHWH, and knoweth YHWH. (8) He that loveth not knoweth not YHWH; for YHWH is love. (9) In this was manifested the love of YHWH toward us, because that YHWH sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. (10) Herein is love, not that we loved YHWH, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. (11) Beloved, if YHWH so loved us, we ought also to love one another. (12) No man hath seen YHWH at any time. If we love one another, YHWH dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. (13) Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. (As seen by the love we eminate)
1Jn 4:15-21 Whosoever shall confess that YHWSHUA is the Son of YHWH (by living as a son of YHWH! (See vs 17)), YHWH dwelleth in him, and he in YHWH. (16) And we have known and believed the love that YHWH hath to us. YHWH is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in YHWH, and YHWH in him. (17) Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. (18) There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. (19) We love him, because he first loved us. (20) If a man say, I love YHWH, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love YHWH whom he hath not seen? (21) And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth YHWH love his brother also.