Some sober-minded questions. Are you prepared to die? Will the guillotine finally set you free?
Podcast: May 2022 – Are You Prepared To Die?
Some sober-minded questions. Are you prepared to die? Will the guillotine finally set you free?
Jerry. I love your calm peaceful sincere voice. It is soothing. I hear your emotion. Yet your topic is Yahusha authoritative. I don’t like using the word “power” when establishing our strength in Yahusha or Yahuah. Power seems to me to be associated with sin, evil and human government rule. They have power. But we have authority in Christ Yahusha. WE HAVE AUTHORITY IN AND THRU YAHUSHA. Authority. I can’t get that out of my mind and my heart. So how does that strong eternal word “authority” have to do with this podcast and your topic of preparing for physical death? Power attempts to defy death, to escape it through human attempt, to control what is not intended to be controlled, manipulated, changed. However, alternatively, authority accelerates the follower towards death. Accelerating towards physical death is welcomed when we comprehend (and practice) the authority WE HAVE in Christ. There is much more to unpack with this thought of authority, but maybe that unpacking will come at a later date as times maneuver through this darkness cause light is being shined on it.
David, remember late last year when I asked you to spend time considering the authority of Yahuah? It might even be in a reply to your comment, or it was in a discussion after Shabbat service. His authority is complete over all that ever existed, exists or will exist. He cannot make a bad call. Whatsoever He declares or allows into being is only by His Will. Even Satan’s rebellion was totally subject to the authority of Yahuah. I don’t think Yahuah even lifted a finger to throw them out of heaven. I think the angels in heaven did all that work themselves. And I’m sure they were extremely passionate about breaking the mutiny. His authority is over every galaxy and every photon in it. He knows with perfect precision where every proton will be in its orbit in all of the mass that exists at any given point in time, no matter how fine that point is, and where that same energy will be a quadrillion eons from any point in time. He is always correct, and He gave us His attributes, David. When He was fed up with the Hebrews and wanted to kill ALL of them in the wilderness, Moses asked Him to let them live. So did Yahuah make a mistake that He wished to correct? No. He kept His promise to Abraham even though it greatly pained Him to do so. He paid a price, you see. There was a cost to keeping His promise, but He kept it. He did not want to. — These same characteristics are within us. We make a promise and regret it, but we keep it at significant cost. That is an attribute of Yahuah, and part of being in His image. We behave like Him, we hurt like Him and when we keep our word and worship Him through obedience to the inconvenience of Torah, we ARE like Him. 🙂 Authority – He has it. All of it.
Yes. I do remember. And I have been spending a lot of free time considering His authority.
It is without limit, David. When He issues an edict, He is correct, and when He changes His mind, He is correct. Infallible because He is perfect, not perfect because He is infallible. Perfection is He, and limitless is His being. He is aware of all, created all, knows all, observes all and created us like him, including the free will to do evil if we choose to. And we do choose to. Several icons of the faith were murderers, David. What was Yahuah’s position on those murders? Don’t google it, just think about what you know so far in your walk. That’s what matters. Not what someone else has written.
Because King David trusted Yahuah and placed his complete faith in Him, I would conclude that Yahuah’s position on those murders was forgiveness, grace and peace. Yahuah allowed King David to continue on, to lead, to crush his enemy and bring judgement to the enemy of Yahuah.
Well, David was punished severely, but Yahusha will still rule from David’s throne. And there was Paul and also Moses. Not a peep.