The Church has been so Romanized after the signing of the Council of Nicea that for the most part it still rejects the WORD of YAH (God) - His laws and commandments. That is why moral standards have become “relative” and homosexuals can actually officiate in some churches. In many worship teams there are people in some kind of immorality and many pastors hide the sin of lust and adultery. Shabbat has been replaced by Sunday and the Holy feasts (Leviticus 23) for Pagan Feasts. Most Christians call this “freedom” but this is nothing but paganism because His laws have become the “enemy” instead of carnality and sin being the TRUE ENEMY!
We think that if we pray more then we will see REVIVAL and I totally agree that PRAYER is an extremely important KEY for REVIVAL but prayer should lead us to REPENTANCE for breaking YahÂ’s Commandments and for rejecting them altogether. In fact if we will not repent of this and go back to OBEDIENCE our prayers will be rejected!
“He who turns away his ear from listening to the law, even his prayer is an abomination.” Proverbs 28:9
The Hebrew for “Hearing the Law” is the word SHMA which means: TO HEAR AND TO DO!
Contrary to what many think, loving the Law of Elohim will not lead us to LEGALISM. Legalism is a demonic religious spirit and attitude that flows from a prideful, self righteous and unrepentant heart. When we love the Law we always trust in His mercy and compassion and we become totally dependent in His Holy Spirit. We realize that we need His help at every step. Those that love His Law become totally aware that “in our weakness He is made strong”. King David kept an attitude of brokenness and faith before Yah. Loving His Law-Torah makes us sensitive to His Holy Spirit and careful and ALERT in our walk.
“So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling;” Philippians 2:12
Prayer and meditation in His Word becomes a way of life at all times. The Fear of Yahveh rules our lives rather than the fear of man or of circumstances! Keeping His laws and commandments is as much a matter of a PURE HEART as it is a matter of RIGHT BEHAVIOR. BOTH GO HAND IN HAND! Religious hypocrites may “do the right thing externally but their hearts are full of sin and that is why they judge others rather than themselves.
"Behold, days are coming," declares Yahveh, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them," declares Yahveh. “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days," declares Yahveh,” I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their Elohim, and they shall be My people. "They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, 'Know Yahveh,' for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them," declares Yahveh, "for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more." Jeremiah 31:31-34
The TRUE MARK of the New Covenant is that the LAW is written in our hearts and minds, not in tablets of stone but in hearts of flesh. When we reject Yah’s Commandments, call them “bondage” and those that teach them “judaizers” (which is a very Anti Semitic term), we are actually rejecting the NEW COVENANT and the Agent of the New Covenant, the Jewish Messiah! Many Christians are about to be broken off the Olive Tree for rejecting the Law of God. (Romans 11:17-24)
"Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?' "And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.' Matthew 7:22-23
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