THE WAY YAHWEH SEES IT,
"IN TORAH,
BEING 'ALWAYS NICE'
IS ACTUALLY A FORM OF HATRED"
Shalom dear "called-out" brethren everywhere, in Torah (or "biblically speaking"), the popular christian ‘Only Being Nice’ Doctrine, is actually a form of hatred.
No wonder so many people convert to islam or other legalistic codes: the traditional church is weak and insipid! Its people are! And Torah teaches that weakness is one of the worst forms of hatred:
Proverbs 13:24 reads: "Those who spare the rod of discipline HATE their children." In other words, those who love their children care enough to discipline them.
Why is it a form of hatred not to discipline our children?
Proverbs 23:14 again states: "You shall strike him with the rod And rescue his soul from Sheol." However, this principle not only applies to parents and their children. We discipline all our beloved ones to save their souls from sheol/death!
The principle applies to all, my dear brothers and sisters –--and when we refuse to (preferably boldly, but lovingly) speak correction where and when it is needed, for fear of upsetting people, we manifest a form of despise toward them. We are actually despising their salvation!
And at the same time we are becoming guilty of their blood, should they end up losing their salvation!
Paul was fully aware of this principle when he said it very cearly:
In acts 20:26 he states the following: “Therefore, I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men. For I did NOT SHRINK from declaring to you the whole purpose of Yahweh.”
Dearly beloved, Shaul knew very well that he could not spare the rod nor hide the truth from anyone "called" by Our Father and Creator Yahweh, and he did not shy away or refuse to get involved from declaring to them the WHOLE KODESH PLAN or "purpose of Yahweh" for fear they would not understand it, or turn against him and persecute him, or reject it..or whatever! To him, it was much better giving them the opportunity to save themselves, rather than let them remain forever trapped in sheol/death!
In other words, Yahweh's called-out have to be rescued by the annointed elders and by anyone who can spare his brother or sister from from an otherwise inminent death!---unless those elders and followers of Yahshua Ha Mashiach don't want or care to later be "innocent of the blood of all men" in the eyes of Yahweh!
Yet, today so many elders and followers alike, claim to ‘being more loving’ by not admonishing or correcting others. The way they are "showing love" by shrinking from correcting others is Scripturally wrong. Trying to appear "nice" and "merciful" by not saving others from their mistakes, is utterly sinful!
The finality of that perverted "doctrine of love" is simply "not to make others feel bad nor guilty" about themselves, at the expense of turning them over to Satan and to eventual eternal death! Dear ones, there is not an ounce of love in that behaviour! Quite the opposite: there is such arrogance in our hearts when we place our judgements and preferences above the Word of Yahweh...
Yahweh is not fooled by our cowardice....which He knows obviously results in unfaithfulness. We sould pray:
“Oh Father, oh Yahshua; help me to always speak out the things You put on my heart, even if it costs me persecution, hatred, and my own life, as it did with You and so many other miridas of your followers, and may I never show hatred for others by ‘only being nice.’ Help me to truly love others by always speaking Your truth in boldness and humility.”
Yahushua really was not being very "nice" when He said in Matt. 12:34: "You brood of snakes! How could evil men like you speak what is good and right?……
(and Matt 23:27) "…For you are like whitewashed tombs–beautiful on the outside but filled on the inside with dead people’s bones..."
Does not sound like the ‘ever-so-gentle and kind Messiah’ many make Him out to be! Does it? On the contrary, my fellow beloved brethren, Truth and His Father’s Kingdom was far above sin, error and feelings.
Followers of Yahweh and Yahshua need to grow up, toughen up, stand up, speak up ...and sometimes get beaten up ("love not your lives even to death") whatever the majority politically-correct blind contingent in and out of the Kehilah are saying!
Stand firm with Yahshua, and speak up... or keep silent (let alone defend it) and be doing the work of Ha Satan. It's one or the other. It is as clear as that!
We need ‘Scriptural Correctness’ and "Torah correcteness"---not political correctness!
“Oh Father, help me to be so obedient and be prepared to pay the price of ‘filling up what is lacking in Your sufferings’ (Col 1:24) (continue the work of Mashiach in the earth despite the personal costs) until I die or You return. May I always put You first and be a truly Scripturally Correct humble servant before You.
My dear brethren, if you think I just made that up, Col 1:24 plainly states it: "Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Mashiach’s afflictions for the sake of His body, that is, the Assembly/Kehilah."
It continually staggers me to see how so many Pastors, Ministers, Church elders and leaders, can read their Torah so inadequately...
And yet I know that this is exactly what Yahshua called ‘hardness of heart’ ... it is not just mere ignorance, and it will not be a legitimate excuse when we are required to give an account...!
We just do not want to really know what it says –--that it may actually cost us something. We do not really want to search it out until we know the Heart of Yahweh-- – it might actually cost us our reputation, some friends or members of our group, some comfort, our family, our jobs…
However this is the very thing we were CALLED TO. Without compromise!
The more we speak out against sinful attitudes and deeds, the more "set-apart" (holier/kodesh) we will become. And the holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him! Our beloved apostle Shaul proved it in his agonizing letters to the Romans and Corinthians. Shaul changed his heart entirely! He was given a new heart!
Yahweh said the following of "His chosen and faithful" in Ezekiel 36:26 “And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart.”
Being loved by Yahweh and Yahshua, does not diminish their command to obey them.
In Yahshua's brotherly love,
Rafael
No wonder so many people convert to islam or other legalistic codes: the traditional church is weak and insipid! Its people are! And Torah teaches that weakness is one of the worst forms of hatred:
Proverbs 13:24 reads: "Those who spare the rod of discipline HATE their children." In other words, those who love their children care enough to discipline them.
Why is it a form of hatred not to discipline our children?
Proverbs 23:14 again states: "You shall strike him with the rod And rescue his soul from Sheol." However, this principle not only applies to parents and their children. We discipline all our beloved ones to save their souls from sheol/death!
The principle applies to all, my dear brothers and sisters –--and when we refuse to (preferably boldly, but lovingly) speak correction where and when it is needed, for fear of upsetting people, we manifest a form of despise toward them. We are actually despising their salvation!
And at the same time we are becoming guilty of their blood, should they end up losing their salvation!
Paul was fully aware of this principle when he said it very cearly:
In acts 20:26 he states the following: “Therefore, I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men. For I did NOT SHRINK from declaring to you the whole purpose of Yahweh.”
Dearly beloved, Shaul knew very well that he could not spare the rod nor hide the truth from anyone "called" by Our Father and Creator Yahweh, and he did not shy away or refuse to get involved from declaring to them the WHOLE KODESH PLAN or "purpose of Yahweh" for fear they would not understand it, or turn against him and persecute him, or reject it..or whatever! To him, it was much better giving them the opportunity to save themselves, rather than let them remain forever trapped in sheol/death!
In other words, Yahweh's called-out have to be rescued by the annointed elders and by anyone who can spare his brother or sister from from an otherwise inminent death!---unless those elders and followers of Yahshua Ha Mashiach don't want or care to later be "innocent of the blood of all men" in the eyes of Yahweh!
Yet, today so many elders and followers alike, claim to ‘being more loving’ by not admonishing or correcting others. The way they are "showing love" by shrinking from correcting others is Scripturally wrong. Trying to appear "nice" and "merciful" by not saving others from their mistakes, is utterly sinful!
The finality of that perverted "doctrine of love" is simply "not to make others feel bad nor guilty" about themselves, at the expense of turning them over to Satan and to eventual eternal death! Dear ones, there is not an ounce of love in that behaviour! Quite the opposite: there is such arrogance in our hearts when we place our judgements and preferences above the Word of Yahweh...
Yahweh is not fooled by our cowardice....which He knows obviously results in unfaithfulness. We sould pray:
“Oh Father, oh Yahshua; help me to always speak out the things You put on my heart, even if it costs me persecution, hatred, and my own life, as it did with You and so many other miridas of your followers, and may I never show hatred for others by ‘only being nice.’ Help me to truly love others by always speaking Your truth in boldness and humility.”
Yahushua really was not being very "nice" when He said in Matt. 12:34: "You brood of snakes! How could evil men like you speak what is good and right?……
(and Matt 23:27) "…For you are like whitewashed tombs–beautiful on the outside but filled on the inside with dead people’s bones..."
Does not sound like the ‘ever-so-gentle and kind Messiah’ many make Him out to be! Does it? On the contrary, my fellow beloved brethren, Truth and His Father’s Kingdom was far above sin, error and feelings.
Followers of Yahweh and Yahshua need to grow up, toughen up, stand up, speak up ...and sometimes get beaten up ("love not your lives even to death") whatever the majority politically-correct blind contingent in and out of the Kehilah are saying!
Stand firm with Yahshua, and speak up... or keep silent (let alone defend it) and be doing the work of Ha Satan. It's one or the other. It is as clear as that!
We need ‘Scriptural Correctness’ and "Torah correcteness"---not political correctness!
“Oh Father, help me to be so obedient and be prepared to pay the price of ‘filling up what is lacking in Your sufferings’ (Col 1:24) (continue the work of Mashiach in the earth despite the personal costs) until I die or You return. May I always put You first and be a truly Scripturally Correct humble servant before You.
My dear brethren, if you think I just made that up, Col 1:24 plainly states it: "Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Mashiach’s afflictions for the sake of His body, that is, the Assembly/Kehilah."
It continually staggers me to see how so many Pastors, Ministers, Church elders and leaders, can read their Torah so inadequately...
And yet I know that this is exactly what Yahshua called ‘hardness of heart’ ... it is not just mere ignorance, and it will not be a legitimate excuse when we are required to give an account...!
We just do not want to really know what it says –--that it may actually cost us something. We do not really want to search it out until we know the Heart of Yahweh-- – it might actually cost us our reputation, some friends or members of our group, some comfort, our family, our jobs…
However this is the very thing we were CALLED TO. Without compromise!
The more we speak out against sinful attitudes and deeds, the more "set-apart" (holier/kodesh) we will become. And the holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him! Our beloved apostle Shaul proved it in his agonizing letters to the Romans and Corinthians. Shaul changed his heart entirely! He was given a new heart!
Yahweh said the following of "His chosen and faithful" in Ezekiel 36:26 “And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart.”
Being loved by Yahweh and Yahshua, does not diminish their command to obey them.
In Yahshua's brotherly love,
Rafael