Genesis 1:1-3, 2 Corinthians 12:7-10

Genesis 1:1 ¶ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light."

Notice how Yahweh's frame of reference begins; in the beginning-God, Himself. How different from our view of life and existence. But if we are to go anywhere with the Father our journey must begin here: In the beginning God. Most people's spiritual walks begin with a crisis, some pain, hurt or emergency which in a fit of desperation sends them to their knees. Then they continue on ( if they continue on ) in the path of some minister, preacher, guru or charismatic other; and their path neatly hemmed in on every side by the standards of some organization, church or movement.

Most of these are easily stymied, easily discouraged, and their spiritual walks are completely self centered. Even their acts of piety and good works tend to be done in hopes of reward or "feeling good". Their ecstasies and their low points are all bound up in THEIR feelings, Their wants.

But if we start out as scripture, from the very beginning-Yahweh, we are not so unstable. Our spiritual walk is not about us at all, but rather about the Ever-Living Father. Our spiritual walk is not about what we want, but what He wants. When we live according to His needs, His goals, His agenda, ours no longer matters and suddenly the path becomes quite plain. When our ambitions end and He is allowed to truly be, The One and Only, all the emergencies, all the crises of our lives suddenly become very trivial.

Oh, the sting may still be felt, but it is much more manageable and that which could have been overwhelming, ends up being overwhelmed by He which in the beginning filled all the void with Himself. This is Yahweh, and He is our Elohim, our Mighty One, our God.

Father Yahweh, as I come before you through the blood of Yahoshua, the Lamb that was slain, I praise You and worship You, for You alone are the One True God, and besides you there is no other.

Forgive me Father, I pray, for all the times I live my life according to my own selfish will, striving for my own selfish desires. Teach me, I pray, to surrender all my life unto You and You alone.

HalleluYah!

0404 - The last gladiator competition was held in Rome.
1622 - The Papal Chancery adopted January 1st as the beginning of the New Year (instead of March 25th).

1772 - The first traveler's checks were issued in London.
1785 - London's oldest daily paper "The Daily Universal Register" (later renamed "The Times" in 1788) was first published.

1797 - Albany became the capital of New York state, replacing New York City.
1801 - The Act of Union of England and Ireland came into force.
1801 - Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi became the first person to discover an asteroid. He named it Ceres.
1804 - Haiti gained its independence.
1808 - The U.S. prohibited import of slaves from Africa.
1863 - U.S. President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all slaves in the rebel states were free.
1887 - Queen Victoria was proclaimed empress of India in Delhi.

1892 - Ellis Island Immigrant Station formally opened in New York.
1901 - The Commonwealth of Australia was founded. Lord Hopetoun officially assumed the duties as the first Governor-General.
1909 - The first payments of old-age pensions were made in Britain. People over 70 received five shillings a week.
1913 - The post office began parcel post deliveries.
1934 - The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) began operation. 1939 - The Hewlett-Packard partnership was formed.

1942 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued a declaration called the "United Nations." It was signed by 26 countries that vowed to create an international postwar World War II peacekeeping organization.
1945 - France was admitted to the United Nations.
1958 - The European Economic Community (EEC) started operations.
1959 - Fidel Castro overthrew the government of Fulgencio Batista, and seized power in Cuba. 1973 - Britain, Ireland, Denmark and Norway joined the EEC.
1975 - The magazine "Popular Electronics" announced the invention of a person computer called Altair. MITS, using an Intel microprocessor, developed the computer.
1981 - Greece joined the European Community.

1987 - A pro-democracy rally took place in Beijing's Tiananmen Square (China).
1993 - Czechoslovakia split into two separate states, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The peaceful division had been engineered in 1992.
1994 - The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect.
1995 - The World Trade Organization came into existence. The group of 125 nations monitors global trade.

1999 - The euro became currency for 11 Member States of the European Union. Coins and notes were not available until January 1, 2002.

January 2

Genesis 1:2, Revelation 12, Jeremiah 4,Luke 13:24, Matthew 12:43

Genesis 1:2 "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep."

Most people erroneously assume that Yahweh, the Ever-Living God, created a vast lump, but this just isn't true. In the original hebrew this verse means much more-"And the earth BECAME ruined or wasted, and empty." There is vast difference between what was said originally and what is now taught that this phrase said. In the original we see the Creator God bring forth the heavens and the earth, perfect in their inception, but something happened that changed all that. What could have happened to turn the perfectness of Yahweh's creation into a ruined, empty wasteland?

Sin happened.

Revelation 12:7-9 "And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him."

War stained the celestial dominion. Rebellion against the Lord and King of All the Universe. The result: destruction, chaos.

Interestingly, the hebrew mistranslated here as "without form and void" is tohu va bohu, and is found in only one other place in scripture.

Jeremiah 4:23 "I beheld the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form, and void; and the heavens, and they [had] no light." Sin and rebellion undid all that Yahweh had previously wrought, and so it is with each of us. If ever we are not mindful of our path, not careful to constantly "examine ourselves to see if we are in the truth"; sin can slip in unawares, and soon we too can become "ruined and empty". Think of the Messiah's words "STRIVE to enter in through the straight gate". This implies work, vigilance and aggression against anything that would lead us astray. So many people are quick to rationalize away secret sin, areas of their lives not surrendered to the Will of Yahweh God. But their end is before them,"and the latter state of that man is worse than the first."

But do not forget the second part of Genesis 1:2 "... And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." Wherever there is ruin, wherever there is emptiness, the Spirit of the Ever-Living God is ready to move upon it. When any man or woman returns and surrenders to the will and rule of the Father, His Holy Spirit stands ready to restore and recreate, to seperate the darkness from the light and again bring forth life.

Heavenly Father Yahweh, Creator of Heaven and Earth, Redeemer of that which is lost; create within me a clean heart and renew a right spirit within me, I pray. Deliver me I pray from all sin, from all selfish will and desire. Show me where I am not surrendered unto you and deliver me from all sin, even that which hides in the darkness. Let Your Holy Spirit move upon my ruined places and fill the empty places with yourself. Write your law upon my heart, and give unto me an obeidiant spirit.

In the Holy Name of Yahoshua I pray

HalleluYah!

1492 - The leader of the last Arab stronghold in Spain surrendered to Spanish forces loyal to King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I.
1788 - Georgia became the 4th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

1872 - Brigham Young, the 71-year-old leader of the Mormon Church, was arrested on a charge of bigamy. He had 25 wives.
1879 - Thomas Edison began construction on his first generator.

1910 - The first junior high school in the United States opened. McKinley School in Berkeley, CA, housed seventh and eighth grade students. In a separate building students were housed who attended grades 9-12.
1921 - The first religious broadcast on radio was heard on KDKA Radio in Pittsburgh, PA, as Dr. E.J. Van Etten of Calvary Episcopal Church preached.
1935 - Bruno Richard Hauptmann went on trial for the kidnap-murder of Charles Lindberghs baby. Hauptmann was found guilt and executed.
1960 - U.S. Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.
1968 - Dr. Christian Barnard performed the first successful heart transplant.

Genesis 1:4, Matthew 10:33, Revelation 18:4

Genesis 1:4 "And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the light from the darkness."

There are many today who seek to merge and unify, no matter what The Word of Yahweh God may have to say on a matter. The battle cry from pulpits today is unity, ecunemism. Trying to bring ALL people together to create their version of the "kingdom of God", they become the enemies of God, and only further the agenda of the "anti-God", satan.

"God divided..." From the very beginning we find Yahweh DIVIDING, never merging. Hodgepodges and conglomerations have no place in The Father's plan or His Kingdom. Consider Yahoshua's view: Matthew 10:33 "But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes [shall be] they of his own household.He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me."

Throughout all of scripture we are told," seperate yourselves, be ye seperate." and are called a "peculiar people", a "seperated people". Never in all of scripture are we commanded to mingle, merge our incorporate ourselves with the multitudes that are merging in our day and time. As far back as when Yahweh said "let there be light", He then proceeded to SEPERATE it from darkness. As far forward as when the Voice cries out "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." Yahweh's will is to seperate, to divide the light from the darkness. Too many think today that God expects them intermingle with the world so that they can win the lost. But they forget, the lost came to the Messiah.

Throughout Yahweh's immutable law we are shown EXACTLY what He considers darkness. But as the modern church of today throws away His law and plays hookie from "the schoolmaster", more and more outright abominations fill the pulpits and the pews. Everyone is quick to point out the evils in society, in government, in the nations as a whole, but how did they get here? Simple; they entered through the church, through those who should be Israel. How? We did not "divide the light from the darkness".

Satan's plan throughout the ages has always been merging. From Babylon (which name means literally confusion through mixture) to the Whore of Babylon in Revelation and the Laodicean church satan has always known that " a little leaven leavens the whole lump", and through a little mixture, a little merging, holiness and righteousness must be lessened in order to let in the unrighteous, thus, light becomes dimmed by darkness.

O Heavenly Father Yahweh, deliver us from all sin. You alone are light, and through Yahoshua the Messiah are the light of the world. Rid me of all darkness, that the light of Your Holy Spirit may flood my soul. Letme be a light unto you, O heavenly Father.

In the Name of Yahoshua

HalleluYah!

1496 - References in Leonardo da Vinci notebooks suggested that he tested his flying machine. The test didn't succeed and he didn't try to fly again for several years.

1521 - Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther.

1833 - Britain seized control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. About 150 years later, Argentina seized the islands from the British, but Britain took them back after a 74-day war.

1868 - The Shogunate was abolished in Japan and Meiji dynasty was restored.
1871 - Henry W. Bradley patented oleomargarine.
1924 - English explorer Howard Carter discovered the sarcophagus of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt.
1925 - In Italy, Mussolini announced that he would take dictatorial powers.

1938 - The March of Dimes was established by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The organization fights poliomyelitis. The original name of the organization was the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
1959 - In the U.S., Alaska became the 49th state.
1962 - Pope John XXIII excommunicated Cuban prime minister Fidel Castro.

1988 - Margaret Thatcher became the longest-serving British Prime Minister in the 20th century.
1990 - Ousted Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega surrendered to U.S. forces, 10 days after taking refuge in the Vatican's diplomatic mission.
1999 - Israeli authorities detained, and later expelled, 14 members of Concerned Christians. Israili officials claimed that the Denver, CO-based cult was plotting violence in Jerusalem to bring about the Second Coming of Christ.

Genesis 1:4, John 3:20, Luke 11:34, John 1:5, Matthew 5:14

Genesis 1:4 "And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the light from the darkness."

Light was never meant to be muddled with darkness. when light is unrestrained, unpolluted, it shines gloriously, making all things plain and revealing all things. John 3:20 "For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." But if the light is tainted by darkness, there is nothing glorious. Instead, all there is, is a gloominess.

Look at your own life. Are you letting the glory of the light of the whole world shine through you? Or is there instead a gloom, a terrible mixture of light and dark?

Luke 11:34 "The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when [thine eye] is evil, thy body also [is] full of darkness. Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness. If thy whole body therefore [be] full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light."

Why is there confusion, emptiness? Because there is as yet some darkness still hiding there. Darkness cannot, will not mix with light, that is why Yahweh God divided the two early on. Today darkness is considered "cool, hip". In today's world darkness is loved and exalted, while light is ridiculed, mocked and hated. John 1:5 "And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." Darkness cannot comprehend light and that is why Yahweh commands light to be seperated from dark.

Yahweh's people are not to resemble the rest of the world. Their doings are Not to be our doings, their actions are NOT to be our actions. Their world is a world of darkness, and we as the children of light have NO place in such a world. We are to be a "called out" people, a seperated people, a peculiar people. Trying to keep one foot in Yahweh's Kingdom and the other in the world is trying to mix light and darkness, and will only result in dismal gloom.Yahweh despises a mixture and will vomit out all lukewarmness.

Matthew 5:14 "Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid." So if this is true, why in an of age megachurches, televangelism and all the power of the internet has our society come to the edge of absolute destruction? Simple: we have not divided the light from the darkness. Sin and unholiness have entered in and the city that sits on the hill has become Babylon. Darkness has been mixed with the light, and so all that is shed abroad is dismal gloom.

What will you do? Will you allow the Light of the Messiah to burn through you, driving out every shadow, filling every nook and cranny until it shines outward and makes you a beacon unto the One True God? We all must make the hard decisions, the difficult choices, but we must either make them and go forward or abandon them and plop down in the darkness.

O Heavenly Father Yahweh, blessed be your Holy Name. You are Holy, and I thank You for the Beauty of Your Holiness.Forgive me i pray, for any place in my life that I have not surrendered unto you. Cleanse me and make me whole , Father I pray. I submit to You and to the Light of Your holiness, and I pray that You will fill me with Your glorious light. If there be any attitude, any habit, any relatinship in my life that hinders Your Holy Spirit in my life I surrender it unto You and pray for You truly seperate me from the darkness, that I might live in Your Light.

In the Holy Name of Yahoshua

HalleluYah!

1884 - The socialist Fabian Society was founded in London.
1885 - Dr. William Grant performed the first successful appendectomy. The patient was Mary Gartside.

1896 - Utah became the 45th U.S. state.

1936 - The first pop music chart based on national sales was published by "Billboard" magazine.
1948 - Britain granted independence to Burma.
1951 - During the Korean conflict, North Korean and Communist Chinese forces captured the city of Seoul.
1953 - Tufted plastic carpeting was introduced by Barwick Mills.

1965 - In his State of the Union address, U.S. President Johnson proclaimed the building of the "Great Society."
1974 - U.S. President Nixon refused to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
1991 - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to condemn Israel's treatment of the Palestinians in the occupied territories.

2006 - Nancy Pelosi became Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. She was the first woman to hold the position.

1 John 1: 5, 1 Corinthians10: 20, 2 Corinthians 6: 14, 1 John 1:3

1 John 1: 5 ¶ "This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin."

See how the issue of fellowship is tied completely to the issue of light and dark. It does not matter what guidelines the rest of the world and even the rest of "churchianity" may adopt, if we are to be truly sanctified and in communion with the Father, Yahweh, then we can only have one and one glorious standard, the Word of Yahweh; and based upon His awesome word, there are four lessons that we may see immediately from 1 John 1:5:

1)that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

2)If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth

3)if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another

4)and the blood of Jesus Christ/Yahoshua Messiah his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

First, Yahweh is light and there not only cannot be any darkness in Him, there is no darkness in Him. Remember. Yahweh's first act was the restoration of light, and then the DIVIDING or SEPERATING of the light from the darkness. And not just some darkness, or most of the darkness, but ALL of the darkness. Yahweh does not tolerate darkness, neither does He overlook it. He ABSTAINS from it.

So how do we know what Yahweh considers darkness in an age such as ours when darkness and light have so mingled as to create an intolerable gloom? His Word, His Law. All throughout The Father makes it undeniably clear and painfully plain what He considers as darkness. When scripture says "this or that is an abomination", that means He HATES it, and contrary to the "new testament church" Yahweh does NOT change. If He hated something 5000 years ago, rest assured He will still hate it today. If something angered Him 100 years ago, it will still anger Him today.

Secondly, if we say that we have fellowship with Him, and yet still walk in darkness, i.e., disobey Him and His Word/Law, we lie and do not truth. The funny thing about a lie is that even if you do NOT know that what you're saying is a lie, even if you "honestly" think and believe that what you're saying is the truth, it's still a lie. Multitudes are out there "thinking" that they are walking in truth; not because they have read it in scripture, but because some well meaning "other" unrightly divided the word of truth to them in just such a way. Having thrown away Yahweh's Law and taken refuge in a counterfeit grace, multitudes sin in the "name of The Lord" every day.

While much may be said about the mercy of the Ever-Living God, if you are not walking in obediance to His commands, you are not IN FELLOWSHIP with Him, which means a great deal more than just a church meeting each week.

Our Heavenly Father Yahweh:Glory to Your Holy Name. Everything that I could ever need is in you. Examine My ways and let me not walk in darkness, I want to walk in the light with you. Purge me of all that is not of You and deliver me from all the darkness I have known in my life, that I might experience You and Your Glory more fully.

HalleluYah!

1781 - Richmond, VA, was burned by a British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold.
1896 - It was reported by The Austrian newspaper that Wilhelm Roentgen had discovered the type of radiation that became known as X-rays.
1900 - In Ireland, Nationalist leader John Edward Redmond called for a revolt against British rule.

1914 - Ford Motor Company announced that there would be a new daily minimum wage of $5 and an eight-hour workday.
1925 - Mrs. Nellie Taylor Ross was sworn in as the governor of Wyoming She was the first female governor in the U.S.

1933 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge began.
1948 - Warner Brothers-Pathe showed the very first color newsreel. The footage was of the Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl football classic.

1972 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon ordered the development of the space shuttle.

1993 - The state of Washington executed Westley Allan Dodd. It was America's first legal hanging since 1965. Dodd was an admitted child sex killer.
1996 - Yahya Ayyash, a member of the Hamas in Israel, is killed by a booby-trapped cellular phone.
1998 - U.S. Representative Sonny Bono died in skiing accident.

1 John 1: 5, 1 Corinthians10: 20, 2 Corinthians 6: 14, 1 John 1:3

1 John 1: 5 ¶ "This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin."

So far we have learned:

1)that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

2)If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth

3)if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another

4)and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

Now for our third point. If we walk in the light, obediance to Yahweh's Law/Word, we have fellowship WITH ONE ANOTHER! Yes, there is a criteria for fellowship. Is it perfection? Of course not! Even the Apostle Paul confessed to weakness, imperfections and failings. But still we press on. We gain victory over some besetting sin, some secret iniquity, and after a sort time of rejoicing the Holy Spirit of Yahweh brings usto another matter revealing our next hurdle. If we are truly on the path of "cleansing ourselves from all sin", of sanctifying ourselves unto Yahweh, then we may have fellowship not only with the Father, but also fellowship with one another, others who have begun this same trek.

But our fellowship is NOT with those who rationalize, who make excuses. Concerning those who are still "fellowshipping" with darkness, we are to have NO fellowship, but instead are to divide ourselves, seperate ourselves from darkness, that we might have fellowship with He that IS light, and with those who also seek His light.

Finally, by refusing the darkness, the Blood of the Lamb, Yahoshua the Messiah becomes energized on our behalf; and that Holy, Sacred Blood is WHY we seperate from darkness, lest we treat with disrespect something so utterly precious as Blood of our Messiah. He knows full well the value and the worth of His own sacrifice, and if we treat His precious Blood so lightly as to continue on in sin (lawlessness), how can we expect Him to violate His own standard, and thus fellowship with us?

O Blessed Father Yahweh, praise and honor be to Your Holy Name! Thank you for law! Help me understand Thy Word more fully, that I might live rightly before You and all others. Let Thy Holy Spirit write Your law upon my heart so that I might refuse all darkness, and carry light whereever I may go, that others might see Your Glory.

HalleluYah!

0871 - England's King Alfred defeated the Danes at the Battle of Ashdown.
1759 - George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis were married.
1838 - Samuel Morse publicly demonstrated the telegraph for the first time.
1912 - New Mexico became the 47th U.S. state.
1942 - The first commercial around-the-world airline flight took place. Pan American Airlines was the company that made history with the feat.
1945 - The Battle of the Bulge ended with 130,000 German and 77,000 Allied casualties.

1950 - Britain recognized the Communist government of China.
1994 - Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed on the right leg by an assailant at Cobo Arena in Detroit, MI. Four men were later sentenced to prison for the attack, including Tonya Harding's ex-husband.

1999 - The 106th U.S. Congress opened. The first item on the agenda was the impeachment proceedings of U.S. President Bill Clinton. The trial was set to begin January 7, 1999.

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1 John 1: 5, 1 Corinthians10: 20, 2 Corinthians 6: 14, 1 John 1:3 ,James 4: 4

1 Corinthians10: 20 "But I [say], that the things which the Gentiles (nations) sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he? "

Here the issue of fellowship, of light and darkness becomes even clearer. Why does the Ever-Living God abhor the darkness so? Because just as He "is light", so satan, the arch-enemy of Yahweh God abides in the darkness. In darkness the serpent wathches, works and dwells. The darkness is his domain, and those who would dwell in darkness dwell with satan, those who would fellowship with darkness fellowship with the enemy of the Ever-Living God and so become enemies of Yahweh themselves (James 4: 4 "Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.") If one claims to be of Yahweh's flock, and yet still toys with darkness, everything he does will be tainted with with the devil's stench.

Again it is made crystal clear, light and dark CANNOT mix. "Ye CANNOT drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils:ye CANNOT be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils." That one word CANNOT, says it all. It is not merely a problem of conflicting philosophies, it is an impossibility, spiritually and physically. Those who think that they can serve Yahweh God while still meddling about in the devil's realm, and hanging out with the devil's subjects are decieved. If they think that Yahweh is blessing them in their unholiness, they are decieved.

2 Corinthians 6: 14 "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in [them]; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean [thing]; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."

Does the Father want fellowship with us? Of course He does. But this fellowship is on HIS terms, never ours. If we are to truly experience the life changing fellowship of Yahweh's literal Presence in our daily lives, then we must turn away from His enemy and follow the path of righteousness.

1 John 1:3 "That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship [is] with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. "

My Merciful Father Yahweh; I was altogether born in sin, and I have not kept Thy Ways all the days of my life. I come to You in the Name of Yahoshua the Messiah, and I pray for His Perfect Sinless blood to be applied to me and to my sins. Forgive me, I pray, Heavenly Father, and lead me all the rest of the days of my life in Your Paths of Righteousness.

HalleluYah!

1610 - Galileo Galilei sighted four of Jupiter's moons. He named them Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.
1782 - The Bank of North America opened in Philadelphia. It was the first commercial bank in the United States.
1785 - French aeronaut/balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard successfully made the first air-crossing of the English Channel from the English coast to France.
1789 - Americans voted for the electors that would choose George Washington to be the first U.S. president.

1894 - W.K. Dickson received a patent for motion picture film.
1904 - The distress signal "CQD" was established. Two years later "SOS" became the radio distress signal because it was quicker to send by wireless radio.
1927 - Transatlantic telephone service Service began between New York and London. 31 calls were made on this first day.
1932 - Chancellor Heinrich Brüning declared that Germany cannot, and will not, resume reparations payments.

1935 - French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval and Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini signed the Italo-French agreements.
1949 - The announcement of the first photograph of genes was shown at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

1953 - U.S. President Harry Truman announced the development of the hydrogen bomb.
1954 - The Duoscopic TV receiver was unveiled this day. The TV set allowed the watching of two different shows at the same time.

1959 - The United States recognized Fidel Castro's new government in Cuba.
1996 - One of the biggest blizzards in U.S. history hit the eastern states. More than 100 deaths were later blamed on the severe weather.

1999 - U.S. President Clinton went on trial before the Senate. It was only the second time in U.S. history that an impeached president had gone to trial. Clinton was later acquitted of perjury and obstruction of justice charges.

2002 - Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates introduced a new device code named Mira. The device was tablet-like and was a cross between a handheld computer and a TV remote control.
2009 - Russia shut off all gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin publicly endorsed the move and urged greater international involvement in the energy dispute.

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2 Corinthians 5:15, Galatians 6:14, Matthew 10:38, 16:24, Mark10:17

2 Corinthians 5:15 "And [that] he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again."

Where once our Israelite ancestors had the sacrifices of lambs and bullocks, goats and turtledoves, now there is but one Sacrifice once and for all; and where all other sacrifices were a shadow of that Perfect Sacrifice to come, we now have Blood shed for us that is pure and precious. This is one of the great dividing lines between TRUE Christianity and all other so-called "religious" ideas. In all the other pagan superstitions, there is the false hope of man one day becoming a god, thus the original lie of the devil in Genesis 3, You shall be as God, is continued through age after age, ensnaring every careless soul to their own damnation. Even those who consider themselves "atheists", have latched onto the same bait. For "the fool who in his own heartsays that there is no God", has made himself a god in his own mind, never realizing until too late what a wretched choice he makes as deity.

But in TRUE christianity, we see the exact opposite. The Creator making Himself like unto the created. Rather than an exalting, we see a humbling. For Yahweh, the One True God wrapped Himself in the frailty of human flesh, turning from the glory of the heavens to be layed in a feed trough in a barn. Laying aside infinite power, He became a man needing to be empowered.

But if all that were not enough, He came not only to live as a mortal man, but to die as one. For in His Life, Yahoshua revealed the glory of Yahweh, to show unto us a taste of the Kingdom, a glimpse at what can be for each of us. However it is in His death that we truly gain. Through His death, put away Israel is freed to marry again. Through His shed blood we have a kinsman redeemer, restoring us onto the Father. Through His sacrifice, we may find forgiveness. By taking upon Himself the curse of the law, we need not be cursed. By dying for us, we may live.

But make no mistake. His death and ressurection make a narrow door. Acts 4:11 "This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."

While other pagan superstitions make allowances for other gods, it is not so with True christianity. For no other so-called deity ever cared enough for it's wayward people to walk among them, suffer among them and die among them, that they might one walk and dwell with it. But in Yahoshua the Messiah, this is exactly what the One True God, Yahweh, did.

O Glorious Father in Heaven! Holy is Your Name! I praise you and worship You this day, for You alone are The One True God. I praise You and Thank You, for coming forth in the form of Yahoshua the Messiah, for takingupon Yourself the curse that belonged to me, for shedding Your Holy Blood to become a Perfect Sacrifice for my sins. Help me, I pray Thee, to walk worthy of that Precious Blood.

HalleluYah!

1642 - Astronomer Galileo Galilei died in Arcetri, Italy.
1675 - The first corporation was charted in the United States. The company was the New York Fishing Company.
1790 - In the United States, George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address.
1815 - The Battle of New Orleans began. The War of 1812 had officially ended on December 24, 1814, with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent. The news of the signing had not reached British troops in time to prevent their attack on New Orleans.
1838 - Alfred Vail demonstrated a telegraph code he had devised using dots and dashes as letters. The code was the predecessor to Samuel Morse's code.
1856 - Borax (hydrated sodium borate) was discovered by Dr. John Veatch.
1877 - Crazy Horse (Tashunca-uitco) and his warriors fought their final battle against the U.S. Cavalry in Montana.
1886 - The Severn Railway Tunnel, Britain's longest, was opened.
1889 - The tabulating machine was patented by Dr. Herman Hollerith. His firm, Tabulating Machine Company, later became International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
1900 - U.S. President McKinley placed Alaska under military rule.
1900 - In South Africa, General White turned back the Boers attack of Ladysmith.
1916 - During World War I, the final withdrawal of Allied troops from Gallipoli took place.
1918 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announced his Fourteen Points as the basis for peace upon the end of World War I.
1921 - David Lloyd George became the first prime minister tenant at Chequers Court, Buckinghamshire.
1929 - William S. Paley appeared on CBS Radio for the first time to announce that CBS had become the largest regular chain of broadcasting chains in radio history.
1959 - Charles De Gaulle was inaugurated as president of France's Fifth Republic.

1964 - U.S. President Lyndon Johnson declared a "War on Poverty."
1973 - Secret peace talks between the United States and North Vietnam resumed near Paris, France.
1973 - The trial opened in Washington, of seven men accused of bugging Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate apartment complex in Washington, DC.
1975 - Ella Grasso became the governor of Connecticut. She was the first woman to become a governor of a state without a husband preceding her in the governor�fs chair.
1982 - American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) settled the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit against it by agreeing to divest itself of the 22 Bell System companies.
1987 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed over the 2000 mark for the first time at 2,002.25.
1992 - U.S. President George Bush collapsed during a state dinner in Tokyo. White House officials said Bush was suffering from stomach flu.
1993 - Bosnian President Izetbegovic visited the U.S. to plead his government's case for Western military aid and intervention to halt Serbian aggression.

Matthew 16:25, Mark8:35, Luke 9:24, 17:33, Romans 12: 1, 2 Corinthians 5:15

2 Corinthians 5:15 "...that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again."

It is so easy to miss the mark. thre are multitudes that have "made decisions for Christ", great masses that have attached themselves to churches, movements and organizations. Yet still, our world teeters on the edge of a knife. Rather than "dividing the light from the darkness", the modern church has made alliances with the darkness, imitated the darkness, even admired the darkness. Why? Because they still live unto themselves.

Apart from the bloody sacrifice Yahweh made through Yahoshua the Messiah, there is one and only one sacrifice that Yahweh's Israel people are called upon to make. Romans 12:1 ¶ "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."

Yahweh in the flesh allowed Himself to tast of death, that we might have life. But what kind of life? A life of selfish ambition, chasing after our wants, consumed with our goals and choices? Hardly. Yahoshua gave up His life, now we must give up ours. At one time we were lawless, living however we chose by whatever standard we chose. But if we have ever been brought to the cross pof the Messiah by His Holy Spirit, we realize how pointless, how pathetic, how meaningless those lives really were. we come to the cross, the Lamb is slain and the blood is poured out. We reach out and take that sacrifice for ourselves. We cry out for forgiveness, and we repent, turn away from the life we were living, and begin a new life. But this life is not to be lived the same. He that knew no sin has offerred us a new life, but now we must offer that life back to Him, to be lived as He chooses.

Wecan no longer sit on the throne of our souls and be the kings of our own lives. Where once we were lawless, no we must abide by an eternal law. Where once we were living a life of selfish ambition, we sacrifice those ambitios to His will. Where once we walked in darkness, we now divide the light from the darkness. Now we live not for our own selves, but for His glory, His honor and His will. All that we ever were, must be lais upon the alter, and slain. No more mixing the light with the dark, but now we must, " be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."

Matthew 10:38 "And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." We here much said about The Messiah coming that we might have life and have it more abundantly, but this is what He truly meant. "John 12:24 "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal."

My Precious Father Yahweh! Honor and Strength to Your Holy Name, and to the Name of Yahoshua the Messiah! Help me to understand how to offer up my life as a living sacrifice unto You. I have filled my life with many plans and ideas, but now I percieve that You may have different plans for my life. Whatever goals and ambitions I had, I offer them up unto You. I submit to your will and pray for you to direct my path.

HalleluYah!

1793 - Jean-Pierre Blanchard made the first successful balloon flight in the U.S.
1799 - British prime minister William Pitt the Younger introduced income tax, at two shillings (10p) in the pound, to raise funds for the Napoleonic Wars.
1848 - The first commercial bank was established in San Francisco, CA.
1861 - The state of Mississippi seceded from the United States.
1894 - The New England Telephone and Telegraph Company put the first battery-operated switchboard into operation in Lexington, MA.
1902 - New York State introduced a bill to outlaw flirting in public.
1905 - In Russia, the civil disturbances known as the Revolution of 1905 forced Czar Nicholas II to grant some civil rights.

1936 - The United States Army adopted the semi-automatic rifle.

1940 - Television was used for the first time to present a sales meeting to convention delegates in New York City.

1951 - The United Nations headquarters officially opened in New York City.

1969 - The supersonic aeroplane Concorde made its first trial flight, at Bristol.
1972 - The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth was destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbor.

Psalm 1

Galatians 6:14 "But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world."

Here we see the "living sacrifice" in action. "The world is crucified unto me..." Whatever I was at one time enslaved to, enamoured with, in servitude to; these things no longer have meaning to me. James 4:4 "Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God." If I have truly come to Yahweh through His sacrifice through Yahoshua the Messiah, the world of darkness I once dwelt in now becomes my mortal enemy. I must offer myself up as a living sacrifice, giving up my right to myself and accepting the rule of The King. If I am now a part of a kingdom, I must now kneel before He who sits on the throne. I must seperate myself from all that exalts itself against His Soverienty. If I am to be filled with His glorious light, then I must deny all darkness. If I am to live life more abundantly, then I must be dead to anything which is less. If I am to walk in the Kingdom of Yahweh God, and be a subject of the Kingdom, how can I remain friends with anything or anyone that is the enemy of my King. To do so would find me guilty of treason and brand me as a traitor.

1John 2:15 "Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever." Here is the "abundant life": "...the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world." Why does modern "churcianity" fail? It is not "crucified unto the world. The modern church has an endless stream of programs, plans and outreaches, but they are of little use because the church haslooked to the world for a pattern. Ministries are more concerned with being "relevant" than being repentant. Why are the Israelite nations of Yahweh all now considered "post-christian"? Because the "ministers" of Yahweh have become too "wise" for the Power of the Holy Spirit of Yahweh. James 3:15 "This wisdom descendeth not from above, but [is] earthly, sensual, devilish." The modern church has programs, plays, rock concerts and support groups. It makes alliances with pagans, blasphemers, antichrists and enemies of Yahweh to feed, clothe and "minister" to the poor. Modern christians dress, speak and act like all the rest of the world. They are comfortable and at home with the lawless. They move effortlessly through the darkness under the misguided notion that they are being "a light". The cross has become a symbol of philosophy, rather than the place where they were "crucified with Christ (the Messiah)."

1John 5:4 "For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, [even] our faith."

1John 4:4 "Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world."

Are we overcoming, or being overcome?

O Father Yahweh! Blessed be Thy Name! Forgive me, I pray Thee, for all the ways that I have kept one foot in the world. Purify me, O Yahweh, and I will be pure. Deliver me from all that is not of You, that does not glorify You. Help me to die to this world and all it's sinfilled ways, and to be alive unto You and Your Holy Law.

HalleluYah!

1776 - Thomas Paine published his pamphlet "Common Sense."
1840 - The penny post, whereby mail was delivered at a standard charge rather than paid for by the recipient, began in Britain.
1861 - Florida seceded from the United States.
1863 - Prime Minister Gladstone opened the first section of the London Underground Railway system, from Paddington to Farringdon Street.
1870 - John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil.
1901 - Oil was discovered at the Spindletop oil field near Beaumont, TX.
1911 - Major Jimmie Erickson took the first photograph from an airplane while flying over San Diego, CA.
1920 - The League of Nations ratified the Treaty of Versailles, officially ending World War I with Germany.
1920 - The League of Nations held its first meeting in Geneva.

1928 - The Soviet Union ordered the exile of Leon Trotsky.
1943 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt sailed from Miami, FL, to Trinidad thus becoming the first American President to visit a foreign country during wartime.
1946 - The first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly took place with 51 nations represented.
1949 - Vinyl records were introduced by RCA (45 rpm) and Columbia (33.3 rpm).

1951 - Donald Howard Rogers piloted the first passenger jet on a trip from Chicago to New York City.
1957 - Harold Macmillan became prime minister of Britain, following the resignation Anthony Eden.
1969 - The final issue of "The Saturday Evening Post" appeared after 147 years of publication.

1984 - The United States and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations for the first time in more than a century.

Psalm 2

Matthew 16:24 "Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any [man] will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me."

In today's modern church, all that is required to to "gain salvation" is to repeat a prayer, to "make a decision for Christ". But the Messiah Himself was far more exclusive. He included a cross. A cross may be only a religious symbol to most christians today, but to the early church it was much more. It was a reproach. It was agony, torture and death. To Him who would bear the sin of the world, sin was not expected to be a part of the equation. The Messiah fully expected those who would follow Him to also "present their bodies a living sacrifice" and that they would "be not conformed to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of their minds". He was not looking for "decisions", but for martyrs, that would "love not their lives unto the death." Revelation 12: 11.

Interestingly, He never called His followers "christians", but rather disciples. While the name christian may be of noble character, the title disciple implies discipline. Discipline suggests DAILY denying your own ambitions and goals, DAILY bearing the scorn of the ungodly, DAILY attaining to a standard. Many people claim to be christians, but how many can claim to be disciples?

Many have even come back to the knowledge of the law of Yahweh. "New Testament Christians" seeking more and more so-called freedom have exchanged the "beauty of holiness" for the friendship of the world. But even among those who have returned to the only scriptural standard for holiness and sanctification, can run the risk of not pursuing the law unto it's intended aim, the heart.

Mark 10:17 ¶ "And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? [there is] none good but one, [that is], God." Why do you suppose the Messiah made that curious statement? Was He saying that He Himself was NOT good? Of Course not. He wanted that young rich ruler to see something important: that the "good master" he was speaking to was Yahweh God Himself!

But now remember the question: what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? What does Yahweh in the flesh say to him?

"Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother." In answer to seeking Eternal life, He responds with the Law. And this is New Testament!

"Master, all these have I observed from my youth" Today's lawless preachers and ministers would respond, "You fool! Don't you know that the law has been nailed to the cross? All you have to do is believe! There's nothing require from you but a decision! Get under grace!"

But how did the Messiah respond? " Then Jesus beholding him loved him,..." This rich young ruler stood before his very creator, the One that formed him, who now looked not only upon him, but also into him, and loved him. "One thing thou lackest:..." Rather take away from this young ruler's commandment keeping, He meant to add something.

In the end, this rich, young ruler was breaking a commandment, even the first. His possessions had become a god unto him, although he had probably never knelt in a pagan temple his entire life. "And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great possessions."

It was the cross that revealed this. Yahoshua did not abolish Yahweh's law, He thrust it into the heart. And if we truly offer up ourselves as living sacrifices, we too will be shown every place that is not yet submitted to the will of the King, the only question is, will we say with Paul,"the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.", or will we go away grieved, like the rich, young ruler?

Blessed Heavenly Father Yahweh! Holy is Thy Name. Examine my ways and know my thoughts, and deliver me from all sin. Show me, I pray Thee, Holy Father, how I am to take up my cross and follow You. Forgive me of complaining when the way grows rough, and strengthen me throught Thy Holy Spirit.

HalleluYah!

1805 - The Michigan Territory was created.
1815 - U.S. General Andrew Jackson achieved victory at the Battle of New Orleans. The War of 1812 had officially ended on December 24, 1814, with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent. The news of the signing had not reached British troops in time to prevent their attack on New Orleans.
1861 - Alabama seceded from the United States.
1867 - Benito Juarez returned to the Mexican presidency, following the withdrawal of French troops and the execution of Emperor Maximilian.
1878 - In New York, milk was delivered in glass bottles for the first time by Alexander Campbell.
1902 - "Popular Mechanics" magazine was published for the first time.
1913 - The first sedan-type car was unveiled at the National Automobile Show in New York City. The car was manufactured by the Hudson Motor Company.
1922 - At Toronto General Hospital, Leonard Thompson became the first person to be successfully treated with insulin.

1935 - Amelia Earhart Putnam became the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
1938 - In Limerick, ME, Frances Moulton assumed her duties as the first woman bank president.
1942 - Japan declared war against the Netherlands. The same day, Japanese forces invaded the Dutch East Indies.
1943 - The United States and Britain signed treaties relinquishing extraterritorial rights in China.

Matthew 5,

Matthew 5:17 "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled."

There is a terribly mistaken notion the Creator of the universe spoke to His Israel people and told them to be holy, seperate and peculiar, but then gave them no standard of holiness to go by. This is an incredibly dangerous teaching. It portrays our Master contrary to scripture and leaves those that would follow Him as orphans dumped in a wasteland with no guide. Today's modern christian wants no restrictions place on his modern life. The cry of the age is freedom, freedom unrestrained. But what passes for "freedom" is not muchmore than chaos, anarchy and lawlesness run amuk. Is it any wonder that our Israel nations have become so lawless? It is only because the "church" has become lawless. The two states are utterly connected.

Matthew 5:13 ¶ "Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men." Salt is a preservative, it keeps the nourishment of the food from being ravaged by the outside forces time, bacteria and parasites. So we, the church, Yahweh's Israel people also were to serve as a preservative unto our own lands. But we have "lost our savour", and now "christians" everywhere are finding themselves "cast out"- become merely one of many religions dotting the landscape, our influence and respect gone as our Israel natons become "post-christian"; and we are now "trodden under foot of men" as abominations and doctrines of devils now guide and lead the "church".

:14 "Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid." Neither can a gloom. The church has failed to divide the light from darkness, so now rather thana glorious , revealing light we cast a pale hue, so that all of our Iasrael nations, and thus the world as a whole, are wrapped in a dismal gloom.

Men no longer recognize light from dark, clean from stain because they have no holy standard to look up to. But it is not the fault of Yahweh God, it is because WE have cast off the standard, and thinking ourselves wise we have become fools. Lusting to be free we have become slaves. We have traded power for poverty.

Yet it need not be so in you, nor in me or any one else. The Standard is there, if we will only by faith reach out to take it.

O Heavenly Father Yahweh, Creator of Heaven and Earth; Have mercy on Your Israel people. we have sinned and turned away from the Glory of Your law, the wisdom of Your commandments. We have astray like sheep. Send forth Your Holy Spirit to lead your people back into the fold. Convict us of our sinfulness, deliverance into repentance that again we might be Your light unto the world.

HalleluYah!

49 BC - Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River signaling a war between Rome and Gaul.
1519 - Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I died.
1773 - The first public museum in America was established in Charleston, SC.
1866 - The Royal Aeronautical Society was founded in London.
1875 - Kwang-su was made emperor of China.
1882 - Thomas Edison's central station on Holborn Viaduct in London began operation.
1895 - The first performance of King Arthur took place at the Lyceum Theatre.
1896 - At Davidson College, several students took x-ray photographs. They created the first X-ray photographs to be made in America.
1908 - A wireless message was sent long-distance for the first time from the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
1915 - The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.
1915 - The U.S. Congress established the Rocky Mountain National Park.
1932 - Hattie W. Caraway became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
1938 - Austria recognized the Franco government in Spain.
1940 - Soviet bombers raided cities in Finland.
1942 - U.S. President Roosevelt created the National War Labor Board.
1943 - The Office of Price Administration announced that standard frankfurters/hot dogs/wieners would be replaced by 'Victory Sausages.'
1945 - During World War II, Soviet forces began a huge offensive against the Germans in Eastern Europe.
1948 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states could not discriminate against law-school applicants because of race.

1986 - Space shuttle Columbia blasted off with a crew that included the first Hispanic-American in space, Dr. Franklin R. Chang-Diaz.
1991 - The U.S. Congress passed a resolution authorizing President Bush to use military power to force Iraq out of Kuwait.
1995 - Northern Ireland Secretary Patrick Mayhew announced that as of January 16 British troops would no longer carry out daylight street patrols in Belfast.
1998 - Tyson Foods Inc. pled guilty to giving $12,000 to former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy. Tyson was fined $6 million.
1998 - 19 European nations agreed to prohibit human cloning.
1998 - Linda Tripp provided Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's office with taped conversations between herself and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, gave police broad authority to stop and question people who run at the sight of an officer.

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Matthew 5

Matthew 5:17 "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled."

The Master's words seem plain enough, yet how did become so quickly discarded. Perhaps the better question is why?

Well, that answer is simple enough: rebellion. This may seem harsh to some but look at the issue as it truly is.

Matthew 9:35 "And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people." Most christians today proclaim a gospel of personal salvation, but this was not the gospel first preached. Of course there is personal salvation, for each and every one of us, but that salvation is bound to the gospel of the kingdom and cannot be seperated from it. There are many reasons why the emphasis has shifted from the gospel of the kingdom to the gospel of personal salvation.

1) A kingdom must of course have a king. If you are preaching thegospel of the kingdom, there can only be ONE kingdom (not many) and ONE King (not a multitude that you may choose from).

2) A kingdom must have LAW. Law governs the kingdom, orders it and preserves it. The Law of a kingdom is the express will of the King. The King governs His Kingdom by the Law of His Kingdom, He can have no other standard. He may very well extend GRACE, but without the presence of the law there can be no recognizable grace. So to rebel against the law of the kingdom, is to rebel against the king himself.

It is all very well to confess smugly,"I believe in God." But that alone doesn't put you in very good company. James 2:19 "Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble." The Demons have to believe, for they have stood in the literal, physical Presence of the King, they have beheld Him as He is. But there is no salvation for them. Why? Because the DO NOT OBEY HIM! They believe, they tremble at His Presence (which is more than most christians do), but they will go into the lake of everlasting fire, for they do not obey the King. They have rebelled against His will, His commands, His law.

At every turn the adversary, that old serpent has sought to incite rebellion against the Most High, Yahweh. "He hath not said...", "surely you will not die...," etc. and etc.. And where does the devil seek to discredit the Ever-Living God? At His word, His commands, His law.

Matthew 7:21 "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven." If we are to do His will, then we must stop doing our own.

Great and Glorious Father Yahweh, King of all the Earth, glory to Your Eternal Name and to the Name of Yahoshua! Help me to remember this day that I am a child of the King and that I am a representative of Your Holy Kingdom. Help me to live not for myself, but for the Glory of Your Kingdom, that in so doing I would walk in the laws of Your Kingdom, and to be ready, for the Coming of the King.

HalleluYah!

1794 - U.S. President Washington approved a measure adding two stars and two stripes to the American flag, following the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the union.
1854 - Anthony Faas of Philadelphia, PA, patented the accordion.
1893 - Britain's Independent Labor Party, a precursor to the current Labor Party, met for the first time.
1898 - Emile Zola's "J'accuse" was published in Paris.
1900 - In Austria-Hungary, Emperor Franz Joseph decreed that German would be the language of the imperial army to combat Czech nationalism.
1906 - Hugh Gernsback, of the Electro Importing Company, advertised radio receivers for sale for the price of just $7.50 in "Scientific American" magazine.
1928 - Ernst F. W. Alexanderson gave the first public demonstration of television.
1942 - Henry Ford patented the plastic automobile, which allowed for a 30% decrease in car weight.
1957 - Wham-O began producing "Pluto Platters." This marked the true beginning of production of the flying disc. 1966 - Robert C. Weaver became the first black Cabinet member when he was appointed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by U.S. President Johnson.
1982 - An Air Florida 737 crashed into the capital's 14th Street Bridge after takeoff and fell into the Potomac River. 78 people were killed. 1989 - Bernhard H. Goetz was sentenced to one year in prison for possession of an unlicensed gun that he used to shoot four youths he claimed were about to rob him. He was freed the following September.
1990 - L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia, the nation's first elected black governor, took the oath of office in Richmond. 1992 - Japan apologized for forcing tens of thousands of Korean women to serve as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II.

2002 - The exhibit "In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." opened at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. More than 100 artists supplied the collection of 120 works of art.
2002 - Japan and Singapore signed a free trade pact that would remove tariffs on almost all goods traded between the two countries.
2002 - U.S. President George W. Bush fainted after choking on a pretzel.
2009 - Ethiopian military forces began pulling out of Somalia, where they had tried to maintain order for nearly two years.

1 John 3

1John 3:5 "And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin."

So what exactly is sin? There are many nebulous and abstract ideas about sin these days, but really is sin? Some have said that sin is "seperation from God". This no doubt is a result of sin, but what is sin?Others say that sin is "rebellion against God." Actually, this comes closer to the mark, but while sin is a result of rebellion, it cannot be said that rebellion a result of sin.

James 1:14 "But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death." Here we see a formula at work. We see first a lust, something forbidden stirring in our hearts, something which has not been "crucified unto me", some darkness that has as yet not been divided from the light in my own being. It grows, is exploited by my enemy which dwells in darkness, gnaws at my thoughts, creates grand fantasies until at once we hear a hissing sound in our ears that says,"you shall not surely die." The rebellion has begun, I reach out my hand, and suddenly I am fully sinning.

So what exactly is this thing called sin?

1John 3:4 ¶ "Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law."

Sin is the transgression, the breaking of, THE LAW. There it is, and it really is that simple. Satan is pleased when peole cease to believe in him, and he is overjoyed with himself when fools proclaim that there is no God. But in getting "christians" to turn to abstract ideas about sin, holiness and even the very kingdom itself, he is positively giddy with himself, for a powerless church is just as valuable to him as a den of thieves.

Matthew 7:22 "Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."

In the New Testament "iniquity" stands for anomia equals properly, "the condition of one without law," "lawlessness" (so translated in 1 #Joh 3:4, elsewhere "iniquity," e.g. Matthew 7:23), a word which frequently stood for �eawon in the Septuagint; and adikia, literally, "unrighteousness"

1John 2:3 ¶ "And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him." Can you imagine the horror of standing before the Judge on the last great deal, learning only then, that you had been decieved?

Precious Heavenly Father Yahweh, Glory to Thy Name. Help me to be vigilant, and on guard, that no secret sin might be entertained by me. Write Thy law uponmy heart, where all sin begins. Help me reject this wicked world and cling steadfstly unto You, that I might walk worthy of You, and not bring shame upon Your Holy Name.

HalleluYah!

1639 - Connecticut's first constitution, the "Fundamental Orders," was adopted.

1784 - The United States ratified a peace treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War.

1858 - French emperor Napoleon III escaped an attempt on his life.
1873 - John Hyatt's 1869 invention �eCelluloid�f was registered as a trademark.
1878 - Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone for Britain's Queen Victoria.
1882 - The Myopia Hunt Club, in Winchester, MA, became the first country club in the United States.
1907 - An earthquake killed over 1,000 people in Kingston, Jamaica.
1943 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first U.S. President to fly in an airplane while in office. He flew from Miami, FL, to French Morocco where he met with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to discuss World War II.
1953 - Josip Broz Tito was elected president of Yugoslavia by the country's Parliament.
1954 - The Hudson Motor Car Company merged with Nash-Kelvinator. The new company was called the American Motors Corporation.
1963 - George C. Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama.
1969 - An explosion aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise off Hawaii killed 25 crew members.
1993 - The British government pledged to introduce legislation to criminalize invasions of privacy by the press.
1994 - U.S. President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed Kremlin accords to stop aiming missiles at any nation and to dismantle the nuclear arsenal of Ukraine.
1996 - Jorge Sampaio was elected president of Portugal.
1996 - Juan Garcia Abrego was arrested by Mexican agents. The alleged drug lord was handed over to the FBI the next day.
1998 - Whitewater prosecutors questioned Hillary Rodham Clinton at the White House for 10 minutes about the gathering of FBI background files on past Republican political appointees.
1998 - In Dallas, researchers report an enzyme that slows the aging process and cell death.
1999 - The impeachment trial of U.S. President Clinton began in Washington, DC.
1999 - The U.S. proposed the lifting of the U.N. ceilings on the sale of oil in Iraq. The restriction being that the money be used to buy medicine and food for the Iraqi people.

James 2

Romans 1:17 "For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith."

There is much said and written today regarding faith, but always to the exclusion of the commandments of Yahweh. Few seem to realize that the two actually do exist side by side. Within the modern "gospel of personal salvation", all that is required of an individual to be saved is a decision, a prayer. Faith is either reduced to a "wishful thinking" or corrupted into a sort of "holy covetousness". The first group embarks upon life's journey in all their own strength, hoping that the Father will hopefully bless their undertakings. The second group pervert the concept of prosprity into nothing less than lusting after the things of this world in the Name of The Father.

So how do the just live by faith?

James 2:20 "But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God. Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only...:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also."

First let's understand that faith without works is dead. What does that mean? If I have faith the house around me is being consumed in flame, I will abandon the house. If I do not, my faith, as well as myself, are dead. But look deeper at father Abraham.

Ur of the Chaldees was a land saturated with the abomination of Baal worship. The worship of satan through the religion of Baal was the law of the land. At some point, Abraham became convinced that Yahweh, not Baal was the Supreme Creator God. But was that enough to single him out from all the inhabitants of Ur? Obviously, Abraham's belief in Yahweh gave rise to action, and his actions, singled him out to the Father. Yahweh called him out of that abominable land, and he left. Faith worked through action, or as James puts it,"faith wrought with his works".

"by works was faith made perfect". Modern christianity has placed the art before the horse for we see here that faith and works must walk hand in hand. Remember all those demons? James 2:19 "Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble." Lucifer and his infernal host have total faith that Yahweh is the One True God, but they will absolutely land inthe lake of fire with a splat. Theirworks are evil, lawless, rebellious in spite of their first hand knowledge.

So we begin to see that faith is not merely belief. Faith is something more. It is trust. Most of us show more faith in the living room couch than we do in our Heavenly Father, for we walk into a room and plop down onto it without a thought, never worrying or fretting," will it hold me up or will it fail." Yet when it comes Yahweh, we pray and doubt, fret and wonder in a vast multitude of circumstances,"will Yahweh keep me through this." But even worse is our obediance. We justify our actions and rationalize away and spiritualize away the whole counsel of Yahweh. But if we stop questioning and simply start obeying, we too may be called,"a friend of God."

My Heavenly Father Yahweh, from whom all blessings flow, Whose Mercy endures forever; Help me to ignore all the voices that may beckon for my attention. Help me to resist all doubt and unbelief, for I know that The Messiah will soon arrive take His rightful place upon the Throne of David. Let me not look to any circumstance around me, but to keep my eyes fixed on You so that like a tree planted by the water, I shall not be moved.

HalleluYah!

1559 - England's Queen Elizabeth I (Elizabeth Tudor) was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1777 - The people of New Connecticut (now the state of Vermont) declared their independence.
1844 - The University of Notre Dame received its charter from the state of Indiana.
1863 - "The Boston Morning Journal" became the first paper in the U.S. to be published on wood pulp paper.
1870 - A cartoon by Thomas Nast titled "A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" appeared in "Harper's Weekly." The cartoon used the donkey to symbolize the Democratic Party for the first time.
1892 - "Triangle" magazine in Springfield, MA, published the rules for a brand new game. The original rules involved attaching a peach baskets to a suspended board. It is now known as basketball.
1943 - The Pentagon was dedicated as the world's largest office building just outside Washington, DC, in Arlington, VA. The structure covers 34 acres of land and has 17 miles of corridors.
1953 - Harry S Truman became the first U.S. President to use radio and television to give his farewell as he left office.
1955 - The first solar-heated, radiation-cooled house was built by Raymond Bliss in Tucson, AZ.
1973 - U.S. President Nixon announced the suspension of all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam. He cited progress in peace negotiations as the reason.
2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Congress had permission to repeatedly extend copyright protection.

James 2: 23 "And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God. Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only...:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also."

When James says "Abraham believed God", he didn't mean that Abraham had pleasant thoughts about Yahweh, nor that he had philosophical conviction that there was a God called Yahweh. Abraham "believed" Yahweh, so much so that his actions singled him out, seperated him from the other inhabitants of Ur of the Chaldees. He no longer fit in with everyone else. He became different, he stood out, he became peculiar. When Yahweh told Him to leave Ur, Abraham left. There is no record of fretting, he just left.

Abraham's faith ws trust. He trusted Yahweh. He didn't sit around having noble thoughts about Yahweh, he put his life and everything he had in the Hands of the Father. He trusted that Yahweh knew better than him what needed to be done with his life, he trusted that Yahweh would be gracious to him and be with him. "Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only."

So how does apply to the law of Yahweh?

Genesis 26:5 "Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws." Did you catch that? Abraham kept Yahweh's charge, Yahweh's commandments, Yahweh's statutes, and Yahweh's laws. What did you suppose those works or actions were that singled out Abraham?

Many have mistakenly taught that Yahweh just "came up" with the law "all of a sudden" in the wilderness of Sinai, but this is utterly not true. We see righteous Noah discriminating between clean and unclean animals as they loaded the ark. The seventh day sabbath was observed in the garden of Eden. Yahweh's law has always been Yahweh's law, and while it may have been first written down while Moses led the Israelites in the desert, it was still known and passed down before hand from generation to generation. All Moses added that was new, ws the "handwriting of ordinances", the sacrifices and rituals for sin.

"Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only..." James makes it very clear, that if we truly believe, if we truly TRUST in Yahweh our Father, we will obey His law, His standard for holiness, for sanctification. In all truth, while the "New Testament Church" proclaims that "all we need is love", even love cannot be defined properly, apart from Yahweh's precious law, for through His law He showed His love for us, and in all points, Yahoshua the Messiah came uplifting that law.

Do we trust Yahweh, that He knows better than we do? When we read of that which He abhors, do we make excuses, do we rationalize or spiritualize away this verse or that? Or can we, like Abraham, believe, and be counted as a friend of God?"

My Heavenly Father Yahweh; Glory and honor to Your Holy Name and the Name of Yahoshua. Draw me closer unto You, dear Father. I want to be deeper in Your Heavenly Presence. Show me the Beauty of Thy Holiness that I might be changed and transformed; that I too may be called, a friend of Yahweh God.

HalleluYah!

1547 - Ivan the Terrible was crowned Czar of Russia.
1572 - The Duke of Norfolk was tried for treason for complicity in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England. He was executed on June 2.
1759 - The British Museum opened.
1809 - The British defeated the French at the Battle of Corunna, in the Peninsular War.
1866 - Mr. Everett Barney patented the metal screw, clamp skate.
1883 - The United States Civil Service Commission was established as the Pendleton Act went into effect.
1900 - The U.S. Senate consented to the Anglo-German treaty of 1899, by which the U.K. renounced rights to the Samoan islands.
1919 - The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited the sale or transportation of alcoholic beverages, was ratified. It was later repealed by the 21st Amendment.
1920 - Prohibition went into effect in the U.S.
1925 - Leon Trotsky was dismissed as Chairman of the Revolutionary Council of the USSR.
1944 - General Dwight D. Eisenhower took command of the Allied invasion force in London.
1970 - Colonel Muammar el-Quaddafi became virtual president of Libya.
1970 - Buckminster Fuller, the designer of the geodesic dome, was awarded the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects.
1979 - The Shah of Iran and his family fled Iran for Egypt.
1982 - Britain and the Vatican resumed full diplomatic relations after a break of over 400 years.
1988 - Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder was fired as a CBS sports commentator one day after telling a TV station in Washington, DC, that, during the era of slavery, blacks had been bred to produce stronger offspring.
1998 - Researchers announce that an altered gene helped to defend against HIV.
1991 - The White House announced the start of Operation Desert Storm. The operation was designed to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.
1992 - Officials of the government of El Salvador and rebel leaders signed a pact in Mexico City ending 12 years of civil war. At least 75,000 people were killed during the fighting.
1998 - The first woman to enroll at Virginia Military Institute withdrew from the school.
1998 - NASA officially announced that John Glenn would fly aboard the space shuttle Discovery in October.
1998 - Three federal judges secretly granted Kenneth Starr authority to probe whether U.S. President Clinton or Vernon Jordan urged Monica Lewinsky to lie about her relationship with Clinton.
1999 - At least 37 bodies were found mutilated of executed in southern Kosovo. They were all in civilian clothing. This occurred one day after a fierce attack by Serb forces.
2000 - A truck loaded with evaporated milk was rammed into California's state capitol building in Sacramento, CA. The driver was killed in the incident.
2000 - Ricardo Lagos was elected Chile's first socialist president since Salvador Allende.
2002 - In Grundy, VA, student killed three and wounding three others at the Appalachian School of Law.
2002 - U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that John Walker Lindh would be brought to the United States to face trial. He was charged in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, VA, with conspiracy to kill U.S. citizens, providing support to terrorist organizations, and engaging in prohibited transactions with the Taliban of Afghanistan.
2002 - The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted sanctions against Osama bin Laden, his terror network and the remnants of the Taliban. The sanctions required that all nations impose arms embargoes and freeze their finances.

Psalm 119: 1-8

Romans 7:7 "What shall we say then? [Is] the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet."

"I wonder exceedingly how it came to be imputed to me that I should reject the law of the Ten Commandments ... Can anyone think that sin exists where there is no law? Whoever abrogates the law, must of necessity abrograte sin also."

There are those who in a fit to be free of all restraints have come up with all kinds of ridiculous assertions regarding Yahweh's Eternal Law. But in their theories regarding "law and grace" they forget several important points. First and foremost that the very definition of sin is transgression of the law. If there is now no more law, then sin by definition doesn't exist anymore, and there would not be any need for A Savior, A Redeemer, A Lamb slain from the foundations of the world. Following that same logic, there could be nothing that could be considered sin, any and all activities, attitudes, pactices and lifestyles could not be considered sinful. In abolishing the law you abolish sin, holiness, and the very need to be converted, saved or redeemed. Redeemed from what?

And this is precisely what SINFUL man wants. No restraints, No borders, No boundaries.

How has the church come to such a place?, many have asked. We see in the congregations more and more lewdness, worldliness,recklessness. Practices and lifestyles preached against just a generation or two ago, are now accepted and proclaimed as fine and dandy. How has the church come to such a place? Simple, they abolished the law of Yahweh and instituted a horrible mutation of "grace" in it's place, not realizing that grace cannot even exists without the law. How has the church come to such a place? They did not divide the light from the dark.

This also makes for the most pitiful of "converts". People are told to "accept Christ or make decisions for Christ" because He will fill a voidin their hearts, hhelp them through life, bring them peace, and all this the Messiah DOES do. But ONLY for His REPENTANT bride. These kind of peole aren't looking for a Redeemer, they're looking for a celestial life coach. They will be terribly disappointed.

"He who destroys the doctrine of the law, destroys at the same time political and social order. If you eject the law from the church, there will no longer be any sin recognized as such in the world, for the gospel only defines and punishes sin by reference to the law"

Todays "converts" will not be recognized by Holy Authority, for they "make a decision" and then continue on in sin, not even knowing what sin is scince they have disregarded the only standard by which sin is recognized. What's even more is that none of these can give a thought to holiness, scince the only true standard for holiness is also the law they claim has been done away with. Not knowing the punishment for sins that they don't even recognize, they are completely ignorant to the coming of judgement. both in this life and in the life to come.

When the crowds asked Peter on the Day of Pentecost,"What must we do?", Peter, empowered by the Holy Spirit of Yahweh, did NOT tell them, "make a Christ centered decision for your lives". He did NOT tell them to "fill the God shaped hole in their hearts with the love of Christ." He looked upon them and commanded,"REPENT!" But how can men repent when there is no law? What is there to repent from?

There can be no fear of hell, when there is no reverance for law.

Blessed Father Yahweh, how excellent is Thy Name! Halp me to make the most of every opportunity to be a witness unto You. So many are in need of You and all Your Blessings. Help me I pray, by Your Holy Spirit to show them the way. I pray that You would set Your words in my mouth and Your deeds in my heart, but most of all, that in the common events of the day, others would see Your Power at work in all that I do.

HalleluYah!

1377 - The Papal See was transferred from Avignon in France back to Rome.
1562 - French Protestants were recognized under the Edict of St. Germain.
1773 - Captain Cook's Resolution became the first ship to cross the Antarctic Circle.
1806 - James Madison Randolph, grandson of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson, was the first child born in the White House.
1852 - The independence of the Transvaal Boers was recognized by Britain.
1871 - Andrew S. Hallidie received a patent for a cable car system.
1882 - Thomas Edison's exhibit opened the Crystal Palace Exhibition in London.
1893 - Hawaii's monarchy was overthrown when a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate.
1900 - The U.S. took Wake Island where there was in important cable link between Hawaii and Manila.
1900 - Yaqui Indians in Texas proclaimed their independence from Mexico. 1900 - Mormon Brigham Roberts was denied a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives for his practicing of polygamy.
1912 - English explorer Robert Falcon Scott reached the South Pole. Norwegian Roald Amundsen had beaten him there by one month. Scott and his party died during the return trip.
1913 - All partner interests in 36 Golden Rule Stores were consolidated and incorporated in Utah into one company. The new corporation was the J.C. Penney Company. 1928 - The fully automatic, film-developing machine was patented by A.M. Josepho.
1934 - Ferdinand Porsche submitted a design for a people's car, a "Volkswagen," to the new German Reich government.
1945 - Soviet and Polish forces liberated Warsaw during World War II.
1945 - Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg disappeared in Hungary while in Soviet custody. Wallenberg was credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews.
1959 - Senegal and the French Sudan joined to form the Federal State of Mali.
1961 - In his farewell address, U.S. President Eisenhower warned against the rise of "the military-industrial complex."
1966 - A B-52 carrying four H-bombs collided with a refuelling tanker. The bombs were released and eight crewmembers were killed.
1991 - Coalition airstrikes began against Iraq after negotiations failed to get Iraq to retreat from the country of Kuwait.
1992 - An IRA bomb, placed next to a remote country road in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, killed seven building workers and injured seven others.
1994 - The Northridge earthquake rocked Los Angeles, CA, registering a 6.7 on the Richter Scale. At least 61 people were killed and about $20 billion in damage was caused.
1995 - More than 6,000 people were killed when an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 devastated the city of Kobe, Japan.
1997 - A court in Ireland granted the first divorce in the Roman Catholic country's history.
1997 - Israel gave over 80% of Hebron to Palestinian rule, but held the remainder where several hundred Jewish settlers lived among 20,000 Palestinians.
1998 - U.S. President Clinton gave his deposition in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit against him. He was the first U.S. President to testify as a defendant in a criminal or civil lawsuit.
2000 - British pharmaceutical companies Glaxo Wellcome PLC and SmithKline Beecham PLC agreed to a merger that created the world's largest drugmaker.
2001 - Congo's President Laurent Kabila was shot and killed during a coup attempt. Congolese officials temporarily placed Kabila's son in charge of the government.
2002 - It was announced that Microsoft had signed a joint venture agreement to produce software with two partners in China. The two partners were Beijin Centergate Technologies (Holding) Co. and the Stone Group.

Psalm 119:9-16 , PSALM 19:7

PSALM 19:7: "The Law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul..."

Someone has said, "Before you can get someone saved, you have to get them lost." In other words, if the sinner does not understand that his sinfulness puts him in a hopeless position before God, he will not recognise how lost he is and how badly he needs a Saviour.

The following article by Ray Comfort, author of the book 'Hell's Best Kept Secret', illustrates how witnessing can be far more effective if the soul-winner takes the time to explain God's view of sin as taught in the Ten Commandments.

"No zeal for the lost, no hunger for the Word, no burden to pray... strangers to holiness." This describes a large number of the people who sit in our church pews today. This is the result of our man-centred gospel which is being served up in our pulpits. We have multitudes of lukewarm Christians with a false sense of security regarding their salvation. This man-centred gospel also has a massive casualty rate; it is producing 90 backsliders per 100 decisions. These people are not really backsliders. I would like to suggest they have never slidden forward. These people have not been warned of the coming wrath. Consider this illustration:

You are seated on a plane when you suddenly hear, "This is your captain speaking; I have an announcement to make. As this plane is about to crash, you are going to have to jump. We would therefore appreciate it if you would put your parachutes on."

You take one look out of the window at the 25,000 foot drop and immediately put the parachute on. You glance at the man next to you, and to your horror, you see he is still watching the movie. You nudge him and say, "Didn't you hear the captain? Put the parachute on!" He casually says, "I don't think the captain really means it... besides, I'm quite happy as I am, thanks."

"Follow-up" is not in the Bible. Those who want to know God should be following us, hungering after the Word.

Then with zeal, but without knowledge, you say, "Please put on the parachute... it will be better than the movie." But that doesn't make sense! You give him a wrong motive for putting the parachute on. Instead, tell him about the jump. Show him the 25,000 foot drop and thus remind him of the law of gravity.

He immediately (and gratefully) puts the parachute on.

Think about it. As long as that man knows he's going to have to jump out of the plane and face the consequences of breaking the law of gravity, there is no way you are going to get the parachute off his back. His life depends on it!

Can you see that his motive, his reason for putting it on, is the factor that determines whether or not he keeps the parachute on? As we look around us we see that multitudes of "passengers" are enjoying the flight: they are enjoying the pleasures of sin for a season. But modern evangelism, in sincere zeal, but without knowledge, says, "Excuse me. Did you hear the command from the Captain of our Salvation? Put on the Lord Jesus Christ! He will give you love, joy, peace, fulfilment and lasting happiness. He will help your alcohol problem, your drug problem. He will take away your loneliness, heal your marriage, and help your finances!"

Sadly, this gives him a wrong motive for coming to Christ.

Instead, we must take courage and tell him about the jump. Explain to him about the Law of God like Jesus did.

Open up the Commandments and show him he must face the fearful consequences of breaking the Law of God. Let the Law of God convince him he needs the Saviour in the same way the law of gravity convinced the passenger he needed a parachute. Then, when he responds to the Gospel and puts on the Lord Jesus Christ, he will never "backslide". His knowledge of the consequences of breaking the Law of God would cause him to cling for his very life to the Saviour. Therefore, follow-up is not necessary.

In ACTS 8:36-40 the Lord left the Ethiopian without follow-up. Philip was caught away by God to another town.

As I studied the Scriptures, I found that God gave the Ten Commandments (the Law), not for justification, but to convert the soul. (PSALM 19:7: "The Law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul...").

I saw where Paul said the Law brought "the knowledge of sin" (ROMANS 3:20: "... for by the law is the knowledge of sin."). It was given to leave us guilty before God (ROMANS 3:19 "...that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God").

In fact Paul didn't know what sin was, without the Law (ROMANS 7:7: "...I had not known sin, but by the Law..."), it was a "schoolmaster to bring us to Christ" (GALATIANS 3:24). In MATTHEW 5:19, Jesus even said we would be called "great" in the Kingdom of God, if we taught the Law. Why?

Because we will drive men and women to Christ.

On one of my many airline flights I had a chance to speak to the lady sitting next to me. I asked her what she had been doing in the city we had just left. She had been skiing. We discussed the joys of the sport for several minutes. Then she asked me my occupation. This was my chance to create an opportunity to mention Christian things.

I told her that I write Christian books, then asked her if she had a Christian background. She said she had. Did she see herself as a sinner in God's sight? She didn't. I said that for years I didn't until I saw the standard with which God was going to judge the world on Judgment day. Then one by one, we went through the Ten Commandments.

Suddenly she began to see sin for what it was. She said, "That's what I've been doing. I've been measuring myself by man's standards!" Tears welled up in her eyes as I shared that Christ had redeemed us from the curse of the Law. The gospel made sense to her. She asked what she should do, and I had the joy of leading her to the Saviour as the plane began to land. I enquired as to whether she had a Bible and if she knew any Christians. She did have a Bible and a Christian at work had been sowing seed. God usually orchestrates a number of encounters with labourers before a person comes to Christ.

Bible translator John Wycliffe said, "The highest service to which a man may attain on earth is to preach the Law of God."

John Wesley suggested preaching 90% Law and 10% grace.

Charles Finney said, "Failure to use the Law is almost certain to result in false hope, the introduction of a false standard of Christian experience, and to fill the Church with false converts."

John Bunyan (Pilgrim's Progress) said, "The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin."

Martin Luther said, "The first duty of the Gospel preacher is to declare God's Law and show the nature of sin."

Because the Church has forsaken the Law as a "schoolmaster" to drive sinners to the Saviour, it has fallen into a trap of trying to attract them to salvation.

If I am wrong and modern evangelism has found a way to see sinners saved without the Law, then PSALM 19:7 is wrong when it cites the Law as the God-given instrument which converts the soul.

Then Jesus wasted His time going through each of the commandments. Then Paul was wrong when he said that he hadn't known what sin was without the Law.

So was Charles Spurgeon then wrong when he said, "They will never accept grace till they tremble before a just and holy Law."?

If the Church will not listen, it will continue to reap false conversions through its lawless Gospel, and find its terrible error when it hears Jesus say, "Depart from me,ye workers of iniquity (lawlessness)." They will be destroyed through lack of knowledge of God's Law (HOSEA 4:6).

by Ray Comfort

Prayer for the Day

O Father Yahweh, Creator of Heaven and Earth, Holy is Thy Name! Be merciful unto Thy people Israel, I pray. Help us to see through all the false doctrines and teachings that fill our lands and our churches. We have chosen our own way, and have not seperated light from darkness. Even now we see Your Judgement and Chastisement coming upon us for all our sins. Open the eyes of Thy people, O Father. Send forth Your Holy Spirit to deliver us from our ways and into the truth of Your lorious Kingdom.

HalleluYah!

1803 - Thomas Jefferson, in secret communication with Congress, sopught authorization for the first official exploration by the U.S. government.
1778 - English navigator Captain James Cook discovered the Hawaiian Islands, which he called the "Sandwich Islands."
1788 - The first English settlers arrived in Australia's Botany Bay to establish a penal colony. The group moved north eight days later and settled at Port Jackson.
1871 - Wilhelm, King of Prussia from 1861, was proclaimed the first German Emperor.
1896 - The x-ray machine was exhibited for the first time.
1911 - For the first time an aircraft landed on a ship. Pilot Eugene B. Ely flew onto the deck of the USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco harbor.
1919 - The World War I Peace Congress opened in Versailles, France.
1943 - During World War II, the Soviets announced that they had broken the Nazi siege of Leningrad, which had began in September of 1941.
1943 - U.S. commercial bakers stopped selling sliced bread. Only whole loaves were sold during the ban until the end of World War II.
1950 - The federal tax on oleomargarine was repealed.
1957 - The first, non-stop, around-the-world, jet flight came to an end at Riverside, CA. The plane was refueled in mid-flight by huge aerial tankers.
1972 - Former Rhodesian prime minister Garfield Todd and his daughter were placed under house arrest for campaigning against Rhodesian independence.
1978 - The European Court of Human Rights cleared the British government of torture but found it guilty of inhuman and degrading treatment of prisoners in Northern Ireland.
1987 - For the first time in history the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) was seen by over 100 million viewers. The audience was measured during the week of January 12-18.
1990 - A jury in Los Angeles, CA, acquitted former preschool operators Raymond Buckey and his mother, Peggy McMartin Buckey, of 52 child molestation charges.
1990 - In an FBI sting, Washington, DC, Mayor Marion Barry was arrested for drug possession. He was later convicted of a misdemeanor.
1991 - Eastern Airlines shut down after 62 years in business due to financial problems.
1993 - The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday was observed in all 50 U.S. states for the first time.
1995 - A network of caves were discovered near the town of Vallon-Pont-d'Arc in southern France. The caves contained paintings and engravings that were 17,000 to 20,000 years old.
1997 - Hutu militiamen killed three Spanish aid workers and three soldiers and seriously wound an American in a night attack in NW Rwanda.
2002 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the approval of a saliva-based ovulation test.

Psalm 119: 17-24

Matthew 5:17 "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled."

"Jesus did not come to change the law, but He came to explain it, and that very fact shows that it remains; for there is no need to explain that which is abrogated. By thus explaining the law He confirmed it. He could not have meant to abolish it, or He would not have needed to expound it. That the Master did not come to abolish the law is clear, because after having embodied it in His life, He willingly gave Himself to bear its penalty, though He had never broken it."

The very fact that there are those who proclaim that the law of Yahweh has been put away or abolished, must stomp through all of scripture from beginning to end to do so.They render of none effect all the groundwork that the Evr-Living God has laid for the joy, happiness, prosperity and salvation of those who would be His people. Scripture says plainly and without remorse," For I [am] the LORD, I change not..."Malachi 3:6, and of the Messiah," Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever."Hebrews 13:8. And yet all across our Israel nations the false teaching has gone forth that Yahweh God has changed, that He has been forced to do something altogether different. Thus we wonder at how deeply entrenched our world has become in darkness. David himself testifies against our age when he cries out,"Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law."Psalm 119:53.

Daniel 7:25 "And he shall speak [great] words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time." Here is prophesied one does three very significant things. 1) Speak great words against the Most High, 2) wear out the saints of the Most High and 3) think to change times and LAWS. Isn't it interesting how that one who would seek to change times and laws would be of nescessity an enemy of Yahweh God and His saints. This should tell us a great deal.

Proverbs 24:21 "My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: [and] meddle not with them that are given to change: " This is of course how all apostasy could be stopped in it's tracks. By having nothing to do with those who have found something wrong in virtue, who feel they must correct all those biblical wrongs committed through history. In short, we must divide the light from the darkness.

My Heavenly Father Yahweh, Blessed be Your Name and Blessed be the Beauty of Holiness! Everything around us here in this world is arrayed against Your Commandments, Your Statutes and Your Judgements. Help me to recognize the pitfalls before I fall in them. Choose my path for me, O King of all the earth, and I will walk therein. Help me to resist and be strong, for the Glory of Your Kingdom and Your Name.

HalleluYah!

1419 - Rouen surrendered to Henry V, completing his conquest of Normandy.
1764 - John Wilkes was expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
1793 - King Louis XVI was tried by the French Convention, found guilty of treason and sentenced to the guillotine.
1825 - Ezra Daggett and Thomas Kensett of New York City patented a canning process to preserve salmon, oysters and lobsters.
1861 - Georgia seceded from the Union.
1883 - Thomas Edison's first village electric lighting system using overhead wires began operation in Roselle, NJ.
1915 - George Claude, of Paris, France, patented the neon discharge tube for use in advertising signs.
1915 - More than 20 people were killed when German zeppelins bombed England for the first time. The bombs were dropped on Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn.
1937 - Howard Hughes set a transcontinental air record. He flew from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds.
1942 - The Japanese invaded Burma (later Myanmar).
1944 - The U.S. federal government relinquished control of the nation's railroads after the settlement of a wage dispute.
1949 - The salary of the President of the United States was increased from $75,000 to $100,000 with an additional $50,000 expense allowance for each year in office.
1955 - U.S. President Eisenhower allowed a filmed news conference to be used on television (and in movie newsreels) for the first time.
1966 - Indira Gandhi was elected prime minister of India.
1969 - In protest against the Russian invasion of 1968, Czech student Jan Palach set himself on fire in Prague's Wenceslas Square.
1977 - U.S. President Ford pardoned Iva Toguri D'Aquino (the "Tokyo Rose").
1979 - Former U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell was released on parole after serving 19 months at a federal prison in Alabama.
1981 - The U.S. and Iran signed an agreement paving the way for the release of 52 Americans held hostage for more than 14 months and for arrangements to unfreeze Iranian assets and to resolve all claims against Iran.
1993 - IBM announced a loss of $4.97 billion for 1992. It was the largest single-year loss in U.S. corporate history.
1995 - Russian forces overwhelmed the resistance forces in Chechnya.
1996 - U.S. first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury. The investigation was concerning the discovery of billing records related to the Whitewater real estate investment venture.
1997 - Yasser Arafat returned to Hebron for the first time in more than 30 years. He joined 60,000 Palestinians in celebration over the handover of the last West Bank city in Israeli control.

Psalm 119:25-32

There is a word used by those who abhor being restricted by Yahweh's Law against those who see beauty within it. Legalism. They point to the pharisees and sadducees and The Messiah's rebukes of them, and then accuse those that would stand up for the law of being pharisees and sadducees, but they miss the point. Yahoshua was rebuking these religious leaders not for keeping the law, but for nullifying it.

To the Law of Yahweh a vile addition had been brought in by those who were not of Israel, the traditions of the elders. These traditions were not just a series of habits and superstitions adopted into the religious thought of their day. They were an established form of "anti-commandments" that were descended from Baal worship itself and covertly grafted into the true religion of the Hebrews. This went on to become known as the Talmud. No, the Messiah was not preaching against legalism, but corruption of the truth.

Yet the cry of "legalism" continues on. Let a word be said about the length of a man's hair (or woman's) or whether a woman should cover her head during worship, or whether the dress of either is inappropriate, and bit dogs howl about freedom in Christ and against legalism and for grace. The true extent of their repentance is then uncovered, for these "New Testament Christians" who disregard the Old Covenant and supposedly only recognize the validity of the "New", suddenly turn upon the New Testament itself, as it is here that such issues are dealt with extensively.

Anything,New Testament or Old that pinches their so-called freedom, that threatens any thing so terrible as boundaries upon them, must be rejected, so with a panicked cry of "legalism" they flee to return back to their holy free-for-all. What they end up missing is the beauty of holiness, and the truth of the Glory of Yahweh God.

Leviticus 10:1 ¶ "And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not. And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD. Then Moses said unto Aaron, This [is it] that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace." According to the arguments of many, Yahweh was guilty of legalism for being so strict concerning a matter of "strange fire". Nadab and Abihu certainly didn't see what all the fuss should have been about, and yet it cost them their very lives.

2 Samuel 6:6 "And when they came to Nachon's threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth [his hand] to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook [it]. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for [his] error; and there he died by the ark of God." Here again the enemies of Yahweh's law cringe at such a "legalistic" act. Why, this was supposed celebration! The Ark of the Covenant, so long absent from the tabernacle, was returning. There was rejoicing and praise and worship. Forget the fact that The Seat of the Presence was being hauled ingloriously in an OXCART! And poor old Uzzah. Why certainly he was only acting out of his own reverance for the Ark by trying to keep it from falling out of the oxcart.

But he still was struck dead. Nadab, Abihu and Uzzah may have all had the best of intentions, yet they still ANGERED Yahweh God. Legalism? Is Yahweh being "legalistic" when He states without remorse,"I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified."? Those who cry out legalism have yet to experience the TRUE Presence of the Ever-Living God. They know nothing of His holiness, His absolutely, unbroken light. Had Nadab and Abihu had more reverence for the holiness of Yahweh ( and of their positions) they would have enjoyed an uneventful day. If David had set about to bring home the Ark properly, as set forth in the law, Levitical priests would have been bearing the Seat of the Presence on golden poles as a KING should have been carried, rather than some load set in an oxcart, then Uzzah would have continued on "unsmote".

What we MUST remember is that if we will not reverance Yahweh, He will. We must never get tired of giving the Father the worship He deserves. We must never be guilty of placing before Him "whatever is at hand", for then we end up placing before Him "strange fire" or "putting Him in an oxcart". This is only one of the many dangers of rejecting Yahweh's law, because here is how the foolish actually end up trying to establish their own righteousness, by rejecting the standards of righteousness that He has given us.

And the question has to be asked: If it's actually in scripture, what's so wrong with legalism?

O Father Yahweh, Great and Glorious God, great is the Beauty of Holiness! Help me to mindful of my way, and to be ruthless within myself of anything that would be sin and darkness in my life and in my soul. Let me look fully upon Your Word, and live boldly in faith unto it. There are many voices which would seek to seduce me away from the purity of Your Word and Holiness. Let me not rationalize away sin and unrighteousness, nor spiritualize away Thy Commandments, but help me through Thy Holy Spirit to Live in them.

HalleluYah!

1265 - The first English parliament met in Westminster Hall.
1801 - John Marshall was appointed chief justice of the United States.
1839 - Chile defeated a confederation of Peru and Bolivia in the Battle of Yungay.
1841 - The island of Hong Kong was ceded to Great Britain. It returned to Chinese control in July 1997.
1885 - The roller coaster was patented by L.A. Thompson.
1886 - The Mersey Railway Tunnel was officially opened by the Prince of Wales.
1887 - The U.S. Senate approved an agreement to lease Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base.
1891 - James Hogg took office as the first native-born governor of Texas.
1937 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt became the first U.S. President to be inaugurated on January 20th. The 20th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution officially set the date for the swearing in of the President and Vice President.
1942 - Nazi officials held the Wannsee conference, during which they arrived at their "final solution" that called for exterminating Europe's Jews.
1944 - The British RAF dropped 2,300 tons of bombs on Berlin.
1954 - The National Negro Network was formed on this date. Forty radio stations were charter members of the network.
1972 - The number of unemployed in Britain exceeded 1 million.
1981 - Iran released 52 Americans that had been held hostage for 444 days. The hostages were flown to Algeria and then to a U.S. base in Wiesbaden, West Germany. The release occurred minutes after the U.S. presidency had passed from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan.
1986 - The U.S. observed the first federal holiday in honor of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
1986 - Britain and France announced their plans to build the Channel Tunnel.
1987 - Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite was kidnapped in Beirut, Lebanon. He was there attempting to negotiate the release of Western hostages. He was not freed until November 1991.
1994 - Shannon Faulkner became the first woman to attend classes at The Citadel in South Carolina. Faulkner joined the cadet corps in August 1995 under court order but soon dropped out.
1996 - Yasser Arafat was elected president of the Palestinian Authority and his supporters won two thirds of the 80 seats in the Legislative Council.
1997 - Bill Clinton was inagurated for his second term as president of the United States.
1998 - American researchers announced that they had cloned calves that may produce medicinal milk.
1998 - In Chile, a judge agreed to hear a lawsuit that accused Chile's former dictator Augusto Pinochet with genocide.
1999 - The China News Service announced that the Chinese government was tightening restrictions on internet use. The rules were aimed at 'Internet Bars.'
2000 - Greece and Turkey signed five accords aimed to build confidence between the two nations.

Psalm 119:33-40

John 14:15 "If ye love me, keep my commandments."

Now we get to the real point of the law of Yahweh. Love. In our age of "free love" the true meaning of the word has all but been forgotten. Christians are constantly being told that we under no law except to love God. But love for our Father in heaven is utterly bound up in obediance to His Law. Christians the world over are told they under no commandment but to love one another, yet within the law alone do we see how to properly demonstrate this love. Here we have the words of Yahshua the Messiah to His disciples, His followers. As Yahweh in the flesh, His commandments refer to ALL the Commandments. Here He makes a clear condition on anyone who would claim to love Him,"keep His commandments".

John 15:10 " If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love." Keeping Yahweh's Law is not about trying to earn your way into heaven, it is about faith, trust and love. We believe that our Father knows what is best for us; what will be good for us and what will bring us harm and evil, so by faith, we deny our own so-called wisdom and submit to His wisdom, trusting in His perfect character because we love Him. Obeidiance is our expression of love for Him, and it is our duty.

John 15:10 " If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. " Today's lukewarm gospel simply does not line up with scripture taken as a whole, but rather denies scripture.1John 2:5" But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked."

1John 3:4 "Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.

Although there are many definitions of what sin is in today's "christian" church, there is only one definition according to scripture, and that is the breaking of Yahweh's Law. Today's nebulous, abstract concepts of love, sin and holiness are made abstract so that they can change with the times. Something considered as an abomination 300 years ago, would still be abominable to Him who never changes today. But in today's "church", things must be kept flexible, so that as culture and society change, the standards of the church can also change. They have nothing to do with scripture and everything to do with pleasing the masses.

1John 3:22 "And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment. And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us." Freedom in the Spirit is a much heard term in today's churchianity, but one must ask,what spirit? Would the Holy Spirit of Yahweh REALLY be responsible for all that we see and hear coming from churches today. "Spirituality" is all too often measured in the decibel level of the singing, the franticness of the worshippers and the "high" of the emotions. But the Holy Spirit of Yahweh (and I emphasize the word HOLY ) never places strange fire before the altar, nor does it recognize the oxcart, but leads us into truth, and manifests itself through true worship. Throughout scripture we can find lying spirits and Baal worship causing commotions, but never obediance.

1John 5:2" By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous." Again, showing true and proper love can only be expressed through an understanding of Yahweh's law. He gives us the standard that He will accapt, and any other is but filthy rags.

Revelation 12:17 "And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." Notice even in Revelation, the testimony of Jesus Christ/Yahosua the Messiah, is tied to KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS OF YAHWEH GOD.

And the devil despises them.

Glorious Father Yahweh, I praise Your Holy Name! Father I thank You for the Love that You have shown unto me, for the sacrifice of the Messiah upon the cross, for saving me from my sins and for delivering unto me Thy wonderful Word and Law. Help me to walk in Your ways, and be grateful for the grace that You have shown me.

HalleluYah!

1789 - W.H. Brown's "Power of Sympathy" was published. It was the first American novel to be published.
1793 - During the French Revolution, King Louis XVI was executed on the guillotine. He had been condemned for treason.
1812 - The Y-bridge in Zanesville, OH, was approved for construction.
1846 - The first issue of the "Daily News," edited by Charles Dickens, was published.
1853 - Dr. Russell L. Hawes patented the envelope folding machine.
1861 - The future president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, resigned from the U.S. Senate. Four other Southerners also resigned.
1865 - An oil well was drilled by torpedoes for the first time.
1900 - Canadian troops set sail to fight in South Africa. The Boers had attacked Ladysmith on January 8, 1900.
1908 - The Sullivan Ordinance was passed in New York City making smoking by women became illegal. The measure was vetoed by Mayor George B. McClellan Jr. .
1924 - Soviet leader Vladimir Llyich Lenin died. Joseph Stalin began a purge of his rivals for the leadership of the Soviet Union.
1927 - The first opera broadcast over a national radio network was presented in Chicago, IL. The opera was "Faust".
1941 - The British communist newspaper, the "Daily Worker," was banned due to wartime restrictions.
1954 - The Nautilus was launched in Groton, CT. It was the first atomic-powered submarine. U.S. First Lady Mamie Eisenhower broke the traditional bottle of champagne across the bow.
1954 - The gas turbine automobile was introduced in New York City.
1970 - The Boeing 747 made its first commercial flight from New York to London for Pan American.
1976 - The French Concorde SST aircraft began regular commercial service for Air France and British Airways.
1977 - U.S. President Carter pardoned almost all Vietnam War draft evaders.
1980 - Gold was valued at $850 an ounce.
1997 - Newt Gingrich was fined as the U.S. House of Representatvies voted for first time in history to discipline its leader for ethical misconduct.
1998 - A former White House intern said on tape that she had an affair with U.S. President Clinton.
2003 - It was announced by the U.S. Census Bureau that estimates showed that the Hispanic population had passed the black population for the first time.

Psalm 119:41-48

Matthew 22: 36: "Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."

Have you ever wondered what the Messiah meant when He made that declaration,"On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." ? Simple. All the law of our Heavenly Father is based upon love, real love. Not that curious mutation which we see championed throughout churchianity today, neither that spurious,emotional/sexual abomination that rules the hearts of men, but real love.

Romans 13:10 "Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love [is] the fulfilling of the law." Does Paul here suppose that if we simply LOVE one another, that we do not have to follow the commandments of Yahweh? Of course not. He is saying that if we are loving one another, we ABIDING BY the law. The law is about love: loving our Father in heaven more than anything to be found on this earth, and worshipping Him as He alone truly deserves to be worshipped; and loving one another completely, properly, without regard to our own selves. Read Paul's words in 1Corinthians 13:4 "Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things." If this is the kind of love we truly walk in, we find ourselves doing those very things written within the commandments, statutes and judgements. Yes, even the judgements, for what kind of love is it that would release the murderer, the rapist, the thief and the pedophile back into the midst of the brethren where they may victimize our brothers and sisters again and again?

On these two hang ALL the law and the prophets. Ironicall, most "New Testament Christians" don't even realize that Yahoshua was quoting from THE LAW when He made this statement.

Deuteronomy 6: 5"And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might."

Leviticus 19: 8 "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

Leviticus 19: 18: "Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD."

True love for Yahweh God and others is a holy, spiritual principle, which expresses itself in obedience to Yahweh�fs commandments. Emotion may play a part in the process; but it is a small part when compared to holiness, obedience, respect for others, a sense of responsibility, self control, honesty, integrity, kindness, generosity, hospitality and contentment. And every one of these is covered within that glorious creation, the law of Yahweh.

Why are certain foods, activities and attitudes condemned by Father Yahweh? He designed us, and as such He knows better than we what we truly need and what will truly harm us. He knows the consequences of all actions, therefore He tells us how we should and should not behave toward one another, that we might live in true freedom, true peace and true contentment. He is also HOLY, JUST, and UTTERLY without darkness; and as such, He must be worshipped in truth and in spirit, properly, with due reverance and fear.

It is often said that it was love hat held Him on the cross, rather than the nails driven into His flesh. To take away the law from that great act, is to undermine such great love.

O Heavenly Father Yahweh, great is Thy Mercy, Holy are all Thy ways! Have I been a brother unto my brother? Help me to be all that Your law demands me to be, even when others are unloving, resentful and become as enemies unto me, help me not to be vengeful or spiteful in return, but to show Your Love in return, that I might help them to find You and Your paths. Help me not to back down from Your Standard, but to stand.

HalleluYah!

1666 - Shah Jahan, a descendant of Genghis Khan and Timur, died at the age of 74. He was the Mogul emperor of India that built the Taj Mahal as a mausoleum for his wife Mumtaz-i-Mahal.
1771 - The Falkland Islands were ceded to Britain by Spain.
1824 - The Asante army crushed British troops in the Gold Coast.
1879 - James Shields began a term as a U.S. Senator from Missouri. He had previously served Illinois and Minnesota. He was the first Senator to serve three states.
1879 - British troops were massacred by the Zulus at Isandhlwana.
1889 - The Columbia Phonograph Company was formed in Washington, DC.
1895 - The National Association of Manufacturers was organized in Cincinnati, OH.
1900 - Off of South Africa, the British released the German steamer Herzog, which had been seized on January 6.
1901 - Queen Victoria of England died after reigning for nearly 64 years. Edward VII, her son, succeeded her.
1905 - Insurgent workers were fired on in St Petersburg, Russia, resulting in "Bloody Sunday." 500 people were killed.
1917 - U.S. President Wilson pleaded for an end to war in Europe, calling for "peace without victory." America entered the war the following April.
1924 - Ramsay MacDonald became Britain's first Labour Prime Minister.
1936 - In Paris, Premier Pierre Laval resigned over diplomatic failure in the Ethiopian crisis. 1941 - Britain captured Tobruk from German forces.
1944 - Allied forces began landing at Anzio, Italy, during World War II.
1950 - Alger Hiss, a former adviser to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, was convicted of perjury for denying contacts with a Soviet agent. He was sentenced to five years in prison.
1951 - Fidel Castro was ejected from a Winter League baseball game after hitting a batter. He later gave up baseball for politics.
1957 - Suspected "Mad Bomber" was arrested in Waterbury, CT. George P. Metesky was accused of planting more than 30 explosive devices in the New York City area.
1962 - Cuba's membership in the Organization of American States (OAS) was suspended.
1964 - Kenneth Kaunda was sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Northern Rhodesia.
1970 - The first regularly scheduled commercial flight of the Boeing 747 began in New York City and ended in London about 6 1/2 hours later.
1972 - The United Kingdom, the Irish Republic, and Denmark joined the EEC.
1973 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down state laws that had been restricting abortions during the first six months of pregnancy. The case (Roe vs. Wade) legalized abortion.
1984 - Apple introduced the Macintosh during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII.
1987 - Phil Donahue became the first talk show host to tape a show from inside the Soviet Union. The shows were shown later in the year.
1992 - Rebel soldiers seized the national radio station in Kinshasa, Zaire's capital, and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.
1995 - Two Palestinian suicide bombers from the Gaza Strip detonated powerful explosives at a military transit point in central Israel, killing 19 Israelis.
1997 - The U.S. Senate confirmed Madeleine Albright as the first female secretary of state.
1998 - Theodore Kaczynski pled guilty to federal charges for his role as the Unabomber. He agreed to life in prison without parole.
2003 - It was reported that scientists in China had found fossilized remains of a dinosaur with four feathered wings.

Psalm 119:49-56

Psalm 119:97 "O how love I thy law! it [is] my meditation all the day."

The words of a warrior-king, David. In all of scripture, David is the only man Yahweh declares to be "a man after My own heart." But David was by no means perfect.His record may have been more "blemished" than a host of other less recognized men and women. He abandoned his first wife when fleeing king Saul. Took refuge in first one heathen country, then when he was overwhelmed at the horror of his situation, acted like a madman. When returning to Judah, he took his first wife back, even though she had already been given to another man and he already several excellent wives already. He lusted after Bathsheba, premeditated and consecrated an adulterous affair, attempted to hide the subsequent pregnancy, and when all else failed, had her husband killed.

A man after Yahweh's own heart?

It is here that we see a glorious effect of the law of Yahweh. Let's look at some other aspects of David's life. Although wrongly accused made a fugitive by Saul, David took vengance on him, even though twice he was delivered into his hand. When finally king, David showed mercy to the descendants of Saul, in fact, he was constantly overlooking the wrongs inflicted on him by others who deserved death, even his own children. This from a man who wrote that he "delighted in the law of Yahweh" and that he " meditated on Yahweh's law day and night". Yet he rarely avenged himself on his enemies, even when he had a legal right. Why? Because he saw Yahweh's mercy in that law. I am so tired of the so-called christian preachers and teachers who speak of Yahweh's law as if it were a club always beating us. That law brought David closer to Yahweh's heart than any other name in scripture, and thus it made him merciful.

Haven't you ever wondered why the death penalty was never brought to bear upon David, even though he was deserving of it? Because he was merciful in his own dealings.

James 2: 12: " Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom, because judgement without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgement!"

Here again, some have used the above verse to somehow discredit God's Law. Yet mercy was always at the heart of the matter. When Christ said," Ye hath heard that it hath been said an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth...", this was of course, in the law. Exodus 21. God's Law requires retribution. This was actually stated, however, to prevent abuses of the law, i.e. cutting off someone's head for having knocked out a tooth. Punishment was not to be excessive."... But I say unto you, that ye resist not evil [ not of course, actual demonic evil, but an injustice which we would naturally perceive as evil because, well, it happened to us ] but whosoever would smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also." Matthew 5:38-39.

Very quickly, Christ was not promoting pacifism here, for He also told His disciples that if they did not have a sword, to sell their coats and buy one. Neither was He abolishing any law, He was not changing any law; He was trying to get His chosen people to treat each other with mercy. Think about it,"MERCY TRIUMPHS OVER JUDGEMENT!" How many of us would dare to claim that we were better than David, even if we have not murdered or committed adultery. There are more sins and abominations listed in scripture than just those two; and at some level, we have ALL been guilty of some of them. But there are a couple of factors can determine our punishment.

One, is repentance. David's words were quite clear once he was confronted by Nathan the prophet," I have sinned." He did not lie against the truth, he did not rationalize it away nor make excuses. He took full responsibility for his sin, and repented before unto Yahweh his Father(see the words of Psalm 51). But it wasn't just what he did there, but what he HAD BEEN doing all along that made the difference. He had showed mercy to his enemies and to those who slighted him. So it was when he came to his time of failing, he was able to be treated with mercy as well.

To be sure, there were repercussions of David's sin, there always are. The first child sired with Bathsheba died. Family unrest and strife remained in his home the rest of his life. But through all this, David never complained, never accused Yahweh, but rather turned to Yahweh through it all.

Leviticus 19: 18: "Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD." So it is that mercy and love are not "New Testament" creations after all, but were in reality were in the heart of the Father and in the heart of His Holy Law all along, and this made David a man after Yahweh's own heart.

My Blessed Father Yahweh, my Savior and Redeemer, Glorious King of all the Earth, help me to show mercy, even as I was shown mercy. Let me not give place to sin against my brother, but help me to walk in the Glory of Your commandments and to show that glory unto others.

HalleluYah!

1556 - An earthquake in Shanxi Province, China, was thought to have killed about 830,000 people.
1571 - The Royal Exchange in London, founded by financier Thomas Gresham, was opened by Queen Elizabeth I.
1789 - Georgetown College was established as the first Catholic college in the U.S. The school is in Washington, DC.
1845 - The U.S. Congress decided all national elections would be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
1849 - English-born Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in America to receive medical degree. It was from the Medical Institution of Geneva, NY.
1907 - Charles Curtis, of Kansas, began serving in the United States Senate. He was the first American Indian to become a U.S. Senator. He resigned in March of 1929 to become U.S. President Herbert Hoover�fs Vice President.
1920 - The Dutch government refused the demands from the Allies to hand over the ex-kaiser of Germany.
1924 - The first Labour government was formed, under Ramsay MacDonald.
1937 - In Moscow, seventeen people went on trial during Josef Stalin's "Great Purge."
1943 - The British captured Tripoli from the Germans.
1950 - The Israeli Knesset approved a resolution proclaiming Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
1960 - The U.S. Navy bathyscaphe Trieste descended to a record depth of 35,820 feet (10,750 meters) in the Pacific Ocean.
1964 - Ratification of the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was completed. This amendment eliminated the poll tax in federal elections.
1968 - North Korea seized the U.S. Navy ship Pueblo, charging it had intruded into the nation's territorial waters on a spying mission. The crew was released 11 months later.
1971 - In Prospect Creek Camp, AK, the lowest temperature ever recorded in the U.S. was reported as minus 80 degrees.
1973 - U.S. President Nixon announced that an accord had been reached to end the Vietnam War.
1978 - Sweden banned aerosol sprays because of damage to environment. They were the first country to do so.
1985 - The proceedings of the House of Lords were televised for the first time.
2002 - John Walker Lindh returned to the U.S. under FBI custody. Lindh was charge with conspiring to kill U.S. citizens, providing support to terrorists and engaging in prohibited transactions with the Taliban while a member of the al-Quaida terrorist organization in Afghanistan.
2003 - North Korea announced that it would consider sanctions an act of war for North Korea's reinstatement of its nuclear program.

Psalm 119:57-64

Psalm 94:12 "Blessed [is] the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;"

No man is perfect. No man has ever not sinned to some degree, and most of us if we live long enough will eventually fail to the degree that we do some injury or injustice to others, even if it is a matter of hurting someone's feelings. If we are truly of the household of faith, we have a blessed assurance (besides forgiveness). The rod of chastisement. How can this be considered "blessed", you ask?

Deuteronomy 8:5 "Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, [so] the LORD thy God chasteneth thee."

Proverbs 13:24 "He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes."

Hebrews 12:6 "For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?"

Most people can think of a great many hallmarks in their spiritual walk that would consider blessed more quickly than "the rod of correction".yet it is this very thing that scripture tells us identifies us as "sons". Think about it, whom Yahweh loveth He chasteneth. This was a hallmark of king David's life. In all his chastenings we read throuhout the psalms of David's tears, his crying out, his laments over his own sins as well as the sins of others. But he never turned away, he endured to the end.

Job 5:17 "Behold, happy [is] the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:"

Hebrews 12:5 "And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: "

Hebrews 12:11 "Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby."

As you can see, Yahweh is trying to bring us farther than we are, to make us more in His image and less like the world. But truly "ffolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, and this is no different in the children of Yahweh. We bring into our new lives much "foolishness" and although we may put away many foolish things on our own, we still end up needing the "rod of correction" to drive out more.

We must endure, for if we do we will be made more than we are at this present time and shall yield the peaceable fruit of righteousness. How does this work? We are driven to the "schoolmaster". "Blessed [is] the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;".

It would seem that a great many have forgotten that Paul, Peter, John, James, Luke, Mark, and Jude had NO NEW TESTAMENTS! They had no Ephesians, Gospels, Hebrews or Book of Revelation to quote from. To them the term "scripture meant one and only one thing, The Law and The Prophets.

2Timothy 3:16 "All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:" It was to Genesis, Exodus, Deuteronomy and Levticus as well as a score of other books ignored by the "New Testament Church" that the "New Testament" writers, as well as the Messiah Himself, referred to. Christians spend too much time apologizing for the Old Testament and not enough time turning to the Old Testament, for in it is the foundations for dividing light from darkness.

And while the "New Testament Church" mocks the laws, scorns the harshness of the prophets and despises the judgements, they never see there the principles of faith, love, mercy, forgiveness and grace.

If you are being chastened, give the sacrifice of praise unto Yahweh for being loved as a son or daughter, and turn you to that which was meant for our good.

Psalm 119:77 "Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law [is] my delight."

Blessed Father Yahweh, Thy Mercy endureth forever. Holy is Thy Name. Let me not entertain any darkness, nor have any fellowship with darkness. Examine ways, my thoughts and my heart. Cleanse me of all unrighteousness, lest I bring a shame and a reproach upon Thy Holy Name. Thank You for loving me with true Love, O Father, for caring enough to want me to more like You.

HalleluYah!

1848 - James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill in northern California. The discovery led to the gold rush of '49.
1888 - The typewriter ribbon was patented by Jacob L. Wortman.
1899 - Humphrey O�fSullivan patented the rubber heel.
1908 - In England, the first Boy Scout troop was organized by Robert Baden-Powell.
1916 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that income tax was unconstitutional.
1916 - Conscription was introduced in Britain.
1922 - Christian K. Nelson patented the Eskimo Pie.
1924 - The Russian city of St. Petersburg was renamed Leningrad. The name has since been changed back to St. Petersburg.
1943 - U.S. President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill concluded a wartime conference in Casablanca, Morocco.
1952 - Vincent Massey was the first Canadian to be appointed governor-general of Canada.
1965 - Winston Churchill died at the age of 90.
1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws that denied welfare benefits to people who had resided in a state for less than a year.
1978 - A nuclear-powered Soviet satellite plunged through Earth's atmosphere and disintegrated. The radioactive debris was scattered over parts of Canada's Northwest Territory.
1985 - Penny Harrington became the first woman police chief of a major city. She assumed the duties as head of the Portland, Oregon, force of 940 officers and staff.
1986 - The Voyager 2 space probe flew past Uranus. The probe came within 50,679 miles of the seventh planet of the solar system.
1987 - In Lebanon, gunmen kidnapped educators Alann Steen, Jesse Turner, Robert Polhill and Mitheleshwar Singh. They were all later released.
1990 - Japan launched the first probe to be sent to the Moon since 1976. A small satellite was placed in lunar orbit.
2002 - The U.S. Congress began a hearing on the collapse of Enron Corp.
2002 - John Walker Lindh appeared in court for the first time concerning the charges that he conspired to kill Americans abroad and aided terrorist groups. Lindh had been taken into custody by U.S. Marines in Afghanistan.
2003 - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security began operations under Tom Ridge.

Psalm 119:65-72

Jeremiah 31:2 "Thus saith the LORD, The people [which were] left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; [even] Israel, when I went to cause him to rest."

It comes as quite a surprise to many that the word (not to mention the concept of) grace is actually found in the Old testament. Because the whole of modern "churchianity" considers itself strictly a construction of the "New Testament", christians often find themselves blushing with embarrassment at the revelation that they are not so "new" afterall. Solomon told us early on that "there is no new thing under the sun." We are told in no uncertain terms that Yahweh God does not change, and that, in the person of Yahoshua, He is the same yesterday, today and forever. If we truly believe the witness of scripture, why would elevate various elements of The Father's Nature to some "new" status, as if it were some virtue that He had just now come to obtain? The sad fact is when we don't take THE WHOLE BIBLE we end up missing THE WHOLE POINT of it. Yes, there is just as much grace, love and mercy under the Old Covenant as there is in the New, and it is obtained in exactly the same way: by faith. And in these days of "loving, gentle Jesus", there is just as much (and in days ahead even more) vengance, wrath and judgement.

People do not understand what that term,"grace" seems to mean. In the Old Covenant it is the Hebrew word "khaw-nan' " and it means simply "properly, to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior;". Not very complicated. In the New Covenant, although Hebrew was what ws spoken, the texts that we have are written in greek, and here the word grace is "khar-ee-to'-o" which means "to grace, i.e. indue with special honor:--make accepted, be highly favoured.". When Paul speaks of being "under grace", he is using the very same word that Gabriel used to greet Mary in Luke 1:28 when he called her "highly favored."

Throughout ALL of scripture we find grace at work right alongside the commandments of Yahweh.

Genesis 6:8 "But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD." Of Noah we read of him in his evil age that he was 1) perfect in all his generations. This means that his lineage was unpoiled and unpolluted. 2) That he was just. He was righteous. He obeyed Yahweh's commands, and this was before being commisioned to build the ark. Noah certainly knew enough to discriminate between the "clean" and "unclean" animals brought upon the ark, taking 7 pair each of the clean but only 1 pair each of the unclean. Most christians seenm to think Moses simply had an allergic reaction to bacon and shellfish. But this knowledge, this law, predates Moses, all the way back to Noah and beyond, and it was in this obediance that Noah found "grace"

Genesis 19:18 "And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord: Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life;..." Lot has been belittled much, but even the New Testament writer Peter testifies of him," And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:"2Peter 2:7. Was Lot a great leader? No. He ended up setttling in one of the worst possible places imaginable, where his daughters learned the immorality of their surroundings, and yoked together with a wife that lusted for the finery and position of that corrupt culture. All this in spite of Lot's adherence to his faith in the God of Abraham his mentor. Lot was vexed by the wickedness that surrounded him, and by this we know that Lot was still attempting to worship the One True God Yahweh in obediance. The very fact that the angels were determined to grab him up and forcibly lead him from the coming destruction is testimony that he was righteous. Weak perhaps, but never the less, righteous. So it was that because of this, he "found grace in the sight of the angels ( who would not have delivered him had he not found grace in their Master's eyes ) and recieved mercy and was saved, although at the expense of all the prosperity he had previously enjoyed.

Exodus 33:12 "And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight." Here we come to a magnificent moment. Grace and Moses, whom some have mistakenly called "the lawgiver", for James testifies that there is only One Lawgiver,"There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy:" James 4:12 and that is Yahweh God.

Exodus 33:17 "And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name." The flow of grace moved even back then, here in the midst of the bringing forth of Israel as a nation, and the codefying or "writing down" of Yahweh's commandments, statutes and judgements, and the addition of the ordinances, the rituals, the sacrifices and all that applied to the Levitical priesthood. Yes, in the very thick of it all, was grace.

Ezra 9:8 "And now for a little space grace hath been [shewed] from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage." Even through judgement and punishment, we the grace of Yahweh at work, always preserving a remnant.

Psalm 84:11 "For the LORD God [is] a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good [thing] will he withhold from them that walk uprightly." Grace, grace, and more grace. Those who have followed the Ever-Living God have always been under it.

Acts 20:32 "And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified." So what exactly was the "word of His Grace" which is able to build us up and give us an inheritance among the sanctified, which means, of course, making us sanctified? That which someone without a "New Testament" would have called the word, the Old Testament: the law and the prophets.

Obediance and grace work hand in hand and are not so opposed as many have implied.

O Father Yahweh; Blessed be the Name of Yahweh, and Glory to the Name of Yahoshua. Help me not to forget the grace in which I stand. While I seek to obey Your precepts, and to live according to Your Word, never let me forget that it is not by my might or by my power, but by Your Holy Spirit that I am anything at all. Let me not be prideful or self righteous, O Father, but in all things help me to remember my never ending nee for You.

HalleluYah!

1504 - The English Parliament passed statutes against retainers and liveries, to curb private warfare.
1533 - England's King Henry VIII secretly married his second wife Anne Boleyn. Boleyn later gave birth to Elizabeth I.
1579 - The Treaty of Utrecht was signed marking the beginning of the Dutch Republic.
1799 - Eliakim Spooner patented the seeding machine.
1858 - Mendelssohn�fs "Wedding March" was presented for the first time, as the daughter of Queen Victoria married the Crown Prince of Prussia.
1870 - G.D. Dows patented the ornamental soda fountain.
1881 - Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and others signed an agreement to organize the Oriental Telephone Company.
1890 - The United Mine Workers of America was founded.
1915 - In New York, Alexander Graham Bell spoke to his assistant in San Francisco, inaugurating the first transcontinental telephone service.
1945 - Richard Tucker debuted at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City in the production of "La Gioconda".
1946 - The United Mine Workers rejoined the American Federation of Labor.
1949 - The first Emmys were presented at the Hollywood Athletic Club.
1950 - A federal jury in New York City found former State Department official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury.
1959 - In the U.S., American Airlines had the first scheduled transcontinental flight of a Boeing 707.
1961 - John F. Kennedy presented the first live presidential news conference from Washington, DC. The event was carried on radio and television.
1971 - Charles Manson and three female members of his "family" were found guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit murder and seven counts of murder in the first degree. They were all sentenced to death for the 1969 killings. The sentences were later commuted to life sentences.
1971 - Maj. Gen. Idi Amin led a coup that deposed Milton Obote and became president of Uganda.
1981 - Jiang Qing, Mao's widow, was tried for treason and received a death sentence, which was subsequently commuted to life imprisonment.
1981 - The 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived in the United States and were reunited with their families.
1993 - A gunman shot and killed two CIA employees outside the agencies headquarters in Virginia. Mir Aimal Kansi, a Pakistani national, was later convicted of the shootings.
1999 - At least 1,000 people were killed when an earthquake hit western Columbia. The quake registered 6.0 on the Richter Scale.
1999 - In Louisville, KY, man received the first hand transplant in the United States.
2001 - A minor earthquake hit northeastern Ohio. The quake measured only 4.2 on the Richter Scale.

Psalm 119:73-80

Ephesians 2: 8 "For by �egrace�f are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:"

Titus 3: 7 "That being justified by his �egrace,�f we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life."

So how is it that there is so much confusion regarding the relationship of the law and grace? One reason is in the way "law" has been translated.

The translators of the bible worked some very curious deeds, even in regards to the new testament. The majority of the time when some aspect of the law was being discussed, rather than look more deeply at what was being said in a passage, they simply used the "catch all" term the law. However, "the law" was a compilation of elements. First there were the commandments. Most are familliar with the Ten Commandments, but are blissfully ignorant of the fact that there are many more. Then there are the statutes, judgements, and ordinances.

"Now blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to His cross." Colossians 2:14

Preachers and ministers love to trumpet the charge," Christ has nailed the law to the cross." But this isn't true. The actual scriptural referrence clearly states that Christ nailed the handwriting of ordinances to the cross. Why the translators couldn't have been as concise throughout their translations, is beyond me.

Now, let's look at that phrase" handwriting of ordinances". Handwriting, from Strong's # 5498 ch ei ro graphon- something handwritten, i.e. a manuscript [especially a legal document]. So this handwriting had legal significance. Next, ordinance, from# 1378 dogma- a law [ civil, CEREMONIAL, or ecclesiastical].

Let's do a little comparative shopping now. " You shall have no other gods before Me" That seems rather straightforward. Is there anything CEREMONIAL about this commandment? No. It is a commandment.

Now let's look at Deuteronomy 16:21-22. " Do not set up any wooden asherah pole [ grove in the K.J.V.] beside the altar you build to Yahweh your God, and do not erect a sacred stone, for these things Yahweh your God hates." Is there anything ceremonial here? No. This is still in regards to worshipping other gods. This expounds on the commandment, giving you an example of what not to do. This is a statute.

" If you hear it said about one of the towns Yahweh your God is giving you to live in, that wicked men have arisen among you and have led the people of their town astray, saying,' Let us go and worship other gods' [ gods you have not known ] then you must enquire, probe and investigate it thoroughly. And if it is true and it has been proven... you must certainly put to the sword all who live in that town. Destroy it completely..." Deuteronomy 13:12-15. Anything ceremonial here? I should say not. This is still in regards to worshipping other gods, but in the sense of how to deal with it if it is discovered. This is a judgement. [ It also tells us quite a bit about Yahweh's idea of "freedom of religion", doesn't it?]

"Moses said to Aaron," Come to the altar and sacrifice your sin offering, and your burnt offering and make atonement for yourself and the people; sacrifice the offering for the people and make atonement for them, as Yahweh commanded." Leviticus 9:7.

Does that sound ceremonial? Bingo! So, we see that the ordinances had to do with rituals, atonements and sacrifices. Now, going back to Colossians 2:14, what makes more sense; that Christ nailed the commandments or the statutes or the judgements to the cross, or rather nailed the rituals, atonements and sacrifices to the cross? Upon the cross He was acting as the final atoning sacrifice, " the Lamb slain from the foundation of the earth".

Now let's consider another individual: righteous Abraham. " Because that Abraham obeyed My Voice, and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws." Genesis 26:5. Here we have Yahweh's own testimony concerning Abraham, and it includes the keeping of commandments, statutes and laws. What does this tell us? That Yahweh's law has always been Yahweh's laws, they didn't just "appear" at Mt. Horeb in the Sinai desert. No, as in most ancient things, the Divine law was passed down orally from generation to generation. Moses only codefied it or wrote it down. He didn't "come up" with it.

However, there was one thing missing from Yahweh's testimony of Abraham; rituals or ordinances. Why do I mention this?

" What I mean is this: the law, intoduced 430 years later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God [ with Abraham ] and thus do away with the promise." Galatians 3:17. Now we know that Abraham was already keeping the law 430 years before Moses parted the Red Sea, so what is being referred to here as a "law" introduced 430 years after Abraham?

" What then, was the purpose of the law? It was added because of transgressors, til the seed to whom the promise referred had come." Galatians 3:9. And what part of the law pertained to transgressions? The atonements, sacrifices, rituals; the ordinances. Are we seeing a pattern yet?

To be perfectly honest, Christ's sacrifice on the cross didn't really "abolish" even the rituals. It fullfilled them. You see everytime a spotless lamb was sacrificed, every turtledove, every goat and bullock, they all were pointing the way to the Perfect Sacrifice.

THE ORDINANCES, incorporating the old, now obsoleteLevitical, sacrificial and ceremonial system of ordinances under which the Law was administered
before the coming of Jesus. That system of Law "contained in ordinances" was certainly 'done away' in Christ! (Ephesians 2:15.) In writing to the Galatians, Paul dealt specifically with the fact that they were continuing to follow not only unnecessary ordinances of the Old Covenant - now obsolete - but also Judaistic traditions that were never part of the Law in the first place!

We are under grace. Many people now teach that since we are under grace that the law of God no longer exist. Let me suggest that grace can not exist without law.

Let's say that you are driving 60 miles per hour down a road marked 45 miles per hour. A police officer pulls you over and writes you a speeding ticket. After doing so he shows you the ticket and then tears it up saying that he is going to let you go and not count this violation against you. This officer just granted you a form of what we call grace.

Let's say that you were driving down an umarked road in an area with out any default speed limit. There is no speed limit on this road. A police officer pulls you over and begins to write you a speeding ticket. Can the police officer offer you grace since there is no law against speeding on this road? Can he even write you a ticket? He might be able to tell us that he thinks you were going to fast, but this is truly just his opinion and you have not violated any law. He can not forgive you for anything as you have not done anything needing to be forgiven. Can he show you what we call grace?

The simple answer to this is no. He can not forgive you and he can not show you grace. There must be a law to violate in order to be forgiven for a violation and to receive grace for a violation. Grace can not exist without law.

Let's say that a police officer pulls you over for speeding and he does in fact give you the ticket and send you on your way. On that ticket there will be information informing anyone who looks at it the violation that was committed. You are also informed of a time and a place when your debt must be paid.

So you appear before a judge. The judge surprises everyone by paying your debt and letting you go. Let's take a look at Colossians 2:14 as one explanation of what just happened in that court room.

Colossians 2:14 "Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;"

The meaning of the word handwriting is not understood. Here is the definition for the word that was translated handwriting.

neuter of a compound of ceir - cheir 5495 and grafw - grapho 1125; something hand-written ("chirograph"), i.e. a manuscript (specially, a legal document or bond (figuratively))

This legal bond or debt that was against us was a bill listing our sin as debt before God. This is what was nailed to the cross, our sin, not God's law. Now you can see that what happened in the court room is similar to what happened when Christ died for our sins. Although the judge did not die, he had authority to do what he did. God as Christ did just that, he forgave us and paid our debt.

No man is justified by obedience. We are justified by �egrace�f - through faith in the Son of God. Obedience, no matter how perfect it may be, does not - yea cannot - blot out past sins (acts of disobedience). Sin can only be punished or forgiven: it cannot be ignored. Most certainly it cannot be justified by the sinner's subsequent obedience. When a repentant sinner comes to the Most High and confesses his/her sin, the Almighty forgives that sin: He extends �egrace�f to the sinner: but He does so at enormous expense.

Sin must be punished and that is why Yahweh in the Person of Yahoshua the Messiah died on Mount Calvary. He died to pay the price of sin: because sin cannot be ignored. Having borne the punishment for sin, God is then able to offer mercy to the repentant sinner. This process of mercy and forgiveness is called �egrace.�f Failure to accept God's mercy will result in eternal death; for the unrepentant sinner will then be required to face the penalty of his/her own sin.

To be justified means to stand before the Most High JUST-AS-IF-I�fD never sinned. This is possible because of His love, mercy and �egrace�f which are channelled through His son. In other words, we are justified by �egrace,�f through faith in Jesus Christ.

It is in the working of grace that we truly see the Old testament definition of the word in action- to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior. The Creator of the universe, stooping down in kindness to save us who are inferior to Him, one and all.

O Praise the Name of The Heavenly Father, Yahweh! Blessed be the Name of Yahoshua the Messiah! Thank You, Father, for the Blood of the Lamb, Yahoshua the Messiah, which cleanses us from all sin. Thank You Holy Father for Your Love and Your Mercy. Thank You for calling me away from this world and all it's darkness and into Your Glorious Light. Thank You, O Mighty Yahweh, for the Blessed Gift of Thy Son Yahoshua, and bringing us from death into life.

HalleluYah!

1500 - Vicente Yáñez Pinzón discovered Brazil.
1736 - Stanislaus I formally abdicated as King of Poland.
1784 - In a letter to his daughter, Benjamin Franklin expressed unhappiness over the eagle as the symbol of America. He wanted the symbol to be the turkey.
1788 - The first European settlers in Australia, led by Captain Arthur Phillip, landed in what became known as Sydney. The group had first settled at Botany Bay eight days before. This day is celebrated as Australia Day.
1802 - The U.S. Congress passed an act calling for a library to be established within the U.S. Capitol.
1827 - Peru seceded from Colombia in protest against Simón Bolívar's alleged tyranny.
1837 - Michigan became the 26th state to join the United States.
1841 - Britain formally occupied Hong Kong, which the Chinese had ceded to the British.
1861 - In the U.S., Louisiana seceded from the Union.
1870 - The state of Virgina rejoined the Union.
1875 - George F. Green patented the electric dental drill for sawing, filing, dressing and polishing teeth.
1905 - The Cullinan diamond, weighing 114 lbs, was found by Captain Wells at the Premier Mine, near Pretoria, South Africa.
1911 - Inventor Glenn H. Curtiss flew the first successful seaplane.
1939 - In the Spanish Civil War, Franco's forces, with Italian aid, took Barcelona.
1942 - The first American expeditionary force to go to Europe during World War II went ashore in Normandy. 1950 - India officially proclaimed itself a republic as Rajendra Prasad took the oath of office as president.
1961 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy appointed Dr. Janet G. Travell as the first woman to be the "personal physician to the President".
1972 - In Hermsdorf, Czechoslovakia, a JAT Yugoslav Airlines flight crashed after the detonation of a bomb in the forward cargo hold killing 27 people. The bomb was believed to have been placed on the plane by a Croatian extremist group. Vesna Vulovic, a stewardess, survived after falling 33,000 feet in the tail section. She broke both legs and became paralyzed from the waist down.
1992 - Russian president Boris Yeltsin announced that his country would stop targeting U.S. cities with nuclear weapons.
1993 - Former Czechoslovak President Vaclav Havel was elected president of the new Czech Republic.
1994 - In Sydney, Australia, a young man lunged at and fired two blank shots at Britain's Prince Charles.
1996 - U.S. first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton testified before a grand jury concerning the Whitewater probe.
1998 - U.S. President Clinton denied having an affair with a former White House intern, saying "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."
1999 - Saddam Hussein vowed revenge against the U.S. in response to air-strikes that reportedly killed civilians. The strikes were U.S. planes defending themselves against anti-aircraft fire.
2009 - The first trial at the International Criminal Court was held. Former Union of Congolese Patriots leader Thomas Lubanga was accused of training child soldiers to kill, pillage, and rape.
2009 - The Icelandic government and banking system collapsed. Prime Minister Geir Haarde resigned.

Psalm 119:81-88

Romans 6: 1 "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that �egrace�f may abound? God forbid. How shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?"

So, is grace a license to sin? If the condemed are granted a presidential pardon, released from the prison house and their record wiped clean, do they now have prmission to go on a crime spree? They find themselves once again under duty to OBEY the law, and you would think that anyone who was being condemed by the law, once freed, pardoned, shown grace, would be all the more dilligent to obey it.

Romans 6: 14 "For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under �egrace.�f What then? shall we sin (transgress the law), because we are not under the law (the penalties, the handwriting of ordinances), but under �egrace�f God forbid." What a terrible error to suppose that having been forgiven or justified by �egrace�f through faith, that we may henceforth continue in sin - in disobedience to Yahweh's commandments. Indeed, those who are under �egrace�f should be victors over sin. They should live holy lives. Sin should have no dominion over them. The very idea of breaking God�fs commandments (sinning) should become terrifying to them.

Hebrews 10: 29 "Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of �egrace?"

There is nothing to found but punishment and judgement throughout all of scripture when Yahweh's law is cast aside or diluted and mixed with other elements that He never intended. There are many "New Testament Churches" who are amazed at the abominable state of our Israelite nations. It seems there is no depth anymore that we will not plunge to. Darkness covers the earth. The leaders of the people are a wholly depraved and sinful brood. Our children cannot blush, and do not even consider such outdated concepts such as good and evil.

Hosea 4:6 "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children."

How did we come to such a place? We did not divide the light from the darkness.

Ezekiel 22:26 "Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed [difference] between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them." Now as in the past, it is in the very actions of those who should be leading and guiding Yahweh's people into holiness that corruption and wickedness have entered and covered our lands. If the "salt of the earth has lost it's savor, wherewith shall it be salted? It is cast out to be trodden under foot of men." By corrupting the nature of grace and doing away with Yahweh's Standards for holiness and sin, we have failed to seperate the light from the darkness.

The grace of the Father, will never lead you where the Law of the Father cannot guide you.

My Precious Father in Heaven, Yahweh, my Creator and King, Holy, Holy, Holy, Yahweh God Almighty. Help me to be a light unto those who sit in darkness. Help me,O Father, to show the Glory of Thy law and the Beauty of Thy Holiness. Pour out Your Spirit that the blinded eyes might be open, that the deaf ears might hear. Give me the strength, I pray, to be beacon unto those who have lost their way in the darkness.

HalleluYah!

1606 - The trial of Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators began. They were executed on January 31.
1880 - Thomas Edison patented the electric incandescent lamp.
1888 - The National Geographic Society was founded in Washington, DC.
1900 - In China, foreign diplomats in Peking, fearing a revolt, demanded that the imperial government discipline the Boxer rebels.
1926 - John Baird, a Scottish inventor, demonstrated a pictorial transmission machine called television.
1927 - United Independent Broadcasters Inc. started a radio network with contracts with 16 stations. The company later became Columbia Broadcasting System. 1943 - During World War II, the first all American air raid against Germany took place when about 50 bombers attacked Wilhlemshaven.
1944 - The Soviet Union announced that the two year German siege of Leningrad had come to an end.
1945 - Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.
1948 - Wire Recording Corporation of America announced the first magnetic tape recorder. The �eWireway�f machine with a built-in oscillator sold for $149.50.
1951 - In the U.S., atomic testing in the Nevada desert began as an Air Force plane dropped a one-kiloton bomb on Frenchman Flats.
1957 - The "CBS Radio Workshop" was heard for the first time.
1967 - At Cape Kennedy, FL, astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo I spacecraft.
1967 - More than 60 nations signed the Outer Space Treaty which banned the orbiting of nuclear weapons and placing weapons on celestial bodies or space stations.
1973 - The Vietnam peace accords were signed in Paris.
1977 - The Vatican reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church's ban on female priests.
1981 - U.S. President Reagan greeted the 52 former American hostages released by Iran at the White House.
1996 - Mahamane Ousmane, the first democratically elected president of Niger, was overthrown by a military coup. Colonel Ibrahim Bare Mainassara declared himself head of state.
1997 - It was revealed that French national museums were holding nearly 2,000 works of art stolen from Jews by the Nazis during World War II.
1998 - U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared on NBC's "Today" show. She charged that the allegations against her husband were the work of a "vast right-wing conspiracy."
1999 - The U.S. Senate blocked dismissal of the impeachment case against President Clinton and voted for new testimony from Monica Lewinsky and two other witnesses.
2002 - A series of explosions occurred at a military dump in Lagos, Nigeria. More than 1,000 people were killed in the blast and in the attempt to escape.
2003 - Altria Group, Inc. became the name of the parent company of Kraft Foods, Philip Morris USA, Philip Morris International and Philip Morris Capital Corporation.

Psalm 119:89-96

Psalm 96:9 "O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth."

Holiness. How that noble word has been maligned, reproached and corrupted. Yahweh is perfectly holy, and we are told that without holiness shall NO man see Him. But what are we to do? We humans are utterly UNholy. Even in our best attempts, our righteousness is nothing but filthy rags unto Yahweh Most High. How can we ever please Him and fullfill His requirement of holiness?

First we must realize our hopeless condition. Hopeless because in our flesh we cannot even understand the concept of holiness. We must come before Yahweh, who became a sacrifice for our wretched sinfulness in the form of Yahoshua the Messiah. We must humble ourselves and confess our sinfulness unto Him who has never known sin, and ask Him for His forgiveness by the blood of The Lamb, The Sacrifice once and for all for all our sins. We must recieve His forgiveness by faith.

We must repent, that is, to turn away from our former lives and begin living for Him and Him alone. We must look to His commandments, statutes and judgements and use them as our guide into holiness. Here is where our cross is picked up, here is where we begin to offer up ourselves as living sacrifices, no longer conforming to this current world, but being transformed by the renewing of our minds. Where once we chose where, when and how we should go, now surrender our will to His and allow Him who sees the end from the beginning to lead us, to direct our paths.

Psalm 119:29 "Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously." We pray for Yahweh to search us and cleanse us. He will not fail you. He who convicts of sin will also, once we acknowledge our sin, give us the power to overcome it through the Power of His Holy Spirit. Here is where holiness is to be found: obediance. It is grace that brings us unto these ends, His grace that forgives us and then gently tirns toward His divine standard and says,"Here is the way. Set your feet upon this path and I will give you the strength to continue. I will uphold you all along the way, my child. Just walk."

Precious Heavenly Father, Yahweh Sabaoth. You alone are the One True god, and besides you there is no God. Holy is Thy Name. Show me Thy ways, let me be not blind to Your Path. Open my ears, that I might hear Your Majestic Voice. Let the Beauty of Holiness shine through me, that all might see You, and not me. Help me to be sensitive to the prompting of Your Holy Spirit, to be instant in season and out, and to always dwell in Your Secret Place.

HalleluYah!

1521 - The Diet of Worms began, at which Protestant reformer Luther was declared an outlaw by the Roman Catholic church.
1547 - England's King Henry VIII died. He was succeeded by his 9 year-old son, Edward VI.
1788 - The first British penal settlement was founded at Botany Bay.
1807 - London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight.
1871 - France surrendered in the Franco-Prussian War.
1878 - The first telephone switchboard was installed in New Haven, Conneticut. 1902 - The Carnegie Institution was established in Washington, DC. It began with a gift of $10 million from Andrew Carnegie.
1909 - The United States ended direct control over Cuba.
1915 - The Coast Guard was created by an act of the U.S. Congress.
1916 - Louis D. Brandeis was appointed by President Wilson to the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming its first Jewish member.
1918 - The Bolsheviks occupied Helsinki, Finland.
1935 - Iceland became the first country to introduce legalized abortion.
1958 - Construction began on first private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor. 1980 - Six Americans who had fled the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran, on November 4, 1979, left Iran using false Canadian diplomatic passports. The Americans had been hidden at the Canadian embassy in Tehran.
1982 - Italian anti-terrorism forces rescued U.S. Brigadier General James L. Dozier. 42 days before he had been kidnapped by the Red Brigades.
1986 - The U.S. space shuttle Challenger exploded just after takeoff. All seven of its crewmembers were killed.

Psalm 119:97-104

2Chronicles 20:21 "And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy [endureth] for ever."

The situation was grave. Jerusalem surrounded by the enemies of Yahweh God. Other kings may have panicked, or rushed fool hardy into battle to perish and thus condemn the people. But at this time, Jerusalem was truly blessed, for they were led by a king who feared the Ever-Living God. Jehoshaphat the righteous. Lesser kings would come, leading the people into idolatry and abandonment of the laws of Yahweh; but not today. Today the people were blessed in having a king that went first to the House of Yahweh and led the people in prayer unto the One True God.

Yahweh's strategy? Utter madness to those who seek to be great warriors. Jehoshaphat was to march out to battle, but not with sword or spear. At the head of the army marched not archers nor calvary, but singers to praise the BEAUTY OF HOLINESS, and to cry out,"Praise Yahweh, for His Mercy Eendureth forever."

What a battlecry in the face of overwhelming enemies come for your destruction! THE BEAUTY OF HOLINESS! The result? Yahweh Himself slew their enemies, leaving none alive; all the righteous king and his army had to do was gather the spoil. Truly when righteousness ruleth the people, the people all rejoice.

Psalm 119:92 "Unless thy law [had been] my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction." We all cry out to The Father when we find ourselves in dire need, but if our paths have been ordered by His Spirit, we have certain guarantee of His deliverance. if we have looked upon His Standard as a thing of beauty, not a burden, not as a cumbersome toil, nor even as a means to an end, but as of beauty, then truly our hearts already have placed our treasure in heaven. If only we would cherish holiness in such a way, every battle would see a miracle, the Power of Yahweh would shine before us at every need. Psalm 29:2 "Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness. The voice of the LORD [is] upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD [is] upon many waters." When we worship Him properly surely we will hear His awesome Voice.

Psalm 119:153 "Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law." Deliverance is at hand for those who worship Him in the beauty of holiness. Affliction comes to all. Tribulation, persecution, all are guaranteed. We live in a fallen world. But when our steps are ordered by His Spirit and illmuminated by His Law He is ever near and will not forsake us. These present sorrowsare for our benefit, for they are meant to drive us deeper into prayer, deeper into fellowship, deeper into communion, deeper into obediance.

Psalm 119:165 "Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them."

John 14:27 "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."

Philipians 4:7 "And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus."

My Father Yahweh, my God and my King, Blessed be Your Holy Name in all the Earth. Open my eyes that I might see the armies of Yahweh arrayed before me. Many are those who have arisen up against Your Name, against Your Law and against Your Israel people. Quicken my spirit within me that I might stand and not fall. Let me not seek to earthly armor, but to put on the whole armor that You have called me to wear. Suffer me not to seek help from the world, or to lean on my own understanding and strength; but help me to look up unto You, to lean on You and to praise You and the Beauty of Holiness, even in the midst of our enemies.

HalleluYah!

1802 - John Beckley became the first Librarian of Congress.
1820 - Britain's King George III died insane at Windsor Castle.
1845 - Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" was published for the first time in the "New York Evening Mirror."
1848 - Greenwich Mean Time was adopted by Scotland.
1850 - Henry Clay introduced in the Senate a compromise bill on slavery that included the admission of California into the Union as a free state.
1856 - Britain's highest military decoration, the Victoria Cross, was founded by Queen Victoria.
1861 - In America, Kansas became the 34th state of the Union.
1886 - The first successful petrol-driven motorcar, built by Karl Benz, was patented.
1916 - In World War I, Paris was bombed by German zeppelins for the first time.
1963 - Britain was refused entry into the EEC.
1979 - U.S. President Carter formally welcomed Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to the White House. The visit followed the establishment of diplomatic relations.
1990 - Joseph Hazelwood, the former skipper of the Exxon Valdez, went on trial in Anchorage, AK, on charges that stemmed from America's worst oil spill. Hazelwood was later acquitted of all the major charges and was convicted of a misdemeanor.
1996 - French President Jacques Chirac announced the "definitive end" to nuclear testing.
1998 - A bomb exploded at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, AL, killing an off-duty policeman and severely wounding a nurse. Eric Rudolph was charged with this bombing and three other attacks in Atlanta.
2001 - In Indonesia, thousands of student protesters stormed the parliament property and demanded that President Abdurrahman Wahid quit due to his alleged involvement in two corruption scandals. Wahid announced that he would not resign.

Psalm 91:1, Psalm 119:105-112

Psalm 91:1 ¶ "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty."

Psalm 91 has long been quoted for it's promises of protection, but what few seem to have understood is that these promises are conditional. These promises are not for everyone. You cannot walk into a place of buisness and just expect them to give you a check. The same principle is at work in many, although not all, of Yahweh's promises.

So who are these promises made to? 1) to those who "dwell in the secret place of the Most High" . They DWELL, literally take up residence in the SECRET PLACE of the Most High. Where is this SECRET PLACE?

Matthew 6:6 "But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. "

That secret place is none other than their place of fellowship and communion with the Father. There are a host of 'christians ' that will study books, commentaries, cassette tape and cd and dvd lectures, sermons and teachings; but they never COMMUNE with the very God they are studying. They do not fellowship with the the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Sadly, they never shut themselves into a private place, a SECRET PLACE, where they can come before Him and worship Him, adore Him. Like Lazarus' sister Martha, they are very busy, maybe even doing 'christian' things, but the sister Mary, who simply sat at the Messiah's feet and LISTENED to His words, was actually the one we are told that chose correctly. We serve a LIVING God, and He greatly desires to share Himself with us, but most never give Him the opportunity.

When there are prayers, they are cold, lifeless and utterly without longing. There are a multitude out there who know ABOUT Yahweh, but they do not KNOW Yahweh. They have not come to experience His greatness, His love, His literal Presence on a regular basis. Hence, in the face of unfolding evil and darkness, they feel like they are alone, on their own, and so they fear, and look for help from the arm of flesh (politics, rebellion, hiding places, etc.), rather than trusting in His perfection. They have not DWELT in the SECRET PLACE of the Most High.

Notice also the word "dwell" here. This does not imply an every once in a while prayerlife. This implies, as Paul put it, praying without ceasing. Bringing your very thought life into subjection and into a pattern of silent (but still heard) prayer.

:9 "Because thou hast made the LORD, [which is] my refuge, [even] the most High, thy habitation; There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling."

This speaks to much of what we have just covered but there is more. How do you make Yahweh your HABITATION? Habitation here speaks to where you live, or perhaps better put, HOW you live. Human beings are like computers. You only get out what has been programmed in. When we saturate our minds and spirits with the decadence that surrounds us through movies, t.v., magazines, books and music; these things end up competing with anything we may also be putting into our spirits and minds of the Father. It is these very influences put out by antichrists that pushed our world to the edge of the abyss it now teeters on. Do you actually expect these influences to NOT have an effect on you simply because you believe in Yahweh? In Romans 12 we are told not to conform to this world, but be TRANSFORMED by the renewing of our MINDS. This means reprogramming ourselves. We are to no longer set any wicked thing before our eyes. Instead of making this perverse world our habitation, we are to reject it and cling to the Father, making Him our habitation.

But also, in a very real way, Yahweh INHABITS the praises of His people. Psa 22:3 "But thou [art] holy, [O thou] that inhabitest the praises of Israel. "

:14 "Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name."

This falls in with making Yahweh our habitation. The Apostle John tells us both in the Gospel of John and in his letters, that if we love Yahweh, we keep His commandments. This, along with making Yahweh our habitation, refer to living and walking in true holiness. Rejecting this carnal world and all of it's sinful lusts, and walking in the paths of righteouness.

And finally," I will set him on high, because he hath known my name." This is not a rant against people who use 'LORD' instead of Yahweh or Jesus instead of Yahshua. I have said many times that countless multitudes have found grace and salvation knowing only those titles.But these are the last days, and we must walk in ALL the light that we have been given. These are covenant names, which bring instantly to the forefront the covenants made with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; with all of Yahweh's Israel people and all who would worship the God of Israel.

It is not to the novice nor to the casual christian that these promises are made, but to the truly commited who have picked up their cross and followed Yahoshua. To obtain the benefits, you must be willing to walk the path. Many wonder why it is they do not see the answers to their prayers, when the answer is right there in the Sacred Book.

Proverbs 28:9 "He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer [shall be] abomination."

I praise Your Holy Name,O Yahweh, God and King. Glorious is Thy Kingdom, and eternal is Thy Throne. I thank You for Your promises and for the Glory of Thy Covenant. I thank You for showing me mercy and through the Blood Of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the earth bringing me into Covenant with You. Thank You for being my Father and my King. Help me to truly dwell in Your secret place, to make You my refuge and my habitation. Make Your promises real to me, O Father Yahweh, and help me to not doubt, but believe and trust in You and Your Promises.

HalleluYah!

1649 - England's King Charles I was beheaded.
1790 - The first purpose-built lifeboat was launched on the River Tyne.
1798 - The first brawl in the U.S. House of Representatives took place. Congressmen Matthew Lyon and Roger Griswold fought on the House floor.
1847 - The town of Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco.
1862 - The U.S. Navy's first ironclad warship, the "Monitor", was launched.
1889 - Rudolph, crown prince of Austria, and his 17-year-old mistress, Baroness Marie Vetsera, were found shot in his hunting lodge at Mayerling, near Vienna.
1894 - C.B. King received a patent for the pneumatic hammer.
1900 - The British fighting the Boers in South Africa ask for a larger army.
1933 - Adolf Hitler was named the German Chancellor.
1948 - Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi was murdered by a Hindu extremists. 1958 - The first two-way moving sidewalk was put in service at Love Field in Dallas, TX. The length of the walkway through the airport was 1,435 feet.
1964 - January 30 - The U.S. launched Ranger 6. The unmanned spacecraft carried television cameras and was intentionally crash-landed on the moon. The cameras did not return any pictures to Earth.
1968 - The Tet Offensive began as Communist forces launched surprise attacks against South Vietnamese provincial capitals.
1972 - In Northern Ireland, British soldiers shot and killed thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers. The day is known as "Bloody Sunday."
1979 - The civilian government of Iran announced it had decided to allow Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to return. He had been living in exile in France. 1995 - The U.N. Security Council authorized the deployment of a 6,000-member U.N. peace-keeping contingent to assume security responsibilities in Haiti from U.S. forces.
1995 - Researchers from the U.S. National Institutes of Health announced that clinical trials had demonstrated the effectiveness of the first preventative treatment for sickle cell anaemia.
1996 - Gino Gallagher, the reputed leader of the Irish National Liberation Army, was shot and killed as he queued for his unemployment benefit.
1997 - A New Jersey judge ruled that the unborn child of a female prisoner must have legal representation. He denied the prisoner bail reduction to enable her to leave the jail and obtain an abortion.
2002 - Slobodan Milosevic accused the U.N. war crimes tribunal of an "evil and hostile attack" against him. Milosevic was defending his actions during the Balkan wars.

Psalm 119:113-120

Luke 12:29 "And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind. For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things."

It's odd how little we actually believe, and how much less we understand. Through out all the world, pagan people's pray and make sacrifices to pagan gods, which are nothing more than demon spirits, for things of this world. Many pray for power, glory or for wealth and satisfaction. But it should not be so with the children of the Most High God, Yahweh Sabaoth. We do not bow before a dumb idol which knows nothing nor can do anything. Neither do we pray to demonic spirits, which only feed upon ourworship and lead us to eventual destruction.

We serve a LIVING GOD, The Creator God, He who sees the end from the beginning, who knew us scince before we were even born, before the earth was even made. He knows exactly what we have need of at any given moment, and He is not slack to deliver, nor slow to move. He arrives at the exact moment He intends to. But His promise and His guarantee are not for anyone and everyone.

We must seek something greater. His Kingdom, and His righteousness. These are the valuable commodities. In the Kingdom we have a King, not cruel or ruthless (except with sin and darkness) but merciful, patient and forgiving. In the Kingdom we have law and justice, not subject to common consensus or admiastered willy-nilly, nor subject to the whims of the people; but true and adminastered without partiality and equally to all. Here there is true freedom, not freedom as the world offers which is only a dictatorship under sin, but true liberty. A Kingdom without darkness, where the King Himself is the very light.

This is what we are told to seek for, and seeking means diligence. Yahweh's promises are to those who leave all things behind to seek His glorious Kingdom. If we seek THAT Kingdom and the Righteousness of that Kingdom, then all the matters of this world will fall into place. There is no need to be fretful or doubtful.

"Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." Our Father wants us to be there.

:34 "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."

Blessed Heavenly Father Yahweh, You are my Provider and my Provision. Praise be to the Kingdom that never ends. Father Yahweh, forgive me I pray, for my doubt and unbelief. It is only when my eyes stray away from You that I fail. Keep my attention on You and Your Glorious Kingdom, that I might bring You Glory and in all things to praise Your Holy Name.

HalleluYah!

1606 - Guy Fawkes was executed after being convicted for his role in the "Gunpowder Plot" against the English Parliament and King James I.
1747 - The first clinic specializing in the treatment of venereal diseases was opened at London Dock Hospital.
1858 - The Great Eastern, the five-funnelled steamship designed by Brunel, was launched at Millwall.
1865 - In America, General Robert E. Lee was named general-in-chief of the Confederate armies.
1865 - The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. It was ratified by the necessary number of states on December 6, 1865. The amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
1876 - All Native American Indians were ordered to move into reservations.
1917 - Germany announced its policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
1929 - The USSR exiled Leon Trotsky. He found asylum in Mexico. 1940 - The first Social Security check was issued by the U.S. Government.
1944 - During World War II, U.S. forces invaded Kwajalein Atoll and other areas of the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
1945 - Private Eddie Slovik became the only U.S. soldier since the U.S. Civil War to be executed for desertion.
1946 - A new constitution in Yugoslavia created six constituent republics (Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia) subordinated to a central authority, on the model of the USSR. 1950 - U.S. President Truman announced that he had ordered development of the hydrogen bomb.
1958 - Explorer I was put into orbit around the earth. It was the first U.S. earth satellite.
1971 - Telephone service between East and West Berlin was re-established after 19 years.
1983 - The wearing of seat belts in cars became compulsory in Britain.
1983 - JCPenney announced plans to spend in excess of $1 billion over the next five years to modernize stores and to accelerate a repositioning program.
1985 - The final Jeep rolled off the assembly line at the AMC plant in Toledo, OH.
1990 - McDonald's Corp. opened its first fast-food restaurant in Moscow, Russia.
1995 - U.S. President Clinton invoked presidential emergency authority to provide a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
1996 - In Columbo, Sri Lanka, a truck was rammed into the gates of the Central Bank. The truck filled with explosives killed at least 86 and injured 1,400.
2000 - John Rocker (Atlanta Braves) was suspended from major league baseball for disparaging foreigners, homosexuals and minorities in an interview published by Sports Illustrated.
2000 - An Alaska Airlines jet crashed into the ocean off Southern California. All 88 people on board were killed.
2001 - A Scottish court in the Netherlands convicted one Libyan and acquitted a second in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, that occurred in 1988.