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Father God, may we BE GRATEFUL for our lot, and COMPASSIONATE TOWARD ALL those who are suffering every kind of distress during these difficult days. May we hold back nothing, and hasten to be a people who MINISTER PRAYER, MERCY, AND LOVE like Your Son Yeshua, Jesus Christ, and Your Apostles who went about DOING GOOD IN TIMES OF NEED. We ask this IN YESHUA, Jesus Christ OUR MESSIAH’S MIGHTY AND BLESSED NAME. Amen! - Outrageous! Part 3 The world will tell us we are outrageous for giving our lives to Yeshua, Jesus Christ. It’s sad, but the worldly are fine embracing His concepts and commandments when it benefits them or serves their agenda, but say something along the lines of “women and men should dress like women and men,” as The Bible states, and you may be called a bigot, a hypocrite, a racist, transphobic, or a plethora of other self serving, entitled, misguided and insulting names. The Truth is that Yeshua loves us no matter what. He is kind, gentle, humble, and loving, but let’s make no mistake, He wants us to tell The Truth. Of course He wants us to do it in Love, but He no doubt wants us to stand for Him. Standing for Him and telling The Truth, whether others agree with it or not, is showing Love. The prophets, apostles, and Jesus Christ Himself weren’t killed because they were lying or because they were affirming the lies of the world, they were killed by people who were outraged with The Truth… The Truth that contradicted the lies they had created and built there lives upon. A simple, unchangeable Truth is this: The Truth is The Truth whether we like it or not. Now, if we will accept The Truth, Our Messiah assures us that His Yoke is easy, and His burden is light. He invites us all, wherever we may be mentally or physically to: “Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My Yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I Am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My Yoke is easy and My burden is light.” Matthew 11:28-30 With that Truth stated, it is also important to remember: “… our “God is a consuming fire.”” Hebrews 12:29 When God’s Word tells us that He will “refine us as silver. And test us as gold (Zachariah 13:9 (Among others)),” He is letting us know who and what He Is. Refining silver and testing gold requires FIRE. Fire also, in many places in The Bible, represents knowledge and Truth. The Fire that comes from Yeshua’s Mouth and the two witnesses in Revelation is Truth. While actual fire may come from their mouths, it will be for Truth’s sake, and we can have no doubts… they will be spreading The Truth. Yeshua is, was, and always will be Our Teacher, King, and Master. While He is gentle, humble, and kind, He will still “put us in our place” when needed. This is because He Loves us, and not in spite of that Love. Just as a loving parent corrects a child from doing something that could severely hurt them, Our Messiah corrects us because He wants us to know Him, The Truth, fully. He Loves us, and because He doesn’t want this world to hurt our Eternal Souls, He gives correction. Now let’s be clear about this series, not all outrage is bad, in fact Yeshua Himself became outraged in Scripture. His outrage was because those in The Temple were being… well… outrageous. Let’s take a look: “Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. “It is written,” He said to them, “ ‘My House will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.” Matthew 21:12-13 His outrage came from Him being zealous for The House of God, just as prophecy states in Psalm 69:9 and The Apostle John confirms in his writing in John 2:17. Let’s take a look at the psalm: “for zeal for Your House consumes me, and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.” Psalms 69:9 He was outraged by the corruption, the worldliness, and the evil practices going on inside “His Father’s House.” There are other times when Our Messiah called people names such as “hypocrite, whitewashed tombs, and children of the devil.” His reason for doing this? Because the people He was speaking to, religious leaders, were using religion to oppress, bully, control, and abuse people. Heck, He even called one of His Best Friends “satan” for trying to tempt Him with comfort rather than being faithful, and power rather than dying to self. If you recall, this is exactly what satan offered Yeshua in the wilderness. Yeshua, Jesus Christ Our King, had times where He became outraged. What He didn’t do though, was act outrageous. He acted in accordance with all The Bible teaches us, and all Our Father affirms. Something we should all take note of as well, is that each and every time He showed His Outrage, who was it towards? His people. Those who claimed The Name of Our Father. Israel. The Church. Those who were in places of authority to teach His People. He did this because… judgment begins in The Household of God. Let’s take a look: “For it is time for judgment to begin with God’s Household; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God?” 1 Peter 4:17 One day Yeshua will return. When He returns He will eliminate satan, abusers, purveyors of corruption, injustice, and evil. He let’s us know in Revelation 22:12 that He is going to give each person according to what they have done. In all the examples we have looked at today Our Messiah is teaching us something. He is showing us that there is nothing wrong with displaying anger and disapproval, but we must make sure that not only is this anger godly, but that it is righteous anger. Yeshua is giving us an example of how to “lose our cool” without losing our character, of how to be outraged, but not outrageous. In the right situation, when anger is wielded in a healthy manor and with Love, it can be a very powerful, productive, and Life-giving tool. What Yeshua didn’t do is use His anger to correct nonbelievers or sinners out of covenant that came to Him. Yeshua used His anger to correct those who knew better. How can someone be corrected with anger if they have never been taught correctly? Yeshua’s Perfect Example is what we should always follow. In conclusion: Yeshua gave His Life for us when we did not deserve it. Yeshua gave His Life for us not when we were “at our best,” but while we were still sinners. Christ died for us not for the moments we were loving, kind, gentle, compassionate, and humble, but for the moments we were abusive, wretched, evil, ungodly, and insulting. He died for us while we were actually crucifying Him ourselves. That is powerful. That is Love. Let’s recall “Our Weapon” which we went over on day 1 of this series… Our Weapon: We have A Set Apart, openly discernible way of seeing right and wrong. But not just anyway of doing it, a way that aligns with Our Creator. We don’t lean on ourselves anymore, instead we are gonna lean on Yahweh and His Son, The Word of God,The Holy and Set-Apart One of Israel and we do this in TRUTH. We can be outraged without being outrageous. We can be kind, gentle, and humble to those who don’t know better. Yeshua has given us the ability to put away the poisonous venom of the toxic outrage that has spread like cancer all across this fallen earth, and to express our anger in a manner that is motivated by Love, righteousness, and acting appropriately. As outrageous as it may sound to some… This is The Fruit and proof of Our King and Messiah’s Work in our lives. Extra Fuel For The Soul AKA The Bread of Life: “From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life. Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!” Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.” Matthew 16:21-23 “Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My Yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I Am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My Yoke is easy and My burden is light.” Matthew 11:28-30 Extra Reading: Matthew 23:13-39
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