23/02/2023
The Shemitah year is such a great blessing to do. I’m so grateful to Yehovah that we can experience this incredibly restorative instruction. This is our 2nd time doing the Shemitah. This is one of the ways doing Faith & Works together looks like. (Scriptures at the bottom)
I have the ‘faith’ to repent back to Yehovah’s covenant without fear that He will strike me down because of my sins. (Sins are when we break or don’t do His Instructions. 1Jn3:4). But instead because I come with a humble heart of repentance, He, by His benevolent love and grace; unmerited favor... forgives me and gives me the time to read His Instructions and then ‘do’/practice them. To me, that’s at the heart of the reciprocal agreement He made with our Ancestors at Mt Sinai.
What goes up must come down. To each and every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. These, along with the instructions given at Mt Sinai are the fundamental laws that hold everything together. Mathematics, Psychics, Geometry and God’s Laws are fundamental and have never changed.
“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.” (Matthew 5:18)
‘In no wise pass’ means:
👉Will not perish.👈
And this is written about in the New Testament in the Book of James and also in the Book of Romans. “Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?” (Romans 7:1)
Faith alone cannot save anyone. If we truly love God; heart, mind, soul, strength then we must also ‘do’ what He instructed. (Matt 22:37)
Heb 10:24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
Heb 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Heb 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
Heb 10:27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
Heb 10:28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
Heb 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 grace?
Heb 10:30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
Heb 10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Heb 10:32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
There are many instructions. We can’t get them all 💯% right, right away. That will happen in His Kingdom. In the 8th Millennium. For now we practice ‘doing’ what will be done in His Kingdom. That means, when we get something wrong, we acknowledge it by praying and telling Him what we did, asking forgiveness, making restitution if required, and then ‘repent’ by not doing it again. But we’re like children, right? We keep stuffing up. So we keep going back to him…
Rinse and repeat.
Don’t give up.
Endure until the end.
“But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.” (Matthew 24:13)
Faith Without Works Is Dead
Jas 2:14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
Jas 2:15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
Jas 2:16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
Jas 2:17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
Jas 2:18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
Jas 2:19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
Jas 2:20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
Jas 2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
Jas 2:22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
Jas 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.
Jas 2:24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
Jas 2:25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
Jas 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.