Excerpt from The Yahushaic Covenant Volume 1 by Rav Sha'ul Evidence of Salvation by Rav Sha'ul   The Bible provides the criteria one must meet if they desire salvation.  In this section I will clearly define the evidence that you can count on to prove you are saved.  In Christianity we are taught that all that is required is just simply uttering the name “Jesus”.  We know that isn’t true as Yahusha demonstrated that many who put their faith in that false messiah are mistaken Matthew 7:22-23 22 Many will say to me on that day, ‘King, King, did we not prophesy in Jesus name, and in Jesus name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' 23 Then Yahusha will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you (you believed in Jesus Christ the false messiah and abolished The Law of Yahuah). Away from me, you who abolished The Law of Yahuah!' In Christianity we are taught that all that is required is “asking Jesus Christ into our hearts”.  As I pointed out in my last book The Kingdom of Yahuah that is a death sentence.  Pouring the blood of the Easter Pig over the Altar of your heart will destroy your body Temple.  That is committing the Abomination of Desolation in the spirit.  I cover The Abomination of Desolation in great detail my book Abstract: Chapter 4. Christians point to the following “sound bite” and take it totally out of context to justify that “all they need to do is ask Jesus into their heart and confess Jesus’ name”: John 1 12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of Yahuah, to those who believe in His name: We are once again confronted with a Christian “sound bite” as they take this verse totally out of context of the rest of Scripture.  In this section we are going to put this verse back into the context it was written and present sound doctrine.  Those deceived by Christianity are spiritually lazy.  They don’t have a heart for The Law of Yahuah.  They desire a religion where all that is required is as little as possible.  The easier and the more fun and exciting a motivational speaker (we call them preachers or pastors) can make this false religion the more money he can make passing the plate.  The people have surrounded themselves with false teachers who tickle their ears and tell them what they want to hear and they are willing to pay for that pleasurable experience: 2 Timothy 4:3 3 For the time is coming when people will not have patience for sound teaching, but will cater to their passions and gather around themselves teachers who say whatever their ears itch to hear (sound bite implied doctrines). Make no mistake… there is no milk here in this book series!  What I teach is solid meat and I have no desire to tickle ears, I tell the truth.  I don’t take money for my service which frees me from serving the interests of anyone.  I am a free man and freely I give what I have received freely from Yahuah.  The old saying “truth hurts” is very true.  You will know real truth when you hear it as it is sharper than a two edged sword and will divide your very being!  Truth is far from comfortable and most people would rather shoot the messenger than listen to the truth (that is why Yahusha and all the Prophets met an untimely death).  That is why selling the lies of Christianity is so lucrative.  You don’t have to do anything at all… just sit there with the warm fuzzy feeling you get in your pew as your ears are tickled and say “thank you Jesus” as you are lead to your own destruction. In Christ or believe in his name Whenever the term “in Christ” or “believe in his name” appears in your uninspired modern English Bibles we must have “eyes to see” and understand what that phrase literally is saying.  To be, receive, dwell, remain, abound, die with, identify with, or however it is translated means: ‘to be in covenant with Yahuah through The Yahushaic Covenant’.  “Believe in his name” means to put your faith in the covenant that bears his name… The Yahushaic Covenant.   Entering into covenant with Yahuah through The Yahushaic Covenant is the entire message of the New Testament.  The end result of The Yahushaic Covenant is entrance into The Kingdom of Yahuah.  The Great Commission of The Yahushaic Covenant is to “Proclaim The Yahushaic Covenant because through that covenant The Kingdom of Yahuah is within our reach”. With that simple understanding let me develop the evidence of our salvation beginning with the same verse in 1 John that Christians fall back on as they have missed the entire point of scripture.  They quote a “sound bite” and have no patience for “sound doctrine” as 2 Timothy 4:3 explained. Below is the true translation of all of John Chapter 1 in context of the Bible’s revelation in general: John 1:1-18 1 In the beginning was the plan of Yahuah, and the plan was with Yahuah (and defined His purpose in creation), and the plan was Yahuah's. 2 The same plan was in the beginning with Yahuah. 3 All things were done according to the plan of Yahuah, and without the plan of Yahuah nothing was done, that was done. 4 In this plan was (predestined) life (through a human Messiah’s sacrifice), and that life was the light (revelation) to mankind. 5 Now that light (revealed plan to send a human Messiah has been fulfilled in Yahusha) shines in the darkness, but the darkness does not take hold of it. 6 There was a man sent from Yahuah whose name was John (Yahusha wasn’t the only one sent by Yahuah to earth and John was born a miraculous birth too). 7 He came as a witness to testify concerning that light (that Yahusha was The Passover Lamb of Yahuah), so that through John all might believe in Yahusha (very interesting statement). 8 He himself was not the light (the Messiah, many believed John the Baptist was the Messiah); he came only as a witness to (Yahusha) the light. 9 The true light (Yahusha) that gives light (reveals The WAY) to everyone was coming into the world (as a man). 10 He (Yahusha) was in the world, and though the world was reconciled to Yahuah through him, the world did not recognize him. 11 Yahusha came to that which was his own (the Jews), but his own did not receive him. 12 Yet to all who did receive him (enter into The Yahushaic Covenant), to those who believed in (the covenant that bears) his name (The Yahushaic Covenant), he gave the right to become children of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but begotten of Yahuah (through resurrection). 14 The predestined plan of Yahuah (to send a human Messiah) became flesh (was born human and that plan was fulfilled) and made his dwelling among us (was fully human in every way Hebrews 2:17). We have seen Yahuah’s glory (fulfilled in Yahusha), the glory of the one and only (begotten) Son (until the first resurrection), who came from the (predestined mind or Plan of the) Father, full of grace (covered the death decrees for our sin) and truth (properly teaching The Torah as Moses prophesied of him). 15 (John the Baptist testified concerning him. He cried out, saying, “This is the one I spoke about when I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me (in the Plan of Yahuah and given pre-eminence among the sons of Yahuah Colossians 1:17)’”) 16 Out of his fullness (of obedience to The Law) we have all received grace (his blood covers the death decrees in the Law) in place of grace already given. 17 For The Law (with active decrees or The Law of Sin and Death) was given through Moses; grace (the decrees covered by the blood of the lamb) and truth (The Law of the Spirit that leads to life) came through Yahusha the Messiah. 18 No one has ever seen God (including Yahusha) but (however) the one and only Son (has come as the light to reveal Yahuah to mankind), who is himself (the perfect human image of) Yahuah (Colossians 1:15 – “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation”) and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made Yahuah’s plan (to procreate a family) known to us. That is in context what John was saying in John Chapter 1.  So those who enter into The Yahushaic Covenant and live it (abide in it) will be given the right to be called sons of Yahuah. I explained earlier in this chapter that The Yahushaic Covenant was The Law of Yahuah plus 1 new command to keep Passover in faith that Yahusha was the Lamb of Yahuah.  It is not simply “asking Jesus into your heart and saying his name”.  This is confirmed below: Revelation 12 17And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of Yahuah, and have the testimony of the Messiah Yahusha (I’ll explain the testimony of Yahusha that we must have later). In my previous book The Kingdom of Yahuah Chapter 11 – The Constitution of The Kingdom of Yahuah; I fully developed the reality of The Law as the foundation of The Yahushaic Covenant and governing constitution in His kingdom to come.  Let us now more fully develop the evidence of our salvation as we “12 receive him (enter into The Yahushaic Covenant), to those who believed in (the covenant that bears) his name (The Yahushaic Covenant)” John 1:12. We are going to look at the evidence of our salvation and the testimony of Yahusha the Messiah and define clearly what they mean.  In the book of 1 John the evidence of our salvation is laid out in detail. Evidence of salvation in The Yahushaic Covenant The Bible from cover to cover is a testimony to Yahuah’s Holy Instructions.  “Torah” in Hebrew means Instructions in Righteousness.  Keeping The Law is how we will be declared righteous before Yahuah as The Torah is that instruction.  It is in keeping The Law that the process of sanctification is accomplished as we are set apart for Yahuah as a prized possession through our obedience.  Sin is breaking The Law and Grace is forgiveness in light of our inability to keep The Law fully.  The love of Yahuah is made complete in those who obey The Law. Those who are zealous for good works of The Law are purified by The Law: Romans 2:13 For it is not those who hear The Law who are righteous in Yahuah's sight, but it is those who obey The Law who will be declared righteous. Titus 2:14 - English Standard Version who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness (abolishing The Law 1 John 3:4) and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works (of The Law James 2:14-26). Romans 6:19 - International Standard Version I am speaking in simple terms because of the frailty of your human nature. Just as you once offered the parts of your body as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater disobedience (to The Law; the carnal mind is hostile to The Law Romans 8:7), so now, in the same way, you must offer the parts of your body as slaves to righteousness (which is keeping The Law Romans 2:13) that leads to sanctification. 1 John 3:4 - King James 2000 Bible Whosoever commits sin transgresses also The Law: for sin is the transgression of The Law. 1 John 2 3 We know that we have come to know Yahuah if we keep His commands. 4 Whoever says, “I know Yahuah,” but does not do what Yahuah commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person. 5 But if anyone obeys Yahuah’s word (Matthew 5:17-20), love for Yahuah  is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in The Yahushaic Covenant: 6 Whoever claims to live in covenant with Yahusha must live as Yahusha did (keeping The Law of Yahuah in loving obedience) Yahusha did not come to abolish The Law of Yahuah but to transpose it to its fullest meaning and spiritual intent.  We know Yahusha’s view of those who violate the commandments of Yahuah: Matthew 7:23 - New Living Translation But I will reply, 'I never knew you. Get away from me, you who break God's laws.' Matthew 13:41- English Standard Version The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers, Matthew 23:28 - Weymouth New Testament The same is true of you: outwardly you seem to the human eye to be good and honest men, but, within, you are full of insincerity and disregard of God's Law. Now let us review 1 John where the evidence of our salvation is laid out in detail.  I’ve already covered 1 John 1 in detail.  Moving on to 1 John 2 below we see John enforce the reality of keeping His Law as the evidence you know Yahuah, and that if you say you know Yahuah and don’t keep His Law you are a liar! 1 John 2 1 My little children (speaking to the spiritually immature), these things I write to you, so that you may not break The Law of Yahuah. And if anyone breaks Yahuah’s Law, we have an Advocate with the Father, Yahusha the Messiah the righteous (one in keeping The Law of Yahuah that is Yahusha’s example on Earth). 2 And Yahusha is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only but also for the whole world (Yahusha is The Passover Lamb). 3 Now by this we know that we know Yahuah, if we keep His commandments. 4 He who says, “I know Yahuah,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoever keeps Yahuah’s commandments, truly the love of Yahuah is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in covenant with Yahusha. 6 He who says he abides in covenant with Yahusha ought himself also to walk just as Yahusha walked (in obedience to The Law of Yahuah). 7 Brethren (in the family of Yahuah), I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning (the Commandments of Yahuah). 8 Again, a new commandment I write to you (here is the only new command in The Yahushaic Covenant), which Spirit of loving obedience is true in Yahusha and in you, Ezekiel 36: 26, 27 I will give you a new heart (for my Law and write my Law on it) and put a new spirit (of loving obedience) in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone (legalistic observance of The Law out of fear of death) and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. Continuing on with 1 John 2… because the darkness (of The Law with active decrees that demand our death) is passing away, and the true light (Grace i.e. the decrees in The Law are covered by the blood of the lamb) is already shining. (Yahusha defeated The Law of Sin and Death and we now live in freedom through The Law of the Spirit of Life) 24 Therefore let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning (The Torah there was no New Testament until 300 years later). If what you heard from the beginning abides in you (you keep The Law of Yahuah), you also will abide in (the example set by) the Son and in the Father. 25 And this is the promise that Yahuah has promised us (for obedience in The Torah)— eternal life. Deuteronomy 6 2 that you may fear Yahuah your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged (eternal life) 26 These things I have written to you concerning those who try to deceive you (that The Law has been abolished). 27 But the anointing (the spirit of loving obedience to The Law) which you have received from Yahuah abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you (see Jeremiah 31 below); but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and (as we do) just as The Spirit has taught you (to do), you will abide in Him. Jeremiah 31 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahuah: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34 No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahuah,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Yahuah. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.” Continuing on with 1 John 2… 28 And now, little children, abide in the example of obedience to The Law of Yahuah set by Yahusha, that when he appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed (of your habitual transgression) before Yahusha at his coming. 29 If you know that Yahuah is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness (which is keeping The Law Romans 8:4, Romans 2:13) is begotten of Yahuah. Matthew 13:41 - English Standard Version The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers, I am going to stop here.  The entire New Testament is testimony to keeping The Law of Yahuah.  This was just one small example.  The evidence of salvation is simply that you keep The Law of Yahuah and keep Passover in light of Yahusha’s sacrifice thereby expressing faith in The Passover Lamb of God.  That is The Yahushaic Covenant: Revelation 12 17And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of Yahuah, and have the testimony of the Messiah Yahusha (believe that Yahusha is the Passover Lamb). Malachi 3:16 Then those who feared Yahuah spoke with one another. Yahuah paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared Yahuah (Deuteronomy 6:2 ‘2 that you may fear Yahuah  your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you’) and esteemed his name. “I asked Jesus into my heart and declared the name of the lawless one” is no evidence.  That is a death sentence.  The evidence of our salvation is that we keep The Law. Next: Yahuah's testimony of Yahusha

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