Excerpt from The Yahushaic Covenant Volume 1 by Rav Sha'ul Yahusha is The True Way that leads to Life by Rav Sha'ul   John 14:1-10 1 “Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in Yahuah (your God and Father), believe also in Me (your King and brother). 2 In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you (in The Kingdom of Yahuah). 3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also. 4 And you know the way where I am going (the way to be begotten into The Kingdom of Yahuah).” 5 Thomas said to Him, “King, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way?” 6 Yahusha said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through my example. (my example is the true way that leads to everlasting life) 7 If you had known Me (kept my example), you would have known My Father also; from now on (as you keep my example) you know Yahuah, and have (spiritually) seen Yahuah (Yahusha is the perfect human image of the invisible God).” 8 Philip said to Yahusha, “King, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” 9 Yahusha said to him, “Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has (spiritually) seen the (perfect human image, the reflection of the invisible) Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Do you not believe that I am in (covenant with) the Father, and the Father is in (covenant with) Me (making us one through marriage)? Revelation 19 9 And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.” Continuing with John 14… The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me (through His Spirit of Truth as The Law was written in his heart) does His works. 11 Believe Me that I am in (covenant with) the Father and the Father is in (covenant with) Me; otherwise believe because of the works (of obedience to The Law) themselves (knowing and loving Yahuah is keeping His commandments). 12 Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in (enters into The Yahushaic Covenant) Me, the works that I do, he will do also (by keeping my example); and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father. 13 Whatever you ask in covenant with me, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask Me anything in covenant with me, I will do it. 15 “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments (Yahusha said to keep the commandments of Yahuah, not one jot or tittle will be abolished). 16 I will ask the Father, and He will give you another helper, that Yahuah may be with you forever; 17 that is the Spirit of truth (not a ghost, it is the Spirit that teaches us to keep His Law and writes it on our hearts Ezekiel 36:27 and Jeremiah 31), 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 without love) 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 with John 14… whom the world cannot receive, because it does not (have spiritual eyes to) see Yahuah or know Him (through keeping His commandments), but you know Yahuah because He abides with you (the spirit in Ezekiel above that moves on your heart to keep The Law of Yahuah) and (His Law) will be in you (written on your heart Ezekiel above and Jeremiah 31). 18 “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 After a little while the world will no longer see Me, but you will see Me; because I live, you will live also. 20 In that day you will know that I am in (covenant with) My Father, and you in (covenant with) Me, and I in (covenant with) you. 21 He who has My commandments and keeps them (obedience to The Law of Yahuah) is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me (by keeping my example and obeying my command to keep The Law of Yahuah) will be loved by My Father (“this is the love of Yahuah, you keep His commandments” 1 John 5:3), and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him.” 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to Yahusha, “King, what then has happened that You are going to disclose Yourself to us and not to the world?” 23 Yahusha answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him. 24 He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me (Yahusha clears up what “his commands and word” are, they are The Laws of Yahuah). 25 “These things I have spoken to you while abiding with you. 26 But the helper, the Spirit of Holiness, whom the Father will send in My name (to those in The Yahushaic Covenant), Yahuah will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful. 28 You heard that I said to you, ‘I go away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced because I go to the Father, for the Father is greater than I (they are neither the same being, nor are they equal) 29 Now I have told you before it happens, so that when it happens, you may believe. 30 I will not speak much more with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in Me; 31 but so that the world may know that I love the Father (Yahusha kept The Law of Yahuah perfectly, the love of Yahuah is expressed through obedience to His Law), I do exactly as the Father commanded Me (in His Law). Get up, let us go from here. What does Yahusha mean when he declared he is the truth and the way?  He is saying that his example he set on earth is the True Way that leads to eternal life.  We are to walk as he walked, do as he did, and keep his righteous example of loving obedience to The Law of Yahuah. 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, love for God 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) Paul addresses the reality of keeping The Law of Yahuah below by living the example set by Yahusha: Colossians 2 6 So then, just as you received Yahusha the Messiah as King, continue to live your lives in (covenant with) him (by keeping his example of obedience to The Law), 7 rooted and built up in his example, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. 8 See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy (such as The Law was abolished and pagan rituals replaced the Holy Days of Yahuah), which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Yahusha’s example (Yahusha kept The Law and the Holy Days)… 16 Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink (as you in obedience to The Law keep Kosher), or with regard to a religious festival (as you keep the Spring and Fall Festivals of Yahuah), a New Moon celebration (as you keep Yahuah’s monthly calendar) or a Sabbath day (as you set yourself apart by keeping Yahuah’s Sabbaths). 17 These (physical rehearsals I have taught you to keep) are a (physical) shadow of the (spiritual) things that were to come (physical to spiritual parallels); the (spiritual) reality, however, is found The Yahushaic Covenant (which is the transposition of all previous 6 covenants into the Spiritual Kingdom of Yahuah). 18 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you (for your obedience to The Law). Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind (that is set on the flesh and has enmity toward Yahuah’s Law). 19 They have lost connection (those who teach The Law was abolished show a total disconnect) with the head (The Yahushaic Covenant), from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as Yahuah causes it to grow (into The Temple of Yahuah). I am going to cover what it means to keep The Law of Yahuah in The Yahushaic Covenant later in this book.  One thing should be obvious by now, Yahusha did not set the example of disobedience to The Law by abolishing it, Yahusha never once kept Sunday as his day of worship to Yahuah, Yahusha never once claimed he was Yahuah incarnate, Yahusha never celebrated Christmas, Easter, Good Friday, or any other pagan ritual. The Christian Church is another gospel than we were given by Yahuah and Yahusha and a different gospel than the one taught by his disciples and apostles. The Narrow Gate of Passover that leads to The Promised Land of Eternal Life The "Gateway" out of the bondage of sin and into the promised land of eternal life (spiritual truth) is realized through the same gate that lead out of the bondage in Egypt into the Promised Land of Canaan (physical shadow)... The Passover.  Yahusha set the example on how to walk through that "gate" and as our shepherd lead the way we are to follow. The Way and the example set by Yahusha on Passover John 10:3-4 For I have given you an example (Spiritual Path), that you should do as I have done (offer our own lives as living sacrificial lambs on Passover). 1 Peter 2:21 21 But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it (you will be perfected just like Yahusha was perfected through suffering ultimately perfected on Passover), this is commendable before Yahuah. 21 To this (giving your own lives as living sacrificial lambs on Passover) you were called, because the Messiah suffered (on Passover) for you (and tore the veil giving you access to the Altar of Yahuah), leaving you an example (of what to do as he fulfilled the spiritual meaning of Passover), that you should follow in his steps (and bring your own body as an offering on Passover to the Altar of Yahuah). What is that example?  There is a very specific “way” that we become members of the family of Yahuah.  It is through “the narrow gate” of Passover and it has never changed.  It has simply been transposed in The Yahushaic Covenant just like the Alter, the Temple, The Law, the priesthood, etc. It is the spiritual equivalent of the Torah requirements in which you make the transition from a pagan gentile to a member of the commonwealth of Israel.   The requirements for a pagan gentile to become a full member of the commonwealth of Israel was that they had to be circumcised, Mikveh’d, and bring a lamb to sacrifice on the altar. Nothing changed, you still must be circumcised, Mikveh’d, and bring an offering to Yahuah and sacrifice it on His Altar.  Yahusha elevated the physical requirements to become a member of the family of Yahuah to their true meaning in The Yahushaic Covenant and gave us the example that we are to follow each year on Passover: Yahusha was mikveh’d on Passover John 13:2-11 – the Mikveh on the Chagigah in preparation for the beginning of Passover 1 And (the Chagigah) supper (on the eve of the 13th of Abib with leavened bread) being ended (and the 14th of Abib began which is Day of Preparation or Passover Day), … 4 He (Yahusha) arose from supper, and laid aside his garments (took off his clothes and Mikveh’d himself); and (then) took a towel (to dry himself off), and girded himself (wrapped the towel around his waist).  5 After that (he cleansed himself through Mikveh, dried himself off, and wrapped a towel around his waist) he poured water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet (Mikveh his disciples feet they had already been immersed), and to wipe [them] with the towel he was girded with. Yahusha was circumcised Yahusha demonstrate a contrite heart and reverent submission to the Will of Yahuah which is true circumcision of heart: Luke 22:42 …41And He withdrew from them about a stone's throw, and He knelt down and began to pray, 42saying, "Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done." Yahusha brought an offering on the Altar of Yahuah Yahusha brought an offering of a lamb on Passover.  He offered his own broken body as a living sacrifice to Yahuah.  This is the way, the example, that Yahusha set that we are to follow each Passover.  We are all to: 1.     Mikveh our bodies ritually clean with living water 2.     Be circumcised of heart or “have a heart for His Laws” and do His will not our own 3.     We are to offer our lives as living sacrifices on the Altar of Yahuah which our hearts In Ephesians we see Paul use the spiritual truth of Passover, circumcision, and the Mikveh to prepare the bride to meet her husband for the “appointed time” as spotless Passover Lambs.  We see below the 3 requirements again which are Mikveh, sacrifice, circumcision: Ephesians 5 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as the Messiah loved the body and gave himself up for her (as The Passover Lamb) 26 to make her holy, (ritually) cleansing her by the washing with water through the commandments (Mikveh), 27 and to present her (with a circumcised heart) to himself as a radiant assembly, without spot or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless (as a spotless Passover Lamb of Yahuah). Romans 12:1 1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of Yahuah’ mercy (who offered His first born son Yahusha as a sacrifice on Passover which tore the veil giving us all access to the mercy seat), to offer your (own) bodies (not just Yahusha, we too must follow in his footsteps) as a living sacrifice (living sacrificial lamb on the Altar of Yahuah each Passover as commanded 2 Peter 3:14), holy (set apart and prepared through Mikveh) and pleasing to Yahuah (with a circumcised heart for His Law)—this is your true and proper worship (on Passover as commanded by Yahuah that each man should bring his own Passover lamb to the altar Exodus 12:3). Hebrews 10:16-29 (The Passover) 16 "This is the covenant (marriage vow) that I will make with them: 'After those days,' says Yahuah, 'I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;'" (circumcision of heart) then, 17 "I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more." (Because they will be Spiritually Perfected and purified through Mikveh) 18 Now where there is remission of sin (through Mikveh), there is no more offering for sin. Note: Our sin is forgiven in covenant with Yahusha the same way it has always been forgiven, through the ritual cleansing of living water or Mikveh.  We look forward to the fulfillment of Mikveh when Yahusha returns: Zechariah 14:4  On that day his ( Yahusha the Messiah’s ) feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives  Zechariah 14: 8 On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem (to Mikveh the land), half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea. It shall continue in summer as in winter. Zechariah 13:1 “In that day there shall be a fountain (of living water) opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem (to Mikveh) for sin and for uncleanness.” 19 Having therefore, brothers, (being Mikveh’d clean we have) boldness to enter into the holy place (and offer your life as a living sacrifice on the Altar of Yahuah) by the blood (Living Sacrifice) of Yahusha, 20 by the way (example) which he dedicated for us (to follow), a new and living (sacrificial) way (a living sacrifice), through the veil, that is to say, (the veil was torn in two by the offering of) his flesh (providing us bold access to the mercy seat of Yahuah); 21 and having a great (High) priest (Yahusha) over the house of; 22 let us draw near (to the mercy seat of Yahuah to offer our lives as living sacrifices) with a true (circumcised) heart in fullness of faith (that we have been granted access to the Altar of Yahuah through Yahusha’s sacrifice which tore the veil to the Holy of Holies) , having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience (sanctified), and having our body washed with pure water (Spiritual Cleansing through Mikveh), 23 let us hold fast the confession of our hope (that Yahuah will accept our living sacrifice). For he who promised is faithful.   Summary of Yahusha’s Example So Each Passover we are all to follow Yahusha’s example: 1.     Present ourselves to our King properly through Mikveh 2.     Demonstrate a circumcised heart for His Law 3.     Present our own bodies as living sacrificial lambs on His Altar This is the “Narrow Gate” that leads us out of our life of sin (broken body/leavened bread) and into a new and living way (our new bodies with sin forgiven represented by unleavened bread).  So once we have walked through The Passover Gate we then inter into The Kingdom of Yahuah which is a High Holy Sabbath that begins with The Feast of Unleavened Bread.   Next: Christian or Nazarene... Which are you?

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