Fear No Fear

(All scripture from Lexham English Bible, Copyright 2012 Logos Bible Software)

“And the Word became flesh and took up residence among us, and we saw his glory, glory as of the one and only from the Father, full of grace and truth.“

John 1:14

The life, death, and return to life of Jesus the Son of the Living God is the most amazing news that could ever be thought of – and it took Yahweh to think of it. There is a great peace – the Peace of Adonai – that comes from the accomplished redemption that Jesus walked out. It isn’t based on how obedient we are being. It isn’t based on how we feel. It is based on Jesus and what Jesus did. His merit, not ours. We stand in Grace when we abide in our salvation. And it all came about because Jesus dwelt among us. He set up Himself as our tabernacle so that we could abide in Him. He was born of a woman, so that He could be a human. He was born of Ruach HaKodesh, so that He could be sinless. Anyone with a human father (including Mary) is born with a sinful nature, inherited by the first Adam. As a sinless human male, Jesus was able to make atonement for our offences through His sacrificial death, and – upon finishing His work – was raised to life as proof Adonai was satisfied. This opened the tabernacle so that we could proceed from outside, through the courts, into the Holy Place, and then into the Most Holy Place and interact in relationship with Yahweh in His three persons: Father, Son, and Ruach HaKodesh. It IS the greatest story that has ever been told and Ruach HaKodesh tells it to us on a regular basis. If He didn’t, it would be too easy to forget.

How could we forget that? Forgetting what Jesus did and who Jesus is is the only way that we can choose to sin. If we had in our minds from moment to moment exactly what Jesus did, we would never sin (1 John 3:9). But since we DO all forget, and we DO all sin in one way or another (1 John 1:8), we NEED the reminder so that we can choose to turn around, properly repent, and retrain our minds to Adonai’s way of thinking about whatever it was that we rebelled about (1 John 1:9). We NEED the reminder that Ruach HaKodesh provides as part of His ministry to us (John 14:26). Jesus told us that remembering Him and what He did and who He was is a VITAL part of entering into the covenant He and the Father carved for us to enter into (Mark 14:22-25,Luke 22:18-20,1 Corinthians 11:23-25).

It’s hard to remember that Jesus is Adonai when we are focusing on Jesus the man. He got tired (John 4:6). He got hungry (Matthew 4:2; Mark 11:12). he got sad when John the Baptizer died. He got frustrated that cheaters were defiling the Temple. He got angry that teachers who should have known better were leading people astray. He sweat. He slept. He used the bathroom. He was a human being. On the other side of the coin, watching as Jesus never EVER sins proves His divine nature. He didn’t break a single one of the 613 commandments in the Law of Moses. Not in His heart, His thinking, His words, or His actions. No human being has EVER been able to do that. But Jesus did because He had a sinless, divine nature. He was in a sense incapable of sin unless He consciously chose to indulge His human side. He was certainly tempted to rebel against the Father. Consistently tempted. But He NEVER gave in. He was fully here on Earth even as His Spirit was fully in Heaven with the Father (John 3:13) – which is exactly the life WE have as born again in Jesus believers (Ephesians 2:6).

We are called to live like Jesus the man and trust in Jesus the divine. There is a LOT to that, so Ruach HaKodesh is our voice of Truth. He tells us the tales of Jesus the man. He speaks to us about who we are in Jesus the divine. He bridges the two experiences and shows us how they are both true. How they mesh. How they are both who Jesus was and who Jesus is and who Jesus will always be. Alpha-Omega. The Living One. Without revelation knowledge from Ruach HaKodesh, it’s easy to apply human thinking to these realities. It’s easy to get caught up in being ‘poor sinners saved by Grace’ instead of ‘former sinners saved by Grace and abiding in Jesus, the Overcomer of the world’. Without Ruach HaKodesh to explain the tabernacling that Jesus did, we would have no manual on how to enter Jesus the Tabernacle. Without the reminders of Ruach HaKodesh, we would lose our focus on Jesus. Our knowledge of what He provides. The tales of Ruach HaKodesh are true, are revitalizing, and are neccessary for each and every one of us to hear. Consistently.

Daily Affirmation of the Goodness of Elohim: Matthew 27:51

“And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom, and the earth shook and the rocks were split.” You could not pass through into the Holy of Holies where the mercy seat sat above the Ark of the Covenant without passing through a VERY thick curtain designed to keep the uninitiated and unprepared out. Jesus WAS that curtain. He was the Way that the high priest passed through. He broke and tore His body open so that EVERYONE could pass through the Way and stand before the mercy seat (Isaiah 53). Jesus HEALED us through the torn fabric of His physical and spiritual self. He was our sacrifice. He was our passage. He IS the Way into the New Covenant. The new relationship founded on better promises and complete restoration. Not a covering of sin, which is the barrier between Adonai and humanity, but its total and complete elimination. He did that for us. He opened it up. All could see, all could enter, and nothing bad was there to stop them. They were WELCOMED in. Jesus calls out to the whole world that the Way is open and Adonai is EAGER to see ALL humanity enter. What a GOOD God!

Your Daily Confession of Elohim’s Goodness:

I taste and see that Yahweh is good; I am blessed because I take refuge in Him.

Psalm 34:8