Fear No Fear

(All scripture from the NET, netbible.org, all rights reserved)

If a man inflicts an injury on his fellow citizen, just as he has done it must be done to him—fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth—just as he inflicts an injury on another person that same injury must be inflicted on him.
Leviticus 24:19-20 (emphasis added)

This is THE quintessential human verse in the whole bible, in my opinion. It sums up everything about the human condition and what we are capable of. Always looking for payment of wrongs. Always with the ‘Oh, yeah? How do YOU like it?’ sense of justice. Unable to do better than to inflict more harm to ‘clear the slate’ because of previous harm. Harm to harm. Blood to blood. Death to death. No breaking of the cycle. No fixing. No solutions. Just punishment. It kind of sums up the Law as well. The best we can do is hurt when we’re hurt. There is NO solution from, in, or on planet Earth.

Yet we have within us a sense of expectation. That things will get better. That this isn’t everything there is. That there MUST be more. Whole religions are built around the idea that things are trash now, but then we get good stuff. Other religious systems are built around denial. If we stop being all the things that make us human, we’ll somehow transcend this plane of existence and become something more on a mental/spiritual level. Except we don’t have it in us to transform. We can alter things. Cover things. Combine things. But we don’t really, truly TRANSFORM anything. It’s what is needed though. A transformation from what we are and what we experience, to something more than what we are with a completely different experience. Not something we can do.

The Law was given to show us that principle. There are a LOT of things in the Law. Foreshadowing. Types. Ways to understand our relationship with Elohim so we’d be prepared to understand what was going on when Messiah came. But the basic idea that we NEED a Messiah is the point of the Law. It shows us that while we are excelling in this area, over in that area we’re not doing as well. In fact, there will ALWAYS be an area where we miss it. That’s bad because “For the one who obeys the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it” (James 2:10). We cannot get away from the TRUTH that we cannot do it on our own. That we need help from somewhere else. Someone and somewhere outside of human existence. We NEED a Messiah.

This goes right back to Genesis 2:16-17 where Adam was told the penalty for rebellion: death (Romans 6:23). Since a death was required, a death needed to occur. But it was a sinless man who chose sin. Therefore a sinless man needed to pay the penalty. Nothing else would do. Sin was completely unjustifiable. Therefore, it needed to be completely unjustifiable to find guilty the one who would pay the price. A Messiah was needed. Someone not guilty. Someone who could do wrong because they were made of the same stuff as us, but someone who COULDN’T do wrong because of His nature. A perfect man who DIDN’T choose rebellion. A last Adam. Help from outside the system that resolves the system. A Messiah.

At this point I have given 357 prophecies of the Messiah fulfilled in and by Jesus of Nazareth. There is ample evidence from Genesis to Malachi that a Messiah was coming. Anticipation was high. High enough that people had stopped putting conditions on the idea. They’d stopped asking for particular features, characteristics, and tasks. They’d started just asking. Adonai Elohim’s will, not theirs. Asking for saving. Asking for the Messiah. Saying please, Adonai, please. When they had enough expectation based on the prophecies of the Old Covenant, then they were ready for the Messiah. Eager expectation with trust in their hope. That’s what it took. “But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights” (Galatians 4:4-5). Messiah came.

Tell me, is that the kind of eager expectation YOU have? No longer putting stipulations of time, condition, location, or anything else. Simply saying, ‘Your way, Adonai.’ When we KNOW that we have it and we EAGERLY expect it, we’re ready to get it. It’s like a package in the mail. Sometimes it’s delivered to your house. Sometimes to the local mailbox. Sometimes you have to go and sign for it. But it’s yours, it’s on the way, and you KNOW that any day now, you’ll have it in your hands. Our trust can be enough to have it delivered right to us. Sometimes we need a prayer full of trust from someone in the Church. Sometimes we need to get the Word out and get it in our ears and before our eyes until we see it and get the inside-our-hearts revelation of the TRUTH that we ALREADY have what we’re seeking because it was ALREADY accomplished in Messiah Jesus, praise Adonai!

The sick SHALL recover (Mark 16:18-19; Matthew 10:7-8). The sick SHALL be healed (Luke 9:2,10:9 & 19; Matthew 28:19-20). That includes you! Get your eager expectations stirred up. See it happening in your mind’s eye. Get your trust in the Word. Believe what you read. Don’t doubt it. Believe it! He’s a GOOD GOD! A GOOD FATHER! He’s not going to give you a stone (Matthew 7:9-11). He gives good things (James 1:17). He wants you well. He wants you free of the death-in-practise that is sickness. Get eager about becoming free. It’s YOURS. He said so.

Daily Affirmation Jesus IS Messiah: Zechariah 11:10–11

“Then I took my staff “Pleasantness” and cut it in two to annul my covenant that I had made with all the people. So it was annulled that very day, and then the most afflicted of the flock who kept faith with me knew that it was the Lord’s message.” Messiah would be Elohim. There is no way to say this that isn’t black and white. Messiah would be Elohim. Period. He would not be a partial being. He would not be a lesser being. He would not be ANYTHING except a perfect copy of Elohim and would BE Elohim Himself. “Jesus replied, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you have known me, you will know my Father too. And from now on you do know him and have seen him” (John 14:6–7). Jesus was the Father and the Father was Jesus (John 10:30). Jesus was IN the Father and the Father was IN Jesus (John 14:10–12). Jesus was Elohim. Elohim was Jesus. Jesus IS the Messiah!

Your Daily Confession of Jesus/Yeshua’s Identity:

Yeshua is the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Matthew 16:16b