Fear No Fear

(All scripture from the World English Bible, ebible.org, all rights reserved)

“Abraham said to him, “Beware that you don’t bring my son there again. Yahweh, the God of heaven—who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, ‘I will give this land to your offspring—he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there. If the woman isn’t willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this oath to me. Only you shall not bring my son there again.”

(Genesis 24:6-8)

Abraham had been brought out of one nation and brought to another. From one place to another. One kingdom to another, in a sense. He was NOT going back. He refused to look back in his own lifetime (Romans 4:17-22), and was not allowing his son to either. They would hold to the word from God to stay in Canaan. Having been brought to this new land, they would refuse to even consider going to the old again. They would be single-minded in their choice to believe God’s words.

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.“

(Matthew 5:17)

Messianic Jewish scholar Arnold Fruchtenbaum writes that instead of ‘Sermon on the Mount’, this oration by Jesus should be called ‘”The Messiah’s Interpretation of the Righteousness of the Torah.” Simplistically stated, the difference is between mere external conformity in contrast to internal conformity that naturally lends itself to external conformity to Torah.’ Which is the same attitude that James and Paul held (James 2:18; Romans 4:1-8). Jesus consistently had issue with the Sadducees, Pharisees, and Scribes because of their lack of internal conformity to the Word (Matthew 23:25). We are meant to live in the NEW kingdom and not seek to return to the OLD. To conform to the NEW reality of our spirits, and not look back. To go FORWARD into God.

Summary

When we accept salvation, we are brought to God’s kingdom (Galatians 1:4). Since we are made new, we should act like it. We are not TOURISTS. We belong to a NEW KINGDOM and should be conforming to it more and more every day (Romans 12:2). We should seek the Lord first and foremost from the INSIDE to the OUTSIDE. Our internal desire to follow Him and to love Him will determine what we do on the outside. Jesus put it this way. If you love Jesus, you will find yourself doing what He commands (John 14:15).