Jesus the Messiah

Jesus the Messiah – the life of Christ, Christ Jesus, the Son of God, Immanuel, Christ the Word, Jesus the Christ, Jesus the Messiah, Yehoshua ha Mashiach Llesous, Issa, and on and on. Why? Well, the Bible is nothing without God’s plan of redemption for the world, and this plan would not be a plan without a Savior. Christ Jesus the Messiah is that Savior.

Jesus the Messiah – the One who truly does come and does save the world. As a review, His name means salvation or salvation from God. In Hebrew, the word Yasha means to save or he saves. Yeshua is derived from Yasha, and this salvation language relates to God’s promise of a Messiah and Jesus’ ministry and our faith in Him. But to obtain this salvation, we need to do what? Isaiah prophesied that all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God and that all people will see God’s salvation.

This language is throughout the entire Bible, and it’s not just a random word of promise. The popular verse in the Gospel of John 3:16-17 spells out the reason this protagonist came. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. 

Because of God’s great love, He sent Jesus, God’s only child, a firstborn, to the world. Although these designations may sound redundant, in the ancient Near Eastern mindset, a son and only child, the firstborn, the Cho’or in Hebrew, held great significance.

Most people in religions recognize Jesus as a historical figure. So the actual question is, what makes Jesus the Son of God? How do we portray this in a meaningful and logical way?  

Let us give considerable thought and engagement to not only the events and miraculous happenings in and around the life of Christ, but to WHO HE IS. Let us experience Him in a new and untainted way, a way that we ourselves have overused and at times abused.

Here are some eternal truths about Jesus the Messiah. Jesus said he was the son of God, and he did what he said he would do. Jesus performed miracles repeatedly with eyewitness testimony.

There are multiple eyewitnesses to the teaching and claims of Christ. Belief in Jesus exemplifies the only faith-based religion where you can’t work your way into God’s good graces. God’s gift of salvation is free and available to everybody. This room is a living testament to that truth. Remember, God so loved the world. Our simple response is to accept this gift. 

Next, Jesus fulfilled prophecy repeatedly. Prophecies that were written hundreds of years before His arrival in history. And Jesus’ body is not here on earth. There is no grave to visit. The foundation of belief in Jesus the Messiah lies in the resurrection. And this resurrection gives us who believe hope that this is not all life is about. God put a desire to know him in all human hearts.”

Many are seeking something more than just what’s here on earth. And there’s sadness, mortality, aging, death. And the true question is, is this it?

Finally, the Jewish people have no logical reason in history that they should have restored multiple attempts at exile, genocide, attack, expulsions from neighborhoods, cities, and countries, massacres, attempts to blot out Judaism and force conversions and assimilation, except that God’s covenant hand has been on them in his great and eternal story. Jesus was prophesied in ancient times through all the biblical books of the Hebrew Bible, and Jesus entered human history as a Jewish infant, born of a Jewish mother, raised by an earthly Jewish father. He was prophesied to be born in Bethlehem, Micah 5-2. Note: Bet-le-chim  [house of bread]  לֶחֶם בית   Holding a numerical value of 490…

Ancient rabbis recognized this ruler as the Messiah, and we read about the Magi in Matthew 2:1-12, “But going further into the Magi from Matthew 2, they stopped in Jerusalem and they inquired, where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw the star when it rose and have come to worship him.”

And King Herod, as in Herod the Great, a historical figure, was disturbed that there was another king born, and these dignitaries were coming to worship him. Consequently, he called in the Jewish people’s chief priests and teachers of the law and asked them where the Jewish Messiah was to be born. And they read him the prophecy that he was to be born in Bethlehem in Judea.

They quoted the prophet Micah, just as we talked about. But here’s the thing, the Magi were in Jerusalem trying to discern where the star was to permanently stop. And they were so close to Bethlehem, about five miles or 8.8 kilometers, thank you Google Maps.

The point being, the chief priests and the teachers of the law knew this prophecy. It is hard to not get an image of them being summoned out of bed in the middle of the night, putting on their priestly robes – grumbling and cursing the whole way over to the palace to answer King Herod’s questions, then stomping back home and going back to bed, for the night. They knew the prophecy and they did nothing about it.

They didn’t even send the least of their minions to quickly go over to Bethlehem to confirm or deny this child. It was completely missed. And let me just say, that is a challenge for all of us, especially leaders in the church, to know the prophecy and watch for them and not miss.

All ideas are not set up perfectly or in ways that we think they should be like. But King Herod sent these magi to Bethlehem and they found this child there. They found the Prophecy fulfilled in the Christ child.

Now let’s go back to Micah, from ancient times the eternal Word supported that Jesus was with God in the beginning of time. Another mindblower. The Book of Genesis starts with the Hebrew word, Barashit, translated as – in the beginning.

Consequently, Gospel writer, disciple, and eyewitness John, when writing his Gospel, (though written in Greek) began the Gospel as Genesis started. First phrase, Barashit, in the beginning. We can read in  John 1:1-5, 

“In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and apart from him, nothing came into being that has come into being. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.” 

Some important facts of note. The authors use of the term word, is with a capital W, which in Hebrew is d’var. This word, this d’var, was with God in the beginning. And when God spoke creation into being with words ‘(d’reem), at the exact moment of creation, Jesus was the Word concurrently. John instructs us that all things were made through Jesus.

Nothing was made apart from Him. And we just read from Micah 5:2 that this one who will be ruler over Israel, his origins are from old, from ancient times. Jesus always was, is, and will be.

We can read… 

Revelation 22:13. 

“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end. “

Like God’s immutable name, Yod He vav He, Jesus was, is, and will be, eternal, without beginning or end.”

“The common to be verb in the John passage, which was in the past tense, is nothing less than a digital sign flashing the Name of Jesus, 

I am, I exist. I am the light. I am the life.

Jesus the Messiah… Jesus is living water. Jesus is salvation. The gospel writer also used the word sign in his gospel instead of the word miracle. The sign is just that; it is a cursor pointing to God’s promises. And these prophecies spoken by Isaiah were at least 700 years before Jesus’ birth—more than just coincidental.

We read in Matthew 1:23 that the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel, meaning ‘God with us.’ It’s nice of Matthew to translate the Hebrew phrase ‘God with us’ as ‘Immanuel,’ meaning God is with us. Remember, the godly designation of the abbreviated name El is shortened version of Elohim, and Im in Hebrew is the masculine plural with, and Nu is a personal pronoun – us.” Interestingly, “We’ve got Im, Ma, Nu, el, God with us, or God is with us. 

Some unbelievers have acknowledged that the God in the Bible is difficult to understand. Why would he allow famine or war, death, and rape? Yet this Jesus is a good person.  I’m here to tell you, your Jesus, your hope,  is God in the flesh. Jesus was God here in human form, and the heart of Jesus is the heart of God, and the love of Christ Jesus is the love of God.

This is one of the many mysteries of God, how he can be God of the universe before and throughout time, and yet come to earth as a human. In fact, in his human state, as Jesus limited his godly power here on earth to experience life as a human, this made him completely relatable and accessible to humanity. He knows what you and I feel, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.”

“But why would he do this? God so loved the world, even those who don’t believe in him, even those who don’t know him yet, even those who hate him, even terrorists, murderers, bombers, even those who live in pure evil. God loves each of them.

Jesus came to witness to each of them, then and now, to be their salvation. We can read in Matthew 1, 22 that Jesus’ earthly father, Joseph, was instructed prior to the birth to call this child Jesus. She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give him the name Jesus because He will save His people from their sins.

Jesus’ name, salvation, or salvation from God. Prophetically, He would come through the line of King David, as we hear that Joseph was of King David’s lineage. Of the 12 tribes of Israel, from the 12 sons of Jacob, Jesus would come from the tribe of Judah, the tribe of kings.”

“The apostle and gospel writer, Matthew, used this language to spell out the fulfillment in the prophecy from Isaiah 7:14. And we can find more prophecy in Isaiah 9 about this baby that the promised light would come to Israel in the looming darkness. 

Isaiah 9:6-7 

“For to us a child is born, and to us a son is given. And the government will be on his shoulders, and he will be called wonderful counselor, mighty God, everlasting father, prince of peace, of the greatness of his government, and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David’s throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. And the zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.”

Isaiah 11: 1-3, 

“A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse. From his roots, a branch will bear fruit. The Spirit of the Lord will west on him, the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of might, the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the Lord, and he will delight in the fear of the Lord.”

In the book of Isaiah alone, there are at least 16 Messianic prophecies that have been fulfilled. And we’ve barely begun the prophecies. This Messianic prophecy was proclaimed more than 700 years before Jesus’ arrival here on earth.

So what does this mean? There have been many predictions, prophecies, that a deliverer, a messiah, an anointed one, would come for the salvation of Israel and the nations. If you were to read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, you could track the promises of a needed deliverer beginning in Genesis 3, and we covered that in our Adamic Covenant.”

“Yet it’s not a far stretch to realize that our world is a mess. We can find more and more hate and hostility in our world, Jesus the Messiah is the only way that we live in this chaos. Honestly, this world has been and always will be a mess since that forbidden bite of the fruit in the garden.

It will be in disorder and confusion until the Second Advent of Yeshua the Christ – Jesus Messiah – He will come as the warrior Messiah King to restore the earth to its original perfect status. 

Let me share a few more key points about pursuing Jesus. He came to earth to be the final living sacrifice for all believers’ sins. No more sheep, no more goats, no more birds killed, blood drained and sprinkled on the altar in the temple. Animal sacrifice became obsolete that day on the cross. And this begins the story of redemption.

Jesus called Himself… 

The Light – Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. John 8:12

The Bread of Life – Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. John 6:35

The Living Water –  If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water. John 4:10

The Resurrection – Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” John 11:25-26

Jesus was life in the beginning of the world, as Jesus is life here on earth after his human intervention. Jesus at the beginning was the light that shone in the darkness, and his intervention here on earth was and is the light, and dark cannot overpower Jesus.

God’s redemption story began with His beautiful creation that was good [tov; Hebrew], and culminated with Adam and Eve, and they were tov me-yod – very good. They were placed in this perfect, beautiful garden to cultivate, tend and care for it. No weeds, no thistles, no dandelions.

Just beautiful trees and shrubs and plants. I like to think, how long did that kind of perfection last? Was it an hour, a day, a week, years?”It would be wonderful if it were years before the first humans were approached by the deceiver, but that seems unlikely, knowing the enemy and knowing human nature. As if it were years before they succumbed to the tempter, it would have been all that much harder to be kicked out. But that me, doing what I do…

Adam and Eve were given just one prohibition. They may eat of any tree, any fruit, any, anything but one, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They were also given the gift of free will, like all of us, to think and reason and decide and love, to not be controlled, to be given the choice to make good choices, or bad choices.

So within this unspecified amount of time, Adam and Eve were approached, and the Bible calls this tempter a serpent, more crafty or cunning than all of the animals. And unfortunately, this serpent had the ability to talk. Reading the text in Genesis 2 and 3 carefully, there was no fear, shame, anger in the garden, but the serpent awakened in Adam and Eve a greed and disobedience – an appetite and lust for this fruit.

A lot of literature depicts this fruit as an apple, but it could realistically have been a mango or a grapefruit, or it could have been a fruit that we’ve never even encountered. But doubt about God and his faithfulness was planted into Eve’s mind, and in an instant, the fruit of that one tree looked better than all the fruit in the garden.

In fact, within the middle of the garden was another very special tree, the Tree of Life. And they could eat this fruit endlessly, and if you were to fast forward to the end of the Bible, we will actually  be able to eat this fruit on the Tree of Life again. Free Will gave into temptation, which resulted in disobedience, the single prohibition of God’s.

He knew it had happened, and they were ashamed of their nakedness. As a good father would, he asked them questions to let them confess what they had done. After all, they had a personal relationship with him, one where they walked and talked in the garden regularly.

So why would this be different? 

Except that they felt guilty and ashamed as they hid and covered up their sin. The first recorded death in the Bible is God covering Adam and Eve with skin because their invention of using fig leaves was just not going to last.

With sin comes death. This case was no different in the death of the animals to cover Adam and Eve, and the death of the animals during this sacrificial system. In the Hebrew Bible, set up by God with the ancient Israelites, this was all a reminder that sin needed blood atonement.

In the New Testament of the Bible we learn that Jesus became the final sacrificial death and blood atonement, as He willingly went to the cross to die once for all in place of all. He died so we might live. Three days later, His body resurrected, and us who believe our sin and rebellion is atoned for, and His body is not there in the tomb but rather risen and resurrected. At first hearing the unlikely concept of a physical resurrection sounds absurd, yet believing in the literal resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth is the key to a saving faith.

The bodily resurrection gives credibility and evidence that the words of Jesus are true, and that He would rise just as He said He would. We can read about these predictions or prophecies made by Jesus in all four gospels. 

So where am I going with this? 

The Pursuit, of course. The pursuit of His Word, His Will, His Ways – we are in pursuit of Jesus. He is the Word – He is the Will – He is the Way. We are in pursuit of the good wine – Yeshua the Christ, Jesus the Messiah, is the “good wine” the very best that God had to offer.

Moving on, we can see that the physical evidence of Jesus’ bodily death is described in the Gospels is more than credible.

There are eyewitnesses of the resurrection – literally hundreds of them – over 500 to be exact. There is increasing archaeological evidence reinforcing the places and people of 1st century Israel. Even the Jewish historian for Rome; Flavius Josephus, writes an affirming narrative about Jesus in Jewish Antiquities.

Jesus told his disciples in John 16:33, In this world you will have trouble, but take heart. I have overcome the world. Let me lead you through the real uncensored Gospel message in Five Quick Points.

If you aren’t a believer, or perhaps a shaky one, please listen carefully. My challenge for you is to read the verses I am about to give you and then pray. Please remember that praying is simply talking to God.

There is no formula. For those of you who are believers and followers of Christ Jesus the Messiah, please take note so you are ready to share this miraculous Gospel.

Always be ready with an answer. So… 

Point One: 

We are all sinners. 

If you believe that there is good and bad in this world, you are already on the right track. We represent the best and the worst of it. We can even read about it in… 

Ecclesiastes 7:20 

“Indeed, there is no one on earth who is righteous, no one who does what is right and never sins.” 

The Apostle Paul quoted this verse in… 

Romans 3:10 

“There is no one righteous, not even one.” 

You see, breaking one law or one commandment, one bit of contempt, a slight infidelity, a convenient lie – it means more to God than what we have believed or been willing to tell people. It’s all sin and when it becomes a pattern of our behavior common to our character (either passive or aggressive) it is transgression – it is a curse. And we can see in His word… 

1 John 1:8 

“If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.” 

Point Two: 

God cannot look at sin.

As sinners, we cannot approach God. Who are we that the God of the Universe should be obligated or mindful of us? We can read all about this in…

Habakkuk 1:13 

“Your eyes are too pure to look on evil. 

You cannot tolerate wrongdoing.”

Romans 3 23, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”

Romans 6:23 

“For the wages of sin is death.” 

Point Three: 

We need a way to get to God. 

Based on the Mosaic Covenant, the sacrificial system was set up because sin needed the shedding of blood to be atoned or accounted for. Sin takes its toll  – it is costly, but that Covenant and sacrifice was a temporary system. People continued to sin, and people continued to sin, and people continue to sin; with sin, however there is a penalty and price to pay – death. Unreconciled or unaccounted for sin always leads us to the death of what and who we love.

Point Four: 

We need a savior – Jesus the Messiah

We need a permanent solution, and only God could provide.

How many hundreds or more times have we read it?

John 3:16-17

“For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, His firstborn, that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life, for God didn’t send His Son, Yeshua, salvation, Jesus, into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.” 

1 John 1: 9-10,

 “If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make God out to be a liar and His word is not in us.”

Romans 8:1

“Therefore, now there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”

Romans 6:23 

“But the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” 

The only Perfection this world has ever known, Jesus took our sin to the cross willingly, and He hung there in shame and horror for each of us personally. His death resulted in tragedy until His resurrection on the third day. Death could not restrain or contain Him. Sin had no power over Him, and through our faith in Him, we are free and justified.

Point Five: 

The gift of a Savior is available to everyone. 

Seek – that is why we pursue Jesus the Messiah. That is why we seek and worship Him. If you have not, I invite you right now in this moment to Ask Him to come into your heart. How you ask?

Romans 10:9-10. 

“If you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe in are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.”

As Scripture says, anyone who believes in Him will never be put to shame. Romans 1:20 reminds all of us that God put this desire to know Him in every human heart. He created all humans, and that is a deposit He left.

Romans 1:20

“For since the creation of the world, God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen and being understood from what has been made so that people are without excuse.” 

The struggle most have about Christianity is that it’s so simplistic, basic, and easy. There’s nothing anyone can do in our own power to be saved from the evil of this world. And this gift, you receive the gift of faith and salvation. It’s not an active verb like I decided to, or I chose. Receive is a passive verb.

If someone had a gift for you, you wouldn’t ungratefully just take it or grab it from them.  No, you are a better person than that – you would wait until it was held out to you and graciously receive it. The profound thing about Jesus is he continually holds this gift out to us. Have we graciously received it?

The gift from Jesus the Messiah is a gift to unbelievers. In all other faiths and world religions, the follower or disciple has to work for one’s way to the path or salvation. And if you do it well enough, you obtain it.

Your work, your salvation, or, so people think. That is not how the process and plan works with the God of all Creation – the Living and One true God. This is God’s gift and you either receive it or you reject it.

The two options before us –  receive or reject. Complacency is rejection. Apathy is rejection. Double-minded is rejection. Hypocrisy is rejection. Having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof is rejection. Can we get the picture here?

And when we receive the gift, God places His Spirit inside of us. This Spirit, the Holy Spirit, helps us with day-to-day living and practical real life situations. The Spirit reminds us of our place and identity in God’s family while on our journey in the faith.

Anything added to this free gift is suspect – heretical – and false (fake news). You can never work your way into God’s good graces, period. The following are some more verses based on Jesus’ gift.

Revelation 3.20:

“Here I am, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person and they with me.” 

Matthew 7:7

“Ask and it will be given to you. Seek and you will find. Knock and the door will be open to you.”

Matthew 6:33

“But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you.” 

Luke 19:10

“For the Son of Man came to seek and save the lost.” 

Jeremiah 29:13

“You will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart.”

Lamentations 3:25

“The Lord is good to those whose hope is in Him, to the one who seeks Him.” 

Matthew 7:8

“For everyone who asks, receives. The one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” 

Luke 19:10

“For the Son of Man came to seek and save the lost.” 

Pursuing Elohim – His Word, His Will, His Ways, uncovering and finding revelation to the mysteries of Jesus Messiah are profound and yet they are simple. You and I are a unique part of this profound mystery and its glorious simplicity. 

Again you ask, how? We believe in Jesus the Messiah.

With this belief in Jesus the Messiah comes certain incredible assurances and promises. And, no matter the length of time we have known and believed in Him, hearing those promises still remains remarkably new and hopeful. 

John 1:12 

“Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God.”

John 6:35

“Jesus declared, I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in Me will never be thirsty.”

John 3.36 

“Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life.”

John 5:24

“Very truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not be judged, but is crossed over from death to life.”

John 6:40 

“For My Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”

John 7:38 

“Whoever believes in Me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” 

John 11:25

“Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in Me will live, and even though they die, and whoever lives by believing in Me will never die.”

Matthew 17:20

“For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”

And when His promises seem to fade into the distance, and our faith becomes weak we can be reminded just what faith really is.

Hebrews 11:1-3 

“Now, faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for. By faith, we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.” 

Romans 1:16-17

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, The righteous shall live by faith.”

Incredibly, this belief in the saving grace of Jesus is for everyone, but as everyone here has experienced – not everyone will answer. Alternatively, some will have head knowledge and either casually or foolishly think that is enough. However, faith in God through Jesus Messiah involves relationship not merely a transaction, a relationship of the heart with the the Lord God Almighty supersedes everything. Faith over religion, faith over the ways and behavior of unfaithful men, faith over the will and wooing of temptation, and faith over the carnal ideologies and thoughts of this world. Faith in Him over and above all things. Without that relationship of faith it is impossible to please and know Him.

I Kings 8:22-23,

“Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven, and said, “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to Your servants who walk before You with all their heart.” ESV

Hebrews 11:6,

“And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who seek Him.”

But of course, this is why you are here – like me you have believed; we have entered and begun the unknowable journey of faith. and, it is true, for some it is with great cost and sacrifice, so it is extremely important to determine, to reason, and to have this course that He has set before us  settled within. There will always be an alternate route – an easier way – a wider path – a greener pasture. But we have been called according to His purpose to travel a road less traveled – to finish what we start – to dig a deeper well – to go the extra mile – to keep on walking.

Matthew 7:13-14,

“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.” 

Hebrews 11:8-10,

“By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God.”

How will you finish in the faith? 

You do not want to lament that you did not know enough, or did not do all that you could possibly do to equip yourself for the call of Messiah over your life.

Pursue Him. Seek Him, acknowledge Him in all your ways, be honest and open with where you are – be restless with what you know and what you do not know of Him. Be both hungry and humble. Frequently acknowledge and recite Jesus’ death and resurrection and tell Him, your longing to know more of WHO He is. Take a few days and do not ask Him to do anything for you – SEEK wisdom, simply SEEK Him.

This is what the Apostle Paul meant when he said;

Romans 10:8-9

“But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.”

It is indeed fascinating – the journey of faith – the revelation of Jesus the Messiah – the ministry and mission of the gospel and the Kingdom of God.

We look to our Creator – Elohim. We are in pursuit of His Word, His Will, His Ways. It is essential to our journey. Please allow me to remind you: Seek Him while He can be found… You will not regret or dismiss the richness and fullness of God’s revelation to the human heart – Yehoshua Ha Mashiach.

Amos 5:4 

“For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: “Seek me and live,” ESV.

Deuteronomy 30:19-20 

“I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them,” ESV.