Cast thy burden upon Yahvah, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. Ps 55:22

Yahvah's care is over all His creatures. He loves them all, and makes no difference, except that He has the most tender pity for those who are called to bear life's heaviest burdens. Yahvah's children must meet trials and difficulties. But they should accept their lot with a cheerful spirit, remembering that for all that the world neglects to bestow, Yahvah Himself will make up to them in the best favors.

We are in danger, be worrying, of manufacturing yokes for our necks. Let us not worry, for thus we make the yoke more severe and the burden heavy. Let us not worry, for thus we make the yoke more severe and the burden heavy. Let us do all we can without worry, trusting in Messiah.

With the continual change of circumstances, changes come in our experience, and by these changes we are either elated or depressed. But the change of circumstances have no power to change Yahvah's relation to us. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever; and He asks us to have unquestioning confidence in His love.

Satan watches his opportunity to bring ab out circumstances that will tend to arouse unbelief, hoping to lead us to doubt Yahvah. We cannot afford to cherish one thought of unbelief. When we are tempted to look on the dark side, let us open the windows of the soul heavenward, that the bright beams of the Son of Righteousness may shine in. Let us draw near to Yahvah. He has promised that as we do this He will draw near to us and lift up for a standard against the enemy. The efficiency of His keeping power has in no wise decreased. Let faith stand its trial without wavering, for Messiah is a perfect Saviour.

Take your stand on the word of Messiah. Whatever may occur, hold fast the beginning of your confidence firm to the end.

PRAYER: FATHER, AS WE GO THROUGH TRIALS AND TESTING, HELP US TO TRUST IN YOU, THAT YOU WILL FIX THE PROBLEMS. WE NEED YOU EACH AND EVERY DAY TO BE THERE FOR US AND GUIDE US IN THE EVERY DAY PROBLEMS OF LIFE. THANK YOU FOR BEING THEIR FOR US. THIS WE PRAY IN YAHVAHOSHA MESSIAH. HALLELUYAH! Bro. Doc

When I consider Life, 'tis all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hoped, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. tomorrw's falser than the former day; Dryden, Aureng-Zebe, IV,1 Bro. Doc

Today in history is 4-22-13 and it is earth day. Hope you enjoy the day and are doing things for the earth. Bro. Doc

Motivational Quote of the Day…

Love Quote of the Day…

“The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.”

Ferdinand Foch

They that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, Yahvah hast not forsaken them that seek thee. Ps 9:10

A soul whom Yahvah has forsaken would never feel as you have felt and would never love the truth and salvation as you have loved it. Oh, if Yahvah's Spirit ceases to strive with a soul it is left in an indifferent state, and all the time thinks that it is well enough off...You might not gratify the enemy in the least by doubting and casting away your confidence. Said the angel, "Yahvah leaves not His people, even if they err. He turns not from them in wrath for any light thing. If they sin they have an advocate with the Father, Yahvahosha Messiah the righteous."

This Advocate pleads for sinners and the Father accepts His prayer. He turns not away the request of His beloved Son. He who so love you as to give His own life for you will not turn you off and forsake you unless you willfully, determinedly forsake Him just as you are, hopeless and helpless, you cast yourself upon all His all abundant mercy and believe that He will receive you just as you are.

You dwell upon the dark side. You must turn mind away, and instead of thinking all the time upon the wrath of Yahvah, think of His abundant mercy, His willingness to save poor sinners, and then believe He saves you. You must in the name of Yahvah break this spell that is upon you. You must cry out, "I will, I do believe!" Yahvahosha retains your name upon His beastplate and pleads for you before His Father, and if your eyes could be opened you would see heavenly angels ministering unto you, hovering about and driving back the evil angels that they should not utterly destroy.

Yahvah called upon you to believe. Heed His voice. Cease talking of the wrath of Yahvah and talk of His compassion and His abundant mercy. Yahvah sits as a refiner and purifier of silver. The furnace in which you may be placed may be very hot, yet you will come forth as god seven times purified, reflecting the image of Yahvahosha. Have courage. Look up, believe, and you shall see of the salvation of Yahvah."

PRAYER: FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR ABUNDANT MERCY THAT YOU BESTOW UP US THAT DO NOT DESERVE IT. WE ARE GLAD THAT WE CAN CALL ON YOU AND YOU WILL HEAR AND ANSWER OUR PRAYERS AND YOU WILL BE THERE FOR US. THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO FOR US. BE WITH US ALWAYS. HALLELUYAH! Bro. Doc

I took on draught of life, I'll tell you what I paid, Precisely an existence--The market-price, they said. Emily Dickinson, Further Poems. Bro. Doc

During this week there has been an article up in two parts of Calvin.

He believed in some are Elected to Eternal Life, and some are predestined to be damned forever. Is this what the Scripture believes.

We will be looking at what Jacobus Arminius taught from the Scriptures on the subject of "Do We Have Free Will?"

I will be doing this subject in 8 parts.

Here is the list of things that will be covered.

1.Depravity.

2.Atonement

3.Messiah's Death

4.Grace is Resistible

5.Man has FREE-WILL to Respond or Resist

6.Election is Conditional

7.Yahvah Predestines the Elect to a Glorious Future

8.Eternal, Security is also Conditional

When we come to the end of this subject you will see where this doctrine is right vs something that is not Scripture the Doctrine of John Calvin.

ARMINIANISM DOCTRINE

Jacobus Arminius, was taught by Calvin’s son, but did not agree with lots of what he was taught. He did not believe that some of what he was taught lined up with Scripture. So he set out too prove that most of what he was taught from the Calvin camp did not go along with the Scripture.

We will talk about the Doctrine called Arminianism.

I.DEPRAVITY

Depravity is total: Arminius states "In this [fallen] state, the free will of man towards the true good is not only wounded, infirm, bent, and weakened; but it is also imprisoned, destroyed, and lost. And its powers are not only debilitated and useless unless they be assisted by grace, but it has no powers whatever except such as are excited by Divine grace."

Let us see what is meant by DEPRAVITY IS TOTAL:

Summary of the Doctrine

The doctrine of total inability teaches that people are by nature not inclined to love Yahvah with their whole heart, mind, or strength, as he requires, but rather all are inclined to serve their own interest over those of their neighbor and to reject the rule of Yahvah. Even religion and philanthropy are destructive to the extent that these originate from a human imagination, passions, and will.

Total depravity does not mean, however, that people are as bad as possible. Rather, it means that even the good which a person may intend is faulty in its premise, false in its motive, and weak in its implementation; and there is no mere refinement of natural capacities that can correct this condition. Although total depravity is easily confused with philosophical cynicism, the doctrine teaches optimism concerning Yahvah's love for what he has made and Yahvah's ability to accomplish the ultimate good that he intends for his creation. In particular, in the process of salvation, it is argued that Yahvah overcomes man's inability with his divine grace and enables men and women to choose to follow him, though the precise means of this overcoming varies between the theological systems.

Scriptural Support for the Doctrine

A number of passages are put forth to support the doctrine, including (quotations are from the KJV)

Ge 6:5 , And the Eternal saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Jer 13:23, Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.

Jn 6:44, No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

Ro 3:10-11, As it is written, There is none righteous no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after Yahvah

Ro 8:7-9, Because the carnal mind is enmity against the Eternal: for it is not subject to the law of the Eternal, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please Yahvah. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of the Eternal dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Son of Messiah, he Is none of his.

Eph 2:3, Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

1 Co 2:14, But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of Yahvah; for they are foolishness unto him: because they are spiritually discerned.

We will now look at the words that are underlined in the Summary of the Doctrine.

SERVE THEIR OWN INTERESTS Selfishness regarded as good, or a healthy thing

There are some non-religious philosophies that hold a positive view of selfishness, usually on the basis that it isn't what the common usage refers to, and that the identification of 'promotion of the self' with 'evil' is an unhealthy practice that actually devalues some good qualities such as productivity or the taking of personal responsibility. After all, one needs to act in a mainly self-interested way, using one's time, energy and resources for one's own benefit to some degree, focussing on the advancement of the self, in order to get anywhere useful in life, so why should doing that be regarded as wrong, or labelled as harmful or inappropriate?

Similarly, an individual might ask himself why he ought to choose to act unselfishly anyway if he has no guarantee in advance that others in the world will not act selfishly. One will tend to act selfishly for one's own self-protection, in a world where one mainly encounters others doing the same.

The best known example is probably the Objectivist philosophy of Ayn Rand, which focuses on what it calls"rational selfishness or "rational self-interest." The philosophy holds that individuals should not act on momentary self-interested whims but on what is in their long-term self-interest, which is defined to require respecting the individual liberty of others by refraining from initiating coercion against them.

Group selfishness (as compared to individual selfishness)

Naturally, selfishness usually refers to the self - that is, to the individual. However, in common speech, a group of people can be accused of "selfishness" too, in the sense that members of that group are not concerned with the welfare of anyone outside their group but are only inward-looking: concentrating on the needs of the group.

General

In philosophy, the term egoism is usually related to "self-interest" rather than "selfishness." Professional writers are often careful to make a clear distinction between the words egoism and egotism, with the second referencing the character trait virtually everyone agrees is negative, and the first referring to the controversial, philosophical ideologies affiliated with the individual.

Based on the theory of the iterated prisoner’s dilemma, evolutionary biologists and game-theorists come to the conclusion that selfishness is - besides cooperation among relatives and genetically programmed behaviour - the basis for cooperation among individuals of the same or different species.

SALVATION

Religious View of Salvation

Religious people regards salvation as deliverance from the bondage of sin and from condemnation, resulting in eternal life with Yahvah.

Salvation is arguably the most important Religious spiritual concept. Among many Brethren, the primary goal of religion is to attain salvation. Others maintain that the primary goal of the Saved is to do the will of Yahvah, or that the two are equivalent. In many traditions, attaining salvation is synonymous with going to heaven one day, while most also emphasize that salvation represents a changed life while on Earth as well. Many elements of Religious theology explain why salvation is needed and how to attain it.

The idea of salvation rests upon there being some sort of unsaved sinful state from which the individual (or mankind) is to be redeemed by a Saviour. This Saviour is Yahvahosha Messiah.

The Saved receive even in this life, as it were in incipient or seed form, a pledge and a hope of what is to come, the blessings of salvation that are to be given fully and definitively in the afterlife. Thus the Assembly sees salvation, even for the individual, as something for which we can use both past, present and future tenses:

·        Our salvation has already been achieved in principle and in hope, since Messiah died for all on the Stake and since we accepted Messiah by faith and baptism: "When the kindness of Yahvah our Saviour, and his love towards man, appeared, not by works done in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost, which he poured out upon us richly, through Yahvahosha Messiah our Saviour; that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life" (Titus 3:4-7).

·        The process of salvation continues in Yahvah's work in those who accept the Gospel. Apostle Paul uses the present tense in this regard: "To us who are being saved, (the word of the Stake) is the power of Yahvah" (1 Corinthians 1:18). The text in Greek has present-tense σῳζομένοις (being saved) in this passage, not perfect-tense σεσῳσμένοις (having been saved) or past-tense (aorist-tense) σῳθεῖσιν (saved); ambiguous translations such as "us which are saved" (KJV) cover up this fact.

·        Only on completion of our earthly life will Yahvah's saving work in us reach its final stage. There is no magic formula or emotional experience that will definitively prevent us, as creatures whom Yahvah has endowed with free will, from ever rejecting Yahvah’s offer of salvation. Even the great Apostle Paul envisaged this eventuality for himself, considering it possible that he himself, after having preached to others, might be rejected (1 Corinthians 9:27). But there is hope: "Since, therefore, we are now justified by (Messiah's) blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of Yahvah" (Romans 5:9).

A key Protestant doctrine is that salvation is not something that a person can attain on their own, but rather that it is completely the gift of Yahvah, which people receive and accept.

Some key passages in the Restored Covenant concerning salvation include:

·        Belief in Yahvahosha: "For Yahvah so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish but have everlasting life."

·        Yahvah's love: "But Yahvah commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Messiah died for us." ([Romans 5:8]) "Messiah, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Messiah (by grace have ye been saved)." (([Ephesians 2:4-5]) "When the kindness of Yahvah our Saviour, and his love toward man, appeared ..." ([Titus 3:4])

·        Sin separates mankind from Yahvah. "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of Yahvah"([Romans 3:23]) "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned." ([Romans 5:12])

·        Yahvah gives eternal life because Yahvahosha Messiah atoned for our sin: "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of Yahvah is eternal life through Yahvahosha Messiah our Saviour." ([Romans 6:23])

·        Saved (from sin) by our own forgiveness of others: "For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." ([Matthew 6:14-15])

·        Confession and believing: "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Yahvahosha Messiah, and shalt believe in thine heart that Yahvah hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." — "For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." ([Romans 10:9-10]) "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." ([Romans 10:13])

·        Saved at Baptism: "Which sometime were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward Yahvah,) by the resurrection of Yahvahosha Messiah: 1 Peter 3:20-21; "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Yahvahosha Messiah were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Messiah was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:" ([Romans 6:3-5])

·        Saved by Yahvah's unmerited favor: "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of Yahvah: not of works, lest any man should boast." ([Ephesians 2:8-9])

·        Saved by Works: "Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only." ([James 2:24]) This passage is disputed as the meaning of the word justified. Protestants argue here the word justified is not used as "To make righteous" but to be "shown already righteous".

·        Judged by Works: "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before Yahvah; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works." ([Revelations 20:12-13]). All Protestants do not agree with this type of interpretation of this verse. Some believe there will be the judgment all unsaved people go through called the "white throne judgment" (Revelation 20:10-15), but for all those who are saved they will appear before the “judgment seat of Messiah” (2 Corinthians 5:9-10). In that judgment, believers will get rewards based on what they have done, whether they are good or bad. They do not believe eternal life is a reward that is going to be given out in consequence of works done. Others understand it in the same way as the "Saved by Works" verses, in the sense that those who will not have done good proved they were not saved, because their works did not correspond to their 'saved' status.

DIVINE GRACE

Ideas of grace in the Hebrew Bible

While a single word rendered into English as grace is not strictly speaking present in the Hebrew Bible, a number of concepts used to describe Yahvah in Biblical-era Judaism are forerunners to the Religious concept of grace.

One such concept is named by the Hebrew word chesed, which in one of William Tyndale translated as loving-kindness, a word of his own coinage. The core concept here centers on the faithfulness and forbearance needed to make the covenant relationship continue, despite the several incidents of backsliding by the covenant people to which the Hebrew Bible bears witness.

Other Hebrew concepts used to describe the grace of Yahvah include a group of words whose basic element is hanam, which means the spontaneous gift of affection; and raham, which implies mercy and compassion, including the merciful restoration of a broken relationship. All of these concepts are used especially by the Hebrew prophets to describe Yahvah's choice of Israel as his chosen people, and His refusal to abandon them despite their violations of the covenant.

Restored Covenant ideas of grace

The Restored Covenant word that is usually translated "grace" is in Greek charis (χαρις), which literally means "gift". The word was not often used by Jesus himself; in the canonical Gospels it is attributed to him only in the Gospel of Luke and the Gospel of John. However, the parables attributed to Jesus in the Gospels make clear that Jesus did in fact teach the concept of grace. More importantly, He told stories that underlined that grace was Yahvah's to give, Yahvah's sole prerogative, and that it was freely offered.

 The well known parable of the Prodigal Son, is traditionally understood by most Religious people as containing the teachings of Yahvahosha on grace. A son demands the family fortune and wastes it, then returns home expecting little in the way of good treatment. The father welcomes him handsomely, over the objections of his other son who stayed at home and served dutifully.

Many throughout Religious history have perceived a common thread in these parables of Yahvahosha: the grace of Yahvah is something that upsets settled human notions about merit, about what is deserved, and what is due as recompense.

„The whole point in bein' a hero is to do somethin' greater than yerself. It'd be easy to do it for the glory or the girls. We're bigger men than that.” Alexander Woo