Do Not Think That I Have Come To Bring Peace.....

**Please NOTE:  I am not a big fan of pulling numbered sound bites from scripture and relying on them apart from the entire context of scripture.  I do so only as a platform to get us thinking about a topic.  I encourage you, please read your scriptures!! Always asking the Father for WISDOM!!***

Mat 10:34 "Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword,

^{Mat 10:35 for I have come to bring division, a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law –}

^{Mat 10:36 and a man’s enemies are those of his own household.}

^{Mat 10:37 "He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me, and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.}

^{Mat 10:38 "And he who does not take up his stake and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.}

^{Mat 10:39 "He who has found his life shall lose it, and he that has lost his life for My sake shall find it.}

^{Mat 10:40 "He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.}

^{Mat 10:41 "He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward. And he who receives a righteous one in the name of a righteous one shall receive a righteous one’s reward.}

^{Mat 10:42 "And whoever gives one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a taught one, truly, I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward."}

^{This section of scripture gives me comfort when I am tempted to anger because of those who have mocked me for choosing to follow the Messiah Yahshua.  I have long been struggling with the popular concept of peace and unity (which the "CHURCH" brainwashed me with for so many years....ahem...father please forgive me for harbouring resentment)  amongst those who would call themselves brothers in Messiah, yet choose to live outside of the Torah (the first five books of the scriptures where the instruction or "law" is given.  Yahshua the Messiah tells us:}

 ^{Mat 5:17 "Do not think that I came to destroy the Torah or the Prophets.1 I did not come to destroy but to complete. Footnote: 1The Law and the Prophets is a term used for the pre-Messianic Scriptures.}

^{Mat 5:18 "For truly, I say to you, till the heaven and the earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall by no means pass from the Torah till all be done.1 Footnote: 1Lk. 16:17.}

^{Mat 5:19 "Whoever, then, breaks one of the least of these commands, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the reign of the heavens; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the reign of the heavens.}

^{The popular argument that is given is that it is not for us to judge.  Turns out, that may not be so! It is a loving act to guide a brother back to the narrow path which leads to everlasting life!!} 

^{2Th 3:14 And if anyone does not obey our word in this letter, note that one, and do not keep company with him, so that he is put to shame.}

^{2Th 3:15 However, do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.}

^{Do not keep company with him.  Do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.  If there is division between those who choose to follow the scriptures, and the scriptures only - keeping the commandments- and those who live in the "CHURCH" with a "do as thou wilt for all has been redeemed" attitude, it is because the Messiah has said it must be so!!  See Romans16:17}

^{1Co 5:1 It is commonly reported that there is whoring among you, and such whoring as is not even named among the gentiles, so as one to have his father’s wife!}

^{1Co 5:2 And you have been puffed up, and did not rather mourn, so that he who has done this deed, be removed from among you!}

^{1Co 5:3 For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged the one who did this, as though I were present.}

^{1Co 5:4 In the Name of our Master יהושע Messiah, when you are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Master יהושע Messiah,}

^{1Co 5:5 deliver such a one to Satan for destruction of the flesh, in order that his spirit be saved in the day of the Master יהושע.}

^{1Co 5:6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the entire lump?}

^{1Co 5:7 Therefore cleanse out the old leaven, so that you are a new lump, as you are unleavened. For also Messiah our Passover was offered for us.}

^{1Co 5:8 So then let us observe the festival, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.}

^{1Co 5:9 I wrote to you in my letter not to keep company with those who whore.}

^{1Co 5:10 And I certainly did not mean with those of this world who whore, or with the greedy of gain, or swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.}

^{1Co 5:11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone called ‘a brother,’ if he is one who whores, or greedy of gain, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler – not even to eat with such a one.}

^{1Co 5:12 For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Do you not judge those who are inside?}

^{1Co 5:13 But Elohim judges those who are outside. And put away the wicked one from among you!}

^{Anyone who calls himself a "brother" yet keeps not the Torah (including the festivals *Note vs 7 + 8)  is to be judged and put away from amongst us.}

    ^{Now I can testify to the freedom which following these words has brought me.  I have had very dear ones in my life....friends, family, who I have cut myself off from because of their urgent and ardent need to mock and persecute me (Him who lives in me!) and my family because of our choice to leave the "CHURCH" (meaning our choice not to fall prey to the corporate organization's philosophy and empty deceit according to the traditions of men, and not according to Messiah).} 

     ^{The testimony in me is that while I mourn the loss, I do NOT miss them!  I have shaken the dust from my sandals and taken my peace with me (Matt10:14-15).  And I will journey forth as a member of the body of Messiah, sharing the good news, and fellowshipping with those who also FEAR and LOVE the Father.}

^{And so I go, still trying to hit the bulls-eye!}