What Would
Yahushua Do? These four little
words make up the most profound question we should ask ourselves daily.
When
we encounter questions or decisions of various kinds, we should ask
ourselves, "What would Yahushua do?"
Every day we
must decide between Truth and error. We must
decide if
something is good Doctrine, or bad. In our daily walk and
practices, indeed in every question we encounter, we should be asking
ourselves the question, "What would Yahushua do?"
Notice
what we are told in Scripture:
He
that saith he
abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he
walked. (1
John 2:6) If we are to become
perfected in love, as
the Scripture tells us, we must walk as HE walked, in every
way. If we are to walk even as He walked, we must
ask ourselves this question, in every matter, "What would Yahushua
do?"
If we are to walk as He walked,
then we should desire to practice the same things HE did, speak the
same words, and literally BE the same, in all areas of our
life. Why is this true? The following passages
reveal the answer:
"...To
whom God would make known
what is the riches of the glory of this mystery
among the Gentiles;
which is Christ in you, the hope of
glory..." (Colossians
1:27)
"But if the Spirit of him
that raised up Jesus
from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead
shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that
dwelleth in
you." (Romans 8:11)
"Examine
yourselves,
whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own
selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye
be
reprobates?" (2 Corinthians 13:5)
"My
little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ
be
formed in you..." (Galatians 4:19)
"Being
filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus
Christ,
unto the glory and praise of God." (Philippians 1:11)
"Let
this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus..."
(Philippians
2:5)
"Ye are of God, little
children, and have
overcome them: because greater is he that is in you,
than he that is in
the world." (1 John 4:4) The
above passages reveal that Messiah actually is living within every
Born-Again Believer, and He desires to express the fullness of His Life
in us, as a Testimony. Even
the apostle Paul spoke in a similar way, exhorting us to imitate him
and the other disciples, in our manner of life:"Brethren,
be followers together of me, and mark them which
walk so as ye have us
for an ensample." (Philippians 3:17)
"For
I delight in the law of God after the inward
man..." (Romans
7:22) Paul's whole focus in his
ministry was to
reveal the many facets of "Messiah-in-you," with its goal of perfecting
of love. There is, however, a disease that will spoil the fruit that
Messiah-in-you desires to produce. That is the disease of
being "carnal." Notice what Paul said about avoiding this carnality
disease:
"Because the
carnal mind is enmity
against God: for it is not subject to the law of God,
neither indeed
can be." (Romans 8:7) Paul
reveals that
the only way we can allow the fullness of Messiah-in-us to live His
life, and to produce fruit in our lives, is for us to allow Him to
write the law (Torah) on our heart, and then for us to walk in it, by His enabling Grace from within, just
as He did.
Most think Yahushua was a nice Gentile
boy, who went to Sunday-School faithfully every week, and that He
practiced pagan Feasts and Festivals, and that He avoided keeping
Sabbath and Passover and the other Feasts of Yahuweh.
No? Then why do we, while claiming Yahushua lives-in-us, do
these things?
If we are to mature in
love, we must stop preventing Messiah-in-us from walking in us, the
same way He walked 2,000 years ago, while He was in His own
body. We must change OUR thinking to HIS
thinking. We must
avoid being carnal. We must become like Paul and the other
disciples, and yes, even like Messiah Himself.
For
those who
hope to overcome, and to know Him, we must ask the question, concerning
all things – "What Would Yahushua Do?"
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