Not in but out…

It’s interesting the influence New Age has had on modern society. Why, look at how vegetarianism has spread! I have to say, nothing in Scripture supports vegetarianism as it is today. Vegetarianism belongs to a Hindu/Buddhist/New Age worldview and not to a Biblical worldview.

Look at Hitler. He was a vegetarian, but of course vegetarians try to deny that. I think he probably was, and, in fact, was very, very kind and humane to animals. The Nazi Government was exemplary in its treatment of animals.

Compare Hitler with Yeshua/Jesus. Jesus ate fish, cooked fish too. Jesus ate the Passover lamb, and also drank wine.

Vegetarianism advocates being “pure” and “clean” in diet. Meat = immoral, cruel, killing animals.

Because of the fall, our bodies simply need meat. God gave us meat to eat. And He commanded the children of Israel to eat the Pesach lamb, among the many bloody and gory sacrifices to be performed.

Lets look at the Nazi example again. Look at how they treated humans by dehumanizing them. They were atrocious. Then let’s take a look at modern society. Wow… look how cool and popular being vegan is. Look at how abortion is so widespread. People don’t even flinch at it. In fact, they rally and fight and scream their approval of it, and react violently when it is revealed for what it is, murder. They refuse to see the truth. Look at how fetuses are used in making medicines! Atrocious!

The Nazis made babies into lampshades. Modern society makes aborted babies into medicine… Modern society fights and crusades for animal rights, yet treat unborn babies as trash. Somewhere, somehow, our priorities have all gone wrong, totally wrong.  

Romans 14 says that the weak eat only vegetables.                  

The nutrient –rich, dairy-rich, meat-rich, whole-grain rich, beautiful diet of Ancient Israelites was fantastic, and I believe, the way to go. Natural, raw milk is soooo good. When God created the heavens and the earth, He said it was good. I don’t dare say otherwise… I don’t think it’s right to replace God-given vitamins with man-made tablets.

Concerning healing, I believe in the costliness of Yeshua’s healing power. It cost Him to heal us. It cost Him pain. What cost God cannot be cheap for me. I cannot take healing like “cheap grace”. “ I believe I must sow not to the flesh, to live irresponsibly, but by the Spirit, to live by the wisdom of God, with the whole big perspective of eternity. No matter what I do and what I eat, I cannot heal myself. No matter what I do and what I try, I cannot deliver myself from sin. Yeshua alone is my salvation, wisdom, righteousness, healing. But He calls us to the set-apart life of discipleship. My body is the Temple of the Holy Spirit. I should eat wisely, and responsibly.

Men like to believe that sickness is just a thing. Yet Scripture teaches us that bitterness, unforgiveness, disobedience, and sin cause sicknesses. Look at how stress causes sickness! Yeshua told us not to worry about our life. But of people would get angry at if you  even suggest that. The devil wants to deceive people and hold in them in bondage to sin *shrug*. What’s new?

The devil’s system, the world’s system, destroys our bodies, because the Adversary hates us. He hates us and wants only to steal, kill, and destroy. He feeds our temporary pleasures but is so cynical. Like Hitler was so cynical. He seemed to be pro-Germany, pro-church, a good man who wanted to better the nation after its Versailles humiliation. The temporal victory of Germany was nothing. He came to steal, kill, and destroy Germany. He reduced it to ruins and poverty and destruction. That’s the same way the devil works, seemingly for us, but deeply cynical and evil, nothing good at all, having only evil and destruction intended for us. Do not be deceived!

The Adversary’s system is described Mark 5. The painfully ill woman was abused by physicians. They extorted her money, and left her just as sick as before. That’s man’s way. The world’s way takes your money, your joy, your life, your hope, etc. The thief comes to steal, to kill, and to destroy. The medical system with its roots in demonic serpent-worship and exaltation of mammon cannot heal us. It will take our money, make us suffer, and leave us worse than before.

Yeshua is our merciful salvation, our healer, our deliverance. He alone can set us free from all curses.

Back to vegetarianism. It’s not of God. Hitler was a vegetarian, Jesus was not. However, remember most importantly that what a person eats is not the most important thing. Jesus said that what comes out of a man what defiles him. So, after, judging a man by his diet is not the fairest comparison. Look at the words, what came out of Hitler’s mouth! The hate, the evil, the blasphemy, the lies, the propaganda, the pure demonic stream of rubbish!

Look what Jesus is: life, truth, freedom. He came to set us free. He came to deliver us. Instead for being a man for himself, He was a man for others. Hitler only cared about his own idealogy, his own plans, and used the German people to that end. He was a totally self-orientated, self-autonomous man, who took his own . Jesus laid down His life. The cross was a supreme act of love and mercy.

Hitler was a prototype of the AntiChrist/Anti-Messiah/Pseudo-Messiah. Men in the flesh looked to him to solve their problems.

Look only to Yeshua, who said,

Blessed are the peacemakers, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.   

Shalom!

An Answer to the Comment by Mr. Gormley

No, I don't believe salvation is a very simple thing at all. It's so vast. God is so vast and unsearchable and past finding. So wise. We can spend our whole lifetime searching out His knowledge and greatness, isn't it! No man can claim perfect theology, because that is to claim we know God perfectly, which is to claim we are as clever as God, and put ourselves in the place of God, which was Satan's sin. No, I don't know everything. But God is teaching me,  through His word, and I must listen and live it out.

Yes, I agree that salvation is often underrated and not understood! People think salvation is so easy, that just by saying the sinners prayer we can be saved. Far from it! Those who are think we can be saved by just saying a sinner's prayer are so wrong. Salvation is deep and it is a mystery, which now is being revealed to us by God's Word to His saints. God's grace is costly.

I quote from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, "Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our Church. We are fighting today for costly grace. Cheap grace means grace sold on the market like cheapjacks’ wares. The sacraments, the forgiveness of sin, and the consolations of religion are thrown away at cut prices. Grace is represented as the Church’s inexhaustible treasury, from which she showers blessings with generous hands, without asking questions or fixing limits. Grace without price; grace without cost! The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing....[45]


Cheap grace means grace as a doctrine, a principle, a system. It means forgiveness of sins proclaimed as a general truth, the love of God taught as the Christian 'conception' of God. An intellectual assent to that idea is held to be of itself sufficient to secure remission of sins.... In such a Church the world finds a cheap covering for its sins; no contrition is required, still less any real desire to be delivered from sin. Cheap grace therefore amounts to a denial of the living Word of God, in fact, a denial of the Incarnation of the Word of God.[45-46]


Cheap grace means the justification of sin without the justification of the sinner. Grace alone does everything they say, and so everything can remain as it was before. 'All for sin could not atone.' Well, then, let the Christian live like the rest of the world, let him model himself on the world’s standards in every sphere of life, and not presumptuously aspire to live a different life under grace from his old life under sin....


Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession.... Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.[47]


Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man’ will gladly go and self all that he has. It is the pearl of great price to buy which the merchant will sell all his goods. It is the kingly rule of Christ, for whose sake a man will pluck out the eye which causes him to stumble, it is the call of Jesus Christ at which the disciple leaves his nets and follows him.


Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock. Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ. It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life. It is costly because it condemns sin, and grace because it justifies the sinner. Above all, it is costly because it cost God the life of his Son: “ye were bought at a price,” and what has cost God much cannot be cheap for us. Above all, it is grace because God did not reckon his Son too dear a price to pay for our life, but delivered him up for us. Costly grace is the Incarnation of God.


Costly grace is the sanctuary of God; it has to be protected from the world, and not thrown to the dogs. It is therefore the living word, the Word of God, which he speaks as it pleases him. Costly grace confronts us as a gracious call to follow Jesus. It comes as a word of forgiveness to the broken spirit and the contrite heart. Grace is costly because it compels a man to submit to the yoke of Christ and follow him; it is grace because Jesus says: “My yoke is easy and my burden is light.”


On two separate occasions Peter received the call, “Follow me.” It was the first and last word Jesus spoke to his disciple (Mark 1.17; John 21.22). A whole life lies between these two calls. The first occasion was by the lake of Gennesareth, when Peter left his nets and his craft and followed Jesus at his word. The second occasion is when the Risen Lord finds him back again at his old trade. Once again it is by the lake of Gennesareth, and once again the call is: “Follow me.” Between the two calls lay a whole life of discipleship in the following of Christ. Half-way between them comes Peter's confession, when he acknowledged Jesus as the Christ of God....[48]


This grace was certainly not self-bestowed. It was the grace of Christ himself, now prevailing upon the disciple to leave all and follow him, now working in him that confession which to the world must sound like the ultimate blasphemy, now inviting Peter to the supreme fellowship of martyrdom for the Lord he had denied, and thereby forgiving him all his sins. In the life of Peter grace and discipleship are inseparable. He had received the grace which costs.[49]


As Christianity spread, and the Church became more secularized, this realization of the costliness of grace gradually faded. The world was Christianized, and grace became its common property. It was to be had at low cost.[49]"

Sacraments cannot save us, man cannot save us, rituals cannot save us. It is God alone who will save us, and he is saving us every day. He is working in His saints, perfect and cleansing them, sanctifying and redeeming them, as they learn to "die daily". We are saved not by what we do, but by what Christ did. Sacraments are "good" in themselves, practiced, like the law but without true spiritual life and depth in us we are dead, we have no life of Christ in us.

The church is not an institute, it is the body of Christ, the body of believers, and Christ is the very head and center.

Discipleship is no convenient thing. It is hard, it is costly, it costs us our lives which must end at the place of the cross. Only Yahshua HaMashiach can save us. Only God can save us. We cannot save ourselves. God tries and tests the hearts, He sees beyond the outward appearance. He jugdges the motives and intentions of the heart.  The eternal, abundant, life from God begins now, not just in eternity. It begins at the place of the cross.

Yahshua alone is the way. There is no other way.

Yahshua alone is the truth. THere is no other truth but what is found IN Him. He is truth, and there is no lie in Him.

Yahshua is life, and in Him we find life, because we can die with Him and live again, ressurected, in that wonderful eternal life of God.

It begins with Faith, faith grows. Faith is not easy. Faith requires of us. God will give us that faith. If we are faithful in little, He will make us faithful in much. We can only reap what we sow into our lives, so what we sow must be the gold, silver, and precious stones, which go into the fire and come out unscathed, the wood, hay, and straw will perish. If we sow godliness and truth, that is what we reap. If we sow ungodliness and lies, that is what we reap, in the vengeance of eternal fire.