Loving YHWH Thy God...

5/23/2016

Loving YHWH Thy God...

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And thou shalt love YHWH thy God
with all thine heart

Love YHWH and Keep His commandments, this is the injunction to man as to a created being by His Creator.
Now the unrighteous cannot love nor keep His commandments because of his mind. His mind is his problem. We are told that the carnal mind (that the sinner has) is enmity against God and is not in obedience to His law.
“For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be." Romans 8:6, 7
According to The complete Word Study Dictionary by Spiros Zodhiates pg. 692, enmity denotes, “enemy, hatred, hostility.” This therefore means that the unconverted, the man with the carnal mind hates God, he does not love him and according to Paul he is not subjected to the law of God neither indeed can be. This is totally opposite to what God requires of us that is to Love YHWH and keep His commandments. For us to fulfill this requirement, YHWH must direct our hearts to love Him. 2 Thessalonians 3:5. In his mercy He circumcises the heart to love Him.
“And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.” Deuteronomy 30:6.
This is so wonderful, that YHWH can cause us to love him by His very act. The carnal mind will be removed from out of our flesh and instead of hostility and hatred manifested towards God we are made to love him.
The prophet Ezekiel tells us more about this work that gives us a change of mind in Ezekiel chapter thirty-six verses twenty-five and twenty-six.
“Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh." (emphasis supplied)

When God does the work of justifying man, by the removal of the stony heart, he is causing man to ceases from sin; the man is freed from all his filthiness and all his idols. He no longer has deeds that are filthy, why is this so? God does not leave the man empty; YHWH puts His Spirit within him and causes the man with the new heart to obey Him. “And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.” Ezekiel 36:27
This is the only way a man can love God, he must be granted the gift of the Holy Spirit, he must be given the spiritual mind.
Paul, in his epistle to the Corinthians church in first Corinthians chapter sixteen and verse twenty-two places a curse on all those who do not love the Lord Jesus Christ. This is very significant for we see that one cannot love God except he has a change of heart or that he is saved. Jesus or YHWH-Savior is the love of God to us, the rejection of the love of God is the rejection of God himself, the rejection of the plan of salvation.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16

To love Jesus Christ, is to love the salvation that was provided by God himself, this salvation enables us to Love God and keep His commandments, this experience testifies that YHWH alone God, that YHWH our God is ONE YHWH. Jesus explains this to be the first commandment , “And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all? And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord.” Mark 12: 28-29. Christ further went on to explain, how you show this in your daily living. "And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.” Mark 12: 30, 31.
This is the only way we will not perish; the acceptance of the plan of salvation is accepting the one true God in place of the idols that are found in the stony heart. My encouragement to you dear reader is to repent of the carnal mind which hates God and rejects his commandment. Ask God to save you through the circumcision of your heart and please keep yourselves in the love of God which is the plan of Salvation, the truths of Christ, that you may exalt God to be God alone, amen.

Sis. Karima Paris

6 Comments

Alyssa Jugmohunsingh

5/23/2016 02:57:03 pm

Amen Sis Karima.Thank you very much for sharing these beautiful truths with us. I most certainly was blessed by it. Indeed there must be a circumcision of the foreskin of the heart so that we can love God. We can't have God who is love in nature and not be sinfree because when we are sinfree we will not have idols and thus the God aloneness of God as our ideal will be our experience. Even in sanctification which is the maintenance of Holiness (Leviticus 11:44) which comes from first being made Holy by justification, we must maintain God onliness as our experience. The very word Holy means God only (Isaiah 57:17, 1Samuel2:2) so in sanctification the love we have for God is maintained by keep having an experience that views God and God alone. May God continue to use you in a special way to continue to shine for YHWH and draw more men to Christ. God bless you Sis. Keep in the love of Christ! :)

Sis Karima

5/25/2016 08:48:50 am

Amen and amen to every point you made sis Alyssa. The importance of having God abiding in us can never be over emphasized in our minds. Yhwh God is the source, without Him we can do nothing, this is the true testimony of Christ. May we see the need for God more and more each day, having a resolve to keep him as God alone in our lives.

Anesia Baptiste

5/23/2016 11:54:15 pm

I thoroughly enjoyed this bible study today. Indeed it is love to Christ, love for the truth that will save us from great deception in these last days, even under the test of a Sunday law. 2 Thessalonians 2:8-12 "And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
[9] Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
[10] And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
[11] And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
[12] That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." And Revelation 13: 13-14 " And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live."

5/25/2016 08:54:14 am

So true sis Anesia, only love for truth and love for Christ will save us. May God give us hungering and thirsting after righteousness, that we may be filled and saved thereby.

Ann-Marie

5/26/2016 09:10:47 pm

Amen sis. Karima. Wonderful, heavenly truths propagated by you- one of YHWH' witnesses. God bless you.

Br. Maydon

5/27/2016 05:37:53 am

Amen and amen, very wonderful blog and comments. YHWH Himself said in Jeremiah 29:13
"And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart." Amen.

THUSIA SDA EVANGEL
""THAT MEN MAY KNOW THAT THOU, WHOSE NAME ALONE IS YAHWEH, ART THE MOST HIGH OVER ALL THE EARTH" PSALM 83:18