New Covenant Obedience
Through YAHSHUA, Belief And Trust

YAHWEH undertakes to ensure our obedience!

The New Covenant came, not to provide a substitute for obedience in belief and trust, but through belief and trust to secure the obedience, by giving a heart that delights in obedience and has the power for it.

"And now if you will truly listen to MY voice and keep MY Covenant, you will become to ME a special treasure above all the nations." Shemoth (Exodus)19:5

 "And YAHWEH your mighty One will circumcise your heart and the hearts of your offspring, to love YAHWEH your Mighty One with all your heart and inner being, so that you will live; And you will return and obey the voice of YAHWEH and do all this One’s Commandments.” Devarim (Deuteronomy) 30:6,8.

 "And I will put MY Spirit within you and cause you to walk in MY Law and you will keep MY judgments." Yehezqel (Ezekiel) 36:27.

In making the New Covenant, YAHWEH said very definitely: "Not after the Covenant I made with your fathers." We have learned what the fault was with the Old Covenant, it made YAHWEH'S favor dependent upon obedience of the people: "If you obey, I will be your Mighty One." We have also learned how the New Covenant remedied this defect; Yahweh would provide for our obedience. It changes: "If you keep MY judgments," into "I will put MY Spirit within you and you will keep.” Instead of the Covenant and its fulfillment depending on man's obedience, YAHWEH undertakes to ensure our obedience! The Old Covenant proved the need and pointed out the path of separateness from evil; The New inspires the love and gives power to separate us from all evil.

Belief And Trust Secures Obedience, By Giving A Heart That Delights In Obedience 

In connection "with this change, a serious and most dangerous mistake is often made. In the New Covenant obedience no longer occupies the place it had in the Old Covenant, as the condition of the Covenant, and unmerited favor has taken its place, justifying the unrighteous and giving gifts to the rebellious. Many believers are under the impression that obedience is now no longer as indispensable as it was then. This Error is a terrible one! The whole Old Covenant was meant to teach the lesson of the absolute and indispensable necessity of obedience for a life in YAHWEH'S favor. The New Covenant came, not to provide a substitute for that obedience in belief and trust, but through belief and trust to secure the obedience, by giving a heart that delights in obedience and has the power for it. People abuse the free gift of unmerited favor, when they rest content with unmerited favor, without the obedience it is meant for. They brag of the higher privileges of the New Covenant, while its main blessing, the power of a life SetApart from all evil, and a heart delighting in YAHWEH'S Law, and a life in which YAHWEH causes and enables us by YAHWEH'S indwelling Spirit to keep YAHWEH'S Commandments, is neglected. If there is one thing we need to know well, it is the place obedience takes in the New Covenant.

Let our first thought be, Obedience is Essential! At the very root of the relationship of a created being to his Mighty One and of YAHWEH'S admitting him into YAHWEH'S fellowship, lies the understanding of obedience. It is the only thing YAHWEH spoke of in Gan-Eden when:" YAHWEH commanded the man; not to eat of the forbidden fruit." In YAHSHUA'S great deliverance it is the power that redeemed us: "By the obedience of One, many will be made righteous." (righteous = a right relationship with YAHWEH) RomiYah-(Romans) 5:18-21. In the promises of the New Covenant it takes first place. YAHWEH engages to circumcise the heart of YAHWEH'S called out, in the putting off of the body of flesh, in the circumcision of the MESSIYAH--to love YAHWEH with all your heart and to obey YAHWEH'S Commandments. The crowning gift of YAHSHUA'S being lifted up to a higher place, was the Set-Apart Spirit, to bring deliverance to us as an inward thing. The first Covenant demanded obedience and failed, because it could not find it! The New Covenant was expressly made to provide for obedience. To a life in the full experience of the New Covenant blessings, OBEDIENCE IS ESSENTIAL!

It is this necessity of obedience that explains why so often the entrance into the full enjoyment of the New Covenant has depended upon some single act of surrender. There was something in the life, some evil or doubtful habit, in regard to which conscience had often said that it was not in perfect accord with YAHWEH'S perfect will. Attempts were made to push aside the troublesome suggestion. Or unbelief said it would be impossible to overcome the habit, and maintain the promise of obedience to the Voice within. Meantime, all our prayer appeared of no avail. It was as if belief and trust (faith) could not lay hold of the promises which were in full sight, until at last the inner being (soul) consented to regard this little thing as the test of its surrender to obey in everything and of its belief and trust that in everything the Guarantor of the Covenant would give power to maintain obedience. With the evil or doubtful thing given up, with a good conscience restored and the hearts confidence before YAHWEH assured, the believer can receive and possess what is sought. OBEDIENCE IS ESSENTIAL!

Obedience is possible! The thought of a demand which a man cannot possibly deliver, cuts at the very root of true hope and strength. The secret thought; No man can obey YAHWEH, throws thousands back into the Old Covenant life and into a false peace that YAHWEH does not expect more than that we do our best. Obedience is possible, the whole New Covenant promises and secures this. Only understand rightly what obedience means. The renewed believer still has the flesh, with its evil nature, out of which arises involuntary evil thoughts, and dispositions. These may also be found in a truly obedient believer. Obedience deals with the doing of what is known to be YAHWEH'S will, as taught by the Word, the SetApart Spirit and our conscience. When George Mueller spoke of the great happiness he had for more than sixty years in YAHWEH'S service, he attributed it to two things, he loved YAHWEH'S Word and he had maintained a good conscience, not willingly going on in a course he knew to be against the will of YAHWEH. When the full light of YAHWEH came upon Gerhard Tersteegen, he wrote; "I promise with your help and power, to rather give up the last drop of my blood, than knowingly and willingly in my heart or life be untrue and disobedient to YOU." Such obedience is an attainable degree of unmerited favor. Obedience is possible. When the Law is written on the heart, when the heart is circumcised to love YAHWEH with all our heart and to obey YAHWEH, when the love of YAHWEH is shed throughout the heart, then it means that the love of YAHWEH'S Law and of YAHWEH has become the moving power of our life. This love is no vague sentiment, in man's imagination of something that only exists in the heavens, but a living, mighty power of YAHWEH in the heart, working effectually according to YAHWEH'S working, which works in us powerfully. A Life Of Obedience is Possible!

This obedience is of belief and trust: "By belief and trust, Avraham- (Abraham) obeyed." Ivrim (Hebrews) 11:8, Bereshith (Genesis) 22:9-18. By belief and trust, the promises of the Covenant, the presence of the Guarantor of the Covenant, the hidden workings of the SetApart Spirit, the love of YAHWEH in power to make true in us all YAHWEH'S love and promises, must live in us. Belief and trust can bring them near and make us live in the very midst of them. YAHSHUA and HIS wonderful redemption do not remain at a distance from us in the heavens, but can become our continual experience. However cold or weak we may feel, belief and trust knows that the new heart is in us, that the love of YAHWEH'S Law is our very nature, that the teaching and power of the Spirit are within us. This kind of belief and trust knows it can obey!

Between What YAHWEH Has Already Worked Out In Us And What YAHWEH Waits To Work, Obedience Is The Blessed Link!

 Let us hear the voice of our Deliverer, the Guarantor of the Covenant, as HE says with a deeper fuller meaning than when HE was on earth: "Only believe. If you can believe, all things are possible to those that believe." And last of all, let us understand; Obedience is Happiness! Do not regard it only as the way to the joy and happiness of the New Covenant, but as itself joy and happiness. To have the voice of YAHWEH teaching and guiding you, to be what YAHWEH wills you to be, in working out what YAHWEH works in you by the Spirit, in doing YAHWEH'S will and pleasing YAHWEH, truly all this is unspeakable joy and full of honour. To a healthy person it is a delight to walk or work, to put forth your strength and conquer difficulties. To a slave or a hireling it is bondage and weariness. The Old Covenant demanded obedience with a relentless must, and the threat that followed it. The New Covenant changes the must, to can and will. Do ask YAHWEH, by the SetApart Spirit, to show you how: "you have been created in the MESSIYAH YAHSHUA unto good works," and how as fitted as a vine is for bearing grapes, your new nature is perfectly prepared for every good work. Ask YAHWEH to show you that YAHWEH means obedience not only to be a possible thing, but the most delightful and attractive gift that YAHWEH has to give, and the entrance into YAHWEH'S love and all its blessings. In the New Covenant the chief thing is not the wonderful treasure of strength and unmerited favor it contains, nor even the heavenly security that that treasure never can fail, but this, that the living mighty ONE gives of this One's self, and makes the Spirit of YAHWEH known, and takes possession of us as our Mighty One. For this reason mankind was created, for this YAHWEH has restored our relationship once again, for this, that it will be our actual experience-the SetApart Spirit has been given and is dwelling in us. Between what YAHWEH has already worked out in us and what YAHWEH waits to work, obedience is the blessed link!

 Let us seek to walk before YAHWEH in the confidence that we are of those who live in a pure conscience (a conscience turned away from evil, and SetApart unto YAHWEH), my one work is to obey YAHWEH!

 What can the reason be, I ask again, that so many believers have seen so little of the beauty of this New Covenant life, with its power to set us apart from evil, and its joyful obedience? YAHSHUA was with the students, but their hearts were blind, it is still so today! It is as with Elishua's servant, all messengers surrounded him, and he did not know it! Nothing will help but prayer: “ YAHWEH open his eyes, so that he will see."  Melechim Bet- (2 Kings) 6:14-17. YAHWEH is there not someone who may be reading this, who needs one touch to see it all? Oh, give that touch!

 Just listen my brothers and sisters, Your ABBA loves you with an infinite love and longs to make you, even this very day, YAHWEH'S pure (separated from evil), happy and obedient child. Hear YAHWEH'S message: YAHWEH has for you an entirely different life from what you are now living. A life in which YAHWEH'S unmerited favor will actually work in you every moment, all YAHWEH asks you to be. A life of simple child- like obedience, doing each day only what YAHWEH shows you to be YAHWEH'S will. A life in which the abiding love of your ABBA, and the abiding presence of your Saviour YAHSHUA, and the joy of the Separate Spirit, can keep you, and make you glad and strong. This is YAHWEH'S message. This life is for you. Do not fear to accept this life, to give yourself up to it and its entire obedience. In the MESSIYAH it is possible, it is a sure thing.

Now my brothers and sisters, just turn and ask the ABBA, by the SetApart Spirit, to show you the beautiful heavenly life. Ask and expect it. Keep your eyes and heart fixed upon it. The great blessing of the Covenant is obedience, the wonderful power to will and do as YAHWEH wills.

 It is indeed the entrance to every other promise. It is Gan-Eden restored and the heavens opened, the created being honouring the Creator, the Creator delighting in the created being, the child honouring the ABBA, the ABBA honouring the child as YAHWEH changes them from honour to honour, into the likeness of YAHSHUA!

YAHWEH'S New Covenant obedience, through belief and trust in YAHSHUA, is an attainable degree of unmerited favor.

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