From Eliyahu

Hello friends,

We find a meaningful progression and escalation, moving from Matthew 10 into Matthew 11. In Matthew 10 we found Messiah warning us of the hatred from the world, and the trials that would bring upon His disciples. Messiah admonished us that we must give everything - all that we are and have - if we would run the race to the finish.  "He who endures to the end will be saved" He said. Brother Roy, who spoke on this in our online meeting, told us of his own experiences with this. He was a part of a group of believers in Africa who wanted only to share love and truth with their neighbors. Yet, the ultimate result was destruction of that group of believers by locals who, apparently, hated them. A number of dear ones were murdered, in fact. This was a tragic confirmation of the truth of Messiah's warning, and exhortation to us all to endure.

As we move from Matthew 10 into Matthew 11 we hear of John/Yohanan the Immerser in prison. Here we have a man who was already experiencing the hatred of the world that Messiah had just been teaching about. As Messiah said, John was not "a reed shaken by the wind." In other words, he did not bend and change his stand according to how the wind was blowing. He knew what the truth was, and he knew who he was, and he would stand firmly for the truth, regardless of the outcome. As this sort of integrity often causes, John's unwavering stand for the truth was not appreciated by powerful people whose character was quite the opposite from that of John - powerful people with many sins that they didn't want to be hearing about. Really, it had been just a matter of time before such evil forces would act to silence John. So now, John was in prison, and soon would be killed.

Before that happened John wanted to receive a report from his own disciples on what the Messiah had been doing. When they asked Y'shua about it He said;     

"The blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them. Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”  Matthew 11:5-6

One can only imagine how encouraging this report must have been to John, which further included Messiah's endorsement of John as who he truly was, the Elijah of Messiah's appearance on the world stage. The forerunner of that great event. Hearing that Y'shua was doing the foretold works of the Messiah, John could now go to his death knowing he had accomplished the purpose for which he had been called and sent out to Israel.

Y'shua was the Messiah, because He did the works of Messiah.

John was the forerunner because he did the works of the forerunner.

In the Kingdom, it is what a person does that tells us who they are.

This is just as true of every disciple as it is of these Bible figures. It is up to you to define your role in the Kingdom by giving your all, to be who you are meant to be in Messiah. Eternity is a long time. Do you want to spend it wishing you had applied yourself more diligently when you had the chance - or being glad that you did?

What you do is who you are. 

More on this tonight at our online meeting, at Tsiyon.Net, at 8 PM CST.

This is about eternal things, so be there.

Shalom,

Eliyahu ben David
Tsiyon.Org

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