"Today"… yet remains love, hope and redemption.

This is a day of assessment, a day of computation and an invoice has been decreed. There shall come a mighty tsunami of judgment which shall swiftly be overtaking our leaders from self-gratifying and false piety and they shall take a mighty tumble from their high positions of cultural, political, corporate, and religious power in the cause of their sinful domination of those positions of power to indulge their self-pleasure seeking interests. They so mightily overuse the powers of their office in the continuing refilling for their fellow gluttons at the troughs of indulgence, the feasting of their most base animal sexual appetites and monolithic control forced on others while leveraging their place of power upon subordinates and at the cost of the peace of the people of our Nation, and by extension, the World.

Hope remains dim, for within the hidden realms of their imagination is the cesspool of an extraordinarily unsatisfiable lust for total control, which appears deceptively as the fringe benefits of privilege; so, they remain that in retaining their expectations they should remain exclusionary before the judgment of law and of the people and of greatest importance, the deem themselves exempt of the judgment of Yehoshua.

Domination via iron fisted tyrannical edicts rather than through actual governance, shall is playing out before our eyes as these ungodly and toxic people of power continue seeking pleasures and domination without any serious thought as to how those who remain subjected to their autocracy who are seen as no more than objects of their means and who would be forever damaged socially, psychosocially and spiritually. We, the faithful and Patriotic Americans, must call out the lurid, dark, tyranny, pathetic, and shameless when their incidence control demands to be brought out into the shining light of public exposure that they may be clearly seen for the monsters they truly are.

Let us then pray for their change of heart, spirit and for their redemption. Those under the thumb of a tyrannical government now feel emboldened in their exasperation to speak up and demand accountability, many for the first time. The frustration of the American People is justified and palpable, and their words shall bring a mighty swift slinging of consequence to those who remain in denial of Elohei Mishpat (the G-d of Justice) and denial of their own accountability. It would be a mighty mercy if the continuing cultural intolerance resulted in the re-balancing of power in government and between the lecherous leaders and vulnerable subordinate Citizens.

Elohim Emet (the G-d of Truth) is doing far more than merely revealing the transgressions in violation of His statues and omnipresence. Elohim is showing again just how deceitful and desperately sick the human heart can be when unchecked; "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings." (Book of Yirmeyahu/Jeremiah 17:9-10)

In the recognition that the abusers remain separated from the love of Yehoshua, it is illustrated that we yet hold the same tendencies of such evil still coursing in our veins, so prone to be “hardened by the deceitfulness of sin” (Book of Evrim/Hebrews 3:13). For those with an open heart who will hear it, Elohim HaAv (the living G-d) is offering us total redemption in forgiveness and freedom and the promises of eternal life among His Kingdom. HaShem has sent Ben Elohim (the son of G-d) into the world with the sole intention of liberation for us from our detached and depraved hearts which easily fall victim to slavery in transgression; no matter how lurid and shameful.

There is a ever present guaranteed rescue offered, an escape; there is a place harmony and peace. Yehoshua can turn a day of reckoning into a day of loving grace and amnesty for those who harken His call. Though He calls us today, “Today, if [we] hear His voice, [let us not] harden [our] hearts” (Book of Evrim/Hebrews 3:15). Ha’ Moshiach (The Anointed One) makes this offer to both the Faithful and non-Believers equally, though non-Believers remain in the full throttled sinful bondage until allowing a rebirth of their spirit and nature, becoming reborn in Yehoshua as “new creature”: "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." (Qorinti’im II/2 Corinthians 5:17).

Many Faithful also remain in bondage to a serving a secreted sin they greatly fear will be exposed. They were offered the forbidden fruit, they listened to their deceitful desires… and they chose to partake. They don’t fully comprehend they are enslaving themselves to sin; "Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?" (Book of Romi’im/Romans 6:16), they now however find themselves imprisoned by weakness before temptation, they have discovered sin to be an unceasing and ruthless slave master. Scripture is very clear (and our experience confirms) that we who are new creations in Ha’ Moshiach (Qorinti’im II/2 Corinthians 5:17).

In our forged and steeled faith, we may yet endure the strange experience of having inside us remnants of the “old self, which remains beholden to {our} former slave master of sin in deliberate choice and is “corrupt through deceitful desires...”; "That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts" (Book of Ephsi’im/Ephesians 4:22). Therefore, we must choose to “put off your old self” and “put on the new self, created after the likeness of our Father in true righteousness and holiness” (Book of Ephsi’im/Ephesians 4:22- 24). In that we may live in elated joy, peacefully with a regenerated nature; yet we may still yet detect remnants of our corrupt nature, a new heart but an old disease still infecting our beings.

We are called to direct our regenerated heart to follow upon the path of He who calls to us; "Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way." (Book of Mishlei/Proverbs 23:19) We are called to execute with prejudice, the sinful desires and weak willed directives which yet remain within. Hence, the importance and urgency in the message which Jews take to heart about sin’s deceitfulness and responding “today” are addressed to remain the Faithful. It is these very sinful yearnings of our nature which this proverb is addresses: “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death” (Mishlei/Proverbs 14:12). Clearly noted, is the deceitful nature of all sin, not just the admitted ones. The deceitful domination of those you govern which creates in you self-perceived mighty power is but a prime example of how sin ensnares us into slavery. It entices us with a promise of forbidden pleasures by making the way of death appear “right” to us.

In the subdued, misty light of seductive temptation, (as sin cannot stand in truth in the light of day,) in the unbridled surreal world of our deceitful imagination, we appear autonomous but yet remain to seem soulless, and sin appears less consequential…. all of which are lethal lies blocking the immortal soul in perception of redemption. Thusly, yet while in commitment to His covenant you remain obedient to sin. We find ourselves ruled by condemnation and fear. Guilt brings down its hammer blows upon us, and our sin’s exposure threatens to destroy our reputation, relationships, and perhaps far, far more.

Meanwhile, weakened by indulgence and shame, sin re-entices us as a poisonous suave enabling us in our on-going pursuit of earthly comforts, and the cycle keeps repeating until all hope seems lost. This is the ancient serpentine strategy of our darker natures which seek to imprison us in damnable dungeons of our own accord in order to alienate us from the Holiest of Holies and others who remain the stride of faith…. and, if possible, to completely destroy the very godly natures created within us.

As long as the time is yet called “today,” hope remains. There is a Holy rescue possible, but know this.... only one. Into the dark dungeons' recesses of sin, where we followed our own desperately dark and sinful desires, comes a call of Yehoshua of our very own. Elohim knows everything earthly concerning us…. every sinful thought we’ve entertained, every sinful word we delivered and every sinful, despicable act we’ve done…. and yet, in Ben Elohim (son of G-d), He came anyway to rescue us from our deceitful hearts by taking the full measure of punishment for as payment of penitence by which the receipts of our transgressions have accumulated and in His offered redemption our unholy shame on taken on by Himself; offering us His purity and holiness in replacement.

When He did, Yehoshua made a door…. ("I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture." - {Book of Yochanan/John 10:9}, He became the door to freedom in the wall of our transgressional imprisonment, leading to the corridor of eternal guilt-free, sin-free and joyful redemption. Yehoshua became the light in our darkness, our salvation from damnation and the slavery of transgression, our refuge from divine judgment, removing all real reason for fear; "The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell." - (Psalm 27:1–2).

In the blessed salvation of our Redeemer, Yehoshua, who is the most fearsome adversary of the transgressor against the Most Holy; He, who has the power to eternally condemn us, instead comes to our rescue as our one safe place free from all condemnation and fear; "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." - (Book of Romi’im/Romans 8:1).

Ha’ Moshiach offers us safe eternal freedom from of our self-imposed prison of sin. This offer…. an offer made to both the non-believers and the professing Faithful alike….one which is made to all those who will confess their transgressions, turn in repentance from them and who chooses to follow the path of our Rock and Redeemer. This offer is also made to those perpetrators who have selfishly abused and damaged others and who live in a prison of secreted shame of their own making.

This wonderous redeeming offer is made to the victims of the perpetrators living in the dark prison of hate, bitterness and resentment. The full receipts of all transgression has been pre-paid in the glory of Ben Elohim; full justice has been done, sinners debt eliminated. Therefore, full forgiveness and full freedom may be ours, if we’ll take it. Hesitation is the fruitlessness of missed salvation in own own choice. What are you waiting for? Reject the condemnable hesitation. Awaken and clear your yes, openly hear the tyrannical threats of sin and those who impose their own sin upon you. Yehoshua offers this gift today.

Today is the day to walk out of the door of self-imposed imprisonment. “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts”; "But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin." - (Book of Evrim/Hebrews 3:15). “

Behold, now is the time of calling: with the opened eyes of the redeemed, see that now is the day of salvation. "(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)" -(Qorinti’im II/2 Corinthians 6:2).

Without further hesitation, your heart may yet be “hardened by the deceitfulness of sin,” the door may close; "But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin." - (Book of Evrim/Hebrews 3:13). Yehoshua shall turn a day of reckoning into a day of amnesty. He calls upon each of us today. Present yourself in humility before Yehoshua, joyfully embrace His standards, now is the time…. Let Our Freedom Ring!

Walk in Faith, go in Grace and know YOU are loved.

Pastor Mark