In this Shabbat exhortation, I want to share with you the key to not being deceived in these last days. To love the truth is to love who Messiah created you to be–a new creation. The greatest sin is to forget who we are in Him and this will open up a direct portal for the enemy to come in and bring deception.
We are human beings who are compelled to identify with what will bring us the greatest joy and satisfaction–oftentimes the things that are detrimental to us. And when we first believed in Messiah, the greatest joy and satisfaction was that though we failed Him by our dirty sins, He still reached out and rescued us regardless. But if we forget the work of Messiah in our lives through His redemption, the compelling nature within us to seek identification of what will bring us joy and satisfaction will no longer be the Good News by which we were saved, but will be replaced by the falsehood that says we are “OK” just as we are and we do not need to change.
A loss of remembering what Elohim has done for us, is a direct invitation for the lawless one to come and steal our soul for the sacrifice to his god Lucifer (2 Thessalonians 2). Shabbat is the day we remember that our useless acts to attain right standing with Elohim are just that–useless. Shabbat is our day of ceasing from the mindless works of the flesh and accepting who He has created us to be–overcomers who rest not in our abilities, but in Him alone.
Concerned for the body of Messiah,
Derek
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