Overcomer's

When confronted with faith in Messiah, we have to remain totally 100% free to be like the Apostles in Acts chapters 4 and 5.

Peter (Kepha) and John (Yohanan) and others had been preaching in the Temple count yard.  The Sanhedrin ruling body had ordered them to be beaten and thrown in prison. But, Father sent an angel to open up the prison, and to give them this message: “Go stand in the Set-Apart Place and speak to the people all the words of this life”.

They went right back and did as Father said to do. The High Priest and the Captain of the Temple and chief priests got the news quickly.

They were again arrested and brought before the Sanhedrin. They said to the Apostles: “Did we not strictly command you not to teach in this Name?”  “And Peter and the other Apostles answered, saying, `WE HAVE TO OBEY ELOHIM RATHER THAN MEN”, and they continued to preach to those present. 

The council were infuriated and decided to have them killed.  But, Father intervened again. 

“Then indeed they went rejoicing from the presence of the council because they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His Name”. 

We must stay outside man’s systems of control! The ultimate in the world is comfort, ease, convenience, and the preservation of the self-life.  But, that is opposite of what is required of a servant of Messiah Yahusha!  We must live a life of martyrdom, death to self, and be willing always to be a martyr (a witness) for His sake. This is Father's will.

Revelation 12:11: “And they overcame him (the Devil, Satan, and the Dragon--the beast anti-messiah) because of the Blood of the Lamb, and because of the Word of their witness, and they did not love their lives to the death”.   

II Timothy 2:3-4: “Suffer hardship as a good soldier of Messiah Yahusha.  No one serving as a soldier gets involved in the affairs of this life, in order to please only him who enlisted him as a soldier”.

I Peter 4:1-2: “Therefore since Messiah suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, so that he no longer lives the rest of his life in the flesh for the lusts of men, but according to the desire of Elohim”.

Philippians 1:27b-29: “…stand fast in one spirit, with one soul, striving together for the faith of the Good News, without being frightened in any way by those who oppose, which to them truly is a proof of destruction, but to you of deliverance, and that from Elohim, because to you it has been given as a favour, on behalf of Messiah, not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for His sake”.

The last command of Messiah Yahusha before leaving earth was this: “And you shall receive power when the Set-Apart Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth” - Acts 1:8.

You can’t obey this command if you remain a weak, pathetic, cowardly or  lazy either.  He wants mature, responsible, bold and brave soldiers in His army. You sure cannot obey this command if you submit to any religion.  You can’t obey this command if you fear the “beast”—the law-less one, the man of sin—the “anti-messiah”.  You can’t obey this command if you’re scared of your family, your spouse, acquaintances, and your next-door neighbor.

 

If you are not busy about the work of His Kingdom, spreading the Good News of the Kingdom, bringing others to salvation, teaching them the truth of the Covenant/Torah, in some way, reaching out to the widow, the orphan, the homeless, the hurting and the destitute, then do you understand what it means to be His bond slave? 

Everything else must be secondary to being about His business. 

We are “bought with a price”.

 

We have the privilege of dying to our won will, to pick up our execution stake, to follow Him - Luke 14:25-33.

When everything is over and done, may we as the elect be standing, with Yahuah's help, to overcome and be the people that He has wanted from the beginning: An obedient and humble people, willing to obey Him from the heart:

Deuteronomy 5:29, ‘Oh, that they had such a heart in them, to fear Me and to guard all My commands always, so that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

The following is waiting for those that have overcome as revealed in the book of Revelation, Yahuah's Word to the body of Messiah Yahusha:

Revelation 2:7, “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I shall give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of Elohim.” ’

Revelation 2:11, “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes shall by no means be harmed by the second death.” ’

Revelation 2:17, “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I shall give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I shall give him a white stone, and on the stone a renewed Name written which no one knows except him who receives it.” ’

Revelation 2:26–28, “And he who overcomes, and guards My works until the end, to him I shall give authority over the nations, and he shall shepherd them with a rod of iron, as the potter’s vessels shall be broken to pieces, f as I also have received from My Father. “And I shall give him the morning star.

Revelation 3:5–6, “He who overcomes shall be dressed in white robes, and I shall by no means blot out his name from the Book of Life, but I shall confess his name before My Father and before His messengers. “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.” ’

Revelation 3:12, “He who overcomes, I shall make him a supporting post in the Dwelling Place of My Elohim, and he shall by no means go out. And I shall write on him the Name of My Elohim and the name of the city of My Elohim, the renewed Jerusalem, which comes down out of the heaven from My Elohim, and My renewed Name.

Revelation 3:21–22, “To him who overcomes I shall give to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.” ’ ”

May we overcome with the help of Yah!