ARE YOU SET-APART IF YOU KEEP THE 7TH DAY SABBATH?

                                                     by Jay Scher

Are you set apart? Have you chosen to be set apart? The choice is yours. Have you made it or do you think that you can worship the creator on any day you want as the set apart day, because you have been told so by the pastors of the world that do not know the truth? This day is the sign that will give you more truth and show that you are continuing to seek the Father! This day is the test commandment. If you don't keep this day and work on it, then you have fallen out of covenant relationship. If you decided to start keeping it then you will be given eyes to see and ears to hear the truth as it is written in scripture! It is a powerful tool to keep.
Eze 20:12 “And I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign1 between them and Me, to know that I am יהוה who sets them apart.
This is such a powerful day to keep. It is like the drug that leads to other drugs. Sorry to use that example, but it is true. Once you start keeping this day then you start keeping the other Feast days and other commands in Torah that apply to us! The Ruach HaKo’desh/Set-Apart Spirit is very addictive. Once you feel it you want more of it and you want it to be around you all the time. This is real and the only way you will have it around you is by keeping the commands that we have been given in Lev 23, Lev 11, Duet 16, Ex 20 and a few others.

Are you going to learn to obey? If you are not already obeying and living the set-apart life or are you going to rebel just like the Israelites did in the wilderness? I pray you don't rebel especially right now. Time is so short. Things are lining up for the End Times. Don't fall into all the hype though that we are in the tribulation right now. We are not in it. There are so many things that have not happened that need to happen. So just stay focused on the prize. This is part of helping you keep your mind on the prize!

If you reject Father Yah he will reject you! If you reject the set apart day to worship him with your whole heart mind and soul on, he will reject you in time. Time is running out! He will give you some Favor for a time, for a season, but eventually he will give you enough rope to hang yourself, if you are walking disorderly! There are not many seasons left! You won’t even know it, because he will also allow you to be blinded and not be able to see the truth anymore. He will put the scales right back on your eyes that he once removed so you could see the truth and hear it from others when it was or is said. You really want to think about this and share it with others that you think might be going astray.

With brotherly love in the body of Messiah in the Way, Brother Jay

If You Love Me

                                                          by Jay Scher

Do you? It is an eay question to ask but it is a hard question to answer truthfully for so many. They say this or that and they are really slithery with their answers. Can they answer you straight? Many times no and if they do it is an excuse!

Mar 7:3 For the Pharisees, and all the Yehuḏim, do not eat unless they wash their hands thoroughly, holding fast the tradition of the elders,
Mar 7:4 and coming from the market-place, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions which they have received and hold fast – the washing of cups and utensils and copper vessels and couches.
Mar 7:5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, “Why do Your taught ones not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?”
Mar 7:6 And He answering, said to them, “Well did Yeshayahu prophesy concerning you hypocrites, as it has been written, ‘This people respect Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.
Mar 7:7 And in vain do they worship Me, teaching as teachings the commands of men

What is your answer?

 Brother Jay

What Should Our Mission in Life Be?

                                                   by jay Scher

Have you chosen a mission yet? Have you locked it down?

Are you done with the world and what it has to offer or are you still thinking it looks pretty good, some parts of it some of the time? Are you thinking it looks good to have one foot in and one foot on the fence? A little bit more of sin in your daily life and then act the act on Shabbat, all you players out there, yeah you! When you keep that one foot on the fence it is really easy to slip and fall off without you even seeing it coming. You think you have control over it when it has control over you! There is no such thing as doing this halfheartedly with one foot on that fence. You are either in or you are out. This is no game that you are playing here, although so many of you like to play mind games with those that are actually working hard at feeding the flock the truth from Father Yah. The game is up! Time to learn that you are no longer a boy or a little girl where you can play games or play games with other people. In the real world your games affect other people lives. When you play the lying game or the twisting of scripture game! These games don't help people especially you. They also confuse other people around you, not to mention your own family if you have one. If you have children of your own. Telling them that they really don't have to keep Torah and grace will still cover them. Grace/Favor will not cover them if they do not Keep Torah! It is that plain and simple.
So take your games to another ball field. This one only has truth and we defend it and guard it as we are told to do! Your lying games will not work here, so don't even try them. You are put on notice now! The best game is staying on focus. Keeping your mission going without fail. Without any doubt in your mind as to what your mission in life will always be. You will fall short of the mission here and there and you will repent for it as soon as you realize you have done so. This is going to happen. So don't beat our self-up over that and think that you are not worthy to complete your mission, because you are so worthy to complete it. Stay on task and you will be completing parts of your mission as you go along. One day if you always do your mission, you will have shown others who Messiah is and you will know Father Yah, like he will know you!

With Brotherly love in the body of Messiah in the Way, Brother Jay

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Why the Sabbath Was Established

                                                     by Jay Scher

 . . . continued from last week.

  The purpose for the Sabbath was stated clearly by the handwriting of Father יהוה Himself 
(Exodus 31:18) and preserved for us through His Holy Scriptures. Father יהוה again spoke the commandment to Moses, "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, 'Concerning the feasts of Father יהוה, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are My feasts. Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no work therein: it is the Sabbath of Father יהוה in all your dwellings,' " Leviticus 23:2-3.Father יהוה has created the seventh day holy to Him. He rested on the seventh day. Why? Do you think He was tired? No, Father יהוה created, blessed, and sanctified the seventh day to give mankind a special time for rest and worship. "But, we must worship Father יהוה every day of our lives, not just once a week," you might be saying. You are absolutely correct. We are to keep Father יהוה foremost in our daily lives.Father יהוה has given us six days for ourselves, but the Sabbath has been set aside exclusively for a special communion between Father יהוה and man. Nothing must interfere in this weekly relationship. This is how Father יהוה intended it to be from creation and that is how it will be in the Kingdom. " 'And it shall come to pass that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before Me,' says Father יהוה," Isaiah 66:23.The Sabbath Signifies a Holy Bond with Father יהוהFather יהוה established the Sabbath by resting on it after the creation. He intended that all people do the same when He made rest on the seventh day one of the royal commandments. The Sabbath was to be a sign between the Creator and His creation. Read Exodus 31:13-14, "Speak you also unto the children of Israel, saying, 'Verily My Sabbaths you shall keep: for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations: that you may know that I am Father יהוה that does sanctify you. You shall keep the Sabbath, therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defiles it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.' "Notice first that the Sabbath is a special sign "throughout all your generations." Anyone that works on that day will be cut off from Father יהוה's true people. The Sabbath, therefore, identifies the true worshippers of Father יהוה. Keeping the seventh-day Sabbath is the difference between worshipping the Creator of this universe and worshipping a false, man-made mighty one. The pagans worshipped the sun god on "Sun"-day. Here, "sign" in the Hebrew means a monument, token or evidence. The Sabbath is a lasting memorial, evidence that those observing it are worshipping the true Creator.But some say, "I keep every day holy, not any one special day." Notice verse 15, "Six days may work be done; but the seventh is the Sabbath of rest..." We are commanded to work six of the seven days of the week and rest on the seventh. More proof that the Sabbath is to be kept forever is found in verses 16-17: "Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever." Perpetual means "permanent, lasting indefinitely."Is the Sabbath merely for Old Testament Israelites—"Jews"? "Know you therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham..." "So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham..." "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Messiah יYeshua/Yehoshua. And if you be Messiah's, then are you Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise" (Gal. 3:7, 9, 28-29).Israel was given the promise that, if they would be obedient to Father יהוה's Sabbath, they would be treasured and blessed by Father יהוה, Isaiah 58:13-14. The promise is exactly the same for us as spiritual Israelites."Remember the Sabbath" is as important as "Thou shalt not steal," or "Thou shalt do no murder," Exodus 20. The relationships between man and Father יהוה never change. Father יהוה blessed and sanctified the seventh day, thus making it His Sabbath. He did not do this for any other day, nor did He undo it for the seventh. What Father יהוה does is for all time. He does not change, Malachi 3:6.Our Days Named After Planet Deities.  None of the seven days of the week are named in the Bible, except the seventh—the Sabbath. The other six days are merely numbered. The fact that the days of the week are named today is one obvious indication that our calendar is not in harmony with Scripture.The Jewish Encyclopedia tells us that the present names for the days of the week are derived from the Sabeans and Babylonians. Sabaism (from "tsaba," heavenly hosts) is the earliest form of false worship, according to Jamieson, Faussel and Brown Commentary. In Babylonia, the worship of the planets became popular. Stars were divided into two classes: stationary or fixed, and those that moved or wandered. Those that were thought to wander were the sun, moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn. These planetary deities were believed to be the principle rulers of the visible universe. They also were thought to rule the days of the week. "The first hours of seven successive days were thus ruled in turn by the celestial bodies...(Saturn, sun, moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus)...after which the cycle repeated itself. Each day was named after the planet that ruled its first hour," Encyclopaedia Britannica, "Week" Vol. 12, p. 587.The ancient pagans worshipped the planetary deities in succession. Thus, our Sunday (sun's day) was named for the sun god; Monday (moon's day), moon god. The days Tuesday through Friday were named after northern European deities that corresponded to Roman planet gods, which also coincided with Babylonian gods (see chart below).Origins of the Names of Our Days English Saxon Latin Babylonian

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THE SABBATH - A MEMORIAL AND A PROMISE

     Part 1                                         by Jay Scher

The Sabbath was made for man, Mark 2:27. The Creator in His wisdom knew that all men desperately need a regular time of rest and renewal each week. Observing the Sabbath–especially with others in fellowship–provides great spiritual and moral strength to enable one to remain in the proper relationship with the Heavenly Father* the other six days of the week. Just as necessary as regular sleep at night, the Sabbath is a natural law without which man spiritually deteriorates.*The true names of the Heavenly Father, Father יהוה and His Son, יYeshua/Yehoshua the Messiah, are restored in these pages. Superstitious scribes and misguided Bible translators took away these true names and substituted the titles God, Lord and Adonai. The sacred Name is easily proved in good encyclopedias and dictionaries under the headings "Father יהוה," "Jehovah," "God," or "Tetragrammaton." Request our free booklets or read online, "The Heavenly Father’s Great Name" and/or "The Missing J," which prove the Names conclusively from secular and religious authorities, as well as Scripture.Father יהוה's Sanctified Sabbath Day

Salvation has always been "by grace through faith." In the Old Testament, men were saved by grace through faith. It was Father יהוה's grace that gave man the sacrificial system so that their transgressions of His moral law could be covered. But grace was not fully revealed until the death of the Messiah.Just as the moral law leads us to the Messiah by showing us our sin and our need for a Savior, the ceremonial law through sacrifices is intended to teach us of the coming Messiah and His atoning work. What is thought to be יYeshua/Yehoshua's doing away with the entire law is merely replacing the ceremonial ordinances with His own sacrifice. The moral and civil laws still remain in effect. These principles were not changed.The Sabbath Is Necessary in Spiritual DevelopmentיYeshua/Yehoshua said, "If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray to the Father, and He will give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever, even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive...neither knows," John 14:15-17. The Holy Spirit is quenched by Sabbath desecration just as it is quenched by murder or any other disobedience.The principle is not, "Give us the Comforter and then we will keep the commandments." You must first keep the commandments and then the Holy Spirit will do its work in you. יYeshua/Yehoshua commanded the lepers to go and show themselves to the priest, and they were fully healed—after they obeyed, not before.Proper Sabbath observance means religious training of our children. Neglecting the Sabbath in the home means that the children are not trained. When the Sabbath is ignored, so is Bible reading and study, as well as prayer and spiritual instruction. Sabbath keeping is Father יהוה's will. Man has devised many substitute activities for obedience to Sabbath keeping, but substitutes are unacceptable.Clearly those who use the Sabbath as a holiday, by putting themselves before Father יהוה in search of pleasure or profit, are not developing righteous character. Other attractions such as baseball games, movies, and television have no relationship with the sacred uses of the Sabbath day. They contain essentially nothing for moral or religious training. When the Fourth Commandment is violated by such pastimes, the Holy Spirit is quenched and interest in religious matters dies out. Can we wonder that those who use the Sabbath as a day for personal gratification or gain do not develop righteous character?No Sabbath, No Spiritual GrowthUsually, the Sabbath is rejected after one turns from Father יהוה. Just as breaking a law of physics can have adverse results, when the Sabbath is violated, worship is perverted and peculiar beliefs are sure to follow. Personal drives overtake biblical direction as intellectual reasoning supersedes spiritual drive.Note the spiritual derailment that resulted in Israel, following the righteous reign of King David, when one sin led to another. David's son, Solomon, married the princess of Egypt to secure the influence of the Egyptians. He then married other wives. Next, he built places of worship, not in harmony with Father יהוה's commandments, but to meet seemingly necessary conditions. Then Jeroboam thought it was necessary to set up golden calves in Dan and Bethel to meet a specific condition, and to be popular with the people.It was not long until Israel was found worshipping idols with the surrounding heathen people. It was not such a large step between the sincere worship of Israel in the days of David and the idol worship of Jeroboam and Ahab. Ezekiel tells us that the degeneracy of Israel was "...because they despised My judgments, and walked not in My statutes, but polluted My Sabbaths," Ezekiel 20:16. Any individual, family, community or nation that does not keep the Sabbath will soon degenerate.There is no growth in spiritual life where there is no Sabbath that brings the mind and heart to reflect upon the sacred truths of Scripture. Human nature is prone to follow the baser thoughts and motives even on the Sabbath day. "...not finding our own pleasure, nor speaking our own words," referred to in Isaiah 58:13, means that on His holy day, we are to turn aside from pleasures, profit-seeking, and conversations that we would naturally choose.For those who continue to reject the Sabbath, listen to John's assessment: "And hereby we do know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He that says, 'I know him,' and keeps not His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him," 1 John 2:3-4.                    . . to be continued

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Ephesians 4

by Jay Scher

Eph 4:1 I call upon you therefore, I the prisoner of the Master, to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

Eph 4:2 with all humility and meekness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, Eph 4:3 being eager to guard the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace – Eph 4:4 one body and one Spirit, as you also were called in one expectation of your calling, Eph 4:5 one Master, one belief, one immersion, Eph 4:6 one Elohim and Father of all,1 who is above all, and through all, and in you all. Footnote: 1Mk. 12:32,34, 1 Cor. 8:6, 1 Tim. 2:5, Mk. 12:29-34. Eph 4:7 But to each one of us favour was given according to the measure of the gift of Messiah. Eph 4:8 That is why it says, “When He went up on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.” Eph 4:9 But what does “He went up” mean, except that He also first went down into the lower parts of the earth? Eph 4:10 He who went down is also the One who went up far above all the heavens, to fill all. Eph 4:11 And He Himself gave some as emissaries, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as shepherds and teachers Eph 4:12 for the perfecting of the set-apart ones, to the work of service to a building up of the body of the Messiah, Eph 4:13 until we all come to the unity of the belief and of the knowledge of the Son of Elohim, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the completeness of Messiah,

This is so important that so many people take for granted and do not. The teachers are for the building up of messiah until we all come to the unity of belief. If the teacher is not going by scripture then he is a false teacher. It is that simple; you dump him and go to one who is. You search and find the right one. This is not always easy. You don’t make your decision based on how nice the playground is and how many acres they have or how many buildings they have on the property to worship in. All these things can blind you. I know I have been there. You are thinking wow they have all these things, they keep the Sabbath and the Feast days. Then after many months you realize they don’t really keep the Sabbath that well and they are actually playing basketball and volleyball on the Sabbath, along with teaching the kids that this is OK, because no place in scripture does it say we can’t do this! You might be laughing by now, but this is a true story that happened to me several years back. I never noticed they were doing this until they put the basketball hoop about 30 feet from the Tabernacle door! I was always in the bible study that they had right after the pot luck in the same building. When I talked to them about it the main pastor said it doesn’t say in scripture they can’t play basketball and Volley ball in the scriptures. I told him it says we are not to do our own pleasure in Isa 58:13 “If you do turn back your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on My set-apart day, and shall call the Sabbath ‘a delight,’ the set-apart day of יהוה ‘esteemed,’ and shall esteem it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words, He actually looked at me with a straight face and said “well we have just decided to turn our heads the other way on this one”. TURN OUR HEADS THE OTHER WAY. After that he said “I have nothing more to say to you” and he started changing the oil on his car. His other elder wouldn’t even talk to me about it. I started talking to him and he just actually turned his back to me and started talking to another person. His wife told me “this had actually gone to their doctrinal comity, they voted on this and it passed. So it is their doctrine to play basketball and volleyball on the Sabbath. The kicker of the story here is I had given a sermon the day before at their podium and I told his entire Assembly and other people, because it was during the Feast “that it was breaking the Sabbath to play basketball and volleyball on the Sabbath”. Little did I know it was their doctrine? LOL Several people from out of the area came up and thanked me for the message I gave. They said “they could feel the Ruach in the message as I was speaking”. Father Yah had given me the message to give and I had no Idea it was their doctrine. I was just Yah’s servant messenger coming to them and following his instructions. We left the feast the next day in the middle of it. It doesn’t matter how nice he seems to be or how entertaining he is or how many kids they have to play with your kids you turn and run! If you find yourself in a similar situation and we all do , so I am sure you will. You need to make the right choice no matter how hard it is or if you have kids, especially if they are giving you a hard time, because they want to stay and play with some kids they have met, they will almost always meet kids they like. You have to turn and run!!

Eph 4:14 so that we should no longer be children, tossed and borne about by every wind of teaching, by the trickery of men, in cleverness, unto the craftiness of leading astray,1 Footnote: 15:6, also 2 Cor. 10:5, 2 Cor. 11:3-14, Gal. 1:6-9, 2 Tim. 3:1-8, 2 Tim. 4:2-4, 2 Peter 2:2-22, Jud. vv. 10-19. Eph 4:15 but, maintaining the truth in love, we grow up in all respects into Him who is the head, Messiah, Eph 4:16 from whom the entire body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the working by which each part does its share, causes growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

This is what we don’t see today “The Love Aspect of it all. People say the name of the father and the son differently. We should have love until we all come to the unity of the faith. If everyone is keeping the Sabbath the right way, along with the other Feast days, eating clean foods and keeping the other commands in Torah that apply to us. We should not be causing division with each other and putting each other down because we say the names different. We are all still in the body of Messiah. Maintaining the Truth in LOVE!! People need to be exercising the fruits of the spirit with each other if you have truly impaled your flesh with Messiah. Let the Father reveal the name to people and stop thinking we know everything. If you are truly in Messiah then why are you hammering other people for saying the name just a little bit different or saying they can’t be in your group, Assembly or Congregation if they don’t say the name just like you. Where are the following things that are supposed to be in you???? Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustworthiness, Gal 5:23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no Torah. Gal 5:24 And those who are of Messiah have impaled the flesh with its passions and the desires. Gal 5:25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Gal 5:26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

Eph 4:17 So this I say, and witness in the Master, that you should no longer walk as the gentiles walk,1 in the futility of their mind, Footnote: 11 Cor. 12:2, and Jer. 10:2. Eph 4:18 having been darkened in their understanding, having been estranged from the life of Elohim, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart, Eph 4:19 who, having become callous, have given themselves up to indecency, to work all uncleanness with greediness. Eph 4:20 But you have not so learned Messiah, Eph 4:21 if indeed you have heard Him and were taught by Him, as truth is in יהושע: Eph 4:22 that you put off – with regard to your former way of life – the old man, being corrupted according to the desires of the deceit, Eph 4:23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind, Eph 4:24 and that you put on the renewed man1 which was created according to Elohim, in righteousness and set-apartness of the truth. Footnote: 1Rom. 8:1. Eph 4:25 Therefore, having put off the false, speak truth, each one with his neighbour, for we are members of one another. Eph 4:26 “Be wroth, but do not sin.” Do not let the sun go down on your rage, Eph 4:27 nor give place to the devil. Eph 4:28 Let him who stole steal no more, but rather let him labour, working with his hands what is good, so that he has somewhat to share with those in need. Eph 4:29 Let no corrupt word come out of your mouth, but only such as is good for the use of building up, so as to impart what is pleasant to the hearers. Eph 4:30 And do not grieve the Set-apart Spirit of Elohim, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Eph 4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and displeasure, and uproar, and slander be put away from you, along with all evil. Eph 4:32 And be kind towards one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as Elohim also forgave you in Messiah.

YAH’S SHALOM & BLESSINGS TO ALL THOSE WHO WALK IN>> “the Way” AND KEEP HIS COMMANDS TO THE BEST OF THEIR ABILITITY! Num 6:24 “יהוה bless you and guard you; Num 6:25 יהוה make His face shine upon you, and show favor to you; Num 6:26 יהוה lift up His face upon you, and give you peace.” Hearted

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Following the True Light

                                                          by Jay Scher

If you are not following the true light of יהושע Messiah, then you are following MAN! We don't want to be following MAN!

Man tells us we don't need to listen to the words of יהושע Messiah and that everything he said "was a lie then stuck to a cross that was really a tree". So how do you stick or nail something to a cross that is really a tree? They are blinded by the lies of MAN to start!

The true light is the Way, The Truth and The Life! Messiah would never say one thing and then have it all change once he died. That is not the gospel that he taught. He doesn't want to end up with another Ha Shatan/Satan or billions on them and that is what would happen, if it was OK to live a life of sin, then receive eternal life at the cost of having to do nothing your entire life! You would be showing that you didn't have to do anything to receive eternal life. It is a gift to those who obey him because they love him and they want to obey him. The wages of sin is death not eternal life!!

If you are not following the true light then you are following a pack of lies that some man told you! WAKE UP TO THE TRUTH!
Faith, grace and a life of sin doesn't = eternal life!

May Yah”s Favor, Wisdom, Endurance and Shalom be upon you as you walk In the Way  WITH BROTHERLY LOVE IN THE BODY OF יהושע MESSIAH 

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