HEAR O ISRAEL

Letter of

Rabbi  S.V.Artman

to the

Messianic Congregations

2008

Shalom. I greet you in the name of our Yeshua HaMashiach ! May His Holy Name be blessed! Today we will talk about the Yahweh Love and about the word “love” in general: what is it? What did Elohim mean when He talked about love?  What do we mean when we speak of love?

I will start by reading out of the book of Deuteronomy 6:4-6: “Hear, O Israyl, the Yahweh our Elohim is one Adonai: and thou shalt love the Yahweh thy Elohim with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart.” How beautiful is the sound of these words! One can feel the very heart of Elohim in this address to His people. Extraordinary power is hidden in these words. Today, with the help of the Almighty, we will try to understand what Elohim meant when he spoke this first and the greatest commandment to Moses. It is about Love, but can Love that is bound in law be perfect? Maybe Yahweh speaking of the commandment just offered it instead of requiring people to fulfill it? As you all know, it is senseless to force someone to love; it leads to hatred.

Today we will talk about the most sacred: about the heart of Yahweh. First let’s offer a prayer so that Elohim would reveal Himself to us as much as each one of us is able to take in.

“Blessed be the Adonai our Elohim, Elohim of Abraham, Isaac and Yaaqob! Here we direct our inward gaze to Thee, from the four corners of the earth, trying to come near to Thee and to perceive Thee more. Thou art so great that the Heavens cannot hold Thee in; but in humbleness we come with our tiny hearts because we heard of Thee that Thou desireth to abide in us. We cannot understand this mystery and many, many other things. Therefore we come to Thee for answer, for we desire to know Thy Will, only Thy Will! Teach us about Thyself because we know of Thee yet we strive to perceive Thee. Tell us about Thyself so we can feel Thy heart in our spirit. Amen!

“Hear, O Israyl, the Adonai our Yahweh is one Elohim: and thou shalt love the Adonai thy Yahweh with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart.” This is our main thought that we will adhere to during the course of this discussion. If we are attentive, we can see that the Adonai Elohim, saying this commandment does not speak of deeds, words, nor even thoughts; but of feelings. Verse 6 shows where the words of Yahweh are to be stored. The Yahweh says: “…in thine heart.” Yes, for an intelligent person it is not necessary to repeat this twice. He hears - he does. In life we got accustomed to such terms as the “boss” and the “worker”. You got an assignment: fulfill it and you will be paid. But there is a completely different thought in the motive of Yahweh words, different relationships. “What I command you - put it in your heart! Do you hear, My daughter and My son? Not just fulfill it, not just be obedient, but may this be there, far, deep in your heart!” How can we illustrate it clearer to make it more understandable for our inner man? Here I am not talking about your and my mind. Almost all of you are educated and can easily read the words, but I want to talk about something that cannot be read; something that is unseen, but is the very spirit of the written words.

I hope you will try not to be offended for the example I will bring up. We are talking about Love, and this is a very dangerous subject for public discussion. Yet we will talk namely about this. Yahweh speaks of our heart. There are no better examples than those we meet in our life. A groom looks into the eyes of his beloved. He looks with shining eyes and desires to see even not her, but the soul itself. Speaking to her he speaks into her spirit. Not mind, but spirit! You know, lovers are considered strange according to the absolute measures of the modern world, because they live in completely different measures. They have their own world, as people say. But no matter how it is, the groom speaks to the heart of his beloved and says: “I love you!” The speech of spirit to spirit sounds in these words; from heart to heart. Here the feelings are expressed in the sound of words. No matter in what language they are spoken, they mean the same thing.

Friends, I am not talking about the corruption of our modern society. I am talking about true feelings. Speaking to his bride, the groom has no doubt at all that his words are going straight into her heart. Oh, how painful is that disappointment when the feelings are answered with logic, as this: “Very well! It is good that you love me. I understand you!” You know, it is characteristic for Love to hear the same manner of answer, in shyness, in excitement: “I… I too love you!” And the great joy of the lovers is a joy that bypasses the mind. It is a conversation of feelings of two hearts.

So the Adonai Elohim says: “Put these words into your heart! Love Me!” My friend by this He is saying that He loves you. With His whole being He loves you! These are not cold, prudent relationships. These are feelings, higher than all other feelings, and they are called: Love. And behold, Yahweh Who created the Heaven and the Earth, the streams of water, stars and all the lights - He first confesses his love to you! He says:” Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee” (Jer. 31:3). What is your and mine reaction to His love? Do you answer Him silently but in this manner: “Well, I will try to believe You. I will think about it. What must I do to make sure You don’t stop loving me?” My friend, you must not do anything. You don’t need to do anything! He is talking of Love, not about deeds to prove it. Here lawyers may rebuke me, but I beg don’t be quick in drawing conclusions.

Yahweh is seeking your heart. If you will fall in love with Him (I intentionally use this term), then love will determine the deeds in relationship with the Loved One, because nothing more sensitive to betrayal, negligence, empty words, than Love, and nothing will keep the holiness of relationships as Love would. This is NOT Law! No one loves by Law. Yes, it is expressed in a commandment and we read about it, but it is a search for an answer to Love. This is what the Lord spoke of to Mosheh.

I suggest everyone read this sermon: Jews and non-jews, people of all denominations, because we are talking about something that is equally important to all of us. Religious and secular worlds are mired in pettiness and frivolity. The value of words is lessened; the treasure of expressions is cheapened because they come not from sanctified feelings, but from the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, selfishness and pride. I invite you, friends, to come on a tour of the labyrinth of the human soul. Maybe the pictures you’ll see from the side will help you and I to wake up and put everything to order in our own hearts.

First, we will go over the moment when the spirit of man responds to the declaration of Love. Have you ever seen a person honestly, I repeat, honestly repenting? Not under the pressure of psychological tricks of the modern preachers, not from loading the sub-conscience with the psychedelic, dark music; but a real, deep confession of his guilt before Yahweh. When the person repents not from fear of hell, not for the advantage of going to Heaven, but simply like this: “O Yahweh, forgive me! I did not even know that You love me so much!” I have seen such “lovers”. One didn’t need to explain to them that Yahweh exists or to teach them in that moment what is right and wrong, what Elohim wants, etc. They shone! They were in the world of Love! Their faces and words were differed so much from the dark faces and words of lawyers, from the empty, falsely joyful, artificial lawless ones, that they couldn’t even be put together! Friends, only Love is real. Only she is - everything!

Heart of our faith is - Love. If Love is absent then we may call ourselves with any holy name, we may defend our beliefs about Yahweh doctrines ‘till hoarseness in the voice and cramps in the heart - all this is self-deception! Rabbi Shaul, writing to the congregation of Ephesus, explains the relationship to Yahweh using the example of relationships between the husband and wife: “This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Messiah and the Israyl.” (Eph. 5:32) Thus we come to some great mystery, the mystery of personal, intimate relationships of man and Yahweh. We are used to think that Yahweh is somewhere there, separate from us; some distant Elohim … And we here serve Him conducting Shabbat services, trying to be good according to what is written. Yet, throughout all His Word he says: “I am with you! I am here! I love you! You are Mine! You are dear to Me, so dear that I gave everything for your sake! Don’t you notice My love? Why do you pray to Me as to some distant Yahweh? I much closer to you that you even imagine it!” Yashua was saying: “ The Kingdom of Heaven is within you!” Friends, we are talking about the heart of Yahweh, therefore listen with your hearts: it is your chance to hear Him! Wherever you are, may the Love of Yahweh touch you. Don’t just say: “Amen, the brother is right.” Enough! Enough of nodding in agreement! It is time to look into the eyes of Messiah, to tear away the religious vanity and recall where have we fallen, where did we loose the feelings of first Love and became a dead, gray mass, out of envy crucifying anyone who is in love.

I was pondering once: where is that instant in which a man looses his first love and falls into the condition of self-contemplation, self-righteousness, spiritual insolence or apathy? The answer is found again in the Scriptures, in the epistle of Rabbi Yaaqob. It turns out that only the man himself is guilty of breaking the harmony of love between Yahweh and man, because when the soul wants to become a friend of the world this fact doesn’t pass unnoticed before the omniscient eyes of the Almighty. The soul is not a friend of the world yet, it doesn’t commit the works of evil yet, it doesn’t insolently renounce the Truth of Yahweh yet, but only desired to become a friend of the world and - the break happens. I already told you that nothing is more sensitive to betrayal and treason than Love. As soon as the sign of avoidance of entire dedication appears in the feelings, Love reacts painfully, tearfully, strongly to the slightest attempt of pretense and insincerity. And nothing will keep the purity of feelings as Love would. Any claims of the seducer are reacted to with outrage and indignation. As soon as the slightest hints on temptation are noticed, Love instantly discovers all the plots of devil and triumphantly declares faithfulness to her Beloved. Our life is full of various intersections, bumps, and situations where one cannot discern on one's own what is going on. Theologians don’t know what to do. Meanwhile Love very quickly answers all questions of the one who posses her, because she is more than the intellect. She is the very heartbeat of faithfulness. Love cannot be deceived.

Rabbi Yaaqob talks about those who curry favor with the world and regards them as fornicators. Aye, why so strongly, brother Yaaqob?! Because feelings are mixed in relationships, not some mechanical worship. Here the subject is about the free will of choice and to whom the person gives preference. Friends, we are all guilty before the Love of Yahweh. We are all fornicators more or less. Some let business crawl into their hearts and thus provision for the flesh is made to fulfill her lusts so much that the person cannot live without it. Take the business away from him and he may even loose his senses! What is the secret? People say: “He put his heart to business”, that means he put into his heart something else rather than what is given in the first commandment “The declaration of Love”. Thus the Jewish world is full of fornicators: some fell in love with the house, some with job, others with car, women, TV, computer and so on and so forth! Our Yahweh is a jealous Elohim! Either the WHOLE heart or NOTHING! Such is the Law of Love. So, friends, think: whom you love?

Now look, in the Book of Prophecy it is written: “Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.” At some point in the Way Love didn’t continue to walk with you further. You left her… and what happened? Where could you find such power that regardless of anything made you leave Love and continue in the Way without her? Friends, there is no such power in the whole world that would make you or me do this. You did it YOURSELF! You simply wanted to be like everybody. While you loved you lived an unselfish life. You decided that it’s enough of foolish life for you, and as soon as you thought so, another love spilled into your spirit. You fell in love with the world. Now everyone understands you. You became kindred to the world. Now the Jews slap you on the shoulder and say: “Should’ve done that long ago! There’s no need to imagine yourself to be ‘who-knows-what!” But Yahweh faithfulness is great! If we are not faithful, He remains faithful, because He cannot disavow Himself. He said: “ I will not leave you, nor forsake you!” This is the sound of Love, the Love that you’ve left! She will be waiting for you always there where you left her. There where you parted, she will be waiting for you faithfully, because Yahweh is faithful. If people loving, can wait for each other all life, more so Yahweh, Who is all Love in Himself! He is waiting. Do you hear? Waiting for you there where you left Him, and in this you have hope.

You love the world? Look what you exchanged Yahweh Love for: for temporary, cheap passions? All this will decay, burn, perish, but in the end deceive your soul. You console yourself with the thought that you do good works, give the tithes, and even partake in communion. Don’t do that! Don’t lie to yourself! Come to your senses! Love is waiting for YOU, not for the rituals. The Love that you left is waiting for you. You know that there you will surely find her. Just recall where you left her and run! Run, while it is not too late! My friend, run from the embrace of death! The Father is waiting for you, all this time He is waiting…

Today we are talking about Love and I want you to understand me right: the subject is not about compromising with sin, although it is written that Love covers a multitude of sin. Yes, that is she covers the repentant sinner, she feels compassion for the fall of her neighbor, she prays for the apostate, searches for a way to gain back the outcast; she judges no one hastily, she loves but is not lenient to sin.

Here is an example: you have children and love them very much, I know, as no one else in this world would: they are not strangers to you, they are you very own. Say, your son or daughter acted against your will and hurt you very, very much. You know, “painful” is a term meaning the condition of offended Love (feelings). So, you are much distressed by their action and can no longer eat, drink or sleep. And, of course, they deserve punishment. But then that son or daughter of yours comes up to you and looking into your eyes says: “Forgive me… I am guilty! Forgive me for causing your pain.” And they repent thus not for fear of punishment, but because of realization of their fault which caused in the heart of the one who endlessly loves. Oh, from such sincere confession and repentance any loving father or mother would even cry from emotion - the feeling of gladdened Love in them - and this Love in such a moment covers a MULTITUDE of sin!

Remember the parable of the prodigal son? When he was returning and still was at a distance, the father saw him and ran! Had the father nothing else to do, but look at the road all the time since the son left? Yet he was waiting! Love is more that obligation. It is higher than oath. It is - undying faithfulness! All that we need is in Love. Then we will be able to accept a returning brother or sister. We will be able to not reproach our enemies, but run out to meet them from overflowing feelings of joy in our hearts and love to them because they are coming back to Yahweh! This Love gives strength to the old age: the father of the prodigal son ran out to meet him! Spiritually, I see this picture: a gray-haired, barely moving father seeing his son lighted up, strained forward and… behold, the old man is running! I ever want to see this image of the Power of Love that creates in people the impossible, great, true and holy!

I want to show the contrast between those who love and those who play the role of the one who has love. Remember the moments in life when you parted with someone you loved? How an unexplainable feeling of great sadness burned your heart! We left our first Love to Yahweh and seemingly nothing is wrong. We didn’t even notice how we got involved in working for the Elohim, but we don’t remember when was the last time we met with HIM. Now we sit in Congregations pointing others to the doctrines, yet being dead within ourselves and full of pretense, self-righteousness and playing in being alive! We can’t even imagine that we are cursed, because we love not the Lord. The people of religion who lost love to their Messiah are the most frightful and dangerous. If they are insensitive to the agony of Yashua, Who loves them, then will they have compassion to the weak, will they understand the joy or the love of those who came back? Friends, religion is the gray mass that leads people to the stakes, tortures, excommunicating and beating up all those who are alive and serve the Adonai.

When we were young and lived by feelings, not by the carnal logic, we searched for those who would become our best friends. Later, with age came selfish consideration. Before, though, we were with such people because there was some microclimate, some peace that we felt while being with the kindred spirits. We were ready to live and die with them. Oh, how hard we became with age! There is little now that can disturb our feelings. Gethsemane, Calvary, the cross - became everyday words. We read them, but we don’t feel them. Do you hear? We are dying! Where are our first feelings to Messiah? Recall your spiritual youth and love to Him and compare your present relationship with Him, maybe you will feel and see the difference and understand what you lost.

When there’s no Love, people will easily forget and betray. There are only words, the most vile in the world when they speak of loving Yahweh, yet they are lying, because it is not reflected in their life! Everything is only words! And satan laughs, saying: “You see how they love You? They talk about Love, yet think about other things. Yawning, they say “Thy Kingdom come…” - yet they love the world.” Friends, thus the Name of Yahweh is blasphemed. If you don’t love the Elohim - say it as it is! The heart will be purer from such confession. There is nothing more faithful than Love, therefore don’t seek faithfulness there where it is not. There they serve Yahweh because of fear, propriety, traditions, style of life, but inside there’s almost hate, because all these things are obligations. Therefore the yoke is not easy and the burden not light! But the perfection of freedom is in Love, only in Love.

Very often I see how congregations fall and degenerate. They were full of Love and suddenly they are left to lie in the ruins of Law and lawlessness. It is frightful that those ruins justify themselves based on the Scriptures as they please, and this leads to complete renunciation of Yahweh and removal from the Root.

Messiah spoke with people who knew the Law. They knew it so well, as no one else did. He said to those who looked like they were always in the presence of Divine revelations - to them Yashua said: “I know you! You don’t have love for God within you!” I hear this crying, the crying of Messiah heart! Oh, Elohim, how do You look at my heart? Maybe I am one of them? Thus your outside does not necessarily mean you are the same inside. This is called hypocrisy, friends! This is what rebuked Israyl for, because this form without life brings death to everything holy and alive. Oh, Almighty Yahweh, protect my heart from imitating a righteous man! Help me to simply be who I am before You and the people around me, to live by the measure of Love that is in me. May She be the motivator of righteousness, not the knowledge of how righteous men look and the sacrilegious imitation of their behavior without love to You!

The Lord knew their hearts and that these hearts didn’t have the most important thing. Namely: the fulfillment of the First Commandment was absent, because it is impossible to buy, steal or craft it. This commandment is about the feeling of love to Yahweh, and He (Messiah) knew they didn’t have it therefore they had nothing. All the outward attributes of so-called righteous men made them more wicked than adulterers and sinners. Why? Because the latter didn’t pretend to be holy, while the former played a role, and because of this Yahweh Name was blasphemed in the spirit world.

During the time of Messiah teaching, only a few individuals had personal, deep relationships with Yahweh. The rest of Israyl was a smothering religious, traditional system, believing in the promises yet lacking all that Yahweh wanted to see in them. He waited for their hearts, yet they brought Him the visible things. He gave them the Heavenly, yet they put it into the earthly forms of customs. He sought for the responding feelings of Love, yet they received it as a lifeless obligation. Friends, when I talk about the past, I mean the present therefore read this as a parable.

Now we arrive to the next turn in the labyrinth of the human being. As I said earlier, we are on a tour of the human heart. We are talking specifically about the instant when the believing person looses his love to Yahweh still remaining a so-called Messianic Jews, which unavoidably leads to a lifeless tradition - religion. The forms of this tradition may not at all be bad. They are precisely that poisonous light which attracts the religious souls. Rabbi Yahdah writes thus (vs. 12): “These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit whithereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots…” Friends, how did it happen that the members of our nation became unconscionable? Have you ever seen insolent, high-handed Jew without shame and modesty, those that feast, those that are impudent? Therefore it is a result of emptiness. He who loves Yahweh cannot behave so. Only the son of devil, a Jew who long ago has lost his love to Yahweh, can behave so at suppers of love; and Rabbi Yahdah writes about that. All this is because the person continues to regard himself spiritually prospering - by inertia, by the habit - self-assuredly, without even suspecting that a long time he’s been an enemy of Yahweh.

Let’s study the reasons why this is happening with a Messianic Congregation. In Book of Prophecy 3:14-18 we have read the following many times: “And unto the angel of the congregation of the Laodiceans write; These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of Yahweh; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of My mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of Me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thy eyes with eye salve, that thou mayest see.” Here, friends, the Elohim is showing us that a person speaks of himself (although the Yahweh is addressing the congregation, it can be referred to each person individually) saying: “I am rich, I have this or that; I do this or that; I am not bad spiritually; I am pleasing Yahweh” - and so on… Yet the Elohim says: “You know not!” The person says of himself what he sees through his own eyes, but who asks Yahweh today: “Elohim, I want to see myself through Your view of me! Maybe I don’t know. I speak of myself but I don’t know that I am wretched, miserable and poor, and blind, and naked”? Further the Yahweh says: “I counsel thee to buy of Me gold tried in the fire.” That is, friends, only through purification in the fire and when we pay for the faith in our life we begin to discern and see who we are. Only through the fire we know who we really are before Yahweh. That is why many of those who loved Elohim but lost their first feelings towards Him live in religion and know not that the light they possess is not light anymore. That means: doctrines without love - are darkness.

My dear friend, it is your time to engage in examining your heart. Look, maybe nothing alive and from Yahweh is left there… only memories of the past Love. My friend, tell it all to the Creator! Don’t hide! He loves you, and this means that you are coming not to the insensitive Master, but to the loving Heart of the Creator, Who endlessly, infinitely loves you! Believe this and your spirit will come alive in the presence of His joy. Return to Him, He has not denied you. He is your closest, most closest Friend. I know that you’ve heard these words hundreds of times, but put a meaning to them! Listen to them with your heart. Perhaps we’ve had enough of wandering in the darkness and keeping our doctrines by habit, by custom and destroying all that is alive in the congregations. I am not judging anyone. We are all unworthy. We all have sinned: our forefathers and we. We digressed from the Love of Messiah in us and went into tradition. How many times did we betray His Love, while pretending to be holy and loving Him? How many times we endlessly talked about something we didn’t believe in personally, uttered something we didn’t have inside? And He waited… And is waiting still, not for the self-assuredness, which we call faith, and not for the meditations and filling of ourselves with the Holy Spirit, not for the sacrifices and some special religious projects - but simply for your heart, alive and sensitive to Him! And I want to tell you His words - friend, do you hear? - He wants to meet with you again! He still mightily loves you as ever before! He is calling you to be with Him alone. He is your Yahweh, Whom you once loved. Not one doctrine, even the most perfect one, will protect us and our children from backsliding into the dead religion of Law and lawlessness. ONLY LOVE will keep us real and fresh in our faith!

It is distressing to see how today’s leaders of the Messianic congregations try to preserve the structure, and securing their positions by various ideas and activities they loose the most important! But Messiah said: “Not a rock will be left upon a rock here…” Do you hear, leaders! Not a rock will be left upon a rock here: everything will be destroyed to rebuild a new Temple, one that is not made with hands and by our carnal efforts, one that is different - ETERNAL! And Love is eternal. The best and most talented work of pastors - make-up artists is useless. It is useless to put make-up on a carcass. It is decaying! From outside it looks impressive and alive, but inside there is no life! Oh my dear friends, be members of the Living Body of Messiah, which is composed of each one of us grafted and incremented to It and is established within Itself only by Love! Otherwise you are not incremented, you are a foreign body in the Body of Messiah and you will be naturally rejected as the human body rejects foreign things. Otherwise we will not be much different from the Club of Young Technologists where people are gathered because of interests. The world government worked 2000 years to make the congregation into a House of Christian or Messianic Culture where all the dead denominations merry and resourceful would be able to co-exist; where the frowning lawyers and the reckless charismatic would play in the same harness obediently walking towards downfall. Thus buildings of the so-called congregations/churches are being erected at the intersections of spiritual roads: the Baptist Club of Bible Study, the Messianic & Adventist Club of Common Nutrition, the Pentecostal Club of the Quest for Acute Feelings… But who loves Yahweh today? Who searches the heart of Elohim? Friends, thousands spent time studying the Torah, yet they yelled “Crucify!” Tens of thousands exercised the best Kosher Nutrition, yet they brought vinegar to the Lord when He was in agony. Many searched for new spiritual manifestations and burned the Scripture manuscripts… All this does not mean belonging to the Israyl. ONLY Love! And as a result of this Love - studying the Torah, and because of love to the Author - keeping ourselves in purity because Love cannot think otherwise, and the filling of the Holy Spirit as a consequence of the personal relationship with Yahweh - this is the daily life of the Israyl of Yahweh! You can spend all your life preaching the doctrine, but Love is the heartbeat of that doctrine and if Love is absent then all that you build will decay and turn into metastasis of other religious denominations and heresies. Look at the methods: we worry so much for the number of members in the church that we have gathered crowds, we are ready for any kind of compromise reforming into a dissolute harlot! The Truth seeks those who love Her. Messiah Himself, when the seventy disciples left Him, said to the twelve: “don’t you want to leave?” You know, Truth does not gather quantities. Those who open their hearts to Her, those who need Her and to whom She is dearer than this whole world and even that their own lives - such come to the Truth. We are building churches, but if there is no Love to Yahweh in their foundation, then something else will be holding the people together. Perhaps language, doctrines or place of residence, but it will not be the congregation of the Messiah. It will be a Jewish Club and such a club will not inherit the Kingdom of Yahweh. Only those who love the Elohim - only they belong to the Bride of the Lamb.

You know, congregations that don’t have love to Yahweh will have only evil which will possibly give itself out as love. Masses of preachers preach information today: this happened there, that happened in the other place, so and so fell there, etc. Friends, information will not change anything. If the soul of a person will not understand that there is no love to Yahweh inside those preachers, then all this is vain noise! We tie Rules upon the youth: “this you cannot do! That you cannot do!” That’s the end of our theological efforts. Yet we - do you hear, brothers and sisters? - we must live so that the youth would desire to have that what they would see in us. Namely: sincere love to Yahweh and to our neighbors. But the youth say today (if not out loud for fear before you, then in their hearts): “What is the use that they all divided among themselves!” Friends, I heard this. We, friends, we - the older generation have no love to Yahweh! Therefore, dear youth forgive us! You don’t see an example to follow in us! The parents judge others right in front of the young ones! As soon as they come from Shabbat worship they start judging others. Friends, if there is really something wrong, gather your children and cry with them for the people, for the plagues of the people, if you desire salvation for your children. Our religious, adulterous talking poisons their faith when we judge each other, when we, hating each other, utter all those words of the darkness. Have compassion on your children! Don’t you fear that when there is no love to Yahweh the next generation is headed straight into downfall?! Only the Elohim knows who will survive out of the multitude of children from Messianic families poisoned by dead religion, poisoned by us. Do we not fear that they will become like us?

I address the registered - the Messianic State congregations, and the Underground Messianic Brotherhood. We are all tangled up, we all lost the meaning, we are all violators of the Covenant, and we all remember our infidelity to Love. Recall once again what you promised Him when you received the water baptism. What you promised and how you lived your life? There is no greater crime and pain than the betrayal of Love! Therefore don’t tear your garments seeing the behavior of your children. They are our reflection in the mirror of fate. This is a result of religion, dead tradition and artificial spirituality.

I already spoke of the fact that loosing Love unavoidably leads to dead traditions. Let’s study this more. The dead tradition in panic falls either for the Law or in to lawlessness in order to make sure it does not disappear completely. I want to discuss the first. The event of the last years - persecution, registration, immigration, and acceptance of the citizenship - divided the society into two main camps with different regimens. Natural reaction to the growth of lawlessness amongst the people was such that the people dashed for the Law looking to find shelter in it from the avalanche of deviation. Did this help and how is that society getting along, those who took upon themselves the duty of keeping the Truth? Not long ago I talked with one of the ministers who is stuck between the two camps of lawyers and the lawless. Here is what he related to me: “First they divided in half, then they divided among themselves, then started gathering together just with the family, there they divided again and now we each pray alone.” What is the reason of such dangerous tendency? Passion for disputes or is it hard to get along with each other? Or maybe the brothers are too wise?  What is the root of this? Now read carefully. The lawfulness and lawlessness in the congregation are a product of spiritual corruption. Lawfulness bears lawlessness and lawlessness bears lawfulness. These are the two sides of the Narrow Way between which lies the more excellent Way: the Way of Love. Yet we, today, are so sure in our righteousness that we excommunicate the sincere, wavering, weak brothers and sisters, without compassion and mercy. Meanwhile the dragons - sons of serpents creep into the leadership. They are the most brilliant believers. They have no problems or visible sins - like the artificial flowers - always in the same condition. Whereas the man of Yahweh is walking on: it is hard for him, he is in the battle. Therefore don’t strike right away, friends! Don’t slay those who are written in the Book of Life! The Elohim Himself says in the book of Mattithyah that Yahweh admonishes a man three times through different people. He doesn’t cut off right away because He knows that we are flesh. Then He walks off to the side leaving the person in the hands of his fall, yet even then the Almighty searches for a way of reaching the heart. Only Love can do this!

Today’s Messianic congregations looks like a camp system: common zone, strict zone, reinforced zone, special zone, etc. But it is not freedom! Love does not need zones because Love “worketh no evil to his neighbor” (Rom. 13:10) one doesn’t need to run after those who love Yahweh and to watch them or beat them with the Law, because the one who loves Elohim is a Law within himself when he stumbles. He suffers so much that not one punishment in the world can be compared with this pain. It is a feeling of guilt before Love and because of this the righteous man stands up and walks on to the Eternal Love.

We are all wrong. We all have sinned and came short of the glory of Yahweh: lawyers as well as the charismatic and the limitless. Only Love is right and those who possess Her. Their life changes not because they are bound by Law or freed by lawlessness, but because they cannot live otherwise walking in the more excellent Way. They live by Love and She has Her own style of life: forgetting Herself and Her rights to become absorbed in the search of submitting Herself to Her Beloved.

Let’s look into the Word of Yahweh, Who so boundlessly loves all of us. The Elohim gave His life for us! He left Heaven and came down to earth. They spit into the face of the One through Whom Heaven and earth were created! Man spit into this face! You know why He endured all this? Because He IS LOVE! We, today, cannot endure the smallest, slightest reproach from those who surround us. Today we cannot endure a glance we received at congregation - we are offended, we are hurt. Yet the One Who is beloved of the Elohim, the only Begotten, the Holy and spotless One was spit on by us and did not repay us with single word! Only Love can do this! If we are not like that it is not because we haven’t read the Scripture enough, or prayed and fasted enough, but because we do not love Yahweh, because we put Elohim Words somewhere but not into our hearts.

The Apostles didn’t push on anyone to become members of the congregation or to have knowledge of Yahweh, but giving the primary teaching they encouraged the people to perfection, to growth. Rabbi Shaul says this of himself and others: “Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Messiah. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of Yahweh in Yashua HaMashiach. Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, Yahweh shall reveal even this unto you. Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.” (Phil. 3:12-16) Please don’t twist what I am saying. I am not talking about lawlessness, but about the natural growth of a Messianic. The Apostles didn’t push believers to grow by the unreal growth. Let’s look in Acts 20:32: “And now, brethren, I commend you to Yahweh, and to the Word of His grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.” Why don’t you give the people all that you know, Shaul, being an apostle and possessing so much wisdom, but rather you say: “I give you unto the grace of Yahweh which will teach you”? Because Yashua also couldn’t give all of His knowledge. He spoke to them of the beginnings, the basics of the teaching, while they argued who will be the greatest. He spoke of the rudiments, so to say, while they though of their own, of the carnal things. Then, after Messiah ascended they remained in Jerusalem, as the history relates. They remained there until Rabbi Shaul was captured. Only after seeing what the Jews did to Shaul they saw things clearly and went out to preach to the whole world. Shaul was compelled to offer a sacrifice in Jerusalem. How come the Apostles did this: compelled Rabbi Shaul to offer a sacrifice when Messiah already died and was resurrected? As we see, the Apostles grew like all other people. We are all disciples of Messiah, we are able to learn. But friends, the Apostles were sincere, that is - they loved Yahweh, and the growth comes along the way, and the knowledge is given according to your spiritual stomach. As it is written, this knowledge is given only to those who love Yahweh and not to others. Others may know about Yahweh, read a lot, study in colleges where they accumulate, steal this information. But knowledge - that perception of the Mighty Yahweh - is given only to those that love Him. Only those the Elohim trusts with this knowledge. As I already said, you will not find this knowledge in Torah colleges or in scheduled reading of the Word, nor in scheduled prayers and fasts. This knowledge is the result of loving Yahweh! We compel people to have this knowledge, but knowledge without Love is evil! We don’t believe Elohim and His Spirit of Grace. Rabbi Shaul believed. He established congegations and then gave them over unto the Grace of Yahweh. We don’t believe… We by our own efforts push people into the congregation through windows and they destroy our congregations. We took the position, which the Apostles didn’t dare to take. They didn’t rule over the faith of people, rather they told them how to live right! For each hasty action the Apostles paid a very great price. If we desire salvation for those who first heard about Yahweh, we need FAITH, not multitude of righteous words. Let Yahweh grow the people and don’t feed them with your own food so that they choke. Yahweh should give you the food that you will give to the people. And Elohim tastes that what the infants must eat. But when the Rabbis, pastors, preachers and the old members of the congregation have no love to Yahweh within themselves, when nothing is visible and perceptible then the traditional religion becomes a Law so much that the person cannot be seen, the neighbor cannot be seen. If a person doesn’t scream in tongues louder than others, then he is weak spiritually. If he doesn’t memorize something from the Torah, then he is ignorant in the Word. If he doesn’t sing in the choir, then he is lazy. But I want to testify to you not a formula, but simply for thought, that I too speak in tongues. But when I could not say anything at all in His divine presence - that’s when I was filled with the Holy Spirit the most. Without knowing the grammar an old man preached so that even with education and all that you or I have we would not be able to perceive it, because he was given knowledge for a reason. What reason? He loved Yahweh. Those who did not have a place in the choir singing, praised Yahweh so that as they sang demons came out of people. You see, we strive for the visible things because we are blind in the invisible. Therefore it is necessary for us to imitate those who are alive. Yet some are simply alive without straining to live. He loves therefore he lives. Listen, Rabbis, I say this to you. Therefore do not hinder people to come to Messiah. Don’t hurry to make out of them what you think is right according to your judgment. Yahweh has a determination for each one of us. But maybe we are lifelong spiritual prematures because someone decided to bear us before due time. We want to see our children mature in Yahweh so much that we don’t even let them have a chance to choose, to naturally grow in Him. All they hear is: “children! Come to pray at once!” and so on. They yell at the children to go and pray. They will hate those prayers! What are you doing?! Making children to receive the spiritual baptism - what are you doing?! You are destroying Yahweh Truth. You are going contrary to the teaching of the apostles and the prophets, against the wounds of Messiah. We press people to receive the water baptism, we make them preach, we give them rabbinical & pastoral duties… because of this anti messiah reign in the congregation. We forced them to lie. We forced them to play games; we forced them to learn to imitate so well in order to get rid of us because they are sick of us and our righteousness, which we are trying to impose on them. Friends, Love came to this earth and She searched for love in return from people. Not the dead doctrines that we impose on youth today, but this Yeshua HaMashiach, this Love searched for the love in return from people. But people crucified this Love because they perverted the feelings and relationships. They made it into a dogma and a law. This is what we are doing today in our congregations and homes. Do not compel a person to act according to the Torah if he does not have love to Yahweh within. Pray that he would understand and repent in this, and the works would naturally be according to the requirements of Yahweh because Love has the Law of Love within herself, the Law of freedom, which is not pressed upon the person but is desired of him because of love to Yahweh. Maybe you, who so zealously preach about true behavior, apparel, congregation structure - maybe you first should come to your senses and admit to yourself that you haven’t loved Yahweh for a long time, and you serve Him out of habit, but not out of Love. My advice to you - not a law, we’ve had enough of laws - my advice to you: stand up and confess before the people that you do not love Yahweh, if you truly realized that. And your repentance will be more fruitful than decades of lawyer battles in sermons. Thousands may be awakened by your repentance - those who think that they love Yahweh, yet they don’t love Him and that is the reason of their death. My dear friends, admit to yourself your condition before Elohim, and people around you will start coming back to life! Messiah did not create sects. He preached the Kingdom of Love. Yet we have structure. That means: anyone who will declare that this structure is useless will be stoned and crucified - those who will be bold enough to tell us what we forbade even to think of. Namely, of the fact that fighting for purity we ended up without Messiah and His grace. One only hears steel voices: “You MUST do it this way!” Friends, where is Love? The person is weak, doesn’t understand; he is not a dragon. I am not speaking of the enemies, but of the weak ones. He doesn’t understand, he is honest, but doesn’t match our religious level and we right away sentence: “Excommunicate! Anathema!” Where are we going, friends? Did Elohim treat you so when you fell? Recall about yourself! Wait; don’t think of your neighbor - look at yourself! How sharp we became acquiring the tops of the visible.

With boldness and in fear before the Almighty, I rebuke you, lawyers. A great guilt is upon you for eating up souls. Blinded by self-righteousness, self-assuredness, you confused a weakened brother for enemies, dragons. In zealousness you crucified your weakest ones, so many innocent and lost - those who needed help! Soon, after insubordinate application of Yahweh Truth without Love we started to misuse authority that we never had and no one ever gave it to us: we excommunicated those who we shouldn’t have excommunicated, we banished those who should be first in the congregation, we hated those whom Yahweh loves, we scratched out from our lists of friends those who are written in the Book of Life. For violating the news of the Kingdom we will answer before the King. The permission to be bold and zealously reproach is given only to those who can have compassion and mercy. To others - it is strictly forbidden. I will repeat (Yahweh spoke this into my spirit recently): “I allow rebuking others only to those who have love within themselves”. Yet we learned the doctrines and memorizing what is right and what is not we grew up into rabbis,ministers, leaders. But we have nothing if we don’t have love. We go around land and sea trying to take over at least one out of the anarchistic majority and convert him to dead lawfulness destroying any right to chose and grow in Yahweh. But the sacrificial Love of the Yashua - only She could change the egoistic world. Because nothing else, nor miracles, nor manifestations, but Sacrifice - when in agony He tried to take another breath stretching on the nails - the Sacrifice itself becomes the voice of Love that reaches much deeper than the mind. Love calls to the feelings and says: “Look, friend! My child, look, I am dying! Dying so painfully, undeservedly… All this is because… I love you. When My disciple betrayed Me I took it very painfully, as a person… When they spat on Me, I thought of you, My friend. Through Me the visible and invisible world was created, yet I died as a villain - and all this is only because I loved you so much…” Thus the Sacrifice of Yashua, without words, speaks to our inner man.

Today, we have the world in our hearts: we think of the worldly things and preach a lifeless truth. Truth without Sacrifice does not bear fruit. Dying the illumination by Love is born. Not the brains, but the hearts of those around are touched at the sight of the suffering of a loving heart. And the best sermon is - Love. But if you say of yourself that you love Yahweh, yet this love doesn’t lead you to sacrifice for the sake of the Beloved, then the light that is in you is darkness. It is not light. It is not Love - it is an advantage, a game, a worshipping of yourself. The gatherings of such people - regardless of all their claims of the highest purity and righteousness - is called: the synagogue of satan. They say of themselves that they are Jews, (that is ardent advocates of the Law, purity and orderliness) yet in the real life they are full of evil, and the best of them are like a thorny bush. They do not have love to Yahweh within themselves. With all their strength trying to defend the Truth in the congregation the lawyers themselves don’t know that they are the thorny wreath for the King of kings. I am saying this to the congregations that so strongly defends doctrines today, but has no love to Yahweh: you are the thorny crown for the Elohim. Yahweh wants people to grow in Love, Grace and Knowledge. Yet we force them to be as our perverted mind wants to see them. You can dress the people in the darkest clothes, forbid them to drive cars, or, on the contrary, allow them everything leading them through the fire of Moloch throwing them into the sea of the world as if to teach them to survive. Both the former and the latter ideas are satan’s inventions - two extremes in the motives of modern sermons. Think, dear friend, who you are serving. Purifying the visible thus compelling people to be more acute and deft in acting out the holy ones. By picking the poisonous fruits nothing changes in the tree. The substance and nature of it remain the same. You rejoice that you’ve made someone to dress, so to speak, Messiah-like, but anything that is not done by faith is sin. You led them to the Law, but not to Love. They did this because you’ve put them into the corner by your knowledge of the Scriptures. They have nowhere to go. They are afraid of going to hell that is why they submitted, but not because you revealed to them the Loving Yahweh Who gave His only Son for their sake and that by loving Him they would find all answers for their inner and outer man. Today women’s don’t have love to Yahweh and to neighbors, yet we tie headcoverings upon them, fight for the length of the skirts, for hairdos, for hair. But we forgot that we all have sinned and came short of the glory of Yahweh: those who are naked and those who wear long veils. Do not seal the cracks in the foundation by devil’s idea of just the visible, outer piety. Do not push people into the congregations. Let them find the door on their own. Love to Yahweh will show them the way. Believe in grace and don’t hurry to count the raised hands of seemingly repentant people. Sow in Love, and the Father knows how and when to grow what is sown. Yahweh doesn’t hold anyone forcefully - and this is the reason of the purity of the congregation. Yet if we do not love Elohim then we are not the members of His Body and it is useless to threat by excommunication, to punish, to force people to be at church for fear of acquiring the saying: “Watch out, or we’ll excommunicate you!” Friends, only those who love Yahweh should come together for fellowship, because of the loving Him. And there’s no need to use the Messianic Rules for means of religious manipulation, chaining the people to membership in the local congregation. Nothing - the Rules, the baptism by water or the Spirit - will keep us in Elohim if we lost our first love to Him. The Yahweh Himself is asking you: “do you love Me?” “Here, I am a minister of the church, Elohim!”  No, no, no! “Do you love Me?” “Well, I sing in the choir, prophecy, speak in tongues, perform healings by Your name, preach…” “No, no, no! I am not asking you about this. Do you love Me? And if not then where did you get all that you have? From who?” therefore it is time before it is too late friends, I am calling the lawyers to hearken and understand that all right words and ideas serve the devil if there is no love to Yahweh in them. People should recognize us that we know Messiah not by books, not by inspirational speeches, not by numerous prayers and fastings, but simply by seeing how we love each other. Why do we have everything except for that? Because love to your neighbors is the natural life of those who love the Elohim. That is the reason of Spiritual disease and problems - we don’t have the most important thing within us, and that means we have nothing just vain flowers, vain sound… I perfectly understand the reaction of lawyers’ religious world to this sermon, but everything that becomes open is light, friends. Tear yourself away from your beloved targets: from judging the charismatic, registered, etc. Look at yourself - are you any better? I’m not saying that the other ones are right; I am saying that you are serving satan if you are applying Yahweh Truth without His Love. If you are claiming to be the keepers of the divine truths but you lost Love then what is the difference between the empty sound of the cymbal and the empty sound of brass? Look in your inside: maybe the image of Caiaphas High Priest is in there, which sits upon the scrolls of the Holy Scriptures and crucifies every messenger from Yahweh. Once again I want to emphasize my position: Love is not compromise, although the lawyers may think that I am preaching this. No. The lawless ones may say: “He is the same as us. He is speaking of love again like we do.” But Yahweh knows the motive of my words and actions. Where the insubordinate will burn, a person with an honest heart passes without stumbling because love is guiding his heart. I do not want to say that I reached perfection already, but I honestly testify to you that lawfulness, same as lawlessness, is the product of devil in the churches. May my soul not enter into the council of these two pits. I frequently have occasion to watch myself and others how often a foot slips off of the Narrow Way either to lawfulness or to lawlessness. You are not watchful and you fall either to one or the other side. Thus we have leaps from one side to the other. When I met the Orthodox Jews and spoke to them, I saw an interesting situation: there where everything was forbidden, where the law of purity in clothes, morals, behavior, everything was so strict that people didn’t have a choice to grow in the real life. Later I would find those people in the most extreme cabbalistic demonic meetings deprived of all shamefacedness and spiritually insolent. I also saw Messianic Jews who understood the game of the Orthodox and awoke, those who noticed that it is a deception, a game. I saw them as lawyers who had mercy on no one.

Dear friends, if we are entering the Narrow Way reduce your speed so that you wouldn’t fly into the ditch. Carefully step into the Narrow Way and walk in it. There is a pit on one side and on the other: the Law and lawlessness. If there is no balance you get death out of death.

Many invented a new strange freedom because they couldn’t remain in love, which is freedom. Now I want to speak of the lawless ones. Since we are called into freedom and cannot live without it we are either free from the world because we loved Yahweh, or free from Elohim because we loved the world. That is why the children of the dragon tried to sanctify lawlessness. They needed to justify their love to this age. Therefore today we often hear triumphant mottos of the slaves of the flesh: “We are not under law, we are under grace!” That means don’t pay attention to our visible life we have peace with Yahweh inside us. This snare of the devil was pleasing to many because thousands were conquered by dead lawfulness. And though people looked righteous inside they were corrupt, evil. Now they claim that the flesh and blood does not inherit the Kingdom of Yahweh. That is, the flesh lives in the freedom of the flesh and the spirit in the freedom of Elohim. It is the usual devil’s theory that is seen throughout all the centuries of Jewish and Christian’s history. But lawlessness pushed people into lawfulness. The erroneous interpretation of the freedom in Messiah is also the devil’s weapon. The two arms of the satan are: right - lawfulness, left - lawlessness, using which he chokes all who loose their love to Yahweh. You preach that there shouldn’t be complexes, promising freedom to people; yet you know not that that the lawyers are on the same billiard table as you, and they are performing the same role of drive souls into the hole of the lake of fire. The love to Yahweh determines the level of understanding the freedom in Messiah. Otherwise the carnal is being built, like the lawyers have (I spoke of this earlier). Under the disguise of spiritual there is a doom of departing from the Love of the Lord. The lawful lawlessness of the conservative, and also the lawless lawfulness of the charismatic end up in the same pit. Their lot is the same, because they served Yahweh without Him. With the loss of Love grows freethinking, self-will, insolence; there is no respect, honor; there’s no fear to offend and as a result there’s no fear even to blaspheme Yahweh. Thus all kinds of anarchical sects and cults are being formed. Yet in Love, only in Love there is harmony. She does not extol Herself, She honors the minister - doesn’t serve him, doesn’t walk after men - but is obedient to all. She doesn’t outrage, and will not say to a brother or sister: “Who are you to tell me what to do!” Love watches Her words and tone of speech. Without Her we torture each other because, you see, the brother doesn’t match our religious, selfish approach in the matters of perfection. Where there is no Love - there is a total lie, there is the kingdom of playing. Therefore everything is so indifferent in the congregation; everything is so cheap, brutal and dead. People forget even the promise of good conscience at the baptism as soon as they dry off, because they promised not out of love, but out of doctrine. Thus such a person seems like the living stone that is out into the building of the congregation, though in the real life it is dead material, although it looks blameless in the robe of righteousness. “From such turn away” (2 Tim. 3:5) - writes Rabbi Shaul. Guard your Love from growing cold and don’t let your “self” take hold of your feelings to Yahweh. “For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing” (Rom. 7:18) Friend, never trust yourself into your flesh - it is death to the spirit. And thus the battle is all life long. But look what is going on: all kinds of spiritual chemists appeared. Being tired from the constant war with their “self” and from falls they announced a formula of the new narrow way saying: “We don’t believe that sin is powerful and doing it we don’t feel the judgment of the conscience. We can do whatever because we were sanctified once and for all.” Did Messiah become a servant of sin? NO! It is we who made our positions perverted, we gave them up, we stepped back. We loved this age. We justify our misdeeds as we please by the erroneous understanding of the grace of Yahweh. Dear friend, if your wife would treat you as you commit adultery with the world, but outside you seem faithful to God, then I think that you would not sanctify and justify the adultery of your beloved. Recall, friend, in the darkness of prisons, the hearts that were in love with Yahweh shined with radiant light of the bliss of fellowship with the loving Elohim. Yet what is with our modern theology? With all the lighting of our stadiums by the evangelical companies we are in the darkness of fornication with the world and in the image of the world inside and outside. There, in the jails the whisper of dying children of Yahweh went loudly into the Universe. Today the roar of microphones wants to represent the filling of the Holy Spirit; only the Heaven ignores the service of peoples' throats and arms. Those clumsy, artificial drama presentations of the modern so-called “worship” are only for devil, and not for Yahweh. But the Elohim, today, in His endless Love, calls anyway and says: “Come back! I will forgive you everything, only acknowledge yourself guilty in unfaithfulness to your husband.” Oh, congregation, any such unfaithfulness is the result of the loss of Love. Where there is no Love - it is foolish to wait for faithfulness. Therefore we so effortlessly went into registration, and later into immigration, not knowing the voice of our Shepherd. We ran after another voice as a result of not being the flock of Yahweh. It is the consequence of freethinking and arbitrariness. But Yahweh is faithful in His Love. Repent and live! Repent for transgressing His Love and He will give you knowledge of what to do next because only those who love Him are given the knowledge from Him. We hold ourselves by some spiritual manifestations and revelations, but nothing led people into deception as much as those manifestations in the unclean and lacking love to Yahweh vessels, but proud, self-willed and disobedient to the Word prophets and vain gift-carriers. People listened to them because in unison with the corrupt condition of the crowd they directed them into the trap so much that even to this day defending this lie many become furious not wanting to see the reality and to acknowledge themselves deceived because of boundless pride. That is how much they applied their heart to false revelations. There are no greater enemies of the Yahweh than the Messianic Jews who lost their love to Yahweh. Any unusual manifestation they reckon as the manifestation of the Spirit of Yahweh. They cannot discern who the action is coming from, because knowledge is given only to those that love Yahweh, as I already said. That is why they call Yahweh what is the devil's, and devil’s what is Yahweh, because they don’t have knowledge for not having love to Yahweh. I am not saying that you shouldn’t seek and desire the Holy Spirit and His gifts, but the desire itself must be a result of wanting to be in the perfect fellowship with Yahweh out of love, and not a formula: not baptized - not saved. That is why people desire out of fear to perish and not out of love to Yahweh. And this grows into spiritual monstrousness and spiritual possession. Look around, and you will see that I am not lying. They are seeking acute spiritual experiences, which leads to deception and heresies. Therefore seeing such false spiritual congregations other denominations stop any attempts to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit comparing the Truth with the visible deviation of the spiritual ones. Exactly what the satan wanted to achieve. And through whom did he achieve? Through the fallen Messianic, Pentecostals and Charismatics. Friends, I want to tell to all those that are in other denominations: do not pay attention to the stumbling, do not measure the Truth by the delusions, but grow reaching the love to Yahweh and then no one, no perversion of the religious world will not be able to cast a shadow on your search. Loosing Love and the instructive Grace, the society steps in the way of self-destruction and anarchy. And as a result: clothes - as I want, wives are disobedient as the congregation is disobedient to Messiah, rabbis pasture themselves, false gifts, false joy… Nothing will protect the congregation from cabbalists, masons and any other servants of the devil’s Sanhedrin as the perfect love to Yahweh in each one of us. Love determines your behavior, your thinking, and your life. It is a blessing. It is slavery that brings freedom. It is foolishness that gives perfect wisdom. It is crucifixion for resurrection. It is denial in gain. It is death into life. It is a paradox, which only those in love can receive. Love has the right to be first because She justified herself in action. There is no other way in the world. And I exclaim into the Universe: LOVE IS RIGHT! Evil cannot lay claims to the style of life of the visible and invisible worlds, because evil is bad, filthy. It is the lot of those who did not remain in Love. Evil is downfall, whereas Love is life. Life with fullness of all the feelings that overfill you with happiness, which the mortals still, have not succeeded to express. We going to the Kingdom of perfect light, the Kingdom of joy and rest, happiness and all that is embodied in Love Whose Name is Yahweh. Hallelujah! The Truth is not in the congregation, not in Israyl but in Yahweh. Look into the eyes of the Messiah Who in the pain of agony whispers to you: “I am dying because I love you so much!” And He doesn’t lie! Everybody lies, but not Him! Go to Him, love Him! And this Love will lead you to Him among the furious religious crowd no matter what it costs. You will not fit into any of the so-called Messianic societies, because your name is written into the Book of Life! You meet the Beloved not in today’s churches, but in the desert. Read carefully about Israel and you will understand what I am talking about. Yshua says: “You are My friends.” That is - My comrades, those whom I trust with everything. That is - you are a part of Me, you are My comrades, you are My brothers! The Love of Yahweh is not only a law that is set against us -- it is deep feelings. I remember when I died and came back to life spiritually, I thought that there is no way back because the whole load of dead religious activities fell on me. I cried: “Lord, I am perishing, but only You are everything for me! You are my happiness, You are my love, You are light, You are my Yahweh, You know everything! I am ashamed of what I call love to You because it is unreal feelings and imitation. Yahweh, if there is no way for me to return to my first love to you then cut off my life! Why do I need all those sermons, those right dead prayers, the traditional filling up with the Spirit. Why do I need life without Life! Take me away…” and He spoke to Me by Love in action. He sent a person from far away: more than 5000 kilometers, so that he would come and sing to me only one song that the Lord recently gave him. In this song were the words: I shall not die, but I will live… and so on, about the Love of Yahweh. He sang to me this song of Heaven and I heard Messiah in it in His Almighty Love that is able to resurrect the dead…

Oh my friend, if in your life there were at least seconds of love to Yahweh and you heard how He personally told you of His love to you, then you will never, never be happy with this deceitful world. You cannot forget those meetings when your soul was getting to know Messiah. All the way you will remember of the lost Love with longing. But listen, LISTEN - don’t believe the devil, which keeps saying that there is no place for you in Yahweh Love! The Father loves - do you hear? I am telling you of His heart - He LOVES! He is faithful in His Love. Even if you betrayed His Love - He DID NOT betray. He is faithful! No matter how far you are gone in the way of lawfulness or anarchy - come back! The heart of the Father is waiting for you. And this heart is you chance and hope, because this heart is the heart of BOUNDLESS Love, which covers a MULTITUDE of your sins. Only admit yourself guilty before this Holy Love. Love to the Father and to the people led the Messiah in the way to the Calvary and held him on the cross for you and for me. Remember how many times your love and mine kept you in self-denial and foolishness for Messiah sake. All our victories in the faith were only when the faith worked by Love. And without Love all our vain attempts for the feats of faith ended up in downfall, despair, evil and hostility. All good works without Love ended up in despondency, reproaches and “heartburn” in those people to whom we brought evil trying to do good, because good works without Love are dead, insensible and cruel. Without Love prayers are just a mechanical ritual. Feastings are no more than hunger strikes, joy is no more than hysterics, sympathy is like malicious insults, and meetings like crowd gatherings. There is no Love - means there is nothing, because Yahweh is Love and without Him all our imitations are empty sound and self-deception.

I recall a moment in my life when on one rainy day I stood by a river and meditating about Yahweh I pondered. Suddenly, my spirit started speaking within me to the Almighty, confessing an inner, unseen to me condition. I stood and listened. That confession flowed from the depths of the heart and I did not hinder because I understood that it is my chance to be heard by Yahweh. And this is what my heart spoke: “Father, I do not love You. How many times I preached about You out of obligation or by tradition; how many times I prayed for the weak because it needed to be done; I spent days traveling for teach Torah because I worshipped the work, but personally, myself I don’t love You. Take away everything from me! Start anew, from Love. I can’t go otherwise!” And, you know, my friends, Yahweh heard the voice of the spirit and answered. He answered a shattering of my “self”, destroying all my accomplishments and popularity. The return to love to Yahweh required a total acknowledgement of helplessness and doom, so that my heart would again speak to the heart of Yahweh without the usual, memorized righteous phrases, false tears, false filling - but just simply, as I am. I spoke what I had in the heart. And in those six months of my burial, my friend, Love returned again! It is not just say “One, two, three” and She is here. It is again a voluntary submission to death in the name of resurrection; selling all that you have: knowledge, calling, friends, business, for the sake of that Great Pearl of Real Love to Yahweh. That is the Kingdom of Yahweh within you. It is keeping you feelings in the reality every second, renouncing any attempts of the devil to replace them with a tradition and habit. I am alive by the mercy of Yahweh and I tremble speaking of this. I am alive because He remained faithful in His Love to me. And every time when I asked for forgiveness His heart was deeply moved, because He always loved but He continued to wait. My recognition of the fact that it is not enough to just ask for forgiveness, it is necessary to repent for wounding Love, to understand that my transgressions are not mechanical relationships like exchange of currency, but very deeply sadden the heart of my Messiah. And when you enter into that knowledge there is hope in it because the heart realizes the pain, not something, but deep pain that is caused to the loving heart of the Almighty. Only the repentance at this level changes our hearts, not the repentance that comes from the knowledge of good and evil which you get after eating of the tree. When in this light of Love we read into the Word of Yahweh then we understand the heart of Messiah and the spirit of Torah writings. They speak of one thing: of the reunion of man with Yahweh in Love. She is poured into our hearts, that is into the personal feelings to the Creator and it overflows into the baptism in the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Love. And there is no Law for such because they automatically fulfill the Law, because the Law of freedom, i.e. love to Yahweh, determines the actions of the person in his daily life. And Love is the fulfillment, that is, the completion of Law. Love will engulf you wholly, and you will run to the goal as a champion because Love is the power of Faith and purity. You will not seek the border between sin and righteousness anymore, fearing to sin and yet at the same time to be closer to the lusts of the flesh. The Elohim said: “If you love Me, keep My commandments.” In the right translation it says not “keep My commandments” but it is written: “If you love Me you will keep My commandments.” That means Love finds Her reflection in the deeds and behavior of the lovers, not the cheap words of the worldly so-called love that is really lies and self-interest. That is, we will not try to do something mechanically - Love will work in us to fulfill the commandments of Yahweh. Therefore it is not necessary to force people to love Yahweh, because He Himself said that He will write His Laws in our hearts. If He did not write Laws in the hearts of people then don’t try to penetrate those congregations with the gouge of your lawful or what not tongue by those Laws. They will not reach the heart of the person. Only Yahweh has the right and power to write it in the hearts of people. And it will be seen in our life, in the life of people: are His commandments written in our hearts or not, are we anti messiah and people of sin or are we Jews and those who have the Law of Yahweh written in the heart. And don’t say that Yahweh doesn’t care how you look or act. Love is very attentive to your looks, deeds, the tone of voice, the way of walking, clothes, and thoughts. Therefore be obedient to Yahweh not for fear of hell, but with trembling read the Letter from Yahweh with Whom you are in love with all you heart, strength and mind. Only in Love is the true unity of man with Yahweh, congregation with Messiah, man with wife, parents and children. Any other unity is unclean. The past, present and the future, the unity and harmony of the congregation is Love, because She encompasses everyone, understands every pain of the neighbor, doesn’t judge but prays as for Herself. Those who are in Love don’t boast, but rejoice together and cry together in Her. It is possible only when there is Love. The congregation is a people of different spiritual ages, but honest and believing on Yahweh and gathered together by faith, out of Love to Him and the neighbor. Friends, if there are any other motives - it is anathema. Don’t choke each other. If your deviation was forgiven, embrace those who wavered, have compassion for the fallen, because Someone had compassion for you. If the Father raised you He can raise others. He is looking for loving hearts whom He can send to the beaten to maybe just listen to them and not finish them off by reproaching. You were healed not to raise the fallen by the blade of the sword now. Recall how the passers-by spat at the sight of you, how you were a parable among the people for your downfalls, but Yahweh raised you so that you would see his Love and through His heart might see those who are like you.

Friends, in conclusion I want to remind of the advantages that people who love Yahweh have. Nothing will protect us from delusions, from self-will as Love would. She will protect your faith from spiritual insolence and at the same time from carelessness. By the mystery of interconnection you will feel before you will understand what brings joy to your beloved Yahweh and what not. And this is called the saving grace that is the voice of Love in your spirit. Love will protect you from despair in the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and will restore you from downfall. When there are no prayers, no answers, and when there is seemingly no presence of the Lord, then Love will strengthen your faith, will keep you unspotted in waiting, and by Her you will be victorious over the world in all its forms of deception and will remain faithful. You tasted of the sweetness of the Love of Yahweh and it will poison the sweetness of sin for you and will give you the most important in your battles with yourself: the hatred to sin. Lovers are not afraid of stumbling blocks; they are so immersed in their feelings that they ignore all offers of the seducer. They simply don’t notice them, they have no time, they are fixed upon reaching the meeting with Messiah. Therefore let’s haste to perfection, i.e. to the more Excellent Way, to the walk in Love, because She exceeds all the gifts. Everything else is a result of Her, i.e. the consequence of Love. Oh Excellent Way, the Way of Love! And the matured congregation is walking in it, walking towards the marriage crown with the Beloved. And everything works for good for Her, even the persecutions and death, because the more believers will lay down their lives, the faster will the number of the martyred be filled and the Marriage Feast of the Yeshua HaMashiach will begin.

“Oh, revive us Yahweh, according to Thy Word. Our spirit is weary of waiting for Thy Presence! Don’t pour Thy wrath endlessly upon us; we have sinned and our forefathers. Having the Temple we remained without Thee, having Thy Word we understand not Thy Heart. We are somewhere… But lead us out into Life! Come into us so that we again would fall in love with Thee, because we know that Thou remained faithful in Thy Love to us, sinners. In the Name of Thy beloved Yeshua  HaMashiach, we humbly pray for Love to Thee. It is impossible to serve Thee without the Feeling of Love to Thee, Elohim. I am burdened by the Truth if I don’t have the Life of this Truth! The preaching and prayers depress me if Thou art not present in them. If Thou don’t abide with me I cannot listen to those dead memorized phrases year after year. Revive us! We have all Thine but we don’t have Thee, yet we need only Thee alone. Do not hide Thyself from us and forgive us our unfaithfulness to Thee. All that I beseech Thee for is Thy presence in me, in the Name of Yeshua HaMashiach! Amen.”

Rabbi S.V.Artman

“Am Yisrael”

Messianic Tabernacle

Wasilla, Alaska USA

rabbiartman@yahoo.com

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