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Why are we not more successful in living up to Yahweh’s standard? Why do we slip and fall occasionally? Here is how YOU can overcome where you are weakest and hardest tempted!!!

      Do you have some “besetting sin”, some point of weakness, perhaps secret, you have been unable to overcome? Have you ever met temptation, struggled with it, only to wake up a little later to the remorseful fact that you had slipped, and failed to overcome? Or perhaps you are struggling with some habit that holds you as its slave; struggling, wrestling, always fighting it, yet somehow never able to conquer it.

Only the Overcomers

These things are serious. We must overcome these sins, these habits, these sudden temptations – be cleansed of them thoroughly – if we expect to get through to the Kingdom and inherit eternal life. “And the one overcoming” says Yahshua, “I will give him to sit with Me in My throne”.

“And the one overcoming, and the one keeping My works until the end, “I will give to him authority over the nations; and he will shepherd them with an iron staff”. (Rev 2:26-27; 3:21.)

Not all are even called, now. Many, though who may have heard the true message, have never received a conscious convicting KNOWLEDGE of the truth.

But Yahweh is now calling SOME to a life of separation – to a new and different and Spirit-filled and Spirit-led life in order that they may be wholly CLEANSED of sin, and that they may GROW in grace and knowledge, thus being prepared, trained, fitted for a position of solemn responsibility – that of king or priest – in Yahweh’s Kingdom! And it is only those who qualify by the training, the overcoming, the spiritual development and growth, DURING THIS PRESENT LIFE, who shall thus reign with Yahshua.

And it is only those who qualify… DURING THIS PRESENT LIFE, who shall thus reign with Yahshua.

So the Disciples’ life is a new and a different life, an OVERCOMING life. Sin must be torn out, root and branch. We must be made righteous, holy. First, notice a portion of Paul’s instruction to the Philippians. “And be found in Him; not having mine OWN righteousness of law, but through the faith of Messiah, having the righteousness of YAHWEH on faith” (Phil 3:9). Notice, it is not OUR righteousness, but Yahweh’s.

The Kind of Love Required

Right here is one trouble. Too many Commandment-keepers are struggling along, trying to keep the commandments in their own power and strength – thinking it is THEIR own personal human love that fulfills the Torah! Too many have never really EXPERIENCED definite salvation – for a real conversion is a DEFINITE EXPERIENCE! Such people need to go to a private place, alone with Yahweh, and get to their knees, and pour out their hearts to Yahweh, and stay with it until they really KNOW they are converted by YAHWEH’S POWER, and have received His blessed Holy Spirit! We do not even have the kind of love that fulfills Yahweh’s Torah and makes us righteous! Love is of Yahweh, for Yahweh is love! And it takes the Love of Yahweh, shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit”, (Rom 5:5) to fulfill the Torah, and give us YAHWEH’S RIGHTEOUSNESS. The Torah is SPIRITUAL (Rom 7:14). We are carnal. It takes a SPIRITUAL love to fulfill a spiritual law. The Holy Spirit within us is merely YAHWEH’S Torah IN ACTION! And since Yahweh alone can supply the LOVE that makes us righteousness, it becomes YAHWEH’S righteousness, not ours.

Why We Have Not Been Delivered

Yahweh’s word promises: “No temptation has taken you except what is human; but YAHWEH is faithful, who will not allow you to be tested above what you are able. But with the trial, He will also MAKE THE WAY OUT, so that you may be able to bear it” (1st Cor 10:13). Yet temptation has come. You have struggled, even prayed; yet you were overpowered, and you did not find the way of escape. Yahweh’s Word promises, “Sin shall not have dominion over you.” Yet have you not found that sin has had DOMINION over you, holding you its slave? Have you not fought it desperately, even with tears streaming down your face – only to fail?

How to Apply and Use Faith

WHY? What is wrong? Simply that we have not known how to receive, apply, and use the FAITH Yahweh promises to give! First, there is something WE must do. Some go to one extreme and try to do it all. Others swing to the opposite extreme, plead with Yahweh, make little effort themselves, and expect him to do it all. Jacob says, “Then submit to YAHWEH. Resist the Devil and he will flee from you” (Jacob 4:7).

Submit! Resist! This takes effort. Peter says to humble ourselves, casting ALL our care upon Yahweh, and to be sober and VIGILANT; because the devil is walking about, watching for the chance to tempt us when we are off our guard: “therefore RESIST him, being steadfast in the faith” (1st Peter 5:6-9). We are to resist Satan, and do it in the faith of Yahshua – but HOW?

The key to it all: BE VIGILANT!

Be on your guard! Be ever watchful! Be prepared! That’s where we fall down! It takes constant, continuous, vigilant effort, never letting down! Unless we, ourselves, had to put forth some effort we could not be OVERCOMERS! But if we had power to do it all, we should not need Yahweh! So it requires our effort – our continuous, watchful, ever vigilant effort – empowered by Yahweh’s Spirit! Jacob continues: “Draw near to YAHWEH and He will draw near to you” (Jacob 4:8). Now we are getting closer to our answer! When temptation comes, we ARE TOO FAR FROM YAHWEH – and we are then unable, SUDDENLY, on the spur of the moment to get close enough to him to get the help and the deliverance we need! It sometimes takes TIME to get CLOSE to Yahweh – into that intimate contact with Him so that we can draw on Him for the power we suddenly need! In other words, when temptation unexpectedly has come, we have found ourselves caught off guard – out of prayer – out of contact with Yahweh – OUT OF SPIRITUAL TRAINING!

You were entering a CONTEST with Satan. You tried to wrestle with him, but you were OUT OF TRAINING, out of spiritual condition. We can no more win these SPIRITUAL battles when out of SPIRITUAL training. All spiritual power and strength must come from Yahweh. We can drink it in from Him, only when we are IN CONTACT with Him – close to Him – in communion with Him! And, when the temptations suddenly assail you, no matter how hard you then try, or cry out to Yahweh for help, you are simply TOO FAR AWAY FROM HIM to get help!

Spiritual training, to get and KEEP in constant vigilant condition to meet the foe of temptation and sin requires continuous, earnest, persistent PRAYER! That is why we are commanded so often to PRAY WITHOUT CEASING! To KEEP IT UP!

If we draw near to Yahweh, and then KEEP close to Him, our problems will be solved. We will then have the FAITH.

We will then be continually FILLED with his Spirit – His power to overcome.

We can keep in spiritual training only if we keep our affections – our minds – our thoughts – on SPIRITUAL things. Read Col 3:1-10. Most of us keep our minds filled with earthly, material cares and interests, turning to the spiritual only occasionally! Seek FIRST the Kingdom of Yahweh and HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS!

Sometimes it takes a siege of FASTING AND PRAYER – earnest, determined, persevering prayer – seeking Yahweh with all our might – with weeping – staying with it, DETERMINED, until we get through. Then we must keep in CONTINUOUS prayer. Cast ALL our cares upon HIM. We are not doing that. If you do, there will be many things a day to pray about! And it takes daily PRIVATE prayer, in real earnest, besides family or public prayer.

Is Eternal Life WORTH IT?

Matthew 24:14 proclaims…

And this good news of the Kingdom shall be published in all the earth for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

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