Humility, Service, and Keeping Commandments

When we study the shape of the letter, it resembles a servant bending over in service to another. It is a picture of humility and humbleness, or humble humbleness, excuse me. Like the Rash, we need to be on our knees, face down, in total and complete servantthood to our Master Yeshua. In doing so, it will also teach us to serve our neighbors as well. So, again, it's twofold, right? It's the two greatest commandments. It's the first commandment: we bow down to our Most High Elohim. And then the second commandment is loving our neighbor and being in service to our neighbor as well. You know, too many times we don't want to be in service, right? We want somebody to wash our feet, right? And Yeshua washed their feet, right? So, we are, we never want to be in service too much, you know, of today. You know, that's just mankind. That's just how we're made sometimes, right? And we've got to remember to be humble and to be in humility, and also to be in servantthood, not only to the Father, but also to our neighbor as well, which would fulfill the two greatest commandments. Okay?

Like the Rash, we need to be on our knees, face down, in total and complete servantthood to our Master Yeshua. In doing so, he will also teach us to serve our neighbors as well. It is written, "As the Father loved me, I have also loved you. Abide in my love. If you will keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and I abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends. You are my friends if you do whatever I command you. Again, you are my friends if you do whatever I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and I appointed you, and you should go and bear good fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in my name, He may give to you. These things I command you, that you love one another."

Friends, we all know this scripture. It's one of my favorite chapters or two chapters in the Holy Bible: John 14 and John 15. These are extraordinarily important chapters for the Jews and the Christians to read. It really is that important. If we can understand what the Master said in John 14 and 15, we would be in alignment, right? And look at what he says. This is, he says it in John 14 as well. But in John 15:9-17, it is written, "As the Father loved me, I have also loved you. And if you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and I abide in his love." So again, to all of my Christian friends out there, we have to keep the commandments just like Yeshua kept the commandments. I mean, isn't it crazy when we look at it that Yeshua, just like it said, he said he kept the commandments perfectly. He had to. If he wasn't perfect, he wouldn't have been the Son of God. He would have been the Jewish Messiah. So, of course, or the King of Israel. So, of course, he kept the commandments. So, isn't it interesting that our Christian friends believe that they can believe in Jesus, but they don't have to keep the commandments, but he kept the commandments? How selfish is that? Okay? He kept His Father's commandments. He expects us to. But the Christians feel like he went to the cross so they can be disobedient. I mean, it's pretty amazing, isn't it? In a bad way.

So, again, again, he went to the cross so that we would be obedient, not disobedient, right? And then when we are disobedient, that's when the grace comes in instead of the sword, instead of the gavel. Okay? So, we have to really understand that again, if my Christian friends would understand John 14 and 15, "If you love me, if if you love me, you'll keep my commandments." Goodness gracious. I mean, what a If you love me, Chadwick, you will keep my commandments. And if you don't, you do not love me, is what he truly says in John 14:15. And that might offend people, but people need to really go read John 14:15 to understand the standard, okay, that he has for his believers. And that standard is His Father's commandments, okay? Just like he kept His Father's commandments, He wants His servants to keep His Father's commandments as well. It's pretty simple to understand to an obedient heart. Okay? We have to understand that. Okay? He wants obedience. Okay? And that's why we're facing what we're facing in Israel. That's why we're facing what we're facing in America. That's why the world's facing what they're facing is because we have a bunch of disobedient believers out there. I'm not talking about the unbelievers. The believers are the ones who are disobedient. He's worried about the believers, the remnant. Okay? Just like with Israel. He's worried about Israel's behavior. He's not worried about their enemy's behavior. The enemy's behavior depends on Israel's behavior. Okay? Does that make sense? If they obey, no enemies. If they disobey, all of the enemies. Okay? So, that's what the Torah says. That's what Moses says in Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28 through 30. Okay? And throughout the entire Torah, he tells the people to be obedient, or it's not going to be good. Same thing with Yeshua. He's telling everybody in John, "Father loved me, I have also loved you. Abide in my love. If if you keep my commandments, then you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments, and I abide in his love." That's it, folks. I mean, that's the standard right there. He obeyed, and He wants us to obey. Again, He didn't go to the cross for a bunch of disobedient people. He went to the cross so that we would love Him and be obedient in all of these things. You know, it's the reverse of what people think.

"These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full." How's that? By the commandments, right? "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends. You are my friends if you do whatever I command you." I mean, what a powerful statement, my friends. If you are keeping His commandments, you are the Master's friend. Think about that. I mean, that is how powerful. You are the friend of Yeshua. You are the friend of Yahweh. What did He call Abraham? "My friend Abraham." Why? Because Abraham was disobedient and sacrificing other gods and doing all that? Of course not. You know, he was obeying. He obeyed Him. That's why He went to live with Noah for what, 48 years, 38 years or something? Okay? So, and learned the commandments of God. Okay? So, we have to realize that. I mean, it's all throughout the scriptures if we know it. Even though the Torah was given at Mount Sinai, the people before that who loved Yahweh kept the commandments. I mean, Abraham was making unleavened bread in Genesis 18 when the three men came to him and told him that he was going to have Isaac the next year on Passover. That tells you that it was unleavened bread and Passover because he was making unleavened bread. Genesis 18, the three men came, told him they were going to have Isaac. They had a good laugh together, and Sarah and Abraham did. And then the two angels went down and destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. Okay? On the Feast of Unleavened Bread. So, if we, again, if we understand the calendar, the feast days, we understand the unleavened bread, the symbolism, and all of these things, and understand that God's ways are His ways. Even before the Torah, His ways are His ways. Okay? Noah, Abraham, Enoch, all of the ancients, man, they were obedient believers. Adam, you know, they were all obedient. Even though Adam and Eve made a mistake, Abraham did too. We do as well. But they were still obedient overall in the trajectory of their life to the Most High God. And that's why Abraham was called His friend, right? So, it's pretty amazing to be called a friend of Yeshua, you know, but the prerequisite is, is we keep His commandments. I can say I love Jesus all I want, but if I don't keep His commandments, He does not think that I love Him, according to John 14:15. I can say I love Jesus, I love Jesus, I love Jesus, and go act like a rebel, and I don't love Jesus because I'm not following the Master's commandments, His Father's commandments. Okay? So, this is super important. It gets right down to it in John 14:15. And that's something for our Christian friends to really understand, and even my Jewish friends to understand that. Why? Because the Jewish people look at the Christians and be like, "How could that be our religion or the way?" Because of all the paganism and all of these things, not keeping the commandments. So, when the Jewish people, if they would read that according to what they believe in the Torah, the Prophets, and the Psalms, and look at what Yeshua said, I mean, it lines up beautifully. He didn't tell anybody to break the commandments. He didn't tell everybody to quit doing the Passover or quit breaking or not doing the Sabbath, all of these things. He never said that. It would have eliminated him from being the Jewish Messiah if he did say that, or Paul as an apostle if he said that. So, my friends, no one has the authority to tell the Father His commandments are done with. I think that is just craziness that Christianity has gotten off on that, that they think that they can tell the Father His commandments are done away with. Good luck with that when you stand before the King of Israel. Okay?

So, again, this hits right there. I love these passages. John 14:15. It's really beautiful if we understand it from the perspective, right? So, I'll read it one more time. It is written, "As the Father loved me, I have also loved you. Abide in my love. If, if, if you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love. And if you don't, you won't. Just as I have kept my Father's commandments, and I abide in his love." That's it, folks. I mean, that's the standard right there. He obeyed, and He wants us to obey. Again, He didn't go to the cross for a bunch of disobedient people. He went to the cross so that we would love Him and be obedient in all of these things. You know, it's the reverse of what people think. "These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full." This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends. You are my friends if, if you do whatever I command you." I mean, what a powerful statement, my friends. If you are keeping His commandments, you are the Master's friend. Think about that. I mean, that is how powerful. You are the friend of Yeshua. You are the friend of Yahweh. No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you. Okay? So, Yeshua spoke everything from the Father to the disciples. Christians, same way today, from the Father to us. Same way through Yeshua, through the blessed Holy Spirit to us. Okay? I can't believe that we're taking the Father out of this. Okay? Or not we, but they are. Christianity, they take the Father out of it. Okay? I mean, what is going down? I mean, the Father, the Son, through the blessed Holy Spirit. Okay? And that's what He says. The Holy Spirit will not speak anything but from the Father and the Son. Please read John 14:15. And that's going to be the commandments, my friends. Whenever we're baptized and we are born again, then here comes discipleship. Here comes the commandments. Here comes purification. Here comes all of these things. I mean, again, a lot of things break off of us whenever we receive that beautiful divine appointment of that time that we receive Yeshua as our Savior. A lot of things do break off, but then there's some things that you've got to go on the purification journey. Some of those things that whatever each one's personal whatever is, we've got to get through that. You see, and whatever, whatever it may be. Okay? So, again, purification is a process. It's not just one day, you know, it's done with. No, it's an incredible moment. Of course, things, new life, new beginnings. But then you go get really purified through the scriptures, through the Torah, worshiping the right ways, Sabbath, new moon, feast days, you name it. And really get down to it. Okay? So, people forget that. I mean, they think it's just a one-day or one-moment thing and then that's it. And that's why people fall away, okay? Because of that. And they don't have any guidance or direction from the church because discipleship is pretty much dead in the church the right way. Okay? We're not leading people to what Yeshua said to, "If you love Him, keep His commandments." What are His commandments? Well, of course, His commandments are Torah, Mount Sinai, what He told Moses at Mount Sinai through the Father, Son to Moses, right? So, we've got to really understand that they saw the King of Israel, Moses and the elders and all of these people, they drank and ate with the King of Israel. Well, no one's ever seen the Father's face. That was Yeshua. Exodus 24. Okay? Please go read it. It's a beautiful thing. Yeshua told the Jewish people in John chapter 8 that "Before Abraham was, I AM." Well, anyone who knows this in the Torah knows that "I AM" is in Exodus 3:14 when He told Moses, "I AM." So, again, Yeshua was in the beginning with Yahweh. John 1, of course, He was at Mount Sinai speaking to Moses. Kind of like Moses and Elijah speaking with Yeshua on the Mount of Transfiguration. It's really beautiful. We've got to understand that every time a divine appointment was needed by the Father, who did He send? Yeshua. Okay? Yes, He sent Michael. Yes, He sent Gabriel to people as well. But I'm talking about giving the Torah, the first coming events, the second coming events, conquering the promised land with Joshua, Joshua 5. Okay? So, we have to understand that it's really important to put that the cloud by day, the fire by night. Who was that? Yeshua. So, He's so again, if people believe that He's the fire by night, the cloud by day from from Mount, excuse me, from Exodus to Mount Sinai, 50 days, well, all of a sudden He just took a desert road out of there or something and left? Of course not. He was with them all the way, you know, the rock, you know, the water that came out of the rock. All of these things are Yeshua, you see. And so, we've got to really understand that, my friends, and we'll be better off as Jews and Christians, you know, the one new body and the one new man. Very important. John 14:15, very important chapters in the New Testament, really in the whole Bible. I think John 14 and 15 really tie in the importance of the Torah, Prophets, Psalms, and understanding that Yeshua had to say this. He has to get the people to come back to the Father's Torah. He has to. That's a prerequisite of being the Jewish Messiah. Isaiah 2, Micah 4, He's going to send it out from Jerusalem, from Zion, to the nations. The nations are going to get a heavy dose of the Torah whenever He returns. Okay? His Father's word out of His mouth, Mount Sinai, all the commandments. Christian, my Christian friends, we've got to really understand that come the millennial kingdom, it's going to be Torah, okay? And that's what it's going to be to the nations, to everybody. And whoever doesn't want to come on with that, just go read what happens with the striking the nations with a rod of iron and rule them with a rod of iron. Everybody, what does that mean? That means a righteous eternal dictatorship, everybody. So, people get really upset when I say that word, dictatorship. I guarantee you, it's going to be a righteous eternal dictatorship. His way, get out. Okay? In the promised land, it's going to be all of us there, the believing Jews and Gentiles, okay, that follow the commandments. And it's going to be Garden of Eden. It's going to be a beautiful thing. Ezekiel 36. Okay? But for the nations and all of these people in the nations, it's going to be a rod of iron, man. I mean, because they're not going to be in the kingdom, okay? The kingdom is Jerusalem, Israel, all of the land in Israel, the seed of David, the seed of Abraham. He's going to conquer all of it. Okay? And then He's going to allot it. What did He tell Daniel in Daniel 12 at the very beginning? "Go your way, Daniel." Go your way. Because Daniel was looking for the understanding of what he was just told. "Go your way, Daniel." Okay? "And you will rest and you will rise up to your allotment." What does that mean? The allotment, his land, peace in the Abrahamic covenant in the millennial kingdom. So, my friends, if we don't understand the covenants, we're not, or the feast days and all these things we talk about, we're not going to put all this together to understand Daniel's going to be raised up to receive his allotment at the end of the age in the promised land, and all of the ancients as well. Okay? And we are as well. How great is that?