I Hope My Family Will Be Among The Few Who Make It Into The Kingdom–Notes From A Father!

1. We Must Trust Yeshua.

The straight and narrow way is to believe and obey the words of Yeshua sent by Yahweh.  In John 6:27-29 John writes:

Don’t work for food that spoils, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on Him, God the Father has put the seal of approval.”  Then they said to Him, “What shall we do to perform the works of God?”

Yeshua answered them, “This is the work of God, to trust in the One He sent.”

What does Yeshua (the one sent by Yahweh) say?

Does He say all roads lead to heaven?  A very small number are on the narrow straight road.  Think about in the days of Noah when eight souls were saved and in the days of Lot when three made it out of Sodom and Gomorrah–actually a total of four cities.  We all need to monitor our walk with Yahweh, but we get so busy with our day to day lives.

2. We Must Keep Yahweh’s Royal Laws That He Spoke Down The Mountain: The Ten Commandments.

“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.  I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper so He may be with you forever—the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not behold Him or know Him. You know Him, because He abides with you and will be in you.  I will not abandon you as orphans; I will come to you.  In a little while, the world will no longer behold Me, but you will behold Me. Because I live, you also will live! (John 14:15-19 Tree of Life Version)

3.  We Must Possess Faith in Yahweh’s Words to Us to Acquire His Holy Spirit.

When you walk on the narrow road, you do not walk alone.  The Holy Spirit walks with you.  You must obey and believe what Yeshua says through faith to receive the Holy Spirit.

Ephesians 2:8   For by grace are ye saved(*** through faith;***)
and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

Romans 3:4   God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written,
That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

29     Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
30    Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

Romans 3:31   Do we then (make void the law) through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

ROMANS CHAPTER 5
1     ¶ Therefore being justified*** by faith,*** we have peace with God (through our Lord Jesus Christ:)
2     By whom also( we have access by faith) into this grace wherein we stand,
2     By whom also( we have access by faith) into this grace wherein we stand,

and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
13     (For until the law sin was in the world:
but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
20     Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound.

        But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
21     That as sin hath reigned unto death,
even so (might grace reign through righteousness)
unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

4. We Must Reject Sin To Live.

ROMANS CHAPTER 6
1     ¶ What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

2     God forbid. How shall we, that*** are dead to sin,*** (live any longer therein?)
2     God forbid. How shall we, that*** are dead to sin,*** (live any longer therein?)
2     God forbid. How shall we, that*** are dead to sin,*** (live any longer therein?)

3     Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
4     Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

5     For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death,
we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

8     Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

9     Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
10     For in that he died, (he died unto sin once:) but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

11     Likewise reckon ***ye also yourselves*** to be dead indeed unto sin,

but alive unto God (through Jesus Christ our Lord.)

12     Let not sin (therefore reign in your mortal body,) that (ye should obey it) in the lusts thereof.

13     Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

14     For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

15     What then? shall we sin, (because we are not under the law,) but under grace? God forbid.

16     Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey;
whether of sin unto death, or( of ***obedience*** unto righteousness?)

ROMANS CHAPTER 6
1     ¶ What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

2     God forbid. How shall we, that*** are dead to sin,*** (live any longer therein?)

5. We Must Walk In The Spirit In Righteousness–Not Continue To Walk In Sin That Leads To Death.

ROMANS CHAPTER 8
1     ¶ There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus,
who walk ***not after the flesh***, but after the Spirit.
3     For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh,
God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, (condemned sin in the flesh:)

4     That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us,
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(who walk not after the flesh,) but after the Spirit.

6. Spiritually Minded

6     For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7     Because the carnal mind is enmity against God:
for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
8     So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

7. The Holy Spirit of Yahweh Lives In Us So We Are Children of The Kingdom.

9     But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.

Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

8.  We Shall Be Spiritually Quickened Like Yeshua.

10     ¶ And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin;
but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

11     But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead ***dwell in you***,
he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies
(by his Spirit) that dwelleth in you.

9.  The Holy Spirit Of Yahweh Leads Our Lives.

13     For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die:
but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
14     For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

ROMANS CHAPTER 6
1     ¶ What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

2     God forbid. How shall we, that*** are dead to sin,*** (live any longer therein?)

 Romans 6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? (God forbid.)

Ephesians 2:8   For ***by grace*** are ye saved*** through faith;***

and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9     Not of works, lest any man should boast.
10     For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works,
which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

10. The Holy Spirit Writes The Laws Of Yahweh (His Character) Into Our Hearts–Free Gift To Those Who Possess Faith In Yahweh.

II CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 3

2     Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
3     Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us,
written not with ink, but ***with the Spirit*** of the living God;

not (in tables of stone,) but in( fleshy tables) of the heart.

COMMENT
FIRST

// (What does it mean) that the laws under the new/better covenant
ARE written not with ink, but( ***with the Spirit***) of the living God;
not (in tables of stone,) but in( fleshy tables) of the heart.

ROMANS CHP8/ 9     But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit,
if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.
Now if any man have (not the Spirit of Christ), (he is none of his.)
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14     For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, (they are the sons of God.)
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IT MEANS GOD IS PLACING IN US (HIS RIGHTEOUS CHARACTER)/SINLESS NATURE
MAKING US HIS CHILDREN APART OF THE FAMILY OF GOD.

SECOND WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE DEAD TO SIN?

ROMANS CHAPTER 6
1     ¶ What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

2     God forbid. How shall we, that*** are dead to sin,*** (live any longer therein?)
2     God forbid. How shall we, that*** are dead to sin,*** (live any longer therein?)
2     God forbid. How shall we, that*** are dead to sin,*** (live any longer therein?)

IT MEANS YOU ARE NOW LIVING A RIGHTEOUS LIFE

THIRD WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE RIGHTEOUS/RIGHTEOUSNESS?

ISAIAH C51/ 7     Hearken unto me, (ye that know ***righteousness,***) the people (in whose ***heart***) is ***my law***;

2 CORINTH CHP 3/ written not with ink, but( ***with the Spirit***) of the living God;
not (in tables of stone,) but in( fleshy tables) of*** the heart***

2 PETER CHP 2/
21     For it had been better for them not to have known (the way ***of righteousness***,)
than, after they have known it, (to turn from ***the holy commandment*** delivered unto them.)

FOURTH
JESUS SAID HE CAME TO TAKE AWAY THE OLD COVENANT AND ESTABLISH THE NEW
THEREFORE WHAT DOES THE NEW COVENANT DO FOR US?

JEREMIAH CHP 31/
31     Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

33     But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel;
After those days, saith the LORD,
(*I* will put (my law) in their inward parts,)
and write it (in their hearts;)
and will be their God, (and they shall be ***my people***)

HEBREW CHP 8/
10     For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord;
(I will put my laws) into their mind, and write them in their hearts:
and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

HEBREWS CHP 10/
15     Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that (he had said before,)

16     This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord,
(I will put my laws) into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
17     And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.