Obedience without compromise

You know YHVH’s been working at getting our attention for quite some time, and He does it many ways, dreams and visions and revelations and understandings, prophetic words and all those kinds of things. I remember Brendan had a dream some years ago, it was speaking.  And I know Ismael had a dream not long back, a powerful powerful dream, God was speaking, saying something.
Christina has had a couple of dreams in the last little while, powerful powerful dreams that have been challenging, God speaking in visions and dreams.

I know the spirit of God is at work and I know He is leading and taking us somewhere, and Yakira had a prophetic word last feast of unleavened bread, powerful powerful word that YHVH spoke. These things speaking into our fellowship, speaking into our lives, what is God saying?  God is saying something, God is not playing around, God is God.

Most people don’t know their God. They think He is the god of their thoughts, they think He is the god of their dreams and my wishes and my desires, His not.  He is the almighty creator of heaven and earth, His bigger than the universe He created.  And He wants to do something far mightier than you or I have ever dreamt of, and His looking for faithfulness in the land.  His wanting a people who will say I will take the word, I will listen to the spirit of God and I will walk in the pathway that He has asked me to walk no matter what it costs.  I will do His will, I will be His man and will not compromise. I will stand up and I will be counted. And if we do not stand up and be counted, if we do not stand for something we will fall for everything.

And the thing that we are standing for, even though that was a song out of 20, 30 odd years ago, the message is true, the message is true.

I'm not advocating become hippie hoppies, you know, happy clappies, let's get on the bandwagon of what the world has to offer. God is saying something, God is saying something. He didn't put it in my heart for no reason whatsoever. What is the thing that we must stand for? What is God saying? We must stand for His kingdom, His kingdom. We must stand for the authority of His name. We must stand for the truth of His word without compromise and get rid of the rubbish that we have allowed to infiltrate our lives, our spirit, our theologies and traditions.

And if we don't get rid of it, God says, I'll find somebody else that will. Our God is a God who does not favour individuals. He honours those who obey Him. No matter how talented we are, no matter what potential we've got, no matter what our giftings are, God ignores them. Potential means nothing. My gifting and callings are totally irrelevant if I am not obedient to the will of God. I'll give your talents to someone else.

I'll give your opportunities to someone else. I'll give your gifts to someone who will use them the way I want them used. I will take your potential and you'll sit by the roadside and you'll go no further. You will not advance in your life. That's God. And so our God is saying, we are here and for many it's crossroads. It is time to say, yes, God, I will be whatever you want me to be. I will do whatever you want me to do.

I will put aside whatever you want me to put aside. I will become whatever you want me to become. I just want to be your man. No compromise. I'll stand for something. You have to put your family first. Never compromise what's right and uphold your family name. What is the family name? Healing to the Nations is your family name. God has placed us here into this spiritual family. This is number one family. God says, I'm depending on you to take this message to the ends of the earth.

The family that was here at the weekend, come across from South Africa said, the only reason we came to Adelaide was because of your fellowship. No other reason. We could have gone anywhere in Australia. I could have gotten a job anywhere in this country and I had plenty of opportunities and I was looking at other places. And we knew. We looked at your website. We've been following your word. We've been listening to your teachings. And the only reason we came to Adelaide because we want to be part of this fellowship.

That's God. That's God. We can't organise these things. Why did Jonathan come from the other side of the world to see a man and give him a message and go back home again? That's God. That's God. We have to say, Father, you are in control. If we will trust you and honour you, you will achieve your objectives. Yehovah cannot do what he wants to do without people, without men and women who are faithful to him. And if we're not faithful to him, he does not achieve his objectives in the places that he wants to, through the people that he wants to.

He has to use people. Yehovah does nothing for this world. He does nothing for this people unless we work with him. He says, I will bless you and I will do this and I will do that if you work with me. You give your all to my callings. You know, I am so annoyed and I get so cross. I'll put it in nice terms. When I talk to so many messianics who are not messianics, they are pretending messianics.

They're not true messianics. They're not true to the Word of God. They're not true to the Torah. They're not true to God. They only live for themselves. They don't live for the kingdom. They live for themselves. So many have left this fellowship because they have disagreed with something I've said or an approach that I take. Ninety-nine percent of them says, God sent us here. We know the connection. And God opened this door. And then they find out something that God never told them, that I was going to rub them up the wrong way occasionally.

Or you believe something different to me. Well, I didn't know that. I'm out of here. I can take you to people's houses ten minutes from here, fifteen minutes from here, twenty minutes from here, thirty minutes from here, an hour from here, and I can introduce you to people that God brought here. And they walked away. I'm not pointing the finger at anybody. I'm just saying, people who say they're messianic and they'd rather go and play archery on Sabbath instead of coming here, I have no time for them whatsoever.

I bite my tongue and I hold myself in when people say stupid things and they have no idea what they're talking about. God is looking for people with no compromise, who are willing to walk the walk, not just talk the talk. The Father says, I know what you say, but your heart's not with me. How many messianics in the last few weeks have I spoken to that have said they're more interested in how I pronounce his name than the power and the truth of his name.

And people that say, how important is the book of the Maccabees or the Dead Sea Scrolls or Jubilee or the book of Enoch. I've read many of these things and a lot of it's rubbish and a lot of it's good history. But it's not this book. And they tell me that these books have been left out of this canon and they should be in there. And they spend more time in those books than this book. As if this book hasn't got enough in it to show us the right way.

As if we need some other stuff because we're not getting enough out of this. I can tell you they don't read this anywhere near as much as they read these other books. They live off the internet and they listen to these false teachers. They listen to these men and women that feed stuff into their brain that takes them nowhere, but they compromise. They compromise. God is sick of compromise. He wants people who will stand true to his word, true to his name, listen to the spirit and walk in his ways.

They're found in here. The Pentateuch. The first five books of Moses. It contains everything that we need to know. There is nothing in the Torah. There is nothing in the law that God is going to diminish or has diminished. Yeshua said it. Not one jot or tittle shall pass from this law. Not one smallest little detail is going to not be fulfilled and does not have a part to play in our lives. It is essential that we understand the truth of his word because the purpose of the Torah is to kill us and it will kill us.

That's its job. It will show you what sin is and then it will condemn you if you do not adjust to what it says. And the only way we can escape the death penalty of the Torah is in Yeshua's blood. And if we don't understand how to marry the two, we're in trouble. We get rid of the one for the other because the other one negates the other. We have no clue who God is. Yeshua said, Torah and I are one.

I live Torah. I walk Torah. I demonstrate Torah. I fulfil Torah in every detail and none of it's going away. People say what they say because they don't understand the word of God. Want to be a teacher? If you don't know the word of God, forget it. God doesn't want you teaching if you don't know the word of God and don't understand the word of God. Want to be a prophet? Want to be an apostle? Want to be a leader of God's people? Forget it.

If you do not understand and know the word of God. He said it to Nicodemus. What? You don't understand these things and you're a teacher of my people? What's wrong with you man? God isn't playing around any longer. His days are getting shorter. The world is entering a more and more difficult place and he's going to need men and women who know how to stand true to the word of God. I know that there is truths within Torah that Christianity abandons poohoos and has no clue what it's talking about and I know multitudes of messianics that have no clue of what the Torah is about.

Torah says if you touch a dead person, you're unclean. You cannot come into my presence. You make sure you go through the cleansing process before you come into my presence and serve me, worship me, make sacrifices to me. I do not want you in my place or among my people if you have touched a dead body. Yeshua said that doesn't change. That doesn't change. That's Torah. Not the smallest detail of Torah is done away with. It all has spiritual truth and meaning which we must understand or we will keep on offending God.

If we honour what God doesn't honour, if we do what others tell us to do, if we follow the advice of those who contradict the word of God and won't walk in the word of God and we do what they want us to do, we've touched a dead body. We have taken a hold of the unclean. The teaching of scripture is over and over again. Habakkuk, Haggai. Haggai says if a priest walks past and his garment touches, does it make it holy? No, it doesn't.

But if he's carrying the things of God, the meat, the utensils, the sacrifices, and he touches somebody or something, does it make that unclean? Yes, it does. When we allow our lives to be controlled by others, people outside of the truth of God's word, Christianity, doctrines, traditions, family, friends, work, business, doesn't matter what it is, if we listen, follow and observe and do what they say because they want to own us, control us, guide us or lead us, we have allowed a dead body to have an input into our life.

If we allow death, because as far as God is concerned, they're dead, spiritually dead. And if we follow their traditions, if we follow their ways, we're touching a dead body. Their death impacts upon us. If a priest, if a holy person, if a Nazarite, doesn't matter, if who you are and what you are and the call upon your life wants to be entangled with something that's not of God and his word and you obey it, death has touched you.

Death has touched you. How can we deal with that? The same way as the scripture tells them, we repent of it. We wash ourselves, we cleanse ourselves, we come before the Almighty and we acknowledge that we've put something else ahead of him, someone else ahead of him, money ahead of him, job before him. We're touching dead stuff. We're honouring dead stuff. We're walking the pathway of death. And if we don't understand how Torah works and how it functions and flows over into new covenant truth, we're never going to serve the purposes of Yehovah, the way he wants it to be served.

Follow me. Let the dead bury the dead. And if we don't understand these things, we're going to be behind the eight ball. We are so blessed, we are so privileged, we are so honoured that Yehovah keeps giving us instructions and dreams and visions. He keeps leading us along a pathway and we keep changing and adjusting. We put away, we die to things that he asks us to die to. We get rid of things that he wants us to get rid of.

We get rid of traditions and doctrines and ways and thoughts and minds and possessions and goods and houses and lands and we'll give it to whomever God says to give it. We'll use it in whatever way God says to use it because it honours his kingdom. And then we spell faith the right way. T-R-U-S-T. Then we spell tithing the right way. T-R-U-S-T. Then we spell anything that God says to get rid of the right way. T-R-U-S-T.

Trust. Trust. God will always test our trust. Will we stand up to the testing? I preached on Abraham climbing the mountain. Genesis 22. And on the third day he sees the Mount Moriah. He sees the Temple Mount. It wasn't a Temple Mount then, but Yehovah said to Abraham, if you are faithful to me, leave your house, leave your land, leave your family and you go to the place that I tell you and then I'll tell you what to do.

Honour me. Obey me. Do it even though you don't understand it or know what it's all about. And before there was such a place as Jerusalem, before there was a city on that mount, God had said to Abraham, wherever your feet tread, that belongs to you. And he went up that mountain and he took ownership of that mountain. He built an altar on that mountain. He laid his son on the altar to sacrifice him on that mountain.

He claimed it for God. And wherever he went, he built an altar and claimed it for God. He didn't see the outcomes. He didn't see the fulfilment of the promise in that. But he obeyed and paved the way for his son Isaac to do exactly the same. And he paved the way to do exactly the same thing in Jacob. And so it passed on down through the family that God had raised up to bring about his purposes and plans.

Obedience to the call of God is absolutely essential. He was testing Abraham. Will you give me your only son? It's an amazing thing to me that God said, Isaac is your only son. Isaac wasn't his only son. Isaac had Ishmael. He had another son. But he wasn't the son of promise. He wasn't the son of Sarah. He was a dead son. Dead in the sense of he is not a spiritual man walking in my ways. He is not part of my kingdom.

He is not part of my plan and purpose for this land. He is not part of the plan of your seed Abraham because your seed with Sarah, the impossible child of promise, I will fulfil everything. Not through Ishmael. Nothing to do with you Ishmael. He wasn't the son of promise. He wouldn't even count. Paul tells us in Galatians about Hagar and Sarah and the difference between the two and what it all meant. God is saying something.

And I think to myself, what is it? Who is our Isaac? Who is our beloved son? Yehovah said to Abraham, your son that you love, your only son that you love. He's talking about the fulfilment of eternal kingdom promise. Only in Isaac can this be fulfilled and in the faithfulness and the obedience of your seed can this be fulfilled. Take your son whom you love and sacrifice him on the altar. Put the knife to his throat.

What a challenge. I don't know what I would have done in that circumstance. It's too difficult to even contemplate. Abraham knew God. In his heart and mind he thought, I'm sure God will raise him from the dead if I do what he asks. But what is God saying to us? That is not just a nice story about Abraham and what obedience and righteousness is all about and faith and trust and truth. He's speaking to us through these things.

And he asks us and he says, who is the love of your life? What is the love of your life? Who is your Isaac? Who and what is God asking you to lay on the altar and put the knife to its throat? Your job, your money, your house, your land, your family, your friends. What is it that keeps us from doing what Torah asks us to do? God says whatever it is, you climb that mountain, you build an altar, you lay that thing on the altar and you put a knife to its throat.

God is looking for people with no compromise. People who will stand tall. And if we don't, we will fall for everything. We will fall for anything. And as far as I'm concerned, the majority of messianics fall for anything because they live on the internet. They spend more time on the internet than they do in this book and on the mountain with God. And they swallow anything and everything. And they come up with all kinds of theological nonsense, conspiracy theories by the multitudes.

They live in the rubbish of Mr Google and think they're going somewhere and they're going to be better off for it and they never are. They are pretend messianics, not true messianics. They are just another branch of Christianity that is substituted Sunday for Saturday. No different from the Seventh-day Adventists. Another branch of Christianity. God is not looking for another branch of Christianity. He's looking for people of the way. The way of the Messiah. The way of Yeshua.

And walk in His ways, not become another branch, another denomination, another type of Christianity. Most messianics are Christian by doctrine. They believe in heaven, they believe in hell, they believe in the rapture, they believe in a whole lot of stuff that is not true. They've just brought their Christian doctrines with them into their messianic Sabbath keeping. It's horrendous. And I get a little bit worked up over it. But God says, I need a voice. I need voices.

God raised up Isaiah and Jeremiah and Ezekiel and He said, go to your own people and you tell them what I tell you to tell them and do not be afraid of their faces. I will make your forehead harder than their foreheads. They won't listen to you. They will hate you. They will do to you what they did to Paul. But He said, no compromise. They will have heard the message. They will have heard the truth and what they do with it will either condemn them or bless them.

God is looking for voices. Do you want to be one of those voices? We are to be that voice. And if we're not, if our life doesn't demonstrate it and our words don't convey it and proclaim it, then we are not serving the purposes of God. I know the purposes and the plans I have for you, He says. Will we fulfil them? Will we walk in them? Will we pay the price for them? Will we turn our backs on everything God says is hindering your work, your walk? And do what He asks.

Better get to New Moon. I'll just read two verses because it's part of New Moon. And Leviticus 23 verse 23 says, Yehovah spoke to Moses saying, Speak to the children of Israel saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you are to have a Shabbat rest, a memorial of blowing shepherot, shofars, a set-apart convocation. You are to do no regular work and you are to present an offering made by fire to Yehovah.

And I know that there are occasions when, times when we can't attend the New Moon. Or we're away on holidays and we can't get to Shabbat normally. But that's where our heart's at. It's not that we are disobedient to God. Sometimes we can't because we can't, but we make sure God knows where our heart is. I want to be here Father, I can't just make it for this reason, that reason, and let Him dialogue that with you and Him.

I know these things are so important to God that He says you cannot miss celebrating Pesach on the 14th of the first month. And if you're away on a journey and you can't get back, if you have touched a dead body and you're unclean, where Paul says examine your own life and make sure you don't get it wrong. He says if you can't do it on the right day, then you must do it on the next month, the 14th on the second month.

These things are important to God, but He knows there are sometimes occasions when we can't get to something. So that's not what I'm saying, that if you don't make it to one Shabbat or one New Moon or something, that God's going to just send a lightning strike and you're dust. No, He knows we want to be here. And if it's only just the odd occasion and things, He knows if we can or if we can't. He knows if we don't just because we can't be bothered or other things are more important to us.

He says put that on the altar and slit its throat and serve me. So here we find that Yehovah is saying speak to Israel on the seventh month, on the first day of the month. Have a Sabbath rest, come and honour me. In other words, understand and know what the New Moon is about. We know that this particular one is the ultimate New Moon. It is the New Moon called Yom Teruah. It's the second coming of Yeshua, the Messiah.

And the thing that we need to understand is is that every New Moon brings us to the most important New Moon. Christianity doesn't teach you about New Moon. It doesn't teach you about the Feast of Trumpets, the Feast of Yom Teruah. They don't care about it. It's not important to them. It's in the Word of God. It's in the Torah. But they have no clue what it means or why it's there and they think you're weird and strange because you keep New Moon.

Paul says in Colossians, don't let anyone put you down because you do. Because it's talking about something that is to come. And every New Moon keeps us focused, understanding, looking forward to the final New Moon on the seventh month. It helps us to never forget the last New Moon is coming. The New Moon of the seventh month at the end of this age. And he says you keep each New Moon because it's a proclamation. It's a message of the one that is to come, the second coming of Yeshua.

The wonderful and amazing thing about New Moon on the seventh month is that it means that some are going to be resurrected from the dead. That some are going to rise from the earth who are still alive. And they're going to meet Yehovah in the air. The wise virgins will have that door opened into the kingdom to them. The foolish virgins won't. The door is shut and closed because they were not kingdom people. Believers in the Messiah, believers in Yeshua, yes, ten of them.

Five were worldly, lovers of other things. Their oil had wasted out and gone. They thought they were going to have an entrance. They had none. So we know one of the reasons for Yehovah taking us off this earth and some are going to rise into the air while the rest of the world looks on. And if a meeting happens to be happening there will be some lifted out of that meeting and the rest will be sitting there and say what happened? We can't deceive ourselves as to the importance.

What's going to happen when the trumpet blast comes? When Yeshua streaks through the skies circling the earth with millions of angelic hosts and the sound of the shofar splitting the air and the world is in turmoil and doesn't know what is happening and the graves open, the dead in Yeshua the Messiah rise and meet him in the air and become one with the heavenly hosts and armies. What's going to happen then? That happens on the seventh trumpet.

Seven seals have been opened. Seven trumpets have come. There's been lots of war and trouble and difficulty. There's an anti-Messiah taking over and controlling the earth. People are being put to death because they realise we must not follow him. Then the trumpet sounds. The dead in Messiah rise. You know what happens then? The most furious outpouring of the wrath of God upon the earth you could ever imagine. The seven bowls of Yehovah's final wrath and the three woes are going to be poured out on the earth and he doesn't want you and I to be in it.

He wants us to be out of it before that happens. To go through the first part is bad enough but to go through the last part, you don't want to be there. The seven bowls of wrath, the fury of God. The day of the Lord, the day of Yehovah will have arrived when his fury and his wrath will be poured out on the nations of the earth. The word of God gives us an understanding of where things are at and who he's looking for and how things unfold and what it's all about.

And if we don't take any notice of it, then so sad for us. Amen. Yom Teruah is coming and this day celebrates it. We rejoice in it, praise the Almighty for it and we say, Father, I don't want to be a person of compromise. You know who can convey that message? People of no compromise. If you and I allow compromise in our lives, we do not have the right to preach this message. We must demonstrate the truth of God's call upon our life or we are just false messengers.

Powerless, a form of religion with no power, no authority, no anointing. God is saying, you people, whether it's four or four hundred, I want a people who know how to move in the power and the authority of my word and my name. Read Malachi chapter 1. Read again what Darren read yesterday, Psalm 27. It tells us so much about the goodness and the greatness of who Yehovah is. So we give you thanks, Heavenly Father, for this day, this new moon, this opportunity to come together where you say, treat it as a Sabbath and come together and worship me.

Father, we thank you for the work that you're doing in our lives. We thank you, Father, for what you're saying to us. You say it to us because you love us. It's a discipline, Father, that says you are my children, my sons and my daughters. If you weren't my sons and daughters, if you weren't my true people that I love and who honour me, I wouldn't be bothered taking you through this, challenging you, calling you, working with you.

But because you are my true sons, He does. Father, we thank you that you love us so deeply. You have entrusted so much to us. You have given us so much and blessed us with so much. We are amazed and in awe of your greatness. Help us, Father, to make this transition into, Father, another new beginning, Father, into another new era, into a new perspective and purpose. And, Father, may we see you do great and amazing things for us, with us and upon us.

Amen. Amen.