The Hebrew Roots Identity Crisis - A letter to the Torah Movements

Who are you? We're all well aware of this idea of an identity crisis. Years ago, many of us recognized it within our own belief system. Maybe you realized that you are indeed grafted into Israel by faith, as Paul said. Maybe you found errors in your denomination and made even drastic changes to your faith and lifestyle. But if we conquered our identity crisis, why are so many of us still unfulfilled spiritually? Why are so many believers still bearing bad fruit, even though we have all the apparent boxes checked? Why do we still have this nagging feeling that something is missing? That same feeling we had when we were confronted with our identity crisis of the past? In discovering our identity crisis, many of us went from one identity crisis to another. And it's not because the teaching was bad. In fact, it was good. But it was only one piece of the puzzle. And we made the mistake to think that this is it. I've arrived, I've found it. And thinking that this is it prevents us from completing the rest of the puzzle which makes up the image of Christ, that image that we are all to grow into. I mean, think about it. In the beginning, Satan deceived the man and the woman in the garden. He told them, eat of this and and you will become like God. And in that moment of the fall, Adam and Eve suffered an identity crisis, consuming the counterfeit identity that was presented to them. And that identity crisis is even still today, at the root of all lawlessness and legalistic behavior. But ever since the fall of the garden, God has been journeying with humanity to restore their forgotten identity back to them. In the Exodus, God came to Moses and to Israel to remind them of who they are, that they are Israel and not slaves to this world. Israel set up camp eventually at the base of Mount Sinai. But there was more that God wanted to show them. And the cloud then started to move, prompting the people to move. And today the cloud is moving. But some have decided to remain at the mountain. Israel's journey was not complete, and neither is ours. So let us see what lies next. And he will one day say, I never knew you. Depart from me, worker of lawlessness. In this teaching, we will address the identity crisis that is in both adults and our children, and how our children have become the canary in the coal mine of an identity crisis of sonship among believers, one that is happening right now and is prevalent. We will see how many believers still don't understand who they are as a covenant people, nor their sonship authority. We will discover what your true biblical identity in Christ is, and the practical steps that we can take to restore that identity to our fellowships, to our families, and to our children. For this will change your life, your family, and your fellowship. I want you to see how things currently are. Amongst many believers in the world, there is largely a division. Many believers do understand their identity in the truth. They have an idea of God's covenant. They have an idea of the holiness that God has called them to live out. And then there are other believers who understand their identity in the Holy Spirit, who understand the sonship that they have in Christ and their authority in the Holy Spirit. It is typical to see one or the other most manifest in a believer. But God didn't call us to split spirit and truth worship in two. God didn't call the body of Christ into some sort of a split personality. And as long as Satan can keep us divided, he can keep the spirit and truth worship of Christ out of us. We need to understand our identity as God's covenant people, and we need to understand our identity as sons of God. This together makes up our identity in the Christ, that singular, complete spirit and truth worship. But brothers and sisters, many people talk about spirit and truth worship, but few actually understand what it means in its entirety. And this is the problem when we have one side of the equation figured out because we've come to some sort of a revelation of God's truth, His holy law. Or maybe we came to this revelation of God's Holy Spirit and his spiritual gifts and so forth, but yet at the cost of the other side, immediately our belief system is compromised because it is not in the fullness of Christ. And then this is why we then start grasping for denominations so that we can find safety and identity within them. For deep down we know that something is is missing. We know an identity crisis still exists because the fruit of many believers is that they simply went from one denomination to another. We need to understand that people get their identity in their denomination often, and your identity determines your lifestyle. For example, if you believe that you're a Baptist, you'll act like a good Baptist should act. If you believe that you're a Pentecostal, you'll act like a good Pentecostal should act. If you believe you're a Catholic, you'll act like a good Catholic. If you believe you're a Messianic, like a good Messianic. And if you believe that you are a Hebrew rooter, you'll act like a good Hebrew rooter. While it's certainly not a sin in of itself to go by a denominational label, the problem is that the call of God to us isn't to become known as being part of a particular denomination. In fact, there is no commandment to become any of them. Jesus wasn't defined by any of them and he didn't define any of his disciples by any of these. There's no such thing as a Baptist, a seventh Adventist, Catholic or Messianic in the Bible. Rather, these are man made expressions of following Yeshua. And so the one who gets to invent the label determines what it means. These are not to be your identity. Your identity ought to be in Christ. Now we've heard this, but few understand it truly. So what does it really mean? And what's the big deal about denominations? Each denomination is defined by a theological focus and with a change of denomination you simply undergo a change of focus. We simply shift from a maybe being a Pentecostal focused on spiritual gifts and speaking in tongues to to maybe being a Catholic who's focused on the bread and wine and the confession, to maybe being a Baptist and to maybe a shift to a focus on four commandments like keeping the Sabbath, keeping feasts, eating clean and wearing tzitzit. And this becomes so evident when we look at the symptoms. For example, some in the Torah movement are stuck on feasts, diet and Sab like a broken record. If almost every fellowship, service, conference or video we watch remains to be about these three or four passion laws, then has this not become our new gospel? Has this not become the gospel of the Torah movement when we are less interested in telling you about Jesus, salvation and our first love then than why you need to rest on the Sabbath, our new first love. But these laws are holy and righteous and good indeed. And they are supposed to be serving Christ, but have we been using them to serve ourselves instead? I want to submit to you that a recalibration is in order. You now see how denominations can get a theological tunnel vision when they start getting their identity in their passion doctrine. But let's get to the root of this. Why does this happen? And how do we not repeat the same mistake? Now, brothers and sisters, I want you to bear with me in this teaching. As you can see, we are going to have to be honest about some things today. Look internally, deeply, to see if there's anything that resonates. Some of us, I want to submit, have made our faith all about us. What started as a legitimate move of God to restore aspects of holy living to the people of God has become about our knowledge of the law and how it makes us special. Let's just ask a simple question. What are we known for? Is your movement a movement known for having biblical love, or a movement known for pursuing and ever discussing new knowledge? A movement known for lofty speech, or a movement known for revolutionary action? See, words may win debates, and all denominations debate one another all day long. But it is words and actions that win people's hearts to the Messiah. And the actions that this world is hungry for is the actions found in the book of actions, the moves of the Holy Spirit contained in the Book of Acts, that which people desire today to see but do not see. And so we see that the denominational identity of the Hebrew roots movement or Messianic movement or Torah observance movement is for the people to be known as Sabbath keepers, feast keepers, clean eaters. But are these to be what defines you? Do you want to be famous for this? I mean, don't get me wrong again, these are holy, they are righteous, and they are good laws handed down by our Father. But Yeshua was more and known for more than being a Sabbath keeper. And there is a true identity in Christ that Christ is calling us to. This is why some people struggle to do greater works than these. For these four laws now start defining who we are and allowing anything else into focus eventually starts feeling like a betrayal to who we are in the least. It makes us deeply uncomfortable to our status quo. But we are not supposed to be defined by particular laws over others. In the first century there were in fact the some believers who were seen by Christ as having their identity defined by their keeping of particular Passion laws over others. The Pharisees, they took pride in their knowledge of their Passion laws and their descendants of being the true sons of Israel. And this led to them missing the weightier matters. Matthew 23:23 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites for you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law, justice, mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done without neglecting the others. These men kept the laws of God and that was good. But notice how Jesus took issue with what they didn't do. See, sometimes we're so obsessed with our passion laws of what we are doing and trying to convince everyone else to do that. We miss what we aren't doing and this is an identity issue. Another example is in Matthew 7:22 where it says, on that day many will say to me, lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and cause our demons in your name? And do many mighty works in your name. And then I will declare to them, I never knew you depart from me, you workers of lawlessness. These believers pointed to their particular works, great and mighty works. And yet Yeshua looked at the bigger picture and he saw lawlessness. The amazing acts that these believers did were at the cost of other lawless behavior. And because of that, they were not justified before God. So you see that it's not just about what you do, keeping a Sabbath or a feast or eating certain food. It's about what you neglect. The issue is an identity crisis. In fact, these people were told by Yeshua, I never knew you depart from me, workers of lawlessness. So when he says, I don't know you, that's referring to identity. I don't know who you are. I have not sanctioned the identity that you have taken on that has caused you to love the ways that you do. Simply, Yeshua is saying, I don't know who you are because you don't act like my disciple. You don't know how to act because you don't know who you are. Now think about it. This is quite concerning. These people were doing some righteous, powerful works, yet were still living in the fallen counterfeit identity of Satan, where he told Adam and Eve, I will make you like God. The identity of pride that boasts in works before the throne of God. In this particular example, these believers define their identity by prophecy, by the casting out of demons and other mighty works. And so we see that whenever our identity is defined by particular works or law keeping, like being a Sabbath or a feast keeper, we risk the same. We stand before God saying, but Lord, Lord, have we not kept the Sabbath every week of our life? Have we not come and attended the feast of Tabernacles every year? Lord, have we not abstained from eating pig sandwiches? And yet then what else is in our life? The weightier matters are almost always missed when we get our identity in our own works and law keeping instead of in Christ. Because those works and those passion laws is what we are all about in our faith. And so we miss those weightier matters, in particular of what the Pharisees also missed. Justice, mercy and faithfulness. And this is what we see in our midst today, is it not? In regards to justice, we see an unequal use of weights and measures. In terms of mercy, we are slow to show mercy to those who need mercy and quick to judge by appearance. Regarding faithfulness, our tongues are quick and swift to betray even fellow believers. And then the second thing that happens to us is that self Righteousness starts creeping in this superiority complex that we so often start having over other Christians, never mind the world, we start talking about other denominations as inferior, for they haven't seen what we see. For some this has become so true that they absolutely hate fellow Christians, daring not even to be associated with them. But did God not command Peter to eat and associate with Gentiles like Cornelius in Acts chapter 10 because of the shared faith in Yeshua that they had in common? That Yeshua was the common link that bound them together? In the parable that Yeshua speaks of the Pharisee and the tax collector, the Pharisee stands up and says, God, I thank you. I'm not God like other men. I tithe of all that I earn and I fast twice a week. The Pharisee justifies himself before God, bringing his passion laws to the front, and the tax collector beats his chest. He doesn't boast or bring any of his law keeping to the front, but rather he says, God forgive me, a sinner. Are you that man, or are you the Pharisee? Do not be deceived to think that you are righteous before God because you keep a few laws. So did those Pharisees. And yet that Pharisee was not justified. Instead, the tax collector was Yeshua, called the Pharisee, who boasted in his law keeping lawless. And so I will reiterate again and again that keeping the Sabbath day is the fourth commandment. It is beautiful. The law of God in its entirety is beautiful. But who are you? So how do we fix this? By understanding the missing piece, our sonship identity in Christ, 2 Corinthians 5:17. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come first. It's time for us to get uncomfortable again. When you first discovered the Torah, you lost family and friends. But now, considering how much was lost, many are unwilling to make that same sacrifice a second time. But what Christ is calling you to will cause you to perhaps lose friends and family. Perhaps not once or twice, but as many times as it takes to be transformed into the image of Christ and to finish your puzzle. But if your life is not your own, this should not be an issue. For whoever would save his life will lose it. But whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. Yeshua said. And this is exactly where we find our identity in Christ, in being crucified with Christ dying to what we think it should look like, what man's expressions are of what it should look like to be a believer and looking at the clear example of who he is and how he lived without the excuses of man. But some of you will watch this video desiring to save your own life, to please your denominational identity, while at the same time trying to please your identity in Christ. The reality is that you cannot have two masters. You cannot please both man and God. We will always, in our pursuit of Christ, find that men are at times displeased in the path that we are taking. This does not mean we should not have accountability in our community. But we must understand that that journey will at times mean that we lose friends and family before we move on. I want you to also recognize the effects that all of this is having on upon our children. There is a massive identity crisis among some of our kids and they do not know who they are in Christ. Even though they may be religious, they are mixing the things of God with the things of this world in trying to figure out who they are. Many are in this place where they need a girlfriend or, or a boyfriend. They need to look a certain way as to how the world prescribes. They need the likes, the popularity, some struggle with self hatred, some even fall away from God. But then you say they keep the Sabbath, they eat clean, they must have it all figured out. And yet these laws are becoming nothing more than a new cultural identity for them. We are now seeing a generation of children growing up in the tradition of keeping the Sabbath, eating clean, and some other things. And these are not done from FAIF anymore, because FAIF is not what they got from their parents. They got observances of the law. And then you might ask, why the pivot? Why are we speaking about children right now? Well, for one, they matter. And for two, children are often the canary in the coal mine. Children are at times the reflection of a family's spiritual state, whether we like it or not. At times, if children are acting up, it's because they are struggling with the same spiritual problem that their parents have. It's just manifesting differently and more clearly. For example, our kids sometimes struggle with self hatred because the parents have self hatred. And self hatred is a symptom of not fully understanding who you are. For if you understood who you are in Christ, you will not hate who you are in Christ. But this manifests more clearly in our children because while parents are already established in their lives, they have routine. And routine masks our problems in identity because we're going to work, we're coming home, we're, you know, taking kids to school and here and there and this routine means that there isn't much transition. And transition is what exposes identity problems the most. And children are transitioning all the time. They are going through different stages of schools and friendships and figuring out who they are as a person, what they're going to do. And these transitions expose that identity crisis all the more. So if you've gotten this far in this teaching and you're maybe seeing one or two things that's really connecting to your life or your family's life, how do we address this? Let's just speak to some of the obvious issues of a lack of self confidence, for example, which manifests in trying to gain that approval from others to declare us as good. See, when we feel like we are not good, we have a lack of confidence in who we are. We need to be better, we need to become good, become something in the eyes of someone. And then we've arrived there in a place of satisfaction of who we are. But the one secure in his identity in God does not need others to say it is good, for God has already declared it. Genesis 1:31 and God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. In facing Goliath, David was told by everyone how he cannot do this, but his confidence was in God's ability and declaration of who he is. Another big issue we see is, as I mentioned, self hatred. And self hatred comes in when you're trying to love the self. That is the false self. The false self is built off a false identity built on the world's standards and the world's words. The world says you are acceptable based off how you look to us. And so that's why many of our kids are and ourselves, we ourselves too. We're trying to get our identity and our muscles and going to a gym so we can satisfy other humans. We get our identity in a girlfriend or a boyfriend and I need to find one. We get our identity and our wealth in a car, in a house. We need this, we need that we get our identity in this world. And not all of the things I just mentioned are sinful or wrong in of themselves to have. But it is when we need that to become complete. 1 John 2:16 for all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 1 Samuel 16, 7 For the Lord sees not as man sees. Man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart. So to answer the question I asked when we started this video who are you? God tells us in Genesis 1:27 so God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him. Male and female created he them. Whether you are a man or a woman, that is your identity. You have been made in the image of God. How can you not have self confidence? How can you have self hatred? How can you say, I love God, the creator of the heavens and the earth, the one who has molded me like clay in his hands, but I hate myself even though I am made in his image? This is your identity in Christ through whom you were made. And that identity does not rely on acceptance by the world. It only relies on God's declaration, as David in Facing Goliath discovered when he wrote Psalm 139:14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works. My soul knows it very well. Well, and what did that do for David? David understood his sonship in God made in his image and the authority that God has given him by the Holy Spirit. And he slayed the giant by the power of God as we uncover our identity in Christ. Now I'm going to first take a moment to remind you of your identity as a covenant people in the truth and then your identity as sons in the Spirit and what that fully means regarding our identity as a covenant people. In short, the prophet Jeremiah in Jeremiah 31 tells us what the new covenant is, that it was made with Israel and with Judah alone. And Paul says in Romans 11 that for Gentiles to partake, they are grafted in into Israel through Christ. Jeremiah also says that the law of God in the new covenant is written on our hearts. We understand then that the Holy Spirit changes our nature and empowers us to obey God. And Christ makes us holy and saves us by his work on the cross and calls us to live as a holy and a saved people. Ezekiel 36:26 and I will give you a new heart and a new Spirit I will put within you and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules. If you want to learn more about your identity in God's covenant as his covenant people see our teaching called scattered and regathered. And now exploring our identity in the Spirit as sons, we must look to Christ, for He was the one who first modeled it perfectly. We see that Yeshua called God his Father, and the Father called Yeshua his Son. In whom I am well pleased. And at his baptism then the dove came upon Yeshua. He was led into the wilderness and thereafter he returned to Jerusalem in power. And that same pattern is repeated for us. We can see that God is our Father and that he is also giving his Holy Spirit like a dove to us. That he is also calling us at times to enter a wilderness, but nonetheless to return in power. Romans 8:14 for all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the spirit of adoption as sons by whom we cry Abba. Father, the Spirit himself bears witness with our Spirit, that we are children of God. And if children, then heirs heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may be glorified with him. So what does it mean to be this Son of God through the Holy Spirit that Paul talks about? When we look to the disciples of Christ, we see an example. We see that Yeshua comes to them and makes clear the covenant of holiness to them. In Matthew 5 he relays the teachings of the Torah and says, you have heard it said. And then he comes and deepens the revelation by saying, I say to you. Then we see that he teaches them their sonship authority. For example, in Luke 9:1 it says, he called the 12 together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases. Many have thought that this authority remains with the 12 apostles. But we see that the same is repeated for the 72 that Yeshua would later send out in Luke 10 where he teaches these the same covenant of holiness and also their sonship authority. Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and and nothing shall hurt you. It doesn't stop there. But he then comes to all people in Acts 2, the masses if you will. And the covenant of holiness is revealed. Acts 2:42 and they devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. Of course the apostles teaching was was Yeshua's teaching. And Yeshua's teaching was the Father's teaching, that which he has been giving from the beginning, fully realized in the life of Christ. 1 John 2:7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye had from the beginning. We then see that in Acts and their sonship authority is revealed to them. When Peter explains to them what just happened when the Spirit was poured out? Verse 17. In the last days it shall be God declares, I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, young men see visions and old men shall dream dreams. God is now placing a new mark upon believers, that same mark that he foretold to the Samaritan women, that he is calling worshipers of Spirit and truth. Not just truth worship as those did at the base of Mount Sinai when Moses proclaimed, how I wish that they would all prophesy. And these people matured into what was known as the Pharisees and the Sadducees of the 1st century, operating lives of legalism, rejecting the Spirit just as their fathers did. Acts 7:51. You stiff necked people, uncircumcised in hearts and ears. You always resist the Holy Spirit as your fathers did. So do you. And on the other hand, God is not looking for people who are just worshiping him in spirit, like those who stood before the Christ and saying, lord, that we not cause our demons and that we did not do mighty works, and yet they operated in lawless behavior. When we operate in an identity in truth, or an identity in the Spirit at the cost of the other, we will always be led into lawlessness or legalism. But God is calling us to worship now in Spirit and truth, and then we will start manifesting. And only then will we start manifesting the greater works that can only be realized through Spirit and truth worship through our identity in Christ. As we discussed, anyone can keep a Sabbath, eat clean, or keep a biblical feast. Even the corrupted Pharisees of the first century did. Yet they rejected the Spirit and the Messiah rejected them. But the true test of our faith and maturity comes with the new works that Christ is most well known for, works that the flesh is incapable of doing on its own. For the flesh can't fully submit to God's law. Indeed it cannot. The flesh can't cast out demons, as the sons of Sceva attempted in Acts 19:14. The flesh can't bear fruits of the Spirit, the flesh can't heal the sick, for these works are impossible except through the gift of the new covenant, which is called the baptism of the Holy spirit. In Luke 3:16 we read John answered them all, saying, I baptize you with water. But he who is mightier than I is coming the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire, calling us all to sacrifice. And so I say to you that this is a call to repentance and that The Father has two warnings and messages for us all today. Number one, for us to return to the basics. Hebrews 5:12 says, for though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food. Many of us consider ourselves mature, that we have learned the depths of God's word, that because we have come to this greater revelation of his laws, that we surely that surely must mean that our knowledge makes us mature. But what is the milk and what is the meat? Hebrews 6 tells us, therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith towards God and of instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment. One of the core issues today is that we love to talk about the meat that we have discovered whilst we haven't even digested the milk. We want to be teachers, but we don't even know the elementary principles within the Torah, Hebrew roots, messianic movements. There is still so much of these elementary matters described by the author of Hebrews. We still have a lot of dead works. Speaking in general, we still have little understanding of baptism, still considering it a mere symbol, not understanding its true power. We don't regularly lay hands on one another at all, but still consider it a strange thing. We now even today have people thinking that the resurrection of the dead already happened and people thinking that there is no eternal judgment. But we want to talk about more mature things. PD and yes, indeed, we've given meat to babies without teeth or the stomach to digest it. And the food that is the doctrine, is vomited out upon the parents. We even have a name for this. We call these babies the Torah terrorist. Someone yielding knowledge like a sword without maturity. But let's do things differently this time. This time laying the foundation truly strongly with the revelation of our identity in Christ, in spirit and in truth, without excuses, having the faith full counsel of Christ's life in us, our families and our fellowships, so that we can raise a healthy bride of covenant, holiness and sonship authority. And the second thing that I believe God is calling us to today is to return to our first love. I have said this before, but the time is growing short for this. I am warning this movement. The time is growing short. God's patience is short. Revelation 2, 4 is a warning to the Church of Ephesus. It may as well be A warning to the Hebrew Roots movement. But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore, from where you have fallen. Repent and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place unless you repent. Yet this you have. You hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. The Nicolaitans was a church that compromised by allowing pagan ideas and immoralities in. Christ tells them, you do have this hatred for the works of the Nicolaitans. And Christ is saying to Ephesus, we have this in common. And I am glad that we have this in common. But having this hatred for immorality in common with Christ was not enough to redeem the church of Ephesus because they abandoned the first love. Again, it wasn't about just what they did, it was about what they didn't do. Again, we are in a place where there's so much that we think, look at what we do, Yeshua. We do these little laws, these four or five laws. Look at this, look at us, look at us. But Christ is looking at us and he's saying, I'm seeing the things that you're not doing. I'm seeing how you have abandoned the love that you had at first. Like in the story of Jonah, where Jonah did not want to go to Nineveh because he hated their works. So Ephesus hated the works of the Nicolaitans so much that they didn't believe, bother actually manifesting their first love to those who needed it most. Just as we today do not even bother with evangelism of salvation by Christ to the sick of this world. We do not bother. The Hebrew Roots movement couldn't be less bothered. They could not be less bothered to evangelize. Let's just say it how it is. Repent. Repent. Your time is running out. For God has given you the revelation you have so that you can do something with it. And if you do not, the same warning that he gave to Ephesus will come upon you and will be fulfilled in you that he will remove your lampstand from you. See, what is the first love? It's that love that you had when you first met him, the love for him and the fact that he died for you, the love for your own salvation in him. Love for others then to bring them that same salvation. A passion, a fiery passion to tell others about Jesus. But the fact that there is a lack of action in that demonstrates a lack of love before Our Father, yes, we have all the commandments figured out except the most important one. We have neglected to love the neighborhood. And so I tell you, restore regular evangelism to your fellowships. Use it or lose it. If you don't use your light, Yeshua says, I will take it. Use it or lose it. And so I don't want to see another comment on my YouTube channel of another Hebrew roots person coming and saying, well, the Christians are full of gossips and adulteries and and abuse their Christianity. Is this false religion? Well, if I use the same measure of judging by appearance and entire people group by the acts of some, then I can judge the Hebrew roots movement in the same manner, the Messianic movement in the same manner. A movement full of gossips, adulteries and abuses. Because on the ground some in the movement have done the same. But I would not do such a thing because I do not judge by appearances. So let us fix our own house, let us clean house among our own people before we are so eager to talk about the sins of others. For surely God will come to us and apply the measure we used towards others and measure it right back to us. We will all stand before his throne and the witness of the Holy Spirit can today tell you whether what I am telling you is true and a legitimate warning from heaven. So you may say right now to me, Peter, you're being too harsh. This teaching was too heavy. You were unfair. I say to you that if you want to boast in your ability to know God's law, then understand that he will hold you to a greater account. Because if you are like the first century people who understood God's law and who had wretched acts, God is going to walk among them, the people, and it is going to be the law keepers that he is going to toss aside and say, I don't know you. And it is going to be the sinner, the one who is struggling, but who is yet humble, who he will save. You have been given much, now do something with what you have been given. Father, I ask that you would come of your spirit and convict and change us. Help us Lord, to be a people that doesn't just speak about your law, but walks out the law of love above all, that we would love our neighbour as ourselves and love the Lord our God with all our heart, mind, soul and strength. Father, I ask that you would come and restore what true obedience means to your people. I ask you put a humble heart inside of us. I ask that you would come and cleanse the threshing floor. That you would expose the darkness of those who refuse to repent after they hear this message. Lord, I ask, Lord, that those who do repent would be shown great mercy. That you would cover the multitude of their sins. Lord, we have all had multitudes of sins before you. I pray for those who do not see that. That their sins would stare right at them. That they would see it so they may repent themselves. Lord, I pray God, that we would become a people of unity, of spirit and truth worship, not a people of pride, A people who have their identity in Christ, not in a Sabbath. A people who know you and that have relationship with you. People who are known by you. Father, let it be that we hear, well done, good and faithful servant. Not depart from me, Worker of iniquity. We thank you, Lord, for all revelation of the truth. And we thank you for your Holy Spirit. Restore the broken walls of your kingdom. Restore the vulnerabilities in the body of Christ to purity and wholeness. Let us all be ambassadors of you, serving the poor and exalting the least. In the name of Yeshua, I pray. Amen. Sam.