Shavu'ot ~ Instructions & Power

I've been commissioned to proclaim the good news, so that's what I'm going to do. Shavu'ot is the day in which we observe and celebrate the giving of Torah at Mt. Sinai and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on those who came to Jerusalem in obedience to observe YHWH's Feast. James explains it best in the first chapter, the 25th verse. "But whoso looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed." To look is to "observe" and Y'hshuwah's final instructions recording in Matthew 28 is to teach to observe. Torah is not bondage, nor is obedience, legalism. Torah is freedom! Torah is the "Constitution" of the Kingdom of YHWH. This Sunday we will celebrate Shavu'ot, which is also known as Feast of Weeks, or Pentecost. Actually it begins Saturday evening at sunset, so two Sabbaths! HalleluYah! It's a big, big day, in which it truly all comes together. YHWH gave Moses the Torah on Shavu'ot at Sinai, in stone. Stone is significant for two reasons. "Etched in stone" indicates forever and second, the hardness of man's heart can only be changed and softened by the hand of YHWH. Isaiah tells us the Hand of YHWH is Y'hshuwah. The most awesome of dichotomies ever known to man is law and liberty. One protects the other. Lawlessness is not freedom, lawlessness is anarchy. Freedom is not the absence of laws, but rather the abolishment of bondage and slavery. Israel has attempted the concept under the authority of the UN as a democracy, but without Divine providence . . . America has tried to replicate this prototype, but to no avail. Perfect liberty is only possible in conjunction with perfect Law, and that is found only in full covenant with YHWH. The perfect law of liberty is only by the Hand of YHWH, who is Y'hshuwah. We can now be forgiven, and have the power to live by the Instructions, as Messiah did. We can truly live as the first century disciples did. The Torah has been given, Messiah has come in the flesh, and the Holy Spirit has been poured out . . . It's up to us to receive! Those in covenant walk in the light of YHWH and obedience to Torah. The Spirit of YHWH writes HIS laws upon our hearts, the same laws that were etched in stone at Sinai. There's nothing to wait for, we have been given all we need to walk as Messiah walked. We have the Instructions and the power to "be ready" and to occupy until Messiah returns. We have the power to walk in the blessing of the perfect Law of Liberty.