170 To which faith did Messiah belong

To which faith did Messiah belong?

If you ask the average church-goer anywhere in the western world, which religion Yahshua the man from Nazareth followed whilst He was on earth 2000 years ago, most will without blinking an eye reply: ‘He was a Christian’, whilst others will insist that He was a Messianic Jew. But, when you investigate the matter a bit closer you will notice from the first four books of the Renewed Covenant that He was born a descendant of David who was from the tribe of Judah[1] and also called a Jew[2] by the other nations living near His home town. In confirmation of this we read from Luke 2: 21 & 22 that after Yahshua was born His Jewish parents who were Torah obedient did what was required of them by the Law of Moses, as follows: ‘And when eight days had passed, before His circumcision, His name was then called Yahshua, the name given by the angel before He was conceived in the womb. (22) And when the days for their purification according to the Law of Moses were completed, they brought Him up to Jerusalem to present Him to YHVH.’ The Jewish faith is the only faith who remained loyal to the covenant YHVH made with Abraham and as his descendants through Isaac and Jacob to circumcise their male children at the age of eight days old.

Even though most believers in Yahshua the Messiah are aware that He was a Jew by birth, there are many who have been so deceived by the religious leaders of the churches of this world that they will deny the fact or at least try and forget about it. Most people who claim faith in the Messiah do not know what His main purpose was for coming to earth the first time, despite a number of prophecies giving us exact details about it, such as for example Isaiah 49: 5 & 6, in this way: ‘And now says YHVH, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, to bring Jacob back to Him, in order that Israel might be gathered to Him (for I am honored in the sight of YHVH, and My Elohim is My strength). (6) He says, “It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also make You a light of the nations so that My salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”’ This is totally in agreement with the two-fold promise that YHVH made with Abraham, namely that he and his descendants through Isaac and Jacob will inherit the Promised Land eternally, provided they remain loyal to Him and as the sign of the covenant circumcise their boys at the age of eight days old as a sign of the eternal covenant. The second part of the covenant was that a remnant of the lost sheep of the house of Israel, whom YHVH scattered into the world because of idolatry, will be able to return to the covenant that YHVH made with Abraham, through Abraham’s one seed Yahshua, through whom He will also save the rest of mankind after Messiah’s millennial rule, during the great white throne judgement period. The thirteen principles of faith of the house of Judah confirms what was prophesied in the Tanach, as already established by Maimonides an influential Torah scholar during the middle ages, as follows: ‘Moshiach will restore the kingdom of David to its glory of old, to its original sovereignty. He will build the Holy Temple and gather the dispersed of Israel. In his times, all laws [of the Torah] will be reinstated as before; the sacrifices will be offered, and the Sabbatical year and the Jubilee year will be instituted…’ In addition the Shema which we and all Jews recite at least twice a day, confirms at the end of the second part in Deuteronomy 11: 20 & 21, that upon obedience of Elohim’s Torah, He will give us eternal life, as follows: “And you shall write them (the commandments) on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, (20) so that your days and the days of your sons may be multiplied on the land which YHVH swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens remain above the earth.” Yahshua also confirmed this when He was asked by the Canaanite woman to heal her demon-possessed daughter in Matthew 15: 24, saying: “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” However, these facts have been hidden from even Elohim’s people until our time as YHVH told the prophet Daniel in Daniel 12: 4, saying: ‘But as for you, Daniel, conceal these words and seal up the book until the end of time; many will go back and forth, and knowledge will increase.’ In addition we read from Acts 3: 21 about a time before Yahshua will return, when there will be a restoration of all things, which no doubt includes a restoration of the original truth, that most of mankind has forgotten because of neglect through the centuries.

In spite of the fact that the world has made enormous advances in the field of medicine, science and technology over the past two to three hundred years, there are probably fewer true believers in this age of enlightenment, than what there were 2000 years ago. The reason is that Satan and his many spiritual and human agents are doing everything in their power to hide the true gospel from humanity, as witnessed in 2 Corinthians 4: 3 & 4, as follows: ‘And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, (4) in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Messiah, who is the image of Elohim.’ As a second witness to this is found in Matthew 13: 11, where Yahshua when asked the reason for Him speaking in parables, said: “To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been granted.” In addition YHVH has blinded our Jewish brothers to the identity of the true Messiah at this time, to allow a specified number of the lost sheep of the house of Israel (who used to believe that they are Gentiles including a small number of real Gentiles) to return to the covenant our forefathers made with Him, together with the house of Judah at Mount Sinai, before He will save all (meaning the commonwealth of) Israel, at Messiah’s return to rule the world from Jerusalem, as explained in Romans 11: 25 - 29 and Ephesians 2: 11 – 22. The second reason for blinding our Jewish Brothers to the identity of Yahshua, was to allow Him as our kinsman Redeemer to buy back the piece of the Promised Land we lost because of idolatry, but also to die for the sins of the world, including ours, as Rav Shaul confirmed in 1 Corinthians 2: 6 - 8, saying: ‘Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away; (7) but we speak Elohim’s wisdom in a mystery[3],the hidden wisdom which Elohim predestined before the ages to our glory; (8) the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it, they would not have crucified the Master of Glory.’ The truth is, if Yahshua did not die, the Set-apart Spirit whom the house of Judah get through obedience to Torah[4], could not come to the house of Israel who have forgotten what sin was, because they were deceived to believe their savior abolished it for them, as Yahshua explained to His disciples in John 14: 26 and 16: 7, saying: “But the Helper, the Set-apart Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you. (16: 7) But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper shall not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.” Yahshua had to die to free those returnees from the lost ten tribes from the punishment or curses of the Law due to us for transgressing it, in order for the Set-apart Spirit to also come to us, as Rav Kepha explained in Acts 2: 36 – 38, saying: “Therefore let all the house of Israel (from the lost ten tribes) know for certain that Elohim has made Him both Master and Messiah—this Yahshua whom you crucified (for your sins).” (37) Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Kepha and the rest of the apostles, “Brethren, what shall we do?” (38) And Kepha said to them, “Repent, and let each of you be immersed in the name of Yahshua Messiah for the forgiveness of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Set-apart Spirit.”

Even though the process of re-gathering the house of Israel has been slow over the past 2000 years, we read a clear witness what is busy happening to the House of Israel whom YHVH the Elohim of Israel is calling to return from their exile where He scattered them, during the last days from a prophecy by Ezekiel in Ezekiel 36: 16 – 28, in this way: ‘Then the word of YHVH came to me saying, (17) “Son of man, when the house of Israel was living in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds; their way before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity. (18) Therefore, I poured out My wrath on them for the blood which they had shed on the land, because they had defiled it with their idols. (19) Also I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed throughout the lands. According to their ways and their deeds I judged them. (20) When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned My holy name, because it was said of them, ‘These are the people of YHVH; yet they have come out of His land. (21) But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they went. (22) Therefore, say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says YHVH Elohim, “It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for My holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went. (23) And I will vindicate the holiness of My great name which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst. Then the nations will know that I am YHVH,” declares Adonai Elohim, “when I prove Myself holy among you in their sight. (24) For I will take you from the nations, gather you from all the lands, and bring you into your own land. (25) Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. (26) Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. (27) And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances. (28) And you will live in the land that I gave to your forefathers; so you will be My people, and I will be your Elohim.”’ Many of us who were immersed in Messiah’s name for the forgiveness of our sins have accepted Messiah as our Passover who died for the past sins that we have committed and took the punishment due to us for our Torah breaking on Himself, but also to buy back our portion of the Promised Land which we lost because of idolatry, as is confirmed in Galatians 3: 26 – 29, as follows: ‘For you are all sons of Elohim through faith in Messiah Yahshua. (27) For all of you who were immersed into Messiah have clothed yourselves with Messiah (Abraham’s one seed through whom we will return to Elohim’s eternal covenant). (28) There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Messiah Yahshua. (29) And if you belong to Messiah, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.’

My purpose with this sermon is to assist seekers of truth to identify as far as possible, the counterfeit teachings of the blind guides designed specifically to mislead Israelites who used to be held captive by the Roman inspired churches of the world, to return to the one true congregation of Elohim started by Moses in the wilderness as witnessed in Acts 7: 37 & 38, in this way: “This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, ‘ELOHIM SHALL RAISE UP FOR YOU A PROPHET LIKE ME FROM YOUR BRETHREN.’ (38) This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness together with the angel who was speaking to him on Mount Sinai, and who was with our fathers; and he received living oracles to pass on to you.” This is essentially the job function of followers of Yahshua the Nazarene, as He explained to the Pharisees in John 10: 16, saying: “And I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they shall hear My voice; and they shall become one flock with one shepherd.” This is confirmed in a prophecy by Ezekiel in Ezekiel 37: 22 – 24, as follows: “And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king will be king for all of them; and they will no longer be two nations, and they will no longer be divided into two kingdoms. (23) And they will no longer defile themselves with their idols, or with their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but I will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. And they will be My people and I will be their Elohim. (24) And My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances, and keep My statutes, and observe them.” Even so, we need be aware that most of Churchianity has been ‘disciplined’ to get all their spiritual knowledge and understanding from preachers who have been trained in the doctrines of their specific group only. These preachers have been deceived by false doctrines, which they learned from seminaries that came through many centuries of false teachings passed on to them by the Roman Catholic Church (Esau), after the house of Israel who became dispersed into mainly the western world. Being deceived themselves; they continue to deceive thousands of their congregants to believe their non-scriptural doctrines. The original believers in Messiah Yahshua were all Jews. In addition Yahshua said to the woman at the well, in John 4: 22, “You worship that which you do not know; we worship that which we know, for salvation is from the Jews.” The average churchgoer has no idea that Messiah’s name was in fact Yahshua. The name Yahshua means the salvation of YHVH, which is alluded to in Matthew 1: 21, as follows: “And she will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Yahshua, for it is He who will save His people from their sins.” His mother was Jewish and they lived in Israel, which was even at that time populated by mostly Jewish citizens: so why would His mother give Him a hybrid Latin-Greek name like Jesus, which has no meaning at all. In addition why will a Jewish Savior, speaking Hebrew be given the Greek title of ‘Christ’. His correct Jewish title, is as we read in Daniel 9: 26, as follows: “Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.”

To continue then, let us consider the many counterfeit doctrines that Satan has introduced through the church system. The problem with mankind is that of human nature and lawlessness. Most of Churchianity has been deceived to believe in a false Messiah who came to abolish the strict laws introduced by His Father. Yet we read Yahshua’s own words in Matthew 5: 17 & 18, saying: “Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill. (18) For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass away from the Law, until all is accomplished.” If you think or believe that Yahshua accomplished all when He died and was resurrected, you are wrong. Let’s read the next two verses of Matthew 5 to prove just the opposite, as follows: (19) “Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and so teaches others, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. (20) For I say to you, that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and the Pharisees, you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.” This means that we have to keep the Torah according to Messiah’s stricter way of interpreting Torah, as He explained in Matthew 5, 6 & 7. And if we refuse to do so, we will not enter the kingdom of Elohim. We read fittingly in 1 John 3: 4 & 10, ‘Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. (10) By this the children of Elohim and the children of the devil are obvious; anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of Elohim, nor the one who does not love his brother.’ Do you practice righteousness, by obeying the Sabbath commandment? Do you practice righteousness, by eating only clean meats? In addition, do you practice righteousness, by sometimes sharing your blessings with a brother, even if he is not less fortunate than you? Do you love your neighbor enough to share the good news about the coming kingdom of Elohim with him?

Religious confusion and error is evident everywhere, but the majority of those attending church services are ignorant of the subtle influence of pagan customs. YHVH made a covenant with Israel that they will follow the teachings of His mouth, by the hand of Moses, in order to be a light to the nations around them. They were to become a model nation that would lead other nations to worship YHVH. However we read what happened to them in Psalm 81: 10 & 11, as follows: “I, YHVH, am your Elohim, Who brought you up from the land of Egypt; open your mouth wide and I will fill it. (11) But My people did not listen to My voice; and Israel did not obey Me.” Israel became entangled in the worship practices of the pagan nations around them, instead of influencing these nations for the better. This is why YHVH made them wander in the wilderness for 40 years, where most of the older generation died out. When they finally entered the Promised Land, it was a new generation, but people who also witnessed the miracle of the manna provided during their years in the wilderness, as well as the presence of YHVH in the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night. This new generation, should have forgotten the pagan gods of Egypt, since they had a functioning priesthood to keep them mindful of the good things that YHVH provided for them. But to no avail. After Moses died, instead of driving out the pagan nations among them in the Promised Land, they absorbed the heathen customs and worship practices from their neighbors. Even after the nation split into two separate nations, did they not obey YHVH, as we read in 2 Kings 17: 22 & 23: ‘And the sons of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam (the Israelite king who kept a feast like the Feast of Tabernacles in the 8th month, instead as in the seventh month, as ordained by YHVH and lead the nation into idolatry) which he did; they did not depart from them, (23) until YHVH removed Israel from His sight, as He spoke through all His servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away into exile from their own land to Assyria until this day.’

History being something that repeats itself shows that after Yahshua Messiah’s resurrection and ascension to heaven, only a few hundred years elapsed when the congregation was no longer Hebrew in character. Christianity simply rejected the Hebrew religion, leading them to despise Torah given to man by YHVH Himself. Even though Christianity claims to follow Messiah, it has absorbed many strange doctrines without any Scriptural basis. In the beginning the Church was pure, but because they rejected the so-called ‘Old Testament’ they lost a great deal of the blessings to be had, by keeping the commandments. They also lost the knowledge about the true Sabbath and Feast Days of Elohim and as a result accepted Satan’s false doctrine that mankind is immortal and upon death the soul of a good person goes to heaven, whereas the soul of an evil person goes to hell. It is because of this that many believe, since they are going to hell because of their past sins anyway, they might as well carry on sinning. Yahshua often referred to the Torah the Prophets and the writings (the Tanach), even saying to Satan when he tempted Yahshua in Matthew 4: 4, as follows: ‘But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘MAN SHALL NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE, BUT ON EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF ELOHIM.’” The Scriptures as originally given by Elohim to those inspired to pen the same was the pure word of Elohim. But since then, the Scriptures were translated into other languages and many errors slipped in. This is all Satan’s doing, as we read in Revelation 12: 9, as follows: ‘And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.’ We read from Genesis 3: 4, how Satan started deceiving mankind by telling Eve that she would live forever and that she has an immortal soul. Since then Christianity as well as most other religions believe this lie. Even though Satan does not speak to us directly any longer, he controls the minds of many human agents, whom he inspires to introduce false doctrines and lies to dissuade people from believing in YHVH. It is as we read in 1 Peter 5: 8, ‘Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls about like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.’ It is important that we understand the main source of all the errors and false doctrines is Satan.

The battle between light and darkness is not new. In fact it came from before the fall of man, when Satan rebelled against Elohim’s government and he wanted to take over the throne of YHVH, as we read in Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28. This resulted in YHVH throwing Satan and his angels down to the earth, as we read previously in Revelation 12. Many of the religious ideas, festivals and practices such as Easter, Xmas and Sunday worship services, may be traced back to our pagan forebears. If Israel did not persist in corrupting the truth, Churchianity might have had a chance. However, because of the failings of Israel, Churchianity reads the Scriptures, without seeing a connection between them and ancient Israel. As a result they cannot even learn from the mistakes that our forebears made. The point is that as human beings, we cannot do what Elohim requires of us, as we are reminded in Romans 8: 7 & 8, in this way: ‘Because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward Elohim; for it does not subject itself to the law of Elohim, for it is not even able to do so; (8) and those who are in the flesh cannot please Elohim.’ We read Elohim’s condemnation of the city of Jerusalem for their wickedness and idolatry in Isaiah 29: 13, as follows: ‘Then YHVH said, “Because this people draw near with their words and honor Me with their lip service, but they remove their hearts far from Me, and their reverence for Me consists of tradition learned by rote.”’ In fact the very same may be said about Churchianity today, since they are very sincere in their worship, they are sincerely wrong. We have been warned about mixing pagan customs with the way people worship in Leviticus 18: 3, as well as in Jeremiah 10: 1 – 5, as follows: ‘Hear the word which YHVH speaks to you, O house of Israel (note not Judah). (2) Thus says YHVH, “Do not learn the way of the nations, and do not be terrified by the signs of the heavens although the nations are terrified by them; (3) for the customs of the peoples are delusion; because it is wood cut from the forest, the work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool. (4) They decorate it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers so that it will not totter. (5) Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field are they, and they cannot speak; they must be carried, because they cannot walk! Do not fear them, for they can do no harm, nor can they do any good.’

Christianity believes that Yahshua was resurrected on Sunday, and as a result they hold, that He changed the Sabbath to Sunday. They are also totally oblivious of the fact that by keeping to the Friday impalement and Sunday resurrection account, they are denying Yahshua’s Messiahship. Recall for the moment the account in Matthew where the Scribes and the Pharisees asked Yahshua to give them a sign that He is indeed the Messiah. We read this and His answer in Matthew 12: 38 – 40, as follows: ‘Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered Him, saying, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.” (39) But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation craves for a sign; and yet no sign shall be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet; (40) for just as JONAH WAS THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE BELLY OF THE SEA MONSTER, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”’ This is twice as long as the Christian church believes he spent in the grave. The main reason why they misinterpret these scriptures, is the fact that they keep strictly to the Gregorian calendar as well as the Roman method of determining a day. They also do not keep the Feast Days of Elohim like Yahshua and his followers did, given in Leviticus 23, as they consider these to be for the Jews only. If they were familiar with these Feast Days of Elohim, they would have realized that these Feast Days are also known as annual or High Day Sabbaths. Accordingly Yahshua was impaled on a Wednesday, which was the day of preparation for the Feast of Unleavened Bread kept annually from the 15th to the 21st of Aviv. This is confirmed in John 19: 31 as follows: ‘The Jews therefore, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.’ This was not the regular Sabbath spoken about here, but the first Day of Unleavened Bread. Our Savior was put to death on a Wednesday, the day of Passover. He was placed in the tomb just before sunset when Wednesday ended and Thursday started. The woman had no time to wrap His body with spices due to the High Day Sabbath. They kept the First Day of Unleavened Bread which started on Wednesday after sunset (the 15th of Aviv). They bought spices on Friday after the Set-apart day for embalming Messiah’s body. They rested the next day on the weekly Sabbath and prior to sun-set, came to see the tomb. As described in Matthew 28: 6, this was when they found that at the end of the weekly Sabbath Yahshua was already risen. This was definitely not a sunrise visit to the tomb, but by twisting the meaning of the Scriptures and highlight certain portions over others, preachers do their utmost to abolish Torah. They absolutely hate the Ten Commandments especially that the Sabbath is on the seventh day of the week or Saturday. Consequently, in collaboration with business and industry, they have changed the calendar used in Europe to show Monday as the beginning of the week, with Sunday as the seventh day.

Even though, we find it difficult to understand how gullible our ancient Israelite forefathers were to be led astray so easily by the nations around them, many of us fail to see that we are doing exactly the same, by following doctrines of men without any Scriptural proof. Churchianity continues to preach falsehood, saying like Martin Luther used to: ‘faith alone saves us.’ Similar to him, they would like to remove the book of James from the Scriptures, where we read in James 2: 24 – 26, ‘You see that a man is justified by works, and not by faith alone. (25) And in the same way was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works, when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? (26) For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.’ We know that we are not justified by works and that salvation is a free gift of Elohim, to those who love Him. We read further from 1 John 5: 3, ‘For this is the love of Elohim, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome.’ Those who believe Messiah came to bring a new religion are blind guides, since we read from 2 John 1:5 ‘And now I ask you, lady, not as writing to you a new commandment, but the one which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.’ Those of us called at this time are together with our Torah observant Jewish Brothers the remnant that will be saved, if we overcome Satan, the self and the world. We read the encouraging message from Revelation 14: 12, as follows: ‘Here is the perseverance of the saints (us) who keep the commandments of Elohim and their faith in Yahshua.’ As I said before, we need teachers, but they should lead us to eventually join with the house of Judah at Messiah’s return, not teach anti-Semitic hatred, like Churchianity does. Think about it!

[1] Judah – The New American Standard Bible defines Judah as one of the twelve sons of Jacob. His descendants, together with the descendants of Benjamin, formed the southern kingdom, known as Judah.

[2] John 4: 9,’The Samaritan woman therefore said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans). JEW(S) Technically, the name refers to a descendant of the tribe of Judah, a Judean. In a general and more practical sense, a person of Jewish ancestry, or someone who has become a convert to Judaism. A person of Jewish ancestry who does not follow the precepts of Judaism (the Jewish faith) is sometimes called a non-observant Jew.

[3] The wisdom spoken about here is Messiah, as explained in 1 Corinthians 1: 24, like this: ‘But to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Messiah the power of Elohim and the wisdom of Elohim.’ Also compare Jeremiah 32: 17, Proverbs 8: 22 and John 17: 5.

[4] When a Jewish lawyer questioned Yahshua in Luke 10: 25, saying: “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” Yahshua answered him in a discussion in verses 26 – 28, saying: “What is written in the Law? How does it read to you?” (27) And he answered and said, “YOU SHALL LOVE YHVH YOUR ELOHIM WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND; AND YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.” (28) And He said to him, “You have answered correctly; DO THIS, AND YOU WILL LIVE.”