True Prophet

Please listen to Jeremiah 23:9-16

My heart within me is broken Because of the prophets; All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, And like a man whom wine has overcome, Because of the LORD, And because of His holy words. For the land is full of adulterers; For because of a curse the land mourns. The pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up. Their course of life is evil, And their might [is] not right. "For both prophet and priest are profane; Yes, in My house I have found their wickedness," says the LORD. "Therefore their way shall be to them Like slippery [ways]; In the darkness they shall be driven on And fall in them; For I will bring disaster on them, The year of their punishment," says the LORD. "And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: They prophesied by Baal And caused My people Israel to err. Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem: They commit adultery and walk in lies; They also strengthen the hands of evildoers, So that no one turns back from his wickedness. All of them are like Sodom to Me, And her inhabitants like Gomorrah. "Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets: 'Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, And make them drink the water of gall; For from the prophets of Jerusalem Profaneness has gone out into all the land.' " Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They make you worthless; They speak a vision of their own heart, Not from the mouth of the LORD.

According to the Torah, if a "prophet" was wrong once he was to be put to death. As a matter of fact, they would even burn all of his supposed prophecies, if one iota of said was wrong. Why? BECAUSE IT'S NOT OF YAHWEH! Most of today's "prophets" are and have been wrong... dead wrong about many of their prophecies... which tells us they are not of God! They are false. Matt 24:11 & 24, 2Peter 2:1, 1John 4:1.

I leave you with the words of Yeshua (Jesus) in Matt. 7:15 "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves."

In Yeshua Ha Mashiach,
Jeremy David Shepherd

"The Truth Shall Make You Slaves of God"

What if Jesus had said these words in John 8? Who would have received that message?

But he did not; Instead, "If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." (John 8:31, 32)

But what does he mean by the truth? What does he mean by free?

Jesus said to Thomas, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." (John 14:6)

And then back to John 8:36, "Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed." Jesus is the truth. If you know him, he will set you free.

He tells us in Verse 34, 35, "Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. And a slave does not abide in the house forever, [but] a son abides forever."

Many have taken John 8:36, as a license to do as they wish, but Paul addresses this clearly in Romans 6.

"What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?...that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin." (Read Hebrews 6 for even more on that)

But here's the real kicker! Look at Romans 6:22-23. "But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life. For the wages of sin [is] death, but the gift of God [is] eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."

So... You Shall Know the Truth (Jesus), and the Truth Shall Make you Free (Slaves to God)

On this Fourth of July remember, if you know Jesus, you are FREE: "There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death." (Rom. 8:1-2)

Happy Independence Day!

HISSHEP