The Have Faith in YAHWEH Program with Tyron S. James - How To Seek The Kingdom Of YAHWEH and His Righteousness Part 4 - How to endure trials

On the 14th of May, 2024, the thirteenth episode of the Have Faith in YAHWEH Program was aired on The Tyron S. James Youtube Channel. The topic was Part 4 of the 'How To Seek the Kingdom of YAHWEH and His Righteousness. In this episode we discussed the 5th chapter of Matthew - The Sermon on the Mount.

Matthew 5: 1-16; The chapter begins with Yahshua telling His disciples about the be-attitudes that they should be seeking as believers in YAHWEH. He spoke about being poor in spirit, blessed are those who mourn, blessed are the meek, blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, blessed are the compassionate, blessed are the clean in heart, blessed are the peacemakers, blessed are those persecuted for righteousness sake and blessed are you when they reproach and persecute and falsely say every wicked word against you for Messiah's sake.

Matthew 5: 17-18; Yahshua came to complete the Torah. He was the goal of the Torah. The popular teaching of the churches today is that the Torah is done away with. But when you consider that Moses in the Torah spoke about the children of Israel being regathered to the land in the last days, something that has not happened in its totality, you understand that the Torah has not been done away with. If so the regathering of Israel would have been fulfilled already.

Matt. 5: 19-22; If the Torah is done away then as it says in verse 19 people would be breaking the commandments and they would be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven. Which is ridiculous. Yahshua did not come to do away with the Torah but to magnify it. He said "You heard that it was said to those of old, "You shall not murder, and whoever murders shall be liable of judgment. "But I say to you whoever is wroth with his brother without a cause shall be liable to judgment. And whoever says to his brother "Raka!" shall be liable to the Sanhedrin. But whoever says "You fool!" shall be liable to fire of Geh-Hinnom.

Yahshua was making the Torah more binding on believers. He was able to do this because He was making available His Holy Spirit to all those who will repent of their sins and believe in Him. We cannot keep the spirit of the Torah any other way. The idea that He was only addressing believers from before the New Covenant is dismissed with this understanding.

Matt. 5: 23-26; Here Yahshua was dealing with forgiveness and conflict resolution among the brethren.

Matt. 5: 27-32; In this situation He is making the command of not committing adultery even more binding by magnifying it to include looking at someone with lust. Verse 32 is quoted differently in some bibles as there being no conditions for divorce. Other bibles say for the sake of whoring. Moses wrote a bill of divorcement because of the hardness of their heart. The Heavenly Father hates divorce. He meant for the institution of marriage to last until death. I agree with Him 100%. The explosion of wickedness nowadays with people divorcing for almost anything is a reflection of where we are in bible prophecy. In the book of Revelation it states that the whole world lieth in wickedness.

Matt. 5: 33-42; When the scripture says "Do not resist the wicked if they smite you on the right cheek turn to them the other also". Many people say that this is not a literal meaning of the text. But I don't think that a literal meaning is outside the scope of this scripture either. Yahshua knows all that will happen to us in the future. He will not put us in a trial that there is no escape route from. The scripture in 1 Corinthians 10: 13 talks about this. If we know that He has already made an escape route to the trial we should have the attitude of submission to His Holy Spirit and accept each trial and His decision to let the trial continue for as long as it serves His purpose. His escape may not be taking away the trial but giving you the grace to cope and manage your emotions, temper, thoughts and attitude.

YAHWEH's Holy Spirit is not only speaking to us but He is molding and transforming us through our spirits. So things are happening to us even though we may not be conscious of it. Good, pleasant, heavenly blessings are manifesting in us.

You may be going through a situation where you are being persecuted by someone in your home or school or workplace. They may be saying things to annoy you on a daily basis. So after a while you pray to the Father and He does not answer your prayer. So you pray again and again same response. What do you do next? You have been a believer for some time and has a relationship with the heavenly Father and Yahshua. But He does not answer you these three times. The most likely reason is that He wants you to apply all the knowledge, wisdom, understanding, power, gifts, talents, experience etc. to this situation you are facing right here. So instead of saying, "Oh man another trial again?" You simply say to the Almighty, 'Thanks Father, for this opportunity to prove my love and appreciation for all that You have done in my life thus far. I am going to search the scriptures, pray, apply myself, and find a way to solve this problem.

So you start to read the scriptures. In Matthew 5: 42; it talks about loving your enemies, doing good to those that hate you, blessing those that curse you and praying for those who reproach and persecute you. You start believing that the Almighty will change the person's heart and save, deliver and transform them. He has changed evil people before so it is no big deal for Him to do this. Being assured that this will happen you start to pray. Right away the Father takes notice of this, His Holy Spirit comes close to you and says, "Well done. child".

So you are feeling good about this, feeling the Ruach, the Spirit of YAHWEH. So, time passes, and the person does not change right away. And the enemy, being so wicked, causes the person to catch you off-guard on a day when you are not expecting it, to be subjected to either verbal or physical abuse. You get angry, but before you say anything you hear the voice of the Holy Spirit say, "Walk in the Spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh". So you resist the temptation to respond in the flesh. At this point in time the Father and Yahshua take notice again. They just want to see a willingness to obey and they will help you to do what they want you to do. But the enemy continues his assault and more abuse, perhaps more physical abuse and the pressure becomes, like a fiery trial, more intense. You give in to the temptation to respond in the flesh and things become ugly. A scuffle ensues.

Later on when you cool down. You finally come to the realization that you were duped into disobeying your Saviour. So, you bow your head and say to Him, "I am so sorry, Father, please forgive me". He has been waiting patiently for you to say these words. and responds, "Oh my child, don't worry. I love you with an everlasting love. I will never leave you nor forsake you. I forgive you". You start to feel His peace returning. The depression is lifted. A new wave of encouragement to pray and intercede for the person arises in your heart and you thank the Father and bow in His presence. So you continue the battle and you fight this battle with the Word of YAHWEH as Yahshua did. When the evil one came with his artillery and fired it at Yahshua He put up the shield of faith and took out the sword of the spirit and started to cut down the enemy. He had to retreat because he has no answer to YAHWEH's word.

I will just like to testify of all the goodness that Yahshua has been doing in my life. He healed me of mental illness, healed me of diabetes, healed me of a medical condition where I had fluid in my scrotum, in the testes. I suffered with it for a number of years. But now it is back to normal, the way it was before this condition happened. He healed me of an ear infection. Despite all that the enemy is trying to do I know that all things are working together for my good. Bless YAHWEH. He is worthy to be praised. May He bless you and make you a blessing in Yahshua's name.

I leave you with this video. I hope you enjoy it!