Shabbat Shalom!! “
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
These days, many people do not pay attention to what lessons should be learned while fellowshipping or serving with others. Most stick to thier own views. When working in servitude, you say your piece and someone else says theirs, and the one has no relation to the other; you do not actually cooperate at all. You are all so absorbed in merely communicating your own insights or in releasing the “burdens” you bear inside you, without seeking to speak life or encouragement in even the smallest way. You appear to only be doing the work perfunctorily, always believing that you should walk your own path regardless of what anyone else says or does; you think you should fellowship as the Holy Spirit guides you, based off how you “feel,” no matter what the circumstances of others may be. You are not able to discover the strengths of others as I reveal, nor are you capable of examining yourselves. Your acceptance of things is really deviant and erroneous. It can be said that even now you still exhibit a lot of self-righteousness, as if you have relapsed into that old illness. You do not communicate with each other in a way that achieves complete openness or honest. You have absolutely no engagement in practices such as dropping your own notions or forsaking yourselves to serve or help others. You think following vigorously by itself is enough, and fundamentally, you have no understanding of what it means to examine yourself and your own wrongs, to forsake your own will, much less to understand what it means to serve in coordination with others. You think only of having your own will to repay Yehueh for His love, to live out the style of Peter. Apart from these things, you think of nothing else. No one else outside of your immediate family. You even say that, no matter what other people do, you will not submit blindly, and that no matter what other people are like, you yourself will seek perfection by Yehueh, and that will be sufficient. The fact is, however, that your will has not in any way found a concrete expression in reality. Is all of this not the sort of behavior you exhibit nowadays? Each of you holds fast to your own insight, and you all desire to be perfected, yet you love not one another. I see that you have served for such a long time without having made much progress; in particular, in this lesson of working together in harmony, you have achieved absolutely nothing! When going down to gatherings you communicate in your way, and others communicate in theirs. Seldom does harmonious coordination occur, and this is even more true of the ones following you as example. That is to say, rarely do any among you understand what serving Yehueh is, or how one should serve Yehueh. You are muddled and treat lessons of this sort as trifling matters. There are even many people who not only fail to practice this aspect of the truth, but who also knowingly do wrong. Even those who have served for many years fight and scheme against each other and are jealous and competitive; it is every man for himself, and they do not cooperate at all. Do all these things not represent your actual stature? You people serving together on a daily basis are like the Israelites, who directly served Yehueh Himself every day in the temple. How can it be that you people, who serve Yehueh, have no idea how to coordinate or how to serve together in harmony? Do you all know how you should serve? Not only do you not give up yourself, but you even cling to your own notions and opinions, saying things like, “I think this thing should be done this way, as Yehueh has said that we should not be restrained by others and that nowadays we should not submit blindly.” Therefore, each of you holds to your own opinion, and no one obeys each other. Though you clearly know that your service is at an impasse, you still say, “As I see it, my way is not far off the mark. In any case, we each have a side: You talk of yours, and I will talk of mine; you fellowship about your visions, and I will speak of my entry.” You never take responsibility for the many things that should be dealt with, or you simply make do and tell yourself it’s ok and forget, each of you venting your own opinions and prudently protecting your own status, reputation, and face. None of you is willing to humble yourself, and neither side will take the initiative to give yourself up and make up for each other’s deficiencies so that life may progress more rapidly. When you are coordinating together, you should learn to seek the truth. You may say, “I do not have a clear understanding of this aspect of truth. What experience do you have with it?” Or, you may say, “You have more experience than I with regard to this aspect; could you please give me some guidance?” Would that not be a good way of going about it? You have listened to a lot of sermons, and have some experience with doing service. If you do not learn from each other, help each other, and make up for each other’s shortcomings when doing work in the churches, then how can you learn any lessons?
Whenever you encounter anything, you should fellowship with each other so that your lives can benefit. Moreover, you should carefully fellowship about things of any sort before making any decisions. Only by doing so are you taking responsibility. You must achieve harmonious cooperation for the purpose of the work of Yehueh, for the benefit of one another. You should coordinate with one another, each amending the other and arriving at a better work outcome, so as to care for Yehueh’s will. This is what true cooperation is, and only those who engage in it will gain true understanding and fellowship. It is unacceptable to act alone, undermining each other. People who behave like that are not fit to serve! Even now, such things still occur among you; you even go so far as to attack one another during fellowship, gossiping about one another, stretching truths to obtain sympathy from one and to cause anger and transgression towards another, you are causing one another to stumble, intentionally seeking pretexts and becoming all red in the face while arguing over some trivial matter, neither person willing to put himself aside, each person concealing his inner thoughts from the other, watching the other party intently and always being on guard. Does this sort of disposition befit service to Yehueh?? Can such work as yours supply your brothers and sisters with anything? Not only are you unable to help guide people onto a right path of behavior of a child of Yehueh, but you actually inject your own corrupt dispositions into your brothers and sisters. Are you not hurting others? Your conscience is lacking, and it is Iniquity within your core! You do not put Yehueh’s truth into practice. In addition, you shamelessly expose your devilish nature to others as you show no shame.
Repentance is needed before Abba Yehueh for sin, transgression, and for Iniquity in the name of Yehshua.
John 3:10-12
10In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother. 11For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, 12not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous.
