Error in Messianic Judaism

I found “Messianic Judaism” intriguing from the start because they seemed to take the whole bible seriously. They have a love for Israel and Jewish people as I did, and still do. It was wonderful to learn traditions and customs for a year and a half, but I started to notice theologically they have a lot of errors. While they will tell you that it is all about Jesus or Yeshua as they make it clear you should call Him, and they say that salvation is only earned through Him. The longer you are apart of this “movement” the more you see their application and living on the rock of Christ is not exactly what they profess.

Jesus is not the central focus, what is central focus is what they call “Torah Observance” another area they are theologically weak in. They also seem to not understanding the true concepts of “original sin”  that man is naturally wicked not good and that Christ is our fulfillment. What is interesting is that at least 80% of the people in the “movement” are not even Jewish, most are gentiles who just have a love for the Jewish people and Israel but they get sucked into placing traditions and Jewish customs above the rock of our foundation CHRIST.

Don’t get me wrong, I understand Jesus was Jewish, and I think it is important to understand context and history along with customs of the times…what I am not interested in is becoming Jewish or taking gentiles and dressing them up as something they are not. Further more there is such a fear at mentioning Jesus as the be all end all because they are trying to attract Jewish people, they try very hard not to offend them instead of glorifying and edifying Christ which will naturally offend EVERYONE. I honestly find Messianic Judaism more offensive in their hiding of Christ to attract Jewish people, playing a role of being Jewish when most of them are not, instead of just being who G-D made them to be and being unashamed as Gentiles in Christ. How do we drive the Jewish people to jealousy(Romans 10:19) that we are now apart of the “tree of life” if we essentially become them with just a sugar coated message of “Messiah”??

I love Jewish people and love the rich culture and biblical history, that they were chosen for G-D to work through and took care of His Torah. In the end this will mean a lot more to them because I am not trying to be Jewish nor do I profess to be. I’m just a gentile who loves, and I only have this love because of Christ that is in me….and I will not be ashamed of Him.

The following is a video from a respected Messianic "outreach" called Psalm 119 Ministries. Video shows theological error in not understanding Christ as end goal and not understanding that the law's main purpose is to show our sinfulness and unworthiness of the grace G-D bestows through Christ.

http://vimeo.com/92564482

(I attempt to answer each question they ask below)

 

First of all a lot of the questions out of the 25 are repetitive, and some are actually nonsensical. Also what seems to be missed is the fact that the laws main purpose is to point us to Christ who is the author and finisher of our faith(Hebrews 12:2) because without Him the law was never and could never be kept perfectly even by the patriarchs of the faith. There is a severe error in the talmudic age from Rabbi's on the thought of original sin in thinking that "man is sinless by nature"(my source for this is in the book "Everyman's Talmud" page 96) if one misses the concept of original sin one misses the whole concept of fulfillment in Christ. They're also working off the assumption that when most Christians use the term "laws have changed" that they literally mean that there are new different laws when what they usually mean is certain laws have been done away with. None the less I will try to answer each of the questions.

 

Question#1

If the Law of G-D is perfect quoting (Psalm 19:7) how can we seriously say "perfect" has been made better?

Answer: If you read the whole verse it says: The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul; The testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. That is the point of the law...is it not? to convert the soul, to make one humble in the fact that they are utterly hopeless to keep it without Christ. That it is Christ who fulfills the law on our behalf(Romans 10:4). The law is perfect, and it hasn't been changed or made better, it is perfect in doing its job in conviction and causing us to look unto Christ so we can walk in newness of life.

Question#2

If the Law of G-D is freedom...how can "liberty" be "bondage"?

Answer: The law of G-D can become bondage if we miss the point that it is by the grace of G-D and His kindness that causes us to keep it. Grace in the fact that He sent His son to atone for what we could never fully keep(Romans 8:3)(Galatians 3:24). A question right back would be, if G-D expected us to keep the law and Moses and the people to keep the law perfectly why make a way for atonement through sacrifices. 

Question#3

Can what is declared to be true... not be true?

Answer: Um..in simple terms...yes. I could say I'm African American and that it's true and that would be not true at all. If we are asking can what G-D declares to be true not be true..than of course not... but I don't think anyone would argue the law is true or not so it seems like a pointless question.

Question#4

Can the ways of righteousness, change?

Answer: Again...pointless question. Righteousness doesn't change, Christ is beginning and END, He was always the end goal and fulfillment of RIGHTEOUSNESS...we are made righteous not because we have kept the law but because HE HAS.

Question#5

Can the ways of G-D...become a different way?

Answers: The question misses the fact that HIS ways are higher than our ways and His whole purpose and plan for the law was to bring it into fulfillment through Christ's atoning work on the cross and his ressurection that defeated SIN/Death. A question right back is Ezekiel 36:26 not in itself something different that G-D proclaimed?

Question#6

If the Law of G-D is forever, when did forever become temporary?

Answers: It is not so much that it is "temporary" as it is that the law has been completely fulfilled in Christ. This doesn't give us the freedom to do whatever we want, but it gives us grace in the areas of the law where we will fail...grace wouldn't be grace if we could fulfill the law on our own. The law has been kept and has been completely fulfilled through Christ for our past, present, and future and we now seek to walk in the Spirit keeping His commandments of loving Him above all things (even though each of us fails at this) and loving our neighbors like ourselves...as Christ summed up the commandments as (Matthew 22:40)

Question#7

If breaking the law of G-D is sin....can what is defined as sin suddenly become good?

Answer: No..but again the laws purpose is to cause total dependance upon Christ. Now if you are defining SIN as all 613 commandments G-D has ever given I think that is a grave mistake. Is it a sin to shave sides of your head or shave your beard? to not put tefillin on arm? to not have a Mezuzah on door post? to not have tzitzit on your garments? to touch your wife when she is on her period? Is every command ever made for every person on earth and if they don't keep it are living in sin? or are some commands just commands given for a certain time and had nothing to do with "sin persay"..that is a better question.

Question#8

If the law of G-D is light, can light stop being light?

Answer: no, and I feel I have already answered this

Question#9

If the law of G-D is life...can it no longer be life?

Answer: Again this is answered

Question#10

If G-D is the word(John 1:1) and G-D does not change(Malachi 3:6) How can we say the Word changed?

Answer: The short answer is we can’t say the word has changed, but we can say it has been fulfilled. Jesus is the Word, Jesus is the living breathing Torah. It is not about the Word has ch

anged because the Word I.E Christ has always been.

Question#11

If we are to delight in the law of G-D when did it stop being a delight?

Answer: Again are we talking about what Jesus summed up the law as or are we talking about the 613 commandments as all law? By the way this question was answered in Question #2.. the law of G-D becomes a burden when we take our eyes off of Christ and legalistically try to do it all ourselves.

Question#12

If we are told to walk in G-D's law(Deuteronomy 10:11-13)

and Christ walked in the law of G-D, and we are to walk as He walked(1 John 2:5-6)

and Paul said to follow Christ's example...(1 Corinthians 11:1)

Why would we walk differently?

Answer: Of course we are to look at Christ as the example of how we are to live, because He is the ultimate fulfillment of EVERYTHING. We are to seek to walk in new life producing spiritual fruit, which can only come from the Spirit He has put in us, that Spirit causes us to walk. What example did Christ give on how to live? Again what did Jesus sum up the commandments as? (Matthew 22:40) Again the issue is one of the heart are we seeing the purpose of the law was to break us and cause us to look unto Messiah or are we looking at the law as something that we ritually keep. The law didn't change and Christ was always the one going to fulfill it to bring grace and truth to the full potential and purpose of the law(John 1:17, Romans 3:19-20, Romans 13:9, 1 Timothy 1:5). The law was always a heart issue, as G-D looks at our hearts as it says in 1 Samuel, and in Hosea 6 where G-D said He desires mercy not sacrifice. What is the motivation in keeping the law? and by keeping the law in a psalm 119 ministry  way which is considered in a "torah observant way"? What is the application in life of keeping Shabbat, wearing Tzitzit, beards, candle lighting and Jewish feast days??...what is the application in legalistic observance? is it producing fruit with all glory to Christ in His fulfillment of EVERYTHING? or is it producing arrogance in your observance? again..better questions.

Question#13

If Christ is the Word in the Flesh(John 1:14)...and the word of G-D(Rev. 19:13) and some of the Word of G-D is now abolished like some propose...did Christ abolish part of Himself?

Answer: This is a nonsensical question. Christ is the Word in the flesh because He is the application, the walking out of the Word the fulfillment of it. The "old testament" was always pointing to Christ, and He and only He kept G-D's law perfectly hence our eyes are on HIM in FAITH and TRUST that it is HIS righteousness and not our own. Again this is looking at the law as something you are to keep ritualistically, and it is assuming that a true Christian is one who conforms himself to jewish customs as if we have to become Jewish. We are Gentile and Jew together as one IN CHRIST, A Jew isn't suppose to become a gentile nor is a gentile suppose to become a Jew neither side is ever justified by the law alone (Galatians 2:14-16)

Question#14

If the law of G-D is how we are to love...does how to love G-D and others change?

Answer: No it doesn't change and it never has. Can we express love towards G-D in its purest form without Christ? better question, and to answer that...NO...no we cannot. (John 5:42-43) Where Christ essentially says the pharisees don't love G-D because they don't love Him. You would think if legal observance was the way to go, Jesus certainly wouldn't have been so harsh towards pharisees.

Question#15

If the law is intended to be good for us, and bless us...then why would He take it away from us?

Answer: The law is ultimate holiness and righteousness it is perfection, it is the greatness of our G-D. It is to humble us into not thinking we can do anything apart from Him, it is not about being done away with but about us now with our eyes on Christ that He is our central focus. His goodness will lead us to repent I.E turn and walk because once again HE IS THE FULFILLMENT..

Question#16

If keeping all of G-D's commandments is the whole duty of man...is that no longer true?(ecclesiastes 12:13)

Answer: I feel this is already answered a few times...so...If we can keep all the commandments than why send Christ? see..I can ask silly questions too..

Question#17

If all scripture is instructions in righteousness(1 Timothy 3:16) and we are to practice righteousness (1 John 2:23, 3:7, 3:10) why not practice all scripture?

Answer: First of all the scripture in the video they are digging deep for is 2 Timothy not 1 Timothy which says in CONTEXT:

"But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus."

In effect the "sacred writings" meaning the "old testament" makes you wise or KNOWLEDGABLE in the fact that salvation  is through faith in CHRIST and then it continues saying:

"All Scripture is breathed out by G-d and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of G-d may be complete, equipped for every good work."

It is making the declaration that all scripture is breathed out by G-D and has purpose and use for what main purpose? for the purpose for the wisdom and knowledge of salvation through FAITH in Christ Jesus. If all scripture is literally instructions on righteousness in the aspect that Psalm 119 ministries is taking it...that we are to practice ALL scripture. Then do you go to Israel to offer animal sacrifices? how about offer sacrifices at all? do you sleep in the same bed as your wife during her "time of the month"? Observe the new moon? (read Galatians 3:10) this is the problem when you do not see ultimate righteousness in Christ, you get this false sense that you can live by 613 commandments when you can't even keep the 10 commandments without Christ.

Question#18

The law can not change till heaven and earth pass away (Matthew 5:17-18) and anyone teaching such will be least in the kingdom(Matthew 5:19) Why is it taught that the law has changed despite what our Lord said?

Answer: AGAIN..The law is in effect in the aspect that G-D requires it for holiness...and our flesh is continually at war with it HOWEVER thanks be to G-D for Christ Jesus who perfected it on our behalf. As Christ said He didn't come to abolish the law...BUT TO FULFILL... meaning He came to perform and live it in its full measure because we could not! The law is in use to show us our inadequacy and cause us to deny ourselves and put all hope in Christ.

Question#19

When Christ said to "Observe and do" what is taught from Moses seat(Matthew 23:1-3) and what was taught from Moses seat was the law of G-D as written by Moses (Exodus 18:13) Why refuse to do what Christ said?

Answer: Might want to read all the way through to verse 10 in Matthew 23. If you just read all of verse 3 for goodness sakes it is talking about not doing the works of the pharisees and how hypocritical they are. Really grasping at straws with this pulling of scripture.

Question#20

If Paul said he taught and practiced what Moses wrote...(Acts 21:20, 26; 24:13-14;25:8) and Paul taught no difference between Jew and Greek(1 Corinthians 12:12-14; Galatians 3:27-29; Colossians 3:10-12) How is Paul against the law and for the law?

Answer: Firstly Paul taught no difference between Jew and Greek in the fact that they need Christ's atonement and that only through Christ are Gentiles and Jews ONE. Paul knew the purpose of the law was to point us to Christ...but never taught that Jews had to forsake their customs. He also never taught that gentiles had to become jews for that matter.

Question#21

If we are to love G-D by keeping His commandments...(1 John 5:2-3) as a response to Him loving us (1 John 4:19) why would we only keep some of His commandments?

Answer: Interesting they leave out the reading of the first verse in 1 John 5 and the verses that follow verse 3. Context is pretty important folks..and how do we keep His commandments? CHRIST...look unto CHRIST. Again...we cannot keep all the commandments, and no that doesn’t give us freewill to break them all but to act like you can even keep the 10 commandments is ludicrous when you can't even keep the first 2. Let alone live by Jewish customs that try to adhere to 613 commandments.

Question#22

“Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one in the midst, eating pig’s flesh and the abomination and mice, shall come to an end together, declares the LORD."- Isaiah 66:17

talking about the return of the Lord in Isaiah 66, If G-D cared about eating pig then, why would we assume He doesn’t care now?

Answer: This verse has eschatological implications, and it could actually just be talking about a certain group of people that will come to an end describing a people who eat pig flesh but not exactly everyone on earth that eats pig flesh.

Question#23

And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.- Zechariah 14:16

Why would we be expected to celebrate tabernacles before the cross, but not after the cross, but then celebrate it again when the Lord returns?

Answer: Because CHRIST is our literal Tabernacle who is over us, and than when HE returns we shall rejoice and celebrate because the tabernacle has returned...doesn't sound complicated to me at all.

Question#24

If Christ is the Word of G-D...(John 1:14, Revelations 19:13) and He is the same yesterday, today, and forever...(Hebrews 13:8) then how is it that the Word of G-D is not the same yesterday, today, and forever...??

Answer: Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever as in He is the fulfillment of our transgressions for yesterday, today, and forever.. this is another repeated question.

Question#25

Peter's warning about Paul and the law:

and consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation—as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures. You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked; 2 Peter 3:15-17

Paul is the very person that Peter warns us not to use to teach against the law of G-D? Why would anyone use him?

Answer: Again Psalm 119, as they have done with much scripture, juxtaposes that this is what the scripture is saying or in this case Peter is saying. It is also interesting that they do not quote the last verse of this text which states: "but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.-" notice it does not say grow in the knowledge of the law, because it is assuming that you already have a relationship with Christ and know that the law's purpose is to bring you into submission and show your absolute need for CHRIST.

In the end there are two things that need to be understood

1. the more your focus is on law the more you will fail, the more your eyes are on Christ and what He has done the more you will be walking in the Spirit.

2. focusing on law doesn't bring change and sanctification, it doesn't bring transformation. However the more you are focused on the grace of G-D through Christ the more transformation.

None of what I said means I am saying "do what thou wilt" what I am saying is to understand Christ has fulfilled it all and it is completely finished. I am also not saying that you can't celebrate Jewish feast days or wear tzitzit, eat kosher and keep Shabbat. I eat kosher and keep Shabbat(none legalistically) but my focus is on Christ not the "doing of things";

1. I can't earn anything more than what has already been earned through Christ.

2.The laws very purpose is to cause us to be dependent upon Christ.

I will never claim to be "torah observant" by what I keep, I am "torah observant" because of what Christ kept and now when the Father sees me He sees the Son because I'm covered by His blood.

 

 

 

Least of these

Yes many are: liars, thieves, fornicators, druggies and alcoholics and they deserve to be where they're at.

But God, if we all got what we deserved

we would be facing your wrath.

I'm a king on a throne with a castle I call home

They sleep underneath a bridge with cardboard

as padded foam. 

Onward Christian soldier as you ignore

the man begging for a dollar.

Druggie or drunk you tell yourself

so you refuse to help,

rather sit in your church and count your wealth.

Feed the least of these and when you do you feed me,

said Christ.

So how come this is such an oversight?

The homeless person needs Christ

just as much as though's who dress nice.

I'd help... you say; "if I knew he wasn't going to use it

for alcohol or drugs!"

But who died and made you judge?

Maybe you just think it's your christian duty

to use your wealth for yourself, instead of using 

it to buy food for someone asking for help?

After all God wants you rich,

He just must not love that man sleeping in the ditch.

Prosperity has got you blind,

since when was the gospel about getting whats mine?

You give your money to those who can give back to you.

Tithe a percentage that really doesn't effect you,

all so God will bless you.

Rather give your money to wolves in sheep's clothing,

then to a man who has absolutely nothing.

A man struggles with an addiction, drinks himself to sleep because he doesn't think anyone loves him.

There you sit, in your car with a christian fish,

can't stand to look in his direction, all the while

claiming to know all about grace and salvation,

the only solution to penetrate this mans addiction.

But as long as you know Christ…

that's all that matters right?

That drunk doesn't even deserve to eat,

just let him die without seeing mercy

that sounds very Christ-like oh absolutely.

You're forgetting that without God's merciful perpetual plan,

The Son taking the wrath you deserved,

you would be just like this drunk homeless man

only inward.

Story of Hannah

The birth of Samuel the judge/prophet of Israel is interesting to say the least. In 1 Samuel 1-11 it talks about Samuels father who's name was Elkanah, and he had two wives one named Peninnah and the other named Hannah. Now Hannah didn't have any children as it says the Lord shut her womb(1 Sam 1:6) but Peninnah on the other hand did have children, and she would make Hannah feel bad because she did not.  It says Hannah would weep and refuse to eat when they would go and make offerings at the house of the LORD because of the ridicule from Peninnah(1 Sam 1:7)

One year Hannah was in such despair that it says she went alone to pray to the LORD in bitterness of soul weeping in anguish(1 Sam 1:10) the word bitterness here in the hebrew is "Mar"  to be in pain or heavy laden/discontent, in this case it is saying her soul was in much pain she was heavy laden weeping in grief. In this moment Hannah asks God to grace her with a son, she makes a vow with God that if he would indeed give her a son she will offer him to God for all his days. (1 Sam 1:11)

Now notice Hannah a woman of God, in all the despair and sorrow she was in didn't curse God, She went before the LORD GOD Almighty and asked to receive His grace and His mercy and promised to give this child to God. Interestingly enough Hannah's name means Grace and God did show her grace by giving her a son which she named Samuel(1 Sam 1:20) [ later He would also show her more grace when Hannah; who had begged for a child..wept and pleaded for one, and the LORD gave her Samuel, she did what she promised and gave the child up, and The LORD blessed her with more children (1 Sam 2:21) ] after Samuel was born Hannah gave all glory to God:

And Hannah prayed and said: "My heart rejoices in the LORD; My horn is

exalted in the LORD. I smile at my enemies, because I rejoice in Your salvation.

"No one is holy like the LORD, For there is none besides You, Nor is there any 

rock like our God.

"Talk no more so very proudly; Let no arrogance come from your mouth,

For the LORD is the God of knowledge; and by Him actions are weighed.

"The bows of the mighty men are broken, and those who stumbled are girded with

strength. Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, and the

hungry have ceased to hunger. Even the barren has borne seven, and she who has many children has become feeble.

"The LORD kills and makes alive; He brings down to the grave and brings up.

The LORD makes poor and makes rich; He brings low and lifts up.

He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the beggar from the ash heap,

To set them among princes And make them inherit the throne of glory.

"For the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, And He has set the world upon them.

He will guard the feet of His saints, but the wicked shall be silent in darkness.

"For by strength no man shall prevail. 

The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken in pieces;  From heaven He will thunder against them. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth. "He will give strength to His king, and exalt the horn of His anointed."

1 Samuel 2:1-10

Amen Hannah..Amen! All glory to GOD!

The †GRACE† you don't deserve.-[PART-2]

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned

Romans 5:12

All have sinned, all fall short of the Holiness required.(Romans 3:23)

Sin entered the world/our human lives by one man(Adam) and sin was defeated and conquered through one man(Romans 5:15) that being Yeshua Ha'Mashiach(Jesus Christ)

We are not all punished because of one mans sin,  we are punished for what Adam brought into Gods perfect creation, the disposition that we all hold on to, and that is we have a right to ourselves and we are our own god. We either realize that we are not our own (Romans 14:8, 1 Corinthians 6:19) and fully surrender to who we ultimately belong to (Christ) or we just continue living in our natural state, our natural disposition which is ultimately selfishness.

Now to fully grasp forgiveness, to understand who Jesus Christ was, His purpose, and why His sacrifice means anything, we first have to understand the need, we need to understand what we are forgiven from right? We say God is a loving God, we say He is fully of mercy, and make no mistake about it.. He is. However at the same time we also say He is a Holy and Pure and a righteous judge.

"The LORD is righteous, For I rebelled against His commandment. Hear now, all peoples, And behold my sorrow; My virgins and my young men Have gone into captivity.- Lamentations 1:18

We see through out the bible that He is completely both. Holy and pure beyond what we could ever comprehend, He is absolutely a God of justice. The question you should be facing is; 

How can a Holy Pure Righteous God look at us with anything but wrath and anger?" and rightfully so! His word says several things about us that should make us understand just how undeserving of Grace we are…

"the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth"

Genesis 8:21

"Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me."

Psalms 51:5

"[There is] none who does good, No, not one."

Psalm  14:3

"The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], And desperately wicked; Who can know it?

Jeremiah 17:9

"For You [are] not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness, Nor shall evil dwell with You."

Psalms 5:4

By our fallen nature we all want what Adam & Eve wanted, and no it's not some fruit from a tree, it's what Satan tempted Eve with back in Genesis 3:4-5.

We want the knowledge of good and Evil, we want to be our own god to decide for ourselves whats right & whats wrong. It's selfishness thats what sin is in a nut shell.

So once again we come to the question;

"How exactly can a righteous God who abhors sin, after all how can God be Holy & Pure/ Righteous if he tolerates Evil, how can He show us mercy? Grace? Love?

remember what Romans 3:23 says..

"for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God"

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

1 John 1:8

"But the Scripture has confined all under sin"

Galatians 3:23

Maybe we can please God by works, earn His Grace & Mercy? a noble concept except for the fact that how can one who is born wretched & Evil a sinner (as the bible plainly states we all are) even begin to do a work that would please a Holy Just & Righteous God? Like the fantastic story "Pilgrims Progress" My iniquities are over my head, they are too heavy for me to carry(Psalm 38:4)

But we are all like an unclean [thing], And all our righteousnesses [are] like filthy rags; We all fade as a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, Have taken us away.

Isaiah 64:6

So we can't ourselves follow Gods laws and commands because we are wicked and want to be our own god, our works are like filthy disgusting rags in Gods Holy sight and to top it all off we are living in a world that's fleeting and will soon pass away, all it's pleasures are meaningless under the sun(read Ecclesiastes).

Sounds like we are screwed, and WE ARE! this is what I want you to see, more importantly it's what God and His word wants you to see, that on your own BY YOURSELF YOU ARE SCREWED. 

That's not what you want to hear is it? and let's be absolutely honest it's not pleasant sounding, and it drives us crazy that we are not in control. This is not something the world is going to advocate, because the world is a self fulfilling place. The world wants you focused on constantly fixing YOU, selling you empty promises of fulfillment and false ways of ultimately fixing yourself, wether that's by giving into selfish desires or taking pills to mask the suffering and struggle you are in. There's no hope and peace in hiding and masking what you are through pills and self help. Again, the fact is YOU  can't help you.

Once again we are stuck with where does Gods grace come in? how can we be saved from our enemy(ourselves)/our very nature(sin). 

Want to know where Gods grace/mercy comes in? His love and grace you don't deserve? Jeremiah 23:6 says "THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS" He is our righteousness(LORD here meaning The Lord Jesus Christ) and lets remember Isaiah 53

"But He [was] wounded for our transgressions, [He was] bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace [was] upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed." Isaiah 53:5

Grace you don't deserve is God sacrificing the undeserved, the spotless ultimate lamb Yeshua Ha'Mashiach (Jesus Christ).

"Who is the image of the invisible God"

Colossians 1:15

"For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily."

Colossians 2:9

Jesus Christ Himself said if you know Him you know the father, He also said;

 He didn't come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many. (Matthew 20:28)

Christ came to be a sacrifice and through Christ we not only see the justice of God(His wrath), but we see His mercy and love too. Justice and wrath in the fact that because of our sinfulness it pleased God to sacrifice His son Jesus Christ(Isaiah 53:10), and   mercy and love in the fact that He was willing to cast all our sinfulness onto Him on the cross instead of giving us all what we deserve.

This and ONLY this is an amazing Grace….a Grace you DONT DESERVE!

All glory to God for His righteousness, His Holiness, His Mercy and Love!

Gods grace, when we ultimately understand it, drives us to want to please Him.

This is a good thing , but it's absolutely insulting when we put "us pleasing Him" above His Grace. Our performance above His sacrifice does nothing but place us above HIM, and it becomes about what we do not what He did.

"Souls are not made sweet by taking [ill tempers] out, but by putting something in - a great Love, a new Spirit, the Spirit of Christ. Christ, the Spirit of Christ, interpenetrating ours, sweetens, purifies, transforms all. This can only eradicate what is wrong, renovate and regenerate, and rehabilitate the inner man. 

Will-power does not change men. Time does not change men. Christ does. Therefore "Let that mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus." "

Henry Drummond