Not Of This World!

This is My commandment: That you Love one another as I have Loved you. Greater Love has no man than this; that a man lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends, if you do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth, I call you not servants, for the servant knows not what his Lord does. But I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard of My Father, I have made known unto you. You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in My Name, He may give it you. These things I command you; that you Love one another. If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love his own, but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you! (John 15:12-19) {cf. James 2:5-10}

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will hold to the one and despise the other: You cannot serve Elohim and mammon! Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they derided Him. But He said unto them: You are they which justify yourselves before men, but Elohim knows your hearts: For that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of Elohim! (Luke 16:13-15)

Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall again and called Yeshua, and said unto Him: Are you the King of the Jews? Yeshua answered him: Do you say this thing of yourself, or did others tell it to you of Me? Pilate answered: Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered You unto me. What have You done? Yeshua answered: My Kingdom is not of this world; if My Kingdom were of this world, then My servants would fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: But now, My Kingdom is not from hence. Pilate therefore said unto Him: Are You a king then? Yeshua answered: You say that I am a King. To this end I was born, and for this cause I came into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth hears My voice. (John 18:33-37)

Then they said unto Him: Where is Your Father? Yeshua answered: You neither know Me nor My Father: If you had known Me, you should have known My Father also. These words Yeshua spoke in the treasury, as He taught in the temple; and no man laid hands on Him, for His hour was not yet come. Then said Yeshua again unto them: I go my way, and you shall seek Me, and shall die in your sins. Where I go you cannot come. Then said the Jews: Will He kill Himself? Because He said, 'Where I go, you cannot come'. And He said unto them: You are from beneath; I am from above; you are of this world; I am not of this world. I said therefore unto you that you should die in your sins, for if you believe not that I am He, you shall die in your sins. Then they said unto Him: Who are you? And Yeshua said unto them: Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning. I have many things to say and to judge of you, but He that sent Me is true, and I speak to the world those things that I have heard of Him. They understood not, that He spoke to them of The Father. (John 8:19-27)

And Yeshua answered them, saying: The hour is come that the Son of Man should be glorified. Verily, verily I say unto you; except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abides alone: But if it dies, it brings forth much fruit. He that loves his life shall lose it; and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. If any man serves Me, let him follow Me, and where I am, there also shall My servant be. If any man serve me, him will My Father honor. Now My Soul is troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save Me from this hour? But for this cause I came unto this hour. Father, glorify Your name! Then there came a voice from heaven, saying: I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again! The people therefore, that stood by and heard it, said that it thundered; others said, an angel spoke to Him. Yeshua answered and said: This voice came not because of Me, but for your sake. Now is the judgment of this world; now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me. (John 12:23-32)

Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you; not as the world gives, do I give unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. You have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If you Loved Me, you would rejoice, because I said I go unto the Father, for My Father is greater than I. And now I have told you before it comes to pass, that, when it has come to pass, you might believe. Hereafter, I will not talk much with you, for the prince of this world comes, and has nothing in Me. But, that the world may know that I Love the Father; and as the Father gave Me commandment, even so I do. Arise; let us go now. (John 14:27-31)

Nevertheless I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I go away: For if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send Him unto you. And when He has come, He will reprove the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment: Of sin, because they believe not on Me; of righteousness, because I go to My Father, and you will see Me no more; of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. I have yet many things to say unto you, but you cannot bear them now. Howbeit when the Spirit of truth has come, He will guide you into all truth, for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak, and He will show you things to come. (John 16:7-13)

Hear therefore the parable of the sower: When any one hears the word of the Kingdom, and understands it not, then comes the wicked one, and catches away that, which was sown in his heart: This is he, which received seed by the way side. But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that hears the word, and anon with joy receives it, yet he has not root in himself, but endures for a while: For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, by and by he is offended. He also that received seed among the thorns is he that hears the word; and the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word and he becomes unfruitful! But he that received seed into the good ground is he that hears the word and understands it; which also bears fruit, and brings forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty! (Matt 13:18-23)

For the preaching of the Cross is to them that perish, foolishness; but unto us that are saved it is the power of Elohim. For it is written: 'I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent'. Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Has not Elohim made foolish, the wisdom of this world? For after that, in the wisdom of Elohim, the world by wisdom knew not Elohim, it pleased Elohim by the foolishness of preaching, to save them that believe. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Messiah crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness: But unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Messiah the power of Elohim, and the wisdom of Elohim. (1Co 1:18-24)

Meat is for the belly, and the belly for meats, but Elohim shall destroy both it and them. Now, the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. Elohim has both risen up the Lord, and will also rise up us, by His own power. Don't you know that your bodies are the members of Messiah? Shall I then take the members of Messiah, and make them the members of a harlot? Hardly! What? Don't you know that he which is joined to a harlot, is one body? For two, says He, shall be one flesh. But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body. What? Don't you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, which is in you, which you have of Elohim and you are not your own? For you are bought with a price, therefore, glorify Elohim in your body, and in your spirit, which are all from Elohim. (1Co 6:13-20)

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of Elohim; a house not made with hands, eternal in the Heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house, which is from Heaven: If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, so that mortality might be swallowed up of life. Now, He that has wrought us for the selfsame thing is Elohim, who also has given unto us, the earnest of the Spirit.

Therefore, we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Therefore, we labor, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Messiah, that everyone may receive the things done in his body, according to what he has done, whether it is good or bad. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto Elohim, and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences. (2Co 5:1-11)

For I am crucified with The Messiah: Nevertheless I live; yet not I, but The Messiah that lives in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith of the Son of Elohim, who Loved me and gave Himself for me. (Gal 2:20)

Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we received mercy, we do not lose heart, but we have renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the word of Elohim, but by the manifestation of truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of Elohim. And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Messiah, who is the image of Elohim. For we do not preach ourselves, but Messiah Yeshua as Lord, and ourselves as your bond-servants, for Yeshua's sake. For Elohim said:

Light shall shine out of darkness! He is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of Elohim {seen} in the face of Messiah Yeshua. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power, will be of our Adonai Elohim, and not from ourselves. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed but not despairing; persecuted but not forsaken; struck down but not destroyed; always carrying about in the body, the dying of Messiah Yeshua, so that the life of Yeshua also may be manifested in our body. For we who live are constantly being delivered over to death for Yeshua's sake, so that the life of Yeshua also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So death works in us, but life in you! (2Co 4:1-12)

And you He has quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; wherein in times past, you walked according to the course of this world; according to the prince of the power of the air; the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience: Among whom also, we all had our conversation in times past, in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. (Eph 2:1-3)

Receive one who is weak in the faith, but not to disputes over doubtful things. For one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables. Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for Elohim has received him. Who are you to judge others servants? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for Elohim is able to make him stand.

One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind. He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives Elohim thanks; and he who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and gives Elohim thanks. For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself. For if we live, we live to The Lord; and if we die, we die to The Lord.

Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's. For to this end, Messiah died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living. But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you show contempt for your brother? For we shall all stand before the Judgment seat of Messiah. For it is written: 'Every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall take an oath!' So then, each of us shall give account of himself to Elohim. Therefore, let us not judge one another anymore, but rather resolve this, not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brother's way. (Rom 14:1-10) {cf. Isa 45:22-24}

In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Messiah Yeshua; buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of Elohim, who raised Him from the dead. And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the Cross. Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.

So, let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or Sabbath's, which are shadows of things to come, but the substance is of Messiah Yeshua. Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from Elohim.

Therefore, if you died with Messiah from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances or regulations; 'do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,' which all concern things which perish with the using, after the commandments and doctrines of men? These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, and false humility, and a neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgences {immorality} of the flesh. (Col 2:11-23)

Jude, the servant of Yeshua the Messiah, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by Elohim the Father, and preserved in Yeshua the Messiah, and called: Mercy unto you, and peace, and Love be multiplied. Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith, which was once delivered unto the Saints. For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old, ordained to this condemnation; Godless men, turning the grace of our Adonai Elohim, into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord; our Lord, Yeshua the Messiah.

I will therefore, put you in remembrance, though you once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. And the angels, which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the Judgment of the great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewise also, these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion {Lordship}, and speak evil of {said} dignities. Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil, as he disputed about the body of Moses, did not bring against him a railing accusation, but said: The Lord rebuke you!

But these speak evil of those things that they know not; but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. Woe unto them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: Clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withers, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for who is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.

And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying: Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousand Saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are Godless among them of all their Godless deeds which they have committed, and of all their hard speeches which Godless sinners have spoken against Him. These murmur; they are complainers, walking after their own lusts, and their mouth speaks great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage. {e.g: the hero worship of rich & famous humans, and the covert or open desire to be one of them}.

But beloved, you remember the words, which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord, Yeshua the Messiah: How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own Godless lusts. These are they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit. But you beloved, building up yourselves on your most Holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit; keep yourselves in the Love of Elohim, looking for the mercy of our Lord, Messiah Yeshua, unto eternal life. And of some have compassion, making a difference: And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy: To the only wise Lord our Savior be the glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen! (Jude: all)