Original Word: אֶשֶׁר Part of Speech:Noun Masculine Transliteration:esher Phonetic Spelling: eh’-sher Definition:happiness, blessedness
Word Origin from ashar Definition
happiness, blessedness NASB Translation blessed (41), happy (4).
Deuteronomy 33:29 HEB:אַשְׁרֶ֨יךָ יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל מִ֣י NAS:Blessed are you, O Israel; Who KJV:Happy [art] thou, O Israel: INT:Blessed Israel Who
Makarios
was a powerful word to those who heard Jesus/Yeshua speak that day, because to them it meant:
divine joy and perfect happiness.
They were under Roman oppressors and this word gave them HOPE.
Matthew 5:5 Amplified Bible.
5 Blessed [inwardly peaceful, spiritually secure, worthy of respect]
Matthew 5:3-11 Amplified Bible, Classic Edition 3
Blessed (happy, [ a]to be envied, and [ b]spiritually prosperous —[ c]with life-joy and satisfaction in God’s favor and salvation
Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied)
Amplified Bible “Blessed [morally courageous and spiritually alive with life-joy in God’s goodness] are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil things against you because of [your association with] Me.
James reiterates 1:25 But he who looks carefully into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and faithfully abides by it, not having become a [careless] listener who forgets but an ACTIVE DOER [who obeys], he will be BLESSEDand favored by God in what he DOES [in his life of OBEDIENCE].
Romans 2:13 For it is NOT the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous. If we are hearing but not doingwhat we hear then
we will NOT be declared righteous!!!
Read that again!
‘Go near and hear all that the LORD our God says; then speak to us all that the LORD our God will speak to you, and we will hear and do it.’ Deut. 5:27.
16 Truly, truly, I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.
The Words that are so very important here are
Knowing, Doing and Being.
Our ability to hear the voice of God is dulled by our over involvement in unnecessary and many unimportant things including pleasures, hobbies and interests. Our Heavenly Father needs our full attention on Him and not on ourselves or what our old carnal/fleshly, nature wants to do. He is looking for complete dedication and total submission, not part-time participation, a personal commitment on a level we have not yet chosen.
When we are dulled by the world and its pleasures, Mark 4 comes quickly to mind. The glamour and temptations of entertainment, cause us to relax and when it comes to vigilance in the spirit we get lazy and compromise quickly follows; and that is when sneak attacks come as tests and trials of our Faith walk. We are living in the closing hour of this age, which we call the age of grace/chen and many of us have stretched the grace/chen of God to its fullest with a sloppy, disrespectful attitude towards the spiritual things of a Holy God.
It is very sad but true that so many have become people of entitled expectation, thinking that we don’t have to make any effort because God is a God of love and He understands and makes allowances for our apathy. The Spirit of God is calling ALL His chosen to
put off the self life
and to walk in the spirit;
and this is by no means a new message. It was the message of Messiah Jesus/Yeshua, His disciples, His apostles, His sent ones.
It was also the message of the Psalms and the Proverbs in that they all emphasized
uncompromising loyalty to the truth
and
outward actions that are consistent with inward convictions.
When we don’t have these elements in divine order in our lives we are stunting our spiritual growth. This is because when we say one thing, declaring our position, and then do another to appease flesh and the old carnal nature, we compromise our position in the spirit and give the enemy a way into our lives.
We are to give no place to the devil.
Eph. 4:27 Neither give place to the devil.
Place or room = opportunity and scope for acting in and through you.
We are not supposed to give the devil any opportunity to influence our lives. He should not have any place in our lives because he is an enemy of God and wants to destroy God’s people.
The apostle Paul told us,
Neither give place to the devil.
The Greek makes it clear that we must choose to give the devil no territory …we have a choice.
Anywhere we have had a victory or found freedom we can be sure he will test that new position. Where there is a weakness he will exploit it. We are not to yield 1 inch/1 centimeter, because compromise is the language of the devil.
Blessed are those who keep His testimonies and seek Him with all their heart.
They do no unrighteousness; They walk in His ways
You have ordained Your precepts, That we should follow them with [careful] diligence. Psalm 119:3-5.
Lucifers rhetoric has not changed since the days in the garden, when he first posed the question.. did God say? and followed it by inventing the lie – He didn’t mean you would really/ surely die!
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” Gen. 3:1-19.
You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. John 8:44.
We are not to be swayed by emotions and feelings, they will always lie to and confuse us. The devil will always work in the realm of the physical senses, which is why we are
to walk in and by the spirit of the living God and operate by our spiritual senses.
We say God is love and He is, but not by our standards of the human emotional love. Human love is notoriously selfish. His love is TRUTH and uncompromising.
1 John 3:18 Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth. Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
We struggle to reconcile our picture of our Heavenly Father when for example we read accounts in Numbers 16 and 17 of His dealings with rebellion in the camp. This is a picture of His wrath against sin and is quite violent. Our Heavenly Father would not be loving, nor would He be just, if He allowed the arrogant challenging of His authority to go unanswered. How often do we witness destruction in the lives of those who challenge Him and yet fail to learn the lesson? To witness Gods judgment and still defy His authority, and in Korah’s case, this was behavior that could not be excused. As disciples of Messiah we do not need to live in fear of His hasty judgment however, we would also be wise not to flaunt the authority we have in Jesus/Yeshua as if we were no longer subject to the authority of our Heavenly Father.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Rom 6:23
The Lord God established Moses and the priesthood for this reason:
to separate the people from God for their own protection.
Sin cannot approach a Holy God and the Holiness of His set apart priests who were the mediators between the sinful people and God Himself. This was given to them to show them how to approach a Holy God, to establish relationship.
Now we have Messiah Yeshua/Jesus and His shed blood that cries Mercy for us and mediates on our behalf; and we are able to approach the Father ONLY on that basis. Let us not make the same fatal mistake Korah did; and approach the Lord God Almighty Creator of the universe in unprotected arrogance, forgetting Who is really in charge and control of everything. In Messiah we have perfect protection from the advances of the enemy but when the people of God oppose their protector, who will be that defense against Him?
Pride was the original sin and we are all born with original sin.
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins. Eph. 2:1.
Original sin: the condition or state of sin into which each human being is born;
the sin nature of fallen man;
the tendency to sin is innate in all human beings, inherited from Adam in consequence of the Fall;
the nature of sin in which humanity has existed since the fall of man.
Romans 5:12 – Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
Romans 3:10-18 – As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
1 John 1:8-10 – If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us
Psalms 51:5 – Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Eph. 2:1-3 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
And the holy one of Israel is the judge of all hearts. His judgments are just and his wrath is poured out in righteousness.
Let’s take a moment here and do a spiritual heart check-up…
Father in Jesus/Yeshuas’ Name, search my heart and consume my rebellious ways. In holiness alone may I approach You and not die. I worship You in grateful humility, may You alone be exalted in praise. Cut away and remove from my life all arrogance and pride that I may live in the joy of your presence. I bless you Father, Savior, King and Lord of my life.
If ye KNOW these things, HAPPY are ye if ye DO them.
We are to be DOERS of what we KNOW…
we are to apply His words,
His instructions to our lives EVERY DAY.
Head knowledge will not save us…
neither will intellectual agreement to a truth.
John 13:17
If ye KNOW these things, HAPPY are ye IF ye DO them!
This is the Secret of Being Happy.
Note the condition in this verse IF, there’s the option, the choice to direct our free will….in obedience to the Fathers will.
Only the truth that you KNOW, understand and apply/DO
will make you free..
because mental assent does not help or increase our spiritual maturity.
If ye KNOW these things, HAPPY are ye IF ye DO them!
This is the Secret of Being Happy!
שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם,
Shalom aleikhem
chaverim and mishpachah!
Peace to friends and family.
Shavua Tov, Have a blessed week.
Make certain Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord and soon returning King and that you have a personal relationship with Him.
It’s all about Life and Relationship, NOT Religion.
You are very precious in His sight.
Not sure ..you can be…
SIMPLY SAY THE FOLLOWING MEANING IT FROM YOUR HEART..don’t delay one more minute,
SAY IT RIGHT NOW…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name.
John 13:17
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