Pastors' Perspective 7/12/2024 | Full Live Stream

[@justincaseIspeak]

Got a couple belly laughs out of this one thank you Brian and Cheryl❤

[@jasonprice8455]

Glory glory glory is our lord of host the earth is full of his glory is that what you mean

[@S.R.M.]

“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it" (Matthew 7:13-14).
“For ‘whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved’” (Romans 10:13).
What is “the name which is above every name”?
The answer is given by the prophet Isaiah. “Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; ‘For Yah, the Lord, is my strength and song; He also has become my salvation’” (Isaiah 12:2 NKJV). Where did the name YAH come from? First, did you know that the name Jesus has only existed since the 17th century? Therefore, God never revealed the name Jesus, nor did the apostles ever know Him by the name Jesus.
But what of the name YAH? We look to Moses. “Then Moses said to God, ‘Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?’ And God said to Moses, “HaYAH Ashar HaYAH” [meaning: “I AM WHO I AM”]. And He said, ‘Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM {YAH} has sent me to you.’ Moreover, God said to Moses, ‘Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations’” (Exodus 3:13-15). “HaYAH” means “the I AM” YAH is “the name which is above every name.” YAH, I AM, in Hebrew is יָהּ Therefore, it is HaYAH, “The I AM.” Not Ehyeh. Yeh, or Jehovah are false names never revealed by God.
Since the apostles never knew the name Jesus, which was placed by man into the New Testament, and not according to the revelation of God, we need to put back the revealed name of the Savior.
Is this name YAH a part of the Savior’s name? The apostle Paul assures us of “the name which is above every name,” as part of Christ’s name. He testified, “While thus occupied, as I journeyed to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests, at midday, O king, along the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who journeyed with me. And when we all had fallen to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’ So I said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And He said, ‘I am YAHSHUA, whom you are persecuting. But rise and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and a witness both of the things which you have seen and of the things which I will yet reveal to you. I will deliver you from the Jewish people, as well as from the Gentiles, to whom I now send you, to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me’” (Acts 26:12-18). Christ told Paul His name in Hebrew. And this is what Paul wrote to the Philippians, “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him ‘the name which is above every name,’ that at the name of YAHSHUA, every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that YAHSHUA the Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:9-11). Christ, Himself told the people that He is YAH, meaning “I AM.” Our Savior said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM {YAH}.” The expression “I AM”, means YAH. We praise our God and Savior with this expression: “Halleluyah, Praise YAH!”
Shua means “my help,” as in “salvation.” YAHSHUA means, “I AM Salvation.” And the apostle Peter testified, “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” When the Sanhedrin (Jewish Court) heard the name YAHSHUA, as the name YAH is the very name given to Moses, and they recognized the very name YAH, that they sought to hide from the Gentiles, for fear that the Gentiles would profane the name, the Sanhedrin forbid the apostle from preaching in this name, “YAHSHUA” (Acts 4:17-18). However, when the apostles preached in the name of YAHSHUA, the people did not hear it, instead, they heard the name Yeshua (a common name among the Jews at that time), and unless one was part of the Way, the Nazareans, the name YAHSHUA was not well known. Yeshua, an Aramaic name, was a common name in the 1st century.
Those who reject the name YAHSHUA need to take warning, “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:18). Why is this important revealed name, YAHSHUA, not better known? The answer is given by YAHSHUA, He said, “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it” (Matthew 7:13-14). “Few there be who find it.”
The Aramaic name Yeshua was transliterated into Greek and became an entirely different name Iesous. Iesous (ee-sous) transformed into Iesus (ee-sus, as seen in the 1611 KJV Bible). Iesus was later transformed into the name Jesus (gee-sus) when the letter J became officially incorporated into the English Alphabet in the 17th century. According to the testimony of the apostle Peter, "Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). No other name, so which is the one name given under heaven by which we must be saved? Yeshua, Iesous, Iesus, or Jesus?
Is the name of salvation based on the revelation of God, or by the changing languages according to the tongues of mankind?
The prophet Isaiah tells us the name of salvation, he says, "Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; ‘For Yah, the Lord, is my strength and song; He also has become my salvation’ ” (Isaiah 12:2 NKJV, as found in Hebrew Scriptures Yod-Hey יָהּ). Is YAH the name of Salvation?
Did the Savior identify Himself with the name YAH, which means "I AM."
Christ said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM” (John 8:58 NKJV).
Is YAH "the name which is above every name"?
When Moses asked for God's name, did God reveal the name YAH, as in "I AM?"
"Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?” And God said to Moses, "HaYAH Ashar HaYAH" [“I AM WHO I AM”]. And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM {YAH} has sent me to you.’ ” Moreover God said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations’" (Exodus 3:13-15). Does this make YAH [I AM] "the name which is above every name"?
When the apostle Paul was on the road to Damascus and encountered the Lord, did he hear the Lord give his name in Hebrew, as found in Acts 26:12-18, and so did he hear "the name which is above every name"? Did the apostle Paul hear the name given to Moses, the very name "YAH"?
Is not the revealed name of YAH, "the name which is above every name"?
The apostle Paul wrote this, "Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him 'the name which is above every name'..." (Philippians 2:9).
Therefore, is it not reasonable to see that "YAH" is "the name which is above every name," and that YAH is part of our Savior's revealed name?
Therefore, the apostle Paul would have originally written: "Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him 'the name which is above every name,' that at the name of YAHSHUA, every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that YAHSHUA the Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father" (Philippians 2:9-11).
Therefore, based on the above, YAHSHUA is the only name by which we must be saved.
What if I do not believe in the name YAHSHUA, and stay with the name Jesus, even though it came to be by the tongue of man, and not by the revelation of God?
Well, “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God" (John 3:18).
In answer to your question, according to the New Testament, you will stand condemned...

[@S.R.M.]

The Trinity is the Father fully God, the Son (Christ) fully God, and the Holy Ghost fully God, however, the Father is not the Son, nor is the Son the Father, and the Spirit is not the Son, nor is the Spirit the Father. They are all distinct from each other. Yet there are not three Gods (elohim), but One God (Eloah). How is it that not one verse in the Bible states: “God is One in three persons”?
It is common among Christians who tend to think and believe that the Trinity is established in the Bible, who insist on the belief of the Trinity of three co-equal, co-eternal Persons in the One God is biblical. And yet increasingly, many very well-known Bible Scholars do not think Christ is God in a Trinitarian sense, based on the lack of evidence in the Old and New Testaments. Therefore, many distinguished scholars maintain that the doctrine of the Trinity is not taught anywhere in the Bible. Trinitarians promote two verses, which are Matthew 28:19 and 1 John 5:7, however, these two pillars of Trinitarianism are proven interpolations, that is words that were added to Scripture much later into the original biblical text.
While the doctrine of the Trinity is not taught in the New Testament and never revealed by God in the Old Testament, it was first formulated by Christian bishops in the 4th century, that is three hundred years after Christ, and who attempted to understand the relationship between Christ and the Father in three main Church Councils, The Council of Nicaea (325), The Council of Constantinople (381), and The Council of Ephesus (431). Those men who participated in three councils sought to define God on their terms without one thus says the LORD, and not one provable proof text
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History does not reveal that the apostles ever knew of the Trinity Doctrine, that is: “The Father is God, the Son is God, the Holy Ghost is God, and yet not three gods (elohim), one God (eloah), equally important, the Father is not the Son, and the Son is not the Holy Ghost, therefore, each is a separate Person of the Godhead.” Trinitarians have placed two major interpolations in the New Testament to artificially establish the Trinity. To sum up the findings of historians, H.G. Wells stated, “There is no evidence that the apostles of Jesus ever heard of the trinity-at any rate from him” (THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY, Vol. 2, p. 499).
“Primitive (Apostolic) Christianity did not have an explicit doctrine of the Trinity such as was subsequently elaborated in the creeds of the early (4th century) church” (see “God”, THE NEW INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY of NEW TESTAMENT THEOLOGY, Vol. 2, 1976, p. 84).
First interpolation: 1 John 5:7-8. Modern Biblical scholarship agrees that 1 John 5:7 seen in Latin and Greek texts after the 4th century and found in later translations such as the King James Bible Translation, cannot be found in the oldest Greek and Latin texts. Verse 7 is known as the Johannine Comma, an interpolation, which most scholars agree to be a later addition by a later Trinitarian copyist, also classified as a textual gloss, but not part of the original text. This verse reads: “Because there are three in Heaven that testify - the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit - these three are one.”
This verse is absent from the original Aramaic, Syriac, Slavic, early Armenian, Georgian, Ethiopian, and Arabic translations of the Greek New Testament. It is primarily found in later Latin manuscripts, although some Greek, Slavonic, and late Armenian manuscripts contain it.
Second Interpolation: Matthew 28:19. States, Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit…” Matthew 28:19 is quoted by Trinitarians as evidence for the Trinity. However, it is an interpolation into the Text. Respected Bible scholars say that the formula was an insertion and that it originally stated: “Go and make disciples of all nations in my name.”
Matthew 28:19 is the only verse in the entire New Testament with the “Trinity” formula.” All other verses point to baptism being performed in the Name of Christ alone. Take for example Apostle Peter in Acts, who promoted baptisms in the name of the Lord. See the following verses:
Acts 2:38 - “Then Peter said to them, “Repent and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 8:16 - For as yet He had fallen upon none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
Acts 10:48 - So Peter ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus the Messiah. Then they asked him to stay there for several days.
If Matthew 28:19 is true and genuine, and Jesus did command His disciples to baptize ”in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,” then why would Peter go against a commandment and baptize only in His name? Well, the answer lies in the Text.

[@Strongtower]

For Matthew 28:19, you said "respected bible scholars say that the formula was an insertion" Do you have any evidence of this being the case? What scholars? Also can you give me any manuscripts of Matthew 28 that don't have "Father, Son, and Holy Spirit"?

[@S.R.M.]

@@Strongtower One such scholar is Conybeare. Eusebius quoted the original Matthew 28:19, "Go and make disciples of all nations in My name" (Eusebius, The History of the Church, Penguin Classics, 1967, p. 68). According to Eusebius, in the early 4th century, there was no statement: "...baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." And you will not find anywhere in the New Testament where baptisms were done "...in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost," but all baptisms were done in the name of the Son alone. Another proven interpolation is 1 John 5:7! The Trinity is of the tradition of men, which makes void the Word of God. There is so much falsehood among Christians that no wonder our Lord and Savior said, “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it" (Matthew 7:13:-14). "There are few who find it!"

[@Strongtower]

@@S.R.M. Can you name me any recent scholars and where they say the formula is not original? Conybeare died 100 years ago, so whatever work he did is most likely outdated. I checked modern New Testament textual critical scholars and they say the Trinitarian formula is original. (Philip Comfort and Bruce Metzger for example).
Also I found that every other mention of Matthew 28:19 from Christians before Eusebius include the Trinitarian Formula. Considering that everyone who quotes Matt 28:19 includes it and all of our manuscripts include it, I would argue that Matthew 28:19 always included the Trinitarian formula. Based on this evidence, Eusebius's quote is a misquote.
Here are all the mentions of Matthew 28:19 I could find that include the Trinitarian Formula. They are all before Eusebius. I found no one who said "my name", they all said "in the name of the Father and the Son, and the Holy Spirit".
-Didache Chapter 7:1
-Justin Martyr First apology Chapter 61
-Irenaeus "Against Heresies" Book 3.17.1
-Tertullian "On Baptism" Chapter 13
-Tertullian "The Prescription Against Heretics" Chapter 20
-Hippolytus "Against the Heresy of One Noetus" Chapter 14
-Victorinus "Commentary on the Apocalypse" Chapter 1
-Origen "Commentary on Romans" 5.2.11, 5.8.7, 8.5.8

[@S.R.M.]

@@Strongtower Scholars need paychecks to live, so no, I can't name too many. Conybeare being dead 100 years ago does not change the truth he stood for. Truth is not outdated. Comfort and Metzger are singing the party line. Justin Martyr was not a Trinitarian, he was a subordinationist. Irenaeus died in 202 AD and he was not a Trinitarian because the Trinitarian doctrine did not exist, by definition, until the late 4th century, as it was through a process that it was officially developed long after his death. Tertullian does not define the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit as One God in three Persons, and he was apostasized, Latin root, apostata, means "one who forsakes the religion or faith." The Orthodox/Catholic Church redacted anything that countered their Trinitarian theology, but what is telling is that Christ tells them to go and baptize in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, but never did it. It was as if they never heard Christ give this commandment! That is telling!