A Time To Start Over
Is there really any way for you to start over?
At the end of every year people celebrate the beginning of a new year. They often spend the last day of the year reflecting on the year that is ending and what they would like to do better in the new year than they did in the old year. So they make resolutions about how things are going to different once the new year begins. For many people New Year's Day is a time to start over.
Of course, most of the time not really much changes. They still have the same problems on January 1st that that they had on December 31st. They are in the same relationships with same people. They have the same job and the same pressures in the new year that acted upon them in the old year. Their resolutions for change quickly fall to the wayside. Their hopes for a time to start over vanish like the snow when the weather suddenly warms up.
The truth is that your life is really nothing more than an unbroken series of events that have occurred since the moment you were conceived. Concepts like days, weeks, months and years are just convenient ways of organizing and measuring those events. For example, someone may talk of their high school days to mean the collection of events that occurred from when they entered high school until when they graduated high school. The changing of the number assigned to a calendar year does not really mean that is a time to start over.
Many of these events driven by choices that others have made but affect you in some manner. For example, your parents made a choice that lead to your conception and then another that lead to your birth. You then made other choices that drove other events that have shaped your life. For example, you might have made a choice to go to college after high school. Often people look at their lives and realize that these events have not shaped their life into what they wish it was like. They get excited about the changing of the calendar year when what they really long for is a time to start over.
Is there really any way for you to start over? Is there ever really a time to start over?
You might realize that you are among those who make resolutions each New Year's Day only to watch them be broken by the first of February. You need to make a resolution that you can keep. When you do then you will find there really is a time to start over.
You came alive the moment your father took action to cause your mother to conceive. You came into the natural world the moment you were born of your mother. The rest of your life was shaped by the events that occurred after that. So in order for there to be a time to start over you would have to a second beginning.
The Good News is that the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) has taken action to cause you be conceived a second time by giving you the Word of Truth (James 1:18). He has resurrected the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) so that you can have a time to start over (1 Peter 1:3-5).
The only way for you to truly have a second beginning to change the course of your life is to be born again (John 3:3). This why the Man of Truth said that you must be born again (John 3:7). You can only be born again from the seed that the Father of Truth uses to beget the Children of Truth (those who obey The Father of Truth because they love Him) in the House of Truth (1 Peter 1:23).
When you are born a second time you are born of the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) in the spirit into the House of Truth instead of being born of a woman in the flesh into the world (John 3:4-6). When you are born a second time you become a brand new person so you will truly start over (2 Corinthians 5:17). It does not matter if you are a Jew or a Gentile because being born again has nothing to do with the flesh (Galatians 6:15).
You will start over because you become as uncontrollable by the world and as unpredictable to the world as the wind when you are born of the Spirit of Truth (John 3:8). You will no longer be conformed to living like everyone else because you will begin to think like Man of Truth so that you can do what is pleasing to the Father of Truth (Romans 12:2). The Father of Truth will cause you to both desire and be able to live in His ways as you work out the details of how to live out your salvation (Philippians 2:12-13).
Of course, this will not happen at once overnight because you are starting over. You have to grow into be able to eat the meat of the Word of Truth in same way you had grow into eating solid food after you were born in the flesh (1 Corinthians 3:1-3). Just like you were born in the flesh as a baby and then could only drink milk until you grew up some so also will you only be able to take in what is easy to digest from the Word of Truth at first because you are also born in the spirit as a baby until you grow up into righteous living (Hebrews 5:12-14). You will grow up into righteous living if you drink in the Word of Truth like a baby grows by drinking in milk (1 Peter 2:1-3).
When you start over in the House of Truth you will no longer be a slave to sin (John 8:31-32). You will not be a slave to sin because the Man of Truth will set you free from sin (John 8:34-36). You will grow in obedience to the Father of Truth until doing what is right is as natural as doing what was wrong used to be (Romans 6:15-17). All you have to do is stay in the House of Truth.
It will be a time to start over because the Spirit of Truth will give you the ability to obey the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) from the heart (Ezekiel 36:26-27). The Father of Truth will put the Spirit of Truth in your heart (2 Corinthians 1:21-22). Everyone will be able to see that the Spirit of Truth is writing the epistle of the Man of Truth on your heart (2 Corinthians 3:2-3). Since the Spirit of Truth will be in your heart you will be able call the Father of Truth your daddy (Galatians 4:6). You will no longer find it hard to keep His commandments (1 John 5:3). You will not find it hard to keep the Law of Truth because you will be able to join me in saying that the Law of Truth has been written on my heart.
When you start over you will not instantly have everything fixed. You will still have the same problems as before. You might even suffer some of the consequences from the decisions you made before you started over. You will have the same pressures as before.
However you will be different on the inside and that will make all the difference. You will no longer be relying on only your own will power to have the strength to change. You will have the Spirit of Truth living on the inside. You will be on the side of the Father of Truth. You will the Man of Truth interceding on your behalf.
So your response to those problems, consequences and pressures will be different. You will no longer keep making the same decisions that you made before that keep perpetuating your problems. You will see everything differently and react differently. This will drive different decisions that will lead to different results and ultimately to a different destination.
When you start over in the House of Truth you will have changed your destination from death to life (John 5:24). You will know that the death of your body begins your life of forever being with the Man of Truth (2 Corinthians 5:6-8). You will no longer be in bondage to the fear of death (Hebrews 2:14-15). The second death will never come to those who have started over in the House of Truth (Revelation 20:6). You will understand what I mean when I say that the moment of my last breath is the moment I become alive.
You need to understand that starting over means changes in every area of life and not everyone is going to be happy about those changes. When you come into the House of Truth to start over some people will turn on you (Matthew 10:21-22). You will suffer some sort of persecution from other people when you come into the House of Truth (2 Timothy 3:12). They will think that it strange that you no longer do the same kind of things that you once did (1 Peter 4:3-5). Yet whatever you suffer at their hands for the sake of remaining in the House of Truth will only make you more like the Man of Truth (1 Peter 4:12-14). When you start over in the House of Truth it is so you can become like the Man of Truth in this world (1 John 4:15-17).
You come into the House of Truth to start over when you surrender control of your life to the Man of Truth because you believe that His Father raised him from the dead (Romans 10:8-10). Today is the day to come into the House of Truth because now is a time to start over (2 Corinthians 6:2).
Come into the House of Truth.
At the end of every year people celebrate the beginning of a new year. They often spend the last day of the year reflecting on the year that is ending and what they would like to do better in the new year than they did in the old year. So they make resolutions about how things are going to different once the new year begins. For many people New Year's Day is a time to start over.
Of course, most of the time not really much changes. They still have the same problems on January 1st that that they had on December 31st. They are in the same relationships with same people. They have the same job and the same pressures in the new year that acted upon them in the old year. Their resolutions for change quickly fall to the wayside. Their hopes for a time to start over vanish like the snow when the weather suddenly warms up.
The truth is that your life is really nothing more than an unbroken series of events that have occurred since the moment you were conceived. Concepts like days, weeks, months and years are just convenient ways of organizing and measuring those events. For example, someone may talk of their high school days to mean the collection of events that occurred from when they entered high school until when they graduated high school. The changing of the number assigned to a calendar year does not really mean that is a time to start over.
Many of these events driven by choices that others have made but affect you in some manner. For example, your parents made a choice that lead to your conception and then another that lead to your birth. You then made other choices that drove other events that have shaped your life. For example, you might have made a choice to go to college after high school. Often people look at their lives and realize that these events have not shaped their life into what they wish it was like. They get excited about the changing of the calendar year when what they really long for is a time to start over.
Is there really any way for you to start over? Is there ever really a time to start over?
You might realize that you are among those who make resolutions each New Year's Day only to watch them be broken by the first of February. You need to make a resolution that you can keep. When you do then you will find there really is a time to start over.
You came alive the moment your father took action to cause your mother to conceive. You came into the natural world the moment you were born of your mother. The rest of your life was shaped by the events that occurred after that. So in order for there to be a time to start over you would have to a second beginning.
The Good News is that the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) has taken action to cause you be conceived a second time by giving you the Word of Truth (James 1:18). He has resurrected the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) so that you can have a time to start over (1 Peter 1:3-5).
The only way for you to truly have a second beginning to change the course of your life is to be born again (John 3:3). This why the Man of Truth said that you must be born again (John 3:7). You can only be born again from the seed that the Father of Truth uses to beget the Children of Truth (those who obey The Father of Truth because they love Him) in the House of Truth (1 Peter 1:23).
When you are born a second time you are born of the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) in the spirit into the House of Truth instead of being born of a woman in the flesh into the world (John 3:4-6). When you are born a second time you become a brand new person so you will truly start over (2 Corinthians 5:17). It does not matter if you are a Jew or a Gentile because being born again has nothing to do with the flesh (Galatians 6:15).
You will start over because you become as uncontrollable by the world and as unpredictable to the world as the wind when you are born of the Spirit of Truth (John 3:8). You will no longer be conformed to living like everyone else because you will begin to think like Man of Truth so that you can do what is pleasing to the Father of Truth (Romans 12:2). The Father of Truth will cause you to both desire and be able to live in His ways as you work out the details of how to live out your salvation (Philippians 2:12-13).
Of course, this will not happen at once overnight because you are starting over. You have to grow into be able to eat the meat of the Word of Truth in same way you had grow into eating solid food after you were born in the flesh (1 Corinthians 3:1-3). Just like you were born in the flesh as a baby and then could only drink milk until you grew up some so also will you only be able to take in what is easy to digest from the Word of Truth at first because you are also born in the spirit as a baby until you grow up into righteous living (Hebrews 5:12-14). You will grow up into righteous living if you drink in the Word of Truth like a baby grows by drinking in milk (1 Peter 2:1-3).
When you start over in the House of Truth you will no longer be a slave to sin (John 8:31-32). You will not be a slave to sin because the Man of Truth will set you free from sin (John 8:34-36). You will grow in obedience to the Father of Truth until doing what is right is as natural as doing what was wrong used to be (Romans 6:15-17). All you have to do is stay in the House of Truth.
It will be a time to start over because the Spirit of Truth will give you the ability to obey the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) from the heart (Ezekiel 36:26-27). The Father of Truth will put the Spirit of Truth in your heart (2 Corinthians 1:21-22). Everyone will be able to see that the Spirit of Truth is writing the epistle of the Man of Truth on your heart (2 Corinthians 3:2-3). Since the Spirit of Truth will be in your heart you will be able call the Father of Truth your daddy (Galatians 4:6). You will no longer find it hard to keep His commandments (1 John 5:3). You will not find it hard to keep the Law of Truth because you will be able to join me in saying that the Law of Truth has been written on my heart.
When you start over you will not instantly have everything fixed. You will still have the same problems as before. You might even suffer some of the consequences from the decisions you made before you started over. You will have the same pressures as before.
However you will be different on the inside and that will make all the difference. You will no longer be relying on only your own will power to have the strength to change. You will have the Spirit of Truth living on the inside. You will be on the side of the Father of Truth. You will the Man of Truth interceding on your behalf.
So your response to those problems, consequences and pressures will be different. You will no longer keep making the same decisions that you made before that keep perpetuating your problems. You will see everything differently and react differently. This will drive different decisions that will lead to different results and ultimately to a different destination.
When you start over in the House of Truth you will have changed your destination from death to life (John 5:24). You will know that the death of your body begins your life of forever being with the Man of Truth (2 Corinthians 5:6-8). You will no longer be in bondage to the fear of death (Hebrews 2:14-15). The second death will never come to those who have started over in the House of Truth (Revelation 20:6). You will understand what I mean when I say that the moment of my last breath is the moment I become alive.
You need to understand that starting over means changes in every area of life and not everyone is going to be happy about those changes. When you come into the House of Truth to start over some people will turn on you (Matthew 10:21-22). You will suffer some sort of persecution from other people when you come into the House of Truth (2 Timothy 3:12). They will think that it strange that you no longer do the same kind of things that you once did (1 Peter 4:3-5). Yet whatever you suffer at their hands for the sake of remaining in the House of Truth will only make you more like the Man of Truth (1 Peter 4:12-14). When you start over in the House of Truth it is so you can become like the Man of Truth in this world (1 John 4:15-17).
You come into the House of Truth to start over when you surrender control of your life to the Man of Truth because you believe that His Father raised him from the dead (Romans 10:8-10). Today is the day to come into the House of Truth because now is a time to start over (2 Corinthians 6:2).
Come into the House of Truth.
Labels: New Year's Day, Resolution, Salvation
posted by The House Of Truth @ December 26, 2014
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