WHO ARE THE UNREASONABLE MEN YESHUA REBUKES? 

The identity of those who our Lord Yeshua will rebuke is revealed in the following description of what Yeshua makes available to those who walk in his righteousness and light.  

OPENING PRAYER

Heavenly Father, as we bow before your throne and lay our petitions before you, we ask you to hear our prayers. As our days become more treacherous and dangerous, we pray Lord for your guidance. We recognize Father, those who desire to harm or prevent us from doing your work; they do not accept you or your compassion, forgiveness, or love. Lord, we give praise for the protection you place us under and acknowledge You alone are our helper and uphold our souls. We know Father, you will reward evil unto our enemies, cutting them off in your truth. We know Father, it is You who will deliver us from all sin. This we give thanks for in the name of your Son, Yeshua, Amen, and Amen. 

Mark 8:38 KJV 

Whosoever, therefore, shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. 

Frequent notice is taken of the great flocking there was to Christ for help in various cases. All are concerned to know this if they expect him to heal their souls. They must not indulge the ease of the body.  

As the happiness of heaven with Christ is enough to make up for the loss of life itself for him, so the gain of all the world in sin will not make up for the ruin of the soul by sin.  

And there is a day coming when the cause of Christ will appear as glorious, as some now think it mean and contemptible. May we think of that season and view every earthly object as we shall do on that wonderful day. 

Frequent notice is taken of the great flocking there was to Christ for help in various cases. All are concerned to know this if they expect him to heal their souls. They must not indulge the ease of the body. 

 As the happiness of heaven with Christ is enough to make up for the loss of life itself for him, so the gain of all the world in sin will not make up for the ruin of the soul by sin.  

And there is a day coming when the cause of Christ will appear as glorious, as some now think it mean and contemptible. May we think of that season and view every earthly object as we shall do at that great day.  

In Romans 1:16-17, the apostle opens the design of the whole epistle, in which he brings forward a charge of sinfulness against all flesh; declares the only method of deliverance from condemnation, by faith in the mercy of God, through Jesus Christ; and then builds upon its purity of heart, grateful obedience, and earnest desires to improve in all those Christian graces and tempers, which nothing but a lively faith in Christ can bring forth.  

God is a just and holy God, and we are guilty sinners. We must have a righteousness to appear in before him: there is such a righteousness brought in by the Messiah and made known in the gospel; a gracious method of acceptance, notwithstanding the guilt of our sins.  

It is the righteousness of Christ, who is God, coming from a satisfaction of infinite value. Faith is, overall, both in the beginning and progress of Christian life. It is not from faith to works, as if faith put us into a justified state, and then works kept us in it; but it is all along from faith to faith; it is faith pressing forward and gaining the victory over unbelief. 

God has not given us the spirit of fear, but the spirit of power, of courage and resolution, to meet difficulties and dangers; the spirit of love to him, which will carry us through opposition. And the spirit of a sound mind, quietness of mind. The Holy Spirit is not the author of a timid or cowardly disposition or of slavish fears. We are likely to bear afflictions well when we have strength and power from God to enable us to bear them. 

Those who cleave to the gospel need not be ashamed; the cause will bear them out, but those who oppose it shall be ashamed. 

There is a day coming when our souls will be inquired after. Thou had a soul committed to thee; how was it employed? In the service of sin, or in the service of Christ? 

Thou will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee, Trust ye in the Lord forever: for in the Lord Yeshua is everlasting strength. (Isaiah 26:3-4)

Robert