We definitely need to listen to our Father for His Wisdom and
understanding so that we can learn His Ways and be good and fruitful children
for Him, just as we learned the ways of our parents and were corrected when we
didn't follow their teachings.
All of Proverbs chapter 3 revolves around us learning and understanding
God's Word, instructions, Ways, the Milk of the Word of God for children - and
thereby learning and understanding His Son, Our Salvation, His Word, His Ways.
Hebrew chapter 12 tells us that:
Proverbs 3:1-13
"1 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my
commandments:
2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write
them upon the table of thine heart:
4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God
and man.
5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own
understanding.
6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.
8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
9 Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all
thine increase:
10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall
burst out with new wine.
11 My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of
his correction:
12 For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in
whom he delighteth.
13 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth
understanding."
New Wine:
If we want to have our "barns filled with plenty" and our
"presses" to "burst out with new wine", we must follow
God's Ways, we must clean our vessels for His New Wine:
Isaiah 65:1-17
"1 I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them
that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not
called by my name.
2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people,
which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;
3 A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that
sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
4 Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat
swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
5 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier
than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.
6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will
recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith
the Lord, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon
the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.
8 Thus saith the Lord, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one
saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants'
sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an
inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants
shall dwell there.
10 And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a
place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.
11 But ye are they that forsake the Lord, that forget my holy mountain,
that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto
that number.
12 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down
to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye
did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I
delighted not.
13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, my servants shall eat,
but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be
thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:
14 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry
for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit."
This is what Yeshua (Jesus) meant in the passage in Mark 2 below. We
should get rid of the "swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things"
(vs. 4 above) that are in our vessels (sin physically and spiritually) and
those "Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier
than thou." because These are a smoke in" our Father's nose, "a
fire that burneth all the day" (verse 5 above). If we get rid of the old
wine and the old vessel which are our sin/transgression of Torah/our ways in
the vessel of the flesh, then we can be filled with the new wine which is the
Holy Spirit/Yeshua in the vessel of Truth/Torah/Yeshua.
That's why Yeshua chose disciples who were not educated in the ways of
the Jews who had added to God's Torah with their traditions, customs, and ways.
He chose those who were new skins/vessels to fill with God's Truths and the
Holy Spirit. Having never learned the ways man added to the Torah, Yeshua could
teach His disciples and they would accept His teachings (Torah the way God gave
it to the Israelites - new wine) and not "burst the bottles" (verse
22 below):
Mark 2:15-22
"15 And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house,
many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for
there were many, and they followed him.
16 And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and
sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh
with publicans and sinners?
17 When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no
need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the
righteous, but sinners to repentance.
18 And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and
they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees
fast, but thy disciples fast not?
19 And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber fast,
while the bridegroom is with them? as long as they have the bridegroom with
them, they cannot fast.
20 But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from
them, and then shall they fast in those days.
21 No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the
new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made
worse.
22 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth
burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but
new wine must be put into new bottles."
"Lay aside" "the sin which doth so easily beset us"
which is the transgression of God's Torah, and then we can "run with
patience the race that is set before" us, "looking unto Jesus"
(Yeshua) Who is "the author" (God's Word made flesh) and the
"finisher" (the Holy Spirit/Comforter/Helper), the One who helps us
run the race through walking in Torah just as He did (verses 1-2 below).
Hebrews 12:1-17
"1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a
cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so
easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the
joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set
down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against
himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto
children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when
thou art rebuked of him:
6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom
he receiveth.
7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what
son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then
are ye bastards, and not sons.
9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and
we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the
Father of spirits, and live?
10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own
pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but
grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of
righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be
turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall
see the Lord:
15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any
root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for
one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the
blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he
sought it carefully with tears."
Head the warning from God given in Hosea chapter 9. Ephraim was
admonished by God for transgressing His Torah by worshiping Him in the ways of
pagans and for eating unclean things such as pork. If you do these things, you
are just as Ephraim in God's sight.
Hosea 9
"1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast
gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine
shall fail in her.
3 They shall not dwell in the Lord's land; but Ephraim shall return to
Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord, neither shall they
be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of
mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their
soul shall not come into the house of the Lord.
5 What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the
Lord?
6 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather
them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles
shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.
7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come;
Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the
multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
8 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare
of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.
9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah:
therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as
the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and
separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as
they loved.
11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the
birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that
there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim
shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
14 Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb
and dry breasts.
15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the
wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love
them no more: all their princes are revolters.
16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no
fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of
their womb.
17 My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him:
and they shall be wanderers among the nations."
If you truly want to be children of God, you must "come out from
among them" and "be ye separate":
2 Corinthians 6:13-18
"13 Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my
children,) be ye also enlarged.
14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what
fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath
light with darkness?
15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that
believeth with an infidel?
16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the
temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in
them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the
Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.
18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and
daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."
With these passages in mind, ask yourself again, "Are You a Child
of God?"
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