Preach the Kingdom

(Messiah's 40^th Commandments in the New Testament)

By Brother R Michel Lankford

“And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’” (Matthew 10:7, NKJV)

Immediately after commanding His disciples to pray that The Father would send out laborers into the harvest fields for the kingdom (Matthew 9:37-38), Messiah instantly proceeds to coach and teach them about what they can expect when Yahweh Almighty God sent them out into the harvest fields (Matthew chapter 10). It's important to note that these are specific instructions that Messiah gave to the apostles while He was physically present with them, and BEFORE He died and rose again (Matthew 10:1-4). There is a minor difference here. Prior to Messiah's death and resurrection, the gospel message was reserved exclusively for the Covenant Hebrew (Matthew 10:5-6). After Messiah died and rose again, Messiah HIMSELF expanded the gospel message to include the entire world (Matthew 28:19-20).
Unfortunately, many people use this specific example to try to spread the heresy and false doctrine that before Jesus died, faithful God followers were required to keep and obey the Commandments of God, but supposedly after Messiah died and rose again, the prevailing theory is that obeying God's Laws, Commandments, and instructions is now not only supposedly unnecessary, but the prevailing heresy is that since we are now "Under Grace" through Messiah, we are supposedly now free to actively break and violate God's Laws and Commandments. Supposedly we are now “free” to actively disobey God and to do the explicit opposite of what God says He desires and requires, and it allegedly doesn't matter so long as you believe and have accepted Yeshua the Messiah as your Lord and Savior. That is the prevailing theory that is being passionately spread throughout modern-day Christianity in the name of "GRACE," and it is completely false doctrine. It's flat-out heresy. We must repent, or we will be judged as false teachers and false prophets (Deuteronomy 13:1-5; Matthew 7:15-20).
Yahweh Almighty God DOES NOT CHANGE (Numbers 23:19; 1 Samuel 15:29). Yeshua the Messiah sent by God also DOES NOT CHANGE (Hebrews 13:8). What Yahweh Almighty God, Creator of heaven and earth declared to be sin 5000 years ago, Jesus the Messiah also considered those same things to be sin (John 10:30; John 14:9; John 4:34; John 5:19; John 6:45). If Yahweh Almighty God declared something to be wicked, detestable and an abomination, Jesus the Messiah feels exactly way about it, and Jesus agrees with God, and He also along with God, hates what God says is evil or detestable (Hebrews 1:9; cf. Psalm 44:7). Jesus always upheld and agreed with God's Laws, Commandments, and Instructions (Matthew 5:17-20). Believers in Messiah are called to do exactly the same thing even after Jesus died and rose again (1 John 2:1-6). Part of truly loving God (Matthew 22:36-40), is to hate everything that God calls evil (Proverbs 8:13; cf. Isaiah 5:20-24). If Yahweh Almighty God calls something to be an abomination, than if we are truly a God follower, then we should call it the same thing God does. We should never redefine something and call it good, after God has already declared it to be evil. Conversely, we should never redefine something as being evil after God has already called it good. Please do not deceive and delude yourself. Please do not let others deceive you. No matter how much grace you believe yourself to be walking in, if we dare to oppose the Word of the Creator of the Universe, we cannot possibly be right!
We are told to preach God's kingdom which begins with genuine repentance (Matthew 10:7), just as it always has.
The fundamental truths of the kingdom of God have not changed. God's principal definitions of good and evil, sin and righteousness, light and darkness, have NEVER changed. Note: please remember that even the Gospel accounts were written some 30 years after Jesus Christ (Yeshua the Messiah) was resurrected from the dead.
 

Item	Before Messiah Died	After Messiah Rose
God defines Breaking His Law as being sin.	Hosea 8:1; Daniel 9:11	1 John 3:4; Matthew 5:17-20; Matthew 7:21
God Declares the wages of Sin to be Death	Ezekiel 18:4-ff	Romans 6:23a; Galatians 5:19-21; 1 Corinthians 6:9-11; Revelation 21:8
True repentance leads to restoration	Ezekiel 18:21-23	Acts 3:19; 1 John 1:5-10; cf. Luke 15:11-32;Luke 19:10
God provides a substitute	Gen 3:15; Gen. 12:3; Genesis 22; Deut 13:1-5; Isaiah 53	1 John 2:1-6; 1John 4:10
Believing God/Messiah is reckoned to us as righteousness	Genesis 15:6; Habakkuk 2:4	Romans 1:7; Galatians 3:11
God's true grace changes us from the inside	Ezekiel 36:25-27	John 3:3,7; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 5:16
Loving God is demonstrated by obeying God's Commandments	Exodus 20:6; Deuteronomy 5:10; Deuteronomy 7:9; Psalm 25:10; Psalm 103:18; Nehemiah 1:5; Daniel 9:4	Matthew 12:50; John 14:15-21; John 15:10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:23-24
Mixing pagan worship traditions with Godly worship is FORBIDDEN.	Exodus 32:1-10; Deuteronomy 12:1-4, 8, 29-32; Jeremiah 10:1-2;	John 4:24; 1 Corinthians 10:1-31; 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1; Colossians 2:8
Honoring God's TRUE Festival days signifies that we are separated unto God and that we belong to Him.	Exodus 20:8-11; Exodus 31:12-13; Leviticus 23:1-3; Ezekiel 22:26-31; Isaiah 56:1-7	Matthew 12:8; Matt. 26:29, Mark 14:25, Luke 22:18, 30; Acts 18:21; Romans 6:15-19; 1 Corinthians 5:6-8; Ephesians 2; Hebrews 4:9; James 4:4

The truths of God’s Kingdom do Not Change 

Amos 3:7 Certainly the sovereign LORD does nothing without first revealing His plan to his servants the prophets.

 

God's Kingdom is a kingdom of Theocracy. It is not a democracy or republic. It is run under the sole leadership and direction of the King.

The King's definitions are the standard of measurement In His Kingdom. What He calls good is good. What she calls evil is evil.
If Almighty God, the King of the Kingdom was going to change His definitions, if what He had previously declared to be evil or abominable or sinful was going to change and suddenly become good pleasing acceptable and delightful to Him, the proof of the change could NOT rightly be found in the New Testament. In order to be valid, proof of the change MUST be found in the books of Moses to Malachi, because God does nothing without first revealing it to the prophets. So if he did not reveal to the prophets that He would make a change after was cut off, then God was not the One who made the change.