Is there
such a thing as Wages of
Righteousness Proverbs 10:16?
Most people
know about death being the wages you get for
living the life style of sin as stated in
Romans 6:23, but what if a person turns from
sinning, repents as Yahshua commands us to
do and follows the law keeping life style
that Yahshua set for us to follow. Is there
a reward or wages for him or her?
Program Transcript
This week we are going to continue to show that “the wages
you get for sinning is death and the wages or reward of righteousness is eternal
life”. This is the most important teaching in the entire bible because it sets
the foundation and purpose of our calling, which in the words of Yahshua our
Savior and Messiah is to “Repent of sinning for the Kingdom of Yahweh is at
hand.”
Sin is the breaking of Yahweh’s Laws I John 3:4
Yes we were all sinners which means we practiced sin the same way a runner
practice running or a carpenter practices carpentry. So in a typical day we
would either be disobedient or disrespectful to our parents, steal something,
lusted after something that belonged to someone else. Some of you can tell
stories of having sexual relations with a different woman every week or every
night. In all these ways and more we sinned and we practiced sinning. Sinning was our way of life and we
were in line to receive the wages of sin which is death.
Now the reason the teaching of the wages of sin being death is so important is
that the Christian preachers are actually teaching people that they can perform
many of the sins we just mentioned because Jesus Christ nailed the laws of
Yahweh to a cross. In this way they are teaching a Message of Death. They say
forget the keeping of those old testament laws because no body can keep them.
All we really need to do now is to believe in the name of Jesus and you will be
saved. They say Jesus kept the laws for you so you don’t have to keep them.
My friends regardless of the clever argument the churches make for why it is ok
for you to disobey Yahweh and break His Laws, I want you to know that they are
teaching the same message of death that Satan the devil taught from the very
beginning.
You can go back to Genesis and see that Satan taught the same message the
churches are now teaching that you can disobey Yahweh and still have eternal
life, but Yahweh’s teaching from the beginning is that the wages of sin is
death. In fact the wages of sin is suffering, misery and death. All of the
curses you see going on today: the sickness and disease, rapes, murders,
robberies, starvation and wars you can blame it on Satan and the religions that
teach against Yahweh’s Laws. You can read this is
Deuteronomy 28:15
15 …If you do not obey Yahweh your Father, and do not carefully follow all His
Laws and His statutes, which I command you this day, then all these curses will
come upon you and accompany you:
16 Cursed will you be in the city, and cursed will you be in the country.
17 Cursed will be your basket and your store house.
18 Cursed will be the fruit of your body, the produce of your land, the calves
of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.
The churches are teaching against these very laws of Yahweh that if you keep
them you would be blessed. They are not a burden nor are they impossible to keep
as they teach. You can read the blessings in this same chapter from Deuteronomy
28:1-13.
It is important for us to understand that the wages of sin is death. Do not be
deceived. Yahweh will not be giving eternal life to us if we practice sin
regardless what you hear the preachers say. Yahweh has inspired so many
scriptures that clearly tell us that the wages of sin is death, but repentance
and conversion to His Laws is the only way to life. So let’s quickly go over
some of these scriptures which I urge you to make notes of and keep them in your
mind so that you are not deceived.
From the very beginning Yahweh instructed the first humans to obey Him or they
will die, and Satan came afterwards and said no don’t believe what Yahweh told
you. No you will not surely die, you can have eternal life even if you disobey
Yahweh. You can find this account in Genesis 2 and 3 where you can see the
teaching that the wages of sin is death. That’s where it was first taught, but
Yahweh has inspired this same teaching down through the ages through the
prophets and apostles from Genesis to Revelation. In
Ezekiel 18:4, 20
4 Behold, all souls are Mine. Just as the soul of the father, so also the soul
of the son is Mine; the soul that sins, it will die.
20 The soul that sins, it will die.
But notice something here in verse 23 of Ezekiel 18
23 Do I have pleasure at all that the wicked should die? Says Father Yahweh: No,
but rather that he would turn back from his wicked ways and live.
21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he has committed, and keep
all My statutes, and do that which is Lawful and right, then he will surely
live, he will not die. (second death)
Do you notice that there is a reward for keeping Yahweh’s Laws? It is life, life
eternal. Notice this in
Proverbs 10:16
The wages of righteousness is life; but the fruit of wickedness is sin and
death.
This is virtually the same thing stated in Romans 6:23
“the wages of sin is death, but the gift or reward that Yahweh gives you for
keeping His laws is life eternal.”
Anybody who tells you something different from what these scriptures are saying,
they are lying to you.
Yahshua Messiah told a young man this very thing in Matthew 19:16-17
Matthew 19:16-17
16 And behold, one came to Him, and said; Teacher, what righteous thing may I
do, so that I may have eternal life?
17 …if you would enter into life keep the laws of Yahweh.
The same laws that the churches are saying was nailed to the cross. They say
salvation is now through grace in Christ Jesus. My friends, Yahweh was always
willing to forgive our sins as we just read that in Ezekiel. He has no pleasure
in the death of the wicked. Sure, we will obtain forgiveness because Yahweh paid
the price for us by offering His begotten Son as His Passover Lamb. But the
sacrifice of Messiah will not apply to us if we fail to repent by continuing to
practice sin. The sacrifice of Messiah is not a license for us to keep on
sinning.
Hebrews 10:26-27
26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth,
there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which
will devour the adversaries.
The sacrifice of Messiah is not a license for us to keep on sinning.
28 Those who rejected the Law given through Mosheh died without mercy on the
testimony of two or three witnesses.
29 How much more severly do you think a man deserves to be punished, who has
trampled the Son of Yahweh underfoot, and counted the blood of the covenant an
unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of Mercy?
My friends you do this if you believe the lies taught by mainstream religion
because they reject these same Laws saying that they were nailed to a cross. You
have a choice you can believe these liars or you can believe the words of the
prophets, apostles and the Messiah Himself that you can read in your own bibles.
Well I encourage you to believe in the words of the prophets, apostles and the
Messiah. These are the words of life because one thing is sure if you or I
choose to sin we will be earning death not life.
This is why Yahshua Himself told us to repent of sinning in Matthew 4:17 because
the Kingdom of Yahweh is at hand. Repenting is the first step to complete and
total conversion to Yahweh’s Laws.
Acts 3:19 Repent therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out;
When we are fully converted not even the threat of death will tempt us to sin.
Many of Yahweh’s servants have reached this point. Some of them were beheaded,
some were sawn in two, some were thrown into lions dens, some like the apostles
were beaten. But it takes time to get to that point.
Luke 22:32
Now Yahshua was speaking hear to Simon Kepha;
32 But I have prayed for you, that your faith does not fail. And when you are
converted, strengthen your brothers.
Conversion and overcoming sin is one and the same thing. It is when Yahweh’s
laws are written in our hearts and minds. We become converted after years of
testing and trials. Sometimes we may slip and fall back into sin or a particular
weakness, but as
Proverbs 24:16 says:
“ for though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again, “ This is what
the preachers do not understand.
This is the struggle we must go through in order to overcome our propensity to
sin, and I want you to notice that Yahshua is willing to forgive us not just
seven times My friends, but as many times as it is necessary for us to overcome
and be converted:
Matthew 18:21-22
21 Then Kepha came to Him, and asked; Teacher, how often shall my brother sin
against me, and I forgive him? For seven times?
22 Yahshua said to him: I do not say to you, for seven times, but seventy times
seven.
Overcoming sin is like overcoming alcoholism which is a sin. There will be no
drunkards in the Kingdom of Yahweh. It make several attempts before a person
finally kick the habit, but Yahweh and His Son Yahshua is willing to forgive us
as many times as is necessary for us to overcome our sinful habits. Just give it
your best effort, don’t give up and Yahweh will see you through, He will not
forsake us once we are trying our best to overcome sin.
Yes, it may be difficult, but it is not impossible as the churches are teaching.
With Yahweh all things are possible. Yahweh is eager to give us eternal life,
but we must overcome sin and be converted to Yahweh’s Laws so we have Yahweh’s
likeness and be worthy to be called His sons and daughters.
Revelations 21:7-9
7 He who overcomes will inherit all things; and I will be his Father, and he
will be My son.
If we are still a thief, an adulterer, a murderer, a sinner of any kind we
cannot be called His sons or His daughters.
8 But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and
whoremongers, and sorcerers, and worshipers of gods, and all liars, will have
their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone which is the second
death.
Also read
I Corinthians 6:9-10
9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of Yahweh?
Do not deceive yourselves. Neither fornicators nor god worshipers, nor
adulterers, nor men who commit sexual perversions with boys, nor men who commit
sexual perversions with other men.
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards nor revilers, nor extortioners, will
inherit the Kingdom of Yahweh.
11 And such were some of you. But now you are washed (the process of
conversion), now you are sanctified, now you are justified in the Name of
Yahshua Messiah, and by the Spirit of our Father.
It’s like saying you are now certified to be a doctor, or a lawyer. You have
been tried and tested and you have passed the test so says Yahshua Messiah.
My friends don’t allow the preachers to deceive you with a no laws salvation;
teaching that the laws of Yahweh have been nailed to a cross and that you don’t
have to keep them yet still inherit eternal life. That is the same message of
death that Satan taught in the beginning and is still teaching today. We do not
teach what is popular or politically correct on the Message of the kingdom. We
teach the words of Yahweh because these are the only words that can lead to
eternal life. This is true love. No one who truly cares for you would tell you
that it is ok to do something that will in fact hurt you.
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It is time to repent of sinning because the Kingdom of Yahweh is at hand at the
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