1 One time YAHUSHA was out praying, and when He finished, one of His Disciples said to Him, “John taught his followers how to pray. Master, teach us how to pray too.” 2 YAHUSHA said to the followers, “This is how you should pray: ‘Father, we pray that Your Name will always be kept Set-Apart and exalted. We pray that Your Kingdom will come soon. 3 Give us the food we need for each day. 4 Forgive our sins, just as we forgive everyone who has done wrong to us. And don’t let us be tempted or lead us into trials, but rescue us from the wicked one.’”
5-6 Then YAHUSHA said to them, “Suppose one of you went to your friend’s house very late at night and said to him, ‘A friend of mine has come into town to visit me. But I have nothing for him to eat. Please give me three loaves of bread.’ 7 Your friend inside the house answers, ‘Go away! Don’t bother me! The door is already locked. My children and I are in bed. I cannot get up and give you the bread now.’ 8 I tell you, maybe friendship is not enough to make him get up to give you the bread. But he will surely get up to give you what you need if you continue to ask. 9 So I tell you, continue to ask, and Alahim will give to you. Continue to search, and you will find. Continue to knock, and the door will open for you. 10 Yes, whoever continues to ask will receive.
Whoever continues to look will find. And whoever continues to knock will have the door opened for them. 11 Do any of you have a son? What would you do if your son asked you for a fish? Would any father give him a snake? 12 Or, if he asked for an egg, would you give him a scorpion? Of course not! 13 Even you who are wrong know how to give good things to your children. So surely your heavenly Father knows how to give the Set-Apart Spirit to the people who ask Him.”
14 One time YAHUSHA was sending a demon out of a man who could not talk. When the demon came out, the man was able to speak. The crowds were amazed. 15 But some of the people said, “He uses the power of Beelzebul (Satan), the ruler of the demons to force demons out of people”. 16 Some others there wanted to test YAHUSHA. They asked Him to do a miracle as a sign from YAHUAH. 17 But He knew what they were thinking. So He said to them, “Every Kingdom that fights against itself will be destroyed. And a family that fights against itself will break apart. 18 So if Satan is fighting against himself, how will his Kingdom survive? You say that I use the power of Satan to force out demons. 19 But if I use Satan’s power to force out demons, then what power do your people use when they force out demons? So your own people will prove that you are wrong. 20 But I use the power of Alahim to force out demons. This shows that the Kingdom of Heaven has now come to you.
21 When a strong man with many weapons guards his own house, the things in his house are safe. 22 But suppose a stronger man comes and defeats him. The stronger man will take away the weapons that the first man trusted to keep his house safe. Then the stronger man will do what he wants with the other man’s things. 23 Whoever is not with Me is against Me. And anyone who does not work with Me is working against Me. 24 When an evil spirit comes out of someone, it travels through dry places, looking for a place to rest. But it finds no place to rest. So it says, ‘I will go back to the home I left.’ 25 When it comes back, it finds that home all neat and clean. 26 Then the evil spirit goes out and brings back seven other spirits more evil than itself. They all go and live there, and that person has even more trouble than before.”
27 As YAHUSHA was saying these things, a woman with the people there called out to Him, “Blessings from Alahim belong to the woman who gave birth to You and fed You!” 28 But YAHUSHA said, “The people who hear the teaching of Alahim and obey it—they are the ones who have His blessing.”
29 The crowd grew larger and larger. YAHUSHA said, “The people who live today are evil. They ask for a miracle as a sign from Alahim. But no miracle will be done to prove anything to them. The only miracle will be the sign that happened to the Prophet Jonah (WHO WAS HELD IN THE BELLY OF THE FISH FOR 3 DAYS AND 3 NIGHTS) . 30 Jonah was a sign for those who lived in Nineveh, and it is the same with the Son of Man. He will be a sign for the people of this time. 31 On the judgment day, you people who live now will be compared with the Queen of the South (QUEEN OF SHEBA) and she will be a witness who shows how guilty you are. Why do I say this? Because she travelled from far, far away to listen to Solomon’s wise teaching. And I tell you that someone far greater than Solomon is right here, but you won’t listen to Him!
32 On the judgment day, you people who live now will also be compared with the people from Nineveh, and they will be witnesses who show how guilty you are. I say this because when Jonah preached to those people, they repented and changed their hearts and lives. And you are listening to someone far greater than Jonah, but you refuse to repent!
33 “No one takes a light and puts it under a bowl or hides it. Instead, they put it on a lampstand so that the people who come in can see. 34 The only source of light for the body is the eye. When you look at people and want to help them, you are full of light. But when you look at people in a selfish way, you are full of darkness. 35 So be careful! Don’t let the light in you become darkness. 36 If you are full of light, and there is no part of you that is dark, then you will be all bright, as though you have the light of a lamp shining on you.”
37 After YAHUSHA had finished speaking, a Pharisee asked YAHUSHA to eat with Him. So He went and took a place at the table. 38 But the Pharisee was surprised when he saw that YAHUSHA did not wash his hands first before the meal (JEWISH CUSTOM CONSIDERED IMPORTANT TO THE PHARISEES). 39 YAHUSHA said to him, “The washing you Pharisees do is like cleaning only the outside of a cup or a dish. But what is inside you? You want only to cheat and hurt people. 40 You are foolish! The same one who made what is outside also made what is inside. 41 So pay attention to what is inside. Give to the people who need help. Then you will be fully clean. 42 But it will be bad for you Pharisees! You give Alahim a tenth of the food you get, even your mint, your rue, and every other little plant in your garden. But you forget to be fair to others and to love Alahim. These are the things you should do. And you should also continue to do those other things. 43 It will be bad for you Pharisees because you love to have the most important seats in the Synagogues. And you love for people to show respect to you in the marketplaces. 44 It will be bad for you, because you are like hidden graves. People walk on them without knowing it.”
45 One of the experts in the Law said to YAHUSHA, “Teacher, when You say these things about the Pharisees, You are criticising our group too.” 46 YAHUSHA answered, “So be it! It will be bad for you too, you experts in the Law! For you make strict rules that are very hard for people to obey.You try to force others to obey your rules. But you yourselves don’t even try to follow any of those rules. 47 It will be bad for you, because you build tombs for the prophets. But these are the same prophets your ancestors killed! 48 And now you show all people that you agree with what your ancestors did. They killed the prophets, and you build tombs for the prophets! 49 This is why Alahim in His wisdom said, ‘I will send prophets and followers to them. Some of My prophets and followers will be killed by evil men. Others will be treated dreadfully.’
50 So you people who live now will be punished for the deaths of all the prophets who were killed since the beginning of the world. 51 You will be punished for the killing of Abel. And you will be punished for the killing of Zechariah, who was killed between the Altar and the Temple. Yes, I tell you that you people will be punished for them all. 52 It will be bad for you, you experts in the Law! You have taken away the KEY OF ALL KNOWLEDGE (THE ETERNAL NAME OF YAHUAH) for people to learn about Alahim. You yourselves would not enter in to learn and experience, and now you have stopped others from entering in too.”
(THE ETERNAL NAME OF YAHUAH - WHICH HE DUMPED ALONG WITH HIS FIRST BRIDE YISHARAL TO BECOME THE NEW FIRSTFRUIT CREATION YAHUSHA - MEANING ‘I AM DELIVERANCE’ - WITHOUT THE KEY OF HIS NAME AND WHO HE BECAME AND WHAT HE DID - ALL YOU CAN SEE IS INK ON THE PAGES OF SCRIPTURE !!!)
53 When YAHUSHA went out, the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees began to give Him much trouble. They tried to make Him answer questions about many things. 54 They were trying to find a way to catch YAHUSHA saying something wrong so they could accuse Him of dreadful blasphemy.
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