We have heard it said – A Sinaite's Apologetics – 5

We have heard it said of us:  “Sayang!“

and that was later followed up by–

• “I actually feel great relief that I am no longer responsible for the spiritual life of any of you. 
• “You have ‘made your beds,’ now enjoy sleeping in them.” 
• “Your blood is on your own heads.”
• “Your beloved ex-teacher, bond-slave of YHVH: Father, Son Yeshua, and Spirit”

 

 

[This article will dwell only with the first; please follow A Sinaite’s Apologetics 6, 7 and 8 in relation to this.]

 

Sayang is the [Filipino language] Tagalog word for “too bad,” “what a waste,” “what a pity.” 

 

What is  sayang or specifically, who is sayang?

 

 

Coming from our former Christocentric Trinitarian Messianic teacher, obviously he meant— we and our ilk are sayang.  

 

What is so sayang about us? The very fact that we had already tasted “salvation” in Jesus Christ but have turned our backs on—-

• our whole Christian commitment,
• a lifetime involvement in that belief system,
• active ministry,
• some degree of influence over small groups,
• special privileges assured a believer such as—
  • the indwelling of the Holy Spirit,
  • direct access to the Father,
  • eternal security in Christian heaven,
  • rewards of crowns according to our earthly good deeds.

 

 

To use a metaphor—once we were hopelessly drowning and unable to save ourselves; then we’ve been thrown a lifesaver; we clung to it for a long time, after which we decided to let go . . . and are now doomed to sink because we never learned to swim on our own or if we did, we swam away from the lifesaver.  Why? Because we realized it was the wrong boat, it would not get us to our chosen destination.

That sameTagalog word “Sayang”  could indeed apply to us but in a different sense:  

 

• Sayang that it took some of us almost a lifetime to get to where we are today; thankfully others among us are younger, have listened, learned, and decided to join the spiritual trek back to the Revelation on Sinai, and continue the rest of the journey in case the trailblazers among us are granted rest while pursuing the True God;
• Sayang that we spent a good 3 or more decades pouring  over “scriptures” that taught a theology that is the opposite of YHWH’s original revelation;
• Sayang that we did have our own circles of influence, leading many truth-seeking hungry souls to the wrong god, most of whom won’t listen to us now; 
• Sayang that we built up a huge library full of books propagating a false religion; we’re just now building up a new library;
• Sayang that with all the resources God made available to us, we supported ministries that continue to mislead, [albeit innocently or ignorantly], people from reaching HIM, YHWH, the One True God. 

 

 We do recognize that none of the above are really sayang because that route we inadvertently took is most likely the same route that every Truth-seeker today would typically and logically end up taking, particularly if they are persistent and zealous just as we have been and continue to be; then they virtually will be just a few biblical miles behind us and we all eventually will arrive at the same destination—the Sinai Revelation.

 

 
 However, they have to make a conscious choice to check out if there’s an alternative to what they have already chosen to believe; then open their eyes, minds, hearts and will to truths other than what they’ve known and accepted as truth all their lives, and humbly consider the possibility that they have been on the wrong path all along.

 

 
You see, God cannot pour any of His Truth to minds that are already closed, wills that have decided they know everything there is to know; hearts that are totally devoted to what they have determined as their object of worship; God cannot fit into a religious box that has been packaged by men as “The Final Theology — End of Story” . . . . specially if it purports to be an extension of His original revelation but makes major and very complicated changes from His simple message:  “Know Me, Obey My Torah.” 

 

 
Ultimately we have to accept that our wonderful Life-Planner YHWH intended our journey to be exactly the route it took, through man-made religions [Catholicism, Protestant-Evangelical-Messianic Christianity] so we could fully understand them enough to teach where they depart from the original faith in the True God as laid out in the Hebrew Scriptures.  We have mastered the mindset of Christians-Messianics, can understand and relate to their blindness because we’ve been-there-done-that!  In God’s perfect plan for us, we are now in the right place for which we had been prepared for almost a lifetime.  In the end, there is nothing sayang about our past involvement; in fact it all comes very handy in what we’re doing for our Lord God YHWH today.  

 

 

 

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