The question, WHY DO WE NEED Y’SHUA, is just another way of asking: Why did Yahweh find it necessary to connect his plan of salvation with someone like Y’shua of Nazareth? I made an effort of looking at people’s answers to this question on the internet platform known as QUORA. Quora is an acronym for “QUestion OR Answer”. Here, any kind of question under the sun is asked, anyone can answer and the platform is visited by more than 30 million people per month. What struck me about this platform is how easily and smoothly people jumped from “Y’shua did something special for us”, to “Yahweh, in human form, did something special for us”. And what is more, ordinary people participating in this conversation were confused by answers in which Y’shua was sometimes presented as the Son of Yahweh, and other times, as Yahweh himself. Confused, because “Yahweh sent” and “Yahweh came” were often swopped around, as though both were the same thing. Many participants in the conversation often completely forgot the question “Why do we need Y’shua” and started asking questions about the relationship between the Father and the Son. Moreover, the answers were often so theoretical and abstract, that they did not actually shed much light on the real reasons why Y’shua is so central to Yahweh’s plan of salvation for this world. Today, we ask the simple question once again: WHY DO WE NEED Y’SHUA? Without becoming entangled in theology, theories and issues like the Trinity, we would like to arrive at 50 answers, to coincide with the 50 days leading up to Shavuot!
8. Matthew 9:13 But go and learn what this means, I desire compassion and not offering. For I did not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners.
SO WE MAY FOCUS LESS ON THE APPEARANCE OF BELIEF, AND MORE ON THE HEART
9. Luke 4:18 Yahweh has anointed Me to bring the Good News to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind.
SO THAT THE ONES WHO ARE POOR, CAPTIVE, HURT AND BLIND MAY RECEIVE GOOD NEWS
10. John 10:10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to slaughter, and to destroy. I have come that they might possess life, and that they might possess it beyond measure.
SO THAT HUMAN BEINGS MAY BE INTRODUCED TO YAHWEH’S LIFE IN ABUNDANCE
11. John 12:47 And if anyone hears My Words but does not watch over them, I do not judge him. For I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.
SO THAT OUR PROSPECT FOR THE END-TIME MAY CHANGE FROM JUDGEMENT TO SALVATION
12. Romans 7:4 By belief we are connected to the One who was raised from the dead, so that we should bear fruit to Elohim.
SO WE MAY BECOME KNOWN AS THOSE BEARING FRUIT TO THE HONOUR OF YAHWEH
13. Ephesians 1:10 (Y’shua had to come to prepare the way for Yahweh to) administer the completion of time, when all will be gathered together as one in Messiah.
SO THAT YAHWEH’S PLAN REGARDING THE HEADSHIP OF Y’SHUA, MAY BE FULFILLED
14. Colossians 2:2 There is encouragement, confirmation and increased understanding in the true knowledge of the secret of Elohim (regarding Messiah).
SO WE MAY TASTE THE COMFORT, STABILITY AND WISDOM THAT YAHWEH INTENDED FOR US.
Y’shua once told a group of Jews that even though they rely so heavily on the Torah and the Prophets, they did not actually have the word of Yahweh as something abiding in them. Why not? Because they did not believe the One that Yahweh had sent. Not only did they doubt this One’s words and His actions and motives, they also did not believe that it was He of whom the Torah and the Prophets prophesied. The Jews hated Y’shua for saying this – no wonder they tried to stone Him more than once. One way to ensure that we ground ourselves in the word of Yahweh is to fully open our hearts to the fact that Y’shua is not only the promised Messiah, but also the revelation of a great mystery – the mystery that Yahweh freely chose to make the transition from this age to the next, revolve around his exalted Son!
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