Shalum family. Have you ever heard the saying, "I would give my right arm if I could save..."? That is exactly what YaHU'aH did. He gave His Right Arm to save the lost sheep in His house, gathering the repentant of Ya'aqob and those of the nations into His barn. And what Sha'ul (Paul) wrote more than once makes this clear.
In Philippians 2:6–8, the apostle declared, “Let this mind be in you which was also in Mashiach Yahusha, Who, being in the form of AL’uah, did not consider it robbery to be equal with AL’uah, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a servant, and coming in the likeness of men.
And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the stake.”
Sha’ul says that YaHU’aH actually came in the form of Yahusha, who never strayed from being equal to YaHU’aH, because He was YaHU’aH in the flesh. If Yahusha was simply the Son according to human thought, contrary to divine understanding, then He would have never deemed Himself equal to AL’uah—the Mighty One. Hence, “I and My Father are one” (Yahuchanan/John 10:30). By human reasoning and understanding, a son is never equal to his father in any way, shape, or form. By human knowledge and indisputable facts, a son is born of the father and after the father; he can never be the father. He is always behind the father in creation.
Yet, this is not so with Yahusha. He is the literal Father, who came in the form of His Son, created from the beginning. He is the Light spoken into the dark (Yahuchanan/John 1:1-5; Genesis 1:3), who proceeds directly from the Father. He is the Right Arm (YashaYAHU/Isaiah 53:1) and Branch (Zakaryahu/Zechariah 6:12) that can never be detached from the Father, unlike a son who naturally separates from his father.
This is why Yahusha said, “I can do nothing but the will of YaHU’aH” (Yahuchanan/John 5:30). Like our arm is attached to our body, unable to operate unless we command it to, so was Yahusha, the Right Arm attached to YaHU’aH.
However, to leave mankind with no excuse to reject His Right Arm of deliverance, He made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a servant, and coming in the likeness of men.
He, the Father of all men, literally showed men how to submit to Him, not just by His Word, but by the Way they ought to live—appearing as a man. He proved the very essence of leadership. Showing humanity what needs to be done, becoming a servant Himself to all.
YaHU’aH, being found in appearance as a man—Yahusha—truly embodied the commandments.
The following, line-by-line scriptural proof, shows how Yahusha lived out and demonstrated the Ten Commandments perfectly in His life:
- “You will have no other mighty ones before Me.” Yahusha always exalted YaHU’aH alone — “I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me” (Yahuchanan/John 5:30). He worshipped no other.
- “You will not make for yourself a carved image.” He taught true worship “in Ruach and Truth” (Yahuchanan/John 4:24), never bowing to idols, nor promoting false images.
- “You will not take the Name of YaHU’aH in vain.” He honored the Name, declaring it (Yahuchanan/John 12:28), and never misused it.
- “Remember the Shabbat day, to keep it consecrated.” He kept Shabbat (Luke 4:16), doing good works, showing that it is lawful to heal and save life on Shabbat.
- “Honor your father and your mother.” He honored His parents in YaHU’aH, doing the will of YaHU’aH over the fleshly will of His earthly parents (Luke 2:51), and cared for His mother even from the stake (Yahuchanan/John 19:26–27).
- “You will not murder.” He taught against hatred (MatithYAHU/Matthew 5:21–22) and gave life instead of taking it.
- “You will not commit adultery.” He lived purely, teaching that even lustful thoughts for a married woman are adultery (MatithYAHU/Matthew 5:28), and warning against mixing with those bound to false mighty ones.
- “You will not steal.” He took nothing that wasn’t His, instead giving freely—feeding thousands, healing, serving, and teaching, “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to YaHU’aH the things that are YaHU’aH’s” (MatithYAHU/Matthew 22:21).
- “You will not bear false witness.” He is “the Way, the Truth, and the Life” (Yahuchanan/John 14:6)—never deceiving, always testifying truthfully of YaHU’aH.
- “You will not covet.” He lived content, owning little, saying, “The Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head” (MatithYAHU/Matthew 8:20).
Nonetheless, it was not easy...
Temptation in the wilderness: MatithYAHU (Matthew) 4:3–4, “Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, ‘If You are the Son of AL’uah, command that these stones become bread.’ But He answered and said, ‘It is written, Man will not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of YaHU’aH.’”
The Redeemer went 40 days without food, and the Word does not record that He was not simply moving beyond the natural abilities of man or that He lacked the desire for food. It states that He was hungry, just as a human would be. And he had to choose to lean on the Breath of YaHU’aH and not the temptation of the flesh—hunger.
Betrayal and Arrest: MatithYAHU (Matthew) 26:53–54, “Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels? How then could the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must happen thus?”
In that moment of betrayal, when most men would have fought to defend themselves or called for deliverance, Yahusha surrendered to YaHU’aH’s plan. He endured what others would never accept, so that the covenant could be fulfilled.
The struggle in Gethsemane: MatithYAHU (Matthew) 26:39, “He went a little farther and fell on His face, and petitioned, saying, ‘O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.’”
He faced the deepest human struggle—the fear of suffering, inevitably leading to death—yet chose submission to YaHU’aH’s will. Most people run from death, hoping to never face it. He didn’t respond like man would, though in the form of man, because He “chose” not the will of the flesh.
Being Yahusha, YaHU’aH in the flesh, He struggled like a man to show mankind what has always been expected of him since the time of the Garden of Eden: what obedient belief actually looks like and how to truly make it happen. He moved according to the Breath of Truth, submitting as a man of the AL’mighty should.
So when the Book of Natsarim 6:4 declares, “Though Yahusha wielded Ruach ha’Qodash (the Consecrated Breath of YaHU’aH), and in Him it was stored up as in a water tank, He still had to overcome the weaknesses of men. For without so doing, His greatness could not be made manifest. Those who say He was something other than man detract from His greatness, for then the things He had to do would have been easier to accomplish. Perhaps they cannot comprehend the heights to which men can rise when inspired by YaHU’aH, the Father of all men”, it literally summed up the life of YaHU’aH as Yahusha in the flesh on earth.
Though Yahusha was full of the Father’s Breath, He still had to be challenged like all men—in the battle of the Ruach against the flesh. This is why He would have preferred not to endure the execution stake.
And had He given in to the will of the flesh, the greatness of YaHU’aH in Yahusha would never have been fully revealed to humanity. Therefore, when people say that Yahusha was not simply a man (in regards to the weakness of the flesh), they take away from the very essence of why He came—to show mankind that greatness is found in yielding to and walking in the Breath of YaHU’aH, not in the desires of the flesh. And had Yahusha not come in the likeness of man, it would have been no fleshly challenge at all for Him to face the trials He endured and overcame—common to all mankind. Thus, He would not have been a true example for us to follow. This is why Sha’ul was able to command the people when he said, “Let this mind be in you just as it was in Yahusha.” If the Right Arm had been extended to mankind as merely the divine, and not as a man submitting to the divine, Sha’ul’s words would have fallen on deaf ears, even for those who could hear—simply because we would never be able to relate or think as Yahusha did, having no relatable example to mirror in order to overcome this world.
And because of a flesh-led understanding of “I and My Father are one,” as the Natsarim writings make clear, such people cannot comprehend the heights to which men can rise when inspired by YaHU’aH.
This is why the masses totally misunderstand when Sha’ul said that He (Yahusha) is the image of the invisible AL’uah, the firstborn of all creation (Colossians 1:15). He was not talking about the firstborn of mankind—the first being that YaHU’aH created before filling the earth and Shamayim with beings. The Word tells us that in the beginning the AL’mighty said, “Let there be Light”—and this Light was Yahusha, His Right Hand of Redemption. Again, this Light is the Father who proceeded from the Father to save the repentant.
This is why the Apostle goes on to say, “For by Him all things were created that are in shamayim and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.”
He is not referring to the Son in a human sense, but to the divine depiction, which requires the Breath of Truth to grasp this understanding.
Sha’ul continues, stating without changing the direction of his words, “And He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.” Colossians 1:15-18
Sha’ul makes it very clear. The One who came to save mankind, to be the firstborn from the dead, was YaHU’aH’s Right Arm, the Messiah, who is Yahusha. Not the Right Arm by way of man’s comprehension—as one standing at the side of a ruler as a servant, or an assistant to a leader—both of which can never be the one with who they serve. But rather He, YaHU’aH, Himself. Hence, 1 Kings 8:60 – “That all the peoples of the earth may know that YaHU’aH is AL, and that there is none else.” And this was all accomplished in the appearance of man, not in His invisible and divine form. Otherwise, no one could have seen Him, and no one could relate.
And He did not make it easy for Himself. He suffered as all men would who deny the flesh and walk in the Ruach—unseen by mankind, just as YaHU’aH is in His true form—a greatness that can fill mankind and bring them to unparalleled heights when He is dwelling inside of those who yield to Him.
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