Is Your God Echad?

John 5:19-20

¹⁹ Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner. ²⁰ For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself is doing; and the Father will show Him greater works than these, so that you will marvel. 

The Messiah clearly says that He “can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing…”  This would mean that He and the Father are Echad (One). 

John 14:20-21

²⁰ In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. ²¹ He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him.” 

He also says that “he who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me…”  So if the Messiah and the Father are Echad, then the one who keeps the Father’s commandments is keeping the Messiah’s commandments and is the one who truly loves the Messiah. 

1 Corinthians 7:18-20

¹⁸ Was any man called when he was already circumcised? He is not to become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? He is not to be circumcised. ¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but what matters is the keeping of the commandments of God. ²⁰ Each man must remain in that condition in which he was called. 

Even the man that most use to excuse themselves from the Torah, Paul, affirms that we should keep the Torah.  The Messiah and Paul both kept the Feast and Festivals as well as the Torah.  It does not do violence to being saved by grace through faith if you are keeping the Torah as a result of salvation and not for it.  It is no different than keeping the city ordinances of the city you live in.  You are a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven, right?  Then why keep the Feasts and Festivals of the worldly kingdom?  If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it might be a duck. 

Titus 1:13-15

¹³ This testimony is true. For this reason reprove them severely so that they may be sound in the faith, ¹⁴ not paying attention to Jewish myths and commandments of men who turn away from the truth. ¹⁵ To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. 

The commandments we are not supposed to keep are the ones of men.  Jewish myths were the oral tradition built around the Torah, not the actual Torah. 

1 John 2:4

⁴ The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

1 John 5:2

² By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and observe His commandments. 

Anybody else seeing a pattern here?  If you keep His commandments, you love the Messiah, you are focused on what matters, and you are not a liar.  Not only that, but this shows that we love the children of God.  Notice that I have used only the New Testament to show that we should keep Torah from a salvation perspective.  When you turn to the Hebrew Scriptures, you see the actual commandments you are supposed to keep from the mouth of God through Moses.  Not some made up precepts of men told to us in church because when you live only in the New Testament, you have to guess what the commandments that Messiah is talking about are.  

Matthew 5:18-20

¹⁸ For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished. ¹⁹ Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

²⁰ “For I say to you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. 

If you choose not to keep Torah, you just end up least in the Kingdom.  Heaven and earth are still here.  The reason you will be called least in the Kingdom is because you will have the least amount of knowledge of what the Kingdom is like and what will be going on when we get there.  If you have never celebrated Sukkot, then you would naturally be confused when we celebrate it in the Kingdom with the Messiah.  It is the Feast of Ingathering or the dwelling of God among His people. 

Matthew 26:18

¹⁸ And He said, “Go into the city to a certain man, and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is near; I am to keep the Passover at your house with My disciples.”’” 

The Messiah kept Passover as well as the other Feasts.  Why would He say He is One with the Father and then go against the Father’s eternal, perpetual commandments? 

Romans 15:4

⁴ For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. 

Paul instructs us that what was written in the Torah was for our instruction (remember Paul was writing the New Testament at the time).  Interestingly, the word Torah means “instruction” in Hebrew. 

Revelation 14:12

¹² Here is the perseverance of the saints who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus. 

Perseverance is for the saints who “keep the commandments of God”.  Notice that it was not written “keep the commandments of Yeshua”.  Because God is Echad and there is no division between Father and Son.  What was given for our instruction on Sinai is the same instruction taught by Moses, the Messiah, and Paul.  Scripture even says is will be taught in Zion by the Messiah directly. 

Micah 4:2
² Many nations will come and say,
“Come and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD
And to the house of the God of Jacob,
That He may teach us about His ways
And that we may walk in His paths.”
For from Zion will go forth the law,
Even the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Husbands, Wives, Yeshua, and Love

Genesis 2:24; Proverbs 18:22; Psalm 128:3; Proverbs 5:18; Proverbs 12:4; Proverbs 19:14; Proverbs 31:10; 1 Corinthians 7:3-4 

²⁴ For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh…²² He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD… ³ Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine within your house, your children like olive plants around your table… ¹⁸ Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth… ⁴ An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who shames him is like rottenness in his bones… ¹⁴ House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD… ¹⁰ An excellent wife, who can find?  For her worth is far above jewels… ³ The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband. ⁴ The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does… ²² Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. ²³ For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. ²⁴ But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.  ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, ²⁶ so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, ²⁷ that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. ²⁸ So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; ²⁹ for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, ³⁰ because we are members of His body. ³¹ FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND SHALL BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH. ³² This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. ³³ Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.

Why do we continue to try and sacrifice pigs in our bodies; the Temple of Elohim?

When tackling something like keeping Kosher and more particularly not eating pork, one will necessarily not win any popular votes in America.  Bacon is king here and we have found a way to include it and pork in just about everything we eat.  Why?  Because pork is cheap and readily available.  When you attempt to explain that pork is not good for you or in any way assert that God does not want you to eat it, you are in for immediate difficulties.  However, the message needs to be said and heard by those who have ears to hear so here I sit writing another unpopular blog again.

I want to look at three things in particular:

1.       Does God approve of His people eating pork?

2.       Is our body a Temple as believers in Yeshua?

3.       Does pork have any place in the Temple of God?

 

Leviticus 11:1-8

Laws about Animals for Food

¹ The LORD spoke again to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them, ² “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘These are the creatures which you may eat from all the animals that are on the earth. ³ Whatever divides a hoof, thus making split hoofs, and chews the cud, among the animals, that you may eat. ⁴ Nevertheless, you are not to eat of these, among those which chew the cud, or among those which divide the hoof: the camel, for though it chews cud, it does not divide the hoof, it is unclean to you. ⁵ Likewise, the shaphan, for though it chews cud, it does not divide the hoof, it is unclean to you; ⁶ the rabbit also, for though it chews cud, it does not divide the hoof, it is unclean to you; ⁷ and the pig, for though it divides the hoof, thus making a split hoof, it does not chew cud, it is unclean to you. ⁸ You shall not eat of their flesh nor touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

Deuteronomy 14:7-8

⁷ Nevertheless, you are not to eat of these among those which chew the cud, or among those that divide the hoof in two: the camel and the rabbit and the shaphan, for though they chew the cud, they do not divide the hoof; they are unclean for you. ⁸ The pig, because it divides the hoof but does not chew the cud, it is unclean for you. You shall not eat any of their flesh nor touch their carcasses. 

We see in Leviticus and again in Deuteronomy that God commands us not to eat pigs or to even touch the dead carcass of one.  Who is this command given to?  It was given to the “…sons of Israel” which is anyone who believes in Messiah because you are part of the commonwealth of Israel when you become a believer.  We must come to grips with the fact that what God liked and desired in the Hebrew Scriptures is what He still likes and desires in the Renewed Testament.  His plan has not changed.  Yeshua confirms that in the gospels. 

Malachi 3:5-7

⁵ “Then I will draw near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against those who swear falsely, and against those who oppress the wage earner in his wages, the widow and the orphan, and those who turn aside the alien and do not fear Me,” says the LORD of hosts. ⁶ “For I, the LORD, do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

⁷ “From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of hosts. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’ 

If Elohim changes, then maybe He changes His mind when it comes to our salvation and decides to just wipe us all out for our sin.  A great many churchmen cling to the fact of God’s unchanging character except for when it comes to what He has decreed us to do and do not do.  Then it is open season to doubt God’s eternal desires of what we eat and do not eat.  It is hypocritical at the least and blasphemous to say that Elohim does not care about such things now.  Yeshua is in agreement with the Father.  God is echad, One. 

Okay.  God is not for eating pigs.  Now how about the question of our body being a Temple? 

1 Corinthians 3:16-17

¹⁶ Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? ¹⁷ If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are. 

Paul is surprised that the Corinthians did not understand the concept of keeping the Temple holy which was their bodies now that the Spirit of God dwelled in them. 

1 Corinthians 6:18-20

¹⁸ Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body. ¹⁹ Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? ²⁰ For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body. 

Interestingly here how Paul talks about sins outside the body.  When we eat, we take something within us.  Yeshua proclaimed in the book of John that those who eat His body and drink His blood abide in Him (Jn. 6:56).  The idea of what we take in to the Temple is seen in His proclamation.  It is not necessarily the pork itself, but the disobedience that we take in when we eat of it.  We choose, again, the forbidden fruit, of the garden instead of all the other trees Adam and Eve were allowed to eat of.  We miss the blessing and receive the curse.  How many times have we read how bad pork is for your heart? 

So does YHVH allow pork in the Temple?  Would He want the unclean in His temple?  That is the real issue here: unclean versus clean things in our lives. 

I want to take you to a story about Antiochus IV Epiphanies.  He was a hated ruler of Antioch by the Jews who eventually desecrated the altar by sacrificing a pig on it along with decreeing that they could not keep Sabbath anymore or obey the Torah: 

1 Maccabees 1:41-63

^41-43Antiochus now issued a decree that all nations in his empire should abandon their own customs and become one people. All the Gentiles and even many of the Israelites submitted to this decree. They adopted the official pagan religion, offered sacrifices to idols, and no longer observed the Sabbath.

⁴⁴ The king also sent messengers with a decree to Jerusalem and all the towns of Judea, ordering the people to follow customs that were foreign to the country.⁴⁵ He ordered them not to offer burnt offerings, grain offerings, or wine offerings in the Temple, and commanded them to treat Sabbaths and festivals as ordinary work days.⁴⁶ They were even ordered to defile the Temple and the holy things in it.⁴⁷ They were commanded to build pagan altars, temples, and shrines, and to sacrifice pigs and other unclean animals there.⁴⁸ They were forbidden to circumcise their sons and were required to make themselves ritually unclean in every way they could,⁴⁹ so that they would forget the Law which the Lord had given through Moses and would disobey all its commands.⁵⁰ The penalty for disobeying the king's decree was death.

⁵¹ The king not only issued the same decree throughout his whole empire, but he also appointed officials to supervise the people and commanded each town in Judea to offer pagan sacrifices.⁵² Many of the Jews were ready to forsake the Law and to obey these officials. They defiled the land with their evil,⁵³ and their conduct forced all true Israelites to hide wherever they could.

⁵⁴ On the fifteenth day of the month of Kislev in the year 145, King Antiochus set up
The Awful Horror on the altar of the Temple, and pagan altars were built in the towns throughout Judea.⁵⁵ Pagan sacrifices were offered in front of houses and in the streets.⁵⁶ Any books of the Law which were found were torn up and burned,⁵⁷ and anyone who was caught with a copy of the sacred books or who obeyed the Law was put to death by order of the king.⁵⁸ Month after month these wicked people used their power against the Israelites caught in the towns.

⁵⁹ On the twenty-fifth of the month, these same evil people offered sacrifices on the pagan altar erected on top of the altar in the Temple.⁶⁰ Mothers who had allowed their babies to be circumcised were put to death in accordance with the king's decree.⁶¹ Their babies were hung around their necks, and their families and those who had circumcised them were put to death.⁶² But many people in Israel firmly resisted the king's decree and refused to eat food that was ritually unclean.⁶³ They preferred to die rather than break the holy covenant and eat unclean food—and many did die. 

The prophet Daniel predicted this would happen: 

Daniel 11:31

³¹ Forces from him will arise, desecrate the sanctuary fortress, and do away with the regular sacrifice. And they will set up the abomination of desolation. 

Changing the way that God wants things done is nothing new.  Rulers such as Antiochus IV have been trying to unify the people by having them all under one pagan rule for centuries.  Worship on Sunday and the distaste of things “Jewish” can be attributed to Constantine.  Why?  If you can unify the people, then it is easier to rule over them.  Not to mention, you can celebrate publicly what you like as a ruler.  You can spend the people’s money on your rituals and customs because they like the same things and won’t complain to make the example more modern. 

The bottom line is that we are the Temple of God, pork has always and will always be unclean, and pork has no place in the Temple of God.  Pork desecrates the altar in the Temple and the altar is what makes the sacrifice holy to the Lord.   This would apply to all things unclean that we may take in.  Please don’t be ignorant and parrot what others have told you no matter how many seminary degrees they have.  There are a great many ignorant men in seminary.  I know having been there.   Find out for yourself.

Aliens and Sojourners have always been a part of the Congregation

Genesis 35:22C-26

...Now there were twelve sons of Jacob— ²³ the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, then Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun; ²⁴ the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin; ²⁵ and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s maid: Dan and Naphtali; ²⁶ and the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s maid: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

A common mistake of Christians is to believe that the Torah was given to the Jews alone.  This is simply not true.  What is never taught in the church is that the Jews did not even exist until Judah, the fourth son Jacob.  Abraham was not a Jew and neither was Isaac or Jacob; they were Hebrews.  Also Jacob's name was later changed to Israel, not Judah.  So if Israel was formed from the loins of Jacob (not a Jew) then why does the church act like only Jews are Israel?  The Apostle Paul also disagrees with this view in Romans 11 claiming that the Olive Tree of Israel consists of natural branches and wild branches grafted in.

Jacob had twelve sons and Judah was only one of the twelve tribes:

Reuben
Simeon
Levi
Judah
Issachar
Zebulun
Joseph
Benjamin
Dan
Naphtali
Gad
Asher

The term "Jews" was derived from Yehudim which came from the name of the region Judah.  The Yehudim and the Levi Priests are considered the Southern Kingdom while the the Northern Kingdom (also known as the "House of Israel" or "House of Ephraim") that was scattered to the nations consisted of ten of the twelve tribes.  The Assyrians captured the House of Ephraim and they have yet to be gathered from the ends of the earth and return to the land by YHVH.  The Southern Kingdom are those who occupy the land during this day.


So the apostle Paul says in Galatians that those who have faith are children of Abraham (Gal. 3:7).  Since Abraham was not a Jew, then his children are not necessarily Jews.  In fact, the children of Abraham are both Jews and non-Jews who believe in the Messiah and this is what is Israel.  Believers in Messiah are the children of promise just like Isaac.

So if the Torah was not given to Jews only, then who was it given to?    If you will allow your beliefs to be formed from Scripture, you will see the truth and as Yeshua said, "...the truth will set you free."  The alien or the sojourner has always been among the congregation.  There has always been a mixture of native and non-native peoples in the congregtaion, wild branches and natural branches in the Olive tree of Israel whose root it Yeshua.   The two people that led Israel into the Promised Land were Joshua and Caleb.  Joshua was a native born and Caleb was an alien among them.  They were allowed to go in because they followed the Lord "Fully".

Numbers 32:11-12
¹¹ ‘None of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob; for they did not follow Me fully, ¹² except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have followed the LORD fully.’

The following is an excerpt from one of the Yavoh writings of our congregation (www.lionlamb.net) and I think it does a great job of presenting some of the Scriptures that show who should observe Torah:

When it came to Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when the Messiah would offer Himself as the Lamb of God, God instructed us to keep the Passover this way:

Seven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eats what is leavened, that person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is an alien or a native of the land.

Exodus 12:19

He also said that everyone, even the alien, is to be circumcised (in the heart) to eat the Passover.

And if an alien sojourns among you and observes the Passover to the Lord, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its ordinance, so he shall do; you shall have one statute, both for the alien and for the native of the land.

Numbers 9:14

Gentile believers are commanded to observe Passover. The Law also specifies the observance of Yom Kippur:

And this shall be a permanent statute for you: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall humble your souls, and not do any work, whether the native, or the alien who sojourns among you;

Leviticus 16:29

Here is what the Torah says for the general assembly, anyone who would want to worship the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

And if an alien sojourns with you, or one who may be among you throughout your generations, and he wishes to make an offering by fire, as a soothing aroma to the Lord, just as you do, so he shall do. As for the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the alien who sojourns with you, a perpetual statute throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the alien be before the Lord. There is to be one law and one ordinance for you and for the alien who sojourns with you.

Numbers 15:14-16

Gentile believers are invited to make sacrifice and worship with Israel, but they must follow the Law of Moses to do it. God always intended for Gentiles to be welcome in His temple. Isaiah restates it this way:

Also the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord, to minister to Him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be His servants, every one who keeps from profaning the Sabbath, and holds fast My covenant; even those I will bring to My holy mountain, and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be acceptable on My altar; for My house will be called a house of prayer for all the peoples. The Lord God, who gathers the dispersed of Israel, declares, “Yet others I will gather to them, to those already gathered.”

Isaiah 56:6-8

Yeshua quoted this verse from Isaiah when He threw the money changers out of the temple courtyard. The Torah and the Prophets do not exclude the Gentiles. They never did. It was the Pharisees and the Sadducees who did that. But today it is churchmen who say the Torah is not for everyone.

Just as James wrote in the letter to the Gentiles, the Torah addresses eating detestable things (unkosher) and sexual perversion.

Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, “No person among you may eat blood, nor may any alien who sojourns among you eat blood.”

Leviticus 17:12

But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native, nor the alien who sojourns among you.

Leviticus 18:26

The definition for blasphemy comes from the Torah. It is the same definition for Gentiles.

Moreover, the one who blasphemes the name of the Lord shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him. The alien as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

Leviticus 24:16

But the person who does anything defiantly, whether he is native or an alien, that one is blaspheming the Lord; and that person shall be cut off from among his people.

Numbers 15:30

The definition for clean and unclean is the same for Gentiles according to the Law.

And the one who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening; and it shall be a perpetual statute to the sons of Israel and to the alien who sojourns among them.

Numbers 19:10

When it comes to tort justice, the law of damages and restitution, the Torah is also used for Gentiles.

Then I charged your judges at that time, saying, ‘Hear the cases between your fellow countrymen, and judge righteously between a man and his fellow countryman, or the alien who is with him.”

Deuteronomy 1:16

You shall not pervert the justice due an alien or an orphan, nor take a widow's garment in pledge.

Deuteronomy 24:17

What about the blessings of God? Does the Torah provide for blessings if a Gentile keeps the Torah?

And you and the Levite and the alien who is among you shall rejoice in all the good which the Lord your God has given you and your household.

Deuteronomy 26:11

Does the Torah instruct Israel to teach the Torah to all people?

Assemble the people, the men and the women and children and the alien who is in your town, in order that they may hear and learn and fear the Lord your God, and be careful to observe all the words of this law.

Deuteronomy 31:12

Is Sunday Worship Really Worship at All?

Mark 7:6-8
⁶ And He said to them, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written:

‘THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME WITH THEIR LIPS,
BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR AWAY FROM ME. ⁷ ‘BUT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME,
TEACHING AS DOCTRINES THE PRECEPTS OF MEN.’

⁸ Neglecting the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men.”

I am afraid that too often these words of Yeshua are brushed aside as only applying to the Pharisees of the day.  This would not be a wise thing to do; to miss the overarching message because of times gone by.  How often is that excuse used to introduce something new to the faith.  The idea that what happened back then does not hold relevance to today's culture.  Bottom line:  YHVH is eternal.  What He says transcends time and space and applies throughout all ages.

So my question then becomes, how can we call worshipping on Sunday worship at all?  If it is not found in Scripture or sanctioned by Elohim in the Torah, then how can that not be merely the precepts of men buttressed by some vague hen-pecked Scripture to support a wicked, disobedient trespassing of God's Sabbath example and command to keep the Sabbath?

The keeping of the Sabbath is a command of God and yet millions of so called believers disobey it regularly and instead worship Elohim on a pagan day (Sun-day: the day of the Sun).  I give you God's take on this:

Exodus 34:13-16

¹³ But rather, you are to tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and cut down their Asherim ¹⁴ —for you shall not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God— ¹⁵ otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they would play the harlot with their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone might invite you to eat of his sacrifice, ¹⁶ and you might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might play the harlot with their gods and cause your sons also to play the harlot with their gods.

Some at this point may be tempted to say that this is Old Testament and does not apply to me.  Do not fret because I figured as much and Yeshua speaks to this appropriately:

John 4:23-24
²³ But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. ²⁴ God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

You see God is spirit and those who worship Him "MUST" worship in spirit and truth.  The Greek word for "MUST" is "dei" and it means it is necessary or it is right and proper.  So it is necessary for it to be worship of God that it be in spirit and truth.  So what does "spirit" and "truth" mean?

The Greek word used for "spirit" is "pneuma" and it is the soul of a person.  Worshipping in spirit originates from within the deepest recesses of a person.  Nothing superficial about this requirement.  True worship of Elohim always begins at the root of our being.  Now the Greek word used for "truth" is "aletheia" and it means what is objectively true or what is true in any matter under consideration.  Not subjectively depending on the precepts of men, but depending on the decree of the living God and His objective commands.

So again I ask if Sunday is not the truth of when we are to worship God, then is it really worship?  If we say that Sunday worship originated from within and I was led by the spirit's conviction, then we must question which spirit we have inside us.  How can trying to worship YHVH on a pagan day with a liturgy not found in Scripture, all the while disobeying His Torah be worshipping in Spirit and Truth?  It can't.  To use a modern term:  It's Elohim's way or the highway.  We do not dictate how He is worshipped, He does.  He is Lord over all.

I leave you with Yeshua's warning.  Be careful you are not just sitting under a false prophet doing things in the name of the Messiah only to find out you are actually practicing lawlessness.  You are lacking the Torah and having never kept it, are not recognized by the Messiah as His sheep and told to depart.

Matthew 7:15-23

¹⁵ “Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. ¹⁶ You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? ¹⁷ So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. ¹⁸ A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. ¹⁹ Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. ²⁰ So then, you will know them by their fruits.

²¹ “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. ²² Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ ²³DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.’