As a multigenerational Seventh-day Adventist (non-corporate entity) I want to begin by saying that the primary purpose of and reason for the existence of Total Restitution is to restore the primitive godliness such as has not been witnessed since apostolic times. We believe that the truth is progressive and dynamic rather than static and antiquated. We are not here to hinder the cause of progressive truth. Nor are we here to make people feel helpless and without hope. We are here to encourage and point out the way to a better life in the here and now as well as into the future. We want what is best for all of Yahuwah's sincere children that are struggling against the tide of evil in this dark world. There is hope if we are willing to be faithful and take hold of the Messiah's garment and His promises and act out our faith that harmonizes with the inspired word of Yahuwah. He will heal us of our spiritual infirmities if we will fast, pray and ask for wisdom from above. We can overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony if we, by faith in Yahushua's righteousness, obey His Torah and abide in the Messiah's love.
"And ye shall seek me, and find [me], when ye shall search for me with all your heart." Jeremiah 29:13
"Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform [it] until the day of Jesus Christ:" Philippians 1:6
No need of being afraid of watching this interview.
What we need to be afraid of is our own ignorance which the interview will dispel if watched. This is what Oprah did a good job of doing. She managed to get invited into the home of a Hasidic family and was educated as to many of their familial customs and traditions and she video taped it to share with the entire world. The documentary is a blessing and I advise all to take advantage of it. What it took me years to experience first hand you all can experience in an hour or so and in the privacy of your own home on your computer screen
.I have personally attended Hasidic synagogues on and off since 2002. I enjoy much about the services and learn allot every time I attend. We know that the Hasidics do not generally believe in the Messiahship of Yahushua but they still believe in the Old Testament (the same book Jesus and the Apostles studied their entire lives) and they do have some great people in their midst. We need to learn how to reach them and one of the ways to do this is by knowing more about them.
Don't be afraid of a free education in the cultural difference of the Hasidic Jews. It will not hurt anyone to be educated in what is presented in this interview but will actually help break down walls of prejudice, ignorance and fear.
That being said, I want the reader to understand that in sharing the videos below I am not trying to cause anyone to abandon the Seventh-day Adventist faith in favor of Hasidism but rather am simply trying to help us understand more about the people group that the apostle Paul tells us that we were "grafted in among". We should ponder a few questions like....
If in fact we have been grafted in among the Jews then why is it that we act and behave so much differently than the Jews?
Should there be more similarities between the Seventh-day Adventists and the Hasidic Jews?
If a Hasidic Jewish person converted to Adventism, should we expect them to give up all that is healthy and wholesome about their traditional life and values and become card carrying, Christmas and Easter celebrating Seventh-day Adventists?
(Christmas and Easter are holidays that are founded upon fertility rights and animism)
After all, even our own prophet Ellen G. White told us concerning the feasts of the Jews... "If the children of Israel needed the benefit of these holy convocations in their time, how much more do we need them in these last days of peril and conflict! And if the people of the world then needed the light which God had committed to His church, how much more do they need it now!".. {6T 40.2}
So are we justified in expecting and encouraging a Jewish convert to the Seventh-day Adventist faith to stop keeping the annual Biblical feast days when we consider the fact that Ellen White actually said that we should keep them ourselves?
Below is a contextual quote for your consideration.
"In the days of Christ these feasts were attended by vast multitudes of people from all lands; and had they been kept as God intended, in the spirit of true worship, the light of truth might through them have been given to all the nations of the world. {6T 39.4}
With those who lived at a distance from the tabernacle, more than a month of every year must have been occupied in attendance upon these holy convocations. The Lord saw that these gatherings were necessary for the spiritual life of His people. They needed to turn away from their worldly cares, to commune with God, and to contemplate unseen realities. {6T 40.1}
If the children of Israel needed the benefit of these holy convocations in their time, how much more do we need them in these last days of peril and conflict! And if the people of the world then needed the light which God had committed to His church, how much more do they need it now!" {6T 40.2}
"For if the casting away of them [be] the reconciling of the world, what [shall] the receiving [of them be], but life from the dead? For if the firstfruit [be] holy, the lump [is] also [holy]: and if the root [be] holy, so [are] the branches. And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee." Romans 11:15-18
As we work for the up building of and evangelization of the world, including the Hasidic Jewish people, do we ponder the fact that the Apostle Paul was unambiguous when he said that the Jew was at an "advantage" "every way"?
"What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit [is there] of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God." Romans 3:1,2
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It is my hope and prayer that by watching the following interview people can begin to understand why Paul would say that the Jews are advantaged in every way. Please take some time and watch the interview. I believe that there are many lessons to be learned from our Hasidic Jewish friends.
The Role of Women in Hasidic Judaism
In keeping with Hasidic tradition, men and women are rarely seen together outside the home, and they never touch in public. Men are also separated from women in the synagogue, on buses and during wedding celebrations. Outsiders may think women have a subservient role, but Shterna, Toby, Chaya and Brocha, four Hasidic wives and mothers, tell Oprah that women are the foundation of the home and equal partners.
Truth Be Known.
From Genisis to Revelation, Scripture teaches that women are to submit to their husbands. However, the submission required by Scripture and by God is not the type of submission that would cause women to violate their God given conscious in areas of morality. Just as Messiah would never ask the church to violate moral code so should never a husband expect his wife to violate her conscious.
Ephesians
5:22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 5:24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so [let] the wives [be] to their own husbands in every thing. 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. 5:28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. 5:29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: 5:30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. 5:31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 5:32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 5:33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife [see] that she reverence [her] husband.
Numbers
Below are statutes that give the husband authority over his wife and daughter's vows.
30:3 If a woman also vow a vow unto YHWH, and bind herself by a bond, [being] in her father's house in her youth;
30:4 And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.
30:5 But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and YHWH shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.
30:6 And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;
30:7 And her husband heard [it,] and held his peace at her in the day that he heard [it]: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
30:8 But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard [it]; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and YHWH shall forgive her.
30:9 But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.
30:10 And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;
30:11 And her husband heard [it], and held his peace at her, [and] disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
30:12 But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard [them; then] whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and YHWH shall forgive her.
30:13 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
30:14 But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which [are] upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard [them].
30:15 But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard [them]; then he shall bear her iniquity.
30:16 These [are] the statutes, which YHWH commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, [being yet] in her youth in her father's house. |
Hasidic Marital Customs and Matchmakers
Shterna and Aron Ginsberg, a Hasidic couple raising nine children in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn, New York, invite Oprah into their home to discuss everything from marriage and matchmakers to the value of women within their community. Find out why they can only touch each other two weeks out of every month—and why, they say, they don't marry for love.
Hasidic Jews are more disciplined about obeying the statutes concerning the woman's menstrual cycle as listed in Leviticus than any other religious group or people group on earth and they are blessed for adhering to these laws. We must remember that....
"In consequence of continual transgression, the moral law was repeated in awful grandeur from Sinai. Christ gave to Moses religious precepts which were to govern the everyday life. These statutes were explicitly given to guard the ten commandments. They were not shadowy types to pass away with the death of Christ. They were to be binding upon man in every age as long as time should last. These commands were enforced by the power of the moral law, and they clearly and definitely explained that law.." {RH, May 6, 1875 par. 10}
Leviticus
15:19 And if a woman have an issue, [and] her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.
15:20 And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean.
15:21 And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the even.
15:22 And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the even.
15:23 And if it [be] on [her] bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.
15:24 And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean.
15:25 And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she [shall be] unclean.
15:26 Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation: and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation.
15:27 And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the even.
15:28 But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean
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What It Means to Be Hasidic
The Ginsbergs, a Hasidic family living in Brooklyn, New York, sit around the dinner table with Oprah and discuss what their faith means to them. Plus, find out why they say Hasidic Jews—young and old alike—strive to touch lives and make the world a better place.
How Hasidic Children Entertain Themselves
With no television, Internet access or video game system in the home, Shterna, Toby, Chaya and Brocha, four Hasidic women who have 32 children between them, say their sons and daughters have learned to entertain themselves. Watch as these moms discuss the educational, imaginative ways their children pass the time
The values these Hasidic women embrace and teach, the way that thay speak, act, dress, and raise their children makes one suspect that they could have an entire Ellen G. White library in their homes. This is because Rabbi Yeshuah has manifested Himself through Ellen White as the testimony of the Spirit of Prophecy and expects Seventh-day Adventists to behave similar to the Hasidic Jews. Sadly, the vast majority of Seventh-day Adventists just throw Ellen White's counsel in the proverbial trash heap and refuse to cover their heads and be modest as the Spirit of Prophect directs them.
Strong Family Ties and Values Among
the Hasidic Jews is of Immeasurable Value
Notice that the Ginsberg family places strong emphasis upon the family. Working together as a family is of paramount importance to the Ginsbergs. The family completely absences the television from their home. The absence of television in the home, in my humble opinion, is in many ways a major advantage as the family has time to talk to each other and learn about one another rather than focusing upon the television every evening. Because of this the children and all members of the family are more creative and develop better interpersonal skills. They are not estranged from each other like the majority of television watching homes are and they are not being influenced by the gross lack of Biblical values and morality that characterize the vast majority of television personalities and programming.
"Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things [are] honest, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] lovely, whatsoever things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue, and if [there be] any praise, think on these things." Philippians 4:8
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Love and Marriage in the Hasidic Community
Like most single people around the world, Hasidic men and women of marrying age are in search of a soul mate who shares the same values and ideals. Love, on the other hand, sometimes comes later. Shterna, Toby, Chaya and Brocha, four married Hasidic women living in Brooklyn, New York, discuss dating, matchmaking and more.
Hasidic Women Open Up About Their Sex Lives
Four wives and mothers from Brooklyn, New York's Hasidic community get personal and clear up common misconceptions about Hasidic couples' sex lives. Oprah learns about their traditional laws, the importance of verbal communication and more.
Former Alternative DJ Embraces Hasidic Judaism
Before Brocha was a Hasidic wife and mother, she was an alternative radio DJ, who says music, TV and media were her life. Find out why she gave it all up for her faith—and how her family reacted to her decision.
Breaking Bread with a Hasidic Family
The Ginsberg family, Shterna, Aron and their nine children, invite Oprah to join them for a traditional Jewish meal of gefilte fish, matzo ball soup, potato kugel and challah bread. During the meal, Oprah asks the children about growing up without television and test their pop culture knowledge. Plus, Shterna and Oprah share an aha! moment.
Tours of a Traditional Jewish Mikvah
During a Hasidic woman's menstrual cycle and for seven days after, she and her husband are not allowed to touch at all. At the end of the two weeks, she's required to immerse herself in a mikvah, a ritual bath, where she is spiritually cleansed. Watch as Oprah goes inside a community mikvah and learns about this Jewish custom.
Hasidic Parents Reflect on Their Blessings
Shterna and Aron Ginsberg, parents of nine children with one more on the way, share how humbled they feel when they look around the dinner table. Plus, learn why Shterna says each child brings more light into her life and into the world.
The Murder of Leiby Kletzky
In July 2011, Brooklyn's tight-knit Hasidic community was forever changed when Leiby Kletzky, an 8-year-old Hasidic boy, went missing while walking home from day camp and was found murdered. Levi Aron, a non-Hasidic Jew who lived two blocks from Oprah's interview location, was arrested on first-degree murder charges. He's pleaded not guilty. Watch as Shterna, Toby, Chaya and Brocha, four Hasidic women from the same community, discuss their shock and sadness.
The Ginsbergs Honor a Spiritual Leader
Hasidic couple Shterna and Aron Ginsberg show Oprah how they honor Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, one of their greatest spiritual leaders, in their Brooklyn, New York, home.
Sadly I must report that many deceived Hasidic Jews believed that Menachem Mendel Schneerson was the messiah. Very, very sad state of affairs. Just another witness that if we do not believe the truth we will believe anything! "Because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved and for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:" II Thessolians 2:11
Praise Elohim for the Seventh-day Adventist movement!! We have a prophet and the spirit of prophecy is with us as the remnant church of Revelation 12:17 "And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Yahushu Messiah."
How Hasidic Jews View Other Religions
Shterna and Aron Ginsberg, a Hasidic couple who invited Oprah into their home, clear up a common misconception and share their views of other religions, including Christianity and Islam.
Notice that Hasidic Jewish men are not ashamed of being Men. They allow their God given beards to grow just as the statute commands. They are not ruled over by and oppressed by society or their wives wishes to shave off their God given distinguishing mark of male maturity.
It is prophesied that some Hasidics will convert and be a blessing to our cause if we allow them to be and are ready for them. The problem is that so many seventh-day Adventists are backwards in regards to their knowledge of the Jews that they actually believe that the Jews are "disadvantaged in every way" rather than "advantaged in every way" as Paul tells us they are. And this is the misunderstanding that the interview does a good job at dispelling.
"Among the Jews are some who, like Saul of Tarsus, are mighty in the Scriptures, and these will proclaim with wonderful power the immutability of the law of God. The God of Israel will bring this to pass in our day. His arm is not shortened that it cannot save. As His servants labor in faith for those who have long been neglected and despised, His salvation will be revealed."
{AA 381.2}
Leviticus
19:27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
21:5 They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
"There is nothing more calculated to strengthen the intellect than the study of the Scriptures. No other book is so potent to elevate the thoughts, to give vigor to the faculties, as the broad, ennobling truths of the Bible. If God's word were studied as it should be, men would have a breadth of mind, a nobility of character, and a stability of purpose rarely seen in these times. {SC 90.1} ."
Deuteronomy
6:6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
6:7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
6:8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
6:9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates. |
Why a Hasidic Family Agreed to Talk to Oprah
Oprah says she's wanted to interview a Hasidic Jewish family for years. Why did the Ginsbergs agree to talk about their faith with Oprah? Find out now
Caution!! Notice that the Ginsbergs and Oprah feel that they believe the same? Shterna said "we have allot more in common than we have different". What they seem to really have in common is they both reject Messiah Yahushua (Christ Jesus)!! This is what they really have in common because other than that they actually do not have much in common at all. I suggest that
we come to realize that if we do not embrace 100% truth as it is in Yahushua the Messiah we will be subtly led into the religion of Oprah and the New World Order and that is Satan worship. Religion without Messiah will eventually cause us to unite under Satan's dark banner of rebellion and apostasy!!
Hasidic Traditions and Rules of Modesty
Every week, from sundown on Friday to sundown on Saturday, the Hasidic people celebrate the Sabbath. In keeping with ancient Jewish traditions, they can't do anything they believe creates work—like drive or talk on the phone—for 24 hours. Aron and Shterna Ginsberg, a Hasidic couple, explain the importance of the Sabbath to Oprah. Then, after Shterna catches Oprah sneaking a peek at her wig, she reveals why Hasidic women cover their hair at all times.
Summarizing
Interview
Before traveling to Brooklyn, New York, to interview Hasidic families, Oprah says she had never spoken to someone of that faith. What did she learn about Judaism and her own spiritual journey? Watch as Oprah sits down with Rabbi Motti Seligson to reflect on this profound experience. Plus, find out why she says her belief that we're all more alike than different was confirmed.
Closing Thoughts
"The name Seventh-day Adventist carries the true features of our faith in front, and will convict the inquiring mind. Like an arrow from the Lord's quiver, it will wound the transgressors of God's law, and will lead to repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ." {1T 224.1}
The Seventh-day Adventist denomination was raised up by God as an end time movement and we need never be ashamed of our Seventh-day Adventist name or faith. On the other hand I believe that the biggest room in the house is the room for improvement. God never intended that we would be like the Lutherens and build a religion around a great pioneer of the protestant reformation and refuse any further unrollong of the scroll of truth. He never intended that we would use the writings and or example of Ellen White to refuse to advance in the truth.
Scripture tells us that "the path of the just [is] as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day." Proverbs 4:18.
It is the Idea of progressive truth that I want to focus upon. We can still learn more about Yahuwah's kingdom and moral government if we are willing to be diligent students of Scripture. The Hasidic Jews are examples in some respects as to how we can still obey the law that was given to Moses and receive a blessing from it. This law is not limited to the Ten Commandments as many of my Seventh-day Adventists Brethren believe and teach but the law of Yahuwah also includes the statutes and judgments and when we refuse these additional laws that were given to guard the Ten Commandments we bring upon ourselves the curse of disobedience and that includes all the curses found in Deuteronomy 28:15 "But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of YHWH thy Elohim, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:"
What I believe has been a major downfall of Seventh-day Adventists as a body is our lack of willingness to admit that there is more to learn than what our pioneers understood back in the 1800's concerning God's law. Most SDA's seem content with only the 10 commandments as the standard of morality that we are to follow and they refuse any further understanding of the law of Yahuwah with the statutes and judgments.
As I read the Scripture today I am constantly confronted with how Jewish the new testament church was. As documented in the book of Acts and other historical sources it is readily evident to the candid reader of Scripture that the apostles continued to celebrate the feast days (statutes) in the new covenant and never stopped until the day they died.
It is with this in mind that I investigate the Hasidic people and to my pleasant surprise, even though they have not accepted the Messiah that came and died on the cross of Calvary, they are still obeying YHWH in many respects and in ways that Christians and even Seventh-day Adventists should consider implementing and incorporating into their own faith and life practice.
In my opinion, the wardrobe modesty and relational values that are practiced by the Hasidic Jewish community are very admirable. We should take heed to their example in these respects and make efforts to reform in our dress and deportment. The Jews in this respect put many Seventh-day Adventists to shame and their excellent example in regards to modesty in dress should be considered when choosing a wardrobe.
Christian women and especially Seventh-day Adventist feast keeping women that wear no head covering and or pants/slacks and expose their limbs in public remind me of un-flipped pancakes. They give strong evidence that they are very uneducated in regards to the Biblical definition of modesty and are spiritually immature/exhibitionists. The accepted and popular dress code for Christians and Seventh-day Adventists today in the majority of communities is the complete opposite of humility and shamfacedness and sobriety. Weather people realize it or not women today are generally very immodest according to Biblical standards.
Things need to change drastically in the feast keeping movement that is mushrooming among Seventh-day Adventists today. These changes need to happen rapidly as many disasters are taking place in the world today and the plagues will soon be upon us and will decimate all unrepentant souls. We are at a point in history where it has become a virtual crime for women to be modest and wear a head covering even in the Seventh-day Adventist community. This is a shame.
As a people we Seventh-day Adventists have digressed in our piety and in our modesty over the years and I believe it is time that we work toward a reform and a revival in these areas. We need to dress and behave in harmony with our high profession of faith. We need to grasp what it means to represent the Elijah message of Malachi 4:4 and live soberly and modesty in this age of overpowering lawlessness, immodesty and vise.
"In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;" 1 Timothy 2:9
This is also true of men that refuse to allow their God given beard to grow. They look like sodomites or Babylonian priests that are ready to be destroyed by the soon coming plagues. Are shaven faced priests ashamed of their manhood or what? I just can not figure them out.
"Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard." Leviticus 19:27
"They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh." Leviticus 21:5
When pondering the drastic changes that are necessary and that must be made, some might feel overwhelmed and discouraged. For comfort and strength I suggest you meditate upon the life of the prophets and the Messiah and the fierce opposition they endured while carrying forth the will of the Father. They endured incredible suffering for our sakes and when we consider the mild suffering we must endure in comparison to theirs the lode gets lighter.
"Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke [is] easy, and my burden is light." Matthew 11:29, 30
"Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience. Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy." James 5:10, 11.
We must meditate upon the following in order to grasp the gravity of the situation we are facing in this last generation. There are sacrifices to be made and losses we will endure but the price we pay here and now is minimal when compared to the splendor of eternal life.
"Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide [is] the gate, and broad [is] the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait [is] the gate, and narrow [is] the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." Matthew 7:13, 14
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Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, [even] unto the end of the world. Amen." Matthew 28:20
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