Close to the Hip

Close to the Hip

Short truths worth carrying, and short answers worth having.

Short answers, kept where they can be reached.

16 entries

The apostles reported the fruit; Yahushua told them what it meant in the unseen world. He was not giving a history lesson — He was watching the enemy's grip on men break in real time, and the tree would finish it.

Luke 10:17-18

Ask what the owner came to collect and the whole reading straightens out. Not grapes, not attendance, not a building. Righteousness in his people, which Moses already defined as keeping the commandments. The renters were removed for failing to grow it. The vineyard stayed exactly where it was.

Matthew 21:43 · Deuteronomy 6:25 · Isaiah 5:7

They Wanted the House Without the Owner

A monument of the ten commandments goes up outside a courthouse and the crowd cheers. That same week the sermon says the law was nailed to the cross. One of those two is wrong, and it is not the stone.

Matthew 5:18 · Romans 3:31

When they replaced Judas they did not vote on character. They named one requirement: the man had to have been there from the immersion of John to the day Yahushua was taken up, and to have seen Him risen. That is not a job description anyone alive can meet.

Acts 1:21-22 · 1 Corinthians 9:1

The table has two things on it, and most teaching stops at one. The cup is entry — the blood, the door, the way in. The bread is the walk that follows, and a man who takes the cup and never touches the bread has come through the door and sat down in the entryway.

Matthew 26:26-28 · Romans 5:9-10

Isaiah gets read like a drawer of loose verses — a Christmas line here, a suffering servant there. It runs in four blocks, in order, each covering its own stretch of time. Notice what that does to the last block: not one verse in it has ever been quoted as already fulfilled.

Isaiah 65:17 · Isaiah 66:22-23

Yahushua said in my Father's house are many mansions, and it gets read as real estate waiting in the sky. The word is not a mansion, it is a dwelling place, and He uses it again a few verses later: we will come to him and make our dwelling with him. The house was never a subdivision. It was people.

John 14:2 · John 14:23

The ten virgins is not a story about being late, and it is not a story about how much of the Spirit anyone had. It is about a priesthood, a light, and what happens to a house when that light goes out. The commandment is a lamp and the Torah is light. Nobody sells the Spirit of Yahuah, and verse nine sends them out to buy.

Matthew 25:1-13 · Proverbs 6:23 · Exodus 27:20

Kingdom of Lights

“Our job is to change the culture.”

Salt slows corruption. It does not reverse it. You were given a mark to carry, not a world to fix.

“Peter calls believers a royal priesthood. That's a New Testament thing.”

It's a quote from Sinai. He offered it to every household before He narrowed it to one.

Prince of this world. Prince of Peace. Two princes named in the Book, and neither one holds a deed — the earth is Yahuah's, and the fulness thereof. Allegiance shows up in the statutes a man keeps. Whose are you keeping?

Psalm 24:1 · John 12:31 · Isaiah 9:6

Two Kingdoms

Yahuah's presence sat in one room, behind one veil, and one man went in once a year. Joel wasn't promising a revival. He was promising a new temple — the Spirit poured out on all flesh, so the innermost room is now a person. Shavuot was the day it started.

Joel 2:28 · Acts 2:16-17 · 1 Corinthians 6:19

“Believers have always been indwelt.”

Yahushua said it hadn't been given yet. He said that after John was dead.

“The disciples already had the Holy Spirit.”

Yahushua said the Spirit was with them and would be in them. Two different things.

“Elisha got a double portion of the anointing.”

That's inheritance language. He asked to be the heir, not to be twice as strong.

Your body is the temple. What was kept in the innermost room was the law. So when Jeremiah says the law is written on the inward parts, the tablets are back where they belong. The deepest place in a man holds a standard, not a feeling.

The manna and the rod sat there too — provision and priesthood. Fed, led, and governed, all behind the veil.

1 Corinthians 6:19 · Jeremiah 31:33 · Hebrews 9:4