The Torah (Do not pick and choose)

 

 

Do you believe this Bible verse:

Proverbs Ch 3: 5 Trust in ADONAI with all your heart; do not rely on your own understanding.

6 In all your ways acknowledge him; then he will level your paths.

If you believe that Bible verse then do you believe this Bible verse

Proverb Ch 28:9 If a person will not listen to Torah, even his prayer is an abomination. 

Do you believe this Bible verse:

Romans Ch 5: 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in that the Messiah died on our behalf while we were still sinners.

If you believe that Bible verse then do you believe this Bible verse

Romans Ch 3:31 Does it follow that we abolish Torah by this trusting? Heaven forbid! On the contrary, we confirm Torah.

Do you believe this Bible verse:

Psalms Ch 3: 3 But you, ADONAI, are a shield for me; you are my glory, you lift my head high.

If you believe that Bible verse then do you believe this Bible verse

Psalms Ch 119: 33 (Heh) Teach me, ADONAI, the way of your laws; keeping them will be its own reward for me.

34 Give me understanding; then I will keep your Torah; I will observe it with all my heart.

Do you believe this Bible verse:

John Ch 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his only and unique Son, so that everyone who trusts in him may have eternal life, instead of being utterly destroyed.

If you believe that Bible verse then do you believe this Bible verse:

Matthew Ch 5:  18 Yes indeed! I tell you that until heaven and earth pass away, not so much as a yud or a stroke will pass from the Torah -- not until everything that must happen has happened.

19 So whoever disobeys the least of these mitzvot and teaches others to do so will be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven. But whoever obeys them and so teaches will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

(note: Heaven and earth have not passed away yet).

Picking and choosing what Scriptures you will and will not obey is rebellion. There's no other way to put it.

The Torah (the law) is not 'Done Away' with and only the Jews are still 'Under' the law.

Let's investigate and allow Scripture to answer for us.

First, what is the New Covenant YESHUA established? I hear that all the time. "I'm under the New Covenant. I'm under the age of grace. We're in the church age. Let's dispute those false teachings.

There is no 'Age of Grace'.

Malachi Ch 3: 6 "But because I, ADONAI, do not change, you sons of Ya'akov will not be destroyed.

Isaiah Ch 46:10 At the beginning I announce the end, proclaim in advance things not yet done; and I say that my plan will hold, I will do everything I please to do.

There is no dispensations. That is a false teaching. Sin remains the same through the ages as does Salvation. The same Grace given to Adam after he sinned is given to all who call on the name of YESHUA. Adam received Grace? Did G-D destroy Adam or, as Paul taught, did he reap what he sowed and was punished for his sin? Did Adam repent and through Adam came Seth who YESHUA'S earthly bloodline belongs to? Were the Israelite's in Egypt not first saved by grace, then immersed (The Red Sea) and then given the Law?

Grace has stood since the beginning.

Psalms Ch 119: 64 The earth, ADONAI, is full of your grace; teach me your laws.

Because there is Grace we can learn ADONAI'S Laws.

Getting back to the New Covenant. Can someone tell me where to find the New Covenant in Scripture? YESHUA didn't go into detail what what the New Covenant HE was creating was. Why? Because HIS talmidim understood because they knew what the Prophet Jeremiah had spoke of.

Here is the New Covenant:

Hebrews Ch 8:  8 For God does find fault with the people when he says, "'See! The days are coming,' says ADONAI, 'when I will establish over the house of Isra'el and over the house of Y'hudah a new covenant.

9 "'It will not be like the covenant which I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by their hand and led them forth out of the land of Egypt; because they, for their part, did not remain faithful to my covenant; so I, for my part, stopped concerning myself with them,' says ADONAI.

10 "'For this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Isra'el after those days,' says ADONAI: 'I will put my Torah in their minds and write it on their hearts; I will be their God, and they will be my people

Do you notice the New Covenant is made with the House if Israel and Y'hudah? Not the gentiles. The gentiles are grafted in.

Romans Ch 11:  17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you - a wild olive - were grafted in among them and have become equal sharers in the rich root of the olive tree,

18 then don't boast as if you were better than the branches! However, if you do boast, remember that you are not supporting the root, the root is supporting you.

Ephesians Ch 2: 19 So then, you are no longer foreigners and strangers. On the contrary, you are fellow-citizens with God's people and members of God's family.

Because the gentiles are grafted in ADONAI'S Law (Torah) applies to all:

Leviticus Ch 24:22 You are to apply the same standard of judgment to the foreigner as to the citizen, because I am ADONAI your God."

What is sin?

Let's go back and read Romans Ch 5 real quick

Romans Ch 5: : 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in that the Messiah died on our behalf while we were still sinners.

We are all sinners. So what is sin?

1 John Ch 3: 4 Everyone who keeps sinning is violating Torah - indeed, sin is violation of Torah.

Sin is violation of the Law--Torah. If there is no Law there is no sin, therefore we have no need of  SAVIOR and we are calling G-D's Holy Word a lie. We are saying we were not sinners when the MESSIAH died for us.

But the Law is the Ten Commandments. That's all we have to obey, right? No.

The Torah is built on the Ten Commandments. We are taught not to kill in the Ten Commandments but we are not told what to do with a person who kills. The Torah teaches us what to do with a person who kills. We are taught not to commit adultery in the Ten Commandments but are not taught what to do with people who do. The Torah teaches us what do do.

Questions: Do you eat pork but condemn homosexuals? Neither are in the Ten Commandments but are in the Torah. You can't pick and choose (and for those who claim Peter's vision did away with the Kosher laws need to do a  clear study of the book of Acts and understand that Peter was being taught not to call Gentiles unclean and that Peter was still very much eating Kosher after the MESSIAH entered in Heaven).

Psalms Ch 119: 18 Open my eyes, so that I will see wonders from your Torah.

What did the wisest man who ever lived conclude in the Book of Ecclesiastes?

Ecclesiastes Ch 12:13 Here is the final conclusion, now that you have heard everything: fear God, and keep his mitzvot; this is what being human is all about.

(note: you and I will never ever be as wise as Solomon was)

1 Kings Ch 3:12 I am doing what you requested. I am giving you a wise and understanding heart, so that there has never been anyone like you, nor will there ever again be anyone like you.

King dedicated Psalms Ch 119 as a love letter for the Torah. I see churches quoting Psalms all the time but not Psalms Ch 119.

What about the very first Psalms?

 

Psalms Ch 1:  2 Their delight is in ADONAI's Torah; on his Torah they meditate day and night.

3 They are like trees planted by streams -they bear their fruit in season, their leaves never wither, everything they do succeeds.

During the covid-19 plague people reached out for Psalms Ch 91 all the time. Interesting how they pick and choose.

The Book of Revelation has the Torah:

Revelation Ch 2: 5 Therefore, remember where you were before you fell, turn from this sin, and do what you used to do before. Otherwise, I will come to you and remove your menorah from its place - if you don't turn from your sin!

What is sin? Remember 1 John 3:4 teaches sin is violation of the law.

Revelation Ch 22: 15 Outside are the homosexuals, those involved with the occult and with drugs, the sexually immoral, murderers, idol-worshippers, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Without the Torah we have nothing to compare our actions against. It's like walking into a court room void of laws.

Question:

What did Peter and Paul teach YESHUA from when they taught? (Remember what is called the New Testament has not been put together yet).

Luke Ch 25: 27 Then, starting with Moshe and all the prophets, he explained to them the things that can be found throughout the Tanakh concerning himself.

Acts Ch 28: 23 So they arranged a day with him and came to his quarters in large numbers. From morning until evening he explained the matter to them, giving a thorough witness about the Kingdom of God and making use of both the Torah of Moshe and the Prophets to persuade them about Yeshua.

Did Paul really teach the Law was done away with? No.

Let's investigate:

Acts Ch 21:  20 On hearing it, they praised God; but they also said to him, "You see, brother, how many tens of thousands of believers there are among the Judeans, and they are all zealots for the Torah.

21 Now what they have been told about you is that you are teaching all the Jews living among the Goyim to apostatize from Moshe, telling them not to have a b'rit-milah for their sons and not to follow the traditions.

22 "What, then, is to be done? They will certainly hear that you have come.

23 So do what we tell you. We have four men who are under a vow.

24 Take them with you, be purified with them, and pay the expenses connected with having their heads shaved. Then everyone will know that there is nothing to these rumors which they have heard about you; but that, on the contrary, you yourself stay in line and keep the Torah.

The Elders walked with YESHUA and they were still keeping Torah. Paul did not walk with YESHUA. He didn't have the authority.

What did Peter teach us about Paul's writings?

2 Peter Ch 3:  15 And think of our Lord's patience as deliverance, just as our dear brother Sha'ul also wrote you, following the wisdom God gave him.

16 Indeed, he speaks about these things in all his letters. They contain some things that are hard to understand, things which the uninstructed and unstable distort, to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.

(Note: Pail wrote from the wisdom that G-D gave him. Our G-D said HIS Torah was eternal, not temporary).

We will end with the fact that all Christians obey Torah without knowing it:

What is the greatest commandment in the Bible?

Mark Ch 12:  28 One of the Torah-teachers came up and heard them engaged in this discussion. Seeing that Yeshua answered them well, he asked him, "Which is the most important mitzvah of them all?"

29 Yeshua answered, "The most important is, `Sh'ma Yisra'el, ADONAI Eloheinu, ADONAI echad [Hear, O Isra'el, the LORD our God, the LORD is one],

30 and you are to love ADONAI your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your understanding and with all your strength.'

YESHUA is quoting directly from the Torah (Deuteronomy Ch 6). If the law was done away with how could you keep the greatest commandment in the Bible?

Christians deny the law because they follow false teachings.

If you look at the New Yerushalayim you will see that there are 12 Gates, each gate is named after one of the 12 Tribes of Israel. There is no 13 gate for gentile Christians. What gate will you enter through if you are not grated in? No gate.

Please reconsider the main stream Christian teachings and read your Bibles. I'll leave with a question: If all the main stream Christians were right why is America so fallen?

Shalom and blessing in YESHUA'S Precious Name.

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