Matthew Ch 4:17 From that time on, Yeshua began proclaiming, "Turn from your sins to God, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near!"
What is sin?
1 John Ch 3:4 4 Everyone who keeps sinning is violating Torah - indeed, sin is violation of Torah.
YESHUA/JESUS was proclaiming that people turn from violating G-D’s Torah/Law and turn to G-D.
1 Timothy Ch 1:15 So here is a statement you can trust, one that fully deserves to be accepted: the Messiah came into the world to save sinners, and I'm the number one sinner!
YESHUA/JESUS came into the world to save sinners—those who violate G-D’s Torah/Law. YESHUA/JESUS tells the sinner to do what? Turn from your sins to G-D for the Kingdom of Heaven is near!
Now let’s investigate those who say you only have to keep the 10 Commandments.
The 4th Commandment:
Exodus Ch 20:8 "Remember the day, Shabbat, to set it apart for God.
But what happens if you don’t keep Shabbat and violate it? The Commandment doesn’t say but the Torah/Law does in detail.
G-D’s very words:
Exodus Ch 35: 2 On six days work is to be done, but the seventh day is to be a holy day for you, a Shabbat of complete rest in honor of ADONAI. Whoever does any work on it is to be put to death.
So if you say all you have to do is keep the Ten Commandments then you are also held accountable under the Laws connected to that Commandment. Paul’s writing do not change the Shabbat—for his writings about Shabbat are grossly misinterpreted as Peter taught in 2 Peter Ch 3:16.
You can’t keep the Ten Commandments with the Law for the Law completes the Ten Commandments. Moshe taught the Letter of the Law. YESHUA/JESUS taught the Spirit of the Law. And it through HIS Precious Blood is the New Covenant put forth. The New Covenant is the Torah/Law written on my minds and in our hearts. Hebrews Ch 8:10
Acts Ch 2: 37 On hearing this, they were stung in their hearts; and they said to Kefa and the other emissaries, "Brothers, what should we do?"
38 Kefa answered them, "Turn from sin, return to God, and each of you be immersed on the authority of Yeshua the Messiah into forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Ruach HaKodesh!
(This was on the day of Shavout—what Christians call Pentecost).
You see from verse 38 Peter commanding the same thing as YESHUA/JESUS did: Turn from your sins (Violation of the Torah/Law) to G-D. This was after YESHUA/JESUS ascended into Heaven in Acts Ch 1. So if the Torah/Law was done away with why is Peter telling those before him to turn from their sins which is violation of the Torah/Law? They could just be saved by Grace alone, right? No. By Grace G-D was showing them how to turn to HIM: Turn from violating HIS Torah/Law and return to HIM.
You can’t pick and choose what Scriptures you will and won’t obey and follow and you can’t misinterpret Paul’s teachings to fit your doctrines.
I’ll end with this: Do you read from the Book of James?
Do you believe:
James Ch 4:8 Come close to God, and he will come close to you. Clean your hands, sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded people!
If you do, then as a gentile Christian may I ask why you are even reading the Book of James when James wasn’t writing to the gentiles?
James Ch 1:1: 1 From: Ya'akov, a slave of God and of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah To: The Twelve Tribes in the Diaspora: Shalom!
James was writing to the 12 tribes in the diaspora. James told the sinners (those who violate Torah/Law) to clean their hands for the double minded people to purify their hearts. If the Law/Torah was not to be followed why did James tell sinners (and again, please remember what we’re taught in 1 John 3:4, sin is violation of Torah/Law) to clean their hands? Do you believe if you come close to G-D, HE will come close to you—but not the second part of the verse about sinners cleaning their hands and double minded people purifying their hearts? As gentile why even read the Book of James?
But the Book of James is part of the Bible. This is why gentiles are grafted in through the Jews.
Paul said this:
Romans Ch 3:23 since all have sinned and come short of earning God's praise.
We have all violated the Torah/Law and fallen short of G-D’s praise. If the Torah/Law is not to be followed how do we even sin and why would we even need a Savior. Paul would then be a lair when he said in 1 Timothy Ch 1:15 that YESHUA/JESUS came to save sinners (violators of the Torah/Law).
G-D’s Word is One, not divided into parts that fit a doctrine or lifestyle.
I’ll end here with the Words of YESHUA/JESUS our LORD:
Matthew Ch 15: 8 `These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far away from me.
9 Their worship of me is useless, because they teach man-made rules as if they were doctrines.'"
Be careful of the doctrines of men for they lead straight to the judgements found in the Book of Revelation
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