YESHUA/JESUS taught the Law/Torah and commanded others to do so.
Matthew Ch 8:2 Then a man afflicted with tzara`at came, kneeled down in front of him and said, "Sir, if you are willing, you can make me clean."
3 Yeshua reached out his hand, touched him and said, "I am willing! Be cleansed!" And at once he was cleansed from his tzara`at.
4 Then Yeshua said to him, "See that you tell no one; but as a testimony to the people, go and let the cohen examine you, and offer the sacrifice that Moshe commanded."
What part of the Torah/Law was YESHUA/JESUS teaching from?
Leviticus Ch 14:1 ADONAI said to Moshe,
2 "This is to be the law concerning the person afflicted with tzara'at on the day of his purification. He is to be brought to the cohen,
3 and the cohen is to go outside the camp and examine him there. If he sees that the tzara'at sores have been healed in the afflicted person,
4 then the cohen will order that two living clean birds be taken for the one to be purified, along with cedar-wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop leaves
(read all of Leviticus Ch 14).
Why did YESHUA/JESUS do this if HE cleansed the man with tzara’at? Because if HE didn’t HE would have violated G-D’s Law. Remember: YESHUA/JESUS was perfect, sinless and Holy. HE still commanded people to obey the Law/Torah.
YESHUA/JESUS taught the Spirit of the Law/Torah.
Matthew Ch 5: 27 "You have heard that our fathers were told, `Do not commit adultery.'
28 But I tell you that a man who even looks at a woman with the purpose of lusting after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
This is why the New Covenant, the Law/Torah, is written on our minds and hearts (Hebrews Ch 8). A man can say, ‘I never committed adultery!” But in his heart he had and the Law/Torah judges the heart and mind as well as the body. The Law/Torah also keeps the heart and mind in obedience and fear to G-D.
Matthew Ch 5: 44 But I tell you, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you!
Exodus Ch 23:5 5 If you see the donkey which belongs to someone who hates you lying down helpless under its load, you are not to pass him by but to go and help him free it.
Did YESHUA/JESUS do as HE taught about loving your enemies?
Luke Ch 23: 34 Yeshua said, "Father, forgive them; they don't understand what they are doing." They divided up his clothes by throwing dice.
If YESHUA/JESUS this about HIS enemies on the Cross do you think HE would have stopped and helped an enemy whose donkey was lying down helpless under a load?
How do we apply Exodus Ch 23:5 to our lives today? What if you see an enemy on the side of the road standing his/her broken down vehicle? Would you stop? Would YESHUA/JESUS stop?
If we ignore the Law/Torah then we ignore the very teachings of YESHUA/JESUS, the Perfect, Sinless, Lamb of G-D who taught the Law/Torah and died for the sins (violation of the Torah/Law) of mankind.
YESHUA/JESUS commanded us to pick up our cross and follow HIM. This means to live in HIS faithful obedience to G-D to as HE did. YESHUA/JESUS was sinless—HE never once violated the Torah/Law. We have but when we sin YESHUA/JESUS forgives us and we strive on in obedience. And remember what 1 John Ch 3:4 teaches us what sin is: Sin is violation of the Law/Torah. We can never be sinless for only YESHUA/JESUS was sinless, but we pick up our cross and follow HIM in obedience to G-D. We can’t do this if we do not, in our hearts and minds, not through legalistic means, keep G-D’s Torah/Law through faith and obedience.
I’ll end here:
Luke Ch 22:42 "Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me; still, let not my will but yours be done."
YESHUA/JESUS was constantly in complete submission to G-D’s Will. We must be to. G-D’s Will is found in HIS Torah/Law. That is why HIS Torah/Law is written in our minds and hearts through the New Covenant established through the Precious and Living Blood of HIS SON. YESHUA MESSIAH our LORD.
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