So have you decided "to go back and obey the law of the Torah" is not the law of Jesus Christ? Jesus kept the Torah perfectly....not so that we don't have to....but as our perfect example. He railed against the "man-made traditions" that was making the law of no effect. The laws and ordinances of Temple sacrifice ended with His death and resurrection, but did God change? Did Christ change? And why does the Millenium Temple (Ezekiel 40-48) have sacrifices?
What is the law of Jesus Christ? To abolish or fulfill? That He showed us the intent of our hearts is evil? That our sins are forgiven and then what....keep on in "LAWLESSNESS"? God forbid! We obey because we want to live RIGHTEOUSLY. This is the fruit we shall be known by.
There is nothing greater than our Lord and Savior. We cannot do the work He did on the cross which was to abolish the curse of the law, not to abolish the law (Torah). We have the Holy Spirit living and guiding us. This is why I asked the question "Is there a change in Christianity today?" Is God bringing the lawlessness to our attention/awareness and bringing us to His Roots in these Last Days? Is the time that judgment begin with the house of God now?
Mat 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Torah means 1)Direction, 2)Instruction and 3)Law. Without DIRECTION, I am lost. Without INSTRUCTION, I am uneducated. Without LAW, I am Lawless.
When I was in mainstream traditional christianity church, and taught that all of the law of Torah is nailed to the cross, I lived a life of Lawlessness. After all, wasn't obedience the same as LEGALISM? As a child of God through the grace of Jesus Christ, I am no longer living a life of illegitimacy. Do I believe that the Sabbath should be a day of rest? I do and I also practice this eternal commandment. God said He does not change. Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. All of the Bible is His Truths. To pick and choose was just chaos before. Does this make sense? I am on a path in this life. God tells us that His Word (not just NT) is a lamp for my foot and light on my path. Need I emphasize the importance of ALL of the Word anymore? I think a child "gets it". It really doesn't have to be so hard...except that the Word does say that Satan deceives the whole world...and that means me too. I have not arrived to perfection in my understanding....but I keep the Word before me....testing everything to see if it lines us with all of the Bible. I am open to His Truths but no longer open to half truths, which are just lies anyway.
Jer 17:10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Gal 6:1 Brothers, suppose someone is caught doing something wrong. You who have the Spirit should set him right, but in a spirit of humility, keeping an eye on yourselves so that you won't be tempted too.
Gal 6:2 Bear one another's burdens — in this way you will be fulfilling the Torah's true meaning, which the Messiah upholds.
Gal 6:3 For if anyone thinks he is something when he is really nothing, he is fooling himself.
Gal 6:4 So let each of you scrutinize his own actions. Then if you do find something to boast about, at least the boasting will be based on what you have actually done and not merely on a judgment that you are better than someone else;
Gal 6:5 for each person will carry his own load.
Gal 6:6 But whoever is being instructed in the Word should share all the good things he has with his instructor.
Gal 6:7 Don't delude yourselves: no one makes a fool of God! A person reaps what he sows.
Gal 6:8 Those who keep sowing in the field of their old nature, in order to meet its demands, will eventually reap ruin; but those who keep sowing in the field of the Spirit will reap from the Spirit everlasting life.
Gal 6:9 So let us not grow weary of doing what is good; for if we don't give up, we will in due time reap the harvest.
Gal 6:10 Therefore, as the opportunity arises, let us do what is good to everyone, and especially to the family of those who are trustingly faithful.
Gal 6:11 Look at the large letters I use as I close in my own handwriting.
Gal 6:12 It is those who want to look good outwardly who are trying to get you to be circumcised. The only reason they are doing it is to escape persecution for preaching about the Messiah's execution-stake.
Gal 6:13 For even those who are getting circumcised don't observe the Torah. On the contrary, they want you to get circumcised so that they can boast of having gained your adherence.
Gal 6:14 But as for me, Heaven forbid that I should boast about anything except the execution-stake of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah! Through him, as far as I am concerned, the world has been put to death on the stake; and through him, as far as the world is concerned, I have been put to death on the stake.
Gal 6:15 For neither being circumcised nor being uncircumcised matters; what matters is being a new creation.
Gal 6:16 And as many as order their lives by this rule, shalom upon them and mercy, and upon the Isra'el of God!
Gal 6:17 From now on, I don't want anyone to give me any more tsuris, because I have scars on my body to prove that I belong to Yeshua!
Gal 6:18 The grace of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.
What is the law of Jesus Christ? To abolish or fulfill? That He showed us the intent of our hearts is evil? That our sins are forgiven and then what....keep on in "LAWLESSNESS"? God forbid! We obey because we want to live RIGHTEOUSLY. This is the fruit we shall be known by.
There is nothing greater than our Lord and Savior. We cannot do the work He did on the cross which was to abolish the curse of the law, not to abolish the law (Torah). We have the Holy Spirit living and guiding us. This is why I asked the question "Is there a change in Christianity today?" Is God bringing the lawlessness to our attention/awareness and bringing us to His Roots in these Last Days? Is the time that judgment begin with the house of God now?
Mat 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Torah means 1)Direction, 2)Instruction and 3)Law. Without DIRECTION, I am lost. Without INSTRUCTION, I am uneducated. Without LAW, I am Lawless.
When I was in mainstream traditional christianity church, and taught that all of the law of Torah is nailed to the cross, I lived a life of Lawlessness. After all, wasn't obedience the same as LEGALISM? As a child of God through the grace of Jesus Christ, I am no longer living a life of illegitimacy. Do I believe that the Sabbath should be a day of rest? I do and I also practice this eternal commandment. God said He does not change. Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. All of the Bible is His Truths. To pick and choose was just chaos before. Does this make sense? I am on a path in this life. God tells us that His Word (not just NT) is a lamp for my foot and light on my path. Need I emphasize the importance of ALL of the Word anymore? I think a child "gets it". It really doesn't have to be so hard...except that the Word does say that Satan deceives the whole world...and that means me too. I have not arrived to perfection in my understanding....but I keep the Word before me....testing everything to see if it lines us with all of the Bible. I am open to His Truths but no longer open to half truths, which are just lies anyway.
Jer 17:10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Gal 6:1 Brothers, suppose someone is caught doing something wrong. You who have the Spirit should set him right, but in a spirit of humility, keeping an eye on yourselves so that you won't be tempted too.
Gal 6:2 Bear one another's burdens — in this way you will be fulfilling the Torah's true meaning, which the Messiah upholds.
Gal 6:3 For if anyone thinks he is something when he is really nothing, he is fooling himself.
Gal 6:4 So let each of you scrutinize his own actions. Then if you do find something to boast about, at least the boasting will be based on what you have actually done and not merely on a judgment that you are better than someone else;
Gal 6:5 for each person will carry his own load.
Gal 6:6 But whoever is being instructed in the Word should share all the good things he has with his instructor.
Gal 6:7 Don't delude yourselves: no one makes a fool of God! A person reaps what he sows.
Gal 6:8 Those who keep sowing in the field of their old nature, in order to meet its demands, will eventually reap ruin; but those who keep sowing in the field of the Spirit will reap from the Spirit everlasting life.
Gal 6:9 So let us not grow weary of doing what is good; for if we don't give up, we will in due time reap the harvest.
Gal 6:10 Therefore, as the opportunity arises, let us do what is good to everyone, and especially to the family of those who are trustingly faithful.
Gal 6:11 Look at the large letters I use as I close in my own handwriting.
Gal 6:12 It is those who want to look good outwardly who are trying to get you to be circumcised. The only reason they are doing it is to escape persecution for preaching about the Messiah's execution-stake.
Gal 6:13 For even those who are getting circumcised don't observe the Torah. On the contrary, they want you to get circumcised so that they can boast of having gained your adherence.
Gal 6:14 But as for me, Heaven forbid that I should boast about anything except the execution-stake of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah! Through him, as far as I am concerned, the world has been put to death on the stake; and through him, as far as the world is concerned, I have been put to death on the stake.
Gal 6:15 For neither being circumcised nor being uncircumcised matters; what matters is being a new creation.
Gal 6:16 And as many as order their lives by this rule, shalom upon them and mercy, and upon the Isra'el of God!
Gal 6:17 From now on, I don't want anyone to give me any more tsuris, because I have scars on my body to prove that I belong to Yeshua!
Gal 6:18 The grace of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.
It is clear heresy to support a translation which bastardizes Galatians 6:2 to make it out as though it says, “Bear one another's burdens — in this way you will be fulfilling the Torah's true meaning, which the Messiah upholds.”
Galatians 6:2 “Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.”
What you do not get is that what Paul is there telling you and us is that Christ is the law. When Paul says, “fulfil the law of Christ”, he is telling you that the law we are to look at are the foot-steps of Christ. Christ is the living law and we by walking as he walk also produce a living law which works “Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ”. (2 Corinthians 10:5)
Do you get that? Obedience, not to the Torah, but to Christ, because if we walk as Christ we will fulfill all the law of God for Christ is the living expression of what we are to all aim for after Christ's example, that being as follows:
Romans 2:14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves..”
I know that escapes your understanding at the moment as it is clear that you still think God's desire is to have people he can order to be obedient by written law. Yet you yourself know that if your own children mature to be able to act in a way that honors you without their ever having to be told it is a far greater thing than your having to detail a list of rules to them.
When will you understand:
1 Timothy 1:9 “.. that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
11 According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.”
What you are doing is failing to appreciate the law of your husband because you keep running backward to an old lover. You are reversing the following and running back to your old lover: Romans 7:2-3 “For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.”
Christ is your law now and you keep calling him inadequate, making it out that he exists only to point your way back to your old lover, when the fact is that that law only existed to point to him.
Romans 10:4 “For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.”
You are preaching the very heresy Paul fought so hard against. And Paul knew far more about that Old Law than you, he being a former Pharisee trained at the feet of Gamaliel. (Acts 22:3) (2 Cor. 11:1-4)
That Torah, while not bad or against God's righteousness, was and is incomplete. It was not nearly the complete law of God as is Christ: Galatians 3:21 "Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law."
Galatians 3:19 "Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator."
Christ, your husband is here. Obey the law of your husband. Listen to him instead of running back to your old lover to listen to that old lover while failing to hear your new husband.
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