Hostility Towards The Word of Yah

 

Torah/The Word of Yah: Abba's Loving Instructions for life. The Written Word of YHVH

Torah/The Word of Yah identifies sin. Romans 3:20 and 7:7, 1 John 3:4

Torah/The Word of Yah convicts us of sin and leads us into repentance. Romans 7:8-11

Torah/The Word of Yah is light, showing us how to walk out our faith. Proverbs 6:23, Psalm 119:105

Torah/The Word of Yah cannot save. Galatians 2:16, 3:10, 3:24, 5:4 Hebrews 10:1-4, Romans 3:20

Torah/ The Word of Yah can bless or curse. Deuteronomy 30:19. Psalm 119

Torah/The Word of Yah is instructions for righteous living, knowledge and good judgement. Psalm 119

Torah/The Word of Yah reveals Yah's heart. Psalm 119, Exodus 34:6-7, Psalm 103:13-14, 

Torah/The Word of Yah is the Way, the Truth, and the Life Psalm 119, Proverbs 13:14

Torah/The Word of Yah is eternal(forever) Psalm 119, Psalm 19:9

Torah/The Word of Yah is not too hard for us to do. 1 John 5:3, Deuteronomy 30:11

Torah/The Word of Yah is Good doctrine 2 Timothy 3:16-17

Torah is the Word of Yah, and Yahusha/Jesus is that Word made flesh. John 1:1-3, 1:14. 

So why do mainstream Christians have such hostility towards the Torah? You'd think they would love it as much as the author did as he wrote Psalms 119. The Torah cannot harm you, nor alienate you from the Most High.  Torah can convict us of our sin and lead us into repentance so we grow closer to Yahuah. Torah shows us Yah's standard of conduct, and where we fall short. Isn't it the aim to let Yah make us more like Yahusha/Jesus? Well, He lived out the instructions to the fullest extent. Matthew 5:17-20. To live out your life as Yahusha did is called discipleship,  being a student of your teacher Yahusha.

Let's discuss Yahusha/Jesus fulfilling the law, living it out to the fullest. He did so because He is an obedient son, because He and the Father are unified in thought and deed, because His complete obedience unto death raised Him to the position of High Priest in the order of Melchizedek (Psalms 110:4, Hebrew 7:17), thru Him, in that station, we receive forgiveness for sin (transgressing the law 1John 3:4). He now serves in that position, interceding on our behalf before the throne of The Most High.  He did not fulfill the law so you don't have to, or because you can't.  He didn't fulfill the law, as in, to put an end to it.  This idea must come from the notion that Old Testament people were saved by keeping the law, and New Testament people by faith. Nay! All saved people came to salvation thru Yahusha/Jesus. Old Testament people believed on the Promised One to come, and New Testament believers came to salvation thru He who was, is, and is to come, our Redeemer Yahusha/Jesus. 

When we receive forgiveness for our past sins and receive the deposit of the Ruach haKodesh/Holy Spirit, we are given the guidance and power to go and sin no more. Our natural response to forgiveness should be gratitude, and this gratitude is expressed by a desire and a compulsion to follow the instructions. This is discipleship. When we fall short in this, He is faithful to forgive and restore us. (1 John 1:9) We learn in Ezekiel 36:26-27, Jeremiah 31:33 and Romans 2:15, that when our salvation experience is complete, upon resurrection, we will be given a new heart with the Torah/The Word of Yah written on it, so that we will have a Spirit to follow the Truth/Torah. 

There are warnings in scripture that beg me to seek deeper insight.  Matthew 7:21-23 is one such warning.   21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!  That word used for lawlessness is anomia.    

Strongs #458 458 anomía (from 1 /A "not" and 3551 /nómos, "law") – properly, without law;

lawlessness; the utter disregard for God's law (His written and living Word).

The utter disregard for God's law.

Read it again: Matther 7:21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice utter disregard for God's law!"

Heed the warning, ask Yah to show you His Ways and to teach you to walk in them.  

A work in progress 

Teresa

*** As I've grown in faith,  I have come to see all of scripture to be Torah/instructions for living.

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