Okay, let’s start by remembering exactly who Yeshua is and how he lived: he was, is, and always shall be the Jewish Messiah who lived a perfectly observant Torah life.
Now, can we agree that, in general, to follow someone is to do as they did?
If you said “No”, then close this page and go play Solitaire or stream something stupid because nothing I say from this point on will matter to you.
If you said “Yes” and if you are not Jewish, then do you live your life trying to be as obedient to the Torah as Yeshua was?
Now, if your answer to that question is either “No”, or what may be worse, it is “I am a Gentile believer and as such I do not have to follow the Torah”, then the next thing is to ask yourself is this question:
“How can I follow Yeshua when I do not live or worship as he did?”
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That’s a tough question, isn’t it? I think the reason it is tough is because there is really no logical or even sensible answer that would explain how you can follow someone when you don’t do anything they do.
I probably should stop right here because, well…what else is there?
Either you live the same way Yeshua lived, or you are following someone else: there is no way around that because it is a given, a prima fascie condition, an absolute truth.
My suggestion is that you go back to the Gospels (just the first three- ignore John’s gospel because it is a false one) and see that Yeshua taught exclusively from the Torah and never said anything even close to suggesting people ignore his father’s instructions or reject what God said to do.
You want to know where all that drek about Gentiles not having to obey the Torah comes from? It’s from letters men wrote to Gentiles trying to teach them the Torah a little at a time, which later were transformed into justification for rejecting the Torah.
Shaul’s (Paul) letters are convoluted Jewish logic and so have easily been misused and misinterpreted to fit a Gentile desire to reject the Torah, yet somehow making-up reasons why they can still be saved.
(By the way- Jewish logic is my own term, and I explain it as we Jews will answer questions with questions and never tell you what something is until we tell you everything it isn’t.)
It is easy, really- the only place in the entire Bible where God, himself, tells us how he wants us to worship him and how he wants us to treat each other is found ONLY in those first five books. God doesn’t make any new commandments or tell us we can ignore any of the existing ones that he dictated to Moses anywhere throughout the rest of the Bible.
I can’t stand the fact that the Torah is called “The Mosaic Law” because it isn’t from Moses! The only thing Moses had to do with the Torah is that he was God’s stenographer, taking down what God told him to write and teaching it to the people.
In truth, everything after Deuteronomy is either historical narrative or commentary.
So, nu! … I will leave you with this thought:
If you really want to follow Yeshua, to do what he did, to act as he acted, to worship as he worshipped, then you have to live in accordance with the Torah.
How can you say you love and worship God and want to be as Yeshua is when you reject and ignore what God said to do and what Messiah Yeshua did when he was on the earth?
I was going to stop here, but I think I need to add one more thought for you.
We all will have to meet God at Judgement Day, and when asked why we lived the way we did, anyone who has rejected the Torah will have to say,
“I did what they told me I should do.”
Now, I can’t speak for God, but I think he will respond with something to the effect of:
“I know you did what they told you to do, but it is what I say that counts.”
PLEASE! Consider that if you think following some man-made religion will save you.
Thank you for being here and please comment and share these messages with everyone you know, even non-believers. Hey, after all, you never know how fertile the soil is until you plant a seed in it.
That’s it for this week, so l’hitraot and (an early) Shabbat Shalom!