When we talk about salvation, generally we think of Yeshua dying as a sin sacrifice so we can receive forgiveness of our sins, which is what saves us from death.
And God has given us three prerequisites to prepare us for salvation.
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Now, in the Bible there is a lot about forgiveness, about what God wants from us (that’s in the Torah and the Prophets), and what Yeshua taught, which is the deeper, spiritual meaning of the Torah.
Another thing we see often throughout the Bible is that God knows the heart and that, when it comes down to it, God prefers an honest heartfelt prayer to sacrifice (1 Samuel 15:22), humility to the fat of rams and bulls (Hosea 6:6), and a broken and contrite heart, which he will never turn away (Psalm 51:17).
When Yeshua taught about the Torah, what he taught was not just the plain language, “what-you-see-is-what-you-get” lesson that the Pharisees had always taught, but what we call the Remes, the deeper, spiritual meaning of the law.
(Remes is part of “PaRDeS“, which is an acronym for the Jewish exegesis tool comprised of P’shat, Remes, Drash, and Sud )
I like to say that Yeshua taught us the “heart” of the law, which is why (I believe) people said no one ever taught or spoke like he did.
In Mark 7:20-23, Yeshua tells us that the heart is where all unclean thoughts come from, making us unclean and Yacov (James) confirms Yeshua’s statements in describing the heart as the root of human behavior.
Therefore, we can easily see that the heart is truly the one thing that we most need to change in order to act and speak in a way that is pleasing to God, and to avoid sinning.
I really have come to believe that the proper conditioning of our human heart is the heart of salvation, and I see where God has shown us three prerequisites that we need to have in order to receive (and maintain) salvation.
Step One: We are to receive a new heart, replacing our heart of stone with one of flesh (Ezekiel 36:26).
Step Two: Yeshua teachings about the heart of the law so that we understand the true, spiritual meaning of God’s instructions for righteousness that he gave us in the Torah.
Step Three: The true meaning of Torah we have been taught will be written on our hearts of flesh (Jeremiah 31:31) so that we will no longer just know the Torah, we will live it and breathe it: it will be as natural for us to be obedient as it is for our heart to pump blood.
So, simple, right? God will give us a heart of flesh to prepare it so that the true meaning of Torah Yeshua taught can be written on it when the (real) new covenant that Jeremiah told us about is completed.
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That’s it for today, so l’hitraot and Baruch HaShem!