So many times I have heard people who claim to be Christians and to follow in Jesus’s footsteps say that he did away with the law.
And I have always wondered how anyone can believe that God sent his very own son to tell everyone they don’t have to obey him anymore.
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I am going to make this one short and simple, and maybe not even answer the question I posed in the title because the one answer that really matters is, as usual, the one people come up with on their own.
Well, maybe not that short.
Perhaps that is why the path to salvation is a narrow road and the gate to eternal joy in God’s presence is a very thin one- it’s because people prefer what they want to what God says they need to do.
Christianity teaches that the son of God came to earth to provide a means for us to be forgiven (by his sacrificial death) because he died a sinless lamb of God.
That much they got right.
Of course, the only way that could be is for him to have lived a Torah observant life, never failing to do only what God said to do in the Torah.
The Torah was the only God-given instructions that existed back then, and (for the record) are still the only God-given instructions that exist today, since there is nothing “new” in any of the New Covenant writings.
So… most Christian rhetoric says that the Messiah’s death did away with the Torah, but since the Torah is what God gave us to show us what is sin and what is not (Romans 7:7), then if there is no more Torah there is no more sin.
That brings us back to the title of today’s message: if there is no sin why do we still need a Messiah?
If there is no Torah there is no sin, so why pray for forgiveness if there is nothing to be forgiven?
And please don’t say that there are still the moral laws because that also goes against the Bible.
In James 2:10, he says that if you break even one law then you have broken them all, so if you say there are some laws that are valid for Gentiles and some that are not, then you are still going against what the Bible says because if you reject one law, which is breaking it, then you have (effectively) broken them all, which would be a sin if the Torah was still valid, right?
Again, we always come back to the same thing: if there is no law then there is no sin, and if there is no sin then there is no longer a need for the Messiah and everyone- believer AND non-believer- are now saved.
Do you believe everyone is saved?
Do you believe that Gentiles don’t have to obey the Torah?
Do you really believe that God sent his son to the earth to tell us to reject all his laws?
I don’t believe any of those things!
What I believe is that God sent Yeshua to provide a means for us to be forgiven of our sins, which is the only way we can enter into God’s presence, and he did that not by doing away with the very means of attaining righteousness in God’s eyes (which is outlined in the Torah), but by replacing the need to bring an animal to the temple.
The Torah demands that all sacrifices must be made where God places his name (Deut. 4 and 12) and that was the temple in Jerusalem. With the destruction of that temple, there was no way to be forgiven of sin.
THAT is why he sent Yeshua when he did. And that is why the Torah is still valid for everyone who professes to worship the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Oh, but wait a minute! Many Christian religions (and brother, there are a lot of them!) teach that Yeshua IS the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, so I guess in that case they can justify that God is telling us we don’t have to obey him anymore.
Oh, but wait another minute! God also said that his commandments were for all our generations, which means as long as we are “generating”, his laws are still valid and Yeshua confirmed that by saying nothing will change until all things have come to pass (Matthew 5:17).
It seems that whether you believe God and Yeshua are totally separate entities or the same one, either way he/they both confirm that the Torah is valid for all believers, Jew and Gentile, until the Apocalypse is over.
Have the 7 scrolls been read?
Have the horsemen gone throughout the earth?
Is the anti-Christ in charge (don’t get political on me)?
Has 2/3 of the earth been destroyed?
Have the 7 bowls of God’s wrath been poured out over the earth?
Have you been marked by the angel God sent to identify the saved?
Has the new Jerusalem been lowered from heaven?
Is there still evil in the world?
Hmmm… I guess that means everything isn’t done yet, so nothing has changed, which means the Torah is still God’s law for righteousness and Yeshua is still a Messiah we need because there is still sin in the world.
Like it or not, the Torah is STILL God’s “User Manual for Righteousness” and Yeshua has not changed anything regarding obedience to the commandments in the Torah for all who believe in God.
There is one thing that has changed, and that is we no longer need the temple to be forgiven of sin because through faithful belief that Yeshua is the Messiah God promised to send and that after he died he was resurrected (proving that obedience to the Torah IS how we can be saved) so that now his shed blood replaced the need to sacrifice an animal at the temple.
If you prefer to believe that the son of God came to the earth to tell people to worship him and that they can reject everything his father said to do in the Torah because now he is in charge, well… good luck with that.
Thank you for being here and please comment and remember to 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 today, so l’hitraot and Baruch HaShem!!