TORAH: The Law?

TORAH: The Law?

Yeshua said in Matthew 5:17-19 Think not that I am come to destroy the Torah, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the Torah, till all be fulfilled. 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.
Yeshua also said in John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.

1 John 5:2 -3 By this we know that we love the children of elohim, when we love Yahweh, and keep his commandments. For this is the love of Yahweh, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

WHAT IS SIN?
1 John 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

IF WE LOVE ELOHIM, WHAT DOES HE WANT US TO DO?
John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.

WHAT IS LOVE AS DEFINED BY SCRIPTURE?
2 John 1:6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

HOW DO WE LOVE ELOHIM? WHAT DOES LOVING ELOHIM REALLY MEAN?
1 John 5:3 For this is the love of Elohim, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

WHAT IS THE WHOLE RESPONSIBILITY OF MAN?
Ecclesiastes 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear Elohim, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

HOW IS KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS LOVE?
Matthew 22:37-40 Yeshua said unto him, Thou shalt love YHWH thy Elohim with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second [is] like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

HOW SHOULD WE FEEL ABOUT HIS COMMANDMENTS?
Psalm 1:2 But his delight [is] in the law of YHWH; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

Psalm 119:35 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.

Proverbs 29:18 Where [there is] no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy [is] he.

DID YESHUA ABOLISH OR REMOVE ANY COMMANDMENT FROM HIS LAW AND WHAT HAPPENS IF WE TEACH AND ACT LIKE HE DID DO SUCH A THING?
Matthew 5:17-19 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fill up. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. (law and prophets) 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.

DID PAUL ABOLISH OR REMOVE ANY COMMANDMENT FROM THE LAW?
Romans 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? Elohim forbid: yea, we establish the law.

HOW DID PAUL FEEL ABOUT THE LAW?
Romans 7:22 For I delight in the law of Elohim after the inward man:

DID PAUL FOLLOW AND TEACH THE LAW OF MOSES?
Acts 21:21-25 Then they said to Paul: "You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law. 21They have been informed that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to turn away from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or live according to our customs…. Then everybody will know there is no truth in these reports about you (Paul), but that you yourself (Paul) are living in obedience to the law.

DID PAUL FOLLOW AND TEACH THE LAW OF MESSIAH?
Galatians 6:2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Messiah.

DID YESHUA TEACH SOMETHING DIFFERENT FROM THE FATHER’S COMMANDMENTS? ARE YESHUA AND THE FATHER THE SAME? (IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE LAW OF ELOHIM AND THE LAW OF MESSIAH?)
John 10:30 I and my Father are one.

John 8:28 Then said Yeshua unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.

John 8:19 Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Yeshua answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.

WHAT HAPPENS TO THOSE WHO FOLLOW THE COMMANDMENTS OF ELOHIM AND KEEP THE TESTIMONY OF YESHUA MESSIAH?
Revelations 12:17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of Elohim, and have the testimony of Yeshua Messiah.

Revelations 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

DID YESHUA STATE THAT RECEIVING THE SWORD OF TRUTH WOULD BRING PEACE?
Matthew 10:34-38 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes [shall be] they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.

WHAT DOES THE SWORD DO TO PEOPLE?
Luke 2:35 (Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of Elohim [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

WHAT DID YESHUA STATE WOULD HAPPEN IF WE FOLLOW HIS COMMANDMENTS AND WALK IN HIS PATH?
Mark 13:13 And ye shall be hated of all [men] for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO ENDURE?
Revelations 14:12 Here is the endurance of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of Elohim, and the faith of Yeshua.

HOW DO WE KNOW IF WE KNOW HIM?
1 John 2:3-6 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of Elohim perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

SHOULD BELIEVERS DO WHAT IS RIGHT IN OUR OWN EYES AND FOLLOW AFTER OUR OWN HEART OR SHOULD WE JUST SIMPLY FOLLOW HIS COMMANDMENTS?
Deuteronomy 12:8 “You shall not at all do as we are doing here today—every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes—

Ecclesiastes 11:9 Rejoice, young man, during your childhood, and let your heart be pleasant during the days of young manhood. And follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes. Yet know that Elohim will bring you to judgment for all these things.

Numbers 15:39 Seek not after your own heart and your own eyes.

SHOULD WE BE CAREFUL NOT TO ADD OR TAKE AWAY FROM HIS COMMANDMENTS?
Deuteronomy 12:32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

Deuteronomy 4:2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish [ought] from it, that ye may keep the commandments of YHWH your Elohim which I command you.

SHOULD WE SERVE, WORSHIP, AND REMEMBER YHWH IN THE SAME WAYS THAT FALSE GODS HAVE BEEN WORSHIPPED AND REMEMBERED?
Deuteronomy 12:30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? We will do the same." You must not worship YHWH your Elohim in their way

Jeremiah 10:2-5 Thus saith YHWH, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil (harm you), neither also is it in them to do good.

Deuteronomy 12:4 You must not worship YHWH your Elohim in their way.

WILL HE HAVE THE SAME COMMANDMENTS DURING HIS REIGN WHEN HE RETURNS?
Isaiah 2:2-4 And it shall come to pass in the last days, [that] the mountain of YHWH's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of YHWH, to the house of the Elohim of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of YHWH from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

TORAH: The Law?
Yeshua said in Matthew 5:17-19 Think not that I am come to destroy the Torah, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the Torah, till all be fulfilled. 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.
Yeshua also said in John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.

1 John 5:2 -3 By this we know that we love the children of elohim, when we love Yahweh, and keep his commandments. For this is the love of Yahweh, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

WHAT IS SIN?
1 John 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

IF WE LOVE ELOHIM, WHAT DOES HE WANT US TO DO?
John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.

WHAT IS LOVE AS DEFINED BY SCRIPTURE?
2 John 1:6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

HOW DO WE LOVE ELOHIM? WHAT DOES LOVING ELOHIM REALLY MEAN?
1 John 5:3 For this is the love of Elohim, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

WHAT IS THE WHOLE RESPONSIBILITY OF MAN?
Ecclesiastes 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear Elohim, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

HOW IS KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS LOVE?
Matthew 22:37-40 Yeshua said unto him, Thou shalt love YHWH thy Elohim with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second [is] like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

HOW SHOULD WE FEEL ABOUT HIS COMMANDMENTS?
Psalm 1:2 But his delight [is] in the law of YHWH; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

Psalm 119:35 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.

Proverbs 29:18 Where [there is] no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy [is] he.

DID YESHUA ABOLISH OR REMOVE ANY COMMANDMENT FROM HIS LAW AND WHAT HAPPENS IF WE TEACH AND ACT LIKE HE DID DO SUCH A THING?
Matthew 5:17-19 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fill up. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. (law and prophets) 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.

DID PAUL ABOLISH OR REMOVE ANY COMMANDMENT FROM THE LAW?
Romans 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? Elohim forbid: yea, we establish the law.

HOW DID PAUL FEEL ABOUT THE LAW?
Romans 7:22 For I delight in the law of Elohim after the inward man:

DID PAUL FOLLOW AND TEACH THE LAW OF MOSES?
Acts 21:21-25 Then they said to Paul: "You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law. 21They have been informed that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to turn away from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or live according to our customs…. Then everybody will know there is no truth in these reports about you (Paul), but that you yourself (Paul) are living in obedience to the law.

DID PAUL FOLLOW AND TEACH THE LAW OF MESSIAH?
Galatians 6:2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Messiah.

DID YESHUA TEACH SOMETHING DIFFERENT FROM THE FATHER’S COMMANDMENTS? ARE YESHUA AND THE FATHER THE SAME? (IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE LAW OF ELOHIM AND THE LAW OF MESSIAH?)
John 10:30 I and my Father are one.

John 8:28 Then said Yeshua unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.

John 8:19 Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Yeshua answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.

WHAT HAPPENS TO THOSE WHO FOLLOW THE COMMANDMENTS OF ELOHIM AND KEEP THE TESTIMONY OF YESHUA MESSIAH?
Revelations 12:17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of Elohim, and have the testimony of Yeshua Messiah.

Revelations 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

DID YESHUA STATE THAT RECEIVING THE SWORD OF TRUTH WOULD BRING PEACE?
Matthew 10:34-38 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes [shall be] they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.

WHAT DOES THE SWORD DO TO PEOPLE?
Luke 2:35 (Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of Elohim [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

WHAT DID YESHUA STATE WOULD HAPPEN IF WE FOLLOW HIS COMMANDMENTS AND WALK IN HIS PATH?
Mark 13:13 And ye shall be hated of all [men] for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO ENDURE?
Revelations 14:12 Here is the endurance of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of Elohim, and the faith of Yeshua.

HOW DO WE KNOW IF WE KNOW HIM?
1 John 2:3-6 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of Elohim perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

SHOULD BELIEVERS DO WHAT IS RIGHT IN OUR OWN EYES AND FOLLOW AFTER OUR OWN HEART OR SHOULD WE JUST SIMPLY FOLLOW HIS COMMANDMENTS?
Deuteronomy 12:8 “You shall not at all do as we are doing here today—every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes—

Ecclesiastes 11:9 Rejoice, young man, during your childhood, and let your heart be pleasant during the days of young manhood. And follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes. Yet know that Elohim will bring you to judgment for all these things.

Numbers 15:39 Seek not after your own heart and your own eyes.

SHOULD WE BE CAREFUL NOT TO ADD OR TAKE AWAY FROM HIS COMMANDMENTS?
Deuteronomy 12:32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

Deuteronomy 4:2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish [ought] from it, that ye may keep the commandments of YHWH your Elohim which I command you.

SHOULD WE SERVE, WORSHIP, AND REMEMBER YHWH IN THE SAME WAYS THAT FALSE GODS HAVE BEEN WORSHIPPED AND REMEMBERED?
Deuteronomy 12:30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? We will do the same." You must not worship YHWH your Elohim in their way

Jeremiah 10:2-5 Thus saith YHWH, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil (harm you), neither also is it in them to do good.

Deuteronomy 12:4 You must not worship YHWH your Elohim in their way.

WILL HE HAVE THE SAME COMMANDMENTS DURING HIS REIGN WHEN HE RETURNS?
Isaiah 2:2-4 And it shall come to pass in the last days, [that] the mountain of YHWH's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of YHWH, to the house of the Elohim of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of YHWH from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

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