Over the past few years, I have noticed that many people with good intentions are not letting the scriptures interpret the scriptures but are giving their own opinions on what words mean based on what a pastor taught them or not doing a thorough investigation of the scriptures! This a not a light matter because our souls depend on knowing the truth and most people are complacent in their walk with YESHUA and have no desire to learn, they would rather continue voicing their opinions that will ultimately lead to their destruction.
Proverbs 18:2 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“A fool takes no pleasure in trying to understand, he only wants to express HIS OWN OPINION.”
For example, people will say “We have to walk in righteousness!” But, when asked how the scriptures define righteousness it is not based on how the scriptures define it, but rather it is based on their own idea of what it is; likewise with words such as: Sin, Grace, Righteousness, Knowledge, Understanding, Evil, Wisdom, How to love YAHWEH with all your Heart, Soul, and Might, Love, How do we Know Him, Way, Truth, and Life. This message is important so that believers will know the true definition of the words that are commonly used according to scripture and see what they ALL point to!
Before defining the words, I would like to ask you, what is the purpose of your life? How do the scriptures define it?
Ecclesiastes 12:13 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“Here is the final conclusion, now that you have heard everything: fear ELOHIM AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS; THIS IS WHAT BEING HUMAN IS ALL ABOUT.”
Deuteronomy 30:19-20 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“I call on heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have presented you with life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore, choose life, so that you will live, you and your descendants, LOVING YAHWEH (John 14:21, 1 John 5:3) your ELOHIM, paying attention to what He says and clinging to Him----FOR THAT IS THE PURPOSE OF YOUR LIFE! On this depends the length of time you will live in the land YAHWEH swore He would give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”
SIN
The first word I would like to define is the word “sin”. I have heard it said by several Christians “We don’t have to keep the Law, we just can’t continue to sin!” So, how do the scriptures define sin?
1 John 3:4 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
4” Everyone who keeps SINNING is VIOLATING TORAH — indeed, SIN is VIOLATION of TORAH.”
SIN is the very reason why YESHUA died for us!
Titus 2:14 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
14” He (YESHUA) gave Himself up on our behalf in order to free us from ALL VIOLATION OF THE TORAH and purify for himself a people who would be his own, eager to do good.”
So, scripture defines sin as transgression/breaking the Torah/Law! So going back to the statement that is made by Christians, we can see that it doesn’t make sense when they say, “We don’t have to keep the Law, we just can’t continue to sin!” If we translate their statement using the scriptural definition of sin, what they are saying is this: “We don’t have to keep the Law, we just can’t continue breaking the law!” Which means that is a contradictory statement! When we let the scriptures speak for itself, we will avoid all of these apparent contradictions.
Romans 6:23 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
23 “For what one earns from SIN IS DEATH; but eternal life is what one receives as a free gift from ELOHIM, in union with the Messiah YESHUA, our Master.”
So, what is Paul saying? Paul is saying the wages of breaking the LAW is death!
GRACE
Many will quickly say we are saved by grace; therefore, there are no works needed as believers! We are saved by grace because of YAHWEH’s love for us by sending His Son YESHUA to die for us! Grace involves YESHUA shedding His blood for us and YAHWEH’s mercy towards all who repent and keep the commandments of the Torah!
1 John 4:9-10 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“Here is how ELOHIM showed His love among us: ELOHIM sent His only Son into the world, so that through Him we might have life. Here is what love is: not that we loved YAHWEH, BUT that He loved us and sent His Son to be the atonement for our sins.”
As I explained in a previous message is that many will quote Paul in Ephesians which says:
Ephesians 2:8-9 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
8 “For you have been delivered by GRACE through trusting, and even this is not your accomplishment but ELOHIM’s gift. 9 You were not delivered by your own actions; therefore no one should boast.”
Paul is not saying that we are saved by grace and therefore we do not have to keep the commandments of the Torah! Paul is saying that WE ALL have transgressed against the commandments of YAHWEH and have fallen short of His esteem see: (Romans 3:23, Isaiah 53:4-6, 1 Kings 8:46, Enoch 81:5, Sirach 8:5) and being that we all have broken the commandments and deserve to die (Romans 6:23), we need a Savior in YESHUA (Titus 2:14). Paul is saying that none of us can save ourselves by our own actions because we all have failed! But, since YESHUA died because we broke the law, how do we continue to break the law when that is the reason why He died? The commandments are how we know Him (1 John 2:2-4) and how we love Him (John 14:21, 1 John 5:3).
Let’s look further at the word grace according to scripture!
Matthew 4:3-4 (Hebrewgospels.com)
“Satan came unto him and said to Him, “If you are the Son of ELOAH, say to these stones that they must turn into bread.” Then He answered and said to him, “It is written, “man will not live by the bread alone, but by the GRACE OF YAHWEH.”
There is a footnote attached which says “grace” is a SYNONYM FOR TORAH which is of course also a synonym of “word”. See e.g. Ps 119:29, and Exodus 33:13.”
This is correct because we see this in many other places such as the 10 commandments!
Exodus 20:5-6 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“5 You are not to bow down to them or serve them; for I, YAHWEH your ELOHIM, am a jealous ELOHIM, punishing the children for the sins of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but displaying GRACE to the thousandth generation of those who LOVE Me and OBEY my mitzvot (COMMANDMENTS).”
As we see, YAHWEH’s GRACE is contingent upon you keeping His commandments, they are connected!
2 Esdras/4th Ezra 7:132-133
“I answered and said, “I know, O YAHWEH, that the Most High is now called ‘merciful,’ because He has mercy on those who have not yet come into the world; and ‘GRACIOUS’, because He is GRACIOUS TO THOSE WHO TURN IN REPENTANCE TO HIS TORAH.”
Daniel 9:4 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
4 “I prayed to yahweh my ELOHIM and made this confession: “Please, YAHWEH, great and fearsome ELOHIM, who keeps His covenant and EXTENDS GRACE to THOSE WHO LOVE HIM AND OBSERVE HIS COMMANDMENTS!”
Wisdom Literature (Complete Dead Sea Scrolls) page 435
“And as for you, search His judgements from all your accusers with all…love Him, and with eternal loving-kindness, and with MERCY TOWARDS ALL WHO KEEP HIS WORD.”
Psalms 103:17-18
“But the MERCY of YAHWEH is on those who fear Him from eternity past to eternity future, and his righteousness extends to his children’s children, PROVIDED THEY KEEP HIS COVENANT AND REMEMBER TO FOLLOW ALL HIS PRECEPTS.”
John 1:17 (Hebrewgospels.com)
“For the LAW was given through Moses, truly, GRACE AND TRUTH CAME THROUGH YESHUA.”
As we already see is that “Grace” is synonymous and connected with the Torah and truth by scriptural definition is the Torah (Psalms 119:142), so this scripture isn’t what Christianity thinks it means, as they say “Moses gave the law, but YESHUA freed us from it through grace.” On the contrary it means that Moses received the WRITTEN TORAH from YESHUA WHO IS THE LIVING TORAH on Mount Sinai!
Acts 7:38 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“This is the Moses who said to the people of Yisra’el, ‘ELOHIM will raise up a prophet like me from among your brothers’ This is the man who was in the assembly in the wilderness, accompanied by THE ANGEL that had SPOKEN TO HIM AT MOUNT SINAI and by our fathers, the man who was given LIVING WORDS to pass on to us.”
The Angel of YAHWEH was ONE of the manifestations of YESHUA in the Old Testament see (Exodus 23:20-21) and this Angel spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai and gave Him the Torah.
John 1:29 (Hebrewgospels.com)
“Behold, this is EL (God), who takes away the iniquities from the world.”
John 1:35-36 (Hebrewgospels.com)
“And on another day, John and two of his disciples stood again, looking at YESHUA as He walked, and said, “Behold THE ANGEL OF YAHWEH.”
RIGHTEOUSNESS
Deuteronomy 6:25
“It will be RIGHTEOUSNESS for us IF WE ARE CAREFUL TO OBEY ALL THESE COMMANDMENTS before Yahweh our ELOHIM, just as he ordered us to do.’”
1 John 2:29 (Aramaic)
“If you know that HE IS RIGHTEOUS you know also that every one WHO DOES RIGHTEOUSNESS IS OF HIM.”
We know that YESHUA obeyed the Torah perfectly when He walked the earth and said He did not come to do away with it (Matthew 5:17) and we are commanded to walk as He walked (1 John 2:6), so everyone who does righteousness (obeys the Torah) belongs to YESHUA!
Many will then point to Paul using:
Romans 3:22-23 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“And it is a RIGHTEOUSNESS that comes from ELOHIM, through the faithfulness of YESHUA the Messiah, to all who continue trusting. For it makes no difference whether one is a Jew or a Gentile, since all have transgressed and come short of earning ELOHIM’s praise.”
Yes indeed, we are made righteous by the blood of YESHUA as He died for us and made many righteous (Daniel 9:24, Isaiah 53:10), but again, He died because we broke the law, so how do we continue to break the law when that is the reason why He died? See Paul understood that which is why 9 verses later he states:
Romans 3:31 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“Does it follow that we abolish Torah by this trusting? Heaven forbid! ON THE CONTRARY, WE CONFIRM TORAH.”
Which matches what YESHUA said:
Matthew 5:17 (Hebrewgospels.com)
“Moreover YESHUA MASHIACH said to His disciples, “Do not think that I came to throw down the Torah and the Prophets, ON THE CONTRARY, I came TO CONFIRM.:
KNOWLEDGE
Malachi 2:7 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“A priests lips should safeguard KNOWLEDGE, and people should seek TORAH FROM HIS MOUTH.”
Hosea 4:6 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“My people are destroyed for want of KNOWLEDGE. Because you rejected KNOWLEDGE, I will also reject you as priests for me. Because you FORGOT THE TORAH OF YOUR ELOHIM, I will also forget your children.”
UNDERSTANDING
Proverbs 13:15 (Septuagint)
“Sound discretion gives favor and to KNOW THE LAW is the part of a SOUND UNDERSTANDING.”
Psalms 119:73 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“Your hands made and formed me; give me UNDERSTANDING, SO I CAN LEARN YOUR COMMANDMENTS.”
Job 28:28 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“And to human beings he said, ‘Look, fear of YAHWEH is wisdom! SHUNNING EVIL IS UNDERSTANDING!’”
In order to understand how shunning “evil” is understanding, we must first know the scriptural definition of evil.
2 Kings 17:13 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
13 YAHWEH had warned Isra’el and Judah in advance through every prophet and seer, “Turn from your EVIL WAYS; and OBEY MY COMMANDMENTS AND REGULATIONS, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ENTIRE TORAH which I ordered your ancestors to keep and which I sent to you through my servants the prophets.”
Temple Scroll (The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls) Column 59 page 215
“They shall cry out but I will not listen; they shall scream but I will not answer them because of their EVIL DOINGS. I will hide My face from them and they shall become food, plunder and prey. None shall save them because of their WICKEDNESS, because they have BROKEN MY COVENANT AND THEIR SOUL LOATHED MY LAW until they have incurred every guilt.”
Psalms 119:53 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“Fury seizes me when I think of the WICKED, because they abandon your Torah.”
So, not keeping the commandments is defined as EVIL and WICKED! And Job says to shun breaking the commandments is understanding! So again, just like all the definitions in scripture, understanding is connected to the Torah!
Deuteronomy 4:5-6 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
5” Look, I have taught you LAWS AND RULINGS, just as YAHWEH my ELOHIM ordered me, so that you can behave accordingly in the land where you are going in order to take possession of it. 6 Therefore, observe them; and follow them; for then all peoples will see you as having wisdom and UNDERSTANDING. When they hear of all these LAWS, they will say, ‘This great nation is surely a wise and UNDERSTANDING people.”
WISDOM
The same scripture from Deuteronomy applies here for wisdom as well!
Deuteronomy 4:5-6 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
5 Look, I have taught you LAWS AND RULINGS, just as YAHWEH my ELOHIM ordered me, so that you can behave accordingly in the land where you are going in order to take possession of it. 6 Therefore, observe them; and follow them; for then all peoples will see you as having WISDOM and understanding. When they hear of all these LAWS, they will say, ‘This great nation is surely a WISE and understanding people.”
Psalms 119:98 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“I am WISER than my foes, BECAUSE YOUR COMMANDMENTS ARE MINE FOREVER.”
Proverbs 24:7 (Septuagint)
“WISDOM AND GOOD UNDERSTANDING are in the gates of the wise; THE WISE DO NOT TURN ASIDE FROM THE MOUTH OF YAHWEH…”
Sirach 9:15
“Let your talk be WITH THE WISE AND ALL YOUR COMMUNICATION IN THE LAW OF THE MOST HIGH.
Sirach 24:23-26
“All this is the BOOK OF THE COVENANT OF THE MOST HIGH ELOHIM, THE LAW THAT MOSES COMMANDED US as an inheritance for the congregations of Jacob. It overflows, like the Pishon, WITH WISDOM, and like the Tigris at the time of the first fruits. It runs over, like the Euphrates, with UNDERSTANDING, and like the Jordan at harvest time. It pours fourth INSTRUCTION like the Nile, like the Gihon at the time of vintage.”
Sirach 33:2
“The WISE WILL NOT HATE THE LAW, but the one who is hypocritical about it is like a boat in a storm.”
2 Baruch 77:15-16
“And I answered and said to them: “Shepherds and lamps and springs come FROM THE TORAH. And though we pass on, the TORAH ABIDES. If, therefore, you LOOK to THE TORAH AND WILL BE HEEDING WISDOM, the lamp will not be wanting and the shepherd not departing and the spring not drying up.”
Loving YAHWEH with HEART, SOUL, AND MIGHT
2 Kings 23:25 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“No previous king was like him (Josiah); because he turned to YAHWEH with all of his HEART, with all His BEING (SOUL) and with all HIS POWER, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ALL THE TORAH OF MOSES.”
Temple Scroll (The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls) Column 59 page 215
“Afterwards they will return to Me with all their HEART AND ALL THEIR SOUL, IN CONFORMITY WITH ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LAW, and I will save them from the hand of their enemies and redeem them from the hand of those who hate them, and I will bring them to the land of their fathers. I will redeem them, and increase them and exult over them. I will be their ELOHIM and they shall be My people.”
Deuteronomy 10:12-13 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“So now, Yisra’el, all that YAHWEH your ELOHIM asks from you is to fear YAHWEH your ELOHIM, follow ALL HIS WAYS, love Him and serve YAHWEH your ELOHIM with ALL YOUR HEART AND ALL YOUR BEING (SOUL); to OBEY for your own good, the COMMANDMENTS AND REGULATIONS of YAHWEH which I am giving you today.”
LOVE
John 14:21 (Hebrewgospels.com)
“He who keeps My COMMANDMENTS, is He who LOVES ME. And whosoever loves Me, will be loved by My Father; and I will love Him and will reveal Myself to him.”
1 John 5:3 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“For LOVING ELOHIM MEANS OBEYING HIS COMMANDS. Moreover, His commands are not burdensome…”
Testament of Joseph 11:1
“Therefore my children, you also have the fear of ELOHIM in all your works before your eyes, and honor your brothers. For EVERYONE who DOES THE TORAH OF YAHWEH WILL BE LOVED BY HIM.”
Testament of Naphtali 8:10
“Therefore be wise in ELOHIM, my children, and prudent, understanding the order of His COMMANDS, and every WORD OF THE TORAH, THAT YAHWEH MAY LOVE YOU.”
1 Epistle Clement of Rome Chapter 49
“Let him who HAS LOVE in Messiah KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF MESSIAH.”
Thanksgiving Hymns (Complete Dead Sea Scrolls) Hymn 8, page 258
“Grant me the place of Thy loving-kindness which Thou hast chosen for them that LOVE THEE AND KEEP THY COMMANDMENTS, that they may STAND IN THY PRESENCE FOR EVER.”
Those who show YAHWEH they love Him by keeping His commandments will live forever!
How do we KNOW HIM?
1 John 2:3-4 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
3” The way we can be sure we KNOW HIM is if we are obeying his commands. 4 Anyone who says, “I KNOW HIM,” but isn’t obeying his commands is a liar — the truth is not in him.”
2 Thessalonians 1:7-8 (Aramaic)
“And to you who are oppressed He shall grant to be at peace with us when our Master YESHUA HA’MASHIACH shall be revealed from heaven with the host of His angels. At which time He will avenge with flaming fire those who KNOW NOT ELOHIM and those who do not acknowledge the gospel of our Master YESHUA HA’MASHIACH; for they at the judgment day, shall be rewarded with everlasting destruction from the presence of our Master and from the esteem of His power…”
In these two verses Paul is saying that those who do not keep the commandments and believe in YESHUA just as Revelation 14:12 says, will be rewarded with everlasting fire!
Matthew 7:21-23 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Master, Master!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, only those who do what my Father in heaven wants. 22 On that Day, many will say to me, ‘Master, Master! Didn’t we prophesy in your name? Didn’t we expel demons in your name? Didn’t we perform many miracles in your name?’ 23 Then I will tell them to their faces, ‘I never KNEW YOU! Get away from me, you workers of LAWLESSNESS!’
YESHUA’s words are a perfect match to what we read in Psalms!
Psalms 119:118 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“You REJECT ALL WHO STRAY FROM YOUR LAWS, for what they deceive themselves with is false.”
Psalms 119:155 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“Salvation is far away from the wicked, BECAUSE THEY DO NOT SEEK YOUR LAWS.”
WAY
Psalms 103:7 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“He made HIS WAYS known to Moses.”
What was given to Moses on Mount Sinai? The 10 commandments which are YAHWEH’s WAYS!
Psalms 119:1 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“How happy are those who WAY OF LIFE is blameless, who LIVE BY THE TORAH OF YAHWEH!”
Malachi 2:9 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“Therefore I have in turn made you contemptible and vile before all the people, because you did not KEEP MY WAYS but were partial in applying THE TORAH.”
Revelation 15:3 (Hebrewgospels.com)
“And they sang the song of Moses and the song of the Lamb, and said, “Great are the works of YAHWEH ELOHEI Ha-Tseva’ot! Righteousness (Deuteronomy 6:25) and truth (Psalms 119:142) are YOUR WAYS O King of kings!”
1 Kings 2:1-3 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“The time came near for David to die; so he commissioned Solomon his son as follows: “I am going the way of all the earth. Therefore, be strong; show yourself a man. Observe the charge of YAHWEH your ELOHIM to go in HIS WAYS and KEEP HIS REGULATIONS, COMMANDMENTS, RULINGS AND INSTRUCTIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH WHAT IS WRITTEN IN THE TORAH OF MOSES; so that you will succeed in all you do and wherever you go.”
Isaiah 64:4 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“You favored those who were glad to do justice, those who remembered you in YOUR WAYS. When you were angry, we kept transgressing; but if we keep Your ANCIENT WAYS, WE WILL BE SAVED.”
TRUTH
Psalms 119:142 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“Your righteousness is eternal righteousness, and Your TORAH IS TRUTH.”
Psalms 119:151 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“You are close by, YAHWEH; and all Your COMMANDMENTS ARE TRUTH.”
Psalms 119:160 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“The main thing about Your WORD is that IT’S TRUE; and all Your just rulings last forever.”
John 17:17 (Hebrewgospels.com)
“Sanctify them IN TRUTH- YOUR WORD IS TRUTH.”
2 Baruch 44:14
“They are the ones who have acquired for themselves reservoirs of wisdom and with whom treasures of understanding are found. From mercy they have not withdrawn, and they have kept THE TRUTH OF THE TORAH.”
LIFE
Proverbs 14:27 (Septuagint)
“The COMMANDMENT of YAHWEH is a FOUNTAIN OF LIFE.”
John 12:49-50 (Hebrewgospels.com)
“For I do not speak of Myself; but the Father who sent Me, He commanded Me to speak and to command and I know that HIS COMMANDMENT IS EVERLASTING LIFE. And that which I speak is identical to that which The Father speaks—so I speak.”
Deuteronomy 32:45-47 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“When he had finished speaking all these words to all Yisra’el, he said to them, “Take to heart all the words of my testimony against you today, so that you can use them in charging your children to be careful to OBEY ALL THE WORDS OF THIS TORAH. For this not a trivial matter for you; on the contrary, IT IS YOUR LIFE!”
2 Esdras 14:29-30
“At first, our fathers dwelt as aliens in Egypt, and they were delivered from there, and received the LAW OF LIFE, which they did not keep, which you also have transgressed after them.”
2 Baruch 38:2
“Your TORAH IS LIFE, and Your wisdom is uprightness.”
There can be no doubts that all these words and their definitions point to the Torah! So how can the law be done away with? This should be an eye-opening message and you should now be armed with the complete truth! The scriptures and the definitions point for us to do this:
Revelation 14:12 (Hebrewgospels.com)
“Here is the hope of the set-apart ones, and here are those who DO THE COMMANDMENTS OF YAHWEH, AND BELIEVE IN YESHUA.”
So, when YESHUA says He is the Way, The Truth, and the Life in John 14:6, He is saying that He is the LIVING TORAH! The scriptures exhort us to obey the written Torah and have faith in YESHUA the Living Torah for they are the same thing! From now on when you see the words: Sin, Grace, Righteousness, Knowledge, Understanding, Evil, Wisdom, how to love YAHWEH with all your heart, soul, and might, Love, How do we know Him, Way, Truth, and Life, know that they all point to the TORAH that we must be obeying!
As always may YAHWEH bless you all in YESHUA’s Name!