The Law, Misconceptions,
“Has It Really Been Done Away With?”
Just a note to the readers of this book, when we see (10 Commandments), they are referred to as (the Law), and should be translated as (Instructions), or even more accurately, as the (10 Words) from the Hebrew. The word Law as we understand it is actually the Torah.
Has the Law been done away with? That question has been on the lips of people seeking the truth of the Scriptures for many years. If you ask any Pastor, Preacher, or any other Paid professional person that teaches in what we call churches today, they will say that we are not under the Law, That the Law has been done away with, or it was nailed to the Cross. That we are now under Grace… Is this really, what the Scriptures teach? If so, great, then we have no burdens of the Law).
Ø Mt 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my BURDEN is light.
(burden in Mt. 11:30)
Strong #: 2218 zugovß Zugos (dzoo-gos'); Noun Masculine,
1. a yoke
a. a yoke that is put on draught cattle
b. metaph., used of any burden or bondage
1. as that of slavery
2. of troublesome laws imposed on one, esp. of the Mosaic
law, hence the name is so transferred to the commands of Christ as to contrast them with the commands of the Pharisees which were a veritable 'yoke'; yet even Christ's commands must be submitted to, though easier to be kept
2. a balance, pair of scales
However, if the Law has not been done away with, why is it being taught as though it has? If then, the Law has not been done away with, as is being taught in most so called churches today, then we are in trouble, because we have not followed the Fathers INSTRUCTIONS. Where do the Scriptures say that the Law has been done away with? If in fact the Law has not been done away with, what possible reason could there be to teach such a thing?
Here is the answer: His Burden is the Torah or the Law!!! If He says that His Law is not too hard to observe and do, then why does the church today say that we could never keep His Commandments? Could it be that we have believed that old lie from the Devil for so long, that it is (just) what we tell ourselves now? Remember, the Devil does not want us to have a relationship with the Father, and if we keep His Commandments, then we walk in His ways and in His righteousness by the blood of Messiah. The Devil just will not have that. Therefore, he is going to tell us that the Torah is not for us today, whereby causing us to reject the Fathers Instructions on how to live a healthy and holy life.
If you really have a sincere desire to serve the Father, then I beg you to conceder “Take a new look at”, what has been right in front of you all the time, but either you didn’t understand it, or you were told that you didn’t have to follow these Commandments. Please take a new look at how the Father has commanded us to live.
The Torah (LAW) is the STANDARD in which we live once we are saved by His Grace. It is the evidence of our TRUE commitment and love to the Father and to His Son because we love Him for shedding His Blood and giving His Life for us. Reference: Rom. Chapter 7 and 8
The Laws of The United States of America: As citizens of this country, are we required to keep the laws of this country, and if we choose not to keep its laws, what happens to us? Ok, think about this, if you are not living here in the USA, and you wanted to come here and become a citizen, what would happen if you choose to not keep the laws here in this country, or if you said when you came here you wanted to be part of this country and one of its citizens, but you were unwilling to keep its laws, that the laws of this country do not apply to you. What would the reaction of this country? After all, the laws of this country do not apply to you because these laws should only apply to the people that were born into this country, right? You should be exempt from the laws that everyone else is required to keep, you are new here and you do not feel you should have to keep those old laws like the citizens here before you.
Here is a very powerful and moving thought… The Law was not the covenant that the Father made with His people; it is the result of the covenant or the evidence of the covenant. So, if the Law was and is not the covenant, what was it or what is it, “The Covenant”? Therefore, as we read in what is called the New Testament were the Messiah says, “If you love me, keep my Commandments”, it would mean that by keeping the Torah, the Law, His Commandments, we then are grafted into His covenant with His people, and by keeping His Torah, it is the evidence that we love Him and are His people. Loyalty to the Father is doing His will, and His will is for us to be in His covenant, and to be in His covenant, we are obligated to keep His Torah. So how can anyone ever say the Torah has been done away with? Without Torah living, there is no evidence of our being saved and of our love for Him, and therefore there is not any covenant of any kind. We are doomed for a forever death without His Torah, and so, keeping His Torah is a sign that we are saved by His grace and as a sign that we Love Him, and that He loves us as well by His death for our sins. This is the Covenant…
The Spirit of the Messiah is The Law, "Torah" and without the Spirit we have death, The Law of the flesh is sin, if we live with sin, we are living a Lawless life or Torahless life.
Ø Deut 4:2 “Do not add to the Word which I command you, and do not take away from it1, so as to guard the commands of יהוה your Elohim which I am commanding you.
Footnote: 1See also 12:32, Prov. 30:6, Rev. 22:18-19.
Ø Deut 12:32 “All the words I am commanding you, guard to do it – do not add to it nor take away from it.
1 Footnote: 1See also 4:2, Prov. 30:6, Rev. 22:18-19.
Ø Prov 30:6 Do not add to His Words1, Lest He reprove you,
Footnote: 1Dt. 4:2 & 12:32, Rev. 22:18-19. and you be found a liar.
Ø Rev 22:18 For I witness to everyone hearing the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to them, Elohim shall add to him the plagues that are written in this book,
Ø Rev 22:19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, Elohim shall take away his part from the Book of Life, and out of the set-apart city, which are written in this Book.
Did the Son ever teach that any of the Laws was done away with? Did John, Peter, James, Paul, or any other person listed as teachers in the Scriptures ever say that the Law - (Ten Commandment) had been or ever would be dismissed, done away with, said that they are no longer valid, or nailed to the cross? No, Nada, not even a suggestion of such a thing can be found anywhere in the Scriptures. Yet the majority of the Biblical teachers of today teach this. Why? More on that in a little bit, but first, let me ask a question. Which of the Commandments are we supposed to follow according to the teachers of today? Alternatively, a better question is, “Which of the Commandments are we allowed to NOT observe”? One of the Torah Instructions that I have noticed that they "The Church Leaders" are quick to dismiss is the Sabbath. Hum, I want you to think about how our world is trying so hard say that we were not created, but rather we evolved from some sort of goo. The Sabbath is a celebration of Creation.
Anyway, I will go into a great deal of depth on the Sabbath under the Chapter called “The Sabbath”.
Ø Mt 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. :18 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. :19 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.
Ø Mat 5:17 “Do not think that I came to destroy the Torah or the Prophets.1 I did not come to destroy but to complete.
Footnote: 1The Law and the Prophets is a term used for the pre-Messianic Scriptures.
Ø Mat 5:18 “For truly, I say to you, till the heaven and the earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall by no means pass from the Torah till all be done.
1 Footnote: (Luk 16:17 “And it is easier for the heaven and the earth to pass away than for one tittle of the Torah to fall.)
Ø Mat 5:19 “Whoever, then, breaks one of the least of these commands, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the reign of the heavens; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the reign of the heavens.
Ø Pr 28:9 He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.
hb[wt Tow`ebah (to-ay-baw'); Noun Feminine, Strong #: 8441 (in Prov. 28:9 abomination)
1. a disgusting thing, abomination, abominable
a. in ritual sense (of unclean food, idols, mixed marriages)
b. in ethical sense (of wickedness etc)
H8441 תּעבה תּועבה
tô‛êbah tô‛êbah to-ay-baw', to-ay-baw'
Feminine active participle of H8581; properly something disgusting (morally), that is, (as noun) an abhorrence; especially idolatry or (concretely) an idol: - abominable (custom, thing), abomination.
The Devil would have us believe that following the Fathers Instructions is legalism. Rubbish! It is the only way to salvation through the Messiah. If the Father has giving us His Instructions because He cares for us, His Children, on how to live a holy and healthy life, just why would the church teach that it is legalism? His Instructions are to help, not to burden us! When we have a child that is still young, and that child reaches for a pan of boiling water, don’t we as parents instruct them, sometimes through discipline, not to reach for it because it is harmful to them, and we are looking out for them and protecting them? How is what the Father has done for us in His instructions, “The Torah”, any different? His Instructions certainly are not legalism, that’s just the title the Devil has spread to cause us not to obey the Father.
Ø John 14:15 If ye love me, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS.
Ø John 14:21 He that hath MY COMMANDMENTS, and KEEPeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of MY Father, and I will love him, and will manifest MYself to him.
Ø John 15:10 If ye KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS, ye shall abide in MY love; even as I have kept MY Father's COMMANDMENTS, and abide in his love.
He said if you love Him, to keep His Commandments. What else do we need to know? He stated that we need to keep His Commandments. I personally cannot understand how anyone can read / change what He said into we do not need to keep His Commandments or even just part of them. He never said that we were not under the Law. So, anything contrary to His teachings come for the Devil and are all lies.
Ø Prov 28:9 He who turns away his ear from hearing the Torah, Even his prayer is an abomination.
Footnote: 1See also 15:29, Isa. 59:1-2, John 9:31, 1 John 3:22.
ØProv 15:29 The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.
Ø Isa 59:1 Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: Isa 59:2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Ø John 9:31 Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
Ø 1John 3:22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. :23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment. :24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
Ø 1John 2:3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. :4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Ø 1John 2:5 But whoso keepeth * his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. :6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked. :7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
Some could say that the Law is just for the Jews, but they show their ignorance of the Scriptures, because the Father did not give His Instructions to just the Jews, He gave them to ALL of the tribes of Israel. Once we accept the Messiah as our King, then we are grafted in to the body of Messiah, which means we become Israelites by faith. Therefore, All of His Instructions are for us forever.
(Exodus 12:38 The Scriptures 1998+) And a mixed multitude went up with them too, also flocks and herds, very much livestock.
(Numbers 11:4 The Scriptures 1998+) And the mixed multitude who were in their midst lusted greatly, so the children of Yisra’ĕl also wept again and said, “Who is giving us meat to eat?
Deuteronomy 29:9-15 The Scriptures 1998+
(9) “Therefore you shall guard the words of this covenant, and do them, so that you prosper in all that you do.
(10) “All of you are standing today before יהוה your Elohim: your leaders, your tribes, your elders and your officers, all the men of Yisra’ĕl,
(11) your little ones, your wives, and your sojourner who is in the midst of your camp, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water,
(12) so that you should enter into covenant with יהוה your Elohim, and into His oath, which יהוה your Elohim makes with you today,
(13) in order to establish you today as a people for Himself, and He Himself be your Elohim, as He has spoken to you, and as He has sworn to your fathers, to Aḇraham, to Yitsḥaq, and to Yaʽaqoḇ.
(14) “And not with you alone I am making this covenant and this oath,
(15) but with him who stands here with us today before יהוה our Elohim, as well as with him who is not here with us today.
(Nehemiah 13:3 ASV) And it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
(Nehemiah 10:28 ASV) And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinim, and all they that had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one that had knowledge, and understanding; 29 ASV they clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Jehovah our Lord, and His ordinances and His statutes; :30 and that we would not give our daughters unto the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons; :31 and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy of them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt. :32 Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God; :33 for the showbread, and for the continual meal-offering, and for the continual burnt-offering, for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin-offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.