Where To Begin Pt. 4

 Guide #4: Magnifying The Torah 

Now that you've began to learn the Torah and the importance of gaurding the Sabbath day, it's time to start putting it forth into action. 

James 1:22-25 "But be ye doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the Word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholds himself, and goes his way, and straightway forgets what manner of man he was. But whoso looks into the perfect Torah of liberty, and continues therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed." 

We are to be doers of the Word. Not just hearers. Because if we hear and we don't do we forget who we are. What we are called to be. And that is to be righteous just as he is righteous. (1 John 3:7) We were created in the image of Elohyim. Which I do believe we reflect the creator in our appearance but, we were created in his image. Meaning, we were created to be righteous beings. Free of sin. Your image is who you are, what you stand for, what you represent. The Word is the Father's image. What he stands for, what he represents. And the Word had been with him since the beginning. By gaurding his Torah, you are upholding his image. 

A lot of people try to argue that Yahusha did away with the Law. But that couldn't be farther from the truth. He magnified the Law. He made the Law louder and clearer. But people were still not wise enough to understand. 

Yahusha said in Matthew 5:17-18 "Think not that I am come to destroy the Torah, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For amein I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one yod or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the Torah, till all be fulfilled." 

The Greek word for fulfill there is Pleroo. Which means to cause to abound, to bring to overflowing, and to teach correctly. 

https://www.bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Lexicon.show/ID/G4137/pleroo.htm

Yahusha came to cause the Torah to abound and he came to teach it correctly because the world has fallen away from it. They were following after the nations. The Pharisee's were more worried about their own traditions and laws than Yahuah's. They were breaking Yahuah's commandments, transgressing the covenant, and on top of that they boasted of their works of vanity. People still argue that Yahusha ended the Law using Romans 10:4. But what they fail to do is read it in context by using the line before and after that line. So let's read that. 

Romans 10:3-5 "For they being ignorant of Elohiym's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of Elohiym. For Mashiach is the goal of the Torah for righteousness to everyone that believes. For Mosheh describes the righteousness which is of the Torah, That the man which does those things shall live in them." 

They who are ignorant of Yahuah's righteousness. And what is His righteousness? (Psalms 119:142 "Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness and your Torah is the Truth.") Those who are ignorant of his Torah establish their own righteousness. Because without using his Torah, his Word, to define what righteousness is, we'll just make up our own definition. Yahusha was the goal of the Torah. He was the example for us to follow. Yahusha says in Matthew 16:24, take up your cross and follow me. We are to crucify our old selves and be reborn into righteousness. And in your regular Protestant Bible is says in line 4 that Yahusha ended the Law. But the Greek word there is Telos. Which means goal or end result. 

https://biblehub.com/greek/5056.htm

The Law is not done away with and it is not impossible to keep. Can we not do all things through Yahusha who will give us his strength? Through the Ruach Ho'qodesh, Holy Spirit. That is to say he is a liar and cannot do all things. Which he is not, Elohiym forbid. The Law is a delight. It is water for the soul. It is a light and it is good and righteous and purifying. It is how we know we know him. When we do these things. And they are not burdensome. 

1 John 5:3 "For this is the love of Elohiym, that we guard his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous."

1 John 2:3-6 "And hereby we do know that we know him, if we guard his commandments. He that says, I know him, and guards not his commandments, is a liar, and the Truth is not in him. But whoso guards his word, in him truly is the love of Elohiym perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. He that says he abides in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked." 

John 14:15 "If ye love me, guard my commandments."

Psalms 1:2 "But his delight is in the Torah of Yahuah; and in his Torah he meditates day and night." 

Romans 8:4-5 "That the righteousness of the Torah might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Ruach. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Ruach the things of the Ruach."