Truth Seeker: Former Atheist to degreed Christian Minister to True Repentance & Follower of Messiah. Keeper of The Word. Friendly neighbor. Espresso aficionado.
Can we really use Apostle Paul's words to discredit God's Word?
Absolutely not.
So, if Paul's words contridict God's word, we have two options:
Either Paul must be thrown out.
OR maybe, just maybe, we are misinterpreting Paul.
Either way, the Word of God stands.
Obey God.
Jesus kept the Biblical Feasts.
I'll never forget one of my Bible professors stopping in the middle of his lecture, and asks the class while teaching about God's Appointed Times, "You know, why don't we as Christians keep the Holy Days in the Bible? We keep Christmas and Easter,
I place my faith and trust in Messiah. He is my salvation.
I keep the Law of Moses because God commanded it and Messiah showed me the right way to walk.
Have I lost my salvation?
Jesus Christ kept the front of the Bible.
Believers are to do the same.
Did you know that Jesus never at pork or shellfish?
That he kept the Sabbath day perfectly?
Did you know there are Biblical "Holidays" that are to be kept forever?
He loved perfectly.
This is The Way.
It still shocks me that many demonize the Law of Moses.
For those that think negatively about the Law in anyway, I beg you to reconsider.
The Law of Moses was a beautiful and merciful gift that lights the path of righteousness, blessings, and life.
It's The Way.
Read Ps 119
Jesus can not add to nor take away from the Law of Moses.
Deuteronomy 12:32 - 13 prevents anyone, including the Son of God, from changing anything in the Law of God.
Thankfully, Messiah explicitly commands his followers to hear and obey the Law in Matthew 23.
This is The Way.
If Messiah declared all animals clean and okay to eat in Matthew 15 and Mark 7...
why did Peter tell God that he never ate anything unclean and never will in Acts 10?
The reality is that if Messiah added to or took away from the Law of Moses in any way. He was not the Messiah.
Keeping the Law of Moses because one loves Almighty God with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength...
is exactly why Messiah kept the Law.
This is The Way.
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The Law of Moses is actually the Law of God from the very mouth of God Himself. For your good always.
I hope you will consider it from a positive lens only.
Because if you see it as negative in any way, you are seeing God Himself as something negative.
Law = His Ways.
Messiah says that those who continue in sin are slaves to sin.
He calls us to walk in the light.
Follow him; go and sin no more.
With Messiah all things are possible.
Repent. For the kingdom of God is at hand!
Those who are children of God do his will.
This is The Way
God cannot give us instruction that is contrary to who He is.
Otherwise, he would be instructing us to sin.
We were made in His image.
Sin is Lawlessness.
Keep the Law of Moses.
Be like Messiah.
Walk in Their Ways.
It will be life and blessing for you.
This is The Way.
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@nicksortor
, I highly encourage you to start in the front of the book.
As a former atheist, who was awoken to the truth, I was told to start in Matthew. This is a big big mistake!
Ask God to reveal the truth and nothing but the truth, open the first page, and root yourself as a
If someone professes faith in Messiah and that they keep the Law of Moses...
How can you claim they are trying perform works for salvation when they already admitted they trust Messiah and know him?
Most people I meet who follow Jesus & strive to keep the Law of Moses do it because they believe and trust him and want to love God with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength.
They are ones who accept the free gift of salvation that we could never ever earn.
This is The Way
The time has come for followers of Jesus Christ to fully repent and walk in the Ways of Almighty God.
When I learned that I needed to repent from eating pork and shellfish, it opened my eyes to the whole Law of Moses being relevant and the way of true repentance.
Acts 10
Paul kept & taught believers to keep the Law of Moses.
He even took a Nazarite vow and offered sacrifices to prove it. Acts 21 is clear.
He wasn't a used car salesman who spoke one way to the Jews & another to the Gentiles.
Nay.
He proclaimed the Good News.
Follow Messiah.
When the Law of Moses is read... you are reading about Messiah Yahusha.
🚨The Law of Moses is the revelation of the true Messiah, and the Ways of Almighty God.
Don't believe me? Listen to Messiah himself. Here are his very words in John 5...
“I can do nothing on my own. As I
Just do what God said to do.
It's that simple.
That's literally what Messiah did.
If you love your Father, you do what he says. You know he loves you and wants what's best for you.
Do... what God said to do.
You cannot come to the conclusion that all animals are clean unless you only read the New Testament and misinterpret the whole thing. Isaiah 65 and 66 are clear that swine eaters are abominable to God and will be destroyed. This is a prophecy btw and it hasn't been fulfilled.
Messiah did not come here and keep the Law of Moses because it was required of him... he did it because that's his true character and who he has always been.
He was tempted to stray from who he is, was, and always will be--yet he prevailed! He stayed true to himself.
Messiah
Jesus is the Son of God.
Doesn't Scripture, over and over, express that Jesus is the Son of God?
For those that believe in the trinity, what are the best verses you have to support your current perspective?
I didn't know that the Law of Moses were the revealed ways of God.
- I didn't know when I was an atheist
- I didn't know when I was a new believer
In fact, I was never taught it in Bible College.
Most people don't know this vital truth.
Joshua 22:5
Psalm 119
This is The Way
⚠️ Here is your regular reminder that everything that you think Apostle Paul said, as well as Messiah, absolutely 💯 must pass the Deuteronomy test found in Deut. 12:32-13.
If it doesn't, they are to be disregarded & deserve death.
This is an absolute fact that changed my life.
You can never go wrong being obedient to the One who created all things.
Never.
The One who loves you more than you can ever imagine.
The One who is mercifully patient with each of us...
Instead, be like Messiah, who always pointed us to our Father's Ways.
This is The Way.
@sneako
Jesus kept the Law of Moses and called us to do the same.
Did Jesus keep the Sabbath? Yes, so keep the Sabbath.
Did Jesus keep the Biblical Holy Days? Yes, so keep them too.
What did Jesus do? He kept the Law of Moses and obeyed God.
Do you follow him?
Did you know that the Law of Moses are the revealed ways of Almighty God if he were to walk on earth under the circumstances of sin and death?
Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God,
How powerful would it be if your pastor or minister admitted that they misinterpreted or misunderstood a passage of Scripture?
It would get my attention.
Could you imagine if Pastors across the world took responsibility & admitted that God was clear about not eating pork or
Jesus said, "For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?"
Do you believe Moses, who was also sent from God?
🚨Believing in the name of Messiah, is not merely believing and recanting his name. It's believing in who he was on earth and who he is. When you think of Sean, you don't think of my name, you think of who you know me to be (in character and in deed).
We only know Messiah as a
If Jesus is not the Son of God and is instead God himself, the text would not record him as the Son of God.
It would simply say: God came in the flesh himself, to take the sins upon himself, for us.
There is no need to codify and call Messiah the Son of God unless he truly is.
Keeping the Law of Moses is not about being perfect. It never was.
We have all fallen short of the glory of God. This is why God provided us with sacrifices.
How do you think Enoch walked with God? He applied the Law rightly, including sacrifices & offerings.
This is the Way.
Did you know that God gave us an even better WWJD bracelet that helps remind us to keep walking on The Way?
Believers are actually commanded to wear them... just as Jesus wore them.
Numbers 15:37-41:
37 The Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the people of Israel, and tell them to
Jesus Christ encourages us to offer sacrifices according to the Law of Moses:
"So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and
If Jesus changed the Sabbath to Sunday, he is a false Messiah.
God says such a person is deserving of death.
Please read Deuteronomy 13.
Then read Psalm 119.
The Law of Liberty is fully experienced when we obey God's loving instructions and walk as our Messiah walked.
Anyone who does this will surely attest to the freedom of being a child of Almighty God!
The Law of Moses are the ways of God and Messiah.
This is The Way.
Acts 15 does not close the case on "Law keeping."
Instead, the council concludes that new believers will learn & obey the Law of Moses when they regularly meet on the Sabbath.
In fact, that council tells Paul to pay for sacrifices to prove he keeps the Law.
Please consider:
@RuslanKD
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@RuslanKD
, don't close the case just yet. 🙂
I have a feeling you will take this reply very seriously. It could be one of the most important conversations of your life. I hope it encourages you and that we can both learn from each other in a way that glorifies our Messiah and
The same person who wrote Galatians is the same person who took a Nazarite vow and offered several sacrifices and offerings to prove that he keeps and teaches the Law of Moses.
What does that say about the true message of Galatians?
Deuteronomy 13 declares nothing can be added to nor taken away from the Law.
If anyone, even a potential Messiah, adds to or takes away from the Torah...
God says they are false and to be rejected--unto destruction.
The true Messiah is the Law of Moses in the flesh.
Follow.
If we have the ability to sin, don't we have the ability to choose not to sin?
Doesn't Jesus tell us, over & over, that we are to act righty--choosing the right responses & actions--loving God & our neighbor?
Can't we choose not to eat pork & shellfish?
Rest on the Sabbath?
If God knows the beginning and the end... did he know he was sending Messiah?
If he knows the beginning and the end, aren't his instructions unchanging?
"For I Yah do not change.." Malachi 3:6
If the Law of Moses are the ways of God and you were made in their image.
Do them.
If Messiahs death and resurrection made way for pigs to be considered food at any time in our history...
Messiah disqualified himself as Messiah and Savior.
See what I'm talking about in this blog I wrote for you:
Society knows & says not to murder, steal, commit adultery.
We are set apart by becoming like God:
- Keeping the Sabbath Day
- Keeping God's Holy Days
- Keeping His definition of food
- Loving your neighbor by His standard, which is optimum
Be like Messiah.
This is The Way
Do you set your "compass" every morning? 🧭
It's an amazing life when we set our day's heading in the direction of:
- I love God with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength.
- I love my neighbor as myself
Intentional, self-disciplined living is The Way of our Messiah Yeshua.
If God gave mankind any instruction that was contrary to His own ways, wouldn't he be causing us to sin?
The Law of Moses is a revelation of The One who gave you life.
We are to become like our Father.
What an honor and privilege.
This is The Way.
Either following Messiah means living how he lived, or we don't have to follow him.
If someone says follow me and you stray even a smidge to the right or left... you've gone astray.
If you follow a Master because they are a Master, you do exactly as they do.
This is The Way.
When Paul or Messiah spoke about love being the fulfillment of the Law of Moses, it wasn't misdirection not to keep the Law.
It was actually encouragement to rightly keep and apply the Law.
They are verses that teach us how to keep the Law of Moses.
The Law is all about love.
If an Apostle taught to walk away from a single command in the Law of Moses... God Himself says to reject them and put them to death. Deut 13
Why in the world does anyone think they didn't keep and teach the Law?
You can rest assured: anyone who obeys the Father is on the right path.
Messiah proved this and guided us to such holiness.
Shalom to those who humbly seek and walk on The Way.
"Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does
The one who said in Galatians, "if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you..."
Also had Timothy circumcised.
So what does Paul's action say about the right interpretation of Galatians?
Paul clearly encourages circumcision.
🚨 Notice that when Paul says this, Jesus has already risen and ascended:
"These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ."
In other words, Paul still clings to the shadow and anticipates the substance of Messiah who will return and all will then
If you think Acts 10 is about making pork or shellfish food, you're missing out on something monumental.
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🪖 It's all about Cornelius, who is such an encouragement!!
Please don't miss this:
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Quite frankly, it's such a blessing that's a fact.
This is why those who follow him know why He is the Law of Liberty.
He is The Way.
Jesus would 💯 agree with this:
Everyone who does not practice righteousness, is not of God.
No one who abides in Messiah keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen Messiah or known Messiah.
Let no one deceive you.
"Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat, so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice."
May we all follow Messiah rightly, obey God, and walk in His ways.
The end of the matter; all has been heard.
Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.
🚨 Christians
Friendly reminder that we are to grow and bear the fruit of the Spirit:
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
This is the good fruit of The Way.
May we all be more like Messiah today.
⚠️ This is huge...
Messiah, who condemned the Pharisees at every turn, was okay if his disciples, new believers, and if you or I sat in their presence and joined their assemblies. Think about it...
Messiah who didn't mince words, said that ones righteousness had to exceed that
Everyone must pass the Deuteronomy 13 Test.
There is no clause for this test to ever be abolished. It stands true today.
Does your Pastor pass the test?
Does your Messiah pass the test?
Do you pass the test?
Please read Deuteronomy 12:32 - 13.
I hope this encourages you.
🚨 Jesus is the Law of Moses in the flesh.
John declared the Word of God came...
The Law of Moses is the Word of God.
Jesus said, "It is written, "'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"
I've heard this said in many different ways: that Jesus came to show us that we can't keep God's Law.
Doesn't this conflict with God, who told us that the Law is not too difficult, and that we can do it?
Worse: it makes Jesus and God out to be liars, who taunt us with something
@TheSeanEsposito
@parodyqueen
The entire point of Jesus's life was to show men that we cannot live out God's law perfectly. That's why we need a savior and grace. The Jews couldn't do it and you cannot either. I'm not saying you shouldn't try to live righteously but it is not a prerequisite for salvation.
When I was an athiest, Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 were an easy W against Christians. They ate pork and shellfish.
In otherwords, they didn't keep the ways of the book they preached.
Either we obey our Bible, or we don't. When we don't, we live in a world of contridiction.
@Chimpop67
Thank you, David. I truly appreciate that.
The Law of Love, indeed! Well said!
When the King of Kings and Creator of all things honors us in such a magnificent way by making us in his AWESOME image, and then is so merciful, patient, and kind as to intimately teach us who he is
Thank you for sharing my post (but not allowing me to reply).
Are these the same Peter and Paul in 2 Peter 3 who tell us to keep our stability in keeping the Law of Moses, being blameless?
"Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him
Folks, please notice the unnecessary burden this brother is bearing because he feels sinful for disobeying the Jewish Torah.
Paul and Peter would be rolling their eyes. Scripture is clear.
The Bible doesn't contradict itself.
Surely you must keep the Sabbath day.
It is a sign between God and his children.
So that you may know that God is the Master and sets you apart.
You shall keep the Sabbath because it is holy for you.
Trust God.
This is The Way.
Galatians must pass the Deuteronomy 13 Test, or God Himslef says to throw it out and put Apostle Paul to death.
We must get this right.
At the end of the day, God commanded us to keep the Law
Messiah kept the Law of Moses and we are to follow him.
This is The Way.
@DavidBrock10591
I appreciate everyone being excited for Galatians... yet we must get it right.
If Galatians teaches against keeping the Law of Moses, it teaches against God Himself.
Neighbors: everything must pass the Deuteronomy 13 test. If it does not, meaning it adds to or takes away from
@imcoolchristian
If only believers knew that true repentence means keeping the Law of Moses rightly.
They would stop eating pork and shellfish, they would remember and keep the 7th day Sabbath, and they would truly walk in the Ways of Messiah.
Oh that we are all stirred to true repentance.
The Law of Moses is a precious gift from God--a revelation of who God is and how we can be just like him.
Christianity has demonized the Law of God, when instead they should have embraced it for what it truly is:
The Law of Moses is The Way.
Proven by Messiah. Be like him.
@BasedZillenial
I would lovingly encourage you not to. I used to eat shrimp, lobster and all sorts of unclean food until I learned that Jesus didnt and called us to follow him.
Then I learned in Acts 10 that Peter never did and never would.
I know youre a believer so I wanted to speak up
"You shall be Holy, for I am Holy."
This is not a form of setting the bar too high or our Creator being disingenuous.
Nay.
It's a loving and awesome Creator pointing us to The Way.
He graciously made us in His image, which means our potential is unimaginable.
Surely we can
The Law of Moses is the revealed image of The Most High and the true Messiah.
"Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God, and to WALK IN ALL HIS WAYS and to keep his commandments and to
@JoshuaVats
I appreciate you expressing your perspective,
@JoshuaVats
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You've been told, just as I was when I was gaining my Preaching and Christian theology degrees, that "the whole point of the Bible that we CAN'T keep it perfectly, so Jesus was sent to do that," but it's not true.
@Skylar_Byrne
Unfortunately,
@Skylar_Byrne
, it's because many forsake God's Law.
Abraham was obedient to the instructions of God and walked in righteousness.
Messiah did the same;
Messiah kept the Sabbath.
Messiah kept the Holy Days of Scripture.
Messiah ate according to the dietary
You've been insulted, and you've probably not even noticed.
Many preachers and teachers have declared, especially using Paul's letters, that you cannot keep the Law of Moses.
What are they really saying?
"You're a sinner and will always BE a sinner! You're good for nothing."
As a former athiest, if i kept on that path, I would have never accepted the following truth...
If I accepted everything as truth that my Bible professors, theologians, and preachers taught me, I would have ignored this truth.
Thankfully, even as an athiest and then a
@oliverburdick
I respect that you're going the provoking route...
Yet, why do you accept the sin or eating pork and shellfish?
Or worse, breaking the Sabbath?
If we care about avoiding or repenting of sin, shouldn't we rat what God instructed as food and obey His Sabbath instructions?
⚠️ Oh, if all believers in Jesus did as we were commanded by learning and singing the 🎼 Song of Moses in Deuteronomy 32.
I highly encourage all who follow Jesus to read Deuteronomy 31-32.
It's time we learn, teach, and sing this powerful song! 🎵
This is The Way.
The Way of the Most High is the same as it was after Adam & Eve strayed from walking with Him.
True repentence is walking away from living according to our own eyes.
The Way is walking according to the instructions & Ways of our Heavenly Father.
The Law of Moses are His Ways.