Yeshua’s “sinlessness” and perfection can be simply explained - He was lawFUL. He fulfilled all of the necessary requirements that Father had laid before men. He obeyed and was deemed a well-pleasing Son. The attribute of lawfulness has always marked men throughout the ages. Our latest video reveals the same patterns were within righteous Noah. In an age of lawlessness, Noah was right in the eyes of Yahweh and was thereby chosen to carry out His will.
We are, of course, told that “these days” will once again be upon the earth when Messiah’s return is imminent. “So shall it be at the coming of the Son of Man.” (Matthew 24) We are surely here now, in an age of lawlessness.
New Testament writers knew that the definition of sin never changes. 1 John reminds us of this as it states, “Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.” (1 John 3:4) Romans 4:15 tells us “For the Law brings wrath, but where there is no Law there is no transgression.” If we read this according to what we’ve been errantly taught, there is now no more sin, no transgression for the “Law has been done away with in Jesus.” Foolishness.
This key doctrinal issue has allowed for chaos to cover the entire Body as anything goes. There are no lines. No absolutes. “Love” is all we need, yes but who defines what love is? Do the Scriptures already tell us? Was Yeshua just a loveable hippy sort of a man, as we’ve seen depicted time and time again?
What about the future? It is all over Revelation as well, at the end of the age. “Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of Elohim and their faith in Yeshua.” (Revelation 14:12) Time and time again I come across Believers who want so hard to kick against the Torah, but when asked, they just don’t really know why. It is all a about the traditions that we’ve inherited, friend. It’s OK. We all have them.
Although many attempt to say that “all we need to do is love ‘now’”, this is simply not biblical counsel, when not rightly understood and explained. “Yeshua stated, in John 14 “If you love me, you will keep My commandments.” This is reiterated in 1 John 2:3 as if the biblical authors knew we would be hard of hearing, “And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep His commandments.” It even goes on to make quite a bold statement in verse 4 and 5, “Whoever says ‘I know Him’ but does not keep His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps His word, in him truly the love of Elohim is perfected.”
As we have highlighted in recent videos, man has been trying to wiggle his way out of walking in Yahweh’s Law since their inception. Mankind can endlessly attempt to redefine what sin and love are now and what it means to be holy, but to no avail. Yahweh has already made it abundantly clear. It needs no opinions of men.
We have been told what love is. So, yes, let us love. But what love looks like is not up for one’s personal discretion. Father has been telling men how to love, since the beginning of time. And what is our absolute best chance to know how to love, according to what He deems best? How do we “fulfil the Law?” The same way the Son of the Most High did. Cling to the two greatest “love commands” that the Torah and the Prophets “hang upon.” And then, obey Them… just… like… Messiah. Selah.
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I've only recently started to think of things in the way that you've presented them in this article. I've always thought that Jesus fulfilled all so that we don't have to, but I've been realizing how that just doesn't make any sense. How can we expect to look like Him at all yet not do what He did to become a perfect son? You've brought out some great points that people should consider.
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