Do You Believe That FEW Will Find The Narrow Way, As Messiah Said?
I get the impression that denominal churchdom thinks Torah folks are those oddly dressed people bobbing their heads at an old wall in Jerusalem, praying to rocks. Those folks are as far from Torah as churchdom! That’s not Torah! But the facts are, without Torah, you can’t know Him; He doesn’t know you either. The great news is that you can still turn back, but you have to quit playing church. Walking out Torah is walking as Messiah walked! If you can find another meaning to these Scriptures, or I have made an error, please speak up and correct me! Let’s break it down -
**“My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye SIN NOT.”**
That’s extensively well covered in Scripture. Sin caused the fall, causes dispersion, curses, banishment, rejection, a whole host of maladies that equate to all the worlds problems. The earth is defiled and burned because of Torah rejection (Is. 24:5-6). Sin caused the death of our Messiah Who warned us to “sin no more” (Jn 5:14, 8:11). Paul says the same: Shall we CONTINUE IN SIN, that grace may abound? YAH FORBID! How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? (Rom 6:1-2)
It sure seems everyone that claims Messiah would want to know precisely how sin is defined, right? Why is it so very few take notice? It’s simple, it’s no mystery, yet trivialized or abandoned entirely by churchdom. Like sin is some undefined, mystical thing. It’s not -
“Whosoever commits sin transgresses also the Torah: for SIN IS the transgression of the Torah.” 1Jn 3:4
“What shall we say then? Is the Torah sin? Yah forbid! Nay, I hadn’t known sin, but by the TORAH...” Rom 7:7
**“And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Yahusha Ha’Mashiach the righteous: And He is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.”**
Our Advocate, not to habitually keep sinning the same sins He had to die for, mocking His Sacrifice, but that we may have the opportunity to repent and turn back. TURNing BACK is defined here as well as the option to TURN AWAY and what that means -
“REPENT therefore AND TURN BACK, for the blotting out of your sins...” Act 3:19
”TURN BACK to יהוה your Elohim and OBEY His voice, according to ALL THAT I COMMANDED you” Deu 30:2
“He who TURNS AWAY his ear FROM hearing the TORAH, Even his prayer is an abomination.” Pro 28:9
You either know Him or you don’t. You CAN know if you know Him! You can also ‘say’ you do, or even ‘think’ you do, but IF you ignore this huge IF, you don’t. It’s really simple as that -
**“And hereby WE DO KNOW that we know him, IF we guard his commandments.”**
I love the apostle’s bluntness here. No word mincing, cuts right to the point of who is really who when the big IF is ignored - You are either guarding or lying -
**“He that says, I know him, and DOES NOT GUARD his commandments, IS A LIAR, and the Truth is not in him.”**
ARE you guarding? Have you added or taken away? Do you know what guarding means? GUARDING is an old term, not ambiguous at all, FROM THE BEGINNING -
“DO NOT ADD to the Word which I command you, and DO NOT TAKE AWAY from it, SO AS TO GUARD the commands of יהוה your Elohim which I am commanding you.” Deu 4:2
IF you are guarding, His love is perfected. And again, the litmus guarantee defining if we are truly in Him -
**“But whoso GUARDS His word, in him truly is the love of Elohiym perfected: HEREBY WE KNOW that we are in Him.”**
The word ‘ought’ here in the following verse means a debt is owed, an obligation. So you don’t want to walk as He did? Sabbath, feast days, eating clean, not having pagan festivals turn you off? No problem! Just don’t ‘say’ you follow Him; the True example. I suggest Rome’s false messiah, under a “protestant” heading, of course -
**“He that says he abides in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.”**
Yes, this is all Torah being referred to, do you remember reading “In the beginning...” ? Gen 1:1 THAT is where the Word begins -
**“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.”** 1Jn 2:1-7
”...IF you wish to enter into life, GUARD the commands.” Mat 19:17
These people thought they knew Him too. MANY in that day, according to Him, will hear these words and the reason why -
”...I NEVER KNEW YOU, depart from Me, you who work Torahlessness!’ Mat 7:23
Torah folks? They wont hear those words. The True Messiah is their example and their walk is patterned after His. You don’t want to hear those words either, do you? -
“For not the hearers of the Torah are righteous in the sight of Elohim, but the DOERS OF the TORAH shall be declared right.” Rom 2:13
Messiah bluntly said few would find the narrow Way (Matt 7:14). Time to take Him serious, if you are reading Paul with a Torahless mindset, you are on the path to destruction (2 Pet 3:16,17). The verses above can assure you that you are on the narrow Way, or detail how you have strayed.
Hodu l’ YHUH! May your Sabbath be full!
"The one who says he stays in Him is indebted to walk, even as He walked." 1Jn 2:6
Without Torah, His walk is impossible - it's Rome's walk without Torah.
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Originally Posted by dmatic
