~What does is mean if we are led by~
The Spirit?  

     According to Galatians 5:18, “If you are led by the Spirit you are not under Torah.” With that said, it is quite clear that we are not under the Torah if led by the Spirit. 

 “And we know that the Torah is good if
one uses it legitimately, knowing this: that

Torah is not laid down for a righteous being,

 but for the lawless and unruly, for the wicked and
for sinners, for the  wrong-doers and profane,
for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers,
for those who whore, for sodomites, for kidnappers,
for liars, for perjurers, and for whatever else that
is contrary to sound teaching.”
-1 Timothy 1:8-10

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     For it has been written in Romans 3:10 that “There is none righteous, no, not one!”  While the Messiah, Yahushua tells us in Matthew 5:48 that,  “Therefore, be perfect, as your Father in the Heavens is perfect.” It is well known that none are perfect, yet only trying to be.

  Yahushua wants us to try to be as perfect as we can. Therefore, one must try diligently to ‘Walk in the Spirit’. Loving our neighbors and being full of joy at all times; the good and the bad. Having much patience, kindness and goodness, no matter the circumstances. Having a trustworthy spirit, with gentleness, and able to control one’s self. These are the fruit of the Spirit, we must be led by these at all times.

     You and I must admit that we cannot ‘Walk in the Spirit’ at all times as it is written in Romans 3:10. The average human at times can be very impatient, envious, hateful, selfish, have loss of self control, disrespectful, unkindness, ect. That is our flaw as humans; which means that we are not righteous and neither are we always ‘Walking in the Spirit’.  It is crucial for you to understand that the Torah was laid down for us all as mentioned in 1 Timothy 1:8-10; because none of us are perfect.

Our sinful flesh does not exclude us from the Torah, but bonds us with it. The Torah is not a curse, but a sign between Yahuwah and His children. By keeping Torah we are set-apart from the world.  For we were told to be in the world, but not of the world.

“And do not be conformed to this world,
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,”
                                                     -Romans 12:2

Obeying the Torah sets us apart from the world.

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~ It’s only for the Jews! ~

     Many think the Torah was first established on Mount Sinai. While the Scriptures are not clear as to which laws existed before the time of Mosheh (Moses) and the official giving of the Torah, there are definite examples of at least some laws in
existence before Mosheh. From Scripture, we can tell the Torah first began ‘In the Beginning’:  

“And on the seventh day Elohim completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the Seventh Day from all His work which He had made. And Elohim blessed the Seventh Day and set it apart, because on it He rested from all His work which Elohim in creating had made.” 

-Bereshith (Genesis) 2:2-3

     We can see that from the beginning of it all, Yahuwah blessed the seventh day and rested on it. Shemoth (Exodus) 20:11 also refers to the creation of the earth and the blessing of the Sabbath.

“For in six days YAHUWAH made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore YAHUWAH blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart.”

-Shemoth 20:11

     The Israelites were rebuked for collecting manna on the Sabbath day before the Ten Words/ Ten Commandments were officially given. Also consider how Yahuwah rebuked the people for not keeping His commandments and laws concerning gathering the manna on the Sabbath day. (Shemoth 16:27-29)

     It is quite clear that the law of the Sabbath was in existence from the beginning. It is also clear that there were Commands or at least to an extent. Consider the following verse:

“But the men of Sedom (Sodom) were evil and sinned before YAHUWAH exceedingly so.”
                                                                                    -Bereshith 13:13

      In order to sin there needs to be a law or com-mand of instruction. The only way for Sedom to be wicked they must have been breaking some sort of law. As seen from the following texts.

“Everyone doing sin also does lawless-ness, and sin is lawlessness.”
                                                                                -1 Yohanan (John) 3:4

“For law works wrath; but where no law is neither is there transgression.”
                                                                -Romans 4:15 (Darby)

   
  Another example of the Torah before Mount Sinai is during Abraham, of who it is said, he kept the commandments and laws of Yahuwah. 

“Abraham obeyed My voice and guarded My Charge: My commands, My laws, and My Torot.“ Torot is the plural form of Torah.
                                                                  -Bereshith 26:5

 

 

   In Bereshith 7:2 Noah knew the definition of both clean and unclean animals, he was instructed to take certain numbers of each kind onto the ark. Clean animals were yet to be defined until Wayyiqra (Leviticus) 11, another two books away. The clean animals were used for eating and also for sacrifices unto Yahuwah.

 

     It is very clear to see that before the Torah was given by Mosheh on Mount Sinai that to a degree many laws already existed. Just to name a few; there is the Law against murder (when Cain killed Abel), the law of clean and unclean animals (during Noah’s time) and the law of the Sabbath (after creation). Even though the Scriptures does not give precise  detail into many other laws, history does reveal that there was some sort of legal standard.

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“Let no man deceive you in any way”
-2 Thessalonians 2:3

 

     For it is against Scripture to say the Torah is no more! The Torah defines sin, if one declares there is no more Torah, that one is declaring we have no need for a Savior! (Romans 4:15)    

 

     Yahushua came on this earth to deliver us from sin. He came on this earth to be our Passover Lamb, to do away with the Ceremonial Laws (Sacrificial Laws), but to observe the Moral Laws.

 

     Yahushua did not come to do away with the Law or the Prophets. The first time Torah was even spoken of in the Messianic Scriptures (New Testament) is when Yahushua spoke of it Himself. Even Yahushua observed the Feast Days mentioned in Lev. 23, and kept Torah. Paul, [the man whom Christians are told said the ‘Torah is no more’], even kept the Feast days as well! He goes on to tell us in Romans, 2:13 that those that are doers of the

law shall be declared right in the sight of Yahuwah while those that simply hear are not. Paul (Sha’ul) understood that when we walk in the flesh we can easily sin (Romans 7:14-25).

Matthew 5:17

“Think not that I am come to destroy the Law, or the Prophets:

I am not come to destroy,

but to fulfill.”

Yahushua came to fulfill the Sacrificial
Law because He is our Passover Lamb.

     Let us remember, the fruits of the Spirit are; love, joy, peace, kindness, goodness, trustworthiness, gentleness and self control. Since NONE in this world are perfect, and neither ALWAYS ‘Walking in the Spirit’, NONE are excluded from observing the Moral Laws of the Torah.

 

Yahushua says: “I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”
                                                                                                       -Matt 7:23

 

Iniquity means ‘violation of the law (Torah), lawlessness, NOT observing Torah’. Which will you do? Try to ‘walk in the Spirit’, following the Torah.... or continue in your iniquity?