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In my walk, as a believer in Messiah and His whole Word from Genesis to Revelation, it is amazing to me of how many times, and in a variety of ways, that I hear how people are so excited to be \u201cfree\u201d from that ole\u2019 cursed Law. \u201cThe Law was nailed to the cross,\u201d they say.
What is not understood is the misconception that the Law (Torah) is our enemy and not sin. This is the classic work and theme of the demonic\u2014diverting the blame from itself, onto the Creator. It\u2019s a classic work of Satan to divide the mean ole wicked \u201cGod\u201d of the Old Testament, from the \u201cgood fairy\u201d Son of the New Testament.
Why should we \u201cshoot the messenger\u201d when all the Law (the Torah) does is point us to the ugliness of our sin\u2014for our own eternal good? We want to love a loving \u201cGod\u201d but we have problems with Him when He shows us our dirty sins! We want to love Him when He blesses us and we want to nail His Son to the \u2018cross\u2019 when He shows us our sin. Pharisaical hypocrites we are at times. We want full access to the benefits of the \u2018tree of life\u2019 without desiring to access the Way and the Truth TO the tree of life. We want life on our own terms\u2014our own way\u2014without submitting to the only One who has access to that life.
Quite frankly, I honestly ask the question: \u201cTell Me Exactly What Part of the Law are You So Happy to be Freed from?\u201d
It was the Law\u2019s condemnation of us that was nailed to the stake, not the Law (Torah) itself. What people forget when they say that the Law was nailed to the stake, is that the Law is the Torah. And the Torah is the Word. And the Word is Messiah. Messiah is the Living Word\u2014the Living Torah!
So if Messiah was nailed to the stake, then the Torah\u2019s condemnation against us was nailed to the stake. The Torah\u2019s demand for my righteousness to achieve right standing with an all Consuming Fire, through the weakness of my flesh, is what was nailed to the stake. I can do nothing on my own! To achieve this is something that could never be achieved without a Helper. My inability to meet His righteous standards for eternal life was nailed to the stake.
So if Messiah is the Word, and the Word is the Torah and the Torah is the Law: Then when Messiah was resurrected then also the Torah was resurrected.
So, people with this idea that the \u201cLaw\u201d is dead because it was nailed to the stake, forget the fact that it was also buried and was resurrected. Why? So that through Messiah\u2019s own righteousness, we are now able to keep the wholeness of the letter of the \u201cLaw\u201d \u2013 save the sacrifices. Messiah\u2019s death paid our debt to the sin of disobedience. Messiah\u2019s resurrection enabled Him to send His Father\u2019s Spirit to help us obey what He has always commanded from the very beginning: To love Him with all that we are, and to love our neighbor as ourselves. For in this is life eternal.
The requirements of the \u201cLaw\u201d never stopped \u2013 only our inability to do them stopped!
It was the Pharisees that said to the common people\u2014\u201cwithout us, you can do nothing\u201d. It was Messiah who said to the Pharisees (and to all who think of themselves as self-sufficient)\u2014\u201cwithout Me, you can do nothing\u201d. No wonder they were so angry at Him. Messiah, as does the Torah, exposes our sins and we don\u2019t always want to look at what makes us shameful in front of others.
For the Hot\u2014they are blameless and have no sin. For the Cold, their sin is unhidden\u2014right out in the open. But for the Lukewarm\u2014their sin is hidden. It is why they will be spewed out of Messiah\u2019s mouth, because what was concealed inside, will be made to come out into the open. It\u2019s the one thing that makes Him nauseous\u2014hidden sins. Messiah came to expose the hidden intent of the heart of man. That is His nature!
David, in Psalm 19:12, writes: \u201cWho can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
Without the Torah\u2014without Messiah, who CAN understand his/her error? Cleanse us from our hidden