"Layers of the Law - Part 4: The Torah Question"

(253) Shane Vaughn Teaches "Layers of the Law - Part 4: The Torah Question" - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAvMRherclg Transcript: (00:01) hello and welcome back to our little world so glad that you could join us today for another journey into the word of the almighty yah the creator of Heaven and Earth hello I'm Shane vongh first Harvest Ministries and you are a welcome guest in our study of the scriptures today well honest confession is good for the soul isn't it um I have an honest confession to make many of you are students of our ministry you've been with us for a long time uh five six seven years and uh we have taught on a lot of subjects on our YouTube channel (00:46) we have over 600 teachings did you know that that's a lot of work and uh we have striven over these six years to obey the Mandate of God on our life to help bring the message of the kingdom of God to the nations of the world so the of all those subjects that we've taught on I mean we have taught on any subject you can imagine but there's one subject that I never taught because I was afraid of the subject the subject was intimidating humiliating um and it was just a subject I wasn't ready to deal with because I was not fully persuaded in my own mind (01:39) and the Apostle Paul tells us to be fully persuaded to study to show ourselves approved unto God and the subject I'm talking about is the law of God sounds simple I know it sounds very very very simple until you start having to deal with the subject then it gets real interesting real fast so what we've done this is our fourth lesson in a series that we've started where it is our desire to help simplify the law of God we've titled this series layers of the law because indeed the law of God is it has a multiplicity of layers and you have to (02:29) un rvel those layers like an onion to get the balance of the law of God we call that balance the spirit of the law that's what the Bible calls it so I'm going to ask you a favor if you've landed on this video maybe someone sent it to you remember this is part four there are three other segments ahead of this one that would really give you a much better foundation so that you don't get lost in this lesson so here's what I'm going to do if you're looking look right down below this video if you're watching by YouTube and I'm going to put (03:11) the links to those three previous lessons do yourself a favor take the time this is so important take the time in your morning Bible study and watch those with us before you start this one so go ahead press the stop button go down and catch this series from the first edition if you've gone through all three of them welcome back and let's get ready so why was I scared to teach on the law of God well if we're honest this is a journey for all of us many of us grew up in churches Christian churches that did not believe that the (03:54) law of God was still in effect today we believe that the law was done away with at Calvary yua Jesus replaced that law fulfilled that law and therefore abrogated that law this is pretty much our mindset and so maybe you came from the same Christian mindset so once we were introduced to the law of God then a strange thing happens we get so excited about the law um we get so excited to obey God we finally come to understand that our relationship with God is not a one-way Street of him loving us but it's a two-way street of (04:44) us returning that love through our obedience to his Commandments Yeshua said if you love me what keep my Commandments and man that sounds wonderful all of a sudden the light comes on we realize that the message of greasy Grace is it was a lie inherited by our fathers and taught to us and we are so excited to be a commandment keeping spirit filled believing child of God woo we're just ready to get started that was me seven years ago uh when I first come to understand that the law of God was in fact still in effect today (05:30) so we're running head forward and we are ready to do this and Bam we run into a conundrum because guess what there's a lot of laws in the law of God so we have to deal with the question which ones do we obey do we just obey the Ten Commandments or God forbid do we have to obey all 613 laws of the Torah woo hope not because there's some pretty strange laws in there now in previous videos I've dealt with some of those strange laws to help you understand what David meant when he said upon thy law I meditate day and night David told Yahweh show me (06:33) wonderful things inside your law we learned from that that there is a layer behind the letter where the principle the spirit of the law lies and that it is my job and your job to see when the letter doesn't apply and I don't have time to get into that right now but I will in a future video when the letter can't apply apply perhaps we don't live in Jerusalem to go to the temple when the letter cannot apply uh we thought about when the ox fell in the ditch you know um and we're supposed to get it out according to Torah so the question then (07:15) comes up well what if it's a dog in the ditch do we not have to get the dog out because it says Ox see that's the letter of the law it kth it brings no life with it we taught on that in previous vide so please make sure you watch those videos now since I came to this message I maybe like you have gone down several roads concerning the law of God one road that and the the main road that I went down after I came to this message was we came down with a doctrine that separates the big laws of God we call them the Big 10 Thou shalt not all 10 of (08:08) them and so what we did was when we realized we could not keep all of the Torah it's impossible going to deal with that in a moment so when we realize that and we realize that we've got to make a choice between not keeping those laws perfectly or what do we do so we compartmental ized the law we called on the Big 10 and we separated the law of God from the law of Moses we believed and I went down a path for a long time where we believed that the Ten Commandments were still in effect today but the law of Moses in (08:54) fact was no longer in effect and I was fine with that because it sure makes things a heck of a lot simpler doesn't it where you can just separate the Big 10 from the small ones and we're going to keep those 10 but we're not going to keep though it just simplifies the law of God and I like that I I liked that it was very very simple but there's always something in the back of your spirit your mind that's always bothering you when you go down that road and it's a little voice that just never shuts up because it forces you to consistently (09:40) ask this question do you call the Bible this book right here that I hold in my hand see that book do we call that the book of Paul or do we call that the book of Peter or do we call that the word of Jeremiah or do we call that the law of uh Isaiah no why why do we not call it that we call it the word of God the word of Yahweh because even though Paul wrote a book it was not Paul that wrote it it was the holy spirit the mind of Yahweh that entered into his mind and formulated this this this Bible perfectly so we call it the word of (10:31) Yahweh or the word of God now if that's what we call it then I had to deal with the honesty of separating the law of God from the law of Moses when in fact it was God Yahweh that gave that law to Moses so how does it mysteriously become Moses's law when the Bible tells us Yahweh gave it to him Yahweh gave Paul The Book of Romans did he not but we don't call it Paul's word we call it the word of God so for years I had to deal with that voice in my head that said hey Shane you are oversimplified in this issue to keep (11:32) from dealing with it and that was a fact I did not want to deal with that little word that causes me so much Terror and it shouldn't it's a beautiful word but it's the word Torah t o r a and in all of my teachings I have never dealt with the Torah until this lesson so may the Lord help us to dive into this today and uh see if we cannot find the perfect Plum line in the word of God now once I dealt with the question of was the law of Moses God's law or Moses's law I had to be honest I had to say well God gave (12:20) it to him it's still the law of God all right soon as we climb that mountain and Conquer that thought process we come down into the valley again and fall right into a cave what is that cave here it is no one alive you me the strictest man on the earth except for yua himself no one alive can honestly say that they obey the Torah all 613 laws no one can say that nobody then we run into another wall if you break one law you broke them all so now let's just go the total opposite way and forget the law this is a subject that we have the (13:14) father has to give us clarity about let me prove to you how many of you watching me are commandment Keepers as far as the holy days are concerned Passover Pentecost shavoo Tabernacle you're you keep the holy days congratulations you're doing more than most Christians you have an understanding of the holy days but according to Torah you've never kept one correctly unless you went to Jerusalem and even more than that you went to the temple well there is no more Temple it's it's an impracticality it cannot happen so does that mean that we (13:58) cannot keep the holy days it does mean that if you don't understand my previous lessons on the layers of the law and if you don't meditate on that law and find the meaning behind it then you could say we cannot keep the holy days correctly but in fact we can why because there's another temple on the Earth today there was a temple when that law was given and in fact everyone lived there but the principle behind going to the temple is because that's where the congregation would assemble in unity and keep the holy (14:42) day but that Temple is gone there's another temple on the Earth today and I'm one of the stones of that Temple so when you and I come together two or three together when these Stones join together in any location the temple is formed and we are in fact keeping the spirit of that law the principle of that law the higher meaning of that law so if we come into that equation and our thinking and if we begin to meditate on every law remember the principles I taught you previously when you study the law you have do it from these three mindsets (15:32) number one God's never given a bad law because why God is good his law is good Paul said his law is spiritual meaning it has an intent behind it that only the spiritual will find that intent when you understand that God never gave a bad law then you have to find the meaning behind it and live that principle in that law when you cannot live the letter of that law for whatever reason so if we know that nobody can keep all 6113 laws of the Torah completely it's much easier to just categorize the Big 10 and uh let's keep (16:20) those now the intent of the law and David's desire to meditate on it should be your challenge I want you to listen to me meditating on the law is different than reading the law if we went by the letter of the law we would not need to meditate on it we wouldn't need for God to show us wonderful things inside of his law we could just read the letter and in fact that's what legalists do for example in the Torah we're told that if my oxen was to come into your pasture that you were not supposed to keep that oxen but rather you were (17:11) supposed to care for it feed it and return it to me the owner okay that's what the letter says but what if it's my dog that comes into your yard my precious dog comes to your yard and you don't return that dog to me you keep it for yourself well technically you obeyed the letter of the law because the law says nothing about a dog but when you begin to meditate on that law about The Oxen you find the meaning behind it the principle and you get that principle in your mind by the agency of the Holy Spirit and all of a (17:56) sudden the principle the spirit of that law begins to live through you there's another law in the Torah it's called The Law of the parapets it says if a man builds a house he was supposed to put parapets or fencing around his roof this is a command from Moses that God gave him to put in the law and we could look at that and say see we cannot keep that law anymore it it's gone it doesn't apply nobody I know of has a flat roof anymore but when you meditate on that law and you say now why did God give that law in Torah Torah is instructions (18:42) in righteousness it's an instruction book of how to do the right thing when you understand that and you say Okay God I've got a pitch roof I can't put a parit around my roof then you pray you meditate and all of a sudden it dones on you the purp purpose of that law was to protect innocent life so someone would not fall off your roof personal responsibility is the principle behind that law in the Torah so in fact wouldn't it be crazy for us to say that law is done away with what the law of personal responsibility if you've got a (19:21) dangerous place in your yard put a fence around it that's the Torah instructions in the right way way of living before we go any further I want to ask you a question are you a Catholic or a Protestant most of you watching me you're going to fall in one of those categories and the majority are probably Protestant so I want to ask you another question why are you a Protestant why are you not a Catholic now many of you might say well I don't believe like the Catholic Church believes they believe in Purgatory they (20:00) believe in praying to Mary they believe in this they believe in that and I don't believe in any of that well I I understand where you're coming from but you know that's not the reason you're a Protestant the reason we left the Catholic Church during the Reformation was not over any of those things we left the Catholic church because of something called solar scrip Tor solar scriptor is a Latin word for scripture alone you see the Catholic Church great people but they do not believe that scripture alone is the word of (20:49) God rather they believe in the infallibility of the papacy or the Pope the Catholic Church beli beles that the traditions of the church that have been handed from one generation to the next from one Pope to the next they believe that the commands of the Pope when spoken in trada which means from the Throne of Rome is equal to and sometimes even superior to the word of God Martin Luther came out of the Catholic church over this issue because he believed that the word of God was the final Authority in all things (21:35) that's what I believe hopefully that's what you believe but let me give you an example if you don't believe that the Catholic Church believes that what day of the week is the seventh day of the week everybody knows come on you know it's Saturday go look at a calendar starts on Sunday ends on Saturday right everybody in history knows it go read your history books and you'll find out that the whole Christian Church kept the weekly Sabbath on Saturday now this lasted up until Pope Gregory some 300 years after the uh (22:13) death of the Apostles made what they call an edict or a bull he hated the Jewish people he hated The Jewish Sabbath so he changed it and I don't have time to prove it in this lesson just go Google it he changed it and he did it because of those detestable Jews he hated them matter of fact this is what led to much anti-Semitism it came from the Catholic church so what did he do he changed the Sabbath day from Saturday to Sunday and now all of his daughters obey his command rather than the word of God they keep the Sabbath day on Sunday (22:56) rather than Saturday not all of us the The Remnant we still keep Saturday as the Sabbath day now here's the point the Catholic Church mocks the Protestants for saying they're not Catholic and I can show you quotes from the popes of Rome where they look at the Protestants and laugh and say if you don't believe in the authority of the pope then why do you keep a Sunday Sabbath when that is the Pope's Sabbath now I'm not here to teach on the Sabbath day but I'm here to prove the point about solar script we do not believe like the Catholics we (23:33) don't believe that the pope has the authority or anyone has the authority to add to or take away from the word of God this religion is called Catholicism and protestantism it all flows together adding to and taking away from the word of God but keep this in mind as we go forward Catholicism believes in the the tradition of the church as being equal to the word of God let me read to you from their Westminster Confession it says that this living transmission accomplished by the holy spirit is called tradition since it is distinct from the (24:21) Sacred Scriptures did you hear that the Pope's Authority is distinct from the scriptures but yet inspired by the Holy Spirit and this is considered just as sacred as the Holy Spirit now why am I talking about this because you cannot understand Torah law of God law of Moses until you understand the doctrine of tradition and the doctrine of in the infallibility of the leaders of the church now in the past year I've had to deal with the fact because we indeed had gone down a path where Torah was um impossible to keep and so therefore we (25:12) just pretty much put it on the back shelf and and that was it but then I had to deal with this if Torah is bad and we've been led to believe Torah is impossible to keep it's uh it's what was nailed to the cross blah blah blah but if Torah is bad then God is bad if Torah is impossible to keep then God is impossible to please that's a fact that you can't run from no matter how hard you want to and believe me I wanted to I knew that couldn't be true because God's never given a bad law so I I had to deal with this Torah (25:56) subject and that's where today's lesson is coming from now the problem we run into with the Torah is it seems like the Apostle Paul despised the Torah yeah let's go to Galatians chter 5 verse 1 let's read what Paul said about this Old Testament law called Torah Ephesians I'm sorry Galatians 5 And1 Stand Fast therefore in the Liberty wherewith Christ has made us free and be not entangled again with the Yoke of bondage entangled again he's talking to the Jewish people that's come to Christ faith in Messiah and they were all Torah (26:58) keepers now it looks like he's telling them here that Christ has set them free from that and they should never go back to that yoke of bondage so here's my question was the law of Moses the Torah a yoke of bondage now in my previous days I would have told you yes Paul is not talking about the Ten Commandments here he's talking about Torah he's talking about the law of Moses but I was wrong I was very very wrong and there's one thing that I will always submit to and that is the word of God but you see brothers and sisters (27:41) neither the Torah nor the Ten Commandments is the bondage that Paul is speaking about in this verse so what is he speaking about we're going to get there stay with me please just stay with me how are we going to get to the understanding of what bondage Paul is talking about we're going to get there because today you are going to get an understanding of the word Jewish law write that down in your notes I'm going to write it on the screen here for you Jewish law today you're going to learn about that you're also going to learn about (28:26) Torah Torah you're also going to learn about the ten commandments so these are three separate things that I want you to learn about today number one let's do it again Jewish law Torah the law of God or the Ten Commandments I'm going to call them the Big 10 from here on out now where does the confusion those three words that I just told you are the three pieces of the puzzle that gets us all confused about the law of God is one of them the law of God not the others is one of them not the law of God there are three (29:10) pieces to this puzzle and one piece of that puzzle is the piece that Paul despised the word Torah is a very interesting word word it has two meanings when you look it up in the dictionary but most Christians are confused between the Torah and the law of Moses they don't understand these words they're they're foreign to them after today's lesson I pray you have a complete understanding technically if you look up the word Torah in the dictionary it's going to tell you that it's the five books that Moses wrote wrote and we call those books (30:01) collectively the penta talk five for pen Penta and those five books Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers and Deuteronomy were written by the hand of Moses at the inspiration of God now there's another definition for the law of Moses or the Torah and this is the fly in the ointment here's your second definition the body of wisdom and law contained in scripture and other sacred literature and oral tradition I want you to underline that word oral tradition write it down in your notes if you're taking notes Here is the fly in the (30:55) ointment here's the piece of the puzzle that messes the puzzle up completely the oral tradition do you remember me just a few moments ago wasting all that time talking about the Catholics and you were thinking in the back of your mind what does this have to do with Torah it has everything to do with Torah because Catholicism and Judaism are evil twin sisters that's right and we're going to learn about about that today let's go to Galatians 1 verse 11-4 Galatians 1 11-14 now I'm in no hurry today uh if you need to pause the (31:44) video and come back that's perfectly fine but I'm going to get this lesson out from start to finish I believe it's that important Galatians 1: 11-14 but I certify you Brethren that means I tell you the truth TR that the gospel which was preached by me is not from man for I did not receive this gospel from men neither was I taught it but by the revelation of Yeshua hamashiach Jesus Christ for you heard of my conversation in times past in the Jews religion I want you to UND underline the Jews religion not Torah not the law of Moses not the 10 (32:44) Commandments but the Jews religion what was the name of the Jews religion Judaism write that in your notes he said in the times past I was in the Jews religion how that beyond measure I persecuted the Church of God and destroyed it and profited in the Jews religion underline it the Jews religion Judaism above many my equals in mine own Nation being more exceedingly zealous of what the traditions of my fathers no mention of the Torah no mention of the Ten Commandments no mention of the law of God as written by (33:38) Moses but there was another religion in the land of Paul that was not Torah in the strictest sense of the word there was another religion called the Jews religion which was Judaism and if you will read this carefully you will find out that Paul's battle in the New Testament is not with Torah it's not with the law of Moses it is not with the Ten Commandments his battle is with Judaism the religion of the Jews and right in these verses Paul makes it plain that in times past he was a part of the Jews religion what does (34:22) that mean he's making it abundantly clear to everybody that's listening to him he is no longer practicing Judaism he despises Judaism and this is what his war is with not the Torah the law of Moses or the Ten Commandments but rather the traditions of his fathers let's go to verse 20 of the same chapter Galatians chapter 1 Paul is so serious and want to make it so plain that he is no longer in Judaism that he says in verse 20 now the things that I write unto you behold before Yahweh I lie not I'm serious Brethren (35:20) he's saying I'm no longer associated with the religion of the Jews now here's the problem when you read the word of God and you see the word Torah law of Moses law of God you automatically Clump all of that into one category Judaism and you couldn't be more wrong there's nothing that God hated more or that Paul hated more or that yua hated more than the Jew Jewish religion now why is that I'm going to explain it to you hang tight God hates Catholicism protestantism Judaism Pentecostalism baptism charismatic ISM (36:13) he hates any ISM that creates a religion of Works in addition or less than what his word says and this is exactly what the Jewish religion was a bunch of traditions that does not find their roots in the written word of God As a matter of fact many of you watching me I get accused all the time from my former Associates brother vau has converted to Judaism I despise those words I reject them I send them back from when they came I'm as far from Judaism as I am Catholicism both of them caus me to want to cry aloud and spare (37:05) not to come out of her my people and sadly many of you that God has called you out of Catholicism protestantism you thought he called you to Judaism when in fact he was calling you back to the faith of Israel the word of God the Torah the law of Moses the law of God that's what he called you back back to but you went to a man's religion called Judaism and there is the elephant in the room we often think that Judaism is the religion of Abraham or the religion of the Old Testament the original we think of it as (37:49) the original religion almost with a sacred reverence the Jews said and the the rabbis said and you know when people want to argue with me about my doctrines they immediately want to go to some Rabbi head that I've never heard of uh Rabbi so and so that goes to the cabala school of of uh the second degree of Solomon's Temple let me tell you something let me tell you this right now that don't impress me no more than St Augustine Oran or any of them impress me if they are contrary to the word of God see I'm not impressed with renic Judaism (38:33) I'm impressed with the plain dictates of the word of God that's why we don't keep Passover like the Jews do we don't do it the way they do we do it the way the Bible said to do it the truth is Judaism is not the religion of Abraham because Abraham lived two generations before Judah was ever born that's where Juda ISM the name comes from Judah well Judah wasn't born for two generations after Abraham so no Judaism was not the faith of Abraham as a matter of fact Abraham was simply a practitioner of the law of God that God gave to him the only (39:18) law that Abraham knew in his day it was a stone that was in the center of the earth of chales and written on that Stone was the law of humar Robi now if you're watching me I strongly recommend this book on Amazon you can get it uh I'll zoom in for you the best I can it's called the laws of haabi or Hammer uh I'm sorry hamurabi and this book is I said I read every page I think last uh in one setting it was so intriguing to me to see how close this law is with the Torah and it existed in the city of the AR chais as a matter of fact hamurabi (40:05) they trace his roots back to the Earth chaes quite an interesting book but the point I'm making is Abraham knew nothing about Judaism Judaism became a religion an ism after the children of Israel were held in Babylon for 70 years and when they came back they brought when they came back to Jerusalem they brought this hybrid religion with them that led them up to the second temple era but the original faith of Israel before it was polluted with Judaism was simply the worship of Yahweh and obedience to his commands now because we don't understand (40:56) this and I didn't understand in this and I'm sure you might not have but because we don't know about Judaism we fail to understand what Paul meant when talking about his previous way of life Paul was wanting to put something way behind him now we used to think he was talking about the Torah the law of Moses he wanted to put it way behind him but in fact that's not what was talking about he was talking about Judaism now there's a book I'm going to put it on the screen for you right now this book is by Jacob nner or nner (41:42) however you pronounce that name it's called Judaism when Christianity began listen to me if you are serious about this subject this book is a must for your library this author author has over a thousand published books on the subject of Judaism and I'm going to tell you when you read that book all of a sudden the light starts coming on in your head of what Paul despised and this author is phenomenal he uh was a professor at Yale and so many of the uh um authoritative Collegiate Sinners he was you you you you need that book order it off of (42:26) Amazon now let's talk about Judaism as we try to come to a close here very soon Judaism is a religion it's not a faith it's a religion and every religion has a story every religion uh the Muslims have a story about when Muhammad rode a horse to Heaven uh christianities have a story of when Jesus died on the cross rose from the dead went to heaven Judaism has a story and they put this story forth and they sell it and they propagate it and this story basically tells where they started their great early revivals who their leaders were Where it (43:11) All Began where it's going or where they think it's going when it's not really going anywhere what it is what its doctrines are what it believes and this is what Rabbi Judaism is for example I come from Pentecostal church we can tell you where we started asza Street we can tell you who the leaders were we can tell you about our Mighty revivals where we think we're going all that it's a story every religion has a story Judaism has a story and do you know how their story is preserved now we all have ways of preserving it in our church in our (43:53) religion we have a m not a museum but a library with all of our our things in there well Judaism keeps their story in What's called the sayings of the fathers it's a sacred collection written by their sages from all these years past now at one time these were not written down they were transcribed or transferred orally from one generation to the next now the sayings of the father is very important that you understand this here is what they believe the rabic Jews here's what they believe they don't believe that (44:41) Moses received the full Torah now this is where this lesson gets good it's where the light will begin to come on in just a few moments the the those of rabic Judaism of which Paul was a member did not believe that the full Torah was given to Moses but rather they believe that Moses received a starting point in their religion of Judaism and that Moses didn't write all of the revelations down but rather he told them to his Protegé Joshua then they believe that Joshua kept those in his memory and that God gave Joshua more and that Joshua told it (45:33) to Caleb and that these memories floated along in the in the process of tradition remember I told you earlier the Catholic Church believes that the tradition of the popes and the church is just as sacred as the scriptures that's a fact by the way rabic Judaism believes that the oral passing along of these Commandments and different things these conversations they are just as sacred as what Moses got on Mount sini they believe they were Orly transferred beginning a chain of tradition and that this chain transcends solar scriptor scripture (46:26) alone these men in Judaism are known as the men of the great assembly the men from Moses Joshua Caleb on down the line to their famous sages that all these men make up the assembly what they call the men of the great assembly they believe that the oral tradition is part and partial meaning completely equal to the written law of Moses the Torah just as much as what Moses wrote they believe that these Traditions handed down are equal if not in some cases even greater ladies and gentlemen the religion I just described (47:16) to you the religion of oral tradition is the religion of the Pharisees of which Paul tells us he was the most zealous member of that group of Jews the ones that did not believe that Moses's written Torah was all there was to Torah they didn't believe that the law of Moses was just the writings of Moses but rather all of these other parts were included in what they called the law of Moses now collectively all of these Traditions were were called the law of Moses in the Pharisee tradition all of these laws were under the rubric or the (48:06) category of the law of Moses or Torah now let's see the problem with that let's go to Exodus 24 verse3 and verse 4 we're going to find out why the Pharisees why Paul wanted to put a, miles of distance between him and them let's go to Exodus 24: 3 and verse 4 and Moses came and told the people all the words of Yahweh all of them and all the judgments and all the people answered with one voice and said all the words which Yahweh hath said we will do and Moses wrote underline that in your Bible Moses wrote all the words of (49:09) Yahweh and Rose up early in the morning and built offerings and sacrifice I'm sorry rose up early in the morning building an altar under the hill 12 pillars according to the 12 tribes of Israel how many of the words words did Moses write down he wrote everything that God told him to write all the judgments all the law that God gave him he wrote it down now that's what I believe because I'm not a Pharisee I don't believe that anything that anyone beside Moses added to these laws are part of Torah are part of the law of Moses (49:58) they're part of a chain of tradition which there may be nothing wrong with those Traditions but when you put them on par with what Moses wrote down how do I know that this they're not equal because Yahweh himself come on a mountain with fire and smoke and everything else and tell and Moses gave these to Moses Moses wrote everything down now in the religion that Paul practiced traditions taught by men transcended everything that Moses wrote down so you've got to be very careful when you come into the New Testament and (50:38) you see the law of Moses remember what they mean by that phraseology the Pharisees when mentioning the law of Moses are not talking about what we just read in Exodus everything that Moses wrote down they're talking about everything that Rabbi mamama mobba wrote and everything that Rabbi kabbi wrote and everything that M Rabbi William wrote and every they believe when they say the law of Moses that it's this Collective collection of rabbis and sages and that corporately it comes under the name the law of Moses because Moses started this (51:25) chain so this is why you got to be very careful because the law of Moses referred to by the Pharisees is not the law of Moses it's a it's a chain of law now here comes a man on the scene by the name of yua Jesus to many people and Buddy he comes and challenges the keeping of these oral Traditions head on he becomes the Pharisees worst nightmare and then Paul becomes an even worse nightmare and then you and I become nightmares to the spirit of the Pharisee now I sort of know how yua felt dealing with these Pharisees I know how (52:18) Paul felt unfortunately I do know how they felt how because I have personal experience in this area I came from an old fundamental church that preached against a man or a woman wearing short sleeves our sleeves had to be long maybe that's why I still wear so many long sleeves I got comfortable with that I suppose but literally you were not allowed to wear short sleeves this was a tradition started by the old Elder that was the pastor there and the old Saints uh they thought it was a sin to do that um and I'm not putting down on them if (53:00) you're watching me and you came from the same church if this is not a put down I'm trying to give you an example now they couldn't point to one scripture anywhere in the word of God where this was a command from God they couldn't do it no there was no way they could do it um so while they're keeping that tradition no short sleeves they were breaking the Sabbath day and keeping the Sabbath on Sunday instead of the seventh day of the week there was people in the church married to each other's wives that had swapped (53:33) them around three or four times you know and but don't wear a short sleeve now here's the point where did they get that from no short sleeves they did not get it from the word of God they started a tradition maybe they were trying to keep everybody modest they figured if people wore short sleeves for long there'd be no sleeves and then no shirt at all I get that that I totally respect that but that's a tradition of the elders perfectly fine if you want to live by that tradition but don't you ever compare it to the law of God and (54:08) don't you ever tell a person they're required to do that to be right with God or even right with the church because now you're a Pharisee you've created a law out of thin air and equated it with the law of the commands of God and you've created a tradition with no scriptural Foundation now let's find out what yua thought about this Matthew chapter 15 and verse 2 let's read this Matthew 15 and verse 2 why do the uh why do the disciples transgress I tell you well let's go to verse one so it be plainer Matthew 15:1 (54:52) then came y then came to yua scrib I want you to underline that word scribes very important and Pharisees underline Pharisees now what have we found out about the Pharisees Paul was a member of them and these men believed that all the oral Traditions were the law of Moses which were of Jerusalem saying why do your disciples [Music] transgress what not the word of God not the the written law of Moses not the Ten Commandments because in fact you can search those laws from top to bottom you'll never find one Commandment that (55:37) says you have to wash your hands before you eat for they wash not their hands when they eat bread why are they transgressing now that word transgress is a pretty big word the law of the elders the tradition of the elders why are they doing that notice who these people are scribes which is the word for sages of the Pharisees now Yeshua was the law of God in flesh the law of God was inside of him he kept that law and here is the living law of God that's about to set these preachers straight read Matthew 15 3 through6 what (56:27) he said but he answered and said unto them why do you transgress the Commandments of God with your tradition they ask him why do you transgress the Commandments of the elders and he says wait buddy before we deal with the transgression of the oral tradition of the elders let's talk about the the law of Moses the law of God let's talk about it he saidou transgressing that while you're keeping the tradition of your church the Pharisee Church verse four he said for God commanded saying honor your father and mother and he that curseth father or (57:15) mother let him die the death now this is important this is a hybridization of the law of God the Ten Commandments and the law of Moses because in fact the ten Commandments mention nothing about uh cursing your father or mother and letting you die if you do but Moses's law that he wrote down does talk about the death of a child that dishonors his parents verse five so the in verse we just read yua is endorsing both of those sets Moses and the 10 commandments verse 5 but you say whosoever shall say to his father or his (57:56) mother it is a gift by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me and honor not his father or his mother he shall be free thus have you made the Commandment of God of no effect because of your oral traditions of the elders that was passed down orally somebody one day made up this law you got to wash your hands to be right with God before you you eat well it's a good tradition nothing wrong with it but you can't judge and condemn anyone by it because it's not the law of God and it's not in the written law of Moses nor the written ten commandments (58:39) so you just can't do that folks you just can't do it now I'm not going to explain what he meant about honoring father and mother there it's another subject but basically they were not taking care of their parents and making an excuse for it and so he said look guys while y'all are washing your hands your mama daddies over there suffering uh hardly able to eat and wash their bodies while you're over here so in other words he's setting them straight amen now let's continue reading right there in Matthew and let's (59:07) skip down to verse 7 and this is going to be an interesting uh I I love what he says right here in Matthew 5:7 can nobody set you straight and cut you with that sword like the Son of God could Matthew 5 7-9 and he hated Pharisee religion 5 7-9 so did Paul scroll down to verse 7 of Matthew 15 I want to show you something he said you Hypocrites talking about Pharisees this is Paul's religion now the one that Paul says is now in his past now notice yua is not one time put down on the law of Moses not one time on the Torah not (59:46) one time he's putting down on their oral tradition that they were calling the law of Moses he said you Hypocrites well did I Isaiah prophesy of you saying this people draws nigh to me with their mouth honors me with their lips but their heart is far from me but in vain do they worship me teaching for doctrines the Commandments of who the Commandments of men men that thought they were equal to Moses they added these Commandments all through the years the traditions of the elders and they were calling that the law of Moses the Torah because they (1:00:33) believe that this collection of their teachings was part of Torah no wonder we get so confused in the New Testament let's go to Matthew Chapter 5 and keep on this vein Matthew 5 verse 21 verse 22 listen if you're blessed by these teachings do you know that you can help us get this message out to the world it would take you about 5 Seconds we don't need your money unless you want to donate but if you would just hit the share button on your social media platform that would be a way of you giving back to the ministry if you've (1:01:15) received from it share share share we're trying to get our viewership up we need your help to make that happen Matthew 5: 21 notice what Jesus says you have heard that it was said by them of old time now notice this carefully he said you have placed your faith on what you have heard from the old Elders he said you've heard it said by them old Elders that thou shalt not kill and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the Judgment but I say unto you that whosoever is angry with his brother and he goes on notice what he (1:02:03) didn't say he didn't say you read in the law of Moses or the you know the Torah he said you've heard it said because these Traditions were the traditions of the elders that were passed down they would talk about not killing but they wouldn't say anything about killing somebody's character it was the traditions of the elders go to verse uh Matthew 7: 28 but I say unto you that um whosoever shall look upon a woman he's already committed adultery in his heart what he's saying here is you've heard the elders speak you've regarded that as the (1:02:41) law of Moses but I'm fixing to reveal to you the spirit of the law that was behind the law of Moses you see these Pharisees they only believe that Moses 's writings was part of the Torah and this is what causes Yeshua to say in Matthew 51 17 and 18 think not that I'm not that I come to destroy the law or the prophets I am not come to destroy them but to live them out now listen to what he says he's fixing to start a war with the Pharisees because he's about to come against their entire religion what they believed that (1:03:34) all of the oral tradition was part of the law but he's about to set them straight listen I say unto you I didn't come to destroy the the real law till Heaven and Earth pass away not one jot or one tit shall in no WI pass from the law until all be fulfilled what did he just tell them I'm not interested in your oral tradition but there is one law that will never pass away and I'm here to endorse it I'm here to live it and that's the written law that Yahweh gave to Moses and he wrote every bit of it down you added all kind of stuff to it that law (1:04:24) will pass away it's going to go to the cross but this law the real law of Moses Torah The Ten Commandments will never pass away not one jot or one tit referring to the fact that he was talking about the written law now when yua came to the Earth there was two groups of Jews that wanted control the Sadducees the Pharisees the Pharisees believed in the authority of the oral law they called it the law of God the law of Moses the Sadducees not so much they were more for the written law of Moses than the Pharisees were Paul was not a member of (1:05:10) the Sadducees he was zealously a member of the Pharisees the one that got their religion from men they learned from the oral traditions of the elders whereas the Sadducees stuck with the written law of Moses now it is with that understanding that we're about to see a great Revelation about some problems in the early New Testament Church real quickly I want to give you some traditions that were added to the law of Moses that continued down through Paul's day number one if you'll go read the pent talk Moses his law you'll find out that God (1:05:58) never intended to segregate Israel from the rest of the world quite the contrary God intended to use Israel to be a light to the nations of the world so that those nations would desire Israel's God God told Yahweh told Israel through Moses his Prophet through the writings of Moses to always welcome The Stranger and let The Stranger even join Israel and he even allowed the Gentile the stranger to go to the temple and offer sacrifices this was Moses's law the law of Torah but thousands of years later all of that had (1:06:47) changed now we've got a new religion that is not based on Torah it's based on traditions of men because after the B iian Exile by the time they got back to the second temple era Gentiles were not even allowed on the grounds of the temple and now they had created a man-made law called The Law of it's it with the law of common men so basically Gentiles were unclean Jews were clean but a Jew could become unclean just like the Gentile if he were to touch a gentile that process was called common it was where a clean person is not (1:07:39) technically a gentile but they're now considered common because they touched a gentile this is not based on the law of Moses or the Torah this was added by by very carnal-minded Elders so this is why many of the problems arose in the early church among the Pharisees and Paul despised them let's turn now to the book of Acts chapter 15 and let's see what was going on in the early church acts 15 verse 1 through verse 5 listen this is good stuff now certain men which came down from Judea taught the Brethren and said unless you be circumcised after the (1:08:31) manner of Moses you cannot be saved when therefore Paul and Barnabas Paul and Barnabas had no small argument with them in other words they had a knockdown drag out over this they determined that Paul and Barnabas and certain others of them should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and Elders about this question and being brought on their way by the church they passed through pH in Samaria declaring the conversion of the Gentiles and they caused Great Joy among all the Brethren and when they were come to Jerusalem they were received of the (1:09:25) church and of the Apostles and the elders and they declared all things that God had done with them but verse five There Rose up in the church certain of the sects of the Pharisees underline that in your Bible Paul's former religion that he was putting way behind him not the Torah not the Commandments but Judaism There Rose up certain of the Pharisees which believed Saying that it was needful to circumcise them and to command them to keep the law of Moses listen to me carefully they just referred to the law of Moses (1:10:26) when in fact the law of Moses is the pent talk the Torah but these men are referring to oral traditions of their elders and they call that the law of Moses how do we know it because they were of the Pharisees brothers and sisters now let's go to Galatians 1 verse 11 and verse 12 Galatians 1 11 and 12 now in these verses we're going to see that Paul's writings is not a war with Torah but with the Pharisees Galatians 1 11 and 12 but I certify to you Brethren that the gospel which preached of me is not from who men for I neither received this (1:11:26) from my elders neither was I taught this through the traditions of Elders now I'm adding those words simply because that's what Paul is referring to when he says receiving it from men these Traditions but by the revelation of Jesus Christ Paul is disavowing the practice of the oral tradition of men as being equal to the word of God they are referring to the oral Traditions Paul is referring to the divine revelation of the word of God Paul wants to make it abundantly clear that he is done with the oral traditions (1:12:11) of men let's go to verse 15 of Galatians chapter 1 let's go to verse 15 and read but when it pleased God who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by his grace to reveal his son to me that I might preach him among the Gentiles immediately I did not confer with men Flesh and Blood Elders sages rabbis neither did I go up to Jerusalem to them which were Apostles before me but I went to Arabia and returned to Damascus then after 3 years I went up to jerus Jerusalem to see Peter and Abode with him 15 days but others of the (1:13:02) Apostles saw I None except James the Lord's brother now the things which I write unto you behold before God I lie not what he is trying to tell these former Pharisee Jews that have come to Messiah listen guys this is not oral tradition I did not get this and call that the law of God or the law of Moses this came directly from God to me see in Jewish tradition you receive from one Rabbi or one sage and then you pass that to another Paul said that's not the case we're done with that we're going to solar scriptor the word of God the (1:13:50) written word of God Alone he's making a total break from Judaism not Torah not the law of God but Judaism Galatians Chapter 2 and we're closing verse 11 through verse4 but when Peter was come to Antioch I withstood him right to his face because he was wrong Peter comes to Antioch where Paul is and Peter starts acting like a Pharisee verse 12 for before certain Pharisees came down here with James Peter was eating with the Gentiles he was touching them he was going against the oral tradition of the elders that said you couldn't even touch (1:14:48) a gentile or you'd be unclean he he he was he was ignoring that but when these spar phes came down he withdrew himself fearing them which were of the Jewish faith and the other Jews dissembled likewise with him in so much that Barnabas my companion was also carried away with their stupidity but when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the word of God now the only word of God he had at that time was Torah I saw that they were not walking in Torah because in Torah they were told to win those Gentiles to become members (1:15:39) of the House of Israel to interact with them to let them in the temple that's Torah when I saw that Peter was not walking in Torah but rather after the traditions of the elders I said unto Peter before them all if thou being a Jew are acting like a gentile rebellious and not as do the Jews Why compell Us thou the Gentiles to live as the Jews in other words if you're going to be corrupt and walk after the traditions of the elders and mistreat these men why would you compel them to become a Jew now let's go to acts chap 10 verse (1:16:29) 28 now what is in Acts chapter 10 H that famous Vision that everybody in the Christian church gets wrong about Peter seeing these unclean animals in a vision they think all of a sudden we can eat unclean food now we can eat rats and bats and dogs and horses and catfish and shrimp and crawfish and uh pigs all these unclean animals Peter's vision had nothing to do with that God sent a vision to correct the Pharisee mind of Peter that had believed the traditions of the elders about the Gentiles rather than Torah Peter had believed that if he (1:17:15) would touch him he would become common so God drops a sheep down got clean animals in it and unclean yeah it's got clean animals it's got deer that's clean over here it's got a pig and in this sheet they're all falling over each other these animals are right the clean animal accidentally is going to touch the unclean animal right and does that make the clean animal common now unclean no no no no no no no no no no as a matter of fact if you'll read in Acts 10: 28 Peter knew that this Vision wasn't about unclean food he knew better matter of (1:18:00) fact he basically told God no sir your word says your Torah tells me not to eat unclean food I know you wouldn't tell me to do something contrary to that so it took Peter three days to figure out the meaning of the vision and these Christian preachers it takes them one reading of Acts chapter 10 and they think they got it figured out but it took Peter three days to figure it out and let's read what the conclusion was that he finally came to acts 10:28 and he said unto them you know how that it's an unlawful thing for a man (1:18:32) that is a Jew now he said it's an unlawful thing not according to Torah but according to the traditions of the elders for a man that's a Jew to keep company or come unto one of another Nation but God has shown me not that I can eat unclean food but that I I should no longer call any man nothing to do with food any man common or unclean in other words God came down and corrected his version of the Torah that was not Torah at all it was his religion Judaism God had to get all of these Traditions out of their mind that didn't (1:19:20) line up with the Torah let's go to Galatians chapter 2 verse 15 and verse 16 Galatians 2 I hope you're getting something out of this lesson today if you are why don't you say something to us make a comment let us know you're out there watching and being blessed we put a lot of work into these teachings it's really nice to hear from folk amen Galatians 2:1 15-16 we who are Jews by nature and not of the Gentiles knowing that a man is not justified by The Works of the law but by the faith of yua even we have believed in Jesus (1:20:06) Christ that we might be justified by the Faith of Christ and not by The Works of the law for by The Works of the law shall no flesh be justified remember in an earlier verse we read they said that for these men to be saved they had to be circumcised that was an added tradition of the elders a work of the law and he said listen we are Jews we've been circumcised but that won't do it you have to have faith in Messiah let's go to Titus 1 and 14 and let's see if we can't tie some of these loose ends up cut the book of Titus Chapter 1 (1:21:04) verse4 not giving heed to Jewish fables not the real Torah but fables added to the Torah and Commandments of men amen Commandments of men what is is he calling Jewish fables the Commandments of men that were added to the Torah that turn from the truth he's calling the Torah in the New Testament he's calling that the truth and he's calling these added Traditions the Commandments of men so here's the question if the Torah the law of Moses is still in existence today we come back to the question how do we keep them those questions are answered in the (1:22:06) three previous videos before this one but in the next video I'm going to try to help you understand how you can keep the law of God I don't like calling it The Law of Moses because it was given by God it' be like calling this the book of Paul or the book of Peter it's the word of God the law of God has a spirit behind it the layers of the law and once you get a spiritual mind and that law gets written in there all of a sudden every meaning behind every law will find a fulfillment in your life remember most of the laws of God is about protecting (1:22:52) life loving your neighbor as much as you love yourself and loving God hey folks I pray you've been blessed God bless you I'll see you next time [Music]