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Let’s make sure we get the core message Jesus is portraying:

                      THE OLD                      JESUS CORRECTS THAT DEFICIENCY
    TORAH LAW CONTAINED ONLY                        IN GIVING A GREATER MEANING
                                                          (THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW)
       (THE LETTER OF THE LAW)

                                     IMPORTANT
                                      PRINCIPLE:
                            THE OLD IS INCOMPLETE
                                     REVELATION
                                WITHOUT THE NEW

                           “YOU HAVE HEARD THAT    BUT I SAY UNTO YOU THAT WHOEVER IS ANGRY WITH
                     IT WAS SAID TO THOSE OF OLD,  HIS BROTHER WITHOUT A CAUSE SHALL BE IN DANGER
    ‘YOU SHALL NOT MURDER,’ AND WHOEVER MURDERS
                                                      OF THE JUDGMENT…WHOEVER SAYS, ‘YOU FOOL!’
                               WILL BE IN DANGER                  SHALL BE IN DANGER OF HELLFIRE.”
                               OF THE JUDGMENT.                                      Matt. 5:21-22
                            “YOU HAVE HEARD
                  IT WAS SAID TO THOSE OF OLD,            BUT I SAY UNTO YOU THAT WHOEVER LOOKS AT A
             ‘YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY.’                     WOMAN TO LUST FOR HER HAS ALREADY
                                 “FURTHERMORE
    IT HAS BEEN SAID, (TO THOSE OF OLD) ‘WHOEVER           COMMITTED ADULTERY WITH HER IN HIS HEART.”
            DIVORCES HIS WIFE, LET HIM GIVE HER A                                         Matt. 5:27-28
                        CERTIFICATE OF DIVORCE.’
                                                           “BUT I SAY UNTO YOU THAT WHOEVER DIVORCES
                                                                HIS WIFE FOR ANY REASON EXCEPT SEXUAL
                                                                       IMMORALITY…COMMITS ADULTERY
                                                                                          Matt. 5:31-32

                  “AGAIN YOU HAVE HEARD THAT                          “BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, DO NOT SWEAR AT
                   IT WAS SAID TO THOSE OF OLD,                     ALL…BUT LET YOUR ‘YES’ BE ‘YES,’ AND YOUR
    ‘YOU SHALL NOT SWEAR FALSELY, BUT YOU SHALL                  ‘NO’ ‘NO.’ FOR WHATEVER IS MORE THAN THESE
             PERFORM YOUR OATHS TO THE LORD.’
                                                                                     IS FROM THE EVIL ONE.”
                   “YOU HAVE HEARD IT WAS SAID,                                                 Matt. 5:33-37
                             ‘AN EYE FOR AN EYE
                                                                     “BUT I TELL YOU NOT TO RESIST AN EVIL
                     AND A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH.’                           PERSON…TURN THE OTHER CHEEK…
              “YOU HAVE HEARD THAT IT WAS SAID,                               (LET THEM EVEN SUE YOU)…”
                                                                                            Matt. 5:38-42
                 ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR
                         AND HATE YOUR ENEMY.’     BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, LOVE YOUR ENEMIES, BLESS THOSE
                                                    WHO CURSE YOU, DO GOOD TO THOSE WHO HATE YOU,

                                                     AND PRAY FOR THOSE WHO SPITEFULLY USE YOU AND
                                                                                  PERSECUTE YOU…”
                                                                                        Matt. 5:43-44

                            Dear Gentile believer in Christ! Your primary focus is NOT to

                            be that of going backwards by diligently studying the 613

                            commandments of Torah law! Isolated by itself, it will not

                            make you more spiritual, more holy, or more dedicated to

        POINT OF            God. In fact, it has the potential to return you to the spiritual
        EMPHASIS
                            blindness that comes from focusing upon the letter of the law. POINT OF
    “…FOR UNTIL THIS DAY                                                                       NEGLECT
           THE SAME VEIL    Over many years of ministry

     REMAINS UNLIFTED IN     I have personally witnessed zealous Gentile      “STAND FAST THEREFORE
     THE READING OF THE     believers get suckered into legalistic bondage         IN THE LIBERTY BY
                                                                                  WHICH CHRIST HAS
         OLD TESTAMENT,          to some aspect of Torah law as being
      BECAUSE THE VEIL IS                                                      MADE US FREE, AND DO
                            evidence of being more spiritual.                 NOT BE ENTANGLED
          TAKEN AWAY IN
     CHRIST. BUT EVEN TO            Actually, it is spiritual pride-elitism.    AGAIN IN A YOKE OF
                            One couple in particular got involved with such   BONDAGE…I TESTIFY TO
               THIS DAY,
     WHEN MOSES IS READ,       a Torah-based Messianic movement that               EVERY MAN WHO
     A VEIL LIES ON THEIR                                                     BECOMES CIRCUMCISED
    HEART. NEVERTHELESS,    eventually they rejected the knowledge that       THAT HE IS A DEBTOR TO
     WHEN ONE TURNS TO
    THE LORD, THE VEIL IS   Christ was God, left Christianity altogether and       KEEP THE WHOLE
                                 became converts to Rabbinic Judaism!         LAW...THIS PERSUASION
          TAKEN AWAY…                                                         DOES NOT COME FROM
            2 Cor. 3:14-17   I remember reading their email in which they     HIM WHO CALLS YOU.”

                            cynically referred to Jesus as “J.C.”             Gal. 5:1-8 excerpts
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