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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