Are you ready to get into YAH's Word today? I am
as well. I want you to open your Bibles with me to Revelation chapter 15 and we're going to begin
with verse 2 and I'm calling this message today "The Song of Moses and the Song of the Lamb". You
may wonder why we're going to preach on the song of Moses and the song of the Lamb and the answer
to that question is because there are many who are in religion today who say the "Old Testament"
is at war with the "New Testament", that it is law versus grace, that Yeshua has abolished
everything that Mosheh wrote and there's a great wall of division in Christianity in religion
between Mosheh and Yeshua between what's called the Old Testament and the New Testament and I'm here
to tell you today that the Bible is one continuous agreeing revelation that it all agrees and if your
pet doctrine cannot fit comfortably within the context of the whole Bible it is erroneous, you
need to cast it out. Whatever doctrine that you espouse must fit comfortably within the context
of the entire scripture, it has to fit comfortably within the context of the Torah, the Nevi'im, the prophets, and the Ketuvim, the writings. It also must fit comfortably within the context of the
Apostolic writings, amen? It's not one against the other, it is both in harmony and an agreement. Can
you say amen? Hallelujah. So Revelation chapter 15 beginning with verse 2 says, "And I saw like a sea
of glass mixed with fire and those overcoming the Beast and his image and his mark and the number
of his name standing on the sea of glass holding harps of Elohim." Now they're about to begin to
sing praises to the Almighty, this is the great throng of overcomers, these are end-time believers,
they believe in Yeshua, they are the children of Elohim and notice verse 3 it says, "and they sing
the song of Mosheh the servant of Elohim," What's the next word? "and the song of the Lamb," So it's not one
or the other, it's not that the Lamb has abolished Mosheh we have believers end-time believers praising
the Almighty and what are they singing? They're singing the song of Mosheh, the song of Mosheh was
a song of deliverance, it's a song that depicts the great deliverance of the Almighty when He brought
deliverance to Yisra'el and brought them out of slavery from Egypt, what is the song of the Lamb?
It is also a song of deliverance, it speaks of our deliverance from the dominion of sin, amen? Their
hand in glove, they go together. They're unified so these end-time saints are not just singing the
song of the Lamb they're singing the song of Mosheh and it's a very small word but it's very powerful
and it is the operative word of this message. "And the song of the Lamb, saying great and marvelous,
are your works YAH El Shaddai righteous and true are Your ways O sovereign of the Set-apart part ones," So
these are the set-apart ones and they're singing the song of Mosheh, these are the set- apart ones
and they're singing the song of the Lamb both songs. Alright, let's go a little further. Revelation
chapter 12 beginning with verse 17 it says, "And the dragon was enraged with the woman and he went
to fight with the remnant of her seed," And this is talking about end-time believers and notice how
the scripture defines the end-time believers. "those guarding the commands of Elohim," Now what are
we talking about here? We're talking about the commands of Elohim as given by Mosheh so end-time
believers are those keeping the commandments given by Mosheh, what's the next word? "and possessing
the witness of Yeshua Messiah." Now people say well we're just supposed to obey the commands
of Yeshua, well let's read this in that context. We're talking about a definition of end- time
believers. "those keeping the commands of Yeshua and possessing the witness of Yeshua," Now does that
make sense? There would be no need to delineate the two if they're the same thing. Let's get another
witness. Revelation chapter 14 verse 12. "Here is the endurance of a set-apart ones, here are those
guarding the commands of Elohim and the belief of Yeshua," So we're seeing that the scripture
defines end-time believers as those who keep the commandments of Elohim given by Mosheh and
believe in Yeshua again the word and it's a small word but very powerful, it is the operative word in
this message today. It's not one or the other, it's not that one abolishes the other, it is that they
are both in concert. Now let's go a little further and bear it out, Matthew chapter 19 beginning
with verse 16 Yeshua taught that for one to gain eternal life one must obey the commandments
and follow Him, in other words, He teaches the very same things that these verses that we've given you
have already stated that to inherit eternal life one must keep the commandments of Elohim given by
Moshe and have belief in Yeshua. Let's look at it Matthew chapter 19 verse 16. "And see one came and
said to Him speaking of this you a good teacher what good shall I do to have everlasting life?" So
this person is inquiring about everlasting life, this is a very serious question. "And He said to
him," This is Yeshua speaking. "Why do you call Me good? No one is good except one and that's Elohim.""
So Yeshua's delineating Himself from the Father and saying it's the Father who is good but if you
wish to enter into life, what are the next three words? "guard the commands." All right now do you
think Yeshua is lying to this person? Do you think He's teaching a false doctrine? Is Yeshua
the one that we're supposed to be following? So here's someone inquiring about eternal life and
the very first thing that comes out of Yeshua's mouth is if you want to enter into eternal
life you need to obey the commands. Now I know that runs absolutely contrary to the most popular
Christian doctrines today that it's just a mental ascension that Jesus is the Christ and as long
as you do that you're saved, are we supposed to follow religious doctrine or did Yeshua say follow me? He said follow me. What did He say when He was asked about how to inherit eternal
life? The very first thing out of His mouth was guard the commands, keep the commandments. Look at
verse 18. "He said to him, which and Yeshua said, 'You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you
shall not steal, you shall not bear false witness, respect your father and your mother, and you shall
love your neighbor as your self,'" Now all of those commandments pertain to loving people. You see all
of the commandments all of the Torah Commandments hinge on two broad categories of Commandments,
love Elohim and love people. So Yeshua mentions all the love people Commandments here, He's doing
it with purpose, He's going to get to the heart of the idolatry of this rich young ruler, all right so
first He mentions all the love people commandments and look at verse 20. "The young man said to Him, "All
these I have watched over from my youth what do I still lack." Yeshua said to him, "If you wish to be
perfect go sell what you have and give to the poor and you shall have treasure in heaven and come
follow me." So now He just directed this young man to deal with his idolatry because his idol was his
money, he loved his money more than anything else. We know that to be true because he wasn't willing
or able to accept what Yeshua told him he needed to do. He had made his money an idol and so Yeshua
attacked that idol, He said, you got to get rid of your idol because if you'll get rid of your idol,
go sell your possessions and give the money to the poor, get rid of your idol. Then He says come follow
me, now Yeshua was the ultimate of Torah teachers, if you walk in the ways of Yeshua you will
be obedient to the Torah. If you walk in the ways of Yeshua you will be loving Elohim and so
it's really interesting to see here that Yeshua is saying if you want eternal life you must keep
the commandments given by Mosheh and believe in me, follow me, well that's exactly what these other
verses that we've already shared with you have said. Again the word is "and", the operative word is
"and" to guard the commandments and have a belief in Yeshua and so the rich young ruler was unable
to do that and he walked away very discouraged. All right let's go a little further John chapter 5
beginning with verse 39, this tells us the Torah is a witness to Yeshua, you searched the scriptures
and this is Yeshua speaking, you searched the scriptures, what scriptures? When Yeshua makes
reference to scriptures what scriptures is He talking about? Something about the original Hebrew
Scriptures, there had not been what's called a New Testament written at that time. All right. "You
search the Scriptures because you think you possess everlasting life in them and these are
the ones that bear witness of Me." So the Tanakh, the Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Ketuvim, the
instructions, the prophets, and the writings were written about Yeshua. As a matter of fact, there's
a commandment in the Torah Deuteronomy chapter 18 verses 15 through 19 where the Almighty commands
Yisra'el to Shema, to hear and to obey the Prophet like Mosheh, that will be raised up from the midst
of the Brethren and he says if you won't hear Him, you won't Shema Him then you'll be judged, all
right and so Yeshua is saying the Scriptures, the original Hebrew Scriptures, were written about
me as a witness to me. Verse 40 "but you do not desire to come to me in order to possess life I
do not receive a theme from men but I know you that you do not have the love of Elohim in you,"
In other words, you're not willing to obey the commandments. See these were religious people who
said they obeyed the commandments that they obeyed the Torah and yet the Prophet like Mosheh was
standing right there in front of them and they would not Shema Him and so Yeshua could stand
and charge them by saying you're not obedient to the scripture because if you were obedient to the
scripture you would Shema me in obedience to the Torah itself and He says you people just look for
esteem from one another, so Yeshua is directing these charges against them and they're looking
at each other that they want to go along with the crowd, they want to say what the next guy wants
to hear so that they can fit in. Look at verse 43. "I have come in my Father's Name and you do not
receive Me if another comes in his own name him you would receive, how are you able to believe
when you are receiving esteem from one another and the esteem that is from the only Elohim you
do not seek. Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father, there is One who accuses you and
who's going to accuse them Mosheh in whom you have set your expectation." See they were saying
we don't have to believe in Yeshua, we have Mosheh, and yet it's not Mosheh only is it if you
want eternal life you obey the commands of Mosheh but you also follow Yeshua, it's not one or the
other it is and one and the other. Verse 46 "For if you believed Mosheh like you say you do you would
have believed Me since he wrote about Me." Where did Mosheh write about Yeshua? In Deuteronomy chapter
18 verses 15 through 19 and in other places as pictures and types but specifically as the prophet
like Mosheh if they were truly Shema if I can kind of mix the Hebrew in the English together if
they were truly listening to and obeying Mosheh they would have listened to and obeyed Yeshua
because Mosheh commanded them to do so in the Torah. Look at verse 47. "But if you do not believe
his writings how shall you believe My words?" See don't tell me that you believe the words of
Yeshua but you don't believe Mosheh's writings my question is are you really believing in
the true Yeshua if you've totally abandoned Mosheh, how do you know who you're believing in?
If you don't read the words and believe Mosheh how can you say you're a follower of Yeshua? If
you can say in the same breath that everything Mosheh wrote was abolished because Mosheh is a
witness to Yeshua, how do you even know Yeshua without Mosheh? The question is do you
have Yeshua without having Mosheh? It may be that there's a lot of people who have religion
and they don't truly know Yeshua because they won't listen to Mosheh. Come on say amen, it
goes down a little easier when you say amen. Amen. Now did Yeshua and make this point this is not
a new point? I'm not that creative. All I'm doing is sharing with you the very point that
Yeshua made. Let's read those words again. For if you believed Mosheh, you say you have Mosheh, you
put your trust in Mosheh you're justified by being Torah observant by being Torah obedient and yet
were they being Torah obedient by ignoring Yeshua by refusing to believe upon Him, they were being
what? Torah disobedient. See if you truly follow Torah, Torah would be exactly what Sha'ul said it is, a
schoolmaster that will lead you to Yeshua anybody that truly followed the Torah anybody that had
the Torah and truly followed the Torah would have ended up believing in Yeshua and some did and many
didn't. For if you believe Mosheh you would have believed me since he wrote about me let me ask you
this in those days when Yeshua was teaching did Yeshua ever stand up and say now everybody
turn in your New Testaments to John 3:16? Did He ever say that? Did He ever say all right now let's
turn to the book of Romans? He did not and so if He's going to preach to them about His Messiahship
He's going to reference the scriptures that were available to be referenced, that's why He's right
here referencing Mosheh and his writings. In other words, you could say it like this, hey if
you don't believe the Bible, how can you believe me? Because that was the only Bible. There was the
original Hebrew Scriptures, are you following me, so why would you abolish the Bible trying
to find Yeshua. You understand what I mean by that if the only scriptures available where
the original Hebrew Scriptures then how can you say that all of that's been abolished when those
scriptures were written about Yeshua? Do you have a right to abolish the witnesses of Yeshua? The three
scriptural witnesses of Yeshua are the Torah, the Nevi'im and the Ketuvim. The Torah, the first five
books of Mosheh, the Nevi'im, the prophets, and the Ketuvim, the writings, Tanahk, all
of the original Hebrew Scriptures, those are the three witnesses of Yeshua. If you're bold enough
and have so much hubris that you can stand and say that the Tanakh or the Old Testament has
been abolished then you have abolished the witnesses of Yeshua. How can Yeshua stand
in court and confirm His Messiahship if He has no witnesses? When you go to court you need to
bring your witnesses. "If you believe Mosheh you would have believed Me since he wrote about Me
but if you do not believe his writings," Now they would say oh we believe we believe yeah but they
weren't obeying Deuteronomy 18 verses 15 through 19. "but if you do not believe his writings how
shall you believe My words?" My question is how are you gonna believe His words if you don't pay
attention to Mosheh's writings? How are you going to understand His words if you don't pay
attention to Mosheh's writings when you try to form an opinion about Yeshua in your mind from
a Roman-Greco Western culture mentality and you have abolished Mosheh, what do you think is going
to happen? You're gonna end up making some stuff up and has not religion done that over the past
2,000 years? Made up a lot of stuff. So for us to truly understand Yeshua we've got to get back
to Mosheh because it's not Yeshua abolished Mosheh how ridiculous is that you're going to go
to court to establish your Messiahship and you're abolishing your own witness, are you following me.
All right let's go to Matthew chapter 17 and we'll pick up a verse 1. Let me give you a quiz real
quick, what's the operative word in this sermon? And. Praise YAH, some are listening. Hallelujah.
Matthew chapter 17 begin with verse 1 "And after six days Yeshua took Kepha and Ya'aqob and Yohanan his brother," That's Peter, James, and John in your English Bible. "and brought them up on a high
mountain by themselves and He was transformed," Who was transformed? Yeshua was transformed before
them, before Kepha, Ya'aqob and Yohanan. "and His face shone like the sun and His garments became white
as light," Look at verse 3. "and see," Now those are two powerful words together because that's the word
of the Master for us today, we need to see some things and what is it that we're supposed to see
today in this message. "and see Mosheh and Eliyahu appeared to them talking with Yeshua." Now what in
the world are Mosheh and Eliyahu, Moses and Elijah doing with Yeshua? I thought Yeshua was going
to abolish those guys? So we have Yeshua and Mosheh and Eliyahu together, Mosheh represents the Torah,
Eliyahu represents the prophets, and Yeshua taught in Matthew 5, He said do not think. Now how many
of you believe that's a commandment when your Master says don't think something? You need to work
real hard to not think that thought, the question is how many people in religion have failed that
commandment? He said do not think that I've come to destroy or abolish the Torah and the prophets,
in other words, I'm not kicking Mosheh and Eliyahu out and He proves it right here because when He's
transformed before His disciples who's with Him, Mosheh and Eliyahu, you got the Torah and the prophets
standing with Yeshua. It's Yeshua and Moshe and Eliyahu, not Yeshua has abolished Mosheh and Eliyahu.
You see our religion has gotten it so wrong. "And see Mosheh and Eliyahu appeared to them
talking with Yeshua talking with Him and Kepha answering said to Yeshua, "Master, it is good
for us to be here. If you wish let us make here three booths," I mean Peter's ready to build
them all houses, build them all sukkoths, build three sukkahs, sukkoths. "one for you, one for
Mosheh and one for Eliyahu," Now he was real comfortable with those three hanging out together
that's because religion hadn't gotten old of him yet. Amen. He was completely satisfied with with
Yeshua and Mosheh and Eliyahu being together, now this is Peter and so many Christians
put their trust in Peter, they put Peter on a pedestal and yet, Peter does not have a problem
with Yeshua being with Mosheh and Eliyahu. I wonder why religion has a problem with it. Verse
five "While he was still speaking see a bright cloud overshadowed them and see a voice came out
of the cloud saying, "This is My Son, the Beloved, in whom I delight. Hear Him," Now hear Him is the
equivalent to Shema Him so Mosheh understood Shema because the people were supposed to hear
and obey the commandments of Elohim that came forth from Mosheh. Eliyahu understood Shema, the
prophets didn't come and bring anything new, they came and supported what had already been written
and so you have the three standing together, Mosheh was a servant in the house of Elohim but
Yeshua is the Son in Elohim's house. Amen? And so you have the three standing together and you have
the voice that comes from the heavenlies saying, this is my Son, the Beloved in whom I delight hear
Him or Shema Him but notice He didn't say Yeshua's going to abolish Mosheh or Eliyahu. You know
the Almighty was alright with those three Bible people characters being together, was He not? Did He
make a delineation between Yeshua and Mosheh and Eliyahu? He did not. All right can we go a little
bit further? All right go with me to John chapter onem we'll pick up with verse 11. I'll read through
a little bit of this to get the context and I want to get to the verse that I really want to
touch on begin with verse 11. "He came to His own," Speaking of Yeshua coming to His own people, the
Jewish people. "and His own did not receive Him but as many as received Him to them He gave the
authority to become children of Elohim to those believing in His Name who were born not of blood
nor the desire of flesh nor the desire of man but of Elohim and the word became flesh and pitched
His tent among us and we saw His esteem, esteem as of and only brought forth of a Father complete
in favor and truth, Yohanan bore witness of Him and cried out saying, this was He of whom I said He who
comes after me has become before me because He was before me and out of His completeness we all did
receive and favor upon favor." Now look at verse 17. "For the Torah was given through Mohseh," Now in
many English Bibles you have in italics the word but, check your English version if you're not in
the scriptures right now. The Scriptures version which we use here and see if the word but, is there
the word but is a word used in English language to bring contrast between one thing in another and
so in many English translations that says, for the law was given through Moses but grace and truth
came through Yeshua Messiah. The but is not in the original manuscript, it was added by translators
and publishers with an agenda to separate Mosheh from Yeshua. There is no but in the original
manuscript. You could actually use the operative word and it makes more sense, the word and in
this translation there's just a dash, it's just two comments. For the Torah was given through
Mosheh. Well everybody says, yes amen. Hallelujah. You know, praise YAH for the instructions given by
the creator the favor and the truth came through Yeshua Messiah. Now one completes the other, one is
not at war with the other, one does not contrast the other, there is no but in that verse. The
operative word can easily be inserted if it helps you understand the word and or just leave
it blank but what it means is that Mosheh brought the Torah within the Torah is a commandment for
Yisra'el to Shema Yeshua, Yeshua comes and completes by bringing the favor and the truth the
favor that comes through His sacrificial death on the tree for us, the English Bible
has grace there. Grace does not give you a license to transgress the Torah, grace does not
give you a license to spiritually hate Mosheh, grace gives you the power to love YAH the
way He wants to be loved and that's through obedience to His commandments, that's what
grace provides. Grace provides the ability to accomplish when you have a circumcised
heart what those who had uncircumcised hearts and stiff necks wouldn't do and couldn't do
and that is to be obedient to the scripture to the commandments and so Yeshua
simply complements, He simply completes what Mosheh started. Mosheh is a servant in
Elohim house, Yeshua is the Son in the same house. When the Son comes you don't tear
down the house and start up another one, you understand what I'm saying? When the Son
arrives we're all thankful the servant has been there. When the Son arrives He doesn't
tear down the house and throw out the servant, He complements what's already been done. All
right let's go a little further John chapter 8 picking up with verse 42. Let me ask you a
question, did Yeshua obey the Torah? Would Yeshua have qualified to be your Savior if He
had transgressed the Torah? What do you become when you transgress the Torah? A sinner. Can
a sinner save you? So anyone that tells you that Yeshua broke the Sabbath, Yeshua
did obey the dietary instructions, is just not telling you the truth. I said
that kindly didn't I? He's lying to you because if Yeshua had broken the Sabbath, He
would no longer be qualified to be Savior, He would be sinner because sin is the transgression
of the Torah. Does everyone understand that? So Yeshua was living a life of obedience to the
Torah and what did He say to those that He called to be His followers? Follow me, oh
follow me but you don't have to do what I'm doing, follow me sure but you don't have
to love what I love, you don't have to obey what I obey - well it doesn't make any sense
does it? The scripture says looking unto Yeshua, amen? Even Sha'ul said imitate me as
I imitate Yeshua. Yeshua told those who were listening to His teaching that if you
imitate me you will be imitating the Master. Alright John chapter 8 begin with verse 42.
Yeshua said to them, "if Elohim were your Father you would love me, for I came forth from
Elohim and am here." That is a direct reference to Deuteronomy 18 verses 15 through 19, He's talking
to the Pharisees, religious leaders of His day and He said if Elohim were your Father because they
were saying Elohim our Father and Yeshua said, "If Elohim were your Father you would love Me, for
I came forth from Elohim if you love Elohim wouldn't you love the One that He's provided? For I
have not come of Myself but He sent Me. Why do you not know what I say?" In other words, why are you
not, again I'm gonna mix the Hebrew into English, why are you not shema-ing me? Can you imagine
being there in that conversation and listening to Yeshua, they're saying Elohim is our Father
and Yeshua's saying if Elohim was your Father you'd love me because I was sent by Elohim. He says,
"Why do you not know what I say?" How come you can't understand my words? He says, "Because you're unable
to hear My Word, you are of your father the devil and the desires of your father you wish to do."
Now why did He say that? Because they wanted to kill Him. Now that's a far cry from shema-ing
Him, hearing and obeying Him, they want to kill Him. So what is He thinking? You want to murder
me, so He attaches that desire of their heart to the ultimate murderer who is Hasatan or the
devil, He says you're of your father the devil because the devil has been a murderer from the
beginning, He understood exactly what they were thinking. "You're of your father the devil and
the desires of your father you wish to do, he was a murderer from the beginning and has not
stood in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks the lie he speaks of his own
for he is a liar and the father of it because I speak the truth you do not believe Me?" Now this
is the verse I wanted to get to here, verse 46. "Who of you proves Me wrong concerning sin?" In
other words, who among you can bear witness that I've transgressed the Torah? Can any of you
bear witness against me that I have transgressed the Torah? Because sin is the transgression of
the Torah, isn that right? And they could not. They had no witness, no reliable witness that He had
transgressed the Torah. It says, "and if I speak the truth," This is Yeshua speaking. "Why do you not
believe Me? He who is of Elohim hears the words of Elohim therefore you do not hear because you are
not of Elohim." So this is a passage that tells us that Yeshua obeyed the Torah completely and
that those who were His opponents, those who were constantly challenging Him could find no
witness against Him that He had ever broken the Torah. So what do we see? We see the Torah was
given by Mosheh and Yeshua is complete lately connected with the Torah and Mosheh. You're not that
greatest surgeon to be able to separate the two. You're not that witty in your religious thinking
to be able to separate Yeshua from Mosheh, not if you're going to stay in the truth you can't
separate the two. John chapter 8 verse 28. "So Yeshua said to them, "When you lift up the
Son of Adam then you shall know that I am He and that I do none at all of Myself but
as My Father taught Me these words I speak and He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has
not left Me alone," This begs the question, why has the Father not left Him alone? Notice what
it says. "For I always do what pleases Him." Now if you do what pleases Elohim will you not be
following Mosheh? In other words being obedient to the commandments of Elohim given by Mosheh? That's what Yeshua's saying. The Father has never left me alone because I obey the
commandments of Elohim given by Mosheh. If Yeshua abolished Mosheh and no longer
obeyed the commandments given by Mosheh would He have been able to say this? He said, the Father
has not left me alone for I always do what pleases Him and what pleases Him is defined by what
Mosheh wrote. Are you following me? All right so we know that Yeshua obeyed the commandments
completely. We know that Sha'ul imitated Yeshua, Sha'ul, the Apostle Paul. 1st Corinthians 11:1
says, "Become imitators of me as I also am of Messiah." I'll give you one example of how Sha'ul
imitated Yeshua. Luke chapter 4 and verse 16 it says, "And He," Yeshua. "came to Nazareth where He
had been brought up," Look at the next few words here. "and according to His practice," According to
Yeshua's practice. See, He lived in obedience to the Torah. He went into the congregation on the
Sabbath day and stood up to read so according to Yeshua's practice, He is in the synagogue on
the Sabbath day, amen. Now what about Sha'ul? Look at Acts chapter 17 verse 2, this is written about
the Apostle Paul. "And according to His practice," Same words used, the same words used to describe
Yeshua's practice are used to describe Sha'ul's practice, and according to his practice. See Sha'ul who
lived his life in obedience to the Torah, following Yeshua's example. "And according to his practice Sha'ul
went in unto them and for three Sabbath's was reasoning with them from the scripture explaining
and pointing out that the Messiah had to suffer and rise again from the dead saying, "This is the
Messiah Yeshua whom I proclaim to you."" Is Sha'ul proclaiming a different Yeshua? It's the same
Yeshua. Is it possible to separate Yeshua from Mosheh? So the Yeshua that Paul is proclaiming
is a Yeshua that cannot be separated from Mosheh. Now this is really going to bring it together
for you. Ephesians chapter 2 starting with verse 8, Sha'ul or the Apostle Paul taught the same thing
as the verses that we started this message with that for those who desire to receive eternal
life they must obey the commands of Elohim and possess belief in Yeshua. Ephesians chapter
2 beginning with verse 8. "For by favor you have been saved are justified through belief belief in
Yeshua and that not of yourselves it is the gift of Elohim it is not by works," Not by works alone
without belief. See, He was always challenged with dealing with His Jewish brethren who said we
don't need your Yeshua, we have Mosheh. We don't need to believe in your Messiah, they would put
it in quotes, we have Mosheh in the Torah. Sha'ul had to deal with this thought that the Jews
had that they could be justified by obeying the Torah without believing in Yeshua so when he's
addressing that issue oftentimes if you don't understand his mindset you can make him out to
be anti-Torah. He was not anti-Torah, he was anti you thinking you could be justified by obeying
some of the Torah and not obeying all of the Torah. You say, what do you mean by that? Because
there's a commandment in Deuteronomy 18 verses 15 through 19 that says you must Shema the
Prophet like Mosheh that's coming His Name is Yeshua. Amen? And so when he says it's not by
works the implication, is it's not by works alone without belief but he deals with that issue. So
let's go a little further. "It's not by works not by works alone without belief so that no one
should boast for we are His workmanship." We are Elohim's workmanship. Elohim has worked in us. "Elohim
has created us," Notice. "created in messiah Yeshua," What are the next three words? "unto good works," So
we see belief and we see obedience unto good works that you've heard me say it before but do you
get to define what good works or do I get to define what good works are? Can I just on a whim
decide this is good and that's not how our good works defined by the Torah. The Almighty defines
good works, your obedience to the Torah, when you obey the Torah you are engaging in good works. Now
I'll bear that out. We'll go a little further in this verse, this is something Sha'ul wrote. "For we are
His workmanship created in Messiah Yeshua unto good works which Elohim prepared beforehand
that we should walk in them." What did Elohim prepare before the manifestation of Yeshua on
the earth? The Torah. This is Sha'ul, this is the beloved Apostle Paul saying the same things
that the rest of the bible says that if you want eternal life you have to obey the commands
of Elohim and believe upon Yeshua. Again because he was addressing oftentimes his Jewish brethren
he said the same thing but he reversed the order, that's what we see here. He says, for we are His,
Elohim's, workmanship created in Messiah Yeshua that's through belief but it's not belief
that abolishes the Torah, it's a belief that establishes the Torah. Now you do remember Romans
chapter 3 verse 31 when he declared that we are justified by belief in Yeshua, he makes it very
clear that that's the only way to be justified it's by the favor of Elohim, through belief in
Yeshua and Sha'ul who knows when he says that some people are thinking, well what about
the Torah? You're saying there's no place for the Torah and the life of believers? He anticipates
that, Sha'ul says does our belief in Yeshua abolish the Torah? Does it nullify the Torah? Let it
not be, on the contrary our belief in Yeshua establishes the Torah upholds the Torah, so what
is he saying? He's saying the same thing that all the rest of the Bible says and all these other
verses that we've shown you say that for us to possess eternal life we must have a belief that
produces obedience, obedience to what? Do you get to decide? Obedience to the commandments of Elohim
as given by Mosheh. Hallelujah. Go with me quickly over to Genesis chapter 15 and I'm going to show
you that Paul uses Abraham as an example when he teaches that a person is justified through belief
but it's unto obedience Genesis chapter 15 and verse 2. "And Abraham said, "Master YAH, what would you
give me seeing I go childless and the heir of my house is Eli'ezer of Damaseq," Or Damascus. "and
Abraham said, "See you have given me no seed and see one born in my house is my heir, and see, the word
of YAH came to him saying, this one is not your heir but he who comes from your own body is your
heir and he brought him outside and said, look now toward the heavens and count the stars if you are
able to count them, and he said to him, so are your seed." Now that's that's pretty big. You're looking
up into the stars, you're complaining about not having one son and the Almighty says if you
can count those stars that's how many sons and daughters you're gonna have, that's a big
thing to believe. And look at verse six. "And he believed in YAH and he reckoned it to Him for
righteousness." Now there is a period after that sentence but that's not the end of the story, you
can't stop with belief under righteousness you have to continue on if you want your doctrine to
fit comfortably within the context of the whole Bible, so let's take it the next step. Go with me to
Genesis chapter 26 and we'll pick up with verse 2. "And YAH appeared to him," To Yitshaq. "and said, "Do
not go down to Mitsrayim," Don't go down to Egypt. "live in the land which I command you sojourn in
this land and I shall be with you and bless you for I give all these lands to you and your seed
and I shall establish the oath or the Covenant which I swore to Abraham your father and I shall
increase your seed like the stars of the heavens and I shall give all these lands to your seed and
in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed." And look at verse 5, it's as if Yitshaq, Isaac, had in his heart the question, why are you gonna do these things for me? Because the
scripture offers up the answer why he's gonna be blessed. Look at verse 5. "Because Abraham obeyed My
voice, and guarded My charge, My commands, My laws, and My Torot." My instructions. He believed YAH
and it was accounted unto him for righteousness but for the blessing to come to pass to come into
fullness there had to be more than just a belief it was a belief that produced what? Obedience
because Abraham obeyed my voice and guarded my charge and my commands, my laws and my torot and
this was the example that Sha'ul used that's why we see in his writings that it's a belief unto
obedience. Can you say amen? Now quickly, Ya'aqob or James taught the same thing. We'll just highlight a
few verses here. James 2:14 "My brothers what use is it for anyone to say he has belief but does not
have works or obedience?" What use is it for you to say you believe but you don't obey? This kind
of belief the kind that says I believe but will not obey this belief is unable to save him, so the
question is your doctrine has to fit comfortably within the whole context of the Bible not just
some little portion here or there. The question is if you have a belief that's more of a mental
ascension that Jesus is the Christ and that's it you don't have any obedience will that belief
save you the scripture says that kind of belief won't save you now is that in complete agreement
the idea that you have to have a belief that produces obedience is that in complete agreement
with what Yeshua taught. Of course it is. The rich young ruler said what do I need to do to inherit
eternal life and what did you say you know the commandments? Obey the commandments and then he
said and follow me. It's not but, but it's and. Alright verse twenty, "But do you wish to know oh
foolish man that the belief without the works is dead was not Abraham our Father declared right
by works when he offered Yitshaq his son on the slaughter place? Do you see that the belief was
working with his works and by the works of the obedience the belief was perfected?" Your belief
is perfected through your obedience. You see then that a man is declared right by obedience
or by works and not by belief alone does that make sense, it's not one or the other it's both.
They're singing the song of Mosheh and the song of the Lamb, they're obeying the commands
of Elohim and possessing belief in Yeshua. Verse 26 "For as the body without the Spirit
is dead so also the belief is dead without the works." Without the obedience. Alright I'm
gonna give you two more passages, they're not verses but they're passages and then we're
gonna conclude this but like an attorney, I'm building a case, I want you to be
thoroughly convinced by the way you notice I don't use my opinion. Scripture on scripture
on scripture on scripture. You know the people that want to criticize can say, you know
he just uses so much scripture, what do you want me to use? You want me to use Aesop's
fables? What are you looking for? All right go with me to Acts chapter 21. Now this
is a huge point, you know think about this, the original congregation of belief when you think
about a a congregation of belief that engaged in more of the supernatural, I mean, signs and wonders
and miracles and angelic visitations and and supernatural prison breaks and multiplications and
supernatural growth and all of that when you when you describe a body like that what do you think of?
What congregation is like that the congregation in Jerusalem? The first 10 chapters in the book of
Acts is all about the congregation in Jerusalem and it was a supernatural. I mean, if you're a body
somewhere and you're looking for a model sure you ought to go in and model the congregation in
the book of Acts in Yerushalayim because that was the most supernatural powerful, YAH was with
them, the Spirit was moving mightily, there were miracles everywhere, it was awesome. I'm gonna tell
you something about that congregation that you might not have thought of that congregation was
a Torah obedient, Messiah centered, Spirit-filled congregation, that congregation believed the
Torah and obeyed the Torah and had all those miracles and the power of the Almighty was so
present. Let's look Acts 21 verse 17. "And when we had arrived in Yerushalayim the brothers received
us gladly and on the following day Sha'ul went in with us to Ya'aqob, or to James, and all the elders
came and having greeted them he was relating one by one what Elohim had done among the nations."
So Sha'ul was talking about what was going on in the nations through his service. "And when
they heard it," When the Jewish brethren heard it. "they praised the Master and they said to him,
"You see brother how many thousands of Yehudim," Thousands of Jews. "there are who have believed
believe in Yeshua and all are ardent for the Torah," Now why am I bringing this verse to you?
Because I want you to see they had belief in Yeshua but they obeyed the commands of Elohim
and here is an example of a congregation who had belief under obedience and it is the most
written about congregation in all the Bible and when you read about this congregation it's
loaded with miracle signs and wonders in the Spirit is moving powerfully supernatural explosion
of growth, everything you'd ever want to be a part of is defined in the scripture as relating to
a congregation who was Torah obedient. Now has not this movement come into it's time? Is it time?
We're actually getting back to the book of Acts. Amen? If the congregation of belief was birthed in
that kind of power how many of you believe that when we finally grow up and get mature we're
going to get back to that power and go beyond? We're getting back to the Torah because that's
the part that's been missing, can you say amen? All right final passage Revelation chapter 21 starting
with verse 9, "And one of the seven messengers who held the seven bowls filled with the seven last
plagues came to me and spoke with me saying, come shall show you the bride the Lamb's wife and he
carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain and showed me the great city the
set-apart Yerushalayim," That's the New Jerusalem. "descending out of the heaven from Elohim having
the esteem of Elohim and her light was like a most precious stone like a jasper stone clear as
crystal and having a great and high wall having twelve gates and at the gates twelve messengers
and the names written on them which are those of the twelve tribes of the children of Yisra'el,"
What does that tell us? You can't even get into the city unless you pass through one of the
tribes. The congregation of belief in Yeshua is not a Roman-rooted Gentile Church. We have been
grafted into Yisra'el and the gates of the city, now you're gonna want to go in there and to get
in there you've got to get in by way of one of the tribes. Can you say amen? The entrance is Mosheh and the Torah and the tribes and Yisra'el, can you say amen? Now let's go a little further .
"There are three gates on the East three gates on the North three gates on the South and three
gates on the West," Look at verse 14. "and the wall of the city had twelve foundations and on them
were the names of the twelve emissaries of the Lamb." So what do you have? We've gotten almost to the end of the story, we're talking about the New Yerushalayim where we all
want to be and we don't see that the Lamb has abolished Mosheh or Yisra'el or the Torah. Amen?
We see the very bride in essence and I know the believers are the bride but this is a picture of
the New Yerushalayim, it's called the bride, the bride has 12 gates to get into the city, you got to pass
through one of the tribes the foundation of the wall that goes around the city the foundation is
made up of the twelve emissaries of the Lamb the apostles of the Lamb. Do you have the word but
in there anywhere? Are one over the other? What do you have? And. You have the twelve tribes and
the emissaries of the Lamb, now that's my point and I've gotten to the end of my case and I hope
I've sold you in the scripture that if you love Yisra'el you're part of Yisra'el, if you're
thankful for the servant in Elohim house Mosheh, and you know that Mosheh and Yeshua cannot be
separated, and you love the Torah and you've received the Set-apart Spirit, the Indwelling
Set-apart Spirit who's given you the want to and the power to be obedient you believe in
Yeshua then you are a part of that great throng of overcomers who will sing the song of Mosheh
and the song of the Lamb. You are a part of that great body of believers defined in the scripture
as those who guard the commandments of Elohim and possess belief in Yeshua you have become because
of those things the bride of Messiah. Hallelujah.
