All right are you ready to get into YAH's Word
today? I am as well. I would like to invite you to open your bibles to John chapter 14, we're
going to begin with verse 15 in just a moment, and I've entitled this message, "Which Commands
Should I Obey?". You know, that's one of the questions that we get all the time, which commands should
I obey. Am I supposed to obey the ten words or the ten commandments? Am I supposed to obey
the commandments of Torah, which commands? Oftentimes, people say there's only two in the
New Covenant, love god and love people, that's what they'll say. But see, you have to get into the ten
to be able to understand the two and then you have to begin to obey the total for set-apartness,
and we're going to talk about that tonight. So we're in John chapter 14 verse 15, and this is
Yeshua not only making a statement but quoting His Father, He's quoting Torah here. As we've said
before, Yeshua didn't come with a new message. He didn't come to bring something new, He came
to reveal His Father. His mission was to reveal His Father to the people, so if He brought
something new, if He brought something unique, if He brought something that was purely of
Himself He would be failing at His mission, so everything that Yeshua said is a
reflection of what the Father has already said. And so, we see right here in verse 15 of
John chapter 14, Yeshua said, "If you love Me you shall guard My commands." Well, that's straight
out of Torah, that's what the Father says, ff you love me you shall guard my commands.
And so what we have to realize is that obedience was not extracted from the New Covenant,
we're still expected to obey in the New Covenant. What the New Covenant has done for us, what Yeshua
has provided for us in His work of redemption is that we can receive the Indwelling Set-apart
Spirit of YAH and the Indwelling Set-apart Spirit of YAH gives us the want to obey, you've heard me
say that before. Repetition is the key to learning. So the Spirit of YAH gives us the want
to obey and the power to be obedient. So let's look at Jeremiah 31 beginning with
verse 31 it says, "See the days are coming," declares YAH, "when I shall make a renewed
covenant,"" Or a new covenant. ""with the house of Yisra'el and with the house of Yehudah," So, the
New Covenant is cut with the house of Yisra'el and the house of Yehudah. The Scripture doesn't say
anything about the New Covenant being cut with a Roman-rooted Gentile church. If you want to be a
part of the New Covenant, you have to be grafted in to the house of Yisra'el or the house of Yehudah
or the whole house of Yisra'el, the two together. YAH says, ""...when I shall make a renewed covenant with
the house of Yisra'el with the house of Yehudah, not like the covenant I made with their fathers in
the day when I strengthened their hand or took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of
Mitsrayim," or Egypt. ""My covenant which they broke though I was a husband to them,"" So the
covenant is a marriage arrangement and YAH said to them, you must circumcise your
heart, you must circumcise your heart to love me and how do we love Him? We love Him through
obedience and so He required Yisra'el to obey Him and He requires the same of us. But
they were stiff-necked, they were rebellious, they did not circumcise their heart and they
broke the covenant. They went after false deities, they committed abominations and they broke the
covenant, and that's what YAH speaking of here. It says, "...My covenant which they broke though I
was a husband to them," declares YAH. "...for this is the covenant I shall make with the house of Yisra'el,"
Speaking of the whole house of Yisra'el. "...after those days," After what days? After the death, burial and
resurrection of Yeshua. "declares YAH, I shall put My Torah in their inward parts," So YAH says He's
going to put His Torah in our inward parts in our minds so that we can think about how we can love
YAH the way He wants to be loved through obedience. "and write it on their hearts." So where is the Torah
in the New Covenant? Has it been abolished? Has it been done away with? How foolish it would be for
YAH to say I'm going to put an abolished Torah in your mind and write it on your hearts,
this is proof positive that the Torah has not been abolished. Instead, it's been
internalized in the New Covenant, the Torah gets even closer to us, we become like the ark
of the Covenant. We house the Torah of Elohim. HalleluYAH. That's very, very special. "I
shall put My Torah in their inward parts," He's going to internalize the Torah within us
"...and write it on their hearts and I shall be their Elohim and they shall be My people." We see in
Deuteronomy 30 verse 6, it says, "And YAH your Elohim shall circumcise your heart and the heart of your
seed your children to love YAH your Elohim with all of your heart and with all of your being so
that you might live," And then we see Him fulfilling that very promise so in Torah, He promises to
circumcise our hearts to prepare us to love Him the way He wants to be loved through obedience
Colossians chapter 2 and verse 11. It says, "In Him, (in Yeshua) you were also circumcised with a
circumcision not made with hands," This is the circumcision of the heart in the putting off of
the body of the sins of the flesh," In other words, YAH deals with the evil inclinations that reside
in our flesh so that we can have victory over sin. You hear some Christian people saying, "I'm free,
I'm free, I'm free!" and you're asking what are you free from, they say, "I'm free from the law," in other
words, I'm free from obedience, and we're not free from Torah, we're not free from YAH's law, we're not
free from obedience, we are freed from sin and the bible definition of sin is what? The transgression
of the Torah. "In Him, you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands in the putting
off of the body of the sins of the flesh," Notice. "...by the circumcision of Messiah," The circumcision of
Messiah is the fulfillment of the promise that YAH made in Deuteronomy chapter 30 and verse 6. "...having
been buried with Him (with Yeshua) in immersion in which you also were raised with Him through
the belief in the working of Elohim who raised Him from the dead." So you died to your old sin, life
you were buried with Yeshua in the watery grave of immersion and you were raised up out of that water
resurrected to walk in a new life. And then Ezekiel chapter 36, beginning with verse 25 says, "And I
shall sprinkle clean water on you and you shall be clean from all your filthiness and from all
your idols I cleanse you," Notice. "and I shall give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you
and I shall take the heart of stone out of your flesh," That's the "I don't want to obey" heart. "...and I
shall give you a heart of flesh," That's the "I want to obey" heart. "...and put My Spirit within you." That's
where you get the power, that's where you get the power to obey. Here it is. "And I shall cause you to
walk in My laws and guard My right-rulings and you shall do them." So if your friends or your family
members say, "Why are you trying to obey the bible? Why are you doing that?" ...you could say, "Well,
blame it on Elohim because He has caused me to walk in His laws and to guard His right-
rulings and I'm going to do them, that's what the Scripture says, that's the work of
the Set-apart Spirit in every believer. So why did I go over that again? Because the
key to learning is repetition. You need to understand these principles. These are foundational
principles that every believer should understand, so we're asking the question and
answering the question, which laws should I obey. When people start hearing the truth,
they sit under some teaching, they're reading in the Scripture, they receive revelation, that's
one of the first questions they ask. So which commandments should I obey? I mentioned before
that Christianity says that there's only two, they say love god and love people. But then,
they set out to define what that means they set the terms for
loving god and loving people. And so we're going to talk a little bit about
the two, then we're going to talk about the ten, and then we're going to talk about the
total tonight. So let's look at the two Mark chapter 12 beginning with verse 28, it says,
"And one of the scribes coming near hearing them reasoning together knowing that he had
answered them well asked Him," Ask Yeshua. "..."Which is the first command of all?"" In other words,
which of all the commandments is the greatest command of all. "And Yeshua answered him,
"The first of all the commands is, 'Hear O Yisra'el, YAH our Elohim, YAH is One.'" This is called the Shema, "Shema" Hebrew word that means to hear and obey.
So we see that Yeshua is quoting Shema and He's saying that YAH our Elohim is One,
Echad. He goes on to say, "And you shall love YAH your Elohim with all your heart and
with all your being and with all your mind and with all your strength." Again, how do
we love YAH our Elohim? Through obedience. We love Him by obeying Him. So the question
is, are we obeying Him with all of our hearts? Are we obeying Him with all of our being? Are we obeying Him with all of our mind?
Are we obeying Him with all of our strength? We need to get back to the ancient paths. We
need to walk in the ways of YAH. We need to love Him so much that we obey Him with all of our
hearts, with all of our beings, with all of our minds and with all of our strength. This is what
Yeshua is teaching us here, He's actually quoting Torah. He says this is the first command or the
greatest of all commands, and the second like it is this, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. So,
love Elohim and love your neighbor or love people, these are the two greatest commands, but
we don't get to define what that means. That's where religion goes wrong, we
don't get to define what it means to love Elohim. We don't get to define what it
means to love our neighbor. The Scripture does that for us. Yeshua goes on to say, there
is no other command greater than these. "And the scribe said to Him, "Well said Teacher,
you have spoken the truth."" Well, this is the truth. "For there is one elohim and
there is no other besides Him." Now if that wasn't the truth, Yeshua could have
interrupted him and said, oh no, there's two Elohims... oh no, there's three Elohims, don't
you know there's three in one? But He didn't stop him, He didn't
rebuke him, He didn't correct him. He agreed that there is one Elohim, He's speaking
of His Father, the Father is the one true Elohim. That's why we quote the Shema
and we say that YAH our Elohim, YAH is One, Echad. When you say that, when
you believe that, you are agreeing with Torah, you are agreeing with Yeshua. When
you think something different, when you say something different, you are agreeing with
man-made religion. I want you to understand that. HalleluYAH. "...You have spoken the truth there is
one Elohim and there is no other besides Him. And to love Him," To love YAH our Elohim. "with
all your heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the being, and with all the strength,
and to love one's neighbor as oneself is more than all the ascending offerings and offerings." So
to love Elohim with your all, to obey Him with your all, and to love your neighbor is greater
than any offering that you can bring. Verse 34, "And when Yeshua saw that he answered wisely, He
said to him, "You are not far from the reign of Elohim." If you do not answer in this fashion,
if you are confused by mixed up religion, you are far from the reign of Elohim. If you want
to be close to the reign of Elohim, you must think and answer the way Yeshua answered. That's one of
the main points of what YAH is doing in the earth, He's getting us back to understanding
the true Hebraic context of Scripture because there's so much mixed up religion out
there. Two-thousand years of man making stuff up, they don't have a foundation in Torah,
they come across a Scripture and that little sliver in the back of the book, they don't
understand it, so what do they do? They make stuff up, and we have two-thousand years of made up stuff. Most
people just believe it and just go on with it, they've really fallen into the sin
of the scribes and the pharisees which is the sin of hypocrisy because the
pharisees said they loved Elohim, but really they loved their traditions, they loved their made-up
religion more than the set-apart Word of Elohim. They were more concerned about obeying
the made-up rules of man than obeying the Scripture and Yeshua came to bring people
back to the written Torah setting them free from the made-up
laws and the precedents of religious leaders and leading them back to an understanding, a true
understanding, of the set-apart written Word of YAH. "And when Yeshua saw that he answered wisely
He said to him, "You are not far from the reign of Elohim." I wonder how far modern religion is
from the reign of Elohim? I would say a long way. "And after that no one was bold enough to
question Him." When you start speaking the truth, I remember when we first began to
move in the revelation of Torah, it seemed like I had people coming out of
the woodwork attacking me on social media and they were always just expressing their
opinions, they never had any Scripture, but they were condemning me for what I was
teaching. Attack, attack, attack, attack. What did I do? You've heard me say that we're happy warriors,
we're not angry warriors, we're happy warriors. So I would just lay out my answer scripture, after
scripture, after scripture, after scripture on social media and you know what happened over time?
They stopped attacking me, they had no answer for it. That's why it says here, and after that
no one was bold enough to question Him. Now let's look at Matthew chapter 22 and pick
up with verse 36 and this is a similar account with a few extra things here. It says,
"Teacher, which is the great command in the Torah?" And Yeshua said to him, "You shall
love YAH your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your mind.""
How do we love YAH our Elohim? Through obedience. ""This is the first and great command. And the
second is like it, you shall love your neighbor as yourself." Look at verse 40. "...On these two commands
hang all the Torah and the prophets."" So these two commands really house all the other commandments.
You can fit every other commandment into these large categories, loving Elohim and loving people.
There will not be a commandment anywhere in Torah that falls outside of the framework of loving
Elohim and loving people, that's what Yeshua is saying here. So yes, we're talking about the
two, so we start with the simplicity of the two. Once you believe in Yeshua, what's required
of you? To love Elohim. Every time you read love Elohim, you always remember we love Elohim by
obeying Him. So we love Elohim with our whole being and then we love our neighbor as ourselves. Now,
how do we know what that really means? How do we know what loving Elohim means? Where we have to go
to the ten, the ten words or the ten commandments. There are four love Elohim commandments and
there are six love people commandments, so I'm just going to read out of Deuteronomy chapter
5 verse 6. We'll just read through the ten, it's always wonderful to read over the ten.
And this is the covenant, this was the covenant that YAH made with the children of Yisra'el and it
is the renewed or the new covenant that He's made with those of us who would believe upon
Yeshua, it's the baseline of commandments. Let me make it really clear, for you to please
Elohim you must obey the ten commandments. Do not let religion lie to you, do not let them
say that the ten commandments have been abolished. They'll try to shame you from obedience, have you
ever heard of such a thing for people to try to shame you out of obeying the bible? They'll say,
if you do anything you've fallen from grace and now you're a law-keeper. You notice how angry they
get when they say that you're just a law- keeper and you know what my response to that is?
Well if you're not a law-keeper, what are you? You're a law-breaker, you're a law-breaker. And
so, don't let them tell you that you're not responsible for obeying the Ten Words,
the Ten Commandments, because you are. Deuteronomy chapter five verse six, "I am YAH
your Elohim who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim (of Egypt) out of the house
of bondage," I brought you out of bondage, and we were in bondage to sin, the
transgression of Torah, He brought us out too. "You have no other mighty ones against
My face," Don't go after false deities, don't go whoring after false deities, don't break my
covenant, don't worship idols and the like. And then it goes on to say, "You do not make for
yourself a carved image any likeness which is in the heavens above or which is in the earth
beneath or which is in the waters under the earth, you do not bow down to them nor serve them for
I, YAH your Elohim, am a jealous EL visiting the crookedness of the fathers upon the children to
the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me but showing loving commitment to thousands
to those who love Me and guard My commands, you do not bring the Name of YAH your Elohim
to naught (to nothing) for YAH does not leave him unpunished who brings His Name to naught." Look at
verse 12. "Guard the Sabbath Day to set it apart as YAH your Elohim commanded you six days you labor
and shall do all your work but the seventh- day is a Sabbath of YAH your Elohim, you do not do
any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor
your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates so
that your male servant and your female servant rest as you do and you shall remember that you
were a slave in the land of Yisra'el and that YAH your Elohim brought you out from there by a strong
hand and by an outstretched arm. Therefore YAH your Elohim commanded you to perform the Sabbath Day."
That's the fourth commandment so there are four love Elohim commandments, now we're going to look
at the six love people commandments. "Respect," Your bible may say "honor". "...your father and your mother
as YAH your Elohim has commanded you so that your days are prolonged and so that it is well with you
on the soil which YAH your Elohim is giving you. You do not murder. You do not commit
adultery. You do not steal. You do not bear false witness against your neighbor.
You do not cut it your neighbor's wife nor do you desire your neighbor's house his field,
nor his male servant, nor his female servant, his ox, nor his donkey, or whatever belongs to your
neighbor. These words YAH spoke to all your assembly in the mountain from the midst of the
fire of the cloud and of the thick darkness with a loud voice and He added no more. And He wrote
them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me." These Ten Commandments are the covenant, they
made up the original covenant that was broken and they're also the New Covenant so we have to
understand that these commandments still stand. Love Elohim, number one, no other
mighty ones, no other deities. Now, religion has broken that commandment
by this whole "three in one" concept. They say that one, plus one, plus one, equals
one, the math just doesn't work. One, plus one, plus one, is always equal three.
The number one reason why Orthodox Jews refuse to believe that Yeshua is Mashiach is not because
of Yeshua, but because of Christian doctrine. They see polytheism in Christian doctrine,
they've been taught from a child that YAH our Elohim, YAH is Echad, One. It only means one.
It doesn't mean a complex unity. It doesn't mean all that complicated muckety-muck that these
theologians try to throw out there to explain things that they can't explain and then they write
books that are this thick and at the very end it says, but it's a mystery, we can't understand
it. It's simple, Yeshua had an opportunity to respond to it. He could have said three in
one, He could have said multiple personalities, but He didn't. What did He say? He quoted Shema.
He quoted Torah. He quoted His own Father and He said, Elohim is Echad, One. So anytime
you get off of that, you get away from that, then observing Jewish people are going to see polytheism, so religion has broken that
first command. What about no carved images? What about the Christian religion and no carved
images? Have you ever been in a Catholic cathedral? Have you ever seen carved images in
Christianity? They're everywhere. You go to Jerusalem. You want to know why the Jews stay
away from Christianity? You walk into one of those cathedrals and there are images everywhere. I've
never been to The Vatican but I've seen pictures and people are crawling on the floor and kissing
the feet of these statues, that's in the religion called Christianity. "Well I'm not a Catholic."
Well, good, why are you celebrating Christmas? Because that's Christ mass, it's Catholicism and
it's worked its way right in to your religious experience. So, this second command of no carved
images has been broken by religion. What about the third command? Don't diminish Elohim's Name.
Many people don't realize this but when you look in the English bible and you see that word "LORD" in
all caps, capital L, capital O, capital R, capital D. The word "lord" is not in the original text. The
word "lord" in Hebrew is "Adonai", that's not what is in the original text, the original text has
the personal name of the Creator, "Yod Hey Vav Hey," and the Christian scribes just followed along
with the tradition of the Jewish scribes when they formed a tradition that said that the
name of Elohim was was too holy to pronounce and so they put the vowel markings of
Adonai above the Yod Hey Vav Hey to signal the reader in the synagogue to say Adonai and
that got passed right into Christian tradition. It's not "the Lord is my Shepherd," that's one
of the verses that most devout Christians learn right away as a child, the Lord is my
Shepherd, that's not what the text says. It says, Yod Hey Vav Hey is my Shepherd, He wants us to know His personal
name. We use the shorten poetic version, YAH, it's in the Scripture around 60 times. We know
that there's a debate over how to pronounce it, how to pronounce the full personal name of YAH,
we all can agree on YAH, but the fact is that that tradition of Judaism passed into Christianity, in
our English bible it's not there, it says "The Lord". And then we get to the fourth commandment,
remember the Sabbath. Why would that commandment start with remember? Do you think
YAH knew that people were going to forget it. Remember the Sabbath, this is YAH your Elohim
speaking, He's looking at you and He's saying, don't forget my Sabbath and by the way, I
never changed it to Sunday, the day that the sun worshipers and the empire worshiped the
sun deity, it's not in Scripture to change it. You can go back and look at history, you can look
at some of the quotes, some of the things that the popes have said in the Catholic church and they
actually admit that they don't have scriptural precedent to change the Sabbath
to the first day of the week. You say, well why do you, why did you do it, and
they said because we can, we're the church - well, I'm not Catholic, I'm Evangelical. Well how come you go to church on Sunday, the day that the Pagans and the
empire worship the sun deity? See, religion has gotten so mixed
up and people don't even know. They're just trekking right along, I'm
happy with what I received from my parents and I'm just going to continue on, it was
good enough for them, it's good enough for me. I think about a story about this young couple that
got married and the wife wanted to make a nice pot roast for her husband, and so she made all the
preparations and she cut the end of the roast off and the husband said, honey, why did
you cut the end of the roast off? She said, well, I don't know but my mother always
did it, and so they said, well let's call mom and find out why she cut the end of the pot roast off,
and so they called the mother and the mother said, um well, I don't know but my mother always did
it, and so they said, let's call granny and find out why granny cut the end of the pot roast
off, and so they called her and she said, well I cut the end of the pot roast off because I
didn't have a pan large enough for the roast - that's how traditions start, people just
follow in traditions that they receive from their parents. In this day, the Spirit
of YAH is moving upon the earth touching whosoever will. The people who are
courageous enough to test everything, to challenge what religion has taught and are willing, once
they find the truth, to cast off the lies and the deceptions and begin to walk in the pure ways of
Elohim, that's why you're here. That's why I'm here. So what has happened to the
fourth commandment in religion? The fourth commandment is the largest commandment
of all the commandments in sheer number of words and specifics and yet, that's the commandment
that religion gives the most latitude to. I hear people all the time
say, well Jesus is my Sabbath - what they mean by that is Jesus, or Yeshua,
obeyed the Sabbath so I don't have to. Well, let me ask you this, did Jesus obey the
murder commandment so you don't have to? Did Jesus obey the adultery
commandment so you don't have to? Did Yeshua obey the do not steal commandment
so you don't have to? Do you see how it doesn't make any sense? Their arguments do not
stand up under the pressure of the truth. Love them by speaking the truth to them, so we
see that religion has already broken all four of the love Elohim commandments. Now let's look at Luke chapter 18. We'll start with verse 18, and this
is the example of the rich young ruler. I want to show you something very interesting here. It says, "And a certain ruler asked him saying, "Good
Teacher, what shall I do to inherit everlasting life?"" Now, understand the question this young man
wants to know how he can inherit everlasting life, I want to inherit everlasting life.
Yeshua could have taught anything, He could have said, listen, all you have to do is
mentally acknowledge that I'm the Messiah - well that would go right along with religion of today,
wouldn't it? Just say you believe, nothing more. So the context here is, how can I receive
everlasting life? Yeshua could have taught the modern religion of what I call "perverted
grace". You do nothing, He does everything. If you do anything, you've fallen from grace,
now you're a law-keeper, but what does Yeshua say here? Verse 19. "So Yeshua said to him, "Why
do you call Me good?"" Now, this is important. ""No one is good except One."" Who is Echad? Elohim.
The Scripture says there's none good except One, the Father, Elohim. He's the only one
good. "And Yeshua said, "Why do you call Me good?"" If Yeshua was trying to say He was the
Father, He would have accepted that praise. "Why do you call Me good? No one
is good except One, Echad, Elohim. "You know the commands," Isn't that interesting?
We're talking about how to receive eternal life, Yeshua takes them straight to the commands.
"'Do not commit adultery. Do not murder. Do not steal. Do not bear false witness. Respect your
father and your mother.' And He said, "All these, I have watched over from My youth."" So those were
examples of the love people commands. Now, Yeshua understood the problem of this rich young ruler, he
was not obeying the love Elohim commands because he loved his false deity of mammon, of money,
and so Yeshua was going to deal with that and this is how He deals with it. "And hearing this
Yeshua said to him, "Yet one you lack,"" You need this love Elohim commandment. ""Sell all that you have and
distribute to the poor and you shall have treasure in heaven."" In other words, kick out that false deity
that you love more than Elohim. Deal with this money problem, you have love of money. It says here,
"And come follow Me." Now, how many of you believe that if he followed Yeshua, he would follow
Yeshua in all the love Elohim commandments. "But when he heard this, he became
intensely sad for he was extremely rich, and when Yeshua saw that he became intensely sad
He said, "How hard it is for those who have money to enter into the reign of Elohim."" So Yeshua
is teaching obedience to the ten words for eternal life. Now, we've talked about
the two, we've talked about the ten, the ten commandments are the baseline
commandments, they are the covenant commandments. If you want to keep covenant with
YAH, you must believe upon Yeshua, submit yourself to water immersion, receive the circumcision of
the heart, the circumcision of Messiah, receive the Indwelling Set-apart Spirit, and then
you must obey the commands of the covenant. This is not hard, we're just making it
clear in these days that we're living in.
