The Law!

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Hi Everyone,

Blessings to you through Messiah Yahushua, My YAHWEH and My ELOHIM!

Here is what Moses has to say concerning the Law:

Deuteronomy 30:15-20
15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
16 In that I command thee this day to love YAHWEH thy ELOHIM, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and YAHWEH thy ELOHIM shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other elohim, and serve them;
18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.
19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
20 That thou mayest love YAHWEH thy ELOHIM, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which YAHWEH sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

Please notice above (verses 15&19) that Moses teaches that the Law has both the promise of life and the promise of death. Obedience brings life, and disobedience brings death, and, therefore, the Law is both a blessing and a cursing. The Law promises life to the obedient, and the Law promises death to the disobedient. Please notice above that Moses exhorts us to make a choice. Moses exhorts us to choose life so that we may love YAHWEH our ELOHIM and dwell in the promised land through obedience.

So, please understand that the Law does promise each of us life in the land of our promised inheritance, that is, the flesh or physical bodies which we do now inhabit and work to possess.

Now, I just have to ask here: Do you believe Moses?

Thanking in advance any that should be moved to reply, I am,

Sincerely, Latuwr

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Paul's Teaching On The Law!

Hi Everyone,

Blessings to you through Messiah Yahushua, My YAHWEH and My ELOHIM!

Shabbat Shalom!

Did the Apostle Paul believe Moses? Absolutely! I am going to quote what Paul has to say from Romans 7 about the Law, and if you will, please allow me the liberty of changing the sin of covetousness to another sin like, can we say just for fun, the sin of Sabbath Breaking:

Romans 7:7-13
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? ELOHIM forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known Sabbath Breaking, except the law had said, Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy.
8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of Sabbath Breaking. For without the law sin was dead. (Without the Law, sin is dormant!)
9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. (Notice, just as Moses said, Paul admits the commandments promise life to those who obey them, but are deadly to those who disobey!)
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. (Paul here understands that death is the result of sin! We should not blame the Law!)
12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? ELOHIM forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. (Please clearly understand that Paul taught that it is sin that kills us. Sabbath Keeping promised life to us, and it is not Sabbath Keeping that kills mankind; rather, it is Sabbath Breaking that kills all of us!).

So, you tell me, can anyone rightly say that the Law itself is evil? Can anyone say that the Law itself is anything other than what Paul says the Law is in verse 12 above? Sure we can as we will see when we read on in Romans 7!

Thanking anyone in advance that should be moved to reply, I am,

Sincerely, Latuwr

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The Spiritual Law!

Hi Everyone,

Blessings to you through Messiah Yahushua, My YAHWEH and My ELOHIM!

Paul taught that the physical keeping of the Law is holy, right, and good, and then Paul states this about the holy, right, and good Law (Please understand that this would also include the commandment to remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy in a physical sense):

Romans 7:14
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

Please notice the two parts of the above verse. Namely, the physical Law is actually spiritual, and Paul himself being physical is naturally opposed to the Law. He has been sold under sin.

Question # 1: How is the physical Law actually spiritual?

Question # 2: How was Paul sold under sin?

Thanking any in advance that should be bold enough to reply, I am,

Sincerely, Latuwr