Jesus kept Torah, why don’t Christians?

Jesus kept the Torah, why don’t Christians?

Jesus was born of a woman, born under the Law (Galatians 4:4). Torah was given specifically to Israel’s children to sanctify them from the paganism that compromised the Adamic/Noahic generations, a compromise with demonic evil that nullified their ordination as progenitors of the Messiah. Elohim codified essential moral elements of the spiritual law for Israel’s children as Elohim did NOT desire a repeat of the horrors having manifest as a result of Adamic/Noahic disobedience culminating in The Flood (Genesis 6:5). Elohim’s primary purpose for sanctifying Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, was due Elohim’s desire to introduce His Messiah into the Realm of Time to do battle with Satan and defeat Satan via Messiah’s work at Golgotha (Genesis 3:15; 1 John 3:8b); this, via a Gospel foreshadowed first in Genesis 3:21.

Sinai and Moses’ 603 civil/ceremonial laws were given specifically to Israel’s children via a now bygone Law Covenant that simply foreshadowed the New Covenant’s grace through faith (Galatians 3:24). Anyone who trusts in Messiah Jesus as Savior, Jesus as acceptable blood atonement for sin (Leviticus 17:11; 1 Peter 1:18-19), is NOT under the codified law, Sinai, Moses, a Law Covenant but the faithful in Jesus are in the New Covenant and their “law” is spiritual and written upon the heart and it is the indwelling Holy Spirit who sanctifies and controls the behavior of the redeemed through divine arbitration of the redeemed conscience or “new creation” in Messiah (2 Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 5:16).

The Christian is NOT under/enslaved to Sinai or Moses or Torah or a Law Covenant but the Christian is considered-arbitrated-adjudicated “not guilty” due their relationship with Messiah by faith; that is, when one trusts in Jesus, the perfection, the law-keeping perfection of Messiah, is imputed-gifted over their life and the Father agrees by New Covenant promise to remember their sins no more (Hebrews 8:12); in fact, when one trusts in Jesus as their Messiah who died for them, the Father does not see your sin any longer but the Father ONLY SEES the righteousness of His dear Son in you….this is the promise of the imputation of Messiah’s righteousness over your life (2 Corinthians 5:21)…this is the focal point of the Gospel; the blood of Messiah has cleansed you and made you “positionally” “perfect” in the Father’s eyes (1 Peter 1:18-19).

The “law” of the Christian is NOT Sinai or Moses or Torah or Hammurabi but the “law” of the Christian is realized-actuated-made relevant through obedience to the indwelling Holy Spirit via daily Christian sanctification and the production of divine “fruit” (Galatians 5:16-23) against which there is no law as the “fruit of the Spirit” fulfills ALL LAW, both codified and spiritual. Christians are free from enslavement to codified laws, Torah, Judaism, as they walk by the Spirit producing divine fruit via an enlivened conscience that actually pleases the Father and confirms that one is truly a disciple of Jesus (John 15:8; Romans 7:4; Galatians 5:18); in fact, it is not possible that any work or effort to keep a law or edict please the Father lest that work is done through the indwelling Holy Spirit’s anointing and the Holy Spirit is ONLY given to those who trust in Jesus as Messiah (Ephesians 1:13-14; Isaiah 64:6).

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