Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
John 6:29
The context makes it obvious that "this is the work of God" doesn't mean "this is a work God does", but something required by God. Yeshua wasn't saying that believing is a "work" in the sense of earning your salvation. He was redirecting the people's attention from following a list of do's and don't's to putting their faith in the Messiah.
Did you know that the entire book of Deuteronomy is structured as an ancient suzerain-vassal treaty in the same basic pattern as those used by other Ancient Near East cultures of the time of Moses?
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Why am I a REAL Noahide?! In this video I explain from the Torah and Jubilees what is the Hidden and REAL Covenant of Noah why I am a REAL Noahide and at the same time expose all the Jewish Noahides are FAKES!
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People will always follow someone who can put on a good show, work some flashy miracles... Not so much someone who wants to change their behavior and priorities. Believing in Yeshua doesn't mean believing he exists or that he loves you. It means believing what he said, what he promised, what God promised in him, and it means obeying his instructions.
John 6:25-40
And all went to be registered, each to his own town.
Luke 2:3
This Roman census reflects the patrilineal nature of the census of Israel more than 1200 years earlier in Numbers 1.
Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by clans, by fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head.
Numbers 1:2
People keep approaching me with anti-Paul stuff. They have the wrong number. Paul gives us a ton of information that isn't readily available elsewhere, like how we are connected to Israel.
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Galatians 5:16-23
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
I've covered this before in a Church vs. Bible (https://thestraightandnarrow.cfw.me/comics/212/), but I wanted to look at it again from the "Hey Kids" angle. If we take the current understanding of "walking by the Spirit" that most churches teach, then it is no different than not listening to your parents as I am pointing out in the comic. Just because you do something that is along the same lines or is similar or whatever, doesn't mean that you are doing the command.
Let's look at one of the examples Yeshua gives in His sermon on the mount.
Matthew 5:21-22 “You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’ and ‘Whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.’ But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment.
In this instance, the Spirit of the command "do not murder" is not just don't murder someone, it's do not be angry with someone unjustly. Taking the church thought of we walk by the Spirit now, all we have to do is not be angry at people. We can murder all day long, but if we weren't angry with them, no big deal.
Obviously, this isn't correct. The church knows and so does anyone else reading this, that in order to keep the command you don't be unjustly angry AND you don't murder people.
So, if we can all agree on this, why can't we agree on the rest of the commands? Why do some teach that just keeping the Spirit of the command is the same as keeping the command, when we can look at the above example and see that is not the case.
Last note, I know I covered it in the above comic referenced, but walking by the flesh, as it shows in Galatians 5, is not walking by physical things, but by worldly desires just as Galatians 5 expands on. If you are not walking by the flesh, you would be walking in the Law, and thus not be under it (subject to its judgement).
Something to think about.
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