“Should any of you, holding a matter against another, go to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the set-apart ones? Do you not know that the set-apart ones shall judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more, matters of this life? If then you truly have judgments of this life, do you appoint them as judges who are least esteemed by the assembly? I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise one among you, not even one, who shall be able to judge between his brothers? But brother against brother goes to be judged and that before unbelievers! Already, then, there is a failure with you, that you have lawsuits among you. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated? But you yourselves do wrong and cheat, and that to your brothers!”
Torah law commands us to establish believing and observant communities. It commands us to establish courts, judges and elders within those communities to judge all matters, from the least of civil disputes to the most heinous of criminal charges, between its members. It commands that we do so with righteous judgement, mercy, longsuffering and love, whenever possible. It commands us not to make a public charge of any kind against others on the testimony of a single witness, but to consider such uncorroborated testimony false and evil speech unless the accused first receives due process of law and is lawfully convicted. And these are only the basic requirements of Torah law to which we, as members of the Greater Commonwealth of Yisrael, are bound.
Yeshua Hamashiach and his apostles instruct us that we, as his followers and disciples, should go even farther in righteousness, mercy and love, by giving grace forbearance, and compassion to one another. They teach this not only in word, but by their own deeds and examples. When they were treated harshly, they forgave their oppressors for the sake of the Kingdom of YHWH and sought only to imitate and emulate Him and His ways. And what are His ways?
“YHWH,YHWH, an Ěl compassionate and showing grace, patient, and great in mercy and truth, watching over mercy for thousands of generations, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but by no means leaving unpunished, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”
How many of us can truly claim, as supposedly Torah observant believers, that we keep all of these commands and instructions? How many of us can honestly claim to do much of anything like these? And if we do not, what does that make of us?
HOW IS YOUR TONGUE?
“We all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the entire body. Look, we put bits in the mouths of horses, for them to obey us, and we turn their body. Look at the ships too - although they are so big and are driven by strong winds, they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the pilot intends. So too the tongue is a little member, yet boasts greatly. See how a little fire kindles a great forest! And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness! Among our members the tongue is set, the one defiling the entire body, and setting on fire the wheel of life, and it is set on fire by GĕHinnom. For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind. But no man is able to tame the tongue. It is unruly, evil, filled with deadly poison. With it we bless our Elohim and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the image of Elohim. Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brothers, this should not be so.! Does the fountain send forth the sweet and the bitter from the same opening? My brothers, is a fig tree able to bear olives, or a grapevine figs? So neither is a fountain able to make salt and sweet water. Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his excellent behavior his works in meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter jealousy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast against and lie against the truth. This is not the wisdom coming down from above, but it is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where jealousy and self-seeking are, there is confusion and every foul deed. But the wisdom from above is first clean, then peaceable, gentle, ready to obey, filled with compassion and excellent fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.”
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.
Romans 7:14 ESV
This is the core of why the Hebrews were unable to allow the Law to be written on their hearts in Exodus. The death and resurrection of Yeshua enables the spirit to begin understanding and living out the Law, but ultimately the flesh also must die before it can be completely written on our hearts. See Deuteronomy 5:23-31 and Hebrews 8:7.
Obedience to the Law must begin in the spirit, not the flesh. Obedience in the flesh does nothing for your eternal state and often becomes just a burden, blinding you to spiritual truths and warping your understanding of the commandments. Obedience in the spirit begins to tame the passions of the flesh.
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The Law itself is good and brings life. It is only the sinful inclination within a person that brings death through transgression of the Law. The Law itself doesn’t cause anyone’s death. It reveals the which brings death. See Romans 5:12-13 and 7:13.
The Law...
-Promises life
-Is holy
-Is righteous
-Is good
-Defines sin
-Reveals sin
-Is spiritual
So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
Romans 7:12 ESV
It is impossible for any of God’s commandments to be unjust or unholy because they are a reflection of a purely just and holy God. See Psalm 119:137. “You are just/righteous, O YHWH, and your mishpatim/judgments are upright.”
Know your history in order to remember what God can do for your future. Wilderness experiences teach us about God and about ourselves. Hard times teach us about God's power and our weakness. They teach us who we are and who we can be in relation to our Creator. They are preparation for our divine missions. Even during hard times, the evidence of God's Providence is clear if we are willing to see it.
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