Over the weekend I was thinking about how serious breaking just one of Father's laws is.
James 2:10 says: “For whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.”
As I understand it, this verse isn’t saying that one sin is identical in consequence to all sins—but rather that the Torah is a unified covenant, not a buffet from which we can choose our favourites. If we claim to uphold Father’s law but ignore parts we find inconvenient, are we really walking in obedience?
Many believers today say, “We’ll keep the moral laws, but the rest was nailed to the cross.” But can we truly separate the Torah into parts and discard some, while keeping others, without compromising the integrity of the whole?
My next thought then is, how does that impact salvation?
🕊️ Are we saved by grace through faith (Ephesians 2:8–9), not by Torah-keeping?
Is grace a license to disobey (Romans 6:1-2)? If we love Father, we are called to keep His commandments (John 14:15), but what exactly are Father's commands? Are they only the 10 Commandments, or the Torah without the sacrificial laws, or even excluding the cleanliness laws?
Are we disregarding Father’s instructions due to willful rejection of certain "inconvenient" laws?
If we are honest with ourselves, are we choosing obedience based on conviction… or convenience?
Yochanan
YAH chose us even before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4)
He chose us, not we chose him (John 15:16)
We love him because he loved us first (1 John 4:19)
We are to serve YAH with joy and gladness of heart(Deuteronomy 28:47)
We can do that when we know that he loves us. As a loving father he knows whats best for us, and that's why he gave us his Torah.
So there is no license to disobey. Father loves us unconditionally, but he can only give us the blessing he has in store for us when we are obedient and meet the conditions he has set for the blessings.
He doesn't love us any more or less, whether we keep Torah or not. But when we don't we bring him sorrow and force him to discipline us, whereas when we keep his Instructions we show that we love him and enable him to give us his blessings he has promised, when we are obedient.
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GidgetsMom
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Joshua Myers
I can see the same at the End, those that have Salvation will be Passed Over on the Tribulation Judgement, but those that didn't obey won't inherit the New Earth.
I would be curious as to which laws in your scenario would be "inconvenient". There are laws for different people. I for example, am not a woman, nor a priest, nor a farmer, nor a ruler. I cannot physically keep those laws.
If it is the sacrificial laws, there is no Temple and no presence above the Ark/Temple.
Deut 12:13 Be careful not to sacrifice your burnt offerings anywhere you please.
We can't just go making sacrifices in our backyard. We are specifically told not to.
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GidgetsMom
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Yochanan
It will not pass away even when heaven and earth pass away.
What had changed in the new covenant is the medium the covenant is written on, not the content of the covenant.
No longer on tablets of stone but in hearts of flesh.
Jeremiah 31
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Yochanan
“Thus says Adonai YHVH: No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, shall enter my sanctuary." Ezek 44:9
It needs to be both in the Temple Ezekiel's saw.
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Steve Caswell
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Caleb Lussier
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