FROM THIS WEEK’S TORAH PORTION – SH’LACH-L’KA:

This should settle all dispute:

Bemidbar 15:16

“One statute is for you of the assembly and for the sojourner who sojourns with you – a statute forever throughout your generations. As for you, so for the sojourner shall it be before YHWH. One Torah and one judgment shall be for you and for the sojourner who sojourns with you.”

And a second witness:

Bemidbar 15:29

“For him who is born among the children of Yisra’el and for the sojourner who sojourns in their midst, there is one Torah for him who makes a mistake.”

And a third:

Shemoth 12:49

“There is one Torah for the native-born and for the sojourner who sojourns among you.”

But it won’t settle all dispute for many of you, will it? Some of you will argue that this only applies to the Jews and not Gentiles, or was only valid under the “Old Covenant,” or that we are “under grace” and no longer bound to the law, or that Yeshua fulfilled the Torah so we should no longer keep it, or that we are only to keep certain laws now and not others (keep the supposed “moral laws” and not the “ceremonial” or “sacrificial” laws), or or, or… (ad infinitum, ad nauseam). You may say you are still learning or trying to decide which commands you should keep, or whether to keep them at all. You will argue and make any excuse to continue in the doctrines and traditions of your old religion and not to keep the clear and forever commands of your Creator, YHWH.

Well okay, go ahead. Argue. Refuse Him. Hold onto your traditions, your former religion, your apologetics, your “yeah buts..,” your sin and your rebellion. But remember this: nothing you can say, reason, or argue changes these commands, these witnesses, this eternal Word of the Most-High.

If you would think to argue about this, fine, go ahead – but don’t argue it with me, argue it with HIM. As for me and my house, we will serve YHWH. He said these things, so they are true. “Forever.”