WALKING IN THE SPIRIT IS WALKING IN THE TORAH/LAW OF YAHWEH

 

Please read this with an open heart. It is short and surely incomplete, but the idea is still obvious. Bear with it as it will take a while to get to the point. Our point of contention is more on the approach then on the word itself. I don't believe the Lord wants us to discard anything, but there is an approach that is in a different realm that I believe the Lord wants His people to understand. There are many mansions in His house.

 

This is the way I am called to walk. I will obey what I believe the Spirit is showing me. I have been in prayer in my wilderness for 11 months and have had many specific things I prayed about answered in various ways. I don't want to be judgmental in anyway. Each of us needs to find our way.

 

If no one can hear what I say now, then that is the way the Lord wishes it to be for this season of their life. Finally hear me, I love God's law. One day in His court is better than a thousand. It's not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit says the Lord. Zechariah 4.6

 

To enter the Kingdom of God you must be born again. To be born again is to see Jesus. Mighty things are in the works which are going to shock the world in both the natural and spiritual realms. I have a divine appointment in Jerusalem. We all have a divine appointment in Jerusalem, but let us remember Isaiah 55:8-9:

 

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

 

Torah was given to the children of Israel as they wandered in the wilderness. It was God's Holy Law instructing them how to live. This law made them a peculiar people among all peoples of the earth, holy and separate unto God.

 

God established a priesthood and blood sacrifice for the people to atone for their sins when they broke the law. The priesthood and blood sacrifices were instruction for the coming advent of the Messiah. God would require blood sacrifice for sin and the Messiah would be that lamb. He would be the way into the Holy of Holies.

 

As you know, the people were not able to live up to the law. Each time they told Moses, "we will do all the Lord our God requires", they were soon back to worshipping idols. Our sinful nature cannot live up to the requirements of the law. This too, was God's way of showing man that a savior would be required.

 

Experientially it is impossible to live up to the law. We all fail miserably. Does that negate the law? Of course not. The law is good, righteous, and just. We just aren't able to live it—as it is our school master. So God provided Jesus. He is our High Priest and blood sacrifice. He is the living word--the living Torah. He washes us clean.

 

When the Lord was crucified the veil of the temple was rent from top to bottom. Later, just as Jesus prophesied the temple was destroyed. It was time to put the new wine into new wine skins. As Hebrews explains there is a new and living way that is fulfillment of the old.

 

It is in a spiritual way we live Torah now in the Messiah. Paul calls it “walking in the Spirit.” God’s Law is not negated, but the way it is obeyed and lived out experientially in our life is new and different. A new and living way. Not a legalistic way.

 

We are discarding the traditions of men, now Jesus is the alive and living tradition, moving in our lives through the person of the Holy Spirit. The scales are lifted from our eyes and we are free in Christ. Paul gloried in this. Paul was overcome by this. Paul was radically changed forever!

 

There is always a tension between sin and spirit in our fleshly temples because we have not yet put on immortality. We are exhorted to walk in the spirit and have a circumcised heart. This is not humanly possible, but with God all things are possible. The Holy Spirit will help us through much personal trial and tribulation to abide in Him. This is a process that takes much time. It is a winnowing in our daily lives. Our God is patient with us.

 

Looking at the church physically we see it is entirely missing the point. This is personal. This is between the believer and his willingness to advance into a higher realm of the Spirit. Many are called but few are chosen. Few choose to pay the price of what a closer relationship with the person of Jesus means. It is daily time in His presence and seeking to hear personally. It is obeying the Spirit in a personal, daily experiential way. It is not my way, Lord, but help me to go Your way. Again, it is very personal. He is moving in a powerful way and is calling individuals to wait in His presence and hear His voice. This is opposite of what our flesh desires to do—we want ACTION!

 

He is building a church, a spiritual church, out of every nation and tongue. He is calling Jew and Gentile into a realm where no flesh will glory—NO MORE ME—ONLY HE.

 

The church is not one group, organization, or people. It is all those who hear his voice and respond to His calling. It is a spiritual body made up of every nation and tongue. He loves all his people and will not leave any behind, but not all believers will rule and reign with Christ. There is a multitude with palm branches worshipping around the throne, and there are those who have chosen to lean over and lay upon His breast and hear the deep calling unto deep.

 

He loves us all, but to some He will reveal deeper things. It is a personal choice. All who believe are saved, some just never advance beyond high school. That is true of both Gentile and Jew. Jesus is the head of this church, the called out.

 

In His day the religious leaders hated him because He was crushing their hypocritical authority. They couldn't stand the fact that He was the living Torah. So they got rid of Him—or so they thought! It has been this way for 2,000 years. How many millions has the church of God killed in the name of the Lord? I don't belong to that church. My sinful nature would belong to that church, but not the new creation man.

 

So much more can be said but I think you get my point. A new man is rising like the world has never seen:

 

May the praise of God be in their mouths and a double-edged sword in their hands, to inflict vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples, to bind their kings with fetters, their nobles with shackles of iron, to carry out the sentence written against them— this is the glory of all his faithful people.

Praise the Lord. Ps149.6-9

 

These are a “spiritual people” moving in Yahweh’s spiritual power—not the power of the flesh nor way of men. In that day it will astound the world and prepare the way for His coming!