UNDERSTANDING THE FINE POINT OF YHVH’S ROYAL LAW – THE TORAH 

I hope that I can explain this fine point of the law. It is very important to understand how the church moved away from its Hebraic foundations after the Apostle’s died. Remember, we have crossed over into Y’shua. The meaning of the word Hebrew is “one who has crossed or passed over.”

Abraham was not a Jew—he was a Hebrew (Gen 14.13). He was called out of a pagan culture and he crossed over into the one true YHVH. Anyone who is born again into Y’shua the Messiah has become a Hebrew! You are not a Jew and you are not a Christian. Do you see it? You are now a Hebrew—Jew and Gentile in Y’shua—one NEW MAN. We have crossed over into Y’shua. We understand we are not “justified by the law.”

“All who rely on observing the Torah of Moshe are under a curse. For it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the book of the Torah’” (Galatians 3:10).

“Clearly no one is justified before Elohim by the Torah, because the righteous will live by faith” (Galatians 3:11). Note: Martin Luther said, "By faith alone." That is not what the word says.

“In YHWH all the generations of Israel will be justified, and in Him they will boast” (Isaiah 45:25).

Is this clear? It is obedience to Elohim’s laws—coming from the KNOWLEDGE that they came from Him. A few more verses…are you understanding this fine point? The Law is our “Code of Conduct” – how we treat one another.

“And I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed” (Genesis 12:3).

“You will receive a curse if you reject the commands of YHWH your Elohim and turn from his way by worshiping foreign gods” (Deuteronomy 11:28).

“Then afterward he read all the words of the Torah, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the Torah” (Joshua 8:34).

The curse of the Torah does not cause Torah to pass away! If Paul is trying to undermine Torah why would he quote from the Torah as he uses the Torah as his authority and in his teaching?

“Clearly no one is justified before Elohim by the Torah, because the righteous will live by faith” (Galatians 3:11). Also found in Habakkuk 2.4

He is saying, the ritual is empty without accepting the fact that the requirement comes from YHVH.

“The Torah is not based on faith; on the contrary, the man who does these things will live by them” (Galatians 3:12). Nobody can live without breaking some law.

The Torah is the Instruction Manual—the Code of Conduct. We are not getting ourselves all tied up in knots “trying to do it.” We walk in the "spirit of the law" so to speak, our Code of Conduct.

When I was in the US Air Force we had a Code of Conduct. We spent several days going over it and discussing it. They were all common sense rules of how we should conduct ourselves and how we should dress as soldiers representing the USAF.

 It was not burdensome for us to do. We were not uptight about conducting ourselves in the prescribed manner. It became natural as we progressed through our training. This is how TORAH is!

“He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Mashiyach Y’shua, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit” (Galatians 3:14).

“The promise of the Spirit” is that YHVH spoke to Abraham and WHEN Abraham did as he was instructed, he received the blessing of YHVH for himself and the entire world for his OBEDIENCE!

Here is the fine point: The “curse of the Torah” is simply that Torah shows us what sin is and sets a standard for perfection! The Torah then points us to redemption, salvation, deliverance, and judgment--to everlasting life or everlasting contempt upon resurrection (Daniel 12.1-10).

“Do we then nullify the Torah through faith? Not at all! Rather, we establish the Torah” (Romans 3:31). There it is! It is a fine point that has been lost in our Gentile church.

Paul never discarded the Torah, nor did Y’shua (Matt 5.17-20). Teach the Code of Conduct and be great in the Kingdom!

Y'shua fulfilled the Torah in his life and is our model of how to conduct ourselves. This has eternal ramifications in the Millennial Kingdom where there are rewards for what we have done in this life.

Once we come to understand this fine point everything begins to make sense. It is a literal “crossing over” that establishes our faith on a ROCK SOLID FOUNDATION.

Without a firm Hebrew understanding of the word, it’s all just Greek to us!