41 Pinchas 2025

New Testament doctrine teaches us to keep God's Old Testament commandments.

Romans 3:31 NKJV says, "Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law."

  1 John 3:4 and verse 8 NKJV says, "Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness." Verse 8 says, "He who sins is of the devil."

 James 2:22 NKJV says, "Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect?"

 Matthew 7:23 NKJV says, "And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'" 

 Matthew 5:17-18 NKJV says, "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled."

 The earth still exists so God's commandments still apply. Yeshua, as the Messianic prophet to come taught us to keep God's Old Testament commandments. The prophets also taught the people to keep God's commandments. 2 Kings 17:13 NKJV says, "Yet the LORD testified against Israel and against Judah, by all of His prophets, every seer, saying, 'Turn from your evil ways, and keep My commandments and My statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by My servants the prophets.'" We must appear before the Bema of the Messiah. The word seat in the following verse is the Greek word Bema. The Bema is where the Torah is read, namely God's Old Testament commandments. 2 Corinthians 5:10 NKJV says, "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad." Notice that it says we will be judged both for the good and the bad we have done.

 Those who say that Yeshua does not expect us to keep the Old Testament commandments are in line with His detractors, those who say He is not the Messiah. In order to be a person like Moshe (see Deuteronomy 18:18-10), He must teach and expect His followers to keep God's Old Testament commandments. God's prophets always taught the people to keep God's commandments.