05 Chayei Sarah 2025 Torah

Shaul shares how Kefa (Peter), and others reacted and stopped eating with Gentiles when those adding laws to the Torah were present. Tension was created by a misapplication of the law. It says in Exodus 34:14-16 that they were not to eat with an idolater which at the time meant they were forming a bond with them. We are not to bond with idolators. But the Gentiles they stopped eating with in the letter to the Galatians were not idolators. 

These Gentile believers were no longer idolators and Kefa and others should not have stopped eating with them. This happened because of people back then who added laws to the Torah. Since these people were adding laws to the Torah, they were Torah breakers. Deuteronomy 4:2 NKJV says, "You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God." Yeshua was against the adding and subtracting from God's commandments. In Matthew 15, they were subtracting from God's commandments. Isn't that what a lot of Christian churches are doing in our ear? Matthew 15:9 NKJV says, "And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men." 

Shaul makes a point from Galatians 3:6-9 that the Gentiles can have faith and live justly, the scriptures prophesied this, and all those who believe in the true God both Jew and Gentile are blessed through Abraham. Then in Galatians 3:10, Shaul quotes Deuteronomy 27:26 NKJV, "A curse on anyone who does not confirm the words of this Torah by putting them into practice." Again, those that don't keep the Torah are under a curse. The Gentiles were to learn and keep the Torah according to Acts 15:21 NKJV, "For Moses has had throughout many generations those who preach him in every city, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath." 

It is not the law that is a curse. It says cursed is anyone who does not keep the Torah, the law. That has been the issue all along. The Torah breakers who added the extra man-made laws were not keeping the Torah right and even excluding the Messianic Gentiles. Shaul made two points in Galatians 2:14-21. He also goes on to say we have to have faith in God and not ritual without faith. He also says we do not want to build another system of man-made laws in Galatians 2:18.