Jackson Snyder presents www.Bible-News.com - The Outer Boundary of Perfection

Romans 4:13. For the promise to Abraham and his descendants that he should inherit the Land was not through the Law, but through the uprightness of faith. (The Law hadn’t yet been given and Abraham was not an Israelite.) 14. For if it is those who live by the Law who will gain the inheritance, faith is worthless and the promise is without force;

15. for the Law produces nothing but Elohim’s retribution, and it is only where there is no Law that it is possible to live without breaking the Law.

What if a Policeman Stopped You?

(At this point what is it more natural to say to a policeman who stopped you for speeding:

a) I didn’t mean to do it – I just wasn’t thinking

b) I did it on purpose thinking I wouldn’t get caught.

How many would just be honest and tell the cop the truth?)

16. That is why the promise is to faith, so that it comes as a free gift and is secure for all the descendants, not only those who rely on the Law but all those others who rely on the faith of Abraham, the ancestor of us all.

Two covenants are involved:

(1) The Abrahamic – he would see his family established if he would consult Yahweh in everything he did.

(2) The Mosaic – he would see his people established if they would follow what Moses was told.

Which is harder?

17. Abraham is our father in the eyes of Elohim, in whom he put his faith, and who brings the dead to life and calls into existence what does not yet exist.

Paul says that those who follow him are under the Abrahamic covenant. What does this entail?

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Our goal is to not get mired down in the Law, but to get beyond it. That’s why there is a promise to write it on hearts. This writing didn’t just happen when Yahshua was here – it happens only when a person gets beyond the Law with the additional push of faith.

A person has to get beyond the law! Such ar elementary school learnings. Those who spend their lives studying the Torah are to be commended in their study, but let’s get on with it.

Consider the Commandments

If you never get past these, you are in bondage all your life because this is not a place of no Law! If you can’t keep the Sabbath or keep his name set-apart or keep from murdering, how will you get on to the higher things.

Consider the food ordinances

If you can’t be obedient to that small extent, how will you ever get past any law? Why must you ask question about something so basic? Don’t you get enough food that you must eat what Yahweh makes illegal?

Consider the institutions of propriety

If you aspire to being a spiritual person but are lewd and can’t control your thoughts of lust and covetousness, then how will you ever have the mind of the Heavenly One?

Consider yourself as salt in the world

Learn what Yahweh means by modestly and be modest so that you don’t cause someone else to sin who is really trying to be innocent. Yahweh has a lot to say about enticing others to sin, intentionally or not.

Consider your own deviousness

(Your own nature.) If you find good reasons to break the Commandments, you are still a law breaker, because what is good in your eyes isn’t good in your Father’s. You are not Elohim – you have only His precepts to care about. Some have gone to great lengths NOT to be a criminal when they had every good reason to become one.

Some are brought up with a clear-cut system of living in which such would never dream of stepping across the boundary line and becoming a spiritual or temporal criminal. We have not had that kind of upbringing, so we must begin wherever we are. We must want to have a clean heart and clean hands. Being a good person simply isn’t good enough. Something may be good but not perfect. Yahshua says be perfect as my Heavenly father is. That means to be complete in the Heavenly Father.

Matthew 5:

17. `Do not imagine that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to complete them. (pleroma – fulfill)

18. In truth I tell you, till heaven and earth disappear, not one dot, not one little stroke, is to disappear from the Law until all its purpose is achieved.

19. Therefore, anyone who infringes even one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be considered the least in the kingdom of Heaven; but the person who keeps them and teaches them will be considered great in the kingdom of Heaven.

48. Do not even the gentiles do as much? You must therefore be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect." (teleios – complete)

This completeness is not and ending point – it is a beginning point. The subject is fulfilling the Law. Perfection is the starting line. Perfection is knowing the rules instinctively.

The problem in Yahshua’s time wasn’t that people were lawless (although there were those who excused their lawless doings as fulfilling the will of Elohim) – just the opposite. People were being taught that certain omissions as well as commissions were against the law: that is, not washing your hands before dinner and not saving mule on the Sabbath. Many were confused because they were taught that the Law itself was god – and many teach that today too!

Hebrews 6: 1. LET us leave the elementary teachings of Messiah and (therefore) go on to maturity (teleioteta), not laying again

(a) a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward Elohim,

(b) 2. with instruction about ablutions, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. 3. And this we will do if Elohim permits. (That is, “if we must.”)

4. For it is impossible

(a1) to restore again to repentance those who have once been enlightened,

(b2) who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5. and have tasted the goodness of the word of Elohim and the powers of the age to come,

6. if they then commit apostasy, since they crucify (anastaurountas) the Son of Elohim on their own account and hold him up to contempt (paradeigmatizontas).

a) stake him up or stake him up again.

b) in our doings, we hold him up to public disgrace, much less ourselves.

Conclusion:

Our intention as Nazoreans is to GO BACK and pick up what we missed, just as the Gentiles in the assemblies of Paul had to do. Did they just go to Paul’s churches? No. They had to learn the Torah for the first time. And so do we. But when we learn it, we intend to get past it, and it is written on our hearts – which is not a supernatural process by any means – it is simply getting into a firm habit of keeping it without even thinking about it. Then we can go on to maturity.

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http://www.bnainoah.net/vendyl.htm Vendyl Jones was born on May 29, 1930, and grew up in Sudan, Texas. By the age of 16, Vendyl knew that his life was to be dedicated to doing Elohim's work. After completing high school, young Jones attended Southwestern Theological Seminary for a short time, receiving his Baccalaureate of Divinity, and a Masters Degree in Theology from the Bible Baptist Seminary. He later did advanced studies at the Bowen Biblical Museum under Dr. & Mrs. William Bowen and Biblical Archaeologist, W.F. Albright.

Between 1955 and 1956, Jones was pastor of the Dungan Chapel Baptist Church located on the border of Virginia and North Carolina. It was here that Vendyl began to realize that many anti-Jewish statements in the gospels were, as some marginal notes stated, "Omitted in more ancient manuscripts." This prompted Jones to call the nearest Rabbi, Henry Gutman, located in Bristol, Virginia, which resulted in a change in perspective due to many thought provoking facts about the Scriptures.

In October of 1956, Vendyl resigned the pastorate and moved to Greenville, SC. where he began his studies in the Talmud Torah under Rabbi Henry Barneis. **(This is the mystery.)

As his knowledge increased, so did the realization that all of his earlier studies had been very incomplete. He resolved to learn, to know and to understand the Bible objectively, without any prejudices; to know what Yahshua actually said in the language he spoke and what it literally meant to the people who heard him.