2020 SHUV SHOW: “A Slippery Hold”, How to be a disciple of Messiah Yeshua (Jesus), Christene Jackman

SHUV SHOW
“A Slippery Hold”
Christene Jackman 3.3.2020
https://www.ChristeneJackman.com/

EXCERPT: "Welcome to the Shuv Show. I'm your host, Christene Jackman.
Are you a follower of the God of the Bible and His Messiah Yeshua (Jesus)? Then I'm sure you've asked yourself at one point: "What exactly does it mean to be a follower or talmid/talmidah (disciple) of Messiah?"
Some people answer this question with the usual vague, ethereal answers like, "Love Him. Obey Him. Do His will." We need an answer that exhibits a living body, one with action. A biblically Hebraic head understands that spirit and body are meant to be intertwined, thought and action.

I ask this question because the God of the Bible, specifically, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob/Israel instructs us in: Vayikra/Lev 22:31, "So you shall keep My commandments, and do them; I am YHVH."
Messiah Yeshua reiterated this when He said in Yochanan/John 14:15, "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments."

Now, some people think that Messiah is talking about new commandments, ones that He has set up, separate from the Torah given on Mount Sinai, otherwise known as the Law of Moses. But, Messiah Yeshua does not give us any wiggle room here. He would never countermand what the Father has already established as rule of law. Don't take my word for it, listen to what Messiah Himself says in Yochanan/John 8:42, speaking to wayward people:
"If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and have come from God, for I have not come on My own initiative, but He sent Me."
Messiah Yeshua is the Ambassador from the Father. That's one of His roles.

For hundreds of years, various religious denominations have tossed out many of the commandments set in place: by the Father, reiterated at Mount Sinai and recommitted to each generation of the believing remnant. This same Covenant was renewed that Pesach/Passover evening by Messiah just before His death and subsequent resurrection. Now, each Nisan 14 in the spring, at the Passover seder meal, we remember and proclaim the exodus out of Egypt and Messiah's death until He returns. The meal is, in effect, a yearly memorial and renewing of the vows, a covenantal meal. There's unleavened bread and wine present, symbols of covenant. The Pesach Seder is precious and full of meaning, and deeply serious. It's not a historical amusement ride. It's an appointed time of the Lord, a moed.

Messiah's blood paid our sin debt, purchasing our re-entrance into what... something brand new, a different covenant with different laws? No. No chance. Messiah said "I and my Father are One." He also claimed, "Before Abraham was, I Am." The Son is not going to toss out the terms of the covenant of the Father's Kingdom! God is a God of order, not chaos. You cannot be justified, made righteous, in God's eyes by obeying the Law, that's very clear. The Law was never given as a salvation document. Rather, they are the Terms of the Covenant, the Lifestyle of the Redeemed Community, HOW TO BE HOLY AS GOD IS HOLY. The Law of Moses instructs us what holiness looks like, thinks like, speaks like, acts like.

The New Covenant is the Renewed Covenant, a renewal of the covenant cut by God Himself that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, grafted in Gentiles, and the generations that followed vowed to keep. This covenant will always stand, because God ever lives and never breaks covenants that He cuts . . . "