{"id":16238,"date":"2020-01-28T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=16238"},"modified":"2020-02-15T11:35:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T19:35:14","slug":"good-works-of-the-law-versus-our-relationship-with-yeshua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/28\/good-works-of-the-law-versus-our-relationship-with-yeshua\/","title":{"rendered":"Good works of the law &#8220;versus&#8221; our relationship with Yeshua"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Luke 10:28, <em>Do this.<\/em><\/strong> Is Yeshua saying here that Torah-obedience (i.e. one\u2019s good works) can guarantee eternal life? A cursory understanding of Yeshua\u2019s words in this passage may cause one to arrive at this conclusion.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, previous to this, Yeshua speaks about loving Elohim with the totality of one\u2019s being. Loving Elohim not only involves Torah-obedience, but entering into a right, spiritual relationship with YHVH through Messiah Yeshua, the Living Torah-Word of Elohim as per the Torah itself and the words of Yeshua (e.g. Deut 18:15ff; John 14:16).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interestingly, in Mark 12:32, Yeshua has a similar exchange with a scribe. When the scribe quotes the <em>shema <\/em>as the greatest of all commandments, Yeshua tells him, <em>not<\/em> that he has eternal life, but that he\u2019s not far from the kingdom (v. 34). At the same time in Luke 18:18\u201322, Yeshua tells the rich young ruler that it\u2019s impossible to have eternal life by keeping the Torah without also following Yeshua.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All of these similar teachings of Yeshua when compared reveal to us that Torah-obedience outside of a relationship with Yeshua is insufficient to securing eternal life in Elohim\u2019s kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul summed up his spiritual relationship with Torah and Yeshua when he declared that he was \u201cunder law toward Messiah), that I might win those who are without law\u201d (1 Cor 9:21). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John sums up our relationship with Elohim and the Torah-law this way,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He who says, \u201cI know Him,\u201d and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. 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A cursory understanding of Yeshua\u2019s words in this passage may cause one to arrive at this conclusion.\u00a0 However, previous to this, Yeshua &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/28\/good-works-of-the-law-versus-our-relationship-with-yeshua\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,2725],"tags":[2694,967],"class_list":["post-16238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scripture","category-torah-law","tag-good-works-of-the-law","tag-works-of-the-law"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Good works of the law &quot;versus&quot; our relationship with Yeshua | Hoshana Rabbah Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/28\/good-works-of-the-law-versus-our-relationship-with-yeshua\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Good works of the law &quot;versus&quot; our relationship with Yeshua | Hoshana Rabbah Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Luke 10:28, Do this. 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