{"id":7056,"date":"2015-09-05T08:20:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T15:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=7056"},"modified":"2015-09-05T09:42:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T16:42:56","slug":"torah-the-letter-vs-the-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/05\/torah-the-letter-vs-the-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Torah: the Letter Vs. the Spirit &#038; Blessings Vs. Curses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Deuteronomy 28:1\u201368, Blessings and curses for Torah obedience.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Are the curses for Torah disobedience and the blessings for obedience still applicable in the life of the redeemed believer today, or because \u201cwe\u2019re now under grace\u201d are these blessings and curses irrelevant to us? Or, as some preachers teach, Christians now only receive the blessings, and not the curses regardless of whether they violate the Torah or not, since Yeshua took away the curse of the law. What is the answer to this question? The short answer is this: Is the law of gravity still in effect if you jump off a cliff? For a further explanation, see my notes at 2 Cor 3:7.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/05\/torah-the-letter-vs-the-spirit\/justice-19981147-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7057\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7057\" src=\"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Justice-19981147-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"Justice 19981147\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Justice-19981147-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Justice-19981147.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>2 Corinthians 3:7, <i><\/i><\/b><b><i>Ministry of death.<\/i> <\/b>Is this a reference to the Torah? If so, which aspects? Just previously in verse six, Paul is speaking about the new covenant and the letter bringing death and the spirit bringing life. What is he referring to here? Is the spirit of the Torah-law all that is applicable to the believer today, and not the letter? If so then why did Yeshua in his Sermon on the Mount excoriate the Jews for keeping the letter and not the spirit of the Torah? In fact, he strongly affirmed that his disciples must keep <i>both<\/i> the letter and the spirit. To keep only the spirit would be tantamount to saying it\u2019s all right to murder as long as you don\u2019t hate the person, commit adultery as you don\u2019t lust in the process, and so on. It is plain to see that his notion is absurd. Yet this is what many Christians believe. We must keep the spirit, but don\u2019t have to keep the letter of the law, and they will use this passage of Scripture to justify their belief. If this is not what Paul <!--more-->meant here, then what is he talking about when he is favoring the spirit of the Torah over the letter?<\/p>\n<p>In this passage of Scripture, Paul references the stone tablets containing the Torah that Moses brought back the second time from Mount Sinai. Some aspect of this Torah (i.e., \u201cthe ministry of death\u201d) brought the curse of death. Was it the Torah law itself, which tells man how to love Elohim with all of his heart, soul and strength and his neighbor as himself that brought death? It seems inconceivable and counter to the Torah itself that Paul would be referring to the aspect of the Torah that tells a man how to love his Creator and fellow man as causing death. After all, the Torah itself tells us that if a man follows the Torah, he will <i>live<\/i> and that Torah brings <i>life<\/i> (Deut 30:15, 19) \u00ad\u00ad\u2014 <i>not <\/i>death. Conversely, disobedience to the Torah (or Torahlessness) is considered death (Ibid.). So, in Paul\u2019s mind, if he is to stay consistent with the Scriptures, Torah-obedience can\u2019t be considered causing death. So what aspect of the Torah is Paul referring to then that kills? He must be referring to the penalty imposed on one for violating the Torah. Violating the Torah brings penalties and curses and sometimes even the death penalty (Deut 27 and 28). Elsewhere, the Scripture tells us that sin is Torahlessness (1 John 3:4). Moreover, the person who sins ultimately brings on himself the death penalty (Ezek 18:4; Rom 6:23) if he fails to place his faith in Yeshua and repent of his sins or violation of YHVH\u2019s Torah-laws (Rom 6:23\u201326; 1 John 1:9).<\/p>\n<p>It is the violation of the Torah that condemns or kills. We see this to be true in that Paul goes on to equate \u201cthe ministry of death\u201d (v. 7) with \u201cthe ministry of condemnation\u201d (v. 9a), and contrasts both terms to \u201cthe ministry of righteousness\u201d (v. 9b), which he declares is more glorious. He affirms that the ministry of death or condemnation is passing away and that which remains \u2014 the ministry of righteousness \u2014 is <i>much <\/i>more glorious (v. 11).<\/p>\n<p>What is Paul saying here? Quite simply this. YHVH gave to the children of Israel a glorious legal system at the birth of that nation. A nation needs a legal system to be a nation of law and order. No other nation to that point had ever received such a legal system directly from the Creator of the universe himself. Not the Egyptians, Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Persians, Greek, Romans or anyone else. How glorious is this that the Almighty would give humans a legal code, so they wouldn\u2019t have to figure one out themselves by trial and error, or borrow a flawed one from some other nation?<\/p>\n<p>At issue here is that this legal code, as do the legal codes of all nations, came with penalties for violation of it. Depending on the crime, the Torah prescribed different penalties for different crimes. Some penalties were minor, some were intermediate, and some crimes carried the death penalty. Every crime or sin had a punishment. This penal system was \u201cthe ministry of condemnation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This penal system changed with the arrival of the new covenant. Yeshua who ushered in the new covenant died in our place to pay the penalty for all of our sins. How did this work? Simply this. If a man places his faith in Yeshua and repents of his sins, he can have all of his past sins washed away along with the penalty for those sins, which is eternal death in the lake of fire. Through faith in Yeshua, the cleansing of sin, and having Yeshua\u2019s righteousness imputed to a person along with the help of the Set-Apart Spirit living inside of a person, one can actually live a Torah-obedient life. If one stumbles along the way and sins, all one has to do is repent of that sin and go forward endeavoring not to sin again with YHVH\u2019s help (1 John 1:9). How glorious is this?<\/p>\n<p>As glorious as the previous Torah legal system was under the former covenant, the new covenant is <i>much<\/i> more glorious, since it allows humans to attain to immortal life and inclusion in the kingdom of Elohim as his spiritual sons and daughters. That\u2019s why Paul could say that \u201cthe Spirit [referring to the YHVH\u2019s Set-Apart Spirit] gives life\u201d (1 Cor 3:6). Paul goes on to say that \u201cwhere the Spirit of YHVH is, there is liberty\u201d (v. 17). Liberty from what? From the Torah, so now we can now violate the Torah with impunity without suffering the consequences, or liberty from the ultimate penalty of violating the Torah, which is death? To be consistent with the Word of Elohim, only the later can be true, not the former, or else the Word of Elohim is inconsistent and is a lie and we\u2019re all lost spiritually and without any hope of redemption.<\/p>\n<div class=\"evernoteSiteMemory\"><a href=\"javascript:\" onclick=\"Evernote.doClip({title: 'The Torah: the Letter Vs. the Spirit &amp; Blessings Vs. 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