Romans 10:1-5
"1 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them."
From these verses we see:
Vs.2 - The Israelites had a zeal for Adonai, but they didn't understand His Torah in the spiritual sense that shows Yeshua is our Salvation.
Vs.3 - Since they are unaware of God’s way of making people righteous and instead seek to set up their own, they have not submitted themselves to God’s way of making people righteous.
Vs.4 - The goal at which the Torah aims is the Messiah Yeshua, who offers righteousness to everyone who trusts.
Vs.5 - Moshe (Moses) writes about the righteousness grounded in the Torah that the person who does these things will attain life through them.
So what did Moses write about the righteousness of the law? Here are the verses that answer that question:
Leviticus 18:1-5
"1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the Lord your God.
3 After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.
4 Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God.
5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord."
Vs.3 - Adonai is telling us we are not to follow "the doings" (the ways, traditions, customs) of other nations; we are not to "walk in their ordinances".
The word "ordinances" in verse 3 above is the Hebrew word "chuqqah": appointed, custom, manner, ordinance, site, statute (Strong's Concordance).
We are not to walk in, follow, do the ordinances, ways, traditions, customs of other nations.
Vs.4 - Adonai is telling us we are to do His judgments, keep His ordinances, and walk in them (His judgments and His ordinances).
Vs.5 - Adonai is telling us we are to keep His statutes and His judgments. He is telling us that if we do them (keep and do/follow His statutes, His ordinances, and His judgments/His Ways) then we will "live in them", we will love through keeping, doing, following them (His statutes and His judgments and His ordinances).
Romans 2:13-15
"13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)"
From these verses we can see:
Vs.13 - It is not merely the hearers of Torah whom Adonai considers righteous. It is the doers of what Torah says who will be made righteous in Adonai’s sight.
Vs.14 - Whenever Gentiles, who have no Torah, do naturally what the Torah requires, even though they don’t have Torah, they themselves are Torah!
Vs.15 - Their lives show that the conduct the Torah dictates is written in their hearts.Their consciences also bear witness to this, for their conflicting thoughts sometimes accuse them and sometimes defend them - their conscience tells them they are doing wrong or they are doing right.
Romans 10:8-15
"8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!"
From these verses we can see:
Vs.9 - If you acknowledge publicly with your mouth that Yeshua is Adonai and trust in your heart that Abba raised him from the dead, you will be delivered.
Vs.10 - With the heart one goes on trusting and thus continues toward righteousness, while with the mouth one keeps on making public acknowledgement and thus continues toward deliverance.
Vs.14 - But how can they call on someone if they haven’t trusted in him? And how can they trust in someone if they haven’t heard about him? And how can they hear about someone if no one is proclaiming him?
Vs.15 - How can people proclaim Him (Yeshua) unless Adonai sends them?
The Jews of this time didn't accept Yeshua as the Messiah. They follow Torah and they followed their father's oral traditions (the traditions of men).
Mark 7:6-7
"6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men."
Yeshua was referring to this verse when He said this:
Mark 7:5 "Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?"
The elders taught that they were to wash their hands before eating anything so they would be clean. Adonai never made this a law in His commandments.
From these verses we can see:
Vs.6 - ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far away from me.
Vs.7 - Their worship of me is useless, because they teach man-made rules as if they were doctrines.’
The Jews of this time were teaching Torah as well as the traditions of their forefathers that were not part of Adonai's Torah. They believed they were doing the right thing because this is what they were taught...
Romans 2:17-29
"17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
18 And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
19 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
21 Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God."
Paul was trying to teach the Jews that it isn't what the oral traditions of their forefathers says that is Torah. It is only what Adonai said, nothing added and nothing taken away, that is the true Torah. Paul was telling them that their forefathers and they themselves were trying to be righteous by obeying the Torah in letter only, but they needed to obey the Torah in letter and in spirit. They needed to see how Yeshua is all throughout the Torah, the Torah teaches us about salvation is only through Yeshua (His Sacrifice for our sins), as well as giving us instructions on how to live our lives, how to treat others, how to worship Adonai, and how to live a righteous life in Yeshua through following Torah like He did.
Romans 10:17-21
"17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
19 But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.
20 But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.
21 But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people."
Vs.21 - All day long Esaias held out his hands to a people who kept disobeying and contradicting the Torah.
Romans 10:12
"12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him."
Vs.12 - That means that there is no difference between Jew and Gentile — Adonai is the same for everyone, rich toward everyone who calls on him.
Yeshua taught the two men, after He resurrected, about Him starting with Moses and all the prophets, telling and showing them in all the scriptures, how the scriptures point to Him as the Messiah...
Luke 24:25-27
"25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself."
The Jews were teaching the letter of the Torah and added the words of their forefathers to it. Their error was not seeing the spiritual and the physical of the Torah, and they added to Adonai's Word. This is blasphemy...
Romans 2:23-25
"23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision."
Vs.24 - As it says in the Tanakh, “For it is because of you that God’s name is blasphemed by the Goyim.”
Vs.25 - For circumcision is indeed of value if you do what Torah says. But if you are a transgressor of Torah, your circumcision has become uncircumcision!
Today we see another group in err in the Word. They take away the physical of the Torah, which is also taking away from the Torah itself. They teach the Torah is no longer relevant because it "was nailed to the cross". This is also blasphemy...
Deuteronomy 4:1-2
"1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you.
2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you."
We are not to add to, nor take away from, the Torah (commandments, statutes, judgments, etc.) of Adonai. We are to do them (read, study, learn, understand, keep, do, and teach others to do the same) so that we can "live, and go in and possess the land" (the Kingdom of Heaven - the new heavens and the new earth) which Adonai gave us.
Vs.2 - In order to obey the mitzvot (Torah - commandments, statutes, judgments, etc.) of Abba our Adoani which He gave us, do not add to what He is saying, and do not subtract from it.
Yeshua prays to Adonai asking Him to...
John 17:17
"17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth."
Vs.17 - Set them apart for holiness by means of the truth — your word is truth.
1 John 2:3-6
"3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked."
What does Yeshua say we must do in order to have eternal life?
Matthew 19:16-17
"16 And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments."
If we will enter into eternal life, we must keep the commandments (Torah).
Learn the Torah, the Truth. Then keep and do the Torah. Then teach the Torah to others so they can see Yeshua too.
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