The Torah Tells Us What Sin Is

Romans 7:9-14
“9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.”

Those who do not read the Bible, nor have ever been taught from the Bible, do not know what sin is. It’s only when they read the Word of God, or are taught from the Bible, that they realize the way they have been living their life is sinful.

The Torah tells us what sin is. Without reading and knowing Torah, we do not know that we have sinned. Torah is a “schoolmaster” in the perspective of a sinner, teaching us what sin is.

Galatians 3:22-29
“22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.”

Once we know what sin is, and we know that we are sinners, and we realize we need our Messiah Yeshua, then we repent and ask for forgiveness.

Then, in the perspective of a child of Yaweh, the Torah is our way of life, our instructions in how to live our lives, how to treat others and ourselves, and how to worship and honor Abba.

Galatians 4:1-6
“1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.”

Now that we have become the children of Yaweh (vs. 6 above and vs.7 below), do not turn back again to the pagan gods and their traditions and ways, thereby placing yourselves back into bondage to sin (vs.8-9 below). Don’t observe those pagan days, months, times, and years (Christmas instead of Hanukkah, Easter instead of Passover, Valentine’s Day, etc.; Secular Greek/Roman Calendar New Year; days starting with sunrise and ending with sunset instead of beginning and ending in the evening when the sun sets; months that start on the 1st of the secular Greek/Roman  calendar instead of the sliver of the new moon; secular decades and centennials on the secular Greek/Roman calendar instead of every 7th year is a Sabbath year and every 7th 7th year is a Jubilee year, etc. – see vs.10 below)…

Galatians 4:7-11
“7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.”

As children of the Most High Yaweh (Abba our Father), we should delight in His Torah as children delight in pleasing their parents when they are young…

Romans 7:22
“22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:”

Even after salvation through Yeshua, we still sin because of our flesh (the law of sin – vs.23 below). We don’t want to, but our carnal bodies do what we don’t want to do because of the fleshly nature of our bodies. It is then that we need to take control of our every action and thought and make it tame to the “the knowledge of God” (Torah of Yaweh – the law of God - vs. 25 below).

Romans 7:23-25
“23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.”

We are at war with the enemy (the adversary satan) and we must take captive our thoughts (vs. 5 below):

2 Corinthians 10:3-6
“3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.”

We must put on the WHOLE ARMOUR of Yaweh:

Ephesians 6:11-18
“11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;”

The “whole armour of God” is both Yeshua (Yaweh with us) and the Torah (Yaweh’s Word – Yeshua made flesh):

John 1:1-2, 9, 14
“1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.”
“9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.”
“14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”

Yeshua came to die as Yaweh in the flesh so that the lost house of Israel could be remarried to Yaweh as He lives when Yeshua is resurrected (Yeshua is Yaweh, Yaweh is Yeshua, Yeshua is the Torah of Yaweh):

Romans 7:1-6
“1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.”

Now we see another meaning of this passage:

Romans 7:7-12
“7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.”

All of the children of Israel were married to Yaweh when He took them out of Egypt, crossed the Red Sea, and received His Torah. When they were split during King Solomon’s reign, the house of Judah were separated from Yaweh and the house of Israel were divorced from Yaweh.

The house of Judah came back to Yaweh and His Ways after their 70 year separation from Him. The house of Israel (also referred to as the lost house of Israel) didn’t return to Him between the reign of King Solomon and the time Yeshua was born Yaweh in the flesh (Immanuel – Yaweh with us). In fact, they had grown so far from Yaweh that they completely forgot they were the children of Israel. They began worshiping pagan gods like the nations they were forced into when Yaweh divorced them. They grew deeper and deeper into those pagan gods and their traditions that they thought they were pagan. Even the house of Judah called them Gentiles like the native Gentiles of those nations and they didn’t accept any of them as one of their own family because Yaweh had divorced them.

If any of the house of Israel wanted to be grafted back into the children of Yaweh, they had to be circumcised physically into the house of Judah (the family line, tribe of Judah) and no longer be a member of the house of Israel.

The passage above is also referring to Yeshua born as Immanuel (God with us) Who Sacrificed Himself on the cross so that the lost house of Israel (those He came for – “the lost sheep”) could be married back into the children of Israel (the children of Yaweh) by His death as Yaweh and resurrection as Yaweh, thereby making them free from the law of marriage where a wife could not marry her 1st husband again (Yaweh) after being divorced (by Yaweh) and married to a different husband (pagan gods and nations). Yeshua’s resurrection (“the Mighty God” - Yaweh)…

John 12:15
“15 Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.”
Isaiah 9:6-7
“6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.”

Who is the Daughter of Zion?

Lamentations 1:1-11
“1 How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
2 She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.”

{The House of Judah}
“3 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the Lord hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.”

{The Daughter of Zion - The Lost House of Israel}
“6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.
8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
9 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O Lord, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.
10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.
11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O Lord, and consider; for I am become vile.”

Yeshua orders the Kingdom and establishes judgment with justice (Torah) for Yaweh’s children forever. Yeshua is Yaweh in the flesh, resurrected as Yaweh, and will reign and rule according to Yaweh’s Torah (Yeshua’s Torah also because Yeshua is Yaweh). Yeshua (Yaweh in the flesh) cannot deny Himself (Yaweh).

2 Timothy 2:13
“13 If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.”

It doesn’t matter if one does not believe these words, it doesn’t make them any less True. Striving about the Truth is of no profit because it will not change the fact that this is the Truth. If their eyes were open and they could see, and their ears were open and they could hear, they would know. That is why we are told not to argue over the Truth with anyone, because it only leads to increased sin on both sides of the argument.

2 Timothy 2:14-15
“14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”

Matthew 13:13-17
“13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.
17 For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.”

What is sin?

1 John 3:3-4, 7-8, 10
"3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law."
"7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil."
"10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother."

We are to be sanctified through obedience to the Torah:
John 17:17
"17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth."

And we are to be purified through Yeshua (Living Torah in the flesh):
2 Corinthians 7:1
"1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God."