Thank you for using your gift of teaching to bless the Body of Christ. I thank the Lord for your willingness to take the time to dig into Scripture with us!
Thank you so much for your knowledge of this difficult book in Galatians. I read chapter 5 many times and yet I couldn’t seem to understand it as you taught it. I understand it well now. But it won’t hurt me listen several more times. I say this because during prayer, I heard in my spirit “HE fell From grace” meaning my husband. I hope and pray that my children won’t follow the same path.
Great great teaching here Rob. Praying that the veil will be lifted from those in HRM. Loved the fact that you addressed how Spirit filled people should walk. I think to many Christians do not fully understand that we have been called to walk in holiness and may not understand that we are to be different than the world. Striving to be Christ like. Shalom
@@mitchchapman2754 For the New Covenant Law, the Law of Christ here are some good places: Matthew 5-7, Galatians 5, James 2, Revelation 22, 2 Timothy 3, 1 Corinthians 6, 1 Timothy 1, Romans 1, Colossians 3, etc. There are so many more, but as you see their is so many places where the principles of holiness could be found for those who are in Christ. God Bless!
Please pray for me. Prayers are all we truly need. Jesus I still trust in you and will keep my faith even though it is so very difficult. I’m constantly faced with financial hardships and can barely support my children. I’m a single mom With two autistic children. My husband is with God. I’m overwhelmed. My boys require a lot from me. I recently started homeschooling them due to bullying and other issues. Since they are special needs it’s easier not to expose them to certain situations because their behavior is so unpredictable. I lost my job at Forsyth hospital for declining the vaccine. I declined because of my health conditions lupus, and heart disease. Since losing my job I’ve been struggling to support my children and myself. I’m now waitressing and I’m grateful but I’m not making nearly enough. JESUS HELP me. I’m CRYING OUT TO YOU. I’m tired of struggling. Having children with autism is extremely time consuming and expensive. Struggling to buy groceries. Struggling to pay rent. It hasn’t been easy. Why me Lord? But I know God doesn’t give you more than you can handle. I know all things are possible through Jesus. I WILL KEEP FAITH. No matter how hard life gets.
May Our Lord Jesus Christ Bless you and your sons in all of your Hardships and their illness's!!! May He make a Way for you to get a Better paying job and May He Help you Financially by Him Meeting All your Needs!!!! In Jesus Mighty Name I Pray 🙏 Amen and Amen!!!!!
May FATHER in heaven and his Son bless you and be with you. I am also sick and had to stop working from an autoimmune disease. It is tough I was a registered nurse and now live on a small disability check. You were right not to get that jab. Look into all resources you can and reach out to agencies to help you with rent, electric and groceries. It was so hard for me because I had always worked. I wish I had some money to send you but I am still struggling myself. You have my prayers though
Thanks Rob. A lot of great points. It is crucial to understand that Paul did not endorse any form of perpetual observance of the ceremonial rituals of the Law of Moses. His purpose in Romans 14 and 1 Cor. 9 was to facilitate the Jewish believers' exodus from a life based upon the legalistic demands of the Law and help them embrace the freedom found in Christ in its entirety. Their weakness represents the error in thinking they continued to be attached to. To interpret these passages as granting a choice to continue observing the Law as an acceptable way of life is a misinterpretation of Paul's intention. He never contemplated such an idea because no one advocated for observance of tenets of the Law as an optional tradition, but as obligatory. ‘Permitted, but not required’ is an unfounded assumption on your part, without any Scriptural basis and should be renounced sooner rather than later. The notion that believers in Christ have the option, but not the obligation, to observe the ceremonial Laws of Moses is an erroneous addition that deviates from Paul's Gospel and serves to frustrate the grace of God. Introducing a ‘traditional’ observance of specific elements of the Law, while attempting to detach them from their original purpose, is inconsistent with Paul's teachings. It stems from a misinterpretation of Paul's words, creating a hybrid category of Law observance that the Scriptures do not endorse, and is contrary to the spirit of the New Covenant. Paul’s words must be understood within their specific contexts and should not be extrapolated to endorse a general acceptance of ongoing adherence to the Law as a personal choice. Such a proposition must be deemed an error, carrying consequences for both its recipients and proponents. Since the establishment of the New Covenant, which is devoid of these rituals, those antiquated practices lose their significance and become spiritually dead. Anything that is dead becomes harmful and deadly to those who continue to interact with it. This misguided approach hinders and undermines the very essence of God's grace that we are called to wholeheartedly embrace. The letter to the Galatians strongly condemns the false teachers who sought to introduce the observance of the Mosaic Law to the Galatian believers, who had already received and embraced the Gospel of grace. The Galatians were without excuse for entertaining these false teachings, as they had experienced the freedom and liberty in Christ and should have known better. In contrast, the passages in Romans 14 and 1 Corinthians 9 address a distinct context. Paul is specifically addressing Jewish believers who were in the process of transitioning from a life centered on the Law to embracing the freedom and grace found in Christ. In these situations, Paul demonstrates patience and understanding towards their struggles and weaker consciences regarding certain practices and observances linked to their Jewish heritage. His intention is to support their growth and enlightenment in due course. In summary, the condemnation in Galatians applies to the false teachings of introducing the Law to believers who had already embraced grace. The passages in Romans 14 and 1 Corinthians 9 address the struggles of Jewish believers in transition. Gentile believers, however, are consistently affirmed to be free from the obligations of the Law, and adopting any practices of the Law would be a regression tantamount to their former idolatry, and something to be avoided at all cost. In hope, Steve
Thank you so much for these videos! I currently have a best friend whos in the Hebrew roots movement and your videos really help me understand the distortion of the Gospel this movement brings to believers in Jesus Christ, as well as just helping me understand the Gospel better in General! Keep up the good work (pun intended) and God bless!
@@TheBiblicalRootswhat Bible are you reading from? Just a question because some of them say in Galatians 5-19 Selfish Ambition and I wanted to know what that truly means? Does that mean about Job's, School Career or professions a person wants to achieve?
Mysticism of any kind including kabbalah is forbidden in the Word of God. God people should never participate in it. Mystical methods to interpret scripture is not the way God intended for His Word to be understood. It will lead to faulty conclusions.
I was responding to the HR man who was sharing about the kabbalistic method of interpreting scripture so popular in HRM. Kabbalah is Jewish mysticism. Its also popular in HRM.
Just discovered you today and am really enjoying the first few videos that I've come to. Though you explain the life in the Spirit vs the law extremely well, if you could properly sum up how to ensure that we're truly walking by the Spirit (and not mixing our own self-effort of trying to be holy or trying to figure out right and wrong in our own flesh--which I have done before), how would you state it? Hopefully in a way that's thorough enough while still being succinct, simple enough to follow. Thank you
There's an old teaching that used to be in many Pentecostal churches that at a point in time a person was sanctified and never to sin again. It was based on a distortion of the Wesleyan doctrine of entire sanctification. From what I understand, that teaching is no longer taught in mainstream Pentecostalism anymore. I'm a Pentecostal (Trinitarian) myself.
Galatians 5:13 (ESV): 13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
Hi rob so what im getting is thay had received jesus then started going back to things of the old covenant? He said what happend you guys yallnwere doing good now you guys are going backwards ?
Hi, Pricilla. Yes, exactly. The author of Hebrews doesn't specifically tell us what what going on with his readers. But because of nature and context of his comments, it seems Jewish believers in Jesus, like those to whom this letter was written, were experiencing ever-increasing friction and even persecution on two fronts. First from the Jewish community, as Jesus had warned (John 15:18-16:4). Because they confessed faith in Him, they were being persecuted and put out of the synagogues by their fellow Jews. And second, they were being persecuted by the Romans. Remember, Judaism was allowed in the pagan Roman Empire, whereas Christianity at that time was deemed _religio illicita,_ an illegal religion. So a lot of their problems would have been solved if they left Jesus behind, or at least worshipped Him in secret, and outwardly returned to Judaism and the temple and the priesthood and so on. And that’s why we see this extended discussion in Hebrews about the superiority of Jesus and the New Covenant in all those areas. Blessings, RLS
In order for the list in gal 5:19 to apply to a believer the law would have to apply. Isn't the 10 commandments the law thou shall not? God doesn't see these sins in the believer he sees them in those under the law. No believer is living in such things
Rob- Thanks for the great content! I'm hoping you can clarify a question I have. If the Mosaic law was a tutor to bring the Israelites to Christ, but Gentiles are not under that tutor, what (as Gentiles) brings us to Christ? Is it the moral law of God (summarized in the 10 commandments) that is written on our conscience?
Thanks, Tyler! What brings us to Christ is the Holy Spirit He sent on this very day in the 1st century: Pentecost. And as we read the Torah, we can see how it (and the rest of the OT) has always been pointing to Jesus and revealing our need for a Savior. Blessings, Rob
The 10 Commandments are the summary of the ketubah (Marriage contract) entered into by a mixed multitude of people groups who Moses led out of Egypt during the historical Exodus. This group comprised of Jews and Gentiles received the Torah at Sinai (Ex 19) which was the wedding ceremony. Exodus 21-23 are the details of the ketubah. ALL of Torah is written in our minds and upon our hearts. It's the Ruach Hakodesh that wrote Torah on circumcised hearts
Great channel!! Just casually reading Acts and came across this. Isn’t this proof that we are not under the law and grip of the Old Testament?! Keep up the good fight! Acts 6:11-15 NKJV Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.” And they stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes; and they came upon him, seized him, and brought him to the council. They also set up false witnesses who said, “This man does not cease to speak blasphemous words against this holy place and the law; for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs which Moses delivered to us.” And all who sat in the council, looking steadfastly at him, saw his face as the face of an angel.
Thanks, TW! Actually, the thing that jumped out at me in that passage is that the men who said Jesus taught against Moses were "secretly induced" to say that. And that they "set up false witnesses." In other words, they were lying. Jesus never taught against Moses or God. This is what Jesus said Himself, "I have not come to abolish the law or the prophets, but to fulfill them" (Matt 5:17). And the difference between "abolish" and "fulfill" is huge! Blessings, Rob
ANTILAW GOSPEL IS THE GOSPEL OF THE TEMPTER FIRST PREACHED BY THE SERPENT TO EVER THAT RUINED ADAM AND EVE BOTH THE TEMPTED AND THE TEMPTED WHO CHOSE TO SIN AGAINST GOD YEHOVAH BY FOLLOWING THE REBELLION OF THE TEMPTER IS TRADE PF THE LAW OF GOD YEHOVAH SHALL BE JUDGED BY GOD YEHOVAH THE RIGHTEOUS KING, JUDGE AND LAWGIVER Isaiah 33:22 ASV For Jehovah is our judge, Jehovah is our lawgiver, Jehovah is our king; he will save us. Isaiah 8:13,16,20 ASV Jehovah of hosts, him shall ye sanctify; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. [16] Bind thou up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. [20] To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them. Isaiah 42:8,21 ASV I am Jehovah, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise unto graven images. [21] It pleased Jehovah, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable. Deuteronomy 6:4,24-25 ASV Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah: [24] And Jehovah commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Jehovah our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as at this day. [25] And it shall be righteousness unto us, if we observe to do all this commandment before Jehovah our God, as he hath commanded us. Jeremiah 29:11-13 ASV For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end. [12] And ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. [13] And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. Genesis 2:16-17 ASV And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: [17] but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Genesis 3:1-6,8-24 ASV Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden? [2] And the woman said unto the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat: [3] but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. [4] And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: [5] for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil. [6] And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. [8] And they heard the voice of Jehovah God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Jehovah God amongst the trees of the garden. [9] And Jehovah God called unto the man, and said unto him, Where art thou? [10] And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. [11] And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? [12] And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. [13] And Jehovah God said unto the woman, What is this thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. [14] And Jehovah God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, cursed art thou above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: [15] and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. [16] Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. [17] And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; [18] thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; [19] in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. [20] And the man called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. [21] And Jehovah God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins, and clothed them. [22] And Jehovah God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever- [23] therefore Jehovah God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. [24] So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. Deuteronomy 11:1,26-28 ASV Therefore thou shalt love Jehovah thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, alway. [26] Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: [27] the blessing, if ye shall hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I command you this day; [28] and the curse, if ye shall not hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known. Deuteronomy 30:11-20 ASV For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not too hard for thee, neither is it far off. [12] It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it? [13] Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it? [14] But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. [15] See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; [16] in that I command thee this day to love Jehovah thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that thou mayest live and multiply, and that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in the land whither thou goest in to possess it. [17] But if thy heart turn away, and thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; [18] I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish; ye shall not prolong your days in the land, whither thou passest over the Jordan to go in to possess it. [19] I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed; [20] to love Jehovah thy God, to obey his voice, and to cleave unto him; for he is thy life, and the length of thy days; that thou mayest dwell in the land which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them. Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 ASV This is the end of the matter; all hath been heard: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man. [14] For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Rob, Gal 5:11 Paul was persecuted because the gospel seemed to be a licence to sin, and Peter was an example of someone under grace who sinned, which was seen by the circumcision as a sinner. Paul does not dismiss the law of righteousness, but it must be by faith and love not letter, which as today people abuse their freedom as the law remained written in their hearts. So they must not sin as love will not permit sin, but those who sin and are not held to account, are back under the law of sin and death. Not as you imply that you are still saved, so you do preach grace us a licence to sin which has NOT been paid for on the Cross, but a matter of Justification. Obviously the Pharisees thought that their rituals and sacrifices did atone for sins, which makes them hypocrites as they preached against sin, but sinned themselves.
Rob, please consider these excerpts from William Kelly: “Jewish elements were borne within a Jew. The apostle Paul himself, in Romans 14:1-23, insists upon the forbearance of a Gentile even towards the Jew that might be still encumbered by his days, meats, and so on. But the moment a Gentile takes the system up, or a Jew presses it on a Gentile, it is nothing but downright heathenism. Do not suppose that idolatry has its character saved because Jesus is worshipped. Christianity refuses to be mingled with anything but itself. Tender and comprehensive as Christianity is, it is also the most exclusive thing that can be. Truth must necessarily be exclusive, and all who hold the truth must, in their adhesion to it and Him who is its personal expression, be exclusive too. (I mean by this, of course, exclusive of sin and falsehood.) Now the Galatians were unwittingly in danger of giving up the truth. They were only, as they supposed, beginning to cherish a becoming attitude toward the religion of the fathers, and of all who had before Christ honoured God on earth. Venerable religion! the only system of earthly worship which had ever possessed God's sanction. Why not adopt what was wanting in Christianity? Where was the harm of taking up what saints of old submitted to? No, rejoins the apostle; you are going back to heathenism. This is the very evil which the Spirit of God so earnestly and energetically denounces here by the apostle Paul. He does not charge them with anything of an openly gross or immoral nature; but what a proof that the truth of God, that the grace of Christ, is exclusive of everything but itself! Nor is there a greater evidence of God's tender and considerate care for us than such a fact as this. For He knows our tendency to mingle law with grace in some form or measure, and treats that which was of the fathers and long before Moses, as a foreign ingredient deleterious to Christians. As God has wrought for us on the cross, and delivered us from every atom of sin in Christ, so He will not allow us to mix one earthly or legal element with the revelation of His grace, which He has made ours in redemption, and proclaimed to us by the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven.” Kelly Commentary on Books of the Bible (Galatians)
For clarification, does Kelly in his Galatians Commentary properly understand the issue in Chapter 1? Not a few many Christian commentators including @RLSolberg do not
Being saved by faith alone, not by works and obeying YHWH's Commandments once we are saved. I would love for all to come to this understanding! If you have this understanding already, take the time to pray for your love ones who don't get it yet. If you try to keep the law to be justified or to try and save yourself you are cutting yourself off from Christ. That is the true summary of what Paul is saying in Galatians 5:1. What is definitely NOT being taught here is, once you are saved by faith alone, you should stop obeying God's Law. That would mean Paul is contradicting the rest of scripture, Jesus and himself. Romans 2:13 "For is is not those who hear the law who are righteousness in God's sight, but those who obey the Iaw who will be declared righteous." And to crystallize this point Jesus says in Luke 11:28 "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it." If you want to be saved, it is by faith alone not by works or by trying to keep the law because you won't be able to keep it perfectly. Jesus's Righteousness is how we are Saved not ours. Once you accept this gift of salvation and you want to please Our Father, so that things will go well for you and be blessed, obey His commandments.
I would be careful accusing people of teaching "cheap grace." The apostle Paul was accused of the same thing just because he taught salvation by grace through faith. I think that term is thrown out there very carelessly and can give a false message of the Gospel.
You say that if you keep the law of Moses here you are making Christ of no value to you. Yet you have said that if our Torah following brothers and sisters want to keep it that's okay. Are you not understanding Galatians correctly or just getting confused?
Hi, K. What I've said elsewhere is that keeping the Mosaic traditions (kosher diet, seventh-day Sabbath, Torah feasts) is permitted but not required. Blessings, RLS
@@TheBiblicalRoots permitted?...But then Christ is no value to you? I don't see how you equate that as permitted? I would love for you to explain this on one of your videos and see what the viewers think.
Hi again Ron, my comments weren't friendly so I apologize. I am taking out some anger on you because my brother is blindly listening to you without reading the bible for himself. I shouldn't be angry with you but with him. Anyway, do you see how what you are saying isn't consistant. Permitted but then Christ is of no value to you. That isn't permitted unless you don't care about Jesus The way I understand Galatians 5 is if you try to do works to be JUSTIFIED then you are making Christ of no value. That seems to make more sense then what you seem to say, if you try and follow His commandments out of obedience you are being cut off from Christ.
@@k.miller5015 This is something I've explained in a number of my videos. The idea of "permitted but not required" is found in a number of NT passages including Colossians 2:16-17, Romans 14:1-4, and this one: "To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings." (1 Cor. 9:20-23) Shalom, RLS
@@TheBiblicalRoots Hi Ron, I understand your interpretation of those verses and that you believe and teach if you want to keep the Torah that's fine, but we are not required to. But in this video your teaching takes a turn from, "it's okay if you want to" to if you keep Torah you are cut off from Christ. Do you understand that you are not being consistant in what you are saying? Once you are able to see the inconsistency, then hopefully you can see that Paul is simply saying if you keep the Torah to be try JUSTIFIED then you are trying to ADD to the gift of salvation making it no value to you. What Paul is not saying here is, don't obey the Torah at all. That would be reading into the text what simply is not there.
Paul does not argue against the Judaizers, he argues against the likes of Peter who treat grace as licence to sin, the same argument as in Hebrews. Accepting circumcision is to reject Christ who can deliver forgiveness of sins, an argument not accepted by the circumcision as any sin required sacrifice to them, but in Christ Peter has to admit and repent his sin. Peter upset Paul as he hid his sin, and upset the circumcision as he broke the 10 commandments. In the Mosaic law, or law of Christ God's law must be kept perfectly, because if you love you cannot sin, but you must own you sin and repent to stay under grace. Faith works by love, because by love you cannot sin.
Pretty sure the Apostle Peter didn't treat Grace as a license to sin. Oh, and it was Paul who brought this issue to Jerusalem - Acts 15:5 But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses.” ==== You seem confused, the law of Moses is NOT the law of Christ. Do you listen to David Wilber. he teaches those same Lies.
@@salpezzino7803 Paul did not preach grace as a licence to sin, but many thought they could. Peter sinned and was admonished by Paul, as Gal 6:1-10. Paul wrote Romans due to backsliding into sin, as he said the law did not go butust be written on their hearts, circumcision of the heart. The law of Abraham is the law of Christ. Which is the law of righteousness written on your heart. Check this reply before you imply that I lie.
@@billyhw5492 Peter was found commiting sin, and Paul helped bear his burden by calling him out. This was in Jerusalem, but Paul used the example of Peter as many were backsliding into sin, because they did not understand the law had to be written on their hearts, ie it still existed that they use not sin.
@@simonskinner1450 News Flash - Everyone sins. But Jesus. 1 Corinthians 1:9For I am the least of the apostles and am unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them-yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
Jeremiah chapter 17 v9 who knows the complexity of human beings. Your pope or pastor or apologist's. Theological arguments but does it answer the question for Jeremiah 17v 9.
Jer 17:9 is speaking of someone who turns from YaH. Man has a choice. “Thus says Adonai: “Cursed is the one who trusts in man, and depends on flesh as his arm, and whose heart turns from Adonai.” Jeremiah 17:5
@@TonyPino777Yeshuasaves no we all have sinned and the old covenant only covered sin,not cleaneth us from it.jesus said " blessed are the pure in heart, only jesus sacrifice can do that.
@@frederickanderson1860 I never said we don’t sin. There are people called righteous in the TaNaK. They can’t be called righteous and yet have a constant wicked heart. They walked in a pure heart when they obeyed YaH and a wicked heart when they sinned. Man has the ability to choose (Deut 30:11-14). Man has the ability to repent and turn. I agree the blood of Yeshua purifies us from our defilement.
@@TonyPino777Yeshuasaves the high priest offered once a year sacrifice for all the people of Israel. Jesus offered himself and the temple veil rent from top to bottom, that all can enter into the holy of holies. No divide between the high priests or the common people anymore. Moses himself endured 40 yrs in Midian & 40 yrs in wilderness journey. He seen the glory of God and was the people's deliverer,yet he made one mistake,he struck the Rock twice, and he was told to speak to the Rock,he was not allowed to cross over to the land.
For clarification, "Paul's" gospel was only 7 words: In you all families will be saved! Therefore, I ask you on what do you base your statement? I'm not part of the Hebrew Roots Movement.
We don’t actually! We love Paul. Paul defends Torah. Paul constantly corrects man made doctrine and he corrects trying to earn salvation through law keeping (the curse of the law is keeping it WITHOUT the testimony of Yeshua) Yah wants our hearts and then our obedience. We don’t reject Paul. We don’t reject Messiah and we are not trying to earn our salvation but we delight in following our Fathers instructions
Rob continues to argue an argument Paul didn’t argue. Paul doesn’t argue the circumcision party believes one must do the Law of Moshe to earn salvation. No Jews believed this in the first century. Keeping the law of Moshe was and is for already redeemed people. Paul is dealing with the national covenant pride of the Pharisees. One is righteous by way of the mark of physical circumcision through their oral traditions. One becomes bound to their man-made means of salvation. For they nullified the word of YaH through their traditions. YaH always demands salvation by faith. He never demanded salvation by circumcision for Avraham is the example.
Thanks, Mr. Branches. I hear what you’re saying and understand the distinction you’re making. And I agree that Yahweh has always brought salvation through faith, not by the law. As you know, to be justified is to be declared righteous, which means we are absolved from the penalty of sin (Romans 3:23; 8:1; 1 Peter 2:24) and restored to God’s favor, which was lost due to our sin (John 3:36). And justification is an essential part of salvation. Can one be declared righteous in God’s eyes (justified) but not be saved? Or conversely, can one be saved but not declared righteous? Salvation and justification are separate theological concepts, but they are conjoined in the same saving mechanism: it is by faith in Christ that we are both saved _and_ justified. When we come to faith in Jesus, we are saved and justified all at the same time! This means those who lived prior to Jesus were ultimately saved by a faith that looked forward to Jesus and were not fully absolved of their sins until Jesus arrived. Paul talks about this when he writes that Jesus was “put forward as a propitiation (atoning sacrifice) by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness because *in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins”* (Rom 3:25). And the author of Hebrews teaches that the death of Jesus redeemed those who are called “from the transgressions committed under the first covenant” (Heb 9:15). The false teachers in Galatia argued that one can be made right before God (justified) through circumcision and other Mosaic rituals, which to a first-century Jew who did not yet understand what the death of Christ accomplished, was indistinguishable from being “saved.” So, yes, in a very real sense, Paul *_is_* arguing that we aren’t made right with God or saved through circumcision or any other Mosaic rituals. “Yet we know that a person is *not justified by works of the law* but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and *not by works of the law,* because *by works of the law no one will be justified.”* (2:16) “For *all who rely on works of the law are under a curse”* (3:10) “Now it is evident that *no one is justified before God by the law”* (3:11) “You are severed from Christ, you who would be *justified by the law”* (5:4) He teaches the same thing a few years later in his letter to the churches in Rome: “For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight” (Rom 3:20) “For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law” (Rom 3:28) Blessings, Rob
Thank you Rob for the respond and the article you wrote on your webpage concerning my comment. Here is my response to your comment and article. Blessings. th-cam.com/video/i4-DkSX-59U/w-d-xo.html
@@TonyPino777Yeshuasaves your video is a great example of a circular argument presupposing YOUR view without evidence solely based on an ultra conservative sect of Jews at Qumran who didn’t even believe that Israel was keeping the feasts on the correct days because their calendar is wrong makes Christ into a false messiah, secondly you used the same article to presuppose Ignatius of Antioch was using Judiazing according to YOUR definition with no evidence other then your presuppositional view, while ignore other sources like the Epsitle of Barnabas and Justin Martyr that clearly show Ignatius was holding to what YOU call an “anachronistic” interpretation 🤣🤣🤦🏼♂️
Circumcision as its known today has NEVER been required for salvation. The Circumcision at issue in Galatians, which Rob continually misses and therefore creates a strawman, is going through the proselyte conversion process to become Jewish. The "another gospel" Paul is astonished, amazed, marvels, shocked and or wonders about (Gal 1:6) is exactly this! Understanding this important fact eliminates all of the confusion perpetuated in the Western Christian Church that has gone on for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Shame on you Rob for not using proper hermeneutics. You should know better!
Hi, Mitch. Circumcision was not only part of the proselyte conversion to become Jewish, it was also required under the law of Moses. But it’s not required anymore, says Paul. RLS
@@TheBiblicalRoots It was NEVER required for salvation! This is the issue you miss because it was the legalistic perversion of Torah that astonished, amazed, shocked, marveled, wondered, surprised Shaul (Gal 1:6) caused by the Influencers NOT Judaizers, that were perverting, twisting, distorting, changing the Gospel of the Kingdom aka how to enter into covenant (1:7). Also, the Influencers were a combination of Gentiles already in Covenant. Some through converting to Judaism, via circumcision, others not circumcised and Jews. Late Shaul writes in Eph 2:8-10 8. What we are saved by (Grace) 9. What we are not saved by (works, legalism) 10. What we are saved for (good works of Torah, the details of the Ketubah (Ex 20) found in (Ex 21-23)in the 1st century The opposite of grace is not law it's legalism, the legalistic perversion of Torah
You have successfully lied your way through Galatians 3 & 4 by telling people that were never under the law that they were under it...even dishonestly edited your video when called out on it. Here you are...still at it.
@@MandMe91 He is very good with his eisegesis (reading into the text). This remains a far cry from using sound, basic and well established hermeneutical principles which among other things uses the actual historical context, culture and minsdet NOT from the standard Christian theological or doctrinal perspective, aka exegesis
@@mitchchapman2754 Well, the bible is a story about old Covenant Israel under law and their redemption from the curse of that law through a new covenant if grace. Not only doesn't it apply to anyone today...it literally can't apply to anyone today. No law = no curse = no redemption from a curse
Thank you for using your gift of teaching to bless the Body of Christ. I thank the Lord for your willingness to take the time to dig into Scripture with us!
Thank you so much for your knowledge of this difficult book in Galatians. I read chapter 5 many times and yet I couldn’t seem to understand it as you taught it. I understand it well now. But it won’t hurt me listen several more times. I say this because during prayer, I heard in my spirit “HE fell From grace” meaning my husband. I hope and pray that my children won’t follow the same path.
Such a valuable explanation. I try and sort scripture out for myself, but there’s always nuance
Great great teaching here Rob. Praying that the veil will be lifted from those in HRM. Loved the fact that you addressed how Spirit filled people should walk. I think to many Christians do not fully understand that we have been called to walk in holiness and may not understand that we are to be different than the world. Striving to be Christ like. Shalom
For clarification, where are the principles of holiness found
@@mitchchapman2754 For the New Covenant Law, the Law of Christ here are some good places: Matthew 5-7, Galatians 5, James 2, Revelation 22, 2 Timothy 3, 1 Corinthians 6, 1 Timothy 1, Romans 1, Colossians 3, etc. There are so many more, but as you see their is so many places where the principles of holiness could be found for those who are in Christ.
God Bless!
@@mitchchapman2754 the first 5 books of the Bible
Please pray for me. Prayers are all we truly need. Jesus I still trust in you and will keep my faith even though it is so very difficult. I’m constantly faced with financial hardships and can barely support my children. I’m a single mom With two autistic children. My husband is with God. I’m overwhelmed. My boys require a lot from me. I recently started homeschooling them due to bullying and other issues. Since they are special needs it’s easier not to expose them to certain situations because their behavior is so unpredictable. I lost my job at Forsyth hospital for declining the vaccine. I declined because of my health conditions lupus, and heart disease. Since losing my job I’ve been struggling to support my children and myself. I’m now waitressing and I’m grateful but I’m not making nearly enough. JESUS HELP me. I’m CRYING OUT TO YOU. I’m tired of struggling. Having children with autism is extremely time consuming and expensive. Struggling to buy groceries. Struggling to pay rent. It hasn’t been easy. Why me Lord? But I know God doesn’t give you more than you can handle. I know all things are possible through Jesus. I WILL KEEP FAITH. No matter how hard life gets.
May Our Lord Jesus Christ Bless you and your sons in all of your Hardships and their illness's!!! May He make a Way for you to get a Better paying job and May He Help you Financially by Him Meeting All your Needs!!!! In Jesus Mighty Name I Pray 🙏 Amen and Amen!!!!!
May FATHER in heaven and his Son bless you and be with you. I am also sick and had to stop working from an autoimmune disease. It is tough I was a registered nurse and now live on a small disability check. You were right not to get that jab. Look into all resources you can and reach out to agencies to help you with rent, electric and groceries. It was so hard for me because I had always worked. I wish I had some money to send you but I am still struggling myself. You have my prayers though
Hi Rob learning so much through these teachings such a blessing ❤️🙏
Thanks Rob. A lot of great points. It is crucial to understand that Paul did not endorse any form of perpetual observance of the ceremonial rituals of the Law of Moses. His purpose in Romans 14 and 1 Cor. 9 was to facilitate the Jewish believers' exodus from a life based upon the legalistic demands of the Law and help them embrace the freedom found in Christ in its entirety. Their weakness represents the error in thinking they continued to be attached to. To interpret these passages as granting a choice to continue observing the Law as an acceptable way of life is a misinterpretation of Paul's intention. He never contemplated such an idea because no one advocated for observance of tenets of the Law as an optional tradition, but as obligatory. ‘Permitted, but not required’ is an unfounded assumption on your part, without any Scriptural basis and should be renounced sooner rather than later.
The notion that believers in Christ have the option, but not the obligation, to observe the ceremonial Laws of Moses is an erroneous addition that deviates from Paul's Gospel and serves to frustrate the grace of God. Introducing a ‘traditional’ observance of specific elements of the Law, while attempting to detach them from their original purpose, is inconsistent with Paul's teachings. It stems from a misinterpretation of Paul's words, creating a hybrid category of Law observance that the Scriptures do not endorse, and is contrary to the spirit of the New Covenant. Paul’s words must be understood within their specific contexts and should not be extrapolated to endorse a general acceptance of ongoing adherence to the Law as a personal choice. Such a proposition must be deemed an error, carrying consequences for both its recipients and proponents.
Since the establishment of the New Covenant, which is devoid of these rituals, those antiquated practices lose their significance and become spiritually dead. Anything that is dead becomes harmful and deadly to those who continue to interact with it. This misguided approach hinders and undermines the very essence of God's grace that we are called to wholeheartedly embrace.
The letter to the Galatians strongly condemns the false teachers who sought to introduce the observance of the Mosaic Law to the Galatian believers, who had already received and embraced the Gospel of grace. The Galatians were without excuse for entertaining these false teachings, as they had experienced the freedom and liberty in Christ and should have known better.
In contrast, the passages in Romans 14 and 1 Corinthians 9 address a distinct context. Paul is specifically addressing Jewish believers who were in the process of transitioning from a life centered on the Law to embracing the freedom and grace found in Christ. In these situations, Paul demonstrates patience and understanding towards their struggles and weaker consciences regarding certain practices and observances linked to their Jewish heritage. His intention is to support their growth and enlightenment in due course.
In summary, the condemnation in Galatians applies to the false teachings of introducing the Law to believers who had already embraced grace. The passages in Romans 14 and 1 Corinthians 9 address the struggles of Jewish believers in transition. Gentile believers, however, are consistently affirmed to be free from the obligations of the Law, and adopting any practices of the Law would be a regression tantamount to their former idolatry, and something to be avoided at all cost. In hope, Steve
Thank you so much for these videos! I currently have a best friend whos in the Hebrew roots movement and your videos really help me understand the distortion of the Gospel this movement brings to believers in Jesus Christ, as well as just helping me understand the Gospel better in General! Keep up the good work (pun intended) and God bless!
Happy to help, Xave! The final video in the Galatians Bible study series launches tomorrow morning.
Blessings, Rob
@@TheBiblicalRootswhat Bible are you reading from? Just a question because some of them say in Galatians 5-19 Selfish Ambition and I wanted to know what that truly means? Does that mean about Job's, School Career or professions a person wants to achieve?
@@tiffanyhorvath7720 Hi Tiffany. I'm pretty sure I used the ESV for this Bible Study series.
Rob
Thank you so much, Rob.
Powerful stuff Rob
Mysticism of any kind including kabbalah is forbidden in the Word of God. God people should never participate in it. Mystical methods to interpret scripture is not the way God intended for His Word to be understood. It will lead to faulty conclusions.
@@freedominchrist444 what are you on about Kabbalah never heard of it.
I was responding to the HR man who was sharing about the kabbalistic method of interpreting scripture so popular in HRM. Kabbalah is Jewish mysticism. Its also popular in HRM.
Just discovered you today and am really enjoying the first few videos that I've come to. Though you explain the life in the Spirit vs the law extremely well, if you could properly sum up how to ensure that we're truly walking by the Spirit (and not mixing our own self-effort of trying to be holy or trying to figure out right and wrong in our own flesh--which I have done before), how would you state it? Hopefully in a way that's thorough enough while still being succinct, simple enough to follow.
Thank you
There's an old teaching that used to be in many Pentecostal churches that at a point in time a person was sanctified and never to sin again. It was based on a distortion of the Wesleyan doctrine of entire sanctification. From what I understand, that teaching is no longer taught in mainstream Pentecostalism anymore. I'm a Pentecostal (Trinitarian) myself.
Galatians 5:13 (ESV): 13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
Nailed it.
Galatians is so great.
Hi rob so what im getting is thay had received jesus then started going back to things of the old covenant? He said what happend you guys yallnwere doing good now you guys are going backwards ?
Hi, Pricilla. Yes, exactly. The author of Hebrews doesn't specifically tell us what what going on with his readers. But because of nature and context of his comments, it seems Jewish believers in Jesus, like those to whom this letter was written, were experiencing ever-increasing friction and even persecution on two fronts. First from the Jewish community, as Jesus had warned (John 15:18-16:4). Because they confessed faith in Him, they were being persecuted and put out of the synagogues by their fellow Jews. And second, they were being persecuted by the Romans. Remember, Judaism was allowed in the pagan Roman Empire, whereas Christianity at that time was deemed _religio illicita,_ an illegal religion. So a lot of their problems would have been solved if they left Jesus behind, or at least worshipped Him in secret, and outwardly returned to Judaism and the temple and the priesthood and so on. And that’s why we see this extended discussion in Hebrews about the superiority of Jesus and the New Covenant in all those areas.
Blessings,
RLS
In order for the list in gal 5:19 to apply to a believer the law would have to apply. Isn't the 10 commandments the law thou shall not? God doesn't see these sins in the believer he sees them in those under the law. No believer is living in such things
Rob- Thanks for the great content! I'm hoping you can clarify a question I have. If the Mosaic law was a tutor to bring the Israelites to Christ, but Gentiles are not under that tutor, what (as Gentiles) brings us to Christ? Is it the moral law of God (summarized in the 10 commandments) that is written on our conscience?
Thanks, Tyler! What brings us to Christ is the Holy Spirit He sent on this very day in the 1st century: Pentecost. And as we read the Torah, we can see how it (and the rest of the OT) has always been pointing to Jesus and revealing our need for a Savior.
Blessings, Rob
The 10 Commandments are the summary of the ketubah (Marriage contract) entered into by a mixed multitude of people groups who Moses led out of Egypt during the historical Exodus. This group comprised of Jews and Gentiles received the Torah at Sinai (Ex 19) which was the wedding ceremony. Exodus 21-23 are the details of the ketubah. ALL of Torah is written in our minds and upon our hearts. It's the Ruach Hakodesh that wrote Torah on circumcised hearts
Doesn't the bible teach that each person will be judged according to their deeds/works?
Great channel!! Just casually reading Acts and came across this. Isn’t this proof that we are not under the law and grip of the Old Testament?! Keep up the good fight! Acts 6:11-15 NKJV
Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.” And they stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes; and they came upon him, seized him, and brought him to the council. They also set up false witnesses who said, “This man does not cease to speak blasphemous words against this holy place and the law; for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs which Moses delivered to us.” And all who sat in the council, looking steadfastly at him, saw his face as the face of an angel.
Thanks, TW! Actually, the thing that jumped out at me in that passage is that the men who said Jesus taught against Moses were "secretly induced" to say that. And that they "set up false witnesses." In other words, they were lying. Jesus never taught against Moses or God. This is what Jesus said Himself, "I have not come to abolish the law or the prophets, but to fulfill them" (Matt 5:17). And the difference between "abolish" and "fulfill" is huge!
Blessings, Rob
@@TheBiblicalRoots Thank you!🙏
For clarification what is your definition of under the law?
ANTILAW GOSPEL IS THE GOSPEL OF THE TEMPTER FIRST PREACHED BY THE SERPENT TO EVER THAT RUINED ADAM AND EVE
BOTH THE TEMPTED AND THE TEMPTED WHO CHOSE TO SIN AGAINST GOD YEHOVAH BY FOLLOWING THE REBELLION OF THE TEMPTER IS TRADE PF THE LAW OF GOD YEHOVAH SHALL BE JUDGED BY GOD YEHOVAH THE RIGHTEOUS KING, JUDGE AND LAWGIVER
Isaiah 33:22 ASV
For Jehovah is our judge, Jehovah is our lawgiver, Jehovah is our king; he will save us.
Isaiah 8:13,16,20 ASV
Jehovah of hosts, him shall ye sanctify; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. [16] Bind thou up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. [20] To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
Isaiah 42:8,21 ASV
I am Jehovah, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise unto graven images. [21] It pleased Jehovah, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.
Deuteronomy 6:4,24-25 ASV
Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah: [24] And Jehovah commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Jehovah our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as at this day. [25] And it shall be righteousness unto us, if we observe to do all this commandment before Jehovah our God, as he hath commanded us.
Jeremiah 29:11-13 ASV
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end. [12] And ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. [13] And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
Genesis 2:16-17 ASV
And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: [17] but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Genesis 3:1-6,8-24 ASV
Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden? [2] And the woman said unto the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat: [3] but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. [4] And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: [5] for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil. [6] And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. [8] And they heard the voice of Jehovah God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Jehovah God amongst the trees of the garden. [9] And Jehovah God called unto the man, and said unto him, Where art thou? [10] And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. [11] And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? [12] And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. [13] And Jehovah God said unto the woman, What is this thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. [14] And Jehovah God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, cursed art thou above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: [15] and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. [16] Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. [17] And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; [18] thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; [19] in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. [20] And the man called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. [21] And Jehovah God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins, and clothed them. [22] And Jehovah God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever- [23] therefore Jehovah God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. [24] So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
Deuteronomy 11:1,26-28 ASV
Therefore thou shalt love Jehovah thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, alway. [26] Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: [27] the blessing, if ye shall hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I command you this day; [28] and the curse, if ye shall not hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.
Deuteronomy 30:11-20 ASV
For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not too hard for thee, neither is it far off. [12] It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it? [13] Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it? [14] But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. [15] See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; [16] in that I command thee this day to love Jehovah thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that thou mayest live and multiply, and that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in the land whither thou goest in to possess it. [17] But if thy heart turn away, and thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; [18] I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish; ye shall not prolong your days in the land, whither thou passest over the Jordan to go in to possess it. [19] I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed; [20] to love Jehovah thy God, to obey his voice, and to cleave unto him; for he is thy life, and the length of thy days; that thou mayest dwell in the land which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 ASV
This is the end of the matter; all hath been heard: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man. [14] For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Rob, Gal 5:11 Paul was persecuted because the gospel seemed to be a licence to sin, and Peter was an example of someone under grace who sinned, which was seen by the circumcision as a sinner. Paul does not dismiss the law of righteousness, but it must be by faith and love not letter, which as today people abuse their freedom as the law remained written in their hearts. So they must not sin as love will not permit sin, but those who sin and are not held to account, are back under the law of sin and death. Not as you imply that you are still saved, so you do preach grace us a licence to sin which has NOT been paid for on the Cross, but a matter of Justification.
Obviously the Pharisees thought that their rituals and sacrifices did atone for sins, which makes them hypocrites as they preached against sin, but sinned themselves.
Anyone who thinks Paul taught the same things Jesus taught doesn't read their bible. Paul contradicts Jesus and God both numerous times.
Rob, please consider these excerpts from William Kelly:
“Jewish elements were borne within a Jew. The apostle Paul himself, in Romans 14:1-23, insists upon the forbearance of a Gentile even towards the Jew that might be still encumbered by his days, meats, and so on. But the moment a Gentile takes the system up, or a Jew presses it on a Gentile, it is nothing but downright heathenism.
Do not suppose that idolatry has its character saved because Jesus is worshipped. Christianity refuses to be mingled with anything but itself. Tender and comprehensive as Christianity is, it is also the most exclusive thing that can be. Truth must necessarily be exclusive, and all who hold the truth must, in their adhesion to it and Him who is its personal expression, be exclusive too. (I mean by this, of course, exclusive of sin and falsehood.)
Now the Galatians were unwittingly in danger of giving up the truth. They were only, as they supposed, beginning to cherish a becoming attitude toward the religion of the fathers, and of all who had before Christ honoured God on earth. Venerable religion! the only system of earthly worship which had ever possessed God's sanction. Why not adopt what was wanting in Christianity? Where was the harm of taking up what saints of old submitted to? No, rejoins the apostle; you are going back to heathenism.
This is the very evil which the Spirit of God so earnestly and energetically denounces here by the apostle Paul. He does not charge them with anything of an openly gross or immoral nature; but what a proof that the truth of God, that the grace of Christ, is exclusive of everything but itself! Nor is there a greater evidence of God's tender and considerate care for us than such a fact as this. For He knows our tendency to mingle law with grace in some form or measure, and treats that which was of the fathers and long before Moses, as a foreign ingredient deleterious to Christians. As God has wrought for us on the cross, and delivered us from every atom of sin in Christ, so He will not allow us to mix one earthly or legal element with the revelation of His grace, which He has made ours in redemption, and proclaimed to us by the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven.”
Kelly Commentary on Books of the Bible (Galatians)
For clarification, does Kelly in his Galatians Commentary properly understand the issue in Chapter 1? Not a few many Christian commentators including @RLSolberg do not
Being saved by faith alone, not by works and obeying YHWH's Commandments once we are saved. I would love for all to come to this understanding!
If you have this understanding already, take the time to pray for your love ones who don't get it yet.
If you try to keep the law to be justified or to try and save yourself you are cutting yourself off from Christ. That is the true summary of what Paul is saying in Galatians 5:1.
What is definitely NOT being taught here is, once you are saved by faith alone, you should stop obeying God's Law. That would mean Paul is contradicting the rest of scripture, Jesus and himself.
Romans 2:13 "For is is not those who hear the law who are righteousness in God's sight, but those who obey the Iaw who will be declared righteous."
And to crystallize this point Jesus says in Luke 11:28 "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it."
If you want to be saved, it is by faith alone not by works or by trying to keep the law because you won't be able to keep it perfectly. Jesus's Righteousness is how we are Saved not ours.
Once you accept this gift of salvation and you want to please Our Father, so that things will go well for you and be blessed, obey His commandments.
I would be careful accusing people of teaching "cheap grace." The apostle Paul was accused of the same thing just because he taught salvation by grace through faith. I think that term is thrown out there very carelessly and can give a false message of the Gospel.
You say that if you keep the law of Moses here you are making Christ of no value to you. Yet you have said that if our Torah following brothers and sisters want to keep it that's okay. Are you not understanding Galatians correctly or just getting confused?
Hi, K. What I've said elsewhere is that keeping the Mosaic traditions (kosher diet, seventh-day Sabbath, Torah feasts) is permitted but not required. Blessings, RLS
@@TheBiblicalRoots permitted?...But then Christ is no value to you? I don't see how you equate that as permitted? I would love for you to explain this on one of your videos and see what the viewers think.
Hi again Ron, my comments weren't friendly so I apologize. I am taking out some anger on you because my brother is blindly listening to you without reading the bible for himself. I shouldn't be angry with you but with him.
Anyway, do you see how what you are saying isn't consistant. Permitted but then Christ is of no value to you. That isn't permitted unless you don't care about Jesus
The way I understand Galatians 5 is if you try to do works to be JUSTIFIED then you are making Christ of no value. That seems to make more sense then what you seem to say, if you try and follow His commandments out of obedience you are being cut off from Christ.
@@k.miller5015 This is something I've explained in a number of my videos. The idea of "permitted but not required" is found in a number of NT passages including Colossians 2:16-17, Romans 14:1-4, and this one:
"To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings." (1 Cor. 9:20-23)
Shalom, RLS
@@TheBiblicalRoots Hi Ron, I understand your interpretation of those verses and that you believe and teach if you want to keep the Torah that's fine, but we are not required to. But in this video your teaching takes a turn from, "it's okay if you want to" to if you keep Torah you are cut off from Christ. Do you understand that you are not being consistant in what you are saying?
Once you are able to see the inconsistency, then hopefully you can see that Paul is
simply saying if you keep the Torah to be try JUSTIFIED then you are trying to ADD to the gift of salvation making it no value to you. What Paul is not saying here is, don't obey the Torah at all. That would be reading into the text what simply is not there.
Paul does not argue against the Judaizers, he argues against the likes of Peter who treat grace as licence to sin, the same argument as in Hebrews. Accepting circumcision is to reject Christ who can deliver forgiveness of sins, an argument not accepted by the circumcision as any sin required sacrifice to them, but in Christ Peter has to admit and repent his sin. Peter upset Paul as he hid his sin, and upset the circumcision as he broke the 10 commandments.
In the Mosaic law, or law of Christ God's law must be kept perfectly, because if you love you cannot sin, but you must own you sin and repent to stay under grace. Faith works by love, because by love you cannot sin.
Pretty sure the Apostle Peter didn't treat Grace as a license to sin. Oh, and it was Paul who brought this issue to Jerusalem - Acts 15:5 But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses.” ==== You seem confused, the law of Moses is NOT the law of Christ. Do you listen to David Wilber. he teaches those same Lies.
Peter treats grace as a license to sin? What new and wondrous theological discoveries will our Bible-reading Protestant friends come up with next?
@@salpezzino7803 Paul did not preach grace as a licence to sin, but many thought they could. Peter sinned and was admonished by Paul, as Gal 6:1-10.
Paul wrote Romans due to backsliding into sin, as he said the law did not go butust be written on their hearts, circumcision of the heart.
The law of Abraham is the law of Christ. Which is the law of righteousness written on your heart.
Check this reply before you imply that I lie.
@@billyhw5492 Peter was found commiting sin, and Paul helped bear his burden by calling him out. This was in Jerusalem, but Paul used the example of Peter as many were backsliding into sin, because they did not understand the law had to be written on their hearts, ie it still existed that they use not sin.
@@simonskinner1450 News Flash - Everyone sins. But Jesus. 1 Corinthians 1:9For I am the least of the apostles and am unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them-yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
Jeremiah chapter 17 v9 who knows the complexity of human beings. Your pope or pastor or apologist's. Theological arguments but does it answer the question for Jeremiah 17v 9.
The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately sick;
who can understand it?
-Jeremiah 17:9
Jer 17:9 is speaking of someone who turns from YaH. Man has a choice.
“Thus says Adonai: “Cursed is the one who trusts in man, and depends on flesh as his arm, and whose heart turns from Adonai.”
Jeremiah 17:5
@@TonyPino777Yeshuasaves no we all have sinned and the old covenant only covered sin,not cleaneth us from it.jesus said " blessed are the pure in heart, only jesus sacrifice can do that.
@@frederickanderson1860 I never said we don’t sin. There are people called righteous in the TaNaK. They can’t be called righteous and yet have a constant wicked heart. They walked in a pure heart when they obeyed YaH and a wicked heart when they sinned. Man has the ability to choose (Deut 30:11-14). Man has the ability to repent and turn. I agree the blood of Yeshua purifies us from our defilement.
@@TonyPino777Yeshuasaves the high priest offered once a year sacrifice for all the people of Israel. Jesus offered himself and the temple veil rent from top to bottom, that all can enter into the holy of holies. No divide between the high priests or the common people anymore. Moses himself endured 40 yrs in Midian & 40 yrs in wilderness journey. He seen the glory of God and was the people's deliverer,yet he made one mistake,he struck the Rock twice, and he was told to speak to the Rock,he was not allowed to cross over to the land.
The Hebrew Roots Movement.. rejects Paul’s Gospel.
Paul's gospel is Jesus's Gospel, and they reject the Entire NEW COVENANT
For clarification What is Paul's Gospel?
For clarification, "Paul's" gospel was only 7 words: In you all families will be saved! Therefore, I ask you on what do you base your statement? I'm not part of the Hebrew Roots Movement.
@salpezzino7803 yeah right. Maybe his counterfeit jesus gospel
We don’t actually! We love Paul. Paul defends Torah. Paul constantly corrects man made doctrine and he corrects trying to earn salvation through law keeping (the curse of the law is keeping it WITHOUT the testimony of Yeshua) Yah wants our hearts and then our obedience. We don’t reject Paul. We don’t reject Messiah and we are not trying to earn our salvation but we delight in following our Fathers instructions
Rob continues to argue an argument Paul didn’t argue. Paul doesn’t argue the circumcision party believes one must do the Law of Moshe to earn salvation. No Jews believed this in the first century. Keeping the law of Moshe was and is for already redeemed people.
Paul is dealing with the national covenant pride of the Pharisees. One is righteous by way of the mark of physical circumcision through their oral traditions. One becomes bound to their man-made means of salvation. For they nullified the word of YaH through their traditions. YaH always demands salvation by faith. He never demanded salvation by circumcision for Avraham is the example.
Thanks, Mr. Branches. I hear what you’re saying and understand the distinction you’re making. And I agree that Yahweh has always brought salvation through faith, not by the law.
As you know, to be justified is to be declared righteous, which means we are absolved from the penalty of sin (Romans 3:23; 8:1; 1 Peter 2:24) and restored to God’s favor, which was lost due to our sin (John 3:36). And justification is an essential part of salvation. Can one be declared righteous in God’s eyes (justified) but not be saved? Or conversely, can one be saved but not declared righteous? Salvation and justification are separate theological concepts, but they are conjoined in the same saving mechanism: it is by faith in Christ that we are both saved _and_ justified. When we come to faith in Jesus, we are saved and justified all at the same time!
This means those who lived prior to Jesus were ultimately saved by a faith that looked forward to Jesus and were not fully absolved of their sins until Jesus arrived. Paul talks about this when he writes that Jesus was “put forward as a propitiation (atoning sacrifice) by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness because *in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins”* (Rom 3:25). And the author of Hebrews teaches that the death of Jesus redeemed those who are called “from the transgressions committed under the first covenant” (Heb 9:15).
The false teachers in Galatia argued that one can be made right before God (justified) through circumcision and other Mosaic rituals, which to a first-century Jew who did not yet understand what the death of Christ accomplished, was indistinguishable from being “saved.” So, yes, in a very real sense, Paul *_is_* arguing that we aren’t made right with God or saved through circumcision or any other Mosaic rituals.
“Yet we know that a person is *not justified by works of the law* but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and *not by works of the law,* because *by works of the law no one will be justified.”* (2:16)
“For *all who rely on works of the law are under a curse”* (3:10)
“Now it is evident that *no one is justified before God by the law”* (3:11)
“You are severed from Christ, you who would be *justified by the law”* (5:4)
He teaches the same thing a few years later in his letter to the churches in Rome:
“For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight” (Rom 3:20)
“For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law” (Rom 3:28)
Blessings, Rob
Thank you Rob for the respond and the article you wrote on your webpage concerning my comment. Here is my response to your comment and article. Blessings.
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@@TonyPino777Yeshuasaves your video is a great example of a circular argument presupposing YOUR view without evidence solely based on an ultra conservative sect of Jews at Qumran who didn’t even believe that Israel was keeping the feasts on the correct days because their calendar is wrong makes Christ into a false messiah, secondly you used the same article to presuppose Ignatius of Antioch was using Judiazing according to YOUR definition with no evidence other then your presuppositional view, while ignore other sources like the Epsitle of Barnabas and Justin Martyr that clearly show Ignatius was holding to what YOU call an “anachronistic” interpretation 🤣🤣🤦🏼♂️
Circumcision as its known today has NEVER been required for salvation.
The Circumcision at issue in Galatians, which Rob continually misses and therefore creates a strawman, is going through the proselyte conversion process to become Jewish.
The "another gospel" Paul is astonished, amazed, marvels, shocked and or wonders about (Gal 1:6) is exactly this!
Understanding this important fact eliminates all of the confusion perpetuated in the Western Christian Church that has gone on for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years.
Shame on you Rob for not using proper hermeneutics. You should know better!
Hi, Mitch. Circumcision was not only part of the proselyte conversion to become Jewish, it was also required under the law of Moses. But it’s not required anymore, says Paul.
RLS
Neither one of you were ever under the law or redeemed from its curse.
@@TheBiblicalRoots It was NEVER required for salvation! This is the issue you miss because it was the legalistic perversion of Torah that astonished, amazed, shocked, marveled, wondered, surprised Shaul (Gal 1:6) caused by the Influencers NOT Judaizers, that were perverting, twisting, distorting, changing the Gospel of the Kingdom aka how to enter into covenant (1:7). Also, the Influencers were a combination of Gentiles already in Covenant. Some through converting to Judaism, via circumcision, others not circumcised and Jews. Late Shaul writes in Eph 2:8-10
8. What we are saved by (Grace)
9. What we are not saved by (works, legalism)
10. What we are saved for (good works of Torah, the details of the Ketubah (Ex 20) found in (Ex 21-23)in the 1st century
The opposite of grace is not law it's legalism, the legalistic perversion of Torah
@@MandMe91 Your comment is directed to whom?
@@mitchchapman2754
You and Solberg
You have successfully lied your way through Galatians 3 & 4 by telling people that were never under the law that they were under it...even dishonestly edited your video when called out on it.
Here you are...still at it.
For clarification, to whom is your comment directed?
@@mitchchapman2754
To whom made the video
@@MandMe91 He is very good with his eisegesis (reading into the text). This remains a far cry from using sound, basic and well established hermeneutical principles which among other things uses the actual historical context, culture and minsdet NOT from the standard Christian theological or doctrinal perspective, aka exegesis
@@mitchchapman2754
Well, the bible is a story about old Covenant Israel under law and their redemption from the curse of that law through a new covenant if grace.
Not only doesn't it apply to anyone today...it literally can't apply to anyone today.
No law = no curse = no redemption from a curse