(Originally published July 11, 2020)
“There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way of death” (Prov. 16:25). There is the “seeming way” and the way of truth, and woe to the soul that cannot discern the difference! The spiritual danger here is that there is a way that seems right; as if all is well, and yet it leads to death… O the dread of ever hearing: “I never knew you (לֹא יָדַעְתִּי אתה); depart from me you who practice lawlessness” (Matt. 7:23).
It is lawlessness (ἀνομία) to reject the Torah of God that commands us to follow Messiah and know him in all our ways – including the ways of our struggles, our calls for justice, and so on… “Justice, justice you shall pursue” (צֶדֶק צֶדֶק תִּרְדּף) implies that any means to justice must be just themselves. Indeed Yeshua plainly warned us that those who willfully reject moral sense do not know him and therefore will be judged as outsiders of the truth of God. The way of the LORD (דֶּרֶךְ יְהוָה) is “to show mercy and judgment (Gen. 18:19). Amen. “If you know that He is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness (πᾶς ὁ ποιῶν τὴν δικαιοσύνην) has been born of him” (1 John 2:29).
As Yeshua plainly testified before Pilate: “For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world — to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice” (John 18:37). “Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the Tree of Life and that they may enter the city by the gates. Outside are all those who love and practice the lie…” (Rev. 22:14-15).
In this audio podcast (from 2020 at the outset of the Antifa and BLM violence in the USA), I discuss the meaning and importance of the “law” in the life of those who purport to be followers of the Messiah:
Hebrew Lesson:
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