Here goes installment #2 of What Jesus Ever Said
We’ve seen the funny memes of “Things Jesus Never Said”.
But what about the things He really did say?
I’m thinking that is more important, right?
I’ll be posting things our Messiah, Yeshua, really did say.
Please compare them to what you have been taught.
What will you do if they don’t match?
Let’s take a look at John 14:15 and John 14:21 today. Both are direct quotes of your Messiah:
“If you love Me, keep My commandments.”
and
“He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me.”
We all know what He means here.
Obviously, He is speaking about the two greatest commands, right?
Well, not so fast.
We are given the two greatest commands (another direct quote of Yeshua) in Matthew 22:37-39
37 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
There you have it. Two new generic commands to follow in the Era of Jesus. Each one of us gets to decide how to love God and how to love our neighbor in our own way, since He didn’t give us any detailed instructions.
Simple and easy, just the way we like it.
Well, like I said, not so fast…
Let’s look at these verses in context.
Here is the whole conversation, including verses 34-40
34 But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35 Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”
37 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
OK, let’s slow down and take a good look at what is going on here.
1. Verse 36 tells us that a Pharisee lawyer was specifically asking Yeshua (Jesus) a question about the law, about the Torah.
This alone tells us that Yeshua was not creating generic New Testament doctrine. He is simply referring to the words of the Father in the Torah instructions, commonly referred to as ‘the law”.
2. In case we get confused about this concept, Yeshua (Jesus) clarifies for us exactly what He is saying in verse 40.
He indicates He is simply paraphrasing the Law and the Prophets.
What is the Law? It is God’s instructions to those who choose to follow Him. Yehova (God) said His instructions are perpetual, everlasting, never ending, and for all generations.
What did the Prophets teach us? Every single prophet taught the wayward people to turn back to Torah and follow the instructions of the Father.
If that is the case, we should be able to find the Two Greatest Commandments in the Torah (the Law) and the Prophets, right?
Check this out:
Deuteronomy 6:5
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
Deuteronomy 11:1
“Therefore you shall love the Lord your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always.
Deuteronomy 13:1-4
“If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, 2 and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other gods’—which you have not known—‘and let us serve them,’ 3 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice; you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him.
OK, what about the Second?
Check out Leviticus 19:18
“…but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.”
and
Zechariah 8:17
Let none of you think evil in your heart against your neighbor;
And do not love a false oath.
For all these are things that I hate,’
Says the Lord.”
Ahhh, so am I saying the Two Greatest Commandments are not new doctrine, but are simply what we are taught in The Law and The Prophets?
No, I am not saying that.
Your Creator and your Messiah are saying that.
Will you listen to Them?
Will you believe Them?
Will you follow Them?
Will you love Them?
And just in case you don’t think this applies after the Death, Burial, and Resurrection, your Messiah said this in Revelation, referring to future times:
Rev 22:14
Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city.
And your Messiah describes His saints in Revelation 14:12
Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
And your Messiah said this in Matthew 24, regarding future end times:
Matthew 24:20
And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath.
Why would He mention the Sabbath for future end times, if He didn’t expect people to be keeping the Sabbath, just as we are told in the 4th of the 10 Commandments?
And your Savior said this in the Great Commission:
Matthew 28:18-20
18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
Be sure to not forget about verse 20.
Messiah expects us to teach everyone to observe all that He commanded…
And this is obviously referring to post resurrection future times.
Do you hear your Savior speaking?
Can you hear what He is saying?
Does it match what you have been taught?
Does it match what you believe?
Does it match what you practice?
By the way, some people teach and believe that the Torah instructions, The Law, is only for Jewish people.
Let’s debunk that idea.
Exodus 12:49
“One law shall be for the native-born and for the stranger who dwells among you.”
and Leviticus 24:22
“You shall have the same law for the stranger and for one from your own country; for I am the Lord your God.”
and Numbers 15:15-16
One ordinance shall be for you of the assembly and for the stranger who dwells with you, an ordinance forever throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the stranger be before the Lord. 16 One law and one custom shall be for you and for the stranger who dwells with you.
Check out Galatians 3:29
And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
And check out Romans 11 about being grafted into the nation of Israel if you are a believer in Messiah:
I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying, 3 “Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life”? 4 But what does the divine response say to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” 5 Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace. 6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace.[c] But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
7 What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded. 8 Just as it is written:
“God has given them a spirit of stupor,
Eyes that they should not see
And ears that they should not hear,
To this very day.”
9 And David says:
“Let their table become a snare and a trap,
A stumbling block and a recompense to them.
10 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see,
And bow down their back always.”
11 I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles. 12 Now if their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!
13 For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, 14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and save some of them. 15 For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
16 For if the first fruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches. 17 And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, 18 do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.
19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.” 20 Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. 22 Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness,[f] if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off. 23 And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. 24 For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. 26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written:
“The Deliverer will come out of Zion,
And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;
27 For this is My covenant with them,
When I take away their sins.”
28 Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. 29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. 30 For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience, 31 even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy. 32 For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.
33 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!
34 “For who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has become His counselor?”
35 “Or who has first given to Him
And it shall be repaid to him?”
36 For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen.
The Old Testament tells us the law (Torah Instruction from God Himself) is for both the genetic descendents of Israel, as well as for the foreigner among them.
The New Testament tells us that if we are believers in Messiah, then we are grafted into the nation of Israel, and that we are Abraham’s seed, and heirs to the promise.
If you didn’t know this before now, welcome to the Nation of Israel.
Not the geo-political arrangement established by the UN in 1948, but to the nation of Israel described in scripture.
The people of YHWH.
Links to other articles in this series:
Top shelf!!!
Which is to be expected ….Yeshua only spoke of Heavenly Truths from the Father’s mouth.
Highest quality words that don’t change even when we say they do : )
Blessings FJ
Wow! Another Great teaching! Thank you for sharing! Shalom!
Thank you Deana.
Thanks for taking time to learn what our Messiah said to us!!
Good stuff!