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Monthly Archives: February 2020
Good Fruit
Many of us have come out of Christianity and are learning Torah.
We are learning the Words and the Ways of the Father.
This is a good thing.
It seems that we wiped our slates clean and started over in our knowledge and our doctrine.
Again, this is a good thing.
But now it is time to return to New Testament study, and to understand and apply it in accordance with what we learned in Torah.
If I speak with the tongues of men and of messengers, but do not have love, I have become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophecy, and know all secrets and all knowledge, and if I have all belief, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am none at all. And if I give out all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but do not have love, I am not profited at all. Love is patient, is kind, love does not envy, love does not boast, is not puffed up, does not behave indecently, does not seek its own, is not provoked, reckons not the evil, does not rejoice over the unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth, it covers all, believes all, expects all, endures all. Love never fails. And whether there be prophecies, they shall be inactive; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be inactive. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part shall be inactive. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child. But when I became a man, I did away with childish matters. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know, as I also have been known. And now belief, expectation, and love remain – these three. But the greatest of these is love.
Qorintiyim Aleph (1 Corinthians) 13:1
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustworthiness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no Torah. And those who are of Messiah have impaled the flesh with its passions and the desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
Galatiyim (Galatians) 5
It is time to embrace these scriptures again, but building upon the foundation of Torah instead faulty mainstream Christian doctrine.
As I said yesterday, there is a great deal of rotten fruit in Torah community, all in the name of chasing after the truth.
Yes, please continue seeking truth in study and prayer, but without the bad fruit of arguments and fighting, dividing from fellowship, rejection of family and friends, unfriending and blocking.
If someone has gone down a wonky path, show them what you have learned in scripture.
But don’t try to force it on them.
If they don’t “get it” pray for them and continue to be kind.
Don’t allow bad fruit to be what you see when you look on the path behind you.
Rotten Fruit
Again…
Some people are not getting it.
“So then, by their fruits you shall know them –
Mattithyahu (Matthew) 7:20
Have you evaluated your fruit?
Will people know you belong to Messiah by the way you treat them?
Do you argue and debate the Word, expecting others to believe as you do?
Or do you share what you’ve learned and let others consider it, without trying to decide for them?
Do you get frustrated or even angry because someone doesn’t adopt your way of thinking?
Do you cut people out of your life in real life?
Do you unfriend and block people on social media?
I could go on and on.
It took me a long time to learn this lesson, and I’m hoping others will as well.
Please check your fruit.
There is a lot of rotten fruit in Torah community.
And I humbly apologize to anyone if I’ve showed you bad fruit over the last several years.
Yes, truth is truth.
Don’t compromise what you read in scripture.
But don’t leave a path of rotten fruit because of it.
Words of Messiah
Words of Messiah:
“Therefore, whatever you wish men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Torah and the Prophets.”
Mattithyahu (Matthew) 7:12 TS2009
https://bible.com/bible/316/mat.7.12.TS2009
“So then, by their fruits you shall know them –
Mattithyahu (Matthew) 7:20 TS2009
https://bible.com/bible/316/mat.7.20.TS2009
“A renewed command I give to you, that you love one another, as I have loved you, that you also love one another. “By this shall all know that you are My taught ones, if you have love for one another.”
Yoḥanan (John) 13:34-35 TS2009
https://bible.com/bible/316/jhn.13.34-35.TS2009