What Do We Miss?

I have been having somewhat of a dilemma lately, I have been wondering and contemplating on why most people place so much emphasis on formal Education.

As I have been looking into many aspects of this it has come to my attention that in Paul’s letter to the Church in Philippi Chapter 3 he makes a compelling argument over Formal Education vs. Knowledge of Torah and what it means to be educated in the following of the Lord’s directions.
Verse 6 concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. The Law that Paul is referring to is the Oral Laws along with the Torah Laws. A good example of how he was unable to separate the two.
8) Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ
9) and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith

The statements Paul makes here are very telling about his feelings towards the Education he had received. In his formal training he was taught that there is no separation between the Oral Laws (Talmud) and the Torah (Written Laws). Much like it is taught to this day when obtaining a formal Jewish Education that there is not separation between the Written and Oral Laws.
In the absence of the Temple Jewish Culture today takes it’s directions from the Oral Law (Talmud). A Rabbinical set of Directions based on the Oral Law (Talmud) which is a derived set of instructions based on mans interpretations of the Written Law (Torah).

If we look back on the argument Paul had with Peter and John in Acts over circumcision he portrays this same way of thinking, it is not the law that makes a man righteous but his actions. Let us look back at the people of Israel in the desert the only thing the Lord asked of them was to follow his directions faithfully. First of all let’s look at why they were required to walk the desert for 40 years. Moses sends out 12 spies and they report back to him that the land is filled with people who will destroy them. So this is the first place where the people loose faith in God. He has just brought them out of bondage from Egypt and they still question his power. So they are forced to wonder the desert till that whole generation is gone, then a faithful new generation one who has lived a life solely dependant on God, are now allowed to enter into the promised land.

In the end of Verse 9 Paul admits that our righteousness can only be found through our Faithfulness to God.

Let’s look at Peter and John now. Not Pharisees fishermen by trade, Jewish men who had been raised in the word of Torah. To me these men represent the generation allowed to enter the Promised Land a generation who had faith in God and followed his directions through Torah.

When Jesus is questioned about the greatest commandment his answer was to Love the Lord your God with all you heart, this is a direction found in Deuteronomy 6.5. He also instructs them to Love thy Neighbor as thy self. Another direction found in Torah Why do we not see these as necessary directions we need to be following? The Torah is God’s directions for our lives we don’t have the right to pick and choose which ones we will follow and which to disallow.

A good example of this might be the story of the men who were about to stone the women, Jesus’ response was let he who is without sin cast the first stone, all then left. So the Torah tells us to stone those who commit a sin against the Torah, yet how do we follow through on these directions if we are yet sinful? I think the point Jesus made was a perfect example of literally following the Torah, how do we humans condemn others when we are sinful ourselves. Condemnation is God’s and his alone. God set out Guidelines for us to follow, and in our sinful nature he has given us a way to seek his forgiveness for our actions towards others.

So I leave you with these questions today. What do you Miss if you accept the Torah and God’s direction contained within the Torah as rubbish and follow Paul’s logic that in Jesus the Law is complete? Do you know what the Disciples knew pertaining to what a Sin Sacrifice was in a Jewish persons Life?


Are you trusting God in Faith and doing as he has instructed in Torah?


The Lord Bless you and protect you!
The Lord deal kindly and graciously with you!
The Lord bestow His favor upon you and grant you peace!

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