Are Messianic Jews and Christians Brethren? David Field August 26, 2011
Many Messianic Jews just think they are brethren to Christians because they cling to the same savior, and they even will visit Christian churches. Some of them are converted Othodox Jewish, and have taken their own religion and added the Messiah to it. But does claiming the same savior make us all brethren? Does claiming a thing with your mouth, or living it make it so? What does the son of Yahwah, Yahshua the Messiah have to say about it?
Matthew 12:50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
Christians label those that keep the Torah legalists for clinging to the instruction of Yahwah. Calling those that keep the law legalists is calling themselves illegalists.
Revelation 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the Torah, and the faith of Yahshua.
Matthew 10 34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. 35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Matthew 7 21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. 24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
Luke 6:46 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
It is foolishness to cry about division in the body when one is not in the body. Christianity is not the bride. There has always been but one bride, Israel, and all are called to join. There are not two ways to the father, one for jews, and one for gentiles. Yahshua said he came to separate. The goats will be separated from the sheep. Only one group fits all this description from the lips of the Messiah, Christianity. The Messiah was prophesying about Christians in Matthew 7.
Yahshua did not come to earth to start another religion called the greek name of Christianity. Yahshua was a Torah observant Jew, and told all to follow him. Following implies a destination. Yahshua came to do the will of the father. He was calling us back to the fold of His father, not just unto himself. In the false religion of Christianity, as the name implies, the journey stops at the cross. There is no following the Torah, the instruction of Yahwah. There is no enduring to the end. It is all grace. Grace replaces the law of Yahwah? It is through grace that he brings us the Torah, which are His ways. Yahshua not only gave us instruction verbally, which was identical to the word of the father in the Torah, he lived it out throughout his life on earth. We are to strive to do as he did. Christianity puts forth the argument that because he hadn’t been to the cross as yet he had to observe the law. This is simply not true, and a cop out excuse to practice lawlessness.
James 2:20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
Mathew 5 17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. 19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
It is a twisting of scripture to say the word “fulfill” means “do away with”. The Greek word for fulfill is “pleroo” meaning to add ones self to, or to agree with. Yahshua was putting forth two diametrically opposing views, destroy and keep. He did not say, “I am not come to destroy, but to do away with.” Destroy is to do away with.
It would be blessing your journey to outer darkness and death if I were to give you the ok to stay in Babylon. Keeping the peace would only serve to help kill you in the end. It’s not always nice to be nice. Everyone wants others to like them, but true love puts your salvation above personal comfort. Come out of Babylon.
The Apostle Paul explains you don’t have to have Jewish blood to become part of the body of the Messiah. You will not longer be a gentile, which means without covenant. Yu will be Israel, with covenant and with Torah. Now every instruction given to Israel will be instruction to you. What an honor to have such blessing. With the following of His instruction comes blessing beyond belief.
John 15 1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
Romans 11 17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; 18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. 19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in. 20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: 21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. 22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of Yahwah: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. 23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for Yahwah is able to graff them in again. 24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?