The Narrow Path - What Religion is This?

Sometimes it is worth pointing out that how the Bible was practiced by everyone that wrote anything in the
Bible is very different from how it is practiced today. If one couples that simple truth with the verses that
warn that eventually many would depart from the Word and begin doing things there own way to suit their
own preferences, then perhaps there is some cause for some alarm and reexamination of our doctrines. For
example, let’s examine the traits and characteristics of a couple people in scripture that many claim to
respect and follow.

What religion do you think this man is and who is he?

1. He keeps and observes the Law of Moses. In fact, He did so perfectly and commanded us to do so
likewise.

2. He teaches the Law of Moses. In fact He makes the law even more binding by teaching us the spirit of
the Law beyond just the written, also do what it teaches, not just simply what it says.

3. He calls those that add to or subtract from the law broods of vipers.

4. He tells people who are without the law to get away from him, that he does not know them.

5. He teaches if you keep the whole law of God and teach it, you will be great in the Kingdom of Heaven,
and if you remove any part of it and teach that, at best, you will be least.

6. He keeps the Sabbath, teaches on the Sabbath, and tells us the creator made the Sabbath for the benefit of
man.

7. He eats clean things (food) and does not eat unclean animals (not food).

8. He came to “fill up with meaning” or “fully preach” (plerroo) the law and prophets not to abolish it or
end it.

9. He is angered by people that add to the law, and do not DO what the law says. He is also angered by
those who do God’s law not to love God but to elevate themselves.

10. He keeps and observes God’s Feast days.

11. He teaches people that faith is evidenced by DOING and that if you want to enter heaven to keep the
commandments.

12. He preaches and speaks from the law.

Who do you think this man is and did he practice the above religion?

1. He stated that he kept, practiced and taught the Law of Moses with his Gentile converts.

2. It is documented in scripture that he kept the feast days with his Gentile converts.

3. He stated follow my example as I follow the example of Christ.

4. He stated that everything you have heard him teach and every thing that he has practiced all others
should do as well.
5. His brother in Christ, Peter, states that his words are hard to understand often twisted by those who end
up breaking God’s law leading to their own destruction.

6. He states that he delights in the law and says that we do not abolish the law in faith but to
uphold/continue (histemi) in God’s law.

7. He wrote that all scripture (not just some) is instructions in righteousness.

Answer: Jesus and Paul respectively

Paul took "what would Jesus do" (WWJD) to a whole other level than most consider. He did do what Jesus
did. The question is do we? Should we?

Every person that wrote anything at all in what we call the Bible, kept and taught the Law of God,
out of the mouth of God Himself, and then written by Moses.

Mt 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that
proceeds out of the mouth of God.”

How does scripture describe God’s law?

1. The Law blesses (obey) and curses (disobey).

(Deut 11:26-27)(Ps 112:1)(Ps 119:1-2)(Ps 128:1)(Prov 8:32)(Is 56:2)(Mat 5:6)(Mat 5:10)(Luke
11:28)(Jam 1:25)(1 Pe 3:14)(Rev 22:14)

2. The Law defines sin.

(Jer 44:23)(Ez 18:21)(Dan 9:11)(Ro 3:20)(Ro 7:7)(1 Jo 3:4)

3. The Law is perfect.

(Ps 19:7)(Jam 1:25)

4. The Law is liberty.

(Ps 119:45)(Jam 1:25, 2:12)

5. The Law is the way.

(Ex 18:20)(Deut 10:12)(Josh 22:5)(1 King 2:3)(Ps 119:1)(Prov 6:23)(Is 2:3)(Mal 2:8)(Mark 12:14)(Ac
24:14)

6. The Law is the truth.

(Ps 119:142)(Mal 2:6)(Ro 2:20)(Gal 5:7)(Ps 43:2-4)(Jo 8:31-32)

7. The Law is life.

(Job 33:30)(Ps 36:9)(Prov 6:23)(Rev 22:14)

8. The Law is light.

(Job 24:13)(Job 29:3)(Ps 36:9)(Ps 43:2-4)(Ps 119:105)(Prov 6:23)(Is 2:5) (Is 8:20)(Is 51:4)(2 Cor
6:14)(1 John 1:7)

9. The Law is Jesus, the Word made flesh.

(PERFECT-LIBERTY-WAY-TRUTH-LIFE-LIGHT)
(Ps 27:1)(Jo 1:1-14)(Jo 14:5-11)(1 Jo 1:7)

10. The Law is also for the Gentiles (foreigner/alien) who are grafted in.
(Ex 12:19) (Ex 12:38) (Ex 12:49) (Lev 19:34) (Lev 24:22) (Num 9:14) (Num 15-16) (Num 15:29) (ie: Ruth)
(Is 42:6) (Is 60:3) (Mat 5:14) (Eph 2:10-13) (Ac 13:47) (Ro 11:16-27) (Jer31:31-34) (Ez 37) (1 Jo 2:10) (1
Jo 1:7)
11. The Law is God’s instructions on how to love God, how to love others, and how to not love yourself.
(Ex 20:6)(Deut 5:10)(Deut 7:10)(Deut 11:13)(Deut 11:22)(Deut 30:16)(Deut 6:5)(Lev 19:18)(Neh
1:5)(Dan 9:4)(Mat 22:35-37)(Matthew 10:39)(Mat 16:25)(Jo 14:15)(Jo 14:21)(Ro 13:9)(1 Jo 5:2-3)(2 Jo
1:6)

Ask yourself the hard questions. Ask others. Ask the Word. Test your faith. Challenge yourself. Test
everything.

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