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Tishri 6

Code of Conduct

“Only CONDUCT YOUR LIVES in a way worthy of the Good News of the Messiah; so that whether I come and see you or I hear about you from a distance, you stand firm, united in spirit, fighting with one accord for the faith of the Good News …” (Phi 1:27 CJB, emphasis mine)

“For you are a set-apart people to יהוה your Elohim. יהוה your Elohim has CHOSEN YOU to be a people for Himself, a treasured possession above all the peoples on the face of the earth.”  (Deu 7:6 ISR, emphasis mine)

From the very beginning, the instructions set forth in the Torah – divine instructions for righteous and moral living – would mark the people of Elohim as ‘different’.  In the 3500 some years since the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai, the Hebrew nation has been the most misunderstood nation in existence, yet they are also the most recognizable, by their strict allegiance to this code called Torah.

Would that we, as born-again believers in the Jewish Messiah, Yeshua of Nazareth, were that recognizable.  We are called to be citizens of a new country, with a new King as leader, and it is by His laws –Torah - that we must now be governed and controlled. 

However, by His own words, Messiah Yeshua admitted that He did nothing but what He heard from His Father (John 8:28, 38; 15:10, 15).  We know that Yahweh our Elohim was the giver of the Torah at Mount Sinai (Ex 19:16-20), and we know that Messiah Yeshua is the Torah made flesh (John 1:1), the living example of a Torah-observant, Torah-fulfilled life, and lifestyle.  Is it not this manner of life and conduct – the same that our Messiah lived – that is worthy of His Name?

“I call upon you therefore, I the prisoner of the Master, to WALK WORTHILY of the calling with which you were called, with all humility and meekness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, being eager to guard the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace – one body and one Spirit, as you also were called in one expectation of your calling, one Master, one belief, one immersion, one Elohim and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.”  (Eph 4:1-6 ISR, emphasis mine)

“You are the light of the world. It is impossible for a city to be hidden on a mountain. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it shines to all those in the house. Let your light so shine before men, so that they see your good works and praise your Father who is in the heavens.”  (Mat 5:14-16 ISR)

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