Preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of God.
Paul was a second Temple period Pharisee and expert Torah scholar and teacher. As we will see, many of his writings even draw from deep, mystical, Hebrew concepts about God.
The Torah, was but a shadow, a reflection. Only the Reality that cast that shadow, the One whom we saw in its shining reflection, could do that. It is He whom we are to observe in every precept of the Torah. His name is Yahshua the Messiah—Jesus Christ—whose name means “Yahweh is Salvation” and whose title means “the Anointed One.
This book is a clarion call for Christians to come back to God’s standards of holiness, instead of what we define them to be. It challenges the believer to re-examine the things that they have been taught and encourages them to be a catalyst for change within their local churches. For centuries, the Church has wandered away from the truths of God’s Word and by so doing, is missing the blessings that could be hers. Soon, the Messiah will return and will want her to be “made ready” for His coming.
Torah – Expression of Love to Lord; God wants His people to love Him. This is evident from the many passages of Scripture that says so. The question I raise in this book is not so much a question of, “Should we love God?” I believe most people of God can come to an agreement on this point, but rather of the question, “How is loving God expressed by us?”
Law and Covenant; These two ideas are fundamental to the message of the Bible, and yet they are shockingly misunderstood and misapplied. Some take a literal approach to biblical law and adopt customs that make no sense in the modern world. Others think that the law has become irrelevant or, even worse, that it has been abolished and nailed to the cross. They hold this belief in spite of the plain statement by Jesus that the written law would remain as long as heaven and earth last.
Hebraic Literature;What is the Talmud? There is more than one answer. Ostensibly it is the corpus juris of the Jews from about the first century before the Christian era to about the fourth after it. But we shall see as we proceed that the Talmud was much more than this. The very word “Law” in Hebrew—”Torah”—means more than its translation would imply. The Jew interpreted his whole religion in terms of law. It is his name in fact for the Bible’s first five books—the Pentateuch.
Who is Israel states that Is Israel simply a person, or a people? If a people, who does it consist of? For many centuries now, the Church has proclaimed that it has replaced the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. In this book, we examine the implications of that proclamation in the light of Scripture and history.
In We have the mind of Messiah Dr. Brad H. Young, the Parables Jewish Tradition and Christian Interpretation, writes these words to us: “The Jewishness of Jesus is related to faith in the one God of Israel. Too often faith in Jesus completely overshadows the faith of Jesus.” In short, our faith as believers in and disciples of Yeshua (Jesus) should be the same faith as Yeshua had when He walked on this earth! That is the meaning of true discipleship. This book seeks to lead us to have the faith of Yeshua so that we can become closer disciples of the Master.
Torah our Expression of Love;God wants His people to love Him. This is evident from the many passages of Scripture that says so. The question I raise in this book is not so much a question of, “Should we love God?” I believe most people of God can come to an agreement on this point, but rather of the question, “How is loving God expressed by us?” I think this is where we would find a difference of understanding in our expression to Him.
The purpose The Problem with Paul is to share with believers in Jesus that we need to reconsider seriously what we have been taught and insure that what we have been taught by our pastors, professors, and fellow believers is indeed true and solidly in line with all of Scripture – or we may very well find ourselves in opposition to God!
