Guest and Reposted Articles on June 4th, 2010

Romans 6:14:
14For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
Which of the 6-7 connotations of the word “Nomos” (translated “Law” in every instance) are we not under?
A. Are we not [...]

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Tzahala Jocelyn on December 24th, 2009

The Greek word plēroō (πληροω) is used 90 times in the Renewed Covenant, and this Greek word is where we get our English word “fulfilled” from. In Greek this word means “to make full, to fill up, i.e. to fill to the full to cause to abound, to furnish or supply liberally”, which is quite [...]

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Jacque on November 2nd, 2009

I was thinking the other day of how many times I have been told by Christians that “the Law has been fulfilled” in reference to the Torah of YHVH God.  I know of the common misconception that Yahshua/Jesus fulfilled them as in they are done away with, but if we read in Matt. 5, we [...]

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Jacque on September 15th, 2009

Is following the commandments of Yahveh becoming a person of ‘works’?
As Believers, we each have a set of Yahveh’s commandments that we follow. Some of us may follow the Ten Commandments. Some may look back at the Old Testament when we say that homose*uality and abortions are sins. We may not follow all of the [...]

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Jacque on July 1st, 2009

I recently was asked by a friend, “Where are you in your study of Torah?”. Her question was to see if we had crossed any lines into legalism or not in our study of God’s commandments in the Word. She has had this happen with some family members, and because a mutual friend of ours [...]

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