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Be Imitators of Yahshua Messiah

~ scriptures are from the Hebraic Roots Bible, and HBR Bible Notes in italics.

Mat 4:4 But answering, He said, It has been written "Man shall not live by bread alone, but on every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of YAHWEH."

~ Matthew 4:4 In many translations you see an anti-Torah bias that was never actually written into the manuscripts. The very opposite; what we see over and over again is the fact of the Torah and commandments of YHWH being binding on the life of true covenant believers today and the message that Yahshua taught His disciples. (Mat 5:17-20, 1Jn 2:3-6, 1Jn 5:2-3) Deu 8:3.

Mat 19:17 And He said to him, Why do you call Me good? No one is good except One,YAHWEH! But if you desire to enter into life, keep the commandments†.

Luk 8:21 And answering, He said to them, My mother and My brothers are these: the ones hearing the Word of Elohim, and doing it.

1Jn 2:6 The one claiming to rest in Him, ought to walk, himself, even as He walked†.

~ 1 John 2:6 The Aramaic word used here for walk is “halach” which literally means “to go” or the way one should go, in which Rabbis get the term “halacha”, which is the way to go that is required to perform in order to be considered a disciple. Clearly part of that way included the Sabbath day, the Passover and feast days of Leviticus 23 and the whole Torah, excluding the Levitical law that was added (Gal 3:19) see note here.
The clear message is that any true disciple of Yahshua needs to do the same things that He did, which was being fully Torah observant. Doing away with the Torah and commandments is not an option for a true believer in Messiah and is a litmus test to divide between a true disciple and one in name only. (Mat 7:20-23, Isa 8:20)

1Co 11:1 Be imitators of me, as I am also of Messiah.

Eph 5:1 Then become imitators of Elohim, as beloved children,

Php 3:17 Be fellow-imitators of me, brothers, and consider those walking this way, even as you have us for a pattern.

1Th 1:6 And you became imitators of us and of our Master, welcoming the Word in much affliction with joy of the Holy Spirit.

1Pe 1:13-16 Because of this, having girded up the loins of your mind, and being wide awake, perfecting hope on the grace being brought to you at the revelation of Yahshua Messiah, as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves to your former lusts in your ignorance, but according to the Holy One who has called you, you also become holy in all conduct; Because it has been written, "Be holy, because I am holy."

1Pe 2:21 For you were called to this, for even Messiah suffered on our behalf, leaving behind an example for us, that you should follow His steps;

So who do we imitate?
MESSIAH and His obedience to YAHWEH. and His Torah.

Isa 8:20 To the Torah and to the Testimony!
If they do not speak according to this Word, it is because there is no light to them!

1Jn 2:3 And by this we know that we have known Him, if we keep His commandments.
1Jn 2:4 The one saying, I have known Him, and not keeping His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in that one†.
1Jn 2:5 But whoever keeps His Word, truly in this one the love of YAHWEH has been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him.

1Jn 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of Elohim: When we loveYAHWEH and keep His commandments.
1Jn 5:3 For this is the love of YAHWEH, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not a burden to us.

Rev 12:17 And the dragon was enraged over the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, those keeping the commandments of YAHWEH, and having the testimony of Yahshua Messiah.†

Rev 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints; here are the ones keeping the commandments of YAHWEH, and the faith of Yahshua.†

Rev 22:14 Blessed are the ones doing His commandments, that their authority will be over the Tree of Life, and that they may enter by the gates into the city.

Messiah's Warning
Mat 7:21-23 It will not be that just everyone who says to Me, Master, Master, will enter into the kingdom of Heaven, but the ones who do the will of My Father in Heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, Master, Master, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name do many works of power?
And then I will declare to them, from everlasting, I never knew you; "depart from Me, those working lawlessness!"†

~ Matthew 7:23 The lawless gospel message that Christianity is teaching did not originate from the bible and when Yahshua returns all those who have been practicing lawlessness will be cast into the lake of Fire. Psa 6:8

Act 24:14-15 But I confess this to you that according to the Way, which they say is a sect, I do serve the Elohim of my fathers, believing all the things written in the Torah and in the prophets. And I have a hope in Elohim, which they also themselves expect, that there is to be a resurrection of the dead, both of the righteous and the wicked.

The Natsarim, as spoken of by the Prophets (Old Testament) and in the Brit Hadasaha (NT).
The first followers of Yahusha were known of as a sect called the Natsarim.
They were not accepted by the teachers of Judaism nor the early "Christian" church.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition - ©2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
The Greek word XRISTIANOS is the origin of the word CRETIN.
The Greek word “kristianos” (Latin, Christianus) was a term of scorn,
traced back through a related word which history never revised:

cre·tin (krēt'n) n.

• 1. A person afflicted with cretinism.
  Slang: An idiot.
  [French crétin, from French dialectal, deformed and mentally retarded person found in certain Alpine valleys, from Vulgar Latin *christiānus, Christian, human being, poor fellow, from Latin Chrīstiānus, Christian; see Christian.]

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