Scriptural Definitions and Boundaries

With my first writing, I would like to set scriptural definitions and boundaries that will be used in future writings.  I believe we should let scriptures define scriptures, we need to test the RUACH of all things we hear against scriptures.   All verses come from "the Scriptures 2009" version.

• What is Scripture? (YAHUSHA's/Jesus's definition).
• Luke 24:44    And He said to them, “These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all have to be filled that were written in the Torah of Mosheh (Moses) and the Prophets and the Tehillim (Psalms) concerning Me.”
• Luke 24:45   Then He (YAHUSHA) opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,
• TORAH --- the Instructions in YAHUAH's (YHWH) Righteousness
• 2 Timothy 3:16   All Scripture is breathed out by Elohim (God/YAHUAH) and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for setting straight, for instruction in righteousness, 
• Romans 10:5   For Moshe writes about the righteousness which is of the Torah (the Law, the first five books of the Old Testament), “The man who does these shall live by them.” (see Leviticus 18:5)
• YHWH (YAHUAH) Does not Change - Ever
• Hebrews 13:8   יהושע Messiah (YAHUSHA HA'MASSIACH) is the same yesterday, and today, and forever.
• Malachi 3:6   “For I am יהוה (YAHUAH) , I shall not change, and you, O sons of Ya‛aqoḇ (Jacob/Israel), shall not come to an end. 
• YHWH (YAHUAH) Does not Lie
• Numbers 23:19   Ěl (YAHUAH) is not a man, to lie; nor a son of man, to repent! Has He said, and would He not do it; or spoken, and would not confirm it? 
• It is Impossible for the Scriptures to be broken
• John 10:35   “If He called them elohim (gods), to whom the word of Elohim (YAHUAH/God)  came – and it is impossible for the Scripture to be broken –
• The Torah is perfect
• Psalm 19:7   The Torah of יהוה (YAHUAH) is perfect, bringing back the being; The witness of יהוה (YAHUAH) is trustworthy, making wise the simple; 
• Perfect (H8549) is the English word for the Hebrew word taw'meem (tamiym): without spot, undefiled, upright(-ly), whole.
• Torah is Established
• Romans 3:31   Do we then nullify the Torah through the belief? Let it not be! On the contrary, we establish the Torah.
• Kings James Version: Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
• YAHUSHA Created All Things
• Ephesians 3:9   and to make all see how this secret is administered, which for ages past has been hidden in Elohim who created all through יהושע (YAHUSHA) Messiah.
• Colossians 1:16  Because in Him were created all that are in the heavens and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or rulerships or principalities or authorities – all have been created through Him and for Him. 
• We Go Astray not Knowing the Scriptures
• Matthew 22:29   And יהושע (YAHUSHA) answering, said to them, “You go astray, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of Elohim (YAHUAH).
• A Righteous Definition (Torah Keeping)
• Isaiah 51:7   “Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, a people in whose heart is My Torah: do not fear the reproach of men, nor be afraid of their revilings.
• A Rebellion Definition (Refusing to Hear Torah)
• Isaiah 30:9   that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children who refuse to hear the Torah of יהוה, (YAHUAH) 
• "The Wrong" Definition (Forsaking the Torah)
• Psalm 119:53   Rage has seized me because of the wrong (wicked) who forsake Your Torah.
• It is Righteous for Us to Guard all His Commands
• Deuteronomy 6:24   And יהוה (YAHUAH) commanded us to do all these laws, to fear יהוה (YAHUAH) our Elohim, for our good always, to keep us alive, as it is today.
• Deuteronomy 6:25   And it is righteousness for us when we guard to do all this command before יהוה (YAHUAH) our Elohim, as He has commanded us.’
• Confirmed by the Prophets
• Amos 3:7   For the Master יהוה (YAHUAH) does no matter unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets. 
• Everything in the Renewed Covenant Writings (the New Testament) must be confirmed by the Prophets
• Safety Net
• Litmus Test
• A Definition of Sin (Torah breaking, Lawlessness, Transgression, Iniquity)
• 1 John 3:4   Everyone doing sin also does lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. (without Torah)
• Isaiah 42:24   ho gave Ya‛aqoḇ (Jacob) for plunder, and Yisra’ěl (Israel) to the robbers? Was it not יהוה, (YAHUAH) He against whom we sinned? For they would not walk in His ways, and they did not obey His Torah! 
• Not obeying Torah is Lawlessness
• We are to Walk the Ancient Paths
• Jeremiah 6:16   Thus said יהוה (YAHUAH) , “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; and find rest for yourselves. But they said, ‘We do not walk in it.’ 
• Jeremiah 18:15   “But My people have forgotten Me, they have burned incense to what is false, and they have stumbled from their ways, from the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths and not on a highway, 
• The old ways are the ways of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob ... the Way of the TORAH
• Yahusha - Is the "Walking-Talking Torah"
• Isaiah 2:2   And it shall be in the latter days that the mountain of the House of יהוה (YAHUAH) is established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills. And all nations shall flow to it. 
• Isaiah 2:3 And many peoples shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of יהוה (YAHUAH), to the House of the Elohim of Ya‛aqoḇ (Jacob), and let Him teach us His ways, and let us walk in His paths, for out of Tsiyon (Zion) comes forth the Torah, and the Word of יהוה (YAHUAH) from Yerushalayim (Jerusalem).” 
• Footnote: His ways, His paths, the teaching and the Word of YAHUAH are used synonymously
• Isaiah 2:4   And He shall judge between the nations, and shall reprove many peoples. And they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither teach battle any more. 
• YAHUSHA is the Word of YUHUAH)
• Revelation 19:13   and having been dressed in a robe dipped in blood – and His Name is called: The Word of יהוה (YAHUAH).
• This directly ties YAHUSHA being the Walking Torah (Isaiah 2:3).   The Word is the Torah
• YAHUSHA is the Goal of the Torah
• Romans 10:4   For Messiah is the goal of the ‘Torah unto righteousness’ to everyone who believes. 
• Footnote for goal: or end purpose; not termination.
• The definition of Righteousness is Torah in your heart
• We are to Imitate YAHUSHA
• 1 John 2:3   And by this we know that we know Him, if we guard His commands.
• 1 John 2:4   The one who says, “I know Him,” and does not guard His commands, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 
• 1 John 2:5   But whoever guards His Word, truly the love of Elohim has been perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him.
• Footnotes: Gen 17:1, Ps 119:1, Matt 5:48
• 1 John 2:6   The one who says he stays in Him ought himself also to walk, even as He walked. 
• We are to Guard YAHUSHA's Word - The Torah which He Taught
• John 14:21   He who possesses My commands and guards them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me shall be loved by My Father, and I shall love him and manifest Myself to him.”    
• John 14:22   Yehuḏah (Judas) – not the one from Qerioth (Iscariot) – said to Him, “Master, what has come about that You are about to manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?” 
• John 14:23    יהושע (YAHUSHA) answered him, “If anyone loves Me, he shall guard My Word. And My Father shall love him, and We shall come to him and make Our stay with him.
• John 14:24 “He who does not love Me does not guard My Words. And the Word which you hear is not Mine but of the Father Who sent Me.
• YAHUSHA did not come with a "New Gospel".
• John 5:19   Therefore יהושע (YAHUSHA) responded and said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son is able to do none at all by Himself, but only that which He sees the Father doing, because whatever He does, the Son also likewise does.  
•  Matthew 5:17   “Do not think that I came to destroy the Torah or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to complete. 
• Matthew 5:18   “For truly, I say to you, till the heaven and the earth pass away, one yod or one tittle shall by no means pass from the Torah till all be done.
• Torah has been placed in Your Heart (This took place at Shav'out - Pentecost), the "Renewed Covenant)
• Jeremiah 31:31   “See, the days are coming,” declares יהוה (YAHUAH), “when I shall make a renewed covenant with the house of Yisra’ěl (Israel) and with the house of Yehuḏah (Judah).
• Footnotes: Heb 8:8-12, Heb 10:16-17
• Jeremiah 31:32   not like the covenant I made with their fathers in the day when I strengthened their hand to bring them out of the land of Mitsrayim (Egypt), My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares יהוה (YAHUAH).
• Jeremiah 33:33   “For this is the covenant I shall make with the house of Yisra’ěl (Israel)  after those days, declares יהוה (YAHUAH): I shall put My Torah in their inward parts, and write it on their hearts. And I shall be their Elohim (God), and they shall be My people. 
• The Good News
• Psalm 40:6   Slaughtering and meal offering You did not desire; You have opened my ears; Ascending offering and sin offering You did not ask for.
• Footnote: Heb 10:5,6
• Psalm 40:7   Then I said, “See, I have come; In the scroll of the Book it is prescribed for me.
• Psalm 40:8   I have delighted to do Your pleasure, O my Elohim, And Your Torah is within my heart.”
• Footnote: Ps 37:31, Ps 119:11, Isa 51:7, Heb 10:7-9
• Psalm 40:9   I have proclaimed the good news of righteousness, In the great assembly; See, I do not restrain my lips, O יהוה (YAHUAH), You know. 
• Psalm 40:10   I did not conceal Your righteousness within my heart; I have declared Your trustworthiness and Your deliverance (Yahusha); I did not hide Your loving-commitment and Your truth (Torah) From the great assembly.
• The Torah is a Lamp/the Torah is a Light (Word = Torah)
• Proverbs 6:23   For the command is a lamp, And the Torah a light, And reproofs of discipline a way of life, 
• Ps 119:105
• Psalm 119:105   Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path. 
• Isaiah 8:20   To the Torah and to the witness! If they do not speak according to this Word, it is because they have no daybreak.
• Footnote for daybreak: or light.
• Elohim is Light
• 1 John 1:5   And this is the message which we have heard from Him and announce to you, that Elohim is light and in Him is no darkness at all.
• 1 John 1:6   If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and are not doing the truth. 
• 1 John 1:7   But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of יהושע (Yahusha) Messiah His Son cleanses us from all sin. 
• 1 John 1:8   If we say that we have no sin, we are misleading ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 
• 1 John 1:9   If we confess our sins, He is trustworthy and righteous to forgive us the sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
• 1 John 1:10   If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us. 
• The Ruach - Spirit of the Torah
• John 14:16    “And I shall ask the Father, and He shall give you another Helper, to stay with you forever – . 
• John 14:17   the Spirit of the Truth (Torah is Truth), whom the world is unable to receive, because it does not see Him or know Him. But you know Him, for He stays with you and shall be in you.    
• John 16:7   “But I say the truth to you. It is better for you that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper shall not come to you at all, but if I go, I shall send Him to you. 
• John 16:8   “And having come, He shall convict the world concerning sin (Violating Torah), and concerning righteousness (Torah in the Heart), and concerning judgment (by Torah).
• Footnote for convict: reprove, confute or prove wrong
• 2 Chr 24:20, Neh 9:30, Ezek 36:27, Mic 3:8, Acts 28:25-27   
• John 16:9    concerning sin because they do not believe in Me, 
• John 16:10   concerning righteousness because I go to My Father and you see Me no more,  
• John 16:11   concerning judgment because the ruler of this world is judged.  
• Lk 4:6
• Torah is Truth
•  Psalm 119:142   Your righteousness is righteousness forever, And Your Torah is truth.
• Torah is still in effect
• Matthew 5:17   “Do not think that I came to destroy the Torah or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to complete. 
• Footnote: The Law and the Prophets is a term used for the pre-Messianic Scriptures. 
• Matthew 5:18   “For truly, I say to you, till the heaven and the earth pass away, one yod or one tittle shall by no means pass from the Torah till all be done.   
• Look around - Heaven and Earth are still in existence.   So is the Torah of Moseh.
• Entering the Reign of Elohim
• Matthew 7:21   “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Master, Master,’ shall enter into the reign of the heavens, but he who is doing the desire of My Father in the heavens. 
• Matthew 7:22   “Many shall say to Me in that day, ‘Master, Master, have we not prophesied in Your Name, and cast out demons in Your Name, and done many mighty works in Your Name?’ 
• Matthew 7:23   “And then I shall declare to them, ‘I never knew you, depart from Me, you who work lawlessness!’   (without Torah)
• The word lawlessness translates from the Greek word anomia.   
• Thayer's Greek Lexicon [?](Jump to Scripture Index)
  STRONGS G458:

  ἀνομία, -ας, ἡ, (ἄνομος);
  1. properly, the condition of one without law — either because ignorant of it, or because violating it.
  2. contempt and violation of law, iniquity, wickedness:
• The Desire of YAHUAH.
•  Matthew 7:21   “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Master, Master,’ shall enter into the reign of the heavens, but he who is doing the desire of My Father in the heavens.
• Romans 2:18   and know the desire of Elohim, and approve what is superior, being instructed out of the Torah, 
• Romans 2:13   For not the hearers of the Torah are righteous in the sight of Elohim, but the doers of the Torah shall be declared right.
• Eternal Life Requires Belief and Obedience
• John 3:36    “He who believes in the Son possesses everlasting life, but he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of Elohim remains on him.”   
• James 2:17   So also belief, if it does not have works, is in itself dead. 
• James 2:18   But someone might say, “You have belief, and I have works.” Show me your belief without your works, and I shall show you my belief by my works.
• James 2:24   You see, then, that a man is declared right by works, and not by belief alone.
• James 2:26   For as the body without the spirit is dead, so also the belief is dead without the works.   
• From a Hebrew perspective, if you say you believe, then it is automatically assumed that you obey.   Belief gets you into the Kingdom.   Obedience keeps you inside of the Kingdom.   Obedience proves your Belief.
• Revelation 22:14
• The Final Judgement
• Yahushua is the Right Hand of the Father YAHUAH.   He created the heavens and the earth, and He will judge the world in Righteousness.   Isaiah 51:7 states that righteousness is Torah in your heart and Isaiah 30:9 states that rebellion is turning your back on the Torah.
• Acts 17:31   because He has set a day on which He is going to judge the world in righteousness by a Man whom He has appointed, having given proof of this to all by raising Him from the dead.”
• Yahushua is this Righteous Judge, and the following verses provide a brief glimpse of how He will judge all men at the end of time:
• John 5:44 “How are you able to believe, when you are receiving esteem from one another, and the esteem that is from the only Elohim you do not seek? 
• John 5:45  “Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Mosheh (the Torah), in whom you have set your expectation. 
• John 5:46  “For if you believed Mosheh (the Torah), you would have believed Me, since he wrote about Me (the walking and talking Torah). 
• John 5:47  “But if you do not believe his writings (the Torah of Mosheh), how shall you believe My words (the walking and Talking Torah)?”
• Warning for Yude (Jude)
• Jude 1:3   Beloved ones, making all haste to write to you concerning our common deliverance, I felt the necessity to write to you urging you to earnestly contend for the belief which was once for all delivered to the set-apart ones. 
• Jude 1:4   For certain men have slipped in, whose judgment was written about long ago, wicked ones perverting the favor of our Elohim for indecency, and denying the only Master יהוה (Yahuah) and our Master יהושע (Yahushua) Messiah.
• Lawlessness -> Matt 13, 2 Thes 2
• Warning from Keepha (Peter)
• 2 Peter 3:15   and reckon the patience of our Master as deliverance, as also our beloved brother Sha’ul (Paul) wrote to you, according to the wisdom given to him,    
• 2 Peter 3:16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them concerning these matters, in which some are hard to understand, which those who are untaught and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do also the other Scriptures.  
• 1 Corinthians 11:6
• 2 Peter 3:17   You, then, beloved ones, being forewarned, watch, lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the delusion of the lawless, (Torahless)
• What YAHUAH declares Unclean - Remains Unclean
• Job 14:4   Who brings the clean out of the unclean? No one! 
• Saved by Faith - Obedience Proves your Faith
• John 3:36   “He who believes in the Son possesses everlasting life, but he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of Elohim remains on him.” 
• James 2:17  So also belief, if it does not have works, is in itself dead.  
• James 2:18   But someone might say, “You have belief, and I have works.” Show me your belief without your works, and I shall show you my belief by my works. 
• Sha'ul's View of Torah
• Romans 7:12   So that the Torah truly is set-apart, and the command set-apart, and righteous, and good. 
• Romans 7:16   But if I do what I do not wish, I agree with the Torah that it is good. 
• Romans 7:22   For I delight in the Torah of Elohim according to the inward man,
• Ps 119:16
• Romans 8:4   so that the righteousness of the Torah should be completed in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 
• Acts 21:24   “Take them and be cleansed with them, and pay their expenses so that they shave their heads. And all shall know that what they have been informed about you is not so, but that you yourself also walk orderly, keeping the Torah.
• Quote from Matthew Nolan, Torah to the Tribes, from his Mystery of the Melchizedek series, Part 1 - The Introduction.
• Grace is the empowerment to live a holy and righteous life in a sick and twisted world.   The Western Christian Church isn't under YAHUAH's grace ... they're under His mercy ... the withholding of deserved judgment!   If they where under His grace they wouldn't be violating the law... because grace empowers you to keep the law and live a holy, just, righteous life.   Grace is what empowers you to keep the commandment, it doesn't allow you to live a lawless life of Church tradition.   Grace is what convicts us to continue on to our higher calling?   The Malki (the Kingdom of YAHUAH) Tzedik (Righteousness) covenant calling!