The Four Spiritual Laws For Jewish People

The Four Spiritual Laws For Jewish People:

by Arthur P Wolinsky, MD

Did You Know that God Loves You and Has a Plan for Your Life?

God’s Word, the Bible tells us so:

(Jer 29:11)  For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

There is a reason that most people do not experience this hope.  Why do you think that is?

Man is a sinful creature and so he cannot know and experience God’s love and plans for his life:

(Ecc 7:20)  Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

The consequences of sin are eternal death:

(Eze 18:4)  Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die.

God has made a way to change this; a blood sacrifice is required:

(Lev 3:2)  And he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and kill it at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and Aaron's sons the priests shall throw the blood against the sides of the altar.

Some of the Rabbis say that a contrite heart and prayers are enough to make a person righteous:

(Isa 57:15)  For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

(Hos 14:2) Take words with you and return to the Lord.

Say to Him, “Take away all iniquity

And receive us graciously,

That we may present the fruit of our lips.

But even the blood of an animal, as the Torah requires, is not enough to provide permanent forgiveness.  Something much greater is needed:

(Isa 53:5)  But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.

God sent the Messiah to be this blood sacrifice.  Only His blood could provide full and lasting forgiveness for all our sins.  God has provided no other way.

The New Testament Scriptures and the Hebrew Scriptures (Tanach) are in perfect harmony with each other and together comprise one book.  The New Testament Scriptures make it perfectly clear that an individual must receive the forgiveness of sins (it is a free gift!) provided by Messiah Yeshua:

(Joh 14:6)  Jesus said to him (to the apostle Thomas), "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

The New Testament also explains that the Messiah’s shed blood provides forgiveness of sins for those who accepted God by faith before Messiah came:

(Heb 9:15)  Therefore He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.

This is more than a pardon from the punishment due us for our sins.  We are justified by God.  It’s like we never committed any sins to begin with:

(Mic 7:19)  He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.

The perfect righteousness of the Messiah is imputed to us when we believe:

(Rom 5:17)  For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.

Our Father Abraham believed this.  He received it as a gift, by faith:

(Gen 15:6)  And he believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness.

Rom 4:20-22

(20)  No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,

(21)  fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.

(22)  That is why his faith was "counted to him as righteousness."

If you want to receive this gift of eternal life, if you want to walk in the joy God wants you to have, and if you want to fulfill the wonderful plans God has for you, let God make you His son or daughter.  Let Him change your heart and let Him bring you into a relationship with Himself.

Jer 31:33-34

(33)  For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more."

Let God circumcise your heart.  He makes that possible for you now because He sent the Messiah to die in your place 2000 years ago:

(Deu 30:6)  And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

One day, during the Time of Jacob’s Trouble, all Israel will have their hearts circumcised:

(Zec 12:10)  "And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.

But you don’t have to wait.  You can accept eternal life and have your heart circumcised now.  You will be a new creation and you will have eternal life with God and you will feel more Jewish than ever before.

So what do you do now?

Ask Yeshua into your heart.  Say a prayer something like this.  You can use your own words.

Lord Yeshua.  I know that I am a sinner and I know that my sins separate me from God.  Please forgive all my sins.  Make me clean as if I never sinned at all by washing me with your blood.  Thank you for dying for me so that I can spend eternity in heaven with God.  I love you Yeshua.  Amen.

If you prayed this prayer or something like it with sincerity from your heart, your sins have been forgiven and you are now a son or daughter of God.

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