What is the Narrow Way?

Yeshua, Faith, and Torah

Matthew 7:13–14 (NASB 95) 13 “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. 14 For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.

What is the Narrow way? Many would say that Torah-based theology is the narrow way. Many would say that the narrow way is to remove the Torah and only obey Yeshua. Then some say that Walking in the Spirit and believing in the gifts of the Spirit is the Narrow way. Many believe that the outpouring of the Spirit is done away with. Many of you would disagree with at least one of these doctrines.

The Narrow Way is Yeshua “THE WORD OF GOD”

Revelation 19:13 (TLV) 13He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which He is called is “the Word of God.”

John 1:14 (NASB 95 14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Every Word that God the Father has Spoken Is “The Word of God” Yeshua

So, Yeshua is God’s word and Yeshua said

John 14:6–7 (TLV) 6Yeshua said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life! No one comes to the Father except through Me. 7If you have come to know Me, you will know My Father also. From now on, you do know Him and have seen Him.”

John 14:10–11 (TLV)10Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on My own; but the Father dwelling in Me does His works. 11Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me—or at least believe because of the works themselves.

John 14:12–14 (TLV) 12“Amen, amen I tell you, he who puts his trust in Me, the works that I do he will do; and greater than these he will do, because I am going to the Father. 13And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.”

What works was Yeshua referring to?

James 2:18–24 (TLV) 18But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith without works and I will show you faith by my works. 19You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe—and shudder! 20But do you want to know, you empty person, that faith without works is dead? 21Wasn’t Abraham our father proved righteous by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? 22You see that faith worked together with his works, and by the works his faith was made complete. 23The Scripture was fulfilled that says, “And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness”—and he was called God’s friend. 24You see that a man is proved righteous by works and not by faith alone.

James is saying that because Abraham believed and trusted (aka faith) in God he obeyed God by placing His child on the altar. Which made his faith complete and therefore His faith was credited to Him as righteousness.

So, our obedience to “The Word of God” All of God's word from Genesis to Revelation is just only part of the Narrow Way. The other part has to do with what Yeshua suffered for us and whom He sent to us to help us walk the Narrow way.

What did he suffer?

Mark 15:15–20 (TLV) 15Wanting to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Bar-Abba for them. And after he had Yeshua scourged, he handed Him over to be crucified. 16The soldiers took Him away, into the palace, the governor’s mansion called the Praetorium. And they call together the cohort of soldiers. 17They dress Him up in purple. After braiding a crown of thorns, they put it on Him. 18And they began to salute Him, “Hail, King of the Jews!” 19Over and over, they kept hitting Him on the head with a staff and spitting on Him; and kneeling down, they worshiped Him. 20When they finished mocking Him, they stripped the purple off Him and put His own clothes back on Him. And they led Him out to crucify Him.

Yeshua was Chastised, scourged, and beaten with a whip.? He was pierced and He was crushed We see this in the Hebrew Bible

Isaiah 53:5 (TLV) 5But He was pierced because of our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities. ?The chastisement for our shalom was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.

Yeshua did all these things so we could be Healed in our body, mind, and emotions and delivered from our transgressions and iniquities and His resurrection gave us peace with God the Father.

This is where we need His Grace and Faith and Righteousness.? Believers tend to want to take credit for our faith, our Holiness, and our obedience. But it is by grace through faith that has made us whole it His faith and Obedience that we walk in not our own. Our righteousness is as filthy rags Yeshua is the author and finisher of our faith. Without Him, we cannot walk The Narrow Way. Yeshua gives us the grace to have faith and to obey through the Holy Spirit.

John 14:15–21 (TLV) ?15“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. 16I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper so He may be with you forever— 17the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not behold Him or know Him. You know Him, because He abides with you and will be in you. 18I will not abandon you as orphans; I will come to you. 19In a little while, the world will no longer behold Me, but you will behold Me. Because I live, you also will live! 20“In that day, you will know that I am in My Father, you are in Me, and I am in you. 21He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. He who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”

Yeshua said if you love me you will keep my commandments and then He says the one who has His commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. Then He says we will know that Yeshua is in my Father (AKA God) and we are in Him and Yeshua is in us.? We are all one with God and Yeshua.? The Holy Spirit abides with us and in us.

So, what are the commandments Yeshua was talking about? If Yeshua is “The Word Of God” this would mean everything God commanded His people from the beginning.?

Jeremiah 31:33 (NASB 95)

33?“But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

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“The Word of God” is the Law (commandments) Torah which means instructions are written on our hearts this is the new covenant! These are the commandments Yeshua was referring to! He is in us, and we are in Him. If you truly Love God and the Son Yeshua, you will have a desire to obey His Word From Genesis to Revelation and whatever the Holy Spirit tells you.

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Yeshua Said...

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Matthew 5:17–19 (NASB 95)

17?“Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill. 18?For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished. 19?Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

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Scripture is very clear the Torah, Law, commandments, Precepts, and instructions are still here, and as believers, we should Love our savior enough to obey.

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1 John 2:5–6 (TLV) 5But whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God is truly made perfect. We know that we are in Him by this— 6whoever claims to abide in Him must walk just as He walked.

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?How Did Yeshua Walk?

·???????? He did not sin

·???????? He walked in Faith and obedience to the Father (God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob)

·???????? He had the power to cast out demons

·???????? He healed the sick

·???????? He caused the lame to walk

·???????? He walked with the power to move mountains

·???????? He spoke God's Word

·???????? His word has the power of Life and Death

·???????? He loved

·???????? He was merciful

·???????? He walked in unity with the Father.

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So, if we claim to abide in Yeshua, we should walk like he did on the face of the Earth. ?We should walk in the same power and authority as Yeshua walked. The power to not sin, the power to heal the sick, the power to cast out demons, and the power to move mountains. We should also walk in Unity with God the Father and Yeshua the Son.

John 17:20–21 (NASB 95) 20?“I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; 21?that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.

?John 17:22–23 (NASB 95) 22?“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; 23?I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.

John 10:9 (TLV) 9 I am the gate! If anyone comes in through Me, he will be saved. He will come and go and find pasture.

John 10:14–16 (TLV)14“I am the Good Shepherd. I know My own and My own know Me, 15just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep. 16I have other sheep that are not from this fold; those also I must lead, and they will listen to My voice. So there shall be one flock, one Shepherd.

The Narrow way is to walk like Yeshua He is in us, and we are in Him, We abide in Him and He is in us. Yeshua has been given all Power and Authority over the enemy of our souls and that Power and Authority resides within us, we are His emissaries in this world when we walk that Narrow Way the world will know that God loves them and sent His only Son into the World to save them.

God is calling us to walk like Yeshua!!!

Here Oh Israel children of the Most High

Isaiah 60:1–3 (NASB 95)

1?“Arise, shine; for your light has come,

And the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.

2?“For behold, darkness will cover the earth

And deep darkness the peoples;

But the Lord will rise upon you

And His glory will appear upon you.

3?“Nations will come to your light,

And kings to the brightness of your rising.

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