Saved by Faith, Guided by Torah: What the Torah Can and Cannot Do for Us Part 1

by | May 15, 2026 | Blog, Podcasts

Saved by Faith, Guided by Torah: What the Torah Can and Cannot Do for Us Part 1

by Rod Thomas | The Messianic Torah Observer

In this installment of the Messianic Torah Observer, I begin a multi-part discussion on what the Torah can and cannot do for the people of Yah. This is a foundational and, at times, misunderstood topic, especially for those who have inherited denominational teachings that frame Torah as obsolete, burdensome, or somehow contrary to grace. In this discussion, I work to show from the witness of Scripture that Torah does not save us, but it most certainly remains essential to the life of the set-apart believer who has come into covenant relationship with the Creator through Yeshua HaMashiyach.

Along the way, I address the widespread claim that the Apostle Paul rejected Torah and taught against Torah living. I also touch on the historical realities that contributed to the Church Triumphant’s rejection of Torah, the significance of the Acts 15 Jerusalem Council, and James’ profound statement that the implanted Torah is able to save our souls. My aim throughout is not to stir controversy for controversy’s sake, but rather to encourage sober, scripturally grounded reflection on the role Torah should play in the life of every believer who longs to walk faithfully before Yah.

  • Why Torah-keeping has never been the means by which a person is justified or saved.
  • How faith and obedience properly work together in the life of the believer.
  • Why Paul’s writings have often been misunderstood, misrepresented, and used to promote anti-Torah doctrine.
  • What the Acts 15 Jerusalem Council actually addressed regarding Gentile believers and Torah.
  • Why freedom and deliverance are necessary prerequisites for properly receiving and walking out Torah.
  • What James meant by the implanted Torah being able to save the soul.
  • How Torah functions in the life of the redeemed as loving instruction in righteousness rather than as a mechanism of salvation.

Key Scriptures Referenced

  • Galatians 2:16
  • Ephesians 2:8
  • Acts 2:42, 46
  • Acts 15:19-21
  • Acts 18
  • Acts 21:20
  • Acts 24
  • Acts 25
  • Romans 3:31
  • Romans 5:14
  • Romans 7
  • 1 Corinthians 7
  • James 1:21-25
  • Galatians 3:24
  • Genesis 49:10
  • Deuteronomy 28
  • Deuteronomy 32
  • Joshua 1:6-9
  • Psalm 1:2-3
  • Isaiah 48:20
  • Isaiah 55:9
  • Revelation 18:4
  • Romans 6:23

Who This Teaching Is For

This teaching is especially for believers who have wrestled with questions surrounding Torah, grace, salvation, and the writings of Paul. It is for those who sense that something in the conventional Christian framing of the law does not fully square with the whole counsel of Scripture. And it is for those who desire to better understand the relationship between covenant faithfulness, Spirit-led obedience, and the ongoing relevance of Yah’s instructions in righteousness for His people today.

I pray this discussion strengthens and challenges you in your walk with the Almighty. If this teaching blesses you, consider sharing it with others in your fellowship or with those who are reexamining what Scripture actually says about Torah and the life of the redeemed. Abba willing, we will continue this discussion in Part 2 and examine this subject even more deeply.

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Sabbath, Jubilee, and the Kingdom: A Yeshua-Focused Journey Through Behar–Bechukotai

by | May 9, 2026 | Podcasts

by Rod Thomas | The Messianic Torah Observer

In this installment of The Messianic Torah Observer, I invite you to join me on a Yeshua-focused journey through the double Torah reading of Behar–Bechukotai found in Leviticus 25.1–27.34. Together, we reflect on the profound spiritual meaning behind Sh’mittah, Yovel/Jubilee, covenant obedience, covenant discipline, and the sacredness of our commitments unto Yah.

This Torah reading reminds us that the Land belongs to Yehovah, time belongs to Yehovah, and ultimately, we belong to Yehovah. The commandment of the Sh’mittah, or Sabbath Year, teaches us to cease from our striving and trust wholly in Yah’s provision. It calls us to acknowledge His sovereignty over the Land, over our sustenance, and over every aspect of our lives. Through this moed, we are taught rest, dependence, trust, obedience, and the proper ordering of our priorities in covenant relationship with the Creator.

We also explore the rich theology and practical meaning of Yovel, the Year of Jubilee, where release, restoration, redemption, and return take center stage. In Jubilee, property is restored, debts are reckoned in light of Yah’s justice, and those in servitude are released. These divine instructions reveal Yah’s heart for mercy, compassion, community, and covenant faithfulness. They also point us toward the greater redemptive realities that find their fullest meaning in Messiah Yeshua, who brings true rest, liberty, and restoration to His people.

In this discussion, I also examine the blessings promised to those who walk in Yah’s statutes and remain faithful to covenant. Obedience leads to peace, provision, security, fruitfulness, and the joy of Yah dwelling in the midst of His people. At the same time, Bechukotai confronts us with the sobering consequences of covenant unfaithfulness. Yah’s discipline is not arbitrary, nor is it disconnected from His love. Rather, it reflects His holiness, His jealousy over His people, and His unwavering commitment to the covenant He established with Avraham, Yitschaq, and Ya’achov.

Another important part of this reading is Leviticus 27, which addresses vows and dedications made unto Yah. Here, we consider the spiritual seriousness of our commitments and what it means to offer our resources, our time, our gifts, and our lives in service to the Kingdom. In Messiah, this has direct implications for discipleship. We are reminded that what we vow and commit unto Yah is holy, and our lives are to reflect integrity, faithfulness, and wholehearted devotion.

Throughout this episode, I encourage us all to consider what these timeless instructions teach us today as Torah-honoring disciples of Yeshua HaMashiyach. How do we trust Yah more deeply? How do we hold possessions more loosely? How do we care for those in our communities who are in need? And how do we walk faithfully in covenant while allowing the Ruach Kodesh to sanctify us into a set-apart people?

My hope is that this teaching will encourage, challenge, and edify you as you continue your own Torah journey. Behar–Bechukotai is a powerful reminder that Yah is faithful, that His covenant stands, and that His desire is for His people to walk uprightly before Him in trust, obedience, humility, and love.

In This Episode

  • The meaning and purpose of Sh’mittah, the Sabbath Year
  • How the cycles of sevens reveal Yah’s order, sovereignty, and purpose
  • The spiritual and communal significance of Yovel/Jubilee
  • Why the Land ultimately belongs to Yehovah
  • Trust, provision, and covenant faith in the Sh’mittah and Jubilee
  • Blessings associated with obedience to Yah’s statutes
  • The consequences of covenant disobedience in Bechukotai
  • Yah’s discipline as an expression of covenant integrity and holy love
  • The enduring faithfulness of Yah even when His people fail
  • The spiritual significance of vows and dedications in Leviticus 27
  • What these Torah instructions mean for Messiah-centered discipleship today

Key Themes

  • Covenant faithfulness
  • Rest and trust
  • Redemption and release
  • Obedience and blessing
  • Discipline and restoration
  • Kingdom living
  • Set-apart discipleship in Yeshua

Passage Covered

Leviticus 25.1–27.34
Parashot: Behar and Bechukotai

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  • Yeshua-focused Torah Living
  • Shmittah
  • Shemitah
  • Jubilee
  • Yovel
  • Leviticus 25
  • Leviticus 26
  • Leviticus 27
  • covenant faithfulness
  • Torah portion podcast
  • Messianic Bible teaching
  • Kingdom living
  • obedience and blessing

Closing Invitation

Thank you for fellowshipping with me in this installment of The Messianic Torah Observer. I pray that this teaching blesses and strengthens your walk in Yehoshua HaMashiyach and deepens your love for Yah’s Torah and His ways.

If this discussion blessed you, I invite you to share it with others who are seeking to walk in covenant faithfulness and Truth.

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Parashah Emor (Speak!). An Ancient Framework for Walking in Kingdom for 2026 Messianics

by | May 1, 2026 | Podcasts

by Rod Thomas | The Messianic Torah Observer

Episode summary: In this installment of The Messianic Torah Observer, we take a walk through Parashah Emor (Leviticus 21:1–24:23), highlighting the Torah’s holiness expectations for the priesthood, the danger of profaning Yehovah’s Name, and the enduring relevance of the Moedim/Feasts of Yehovah. From ritual purity and votive (qodesh) offerings to the Menorah oil, the Shewbread, and Torah principles surrounding justice, this teaching emphasizes “Spirit and Truth” applications for Kingdom living in 2026.

In this episode, you’ll learn

  • How Emor organizes into major subject blocks (Levitical priesthood, offerings, Moedim, sanctuary operations, and Torah principles of justice).
  • What it means to profane Yehovah’s Name—and why the issue is conduct and covenant faithfulness more than pronunciation.
  • How the Moedim function as Yehovah’s appointed times, and why Messianic believers should still take them seriously today.
  • Why Emor’s priesthood material still speaks to New Covenant identity (a kingdom of priests/royal priesthood) even without a functioning Temple.
  • Practical ways to honor Yehovah through worship and offerings that are “without blemish” in spirit, motive, and integrity.

Key themes

  • Holiness (set-apart living): Yehovah’s standards for those who represent Him.
  • Priesthood responsibility: Leadership accountability and “always-on” Kingdom service.
  • Profaning vs. honoring the Name: The witness of the people of Elohim before the world.
  • Worship integrity: Qodesh offerings (material and spiritual) treated as holy.
  • Appointed times: The Moedim as a yearly framework for communion and covenant rhythm.
  • Spirit-and-Truth application: Extracting enduring spiritual principles from Temple-era Torah.

Scripture focus

  • Primary Torah reading: Leviticus 21:1–24:23 (Parashah Emor).
  • Key Emor passages highlighted: Leviticus 21 (priesthood holiness); Leviticus 22 (qodesh offerings); Leviticus 23 (Moedim); Leviticus 24:1–9 (Menorah oil and Shewbread); Leviticus 24:10–23 (blasphemy and justice).
  • Supporting/cross-references used in the teaching: Leviticus 10:3; Exodus 19:4–6; John 4:23–24; Hebrews 10:1; 1 Corinthians 15:46; Titus 2:11–15; 1 Peter 2:9–10; 2 Corinthians 6:14; 1 Peter 1:16; Romans 1:5; Matthew 7:21–23; Hebrews 12:1; 1 Thessalonians 5:19; Revelation 1:6; 5:10; 20:6; John 6:33–51.

Moedim quick reference (as covered in Leviticus 23)

  • Weekly Shabbat (Lev 23:3): set-apart day of complete rest; sacred assembly.
  • Pesach (Passover) (Lev 23:5): 14th of Aviv, at twilight; Pesach meal time.
  • Feast of Unleavened Bread (Matzah) (Lev 23:6–8): 15th–21st of Aviv; holy assemblies on day 1 and day 7.
  • Firstfruits (Yom HaBikkurim) (Lev 23:10–16): day after the weekly Sabbath during Unleavened Bread; wavesheaf; begins the Omer count.
  • Shavuot (Pentecost) (Lev 23:17–21): 50th day from Firstfruits; sacred assembly; offerings.
  • Care for the needy/alien (Lev 23:22): leave gleanings; practice covenant compassion.
  • Yom Teruah (Lev 23:24–25): 1st day of the 7th month; memorial of trumpet blasts; rest.
  • Yom HaKippurim (Day of Atonements) (Lev 23:26–32): 10th day of the 7th month; deny self/fast; no work.
  • Sukkot (Booths/Tabernacles/Ingathering) (Lev 23:33–36; 37–44): 15th–22nd of the 7th month; rejoicing before Yehovah; sacred assembly on day 1 and day 8.

Discussion highlights

  • Priesthood is leadership under scrutiny: Emor portrays priests as consecrated representatives—set apart in conduct, relationships, and service because they serve before Yehovah and the people.
  • “Profaning the Name” is a life-witness issue: The teaching emphasizes that profaning the Name is chiefly about treating the Holy as common through disobedience, hypocrisy, and disrespect—not merely about how a person pronounces the Name.
  • Offerings reveal the heart: Qodesh/votive offerings must be treated as holy and rendered with integrity—whether material gifts, service to others, or “fruit of the lips.”
  • The Moedim belong to Yehovah: The episode stresses that the appointed times are Yehovah’s set-apart convocations, proclaimed at their appointed times as part of covenant rhythm.
  • Temple-era instructions still teach Spirit-and-Truth: Even without an operating Temple and Levitical priesthood, Emor provides enduring spiritual applications for Messianic/Notsrim discipleship.
  • Menorah oil and Shewbread as spiritual pictures: Oil evokes the ongoing work of the Ruach haKodesh; Shewbread points to continual presence before Yehovah and Messiah as Bread of Life.

Practical takeaways for Kingdom living (2026)

  • Audit your witness: Identify habits or patterns that make the holy seem common, and repent/realign before they become “profaning the Name” in public view.
  • Strengthen priestly readiness: Treat your discipleship as “always on”—practice cleanliness of heart, mind, and relationships, especially if you lead or teach.
  • Upgrade your offerings: Offer Yehovah the “best”—excellence, sincerity, and consistency—whether in giving, serving, prayer, or encouragement.
  • Re-center around the Moedim: Mark the appointed times on your calendar, plan rest/convocation where possible, and prepare your household to honor them.
  • Don’t quench the Ruach: Make space for prayer, Scripture, and obedience so that the Spirit’s “oil” continues to burn steadily.
  • Pursue justice and covenant ethics: Let Torah’s seriousness about violence, restitution, and accountability shape your responses to conflict.

Reflection questions

  • Where might I be treating the holy as common—time, speech, relationships, or attitudes—and what would obedience look like this week?
  • In what ways has my conduct (online or in-person) either honored or diminished the Name I bear?
  • Which Moedim do I keep well, and which ones need more intentional planning and preparation?
  • What “offering” (time, resources, service, repentance, reconciliation) is Yehovah prompting me to bring without blemish?

Resources mentioned

  • Feast teachings archive: Visit themessianictorahobserver.org and use the site’s search icon to find teachings on each Feast/Moed by name (e.g., “Pesach,” “Shavuot,” “Yom Teruah,” “Yom Kippur,” “Sukkot”).
  • Related teaching note: The manuscript references earlier material connected to Tazria–Metzora in relation to impurity/uncleanness concepts.

Call to action

If this teaching encouraged you, consider sharing it with a friend or your fellowship, and make time this week to read Leviticus 21–24 slowly and prayerfully. Let Emor challenge you to honor the Name, elevate the quality of your worship, and embrace your priestly calling in Messiah.
  • Subscribe/follow so you don’t miss future installments of The Messianic Torah Observer.
  • Share this episode with someone exploring Torah faithfulness through a Yeshua-centered lens.
  • Explore more teachings at themessianictorahobserver.org (search by Torah portion or Feast name).
  • And if you’re so led, support this ministry with you financial gifts and your prayers.

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What Does Walking with God Look Like From a Yeshua-focused Torah-Living Perspective?

by | Apr 25, 2026 | Podcasts

by Rod Thomas | The Messianic Torah Observer

Episode title: What Does Walking with God Look Like From a Yeshua‑Focused Torah‑Living Perspective?
Overview: In this installment of The Messianic Torah Observer, we will explore the biblical meaning of “walking with God.” Using the lives of Enoch and Noah as anchor texts, the discussion frames walking with YHVH as covenant relationship, moral uprightness (yashar), walking in the light, and Spirit-enabled kingdom living. The teaching culminates with Yeshua’s sobering warning that discipleship is a salvific issue (Matthew 7:21–23): covenant loyalty matters.

In this episode, you’ll hear

  • Why “walk with God” is more than a slogan—it is covenant communion, belonging, and exclusivity.
  • Why Scripture explicitly names only Enoch (Gen. 5:22) and Noah (Gen. 6:9) as having “walked with God,” and what their prophetic burden suggests.
  • How “walking in the light” connects to spiritual/moral purity, fellowship, and kingdom living (1 John 1; Matthew 5–7).
  • How the Hebrew concept of “walk” (yit‑hal‑lek) includes conduct/behavior and relates to halachah.
  • How moral uprightness (yashar) expresses itself in holiness (set-apartness) and the Fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5).
  • Why the Ruach HaKodesh is essential to the walk (Rom. 8:9), and how believers avoid “quenching” the Spirit (1 Thess. 5:19).
  • Why Yeshua’s “narrow gate” teaching makes this a life-and-death discipleship issue (Matt. 7:14; 7:21–23).

Key themes

  • Covenant relationship as the foundation of the believer’s walk (belonging to YHVH through Messiah).
  • Alignment/orientation of the whole life to YHVH’s person, will, and purpose.
  • Walking in the light as fellowship, cleansing/justification, and practical kingdom living.
  • Obedience/loyalty to covenant (faithful living as a response to grace and calling).
  • Yashar (uprightness) as straight/level, genuine, forthright, holy conduct.
  • Spiritual fruit as evidence of the Spirit-led life and set-apartness.
  • Imputed vs. actionable righteousness—what is gifted by Messiah and what is lived out daily.
  • The narrow way—discipleship as a remnant path and a salvific matter.

Scripture references mentioned (for study)

  • Genesis 5:22; Genesis 6:8–9
  • Hebrews 11:5–6; Jude 14–15; 2 Peter 2:5
  • Matthew 5:3–11; Matthew 6:33; Matthew 7:14; Matthew 7:21–23; Matthew 25:41–46
  • John 4:24; John 5:17–23; John 10:30; John 1:12–13
  • Exodus 19:5; Exodus 33:11
  • Leviticus 19:2; Deuteronomy 10:12–13; Deuteronomy 32:8–9; Deuteronomy 7:6; 10:15; 14:2
  • Romans 8:9, 14–17, 20–22, 23, 29; Romans 9:4; Romans 11:20–22; Romans 14:7–8
  • 1 Corinthians 3:23; 6:19–20; 1 Corinthians 6:19
  • 2 Corinthians 5:7, 14–15
  • Galatians 5:16, 22–23; Ephesians 3:16; Ephesians 5:8–11
  • Philippians 2:12–13
  • 1 Thessalonians 4:7–8; 1 Thessalonians 5:19
  • 1 John 1:5–7
  • 2 Timothy 3:16–17; Hebrews 6:4–6; Hebrews 10:26; James 2:23; James 4:4; 1 Peter 1:16

Notable quotes

  • “We’ve diminished the power behind the biblical concept of walking with the Father and with the Messiah.”
  • “Walking with Yehovah has a prophetic burden attached to it.”
  • “Walking in the light is Kingdom living.”
  • “Much of our uprightness is imputed… but much of our uprightness is also actionable.”
  • “If we are not walking with Yehovah Eloheyka, we are walking with someone else.”

Reflection / discussion questions

  • When you say “I’m walking with God,” what concrete covenant markers (relationship, obedience, fruit) are you actually describing?
  • Where do you most commonly drift out of alignment with YHVH’s will—habits, priorities, speech, relationships, or unseen thoughts?
  • What does “walking in the light” require you to bring into the open before Father and Messiah this week?
  • How do you hold together imputed righteousness in Messiah and actionable righteousness in daily life without neglecting either?
  • What does set-apartness (holiness) look like in your context—work, home, fellowship, and media consumption?
  • Which Fruit of the Spirit do you most need the Ruach HaKodesh to cultivate in you right now?
  • How does Matthew 7:21–23 challenge cultural assumptions about salvation and discipleship?

Related listening / series connections

  • Covenant Series: This episode is a stand-alone teaching that also fits within the broader Covenant Series framework.
  • Tazria–Metzora teaching on purity: Referenced for understanding purity as fellowship (with emphasis on moral/spiritual purity).
  • Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5–7): Recommended as the clearest template for “walking in the light” and kingdom living.

Call to action

If this teaching edified you, consider sharing it with a friend or fellowship, and set aside time this week to study 1 John 1 and Matthew 5–7 alongside Deuteronomy 10. Pray for the Ruach HaKodesh to keep you aligned—walking in the light, producing fruit, and living out covenant loyalty through Yeshua Messiah.

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Clean or Unclean? The Torah’s Call to Set-Apart Living. My Sabbath Thoughts and Reflections on Torah Reading Tazria-Metzorah

by | Apr 18, 2026 | Podcasts

Clean or Unclean? The Torah's Call to Set-Apart Living. My Sabbath Thoughts and Reflections on Torah Reading Tazria-Metzorah

by Rod Thomas | The Messianic Torah Observer

Episode: Torah Reading Tazria–Metzorah — Clean or Unclean? The Torah’s Call to Set-Apart Living

Summary: In this installment of the Messianic Torah Observer, I reflect on Torah Reading Tazria–Metzorah (Leviticus 12:1–15:33), exploring the Torah’s purity standards and how they point beyond the physical to enduring spiritual principles. Using the themes of childbirth, tzaraat (“leprosy”), and bodily flows, this teaching highlights how holiness is protected, how cleansing and restoration work, and how Yeshua refocuses defilement from external ritual concerns to the heart (Matthew 15:10–20). I close this episode with practical encouragement to pursue both physical stewardship and deeper spiritual cleanness as temples of Yehovah’s presence.

In this episode:

  • Overview of Tazria–Metzorah and its three major sections (childbirth, tzaraat, bodily flows)
  • Why purity standards matter: holiness, community, and access to Yehovah’s presence
  • Hygienic and ritual purposes: not mutually exclusive
  • The priesthood’s role: examining, diagnosing, declaring clean/unclean, mediating restoration
  • Quarantine, “seventh day” separation, and “eighth day” restoration as a pattern of new beginnings
  • Cleansing, atonement, and water immersion as recurring Torah themes
  • How to apply “out-of-commission” Torah instructions today through spirit-and-truth principles
  • Sin as the deeper parallel to impurity; protecting the set-apart community from “leaven”
  • Yeshua’s teaching: defilement proceeds from the heart (Matthew 15:10–20)
  • Practical encouragement: maintain the body as a temple and pursue spiritual, emotional, mental cleanness

Scripture references mentioned:

  • Leviticus 12:1–8 (childbirth and purification)
  • Leviticus 13:1–14:32 (tzaraat / “leprosy”)
  • Leviticus 15:1–33 (bodily flows)
  • Exodus 19:5–6 (treasured possession; priestly kingdom; holy nation)
  • Leviticus 19:2; 1 Peter 1:16 (be holy as He is holy)
  • Isaiah 55:8 (His ways/thoughts above ours)
  • Matthew 5:18; Matthew 5:20 (Torah enduring; righteousness)
  • Matthew 6:33 (seek first the Kingdom)
  • John 4:23–24 (worship in spirit and truth)
  • 1 Corinthians 6:19 (body as temple)
  • Hebrews 9 (Messiah’s priestly work; atonement themes)
  • 1 Corinthians 15:46 (natural first, then spiritual)
  • 2 Timothy 3:16–17 (all Scripture profitable)
  • Hebrews 12:1 (sin as weight; running the race)
  • 1 Corinthians 5:6; Galatians 5:9 (leaven principle)
  • Matthew 15:10–20 (what defiles a person)
  • John 8:12; 1 John 1:7–9 (walk in the light; confession and cleansing)
  • 2 Corinthians 5:21 (righteousness in Messiah)

Reflection questions:

  • Where do you most often treat “cleanness” as merely external rather than a heart issue?
  • What patterns of separation and restoration (“seven” then “eight”) do you see in your own walk?
  • How can you pursue set-apartness in practical ways while keeping the focus on spiritual cleanness?
  • Are there “leaven-like” compromises that need to be addressed for the health of your fellowship/community?
  • What does it look like this week to walk in the light and practice confession and repentance?

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