Observe All My Ordinances

I was just reading through the Torah commentary for Kedoshim (Leviticus 19:1 - 20:27) in Torah Club Vol. 2: The Shadows of the Messiah from First Fruits of Zion and just had to put this final bit here so I won't forget it.

Observe All My Ordinances

You shall thus observe all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them; I am the LORD. (Leviticus 19:37)

The laws of holiness end with a final stipulation: "You shall thus observe all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them." (19:37) Messiah kept all the statutes and ordinances on God. He walked the commandments out. His obedience to the commandments availed perfect righteousness, a righteousness that God reckons to those who place faith in Him. But beyond righteousness, there is also this matter of holiness. Yeshua's obedience resulted in perfect holiness.

Now, as His disciples, we walk in His holiness, which we share by virtue of our identification with Him. After all, "we are members of His body." (Ephesians 5:30) Paul explains this principle with a vivid illustration:

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Messiah? Shall I then take away the members of Messiah and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says [in Genesis 2:24] "The two shall become one flesh." But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him. (1 Corinthians 6:15-17)

The same point should be made in any matter of sin. Shall I take the members of Messiah and violate the holiness of Messiah? For He is the Holy One of God, and as members of His body, we share in His title. Therefore, we, the body of believers, are also the Holy Ones of God. We are all holy ones.

The word for holiness and holy ones in Hebrew is K'doshim, but in Greek it is hagios, which translates into English as the word saints. The Apostles applied the term saints to all believers in Messiah. It is the title for believers. We are the "holy ones" because we are believers in the Holy One of God. Having joined ourselves to Him, we are one with Him in spirit. And He walks in unity with and in imitation of His Father, the Holy One of Israel, blessed be He, whom we bless thrice daily with the traditional blessing:

You are holy, and your Name is holy, and holy ones will praise you every day, blessed are You, LORD, the Holy God.
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Which calls to mind the following scriptures:

James 1:21-25 (Amplified) So get rid of all uncleanness and the rampant outgrowth of wickedness, and in a humble (gentle, modest) spirit receive and welcome the Word which implanted and rooted [in your hearts] contains the power to save your souls. But be doers of the Word [obey the message], and not merely listeners to it, betraying yourselves [into deception by reasoning contrary to the Truth]. For if anyone only listens to the Word without obeying it and being a doer of it, he is like a man who looks carefully at his [own] natural face in a mirror; For he thoughtfully observes himself, and then goes off and promptly forgets what he was like. But he who looks carefully into the faultless law, the [law] of liberty, and is faithful to it and perseveres in looking into it, being not a heedless listener who forgets but an active doer [who obeys], he shall be blessed in his doing (his life of obedience).


1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (Amplified) Do you not know that your body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you, Whom you have received [as a Gift] from God? You are not your own, You were bought with a price [purchased with a preciousness and paid for, made His own]. So then, honor God and bring glory to Him in your body.

Trust and Obey; Just Do It!