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Torah) which were in justification” and practiced that we are saved, but according to Yahweh’s mercy, “through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the sacred ruach, which he (the father) poured out upon us richly through Yahushua the messiah, our saviour; that having been justified by his grace, heirs we should become according to the hope of eternal life.”61 Accordingly, the quickening of the sacred ruach shall come to us by a promise in the Torah of Trust. This quickening of the sacred ruach must not be confused with the “gifts of the sacred ruach,” such as healing, wisdom, prophecy, and the like, which are temporal and can be obtained in our present life.62 The quickening of the ruach gives us eternal life.63 Saul, for example, informs us that the messiah ransomed us from the curse of the written Torah of Moses, having become for us a curse, “that to the nations the blessing of Abraham might come in the messiah, Yahushua, that THE PROMISE OF THE RUACH we might receive by means of trust.”64 Notice that we are to receive the blessing of Abraham by means of the messiah. For that reason, the ruach is called the “ruach of trust.”65 The ruach does not come to us “out of the works of the Torah” but rather “out of the report of trust.”66 Because the report is the word of Yahweh, the ruach is the ruach of truth,67 as Scriptures is the “word of truth.”68 Once more the two aspects of the handwritten Torah are revealed: (1) the instructions for the works of the Torah and (2) the instructions revealing the conditions of the Covenants of Promise. In the latter instance, trust and the ruach are involved. By means of Yahushua, we are set free from those portions of the Torah of Moses demanding works of the flesh (sacrifices, cleansing rites, dress requirements, etc.) for justification. For the Torah of the ruach of life in the messiah Yahushua set me free from the Torah of sin and death. For powerless is the (handwritten) Torah in that it was weak through the flesh, eloah having sent his own son in the likeness of flesh of sin, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh, THAT THE REQUIREMENT OF THE TORAH SHOULD BE FULFILLED IN US, who not according to flesh walk, but according to ruach.69 Yahweh is by substance ruach and from him comes forth the ruach of truth.70 Accordingly, we must love and become obedient to truth,71 and those who bow to him must do so in ruach and truth.72 At the same time, if we live by 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72
Titus, 3:3–7. E.g., see 1 Cor., 12:1–30, 14:1, 12; Heb., 2:4. 2 Cor., 3:6; Rom., 8:1f, 11; Gal., 6:8. Gal., 3:13f. 2 Cor., 4:12. Gal., 3:2, 5. John, 14:16f, 15:26, 16:13; 1 Pet., 1:22; 1 John, 4:6, 5:7. 2 Tim., 2:15. Rom., 8:2–4. John, 4:24, 15:26; 1 John, 5:6. 1 Pet., 1:22; Eph., 4:15.; 2 Thess., 2:10. John, 4:23.
