21/07/2026
The Olive Tree, Grace, and The Call to Holiness
Yes, the Olive Tree represents the Covenant People of The Most High—the Household of Faith into which Believing Gentiles are grafted. Yeshua is the Living Source of that Covenant Life, just as He said:
“I am the Vine; you are the branches.”
The People of God did not begin as a separate Gentile religion called “Christianity.” The Covenant Family was established through Abraham and includes all whom The Most High has redeemed through Faith, reaching back even to the Righteous who lived before Abraham. Through Yeshua, Repentant People from among the nations are welcomed, cleansed, redeemed, and grafted into this same Household of Faith.
The term “Christianity” is merely a human title. Some who use that title may truly belong to Yeshua, while others may remain Spiritually Dead in their sins. He does not save a religious brand called “Christian” or “Jew.” He saves those who turn away from Rebellion, return to Him, and are washed by His Blood.
To sin is to become otherwise-minded toward The Father and toward Christ—to reject His Will in favor of our own.
Yes, Christ fulfilled the Torah. However, the word “fulfilled” does not mean abolished, ended, or made permissible to break. Yeshua did not fulfill the Commandments by destroying them. He fulfilled them by walking in Perfect Obedience, revealing their Fullness, and completing everything written concerning His Redemptive Mission.
Yeshua clearly warned against teaching others to disregard even the least of the Commandments of God. Fulfillment, therefore, cannot reasonably be used as permission to continue breaking the Ten Commandments.
We must also distinguish between the Eternal Moral Commandments of The Most High and the civil, ceremonial, and sacrificial regulations that governed Ancient Israel. Those regulations served as a schoolmaster, witness, and Prophetic Guidepost pointing toward the Work of Messiah. The sacrifices, priestly ordinances, and laws governing the Nation of Israel do not all function under the New Covenant in the same manner as they did under Moses.
Yet the Holiness, Righteousness, Justice, and Truth revealed in the Commandments of The Father have not changed.
It is Wonderful to understand the words of John:
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things were made by Him.”
Yeshua is the Eternal Word through whom all things were created. Therefore, when The Most High revealed Himself and His Word to Moses, we can understand that the Son was active in that Revelation. Scripture teaches that no man has seen The Father in His Fullness, yet Moses spoke with God “face to face,” and his own face shone because of the Glory he had encountered.
For this reason, I believe that Yeshua, the Eternal Word of God, was the very One through whom The Father’s Commandments were revealed to Moses.
Since Christ is the One through whom Creation was made, and since He perfectly revealed and obeyed the Will of His Father, He Faithfully fulfilled every Commandment without error and without sin.
Through Yeshua and through the Power of His Holy Spirit, we are empowered to resist sin, obey God, and refuse to make Deliberate Rebellion a pattern within our lives. We are never to willingly or willfully disregard the Commandments of The Most High while claiming to love Him.
Yeshua Himself said:
“If you love Me, keep My Commandments.”
Knowing that Christ created all things according to the Will of His Father, revealed the Holiness of The Father, and perfectly obeyed His Commandments, we can be certain that we also are called to Holiness and Obedience.
What then? Are we saved by keeping the Commandments?
No.
We are saved by Grace alone.
It is written that we were created for Good Works. Therefore, the Good Works we were created to perform cannot purchase our Salvation. We were created to do the Will of God, to walk in Righteousness, and to keep His Commandments. Obedience is the proper Fruit of a Redeemed Life, but it is not the price of Redemption.
When we turn away from God and commit sin, we violate His Holy Will and wound our Fellowship with Him. Merely discontinuing the sinful act and returning to ordinary Good Works cannot, by itself, remove the guilt or cleanse the stain of sin.
Only His Grace can heal the soul.
Only the Blood of Yeshua can cleanse us from sin, heal the breach, and restore us to Holiness and Fellowship with Himself and The Father.
Therefore, we are saved and washed clean by Grace. It is the Gift of God.
We are not saved by Obedience, but neither are we saved in order to continue willingly in Rebellion. We are saved by Grace, washed by the Blood of Yeshua, and renewed by the Holy Spirit so that we may walk in Holiness as He walked.
Sin brings Condemnation because sin is the breaking of God’s Holy Commandments. When we discover that we have sinned, it is the Will of God and our responsibility as His People to repent, turn away from the error, and return to Him so that we may be cleansed and restored.
There is no room in the Redeemed Life for making peace with Willful Sin.
Scripture gives no assurance to the person who knowingly continues in Rebellion while presuming upon Grace. Grace must never be treated as permission to sin. The warnings concerning Deliberate Sin are extremely serious, because the person who knowingly hardens himself against the Truth places himself in Spiritual Danger.
What, then, would I say to someone who had once walked Faithfully but later chose to commit a Deliberate Sin, such as adultery, fornication, or theft, and now wanted to know whether any hope remained?
I would not treat the sin as a light matter.
I would not excuse it, minimize it, rename it, or offer False Comfort while the person continued in it.
I would warn that person to turn completely away from the sin and return to Yeshua with Genuine Repentance—with a Broken Spirit and a Contrite Heart, deeply grieved over what had been done against our Precious Creator.
Yet I would also point that person toward the Mercy of God.
Scripture declares that a Broken and Contrite Heart He will not despise. There is Mercy for the person who truly repents, abandons the sin, and returns to Yeshua in Humility. But there is no promise of cleansing for the person who intends to continue deliberately in Rebellion while merely speaking religious words.
We, the Redeemed of The Most High, are Branches within His Covenant People, regardless of the nation, tribe, or background from which we were called. Some are Natural Branches, and others have been grafted in, but every Faithful Branch Lives only through the Life and Mercy of God.
We are called to walk as Christ walked.
It is enough that the servant should become like his Master.
We are called to Holiness. Just as it would never be acceptable for either a Bride or a Bridegroom to deliberately violate the Holiness of their Marriage Covenant, neither should we knowingly violate our Covenant Relationship with Yeshua.
Through Him, we are given Power, Strength, Wisdom, Correction, and Guidance. Through the Holy Spirit, our minds are renewed, our hearts are transformed, and we are empowered to resist the sins that once enslaved us.
We must not deliberately return to the corruption from which we were delivered, like a dog returning to its vomit. Scripture warns that those who continually practice impurity, deceit, violence, and Rebellion without Repentance will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
Therefore, let us not boast in a religious title.
Let us not presume upon Grace.
Let us not claim to love Yeshua while knowingly rejecting His Commandments.
Instead, let us remain in Him, walk as He walked, repent whenever we stumble, and continually seek the Holiness without which no one shall see The Lord.
We are not saved by our Good Works.
We are saved by His Grace.
Yet the Grace that saves us also teaches us to deny ungodliness and to live soberly, righteously, and Faithfully before Him.
This is the Life of the Redeemed:
Cleansed by His Blood,
Saved by His Grace,
Renewed by His Spirit,
Grafted into His Covenant People,
And called to walk in Holiness with Yeshua our Messiah.
