Climbing the Top of the Ladder Without Circumcision

Someone who wants to attain righteousness through circumcision has to obey the whole of the law, as the apostle Paul made clear in Galatians 5:3, and furthermore has fallen away from grace (Galatians 5:4). We began to discuss in the last article why the attempt to become Torah obedient might be very dangerous for a Christian believer. It happens all the time; first, such a believer will let himself be convinced that faith alone wouldn't be sufficient to draw closer to God, and then he will probably convert to Judaism. Because no one in Judaism will be excited if you tell them that you believe in Yeshua (so probably the original name of Jesus) as the Messiah, you will either leave him completely, or you will deny him in public, while believing in him secretly. But we know what Jesus said in Matthew 10:33 (KJV): "But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven." Someone who testifies to Jesus before others will earn Mochin from the higher worlds. Those Mochin are spiritual lights - we could say the mind or divine intellect of the upper system.

We can imagine the upper system as a gigantic network of energy, where the messiah ruling in heaven sits on the throne of God. From there, all the lights will be channeled hierarchically downwards through several righteous souls and angels. Someone's merit in this world will determine his stature in the upper world. In the end only the fruit of one's spirit counts - it is action alone that matters. This means that someone who has faith will perform the works, which were prepared for us beforehand by God (Ephesians 2:10). Faith without works is dead (James 2:17). In Kabbalah, the lowest spiritual world is called the world of Assiyah, which is the world of action. Only through action do we have the choice between good and evil. Good and evil can only meet in our world, which is considered as the last end or, better to say, the reflection of the world of Assiyah. Through Christ, we're not elevating through the performance of the ritual law but through deeds that serve others, and mostly our spiritual brothers and sisters (Galatians 6:10). This is not works righteousness but can be considered as the love to a woman. We normally don't do good to earn the love of our wife, but we do good because we love her. Real love is unconditional, which means that we expect nothing in return. And so someone who  really has the spirit of God will overflow with good deeds - not out of effort, but because it has become our new nature. This new nature means to walk constantly on a straight way with God. We don't do good because we want to earn something, but because we stand in grace and want to draw closer to the image of Christ (Romans 8:29, 2 Corinthians 3:18).