18 For verily I say to you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled *
* There are two different Greek words here translated as fulfill. The first one is: pleroo, which means to make replete, or to make full The second is: ginomai, which means to come to pass
19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
So Yeshua did
not teach that one needed to just keep the greater and lesser commandments,
but even the least. The
commandment that is traditionally known as the “least of the
commandments” is found in Deuteronomy 22:6.
6 If you come across a bird’s nest beside the road, either in a tree or on the ground, and the mother is sitting on the young, or on the eggs, do not take the mother with the young.
7 You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may go well with you, and you may have a long life.
We see that
Yeshua was NOT telling us JUST to follow the “moral” laws, but, rather, he
was telling us to obey even the “least” of the laws (those whose purpose we
may not even understand)
Now if Yeshua
taught so favorably toward keeping the law (being Torah observant), why then
do so many people believe that he did away with the law?
Much of this misunderstanding comes from not fully understanding the
culture and context