Torah & Obedience

Bible Study Boot Camp challenges believers to move beyond passive or selective reading. The speaker emphasizes knowing who is speaking and addressed, tracing Israel’s covenant history, studying the Torah and Prophets alongside the apostolic writings, reading difficult passages in context, verifying claims rather than inheriting them, and becoming careful students of Paul. The closing fellowship reinforces sustained study habits and discernment.

In this Teaching, David and Glenn examine when division among believers is destructive and when separation may be necessary for faithfulness to Yehovah. They caution against dividing over personal preferences, culture, differing gifts, maturity, or secondary interpretations. They also discuss Scriptural warnings against pride, strife, false teaching, and participation in wrongdoing. Through passages in Romans, Corinthians, the Prophets, and Yeshua’s teachings, the discussion returns to truth spoken in love, humility, discernment, and the possibility of restoration.

This Teaching examines biblical discipleship as committed fellowship in which believers learn to follow Yeshua and help one another mature. Starting with Matthew 28:18-20, the speaker identifies being a disciple, making disciples, and continuing to teach obedience as an ongoing relationship. The Teaching develops the “one another” commands, iron sharpening iron, the necessity of humility, encouragement, correction, admonishment, rebuke, and peer-to-peer accountability. It closes by discussing the importance of confession and practical caution about unhealthy authority structures.

This Teaching presents practical guidance for discipleship relationships among believers. Drawing on Yeshua’s example of servant leadership, the speaker warns against invented hierarchies and control, encourages humility when receiving correction, and teaches restraint in speech. The fellowship discussion focuses on Galatians 6:1, restoring those overtaken in sin with gentleness, guarding against temptation when discussing personal struggles, and using Scripture rather than personal status as the standard.

This Teaching examines the origins and practices associated with Christmas and Santa Claus through the speaker’s Torah-focused discussion of worship, historical traditions, and biblical warnings against idolatry and syncretism. It distinguishes commemorating Yeshua’s birth from the familiar customs of Santa Claus, trees, gifts, and winter festivities. The speaker discusses December 25, Yule, Saturnalia, Krampus, St. Nicholas, and the golden calf, then closes with counsel to approach relatives and fellow believers with patience rather than judgment. Historical links and genealogies of customs are claims made in the Teaching and warrant independent verification.

This Teaching examines the traditional seven Noahide laws and whether Scripture presents them as a separate, universally binding code for Gentiles. The speaker reads Genesis 9, compares its stated commands with the later seven-part formulation, and argues that Yehovah’s character, impartial judgment, and instructions for Israel and the stranger do not support separating believers into permanently different covenant standards. The Teaching also discusses rabbinic literature, concerns about purported future enforcement, and questions from the fellowship.

This Teaching traces Yehovah’s instruction before the tablets at Sinai. Starting with Adam, Cain and Abel, Noah, and Abraham, the speaker examines evidence of offerings, sin, accountability, marriage, clean and unclean animals, justice, circumcision, and covenant faithfulness before the Mosaic covenant. He argues that Sinai formally codified divine instruction already known in earlier generations. The closing Q&A explores universal obligations, land-dependent provisions, and the distinction between covenant loyalty and enforcing Israel’s national legal system outside the land.

This Teaching contrasts biblical unity with enforced uniformity. The speaker argues that shared submission to Yehovah’s word and the testimony of Yeshua should unite believers, without requiring identical views on every secondary issue. Genesis 3, Babel, episodes from Israel’s history, John 17, and Paul’s counsel to Corinth anchor the study. A closing fellowship discussion tests these conclusions, particularly the interpretation of factions, the works of the Father in John 10, and the role of councils such as Acts 15.

This Teaching is a fellowship discussion of Yeshua’s second great commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” grounded in Leviticus 19:18 and Matthew 22:36-40. Speakers examine the Good Samaritan and the judgment of the sheep and goats, then explore how love is expressed in mercy, food and clothing, time, practical service, generosity, truthful speech, and sacrifice. The group openly weighs different approaches to homelessness and financial giving, the needs of fellow believers and the wider community, and the importance of prayerful discernment. The conversation emphasizes that love is more than a sentiment and can require difficult, costly action.

This Teaching calls believers to test inherited church teachings about tithing against Scripture. Beginning with Abraham’s gift to Melchizedek and Jacob’s vow, the speaker traces the tenth before Sinai and then examines the defined agricultural and livestock tithe, its holiness to Yahovah, and its distribution to the Levites under the temple system. He describes covenant stewardship as sustaining worship, supporting those without a land inheritance, and helping vulnerable people. The Teaching distinguishes the mandatory, land- and Levitical-based tithe from voluntary gifts supporting gospel workers, reading Yeshua’s words and Paul’s letters against the backdrop of a functioning first-century temple. The speaker concludes that Christians cannot replicate the Torah’s prescribed tithe without the land, temple, and Levitical system, but still have a responsibility to give freely, support faithful ministry, meet needs, and handle what belongs to Yahovah honorably. The later Q&A revisits Malachi 3, ill-gotten donations, and the difference between covenant changes and the temple’s destruction.