Finding the Ancient Path

Looking back over the years, I have always had a passion for God’s Word and Yeshua. I remember ordering stacks of tracts from World Missionary Press and leaving them on cars in parking lots or tucked away in stores. I was on a mission to reach the lost with God’s Word.

I even remember making a sign once that said “Turn to God.” My message wasn’t received quite right because people thought I was directing traffic and started turning into the parking lot! The other side said “Turn from Sin,” but at the time, did I truly know what sin was? Was my definition of sin based on the Bible, or just what I had been told?

I grew up being told that sin was mostly moral things: lying, stealing, or having a bad heart. I was taught to “just believe in your heart, confess your sin, and God will forgive you.” While that is true, it was only a small part of the picture. I didn’t realize that the Bible actually gives us a very clear, concrete definition of sin.

I had been taught my whole life that the Old Testament commandments were done away with. But as my eyes were opened, I realized those commandments aren’t old or gone but they are the foundation of how to live! Finding the Ancient Path starts in Genesis.

If you look at the New Testament, it gives us the definition directly:

In the original Greek, the word for lawlessness is anomia.

• A = “Without”
• Nomos = “Law” (specifically the Torah/God’s Law)

So, sin isn’t just a bad feeling or a mistake. Sin is living as if God’s Law doesn’t exist.

When I realized this, everything changed. I had to let go of man made traditions and modern religious definitions of sin and replace them with what God says is sin. I realized that breaking the Sabbath or eating things He called unclean wasn’t just a suggestion, but a part of the Law I was supposed to be walking in.

I’m still learning every day. The journey never ends. I believe that someone who thinks they know everything stopped growing a long time ago. To keep growing, we must always be willing to be corrected by the Father because He loves a humble, teachable heart.

I remember watching a video about the history of Christmas. That was the turning point in my life. It introduced me to the “Ancient Paths” a way of life that felt foreign and different, yet it was exactly what my soul needed.

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I begged God, “Please tell me, is celebrating Christmas evil or not?” He answered me in a way I never expected. While watching a Christmas commercial, I saw a family gathered around a beautiful table. One man looked at the camera and smiled, but as he did, I saw something spiritual, a demonic grin hidden behind the holiday cheer. I felt fear In that moment, I believe God allowed me to see the spiritual reality beneath the surface. From that day on, I stopped celebrating Christmas, Halloween, and eventually Easter. These were man made traditions I had grown up loving, but never truly knowing their roots.

It took years to reach a point where these holidays no longer had power over me. For the first few years, it was hard. Family would ask, “Where is Theresa? Why isn’t she here?” It is difficult to separate yourself from the traditions that bind a family together. By the fifth year, they stopped asking; they simply knew why I wasn’t there.

During this time, I also began to take dietary laws seriously. It wasn’t easy. There were times I gave in, times I ate unclean things by accident, and times I had the “what you don’t know won’t hurt you” mindset. Eventually, I moved from being casual to being committed.

My deepest prayer from the beginning has been: “Lord, I want to know Your truth. Help me walk in Your ways. I don’t care what I lose; I just want to know You and Yeshua more.”

Today, my walk looks very different from the majority. Because I live outside the frameworks of mainstream Christianity and even some Messianic circles, my beliefs are often frowned upon. I struggle with religious labels. Am I Christian? Messianic? Based on the common doctrines of those groups today, I would have to say no. You can see a short list of what I believe on my About page here.

Yeshua said this path is narrow and few find it. He was right. If you choose this path, many will reject you as “extreme” or a “heretic.”

Can you handle that? When everyone wants to eat pork or shrimp, or hang out on Saturdays, can you stand under the pressure of those who say, “Oh, come on, just one shrimp won’t hurt”?

Yeshua walked out the Torah every day. He tells us to walk exactly as He walked, not partly, but fully. Are you willing to let go of everything you thought you knew to follow Him? I say this with sorrow in my heart: most will not. Most believe they are already following Him when they aren’t. They find the path too difficult and stop searching because they believe they have already found it.