The just shall live by faith, but faith without works (obedience) is dead...

When Paul wrote, "For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith" he was referring to Habakkuk 2:4, which says, "Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith." And yet Habakkuk 2:10 says, Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul." This is in the Old Testament, yet YHWH says that the sinner would be cut off, even though they were to live by faith. In the Old Testament, sin was considered anything against Torah or the Law. So even though they were living by faith, sinners were still cut off.

Now consider that Hebrews 3:16-4:2 says, "For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. "

So the Gospel was preached to those, who spent 40 years in the wilderness, yet they perished because of their unbelief. They didn't have faith. They did not have faith that YHWH would provide for them, and they did not live after faith, but after the flesh.

Paul says in 1 Corinthians 10:1-6, "Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; And did all eat the same spiritual meat; And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted."

So it is not a matter of just living by faith. Being just has always been accompanied with obedience, and nothing has changed. Consider these verses:

Romans 2:13 - For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
Romans 7:12 - Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Galatians 3:11-12 - But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.

It goes on to say, "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree" in Galatians 3:13, but what was the curse of the law?

Deuteronomy 4:40 says, "Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever. " So by walking in the Torah, life was prolonged. That was a blessing.

Deuteronomy 11:26 says, "Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day: And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God. And verse 32 says, "And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day."

So in sum, living by grace never had anything to do by living by faith alone, but faith is accompanied with obedience, because James 2:17 says, "Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone." We are to walk by Yahushua's example, and His example was, per Philippians 2:8, " And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. " We, too, are to be obedient to death, as Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 2:9, "For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things. " So obedience accompanies faith. Torah is not a curse, but is a blessing, and the curse, which came with the Torah, came from not obeying it. Since we have Yahushua in our heart, His purpose is to make us able to obey the Torah, so that we might accompany faith with obedience. That is why Paul wrote in Romans 8:14 "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. And John 16:13 tells us, "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come."

We also know that the new covenant was, from Hebrews 10:16-17"This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. "

And it is the Torah, written in our heart, that I will be judged by, because it is written, "Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another; In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel."