Salvation, grace and works are in relationship with each other, they are not and never have been opposed. What got man in the fallen state we find ourselves in today? Was it something moral that they did wrong? Did they neglect the Sabbath? NO!
They ate of the forbidden food! So please do not tell me that what goes in our mouths does not matter because that is what started it all in the first place. Ever heard the phrase, “the way to a man's heart is through his stomach”? That did not come from no where, it came right from the garden, in the beginning.
You've got the Christian verse plucking down to a tee. The only problem is that verse plucking broadens the path, it does not keep it narrow, straight and difficult as it was meant to be.
Mt 7:13 “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. 14 Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
The bride is the remnant, not the majority who thinks their way is right. We see this picture in Joshua and Caleb, those who were alive to actually cross over. Over 3 million left Egypt but only 2 of the original that left Egypt actually entered into the Promised Land. Why?
Num 14:24 But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it.
Caleb received through grace, the Spirit of Truth. Caleb was not of the ‘seed’ of Judah of the Israelites who left Egypt, he was one of the smart Gentiles who left was grafted into Judah just as we are grafted into Messiah.
Num 32:12 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the LORD.’
Both Caleb and Joshua, the natural and the spiritual, walking in the Spirit of Truth
Jn 4:23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
And as we witness from Yeshua’s testimony in John 4, the Jews have the truth and the Gentiles have the spirit but it is only when the two unite and become one that we become one with God as Yeshua is one with God.
As far as the yoke, that yoke is what Judah had added to God's word, that salvation is by works. But just because it is not by works does not mean we do not do it, that is why Yeshua came, so we can do it without the fear of the curse of it for our past sins, “for all have sinned and fallen short”. Why do you think Yeshua said, go and sin no more? Did the lame man in the temple do something immoral to cause him to be lame? No, disease and infirmity are results of the curse of the Law for not obeying it and that curse can go to the forth generation unless one chooses to stop it as it exampled for us in Eze 18 as well as the story of Ruth.
Dt 30:19 “I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live”
Mt 5:18 “For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the Law till all is fulfilled. 19 Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” (see also Jer 23)
” So please do not tell me that what goes in our mouths does not matter because that is what started it all in the first place. “
It doesn’t matter. What comes out of the mouth is indeed more important:
Mat 15:17-20 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught? (18) But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. (19) For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: (20) These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
Also read Romans 14 and 1 Cor 10.
Wash and repeat, wash and repeat, until your heresy is cleaned entirely.