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• Supplies
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Temple Sheckles Available In The Hallway!
Romans 31 What advantage then hath the Jew? Or
what profit is there of circumcision? 2 Much in
every way!
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PENING

• low the Shofar

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PENING

• Why do we blow the Shofar?
• Exodus 1916
• On the morning of the third day there was
  thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over
  the mountain, and there was the sounding of a
  very loud SHOFAR blast. Everyone in the camp
  trembled.
• Because this is the way G-D begins sacred
  assemblies

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Announcements

• Read letter from WFA

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News

• Egypt.

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HEMA ISRAELHear oh Israel

• Shema Israel Adoni Elohaynu
• (Hear oh Israel the L-RD our G-D)
• Adoni Echad
• (The L-RD is one)

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HEMA ISRAELHear oh Israel Part 2

• Barukh shem k'vod malkhuto l'olam va'ed.Blessed
  be the Name of His glorious kingdom for ever and
  ever.

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hy do we recite/sing the SHEMA?

• Because Messiah said it was the greatest
  Commandment
• Mark 1228-29
• 28 And one of the scribes came, and having heard
  them reasoning together, and perceiving that He
  had answered them well, asked Him, Which is the
  greatest commandment of all?
• 29 And Yeshua answered him, The first of all the
  commandments is, Hear, O Israel The Lord our God
  is One Lord

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e-nay Ma TovBehold how good - Psalm 1331Am

• He-Nay Maw tove
• Behold how good
• Oo-maw nyeeem
• And how pleasant it is
• Shevet aw-heem
• For brothers to dwell
• Gum Yaw Hawd
• In unity

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menCL 3 A

• A-men .A-men.A-men, A-men, A-men
• Baw-rouk Ha-Shem, Baw-rouk Ha-Shem,
• Blessed be the Name, blessed be the Name
• Baw-rouk Ha-Shem Me-she-ach
• Blessed be the Name of Messiah

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-Seh ShalomCL3 Play Em

• Em
• O-seh Shalom Beem rue-mawv
• Am D7
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• Who yah-seh Shalom aw-lay-nu
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• V'al kol Yees-raw-ale
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• Sing twice 2X

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Chavareem Toveem!

• Chavareem Toveem!
• Meet any new people. Let them see that Messianics
  truly understand community and brotherly/sisterly
  love.
• If someone is already talking to a visitor stand
  in line to meet them dont just walk away. We
  want to descend on them like they are a lost
  relative.
• Say hello to old friends. Find out how their week
  has been going. Show that you care.
• Say hello to anyone you have something against
  and give them a hug ?. There is room in the Body
  for forgiveness.
• Exercise modesty with your hugs.

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Chavareem Toveem

• Chavereem toveem (Good friends) Chavereem Toveem
  (Good friends)
• this is the time to stand up and sing
• Chavereem Toveem (Good friends) Chavereem Toveem
  (Good friends)
• on this Sabbath day it's an offering we bring
• Baruch HaShem chavere shellee (Blessed be The
  Name my friend)
• we're brothers and sisters one family
• Chavereem toveem chavereem toveem
• this is the time to stand up and sing
• Chavereem toveem chavereem toveem
• on this Sabbath day it's the offering we bring
• Baruch HaShem chavere shellee
• united in Him we will live throughout eternity.
• Chaveereem toveem

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Prayers

• Pray for Bob for strength and health through his
  treatments for cancer.
• Pray for Israel. May His Shalom (Yeshua) come
  quickly.
• Pray for Gleeah for healing of her various
  illnesses.
• Pams pinched nerve in shoulder

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Special
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ring our gifts to the altar

• We Bring Our Sacrifice With Praise
• We Bring Our Sacrifice With Praise
• Unto the House of the LORD (2 X)
• And we offer unto Him
• Our sacrifices with thanksgiving
• And we offer unto Him
• Our sacrifices with joy

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La'asok B'divray Torah Blessing Before The
Reading Of The Torah
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Next Weeks Parsha

• Feb 5, 2011 Teruma ("Heave offering")
• Exodus 251-2719
• 1 Kings 526-613
• Mark 10-11

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Parsha

• Jan 29, 2011 Mishpatim ("Judgements")
• Exodus 211-2418
• Isaiah 661-24
• Mark 9
• Were going to read
• Torah Ex 211-11
• Haftarah Isaiah 661-24
• Brit Hadasha

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Ex. 21 1-11

• KJV Exodus 211 Now these are the judgments which
  thou shalt set before them.
• 2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he
  shall serve and in the seventh he shall go out
  free for nothing.
• 3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by
  himself if he were married, then his wife shall
  go out with him.

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Ex. 21 1-11

• 4 If his master have given him a wife, and she
  have born him sons or daughters the wife and her
  children shall be her master's, and he shall go
  out by himself.
• 5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love
  my master, my wife, and my children I will not
  go out free

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Ex. 21 1-11

• 6 Then his master shall bring him unto the
  judges he shall also bring him to the door, or
  unto the door post and his master shall bore his
  ear through with an aul and he shall serve him
  for ever.

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Ex. 21 1-11

• 7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a
  maidservant, she shall not go out as the
  menservants do.

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Ex. 21 1-11

• 8 If she please not her master, who hath
  betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her
  be redeemed to sell her unto a strange nation he
  shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt
  deceitfully with her.

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Ex. 21 1-11

• 9 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he
  shall deal with her after the manner of
  daughters.
• 10 If he take him another wife her food, her
  raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not
  diminish.

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Ex. 21 1-11

• 11 And if he do not these three unto her, then
  shall she go out free without money.
• END

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NJB (New Jerusalem Bible) Isaiah 66 whole chapter

• NJB Isaiah 661 Thus says Yehova With heaven my
  throne and earth my footstool, what house could
  you build me, what place for me to rest,

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NJB (New Jerusalem Bible) Isaiah 66 whole chapter

• NJB Isaiah 661 Thus says Yehova With heaven my
  throne and earth my footstool, what house could
  you build me, what place for me to rest,

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NJB (New Jerusalem Bible) Isaiah 66 whole chapter

• 2 when all these things were made by me and all
  belong to me? - declares Yehova. But my eyes are
  drawn to the person of humbled and contrite
  spirit, who trembles at my word.

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NJB (New Jerusalem Bible) Isaiah 66 whole chapter

• 3 Some slaughter a bull, some kill a human being,
  some sacrifice a lamb, some strangle a dog, some
  present an offering of pig's blood, some burn
  memorial incense, a revolting blessing all these
  people have chosen their own ways and take
  delight in their disgusting practices.

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NJB (New Jerusalem Bible) Isaiah 66 whole chapter

• 4 I too take delight in making fools of them, I
  shall bring what they most fear down on them
  because I have called and no one would answer, I
  spoke and no one listened. They have done what I
  regard as evil, have chosen what displeases me.

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NJB (New Jerusalem Bible) Isaiah 66 whole chapter

• 5 Listen to the word of Yehova, you who tremble
  at his word. Your brothers, who hate and reject
  you because of my name, have said, 'Let Yehova
  show his glory, let us witness your joy!' But
  they will be put to shame.

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NJB (New Jerusalem Bible) Isaiah 66 whole chapter

• 6 Listen! An uproar from the city! A voice from
  the Temple! The voice of Yehova bringing
  retribution on his enemies.
• 7 Before being in labour she has given birth.
  Before the birth pangs came, she has been
  delivered of a child.

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NJB (New Jerusalem Bible) Isaiah 66 whole chapter

• 8 Who ever heard of such a thing, who ever saw
  anything like this? Can a country be born in one
  day? Can a nation be brought forth all at once?
  For Zion, scarcely in labour, has brought forth
  her children!

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NJB (New Jerusalem Bible) Isaiah 66 whole chapter

• 9 Shall I open the womb and not bring to birth?
  says Yehova. Shall I, who bring to birth, close
  the womb? says your God.
• 10 Rejoice with Jerusalem, be glad for her, all
  you who love her! Rejoice, rejoice with her, all
  you who mourned her!

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NJB (New Jerusalem Bible) Isaiah 66 whole chapter

• 11 So that you may be suckled and satisfied from
  her consoling breast, so that you may drink deep
  with delight from her generous nipple.
• 12 For Yahweh says this Look, I am going to
  send peace flowing over her like a river, and
  like a stream in spate the glory of the nations.
  You will be suckled, carried on her hip and
  fondled in her lap.

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NJB (New Jerusalem Bible) Isaiah 66 whole chapter

• 13 As a mother comforts a child, so I shall
  comfort you you will be comforted in Jerusalem.
• 14 At the sight your heart will rejoice, and
  your limbs regain vigour like the grass. To his
  servants Yehova will reveal his hand, but to his
  enemies his fury.

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NJB (New Jerusalem Bible) Isaiah 66 whole chapter

• 15 For see how Yehova comes in fire, his chariots
  like the whirlwind, to assuage his anger with
  burning, his rebukes with flaming fire.

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NJB (New Jerusalem Bible) Isaiah 66 whole chapter

• 16 For by fire will Yahweh execute fair
  judgement, and by his sword, on all people and
  Yehova's victims will be many.
• 17 As for those who sanctify themselves and
  purify themselves to enter the gardens, following
  the one in the centre, who eat the flesh of pigs,
  revolting things and rats their deeds and their
  thoughts will perish together, declares Yehova.

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NJB (New Jerusalem Bible) Isaiah 66 whole chapter

• 18 I am coming to gather every nation and every
  language. They will come to witness my glory.
• 19 I shall give them a sign and send some of
  their survivors to the nations to Tarshish, Put,
  Lud, Meshech, Tubal and Javan, to the distant
  coasts and islands that have never heard of me or
  seen my glory. They will proclaim my glory to the
  nations,

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NJB (New Jerusalem Bible) Isaiah 66 whole chapter

• 20 and from all the nations they will bring all
  your brothers as an offering to Yehova, on
  horses, in chariots, in litters, on mules and on
  camels, to my holy mountain, Jerusalem, Yehova
  says, like Israelites bringing offerings in clean
  vessels to Yehova's house.

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NJB (New Jerusalem Bible) Isaiah 66 whole chapter

• 21 And some of them I shall make into priests and
  Levites, Yehova says.
• 22 For as the new heavens and the new earth I am
  making will endure before me, declares Yehova, so
  will your race and your name endure.

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NJB (New Jerusalem Bible) Isaiah 66 whole chapter

• 23 From New Moon to New Moon, from Sabbath to
  Sabbath, all humanity will come and bow in my
  presence, Yehova says.

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NJB (New Jerusalem Bible) Isaiah 66 whole chapter

• 24 And on their way out they will see the corpses
  of those who rebelled against me for their worm
  will never die nor their fire be put out, and
  they will be held in horror by all humanity.
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Noten HaTorah

• Baruch atah Adonay Eloheynu melech ha'olam, asher
  bachar banu mikol-ha'amim, venatan lanu
  et-torato.Baruch atah Adonay, noten hatorah.
• Blessed are You, LORD our God, king of the
  universe, who chose us from all the peoples and
  gave to us His Torah. Blessed are You, LORD,
  giver of the Torah.

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Rebbes Parsha Mark 7

• So here again with this reading even though its
  in Davids Sterns Translation
• We get this idea that the Pharisees are bad and
  Yeshua is against them.

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Rebbes Parsha Mark 7

• We have to remember these passages are
  inter-Judaic dialogue NOT Christian OVER Judaic
  dialogue.
• We have to remember that the Pharisees saw Yeshua
  as one of their own and they loved Yeshua.

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Rebbes Parsha Mark 7

• What??? The Pharisees LOVED Yeshua???
• Yes they did!
• We Pharisees even saved His life.
• My Party saved Yeshua!!!

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Rebbes Parsha Mark 7

• LUKE 13
• 31 At that time some Pharisees came to Jesus and
  said to him, "Leave this place and go somewhere
  else. Herod wants to kill you."

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Rebbes Parsha Mark 7

• Dont you wish YOU were part of the party that
  saved Yeshuas life?
• How many here today are Pharisees?

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Rebbes Parsha Mark 7

• We saved Jesus life!
• Brought to you by the Pharisees (Wenatchee
  Chapter).

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Rebbes Parsha Mark 7

• Yeshua here is NOT against people washing their
  hands!
• His problem here is that some of the Pharisees
  werent getting the fact that they were sitting
  with the Messiah.

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Rebbes Parsha Mark 7

• Who cares if He or His Talmideem are washing
  their hands!!!
• The other thing Yeshua points out is that some,
  some of the Pharisees had their priorities out of
  whack.

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Rebbes Parsha Mark 7

• Some were taking the words of their teachers over
  the words of Torah.
• Anti-Semites love these kinds of passages. They
  think it strengthens their own anti-Semitic bias.

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Rebbes Parsha Mark 7

• Yeshua wasnt there to stand against the
  Pharisees. He was there to help correct them
  because they were worth correcting.

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Rebbes Parsha Mark 7

• Theres something more going on here as well
  thats never pointed out.
• It says some of His Talmideem. Not all of them
  washed their hands.

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Rebbes Parsha Mark 7

• We have to remember that not all of Yeshuas
  Disciples were Pharisees.
• Some were Sadducees. We know for example that
  John the Beloved was a Sadducee.

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Rebbes Parsha Mark 7

• They all had different ways of washing their
  hands.
• Even different schools washed their hands
  differently.
• Its not saying here that Yeshua didnt wash his
  hands at all, its talking about ceremonially.

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Rebbes Parsha Mark 7

• Yeshua is defending His disciples here and
  telling that particular Pharisee along with the
  scribes from this Pharisees particular school
  that you dont have to even be a Pharisee at all
  in order to be one of His.

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Rebbes Parsha Mark 7

• Your looking at which way my disciples are
  washing their hands and assuming that they should
  all be Pharisees from YOUR particular school.
  (We dont know which school this group was from).

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Rebbes Parsha Mark 7

• He committed this provocative omission
  specifically to elicit a certain reaction on the
  part of his Pharisee host.
• He deliberately created a situation that would
  aid him in launching a condemnation of
  superficial observances that do nothing to affect
  the inner person.

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Rebbes Parsha Mark 7

• Hed do the same thing with us in our very
  congregation if He was here in person right now.
• Not every single thing we do is correct and Hed
  show us because He loves us like He loved His
  Pharisees.

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Video Cam Reminder

• Turn on the video camera.

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Todays Joke

• A young woman brings home her fiance to meet her
  parents. After dinner, her mother tells her
  father to find out about the young man.
• The father invites the fiancee to his study for a
  drink. "So what are your plans?" the father asks
  the young man.
• "I am a Torah scholar." he replies.
• "A Torah scholar. Hmmm," the father says.
  "admirable, but what will you do to provide a
  nice house for my daughter to livein, as she's
  accustomed to?"

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Todays Joke

• "I will study," the young man replies, "and God
  will provide for us."
• "And how will you buy her a beautiful engagement
  ring, such as she deserves?" asks the father.
• "I will concentrate on my studies," the young man
  replies, "God will provide for us."
• "And children?" asks the father. "How will you
  support children?"
• "Don't worry, sir, God will provide," replies the
  fiance.
• The conversation proceeds like this, and each
  time the father questions, the young idealist
  insists that God will provide.
• Later, the mother asks, "How did it go, Honey?"
• The father answers,

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Todays Joke

• "He has no job and no plans, but the good news is
  he thinks I'm God."

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Messianic Judaism 101

• By Rabbi Stanley

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Purpose

• What I hope to do in this series (Messianic
  Judaism 101) is lay out an historical and
  Biblical basis (foundation) for restoring
  Messianic Judaism as the original faith in
  Yeshua, the Son of G-d.

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Purpose

• By the end of this series we will know the
  beginnings of the First Church, and where the
  Messianic Movement is now going.

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Purpose

• In this class well be able to look at and
  understand some critical terminology and what
  different names were used for the First Century
  Believer in Yeshua.

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Purpose

• Well find out what some of the earliest Church
  Fathers have to say about the First Messianics
  and how they felt about them.

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Purpose

• Were also gonna find out if Christian is a
  four letter word.
• Then were gonna find out who YOU are and what
  you should or want to be called?

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Purpose

• But before we can know anything else, we have to
  know its history. We have to know the roots of
  the First Church.

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Roots

• There is a lot of talk out there these days about
  getting back to our roots or getting back to the
  New Testament Church.

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Roots

• One thing many fail to realize is that the
  original New Testament Church didnt have a New
  Testament OR a Church.

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Roots

• What they did have was the Tanach (Old Testament
  in Hebrew) and the Synagogue.

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Roots

• At the time of the original group of Believers in
  Yeshua the word Christian hadnt even been
  coined yet and neither had the word Church.

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Roots

• This helps us understand that Yeshua didnt come
  to start a new religion called Christianity, He
  came to be the Messiah of Israel.

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Whos who?

• Now the first thing we want to look at is whos
  who in the first Messianic movement.

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Whos who?

• We cant know anything till we know who is who so
  we have to understand what they (Believers) were
  called.
• Terminology is important.

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Whos who?

• The first group of people who followed Yeshua
  were called the people of The Way. Not
  Christians!
• They were a mix of Pharisees, Sadducees and other
  sects
• We see the first time The Way is used in Acts

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Whos who?

• Acts 2414
• 14 "But this I do admit to you I worship the God
  of our fathers in accordance with The Way (which
  they call a sect). I continue to believe
  everything that accords with the Torah and
  everything written in the Prophets.

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Whos who?

• Another thing we need to notice here is that it
  is called a sect (section, part of a whole)
• A sect of what?
• A sect of Judaism!
• How is the word sect used in the New Testament?

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Whos who?

• Acts 517Then the high priest rose up, and all
  they that were with him, (which is the sect of
  the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation.
  
• Acts 155But there rose up certain of the sect
  of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it
  was needful to circumcise them, and to command
  them to keep the law of Moses.

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Whos who?

• There were many sects of Judaism. There were the
  Essenes, The Dead Sea Sect, The Herodian Sect,
  The Daggermen (Sicarii) etc. Many different sects
  and one of them was the sect of the
  Notzreem/Netzareem (Nazerenes)

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Whos who?

• The word Christian first appears in Acts
• Acts 1126And when he had found him, he brought
  him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a
  whole year they assembled themselves with the
  church, and taught much people. And the students
  (disciples) were called Christians first in
  Antioch.

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Whos who?

• David Stern points out correctly that the term
  Christian was used to denote Gentile believers
  in Yeshua, not Jewish believers in Yeshua.
• (David Stern Messianic Manifesto)

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Whos who?

• Where is Antioch?

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Whos who?

• Who was in Antioch?
• Paul and Barnabas!
• Their students, in Antioch were called
  Christians.

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Whos who?

• Its not saying that THE Disciples were first
  called Christians in Antioch its saying that
  the disciples of Paul and Barnabas were first
  called Christians there.
• Paul and Barnabas werent even part of the 12
  Disciples. They were apostles!

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Whos who?

• The people of Antioch were Gentiles, NOT Jews.
• The Jews who believed in Yeshua were the Jewish
  sect of the Nazarenes!
• They called themselves Jews.

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Whos who?

• Acts 2139
• But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of
  Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean
  city and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak
  unto the people.
• More specifically in his particular case he
  called himself a Pharisee in Acts 236

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Whos who?

• Acts 236
• Then Paul, knowing that some of them were
  Sadducees and the others Pharisees, called out in
  the Sanhedrin, "My brothers, I am a Pharisee, the
  son of a Pharisee. I stand on trial because of my
  hope in the resurrection of the dead."

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The Law?

• Im gonna stray just a little here, but it ties
  back shortly
• These first Believers in Yeshua kept the Laws of
  the Old Testament (Tanach).
• The famous Church Father, St. Jerome (350 AD),
  who was a Christian says this of the original
  Church

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The Law?

• He said, They are those who accept Messiah in
  such a way that they do not cease to observe the
  old Law
• St Epiphanius
• (310 AD), another Christian and Church Father
  goes into a little more detail

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The Law?

• These sectarians didnt call themselves
  Christians but Nazarenes, however they are simply
  complete Jews. They use not only the New
  Testament but the Old Testament as well. They
  have no different ideas but profess everything
  exactly as the Law proclaims it in the Jewish
  fashion. Except for their belief in Messiah if
  you please! For they acknowledge the resurrection
  of the dead and the divine creation of all things
  and declare that God is one and that his son,
  Yeshua is the Messiah. They are trained to a
  nicety in Hebrew for among them the entire Law,
  the prophets and the entire Writings are read in
  Hebrew as they surely are by the Jews. They
  disagree with Jews because they have come to
  faith in Messiah but since they are still
  fettered in the Law, circumcision, the Sabbath
  and the rest they are not in accord with
  Christians, they are nothing but Jews. They have
  the good news in Mathew in its entirety in
  Hebrew. For it is clear that they still preserve
  this in the Hebrew alphabet as it was originally
  written.

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The Law?

• Wouldnt it be great to have this as a statement
  of faith!!!
• Whats your statement of faith?
• Actually, our statement of faith is your Church
  Fathers criticisms. We believe in the Old
  Testament, stuff like that.

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The Law?

• So here we see the First Church keeping the
  Shabbat and circumcision and the rest of the Law.
• They were quite different then the Christian
  Church as early as 310 AD!

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The Law?

• Epiphanius says they are not in accord with
  Christians.
• So you can begin to see why I dont call myself a
  Christian. Even from way back most Christians
  werent really Christian.

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The Law?

• So we know that the original Jewish Believers
  were called Jews. More specifically a Person of
  The Way.
• (Later on they were called Notzreem/Nazarenes.)

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The Law?

• More specifically they could be a Pharisaic
  Notzreem or an Essenic Notzreem or Herodian
  Notzreem etc.
• But never were Jews from the first century called
  Christians.
• Furthermore, a Christian Jew is a contradiction
  of terms.

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Is Christian A Four Letter Word?

• Gentile Believers in Yeshua were called
  Christians and it was actually a derogatory label
  placed on them
• It was not a name they gave themselves.

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Is Christian A Four Letter Word?

• Well isn't Paul called a Christian by King
  Agrippa in Acts 17???
• Lets look at it

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Is Christian A Four Letter Word?

• Acts 1728
• Then Agrippa said to Paul, 'Do you think that in
  such a short time you can persuade me to be a
  Christian?'" (NIV)

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Is Christian A Four Letter Word?

• Herod Agrippa was the grandson of Herod the
  Great.
• He was NOT a Jew.
• Do you remember the teaching I did on Herod the
  Great?

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Is Christian A Four Letter Word?

• I showed you his lineage. He was the son of an
  Idumean and a Nabatean princess. Not a drop of
  Jewish blood in him.
• Some ask me why it was important to know about
  King Herod? Its pretty important.

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Is Christian A Four Letter Word?

• Youll see me coming back to the Herod teaching
  time and time again.

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Is Christian A Four Letter Word?

• The word "Christian" appears only three times in
  the New Testament.
• The New Testament's use of this term indicates
  that it was a term of derision, a term placed
  upon Gentile followers of Yeshua, by their
  critics.

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Is Christian A Four Letter Word?

• What if somebody calls you a Christian, what
  should you do?
• Peter 416 "However, if you suffer as a
  Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that
  you bear that name"

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Is Christian A Four Letter Word?

• Peter was talking to Believers here!
• Christian obviously was a name that Believers
  didnt like.

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Is Christian A Four Letter Word?

• But Peter says if they call you this name, praise
  G-d for it.
• And Peter is correct here.
• Even though Im a Jew, if Im called a Christian
  by a persecutor, Ill bear it gladly.
• They can call me anything they like for the cause
  of Yeshua.

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Then What In The World Am I?

• That doesnt mean Id call myself that and it
  doesnt mean you have to call yourself that
  either if you so choose.
• How do we know that Christians didnt call
  themselves Christian?
• Lets look at the Bible in Acts 1126 again

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Then What In The World Am I?

• Acts 1126And when he had found him, he brought
  him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a
  whole year they assembled themselves with the
  church, and taught much people. And the students
  (disciples) were called Christians first in
  Antioch.

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Then What In The World Am I?

• In Greek if you place a name on yourself youd
  say you call yourself or they called
  themselves.
• If someone else is calling you something, youd
  say they were called
• This was a name forced on them.

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Then What In The World Am I?

• So then what should a Gentile Believer call
  themselves? Who are they?

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Then What In The World Am I?

• A Believer is an ok name. But A Believer in
  what? would be a good question.
• A Messianic Believer is a good name. That
  denotes that its about the Meshiach.

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Then What In The World Am I?

• If youre keeping the particular Laws that apply
  to the Jewish people then you can call yourself a
  Messianic Jew or a Jew even if you dont have any
  Jewish blood.
• How can I say that?

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Then What In The World Am I?

• Because if youre keeping the covenantal Laws,
  you ARE a Jew!!!
• If youre a Gentile believer but do not keep the
  covenantal laws and you call yourself a Jew.
• The Bible says youre of the synagogue of Satan.

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Then What In The World Am I?

• Revelation 29
• 9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty,
  (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of
  them which say they are Jews, and are not, but
  are the synagogue of Satan.

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Then What In The World Am I?

• Thats exactly what that verse is talking about.
• If youve ever said Im a spiritual Jew but
  youre not keeping covenant. Please stop saying
  it. Theres no such thing.
• Just like theres no such thing as a spiritual
  Irishman
• Either youre a Jew or your not!

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Then What In The World Am I?

• If youre keeping Sabbath, if youre a male and
  circumcised, you wear the tzit tzits, you keep
  Biblically Kosher, youre doing your best to keep
  all the other laws as you learn about them
  welcome to the family.

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Then What In The World Am I?

• But, if you believe G-ds Laws are of no effect
  and/or dont have any Jewish blood and call
  yourself a Jew youre of a different synagogue.
• Theres a lot of Messianic synagogues that bear
  resemblance to what Im saying here.

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Then What Should I Be?

• So why in the world would you want to be a Jew?
  What advantage is there?
• I have one answer to that

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Then What Should I Be?

• MUCH IN EVERY WAY!
• Romans 31
• 1What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit
  is there of circumcision?
•  2Much in every way. chiefly, because that unto
  them were committed the oracles of God.

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Then What Should I Be?
x

• If one wants to be a Jew, then come on board.
• But let me tell ya
• It aint easy.
• Were the most persecuted people on the planet.
• You may have to give up many things that ya like

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Then What Should I Be?

• Gotta observe all the commandments given to the
  Jewish people that pertain to you (male or female
  etc.
• Its really hard at first but you do come to love
  them and understand that they are beneficial and
  healthy.
• Before long, youll actually look for more
  Instruction (Torah).

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Then What Should I Be?

• If you want to stay a Messianic Gentile, no
  problem. Youre still our brother or sister in
  Yeshua.
• Simply put, there are promises for Believing
  Gentiles and there are promises for Believing
  Jews.

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Then What Should I Be?

• Different promises but never-the-less promises.
• Believing Gentiles will receive a portion of the
  World to come outside of Israel
• And the Believing Jew will receive a portion of
  HaAretz (Israel) in the World to come.

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Messianic Judaism?

• So what the Messianic movement is trying to do
  now is get back to the way it was during Yeshuas
  time.
• We feel weve been going down this Paganized
  Christian road for 2,000 plus years and now its
  time to stop and get back on track.

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Messianic Judaism?

• That doesnt mean we have to go back to wearing
  robes, but it does mean that we have to keep His
  Laws and Commandments in order to be a part of
  the Covenant.

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Messianic Judaism?

• We encourage Gentiles to keep covenant for a
  variety of reasons.
• For one it is a healthier lifestyle.
• For two there are advantages in every way (not
  meaning the Greek 100)

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Messianic Judaism?

• This is NOT Judaizing!
• Judaizing is saying you cant be SAVED unless you
  keep the Peculiar Laws of the Jewish covenant
  with G-d.
• Otherwise if you told someone to not murder,
  youd be a Judaizer!

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Messianic Judaism?

• A gentile who doesnt keep the Peculiar Laws is
  just as Saved or Born Again, as I am.
• After Salvation there are differences.
• This really isnt that different then how the
  Church sees it

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Messianic Judaism?

• In a Church, if I sacrifice a lot for G-d (ie.
  fasting) will a Pastor tell me that that causes
  me to grow closer to G-d?
• Yes, he will say that.
• If I sacrifice my very life, hed say I have
  treasures in heaven through eternity as a martyr.

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Messianic Judaism?

• Im saying if you become a Messianic Jew, you
  will be sacrificing a lot and in turn, you will
  grow closer to G-d.
• Its really not that different in that regard.

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Messianic Judaism?

• We even see this in the model of the Temple.
• In the very structure of the building we see
  where G-ds Shechina rested. His throne was in
  the holy of holies.
• Further away from His throne was the holy place.

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Messianic Judaism?

• Further away from G-ds throne was the Court of
  the Jews and the furthest away from that was the
  court of the gentiles,

X
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Messianic Judaism?

• They were on the outskirts because they didnt
  want to get circumcised and keep all the peculiar
  laws.
• They were Saved, no doubt about that, but they
  didnt get to look into the inner Temple.

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Messianic Judaism?

• Speaking metaphorically, I want to look into
  G-ds inner Temple. I want to see the holy of
  holies, at least the Holy Place.
• Im not saying that a Gentile Believer cant grow
  in the L-rd, but I do have to agree with Paul
  that there are advantages to being a Jew.

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Messianic Judaism?

• For women, its really quite easy being a Jew
• If youre a man and not yet circumcised not so
  easy.
• But its worth it.

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Messianic Judaism?

• I truly believe that if you become a Messianic
  Jew, G-d will open up the Scriptures to you
  because it becomes your inheritance.
• Being given the Oracles of G-d is a great
  advantage, it means G-d gives us a better
  understanding of His Scriptures!
• Why else do we need Messianic Judaism?

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The Whole Counsel Of G-d

• The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the
  truth.
• We say this phrase in front of a court of Law
  here in the United States
• But few in Christendom approach Scripture this
  way.

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The Whole Counsel Of G-d

• In most Churches today were presented a
  one-sided, Gentilized version of a faith that
  shows us only the grace of God without showing us
  His expectations as well.

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The Whole Counsel Of G-d

• This one sided view is only a partial gospel and
  not the whole truth
• At best Id say the Church isnt presenting the
  whole counsel of G-d and at its worst Id say
  its presenting another Gospel all together.

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The Whole Counsel Of G-d

• Paul said in Acts 2027
• I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole
  counsel of God.
• What did he mean by that.
• Paul in this chapter was warning Believers that
  wolves would come in among them.

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The Whole Counsel Of G-d

• These wolves would teach false doctrines and try
  to lead the elect into darkness.
• Todays Grace Theology is doing exactly that.

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The Whole Counsel Of G-d

• Grace Theology is the idea that Whenever we
  commit a sin, we simply ask Jesus to forgive us
  and nothing more is then required. His grace
  covers us.

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The Whole Counsel Of G-d

• This theology leaves out repentance, restitution,
  change of attitude and lifestyle as well as
  obedience to His Torah.

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The Whole Counsel Of G-d

• The Church as a whole ignores repentance because
  the Church teaches that we are sinful beings who
  cant stop sinning.

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The Whole Counsel Of G-d

• It contends that since we cant stop, then were
  not really responsible for our own sinful
  behavior.
• Were born that way!

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The Whole Counsel Of G-d

• Christians will often tell Messianics that There
  are too many laws to keep anyways, its not even
  possible to keep them all.

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The Whole Counsel Of G-d

• Were born into sin right?
• Its not our fault
• So its really out of our control.
• Jesus even said wed all sin, every one of us

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The Whole Counsel Of G-d

• This sadly and inevitably leads to the next
  conclusion
• If its not possible to keep all of G-ds Laws,
  then why should we even try.
• Besides, we sin everyday

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The Whole Counsel Of G-d

• This is a Gentile way of looking at Sin.
• It isnt Jewish by any means.
• This Church Gospel of Grace is only part of the
  message of Yeshua and His Talmideem (Disciples).
• We need Messianic Judaism in order to give the
  whole council of G-d.

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The Whole Counsel Of G-d

• What the Church offers today isnt the whole
  counsel of G-d.
• In Judaism we dont believe that G-d would tell
  us to do something that was impossible to do.
• What kind of Father would do such a thing?

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The Whole Counsel Of G-d

• In Scripture we see one being told, Go and sin
  no more
• Thus it IS possible to go and sin no more.
• Why else do we need Messianic Judaism?
• Because without it, the Great Commission can not
  be fulfilled.

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The Great Commission?

• Without the Jewishness of the Gospel infused into
  its teachings it is no longer a light unto the
  world but becomes foolishness.

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The Great Commission?

• Many times that sinners call Christians fools
  Im sorry, but its not for the Gospels sake.
• Its often times because Christians are thinking
  and acting foolishly.
• When were acting foolishly, were not a light to
  the world.

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The Great Commission?

• If the Church is NOT a light unto the world then
  it cant possibly fulfill the Great Commission
  no matter what theyre missions program might
  promise.

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The Great Commission?

• Without the Jewishness of the Gospel all were
  left with is off-target preaching which is open
  to anti-Semitism and the neglect of the Salvation
  of the Jews.

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The Great Commission?

• Messianic Judaism comes in an opposite spirit of
  the Church concerning the Great Commission.
• Messianic Judaism reveals that the power of the
  Great Commission lies in preaching it to the Jew
  first and then to the rest of the world.

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The Great Commission?

• Its said that Missions start at home!.
• Id change that popular saying to Missions start
  with the Jew and wherever he/she may be
• Why else do we need Messianic Judaism?

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Provoke Jews To Jealousy

• Romans 11 teaches that in the end days, the
  Church will make the Jew jealous.
• If we think were in the End Days, then Id say
  Christendom must be at a point of provoking the
  Jew to jealousy right?

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Provoke Jews To Jealousy

• I dont know any Jews who are jealous yet.
• What are they going to be jealous of?
• Pagan Christmas trees
• The worship of Ishtar (Easter)
• Silly doctrines that we hold onto which are
  un-Biblical.

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Provoke Jews To Jealousy

• Are they jealous of a power thats always talked
  about in the Church but very rarely (if at all)
  realized?
• I dont see any power in todays Church myself.

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Provoke Jews To Jealousy

• I do see rapidly declining numbers.
• I see a bunch of con men who are still making
  millions everyday on TV deceiving people.
• I see adultery, immorality, the breaking of the
  Sabbath and other Commandments.
• I see doctrines that promote lawlessness.

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Provoke Jews To Jealousy

• I dont see any Jews who are jealous of that.
• Were in the End Days but theres not one jealous
  Jew?

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Provoke Jews To Jealousy

• Id say there has to be some change in the local
  Church.
• A Church that changes to such a degree that it
  doesnt have any spots or wrinkles.
• A Body of Believers that Yeshua would come back
  for.

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Wheres The Beef?

• I would submit to you, that a Congregation that
  is Torah Observant is a Body Hed come to take
  home
• Im not saying that there arent people who
  arent Saved in Churches out there

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Wheres The Beef?

• But I am saying that when the Last Days are upon
  us, we wont be going to Church to find out whats
  next.
• Rather, the local Church will be going to their
  local Messianic Synagogue to get the latest news.

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Wheres The Beef?

• And if theyre staying for lunch, they wont be
  getting a ham sandwich.
• And if they want to stand and read the
  Scriptures, theyre going to have to put on a
  Tallit or wear Tsit Tsits

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Wheres The Beef?

• They are going to have to conform or theyre
  going to have to go back to their Church and be
  left to their own doctrine, or deceit or
  misinformation.

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Wheres The Beef?

• I want to read to you a typical confession that
  Jews who accepted Jesus used to have to say.
• This was actually written up by Christians word
  for word.

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Wheres The Beef?

• I found it on a website that archives ancient
  documents.
• I was very angry when I read it.
• Its a profession of faith that was world-wide
  that Jews would have to recite publicly in order
  to become a Christian.
• Theyd have to say

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I Gotta Say What???

• I renounce all customs, rites, legalisms
  unleavened breads and sacrifices of lambs of the
  Hebrews, and all other feasts of the Hebrews,
  sacrifices, prayers, aspirations, purifications,
  sanctifications, and propitiations, and fasts,
  and Sabbaths, and superstitions, and hymns, and
  chants, and observances, and synagogues, and the
  food, and drink of the Hebrews in one word I
  renounce absolutely everything Jewish, every law,
  rite and custom and if afterwards I wish to deny
  and return to Jewish superstition or shall be
  found eating with Jews or feasting with them or
  secretly conversing and condemning the Christian
  religion instead of openly confuting them and
  condemning their vain faith then let the
  trembling of Cain and leprosy cleave to me as
  well as the legal punishments to which I
  acknowledge myself liable. And may I be anathema
  (a person detested or loathed ) in the world to
  come and may my soul be set down with Satan and
  the Devils.

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I Gotta Say What???

• So I wrote this up for Non-Messianics who wanted
  to become members of Messianic Synagogues.
• (Im NOT implementing this ?).

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I Gotta Say What???

• I will no longer eat of the abomination of
  swines flesh. I will keep all of G-ds Laws that
  pertain to me and will not cause G-ds Chosen
  People to abandon the traditions of their
  forefathers
• I will recognize and keep all of G-ds appointed
  times and feasts.
• I will forsake the superstitions of the Church
  like the Christmas tree and the worship of Ishtar
  and other idols and saints.
• I understand I am grafted into the main olive
  tree which is the faith of the Hebrews and I will
  remain humble and grateful to Yeshua for allowing
  me any place at all.
• Whenever I hear other Christians misusing words
  such as legalism and Judaizing I will confute
  them in their vain interpretations.
• I will enjoin in Messianic prayers, aspirations,
  purifications, sanctifications, and
  propitiations, and fasts, and Sabbaths, and
  hymns, and chants, and observances in their
  Synagogues and thank G-d for such a blessing to
  befall me.
• Lastly, I repent for my non Torah Observance and
  misappropriation of my tithes and offerings to a
  Church who knew not the truth.
• May I be accountable from this time forth that I
  may sin no more.
• Omain.

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I Gotta Say What???

• If the Church as a whole were to do this
• every Jew in the world would take notice and
  perhaps even be a little jealous.

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I Gotta Say What???

• The profession I read to you earlier that Jews
  had to say in order to be part of The Body of
  Christ dates back to the church of
  Constantinople.
• But many of these same feelings exist today in
  most churches.

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Conclusion Of Class One

• These are just a few of the reasons that
  Messianic Judaism is a must.
• Theres many more that well be seeing through
  the rest of this course.

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Conclusion Of Class One

• Well also look at why we do many of the things
  we do like
• Why do we wear Tzit Tzits?
• Why do we wear Tallits?
• Why do we post Mezuzahs to our doorways?

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Conclusion Of Class One

• Why do we keep Shabbat?
• Why do we keep Biblically kosher?
• And why do we keep the Feasts of the L-rd?
• All these questions will be answered.
• Shabbat Shalom.

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The End