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Romans 3:1 What advantage then hath the Jew? Or what profit is there of circumcision? 2 Much in every way!

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Why do we blow the Shofar?Why do we blow the Shofar?

Exodus 19:16Exodus 19:16““On the morning of the third day there On the morning of the third day there

was thunder and lightning, with a thick was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and there cloud over the mountain, and there was the sounding of a very loud was the sounding of a very loud SHOFAR blast. Everyone in the camp SHOFAR blast. Everyone in the camp trembled.”trembled.”

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HEMA ISRAELHEMA ISRAELHear oh IsraelHear oh Israel

Shema Israel Adoni ElohaynuShema Israel Adoni Elohaynu((Hear oh Israel the L-RD Hear oh Israel the L-RD our G-D)our G-D)

Adoni EchadAdoni Echad((The L-RD is oneThe L-RD is one))

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HEMA ISRAELHEMA ISRAELHear oh Israel Part 2Hear oh Israel Part 2

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

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hy do we recite/sing the SHEMA?hy do we recite/sing the SHEMA?

Because Messiah said it was the greatest CommandmentBecause Messiah said it was the greatest Commandment

Mark 12:28-29Mark 12:28-29

2828 And one of the scribes came, and having heard And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that He had them reasoning together, and perceiving that He had answered them well, asked Him, “answered them well, asked Him, “Which is the Which is the greatest commandment of allgreatest commandment of all?”?”

2929 And Yeshua answered him, “The And Yeshua answered him, “The first of allfirst of all the commandments is, the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is One Lord:”our God is One Lord:”

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Oo-maw nye—eemOo-maw nye—eemAnd how pleasant it is And how pleasant it is

Shevet aw-heemShevet aw-heemFor brothers to dwellFor brothers to dwell

Gum Yaw HawdGum Yaw HawdIn unityIn unity

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Baw-rouk Ha-Shem, Baw-rouk Ha-Shem,Baw-rouk Ha-Shem, Baw-rouk Ha-Shem,Blessed be the NameBlessed be the Name, , blessed be the Nameblessed be the Name

Baw-rouk Ha-Shem Me-she-achBaw-rouk Ha-Shem Me-she-achBlessed be the Name of MessiahBlessed be the Name of Messiah

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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 don’t 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.

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

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.

• Pam’s pinched nerve in shoulder

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We Bring Our Sacrifice We Bring Our Sacrifice WithWith Praise Praise

We Bring Our Sacrifice We Bring Our Sacrifice WithWith Praise PraiseUnto the House of the LORD (2 X)Unto the House of the LORD (2 X)

And we offer unto HimAnd we offer unto HimOur sacrifices Our sacrifices withwith thanksgiving thanksgiving And we offer unto HimAnd we offer unto HimOur sacrifices Our sacrifices withwith joy joy

La'asok B'divray TorahBlessing Before The Reading Of The Torah

Next Week’s Parsha

• Feb 5, 2011 Teruma ("Heave offering"):

• Exodus 25:1-27:19 • 1 Kings 5:26-6:13 • Mark 10-11

Parsha• Jan 29, 2011 Mishpatim ("Judgements"):

• Exodus 21:1-24:18 • Isaiah 66:1-24• Mark 9

• We’re going to read…• Torah… Ex 21:1-11• Haftarah… Isaiah 66:1-24• Brit Hadasha…

Ex. 21: 1-11

• KJV Exodus 21:1 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.

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:

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ex. 21: 1-11

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

• END

NJB (New Jerusalem Bible) Isaiah 66 whole chapter

• NJB Isaiah 66:1 Thus says Yehova: With heaven my throne and earth my footstool, what house could you build me, what place for me to rest,


• NJB Isaiah 66:1 Thus says Yehova: With heaven my throne and earth my footstool, what house could you build me, what place for me to rest,


• 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.


• 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.


• 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.


• 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.


• 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.


• 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!


• 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!


• 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.


• 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.


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


• 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.


• 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,


• 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.


• 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.


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


• 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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• 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.

Noten HaTorah

• So here again with this reading even though it’s in David’s Stern’s Translation…

• We get this idea that the Pharisees are bad and Yeshua is against them.

Rebbe’s 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.


• What??? The Pharisees LOVED Yeshua???

• Yes they did! • We Pharisees even

saved His life.• My Party saved

Yeshua!!!


• 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."


• Don’t you wish YOU were part of the party that saved Yeshua’s life?

• How many here today are Pharisees?


• “We saved Jesus’ life!”• Brought to you by the

Pharisees (Wenatchee Chapter).


• Yeshua here is NOT against people washing their hands!

• His problem here is that some of the Pharisees weren’t getting the fact that they were sitting with the Messiah.


• 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.


• 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.


• Yeshua wasn’t there to stand against the Pharisees. He was there to help correct them because they were worth correcting.


• There’s something more going on here as well that’s never pointed out.

• It says “some of His Talmideem”. Not all of them washed their hands.


• We have to remember that not all of Yeshua’s Disciples were Pharisees.

• Some were Sadducees. We know for example that John the Beloved was a Sadducee.


• They all had different ways of washing their hands.

• Even different schools washed their hands differently.

• It’s not saying here that Yeshua didn’t wash his hands at all, it’s talking about ceremonially.


• Yeshua is defending His disciples here and telling that particular Pharisee along with the scribes from this Pharisees particular school that you don’t have to even be a Pharisee at all in order to be one of His.


• “Your looking at which way my disciples are washing their hands and assuming that they should all be Pharisees from YOUR particular school”. (We don’t know which school this group was from).


• 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.


• He’d 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 He’d show us because He loves us like He loved His Pharisees.


• Turn on the video camera.

Video Cam Reminder

• 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?"

Today’s 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,

Today’s Joke

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

Today’s Joke

Messianic Judaism 101

By Rabbi Stanley

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.

Purpose

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

Purpose

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

Purpose

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

Purpose

• We’re also gonna find out if “Christian” is a four letter word.

• Then we’re gonna find out who YOU are and what you should or want to be called?

Purpose

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

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.

Roots

• One thing many fail to realize is that the original New Testament Church didn’t have a New Testament OR a Church.

Roots

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

Roots

• At the time of the original group of Believers in Yeshua the word “Christian” hadn’t even been coined yet and neither had the word “Church”.

Roots

• This helps us understand that Yeshua didn’t come to start a new religion called “Christianity”, He came to be the Messiah of Israel.

Who’s who?

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

Who’s who?

• We can’t know anything till we know who is who so we have to understand what they (Believers) were called.

• Terminology is important.

Who’s 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…

Who’s who?

• Acts 24:14 • 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.

Who’s 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?

Who’s who?

• Acts 5:17Then 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 15:5But 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.

Who’s 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)

Who’s who?

• The word Christian first appears in Acts• Acts 11:26

And 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.

Who’s 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)

Who’s who?

• Where is Antioch?

Who’s who?

• Who was in Antioch?• Paul and Barnabas!• Their students, in

Antioch were called “Christians”.

Who’s who?

• It’s not saying that THE Disciples were first called Christians in Antioch… it’s saying that the disciples of Paul and Barnabas were first called Christians there.

• Paul and Barnabas weren’t even part of the 12 Disciples. They were apostles!

Who’s 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”.

Who’s who?

• Acts 21:39• 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 23:6 …

Who’s who?

• Acts 23:6 • 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."

The Law?• I’m 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…

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…

The Law?• “These sectarians didn’t 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 it’s entirety in Hebrew. For it is clear that they still preserve this in the Hebrew alphabet as it was originally written.”

The Law?

• Wouldn’t it be great to have this as a statement of faith!!!

• “What’s your statement of faith?”

• “Actually, our statement of faith is your Church Father’s criticisms. We believe in the Old Testament, stuff like that.”

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!

The Law?• Epiphanius says: “they

are not in accord with Christians”.

• So you can begin to see why I don’t call myself a Christian. Even from way back most “Christians” weren’t really Christian.

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.)

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.

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.


• “Well isn't Paul called a Christian by King Agrippa in Acts 17???”

• Let’s look at it…


• Acts 17:28

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


• 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?


• 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? It’s pretty important.


• You’ll see me coming back to the Herod teaching time and time again.

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.

Is Christian A Four Letter Word?• What if somebody calls you a Christian, what

should you do?• Peter 4:16: "However, if you suffer as a Christian,

do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name"


• Peter was talking to Believers here!

• “Christian” obviously was a name that Believers didn’t like.

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 I’m a Jew, if I’m called a Christian by a persecutor, I’ll bear it gladly.

• They can call me anything they like for the cause of Yeshua.

Then What In The World Am I?• That doesn’t mean I’d

call myself that and it doesn’t mean you have to call yourself that either if you so choose.

• How do we know that Christians didn’t call themselves “Christian”?

• Let’s look at the Bible in Acts 11:26 again

Then What In The World Am I?• Acts 11:26

And 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.

Then What In The World Am I?• In Greek if you place a

name on yourself you’d say “you call yourself” or “they called themselves”.

• If someone else is calling you something, you’d say “they were called”…

• This was a name forced on them.

Then What In The World Am I?• So then what should a

Gentile Believer call themselves? Who are they?

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 it’s about the Meshiach.

Then What In The World Am I?

• If you’re keeping the particular Laws that apply to the Jewish people then you can call yourself a Messianic Jew or a Jew even if you don’t have any Jewish blood.

• How can I say that?

Then What In The World Am I?• Because if you’re keeping the

covenantal Laws, you ARE a Jew!!!

• If you’re a Gentile believer but do not keep the covenantal laws and you call yourself a Jew.

• The Bible says you’re of the synagogue of Satan.

Then What In The World Am I?• Revelation 2:9• 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.

Then What In The World Am I?• That’s exactly what that

verse is talking about.• If you’ve ever said “I’m a

spiritual Jew” but you’re not keeping covenant. Please stop saying it. There’s no such thing.

• Just like there’s no such thing as a spiritual Irishman

• Either you’re a Jew or your not!

Then What In The World Am I?• If you’re keeping

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

Then What In The World Am I?• But, if you believe G-d’s Laws

are of no effect and/or don’t have any Jewish blood and call yourself a Jew… you’re of a different synagogue.

• There’s a lot of Messianic synagogues that bear resemblance to what I’m saying here.

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…


• MUCH IN EVERY WAY!• Romans 3:1• 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.


• If one wants to be a Jew, then come on board.

• But let me tell ya…• It aint easy.• We’re 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.

• It’s really hard at first but you do come to love them and understand that they are beneficial and healthy.

• Before long, you’ll actually look for more Instruction (Torah).


• If you want to stay a Messianic Gentile, no problem. You’re still our brother or sister in Yeshua.

• Simply put, there are promises for Believing Gentiles and there are promises for Believing Jews.


• 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”.

Messianic Judaism?• So what the Messianic

movement is trying to do now is get back to the way it was during Yeshua’s time.

• We feel we’ve been going down this Paganized Christian road for 2,000 plus years and now it’s time to stop and get back on track.

Messianic Judaism?

• That doesn’t 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.

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%)

Messianic Judaism?

• This is NOT Judaizing!• Judaizing is saying you

can’t be SAVED unless you keep the Peculiar Laws of the Jewish covenant with G-d.

• Otherwise if you told someone to not murder, you’d be a Judaizer!

Messianic Judaism?

• A gentile who doesn’t keep the Peculiar Laws is just as Saved or Born Again, as I am.

• After Salvation there are differences.

• This really isn’t that different then how the Church sees it…

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,

he’d say I have treasures in heaven through eternity as a martyr.

Messianic Judaism?

• I’m saying if you become a Messianic Jew, you will be sacrificing a lot and in turn, you will grow closer to G-d.

• It’s really not that different in that regard.

Messianic Judaism?

• We even see this in the model of the Temple.

• In the very structure of the building we see where G-d’s Shechina rested. His throne was in the holy of holies.

• Further away from His throne was the holy place.

Messianic Judaism?

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

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Messianic Judaism?

• They were on the outskirts because they didn’t want to get circumcised and keep all the peculiar laws.

• They were Saved, no doubt about that, but they didn’t get to look into the inner Temple.

Messianic Judaism?• Speaking metaphorically, I

want to look into G-d’s inner Temple. I want to see the holy of holies, at least the Holy Place.

• I’m not saying that a Gentile Believer can’t grow in the L-rd, but I do have to agree with Paul that there are advantages to being a Jew.

Messianic Judaism?

• For women, it’s really quite easy being a Jew

• If you’re a man and not yet circumcised… not so easy.

• But it’s worth it.

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?

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


• This one sided view is only a partial gospel and not the whole truth

• At best… I’d say the Church isn’t presenting the “whole counsel of G-d” and at it’s worst I’d say it’s presenting “another Gospel” all together.


• Paul said in Acts 20:27• 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.


• These wolves would teach false doctrines and try to lead the elect into darkness.

• Today’s “Grace Theology” is doing exactly that.


• 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.”


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


• The Church as a whole ignores repentance because the Church teaches that we are sinful beings who can’t stop sinning.


• It contends that since we can’t stop, then we’re not really responsible for our own sinful behavior.

• “We’re born that way!”


• Christians will often tell Messianics that “There are too many laws to keep anyways, it’s not even possible to keep them all”.


• “We’re born into sin right?

• It’s not our fault• So it’s really out of our

control.• Jesus even said we’d

all sin, every one of us”


• This sadly and inevitably leads to the next conclusion…

• “If it’s not possible to keep all of G-d’s Laws, then why should we even try.

• Besides, we sin everyday”


• This is a Gentile way of looking at Sin.

• It isn’t 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.


• What the Church offers today isn’t the whole counsel of G-d.

• In Judaism we don’t believe that G-d would tell us to do something that was impossible to do.

• What kind of Father would do such a thing?


• In Scripture we see one being told, “Go and sin no more”

• Thus it IS possible to go and sin no more.


• Because without it, the Great Commission can not be fulfilled.

The Great Commission?

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


• Many times that sinners call Christians fools… I’m sorry, but it’s not for the Gospel’s sake.

• It’s often times because Christians are thinking and acting foolishly.

• When we’re acting foolishly, we’re not a light to the world.


• If the Church is NOT a light unto the world then it can’t possibly fulfill the “Great Commission” no matter what they’re missions program might promise.


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


• 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.


• It’s said that “Missions start at home!”.

• I’d change that popular saying to “Missions start with the Jew and wherever he/she may be”


Provoke Jews To Jealousy

• Romans 11 teaches that in the end days, the Church will make the Jew jealous.

• If we think we’re in the End Days, then I’d say Christendom must be at a point of provoking the Jew to jealousy right?


• I don’t 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.


• Are they jealous of a power that’s always talked about in the Church but very rarely (if at all) realized?

• I don’t see any power in today’s Church myself.


• 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.


• I don’t see any Jews who are jealous of that.

• We’re in the End Days but there’s not one jealous Jew?


• I’d say there has to be some change in the local Church.

• A Church that changes to such a degree that it doesn’t have any spots or wrinkles.

• A Body of Believers that Yeshua would come back for.

Where’s The Beef?

• I would submit to you, that a Congregation that is Torah Observant is a Body He’d come to take home

• I’m not saying that there aren’t people who aren’t Saved in Churches out there

Where’s The Beef?

• But I am saying that when the Last Days are upon us, we wont be going to Church to find out what’s next.

• Rather, the local Church will be going to their local Messianic Synagogue to get the latest news.

Where’s The Beef?

• And if they’re staying for lunch, they wont be getting a ham sandwich.

• And if they want to stand and read the Scriptures, they’re going to have to put on a Tallit or wear Tsit Tsits

Where’s The Beef?

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

Where’s 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.

Where’s The Beef?

• I found it on a website that archives ancient documents.

• I was very angry when I read it.

• It’s a profession of faith that was world-wide that Jews would have to recite publicly in order to become a Christian.

• They’d have to say…

“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.”


• So I wrote this up for Non-Messianics who wanted to become members of Messianic Synagogues.

• (I’m NOT implementing this ).


• I will no longer eat of the abomination of swine’s flesh. I will keep all of G-d’s Laws that pertain to me and will not cause G-d’s Chosen People to abandon the traditions of their forefathers

• I will recognize and keep all of G-d’s 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.


• 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.


• 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.

Conclusion Of Class One

• These are just a few of the reasons that Messianic Judaism is a must.

• There’s many more that we’ll be seeing through the rest of this course.


• We’ll 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?


• 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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