AS BELIEVERS, WE MUST BE
A TESTIMONY AND A WITNESS TO OUR FAMILIES, OUR CO-WORKERS AND OUR COMMUNITY.
WE HAVE BEEN CALLED WITH A HOLY CALLING, TO ESTABLISH GOD'S KINGDOM HERE ON
EARTH, PROCLAIMING HIS PLAN OF REDEMPTION TO OUR JEWISH PEOPLE, AS WELL AS
THE ENTIRE WORLD.
NOW, MANY TIMES, WE ARE
ASKED BY OUR BRETHREN ACCORDING TO THE FLESH "DO YOU KEEP TORAH?" TONIGHT,
I WOULD LIKE TO USE THE WORD "TORAH" TO DESCRIBE SOME VERY IMPORTANT
ATTRIBUTES THAT WE ARE TO EXHIBIT AS GOD'S PEOPLE TO FULFILL GOD'S CALL ON
OUR LIVES.
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TEACHABLE
Prov 10:8 The wise of heart will receive
commands....
Prov 4:20-22 My son, give attention to my
words,; incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your
sight; keep them in the midst of your heart. FOR THEY ARE LIFE TO THOSE WHO
FIND THEM, AND HEALING (HEALTH) TO THEIR WHOLE BODY.
Acts 2:42 And they were continually devoting
themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship.....
DO NOT BE AS DESCRIBED IN
2 TIM 3:7 "EVER LEARNING, AND NEVER ABLE TO COME TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE
TRUTH"
Col 3:16 Let the Word of Messiah richly dwell
within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms
and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to
God.
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OPERATING IN THE SPIRIT
Gal 5:22,25 But the fruit of the Spirit is love,
joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and
self-control; against such things there is no law. If we live by the Spirit,
let us also walk by the Spirit.
FOR MORE STUDY ON THE
GIFTS AND MINISTRIES OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, STUDY THE FOLLOWING SCRIPTURES: 1
COR 12:8-10, 28-30; ROM 12:4-10; EPH 4:11.
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RIGHTEOUSNESS
2 Timothy 2:22 Now flee from youthful lusts, and
pursue RIGHTEOUSNESS, faith, love, and peace, with those who call on
the Lord from a pure heart.
1 Timothy 6:11 But flee from these things, you
man of G-d, and pursue RIGHTEOUSNESS, godliness, faith, love,
perserverence and gentleness.
Matthew 5:6 Yeshua said: "Blessed are those who
hunger and thirst for RIGHTEOUSNESS, for they shall be satisfied."
Romans 14:17 For the Kingdom of God is not
eating and drinking, but RIGHTEOUSNESS and peace and joy in the Holy
Spirit.
Ephesians 5:8-10 For you were formerly darkness,
but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light (for the fruit
of the light consists in all goodness and RIGHTEOUSNESS and truth),
trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.
Romans 1:16-17 For I am not ashamed of the
gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes,
to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the RIGHTEOUSNESS
of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, [Habakkuk 2:4]
"But the righteous man shall live by faith".
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ACCOMMODATING
1) THE JEWISH PEOPLE
I Corinthians 9:19 For though I am free from all
men, I have made myself a slave to all, that I might win the more. 20 And
to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win the Jews; to those who
are under the law, as under the law, that I might win them that are under
the law; 21 To those who are without law, as without law, though not being
without the law of God, but under the law of Messiah, that I might win those
who are without law. 22 To the weak, I became weak that I might win the
weak, I have become all things to all men, that I may by any means save
some.
Zech 2:8b He who touches Israel, touches the
apple of His eye.
Romans 11:1,11-15 I say then, God has not
rejected His people, has He? May it never be! For I too am an Israelite, a
descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. I say then, they did not
stumble so as to fall, did they? May it never be! But by their transgression
salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous. Now if their
transgression be riches for the world and their failure be riches for the
Gentiles, how much more will their fulfillment be! But I am speaking to you
who are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an Apostle to the Gentiles, I
magnify my ministry, if somehow I might move to jealousy my fellow
countryman and save some of them. For if their rejection be the
reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but LIFE FROM
THE DEAD?
2)
THE VISION
Habakkuk 2:2
Then the Lord answered me and said, "Record the VISION and inscribe it on
tablets, that the one who reads it may run. For the VISION is yet for the
appointed time; It hastens toward the goal, and IT WILL NOT FAIL. Though it
tarries wait for it; For it will certainly come, it will not delay.
Isaiah 44:1
Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen: Thus says
the LORD who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you; Do
not fear, O Jacob, my servant; and you, Jesurun, whom I have chosen. For I
will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I
will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:
And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water
courses. This one shall say, I am the LORD'S; and that one will call on the
name of Jacob; and another will write on his hand 'belonging to the LORD,
and will name Israel's name with honor.
Jeremiah 30:18
Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's
tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded
upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.
And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make
merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also
glorify them, and they shall not be small. Their children also shall be as
aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will
punish all that oppress them. And their nobles shall be of themselves, and
their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to
draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who [is] this that engaged his
heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD. And ye shall be my people, and I
will be your God.
SEE ALSO EZEKIEL 2:1-5, 7; 3:1, 4-7
3) THE MESSIANIC
JEWISH MOVEMENT
WE ARE A PART OF A WORLD
WIDE MOVE OF GOD'S SPIRIT, SHOWING OUR PEOPLE THAT IT IS NATURAL AND NORMAL
FOR A JEW TO BELIEVE IN AND PLACE HIS TRUST IN THE PROMISED JEWISH MESSIAH,
YESHUA.
THE MESSIANIC JEWISH
MOVEMENT IS COMPRISED OF MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE, FROM MANY DIFFERENT CITIES,
STATES, AND COUNTRIES; IN MANY DIFFERENT CONGREGATIONS, UNITED IN THEIR GOAL
TO PROCLAIM YESHUA TO OUR PEOPLE, AND TO LIVE IN OUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES AS
JEWS.
AS WE COMBINE OUR
PRAYERS, EFFORTS AND RESOURCES, WE CAN BE EVEN MORE EFFECTIVE IN
ACCOMPLISHING OUR HEAVENLY CALLING THEN WE COULD EVER BE BY TRYING TO DO IT
ALONE. REMEMBER, THERE REALLY IS NO SUCH THING AS A "LONE RANGER" IN THE
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
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HUMBLE
1 Peter 5:5-6
You younger men, likewise be subject to your elders; and all of you clothe
yourself with humility toward one another, for God is opposed to the proud,
but gives grace to the humble. 6 HUMBLE YOURSELVES, therefore, under the
mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time.
Romans 12:3
For through the grace given to me I say to every one among you not to think
more highly of himself then he ought to think.
Proverbs 27:2
Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth... a stranger, and not
your own lips.
REMEMBER TITUS 3:5
"HE SAVED US, NOT ON THE BASIS OF DEEDS WHICH WE HAVE DONE IN RIGHTEOUSNESS,
BUT ACCORDING TO HIS MERCY, BY THE WASHING OF REGENERATION AND RENEWING BY
THE HOLY SPIRIT."
Ephesians 2:8-10
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is]
the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his
workmanship, created in Messiah Yeshua unto good works, which God hath
before ordained that we should walk in them.
Philippians 3:13
Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one
thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies
ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in
Messiah Yeshua.
NOW, WHEN WE HEAR OR
SPEAK OF TORAH, WE CAN BE REMINDED OF THE ATTRIBUTES THAT GOD WISHES TO
DEVELOP IN US:
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