As disciples of Messiah Yeshua, we teach the Hebrew path that He walked and His message of the restoration of the Kingdom of God.
Hebrew vs. Greek Thinking
"Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus …
(NKJ Philippians 2:5)
Yeshua (Jesus) was a Hebrew man … born into a Hebrew family, raised in a Hebrew culture, and He chose Hebrew men to be his disciples. You could probably say 'He was fully Hebrew in His thinking'.
Yet most of us who were raised in Christianity look at Him from a Greek perspective. We focus on the Greek 'New Testament', whereas He taught from the Hebrew 'Old Testament'.
Therefore, if we want to align our thinking with His, we should begin to think like a Hebrew. When we do so, we find that many of the 'Greek' concepts that we were taught, do not align with the 'Hebrew' concepts He and His disciples actually taught.
"He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father's who sent Me."
NKJ John 14:24
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Grace in the Old Testament
Grace is a word that is often tossed around by Bible teachers. It's often stated that 'grace' is a New Testament concept - a concept not found before Matthew 1. But grace is found throughout the Old Testament … we've just not been looking in the right places. How does 'grace' impact a believer, and how does it fit into God's plan of salvation for His poeple?
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Righteousness in Hebrew Thought
Rightousness, like the words 'love', 'hate', trust, and believe, is a word that is rather hard to define. Such is the case of many words found in the OT. Since the understanding of NT concepts should be based on their OT counterpart, it's important that we see what they meant before, so we can understand what the NT writer meant. Let's did into the word 'righteousness' and see what it really means.
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Born Again?
In describing the concept of being 'born again' to Nicodemus, Yeshua used an example from the Old Testament. Was being 'born again' something the Jews were already familier with, and if so, why did Nicodemus have questions. This study shows that the Jews were fully aware of what the term meant, they just did not know how to attain it.
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The Biblical Sabbath
Many believe that we are supposed to 'rest' on the Sabbath, and for that reason, they make no effort to fellowship with others on that day. A deeper look at the word 'SHABBAT' shows that 'resting' is not the purpose of the Sabbath, instead we are to 'cease' from our normal work. In fact, God has us 'cease' so that we can meet together, just as was Yeshua's custom.
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Does God Condone Burning Alive?
What does the Bible teach about an ever burning 'Hell Fire'? Many who believe in it, yet know in their mind that 'burning forever' would be a cruel fate, take hold of non-Biblical beliefs that help them think that their ungodly relative is not suffering that terrible fate. Fortunately, the scripture does not support the practice of burning people alive. You'll be glad!
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Cornelius - the First Hebrew Convert
Cornelius is believed to be the 1st 'gentile' convert. Though it sounds good to a 'gentile' church, the truth is that Cornelius was not a gentile at all, but was in fact a Hebrew. By matching Cornelius' actions and Peter's vision to a number of OT propheciesm, then taking Yeshua's own words and by correcting a terrible translation error, we'll see that Cornelius was a fulfillment of prophecy.
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the Hebrew Roots 'Awakening'!
Discover Hebrew Roots - the 'Way' God gave to Israel, the 'Way' Yeshua restored in His day, and the 'Way' taught by the disciples.
..."But this I confess to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect, so I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the Law and in the Prophets...
NKJ Acts 24:14
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Hebrew Roots?
James Tissot - Wikimedia Commons Hebrew Roots is an 'awakening' . . . a realization that Messiah Yeshua (Jesus Christ) meant what He said when He told his disciples that 'not one jot or tittle would pass from the law til all things are fulfilled'. Since most prophecy has yet to be fulfilled, those of us who live by His words believe we should fashion our lives after the Torah-observant example of Yeshua.
To put it in a nutshell - we believe we are saved by His grace, and that saved people will attempt to follow in the footsteps of their Saviour.
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the Hebrew Walk
The Hebrew Walk can best be illustrated by a straight path that leads to the Mountain of God. Sin, on the other hand, is when you get off the path, which frequently leads you over a cliff and headed for destruction. The remedy for sin is 'repentance' which in Hebrew simply means to 'return' - as in 'return to the path'.
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Faith is knowing that you don't walk the path alone - that God is with you, protecting and providing along the way. -
Mystery of the Gospel
Paul and Tychicus by Gustave Doré, via Wikimedia God’s desire is that all mankind be saved, but how He plans to bring about that salvation has been hidden from his people – even many of the prophets – until He is ready to reveal it. Yeshua even said that He spoke in parables in order to conceal understanding of God's plan from the masses. Therefore, God's plan is a mystery to most people, but it is being revealed to His disciples.
The key to unlocking the mystery is found by taking the words of the prophets - beginning with Moses - and tying them to the words of Messiah Yeshua.
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Ami Yisrael
'Ami Yisrael' is Hebrew for 'my people Israel'. We take the words of God, Yeshua, Moses, the prophets, and Yeshua's disciples seriously. Thus when Paul said "... if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise" (Gal. 3:29) we believe that applies to us. We are not trying to be Jewish, for the Jews are just a small part of the Hebrew people. Instead, we hope to pattern our lives after that of the Hebrew of Hebrews - Messiah Yeshua.
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