Foundation Course - Class 2 Feb 19 2022

We're going to get going. We are now recording. Exotic. So, so thankful for a buddy, be here this morning. We brought breakfast tacos. If you feed them, they will come. So hopefully we will find out today whether we need more or less breakfast, tacos next week, but this morning, I want, if you guys got the sheet that's here, looks like this. Hopefully everybody got at least one of these for family. There should be 27. I'm back there. So everybody can have their own Saturday, one of them, but at least get one for family. And I know what this is is this is something we're actually going to pass out. So you guys are like the first ones to get it. We're going to send this in our end-of-month email for Shabbat Across America last week. I believe we had somebody asked about how you do Shabbat in your home and remember some things you can do. So that's what this is. And so, it will explain how the cotton they wrote, which is the candle lighting if you want to do that. The blessing for the children, which we love blessing of a wife, always a good thing to do, guys. Proverbs 31 for those, your single just move on to the next section Kiddush on the next pages of our people. Say, in the land. He douche. So how much they say the blessing through their, what I've also included is this, so this page here is an alternate blessing for the candle-lighting. Why do we do that? Well, there's a traditional candle lighting and then there is one that we do that. For those of us who are Messianic Believers. And the reason why do that is because of tradition was great. It's just that there's no commandment to really Kindle the Sabbath lights and so but, you know, hey, tradition, So we actually do both. I last night in our house. We did this one too. So it just if you'll look at this page here and I just want you to look at the transliteration. And if transliteration is new to you, you'll see it up on the screen needs. How many liturgy? And so it's basically just your cheat sheet for Hebrew. So if you look at that, you'll see, it says Baruch attah, Adonai, eloheinu, melekh ha-olam. I share kitchen, Uber Mitzvah table, Betty Bonney Lake near Shel, Shabbat pay. So that's how you pronounce all that. The hard one is that had leaked into, it has to do with lighting the candles there, that part. So this one is a little bit more verbage wise, and it's actually got the Hebrew on it with the masoretic text, but it's also got the transliteration. Thank the Lord for that, right? So it starts out the same. Baruch attah, Adonai eloheinu. Melech, ha'olam. I share. Can you show new buttmitzvah table? It's Yvonne new so far. Were the exact same and then it says lucky you. Or like going but not to Llano at the issue of Mischief, a new or how long and what that means is blessed. Are you Lord God, King of the universe, who Sanctified us with his Commandments and commanded us to be a light to the Nations who gave to us through our Messiah, the light of the world. And that's a beautiful thing because we know that that's what God want us to do. So just wanted to share that with you. You guys can take that home with you and have that for Shabbat. So, all right, everybody, hopefully had a great morning. There's coffee back there, breakfast tacos. If you came in.

Just briefly also want to mention again the books for the class. If you didn't get a chance to get the books. I just want to go over real quickly. So you understand what they are. The one that we require you to read and say you've read it and it's the honor System, right? And not going to bring up. There's no test. So the honor System is I have read this and there's a little check box when you do your application, is Messianic foundations. By Sam. Now we have that one to be able to book for the bookstore. We would ask that if you want to pursue membership, you do read this book. It's very good. Sam Adler is the next one. Excellent writer Messianic discipleship by Sam. Nadler is really for those who are new to the Messianic movement or new to the faith. Okay. It's kind of got the Olivet Gimbels eyelet if you will in the back, so it's got the, we went to the ABC's in English. But of course, the aleph-bet hear of discipleship. So, what's your identity? As a messiah? Relational have its troops and also the basic symbols of our faith. Okay? That one. And this one on our hands are stained with blood. If you bought one, you might have got that different looks in this one. This is the new edition. Would you have this one of the book stores? Well, this is Michael Brown's book. If you are not Jewish, I would definitely recommend that you read this. Okay, give you kind of history and it's a dark history of what's happened to the Jewish people through years of persecution. So I'm all right. Those are the three books. There's some other books that we recommend, as we go along. If you look in your material, I don't have my notebook with me. But in your notebook you there's a couple other ones. One of them is Barney Cash's book on the got the point of times about face, such a beautiful book next week. Jesse's going to be kind of walking us through some of the moedim and kind of walking through that part in part 3 as well as Jewish Customs. So that's going to be an exciting class. And then the last week we're going to have a Sean directions going to come in and teach that class. And it's really how do you get connected in the community? But today? Yay, for all you feel oceans out there gets a little heavy. Okay. So we're going to try to just like before you do you think about going down to the street corner? And you've got your fire hydrant and you turn it on and try to drink out of it. Okay. So that's what this is kind of like I will pause several times for questions and kind of go over at a high-level. Try not to do too deep of a dive but there's some important theological things that we need to discuss today as we get into week two in the foundation class. So, let's Jump Right In. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, okay.

So so if you will come see me after service. I will make sure we can help you out. Okay, just find me at the end of the service today and we'll get you the books, you need. Okay? Sorry about that. All right. So we got a couple sections. Hear God's calling for Messianic Jews. God's calling for Messianic. Gentiles are not Jews or is our friend last week, said sojourners, if you prefer. So we got this idea of a calling. And so this is coming, straight out of nadler's book, a lot of this material. And so when I share this with you, it's coming straight from there. So if you've already gotten ahead and read some of those chapters, this will be familiar to you. Let me read Jeremiah 31. First of all, at that time to Claire's, the Lord. I will be the God of all the clans of Israel and they shall be my people. Thus says the Lord, the people who survived the sword found Grace in the wilderness when Israel sought for rest, the Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore. I have continued my faithfulness to you. So within that passage was he a few things here and it's important to realize. There's the three p's that that Sam nadler's going to pull out in the first one here, is that God's love is personal that God says to Israel, I have loved you. And if you have tied yourself to Israel in the, in the sense of you have become a new testament, believer. And you're part of the Commonwealth of Israel looks play with. That is later. That's also, you know, God loves all people, right? He does. But there isn't, there is a commitment, a covenant commitment of Love there and he says, I've loved you with an everlasting love. So that's very important for us to realize, God chose Israel by his Sovereign Love. And by his love, he keeps is real issue. A wept over Jerusalem because of the Lost spiritual state of so many of his people. And we talked about that a little bit last week of a, how it's amazing to see in the word of God. How Jerusalem and the fate of the Jerusalem and your shoe. And what he does is tied together. It really is God's love is also Perpetual. He says, I have loved you with an everlasting love. So how how did you do that? Jewish Believers that have a present tense Jewish. Testimony is a good example of that. We have lots of those folks and so about three hundred thousand or so World, why we believe at this time, maybe a little more than that. Now, through the witness of Gentile, Believers, if you read Romans 9, 10 11, you'll see this idea of the fullness of the Gentiles coming in, and there's a jealousy that takes place. And so, if you ask a lot of Jewish people how they came to Faith. I read in the book. One time that there was about 90% was the figure that was given. It may be different now, but about 90% of Jewish people come to Faith because of some Gentile person that let them in to the kingdom.

Alright. Love is powerful. All right, that's the third Pete's. I have continued my faithfulness to you. There is a covenant commitment. That's only driven by God's power. That is done. That's an amazing thing. How does he do it by his Hesed? That's a fancy word and you got to say that at the front of that tested. And so has to do with the word loving kindness is one, way is translated tested. And so that's one way he does it. The other thing is the abrahamic Covenant. So that's a beautiful promise, way back with Abraham even before Moses. We got Abraham and the reason guy called the Jewish people into existence was because he loves them. All right. He loved them. All right. So we talked a little bit last week about just mentioning Romans. As we did Romans 1:16. We also see here, the, the goal of the best of the Gospel is to the Jew first. And so we talked about that one pack that now, so far. I'm 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, or the Gentile depending on your translation for in it. The righteousness of God is revealed from Faith by from faith for Faith. As it is written, the righteous shall live by faith. So we have a good news and we talked about last week. I gave you the the book by Mike enzor. It's the best of raw and that you can find that word and Isaiah 49 49 in Hebrew and also you and Gillian, which is the Greek word. And at, that basically means good message. If you take that apart and means good and Angel. And the word Angel is Messenger a lot in and gloss. And so the idea is a good word or good message. 1st Corinthians 15 one. You can see an example of that. They're, what is to the Jew? First mean, There are some different definitions of what this is. First of all, there's the historical interpretation and which says the gospel went to the Jews first. And then to the Gentiles, this version could lead to replacement theology. Why? Because this idea of, well, we sent it to the juice. First. They rejected it. Therefore it goes to the Gentiles and God's done with the Jewish people. So that's where you can get to it. That historical one. And then the theological interpretation, the gospels available for all. Especially to the Jewish people and equally to the Gentile and you can see David Stern's complete Jewish Bible translation on that passage and you'll see him use that. And kind of emphasize that in his translation. Then we had the abrahamic Covenant. This is a promise blessing for the Nations. There's a promise. Blessing for the nations in the abrahamic Covenant. Yes, I'll make you a great people. I'm not you'll be as the number of stars are grains of sand, all those things. I will give you a land, but I'll also make you a blessing to the nation's and so this same Covenant promised Abraham, a people and land as well as a covenant blessing for those who participate in it. So, if God were to fulfill one part of the promise, but nullify the other part, he break his Covenant, he would break his Covenant and God is serious about Covenant. When we read this morning in the Torah portion. I get to read it this morning. And you'll see the car is pretty serious about his Covenant. This would be unrighteous to Abraham and his Descendants. The seed of Promise comes through your shoe at the Messiah and you can see that seems to Paul as he writes about that and talks about not to seeds. But to a seed, the promised seed, which is you, she was a messiah. In fact, I'm getting ahead of myself. There. It is. Now the promise to Abraham and reseed. It doesn't say Aunt to see as many but as of 1 and 2 your seed who is the messiah What I am saying is this tour which came 430 years later does not cancel the Covenant, previously, confirmed by God abrahamic Covenant. So, as to make the promise ineffective, for if the inheritance is based on law is no longer based on a promise, but God has graciously given it to Abraham by means of a promise. And that's very important. All right, moving on to Messianic congregations for this dissection here. And after this, I think we'll take some questions.

So in the book never has a whole chapter devoted or a section. I can't remember exactly. It's a whole chapter now, but here's there's a section in there that's devoted to why Messianic congregations exist where the importance of the Messianic congregations and why are we here? So one, they are faithful and they are faithful, testimony of God and God's doing in the yards today. If all Jewish people were saved and assimilated into good churches, the Jewish people as a nation as a nation that culture and customs would was virtually end some of those things that God shows us through the years. You know, it's it's amazing. Sometimes we we look at Torah and we look at this idea of Law and we talked about tour of being instruction before but one of the things that Torah did is it kept its community alive. Get that Community together. Through difficult persecution times, they stay together as a community. And so it's important that a traditional Christian dumbest teeth in the assumptions, which really surprised Jewish continuity. And so it's important to realize that that that can't act like it doesn't always take place. There's lots of churches that are very open to that. A lot of the folks that started coming about the say years ago or actually a part of a Friday night Fellowship group at Second Baptist Church Houston. And so that was an amazing thing that Second Baptist are they like, we had, we see the sensitivity to Israel and the Jewish people. We want them to have their own culture in space until they had this Friday night. Erev, shabbat group that met together. We had a lot of folks that we met out of that. Messianic congregations are also affected to the testimony of God. I think that kind of goes without saying that it's a beautiful picture to see the testimony of God through what he's doing today. If I think it was in the wrong 1988 ish there about 80 Messianic congregations in dogs in the United States. Now, there's over two hundred. So just as an example, how she's grown worldwide as well. The most effective expression of the newest of the Jewish people. And all people is the idea of this. I see any movement and I and II around that Melanie and I were talk about to see the day. We called it Messianic movement for so long now, it's kind of like the Jesus move, but the movement Parts over. It's here. So, it's now the Messianic Community. It's, it's now here in this tablet, God, effectively communicate the faithfulness of God to his chosen people through this medium through this culture in contact and Jewish people are a community and because communal wife is so important will, it will stress that and it's a beautiful thing, especially when you're coming out of a pandemic and, you know, you've been home, and you've been zooming everything and all the sudden you get to come together. Once again, it's a family, it's it's a beautiful thing for filling the testimony of God. It's essential to the Great Commission. We are disciple-making making. If we say tell madine, I tell me that is recycled. Tell me the name is plural. I were making healthy disciples not larger numbers. We just want to say that because we're not about making a bunch of people just come here. We want to see discipleship and growth. And we we we do count the sheep in the sense that we want to make sure that we haven't lost any out of the fold. But we don't count the shape for the sake of. We want to see, you know, this massive Place built, you know, that's not what we're looking to do. We're looking to build a community of the faithful followers. All right, the Faith of Our Fathers part one, so we kind of talked about some Messianic congregations. Now, we're going to talk about salvation and just the aspects of Salvation, a little salvation commences by faith, be Romans for Abraham believed and it was accounted for him as righteousness. Right? So so faith is the issue that trusting and it's very interesting. It's a heart trusting, right? I used to tell you the truth, all the time that the difference between heaven and hell is about 12 to 18 in depending on how tall you are. Alright, it's between your head and your heart. How do I know that? Because it was James to says, you believe in God, the Devil's Due to and they tremble. So, there is a belief and that were, by the way that use their, you believe, the same word used in the sense that it's like. The devil says, yeah, I believe in God, there is versus faith of I believe. By faith is a trusting that goes on your heart that you believe, something's there because it exists, you see it, but do you put your faith in it? You know, if we had maybe Ivan could tell us this

Are at the at the atomic level? I'm not sure you put your faith in sitting down in that chair cuz of how spread out those those molecules are. But there's something about those bonds that God did that creates that chair to be able to be strong enough and sturdy, to hold you up. And so, that's how it is in the face world. And so, you see things like Thomas in the word. While I'll only believe if I could put my hand in his, in the stars in the wounds and then he does, he says, what did he say? My Lord and my God, so there's something about that trusting element that happens. Alright, pay for father, salvation continues by faith. We trust by faith is punctiliar moment in time where we put our trust in you. Shua, and it continues by faith. All right, got power in your life is manifested. Only in the context of relationship, relationship with him, a relationship with God. Like all other healthy relationships, is based on trust. It's based on trust salvation, begins and continues by faith, Covenant, merely formalizes and clarifies that Faith relationship. That Covenant is a door that you walk through into this world of Salvation. Okay. So so it's not just a name. I say that because it's not just fire Insurance. Okay. It's a covenant, trusting relationship, that's important. It's something that continues in your life and develops. Salvation is perfected by faith. It's perfected by faith. Growth is not a matter of forcing more works out, but it's developing faith in a Reliance upon God. And when you do that, when you realize it's, you know, I am the vine. You are the branches, he who abides in me Bears, much fruit. Okay. So you're a tomato, on a vine. Try to get off that Bond and see what happens. Okay, you're going to shrivel up and die. And so there's this this idea of being connected to this, nurturing Vine. That provides of the nurse what you need and you abide in that you remain in that. And so that's what we're talking about here.

Faith is reckoned as righteousness from the start, but its goal is faithfulness. And if if you don't really see that go read Revelation and every chapters 1 2 and 3 and see the messages to the different congregations there, the seven congregation and see the idea of continuing in my faith. If you continue in my faith, if you continue, if you continue to see it over and over and over again, in that passage, oh, I'll say it again. Faith in your shoe alone is what saves us? Salvation is obtained by our faith and our trust in the Lord. If you confess with your mouth that you, she was a little bleeding heart. God raised him from the dead. You shall be saved. Many other patches that passages we could use but but this idea faith and trust and once again, it's different than just had knowledge. Yes, you. Okay. I am knowledge. That. There is a person named Joshua. He existed, he was a great teacher, great Rabbi and you stop there. That's not a face commitment. That's just knowing that this guy really existed. There's a step. You take me on that and I think I'm getting a lot of head nod. So I most of y'all in here, understand that idea salvation is not by works of the law by The Works of Torah, but by the witness of the law, okay, it's important to realize that nothing wrong with Torah for instruction today. You're going to see a very challenging passages. I said between someone who said, if you don't keep Sabbath you die and then what Paul said about it being a Ministry of death. Wow, so all I stay in that and then those two patches is the passages. Think. Are you sure? Thank God for you? Sure. Who gave us the Indescribable gift of eternal life? Even though God's righteousness me. She was not dependent on any works of the Torah, the Mosaic tour still serves as an eternal purpose and witnessing to this very righteousness. Here's what that or is the Torah is the mirror. The tour is the mirror and you looking at you go. Wow. I've got some infections. So would you use that mirror then try to clean yourself up, you know, that wouldn't be where it is. It's just showing you your imperfections, you need you. Shua the complete that that work and so Torah is mirror and it's beautiful but it shows that guy that's what we hold it because it's good and righteous and holy and we can't do it. We'll do our best, but we're going to fall short. All the fallen short of the glory of God rank. The wages of sin is death. But the free gift of God, is eternal life and Messiah Yeshua, so it's important to realize that. That's, that's the picture. We look at we have Holt or we have hold it cuz it's holding in good and righteous, but we need, you sure we need him. All right. So I love this quote from Sam Nadler. You sure. Fulfilled tour of Niagara Falls kills a glass with water this page 58 from from Foundation. Any questions at this point. I know, it's kind of heady kind of some heavy theological stuff there.

All right, as always I've I've got about 5 minutes when you get done with class, we should wrap up hopefully around 9:30 today. And then I lie. If you got some questions you want to ask privately, you don't ask him from class. I'll be glad to help you out. Alright, so because my experience tells me. So I'm guessing that most of us in this room are Messianic Gentiles or coming from the church background. Not Jewish by by Blood. So there's an important aspect of that because we are Jewish people and gentile people coming together under the banner of Messiah Yeshua. It's a beautiful picture. We see in the early Congregation of we would say that Kayla or the kehila, if you prefer the word used, for those who are called out, you might see the word ekklesia in Greek, which is very close to the Spanish word Iglesia, right, very close. So you see a lot of connections between all those Latin languages, glacia means those who are called out two Greek words out of and Kaleo, which means I call you. So, actually, see a means I call you out. And so you already have a purpose established, if you're part of the body Messiah and how do you become a part of the body Messiah? You do that by accepting ishua so you can sit in the seat, but that doesn't make you a part of that building. And the people it makes you someone who's sitting in the seat. What makes you a living? Stone. Is accepting the one? Who gave you living water and that's you. All right. The Gentile Great Commission. Alright, the earliest Believers and you shua assume. Gentile Believers were to become juice. All right, you can read the first couple of verses there and Acts chapter 15, you can see this being played out, maybe another places in the word, the issue of Gentile Believers in the family of Faith was a dicey one. What do we do with all these non-jewish? People that are starting to put their trust and faith in Rabbi Yeshua, what do we do with these guys? So Romans 11 never writes this based on that, our confidence in God's word and it sure fulfillment will Packer Evangelistic activities, as well as our Eternal perspective. Therefore, Paul teaches that the profillment of Israel's National Revival is certain because God's calling is irrevocable. We might have taken that passage and used it for some other reason that the gifts and callings in your life or irrevocable. That's, that's certainly nice butt. In contacts is talking to Israel here. Alright, it's it's irrevocable God's calling for Israel. Never the It will be fulfilled when Gentiles minister to the Jewish people, the same Mercy that they have received. Okay, Messianic foundations that page 80 Why was there a parting of the ways between Jewish Believers and Gentile believe we've actually done an entire class on this topic before and so I'm literally just hitting the top of the iceberg. Very very very little I can say on this without doing a deep dive but some Gentile Believers were arrogant against this real these Believers therefore neglected their responsibility to reach out to the Jewish people in love. And what has been the big problem with you is evangelism within the church. Why are you trying to be culturally different than the Jewish Community? Your Liberty in your show was meant to help you identify with Israel not be alienated from them. And so, there was this time and look at the two-way street. Everything is a two-way street. And so when you read Michael Brown, just realized that. Just if you've, if you've been around the block a few times, you realize it's not all just the Gentiles, there were things on both sides, right? So especially when there were different, revolts the bar hook for revolt and other places like that, where the Messianic would not fight and an honest. And it's got really upset. And as a result of that, they they said, will you guys are no longer part of us. We don't want you to be in this community, go hang out with your Gentile friends. I'm out on the gentle side. We see Constantine. We see all three things happening in the 3rd and 4th centuries. We see the different edicts. That went out the Edict of Elvira and other things like that. It's not just a song by the Ridge Boys. Elvira. It's an edict as well. And so you got this edict that says no longer do anything with the Jewish people. Don't celebrate Sabbath with them pass over now becomes Easter and they didn't use the word Easter, but the idea. And so all those kind of things begin to happen as result until that's what we got there. So the next section here, we're going to jump into the idea of a couple of trees. There's a beautiful picture if you go through and I haven't done a full, just downloaded this but I I've heard other people that have done it. I've talked about the significance of trees in the Bible and just going through and seeing the significance of what God does with fries. Obviously, that starts with a tree in the middle of the garden and it ends with a tree in the New Jerusalem. So, there's a lot of significance here about what God does with trees. But I point out and I wrote on here, or their own Olive Tree because sometimes we, I say we Loosely, but we In the church, we in the body Messiah, Once again, have that replacement theology idea, God's done with this real. We're now that Olive Tree will. No. No, that's not true. It's their Olive Tree and were grafted into it. So, there's three beautiful pictures in the word.

Part of our our discussion here on botany today at three different to plant representing Israel in God's promise. We had the vine, we have the Fig Tree and we have the Olive Tree and yes, there are other elements and other trees that you can talk about. You talk about some things you see in Psalms and things like that. Absolutely. There's lots of beautiful pictures with the three main ones. We kind of see her. These three, the idea of Vine Fig & Olive Tree. So the vine, symbolized, Israel's spiritual life. This is Israel, predict productivity of promise. This idea that they will be productive before God. I'm as he is. The gardener is, he is the one who takes care of that Vineyard, E1, Israel's a luxurious fine that yields, its fruit, the more his fruit increase, the more Alters he built, Alright, then there's the Fig Tree, symbolized. Israel's National Life. This is Israel's professional promise Jose and 9/10. Don't Jose, like grapes in the wilderness. I found is real like the first fruit of the Fig Tree in its first season. I saw your father's and so one of the things we have to be careful of his things like when we go and see the picture of you. Shua, and he's cursing a fig tree for us to take that and go while he's done with this and know what he's doing. Is the saying there's a predict productivity? That's not taking place that needs to take place. Yes. How do you have your good works? Going to fulfill Torah. Only way to do it, is pretty sure. It's the only way to do it. And so that's what he's kind of saying in that there's this idea of national productivity. So the Olive Tree, symbolized, Israel's picture of future service to the Lord. Went by faith. In bisaya, the natural branches are grafted back to those natural branches taken by zecharia thing about some other passages and Isaiah. And you see the idea of the natural branches branches and his idea of the argument, from the Lesser to the greater. How much more if if, if you Gentiles are grafted in, how much more will this whole thing, be fulfilled? As the natural branches, get drafted back in. So we see this as symbolized, Israel's picture of a future service went by S Messiah. The natural branches are grafted back in and you can see, Romans, 11, 16 through 20 for is I kind of alluded to their about the ultimate goal of that. So here in Romans 11:17, just kind of taking one Little Slice out of that passage. But if some of the branches were broken off of you being a wild Olive or grafted in among them and became a partaker of the root of the olive tree with his britches richness. All right, among them wrapped it in among them, very important that I point that out because it's not, they got just completely removed and We Takin Over Your grafted in among them. And that's very, very important. Paul sets of the Gentile, Believers, you being a wild all over Grafton in among them know. It's not instead of them. It's among them. Okay, and I'm replacing them. Gentile Believers as Wild. Olive branches are added to the Olive Tree among the natural bleeding branches and Jen's house. Of course, do not replace Jewish people arrogant toward the natural branches is sadly, part of the history of the body of Messiah. Arrogance is reflected in its fact that something that God has promised to Jewish people are now avoided or transferred to the church as a result. Alright richest richness for the Gentiles. Alright Romans 11:12. Now if their transgression is Rich's for the world and their failures Rich's for the Gentiles who whose failure, we're talking about Israel's a failure to see the Messiah Yeshua as that a messiah for that, the nation. Okay. Did some of them come in? Absolutely assured. There's always a Remnant. But nationally it didn't take place. And so how much more will their fulfillment? Be that work for filming is very significant. They're all right, and I think I wrote in there. Oh, well, I wrote Romans 11:25, just part of that is another place. You can go lest you be wise in your own eyes and look at that. It will see that next. So, the same Greek word here are, that's used. It's, it's either play ralo. If it's, if it's verbal play Roma, depending on whether it's now to Ruby ideas for filling or filling up to the pool. This Idea of what this says this 11/12 is going to be the same word. We're going to use in 1125. So here were talking about their fulfillment. Israel's fulfillment. Then, let's look at verse 25, lest you be wise in your own eyes and you don't want you to be unaware of this mystery Brothers. A partial hardening has come upon Israel until the fullness. The same word is used are the Gentiles have come in. That's significant. It's significant that did Paul structures that that way and uses that. And the reason why is that in the, under the banner of your shoe in Messiah? There is no difference in how we come to him. All right. So so we know from what Paul Road is that Israel was given the covenants in the promises in the fiefs and all the different things and that we is who were far away from God, far-off Ephesians 2, we're far away from God. We're brought close to him by the blood of your shoe, the Messiah. And so there's this picture here, that we see. So what is that? Fullness of the This is been arguing over the centuries. What that means? Paul explains the mystery he explained to mr. He's not creating one. Okay, he's not in the job of trying to create more things that you don't understand what he's trying to explain this mystery. So the fullness of the Gentile, meet Gentiles means it could mean several things. First of all, a number of Gentiles to be saved. That's one concept has been put out. However, if it was, that he would probably use something that has to do with, like the word we use today for arithmetic. There's a Greek word this very close to that and he would have used some kind of word like that. If you really meant a number of Gentiles, the glory of the church. Hopefully we can all stay at the big ant on that one, at from what we've heard already this morning. And that's not really what he's talking about with the fullness of Gentiles. Here's what we seem to believe that he's talking about that the faithfulness of Gentile Believers to the Messianic mission is what the fullness is. And so the reason why and it's Are you understand your reason why? I believe we see a rise of non-jewish boats getting involved in the Messianic Community. Yes, sir Anderson tour, that's all true. But there's this fullness element coming. There's this thing. I just believe it's prophetic. I just believe there's this beautiful picture of as more and more Gentiles come in. And it's just like a whole idea of what we see in Isaiah that we're going to grab the Hem of a Jewish person and go with them, and, and there's going to be 10 of 10 people. The nation to grab the Hem of a Jewish person. Say, let me go with you cuz God is with you. There's this idea of us doing that and an in humbling ourselves, really, right? Because most, I can tell you, when I was twenty-two and I got out of Bible College. I knew everything. I mean, I do it all, I had all the right answers. I was absolutely correct on all my Theology. And, As I Grew and grew and grew, I got humbled and put back in my little box, several, several times. And one of those blocks, I got put back into on several times is that God is not done with this real and as a result. Finally at 28. He convinced me of that and I had became part of the Messianic Community. Alright are messy and unity we done on time. We got plenty of time, good at Unity, the history of this relationship and the congregation directly Sia has tended towards pressuring used to give out their Jewish identity. And and so we can read Michael Brown and we can understand the idea of massive conversions. We see this in various places such as the Inquisition, and others, very difficult situations. Where forced conversions are taking place, Jewish people forced to eat pork to prove that. They're no longer a faithful to the Torah, things like that. And so when we see some of this stuff, The pressure and at times persecution to remove Jewish expression without the body Messiah with within the body. Messiah is tragic for a number of biblical reasons. God is glorifying her Unity, if we accept each other as Messiah dead, so we see this in Romans 15, therefore accept one. Another just as Masai also accepting you to the glory of God. And so Redemption, the Redemptive Covenant for made by God only with the Jewish people remember that. There are only maybe just people Gentile, Believers minister to the Jewish people as Messiah did confirming and not cancelling those promises. And we get to be a part of that. As we join this, this beautiful tree, and it's becoming his beautiful tree. We become that spiritual Seed of Abraham, not physical. We don't become physical Jewish people. We can't become part of the Commonwealth, which will talk about. So we move down here and then versus a 7 through 9 for I declare, that Messiah has became a servant to the circle. For the sake of God's truth. In order to confirm. The promise is given to the Patriarchs and for the Gentiles to glorify God for his Mercy, as it is written. For this reason. I will give you praise among the nations were Gentiles go in, and I will sing to your name. All right. Jewish, good news for gentiles. Welcome to the Commonwealth. Hey, welcome to the Commonwealth. Has anybody ever been a place where your part of the Commonwealth before one time when we went to do the Cayman Islands? We went snorkeling With The Stingrays. I was terrifying and so I don't really snorkel. I've just kind of floated. But anyway, I digress. So we were there and I we got in the car. We were driving around our health for driving on the left side of the road. What's going on here? Why we drive on the left side of the road? And I'll look up and I see a British flag and I'm like, what's going on here? Welcome to the Commonwealth. Part of the Commonwealth of the United Kingdom. It is not the United Kingdom, but it's part of the Commonwealth. And so at, because it's part of the United Kingdom. There are certain rules and certain things that take place there, but they are their own thing. Okay, it's always important to realize that his Gentiles. For those of us who are Italian, those of us who were Irish, those of us, who are South American Mexican? Wherever we come from, African Jamaican, whatever our background is. I hope I didn't offend you, if I didn't name your country, but the bottom line is we come from all sorts of different things. We are the Melting Pot that comes together under the Commonwealth. And that is a beautiful, beautiful thing. It's a beautiful thing and just take a moment this morning when you get into the service and look around in the building and I'm getting Goose Bumps, just talking about, I cry talking about this, just seen a Nations gathered together to worship God. It's a beautiful thing and they're doing it in the banner Messiah, Yeshua, and they're doing it to say, I love is real and I love the chosen people. So sorry. Alright. Gentiles who believe in Yeshua do not become Jewish pay. It's important that you realize that there are some people that for different reasons, May converted to Judaism and they do that good that process. But you cannot change your DNA. You can't do it. I'm Italian actually specifically Sicilian. And so I'm a Rossi. I'm always going to be a rossino to Rossburg. Okay, it's just it's not going to change. Even if I change my name, I can't change my DNA and who I came from. But my spiritual DNA, can be changed and that's important. Our spiritual DNA says, I am a part of the spiritual seed, the house of Israel. And if you are part of the physical seed of the House of Israel, we say we were welcomed with a sham. I'm glad you're here with us. All right. It doesn't refer to the nation of Israel. And that's why I gave you that picture of the Cayman Islands. That's not the UK. It's just a commonwealth of it. The idea, is that the citizenship in the community which transcends national borders? Okay, and that's the idea of it as Believers in Messiah. Yeshua, Jewish and gentile, people do not share the same nationality, but they share the same rights values and relationship with the Living. God, spiritually, spiritually, and that's important to realize. And Paul makes that point over and over and over again in his Epistles. All right. This is the Gentiles true spiritual Unity within the body Messiah and identification with Israel not being Jewish yet a part of invested in and interested in the welfare of Jewish life. They are intertwined with the Jews as a part of the biblical community of God. It's it's it's a book of Acts. It's the first century of life with a believers. So a fusions to is a great picture for this for. He is our Shalom, the one who made the two into one, broke down the middle Wall of Separation, with in his flesh. He made powerless the hostility, the law code of myths about contain and regulations. He did this in order to create within himself. One new man, from the two groups making Shalom. So, that's important too. Kind of impact that a little bit, the idea, if you ever seen a picture of her, you know, a little bit about the temple and the Temple Court. The park at the outer wall, if you will, or separating the Gentiles and the Gentile Court from the Jews. Okay, there was a quart of women. There was a quart of Gentiles and there was the inner Court area. And of course there was a holy Place. Holy of holies etcetera, but there's different levels. Right? And the Gentiles under penalty of death, could not go into that Jewish area in the temple. Okay. So what Paul is getting us is this beautiful picture of how that has been broken down spiritually and you see it. And I think I said this last week, you see it in Acts chapter 10, you see it with Cornelius. You see this idea of? Wow. These Gentiles are starting to come into the kingdom. They're getting the Holy Spirit just like we did. What is going on until they hate? They start making the cushion. They realize that this is what God's doing. He's tearing down that wall of separation. And so then we have access Dean not to annul the Torah. But to say, if you're going to sit down with me, I'm going to need you to have your pool, Port Saint. Left side. I'm in need you to not need that blood stuff and stuff sacrificed to idols and don't you don't. Don't commit sexual morality those things that were disgusting. If you will, there was things that kept him from being able to sit down with table and that's what they're hashing out there. Hahaha right Holocaust, we do it here. I think I explained it last week. We try to be sensitive. So if we have some kind of a shindig, we have food and we have Mexican food. We're going to try to separate the sour cream in the cheese from the table, where the meat is. Not because we're being legalistic, but because we love to his people and that that's a sensitivity for them. And that's what we're doing with that. That's not an X-15, but that's something that we realized over the years. If that's something that we must do and should do just to honor them. Do that because I have Liberty Messiah. I can do it. That's what is? I don't have to do it. I get to do it. Okay. I always tell people that so. Alright, you shua is the peace offering and so you might see that they're not in Romans as well as a peace offering indicated. There was a complete peace with God, the offering was actually eaten by those who offer the sacrifice. All right. So we see this picture such at, was God's peace offering in the death of Messiah. Okay, I put it into hostility between Jews and Gentiles. All right. So that's a whole idea. So he who knew no, sin became a sin offering for us, a peace offering. All right, and so there's this idea of this offering that that's a beautiful picture. There are any questions at this point?