Foundation Course - Class 2 Feb 19 2022

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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