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We Believe:
We, at Messianic
Family Fellowship, believe that in order to please God we
must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of them
that diligently seek Him (Heb. 11:6).
We believe
in the One true God described in the Hebrew scriptures
as the Elohim of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Exd. 3:6), El Shaddai
our God Almighty(Gen 35:11), and Yahweh our Lord and creator
of all things visible and invisible(Col 1:16).
We believe
in the infallible Word of God in its original language.
We believe that the Mashiach of Y'israel is divinely interwoven
throughout both the old and new testaments and therefore bare
one consistent theme and message.
We believe
in Yeshua Messiah (Jesus Christ) who is the Son of
God (Luke 1:35), our Passover Lamb sacrifice (John 1:29,36),
the Word made flesh (John 1:1) who came to tabernacle (dwell)
among us (John 1:4) as Emanuel God with us (Matt. 1:23). We
believe He came to restore the lost sheep of Israel (Matt.
10:6, 15:24) and establish the renewed covenant as spoken
of by the prophet Jeremiah (Jer. 31:31). We believe Yeshua
came to perfect and fill up the Torah commandments full of
meaning and not diminish or make the Law of God null and void
(Matt. 5:17-19). We believe Yeshua died on the tree and rose
again on the third day according to the sign of the prophet
Jonah (Matt. 12:40). We believe that Yeshua came the first
time fulfilling the Spring Feasts of the LORD (Lev. 23) as
the suffering servant, Messiah Ben Yoseph and will come again
to fulfill the Fall Feasts of the LORD (Lev. 23) as the conquering
King, Messiah Ben David.
We believe
that the Messianic Jewish Apostles did not add or
take away from the Torah commandments/instructions/Law but
merely midrashed or expounded upon principles that already
existed in the TaNaKh (Old Testament). We believe they honored
the Torah and upheld it's significance in the believers life
and spoke honorably about Moses and many Jewish traditions.
We believe
in ONE Torah for ALL peoples and that
Israel was indeed chosen as God's first born (Exo. 4:22) to
be priests and prophets to the nations (Deu. 4:6, 1Pet. 2:9).
We believe just as the scriptures say that there will be no
difference between believing gentiles and believing Jews (Lev.
24:22, Num. 9:14) as to the instructions for how to live a
good and long life or to the reward one receives by the LORD.
We believe
in the power of prayer in that the effectual fervent
prayer of a righteous man or woman avails much (Jam. 5:16).
We believe
in keeping the appointed times and seasons of Yahweh
by following the calendar He created from creation (Gen. 1)
which is based on a lunar cycle and not a solar based calendar
system. We believe that the weekly Sabbaths(Friday sundown
to Saturday sundown) and the Feasts of the LORD (high sabbaths
in Lev. 23) are notched positions on God's timeclock, making
it impossible to know what time or season we are in without
keeping these appointments. We believe that keeping these
appointments are not grievous or cumbersome (Matt.11:30) but
they allow us to stay in rhythm with the LORD.
What we
do not believe or endorse:
- Salvation by
works or by keeping the Law.
- That the church
in the New covenant replaced Israel and all of the other
covenants.
- That the Christian
church is evil and/or pagan and not in the plan of God even
though we do not endorse everything that the church teaches
and practices.
- That you have
to say God's names in the proper Hebrew in order to be heard
or recognized by Him.
- That Grace and
Love replaced the Law or Torah of God.
- That the full
restoration of the whole House of Israel spoken of in Ezekiel
36-37 already took place in May 1948 when Israel became
a recognized state.
- That women or
gentiles are less than or substandard to Jewish men.
- That we should
keep Jewish tradition as commandment.
- British Israelism
- That those of
Jewish liniage should reject or discontinue their Torah
observance when coming to the saving knowledge of Yeshua
Messiah.
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