Dear Friends,
Sorry you have had to wait for this!
Thanks for praying for me this week. My presentation went very well--I elected to do an effective oral presentation (lots of eye contact, index cards held in the hand as prompts for speaking instead of head done, reading from a text). I regret that very few people if any at all are ready to make major adjustments in their world view--(turning from the theological conviction of the expiration of Torah to the demands of learning a Torah lifestyle), and from their traditions of piety (convictions about what it means to be "saved," who is and who is not, how one knows, drawing lines in the sand as to who is in and who is not, etc.). However, I do believe I delivered the message God assigned me, and of course, all participants have the paper to read and digest, if they will. I fear that more will read the paper for ammunition than will for edification.
Such is life.
Thanks again for praying. This week I will be bringing a couple of papers from the Conference for all of of us to read and digest. Good ones! I have more than we can cover, and you will find this interesting.
See you shabbat. And thanks again.
Rabbi Stuart
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Well, on the other hand, no one called in the Roman guards. You weren't mugged, beaten, and thrown in jail to die slowly of your wounds. It was only the Symposium of the Stubborn rather than the Synod of Robbers.
So looking forward to having you back!
Just checked in to see if there was anything new. Glad that your presentation went well. Even stubborn people change their minds sometimes. I know because I did some years ago!
I am really looking forward to reading the other papers.
October 10, 2007
Shalom Rabbi,
1. The Guidelines for discussion at the Symposium provides structure for an atmosphere of brotherly kindness and love for participants from the Messianic Jewisih community who attended the symposium.
2. In light of what Scripture reveals about God's forgiveness of sin and delverance from judgement, temproral and eternal punishment and from Satan, how can we as Jewish Yeshua believers deny and/or minimize God's salvation of the individual?
a. In Genesis 7:1 "Adonai said to Noach, "Come into the ark, you and all your household: for 'I have seen that you alone' in this generation are righteous before me.'" Eight individuals out of the earth's entire population were saved from the flood.
b. Adonai sent to two angeles to rescue Lot, his wife and two daughters from destruction of Sodom, 'Amora and all the other cities on the Plain of Shiteem.
Adonai rescued four individuals from his judgement on the entire population living on the plain of Shiteem. (Genesis 19: 21-26).
Deuteronomy 18:19: "Whoever doesn't listen to my words, which he (a prophet like Moses from among his kinsmen) will speak in my name, will have to account himself to Me."
October 10, 2007
Shalom Rabbi,
This is Richard.
We haven't received new reading assignments.
Glad it went well as we knew it would. It is great to be on the Journey with you. See you tomorrow.
thanks for the exposition Richard. :D
jc
p4@^5cxb10/15/2007
Shalom Rabbi,
This is Richard.
Rabbi,
So where are the reading assignments, not the beef?
Ruth Grace,
Remember, there was good food at the Symposium, which was a Jewish gathering. Good food at any Jewish occassion makes it a joyous and peaceful one. So nu? What do you have at a Jewish occassion with out good food? Angry Jews! Need I say more?
Well, I guess the Messianinc movement has finally matured like any other movementk, religious or otherwise. It is fraught with fractures, divisions, and personal ambition and personal kingdom building.
I am distressed that the "Christianized" or assimilated faction of the Messianic Jewish movement is hostile toward those of us who inteegrate trust in Yeshua with our Jewish religious way of life.
I pray that we in AZS, UMJC, and the Messianic Rabbinical Council and our associcates and friends "try our hardes to furnish our faith faith with goodness knowledge, self control, perseverence, godliness, brotherly and sisterly kindness and love in increasing measure so that our knowledge of Yeshua does not become unfruitful and unproductive. Indeed whoever lacks these qualities is blind and is so short sighted that he forgets that his past sins have been washed away. Therefore, brothers and sisters, try even harder to make your being called and chosen a certainty. For if you keep doing this, you will never stumble. Thus you will be generously supplied with everything you need to enter the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Deliverer, Yeshua the Messiah."
(2 Kefa 1: 5-11)
The teaching and practice of the above section of Scripture is what is missing in practicing the Besorah of Yehsua among Jewish people.
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