This morning I want to talk about Christianity, specifically the essence of Christianity. It might seem simplistic, but the essence of Christianity is Christ. The essence of Messianic Judaism is Messiah. I say this because there are those who take the focus off of Yeshua and redirect it to other things. For example, the prosperity teachers redirect the focus to
What We Can Learn From The End Of Paul and Timothy’s Letter To The Colossians; The Things That Characterized Messiah’s Community During The Middle Of The First Century; The Same Things Need To Characterize Our Lives Messiah’s Community, during this middle part of the First Century, was the Church at its best. It was pure. It was holy. It was
Lowered To Die To The Old Nature; Risen To Live According To The New Nature Because of the Fall of Man; because humanity joined the rebellion of the fallen angels, human beings have been terribly damaged. Our nature is twisted. Our thinking about the most important truths is confused. Our character is bad. Our values are wrong. If we are
The Colossian Community was a good, solid community of Messianic Jews and Gentile Christians, but they were being challenged by false teachings. They included Jewish legalism, Greek philosophy, a false kind of mysticism and asceticism. To combat these errors, Paul and Timothy focused the attention of Messiah’s Community in Colossae on Messiah. Why? Why is Yeshua so important that we
The Colossian Community was a solid community but they were being challenged by false teaching. It was a mixture of Jewish legalism, Greek philosophy, a false kind of mysticism and asceticism. To combat these false teachings, Paul and Timothy focused the attention of Messiah’s Community in Colossae on Messiah. Even though he was in a Roman prison waiting for a
The Colossian Community was a good community but they were being challenged by false teaching. It was a mixture of Jewish legalism, Greek philosophy and a false kind of mysticism. Charles Ryrie inform us: "Specifics include dietary and Sabbath observances, circumcision rites, the worship of angels and the practice of asceticism. Combating these errors, Paul and Timothy emphasize the cosmic
Transferred To Another Kingdom; Who Yeshua Is; The Centrality Of Messiah Besides being a great scholar, theologian and one of the greatest evangelists and congregation starters of all time, Paul was an apostle - a special representative of the Son of God. Paul was a very special apostle - the apostle to the Gentiles, a Jewish rabbi uniquely equipped and
This divinely inspired letter was written toward the end of the life of one of the greatest men who ever lived. Rabbi Paul of Tarsus was intelligent, courageous, intense, devoted, zealous. He was a great scholar and a theologian and an expert in Judaism. He was also a Roman citizen. He spoke and wrote Greek and was familiar with Greek