duration: 41:42 min.
Ever have any regrets? At times we reflect on decisions that have left us with deep wounds and sorrow, but we’re not meant to live in a rut created by mistakes of the past.
This talk introduces us to Mark and his Gospel and shows us how his life was transformed out of repeated challenges that might have left him stuck in regret.
In preparation for the High Holidays, I offer this message as a means to reflect and renew hope in God’s power to bring the best out of our lives.
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Hello, I was thrilled Ben’s message at the meeting house and I am receiving the messages on line…thank you. My husband and I disagree about one thing and I hope you can explain. Do you still believe in the Saturday sabbath and keeping the practices of the old covenant or the new covenant , the meeting of believers , believe the gathering of believers any time during the week week.. I realize meeting on Saturday or Sunday is practiced everywhere out convenience, but do practice the Saturday sabbath as an old law when Christ fulfilled the old covenant and it’s practices? I hope I have not offended you my fellow believer. Just would love to understand.
Kindest regards, Joan Morrison
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Shalom, Joan: Thank you for your kind interest in our ministry. Messianic Jews affirm their identity through practicing their Biblical heritage of feasts, festivals and holy days. The holiest day, by the way is the Sabbath which the Lord gave us at Mt. Sinai as a commandment to show our covenant commitment to Him. The Messianic community in the first century was, as Paul was told when he arrived in Jerusalem in Acts 21:20 “zealous for the Law.” By the way, if you read the rest of Acts what you see is that everywhere that Paul gives witness, he declares that he has been faithful to the Torah: before the Sanhedrin, before Felix and Agrippa and finally in the synagogue at Rome where many come to faith. The concept that Messiah is our Passover lamb and has fulfilled the requirements for our atonement is also central to his teaching; but the concept that Jews no longer have any association with the covenant at Sinai is one that Gentiles have adopted after reading Paul’s letters to the Gentiles–and then, surprisingly, decided that these instructions should be applied to Jews. By the way, these are the same people who sometimes accuse me of being a Judaizer: for telling these things to Jews! And when Paul told Timothy that “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching…etc.” I don’t see any exclusion of Torah (2 Tim. 3:16,17). Paul’s instructions to the Jews and Gentiles in Rome is a model of insight: he recognizes that the two groups have distinctive qualities and differences which should lead to mutual respect and appreciation; but he nowhere instructs Jews to stop adhering to Torah nor does he tell Gentiles to become fully Torah observant–indeed, he’s adamant to the Gentile congregation in Galatia that they should not be misguided into that perspective. But that’s not a congregation of Jewish believers. Yeshua did fulfill all that that I require for salvation on the cursed tree; however, how I conduct my life and live in the freedom of Messiah using the Scriptures as my guide is not only my choice–it is also my calling as I witness to Jewish people that I believe our Messiah has come. Jewish believers are not single-minded on these issues. Some are quite Sabbatarian, others are not; some are very observant of Torah, others are only moderately so. Finally, a Scripture on this topic that is often quoted in this regard is the Letter to the Messianic Jews ch. 8:13. This is where we’re told that the “first” covenant is “aging and will soon disappear.” Yes, it will disappear when Messiah returns–just like death, suffering and tears. Until then, it is this covenant relationship that God is now inscribing on our hearts so that we will be enabled to walk closely to him (Jer. 31:31ff). Blessings, Ben