11-19-2008, 01:20 AM
Yeshua Connection for better understanding the Jewish Messiah.
Recently I ran across a web site belonging to a rabbi of a reform synagogue. He had been a Messianic rabbi and evidently denied Yeshua.
I asked him why he thought believers in Yeshua were able to forgive people to a much greater extent than Jewish people who did not know Yeshua. He wrote and said he did not have an answer for that.
Well, I believe deep down, he did have an answer.
A Jewish believer in Yeshua understands that Yeshua's blood shed on the tree was an atonement for sin; including their sin.
In the Torah G-d made known his requirement of a blood sacrifice as an atonement for sin. It was an everlasting requirement.
We no longer have the Temple in Jerusalem for those sacrifices.
A Jewish believer in Yeshua having an understanding of our holy G-d, knows how much he profaned G-d's laws in his lifetime.
The Ten Commandments are enough to show us our sin. We as the Jewish nation are supposed to honor and respect G-d as a fruit of our love for him.
With an understanding of how much G-d has forgiven the rebellion against him in our own lives, a Jewish believer in Yeshua finds it easier to forgive others.
Yeshua taught us to ask his father to forgive our sin as we forgive others their sin. He taught that if we don't forgive others that G-d would not forgive us.
Understanding G-d's mercy in our own lives, his commandment to forgive, and the consequence of not forgiving, makes it easier to forgive.
Any doctor can tell you the toll on a person's heath who holds on to the sin of not forgiving.
A person without a real intimate relationship with G-d, his holiness, and his Torah, can not understand sin enough to even realize he needs to be forgiven.
In these perilous days it is so important to us, our loved ones, Israel and the nations we have been dispersed to that we have a clean slate before the G-d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who we need to turn to for protection.
That rabbi did not have an answer, but we know the answer and the answer is that we understand sin and know that we are forgiven because of Yeshua's sacrificial death on the tree.
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www.yeshuaconnection.com Wrote:
Recently I ran across a web site belonging to a rabbi of a reform synagogue. He had been a Messianic rabbi and evidently denied Yeshua.
I asked him why he thought believers in Yeshua were able to forgive people to a much greater extent than Jewish people who did not know Yeshua. He wrote and said he did not have an answer for that.
Well, I believe deep down, he did have an answer.
A Jewish believer in Yeshua understands that Yeshua's blood shed on the tree was an atonement for sin; including their sin.
In the Torah G-d made known his requirement of a blood sacrifice as an atonement for sin. It was an everlasting requirement.
We no longer have the Temple in Jerusalem for those sacrifices.
A Jewish believer in Yeshua having an understanding of our holy G-d, knows how much he profaned G-d's laws in his lifetime.
The Ten Commandments are enough to show us our sin. We as the Jewish nation are supposed to honor and respect G-d as a fruit of our love for him.
With an understanding of how much G-d has forgiven the rebellion against him in our own lives, a Jewish believer in Yeshua finds it easier to forgive others.
Yeshua taught us to ask his father to forgive our sin as we forgive others their sin. He taught that if we don't forgive others that G-d would not forgive us.
Understanding G-d's mercy in our own lives, his commandment to forgive, and the consequence of not forgiving, makes it easier to forgive.
Any doctor can tell you the toll on a person's heath who holds on to the sin of not forgiving.
A person without a real intimate relationship with G-d, his holiness, and his Torah, can not understand sin enough to even realize he needs to be forgiven.
In these perilous days it is so important to us, our loved ones, Israel and the nations we have been dispersed to that we have a clean slate before the G-d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who we need to turn to for protection.
That rabbi did not have an answer, but we know the answer and the answer is that we understand sin and know that we are forgiven because of Yeshua's sacrificial death on the tree.
www.yeshuaconnection.com
