A BELIEVER IN YESHUA
WHO ARE MESSIANIC BELIEVERS?
Who Are Messianics?
Messianic Believers are ordinary people who have realised they have fallen short of God's requirements.� Because of this sin they know they have need of forgiveness, cleansing and a restoring of relationship with God - all summed up in the word atonement.
God's Word (the Bible) clearly shows that this calls for sacrifice:� a life given for life.� We need to come in God's prescribed way, trusting that he will accept his ordained substitute and extend forgiveness.
The Bible also makes it plain that the animal sacrifices merely foreshadowed the death of the promised messiah, Yeshua (Jesus).� Yeshua therfore died as God's chosen substitute.� It is on the basis of his shed blood that God offers full and free forgiveness to all who accept it by faith.
What does Messianic Mean?
We call ourselves Messianic because we are believers in God's chosen Messiah, Yeshua.� Yeshua is the original name of God's Son, our Saviour.� "Messiah" is the Hebrew word for the Greek word "Christ" -they both mean "annointed" or "chosen".
According to God's Word he has established a new covenant with his chosen people, Israel.� (Cf. Jeremiah 31:31+)� This covenant has been extended to both Jew and Gentile. (Cf. Isaiah 49:6 & Hosea 2:3)
We recognise what all great teachers of Israel have taught.� Namely that a Jew's relationship to his roots depends on his relationship to God.� Therefore all who have not accepted God's chosen atonement are cut off from the supreme source of all life and being.� They can only be re-grafted in through repentance and faith.
Gentiles have always been "without Messiah, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers of the covenants of promise, having no hope in the world." (Ephesians 2:12)� But now, through Messiah Yeshua, Gentiles can be grafted into the life-giving vine. (Cf. Romans 11:17+)
As Messianic Believers we wish to identify with God's chosen people, Israel; through whom our salvation has come - as also every word of the Bible.� A people that has seriously studied the Bible for thousands of years cannot help but have much from which a Bible believer can learn.� However, as one of the basic tenets of rabbinic Judaism is diametrically opposed to belief in Yeshua as Messiah, we cannot accept its authority.� Rather we seek to return to the Biblical foundations of Jewish life.
Messianic Believers accept the whole Word of God - constituting the whole 66 books of what is known as the Old & New Testaments.� As such we cannot accept the maxim:� "The New is in the Old concealed - the Old is in the New revealed."� Rather we would restate it as:� "The New is in the Old contained - the Old is in the New explained."� For what is explicit in the Tenach (Old Testament) is not dwelt upon in the New!
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