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2. PENING low the Shofar 2 2 2 2

3. PENING Why do we blow the Shofar? Exodus 19:16 “On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and there was the sounding of a very loud SHOFAR blast. Everyone in the camp trembled.” Because this is the way G-D begins sacred assemblies 3 3 3 3

4. abbath Lighting Baruch Attaw Adoni Elohaynu Melech Ha Olam Asher kidshanu bimitzvotav venatanu lechad likner shell Shabbat 4 4 4 4 4

5. HEMA ISRAELHear oh Israel Shema Israel Adoni Elohaynu (Hear oh Israel the L-RD our G-D) Adoni Echad (The L-RD is one) 5 5 5 5 5

6. hy do we recite/sing the SHEMA? Because Messiah said it was the greatest Commandment Mark 12:28-29 28 And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that He had answered them well, asked Him, “Which is the greatest commandment of all?” 29 And Jesus answered him, “The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:” 6 6 6 6 6

7. e-nay Ma TovBehold how good - Psalm 133:1Am He-Nay Maw tove Behold how good Oo-maw nye—eem And how pleasant it is Shevet aw-heem For brothers to dwell Gum Yaw Hawd In unity 7 7 7

8. menCL 3A A-men ….A-men….A-men, A-men, A-men Baw-rouk Ha-Shem, Baw-rouk Ha-Shem, Blessed be the Name, blessed be the Name Baw-rouk Ha-Shem Me-she-ach Blessed be the Name of Messiah 8 8 8

9. -Seh ShalomCL3 Play Em Em O-seh Shalom Beem rue-mawv Am D7 G Em Who yah-seh Shalom aw-lay-nu Am D7 G V'al kol Yees-raw-ale Em Am Em Bf7 Em B'-eem rue Eem rue Ah- main  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Em Am D7 G Ya-a-seh sha-lom Ya-a-seh sha-lom G Bf7 Em Shalom aw-lay-new V’al kol Yees-raw-ale Sing twice 2X 9 9 9

10. ring our gifts to the altar We Bring Our Sacrifice With Praise We Bring Our Sacrifice With Praise Unto the House of the LORD (2 X) And we offer unto Him Our sacrifices with thanksgiving And we offer unto Him Our sacrifices with joy 10

11. Messianic Judaism 101 By Rabbi Stanley

12. Purpose What I hope to do in this series (Messianic Judaism 101) is lay out an historical and Biblical basis (foundation) for restoring Messianic Judaism as the original faith in Yeshua, the Son of G-d.

13. Purpose By the end of this series we will know the beginnings of the First Church, and where the Messianic Movement is now going.

14. Purpose In this class we’ll be able to look at and understand some critical terminology and what different names were used for the First Century Believer in Yeshua.

15. Purpose We’ll find out what some of the earliest Church Fathers have to say about the First Messianics and how they felt about them.

16. Purpose We’re also gonna find out if “Christian” is a four letter word. Then we’re gonna find out who YOU are and what you should or want to be called?

17. Purpose But before we can know anything else, we have to know it’s history. We have to know the roots of the First Church.

18. Roots There is a lot of talk out there these days about getting back to our roots or getting back to the New Testament Church.

19. Roots One thing many fail to realize is that the original New Testament Church didn’t have a New Testament or a Church.

20. Roots What they did have was the Tanach (Old Testament in Hebrew) and the Synagogue.

21. Roots At the time of the original group of Believers in Yeshua the word “Christian” hadn’t even been coined yet and neither had the word “Church”.

22. Roots This helps us understand that Yeshua didn’t come to start a new religion called “Christianity”, He came to be the Messiah of Israel.

23. Who’s who? Now the first thing we want to look at is who’s who in the first Messianic movement.

24. Who’s who? We can’t know anything till we know who is who so we have to understand what they (Believers) were called. Terminology is important.

25. Who’s who? The first group of people who followed Yeshua were called the people of “The Way”. Not “Christians”! They were a mix of Pharisees, Sadducees and other sects We see the first time The Way is used in Acts…

26. Who’s who? Acts 24:14 14 "But this I do admit to you: I worship the God of our fathers in accordance with The Way (which they call a sect). I continue to believe everything that accords with the Torah and everything written in the Prophets.

27. Who’s who? • Another thing we need to notice here is that it is called a “sect” (section, part of a whole) • A sect of what? • A sect of Judaism! • How is the word sect used in the New Testament?

28. Who’s who? • Acts 5:17Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation. • Acts 15:5But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.

29. Who’s who? • There were many sects of Judaism. There were the Essenes, The Dead Sea Sect, The Herodian Sect, The Daggermen (Sicarii) etc. Many different sects and one of them was the sect of the Notzreem/Netzareem (Nazerenes)

30. Who’s who? • The word Christian first appears in Acts • Acts 11:26And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the students (disciples) were called Christians first in Antioch.

31. Who’s who? • David Stern points out correctly that the term “Christian” was used to denote Gentile believers in Yeshua, not Jewish believers in Yeshua. (David Stern Messianic Manifesto)

32. Who’s who? • Where is Antioch?

33. Who’s who? • Who was in Antioch? • Paul and Barnabas! • Their students, in Antioch were called “Christians”.

34. Who’s who? • It’s not saying that THE Disciples were first called Christians in Antioch… it’s saying that the disciples of Paul and Barnabas were first called Christians there. • Paul and Barnabas weren’t even part of the 12 Disciples. They were apostles!

35. Who’s who? • The people of Antioch were Gentiles, NOT Jews. • The Jews who believed in Yeshua were the Jewish sect of the Nazarenes! • They called themselves “Jews”.

36. Who’s who? • Acts 21:39 • But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people. • More specifically in his particular case he called himself a Pharisee in Acts 23:6 …

37. Who’s who? • Acts 23:6 • Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, "My brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. I stand on trial because of my hope in the resurrection of the dead."

38. The Law? I’m gonna stray just a little here, but it ties back shortly… These first Believers in Yeshua kept the Laws of the Old Testament (Tanach). The famous Church Father, St. Jerome (350 AD), who was a Christian says this of the original Church…

39. The Law? • He said, “They are those who accept Messiah in such a way that they do not cease to observe the old Law” • St Epiphanius (310 AD), another Christian and Church Father goes into a little more detail…

40. The Law? • “These sectarians didn’t call themselves Christians but Nazarenes, however they are simply complete Jews. They use not only the New Testament but the Old Testament as well. They have no different ideas but profess everything exactly as the Law proclaims it in the Jewish fashion. Except for their belief in Messiah if you please! For they acknowledge the resurrection of the dead and the divine creation of all things and declare that God is one and that his son, Yeshua is the Messiah. They are trained to a nicety in Hebrew for among them the entire Law, the prophets and the entire Writings are read in Hebrew as they surely are by the Jews. They disagree with Jews because they have come to faith in Messiah but since they are still fettered in the Law, circumcision, the Sabbath and the rest they are not in accord with Christians, they are nothing but Jews. They have the good news in Mathew in it’s entirety in Hebrew. For it is clear that they still preserve this in the Hebrew alphabet as it was originally written.”

41. The Law? Wouldn’t it be great to have this as a statement of faith!!! “What’s your statement of faith?” “Actually, our statement of faith is your Church Father’s criticisms. We believe in the Old Testament, stuff like that.”

42. The Law? • So here we see the First Church keeping the Shabbat and circumcision and the rest of the Law. • They were quite different then the Christian Church as early as 310 AD!

43. The Law? Epiphanius says: “they are not in accord with Christians”. So you can begin to see why I don’t call myself a Christian. Even from way back most “Christians” weren’t really Christian.

44. The Law? So we know that the original Jewish Believers were called Jews. More specifically… a Person of The Way. (Later on they were called Notzreem/Nazarenes.)

45. The Law? More specifically they could be a Pharisaic Notzreem or an Essenic Notzreem or Herodian Notzreem etc. But never were Jews from the first century called “Christians”. Furthermore, a “Christian Jew” is a contradiction of terms.

46. Is Christian A Four Letter Word? Gentile Believers in Yeshua were called Christians and it was actually a derogatory label placed on them It was not a word they gave themselves.

47. Is Christian A Four Letter Word? “Well isn't Paul called a Christian by King Agrippa in Acts 17???” Let’s look at it…

48. Is Christian A Four Letter Word? Acts 17:28 Then Agrippa said to Paul, 'Do you think that in such a short time you can persuade me to be a Christian?'" (NIV)

49. Is Christian A Four Letter Word? Herod Agrippa was the grandson of Herod the Great. He was NOT a Jew. Do you remember the teaching I did on Herod the Great?

50. Is Christian A Four Letter Word? I showed you his lineage. He was the son of an Idumean and a Nabatean princess. Not a drop of Jewish blood in him. Some asked me why it was important to know about King Herod? It’s pretty important.