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SABBATH READINGS 1/16/10
January 14, 2010
SHABBAT SHALOM!
Peace and strength to you in the Name of our Sovereign YAHUSHUAH!
The past few weeks YAHUAH has been teaching us about the Renewed Covenant, the Brit Chadasha. He has given us a better understanding of what it means to be in covenant with the Most High Elohim. We studied Debarim (Deut.) chapters 27-30 which outlines all the blessings that come to us when we obey YAH's word and all the curses that overtake us when we disobey. YAHUSHUAH is the Mediator of the Renewed Covenant, and we must be sealed in the Covenant in His blood. In the times of distress, only the blood of the Covenant will save us from harm and disaster.
Many of us came to know YAHUAH and began to serve Him, but often the importance of the Covenant was missed. Before, we were in covenant with other false idols, exercising false beliefs, living in disobedience, sin, and falsehood. We have to break those old covenants and enter into Covenant with YAHUAH so that He will be our Elohim and we be His people. We must make that verbal commitment with FULL understanding of the blessings and curses. When we enter the covenant, only then do His blessings flow into our lives and only then do the curses cease.
Also, when Passover comes (only a couple months away), we'll be even more on the right track because we will commemorate the Covenant. We must ENTER the Covenant in order to commemorate it properly in YAHUSHUAH. YAHUSHUAH bore the punishments (curses) on the stake, and He brings the blessings of obedience into our lives.
Entering the Covenant is as simple as renouncing all former false beliefs, breaking any attachment to idols, and then accepting the Word of YAHUAH to obey it. In Shemoth 24:7 all the people said, "All that YAHUAH has spoken we shall do, and obey." The words are simple yet VERY meaningful. It is absolutely important to first understand that we will be blessed when we obey AND cursed/punished if we disobey. This understanding must be very real in your heart to enter the Renewed Covenant.
We have all the teachings of the previous Sabbaths on DVD covering the covenant. If you would like to receive these teachings, email or call to let us know so we can send them to you. In the mean time, study Debarim chapters 27 to 30 to understand the blessings and curses. Entering the covenant is VERY SERIOUS! Understand that there will be punishments if we disobey the Word of YAH. Study Debarim and if you desire to take this step in YAHUAH along with this assembly, email us for the dvds. They will help you with understanding and also lead you in a prayer to enter the covenant.
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YirmeYahu (Jer.) 31:31-34
(31) “See, the days are coming,” declares YAHUAH, “when I shall make a new covenant with the house of Yisra’el and with the house of Yehudah,
(32) not like the covenant I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Mitsrayim, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares YAHUAH.
(33) “For this is the covenant I shall make with the house of Yisra’el after those days, declares YAHUAH: I shall put My Torah in their inward parts, and write it on their hearts. And I shall be their Elohim, and they shall be My people.
(34) “And no longer shall they teach, each one his neighbour, and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know YAHUAH,’ for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares YAHUAH. “For I shall forgive their crookedness, and remember their sin no more.”
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Deb. 18:15 “YAHUAH your Elohim shall raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brothers. Listen to Him,"
Mat 17:5 "While he was still speaking, see, a bright cloud overshadowed them. And see, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, 'This is My Son, the Beloved, in whom I did delight. Hear Him!'"
Our assembly here entered the Renewed Covenant with Messiah YAHUSHUAH and committed to obeying His Word. YAHUSHUAH has written the Laws on our hearts and minds (inward parts). YAHUSHUAH is the Living Torah, the Prophet to come, and we must HEAR HIM. Now, YAH is leading us to restructure some things in our worship, with a greater emphasis on the Words of Messiah. We will be doing our Scripture Readings differently. We'll read through the Good News in the Messianic Scriptures focusing on YAHUSHUAH. Then, we'll add a reading from the letters and a selection from Torah. As of yet, we know of no other assembly that does Shabbat readings in this manner. We are following YAH's lead!
We are learning so much so quickly, we will try our best to keep you updated on what YAH is teaching us. Keep checking our website for new pages.
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May YAHUAH bless you with a beautiful Sabbath rest that refreshes your being and strengthens your spirit in the Set-Apart Name of our Sovereign Messiah YAHUSHUAH, so be it. HalleluYAH!
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This Shabbat is also the beginning of the New month. It will begin the 11th month of the year.
ROSH CHODESH BLESSING:
Blessed are You, YAHUAH our Elohim, Sovereign of the universe, Who has kept us alive, sustained us, and brought us to this season.
May it be Your will, YAHUAH our Elohim and the Elohim of our forefathers, that You inaugurate this month upon us for goodness and for blessing. May You give us long life—-a life of peace, a life of goodness, a life of blessing, a life of sustenance, a life of physical health, a life in which there is fear of heaven and fear of sin, a life in which there is no shame nor humiliation, a life of wealth and respect, a life in which we have a love of Torah and fear of heaven, a life in which YAHUSHUAH fulfills our heartfelt requests for the good.
So be it. Selah.
YAHUAH, He Who performed miracles for our forefathers and redeemed them from slavery to freedom, He Who sent His Son YAHUSHUAH to redeem us from the slavery of sin [and falsehood]—may He redeem us soon and gather in our dispersed from the four corners of the earth; all of Yisrael, becoming brothers. So be it.
The new month, the ELEVENTH month, is on this Sabbath Day, which is upon us and all Yisra’el for goodness.
May YAHUAH, the Set-Apart One, blessed is He, renew it upon us and upon all His people, the Family of Yisra’el, for goodness and for blessing, for joy and for gladness, for deliverance and for comfort, for good sustenance and for support, for good life and for peace, for good report and for good news, for rains in their proper time, for complete recovery, and for early redemption. In the Name of YAHUSHUAH, So be it.
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SHABBAT READINGS for 1/16/10:
BRIT CHADASHA: MattithYahu / Matthew 1
HAFTORAH: Romiyim / Romans 1
Tehillim/Psalm 78
TORAH: Bereshith / Genesis 1:1-19
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COMING UP:
Rosh Chodesh: 1/15/10 at evening
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Family of Messiah Fellowship
Ministers Michael & Ruth Dunn
P.O. Box 50884
Summerville, SC 29485
(843) 821-4832
Email: familyofmessiah@yahoo.com
http://www.familyofmessiah.net
http://www.youtube.com/brideofthespirit
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PLEASE REPLY TO: familyofmessiah@yahoo.com
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