The Word Is Grace

"The Word Is Grace" is brought to you by The Carpenter's Shop, located at 1201 East Elmore Street in Crawfordsville, Indiana. Our Sabbath services begin at 3:30 every Saturday afternoon. Listen with us as Bible teachers Jim Denman and Tim Terry examine our faith in Messiah Yeshua (Christ Jesus), with a Hebraic perspective. What did Jesus eat? How did He dress? Is the Torah still valid to believers today? Did He really say that there are only two laws that we have to follow now? Did God change His requirements for salvation after the cross? Is the Sabbath on Sunday or Saturday; was it changed? Join us as we seek answers to these questions, with balance and a humble reverence for God's Word.

"Do you want to be healed?" John 4:43 - 5:30

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“Who is the man who said to you, take up your bed and walk?” The man being asked did not know that it was Yeshua that had healed him. All he knew is that the same man that healed him was the one that told him to take up his mat.
This leaves us with a lot of questions! How could the man not even know our Savior, yet still be healed by Him? He didn’t even ask! Yeshua implies that the man was lame because of sin when He said, “Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee” …yet he was healed anyway. We see no repentance, no sign of faith, and no belief on this man’s part, yet he was made whole.
As if these things weren’t enough, Yeshua (Jesus) goes on to say the He has the power to give life, to judge man, and to receive the same honor that the Father does. He makes Himself equal with God. He claims that He and the Father are ONE!
This proclamation was a big problem for the Jews of the day, and is still a problem for believers today - even within the Messianic movement. As the debate rages on though, the Word of God remains the same, a beacon of Truth, proclaiming that Yeshua and God are ONE. We may not understand it any more than we understand how Yeshua could heal a man that never acknowledged His existence, but that doesn’t change the claims that our Master makes in these doctrine-shattering verses. We must not let our ideology get in the way of the written Word of God. After all, if we could understand all that there is to know about the God of heaven and earth… wouldn’t that make us his equal as well?

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Here at the Carpenter's Shop, we believe Yeshua when He states in Matthew 5:17 "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill." We have come to know that our Messiah, Yeshua (Jesus), was a Torah observant, Jewish Rabbi who will one day return to reign from David's throne in Jerusalem. We believe that we are saved by the redemptive work that Yeshua accomplished on the cross; we are saved by the grace of God (Hashem), not by observing Torah. We observe Torah because we are saved, out of obedience to God's Word.

If you are unfamiliar with Hebraic Roots teaching, please check out any of the first eight posts. They are segments from our weekly radio program that ran in 2007, and cover some of the basic ideas behind the drive to understand the scriptures from a 1st Century Hebraic perspective.

If you would like to print off material for study, then check out
Seeds of Restoration in the links above. Seeds of Restoration is ran by Tim Terry, and has many excellent articles covering the Hebraic Roots of our Christian faith.
Contact Tim: tfarms@link2000.net

Solid Rock Ministry is ran by Ron Klepzig, and hosts a mailing list for prayer requests, scripture of the day, and inspirational readings.Contact Ron: solidrockministry@comcast.net

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