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.

"Get Away!" - KORAH; Numbers 16:1 - 17:13 (Tim Terry)

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This week we are taking a break form our study in John, and looking at the Torah Portion, "Korah" (Numbers 16:1 - 17:13), with our teacher Tim Terry. Tim runs a website called "Seeds of Restoration" (www.seedsofrestoration.wordpress.com) where he writes on a number of topics including the weekly Parshas, and Messianic theology.
Here is, in Tim's own words, what this week's teaching is about:
"As we have learned, the uprising of Korah and his followers was more than just a rebellion against Moses and Aaron. It was in actuality, a rebellion against the Holy One of Israel. It was He who chose Aaron to be High Priest…it was He who chose Moses to be the prophet to whom which He spoke face to face… and it was He who had chosen Moses as the leader of Israel. Yet, Korah had somehow convinced 250 “leaders of the congregation…”men of renown”… to actually stand against God and His spoken Word. How foolish you might say. Couldn’t these “leaders” of the congregation see what was happening and speak out against Korah before it was too late? Had they not promised to do “all that the Lord our God says” as spoken thru Moses? How could they be so deceived and turned around?..."
Please take the time to read the rest at www.seedsofrestoration.wordpress.com.

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"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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"Sir, I perceive you to be a prophet." John 4:1-42

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Have you ever heard it said that Jesus never actually claimed to be the Messiah? The next time you hear this brought up by a skeptic, you should point them to the fourth chapter of John. The woman at the well tells Yeshua (Jesus) that “When the Messiah comes, he will tell us all things” to which He replies, “The one with whom you are speaking, I AM HE.”
In Hebrew, living water is “mayim chaiyim.” Every time a person went through a mikva (baptism), it had to be done in mayim chaiyim. Living Water is associated with purity; it was required when a person wanted to be made ceremonially clean for Temple worship.
Knowing that this woman had had five different husbands, and was living in an adulterous relationship, Yeshua's words would have carried a lot more weight than we are aware of. He was telling her that not only would she never thirst again, but she would have the cleansing, living water within her – never to thirst again. She would be satisfied, by an internal spring, welling up mayim chaiyim.
Are you searching for satisfaction in this life? Are you going form spring to spring, or from thing to thing looking for fulfillment? You are not going to find it in the things of this world ...you must go to the the man who claimed to be the Messiah while talking to a lowly Samaritan woman at Jacob's 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

Mangdiddles.com is ran by Aaron Benge, and focuses mostly on Israeli and American politics, opinion, and theological musings in a Messianic Setting... and a little humor.
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