Are you seeking God’s presence or just His blessings? The difference changes everything.
The relationship between sacrifice, atonement, and doing God’s will unfolds throughout Scripture in parallel stories of creation, failure, and redemption.
Believers are to be living stones, unified in God’s name, Word, and glory, embodying humility, selfless love, and the transformative power of God’s Spirit.
The apostle’s approach to Gentile inclusion, as recorded in Acts 15, provides the Biblical basis and guidelines for holy living within the body of Messiah.
The concept of being perfect as our heavenly Father is perfect doesn’t demand flawless behavior, but rather points to completion and maturity in Messiah.
We sanctify God’s Name by keeping His commandments and by proclaiming His appointed times in their season because they declare His great works. They declare His purposes that He established for the purposes of restoring all of mankind.
In Mark 7, Yeshua says what proceeds out of a man is what defiles him. Contrary to popular belief, Yeshua says nothing about what one eats, but only about what remains inside a person, which are matters of the heart.
When God asks for contributions from His people to build a place for Him to dwell, He asks it from those who will freely give from the heart. Not out of obligation, but out of desire to be close to Him.
What is the gospel that Yeshua preached? Was it about going to heaven, or was it about heaven coming to earth?