Will the Real Me please stand up? Excuse me, I AM standing! :D

Who am I really? Am I really truly saved and really walking with the Lord?

Yes, I am a solid believer who is a little rough around the edges. *cough *cough

However, if one were to look at what they see on the outside, my salvation may be questioned because of emotional outburst, yelling, and some of the entertainment I watch. Thankfully, God looks on the inside. He understands where we come from, why we are who we are, and why we watch what we watch. Take the most controversial Children's series out there - the one with all the publicity, (not the one that probably is Satanic  that people never knew existed by some guy I can't remember name of). What can we do with such a series in order to witness Jesus to these people? Well, for starters we can start understanding 1 fact about the series. Mother died so that Son may live. We believers know that mother dying only gave Son temporary life on earth. He also pretends to die in the end of the book in order to save the world from evil, a character that can be thought to represent satan. Satan wants to destroy the world and make it completely evil.

What can we do with this when presenting the gospel to the unsaved?

For starters, we can stop arguing over whether or not the series is pushing children into other worldly life styles. Instead, we might want to ban together and start witnessing to the unsaved how just like Mother died so that son my live, Jesus died so that you may live. However, that son will still die on earth. Mother couldn't give him eternal life, Jesus, however, gives us eternal life in a better world that is nothing like the world you know.

So, who am I? I am a thinker who has rejected the choir's nay say response and instead believe in taking a Brusco (?) look at life, people, and their culture and what they read and see, and try to use that knowledge to further God's kingdom. If I were to raise myself in a white box and never let myself see or know anything of the other side, I can't effectively witness to that side because I won't understand what they feel. This is why those who used to be on illegal things before becoming saved are VERY good at reaching such people for Jesus. I'm not suggesting be apart of the world. What I am suggesting is being aware of the world and letting Jesus show you how to use that information to further His Kingdom. Everything must be done in prayer with the proper praying out first. See the New Testament where it talks about the Shield, Helmet, Breatplate, and so on... the armour of God that you pray on to yourself. I forget where it is found. I can't find the Bible that has it marked. My Hebrew-Greek-Interlinear doesn't have anything marked except Sh'ma, Deut. 6:4-9.

I've Graduated from Northwestern College. I missed graduating with a Bible degree by one class (I was a transfer student). I did get my Social Science degree though. I refused to take the Life and Times of Jesus Christ as I thought I'd flunk the class. Why? Christians all too often teach that Jesus did NOTHING Jewish and NOTHING of the Feast of the Lord (the Jewish High Holy days) that is in the Old Testament. I would have only fought with the Professor, being a Messianic Jew and all. I just thought that there are places for such discussions and proper timing. I felt that I wouldn't follow those rules, so I banned myself from making a fool of myself.  Christians also tend to teach that the Church communion is THE Passover that Jesus did. It isn't. It's only the last bit of what He did. Gone are all the Jewish rituals that actually point to Jesus dying on the cross. If you ever get a hold of a Matza Cracker, take a look at that square. Notice those holes in it and then notice how those holes line up. In Messianic Judaic teaching (not to be confused with Judaism), those holes represent the holes in Jesus' hands. Those lines that the holes line up in represent the stripes on Jesus' back. There is other bits of the traditional Passover (Pesach) that have Messianic meanings, but I can't remember them now.

Incidentally, Isaiah in Hebrew has a very significant meaning IF you understand Judaic culture. In Judaic culture, it is considered blasphemy to say the name of God correctly outside of traditional prayer during traditional settings and time, with a minyan (10 men) present. Isaiah is Y'shaYahu. English Bible translate this as meaning a God and a Verb. God is Salvation. This isn't exactly accurate. It really means Jesus is God. What? How so? Y'sha IS Jesus' name IN Hebrew. Yes, Jesus is Salvation. Well, isn't the verb the focus and intent? No. The intent was for Jews to understand that the one they will come to call Y'shua IS one with God and IS Salvation. This, of course, was missed and not understood by most people - both Jews and Gentiles.

Yes, it does appear that I have a lot of knowledge. I don't. What I do have is some teaching that I know very well. Unfortunately, those teachings are very few. I need to study more and find more Messianic Works that I can add to my repertoire. I feel we have enough Christian posting and writing books. I don't think I need to add to that list. Instead, I think it more apropro that I add what little I do know well, of the Messianic Judaic culture and what they see in the Tanakh (Old Testament) so that people might come to better understand and accept us and Believers and not as Jews caught in legalism and idol worship. We aren't, and/or trying not to. Everyone falls from time to time to idol worship whether they realize it or not. However, find someone else to do a teaching on this, because they will get this accurate. I won't at this point in time.

Why am I careful to  write only what I know very well? I do have Shaken Baby Syndrome. This means that my brain will at random toss out junk info and claim its true. I also have Schizo-Affective disorder that does the same thing. It the latter that scares me from posting just anything along the lines of teaching. Its this disorder that makes me insist that I only teach on that which I really trully DO understand and know very well and have learned under the guidance of a Messianic Rabbi, a Pastor(s), and Northwestern College. Everything else I write will be labeled considered my own ramblings that should be taken with a grain of salt and much prayer.

I will blog about the Sh'ma, as I do know that very well. Hopefully, Hebrew will work here too, as it would make it much more fascinating. However, that will have to wait a week or more as I will be very busy until then.