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Ted Pearce is in concert at The Harvest at 1pm MST! Based in Asheville, NC, Ted Pearce is best known for writing and performing a sub-genre of Christian music known as Messianic Praise & Worship, which features bible verses set to a mixture of Jewish folk, Klesmer, Mizrachi, and Yemenite musical themes. With fifteen releases since 1998, Ted is one of the better-known pioneers of this "new" ancient sound.
Torah is the revelation of God to us. In it He discloses who He is, who we are, His plan of Redemption, and the age to come. This Torah has come to life and is embodied in Yeshua, the Son of God. He is the revelation of God! He is the redemption of God! He is the Torah, in living color! He is Immanuel - God with us! Believing in Him is believing in God. Following in His footsteps is what it means to Torah observant! Introducing Him to those around you is the very mission of Torah. Loving Him, introducing Him to others, and inviting them to those who are in community with Him is what it means to fulfill the Torah. Come and join us as we encounter the living Torah, and then bring Him to those around us!
Through order and purpose God brings blessing into creation. This is also true for Israel (the Lord's Congregation/Church). He brings order, purpose, and blessing to the Church through various offices and functions. We have noted in the previous series that Messiah gave the Church five different ecclesiastical offices that intersect and overlap. These offices are designed to help the Church become stable, healthy, and self-replicating. Today we are going focus on how five fold ministry gets established in a local church and in turn brings order and blessing.
Most people who come to Messiah and to church, come through an acquaintance. Using dinner parties on Friday or Saturday to birth and foster relationships is an ancient way of building the community of Messiah. We see this modeled in the life of Messiah and His disciples. Today we will look at how we can use this model to reach our acquaintances for Messiah as we collaborate with Him in building His church.
Yeshua gave us authority and power to fulfill a threefold mandate. We are called to to make disciples, baptize them and teach them Torah. That's it! It is a succinct and simple mandate. In this teaching, we will begin to unpack these three aspects of our Kingdom mission and purpose. As we each participate in doing these three things, we will change the world around us as we join Yeshua in advancing His Kingdom on this earth as it is in heaven.
We have been unpacking fivefold ministry as found in Ephesians 4. We have looked briefly at the Apostles, Prophets, and Evangelists and how they all have have their roots in the TaNaK. In this teaching we will give an overview of the Pastor and Teacher. The Pastor and Teacher are probably the most familiar offices today. However, all five ascension offices are needed to advance the Kingdom of Messiah on earth as it is in heaven. If you enjoy this and other teachings, be sure to like this video and subscribe to this channel. Thank you for supporting and joining us in this Kingdom work!
In a day when everything is being turned upside down and redefined, fatherhood stands against it all. If it were not for godly fathers, where would our world be today? In this teaching we will look at the ten commandments of fatherhood. You will be inspired, challenged and thankful for this institution! May God bless all of our fathers as they make a way and lead us into our futures!
We have been unpacking fivefold ministry as found in Ephesians 4. In our first two teachings we explored the definition, role, and function of the Apostle and Prophet. This week we will give an overview of the Evangelist. Like the Apostles and the Prophets there is a strong antecedent matrix for the Office of the Evangelist. These offices are needed to advance the Kingdom of Messiah on earth as it is in heaven. We think you will find it interesting how the Evangelists assist in building up the Church today.
We have been unpacking fivefold ministry as found in Ephesians 4. In our first teaching we explored the definition, role, and function of the Apostle. This week we will give an overview of the Prophet. Like the Apostle, there is a strong antecedent matrix for the Office of the Prophet. Both offices are needed in order to advance the Kingdom of Messiah on earth as it is in heaven. I think you will be pleasantly surprised in discovering why these types of leaders are so needed in building up the Church today.
When Yeshua was raised from the dead and later ascended into heaven leaving this earth behind to become King of kings and Lord of lords, He did not leave us without leadership and guidance. He made sure we would be cared for and equipped to carry on His work of redemption. He did this by giving us some amazing, gifted leaders to lead us. These are represented in Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, and Pastors, and Teachers. But what exactly do they do? How do they differ and at the same time connect? Are all these leaders with us today? If so, how would I recognize them? In this teaching we will begin the journey of exploring these and other questions regarding the five gifts of Messiah for His community.
Nearly two thousand years ago, Pentecost ignited a fire in the heart of believers that resulted in a confidence to speak truth boldly like never before. As we fill ourselves with the Holy Spirit, we too will find the courage and boldness to speak the truth in love. The world will lash out at us in baseless hatred while many will respond and be saved. This is the way it has always been and will be until Yeshua returns. So, let’s memorialize Pentecost this year by being filled with the power of the Holy Spirit as we join Yeshua in advancing His Kingdom on earth as it is in Heaven. This is our heritage and legacy!
We, the united and corporate representatives of King Jesus, are commissioned and empowered by Him to speak to a lost and crazy world about His love and redemption. Some will humbly and gratefully respond and they will experience the powerful and breathtaking transformation of God’s love. Others will be outraged and attack us for speaking the truth about their sin and alienation from God and His ways. However, we will not fear those who can only kill our bodies. In Messiah, we have an indestructible forever life! Therefore, we will face this angry and bizarre world with great courage and love as we speak truth to those in our paths. After all, we are God’s authentic and authoritative spokespersons. So, let’s speak up and speak out like never before!
Download: Pentecost - Freedom to Live Holy and Happy Lives
God saved a people from the dominion of slavery and misery. He then brought them out of that place of darkness into the light of Kingdom. He offered them a covenant to become His treasured people. He gave them His Law and the promised land called Israel. All of this was to prep them for the second and greater Pentecost where a new covenant with even better promises and better provisions would be offered to them. This new covenant would also usher in the beauty, glory, and power of the Holy Spirit. This empowering presence of God would enable people to live clean, and beautifully holy lives, free from the dominion of the uncleanness and defilement of sin and shame! This is what it means to be free! This is freedom! In this teaching we will explore what it means to be truly free.
Download: Freedom from the Tyranny of Lies
Egypt was a Kingdom immersed in lies and bondage. The Kingdom of Messiah is a Kingdom drenched in truth and freedom. If you desire and value liberty, get into the Kingdom of God now. You will not only find liberation from deception and misery, but you will also find everything your spirit longs for. Coming out of the Kingdom of falsehoods and into the Kingdom of truth is what Passover and Shavuot is all about.
Dr. Randy Craig will continue last week's sermon of what it means to move from Egypt to the promised land spiritually. Once you have identified what cage you need to be released from, what next? What is the path to the land of promise?
Download: Coming Out of Our Egypt’s of Sin and Shame
The exodus gives us a picture of what it means to come out of a kingdom of slavery and misery. It serves as a type and shadow of what it means to come out of the domain of sin and shame. As believers who are saved by grace through faith in the blood of the lamb, this call to leave the realm of sin is key to our happiness. We are called to be holy now that God has made us His own possession. We will respond to that call and by the power of the Holy Spirit we will come out of our cages of sin. If we do not, the Lord will bring us down low and even cut our lives short. This is the lesson of the exodus. During the counting of the Omer, let us take seriously the call to holiness, and the offer of the power of the Holy Spirit to get us there.
Download: The Second Moses, the Second Passover, and the New Covenant Part 2
In part one of this series, we looked at Yeshua as the prophesied second and greater Moses. We noted that He also ushered in and initiated the second and greater Passover through His death and resurrection. In Him we all are experiencing the forgiveness of our sins as well as a powerful exodus out of the domain of sin and shame. Today we will focus on the establishment of the long-awaited new covenant that Jeremiah as well as other prophets prophesied. The new covenant has replaced the old covenant! If you are not in the new covenant, you have no covenant! The old one is gone; it ceases to exist! Join us in part two of this series to learn more about the new covenant!
On Nissan the 14th we will be celebrating the Lord’s annual Passover! This is the Lord’s Passover in commemoration of Him as Savior and Redeemer. For Messianic Jews and Messianic Gentiles, it memorializes the first physical deliverance from physical slavery and death, as well as the second and greater deliverance from the dominion of sin, shame, and spiritual death. The first Passover was accomplished by Moses, and the second and greater Passover was accomplished by the second and greater Moses, Yeshua the Messiah! In the second and greater Passover, the long-awaited new covenant was established, so that all the provisions and promises that were lost in former disobedience are now yes and amen in Yeshua the Messiah. It is with immeasurable joy, that we all in Messiah, will partake in our Passover Seders in honor of Yeshua, the Passover Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! Happy Passover!
Download: The Sign of Jonah and the Passover Connection
In our previous teachings we discovered that Yeshua, The Lamb of God, was crucified, died, and then was buried on Friday, Nissan the 15th before sunset. We also noted that He rose on the 3rd day corresponding to Sunday, Nissan the 17th in fulfillment of First Fruits. The reoccurring question among many believers who do not understand the 1st century cultural Jewish context is, how do we reconcile this with the sign of Jonah being 3 full days and 3 full nights in the belly of the whale? In order for Jesus to fulfill the sign of Jonah, wouldn’t He need to be in the grave 72 hours? Our interpretation only has him in the grave for approximately 40 hours; from around 3pm Friday until around 5 am on Sunday. How do we reconcile this apparent contradiction? In today’s teaching we will solve this dilemma in a satisfying and credible way!
Download: The Crucifixion and the Passover Connection
In our previous teaching we discovered that Yeshua kept, observed, and ate a Passover meal at the appointed time on Nissan the 14th as it transitioned into the night if Nissan the 15th. In this teaching we will turn our attention to the crucifixion of Yeshua on the 15th day of Nissan, which corresponds to the 1st day of the 7 day festival known as Unleavened Bread. It is on this day that Yeshua, the long-awaited Lamb of God, would be sacrificed. This would be fulfillment of what the week of Passover foreshadowed.
