Rav Shaul, in Ephesians 2 says,
“…remember that you were at that time separate from Messiah, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Messiah Yeshua you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Messiah….So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of Yahweh’s household,..”
If you are grafted into Messiah, then you are a no longer an alien, but one who sojourns with Israel.
Rav Shaul, in Ephesians 4, continues;
“…There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all.”
Therefore,
The same Torah shall apply to the native as to the stranger who sojourns among you.
Got Torah?
Ponder this today.
Shalom Aleichem, Pete
Thank you Pete for this reminder and all praise, honor, and glory to Abba for this gift of allowing us to be grafted in. After your teaching on Wednesday night, I realized that I have given every facet of my life to Him, (but one) and it is in connection to one of the “Fruits of the Spirit”. We are so blessed to finally have our eyes opened and ears unstopped. Matthew 7:7….all we had to do was knock, seek and ask.
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Shalom Aleichem. We’ll miss you this Shabbat,
Yah bless you!.
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