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http://superstore.wnd.com/Books/The-Hebrew-Yeshua-vs-the-Greek-Jesus-Book-and-DVD-Bundle "Jew teaches Christians about Jesus Yeshua's conflicts with Pharisees put in fascinating new light A Jewish Hebrew scholar, a self-described "former Pharisee," is providing Christians with some startling new revelations about their faith. Nehemia Gordon, a Semitic-language expert and one of the Dead Sea Scrolls translators, is currently in the United States, lecturing in churches and Christian Bible studies on the person he calls "the real Yeshua," Jesus' actual Hebrew name, which means "salvation." He is the author of "The Hebrew Yeshua vs. the Greek Jesus," a book and DVD teaching series, that is causing a sensation among the Christians all over the world who are rediscovering the Hebrew roots of their faith, recognizing that Jesus was, indeed, a very Torah-observant Jew, not a Gentile who came to do away with the law. Some of Gordon's most important discoveries came in his translation of what he believes to be the original Hebrew text of the Gospel of Matthew. The King James translation of Matthew 23:24 has befuddled Christians for hundreds of years. While Jesus indicted the Pharisees, calling them "vipers" and worse, He seems to suggest doing what they say to do in this verse: "Saying The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers." But, according to Gordon's translation of the recently discovered Hebrew text of Matthew, there is a slight, but important, mistranslation of the verse – probably a result of an original error in the Greek. Some scholars believe Matthew originally wrote his gospel in Hebrew. What it actually says, according to Gordon, is for followers to do what Moses says, not the Pharisees. When the Pharisees would sit in Moses' seat, they would read from the first five books of the Bible – the words of Moses. Jesus, of Yeshua, was telling His disciples to heed the scriptural text and disregard the man-made teachings of the Pharisees, explains Gordon. Gordon's research reveals that the more "modern" Greek text of Matthew, from which the Western world's versions were translated, depicts "another Jesus" from the Yeshua portrayed in the ancient Hebrew version of Matthew. Gordon explains the life-and-death conflict Yeshua had with the Pharisees as they schemed to grab the reins of Judaism in the first century, and brings that conflict into perspective for both Jew and Christian alike. " I knew it!!

I love it too!! He makes me feel less like what the church I grew up in expected of me and Him and it makes me feel special because He's like me and He would have been treated like me if He were there with me and He went through stuff too!!

Thank you for telling me that!! I never would have thought of it like that. Yah Bless you too!!!

Thank you Delightful!! I love it too and it still wows me!! Yah bless you in your Delightful dating

I am So encouraged. I've been feeling lately that I haven't been able to hear from Him while reading my Bible at all. I'm in awe of Him. He is making Himself more and more real to me, like as in a real person is really there even if they are thousands of miles away. You talk to them on the phone or on FB, or here. It's like a concept that has to be grasped but only He can help you grasp it. Him being so ever present even more than our friends and reading about how He gave you a gift to enjoy and also to comfort another is amazing. I love How He had you tell her that it was From Him just like it would be a gift from a human friend. In the past it would have been like getting a from a friend who said and alien told them to say that it was from the alien, even though you believe in "alien", not quite real. If it weren't for God leading me to this site I don't know where I would be. Probably still not feeling like God was quite there even though He answered prayers. He is making Himself real to me more and more, I asked Him to. I want Him to be more real than myself, my son, my husband.

Thank you Linda!!

God told me a couple times in my life, but I didn't know it was God telling me... I married the guy and found out after we were married that the guy was the same one from earlier in my life that God had told me that I would marry.

Please pray for this woman Barbara Kenkel she is viciously verbally (on FB) attacking someone dear to my heart with no cause. I feel that it is a spiritual thing... She professes God but she has not professed Jesus. The enemy tried to get my dear heart pulled into feeling angry and taking the words personally but she realized that the spirit inside Kenkel saw Jesus even though that wasn't even the subject. My dear heart told me that Kenkel is saying horrible things and calling her horrible though my dear heart has said and done nothing wrong to this woman. I believe that she is being controlled by an evil spirit as she claims that she has been around Satan back in the 70's that she saw him and laughed at him etc. The words that she says my dear heart says are incomprehensible.

I absolutely adore the rugged Jesus!! God has been showing me that I'm more like Jesus than I could ever have imagined. I'm a "girl" but I've never been one for sweet words or sweetness. I grew up being called "sweet" by school mates, but that's not what I was on the inside, that was fear, holding my true feelings in, I was more silent than anything . In highschool, the walls were crumbling that were holding them in and now, I'm still sometimes called sweet, but you better just hold those words to yourself or you might be disappointed... I'm pretty rough around the edges and often lack "tact" , not because I'm trying to be mean but because I'm thinking honest thoughts, not sugar thoughts. Sugar is not natural for me. So, read on to see about this awesome book about being an overly sweet Christian: http://www.crosswalk.com/blogs/PCoughlin/11633154/ Monday, June 14, 2010 No More Christian Nice Girl If you ever went to Sunday school as a child, chances are you saw colorful illustrations of Jesus in action. Remember those? Healing the lame, feeding the five thousand—tremendous miracles performed by a white-robed Jesus with beautiful, long, brown hair. (Just how did Jesus keep his hair looking so silky in that arid climate? Now that was a miracle!) He always looked clean, safe, and…well…nice. Like someone you could bring home to your mother. Or perhaps, later in life, you were introduced to this one-dimensional Jesus Christ through sermons or books that presented only the sweet side of Jesus. Go into most churches, and you'll rarely hear a sermon about the firm, confrontational, and courageous side of Jesus' personality. Churches sing about "The Old Rugged Cross," but preachers and teachers seldom mention the rugged side of the Savior. For many women, this is not a problem because…let's be honest…the rougher side of Jesus can make women uncomfortable and even lead to an occasional cringe. For example, weren't you just a little taken aback when you learned that Jesus overturned the money changers' tables and whirled a whip around in the temple courts (John 2)? Somebody could have been killed or accidentally gotten an eye put out. At the very least, Jesus made a big mess, and it doesn't say anywhere in Scripture that he helped clean up. Or what about in Matthew 15 when the Canaanite mother begs Jesus to heal her daughter, and he responds with, "It is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs" (v. 26). If he were anyone else, believers would denounce him as being hard-hearted, cruel, and perhaps not even a Christian because he wasn't polite or helpful. In fact, Jesus sounds rude, like he's calling her a dog. What's up with that? Far too often, when women come to these passages in the Bible, they just skip over them or try to explain away the stronger side of Jesus. They rationalize, "Jesus wasn't really angry in the temple courts. No way. He was calm and amazingly detached as he swung that whip around." They read in the NIV Bible translation that Jesus rebuked Peter with a stern "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me" (Matthew 26:23), and somehow their NGB (Nice Girl Bible) translation turns that into "Jesus got a little annoyed with Peter and tactfully suggested that it would be best for Peter to give him some space to regroup and have a little ‘me time.'" When Jesus turned water into wine as his first miracle, he made enough vino to fill six huge water vats—over a hundred gallons of wine, more than any wedding party could consume. If anyone else did this, eyebrows would be raised at a "show off" who seems to encourage drunkenness. But it's Jesus, and so believers skim past it. When Jesus casts out devils, why would a nice savior cast them into a herd of pigs, destroying two thousand animals and what was most likely a family's life savings? (Mark 5:13). He makes no offer to compensate the pigs' owners either. In Matthew 8:18, when surrounded by a crowd of sick people needing healing, Jesus ordered his disciples to take him away to the other side of the lake. That doesn't sound very supportive or compassionate. At one time he told his disciples to sell their cloaks and buy swords if they did not already have them in order to fulfill the Scripture that "he was counted as one of the bad people" (Luke 22:37-38, Worldwide English New Testament), a fact that has never sat well with his followers, so it's explained away or simply ignored. Jesus called a nation's religious leaders "whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean" (Matthew 23:27). He declared that he did not come to bring peace "but a sword" (Matthew 10:34), and that he came to "bring fire on the earth" (Luke 12:49). Though Jesus was not a model of compliance or "good behavior," often women try to put a positive, non-threatening spin on everything he did, acting like public relations spokeswomen covering for a bungling political candidate. They end up doing damage control for the Son of God—and damaging themselves in the process. Fortunately, Jesus Christ doesn't need damage control or help from an image consultant. As presented in the Gospels, Jesus is most definitely not one-sided. He is the complete embodiment of healthy, balanced human personality; thus, Jesus is immensely compassionate, kind, and gracious while also being assertive, forceful, and firm when necessary. He is good, but he's definitely not "nice" or as safe as many Christians want to believe. He is a Savior who was fully aware of his actions and words as he lived on earth in human form for thirty-three years. He is also a Savior who says in Matthew 16:24, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me." Not "follow me when I'm nice," but "follow me." No qualifiers, just a straightforward command to walk his walk and talk his talk, whether that walk and talk appears nice or not. There are several profound problems associated with portraying Jesus as the nicest person to ever skip across ancient soil. First, it's a misrepresentation of Scripture. Presenting half of Jesus (even if it is the gentle half) as the total sum of Jesus requires ignoring almost twenty percent of the verses in the Gospels. That's just wrong. Second Timothy 3:16-17 teaches that "all Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work." Every verse about Jesus is in the Bible because God wants it there to develop believers into an accurate image of Christ. And yes, that includes verses where women may wince at the forceful side of Jesus. Second, a narrow focus on the sweet side of Jesus gives women the idea that God wants Christians to behave sweetly in all situations. Here's the problem: Jesus says in Matthew 5:13, "You are the salt of the earth," not the sugar of the earth. Yes, sugar is delicious, particularly in chocolate desserts. However, salt is infinitely more useful than sugar. Salt enhances natural food flavors, preserves food, and is used in manufacturing over 14,000 products (including glass, rubber, metals, textiles, soap, and cosmetics). Salt, unlike sugar, is necessary for human life. In Mark 9:50, Jesus says "Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with each other," making a clear connection between being like salt and being at peace with others. Your mother may have said, "You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar," but Jesus wants you to do far more than manipulate people with saccharine pseudo-Christianity. He wants you to be useful in his kingdom and to find following his salty-sweet example practical in everyday life and relationships. (It's no coincidence that most people find a salty-sweet combination of foods irresistible. Snack mix, anyone?) Following the example of an artificially sweet Jesus leads to frustration and has even caused some to walk away from their faith altogether because this example doesn't work well in real life. How could it? It's fake. Third, portraying Jesus as Mr. Manners in sandals gives the impression that politeness pretty much sums up what it means to be Christ-like. The problem here is that hurt people are not drawn toward perfectly nice people. Folks don't look toward women with perfect etiquette for help when life comes crashing down. Hurting people look toward individuals who, like Jesus, have both fire and compassion in their eyes, individuals who inspire and who will speak the truth in love—even if it stings. This is the kind of Jesus who attracted "people crowding around him and listening to the word of God" (Luke 5:1), people so numerous that "There was no room left, not even outside the door" (Mark 2:2). If you are going to be a woman who draws people to Christ, you need to reflect to the world an accurate image of Christ, not an image of Miss Manners with a cross around her neck. A fourth and final serious problem occurs when the Lion of Judah is misrepresented as a precious little lamb: women lose Christ's complete example of authentic goodness, and over time, begin to sanctify and pursue false niceness instead of true goodness. They substitute something similar for the real thing, guaranteeing disappointing results. For instance, have you ever tried to make thick, chewy chocolate-chip cookies and ended up with wafer-thin cookies instead? You may have made the error of substituting a margarine spread for butter in the recipe. They look the same and even produce similar looking dough, but the oven's heat reveals their crucial differences. (That's assuming you didn't eat all of the raw cookie dough first. Margarine spreads are usually 25 to 50% water, so cookie dough made with them will spread more when baked.) True goodness and false niceness are like butter and margarine. They can look similar, but when life's pressures crank up the heat, only authentic goodness will produce the results you want. Far too often, Christian women are fed a watered down version of Christ's goodness and consequently believe that timid compliance and superficial sweetness are necessary ingredients for an abundant life. They substitute bland niceness for real goodness, and then when failure results, women blame themselves and believe following Christ's example doesn't work in everyday life. Nothing could be farther from the truth. True goodness is immensely useful. If you follow Christ's example of goodness, you will find that Christianity works, and works far better than anything else to produce the abundant life. You just have to make sure that your key ingredient is authentic goodness and not a watered-down substitute. Paul Coughlin is the author of numerous books, including Unleashing Courageous Faith, No More Christian Nice Guy and No More Jellyfish, Chickens or Wimps. He also co-authored a book for married couples with his wife Sandy, titled Married But Not Engaged. Paul is founder of The Protectors, the values-based and faith-based answer to adolescent bullying, which provides curriculum for public schools, private schools, retreats, and individuals who want to diminish child-based bullying. Visit Paul's websites at: http://www.theprotectors.org , and http://www.paulcoughlin.net

I Totally agree with you! I feel that way too. I know that God will ask why I didn't help someone when I was Right There and could have done something!

Oh that is sick (the real meaning of the word...).

I know who ya'll are talking about! I used to watch him sometimes on late night tv! I really did enjoy his preaching and he is one of those who helped me to see God how I've been searching to see Him.

That's cool Virtuous! I've been learning that what I've been learning, God confirms that it is from Him. I didn't know that it applies to prophecy as well, but I totally understand now why that would be. I've had many people prophecy over my son, me, and my husband (but mostly me), and I don't remember any but a gist of one of them. I've had nothing but a few dreams that seemed to confirm it since then. It's so vague that I'm not even sure if I remember the prophecy correctly. I know what my dreams were.

That is SO AWESOME Linda!!!

Me Me! Can I be the goldi locks?

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/the-christian-politics-and-the-government.html

I miss you too Linda!! I know how you feel... I haven't been able to get on lately either but its from different circumstances.

the Old Testament has plenty to say on the abuse of power and govt. I can't think right now about what Jesus spoke of in regards to abuse of power.

When I was speaking to the guy at GMAC this dream was brought to mind big time... /dreams-and-visions-to-be-interpreted-f1/2-more-dreams-of-toxic-orange-and-red-t10042.htm?highlight=toxic My 3rd dream: I went to go fix my house (my irl house) and when I got there I go in and immediately feel invaded. Some company had come in and started fixing my house to sell for the bank, themselves. I told them that I WAS FIXING the house. I walked on the floors (irl they are wood too) and they had been fixed, they were solid. I started walking through the living room and the ceiling was SO HIGH and the company had brought in the HUGE planks of wood and it was like walking through a forest they were so tall and so many. I go up to the bedroom where I left my bed (irl) to make sure it was still there, because that's where we slept/plan to sleep when we work on the house. I planned to work on the house regardless... It wasn't there, I was VERY angry and upset and told them "where are we going to sleep now?" They had thrown the whole thing in a dumpster outside the house. I went out there and tipped the dumpster over and the bed was on the floor but the floor was covered in this orange and red toxic sludge. When I tipped the dumpster it slid quickly towards me and the bed and the toxic sludge seemed to be magnified, but the dumpster stopped sliding as it came close to me. So, that's it. _________________ Hind's Feet 2Sam22:34-40 He makes me as surefooted as a deer, enabling me to stand on mountain heights.He trains my hands for battle;He strengthens my arm to draw a bronze bow. You have given me your shield of victory;Your help has made me great.You have made a wide path for my feet to keep them from slipping. I chased my enemies and destroyed them;I did not stop until they were conquered.I consumed them;I struck them down so they did not get up;they fell beneath my feet.

PRAISE YAH!!!!!!!

I am REALLY needing some prayer about dealing with GMAC and USAA... I just found some stuff out that I think USAA did something illegal, the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing kind of thing. It has to do with USAA taking my 5,000$ claim money (stop payment) out of my account after I had already cashed it and was using it to repair the house, leaving my account in the negative 200$... They told me it was the wrong address (why they did the stop payment)... which left me VERY puzzled because I had received my claim check (I had filed the claim back in 08)... I JUST found out today that the wrong address was GMAC's address (the company USAA goes through for mortgages)... I also found out that GMAC filed a claim the 11th month of 09... I was speaking to someone who told me off the record that what USAA did was illegal... By law they are not allowed to do that. I filed the claim, my claim was honored and then they turn around and honor GMAC's claim after the fact and TAKE MY claim money and give it to GMAC. That is illegal. I had a dream a few weeks ago that I understand now which was about this but I didn't know then. God brought me this far and it isn't for nothing, just for me to be on the losing end. God has me where he wants me, I know this to be true. I am where I'm supposed to be. Things might look a certain way to our human eyes, but what is impossible with man IS possible with God. There is nothing they can do that will Keep God's will from being done. The prayers of a righteous man/woman avails MUCH. I am here in Maryland to go down to work on my house trusting that God will pull through with the money that IS mine that does NOT belong to GMAC, so I can fix the house. I will be going down to Newport News on Saturday. We have paints already purchased, and there is plenty that can be done without the money right now. I just feel further violated. God has done some amazing things for me and He continues to do so. He might wait till the last minute to do what He does best, but that makes it even more exciting and awe inspiring!!! He hasn't let me down, he hasn't let me drown, and He continues to amaze me!!! I love how He works!!!

That is so cool True! God led me to this site too, I don't remember how though. Cholette, you made me smile... Man is Father prodding me today, I think he just screamed at me through you I didn't know God screams He sure is nice about it though!! Well, it's the tv thing... yup, the whole day today has been about tv. I got an idea (I guess He gave me the idea as a hint hint) to call the cable station and cut out some of the channels, like HBO and Showtime!

LOL about the babble fish!! Wow, that's amazing!! Did you post your testimony about it, I'd like a link if so!! I totally agree with you