4 Responses to “July 29, 2009”

1. Teresa
   July 29th, 2009 @ 11:34 pm

   Dear Dr. Brown: 
   I am a gentile believer.  I love the jewish people with all my heart. I do try to witness but they have nothing to do with me. My real trouble in my spirit is that although I go to a Messianic Congregation and I read material from Messianic sources all over I’m still getting a real strong impression that even with Messiah in common that wall isn’t coming down. It’s still you vs. us. They are Jews and not to be confused (strongly) with Christians. There is no warmth really but this cordial saccharine sweetness because it’s the Jesus thing to do.  I just don’t get it, This is so not right in the Lord.  Do you know I get more politeness, friendiness and conversation with younger Chassidic men then my jewish brothers and sisters in Messiah?  Have you seen this?  This is not in a few places.  I’m even picking it up in jewish commentaries and messianic rabbi commentaries and services. 
   What do you suggest? I thought this would be a wonderful time in the Lord period with Jew and Gentile together.  It’s really Liturgical Messiancs staying to themselves and staring at you when you come in like “what are you doing here” and Rabbi (teachers) pastoring a really Gentile congregation with some token Messianics Jews.

   Your view and opinion please.  Thanks.

   Teresa

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   Thank You,
   Teresa  

2. Geary
   July 30th, 2009 @ 3:12 am

   Great topic Dr. Brown.  Living here in Israel for the summer has been eye opening.  The untold secret in Israel is that Arabs/Jew/non jews can get along when love and forgiveness are truly applied.  It works even greater when Yeshua becomes Lord/Savior to Jews and Arabs.  I’ve seen it and witnessed in Israel.   It’s truly amazing and heart warming to the power of the gospel of Yeshua.  We have “rights” as a believer in Jesus and those rights are to be righteous.   Our lives are to be a light to others in Spirit and in truth.  Blessings from Israel!  Geary and family

3. susan carpenter
   July 30th, 2009 @ 9:27 am

   I would like to comment on “love and forgiveness”….I had written up “my experience”  and was going to send in, however I got  my devotional from David Wilkerson in the mail today and He has  said all that I “tried”to  say of  “my experience” then and now…here it is…
   This is a great devotional from David Wilkerson on Forgiving!..I know,by experience  that the unforgiveness in the past(before being born again) had resulted in ALL 4 of those “results” listed.  But now,  I also know by experience and the Holy Spirit working in this new life and by obedience to God and what HE says about forgiving others and applying these steps, that the “results” of doing it Gods way (which seems so “foreign”at the time) leads to the “genuine” forgiveness that God is talking about and we don’t even know where it came from-it just happens!!!

   Jesus commands us to love those that have made themselves our enemies by doing three things:
    
   1.     We are to bless them
   2.     We are to do good to them
   3.     We are to pray for them
    
   In Matthew 5:44 Jesus says, “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.”
    

   Paul writes, “Give place unto wrath” (Romans 12:19). He is saying, “Suffer the wrong. Lay it down and move on. Get a life in the Spirit.” However, if we refuse to forgive the hurts done to us, we have to face these consequences:
    

   We’ll become guiltier than the person who inflicted our wound.
   God’s mercy and grace toward us will be shut off. Then, as things begin to go wrong in our lives, we won’t understand them, because we’ll be in disobedience.
   Our persecutor’s vexations against us will continue to rob us of peace. He’ll become the victor, succeeding in giving us a permanent wound.
   Because Satan succeeds in driving us to thoughts of revenge, he’ll be able to lead us into deadlier sins. And we’ll commit transgressions far worse than these. 

   The writer of Proverbs advises, “The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression” (Proverbs 19:11). In other words, we’re to do nothing until our anger has subsided. We’re never to make a decision or follow through with any action while we are still angry.
    
   We bring glory to our heavenly Father whenever we overlook hurts and forgive the sins done to us. To do so builds character in us. When we forgive as God forgives, he brings us into a revelation of favor and blessing we have never known.
    
   Jesus commands us to love those that have made themselves our enemies by doing three things:
    
   1.     We are to bless them
   2.     We are to do good to them
   3.     We are to pray for them
    
   In Matthew 5:44 Jesus says, “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.”
    

4. Ewan
   August 12th, 2009 @ 8:34 am

   I mostly agreed with the guy who rang in about the global warming scare-mongering. However, he was wrong about the “pre-Adamic creation”. Such an idea has no support from Scripture and is simply heresy. See here.

   As for global warming, there has been some modest warming which just about everyone agrees upon. I believe it is both natural and not unprecedented (e.g. the Medieval Warm Period). See here for a biblical perspective on some of these questions.

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