Thursday, July 16, 2009

Stepping out of the Comfort Zone 1

Webster’s Dictionary defines a Comfort Zone as the level at which one functions at ease and familiarity. Over the last several months we have been writing about Saul and how he created this kind of Comfort Zone for Christians. To him gentiles were not Jews so they didn’t fall under the same rules Jews had to follow. So to us he creates a Comfort Zone so to speak. As we have discussed many times before this Comfort Zone can create many problems between Christians and Jew.

Look at all the documentaries of the Life of Jesus we see on TV or in the Movies. You never see a picture of Jesus’ clothing with the Fringes (Tzitzit) on the corners of his Garments. This we see as a Comfort Zone, why do producers or directors fail to place these very important Fringes on his clothing? This Comfort Zone image of Jesus and the disciples gives Christians this warm and false sense of image. In portraying him with such and image it lens credibility to Saul’s teachings that Gentiles don’t have to do such things. Ponder on this for a few minutes, if you were to see Jesus pictured with his Tzitzit, would you not be wondering first of all what they were and second why he had them on. Once getting the answers to those questions, the biggest one that would come to your mind might be. So why am I not wearing them?

In this Ministry Rick and I have really step out of the Comfort Zone of both Christian and Jew to teach the truth, through the words of Adonai (The Lord God Most High) and Jesus. As we see it, our Articles may have stepped on many peoples understand and learning’s, but we have embarked on a mission to remove you from your Comfort Zone. Many Christians have tried to rebuke us for they use the words of Saul, saying Saul says we no longer have to do these things. Saul’s Comfort Zone kept him in the mind set that the Torah and the Oral Law (Talmud) were one in the same. He rebuked Peter for his understanding that the 613 Mitzvoth in Torah were to be followed by all.

At this time we would like to use Peter as an example of stepping out of your Comfort Zone take a look at the book of Acts Chapter 11 4-15 Peter refused as he states in verse 8 But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth. Three times Peter argues with the Lord in this meditative trance. Think about how hard is would have been for Peter, to eat of any animal that the Torah directed to be unclean.

I recently spent the night in the Hospital due to chest pain and one of the respiratory therapists who came into the room to check on me was wearing a Star of David. We had the chance to talk for a few minutes and I shared about our Ministry with her. She had expressed to me that it never stop amazing her how many Christians fail to understand and see that Jesus was a Jew. She commentated to me that it really bothers her that Christians try to make Jesus out to be a Christian. When the definition of Christian is to be Christ like, so how does one be Christ like if one has no idea about how Jesus Christ lived? Jesus Christ lived everyday of his life as a Jew. The very hem of the garment that the women with the blood issue reached out to touch was his Fringes (Tzitzit). Maybe you need to evaluate that Comfort Zone you live in and seek the bases for those beliefs.

As for use we choose to follow the words of Joshua found in Chapter 24:15.

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.


The Lord Bless you and Protect you!
The Lord deal kindly and graciously with you!
The Lord bestow His favor upon you and grant you peace!The Articles presented here are copy written by The Light In Christ Ministry in Sherman, TX

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