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parashah - Vayeshev (And he settled)

Pastor Chris

Category: Parashah

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Weekly Parashah

Torah: Gen. 37:1–40:23		Haftara: Amos 2:6–3:8	Brit Chadashah: Jn. 2:13–4:42 Mt.1:18-25

Vayeshev (And he settled)
Scripture:	Genesis 37:1 – 40:23			Torah
		Joseph, Favored Son 37 Now Jacob dwelled in the land where his father had sojourned, in the land of Canaan. 2 These are the genealogies of Jacob. When Joseph was 17 years old (he was a youth), he was shepherding the flocks with his brothers—with the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah. Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father.3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his other sons because he was the son of his old age. So he had made him a long-sleeved tunic. 4 When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak to him in shalom. 5 Then Joseph dreamed a dream and told his brothers—and they hated him even more. 6 He said to them, “Please listen to this dream I dreamed. 7 There we were binding sheaves in the middle of the field. All of a sudden, my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to my sheaf.”8 “Will you truly be a king over us?” his brothers said to him. “Will you really rule over us?” So they hated him even more because of his dreams and because of his words.9 But then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers, saying, “I have just dreamed another dream. Suddenly, there was the sun and the moon and the eleven stars bowing down to me!” 10 He told it to his father as well as his brothers.Then his father rebuked him and said to him, “What’s this dream you dreamed? Will we really come—your mother and I with your brothers—to bow down to the ground to you?” 11 So his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the speech in mind. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Gen.+37%3A1%E2%80%9340%3A23&version=TLV
Scripture:	Amos: 2:6 - 3:8			Haftarah
6 Thus says Adonai: “For three crimes of Israel even for four, I will not relent. For they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of shoes. 7 They trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth and thwart the way of the humble. A man and his father go to the same girl,[a] to profane My holy Name. 8 Upon garments taken in pledge they stretch out beside every altar, and drink wine confiscated as fines in the house of their gods. 9 “I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like cedars and as strong as oaks— yes, I destroyed his fruit from above and his roots from beneath. 10 It was I also who brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness to possess the Amorite’s land. 11 I raised up prophets from your sons and Nazirites from your young men. Is this not so, Bnei Yisrael?” declares Adonai. 12 “But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and you commanded the prophets saying, ‘Do not prophesy.’ 13 Behold! I will cause a tottering beneath you as a cart totters when full of sheaves. 14 Then flight will fail for the swift. The mighty will not strengthen his power, The warrior will not save his life. 15 The archer will not stand, the fleet-footed will not escape, the horseman will not save himself. 16 The valiant among the warriors will flee naked in that day.” declares Adonai. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Amos+2%3A6%E2%80%933%3A8&version=TLV
Scripture:	John 2:13–4:42 Matttew1:18-25			Brit Chadashah
		13 The Jewish feast of Passover was near, so Yeshua went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the Temple, He found the merchants selling oxen, sheep, and doves; also the moneychangers sitting there. 15 Then He made a whip of cords and drove them all out of the Temple, both the sheep and oxen. He dumped out the coins of the moneychangers and overturned their tables. 16 To those selling doves, He said, “Get these things out of here! Stop making My Father’s house a marketplace!” 17 His disciples remembered that it is written, “Zeal for your House will consume Me!”[a]18 The Judean leaders responded, “What sign do You show us, since You are doing these things?”19 “Destroy this Temple,” Yeshua answered them, “and in three days I will raise it up.” 20 The Judean leaders then said to Him, “Forty-six years this Temple was being built, and You will raise it up in three days?” 21 But He was talking about the temple of His body. 22 So after He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He was talking about this. Then they believed the Scripture and the word that Yeshua had spoken. 23 Now when He was in Jerusalem for the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name, seeing the signs He was doing. 24 But Yeshua did not entrust Himself to them, because He knew all men. 25 He did not need anyone to testify about man, for He knew what was in man. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jn.+2%3A13%E2%80%934%3A42&version=TLV Matthew 1 : 18 - 25 The Miraculous Birth of Yeshua 18 Now the birth of Yeshua the Messiah happened this way. When His mother Miriam was engaged to Joseph but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Ruach ha-Kodesh. 19 And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man and not wanting to disgrace her publicly, made up his mind to dismiss her secretly. 20 But while he considered these things, behold, an angel of Adonai appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Miriam as your wife, for the Child conceived in her is from the Ruach ha-Kodesh. 21 She will give birth to a son; and you shall call His name Yeshua, for He will save His people from their sins.” 22 Now all this took place to fulfill what was spoken by Adonai through the prophet, saying, 23 “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and give birth to a son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which means “God with us.”[a]24 When Joseph woke up from his sleep, he did as the angel of Adonai commanded him and took Miriam as his wife. 25 But he did not know her intimately until she had given birth to a Son. And he called His name Yeshua. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mt.1%3A18-25&version=TLV
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Statement of Faith

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Statement of Faith

We Believe:

The Word of God in it's entirety.
The Bible is the inspired, infallible and only authoritative Word of God.
In the one Triune God. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
In the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ in his virgin birth, in his sinless life, in his miracles, in his vicarious and atoning death through his shed blood.
In his bodily resurrection, in his ascension to the right hand of the father, and in his personal return in power and glory.
That the salvation of the lost and regeneration of the sinful person by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.
In the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the Christian enabling him/her to live a Godly life.
That the baptism of the Holy Spirit according to Acts 2:4, is given to all believers who ask for it.
In the resurrection of the saved and the lost; that the saved is resurrected unto life and that the lost is resurrected unto damnation.
In the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.
That every believer has been anointed in ministry.
That God will give everyone a fresh start by just asking.
In the equality and unity both physically and spiritually of all believers In Jesus the Christ, Yeshua the Messiah.
In the continuity of God's covenant with the Jewish people, the physical people of Israel, in His unchanging will.
In the fulfillment of all Gods promises and prophesies in which also the fulfillment of the covenant by the physical return of the Jewish people to their Promised Land.
That all non-Jewish believers in Jesus Christ, Yeshua the Messiah are grafted into the tree of the root of Jesse, Israel. While this does not make some-one Jewish they will be equal participants in Christ's covenants of promise.