Category: Editorial
Our Identity
Along the path of our Torah submission, we have all endeavored to journey even closer to the original call that Adonai has purposed within us as His children… by believing the reality of our Biblical identity, we can take further steps in this process. Together, I hope that we can grow and train our fleshly minds to comprehend unimaginable truths that will re-shape how we see ourselves, how we see each other and how we respond to the call of the Lord for our lives.
For this reason, and more, I am personally very excited about the upcoming FFOZ Conference, “Yeshurun”. The name and descriptive for this conference was derived from the Hebrew root, yashar, which means, ‘upright,’ ‘righteous.’ The Septuagint translates yeshurun as ‘the beloved or upright one’. Most scholars agree that the word refers to Israel in her ideal state, representing her true character. Adonai uses this descriptive in the closing chapters of Deuteronomy, and in the book of Isaiah, as both a rebuke and as an encouragement to remind His people about who they are and to provoke them to become all that they are created to be.
One of the most significant and profound biblical doctrines that I have ever encountered is that of “My Identity in the Messiah,” which will be the focal point of the FFOZ Conference in May 2005. This simple concept contains magnificent, fundamental, and to-the-core biblical truths that have given me the confidence to fully embrace and submit to the Torah as an accurate description of who I am in the Messiah. This truth has revealed to me the freedom and simplicity of living according to the Scriptures, and has enabled me to rest in the complete and awesome work that the Messiah has accomplished on my behalf. This certainty not only puts me at peace, but it results in my submission and obedience to His Word as I desire from my inner-most being to reciprocate His love toward me.
It is my hope that The Yeshurun Conference will...
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