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Here's this week's Sabbath bulletin: https://firstfruits.cc/blog/20....23/12/28/sabbath-bul

Sabbath Bulletin for 12/30/23 | First Fruits Ministries

Hello Brothers and Sisters in Messiah Yeshua. Please pray for our hearts to remain fully focused in on Yeshua as we go about our days, no matter what we're involved with in our lives. First Fruits Ministries will meet for the Sabbath celebration on 1

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Thought for Today: Friday December 29

YHVH Elohiym has kept you and is keeping you in His grace, in His mercy and in His perfect plan and purpose for your life.

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Receiving Forgiveness

References:
1 John 1:9 / Romans 10:9, 10 / Mark 11:23 / Matthew 21:22 (AMP) / Mark 9:24 / Psalm 32:1 (AMP) / Psalm 32:1-6 (MESSAGE) Romans 4:7, 8 (NIV) / Ephesians 1:4, 7 (AMP) / John 1:12 (NIV) / Revelation 12:11

Abba, Your Word teaches me that if I ask for forgiveness, You will forgive me and cleanse me from all righteousness. Help me to believe and help me to receive forgiveness for my past and present sins. As You forgive me, help me to forgive myself. I believe Yeshua is the Way, the Truth and the Life and He is my Adonai and I believe that He rose from the dead and through Him I am saved. Abba, Yeshua said that whatever I ask for in prayer, having faith and believing it, I will receive. Adonai, I believe, help me get rid of any lingering doubt. Abba, I am happy and count myself blessed, that I can start afresh, my slate is wiped clean. With this forgiveness I believe that You Abba are holding nothing against me or anything from me. When I keep all sins inside, my bones turn to powder and my words become daylong groans. The pressure never eases and it feels my life dries up. I am letting it all out and from now on I rid of my failures and lay it before You, Adonai. In the face of this feeling of guilt and unworthiness, I receive my forgiveness, and believe that the pressure is leaving me. My guilt dissolved and my sins disappear. I am blessed because I know You have forgiven my transgressions and removed my sins. Abba, You chose me in Moshiach before the foundation of this world, that I should be holy and blameless in Your sight, even above reproach, before You in love. In Yeshua, through His blood, I have redemption, the remission of my offenses, in accordance with the riches and the generosity of Your Gracious Favour. Abba, I have received Your Son Yeshua; I believe in Him and He gave me the right to become Your child. I acknowledge You Abba as my YHVH and my Creator. Thank You for forgiving me of all my guilt and sins. I am an overcomer by the Blood of the Lamb and by the word of my testimony. Amein.

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Our Congregational newsletter complete with prayer requests and praise reports! https://mailchi.mp/firstcentur....ychristianity/shabba

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Almost there everyone! Its already prep day for some of us...have a happy and safe day of tying up loose ends! Rhy, I hope you travels are safe. I know you are probably not accustomed to long car rides. The brits are flabberghasted when we tell them how far we drive on a regular basis. Hopefully, the english countryside is more interesting than here, to keep you awake and unzoned. I can almost smell everyones sabbath breads baking! I want to try the "special" braided bread (i forgot what its called) sometime. My daughter likes to bake and wants to do bread by hand, but we have very little counterspace for kneading and preparing. Sigh, Someday! Enjoy everyone! We may not always have peace on sabbath like we do now. Shalom!

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I suspect that if I ate much bread on shabbat I would be fat.

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From the book I have been working on: Q. How do we kill the flesh, so that sin does not govern over us and kill us and our bodies?
A. Men and women are biologically different, and killing the flesh can work in different ways. The answers are in the bible! To figure out how to kill the sinful desires of the flesh, I looked at what people ate and drank that causes sin.
1.Bread, Starches, Sugars, Carbohydrates: Ezekiel 16:49 KJV "Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy." I found out the hard way that your body does need some carbohydrates, or else your muscle will waste away. 1 bowl of cereal, or one bowl of popcorn… is probably enough for one day. Bread is converted into fat and sugar. In men this causes libido to want to make babies. When the sperm sack is full, pressure is created, causing erections and fleshly desires in men. Especially if your a single man, and or you are around women you don’t want to be attracted to, you should have as little bread as possible, only what is needed. Salt is the other ingredient you need some of, enough to hold on to liquids. The other things you don’t need at all from my experience.
2.Salt: Genesis 19:24-26 KJV "Then yahuah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from yahuah out of heaven; 25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. 26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt." Deuteronomy 29:21-23 KJV 23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:" Sodom and Gomorrah had salt and bread. Salt helps you retain water, that causes inflammation. Inflammation in the sperm sacks causes erections and desires for men to make babies. Salt raises blood pressure by holding on to water.
3. Alcohol:Numbers 6:3 KJV “He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.” Leviticus 10:9-10 KJV "9 Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations: 10 And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;" Alcohol impairs judgment.
4.Sugar:Numbers 6:3 KJV “He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.” Sugar is sugar, regardless of if it’s natural sugar, fruit, fruit juice, candy, or other sugars. The Nazarites were to separate themselves from sin. Avoiding alcohols and sugars helps with this.
5. Fat:Leviticus 3:17 KJV "It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood." Fat converts to sugar.
You will notice that only fat is commanded not to be eaten, out of this list of 5 things, unless you are a Nazarite and then sugar and alcohol are also forbidden, or no wine if your a descendant of Arron about to go into the tabernacle of the congregation. Gluttony is also a sin. Wine, Sugar, Salt, and Bread are good in moderation, especially if your married and want to make children.
As for women, their biology is different, but the results of gluttony can be similar. Female health is in danger when too much of these items are consumed. Alcohol is a common excuse women have made for having sex outside of biblical requirements.
By avoiding these 5 things, and having only as much salt and carbohydrates as I need, I lost 100 pounds of body weight, but the primary goal was to get rid of temptation. Weight loss was a nice side effect.

From the book I have been working on:  Q. How do we kill the flesh, so that sin does not govern over us and kill us and our bodies? 
 A. Men and women are biologically different, and killing the flesh can work in different ways. The answers are in the bible! To figure out how to kill the sinful desires of the flesh, I looked at what people ate and drank that causes sin.  
 1.Bread, Starches, Sugars, Carbohydrates: Ezekiel 16:49 KJV "Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy." I found out the hard way that your body does need some carbohydrates, or else your muscle will waste away. 1 bowl of cereal, or one bowl of popcorn… is probably enough for one day. Bread is converted into fat and sugar. In men this causes libido to want to make babies. When the sperm sack is full, pressure is created, causing erections and fleshly desires in men. Especially if your a single man, and or you are around women you don’t want to be attracted to, you should have as little bread as possible, only what is needed. Salt is the other ingredient you need some of, enough to hold on to liquids. The other things you don’t need at all from my experience.  
 2.Salt: Genesis 19:24-26 KJV "Then yahuah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from yahuah out of heaven; 25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. 26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt." Deuteronomy 29:21-23 KJV 23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:" Sodom and Gomorrah had salt and bread. Salt helps you retain water, that causes inflammation. Inflammation in the sperm sacks causes erections and desires for men to make babies. Salt raises blood pressure by holding on to water.  
 3. Alcohol:Numbers 6:3 KJV “He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.” Leviticus 10:9-10 KJV "9 Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations: 10 And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;" Alcohol impairs judgment. 
 4.Sugar:Numbers 6:3 KJV “He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.” Sugar is sugar, regardless of if it’s natural sugar, fruit, fruit juice, candy, or other sugars. The Nazarites were to separate themselves from sin. Avoiding alcohols and sugars helps with this.  
 5. Fat:Leviticus 3:17 KJV "It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood." Fat converts to sugar. 
 You will notice that only fat is commanded not to be eaten, out of this list of 5 things, unless you are a Nazarite and then sugar and alcohol are also forbidden, or no wine if your a descendant of Arron about to go into the tabernacle of the congregation. Gluttony is also a sin. Wine, Sugar, Salt, and Bread are good in moderation, especially if your married and want to make children.  
 As for women, their biology is different, but the results of gluttony can be similar. Female health is in danger when too much of these items are consumed. Alcohol is a common excuse women have made for having sex outside of biblical requirements.  
 By avoiding these 5 things, and having only as much salt and carbohydrates as I need, I lost 100 pounds of body weight, but the primary goal was to get rid of temptation. Weight loss was a nice side effect.

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Salvation and Works - First Century Christianity

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Salvation and Works - First Century Christianity

For by grace you have been saved through faith does not negate the need to put in the work! Faith and works are both required for salvation!

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Due to family obligations there will not be a live podcast tonight. Thank you for understanding.

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The territory of Benjamin was located in the geographic, political, and historical heart of Israel.
Joshua 18:11-28

The territory of Simeon was completely enveloped by Judah. They were eventually scattered throughout the rest of Israel, fulfilling the prophecy of Jacob in Genesis 49:7.
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Jacob prophesied Zebulun would be a haven for ships and their border would be at Sidon, but their territory was landlocked and far south of Sidon. What happened?
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Tribal borders in Israel fluctuated significantly over the centuries so that, at various times, Zebulun's territory touched both the Mediterranean and the Galilee.

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