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Here's First Fruits Ministries sermon for the Sabbath on 2/8/2025, called "Community, Part 14: Discipleship: https://firstfruits.cc/blog/20....25/02/08/community-p

If you missed this sermon or any other part of our 15-part Community series, please be sure to watch them all and get a great overview of what First Fruits Ministries is about.

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Question 310: In What Sense Is Meekness A Virtue?

Answer:

It is a comprehensive virtue. It includes gentleness, readiness to do good to all men, to walk humbly before YHVH and man and not to overrate ourselves; to be loving as well as lowly-minded, not given to worldly ambition, but zealous to yield willing obedience to YHVH's will; quiet, self-possessed, never quarrelsome nor disputatious. See Matthew 5:5; Matthew 11:29; 2 Corinthians 10:1; 1 Peter 3:4; 1 Corinthians 6:7; Romans 12:19; 1 Peter 2:19-22; Revelation 21:7. Thus the meek, though the "only rightful occupants of a foot of ground or a crust of bread here," are the heirs of all things hereafter.

Question 309: What Is The “Witness Of The Spirit”?

Answer:

The "witness of the Spirit" is the inward assurance which the believer enjoys of his filial relation to YHVH namely, that Ruach HaKodesh witnesses to and with his spirit that he is a child of YHVH and that his sins are forgiven. The immediate results of this witness of the Spirit are set forth in Galatians 5:22, 23.

Question 308: What Is The New Birth?

Answer:

It is an expression frequently used instead of "regeneration," to express the change from the natural state of sin to the new spiritualized life of the believer. It is dying unto sin and being born again unto righteousness, a complete transformation of our moral nature, a new heart following after conversion and justification, the new birth or regeneration brings about a complete change of heart (see Hebrews 10:22; Galatians 6:15; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Colossians 3:9; Ephesians 4:22-24 and other passages).

Question 307: What Is Meant By: “Except A Man Be Born Of Water And Of The Spirit”?

Answer:

This passage in John 3:5 has given rise to much controversy and theologians are by no means agreed as to its meaning. Our opinion is that Moshiach had reference to the topic then agitating such men as the one He was speaking to. They had a ceremony by which the Gentile was admitted to the privileges of Judaism, part of which was baptism, which signified purification from the sins of his old life. To the astonishment of the Pharisees, John the Baptist had insisted that even they were in need of baptism, just as the proselyte was. But as John intimated that was not enough. There was One coming Who would baptise with Ruach HaKodesh. Therefore, Nicodemus would understand Moshiach's meaning, when He spoke of being born of water and of the spirit. To the new birth it was necessary that a man be purified in heart, his past sins blotted out, which was symbolized by the water and he must be quickened to a new life, which was done by the Spirit Both are still necessary to conversion. They are called in theological parlance, justification and sanctification. This element of water and the operation of the spirit are the subject of prediction in Ezekiel 36:25-27.

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Question 306: How Must We Understand The Phrase “The Zeal Of Thine House Hath Eaten Me Up”?

Answer:

The passage in John 2:17 is an expression which graphically describes the tremendous and inspiring enthusiasm of one who is aflame with a righteous purpose. The disciples were doubtless surprised at the courage of One whom they had regarded as so meek and gentle, setting Himself to a task from which the bravest might have shrunk. It was a new side to their Master's character, but thinking it over, they realized that it was one that the prophets had predicted of Him. His indignation at seeing the house that had been dedicated to YHVH so prostituted made Him regardless of His own safety. It absorbed Him or as John says, "ate Him up"—made Him forget everything else.

Question 305: When Yeshua Asked: “Woman, What Have I To Do With Thee?” Was He Ungracious To His Mother?

Answer:

These seemingly harsh words (in John 24) addressed by the Saviour to His mother at the feast of Cana, have been a subject of much speculation. In English they have a harsher sound than they have in the original. Thus "woman" is in Greek a mode of address used with respect and used even to those high in authority, such as queens. What the Saviour intended by this address was to call His mother's attention to the fact that it was His work He was doing and not one in which she had any concern. He no doubt used a gentle inflection of the voice and her remark to the servants showed that not only was she not hurt or offended, but that she fully understood.