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In the late 19th century a movement known as the Hebrew roots was born
This movement teaches a wide variety of doctrines that differ from biblical Christianity
It is a complete shame a complete shame my friends that the entire
Christian world
Calls the Messiah by a completely bogus and made-up false name
And I want you to get this they know it
Many leaders in this movement believe and teach that a person's salvation is attained by the observance of the Sabbath
the dietary laws and the keeping of the Torah
What do you need to do to be saved what did you show us a
Keep Torah, oh, I know people want to go and tell me what Paul said and how they want to bend and twist Paul
No, no, what did you shoe us say?
Yeshua said keep the commandments and you shall live keep the commandments and you'll be delivered keep the commandments will inherit everlasting life
Despite the fact that the writings of the New Testament were originally written in Greek
Many within the Hebrew roots deny this fact and claim that the New Testament was written in Hebrew
Some of them will even say that no one can understand the Bible unless they understand the Hebrew language
Within the Torah observant community there are many different factions and beliefs regarding the name of Jesus
Bible translations and what is dictated as scripture?
Some within the Hebrew roots movement believe that the teachings of the Apostle Paul
contradict the rest of the Bible
Some of them even say that he is a heretic and that none of his epistles should be given any authority
Even though the Apostle Peter
Testified that the words of Paul are scripture the members within the Hebrew roots often discount the authority of Paul's writings
Oh
I know people want to go and tell me what Paul said and how they want to bend and twist Paul
No, no, what did you shoe us say?
Many different beliefs are held on certain extracurricular books that are not included in the biblical canon
Some regard the book of Thomas the book of Enoch and the book of Maccabees as part of the holy scriptures
Within the Hebrew roots is a very popular sect known as the sacred names movement
The members of the sacred names movement believe that one must renounce the name of Jesus
Keep the law and call upon the name Yahuwah to attain everlasting salvation
This
Group has a very large disdain for Christians and is known to embrace the elements of Judaism as their foundation
rather than Christianity
Did you know that the name Jesus is less than 400 years old
Where did this name come from and what was the original name of our Messiah?
Jesus is false. It's a false name. They know it. Okay, it was created
It's it's just it's no more than a few hundred years old
In this film we will be taking a deeper look into the Hebrew roots movement
In order to have a clear understanding of their beliefs we will go face-to-face with their leaders
Teachers and some of their members to see clearly what they believe
Ultimately we will see if the beliefs of the Hebrew roots movement are based on the holy scriptures
Or if they're based on something outside of the Bible itself
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My name is Matt Powell
I was in the Hebrew roots movement for almost two years and a lot of the doctrines that they taught people what they hid on
The surface and they wouldn't just come out and actually tell me what they believe
My name is David dong era and I grew up in the Hebrews movement and thank God today
I know the truth and looking hindsight. I think that a lot of the things that I experienced and learned
I think I can be a blessing to those that are still there
That was a picture of the perfect lamb Jesus Christ and his blood being shed for us
And when they would take the blood and put it over the door post and the angel of death passed over them
That was a picture that if you're covered by the blood of Jesus Christ, the death is gonna pass over you
Because the second death has no power on you. That was a picture of Jesus
Here is their salvation at any other for there is none other name under heaven given among them
We're by we must be saved and that name is Jesus right? Jesus is the name above all names
The name that God has exalted above every name the Bible tells us is Jesus
Look at what it says there in verse number 10 that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bow of
things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth that
Every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father
So what name does the Bible tell us that we ought to use and that has been exalted above every name?
And it's the name of Jesus Christ
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Man the title of my sermon this morning is the Old Testament
Sabbath the Old Testament
Sabbath now we do not observe the seventh day Sabbath in the New Testament
We don't observe any day of the week today as the Sabbath day
Where we don't do any work or have a solemn assembly on that day
We have Church on Sunday
Which is the first day of the week and I'm gonna preach to you about why that is in this sermon now
There are people out there who want to get us to observe the Sabbath and what this is is the gateway drug
Into a whole slew of things observing the Torah
Hebrew roots and eating kosher food and going down this whole long list until eventually you reach the
Destination at the end of that dark path and the destination is Judaism
I
Know a guy who's going to school to be an Orthodox rabbi right now
I don't see how he couldn't have been at salvation when he talked about his childhood and getting into it
I don't think there was any doubt in his mind at one time
So he somehow forsook the Messiah he walked away whether his faith. I mean you can argue. Maybe his faith was weak
Typically the first thing that they come at you with is the Sabbath day and the reason that they hit you with that first is
Because of the fact that they have a strong argument for it by saying well, it's in the Ten Commandments
There's a inconsistency among professing Christians. They will protest at courtrooms
About taking on the Ten Commandments, but they only believe in keeping nine
I'm gonna keep all nine, but that one don't want to
The number one reason that the Hebrew roots movement believes that the Sabbath is for today is because it's part of the Ten Commandments
From a doctrinal standpoint because it is a commandment and it's also it's one of the Ten Commandments
That's a big deal because the Ten Commandments was put in the ark. It's a commandment. It's the fourth commandment
Most people would agree that the Old Testament is done away
But what people fail to understand oftentimes is that the Ten Commandments actually were the Old Testament now
I'll explain that a little bit further in a moment. But if you would go to Deuteronomy chapter 4
Deuteronomy chapter 4 we're gonna look up all three mentions of this term the Ten Commandments
It's mentioned three times in the Old Testament. The first was in Exodus 34. The next one's in Deuteronomy 4 13
The Bible reads and he declared unto you his covenant
Which he commanded you to perform
Even Ten Commandments, so he said even there is a restatement. He declared the Covenant
Even Ten Commandments and so it's clear that the Bible is saying here that the words of the Covenant were the Ten Commandments
Second Corinthians chapter 3 verse 6 watch this who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament
Not of the letter but of the Spirit for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life
But if the ministration of death watch this
Written and engraven in stones
Was glorious. Let me ask you something
What was it that was written engraven in stones the whole book of Genesis the whole book of Exodus?
Nope, was the whole book of Leviticus graven in stone. What was engraven in that stone?
the Ten Commandments and he says that the ministration of death was written and engraven in
Stones and it says it was glorious
We're in verse 7 so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance
Watch this which glory was to be done away
So the Bible says that that which was engraven in stones
Being the Ten Commandments was to be done away. Oh, they're written in stone. It's permanent
Well, I guess you forgot the part where Moses took the stone tablets and he broke them
He literally took those permanent
Ten Commandments and he threw them on the ground and shattered them. You know what that pictures it pictures that the best man
Who was the best guy in Exodus?
The best guy broke the Ten Commandments
That's why the old covenant is known as what the ministration of death
But you say well that's Sabbath day
I mean, it's part of the Ten Commandments
Okay
Look if the law is changed in the New Testament which the Bible says the priesthood being changed there is made of necessity
A change also of the law then guess what something about the Ten Commandments is gonna change, too
We do not keep the literal Sabbath day where we work six days and then take a day of rest. We don't do it
That's Old Testament Old Covenant and that is not commanded in the New Testament
The Bible says in Hebrews 8 8 it says for finding fault with them
He saith behold the days come saith the Lord when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel
And with the house of Judah and so a new covenant means that the stones that were written upon in the Old Testament
That were the old covenant were no longer going to be the covenant that God would use
God would use a new covenant not in the letter but in the spirit
One of the things I saw in Christianity was was a little bit of a selfish route
And the reason I say that is because everything was based on
Salvation and that just kind of didn't really set well with me
I felt like there was there was something more to achieve
One of the things I found and I think most people that you'll talk to in Hebrew roots
It kind of starts with the Sabbath and that's why I'm telling you the Sabbath keeping is the gateway drug
to keeping the whole law to getting circumcised and
Eating kosher food and going down that road and then eventually what they're trying to do is a bait-and-switch
To get you from messianic Judaism into just Judaism synagogue of Satan Judaism
One of the things that the Hebrew roots movement tried to teach me was this idea that the Talmud was somehow the Word of God
And so obviously there are layers in the Hebrew roots movement people in the movement that would say that the Talmud is wicked and praise
God for that, but there are a group of people specifically the sacred names movement that teaches that Jesus is a pagan name
You know, that's that's serious that's satanic
And in fact, one of my friends from the Hebrew roots movement told me he says Matt
He says unless you deny the name of Jesus unless you renounce his name
You cannot be saved and that's when I realized that there was something severely wrong with the movement that I was a part of
We speak English and because we speak English, we're gonna call him Jesus
We're gonna call him what the Bible says Jesus Christ the name that every knee shall bow
There is a law that we keep the Sabbath
And so when I don't have a desire to keep the law
Then I would consider myself doomed right because I would have permanent separation from the Father
People don't want to think of grace like it's earned but it actually is
This Hebrew roots movement. It's not just a it's not that they just like the Old Testament
And they just want to do things like the Old Testament. They believe by doing this
They are saved and they will mask what they do and they'll say it's just by faith
It's not of works. They'll mask it with that. So we are saved from our past through faith
I believe beyond Christ and then from our present to the day that we die and go home to be with the Lord
It's a faith plus work system. It's a faith plus work system
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Know David one of the things that I would say the Hebrew roots movement messes up right at the beginning is their
Foundation and that is salvation, you know
the Bible clearly teaches that salvation is by faith alone in Christ alone and that we can't lose our salvation is
salvation by faith or works
Again, I don't have a concrete answer to that
Man, that's an awesome question that I wish I wish that I could give you a solid answer and I should be able to give
You a solid answer
But if you want to have eternal life keep the commandments
Wow, that's such a big part of it
A lot of times people will say well, they just believe Old Testament salvation, but I'm here to tell you brother
They don't believe in salvation in the New Testament. They don't believe in salvation the Old Testament. It's always been the same salvation
You know
It's always been through grace and by faith alone and Psalm 89 is a perfect place that shows us in the Old Testament
That God would never break his covenant with his children now
We may break the Covenant and the Bible goes on to say in Psalm 89 verse 30
If his children forsake my law and walk not of my judgments if they break my statutes and keep not my commandments
Then will I visit their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes?
Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him nor suffer my faithfulness to fail
So God's saying look I will not suffer my faithfulness to fail
I have made this promise and I'm gonna perform it until the day of Jesus Christ
My covenant will I not break nor alter the thing that has gone out of my lips
So God is clearly saying that he will not break the Covenant nor alter the thing that has gone out of his lips
Our present to the day that we die it's a faith plus work system
We had to believe on Christ and keep the commandments that have not changed
We can atone for our past but from our present to the day we go home to be the Lord it's faith plus works
That's basically what salvation is
None of us know what it truly means to be saved
I just have to completely die to the person who I was in order for Christ to live through me
Or I have no hope and now as I continue to keep the Sabbath
Then I feel confident that in the end
He will save me. But if I don't how could I trust in a prayer that I said that I didn't even mean
And I don't think that the Hebrew roots movement should cause us to want to prove salvation through the Old Testament either
This is obviously a very strong point that it's even in the Old Testament
But I think the New Testament should be enough to prove that salvation was always the same
It was an everlasting salvation. We can go to many Old Testament passages. We can go to Isaiah 40 41
We can go to Psalm 89 and so on and so forth show examples of people men of God that fell out
And then I still went to heaven King Saul is primary example of a man that in the Old Testament
where he believed on Jesus the Bible says that God gave him a new heart and
obviously, we know King Saul he's he was a a
Byword, right? He was a proverb because it's such a such a failure. He was of all the things he did and
at the end we know that
the Prophet Samuel and first Samuel chapter 28
Says that tomorrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me and obviously we know Samuel's in heaven
and so prophet Samuel looks at Saul and says you're gonna be with me and
We know that Saul proceeds the ultimate sin in people's minds to kill himself
So that would take all doubt that this guy might have repented at the last moment
The last thing he did was commit suicide. The last thing he did was kill himself. And so
According to prophet Samuel he's with him right now
And so we could go on and on about these things but at the end of the day the New Testament should be our final
authority about salvation through Jesus
And so if you could lose your salvation then this passage in the Bible wouldn't make any sense whatsoever
And so, you know, obviously Saul
Fell on his own sword and committed suicide probably one of the worst sins ever
But the Bible says that he's with the Lord right now
He's in heaven and anybody that's put their faith and trust in Christ. Jesus is eternally saved a
Lot of the strong principles a lot of the strong teachings of
salvation of the gospel in the Bible are in book of Psalms the book of Genesis the book of Exodus and so on and so
Truthfully the Bible does not teach a once saved always saved theology
It's not like a light switch one day you're lost one day you're one day you're saved people look at it like that
And it's not true at all
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Being saved is a process that is not completed until the end
At any time in your life, you could fall and lose out on everlasting life. I
Think it's this thing that we all learned in Christianity. At least those who came through Christianity is this idea of being saved
One of the main leaders of the Hebrew roots movement is a man by the name of Steve Burkson and
He did this 17 part series called are you saved and in his series?
He went on to say several times to his audience just within the first few minutes
That there's no assurance of salvation and that no one is saved
Now anybody that's read the Bible knows that the Bible clearly says that we have been saved
We are saved and
The Bible says nowhere that we are being saved, you know, but these guys say well, we're being saved
Well show me that in the Bible
They can't the reason is is because it's not there
In fact, the opposite is true
The Bible says in 1st Corinthians 1 18 for the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness
But in the us which are saved are saved. It is the power of God. So we are saved
It doesn't say that we are not saved or that nobody's saved the Bible clearly says that we are saved
in our King James Bible
We read many times as we are saved
I want to read to you 2nd Corinthians chapter 2 verse 15
It says for we are unto God a sweet Savior of Christ in them that are saved and in them that perish
For by grace are you saved Romans 8 says for you're saved by hope you are saved
You are saved by hope yeah, and so there's no question about it and Jesus said my sheep hear my voice
He says and I know them and they follow me
He says and I give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish
So when we're saved Jesus says we have eternal life and we shall never perish, you know
The woman that touched the hem of Christ's garment in the New Testament
She said hey if I can just but touch his garment the hem of his garment. I'll be healed. I'll be whole and
He looked at her when she touched the hem of his garment and he said daughter be of good cheer
Thy faith hath made be whole, you know, so with Steve Burkson, how could anybody say well be of good cheer
No one is saved be of good cheer. You've been made partially whole
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The Bible tells us that salvation is only by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ
Well, then therefore we are saved the moment we have that faith the moment
We believe and call upon the name of the Lord. Well, then we are saved at that moment
The Bible makes it very clear
John chapter number 3 verse number 36
It says he that believeth on the Sun
Hath everlasting life and he that believeth not the Sun shall not see life
But the wrath of God abideth on him and so it says that we have it you hath
Everlasting life meaning you have it right now
Jesus himself said John 5 24
Verily verily I say unto you he that heareth my word and believeth on him that sent me
Hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation
But is passed from death unto life
And so at that moment that we believe we are already passed from death unto life
Do I believe I have eternal life or it's something that I get later I can't give a yes or no answer to that I
Believe if I was to drop dead right now. Yes, I will be in the kingdom
But Yeshua will let me in
People like
Michael Rood or people like Steve Burkson, they they haven't understood what a promise means
They haven't understood what a promise means let alone a promise of God
Bible says he can't lie and so that's the assurance right there if God promised it which the Bible says in hope of eternal life
Which God they cannot lie promise before the world began
God has promised to us eternal life the Bible says and this life isn't his son
So if God has promised us eternal life, how sure can you be of that promise?
How certain are you of that? Are you going to think that God's a liar? He doesn't lie the Bible says
So to lose your salvation it involves all those things you reject the Lord Jesus Christ
you don't you don't endure unto the end you receive no chasting for your sin and
Lastly you're not keeping the commandments still applicable and we've only keep these commandments through the Lord Jesus Christ in perfection
We don't do that. Why should he why should he accept us?
Well, if they can't even get salvation right if the Hebrew roots movement cannot understand the gospel of Christ the very foundation
of our faith
Why would we trust them for anything else? Yeah, why would we trust them to tell us the name of the Savior?
Why do we trust them to?
Say what we should wear in church or how we should look in church or what we should do in church
They're not even saved the Spirit of Christ doesn't dwell in them
Another one of the strange doctrines of the Hebrew roots movement is this idea that circumcision has some part in salvation
But the Bible is very clear that salvation is by faith alone without the deeds of the law
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ
Even we have believed in Jesus Christ that we might be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law
For by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified
It takes a circumcised heart
Along with the flesh. No one will enter the kingdom unless they are circumcised of heart and of flesh
no one will enter the kingdom unless they are circumcised of heart and of flesh and
Certain men which came down from Judea taught the brethren and said
Except you be circumcised after the manner of Moses. You cannot be saved and
These certain men which came down teaching that Paul calls them in the book of Galatians
False brethren crept in unawares these people who came down notice
They're just certain men which came down from Judea that taught this garbage
He calls them false brethren in Galatians chapter 2 when he refers back to this
So basically the Apostle Paul
Would call Zach Bower a false brother crept in unawares
He's a wolf in sheep's clothing if he's teaching this garbage that you have to be circumcised to be saved
Even the casual reader of the New Testament knows that you don't have to be circumcised to be saved
In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands
In putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ
So
The Bible tells us here in the New Testament that we are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands
And so if we were to be circumcised with hands physically, then this verse wouldn't make any sense
Why do I believe once they'd always saved as a nonsensical doctrine? Well, there's a number of reasons for one thing
We should be moving on to other more important issues. I don't think it's easy to walk away from your salvation Matt. I
Think it's you know, it's got to be a very conscious conscious
Willful decision
one of the things that I noticed during an interview with one of the men in the Hebrew roots movement was this idea that
God would actually abort his children and this guy even said look God will do a
Spiritual abortion on somebody that doesn't remain in the Covenant
Nobody's completely born again in terms of us being finalized until the day that we die in Christ
we are conceived spiritually in Christ and we are developing as we grow in the Lord as we grow and we mature in
learning God's commandments and learning how to follow Christ and crucify the
Flesh with a lust thereof and God is for knowledge if he see this person is not gonna cut it
At that point whenever God chooses to he says I'm done
You are now aborted
We saw from God's Word that those of us who are saved are in the Covenant whether we like it or not
Because God said he will not break the Covenant
It's God who holds us in his hand and says I will not let my children go
He says I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. It's God that said those words
So it's man's wisdom that says that God will abort his children
It's the wisdom of God and the power of the cross that says once we're saved. We're always saved
God has every right to abort
Anybody who is conceived in Christ if they do not endure
Think of the the King Saul in the Old Testament he started off fine, but then he started to mess up
Brother David when I was first introduced to the Hebrew roots movement
One of the things that they had told me several times was that they believe in salvation by faith alone and that you can't work
Your way to heaven, but I remember one evening. I was sitting with some of my friends and one of them
He was an older man. He was probably about 60 years old and he looked at me and he looked at everybody
He says you know what? He says I know that we have said that
Keeping the Torah the commandments is not a part of salvation
He's like, I know we say that but who are we kidding
You don't hear any of them telling you that the gospel is salvation by faith alone and that it's not of works
And that it's just believing on Jesus Christ that saves you and that you can't lose your salvation
They teach that if you don't do the deeds if you don't do the works if you don't keep the commandments that you're gonna lose
your salvation
So
The text do say believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved
But what does it really mean to believe to really believe means to obey to really believe means to obey
One of the major doctrines that the Hebrew roots movement teaches is the idea that faith and works are actually the same thing
They say well if you have faith, that means that you have works because faith and works are the same thing
But the Bible says in Romans 4 5 but to him that worketh not bought believeth
So we see a distinction between belief and works
So you could say like faith is actually doing the work exactly
It's always funny how these work salvation teachers. They always want to try to change the definition of faith to somehow include works
Well that makes Ephesians 2 8 & 9 meaningless if he sits there and says for by grace
Are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift of God not of works
But sin he managed to boast you're saved by faith
Not of works, so how can faith and works be the same thing or how can faith include works when it says in Romans 4 5?
But to him that worketh not
But believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness
It's him that worketh not but believeth
He saved and they say well, you know, if you have faith it'll include works
Okay, let's back up him that worketh not
But believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness
The pad answer would be
Ephesians 2 8 that were saved by grace through faith
the question of then becomes what is faith and
That's where there's a bit of a divide between the Hebrew roots and Christianity I think is what establishes faith
So this doctrine of the Hebrew roots movement where they say works and faith they're the same thing works and faith
Your works are because of your faith or whatever cute way they want to package it
It's just completely foreign to Scripture believe foreign to the New Testament and in Romans 11 6 it says and if by grace
Then it is no more of works. Otherwise grace is no more grace
But if it be of works, then it is no more grace
Otherwise work is no more work
And so he puts it two separate opposite things its grace then it's not work if it's work
It's not grace. Do I think it's possible to be saved and do not do any works?
Not forever no, I think you eventually have to make a decision here and start being obedient or not
So no, I don't believe that
There was a man in the Hebrew roots movement who told me hey if you go out to reach people with the Torah
They'd never say with the gospel. They'd never say with Jesus
They say hey once you get seasoned enough in the Torah to go out and reach people with the Torah
Which has found no that idea is found nowhere in the Bible. He says once you become good enough to do this
He says make sure you use Jesus's name to reel them in first because if you say the name, Yeshua
That will that will cause them to doubt you that will they'll think that's weird use the name of Jesus just to get them in
And once we have them in we can slowly start telling them that his real name was changed and that his real name is Yeshua
And so that's the sign of a cult is when somebody can't be straightforward and honest and say well, I believe in Yeshua
They slowly introduce it by using Jesus's name
So instead of using Yeshua, let's say with somebody out in the street. You might use Jesus's name first
Always. Yeah always I will use the name Jesus unless I'm with a Hebrew roots fellowship
Then of course, I'll say Yeshua
But if I just use the name Yeshua or Yahweh or Yehovah or however, they pronounce it this week. It's important
But not as important as a drawing folks in so does that make sense
I mean, it's more like I would rather try to gain someone's
interest and
desire to meet Jesus
Than to push them away by using a name. They're not familiar with and if the name of Jesus really is Yeshua
Don't we believe that the Savior name has power? Why is it that we have to go to a door to?
Preach the Torah and we can't tell them the name of the Savior. We have to use in our opinions
Some counterfeit name in order to draw them in and then tell them the real name
Shows that there's no power in what they're preaching. It shows that it's not the true name of the Savior
And so I like to start there and then say oh and by the way
Did you know his Hebrew name was Yeshua and why that's important because Yeshua means God saves
for those of you that are in the Hebrew roots movement, one of the best ways to know you're in a cult is
when certain information or or certain beliefs are being withheld from you until you've gotten deeper into
the religion or deeper into the cult and the Hebrew roots movement is one of the best examples of
Withholding certain beliefs and withholding certain information until the perfect time when they can really deceive you.
I know you and I had already talked about this and I don't have any judgment towards you because this is all I knew my
whole life growing up
But I think that Jesus means hail Zeus. I refer to him as white Jesus now
There's no greater strategy for Satan than to attack the foundation of our faith, the name of Christ
And so if Satan knows that there's one name that we can call on to be saved
It's obvious that he would do everything in his power to attack that one name
Did you know that the name Jesus is less than 400 years old?
Where did this name come from and what was the original name of Jesus?
When you say that the name of Jesus is the wrong name
That's an attack on the Greek New Testament because that's where we get the name Jesus
We derive it from a Zeus in the Greek New Testament
And if you're gonna say that the Greek New Testament is wrong
Then all of Christianity just went out the window because Christianity is built on the foundation of our faith
Then all of Christianity just went out the window because Christianity is built on the foundation of the New Testament
So if you say well the New Testament wasn't written in Greek or the Greek New Testament that we have is wrong
We have no foundation
For 30 years of my life, for 30 years of my life I used to love quote unquote white Jesus
It's not really his name. We both know it's not his name
I don't think it's a proper translation and when you go back to the Greek being I-e-s-o-u-s
I-e-s-s was in reference to Helios or Osiris being Zeus
I don't think that we have a perfect translation left
It's just the way it is
I think that we have parts
The Greek New Testament is the foundation of Christianity
And if you don't believe that the Greek New Testament is authentic then you are left with nothing
All these scriptures in one way or another are kind of marred
But I'm thankful that we have something that we can dig through
If Satan can get us to doubt the Bible, the foundation of our faith, the word of God
Then he could get us to believe anything
And even right at the beginning when Satan deceived Eve in the garden
Satan looked at her and he says, Yea, hath God said? Can you really take him at his word?
And so that's what the people of the Hebrew Roots movement often have to go towards
They say, hey, we don't have a preserved word of God and so therefore it's all speculation
And yea, hath God said?
In my 40 years, 40 years of studying the scriptures
Now I've come to the conclusion that they're not perfect
I think that Mattathiahu was written in Hebrew
There's a lot of those letters or scrolls, Megillahs were written in Hebrew
Matthew was originally written in Hebrew
One of the main focuses of the Hebrew Roots movement is this idea that there's something special about the Hebrew language
And they even go so far as to say that the New Testament was originally written in Hebrew
The reality is there is no evidence to prove such an idea
22 of the New Testament books were written specifically to Greek people in Greek places
And so therefore we can conclude that they were writing in Greek and not Hebrew
Because those people that they were writing to were Greek speaking people
Every single book in the New Testament mentions the name of Jesus
If you look at the titles of the books, it isn't hard to figure out that they're primarily written to a Greek speaking audience
You've got the book of Romans, you've got 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians
Where are these places?
Well, obviously we know Rome is in Italy and had a heavy Greek influence
A great Greek speaking population there as well as Latin of course
Then you have Corinth, a city in Greece
You've got Thessalonica
All of these different places are in the Greek speaking world
Then you go to the book of Revelation
And who is it sent to? The 7 churches in Asia or Asia Minor, modern day Turkey
Greek speaking places
They're written to Greek speaking people
You've got the book of Luke written to Theophilus
You've got the book of Acts written to Theophilus
You've got Romans chapter 16
Where the Apostle Paul goes down through a list of his friends
And friend after friend after friend has a Greek name
Sosthenes, Silvanus, Timotheus, and there's Yeshua
It just makes no sense at all
How we can call all these Greek people by their name that actually lived in this area
And then there's just this one man that's called by his Hebrew name
And so it makes no sense if Jesus living amongst all these Greek speaking people
In the Roman Empire is to be called as Yeshua
You go to the book of 2 John, 3 John
You'll see John bringing up Greek speaking people as his fellow laborers
As his fellow church members
And so it's crystal clear in the New Testament
That it's being addressed to a Greek speaking audience
That's why we know that the New Testament was written in Greek
Aside from the fact that there are almost 6,000 manuscripts of it written in Greek
Zero manuscripts of it written in Hebrew
So if the New Testament was written in Greek
And consistently the name of the Savior is Esus
In German that's Jesus
In Spanish that's Jesus
In Greek it's Jesus
In English it's Jesus
It's not Yeshua
This book, the Greek New Testament, never says Yeshua one time
It never contains the tetragrammaton one time
It says Jesus
And it calls God the Lord
So it's clear that you'd have to do a lot of mental gymnastics
To believe that the New Testament was originally written in Hebrew
Brother Matt we have to understand how crucial this doctrine is
Because the Bible says neither is there salvation in any other
For there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved
So it's crucial to understand the name
If we have two names at risk right here
If we have the name of the Savior being put to test
By these demonic Hebrew roots movement teachers
If the name of the Savior being put to the test
Whereby we are saved
It's a very dangerous doctrine
So to say that the name of Jesus has only been around for 400 years
Isn't just an attack on the translations of the Bible
It's also an attack on the very foundation of the Bible
The actual Greek manuscripts
And that is the end game of this Hebrew roots movement
It's actually to get people into Judaism
It's to get people to reject Christianity
And go to Judaism
It's the gateway drug of Judaism
They want to get you to have doubt in the New Testament
Doubt the Greek New Testament
Doubt the name of Jesus
Doubt its authenticity
They want to get you all excited about the Hebrew
Because what they really want you reading is a Hebrew Old Testament
And that's all they want you to accept
They want you to reject the Lord Jesus Christ
That's what it comes down to
And the people that are behind this are Jews
They're crypto Jews
That are trying to get people away from Christianity
And into Judaism
In 2017, Jews for Judaism
An organization that focuses on Jewish outreach
Published an article about how the Hebrew roots movement
Is creating a plethora of new converts to Judaism
They have put their stamp of approval
On the Hebrew roots movement
And often advise Christians to become a part
Of the Torah observant community
The vast majority of people who are converting to Judaism
Or become Beninah
Come from the evangelical movement
That is messianic
Okay, we have to go to Jerusalem to learn more about Jews
And use Jewish lingo
And la la la, Yeshua HaMashiach
And all this stuff
And the similar organizations
Are responsible
In large measure
For the massive amount of conversion
To Judaism
Jewish rabbis have used the Hebrew roots
As an indoor
To get the masses to convert
And to deny Jesus as the Messiah
But the evangelicals are like learning Hebrew
Learning things about Judaism
And they're very curious and they're adopting things
They're adopting things that are not even biblical
That are rabbinic traditions
They adopted it flying all over the place
And this sparked a tremendous interest
Among these evangelicals in Judaism
And the masses and masses of conversions
Are from them
Even though the members of the Torah observant community
Insist that the feasts of old
Apply in the New Testament
The Bible clearly says
That the meats, drinks
Diverse washings
And the carnal ordinances
Were imposed on them
Until the time of reformation
This means that when Christ came
The shadow of the Passover
Was fulfilled
While most in the Hebrew roots movement
Realized that Jesus was the final sacrifice
Some of their members
Will still offer a lamb
On the Passover
To complete their observance
Of the feast
Of course
The New Testament speaks against this
And says that Jesus Christ
Was offered once for all
The Bible clearly states
That the dietary laws
Feasts and the Sabbath
Were fulfilled by Christ
And are no longer to be observed
As part of the new covenant
Even the Apostle Paul stated
That we are not to be judged
In meat or in drink
Or in respect of unholy day
Or of the new moon
Or of the Sabbath days
These things were a shadow of Christ
And with the priesthood being changed
There is made of necessity
A change also of the law
Why does the Holy Bible have to be 66 books now?
When obviously there was a book of Jasher
And obviously there was a book of Enoch
The book of Enoch is a ridiculous book
It hasn't been taken seriously
Throughout history
Because of the nonsense found therein
Such as giants that are 450 feet tall
It talks about giants being 300 cubits tall
When the Bible refers to giants
It gives their proportions
As being around 9 or 10 feet tall
When you have examples like Goliath
Or Og the king of Bashan
There is a big difference
Between a guy being 9 or 10 feet tall
And being 450 feet tall
I mean that is just ridiculous
You have the sons of God
And the daughters of men
Supposedly producing a child
That is going to grow to be 450 feet tall
That is straight out of the weekly world news
That is just crazy
That is going to be a C-section for sure
If you are reading the book of Enoch
Think to yourself
Why are you reading it?
Have you even read the entire Bible?
Why are you seeking out extra biblical literature?
It feels good to shake things that
I used to believe in
And now I know that they are not true
Especially the names were just a major part of that
Just a major part of that
We are built upon the foundations
Of the apostles and the prophets
Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone
So again going back to the foundation
Jesus is the chief cornerstone
He is the foundation of our faith and practice
In all matters of our life
Nowhere in the Bible does it say
Jesus is our Sabbath
And they say well
Well no Jesus is our Sabbath
And I have asked people on Facebook
Show me book chapter and verse where it says that
They won't show it to me because it is not there
The Hebrew roots movement will say well
If Jesus kept the Sabbath
Then I have got to keep the Sabbath too
But this passage will blow their minds
Look at John chapter 5 verse 15
This is a time when Jesus Christ
Healed somebody on the Sabbath day
The man departed
That is when Jesus Christ healed
And told the Jews that it was Jesus
Which made him whole
And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus
And sought to slay him
Because he had done these things on the Sabbath day
So Jesus did actually heal this guy on the Sabbath day
Did Jesus work on the Sabbath?
But Jesus answered them
My Father worketh hitherto and I work
I work
Now why did he say that?
Because of the fact
That the Sabbath pictures the fact
That Christ
Does all the work for salvation
And we just rest in the finished work of Christ
He does the work
And we rest in his finished work
That is why when Jesus Christ died on the cross
He was dead for three days and three nights
Guess what those three days were?
The first day he was dead
Was the 14th day of the month Abib
The Passover
Guess what happens on the Passover?
You're not supposed to do any work
The second day that Jesus was dead
Was the 15th day of the month Abib
Guess what that is?
The Feast of Unleavened Bread
And guess what?
You're not supposed to do any work on that day either
The third day that Jesus was dead
Was the Saturday or the regular Sabbath day
The seventh day
And guess what you're not supposed to do on the Sabbath?
The second day that Jesus was dead
You don't do any work
The second day that Jesus is dead
Don't do any work
Third day that Jesus is dead
Don't do any work
Why? Because Jesus' death and burial and resurrection
He did all the work
You just sit back and rest
As Christ saves you
Christ does it all
We don't work our way to heaven
We trust in and rest on
The finished work of Jesus Christ
Now look, if I would have been around in Jesus' day
And I started working on the Sabbath
That would be a sin, wouldn't it?
Because back in the Old Covenant
They were told, do not work on the Sabbath
So if you were in the Old Covenant
And you worked on the Sabbath
Wouldn't that be a sin?
But why was it not a sin for Jesus to work on the Sabbath?
Because Jesus
Is the Lord of the Sabbath
And guess what? He doesn't need to picture
Like, oh, well I'm supposed to rest
In someone else's work
He didn't rest for
You think he was resting in peace for those three days and three nights?
No, he was paying for our sins
He was dead for three days and three nights
And he rose again
With the keys of hell and of death
And he wasn't relaxing down there, friend
He was doing the work
That gets us to heaven
Jesus did the work to get us to heaven
We rest in the work
That's what the Sabbath represents
Resting in the finished work of Christ
And while the children of Israel
Were in the wilderness
They found a man that gathered sticks
Upon the Sabbath day
And they that found him gathering sticks
Brought him unto Moses and Aaron
And unto all the congregation
And the Lord said unto Moses
The man shall be surely put to death
All the congregation shall stone him
With stones without the camp
Now, some people might think
That seems a little bit harsh
The man was just picking up sticks
On the Sabbath day when he should have been resting
But did that really warrant the death penalty?
Well, you have to understand
What God was trying to teach
By instituting the Sabbath
To begin with
Think about this
He told the children of Israel
You must rest on the Sabbath day
The man who picked up sticks
The man who worked on the Sabbath day
He earned a physical death for himself
Just assure
As if you work for salvation
When you should be resting
On the finished work
Of Jesus Christ and what he accomplished
For you at Calvary
Then you'll earn a
Spiritual death
The Bible refers to it as the second death
Hell
And this is why the Bible tells us
In Hebrews chapter number 4
Starting in verse 9
There remaineth therefore a rest
To the people of God
For he that is entered into his rest
He also hath ceased from his own works
As God did from his
So the reason why the Sabbath day
Was instituted
In the first place
Is to teach a spiritual truth
The point is that if we work
Our way to heaven
When we're supposed to be resting in the finished work of Christ
We're not going to be saved
The Bible says the wages of sin is death
He was put to death because he was working
When he was supposed to be resting
And so that's a picture of salvation
When we put our trust in Christ
We cease from our own works
And we rest in the finished work
At Calvary
This is why the Bible tells us
In Colossians chapter number 2
Let no man therefore judge you
In meat or in drink
Or in respect of an holy day
Or of the new moon
Or of the Sabbath days
And then it says in verse 17
Which are a shadow of things to come
But the body is of Christ
The Sabbath day
Of the old covenant
Was a shadow of things to come
It was a shadow of the fact
That now in the New Testament
We rest for salvation
On the finished work of Jesus Christ
The Sabbath day has been done away with
Because Jesus already
Accomplished what he came
To this earth to do
At Calvary
He already died on the cross
Our work has been done
Our role now
What God expects from us
In response
Is to rest on that work
And the Bible says in Hebrews chapter 4
That if you rest
If you enter into that rest
That you've ceased from your own works
Jesus is the sacred name
Jesus is the name above all names
There's power in that name
You know, when you go to a school
You know, they outlaw the name of Jesus
You know, you can take that name in vain
But when it comes to
Using that name seriously
People get offended. The Bible says that
Jesus is a rock of offense
One of the main things that really upset me
I think was the attack against Christians
I would see
Again, I would see
Again, on social media, on Facebook
I would see just these horrendous
Sort of
You know, like memes
That are posted on Facebook
And most of them were very
Very anti-Christian
I could wear a T-shirt into school
That says, in college, that says
Yeshua right on it
Nobody would give a care. In fact, they would probably say
Hey, this guy's cool. He's a religious
Zealot of some sort
But the moment that you claim the name of Christ
The Bible says that you'll suffer persecution
And brother Dave, I remember
I remember
Being in a room of people
Back when I was in the Hebrew Roots movement
One by one, this group
Of people, my friends, started to
Deny Jesus Christ
They started out by denying his name
And then they went to denying him
Even existing
And I had begged my
Friends, I said, look, you guys don't want
To go down this route. You don't need to deny
Christ. You need Christ.
He's the Savior. He's the only source of salvation
But in that room
One by one, people just started
To deny Christ
And finally, it got to me
And it was my turn
And I just remember looking around and thinking
To myself, I can't do this
You know, I'm saved
The Bible says you're bought with a price
And I just said, I can't
I can't do it
And before I left
That day
You know, and obviously they asked me to leave
Because Jesus is offensive to them
And he still is
The main leader of their group looked at me
And said, Matt, you'll never amount to
Anything preaching in the name of
Jesus
And he said never to come back
You wouldn't amount to anything
By preaching the name of Jesus
Yet the name of Jesus still is
In the world two thousand years after
Right? You never amount
Up to anything
Yet the name of Jesus is what
Divided our two eras, right?
Before Christ, after Christ
As soon as I saw
The name Jesus being sort of
Slandered, if you like
That's when I really
Took a step back and I thought, no, I don't like
This. I don't like it
There's something about that name that is very
Precious to me
And that's the end game
Of the Hebrew Roots movement, is to get people
To deny the name of Jesus
Deny Jesus
Deny that he was the Messiah
And go so far as to say that he didn't even exist
So it's just a
Bob sled down
And people in the Hebrew Roots movement
Need to understand that a lot of it
Seems very friendly on the surface
A lot of people in the Hebrew Roots movement
A lot of the teachers, they put on a kippah
Or a yarmulke
And they put on tzitzit
And they try to make themselves look really nice
And really harmless to people
But a lot of times
The most harmless looking people can be the most dangerous
The Bible says
The natural man receiveth not the things of the
Spirit of God
And so whenever they keep the Passover
It's like the veil is still over their head
They can't understand that God
Gave the Passover to show them, hey
Jesus said I am the bread of life
He that cometh to me shall never hunger
And he that believeth on me
Shall never thirst
I think it's important for people
That are new to the Hebrew Roots movement
That they understand that they don't have
This attitude of, hey brother
I don't know what you're talking about
This is completely foreign to what I know
They're not like that
They haven't made me do anything like that
It's very important that they understand it's coming soon
That these cults
These secret religions
That they slowly feed you
With little by little, little by little
If you're asking questions
To your leaders
Your church leaders or whoever
And they seem to be skeptical about
Answering you
You have a
Textbook case of a cult in your hand
I would rather try to gain someone's
Interest
And desire to meet Jesus
Than to push them away
By using a name they're not familiar with
It's important
But not as important
As drawing folks in
For circumcision
Barely profiteth
Well see it profiteth
Well what's it profit
Look at what it says
If thou do what
If thou keep the law
Let me ask you a question
Who here has kept the whole law
So does it profit you
No it doesn't profit you
Unless you have kept the whole law
Guess what therefore every human being
On the face of the planet
For the circumcision
Barely profiteth if thou keep the law
But if thou be a breaker
Of the law
Thy circumcision is made what?
Uncircumcision
So if you are trusting in your circumcision
To save you
You're trusting in that
But then you break the law
Your circumcision is made uncircumcision
You know what the Bible is saying?
You're not saved
You're going to go to hell
And that's what the Hebrew roots movement teaches
Is that you have to be circumcised
In order to be saved
Look at what it goes on to say in this chapter
For he is not a Jew which is one outwardly
Neither is that circumcision
Which is outward in the flesh
But he is a Jew which is one inwardly
And circumcision
Is that of the heart in the spirit
And not in the letter whose praise
Is not of men but of whom?
But of God
Do you realize that if salvation were by
Circumcision you are literally
Not only trusting in yourself
But you're trusting in some man
To do it right
And you're trusting in that man to save you
If Satan can get us to doubt
The Bible then he knows
That he has the victory
That name is Jesus in English
It's Jesus in Spanish
It's Jesus in German
It's the same name of the same person
The Bible never says Yeshua in it
One time
So are these people using the Bible
As their authority?
Say well they're just going back to the original
No original Greek doesn't say
Yeshua either
So where are these people getting this?
These doctrines are not the doctrines of the Bible
These are the doctrines of men
My friend do not
Be deceived by just
Anything that you read on the internet
Or any video that you see on YouTube
That tries to tell you that
The Lord is not his name
His name is the Lord
His name is the Lord God
And our Savior is known as the Lord
Jesus Christ
In English Jesus
In Spanish Jesus
In Portuguese Jesus
Jesus is the name
By which we stand
Jesus Christ is our Savior
They'll say that we have
Not been saved
And basically what are they teaching?
They're teaching that salvation
Is a process
Now that would make sense if salvation were by works
It says
He that believeth on the Son
What's that word?
Half everlasting life
Now is that saying that you're going to get it
At some point in the future?
No when it says half
It means that you have it
Right now
It's not some process
We're not waiting to the end of our life
To receive everlasting life
If you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ
At that point you have it
You