HaYesod – Our Foundations

HaYesod – Our Foundations

  • We Believe that the Bible, consisting of both the Tanakh (Hebrew Scriptures) and the B’rit Hadasha (New Covenant) is a Jewish book given by God through Jewish writer, primarily about Jewish people, and that it presents God’s plan and standard for the whole world.  It is the only inspired (or God breathed), infallible, and authoritative Word of God. (2 Timothy 3:16-17).
  • We Believe in one God, as He has revealed Himself in the Scriptures.  ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One [echad]’ (Deut. 6:4).  With echad often implying a composite unity, we believe the triune nature of HaShem, which is alluded to in both the Tanakh and B’rit Hadasha, does not contradict His Oneness.  it is an eternal mystery, as hard to explain as is the very nature of HaShem.
  • We Believe that Messiah is spoken of in the Scriptures in terms that only belong to HaShem.  Yeshua is the Messiah, the Eternal One, in whom lives the embodiment of the fullness of all that God is.  He is the Word who became flesh and tabernacle among us, and whose glory we beheld, as of the uniquely begotten Son of God, full of grace and truth. (Mic. 5:1(2); Jn. 1:1-14; Col. 2:9).
  • We Believe the Ruach HaKodesh (the Holy Spirit) comforts, indwells, leads, teaches, disciplines, empowers, and equips all those He regenerates.
  • We Believe that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, and that our sins have separated us from our God. (Psa. 53:2f; Isa. 59:2; Rom. 3:12 & 23).
  • We Believe that Yeshua’s death and resurrection accomplished the atonement for all who would place their trust in Him as the Passover Lamb who takes away sin.  We become a new creation in Messiah, and are transferred from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God. (Isaiah 53; Eph. 2:8-9, Rom. 5 & 6).
  • We Believe salvation is by faith and trust through the grace of God alone, and not by human efforts.  We do not earn, merit, or maintain this eternal redemption by our own efforts. (Jeremiah 17:5-9, Eph. 2:8-10, Rom. 8:29-39).
  • We Believe it was God’s plan from the beginning to reconcile all nations to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob through Messiah. (Gen. 22:18; Isa. 49:6).
  • We Believe that all non-Jewish people who trust in Yeshua are grafted into the Jewish olive tree, and as joint heirs, are granted the privilege of following the Torah(God’s instruction), having it written upon their hearts through the New Covenant.  There is a spiritual unity and equality among all believers; ‘One new man’ in the Messiah Yeshua. (Jer. 31;33; Rom. 11;11-24; Eph. 2:11-22).
  • We Believe that as Jewish and non-Jewish people embrace Yeshua as the Messiah, and connect with the Jewish roots of their faith, that a spiritual dynamic takes place, resulting in the equivalent of spiritual ‘life from the dead.’ (Daniel 11:32b,12:3; Rom. 11:15).
  • We Believe in the continuity of God’s covenants with the Jewish People according to Jeremiah 31:35-36, 33:19-26 and parallel passages.  Part of the fulfillment of these covenants is the physical return of the people of Israel to the ‘Promised Land.’ (Deut. 30; Ez. 37; Luke 21:24).
  • We Believe there is no room for anti-Semitism within any community claiming to know, love and follow Yeshua (Jesus) the Messiah, and that God’s promise made to Abraham is still in effect today. (Gen. 12:3; 1 Jn. 4:20).
  • We Believe that the Torah< (along with the rest of Scripture) is a revelation of the righteousness of God, and the description of the lifestyle and standards of the redeemed community. (Duet. 309-16; Matt. 5:17-19, 2 Tim. 3:16-17).
  • We Believe Shabbat and the Festivals were established by God as an eternal covenant to deepen our understanding of Him and His appointed cycles with traditional and Messianic import. (Ex. 31:12-17; Le. 23; Zec. 14:16; Isa. 58:13).
  • We Believe in the Jewish concept of resurrection as revealed in the Scriptures and expressed weekly in such ancient prayers as the Amidah.  It is a resurrection to the final judgment of both the wicked and the righteous, administered by a loving and just God. (Dan. 12:2-3; Rom. 1:18; 1 Cor. 15; Rev. 20-21).
  • We Believe differently than the traditional Orthodox Jewish position, which expects two Messiahs (Messiah ben Yosef/Messiah ben David) to each come once.  We believe in one Messiah coming twice.  The first time was as the Suffering Servant.  The second time will be as the Davidic King who will return to reign over all the earth from Jerusalem. (Isa. 53; Zec. 14:9; Rev. 19-20).