Dead Wrong

L'Chaim Messianic Congregation, Lake Worth Florida, Palm Beaches

Do the sins of your past make you feel like trash? Do you ever think that your sins are too gross or too frequent for GOD to forgive? Do you think GOD is mad at you? If your answer to all this is true—you are dead wrong!

Your sins (past, present, and future ) were all atoned for on Calvary! 

YESHUA said, “It is finished”! You were purchased by the Blood of the Lamb. Once you accept His sacrifice as atonement for your sins and ask YESHUA into your heart, the Holy Spirit comes and makes his home in you! You are now the temple of GOD (His house, His family, and His child). You are GOD’S home, His dwelling place. 

When we do fall short (sin), simply repent and ask for forgiveness and then meditate on His perfect love for you and know that it’s a personal and permanent love and it keeps no records of wrongs! 

When GOD looks at you, He doesn’t see your sin; He sees His Son!

John 14:23
Yeshua answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our dwelling with him.

Remember GOD is not making His mind up about you. He has already decided you’re a keeper!

Blessings,

Pastor Bruce & Suzi Elman

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation

Our new location:

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation meets at:
OASIS CHURCH
16401 SOUTHERN BLVD
WELLINGTON FL 33470

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Amazing Love

L'Chaim Messianic Congregation, Lake Worth Florida, Palm Beaches

Being loved is a longing in every human being! Today, let’s take a look at what the Word of GOD has to say on love (loving GOD, loving others, and loving ourselves). 

Mark 12:29-31
Jesus answered him, “The ]first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

First, we need to know that love is not just something that our heavenly FATHER does, but love is who He is.

1 John 4:8
 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

See, long before we were ever born, GOD loved us. His love is eternal! GOD’S love for us is incomprehensible; it has no beginning and no end and is beyond anything we can imagine! 

Therefore, no matter where we have been through or what we have done in the past, His love toward us remains consistent, committed, and unrestrained!

Romans 5:8
But GOD demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners MESSIAH  died for us.

Yes, GOD’S love is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He does not wait for our lives to straighten out before He loves us! 

He proved His love even when we were lost in our sin. (Read John 3:16)

His love is beyond words—-AMAZING LOVE!

Blessings,

Pastor Bruce & Suzi Elman

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation

Our new location:

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation meets at:
OASIS CHURCH
16401 SOUTHERN BLVD
WELLINGTON FL 33470

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Pressing Forward

L'Chaim Messianic Congregation, Lake Worth Florida, Palm Beaches

We have an enemy, his name is Satan, and he hates us because we are GOD’S children created in GOD’S image to have fellowship with Him! Satan wants us to always be looking at how far we have fallen, rather than how far we have come! Remember he is a liar and there is no truth in him; he is the father of lies (Ref. John 8:44)! He always wants our focus to be on our past instead of our future and on how far we still have to go, rather than how far we have come! 

He wants our minds filled with how many times we fail instead of how many times we have succeeded! 

But our heavenly FATHER wants us to focus on our strengths and not our weaknesses, our victories and not our losses, our blessings and not our problems! 

Philippians 3:13-14

“Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of GOD in MESSIAH YESHUA.”

Let’s keep our eyes focused on YESHUA! And don’t ever believe the lies of our enemy (Satan).

Blessings,

Pastor Bruce & Suzi Elman

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation

Our new location:

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation meets at:
OASIS CHURCH
16401 SOUTHERN BLVD
WELLINGTON FL 33470

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The Spirit of Truth

L'Chaim Messianic Congregation, Lake Worth Florida, Palm Beaches

Right before YESHUA ascended into Heaven after His resurrection, He told His disciples He was going to send them the Holy Spirit, also known as the Spirit of Truth. The Holy Spirit is the Third Person of the Godhead and dwells in the heart of every believer. He is our comforter, counselor, helper, guide, teacher, and advocate! 

He is the one that convicts us of sin. The ministry of the Holy Spirit is to lead us into all truth. Every time we get off track or go in a wrong direction, it is He who convicts us and brings us back to that place of true right standing with GOD! If we listen to His still small voice, we will live the abundant life GOD intended for us to have!

John 16:13
“However, when He, the Spirit of Truth has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak and He will tell you things to come.”

The Holy Spirit is our guide to the truth of GOD’S Word, and it is always the truth of GOD’S Word that will set us free!

Blessings,

Pastor Bruce & Suzi Elman

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation

Our new location:

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation meets at:
OASIS CHURCH
16401 SOUTHERN BLVD
WELLINGTON FL 33470

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CALL OF THE CROSS

L'Chaim Messianic Congregation, Lake Worth Florida, Palm Beaches

RESURRECTION DAY is a time when we come face to face with the reality of the torture stake aka the cross!! Look at the One dying there; He never sinned yet He is on the cross to bear the penalty of the sins of the world!

The cross is an ugly scene; it shows us how terrible sin really is and what a horrible price had to be paid to set us free! If you are a born-again believer, coming one more time to the cross should fill your heart with gratitude for everything that YESHUA did for you! And if you are not born-again, won’t you trust YESHUA today as your Savior and make Him Lord of your life?

Your sins are real, which are separating you from ABBA THE FATHER. 

Ask YESHUA  to come into your heart to be your personal Savior! He had you on His mind when He was on that cross. Trust Him now, and your life will never be the same!

John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

The forgiveness of sins and acceptance by a Holy GOD can be found only at the cross of MESSIAH YESHUA!!

Blessings,

Pastor Bruce & Suzi Elman

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation

Our new location:

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation meets at:
OASIS CHURCH
16401 SOUTHERN BLVD
WELLINGTON FL 33470

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