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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The Shulchan Adonai

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

The night before YESHUA’S crucifixion, He gathered together His disciples to eat a final meal and to be strengthened in fellowship before facing all the agony that was ahead! This meal was a Passover Seder (meaning “order”).  

Previously, the Feast’s symbols had only pointed back to the Hebrews’ redemption from Egypt. But that night, YESHUA revealed the Messianic significance of the symbols of bread and wine; His broken body and shed blood! 

YESHUA was to become our Passover. As a remembrance of what YESHUA did on the (ROMAN TORTURE STAKE); we partake in “THE SHULCHAN ADONAI” as a reminder of the blood covenant that we have with GOD. 

YESHUA  is truly our Passover Lamb!

1 Corinthians 5:7
Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

Mark 14:22-24
And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.”

Then He took the cup, and when He had given thanks He gave it to them, and they all drank from it. And He said to them, “This is My blood of the ]new covenant, which is shed for many.

Next time we partake in the Shulchan Adonai (Communion), make it a fresh dedication of our lives to the LORD, worshipping Him for being our Savior!

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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