Saving Grace

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

GOD has predestined every believer to be conformed to the likeness of His Son, YESHUA! The process begins at salvation and continues until we join Him in Heaven! 

The apostle Paul is a good example of the LORD’S power to transform an unrighteous man into an image-bearer of YESHUA!

Paul was deeply religious before his conversion. When he met the LORD on the road to Damascus, the future apostle learned that all his religious zeal meant nothing. The only way for people to be acceptable before our heavenly FATHER is to receive the saving grace of MESSIAH—He replaces our sin nature with a righteous spirit!

Romans 8:30
And having chosen them He called them to come to Him. And having called them, He gave them right standing with Himself, and having given them right standing, He gave them His glory.

Paul was welcomed into the Kingdom in spite of his hostility toward the BODY OF BELIEVERS (promoting blasphemy and punishing believers). No one is beyond the LORD’S capacity to forgive! His grace is sufficient! Let’s praise our loving GOD for His amazing grace!

 

Love & Blessings,

Pastor Bruce and Suzi Elman

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation

Lake Worth, Florida

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Emotion of Loneliness

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

GOD’S desire is that all people feel connected to Him and to each other. 

When we feel the emotion of loneliness, we can be quickly comforted by responding wisely! 

The first step is to enter into a personal relationship with YESHUA; believing He exists is not enough! 

GOD created man for fellowship, which is why a relationship with Him will give you a sense of oneness! The love of YESHUA will take the loneliness out of the lives of GOD’S children (believers). 

Next step, we ought to develop godly friends, who will empathize and cry with us when we are going through trials! Godly friends will continually point us to YESHUA and also pray with us and pray for us! 

YESHUA is speaking in the following Scripture:
John 14:18
No, I will not abandon you as orphans—I will come to you.

We can’t deny feelings of loneliness, nor can we run from them! When we seek ways to escape these feelings, we widen the gap between the LORD and ourselves. There is one way to close that opening and conquer loneliness. It is by drawing near to YESHUA!

 

Love & Blessings,

Pastor Bruce and Suzi Elman

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation

Lake Worth, Florida

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Ambassadors for Yeshua

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

YESHUA says that there is one way people will know whether we belong to Him or not, and that is our love for one another. Love is the distinguishing sign of a MESSIAH FOLLOWER. It’s what sets us apart from the rest of the world. The world is looking for something to believe in, something real, something tangible! They are looking for love, and GOD is love (1 John 4:8). 

We, as believers in Yeshua, need to show our love, not by our faith-based jewelry that we might be wearing or the bumper stickers on our cars, but by walking in GOD’S love, demonstrating that love to others who are in need!

People are hungry for GOD, and GOD needs us to be His ambassadors, representing Him in every way, starting with His characteristic, which is love!

John 13:35
By this all will know that you are My disciples; if you have love for one another.

As we go out into the world, let’s be an ambassador for MESSIAH YESHUA and express His love to everyone we meet. Remember the world doesn’t care about what we know; the world wants to know that we care! Love says it all!

 

Love & Blessings,

Pastor Bruce and Suzi Elman

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation

Lake Worth, Florida

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Day of Reckoning

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

Every person without exception will one day stand before GOD and give an account of their life! I encourage you today not to live like there is no tomorrow; tomorrow always comes!

Yeshua will come for us (believers) when we least expect it, and then it will be too late to do all the things we intended to do but never got around to it. One of the spiritual laws we see throughout the Bible is that we always reap what we sow. 

Everything that is now done behind closed doors will one day be brought out in the open! We should be sure that we realize nothing is really eternally hidden!

Revelation 22:12
And behold, I am coming quickly and My reward is with Me, to give to everyone according to his work.

Our salvation is a free gift from GOD. It is given by His amazing grace through MESSIAH and is to be received by faith. We do not get into Heaven because of our good works, but as Revelation 22:12 teaches us. even so our works will be judged and rewarded according to what we have merited.

That “day of reckoning” will one day be upon us.

LET’S BE READY!

 

Love & Blessings,

Pastor Bruce and Suzi Elman

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation

Lake Worth, Florida

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No Idols, Please

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

We were created to love the LORD and be loved by Him. Anything that competes for our devotion simply doesn’t fit our life’s purpose! 

We need to keep in our spirit that the most important mission of our life here on this earth is to love our GOD with all our heart, soul, strength and mind!

Without complete devotion to Him, we would pursue our own interests and neglect godly principles and godly goals. 

No idol, whether it is an individual, dream or an item is not worthy of our worship! GOD hates idols of every kind because He knows anything that draws our attention away from Him is dangerous. It is a sure way to stumble in this life and end up ensnared in sin and lose our blessings!

Matthew 22:37
YESHUA said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind.”

We serve a holy and just GOD, whose deep love for mankind moved Him to send His only begotten Son, YESHUA, to die in our place! He deserves and demands our total loyalty and surrender!

 

Love & Blessings,

Pastor Bruce and Suzi Elman

L’Chaim Messianic Congregation

Lake Worth, Florida

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