In the class, Ross re-visits the subject of Holiness. For the second week in a row, Ross teaches from what scholars refer to as the “Holiness Code”. He covers his experiences from the previous week and shares how living his normal life taught him a deeper understanding of what it means to be holy. You will learn of a special passage known as “Israel’s Bible in the little”, and much more in this class. You will not want to miss it.

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In this week’s class, Ross teaches on the subject of Biblical Holiness. Covering material from two Torah Readings Acharey Mot and Kedoshim (Leviticus 16 through 20), Ross makes the point that true holiness is something that is achievable here and now…on earth. Not only is holiness something that can be achieved on earth, it is a demand placed upon man by Yehovah. A key part of realizing holiness on earth is understanding and applying the principles laid out in this section of God’s Torah. Among other things, we need to learn to love ourself, love our neighbor, love the stranger and then and only then, love Yehovah our God with all our heart and soul.

Once we learn to love, we are able to express holiness in our world. You will not want to miss this class.

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In this week’s class Ross explores the connection between Holy Living and a Biblical Diet. Does God care what we eat? Is the Kingdom of God really about food and drink? Should Christians eat whatever is placed before them? Have the dietary laws been done away with?

Where did the diet first get questioned and who was it that questioned God’s dietary rules? You will not want to miss this class.

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In today’s class, Ross explores the subject that millions are talking about this weekend. The subject material is the Hebrew idea of life after death – the Resurrection of the dead! Ross seeks to set forth a Biblical and prophetic view of the coming resurrection. He works through Moses and the prophets to present a view that is based solely on Scripture. He shows that this view is shared throughout the texts of the Hebrew and was the view of Jesus, Paul and Maimonides. You will not want to miss this class. It is one of the few truly biblical classes on “resurrection” that one can hear this weekend.

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This week, Ross teaches on the subject of Redemption. The class was delivered from the historic Temple Sinai Synagogue in Saint Francisville, Louisiana on a very special Sabbath known as Shabbat HaGadol (the Big Sabbath). This is the Sabbath that precedes Passover. The Torah commands that we tell the story of the Redemption of Israel from Egypt and so this is what Ross teaches on, but he does so from a unique perspective. The class challenges the listener with a question – How big is your God? You will not want to miss this teaching during the Season of Redemption.

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The Korban Pesach Challenge

Our annual reading of Leviticus, which deals extensively with animal offerings, coincides with the arrival of Passover, whose main cataclysmic event is the korban Pesach – Pascal offering. What is G-d revealing to us about our own inner nature? Part II of a two-part Passover festival double-feature!

For those that don’t get/understand/accept the Torah commandments regarding drawing close, this is presented to help clarify the commandments and Torah.

Dedication: This show is dedicated in honor of James Elliot Brown & Tessie L.

This topic is so controversial and so relevant to those seeking Torah, special permission has been granted to post these shows on ARBA4.

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In 1995 I was given a copy of an interesting article written by Mark Allan Powell of Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus Ohio. This article, (Do and Keep What Moses Says) was published in the prestigious Journal of Biblical Literature [JBL 114/3 (1995) 419-435]. It proposed an alternate interpretation of Matthew 23:2-3.

By the fall of 1996, I had almost forgotten about Mark Powell’s article, and perhaps would have never looked at it again if I had not studied the Hebrew Matthew contained in the polemical treatise of a Spanish Jew named Shem Tob ben Isaac ben Shaprut. This treatise was composed in 1380 and had become the latest work of New Testament scholar George Howard of the University of Georgia. In 1987, Dr. Howard had published this Hebrew Matthew text in The Gospel of Matthew According to a Primitive Hebrew Text, Mercer University Press. Eight years later, Dr. Howard revised and re-published this text under the title,
Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, Mercer University Press. This later edition is the one that I had obtained, and the one that led me to discover a variant text that could shed some light on the subject at hand.

I wrote an article on this particular reading and submitted it to the presiding editor over the Journal of Biblical Literature at the time. At the time I was told that the article was “Not really suitable for publication in JBL.” The editor wished me well and said that she hoped that my rejection did not diminish my interest in the Journal of Biblical Literature. It certainly did not. This journal is a very fine publication, and frankly my article was not as “academic” as the term is strictly defined. I posted the article on the web and it was discovered by Nehemia Gordon, who was doing research on this subject for a book that he was writing. The article was referenced in a couple of footnotes in his work – The Hebrew Yeshua Vs the Greek Jesus, Hilkiah Press 2005.

This article was recently accepted by and published on the prestigious website, The Bible&Interpretation.

This single text is becoming more relevant in our day as a result of a growing number of Christians are being “drawn” to the Jewish/Hebraic roots of the Faith. Check it out here.

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This week, Ross begins the study of the Biblical book of Leviticus. Ross teaches on the subject of sacrifice and offerings. What does God really desire? What can we learn from the book of Leviticus about what God really wants from us. You will not want to miss this class. The photo on this post is from the website www.freedigitalphotos.net.

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In this class, Glenn Chatterton teaches from the final two Torah Readings of the book of Exodus. You will not want to miss this latest teaching from the congregation of Roots of Faith in Saint Francisville, Louisiana.

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In this class, Glenn Chatterton of Roots of Faith teaches on the subject of idolatry from the context of Torah Reading Ki Thissa. This section of texts deals among other things with the story of the Golden Calf. Glenn explores this subject and challenges the listeners to examine their own walk in an attempt to root out any traces of idolatry that may be buried deep within.

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