Ron Hyre and Banner Kidd - Galatians Chapter One

This is the first segment of 5 You Tube segments on Chapter One of Galatians. Some of you have watched this and others haven't. Since there are several new people frequenting the blog I thought it would be good to post this again. You may watch the other segments at our YOU TUBE page or you may go to Messiah Fellowship Online and click the In Search of Manna tab and watch the full length videos where Ron and I cover the entire Book of Galatians. Thanks to Josh Brown for shooting, editing and producing these videos and Jon Bovee for mastering them for YOU TUBE. If you have questions send me an e-mail.

More Testimony about rejecting Christmas

BJ writes.....

"I am thanking and praising Yahweh for the people in our congregation and their testimonies after our study into this holi-don't season. One dear lady threw her tree out and returned everything she bought which added up to just over $1000. God is awesome!"

This is wonderful..... Looking for others....... post your testimony. Thanks, -Banner

Lina from Texas shares her experience during this pagan season...

In response to Robin's experience, Lina, from Texas writes,

"I too had a similar experience. At the church my family attends, they decorate their stage with a few large trees and lots of lights. Seeing the trees as I sang during worship, I couldn't help but think of the idolatry of it all. It reminded me of what some Catholic churches look like inside with all the gold and saints in the form of idol statues. It's very disturbing." ...........................anyone else??????

Testimony from a dear sister in Tennessee

My friend and sister in Yeshua, Robin Gould, who lives in the southeast part of the USA with her family, wrote this in response to one of my Facebook posts. I asked her if I could share it with you all. It is testimony to how one's eyes are opened when they simply begin to obey the commandments of Torah.  I've pasted it without any editing of any sort. I would love to hear from others who have similar testimonies. Bless you. By the way, if you haven't already joined the Torah Perspective Facebook page, I'd be honored if you did. And please continue to spread the word that we might reach more people with the Torah Truth - the REAL GOSPEL!

"Seeing christmas through new, biblical eyes was very disturbing. Watching the gifts being placed on what seriously was the alter of what was an asheri tree to worship an idol and trying to say we should keep Christ in such a thing was disgusting. Watching the pictures of the holiday table with a big fat ham on it...purely evil and bizarre. Watching... the materialism ensue, the greed, the guilt, the robotic following of it...really strange. Knowing that the tree with it's ball ornaments is a symbol of a phallus and the wreath of a birth canal worshipping fertility...I wasn't even TEMPTED to partake.Everything screamed SATAN and I can hardly believe I never knew any of that. There is biblical Christianity and pagan Christianity. I know which side I stand on. My husband and I have started a new "tradition." On December 24th/25th we will take that opportunity to "celebrate" a day we are calling NoNoel. In this "tradition" we will teach others, and remind ourselves the IMPORTANCE of avoiding pagan rituals and the importance of being set apart and holy...not doing things which imitate pagan worship. On this day we will fellowship with friends in thankful prayer that we are enlightened to the truth of what YHWH HATES so we will not displease Him. We will be set apart INTENTIONALLY to combat this issue. We also have the tradition of increasing our prayer on halloween AGAINST it....so this will be similar. On this day we will denounce all pagan rituals and make it a point to make our seperate ways known and be teaching at the same time."

How Long?

The words of Yeshua through Elijah ring loud and clear today as we enter into the height of this pagan season. I believe that the same message is for the professing church today. I know many who recognize the paganism that is Christmas but continue to live the lie that opposes and replaces the Truth of the LORD contained in HIS Word. It is syncretism.

Syncretism is the co-mingling of pagan ritual and practice with the Elohim ordained worship to the Creator and it is forbidden in Scripture. Yet somehow man seems to believe he has been given the authority to worship the Almighty in opposition to HIS commands. Do you have faith?

Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of the LORD. Faith is believing what HE said and was written down by Moses and the other true prophets of Elohim. Believing is doing. We do what we believe. We are told explicitly in Scripture that we cannot serve the world and Elohim at the same time. We can't have one foot in the world and one foot in the kingdom. We are either gathering with HIM or we are scattering. The Word that Paul references in telling us where faith comes from is Torah and the Prophets. The writings of the New Testament did not exist then.

Specifically, the Word of God - Elohim is the first five books of the Bible. The Prophets came preaching repentance to Torah, the Word of the LORD. Yeshua came to set man straight about their additions and subtractions to Torah - syncretism. Paul preached a return to the pure Torah and a rejection of the Jewish law of additions and subtractions - Judaism. The Torah - Instruction of the LORD is not doubtful. The Word of the LORD is sure and trustworthy because HE said it and it is who HE is. AND HE does not change. But man adds to HIS Word and takes away from HIS Word, opposing it and replacing it with HIS own ways. That's why we see the reference to "their feasts" and "the feast of the Jews." This is contrasted with HIS Feasts the way HE gave them in Leviticus 23. HIS Feasts are pure, holy, spiritual, and a delight. Man's contrivances are bondage. When we add man's contrived, Satanically inspired holidays in with and in replacement of HIS Feasts we enter into bondage.

Yeshua - Jesus came to set us free from that bondage. HE did not come to set us free from HIS Word, yet that is what most believe. Sad to say some, even pastors, believe that Yeshua broke the Torah commandments! They must not realize that if HE did HE could not be the Messiah! See Deuteronomy 13. HE did not add to or take away from HIS Word that HE spoke from the beginning. HE came to remind us of what HE said and it is in contrast to what man says. Matthew Five, Yeshua says, "You've heard it said, but I say to you...." HE's saying that today to those who truly want to hear HIS Voice instead of the voice of men. Will you hear HIS Voice?

Remember Paul said to Timothy.

<< 2 Timothy 3 >> New American Standard Bible ©

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“Difficult Times Will Come”1 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these. 6 For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith. 9 But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also.
10 Now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance, 11 persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord rescued me! 12 Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. 13 But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.14 You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them, 15 and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; 17 so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.

All Scripture; the sacred writings that Timothy knew from childhood was Torah and the Prophets, including Psalms and what we call the history books. In essence it is what we call the Old Testament, however the thought of it being old is detestable to me, and I believe to Yahweh, because there's nothing about HIS Word that is old, as in outdated. However, as Jeremiah was inspired to write, it is the "ancient path" that we are to seek out. Notice the benefit derived from this belief and practice of "All Scripture." It equips the people of Elohim, who have faith in Yeshua, the Living Word - Torah. But adding to what HE said perverts it and places man in bondage. That's why HE tells us to "come out of her (Babylon) MY people!" HE is going to judge Babylon and those who are living in her. We live in her when we practice her lawlessness along with a little bit of Yahweh's Word. This is syncretism - co-mingling pagan practices with Yahweh's loving Instruction. We bounce back and forth and believe we can live in the two realms. HE says we can't. 

Now notice what Elijah says - 

 "The words of Elijah are appropriate today and tomorrow. I pray you will consider them, "Elijah came near to all the people and said, "How long will you hesitate between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him." But the people did not answer him a word." New American Standard Bible (©1995)

How long? Will you continue to drown out the Voice of your Creator who is calling to you with urgency to repent and to make up your mind to wholly follow HIM? Or will you choose to shut out the voice of those around you who say that this loving God will not judge you for disobedience. After all you are HIS child and HE will never bring judgement upon you. I must remind you that is what the false prophets were telling Israel and Judah at the same time Jeremiah was telling them to repent and that judgment is coming. Judgment is coming! The true children will hear HIS Voice. I pray it is you and me. 

Visit Messiah Fellowship Online for further information to help in your study. The videos and audio programs, along with the written articles are free to view and hear. They are intended to prompt your own study and intimate relationship with the God of the Bible, not to replace that. We don't want you to follow us, only in that we want to follow HIM. In that regard, YES, follow us. But follow us as we follow HIM. You must hear HIS Voice. Blessings and peace to you, in Yeshua our Messiah.

Protestants Reject Christmas

It's sad to note, but the majority of people, and especially professing Christians, are ignorant of history. After generations of building traditions on top of lies the Truth is so obscured that it is difficult to see clearly. The emotional hold that traditions like Christmas and Easter is powerful. But there are some who are truly interested in the Truth. They're the true children of the Almighty who believe HIS Word. When these hear and see the lie for what it is, and embrace the Truth of HIS Word they will come out of the lie and walk in the blessing of Torah. Please let this video by Richard Rives be that beginning for you to seek HIS Truth, maybe for the first time.

If you love HIM, you will be willing to die to yourself and lay down your own emotional attachment to man made, satanically inspired holidays like Christmas, and begin to obey Torah. You will do that because you truly love HIM more than yourself and those around you. He, or she, who is not willing to leave mother, father, etc, for HIS sake is not worthy of HIS kingdom. That's what HE said. Do you love HIM. Please watch this video and ask yourself that question. May this be the year you will take the stand for the Truth and never be the same again.

Peace,
Banner

Messiah Fellowship - In Search of Manna

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You will learn more about what we believe and will be able to download some archived audio teachings from Pastor Ron Hyre, along with the opportunity to view some videos that Ron, Josh Brown, and I have done in the last couple of years.'

Visit our home page to get an overview and to begin browsing the site, and then visit the In Search of Manna page to access the audio and video offerings. There is no charge for viewing or downloading the programs. However we welcome any gifts you might be led to give. We use the money for new equipment and for maintenance on the equipment we already have. We don't obtain any personal income from these teachings.

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May Abba make HIS face to shine upon you and give you HIS peace as you follow HIM according to HIS Word. -Banner

Charles Spurgeon Denounced Christmas!

Most people beleive that those of us at Messiah Fellowship are coming up with a new "heretical" doctrine when we declare that Christmas is a pagan feast with nothing to do with the birth of the Messiah, and in fact is something that God forbids in HIS Word. But what we proclaim is not new. It has been testified to throughout time. The early church didn't practice it. It was outlawed in American for a long time because of its pagan origins and totally perverted practices. Charles Spurgeon, the beloved, so-called church father, had the following to say about Christmas:

"We have no superstitious regard for times and seasons. Certainly we do not believe in the present ecclesiastical arrangement called Christmas: first, because we do not believe in the mass at all, but abhor it, whether it be said or sung in Latin or in English; and, secondly, because we find no Scriptural warrant whatever for observing any day as the birthday of the Savior; and, consequently, its observance is a superstition, because not of divine authority. (Charles Spurgeon, Sermon on Dec. 24, 1871)."

Far from being alone in this belief, please see that one most of you say is a giant in the church said the same thing! Don't you think it's time to really find out what the Word of the LORD says? Is there no fear of the LORD in the professing church today? This holiday, as with much of the practices of the holidays and rituals of the professing church are rooted in Babylonian and Egyptian paganism going all the way back to Nimrod, practiced along with Torah by Judaism, incorporated into the Roman Catholic Church, and handed down to the Protestant/Evangelical expression of church today! The cloud of confusion is thick, but it is removed when you look to Jesus - Yeshua for who HE really is, according the the Truth of HIS Word, all of it, and not according to men's commandments and doctrines. Paul said this in 2nd Corinthians 3, concerning the veil covering the eyes of the people whenever the "Old Testament" is read. Without turning to the LIVING TORAH, Yeshua, recognizing that HE is the embodiment of Torah and the Prophets, you are veiled from understanding the Truth of Torah. If you look through pagan filtered eyes, looking to a messiah that did away with the very substantiation for HIMSELF and HIS plan of redemption, you will never see the Truth and will remain in bondage. Jesus said, "You shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall set you free." HE said, in prayer to the Father, concerning us, "Sanctify them by YOUR Truth, Father. YOUR Word is Truth." The Word of the Father, spoken through HIS Son to the prophets, including Moses (1st Peter 1) remains the standard by which we know that the Messiah we profess as Savior is indeed the ONE who came from the Father, and by the same standard we know what is acceptable to HIM. Don't you want to know?

Shabbat Shalom - Sabbath Peace

It's nearly 10:30PM this evening and it's Sabbath in our home in Stroh, IN. I just wanted to briefly encourage all my brothers and sisters during this time of year that is so vexing for those of us who have come to the understanding that the pagan holidays are not pleasing to our Creator. I know it's difficult. Many in our families think we're crazy. Some even blame us for destroying the family... especially the traditional holiday gathering. But I want to encourage you to continue to stand up for the Truth of HIS Word, unwilling to compromise. But remember that people are not the enemy. We war against powers and principalities, not human beings.

And remember that none of us has the power to save. Only Yeshua does, and HE can only do that when one decides to turn to HIM. It is when they turn to HIM for who HE really is, according to Torah, that Torah is opened up to them, according to Paul as he wrote in 2nd Corinthians 3. When we live the Truth and aren't afraid to give an answer for the hope that lies within (the faith - Torah given once for all) we are witnesses for HIM. Don't grow weary in doing good for in due season, Paul writes, we will reap. Yahweh is a rewarder of those who diligently seek HIM.

I was blessed by a conversation that I had with an old friend today. I believe the LORD is speaking to HIM about Torah and the necessity of coming out of empty tradition that deceives and conceals the Truth that sets one free. I believe that Abba is speaking and there are some who are beginning to hear HIS Voice above the din of man's incessant babbling. May HE silence the voice of men and cause the cloud of confusion to be lifted long enough that those who are truly seeking HIS Truth will hear HIS Voice and choose.

In recent conversations I see that the bondage of lawlessness holds people in the lawless traditions of men, afraid to come out because of the fear of man. May it not be so. Father, expose the lawless traditions and expose the men who propagate them. And, Father, may those who hear YOUR Voice, Your children come out of these abominable, dark practices into the glorious light of YOUR Torah. May they understand that YOUR yoke is easy and YOUR burden is Light. Torah, as Paul and David said, is a delight, is pure, holy, and just. It is Spiritual and is able to save one's soul and good for reproof, correction, doctrine, and to make one complete for every good work.

Good works are a result of grace through faith. Paul and James agree that works proves faith. For we are HIS workmanship, created in Messiah Yeshua for good works, that HE prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Loving Messiah and wanting to obey HIS commandments is not bondage and will not cause one to fall from grace. Loving Messiah and wanting to obey HIS commandments is because of grace! Grace is the dunamis power of the Almighty given to those who are raised into newness of life, just as Yeshua was raised from the dead by the Father.

So do not get so weary that you throw up your hands and give up. Rest in HIS Sabbath rest, understanding that it is by HIS grace that we are used by HIM in this good work. Allow HIM to speak to you and strengthen you, and allow your brothers and sisters to be used by HIM to build you up and you allow HIM to use you likewise.

Shabbat Shalom my wonderful family all over the world. HE knows our name, HE is our Father, our Brother, our Bridegroom, our all in all. May HE be honored and lifted up because HE is worthy of our praise. Bless HIS Name!!!!!