God's Promises I want to pause this evening and share what I believe God is saying to us as a congregation and to qualify where we are going. We are a Messianic Synagogue or "Shul" in Yiddish where Jews and Gentiles worship together as one through Yeshua, our Messiah. This fact immediately makes us unique and different than any other contemporary, mainstream congregation, church, or traditional synagogue with most churches being for the most part exclusively gentile and most traditional synagogues being for the most exclusively Jewish. I met a nationally well known Pastor in Texas last year who asked me what I did and I shared that I was a Messianic Rabbi of a Messianic Congregation in Virginia at which he replied that he was a Pastor of a Gentile church in Texas. That just caught me a strange, what scripture is that: Go ye into the world and make Gentile Churches.....................anyway, we are unique, unfortunately, as everyone who professes the name of Yeshua should be in line with God's word, Eschatology, and commands in obeying His appointed times and Moedim, the feast days. Even what is done today in Traditional Synagogues was unknown 2,000 years ago in Temple times. There were no siddurs and cantoring- it didn't exist until after the destruction of the temple. What I'm saying is that we shouldn't be so unique, as we worship in the same style and format as Yeshua did 2,000 so why doesn't everyone else? That is complicated and I spend a lot of time addressing that issue but tonight, I want to focus on where God is taking us. As a congregation we enjoy the liberties and blessings of God's promises, both Jew and Gentile alike: Ephesians 3:6. that in union with the Messiah and through the Good News the Gentiles were to be joint heirs, a joint body and joint sharers with the Jews in what God has promised.