Forgiveness is a genuinely difficult subject. Dr Stephen Marmer has broken forgiveness into three more manageable chunks - exoneration, forbearance and release. Each concept applies to different situations and calls for different actions on your part. This can bring Y'shua's (Jesus') command to forgive much closer to where we live.

Some in the Messianic movement come out of the Sunday church and slide right into Judaism losing the Savior in the process. A Savior is central to God's purposes for His Creation and this talk explores some of the reasons for that.

The prophet says that the nation is living under a curse that they don't even discern. So too many today are living with curses which they do not recognize or perceive. In this, it is not sufficient simply to keep your own skirts clean. Because God judges nations, the righteous will go down with the wicked if they have not resisted that wickedness.

Introduction and historical background. The prophet's rebuke of Israel and its priests.

Paul gives relationship advice to new believers who were once pagans including a discussion of Biblical slavery. What it means to put on the full armor of God.

In Yeshua's (Jesus') letter to the Ephesians, he commends them for their sound doctrine and corrects them for having lost their first love. In Paul's letter, he exhorts them to learn the Word and treat one another with love. They seem to have taken the first advice to heart but hardened their hearts to love. In this they are still like the gentiles they once were.

What it means to hold Messiah in your heart. The second half of the letter beginning in chapter 4 is different in character than the first half. It discusses how to walk according to your high calling and maintain your first love.

Discussion of salvation by faith and how it relates to the works that God has created us to do. Also God is dealing with the rebellion in Heaven of Satan and his fallen angels. We get a glimpse of His strategy that has only been revealed after the resurrection of Yeshua (Jesus).

In the letter to the Church at Ephesus in Revelation 2, Yeshua (Jesus) corrects that church for having lost its first love. What was that first love, and how does He suggest that they regain it? How does Paul's letter address the same subject some half a century earlier?

Introduction to the correlation among the seven Kingdom Parables, the seven Messianic letters in Revelation and Paul's seven pastoral letters.