{"id":1198,"date":"2010-09-04T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matsati.com\/bblog2\/client\/index.cfm\/2010\/9\/4\/The-Rock-and-Foundation-of-Our-Faith"},"modified":"2012-09-29T16:22:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T16:22:45","slug":"the-rock-and-foundation-of-our-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/the-rock-and-foundation-of-our-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rock and Foundation of Our Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<!-- Place some text here to wrap near image --><\/p>\n<p>God is the Rock of our salvation and spiritual strength.&nbsp; But His strength can only help us if we rely and trust in Him.&nbsp;<br \/>\nBy relying and trusting in Yeshua we are relying and trusting in the way in which God has provided for our salvation.&nbsp; Trusting<br \/>\nin Yeshua as our foundation stone is to trust in God and to give praise to Yeshua is to praise God.&nbsp;&nbsp; The relationship that<br \/>\nYeshua has with the Father as the Living word of God and our Rock (the foundation stone), is how Yeshua is building His ecclesia these<br \/>\npast two thousand years after His resurrection.&nbsp; The use of the name of God throughout the scriptures and our salvation in Him<br \/>\n(<strong><em>Acts 4:12<\/em><\/strong>) there is an emphasis here that God desires for us to see and to receive.&nbsp; The emphasis is<br \/>\nupon the Rock of our salvation in Parashat Ha&rsquo;azinu which points to Yeshua the Messiah, the ultimate and final goal of the revelation<br \/>\nof scripture. The love of our Father in Heaven is demonstrated through His son (Yeshua) by the offering of redemption in His blood so that<br \/>\nwe might have the opportunity to know and experience the abiding presence of the Father in our lives, our families, and in our communities.<br \/>\nThe love of God is manifest in us by our living in Him (Yeshua) <strong><em>1 John 4:9 By this the love of God was manifested in us, that<br \/>\nGod has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. (NASB)<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp; Ask the Lord today to help<br \/>\nyou to love others in the way in which God desires for you to love, as a demonstration of genuine faith and reliance upon Him.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.matsati.com\/2009-2010\/Parashat%20Ha%27azinu%20_2009-2010_.pdf\">Read More.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God is the Rock of our salvation and spiritual strength.&nbsp; But His strength can only help us if we rely and trust in Him.&nbsp;<br \/>\nBy relying and trusting in Yeshua we are relying and trusting in the way in which God has provided fo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-articles"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}