The Names - Yahweh and Yeshua are Spoken Here!

(Exodus 6:3, 20:1-5; Ezekiel 39:7; John 17:25-26; Hebrews 2:12)

We, the members of Yahweh’s assembly in Louisville, Kentucky, base our faith on the inspired sacred Scriptures knows as the Holy Bible. We recognize love as the basis of our faith. It is the commitment of the dedicated members of this assembly to fulfill the two great commandments as stated by our Savior in Matthew 22:37-40. “Yeshua replied: ‘Love Yahweh your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Yeshua’s teaching comes directly from the Torah. The first and greatest commandment is declared in Deuteronomy 6:4-9 and the second greatest commandment is stated in Leviticus 19:18. Love is the basic foundation in both of these commandments. These two great commandments are at the root of all the other commandments in Yahweh’s covenant Law. The love described here reflects the spirit of the entire Law of Yahweh. Yahweh has expressed His love for mankind through the gift of His Son (John 3:26-21). Yahweh is love (1 John 4:7-8, 16). Love is all important to our faith as true believers and followers in/of Yahweh and Yeshua (1 Corinthians 13).

As believers and followers in/of Yahweh and Yeshua, it is our determination to fulfill these two great commandments by having the Law of Yahweh written in our minds and hearts (Jeremiah 31:31-33; Hebrews 8:8-11; Hebrews 10:16-18). This can only be accomplished as we become spiritual Jews and Israelites who have been circumcised in heart and mind to walk by the rules of Yahweh’s Covenant law (Romans 2;28-29; Galatians 6:15-16). We believe that those who possess the true love of Yahweh will willingly keep Yahweh’s commandments as an expression of that love (1John 5:1-3). Those who know Yeshua keep His commandments and walk as He walked (1 John 2:3-6). Yeshua identified His true disciples as having Philadelphia love for one another (John 13:34-35). He further stated that we must love one another as He loved us (John 15:12-13) and that those who love, as Yeshua loved, will willingly lay down their lives for their friends.

With the knowledge of what the true love of Yahweh is, it is our determination to bring forth the attributes attached to the Philadelphia Assembly as given in Revelation 3:7-13. They kept Yeshua’s word (i.e. the commandments of Yahweh – John 14:21-24) and did not deny His Name. For their dedication, they will be given protection during the great tribulation at the end of the age (Revelation 3:10). Prophetically speaking, end-time true worshipers are described as keeping the commandments of Yahweh and having the testimony and faith of Yeshua the Messiah (Revelation 12:17 and 14:12). It is therefore our commitment to obey Yahweh’s Covenant Law through love. Having Philadelphia love means having love for the brethren and by extension for all people. Yeshua has told us to love our neighbor and to even love our enemies (Matthew 5:42-44). In keeping with that, it is our determination to love all people regardless of gender, race, creed, color, religion, or nationality. The spiritual house of Yahweh’s people shall be called a house of prayer for all people (Isaiah 56:6-8).

We understand that in these last days, Almighty Yahweh is causing His people to return to Him through the keeping of His Law. By means of the same prophetic message proclaimed by the Old Testament prophet EliYah (i.e. teaching the people that Yahweh is the true Elohim), He is turning His people back to the true faith (Malachi 4:4-6). His Son, Yeshua the Messiah, is the Word made flesh (John 1:14) and as such He is the physical manifestation of Yahweh’s perfect Law, the law of liberty, which is able to save our souls (James 1:21-25). We therefore, understand our responsibility to prove our love for Yahweh, Yeshua, our fellow man by keeping Yahweh’s Torah (J John 5:3; John 14:15). By doing this from the heart, we prove our faith to Yahweh so that we might be reckoned as righteous in Yahweh’s sight (James 2:14-26).

As people of faith, we are responsible to exercise our faith through our works (i.e. the keeping of Yahweh’s commandments). The good works of the Law which we bring forth are the proof of our faith. We understand that we are saved by grace and not by our works (Ephesians 2:8-10).

Salvation is a free gift from Yahweh which cannot be earned. It is given to those who make a covenant with Almighty Yahweh through the shed blood of our Savior (Romans 3:21-26) while remaining faithful to the end (Matthew 24:13).

We have determined that Yahweh’s Word (i.e. His Law) is the Truth (John 17:17) and that the Truth sanctifies Yahweh’s people and sets them free from the bondage of sin (John 8:31-36) and its destructive ways (Romans 6:23). Sin is the transgression (i.e. breaking) of the Law (1 John 3:4). It can only be recognized through knowledge of Yahweh’s Law (Romans 7:7). Without that knowledge it is impossible to know what sin is, and therefore it is impossible to repent (turn back to Yahweh).

Those who worship Yahweh must do so in spirit and in truth (John 4:23-24). It is our commitment to possess and maintain Yahweh’s Holy Spirit in our lives and within the body of believers by obeying the truth of Yahweh’s Covenant Law (Acts 5:32). We seek to be a spiritual people in Yahweh’s sight by being conceived anew through water (water baptism into the name of Yeshua) and through spirit (Yahweh’s Holy Spirit) and thereby gain entrance into the Kingdom of Yahweh. This is a part of the conversion process which begins when a person recognizes the need to repent and to make changes from within, and then undergoes baptism. That process will culminate in a physical transformation into a spirit being upon Yeshua’s return (John 3:3-7; 1 Corinthians 15:35-54).

As members of this assembly, we have joined together to do the will of the Almighty Yahweh by living our lives in subjection to Him as personal witness, and by collectively proclaiming the truth of Yahweh’s Word until our Savior returns. With this determination and knowledge, we therefore put forth this “Statements of Beliefs” as a testimony of our faith, as brethren in the Messiah Yeshua and to define the major foundational tenets of our beliefs in regard to the plan of salvation.