Matthew 12:11-12

If you had known what these words mean, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ then you would not condemn the innocent for doing good on the Sabbath. “If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out? Therefore, it is lawful to take hold of a man, lift him up, and do good on the Sabbath.…

There is a growing hunger within the church to understand its Hebraic foundation, often call the Hebraic roots of the church. This does not imply in any way that gentile believers suddenly become Jewish, or that Jewish believers loose their ethnic and cultural identity in following Christ.…