BIBLE HOMESThis is what He called Himself
I am · the self-declaration John wrote down seven times
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What we believe
We will not draw this out. What we hold, we state from the text of Scripture.
One. The Word of God gives a person life
We believe that both Testaments entire are the Word breathed out by God, and the final standard for faith and life. And we believe that this Word actually gives a person life. That is the whole reason this organization exists.
All graphe(written-scripture) is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for paideia(training, discipline) in dikaiosyne(righteousness);
so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.
2 Timothy 3:16–17 · Yeshua Literal VersionThe Old Testament said it first. A person does not live by bread alone but by everything that comes out of the mouth of God.
that He might make you know that man (adam) does not live by bread alone, but by all that proceeds out of the mouth of YHWH does man (adam) live.
Deuteronomy 8:3 · Yeshua Literal VersionAnd that Word never comes back empty.
so shall my word be that goes out of my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall do what I please, and prosper in that for which I sent it.
Isaiah 55:11 · Yeshua Literal VersionThe New Testament says the same thing more sharply. The Word is not an object a person handles; it is a living thing that discerns the person.
For the logos(word) of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of psyche(soul) and pneuma(spirit), of joints and marrow, and discerning the enthumeseis(intentions, thoughts) and ennoiai(attitudes, dispositions) of the kardia(heart, soul-domain).
Hebrews 4:12 · Yeshua Literal VersionA person's being born again happens through this Word, and the saving of the soul happens through this Word.
since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable — through the living and abiding logos(word) of God.
1 Peter 1:23 · Yeshua Literal VersionTherefore, putting away all filthiness and rampant wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted logos(word), which is able to save your psychai(souls).
James 1:21 · Yeshua Literal VersionAnd He Himself said what those Scriptures are pointing at. The Bible is not a storehouse of knowledge but a book that testifies about one person.
You search the graphai(written-scriptures) because you think that in them you have eternal zoe(life); it is these that testify about Me;
John 5:39 · Yeshua Literal VersionTwo. One God — Father, Son and Holy Spirit
We believe in one God. And we believe that this one God made Himself known in Scripture as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Three names do not mean three Gods, and His being one does not erase the three names. This is the faith the church has kept from the beginning, and we stand inside it.
The expression Yeshua used when He sent out His disciples was exactly this — not “names,” but one “name.”
Go therefore and make disciples of all the ethne(ethnic-groups, Gentiles), baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the hagio(holy) pneuma(spirit),
Matthew 28:19 · Yeshua Literal VersionThe charis(grace) of the Lord Yeshua(Jesus) Messiah(Christ), and the agape(love) of God, and the koinonia(fellowship, participation) of the hagio(holy) pneuma(spirit), be with you all. Amen.
2 Corinthians 13:14 · Yeshua Literal VersionThree. The seven places Yeshua said “I am”
At the centre of what we believe stands not a doctrine but one person's self-declaration. John wrote down seven times the places where Yeshua said of Himself “I am”. In Greek, egō eimi (ἐγώ εἰμι). It overlaps with the very form God used before the burning bush when He made His name known.
The seven are set down as they stand. We add no commentary. These are not sentences that call for explanation but sentences that call for faith.
One — I am the bread of life
Yeshua(Jesus) said to them, "I am the bread of zoe(life); he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst.
John 6:35 · Yeshua Literal VersionTwo — I am the light of the world
Then Yeshua(Jesus) again spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness but will have the light of zoe(life)."
John 8:12 · Yeshua Literal VersionThree — I am the door
I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.
John 10:9 · Yeshua Literal VersionFour — I am the good shepherd
I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His psyche(soul) for the sheep.
John 10:11 · Yeshua Literal VersionFive — I am the resurrection and the life
Yeshua(Jesus) said to her, "I am the resurrection and the zoe(life); he who believes in Me will live even if he dies,
and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die; do you believe this?"
John 11:25–26 · Yeshua Literal VersionSix — I am the way and the truth and the life
Yeshua(Jesus) said to him, "I am the way and the aletheia(truth) and the zoe(life); no one comes to the Father but through Me.
John 14:6 · Yeshua Literal VersionSeven — I am the true vine
I am the alethinos(true, genuine) vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.
John 15:1 · Yeshua Literal Version“this is what I teach.”
Every one of them says “I am.”
Four. We wait for the One who will come again
We believe and wait for the bodily return of Yeshua. This is not a side branch of our faith but its very direction. On the day He was taken up into the sky, this is what those standing there heard.
"Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Yeshua(Jesus), who was taken up from you into the sky, will come in the same way as you watched Him go into the sky."
Acts 1:11 · Yeshua Literal VersionSo the citizenship of the saints is not here but in heaven, and from there we eagerly wait for Him. And on that day our humble body will be changed into the form of His body of glory.
For our politeuma(commonwealth-citizenship) is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Yeshua(Jesus) Messiah(Christ);
who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the energeia(working) of His dynamai(being-able) to subject all things to Himself.
Philippians 3:20–21 · Yeshua Literal Versionlooking for the blessed elpis(hope) and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Yeshua(Jesus) Messiah(Christ),
Titus 2:13 · Yeshua Literal VersionFive. We believe in the first resurrection
We state the faith of the resurrection plainly. Those who died in Messiah will rise first, and those who remain alive will be caught up together with them to meet the Lord. This is the first resurrection.
For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Messiah(Christ) will rise first.
Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 4:16–17 · Yeshua Literal Versionin a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
1 Corinthians 15:52 · Yeshua Literal VersionAnd Revelation says that the one who has a part in that resurrection is blessed. The second death can do nothing to them.
Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection; the second death has no exousia(authority) over these, but they will be priests of God and of the Messiah(Christ) and will reign with Him for a thousand years.
Revelation 20:6 · Yeshua Literal VersionTo believe, and to arrive at that day — this is why we give the Bible away at no charge. After saying “I am the resurrection and the life,” He Himself asked, “do you believe this?” Everything we do exists to carry that question to one person.
Six. We overcome with inexpressible joy
This faith does not weigh a person down. It makes them glad. Peter wrote this to people who had never yet seen Him with their eyes.
Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; though you do not now see Him, you believe in Him and rejoice with chara(joy) that is inexpressible and filled with doxa(glory),
obtaining the outcome of your faith — the Salvation of your psychai(souls).
1 Peter 1:8–9 · Yeshua Literal VersionThere is pain and worry and hardship in the world. We do not pretend otherwise. We only believe that the strength to overcome it comes out of this joy. Enduring and rejoicing are not two different things. In the place where a person loves without seeing and believes without seeing, an inexpressible joy comes. That joy lifts a person to their feet.
Seven. And therefore we hold one another up
This joy is not kept alone. The New Testament calls the affection between believers philadelphia (φιλαδελφία) — the love between those born of one Father — and commands that it continue.
Let philadelphia(brotherly-love) continue.
Hebrews 13:1 · Yeshua Literal VersionHaving purified your psychai(souls) by your obedience to the aletheia(truth) through the pneuma(spirit) for a sincere philadelphia(brotherly-love), love one another earnestly from a pure kardia(heart, soul-domain),
1 Peter 1:22 · Yeshua Literal VersionThat love is not a feeling but carrying weight in someone's place.
Bear one another's burdens, and thereby fulfill the nomos(law) of Messiah(Christ).
Galatians 6:2 · Yeshua Literal VersionAnd He called this a new commandment, and said that this is the very mark by which the world recognises us.
A new commandment I give to you, that you agapao(love) one another, even as I have agapao(loved) you, that you also agapao(love) one another.
By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have agape(love) for one another.
John 13:34–35 · Yeshua Literal VersionSo we want places where believers actually hold one another up to stand: a place where it is noticed when someone does not come, a place where the one who lost their job can say so, a place where a sick person's name is remembered all week long. That is exactly what YLV Bible Study is for.
A closing word
We are not a denomination, and this page is not meant to judge the confession of any other church. What is written here states what this organization holds as it works. If you would like to know more, ask us at Contact. We will answer honestly.
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