#37 Sh'lach L'kha - Understanding your place in Israel today!

[Music] good morning and shabbat shalom we would like to extend a warm welcome to everyone watching these video teachings from around the world as well as our local family here in wenatchee and this morning we will be studying the torah shah called shalak lekha which means sinned for yourself referring to men in the second year from the exodus to now they're at the border of israel and they're to spy out the land a person a leader from each of the 12 tribes of israel and we're going to parallel this this morning along with their lack of faith their disbelief that they could take the land with the contrast in our torah which is found in jeremiah chapter 2. it's the story of 39 years later joshua and the children of israel on the border of the promised land after wandering through the wilderness for another 39 years and the story of rahab and how she represents a type of the final generation ones who would recognize the one true god of israel and even though she was not born into one of the 12 tribes she lived in a pagan city she was grafted into israel and through her faith there was great blessings and through her faith we see obedience and so we want to liken the old generation that couldn't enter the land to the old way of thinking that says yeah i have faith i believe in god but there's no obedience to accompany it versus the final generation which is represented by the younger generation of israelites who could enter the land and who are they led by yahushua and you're going to see that yahushua is a type of mashiach who will lead us into the land and we will look at his spelling of his name just like we looked at last week's hof torah in zechariah chapter 3 about yehoshua's name representing the high priest who would come and it has the father's name the yoda and the hay in it and how significant that is because messiah was prophesied to come in the name of the lord david prophesied in psalms 118 26 blessed is he who comes in the name of the lord and that word lord is not a hebrew word it's actually blessed is he who comes in the name of yodhaeve so we're going to look at that in context to this torah portion this morning so if you have your bibles turn with me to numbers chapter 13 and we will read through the torah portion and bring out the significant things to apply to our own life today in this parasha there are three chapters and you see chapter 13 focusing on the leaders from each of the 12 tribes being mentioned and how they're sent into the land and then in chapter 14 the focus is on god's character versus the people's lack of faith and in chapter 15 there's instructions on what people of faith are to do and we will look at the symbolism of the burnt offering of the grain and the wine and at the end of the chapter there's the mitzvah to wear zitsi which is a symbol and a reminder of those who desire to keep god's commandments that court of blue represents the ten commandments which were written on blue sapphire stone and so we're going to look at this in contrast to the old generation of disobedience versus the final generation who embraces obedience it is a faith that works as james says it is true shema it's not just hearing but it's hearing and doing so we will be paralleling some ideas at the end of our study this morning with joshua 2 verses 1 through 24 about yahushua sending spies into the land but how this time they don't speak any negativity about the land and this is so important for us today because people are being sent into the land from all 12 tribes they're going back and they're visiting israel but how are they coming back and how are they testifying to the rest of their tribes in the lands of their exile are they speaking positive and standing with israel are they saying yes this is a place that god is leading us to return to or are they speaking negative about it are they saying speaking negative about orthodox judaism are they speaking negative about the difficulties of returning to the land we have to be so careful that we're not like the old generation but we are like the final generation who only speaks positive and has faith to return to the land and god through returning us to torah is preparing us before we go back to the land so that the land won't spit us out as it did our forefathers in verse 1 it says adonai said to moshe send on your behalf men to spy out the land of canaan which i am giving to the people of israel from each ancestral tribe since someone who is a leader in his tribe moshe dispatched them from puran desert as adonai had ordered all of them were leading men among the people of israel and here are their names now count the tribes up and tell me how many tribes there are from the tribe of reuven shamua was chosen to be sent into the land as one of the spies he was the son of zakur of reuben's lineage from the tribe of shimon shafat was chosen to be sent as one of the spies into the land and he was the son of hory of the lineage of shimon and from the tribe of yehuda caleb the son of yafune was chosen from the tribe of yeshikar yagal the son of joseph was chosen and from the tribe of ephraim hoshea the son of noon was chosen from the tribe of benjamin paulti the son of rafu was chosen good morning from the tribe of zebulon gadil the son of saudi was chosen and from the tribe of yosef now we've already mentioned ephraim now we know that two tribes were adopted into the 12 tribes by jacob from joseph seed ephraim and manassas so when it mentions joseph here it wants you to know that for sure it's talking about manassas lineage because ephraim's already been mentioned and he's the one that got the first born blessing and it's interesting that hosea later gets his name changed to yahushua the same one who is the type of mashiach who will lead the people of israel back from their exile into the land of israel and his name means yah's salvation and he comes from the tribe of ephraim and what's interesting when you look through the lineage of yahushua son of joseph and 2000 years ago he came not only from the tribe of judah and was had the rightful heir to the throne through david but he was also a levite and part of the zadok priesthood and he had ephraim in his bloodline as well as melchizedek literally which was shim so you have all of these lineages so that he could not only be a perfect prophet like unto moshe but he could be a perfect high priest touched with the feeling of our infirmities and play different roles rightfully in accordance with torah from each of these tribal lineages so from the tribe of yosef that is from the tribe of menasha gadi was son of susie now menasha had their tribe split on each side of the jordan remember half of them stayed with reuben and gad and half of them went over with the other seven and a half tribes on the west side of the jordan river when assyria captured syria i mean when assyria captured israel in 741 they first took the two and a half tribes reuben gad and the half-tribe of manasseh before they could cross the jordan 20 years later and come and capture the rest of them those tribes went north of the euphrates and then they were released from their exile and traveled north and east to down the china silk road and into china and then drop down into india so to this day there are descendants of menasha in china and in india right on that border and we have a friend in india who is working with me to set up a torah teaching center and his name happens to be gotti and he's from the tribe of menasha so here this name even is significant not only in the past but today the other half tribe of menasha was taken 20 years later in 721 bc and they migrated north of the euphrates also but this time with the rest of the seven and a half tribes they migrated west through northern europe around the black sea and all the way to the farthest most parts of europe and the british isles and then later came to america so america is comprised of all 13 tribes if you include ephraim and manasseh but people often forget about that ones that went east and dropped down into india and they're still there to this day that's why 2000 years ago when yeshua sent out his emissaries to the lost sheep of israel where did he send thomas to india that's exactly right because he knew that there was lost tribes there even at that time verse 12 says from the tribe of dan ami el the son of gamali was sent as a spy and from the tribe of asher state tour the son of michael was sent and from the tribe of naftali knock me the son of of see and from the tribe of god gauel the son of machi was sent so how many tribes have we mentioned including ephram and manasseh there's 12 there why which tribe was left out levi exactly why he was not sent to spy out the land god did not put him in danger because he's a minister to the lord he's always supposed to stay near the house of the lord in the tabernacle so levi didn't have a representative spying out the land because levi doesn't have an inheritance in the land levi's inheritance is the lord and the lord is his inheritance [Music] tribes are going out not staying in one particular spot they would have to go out for the temple or the increasing teachings with the other yes some of them came even 3000 years ago to north america when solomon was gathering copper ore from the great lakes area we have found phylacteries from levitical priests that accompanied other tribes coming on those phoenician ships now remember when judah was taken captive by babylon some of the levites were taken captive with judah and benjamin but there was also other levites with the other 10 tribes in the northern kingdom because of the cities of refuge in which the levites had to have priests representing and so we have levites being taken every different direction and father will reveal who they are in the days to come we can detect a few of them today by some of the last names like cohen means priest or levi or levite or you know there's different names you especially see it like in long island and new york early settlements that were part of levitical lines and they have levee town there on long island and places like this but it's going to be great when we're back in the land and the father is allotting each one a portion according to their inheritance he knows which tribe is the majority tribe in us more than we even know so it's going to be exciting to see where our portion is [Music] and i think they're hidden in many different places including the gypsies of romania verse 16 says these are the names of the men moshe sent out to spy out the land moshe gave to hoshea the son of noon the name ya hoshua so he puts the yod in front of his name so that yod and hate together this means yah salvation before hosea just meant salvation but prophetically god impressed moshe to rename him so that he would be a type that god's people throughout history could recognize represents the messiah where moshe his name is very similar to the name shiak but like messiah who came 2000 years ago who was not recognized because he didn't set up god's kingdom and rebuild the temple and return the exiles he came as prophesied in deuteronomy 18 he would be a prophet and a humble servant just like moshe was and he would lead the children of israel which he has the last two thousand years preparing them for his second coming in which he will truly be seen as mashiach by both gentile and jews and christians and he will rebuild the temple and he will establish god's kingdom back in israel and he will return the exiles from all of the lands of their dispersion this is why paul says when the lord shall descend with the shout and the voice of the archangel and the trumpet of god speaking of the day of trumpeting the dead and the anointed one will rise first and we who are alive and remain will be caught up with them and other passages talk about the angels gathering his elect from the four corners of the earth because he's bringing them all back to the land for his kingdom for this millennial period when you look at this verse in verse 16 it says vayikra moshe i'll get my pointer so that you can see it this is the word for the book of leviticus but it just means and called vayikra moshe hosea now this word yahushua you can see here his was his name before the llama just means to so and called moshe to hosea son of noon son of life yah hoshua yah's salvation now you have the yod hey and we see this only in the case of yehoshua son of noon which represents son of life which yeshua was but also in the high priest so both in the one who's to lead the children of israel back into the land and give them the promised land as well as the high priest you see the true name with the yod and the hay in it when we say yeshua you're dropping the hay out of it so we're kind of doing a disservice but in times past people that were named joshua in hebrew sometimes yahushua would get if they weren't a significant person it would just be they didn't want to print the name of god the yod and hey together so they would shorten the name to yeshua and that's kind of what we're doing when we're saying yeshua but if you want to say it with god's name hidden in it as david prophesied that he would come in the name of the lord this is the way his name would be spelled yahushua which is beautiful to see moshe sent them to spy out the land of canaan instructing them go up to the negev and into the hills and see what the land is like notice the people living there whether they are strong or weak few or many and what kind of country they live in whether it is good or bad and what kind of cities they live in open or fortified see whether the land is fertile or unproductive and whether there is wood in it or not finally be bold enough to bring back some of the fruit of the land and this is why we give tours in israel every year i really believe that we should be sending emissaries back to the land to bring a report of how sweet how good it is how blessed how much you feel the spirit there the more people get an experience in the land of israel the whole word of god comes alive for them and you walk in the footsteps of the patriarchs and the prophets of old and you see the truth and validity of the word as nick can attest to god told him to go as the lord god of my fathers and said that they fear not need to be discouraged they should have never sent anyone in they should have just gone in and taken it the same thing with joshua he sent the spies into jericho and he said hey that's a fear or not god wanted a representative from each tribe to be sent into the land and come back and bring a good report he actually told moses to send these men so they were doing what they were instructed to do but their lack of faith caused them to speak negative when they came back and that's what the correlation that we want to draw with ourselves is we want to make sure that we don't speak any negativity about the land of israel god is soon to give us the land of our inheritance once again and you might go there before that time as kind of a spy to reconnoisseur the land but we should not come back with any negativity about the land or about the people or about judaism or about our brothers or sisters or about the palestinians or in anything have no fear god is going to give us the land why because they were focused on the material things instead of the spiritual things and that's what i want to encourage you in is to step outside of your material focus and what things look prosperous and see the spiritual value in the land when they left it it was the season for the first grapes to ripen now the reason we're reading this in this season is because this is the season in which they were sent into the land the torah portions always correlate with the time of year in which we are reading it and this is usually the month of of in the hebrew calendar and the first grapes begin to ripen and they ripen throughout off and go to through ilol and up to tishri to the time of sukkot when you're bringing the feast of ingathering from all the trees and the vines so they're early in the summer and just let's just like we're in the early in the summer reading this today and they went up and they spied out the land from zinn desert to rehab near the entrance of hamad they went up into the negev and arrived at hebron akimon shayshai and tamai the anakim lived there now the anakim is another word for the giants who are rising up after the flood with this dormant dna and the egyptians worshiped the anakim they considered them to be gods if you will because they knew they had this dormant dna from the angels hebron was built seven years before zoan in egypt they came to the eshkol valley and eshkol means cluster and this is where they found these huge clusters of grapes and there they cut off a branch bearing a cluster which they carried on a pole between two of them they also took pomegranates and figs that place was called the eshcall valley because of the cluster which the people of israel cut down there forty days later they returned from spying out the land and went to moshe aaron and the entire community of the people of israel at kadesh in the paron desert where they had brought back word to them and to the entire community and showed them the fruit of the land what they told them was this we entered the land where you sent us and indeed it does flow with milk and honey here is even an example of its fruit however the people living in the land are fierce the cities are fortified and very large moreover we saw the anakim there amalek lives in the area of the negev the hitti and the yevusai in the mri live in the hills so the hitai were a northern pagan tribe that came from the turkey border down into israel and one of these women is who esau married and their descendants became the romans the sins of isa and the hittites we see amalek who was the first one to attack israel after they came out of egypt he's down in the south that's why he was the first one down in the negev and that area and then of course the philistines were over in gaza area and all of these people they're afraid of and it says the canaanite lived by the sea speaking of the sea of galilee alongside the jordan river caleb silenced the people around moshe listen you know because he started to hear him going down that negative path and that's what we have to be really careful to do whether it's our own words or whether it's somebody else's when you start to hear somebody going down that negative path and speaking about speaking negative about what god is doing you can put a stop to it he says we ought to go up immediately and take possession of it there is no question that we can conquer it but the men who had gone with him these other 10 spies besides caleb and joshua spoke negative and they said we can't attack those people because they are stronger than we are a total lack of faith this is like saying we believe in god but we don't believe in him enough to be obedient to what he's asking us to do they spread a negative report about the land they had spied out for the people of israel by saying the land we pass through in order to spy it out is a land that devours its inhabitants and now imagine all the other two and a half million israelites who were waiting to hear they're on the border and they're waiting to go in and all it takes sometimes is a small little seed of negativity or doubt or fear to incite a whole group of people and so what they're doing is having a ripple effect just like our words have a ripple effect whether you're talking about frequency or the effect that it has on the people around us our words are so powerful and we have to be so careful to only edify the body only to build up and encourage in the word of the lord it says that all the people we saw there were giants so the story is now getting bigger and more scary we saw the nephilim there now the nephilim didn't exist after the flood but the nephilim were the second generation of giants from the offspring of the fallen angels that found the daughters of men to be beautiful and had relations with them the first generation were called the great giants and these giants were so huge that the book of jasher and the book of enoch talk about them being 300 cubits tall which would be like 450 feet tall so the second generation were a little bit shorter and then third generation there's three generations of giants each one a little less tall before the flood came so the nephilim by saying that what they're doing is they're painting a mental picture for the people that this is impossible to take this is the most scary thing you can imagine we're like grasshoppers looking up these giants are like the trees of lebanon you know it's much worse because after the flood the anakim were only 13 to 16 feet tall they're not really like the nephilim so what they're doing is using hyperbole and exaggeration to scare the people to death because they knew the stories of the pre-flood giants and this is just like our negativity it grows it starts off as a small seed and then it builds up and builds up until the fear totally consumes us he says we saw the nephilim the descendants of enoch who were from the nephilim to ourselves we look like grasshoppers by comparison and we looked that way to them too at this all the people of israel cried out in fear and wept all night long moreover the people of israel began to grumble and this is another trait that fear causes or lack of faith that causes we want to make sure that we never grumble and we're going to look at a little list of these comparisons from what they did wrong to what the final generation did right and what we want to apply into our own lives and crumbling is one of these areas we should not even if we are having a difficult time we should not grumble we have so much to be thankful for and our words of affirmation and positivity even in the midst of a difficult situation can help us overcome that situation and like in judaism we say gonzo leitova it's all for my good so even in the midst of a huge trial or an obstacle if i face that obstacle and i speak positivity the father is going to use this for good he's going to reverse this curse he's going to however you want to rebuke it and claim the promise that god is going to give you the victory that's going to give you a lot of power to actually being an overcomer and revelation gives us a great promise to being overcomers of sin and fear and doubt he says we'll be able to eat of the tree of life if we overcome so here the people are grumbling and they go so far as to now say we wish we had just died in egypt or in the desert why is adonai bringing us to this land where we will die by the sword our wives and our little ones will be taken as booty this is what the giants used to do before the flood is they would take the women by force away from their husbands and so on so this is all part of that mindset they knew these stories and the fear is just overwhelming them wouldn't it be better for us to return to egypt and they said to each other let's get a different leader forget moshe he wants to take us this direction let's get somebody else who will take us back to egypt and that's another thing to question the leader that god has set up to lead you in spiritual growth and back to god's principles because of fear because of doubt or because of your own agenda and to choose somebody else that will follow your agenda that you see this all the time whether it's in congregations or in our nation that's right people will appoint a leader that will do their bidding very good moshe and aaron fell on their faces this is their humility this is what it means to be a true leader instead of defending themselves instead of arguing with the people what do they do they prostrate themselves before the people in humbleness and their praying the whole time to god yahushua the son of noon and caleb the son of yephune from the detachment that it's bite out the land tore their clothes and said to the whole community the land we passed through in order to spy it out isn't its outstandingly good land how can you guys say this if adonai is pleased with us then he will bring us into the land and he's going to give it to us we won't even have to fight for it remember in deuteronomy god had said if you had followed my will i would have sent the giants out with a horde of bees they would have ran out before you you would have never had to lift a sword the houses would have already been built and the vineyards would have already been planted i would have given it to you with blessings galore but you didn't have faith and moses gives this whole discourse before he dies to the children of israel to remind them of the sins of the old generation and the lack of faith so that they won't be destined to repeat those sins and that's kind of the way it is in our family we can learn from previous generations mistakes and we can not only rebuke them but we can encourage our children to break those curses and rebuke those strongholds and to not repeat the sins of the forefathers we are destined to take the land not to wander around in the wilderness any longer and joshua goes on in verse 8. he says if adonai is pleased with us then he will bring us into this land and give it to us it is a land flowing with milk and honey just don't rebel there's another principle that rebellious spirit israel and the northern kingdom ephraimites have been a rebellious people from the time they rebelled against the son of solomon jehoshaphat and divided the kingdom and we've been wandering in exile ever since divided because of that rebellion it's time to come back together and unify with brother judah so that the curse that has been upon us can be healed this rebellion has to end and it starts in the heart and starts in the mind don't rebel against adonai and don't be afraid of the people living in the land we will eat them up their defense meaning their protection has been taken away it's been removed from them because you know true protection only comes when you are living in harmony with god's eternal principles so he was very confident in being able to say they have no protection compared to us and adonai is with us don't be afraid of them but just as the whole community were saying that they should be stoned to death the glory of god appeared in the tent of meeting to all the people of israel adam and i said to moshe how much longer is this people going to treat me with unbelief how much longer will they not trust me especially considering all the signs i have performed among them i am going to strike them with sickness and they will be destroyed and make from you a nation greater and stronger than they are now if moshe had any seed of self if he hadn't been the humble and meekest man ever he might that might have been appealing to him but he acted as a type of mashiach and high priest and intercessor interceding for the people of israel and he did not take god up on that this was a test for moshe to see if he would be willing to allow god to make his descendants into a new kingdom of priest however moshe replied to adonai when the egyptians hear about this and they will because it was from among them that you by your strength brought up this people they will tell the people living in this land they have heard that you ad and i are with this people that you ada and i are seen face to face that your cloud stands over them that you go ahead of them in a column of cloud by day and a column of fire by night if you kill off this people at a single stroke then the nations that have heard of your reputation will say that the reason that adonai slaughtered this people in the desert is that he wasn't able to bring them into the land which he swore to their ancestors to give them so moshe is more concerned about his character and his reputation than anything about himself and this is the way that we need to be in our life as the final generation more concerned about his character if there's any false attributes that are put onto our beautiful daddy's character of love and selflessness we need to rectify it we need to make it known to the world we need to stand up for his reputation as zealous children such a beautiful example what moshe was doing here because of his great adoration for his heavenly father so now please let adonai's power be as great as when you said adonai is and now he reminds him of his character that he disclosed to moshe in the cleft of the rock which you read in exodus 34 he gives back his word to him and he recites these attributes of characteristic he says you are slow to anger rich in hesed grace forgiving offenses and crimes yet having perfect justice but causing the negative effects of the parents to be experienced by their children even up to the third and fourth generations this is true justice there's cause and effect to every action not just in our life but through even the seed and the dna that we pass on and so he's revealing god's perfect justice and even allowing cause and effect to be made manifest even while he's showing his grace he's imbuing life to us even when we deserve death and yet he will allow us to experience the cause and effect why so that we learn from our mistakes otherwise we would never learn we would just have such a hard heart knowing that he's always going to save us some kids are like that when parents are over coddling and they always rescue them out of their difficulties and they never learn from the cause and effect of their actions so god is so good and moses is reciting his character attributes back to him that god had revealed to him on mount sinai and he says please forgive the offense of this people according to the greatness of your grace just as you have born with this people from egypt until now a lot of times you hear from christians that the god of the old testament is harsh and that grace is in the new testament this is all about god's grace right here he didn't say save them because the people deserve to be saved he said save them according to your grace father and god did save them grace is throughout the old testament even from the time of the flood you see god's grace noah's name is in reverse the mere image of ken of grace and god has shown grace to the world time and time again when they have not deserved it he says you have bore with these people you know his long suffering has endured with his people from egypt until now adam and i answered i have forgiven as you asked but as sure as i live and that the whole earth is filled up with the glory of adonai none of the people who saw my glory and all the signs that i did in egypt and in the desert yet tested me these ten times and did not listen to my voice will see the land i swore to their ancestors none of those who treated me with contempt with a lack of trust and faith we'll see it but my servant can live because he had a different spirit and this is key this is the correlation i want to bring for us today let's have a different spirit than the mindset of the past [Music] with him he has fully followed me so this different spirit that will allow you to enter the promised land is a spirit that will enable you to fully follow him and obey his word and all of his commandments this is likened in the next chapter in chapter 15 to the wine and the oil that is poured with the sacrifice of grain this minka offering this represents having this spirit this wine is like the truth and the oil is like the flowing of the spirit that is to flow in our lives that's going to lead us to be able to live out god's truth in love in the spirit of love caleb had this spirit and it was zealous for god and it caused him to fully follow him i love that word the spirit and this is a good indicator if anybody claims to be born again or have the spirit of god and yet this spirit is leading them away from the commandments of god what spirit is that because the true spirit right here by definition will cause you to fully follow god and all of his word it says that person that has that spirit who fully follows me him i will bring into the land and we're looking forward to going to the land when the shia comes so we need to have this spirit him i will bring into the land and it will belong to him and his descendants now since the amalakkai and the cain and i are living in the valley tomorrow turn around and get yourselves into the desert along the way to the sea of seuf so what he's saying here they're right on the cusp of entering the land it's like stepping right over the border and they said sorry because of this lack of faith turn around you're going to spend another 39 years yeah wandering until you learn to have that same spirit that caleb and joshua had and to fully follow me and 39 years later it was caleb and joshua the only two from that generation who were left alive to lead the people into the promised land what a hard lesson they had to learn god uses a day for year principle 40 days they spite out the land 40 years they were destined to wander in the wilderness we see this constantly prophetically ezekiel the same thing a day for a year principle revelation and daniel a day for a year principle god's using this when he meets out judgment so this is how we can understand prophecy more fully he says uh god said to moshe and aaron how long am i to put up with this evil community who keeps being negative about me who keeps having a lack of faith i have heard the complaints of the people of israel which they continue to raise against me tell them this as surely as i live adonai swears as surely as you have spoken in my ears i will do this your carcasses will fall in the desert every single one of you who were included in the census over the age of 20 you who have complained against me will certainly not enter the land about which i raised my hand to swear that i would have you live in it except for caleb the son of yephune and yahushua the son of noon but your little ones who you said would be taken as booty them i will bring in they will know the land you have rejected but you your carcasses will fall in this desert and your children will wander about in the desert for 40 years bearing the consequences of your prostitutions until the desert eats up your carcasses now we could draw a parallel between the followers of moshe moshe represents yeshua's first coming he's humble he's meek he's a servant he's a prophet yehoshua representing his second coming the 40 years that the people had to wander in between is like the 40 jubilee periods the last 2 000 years that we have had to wander in exile due to the unbelief of our forefathers in the son of god amazing correlation may we not have a lack of faith any longer where did i leave off here verse 34 is the key text for this day for a year principle it says it will be a year for every day you spend spying out the land that you will bear the consequences the cause and effect of your offenses 40 days 40 years the day for a year principle we see the same thing in ezekiel chapter 4. then you will know what it means to oppose me i yodeva have spoken i will certainly do this to the whole evil community who have assembled together against me they will be destroyed in this desert which represents our exile and die there the men who moshe had sent to spy out the land and who when they returned made the entire community complain against him by giving an unfavorable report about the land those men who gave the unfavorable report about the land died by the plague in the presence of adonai of the men who went to spy out the land only yahushua the son of noon and caleb the son of yafune remained alive when moshe told these things to all the people of israel the people felt great remorse they arose early the next morning they came up to the top of the mountain and said here we are and we did sin and what is the wages of sin death what is the cause of sin or what is the definition of sin in first john 3 4 it says tourlessness the transgression of the torah is sin sin is lawlessness and so here they're recognizing that they have not followed what is torah but instruction and they've rejected god's instruction and so we will look at that as a correlation in a little bit here he says we did sin but now we are going to go up to the place that adam and i promised it's kind of like saying okay i've had to change your mind now i'll do what you asked me to do father and guess what probation had closed for them it was too late so when they go up to take the land they're doing it presumptuously their own way kind of like people say okay i'm going to serve god now and they don't wait to hear from the lord they don't follow torah and they don't do it his way they do it their own way and what happens to them they end up getting destroyed this people it sounds good on the surface but all they're sad about is losing out on the blessing and that's what so many people's fake repentance is all about i'm sorry i'm sorry i what i got caught i'm sorry i lost out on the blessings i'm sorry that i'm starting to experience the cause and effect and god says i want your teshuva you returned to me to be with sincerity i want it to be permanent i want it to be real not because you're going to get the reward or you're the fear of punishment but because of your love for me it's love that motivates true obedience this is why yahushua 2000 years ago says if you love me keep my commandments this is the indicator first john says anyone who says he loves god and yet does not obey him is a liar so two different places we see obedience being likened to love that's the only true motivator for true repentance to suva moshe answered why are you opposing what adonai said he basically just told you to turn around and go back into the wilderness now you're opposing him again and saying you will first when he tells you to go into the land you say you won't then when he tells you to go into the wilderness you say no i won't i'm going to go into the land what's wrong with you people can you imagine the frustration of moshe he's pulling his hair out and it's that frustration that caused him to strike the rock twice and that caused him to not be able to enter the land and so even moshe imagine him hearing god's um word to israel that only yahushua and caleb will enter into the land after 40 years and he's probably thinking what about me because up to this point he has served god faithfully and he's not sinned god knew in advance what he would end up doing that this very frustration would be his demise and that satan would use that against him and claim his life and that's why he had to die on mount nebo and not enter the land so moses says what are you doing why are you opposing what adam i said you won't succeed if you do it on your own don't go up there because adonai is not with you anymore if you do your enemies will defeat you the amalekites and the canaanites are there ahead of you and you will be struck down by the sword the reason will be that you have turned away from following adonai see teshuva means to turn back to the source but when we do things our own way we're actually in opposition to god and we're doing things our own way he says that adam and i will not be with us if we are turning away from him following our own way verse 44 says that they were presumptuous which means they were assuming that no matter what god will always be with them and that's kind of like people that say well because of what yeshua did 2 000 years ago i can continue to sin and i'm gonna be okay because sin is the definition of transgressing the torah they say oh the torah has been done away with i don't believe it anymore god's not asking me to follow his word which is to say that he changes when malachi 3 6 says i the lord god do not change i'm the same yesterday today and tomorrow therefore because i don't change because of my covenant with your ancestors you will not be consumed with sons of jacob it's not because of your goodness that you're not consumed and destroyed it's because i made this promise to you to your forefathers many years ago and i don't change my word is valid today but it's so convenient to do away with god's word when it's convenient for us and what happens is we are presumptuous and we end up getting destroyed we experience the cause and effect of our actions so they went on up to the high parts of the hill country to take the country by force in their own power even though the ark of the covenant was not with them and moshe was not with him they were staying back in camp on the other side of the jordan so the amalekites and the canaanites living in that country descended upon them and struck them down and beat them all the way back to horma now chapter 15 adonai says to moshe tell the people of israel when you have come into the land where you are going to live which i am going to give you and want to make an offering by fire to add an eye a burnt offering or a sacrifice to fulfill a special vow or to be a voluntary offering or at your designated times speaking of the moadine the holy times to make a fragrant aroma to add an eye then whether it comes from the herd or the flock the person bringing the offering is to present adonai with a grain offering consisting of two quarts of fine flour mixed with one quart of olive oil and one quart of wine for the drink offering this is what you are to prepare with the burnt offering for each lamb sacrificed now we've gone through each of the sacrifices and shared their deeper meanings of what it symbolized but god was trying to bring a people to realize their need for atonement comes through sacrifice self-denial and there's different areas of these sacrifices that have different symbolic meanings like grain in the parable of the sower and the seed what is the seed that is sown into this different kinds of soil the word of god so grain represents the word of god wine and oil which we will see in the next few verses represent the spirit and the truth the true spirit will always lead you into the truth that's why he's called the spirit of truth verse six says for a ram prepare one gallon a fine flower mixed with one and a third quarts of olive oil for a drink offering so there's the oil and you are to present one and one-third quarts of wine as a fragrant aroma for adonai now imagine a person who is full of seed representing the word of god flowing in love in accordance with the olive oil representing the spirit and teaching truth which represents the wine what a fragrant aroma that is to the lord to see his people as a wave offering we are to be living sacrifices it's no longer i who live but him who lives in me when we truly give our lives to him and all of these sacrifices were not just arbitrary demands or laws because god doesn't need anything and the blood of bulls and goats does not really atone for our sins but it's to teach a deeper spiritual lesson unfortunately the people missed it and it just became ritual to them when you prepare a bull as a burnt offering as a sacrifice to fulfill a special vow or as peace offerings for adonai that's called the shalom offering the grain offering is called the minka offering there is to be presented with the bull a grain offering of one and a half gallons of fine flour mixed with two quarts of olive oil for the drink offering present two quarts of wine for an offering made by fire a fragrant aroma for adonai do it this way for each bull ram male lamb or kid for as many animals as you prepare do this for each one regardless of how many animals there are now remember when did adam and i say to do this he's telling moses 39 years in advance when you do enter the land sorry you can't enter it right now but when the people do enter it instruct them to do these kind of offerings do you know in zechariah 14 when it talks about messiah coming back and rescuing his people from all of the tribulation that there will be these offerings brought up to jerusalem to the rebuilt temple yeshua is going to fulfill these mitzvoth these commandments messiah is going to lead us in the true instruction of what these sacrifices mean and want to be awesome to see them instituted understanding that it's we're not doing it because it's atoning for our sins we're doing it to understand what god was trying to reveal to us about the deeper plan of salvation that will be so rewarding in that time to have that knowledge verse 13 says every citizen is to do these things in this way when presenting an offering made by fire as a fragrant aroma for adonai if a foreigner is staying with you or whoever may be with you throughout all your generations so this leads into those who are grafted into israel it applies to them as well it says and he wants to if anybody wants to bring an offering made by fire as a fragrant aroma for adonai he is to do the same as you do for this community there will be the same law for you as for the foreigner living with you now we know in the messianic age it's not only the descendants of israel who are there but many people who are foreigners who are grafting in they said we want to serve the god of israel and we will be with you like ruth said your god will be our god and they're grafted in this will apply to them as well this applies to the gentile as well as to the christian as well as to the jew as well as to the whole house of israel and this is the example that we see rahab when she spoke by faith that god she knew that god would give them the land she says just promise me this when you do come and take the land save me and my family and they were grafted in to israel and god worked a great blessing through rahab for this community the same law applies this is a permanent regulation this is not just something temporary i'm telling you that i'm going to do away with tomorrow in other words this is throughout all your generations the foreigner is to be treated the same way in regards to the torah before adonai as yourself this is heavy duty but this is never preached in the churches today they're told that it's all done away with the same torah and standard where in verse 16 of judgment will apply to both of you the foreigner as well as the citizen verse 17 adonai said to moshe speak to the people of israel and tell them when you enter the land where i am bringing you and eat bread produced in the land you are to set aside a portion as a gift for adonai this is the type of tithing set aside from your first dough even a cake as a gift set it aside as you would set aside a portion of the grain from the threshing floor for your first dough you will give adonai a portion as a gift throughout all your generations so all you ladies who are making challah just to share with you what we do in israel all the ladies in israel take a little clump and breezy made her first haula today and i encourage you to try it it's going to be wonderful it's got all kinds of yummy sweetness in it because shabbat is the sweetest of all days we make our challah sweet take a lump and just practice giving a first fruits to the lord they just kind of set it aside you know in all this batter that you're needing take a little clump and set it aside this will mentally get you in the habit of thinking you know we don't own anything we are just stewards of what god has flowed through us to be a blessing to others so by setting aside a little portion it's teaching us to be less self-centered and to manifest the selfless love and application by giving back to the lord a portion just recognizing that it's all his anyways whether it's your money or it's your dough or it's um anything in your life that god has given you we are just conduits of his blessing to others and so whether it's giving your tithe that you're having a difficulty in or whether it's sharing with others or feeding the poor or whatever it is true eternal life can only be entered into if we deny the flesh as johoshua did and operate as living sacrifices totally dead to ourselves and operating in the spiritual realm which is totally selfless love and this is what offerings and tithing is supposed to teach us it's not that god needed anything he's just taking care of the whole house of israel through these ties and that's why the levites would receive a portion an equal portion with the other 11 tribes so verse 22 says if by mistake he even makes a way if you make a mistake you know most of the sacrifices for sin were for mistakes like sins of ignorance that's why yeshua when he was on the cross he said father forgive them for they know not what they do he was placing all of those sins in the category of ignorance because there's atonement for ignorance be very careful though for those who have a knowledge of truth and say that's not what it means to me i don't care what god's word says i'm going to reject it because you're going to find that later in this chapter this is the first definition of blasphemy in the scriptures you will see down in verse 30 it says an individual who does something wrong intentionally whether a citizen or a foreigner so this goes for all of america and all the nations and all christians if somebody hears that god wants you to keep sabbath and they for instance this is just an example choose to reject it he says this is blaspheming adonai that person will be cut off from his people do people really believe the word of god or are they just going through the motions and plain church this is very serious but for mistakes god is so merciful back in verse 22 he has a way to provide for you because the original wages of sin was immediate death but by the grace of god and the lamb slain from the foundation of the world he's made a way that life could be imbued to you so that you could learn from the cause and effect of when you're in harmony with him oh look at the health and blessings you're receiving oh you're stepping out of harmony with them immediately you start to experience a loss of blessings and health and relationships and all of these things so he imbues life to us and the lambs from the foundation of the world is taking our sins upon himself so that we can learn through the cause and effect but we're not to continue to sin knowingly he's made a way for our mistakes but not for rebellion there's no atonement for a rebellious spirit he says if by mistake you fail to observe all of these mitzvot commandments that adonai has spoken to moshe yes everything that adonai has ordered you to do through moshe from the day out and i gave the order and onward throughout all your generations which includes today then if it was done by mistake by the community and was not known to them the whole community is to offer one young bull for a burnt offering as a fragrant aroma to adonai with its grain offering and its drink offerings in keeping with the rule and one male goat as a sin offering so those that are claiming to be under the blood of yahushua and they're claiming his blood as a sin offering what does this say only if it's a mistake even that blood does not cover rebellion or knowing rejection of god's word very serious to think about it says the cohen the priest is to make atonement for the whole community of the people of israel and they will be forgiven because it was a mistake see all of these things point to yahushua the lamb of god and so we're supposed to understand these on a deeper level that's why torah is applicable for us today otherwise we'd be prone to deceive ourselves and justify every sin and just say oh well the grace of god is so great he's gonna save us by force if you will and that's what universalism is kind of all about there's a false doctrine called universalism that everybody's going to be saved regardless and we know that if it's up to the father he does desire for everybody to be saved he's gone to every length to make sure that's possible but he's not going to usurp the will of man man will always have the freedom of choice so here he says it will be forgiven only if it's a mistake and they have brought their offering and made an offering by fire to adonai and their sin offering before adonai for their mistake he keeps reiterating it the whole community of the people of israel will be forgiven likewise the foreigner because for all the people it was a mistake if an individual sins by mistake he is to offer a female goat in its first year as a sin offering the priest will make atonement before adonai for the person who makes a mistake you think he's hitting it home enough he keeps reiterating make sure you know this atonement is for people that make mistakes try not to do something purposefully wrong there's grace and there's atonement for mistakes but god can't force a rebellious heart he says if he sins inadvertently accidentally that means he will make atonement for him and he will be forgiven no matter whether he is a citizen of israel or a foreigner living with them you are to have one law for whoever it is that does something wrong by mistake but and here's where the first definition of blasphemy comes in an individual who does something wrong intentionally knowingly whether a citizen or a foreigner he is blaspheming adonai that person will be cut off from his people because he has had contempt that means the same lack of faith that caused israel to go wayward and to bring back a false report and to grumble and not enter the land in the first place the same spirit is in people who will do wrong knowingly they have contempt for the word of god and that's exactly what's happening when people say well that's not what it means to me the word of god doesn't it's not living it's not eternal it doesn't apply to me today it was done away with all of these excuses that person it says will be cut off completely his offense will remain with him this is such serious language we can't reiterate it enough this is very similar to what it says in luke 12 verse 10 speaking of blasphemy luke 12 10 says everyone who says something against the son of man will have it forgiven him but whoever has blasphemed the spirit and the spirit of the spirit of truth which means anybody who does something wrong intentionally in accordance with the definition of blasphemy from numbers 15 30 will not be forgiven so even yeshua is reiterating this torah commandment don't blasphemy the lord by doing wrong intentionally and just thinking he's going to cover you he's covering his four mistakes [Music] verse 32 says when the people of israel were in the desert they found a man gathering wood on shabbat here's an example of their rebellion he's told him over and over again i've provided a double portion of food for you in this manna so that you don't have to gather wood you don't have to cook it it won't spoil it'll carry over into shabbat you're totally taken care of so you can rest because we're not supposed to work on shabbat the fourth commandment says remember the sabbath day to keep it holy six days you shall labor and do all of your work but the seventh day is the sabbath of the lord thy god in it you shall not do any work notice it didn't say it's the sabbath of the jews it's the sabbath of god and it was created for all mankind after creation all people that are descendants of adam are to observe shabbat and he says god created the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them but on the seventh day he rested so it even takes your mind back to creation and it tells us that not only are we not to work but our sons or our daughters or even our manservants or our maidservants so when you go to a restaurant and you say well i'm not going to cook for myself but i'll pay somebody else you're what do they call them servers right you're paying a servant to serve you to work so even that is forbidden on the sabbath you're causing somebody else to sin and to work it says even your animals or even the stranger the foreigner somebody who's passing through town and staying with you don't let them desecrate the sabbath on your property god's fourth commandment is so clear and so all-encompassing he couldn't be clear and he told him numerous times this is my sign between me and my people those that want to be called his people those that keep my shabbats that's exodus 31 30 and then he reiterated it in the prophets 31 13 and then in ezekiel chapter 20 verse 12 and again in verse 20 so three different places he says this is my sign between me and my people do you want to be known as his people and keep his shabbats here this man hard-hearted rebellious israelite still goes out to gather wood on the sabbath day so god has to finally allow the ultimate cause and effect to be seen in where this kind of rebellion leads to it leads to death it's the grace of god that any of us are living this is why he allowed this man to die and you know satan is the accuser of the brother and he's accusing us day and night and the minute he can claim your life by having a double witness he will do so and this is why in numerous cases you will see people laid to rest because god is a god of justice and he can't deny when somebody is in rebellion it says that people found him gathering wood and they brought him to moshe and aaron and the whole congregation for true judgment what does the word say moshe what will god say they kept him in custody because it had not yet been decided what to do with him then adam and i said to moshe this man must be put to death the entire community is to stone him to death outside the camp so the whole community brought him outside the camp and threw stones at him until he died as adam and i had ordered moshe so a very severe example of where rebellion leads now in this last three verses he gives the commandment to wear zitsi as a reminder so that we won't be tempted to do things like gathering sticks on shabbat or breaking shabbat or being rebellious any longer he tells us to wear a little tassel with blue in it that reminds us of the commandments and to keep them because remember it's only mistakes that are toned for adam i said to moshe speak to the people of israel instructing them to make through all their generations zitzi on the corners of their garments and to put with the zitzi on each corner a blue thread it is to be a zitsy for you to look at now in exodus 24 10 when it talks about god taking this stone from underneath his footstool it was blue sapphire stone and so this blue it's called tahelet in hebrew it means sky blue it's like when you look out in the sky it's kind of this light sapphire color and it's always to remind us god the earth is god's footstool and he is taken from his footstool this precious stone as a betrothal to israel in giving the covenant of the ketubah which is the torah god has placed it on the most ornate beautiful stone and wrote with his own finger letters of fire as a gift to his bride and the blue in our zeat seed is to remind us of that covenant that our forefathers made with israel and the dedication that we have made with him to keep his commandments it is to be a zit for you to look at and thereby remember all of adonai's commandments and obey them so that you won't go around wherever your own heart and eyes lead you to go into spiritual adultery to prostitute yourselves but it will help you as a reminder to obey all of my commandments so do you think god wants us to obey all of his commandments or just some of them as many as we can obey while we're in exile without a temple without being priests as many as we can obey we should seek to obey they're not burdensome they're all laws of love how to love him and how to love our fellow man the zeat seat is a little reminder because in the past as much as god tried to remind our forefathers they kept rebelling and they kept forgetting and they kept going into air so he gave us a little reminder and it's reiterated in deuteronomy the same commandment he says it will help you to remember and obey all my mitzvot commandments and be holy for your god so it leads us into holiness commandment keeping holiness they're correlated together i am yodhai bhave your god who brought you out of the land of egypt in order to be your god i am yod hey vavhe your god and this is where the torah portion ends but when we think about the correlations between the old generation those tin spies that spoke negative they didn't have any obedience and numbers tells us that they complained and they were greedy they wanted an easy life they didn't want a simple diet even if you look back a couple chapters when moshe says why are you rebelling he's referring to what had happened just before in last week's torah portion look at verse of chapter 11 it says the mixed crowd that was with them grew greedy so this is self-focus what's in it for me how easy is it for me they got greedy for an easy life we have to be really careful as the final generation not to get swayed by all the ways of the world that make things convenient for us that make us really become like laodicea lukewarm in need of nothing as revelation puts it says these people of israel for their part they grumbled they complained verse one says they began complaining they were self-focused and they wanted an easy life and then down in um later in the verse it says if only we had meat to eat now god had originally given a very simple diet in the garden of eden and then when he brought them to the wilderness he gave them manna which was angel food what better gift is that than angel food and yet they have a taste for meat because meat's a stimulant we have to be really careful about any stimulants in our life and how we're getting addicted to these things certain taste god has given us simplicity the healthiest things are the most simple ones the things that grow on the trees and from the ground and if we rebel against that where are those stimulants going to lead later there's an old saying that one stimulant leads to another and the desire for another and never and there's no into that so this is just a little idea of what ancient israel was dealing with that we can see people are still dealing with today in the ways of the world nothing's changed but we're the final generation and i'd like to draw a correlation between the old generation that died out in the wilderness representing those the last 2000 years that have claimed to be followers of yahushua and yet denied the word of god following the traditions of men and following the own lust of their heart i want to draw a correlation with the old way of thinking to the hof torah where we see the final generation taking the land by force conquering jericho and there's a beautiful example of people even being grafted in in the final generation rahab when she has faith she puts that faith into action it's not a dead faith she actually risked her life to support israel and to promote the god of israel even though she was a canaanite in jericho so think about even people that can't trace their lineage or don't think they're descendants of tribes of israel they can be grafted in and receive the same blessings and inheritance in the land as i mentioned a little while ago the tin spies spoke negative about israel be very careful to only speak positive about israel negative speech represents a lack of faith whereas rahab she believed and she was grafted in and she had faith and she got an inheritance in the land and god blessed her lineage not just her but her future seed so much that who came through her lineage joshua just like ruth is another example of somebody being grafted in and saying your god is my god your people will be my people this is the mindset that people need to have whether you consider yourself american or christian or whatever when you realize this importance being grafted into the whole house of israel is a mindset of observing the only worshipping the one true god of israel following his torah which contains all of his instructions and how to live a life of love and how to be faithful to your brothers and sisters in israel as well as to the god they serve now some of the symbols of rebelliousness that we saw in this morning's torah portion reading was rebellion leads to disobedience and first john 3 4 as we mentioned says sin is the transgression of the in your english bibles it'll say law right why because the old mindset of the dark ages was let's make torah a negative thing let's make it sound burdensome let's make it sound like rules and restrictions so everywhere where it says torah in the original manuscripts king james translated into law so literally sin is defined as the transgression of the torah it is lawlessness now when yeshua gave this parable about people in the in the age of mashiach when he comes and they say lord lord they're using the substitute name many people who says lord lord but people that claim to know him but aren't really following the commandments of god they say didn't we cast out demons in your name didn't we prophesy in your name look at what we did in our own power this is that presumptuous of that old mindset and he says depart from me workers of lawlessness of torrellousness i never knew you so he defines knowing us and being a part of the sheep as torah observance he separates the sheep from the goats by those who were lawless i never knew you he says so this is should be very convicting to those being raised in a christian background who promote doing away with the law because anybody no matter who they are they want an inheritance in the kingdom to come they want to believe that they're going to be saved everybody talks about being saved in salvation and here the definition of being saved is keeping the law this is brings intimacy where he would know us they complained the old generation were greedy they were focused on materialism self-seeking they wanted an easy life if god calls you out to do something difficult don't be afraid that he'll provide the way to do it because your spiritual growth is going to be greatly enhanced and blessed through going through whatever difficulty he's asked you to do it's not always going to be an easy life in fact he said it's not going to be easy if you serve me right he warned his disciples [Music] i was persecuted the light came to the world the world did not recognize it they won't recognize you either and he said that in the last days you would even be brought before courts and falsely accused and persecuted it's not going to be an easy life but when you have the spirit of god flowing through you what does luke say is going to happen you're going to bless those who curse you and pray for those who despitefully use you like yeshua you're not going to feel a need to defend yourself you're only going to speak love and you're going to be a testimony a living testimony of what his word looks like in action in living flesh you're going to be living taurus in essence just like he was you're going to be a light to the world all those things that ancient israel did led to idolatry self-seeking following the way of the world and today you can hardly differentiate the life of a so-called believer from the way of the world for all intents and purposes there's nothing to really separate but if a person starts wearing zitsi and they start keeping shabbat all of a sudden everybody knows on your block who that person is you're different than us we claim to believe also but our belief doesn't work righteousness it doesn't work obedience what does james say actually yaakov in the hebrew brother of yahushua who knew him better than anybody he says faith without works is dead faith it doesn't mean anything so we should be able to be different than the world we should look different rahab she believed and that belief worked its way in action to show her faith and some of the symbols of the hof torah and the story of rahab in helping the spies this time joshua sent two men not 12 into the land and they spied it out and they brought back a favorable report they had faith that worked obedience we need to have a faith that leads us to obedience today they spoke positive about israel we need to speak positive i even heard people that came on one of our tours from israel come back and talk about oh we had to walk so far and oh it's so difficult and it cost so much and all this grumbling and i thought wow it's just like ancient israel not that much different we got to be so careful we should be praising the fact that we are the final generation and we are so close to being able to be in the land permanently when mashiach comes we will be given an inheritance in the land and all the blessings in the land will be restored and what a joy to be able to walk the land however difficult it is as you know the first time that you went to israel you know everybody walks everywhere but how easy it is for us to grumble we need to speak positive we need to step out in faith and go back to the land just like the spies we should get familiar with the land it will bring your spiritual walk to a whole new height and it will develop your faith and it will make the bible come alive for you we need to if you can't identify with israel already through all of our sharing about the descendants of israel being dispersed all over the world and how they lost the knowledge of who they were and what tribe they're from and they just thought they were from different areas of europe even still if you can't identify let's say you're from a part of the world that you say there's no way i think i can be a descendant of israel you can be grafted in that's the good news this is part of the basara the good news is that by being grafted in you will receive the same blessings and promises that god promised our father jacob abraham isaac and jacob a rehab was blessed with protection she didn't die when destruction came to her city she received an inheritance in the land she had a good marriage good relationship she had wealth so think of all the areas that god wants to bless you in mentally physically spiritually emotionally in your relationships and financially on all-encompassing blessing if we will align ourselves with god and his people if you can't identify with israel get crafted in this is what paul was talking about god made possible through yeshua that a few branches of the olive tree representing israel would be broken off for a time so that this message could go to the whole world and some wild olive branches could be grafted in we need to have belief in the word of god don't just say oh that's a nice document historical document or that's for the ancient children of israel i don't think god really wants me to do what he said those many years ago even though he kept saying it's a perpetual statute for every generation over and over and over throughout all your generations we need to really have a belief that causes us and motivates us to seek to live it out to the best of our ability and where there's not a temple today and we can't offer the literal sacrifices at this time that we read about at the end of the chapter the grain offerings and the wine and the olive oil we can find its symbols in our spiritual walk and when the sacrifices ended when the temple was destroyed in 70 a.d the jewish people preserved the way of the priest and the sacrifices through the liturgy of prayer and praise so we can offer up a sacrifice of praise and i encourage you to develop your prayers on a deeper level at the time of the morning and the evening sacrifices this is the most powerful time for your prayer to say the amidah or to say a prayer from your heart if you don't know the amidah the standing prayer that daniel said three times a day david king david he added a third time of the day which was high noon so he always had the morning and the evenings time as powerful times for prayer and then david said and we should pray at high noon and so this is where three times a day came in and the origins of it we should start practicing that setting those times aside just like we said aside certain days of the year and we should keep shabbat and where are zitsi we should be a set apart people shabbat is set apart from the rest of the week it sets us apart in holiness this is why it sanctifies us god says he did three things he rested he put a blessing in this day and he sanctified it because in it we get blessed when we rest and we get set apart from the world and sanctified as his people and by wearing zitsi we're testifying that we really believe in god's word that blue thread is not only a testimony to others but it's a reminder for us and it's a beautiful thing to wear zitsi and to feel the prompting of the spirit on your heart when you start to do something self-centered or selfish or outside of god's law of love the spirit will powerfully remind you when you're wearing zt so i encourage you to try to adopt that practice step out in faith follow god's word even in america don't be afraid of what people will look at you or think of you i have seen people in airports with zitseed on and it's sometimes it's like partying the red sea people it creates an awkwardness if they people say what's those things on your under your shirt you know coming out from your shirt and you share with them oh god told us to wear these to be a reminder of keeping his commandments all sudden they're like when they spread out oh that's nice you know and they don't want anything to do with you no more conversation they just kind of part the way really interesting how the world god separates us from the world but we should be willing to testify to our joy we're not doing it because we're worried about going to hell or the reward of heaven we're doing it because we love our heavenly father and we know everything he asks us is for our good so i encourage you as the final generation to adopt the spirit of rahab have a faith that works obedience and see the blessings that get restored to your life with that let's stand and we'll close in prayer abba father i thank you lord for having such patience with us and for revealing to us why you've established these laws of love to restore the blessings and health and wealth back to our lives and to rekindle a lost relationship with you so that through the observance of your word we can have intimacy with you we can be called your people once again we can be a kingdom of priest and a bride without spot or blemish and so we thank you father for being so patient for having your long-suffering character to labor along with us while we were hard-headed while we were in ignorance why we were even in rebellion father forgive us for that rebellion forgive us for that hard-heartedness and empower us to live out your laws of love having real faith that works obedience in our lives then we can be a light to the nations the way you intended us to be and more people can be brought into a knowledge of truth and be saved in your coming kingdom we love you we thank you and we're just so blessed by the fellowship that we share not just here locally but worldwide that we can encourage one another in this walk of obedience together in your holy name we pray [Music] amen you

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Published: Sun May 30 2021