Through the blood of Yeshua, we know that we are saved from our sins and have peace with God, however, there is new revelation in how our identities are to relate to God,through Yeshua. Join Rabbi as he relates this newfound relationship we have with God.
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It’s so critical, beloved, to understand who we are. It’s so critical to understand our identities. And it’s just as critical to understand where we’re going. You see, when you have a healthy understanding of who you are, it’s gonna affect the way you act. You know, Yeshua said, the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life. Have you ever thought about that? A lot of times we think of spirit as something very, very mysterious, and certainly there is a mysterious element to understanding the spiritual world. But think about what this means when Yeshua said, the words that I speak to you are spirit and life. When we think of this and we think about what is a word, a word, beloved, is a verbal expression, listen to this, of a thought. So what that means is the thoughts that we think, beloved, are spiritual. Sometimes when we think of the devil, for example, we think of, you know, some kind of figure with horns and demonic apparition. But I want you to understand, beloved, that the enemy comes to us, listen now, in the realm of thought, because when Yeshua said, the words that I speak to you are spirit and life, and knowing then that a word is a verbal expression of a thought, thereby deducing that a thought is spirit, we need to be very careful about guarding our thoughts. That’s why it’s so important, beloved, to seize the Word of God and not let anything else in because these words that Yeshua said, our spirit and life that control the thinking process determines whether we’re walking in the light or in the darkness. So with all that said, I want you to be prepared, beloved, to receive the Word of God today in Yeshua’s name. And that Word that you’re going to receive today, beloved, is going to be spirit and life. The Father said in the Hebrew Bible, to this one will I look. he that trembles or honors or has reverence for my word. We’re continuing then our study today in the book of Ephesians. We’re talking once again about identity and destiny. This to me is one of the most special portions of scripture in terms of my walk with God because in this section of scripture, beloved, the Lord reveals to us what he’s done for us before the foundation of the world. Ephesians 1 verse 3 says this, Blessed be the God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ of Yeshua HaMashiach, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Messiah, in Christ, just as He chose us in Him, in who? In Jesus. before the foundation of the world, listen now, and predestined us to adoption as sons through Yeshua to himself. We’re taking that apart now, and in taking it apart, we’re discovering two things. We’re discovering, number one, who we are to the Father, And secondly, what we’re discovering is where we’re going. It’s so critical, beloved, to understand who we are. It’s so critical to understand our identities. And it’s just as critical to understand where we’re going. Because as a man, think as so he is. You see, when you have a healthy understanding of who you are, it’s going to affect the way you act. It’s going to affect the way you treat people. It’s going to affect your relationships. It’s going to affect the way you serve. And when you have a proper understanding of where you’re going and have a hope because you know where you’re going and it’s to the Lord and to heaven, you’re going to have joy in your life and you’re going to have power and spiritual energy. That’s why the Bible says the joy of the Lord is our strength. In this section of Scripture, the Lord reveals to us who we are and where we’re going. As a side note to help illustrate this concept of knowing who we are is fundamental, I think about John chapter 13. And in John chapter 13, Yeshua was celebrating Passover with his disciples. The scripture says there in John 13 these words, that Jesus, that Yeshua, knowing that he had come from God, Knowing that the Father had given him all things and knowing that he was going back to God, he knew who he was. He knew he had come from God. He knew how blessed he was. He knew the Father had given him all things so he didn’t need anything else because he knew he already possessed everything. And he also knew where he was going. He was going back to God. And the scripture says, knowing that, listen now, he girded himself with a towel and and began, hallelujah, to wash the disciples’ feet. And beloved, when you and I are secure in who we are, when we know that we’re already blessed, we’re not gonna be so focused on trying to fulfill our own needs because we’re gonna know, beloved, that those needs have already been met and we’re already blessed, and it’s gonna free us, beloved, to be greater servants for God on this earth, just as we see in the life of Jesus. In the book of Ephesians, we learn, first of all, that our God has blessed us with every spiritual blessing. I’m gonna go now to the book of Ephesians. I’m gonna begin to read there once again in the third verse of chapter one. It says, blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ of Yeshua HaMashiach the Messiah, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places. The next verse, just as he chose us in him, in who? In Jesus, before the foundation of the world. Let’s take this scripture apart. This is going to be a very precise doctrinal study that we’re going to be going through. I want you to get this in you. Believe me, it will affect you and change your life. I know so because it has mine. First of all, let’s consider this. Blessed be the God and Father of Yeshua HaMashiach. That’s the way it begins. It’s interesting that when we go back to the beginning of Scripture, God is referred to, for example, by Noah in the book of Genesis, in the book of Bereshit, we call it in Hebrew, which means beginnings. God is referred to as the Lord God of Shem. When Noah speaks of God, he says God is the God of Shem. He’s tracing back different figures that we see recorded in Scripture. Later, we find in the book of Exodus, chapter 3, that the Lord reveals Himself as, listen now, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. As we come now to the book of Ephesians, we don’t see the Lord referred to as the God of Shem, as He was by Noah. We don’t see Him referred to as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. as he was by many of the biblical figures in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament. But now we see him, beloved, being referred to, get this now, as the God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, of Yeshua HaMashiach. You see, to us, to you and I, that have been adopted as sons by the Father through Yeshua. We don’t preeminently address him anymore as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He still is beloved the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but we don’t come to him through Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We come to him through Yeshua. You see, the only reason you and I have access to the Lord is because we’re in Yeshua. And so we no longer are addressing him predominantly by some of the titles that he was addressed by in the Hebrew scripture because we’ve been brought into a new covenant. And the covenant that we’re in, beloved, is the covenant that Jesus instituted with his own blood at Passover. when he lifted up that cup of wine and said something like, Baruch atah Adonai Eloheinu, melech halam, borei prihagafen, blessed art thou, Lord our God, King of the universe, who brings forth the fruit of the vine. Then he said to his disciples, this is my blood shed for you in the new covenant for the forgiveness of your sins.
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This is Discovering the Jewish Jesus and Rabbi Schneider will be right back. But first, I wanna ask you the most important question you could ever be asked. And that’s, do you know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior? If you haven’t yet invited Jesus into your heart today to lead your life and ask God to save you from your sins, I wanna invite you, do that right now. If you’re ready, then I want you to pray this prayer with me. Father God, I repent of my sins and I ask you to cleanse me with the blood of Jesus. I accept Jesus Christ, your son, as my Lord and Savior. Help me to follow you all the days of my life as you show me how. In Jesus’ name, amen. Friend, if you just prayed that prayer, I’m so excited for you. Let us know by clicking find Jesus at discoveringthejewishjesus.com. And now here’s Rabbi.
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Notice once again, blessed be the God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ of Yeshua HaMashiach, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places. God beloved for the rest of eternity will be known to the church preeminently as the God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ of Yeshua, hallelujah, HaMashiach, the Messiah and the King of the Jews. Because it’s only in Yeshua beloved that you and I have access to God. We’ve been adopted as sons in Yeshua. So He’ll always be known to you and I as the God and Father of Yeshua HaMashiach. As we continue on, beloved, I want you to consider with me, many believers today, when you hear them pray, they almost exclusively refer to the Lord as God or as Lord. And He is Lord and He is God. But you know what, beloved, if we find that our prayer life is almost exclusively addressing the Lord as God, then something, beloved, is missing in the depth of our relationship with Him. Because when you study the prayer life of Yeshua, and when you see the way Yeshua related to God, Yeshua referred to God, listen now, almost exclusively, get this, as Father. And the Lord wants to move you and I beyond just knowing Him as God. The Lord, beloved, wants you and I, listen to this now, to learn how to recognize and know Him deeply and intimately as, listen, our Father. So, for example, when you look at the words of Yeshua, we read these words in John chapter 5, verse number 17 and 19. Yeshua says, “‘My Father is working until now, and I myself.'” am working. John 10, 18, Yeshua says this, this commandment I received from my Father. Almost exclusively, Yeshua, Jesus, referred to God as Father. And you see, in order for God to be our Father, beloved, He has to be Yeshua’s Father, because remember, we are in Him. Listen to what Ephesians 1 says in verse number 5. He predestined us to adoption as sons. Remember, how does Yeshua refer to God? As Father. We read in Ephesians 1, 5, He predestined us, you and I that know Him, that are born again, bought by the blood of Messiah. He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, through Yeshua HaMashiach to himself according to the kind intention of his will. You see, if he’s not Yeshua’s father, he’s not our father either because we are, listen now, in him. We’re chosen in Him. Listen to what Ephesians chapter 1 verse 4 says. Just as He chose us in Him. In who? In Jesus. Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world. So you and I, beloved, are chosen in Yeshua. And in order for God to be our father, he must be Jesus’ father because we’re in Jesus. But hallelujah, the great news, beloved, is that he is Yeshua’s father. And Yeshua refers to him almost exclusively as father. And because he’s Yeshua’s father, beloved, he’s our father. And God today, beloved, wants you and I, listen now, to own him as our father. Father, just like Jesus does. And so we look at Jesus’ words, for example, in the Gospel of John, chapter number 20, verse number 17. Hear what Jesus said in John 20, verse 17. He said to his disciple, listen. I ascend to my Father and to your Father and to my God and to your God. Once again, we’re talking about how you and I have been chosen in Yeshua and adopted as sons by the Father in Him. In John 20, 17, Yeshua says, before He ascends to heaven to His disciples, I ascend to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God. Get the order of this. Yeshua says, I ascend to my Father. Now, why did he not say, I ascend to our Father? Because he said, I ascend to my Father and your Father. Why did he not just say, I ascend to our Father? Because, beloved, listen now, he’s Yeshua’s father first, and it’s only because we are in Yeshua that God becomes our father. But because we are in Yeshua, he has become just as much, hallelujah, our father as he is Jesus’ father. You see, the Gospel of John chapter 1 verse 14 tells us that Yeshua is the only begotten of the Father. In other words, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. That’s Yeshua. He’s the Word. The Word became flesh. Yeshua is the only begotten of the Father. He’s been in the Father as Son from the beginning. So Yeshua says, I ascend to my God, my God first. He’s Jesus’ God and Father first. I ascend to my Father, Yeshua said, and your Father. And the good news of this, beloved, is that when you stand in the mirror, when you recognize that you’re in Jesus, And because you’re in Jesus, hallelujah, God has become your father. That’s an awesome thing, hallelujah. And God doesn’t see your sin, beloved, because your sin, beloved, has been paid for, hallelujah, by the blood of Jesus. That’s why verse number seven of Ephesians says this, in him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins. Isn’t that awesome? Beloved, the forgiveness, hallelujah, of our sin and our trespasses in him. This is an awesome thing, the fatherhood, hallelujah, of God. Now, I’m going to begin once again, beginning with Ephesians 1, reading through several verses. Again, I’m going to be redundant here, but I want you to understand that repetition, hallelujah, is the motor of learning. Hear the word of God. Blessed be the God and Father of Yeshua HaMashiach, who, listen to this now, has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Messiah, just as He chose us in Him, in Messiah, before the foundation of the world. Now, what did I just read? Does it say, blessed be the God and Father of Yeshua HaMashiach who will bless us? No. Does it say, blessed be the God and Father of Yeshua HaMashiach who might bless us? No. What it says, beloved, is, blessed be the God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ of Yeshua HaMashiach the Messiah. Listen to this now. Who… has blessed us. He’s already blessed us. Blessed be the God and Father of Yeshua HaMashiach, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world. When did He bless us? He blessed us, beloved ones, get this, when He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world. You were blessed, beloved, when God chose you in His Son, Messiah Jesus, before you were born before the foundation of the world. Paul tells us in Timothy that this grace was granted to us, not according to our works, but because of His eternal purpose from eternity for our lives. And so we have reason to have joy today. We’re already blessed, beloved, because we’re chosen, hallelujah, in Yeshua HaMashiach, according to Paul’s words, before the foundation of the world. And once again, who’s the one that has chosen us and blessed us? God the Father. Blessed be the God and Father, 1-3 of Ephesians. Blessed be the God and Father of Yeshua Mashiach, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places of Messiah, just as he chose us, who the Father chose us in Messiah before the foundation of the world, and then he predestined us to adoption as sons. So who’s the one that has done all this for us? Listen, beloved, it’s God. the Father. You see, we find in the Hebraic tradition, in the Hebrew roots of Scripture, that it’s always the Father, beloved, that is the imparter of blessing. And so, for example, we see in the life of the patriarchs that Isaac, beloved, blesses his children and he calls his sons over and he says in Genesis, chapter 27, verse number 4, he calls his son and he says to his son, come near to me, come before me, that I might bless you. We see the same thing with Joseph’s father. When Joseph’s father heard of Joseph’s sons, he said to Joseph, bring them here to me, that I might bless them. And so in Hebraic tradition, it’s always the father that is the imparter of blessing. And so it’s no different here in scripture. Blessed be the God and father of Yeshua HaMashiach, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places of Messiah. You see, All of us have had imperfect fathers and some of us have had really terrible fathers. Some of you have had fathers that have abused you and abandoned you and have provided no leadership and no direction in your life. But you know what, beloved? Your earthly father isn’t your real father. Your true father, beloved, is your heavenly father, and he’s blessed you. That’s why Yeshua said, call no man on earth father, because you have one father, and that’s your father in heaven. And your father in heaven, beloved, has good things for you, and he’s blessed you with every spiritual blessing, hallelujah, in the heavenly places in Messiah. So, Father God, we bless you today. And we want to tell you, Father God, how thankful we are today for your love, Father, that you chose us in Messiah Yeshua, in your Son Jesus, before the foundation of the world, and predestined us, Father God, to adoption in him to be your sons. And Father, we want to begin to own you as our Father, even as Yeshua owns you as his Father, Father, in a deeper and more intimate way than ever before. So we pray that you’ll give us a spirit of wisdom and revelation to understand the depths of these truths, to understand, Father, the depth and the width and the breadth and the length of the love of God that predestined us in Jesus before the foundation of the world. Father, we love you today. Lord Jesus, we worship you today. I’ve always liked a very simple approach to ministry in both my preaching and, beloved ones, in helping God’s people understand why it’s important to support ministry with our finances. I’m reading a very simple portion of scripture I’ve referred to before, but I love it because it’s so simple and so authentic. Listen to what John says in the book of 3 John, verse seven and eight. Speaking of those that are sent out to preach the gospel, he says this, for they went out for the sake of the name And then he continues in the eighth verse by saying this, therefore, we ought to support such men so that we may be fellow workers with the truth. You see, not everybody’s called to do what I do. Not everyone’s called to travel to Africa, Israel, preach the gospel all over the world, et cetera. But you can have a part in the lives that are being changed through my ministry, beloved ones, by supporting this ministry. I want to ask you, if you believe in the word that I’m preaching, If you believe in me, if you believe that there is authentic fruit, and if you’re being helped, I want to ask you to support this ministry financially. You’re going to be blessed and have a reward for the lives that are being saved and changed.
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What I love about the Aaronic blessing is that it did not originate with man. The words actually proceeded from the very essence of God himself. The blessing comes from the book of Numbers, chapter 6. So listen to these words and receive the blessing of the Lord into your life today. The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift you up with his countenance. And the Lord give you, beloved one, his peace. And now in Hebrew.
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