Join Rabbi Schneider as he explores the concept of creating a spiritual resting place for God within our hearts. This insightful episode reflects on Enoch’s walk with God and extends this ancient narrative to our contemporary lives. Rabbi discusses practical steps to foster peace and obedience to God’s will, encouraging listeners to embrace a life where Jesus’ presence is profoundly tangible, transforming every aspect of their spiritual journey.
How can you and I ascend in the Spirit in our walk with God? Jesus said, if the Son shall make you free, you’ll be free indeed. Jesus, beloved, has an abundant life for us. Father God, we pray that you will strengthen us to lay a hold of you. And Father, what we saw happen in Enoch’s life prophetically, Father, would happen in our lives in a greater way, that we would seize you, Father God, and walk with you and ascend with you, Lord Jesus, into the heavenly places, even as Enoch walked with God and was no more. I’m reading in the book of Bereshit, Genesis, chapter 5, verse 23 and 24. Hear the word of God. So all the days of Enoch were 365 years. And Enoch walked with God and he was not for God took him. I believe that the Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible, is a material prophetic shadow, beloved, of what Yeshua fulfilled for us in the spirit. In other words, Israel being delivered out of Egypt is a symbol or a shadow of you and I being delivered out of the world and out of demonic power that is represented by Pharaoh in the Hebrew Bible. So I believe the physical realities that we see in the Hebrew Bible are shadows, beloved, of what is accomplished for us in the spirit in Messiah Jesus. And so this scripture that we just read, and Enoch walked with God and he was not for God took him. I believe this is a shadow of you and I walking in harmony and fellowship with the Lord and ascending up with him in the spirit, even as Enoch was taken up in the heavenly places. You see, the book of Ephesians tells us we’ve been raised with Messiah and are seated with him there. In the heavenly realm, just like Enoch walked with God and was taken and was no more. So what we’re doing is we’re contemplating how can you and I ascend in the spirit in our walk with God? Jesus said, if the sun shall make you free, you’ll be free indeed. Jesus, beloved, has an abundant life for us. He said, I’ve come to give life and to give it more abundantly. But remember, he also said that life is consisteth not in the abundance of things, so that life is not on the outside. True life, beloved, is found on the inside and issues forth from the indwelling Holy Spirit, whom Jesus said, Those who received would find themselves, when they believe, rivers of living water, John 7, that would flow forth from our innermost being. As Enoch walked with God, beloved, so you and I are being brought into this tangible reality of experiencing Jesus and walking with God, even as Moses did. And the Lord called Moses a friend to whom he spoke face to face. I want to pick up today and talk about what are some action steps in order to increase our ability to walk with God and in so doing ascend in, hallelujah, His Spirit. The Lord wants to dwell with you. He wants to dwell in you and He wants to be at peace dwelling in you. And as the Father can be at peace dwelling in you, when that happens, then we’re going to begin to experience him in a whole new way. That’s why Jesus said in John 14, 23, when you love me and put me first and make me preeminent, he said, I’m going to come to you, disclose myself to you and make my home with you. Jesus says that when we’re living in harmony with him, when we’re choosing him in oneness, When we’re saying to him, I want to do your will, Jesus. I want to be in obedience to you. And because I love you so much, because I crave fellowship with you and intimacy with you, I’m willing to obey you whatever it takes. As long as you give me the grace to do it, Lord, I want to do it. Jesus says when we do that, He’s going to release the revelation to us of how much the Father loves us. And He said, I’m going to make my home with you. In other words, when we think about where home is, we’re going to come to an experience in life where we’re going to truly feel that our home is Jesus, that Jesus’ presence so surrounds you and you’ve so come to experience His indwelling reality in you that you’re always in Him, experiencing the reality of being in Him and being in Him and experiencing that reality, you have a conscious awareness of love, of comfort and of a sound mind. That’s what Jesus wants to do for us. That’s what He said He would do for us when we make it all about Him. That’s why He said, listen, if you want me, you can have me, but you got to forsake everything else. You’ve got to make it all about me because I can’t accept the lukewarm. I spit them all out of my mouth because I’m too magnified. I’m too holy. I’m too preeminent to be able to give myself to people that don’t really want me. That’s why I said, he said. He’ll cast the lukewarm out of his mouth and he won’t give what’s holy to dogs. And so if you’re willing to come to him on his terms and say, Jesus, the world is not what I want, because Jesus said, what does a man profit if he gains the whole world but loses his own soul? If you come to the place and say, Jesus, it doesn’t matter what I have to give up. It doesn’t matter what it takes. It doesn’t matter what I have to lose. All I want, my Jesus, is you. Then Jesus is saying, you qualify for eternal life. And this is eternal life, he said in John 73, that you might know God. And in God’s presence, beloved, there are treasures and fullness of joy forevermore. So we’re talking about coming into this real living experience, hallelujah, with Jesus. Well, when we think about where home is, we’re going to come to an experience in life where we’re going to truly feel that our home is Jesus. Remember David, the king of Israel’s heart? What did he say? David’s heart was he wanted to build God a temple, because the Ark of the Covenant wasn’t in a temple. It was being housed in these temporary shelters. And King David said, is it right that I should live in this palace and there’s no resting place for my God? And so David said, I will not give sleep to my eyes. I will not slumber in my bed until I make a resting place for my God. David’s number one passion was to build a temple for the Lord where the Ark of the Covenant could rest. He wanted a resting place for God. Well, we know the story. David wasn’t able to build the temple because he had been in too many wars. But the Lord said, your son Solomon will build it. And we know that Solomon built the temple. And when it was built, the glory of the Lord so filled it that the priest couldn’t stand. It was God ordained and God was pleased with it, a resting place for his presence, the Ark of the Covenant symbolizing it. The reason I share that story is even as David wanted to build a resting place for the Lord, You and I, beloved, also should desire to build a resting place for God within us. That we should want to have a heart by saying, Lord, I want you to be at rest in me. I don’t want you to be in me always having to strive with me, that I want to go this way, but you want to go this way. I don’t want there to be any contention anymore. I want to so come under your authority. I want to so die to my flesh. that you can be at rest in me, to be like Jesus that said, I do nothing by my own initiative. Jesus, beloved, was at a place where Father, the power of God was at rest in him because Jesus wasn’t going his own way. It wasn’t like the Lord was always having to pull him back because Jesus had built a resting place inside him for the Father. And this is, Father, what we’re after. We want to so be crucified in the natural, in the flesh. to our own ambitions, our own desires, our demonic addictions, all these things that keep us from you. We want to have these things so crucified that your spirit, Lord, can be at rest in us, living through us, and being who you want to be through us. In Jesus’ name, hallelujah and amen. And beloved, this is a painful process to allow the Spirit of God, to allow the Father to crucify the flesh. That’s why the Bible says that the Father disciplines every son that He receives. But no discipline, the Scripture says, is pleasant while we’re going through it. But the end result is the peaceful fruit. In other words, this disciplining process where we’re allowing the Lord to tame us, where if we’re always the type of people that are pushing all the time, we’re always the type of people that are making things happen, we’re the type of people that are always knocking the door down, driving ahead, but we’re realizing, you know what? This isn’t God. This is me. This is a fleshly energy. I need to stop. I need to learn how just to wait on God. This is a painful process. But the Lord said, after you’ve been trained by my discipline, the Lord said, you will then have the peaceful fruit of righteousness. And for those of you that you’re always hesitating, you feel like the Holy Spirit is telling you to do something. You feel like the Holy Spirit is telling you to speak up. You feel like the Holy Spirit is telling you to get up. You feel like the Holy Spirit is telling you to stand up. You’re always holding back. You have a timid spirit. And the Lord saying, I haven’t given you a spirit of fear to many, but of love and of power and a sound mind. When you allow the Holy Spirit to discipline you and train you and you begin to respond to him and move with him when he’s moving, you also will be led into the peaceful fruit of righteousness.
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This is Discovering the Jewish Jesus and Rabbi Schneider will be right back. But first, I want to 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 want to 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. 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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So God wants to bring us to a place, beloved, where we’re enveloped in his peace because he is in us being who he is through us. And this is, beloved, the purpose of God’s creation, creating us. He wants Jesus, beloved, to be manifest through us so that his spirit, beloved, can have free reign, hallelujah, through our lives. And when that happens, when there’s that harmony going on, when we’ve been trained by righteousness, then we’ll be like Enoch, walking arm in arm with God and will ascend, beloved, in the spirit, just as Enoch ascended into God and was no more. And we will, beloved, enjoy his bliss and his presence forevermore. As we’re continuing now talking about walking with God, as Enoch did, I want to talk about the subject of peace, because having peace and seeking peace and cultivating the peace of the Holy Spirit is fundamental in walking with God. Remember, when Yeshua spoke about the Holy Spirit, He said, my peace I give to you. He was speaking about the gift of the Holy Spirit. And as he was speaking about the gift of the Holy Spirit, he said in the same breath, my peace I give to you. And remember in the Gospel of John, after Yeshua had been crucified and the disciples in fear fell away, remember they thought, wow, the one that we believe was the Messiah, the one that we left everything for, we thought he was the Messiah. And what happened? They crucified Him and He’s gone. And they were terrified. They felt like the world had been pulled out from underneath their feet. Their entire foundation had collapsed. They lost their identity. They lost their purpose. And no wonder we find them in the Gospel of John hiding in a room. And as they’re hiding in the room, Yeshua had been crucified. He had not yet ascended to the Father. He enters in through the room where they’re hiding in fear. And suddenly the scripture says Yeshua enters the room. He comes right through the wall and manifests himself to them. And he says, shalom, my peace I give to you. And then he breathes on them. And then he says to them, receive the Holy Spirit. So walking with God involves being harnessed by the reality of the peace of the Ruach HaKadosh, of the Holy Spirit. If we’re going to walk with God, beloved, if we’re going to walk in authority, we’re going to need to walk with peace and in peace because peace is precedes authority. There is no authority without peace. You know, before the throne of the Lord, we read in the book of Revelation, there is a sea of glass. Why is there a sea of glass before the throne of the Lord? A sea of glass, there’s no ripples on it, right? It’s calm. A sea of glass is perfectly calm. Why is there a sea of glass before the throne of God? What does it symbolically represent? It represents, beloved, the stillness of God’s peace. No ripples, no waves, just flat, still as glass. So if you and I are going to learn to walk with God, we’re going to have to cultivate peace in our life, the peace that the Holy Spirit gives. Jesus said again, I will not leave you as orphans. I will come to you. I will send you the Holy Spirit. My peace I give to you. Remember when the disciples were on the boat and the waves came and the winds came, Yeshua woke up and He spoke to the sea and He said, peace, be still. So this involves becoming aware of ourself so that when we feel ourself moving in to un-peace, we pull ourselves back and we harness that nervous energy and we pull ourselves back by the indwelling Holy Spirit and say, I will stay in peace. One of the names of the Lord is the Sar Shalom, the Prince of Peace. God is peace. The Bible says in the Book of Romans that the God of peace will crush Satan under our feet. Hallelujah. I take authority right now, Father, over Satan as an activity, and I crush you, Satan, and every demon that’s causing turmoil in the lives of God’s elect, and I render you to be still in Jesus’ name. Peace. So, Father God, we ask you to develop peace in us. Strengthen us, I pray, Father God, to abide in your peace. Strengthen us, Spirit of God, Spirit of Elohim, to abide in peace. So walking with God involves, beloved, being self-aware so that we can feel when we’re moving in to being settled. You see, what fear would do, it would push us out of being settled. When you feel that happening to yourself, reject it and say, I refuse to be pushed by fear. I refuse to be pushed by anxiety. I will abide by your authority, Lord Jesus, hallelujah, in your peace. And how do we become aware of this and how do we come to the place where we can bring ourselves into peace and abiding in peace? We oftentimes, beloved, do it through practicing what I call in Hebrew, lispag, which is the Hebrew word meaning soak up. It just means to sit before the Lord. You see, David said that he had stilled his soul like a child at rest leaning on his mother. Developing peace with God and developing a clear mind, beloved, takes the cultivation of soaking in God’s presence. It means that we’re going to need to be still before the Lord. The Lord says, be still and know that I’m God. And through practicing this discipline of just being still before God, just waiting on God, just soaking in the Holy Spirit, we begin by osmosis to absorb the presence of the Prince of Peace. Just by sitting before Jesus, just by sitting before him and saying, Lord, I want you. I want to receive you. Saturate me, Father. I want to just soak in your spirit, in your peace. We begin to absorb the Lord’s peace, his power, his presence, his strength into our lives. We’ve talked about walking with God. We’ve talked about conviction and how conviction is actually a gift of God because it gives us the ability to say yes to the Lord. That’s wrong, Father. I want to repent of that. I want you to cleanse me of it so that I can be closer to you so that nothing will be able to be separating me from you. We’ve talked, beloved, about learning how to be still before the Lord, to sit before him so he can get a greater grip of the fact that his spirit is inside us. We’ve talked today about peace and how we need to keep ourselves in peace and in God’s authority by pulling ourselves back from anxiety and from insecurity and fear when we feel the devil pushing us into these areas and saying, no, I refuse. I pull myself back to abide in you, Lord Jesus. And we talked about that we can gain a greater ability to do this by spending time simply sitting in God’s presence, just relaxing before Him like David leaned his soul against his mother and became at rest and secure in that relationship. 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In the book of Numbers chapter six, the Lord gave instructions to Moses and Aaron to speak this blessing over his people. And the Lord said, when you speak these words over my people, I will place my name on them and bless them. Receive the impartations of the Lord’s blessings.
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. God bless you and shalom.
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I’m Dustin Roberts, and this program is produced and sponsored by Discovering the Jewish Jesus. Join us again next time when Rabbi Schneider shares more of Enoch’s story as he walked with God and what it means for your relationship with the Lord. That’s Tuesday on Discovering the Jewish Jesus.
