Join Rabbi Schneider as he addresses the modern-day challenge of technology overshadowing our spiritual growth. He encourages listeners to put aside the distractions of smartphones and other gadgets that hinder genuine communion with God. This episode calls for a return to simplicity and deep reliance on the Holy Spirit to experience God’s presence authentically. Are you willing to forsake the superficial for a deeper, more tangible relationship with your Creator? Tune in for an empowering session that promises to inspire a renewed commitment to walking intimately with God, just as Enoch did.
there are too many of us that call ourselves believers that are not depending on the Holy Spirit. We’re depending only on religious forms, but we’re not beloved depending on the Holy Spirit. You know, Yeshua said in the Gospel of John, chapter 17, verse 3, these words as He defined for us what it is to have eternal life. Many of us, when we think of eternal life, we think about going to heaven. We think about living forever. But listen to what Yeshua said when he described eternal life. Once again, reading from the Gospel of John, chapter 17, verse 3. Yeshua said, And this is eternal life, that they might know thee, speaking of God, and Yeshua HaMashiach, whom thou hast sent. I’m going to read it once more. And this is eternal life, that they may know thee, the only true God. He was praying to his father and Jesus Christ, Yeshua HaMashiach, whom now was sent. Yeshua defined eternal life, beloved, as knowing God. I’ve taken as my theme scripture for this series, Genesis chapter 5, verse number 23 and 24, as we look at the life of Enoch. Now, Enoch was one of the first human beings upon the earth. There were no Bibles yet. Yet the scripture says that Enoch walked with God. Hear the word of God, beginning Genesis 5 in verse number 23. So all the days of Enoch were 365 years, and Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him. The question we should ask ourself at this point was, how did Enoch come to be able to walk with God? Was it his study of scriptures? Was it his church attendance? No, we know. There’s only one way. He was sensitive, beloved, to the Spirit of God and came into a relationship with God through the Ruach HaKadosh, the Holy Spirit. This is why Jesus tells us in John chapter 14 and John chapter 16 that the Holy Spirit is key. I want to read for you now from the Gospel of John, chapter number 14 and chapter number 16, some selected verses that reveal to us how it was that Enoch was able to walk with God. It wasn’t anything but one thing that was giving him this relationship with the Lord that was so beautiful and so intimate that God actually took him off the earth. It was so close. There’s only one way it could have been, because of his walk with God through the Holy Spirit. So listen to what Yeshua said in John chapter 14, beginning there at verse number 16. Yeshua said, “‘I will ask the Father, and he will give you another helper or comforter, that he might be with you forever.'” That is the spirit of truth, or the Holy Spirit, whom the world cannot receive because it does not behold him or know him, but you know him because he abides with you and will be in you. The reason Yeshua is saying there, you know him because he abides with you and will be in you, was because the ministry of the Holy Spirit was upon these that Jesus was speaking to. But he wasn’t inside them yet because Pentecost in Acts chapter 2 hadn’t yet come. And the Spirit of God only began to indwell man in permanency in a complete way upon the earth after Pentecost. So Yeshua says, I’m going to give you the Spirit of God. He’s going to be with you and will be in you. Now, he continues on this theme. As we continue, he says this. in the 16th chapter, beginning in verse number seven. I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away. For if I do not go away, the Helper, the Holy Spirit, shall not come to you, but if I go, I will send him to you. Let’s continue on as he continues to minister to us about the Holy Spirit in verse number 12. I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all truth, for He will not speak on His own initiative, But whatever he hears, he will speak and he will disclose, that’s manifest, reveal. This is a tangible experience. It’s him giving you something, revealing something, showing you something so that you’re going to be aware of it and experience it. The Holy Spirit’s alive. Yeshua says he’s going to come to you. He’s going to make known to you. Notice there’s real relationship here between two people, the Holy Spirit and the one that he’s revealing to. He will disclose to you what is to come. And he shall glorify me in the 14 verse, for he shall take of mine and shall disclose it to you. In other words, Yeshua says he’s going to take out of me the mystery of the Godhead. He’s going to take of the person of Jesus and he’s going to disclose it, reveal it and fill us with it. The Holy Spirit is going to communicate to us God himself. And he continues in the 15th verse, all things of the Father has are mine. Therefore, I said that he takes of mine the Holy Spirit and will disclose it to you. How did Enoch walk with God, beloved? Through the Holy Spirit that Yeshua spoke of here. And it’s the only way that you and I can walk with God today. And yet there are too many of us upon the earth right now that call ourselves believers that are not depending on the Holy Spirit. We’re depending on our intellect. We’re depending only on Bible study. We’re depending only on religious forms. going to church, trying to be good people, but we’re not, beloved, depending on the Ruach HaKadosh. And it’s only the Spirit of God Himself that can communicate to us that which is of God. We think we might know something when we know it in our mind, but beloved, knowing something in our mind isn’t the same as having it revealed in our heart by the Holy Spirit. God bypasses our minds oftentimes, and He reveals things to us in our inner man, in the inner person. There’s a lot of people that know the Bible in their mind very well, yet they’re not spiritual people. Beloved, I remember years ago, this experience of just waiting on God, and I came out of a business parking lot that I was at one day. I got in my truck to begin to drive away, and listen to me, indeed, when I say this to you, the Spirit of God powerfully spoke to me deep inside my heart. And this is what the Spirit of God said to me. And He didn’t speak it audibly, but it was so clear and so precise, I absolutely heard the voice of God’s Spirit. Here’s what He said to me. The reason my people are falling and failing like you’re seeing is because they’re not trusting me. But here’s what I want you to get. If you would just say the word trust God to me, I heard that word so many times it would have no effect on me. I mean, it would be like water off a duck’s back. How many times have we been encouraged? Just trust God. It doesn’t even register anymore to us. But when the spirit of God said that to me, the reason you’re seeing my people falling and failing. is because they’re not trusting me. There was meaning in the word trust. In other words, it wasn’t just a word that I heard with my brain and my intellect. It was a word rather that was filled with life. Remember, Jesus said, the words that I speak unto you are spirit and are life. When the Spirit of God said that to me, beloved, it wasn’t just that I heard the word trust, but it was filled with revelation in my heart. And here’s what the revelation was. They’re not clinging to me. He filled the word up with meaning. And the meaning he gave me when he said they weren’t trusting me was the meaning of clinging. He said, my people are failing and falling because they’re not clinging to me. If they’d be clinging to me, I’d be upholding them. But they’re not clinging to me. They’re not depending on me. They’re just going off or lying on themselves, not even aware of me. And so they’re falling and they’re hurting themselves and they’re finding themselves failing. See, the reason I told you that story was to emphasize the difference between just Bible reading versus depending on the Spirit of God. We need to do both. Too many Western believers, all they do is read the Scriptures without depending on the Holy Spirit.
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We need to be dependent on the Holy Spirit. Yeshua said, I am going to send you the Ruach HaKadosh, the Holy Spirit, and he will lead you into all truth. John told us in 1 John, you’ve received an anointing from the Holy One. He is not alive. This anointing that we receive, beloved, is an anointing to know Jesus. It’s an anointing to walk with God. It’s an anointing, beloved, to have a real communicable relationship with the Father and with the Son. through the Holy Spirit. But too many in the Western world, they want to line everything up logically. They want to think through everything with their mind rather than looking to the Holy Spirit and asking the Holy Spirit what He wants. Beloved, the Spirit of God blows where it wishes. The Spirit of God is above logic. My ways are not your way, saith the Lord, for even as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts. We need to stop relying just on logic. We need to stop relying on just our mind. We need to stop relying on just our natural resources. We need to stop taking a false comfort in people around us, beloved. And we need to begin to depend on the Holy Spirit. And we need to develop the courage to be obedient to him. Because if we’re not courageous in following the Holy Spirit, we are going to fall into and we are going to fail and we’re not going to be led into the truth and we’re not going to be led into intimacy with God. Because Jesus said, unless you pick up your cross, deny yourself and follow me, you cannot be my disciple. Beloved, Jesus has something real for you. It’s intimacy. It’s love. He wants to speak to us. He wants to make himself known to us. He doesn’t want our faith in him just to be about reading about what he did for other people. He wants our faith to be about what he’s doing also for us personally. He wants us to have a passion to be able to speak to people and say, Jesus did this for me. Jesus is alive. But you’re not going to be excited and I’m not going to be excited about Jesus, beloved, in a passionate way until we’ve experienced him for ourselves. The Spirit of God is real. Jesus said, unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God, not of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of the Spirit of God. The Spirit of God is real. That’s why those first disciples in Acts chapter 2 were able to speak in unknown languages. They were known languages, but languages that were unknown to them. How were they able to do that? Because there was a real person, a real life force, a real entity, the person of Jesus through the Holy Spirit that had come inside and indwelt them. The Lord, beloved, wants us to be able to walk with them even as Enoch walked with them, but it’s not going to happen until we begin to forsake everything else and lean, beloved, and take a hold of the reality of the Spirit of God. But I’ve got news for you. In today’s culture, the devil is capturing our young people and capturing some of you You know, something that looks good at first, in the end it could be death. All these gizmos and gadgets, it’s amazing to me. We sit down and we go out to dinner with 12 people to enjoy each other’s company, and everybody at the table is sitting there on their iPhones and smartphones and texting away, and no one at the table is fellowshipping with each other because they’re so connected to all this technology that it has become a demonic force leading people outside of themselves into some cyberspace that isn’t real. I want you to know, beloved, this is a trick of the enemy to take people outside of themselves into the darkness so that they’re not aware of God’s Spirit in them, so that they’re not sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit. People are addicted to them. Why are they so addicted to them? Because there’s something demonic about them. I want to encourage you, beloved, put down that iPhone. Put down that smartphone. Use it as a tool, but don’t let it be your master. Don’t wake up in the morning, the first thing every morning, to look at your iPhone. Beloved, I’m telling you, it’s a trick of the enemy. The Spirit of God is in you, but you’ll never be aware of the Spirit of God in you when you’re connected to all these gizmos and gadgets that are outside of you. The Bible says all that’s in the world The lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the boastful pride of life, it’s not from the Father, it’s from the world. Beloved, Jesus is in you. The enemy wants to lead you outside of yourself and outside of the reality of his spirit in you to keep you from God and to keep you addicted, beloved, to something that’s going to put you in chains. Do you want to walk with God, beloved? You have to make a decision. What are you going to choose to love? I’m telling some of you right now, we need to crucify these addictions to the cell phones, the iPhones, and all the other technology that’s become our master. Do something about it. If you need to, go back to your regular phone and check your emails a couple times a day, rather than constantly being addicted to that thing that you’re holding in your hand and keeping in your pocket, playing with all day long. Make a decision, beloved, to get back to simplicity. so you can cultivate an awareness of Jesus. And the same thing is true with the television set and all the other things. All these things, beloved, can be useful if we use them as a tool. But the problem is they become too many of our masters. And if we want to know Jesus, we need to make a decision. Are we going to choose our own indulgences and our own lust and allow these things to control us? Are we going to say, no, Jesus, I want you. This is a trick of the enemy to take me away from you. I want to ask you, who will be your master? I hope these aren’t just words that are making you excited. I hope there are some of you that are listening to this and you’re convicted by it. I know a lot of you are, but I pray that there’ll be some that’ll do something about it. I pray that many of you will not just hear this and say, he’s right. And then just go on to the next show after this and nothing changes. But I pray right now, Father, that you’ll break in and demolish the works of the devil, Father God, and set your people free from these demonic strongholds that are making them addicted to their cell phones, their iPhones, connecting them to a world, Father God, that isn’t real. Because Jesus said, I am the life, amen? Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. Are these gizmos and gadgets connecting you to Jesus, or are they connecting you to something else? Some of you are addicted to Facebook. That is another trap for many of you. Is that really nurturing your experience with the Lord to spend hours every day on Facebook, having people betray themselves to be oftentimes somebody that they’re not? Beloved, let’s not try to impress the world, amen? Let’s stay hidden, amen, in Jesus. That way we’ll know him when we humble ourselves, beloved. Get below all the superficial demonic and get low, hallelujah, in Jesus, where it’s quiet, in humility, where we can hear him and be led by him and learn, hallelujah, to love him. Jesus is in you and He wants to reveal Himself to you. He’s around us and He wants us to know that. But we have to do something too. The Lord said, draw near to me and I will draw near to you. Seek and you’ll find. Knock and the doors will be open. Ask and you’ll receive. We have to desire him, beloved, and draw near and do our part. And he in turn, beloved, will do his part and release the revelation of himself to us. Hallelujah. Through the Ruach HaKadosh. You see, the Holy Spirit is in us. When you were born again, beloved, when I was born again, when we received the Spirit of God, I know that for some of you, you can’t remember when that happened. Some of you were raised in church. You don’t ever remember having this like turnaround experience where you were an alcoholic and suddenly you got born again and now you’re not an alcoholic anymore praise the lord when that happens my conversion was radical but some of you don’t have an experience like that you remember believing for as long as you can remember even you were raised in church but beloved whether you had a radical salvation turnaround experience or whether you just remember yourself always being a believer The reality is that if you know the Lord, it’s because the Spirit of God came into your life at some point. Maybe you didn’t even know exactly when it happened, but there is no way into heaven except being born again. Jesus said, unless you’re born again of water and the Spirit, you cannot enter the kingdom of God. Nicodemus, don’t marvel that I said to you, you must be born again. Beloved, I want you to know this. If you’re born again, the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Jesus, He’s in you. But here’s the key, beloved. Even as Jesus is in us through the Holy Spirit, the Bible says, know ye not that you’re the temple of the Holy Spirit? Even as he abides in us, beloved, listen, we need to learn how to abide in him. He in us, beloved, and us now abiding in him. And so, Father, we ask you today, Father God, come, I pray. Strengthen us on the inside, Father God, to know the reality that you’re inside us. Give us that security, Father God, that will stay inside you, you and us, us and you, walking with you, Father, in Jesus. Thank you for tuning in today. 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The words from the Aaronic Blessing in the book of Numbers, chapter 6, verses 22 through 27, helps us to realize how good God is to you and I personally. So receive his blessing into your life, and then, beloved one, go bless somebody else in Jesus’ name 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. God bless you and shalom.
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This program is produced and sponsored by Discovering the Jewish Jesus. And I’m your host, Dustin Roberts. Join us again when Rabbi Schneider shares more about Enoch’s special relationship with God that we can all experience for ourselves. Find out how Thursday on Discovering the Jewish Jesus.
