In this enlightening episode, delve into the profound truths of walking alongside God. Inspired by the scriptures, the speaker explores Enoch’s unique relationship with the Creator, highlighting the possibilities of attaining spiritual victory through unwavering faith and dedication. The discussion emphasizes the importance of recognizing life’s hardships as divine opportunities for spiritual correction and growth, urging listeners to embrace the full spectrum of life’s experiences. Listeners are guided to understand the dynamic presence of God in their lives, breaking down the barriers that often keep us from hearing His message. Discover how to cultivate an acute sensitivity to God’s
Many of us go through things, and as we’re moving through things, God is knocking at the door of our heart. He’s trying to speak to us, but because we don’t recognize His presence, we miss the message. We’re continuing a series today that I’m entitling Simple But Profound Truth. I opened up with the scripture from the book of Bereshit, which is the Hebrew word for Genesis or beginnings. And I quoted there from the fifth chapter where it says that Enoch, walked with God and then a very mysterious sentence that says, and he was no more for God took him. Most commentators understand that verse as being that Enoch was walking in such unity. with the Creator, that God simply lifted him off the earth and took him. Powerful, powerful, powerful. And I love scriptures like this because it puts in front of me the supernatural possibility of victory that you and I can gain through our walk with God. You see, Jesus said all things are possible to those that believe. We’re not talking today about religion, beloved. We’re talking about reality. We’re talking about supernatural reality. We’re talking about the fact that the same Jesus that walked on earth, that healed the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons. This same Jesus, beloved ones, is at work in our life today. And you can achieve in your spiritual journey with God so much more than you understand right now. If you’ll put God first in your life and with all your covenant, which is the Hebrew word for focus, with all your kavanah, with all your focus, aim all your actions and energy towards Him, obeying Him, walking with Him, putting Him first. You see, there is no limit to what we can enter into if we will truly develop the spiritual power to put God first in all ways, all the time, and to fulfill the most famous declaration in the Hebrew Bible to the Jewish people, which is called the Shema. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one, to truly make it all about this one. Now, last time I began to develop this series, Simple But Profound Truth, by giving the first key as to how we can walk with God, how we can be like Enoch and be one that the Lord would say at the end of our life, you walked with God. with me.” I’m not just spilling out words, beloved. The words that I’m giving you are filled with revelation and power and will change your life if you’ll truly receive them. God created the heavens and earth by His Word. His Word is living and active. It’s sharper than a two-edged sword. And the Word that I’m giving you, it’s a sword that will truly circumcise your heart, set you apart unto God so that you can walk with your Creator. How do we walk with our Creator like Enoch? Number one, we acknowledge God in everything. First of all, we acknowledge, beloved ones, that our very life is a gift. Every breath we take is a gift from our Creator. We have to recognize that. We have to recognize our life is a gift. If someone asks you how you’re doing, one of the things that should be on your heart in order to convey how you’re doing is this, you know what? I’m doing better than I deserve. Every single one of us is doing better than we deserve. We don’t even deserve to be here. There’s nothing that we did that warranted our coming into being. Our existence, beloved, each one of us individually, it’s a gift from our Creator. God gave us the gift of life. God gave us the gift of being conscious. God gave us the gift of today. As I said last time, your life may be hard right now, but you know what? That might be exactly what you or I need right now. If you’re going through a difficult circumstance, that may be exactly what is needed in your life for spiritual correction. Because the Bible says that Father God disciplines every child that he receives. That’s exactly what you need. It’s the best thing that could possibly be happening to you. It might be hard. It might be painful. But it’s exactly what you need. Don’t try to understand your life just by looking at the moment. You’ve got to see the big picture. God’s got a purpose for you. He’s got an eternal destiny for you and I. And like the Shulamite bride in the Song of Songs that said, let the north winds blow and let the south winds blow. and open up my heart to you, that you can come and live inside me, and that you’ll be able to give forth your fragrance through my life. So too, beloved children of God, you and I need both the north winds that represent cold winds that make us cold, and it’s hard to go through the north winds, and we need the south winds, those winds that refresh us and feel good. We need the combination of of both in order to fully blossom. The point is, we need to recognize God in everything. We need to recognize that our life is a gift, and we need to thank Him for everything that’s happening in our life right now. If you’ll practice recognizing from the time that you get out of bed in the morning the Lordship of God over the earth and over your life, And if you’ll give Him thanks for everything, believing it’s all for the best, because the Bible says, give thanks to God in everything, for this is His will for you in Christ Jesus. If you’ll believe that He’s truly Lord, if you’ll recognize that your life is a gift, if you’ll be grateful and have gratitude for the gift, And if you’ll thank him for everything, through the good and the bad, you’ll be well on your way to developing a supernatural platform that you can ascend up in the spirit of Yeshua to walk with your creator, to walk with God. So we’re gonna move on today. I’m gonna give you the second key, beloved ones, to walking with God. You can walk with God, beloved church, by understanding, listen now, His presence in your life. You can’t take for granted that you understand His presence. Jesus said to the religious leaders of His day, you know, you guys, you can recognize the signs in the sky about when it’s going to rain, but you don’t understand or recognize the signs of the Spirit. All of us need to grow, listen, in the understanding of God’s presence in our life. Many of us go through things, and as we’re moving through things, God is knocking at the door of our heart. He’s trying to speak to us, but because we don’t recognize His presence, because we’re not aware of His presence, because we don’t understand His presence, we miss the message. We miss His communication. You see, God sent His Son into the world who is called, listen now, the Word. Listen now, I’m saying we need to understand His presence. And when we think about understanding His presence, one of the key concepts connected to that is, listen now, that God is always, listen, speaking to us. That’s why His Son is called the Word. What does the Word do? The Word, listen, communicates. If you want to communicate to somebody, you speak to them, listen, with words. It’s the same reason, beloved church, that in Acts chapter 2, when the Ruach HaKadosh which is the Hebrew way to say the Holy Spirit, when the Ruach HaKadosh fell on those first believers, how did he manifest himself? He manifested himself as a tongue, listen, a tongue of fire. Why did he manifest himself as a tongue? I mean, he could have manifested himself as a dove there. He could have manifested himself as a rainbow. Ezekiel saw a rainbow around the presence of the Lord. But he manifested himself there initially, listen now, as a tongue. Why would it be a tongue? We have to ask ourselves that question. We just can’t say, oh, he manifested himself as a tongue of fire and move on. We’ve got to stop for a second and dig deep. Why a tongue? Why not a horse? You know, the prophet of old saw all these angels manifested with horses and chariots. Why not in some other form? Why did he manifest himself as a tongue? Why didn’t he manifest himself as water? We know the spirit is like water. There’s a purpose for everything God does. The reason, church, that he manifested himself to those first believers as a tongue of fire is because, listen, a tongue… is a speaking oracle. You use the tongue to speak. Without the tongue, you can’t speak. And the Holy Spirit has been given to the church in order to communicate to us, to impart to us, to speak into us, listen now, the things of God.
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We need to understand his presence because, listen, he’s always, get it, speaking to us. He’s the word. He’s a tongue. He speaks to us. He speaks to us through divine intuition. He speaks to us through dreams. He speaks to us in circumstances. He can speak to us through his creation. He can speak to us through other people. But so many times, listen, we miss it because we don’t Understand His presence. I want you to hear me. As you’re walking throughout the day, be looking for God to speak to you in your circumstances. He’s often trying to interrupt us or direct us through our circumstances. Pay attention. Don’t be dumb and blind to the working of the Holy Spirit. I’m not wanting to insult you, but many of us were not awake. Look at what God may be saying to you in the circumstances and be sensitive to His presence. Don’t be stiff-necked. But obey Him. In other words, if you’re feeling a check in your spirit about doing something or saying something, don’t be stiff-necked. Obey Him. Stop and don’t do it. So many people are suffering needlessly. God is speaking to them, telling them not to make that financial purpose, telling them not to marry that person, telling them not to eat that food, telling them whatever, so many different things. And yet they don’t pay attention because they’re stiff-necked, they’re stubborn, they’re in the flesh. They go ahead and they do those things. And what happens? They end up suffering pain because they weren’t able to understand and recognize God’s presence in their life. I encourage you to pay very close attention to your dreams at night because the Father often speaks to us in our dreams. We read in the book of Job, for example, that God speaks once, yea, twice, when man is fast asleep in his bed. God is trying to open our minds and our hearts to give us instruction. As we study the pages of Scripture, so many times God gave direction to his loved ones while they were sleeping in their bed at night. Think about Joseph. How did Joseph… Jesus’ father know how to take Yeshua into Egypt so that Herod wouldn’t kill him. The way he knew that, beloved one, is because father spoke to him in a dream and said, take your son, Jesus, into Egypt. And Joseph obeyed. How did Joseph know when it was time to take Jesus out of Egypt back to Israel? Once again, the Lord spoke to him in a dream. How did the patriarch Jacob gain the revelation to have courage that God was with him? It happened to him, beloved, in his sleep. He laid his head down on a rock. And while he slept on the rock, he saw a ladder that extended from the rock that his head was on to heaven. He saw angels ascending up and down the ladder. And he woke up and he said, surely God is in this place. He understood that the ladder where his head lay on that rock extended all the way up to heaven. And when he saw the angels of God extending up and down the ladder, he recognized God’s with him here on earth. How did he get that revelation, beloved ones? In his sleep. I want you to know God has saved me from so many wrong decisions through dreams at night. And he’s directed me and prepared me for so many things through dreams at night. But I’m paying attention. I could miss it if I chose to wake up in the morning and not ask myself, did I dream anything last night? Did God say anything to me last night? Did the Spirit give me any message last night? If I woke up without asking myself those questions, I would miss so much of what I’ve received. Listen, beloved one, you’re not a robot. You’re not a robot. God’s not going to force you. He’s not going to force His Holy Spirit on you. He wants you to respond. He’s looking for a lover. He’s looking for you and I, church, to love Him back. He’s looking for a partner in love. So when He speaks to us, He’s not usually going to cram it down our throat and put us on our back and put His fist in our face and say, you must receive this. No, He’s going to reveal Himself to us in love, and then He’s going to give us the choice, beloved, to listen and respond. Hear, O Israel. Hear, right? You’ve got to listen. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. And that word for hear, shema, is we have to hear and we have to obey. We have to listen. We have to be sensitive to His presence. We have to recognize His presence. Other people sometimes speak things into our life. We may not like what they have to say, but we have to ask ourselves, God, is there something in this for me? I don’t like what this person said. Maybe they even said it with a bad motive. Maybe they had an evil spirit or a bad attitude towards me. But you know what? Was there any truth in what they said? Was there any correction that I need to take to heart in what they said? Some people have so much pride, they just close their heart, they won’t listen. But for those of us that know Hashem, for those of us that know our Creator, we need to pay attention to our circumstances. We need to listen to what people are saying and filter it and ask, Father, is there something in this for me? Beloved child of God, you and I can walk with God like Enoch. First of all, we need to acknowledge our creator, that our life is a gift and that he’s master of the universe. And then we need to recognize his presence in our life by having a spiritual sensitivity. I’ve got more for you. Stay tuned for this very important series. God bless you.
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What a great teaching. And now here’s Rabbi and his wife, Miss Cynthia from the studio to share a little more today on this teaching.
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I hope everybody understands that these truths that I’m proclaiming, they’re real. These are not just Bible stories. When the Holy Spirit came, honey, in the book of Acts, Peter said what was happening there was prophesied by the prophet Joel in the Hebrew Bible. He said when the Spirit of God is poured out, young men will see visions and old men will dream dreams.” In other words, the result of having the Holy Spirit in our lives is that God speaks to us. He speaks to us so many ways. And one of the ways that I was speaking of in the show today was through dreams at night and even vision. Most visions in the Spirit are very subtle. They’re simply pictures that God puts in our mind. I find oftentimes as I’m waking up in the morning, God will just give me a simple picture that will appear in my subconscious and it will give me direction for how I’m to proceed with the day. The point is, is that we have to acknowledge God’s working in our life, look for Him, and then be sensitive to His leadership.
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Right. And I find that so much in my life. I need to look for it. I need to wake up to it. And that’s what I love about your program. It helps to retrain us in looking for the signs of God that we’re missing every day. And for me, I sleep such a heavy, heavy sleep. I feel like my whole being just goes so deep that when I wake up, I can’t remember anything. And maybe some of the viewers feel that way as well. You know, Rabbi keeps saying, you know, listen for your dreams, write down your dreams. And you might wake up and say, I don’t remember any dreams. And it’s the same for me because I feel like I when I sleep, I’m very heavy. I’m way down. But God, He gives dreams intermittently. So He still wants me to wake up And even before I’ve even stepped my feet on the ground to think about what was my dream that I had and to write it down, because sometimes as I’m writing it, the revelation comes that this is significant. There’s something God’s speaking to me, but I would have missed it if I hadn’t taken that pencil out and looked to him and asked for him to help me remember the dream and to write out the dream. And then he fills it with a revelation.
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You know, the Bible, honey, the Scriptures are our basis for faith and doctrine for godly living. But the Bible doesn’t specifically tell us, you know, who to marry, what college to go to, whether we’re supposed to move or not. I mean, all these details. But yet, even though the Scriptures don’t speak about the details, the Spirit of God is still speaking and He’ll speak to us about the details. This is why Jesus said, He that has an ear to hear Let them hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. Beloved ones, if you’ll acknowledge that God is working in your life and be sensitive to His presence, you’re going to be led into pastors of plenty. 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 Third 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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If God is calling you to give to Discovering the Jewish Jesus, please call us at 800-777-7835 or give online at discoveringthejewishjesus.com. And you know, we’ve had a lot of people reach out to us lately about what’s happening in Israel, and they want to know how they can support Israel. And the truth is, there’s lots of ways you can support Israel. But I really believe that the best thing that we can do for Israel is send them the gospel. And that’s what Discovering the Jewish Jesus is focused on doing. We’ve put up billboards in Israel asking the question, what if he is right? There’s digital ads that do the same. And when people go to the website, it’s all in Hebrew. it shows them that Jesus is the Messiah. It walks them through Old Testament biblical prophecy pointing to Jesus. And we have people responding saying, do you have a synagogue where you meet at? Where can I get more information? People in Israel are being reached with the gospel. And we can’t do it without you. So if you would like to support this ministry, give at discoveringthejewishjesus.com. And now for the Aaronic Blessing, first sung in Hebrew and then spoken in English. Here’s Rabbi.
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The Aaronic blessing in the book of Numbers, chapter 6, is not a blessing that comes from an impersonal being out there somewhere in the heavens. This special blessing comes from a person, Yahweh, God Almighty, our Creator and Maker. So receive God’s blessing into your life right now.
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. Come back next week when Rabbi Schneider reveals how we can achieve unity in Jesus. That’s coming up Monday on Discovering the Jewish Jesus.
