In this episode of Discovering the Jewish Jesus, explore what it means to be spiritually complete in Christ. Rabbi Schneider reflects on the last day of Sukkot, explaining the significance of Sukkot Shalom, or dwelling in peace under God’s protection. From understanding Yeshua’s profound identity and security to the powerful imagery of the Aaronic Blessing, this episode is a call to find strength and rest in the divine covering and live boldly in your God-given identity.
00:00:01 Spiritual Cannibalism and Messianic Expectation
00:08:32 Living Under the Shelter of God’s Protection
00:15:38 Spiritual Cannibalism and True Fulfillment
00:18:52 Encouragement and Continued Ministry Support
We’re using people to fulfill ourselves. We’re spiritual cannibals. Rather than seeking to bless people and to give, we’re looking to use them, taking from them, to fulfill ourselves. Father God, we bless you today. Father, we open our hearts and we ask you to fill us afresh and anew with the Ruach HaKadosh. Father, we ask for fresh fire and fresh power. Father, we ask you to expand our hearts in the love of God. We ask you to cause the roots of our soul to go deeper into the realm of eternity, that we would draw forth living waters in Yeshua’s name. Amen. And amen. Most of you know of the last day of the feast and the ceremony that took place during this day, the water pouring ceremony, Hoshana Rabbah, written about in the Gospel of John, chapter 7. And now Yeshua was in the temple during this last great day of Sukkot. He was ministering to the people, and it was on the same day we know that the priest would go to the Pool of Siloam, gather water from the Pool of Siloam, bring it back to the altar at the temple, pour that water upon the altar, and everybody just started praising God. We read reports of the rabbis doing somersaults and praising God standing on their head. And the question is why such exaltation of joy? It was because, and I know many of you know this, that when that water was poured upon the altar at the temple, it represented the future blessing of the winter rains that would be coming. So it was an expectation a future blessing, and it represented the water that would be poured out, symbolizing the spirit that would be poured out when Messiah came. And it was a time of great messianic expectation. Jews in Israel were looking for the Messiah. Many false messiahs had emerged. They were looking for Messiah to come and liberate Israel. And so when that water was poured out upon that altar at the temple, it was a signal for them that Moshiach is coming and when he does, the spirit will be poured out. And so it was on that same day The Yeshua said, if you will drink from me, any man that drinks of the water that I will give him, that water will become within him a well of living water springing up to eternal life and rivers of living water will flow from your innermost being. I want to just put my arms around you right now. And I want to speak to you about your personal lives. The ministry that we have, that’s just an overflow of our personal walk with God. We always need to make first our own journey. We always need to make the main priority to be overcoming sin. in our own lives, because as we know, we’re in a battle every single day. And in order to drink from the living water that Yeshua promised on Hoshana Rabbah, what we first have to do is repent. I’m talking about repenting personally. And when we speak about repent, we’re also speaking about returning. Returning to the Lord. Like the Lord said to the children of Israel through the ancient prophet, why are you trying to drink water from cisterns that hold no water? Return to me. Return to the ancient path. And so when I speak of repentance right now, I’m talking about returning to the Lord and making our first priority our own walk with him. And I’m speaking specifically now of becoming self-aware. Because the scripture says that if we will examine ourselves, then we’ll not come under the discipline of the Lord. So every day we need to be developing a conscious awareness of the Lord’s authority over our life. We need to be developing a conscious awareness of his word over our life. We need, beloved ones, to come under the blade and the authority of the kingdom of God and the Ruach HaKadosh so that our soul comes under the humility of Yeshua, so that we bring our heart, our energy, our motives, our thoughts, our words and our actions all under the blade of the authority of the truth, so that all day long we walk under a spirit of self-examination that comes from the Holy Spirit, because we’re always needing to pull ourself back from the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the boastful pride of life. And so we’re continually monitoring ourself. Is my conversation a pleasing aroma to the Lord? Not only in the words that we’re saying, but in the motivation of our heart is what I’m speaking of coming from a pure place. And then we watch our thoughts because the enemy is always wanting to distract us and to get us off focus and to cause us to make mountains out of molehills, to make things bigger than they are. And He’s wanting us to focus on accusation and condemnation and criticism and anger. He’s wanting us to be frustrated. He’s wanting to rob us of peace. So it’s a constant battle every day to pull our mind back, to pull our thoughts back, to abide under the peace of Hashem. So every day to come under the waters of God’s Spirit, to come under the glory of his throne, to come under the sea that says still as glass that we read about in the book of Revelation, we have to always be pulling ourselves back to abide under the Lord’s authority. This is why the Lord said, be still and know that I am God. Be still. Be still. and know that I am God. And so, Father, right now I speak peace and stillness over these beloved ones, Lord, that are serving you, some of them tired, some of them running on empty or even running in the flesh. And so Father, I call your bride back to you today to be right now refreshed in the Ruach HaKadosh and to drink Yeshua from the river of living water.
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You know, as I think, because right here in Israel, I know it’s not Sukkot for you, but for me right now, this is that last day of Sukkot. And when I think of Sukkot, I think of the phrase, I’m switching gear slightly here for a moment. I think of the phrase, Sukkot Shalom. Sukkot Shalom. Sukkot Shalom. And most of us know that that phrase means that we’re abiding under the shelter of God’s protection in a place of safety, a place where there’s rest, where we’re not afraid because we know that we’re loved and we feel whole in that place and safe in that place. And so I speak over you, beloved ones, right now, healing. I release healing over you right now in the name of Yeshua. And I speak his sukkah shalom over you that you and I would be able to feel safe under the covering of the Lord, that we would know that we’re safe and secure in him. And Father, I speak identity, destiny, and the spirit of revelation over these beloved ones of yours, Yeshua. That we would know who you are and we would know who we are, Father, to you. That we would find our identity in you so that we could feel secure. That we wouldn’t have to feel that we need to fight for identity. Father, so that we wouldn’t feel threatened, feeling like we need to defend ourself. Father, we declare that we’re whole and complete in you, that we dwell under your Sukkot Shalom, that we’re safe and protected, whole and complete in who we are in you. Father, restore unto us, I pray. Restore unto us, I pray, Father, who we are to you. Give us that revelation. to know that we’re covered by your blood. Yeshua, I think about the revelation of John 13, and how the word says, knowing that you had come from God, knowing the Father had given you all things, and Yeshua, knowing that you were going back to Hashem, you girded yourself with a towel, and began to wash the disciples’ feet. And I’m thinking, my friends, of that revelation and just think about it with me for a second. The scripture says Yeshua knew the Father had given him everything. So he wasn’t in the world trying to get anything because he knew he already had everything. He wasn’t trying to get his needs fulfilled because he was already complete. He wasn’t trying to to get somewhere, because he knew he had already arrived. And he knew he had come from God. He knew who he was. He knew who he was. He came out of the Jordan when he was immersed, and the Spirit spoke to him, you are my beloved son, and in you I am well pleased. He knew who he was. He was complete in his identity. He was secure. He wasn’t fighting to prove himself to himself or anybody else. He knew who he was. He was complete. He had that inner shalom. And then finally, the scripture says in John 13, he knew he was going back to the Father. So he knew that his future was secure. He knew that he was blessed. He wasn’t afraid of the future. He knew exactly where he was going. And the Lord wants you and I to live in that same wholeness, that same shalom, that same , that same covering, that we would know, beloved, that we’ve already arrived, that we’re complete in Christ. that the Father has given us all things, that we have need of nothing, that He will supply every need we have. As every hour goes by, He will give us what we need. We’re already complete in Him, the scripture says. And also that we would know in our identity who we are. Yeshua knew that He had come from the Father. But in order for you and I to become whole in our identities, We need to stop looking to man to affirm us. We spend so much energy and time looking to man to affirm us, putting out our Facebook post and our Instagram post, looking for people to affirm us, but we can never feel whole through man’s affirmation. It doesn’t matter if the whole world were to affirm you, it wouldn’t be enough. The only way that we can feel whole is when we know the affirmation truly of Yeshua, of the Father on our soul. But in order to receive that affirmation, we have to consciously and willfully stop looking to man to affirm us and stop putting things out there expecting for man to affirm us. We have to instead say, Father, I’m not gonna look to man to affirm me. I’m not gonna put my Facebook post out there for you to affirm me. I’m not gonna always be looking to people to affirm me. Instead, I’m gonna look to you to affirm me. You’re crucifying yourself to the world like Paul did. Paul said he was crucified to the world and the world was crucified to him. Yeshua said to the people of his day, he said, how can you believe when you seek honor from one another rather than looking to the Lord for the honor that can only come from him? And so we need to get in that mode, that mindset, that channel of walking where we’re keeping our lips closed from putting things out there for other people to feed us and instead look to the Lord to feed us and look to be a blessing to people, but not look to them to make us complete. Some people are living like they’re spiritual carnivores, like they’re spiritual cannibals. You know what a cannibal is? They’re tribes that live in third world nations. There’s not as many of them left anymore, but there are some that still exist. Cannibals are people that they actually eat other human beings. They go to war with other tribes and then they eat those that they’ve killed. And they believe that makes them strong by eating the flesh of other human beings. And we look at that as completely repulsive, which it absolutely is totally repulsive and foul and defiled. But you know what? You might not be doing that. You might not be a cannibal in that realm, but sometimes we’re cannibals because we’re feeding off of other people. We’re using people. We’re using people to fulfill ourselves. We’re spiritual cannibals. Rather than seeking to bless people and to give, we’re looking to use them, taking from them, to fulfill ourselves. And we need to cleanse of that spirit and be, Father, deliver us of that spiritual cannibalism that will stop looking to mankind to feed our soul. And we’ll look to you to fill our soul so that we can be filled with the true rivers of living water. And so I want to just encourage you today, encourage you today to continue to repent, to continue to come under the blade of Yeshua, to continue to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit, to continue to train yourself in the written word of God so that you can know the difference between good and evil. to continue to pull back from feeding on relationships that are not profitable for your walk with God. And I want to also encourage you today that you can only be a true blessing to other people when you give them something that you have first received yourself. How can we give what we haven’t received? So I want to share with you, don’t put your ministry first. Make your first ambition that same ambition that Miriam, that Mary of old had. Remember the story of Miriam and Martha. Martha was busy doing a lot of good things, serving Yeshua. But Mary, Miriam chose what Yeshua said, the one good thing that would never be taken away from her. She was simply sitting at Yeshua’s feet to receive from Him, focused on Him. I want to encourage you to continue to be strong, continue to be courageous in your walk with the Lord. Know that neither height or depth breath, width, any created thing can separate you from the love of God, you are more than a conqueror through everything. Feed on Him and you’ll become strong. And no matter what you’re feeling like emotionally, Continue to speak the Word of God over your life like David did. He encouraged himself in the Lord by confessing God’s goodness over his life, by being thankful for who God was to him, for what he had done, for the fact that he was redeemed, for the fact that he was going to heaven, for the fact that he knew that the Lord would always be with him, for the fact that he knew that God loved him, for the fact that he knew that God would give him victory and deliver him. And as David encouraged himself in the Lord, he overcame every obstacle. And so will you, my dear. In Yeshua’s name, this is Rabbi Schneider saying to you from Caesarea in Israel, God bless you and shalom. As you know, today’s show, today’s episode was recorded in Israel. And not only were we able to reach people in Israel while we were there, but furthermore, I was so encouraged to be hearing from people that are living in Israel, how they’re watching in Israel, discovering the Jewish Jesus and how their faith is being nurtured and fed. Beloved ones, when you sow into this ministry, you’re literally sowing into the body of Christ the body of Messiah living in Israel because we reach them through the network that we broadcast on in Israel. We’re reaching every single home in Israel that has a television set. So I want to ask you, to sow financially into this ministry. By reaching Jewish people, beloved, we are preparing the world for King Jesus’ return. We’re doing it together because without you, I can’t go. But with you, we go together and all of us will receive a reward.
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In the Old Testament book of Numbers, we find a blessing God speaks over his children through Moses and Aaron. It carries the idea of favor and expression. Open your heart to the Spirit and the Word today and receive Father’s goodness into your life with confidence.
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 your host, Dustin Roberts, and this program is produced and sponsored by Discovering the Jewish Jesus. Join us again next time when Rabbi Schneider explains the mysteries of the kingdom. Do you want to receive from God like Paul? Join Rabbi Tuesday on Discovering the Jewish Jesus.
