In this profound episode of Discovering the Jewish Jesus, Rabbi Schneider delves into the divine healing nature of Yahweh, referred to as Yahweh Rafika, the God who heals. Through an insightful exploration of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, we learn about the covenant names of God associated with healing and provision. Rabbi Schneider illuminates how these ancient scriptures apply to our lives today, revealing the importance of trusting in God’s promise to heal and provide. Discover how Jesus’ acts of healing fulfill prophetic scripture and what this means for believers seeking physical and spiritual wellbeing.
As I’ve been challenging us, I want you to take a hold of every time Yahweh connects His name to a saving activity. He wants you to trust Him to perform this saving activity in your life.
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This is Discovering the Jewish Jesus with Rabbi Schneider, and I’m your host, Dustin Roberts. And as Christians, when we face illness or a physical ailment, we turn to the Master Healer, bringing our concerns before God Himself. Sometimes God chooses to heal us right away, but then other times He doesn’t, and we have to walk a different path. Well, today Rabbi is going to reveal why God’s healing work manifests differently in everyone’s life. So let’s get started with our message titled, Yahweh Rafika. That means the God that heals. Here’s Rabbi Schneider with today’s message.
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God bless you and shalom, beloved ones. We’re looking in the Hebrew Bible, we’re looking in the Old Testament, or what Jewish people call the Tanakh, and we’re looking to see when God attached His personal covenant name, Yahweh, with a saving function that He does in the lives of His chosen ones. The reason this is so important is when we know how Yahweh has connected His name to certain activities that He does in the lives of the remnant that are His, we can trust Him to do these things in our life. We look at the term Yahweh Yerah. It’s not actually a term. It’s actually a covenant name. It’s when Yahweh takes his personal name, his memorial name, Yahweh, and connected it to a saving function, Yireh, he there reveals himself as the Lord who provides. We looked into that, and I left off by introducing to you the next covenant name of our Savior, Yahweh-Rophe, or Yahweh-Rophecha in Exodus 15, 26. And now today we’re showing, as we continue in this journey, how Yahweh connected His name with certain activities, once again, that He does in the lives of all those that are His. As I’ve been challenging us, I want you to take a hold of every time Yahweh connects His name to a saving activity. He wants you to trust Him to perform this saving activity in your life. So with that said, we’re reading Exodus 15, 26, where Yahweh reveals Himself in the lives of His people, get it now, church, as… their healer. We’re talking about the healer of our bodies, the healing of our souls, the healing of our minds. I want you to know there is balm in Gilead for you. I don’t care what you’re struggling with right now. God’s grace is sufficient. He revealed himself, listen now, as Yahweh Rofecha or Yahweh Rofi, the Lord, listen now, your healer. Hear me as I read Exodus 15, Verse 26, it’s the only place in the entire word of God where the Lord actually says, I am Yahweh Rophecha, I am the Lord that healeth thee. Listen to this. Now there’s many places in scripture where we see that the Lord is our healer, but this is the only place that he actually reveals himself as our healer by name. I am the Lord, your healer. I am Yahweh Rophe, hear the word of God. And he said, if you will give earnest heed to the voice of Yahweh, your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians, for I, Yahweh, am your healer.” Yahweh rofecha, or Yahweh rofi, I am the Lord, your healer. I want you to understand, there are questions revolving around supernatural healing. Why does it appear that some are healed and some are not healed? And I could go on, I’m going to talk about some of this right now, but here’s what I want you to get. The revelation of both the Old and the New Testament is clear, that our God is the God that healeth thee. Right now in Exodus 15, 26, we actually see God revealing this to us through a covenant name. I am the Lord, your healer. As we look into the New Testament, we see Jesus. He comes down from the Sermon on the Mount. He gets down from the mountain, the end of Matthew chapter seven, the beginning of Matthew chapter eight. And as soon as he gets done preaching his longest sermon in the entire New Testament, what does he do? He heals this person. He heals this person. Next, he heals this person. And finally, he heals all those that came to him. And then Matthew says that the reason that he healed all these people, right after he preached his longest sermon, Matthew said the reason that he healed all these people was to fulfill, Matthew said, what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah. And then Matthew quotes Isaiah 53, where we read there that when Jesus died on the cross, he was pierced for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities. We read there, beloved ones, that… In addition to being pierced through for our sin, He also on the cross, listen, was wounded and pierced and lashed so that we could be made well. In other words, Matthew says there that He healed all these people and it was in connection, get it now, with His death on the cross for us. That when Jesus died on the cross for you and for me, Yes, absolutely, it was first to forgive our sin, but included in his atonement for us, included in his atonement was the fact that there was provision made for the healing of our bodies. And it’s because of this, Matthew said, that Jesus healed all those that were ill that came to him in the book of Matthew chapter eight. And so God is our healer. And even though we don’t understand why some people seem to get healed and other people don’t seem to get healed, Let’s not let what we don’t understand keep us from taking a hold of and from believing what we do understand and what we can clearly understand from the word of God is that our God is our God that heals. Our God is a God that heals. In fact, every place that Jesus went, he did three things. He preached the gospel. He healed the sick and he delivered those that were oppressed by demons. When he sent out the disciples two by two, he sent them out with the instructions to do those three things. Preach the gospel, heal the sick, write on the Lord that healeth thee, that’s his nature, and drive out the demons. When he sent out the 70 in the New Testament, what did he instruct them to do? Preach the gospel, get it now church, heal the sick, and drive out the demons. You see, our God by nature is a God that heals. The Bible says, if he that raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, then he would give life to your mortal bodies. In other words, that the spirit of God himself within us is giving life to our flesh. The Bible says, though the outer man is decaying, in other words, our bodies, they get old. Though the outer man is decaying, the inner man is being renewed day by day. And through the spirit of God within us, there’s life that’s being ministered even to our flesh to keep us healthy. And so in Exodus 15, 26, the Lord actually says, I am the Lord that healeth thee. And he was speaking here, beloved ones, about physical healing. I want to encourage you to trust in God, to sustain you physically, to be life to your flesh. that you can be healthy even when you’re old. Yes, we’re still gonna age. Yes, the natural body is still gonna degenerate, but we can be healthy and have health even when we’re old because the healer is in us and living through us and sustaining us and caring us.
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But I want to point something out to you in Exodus 15, 26. Notice that when the Lord gave this to Moses, there was a condition. Let’s look at the condition. Hear the word of God. And he said, the Lord speaks or he says, if you will give earnest heed to the voice of Yahweh your God, to the Lord your God, and do what is right in his sight, and give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I put on the Egyptians, for I am Yahweh, I am the Lord that healeth thee.” A couple of things I want to point out here, church. Stay with me now. I want you to really focus with me. The first concept, the first point I want to make known here, the first thing I want to stress is this, that the Lord said to the children of Israel, in order to experience me as your healer, you have to walk in my ways. You can’t be belligerent of my ways. You can’t walk in your own ways. The Lord said, if you will give earnest heed to the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in his sight and give ear to his commandments. Then the Lord said, you’re going to experience me as the Lord that healeth thee. But notice that they had to be walking in his ways. They had to be hearing his voice and yielding to his voice, to his word, to his will and his spirit. Why do I point that out? Because many Christians today that want to be healed, even many of those that believe in divine healing, they continue to live irresponsibly in regards to their health, and yet they’re asking God to heal them. In other words, God cares about every aspect of our life. Did you know that in the Torah, in the Old Testament, the Lord gave Israel instructions about every area of their life? He told them even how to dress. He told them what to eat. And as Gentiles, you’re not under the law. You don’t have to keep kosher as Gentiles. But listen, what you do have to understand is the principle that God cares, the Lord cares, beloved, what you and I eat. And someone that’s struggling with high cholesterol and high blood sugar and, you know, is 5’10 and weighs 250 pounds and is obese and they’re continuing to, you know, eat Hostess Twinkies all the time and candy and cookies and pop and not take care of themselves and not exercise and not be responsible with what they’re eating and then expecting God to heal them. Beloved, I think that this is irresponsible and it needs to be challenged. Because the Lord said, if you will give earnest heed to my voice and do what is right in my sight, then you’ll know me as Yahweh Raphaka, the Lord that healeth thee. You see, so many of the things that Yahweh, and when I say Father God’s sacred name, if there’s anybody that is offended by this, I want you to know, beloved ones, I don’t say it tritely. I say it in love and in reverence, but Father God gave us his name because he wants us to use it. He wouldn’t have given us his personal name if he didn’t expect or want us to know him by his personal name and to call upon him by his personal name. It’s used over 7,000 times, as I’ve continued to point out here in the Hebrew Bible. When I call upon God’s name, it’s because he’s given me, beloved, the privilege of calling on him by his name. You see, I experience for myself the truth of what I’m sharing with you right now, that it’s not just enough to expect Father God to be our healer. We also have to cooperate with him. And as I was saying, so many things that he does for us, he doesn’t do independent of our cooperation. He does with our cooperation. Let’s get back on focus here. The Lord said, if you’ll walk in my ways, if you’ll do what’s right, if you’ll heed my voice, if you’ll obey my commandments, “‘You’ll know me as Yahweh Raphach, “‘as the Lord that healeth thee.'” But once again, Israel had to play a part in this by walking in His ways. You and I, beloved, have so many things that we can walk in in terms of the grace of God, but we have to do our part to walk in the fullness of His grace. And so as it speaks once again to physical healing, we have to pay attention to taking care of our bodies. If we choose to be responsible because our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit, and we’re conscious of that when we’re choosing what foods to eat, that we’re making conscious decisions to eat what’s healthy, then, and we’re looking to God, loving God, then we should trust God to be our healer and to keep us in health. I remember a personal example of how clearly Father God revealed himself to me as Yahweh Rofech, as the Lord, your healer. I was in the States, but I was leaving in a few days to go to Gulu, Uganda to minister. As I was getting close to leaving, I started noticing that my blood pressure was getting really high, and I also had pain in my heart, and it wasn’t going away. I was monitoring my blood pressure. It was high. I had pain in my heart. So I’m supposed to leave for Gulu, On Monday, so as the day’s going on on Friday, I’m thinking, wow, this is really concerning. I’m getting ready to go out of the country. Hospitals aren’t too good where I was going. I was very concerned. So I said, you know, I should go to the doctor just to get this checked out. So I go to the doctor on Friday. They do an EKG. They take some tests. I go home. I go back home. I’m packing. And it’s about a couple hours after the doctor appointment. I’m getting ready to leave. And all of a sudden, my phone rings. It’s my doctor. And she said, you know what? The results came back. They’re not normal. I need you to go in for an EKG. And I said, you know, I’m leaving on Monday for Uganda. You know, I’m not going to be able to do that. And she said to me, you need to take your health seriously. Well, I was in the midst of, at that time, of actually preaching about how God is our healer. And I was sharing with them, we can’t fear evil reports from doctors, we have to trust God. Now I believe, beloved, there’s balance in this, and I believe that God uses doctors, but I wanted to challenge myself with the truth that I was preaching. I wanted to believe God to be my healer, so I just said, God, I’m gonna trust you in this. So I didn’t go to the doctor. Over the course of the weekend there, my blood pressure is still high. The pain in my heart hurts. I’m really getting concerned. I’m lying in bed Saturday night. Pain is still even in my, lying in my bed, I’m feeling the pain and I’m really getting scared. And I’m thinking, you know what? It’s irresponsible for me to go to Gulu with what’s going on. The doctor told me that something’s not right. I’ve got this pain. I can’t get my blood pressure down. I really want to believe you, God, to be my healer, but it just feels like it’s not right. My wife needs me. My children need me. So I wake up my wife sleeping next to me in the middle of the night. I said, you know, I don’t think I can go to Gulu. I think, you know, it’s not the right decision. It’s irresponsible of me. And my wife, faith rose up in her. Faith rose up in Cynthia. She began to declare over me and pray how many people were going to get saved and how many lives were going to be changed when I was ministering in Gulu. Now, some of you might wonder, well, maybe Rabbi’s wife wanted him to go to Gulu. He might have a heart attack over there so she could marry somebody else. But I can assure you that’s not at all what was going on. My wife loves me so much and it’s not like her because she’s so protective, but it was just truly the inspiration and the boldness of God that rose up in her. And when I heard her praying over me with that faith, I knew that it was coming from God because it was so unlike my wife in the natural to be praying like that for me when I was in the natural in a dangerous situation that I knew that God was launching me forth in faith to go. So I went back to sleep. But when I woke up the next morning, again, I had fear. I thought, wow, you know, I really need to hear from you, Lord, if you want me to go to Gulu. And so I had my Bible in my hands as I was sitting in my bed doing my devotional that morning. And it happened to be a brand new Bible because I just traded in my old Bible because I was having a hard time reading it anymore because the print was so small. I just had traded in for a brand new Bible with the giant print. So I wasn’t even familiar with where certain books were because the whole thing was a different kind of a format for me now that it was large print. So I had the Bible in my hand. I said, Lord, I really need to hear from you. If you want me to go to Gulu, Father, please speak to me. And I just opened up the Bible, not even knowing it was going to open up. And I looked down, beloved ones. And you know what? My eyes landed exactly on Exodus 15, 26 that we just read. If you will walk in my ways and keep my commandments and give heed to my voice, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put upon the Egyptians, for I am the Lord that healeth thee.” And I want you to know when that happened, I needed to hear from God so bad. And when that happened, and I opened the Bible up one time and looked down, and my eye falls exactly on Exodus 15, 26, which is the only verse in the entire Word of God where the Lord reveals himself as Yahweh Rofecha, the Lord, your healer. It’s only one time in the entire Bible, and my eyes land right on it. First verse, I knew that God had spoken to me. My heart was pierced with a sword. I began to weep. And you know what? My weeping was twofold. Number one, it was the weeping of thankfulness. for having been touched by Father God so incredibly. But my heart was also weeping in repentance because the Lord said, if you’ll walk in my ways and do what is right. And I was deeply convicted that some of the pain that I was feeling in my heart as a result of stress that I allowed into my life because of wrong thoughts that I was allowing in and that what I was experiencing, beloved, was a result of allowing myself to be more stressed than I should have been. And I was so grieved that I had allowed stress in, that it was my fault, that it was my responsibility, that I had to make decisions to keep myself from being stressed. I was so grieved by that. In repentance, I turned to the Lord. I gave my heart to him. I said, Father, forgive me. I’m going to trust in you. I’m going to rest in you. I’m not going to allow toxic stress in. WELL, BELOVED ONES, THE GOOD NEWS IS I WENT TO GULU. I TOOK AUTHORITY OVER THAT PAIN IN MY HEART. I WAS COMPLETELY HEALED. I CAME BACK. THE PAIN HAS NEVER RETURNED SINCE BECAUSE FATHER GOD IS YAHWEH ROFECHAH. HE IS THE LORD, OUR HEALER, AND HE WILL BE FAITHFUL TO YOU. DON’T LET WHAT YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND KEEP YOU FROM WHAT YOU DO UNDERSTAND. GOD’S WORD IS CONSISTENT AND TRUE. GOD IS THE HEALER OF HIS PEOPLE. The Bible tells us that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. And when I think about fearing God, one of the areas that strikes me is, am I willing to honor the Lord with my finances? Now, I know some are probably objecting, well, as believers, we don’t have to fear the Lord. I’m talking about having a holy reverence for God and treating Him as holy. When we treat God as holy in our life, we’re going to put Him first in our finances. 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Of course. That was our Bible teacher, Rabbi Schneider. And I want to encourage you, keep listening because he’s going to be back shortly with a special blessing. But first, if the Lord is leading you to financially support discovering the Jewish Jesus with the gift of any amount today, would you please reach out to us? You can call us at 800-777-7835. That’s 800-777-7835. And if it’s easier for you, I want to encourage you to go online to discoveringthejewishjesus.com or you can even send in your donation in the mail. Our address is Discovering the Jewish Jesus, P.O. Box 777, Blissfield, Michigan 49228. That’s P.O. Box 777, Blissfield, Michigan 49228. And as a token of our gratitude, we’ll make sure that you receive our latest newsletter. It is full of ministry updates and all the ways you can connect with us, including exclusive additional content from Rabbi. And we’ll also send you his message of the month booklet, where you’ll discover even more insights into God’s word through Rabbi Schneider’s unique Jewish perspective. And I think that when you fully engage with this exclusive resource, I believe it’ll help you grow in your own spiritual walk. We also want to let you know today, we have a free and complimentary resource package that explores the transformative wisdom of the Aaronic Blessing that Rabbi prays at the end of every show. This free gift includes Rabbi’s detailed PDF guide and an audio MP3, and it’s a great way to learn more about God’s covenant name, Yahweh, that shows His personal connection and protection in your life. This offer is available for free at myfreegift.com forward slash peace. Now let’s wrap up with God’s sacred blessing. I hope that these words of this benediction today leave you feeling inspired and refreshed. Grace and peace to you. Rabbi.
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Blessings trump curses, and in the book of Numbers chapter six, we find the Aaronic blessing that God commanded Moses’ brother Aaron, the high priest, to speak over the children of Israel. There’s power in blessing, beloved ones, so take part in receiving Father’s blessing upon 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. God bless you and shalom.
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This program is produced and sponsored by Discovering the Jewish Jesus. Be sure to join us again next time when Rabbi Schneider provides the Jewish background on another one of God’s covenant names, Yahweh Nisi. What does that mean? We’ll find out Wednesday on Discovering the Jewish Jesus.
