Join Rabbi Schneider as he shares a powerful dream that illustrates the spiritual battle against fear. With vivid imagery, the dream underscores the persistent presence of God’s spirit and the potential to overcome fear through divine love. Learn how fear held back others, while boldness in faith opened pathways to healing and spiritual empowerment. This episode resonates with anyone struggling against anxiety, underscoring the importance of God’s command to Joshua: be strong and courageous.
Welcome to Discovering the Jewish Jesus. I’m your host, Dustin Roberts. And today, Rabbi Schneider takes an honest look at what could be stopping you from walking in God’s perfect love. Fear is one of humanity’s biggest struggles today, and it goes all the way back to the fall of man. In fact, Adam’s first words after sinning, they were, I was afraid. Well, today, Rabbi Schneider, he’s going to take a deep exploration into why fear holds us back from our true destiny and how we can break free from its grip. Whether you’re battling anxiety about the future, your family, or maybe even your faith. I believe that Rabbi Schneider’s message today from our series, Be Strong and Courageous, I believe it’ll encourage you. So let’s get started. Here’s Rabbi.
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Let me ask you a question. If you were to consider the pain in your life, most of you would say that one of the greatest sources of pain in your life is the result of fearing. How many of the things that you fear have actually happened to you? Beloved, fear is Satan’s chief weapon against the saints of God, and we must declare war against it. All of us are assailed by fear because Satan is constantly trying to make us afraid because he knows that if he can make us afraid, it will prevent us from walking, beloved, in the love of God and from entering into our destiny. Did you know that the first word out of Adam’s mouth after he fell, after he ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was, I was afraid. I’m going to go now to the book of Genesis, chapter number 3, verse number 9 and 10. Hear the word of God, beloved. This is a very important portion of Scripture. It creates the platform for understanding the nature of fear and what it is that we’re battling against. The grass withers and the flowers fade, but the word of the Lord abides forever. I’m going in the book of Bereshit, which is the Hebrew word for beginnings, the book of Genesis, chapter number 3. Verse number 9 and 10, the Lord is calling to Adam now after Adam had fallen. And the Lord God called to the man and said to him, Where are you? And he said, I heard the sound of thee in the garden. Now get this. And I was afraid because I was naked. So I hid myself. So once again, Adam, as a result of falling, he feels naked. He feels exposed. He feels vulnerable. He feels unprotected. He feels afraid. I want to read it again. This is very important. Adam had sinned. He’s running now because all of a sudden after he had sinned, he feels naked. His His spiritual clothes were gone. No longer did he feel the assurance of God’s presence. No longer did he feel the warmth of the Lord’s love on his heart. But now he felt alone. He felt exposed. He felt naked. So he’s running, and God begins to pursue him. And Adam says he heard the Lord pursuing him, but he kept running because he was in such fear. So listen again, Genesis 3, verse 9. Then the Lord God called to the man and said to him, Where are you? And he said, I heard the sound of thee in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid myself. Do you know that ever since Adam sinned, beloved, you and I feel exposed, we feel naked, and we have to overcome this feeling through Jesus to break off the power of fear. See, the result of sin, the result of Adam’s first sin, beloved, is that man lost assurance. That’s why the Lord said to Adam, the day that you eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall surely die. Notice the Lord said to Adam, the day that you eat of the tree. And yet when we look at Adam’s life, we see physically he didn’t die that day, but beloved, he died spiritually. Because the day that he ate of the tree, the Spirit of God had removed himself from Adam’s life. Adam was no longer wearing the same clothing. And so this is why Adam says, I was naked. He felt alone. And the result of feeling alone is that you feel vulnerable. From the very beginning of sin’s entrance into the world, one of man’s greatest enemies, beloved, has been fear. And if you’re honest with yourself, almost all of you today, you recognize in your life that you struggle with fear, and many of us struggle with fear very deeply. The fear doesn’t even have to be rational. And a lot of times as we’re beginning to make progress with the Lord, as we’re journeying deeper into our faith, it seems at those times that fear attacks us even worse because it’s Satan, beloved, trying to keep us from God. I remember years ago, some of you know my testimony, how the Lord appeared above my head. Three years after I came to know the Lord, I came to know the Lord in 78, and the Lord appeared above my head visibly in all the colors of a rainbow back in 1981. And so I had this experience of the Lord revealing himself to me through the person of the Holy Spirit in the colors of the rainbow. You know, God is light, and inside light are all the colors of the rainbow. And so the Lord just chose to reveal himself to me in that way. Of course, it was personal and the Lord reveals himself to different ones of us in different ways. But the reason I’m sharing this with you is three years after I had that initial experience, I had a dream. It was right before I got married. And in this dream was three phases. In the first phase of the dream, I was in what appeared to be like the attic of a house. It was rectangular in shape. It was dark. There was no light in the attic. There was a window on this side and a window on this side, and myself and others were standing against the back wall in this attic-like room. Well, as we’re standing against the back wall in the dream, the Spirit of God came into the attic through the window, and the form that the Spirit of God came into the room in the dream state was in the form of all the colors of a rainbow, just like I had experienced when I was awake in a real encounter with the Lord. This encounter that I’m describing now is just a dream, but I was familiar with this rainbow symbolism and this way of communicating to me through the rainbow. And so through this window in the attic, The Lord streamed into the room and all of a sudden, beloved, when this happened in the dream, I was so desirous. It was so beautiful to me. I knew it was God. I wanted more of God. I knew it was the Lord’s healing spirit. So what I did was I started moving away from the back of the room where myself and the others were standing. I started moving out from everybody towards this spirit of life that had flowed into the room in all the colors of a rainbow. I started approaching the spirit of life. And here’s what I remember. No one else that was against that back wall with me came with me. They all stayed. And I had this sense, beloved, that what was keeping them from God’s beautiful rainbow-colored spirit, I had this sense in the dream that what was keeping them from coming was fear. Fear stopped them from coming. I mean, they were in this dark room, and here comes God manifesting himself in a rainbow so beautiful, and yet they didn’t approach. They stayed back. Why? Because fear. I felt literally the power. I felt the spiritual force of fear holding them back. And so what I did, was I kept coming to the Spirit of God. And I walked up to the rainbow of life that came into the room. And then I followed the stream of life out to the window from which it had come in to the room from. And I looked out the window. And when I looked out the window, beloved, Everywhere was this color. That’s all I saw everywhere, up, down, left, right, north, south, east, west, every direction. All I saw was this rainbow color everywhere. And in my soul, I mean, deep down in me, I heard the word eternity. And eternity, it’s uncreated life that has always been. I opened up my arms and I said, come and live inside me. And then all of a sudden, that phase of the dream was over. The next phase of the dream, I find myself looking out the window on the opposite side of the room, and there’s just chaos going on out there. I mean, all kinds of stuff just moving around. Nothing made sense, random, chaotic. And then boom, that phase of the dream ended. The next phase of the dream, beloved, I find myself walking down a street, just at peace, nothing on my mind, and I come up to an intersection, and at the intersection that I had come to, there had been a car wreck. And without thinking, without any ego involved, I walked up to the car wreck, And there was a man and he was laying half outside of the car and half inside the car that had been in this wreck. In other words, his upper body was laying on the street and his legs were still inside the car. And he had been badly burned from this car wreck without even thinking in the dream, beloved. I stuck my hand out and out of my fingertips, flowed the rainbow colors that had come into that attic that I had asked to come inside my life. And so now when I went up to the car wreck and flowing out of my fingertips was all the colors of a rainbow and they went into this man’s body and healed him. The reason I’m telling you the story is because the other people in the room in the attic, when the rainbow spirit of the Lord came into the room, they did not receive the rainbow spirit of God’s love. They did not receive the Holy Spirit. They did not receive God’s healing life. Listen now, because they were afraid. And fear can keep you from God’s destiny for your life. Do you know that Jesus said that hell was for the fearful and unbelieving? Think about that. Jesus said that those that fear were going to be in hell. Now, some of you are getting even more afraid. I don’t want anybody to be afraid about this, but I’m making a point here is that hell, beloved. is filled with people that are there because they were too afraid to believe God. What I’m trying to help you understand is that fear, beloved, is a serious sin. And the reason it’s a serious sin is because when we fear, we don’t have faith in God. When we’re fearing, we’re not really believing that God is with us. When we’re fearing, we’re not really believing that God is working in our life. It shows a lack of relationship with God and we must declare war on it. Do you know, beloved, that no fewer than 100 times in the scriptures, the Lord commands us not to fear. We sometimes think of sin and we think of all the gross sins, but we don’t recognize sometimes that when we’re living in fear, habitual fear, fearing this, fearing that, living in a state of anxiety, living in a state of dread, living in a state of fear, beloved, that we are sinning against God and actually bowing down to the devil because what we’re doing is we’re believing the devil rather than believing the Lord. Hallelujah.
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I’m going to go to the book of Joshua now, which is our foundational scripture for this series. I’m reading now Joshua chapter one, verse number nine. And the Lord says to him, have I not commanded you? The Lord says to Joshua, have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. What did Jesus say to us? I am with you even until the end of the age. And so this series is designed to wake us up, beloved, and we’re looking to the Lord to empower us in our lives to declare war on fear. Do you know that the opposite of love is fear? The scripture tells us that perfect love casteth out all fear. You see, beneath almost every negative emotion is fear. Why do people get jealous of somebody else? Because they’re afraid that somebody else is going to have more than they do. Why do people hate people that they don’t understand? Because they’re afraid of them. You see, beloved, every negative emotion is fear. That’s why the first thing that Adam said after he fell to the Lord was, I was afraid. There is no fear in love, for perfect love casteth out all fear. Now, there are two Hebrew words for fear that I want to bring to your attention. The first Hebrew word is yareh. Let me say it again, yareh. And this is the Hebrew word for fear that we find in the book of Bereshit, or the book of Genesis, chapter 3, verse 10, where Adam says, I was afraid. And this Hebrew word yareh means dread, to dread, or to be frightened of. The second Hebrew word for fear that I want to bring to your attention is the word that is used in Joshua, where the Lord commands Joshua, do not be afraid. And this Hebrew word in Joshua chapter 1 verse 9 is the Hebrew word aratz. And it means to tremble at. The Lord was commanding Joshua, do not tremble at these hostile armies that you’re facing. It means to be terrified of. The Lord was commanding him, do not be terrified of them. And so the Lord says once again to Joshua, Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” You see, Joshua, Yahashua in Hebrew, he had to resist. Get that, because you and I have to resist. He had to resist. He had to be strong and resist. It took effort on his part. The Lord said, be strong, be courageous, resist being afraid of them. And you and I need to learn how to wake up and fight fear. We have to fight it. We can’t be passive. There’s something that we need to engage in. That’s why God says, I’m commanding you, Joshua, be strong, be courageous, do not be dismayed, do not be terrified, do not be afraid. Joshua looked at the hostile armies that he was about to face as he was leading the children of Israel into their inheritance. And beloved, as you and I are entering into our inheritance in the Lord, as we’re entering into our destiny in the love of God, as we’re entering into our destiny in possessing the awareness of the Holy Spirit in our lives, the enemy is going to attack us just like he did Joshua. And he’s going to try to keep us out of our inheritance by fear. Just like the children of Israel in the book of Numbers chapter 13 and 14 where the Lord said, I’ve given you Israel as your inheritance. But what kept them from their inheritance? What kept them wandering in the wilderness for 40 years? Was it not fear when the spies went in to the land of Canaan and they came back and they said to the children of Israel, those guys are huge in there. We won’t be able to drive them out. They’re too big for us. And they cowered. And the Lord was angry and upset. because they bow down to fear rather than trusting, hallelujah, in the Lord, their God. And even as Joshua, beloved, Joshua was facing these foreign armies as he was about to lead the children of Israel into their inheritance, these hostile people groups that wanted to exterminate them and kill them. Even as Joshua was facing these enemies that were a true danger in the natural, and yet the Lord said to him, do not tremble or be afraid of them, for I am with you. We too, beloved, look around and we see forces against our lives, just like Joshua did in his life. And these armies, beloved, are a real threat to us without the Lord, even as those armies that Joshua faced were very dangerous without the Lord. But we have God. And so when we look around and we see our country, beloved, in a financial crisis, when we look around and we fear losing our jobs or losing our homes, When we look around and we hear of terrorist attacks on our own soil. When we look around and we see car accidents on the road. When we hear of poisoning in our food and water and nuclear reactors leaking. When we get afraid of growing old and winding up in a nursing home. When we fear for our children when they’re on the road in their cars. When we fear, beloved, finding ourselves at a place in life where we’re alone and no one to take care of us and running out of money, God is saying to you, do not be dismayed. And do not be afraid, for I am with you wherever you go. I am commanding you this day, resist fear.” You see, whatever the problem is, we have a God that’s bigger than our problem, and we have to exercise faith that we really believe that He’s Lord, beloved, by resisting fear and choosing, working at believing Him, we must overcome fear. The Bible says that sin is crouching at the door. Satan is crouching at the door and his desire is for us. He wants to overcome us with fear. He wants to intimidate us. But we, the Lord said, must master him. We could go on and on with all the things that we’re looking at in our culture today that would cause us to tremble in the natural. Yet the Lord’s word to us, regardless of what the threat is, beloved child of God, regardless of what the danger is, the Lord is saying to you right now, do not be afraid. I am the Lord, your God, and I am with you wherever you go. And I will see you through even until the end. I want to read a few scriptures. I’m going to the book of Deuteronomy. Now this is the book in the Bible that Jesus quoted when he defeated Satan in the wilderness in Matthew chapter 4. Hear what the Lord says in Deuteronomy chapter number 20, verse 3 and 4. Hear, O Israel, You are approaching the battle against your enemies today. Do not be faint hearted. Do not be afraid or panic or tremble before them. For the Lord your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to save you. God wants us to exercise faith, beloved, that he’s going before us. Get this now. And he’s fighting for us. Let me read another scripture. Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid for the Lord your God will not fail you or forsake you. And once again, Joshua 1 9. Have I not commanded you be strong and courageous? Do not tremble or be dismayed for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. The word is the same and over and over and over again. Beloved, if we’re serious about living for God, we need to wake up and break the yoke of fear off our life. In 1 Samuel, chapter 2, verse 30, we read this. The Lord says, those that honor me, I will honor. You see, beloved, we receive from that which is on a person when we honor who that person is. The Lord says, those that honor me, I will honor. This is true of the Jewish people as well. The Lord said to Abraham, I will bless those that bless thee. Beloved, I believe there’s a supernatural call upon my life and upon this ministry. 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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. And I’m Dustin Roberts. Join us again tomorrow when Rabbi Schneider turns to Psalm 91 to help us overcome our fears. That’s Thursday on Discovering the Jewish Jesus.
