In this special Passover study, Rabbi Schneider passionately relates personal experiences of faith and freedom. By revisiting the ancient narrative of Passover, he reveals how it mirrors today’s journey towards spiritual liberation. Experience the joy of true freedom as Yeshua, the Passover Lamb, fulfills every need, promising a life of joy and sanctification. Participate in understanding how Passover’s message of deliverance applies to us today.
Understanding what’s gonna happen in the end times as we’re approaching the end of the age can only be understood correctly by understanding the events of the Passover in the book of Exodus.
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This is Discovering the Jewish Jesus with Rabbi Schneider, and I’m your host, Dustin Roberts. And in the book of John, chapter 8, Jesus says that the truth, it’ll set you free. But what does this freedom actually look like for believers? Well, that’s what Rabbi Schneider is going to explore today as we continue our special study on the Feast of Passover. We’ll be learning as we celebrate today that freedom Freedom is not just an event, it’s a journey. And if you’d like to take some notes on today’s program, then make sure to download Rabbi’s Study Guide. It’s available online at discoveringthejewishjesus.com. That’s discoveringthejewishjesus.com. And now here’s Rabbi Schneider.
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I remember as a young believer, I was so excited when I read God’s Word. I mean, reading about the supernatural things that He did for the patriarchs, what He did for Jesus and His apostles, what He did in the rest of the writings of Scripture. I mean, I couldn’t get enough of it. I couldn’t wait to get home from work. I’d read through an entire gospel in one night. But eventually, after years of reading the Bible, just reading the Bible wasn’t enough. I got to a place where I was so hungry to experience more of God, I needed to experience the same thing that the Lord did for the patriarchs in my own life today. I wanted to experience what the Apostle Paul experienced. It needed to be something that I could walk in in the present. I’m calling this message today, Passover Present. Not as in a gift, but in the present moment. Passover in the now. We’re talking about the ancient Passover because we’re in the Passover season right now. But what I’m doing is I’m taking the lessons from the ancient Passover and creating a midrash or a charismatic teaching from the foundation of the historical narrative of the Passover story contained in the book of Exodus or Shemot, we say in Hebrew, chapter 12. Let me simply lay this foundation today very briefly because many of you have heard me lay it before. But understanding what’s going to happen in the end times as we’re approaching the end of the age can only be understood correctly by understanding the events of the Passover in the book of Exodus. In other words, when we read the book of Revelation, the book of the end times, we can only interpret the book of Revelation correctly when we understand it through the lens of the ancient Passover story. Jesus is referred to in the book of Revelation 29 times, as I’ve often stated, as the Lamb of God. The reason is because God is calling our attention to the Passover. He’s giving us the key to understand the book of Revelation, and that is through the lens of the ancient Passover. Now, in the ancient Passover story, we have symbolism that is totally relevant for our present situation. Passover, as it’s recorded in Exodus 12, and the other portions of scripture that give us the events surrounding it, they all speak to us, not of just what happened to ancient Israel, but about what is happening on earth and in our lives now. For example, Israel, the ancient Jewish people, God’s first covenant people that we read about in Exodus 12, Israel is a symbol of the church. All of God’s people today, Jew and Gentile alike. Egypt in the ancient Passover story is a symbol of the world. God’s people, Israel, were living in Egypt and they were being oppressed there. Likewise, you and I as God’s people today are living in the world and we find ourselves oppressed. Why are we oppressed? We’re oppressed because powers of darkness are at work and they’re being governed by Satan himself. Even so, ancient Israel in the land of Egypt was being oppressed by the powers of darkness that were being executed through Pharaoh, who’s a symbol of Satan. Pharaoh had no mercy. Pharaoh only wanted to do one thing, and that was subject God’s people to slavery. That’s why Passover is called the festival of freedom, because they were delivered out of slavery into freedom. Likewise today, you and I that are being oppressed by the powers of darkness have been called into freedom. Yeshua said, If the Son shall make you free, and I love this scripture, you shall be free indeed. Do you ever think about a moment in your life, a memory that you might have where you just felt so free? You just felt so good. You somehow felt that you were connected to God in that moment. Many of us have brief memories of that type of experience. I remember, for example, in my life going back to my competition days as a wrestler and how I was an underdog in this one wrestling match and I beat this guy that was ranked as a very high level wrestler and I beat him. And I remember driving back to the school in the school bus and then getting out of the bus and going to my car in the parking lot, got in my car, put my tape in the tape deck, and I was listening to a record called The Eagles back then, and a song came on one of these nights, and I don’t know what happened, but it was like my spirit left my body, and it was like I became spirit. And it wasn’t like I was just hearing the music in my ears. It was like I was alive in the music. It was like I was spirit. It lasted only for a second. But somehow I knew that God was the one that touched me in that moment, even though I didn’t know Jesus. And I never forgot it. And as a result of that feeling, I’ve always had a deep quest in me to be free, to feel like I did in that instant where the Lord touched me after I won that wrestling match, to feel like that all the time. And because I was able to feel it for a second, I’ve never lost the hope or the dream or the vision that I could experience that freedom all the time. And so when Jesus says, if the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed. I believe that. I believe there is a freedom for all of us, a bliss. an experience that God is bringing us into where we will be absolutely free in the Spirit, dancing in the Spirit, totally full of undescribable joy and freedom. And Passover is the festival of freedom because in the Passover story, the Lord delivers his people out of Egypt where they’re being oppressed and he brings them into freedom. That’s why when we celebrate Passover every year as Jewish people, the leader of the Seder will have a pillow in back of him as he’s laying in his chair And the reason that he has a pillow is to represent our freedom. We’ve been delivered by our God out of slavery, and now we lean back on our pillow because we’re free. And so as we think about Passover, I want to ask you today, do you have a vision of freedom today? Do you believe that you can really be free? Remember, Jesus said, if the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed. And Yeshua said, you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. You won’t have any wrong perceptions of reality. You won’t have any wrong perceptions of who God is. And we won’t have any wrong perceptions of who we are. We’ll be free in the happiness, in the love, and in the truth of God. I want to ask you, dear beloved one, today, do you believe in freedom for yourself? Do you believe that there’s more, even though you might be struggling now? You might have pain in your heart right now. Perhaps it’s a child that you have, somebody in your family that they’re living in a way that’s just causing you hurt and causing you pain. And it’s really grieving you. I want you to know, beloved one, you’re not always gonna be feeling this way. God is gonna bring you into freedom. There’s something for you that’s more than what you’re experiencing right now. And by the way, for those of us that are struggling, perhaps with a spouse or someone else in our family. We have to be careful that we don’t become overwhelmed because we’re so connected to anybody in the earth in such a way that it is keeping us from being open to the Lord. Remember, Abraham had to leave his father. He had to leave his mother. He had to leave his relatives to follow the Lord into a promised land, to a land of freedom. And so you and I today, we need to not become so overwhelmed by our family dynamics that it’s putting us in a state of oppression so that we can no longer experience the Lord, are no longer open to the Lord. No, we have to give the Lord our families, our spouses and our children. We have to surrender them to him. Because Jesus said, he that loves father, mother, brother, sister, child more than me cannot be my disciple.
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And so I want to call each and every one of us into freedom today. And that is done by number one, realizing that there’s more. Jesus promised it. I believe it. Many of you have memories of being touched by the Lord, experiencing that freedom. We’re going to be brought into a freedom that will be all the time. And number two, we need to repent if we’re allowing things in our life to rob us of freedom because we’ve made them God with a little g. rather than keeping Him as our God. Passover is a story of freedom and deliverance, and this deliverance that’s bringing us into freedom is not something that happens all at once. Because even after the Lord delivered Israel out of Egypt, drowning the Egyptians in the sea when the Egyptians tried to follow them, it was still years, 40 years, before Israel reached the Promised Land. And the Lord said to Israel when they were in the wilderness, I’m not gonna drive out all these nations before you at once. because you wouldn’t be able to occupy the land safely if I did it all at once. You wouldn’t be ready for it. He said, but I’m gonna drive all your enemies from you little by little. And so you and I need to realize that we may not be where we wanna be today, but we’re much farther on than we were a year ago if we’re truly pursuing the Lord. The Lord is driving out our enemies just like He did Israel little by little. And we need to continue to focus on the Lord in such a way that when we leave this world, We’re going to be more sanctified than we ever were in our entire life. In other words, sometimes people, they seem to love Jesus at some point in their life, but somehow their love grows cold. We read about that in the book of Revelation. Jesus said to one of the churches, I have all these things that I want to say to you that you’re doing right. But I have this against you, Jesus said, you’ve lost your first love. You and I need to maintain our first love and we need to continue to build on our freedom by being discipled in the word of God, by applying God’s word to our life, by talking with him, by including him in everything, by submitting to him. And I could go on on that and I’ve talked about that. many times, but we’re moving deeper into freedom. And the last day of our life on this earth should be our greatest day of sanctification because we’re continually going forward, being transformed from grace to grace, from glory to glory, and strength to strength. We may not be experiencing perfect freedom today, which is what Passover is all about, but we’re on the journey to freedom. We’re on the journey to freedom. And as long as we’re being transformed, as long as we’re getting more free each six months, then we’re successful. Because God is not demanding that we’re perfect today, but rather what he’s calling us to is to be on the journey towards perfection, that we’re more and more being changed into his likeness. And he has promised that he will complete the good work that he started in us. Now Passover present also has to do with the fact that the lamb of God is enough. Think about it. Ancient Israel took that lamb, they were delivered by the blood of the lamb, and then they were in the wilderness for 40 years, And they finally reached the Promised Land. And by the time they reached the Promised Land, 40 years after they came out of Egypt, the Lord said that their health had not waned, that they were all healthy, that their sandals had not worn out. And they even took with them into the promised land, the treasures from Egypt. Before they left Egypt, they took the Egyptians jewelry and their fine clothing and et cetera, et cetera. So here Israel entered into the promised land, healthy, their clothes hadn’t worn out and they were like fulfilled, they were full. God brought them into the promised land in a state of abundance. In other words, the provision of the Lamb of God was sufficient for Israel for every need they had in their life. The Bible says it was the Lamb that was with Israel in the wilderness. It was Christ that was in the rock. It was Christ that gave them water out of the rock. It was Jesus that was with them the entire way. He was sufficient for their every need. And likewise today, beloved, if I can communicate this message to you deep in your heart, I pray that we can hear it, receive it, absorb it, and walk in it. Jesus, Yeshua HaMashiach, Yeshua of Nazareth, the Messiah, is enough for us to satisfy every real need that we have in life. First of all, let’s talk about our physical life. Jesus is enough to sustain us physically. We need to get back to believing in Yeshua being our healer. In the Hebrew Bible, he’s referred to as Yahweh Rophecha or Yahweh Rapha, the Lord that healeth in the Torah. We need to believe in the Lord that can heal our bodies. I’m not ruling out using doctors. I think God uses doctors, just like he uses different people to do different things in society. Doctors have a role. But unfortunately, too often times, we’re relying on doctors and not on the Lord for our healing. And as soon as we’re sick, the first thing that we do is we think about the doctor rather than looking to the Lord to heal us. God wants us to rely on him for every single need we have. Every single need we have. And so, Father, right now, we just open our hearts to you and repent for not relying on you to sustain our bodies. Father, we declare that you’re the Lord of our bodies, that you’re the Lord, our healer. Jesus, that you’re the same one in our time, walking around, healing people, just like you did in the Gospels and the book of Acts. Jesus, the Lamb of God, the Passover Lamb, is sufficient for your every need. Let’s repent and turn back to Him whose stripes have healed us to rely on Him for the health of our bodies, to give life to our nerves, to give life to our organs, to give life to our flesh, to give life to our minds, to give life to our bodies, to curse every cancer, to curse every illness and disease. just like we see him doing when the scriptures were written. He healed every manner of sickness and every manner of disease. Secondly, Jesus said, if you believe in me, rivers of living water will flow from your innermost being and you’ll thirst and hunger no more. Yeshua, the Passover lamb, is enough to satisfy our soul in this world. But we’re looking for things on the outside to satisfy us. looking for how many likes we can get on Facebook. Let me tell you something. It doesn’t matter how many likes you have on your Facebook. It doesn’t matter how many subscribers you have on your YouTube. It doesn’t matter how many people think you’re great. You’ll never have peace. It will never be enough if you’re looking for those things to satisfy you. There’s only one thing that’ll bring peace to our soul, and that is to walk like Yeshua walked when he said, I do nothing but that which pleases the Father. If we’re living our life, seeking to submit to the father, seeking to please him and let everything else fall where it may, we’re gonna have peace and his spirit will well up from within us as living water, our heart and soul will be satisfied through the lamb of God. Remember the ancient Israelites had to eat that lamb. And so you and I today, we eat the lamb when we do God’s will and we look to him to be our satisfaction rather than these false lights of the world. And finally today, beloved, Yeshua is enough, the Lamb of God, because the Lamb of God is coming back. We read in the book of Revelation that the Lamb is on his throne and his last words are, behold, I come quickly. I want you to put your hand over your heart with me. Let’s confess these words together. Jesus, I love you. Yeshua, You’re my Messiah. I’m waiting for You, O Lamb of God, to return. And I want to prepare myself and make myself ready to see you face to face. Thank you for loving me. And I ask you to continue, King Jesus, to work in my life that I’ll be able to stand before you, O beautiful and precious Lamb of God, holy and prepared to be your bride. Happy Passover. Beloved, Passover is a very happy time of year as we celebrate freedom and deliverance. In fact, Jewish people greet each other during this time of year by saying to each other Chag Sameach, which means happy holidays. When we read about how Passover was celebrated during the days of the Bible, we find in the book of Second Chronicles, chapter 35, that tremendous offerings were brought to the temple and offered up to God in thankfulness. I want to encourage you this time of year, beloved one, to present a special offering to the Lord as a token of your love to Him and a show of your appreciation for all He’s done for you. In ancient Israel, they brought the money to the temple. I want to encourage you, beloved ones, if this ministry is fitting you, present a special offering to the Lord now through discovering the Jewish Jesus. I know you’ll be blessed when you do it from a pure heart. Now, Dustin, could you share with our listeners how they can support us and give?
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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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I’m your host, Dustin Roberts, and this has been a production of Discovering the Jewish Jesus. Make sure to join us again next time. Rabbi Schneider is going to explain the covenant names of God. That’s coming up Wednesday on Discovering the Jewish Jesus.
