Are you serious about your relationship with God? In this episode, Rabbi Schneider lists the things God hates and informs believers what the first step is to stay on track with God.
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Welcome to Discovering The Jewish Jesus. I’m your host, Dustin Roberts, and today Rabbi Schneider is going to help us discover God’s covenant names.
Have you ever wondered what it truly means to know God? That’s a deep question. And to understand God’s hearts and his desires, what grieves him?
Well, today, Rabbi Schneider, he’s gonna take us on a journey into the very essence of God’s sacred names. And by diving into the depths of God’s names, we’ll discover a lot about God’s character. We’ll see how much he longs to have a relationship with us, a personal relationship.
It’s gonna be an eye-opening message. So let’s get started with today’s message from our study called To Know Him by Name. Here’s Rabbi Schneider.
Baruch Hashem, blessed be the name of the Lord. I’m excited about this series. This is one of those series that brings me particular joy.
And we’ve been digging in to the mystery of the revelation of God’s sacred, personal covenant name, Yud Hei Vav Hei, which most Semitic scholars believe is pronounced a breathy, Yuh Weh. And I’m launching straight ahead right now as we’re continuing our dialogue on this subject. It truly is a series, beloved.
I’m just excited to bring it to God’s people because I think there’s so much here and many of God’s beloved children have not been exposed to this teaching. And it’s so sacred and so important. I know it’s gonna be a blessing for so many people’s lives.
People that love truth, love truth. And this is fundamental truth as we explore who God wants to be to us through the revelation of his personal names and title in Scripture. We can’t see God, he’s invisible, but we can know him through his self-revelation.
And his self-revelation comes to us in the form of his revealed names. As I’ve been saying, Yahweh is the Lord’s personal covenant name. And I left off on the last episode, we’re talking about how Yahweh is a person, and we can grieve him and hurt him.
And I want to continue down this trail today by taking a deep look in Scripture according to Yahweh himself, about the things that humankind can do that hurt him. I shared with you that in Ezekiel 6,9, the Lord speaking to Israel said, you have hurt me. And when I read that, it just pierced my heart.
It’s not just about us, it’s about him. Now here we go. We’re looking at Proverbs 6,16-19.
There are six things which the Lord Yahweh hates. Yes, seven which are abomination to him. So what’s the point?
Yahweh said, you’ve grieved me in Genesis chapter six. The Lord said, you hurt me in Ezekiel chapter six. And now we’re saying, what are the things that you and I need to guard our hearts against so that we don’t find ourselves amongst those that hurt and grieve Yahweh and his spirit?
Don’t you want to know that? Don’t you want to know what hurts and grieves God so you can guard your life from it? And know that as you do, put into place those measures to keep your relationship with Yahweh connected.
It means that oftentimes you’ll be separated from other people because the world is going one way and God’s children are going another way. So realize there is a price to pay and just get ready to pay that cost. And when you do pay a cost to love him and be in fidelity to him, even if that means you’re rejected by the world, you should rejoice because you’re sharing in the sufferings of Jesus, who was rejected and crucified by the world.
Jesus said, if the world rejects them, neither are going to reject you. And we’ve been chosen not only to reign with Yeshua, but to suffer with him. So recognize that to be separate from the world because of your fidelity to Yahweh means that you’re going to be excluded by the world.
Jesus said, if you are of the world, the world would love you. If you act like the world, if you dress like the world, if you talk like the world, if you entertain yourself with the world, Jesus said, the world’s going to love you because the world loves its own. If you’re of the world, Jesus said, the world would love you.
But because I chose you on the world, said Yeshua, therefore the world hates you. So I just want you to get ready. If you’re serious about your relationship with God, you’ve got to count the cost and recognize that there’s a price to pay and make a decision to happily bear the cross, the cross of the world’s reproach because of your love for Jesus and know that there’s a great reward coming.
So here we go. What hurts Yahweh? There are six things which the Lord hates, yes, seven, which are an abomination to him.
And now we’re going to list them. We’re going to go through each one. Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that run rapidly to evil, a false witness who utters lies, and one who spreads strife among brothers.
Seven things Yahweh hates. Let’s take a look at them. Number one, haughty eyes.
What does this mean? To carry yourself with a puffed up heart, to look down upon other people, to judge other people. Just pride is basically what it is.
But if you think about it, how many social contexts have you been in where either you had a haughty spirit or somebody that you were with had a haughty spirit and the person that you were with had a haughty spirit and you just kind of like rolled with it all. But God hates it because you and I, we are what we are by the grace of God. Whatever we have that’s good, we only have for one reason, because Yahweh gave it to us.
Are you smart? You don’t look down upon people that are maybe as intelligent or as gifted to you in some type of intellectual context because you know what? You’re only who you are because the Lord made you that way.
We are humble. We humble ourselves. Everyone’s our brothers and sisters.
So Yahweh hates when his people carry themselves with a haughty spirit. Then the Lord continues, a lying tongue. Six, yea, seven things which the Lord hates.
The next one he lists is a lying tongue. Are you aware of things that are coming out of your mouth that aren’t really authentic or true, but yet you say them because you want to fit in? I’m not putting anybody down, but I want you to examine yourself, just as I am continually examining myself.
Are you even laughing at jokes that people say that you don’t even think are funny or even are an insult to God because you want to be accepted? You know, when you laugh at a lie, you’ve become, in a sense, part of a lie. That’s a lying spirit.
And you know what? This is a problem that many of us have to be careful about. Exaggeration, exaggerating a circumstance, exaggerating telling about a circumstance.
Exaggeration is lying. And if we say something that’s not true just because we want to appease people around us or because we’re afraid of the consequences of telling the truth, you know what? We’re living in the spiritual dynamic of a lie.
We must be truthful. The Bible says that the church is the pillar of truth in the earth. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.
I want you to be aware, and even as I apply this to my own life, I want you to be aware of the words that come out of your mouth. Are they authentic, and are they true? Are they truly true?
And so, as you’re in a situation, you don’t know, well, how can I tell the truth? Because if I tell the truth, it’s going to create this conflict. If you’re committed to telling the truth, I believe from experience, God will give you the wisdom to tell the truth in such a way that it doesn’t cause destruction, but brings the whole situation forward deeper into the light.
And then the Lord continues here, hands that shed innocent blood. Now, what does this mean? It means taking advantage of innocent people for our own financial gain.
We need to be careful how we treat other people, especially people that are too vulnerable or too naïve to know how to protect themselves. How do you treat people that might be challenged in some way, whether it’s physically or mentally or emotionally? This is so important.
I mean, God is for the underdog. God is for the challenged and the disenfranchised. We need to be so careful with how we treat people.
And I believe this concept of shedding innocent blood conveys the idea of making sure that we treat those in society that are very vulnerable with love and respect and sensitivity. Do you do that? Do you do that?
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Continuing on, God hates a heart that devises wicked plans. I mean, think of the media today. Think of our major media outlets, our news channels.
Always thinking about how to spin something out there to create controversy. All it does is it brings society from one degree of evil into another degree of evil. Looking for ways to scheme and to create chaos to bring forth that which is the spectacular.
Thinking of an evil plan to bring forth the spectacular into the news cycle, just so they can get more reviews and the destruction that’s caused to society. God is going to crush all this and destroy it. He hates it, hates it, hates it.
And we can’t have anything to do with it. Paul said, stay away from conversations that really are just wicked, conversations that lead to nothing profitable. But he said instead, speak forth that which is edifying.
And God hates feet that rapidly run to evil. What does it mean to rapidly run to evil? Well, I just think of gossip.
Do you have to resist gossiping about somebody else? Many of you do. You know what?
Resist it. A lot of times, I want you to hear this, a lot of times we try to escape our own issues, the pain in our own life, our own emotional disturbance. We try to escape ourselves, listen now, by gossiping about other people.
And this leads us to rapidly run to evil, to do things that are evil because we’re trying to escape the lack of peace that we have in our own life. Yahweh hates this. He sees right through it.
The Word of God is living and active and sharper than a two-edged sword, and it divides the soul from the spirit. God knows exactly what’s going on in your life and why you do the things you do. And you and I need to get a hold of ourself and develop enough self-awareness that we can understand why we do what we do and begin to separate our motives so we can abide and stay in Him.
And this has to do with the next thing that Yahweh hates, being a false witness who utters lies. It’s so horrendous, and it’s all over the place. It’s all over the place.
I mean, if you think about this concept of feet running to evil and being a false witness and spreading lies, and the next one, spreading strife amongst others, just look at social media today. It blows me away sometimes. I’ll put something out there on social media with the best of intent, and sometimes something that I think is just really gorgeous because it’s the beauty of God.
I mean, I’ve released segments before on the beauty of God, and yet there’s people out there, and they criticize it. It’s like, what? What?
I remember one YouTube live that I did on the beauty of God, and I was wearing a hat that I had made up of all the colors of the rainbow because I was talking about an encounter I had with Jesus in which he manifested himself to me in living color. And I’ve had this hat for 10 years because of my earliest experience with Jesus in which he manifested himself to me in association with color. And so I was wearing this hat, talking about the beauty of God, and talking about how I had just had this encounter with the Lord, and he manifested his beauty to me through electric living color.
And one of the comments was right away, if you’ve had that hat for 10 years, why didn’t you wear it on television before? And it’s like, what? We’re talking about the beauty of God.
And yet, to the pure, all things are pure. But to the filed person, everything is defiled, and the lens that they see from is defiled. The point is, beloved, this is what we see on social media today.
So much hate, so much hate and division. And it’s just like, this is from the power of darkness, and we need to see it for what it is and separate ourselves from it. Not get involved in conversation about it, not have anything to do with it.
Push it away and keep your eyes on Yahweh like a racehorse that has blinders, and you have to resist, because evil is alluring. Listen, isn’t there something in us we want to gossip? In our heart, there’s something in us that want to say something about somebody which we know isn’t right to say.
We want to contribute our two cents to the conversation and speak something negative about a situation or a person. We have to recognize that we need to close the door to that and not say it. Again, the last thing that Yahweh hates is a false witness who speaks or utters lies and someone that spreads strife amongst others.
We have to guard our tongue. James said, if you could control your tongue, you’ll control the destiny of your life. One of the first and most important things that we should do as believers, beloved, to get on track with Yahweh, to get power released into our life, is to control our tongue.
We can be sent into the Spirit and have a sense of, I should or shouldn’t say it. That’s what we need to do. So I want to continue on now, moving from the negative aspect of what hurts Yahweh, what grieves Yahweh, what Yahweh hates.
I want to move forward now into who He is and focus on His glory, focus on His beauty. Now, how do we know, moving on from where we’ve been, who this great, glorious, beautiful God of ours is? Who is Yahweh?
He’s a person and He’s sensitive, but who is He? Well, my beloved friend, I believe one of the greatest portions of Scripture is found in the book of Shemot, or Exodus, chapter number 33. In Exodus 33, what we have here is that Moses is crying out to this one that he had met at the burning bush, Yahweh, to show him his glory.
Moses is saying to Yahweh, show me your glory. Yahweh commissioned Moses to lead Israel out of Egypt into the promised land and into the desert to worship him. But Moses is insecure about this call.
So he keeps on asking Yahweh to help him to know that he’s with them. Moses says, show me your favor. Help me to know your favors with me.
And Yahweh says, my favor is with you. And finally, the conversation between Moses and Yahweh comes to the climax when Moses cries out, show me your glory. And Yahweh says to Moses, no man can see my face and live Moses.
But I want you to go into the cleft of the rock and call upon my name. Call the name of Yahweh. And I’m gonna pass by in front of you.
And you won’t be able to see my face, but you’ll see my back. And I’m gonna proclaim my name to you. So, Moses goes in the cleft of the rock, and he calls upon the name Yahweh.
And Yahweh passes by and proclaims to Moses his name. And Moses is filled with the revelation knowledge of who this person, who this Yahweh is. When a rocket takes off from planet Earth, it has to break through the gravity that surrounds the world in order to become weightless.
In the same way, there are certain things, beloved, that you and I must do to get free in Yeshua. Jesus said, he that tries to save his life will lose it, but he that loses his life for my sake shall save it. In order to lose our life, in order to live lives of sacrifice, in order to be givers, we have to break through the resistance of being takers and being selfish.
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Let our prayer team pray for you. We lift up every individual request before the Lord. And then, as God answers your prayer request, or if God has touched your life through Discovering the Jewish Jesus,Welcome to Discovering The Jewish Jesus. I’m your host, Dustin Roberts, and today Rabbi Schneider is going to help us discover God’s covenant names.
Have you ever wondered what it truly means to know God? That’s a deep question. And to understand God’s hearts and his desires, what grieves him?
Well, today, Rabbi Schneider, he’s gonna take us on a journey into the very essence of God’s sacred names. And by diving into the depths of God’s names, we’ll discover a lot about God’s character. We’ll see how much he longs to have a relationship with us, a personal relationship.
It’s gonna be an eye-opening message. So let’s get started with today’s message from our study called To Know Him by Name. Here’s Rabbi Schneider.
Baruch Hashem, blessed be the name of the Lord. I’m excited about this series. This is one of those series that brings me particular joy.
And we’ve been digging in to the mystery of the revelation of God’s sacred, personal covenant name, Yud Hei Vav Hei, which most Semitic scholars believe is pronounced a breathy, Yuh Weh. And I’m launching straight ahead right now as we’re continuing our dialogue on this subject. It truly is a series, beloved.
I’m just excited to bring it to God’s people because I think there’s so much here and many of God’s beloved children have not been exposed to this teaching. And it’s so sacred and so important. I know it’s gonna be a blessing for so many people’s lives.
People that love truth, love truth. And this is fundamental truth as we explore who God wants to be to us through the revelation of his personal names and title in Scripture. We can’t see God, he’s invisible, but we can know him through his self-revelation.
And his self-revelation comes to us in the form of his revealed names. As I’ve been saying, Yahweh is the Lord’s personal covenant name. And I left off on the last episode, we’re talking about how Yahweh is a person, and we can grieve him and hurt him.
And I want to continue down this trail today by taking a deep look in Scripture according to Yahweh himself, about the things that humankind can do that hurt him. I shared with you that in Ezekiel 6,9, the Lord speaking to Israel said, you have hurt me. And when I read that, it just pierced my heart.
It’s not just about us, it’s about him. Now here we go. We’re looking at Proverbs 6,16-19.
There are six things which the Lord Yahweh hates. Yes, seven which are abomination to him. So what’s the point?
Yahweh said, you’ve grieved me in Genesis chapter six. The Lord said, you hurt me in Ezekiel chapter six. And now we’re saying, what are the things that you and I need to guard our hearts against so that we don’t find ourselves amongst those that hurt and grieve Yahweh and his spirit?
Don’t you want to know that? Don’t you want to know what hurts and grieves God so you can guard your life from it? And know that as you do, put into place those measures to keep your relationship with Yahweh connected.
It means that oftentimes you’ll be separated from other people because the world is going one way and God’s children are going another way. So realize there is a price to pay and just get ready to pay that cost. And when you do pay a cost to love him and be in fidelity to him, even if that means you’re rejected by the world, you should rejoice because you’re sharing in the sufferings of Jesus, who was rejected and crucified by the world.
Jesus said, if the world rejects them, neither are going to reject you. And we’ve been chosen not only to reign with Yeshua, but to suffer with him. So recognize that to be separate from the world because of your fidelity to Yahweh means that you’re going to be excluded by the world.
Jesus said, if you are of the world, the world would love you. If you act like the world, if you dress like the world, if you talk like the world, if you entertain yourself with the world, Jesus said, the world’s going to love you because the world loves its own. If you’re of the world, Jesus said, the world would love you.
But because I chose you on the world, said Yeshua, therefore the world hates you. So I just want you to get ready. If you’re serious about your relationship with God, you’ve got to count the cost and recognize that there’s a price to pay and make a decision to happily bear the cross, the cross of the world’s reproach because of your love for Jesus and know that there’s a great reward coming.
So here we go. What hurts Yahweh? There are six things which the Lord hates, yes, seven, which are an abomination to him.
And now we’re going to list them. We’re going to go through each one. Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that run rapidly to evil, a false witness who utters lies, and one who spreads strife among brothers.
Seven things Yahweh hates. Let’s take a look at them. Number one, haughty eyes.
What does this mean? To carry yourself with a puffed up heart, to look down upon other people, to judge other people. Just pride is basically what it is.
But if you think about it, how many social contexts have you been in where either you had a haughty spirit or somebody that you were with had a haughty spirit and the person that you were with had a haughty spirit and you just kind of like rolled with it all. But God hates it because you and I, we are what we are by the grace of God. Whatever we have that’s good, we only have for one reason, because Yahweh gave it to us.
Are you smart? You don’t look down upon people that are maybe as intelligent or as gifted to you in some type of intellectual context because you know what? You’re only who you are because the Lord made you that way.
We are humble. We humble ourselves. Everyone’s our brothers and sisters.
So Yahweh hates when his people carry themselves with a haughty spirit. Then the Lord continues, a lying tongue. Six, yea, seven things which the Lord hates.
The next one he lists is a lying tongue. Are you aware of things that are coming out of your mouth that aren’t really authentic or true, but yet you say them because you want to fit in? I’m not putting anybody down, but I want you to examine yourself, just as I am continually examining myself.
Are you even laughing at jokes that people say that you don’t even think are funny or even are an insult to God because you want to be accepted? You know, when you laugh at a lie, you’ve become, in a sense, part of a lie. That’s a lying spirit.
And you know what? This is a problem that many of us have to be careful about. Exaggeration, exaggerating a circumstance, exaggerating telling about a circumstance.
Exaggeration is lying. And if we say something that’s not true just because we want to appease people around us or because we’re afraid of the consequences of telling the truth, you know what? We’re living in the spiritual dynamic of a lie.
We must be truthful. The Bible says that the church is the pillar of truth in the earth. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.
I want you to be aware, and even as I apply this to my own life, I want you to be aware of the words that come out of your mouth. Are they authentic, and are they true? Are they truly true?
And so, as you’re in a situation, you don’t know, well, how can I tell the truth? Because if I tell the truth, it’s going to create this conflict. If you’re committed to telling the truth, I believe from experience, God will give you the wisdom to tell the truth in such a way that it doesn’t cause destruction, but brings the whole situation forward deeper into the light.
And then the Lord continues here, hands that shed innocent blood. Now, what does this mean? It means taking advantage of innocent people for our own financial gain.
We need to be careful how we treat other people, especially people that are too vulnerable or too naïve to know how to protect themselves. How do you treat people that might be challenged in some way, whether it’s physically or mentally or emotionally? This is so important.
I mean, God is for the underdog. God is for the challenged and the disenfranchised. We need to be so careful with how we treat people.
And I believe this concept of shedding innocent blood conveys the idea of making sure that we treat those in society that are very vulnerable with love and respect and sensitivity. Do you do that? Do you do that?
You’re listening to Discovering the Jewish Jesus with Rabbi Schneider. We want you to know there are so many ways that you can watch and listen to Rabbi’s programs. Online, you’ll find us at discoveringthejewishjesus.com.
You can find resources like our television broadcast schedule, Rabbi’s messages on your podcasting platform, YouTube content, devotionals, and much more. You can even follow us on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Check out all these resources online today.
At the core of everything we do at Discovering The Jewish Jesus is our commitment to declare the whole council of God’s Word from start to finish. In fact, Rabbi’s unique way of connecting the Old and the New Testaments has helped people all over the world to understand the Bible with fresh eyes. To join us in this work of God, give a donation online today at discoveringthejewishjesus.com, or call 800-777-7835.
And now here is Rabbi Schneider.
Continuing on, God hates a heart that devises wicked plans. I mean, think of the media today. Think of our major media outlets, our news channels.
Always thinking about how to spin something out there to create controversy. All it does is it brings society from one degree of evil into another degree of evil. Looking for ways to scheme and to create chaos to bring forth that which is the spectacular.
Thinking of an evil plan to bring forth the spectacular into the news cycle, just so they can get more reviews and the destruction that’s caused to society. God is going to crush all this and destroy it. He hates it, hates it, hates it.
And we can’t have anything to do with it. Paul said, stay away from conversations that really are just wicked, conversations that lead to nothing profitable. But he said instead, speak forth that which is edifying.
And God hates feet that rapidly run to evil. What does it mean to rapidly run to evil? Well, I just think of gossip.
Do you have to resist gossiping about somebody else? Many of you do. You know what?
Resist it. A lot of times, I want you to hear this, a lot of times we try to escape our own issues, the pain in our own life, our own emotional disturbance. We try to escape ourselves, listen now, by gossiping about other people.
And this leads us to rapidly run to evil, to do things that are evil because we’re trying to escape the lack of peace that we have in our own life. Yahweh hates this. He sees right through it.
The Word of God is living and active and sharper than a two-edged sword, and it divides the soul from the spirit. God knows exactly what’s going on in your life and why you do the things you do. And you and I need to get a hold of ourself and develop enough self-awareness that we can understand why we do what we do and begin to separate our motives so we can abide and stay in Him.
And this has to do with the next thing that Yahweh hates, being a false witness who utters lies. It’s so horrendous, and it’s all over the place. It’s all over the place.
I mean, if you think about this concept of feet running to evil and being a false witness and spreading lies, and the next one, spreading strife amongst others, just look at social media today. It blows me away sometimes. I’ll put something out there on social media with the best of intent, and sometimes something that I think is just really gorgeous because it’s the beauty of God.
I mean, I’ve released segments before on the beauty of God, and yet there’s people out there, and they criticize it. It’s like, what? What?
I remember one YouTube live that I did on the beauty of God, and I was wearing a hat that I had made up of all the colors of the rainbow because I was talking about an encounter I had with Jesus in which he manifested himself to me in living color. And I’ve had this hat for 10 years because of my earliest experience with Jesus in which he manifested himself to me in association with color. And so I was wearing this hat, talking about the beauty of God, and talking about how I had just had this encounter with the Lord, and he manifested his beauty to me through electric living color.
And one of the comments was right away, if you’ve had that hat for 10 years, why didn’t you wear it on television before? And it’s like, what? We’re talking about the beauty of God.
And yet, to the pure, all things are pure. But to the filed person, everything is defiled, and the lens that they see from is defiled. The point is, beloved, this is what we see on social media today.
So much hate, so much hate and division. And it’s just like, this is from the power of darkness, and we need to see it for what it is and separate ourselves from it. Not get involved in conversation about it, not have anything to do with it.
Push it away and keep your eyes on Yahweh like a racehorse that has blinders, and you have to resist, because evil is alluring. Listen, isn’t there something in us we want to gossip? In our heart, there’s something in us that want to say something about somebody which we know isn’t right to say.
We want to contribute our two cents to the conversation and speak something negative about a situation or a person. We have to recognize that we need to close the door to that and not say it. Again, the last thing that Yahweh hates is a false witness who speaks or utters lies and someone that spreads strife amongst others.
We have to guard our tongue. James said, if you could control your tongue, you’ll control the destiny of your life. One of the first and most important things that we should do as believers, beloved, to get on track with Yahweh, to get power released into our life, is to control our tongue.
We can be sent into the Spirit and have a sense of, I should or shouldn’t say it. That’s what we need to do. So I want to continue on now, moving from the negative aspect of what hurts Yahweh, what grieves Yahweh, what Yahweh hates.
I want to move forward now into who He is and focus on His glory, focus on His beauty. Now, how do we know, moving on from where we’ve been, who this great, glorious, beautiful God of ours is? Who is Yahweh?
He’s a person and He’s sensitive, but who is He? Well, my beloved friend, I believe one of the greatest portions of Scripture is found in the book of Shemot, or Exodus, chapter number 33. In Exodus 33, what we have here is that Moses is crying out to this one that he had met at the burning bush, Yahweh, to show him his glory.
Moses is saying to Yahweh, show me your glory. Yahweh commissioned Moses to lead Israel out of Egypt into the promised land and into the desert to worship him. But Moses is insecure about this call.
So he keeps on asking Yahweh to help him to know that he’s with them. Moses says, show me your favor. Help me to know your favors with me.
And Yahweh says, my favor is with you. And finally, the conversation between Moses and Yahweh comes to the climax when Moses cries out, show me your glory. And Yahweh says to Moses, no man can see my face and live Moses.
But I want you to go into the cleft of the rock and call upon my name. Call the name of Yahweh. And I’m gonna pass by in front of you.
And you won’t be able to see my face, but you’ll see my back. And I’m gonna proclaim my name to you. So, Moses goes in the cleft of the rock, and he calls upon the name Yahweh.
And Yahweh passes by and proclaims to Moses his name. And Moses is filled with the revelation knowledge of who this person, who this Yahweh is. When a rocket takes off from planet Earth, it has to break through the gravity that surrounds the world in order to become weightless.
In the same way, there are certain things, beloved, that you and I must do to get free in Yeshua. Jesus said, he that tries to save his life will lose it, but he that loses his life for my sake shall save it. In order to lose our life, in order to live lives of sacrifice, in order to be givers, we have to break through the resistance of being takers and being selfish.
I want to encourage you, beloved ones, to practice this principle with your finances. It may seem like I’m just a preacher asking for money, but the fact is, what I’m sharing with you is true. I would simply say this, all of us need to be givers, and all of us need to honor the Lord with our finances.
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That’s all the time we have for today right now. And as always, we close each program with a special blessing. Here’s Rabbi.
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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Discovering the Jewish Jesus is a production of Shalom Ministries, and I’m Dustin Roberts. Join us again when Rabbi Schneider continues our study on God’s names called To Know Him by Name. That’s Wednesday on Discovering the Jewish Jesus.
