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092514yomteruah.sd by RDR     Yom Teruah which is the proper name for this feast. There is a tradition in Judaism that you read the Achida which is the binding of Issac. The story never changes. You could read the story a hundred times, two hundred times and it never changes. But to set the stage for the Achida, what we find is that at this time Abraham and Sarah are old and childless, and desperate because they have been promised by God that they are going to have offspring that are as numerous [as the stars in] the sky and here they are waiting and waiting and waiting. In our culture if we wait more than 3 or 4 minutes we get upset. In God’s culture, you wait upon Him, and you wait upon Him, and you wait upon Him, you wait upon Him, Until you are calling out to Him “Well, what is going to happen?” and He tells you in My time. In our culture you might say, just a second, and I’ll answer your prayer. And if you remember that a day is like a thousand years in the eyes of God, a second is probably somewhere out there also. But He will answer in His time. He won’t answer in your time. But they are old and they are waiting. Sarah unable to bear a child gets desperate so what does she do. She gives Abraham, (continued on audio)

Track 2  by Rabbi Paul Falk.

Yahweh uses jealousy, Yahweh is a jealous God. And I started going is jealousy like coveting, cause you want something, you want it and your upset because someone else has it. And so I started going through that process and well he is a jealous God, and what does that mean? And this is not today, but, Yahweh uses jealousy a lot….a lot.   He loves to use jealousy and it is one of his major tools throughout scripture and it is a strange tool to use. So let’s just delve in. The question I want to get to today is, to some degree what does it mean that Yahweh is a jealous God, and how does that affect us.

The one verse that I wanted to put, where it says Jealousy is his name, Deuteronomy, somewhere around 34, had brackets around it, which means it is not in the original manuscript, so I didn’t even touch that one. It wasn’t important anyway, but just so you realize. So what does it mean to be jealous. Well to me, it means the reality that I have a really strong desire for something and whether that is in someone else’s hands, I want what they have. Or in some regards, I want to protect what I already have, I’m afraid of losing it. Well that doesn’t help you…what I think. What does the scripture mean? So the word in scripture is Ka-na. It’s specifically almost set that is only used in regard to Yahweh. It means to have no rival. No one else. It’s from the base word, Kana, to be envious to excite to jealous anger, but here is the positive end, it means to be what? Zealous. Zealous to the point where you are willing to give everything up for it. This is the positive side of jealousy. It means so much to me that I am willing to give everything else in my life up for this one thing. So we are going to start with Exodus 20 versus 2 thru 4. It’s a good place to start because Yahweh is introducing Himself in regard to the covenant.

“I am Yahweh your Elohim who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, you shall have no other Elohims before me, you shall not make for yourselves a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them nor serve them, for I Yahweh your Elohim am a jealous El, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me, and showing mercy to thousands of those who love me and keep my commands.”

So basic lessons, (Continued in audio)

090614sd By Rabbi Dennis Richards.  Chapter 17 in the book of Acts which is the history book of the early movement.  Gives us an interesting dialogue that goes on between Paul and the Greeks.  Paul is now called, …I remember Paul was a Hasidic Jew at one time,  and after meeting the Messiah on the Damascus road, he has a call to go out to the Gentiles.  And I want to start in Acts Chapter 17, because Paul’s message is identical to the message of the Messiah, and the message of James the brother of the Messiah.  So we are going to start with Act Chapter 17, and we are going to go all the way to 22.  “So Paul stood in the middle of the aeropagus, “Men of Athens, I observe that you are very religious, in all respects.”  Now remember Paul is coming from an orthodox Jewish background, and all of a sudden in 17, if you read up to the verse that leads you to this you find out that Paul was speaking in the midst of Athens.   And it’s really a story, it looks like its just a simple little story that they wanted to know what Paul was doing, but he was preaching from day to day in the market place, he was making a journey into the Gentile nations, and he was speaking in the market place daily and it caused the great philosophers of Greek to hear him, and say who is this stranger in our midst and what is he doing.   And if you know the— it was up on a hill…this is the Supreme Court of Greece.  And the religious leaders of Greece called him up to this high tower where you could see everything going on below because they wanted to know why he is blaspheming against their Gods.  It was composes of entirely x-lawmakers, they usually met at night time.  Their main concern was blasphemy.  So here we have Paul coming up, and he starts the conversation with “I know you are a very religious group,” and after he says something nice, but after he says something nice he says “But,”  and this is where we are going with the “But,” listen to what he is telling them, This is a man in the middle of all the great minds of Greece.  He’s saying for while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription “To the unknown God.”  Therefore, what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you.  The God who made the world and all the things in it since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands.  Nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything since He Himself gives us, all people life and breath and all things, and he has made for us one man, every nation of mankind to live on the face of the earth.  Having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.  For in Him we live and move and exist.  As even some of your own poets have said, for we also are His children.  being then that the children of God, we ought to not think that the Divine nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thoughts of men. (continued in audio)

083014sd By Rabbi Dennis Richards.   When you build a foundation if it is built on the word of God it is going to be firm. If is built on religions and theologies, I guarantee you someday it will shake.

Religions have a way of keep evolving to fit into the world structures. God’s word does not mean to be fitting into the world structures . It is actually against the structures of the world. And that’s why they need to eliminate him. And they eliminate God through religion. Each religion makes up it’s own concept of who God is. What to call him how to call him. How to approach Him. Bring your first born and sacrifice your first born. That’s how the Mayans would do it.

Everybody has a different way of approaching God, but if you believe that His Word is based on the Torah and then based on the Messiah who came to show us what the Torah meant to live, then you need to keep evolving. And you’re here today because that’s the position God placed you in.

Today we are going to look at one of my favorite psalms psalm 91, but you need to understand the setting.

And to do that first we have to go into the life of the Messiah. And we go into Matthew Chapter 3. This is the beginning of Yeshua’s public ministry. He’s been around now for some 30 years. And people saw some of the signs and wonders, but not like they are going to start to see.  And the first thing he does is he prepares himself by going into the mikvah. And from here again we have this mishmash called baptism, and everybody does it their own way. You think there was a special prayer that Yeshua said when He was going into the water?  John, first of all his baptism was about repentance, Is there any repentance that Yeshua had to do? No, his baptism wasn’t one of repentance, his baptism was one of change of status, and in the Jewish mind, anytime you go from an unclean to a clean position, you go into the waters of a mikvah. It is not a one time thing.

And here we see Yeshua going in…(continued on audio)

Track 2 By Rabbi Paul Falk.   So before we get into teaching today I want to clarify my announcement regarding the high days.  Traditionally Yom Teruah is considered a new year. Biblically it is not, it is the first day of the seventh month.  It is a season of being made new again, so if we take the idea of a renewed covenant it is a renewing time, but not  a new year.  So what I want to touch on today is John 3:16.    John 3:16 is one of the most popular verses that people throw out there in the world.  Sadly enough we throw it out, in places hoping it is going to make changes just because we see that.   It sort of makes me wonder in some regard, that in some cases here is God’s Holy word that we’re just throwing out there to just… in certain scenarios may his word is holier than that,  and shouldn’t be used that way.  But also John 3:16 by most believers is taken out of context.  You see, most theologians have come to John 3:16 and they go and read it and they pull it out by itself.  You don’t hear 17 or 18, you don’t hear 19.  You don’t realize that the Gospel of John, starts at John 1:1, to explain all of it.  Nor are they going to take you back to say, you know this verse actually is built on all these verses in Torah, no, no, we pull the whole verse out, and we read it as it is and we make meaning with no connection.  That is not how we need to read scripture.  Scripture and truth is always validified by more scripture.  At least two more times and specifically when we look a Messiah.  So when we look at John 3:16 today, …