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To Know Him by Name Season 1: A Revelation of a Name
January 19, 2024 · 20 min
Episode 2 of 3 Want to know the divine genius in you? Watch this episode as Rabbi Schneider breaks down the great search of life.
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0:00 The great search for life is really a search for identity. But when we truly come into a revelational knowledge that we're created in God's image, we're gonna understand that who we0:11 are far surpasses any identity that we could get from this world.0:26 I want you to consider a curious verse in the Brit Chadashah, the New Testament, that Jesus said. I'm in the Gospel of John now, chapter 17 verse number 6. Listen to what Yeshua0:38 said. He's speaking to the Father. He's about to go to the cross, and he says this. I have manifested your name. Speaking to the Father, Yeshua has completed his mission, and he's0:50 saying that he's gonna still die on the cross, but I mean he had lived for 33 years as a righteous person to prepare himself to die for the guilty. And he said, I have manifested your name1:01 to the men whom you've gave me out of the world. And so how did Yeshua manifest the Father's name to his followers? Well, some commentators will1:13 say that the name that Yeshua manifested to his followers, according to John seventeen:six, was the name Father. And I think that's very true, that Yeshua did bring1:25 his followers into an experiential knowledge and revelation that God was not just the creator, but he was their father. But I don't think that's the only thing that1:37 Yeshua was referring to here. I think when Yeshua said, I have manifested your name to the men you gave me out of the world, he was referring to the fact that he had manifested the1:49 revelation of who God was. That his followers came to understand who the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob was as Yeshua2:00 demonstrated it to them by exercising his authority, his sovereignty, by providing for them, by giving him his his peace, etcetera. And so the name of the2:11 creator, when it's revealed and imparted to us, becomes for us an experiential knowledge that brings us into intimacy with the unseen God and gives us the2:23 ability to trust him and to live confidently. On last on the last broadcast, I focused on the first name or title, I should say, that is revealed to us in the2:35 scripture regarding our creator, it's the name Elohim, found in the book of Bereshit or Genesis chapter 1 verse 1, where the Lord says, in the2:46 beginning, through the word, it says, in the beginning, Elohim created the heavens and the earth. So when we read the scripture, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, the Hebrew word2:58 there, the word that's actually in the original, is the word Elohim. So I wanna encourage you to go back and watch last time's broadcast because I really covered a lot of territory there.3:10 There's just a couple points that I didn't cover that I wanna add on to last time's broadcast before we move into a new title of the Lord in today's episode. Now,3:22 Elohim, as I mentioned last time, is a plural form of the Hebrew word El, and El just means God. I mentioned previously3:33 that even some of the pagans referred to their God as El. So the Canaanites, for example, referred to their God as El, singular. We refer to God as Elohim in3:45 the scriptures. And I talked about why we added the eem onto El. And again, go back and get the teaching from the last episode. I wanna make the point today3:57 that when the Lord created us in his own image, when the creator from whom everything originates from created us in his own image, he gave us his very4:09 DNA. We are created in his image. And and the great search for life today, if you take a step back and think about this, the great search for life, search for4:20 meaning, is really a search for identity. And when you look at people that are chasing after careers, chasing after money, you know, in the gym all the time trying to perfect their body, women, all the things4:32 that they do to their body, all the things that humanity does, it's really a search for identity. But when we truly come into a revelational knowledge4:44 that we're created in God's image, we're gonna understand that who we are far surpasses any identity that we could get from this world. In other words, it doesn't matter how4:56 successful someone is, how much money they have, how beautiful or how strong you look, to know who we really are is such a dramatic5:08 increase in identity. That's why David said in Psalm 1 39 that he was fearfully and wonderfully made. In other words, when you think about the way that our bodies work,5:20 we have a tendency to trust in doctors. We somehow think that, hey, the medical community has the answers to our problems. I don't know about you, but I've been faced with medical issues before, and I've gone to doctors,5:32 and I've gone to like 5 different dermatologists about a specific situation, and all any of them could do was to give me a name that described the symptoms. You have this.5:44 But all that name that they gave me does is describe the symptoms that I have, a rash on my skin that I'm dealing with. None of them actually could tell me what the root of it was, what's causing it, what's making5:56 my body release these histamines into my skin that's causing the skin to itch. All they can do, friends, oftentimes, and thank God for the medical community. I don't in any way wanna6:08 put them down because thank God for the help that they've given us. Right? All of us have benefited from the medical community. But the reality is that as we mature a bit, we realize they have some6:19 answers, but only this much. Only this much. So this helps us to understand that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. There's so much more going inside in the6:31 human makeup, the ability to think, to process thoughts, consciousness, things that are going on, again, in the biological level of our body that that that the medical6:43 community has no answers for, no cures for. God knows exactly what the root of every sickness, every disease is. He's the 1 that fearfully, wonderfully made us. And6:55 beyond, there are being divine intelligence inside the human body that's beyond the medical community. There is also a divine genius. Isn't that7:07 funny? Was gonna say genius, but I couldn't say it right. There is a divine genius inside all of us because we're created in God's image that we haven't even begun to7:18 tap. Beloved 1, you and I are so much more than we think we are. We're so much more than we think we are. There is so much more to7:30 you and I than we know. And this is a word of encouragement because as we seek God, seeking to know him and seeking to get an identity from him, he's going to be revealing to you7:42 and I more and more who we are. You know, the Bible says that we're for a little while only lower than the angels. There is so much divine genius in7:54 us, but we're only gonna discover that as we seek to know him and look to him to know who we are. In the beginning, Elohim created you. In the beginning, Elohim8:05 created. You can see in my studio here, actually have that verse in Hebrew. In the beginning, Elohim created the heavens and the earth. He created you and I. So I just wanna encourage you today. Ask8:17 God to give you an identity. Don't look for your identity on your Facebook site. Don't look for an identity on the comments people are making on any of your social media feeds. It's a trap.8:29 It will just spiral you down. But begin to cry out to God, God, show me who I am. Father, help me to know who I am. You know, I've discovered in my life that when I feel good about who I am,8:41 I'm able to love people. When I'm feeling good about my self image and my self identity, I'm able to love people. I'm able to bless people. I want everybody to feel good. But when I'm not secure in8:53 my own identity, when I don't have a clear understanding or revelation of my identity, when I'm not walking in that, that's when I have a tendency to mess up relationships, to respond9:05 wrong, to have a wrong perspective of circumstances in other people. And what that tells me is when I have a healthy identity, I'm able to be a servant of love, I'm able to be happy,9:17 I'm able to handle life well, Other people's comments aren't getting in me and wounding me. I'm not concerned about what other people think about me because I'm sure of who I am. So this is really this is I would9:28 encourage you just to get on your knees and just begin to call out to the Lord. Say, Lord, deliver me from looking for my identity in the world. Forgive me9:40 and save me from labeling myself based on how much money I make, on how many friends I have, on what I think other people are thinking about me, which probably what you think9:51 they're thinking about you probably really isn't even happening because we live in a spiritual universe where all kinds of thoughts are coming at us that aren't actually based in what they we think they are. Our fight's10:01 not against flesh and blood. Just begin, beloved, to practice what I'm saying. When you're starting to feel like, know, things aren't right, you just don't feel like you're relating to people rightly or you're10:12 not responding well, you're agitated inside, begin to call on your Creator for your identity will solve so many problems. Yeshua came,10:24 John seventeen:six, to reveal the creator's name to us. And when we have a revelation of the name of our creator upon our lives and understand that we're created in his image, When our identity is strengthened through10:36 our relationship with him, we live in victory, and we also have peace and happiness in life. Now before I close out this section on the name of our creator Elohim,10:47 I wanna point out another verse in the New Testament. It's in the book of Matthew chapter number 27, right before Yeshua's going to the cross. The prayer that I was just referring to in John 17, Yeshua wasn't at the10:59 cross yet. He was just getting ready to go to the cross. He knew he had come to the end of his mission. He had lived his life for 33 years approximately as a perfect person, preparing himself to die for the guilty. But11:10 now in Matthew 27, we're actually ready. Yeshua's on the cross actually. He's on the cross. And listen what he says in the 20 seventh chapter and the 40 sixth verse.11:22 Eli, Eli, lama, sabachthani. That is I might not have pronounced it perfectly right, that last part of it. Eli, Eli. And then he says the translation is,11:34 my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? So think about it. Yeshua's on the cross. And how does he call out to the11:45 Father? He calls out to him as Eli, Eli. Why did Yeshua go from calling upon him as father? Right? All throughout the gospels, Yeshua referred to the11:57 creator as father. Right? He's always spoke speaking about the father spoke to me, and, you know, he's revealing the Father. Said to his disciples, when you pray, pray in this12:08 way, our Father who art in heaven. He was always talking about his relationship with the Father. But now when he's on the cross being crucified, about to expire, he12:20 doesn't call upon God as Father. He calls upon him rather as the creator, Eli, Eli. My God, my God. And then we have the reason why he's calling upon God as the12:32 creator, Eli, Eli, which is the singular form of Elohim, which we've been studying. Eli is just the singular form of Elohim. Why have you forsaken me? Why is Yeshua12:44 calling upon the creator as Eli, my God, rather than father? Because remember, the father turned away from him because he took our sin in12:56 his own body on the tree. That's why Yeshua said here, why have you forsaken me? I just wanted to point out to you another use of the word Elohim in its singular form in13:08 the scriptures in the New Testament, the Brit Chadashah. Finally, before we close today, I wanna point out that when the Lord created us in his own image, the scripture said he created us13:20 in his own image, male and female, he created he them. And then the first commandment that he gave us13:34 after creating us in his own image, male and female, was be fruitful and multiply. Why am I bringing13:45 this up? Because it helps us to perceive and understand. And some of you I might be speaking to because you've been so swayed by your emotions and your compassion on people that you've lost a13:57 sense of the way. The truth is is that God never intended to be part of his divine design,14:09 the practice of transgenderism, gender fluidity, and homosexuality. The God of the Hebrew Bible created distinctions. We don't mix wool and linen together in the Hebrew14:21 Bible and the Torah. We don't sow different types of seeds together in the field. We don't breed we don't cross breed animals together because God created creation with14:32 distinctions. And the first and most fundamental distinction is the distinction between male and female. So if man tries to do away with those14:43 distinctions, he completely throws the divine design in creation into moral chaos. And so I'm just speaking to those of you that love the Lord but14:55 have been so empathetic and sympathetic towards people that you know and love that have been caught into this gender fluidity, transgender, homosexual lifestyle that you just feel like, you know, well, God wouldn't send15:06 anybody to hell. You know, these people are good people. I understand, beloved, our capacity for human empathy, but we can't let our human emotions take us away from standing with God's word. He15:18 created us male and female, and then he said be fruitful and multiply. Common sense should tell us that if God's first command to humanity was to be fruitful and15:30 multiply, that 2 men can't do that and 2 women can't do that. And the truth is, and I say this with all humility and gentleness, a man can never become a15:42 woman no matter what surgeries they have. And regardless of what surgeries or hormone pills a woman takes, a woman can never actually become a15:53 man. So it just it just it just like that's kind of the end of the argument. Be fruitful and multiply, only a man and a woman can do that together. And the reality is you can16:05 never biologically change your sex. You're born the way you're born, and it can't be altered. So as much as our heart goes out to people, as much as we love people, the answer, my16:17 friends, is not to bless a lifestyle or a mindset that's contrary to God's word. The answer is to16:29 offer everybody, every man, woman, and child the hope of Jesus. Because in Yeshua, even if someone is struggling with their gender identity, and16:40 these are real issues and real problems, and my heart goes out to everybody that's hurting and struggling. Even if someone is When someone is struggling with these issues, the answer16:52 isn't to bless them in the sense of blessing a dysfunction. The answer is to love them and to offer them the hope of Jesus who gives us a17:04 new nature. That's why Yeshua said unless 1 is born of water and the spirit, he cannot see the kingdom of God. So we need to be born of the spirit.17:16 And when we're born of the spirit, God can change our nature. I'm not promising anybody a quick fix. I'm simply saying that Jesus came into the world to save us from our sin.17:29 So the answer isn't to bless sin because we love people. The answer is to love people, and the only real way to love them is to offer them the truth. God's loving kindness17:41 and truth are knitted together like a hand in a glove. You can't have 1 without the other. Sometimes we just wanna minister to people based on our feeling. We can't just minister to people based on17:52 feeling. We have to also minister to people based on the word. The love and the truth kiss each other. So if you're struggling today, maybe you're struggling today with with the issues that I'm speaking about, I just18:04 want you to know God loves you. He's got a plan for your life that's so much better than the plan that you might have for yourself. But we've got to get on our knees and turn to our creator, ask18:16 him to restore us to our original image and to know who we are in him. I know in my heart that when I'm able to sacrifice something to the Lord,18:28 whether it's an act of obedience, whether it's denying my flesh, whether it's in my finances, I know that when I choose to sacrifice myself to him, it brings me into a18:40 sense of feeling connected. Interesting is that the Hebrew word that is translated sacrifice in English, the Hebrew is korban.18:51 And not only does korban mean sacrifice, but the literal root of it means to draw near. So what's the point? When we make a sacrifice to the Lord, when we19:03 sacrifice our lives to him, what happens is we are brought near, we draw near to him, and as a result, he draws near to us. I want to encourage you. Be faithful to the Lord19:15 with your finances. Make a sacrifice to him. And when you do, beloved ones, out of love and with right motives, the result will be is that you will be brought near to him and experience his blessing on19:27 your life.
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