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To Know Him by Name Season 3: God, The Most Sensitive Being
September 16, 2024 · 19 min
In this episode, Rabbi Schneider teaches on the holiness of God. Listen to this teaching to learn about your relationship with the everlasting God.
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0:00 He can do anything he wants to do, but he is also the most sensitive being. You can bring him pleasure or you can bring him pain. And we should walk in our lives0:12 with that cognizance. We should be aware of that.0:24 Yahweh revealed himself to Moshe or Moses as, I am who I am, and Yahweh is my memorial name forever. So when you think0:36 about this concept of God being I am who I am, I want you to consider the fact that this carries with it the idea that he's always moving. If he's alive,0:48 I am who I am is alive. He's present. He's always here, past, present, future, which means he's always moving. Now, in connection to this1:00 thought, I want you to consider a climactic episode that's recorded for us in the Word of God when Isaiah, in Isaiah chapter 6, encounters the Lord.1:13 Isaiah begins by telling us it was in the year of during Uzziah's reign that this happened. And Isaiah encounters Yahweh, and when he does, Isaiah said, he fell on his face1:24 like a dead man. And Isaiah said, I saw him, and there were angels around him that did not see crying out day and night, holy,1:37 holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord1:49 God Almighty. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty. And Isaiah said, they did not stop crying out,2:01 holy, holy, holy day and night. Now consider that in Revelation, John had the same experience where he encountered the Lord. He saw the same thing. The2:13 angels around the Lord's throne that did not cease crying out day and night, holy, holy, holy. Why did the angels not stop2:25 crying out, holy? Why did it not become why did it not become static? In other words, why did it not become just mere mechanics? Why was it alive? Why did it not become2:36 mechanical? And the reason is, beloved friends, is because every time the angels cried out holy, they called it out because2:48 they just got hit with a new wave of the power and glory of the Creator. It wasn't mechanical, it was each time they cried it out, they were3:00 being hit by a new wave of the glory of God, and they got their breath taken away, and each time it happened, they're holy. They couldn't stop saying it day and night forever because Yahweh3:12 is always alive and moving and always new, and he always has more and more and more and more. He just keeps on coming. He is I am who I am, and3:24 that's who he is to you and I. The more we build our relationship with him, the more we're gonna be getting hit with new revelation, new3:35 presence, new power, a deeper relationship. It's never going to end. Your relationship will never become stale.3:48 I know that there's times in our life that we feel stale. I realize that. We all do at times. But the fact is we're going from 1 degree of glory to the next degree of glory because over3:59 a length of time we're being transformed. Even though at any given moment you may feel alive or you might feel not so alive. That's just in the second. But over the stretch of time,4:12 in the long run, you're gonna continue to be affected and remade, transformed as new revelation of the glory4:24 of Yahweh come into your life. And when we meet him face to face, it's gonna be I mean, there's I couldn't even try to describe it. Eye has not seen and ear has not4:36 heard. Never has it entered into the heart of man the things that Yahweh has prepared for those that love him. So this is exciting stuff. I mean, this is joy. This is what Jesus said, my joy I4:48 give to you, not as the world gives. You're in relationship with the everlasting God. In his presence are treasures forevermore. You're gonna continue to be5:00 hit with new what's the word? With new emanations of his glory, of Jesus, of his Son, of everything that he is, all5:11 his glorious attributes, his beauty, his divinity. I mean, could go on and on and on. I feel like I'm just being repetitious. You get it. That's who our God is. He's alive. He is I5:22 am, and you're never gonna get bored in heaven. You will never be bored even for the smallest iota of a second because you're gonna be in his presence, and you're gonna be5:34 being hit with the same waves that Isaiah got hit with and that John got hit with in Revelation, you're gonna be hit with his power over and over. And every time5:46 it's gonna be a new wave, a bigger wave, and a more glorious wave. So he is, beloved, I am who I am. That is who Yahweh is.5:58 Now, to review, let me say, the Father that shows you, according to the book of Ephesians chapter 1, Let me just actually state for you6:10 Ephesians 1. Ephesians 1 begins in this way. Blessed be the God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ who6:22 chose us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and blameless before him in love. Listen again. Blessed be the6:33 God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ. Who is the God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ?6:46 It's no 1 else but Yahweh. It's none other than Yahweh. Yahweh shows you. You have been brought into covenant relationship with Yahweh, which is his6:58 memorial name forever, through your relationship with Yeshua HaMashiach, with Jesus, your Messiah. And as I said earlier, we're gonna continue to look at all the ways7:10 that Yahweh revealed himself as Yahweh Sidkenu, Yahweh Nissi, Yahweh Macadesh. And it goes on to the Hebrew people, and every time he revealed himself in another 1 of7:22 the things that he does for his covenant people, you could know that because you're in relationship with him through the Lord Jesus, the same things that he promised in the Torah7:34 are for you today. So with that said now, I wanna move on to help us gain a deeper sensitivity to this person. Remember,7:46 Yahweh is a person. Lord is a title. God is a title. But Yahweh is a person. This is why the7:58 Lord said in the book of Exodus chapter 6, God spoke further to Moses and said to him, I am Yahweh. Now your Bible translates it8:10 capital L, capital O, capital R, capital D, but the Hebrew actually there is Yud Hei Vathe, I am Yahweh. God spoke further to Moses and said to him, I am Yahweh, and8:22 I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty. That's El Shaddai that we covered earlier. So God said, I8:33 appear to your forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God Almighty, as El Shaddai. But the text continues, the Lord is speaking here. He says,8:45 but by my name, Yahweh, I did not make myself known to them. So Abraham, Isaac, and8:57 Jacob knew God as the creator. They knew him as God Almighty, but they didn't know his personal name. So this revelation that is discovered9:09 first at the burning bush is now fresh for you and I today. We are in relationship not just with a God, but with a person. God who9:21 is a person. And so Yahweh reveals to us elements of his personality. We can get to know Yahweh and be more sensitive to him9:32 by discovering what Yahweh said about himself and what the Hebrew scriptures reveal to us about the sensitivity of Yahweh our maker. So we're gonna begin9:44 today to dive deeper into a scripture in the book of Bereshit, Genesis chapter 6 verse 6, where even though the patriarchs and Adam and Eve did not know9:56 him by name, the scripture refers to Yahweh by name there. And what the scripture reveals to us in the book of Bereshit or Genesis chapter 6 is that Yahweh10:10 was grieved. Get that word now. Yahweh was grieved when he made man and saw that man was continually doing10:21 evil. This is why the earth was destroyed with the flood. Yahweh looked down upon the world and it was corrupt. And everything that was proceeding from mankind that he had made in his own10:33 image had become corrupted through Satan and the fall that took place when Adam and Eve ate in the garden. And everything that Yahweh saw when he looked at mankind grieved him, it hurt him, pierced10:45 him. To grieve somebody means to sadden them. So we read that Yahweh, a person, our God, get it now,10:57 can be grieved. Closely related to this concept is that Yahweh can11:08 be hurt. I know we talked about being grieved, but there's even another level to this. Our God can be hurt. I remember I was doing my11:20 devotional not long ago, and I read, I'm gonna read it for you in a second, Ezekiel chapter 6 verse 9, where the Lord said, How I have been hurt, speaking of himself. And it just like11:32 pierced my heart that I could hurt God, that I could hurt my God. Let me read it for you and then we'll talk about it a bit. The Lord is speaking to Israel. They had been driven into the11:44 nations. They had been taken captive. And the Lord said, they will remember how I have been hurt by their adulterous hearts. I have been11:55 hurt, God said. I mean, a lot of times we don't get that, right? We just think about all powerful God. We think he's so big that he could never be hurt.12:07 But the Lord said, you're gonna remember all the evil you did to me and how I was hurt by it. I have been hurt by their adulterous hearts, which12:19 they turned away from me and by their eyes which played the harlot after their idols. And they will load themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed and for all their abominations.12:32 I think it's important that we pause and take this in. Because sometimes we don't walk sensitively in our conduct before the Lord, even in controlling our12:43 thoughts and speech before the Lord because we really don't appreciate, my beloved friends, brothers and sisters, that you and I can somehow12:57 hurt God. We can hurt Yahweh. You see, God made us in his own image because he wanted13:08 someone to be in a love relationship with. And he gave us our own will so we could choose to love him. The13:20 Lord is looking for somebody to love him. That's why the book of Revelation culminates in Revelation 19 with the marriage supper of the Lamb. What's a marriage? 2 people coming13:31 together on their own free will and choosing to love 1 another, to have a contract, to love each other for the rest of their lives. Well, our relationship with Jesus culminates13:43 in the marriage supper of the Lamb. Yeshua and the Father coming into relationship with us and finalizing it at the marriage supper of the Lamb where each 1, each party,13:55 God and us have covenanted to love each other with everything we have forever and ever for all of eternity. Now, let's think about this. We're talking about how we have the power14:07 to hurt God. How is it that you and I, we don't consider ourselves as powerful enough to hurt an all powerful God, but we don't sometimes have revelation14:19 of the fact that our all powerful God has so humbled himself that he's put himself in a14:30 posture in his relationship with us where we can either hurt him or bring him joy. You see, God's all powerful, and14:42 he has decided voluntarily to be vulnerable in his exposure, in his relationship, in his making himself vulnerable to us.14:55 So that if we choose to love him, it brings him great joy. That's why we read in the Scripture that all the angels in heaven rejoice when even 1 sinner repents. We see Jesus15:06 full of joy in the scriptures. But conversely, also God has also humbled himself in such a way that he allows himself to be affected by us.15:19 And when we choose, when you and I who is made in his own image in hopes that we'll love him, in hopes that we'll put him first, in hopes that we'll15:31 honor him, when you and I that have been given this power by our maker to do that, to love him back, when we disappoint him by going after15:42 idols and voluntarily living in the lust of our flesh, in sensuality, and in sin. When we go that direction of idolatry,15:54 it literally grieves and hurts God. I want you to know. I want you to get this loud and clear, my friend. You have the16:05 power to hurt God. And don't ever forget that. He's not so big that he can't be hurt by you. He is so big. He's all powerful. He16:17 can do anything he wants to do, but he is also the most sensitive being in all of creation. He feels you. You can bring him16:29 pleasure or you can bring him pain. And we should walk in our lives with that cognizance. We should be aware of that. When I read that during my16:41 quiet time, when I read Ezekiel six:nine, and just that 1 phrase in that verse, they hurt me, it pierced my heart. I realized, God, it's not just about me. It's not just about how I16:53 feel today. It's about you. I love you, Father God, I I said. I I love you. I don't wanna hurt you. Forgive me for17:05 forgetting about that, that I have the power to hurt you. And forgive me for just looking to you to answer my prayers without realizing the responsibility that I have to17:17 love you back. And so my dear beloved brothers and sisters, will you take this to heart with me? Love is17:28 delicate. Jesus is sensitive. You know, the Holy Spirit manifested as a dove. Doves are very fluttery. I mean, they will land in an17:40 area that's safe. But when there's turmoil, those doves will fly away. And that's the way God's spirit is in our lives, beloved. We have to cultivate love and be17:52 sensitive to him and be careful how we walk so that his dove and love can rest fully on our lives.18:03 I haven't heard a sermon on the widow's mite lately. Have you? Maybe some of you have. Perhaps you don't even know the story. Yeshua Jesus was at the temple 1 day observing people as they were coming to18:15 put their offering forward unto the Lord. And a widow came and she just gave just a little bit. But Yeshua, Jesus commented to his disciples that her offering was actually the18:27 greatest of any he had observed, even though it was a small amount. Because he said she gave out of her poverty. When the others gave out of their abundance, they had so much money, it didn't cost him anything18:39 to make an offering. It didn't hurt. But that widow gave out of a position where it was just pure love, pure adoration for the Lord, pure obedience. It was a sacrifice. Reminds me of David that18:51 said, I will not offer to the Lord that which costs me nothing. I want to encourage us all. Let's be faithful to the Lord with our finances. It should hurt a little bit. And God promised it's gonna19:03 come back good measure running over into our laps. I encourage you to give unto the Lord through this ministry if it's feeding you.
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