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To Know Him by Name Season 2: The Beauty of Boundaries
July 15, 2024 · 19 min
Is anything too difficult for the Lord? Join Rabbi Schneider as he expounds on God’s name El Shaddai in Abraham and Sarah’s story.
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0:00 Father, I pray that you would break in and reveal yourself to each 1 as God Almighty, the God of the impossible. Get this now beloved ones, El Shaddai, God0:12 Almighty is speaking to you and I here.0:24 We're focusing on the Hebrew title of God, El Shaddai. God Almighty that provides for our needs. God Almighty that's able to do the0:36 impossible. And when we know that if we have El Shaddai in our life, we don't really need anything else. In other words, all the things that God brings into our life.0:47 Right? All of it is important. But if it all fell away, God would be enough. El Shaddai, the supernatural God that meets our needs, that's able to do the impossible, would0:59 be enough to us and he would bring into our life whatever we need. And to live in that reality, to recognize that you don't need anything else, you don't need1:11 anyone else. That even if you lost it all, you'd still have the Lord knowing that beloved will set you free. I just wanna pray with you for a second about1:23 that because I think it's such an important place to live. A lot of us are are living in fear because we're like afraid of losing this, or we're afraid of losing that. But I want you1:35 to know today that even if you lost that thing that you're afraid of losing, you'd be okay. Because you would still have the supernatural El1:47 Shaddai's banner of love over you. And he would be providing for you and doing the impossible for you. So father we wanna thank you for the knowledge1:58 of the truth. Father, wanna thank you for taking on flesh and blood in the person of your son, Yeshua Jesus.2:11 And that when we receive you into our life, we've received everything that we'll ever need God, to be happy. Everything that we ever will2:23 need to be victorious. Father, I realize that this is a process, that there's a walk we have to go through, that life isn't easy. But I also know Lord that what I'm saying is2:35 the truth, that you alone are enough. So Father we thank you for that today. And we praise you for that today. In Yeshua's name,2:47 amen and amen. So what I wanna do now is I wanna just revisit briefly where we're at in the narrative of the book of Bereshit, Genesis, as we're looking at this term El2:59 Shaddai being lifted to the surface. Abram is looking for the fulfillment of the promise that God would make his offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven. He'd been unable to conceive with his wife.3:10 He gets Hagar, the maiden of of his wife pregnant. That becomes a disaster. The whole thing just doesn't seem like it's working out. But you know what happens?3:22 God appears to Abraham again. Abram, Abraham's name is changed to Abraham. When Abram got to the end,3:35 when Sarai got to the end, you know what? God showed up and he does the same, beloved, for every 1 of his children. He will never leave you or forsake you.3:47 So let's pick up now as we continue in the story in chapter number 18. Now the Lord appeared to him by the oaks of Mamreb while he was sitting at the tent3:58 door in the heat of the day. When he lifted up his eyes and looked, behold, 3 men were4:10 standing opposite him. And when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himself to the earth. Now4:21 it says that Abram saw these 3 men and when he saw them, he bowed to the earth. Why? We're gonna see that these were no ordinary men, but that the4:33 Lord himself stood as a pre incarnate Christ before Abram. And I'm gonna share with you how we know that in a second.4:45 Abram bowed himself to the earth and said, my Lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please do not pass your servant by. Please let a little water be4:56 brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree. And I will bring a piece of bread that you may refresh yourselves. After that you may go on5:08 since you have visited your servant. And they said, so do as you have said. So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah. Now5:20 notice that by this point, Abram's name is changed to Abraham, and Sarai's name has been changed to Sarah. So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, quickly,5:32 prepare 3 measures of fine flour, knead it and make bread cakes. Abraham also ran to the herd and took a tender choice calf5:45 and gave it to the servant, and he hurried to prepare it. He took curds and milk and the calf which he had prepared and placed it before them, and it was standing by them5:57 under the tree as they ate. Now notice this, what is Abraham, you're gonna see serving these 3 men, 1 of whom6:09 was Yud Hei Vav Hei, Yahweh. A pre incarnate Christ. Yahweh took, he took curds of milk6:21 and, in verse number 8, and a calf which he had prepared, and placed before them, and he was standing by them under the tree, get it now, as they6:33 ate. Why am I highlighting this? Abraham is serving Yud Hei Vav Hei. I'm gonna show you this as Yud Hei Vav Hei in a second, because when we get down to verse number6:46 13, when we get to verse number 13, it says, the Lord said to Abraham, and the word Lord there is in all caps, capital L,6:57 capital O, capital r, capital d. And whenever you see the word Lord in all caps in the Hebrew Bible, that is Yud Hei Vav Hei, Yahweh.7:09 So here is Yahweh with Abram outside the tent, and Abraham serves him cheese or milk, dairy products, and meat, the calf. And the7:21 Lord ate. Now why is this important? I know that for some of you, you might not get why I'm making a point of it. 1 of the biggest rules in Orthodox Judaism today is not to eat at the same7:33 meal, milk and meat together. Yet here in Bereshit or Genesis 18, we find the Lord himself eating milk and7:44 meat at the same time which Abraham served him. How do we explain this? Before I do explain that, I first of all want to give honor7:56 and love and respect to my Orthodox Jewish brothers and sisters, my friends that I admire and esteem8:08 so much. I so love the orthodox lifestyle in the sense that there are so many boundaries in their lives to produce sanctity8:20 that it's it's just it's a beautiful lifestyle that everything that you do is focused is on Hashem, focused on God. The clothes you wear, the things that you eat. I mean8:32 there are so many regimens and so many rules put in place so that one's life will be dedicated to Hashem. And I think that is extraordinary. I8:44 love it. It's empowering. And I think Christians need to glean and understand the beauty of living a life that has such boundaries.8:56 But I also need to say that a lot of the rules and traditions in Orthodox Judaism are simply man9:08 made traditions. And to me, I see no evidence in scripture about prohibiting 1 from eating milk and meat together.9:20 So where do Orthodox Jews get this concept of not being able to eat a dairy product and meat at the same time? It comes from a verse in the Torah9:31 where the Lord instructed the Israelites not to boil a calf in its mother's milk. And so the9:43 Jewish people wanting to protect the law came up with a bunch of additional laws that they added to it. And sometimes these additional laws, in my9:55 humble opinion, led Israel and the Jewish people off track. And so for example, in this case, when the Lord gave that command in the Torah not to boil a calf in its10:07 mother's milk, so that we have a calf meat and milk also, the mother's milk together. Don't boil a calf in its mother's milk. I don't think the Lord was speaking there about eating10:19 dairy and meat, or milk and meat at the same meal, what I think he was talking about was his tenderness towards every living thing in his creation.10:31 That to boil a calf in its own mother's milk is so inhumane and so anti life and so insensitive to life that the Lord spoke to it and10:43 prohibit it because he has feelings towards everything he created. Not only animals, I mean not only human beings, but also animals.10:55 And so again, the Jewish people, because they wanted to guard the Torah, they sometimes looked at a verse in the Torah and they added a bunch of additional regulations to it. And I believe this kosher11:07 prohibition from eating milk and meat together is simply a tradition of man that isn't really getting to the root of what the Lord was speaking to.11:20 And Jesus addressed this in Mark chapter 7 when they said to him, why do your disciples eat with their hands unwashed?11:32 And Yeshua said, why do you make all these rules up that are not commandments from God, but they're your own traditions? And your own traditions are actually11:43 obscuring the original meaning of God's commandment. And Yeshua accused the Pharisees of teaching their own traditions as if they were11:55 doctrines of God. And then we are explained there in the gospel that they had all kinds of regulations about washing of pots and pans, and how Yeshua said it's not what goes into the man that defiles12:07 him, but what goes out of his mouth. But it's interesting that this tradition of the elders, as it was referred to in Mark chapter 7, they12:19 accused Jesus there of breaking the tradition of the elders. And Jesus said that this tradition of the elders, some of it was rooted in man's own12:30 tradition, not in God's heart. And this tradition of the elders became part of Judaism today. It was recorded in the Talmud, this tradition12:42 of the elders later was written down in the Talmud. And Jewish people today, those that are practicing Orthodox Judaism, that's what they live their life by, the Talmud. And in effect Jesus was saying, a lot of12:54 the things that are in the Talmud, which is simply the tradition of the elders, it's not really God's word. It's not really God's truth. It's not really the Torah. It's just13:06 man made tradition. So when I say this, this is not putting down Orthodox Judaism because I admire that community. I mean, I admire the good in the13:18 community. They've missed Yeshua and I believe that there is no way to the Father or to heaven but through the name of Yeshua, that he is the way, the truth, and the life. And no 1 comes to the Father but by him. But I'm13:29 not gonna throw out the baby with the bathwater. There's some beauty in Orthodox Judaism and I appreciate and admire and receive the beauty that's there. I wish we as Christians13:42 had more boundaries in our life. I wish that Christian women dressed more like Orthodox Jewish women and were more modest. I wish Christian men guarded their13:53 eyes more like Orthodox Jewish men do. I wish there was more discipline in the Christian's life to have times of prayer and to study the scripture like the14:05 Orthodox Jewish community does. So I just wanna make it very clear that although I think in this case, this particular law of kashrut, they missed it. And in the case of rejecting14:17 Jesus as the Messiah, unfortunately they completely missed it, which is which is tragic. But I also want to say, I admire the14:29 beauty of the devotion of Orthodox Judaism. And I wanna have that same devotion in my life, in my relationship with Hashem, with Father God, as I'm14:40 following His Son, Jesus the Messiah. So we pick up, Abram serves these men. 1 of them, 1 was Yud Hei Vav Hei, they eat the milk and the meat together. And14:52 then we pick up in verse number 9. Then they said to him, to Abraham now, where is Sarah your wife? And he said, there in the tent,15:05 he said, this is now this is now the Lord speaking. The Lord said back to him, I will surely return to you at this time next year, and behold, Sarah your wife will have a15:16 son. And Sarah was listening at the tent door which was behind him. Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in age.15:28 Sarah was past childbearing. Sarah laughed to herself saying, after I have become old, shall I have pleasure, my Lord being15:40 old also? In other words, her husband's too old to have a baby too. Then the Lord said to Abram, why did Sarah laugh saying, shall I indeed bear a child when I am so old?15:51 Get this now beloved ones, El Shaddai, God Almighty is speaking to you and I here. He said, is anything16:03 too difficult for the Lord? God makes this promise. This time next year, Abraham, you're gonna have that child.16:15 Abraham had become discouraged. He had taken matters into his own hands and tried to have a child with Hagar. God appears to him again. Yud Hei Vav Hei, the Lord himself.16:27 Verse number 13, Yud Hei Vav Hei, God himself. Then God says to Abraham, this time next year you're gonna have that son. Sarah laughs. She said, how?16:39 Look how old I am. My husband, look at him. How is that gonna happen? The Lord said, why did she laugh Abraham? And I love it. Is anything,16:52 is anything too difficult for your God? Is anything17:04 too difficult for the Lord, for your Lord? Father, right now I praise you for being the God of hope. Father,17:16 ask you to break into the lives of your people as they're hearing and watching right now. Father, I pray that you would break in and reveal yourself to each 1 as God Almighty, the God17:28 of the impossible. That father for those that are struggling with discouragement, that don't know how they're gonna get through what they're facing, what the answer is, I pray that you would do for them what you did for17:39 Abraham. Show them that you're faithful, that you're gonna do for them what you promised them, that you're gonna conform them to the image of your son and bring them into your17:50 glory. That father, regardless of what we're facing, because you are our God, we are more than conquerors in Christ Jesus. We18:02 praise you Lord Jesus, as the God of the impossible, as God Almighty El Shaddai. 1 of the most exciting things18:14 that we've done as a ministry in recent times is partner with a ministry that is supplying inmates, those that are incarcerated in prison systems with an app that's supplied18:26 through the prison. And on that app are certain preapproved programs that inmates can watch while they're in prison. So I just got a testimony. We've been18:37 in there for several months now. Over the last 2 months, 105 incarcerated souls on our app have requested to18:49 receive Jesus. How do I receive Jesus? That's what the that what the what the icon is on the app. I am so thankful, beloved, because of you and your financial support, we're able to19:01 reach people in prison. I wanna thank you for your monthly support. I wanna ask you to continue to do so because without your support, we can't do what we're doing. And if you've never made an offering to19:13 the Lord to Discover in The Jewish Jesus before, would you consider doing that today?
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