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Mysteries in the Gospel of John Season 8: Hearing God's Voice Over Personal Desires
January 5, 2024 · 20 min
Rabbi Schneider teaches about quieting the noise of our own impulses and learning to recognize and faithfully follow the path paved by God's leading.
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Rabbi Schneider is equipping the body of Christ, building the church, and evangelizing the world. From the Old and New Testament, learn the biblical roots of Christianity and Jesus' Jewish heritage.
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0:00 We need to learn how to separate our own impulses, which are from the natural realm, from divine impulses so that we're not living by the energy of the flesh, but only living by the0:12 initiation of the holy ruach, the spirit that lives inside us.0:26 Even as Yeshua is not of this world, those of us that are born of him are not of this world either. We're born of the spirit of God. Our destiny, beloved,0:38 is heaven. Like Abraham that left his home looking for a better city whose builder and architect was God, so also the scripture says, you and I are like Abraham, we're pilgrims0:50 and strangers and aliens in a foreign place. This world is not our home. Jesus said if you were of the world, speaking to you and I, if we were1:02 of the world, the world would love us. But because we're not of the world, therefore the world hates us. But how many of us are willing to be hated by the world? And1:14 because we're unwilling to share Jesus's yoke of standing in the truth and being rejected for standing in the truth, too many of those that name the name of1:25 Jesus on their lips are compromising with the world. You wouldn't know the difference between them and someone that doesn't believe in Jesus because they're so much like the world1:37 that they're not making a difference. But the truth is Jesus said, if you were of the world, the world would love you, but because I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. So1:49 I wanna ask a question to us today before we continue on. Are you and I willing to pay the price of being rejected by the world because we're standing for the truth?2:02 Because we're standing for the truth about the fact that Jesus is the only way, because we're standing on the truth that God created them male and female. We're not talking some binary sexual2:14 fluid gender type of orientation that the world is embracing. Too many people in the church are embracing. My daughter was telling me that the speaker in her church recently was someone that was2:25 living in homosexuality. They were delivered by Yeshua. They gave themselves to Christ, and now they were leading a celibate lifestyle.2:38 And this 1 that was delivered from a homosexual lifestyle, because they did not have a a a an attraction to the opposite sex, only an attraction that was natural to them2:49 to the same sex. They said, can't move in my emotions, into my natural inclination or feelings if I'm gonna walk in fidelity with God, therefore I'm gonna lead a celibate lifestyle.3:01 And he was encouraging people with same sex attraction to be have fidelity in the Lord and deny themselves the the the3:13 lust of the flesh if it led them into a homosexual lifestyle and to choose instead a celibate lifestyle. And when the individual said this, people in the church got up and left3:25 because they were so upset that someone would say something that God does not approve of homosexuality. But how many in the church today have compromised the truth3:37 because they're unwilling to be different from the world? They're like the world. But Jesus said in the same area of scripture that the reason people rejected him is because he was speaking the3:49 truth. They were actually rejecting him because he was speaking the truth. And the same will be true of us. He's4:01 from above, the world's from below. He was rejected by the world because he was from above. They rejected his truth because they couldn't hear it, and you and I, as those that are4:13 born of him, have to be willing to carry that same cross, we continue to speak the truth, we continue to declare it's Jesus only as the way to heaven, we continue to stand in biblical4:25 sexual morality rather than compromising and find ourselves in a position where we're living in hostility against God. And so Jesus4:36 said in verse number 24, therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins for unless you believe that I am he, you will4:48 die in your sins. Jesus continued his narrative. He said, when you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he and I5:00 do nothing by my own initiative, but I speak those things as the Father taught me. And he who sent me is with me and he has not left me alone for I always do the things that are5:12 pleasing to him. As he spoke these things, many came to believe in him. And so kinda let's put the narrative in perspective here.5:23 Yeshua is making statements that are bringing division. Some are saying he's got a demon. Some are saying he's crazy. Some are believing.5:36 Jesus is giving revelation that those that did not have ears to hear through the grace of God could not hear. Jesus said, if you're of the truth, you'd be able to hear.5:48 But because you don't have truth, you can't understand that what I'm saying to you is from the Father. And then Yeshua went on to say that everything that he was speaking, he wasn't speaking it5:59 out of his own initiative. He was speaking literally from the spirit of the father that lived inside him. And what I love about this, let's read it again.6:12 When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak these things as the father taught me. What I6:24 love about this is that Jesus did not live by his own initiative. He wasn't governed by his own impulses.6:37 And I think this is such a a discipleship moment because how oftentimes are you and I acting not because we're being inspired by the6:49 Father, but because we're being inspired by our own impulses? I mean, have you ever heard of impulse buying? Oh, bam, bam, bam. But it's the same thing with a lot7:01 of things in life. Impulse speaking, impulse acting. Many of us are are are are living too much in our impulses, and we7:12 need to learn how to separate our own impulses, which are from the natural realm, from divine impulses so that we can restrict ourselves, so that we can restrict the7:24 flesh, so that we're not living by the energy of the flesh, but only living by the initiation of the holy ruach, the spirit that lives inside us. This is the answer.7:36 Jesus said the miracles he was doing were not through his own initiative, that he only did what the Father was doing, he said. And so you and I need to learn how to separate the flesh7:49 from the spirit in our own lives. A lot of walking in a way that's spiritually mature is being able to separate in our8:01 own awareness the difference between our fleshly impulses and the impulses of the Holy Spirit. I8:12 mean, sometimes it's as simple as if you listen to some people talk. They talk and talk and talk and talk and talk and talk and talk. I mean, they talk for 30 minutes straight, and they only should have talked for 608:24 seconds cause they don't have control over their impulses and they're not aware. But it goes so deep, what I'm saying. The principle that I'm trying to communicate, beloved, it's so deep. Like always I'm asking myself,8:35 Lord, what do you want me to do? Jesus lived only by the impulse, the initiation of the Father. And then he continued and he said, and he who sent me is8:47 with me. He has not left me alone for I always do the things that are pleasing to him. And so when we think of Jesus, I want us to always think of ourselves as his disciples. The8:59 scripture actually says, beloved ones, did you know this? That the scripture actually says, as he was in this world, so also now are9:11 we, you and I? In other words, being a disciple of Jesus is like we're being made into his image. It's like we're little Christ. We're not the Christ, but we're little Christ. We're born of him. We're being conformed to9:23 his image. So with that in mind, think about what Yeshua said. He who sent me is with me. He had that confidence that the 1 that sent him was with him. So my question is, do you and I9:36 have confidence to know that God is with us? The Bible says that God's love and power in the book of Ephesians, listen now, is toward us.9:50 God's love and power is toward you and me. When I say the Aaronic blessing at the end of every broadcast, part of that blessing is God's life,10:01 his smile, his love, his goodness, his favor is upon you. May he lift you up with his countenance.10:13 May he give you peace. He's looking at you. And so Jesus knew that. He who sent me is with me. And God wants you and I to gain the confidence to know that he's towards10:25 us, that he's with us, that he's for us, that he'll never leave you or forsake you according to the10:37 word of God. Jesus says he has not left me alone. Jesus said to you and I, I will not leave you alone. I will come to you. I'm gonna send you my spirit. The spirit is here.10:49 Jesus said he has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him. And I love the fact that Yeshua had the confidence that he was living in11:01 a way that was pleasing to the Father. I love that. I mentioned on an earlier broadcast that the scripture says about Enoch. Remember, beloved ones, Enoch in the in the Hebrew Bible?11:13 Enoch, the Bible says, walked with God, and God took him so that he was no more. He just disappeared off the earth. God took him so that he was no more. And11:25 the New Testament tells us that before God took Enoch off the earth, I mean, just banished. Lord just took him. The scripture tells us that before the Lord took Enoch, it says11:37 that Enoch had a witness within himself that he was pleasing to God. Oh, I want that so bad. I want to walk in such11:49 a way that I'm all the time aware that I'm pleasing to God. Sometimes I'm like wondering, Lord, should I do this? Should I do this? Lord, was this right? Was that right? Should I have done this? But I12:01 believe God's bringing us to a place in him, me and you together, you and I together, where we're gaining a confidence like Jesus had, that we do always those things that are pleasing to him.12:12 Father, right now we just ask you to work in our life in such a powerful way. Yeshua, that you'll do such a circumcision of our soul, that we'd come to a place that we would12:24 know, that we're so set apart to you, that we're a pleasing and fragrant aroma to you all the time. Jesus, make us like yourself, that we could be aware that we do12:36 always those things that are pleasing to you. We love David's words. Right? You hear me quote them often. May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart12:48 be pleasing to you, oh God. I love that. We continue on in verse 31. So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed in13:00 him, notice what I was saying before, not all Jews. When Jesus says these Jews, you know, that were trying to, you know, pierce him and so these were the religious Jewish leadership. It wasn't all the Jews. Right here13:12 we look at the Jews who were believing. Jesus said, if you continue in my word, then you're truly disciples of mine, and you will know the truth,13:24 and the truth will make you free. Notice that there's an element here of not just believing, but continuing. Remember the parable, the sower and the13:36 seed. The sower went out to sow the seed. Remember, in the first type of ground, immediately the devil came and just stole it immediately so that it could take no root at all. Then in the second and third type13:48 of soil that the that the seed was sown in, when Jesus told the parable of the sower and the seed, 1 was on rocky ground, and 1 was in in ground where where it could get no firm root.14:01 It was the it was the cares of the world that choked it out and the desire for other things. So in that second and third ground in the parable, 2 of the those 2 grounds, they both14:12 received it at first. They received it, but the desire for other things choked it so that they didn't continue. And another instance, the worries of the world choked it out14:24 so that it didn't continue. So I'm drawing attention to what Jesus said here. If you continue in my word, then you're truly disciples of mine. So it's not enough just to14:36 believe to be a disciple. You have to continue to be a disciple. See, there were several types of people that were attracted to Jesus14:48 in this historical narrative that we're reading about. We read that he attracted big crowds. Right? Big crowds. And then we read here that these were believing in15:00 him, but Jesus said it's only if you'll continue to believe that you'll become a disciple. So they were believers, but not disciples. So let's kind of break it apart a little bit. First of all, Jesus is teaching on the15:10 mountain and thousands come. But Jesus said to the crowd, you guys seek me, not because you're interested in in in the deeper15:22 revelation and and and message and essence of what I'm trying to give you, you guys have have all followed me only because I turned the the the loaves15:33 into bread and you ate the bread and were filled. And so many of those that were following Jesus kept following him because he he turned the loaves into bread and he fed them all. They just wanted the food.15:45 I've seen that many times in my own ministry when I travel the world. There's a lot of people that are attaching themselves to men of God, not because they're interested in the message or the deeper reality that the man15:56 or the woman of God wants to bring, but they just want a blessing. They want a financial blessing. Some of those who are following Jesus, Jesus called them out, were those kind of people. And then you have people, listen16:07 beloved, that were believers but not disciples. And that was this group of people. Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed, if you continue in my16:19 word, then you're truly disciples of mine and you will know the truth and the truth will make you free. They answered him, we are Abraham's descendants and have never yet been enslaved to anyone. How16:31 is it that you say you will become free? Jesus answered them, truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin. And Jesus went on to speak, it became evident that these16:43 that were believers were not fully yet disciples and perhaps never would become disciples. So we have the people that followed Jesus for what he can do for them.16:55 They're coming to him for money or finances or a miracle, but they're not really following him. And then you have those that are believers and but they're not disciples. They're not17:06 obeying him. They're not continuing is the word that Jesus used. If you continue in my word, then you're my disciple. Some people come to a church meeting, they want a healing, but they don't continue17:18 on after that to seek him and obey him. And then you have the disciples, and the disciples are you and I, beloved, those that are are truly trying to live for Jesus. We're picking up17:30 our cross of obedience every day, becoming more and more like him. And then you have the 12. Right? The 12 that Jesus chose to be with him in a more intimate way. And then we17:42 have the 3, Peter, James, and John. So we've got all these groups of people. We got the crowd that just wanted Jesus to feed them. Then we've got the believers, but17:54 had never come to a place where they continued on. Then we've got those that have continued on. They're the disciples. That's you and I hopefully today. And I'm inviting those of you that may not be dis a disciple18:06 to today receive him to become his disciple. And then from disciples, go on to be like the 12. We get intimate with them. We develop friendship with them. And then we continue on from there to become so intimate with18:17 them, we become like the inner 3, Peter, James, and John. And what we're gonna find is when we pick up in the Gospel of John in the future, we're gonna get to 1 of my greatest18:30 highlights of the entire word of God where Jesus says, if you'll continue in my word, you will know the truth and the truth will make you18:42 free. What a promise. What a reason to keep questing after God. What a reason to continue on. What a reason to keep coming under the18:53 yoke of obedience, because Yeshua promised us, beloved, you and I, that if we would, if we continue to allow him to conform us to his image, we would know the truth19:05 and the truth would set us free. Freedom, freedom, freedom is what Yeshua came to give19:17 you and me. Beloved, 1 of the things I'm always examining myself about and lifting my heart up to the Lord for is to make sure19:29 that I'm as much of a giver as he's called us to be. I mean, when you think about those first disciples in the book of Acts, and they were selling all their possessions and putting all the money in 1 pool. And we think19:41 about Ananias and Sapphira that sold their possessions and held back just a little bit of it and how God struck them dead. And when I read about that, I feel like, my gosh, Lord. You know, are my are my living19:52 right? I mean, I'm trying to be generous, I'm trying to show love to everybody, but I haven't sold all my possessions and given them all away so that I don't have a house or retirement or a bank account.20:04 And so I think there's wisdom and and I think there's balance in this. But I'm always asking myself, Lord, am I doing enough? And so I would simply say the same thing to all of us. We need to make sure that we're sowing20:16 our finances into the kingdom of God. And Yeshua promised it would come back pressed down, good measure, and running over into our laps.
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