Sid: I can tell you Mishpochah there are times I’m just like you; there are times when I feel like I don’t want to do anything spiritual; I just want to zone out and watch a ballgame on television. But you know what? We are so close to the return of the Messiah and the Messiah is so good that the Holy Spirit is telling me something and I’m telling you. The Holy Spirit is saying to me that if I will discipline myself, I will achieve all that God has put on my plate to achieve. What about you? Well, here’s a… I’m just going to tell you what God is telling me and I’m going to suggest that you’re listening to me because God want you to do this. Here’s what God is telling me when I get home at night I eat with my wife; I try to unwind and relax a little bit. But what He’s saying is fine have your meal, enjoy your time with your wife; relax a little bit but then I want you to be so excited about what will happen next. What will happen next is that you’ll put a CD on of anointed music, music that causes your spirit to soar. And you may feel like “I don’t want to do anything spiritual; I just want to relax; I just want to zone out. Sound familiar saying “Sid how do you know what’s goes on?” Welcome to the human race. But if you will make it an act of worship; an act of sacrifice and you would do what king David says you would lift your holy hands, and those hands that you have they are holy they really are. Lift, why? Because they’re under the blood of Messiah; and when God sees you He has as much love for you as He has for His son Jesus. Why? Because Jesus, or his Hebrew name Yeshua, because Yeshua is in you. And when He sees you He sees Yeshua. And He loves you as much as He loves Yeshua. And you’re God’s workmanship created in His image for good works in the last days. And so lift those tired, weary but holy hands to God. Which is your reasonable service, or of course in the Greek that means sacrifice; which is your reasonable sacrifice. So raise those hands say “I worship You Almighty God. I praise Your Holy Name.” Now some of you will fill nothing when you do that. Right now I can tell you I feel the Shekinah Glory of God. It’s almost like my hand is passing through the kavod, the manifest presence of the living God as I’m doing this right now. But if I felt nothing I would still worship God and I would remember; bring to remembrance the things. Look what He rescued me from; look what He did for me; look what He did for you. And you know I want you to know something; it’s so wonderful that He rescued you from the kingdom of darkness and delivered you from the kingdom of His Son. And begin to thank Him and be grateful. Sometimes we’re not thankful enough. Thank you Almighty God; it would have been enough if You just revealed the reality of Yeshua to me; it would have been enough if You’d just took away my sins; it would have been enough if You just took me to Heaven. It would have been enough if You just lived inside of me; it would have been enough if You had provided for every one my sins and every one of my diseases. But you know what, it just keeps going. It would have been enough if You had just restored my marriage; it would have been enough if You had just given me my children back. It would have been enough… you follow? And begin to thank Him. And worship Him and before you know it you’ll forget about yourself; you’ll forget about your problems. The whole battle that is going on right now is a battle over intimacy with God. Because you see from this intimacy will come your ministry and it won’t be a ministry of good religious works, it will be a ministry of Spirit and truth.
Guess what happens Tuesday evening, May 25th? Shavuot? You say “Well, I don’t know what Shavuot is.” Well then let me help you it’s a Hebrew word and it means weeks. Or perhaps you know it by the Greek word; Pentecost which means 50. Because it’s 50 days from first fruits which and many people feel first fruits is part of Passover and many people. And many people feel that Pentecost or Shavuot is the completion of the whole Passover festivities. But you really need the two words; you need the Hebrew weeks and you need the Pentecost 50 to put the two together. It’s like God made it that way; you need the Greek and the Hebrew to understand everything that God did. Even in Passover there’s an amazing phenomena; you know in the Passover meal the Passover Seder. There is only one Greek word used in a traditional Passover Seder. You know what that Greek word is? Afikomen. Now how did a Greek word sneak into a Jewish Passover Seder that goes all the way back to the original exodus? I’ll tell you how the word Afikomen got snuck in. The word Afikomen is… you have 3 pieces of matzah and which stands for the Triune nature of God. And again that’s another good question “How did 3 pieces of matzah sneak into a Jewish Passover Seder?” Well, the Rabbi said it talks about the 3 groups of Jewish people, the Cohens, the Levites, and the Israelites. And the middle one is the Levites and we break that during a Passover Seder. But why would you want to break the Levite? What did a Levite ever do to you? No it stands for and that’s bread without leaven, matzah is bread without leaven. It represents the Triune nature of God. We Jews believe in one God; but our one God based on Torah has a Triune nature. God the Father, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. All three are found in the first book of the Bible the book of Breishit, Genesis. And Genesis 1 it says God; Genesis 2 it says “His Spirit went over the earth.” In Genesis 3 it says “He spoke the word of God became flesh and dwelt among us.” So you have in the first 3 verses of the Bible “The Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.” So we break that middle matzah that unleavened matzah, then we bury it in a white linen to be brought out at the end of the Passover Seder and this is called the Afikomen. And guess what the word Afikomen means in English, “I came.” And our Messiah did come. So somehow you need the Greek and the Hebrew to understand everything that God did whether it’s a Passover Seder or whether it’s Shavuot of whether it’s Pentecost. And I believe those two represent the two loaves of bread in Shavuot. Well Pentecost, but we’ll get to that in a little bit. First you have to understand and book of Leviticus; the 23rd chapter gives us a preparation on all seven of the Biblical Feasts. And so few believers understand just Leviticus 23 verse 2 if you just understood this. And what happens is that then those that understand it get a religious spirit and mess it up for everyone else. But let me explain this to you first of all. The Leviticus chapter 23 lists 7 feasts and you know who these Feasts are for? They’re not for us; God says “These are My Feasts.” They’re God’s Feasts, and then in addition to the 7 Feasts it mentions the Sabbath or the Shabbat. Now whose the Sabbath or the Shabbat for? Well, the Messiah told us who the Sabbath is for. If the 7 Feasts are for God who’s the Sabbath for Mark 2:27. “The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath.” And if we have time and God directs I’ll explain a little bit about what God means about the Sabbath. It’s not the legalistic bondage where people think that they’re going to go to hell if they don’t observe the Saturday Sabbath. No, no, no it is the most wonderful blessing in the world. I’ll tell you what there’s a freedom in understanding your Jewish roots with a New Covenant understanding that has been denied. It’s a matter of blessing. Did you know that the Messiah had more miracles happen on the Shabbat, or the Sabbath, than any other day of the week? Did you know that every major event during the life of Yeshua occurred during major Feasts? Did you know that every major event about His return is covered in these feasts? Now I want to read to you Leviticus chapter 23 verse 2 with the understanding from the Hebrew. It begins “The Feasts and the Hebrew word for feasts is Moad and it means appointments or appointed times. So I’ll substitute the word appointments for feasts. “The appointments of the Lord,” now it you have a doctor’s appointment you’re not going to miss it. “The appointments of the Lord which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations,” the word for convocation means rehearsals. “These are My Feasts.” So what is God saying? The appointed times of the Lord which you shall proclaim to be holy rehearsals; these are My Feasts! Well, we’re out of time today; we’ll pick up right here on tomorrow’s broadcast. Which tomorrow night begins Shavuot….
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