Hello, I'm Shelley Quinn
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and welcome again to
"Issues and Answers."
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Today, we are
going to be talking about
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some Jewish traditions
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and looking at the spiritual
analogy of these traditions.
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You know, we've
really been enjoying
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a number of
programs with Jeff Zaremsky.
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Jeff, I just want to
thank you for coming back again.
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Now you are the president
of Jewish Heritage. Right.
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And that's
www.jewishheritage.net.
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.net. Okay.
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And you're also a pastor,
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rabbi teacher for
the Beth-El Shalom Church
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in St.
Petersburg, Florida. Right.
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And we're just so excited
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that you've come
back again. All right.
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Jeff, you know
what I want to do,
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I want to share
scripture with our viewers.
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And I know you know this
one, it's one of my favorites
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and I think it goes
along with our program today.
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It's Isaiah 61:10.
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Isaiah writes, "I will
greatly rejoice in the Lord.
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My soul will exalt in my God
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for he has clothed me
with the garments of salvation.
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He has covered me
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with the robe of
righteousness." You know what?
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Salvation has always,
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always been by
grace through faith.
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And this Isaiah
proves it, doesn't he?
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That's right. That's right.
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It's right there
throughout the scriptures. Yes.
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Now we've been talking
with you in some past programs
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about various ways to
reach Jewish people for Jesus.
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And we've been talking about
a lot of interesting things
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that have to do with
Jewish customs, Jewish culture,
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not only that but
with the Bible, you know.
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Now today we're really
going to just kind of step back
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and talk about some
extra biblical things.
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That's right. This
is outside the Bible.
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Outside the Bible.
It's Jewish tradition.
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But we see it
ties in with the Bible.
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We see that it has
Bible principles in it,
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but, yeah, the things
themselves are traditions.
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And you know there's a great--
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Have you noticed that there's
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this great awakening
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that people are
really interested
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in the Jewish
roots of Christianity?
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Yeah, that's right.
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Now we have to be careful,
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because we're not trying
to by any means suggest that
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we have to go back to
all the ways of the Jews
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and that's required or
that keeping all the feasts
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which we discussed last time.
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It's impossible
to do in first place,
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but that this is required.
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We're just
looking into these things
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because there is a--
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it's an avenue to
spiritual enrichment
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as we grow in
knowledge. That's right.
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So let's start with some
of these traditions. Right.
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And some of the ones
we will be looking at now,
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if not all of them were ones
that Jesus grew up with. Okay.
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Now again just
because Jesus did them,
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it doesn't mean
that we have to do them,
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because again
they're outside the Bible.
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But they were the
traditions of His day,
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He grew up Jewish.
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And so it's interesting to
know as we look at these things
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of what the setting was
that He grew up with. Yes.
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And it does then help us to
understand Him a little better
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and understand
the spiritual lessons
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that we can learn that
apply to our lives today.
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And so that's
what we're doing again,
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so we want to make that clear
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for our whole audience here that
we're not judaizing the church.
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We're just
educating and learning
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and learning from
this culture of the Jewish
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that Jesus grew up under.
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Okay. All right.
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So why don't we look
at one of the first things
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that we can talk
about is Simchat Torah.
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Simchat Torah.
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And that's S-i-m-c-h-a-. Right.
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Ch, if you're not,
'cause it's in Hebrew letters,
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so the Ch is not a
sound that we have in English,
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it's the guttural German
Kha sound like, in l'chaim.
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Have you ever seen
Fiddler on the Roof?
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L'chaim, good. If
you hadn't seen it.
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Well, if you hadn't
seen it, shame on you.
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You need to watch
Fiddler on the Roof
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'cause it's on there--
Actually, I haven't seen it--
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Yeah, you need to watch it.
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It's a great movie.
It was applied with.
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In it there was a
song To Life, L'chaim.
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I mean it's the
same guttural sound.
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Like in Hanukah or in Christmas,
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you know, same Ch
guttural sounds that Kha sound.
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So Simchat Torah.
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And Simchat is the
word means celebration.
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And so Simchat Torah is
the celebration of the Torah.
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Celebrating the
Bible. Celebrating the Bible.
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Celebrating God's word.
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So that like--
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I have a program
called exalting His voice,
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so it's same thing. Exactly.
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That's right, that's right.
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And so on a yearly basis,
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well, every week in
the Jewish calendar,
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every week the Torah is
read through in portions.
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And at the end of the
year, the Torah is finished.
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It started in Genesis 1
Bereishit, in the beginning.
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In the beginning God created.
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And it comes all the way around
and we finished reading Torah
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on the last day
on Simchat Torah.
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We celebrate the
Torah. We march it around.
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We rejoice in God's word.
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And then we
start all over again.
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Huh, that's
interesting. That's right.
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So it's kind of--
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That would be an interesting
thing to do at our home,
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you know, with your children
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and to, not gonna have
to have children to do it,
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but to read the
Bible through every year
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and as part of your
personal devotions everyday
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and then to celebrate
the sanctity of this word.
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We have the Bible story books,
the blue covered by Maxwell.
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We had the full 10 set
volume and we read through that
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with our
daughter of our worship.
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We read through that at
least three or four times.
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And every time we
finish we read it again
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and that's what we
should do with our Bible
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and that's the
point I want to get at.
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That we have this
already Simchat Torah
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and it's just a good reminder
for us as Christians as,
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you know, revere to
believe us in the word of God,
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to stay in the
word of God. Amen.
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It should never be,
I read the Bible. Amen.
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I have read it and I
am continuing to read it.
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Amen. Right.
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And until we do
that on that yearly basis
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and that's a good thing
for us to do. That's beautiful.
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And to then
honor the word of God.
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Have respect for it.
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And that's one of
things in Rabbinic Judaism
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there's this
respect for the Torah,
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there's respect for the
word of God. It's honored.
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You know where I got
the title for the book
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I wrote Exalting
His Word of Psalm 138:2
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where it says that,
"God exalts His name
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and His word above all things
and He magnifies His word it
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and above His
name. That's right.
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So if this is the thing
that God exalts the most
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and this is something
that we should exalt as well.
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I had a person say to
me just a few weeks ago.
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Young man, he said,
"You know that sometimes
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the Bible can get in
the way of hearing God."
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That is dangerous.
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That is dangerous.
That's what I thought.
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Because the Bible
is a number one way
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that God speaks to
us. Right, exactly.
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That He's just
going by impressions
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and feelings. All right.
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The Bible is exalted and
centered stage all the time.
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Jesus, of
course, being the whole,
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He is the word and
that's a wonderful thing too.
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As we think of the Torah,
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the Torahs are
written on lamb skin.
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Yeah. Oh. Yeah.
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And He is the word.
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And He is the word made flesh.
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And so as we celebrate
Him, He is the living word.
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It is very powerful.
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The whole analogy,
the whole symbolism there.
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And so again getting
us back into the word,
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remembering the word, reading
the word on a yearly basis.
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Simchat Torah.
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Right, very good.
Now you're getting it.
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You'll know the Hebrew
by the time we're done it.
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And another one that's
always asked is the Yamaka. Yes.
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Because it's visual, it's seen.
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And it's also called that's
the Irish terms is Yamaka.
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Irish is a German Hebrew mixture
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that came out of
when Jews were living,
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well, still living in Europe,
but added European Judaism.
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Ah, but in Hebrew
it's called the Kippah.
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And Kippah is the same,
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has the same
root as in Yom Kippur.
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Yom Kippur matches up
at the Day of Atonement
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that literally
means day of covering.
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And so it's this covering,
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it's just reminder that God
is covering us at all times.
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You know that's so beautiful
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because there are so many people
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who are so fearful of Yom
Kippur and the judgment of God.
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But He judges in favor of us
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because of the
atonement that the mercy--
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the propitiation of Jesus
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in applying blood
to the mercy seat.
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That's right.
And praise the Lord.
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That's right that
His grace covers us.
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His grace covers us.
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And so that's a
reminder there of His covering,
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His love covering us,
His grace covering us.
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It is beautiful analogy
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that we don't have to
fear the judgment. Amen.
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We don't have
to fear Yom Kippur.
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We don't have to
fear the Day of Atonement.
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Now do you wear
your Kippah always?
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I don't.
Personally, I don't. Oh.
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I wear it at services.
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And I'm wearing
it for the show today
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'cause we're talking
about these things. Yes.
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But no I don't.
It's not in the Bible.
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Oh, I mean it does
mention in the Bible.
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And some people get confused
with these when Paul says,
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"A man should not
have his head covered."
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Now Peter says that
Paul says a lot of things
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that are hard to understand,
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in 2 Peter 3, one
of the last verses.
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He says, my beloved
Paul, my beloved brother Paul
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says a lot of things
that are hard to understand.
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And many people have taken
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and twisted for
their own destruction.
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If Paul was saying that men
shouldn't have his head cover.
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He's taking about hat.
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You shouldn't have his
head anything on his head,
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if that's what Paul was saying
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and I don't believe that's what
exactly what Paul was meaning.
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If he was saying that
then that would put him
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in the classification
of the false prophet,
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because he'd be disagreeing
with what God told Aaron to do.
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God specifically told Aaron
to put something on your head.
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Now wear a mightier on your head
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and Holiness to the Lord.
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So obviously
Paul was talking about
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something else other
than a hat on his head.
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Throughout the chapter
he talks more about hair
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and it seems to
have to do with this hair
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and how they were
cutting their hair
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and pagan may be
believes of doing their hair
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or something like that more.
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So it's not against the Bible
but we don't need to, it's not--
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that was for the Levitical.
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And again it's just
that symbolism of cover.
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And it's just now a tradition.
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Right. It's a tradition.
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And traditions that
replace the Bible are bad.
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Traditions that are
just traditions that help
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magnify the Bible or bring
us back to the Bible are good.
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Okay. Right.
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And there are plenty
of Christian's traditions
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that are good
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and so again traditions
in and out itself are okay.
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Okay, Kiddush.
Kiddush is another thing.
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Kiddush is a
blessing that we say--
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of over the Jews.
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And in the
blessing we say the blessing
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(speaking in foreign language).
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Blessed art
thou, O Lord our God,
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King of the Universe,
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creator of the
fruit of the vine.
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And that's
exactly what Jesus says
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in the
Passover, the last supper,
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the Lord's Supper
recorded in the Gospels.
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So He's saying
again the same thing
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that's been said
for thousands of years
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dated back before Jesus.
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And in the blessing itself,
it says the fruit of the vine.
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Now is that sound fresh
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or is that sound like
something has been sitting
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in a vine seller for few years.
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Oh, that's fresh. Fresh.
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Right of the
vine, fresh of the vine.
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And so the symbolism
there that the grape juice,
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grape juice, it's
fresh and it's there for us.
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And this blessing is
called Kiddush. Right.
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Saying the Kiddush,
saying the blessing upon it.
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And-- And you use this--
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For a lot of
different ceremonies,
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at wedding we'll
have the Kiddush,
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we'll have the blessing,
the husband and the wife
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will both drink from the cup.
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On Sabbath, they
bring in the Sabbath
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we'll have the
Kiddush cup and the--
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And as well as the hallow bread.
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And hallow bread is a--
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and that's again
it's a tradition,
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it's not in the Bible
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but it's a
traditional Sabbath bread.
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This is the
three twisted together.
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Very good. That's right.
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You see the
symbolism there. That's right.
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It's a powerful symbolism
of this bread intertwine.
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In Sabbaths we have two loafs,
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remembering the
two double portions
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on Sabbath on Friday night--
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on Friday of the
manna that God poured out
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so again
reminding us of the Sabbath,
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reminding us of the Bible,
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reminding us of
the three in one there
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breaded
together, blended together.
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In some ways other
than it has leaven,
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it's kind of mini
communion partaking of the--
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he's the bread of the life.
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So every Sabbath we
have that special ceremony,
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partaking of the
word of God, the bread,
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Jesus the bread of life,
who was born in Beth Lechem.
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The Hebrew word
for bread is Lechem.
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And so Beth Lechem means house
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'cause Beth is house.
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House of bread,
the bread of life
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was born in the house of bread.
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How interesting, I've
never heard that before.
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Right, oh yeah.
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And so He's that bread of life,
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born in the baker's
house, born in the house
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where the bread is baked
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that the bread, the
living bread came forth.
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"Man shall not
live by bread alone,
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but by every word that comes
from the mouth of the Lord."
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That's right, that's right.
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Yeah, and He
said, "Eat of my flesh
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and drink of my blood."
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And so there again that
Kiddush ceremony of the--
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with the hallow
bread and the bread, right.
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And so-- And that vine,
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the vine again
fresh juice of the wine,
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juice, symbolism
of his blood. Yes.
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May this cup pass from me.
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And you know,
because it is a symbolism
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of his bread and blood.
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We know that it is not fermented
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because it has to be the pure.
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Absolutely. Yeah,
it can't be dying.
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You know He's the
living. He's alive, right.
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That whole fermented juice
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destroys the whole symbolism
of His blood and His salvation,
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His purity, His
righteousness without sin.
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And so we reminded of that
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again in Sabbath as
we do that ceremony.
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Bringing in the
Sabbath that way,
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reminded of His blood,
reminded of His sacrifice,
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reminded of the three in one,
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and so it's just a
beautiful little ceremony to do.
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Now the end of Sabbath,
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oh, there's also
the Sabbath candles.
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Lighting of the candles.
He is the light of the world.
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He brings light into our
home and again the light of--
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He's the light of life
and so His glory shines.
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And you do that the lighting
of candles Friday evening.
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That's right. Okay.
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Right. In the
start of Sabbath. Okay.
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And again these
are just traditions
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and they don't have to be done
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but they do have
some nice symbolism.
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And lot-- I know
a lot of Christians
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who do this in the
beginning of the Sabbath.
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You know, to
welcoming the Sabbath
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and it's a nice to
have these traditions.
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It's good reminders. Yes.
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And especially with the
kids that help to train them
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and it's that visual that helps
them to see the living word.
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And makes it enjoyable,
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makes it
something special and fun.
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Right, right and tasteful. Yes.
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So it tastes good.
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You're drinking the
juice, you're eating the bread
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and you want to see the lights.
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And at the end to the service
we add the sense of smell.
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At Havdalah service.
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Havdalah means separation,
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because God had separated
the Holy from the secular,
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the Sabbath from the
rest of the week. Okay.
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And so there is a ceremony
that's ending the Sabbath.
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Instead of wanting to
just rush the Sabbath is over,
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now I can do
whatever I want, you know.
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But to linger a little longer
and enjoy it with the ceremony.
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And in the Havdalah
ceremony, there is a spice box.
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They come in various
shapes, forms which has spices,
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when we say blessing over that,
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thanking God for the
various kinds of spices,
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so you have the sense of smell.
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And so we sniff that
and it's kind of like--
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they say our sense smell is--
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we've the longest
memory on sense of smell.
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You smell something like,
you know, grandma's cooking
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and then years and
years and years later
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you smell that again,
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your memory goes
right back to it.
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And so
remembering of God's creation,
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flowers that He created,
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the ability to smell
things that He is the blessing,
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it's kind of like lingering,
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that lingering
smell that-- Aroma.
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The aroma, just
longing to keep the Sabbath,
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to hold on to the
Sabbath, did not want it to end.
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And so we have
that beauty of that--
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Christ, the aroma.
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He is the aroma,
He is-- that's right.
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That sweet aroma,
that's right, very good
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that He's sacrifice for
us, so we're smelling aroma.
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Again you think
of the sacrifices.
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God calls that a
sweet smelling aroma. Yes.
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I doubt that the burning flesh
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and the burning hair really
was sweet smelling to the human
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but the God-- because
it represented Himself
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dying for our sins. Amazing.
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And making atonement for
us, granting us forgiveness
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and opening the
way for us into heaven.
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And that's the Havdalah.
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Right, Havdalah. Say it again.
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Havdalah.
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Havdalah. Right.
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And it's emphasis on
the first syllable Havdalah.
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Um, Havdalah.
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I don't know
whatever is there in that.
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That's close,
Havdalah, yeah, okay.
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And then so we got the spices.
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And then we also
again have the juice.
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And so we drink the juices,
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he had the blessing on
the juice, the same thing.
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Then when we poured overflowing.
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God's blessing,
we had the Sabbath,
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it's just been an overflowing
time of God's blessings.
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He's promised to
bless the Sabbath
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which we enter into,
we receive His blessings.
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And then we light a--
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And what are you doing
overflowing, I miss that.
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The juice, pour the juice in
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and it's overflowing
on the cup now. Okay.
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Into other cup,
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into like a basin or a
cup under and so it overflows.
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And then we take
this Havdalah candle
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which is a braided
candle, not always three,
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but it's a braided candle,
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but again more than
one braided together,
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has to be at
least more than one wick
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and it's braided
together like the challah bread,
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twisted together,
but it's one candle,
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still one with several wicks.
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One because it's braded as one,
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it's soled in one box,
it come together as one.
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And it's lit and
its bright light,
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so all those wicks.
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And again He is
the light of the world
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and the light of the Sabbath.
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And then we take it
and we extinguish it
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out into the
juice that overflowed
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as the Sabbath is ending,
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Sabbath light is being
extinguished for the week
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until we light it again
at the end of next week,
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yeah, the end of the week.
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But also Jesus our
light, the light of the world,
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the three in
one was extinguished
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His blood were shed for us,
He died in shedding His blood,
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He's extinguished for us.
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And He-- you know,
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but then He has been
resurrected and lives again.
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And so we start it
fresh and start it new
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and so it's separating--
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I bet as you're explaining
all of these traditions
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to the Jewish person who's
really never embraced the gospel
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or never embraced
Christ as Messiah.
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It must be so amazing.
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Oh, it's mind
blowing, it's mind blowing
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because otherwise it's just
kind of the routine tradition
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we just do it.
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We don't know
often I say now why.
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When you look at it
in light of the cross,
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in light of the Bible,
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in light of all that is
there in the scriptures,
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in light of-- especially
in the light of the Jesus,
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it's a very, very
powerful as we see it.
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Now at the end of
Havdalah we sing a song
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and the song is
called Elijah the Prophet,
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Eliyahu HaNavi. Eliyahu HaNavi.
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Right, right.
Elijah the Prophet.
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And it says, "May
Elijah come quickly
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in our day with
Mashiach ben David,
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with Messiah the son of David."
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This song goes way, way back
and that's why the disciples
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and everyone ask
this to John the Baptist.
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Are you Elijah?
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So this song is sung
at the Havdalah service--
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Havdalah service at the
end of the Sabbath. Okay.
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At the end of Sabbath service.
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So still today and it dates
back again thousands of years,
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it's something that Jesus heard,
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it's something that Peter heard,
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Paul heard, they sung and did
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and that's why
again they all knew
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that Elijah had to
come before the Messiah,
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Son of David.
That's interesting.
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And so it's always
been there and of course,
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Elijah did come, Jesus
said, it was John, the Baptist,
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the message of Elijah anyway
and then he is the Messiah,
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Son of David.
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That is so
interesting. That's fascinating.
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And then we'll say, Shavua Tov
which means have a good week.
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So again very, very
visual, very clear demarcation
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that the Sabbath is
ending, we're going out,
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and we're remembering it,
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pausing here before we
go on into our secular week,
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the Holy and the secular.
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Another thing we can
talk about is mezuzah.
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Are you familiar with
mezuzah, does it sound--
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You know, actually I don't
know what the mezuzah is? Okay.
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It's a-- have you
ever seen on a Jewish home
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a little box hung on the door.
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Oh, yes. Okay.
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Tilted at kind
of a 45 degree angle
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and this is the
blessing symbols,
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and we've the blessing going in.
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And this tradition is
taken from Deuteronomy 6,
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actually few
different places where--
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Put it on your doorpost. Right.
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Write these laws
that I command you
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this day on your doorposts,
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on your hands, on your forehead,
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on your heart. Yes.
00:20:37.48\00:20:38.68
Now obviously He's
saying write it on your heart.
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He's talking symbolic
all throughout. Right.
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He doesn't want us to
have open heart surgery
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and put a little box in there
with the scriptures inside it.
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But traditional Judaism
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or Benedict Judaism has place
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with the box on
the door tilting in.
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And the scriptures from
Deuteronomy 6 inside it--
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well, some other texts.
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But there is that
symbolism of having God's word
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taught in our home
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and that's what I
believe God was meaning,
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write these laws not
just on the doorposts
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but as you enter
and as you leave,
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have it spoken in your home,
have it lived out in your home,
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as you go out into society,
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be living out the
word of God. Amen.
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Allowed to fill your heart
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and life and comes
through fully and completely.
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And the interesting
thing is where it says,
00:21:28.19\00:21:30.47
this is where again
were the tradition goes off.
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The text says, "Write these laws
that I command you this day."
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But you know which
laws he commanded this day
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that's in
Deuteronomy 6 which was the laws
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that He commanded that day.
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Hebrews, we're
viewing the Ten Commandments.
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The Ten Commandments,
Deuteronomy 5 right,
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so obviously referring to
the ones in Deuteronomy 5.
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But that's not unfortunately
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what's put into
traditional Jewish mezuzah.
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Instead of the Ten Commandments
of Deuteronomy 5 put in,
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the texts from Deuteronomy
6 that are the instructions,
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let's say put these
laws on your doorpost
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that's what put inside.
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But God's wanting the law
not again just on the doorposts
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but in the home,
lived out in the home.
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Sometimes it's easy to
be nice at work or at church
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or at services and then
to be miserable at home--
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and so in the privacy--
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God wants to be
lived out inside and out.
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And then T'fillian, T'fillian.
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Jesus talks about T'fillian,
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so obviously again they were
wearing it back in His day--
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T'fillian. Right.
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Phylacteries is where
it's translated sometimes.
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It says you may
broad your phylacteries,
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the boxes on the
head and on the arm.
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And what's
interesting with that,
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okay, there again
from the same commandments
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to write these on your
hands and on your forehead.
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Well the Mark of
Beast is on the forehead
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and on the hand as well. Yes.
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So here's, we got the two,
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God's saying write my laws
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that I command you
this day on your hand
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and on your
forehead and on your heart
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and on your doorpost.
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So He's wanting His
laws lived out in our homes,
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lived out in
society, in our actions,
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in our thoughts in the
forehead, in our thoughts,
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that what we
decide and in what we do,
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all that your
hand find it to do,
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do it with all your mind.
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And so the hand
representing our actions.
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So write these
laws into your actions,
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live them out, live out my laws
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and then write them
on your heart love them,
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that God will write His
laws into our hearts and minds.
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He's not forcing us to do it.
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He's not stirring
up our own passion
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to make us to
do that's legalism.
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But when Jesus is in the
heart and Jesus is in there
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and Jesus is then
writing His law that He wrote,
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it was with His
finger that wrote it.
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He's in there, He's
living the law out of us
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and through us in our actions,
in our thoughts, in our life.
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And so then that
makes the Mark of the Beast.
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I will get into
that whole big topic
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on your show here today.
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The counterfeit
is just the opposite
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in a brief synopsis of
what the Mark of Beast is?
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It's the seal of God,
it's breaking the laws.
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The seal of God is write
this laws on your forehead,
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on your hand and
then on your heart.
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And the opposite is teaching
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not to or
breaking with your actions
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and with your thoughts
and choosing to break the law.
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That's a simple way to put it.
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Simple way to
put it, right, right.
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And then we can
look at the prayer shawl.
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Everybody has
been waiting for you
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to get to that. That's right.
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Looking into that,
the tallit. The tallit.
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They are white,
most of them are white.
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And again the
symbolism of the colors,
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white representing the purity,
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spotless, Jesus
is pure and holy,
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blue and that all meant blue,
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but blue represent the law
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and gold faith
and these coverings
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and now we see
throughout the scripture.
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Okay, now you said that
a little bit fast. Okay.
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White is purity,
the blue is for the law
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and gold is for faith.
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Right. Okay.
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Gold tried in the fire.
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The faith that
goes through trails
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and lives through. Right.
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And the royalty of the
law representing in the blue.
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Now we see the tallit
used throughout the scriptures.
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And I don't even know we
have the time to cover them all,
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but we see a
lot, you see Elisha,
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when he comes he calls Elisha
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and he throws his
mantle over on him.
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Tallit. Yeah.
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It's that
authority, you gonna be
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the next
prophet, take my tallit.
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They go down the Jordon River
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and he takes it off and he--
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Slaps the river. Right.
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And then he ascends up
into heaven in the chariot,
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and he says to
Elisha, if you see me, go up
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and you'll get a
double portion of my spirit.
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He goes up, Elisha sees
him and he drop his mantle.
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And Elisha picks it up,
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goes back to the
Jordon River and says,
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where is the God of Elisha
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and so that
tallit, the covering.
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And then when Elisha,
then goes into the cave
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and he's hidden in
the cave. 1 Kings 19.
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Right, after the
Carmel experience,
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Mount Carmel experience.
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It says that he covered his
face with his mantle. Yes. Yes.
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And that's when he heard God's
still small voice speak to him.
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Other experiences we
have, well, seeing on time,
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we're going to just
cut, I'll go to Jesus.
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First explain, why
are the knots? Okay.
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Yes, the knots are,
those are some traditions
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and the knots on the ends
here are way of counting up
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to the laws in the Torah.
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613 and so there
is a method of a knot
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and certain twist and
so again back to the Bible.
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Now when someone is
praying with a prayer shawl.
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Do they do what--Elisha
did and covering their face.
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That's why Jesus calls
it your prayer closet. Okay.
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Entering into
your prayer closet,
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you're cutting out and then
you can physically hear through
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but it is symbolism
of closing your eyes,
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covering your
eyes, covering your ears,
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covering the
avenues to the soul.
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Entering in under
God's righteousness,
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under Jesus' righteousness
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and that's back to that text
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that you talked that
you read in the beginning
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that God has
cloth, that He is clothed
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and then you have Zachariah,
take off the filthy garments,
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clothe him in
righteous garments--
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These are so
fascinating and I can't believe
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we are already out of time
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but what we've
talked about today
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is just these are some
traditions of the Jewish people
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that have a
great spiritual analogy
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and we're not
saying you have to do them
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but these are just so
wonderful things to learn.
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Thank you so much for
being with us today again.
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Thank you, Shelly. All right.
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I'm sorry we
are all out of time.
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You know, I hope
that you've enjoyed this,
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I think it's been fascinating
to see these are things
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that Jesus did
when He was growing up
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and when he walked
the face of the earth.
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These are some of the
traditions that He followed.
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Now they are not in the
Bible, they are extra biblical.
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But they
certainly don't contrary
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to what's in the Bible.
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Well, for now we
have to say good bye.
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May the grace of our Lord
Jesus, the love of the Father
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and the fellowship of
the Holy Spirit be with you.
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