1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,720 Jesus was going deeper in the meaning of what was given in the law. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,960 It's not just a matter of keeping it on the outside. 3 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:15,960 You got to keep these laws on the inside because this is how you show that you love God. 4 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:19,000 Jesus said, if you love me, keep my commandments. 5 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:25,960 It's about keeping commandments according to our heart by the Spirit. 6 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:28,320 So get in agreement with the Holy Spirit. 7 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:29,160 Yes, that's it. 8 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:34,840 Because as you walk in the Spirit, you're going to be fulfilling the law of love. 9 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:48,000 God promises in Joel 2, 28 to pour out His Spirit on all humanity. 10 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:50,160 Welcome to global outpouring. 11 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:53,000 Will we contend for that promised outpouring? 12 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:58,720 We equip for that outpouring so that we may engage in that very outpouring. 13 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:00,120 I'm Philip Buss. 14 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:01,280 And I'm Sharon Buss. 15 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:03,320 Welcome to the podcast today. 16 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:09,400 We are going to have a great time discussing some things that are kind of like weaving 17 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:12,720 together the last couple of podcasts that we did. 18 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:18,240 The one that we did with Dean Braxton in our last episode about the love of God from heaven's 19 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:22,200 perspective and the one we did before that, episode 243. 20 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:23,680 What about the law? 21 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:30,000 Because really, when it comes down to the bottom line, love is the fulfilling of the law. 22 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:36,400 Thank you so much for joining us today. 23 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:41,160 We're so delighted that we can be together again and that we can open the Word of God 24 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:46,480 and let the Holy Spirit breathe on it for us so that we can see things in the Word of 25 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:53,720 God and let our lives be changed and transformed by His mighty power as He works in us, both 26 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:56,320 to will and to do of His good pleasure. 27 00:01:56,320 --> 00:02:00,480 But before we get started, I want to encourage you, if you haven't already done so, to go 28 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:03,440 to our website, globaloutpouring.net. 29 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:05,920 Make sure that you are on our email lists. 30 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:08,160 There's a subscribe button there. 31 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:15,120 And make sure that you have gotten the information about our convention 2025, May 21st through 32 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:18,120 24th at the St. Louis Airport Marriott. 33 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:22,240 We're going to have Tony Kemp is one of our speakers and Dean Braxton is going to be one 34 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:23,240 of our speakers. 35 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:27,920 He's going to do a whole session of questions and answers and you want to be there. 36 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:33,980 This is going to be a family camp, so bring your whole family, bring friends, bring people 37 00:02:33,980 --> 00:02:36,200 that are hungry for God. 38 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:43,840 Make this an opportunity where you can get more into the presence of the Lord in worship, 39 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:49,000 in the Word of God, in intercession, in building relationships. 40 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:54,400 These are all things that take place at this convention and even getting a fresh assignment 41 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:56,040 for the coming year. 42 00:02:56,040 --> 00:03:01,900 So make sure that you make a way to be with us at convention 2025. 43 00:03:01,900 --> 00:03:06,120 So today we're going to talk about love is the fulfilling of the law. 44 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:13,300 Do you remember what Dean was talking about last time about how in heaven, love is the 45 00:03:13,300 --> 00:03:20,840 atmosphere and how every time he would look at the Lord and just be overwhelmed with the 46 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:26,400 love that was coming for him as he was comprehending how much love there was in the next moment 47 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:32,600 that God was creating more love for him and that every single person all at once. 48 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:34,840 It's kind of like going from glory to glory. 49 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:40,760 Yes, going from love to love and he talked about the glory being the love of God. 50 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:46,880 So in order for us to operate on earth as it is in heaven, we need to understand more 51 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:54,360 about this law of love and how sometimes we get a little bit overwhelmed with keeping 52 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:57,200 the rules. 53 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:04,520 We talked about how Torah, keeping Torah, keeping the Word of the Old Testament, how 54 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:12,040 it was not designed to be something that you do only on the outside, but that it was designed 55 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:17,640 to be a picture of what it looks like when you love the Lord your God with all your heart, 56 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:21,200 with all your soul, with all your mind, with all your strength and you love your neighbor 57 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:22,200 as yourself. 58 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:28,320 Jesus showed us, told us that these are the two most important commandments and he said 59 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:32,380 all of the law and the prophets hang on these two things. 60 00:04:32,380 --> 00:04:39,380 And I think if I'm not mistaken, I think that the great rabbi teacher before Jesus even 61 00:04:39,380 --> 00:04:47,120 came to earth, Hillel, I think he said something about if you could have the Torah standing 62 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:48,120 on one foot. 63 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:50,760 I think that's how the question was put to him. 64 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:52,980 Can you do the Torah standing on one foot? 65 00:04:52,980 --> 00:04:56,820 In other words, distill it down to the simplest version. 66 00:04:56,820 --> 00:04:57,960 This is it. 67 00:04:57,960 --> 00:04:58,960 This is it. 68 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:01,660 Love God and love your neighbor. 69 00:05:01,660 --> 00:05:06,200 And how many laws and things were put into practice since Hillel? 70 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:08,920 Oh yeah, well, absolutely. 71 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:12,720 And it's not like our Congress, they keep creating them all the time. 72 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:14,080 That's all they do all day. 73 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:15,080 Right. 74 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:19,800 And I think we talked about that a couple of episodes ago, where in the years that we've 75 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:24,760 had a Congress, it's like over 300,000 laws have been enacted and that doesn't even count 76 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:27,080 your local ones and your state ones. 77 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:30,920 So you know, there are lots and lots of laws. 78 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:39,560 But if you are walking in love with God, you're probably just going to do naturally the right 79 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:40,560 things. 80 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:42,660 What did Jesus say about the laws? 81 00:05:42,660 --> 00:05:45,000 You strain it in that and you swallow a camel. 82 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:46,000 You're right. 83 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:50,080 Well, and a lot of that has to do with the fact that laws were added. 84 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:58,540 They talk about oral law as though God gave two different sets of law at Mount Sinai and 85 00:05:58,540 --> 00:06:02,480 one of them was written down and one of them was handed down orally. 86 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:05,680 Well, that is a fable. 87 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:12,960 And also, I remember in psychology class, the teacher took everybody in the front of 88 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:18,520 each row and whispered a story to them and they tell it to the one behind them. 89 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:20,440 Then the one tells them to the one behind them. 90 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:27,860 And so the last person in line, in the end of the row, they come up and tell their interpretation. 91 00:06:27,860 --> 00:06:29,780 And you got all different stories. 92 00:06:29,780 --> 00:06:32,040 So what happens in an oral law? 93 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:33,040 Exactly. 94 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:36,800 You know, and that's one class, one hour. 95 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:38,960 So now you've got hundreds of years. 96 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:39,960 Exactly. 97 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:40,960 Even thousands of thousands of years. 98 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:42,680 You think it's going to be the same? 99 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:43,680 Right. 100 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:44,680 I don't think so. 101 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:48,200 So at one point it was decided we better write this down. 102 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:49,440 All these oral traditions. 103 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:56,240 Well, part of the problem with traditions is that if you do something enough times in 104 00:06:56,240 --> 00:07:01,440 a row, it becomes a habit and you view it as though it's law. 105 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:02,920 It's very good. 106 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:08,840 And that is one of the teachings in Judaism that you have these laws that are enacted 107 00:07:08,840 --> 00:07:11,040 because of tradition. 108 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:13,280 But this is stuff that's been added. 109 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:19,500 And God said over and over, don't add anything. 110 00:07:19,500 --> 00:07:22,240 Don't add it and don't take it away. 111 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:25,520 But there's a thing called Takkanot. 112 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:29,440 The word Takkanot, it actually means improvement. 113 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:30,720 And these are added laws. 114 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:33,360 They're laws that are added by tradition. 115 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:39,440 And then there's adjustments to fit the changes of culture or life situation. 116 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:44,280 And it got to the point where they felt like whatever the rabbi said was more important 117 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:45,840 than what God said. 118 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:46,960 That's pretty scary. 119 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:47,960 It's very scary. 120 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:50,280 And look at the result of that today. 121 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:51,280 Right. 122 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:58,000 And in Judaism, you have this group that is totally wrapped up in the traditions of men 123 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:06,040 and rabbinical teachings and twisting of scriptures, interpreting things and adding and adding 124 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:08,040 and even taking away. 125 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:13,080 There are a lot of things that the rabbis put into place that take away from what the 126 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:14,080 scriptures say. 127 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:15,080 And that's like the ultra-orthodox. 128 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:16,080 Well, I don't... 129 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:17,080 Orthodox, yes. 130 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:22,720 I guess it covers the whole spectrum of Judaism. 131 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:27,880 I mean, the kosher law especially, Shabbat laws. 132 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:33,300 All the kosher laws that they've built for dietary things, they built them on the scripture 133 00:08:33,300 --> 00:08:38,160 that says, you shall not see the kid in its mother's milk. 134 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:39,920 What does the Hebrew say? 135 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:41,520 So it actually says that. 136 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:45,920 You shall not see the boy or the baby goat in its mother's milk. 137 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:52,400 But what that means is not what was interpreted in the Middle Ages when these rabbis decided 138 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:59,040 to write down what it means and create this whole idea of you can't eat dairy and meat 139 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:00,800 in the same meal. 140 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:09,240 What it actually means is that you shouldn't boil a kid in its mother's milk because that 141 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:12,540 was a tradition of idolatry. 142 00:09:12,540 --> 00:09:17,920 It was something that was done in celebration of some kind of idol worship. 143 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:23,720 So God was just saying, don't participate in those things that the heathen do, that 144 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:27,000 the Gentiles do in their worship of idols. 145 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:31,200 So look how complicated it is today in an orthodox home. 146 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:32,200 You have to have two sinks. 147 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:33,200 Oh, yeah. 148 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:34,640 You have to have two refrigerators. 149 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:37,960 Right, one for dairy and one for meat. 150 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:39,880 It just gets more and more complicated. 151 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:43,880 It's more just the way, the wrong way that it was interpreted. 152 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:44,880 Right. 153 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:46,240 So here's the thing. 154 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:50,100 I love the Hebrew scriptures. 155 00:09:50,100 --> 00:09:52,600 You know, I've said it a gazillion times. 156 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:54,720 Well, maybe that's exaggerating. 157 00:09:54,720 --> 00:10:00,600 Probably not a gazillion, but I've said it many times that I'm a Hebrew scholar wannabe. 158 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:08,480 I'm not a Hebrew scholar, but I love the things that you get out of the Hebrew scriptures. 159 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:15,400 And many of the traditions that come with Judaism have wonderful meanings, but we're 160 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:19,700 not required to keep all of those things. 161 00:10:19,700 --> 00:10:25,840 And the folks that are teaching Hebrew roots with a godly, loving heart, okay, I don't 162 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:27,480 want to be down on this. 163 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:34,280 I want us to be able to walk in balance that, first of all, that we not be pharisaical with 164 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:38,960 each other and being law police, okay? 165 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:45,200 If you are inclined to keep these laws, do it for the right reason because you have a 166 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:46,780 heart of love for God. 167 00:10:46,780 --> 00:10:51,800 But there are lots of things that are taught by the rabbis that have nothing to do with 168 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:55,760 the scriptures except interpretations of the scriptures. 169 00:10:55,760 --> 00:11:01,480 Yeah, it's like, well, with Jesus and the disciples, he was forever breaking their laws. 170 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:02,480 Exactly. 171 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:05,480 But you know, Jesus is God on earth. 172 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:12,160 So if God on earth says you don't have to do this, why are people wanting to do it? 173 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:13,160 Right. 174 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:18,120 And then Jesus also in the Sermon on the Mount, and we said this before in the previous podcast, 175 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:28,080 but just to reiterate, Jesus was going deeper in the meaning of what was given in the law, 176 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:30,240 like about don't commit adultery. 177 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:36,000 And Jesus says if you're looking at a woman to lust after her as though in your mind you're 178 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:39,760 committing adultery with her, it's the same as if you were committing adultery. 179 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:43,840 In other words, and that's if you're undressing her in your mind. 180 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:47,280 Yeah, that kind of stuff. 181 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:48,280 Exactly the same thing. 182 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:49,280 Same thing. 183 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:53,760 So what he's saying is that it's not just a matter of keeping it on the outside. 184 00:11:53,760 --> 00:12:00,080 You got to keep these laws on the inside because this is how you show that you love God. 185 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:03,800 Jesus said, if you love me, keep my commandments. 186 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:10,400 So it's about keeping commandments according to our heart by the spirit. 187 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:11,400 Okay? 188 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:17,480 I want to touch a couple of things anyway, of things that we have some disagreements 189 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:26,080 about in the body of Christ that I want to bring some balance to, to bring some tolerance 190 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:27,120 to. 191 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:28,640 And so why is this important? 192 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:33,520 Why is it, if this is really important that I explained why this is important, because 193 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:39,920 in this outpouring, in this outpouring that we are fully expecting, it's going to require 194 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:42,280 all hands on deck. 195 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:50,360 And we need to have mature people that can rightly divide the word of truth, that know 196 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:56,920 the word of God, they've studied the word of God, but not just to do things by the letter 197 00:12:56,920 --> 00:13:00,920 of the law or by even by the letter of the New Testament. 198 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:02,040 Okay? 199 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:07,160 It's about doing it from the heart by the leading of the Holy Spirit. 200 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:08,160 Okay? 201 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:14,040 For instance, for instance, when the spirit of God fell on Cornelius's house, Peter and 202 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:17,240 the Jews that were with him did not know what to do. 203 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:19,280 Yeah, that was totally contrary. 204 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:25,760 Yeah, it was contrary to their understanding of the law. 205 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:29,760 Because they'd been so programmed, don't have anything to do with the Gentiles. 206 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:35,160 But here you have a Gentile that's a, that is a high rank and he's commanded you to come. 207 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:36,160 Right? 208 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:43,680 Well, not only that, it has to do with the Holy Spirit told Peter, go with them and don't 209 00:13:43,680 --> 00:13:44,680 be afraid. 210 00:13:44,680 --> 00:13:51,480 The point being that as we move forward into the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, that we 211 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:55,600 be so in tune with the Holy Spirit. 212 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:59,640 I think there's going to be increase in knowledge of the Holy Spirit when this happens. 213 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:00,640 Yes. 214 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:05,560 You know, as far as that meeting people and organizing things, the Holy Spirit is just 215 00:14:05,560 --> 00:14:09,800 going to, you know, accelerate people getting saved. 216 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:10,800 Yeah. 217 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:11,800 Yeah. 218 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:12,800 Wow. 219 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:15,360 And I love what it says in Galatians 5, 13 to 18. 220 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:18,840 It says, brethren, you've been called to liberty. 221 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:25,120 Only don't use liberty as an occasion to flesh, but by love serve one another. 222 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:32,520 Remember Dean Braxton told us in a few podcasts back about serving, about how heaven is all 223 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:38,800 about serving and that you greet one another by saying, how can I serve you? 224 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:40,720 Because we serve by love. 225 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:41,720 Okay. 226 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:43,680 By love serve one another. 227 00:14:43,680 --> 00:14:48,680 And then it says in verse 14, for all the law is fulfilled in one word, even this, you 228 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:51,860 shall love your neighbor as yourself. 229 00:14:51,860 --> 00:14:57,320 And then it goes on to say, if you're led of the spirit, you are not under the law. 230 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:01,480 It's the law of love that God wants us to get. 231 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:08,040 In the Old Testament or the Hebrew scriptures, in Joshua 22, 5, it says in the New King James, 232 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:12,880 but take careful heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses, the servant of the 233 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:18,760 Lord commanded you to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, 234 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:23,600 to hold fast to him, then to serve him with all your heart, with all your soul. 235 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:31,880 So even under the law itself was the admonition to serve the Lord and keep his law because 236 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:34,400 you love him. 237 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:37,640 And then I love how it, I love Psalm 119. 238 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:42,160 I fell in love with that when I fell in love with Jesus because he's speaking of the law 239 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:46,520 and four different times he talks about, oh, how I love your law. 240 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:48,880 It's my meditation all the day. 241 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:51,360 And verse 165, great peace. 242 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:56,000 Have those who love your law and nothing causes them to stumble. 243 00:15:56,000 --> 00:16:02,020 Then Romans 13, 8 and 10 says, Oh, no one, anything except to love one another for he 244 00:16:02,020 --> 00:16:05,400 who loves has fulfilled the law. 245 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:08,320 Verse 10, love does no harm to a neighbor. 246 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:13,680 Therefore love is the fulfillment or the King James says, fulfilling of the law. 247 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:19,000 James 2, 8 says, if you really fulfill the royal law, according to the scripture, you 248 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:20,960 shall love your neighbor as yourself. 249 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:22,600 You do well. 250 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:23,800 Okay. 251 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:32,200 So there's these wonderful scriptures, scripture after scripture about love fulfills the law 252 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:35,220 and love is the atmosphere of heaven. 253 00:16:35,220 --> 00:16:41,280 So if we're trying to be the people that do on earth as it is in heaven, according to 254 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:48,120 the prayer that Jesus taught us to pray, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as 255 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:49,560 it is in heaven. 256 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:54,900 So his will in heaven is obviously that we walk in love. 257 00:16:54,900 --> 00:17:00,920 So in Colossians chapter two, starting with verse 16, it says, let no man therefore judge 258 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:07,000 you in meat or in drink or in respect of unholy day or of the new moon or of the Sabbath 259 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:11,540 days, which are a shadow of things to come. 260 00:17:11,540 --> 00:17:21,400 This is where sometimes even today we get into issues over keeping rules and regulations. 261 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:27,320 So like what you eat and how you observe holy days. 262 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:30,520 Verse 17 says, these are a shadow of things to come. 263 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:33,640 Yeah, that's very, it lightens it up. 264 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:34,640 Let's put it that way. 265 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:35,640 Yeah. 266 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:36,640 Okay. 267 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:40,600 So even, and you see this in the book of Hebrews very clearly. 268 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:47,920 If you understand the scriptures, the Hebrew scriptures, okay, let me back up and say this. 269 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:53,760 In my younger days, we tried to study the book of Hebrews and I didn't get a bit of 270 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:54,760 it. 271 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:57,000 It was like, what, what is this? 272 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:58,000 I don't understand this. 273 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:00,840 Cause it was written to the Jews. 274 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:06,560 That's why there was this controversy who really wrote the book of Hebrews. 275 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:11,520 You know, cause it doesn't follow Paul's, but Paul's not writing to Gentiles, which 276 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:17,440 all the other books of the new Testament that he wrote, it was specifically for, and he's 277 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:21,480 a master of it because, but it doesn't say that he wrote it either. 278 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:22,480 It doesn't say he wrote it. 279 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:25,160 So there's a lot of speculation on who really wrote it. 280 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:27,160 So let's not divide over that either. 281 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:29,560 We're not moving right along. 282 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:33,880 I mean, some folks even think that Priscilla wrote it and, and it doesn't matter. 283 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:36,240 We'll find out when we get to heaven who wrote it. 284 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:37,640 It's not important. 285 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:43,880 And again, the point is let's not divide over questions. 286 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:47,440 Let's love one another and tolerate one another. 287 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:54,800 Not that we're loving and tolerating things that will lead to heresy. 288 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:59,720 We don't want anyone to get led off into some kind of cultish stuff. 289 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:03,840 We don't want anybody to get led away into something that's going to be destructive to 290 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:04,840 them. 291 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:12,720 But at the same time, there's a time and a place for bringing correction in love. 292 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:20,380 And there's a time and a place where you just let the Holy Spirit teach. 293 00:19:20,380 --> 00:19:25,200 This is where prayer is so important, that we pray for one another, that we love one 294 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:29,640 another enough that we let the Holy Spirit lead. 295 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:32,080 Now, let me give you an example. 296 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:35,000 There's a wonderful book that I love. 297 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:38,520 There are some books that I read over and over and a lot of books that I start and never 298 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:40,400 finish. 299 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:44,080 One of the books that I love to read over and over is called The Grace Outpouring by 300 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:46,040 Roy Godwin. 301 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:53,840 It's a story of a Christian retreat in Wales and how God led them, the Holy Spirit led 302 00:19:53,840 --> 00:20:01,640 them into doing things in prayer and just obeying the Holy Spirit that created such 303 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:10,380 an atmosphere of the presence of God that people would be driving by and just be drawn 304 00:20:10,380 --> 00:20:11,520 to come to the place. 305 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:13,460 And they have no idea why they're drawn there. 306 00:20:13,460 --> 00:20:16,160 They get there, they say, what is this place? 307 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:18,180 Why would I be drawn here? 308 00:20:18,180 --> 00:20:23,800 And Roy Godwin would give them a cup of tea and explain what it was. 309 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:30,360 This is a Christian retreat and then give them a tour and end up in the chapel and then 310 00:20:30,360 --> 00:20:33,920 just bless them in the chapel and let the Holy Spirit do his thing. 311 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:34,920 He would just leave. 312 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:39,080 He'd just walk away and let the Holy Spirit do his thing in their lives and change their 313 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:40,080 lives. 314 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:45,880 And even atheists come in and they feel the presence of God and they, he's real. 315 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:49,600 They would say, how do I get to know Jesus? 316 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:53,560 The answer was, the person who brought them there, well, I thought you didn't believe 317 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:54,560 in Jesus. 318 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:58,800 And the answer was, well, he's here, isn't he? 319 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:00,560 Because he can feel the presence. 320 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:01,560 Okay. 321 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:07,880 So it's the atmosphere of love, the atmosphere of the presence of God, his presence is love. 322 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:15,520 So in one of these instances, there was this couple that came and the man was so filthy 323 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:23,040 mouthed and telling horrible, dirty stories, one after another, after another, after another, 324 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:26,600 while Roy was giving them this tour around the place. 325 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:32,680 He was so embarrassed, Roy was so embarrassed and so put out. 326 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:38,480 Because there's people around, you know, you think sometimes somebody comes into a room 327 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:41,160 and spoils the atmosphere of the room. 328 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:42,160 Right. 329 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:47,240 And this was what Roy was concerned about, that this filth was going to destroy the light 330 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:49,000 that was in the place. 331 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:55,040 However, the Holy Spirit said, don't you dare rebuke him. 332 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:57,400 And it was very strong. 333 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:03,380 So you know, the man's just pouring out this profanity and dirty stories. 334 00:22:03,380 --> 00:22:11,360 And when they got to the chapel, the man got on the threshold and fell on his face and 335 00:22:11,360 --> 00:22:13,200 said, Oh my God, I'm sorry. 336 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:14,200 I'm so sorry. 337 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:15,320 I didn't know you were real. 338 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:17,560 I didn't think you were real. 339 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:18,560 Please forgive me. 340 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:21,840 And he just poured out in repentance. 341 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:28,280 Because see, if you follow the leading of the Holy Spirit, God is going to do things 342 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:36,200 in this outpouring that's beyond our understanding, beyond what we can even dream. 343 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:42,440 So here's one instance of a story where God went beyond what the man could dream. 344 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:43,440 Yeah. 345 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:48,920 And if you think of every story you've heard of how a person got saved supernaturally or 346 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:54,920 this or that, multiply that times what's going to happen. 347 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:55,920 Exponential multiplication. 348 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:56,920 Yeah. 349 00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:59,040 It's going to be so powerful. 350 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:00,040 Yes. 351 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:01,520 It's just, I can't wait. 352 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:02,520 Yeah. 353 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:03,520 Yeah. 354 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:08,480 But that's why I want to just talk about some of these things that we have divisions over 355 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:16,700 in the body so that we can learn to flow in the Holy Spirit and be tolerant that these 356 00:23:16,700 --> 00:23:19,640 are not things we have to solve. 357 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:22,040 We can have differences of opinion. 358 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:27,920 For instance, the word in Colossians, let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink 359 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:30,480 and respect of a holy day. 360 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:34,840 So here's Shabbat, keeping the Sabbath. 361 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:38,960 So we know that the Sabbath is the seventh day of the week. 362 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:44,000 In Hebrew, you have first day, second day, third day, fourth day, fifth day, sixth day, 363 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:45,000 Shabbat. 364 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:51,880 So as such thing as Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, those are actually all named after gods. 365 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:55,600 It's what we have to work with. 366 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:59,600 And Sunday was named after the sun god. 367 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:04,400 And Monday was named after the moon god and so on. 368 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:07,360 Saturday was named after Saturn. 369 00:24:07,360 --> 00:24:15,120 So it doesn't compute to someone who's trying to keep the law to call it by those days. 370 00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:18,400 And we can get real religious. 371 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:20,560 But it doesn't mean that to us. 372 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:23,280 That's like people say Easter Sunday. 373 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:24,280 Oh, yeah. 374 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:31,880 But Easter is Eshtar, which is the goddess of lust and forget what Phoenician, I think 375 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:32,880 it was. 376 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:35,400 And so we say Resurrection Sunday. 377 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:36,640 Happy Resurrection Sunday. 378 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:37,640 Right. 379 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:40,160 Because we don't want to honor or even Happy Resurrection Day. 380 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:41,160 Happy Resurrection Day. 381 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:42,160 So we don't have to say sun. 382 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:43,160 Yeah, yeah. 383 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:44,360 It was the first day of the week. 384 00:24:44,360 --> 00:24:56,000 The point here is that we have people that are being moved to stop their congregation 385 00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:00,680 meeting on Sunday and go on Saturday or Shabbat. 386 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:01,680 Okay. 387 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:02,680 Call it Shabbat. 388 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:04,560 We're not celebrating Saturday. 389 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:08,360 So there's this contention in the body. 390 00:25:08,360 --> 00:25:14,920 But if you go back to the Torah, the only thing that's commanded is that you rest and 391 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:19,700 that you keep this day as separated or holy unto God. 392 00:25:19,700 --> 00:25:26,040 It's not telling you that you have to go to your congregation on that day because there's 393 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:31,400 nothing in the Old Testament that says that you have to congregate on any day of the week. 394 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:32,400 Oops. 395 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:33,400 Oops. 396 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:37,600 So that is something that came in through rabbinic teaching. 397 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:40,720 Okay, let's just boil this down a little bit. 398 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:47,120 So when the children of Israel were expelled from the land because they had not been keeping 399 00:25:47,120 --> 00:25:50,600 the law, they were sentenced to go into Babylon. 400 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:52,440 They didn't let the land rest. 401 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:53,440 That was one of the things. 402 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:54,440 That was one of the things. 403 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:55,440 Yeah. 404 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,020 And they were into idolatry and they were into doing stuff that they weren't supposed 405 00:25:58,020 --> 00:25:59,020 to do. 406 00:25:59,020 --> 00:26:00,020 A whole lot of bad stuff. 407 00:26:00,020 --> 00:26:01,020 Yeah. 408 00:26:01,020 --> 00:26:07,280 So that's a shadow of what happens to us if we don't stay connected to our heavenly father. 409 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,240 And you can find all that in Ezekiel. 410 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:10,240 Right. 411 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:11,760 Although there was bad stuff going on. 412 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:13,560 You can read all that in Ezekiel. 413 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:15,840 But here's what happened. 414 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:25,960 In order to maintain their Jewishness or in order to maintain in a foreign land, they 415 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:33,920 began practicing keeping Shabbat by meeting together in congregations in wherever they 416 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:34,920 were. 417 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:40,640 They had to keep it together in order to not be assimilated into among the Gentiles. 418 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:41,640 The society. 419 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:42,640 Yeah. 420 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:43,640 Into the society of the Gentiles. 421 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:47,280 So that's when they began having synagogues. 422 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:49,600 The word synagogue is a Greek word. 423 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:56,520 That even comes from when the Greeks were in rulership over the promised land. 424 00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:58,040 The Jews had come back. 425 00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:03,980 But when they came back under Ezra and Nehemiah, they began becoming really, really strong 426 00:27:03,980 --> 00:27:07,680 about keeping the law so this doesn't happen again. 427 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:10,560 And that's where Phariseeism began, as I understand it. 428 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:11,560 Okay. 429 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:12,880 And I'm open to correction. 430 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:18,560 If you know something different about this, send me a word at feedback at globaloutpouring.org. 431 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:22,520 And, you know, I want to listen to it. 432 00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:29,200 But as I understand it, Phariseeism began as a result of the deportation into Babylon 433 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:33,500 and coming back and becoming very zealous about keeping the law. 434 00:27:33,500 --> 00:27:39,720 But the problem was that they began to be zealous on the outside without having that 435 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:42,880 love for God on the inside. 436 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:43,880 Yeah. 437 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:44,880 Okay. 438 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:49,280 And you know, I remember when Jesus came, the Pharisees and really the Sadducees, too, 439 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:53,640 didn't recognize him because they were busy trying to keep the law on the outside. 440 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,780 But Jesus talked about inside their hearts. 441 00:27:56,780 --> 00:28:00,040 It's like whitewashed sepulchers, whitewashed tombs. 442 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:06,360 And watching miracles they could not deny on Sabbath and saying that's blasphemy. 443 00:28:06,360 --> 00:28:12,360 You know, and he would tell them this daughter of Abraham, you know, would not God heal on 444 00:28:12,360 --> 00:28:13,360 the Sabbath. 445 00:28:13,360 --> 00:28:15,120 On the Sabbath, yeah. 446 00:28:15,120 --> 00:28:16,720 And he did it in front of their eyes. 447 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:18,080 And what do they do? 448 00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:19,400 They go tell the chief priests. 449 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:20,400 Right. 450 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,640 Instead of rejoicing that this lady got healed. 451 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:23,640 We couldn't do that. 452 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:24,640 Right. 453 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:26,240 You know, they tried to kill him. 454 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:29,600 Well, it's also because it was a corrupt priesthood. 455 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:30,600 Yeah. 456 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:38,280 But it required that there be a corrupt priesthood in order that the sacrifice lamb of God that 457 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:45,080 would take away the sins of the world would be sacrificed because of the priesthood. 458 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:50,000 And that's one of these things where it's just like the ways of God are not the ways 459 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:51,000 of man. 460 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:52,000 They're higher than our ways. 461 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,080 Much higher because we can't see the end. 462 00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:57,800 You know, we only see like the here and now. 463 00:28:57,800 --> 00:28:58,800 Right. 464 00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:00,800 But, you know, God's got the big plan. 465 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,960 And if he showed us everything at once, we just mess it up. 466 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:05,080 Probably so. 467 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:11,680 And I think it's in 1 Samuel where Samuel says that man looks on the outward appearance, 468 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:14,240 but God looks on the heart. 469 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:18,400 And that's how we're going to be judged by our hearts, not about how well we kept the 470 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:19,920 law. 471 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:28,760 And this idea of you've got to keep Sabbath on Saturday or Sunday, the seventh day or 472 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:29,760 the first day. 473 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:33,780 You know, the first day of the week was when Jesus rose from the dead. 474 00:29:33,780 --> 00:29:35,840 So it's okay for us to meet on that day. 475 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,080 We're celebrating his resurrection. 476 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:41,600 It's okay for us to meet on Shabbat on the seventh day. 477 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:43,120 Jesus kept Shabbat. 478 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:45,120 He went to their synagogues. 479 00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:50,080 He went to their synagogues on that day because that was the tradition that had come up. 480 00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:52,160 That's where he's going to teach people. 481 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:57,160 But he also taught them every other day of the week, wherever he went, whatever he did. 482 00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:02,200 He went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil. 483 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,360 Every single day. 484 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:11,440 And if you look in the book of Acts, it says that in Acts 2, 46, it says, so continuing 485 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:17,720 daily with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their 486 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:19,720 food with gladness and simplicity of heart. 487 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:22,120 In other words, they met together every single day. 488 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:23,120 Daily. 489 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:24,120 Daily. 490 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:29,580 And Acts 5, 42 says, and daily in the temple and in every house, they did not cease teaching 491 00:30:29,580 --> 00:30:31,840 and preaching Jesus as the Christ. 492 00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:34,960 They met every single day. 493 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:36,800 So it wasn't a pattern. 494 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,800 It doesn't matter what day you meet. 495 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:44,240 If you have your day off as Wednesday and your church has a Wednesday night service, 496 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:47,960 that can be your day that you keep holy unto the Lord. 497 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:50,320 But for heaven's sakes, rest. 498 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:53,280 We don't rest enough. 499 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:54,280 We don't. 500 00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:58,880 It's like our founder, you know, she had heard the song earlier, Lord, let me burn out for 501 00:30:58,880 --> 00:30:59,880 you. 502 00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:00,880 Yes, yes. 503 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:06,760 You know, she did burn out and she about she burnt almost us out with her. 504 00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:12,720 I remember going on a we were doing a six week road trip in the spring and hardly a 505 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:13,720 break. 506 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:15,960 And the day you didn't have a meeting was the day you drove. 507 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:16,960 Right. 508 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:18,640 You know, it was like a six week continual. 509 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:19,640 Yeah. 510 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:20,640 Minutes. 511 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:22,520 There was no real you didn't have a day off. 512 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:23,520 Really? 513 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:25,560 You might have an afternoon or something. 514 00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:29,800 And I remember we got to one place and it was a real prophetic lady. 515 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,440 And I thought, I hope she doesn't have a word for me. 516 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:36,560 It's just like I burned the candles so bad at both ends. 517 00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:39,240 There's no wax left in the middle. 518 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:41,120 The flame be ready to go out. 519 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:42,120 Yeah. 520 00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:46,240 But, you know, the point is, God gave us the grace to do it at the time. 521 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:47,240 We were younger, too. 522 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,960 We were younger and he gave us the grace to stretch. 523 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:51,560 And so we can still do it today. 524 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:57,760 So when we go in nations today, when we were in Argentina on our last trip, how many meetings 525 00:31:57,760 --> 00:31:58,760 did we have? 526 00:31:58,760 --> 00:31:59,760 I don't remember. 527 00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:00,760 It was a lot. 528 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:04,000 It was a lot of meetings and we didn't have a day of rest there. 529 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:05,000 No. 530 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,840 But under the circumstances, it's just like when your ox is in the ditch, you do what 531 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:09,960 you got to do. 532 00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:10,960 It's true. 533 00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:11,960 Because it's for the kingdom. 534 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:12,960 Right. 535 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:13,960 Exactly. 536 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,480 But just to go back to this, you know, what day should we worship? 537 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:20,720 A lot of people quote Hebrews 10 25. 538 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:26,120 And I suggest that everyone should go back and read it in context because it doesn't 539 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:33,120 really in context say what we've made it to say, where it says, do not forsake the assembling 540 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:37,640 of yourselves together as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another and so much 541 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:41,440 the more as you see the day approaching, just assemble. 542 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:45,240 It doesn't matter what day you assemble, just relationships. 543 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:47,720 It's about maintaining relationships. 544 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:53,000 It's about meeting together and talking about the things of God, studying the word together. 545 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,000 Let iron sharpen iron. 546 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,200 Just compare scripture with scripture. 547 00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:59,680 Let's have the Holy Spirit moving on us. 548 00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:06,760 It's not important which day that you observe, whether you observe the feasts. 549 00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:08,480 I love the feasts. 550 00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:13,880 I'm particularly drawn to Sukkot, the feast of Tabernacles, because that's the one that 551 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:18,920 the Hebrew scriptures say that the Gentiles will participate in. 552 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,240 And that's amazing because that's when Jesus was born. 553 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:27,400 Yes, I really think he was born on the first day of Sukkot and that his circumcision would 554 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:32,680 have been on the eighth day, the great day of the feast, Shemini Yatzerit. 555 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:36,640 So the point is that let's work together. 556 00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:38,160 Let's worship together. 557 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:39,620 Let's open the word together. 558 00:33:39,620 --> 00:33:44,060 Let's have home Bible studies any day of the week, but let's don't forsake the assembling 559 00:33:44,060 --> 00:33:47,280 of yourselves together any day of the week. 560 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:52,680 Yeah, and many have to break out of the pattern of watching the service online. 561 00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:53,680 Yes. 562 00:33:53,680 --> 00:34:00,000 You know, unless you have a problem, you don't have a car or you're not able to do it, meet 563 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,880 together, you know, because it's not the same online as it is being there. 564 00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:04,880 That's true. 565 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:06,680 You can't form a relationship online. 566 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:08,000 Yeah, that's right. 567 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:12,040 I mean, it's scary to me seeing people get married because they met online. 568 00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:13,840 Anyway, enough of that. 569 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:22,400 I remember we've had one friend of ours that she would call us for prayer, but she loved 570 00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:28,080 the messianic teachings of the teachings of this messianic congregation. 571 00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:33,920 But when she'd call them for prayer, they would forbid her to call anybody for prayer 572 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:35,680 that met on Sunday. 573 00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:39,000 Don't you associate with those Sunday people because they're wrong. 574 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:40,000 Wow. 575 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:41,000 Wow. 576 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:42,000 See, that's that's Phariseeism. 577 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:43,000 Yeah. 578 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,160 Yeah, even though they're they're believers in Yeshua. 579 00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:47,160 Right. 580 00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:48,160 It's still Phariseeism. 581 00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:49,160 Right. 582 00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:53,760 And and they their teachings tended toward rabbinic teachings as well. 583 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:58,000 So I love the teachings of Nehemiah Gordon. 584 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:03,700 We had him on episode 200 and he is a Karaite Jew. 585 00:35:03,700 --> 00:35:07,120 He was raised under rabbinic teachings. 586 00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:12,960 He came from a long line of rabbis, in fact, but he became a Karaite, which means a scripturalist. 587 00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:19,520 They go by the scripture and not by all of those takanot, those added teachings. 588 00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:24,280 So you're responsible as you read the scripture to figure it out for yourself. 589 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:25,840 And here's here's a quote from him. 590 00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:31,400 Work it out for yourself in fear and trembling with prayer and study before the creator of 591 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,320 the universe. 592 00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:42,500 This needs to be how we function in settling these issues that are questions that we study 593 00:35:42,500 --> 00:35:47,560 and we pray and we work it out before the Lord. 594 00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:52,960 You work it out until you get that piece of the Holy Spirit inside of you. 595 00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:59,800 That piece that passes all understanding, you know, you've got what works for you and 596 00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:07,160 not be so trying to sort other people out according to what works for you. 597 00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:08,160 You know what I mean? 598 00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:09,720 It's not fair. 599 00:36:09,720 --> 00:36:11,400 It's not fair to become. 600 00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:14,440 It's not right to become the law police. 601 00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:15,440 Yeah. 602 00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:19,440 OK, it's about learning how to walk in love, being led by the Holy Spirit. 603 00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:20,440 Now, what about foods? 604 00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:26,560 Yeah, I was just going to ask you, you know, because that's a big that's a big one. 605 00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:31,040 And there's a lot of a lot of believers, you know, following the tradition. 606 00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:33,000 No, I don't eat pork. 607 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,520 You know, pork is not a kosher animal. 608 00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:36,520 Right. 609 00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:38,560 You know, it's and it's not a clean animal. 610 00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:39,560 Not clean. 611 00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:40,560 Neither is catfish. 612 00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:45,880 You know, they the catfish has a has a fat that is harder for the body to digest. 613 00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:46,880 Yeah. 614 00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:47,880 And the same with pork. 615 00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:48,880 Right. 616 00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:49,880 Yeah. 617 00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:54,440 God told the people not to eat those things because they're really not good for you. 618 00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:55,560 So what happened? 619 00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:57,160 So you go to Cornelius's house. 620 00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:58,160 Yeah. 621 00:36:58,160 --> 00:36:59,960 I'm sure they ate a few meals while they were there. 622 00:36:59,960 --> 00:37:00,960 Right. 623 00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:01,960 So what do you do? 624 00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:09,880 Paul gets into this in First Corinthians 10 and he says, if any of you, if any of them, 625 00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:15,440 in other words, if you're if you're among Gentiles or actually he's writing to the Corinthians, 626 00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:16,440 so they're Gentiles. 627 00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:17,440 Yeah. 628 00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:23,760 If any if any of them that believe not, any of them that believe not bid you to a feast 629 00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:30,760 and you be inclined or disposed to go, whatever is set before you eat, asking no questions 630 00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:32,640 for conscience sake. 631 00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:36,440 But if any man say to you, this is offered in sacrifice to idols. 632 00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:41,880 Now that was one of the things in Acts 15 that they said, no, don't eat anything sacrificed 633 00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:44,280 to idols and don't eat anything, any blood. 634 00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:45,480 Don't eat anything strangled. 635 00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:46,480 Yeah. 636 00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:52,800 So if any man says to you, this is offered in sacrifice to idols, don't eat it for his 637 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:54,440 sake that showed it. 638 00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:59,480 And for conscience sake, for the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. 639 00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:04,040 Conscience I say, not your own, but the other for why is my liberty judged of another man's 640 00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:05,040 conscience? 641 00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:07,240 If they serve you pork. 642 00:38:07,240 --> 00:38:09,560 OK, we've been to China. 643 00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:15,120 We've been lots of places where they don't have any kind of laws against that. 644 00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:18,560 You go to an island nation, they're going to feed you some seafood. 645 00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:24,120 OK, and don't is one of the fastest growing animals that there is. 646 00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:25,120 Right. 647 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:26,960 And that's why it's a lot cheaper in the stores. 648 00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:27,960 And yeah. 649 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:32,360 And like I remember in Romania, we were there in the wintertime and they slaughter a pig 650 00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:33,360 right on the street. 651 00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:37,040 And there was this big bloody mess in the snow. 652 00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:40,160 You know, we don't do this at home like this. 653 00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:41,160 No, we sure don't. 654 00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,680 But I didn't see any cows running around. 655 00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:44,680 Right. 656 00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:48,800 Well, they had to wait until it was cold enough because they might not have had any refrigeration. 657 00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:50,520 That's true. 658 00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:53,560 So they do what they have to do. 659 00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:57,760 So if you're served these things, don't ask what you're eating. 660 00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:01,080 Especially if you're in a nation, it's just mystery meat. 661 00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:04,000 You don't want to know what you're eating. 662 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:05,000 Right. 663 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:12,440 So I remember hearing the story of my pastor, Papa Dorn, Robert Dorn, when he went to one 664 00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:14,240 of the island nations in the Caribbean. 665 00:39:14,240 --> 00:39:16,840 I don't remember just which one it was. 666 00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:24,440 And they were invited to attend a feast that was being thrown by a Hindu family. 667 00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:29,320 I don't know if it was a wedding or if it was some kind of celebration of a Hindu god. 668 00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:30,780 I don't know what it was. 669 00:39:30,780 --> 00:39:32,920 But they were invited to this feast. 670 00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:41,040 And the host comes to him with this honor and says, I'm bringing to you as my honored 671 00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:47,360 guest, I'm bringing to you this food that was offered to the idol. 672 00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:49,200 These are died in the Hindu's. 673 00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:50,200 Okay. 674 00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:53,680 And Papa Dorn says, Oh, I'm so sorry. 675 00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:58,640 My religion forbids me to eat anything that's been offered to another god. 676 00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:00,280 He says, Oh, oh, really? 677 00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:02,400 Well, I don't want to offend you. 678 00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:04,640 Let me go get some other food for you. 679 00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:12,200 And this opened the door for Papa Dorn to be able to preach about his religion, preach 680 00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:16,800 Jesus to the entire group of people that were there. 681 00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:20,640 And I don't remember all about the story, but I'm pretty sure that there were folks 682 00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:27,640 that got saved under those circumstances because he refused just according to the scripture. 683 00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:34,720 You ask, but if they tell you that it was offered to an idol, you say, no, I can't do 684 00:40:34,720 --> 00:40:35,720 that. 685 00:40:35,720 --> 00:40:38,280 And what do we do when we when we're in these places? 686 00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:43,200 We say, you know, the scripture, if you eat anything deadly, it will not harm you because 687 00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:45,320 we speak the blood of Jesus over it. 688 00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:46,320 Right. 689 00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:51,560 So if it is offered to an idol, you know, and you don't know it, but you've covered 690 00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:55,920 with the blood of Jesus, that would break any curse that is on it. 691 00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:56,920 That's true. 692 00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:57,920 Absolutely, it will. 693 00:40:57,920 --> 00:40:59,560 Absolutely, it will. 694 00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:04,560 So just to wrap this up, you know, there's a time and a place to bring correction. 695 00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:09,860 But when you do bring correction, you speak the truth and love and love. 696 00:41:09,860 --> 00:41:16,820 And there are times when you simply wait and let the Holy Spirit deal with the person. 697 00:41:16,820 --> 00:41:24,300 But we have to walk by the spirit because walking in the spirit has to be our guide. 698 00:41:24,300 --> 00:41:28,140 You're not going to learn the ways of God without walking with him. 699 00:41:28,140 --> 00:41:35,080 And you walk with him and you you study his word and you gain maturity by studying the 700 00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:38,600 word and walking with him and listening to him in prayer. 701 00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:39,600 Yeah. 702 00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:45,300 And even the scripture, I will keep him in perfect peace, perfect shalom, whose mind 703 00:41:45,300 --> 00:41:47,320 is stayed on him. 704 00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:52,560 So if we can just keep our mind on Jesus and the Holy Spirit. 705 00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:53,560 That's big. 706 00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:54,560 That's hard to do. 707 00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:55,560 Yeah. 708 00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:58,440 You know, there's a lot of folks running around talking about church hurt. 709 00:41:58,440 --> 00:41:59,760 Oh, yeah. 710 00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:05,840 Because they were probably accosted about something that they weren't doing right. 711 00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:10,320 And the way that it was handled was not done in love. 712 00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:11,320 And so they walked away. 713 00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:17,360 I love the scripture where Paul is talking about travailing for you until Christ be born 714 00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:19,400 in you. 715 00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:26,760 Learning the prayer life of the mature ones, bring people into maturity to teach them how 716 00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:29,720 to walk with God and being gentle. 717 00:42:29,720 --> 00:42:30,720 Right. 718 00:42:30,720 --> 00:42:37,400 I'm reminded of folks that we've heard of that came to Jesus and especially like during 719 00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:41,340 the Jesus movement back in the early 70s. 720 00:42:41,340 --> 00:42:42,340 And they were hippies. 721 00:42:42,340 --> 00:42:43,760 Hippies, yeah. 722 00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:46,360 And they were smoking pot all the time. 723 00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:51,840 And finally, you know, at some point, the Holy Spirit began to convict them that this 724 00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:56,120 was not right, that this is not the way we do things. 725 00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:59,960 You don't get a word from the Lord because you're high. 726 00:42:59,960 --> 00:43:03,320 You know, you get the wrong word. 727 00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:07,800 You can get some wrong words that way because you're opening yourself up to the spiritual 728 00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:10,520 realm when you smoke stuff like that. 729 00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:18,040 So drinking like it's not an evil thing to drink a glass of wine with your meal. 730 00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:23,300 Sometimes like we were raised that you just simply don't have one drop of alcohol ever. 731 00:43:23,300 --> 00:43:28,240 But Paul told Timothy, take a little wine for your stomach sake and you're often infirmities. 732 00:43:28,240 --> 00:43:29,960 And Jesus made some pretty good wine. 733 00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:30,960 He saved. 734 00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:31,960 They saved it till the end. 735 00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:32,960 Right. 736 00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:33,960 His first miracle. 737 00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:36,000 But it does say don't be drunk with wine. 738 00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:37,000 Right. 739 00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:38,000 OK. 740 00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:41,000 Don't be filled with the Holy Spirit. 741 00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:47,080 There's so much better things that you get by being filled with the Holy Spirit. 742 00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:53,160 I think what people get drunk or on marijuana or something like that, when you lose control 743 00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:56,640 of your conscience, you know, you're not able to function. 744 00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:57,640 That's right. 745 00:43:57,640 --> 00:43:58,760 Things can happen. 746 00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:00,460 That's when things can go wrong. 747 00:44:00,460 --> 00:44:04,320 So and then we know about couples that were living together. 748 00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:05,320 OK. 749 00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:13,120 So you leave them alone until the Holy Spirit deals with them, unless you get a word from 750 00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:14,480 the Holy Spirit. 751 00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:18,260 The Holy Spirit might say, OK, now is the time to speak to them. 752 00:44:18,260 --> 00:44:22,280 It's because the Holy Spirit knows that he's already been dealing with them in their hearts. 753 00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:23,700 They just need a confirmation. 754 00:44:23,700 --> 00:44:25,320 They need a confirmation. 755 00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:28,020 So it's about walking in the spirit. 756 00:44:28,020 --> 00:44:32,860 It's about walking in love because love is the fulfilling of the law. 757 00:44:32,860 --> 00:44:34,040 And what did Jesus say? 758 00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:37,600 I don't condemn you going to go and sin. 759 00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:38,600 Go and sin. 760 00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:39,600 No, no, no. 761 00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:40,980 That's Jesus is our example. 762 00:44:40,980 --> 00:44:45,840 So if you got caught by the prophet or something like that, just you know, because it's the 763 00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:47,440 Holy Spirit going through them. 764 00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:51,840 Yeah, of course, it's better to deal with stuff before you get cornered by a prophet, 765 00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:52,840 actually. 766 00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:53,840 Very true. 767 00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:54,840 You know, very true. 768 00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:56,920 But let's get in agreement with the Holy Spirit. 769 00:44:56,920 --> 00:44:58,000 Yes, that's it. 770 00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:04,240 Because as you walk in the spirit, you're going to be fulfilling the law of love. 771 00:45:04,240 --> 00:45:05,960 This is all a walk by faith. 772 00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:06,960 Amen. 773 00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:13,240 So, Father, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we ask you to temper us by your spirit. 774 00:45:13,240 --> 00:45:22,400 Lord, cause us to walk with you more closely, walking in love, looking on people in love. 775 00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:30,560 Let your love eyes shine through our eyes that will cause your spirit to change lives, 776 00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:37,360 Lord, as we interact with people, as you are pouring out your spirit today and tomorrow 777 00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:39,080 and the days to come. 778 00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:41,080 In the name of Jesus Christ. 779 00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:42,080 Amen. 780 00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:43,080 Amen. 781 00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:52,080 If you enjoyed today's podcast, please subscribe, rate, and review this podcast on all of our 782 00:45:52,080 --> 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