Sermon Notes & Videos
2021-04-09 | Leviticus 9-11 | The Face of Y’shua
Glory? The high renown or honor won by notable achievements. A small sample of many possible synonyms would be fame, prestige, distinction, preeminence, and acclaim. Even magnificence or great beauty, praise, worship, and thanksgiving are excellent descriptors. But when considering the glory of Yahweh, not even all of these words aggregated come close.
And yet, here is the promise when you choose to obey Him; “the glory of Yahweh will appear to you.” What is not worth trading for that? In other words, obey God by all means and the payoff will be immeasurably above your cost.
But there’s more. The promise too is that His very glory will be revealed in you. Let’s take pause and consider the magnitude of this promise. His glory WILL BE REVEALED IN YOU! What’s that worth to you? I hope your answer is this: “I have spent enough of my past lifetime doing the will of the pagans. I will no longer run with them in the same flood of dissipation, nor live the rest of my life in the flesh for the lusts of men. From now on I live for the will of God.”
2021-04-02 | Leviticus 6-8 | Converts and Disciples
There is no doubt God has called many people to represent Him. However, the Scriptures also reveal that only some of them will answer to the higher call of the “chosen”. It seems that the free “ticket to eternity” comes with some fine print. The good news about the Good News is that if you don’t meet the requirements laid out in the fine print, your ticket does not get voided. Praise Yahweh for that!
That is good news; however, you also don’t get to participate in the assignments of the chosen! Yes, those are quite exciting. When the first priests were consecrated, Aaron and his sons, there were anointing rituals performed that pointed to corresponding assignments that we, the many of the Royal Priesthood, would one day be commissioned to do. It is in these assignments we find our opportunity to step up from “called” to “chosen.”
I think I can characterize those assignments with three little words; hear, do, and go! Paul said it like this; “How shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent? If you take on these assignments you will transform from the many who are called to the few who are chosen. By the way, that is also how you go from a convert to a disciple!
2021-03-26 | Exodus 10-13 | PREPARATION DAY | Passover – Where it all begins
Resources
Visit the Yearly Feasts of Yahweh section of our website to download notes and watch teachings about the the Feasts of the Lord. Also, please see the teaching and sermon notes that present the dividing line between the real and apostate church here: Without Blemish or…Apostate Religion
Theme
There is a difference between the Egyptians and Israel. “Then Moses said, “Thus says Yahweh: ‘About midnight I will go out into the midst of Egypt; and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the handmill, and all the firstborn of the animals. Then there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as was not like it before, nor shall be like it again. But against none of the children of Israel shall a dog move its tongue, against man or beast, that you may know that Yahweh does make a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.’” Exodus 11:4-7
2021-03-19 | Leviticus 1-6 | Without Blemish or…Apostate Religion
Time and again we read in the Old Testament how Yahweh insists that the offerings brought before Him be spotless, “without blemish.” In the New Testament the sacrifice is to be holy, acceptable, and the perfect will of God. Yes, Paul calls us to give our lives as spotless living sacrifices in the same way those animals were offered without blemish.
As a point of fact, all throughout the New Testament we are called to live blameless lives, without spot or wrinkle. Ah yes, the ever-repeating patterns in the Scriptures. God’s insistence on the perfect sacrifice was always pointing ahead to His spotless bride. And yes, another pattern shows us what it looks like when rebellion is afoot. Instead of a lamb without blemish, lets go ahead and offer blind and lame animals, or worse yet, stolen animals. Can you imagine how far from God you must be to think you can offer Him a sacrifice that you heisted? It’s preposterous! In the New Testament, these apostates are called “spots in our love feasts.” Today they don’t look like Christians dragging lame or stolen animals before the Lord; instead, it’s a whole movement of people who call themselves Christians, while they remain fully entrenched in the world.
The prophet Amos called them out like this: “Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! …Is not the day of the LORD darkness, and not light? Is it not very dark, with no brightness in it? I hate, I despise your feast days, and I do not savor your sacred assemblies.” Which side best represents you; the spotless bride or the stolen blind animal?
2021-03-12 | Exodus 35-40 | Ethical Christianity
Brennan Manning, a Franciscan Priest and author of the Ragamuffin Gospel wrote—“The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.”
I’ve lived as a Christian for the last 18 years, and I too can echo those words. We can agree, from the average believer sadly living their lives as described by Manning, to all the recognizable faces of those once held in esteem for their achievements in the faith, now disgraced in infamy, it is an utter atrocity. The reputation of Christianity has become poisoned!
Of course, everyone is responsible for their own sin. But, as a whole, why has modern Christianity not been able to push against the tirade of temptation it faces from societal pressures? Could it be that Christendom, as a body, has forgotten its ethical foundations?
Consider what God spoke through Jeremiah the prophet (v.17:9); “The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?” It should be evident that separating from the lifestyle moorings, which God provided in the Scriptures, will always yield the same outcome, the spectating world pointing fingers at all those who crash and burn, and in the end indicting Christianity for the hypocrisy they witness. All this would be avoided if we returned to “Ethical Christianity.”
2021-03-05 | Exodus 30-34 | Face Coverings
Have you ever found it difficult to track with the Apostle Paul?
You’re not alone. Even Peter recognized that many people had a hard time understanding his writings, often twisting his words so badly that it caused trouble. Are you doing the same? And, no other topic has birthed such confusion than Paul’s words about the Law.
Let’s highlight some of his doozies:
• The doers of the law will be justified…
• By the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified…
• You have become dead to the law through the body of Christ…
• We have been delivered from the law…
• Do we make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law…
• The commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death…
• The ministry of death, written and engraved on stones…
• The ministry of condemnation had glory…
• The law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good…
• The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life…
• We know that the law is spiritual…
• What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions…
• What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not!
• I agree with the law that it is good…
All the confusion exists because we are reading his words through a filter, a face covering. Paul referred to this as a “veiled face.” The face covering is supposed to be removed in Christ. Today, the whole world is walking around with their faces covered, a physical manifestation of their minds being blinded, a spiritual blindness for sure. Are you still reading Paul’s words with your face
covered?