Vayakhel - And He Gathered

From Rabbi Jack

Galatians {5:19} “Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, indecency, {5:20} Involvement with the occult and with drugs; in feuding, fighting, becoming jealous and getting angry; in selfish ambition, factionalism, intrigue {5:21} Envying, murders, drunkenness, reveling, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.”

What is absolutely vital for us to understand as Believers, is that we have to be willing to submit to God. We have to be transparent, exposing our true feelings and our true condition to God's cleansing light. We have to see ourselves as He sees us, not as we perceive ourselves. Without doing this we cannot be liberated by God's truth. 

The term “NEFESH” in Hebrew means “SOUL” but it also means “a living being” or “the animal part of us”. So, we can see that the term nefesh refers to our animal nature, the animal instinct of our human make-up. This should give us all a good indication of how the power of the soul expresses itself in us. It causes even Believers to walk in their own natural power. It causes them to serve God with their own strength according to their own ideas. They rationalize everything, they covet physical sensation and often confuse it as evidence of God's presence.

Many Believers are so blinded by their souls that they actually think they are spiritual. They avoid sin by sheer willpower, not by God’s power and of course they ultimately fail because their souls get the better of them. Doing good works makes them feel good about themselves and of course it impresses others. What is wrong with this?  It is the intent! If the intent is wrong the good works are wrong! These Believers are actually satisfying their soul not their spirit, so what they are doing has nothing to do with God, it is all about them; their self-satisfaction. The sad part is, they think they are being spiritual.

Some people feed on other people’s problems so they get physical pleasure and satisfaction out of helping others. They even function better when they are feeling sorry for someone else. In reality they simply want to do what makes them feel good and what feeds their hang-ups. So, all their prayers and striving after God's Will, are purely outward; they are really only satisfying their own animal natures. They love the feelings but not necessarily God! Only the power of God through the Holy Spirit can make this type of person see that their walk is centered on self and not God.

So how do you deal with your soul? By dying to self, by truly laying bare your most inner feelings; by exposing your animal self to the light of God and asking Him to reveal your ugliness to you so that you can see yourself as you truly are, as He sees you.

From Ellen

I was contemplating what I should write about and the Lord reminded me that there is nothing new under the sun.  So here goes…

In Isaiah 43.19 we read “Behold, I do a new thing: now it shall spring forth: do you not perceive it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” 

God is speaking to us and exhorting us to forget the past and look ahead to the future! I believe God wants the people of Israel to know that He is doing something significant, corporately and individually. He is showing them in His exhortation that He can do the impossible. For instance, making rivers in the desert and making a way in the wilderness…God can and will do the impossible in my life and in your life.

Yeshua reiterates in Revelation 21.5, “And He who is seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.”  Yes, this scripture is talking about a new world but also giving us instruction in our lives.  We must read the word and see what it means and where it is leading us in our present state.  God led the Israelites out of Egypt, He led Abraham out of his rural home and most importantly God took Yeshua though death, resurrection and ascension.  If He did all these things He can do exceedingly more in our lives. All you have to do is ask!

 I know you are thinking that He is God and we are just people but there is always a path to take.  Remember that God is the way maker and if you are truly following Him, He will give you instruction just like He gave us the Ruach, the Holy Spirit, to guide us.  Here are some suggestions to speak to the Holy Spirit each day before you pray:

1 I trust You, Lord.

2 I need You, Holy Spirit.

3 Thank You Yeshua for giving us the Ruach.

4 Forgive me Abba.

5 Help me to obey You.

6 Speak to me Holy Spirit.

7 I will follow You.

8 I am Yours, Lord.

9 Let Your Will be done.

10 I believe in Your Power.

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Yours in Messiah Yeshua,

Shabbat Shalom

Jack & Ellen

Parashoit Beshalach - After He Had Let Go

 

From Rabbi Jack  1 Thessalonians {4:3} It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; {4:4} that each of you should learn to control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable, {4:3} not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God; {4:6} and that in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister. The Lord will punish all those who commit such sins, as we told you and warned you before. {4:7} For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. {4:8} Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject a human being but God, the very God who gives you His Holy Spirit. Paul is saying that marriage is superior to living together like the pagans were doing. The point of the passage is that there are consequences for abandoning this principle of being holy and honorable and the evidence today seems to bear this out. Parents who have chosen to live together instead of marrying have raised young adults who see living together or just having sexual encounters as a viable option to marriage. Couples today are suffering and our society is deteriorating because the sins the parents committed in having children out of wedlock and in living together instead of getting legally married before God and man, is being passed down to their children. So now the children are committing the same sin their parents committed. The parent’s sin is being visited upon their children, just like the Lord said. It is a spiritual demonic curse that parents have passed down to their children. But it does not only manifest itself in the children having sex before marriage or living together in fornication instead of marrying, but it also manifests itself in other ways; homosexuality, sexual perversion, drug addiction, psychological problems, low self-esteem, depression and the list goes on. Brother, sister, if you are not legally married to the person you call husband or wife, if you do not have that “legal marriage certificate,” do yourself, your children and your future generations the favor of getting it and get right with God.  Because right now you are a fornicator, no matter how long you have been together. You are living in sin and I do not think I need to tell you where that will get you!

Hi Ellen here… Jeremiah 29.11-12 says “For I know the thoughts I have toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me, and I will listen to you.”.  These verses spoke to me prior to my acceptance of Yeshua; they led me into my salvation and sanctification.  These verses have never left my heart and are always in my mind to this day, more than thirty years later. When we go on a mission trip, we pray for the Lord to lead us, guide us, give us supernatural discernment into all things and make our way a way of peace and righteousness.  We try our very best not to let our “basar”, Hebrew for flesh, to lead us.  We all know that our flesh and emotions can bring us into a place of doubt and even anger. The flesh serves the law of sin (Romans 7.25), brings corruption (Galatians 5.24), has its own wisdom (not the wisdom of God) (2 Corintians 1.12) and nothing good in it (Romans 7.18). The flesh brings disputes and dissensions, that is why the apostle Paul says to die daily!  We must die daily to our own desires and pray continually, “Lord Your will not ours!!!”.  As we prepared for our trips in the past and even now…we ask for divine insight concerning the message we are to bring to individuals and to groups. These messages are hopefully uplifting and encouraging and not pointing fingers at individuals. We know that sometimes a message is not always pleasant but God wants teaching and not coddling. Many of the individuals we encounter on our mission are not receiving of the message we bring, but that is alright because if it is God’s message then it is between them and God.  This is true many times but we remember to leave them in love and encouragement. If you are battling with our current situation then it is imperative that you seek God and ask if it is your flesh, the devil or godly chastisement.  Remember what Yeshua said… “if they hate Me then they will hate you as well (paraphrased)”.  It takes a long time in ministry to be able to discern the hate that sometimes comes against us, but being seasoned, not only in age but also in the Lord we walk away in love. I leave you all with this… “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” (Luke 23.24).

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Parsha Vayigash - And He Drew Near

From Rabbi Jack James {1:2} “My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, {1.3} knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. {1:4} But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.” Trials have a tremendous effect on our lives; they have the power to make us or break us depending on how we react to them, how we handle them and who we blame for them. Do you use escape tactics when trials come? Do you start to drink, smoke, binge eat or do you not deal with your trials by denying them? What did James say about trials? Did he say they work bitterness, anger, worry, depression? No! He said that “the testing of your faith produces patience.” Patience is being able to stand under the pressure of trials. Not only do trials build patience in our lives, but they also produce maturity. “But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect” Now, perfect does not mean flawless, it means mature, complete. God wants to develop maturity in your life so you will be more useful in His service and He often uses trails to do it. We cannot understand everything that God does in our life. Our thoughts are not His thoughts and our ways are not His ways. From our perspective the trials we go through can seem unreasonable, but God has a purpose in our trials and we have to view them from His perspective. In fact, He customizes our trials and troubles to suit what He wants to accomplish in your life. Through our various trials and troubles God is working to teach us obedience and to rely on Him and less on ourselves. He leads us into situations that develop our character. He gives us tears and sorrow to keep us tender, hurts to keep us compassionate, failures to keep us humble. God sees the big picture of what we need so as to grow us into the image of His Son. Regardless of why or when or how trials come, they are all designed to bring us into a closer love relationship with Him but only we can decide whether they will or not. When Job suffered the loss of all his material possessions, the loss of his children and even his health, his wife told him to curse God. Job did nothing wrong; he loved and served the Lord. Those trials could have made him bitter; they could have turned him away from God, but instead he gave God the glory and grew through the situation to become a better man.

From Ellen So many things going on in the world and in our lives.  As 2024 ended this past Tuesday we can sit quietly in retrospection.  Did we all repent and rededicate our lives on Chanukah?  Are we entering a new civil year with pure thoughts and abounding hope?  I think that when we see the meaning of this past Hebrew month of Kislev and enter into the new Hebrew month of Tevet, there is hope! I am not a Hebrew speaker but as I have shared in the past my nickname was “Calendar Girl” in our Toronto office.  Each time we approached a new Hebrew month I did a little research on the meaning of that month.  Kislev means purse of the heart…a time to examine what is in our hearts.  Only by this exercise could we have examined, repented, forgiven and rededicated our hearts to Yeshua.  It is for this very reason we play Marty Goetz’s song “Chanukah” each year…as he so eloquently sings “…I dedicate my life to You, Yeshua.” Now for the Hebrew month of Tevet.  Looking at the spelling of Tevet is what led me to write this brief presentation.  The first two letters in the word Tevet are “tet” and “vav” which also makes up the word tov.  We all know the meaning of tov… “GOOD!”  We are also starting our Bible reading plan again with the Book of Genesis where God saw that it was “tov-good” in chapter 1 verse 4.  This word Tevet tells us that the entire month will be filled with God’s goodness.  As we look back in recent times we can see many challenges in our lives and in this world that might bend our hearts to have a critical spirit instead of seeing “tov-good”. Let us thank (toda) God for His goodness and His grace that enables us to see goodness in our lives.  Remember the saying “God is good all of the time!”  Let us strive to be more like Yeshua this Tevet and see the good in all things.  We choose to be happy or sad.  We choose to be needy or content.  We choose to be angry or joyful.  I would say to you today, realize that the consequences we endure in this life is a direct result of our choices. Please prosper and spread the Good News of salvation this month more than you did last month. It is good to praise the Lord and rejoice in song and dance.  Put off your sackcloth and put on your garments of praise because our God is good all of the time! Love you all…

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Parsha Lech Lecha - Go You

From Rabbi Jack 1 Thessalonians {4:3-8}3) It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; 4) that each of you should learn to control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable, 5) not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God; 6) and that in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister. The Lord will punish all those who commit such sins, as we told you and warned you before. 7) For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. 8) Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject a human being but God, the very God who gives you His Holy Spirit. Paul is saying that marriage is superior to living together like the pagans were doing.  The point of the passage is that there are consequences for abandoning this principle of being holy and honorable and the evidence today seems to bear this out. Parents who have chosen to live together instead of marrying have raised young adults who see living together or just having sexual encounters as a viable option to marriage. Couples today are suffering and our society is deteriorating because the sins the parents committed in having children out of wedlock and in living together instead of getting legally married before God and man, is being passed down to their children. So now the children are committing the same sin their parents committed. The parent’s sin is being visited upon their children, just like the Lord said. It is a spiritual demonic curse that parents have passed down to their children. But it does not only manifest itself in the children having sex before marriage or living together in fornication instead of marrying, but it also manifests itself in other ways; homosexuality, sexual perversion, drug addiction, psychological problems, low self-esteem, depression and the list goes on. Brother, sister, if you are not legally married to the person you call husband or wife, if you do not have that “legal marriage certificate,” do yourself, your children and your future generations the favor of getting it and get right with God.  Because right now you are a fornicator, no matter how long you have been together. You are living in sin and I do not think I need to tell you where that will get you!

From Ellen I am sure the feeling I have is being experienced by many of you as well and when investigated I have identified it.  Control!  Control of what you say? Everything! As I ponder this predicament, I have come to realize how a baby must feel.  Babies must rely solely on the one caring for them.  They are hungry, they need to go to be changed or they may be just plain uncomfortable so they cry. They cry out for the caregiver to pay attention to them and fix whatever circumstance is occurring.  “Ahhh, thank you caring individual for feeding me, changing me and turning me to a right position…but do not leave me because at any moment I will need your attention again.”  Now transfer this as an adult.  If we are healthy and able to navigate on our own in the above-mentioned scenarios then why do we not feel better?  In life the Bible says do not be concerned with tomorrow because tomorrow will worry about itself (Matthew 6.25…).  Also, in Matthew 6.25 it says; do not be concerned about what you will eat or drink or what you will wear, look at the birds of the air, they do not sow or reap and yet our Heavenly Father feeds them…I am of course paraphrasing and if you take the time to read verses 25 and following you will find that worrying or concern will not add a single hour to your life.  We do not feel better because we cannot do anything without the Father.  As believers, true believers we cannot do anything without the help of our heavenly Father so this means to relinquish complete and total control to Him.  Sounds easy but as finite humans our first reaction to anything is to fix it.  When we fix things of our own power it is most likely akin to a band aid but when Father fixes things the circumstance is done, completed and over! Please heed to this warning…time is short and the state of the world is chaotic but remember Jeremiah 29.11-15 says God’s plans and purposes for your life are for a future and a hope and not of calamity.  We all need a caregiver and the best one is the Father in Heaven…so if you are not walking through this upside-down world with Him, it is time!  All you need to do is to relinquish control and receive Yeshua into your life as Lord and Savior and He will take care of the rest.  Love you all!

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Parsha Ha’Azinu (Give-Eat)

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Parsha Bamidbar (In the Wilderness)

From Rabbi Jack

John {13:21} “After He had said this, Yeshua was troubled in spirit and testified, “Very truly I tell you, one of you is going to betray Me.” {13:22} His disciples stared at one another, at a loss to know which of them he meant. {13:23} One of them, the disciple whom Yeshua loved, was reclining next to Him. {13:24} Simon Peter motioned to this disciple and said, “Ask Him which one He means.” {13:25} Leaning back against Yeshua, he asked Him, “Lord, who is it?” {13:26} Yeshua answered, “It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish.” Then, dipping the piece of bread, He gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. {13:27} As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him. So, Yeshua told him, “What you are about to do, do quickly.” {13:28} But no one at the meal understood why Yeshua said this to him. {13:29} Since Judas had charge of the money, some thought Yeshua was telling him to buy what was needed for the festival, or to give something to the poor.” These passages of Scripture were part of our Bible Reading Plan for June 3. Often, I have been asked how Yeshua and His disciples could be celebrating the Passover Seder if He was crucified on the Passover. In reading these scriptures this verse caught my attention: John {13:29} “Since Judas had charge of the money, some thought Yeshua was telling him to buy what was needed for the festival, or to give something to the poor.” A Passover tradition which has extended from biblical times until present day, is to give charity to the poor before Passover. Most often it is done by giving baskets containing food for the Passover Seder. What is interesting is that it was and still is done before Passover, not on the Passover. The second observation I made is that the disciples thought that Yeshua gave Judas money to buy what was needed for the Festival. Obviously, the Festival they were referring to was the upcoming Passover because they already had all they needed for the meal they were eating; Yeshua having instructed His disciples to make the necessary preparations to celebrate.  Luke {22:8} “Yeshua sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover.”  Without a doubt part of the preparation was the food. Considering that the disciples, during the meal with Yeshua, thought He was sending Judas out to buy food for the Passover, the meal they were celebrating could not have been the Passover Seder meal. Yes, it was the “Last Supper”, but it obviously was not the Passover Seder because the Passover and Yeshua’s crucifixion were the following day.

From Ellen

I write this in hope that we have all increased in our relationship with the God Most High and Mighty! I often write about sin.  Sadly, this subject is ever present in not only individuals but nationwide; no worldwide!  You have read and heard often that if we say we do not sin then we are liars…oops, yet another sin on top of our other sins. I am not without sin that is why I can recognize it. Another common sin that we all commit is calling others out about their sin when we know we have done the same at one time or another.   Mishlei (Proverbs), lists seven sins that God hates in the sixth chapter, verses 16 –19: “These 6 things the Lord hates, yes, seven are an abomination to Him: A proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift in running to do evil, a false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren.”  Ouch!  Although you and I have not committed all those listed intentionally, we still stand guilty of at least a few.  Have we repented?  Without repentance and swift repentance, at that, we are not forgiven.  I am not talking about the person that has been sinned against, although we need to apologize to them, but repenting to GOD!  So, think about it.  How many times a day, an hour, a minute or even a second do we think of lying, glance at someone with haughty look, wish someone was gone from your life so as not to have to deal with them, devising a plan that will trip someone up because they have exposed some sin in your life, run to join in on revealing the wickedness in others, said something terrible about someone that does not take your side, and whether right or not speak ill of fellow Believers, primarily to vindicate ourselves of our sin. One of the big things about sinning is that we have to remember the first time we sinned so we can keep face…you know what I mean, saying we could not keep a promise when we did not even remember the promise we originally made.  Life is confusing enough so why add sin to it. Here are some reasons… you may want to make yourself look better than the other person; you are envious of someone’s life; you were not chosen first; you exaggerate your situation to keep up with the next and so many more.  If you are reading this then try to keep count of how many times you sinned by just thinking about what was listed. I pray that you become strengthened in your faith in God and in yourself so sinning will not be prevalent in your life but repentance will.  BTW, I pray the same for my life in Yeshua!

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