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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! |
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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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From the Rabbi's Desk - Weekly Torah portions by Rabbi Jack (Ya'acov) Farber.
Saturday, November 9, 2024
Parsha Lech Lecha - Go You
Sunday, October 6, 2024
Parsha Ha’Azinu (Give-Eat)
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Sunday, June 9, 2024
Parsha Bamidbar (In the Wilderness)
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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.” |
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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. 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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Sunday, May 12, 2024
Parasha Kedoshim
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Isaiah {28:9} “Whom shall He teach knowledge? and whom shall He make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. {28:10} For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:” If you are coming to a congregation week after week, service after service, listening to the sermons but it is having no effect on your life and you are not changing or growing, then you are just like Israel during Isaiah’s time. You are not willing to learn, hear, listen or change your life to be more like Yeshua. So why are you attending? If the sermons and teachings are not affecting change in you for the better, then you might just as well get one of the kids out of nursery and let them stand and preach to you. You would get just as much out of what they had to say as you are out of what God has to say. That is what God was saying about Israel and I believe He is still saying the same thing to some of us today. “Line upon line,” God repeats His message over and over again in the simplest way possible, trying all the while to take us deeper into His will. He does not teach us the deeper things of the Spirit until we have understood and practiced the simple things of His Word and consider this basic teaching as something wonderful. He teaches people who love to hear about God’s love, mercy and grace. Those that listen, learn and hear He moves into the deeper things of His Word. There is always something deeper for us to learn and one of those deeper things is learning more about living in victory! We also need to learn more about God’s will and how to walk in it! We need to learn more about faithfulness, spiritual discernment and waging spiritual warfare! We do it by building on the basics we have already learned; we have to grow! Self-righteousness just will not measure up! Good works are not good enough! Just learning the basics and then playing around in the world will not measure up either! We have to grow in Messiah and do all that we can to measure up to God’s standard, to God’s Word and learn to be like Messiah Yeshua. Our life has to produce the fruit and the works that come from a heart of true repentance. Works of righteousness and a life that is fully committed to Yeshua is a requirement, not a suggestion. You can either stay stuck as a beginner and face the judgment of God and His wrath for your disobedience, or you can grow to maturity in the Messiah. The choice is yours! |
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1 Samuel {16:7} “But Adonai said to Samuel, “Do not pay attention to
how he looks or how tall he is, because I have rejected him. Adonai does not
see the way humans see – humans look at the outward appearance, but Adonai
looks at the heart.” Remember, when Saul was chosen to be king he was a head taller than everyone else and very handsome, Although he looked good, he did not do the job according to God’s standards. Saul was a man for himself, not a man for God. Saul was prideful, greedy and self-absorbed tyrant and only thought of himself. When we enter into the service of God all these “traits” that I just mentioned should have been repented of and delivered of as well. Being in ministry for God and always coming to Yeshua first in everything is the only path to take. Keep in mind there are no wide paths to accomplishing the will of God, only very narrow ones and Saul was on a wide path but God knew David was His man. Paul said he must die daily and we should as well. There is a very sad situation in ministry that we have seen throughout the years and that is putting self-absorption and self-interest before God’s interest…remember what the Word says: ‘Seek the kingdom of God first and all things will be added unto you.’ Are you seeking the Kingdom of God in your life? Are you seeking God first in the ministry God has entrusted to you? Do you want to look good on the outside for all to see? Be careful, we become what we worship. Is it better to look good and lack the anointing or to be true to yourself and receive the anointing equal to the challenge? These are all simple and really everyday questions. You do not have to be the rabbi or the worship leader…maybe you are ministering at home to an unsaved family or neighbor. Maybe the Lord Yeshua has placed you in a job among pagans and idol worshipers or maybe you are alone. The Holy Spirit sees and knows all. A Word of warning…this world is speedily spiraling downward into Hell. As I write this last sentence it was like the flushing of a toilet. So again, I will ask a really simple everyday question…are you worshiping God or yourself? Before your next “flush” take a long good look in the mirror and seek Yeshua for the answer. Your Abba in heaven has all the answers. |
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