well it's good uh to see all of you some
faces people who are away away for the
weekend at a youth camp teaching away uh
in different places people back from New
Jersey from New from New England from
traveling wonderful uh we're continuing
today uh in what will be a three-part
series today is the second one on uh
discernment really is the title uh from
Yeshua's temptations in the wilderness
in Matthew chapter 4 okay and uh the
title of the series is discernment
equals three things if you remember
first one is identity knowing who you
are in God and the second one is of
course the word the voice of God
understanding and discerning when is God
speaking and how and of course obeying
obeying that that word and then the
third thing is the supernatural
discerning what's happening in the
spirit in the spiritual realm in the
supernatural realm so we talked last
time about I'm just going to do a really
quick review like in a minute if you
remember out of the first
temptation Yeshua is finished 40 days of
fasting after he was baptized after he
heard the voice of the father say "This
is my son." 40 days are finished it's
time to eat he's hungry and he hears a
voice and you remember I said uh
that went on is that all right
Sh i'll just hold
on that's a good reminder to turn off
phones right uh and he we said that um
Yeshua was tempted and tested it's the
same word just like we are remember that
picture I showed you it's not like the
devil came to him in a red suit with
smoke coming out of his nose and talking
like the devil okay because that doesn't
require a great deal of discernment most
5-year-olds who have watched enough
cartoons can discern that that's the bad
guy okay he came he he I believe he came
the devil came to him just as he comes
to us which is through the spirit
through our soul into our mind okay so
that he heard a voice not like a radio
voice in his head but in his mind that
said if you're really the son of God
speak to this stone and turn it into
bread right and we remember the test
he's got to go through everything that
Israel and Moses went through 40 days in
the wilderness for him is equal to the
40 years of Israel in the wilderness um
he's going to go through tests just like
Moses did just like the people of Israel
did if you are the son of God this voice
is like you have to prove it remember we
talked about ego if you there's
something of the ego in there i've got
to prove who I am as the son of God wait
a minute i just heard 40 days before the
father said it i don't have to do
anything do I uh holy scripture we
talked about how Yeshua learned for 30
years and we don't he's just 30 years of
his life is we get one or two verses a
summary that's it he lived a normal life
no Harry Potter no magic no supernatural
moving things nothing just a good Jewish
boy sinless who learned the Torah and
the word of God and memorized the whole
thing so that when this time came the
Holy Spirit I see the Holy Spirit is
kind of like a browser you know it's
like your internet browser right there's
all this material out there and browser
just goes and finds it and puts it
together and connects things that's what
the Holy Spirit does but if you don't
have the scriptures if you haven't done
the work of filling up your datab bank
with the scriptures the Holy Spirit
doesn't have much to work with okay and
I told you my story how when I was first
my first year as a believer when I
didn't have much scripture because I
hadn't grown up with it and I didn't you
know I didn't uh learn it i had to have
a lot of supernatural communication from
God directly but then he said go and
learn the scriptures and things changed
okay so that's something else we learned
from that first uh first temptation uh
we learned about how waiting on God that
the speech of God is not most of the
time we don't hear God speaking we see
the result of his
speech when God God said let there be
light nobody was there to hear that and
he he had to tell Moses thousands of
years later on Mount Si that's how it
happened right but the proof that God
spoke is there was light right the proof
of God providing or speaking mana to the
people of Israel in this Passover season
when they're on their way out of Egypt
uh is nobody heard God say or nobody got
a word or Moses didn't have to command
the mana to come down from heaven god
apparently spoke and there it was a new
thing uh so we have to wait on God
learning to wait on God to change our s
praying waiting for God to change
circumstances and then he's that's how
he speaks most of the time um then we
learned about how also the the
supernatural Yeshua knew from his
reading of scripture and also from the
character of God that there's no
examples of people in the scriptures
doing supernatural things just for
themselves just for fun just to prove it
just cuz they're hungry that all of
Yeshua's signs to feed people were all
in ser in ministry signs that he gave to
help others okay um so we learn we just
we're going through process of
discernment just like he does and it's
all about God testing what's in our
heart and that's where Yeshua finishes
with Deuteronomy 8:3 remember he humbled
you and let you be hungry and fed you
with mana which you did not know nor did
your fathers know this is a new stage in
in history at the Exodus okay and at new
stages in history God does supernatural
things but he does them right um that he
might make you understand that man does
not live by bread alone but man lives by
everything that proceeds out of the
mouth of the Lord and Yeshua's
conclusion
was if God wants to provide supernatural
food for me he would do that and speak
it
i don't see it it hasn't happened god
has not spoken i'm going to walk a few
kilometers into the nearest village i'm
hungry i finish my fast i'll ask for
some bread i'll
say I'll pray and thank God for the
miraculous bread that we eat every day
and I'll be a normal human being okay
that's last time now with that
background okay we come to the second
temptation and this is where it gets
really I mean this was I mean he's
tested at a level that none of us are
ever going to be tested okay at that
level there's similarities but this is
really
nasty and clever what the devil does by
the way remember we talked about this
last time we know from the beginning the
first verse of chapter 4 Matthew tells
us that it's the devil okay we know but
the whole point of the testing is that
Yeshua doesn't know at the beginning
he's in a process of discernment as the
son of God as our high priest he has to
go through everything that we that we go
through uh so here we are the next
temptation the second one that's what
the focus of today's message is is going
to be verses 5-7
then the devil took him there again we
know the devil took
him into the holy city and had him stand
on the pinnacle of the temple yeshua
said to him "Oh I'm sorry i I chopped
off that in my copy paste." And he hears
the v the in his mind the verses quoted
from Psalm 91 11 and
12 cast yourself down the angels will
gather you in their hand they'll save
you okay jesus said to him "On the other
hand it is written you shall not put the
Lord God your God to the
test."
Wow we don't know exactly what happened
but remember Yeshua is somewhere down
there towards Jericho he's pretty far
from Jerusalem he's in the Judean
wilderness okay suddenly he's at the top
of the temple right over there
we're not told was that a total physical
experience was it in the spirit in other
words it could have been that his body
was still down there near Jericho but he
was but it whatever it is it's
real it's a real test by the way I
checked according to most researchers
the second temple the height the
pinnacle was about 50 m which is about
17 stories 16 17 stories so when you
look out the window here that's about
the height yeah of the very top of the
temple and you can see down you can see
people it's not like people are little
ants you can see the people and if they
looked up they could see him okay but
it's a height that if you jump and you
know nothing miraculous happens splat
that's it you can call you're you're
going straight to wherever
um so that's where he is well this must
mean that God has spoken cuz it happened
right didn't I say that from the
previous
temptation if if if it happens and it's
super then then God has spoken
right maybe maybe not okay he's really
there he can feel the wind he can hear
the voices down there
and he that same place that same thought
comes to him and says
jump test God okay because it's
written the devil knows the
scriptures oh that's tricky he's been
around a long time he reads them i don't
know in what language Hebrew Greek
Chinese whatever but he can quote them
apparently and use them and mi and
misuse them all right that's what we'll
see so this is a big test right okay you
you say you're not you live only by the
word of God okay only by what God really
does here I'll give you a
supernatural there we are in Jerusalem
the Yeshua knew if he's the
Messiah his ultimate destiny is
Jerusalem the temple and supernatural
things are going to happen there all
right this is really a big test okay as
we last time we went through said okay
as Yeshua would knows the scripture the
Holy Spirit helping him he saw what
Moses did at MBA with the rock and he
instead of speaking to it he whacked at
him in the book of Numbers and he got
angry we talked about Elijah and the
ravens you remember uh supplying him
with supernatural food bread and and
meat morning and evening things that
happened supernaturally by way of
provision that neither Moses or Elijah
had to command to happen god did it
right we think okay if the Holy Spirit
is helping Yeshua go through the spir
sort of the the Tanakh the Old Testament
to tell okay what about this what about
is there any precedent for
people testing God in this way and the
answer I couldn't find anything i mean
people I don't know Moses tried to jump
off Mount Si or something i don't think
I you know people doing really dangerous
things intentionally and then expecting
God to just send the angels and save
them no I don't i mean it's it's hard to
kind of find a reference for that that's
part that's one thing is you this is
not this is not biblical this is not
what Moses did this is not what Elijah
did this is not what David did okay and
he then he answers with this verse from
Deuteronomy 6 and I want us to go there
if you have the Bible remember we've
talked so much also when I was teaching
Romans 9:101 about when the when there's
these quotes in the New Testament it's
just one verse you got to go back to the
original context and start reading and
you'll find oh this is referencing not
just that one verse but a bunch of other
things so if you go to Deuteronomy 6
okay which of course is also the Shama
and this is after the Shama um
Deuteronomy
6:10 I'll
start then it shall come about when the
Lord your God brings you into the land
which he swore to your fathers Abraham
Isaac and Jacob to give you great and
splendid cities which you did not build
and houses full of all good things which
you did not fill and hume sistns which
you did not dig vineard vineyards and
olive trees which you did not plant and
you eat and are
satisfied then watch yourself that you
do not forget the Lord who brought you
from the land of Egypt out of the house
of slavery you shall fear only the Lord
your God Yhovah your God and you shall
worship him and swear by his name you
shall not follow other gods any of the
gods of the peoples who surround you for
the Lord your God in the midst you in
the midst of you is a jealous God
otherwise the anger of the Lord your God
will be kindled kindled against you and
he will wipe you off the face of the
earth you shall not put the Lord your
God to the test that's what Yeshua
quotes okay as you tested him at
Masa masa okay you should diligently
keep the commandments etc etc this is
referencing the similar event not the
one in Numbers but the first one in
Exodus 17 when the people complained
bitterly to Moses about the lack of
water they were really really thirsty
and they said "What did you bring us out
here to die in the wilderness?" Okay and
Moses and Aaron cry out to God this time
all right and he says "Take your staff
and go." And he the Lord says "I will
stand on the rock of of Horeb and water
will come from the rock." Okay and it
does and the people are
uh their thirst is quenched okay and
they're happy this is the test and now
this is really different than being at
the top of the temple and thinking of
jumping off okay
but the people think about it was just
the lack of faith god brought us out of
Egypt remember all the signs and wonders
the parting of the Red Sea you read in
Deuteronomy 6 he's promising us the
promised land he's going to take us in
there we're going to have victory we're
going to take over the land people have
prepared it for us miraculous things are
going to happen we're going to have a
great life just believe just keep on
going he's not going to let us die of
thirst that doesn't make sense right so
but they tested God because of their
lack of faith and that's what Yeshua
quotes okay now think we'll think about
that we'll talk about it a little bit
more as uh we go on but that was the the
test of the people of Israel which they
failed and now Yeshua is being tested
and he's going to pass and he's going to
pass with flying colors as we say
because he knows or we don't know how
much he knew exactly at this point
because you see a development in the
gospels of Yeshua starting to announce
what is going to happen at the end his
crucifixion and his
resurrection okay
yeshua is going to go he's going he's
not testing God he's obeying God but
he's going to do something far more
miraculous than a few angels catching
you falling off a building and that's
that's pretty good what is Yeshua going
to
do what is he going to
do three years later he's going to die
he's going to allow himself to be killed
listen to this this is Matthew
27:39 yeshua on the cross and you'll
hear some similar language from the
temptations in the wilderness at that
time two rebels were being crucified
with him one on the right hand and one
on the left
and those passing by were speaking
abusively to him shaking their heads and
saying "You who are going to destroy the
temple and rebuild it in 3 days save
yourself if you are the son of
God." Have we heard that
before come down from the
cross do something
miraculous in the same way the chief
priests also along with the scribes and
elders were mocking him and saying "He
saved others he can't save
himself he's the king of Israel you're
the king of is if you're the king of
Israel come down from the cross and then
we'll believe in you he's trusted in God
let God rescue him." Now if he takes
pleasure in him they're quoting
scripture for he said "I am the son of
God." And the rebels who had been
crucified with him were also insulting
him in the same way think about
it yeshua who know he in his spirit he
knew this was coming so he's
saying Jerusalem the temple yeah that's
my destiny to to to destroy the temple
and start a whole new temple in my body
my resurrected body after three days but
it's not going to be like this it's not
going to be by jumping off and the
angels saving me and a few may How many
people are going to notice down there
maybe they'll notice maybe they don't no
no no no there's no quickies here we're
going into the land there's an
inheritance it's going to take some time
there's a process i've got to walk it
out and let God don't get ahead of God
let the Father do it he's going to do
some new things just like he did the
time of Mount Si the Exodus the mana
i don't have to work it up i don't have
to do anything
crazy sorry no thanks all right let's um
just look at some of the lessons okay
that we can learn for our own
discernment our own process of
discernment that we learned from this
incident from this second temptation the
first one is not all that glitters is
gold we've all heard that and not
everything supernatural is from God
ah 2 Thessalonians 2 uh verse 10 then
the law or is it it says 8-10 but it's
one verse i'm not sure which one it is
uh no it's 8 then that lawless one will
be revealed whom the Lord will slay with
the breath of his mouth and bring to an
end by the appearance of his coming that
is the one whose coming is in accord
with the activity of Satan with all
power and signs and false
wonders it's interesting he's going to
have power especially as we get towards
the end there's going to be signs and
false wonder what's a false wonder i'm
not sure does that mean it actually
happens but it's it's Satan did it and
so you got to be careful or it's a trick
it's not really happening but it's like
smoke and mirrors i don't
know but he's going to have power to
deceive a lot of people by supernatural
or things that look supernatural and we
have to be able to discern that that's
not God um then
um 2 Corinthians 11:14 "No wonder for
even Satan disguises himself as an angel
of light." Angels angels we'll talk
about that in a little bit okay we've we
are not Satan can remember he doesn't
come to us with those like with the
pitchfork and the red suit okay that's
not that's too easy to discern he comes
to us as an angel of light power signs
and wonders he can quote scriptures all
kinds of things um you know I've when I
talk about this um I've noticed over the
years that a lot of where people get
mixed up with the prophetic which is a
supernatural thing uh and especially
people who are coming from a less
charismatic background who aren't used
to it and then they go to some meeting
where there's a prophet or a prophetic
person maybe it's their first time and
the person points them out and says
Um I s I see you when you were 5 years
old and you and your family got in that
car accident right and you
go right that's like supernatural
knowledge the person doesn't know
anything about me and they're pointing
out something that's true right when I
was 5 years old I'm not me just saying
for example I was there this car
accident it was a traumatic thing in our
family and d
um and people then
assume because that's a
supernatural knowledge that then God
must be speaking and whatever the person
is going to say next to you must also be
from
God i've seen a lot of people get messed
up this way in the prophetic because
guess what um people you know there are
uh I've spent a lot of time in the Far
East uh there's a long traditions there
of palm reading and uh tarot card
reading and all kinds of other you know
soothsayers and people we here even at
our house in downtown Jerusalem right
across our the alley is a yeshiva
synagogue and there's a a rabbi Rabbi
Brener who teaches there um regularly
and people come from all over Israel and
he reads their palms he reads their
palms and prophesies and some people
believe that he has healing powers and
they go what okay um you know now those
people and the ones who who are really
good at it and makes make big money you
find them on the internet horoscopes and
all kinds of do you think it's all
fake a lot of Christians think "Oh it's
all fake cuz it's demons it's not God."
No that people with a little intuition a
little prophetic sort of knowledge can
read sometimes what's happening in the
soul realm that's how I understand it
all right especially if this is why in a
lot of houses of prayer and prophetic
places that one of the things they say
is when you people come you don't know
them no prophesying about or no words of
knowledge about with women especially
about having children or about marriage
with men as single men and women why
because the people who have a woman who
is wanting for years can't get pregnant
can't have a child there's a deep deep
soul cry the prayer that's been going on
all for for years in that woman's soul
like Hana okay and if you're just a
little you don't need a lot of training
okay you can be intrigued believer
unbeliever you can pick you can you can
sense that okay so uh we have to be
careful okay about how what what kind of
what we do with when people have that
kind of knowledge about us so they see
something it can be a prophetic word
from God it can how do we know we have
to discern it you have to listen to it
record it write it down um I Uh I always
when I teach on this on on the prophetic
maybe the most important scripture in
all of of the New Testament is
Revelation 19:10
uh where John has there's this huge
angel who's been showing him incredible
things and then it says I John fell at
his feet to worship him and he said to
me don't do that I'm a fellow servant of
yours and your brethren who hold the
testimony of Jesus worship God for the
testimony of Jesus is The spirit of
prophecy that means that whatever
prophetic word or insight someone brings
to you if it if what they do with it the
application of it I saw this I see your
accident age five and the trauma it went
through and they start preaching healing
in Jesus's name according to the
testimony of the
gospel of who Jesus is what he did what
he's doing what he does for us in our
lives according to the word of God then
it's kosher then it's from God okay
that's how you judge it if what they
that prophetic knowledge comes or or
that prophetic insight and then what
they do with it
is something speaks something that maybe
is bringing some comfort to you but it's
not according to the testimony of Yeshua
meaning it's a kind of comfort that says
you don't have to
suffer that's not the testimony of
Yeshua
yeshua had to go to the cross we have to
take up our cross we have to deny
ourselves this is the problem with the
what we call the prosperity gospel you
know what I'm talking about where a lot
of the messages God did he did it all
now you can just enjoy enjoy enjoy enjoy
all the blessings without any
suffering that's not the testimony of
Yeshua that's not a proper spirit a
prophetic spirit you know what I'm
talking about okay so that's just one of
the one of the examples you think of
where there can be something that is
supernatural
and that's okay someone sees something
but what the application what the the
message is is something you have to
discern and be careful of okay that's
the first lesson the second one is
Jerusalem
syndrome remember Yeshua knows he he's
grow he's read the scriptures 40 days
before he's declared the son of God he
hears that he knows as the Messiah he's
going to be doing things for a few years
he maybe doesn't know exactly how long
but it's all going to end up here in
Jerusalem and at or near the temple okay
it has to because Jerusalem is Jerusalem
it's Zion the promises of God there's so
much in scripture and we love preaching
about it and sharing about it here we
are in Jerusalem high up over Jerusalem
and we will share that with the world
but you know there's there's a flip side
it can also be a little bit dangerous it
can be like a drug actually in Zechariah
it says in the end of days he will make
Jerusalem a cup of trembling like a drug
to the nations okay a rock of rock of
stumbling as well
um that uh you know here in Jerusalem
we've got to be careful uh cuz it can it
can do some weird things have you ever
heard there's actually a
semi-csychotic experience that they call
Jerusalem syndrome it's on the
psychological books i did a little
research on it it was kind of
interesting there's the people who come
who already have been diagnosed with
some kind of
psychotic thing and then they just it
kind of gets worse that's we're not
talking about that we're talking about
regular normal people they said about
it's like 50/50 between Jews and non-
messianic Jews and Christians um who
come here usually as part of a group
okay and they actually who we have tour
guide here too you've been to tour guide
school did they teach you about it it
was saying that they made Yeah they make
sure the tour guides know what to look
for okay because the same it's like
clockwork it's the same thing happens
yeah it's a guest that's okay um is a
person they're in a group and the person
starts to get a little anxious a little
start to act a little differently and
then they want to go separate they want
to go I've got to go pray i've got to go
do my thing right that's the first sign
okay I I need to the group's going I I
have to do something else right and then
it h then they the people become uh kind
of obsessed with purity and cleanliness
they start cutting their nails and
washing and showering all the time and
then they take the bed sheets from their
hotel and they make some kind of white
robe and again nobody's it's not like
they're watching it on YouTube and you
know someone you know oh this is how you
do it it's been happening for years few
people I don't know how many every year
right and they get and then they begin
to have delusions that they're a
biblical character right john the
Baptist Virgin Mary is a big one you
know my son
Jesus and it usually happens to single
it was interesting said 90 something%
it's single men or women i used to think
it was mostly women but actually the
stat says no it's evenly divided
um by the way you know it's interesting
it happens mostly to single single
people you know in kidic Judaism they
have a kind of rule that is you're not
allowed to study Cabala which is
mystical Judaism until you're married
and have one kid at least one kid then
of course they have 10 more right but
you know the the thinking is if you're
you know you've got to be rooted
something about marriage family children
keeps you rooted in this world before
you go and start studying the mystical
charismatic stuff right uh so anyway
that's what happened Jerusalem syndrome
and then the people begin to have these
weird experiences and usually it's
pretty they you know they take them away
they don't
there's a psychiatric hospital here for
a day just give them a little tranquil
little drug and they send them home and
they're fine and they come out of it
they're not it's not like a but it
happens now I'm not suggesting that's
happening to any of them but we have to
be careful in the end you know as things
go on and here in our group people we
have all kinds of people who come here
you You know and I just say the people
out there if you're thinking of coming
to Jerusalem if you're alone and as this
is especially if you're alone and some
God is telling me to go and intercede it
may be but make sure you've got a group
your pastors leader people are blessing
you people are praying for you don't
come alone you know come with a group
cuz this is the universal center of
spiritual warfare here and weird things
can happen and we don't want them to
happen to happen to anybody but there's
a good Jerusalem syndrome and that is
we're here we believe in God's promises
to Zion in Jerusalem and we're doing
everything we can to hasten his coming
right over there to the Mount of Olives
hallelujah and he's going to be in
dressed in white whiter than the bed
sheets of any hotel hallelujah all right
shining like the sun
amen um that's the the second one the
third lesson here from this this
temptation is rightly understanding the
word of God in context
now if anybody's been to seminary in
these modern times you learn that
historical grammatical contextual
interpretation of scripture in other
words you have to understand scripture
in its original context as best we can
the languages the culture the
archaeology all that kind of stuff
okay it's not something new it's what
Yeshua did right here with Psalm 91 or
what the Holy Spirit helped him to do
with Psalm 91 okay so let's look at the
kind remember Psalm 91 11 and 12 that
the devil quotes to him in his mind that
you know just the angels are going to
catch you okay and he quotes accurately
the
scripture here are the first two verses
of Psalm 91 when by the way in Hebrew in
those times they didn't have numbers on
the on the Bible there were no chapter
verse numbers they recognized the Psalms
by usually by their first line okay that
was like the title and so they would say
"Hey go to go to they wouldn't say go to
Psalm 91 they'd say go to
Beton." Okay that's the the first line
the first words in Hebrew all right
the one who
sits dwells in the secret place or the
secret of Eljon of the
highest and abides in his in Elshai's
shadow and the one who says to
Jehovah this is verse two my stronghold
my fortress
Elohai my God I trust in him
all right that's the beginning of the
psalm hose the one who's seated and
abiding in the secret place of God you
know this whole thing about sitting
Yeshua where is he
today he's sitting down where at this
throne at the right hand of the father
in this the huge black hole in the
center of the universe that's what I
believe right we don't we have the
address by
prayer and he's bringing that throne
here the tabernacle of God will be with
men the new Jerusalem okay so he's there
he's sitting he's not standing what does
that
mean he's resting it's
done he's remember how confident he was
remember this is all about
identity if you're the son of God yeah
I'm the son of God
i'm going to be seated at the right hand
of the father
okay the one who sits in the secret
place of the most high the one who is so
confident of his relationship with God
of his sunship of the adoption who's
seated that's how this starts for that
person for us as we stay in that place
of being children of God of grace not
needing to prove anything remember not
getting our ego involved then you read
the rest of Psalm 91 there's all kinds
of wonderful promises what he's going to
how he's going to save you and protect
you jumping off the top of the temple to
prove that God is going to save you come
on that's not that's not what this psalm
is about that's not the context of the
psalm who wrote this he wasn't writing
promises that you could just sort of
pull here and there and proof text and
put them on they go "Oh now here it says
I can just jump off and the angels are
going to catch
me." That's not how you read the
scripture
okay
um 2 Timothy 2:14 and 15 Paul says to
Timothy "Remind them of these things and
solemnly charge them in the presence of
God not to wrangle about words which is
useless and leads to the ruin of the
hearers be diligent to present yourself
approved to God as a workman who does
not need to be ashamed accurately
handling the word of
truth brothers and sisters we have to
study and it's not just proof text you
know what proof texting is you get an
idea and you take one verse and you say
sometimes that works sometimes you may
be taking the verse out of context and
making it say something that it's not
really saying he said people who wrangle
about words you know people get all
mixed up sometimes about the uh well the
Greek says this and the way and we need
to study that stuff and sometimes you
can miss what do they say miss the
forest for the trees you get focused on
details and words and you miss the whole
context of what the scripture is trying
to tell us that's what the devil was
trying to do to Yeshua he says "Okay we
want to talk about the word of God here
but I don't think Satan can properly
accurately quote the word of God he can
only lie." Okay but he can use the
scriptures and so we have to know and
understand that's why we study theology
what's the relationship between the old
and new and law and grace and the
gospels and the letters and all these
things okay we need to study we need to
know how to accurately handle and divide
the word of God so that we don't so that
the voices or whatever will not will not
deceive us the last thing the lesson
that I learned from this one I call it
the gospel over the
angels you know in the second temple
period there was a lot of stuff about
angels and there's all kinds of other
extra biblical Jewish literature about
all kinds of angelic stuff there was a
lot of angelic activity and people and
Jewish people there were people who were
connecting with different angels and all
kinds of stuff and prayers to angels we
have one that's left over it's been left
with us for kabala Shabbat for Friday
night in Jewish tradition
shalom we sing this song which is the at
the beginning of Shabbat dinner or the
service in the synagogue where you're
welcoming it says we welcome the angels
to come mah who make peace right the
angels of the most high we say come stay
and then we say go okay we sing that I
in our house sometimes but I also have
to be a little careful with it okay
because we don't talk to angels we don't
need to they're there we don't need to
command them there's nothing in the New
Testament that tells you to command
angels right why because we we have
direct access to the King of Kings and
the Lord of Lords who sits at the right
hand of the throne he's the one he he
does he'll send the angels to do stuff
that we don't have to know about or see
some people have a gift or sing okay
um at the end of the third temptation in
verse 11 Matthew chapter 4 it says "The
devil left him and behold the angels
came and began to minister to him."
Yeshua didn't invite them he didn't look
for them god sent them to minister to
him the son of man this is the other
thing people back in the second temple
they kind of worship the angels like
we're below the angels like they're
higher than us no psalm 8 he made us
temporarily it looks like we're made a
little lower than the angels but
actually because a son of because a man
is the son of God and we're human beings
we are higher than the angels it says in
the Corinthians that in the age to come
we are going to judge angels right so we
don't need to get mixed up trying to get
angels to you know that like they're
high like John when he saw in in
Revelation 19 he worships the angel the
angel says "No no no don't do that we're
just servants like you
guys." Um says Revelation 19 uh in
Hebrews 1:14 this is a verse I always
read or declare at the end of Shalom
after we sing that on on Friday night at
Shabbat are they not all ministering
spirits talking about the angels sent
out to render service for the sake of
those who will inherit salvation that's
us god made the angels to serve us not
the other way around all right
um let's end with this i'm going to read
from 1 Corinthians 2
uh
6-10 and just keeping in mind what
Yeshua knew again we don't know how much
he knew at this stage but his knowledge
grew that he had to obey God and he was
going to obey God in Jerusalem he was
going to do things at the temple and he
was going to be
crucified the king of Israel crucified
the ultimate obedience the ultimate test
if you will of God okay a human being is
dead in three days he can't there's no
formulas there's no prayers there's
nothing he can do you're dead and he's
saying "I I trust God i trust God i will
follow him unto death even the death of
the cross." And God raised him from the
dead among the mature however we speak a
message of wisdom but not the wisdom of
this age or of the rulers of this age
who are coming to nothing no we speak of
the mysterious and hidden wisdom of God
which he destined for our our glory
before time began none of the rulers of
this age understood
it if they had they would not have
crucified the Lord of glory rather as it
is written no eye has seen nor ear has
heard nor heart has imagined what God
has prepared for those who love him but
God has revealed it revealed it to us by
his spirit in other words Satan there in
the wilderness he's trying to tempt
Jesus he's trying to get Jesus to sin
he's trying to bring Jesus
down he
thought that when he crucified that was
it he didn't this was a
secret god had kept this secret satan
didn't know about it it's in the
scriptures but it's hidden right
and then when Yeshua rose from the dead
after he descended into hell Satan said
"Uhoh he won he won we didn't see it
coming."
Hallelujah so let's pray
lord it says in first Peter that the
prophets of old
searched by the Holy Spirit the time and
to know about your suffering and what
what the Messiah would do and it says
that they did these things by the Holy
Spirit things which the
angels want or long to see
into the mystery of the gospel this
hidden wisdom and Lord we thank you that
we have it that Yeshua knew it and he is
the author and finisher of our faith and
he was
obedient even unto death a terrible
death when they mocked him and and and
screamed at him just like Satan if
you're the son of God if you're the king
of show us something prove
it come down from the cross he said "No
I know what I'm doing i'm going to obey
God until the end." Lord help us to be
such people who do not love our lives
even unto death who have the blood of
the lamb and the word of our testimony
which is how we also overcome him
and we thank you that we can trust Lord
help us to be discerning people Lord in
these times to be first and foremost so
confident because of the word of God
because of the deep dwelling indwelling
presence of the Holy Spirit that we're
so confident in who we are as children
of God that we don't need to prove
anything and our ego is not and ego is
not involved in discerning your will
help us to study your word and to go
deeper and deeper thank you for Yeshua
the pioneer the author and finisher who
has just gone before us and was tested
at such a level Lord that none of us
could have survived but he did and by
his grace and by his spirit in us we can
overcome as well bishm Yeshua amen