Hallelujah. We're recording. Hallelujah.
All right. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. There we go.
There we go. There we go. Y'all need to see everybody. You want to see everybody?
All right, let's see everybody. Hallelujah. I don't know if they can see you, but we can see them. Hallelujah. All right.
So we want to just continue in the lesson. Last week, we talked about the water of Torah and the water of the Mashiach. Y'all remember that? All right.
Hallelujah. So now we're gradually moving along. Got to see my screen, so I got to move you guys along a little bit.
All right. From chaos to covenant. From chaos to covenant. And this is the process of Teshuvah.
So I believe some of the mores, when we talk and conversate, they're like, Morey, Rick, you say Teshuvah a whole lot. And I can't help it. It's like when I turn in my scripts, I see it on every page. So we've got to talk about what happens in the process of chaos to covenant.
Chaos to covenant, all right? All right. In the previous lesson, we discovered the beauty of Torah and Mashiach that's contained within the simple element of water. Water cleanses us, strengthens us, and gives nourishment.
It is the perfect metaphor for Torah and its purest manifestation, Yahushua HaMashiach. In today's lesson, we will uncover the process of going from chaos to covenant that's revealed in two similar Hebrew words. Turn, O backsliding children, say if you will, for I am married unto you, and I will take you one of a city and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion. Jeremiah 3, 14. I hope y'all got y'all seatbelts fastened and your tray tables in the upright and locked positions because we've got to go deep into this.
All right. The journey to covenant. Going to covenant is a journey.
It's not an easy process. Look, the awakening will make you miserable before it makes you free. It's going to make you mad.
It's going to make you upset. You might feel like cussing some people out. But let me tell you, when you've got the rule, that's not the best like you ought to have it.
It's gold. It's a journey. It's a journey.
It's going to take you back the way you came from. You're going to be exposed to some of the things you're supposed to be came out of. Watch, if you was a drinker, you're going to be exposed to alcoholics. If you was a smoker, you're going to be exposed to people who smoke.
If you was around drug addicts, you're going to be tempted with drugs. Do you understand? It's a journey to covenant because those things are in the way to keep you from that. The enemy don't want you to come into covenant with the Most High. He don't want that.
Can I drive into the driveway? That's why that fine woman on your job keeps winking and blinking at you. That's why that handsome man, that ghost, that's your mom or sister is on your job. It always comes by and leans at your cubicle because it's there to get you off track. The journey to covenant is a process.
We got to talk about the journey. We got to talk about the things that you are going to deal with. And we got to deal with it from an avenue that is possible that you may have never looked at before.
All right, let's get to it. What is covenant? It's important.
A lot of times when we talk to people about the laws and we're saying, you got to keep the laws, you got to keep the law. Look, all that's fine. But those are the principles or conditions of the covenant. But you have to understand the covenant itself. If you don't understand the covenant, these laws don't mean nothing.
What Yahushua did on the stake don't mean nothing if you don't understand covenant. In order to understand the journey to covenant, we first must know what a covenant is. The Hebrew word for covenant is berith, which comes from the root bar, which means family of heads. The bait and the rest together speak to wheat, as in barley or barn, grains. Also in Aramaic, the word bar means son, as in bar mitzvah, son of the commandment.
A covenant is instituted through a sacrifice of a choice fatted animal, which is cut into two and the parties pass between the pieces. If one party fails to meet the agreements of the covenant, the other may do the same to them. Keep that in mind, because you all should know that our ancestors could not and did not and oftentimes failed to keep the covenant. So if it was up to the most high, wait, let me make sure, are y'all tuned on YouTube and Zoom listening? If it was up to the most high, he could have cut us off.
Woo! See, we gotta get to the root of the issue. Mm. Woo.
We gotta get to the root of it, because sometimes some of us think, oh yeah, because I'm Israel, I'm Israel. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Understand, our ancestors broke the covenant. They broke it. When Moshe broke the stone tablets, that was symbolic.
Why? Because when he first got the stone tablets, those tablets were so high and holy and set apart. There is no way. Look, he understood. Wait a minute.
They too far away. If I'm away from them for just a little bit, they want to go and sin. They just love sin.
They just love iniquity. They just love to lust. They just love, can I talk about, they just love the fornicants. See, you do understand adultery and idol worship is the same thing.
Whenever you put something before the one you are in covenant with, that is adultery, idol worship. All right, let's go, let's go. I gotta go deep, I gotta go, I can't stay, I can't stay on 38th Street.
I gotta get the, all right, let's go. All right, you have to understand the six covenants. The six covenants.
They are Edenic, Noatic, Abrahamic, Sinatic, the covenant that was made at Sinai, Davidic, and the last covenant, the repaired or renewed covenant. The six covenants. Interestingly enough, who was made on the sixth day?
Man, Adam. See how deep it goes? You can't find how deep the rabbit hole goes if you're stuck in Wonderland with Alice. You gotta go deeper into it.
Alright. And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins. And half the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
And he took the book of the covenant and read in the audience of the people. And they said, all that Yahuwah has said, we will do and be obedient. Exodus 24, 6-7.
Now, verse number 8 says this. Moshe took the blood and dashed it on the people and said, this is the blood of the covenant that Yahuwah now makes with you concerning all these commands. They're in it now. Why?
Because they said all that you said we would do in B.O.B. We're going to be compliant. All right. They said I do. Now, now, the hoopla, one of the hidden gems of the covenant is the fact that it's understood as a marriage. Unlike Western marriages, in a Hebraic marriage, there's what is called a ketubah.
A ketubah is a marriage contract between the husband and wife. or covenant it's a covenant right uh it expounds on expectations from both parties and protects the wife sisters uh the covenant was that was made on mount sinai was a picture of a ketubah in a hebraic marriage there is a hoopa which is a canopy of sorts representing clouds where both parties stand underneath mount sinai had a hoopa It was a wedding which had vows. And it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, the third day, all right, in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud, so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
Exodus 19 and 16, a hoopla. Keep that in mind. We're talking about marriage.
Y'all didn't think y'all get a marriage class on Shabbat, but hallelujah. It's D-Man, Israel, and the Most High. Let's go. and moshe brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with elohim and they stood at the nether part of the mount verse number 17 from chapter 19 also notice that the bride is at the altar and the husband comes to get her the bride gets prepared and when she is the husband appears and centers himself under the hoopla now keep this in mind that's completely opposite from western marriages and western marriages it's the it's the husband at the altar and the wife comes. That's not Hebraic.
Hebraic is the opposite. We are at the altar and he comes to get us. He comes to get us.
Why? Because we are married to him. We are married.
We are in covenant with him. And we are the bride. Hallelujah. The broken covenant.
From what we have seen, the covenant that Yahuwah makes with Israel is similar to a marriage. In the narrative of Tanakh, don't ignore the narrative. I know you just want to read laws.
You got to read the narrative. There's end gems behind there. In the narrative of Tanakh, Israel would fall away from that covenant, thus inciting what are known as the curses of Israel.
Deuteronomy 28, Leviticus 26. That's why in Leviticus 26, he tells you to not only... make teshuva but make teshuva for your ancestors don't it's not just you it's your ancestors they have a continual pattern of breaking these laws right from that time on yahuwah through the mouthpiece of his prophets has called israel to return and make teshuva oh israel return unto you who are your elohim for that has fallen by thine iniquity hosea 14 and 1 you The Road Not Taken. Now, I know you're probably wondering where is Morrie Rick going with this.
One of my favorite poets of all time is Robert Frost. Robert Frost. The Less Traveled Road.
In the poem entitled The Road Not Taken, the late Robert Frost expounds on an experience where two diverging roads are mentioned. He details his thoughts on both as one that wanted where. Then he finishes his writing that he took the one less traveled by and that made all the difference. This poem was originally published in 1916 but still carries weight today. In the case of Israel, even though they had the right path in front of them, they took the path that the other nations took, thinking that it would guide them to prosperity and wellness.
The road they took. was a path to destruction that had powerful implications. Matthew 7, 13 and 14, Mashiach says this, enter ye at the straight gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction.
And many there be which go in thereat, because straight is the gate and narrow is the way which leads to life and few there be that find it. All right, still talking about the covenant, right? Playing the harlot.
You know that I couldn't go and talk about covenant without talking about this. The Tanakh and our scriptures are laced with not just all the good people. They're showing you all their issues.
And one particular writer who I'm fond of, one prophet named Yermayahu Jeremiah, uses this phrase, playing the harlot. You would say it unto me in the days of Josiah the king, has thou seen which backsliding Israel hath done? She is gone upon every high mountain under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
I want you to focus on backsliding and playing the harlot. When I was in the apostolic church, we would call people who was once apostolic and they done left and went to the Baptist church or the Catholic church or wherever church. we called them backsliders.
How ironic. How ironic. People sometimes view me as backslidden right now.
Right now. I'm backslidden. Why? Because I don't go to, I don't do Sunday church. I don't, I don't wear a collar around my neck showing my eldership.
I don't, I don't use the colloquialisms that I used to. I don't do those things anymore. So I'm backslidden.
Watch this. I pray in the name of Yahushua instead of the name of Jesus. I'm in a delusion. Let's find out.
Elder Baker knows exactly where I'm going here. Watch this. In order to understand the journey, we must understand how far Israel fell.
Focus on the word backsliding and the phrase playing the harlot. All right? Got to go deep into this. Danger, wrong way, turn back. You get on the interstate and I saw somebody with the snows go down the wrong way down a one-way street.
It tells you wrong way, stop, don't go, turn around. They continue to go. Look, danger, wrong way, turn back.
We got to make sure what is the multi-same because we're reading our text from a Germanic Eurocentric language, not the language of our ancestors. So what does backsliding mean? What does it mean?
We were taught it meant one thing, but what does it really mean? Playing the harlot. The phrase playing the harlot comes from the Hebrew zanah.
Zanah. It means to fornicate, to be a harlot. Y'all know what a harlot is.
We got young people here. I can't say. And or be a cult prostitute.
You know what a cult prostitute is, right? In the days of our ancestors, they had temples for different gods and goddesses. and they had people in there that worked for that god or goddesses by giving their body.
All right, I'll leave it there. Sit it on the shelf. The two-letter root of the word zionun means to cut the seed, to cut the seed.
When one plays the harlot, they commit actions one wasn't intended to commit with the body, thus destroying the intent with the seed. The Torah forbids such practice amongst those that claim to be Israel. This is why you can't be a fornicator and be amongst Israel. You can't be an adulterer. That's why adultery was judged so swiftly in Israel.
Look, both stoned. Look, any type of fornication isn't just, it's anything that is outside. That includes adultery, but that goes into the depths of carnality that people would do.
Watch this. No Israelite woman shall be a cult prostitute. nor any Israelite man be a cult prostitute. Deuteronomy 23, 17 and some versions, verse 18. Watch this.
In some of your versions, especially the King James, I believe it says Sodomite, Sodomite. So yeah, so all that, it wasn't named the monsters. All right, let's get deeper.
Pars, so you thought it was just talking about one thing. It's gotta be talking about something else. Peshat, Ramez, Drash, and Sos.
You wanna learn deeper about some of these meanings. I invite you and put a plug in to Shuba class, Red Awakening Indie, because you got to tune in where we dig into some of the remez, the drosh, and even the sob. Hallelujah.
Backslide, backslide. Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee, for thou art Yahuwah Elohim. Now watch this.
The Hebrew word for return is shub, which is the root of teshuva. Notice, however, Yahuwah says he will heal our backslidings. This Hebrew word brings us to the focus of our lesson, moving from chaos to covenant. Meshuvah, meshuvah.
The Hebrew word for backslidings in this text is meshuvah. which is the opposite of teshuva. Meshuvah has the same Hebraic root, shuv, as teshuva, but removes one letter, the tab, and adds the letter mem. In ancient Hebrew, the mem is symbolized by flowing water and can mean chaos. The tab is symbolized as a mark and means covenant.
It is the will of Yah for us to be healed of making Meshuvah falling away, apostasy, and make Teshuvah. Meshuvah leads us in the opposite path of what Yahuwah wants, whereas Teshuvah leads us back to him. Meshuvah. So most people, to be honest, they're operating in Meshuvah. They're not operating in Teshuvah.
Because, look, you cannot, when an evil spirit has gone out of a man, the whole house is clear. But if that person does not return, that evil spirit will bring with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself and go back to the place he came. So that's why it's so important for you actually to come into covenant with him. If you do not, you're just going to get worse. Why?
Because you're operating in chaos. You have to have chaos. You have to have chaos around you. Because that's why people will continue to do things that are wrong, even though they know the right path. They know what to do with it, but they'll continue to do the wrong thing.
They'll continue to backbite. They'll continue to sow discord. They'll continue to fornicate, even though they know fornication is wrong. They'll continue to do wickedness.
They'll continue to know that cigarette is bad, that'll cause cancer, but I still want to smoke it. Can I go deeper? I know that vodka will cause me alcohol poisoning and damage my liver, but I have a craving and hankering for vodka. You see how deep it goes? I know, uh, uh...
Cocaine is bad, but I want that next high, even though it'll never beat the first one. You see how deep it goes? Meshuvah, backsliding.
That's what backsliding really is. So technically, I was backsliding when I was in the church because I had fallen away from the covenant that was made with my ancestors. I was operating, not knowing, I was thinking I was in covenant.
But I was operating in the spirit of Nadab and Abihu. Y'all remember them? Offering strange fire before the Most High.
Thinking I was doing him service and I was being destroyed operating in chaos. That's why we was never at peace. We was never at peace. You thought you had peace, but there was always chaos, always trouble, always trial. It was always issues in the church, but the church was supposed to be a hospital.
Wasn't that what they sold us? Wasn't that what Trump, I mean, the bishop said? Wasn't that what Biden, I mean, the district elder said?
It was supposed to be peace. It was supposed to be joy, a brotherhood, a family. But it might have been, you might have had connections, but it was an imitation. You know what an imitation is. It's an imitation.
It's something, a copy. It's a photocopy of something, but it's not the original. It's not mishpachah. This is mishpachah. Israel is mishpachah.
Hallelujah. The real backsliders. In the church, we are often taught that those who fall away from the church in one form or another, they either stop attending, stop adhering to denominational standards.
Y'all know, you know, you was in Trinitarian, you went to an apostolic church, and your heart wasn't right, and they baptized you in Jesus'name or whatever. whatever, et cetera, were backslidden. Some even said that if they didn't come back before the rapture, they would be damned.
See, when I came into the church, if I would have saw all this, I would have thought, oh, we would have been raptured by now. You know, ain't nobody talking about no rapture. All right. All right.
In the scriptures, the backsliders are those that fall away from the covenant. What's interesting is many of us were living as backsliders because we were not walking in the truth of God's word. And he still had mercy on us. He still had mercy on us. We were the living embodiment of Meshuggah.
We were walking in chaos. See, when you're living in chaos, it doesn't seem to be chaos. It doesn't appear to be chaos because it's chaotic. You have to have chaos.
You have to have crazy. You have to have weird. And that makes you feel normal.
But that's not normal to him, to the most high. That's why when you read the Torah, he tells them, look, before the Sinai covenant is enacted, he tells them, look, separate the people. Don't do what you've been doing.
Clean, wash yourself. Don't be married couples. You have to abstain for a while because I'm about to come down to you. You got to be sanctified. You got to be Kodesh for me to be around you.
Meshuvah isn't like that. Meshuvah has to have chaos. That's why people cannot fully get healed and delivered from strongholds because they want to continue to operate in Meshuvah. Now they think it's cool, but I have to have the chaos. I have to have the weird, and it's normal to them.
It's a warm blanket. It's like, what's this comfort food to them? It's comfortable. It makes them feel good. It gets their, it excites their flesh.
It excites their fetishes, their proclivities. Meshuvah. Why?
Because it's like water. It flows right in. Let's go. Let's go deeper. What does Mashiach say?
What does Mashiach say? Luke 15 11 through 18 and he said a certain man had two sons now you think this is just about two boys we used to preach this in outreach ministry at the jail you know and it was an easy is an easy message but check it out A certain man had two sons. You got to know who he's talking about because Mashiach never deviates from Torah, ever, ever.
Israel was one nation, but by the time of after King Solomon, the time of Rehoboam, guess what happened? It split into two unequal parts, a northern kingdom and a southern kingdom. A certain man, Abba, had two sons, Israel and Judah. And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.
What does that mean? That means I wish in our culture, if you ask for your father's inheritance before he died, it was like asking him to die. I want you dead so I can get my money.
And he divided unto them his living. The father doesn't even argue. And not many days after the younger son gathered all together. and took his journey into a far country and there wasted his substance with riotous his substance you you've been reading this thinking he was talking about he went you know through a party he threw an all-white party invited jill scott and invited diddy no no no that's not what we're talking about you're thinking about money he wasted his substance himself Everything that he had been taught, everything, every lesson, every word that his grandmother, his grandmother, all those people taught him, his grandfather, all these things that he was taught, he wasted his substance on riotous living.
All right, let's go. And when he had spent all. See, when you live it, see, when you're throwing parties and you're funding all the parties, everybody shows up.
Because you're providing everything. You're providing all the food, you're providing all the drinks, you're providing all the people to come and gather. Everybody's showing you the best thing.
You're awesome. You're living your life like it's golden now. It's wonderful now until money runs out.
And you expect, you've been throwing in all these people thinking that, okay, now it's like in the church, my tithe money is going to kick in. It didn't happen that way. And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land, and he began to be in want. See, you're thinking that this is talking about a boy.
A mighty famine arose in that land, he began to be in want, and he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, which means he was not in the place. He had been cast out of the garden. See how deep it goes?
You thought Adam and Eve or Adam and why it was talking about two people. Yes, I understand there were two people because we see the genealogy, but that's talking about us. Cast out of the garden for eating of something we had no business of eating from a tree that we thought is a real tree, but it actually is a nation. All right. He went and joined himself to a citizen of that country and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
This is backwards because Israel don't even mess with this stuff. See, the commandment is not just not to eat it, but it's not to touch it either. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husk that the swine did eat. You know you really bad. He's not even tempted to eat the swine, he's tempted to eat what they ate.
And you know swine eat anything. They'll eat their own dead young. See, that's Meshuvah right there.
That's brokenness right there. You in Meshuvah, you have left the Father's house. And went the opposite way.
And he would have been to fill his belly with the hustest wine to eat and no man gave unto him and when he came to himself to Shuba, he had to come to himself. He didn't go to nobody else. He went, he had to come, meaning he was outside of, can I say it like, like, like they do in Havel? He was outside of his mind.
He was outside of his own mind. He said, how many hired servants of my father have bread enough? and to spare and I perish with hunger.
I perish with hunger. I perish with hunger. I'm doing these things thinking that I thought I was doing and living my best life but in reality when I left the father's house I have left broken. I have left empty.
I had wealth. I had all these things and and I left. I left the father's house.
I left that which was good for me. I left and I thought I had it all together. I thought I had everything. Everybody told me how fine I was, how cute I was, how awesome I was, how I made all the right decisions.
You don't have to do that. What y'all doing? Talking about Israel.
What y'all doing? Talking about some Shabbat Shalom. What you talking about? Don't you come back to church.
Get right with the Lord. Come on. Get right with them.
What you talking about? Backslid. You backslid. Sister's wearing a hat, wrapping her head. Brother's wearing tassels.
This is wearing strings. What you doing with them strings? We were gone.
I will now return to my father. I'm gonna go back. Now, let's go. Let's go deeper.
And not many days after the younger son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country and there wasted his substance on riotous living. Often we focus on the younger son's return while ignoring his initial journey. He left his father's house. Abba.
Bait. Abba. The Abba is the father. Abba father. They is the house.
He left the house. Think of Abba's death. Watch. Making Meshuggah. Chaos ensued.
He spent all, not just money, but his own essence. Chaos caused him to lose sight of the covenant for a season. It got so bad for him that he nearly ate what the swine feasted on. He ate what the swine feasted on.
Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And the father said to his servants, bring forth the best robe and put it on. See, isn't it interesting that when we come back and come to ourself, the most high don't remind us what we done did.
Even though I know he knows it. I know he knows. We left, went out and was doing all sorts of type of crime out there. We was doing wickedness.
All the stuff mom and daddy told us not to do. We was doing it because we was big, bad and bold. I'm gonna do it. I'm grown now.
I want to do this. Listen to what he says. The father said, go and bring forth the best robe and put it on me. Why? Because I want everybody to see me put this robe on you.
The best robe, not the weakest robe, not the robe you left with. I need the best robe, meaning my robe, Abba's robe. I need to put this robe on you.
Watch this. Put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet. Shoes on his feet.
And bring hither the fatted calf and kill it. The fatted calf? What are you talking about, Maury Rick?
The fatted calf? What did Yahushua say? The fatted calf? They don't have refrigerators. You don't kill a fatted calf?
But something like this? Hebraically, you would kill a lamb. Something small. It's just a couple people eating. No, this implies that we got to have a party, a feast.
Because when you left, it wasn't just you that got hurt. The entire family got hurt. In our culture, it's not just mishpachai. Mishpachai is more than blood relatives.
It's entire, the whole community saw you leave. Bring forth a fatted calf, slay the fatted calf, kill it and let us eat and be married. For this, my son was dead. We were dead, dead. You were the walking dead.
You were messed up. You were lost. You were the walking dead and is alive again.
He was lost and is found. You was cut clean off. You were dead. You were dead man walking. Dead woman walking.
You were so outside, you thought you was in. You thought you were doing good. No, you was lost.
You were completely lost. You returned to the father's house and look, chaos took the son or us away from the father. But Teshuvah brought him back home, brought us back home. Outside of the house, we are dead. Outside of the bank, we're dead.
That's why you got to stay in the ark, sea lion. You thought the arc was just talking about both. Nope.
It's talking about staying in. Staying in the camp. That's what grace is.
Staying in the camp. Get outside the camp. Get outside of grace. Chaos.
You get drowned. Water. Men. Miami.
Drowned. Destruction. You get, watch this, you get taken.
Hello church. You get taken. Taken is not a good thing.
That means you get killed. You get destroyed. You got a mark. You got a mark of chaos on you when you're operating the Meshufa. A mark of chaos.
It's going to destroy you. It's going to kill you. Watch, I'm gonna show you how deep it goes. Can you, just give me five minutes.
It's so deep that even in some churches they celebrate what's called Lent. And what do they do? They put a mark of ashes. What happens with ashes? Ashes means something was burned, destroyed, on your forehead in the form of a cross.
You know, like Tammuz marking his territory. is all right teshuva brought him back home outside of the house we are dead in the house we are alive again our meshuvah is healed because of teshuva you have to return to him completely not half-hearted how can i explain it how can i can i uh josiah's reforms somebody asked me this week about uh kings and chronicles and you Josiah and Hezekiah. And Josiah's reforms were incredible. Why? Because he was making teshuva.
He ripped the garment. I'm totally spilling all my beauty teshuva Hebrew Academy short info, but he ripped his garment and he makes teshuva. And the Moshe said, look, because you did this thing, I'm going to protect you. And you're going to sleep with your father. Your heart is right before me, but I'm still going to get there because I still got to whip my kids.
and use Babylon to do it. Some of the people, they only followed the movement that Josiah was doing because it was the king doing it, but they still had Meshuggah in their hearts. What am I talking about?
They were worshiping Baal. They were still playing the harlot. They were still worshiping Molech, Ashtoreth. They had all these things.
You have to make sure you clean out all the... blockage in your spiritual heart. Because we got clogged arteries. And we need to make sure they are clear with God.
Because if not, you're going to be up out of here. You're going to be taken instead of left. Left is not a bad thing. Left is good.
Hallelujah. In conclusion. The difference between chaos and covenant. The only difference between chaos and covenant is one letter.
One. One small thing. It's the decision that one makes between going down the path that seems simple and easy or going down the path less traveled by, which will make all the difference, as Robert Frost mentions.
Are you willing to remove the chaos so Yahuwah can give you covenant? Can you simply turn around and go back to the Father? Israel, it's time to remember our vows and walk the way Yehua intended. We are his people, so let's walk it out, Halakha.
On the contrary, the word is very close to you, in your mouth, even in your heart. Therefore, you can do it, Deuteronomy 30 and 14. When you make yeshuvah, you have to go back the way you came. The prodigal son, guess what? He had to go back.
The lost son, he had to go back the way he came. That's hard because you're going to see the people that you ran with. You know, the ones you used to cut up, you know, sister's son used to cut up with.
You know what I'm saying? The ones brother Jay used to cut up with. You know what I'm saying? You're going to see them people. They're going to know.
They're going to see you. They saw you doing the wrong thing. Look, some of the biggest detractors I had were the ones that saw me. In the church preaching, Jesus only. I dunk him in the name of Jesus and I'm talking about a Yahoo show.
What in the world is going on now? But when you make the shift, you've got to go back from whence you came. The same way you went. And guess what? The Father is waiting on you.
He's waiting on you. Because, look, notice that the Father does not go and run after the boy. Why?
Because he has to. You have to want it for yourself. See, I can want you to... Come on, y'all.
Come on. Come on. Let's do it. Let's do it.
Notice when praise and worship was going forth. Then nobody had to prime anybody. Come on, y'all. Let's praise him.
Come on. Let's... No.
No. You come in... Look.
What they say. I don't need no matches. He's fired all by himself. You come, that's old school, y'all really gotta be in the play service at the apostolic church though, ain't you?
Y'all don't need no matches, you fired by yourself, huh? So, so, so, so, it's, it's, it's, you have to want it for yourself. Somebody else can't want it for you. You gotta want to be delivered for yourself. You gotta want to shoot for yourself.
You gotta want to come out of sin for yourself. You gotta want to give up iniquity for yourself. You gotta want to give up lust for yourself. You gotta want to give up fornication for yourself. You gotta want to give up sin for yourself.
Do you hear me? It's not enough for somebody else to want it for you. It's not enough just to say, let me just come on and do Shabbat so they leave me alone. No, you gotta understand Shabbat for yourself.
Because if not, you will miss it. You will miss it. You will miss it. You'll wear these, have your hair wrapped, be all cute and everything.
Go right to him. Buzz head wide open. Castles and all will be burnt.
You hear me? Preach! Hallelujah. That's why it's so important.
That's why I stress Teshuvah. You have to make Teshuvah. That's why I don't watch.
Some of you have asked me, Maury Rick, can you immerse me? Can you immerse me? My question, have you made Teshuvah yet?
I'm not dunking anybody until you make Teshuvah. Yeah, yeah, I've repented. No, Teshuvah and repentance are not the same thing.
Repentance is just an English word people use that barely scratches the surface of what Teshuvah is. Because when you make Teshuvah, you've returned to the covenant. You've returned to it.
You've got to tithe now instead of the chaos, instead of the men. You got to walk in it. It's going to affect every area of your life.
Not just, watch this, the first person who's going to see it. If you're married, it's your spouse. Look, you ain't no Israelite.
Come on, come on, bring it out! And your wife is like, what is he talking about? He cussed me out yesterday, right before Shabbat, on preparation day. Once the spouse, once that, that's the first person up, your job is going up. Your family don't know.
They ain't gonna know because you're not going over Thanksgiving. You don't know. They're gonna know. They're like, wait a minute.
I know that they come out to church and they was doing this, they was doing that, but they got some, look, I'm sounding real like my grandmother right now. They got some act right right now. Teshuvah is bigger than that.
It's the process. You have to give back to the Father. If not, it's all for nothing.
Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Hallelujah. So just as a formal benediction for our YouTube audience, Todor Rabah to everyone that is tuned in. We are the Great Awakening Assembly Indy. We hope something was said to strengthen you and pack you and guide you into Shuvah in your journey back to the Most High Yahuwah.
Hallelujah and Shabbat Shalom.