[Music] [Music] we're going to have a lot of reasons and we do have a lot of reasons to sing and shout and rejoice because we have eternal life abiding in us and because yahshua has called us out of this dark world into his marvelous light and so ah man it doesn't get any brighter than that when it comes to future does it i mean i was growing up there was a song i said future's so bright i need to wear shades uh you're gonna i mean our future's so bright you can begin to imagine uh how bright it is um fact it says in scripture that the uh the sun will be seven times brighter in the moon also so the level of brightness in the age to come in brilliance we'll probably see colors then we don't even know exist now and and probably smell and hear things we can't hear and smell now because our natural bodies limitations and uh just if we only could only just walk by faith and understand that no matter what's going on in this world today it'd be a whole lot easier to deal with wouldn't it well i want to say first of all i'm expecting to receive and actually already have received persecution for even uh digging into what i'm about ready to dig into today and um this video series i'm about ready to start people will think i'm focusing too much on the new testament isn't that sad i also get accused of focusing too much on the old testament um but you know those that might accuse me of that are probably ignorant of the fact i've done 76 videos on the torah um and that's a whole lot more than if you can count the other subjects i've covered but the first one was precepts and principles of the torah i did 40 videos on that going through every commandment i could find in the old testament laws and uh and then that consists about 60 some hours of instruction right there and then i went through that again a second time here in the ava theater uh 36 hours worth called footsteps of the savior so they just um i'm saying this because i want people that might think this direction to go back and watch today's teaching and i'm going to talk about why the commands of the apostles are so so important and we're going to address other things as well but our questions are going to be do the commands of the apostles hold the same weight as the commands of the old testament and of the messiah where did paul get his doctrines if he wasn't among the original 12 that walked with yahshua three years does the new testament give any new commands some people think not do we need to have more than one scripture for a belief or a command before we're required to obey it some people think you have to have two witnesses how about do the psalms inc prophets qualify as torah or law do we know what it means to cast lots how can we prove that yahshua is the messiah from just using the old testament scriptures what's the significance of pentecost and shavuot in the old and the new testaments are we ministers of the old covenant or ministers of the new covenant how can we be sure to receive the holy spirit and that's a real important one right there now there are those who would say tom you're you're digging into the apostolic writings you know and and um and it's just you know you've gotta you gotta make sure that you you know you you don't misunderstand something i i understand that we gotta understand his writings correctly i'm not gonna claim to be the world's foremost authority on understanding every word of the new testament but we want to go through and find biblical principles by which we can live things that are going to impact our daily life things are going to change the way we think or change the way that we live our lives and that's we're looking for because we're hungering or pursuing righteousness that's our goal is to pursue righteousness so there are some people who say well the torah is our foundation so we hold those words in higher esteem than the new testament oh i can't tell you how many times i've heard those words and they cringe every single time but i'm going to defeat that argument completely no i want to totally obliterate it actually number two if anything written in the new testament isn't found in the torah we are misunderstanding it and or we are free to disregard it i've heard that too many times as well and then paul seems to be the for some reason one where he picks on they say is if paul's letters he's just giving his opinion you know we're free to disagree with him if we want to um and i am going to totally hopefully um address those points to the point where there's no way anyone could possibly believe it's true based on a number of scriptures here i'm really concerned about this idea that torah is only the first five books that is not true torah is more than the things that yahweh gave through moshe it's also found here yeshua said john 10 34 is it not written in your torah i said you are mighty ones what's he quoting from here he's quoting from the psalms psalm 82 verse 6 i said you are mighty ones and all of you are children of the most high there is torah in the psalms that you have to listen to you have to obey you have to heed you have to you have to follow yahshua said so yeshua said so how about this first corinthians 14 21 in the law it is written with men of other tongues and other lips i will speak to this people yet for all that they will not hear me says yahweh where is that coming from i guess i don't have it up there but it's coming from isaiah 28 and verse 11. that is a prophet so there is torah in the prophets also now i know it's called the law of the prophets you know but what this prophet prophet spoke listen it's all yahweh's word all of yahweh's word needs to be heeded and yeshua said we covered some of this last week but i need to cover in today's teaching because i want to refer people back to this teaching who may object to me going over the commands of the apostles yeshua said in john 15 20 remember the word that i said to you a servant is not greater than his master if they persecuted me they will also persecute you if they kept my word they will keep yours also they will keep yours also that means we are supposed to just as we keep yahshua's words we keep the words of the apostles as well and hold it to be an equal value and importance okay and the the early disciples knew they were writing commands paul said in first corinthians 14 37 anyone thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual let me acknowledge that the things which i write to you are the commandments of yahweh first thessalonians 4 1 through 2 in front of my brethren we urge and exhort you in the mat exhort and the master yahshua that you should abound more and more just as you receive from us how you ought to walk and please elohim for you know what commandments we gave you through who through the master yahshua they were just agents through which yahshua the messiah would give commandments ii thessalonians chapter 3 verse 6 we command you brethren in the name of our master yahshua messiah this is a command coming from yahshua it's in his name he says withdrawal from every brother who walks disorderly not according to the tradition or peridosis which he received from us for yourselves know how you ought to follow us for we were not disorderly among you or how about this one if anyone does not obey our word in this epistle note that person do not keep company with him but he may be ashamed that's also why the apostle john could boldly say we are of elohim he who knows elohim hears us here's who the apostles us he who is not of elohim does not hear us by this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error if anyone tells you you don't have to listen to the words of the apostles that my friends as a spirit of error that's how important it is yahshua says he who hears you hears me he rejects you what rejects me he rejects me rejects him who sent me what did he also say he said you have one that condemns you moses whom you trust for he wrote of me right he's talking to the pharisees they were rejecting yahshua because they rejected moshe so if you reject the apostles then you reject yahshua and you reject moshe that's how serious it is that is how seer is very serious listen if you think that yeshua didn't give us the torah also he just happened to use moshe to do it right he was the one that was the word of yahweh in the old testament right our heavenly father gave his word in the old testament heavenly father gave his word in matthew mark luke and john heavenly father gave his word in romans book of acts first corinthians down to revelation the person through which he speaks is not the issue the issue is whether or not he speaks and so think about john chapter 1 verse 21 25 he says and there are also many other things that yahshua did which if they are written one by one i suppose even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written so there were more things that our our savior did and said that were never written down in matthew mark luke and john and so how are you going to learn what those were unless you listened to the ones who were with them for three years right so that's how you find out so now for whatever reason paul seems to be one picked on the most but we know ii peter 3 14 it says therefore beloved looking forward to these things be diligent to be found by him in peace without spot and blameless and consider what's our salvation how spotless and blameless you are no the long-suffering of our master is salvation as also our beloved brother paul according to the wisdom given to him has written to you so paul was given wisdom remember that as also in all his epistles speaking in them of these things what things these things that our salvation doesn't come through our righteousness but through what yahshua did for us in which are some things hard to understand which untaught unstable people twist to their own destruction if you're not taught that means you're not taught in the rest of yahweh's word and that's why you're also unstable because you're not yet taught in the true words of yahweh and so people twist those writings to their own destruction as they do the rest of the scriptures now if i said well they they uh they persecuted greg over here just like they persecuted the rest of the believers what's that tell you greg's a believer right so if they twist paul's writings like they do the rest of the scriptures what's that tell you paul's writings are scripture and we have to obey them otherwise we could be in danger of twisting things to our own destruction very serious so if their writings are scripture and i know they are then the same spirit that inspired the torah as given through moshe can inspire torah as given through paul peter james jude all of them luke the same spirit it's the same spirit that's all you know is it the same spirit yes it's the same spirit so that's all i need to know he rejects them will reject the messiah also and we see that happen people reject paul next thing you know they're rejecting yeshua too right same spirit leads to both conclusions so look again ii thessalonians therefore brethren stand fast and hold to what the traditions which you were taught whether by word or by epistle traditions i thought tradition was bad name yahshua messiah withdraw from every brother who walks or disorderly not according to what tradition what's he talking about when he says tradition it's so serious that anyone who doesn't follow their tradition would be outcast they would be shunned they would be um told to they have to we're going to draw from you you have to go somewhere else why why why was that so important see yeshua's name is invoked here in other words it's done in the messiah yeshua's name there is paradosis of men and there is peridosis that's the greek word paradoses that comes from yahshua instruction that comes from the messiah yahshua these are not traditions of men that you can just cast aside so where's paul getting all this stuff he wasn't with yahshua three years where is he getting everything where's he getting it from galatians 1 15 he says when a pleased elohim that separated me from my mother's womb and called me through his grace to reveal his son in me that i might preach him among the gentiles i did not immediately confer with flesh and blood nor did i go up to jerusalem to those who were apostles before me but i went to arabia arabia he didn't confer with flesh and blood he didn't confer with the apostles he went to arabia what's in arabia what's so important that's in arabia sinai this hagar is mount sinai in arabia same book he said what was in arabia so i think it appears that paul says i've got a lot to unlearn i gotta go talk to yahweh at mount sinai and off he goes and he's like what happened what's what's going on you know he didn't want to confer with anyone he knew yahshua talked to him directly he wanted to keep on listening to him he thought well what better place to go than where the torah was given and and thunder down and given so i'm going to go the sinai and so maybe this is one reason why his writings are so deep he spent some time there in sinai or in arabia and look the greeks were deep thinkers and he had to be able to answer their questions if he's going to go out and talk to these philosophers and all these guys that think so deeply he's got to be an answer to tough questions and so yahweh you know gave paul intelligence to match wits with them but but it's the wisdom from yahweh that's going to cast down their arguments not one's intelligence so the obviously is more to the peridosis of the early believers than just a commandment idea or doctrine of men no is these things are so important given by the apostles that anyone straying from them was cut off you're not even among us that's how serious it was and so unless you want to reject the scriptures you're going to have to accept the peridosis of the apostles in spite of this i know there are people like they're okay with some things you know some things that are new but in fact there are some people who say well if it's new at all it can't be something you have to follow well listen yeshua says a new commandment i give unto you that you love one another as i have loved you that you also love one another he couldn't have given that in the old testament right i mean love one another as this coming yeshua is gonna no he just says love one another as i've loved you that's a commandment a new commandment he says i give to you all right that's a new command how about this scripture it says whatever i command you be careful not to observe it you shall not add to it or take away from it now you shall not you shall not yahweh wants to he can do whatever he wants he can give you a new commandment today he can say wayne or greg or somebody you go off and you go off to uganda and tell them people about yahshua right he can give a new commanding time he wants to it can be to you it can be to all of us it could be to a congregation so there's all kinds of things he can he can choose to add on his own uh it's his own prerogative so what's prohibited here is any man adding to any man taking away um yeshua told us a lot of new things he said judge not that you be not judged that's a new thing how about don't cast your pearls before swine that's a new thing so you know he told us how about this he took bread gave thanks and broke it gave it to them saying this is my body which is broken given for you do this in remembrance of me that's a command do this remembrance of me that's a new thing they weren't doing that in the old testament days they weren't sitting down at passover and partaking the body and body yahshua in those days how about these we quote these all the time pray without ceasing that's a new one about ask for your brethren do not grow weary in doing good there's a new command or whatever you do in word or d do all name the master yahshua giving thanks to elohim the father through him that's that's new or be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love in honor of giving preference to one another not lagging diligence forbidden spirit serving yahweh i've nev never met anyone that complained about these ones i don't know why they don't have a problem with these uh where they usually have a problem is when you start digging into first corinthians chapter 11. it starts talking about head coverings and stuff i praise you brethren that you remember me in all things and keep the paradoses just as i delivered them to you i want you to know that every man is messiah that of woman as man head of messiah is elohim every man praying or prophesying having his head covered dishonors his head every woman who prays had uncovered dishonors her head now we're not supposed to dishonor yahshua right so we better know what he's talking about here my belief is he's talking about literally a covering on top of the head okay i got a whole teaching on that topic but um look if it's new and even this is the only place in scripture where the head covering principles are given a lot of people say well that's only one place find me a second one find me a second scripture well i can find you a second one in the torah the woman had to uncover her head before the priest symbolizing her going directly to elohim her husband could not cancel this vow this oath she was about to give and so you know there's things there in torah about head coverings but either way here's one that's never been repeated ever ever since then you should not you shall come to no fire throughout your dwellings on the sabbath day that's not anywhere else in scripture only in exodus 35 verse 3. are we free now to kindle fires on the sabbath day because there's only one scripture no about this one a woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man nor shall a man put on a woman's garment for all who do so are an abomination to yahweh your elohim and that's actually only in this one scripture here are we free to cross dress and and and promote drag queens no just because there's one scripture doesn't mean that you are now oh where's the other one okay you don't ne yahweh don't need two witnesses he's not a liar okay he doesn't need two if he says it once you do it that's it he said it we believe it that settles it and so i could go on with all kinds of examples in this but everything in scripture is torah what is torah torah is teaching right that's what torah means torah means teaching and instruction there's you know teaching instruction can be found in first five books can be found in book of judges can be found in the book of psalms the book of proverbs you can find instruction in teaching there you can find teaching and instruction in isaiah in jeremiah ezekiel the minor prophets find teaching in matthew mark luke and john first corinthians romans acts that's all teaching it's all torah brothers and sisters it's all instruction it's all teaching and we have to be aware of of people that say oh you don't have to do that part it's the same old lie going back to the garden of eden traditional christianity when you present something in one part of the scriptures called the old testament what do they go all hath elohim said you don't have to do that that's done away with and then those who judge christians for doing that he pointed new testament scripture out and they're going the same thing hath elohim said you know that's all that's not you know blah blah blah i don't care what you say he said it period you do it i don't care what your excuses are what your reasonings are i don't want to follow that same old trick that got adam and eve in trouble oh you know you can disobey that you will not surely die you see it's the same old lie it's just reversed the other side of the coin and so it really really grieves me when i hear this diminishing of the word and so serpent the serpent is subtle man he finds ways to get you coming and going um and how about we quit calling the old testament new testament let's call it the bible call the scriptures call it his word quit the you know splitting the word up in the different sections that you obey or don't obey and just open open the word with a humble heart and seek to be instructed and seek to be changed if any of you have questions about how reliable our scriptures are i do have a study called the reliability of scripture elia.com forward slash scripture so why don't we cease from me out with the old him with a new mentality or i want the old forget the new mentality let's just open the book of acts and see what our father has to teach us about that the book of acts was written by luke and the apostles have a lot to teach us if we have a teachable spirit hungering and thirsting for righteousness there's a lot that they have to teach us and they're very very practical in their words very they spelled out very well whereas the torah kind of gives us principles uh and basic precepts uh yahshua applied that in in terms of principle and broader ways and we find the same thing happening with the apostles and i would suggest it's pretty prideful and arrogant to think you know better than they did when they walk with yahshua for three years um we don't know better than they do so the former account i made with theophilus this is luke speaking of all that yahshua began to do and teach until the day in which he was taken up after he through the holy spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom he had chosen to whom he also presented himself alive after his suffering by many infallible proofs being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of elohim and being assembled together with them he commanded them not to depart from jerusalem but to wait for the promise of the father which he said you have heard from me for john truly baptized with water but you should be baptized with the holy spirit not many days from now now as we dig into the book of acts you should know that actually about 47 percent of what's called the new testament consists of matthew mark luke and john the 53 percent other writings of the apostles and so we're really only about halfway through this thing um and we see here that yahshua gave them a specific command saying stay right here in jerusalem until you get baptized with the holy spirit and verse 6 therefore when they come together they asked him saying master will you at this time restore the kingdom to israel and he said to them it is not for you to know times or seasons which the father has put in his own authority but you shall receive power when the holy spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses to me in jerusalem and in all judea and samaria and to the end of the earth so we talked about this one last week actually now when he had spoken these things while they watched he was taken up and the cloud received him out of their sight and while they look steadfastly toward heaven as he went up behold two men stood by him in white apparel who also said men of galilee why do you stand gazing up into heaven i know i would be wow look at that uh the same yahshua who was taken up from you into heaven will also come in like manner as you saw him go into heaven so just so happens let's see on the mount of olives where they were all standing that's for yahshua it says he'll be sitting sitting his feet on the mount of all splitting it in two and and the remnant will flee through the mountain valley back in zechariah chapter 14. any coming with clouds now return to jerusalem from the mount called all of it which is near jerusalem the sabbath day's journey and when they had entered they went up into the upper room where they were staying peter james john andrew philip and thomas bartholomew but matthew james the son of alphaeus and simon the zilla and judas the son of james these all continue with one accord in prayer and supplication with the women and mary the mother of yahshua and with his brothers and in those days peter stood up in the midst of the disciples altogether the number of names was about 120 and said men and brethren this scripture had to be fulfilled which the holy spirit spoke before by the mouth of david concerning judas who became a guide to those who arrested yahshua for he was numbered with us and obtained a part in this ministry now this man purchased a feel of the wages of iniquity and following headlong he burst open in the middle of all entrails gushed out he came to know became known to those who dwelling those dwelling in jerusalem this field is called in their own language akhel damo that is field of blood for it is written in the book of psalms let his dwelling place be desolate let no one live in it and let another take his office so they're familiar with the prophecies of the messiah yahshua spoken of in the psalms therefore of these men who have accompanied us all the time with the master yahshua went in and out among us beginning from the baptism of john to that day when he was taken up from us one of these must become a witness with us of his resurrection and they proposed too joseph called barsabas who was named just sir named justice and matthias so there were men who were with the disciples from the baptism of john even to the time he was taken up and one of those two actually was going to be chosen there may have been others but at least two so then they prayed and said you o yahweh know the hearts of all show which of these two you have chosen to take part in this ministry an apostleship from which judas by transgression fell that he might go to his own place and they cast their lots and a lot fell on matthias and he was numbered with the 11 apostles so notice they had to cast lots to make that decision what does it mean to cast lots what does it mean to cast lots um now some people say well they didn't have the holy spirit then so they had to cast lots he couldn't figure out what spirit was saying and all that they had the holy spirit yeshua said shalom as the father sent me i also send you when he said this he breathed on them and said to them receive the holy spirit they had received the holy spirit before acts chapter 2 but they were baptized with the holy spirit in other words a full immersion a full immersion of baptism into the holy spirit there in acts chapter 2. so they had the holy spirit but they still chose to cast lots and for that reason i really don't have a problem with casting lots except nobody knows what it is scholars can't figure it out archeological archaeologists don't even know everyone's trying to put the stat take a stab at it no one really knows what was casting lots why would it fall into a lap what what is this was it like rolling the dice i mean what what's it all about um i really don't think it's like rolling the dice or flipping a coin um and i it's because it has to involve some kind of some kind of supernatural something i mean rather than random chance um i would suggest it's probably more like something i don't know let's say you the coin lands on head 30 heads 30 times in a row now that like a one in a billion chance that could ever happen okay um that's probably yeah yahweh definitely had his hand in making sure that coin fell where it was supposed to go if you go if you come up something like that i'd probably be the closest thing to casting lots as as i can think of because the scripture says the lot's cast into the lap every it's every decision is from yahweh um i don't really know what they were doing to make it do what it did now i thought i read a scripture somewhere where the lot didn't work in other words and i don't know where it is i look for it and look for it i spent all kinds of time trying to find it yesterday and could not find it uh the somehow they they cast the loss and they couldn't come up with a decision i've had it you know i found the one in first samuel where you know jonathan's there and trying to figure out what to do whether to attack or not and what what to do and and they couldn't get an answer from yahweh um so other than that i just i don't really cast lots myself i flipped the coin a few times because i couldn't make a decision and flip the coin whatever it doesn't matter one way or the other will just flip a coin but um you know something like this you're going to choose the 12th apostle i want to take it office i mean it's you don't want to just flip a coin for that right i mean you want to be something more solid than random chance so all right so going into acts chapter 2. when the day of pentecost had fully come they were all with were all with one accord in one place and suddenly there came from it came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind and it filled the whole house where they were sitting then there appeared to them divided tongues as of fire and one sat upon each of them and they were all filled with the holy spirit and began to speak with other tongues other languages as the spirit gave them utterance and there were dwelling in jerusalem jews devout men from every nation under heaven they've come to jerusalem to keep this feast of pentecost which if the disciples weren't peacekeepers what are they doing there anyway right when the sound occurred this multitude came together and were confused because everyone heard them speak in his own language and they were all amazed and marveled saying to one another look are not all these who speak galileans and how is it that we hear each in our own language in which we were born so some were born in parthians or knees elamites doing mesopotamia judah cappadocia pontus asia and they're hearing fragile pamphilia egypt the parts of libya joining cyrene visitors from rome jews and proselytes cretans and arabs we hear them speaking in our own tongues that's the foreign language in which they were born so over hearing these guys speak greek you're hearing them speak the libyan all these other languages egyptian they're all hearing the disciples speak in that language in which they were born it's like they were speaking and they don't even know what they're saying but these guys know what they're saying or maybe they didn't know what they're saying but maybe they were speaking in hebrew but they were hearing it in greek or they're hearing it in egyptian or they're hearing it and whatever they were hearing it in but that was the miracle of the day of pentecost and so um they were able to hear in their language what the wonderful works of elohim so it was not an unknown tongue okay it was known to the men that were there i don't know why the king james adds and italics the words unknown in different places okay so they were all amazed and perplexed saying to one another whatever could this mean others mocking said oh they're full of new wine of course there's gotta be jokesters in every crowd right but peter responded to these men by saying he actually responded to the mockers standing up the eleven raised his voice and said to them men of judea and all who dwell in jerusalem let this be known to you and heed my words these are not drunk as you suppose since it is only the third hour of the day but this is what was spoken by the prophet yahweh but it shall come to pass in the last days says elohim i will pour out my spirit on all flesh your sons and your daughters shall prophesy your young men shall see visions your old man shall drink dreams and on my men's servants and on my maidservants i will pour out my spirit in those days and they shall prophesy i will show wonders in heaven above and signs in the earth beneath blood and fire and vapor of smoke the sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon unto blood before the coming of the great and awesome day of yahweh and it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of yahweh shall be saved here's peter went from an ignorant fisherman saying oh depart from me i'm a sinful man to being a leader and one through whom which yahweh spoke he's the one that advised everybody hey scripture says let him know to find his office so they did that he's the one that stood up and said this is a prophecy is fulfillment of prophecy yahshua never talked about this prophecy in matthew mark luke and john this is something the apostles learned from yahshua that was going to happen and he explained things to them that are not written down in former accounts and so he says men of israel hear these words yahshua of nazareth a man attested by elohim to you by miracles wonders and signs which elohim did through him in your midst as you yourselves also know him being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of elohim you have taken by lawless hands have crucified and put to death whom elohim raised up having loosed the pains of death because it was not possible that he should be held by it for david says concerning him i foresaw yahweh always before my face for he is at my right hand that i might not that i may not be shaken therefore my heart rejoiced and my tongue was glad moreover my flesh also will rest in hope for you will not leave my soul in the hebrew reads sheol nor will you allow your holy one to see corruption um in hebric understanding a body sees corruption after the third day that's why in martha so master it's the fourth day now he begins to stink right begins to see corruption begin to see decay and so yahshua was raised on the third day did not see corruption did not see decay you have made known to me the ways of life you will make me full of joy in your presence men and brethren let me speak speak freely to you of the patriarch david he's both dead and buried and his tomb is with us to this day therefore being a prophet and knowing that elohim has sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body according to the flesh he would raise up the messiah to sit on his throne he foreseeing this spoke concerning the resurrection of the messiah but his soul was not left in sheol the grave nor does flesh see corruption this yahshua elohim has raised up of which we are all witnesses therefore being exalted to the right hand of elohim and having received from the father the promise of the holy spirit he poured out this which you now see in here being exalted at the right hand of elohim how does he know that because david did not ascend into heavens he said yahweh said to my master said at my right hand sit at my right hand that's how he knew sit at my right hand till i make your enemies your footstool therefore that all the house of israel know elohim has made this yahshua whom you crucified both master and messiah now when they heard this they were cut to the heart and said to peter and the rest of the apostles men and brethren what shall we do what i want you to notice first of all here is that peter just proved that yahshua was the messiah to the jewish people and they received it immediately how did he do that he used the psalms you will not leave my soul in sheol this is the psalm of david here um you not leave my soul in the grave well david's grave was with them in that day so who is this guy who's the one that david's speaking of that they don't see corruption that's proof that the messiah would be resurrected on you know on or before the third day and he said you will show me the path of life in your presence is fullness of joy at your right hand our pleasures forevermore so he was going to be raised from the dead and be at yahweh's right hand and so then he quotes psalm 110 verse 1 yahweh said to my master sit at my right hand so i make your enemies your footstool yahweh shall send the rod of strength out of sion rule in the midst of your enemies so what's the messiah supposed to do he's supposed to rule right your people should be volunteers in the day of your power in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning you have the dew of your youth yahweh has sworn and will not relent you are a priest not just a priest a ruling priest after the order of melchizedek melchizedek was both king of salem and priest and so he's pointing these scriptures out which there's no way to explain it except it be yeshua the messiah was raised from the dead and they were witnesses of that resurrection and i'm sure the word went out and people knew they saw they he they saw the messiah and so um us today we live in a culture where we just assume yeshua is the messiah but what if that wasn't the case what if what if a jewish man asked you how do you know he's the messiah what are you going to say well paul wrote about that book of romans it's not going to work it's not going to work how you how are you going to prove it you're going to have to you're going to have to dig into the old testament and prove he's the messiah from your own knowledge and your own study in which you can go through those scriptures and prove that that's the case and i think that because so many of us really haven't done that um some of us have been susceptible to fallen to the lie he's not and i've seen people fall away into that sadly very sadly so if you're talking to a jewish man where do you start if he asks you prove to me that this one you call the messiah yeshua really is the messiah what are you going to do well i can't use new testament yet how am i going to do this well there's one scripture every jewish man believes is a messiah prophecy and that's isaiah chapter 11. so you can start with isaiah chapter 11 verse 1 through 2 there shall come forth a rod from the stem of jesse a branch shall grow out of his roots the spirit of yahweh will rest upon him the spirit of wisdom understanding the spirit of counsel and might the spirit of knowledge and the fear of yahweh and on down into verse 10 it says in that day there shall be a root of jesse same guy who shall stand as a banner to the people for the gentiles shall seek him so who is this man who is a son of david and whom upon whom has the holy spirit and stands as a banner which by the way the hebrew word for banner here is the same word translated poll upon which the serpent was raised and that's why yahshua said as the serpent was raised so shall a son of man be lifted up on a pole on a banner on a nasa in the hebrew nace i should say and hebrew and so this is actually prophecy of his crucifixion you look deep enough but you don't have to go there yet gentiles are going to seek this guy all right now compare that to isaiah chapter 42. behold my servant i uphold now pay close attention this man is called yahweh's servant my elect one and whom my soul delights i have put my spirit upon him we just read that what spirit of yahweh shall rest upon him right he shall bring forth justice to the gentiles what do we see back here he is a place where the gentiles are seeking him why because he's bringing them justice so he's going to bring justice actually the hebrew word i think there might even be sodek meaning righteousness so his delight is in the fear of yahweh isaiah 11 3 he shall not judge by the sight of his eyes nor decide by the hearing of his ears but with righteousness he shall judge the poor and decide with equity for the meek of the earth he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked the wicked the rod of his mouth breath of his lips he slays the wicked all right now go to isaiah chapter 49 here we have another one i'm sorry he should not fail nor be discouraged until he has established justice in the earth and the coastlines these are gentiles will wait for his torah that's what we've been studying the last 40 segments yeshua's torah so go back here we see he is judge he's a judge of the poor and decides with equity for the meek of the earth what we got here he is establishing justice and he's issuing torah okay same guy and yet he's called the servant that's a big deal because the jewish people like to say the servant is them they're the servant but this clearly indicates the messiah would be the servant all lines up with isaiah chapter 11. another place where the servant is clearly identified as the messiah is isaiah chapter 49. no coastlines to me same people these coastlines these people in the coastlands and isaiah 42 take heed you peoples from afar these gentiles yahweh has called me from the womb for the matrix of my mother he's made mention of my name we know that happened in luke chapter one matthew chapter one he has made my mouth my mouth like a sharp sword didn't we just read that with the breath of his lips he slays the wicked out of his mouth goes the rot so in the shadow of his hand he's hidden me and made me a polished shaft this quiver he has hidden me and he is hidden from the eyes of many but with righteousness remember he will judge the poor side with equity the meek of the earth strike the earth with this rod of his mouth breath of his lips what we just read he's got this sword in his mouth the same person is being described here isaiah 49 as isaiah chapter 11. he said to me you are my servant once again the servants of isaiah 49 servant of isaiah 42 he says o israel in whom i will be glorified now which is easier to say you're jewish or you're israelite whether you're a jew or you're other israelite the point is he's just he doesn't mean he's actually a nation of israel he is an israelite so i said well he's i said i've labored in vain i've spent my strength for nothing and being yet surely my just reward is with yahweh and my work is with my mighty one he is exasperated why is he exasperated because of what happened to him which we're going to read about isaiah 53 but first of all now yahweh says who formed me from the womb to be what his servant to bring back jacob bring jacob back to him so that israel is gathered to him for i shall be glorious in the eyes of yahweh and my mighty one shall be my strength this servant isaiah 49 has a job to do and that's bring jacob back in israel to gather israel once again the servant of isaiah 49. indeed he says it's too small saying you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of jacob and restore the preserved ones of israel i will also give you as a light to the gentiles that you should be my salvation to the ends of the earth this servant is going to be yahweh's salvation why do you think yahshua is called yahweh is my salvation yahweh saves so this servant of isaiah 49 whoever you want identify him to be is going to bring salvation to gentiles you just say that people go oh that's the jesus guy listen this is clearly the messiah i mean paul said was the one sent out by the way why would yahweh send paul it will be a false apostle come on guys to the gentiles are already confused and lost and stumbling around the dark and he's going to send him a false apostle people think that you're crazy yahshua would have to be just mean here i'm going to send him a false apostle go believe this liar i mean come on of course of course it's not going to be that way all scripture is reliable okay back then i'm off the suit box there now so this servant is going to be yahweh's salvation to the whole world not just gentiles to the ends of the earth all right there is only one man in the history of the world ever done that brought salvation and so what's going to happen he will assemble the outcasts of israel gather together the dispersed of judah from the four corners of the earth what did he just say isaiah 49 he's going to raise the tribes of jacob and restore the preserved ones to israel this servant so the servants of isaiah 42 the servant of isaiah 49 is clearly identified as the man in isaiah chapter 11. it is un is no way you can say otherwise is describing the same acts describing the same duties so we haven't even looked into matthew mark luke and john and we know what the messiah is predicted to do what else is this servant predicted to do isaiah 52 13 behold my servant shall deal prudently he shall be exalted and extolled and be very high when we read in psalm 110 sit my right hand shall make your enemies your footstool just as many as were astonished at you so his visage was marred more than any man his form more than the sons of men in other words he was marred more than any man he was beaten he was they tried to kill him they didn't kill him and destroyed him so shall he sprinkle many nations these gentiles same guy ministering to gentile people sprinkling them bringing salvation to them you should be my salvation to the ends of the earth the sprinkling this word translates sprinkle consistently all throughout the scriptures is a sprinkling of blood this man's blood was shed and he sprinkled many nations kings shall shut their mouths at him what had not been told them they shall see what they had not heard they shall consider that's why paul went and talked to these leaders who has believed our report it's already predicted not everyone's going to believe him to whom has the arm of yahweh been revealed that's a whole other study right there arm of yahweh who's at the right hand of yahweh as yahweh's arm he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and shall a root out of dry ground he has no form or comeliness when we see him there's no beauty that we should desire him he is despised and rejected by men and man of sorrows and acquainted with grief and we hit as it were our faces from him who's we isaiah is a jewish man right that's who the we is you can't say this is israel he's saying we're the ones we're israel we're jewish people we did it he did it to yourself no he did it to this man this servant right here our faces from he was despised and we did not esteem him surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows yet we have seen him stricken smitten by elohim and afflicted isn't that true he was wounded for what for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities the chastisement for our peace was upon him and by his stripes we are healed all we like sheep have gone astray we have turned everyone to his own way yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all think about that now you know why he would be our salvation to the ends of the earth if our sins laid upon him he would be our salvation to the ends of the earth because he is the one upon whom our sin was laid if our sin was not laid upon us we get to be considered righteous if our sins laid on somebody else we're righteous and he is killed just like it says here and verse 10 actually says he is he was an asham he was a guilt offering for sin he was a sin offering so um this is how it's all going to happen and i could i could go on and on okay but i have a whole study eliyah.com forward slash prove messiah and i'm proving yeshua's the messiah just as peter did using old testament scripture along with their testimony of his fulfillment of those scriptures so he goes on to say therefore let all the house of israel know assuredly elohim has made this yahushua whom you crucify both master and messiah now when they heard this they were cut to the heart and said to peter and the rest of the apostles been in brethren what shall we do what shall we do when we learn he is the messiah what shall we do what shall we do peter said to them repent and let every one of you be baptized the name of yahshua the messiah for remission of sins and you shall receive a precious precious gift the gift of the holy spirit the promise is to you and to your children and to all who are afar off as many as yahweh our mighty one will call what a precious promise we have here brothers and sisters a very precious promise peter's command is very similar to yahshua's command this is the first command of the apostles right here what was yahshua's first command repent for the kingdom of heavens at hand he's at hand he is the kingdom because he's the king of that kingdom right so peter began to proclaim how it was possible for that a kingdom that kingdom to be established you repent and be baptized in the name of yahshua messiah and so the teachings of the apostles complements and builds upon the teachings of the messiah yahshua as we saw in matthew mark luke and john sometimes they repeat what yahshua said other times they build upon his teachings and provide further instruction so yahshua taught the same thing but there's more detail here in the book of acts repent acts 3 19 therefore and be converted that your sins may be blotted out why because they were laid upon yahshua who upon whom was laid the iniquity of us all so the times of refreshing may come from the presence of yahweh that he may send yahshua messiah who was preached to you before whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things which elohim has spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began and that lines up so beautifully he will send yahshua the messiah he will send the holy spirit you see he sends yahshua the messiah to dwell on you right well yahshua the messiah had the holy spirit no doubt about it so if yahshua dwells in you and though and the spirit dwells in him that's how you're able to have the holy spirit dwelling in you because no one comes to the father except through him and you're not going to get the holy spirit unless you have him dwelling in you so same thing as being taught so what did yahshua say if you love me keep my commandments i will pray the father in other words repent start keeping the commands repent i will pray to the father he will send you another give you another helper he may buy with you forever the spirit of truth holy spirit whom the world cannot receive uh because it neither sees him nor knows him but you know him for he dwells in you and will be in you in you so just what peter said yahshua hamashiach had said before yahushua said before go therefore and make disciples of all nations baptized in the name of the father the son the holy spirit teaching them to observe all things i've commanded you why were they baptizing the name of yahshua go back and look at the 40th teaching of the commands of the messiah within the name of yahshua you have the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit so what yahshua was teaching is what peter was teaching and with many other words he testified and exhorted them saying be saved from this perverse generation then those who gladly received his word were baptized and that day about 3 000 souls were added to them and they continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine and fellowship and the breaking of bread and in prayers notice the apostles doctrine was continued in they continued steadfastly in the doctrine of the apostles their doctrine was not theirs their doctrine was yahshua's yahshua's doctrine was not his it is the father who put that doctrine in messiah and put that doctrine through messiah in the apostles and so 3 000 souls were saved that day quite a contrast to what happened during around the time of pentecost back in the book of exodus in chapter 32 after you've given those commands moshe saw the people were unrestrained why aaron had not restrained them the shame among their enemies began worshiping on golden calf so what do you tell them to do he said moshe stood in the entrance of the camp and said whoever is on yahweh's side come to me all the sons of levi gathered themselves together to him he said to them thus says yahweh elohim of israel every man put a sword inside and go in and out from entrance throughout the camp let every man kill his brother every man his companion every man his neighbor so the sons of levi did according to the word of moshe and what happened three thousand men of the people of israel fell that day the letter kills right the law killed them they have been given the torah they've been given yahweh's law you should not make for yourself the carve image any likeness of anything heaven above earth beneath where water is under the earth because yahweh is a jealous elohim and so he says do not make an idol out of me much less a cow okay uh but they turned him into a cow and they decided to worship him as if he was a calf which is ridiculous when you think about it today for some reason that was a temptation to them in those days okay but the point being because of the disobedience three thousand men fell that day but what happened at the time the book of acts three thousand men got saved that day we have here the old covenant and the new covenant both the old covenant and new covenant were given around the time of pentecost both of them are actually wedding dates in a sense um the adam man you know yahweh yahshua actually was the one marrying um the adam man and the old covenant which they broke the new man yahshua hamashiach now dwelling in us enabling us to be a bridegroom bride therefore we are able to be remarried through the death of the old man and the new man rising up the remnant of israel so what's this say in second cor second correct i'm sorry going the wrong direction here um second corinthians three five through six not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves our sufficiency is from elohim who made us sufficient as ministers of what the new covenant that's what we are we are ministers of the new covenant not of the letter but of the spirit for the letter kills but the spirit gives life a lot of those in traditional christianity like to quote this verse saying oh you got to try and get us back underneath that letter again no we are a minister of the new covenant and of the spirit the letter kills but messiah makes alive through the holy spirit and truth is yeah that ministry was a ministry of death because we disobeyed it we all have disobeyed yahweh's loss all of us have and so for us it became a ministry of death written engraved on stones and that was glorious in fact the children of israel could not look steadily at the face of moshe because the glory was countless which glory was passing away well how the ministry of the spirit not be more glorious what's the ministry of the spirit anyone that turns away from the sin puts her trust in yahshua forgiveness of sin will receive the betrothal gift in a sense the gift of the holy spirit down payment so if that ministry of condemnation had glory all the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory i do get concerned sometimes brothers and sisters which ministry most people are more interested in the ministry of condemnation or the ministry of the spirit i often hear a lot of condemnation coming from people who do proclaim the torah and we should proclaim the torah but not with the condemnation and yes we gotta warn people um if their hearts are not repentant there is condemnation and paul did a lot of that too okay but um in fact sin is transgression of what the law i mean the law itself tells us what sin is that's why we got condemned right in fact by the laws of knowledge of sin and i had not known the sin except by the law the law tells us what sin is and what sin isn't and when we as believers what we're supposed to be doing number one when you ask you say if you love me because i've already shown my love for you if you love me keep my commandments in other words repent stop breaking commands turn toward a life of keeping the commands right and truth be told most evangelical christians believe that you're supposed to turn away from sin they just don't understand what sin is and they turn away from a lot of things they turn away from drunkenness and fornication hopefully idolatry stealing lying and so on they believe all things those things are wrong when we keep those commands we are keeping torah that's part of keeping torah but they keep a lot of torah but there's some things in torah they don't keep and that's the things that we have learned the sabbath day the feast days you know their hearts are repentant a lot of times and they've confessed their sins that what they knew was sin but they haven't learned these other things because they're not taught these things in the pulpits of christianity throughout various churches and so they have the basic message of repentance and faith but they just don't understand what they're supposed to be repenting of and the truth is we all have work to do on that you personally i personally we all got work to do there uh there are things in the word you may not know you're supposed to be doing in next five years you'll start doing and um so we're all a work in progress they they are we are we all are right so the one thing i want to unite under is this banner right here i love this repent and believe in messiah yeshua baptism is this going to go with that now i want to zero in on something here you do this right here you do that and then yahweh does this you understand you repent you put your trust in yahshua you get baptized in his name for mission of sins yahweh will do something for you and that is give you the holy spirit and you don't have to wonder whether he will or whether he won't when he says he will and that promise is a promise is to us because it says to all not to some to all who are afar off to all who are afar off so you don't have to question whether or not you were called because if you turn away from sin and you put your trust in yahshua the messiah you can't even get there unless he called you no one comes to the son unless the father draws him you can't even get to a point where you're repentant believer messiah unless the father has called you and that brothers and sisters is a privilege you don't take lightly it is an honor and a privilege for our father in heaven to look upon you and call you in to his sheepfold don't ever take it for granted and don't ever get prideful about it instead be thankful for it and that promises to everyone i mean if a son asks for a bread for bread from any father among you would give him a stone if he asked for a fish we give him a serpent instead of the fish he asked for an egg we offer him a scorpion if you then being evil know how to go give good gifts to your children how much more will your heavenly father give the holy spirit to those who ask him have you ever asked him to give you the holy spirit he wants to give it to you have you ever asked him i think we're going to have some baptisms tomorrow and part of the baptism service we're going to ask the holy spirit be poured out upon the people who are getting baptized in the name of yahshua hamashiach i look forward to that but if you've never asked him no know why yahshua is the messiah that's what peter was proclaiming here's why he's the messiah you need to know why he's the messiah not just because your mom and dad told you not just because you read it in first corinthians or in no because you know the torah otherwise you're unlearned and therefore unstable just like it says in ii peter 3. so know why yahshua is a messiah and preach repentance and baptism in yeshua's name for the remission of sins so that yahweh will give to all whom you proclaim these things the gift of the holy spirit and what a gift that is brothers and sisters what a gift and you don't get there from here unless yahshua is sent to you to dwell in you let's pray almighty yahweh we thank you for your awesome awesome word i love love love how your word all comes together as one beautiful sweet unified word of truth from genesis to revelation it's beautiful to behold it's amazing to dig into the height and the width of depth and length but we want to know this father your love the love of messiah which surpasses all understanding we want to be filled with your ruach hakodesh your holy spirit all to the praise of your glory and we want to manifest the fruits that are of love joy peace goodness kindness gentleness patience self-control all the good things that come from you and we desire your spiritual gifts also whatever you decide to give to all of us father yahweh we love you we love your ways we love your son and you've sent we loved your word as given through moshe as given through those who wrote the psalms the writings the prophets we love the words yahshua spoke in matthew mark luke and john and we love the words of the apostles because we love you we love your words we desire to know you for truly yours is the kingdom of power and glory forever [Music] [Music]