Messianic Messages With Izzy

Teaching on Genesis 44-47 and Matthew 23-25. How Joseph the seeming Egyptian is a picture of Yeshua the misunderstood Jew. Academic trends hit the general public several decades later. Hebrew concrete verb for forgiveness means to throw from you and let go. Key to forgiveness is your perspective. Red letter eschatology. Yeshua expected that his disciples would so cherish Shabbat they wouldn't even want to flee on Shabbat at the time of the end. Do you shop or schedule flights for Shabbat, because that's not what the Master expected.

Teaching on Matthew 26-28. Funny true story about Buddhist who first read the Gospels and thought Jesus was reincarnated four times and then reached nirvana. Why did Yeshua die and why was he raised from the dead. Gospel by which you're saved and by which you stand. Objective and subjective sides of the gospel. Yeshua's talmidim worshiped him. Authority invested from the Father in Yeshua, and from Yeshua in his community. Apostolic sending. Go versus come mentality, missional versus attractional approach. Going into people's homes and neighborhoods not only as individuals but as communities. Disciple as student who's learning from Yeshua and knowing him personally. Your job is to learn your teacher's words and imitate his lifestyle. Messianic Judaism's original mission is to all the nations, not only the Jewish people. You teach what you know, but you reproduce what you are. Grow in your discipleship. Immersion is Greek word baptismos, to dye a piece of cloth. Axing clunky religious words from our vocabulary

What freaked out the new Egyptian dynasty about Israel. Analysis of Israel in Egypt, they were productive, fertile, teeming like fish and swarming like insects, had a high degree autonomy, had fangs and claws, were multiplying, and filling the country. Joy of fulfilling the first commandment in the Torah, to make babies is hardwired into the dna of humankind. Parallels between Adam and Chavah's mission, and Yeshua's and our mission. Profile of exponential growth in early Yeshua movement. Stats on church growth from J.D. Payne, Larry Kreider and Floyd McClung, and Tony and Felicity Dale. We are not multiplying and it's a problem. Five ways our reproductive dna has been scrambled and our growth impulses have been blocked. Starts with desire. Irony of pro family people who don't want spiritual babies. The excitement, risk, and adventure of going on mission with Yeshua. Creating the right environment for growth versus doing community in unnatural ways. What if God sends 100 or 1000 new believers to you? Go the me

Annoying people who try to psychoanalyze you and a psychoanalysis of Pharaoh the control freak. Deep teaching from Shaul on the old and new person, anthropos in Greek and Adam in Hebrew, and the difference between the fleshly mindset and the spiritual mindset. Yaakov's evaluation of human wisdom as soulish and demonic. Religion as the default mode of the old person, all humanity eithers falls to the good or the bad side of the tree, either lawlessness or legalism. Pharaoh as picture of old person, old nature, that all villains and that you have from your great great grandpa Adam. Example of Pharaoh's response to Moshe, who is Yahweh, I don't know him and get out of my face. Why Yeshua said told Nakdimon a highly religious and observant Jew that it wasn't enough, he had to be reborn. Excerpt from George Fox the founder of the Quaker movement on seeing the old nature within by the light of Christ, rather than in the villains of history. Process of moving from old person to new person. God delivered a series of

Yeshua and Street/Biker Gangs make the same offers. Only one delivers, makes good on the promises. Gangs function as families and offer what families are designed to offer. Yeshua's gangs offers what families are designed to offer too because Yeshua's gang is a family. Sociologists call it fictive kin relationships. Yeshua's gang offers identity. Surname or family name indicates who you are, who your family is. Our name is from the Father. Yeshua's gang offers belonging. You can't overestimate the human need to belong. Paul's letter to a Yeshua gang in big city Ephesus. Yeshua's gang offers care, help, and support. Yeshua's gang offers solidarity, protection, and escape. People in gangs often comes from homes where they faced sexual abuse, herion addiction, criminal relatives, and violence. Yeshua's gang offers gender initation and modelling. You were created to glorify God as a man or as a woman, not just a genderless homogenous blob. We are a brotherhood. We are a sisterhood. Gang warfare versus honour.

The analogy used most often to describe Yeshua's community is that of family. It's not that we're like a family, we are a family of talmidim. Spirit is thicker than blood. Reading from Reimagining Church by Frank Viola and Organic Church and Church 3.0 by Neil Cole. Basilica church versus home setting, pros and cons. Quote from Winston Churchill, first we share our buildings, then they shape us. Quote from Watchman Nee on intimacy of upper room. Best group size, extended family of 12-15. How do we resolve conflict and confront sin, in the context of secure family relationships, as with a dad, mom, brother, or sister. How do we train leaders, it starts with a man serving his wife and children. Two extremes of neglecting family for kingdom work, and hiding behind family from kingdom work. How do we understand mission. Not that the church has a mission, the mission has a church. Our missiology determines our ecclesiology, as Alan Hirsch says. Did Jesus die for this?! We want to change the world and have a cause

How is a community of Yeshua's disciples like a family? Part 1 of 3. Losing family members for Yeshua and his message's sake and gaining a hundred times as many in this world. Yeshua uses the familial relationship to describe his relationship with us and ours with each other. Cranked Mixed Martial Arts Academy in Prince Albert Saskatchewan and the family attraction. Increasing urbanization and decrease of family relationships. Analogies for the ekklesia include the human body, the field, the building, the temple, and the family. Family most frequently used analogy. Called brothers 160 times in the New Testament and 130 times in the Pauline Epistles. If we don't understand how we're family, we'll either function as a corporation, or a dysfunctional family. Excerpt from Reimagining Church by Frank Viola. Family composed of father, mother, children. 12 relationships or lines of communication in family of four, 166 in family of 13 or Yeshua and his inner circle of talmidim. God's the Dad in this family, the Abba.

The second of two talks on the seven strands in cord of a blood covenant relationship. Hebrew, to cut a covenant. Why bloodshed? Entering into the covenant with one's whole life, dying to all outside the covenant, "forsaking all others." Going home blood spattered. Human marriage between virgins is a blood covenant. Discipleship is based on a blood covenant with Yeshua. Shimon Kefa wrote to followers of Yeshua in the Diaspora as if they were they on the day of his torture and execution and were spattered with his blood. There was no turning back. Sign given. Ot spelled aleph vav tav in Hebrew. Covenantal signs include rainbows, circumcision, Passover meal, week of Unleavened Bread, phylateries, and Shabbat. Signs of new covenant include immersion in water, authority over demonic entities, supernatural ability to speak in new languages, survival of assassination attempts, power over lethal animals, and healing. Wedding ring sign of covenant. Rant about guys who take off their wedding rings. Feast, wedding banq

Blood covenant relationships. God's with Israel, Yeshua's with his disiples, a man's with a woman. "It's not about religion it's about relationship" mantra. Defining relationship not as casual dating but as a Middle Eastern blood covenant relationship. Seven strands that compose the cord of the blood covenant relationship. Proposal, when God states his intentions and gave Israel a choice. Advice for young men. When did Yeshua propose to his talmidim? Promises, then God promised Israel his presence, protection, loyalty, leadership, provision, care, and a home. Going with your spouse through personal wildernesses and keeping the compass of your heart on the true north of love. Of course you'd take a bullet for your honey. But does she feel safe sharing her deepest feelings, struggles, and fears with you? Will you love, accept, care for, and empathize with her, or criticize her? Core of leadership is passionately following God and being a great servant. Yeshua the healer. Wife makes a house a home. Words exchang

You are a priest. What does that mean? God's original intent for a mamlechet cohanim, a kingdom of priests. Breakdown of Hebrew terms and commentary from Delitzsch and Gill. Historical overview of priests in Judaism and Christianity. Adam and Melchizedek as priests. Original order of priestly firstborn son. Practical application of double portion principle, servant leadership takes resources in the form of time, energy, and finances. David wrote Messianic psalm about Mashiach belonging to Melchizedekian priestly order. Yeshua is a cohen gadol. Yeshua's talmidim are members of his priesthood. We don't replace the Levitical priesthood. Highlights of unfulfilled prophecies from Ezekiel and Isaiah about restored Levitical priesthood. Two priesthoods operate contemporaneously. Letters of Ignatius requiring the bishop's presence. Constantine's new Roman religion and evolving hybrid priesthood half based on snippets of Old Testament Levitical law and half based on pagan priestly practices. Reformers and Anabaptists

"To My Old Master", authentic Civil War era letter from ex-slave Jourdan Anderson to ex-owner Coronel Anderson, parallels with Israel as nation of ex-slaves and Pharaoh. Journey from Egypt to Israel parable of journey of discipleship with Yeshua. Immersion into Moshe via cloud and sea picture of immersion into Yeshua via public water immersion and receipt of Ruach ha Kodesh. How God dealt with Pharaoh and how God deals with your old nature, by killing both. Unpacking concept of inner union with Yeshua, pictured by eating bread and imbibing wine. You're not a body, you're a spirit in an earth suit. How to deal with sin, addictions, and unhealthy behavior patterns. Stand and see Yahweh's salvation versus try harder and use will power. Returning and rest versus grit and gumption. Our response, to rejoice! Why a girl asked Izzy if he smoked weed. Danger signs on the journey. It will be hard and slow, way of the Philistines versus way of the wilderness. It will be dry and you'll feel like dying sometimes. Don't co

In defense of the celebration of Passover and God's appointed times from Paul's Epistles, early church history, and the writings of the church fathers. First mitzvah after redemption from Egypt was time related. We march to the beat of a different drummer. Appointed times from Genesis to Revelation. Description of the thousand year reign of Christ, the Messianic Era, in the prophets of Israel Zechariah, Isaiah, and Ezekiel. God said Passover is a law forever to be celebrated by Israel forever, not temporarily or only for one dispensation. Evidence that the Apostle Paul celebrated God's festivals including Passover, Pentecost, and the Day of Atonement, and that he was Torah observant in general. Quartodeciman controversy between Easter Sunday and Passover on the fourteenth including Anicetus and Polycarp, Victor and Polycrates, Melito, John Chrystostom, Nestorius, Constantine, and Eusebius. Tertullian on Passover as the best day to baptize new believers. Satan opposes restoration, especially the restoration of

First talk on TESTIFY! The what, who, how, where, and why of witnessing to Yeshua's cause. Definition of witness in Torah, one who tells what he has seen or heard. Hebrew terms ed and edut, Greek terms martur, martureo, and marturion. Witnesses tell a story, they say "This is what happened. I was there!" Instances from the Gospel of Yochanan and Acts of the Apostles. People telling the story of Elazar's resurrection were testifying of Yeshua. Speaking well of someone, making them the hero of the story, giving them props, contributing to their good reputation, are all wrapped up in the Greek word for witness in the Apostolic Writings. Examples include Yeshua, Timothy, Cornelius, Ananias, the seven including Stephen and Philip, and the criteria for elders. The Father is a witness and testifies of Yeshua. The Holy Spirit is a witness and testifies of Yeshua. Yeshua is a witness and was born to testify to the truth. He is the true and faithful martyr, the leader of our movement. Yeshua's apostles testified to wha

Second talk on TESTIFY! The what, who, how, where, and why of witnessing to Yeshua's cause. Seven threads of the message we carry. We're witnesses that Yahweh is the only God. What rock meant then and now. Everyone has a god, we were created to worship something or someone. We testify that the gods behind Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Wicca, Satanism, pantheism, panentheism, humanism, atheism, and hedonism are not real gods, they're fakes, imposters, let downs, temporary at best. Enlarged ayin and dalet in Shema in Deuteronomy, Devarim. We testify that God's in the saving business. Like the Apostles, we're witnesses of who Yeshua is and what he's said and done, that he suffered and rose from the dead, that God gives repentance and forgiveness through Yeshua when people turn to him, that God exalted Yeshua and invested authority in him as his anointed leader and King, and that Yeshua is in the saving business. Practical applications. Stay in the Gospels. Meditate on the red letters and let them burn into your sou

Third talk on TESTIFY! The what, who, how, where, and why of witnessing to Yeshua's cause. Mechanics of salvation, how does God save someone? By testifying to them through another person or by his written Word. Option to say true that and accept the testimony, or say no and call God a liar. Testifying of Yeshua takes the power of the Holy Spirit, the gift of prophecy. Even bad dads give their kids scrambled eggs and toast, not scrambled scorpions and toasted snakes. Ask and obey. Crazy demon possessed guy who ran around naked had a story. Lazarus six feet under had a story. You have a story. How to tell you story. Yeshua's the hero and you're the villain. Keep it short for our 140 characters in a Tweet culture. Snapshots of what Yeshua's done for you. No one can argue what you've experienced, stories are accepted in our postmodern tolerant culture. Point to how Yeshua fulfilled prophecy. How Justin Martyr and Mark Driscoll became followers of Yeshua. The Torah and writings of Israel's prophets are engineered

Fourth talk on TESTIFY! The what, who, how, where, and why of witnessing to Yeshua's cause. Yeshua did miracles, paranormal phenomena from the fifth dimension were operating through him. The explicitly states purpose for the accounts of paranormal phenomena in the Gospel of John. Reading from Organic Leadership by Neil Cole. We testify of God and his grace, and he in turn testifies of us and our message. Hebrew term for witness, spelled ayin dalet, in the feminine form also means community, edah. Powerful principle, facts are established by multiple witnesses. Practical applications including going from an "I me" vocab to an "us we" vocab and recognizing that if you're from an Evangelical or Charismatic background you have churchhopperitis. Value unity and togetherness over arguments, nitpicking, and majoring on minors. Don't give up getting together! Tell your stories. Moon, lunar calendar, blowing shofar, and biblical Festivals are a witness of Mashiach. Examples from Pesach, Matzot, and Sukkot. Why songs g

Heroes of the early Yeshua movement. Usage of the term Jesus movement or Yeshua movement versus early church, primitive church, etc. How the Yeshua movement was like Al Quaeda with underground cells and a revolutionary ideology. Profiles of Yochanan the rugged survivalist black sheep from an elite priestly family who was martyred after a dirty dancing episode, Stephen the unbeatable administrator, Antipas in Satan's city, Polycarp the regional leader of Smyrna, and Justin Martyr and associates. How living for Yeshua and dying a bloody violent premature death for Yeshua's cause glorifies God. Proof that the early Christians celebrated the seventh day Sabbath and called Friday the 'preparation day'. Foxe's book of Martyrs.

Story about a guy who threw a party and no one came. Context, Saturday lunch at elite religious leader's home, being told between bites. Retelling, Lyndee and Kyla's big party. People declining on Facebook event and texting excuses. Just married, yippee!!! Inviting the soup kitchen lineup and the people at the hospital and old folks home. Packing out the mansion and swimming pool. It was the best party ever. Who is Yeshua? Not like Edward Mike Davis, owner and CEO of Tiger Oil Company. Hilarious grumpy memos. What does this story tell us about the good news of Yeshua? The greatest party ever. Contrast with sour grumpy faced religious people. Yeshua loves people and wants a full house! It's possible to reject the invitation and miss the party. The challenge of being Yeshua's disciple. Safety versus risk. Story about Yeshua scolding the rich man who invited him to his party. Story about the shepherd leaving the ninety nine other sheep to look for the one lost sheep. Challenge to break out of the box and reach o

Crown of Messiah is gathering at the Kinette Amphitheatre at Kinsmen Park in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan on Saturday afternoons this summer. Overview of times in Scripture and history where God's people encountered him and men of God preached outdoors. Adam and Eve running naked in the park. Israel in the wilderness for forty years and Moses' outdoor sermons. Yochanan the Immerser's shouting campaign in the desert. Yeshua's teachings, Matthew 5-7 outdoors on a hill, Matthew 13 outdoors on a boat by the lakeshore, Matthew 24-25 on another hill. Early Quaker movement in England, George Fox preaching outdoors and people gathering in houses, barns, and outdoors on hilltops. John Wesley who said he lit himself on fire, and people came to watch him burn, preaching outdoors much of the time. George Whitefield also preached outdoors.

Teaching on Genesis 25-28 and Matthew 13-14 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. The stomach as the way to a man's heart. Challenge to husbands to pray for their wives as picture of Messiah interceding for bride. Dealing with disspointments and failed expectations. Family history and the leadership birthright. Listening as the heart of relational Torah observance. Torah as teaching. Redigging the wells plugged by the Philistines as the rallying cry of the Hebrew roots movement. The power of a wife who seeks God in prayer. Mayim chayim, living water, as fresh flowing water. Destiny of Jacob as a congregation of many people groups. Stumbling blocks and torahlessness. Removal of the wicked and the triumpant optimalism of the righteous. Yeshua the Jew singing the traditional Hebrew bracha, the hamotzi. Yeshua wore tzitzit, fringes.