September 19th, 2020
Rededication of our Church Property
Pastor Mike Wuertemburg
along with Many Others
Today we met back on our church property for rededication of our property, and ourselves to God’s purpose.
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Nitsavim (You Are Standing)
Deuteronomy 29:9 - 30:20
September 12th, 2020
Pastor Curtis Taylor
Deuteronomy 29:17 …and you saw their detestable things and their idols of wood, stone, silver and gold that they had with them.
Deuteronomy 29:18 So let there not be among you a man, woman, family or tribe whose heart turns away today from ADONAI our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Let there not be among you a root bearing such bitter poison and wormwood.
Our Greatest Need is a New Heart
(v. 6-20)
The people of Israel had experienced serial failure. Theirs had been a cycle of failure, repentance, and restoration. God had given them circumcision as a sign to distinguish them as God's people. He had given them the Torah as a standard by which they could know God's expectations and requirements. Their greatest need, however, was not an external sign or standard, but transformed hearts. God promised them that a day was coming when He would do for them what they could not do for themselves. By His grace, God would "circumcise their hearts," which would enable them to please Him with their lives.
Trust In Yahweh, Faith was a Sign of a Circumcised Heart!!
The prophets also looked ahead to that day when God would give His people hearts to obey Him. Through Ezekiel, God said to His people: "I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules" (Ezekiel 26-27). Likewise, God said through Jeremiah: "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people" (Jeremiah 31:33)
Deuteronomy 10:16 … circumcise the foreskin of your heart; & don't be stiff-necked any longer!
Deuteronomy 30:6 Then ADONAI your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your children, so that you will love ADONAI your God with all your heart and all your being, and thus you will live.
Joshua and Caleb show Faith in God’s Plan, Agreement to Yahweh!
Koreh did not Trust God’s Plan, he wanted his plan!
Jeremiah 4:4 People of Y'hudah and inhabitants of Yerushalayim, circumcise yourselves for ADONAI, remove the foreskins of your heart! Otherwise my fury will lash out like fire, burning so hot that no one can quench it, because of how evil your actions are.
Deuteronomy 10:12 So now, Isra'el, all that ADONAI your God asks from you is to fear ADONAI your God, follow all his ways, love him and serve ADONAI your God with all your heart and all your being;
John 14:15 If you love me, keep my commandments;
Deuteronomy 6:4-5 Hear, O Yisra’ĕl: יהוה our Elohim, יהוה is one! And you shall love יהוה your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your might.
John 10:27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me!
1 John 4:7–8 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Psalm 109:21 But you, O God my Lord, deal on my behalf for your name's sake; because your steadfast love is good, deliver me!
John 14:21 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me...
Deuteronomy 30:11 For this command which I am commanding you today, it is not too hard for you, nor is it far off.
Deuteronomy 30:12 It is not in the heavens, to say, “Who shall ascend into the heavens for us, and bring it to us, and cause us to hear it, so that we do it?”
Deuteronomy 30:13 Nor is it beyond the sea, to say, “Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, and cause us to hear it, so that we do it?”
Deuteronomy 30:14 For the Word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart – to do it.
Deuteronomy 30:15 See, I have set before you today life and good, and death and evil, …
Deuteronomy 30:16 in that I am commanding you today to love יהוה your Elohim, to walk in His ways, & to guard His commands, and His laws & His right-rulings. And you shall live and increase, & יהוה your Elohim shall bless you in the land which you go to possess.
Deuteronomy 30:20 to love יהוה your Elohim, to obey His voice, and to cling to Him – for He is your life and the length of your days – to dwell in the land which יהוה swore to your fathers, to Aḇraham, to Yitsḥaq, and to Yaʽaqoḇ, to give them.
Deuteronomy 30:15 See, I have set before you today life & good, death & evil, Choose!!
…BY YOUR ACTION AND LIFESTYLE!
Deuteronomy 30:16 in that I am commanding you today to love יהוה your Elohim, to walk in His ways, & to guard His commands, and His laws & His right-rulings. And you shall live and increase, & יהוה your Elohim shall bless you in the land which you go to possess.
Deuteronomy 30:20 to love יהוה your Elohim, to obey His voice, and to cling to Him – for He is your life and the length of your days – to dwell in the land which יהוה swore to your fathers, to Aḇraham, to Yitsḥaq, and to Yaʽaqoḇ, to give them.
Deuteronomy 30:15 See, I have set before you today life & good, death & evil, Choose!!
BY YOUR ACTION AND LIFESTYLE!
CHOOSE LIFE IN YOUR LIFESTYLES AND ACTIONS
Week #42 - Whose Are You?
Ki Tavo-When You Enter In
Deuteronomy 26:1 - 29:8(9)
September 5th, 2020
Pastor Wendi Wood
Do we belong to the Kingdom of the World or to the Kingdom of Yahweh?
How do we know?
Why, after all these years in the wilderness does Yahweh now say, (Deuteronomy 26:18-19) “Now today Yahweh has affirmed you as His treasured people, as He promised you; that you are to keep all His mitzvot; 19 that He will set you high above all the nations He has made, for praise, fame and honor; and that you are to be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as He has promised.”
Deuteronomy 27:9 “…Be silent and listen, O Israel – this day you have become a people for Yahweh your God.”
Are we feeling our way through life or do we have our senses tuned in to Yahweh’s frequency?
Review the past couple months: fire, Covid, small groups, meeting outside, more fire and smoke (cloud), this church reaching out . . . (Can we see Yahweh’s hand on all these events, or have they just been randomly happening to us?) We have walked from “Possessing the Land” into “Healing and Restoration”
How do we know? Is He our compass?
There has been a shift; a change in the air. It’s not just because school started, and we can feel fall coming; this is Yahweh’s spirit moving us too.
Ki Tavo (When you Enter) is all about preparation for inheriting the Promised Land. (All of Deuteronomy)
Themes:
Firstfruits and Tithes
Affirming the covenant
Altar for Atonement (white plaster, Torah written on it, place on the Mt. cursing, Mt. Ebal)=Yeshua
Place the Blessings on Mt. Gerizim
Reaffirm the covenant and whose they are (slide Deuteronomy 26, 27)
The things we know vs. the things He wants us to learn. Comfort vs. discomfort
Are we wandering through life? Were the Israelites wandering? (Wondering) (Deuteronomy 26 basket demo)
Who has ever done this? Is this foreign? But, haven’t we crossed over? Haven’t we arrived?
Deuteronomy 29:4-5 …But to this day Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, or eyes to see, or ears to hear. I led you 40 years in the wilderness – your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn out on your feet. 5 Bread you have not eaten and wine and strong drink you have not drunk – in order that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.”
If we are walking in covenant with Yahweh, why are this still so many things about Him, about this walk, and about taking this land that are still so foreign and challenging?
If we are walking in covenant with Yahweh, why are this still so many things about Him, about this walk, and about taking this land that are still so foreign and challenging?
New Mindsets
Erev Shabbat
Dressing Differently
Genesis 1:14 Then God said, “Let lights in the expanse of the sky be for separating the day from the night. They will be for signs (oth) and for seasons (mo’ed) and for days and years…”
Signs=H226=oth= a signal, as a flag, beacon, monument, evidence
Seasons=H4150=an appointment, fixed time, a festival, appointed beforehand
His ways were set before man began (are we doing His ways or the man-made ones?) This is why we are lost at times. Yahweh wants to govern our appointed times.
Jeremiah 31:16-18 “So there is hope for your future” —it is declaration of ADONAI— “when your children will return to their own territory. I indeed heard Ephraim grieving: ‘You have disciplined me— I was disciplined like an untrained calf. Restore me, and I will return, for you are ADONAI my God. For after I returned, I repented, and after that I was instructed, I struck my thigh— I was ashamed and also humiliated, for I bore the disgrace of my youth.’ ”
Jeremiah 31:30-32 “Behold, days are coming” —it is a declaration of ADONAI— “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah—not like the covenant I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they broke My covenant, though I was a husband to them.” it is a declaration of ADONAI. “After those days” —it is a declaration of ADONAI— “I will put My Torah within them. Yes, I will write it on their heart. I will be their God and they will be My people. “But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel”
This is our inheritance! Blessings overtake us when we obey.
Structure given on Mt. Sinai?
Malachi 4:4-6 Remember the Torah of Moses My servant, whom I commanded at Horeb — statutes and ordinances for all Israel. “Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet, before the coming of the great and terrible day of ADONAI. He will turn the hearts of fathers to the children, and the hearts of children to their fathers—else I will come and strike the land with utter destruction.”
Again, how do we know in our daily lives? We are not meant to just wander about our day, our purpose for life?
Daily-Shema, Torah Portions
Weekly-7 day cycle is Yahweh’s cycle; Shabbat; ask what He is teaching you this week
Colossians 3:23 And Whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Master, and not to men.
Seasons-Feast Days
What is our purpose?
What are the challenges of old traditions He is bringing before us now?
Each home, before the Golden calf, would have been their own priests.
John 15:10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.
Week #41 - Intercession
August 29th, 2020
Pastor Mike Wuertemburg
Week #40 - Doctrine Divides, Yeshua Unites
August 22nd, 2020
Pastor Curtis Taylor
Doctrine is like body odor - who wants to be around that, unless they smell the same? Do you love your doctrine more than you love God?