B.E.S.T. Shabbat

“But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.” (1 John 2:20) To listen to the audio-only version click below  Giving Opportunity Message   I read a t-shirt recently that gave t-shirt wisdom. You know, t-shirt wisdom is a quote usually from someone that people agree with. It can be a bible verse or some aphorism that someone spoke or wrote that motivated the thinking of those who ascribe to that philosophy or system of thought. The statement was “Hope is a poor strategy”. The idea was that if all you have is hope for things, then you stand very little chance of getting them, strategically. I thought about this for a while, because the Bible speaks about hope in a very different way. Let’s read a few verses. Psa 16:9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices; My flesh also will rest in hope. Psa 31:24 Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart, all you who hope in the LORD. Psa 33:18 Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those...

Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, "A man of God came to me and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of God,  awesome . And I did not ask him where he came from, nor did he tell me his  name. ( Jdg  13:6) Click here to listen to " Samson 2 " We began last week to look at the judge Samson . Samson was born of a divine encounter with his mother who was a barren wom an.  "There was a certain man of  Zorah , of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren and had borne no children. Then the angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, "Behold now, you are barren and have borne no children, but you shall conceive and give birth to a son. "Now therefore, be careful not to drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing. "For behold, you shall conceive and give birth to a son, and no razor shall come upon his head, for the boy shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb; and he shall b...

Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling , consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession; He was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was in all His house. For He has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by just so much as the builder of the house has more honor than the house. For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. Now Moses was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later; but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house— whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end . (Heb 3:1-6) Click here to listen to " Our Destiny and Hope " Sons or daughters and servants have an entirely different destiny in the house of the Lord. In this verse, the writer of Hebrews contrasts 2 types of houses, the house of Moses and the House of Yeshua. Moses was appointed as the apostle o...