Discovering The Jewish Jesus

Rabbi K.A. Schneider: We need to not only look to Jesus, but we need to look beyond Jesus to the destination who is God, who has become our Father. God bless you beloved ones and Shalom today. I want to begin just by inviting Daddy, Father God to come and minister to us. Father God, Daddy, we love You today. You said that it's through the foolishness of preaching Your word that men are saved.

Daddy, as I preach Your word today, I pray that You would supernaturally communicate to Your people how much You love us and who we are to You as Your sons and daughters in Jesus' name, Daddy, and for Your fame. When I'm calling Father Daddy today, the scripture tells us in the book of Romans that we have received the spirit of God and through the spirit of adoption of sonship that we've received, we call out to God now Abba, Father.

Abba's a Hebrew word and it means Daddy. God has become our Daddy and our Father. John said, "Behold, what manner of love the Father has given unto us that we should be called the children of God." I want to take a step back for a second and I want to analyze the state that many of us are in today. I believe that the church has made Jesus the end rather than the way to the end.

Jesus is God. God exists in three persons: in the persons of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We call this the Godhead. We honor and worship Jesus just like we do the Father. Many of us have made Jesus the end rather than the way to the end. If you listen to many of our worship songs, they're all about Jesus and the Father's never mentioned.

Many believers are always talking about Jesus, but they never mention the Father. I want you to understand that Jesus is not the end, but Jesus is the way to the end. Jesus said in John 14:6, "I am the way, the truth and the life, and no one comes to the Father," but Jesus said, "through me." Jesus said that He was the way, but that the Father is the end.

Jesus said He was the way to the Father, but many of us have made the way the destination. Jesus, who is the way, is not the destination. The destination is into Daddy's love. Jesus came because Father God sent Him for you. At the end of the day, the origin of all this is Father. Jesus revealed, we read in John 17, the name of the Father to us.

Before Jesus came, the Jewish people knew God as Yahweh. They had not actually been pronouncing the sacred name of God for some time because they were so fearful of pagans learning God's sacred name. They pronounced a breathy Yahweh that they were not actually pronouncing His name. They were simply calling Him Adonai or Lord.

They knew God's name. God had revealed His name to the children of Israel through Moses. In John chapter 17, when Jesus six times spoke about the name of God, the name that Jesus was revealing wasn't God's sacred name, Yahweh, because they had already known that name for 1,400 years. The name of God that Jesus was revealing was the name Father.

This is why they sought to stone Jesus. They wanted to kill Jesus because Jesus was calling God His own Father. This is the reason that Jesus came: to bring you and I into a relationship with God whereby God becomes our Daddy and our Father. We've been given the Spirit of the Son and in Jesus, Daddy has become our Father.

Knowing Father is the answer to everything. Knowing that you have a Daddy and that your Daddy is God will solve all your problems. When Jesus said you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free, I believe the most fundamental truth that we can know that will set us free is knowing who God is.

Knowing that He's our Father, that He's our Daddy, knowing how much our Daddy loves us, knowing that all the promises of God are yes and amen to us, and knowing who we are as His sons and daughters. When we know who our Father is, we'll know who we are. I believe the answer to knowing who you are, to knowing your identity and your destiny, is to know God as Father.

This revelation is going to change your life. If you can get this, it will absolutely change your spiritual DNA and it will bring you into freedom. Jesus is not the destination; Jesus is the way to the destination. In the book of Romans chapter 11 verse 36, we read this: "From Him, speaking of the Father, it all comes from the Father. For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever and ever, amen."

Father God is the destination. Everything proceeds from Father God and everything is going back to Father God. In the bosom of Father God is the Son. Jesus, who is the incarnation of God's only begotten Son, is forever in the bosom of the Father. He always has been, He always is, and He always will be. In the Gospel of John chapter one verse 18 we read this: "No one has seen God at any time.

The only begotten God, speaking of the Son who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him." Through the Father comes all things and the Son is in the bosom of the Father. The scripture that every believer knows by heart is John 3:16, that God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son. The reason that Jesus died on the cross is because the Father sent Him to die on the cross because the Father loves you.

Behind Jesus' coming to the cross is a love of your Daddy that sent Him. The reason that Daddy sent Jesus is because He loved you. Daddy, Father God, your Father, wanted to bring you to Himself and so He sent His Son to die for your sin so that He could bring you to Himself. Jesus is not the destination; Jesus is the way to the destination.

This is why Yeshua said in John 14:6, "I am the way." Notice that Jesus identified Himself as the way. Jesus didn't say He was the destination; He said He was the way.

Dustin Roberts: You're listening to Discovering The Jewish Jesus with Rabbi Schneider. Before we continue with the lesson, Rabbi has an exclusive message for our listeners today.

Rabbi K.A. Schneider: Thank you for listening today, my holy brothers and sisters. This is our Israel Awakening Month. We're always focused on reaching Jewish people, but this month in particular, we are in Israel. As you're listening to me, we are there with billboards and through digital marketing, literally challenging Israel with the Messianship of Jesus, of Yeshua.

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Dustin Roberts: If you feel God leading you to stand with us, go to DiscoveringTheJewishJesus.com and give. Thank you so much for your financial support. Now, back to the second half of today's lesson. Rabbi?

Rabbi K.A. Schneider: Listen again to this very well-known scripture, John 14:6. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life," and then He said, "no one comes to," get it now, "the Father, but through me." Jesus said He was the way to the destination, and the destination He taught was the Father. Have you made your whole Christian focus all about Jesus without recognizing that at the end of the day, it's first about the Father?

Jesus said the Father was greater than Him. It's because of the Father's love that Jesus came. It's because of the Father's love that Jesus was sent. It's because Jesus came that you can now come to the Father. This will rewire many of you spiritually. It will make all the difference in the world because you don't just need a Savior. You don't just need a Lord.

Yeshua is Savior and Lord, but you don't just need a Savior and a Lord. Get it now, you need a Daddy. You need a Father. Are all the worship songs that you're listening to about Jesus and yet you're singing and worshiping the Father very little? You've made Jesus the all-in-all without recognizing that behind Jesus is the Father.

When you pray, do you always talk to Jesus but don't talk to the Father? The predominant model of prayer that Jesus showed us was that we pray to the Father. He said when you pray, pray in this way: "Our Father who art in heaven." When you pray, are you almost always just praying to Jesus without recognizing that Jesus taught us that our prayer should predominantly be directed to the Father in His name?

When we get a hold of this revelation, it's going to rewire the way we're walking. We're going to realize that our focus should be on the Father. Yes, Jesus—don't misunderstand what I'm saying. Jesus is God. He's our Savior. Jesus showed us the model that it's about the Father in Him. Jesus is the way for us to the Father. I'm not minimizing Jesus. Jesus is God.

I'm not minimizing the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is God. I believe in the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Many of us are living by what I'm calling a two-pronged faith rather than a three-pronged faith. The Bible tells us that three together cannot be broken. In the ancient model of the temple, we had the outer court, then the holy place and the holy of holies.

We see also this threefold cord of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We see this threefold revelation of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Many of us are living a Christian life that is not threefold but twofold. We have a relationship with Jesus. We've invited the Holy Spirit into our life and our Christian focus has been on Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

For many of us, we've left off the most important element, which is the Father. It's all because of the Father that Jesus came. It's all because of the Father's love and plan that the Holy Spirit has been given. I am encouraging you to reprogram your heart and your mind and the way that you're walking to understand that you need a relationship with God as our Father and as our Daddy.

Even as Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life and no one comes to the Father but through me," teaching us once again that no one can come to the Father but through the Son, no one can come to know God as Daddy but through Jesus. Conversely, no one can come to Jesus unless the Father draws that one to the Son.

Jesus taught this in John chapter six as He began to teach deep mystery. He was the bread of life that came down out of heaven. Unless we would eat His flesh and drink His blood, we'd have no life in ourselves. As He began to teach these deep truths and mystery, the people couldn't hear it. They couldn't receive it.

They said, "Who is this? We know his mom and dad. We know Joseph and Mary. Now he's telling us he came down from heaven? He's telling us we have to eat his flesh and drink his blood?" They were disgusted. Listen to what Jesus said to them as they rejected His words in John 6 verse 44, 45, and 65. Jesus said, "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day."

Jesus is saying here no one can come to me unless the Father draws them. You can't receive the word that I'm sharing with you. You don't understand the revelation. Don't grumble among yourselves and put yourself in a posture where you're judging me because no one can come to me unless the Father draws them. Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me.

Jesus was saying, "I'm the way to the Father, but no one will come to me unless the Father draws him." Everyone that hears and learns from the Father will come to me. At the end of John chapter six, most people had left. Only a few remained. Jesus looks at the few that remained and He says, "For this reason I have said to you that no one can come to me unless it's been granted him from the Father."

No one can come to the Father but through the Son and no one comes to the Son except through the Father. Let's take a second here and review how all this works. I want to go to the book of Ephesians with you. This is a marvelous theological foundation to understand what I'm teaching right now. Ephesians chapter one verse three through seven, hear the word of God.

Get this deep in your spirit. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. Paul said, "Blessed be the God and Father." Notice the emphasis is on the Father first. Every letter that Paul wrote, he began the same way. "Grace to you," Paul said in all his letters.

"Grace to you and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ." Notice that Paul's first emphasis was the Father because it all begins with the Father. Many of us have not emphasized in our walk with God the Father first, but we've ended it all with Jesus. We need to understand that Jesus came to bring us to the Father.

Jesus taught us how to walk with the Father and through Jesus who is the Son, we can do that because we receive Jesus into our life. We can know God as Father even as Jesus knows God as Father because we receive Jesus, who's in the bosom of the Father and is the Son. In Jesus, God becomes our Father just as He's Jesus' Father.

Jesus' whole walk with God was based on His relationship with the Father and through Jesus' atonement, we're now adopted into Him and now our whole focus is on the Father in Jesus. Get this word deeply implanted in you. I stake my life on this: this revelation, when you know that God is your Daddy, when you begin to relate to God as your Father and as your Daddy, when you get a hold of how much He loves you, it will change everything for us.

We will begin to walk in such freedom, in such confidence. We will have such clarity. All our needs will be met. We'll know who we are because when we know who our Father is, we know who we are. You'll begin to trust in His promises because you know that your Daddy loves you and because He loves you, He's going to fulfill every promise in His word for you.

I love you today. I'm excited about bringing this revelatory word to you. Father, right now in Jesus' name, I just release Your blessing over every child of Yours. In Second Samuel chapter 24 verse 24, we read about David wanting to offer up to Father God an extravagant offering showing his love. When he got to the place that he wanted to offer his offering from, he went there to purchase the threshing floor as the altar floor.

When the owner of the threshing floor saw David and heard what David wanted to do, he offered to give the threshing floor to David so that David could offer up his sacrifice from. David said, "Far be it from me to make an offering to Father God that costs me nothing." David insisted on purchasing the threshing floor even though someone had offered to give it to him.

David then proceeded to pay for it and he offered to Father God an extravagant offering showing his love. The next part of the text says this: the Lord's heart was moved. When you and I present our offerings to the Lord out of love, it moves God's heart. I want to encourage you, let's love Him today by presenting to Him an offering that will move His heart because it comes from a pure place.

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Rabbi K.A. Schneider: What I love about the Aaronic blessing is that it did not originate with man. The words actually proceeded from the very essence of God Himself. The blessing comes from the book of Numbers chapter six. So listen to these words and receive the blessing of the Lord into your life today.

[Rabbi Schneider sings the Aaronic Blessing in Hebrew]

The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift you up with His countenance and the Lord give you, beloved ones, His peace. God bless you and Shalom.

Dustin Roberts: I'm your host, Dustin Roberts, and this program is produced and sponsored by Discovering The Jewish Jesus. Join us again when Rabbi Schneider shares his personal testimony and the supernatural encounter with God that changed everything for him. That's Friday on Discovering The Jewish Jesus.