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Narrator: This is Viewpoint with attorney and author Chuck Crismier. Viewpoint is a one-hour talk show confronting the issues of America's heart and home. And now with today's edition of Viewpoint, here is Chuck Crismier.

Chuck Crismier: Words matter, and God's word matters the most. And then our word follows after that. But what do our words mean? What does God's word mean to us? And do our words line up with his words? And let's suppose that our words do line up with his words, but our actions don't. Then what?

Well, that's what we want to talk about here today on Viewpoint, and I'm glad that you've joined us. It's conversation as always with ever-increasing conviction, talk that transforms. Today we want to talk about our anchor of hope. Our anchor of hope, and words have to do with our anchor of hope. God's word, our words, and our response to his word. All of that here today on Viewpoint, and it is so good to have you on board. This is going to be a very important program today, I believe, for all who have ears to hear. If you don't have ears to hear, don't listen. If you have ears to hear, you might want to listen because we all need an anchor of hope. We just do.

Anybody who has ever owned a boat of any size understands the meaning and purpose of an anchor. Over the past 45 years or so, I have had a part ownership of a small sailboat and an ownership of two pontoon boats. Those boats we had small anchors for. Now, we didn't have the anchor so that we would drag them along as we were motivating along for the intended purpose for which we had the boats. We had the anchors in case we needed them. In case we needed them, like getting stranded out somewhere without power, without wind, and perhaps being caught on a sandbar or something like that. You want an anchor that holds you steadfast amid trouble, and we all need that. You need an anchor. I need an anchor. We all need an anchor, and we are living in very troubled times in which we need an anchor.

A song once said, "We have an anchor that keeps the soul steadfast and sure while the billows roll, anchored to the rock which cannot be moved, anchored firm and deep in the Savior's love." But the Savior's love is rooted in his word. He sent his word to heal us. He sent his word to deliver us. He sent his word to save us. He sent his word as the anchor of our soul.

In fact, he sent his word to do surgery in our minds and our hearts. And that's why the scripture says that the word of God is alive and sharp, sharper even than a two-edged sword or a scalpel, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and discerning the thoughts and the intents even of our hearts. Words matter.

Now God gave a number of words to the children of Israel. In Leviticus chapter 23, he gave them seven words, actually eight words. One was the beginning word was the Shabbat or the day of cessation from labor once a week, the seventh day. Then he gave them seven other mo'adim or appointed times. We call them the feasts of the Lord. They're set forth there in Leviticus chapter 23. Four of those fall in the spring. Three of those fall in the fall. And we are now in the fall period.

And so the first of those fall feasts was called Yom Teruah, the blowing of trumpets, and that began about eight days ago. It was a call to repentance. It was a call to the Jewish people throughout the world, pursuant to the Torah, to get their hearts and acts in order because 10 days later was going to be the highest holy day of the year called Yom Kippur.

And Yom Kippur this year starts on Sunday evening. On Sunday evening, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, called the highest holy day of the year, and then followed from that with the Feast of Tabernacles or the presence of God. And so we want the presence of God. That is ultimately the anchor for our souls. But in the meantime, while we're living, we are to follow his precepts which become the ongoing anchor or assurance of our hope in him. And it requires faith.

Faith without works, in other words, without the actions of faith, are dead. Just dead. Even the brother of Jesus said so, James. He said faith without works is dead. So we want to be involved somehow in understanding what God wants from us. Because when we understand what God wants from us, then we are going to have a full assurance of faith. The Bible urges to have to live in a full assurance of faith. Well, what does that look like?

Is it just a feeling or is there more to it than that? We know that we cannot earn our salvation by works, but there has to be some kind of manifestation in our actions that reveal our faith, that reveal what we really believe. And that's what God is after. And so he says this to Israel, "Return unto me, and I will return unto you. Return unto me, and I will return unto you."

You can find those words in that exact form in Malachi chapter 3 verse 7. You might say, well, that's in the Old Testament. We're a New Testament people, so it doesn't apply to us. Oh, yes, it does. It applies even the more so to us. Because if the old covenant was good and righteous and holy, and the new covenant is even better, that means the more so that God wants us to be living in a constant state of returning unto him so that every day is Yom Kippur.

Oh, I never thought about it that way. Well, today you will on this program, and I'm so glad again that you've joined us. I believe that it's conversation with ever-increasing conviction, talk that transforms. And as one person said early on years and years ago when we started this program, you just cannot listen to Viewpoint long and not be changed.

Change is required. God expects us to live in a way that the change that he requires of us can truly be seen and believed in. It's not a wannabe change. It's not just a hope-filled change. It's a real change. Change that he can believe in. Change that he sees from his holy viewpoint that we are truly living as unto him, as the apostle Paul said, for me to live is Christ but to die is gain.

So going back to the anchor, we have an anchor that keeps the soul steadfast and sure while the billows roll. Anybody feeling any billows out there? I think it was Elvis who sang a song, "When the storms of life assail me, stand by me. When the storms of life assail me, stand by me. When I do the best I can and people my friends misunderstand, thou who rulest o'er the battle, stand by me."

How can we be assured that God is standing by us if we don't stand by him? Oh, I never thought about it that way. Jesus said, "I'll never leave you nor forsake you." Yes, but can you leave him? He didn't say you couldn't leave him. He just said, "I'll never leave you nor forsake you." So when the storms of life are sailing, are we standing by him? Do we really have that anchor of hope steadfast and sure, or is there something impairing that hope in our life right now? We will be right back.

Narrator: Once upon a time, children could pray and read their Bibles in school. Divorces were practically unknown, as was child abuse. In our once great America, virginity and chastity were popular virtues and homosexuality was an abomination. So what happened in just one generation? Hi, I'm Chuck Crismier, and I urge you to join me daily on Viewpoint where we discuss the most challenging issues touching our hearts and homes. Could America's moral slide relate to the fourth commandment? Listen to Viewpoint on this radio station or anytime at saveus.org.

Chuck Crismier: Yom Kippur begins on Sunday evening. On Sunday evening, it falls on the 10th day of Tishrei, the Hebrew seventh Hebrew month, which roughly corresponds somewhere between September and October each year. It's observed between two other major biblical holidays: the Feast of Trumpets, known as Rosh Hashanah, and the Feast of Tabernacles, which begins on Tishrei 15. So we have these three final feasts of the Lord, which are the three that have not been completely fulfilled yet.

They are yet to be fulfilled. You might say, well, Yom Kippur was fulfilled, we've had the atonement that has been provided to us. But God wants us to walk according to it. So the call to repentance remains the same as it did with Israel. The call to live a holy and righteous life in a spirit of repentance is required of us. For as first John says, if you say that you have not sinned, you make him a liar and his word isn't in you. But if you'll confess your sin, he's faithful and just to forgive our sin and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Isn't that wonderful?

Now you have real hope, an anchor of the soul steadfast and sure while the billows around us roll. And then of course, following that, five days later comes the Feast of Tabernacles, which is the most joyous year of the entire Hebrew calendar. Why is that? It's because their minds and their hearts have been reunited with God, if indeed they took Teshuvah, that is, the feast of the blowing of the trumpets, Yom Teruah, and the Teshuvah that that required, that is, repentance, and the feast of Yom Kippur. They took those seriously the way God intended them to be taken. Then they are going to be looking forward to the presence of God in a very joyous way, and that, friends, stands representative of the eternal glory in the presence of God.

So there is the symbolism of those three feasts or mo'adim appointed times that God gave to Israel. And because the Jewish people have not yet embraced Yeshua Jesus as Messiah, as Savior and Messiah, they still are bound by the law. They still are, they're still bound by the law by their own commitment, by their own attestation, by their own words, by their own failure to believe the fulfillment of that which was presented to them, yes, even in the Torah. And so they're bound to that.

And because they have no temple now, they can't even fulfill the requirements of the law. The temple has not been around since 70 AD when the Romans under the Roman general Titus came in and destroyed the temple, the temple mount, just as Jesus had said some 40 years earlier when he said not one stone is going to be stacked upon another here, it's all going to be gone. And indeed it was. So they've not had a temple to sacrifice in, so they've had no shedding of blood and no remission of sin as required in the Torah for their sins.

So what are they going to do? Well, here's what happened, and it's very interesting how this took place and it shows you how prone we are as human beings to substitute for what God has said. So largely due to the influence of one man, Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai, he was a well-known rabbi during the days of the Roman destruction of the temple. History records this: As Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai was coming forth from Jerusalem, Rabbi Joshua followed after him and beheld the temple in ruins, saying, "Woe unto us!" Rabbi Joshua cried that this, the place where the iniquities of Israel were atoned for, is laid waste.

Rabbi Yohanan responded saying, "My son, be not grieved. We have another atonement as effective as this. And what is it? It's acts of loving-kindness." Oh, in other words, this rabbi substituted good works for the shedding of blood for the salvation and cleansing from sin. So upon the words of this one rabbi, Israel abandoned atonement through the blood and sought it instead through Mitzvot or good works. So with no temple in existence today, there is or are no sacrifices, and there's no sacrifice for sin. Therefore, the only thing the Jewish people are left with is good works. Mitzvot, good works. And they talk about it continually.

The redemption of the world, helping the world to live morally, all these kinds of things. That is Judaism today. But what did God require? There's only one day of the seven feasts of the Lord that God mandated the children of Israel fast for the whole day, and that's Yom Kippur, the day of atonement. Why is that? Because he wanted them to take that day deadly seriously. That's why.

It followed 10 days of awe in which the children of Israel were to be seriously considering God's call to them through the blowing of the trumpet, Yom Teruah, the blowing of the trumpet, the call to repentance. And then on Yom Kippur, the whole thing was coming to a culmination and they were to fast and pray and allow the Holy Spirit, the Ruach HaKodesh, to pierce their hearts and their minds to call to remembrance the things wherein they had erred from God and his word and his requirements, in order that they might be restored with an anchor of hope.

But generally speaking, they didn't get it. Even after going through Yom Kippur, they still didn't get it because they didn't understand how they had erred or walked away from God and his expectations. They thought God's desire was that they be happy. God said no, my desire is that you be holy. I didn't call you to be a happy people, I called you to be a holy people. And if you would be a holy people, you would more likely be the happiest people on earth.

But if you will not walk in holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord, then you're not going to be happy. You may pretend to be happy, you may be happy for a little while in your remarriages or in your divorces or in your hookups or cohabitation, in all these different things. There are so many things that we can lay out there. Filching off of an employer, for instance. The things that belong to the employer and taking this, that, or the other because you feel entitled to do so. It's called thievery. What do you call it? Entitlement?

I mean there's so many things. Let the Holy Spirit guide your mind and your heart. That's the whole purpose, not to have somebody tell you exactly what your particular sin is. That's what God gives his spirit for, to convict of sin. Now, it's interesting when Charles Finney, the lawyer-turned-evangelist back there in the mid-1830s, when he preached there in Rochester, New York, or elsewhere along the east coast, when he preached there, it said that when he opened his mouth, it was as if a rifle went off.

What does that mean? In other words, what he did, he took the word of God and spoke it so directly that the lawyers and the judges and the jailers and the bar holders and everybody else in the city that were in that Presbyterian church at that time, they were so stricken by the conviction of the Holy Spirit that they repented and the whole city was shaken. So much so that the jails emptied. The bars emptied. In other words, there was action to reveal the so-called belief and repentance.

So great was the action, friends, that Readers Digest 150 years later was looking for what they were looking for, the happiest or kindest city in America. And guess what city they latched onto? Rochester, New York. Not because Eastman Kodak was there, but because of the radical change that had occurred there 150 years earlier, the positive consequences of joy that were echoing down to 150 years later. The ministry of Charles Finney. Who would have ever believed it?

I record a lot of that in my book, *Renewing the Soul of America*. You might want to get a copy of that. It's fascinating. I was talking to a man just this last week who came from Rochester, New York, and I mentioned Charles Finney. He said, "Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Things really changed with Charles Finney up there in my city." Yeah, so he was supporting everything that I had written in that book, *Renewing the Soul of America*. It's yours, by the way, on the website for $15. A revolutionary book, change your heart.

So in any event, what we're trying to do is translate what God wants from us. That's the whole goal of these three fall feasts: the blowing of trumpets, the call to repentance, called Teshuvah, and then 10 days later after 10 days of awe, in other words, recognizing that God is God. Don't mess with God, he's God, and he's trying to get our attention. So let's respond to it. Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, which the Jewish people will celebrate all over this world on Sunday evening, starting Sunday evening and through Monday.

Then five days later comes the Feast of Tabernacles, the most joyous time of all of the Hebrew calendar. And friends, that's what we want in our hearts. Let there be joy, real joy, unadulterated joy. Let Jesus come into your heart and not only reconcile you to God through repentance, but encourage you and enable you to walk with victory as an overcomer from that time on. Then you will have joy with God and you'll have peace with God and you'll have the anchor that keeps the soul steadfast and sure while the billows around you are rolling.

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Well, I want to move on here and take a look at what happens, what's happening with regard to the Jewish people, for instance, with regard to this requirement of fasting. So I asked the infamous wisdom of Google via AI (almost intelligent) how American Jews observe Yom Kippur. And here it is: Fasting. Between 50 and 60% of American Jews fast for 25 hours, abstaining from food and drink. 50 to 60%. Okay.

Many American Jews take time off from work and attend synagogue services, even if they don't regularly attend weekly services throughout the rest of the year. In other words, there's no commitment there. They're just going through the motions. We're going to go through the motions and pretend to be walking with God. We're going to pretend to get our lives right but we're not really care that much about it because the rest of the week or the rest of the year we're not really interested in that. Sounds like a lot of Christians, doesn't it? And then roughly 43% of American Jews consider Yom Kippur the most important Jewish holiday, really to them personally.

Okay, so where's the change? Where's the change you can believe in? That's the real issue. Where's the change you can believe in? In Israel now, about 70% of Jews fast on Yom Kippur. In other words, about 20% more than in America. So apparently American Jews have fallen away for the faith of Judaism far more than the Israeli Jews. Is there something about the spirit of America that causes us to think pridefully about our relationship with God and to pretend to walk with him while we're really pursuing happiness rather than holiness?

These kind of things, friends, help us to understand where we really are. A fascinating article came out with Israel National News today. It's called "Teshuvah Begins With a Verb." And I want to share some of the thoughts here with you because they apply to us as Christians. As professing Christians. People maybe you're attending church every week. Attending church is not the thing that God ultimately is looking for. It's good that we are involved with other believers, yes, but that's not ultimately what God's looking for.

He's looking for people who obey his voice, who do his will, no matter what anybody else is doing or not doing. That's what he's really looking for. So let's see what this rabbi has to say, Michael Freund, concerning this matter of Teshuvah or repentance. It's fascinating. We'll be right back.

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Chuck Crismier: Again, I welcome you back to Viewpoint. We're going to wrap up here today with an article from Israel National News, Rabbi Michael Freund writes a piece called "Teshuvah Begins With a Verb." Words matter enormously. Yom Kippur is filled with them. We confess, pray, plead, and ask to be forgiven. But our words have to result in something. Now, this is a message, friends, coming from a Jewish rabbi that it's hard to get directly from an American pastor today. It just is, because they think it's too direct.

But let's hear what this rabbi has to say. He says the Haftarah or message for Shabbat Shuva, taken from Hosea 14 verses 2 to 10, begin with these words: "Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled in your sin." Notice the words "Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God." Now those are the same words basically that Malachi gave. God says to Malachi to speak to the leaders of Israel, "Return unto me, and I will return unto you."

Okay, that's the theme. Who is supposed to return? God? No, because he didn't leave us. Who left? We did. Israel did. The church does. Professing Christians do. You and I do in a whole bunch of different ways. Gradually over time, we gradually drift away from our true fellowship with the Lord in the light of his word. But if we're walking in the Lord and the light of his word, what a glory he sheds on our way. When we do his good will, he abides with us still and with all who will trust and obey, right? So we trust and obey for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey. You see, happiness comes after holiness, not before.

So this writer goes on to say it is from this verse there in Hosea that the Shabbat, that is Sabbath between Rosh Hashanah, the blowing of trumpets, and Yom Kippur, takes its name. Shuva means return. It is a verb, a call to action. Hosea is not offering a meditation on repentance or asking the Jewish people merely to feel remorse over the past. He's telling them to turn around. Get moving in a different direction. In other words, change course.

He says that distinction is particularly important during the 10 days of repentance. We've heard the shofar, the warning, we think about the year that has passed, where we have fallen short, in other words, where we've not kept up in obedience and faithfulness to God's expectations for our lives. Yet it's entirely possible to emerge from Yom Kippur deeply moved and essentially unchanged. That's American Christianity, friends. Emotionally charged, little change.

That's why feelings have become Lord and Jesus has become little more than a mascot. Because our religion has become emotional rather than actual. We don't change. There's no change you can believe in. So even whole areas of our theology are telling people that you can accept Jesus, you can receive Jesus in some emotional experience, and you can live like you want for the rest of your life. That's what they say. That's their theology. How can you with a straight face believe that and teach that when what you're basically doing is telling people that they don't have to walk with the Lord in the light of his word and follow it? That somehow they're going to have the favor of God when in fact they're not walking with him in spirit and in truth.

It's a mockery. You need to really think about some of these things. The Torah's concept of Teshuvah, that is repentance, demands more than just feelings being deeply moved or an emotional response. The word itself comes from the root Shuv which means to return. A person who discovers that he has been traveling in the wrong direction at some point has to give recognition to that and to give way to movement in the right direction.

But Teshuvah requires a person to abandon the sin, remove it from his thoughts, and resolve not to repeat it. Regret and confession are central processes, but they are meant to bring about an actual change in conduct. If our prayers, he says, have become rushed or routine, if Shabbat Sabbath has become too casual for us, if there's someone we have wronged in word or in deed or have disobeyed the Lord, maybe the lasting change begins on a very small scale.

Like the song that we used to sing, "Open my eyes that I may see wonderful truths that you have for me." Open my eyes that I might see. Maybe there are habits that we've carried for years, parts of our religious lives that have become routine. But Teshuvah, repentance, does not begin by asking us to fix everything at one time. It begins when we change direction in one real and identifiable way, one at a time. So Hosea's next words say, "Take words with you and return to Hashem," that is, to God. Our words have to result in something.

It's not a vague promise to do better. It's something more specific, a specific commitment that we can begin observing immediately. Decide what it will be. Write it down if necessary. But do it. That's what James, the brother of Jesus, said. Be not deceived. Be doers of the word and not just hearers only, deceiving your own selves. If we really are serious about seeing spiritual revival in America, then we'll hear this message. And individually we'll go before the Lord and say, "Lord, I need to have ears to hear. I need to have a heart to understand. I want to be an overcomer. I don't want to be overcome all the time.

I don't want to walk in this spiritual daze. I don't want to walk in this sense of being overcome and everything around is just constantly assaulting. I want to walk in confidence with you and in the comfort of your Holy Spirit, knowing that I am walking to do your will just like Jesus did." Jesus said, "My will is to do my Father's will, and that's my will, Lord. That's what I want. Instill your will in me. Help me to take your word at face value. Help me not just to take it as some legalistic order, but as a correction to my own heart, that my very heart and my very life is centered on you and your will."

That's not legalism, friends. That's true love. And so Jesus said, "If you love me, you're going to do what I ask you to do. If you don't love me, you won't. But if you do love me and obey my voice, then I and my Father are going to show ourselves to you, manifest ourselves to you." That's a wonderful thing right there in John chapter 14. We're at—we've been at this point for a very long time. We can call it America at the crossroads, you can call it whatever you want.

But the reality is we are not walking in the firmness, the confidence of an anchor of hope because we're not walking according to the word, will, and ways of the Lord. We're just not. We're defying his word, will, and ways. Do you know that in the prophet Malachi spoke to the leaders of Israel, the first application that he made concerning their returning unto him was considering the issue of divorce? Did you know that? Chapter 2.

You guys are crying out to me, all your tears, you're crying out to me about your broken families. He says, "This you have done, covering the altar of the Lord with your tears, weeping and crying out, insomuch that the Lord regards not your offering anymore nor receives it with good will at your hand because you're not serious. The Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth against whom you have dealt treacherously. Yet she is your companion and the wife of your covenant."

"So take heed to your spirit," he says, "because you're dealing treacherously," that's treasonously, "against the wife of your youth. For the Lord God, the God of Israel, says he hates putting away." So if God hates something, friends, then we should hate it. God goes on to say through Malachi to the religious leaders of his day, these were the head honchos of religious faith, "You have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet you say, 'Wherein have we wearied him?' When you said, 'Everyone that does evil is good in the sight of the Lord.' And 'Where is the God of judgment?'"

Pretty powerful stuff. Pretty powerful stuff for these potent times in which we live. So I want to kind of wrap this up with some thoughts here that kind of show, tie this together a little bit. Look, as a lawyer, words matter to me. They should matter to you. God's word matters to him. In fact, his word will not return void. He said so. He doesn't intend for it to be dealt with lightly, trivialized, rationalized, distorted.

He wants us to take him as a Father at his word. Words matter, friends, but words are very cheap. Words unaccompanied by corresponding action are little more than hypocrisy wrapped in emotional intent. Let me repeat that. Words unaccompanied by corresponding action are little more than hypocrisy wrapped in emotional intent. And think about this: the road to hell, we say, is paved with good intentions.

If we want an anchor of hope that is steadfast and sure, then we're going to follow the word, will, and the ways of the Lord. We're just going to do it. And we're going to heed the call to repentance. The trumpet is sounding that shall never call retreat. God is sending forth his army before his judgment seat. As Harriet Beecher Stowe said, "Oh be sure my soul to answer him, be jubilant my feet because his truth is marching on."

It's marching on right now. Right this moment. And the Holy Spirit is speaking. Somebody is listening today whose life is going to be completely changed. Why? Because you decided, "I'll follow Jesus. No turning back. No turning back. The cross before me, the world behind me. The cross before me, the world behind me. The cross before me, the world behind me. I won't turn back. I won't turn back." And then the Holy Spirit will continue to guide you and convict you where necessary. That's a wonderful good thing, friends, when the Holy Spirit convicts. It's like a father who loves you or a mother who loves you and says, "You know, I need to point this out to you what you did. You really upset this household when what you said or what you did, it's not in accordance with the ways of this household." And that's what God's saying to us.

I hope this program is meaningful to you here today to translate in very real terms, very real ways, what God is looking for in our lives. Get a copy of the book, *The Power to Overcome, How to Triumph in Troubled Times*. It'll, it'll help you so much, my friend, it really will. It'll encourage you deep in your spirit. $25 on the website saveus.org, call us 1-800-SAVE-USA or write to us at Save America Ministries. Do it today. Become a partner. Don't delay. Do it today. God bless.

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