EliYah:
- All right. I believe we've got Brother Curtis on line one. Shabbat Shalom, brother.
Curtis:
- Shabbat Shalom. I didn't bring my shofar down here, so...
EliYah:
- Oh, okay. I was waiting for the shofar blast.
Curtis:
- We had to travel kind of light. I've got some PVC for the boat building, so maybe I can make up a PVC shofar.
EliYah:
- Well, there you go. How long are you going to be there?
Curtis:
- Next Shabbat, maybe we'll have a shofar. Oh, until the first week of August.
EliYah:
- Okay.
Curtis:
- Yeah, our educational workshop starts up this coming week, but that's all I'm going to say about that, because we're refreshing today.
EliYah:
- Uh-huh.
Curtis:
- We're Shabbatin'.
EliYah:
- Okay, good.
Curtis:
- How is everything there?
EliYah:
- Yeah, we're doing pretty well. Yahweh is good and faithful through it all. We had some trials this week. Yahweh is bringing us through, as always. HalleluYah.
Curtis:
- HalleluYah. Yeah, we've had our share of challenges. It's really amazing. It really is amazing. Praying what His will is for us. I'm trying to get my wife to turn the tone down there. We've got you on the phone. Just praying what His will is and knowing what our options are, as usual.
- One of the first things I learned years ago--I guess, let's see, we're on '08, so almost 20 years for me here on the path in learning with the Master Yahushua.
- One of the first things I learned was in the pros and cons of decisions and all that kind of stuff, as I grew up to learn to make decisions--then with Yahushua trying to figure out what His will is.
- We stepped out on the porch today, so we wouldn't be such an echo, because tile and the Spanish construction here with tile and concrete. It's really nice. We like it. It's real clean and neat.
- But in making decisions, figuring out what we want to do and asking Yahweh what He wants us to do, and then kind of putting ourself aside, figuring out what's fleshly and the Ruach and all.
- It's really amazing. We've had to make some decisions over the past few weeks in dealings with work in South Florida and coming down here. We just didn't want to do it, but in praying about things, we were told to be patient, and just overcome, and hold fast to the righteousness of Yahweh, and deal with people in His way, and He's just blessing us.
- We look back and go, "Wow!" I didn't want to do this or that, but you figure out what you're supposed to do and what you're not supposed to do, which we pray a lot about. It's amazing, looking back, at how He works things out and teaches us.
EliYah:
- Amein. Yeah, He teaches us through the scriptures. He teaches us through our experiences and spiritual revelation. We just have to have our listening ears on and be ready to receive whatever instruction. Through trials, we learn things.
- Sometimes, He's trying to tell us in the scriptures, and we're just not listening close enough, and so He has to find other ways to get our attention. Sometimes that's why we go through trials. Even Yahushua learned obedience through the things He suffered.
- If you're obedient, and there's nothing negative that ever comes out of that, no negative suffering, or any trials, or persecutions, or anything, you haven't quite learned obedience yet.
- You learn obedience when you start suffering for it and when you start to encounter counter-pressure and things that are working against you, as a result of trying to do what's right. That's when you learn obedience.
- We live in a society that's very cushy. We can't even roll down a car window. We've got to push a button. I wonder how many of us are going to endure if the cushiness and niceties are all taken away, because we may suffer as a result of our decision to serve Yahweh.
- That's when we will really, really learn obedience, and we need to be ready for that and not be at ease in Tsiyon all the time. You still with me?
Curtis:
- Yeah.
EliYah:
- All right. So, anything else you wanted to share?
Curtis:
- I was just relating what you were speaking about. The verse that came to my mind, I think, is in Kepha. There's a couple of different letters that mention the trials and how one challenge leads to growth in a certain area, and then that leads to patience, which leads to another area of growth, and which brings about faith, strengthens your faith.
EliYah:
- HalleluYah.
Curtis:
- Pardon?
EliYah:
- I said halleluYah.
Curtis:
- Yeah, we've had quite a few of those instances. The other thing, I've forgotten the last couple of Shabbats, we actually had a request to go to the Golden Corral.
EliYah:
- Oh, yeah.
Curtis:
- So I wore my Yahweh shirt, and I took my tracts. But in Orange Park, I don't know. Nobody asked me anything. We actually saw some bikers for Jesus there, but they didn't ask me anything about my Yahweh shirt, so... But we were thinking about granddad Bob.
EliYah:
- Right, right.
Curtis:
- When we were going, I was like, "Oh, yeah, we're going to have a story. We're going to have a Golden Corral story."
EliYah:
- Mm-hm.
Curtis:
- But I'm sorry, that's our Golden Corral story.
EliYah:
- Well, you know, it doesn't have to be Golden Corral. You can be in a big crowd and people say something to you. It depends on where you're at in the country. Some people, the custom is you just don't walk up and talk to somebody.
- In other areas of the country, everyone just talks to anybody any old time. We happen to live in an area here where everybody stays to themselves, and you have to kind of initiate things sometimes.
- I go just an hour west of here, Springfield, and I wear the t-shirt, and I'll get several comments on it. It's just where you live and how people are there. Of course, Yahweh's Spirit may prompt someone to ask you a question.
Curtis:
- Exactly. Oh, yeah. I pray about it. Of course, that happens a lot. He's the One drawing them. My Yahweh t-shirt stories of late were--a guy was visiting there near Middleburg in Florida, who's in prison. Their only visitation there in that department, which is death row, is on Sunday. There's a lot of priestly guys. I met a group that was a music group there one Sunday recently.
- I was getting ready to check through and check all my stuff. You can't take anything in there. Just check through and go in.
- The lady behind me, an older lady, said, "What religion is that?" It's the shirt that says, "I come in my Father's name, Yahweh and Yahushua." I come in my Father's name.
- "I never heard that. What's that?" So I got to share a little bit. I really like that shirt. A couple of shirts I have from Bob, they do--people have eyes to see, and they ask.
EliYah:
- It'll surprise you, too, who will ask. We drive down the road to go to town, and about half the time we pass a guy who likes to go on walks. It's a kind of dangerous road to walk on, very curvy and hilly, but he walks on the road. Whenever you drive by, he turns around and looks at you and watches you, to make sure you're not going to hit him, I guess.
- I wave every single time I go by, and not once has he ever waved back. I thought, "Okay, I'll just keep waving." Then we happened to get behind him going to Ava, our little town here nearby, and we stopped at the recycling center, and he was there.
- As we went two different ways--there's two different ways you can get there. He went one way, and we went the other. And we went to the recycling center, and I was dropping off my recycling stuff there. We've got tins, and glass, and different things.
- And he looks over at me, and he says, "Hey, I like your shirt." [laughs] It kind of surprised me, because there was a guy that wouldn't even wave to you when you're driving by, but he's saying something to you about your shirt.
- So it kind of opened the door a little bit there. You never know what Yahweh will open up.
Curtis:
- Yep, yep. HalleluYah. I asked some of the band here if they had any scriptures on their heart, and some of them grabbed the books.
EliYah:
- All right.
Curtis:
- I'm not sure what--Sunny? Faith? Oh, okay. Hold on one second.
Faith:
- Shabbat Shalom.
EliYah:
- Shabbat Shalom. Who's this?
Faith:
- Faith.
EliYah:
- Faith. Well, Shabbat Shalom, Faith. Do you have something you want to share with us today?
Faith:
- What?
EliYah:
- Would you like to share a scripture with us today?
Faith:
- Yes.
EliYah:
- All right. We're ready when you are.
Faith:
- Okay.
Psalms 117:1 - Praise YAHWEH, all you Gentiles! Laud Him, all you peoples!
Psalms 117:2 - For His merciful kindness is great toward us, And the truth of YAHWEH [endures] forever. Praise YAHWEH!
EliYah:
- HalleluYah. Very good. Appreciate that. Was that Psalm 117? Tehillim 117?
Faith:
- Yes.
EliYah:
- All right. And that's a good verse. Anything else you wanted to share?
Faith:
- Sunny.
EliYah:
- Sunny would like to share now?
Faith:
- Mm-hm.
EliYah:
- Okay.
Faith:
- Yahweh bless you.
EliYah:
- Yahweh bless you, as well.
Faith:
- Here's Sunny.
Sunny:
- Shabbat Shalom.
EliYah:
- Shabbat Shalom. How are you doing?
Sunny:
- Good. How are you?
EliYah:
- Doing wonderful. And you have something you'd like to share with us?
Sunny:
- Yes.
EliYah:
- All right.
Sunny:
- Tehillim 1.
EliYah:
- All right, one of my favorites. Go ahead.
Sunny:
- Okay.
Psalms 1:1 - Blessed [is] the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;
Psalms 1:2 - But his delight [is] in the law of YAHWEH, And in His law he meditates day and night.
Psalms 1:3 - He shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of water, That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also shall not wither; And whatever he does shall prosper.
Psalms 1:4 - The ungodly [are] not so, But [are] like the chaff which the wind drives away.
Psalms 1:5 - Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
Psalms 1:6 - For YAHWEH knows the way of the righteous, But the way of the ungodly shall perish.
EliYah:
- Amein. Very important that we meditate on Yahweh's law day and night, isn't it?
Sunny:
- Yeah.
EliYah:
- HalleluYah! And anybody else there want to share something?
Sunny:
- No, we're going to sing a song.
EliYah:
- Sounds good.
Sunny:
- Okay.
Curtis and Family:
- [Music Ministry: "Seek Ye First the Kingdom of Yah"]
Curtis:
- HalleluYah.
EliYah:
- HalleluYah!
Curtis:
- Okay, hold on one second.
EliYah:
- All right.
Magnolia:
- Shabbat Shalom.
EliYah:
- Shabbat Shalom. And who's this?
Magnolia:
- Magnolia.
EliYah:
- Magnolia. You have something you would like to share with us?
Magnolia:
- Yes.
EliYah:
- Okay. We're ready when you are.
Magnolia:
- Tehillim 117
Psalms 117:1 - Praise YAHWEH, all you Gentiles! Laud Him, all you peoples!
Psalms 117:2 - For His merciful kindness is great toward us, And the truth of YAHWEH [endures] forever. Praise YAHWEH!
EliYah:
- Praise Yahweh. HalleluYah. Thank you for sharing that. Very, very good. Is Curtis still there?
Magnolia:
- Shabbat Shalom.
EliYah:
- All right, Shabbat Shalom to you.
Curtis:
- Yahweh bless you all. We love you all.
EliYah:
- And you all, as well.
Curtis:
- Bless everyone that's studying with you today in the study.
EliYah:
- Okay. Blessings to you and your family and shalom to your home, brother.
Curtis:
- Shalom.
EliYah:
- HalleluYah. All right, I believe there is someone on line two, if I'm not mistaken. If you'd like to call, our telephone line is free now. Actually, we have two lines. Line one is free.
- It's 417-683-3575 or 866-435-4924, if you'd like to call in with your comments, questions, praise music, whatever you want to share with your brothers out here in cyberspace all over the world. Feel free to call in.
- I believe we have Laura on the line. Shabbat Shalom to you.
Laura:
- Shabbat Shalom. How are you doing today?
EliYah:
- We're doing great. How about you?
Laura:
- I'm fine. Vida is crawling. She's literally getting it. [laughs] Thanks to everybody praying about me having an okay time with her teething. She hardly ever cries when she's teething, but she's finally getting ready to get some teeth out, hopefully.
- If not, I figure I'm going to be going through a whole lot of stress when she does.
EliYah:
- Well, glad to hear that. That's great.
Laura:
- She's getting it finally. She is. She's moving real fast, too, trying to stand up, and she actually can stand up on her baby bed without any help. She does pretty good at that. I'm waiting for her to start walking. I can't wait. I want to be there when it happens.
EliYah:
- That is great. I believe we got KolaYah's first steps on camera, if I'm not mistaken.
Laura:
- Oh, you did? I hope to get hers on camera, but you never know when it's going to happen.
EliYah:
- It actually was Kara's first steps. We have it on camera. She was just a little tyke at that time.
Laura:
- At Feast of Tabernacles, bring it so I can see it.
EliYah:
- I'm sorry. What?
Laura:
- I said at the Feast of Tabernacles, bring it up there, so we can all watch it.
EliYah:
- There we go. Yeah, that would be--I'm sure she would like that.
Laura:
- [laughs] A thing all about Kara's walking. [laughs]
EliYah:
- All right, very well.
Laura:
- There's some little kids here wanting to sing and say Shabbat Shalom.
EliYah:
- All right, sounds good.
Laura:
- Okay, here's one.
Kimberly:
- Shabbat Shalom.
EliYah:
- Shabbat Shalom. Is this Jasmine?
Kimberly:
- No.
EliYah:
- Who is this?
Kimberly:
- Kimberly.
EliYah:
- Kimberly! Okay. Do you have something you want to share with us?
Kimberly:
- No.
EliYah:
- No? Just want to say Shabbat Shalom.
Kimberly:
- Mm-hm. Well, here's Jasmine.
EliYah:
- Okay. Shabbat Shalom to you and Jasmine. Are you there?
Jasmine:
- Shabbat Shalom.
EliYah:
- Shabbat Shalom, Jasmine. Do you have a song for us?
Jasmine:
- Me and my friend does, after my sister--Psalm 57 through 58.
EliYah:
- All right, we're ready when you are.
Jasmine:
- No, she's not reading. Laura is.
Laura:
- I don't know why, but they want me to read Psalm 57, but that's okay.
EliYah:
- Okay.
Laura:
Psalms 57:1 - <> Be merciful to me, O Elohim, be merciful to me! For my soul trusts in You; And in the shadow of Your wings I will make my refuge, Until [these] calamities have passed by.
Psalms 57:2 - I will cry out to Elohim Most High, To Elohim who performs [all things] for me.
Psalms 57:3 - He shall send from heaven and save me; He reproaches the one who would swallow me up. Selah Elohim shall send forth His mercy and His truth.
Psalms 57:4 - My soul [is] among lions; I lie [among] the sons of men Who are set on fire, Whose teeth [are] spears and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.
Psalms 57:5 - Be exalted, O Elohim, above the heavens; [Let] Your glory [be] above all the earth.
Psalms 57:6 - They have prepared a net for my steps; My soul is bowed down; They have dug a pit before me; Into the midst of it they [themselves] have fallen. Selah
Psalms 57:7 - My heart is steadfast, O Elohim, my heart is steadfast; I will sing and give praise.
Psalms 57:8 - Awake, my glory! Awake, lute and harp! I will awaken the dawn.
Psalms 57:9 - I will praise You, O YAHWEH, among the peoples; I will sing to You among the nations.
Psalms 57:10 - For Your mercy reaches unto the heavens, And Your truth unto the clouds.
Psalms 57:11 - Be exalted, O Elohim, above the heavens; [Let] Your glory [be] above all the earth.
EliYah:
- HalleluYah.
Laura:
- And now the kids are going to sing. Here they are.
EliYah:
- Okay, that's wonderful. All right, we're ready when you are.
Laura and kids:
- [Music Ministry: "He's My Rock, My Sword, My Shield"]
EliYah:
- HalleluYah!
Laura:
- One more wants to say Shabbat Shalom.
EliYah:
- Okay.
:
- Shabbat Shalom.
EliYah:
- Shabbat Shalom.
:
- Yeah.
EliYah:
- And who is this?
Jayden:
- Jayden.
EliYah:
- I didn't quite hear your name.
Jayden:
- Jayden.
Laura:
- Jayden.
EliYah:
- Jayden, okay. Well, Shabbat Shalom, Jayden.
Jayden:
- Shabbat Shalom.
EliYah:
- How old are you, Jayden?
Jayden:
- Three.
EliYah:
- Three years old. Well, what a blessing to say Shabbat Shalom to a young three-year-old child. HalleluYah!
Jayden:
- HalleluYah.
Laura:
- He said halleluYah at the end. You just couldn't hear him.
EliYah:
- Okay.
Laura:
- Well, that's it for now. Everyone on the computer, hello. I didn't see Panama Rich on there, so I guess they're not on there today. If they can hear me, hello to them.
EliYah:
- All right.
Laura:
- And my mom said Shabbat Shalom to everyone, as well.
EliYah:
- All right. Shabbat Shalom to her. Good to hear from you all. Yahweh bless you. Have a good Shabbat.
Laura:
- You, too.
EliYah:
- All right, shalom. Laura Fagans there on line two. If you'd like to call in, we have one line free now. There is somebody who is on line one right now. Our telephone number, 417-683-3575 or toll free 866-435-4924. I believe we have Brother Yisrael on line one. Shabbat Shalom, brother.
Yisrael:
- Shabbat Shalom. How are you today?
EliYah:
- Doing great. How are you doing?
Yisrael:
- Oh, I'm doing marvelous.
EliYah:
- HalleluYah.
Yisrael:
- Yahweh is good.
EliYah:
- Amein. Good to hear from you. It's been a little while.
Yisrael:
- It has been, it has been. I've been kind of without computer connections for some time now, and it's good to be able to have internet at the house we're at now in Torah House 2 and have internet connections here at JP's computer.
EliYah:
- HalleluYah. That's great. You finally got your DSL line put in?
Yisrael:
- We did, finally, yeah.
EliYah:
- Good, good.
Yisrael I guess that was about a week ago now.:
EliYah:
- Okay.
Yisrael:
- It's been too long.
EliYah:
- So you're at Torah House 2. For those who don't know, Brother AbiYah Selah there on the chat room, he'll come in, and he is leading a team of Yahweh believers there in Oklahoma in building chicken houses or some kind of poultry house, a research barn or something.
- There's him and three or four other brothers there. He's got a contract for building several barns, and they're out there doing that in different areas. And they usually rent a house, and in this case they call it Torah House 2, because earlier they had a different place they were building out in Illinois.
- Now this is the second one, so the brethren are dwelling together, and it's a great, great thing that's being done.
- They're actually reaching out to others, as well. There's different people out there who need to hear the word. That's the idea, right?
Yisrael:
- It sure is.
EliYah:
- HalleluYah.
Yisrael:
- HalleluYah for that. It's actually really cool. One of the ladies--I was at the worksite one day. One of the ladies had been asking me some questions. It got brought up, "What religion are you?" And I said, "I don't like the word 'religion.' To me, religion is a manmade attempt to recreate your Creator."
- I said, "I don't need to waste my time with religion. I know my Creator." She goes, "Well, that's cool." She goes, "HalleluYah for that. So what not religion are you?"
- And I said, "Well, I believe a lot like the Jews. Keep the feast days, and I call upon the name of Yahweh." And she goes, "Oh, just like Kathy over here!" And I said, "Kathy?" And she goes, "Yeah, this other cleaning lady."
- And apparently there's a little congregation down here about 15 miles from us that it was a church, a Sunday-keeping church, and the pastor comes in one day and says, "You know, guys, we've been all wrong. We're not keeping any of the holidays anymore, the Christmas and Easter, because they are pagan holidays. We're going to start keeping the Hebrew feasts.
- "We're going to be keeping church on the Sabbath, being Saturday. We've been all wrong. We're terribly sorry. We don't want to lead anybody astray. We're really sorry for anything we've said that has led anybody astray. We hope that you all stay with us."
- Almost everybody left. There was only a handful of the people that stuck around. They were like, "We've been doing things wrong?" So it's really cool, because now we're down here, and Neil, and Gabe, JP, and myself have been going over there on occasion on the Sabbath and talking with them, and it's been really cool. It's been a real blessing for us, as well as them.
EliYah:
- That's great. That is really, really great. HalleluYah.
Yisrael:
- Yahweh's been good to me, too. It's really funny. I just called because I was thinking--I wanted to give a shofar blast, as well--but I was driving down the road the other day, and I had visited my dad. My dad flew up to Kansas for a family reunion, and so I had driven up for the family reunion, and I was on my way back.
- I was getting ready to pass a couple of farm machines that were cruising down the road really slow and step on the gas, and all of a sudden I have no power to my vehicle.
- I pull off to the side of the road, and I flip on my dome light, because it's starting to get dark. I see a cable part sitting on the floor right next to my feet, and I'm going, "Great, I just busted gas cable or my accelerator cable.
- For some reason, I just knew right away that that's what had happened. That's not good. So I get out. To make a long story short, the police--there's someone coming to pick me up. The police pull up.
- A sheriff's officer pulls up behind me, and says, "You walked up to this building right here. You had your flashlight in your hand, and they've been having break-ins up there, so we were called, and we just wanted to check out who you are, your vehicle, make sure it's yours," this and that and everything else.
- And I said, "Okay, no problem." Not like it would have mattered if I had a problem with it or not. [laughs] He runs my license plate, asks for my driver's license. I give it to him. He goes away and comes back a little bit later and says to me, "Well, I don't know what you know about this, but your driver's license has been suspended."
EliYah:
- Uh-oh.
Yisrael:
- I said, "My driver's license has been suspended?" He goes. "Yeah, your driver's license has been suspended, but I didn't catch you driving, so I can't do anything about it." And I said, "Okay, well, thank you for that heads-up. I'll make sure I get that taken care of before I drive my truck anymore. I have somebody else that can take it for me. So thank you for that."
- And my aunt and uncle live just about an hour from where I was, and so I said, "Okay, I'll get it taken care of without me dealing with it, really." And he goes, "Yeah, and I wouldn't leave it here overnight."
- And just something inside me said, "No, this is fine. This is fine to leave it here overnight." And I said to him, "Well, I'm not worried about it."
- And I don't know if you've seen pictures of my truck or not, but it's a beat-up old Ford F-150 pickup. It's got handprints painted on it. It's just not a beautiful truck, and I'm not worried about somebody graffiting it. I've already painted it myself. [laughs]
- And he says, "This is a really bad area." And we're on the side of the highway. And I said, "We're in a bad area?" And he goes, "Yeah, this town over here, there's only a handful of kids, but they cause problems." He says, "People are always having their vehicles busted into around here."
- I said, "Oh, well, my truck is fine." Just something within me said, "It is fine here, no problem." I had this peace about leaving it. He goes, "Well, if you're really going to leave it, you might want to leave the doors unlocked."
- I'm thinking to myself, the only thing in the truck, if they start going through the truck, rifling through it, the only thing they're going to find in the glove box is rusty fish hooks.
- Hopefully, they're not going to find them in their fingers, because then they're going to be paying the price for playing with somebody's vehicle, they shouldn't be playing with--a little tetanus shot or whatever.
- I said, "Okay, no big deal." So I took out all the flammable stuff. I took the gas out of the back of my truck, my acetone out of my truck, just kind of cleaned up my truck a little bit, so there wasn't a whole lot of flammable stuff. If anything is going to happen, they'll light it on fire or break out the windows. That's about the worst they could do to it.
- But I wasn't worried about it one little bit. Just something within me just gave me this total peace about it. So I get my stuff into the car of the people who were picking me up. And just before we took off, I said a real quick prayer.
- I said, "Yahweh, you know that when I was in Alton, I anointed my truck with oil, and I said, 'This is your vehicle; it is not mine.'" I said, "Whatever happens to it, happens to it. Just give me a peace if anything happens to it, but I don't really feel like anything is going to happen to it. Protect it."
- I said, "It is your vehicle. Do with it what you want. If somebody else needs it, and they feel like taking it, they can take it. To me, it's just a tool to get around, and you have given it to me. It's not my own. It's just something I've been taking care of."
- And I said, "Whatever happens, happens, Yah. You're in control. You're in charge. Do with it as you will." And I left.
- The next day, I got back, and sure enough, nobody had even touched it.
EliYah:
- HalleluYah.
Yisrael:
- Nothing inside the truck had been moved. Nothing. This officer, when he was telling me about this area--you don't want to leave your truck here--he was pretty adamant. "Your windows are going to get busted out. It's going to be graffitied. It's going to be a wreck. Your tires are going to be slashed. It's just not good. You don't want to leave this here. You don't want to leave it here."
- And just something inside me just gave me this total peace about it. I'm just going, "Okay, Yah, thank you for that peace."
EliYah:
- HalleluYah.
Yisrael:
- "Thank you for your peace, your Holy Spirit that gives us that peace." Because I just knew within me that that was going to be fine being there. Anyway, that was my story, and I just wanted to encourage people out there. When you feel like Yah is giving you peace about something, He's given you a peace.
- The enemy can try to fake a peace for you, but it's never the real thing, and you can always tell the difference.
EliYah:
- Right. Very good.
Yisrael:
- So, anyway...
EliYah:
- Excellent word, brother, sharing that testimony. I'd like to hear more like that out there. I'm sure others have had similar experiences where Yahweh has worked things in their life. That's just one of the little ways He takes care of us, isn't it?
Yisrael:
- It sure is.
EliYah:
- And there's so many other ways He cares for us. I would imagine a lot of them we didn't even know happened. He's a very loving and caring Father. HalleluYah.
Yisrael:
- HalleluYah. Then a funny part about it also was we called around and found out that this accelerator cable would probably cost me to from a dealership, because there was no auto parts stores that had one. I was going to have to wait a day and a half to get one. I wasn't going to be able to get one for a couple of days.
- So we called around to different places and found out all that, and I said, man, this isn't going to work for me. I need to get back on the road, get back to work. So we called one more auto parts store, and they said, "Oh, yeah, we can have one by 2:00 today."
- I'm like, "Oh, that's great. How much?" And they said, "Twenty dollars." I was like, "Wow, halleluYah, Yahweh. Thank you for that!"
EliYah:
- Yeah, right.
Yisrael:
- And I'm thinking this is going to be an ordeal trying to change this. It's going to be a two-hour job, whatever, just trying to get my vehicle fixed. And ten minutes, ten minutes. And I had no clue. I have a little book in my truck that tells you how to fix parts on your truck and everything.
EliYah:
- Right.
Yisrael:
- And I couldn't find this particular part in there. It doesn't tell you how to change the accelerator cable at all. Ten minute fix, and I was back on the road. It was just amazing.
EliYah:
- That's great. And He allows things like that to happen at inopportune times, trials, and different things. I'll tell you an experience I had. It's kind of shameful for me to tell you about it, but I at one time didn't have any conviction whatsoever about driving the speed limit.
- I used to drive back and forth to work, which was about an hour and 15 minutes away, and I was in a hurry one morning. I think I was probably going 70 miles an hour in a 55 zone. And I came upon this school bus that was really, really crawling. I mean, you're talking 10 miles an hour on a 55 mile an hour road.
- And it was a big bright slow bus. I slowed right down and got behind him, and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited for a spot in the road--it was a two-lane highway--where I could actually get around the bus. I didn't understand. He didn't have his flashing red lights on or anything of that nature, just driving ten miles an hour for no apparent reason.
- I couldn't see any car in front of him or anything. Of course, I couldn't hardly see around him. Finally, I got an opening, and I just gunned it and went around him, and in front of the bus was a little Amish buggy and a horse with a gas light you wouldn't even be able to see.
- And I realized that if I was going at the rate of speed I was going and come upon that Amish buggy, I think there would have been men in pine boxes, and it wouldn't have been me. It would have been somebody else. And that kind of taught me a lesson.
- Sometimes things will happen to us where, "Why don't they just hurry up?" or whatever. In this case, your accelerator cable broke, and you're alongside the road in a dangerous area.
- In my case, Yahweh saved me from my own foolishness in driving too fast. In other cases, He may just be wanting to glorify His name and use a situation that may be inconvenient for us, but glory for Him, nonetheless.
- So I later came to the understanding that we ought to abide by the ordinances of the area and land that we live in. Submit yourselves to every ordinance of men, for the Master's sake, and try to live our lives in accordance and in such a way that glorifies Him.
- And, of course, running down the road at 70 miles an hour in a 55 zone doesn't glorify Him at all. It's a sign of impatience, and in this case, someone's life could have been lost by it.
- But Yahweh allowed that to happen. I thank Him for it to this day. I wonder how different my life would be, if I had not had that protection. So, halleluYah! Yahweh used that situation to show you and now all of us that He cares for us.
Yisrael:
- HalleluYah.
EliYah:
- And so that's a blessing.
Yisrael:
- It is.
EliYah:
- HalleluYah.
Yisrael:
- One more real quick, one more funny thing about that story. After I was told my license was suspended, the next day I made a few phone calls to the Arizona Department of Transportation. I said, "I was told yesterday my driver's license was suspended. What was the reasoning for that?"
- They looked on their records and say, "Really?" This is 55 minutes after I call them, of course. I finally go ahold of somebody, and they said, "Okay, your license is suspended. Really? Okay, what's your name? What's your driver's license number?" I gave it to them.
- "Is that the right license number?" "Yes." "You were told your license was suspended?" "Yes." "Well, our records show that it is not suspended. It never has been suspended. There's no holds against your license. Your license is perfectly fine. You have a ticket you got awhile back, but other than that, your license is clean."
- I went, "Oh, okay. I don't know where the officer came up with that information." Again, Yahweh was just taking care of me.
EliYah:
- HalleluYah. That's great, brother. Appreciate you sharing that. You've got a shofar to blast, too, right?
Yisrael:
- I do.
EliYah:
- All right.
Yisrael:
- I do.
EliYah:
- HalleluYah.
Yisrael:
- HalleluYah. [blows shofar]
EliYah:
- HalleluYah!
Yisrael:
- HalleluYah. Praise Yahweh!
EliYah:
- HalleluYah!
Yisrael:
- For He is good, and His mercy endureth forever!
EliYah:
- Amein, amein. Very good, brother. I appreciate you sharing your shofar blast. It's just good to hear your voice every once in awhile.
Yisrael:
- Yeah, some people tell me that. [laughs]
EliYah:
- Yeah, well, we're going to see you here coming up this Feast, right?
Yisrael:
- Oh, I sure hope so. I sure hope so.
EliYah:
- All right. We look forward to that.
Yisrael:
- Yah willing.
EliYah:
- Yahweh willing. And blessings to you and everybody there at the Torah House.
Yisrael:
- Thank you. I'll let them all know.
EliYah:
- All right.
Yisrael:
- Shabbat Shalom.
EliYah:
- Shabbat Shalom to you.
Yisrael:
- May Yahweh's shalom be with you always.
EliYah:
- And you, as well, brother.
Yisrael:
- All right.
EliYah:
- Bye-bye.
Yisrael:
- Bye.
EliYah:
- Brother Yisrael. And that is actually his birth name. He came to this understanding awhile back. Actually a brother and sister living in Arizona had shared some of these things with him, and he received the truth, and been seeking to walk it out ever since. HalleluYah.
- He used to come here regularly to the chat room, but he doesn't have the internet access he used to have. HalleluYah, we are glad to hear from him. Right now, both phone lines are free, if you'd like to call in. Our telephone number, 417-683-3575 or 866-435-4924. We can also take prayer requests, if you'd like, at this time.
- In the meantime, I'm going to share an old song we haven't heard for awhile, and that is, "I Need Some Direction," by Christy Beth.
- [Music Ministry: "I Need Some Direction," "I Love You, Father"]
EliYah:
- HalleluYah. A beautiful song there by Bill Rodgers. We are still taking prayer requests. It looks like we did have a question come through in the chat room. The phone lines are still free, but we did have a question in the chat room, and it was regarding modest apparel. 1 Timothy 2:9 was quoted that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, shamefacedness and sobriety and not adorn hair with gold, pearls, costly array and so on.
- The main thing that concerns me about immodest apparel is the causing of stumbling that can occur in immodesty. According to scripture, we know Adam and Eve tried to clothe themselves with fig leaves. It was considered to be insufficient, and Yahweh gave them robes. That's what they wore.
- The modern standard of modesty, what is that compared to Yahweh's standard of modesty? I think the private parts of the body are supposed to be private parts of the body. I don't think they're supposed to be public parts of the body.
- They are private parts for that reason, and I think the shape of those parts and the revealing of those parts, whatever the form that causes lust--let me put it this way. They don't cause lust. They cause stumbling blocks to cause others to lust.
- That's not good. That is very dangerous, not only spiritually for the person lusting, but also for the person creating the temptation.
- The reason I say that is Yahushua said, "Woe to the world because of offenses, for offenses must come; but woe to that man by whom the offense comes."
- If we're causing offense and stumbling in another, that's not good. We are imitating Satan. That's what he wants to do, isn't it? He wants to cause stumbling in other people. He wants to create temptation in other people and cause them to trip up and sin.
- Of course, it's the person's responsibility to not stumble, but it's our responsibility to not bring things to others that cause them stumbling or bring stumbling blocks to others.
- It's not walking in love when you're creating stumbling blocks in other people by what you wear or by what you do. It's an across the board thing that we need to all be careful about.
- Yahushua would even do things that He didn't need to do, just so He wouldn't cause stumbling in other people. For instance, Matthew 17, Peter was asked, "Does your teacher not pay the temple tax," in verse 24.
Matthew 17:24 - When they had come to Capernaum, those who received the [temple] tax came to Peter and said, "Does your Teacher not pay the [temple] tax?"
Matthew 17:25 - He said, "Yes." And when he had come into the house, Yahushua anticipated him, saying, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth take customs or taxes, from their sons or from strangers?"
Matthew 17:26 - Peter said to Him, "From strangers." Yahushua said to him, "Then the sons are free.
Matthew 17:27 - "Nevertheless, lest we offend them, go to the sea, cast in a hook, and take the fish that comes up first. And when you have opened its mouth, you will find a piece of money; take that and give it to them for Me and you."- So even though He did not have to pay the temple tax, he paid it, so that He would not cause them to stumble. Even if you think you don't have to wear immodest clothing, don't do something that's going to cause someone, especially a brother, to stumble.
Romans 14:19 - Therefore let us pursue the things [which make] for peace and the things by which one may edify another.
Romans 14:20 - Do not destroy the work of Elohim for the sake of food. All things indeed [are] pure, but [it is] evil for the man who eats with offense.- There they have food, and I don't think we should destroy the work of Elohim for anything's sake.
Romans 14:21 - [It is] good neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor [do anything] by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak.- If you do those things, you're no longer walking in love, according to Romans 14. Paul even said, "If my food causes my brother to stumble, I'll never again eat meat, lest I cause my brother to stumble."
Romans 14:13 - Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather resolve this, not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in [our] brother's way.- Anything that's going to create temptation, we're not imitating Yahushua. We're imitating His adversary, who would like to cause Him to stumble and wants to cause everyone to stumble. And we don't want to cause stumbling. That's my concern when it comes to immodest clothing is what kind of stumbling is a person doing?
EliYah:
- Blessed be Yahweh. May He fill you with His Spirit and guide you in all of His ways, as you go out once again to the work week this week and the remainder of this Shabbat. It's always good to be with you. What a blessing. We praise Yahweh for it, in Yahushua's name. May Yahweh be with you and guide you in all your ways. Shabbat Shalom to your home.
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