Last month, I opened this short series on “What Kind of People You Are to Be?”. It is crucial to understand the times that we are living in and to regain a sense of urgency in preparation for Yeshua’s return. Part I listed several key indicators that we have entered the final stages of human…
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Day 112 of the war and the dark cloud of mourning and grieving over this nation grows ever larger. One of the more tragic events took place a few days ago as 21 young reservist soldiers were killed when the building they were preparing for detonation was fired upon by terrorists, causing an explosion and…
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John 17:9-10 I ask on their behalf. Not on behalf of the world do I ask, but on behalf of those You have given Me, for they are Yours. All Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been glorified in them. According to this verse, Yeshua is “asking” on our behalf. But,…
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John 17:7-8 Now they have come to know that everything You have given Me is from You. The words, which You gave Me, I have given to them. They received them and truly understood that I came from You, and they believed that You sent Me. This needs to be addressed on several levels. First,…
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In that day you will no longer ask me anything. Very truly I tell you, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my Name. Until now you have not asked for anything in my Name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete – John 16:23-24 (NIV). When we see…
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John 17:6 I have made Your name known to the men of this world that You gave Me. They were Yours; You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. Yeshua begins the second paragraph of His prayer with a restatement of the mission for which He was sent … to make God’s…
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John 17:5 Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world came to be. Yeshua’s prayer (all of John 17) is arranged in orderly thought groupings we have formed into paragraphs. Here in verse 5, Yeshua is providing us with the closing sentence of His first…
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“… What is your name? Jacob, he said. Then He said to him, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but rather Israel, for you have struggled with God and men, and you have overcome.” Gen. 32:25-29 (TLV) We have all had times in our lives which at best can be defined as seasons of…
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John 17:4 I glorified You on earth by finishing the work that You have given Me to do. So much in this verse. Yeshua is continuing in prayer, and begins speaking prophetically. He speaks of finished work, even though it would be another 15 hours before Yeshua would speak from the cross … John 19:30…
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John 17:3 And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Yeshua the Messiah, the One You sent. Rabbi Trail: My proposition is that the gospel (good news) can be preached from any verse of Scripture. (This may depend on the preacher’s ability to rightly divide the word of…
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