What does Jesus have to do with Yom Kippur?
Yom Kippur, otherwise known as the Day of Atonement, is the most Holy Day in all of Judaism. It comes 10 days after the start of the Jewish New Year, this year September 4th. This means that today at sundown begins the Day of Atonement. Even secular Jews may find themselves in synagogue today. It is a day of repentance, of asking for forgiveness, and for making plans for the year to come.
I make it a habit to re-post this post every year on Yom Kippur hoping that a Jewish friend might read and finally get it or someone may just happen upon this through some search engine. Jews who don’t go to synagogue all year will today. For those of you who read my stuff regularly, but haven’t heard this I’ll take you to lunch if it isn’t worth your time to listen to this.
Lon Solomon is a Jew, a Messianic Jew, who believes that Jesus is the Messiah and his message points to it so clearly in this link.
If you are a Jew. I promise it will be the best time you spend all day long. If you aren’t a Jew, it’s still going to be eye-opening.
This is a TREMENDOUS TEACHING on the connection between the Messiah, Jesus Christ, and the most holy day in all of Judaism.
ENJOY!
No better advertisement than a personal invitation
David Timms is one of my favorite teachers. I call him friend even though we don’t speak much or see each other often. I know that with everything he writes and publishes comes from a very significant and deep understanding of what it means to be Jesus’ people. Here is what he said in his last post,
Church planters feel this pressure as much as anyone. Indeed some church-planting models require considerable support and resources before they even launch.
Then we open up Matthew 10 and it wriggles beneath our skin. Jesus prepared to send out His disciples and declared:
9-10 “Don’t think you have to put on a fund-raising campaign before you start. You don’t need a lot of equipment. You are the equipment, and all you need to keep that going is three meals a day. Travel light.
Jesus looks at His disciples and tells them to drop the props and leave the lights. To paraphrase Him, He declares what all of us need to hear. “You are the message.”
That’s my heart. We don’t need the big crowd. We need people to stick with it, and no amount of money we spend on a campaign will be as successful as you and I inviting people to be regenerated with us. This weekend, you get to do that.
Go here to read all of David’s post.
9 Things You Need To Know In Order to Plant a Church
OBEY
I used to be a conference junkie thinking that somehow I would find the magic bullet to ministry. I wanted ministry to be easy. I wanted ministry to make an impact. I wanted lives to be changed. I wanted it to be exciting and fun. Often ministry ultimately ended in being disheartened.
After about 15 years of ministry I went on a conference fast. I pledged to not go to another conference until I actually had the influence necessary to do what I was being inspired to do. What began to register over the last five years of that fast is that ultimately my satisfaction in being a minister was intimately tied to my being obedient to God’s call on my life. It had very little to do with the other stuff I was chasing.
It may never happen, but if one day someone asks me to give a talk at one of those conferences or a publisher asks me to write a book about how to go about planting a church I’m sure I’d be able to come up with a list of ten or even 1000 things that had to be in place for Regeneration to be successful. However, ultimately, and I mean essentially, the only thing that really matters is OBEDIENCE.
It doesn’t matter if it is doing ministry, planting a church, raising a family, building a passionate and faithful marriage all comes down to OBEDIENCE.
If God calls and your spouse affirms that calling, then refuse to hesitate to go to the place He has called you and do the thing He has called you to do no matter what anyone else says.
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“Does the Lord take pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrificesas much as he does in obedience?Certainly, obedience is better than sacrifice;paying attention is better than the fat of rams.” Samuel to Saul (1 Samuel 15:22)