RABBI SCHNEIDER>> (Music) We
believe that Jesus died on the
cross for our sins and we ask
him to forgive us. But do we
really believe that he has?
Beloved, stay tuned and
receive God's Word in your
heart in this very important
edition of Discovering the
Jewish Jesus.
(Music)
(Shofar Blowing)
ANNOUNCER>>Rabbi Schneider is
a voice crying out in our lost
world, pointing mankind to
Jesus today.
CYNTHIA SCHNEIDER>> (Music)
Shalom, I'm Cynthia, Rabbi's
wife. Beloved, we are so
thankful for what God is doing
in people's lives through this
ministry all around the world.
I pray right now that whatever
you need in your life, God
will minister to you as Rabbi
teaches and preaches God's Word.
RABBI SCHNEIDER>>God bless you
and Shalom, beloved ones.
I'm gonna be sharing with
you today one of the most
important words that I've ever
delivered in my whole life. I
originally preached this Word
during the holy day of Yom
Kippur, the Day of Atonement.
But the profound truth
contained in this message,
beloved one, is applicable to
our lives 365 days a year. I'm
calling the message Releasing
Forgiveness, releasing and
receiving the forgiveness
that's ours which is at the
center, beloved, of what Jesus
brought to us. I want you to
know, the truths that I'm
gonna proclaim today, they're
not new. And yet I believe
Father's gonna apply them to
your heart in such a way that
through his grace, you're
gonna enter into a new level
of enjoying his presence and
building healthy relationships
in your life. Some of you are
gonna be able to let go of
people that you've been
offended with. And you know
what's gonna happen? You're
gonna be released yourself
into the freedom of Jesus. God
bless you, beloved. I love
you and Shalom.
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Father God, we love
you and Father God,
we know that there's a
special window open right now
in your Spirit as we're in the
midst of these fall Holy Days.
My Father, know so many times
in my life during this season
of the Feast of Trumpets, Rosh
Hashanah, and Yom Kippur,
and then into the Feast of
Tabernacles, you've just done
something in me, Father. It's
like you've added something
new to my life. You've brought
me from one degree of glory to
the next degree of glory. And
I know Father, that there's an
opportunity tonight and during
this season for your people to
receive something new and
something fresh. And Father,
right now I just declare over
your people a fresh wave of
your Spirit. Father God, I
want to thank you that you
love us so much and by very
nature you're always giving to
us; Father, there is always
something new emanating from
you, that there's never a
second, even though you exist
outside of the realm of time,
Father, that there's never a
second where you're not
pouring out. It's just by
definition who you are. And
Father, you said to as many as
received you to them you gave
the right to be called the
children of God. Father, we
just want to tell you tonight
that we love you, and Father,
that we need you. And Father,
it's our desire that our
hearts would be open to
receive the fresh revelation
and the fresh seed, Father,
that you want to place in our
hearts tonight. Father, thank
you for your desire to bless
us; and Father, in faith we
say thank you, believing,
Father, that even now, Father,
that we are receiving
something. And I declare,
Father, that as I preach your
Word, you're gonna make a
deposit, Father, in to your
people's lives; that there's
gonna be an unfolding of the
Holy Spirit, that Father,
people's hearts are gonna be
melted, that people's lives
are gonna be changed; that
people, Father God, are gonna
be able to come out of the
darkness and into your
glorious light in a greater
way. Father, I declare that
people will be stepping in to
a new level of freedom tonight
as your Word is preached, for
you have told us that when you
send forth your Word, it will
go forth and will accomplish
everything that you purposed
it to do. Father, I thank you
for the hungry ones tonight
and I speak a blessing, Father
God, and declare impact in
their lives and over their
lives, in Jesus's name. All
God's people said hurrah, and
Amen and Amen. You know, one
of my favorite Scriptures,
beloved ones, is found in the
Book of Leviticus. We call the
Book of Leviticus in Hebrew
the Book of Vayikrah. And in
the Book of Leviticus, chapter
17, verse 11, we read these,
get this now, foundational;
these words are just so
foundational. I mean if
you want to memorize some
Scriptures, this is one of the
most fundamental Scriptures to
memorize, to have a foundation
for your faith in Jesus as
being the only way to God.
Leviticus, chapter 17, verse
11 says this: The life of the
flesh, the Lord said, is in
the blood, and I have given it
to you on the altar, saith the
Lord, to make an atonement for
your soul; for it's the blood,
saith the Lord, by reason of
its life that makes atonement.
You see this is a phenomenon
that is really outside of the
mind of modern men. It's
outside the "genius" of modern
men. In other words, if we
as human beings that are
functioning in the natural
realm ask ourself what is the
seat of, of, of, of life? In
other words, if you look at a
human being and ask what is
the seat of their life? Many
people will say, well it's
their heart. The heart is the
center of their life force.
Some people might say, no it's
in the mind, that it's the
mind that's the center of
life. But you know what? The
Word of God tells us that,
that man's life is
fundamentally located, get
this now, Church, not in the
heart and not in the mind, but
that somehow man's life is
centered, get this now, in the
blood; for it's the blood, the
Lord said, by reason of its
life that makes atonement. We
don't understand the mystery
of blood and what's in the
blood. You see, when Jesus was
on the cross his fulfillment
of completing that which he
came to do which was to
provide forgiveness of sin, it
didn't happen, listen, until
the soldier took the spear and
put it in his side so that the
blood ran out. Man's life is
focused in the blood. And God
covers man's sin, listen now,
when an innocent life is given
on behalf of the guilty one,
and the symbol of the life
having been given is when
that, that life's blood is
shed. We see this concept
beginning to unfold, beloved,
all the way back at Passover.
What happened at Passover? God
was about to move through the
land of Egypt and judge for
sin, but he wanted to protect
his people. His people were
guilty too. No one's perfect.
His people also were guilty
and the Bible says, the soul
that sins, it shall die; that
none are without excuse, that
all are guilty before God. So
when Father God's judgement
was about to move through the
land of Egypt, beloved ones,
3500 years ago; forgive me
tonight for continuing to mess
with my ear piece here but I'm
gonna kind of have to keep
doing that, so bear with me.
When he was about to move
through the land of Egypt,
beloved ones, to judge sin,
what did he tell Israel to do?
He told them, get this now, to
take a lamb, an unblemished
lamb. Why did the lamb have to
be unblemished in the Book of
Exodus, chapter 12? It had to
be unblemished because it was
a symbol of the fact that the
lamb was sinless. The lamb had
to be selected, an unblemished
lamb without defect. And then
they had to get familiar with
the lamb. In other words, the
lamb became one of their own.
They brought the lamb into
their home. It became a
familiar friend. And after the
lamb had become a familiar
friend, what happened? They
took that lamb, beloved, and
they sacrificed that lamb. And
what they did was they took
the blood of that lamb after
eating it; they had to partake
of the sacrifice. And after
they ate of the sacrifice,
beloved, they took the blood,
get it now, once again the
principle of the blood. They
took the blood of that lamb
and they applied it on their
door post. And God's Word
tells us that when he moved
through the land of Egypt that
night, when God, when his
angel of judgement moved
through the land of Egypt that
night to judge for sin, the
Scripture tells us that every
home that was under the blood,
the blood was on the door
post, judgement passed over.
Now tonight we're talking
about Yom Kippur, but I want
to just begin to give you a
historical trail how it's
always been the blood that
has provided the means for
atonement. This is the Day of
Atonement, and what we're
gonna find, beloved, is that
Jesus fulfills this principle
of what I'm calling
substitutionary sacrificial
atonement that we see modeled
first in the Old Testament in
the Torah; that an innocent
one had to die in the place of
the guilty one. The innocent
had to become a substitute and
it had to be sacrificed in the
place of the guilty one for
the guilty one to be able
to go free and to escape
judgement. Again, I like
to call it substitutionary
sacrificial atonement. Here's
what you need to understand,
beloved one, this is so
critical. The way that Father
is able to forgive sin is not
to just pat somebody on the
back and say, you know what,
it's no big deal. Let's forget
about it. That's not how sin
is forgiven. It's impossible
to forgive sin on that basis
because to simply pat us on
the back and to say forget
about it, it's no big deal,
beloved, that does not
satisfy, get this now, God's
justice. You see, the Lord
told us in the Book of
Ezekiel, chapter 18, verse 4,
these words; hear the Word of
God: Behold, the Lord said,
Ezekiel, 18:4, all souls are
Mine; the soul of the father
as well as the soul of the son
is Mine. The soul who sins
will die. We see this evidence
with Adam and Eve. The Lord
said as soon as you eat from
the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil, the Lord said,
you will die. You see, the
wages of sin is death. And so
Father God cannot forgive sin
just simply by waving it away
and saying it's okay, let's
forget about it. It wasn't a
big deal. No, his justice has
to be satisfied. And what is
the penalty for sin? We just
got done reading in Ezekiel,
18, the soul who sins will
die. Paul tells us the same
thing in the New Testament,
that the wages of sin is
death. So the way that Father
is able to forgive sin and
satisfy his justice at the
same time is when an innocent
one dies in the place of the
guilty one. And when an
innocent one dies in the place
of the guilty one, God can
forgive the guilty one on the
basis of an innocent one was
just sacrificed for him. And
in so doing, Father God is
able to fulfill both his, get
this now, his justice and the
attribute, hear me now,
beloved one, of his mercy. You
see, it's only in Messiah
Jesus that God could satisfy
both his need for justice and
his desire for mercy. And
Father's desire to show mercy
is even greater than his
desire to sow justice. But
because of his moral make up
he must show justice. And so
the principle that we see
executed in the Hebrew Bible
and then fulfilled in Messiah
Jesus is that Father is able
to satisfy both his justice
and his mercy by providing a
sacrifice for sin. When an
innocent one dies on the
guilt's behalf so that Father
can forgive the guilty one. An
easy way to understand this
would be this. If you owed
somebody a million dollars,
and Jesus told this parable,
if you owed somebody a million
dollars; he didn't use these
exact terms but he used the
same concept. If you owed
somebody a million dollars and
could never repay them, how
could you ever get free from
that monkey, from that burden,
from that debt on your back?
How could you ever be released
from that debt that you could
never repay? Only one way, if
you could never repay it, the
only way you could get
released from it, beloved one,
hear me, is if someone paid
your debt for you. That's
exactly what Jesus did. It's
like you owing somebody a
million dollars that you could
never repay and having that on
your back, crushing you down,
but then somebody comes up and
pays that one you owe money
to. And he says, here's a
million dollars. On his
behalf, on her behalf, release
them now. I've paid their
debt. And on the basis of
that, beloved, you've been
freed. That's what Messiah
Jesus did for you.
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RABBI SCHNEIDER>>Beloved,
thank you so much for sending
me around the globe to preach
the Gospel through on the
ground crusades like this and
through television. You truly
are playing a part in what
Zechariah prophesied in
Zechariah, 8:23, when he said
that in the last days ten men
from all nations will take
ahold of the garment of a Jew
and say we want to go with you
for we know that the Lord is
with you.
ANNOUNCER>>Now, back to today's
program.
RABBI SCHNEIDER>> (Music) As
we're celebrating Yom Kippur
this year, I want you to hear
me. Your debt has been paid.
Listen to me. You have been
freed, forgiven and released.
I want to continue to show you
how this principle is rooted
in the Word of God by showing
you the need for an innocent
life to be given on your
behalf so you could be free.
And now that you will
understand fully how it is
that you're forgiven, you're
gonna be able now to receive
that forgiveness because it's
not based on your worthiness.
It's not based on how much or
how little you sin. It's based
on the fact that Messiah Jesus
died for your sin. And because
he died for your sin, beloved,
and paid the price, listen to
me, you are forgiven if you
will receive the gift. Let's
continue on. As we continue,
beloved, I'm reading from the
Book of Romans, chapter number
6, verse 23. Hear the Word of
God. Once again, Paul said:
For the wages of sin is death,
get this now, but the free
gift, the free gift, the free
gift of God is eternal life
through Jesus Christ the
Messiah, through Jesus Christ
the Lord. You see, Hebrews,
chapter 10, verse 4, tells us
that all these sacrifices in
the Old Testament could never
really take away sin, but the
blood of bulls and goats, Paul
said in Hebrews, 10:4, could
never really take away sin,
but they were symbols, they
were foreshadows of what Jesus
could do. It's kind of like a
credit card. When you go to
buy groceries, you pull out
your credit card. You give it
to the cashier. That cashier
accepts your credit card as
real payment, not because your
credit card in itself has any
value, but the credit card is
a symbol of the fact that real
payment is coming. Once that
merchant slides your card,
they know that real payment is
coming. All the blood of the
bulls and the goats, beloved,
that were the sacrifices
in the Old Testament were
accounted for Israel, not
because the blood of the bulls
and the goats had any real
atoning value in and of
themselves to cover their sin,
but because they were symbols
of Jesus. And Father knew that
Jesus was coming and was gonna
fulfill this shadow. Father
was able to overlook the sins
of his people each year. Now
that Jesus has come, beloved,
and shed his blood once and
for all, there no longer needs
to be a sacrifice for sin.
All that needs to happen is for
you and I to fully receive
Jesus into our hearts, to
believe in his love for us,
to declare I am freed, I am
forgiven, I am released.
Jesus, you died for me and I
receive the free gift of
eternal life. You see, some of
you are struggling and you're
allowing the devil to say to
you, yeah, I know that Jesus
died on the cross to forgive
sin, but then you look at
yourself and you have a
hard time receiving that
forgiveness because you think
about some of the things that
you've done, and you look
at your sin and you feel
unworthy. But let me ask you,
what is more powerful, your
sin or Jesus's shed blood?
What holds the greater weight?
Is it your sin that holds the
greater weight or is it
Jesus's blood that was shed
for the sin of all mankind, of
all sins, past, present and
future, including yours,
and tonight, beloved one,
especially yours? What's the
greater weight? The greater
weight, beloved, is in the
blood of Jesus. And to agree
that you shouldn't receive
forgiveness because you're
having a pity party, 'cause
you're agreeing with the devil
and assuming some type of
false humility. What that
actually is doing, beloved
one, forgive me for saying
it so crassly, but that's
spitting in Jesus's face and
spitting on his blood. You're
saying that your sin is more
powerful than Jesus's blood. I
want you to hear me tonight,
beloved, it's a sin to not
receive the forgiveness that
Father is offering us
tonight through his Son.
Beloved, most of us
that are watching this
broadcast today, we say we
believe that Jesus died for
our sins so that we could be
forgiven, but you know what?
Very few of us are truly
walking in the freedom of
truly absorbing what that
means. Many of us haven't even
forgiven ourselves. Many of
us aren't receiving Jesus's
forgiveness because somehow
we're deceived into thinking
that our sin is so bad that
somehow Jesus's death on the
cross doesn't cover us. I want
you to know today the Bible
tells us Jesus released us
from our sin. I want you to
pray with me right now. I'm
gonna ask Father God to come
and so do a work of marvelous
grace in your hearts that you
would truly understand that
you are forgiven. If you're
with me right now and you've
never asked Jesus to forgive
you of your sins and come into
your heart, this is the time
to do that. Father God, we
love you today and we want to
thank you that you love us. We
want to celebrate that today,
Father. Thank you that you
love us so much that you gave
your Son so that we could be
in relationship with you;
that you desire to be in
relationship with us. Father,
we receive right now in
completion the fullness of
what Jesus's death on the
cross meant for us; that he
forgave us, Father, for our
sins; Father, that you forgave
us of our sins, sins past,
sins present, sins future;
that in Jesus we are complete.
Father, your Word says that we
are now standing before you
holy and blameless. And
Father, right now we take our
stand before you as those that
are holy and blameless, whose
sins have been removed as far
as the east is from the west,
that Father, we are now the
righteousness of God and we're
gonna walk in the confidence
of your love for us, and in
the freedom of knowing we are
truly forgiven. Thank you,
Father. We love you in
Jesus's name.
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RABBI SCHNEIDER>>Often times
when we've heard something so
many times, it no longer
registers until we hear that
same thing from a fresh voice.
I believe, beloved ones,
Father God has raised me up to
be a fresh voice in the land.
Paul talked about this in the
Book of Romans, chapter 11,
when that he said in the last
days Father would bring Jewish
people like myself to him and
that he would use us to be
life from the dead to the
entire church. I want to thank
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God bless you and Shalom.
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♪ I'm gonna live my life, ♪
♪ I'm gonna live my life ♪
♪ for Yeshua ♪
♪ I'm gonna live my life, ♪
♪ I'm gonna live my life ♪
♪ for Yeshua ♪
♪ As the deer ♪
♪ longs for the water, ♪
♪ so my soul ♪
♪ longs for you. ♪
RABBI SCHNEIDER>>Beloved one,
as we close the broadcast
today, I want to release
Father's blessing on your
life. In Numbers, chapter 6,
verse 24-26, the Lord told
Moses that when these words
are spoken over his people
that he would place his name
on them and bless them.
(Singing in Hebrew)
(Singing in Hebrew)
(Singing in Hebrew)
(Singing in Hebrew)
The Lord will bless you and keep
you. The Lord will make his face
shine on you and be gracious
to you. The Lord will lift
you up with his countenance.
And the Lord will give you his
peace. Maybe you've watched
the broadcast today and Jesus
is knocking at the door of
your heart, and you've never
invited him into your life
before, and you'd like to do
that right now. Just repeat
after me. Just say, Lord Jesus,
I believe that you came
and died for my sins, and I
receive you into my life right
now. Thank you for dying for
my sins and taking my place on
the cross. Come inside and
live in me now. Jesus, I give
my life to you. If you just
prayed that prayer for the
first time, let us know.
God bless you, beloved ones.
I love you and Shalom.
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