"Grace After Meals, Phylacteries Of Jesus, Messianic Nomadic Lingo" Ekev Hebrews 11-13

Teaching on Deuteronomy 7-11 and Hebrews 11-13 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Why the wilderness. How to respond to discipline. How to forget God. Birkat ha Mazon, grace after meals in the Bible and Jewish tradition. Meditation on God as consuming fire. Cutting self-righteousness off at the knees. Biblical perspective on modern Zionism. Drashing the land of Israel. Plug for totafot aka tefillin aka phylacteries and proofs that Yeshua wore them. Day of the ecclesia. Sensitive hearts. Meditation on spiritual union with Mashiach. Confronting dispensationalism. Hebrew meaning of faith as emunah and physical act behind it. Power of a woman's faith. Prophecy according to faith. Inclusion in the hall of faith of cowards, doubters, and sheer idiots. Concept of better resurrection. Jewish tradition in Epistle to the Hebrews. How to overcome discouragement. Bitter roots. Language of nomadic wanderers. Now and not yet of the heavenly Jerusalem. Context of Hebrews and plight of first century Messianic Jews. Challenge to anarchistic Messianic mavericks and the hyper idealistic perfectionistic crowd. Responsibility is the heart of leadership.