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Sarah’s plan

As a result of impatience with God fulfilling His promises, and in an attempt to “help” God fulfill His promises Sarah comes up with a plan that has caused trouble for millions of people for thousands of years all throughout the world.

Why did God allow her plan to go through?

What has been the results of her plan?

How did Sarah react when the plan did not turn out how she expected?

What lessons can we learn from it for our lives?

Hagar

Where was Hagar from?

How did she end up being Sarah’s servant?

What twists and turns took place in their relationship?

How does Hagar react to the various encounters she has in this chapter?

Ismael

What did God prophecy regarding Ismael and his descendants?

Has it been fulfilled yet?

God

What important lesson do we learn about God through this whole account?

How does this knowledge of this aspect of God’s character effect our lives?

Those are just a few of the questions Rabbi Jeff Zaremsky will be discussing in this video.

Join as he answers these very important questions.

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Sins of the Amorites Not Complete.

Have you ever wondered why a loving God would destroy innocent men, women, and children?

Any reader of the Bible knows there have been times when God brought down fire and brimstone and destroyed cities, and that he instructed Moses, Joshua, Saul, David, and others to totally wipe out whole cities, villages, and nations with everyone in it regardless of their age, political leanings, or military or civilian status.

At the same time any reader of the Bible knows that the God of the Bible, the Creator God, is very loving, merciful, longsuffering, patient, and not desiring that any should be lost. A God who considers all of humanity His children.

To those who don’t believe in God the above two descriptions of God don’t harmonize. Thus, for them, it is evidence that either God does not really exist and the Bible is just fables, or that God is inconsistent, loving and merciful sometime, but if He gets really angry, or has a bad day, He will just wipe everyone out indiscriminately, and thus can’t be trusted or loved.

But to those who know the Scriptures, and the God of the Scriptures, there is no disconnect between being merciful and not clearing the guilty. “The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.” Exodus 34:6,7.

God is an all knowing merciful judge. He does everything He can to help us pass the judgement, but He gives us free choice and if we really don’t want to live with Him forever He will not force His desires upon us. Thus to those who consistently, knowingly, willingly, rebelliously resist His love and His ways He will not clear them of the guilt, they will face the punishment. That should seem sensible to any reasonable person. Rebellion and peace cannot live together.

The owner of a home cannot allow people to continue to live within it that are constantly willfully going against the desires of the homeowner (unless of course the homeowner is co-dependent). No city, state, or country, which has just and reasonable laws, can fulfill its job to protect its lawful citizens, if it allows open rebellion against its just laws.

But what about the children? How can a three year old have sins so grievous that they deserve death? How can a loving God punish children for the iniquities of their ancestors to the third and fourth generation? That does not seem fair. To understand that… - well for that you have to watch the video.

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Righteousness by Faith – which one?

There are many interpretations to what Righteousness by Faith is. Some seem to teach it as if it was Righteousness by Wishful Thinking. Others as if it is Righteousness by Trying Really Hard. Often theologians throw other words into the mix such as sanctification, justification, imputed, imparted, making it even harder to understand. But it really can be simple to understand, and even easier to experience.

Historically

Historically, the understanding of Righteousness by Faith is what spurred on the Protestant Reformation, but it predates that all the way to Biblical times, all the way back to Abraham. Genesis 15:6 says, Abram “believed in the Lord, & He accounted it to him for righteousness.”

Transforming

Rightly understood, the truth of Righteousness by Faith will totally change a life from one that struggles to do right, to one that joyfully and naturally does what is right.

God not only declares His people righteous, but He also makes them righteous. He makes us righteous not sometime in the future, but now.

This takes place not by self-will, or wishful thinking of some too-good-to-be-true future event. Rather, the change that takes place which empowers us and transforms us to joyfully and naturally do what is right (righteousness) comes about by faith in what God has already done for us, and what He is currently doing in us.

Making it Simple

Rabbi Jeff once again takes what looks hard and explains it in a very simple to understand way (because he can’t do much more than that - LOL). Join Rabbi Jeff Zaremsky as he explains how you can experience Righteousness by Faith.

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Rich Abraham

Is it wrong for people who believe in God to have wealth? Some people seem to think so.

Others think that all true believers will prosper financially if they are really believing in God’s promises.

Which is true? Or is there a third option?

True prosperity:

Abraham prospered in many areas of his life. He enjoyed a happy marriage for many years. He had good family ties with his father, brother, nephew, and eventually had a son. He had health, long life, friends, employees, and wealth. A pretty well rounded prosperity.

What lessons can we learn from Abraham’s life so that we can prosper to the extent that God intends for our lives?

For many just one or two adjustments is all it takes.

Rabbi Jeff Zaremsky will take us through a variety of Bible texts and show us a few things we can do according to the Word of God so that we can prosper as God desires for our individual life.

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Abraham and Melchizedek

Sermon by Messianic Rabbi Jeff Zaremsky

When Abraham returns from saving his nephew Lot and the others from Sodom, Melchizedek, King of Salem, comes out to meet him with gifts.

Verses

There are only three verses in the book of Genesis concerning this encounter. About a thousand years after the meeting between Abraham and Melchizedek King David wrote one amazingly significant verse about Melchizedek. About a thousand years after that the writer of the book of Hebrews quotes that verse in the Psalms an astounding five times, and wrote the majority of three chapters on those previous four verses that mentioned Melchizedek. Obviously Melchizedek plays a bigger role than what is revealed from a surface reading of the original three verses in Genesis.

Putting it all together:

Rabbi Jeff Zaremsky helps us understand it all by putting all of these verses together in this interesting sermon about Abraham and Melchizedek.

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Lot was Abraham’s nephew. After Lot’s father died Lot followed Abraham from Ur to Hebron to Canaan to Egypt and back to Canaan. After all the kindness that Abraham showed to his nephew Lot allowed his herdsman to argue with Abraham’s herdsman. Being the elder and the one with the greater wealth Abraham could have settled the dispute by choosing the choicest land for himself, but instead he allowed Lot to choose. Instead of giving preference to his uncle, to whom he owed so much, he choose the best land for himself and left Abraham. No doubt this made things more difficult in some ways for Abraham.

War in Sodom

Lot choose to live near, and then later in Sodom. Sodom went to war with another nation and Lot was taken captive.

Magnanimity of Abraham:

When Abraham hears about Lot’s plight he risks his own life to save one who had hurt and rejected Him. Amazing love.

More:

There are lots of fine details within this historical account as well as anti-typical applications. Join Rabbi Jeff Zaremsky as he goes in depth to this intriguing story.

In this passage we learn of some more wonderful promises that God gave to Abraham which are for us as well.

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Abraham and Lot Break Up

Abraham & Lot were relatives, uncle & nephew. Lot’s father, Abraham’s brother, died young and Abraham became a father figure to him.

They went through many experiences and challenges together that drew them even closer together such as moving, traveling together, working together, building up wealth together, grieving together, and living through draughts, famines, and the hardships of living among potentially hostile neighbors.

Yet when they began to obtain wealth they argued to the point of splitting up.

Many times that is like us.

Real enemies:

We need to realize who our real enemies are, often they are not the people we are arguing with. Lot and Abram where not enemies, yet they were fighting, while the real “challenges” were dwelling in the land.

Divorces, congregational splits, and ended friendships, take place because we don’t know who the real enemies are. We often fight with those who we are closest with, yet those are not our real enemies.

Rabbi Jeff Zaremsky explains how to avoid such arguments that can lead to splits, and how to know who our real enemies are.

In this passage we learn of some more wonderful promises that God gave to Abraham which are for us as well.

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Genesis 12 - Abram in Egypt

Sermon by Messianic Rabbi Jeff Zaremsky

Abraham and his family left his home in Ur of the Chaldees and stopped in the city of Charan, where his father died. At the age of 75 Abraham, with his wife Sarah, age 65, and their nephew Lot, and all of their possessions left Charan, according to the command of the Lord, and traveled to Canaan, which later became Israel.

In Shechem God appears to Abraham and gives him a wonderful promise. That was eventually fulfilled and is still being fulfilled today. Abraham builds and alter to God there showing his faith and appreciation of God’s promise. Abraham continues to travel through Israel moving his herds and living in tents. At each new location Abraham builds alters to God.

A famine takes place and out of fear Abraham, with his family, makes a big mistake and goes to Egypt. In Egypt he adds to the mistake of going there another mistake which makes matters worse.

Miraculously and mercifully God spares Abraham from his mistakes, and Abraham responds appropriately.

In this week’s drasha (sermon), based on Genesis 12, Rabbi Jeff Zaremsky shares with us God’s wonderful promise to Abraham and how it can be, and is, being fulfilled in our lives. He also shares with us how we can show our appreciation to God’s wonderful promises and provisions in our lives. As well as instructing us how not to make the similar mistakes like Abraham did, how to live by faith and not by fear.

We will also find out what miraculous and merciful provision God did for Abraham and Sarah in spite of Abraham’s mistake, and what Abraham’s appropriate response was. From that we will learn how to be forgiven and cleansed of our past mistakes, what to do if, God forbid, we make other mistakes in the future, and how to keep, by God’s grace, from making mistakes in the future.

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