“Withholding” – Rosh HaShanah Morning 5784

0:00 This is one of my favorite holidays on the Jewish calendar, partially because of the passage that we read in the Torah. Now let me, let me give a little bit of clarification. Uh, in the, in the diaspora, there are two days of Rosh Hashanah. We only have one day of where we gather together. And as such, we, because of now my preference, uh, we take the reading that's generally on the second day and we read it on, on the first day, which is when we gather together, that reading can be found in Genesis chapter 22.

0:46 This story is one of my favorite stories in all of the Torah. Now, maybe that's because as a young child, I began to act it out with my father. That could be, I don't know that. But this story, it's not just one of my favorites, it's actually one of the most important stories for us as followers of Yeshua. It's one of the most important stories for us as Jews because this is where God

1:33 reaffirms his covenant with Abraham. Let's, let's read it together. We find it in Genesis chapter 22. Now, it was after these things that God tested Abraham. He said to him, Abraham Heini, he said, then he said, take your son, your only son whom you love Isaac, and go to the land of Mariah and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, about which I will tell you. So Abraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey and took two of his young men with him and Isaac, his son. He split wood for the burnt offering and got up and went to the place

2:19 about which God had told him. On the third day, Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from a distance. Abraham said to his young men, sit yourselves down here with the donkey. As for me and the young man, we'll go over there worship and we will return to you. Then Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and put it on his son, Isaac in his hand. He took the fire and the knife, so the two of them walked on together. Then Isaac said to Abraham, his father, Abba, a, then he said, here I am, my son. He said, look,

3:05 here's the fire and here's the wood, but where's the lamb for the burnt offering? Abraham said, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. My son, the two of them walked on together. Then they came to the place about which God told him, and Abraham built the altar there, laid out the wood, bound up his son Isaac, and laid him on the altar on top of the wood. Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son. But the angel of Otai called him from heaven and said, Abraham, Abraham. And he said, Heini, here I am.

3:50 And he said, do not reach out your hand against the young man. Do nothing to him at all. For now I know that you are the one that you are one who fears God. You did not withhold your son, your only son from me. Then Abraham lifted up his eyes and behold there was a ram just caught in the thick bushes by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son, Abraham named that place. Re as it is said, today on the mountain, Otai will provide

4:41 the angel of Otai called to Abraham a second time from heaven and said to him by myself, I swear it is a declaration of otai because you have done this thing and you did not withhold your son, your only son. I will richly bless you. And bountifully, multiply your seed like the stars of heaven and like the sand that is on the seashore, and your seed will possess the gate of his enemies in your seed. All the nations of the earth will be blessed because you obeyed my voice. Then Abraham returned to his young men and they got up and went together to be shevan. Then Abraham dwelt in Be Sheva.

5:33 This story begins with now, it was after these things that God tested. Abraham, what do I always tell you? What do I always encourage you when you see something like that? Find out what these things are. Go back. It do, it's not, not too much if you're in a Bible, it's a flip of a page. Uh, if you're on your phone, it's either a push of a button to go back a chapter or a scroll down, one or scroll up. Depends on how you do it. After these things, what things? Well, in the previous chapter, God gave Abraham and Sarah a son named Isaac.

6:20 There is a parting of Ishmael in Isaac in this chapter, and Ishmael goes and he grows up in the Piran wilderness and he gets married. Abraham makes a peace agreement with Avi AB at Be Sheva, and then it says, Abraham lived a long time as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines. It seems like if Abraham lived a long time as a foreigner, then Isaac is no longer young in this story. That's just the way I read the story. And God calls to Abraham and says, Abraham, he only says a name and he only says it once.

7:10 He does not lead with everything that Abraham is to do. He doesn't say, Abraham, come here. I need you to listen to me and go sacrifice your son. He just says, Abraham. And Abraham says, Heni, even with this lack of information, Abraham says, Heni, Heni. Here I am. What we see, this is remarkably similar to Isaiah's response in Isaiah chapter six, verse eight. Then I heard the voice of Anai saying, whom should I send and who will go for us? So I said, Isaiah said, Heini, send me

7:56 the, here I am, here with Abraham also contains this, this context, not just of here I am, but here I am. I'm willing to go tell me what to do. Point me in the direction I'm willing to obey whatever it is you're about to tell me. Now, those are dangerous words. If it's not someone you trust to say, tell me what to do and I'm gonna obey you, no matter what, before you hear the matter, the no matter what, because that's a dangerous spot to be in with people. But it's a good thing. Abraham's not dealing with people.

8:44 He's dealing with our God and he says, here I am, send me, tell me what to do. I'm willing to do it even though I, I have no idea what it is that you're about to ask me. So I want to take and play just a snippet of a song for you if you guys can play that. This is from the album. I, I'm shamelessly plugging the album. Hey bud, if you guys can play that, I'm here.

9:29 I am here. That's all you get to hear of the song, but the song is heena me. Here I am. And within that context, it's Lord, tell me, tell me what your desire is, and I will do it. I will follow you. I will obey you. God follows it up and says that He wants Abraham

10:17 to take his son. Come on buddy Abraham, it's good to see you up here. Take your son. God tells him, he says, Abraham, I want you to take your son, your only son, the one you love, and just in case there's any shadow of a doubt, he says, Isaac, you know Abraham well, you know, I got this other son. I I do love him. But you know what God says, beyond the shadow of a doubt, I'm talking about Isaac here. Go offer him as a burnt offering on a mountain that God

11:06 will show him as a father. There are so many different responses that that could be had at this moment. So many different reactions that we could even anticipate Abraham having. God, this is the one promise you made me, you told me this. I've been walking with you for decades, and you promised a son and he's finally here and you want me to do what? Of course I'll do it. He's being a troublemaker right now.

12:00 I'm not even gonna listen anymore. God, That's the stupidest request you've ever made of me. God, don't you remember your word, your promise to me? Let me quote it back to you. You said, I'm going to give you a son and through your son, all of the nations will be blessed if I do what you're asking me to do right now. The blessing goes away for all of the nations. Those are just a couple of the reactions Abraham could have.

12:46 Now, let me pause here for a moment and just expel any doubts. God is not interested in child sacrifice. In fact, this, this passage has been utilized by others to prove that our God does like child sacrifice. Even though he doesn't go through it, he requests it. Now, I'm gonna make a very simple argument. My simple argument is Isaac is not a child, and because Isaac is not a child, he's not asking for a child sacrifice. Now I know that's

13:32 seems too simple and it still seems like God is asking something that is outside of what he would ask. But I will say sometimes we just don't get it, and it's okay to have a little bit of mystery. It's my belief and also a common understanding in, in, in Jewish tradition that Isaac is not like Max who just wandered up here as a three-year-old. He's not even like the young men who were lifting up the Torah, though he could be close, we could make a justifiable argument. But there is a Jewish tradition that says that Isaac was around his mid to upper

14:20 thirties in particular, right around the age of 37. Now, how has that age come by? It's come by because immediately following this passage is the death of Sarah in the Torah. That's the next chapter in the death of Sarah. It's the only time that the death of a woman is, is given with an age, and she's 127 years old, and when she gave birth to Isaac, she was 90. So if it immediately follows, then it stands to reason. Isaac is around 36 or 37 years old. But beyond that argument, Abraham loads Isaac up with the wood to carry

15:09 for the altered. I know that if I load max up with anything beyond a water bottle, it gets left behind maybe a string cheese. I can even with my daughters who are a little bit older, I could give them just a little bit more, but I couldn't load them up with enough wood for an altar. I, I could make an argument though David is strong, David Moyer. I can make an argument that not even David would be able to carry the amount of wood that would be necessary for an altar. Though though I think David might be able to, David, here's your challenge,

16:01 But it stands to reason that someone in their thirties would be strong enough to carry the weight, the burden of the wood that is necessary for the altar In terms of responses. I gave you some responses that Abraham could have had, but none of those are what he did have. Abraham's response is very different, and it's actually full of expectancy. Abraham wakes up early the next morning. He doesn't procrastinate. You know, I can just think about if it were me,

16:47 I'd be like, I think God might change his mind. I'm gonna sleep in today. We'll, let God just have a little extra time to reconsider the words that he's instructing me, because I think he just needs a little bit of time and then he'll change his mind. You know, so I'm, I'm gonna help God out here and I'm going to, I'm just gonna sleep in, you know, 'cause that helps me not God sleeping in. Instead, Abraham wakes up early, gathers the firewood chops it up. Let's just move on here to verse three. So Abraham got up early in the morning, saddled the donkey, took two of his young men with him, and Isaac, his son.

17:33 He split wood for the burnt offering and got up and went to the place about which God had told him. On the third day, Abraham lifted up his eyes and he saw the place from a distance. Abraham said to his young men, sit yourselves down here with the donkey. As for me and the young man, we'll go over there worship and we will return to you. There's no procrastination in Abraham. He gets up at the break of Don and gets moving. He takes two young men with him. I don't know, perhaps there's supposed to be two witnesses to what's about to occur.

18:19 And on the third day, Abraham lifts his eyes and he sees the place from a distance. Now, I want you to consider something here. The instruction that the Lord gave to Abraham was to go and offer Isaac as a burnt offering. There's reason to believe that from that moment on Abraham considered as if Isaac died, died, and that now three days have passed and they come to the place and it's at this place.

19:06 We'll get to it in a few minutes in this, in this story, but it's at this place where Isaac actually doesn't die, and it's as if he is resurrected from the dead. He instructs these young men to stay there and he and Isaac are gonna go offer sacrifices and they will return your, your translation probably doesn't have the, we will return. It probably just says, we will go offer sacrifices and return to you, but it's an implied we will return. It's not a we're gonna offer sacrifices and then I'm gonna return because Isaac's still gonna be there or be somewhere up there.

19:52 It's an implied we will return to you. Abraham is exercising his faith. He's exercising his faith that even if he's to follow through with the action, that God will resurrect Isaac from the dead and they will both return. In fact, Hebrews tells us this in Hebrews chapter 11, by faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac past tense. He offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had received the promises was offering up his one and only son. The one about whom it was said through Isaac offspring

20:40 shall be named for you. He Abraham reasoned that God was able to raise him up even from the dead. And in a sense he did receive him back from there. That's what the author of Hebrew says. We move on in the passage. Then Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and put it on Isaac, his son, in his hand. He took the fire in the knife. So the two of them walked on together. Then Isaac said to Abraham, his father, my father, Hey dad. And Abraham said, here I am, he nay my son. He and Isaac said, look,

21:30 here's the fire and I've got the wood on my back, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering? And Abraham said, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. My son. And the two of them walked on together. So I will tell you, if Isaac didn't know by now who was the lamb by this moment, he knows and he continues to walk on with Abraham. It's just Isaac and Abraham. Now it's just father and son,

22:21 and they're on a mission to worship the Lord. Just the two of them. I can, I can just totally picture this. Isaac's got a, a backpack full of wood. You know, one of those big things. He's strapped on his back. Isaac, I would imagine is probably a pretty burly guy to be able to do that. He's carrying the wood, maybe he's a little tired. They're going up a mountain, mind you. And on the walk he looks at his dad, he says, all right, I got all the luggage.

23:12 You got a knife in your hand. And so fire, you got a, you got one of those lighters in your other hand, where's the lamb dad? And in Abraham's response, where, where Isaac says, Hey dad. And Abraham says, here I am. There's something about Abraham's tone that's somber that Isaac goes, Hmm, where's the lamb again?

23:59 And Abraham says, God will provide himself the lamb for the offering. And Isaac moves on going, I know you got faith, but dad, I don't think there's gonna be any lambs up there. And if we're going up there and I've got the, I'm tied up with the wood, perhaps it's me. And now he has to walk the rest of the way considering that burden, not just the burden of carrying the wood, but the burden of, is it me?

24:46 And he continues to walk on. He continues to walk on trusting his father and trusting the Lord through both. And in this walk, they're quiet the rest of the way. The scripture doesn't mention that there's any more words that are exchanged. They're quiet. They're both wrestling with what their part in this is. Abraham is struggling because it's his only son, the one whom he loves. Isaac, who was promised by God

25:32 through whom the seed of promise would be carried so that Abraham's children would be as numerous as the stars in the heavens and the sand on the seashore. And Abraham is struggling, what do I do? I know what I'm supposed to do. I know that I'm here following the Lord, but how do I do that in my own mind? You know, there are things that we struggle with as parents that our children never know about and they'll never understand until they become parents. And then they're presented with the same issues.

26:22 Isaac on the other hand's going, in which way for the exit ramp, how do I get off of this road? Now, he's not looking for an exit ramp. He knows that God made a promise and he knows that if, if God has asked Abraham to do this, then God has another way. You know, as people we often see option A or option B, route one or route two. Very rarely do we see the third way.

27:11 But Isaac is here and he says, God said this, he's asking my father to do this. There must be a third way that I just can't see. And so I will continue on. I will trust my father and I will trust my God. Then they came to the place. By the way, before I, before I move on, to me, it's so evident, it's so clear that what we are seeing is what we call a foreshadow of Yeshua, our Messiah,

28:05 that his son, whom he loves is going to carry the wood for his execution on his back to the place of execution. And he carries the wood knowing what the outcome is, and he continues to carry it. And he's just like Isaac at this point, silent before those who were watching, they came to the place about which God had told him. And Abraham built the altar,

28:54 laid out the wood, bound up Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar on top of the wood. Then Abraham reached out his hand, took the knife to slaughter his son, but the angel of Denai called him from heaven and said, Abraham, Abraham and Abraham said, he na me. Then he said, do not reach out your hand against the young man. Do nothing to him at all. For I know now that you are one who fears God. You did not withhold your son, your only son from me. They arrived at the place about which God had told him.

29:42 It's interesting because this verbiage is actually, uh, becomes a name for God. Comb means the place. God is recognized as the place. And so they came to this place about which God had told him. Abraham builds the altar, lays the wood on the altar, binds up Isaac and laid him on the altar on top of the wood. I just wanna pause here, Abraham, if, if my premise is correct That Isaac is about 37, it puts Abraham about 137, could Abraham have put an unwilling Isaac on the altar? Could he have bound him up?

30:32 It seems not likely to me. I mean, I, I'm a little, I'm a couple years older than 37, but if there's, is anybody in here 137? Anybody close? Could you, do you think you want, you could bind me up if I didn't want it or if I didn't permit it. I don't think so. Now I recognize Abraham lives to be 175. I recognize that he's not at the end of his life. So maybe we just even say, is there somebody 75 in here who wants to try it? Thanks for not putting your hand up. I could even make an argument. I I'm going to continue to pick on you, David,

31:21 that if David, David, how old are you? 14. If David didn't want to be offered up, I don't know that I could bind him up. And I'm in my thirties still. I I'm, I'm saying this over and over again to you to make the case that Isaac is willing and he understands what's happening. In fact, I just imagine Abraham binding him up. I'm sorry Isaac. I like, this is what we gotta I know Dad, Hey Isaac, I can't lift you because you're so heavy to get on the altar.

32:08 Can you just kinda like hop up there? You laugh, but I don't know, like imagine somebody trying to lift me onto an altar. Like, I dunno if you guys have ever had to have, have someone who's fainted or passed out and you have to like deadlift them, man, I'm telling you those 75 pound people you can't lift up. And I'm not 75 pounds. I can't even imagine somebody just taking my dead weight and putting it on an altar. Isaac's gotta like, kinda like, okay dad, this is kinda hard. You tie my feet too tight. Let me hop up there.

32:53 Wait, let me sit first and then maybe I can like kind of roll. Isaac gets up onto the altar. Abraham takes his knife and the angel of the Lord calls out and says, Abraham, Abraham, you see the story started with heena me with no direction. Then the direction comes and now the angel of the Lord says, Abraham, Abraham. And his response is the same. I want you to note his response hasn't changed given the circumstances. I mean, I guess I can imagine he's probably going,

33:40 it can't get much worse than this. Hi needy Lord. But nothing has changed to his response to the call of the Lord in his life. It's immediate still. And it's the exact same thing. Here I am Lord, send me. And the angel says to him, do nothing with the young man. I know that you are one who fears God and withholds nothing, not even your son, your only son from me. It's interesting because I look at this passage and I see Yeshua in three different places. I see the foreshadowing of Isaac, this circumstance with Isaac pointing toward what Yeshua will have to go

34:27 through. I also see this messenger, the angel of the Lord as Yeshua himself. How, why do I, how can I even say that? Because this is what he says. Do not reach out your hand against the young man. Do nothing to him at all. For now I know that you are one who fears God. You did not withhold your son, your only son from me. Now, those are pretty strong words for an angel to say, you didn't withhold your son from me. Now you can make an argument otherwise. And I, and I understand that, but later the angel says, I will bless you,

35:15 I will bless your seed and makes an even stronger argument to me. Then Abraham lifted up his eyes and behold there was a ram just caught in the thick bushes by its horns. It's so amazing because there is a, there's a commentary that says that Abraham lifted up his eyes. Some of your versions say, um, and he looked behind him, uh, and and behind him was a ram caught in the thicket. But one of the commentaries from the rabbis says that he looked and in the future he saw

36:03 the Messiah caught in the thicket. I do wonder if he saw Yeshua at that moment. Abraham lifted his eyes and behold there was a ram just caught in the thick bushes by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son. And Abraham named that place Adonai, as it is said today on the mountain, Adonai will provide the angel of Adonai called to Abraham a second time from heaven and said by myself, I swear it is a declaration of otai because you have done this thing

36:53 and you did not withhold your son. Your only son. I will richly bless you. And bountifully multiply your seed like the stars of heaven and like the sand that is on the seashore, and your seed will possess the gate of his enemies in your seed. All the nations of the earth will be blessed because you obeyed my voice. Then Abraham returned to his young men and they got up and went together to be Sheva and Abraham dwelled dwelt in be Sheva. The ram was caught in the thicket by its horns and its blood. The blood of this ram was a substitute for the life of Isaac.

37:41 It went up as a burnt offering instead of Isaac. Lemme say it a different way. By the Ram's death, Isaac gained life and to Abraham, it was as if a resurrection from the dead, as I already mentioned from Hebrews chapter 11 on that mountain, in that place, the Lord provided a way through the trial. The angel of the Lord called to Abraham again and reaffirms his covenant and says, because you did this thing, because you were obedient to me and you didn't withhold your son, your only son, I will richly bless you and bountifully multiplied your children and in your children, in your seed,

38:26 all the nations of the earth will be blessed because you obeyed my voice and they got up and they went to be Sheva. You see this ram served as a substitute for Isaac, much like Yeshua has served as a substitute for all of us. So what does this mean for you and me today? Here's my question. If you walk away with nothing else, this is my question that you should walk away with.

39:15 Are you today withholding anything from the Lord? If he calls your name, how will you respond? Here I am Lord, just not this. Here I am Lord, but not my children. I'm not telling you to offer your children up as a sacrifice. If you ever hear God ask you that, you should go read his word and just double check and make sure you're hearing God. That's my thoughts about it.

40:02 God, I'm here, but first lemme finish my video game. Is there something that's holding you back or that you are withholding from God? Because if you want to be like Abraham, your response is, here I am Lord, send me. What that means is that's an all-inclusive answer. You know me, God, you know everything that's going on. If this is what you've called me for, send me. I don't know what you're gonna do. God, I don't even know where you're sending me, but send me.

40:51 Or maybe the Lord has promised you something and that something that he promised you, you've seen, flourish and grow. Maybe the promise of the Lord is growing right in front of you. Maybe the promise seems as if it's already been fulfilled, but maybe that fulfilled promise is preventing you from hearing the Lord's current instruction. Has he called you to a place where you put his fulfilled promise on the altar so that he can know for certain that you are serving him and not your promise?

41:44 Does that make sense? Sometimes we get a call from God, some many, maybe even all of us have heard the voice of the Lord call to us and give us a direction in our lives. It's important for us to continue to come back to him along the way and make sure that we're following him and not the promise you see, because sometimes we get so caught up in the call of the Lord that we forget about who it is, who called us, and he needs us to focus our vision on him and him alone and

42:33 not withhold anything. So this year, as we blow the shofar, let us allow the sound of the shofar, the voice of the shofar to call to us and speak to us. Let us allow the sound of the shofar to cause a response in us where we are willing to serve the Lord in any way that he desires and asks of us, and let us allow the voice of the shofar to resonate in our spirits and to search through us to reveal

43:20 anything that we might be currently withholding from God. And when it searches through, when the voice searches through, and if it illuminates something, let us release it to the Lord and serve him and Him alone. Lik is a, is a, is a, um, a tradition where we take bread and we go to a body of water and, and it's supposed to be a body of living water. Living water just means it's moving. It has a an entry point and exit point. It's not like the Dead Sea, it's like the Sea of Galilee, if that makes sense.

44:08 The Dead Sea, you know the difference between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea is the Dead Sea takes everything in and doesn't let anything out. The Sea of Galilee takes it in and and lets it out, and one is alive and one is dead. But we also know, and this is a totally separate sermon, but we also know that when Yeshua returns, the Dead Sea will be brought to life, Which we can see as a metaphor for bringing us to life. Though we were dead in our sins, we have been made new and we have been brought to life. This, this, uh, this tradition of Tali comes from Micah chapter seven,

44:55 and this is what it says in Micah chapter seven. It's also in your book, you're welcome to, to read it or if you don't have a book and there's none left over, you can also go get 'em. The they're on you version on the notes. If that's, you don't know how to do that, you can go on our website and it's on the website. We have like so many different places for you to find it. Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity and passes over the rebellious act of the remnant of his possession. He does not retain his anger forever because he delights in unchanging love. He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities underfoot. Yes, you'll cast. So this is where the, the, the root of the word. Um, Tash li,

45:41 the root of the word is shaah, which means to, to throw or to cast, he'll cast all of their sins into the depths of the sea. This is where the, the tradition comes from, uh, for the service. So we take, we take our bread and we cast it into the water. And if you end up at White Rock Lake, you know the ducks may eat your bread, but recognizes not the ducks who are taking your sin. Uh, but also don't be caught feeding the ducks because I hear it's illegal now. So, But we cast our bread into the water. We, the bread symbolizing our sins. So we don't use matza as much as we would love to cast matza

46:29 somewhere else. We don't use matza, we use bread. Why? Because bread is full of yeast and leave, and it's sumptuous and it's tasty and it makes me hungry. But we take that leaven rep representing our sin and we throw it out so that our sins can be taken as far as the east is from the west. Now look, this is just an, a symbolic act. It doesn't actually mean that when I take a piece of bread and I go down to white rock lake or whatever body of water you're going to, and I throw it, it doesn't mean that your sins are going in order for that to happen,

47:16 you have to exercise faith and trust, faith and trust in whom, in our God, who is faithful to take your sins like what you're throwing. And he's taken those sins and he's placed them on Yeshua, our Messiah, who suffered on our behalf, so that by his iniquities and by his bruises, our transgressions, our iniquities are forgiven. And so we exercise faith. When we throw the bread, we exercise faith that the bread of life, Yeshua, our Messiah, is the one in whom we trust. And it's through him that our sins are being forgiven and being taken

48:05 as far as the east is from the West. And it's through his righteousness that we can trust that God doesn't see our iniquities. Yeshua was cast away for our transgressions, much like this casting that we're doing with the bread, but also Yeshua was the bread of life. I, there's so many scriptures here that I'm gonna let you read them, but basically the summation of all of the scriptures are we have sinned. God is faithful to forgive our sins when we acknowledge our sins and when we turn from them.

48:51 It's not just acknowledge, Hey God, I'm a sinner. Yeah, he knows that by the way. He knows that about everyone in this room. Or if you're sitting on your couch at home and watching, he knows that you have sinned. He knows that you will continue to sin. But there is something about the act of when we exercise our faith and we confess our sins and we release them, and when we release them, we turn away and we walk the opposite direction. There is something in that act that God honors. So when you're out there today, you do it however you and your family want to.

49:39 Even if you go to, to one of the, the four places where, where em, uh, people will be assembling, I still recommend you to do it as a family and then fellowship with each other afterward, go in ones or twos or threes, however, however your family assembles, or if it's just you, that's fine. But go and have a serious moment because today is the beginning of the 10 days of awe, a time or a season in which we are really looking inward to see what God can illuminate from over the past year and how we can repent and turn to him Because all of us have sinned and fallen short. That's

50:27 if you, if you don't recognize that, then I don't know what world you're living in. This is a season where we can come and we can recognize Yeshua as our Messiah. We can cast our bread into the water and then trust the Yeshua through his works of salvation, has taken our sin from the side of the Lord as far as the east is from the West. May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you. May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace

52:00 in the name of our Messiah, Yeshua. Amen.