Maoz Israel

0:00 We have for us for Brooke Hashem. I guess speaker guest speakers today for the Mao's conference. We have another a message for you and I would like to invite Kobe and Shani Ferguson to come to the stage. Nope, just Kobe. Okay. Yes, wait for the donkeys. Open up a Venus shivasha Mayim Our Father in Heaven Lord. I Thank you for Kobe and and Shani. And for maoz Lord. I Thank you for the work that you were doing through them Lord. I pray that you would continue to bless my owes and and to bless Kobe and Shani as they continue to lead. Motos Lord. I Thank you for where

0:47 my OS has come from through the leadership of Ari and Shira Lord. And I thank you for the gold the goals that we are looking forward setting setting looking forward to what will be Lord. And I just pray that today that you would speak to us through Kobe and we bless you and we praise you and yeshua's name. shabbat shalom I want to thank the Baruch Hashem team who has made this possible. It's been a very smooth Shabbat service.

1:33 It's been wonderful. We love to participate and be a part. Welcomed all who are who are here for the conference. And you might not be aware of this. congregation Is this the first time for you here? I know a few of you got friends that traveled all from Crowley, Louisiana and El Paso. Thank you for coming New England all kinds of places bless you. Thank you for coming find out more about this congregation is a very unique congregation. We are been a part of this congregation for many many years. I want to show a quick video. I'm going to invite my wife up in a minute. She had to hear from the donkey first and she'll come up and respond. So Now, okay, no self-deprecating humor here

2:21 not allowed on Shabbat. But anyway, so I'm going to show a little bit of video video of what we did last year with the Lord accomplished. It's been a very difficult season Rabbi Jonathan Bernice talk about that last night and You know when the darkness comes? We can expect. Those of us with faith those of us with perspective from the Torah. To be instructed. It's very important. The word of the Lord is We turn to it when a happy sometimes but sometimes we need to dig in very deep during the dark Seasons because we're told that there was light in Goshen. And there was Darkness all around in Egypt

3:07 when things get dark we should expect Yeshua and his light the shine through us more brightly and I'm here to say that the Lord was able to do that despite of our weaknesses. He has been made strong through US show this video of what we were able to do by his help last year. Israel 2021 began with several months of total lockdown during this Wild Ride. Here's what miles was able to accomplish because of our partners from all over the world who refused to give up on Israel even no matter how tough it got for them at home.

3:53 Everything that you know about worship originated in Israel worship from Israel has impacted the world for Millennia, which is why most has invested. So heavily into restoring Israeli worship to its rightful place among our Jewish people and on the world stage from training for kids to production of original Hebrew and Arabic songs to the first fruits live concert. We filmed during lockdown for an audience of one The Fellowship of artists is attracting worshipers from around the country and across continents. Mao's Israel has translated and published over 160 books over the past four decades this year. We completed and released three new books including the narrated Bible in chronological order

4:38 in a joint effort with the Israel Bible Society. The only Bible of its kind in Israel took three and a half years to complete. We see. Order Chinese. Well as a one body one team, so we build a network of relationships with over 90 congregations across the land and through them find and help our week of prayer there in the past 20 years. I stand with Israel has dispersed over 8 million US Dollars and this year alone has helped hundreds of individuals and Families. For 45 years ma was Israel together with Partners around the world has been making

5:24 an impact in the land of Israel. If you want to stay informed with insight and stories from Israel. The bows is a report is here to satisfy with everything from current events to strategic prayer points to testimonies of changed lives into getting you the latest sounds of praise the land of worship. We hope you'll join hands with us because Israel 2022 is waiting for you. Chennai wants to come up here and join me. God's woman of power for the hour

6:12 How are you doing? She's been singing a lot recently. So. She's quiet until she has to Belt it out. We just want to share a few things from our heart. Sharing about Generations, which is the theme of the conference we have but it's also a theme. Very much on the heart of the Lord. I believe in the light of everything happening. There's a lot of attack on family a lot of tackle Generations. Sometimes it's not so evident that that's what's happening, but I'm very convinced. All the what's happening is a strategic plan from the force of Darkness to not just hurt family the concepts of family concepts of traditional moral values. Yes that's on the face of

6:59 it. That's it. But it has a greater impact for generations to come. Because we know it just takes one generation to forget the Deeds of the Lord in the past things on for everything to turn dark. So I there's some glimmers of Hope. With the recent Supreme Court rulings and everything's and I just want to encourage you all. Sometimes we get sometimes you see the turn off the news. It's a word for some of you by the way. Worship the Lord get into a mode of faith and worship and of his redeeming power And find out what you can do to move things forward. Because it is dark and things are

7:44 getting darker in a lot of ways, but there's glimmers of Hope. And he wants to fuel us with these glimmers of hope so that we can be empowered to do things and not just being gloom and doom. The Lord is with us. The end we win. We're together forever. And that's what we want to celebrate. amen That's what it's all about is one big giant. huge amazing fantastic hug with our Lord and savior of Venus shabbosamite together forever. That's what we're all about. It's just one gigantic Embrace forever worshiping him and him loving on us. It's a little bit of a slog sometimes to get there, but we're going to get

8:30 there. You want to share a little bit about generations and maybe some practical things about what we do in family. shalom how do you guys like that that covid 2021 beard that I talked about it before we flew over here. It's okay. There are certain things. We allow when you're at home all the time. I'm just gonna share a little bit about family because I actually think we came several years ago and started talking a little bit about it here at BO Hashem and I think Ari at the time didn't have kids yet. So he was kind of like, okay, okay, and then a few years later he came he's like I've got kids now and I'm like, what did they say? What did they say?

9:16 Um, and I'm a very practical person we got five kids. I think you saw the picture coming in but if you want to put our family picture up on the screen Um, this was also a picture taken during lockdown. We had to sneak out of the house take it and run back inside because they were going to find us 500 shekels per person if they were caught outside. We're like everybody walked quick and run back to the house anyway, so The thing with family was you know Kobe and I were part of tea Village issue in Tel Aviv, when we had our first daughter who some of you heard play this morning. Yeah. Released Ferguson Elite Ferguson. Yeah, so

10:04 I can retire I yeah the first time I heard her really seeing I was like I have arrived I am retiring. I played so I kind of recorded her secretly because she does a lot of worship in her room by herself. And then I went and played it to the guys at the studio and they're like is that you I was like nope, and that's why I'm done. But the thing with when we started having kids, you know your first one you kind of just strapped to your back and I remember leaving worship a few times with a wrap and the kid and I'm like, you know kind of singing like this. Second kid we still kind of dragged them around. We throw them in a car seat and a pack and play.

10:51 By the time the third kid came around and there was more of them than us. We started really reconsidering because Reconsidering having kids no we were reconsidering. We are reconsidering our lifestyle because we're you know Ministry and you we would travel I think our daughter was on 32 flights by the time she turned one and which you can do that when they're young and then at some point we said, you know, it's really important to us. It's interesting. You said this last night because it's super super on our hearts. Really important to us that we not move faster than our family can can handle. And when you're looking on the outside and you're seeing all these, you know other Ministries and they're they're progressing and they're growing

11:39 and it's really awesome and you're excited for them. And then you're looking and saying we can't do that yet. We can't do that right now. We have to go slow and we just started praying into this because we said, you know if the calling of God is from the Lord. And children are from the Lord then there's got to be a way to do both. And and so we just really started praying into it and then had another kid and then had another kid. and felt like the Lord showed us several things about family that kind of set us free. So I'm just going to share three things about Generations that to me help me kind of wrap my head around this truth that

12:25 the task that the Lord gives us is personal. It's what he's called us to do, but the calling is multi-generational which means we may not see all the awesome fruit of our labors In Our Lifetime. But we'll get to see it just from a different angle, right? And you know Abraham. his greatest promise from the Lord was that he would be a father of many nations and he never got to see that from down here. But it's who he was and it was his Destiny. So the first thing I want to share about first of all is about the end times because a lot of people don't think one or

13:13 two generations forward. Because Yeshua could come back any minute. So, why are we planning? And I think that Jews somehow I guess because they're not waiting for Yeshua. They do think a hundred years. Ahead and they have successful businesses that they've passed on and there is it's kind of like a world known thing, you know, Jewish families have this thing and nobody knows what it is. It's a secret. It's they're basically just living in a way that will matter a generation or a hundred years from now and The point I want to make about this is Yeshua could come back anytime. I don't want to get into anybody's end times, you know, whether when it's gonna happen, but in Luke 12:43, which

13:58 I'm sorry, I don't have up on the screen for you guys in the scripture says blessed is the servant whose Master finds doing his job when he comes. so we can live in such a way that if Yeshua comes back tomorrow We're good, but let us work as if he's not coming for a thousand years. That's my first point. The other thing which Kobe mentioned and also Marty mentioned last night. is that the gospel and God's plan. Has a weak link. It has a vulnerability and that

14:45 vulnerability. Is the connection between the generations? and I I got traveled one time with my two kids and we got stuck in Washington DC which You know, there's a lot to do in Washington DC. So I said hey I heard there's a museum of the Bible. Let's go check. We also went to the Spy Museum, which was very exciting for them. I but in any case we stopped at the Bible Museum how many guys have ever been to the Museum of the Bible? Okay, you guys are really missing out. It's an incredible incredible building largest collection of tourist Scrolls in the world. It's like seven stories high they really did. They they did a masterpiece of honoring the scriptures a history of it. Anyway, they have kind of like a multimedia because

15:31 I was looking for stuff that was interesting for the kids and they have this whole multimedia section and you walk in and it's this sensory presentation from creation on and you sit there and it's just music and lights and it's just really a beautiful work of art to honor the Lord and you're sitting there and you're experiencing creation and in whatever ways they're able to Do a humanly possible and and then you kind of walk through after creation and they come out of Egypt and you're walking through these hallways. And I remember thinking to myself. I wonder I wonder what happened because all this is so climactic and you're just like yeah, and they go through the Red Sea and they go into the land and

16:18 And I see this and I'm thinking like how did everything go downhill because you know, it's if you read if you guys are ever read through the scriptures just kind of continuously at some point. It's like, oh all this awesomeness awesomeness and then boom and just chaos of the judges and the Kings and all that. but as I'm walking I see this big scripture on the wall. And it says it's in judges 2:10 after that generation died another generation grew up who did not acknowledge the Lord or remember the mighty things he had done for Israel. And I thought to myself. They didn't tell their kids. And that missed connection. Caused chaos for at least one generation.

17:06 Thankfully the lord gave us the written word because you'll see that Generations go back to that written word and they'll find it several times in scripture. You'll see oh when they pulled out the scriptures and they wept because they suddenly heard the word of the lord. It's like this emotional incredible experience, but this connection between the generations is something that we have to consider. We are always one generation away. From wiping out the knowledge of God between man. And so I encourage you if you're only circle of influence. Are your peers? We're missing something here. and I know a lot of older people like a bad word in America. Sorry.

17:55 Don't always think that younger people want to hear from them. And I would challenge that. younger people are begging for mothers and fathers in the Lord and they don't need those to be Superstars and good preachers. They just need mothers and fathers. so the third point and last reason why people don't think or live in a matter that is multi-generational. I'll explain in the story of our first attempt at taking our kids into a prayer meeting.

18:41 We were going to do family watches. Okay, this isn't like you take your kids and put them in like someone else prays with them and teaches them how to pray we were gonna do family watches parents pray with their children and we were telling other families you want to come and pray with your kids with us. Let's do this. And so we had a plan that we went to God. Hello and in Jerusalem this house a prayer we took a two hour block because we're brave and you have to take through our block and so we went there with the kids and we're like we're gonna do, you know, like music for a few minutes and then we're gonna pray for a few minutes and then we're gonna do music for we're gonna keep their attention, right? This is good. We had some fun songs very big God. Oh, he's always by my side, right? We're doing all the things right and so the kids come and they're they're dancing with us and then we get into the prayer part and we're gonna pray for everything. We're gonna pray for their school. Their spouse is their

19:29 kids there. We were just gonna cover everything right and we do it in these cycles. And so we did the first cycle and the once the Music Stops and we got one kid and we're praying with them and the other kids just start going wild and they're taking their shoes off and they're climbing on the chairs and they're like found a microphone and they're climbing on the Mona and I remember thinking like I'm so glad nobody's at this watch right now. It's just us. I think one of them ate the microphone. There were no cameras. We have no Witnesses in any case so and and it's just wild and we're like trying to chase them down. Like come here. Come here. We got to pray about this thing, you know and then come over here. So then we get together and we can't I don't know where the

20:15 shoes went. I don't know where the socks went and they're just they're they start playing hide and go seek under the chairs and and we were like two hours of just back and forth. Like come here. We're gonna pray and I'm just thinking like let's get out of here. Tell them about the ride home. Okay, I was going to but anyway. like we're just lock these kids in there in their room when they get home. So at the end though. we're finding the socks and shoes and our oldest daughter Elite is tying her shoes and she says I feel so close to God. And I remember thinking to myself. when

21:02 When did this happen because I missed it. and and I had this like boom moment of Revelation that just hit me in several ways. Because I grew up being told you know, the holy spirit's a gentleman you might scare him away. If you have a crying baby, if someone's a little too loud if they sing attitude like these are things that frighten the Holy Spirit who made everything and So it's just kind of in the back of your mind, you know, you're like my kids scare God and and I can't really come to the Lord with them, you know.

21:47 and and then I'm thinking, you know, you go back to when when the disciples they're rebuking the kids because they're thinking the same thing like this. Holy this holy guy you got time for you guys are messy and it was this moment of Revelation that God is not scared of messy. I think a lot of times when you're pouring into someone in their unripe fruit. Have you ever bitten into unripe fruit? Pretty nasty, right but it's still that fruit and at some point it's going to be really yummy. If you give it the nourishment and the water and the soil and the attention if you give it that it's going to be amazing fruit. So it just was this moment of realizing. I'm God's Not Afraid of my kids

22:34 mess. He can reach them in the midst of whatever that was. We were doing us to come. Hello. And so who am I to be afraid of saying you know what? Okay, we're gonna drag our kids we drag our kids everywhere we go. They're like we bring him with us and like I'm sorry if they throw a fit. I'm I'm not embarrassed. I'm here to raise adults who love the Lord and are healthy and and whatever happens along the way apologies ahead of time, but But the point is yeah. But what I love is when people come up to us and say wow, your kids are so amazing and unique and okay. They also have moments where they're like your kid just bit my kid and so we we have those moments too. But my

23:20 point is the majority of feedback we get from people is how healthy and mature and spiritually aware. They are engaging with people because We are able to raise them before the Lord and before people with confidence that God is Not Afraid of our mess. I know for us it bothers us when a baby's crying and you're trying to Worship the Lord, but it doesn't bother him. So think generationally good job. I was just gonna say one thing invest in the mess, right the I was just going to make the point that when when the disciples.

24:05 Where rebuking? the children and the parents of the children for letting their kids run wild Yeshua when he said let the little children come to me. He wasn't just saying. Okay, it's that because of their childhood faith and all that. He's saying that the Next Generation engaging with him is a must for the gospel to succeed. Thank you. Thank you Shinee. So many things that exploded in my mind as I remembered those days. you know, I thought we were good parents until our kids hit the teenage years and I realized that I'm completely demon possessed. So you guys can

24:52 You guys can pray for me. We have amazing kids, but we're going through some challenges always being in Israel. It's not it's a growing. Generation of Believers in the land there's more and more youth camps. There's more and more youth groups. Things are happening. But still there's a lot of loneliness among. Especially during what we just went through. The pandemic so pray for the believing children and teenagers in Israel. A lot of us Believers a lot of different Ministries were doing a lot to do what we can to. Resource and provide tools for the Harvest and for

25:38 discipleship among the Next Generation. We have something called an action Bible. That's about to be released something that will really it's in Hebrew, of course all the stuff that we're doing because there's not a lot of tools and resources. Let's talk with a few Ministries that we're talking about coming together maybe doing a children's conference there really isn't anything like that and Israel. I was so impressed. But the Baruch Hashem children, I'm so amazed. You guys have done. Well, this is exactly what we're talking about. And I really want to encourage I think some of us. No matter how old you are. What Shanice said is definitely appropriate? find younger people to pour into you're not

26:24 if you're here. And you're alive. And you continue to live at least for the next few days find somebody to pour into. A lot of you have many many years to come no matter how old you are here. Find younger people to pour into. they might not you might read them a certain way, but I'm encouraging you to pour into them because people our age Our Generation and younger. Are hungry from others and fathers? It's built within us my father passed away about 10 years ago. And re sokaram and others here in this room have been big brothers

27:11 and fathers to me. And has been extremely helpful and we have to have this, you know. the the arrangement of the Tanakh is different Hebrew and different languages. It's interesting in some Bibles. It's the last verse. Of the Bible and some it's within the end of the Minor Prophets The Jewish scriptures has Malachi in a different place. I think a lot of Gentile churches think he's a Italian Prophet Malachi. but so the last words of the scriptures. was that if the generations aren't restored to each other.

27:56 Said I'll send you. Elijah a prophet he'll restore the generations the mothers. The father's Hearts will turn to the children's and the children's the father's Sons The Father's father's children. And if this doesn't happen, I will strike the land with a curse. Why is that because like we said the Baton is dropped? And all hell breaks loose all manners of wickedness and evil is just poured upon a generation that it it's in it's empowering and it's it's important for us to see that the passing. Of what we have to give us The Good The Bad and The Ugly. We do a thing we call and we're going to talk about this today those who come back.

28:43 We do something we call Family stories and our Shabbat times together. And we tell you know, we tell great things of you know, who in the Lord witnessed to to Golda be Eve. It's like wow, you know who did that? Well Shira soccerom. Did you're Safta your grandmother? And then we say well who burned down the house and took the insurance money and years later. We let him to the lord. Well that happens to be my grandfather. So we tell them the good that now some of the stories we wait until they're a little bit older but we want them to know and that's because that we are we're living Epistles. We're living stones. building something together

29:28 I love how the scripture said that we're building a temple. We're building a tabernacle together with which the Lord will use us to worship. The spirit is flowing through all of us living stones. And as a part of that being a living stone is sharing The Good the Bad and the Ugly with the Next Generation. Not just sanctifying all things to be good moments. sharing failures sharing challenges It's very important. sharing how to get through difficulties and challenges And in this way, we have a very solid steel clad. Link shareit, we have a chain from generation to generation that

30:14 really blocks a lot of what the enemy is trying to do on planet Earth. Especially through the goofemashare his body of Messiah when we passed these things on so many attempts from the enemy to destroy to steal kill and destroy our rendered useless. I just want to read some scripture. Just kind of I'm gonna kind of fire some word out to you. I didn't want to confuse all the PowerPoint people. They said you got a PowerPoint said yeah, I'm gonna go through it really quickly. They said oh I said, so that's okay. We'll just read some words. Sometimes we just need to be washed with the water of the word just remind us of the importance in the scripture. And there's there's so many I just picked a few we could read for an hour about the importance of generations.

31:02 Is the more I'm studying this the more the importance just stands out to me. Of course, we know that. You'd hate Vive. Hay the Lord Adonai his Covenant name. That is given. In the book of Exodus chapter 34 Verse 6 and 7 that is given to Moses said who do I tell? That is sent me and he says, you know you'd have he Adonai. And then he declares. The Adonai passed before him past before Moses and Proclaim about himself. I don't know I compassionate and gracious. Slow to anger and abundant and loving kindness and Truth showing Mercy to a thousand Generations. That's basically as long as humans will probably ever live. It's about 40,000 years. That's a pretty long time.

31:51 Slow to anger and Bundt and loving kindness and Truth showing Mercy the Thousand generations for giving iniquity transgression and sin, but yet he will by no means leave the guilty and punish bringing the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children to the third and fourth generation. And again, this Psalms 33 verse 11 the plan about a night stands forever the purposes of his heart from generation to generation and Joel 4:20, but Judah will be inhabited forever Jerusalem from generation and generation. For those of you have placement. Theology twinges. You can go read Joel for 20 Judah will be inhabited forever. Psalms 89 verse 5 forever. I will establish your sheep your seed. You can let Israel's. Abraham Isaac and Jacob forever. I

32:37 will establish your seat and build your throne from generation to generation. Say la let's think about that one. You Psalms 119 verse 90 your faithfulness and doers from generation and generation you established the Earth and it stands Psalms 145 verse 13. Your kingdom is a kingdom for all ages and your Dominion endures from generation to Generation Me Doll a guilotecha. Psalms warning 146 verse 10 Adonai will reign forever your god. Oh Zion from generation to generation Hallelujah. Psalms 90 verse 1 a prayer of Moses. I love this might be one of my favorite. prayer of Moses from the man of God

33:22 my Lord you have been our dwelling. From generation to generation Psalm 90 verse 1 the Lord has been our dwelling what a precious thing. To say from Generation generation. It's not just I could go on and on and on so many scriptures. Something from the breathakatha Shah the New Covenant. One of the most powerful prayers, I believe in the scriptures from shaol. Hashaliah Paul the Apostle Ephesians 3 verse 16 through 21. I love this prayer. I encourage you all to pray it regularly. I pray that from his glorious riches. He would Grant you to be strengthened with your inner being with power through his wuhakodesh. Holy spirit so that Messiah was Jill and your hearts through faith that

34:10 you being rooted and granted love may have maybe able to comprehend with all the kadushime with all the saints. What is the width and length and depth and height and to know the love of Messiah? Were surpasses on knowledge that you may be able to be filled with all the fullness of God now to him who's able to do exceedingly abundantly or beyond all that we ask or think or the power of the spirit which works in us to him but the glory in the community of Believers and a messiah Yeshua throughout all generations forever and ever a man Paul is not just adding on the concept of generations here because it's a nice addendum to his prayer. It's his heart's desire at the end of this prayer that these things we just pray for Will Go On from generation

34:57 to generation. It's important. We have to have it. or the Baton Falls and the vision fails. Yes. The Lord is able to raise things back up. But what about all the devastation the damage and the collateral damage that happens in between these times just because they didn't bring these kids together just because they didn't pass on. With the Lord had dinner done in their lives what the scriptures have said? I love sharing with our kids the things the Lord has done. We have gotten together and prayed for mattresses. For example. So kids were growing we didn't have any money years ago. And it's challenging in Israel. Things are so expensive.

35:43 Somebody calls up and says hey we have a bunch of mattresses. The Joseph project actually an amazing work in Israel. Do you need any? Kids just got around the table and we prayed for mattresses and to this day. We still have them as Tempurpedic amazing mattresses. the Lord supplies and we train our children in these things. as we close and I want to invite Ari and Shearer to come up if Shani wants to if she needs around she might have collapsed and vocal training. Oh, there you are. I thought you were back doing well vocal training or Praying for me interceding for me, of course.

36:33 I want to honor Ari and Shira for building rights. The scripture said that those who hear the words of Yeshua and builds upon them. It's like a man who builds upon Rock shared about this last night not someone who builds on this sifting Sands. As things are difficult as things are challenging. I can't even tell you how many times I've leaned upon. this generation to help us to help us Reach the destiny the Lord has for us. I've heard something that our insura have said to me for many many years. and it is not just a slogan for our ministry, but it is a motto for our family.

37:20 That if we can help. people reach their destiny that we've reached a better part of ours. Because Generations is not just something the Lord. Wants for us so that things can continue and then it's well for us, but it's a part of his nature. It is the closest thing we can experience to an eternal God here on Earth because he's eternal. We have this one short life. but together from generation to generation We are partakers and inheritors and we are like him but only when we're together.

38:06 and Ari wanted to share a few things Thank you all for having me. I'm just gonna be real brief. and when the Lord spoke to Abraham And well actually when the angels of the Lord came down with the other Angels before they went down to bring judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah. They said we cannot keep this. information from Abraham because Abraham will teach his children. And it didn't mean just teach. I mean he would train his children.

38:52 the ways of the Lord and his family so that And here's the key. God will keep his promises to the Next Generation. What we do in this generation. Will have a huge impact upon what God does in the Next Generation. And our children are our first fruit. And what we do with our first fruit is what God will do with the Harvest. The Lord is the lord of the Harvest but friends. We are the Lord of our first fruit. It's our responsibility to use the gifts that God has given us in our mother's womb and expand them that there'll be a blessing to our children so that our children will take it to the

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