A benefits inventory with instruments!

A sermon given at Windwood Presbyterian Church

Houston, Texas

Sunday 4 August 2024

 

Shalom! For 25 years I’ve been privileged to spend time about every three years with the folks here at Windwood Church ever since Kevin Rudolph and I began a relationship first in email and then in person, sometimes at church or at GleannLoch or at the restaurants, even at his and Robyn’s home. It is a privilege and I don’t take that lightly. Now that Tres is the senior pastor and we have begun our relationship in email and this morning over breakfast, we continue that tradition. 

As I pondered the sermon’s assigned Bible reading this morning, Psalm 103, it made sense to make a list of our shared history and then to smile in gratitude. I trust, as I share this morning from this 3000-year-old text, that you will have a gratitude list as well, and that you will be singing from it long after the parking lot empties and long after the Olympics or the Astros finish this season. 

There are varied reactions to hearing Bible readings, aren’t there? For instance, I wonder if familiarity bred contempt for you this morning. The words of the Psalms are often known to some of us who hear them with regularity. As a result, we could be unsettled or listening for a ‘new thing’ instead. Then again, the hearing of the ancient text could be like finding an old sweater that you haven’t worn in a while and you really like wearing. It fits; it’s the right colour. It’s you, after all. Some Bible verses seem to do that for me, and maybe for you as well. Is Psalm 103 one of those?

No matter how you took the actual reading of the psalm, let’s unpack it as I think King David intended, as an inventory and job description and see how this works in our lives in 2024 and beyond. Is that fair enough?

The inventory of benefits are listed right off the bat. Five things are itemized, and each is in itself expandable. For each one, I imagine a flurry of trumpets and drums with crashing cymbals. It’s at least 8 bars if not 32 bars of triumphant exaltation. Did you miss the sound of the orchestra when we read the passage? Let’s try it again.

God pardons all our iniquities. Cue the trumpet. Roll the drums. Forgiveness for every one of my sins. And yours. And King David’s sins. Pardon. Release. Empty the jail. Unchain the prisoner. Trumpets. Violins. French horns. Cymbals. PARDON! ALL! There’s nothing left to pay. 

Pondering that orchestral sound as the philharmonic raises the volume triumphs over every remembrance of my iniquities. My sins. My bad attitudes. My sloth. My entitled whining and declarations of life being unfair. All my bad actions. My murdering tongue, my lies, my lusts, my demands. All my iniquities. Summed up, rolled into a list, delivered by Special Delivery to the Scorekeeper, and in one fell swoop, one heartbeat, there is not a single penalty listed. No errors. No mistakes. No sins. The anticipated judgment against me is gone. Pardon is declared. Are your hands lifted high to the heavens yet? My gratitude list begins like King David’s with the erasure of my sins. 

Remember, David would well have had a significant list of sins about which he was aware. We know of a couple of major ones of his, but he would have known much more. Even as each of you knows your own sin more than your neighbour or the fellow in the pew near you. And yet--which by the way is one of my favourite phrases when I ponder God and how he treats humanity, even my humanity--And yet, in spite of our many sins against him and others, he pardons all our iniquities. What an awesome God we have, amen?

The second benefit in our inventory list this morning is the healing of all our diseases. And your first thought is probably like mine… excuse me, David, you lost a child to disease. You are aware of sicknesses in Jerusalem, among your fighting men, and in your own family. How can you possibly declare healings like that? 

Obviously, the psalmist is echoing his own thoughts in a psalm you didn’t study this summer, as we read

“When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer. Selah.” (Psalm 32.3-4)

 

The linkage of healing and unforgiveness is clear and certainly later biblical authors pick that up. For instance, when Yeshua encounters a paralytic man, recorded for us in Mark chapter 2, we read

“But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” — He said to the paralytic,  “I say to you, get up, pick up your pallet and go home.” (2.10-11)

Please hear me well. I’m not saying that all sicknesses are directly caused by or even related to sins. The psalmist could be accused of that for instance in Psalm 107 we read

Fools, because of their rebellious way, and because of their iniquities, were afflicted. (Psa. 107.17)

 

But not all sickness is a result of sins individuals made happen. COVID levelled the planet in so many ways, and I’m not sure that every person who contracted it four years ago, or even in this summer’s season, is because of his or her iniquity. If that were so we should have insisted on soul washing instead of hand washing. No, the psalmist in 103 is saying that with the pardon of all our sins, our lives are now characterised by a healing of all apparent misfortune. 

Think of Nick Vujicic who has tetra-amelia syndrome, a disorder characterised by the absence of arms and legs. He has understood his plight his entire life, certainly since becoming a Christian, and has often said he would not trade his spiritual life for arms and legs. 

Think of Joni Eareckson Tada who serves as CEO of Joni and Friends, which provides for thousands of special-needs families around the world. She began Joni and Friends after a 1967 diving accident left her a quadriplegic. 

Both Nick and Joni and countless others who are not yet healed in body would shout along with the psalmist that God has healed all their diseases. If they can do so, and King David can do so, surely we can do the same. 

Third, he redeems your life from the pit. Now we are hearing some biblical parallelism, that is, repetition for amplification. I love this poetic device of the Bible. The pit is a symbol of the lowest point in our lives. Some call it rock-bottom. That’s the empty place, the Solomonic “time to mourn.” That could be by example when your wife left you, or your boss gave you a pink slip, when the government sent you a tax bill beyond your house’s value, and your insurance on that house did not include flood insurance. Your world caved in, and there was apparently no hope. God uses the term here ‘redeem’ which must include rescue and deliverance. It reminds me of the 400-year wait for the Jewish people in Egypt before God finally sent Moses to rescue us from slavery. It’s the 70 years of captivity in Babylon when all hope was lost. Everything could be titled, “the pit.” And yet, there’s that phrase again, and yet, God redeems us from that pit. He takes all the ingredients labelled ‘trouble’ in your pantry, and although the devil would like to keep you permanently fixed in that and those situations, God reaches his hands in and lets you escape. Redemption from the pit is awesome. 

Do you use loyalty points at the gas station or the grocery store, at the hotel chain or airline? Those accrue for a significant time, and then one day you turn them in, at the redemption centre and receive a reward. That redemption, that buy back, that didn’t really cost you much. But biblically the redemption of a slave costs much more. God sent his only son to the world to redeem us from an eternal pit, and I’m so grateful. Are you singing along with David yet?

Inventory of Benefits item four is crowning. Some weeks ago you read Psalm 100 and I hear echoes of it in today’s psalm. Crowns are symbols of God’s royalty and God crowning us is letting him identify us as his children. The Scripture says,

“For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.” (2 Peter 1.4)

God lets us be partakers of his royalty, by crowning us. You may call me Prince Bob. And you may call each other by that appellation as well! We are children of the king and at the end of days we will lay those crowns at his feet. All glory is HIS, amen?

Finally the 5^th benefit we receive, and which David records is satisfaction. We read, “Who satisfies your years with good things.” 

Although I appreciate the addition of the word ‘things’ in our text, the word in the psalm is simply ‘good.’ God satisfies us with good. I like that. Remember the Garden of Eden and the offer Satan as the serpent gave Eve? He told her that if she ate from the tree which was forbidden that she would know good and evil. Listen God is good; she already knew God; she already knew good. All Satan really offered her was evil. Don’t you wish she would have pondered that one a bit longer?

A word about satisfaction. And the difference between it and contentment. There are shades of meanings I want to highlight. Contentment according to the apostle is great gain. (1 Tim. 6.6) Accept your lot with or without much funding. With or without great banquets. But satisfaction, that’s another matter. The psalmist again informs us, “As for me, I shall behold Your face in righteousness; I will be satisfied in Your likeness when I awake.” (Psalm 17.15)

When I wake up, when He returns, in that moment, in the twinkling of an eye, we shall wake up and are in his likeness. John said, “when he appears, we shall be like him.” (1 John 3.3) That day will be glorious. We will be like him. And my satisfaction will be complete. When I wake up, looking like Jesus, what a day of rejoicing that will be, amen?

There is much more to highlight from the text, for instance, verse 7 tells me that God showed his acts to the Jewish people, which is fantastic. He brought justice on the Egyptians. He brought relief to the Jewish people. He created the heavens and the earth. He allowed Elijah to perform miracles. And the Jewish people were aware of those acts. But don’t miss it; the difference here is that God made known his ways to Moses. It’s one thing to watch a performance; it’s quite another to see the purposes and to know the meaning of those actions. Moses saw the plans; he knew the purposes. He knew God’s ways. He had a relationship with the Almighty. That’s God’s plan for each of us. 

Verse 8 is an echo of Exodus, which is repeated so many times in the Older Testament. Jonah said it with disdain for God. Here David repeats the ancient declaration of who God is. Slow to anger. Abundant in rachamim and chesed. Mercies and covenant love. What is God like? Ask the Jewish people and they will repeat what God did. That’s good. But ask Moses or David or me and you will hear rachamim and chesed. Ask Dane Ortlund and you will hear “gentle and lowly.” 

Rachamim is a plural word, and means ‘mercies.’ Remember, they are new every morning. It’s translated in the old KJV as ‘bowels of mercy” because the feeling comes from the guts, not from the mind. 

Chesed is the mercy or the covenant love of God. Mercy is not getting what we deserve; Grace is getting what we don’t deserve. Mercy keeps us from hell; grace gives us heaven. 

The merisms of verses 11 and 12 demonstrate the far-reaching nature of God’s love. High as heaven and earth, as far as east from west…even in verse 17, from eternity to eternity, chesed is far and wide, and there is no limit to his grace and love, amen?

 

Earlier I mentioned this is an inventory as well as a job description. Listen to this from verses 20-22

“Bless the LORD, you His angels, Mighty in strength, who perform His word, obeying the voice of His word!

Bless the LORD, all you His hosts, you who serve Him, doing His will.

Bless the LORD, all you works of His, in all places of His dominion; 

Bless the LORD, O my soul!”

The job description? Calling on heavenly beings…God is telling us that we are to call on heavenly beings to join us in that praise to the Lord. Perhaps you are confused about the word, “Bless.” That is, saying we are to bless God. Aren’t we usually asking God to bless things? That’s certainly true. But in this case, asking angels to bless God, has to do with the word ‘bless’ which carries the meaning of the word ‘knee.’ That is, the bending of the knee is the posture of blessing.  Basically we are calling the angels to be humble and to lift up the name of the Lord. 

Finally, we are to tell our own soul to bless God. We are not schizophrenic; rather our spirit man is commanding our flesh to bow to the living God and to acknowledge his lordship over us. In light of all he has done and all he will do, and in light of his nature and his character, what manner of person ought we to be? What should be our verbiage? 

We have a ministry, to call on angels and all y’all to bless God. Let us live to his praise; let us live calling on our neighbours and friends and relatives… bless the Lord oh my soul, oh my friends, oh Windwood!

Pick up your trumpet and tambourine… the choir is singing; let’s join King David and everyone—amen?

Yeshua Cohen (A priest too?)

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A priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek

A sermon given at Congregation Beth Messiah

Houston Texas

28 March 2015

By Bob Mendelsohn

Shabbat shalom to each of you here at CBM, and to those reading this online on my blog or on Facebook, also a hearty greeting.

Introduction: Tsav

Today is the Saturday before Passover and it is customary throughout Jewry to honor this day as the Great Sabbath, or Shabbat HaGadol. This commemorates the great miracle that happened in Egypt on this day, heralding the Exodus from Egypt five days later. Shabbat HaGadol customs include reading a portion of the Haggadah, which tells the story of the Exodus; it is also customary that the rabbi of the community teaches on the laws of Passover, in preparation for the festival. A survey was taken in Israel some years ago now, in which they found that less than 50% of the Jews believed in a personal God, but almost 90% observe Passover. That may put this in perspective a little.

Now, our parasha today entitled Tsav, means commandment and inside the 3^rd book of Torah, Vayikra, this makes sense. After all the majority of the 613 laws in Torah are found in Leviticus.  And like the book’s title in Latin tells us, Leviticus is the book of the Levites, or the priestly book.

Chapter 8 of Leviticus teaches us of the ordination of the priests and a bit of their duties. It shows Moses killing animals and sprinkling blood in appropriate places, and behaving like a priest, although he wasn’t officially one.

The entire chapter filled with ritual and blood and drama is an ordination ceremony that begins the work of ministry for Aaron and his four sons. Numbers chapter 8 highlights when the priests’ duties are fulfilled and they are told to retire, but that’s for another sermon, although I hear you are experiencing some of that at CBM just now.  May God lead you well in this time of transition.

Our role: The role of the priests

So I’m thinking about priests and about transitions and of course Passover, and I am led to teach you about a couple major things. First is the role of each of you, as a believer, if you are a believer in Yeshua as Messiah. He calls us to be a royal priesthood, according to the shaliach Shimon, Yeshua’s right hand man in the day. (“But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God’s OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.” 1 Peter 2.9). Shimon would certainly have known all about this, as Yeshua actually ordained him to such a status as is recorded in Matthew chapter 16. You can read that later, but the reference will be important for you to write down. (And Yeshua said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My congregation; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.” Matthew 16.17-19)

Yeshua ordains Peter to Gospel ministry, and that means one thing to those men that day. Peter is becoming a Cohen, a priest. Wow, who can do that anyway? Who can make someone who is not a Cohen to be a Cohen?

The only one who can really honestly do that is the Almighty himself. And Yeshua is saying of himself, that that is exactly who he is! What a claim!

He who is questionably a priest anyway, isn’t he? Remember a priest had to come from the line of Aaron, who was a Levite, Levi being the 3^rd son of Jacob. Yeshua according to the genealogies was a great, great, great…. Grandson of Judah, the 4^th son of Jacob. The writer of Hebrews will make a very clear and very important case for the priesthood of Yeshua, and I’ll explain that just now.

Yeshua: The great High Priest of our confession

Melchizedek is a character from the time of Abraham our father. He is also mentioned one time in the Psalms (110.4). And of course, he is mentioned several times in the book of Hebrews in the Newer Testament portion of the Bible. Who is he? And why is he so important?

According to the story (found in Genesis 14), he was a priest of another people, but geographically near Abraham. When Abraham had been successful in battle in retrieving his nephew Lot from his captors, Abraham wanted to demonstrate thankfulness to God right away. He went to Melchizedek, the King of Salem (and by the way his name means “King of Righteousness.”), who promised to stand with Abraham, Melchizedek brought out what we would recognize as Kiddush, that is, bread and wine, and served some of the military leaders in Abraham’s entourage. He also said a blessing over Abraham, which was powerful.

What Abraham did was surprising however. He gave a tithe to Melchizedek and honoured him above himself. In fact, the Bible makes clear that the greater blesses the lesser. So let’s read a bit from Hebrews 7 and unpack it as we go.

“For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham as he was returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,  to whom also Abraham apportioned a tenth part of all the spoils, was first of all, by the translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which is king of peace. Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, he remains a priest perpetually.” (This doesn’t mean Melchizedek was without parentage, but rather that in the record of Scripture, he just pops onto the scene. He did have beginnings and he did die, but the Bible doesn’t make mention of those events)

“Now observe how great this man was to whom Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth of the choicest spoils. And those indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest’s office have commandment in the Law to collect a tenth from the people, that is, from their brethren, although these are descended from Abraham. But the one whose genealogy is not traced from them collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed the one who had the promises. But without any dispute the lesser is blessed by the greater.” (The key word in the book of Hebrews is ‘better’ and Yeshua is better than angels, better than Moshe, better than… And here we see Melchizedek is better than Abraham because of the tithing)

“In this case mortal men receive tithes, but in that case one receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives on.  And, so to speak, through Abraham even Levi, who received tithes, paid tithes, for he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him.” (In other words since Levi was in Abraham, and all the current priests were also there, then the priesthood of today (the Aaronides) is less than the priesthood of Yeshua (Melchizedek) because of the tithing!

“Now if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for on the basis of it the people received the Law), what further need was there for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not be designated according to the order of Aaron? For when the priesthood is changed, of necessity there takes place a change of law also.  For the one concerning whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar. For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, a tribe with reference to which Moses spoke nothing concerning priests. And this is clearer still, if another priest arises according to the likeness of Melchizedek, who has become such not on the basis of a law of physical requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life.” (Yeshua came from Judah and was as such disqualified from being our high priest in heaven, but cleverly the writer of Hebrews gets another order of priests to make this work)

 “For it is attested of Him,

                  “YOU ARE A PRIEST FOREVER

                  ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK.” (Psalm 110.4)

“For, on the one hand, there is a setting aside of a former commandment because of its weakness and uselessness(for the Law made nothing perfect), and on the other hand there is a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God. And inasmuch as it was not without an oath(for they indeed became priests without an oath, but He with an oath through the One who said to Him,” (Levites were such not because they swore to uphold anything, but it was simply biological)

                  “THE LORD HAS SWORN

                  AND WILL NOT CHANGE HIS MIND,

                  ‘YOU ARE A PRIEST FOREVER’”);

so much the more also Yeshua has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

The former priests, on the one hand, existed in greater numbers because they were prevented by death from continuing, but Yeshua, on the other hand, because He continues forever, holds His priesthood permanently. Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.

For it was fitting for us to have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners and exalted above the heavens; who does not need daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people, because this He did once for all when He offered up Himself. For the Law appoints men as high priests who are weak, but the word of the oath, which came after the Law, appoints a Son, made perfect forever.” (Hebrews chapter 7)

So what do we learn?

Yeshua is our Great High Priest, not because he came from Judah, but because He came from Melchizedek’s order. He is a forever priest. He is the one who hears us and who cares for us. He lives to make intercession for us. He saves to the uttermost. Glory to His name! Baruch hashem!

And what about you?

The topic in Tsav seems so remote to us as 21^st century people, doesn’t it? Priests and tabernacles, oils and ephods, 7-day ordination separation duties, and old old Old Jews. But if you have been listening, you learned like I did that The Almighty who made Yeshua a priest forever according to another order, other than Levi, is also making you into a priest, in a way.

There are a few parallel words in Exodus chapter 28.

“Then bring near to yourself Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the sons of Israel, to minister as priest to Me — Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons. You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty. You shall speak to all the skilful persons whom I have endowed with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron’s garments to consecrate him, that he may minister as priest to Me. These are the garments which they shall make: a breastpiece and an ephod and a robe and a tunic of checkered work, a turban and a sash, and they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons, that he may minister as priest to Me.” (Exodus 28.1-4)

Three times in those four verses you hear that same phrase, “That he may minister as a priest to me.”

So priests have a job, to mediate between the people and God and between God and the people.

That’s why we celebrate that we have Yeshua now who is the only mediator between God and men.  No man needs to do it for us any longer. No man can do this any longer.

But listen to this text from a very obscure text in Rav Shaul’s letter to the Roman believers. After he tells the Romans:

“For I say that Messiah has become a servant to the circumcision on behalf of the truth of God to confirm the promises given to the fathers, and for the Gentiles to glorify God for His mercy; as it is written,

                  “THEREFORE I WILL GIVE PRAISE TO YOU AMONG THE GENTILES,

                  AND I WILL SING TO YOUR NAME.”

Again he says,

                  “REJOICE, O GENTILES, WITH HIS PEOPLE.” And again…“ (Romans 15.8-10)   He says this odd phrase, but is an exact parallel to our text in Exodus and Leviticus today:

“I have written very boldly to you on some points so as to remind you again, because of the grace that was given me from God, to be a minister of Messiah Yeshua to the Gentiles, ministering as a priest the gospel of God, so that my offering of the Gentiles may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.” (Rom. 15.15-16)

I say it’s odd because this is the only time in the Newer Testament that the word priest is used in verb form, just like we see in Torah today. And what we are as the Body of Messiah, here at CBM, and at Faith Lutheran last night in Sugar Land and at Second Baptist and at… you name it, wherever the Gospel of Messiah is proclaimed, we are to function as priests, if you will all of us together, reaching a lost world, bringing them to God and bringing God to them. We together are a witness and a holy one at that, of the Holy God.

We in the messianic community have a responsibility to serve as that royal priesthood, that holy nation, to our own people. And if you are Jewish and here today (or reading or listening online) I urge you to hear these words, to consider Yeshua, our Great High Priest, who alone went into the Heavenly Tabernacle, made without hands, and secured our eternal kipporah, our eternal forgiveness and atonement. Consider and receive Him as Savior and Lord; He is our Messiah and the One who lives to intercede, and to cry out on our behalf. Hallelujah, what a Savior!

Then when you also join Him, and believe Yeshua died for your sins and rose from the dead for us all, then you can join us and make a clear proclamation to the world of God’s eternal message of hope and joy, of forgiveness and salvation.

That’s why I’m here today. To help you all see the priesthood of all believers, that is, that we all together, are a priesthood to the world, and to ask you to continue to pray for our work in Sydney, Australia and around the world. Quick story:  Last week one of our women was sharing at a church in Idaho, like I am out in Texas. Melissa met Ruth, whose Christian neighbour brought to hear another Jew speak about Messiah.  Long story short, Ruth prayed with Melissa that morning to believe and confess Yeshua as Messiah and Lord. Melissa called her dad on the phone, who also is a believer, and said, “I have someone here who wants to tell you something.” That’s in house buzz words for “I just prayed with a person, and they are going to tell you about it.” Sure enough Stewart answered the phone, and heard Ruth tell him that she had just accepted Yeshua as Messiah. How great is that? It’s even better… Stewart is also a Jews for Jesus missionary and was actually on the pulpit at the time of the phone call. And Ruth shared using the speakerphone with the entire congregation that she had just gotten saved. Spontaneous applause broke out as you can imagine. I love that story. I have many others I want to tell you, but I’ll let the newsletter do that. Would you please fill out the white card you received on entry, the one with my picture on it, tear the stub off, and begin to fill out the larger card. I won’t think it rude for you to write while I finish speaking. Please fill out the card completely, especially your email, so we can tell you stories quickly and you can pass them on via forward to many like this one.

If you are giving financially to Jews for Jesus today, please put the amount on the front of the card when you fill it out so we can receipt and thank you. I really appreciate that.

I have a resource table as usual up the back, and really want you to get the book entitled, “What the rabbis know about the Messiah” by Rachmiel Frydland, of blessed memory, The cover is on the screen just now. We ran out of them on this trip, but if you want one, just pay for it up the back, along with any other book, like my testimony, or the calendar, music you want, and without shipping charge, we will get it to you right away. I loved Rachmiel, a holocaust survivor, a Yeshiva bachur, and a holy messianic mensch. He died in 1984 in Ohio. His book is a classic and you have to have it in your library, for sure.

By the way I also have a credit card machine now, so you can use your card, a check, or cash to pay for things.

Rabbi Richard, thank you for your friendship in Messiah for over 30 years. Patsy, keep looking after the man; he turned 69 on Wednesday, which is also my wife’s birthday but she is much younger. He is a golden friend and a holy representative of Messiah’s body in Houston to a world that so desperately needs to see Yeshua.

Rabbi Ron and all the rest of the staff, all the volunteers who make this place such a good place I thank you as well.  To everyone, be His priests to the world that so needs to know Him. Keep doing what makes Yeshua happy; have a blessed Pesach next week, remembering the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, and have a Shabbat shalom as well today.