What Then Say You
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What Then Say You
You Were Not A People, Now You Are God’s People| Day 7
A single passage can reset our posture. We open 1 Peter 2:4–10 and find the heartbeat of Hanukkah’s rededication pulsing through the church today: living stones aligned to the Cornerstone, a royal priesthood called to proclaim light in a time that often prefers heat.
We also face the hard noise around Israel, Jews, and Christians in the wake of recent violence and online hostility. Being grafted in never meant erasing Israel or weaponizing Scripture. It meant mercy for those who once were not a people, and a summons to carry that mercy into conversations that easily turn cruel. If we belong to Jesus, our words should not become stumbling blocks. We steward our title—ambassadors of the kingdom—with a steady reverence that resists contempt and chooses truth with grace.
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Hey, good morning, good evening, good afternoon, whatever time it is that you are tuning into the podcast. Thanks so much for tuning in. Uh today is definitely a wonderful day that the Lord has made. Let us be glad and rejoice in it. Hey, so we're almost done. We're almost done with the full eight days, and we are on day seven today. Um, and surprisingly enough, um, there is a lot of reading today because you know, Shabbat was last night or Sabbath as the Jews practice it last night. I know many Christians today will be waking up tomorrow to go to Sunday service and and practice your uh, you know, Sabbath day. I just ask that you remind yourselves that um, you know, if we're practicing Sabbath, if we're practicing Shabbat, um, you know, it's good to know about the other feasts. You're not necessarily saying you gotta practice them, not necessarily saying you gotta be converted to a Jew or a messianic Jew or anything like that. Don't ever confuse that this series is about conversion for the Christian. It's more about opening up and realizing what we were grafted into. And surprisingly enough, today's reading is in 1 Peter chapter 2, verses 4 through 10. So let's just hop right in. It says, As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men, but in the sight of God, chosen and precious, you yourselves, like living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For it stands in Scripture, Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone, chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame. So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, the stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone, and a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense. They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do. But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of the darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people. Once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. Man, that is a powerful reminder. That is a powerful verse. This word is active and living, and it pierces the bone all the way down to the marrow. Hear what was just spoken. You are a chosen race, versus nine, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you were God's people. Once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. See, you know, right now, I think because of what took place in Sydney, what took place in October 7th last year with Hamas and Israel, you know, there is so much hate in the chat, y'all. Like, I mean, people say the ugliest, nastiest stuff, and surprisingly, there's a lot of Christians that are like, you know, Jews are no longer God's chosen people, you know, somewhere along in Scripture, you know, because they they crucify Christ, and then God's promises have shifted. Like, there's a lot of of misinformation and confusion out there, and I'm here to set the record straight. You know, we were grafted in as Gentiles, right? Like, if you look at that chapter, you look at that verse, and we we might put it up on the screen, but you are a chosen people. If we go down to verse 10, it says, Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people. Once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy, that is the context of that is talking about the Gentile. The context of that, I would argue, is talking about the entirety of the Christian faith today. Everyone who claims Yahshua the Messiah, who's a Gentile, who's not a Jew by birth, who's not a Jew by a Jewish mother or a Jewish father, that that that's talking to us. Once we were in the darkness, now we have the availability and the access to the light, right? And so when we think about Hanukkah, when we think about these candles being lit in the miracle that took place during the 400 years of silence, there's a few things that we have to take into consideration, right? We are being grafted in, right? And in that being grafted in, we now have a responsibility. We now have a have a duty, so to speak. We are all charged with the same uh uh uh conscription, right, that now we have to now bear that light out into the world, right? Now it says if you go back to verse 5, living stones and being built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God. If you think back over this week, over these last seven days or last six days now, we were reading number seven, and it was talking about Moses and and what they used to do the dedication, all the sacrifices that were laid out by each member, um, one member from each tribe, right? The representative of each tribe brought all these offerings, all these things to dedicate, you know, the altar, right? And then as you fast forward during the 400 years of silence and Maccabees, they were rededicating that temple, right? And so as we come to today's reading, and from the Messianic Jewish perspective reading, right? We're in 1 Peter, and now we're having to come to terms with the fact that now there is a spiritual sacrifice that has to be offered up, right? And that's a requirement now. The spiritual sacrifice is acceptable by God through Jesus Christ. That is obedience, that is his lordship over our lives. That is not putting our light under a bushel, that is living a life that's pleasing and worthy to be known as believers in Christ. At the end of the day, it says they stumble because they disobey the word as they were destined to do. Man. Verse 8. They stumble because they disobey the word as they were destined to do. Now, if we have decided that we believe in Jesus Christ, right, and and if we decided that we put our trust and our faith in Him and Yahshua the Messiah, this is serious. We have to look at the Word, we have to listen to the Holy Spirit, and we have to be aware of our disobedience to God. We have to be aware of our disobedience, and if we're being stumbling blocks for other people. That should not be the aim. We should not be spewing hate and disinformation and all types of craziness that's going on right now towards the Jewish community, towards our cousins in Christ, right? Towards our extended family who know the Father, right? God plucked them out of Egypt and set them apart and said, This is going to be my people who I'm going to display my works and my love so that the entire world can see. And then as we read the entire word, right? I don't know if you have, but you might want to try it out. Hop in Genesis. I mean, New Year's is coming around, right? Everybody has some New Year's Eve resolution, but this might be need the uh this might need to be the resolution that you have. It's just reading the word, putting that word in your flesh so that way you can live it out and know the history and know the feasts and and and know how in Genesis Jesus is found. In Exodus, Jesus is found, how everything is pointing to the Messiah. We cannot pick and choose which areas are are talking about Jesus and not. We can't just assume that the New Testament is the first time we hear the word Yeshua the Messiah or Jesus Christ in the beginning, right? That's that's Genesis. In the beginning. Anyway, I say all that to say this be encouraged, be motivated, be zealous for the Lord, and for studying to show yourself approved. Be like the Bereans that Paul talked about. Where when somebody, when they get a message or when somebody's talking to them about something concerning God, that they go and they read their own word and they say, where was that at? Because I'm just not going to take what you said at face value. I'm going to go and run it back against the word of God. That's the whole premise of this podcast in general, guys, is that I'm going to say things. Me and my wife might say things. People that come on the podcast, we might have conversations that challenge your core beliefs. But the goal and the aim is for you to go back into your word, grab your Bible, open it up, ask God to confirm or deny what Keith or Tanisha or whoever else said, and let the convictions flow, let the correction flow, let the edification flow, let the encouragement flow, but allow me to stay in step with the Holy Spirit as I do what I'm called to do as a believer in your word. Right? And so be encouraged, guys. I pray that, you know, though this is a short one, tomorrow's our last day, that if you made it through all these videos, awesome, amen. Hope you learned something, hope you grew, hope you, you know, decided to go dig deeper in the word, because that's the goal. We as believers, as Christians, as messianic Jews, whatever you are, if you are claiming the name of Jesus, Jesus Christ over your life, your goal should be studying to show yourself approved. Your goal should be living out this thing in the Holy Spirit, right? Being led by the Holy Spirit in everything that you do. That's the end goal, right? That's the end goal. As an ambassador, as a representative of the kingdom of heaven, that's a big title. One that we should not take lightly. And as Paul said, and as I said on maybe day five, day four, you know, you were bought with a price. Your life is not your own. And so own that, right? Own that. I love you guys. Be blessed, and we will see you tomorrow for day eight and the final day of this Hanukkah dialogue.