What Then Say You
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What Then Say You
Rededication Starts Where Routine Ends: Day 8
What if your brightest spiritual moment isn’t Christmas morning but a quiet Wednesday in August? We open Numbers 7:84–8:4 and track the line from dedication offerings and the hammered gold of the menorah to a modern life that burns steady long after the season fades. The story of rededication in Hanukkah becomes more than history; it becomes a pattern for clearing idols, tending the flame, and letting the Holy Spirit keep our inner house lit and occupied.
Along the way, we ask searching questions. Does your February look like Christmas in your spirit? Do your words, habits, and budgets reflect a life purchased with a price? We contrast the aroma of ancient sacrifices with the living aroma of surrendered lives, and we follow the center light of the menorah as a picture of the Helper who keeps us bright. If you’ve felt the letdown after the lights come down, this conversation offers a way forward: rededication as a lifestyle, joy that endures, and a lamp aimed at what’s ahead.
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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. Today is a wonderful day that the Lord has made. Let us be glad and rejoice in him. We are on day eight, candle eight, and this is the last reading. And it is numbers seven, fifty-four through chapter eight, verse four. But I'm going to start off in verse eighty-four. Numbers seven, verse eighty-four, and we're going to read through chapter eight, verse four. It says, This was the day dedication offering for the altar on the day when it was anointed. From the chiefs of Israel, twelve silver plates, twelve silver basins, twelve gold dishes, each silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and each basin seventy, all of the silver vessels, two thousand four hundred shekels according to the shekel of the sanctuary, the twelve golden dishes full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, all the gold of the dishes being a hundred and twenty shekels, all the cattle from the burnt offering, twelve bulls, twelve rams, twelve male lambs a year old, with their grain offering, and twelve male goats for a sin offering, and all the cattle for the sacrifice of peace offerings, twenty-four bulls, the ram sixty, the male's goats sixty, the male's lamb a year old, sixty. This was the dedication offering for the altar after it was anointed. And when Moses went into the tent of the meeting to speak with the Lord, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim, and it spoke to him. Chapter eight. Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to Aaron and say to him, When you set up the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lampstand. And Aaron did so. He set up its lamps in front of the lampstand, as the Lord commanded Moses. And this was the workmanship of the lampstand, hammer work of gold, from its base to its flowers, it was hammerwork according to the pattern that the Lord has shown Moses, so he made the lampstand. Hey, so this has been an experience for me. Uh I hope if you, you know, traveled through day one all the way to today, that it was um encouraging to you and also challenge you because again, that's what this podcast is all about is to challenge us to move beyond the status quo of our faith, move beyond just the I was baptized when I was 12, or I believed in God all my life, and you know, whatever you hear on Sunday is as much time as you spend in the word. My challenge for you is to dig deep, right? It's to literally go into your word every single day, um, you know, build that discipline, build that habit, um, build that that Barean nature that's in all of us, the ability to do it anyway. And that's to literally seek it out for yourself, right? Study the word, study to show yourself approved. You don't have to go to seminary to know the word, you don't have to go to seminary to to dive in the Hebraic language or the Greek and really be able to discern for yourself and rely on the Holy Spirit to what's being said and what's being taught, and what convictions should you have in your own life? Um man. So much so much has happened uh these last you know seven days. Um I I've I've studied so much and I've I've looked at how much hate there is right now towards the Jewish community, how much um confusion and hate there is even in the Christian circles regarding Hanukkah. Um again, this is not a salvation issue. This this intent of studying Hanukkah and reading what every Orthodox Jew is reading is really about what we're grafted into, right? Because ultimately, if you believe in Yahshua the Messiah, if you believe in Jesus Christ, we were grafted into something, right? Like it God didn't just take away the blessings of Israel and apply them to American Christians. He didn't just take away the blessings of Israel being his chosen people and say, nah, you know, now it's this new thing. And it and if you're an evangelical, now you're the chosen people of God. Right? But the reality is anybody who professes the name Jesus Christ as Lord over their lives and they live that out, right? And that is producing fruit, you are the chosen people, right? You are um, you know, representatives and ambassadors to the kingdom of heaven. And likewise we should live out that word and live out that that directorate that's been given to us by the Holy Spirit, that directorate that's been given to us by God Himself, right? And so it's not a matter of does Hanukkah point to Yeshua, does Pesak point to Yahshua? Does Shabbat or Sabbath point to Yeshua? Um, the whole word points to Jesus Christ. From Genesis to Revelations, it's all about Jesus, right? It's all about the Messiah, and it's all for, and if you can see the pattern of the people, if you see the pattern of the Israelis and the nation and the kingdoms being split between the northern kingdom and the southern kingdom and Judah and Israel, you see all that come to a head in the New Testament, and you see Christ lay his life down as a perfect uh Kaporah for our sins, as the perfect blameless Lamb, you know, spotless, the the only one to be it and do it without sin. When you see all that happen, it's just like, man, thank you, God. Thank you for allowing us this opportunity because if it was left up to us, we would surely fail. And so now the question becomes the the real testament to if you're watching this today and you missed all other all the other videos, scrap that, right? The question for today is is your life, right, the life you are currently living out, if you're in America, if you're a Christian, is the life that you're living, right? All this emphasis on Christmas and the gifts that's coming this week, right? What does your life look like outside of this season? Outside of the holy day season, right? Let's get rid of Chris Mass or Christ Mass, right? Let's let's move past Catholicism here, and let's just ask, what is your life lived out outside of the holiday season when everybody is expected to be merry? When everybody is expected to be, you know, nice and kind and so on and so forth, minus all the Christmas movies that show otherwise when we're trying to chase down and hunt down that toy or that last-minute shopping item that we're trying to get our friends or our family. Outside of this holiday season, outside of this week, does January look like Christmas in your spirit? Does February, March, does July, does the election uh uh season look like Christmas in your spirit, right? Let that light, the light of Hanukkah, right? The light of Christmas, Jesus coming into the world, the stars shining bright, right? That the the the wise men saw. Let that be persistent throughout the year. Not just a January 1st resolution, not just because, you know, tis the season to be jolly. No, it's not a season, it's a lifestyle. It's not a day that we remember it's a life lived out in our spirit and our flesh and our words and how we communicate and how we love. That is the is the real evidence of our faith. That is the real evidence of our salvation. And you might be saying to yourself, whoa, whoa, whoa, don't start talking about my salvation, but I'm being genuine there, right? Because we can do a lot of good things and still get to the kingdom of heaven until that day, on that day, Jesus says to us, depart from me because I never knew you. And then we could say, But Jesus, I did all these things in your name. And he's like, it's a cool story, bro. Out of line, right? It's not about what we do, it's about how we live and why we live, right? And so I just challenge you, move beyond the season, move beyond the holiday, and let this be a persistent thing, a persistent dedication, a persistent rededicating and lighting of the menorah, if you will, of your Holy Spirit and of your internal self, the death of flesh. Let this be a consistent thing that we live out on a random Wednesday in August. Right? The same way we should say 'tis the season should be in July. Should be in May, should be in March. Right? It should be no circumstance in which we're not joyful for the Lord. It should be in no circumstance that we're not giving in a cheerful giver for the Lord on a random Tuesday. Right? It's a lifestyle lived out. It doesn't just, it's not exclusive to Sunday, and it's not exclusive to your church building, is not exclusive to these moments of celebration and the feast. It's a whole life changed. Right? As we talked about, I think on day five or day four, you were purchased with a price, right? Your ability to be able to say, Jesus, I've a father, that ability, that ability to profess the name of Jesus Christ and the actual power come out of you, that was purchased with a price. We are not our own, right? And so we owe everything. This whole little podcast, the camera, my house, all of this stuff is his. Right? It's not mine. And but the joy and the faith that I have and the and the bubbling up inside, the oil overflowing, all of that stuff, that right there is evidence of Jesus' coming and dying and being the Kapoor for my sin. We talked this week about a lot of stuff that they did to dedicate this temple, right? It was a whole bunch of oxen. We just talked about 2,400 lambs got slaughtered, a whole bunch of grain got put on the altar, and it was all in regards to, you know, uh an offering being pleasant and a pleasant aroma to God's sight, right? And so now our life should be that pleasant aroma that's consistently burning. You know, that that one candle in the middle of the menorah representative of the helper, right? And who did Jesus say that helper would be during these times when he goes back up? It said it would be the Holy Spirit. And so that helper should be literally lighting the flame inside of you every single day. So don't take this day or this week or or this upcoming holiday as a moment to reflect on Jesus? As a moment to reflect on what you're thankful for, as a moment to reflect on how great God is. That should be a daily reflection. That should be a when I wake up in the morning and I have breath in my lungs, I can shout hallelujah and amen, because I am no longer held captive to sin. I've been set free. That's the whole purpose, right? So if you think back to the Hellenistic uh idolatry that was going on before you know the Maccabees came and did what they did, like that's our old life. That's representing our old life. We had all types of idols and different things going on in the sanctuary that's supposed to be gods, right? And just like the leader of that time, which I, by the way, still have yet to be able to pronounce his name, just like the leader of that time, the Greek leader, who thought that he was a direct descendant of Zeus, we ourselves have become many gods. And so, at what point do we say, thank you, God, for rededicating, for coming in like a storm and tearing out that old self that thought he was the stuff, or that thought that she was the stuff. Whatever it might be. Thank you, Lord, for removing the blasphemous idols that I had in my sanctuary. And God, if there be any more, right? Because you know what the word says, when you're when your temple's clean, when the house is clean, if it's not, if it's not barricaded up, if you don't have the Holy Spirit sitting there, if you're not maintaining that cleanliness, seven more will come in. We don't want to go back to the old ways, Lord. We want to keep you centermost in our hearts and our minds and in our spirit. And so just remember that as you go forward, I enjoy spending this time with you. Uh, this probably be the last um podcast until the new year. Um I thank you all for hanging out with me. And I hope that this message encouraged you and blessed you. It just maybe even caused a rededication in your own life. And um, yeah, love you guys, and God willing, we will see each other next year. Until then, be blessed.