NEW MESSAGES: https://izzyavraham.com Teaching on Leviticus 21-24 and Luke 18-20 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Too easy to focus on others instead of ourselves in spiritual growth and Torah observance. Pharisaic practice of fasting twice a week, on Mondays and Thursdays. Looking up to heaven in prayer. Quotes from Siddur and Didache. Tradition of smiting the chest. Bringing babies. Which mitzvah the Master left out and why. Yeshua's question, 'What do you want?' Value of desire and setting quantifiable goals. What the term Ben Avraham, Son of Abraham, meant to Mashiach. Cities responding to Yeshua and disastrous consequences of rejection of Yeshua and Yochanan the Immerser. Celebration of the festival commandments contributes to greatness in the kingdom. Feasts bad translation of moa'dim. Whose are the appointed times. Proclaim with a loud voice and cry out the truth of the holy convocations. Breakdown of Hebrew verbal root qara, to call or cry out, as calling on the name of Yahweh in prayer, publicly reading the Scriptures, preaching, and inviting others to join us. Sabbath first of the feasts of the Lord. Also a mitzvah to work from Sunday to Friday. Quote from Brian Tracy. We're commanded to have holy gatherings, not just rest. Journal entries and warm fuzzies. Matzot, Bikkurim, Omer/Sheaf counting. Kindness to the disadvantaged. Spring Festivals partially fulfilled in first coming of Mashiach. Yomei Teruah and Kippur and Sukkot. Offerings by fire. Vignette from early church history, the quartodeciman controversy. Tertullian and the Sabbatati. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQiSgQ-xCYw

NEW MESSAGES: https://izzyavraham.com In this "Lama (Hebrew for 'Why?') Talk With Izzy", Izzy explains why we started reading the second half of the Apostolic Scriptures with the book of James instead of the Pauline Epistles and does an expose on the Hieronymic Order of the New Testament, starting with the Pauline epistles with Gentile overtones, as innovated by Jerome and the Roman Catholic church versus the original order of the New Testament, starting with the Universal epistles with Jewish overtones. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAYQ4Vk80NU

NEW MESSAGES: https://izzyavraham.com Teaching on Genesis 32-36 and Romans 1-3 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Exchanging our glory for cheap trinkets. Masculine strength and feminine beauty. To the Jew first on the three levels of the focus of Messiah, the strategy of Paul, and the heart of God. Kiddush as a picture of training for the Apostolic mantle. Warning to congregations that spend much time in midrash and little time in prayer. Analysis of human degeneration and warning against pride and judgementalism. Hebrew concepts in Pauline Epistles, Ruach haKodesh and Echad. Suppressing the truth through unbiblical practices including Christmas and Easter. Defining circumcision as legal Jewish status. Torahless Jews and Observant Gentiles. The value of the Jewish heart. Respecting Judaism. The universal Torah. The faith that upholds the Torah. Connections between the Return of Israel, the Great Tribulation, and Yom Kippur. Finding your true identity in God. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GphQ71Hczis

NEW MESSAGES: https://izzyavraham.com Message from Exodus 1-6 and Mark 1-2. Annoying people who try to psychoanalyze you and a psychoanalysis of Pharaoh the control freak. Deep teaching from Shaul on the old and new person, anthropos in Greek and Adam in Hebrew, and the difference between the fleshly mindset and the spiritual mindset. Yaakov's evaluation of human wisdom as soulish and demonic. Religion as the default mode of the old person, all humanity eithers falls to the good or the bad side of the tree, either lawlessness or legalism. Pharaoh as picture of old person, old nature, that all villains and that you have from your great great grandpa Adam. Example of Pharaoh's response to Moshe, who is Yahweh, I don't know him and get out of my face. Why Yeshua said told Nakdimon a highly religious and observant Jew that it wasn't enough, he had to be reborn. Excerpt from George Fox the founder of the Quaker movement on seeing the old nature within by the light of Christ, rather than in the villains of history. Process of moving from old person to new person. God delivered a series of hammerfist blows to the face of Pharaoh in Egypt and will do the same to Pharaoh in you, it's called the cross. Symbolism of the three days' journey. All about Yeshua's death and resurrection. Objective historical and subjective experiential sides of the cross. How to ruthlessly kill Pharaoh in you, by doing the mitzvot in the power of the Ruach haKodesh. The old you is like Herod, crafty and adept at surviving. God will send the cross to you through personal crises and interpersonal conflicts. How not to respond and how to respond, by taking up your cross and dying. Contrast between Pharaoh's kingdom as all you, self oriented and humanistic, a complicated manmade system, all about control performance and stress, and Yeshua's kingdom which is all about him, is simple and natural like the wilderness, and is all about freedom, joy, and shalom. Let go of your kingdom and step into his, the day the old you dies is the day your eyes open to his kingdom. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gjkGwMzA_Y