Welcome to Shema

1. Welcome to Shema Bless the Lord! Bless the Lord who is worthy to be praised for all eternity!

2. Shema Israel, AdonaiEloheinu, AdonaiEchad. Baruch shemk’vodmalchutol’olamva’ed. Shema

3. Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God, the LORD is One! Blessed be the name of His glorious kingdom, forever and ever. Amein. Shema

4. Once Yeshua was asked by the Pharisees when God’s Realm would come. Yeshua said, “God’s Realm won’t come just because you’re watching for it, and neither can people say, ‘Here it is!’ or ‘There it is’, because God’s Realm is actually within you!” Luke 17:20-21 The Source with Hebraic adaptation by Rabbi Lutton

5. Then Yeshua said to his disciples, “There will come a time when you will wish you could see one of the times of the Son of Man and you will not see it. And people will say to you, ‘Over there! There he is!’ or ‘Look! Here he is!’ Luke 17:22-25

6. Do not go running after them! For the Son of Man will be like the lightning that flashes and lights up one end of the sky to the other. But first he must experience many things and be rejected by this people group.

7. “The Human Being’s time will be the same as it was in Noah’s time. People were eating, drinking, marrying up to the very time that Noah went into the ark. Then the flood came and wiped them all out. It was the same in the time of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. Luke 17:26-37

8. But the very day that Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down on them from the sky and wiped them all out. It will be the same on the Day when the Son of Man will reveal himself. On that day no one who is on the roof of the house should go down to get their possessions from inside the house.

9. In the same way, no one out in the fields should go back for anything. Remember Lot’s wife! Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it. On that night two people will be on one bed - one will be taken and the other one left. Two women will be grinding grain together - one will be taken and the other one left.”

10. The disciples asked, “Where will this happen, Lord?” • He answered, “Where you find the body, there you will find the eagles!

11. Then Yeshua told them an example to demonstrate that it was necessary to pray always and not do it wrongly. He said, “There was a judge in a certain city who did not respect God or respect people. There was a widow in that city, and she was the one who came and said to him, ‘Get justice for me from my opponent at law!’ Luke 18:1-5

12. “And he didn’t want to at the time, but afterwards he said to himself, ‘I don’t respect God and I don’t respect anyone, but because this widow gives me trouble I’ll give her what she wants alright, otherwise she might come and punch my lights out!’

13. The Lord says, “Pay attention to what the dishonest judge says. God will certainly carry out justice for his chosen ones who call out to him night and day! He will certainly not delay over them! He will see to it that they get justice, and quickly! But will the Son of Man find faith on the earth when he comes?” Luke 18:6-8

14. And Yeshua told this example to some people who were confident that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else: “Two people went up to the temple to pray – one was a Pharisee and the other one was a Tax Profiteer. Luke 18:9-14

15. The Pharisee stood up and prayed to himself as follows: ‘God, I offer my thanks to you that I’m not like other people – robbers, evildoers, adulterers – or even like this Tax Profiteer! I fast twice a week and I give a tenth of absolutely everything I get!’

16. “But the Tax Profiteer stood off at a distance. He dared not even look up at heaven but pounded his chest and said, ‘God, please be merciful to me. I’m such a sinner!’ “I tell you, it was this person, not the other person, who went home pleasing God. All of you who have high opinions of yourselves will be put down, and all of you who humble yourselves will be honored.”

17. After this, Yeshua traveled around Galilee, deliberately staying away from Judea because certain Jews there were looking for a way to kill him. But when the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near, Yeshua’ brothers said to him, “You should leave here and go to Judea, so your disciples can see the miraculous signs that you do. John 7:1-5

18. No one who wants to be boldly out in the public view does things in secret! Since this is what you’re doing, you need to show yourself to the world!” (Even his own brothers didn’t believe him.)

19. So Yeshua told them, “It isn’t the right time for me yet – but for you, any time is right! The world can’t hate you, but it hates me because I give evidence that what it does is evil. You go up to the Feast! As for me, I won’t go up to this Feast, because isn’t the right time for me yet!” Having said this, he stayed behind in Galilee. John 7:6-9

20. However, after his brothers had gone up to the Feast, he went too, but in secret rather than in public. So at the feast certain Jews were searching for him. They kept saying, “Where is he!” • People all through the crowds were complaining about him. Some said, “He’s a good person,” but others said, “No, he gets the people off the right track!” John 7:10-13

21. However, no one would speak freely and boldly about him in public because they were afraid of certain Jews.

22. Halfway through the Feast, Yeshua went up to the temple courts and started teaching. The Jews were amazed. “How did he get so learned without an education?” they asked. • “My teaching is not my own,” Yeshua answered. “It comes from him who sent me. John 7:14-19

23. If someone wants to do God’s purpose, they will find out whether my teaching originates from God or whether I speak on my own initiative! • People who want to bring honor on themselves speak for themselves, but people who want to honor the One who sent him are truthful, and are not dishonest in any way. Hasn’t Moses given you the Law? But none of you keep the Law! Why are you trying to kill me?”

24. The crowd answered, “You’ve got a demon! Who’s trying to kill you?” • “I did one miraculous sign, and you’re all shocked!” Yeshua said. • “Moses gave you circumcision (not that it originated from Moses, but from his ancestors), and so you circumcise a person on the Sabbath Day. John 7:20-24

25. Since a person is circumcised on the Sabbath Day, so that the Law of Moses relating to circumcision won’t be broken, why are you extremely enraged with me because I restored a person to their original undamaged state on the Sabbath Day? Don’t judge the surface of things, instead be just in your judgments!”

26. So some of the people who lived in Jerusalem said, “Isn’t this the one they’re trying to kill? He’s right here speaking out in public, and they’re not saying a word to him! Have the authorities really come to the conclusion that he is the Anointed One? We actually know where he really comes from, but when the Anointed One comes, no one will know where he comes from!” Luke 7:25-27

27. Then Yeshua, who was still teaching in the Temple, shouted out, “Yes, you know me and you know where I’ve come from. I haven’t come on my own initiative, but the One who sent me is truthful! You don’t know him! But I know him for a fact, because I am from him, and he sent me!” John 7:28-30

28. So they tried hard to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his time hadn’t come. Many of the crowd believed him and said, “When the Anointed One comes, could he possibly do more miraculous signs than this one has done!”

29. The Pharisees heard the crowd gossiping about all this, and so the Pharisees and the chief priests sent the Temple Police to arrest him. • So Yeshua said, “I’ll be with you a little while longer, and then I’ll go to him who sent me. You will look for me and not be able to find me, and where I am going, you can’t come!” John 7:32-36

30. “Where does he intend to go so that we won’t be able to find him?” the Jews said among themselves. “Does he intend to go where our people live scattered among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? What did he mean by his statement: ‘You will look for me and not be able to find me, and where I am going, you can’t come’?”

31. On the last and most important day of the Feast, Yeshua stood up and said in a loud voice, “If anyone’s thirsty, let them come to me and drink. Whoever believes me, as the Scripture has said, will have streams of living water flowing from within.” John 7:37-39

32. By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed Yeshua would receive later on. Up to that time the Spirit hadn’t yet been given, because at that point Yeshua hadn’t been given his full splendor.

33. When some of the crowd heard this, they said, “Surely he is the Prophet!” • Others said, “This one’s the Anointed One!” • Still others said, “Surely not! How can the Anointed One come from Galilee? Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Anointed One will come from David’s descendants and from the village of Bethlehem where David was?” John 7:40-44

34. So the crowd was divided over Yeshua. Some wanted to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him.

35. So the Temple Police went to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him in?” The Temple Police answered, “No one has ever spoken like he did!” “You’re not deceived, too, are you!” the Pharisees cried out. “Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed him? No! Only this crowd that doesn’t believe the Law – there’s a strong curse on them!” John 7:45-49

36. Nikodemos, who had gone to Yeshua earlier, and was one of them, asked, “Surely our Law doesn’t judge anyone without hearing them first to find out what they’re doing?” • “Surely you’re not from Galilee too!” they said. “Look into it and you’ll see that a prophet doesn’t come out of Galilee!” John 7:50-52

37. And they all went home. But Yeshua went to the Mount of Olives. At dawn he went again to the temple and the whole crowd gathered around him. He sat down and taught them. The Bible scholars and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery and put her in the middle. They said to him, “Teacher, here is a woman caught in the act of adultery. John 7:53-8:11

38. In the Law, Moses commands us to stone such women. So then, what do you have to say about it?” • They said this to trap Yeshua, in order to have a reason to accuse him. But Yeshua bent down and started writing on the ground with his finger. When they kept asking him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let one of you who is sinless be the first to throw a stone at her.”

39. And again he bent over and wrote on the ground. But those who were listening started to leave, one at a time, the oldest ones first, until only Yeshua was left, with the woman still standing there. Yeshua said to her, “Lady, where are they? Did anyone condemn you?”

40. “No one, sir,” she answered. • “And I certainly do not condemn you!” Yeshua said. “Off you go, don’t sin any more.”

41. When Yeshua spoke to them again, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk around in the dark, but will have light shining on their life.” • The Pharisees said, “You’re appearing as your own witness, so your testimony can’t be true!” John 8:12-18

42. Yeshua answered, “Even if I do give evidence on my own behalf, my testimony is true. I know where I came from and I know where I’m going! But you don’t have a clue where I’ve come from or where I’m going!” He continued, “You judge in the way typical of the natural realm, but I certainly don’t judge anyone!

43. And whenever I do judge, my judgment is correct, because I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me. In your own law it has been written that the testimony of two people is valid. I myself am the one who appears as my own witness, and my other witness is the Father, who sent me.”

44. “So where’s your Father then!” they demanded. Yeshua answered, “You don’t know me or my Father! If you knew me, you would know my Father too!” • Yeshua said all this while he was teaching in the Temple near the place where the offerings were put. And no one even laid a hand on him, because his time hadn’t come. John 8:19-20

45. Yeshua spoke to them again,, “I’m going away. You’ll look for me, and you’ll die while you still have your sins. You can’t go where I’m going!” So the Jews said, “Surely he’s not going to kill himself! Is that why he says, ‘You can’t go where I’m going?’” • Yeshua said to them, “You people are from below, but I am from above. John 8:21-26

46. You are from this world, but I’m not from this world. I told you that you would die while you still have your sins. If you don’t believe that I’m the One I claim to be, then you will die while you still have your sins, that’s for sure!” • “Who are you?” they asked.

47. “Exactly what I’ve been claiming all along!” Yeshua answered. “I have many things to say to you and to judge you for, but the One who sent me is truthful. What I’ve heard from him I’ll tell the world.”

48. They didn’t understand a thing he was saying about his Father. So Yeshua said, “When you have lifted up the Human Being, then you’ll know who I am. I don’t do anything on my own initiative, but I say the things that my Father taught me. John 8:27-30

49. The One who sent me is with me: he’s never left me, because I always do things that please him.” • While he was speaking, many people believed him.

50. And in conclusion: