Between Complete Faith & Religious Faith: The Land of Israel Fellowship

the fellowship is our community and we are a global family and we have been handpicked from around the world and what makes this Fellowship so unique is that all of us are dedicated to Preparing ourselves for the great day which seems to be closer than ever but at the same time things are more intense than ever before the hostage videos the terrorists being released the tears the fears it's just I've never experienced such a time in Israel and our community it's not that we want to only connect and learn but we really want to live a life of amuna a life of biblical Faith because only biblical faith can help us through these times and bring us to the Finish Line there is no other way and what I realized is that in this story of Exodus it really pinpoints one of the most important principles of biblical Faith how we need to approach every challenge in life how we need to approach when we feel we're stuck in slavery how are we ever going to get out so I want to go through the story and I hopefully want to bring new insight for all of us it begins in Exodus chapter 5 verses 22 and 23 the context is Moses finally goes to pharaoh and GS up the courage and says let my people go and then Pharaoh turns around and doubles down on the Israelites and makes their workload even harder and the people of Israel are devastated and Moses of course is distraught and what he says is to God why have you sent me ever since I came to pharaoh just speaking your name he has dealt worse with this people and you have not saved your people at all what is going on I thought you were going to save Israel and you've only made Israel's life more difficult I thought you were going to bring the Jewish people back to the land of Israel and redeem them and right now there are hostages that have been in Kamas captivity for over 400 Days it's like they're living in a holocaust reality inside the land of Israel You're not saving your people at all and then God answers and God's answer to Moses is really an answer to all of us right now and it's in Exodus chap 6 verse one now in my opinion Exodus chapter 6 verse1 should have really been the last chapter of verse five but the scholar who decided to put the different verses and chapters I think he messed this one up because really what God says to Moses and then the Lord says to Moses now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh he tells Moses wait and see be patient eventually you'll see how every hardship is a step toward a greater Redemption with with Messiah eyes it's to see even in moments of Crisis they may ultimately lead toward salvation you have to broaden our perspective to view reality through a lens of Faith a lens of amuna we're all in a process Israel is in the midst of a historic process just wait and see the Sal ation of God a process takes time to unfold and God's answer to Moses is saying wait now you'll see my salvation everything takes time and everything needs to be seen Through The Eyes of faith that God's plan is unfolding over a long period of time that's true for our lives that's true for Israel's Life as a nation and that's true for the whole world I mean even now we can look back to the disengagement we can look back to the disastrous decisions that were made and now see Gaza that we actually may remove the evil from the land and only decades later we realize that even those crisises even those disasters all of those things have set the stage for where we are now but that's one side of the stick but biblical Faith you have to hold both sides of the stick so one side is saying just wait be patient Broad in your perspective see things through a lens Paradigm of Holiness and Faith but at the same time there's Exodus 14 verse1 15 and this is key and the Lord said to Moses why do you cry to me tell the children of Israel to go forward once their back are to the Sea and the Egyptians are running to them of course the people of Israel start to complain and cry in fact it's the first Jewish joke in the Bible the Jews say Moses why did you bring us out to here were there no good graves in Egypt you had to bring us out here to die and it's like you could already see the beginnings of Jackie Mason and Jerry Seinfeld humor in the Bible of the Jewish people complaining and then Moses of course calls out to God and then God says why are you crying to me tell the children of Israel to go forward and you realize to go forward there was nowhere to go where are they going to go their backs are to the Sea the Egyptians are on the other side closing in on them go forward to where what about just broadening our perspective and having faith is that the other side of the stick on one hand we need to see reality through our lens Paradigm of emuna but at the same time emuna literally means Faith backed with action and sometimes I have moments in my life where I don't know what to do other than to call out to God and please God send the Messiah please God send me salvation please God just get me out of this scenario I'm just relying on you and then Hashem says why are you crying to me go move forward even in the most challenging times move your pieces on the chessboard even if there's not a very good move you have to take the best move possible and always act in faith it's not right to wait for the Messiah to come it's not wait to just to to just wait for God's salvation you have to believe in God's salvation and at the same time you have to practice your faith with action and whatever it is it means to step out in faith first even if you don't see that it's a good move even if it means walking into the red SE saying well if I want me to move forward God is calling me to move I'll move and Shon Ben aminadav the prince of Judah the leader of the tribe of Judah began to walk into the Red Sea and then God says Moses lift up your staff and split the sea but it was that combination of belief that God will save us but so much belief that we're always ready to take action that's backed with faith that is the key and so I want to bless all of us that in these times ahead sometimes it may feel like there is no way forward well broaden our perspective and know that we may wake up and tahila may make us pancakes for breakfast because president Trump has announced we're going to revolutionize Gaza and it also could mean that with whatever challenge you have take the next step in faith with complete faith and then God will always come to deliver so I bless us all all to walk with the biblical faith of Israel [Music]