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God's Appointed Times with Rabbi Jason Sobel | Jason Sobel & Samuel Rodriguez: Hanukkah (Part 1) | God's Appointed Times | January 7, 2026
- >> rabbi jason sobel: have you ever wondered,
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- Is there more to the story of our faith?
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- Are their pieces we're missing?
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- For many followers of jesus, the answer is yes.
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- And i don't want you missing out.
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- I want you to see the life in ministry of jesus in new ways.
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- Understand his character more than you ever have.
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- For us to do this, we're gonna uncover the meaning behind the
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- Celebrations that god outlined for us.
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- You might know them as the jewish holidays.
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- But in fact, they are so much more than that.
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- They are god's appointed times.
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- ♪ music ♪
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- We are back for season 3 of god's appointed times.
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- I'm so excited.
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- If you're joining us for the first time,
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- Let me introduce myself.
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- I'm rabbi jason sobel.
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- I'm an author and teacher.
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- I'm also a messianic jew.
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- For those of you who aren't familiar,
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- That means that i come from a jewish family,
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- Was raised in a jewish home, but i decided to follow jesus
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- And hebrew yeshua.
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- Coming from a jewish background,
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- I've seen first-hand the beauty of celebrations,
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- Like passover, shabbat and hanukkah.
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- I want to share some of these celebrations with you,
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- And reveal why these holy celebrations should matter to
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- Every follower of yeshua jesus.
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- We're jumping in with one of the most iconic of all
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- The appointed times,
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- Hanukkah, the festival of light.
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- This holiday is a season of miracles.
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- All pointing us to god's supernatural provision.
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- Now hanukkah is an interesting celebration.
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- Firstly, because it's only mentioned once in scripture
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- Directly in john 10:22.
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- So to further understand the meaning of hanukkah,
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- We have to open up the history books.
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- The story of hanukkah is pretty epic.
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- Over a century before yeshua was born,
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- An evil king named antiochus epiphanes wanted to rebuild the
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- Empire of alexander the great.
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- Antiochus believed that pagan greek culture was civilized and
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- Educated and was key to uniting his kingdom around this
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- Worldview and culture.
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- So he outlawed the practice of judaism among the jewish people.
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- He began to oppress and silence the jewish people.
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- Antiochus even went as far as storming the temple in jerusalem
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- And building a statue of zeus there.
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- Wow!
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- Talk about a desecration!
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- Taking things even further, antiochus sent out his henchmen
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- To roundup jewish leaders and force them to make sacrifices to
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- Pagan greek idols.
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- Boy, this is getting really bad.
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- Antiochus' henchmen showed up to a town and rounded up all the
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- People, including the jewish priest mattathias.
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- They tried to force him to turn against his faith and worship
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- Greek idols.
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- When mattathias refused, it sparked a rebellion.
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- Years later, mattathias' son judah would form a small army of
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- Rebels known as the macabees,
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- Who fought back against the armies of antiochus
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- The evil king.
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- It's an incredible underdog story.
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- God was with them.
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- It was a miracle.
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- The macabees, a tiny rebellion, were able to overthrow the
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- Massive armies of antiochus and take back their land.
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- But when they showed up to reclaim the temple in jerusalem,
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- They found it decimated and desecrated.
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- After defeating the greatest super power of their day,
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- The macabees, who were a priestly jewish family,
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- Rededicated god's temple in jerusalem.
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- When cleansing and rededicating the temple,
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- The jewish leaders went to light the menorah.
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- The eternal candelabra that was meant to burn continually in the
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- Holy place.
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- There was only enough kosher oil to last for one day.
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- They had the faith to light anyway.
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- God performed a great miracle at that time.
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- And caused the menorah to supernaturally stay lit for
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- Seven additional days.
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- And for this reason, hanukkah is celebrated for a total of
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- Eight days.
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- In remembrance of this miracle,
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- Jewish people to this day light the hanukkah menorah,
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- And also refer to hanukkah as the festival of lights.
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- But, of course, there's more.
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- But, of course, there's more.
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- >> sam rodriguez, pastor of a new season.
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- Rabbi jason's best friend.
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- >> rabbi jason: hanukkah is known as the festival of lights.
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- But it's also first and foremost known as the feast of
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- Dedication, which is what it's called in john 10,
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- Because they rededicated the house of god, the temple,
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- To the lord against all odds lit in the face of absurd obstacles
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- With not enough oil.
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- I guess the question i want to ask you, you are, i know,
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- A person of faith.
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- Have you ever been in that situation, like the macabees,
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- Where the odds were stacked against you,
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- And you had to step out in faith,
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- And you had to show your dedication to the lord in that
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- Moment?
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- >> sam: absolutely, multiple accounts.
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- The one that is most striking had to do when i had the
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- Privilege, only the god ordained privilege,
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- To pray at a presidential inauguration.
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- And, i was told not to mention the name of yeshua.
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- And i was explicitly told that name hasn't been mentioned now
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- For 12 years.
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- The last one was billy graham, 2005.
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- You pray in the name of wisdom, in the name of faith,
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- Worst case scenario, you pray in the name love.
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- Don't mention the name.
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- I had a choice.
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- I'm gonna dedicate this to the one who paid the price for me to
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- Be here.
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- And we did.
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- And we mentioned yeshua for the first time in 12 years.
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- >> rabbi jason: i love it.
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- It's a powerful reminder that we have to be willing to take a
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- Stand.
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- We have to be willing to step out there in faith.
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- Faith is spelled r-i-s-k.
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- You have to be willing to risk.
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- And i think, we want to see the miracles.
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- We want to see god show up in powerful ways.
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- We want god to use us, but we want to minimize the risk.
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- And the maccabees took a risk.
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- And what's really interesting about that,
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- We get back to the menorah, the nine-branch candelabra,
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- Eight candles to remind us of the eight-day miracle
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- Of the oil burning.
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- And then the one middle candle, the shamash,
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- Reminds us of the fact that we can't use those other candles
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- For any other reason than publicizing
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- The miracle of hanukkah.
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- Because you have to, according to jewish law,
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- Put the menorah in the window or outside the door of your house,
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- To help the world know the miracle of hanukkah and to
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- Publicize the goodness and greatness of god.
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- >> sam: publicize the miracle?
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- >> jason: publicize the miracle.
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- >> sam: it's all about publicizing the miracle?
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- >> jason: all about it.
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- >> sam: you're telling me there's no such thing as a
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- Private miracle?
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- >> rabbi jason: there's no such thing as a private miracle.
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- >> sam: if it's a miracle, by its very definition laid out in
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- The menorah and elevated to the finished work of christ,
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- Is to go public?
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- >> rabbi jason: absolutely.
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- >> sam: so why aren't we going public over miracles?
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- >> rabbi jason: listen, think about jesus.
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- >> sam: he has got me here on so many accounts,
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- Even i can't use this to light-- i can't use this one to light
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- That one?
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- Are you kidding me?
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- >> rabbi jason: think about it for a moment.
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- Miracles in the new testament are called signs.
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- When you think about what a sign is,
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- When you're driving down the highway and you see a sign,
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- The sign doesn't exist for itself.
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- The sign exists to communicate a message and to get you
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- To take action.
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- Jesus' miracles that he performed,
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- The miracles that god still performs for us,
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- Even to this day, are meant to be a sign that points to him,
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- His power, his presence, his salvation, a sign and a wonder,
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- Meant to give us a sense of wonder at the awesomeness and
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- Goodness of god that draws us closer to him.
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- >> sam: it's all about elevating yeshua, the messiah,
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- And publicizing the miracle.
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- >> rabbi jason: yeah, think about it.
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- The candles don't exist to draw attention to themselves.
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- >> sam: stop that.
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- >> rabbi jason: they exist to draw attention and glory to god.
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- And so many times we want to draw to ourselves instead of
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- Shining the light on him.
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- Again, the world wants to create a culture of fear and anxiety
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- That wants us to hide our light and not let our light shine in
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- The darkness.
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- And we have to have the boldness, like the macabees,
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- To risk everything.
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- And think about it.
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- We think about, why aren't we changing the world?
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- Why is the world shaping the church and believers more than
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- We are shaping the world?
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- Because jesus, the disciples, were bold at the
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- Day of pentecost.
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- They stood up boldly, even though they had been hiding in
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- The upper room a few days earlier, okay?
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- And they were all willing to be martyred for their faith,
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- Rather than be quiet.
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- If we had that boldness and that dedication,
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- We'd change the world.
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- We'd turn it upside down, like they did.
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- >> sam: the aha moment is just a wisdom that rabbi has in framing
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- The realities of jewish holidays and experiences, and, of course,
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- Old testament with new testament,
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- And the way he does it with such eloquence and brilliance,
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- The entire conversation is a continual aha moment.
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- Rabbi, you're talking about the menorah and you're talking about
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- The celebration of lights and dedication of the temple,
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- The oil and what it means.
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- There is a word resonating in me, you got me with this.
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- The word is humility.
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- It really is humility.
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- >> rabbi jason: absolutely.
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- >> sam: utter dependency on the centrality of the finished work
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- Of the messiah, of yeshua.
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- It's humility.
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- And you're referencing, why are we changing the world?
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- Maybe the lack of humility.
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- Of true humility.
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- What does proverbs say?
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- Proverbs 22:4.
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- Surely humility and fear of the lord will lead to riches,
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- Honor and long life.
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- Humility.
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- >> rabbi jason: it's true.
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- I think about a god dream i had.
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- I was walking down the red carpet at a hollywood premiere,
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- And all of a sudden, the giant floodlights were put on me.
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- And i became blinded.
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- And i say, "please take the lights off me.
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- It's blinding me."
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- The lights went back up and pointed to the sky.
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- And i heard the voice of god in this dream.
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- He said, "jason, if you ever try and take my light
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- And put it on yourself,
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- You will become blinded.
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- But as long as you keep the light focused on me,
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- Things will go well.
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- If you remain small in your own sight,
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- You'll remain great in my sight."
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- As we see here,
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- The middle candle is elevated above all the other candles.
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- And it represents yeshua jesus, the center of it all,
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- That we make sure in our life that we are lifting him up above
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- Everything and everyone else that is in our life.
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- Again, it goes back to humility.
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- Because the middle candle on the hanukkah candle is known as the
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- Serving candle.
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- So it is the elevated candle.
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- But it's the elevated candle that is the serving candle.
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- Because jesus says, who is greatest in the kingdom?
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- It's the one who becomes a servant.
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- The kingdom is a kingdom of opposites.
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- But then what's also amazing is that,
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- In the temple in jerusalem, it wasn't nine branches,
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- It was a seven-branch candelabra.
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- The middle one was known as the meratami.
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- The eternal light.
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- And there was a miracle that happened.
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- The oil was never to go out on the menorah.
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- Because it symbolized god's presence continually
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- Among the people.
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- But there's something incredible here.
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- The rabbis tell us 40 years before the destruction of the
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- Temple, the middle lamp which was supernaturally remain lit,
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- Stopped remaining lit.
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- The miracles ceased.
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- Why is that important?
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- >> sam: forty years prior--
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- >> rabbi jason: -- to the destruction of the temple.
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- So the temple was destroyed in 70 a.d.
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- It was the time that yeshua jesus came, walked the world,
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- Ministered.
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- Because this was no longer the true light.
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- >> sam: he was.
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- >> rabbi jason: this only was appointed to the true light who
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- Was jesus, the light of the world.
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- And this light was ultimately going to go out.
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- But his light was going to continue to shine.
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- >> sam: come on.
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- Praise be god.
- 00:14:09.146 --> 00:14:12.083
- And that light shines in the darkness.
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- And the darkness will never overcome it.
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- That is the promise.
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- I absolutely love that.
- 00:14:22.293 --> 00:14:23.561
- There's nothing more empowering than knowing the humility
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- Embedded in the light to the finished work of christ,
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- That enables us to overcome every single visage of darkness.
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- And the fact that it's always burning even in our most darkest
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- Of hours.
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- The sustaining presence of the holy spirit.
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- The aura.
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- The igniter of the light.
- 00:14:40.711 --> 00:14:42.246
- I love the words of apostle paul.
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- Do everything in the name of jesus, colossians 3:17.
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- Everything for the glory of christ, 1 corinthians 10:31.
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- But that sustaining presence is with you
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- On your darkest of days.
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- The broken you, the blessed you, that light is always in you.
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- Even when you don't acknowledge or you're cognizant fully of
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- Seeing that light being made manifest, he's in you.
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- And he's working on your behalf, in your favor,
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- And all you have to do is trust and believe god.
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- And that's what faith is, trusting god when life makes no
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- Sense.
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- I love that.
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- Brilliant.
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- >> sam: the story of hanukkah is critical.
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- If we are to understand the continuum of our judea christian
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- Value system, from genesis all the way to revelation.
- 00:15:27.925 --> 00:15:31.329
- If you want to alienate part of our faith,
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- Then don't in any way form or shape embrace
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- The teachings of hanukkah.
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- But if you want to have continuity and grow
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- Intellectually, spiritually, emotionally in your faith walk,
- 00:15:40.638 --> 00:15:44.141
- In christ, then you understand the teachings and the power and
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- The truths that are embedded, not just in hanukkah,
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- But in all the jewish traditions.
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- But in all the jewish traditions.
- 00:15:52.005 --> 00:15:56.290
- >> rabbi jason: so the miracle of hanukkah as we've been
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- Talking about is the miracle of light.
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- And, as you know, there was only enough oil to last for one day,
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- The macabees found one cruse of oil.
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- But they had the faith to light anyway.
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- And the oil that should have lasted one day actually lasted
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- For eight days.
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- That is part of the miracle of hanukkah.
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- That's one of the reasons why we light the menorah.
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- It's one of the reasons why we eat things like potato latkes,
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- Or potato pancakes.
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- Potatoes fried in oil.
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- Or what are known as sufganiyot, jelly doughnuts.
- 00:16:26.954 --> 00:16:31.358
- >> sam: this is not krispy kreme.
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- >> rabbi jason: not krispy kreme.
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- They might be, who knows what type they are?
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- But because they're both fried in oil, again,
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- To remember the miracle and what god did for our ancestors.
- 00:16:40.734 --> 00:16:42.970
- But, of course, there's so much more.
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- >> sam: you referenced the oil.
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- What sort of oil?
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- What type of oil?
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- >> rabbi jason: obviously, in the first century,
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- The oil that was used for the lighting of the menorah
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- Is very specific.
- 00:16:57.951 --> 00:16:59.119
- The bible tells us, shemen zayit zach.
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- It was clear pressed virgin olive oil.
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- >> sam: it was olive oil.
- 00:17:05.692 --> 00:17:06.627
- >> rabbi jason: olive oil.
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- Most of which would have come -- a lot would have come from the
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- Mount of olives.
- 00:17:10.431 --> 00:17:11.698
- And there is so much spiritual significance.
- 00:17:11.698 --> 00:17:15.035
- Think about it for a moment.
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- When yeshua was in the garden of gethsemane, he said, lord,
- 00:17:17.504 --> 00:17:20.074
- Take this cup from me, how many times?
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- Three times.
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- Why?
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- Because the olives went through three pressings.
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- The first pressing had the least amount of weight.
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- The second pressing had more amount of weight.
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- And the third pressing had the most amount of weight to get
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- Every drop of olive oil squeezed out of it.
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- When yeshua was on the mount of olives,
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- The place where most of the olives come from,
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- He is the messiah, which literally means in hebrew,
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- The one who is king, who has been anointed with the olive
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- Oil, the olive oil of anointing.
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- Every time he prays, more of weight of the burden of sin,
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- He is the olive in the olive press,
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- Gethsemane means the place of the olive press.
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- More weight is being added until eventually blood comes up.
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- Because he's being crushed under the weight of our sins for us.
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- He is bearing the burden for us.
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- >> sam: there is so much truth here.
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- The oil.
- 00:18:19.299 --> 00:18:20.467
- In my world, my circle of friends the anointing,
- 00:18:20.467 --> 00:18:25.072
- 1 john 2:27, you have received the anointing of who is
- 00:18:25.072 --> 00:18:28.509
- The holy spirit
- 00:18:28.509 --> 00:18:29.276
- Who lives inside of you.
- 00:18:29.276 --> 00:18:30.911
- That trifecta component.
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- This is an epiphany for me, like every single time i have a
- 00:18:34.815 --> 00:18:38.919
- Conversation with you, i think, sam rodriguez knew some stuff,
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- Then i come to the realization i am a blazing,
- 00:18:41.188 --> 00:18:43.624
- Righteously redeemed idiot savant.
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- The part of the tri sort of pressing,
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- David was anointed three times.
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- >> rabbi jason: yeah.
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- >> sam: three times.
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- In that sort of metaphorical rubric laid out in portions,
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- That anointing-- in the old covenant,
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- You were anointed from the outside in.
- 00:19:01.175 --> 00:19:02.876
- Now to a great degree, we are not anointed exclusively from
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- The outside in.
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- We are anointed from the inside out.
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- >> rabbi jason: absolutely.
- 00:19:08.916 --> 00:19:11.084
- >> sam: giving us the authority to say
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- Greater is he that is in me.
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- I love that.
- 00:19:14.321 --> 00:19:16.490
- Because that oil, now we have that oil through the presence
- 00:19:16.490 --> 00:19:18.959
- The the fullness of the finished work of christ sustained by his
- 00:19:18.959 --> 00:19:20.394
- Holy spirit.
- 00:19:20.394 --> 00:19:21.695
- I never knew that it was olive oil that they used to light.
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- And it lasted for eight days.
- 00:19:25.899 --> 00:19:27.634
- >> rabbi jason: what's so amazing about this,
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- Several things.
- 00:19:29.903 --> 00:19:31.038
- Number one is that the word for eight in hebrew,
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- Shmoneh has the exact same letters as soul in hebrew,
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- Nashamah.
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- So the point being, is that the light represents
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- The soul of man.
- 00:19:47.821 --> 00:19:49.756
- So, the light of god, the candle of god proverbs tells us is the
- 00:19:49.756 --> 00:19:53.627
- Soul of man.
- 00:19:53.627 --> 00:19:55.862
- So there is this connection between lighting
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- The hanukkah lamp
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- And us having the responsibility
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- To be lamp lighters,
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- And to light faith and to ignite things in people's
- 00:20:04.071 --> 00:20:07.474
- Heart and souls.
- 00:20:07.474 --> 00:20:08.275
- That's what outreach is.
- 00:20:08.275 --> 00:20:09.776
- It is lighting that fire in somebody else's heart.
- 00:20:09.776 --> 00:20:13.213
- But, of course, there is something more there.
- 00:20:13.213 --> 00:20:15.616
- Because how do you get that new oil, that fresh oil in our life?
- 00:20:15.616 --> 00:20:24.491
- Part of it is, you have to go through the pressing.
- 00:20:24.491 --> 00:20:25.292
- You have an olive.
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- It has an inner essence or potential.
- 00:20:28.028 --> 00:20:29.196
- Something much more valuable than the olive itself.
- 00:20:29.196 --> 00:20:32.899
- But it's only by going through the crushing process,
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- By being in the press that that oil is released that eventually
- 00:20:35.869 --> 00:20:39.906
- Becomes the light of the menorah.
- 00:20:39.906 --> 00:20:43.277
- I know that you just recently wrote a book on this.
- 00:20:43.277 --> 00:20:47.214
- You have some thoughts, i'm sure.
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- >> sam: i do.
- 00:20:49.483 --> 00:20:51.118
- But that's just brilliant,
- 00:20:51.118 --> 00:20:54.087
- Because you're prompting me here.
- 00:20:54.087 --> 00:20:54.855
- Triggering me.
- 00:20:54.855 --> 00:20:56.256
- One of the things i want the audience to know,
- 00:20:56.256 --> 00:20:57.724
- This is unscripted.
- 00:20:57.724 --> 00:20:58.458
- This is totally unscripted.
- 00:20:58.458 --> 00:20:59.393
- You got me right here.
- 00:20:59.393 --> 00:21:04.131
- Not only are we supposed to be the light of the world,
- 00:21:04.131 --> 00:21:06.300
- Matthew 5:14 to 16, john chapter 8 verse 12, ephesians 5:8.
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- We are supposed to turn on the light in those around us.
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- How?
- 00:21:13.840 --> 00:21:16.910
- Aren't we supposed to be confrontational and create this
- 00:21:16.910 --> 00:21:20.447
- Perpetual wall of separation wall,
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- Ideologies and social-- you're telling me,
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- Not only am i supposed to be the light,
- 00:21:26.286 --> 00:21:27.688
- I'm supposed to turn on the light in your life?
- 00:21:27.688 --> 00:21:31.124
- >> rabbi jason: the wick only has a purpose if it's soaked in
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- The oil.
- 00:21:34.161 --> 00:21:35.462
- So, we need to be soaked and saturated with the presence of
- 00:21:35.462 --> 00:21:41.668
- God, the holy spirit, that is a gift that yeshua jesus
- 00:21:41.668 --> 00:21:44.171
- Offers us.
- 00:21:44.171 --> 00:21:45.972
- So, yes, we need to be filled with the spirit.
- 00:21:45.972 --> 00:21:47.274
- We need to live in connection with the source of the oil,
- 00:21:47.274 --> 00:21:51.044
- Which is yeshua jesus.
- 00:21:51.044 --> 00:21:53.980
- I think that's one point.
- 00:21:53.980 --> 00:21:56.550
- The other point too is that the oil can only ignite the wick and
- 00:21:56.550 --> 00:22:01.188
- Create the frame if it's living in contact.
- 00:22:01.188 --> 00:22:07.694
- >> sam: beautiful.
- 00:22:07.694 --> 00:22:08.995
- >> rabbi jason: we have to be living in relationship with
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- Other people.
- 00:22:10.797 --> 00:22:12.099
- Listen, there were days in the past i'd stand on the street
- 00:22:12.099 --> 00:22:14.067
- Corner and talk to people and hand out tracks.
- 00:22:14.067 --> 00:22:17.604
- I found it very not effective.
- 00:22:17.604 --> 00:22:20.374
- >> sam: you were one of those?
- 00:22:20.374 --> 00:22:21.508
- >> rabbi jason: i did that back in the day.
- 00:22:21.508 --> 00:22:24.010
- >> sam: we're not judging.
- 00:22:24.010 --> 00:22:24.978
- >> rabbi jason: god can use any kind--
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- >> sam: absolutely.
- 00:22:27.347 --> 00:22:28.281
- Here's the thing.
- 00:22:28.281 --> 00:22:30.617
- But i think it's out of relationship.
- 00:22:30.617 --> 00:22:32.586
- It's out of friendship.
- 00:22:32.586 --> 00:22:36.256
- It's out of building that understanding and intimacy
- 00:22:36.256 --> 00:22:37.824
- Between people.
- 00:22:37.824 --> 00:22:39.092
- That's where we really have the deepest lasting impact.
- 00:22:39.092 --> 00:22:40.861
- >> sam: i'm embracing the day where my grandchildren will
- 00:22:40.861 --> 00:22:47.167
- Fully, the reality of a sovereign mighty god,
- 00:22:47.167 --> 00:22:52.439
- Via the conduit of the finished work of christ, through the oil,
- 00:22:52.439 --> 00:22:55.275
- Who was the holy spirit, is alive and well working today.
- 00:22:55.275 --> 00:22:59.112
- >> rabbi jason: it's so important.
- 00:22:59.112 --> 00:22:59.980
- Because when i was new in my faith,
- 00:22:59.980 --> 00:23:02.816
- I started studying philosophy.
- 00:23:02.816 --> 00:23:04.718
- Then i studied jewish history, and jewish studies and theology.
- 00:23:04.718 --> 00:23:08.989
- Then i went to graduate school and studied hebrew bible.
- 00:23:08.989 --> 00:23:13.660
- And i was very academically and intellectually oriented.
- 00:23:13.660 --> 00:23:20.267
- One day i was in this meeting.
- 00:23:20.267 --> 00:23:21.435
- God spoke to me.
- 00:23:21.435 --> 00:23:23.203
- He said:
- 00:23:23.203 --> 00:23:24.571
- "jason, don't settle for a form of godliness that lacks power.
- 00:23:24.571 --> 00:23:25.639
- You'll never impact the world."
- 00:23:25.639 --> 00:23:28.208
- And the reality is that too many times we settle for
- 00:23:28.208 --> 00:23:33.547
- Less than god's best.
- 00:23:33.547 --> 00:23:36.249
- And the rational and logical and intellectual alone will never
- 00:23:36.249 --> 00:23:42.656
- Ultimately satisfy our souls in and of itself.
- 00:23:42.656 --> 00:23:45.625
- Because when god made us, the very beginning of creation,
- 00:23:45.625 --> 00:23:49.029
- Et ha-shamayim ve-et ha-aretz, he created heaven and earth.
- 00:23:49.029 --> 00:23:53.533
- Heaven represents the spiritual and the supernatural.
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- Earth represents the physical, the material, the intellectual.
- 00:23:55.202 --> 00:23:59.139
- If all we have is the physical, then we don't have the
- 00:23:59.139 --> 00:24:03.109
- Supernatural, which is what our soul so much craves.
- 00:24:03.109 --> 00:24:05.612
- We are always going to feel like there's something missing.
- 00:24:05.612 --> 00:24:08.748
- >> sam: it's not a dichotomy.
- 00:24:08.748 --> 00:24:10.984
- It's not one opposed to the other.
- 00:24:10.984 --> 00:24:11.751
- It's more of a juxtaposition.
- 00:24:11.751 --> 00:24:15.355
- It's two realities, i call it terrific tension.
- 00:24:15.355 --> 00:24:17.224
- The natural and the supernatural.
- 00:24:17.224 --> 00:24:19.626
- And we live it every single day.
- 00:24:19.626 --> 00:24:21.394
- It's your belief system.
- 00:24:21.394 --> 00:24:22.162
- Something you can't see.
- 00:24:22.162 --> 00:24:25.465
- The reality of the constructs around you, terrific tension.
- 00:24:25.465 --> 00:24:31.238
- The story of hanukkah teaches us exactly what rabbi laid out
- 00:24:31.238 --> 00:24:33.406
- And we discussed.
- 00:24:33.406 --> 00:24:34.574
- It's the power of dedication, the power of light.
- 00:24:34.574 --> 00:24:36.910
- The power of unity.
- 00:24:36.910 --> 00:24:41.248
- The power of fresh oil.
- 00:24:41.248 --> 00:24:43.083
- And the power of publicly displaying our faith in the
- 00:24:43.083 --> 00:24:45.685
- Finished work of the messiah for such a time as this.
- 00:24:45.685 --> 00:24:53.493
- >> rabbi jason: we've seen how hanukkah is about rededicating
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- Ourselves and resisting the forces of evil that want to
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- Drive a wedge between us and god.
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- But i want to take a look at another aspect
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- Of the celebration.
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- In john 10, yeshua is in jerusalem to celebrate hanukkah,
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- The feast of dedication.
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- If we rewind, to john 9, we can find an interesting connection.
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- In john 9 yeshua performs a miracle where he gives sight to
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- A man that has been blind since birth.
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- Before spreading the mud on the man's eyes,
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- Yeshua calls himself the light of the world.
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- The rabbis teach us that the divine light that emanated from
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- God existed before the sun and illuminated all of creation.
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- This divine light doesn't just appear in the past in genesis,
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- It also points to the future.
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- In revelation 21:23 it says,
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- "the city has no need for the sun or the moon
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- To shine on it, for the glory of god lights it."
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- Yeshua is saying in john 9 that he is that light.
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- Wow!
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- The divine light that existed at creation and will shine on the
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- Future jerusalem.
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- Now this is where things get interesting.
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- In matthew 5:14, yeshua calls us his followers,
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- The light of the world.
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- This means that we are tasked with carrying the divine light
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- Of yeshua to illuminate the darkness.
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- We are challenged not just to see the light of god,
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- But to be the light of god.
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- We may not feel like we have the right abilities or skills
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- To be a light.
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- We might feel like that one single cruse of oil.
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- The hanukkah miracle shows us that god extends what we have.
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- He multiplies and amplifies our light.
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- He does a lot with our little.
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- All we have to do is take that first step and light the flame.
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- Next week, we are continuing our journey into hanukkah and diving
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- Even deeper into the celebration.
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- We are gonna uncover details about the menorah and see how
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- This celebration links the past to the present.
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- I'm rabbi jason sobel.
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- And this is god's appointed times.
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