Messianic Audio Teachings
277 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsThis feed offers Messianic Jewish audio teachings, including Torah commentaries and concepts in Messianic Judaism.
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Near Death Experiences
December 24, 2018 17:37 - 10.7 MBAre reports of Near Death Experiences (NDE) credible? People resuscitated from clinical brain-death sometimes report out-of-body experiences in the World of Souls. Does that correlate with the Bible? Do these reports have anything to teach us about the state of the dead before the resurrection? This teaching explores the NDE in light of traditional Jewish teaching and New Testament expectation.
Anatomy of the Soul: Kids Say the Darndest Things
December 10, 2018 17:51 - 13.8 MBWhat if you had memories from before your conception? Does the undying soul pre-exist human conception and birth? Here's a crash course on the anatomy of the soul, including children's soulish memories of heaven from before conception and birth.
The Unseen World
December 02, 2018 20:49 - 10.2 MBWhat happens when you die? This teaching, the second in the series "The World of Souls," begins the journey into the unseen world behind the one that we consider to be reality. Take a step into "The World of Truth." Who knows whether the Spirit of Man goes upward and the Spirit of the beast goes down into the earth? (Ecclesiastes 3:21)
Man Born Blind
November 30, 2018 00:00 - 19.3 MBThere's more than meets the eye to the story of the man born blind. This fifth of the seven signs of the Messiah is the only miracle of Yeshua to be reviewed in a court of law. Get the story behind the story.
Feeding the Multitude
November 15, 2018 14:21 - 50.8 MBHow did feeding a multitude with five loaves and two fish meet important Jewish messianic expectations, making it a perfect sign of Messiah? Learn how this event dramatized the Psalm the sages refer to as "the Messiah chapter" and discover the "two fish" hiding in plain sight in the Torah.
The Spirits in Prison
November 09, 2018 00:19 - 29.9 MBWho are the “spirits in prison” who “formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah" (1 Peter 3:19-20)? A cryptic passage in 1 Peter seems to allude to some larger apocalyptic concept from behind the veil with a glimpse into the world of souls. Here's a quick discussion of a fascinating topic that opens the larger question of what really happens to us after death.
The Pool of Bethesda
November 08, 2018 22:13 - 25.2 MBWhy is the healing of the man at the pool of Bethesda a sign, and why did Yeshua tell the man to break the Shabbat by carrying his mat? Take a trip to first century Jerusalem in the text of John 5.
Long-distance Healing
November 01, 2018 18:21 - 56.1 MBWhy is the story of the healing of an official's son in Capernaum considered to be the second sign? Here's a close-up look at an important but often unnoticed story in the Gospel of John and similar stories from the Synoptic Gospels and the Talmud.
Water to Wine at Cana
October 25, 2018 19:19 - 54.6 MBWhat's the significance of the miracle Yeshua performed at the wedding at Cana? The Gospel of John refers to it as the first of his signs. What were the other signs and why is this one so significant?
Look Down at the Stars
October 21, 2018 18:02 - 34 MBAvram had a unique perspective on the world that made him receptive to God's calling. Learn how this perspective on creation relates to the strange monthly blessing known as Kiddush Levanah.
Lightsome
September 20, 2018 21:32 - 16.8 MBAre you carrying a heavy burden? It might not be just sin and guilt. This teaching speaks about the need to train the animal side of the human being and bring it into subjection. Part two of the Choose Life teaching and the conclusion to the Train Yourself for Godliness series, just on time for the high holidays.
Choose Life
September 20, 2018 20:43 - 22.7 MBIf Yeshua came to die for our sins, then why did he pray that the cup of suffering might be taken away from him? This teaching on Parashat Ki Tavo's curses and blessings reaches into the kingdom to obtain some help for our physical condition in the world today.
The Glutton and the Drunkard
September 20, 2018 19:33 - 16.6 MBWhy was Yeshua called "a glutton and a drunkard"? Discover the meaning behind the cryptic passage, "We played a flute for you, but you did not dance; we sang a dirge, but you did not mourn," and learn about the path of meseret nefesh, asceticism, and self-control.
Cleansing the Bodily Temple
September 20, 2018 19:23 - 42.7 MBHave you ever heard of the "Hudson Twenty"? Beth Immanuel's new associate pastor, Toby Janicki, speaks about some of the "weighty matters" of Torah in this teaching from Parashat Shoftim, encouraging us to lighten up.
Love of God
September 17, 2018 18:26 - 19.7 MBLoving God seems like should be easy. Unlike humans, he is perfect. There is also no doubt that he is worthy of our love. But there are serious challenges with carrying out the important commandment of loving God. In this class we learn how to overcome these challenges and what it takes to love our Creator.
Endurance and Perseverance
August 16, 2018 17:05 - 18.5 MBOne mussar theme pervades Yeshua's teachings, but it defies the typical categories of middot (traits) taught by the mussar masters. This instruction for life is the defining theme of Yeshua's message to Israel: Endurance and Perseverance for the Kingdom of Heaven.
Sarah, Hagar, Isaac, and Ishmael
August 14, 2018 16:26 - 22.4 MBDoes Hagar represent the Jews in slavery under the law while Sarah represents the Christians in freedom under grace? That's the conventional interpretation of Paul's parable in Galatians 4:22, but this teaching turns over that common interpretation by revealing the Jewish background to the story.
All Things To All People
August 13, 2018 16:37 - 20.9 MBWas Paul in disguise? Paul says, "I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some." Did he adopt hypocritical pretenses in order to win people with the Gospel, acting like Jew around Jews and like a Gentile around Gentiles? This teaching on Galatians 4:12-20 considers Paul's evangelism strategies and the real meaning behind 1 Corinthians 9:19-23.
Messianic Jewish "Lent"
August 10, 2018 16:29 - 27.9 MBForty days in the wilderness! The season of repentance is often referred to as the Jewish version of Lent, but which came first? This teaching from 2010 makes the case that the Christian season of Lent was originally based on the Jewish season of Teshuvah. This teaching calls upon us to employ asceticism and meseret nefesh in a forty-day face-off with the devil as we train for Yom Kippur.
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
August 09, 2018 15:04 - 41.8 MBYour soul's purpose in this world is to serve God. That's why it was given a body. This purpose implies that there is a foundational commandment in the Torah that many of us may be neglecting. The soul is like an astronaut in a spacesuit. Is an astronaut concerned with maintaining his spacesuit? In the interest of proper credit, some inspiration for this teaching came from this page. Beth Immanuel does not necessarily endorse everything on that site (which appears to be from a Breslov persp...
Not by Bread Alone: The Power of Fasting
August 03, 2018 20:35 - 29.5 MBEnhance your prayer life, enhance your spiritual growth, develop self-discipline, and improve your health, all at the same time! This teaching about fasting gears us up for the Forty Days of Repentance. Based on a text in parashat Ekev, we take a look at fasting not only as a spiritual discipline but also at as a source of physical benefits for health and longevity. Here are some useful links about the health benfits of Intermittent Fasting and OMAD (One Meal a Day). Time Magazine: What I...
Enslaved to the Gods
July 23, 2018 20:37 - 25.4 MBDoes Paul rebuke Gentiles for observing the biblical calendar? If not, how do we understand Galatians 4:9-10? "How can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? You observe days and months and seasons and years!" (Galatians 4:9).
Abba! Father!
July 20, 2018 16:01 - 30.7 MBThe Spirit of Messiah cries out from within the inner being of the believer, "Abba! Father!" Both Jewish and Gentile believers have received the adoption as sons, not just sons of Abraham, but as the sons of God. In this teaching from Galatians, Paul warns the God-fearers not to be enslaved again by the pagan elementary principles of the world thorugh observing days, months, season, and years.
Save Yourself from this Generation
July 19, 2018 16:12 - 19.4 MB"Every generation in which the Temple is not rebuilt, is considered guilty of its destruction." Our Master knew that baseless hatred was the sin which was going to cause his generation to forfeit the redemption and go into exile. Therefore he called upon his generation to repent, and by repent, he meant, "Love God," and "Love one another." Love is at the center of his Gospel message. Why was the second Temple destroyed at a time when people occupied themselves with the study of Torah, the o...
Neither Jew nor Greek
July 14, 2018 00:04 - 26.8 MBIn Messiah, "there is neither Jew nor Greek," so that makes us all the same? Wrong! When Paul declares that there is no difference between Jew and Gentile in Messiah, he does not mean to imply that Jews and Gentiles forfeit their unique roles and identities. This important teaching compares "One New Man Theology" and "One Law Theology," revealing them to be two sides of the same coin of replacement theology. One Law is the end of Jewish identity for Jewish believers. In its place comes a ne...
The Pedagogue
July 13, 2018 23:45 - 20.1 MB"We were held captive under the law ... imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed ... but now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian" (Galatians 3:23-26). This difficult saying is understood to mean, "The Torah was only a guardian until faith in Messiah came, but now that the Messiah is here, we are no longer under the Torah's authority, therefore the Torah has been done away with." This teaching takes a look at Paul's analogy in which the Torah and Jewish status is...
Passover the Seed of Abraham
July 13, 2018 22:48 - 27.7 MBHow long were the children of Israel in Egypt? Was it 430years? If so, how do we account for 430 years over only three generations? In Galatians 3, Paul employs a rabbinic tradition about the duration of Israel's sojourn in Egypt, interprets the "seed of Abraham" as a reference to Messiah, and compares the Torah to a competing inheritance document.
Humility
July 12, 2018 19:03 - 28.2 MBHumility is one of the primary qualities of the soul emphasized by our Master Yeshua. The mussar teachers say that humility is the root of divine service, and a necessary foundation for acquiring any other good traits. While humility is often discussed, it is not always well understood. Learn how true humility leads to joy, courage, and inner dignity.
Talui: The Hanged One
June 28, 2018 14:53 - 29.8 MBWhat does it mean that Messiah has become a curse? Paul says, "Messiah redeemed us from the curse of the Torah by becoming a curse for us" (Galatians 3:13). Paul reinvents a popular anti-Yeshua taunt derived from Deuteronomy 21:22-23 to argue that the Messiah's suffering and death releases those who rely upon him from the cruse of the Torah.
The Torah is not of Faith
June 27, 2018 16:45 - 29.8 MBPaul says, "The Torah is not faith." This seems to imply that, if you want to be a person of faith, the one thing you chould not do is observe the Torah. Does this make sense? In Galatians 3:11-12, Paul quotes Leviticus 18:5 and Habakkuk 2:4 in a manner consistent with rabbinic interpretation to establish that it is not the hearers of the Torah who will be declared righteous but the doers of the Torah.
Curse of the Law
June 25, 2018 18:35 - 20.2 MBHas anyone ever warned you that you might be placing yourself under a curse by keeping the Torah? Paul says, "As many as are of the works of the law are under the curse" (Galatians 3:10). What's the "curse of the law" and how does it apply?
Concealed Miracles
June 22, 2018 17:30 - 19.3 MBGod's concealed miracles are with us every day, but he desires to reveal them to us. In the future, everything that has been concealed with be revealed. A story in Midrash Tanchuma from Parashat Chukkat illustrates the concept of God's hidden miracles that are constantly with us.
Abraham's Gospel
June 22, 2018 16:31 - 8.41 MBWere the Old Testament saints saved? Did they know the Gospel? After all, the Bible says that "Scripture ... preached the Gospel beforehand to Abraham" (Galatians 3:8). This teaching, with reference to the ingrafting of the Gentiles in Romans 11, reveals the "gospel reached beforehand to Abraham" to be identical to "Paul's Gospel."
Faith Versus Works
June 08, 2018 15:38 - 21.3 MBHave you ever heard of faith versus works? The theological argument about whether God saves a person by grace alone or if a person's obedience and good works are a necessary part of the equation is old as the New Testament itself. This teaching offers a resolution of the classic faith-versus-works debate through exploring Paul's theology of justification for the circumcised and the uncircumcised. Order the book, Holy Epistle to the Galatians.
Bewitched
June 06, 2018 17:15 - 26.4 MBHave you been "bewitched" by legalism, as Paul says: "O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you" (Galatians 3:1)? This teaching offers a look at how Paul seemingly contrasts the Spirit with the Torah in first verses of Galatians 3.
Through the Law I Died to the Law
June 06, 2018 17:06 - 29 MBPaul says, "Through the Law I Died to the Law." What is that supposed to mean? Take a look at the mystical implications of Paul's death to the law as a death to relying on Jewish identity for salvation.
Works of the Law
June 05, 2018 19:07 - 28 MBEvangelicals often point out that we are saved by grace, not by works, but most people do not have a clear idea of what the Bible means when speaking of the "works of the law." This teaching from Galatians offers an exploration of the terms "justification," "works of the law," and "faith in Jesus Christ" as employed in the Pauline Epistles.
The Antioch Incident
June 04, 2018 20:57 - 27.4 MBDid Paul really rebuke Peter "to his face"? In Galatians 2:11-14, Paul recounts how Peter, on his visit to Antioch, separated from the God-fearing Gentile believers and incurred Paul's sound rebuke. Get the story behind the story.
Introduction to Mussar
June 04, 2018 14:03 - 21.2 MBIn this lesson, we take a first look at the idea of Mussar and the overall message of Yeshua. What is our purpose as followers of Messiah, and how does Mussar help us accomplish this purpose?
Remember the Poor
May 24, 2018 15:55 - 22.3 MBFor the last eighteen hundred years, the church has triumphantly declared that the gospel has cancelled the Torah and that Gentile Christians have replaced the Jewish people. Those dogmas stem from a failture to understand the distinction between Peter's apostleship and Paul's apostleship. As the apostles endorse Paul and send him out as the "apostle to the Gentiles," they do so with one caveat: "Remember the poor ones!" Find out the surprising meaning behind that single instruction.
The Big Meeting
May 23, 2018 20:29 - 13.1 MBPaul complains that "false brothers secretly brought in ... slipped in to spy out our freedom ... so that they might bring us into slavery" (Galatians 2:4). Who are these false brothers? In what sense are they false? In what sense had they been secretly brought in? What was the freedom in Messiah on which they were spying? These and more questions are answered as Paul brings Titus to a meeting with three top-ranking apostles to seek an endorsement for his gospel to the Gentiles.
Running the Race in Vain
May 23, 2018 20:03 - 26.2 MBWas Paul a Lone Ranger and John Wayne type of apostle who heard directly from God, or did he honor higher authorities? In this episode, Paul goes up to Jerusalem to submit his gospel of Gentile inclusion to the authority of the apostles, fearing that he may have been running his race in vain. "I set before them (though privately before those who seemed influential) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure that I was not running or had run in vain." (Galatians 2...
Famine Relief for Jerusalem
May 16, 2018 23:09 - 24.5 MBDoes Galatians 2 contain an alternate version of events at the Acts 15 Jerusalem Council. Many scholars think so, but a careful look at the story in the book of Acts suggests otherwise. After an absense of more than a decade, Paul journeys to jerusalem in the company of Barnabas and Titus with a collection for famine relief.
Paul's Gospel
May 15, 2018 17:32 - 23.8 MBWhat is "Paul's Gospel" and what makes it different than everyone else's Gospel? This third installment offers a summary of Paul's autobiography as presented in Galatians 1:11-24, in which he describes his revelation from Heaven and his divine commission to preach the gospel to the Gentiles.
The King of Adiabene
May 11, 2018 23:41 - 24.1 MBWhat was Paul writing against in the epistle to the Galatians? Against the Torah? Against Legalism? Against Judaism? This teaching offers an introduction to the circumcision agenda of "Influencers" through a retelling of the conversion of King Izates, his mother Queen Helena, and the royal house of Adiabene.
Letter to the God-Fearers
May 10, 2018 19:55 - 13.1 MBAn introduction of Paul's epistle to the Galatians, identifying the author, the addrees, and the situation that occasioned its composition. This teaching is the first in a series of 26 sermons prepared and delivered to Beth Immanuel Messianic Synagogue in 2009 which First Fruits of Zion edited together into the book The Holy Epistle to the Galatians: Sermons on a Messianic Jewish Approach.
Endurance and Encouragement
May 10, 2018 19:19 - 26.5 MBWhat's the purpose and intention behind the Book of Romans? Is it eternal security, predestination, or God's soveriegn choice? Try "None of the Above." Romans 15 summarizes Paul's intention for writing the epistle and sets the record straight. Romans 16 introduces us to the original recipients of the epistle. This final installment from the 2015 Beth Immanuel class "Paul's Epistle to the Romans" features a completely unedited and poor-quality audio recording made on a cell-phone voice record...
Weak and Strong
May 09, 2018 19:08 - 30.3 MBPeople who keep the Sabbath and eat kosher are weak in faith, but the strong in faith treat every day alike and eat anything. That's the conventional interpretation of Romans 14. Take a second look at this passage from Paul's Epistle to the Romans and consider a Messianic Jewish intepretation that turns the conventional one upside down.
Tales of the Resurrection
March 28, 2018 16:56 - 7.16 MBStories from the Gospels about Yeshua's resurrection. Enjoy this holiday teaching from Shabbat Chol HaMo'ed Pesach Nisan 19, 5771.
Vision of the Kingdom
February 01, 2018 18:44 - 38.8 MBThe Bible says, "Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint." But what is the vision? Here's a talk on the vision behind Messianic Judaism for All Nations and how it differs from other forms of Judaism and Christianity. This teaching presents "the big picture" in the context of a discussion on Jacob's blessings over his sons at the end of the book of Genesis.