Sid: Well this is Purim week and I’ve been talking about Purim, and I’m going to speak on it all this week. At Purim time we’re instructed to read the megillah, which is the scroll of Esther and we read every word in the synagogue. I believe the book of Esther is not an end time book to the church, I believe the book of Esther is thee end time book to the church. Keep listening you’ll understand why.
One of the traits, one of the things you think about when you think about Purim is you think about joy. When I think about joy I think of the words from the book of Romans “That the kingdom of God…” Here let me read this to you, it’s Romans 14:17:
For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
You see at Purim we Jewish people we have a lot of joy, but unless we know the Messiah we don’t have the kind of joy in the Holy Spirit that the word of God is speaking about here in Romans chapter 14 verse 17.
For the kingdom of God is not…
Having the best food, the best drink, yeah you can have joy from wine but there is a joy a supernatural joy in God’s kingdom. See the problem is many people that are in God’s kingdom have one foot in God’s kingdom, and one foot in the world. We’re coming to a time in history where the devil has more demons per square inch released for anyone that is playing one foot in the world and one foot in the Lord. See there is a season, there is a time God gives people a period of grace but that time is over, that time of playing games is over because the stakes are so high we’re so close to the return of the Messiah. I mean you’ve got to choose who’s your king. Is self on your throne, or is Jesus on your throne?
Let me tell you one of the benefits of being in His kingdom, and it’s the greatest benefit in the world. You can be happy and you can have joy, you hit the lottery and win a million dollars you’re going to be real happy; you’re going to have money to buy things the rest of your life, but what good is that money if you develop a tumor of the brain that’s inoperable and cancerous? You’re dying and there’s nothing medical science can do for you. What’s going to happen if you develop AIDs? What’s going to happen if, God forbid, your wife leaves you for another man, or your husband leaves you for another woman? What’s going to happen if your kids are into drugs, they’re out on the streets selling their body and stealing? They are the children you gave your life for.
You see the most important things money can’t buy and we’re coming into a time in history where it just plain doesn’t matter because you can have all the money in the world and you’re not going to buy the most important things in life.
I mean with the biological warfare that we see all the time as far as potential terrorism could be and the cells that are within the United States. I mean, it says in the Bible:
That the age will be an age of fear in the last days. Men’s hearts failing them for what they see.
That’s what we’re seeing right now. This is the time to put both feet into God’s kingdom and then you have the King running interference for you. I like to be in God’s kingdom, I like God running interference for me. For the kingdom of God, and that’s the kingdom that I’m in is not eating and drinking the nice things of life, not that you can’t have nice things, but that not God’s kingdom. God’s kingdom is something that nice things can’t buy, it’s righteousness. It means total forgiveness of all of your sins if you have repented and believe in the blood of Yeshua, the blood of Jesus washing away your sins. It means when God looks at you He doesn’t see you He sees His Son Jesus, and you are the righteousness of God in Messiah Jesus. It means no condemnation, nothing separating you from God’s love that means being a clear vessel. It’s not something you work up; yes it’s a free will decision to will to follow God but it’s pure grace. That’s why we’re so grateful to our King.
So the kingdom of God is first of all, no condemnation, walking in righteousness, walking in purity, walking total forgiveness better than forgiveness, your sins are remitted. God remembers them no more. The kingdom of God is walking in peace. The Hebrew word for peace is shalom, which means completeness, completeness in your spirit, completeness in your soul, and completeness in your body. I like walking in shalom.
The kingdom of God is joy in the Holy Spirit, and that’s what I saw at this great Purim celebration that we had in Kiev at the world’s largest Messianic Jewish congregation that I like to call a One New Man congregation.
You see at Purim we are commanded by… in the rabbinical books we’re told we have to get drunk to the point to where we don’t know the difference between Mordechai or Haman.
So when I was conducting this Purim service several years ago in Kiev, Ukraine, I made a little joke, a toast. I had an imaginary wine glass, and I poured the wine . You just picture me pouring that wine in that glass. Then I took the glass and I said the Hebrew toast. You know what the Hebrew toast is? L’chaim! That means to life. Then I would take a drink and I would pretend like I was getting a little drunk. But guess what, all of a sudden I wasn’t pretending, the people weren’t pretending, the Spirit of God moved on us just like it did in Pentecost. Do you know what happened at Pentecost, the Hebrew word is Shavuot, the outpouring of God’s Spirit? The people acted like they were drunk but it was 9:00 in the morning, they didn’t have any alcoholic beverages, but yet their actions were as if they were intoxicated. I mean people were falling out of their chairs. They were so drunk and so happy, and let me tell you these people in Ukraine have nothing except God, and they trust God. They have faith in God, and they walk in righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. I say although they have nothing materially, they’re the wealthiest people in the world. Oh did we have a service.
You see another thing at this One New Man congregation that I’ve been talking about so much is the music. The music pleases God, and they use an ancient form of music it’s a Chasidic type of music, it’s called Lubavitcher music, Klezmer if you’ve ever heard that. You know I can’t describe it I just want you to hear some of their music right now.
Music excerpt – Mashiach
I don’t about you but I get happy over that, but even at home we get happy over that. You know when we did that several hundred people were instantly healed. I mean instantly several hundred people just stood up and they were healed of everything imaginable. There’s something about this supernatural joy, and I’m so joyful.
