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The Finding Emet radio program is focused on understanding and living the truth of the Bible from a Hebrew perspective. The program features the teaching ministry of Brother Daniel Rendleman and offers audio lessons, teaching articles, and a free online Bible search program on their website. They also provide CD copies of their teachings upon request. In this particular episode, Brother Daniel discusses various facts about chocolate and uses it as a metaphor to emphasize the importance of enjoying life within the parameters set by Yahweh. He mentions the challenges of living a spiritual life in the modern world and explores different approaches that believers may take, such as being a devoted believer, a super spiritual saint, or a reclusive follower. However, he encourages listeners to focus on building their relationship with Yahweh and his people rather than getting caught up in titles, busyness, or isolation. Hello, and welcome to the Finding Emet radio program. Emet is the Hebrew word for truth. This program will help you understand and live the truth of the Bible from a Hebrew perspective. The Finding Emet radio program features the teaching ministry of Brother Daniel Rendleman of Emet Ministries. Prepare your heart to receive the Emet, the truth of the scriptures. More audio lessons and teaching articles are available at the www.emetministries.com website. Please visit our site to find all things spiritual, including a free online Bible search program, or submit your prayer request. That's www.emetministries.com, or www.findemet.com. CD copies of this teaching are available for free by submitting a request at the website. Let's welcome our teacher, Daniel Rendleman, as he helps us find the Emet. So we're going to begin today by talking about one of Rabbi Daniel's favorite subjects, which is chocolate, chocolate. This is a deep subject, chocolate. Now we know what Forrest Gump said, life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you're going to get. That's a theology of chocolate. But here are a couple things about chocolate you might not know. First of all, the Mayans drank liquid chocolate during their wedding ceremonies, engagements, baptisms, and even funerals. That some chocolates many years ago, that cocoa beans or chocolate beans were actually used as currency by the Aztecs and the Mayans. That's valuable chocolate. And the Mexicans, a group of Mexican nuns in the 1700s, were the first people to solidify chocolate as they were raising money for a fundraiser. Before then it was mostly a drink, I guess, chocolate milk or hot chocolate. Does chocolate milk come from chocolate cows? No it doesn't. Okay. How about this? Did you know that the gory scenes, everybody here ever seen Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho? Okay. The gory scenes there, all of the blood was chocolate syrup. There were a couple scenes that only took 45 seconds on the movie, but they took seven days to shoot because of the chocolate being so sticky. Nowadays they use food coloring and, you know, corn syrup or so. Napoleon took chocolate along with him during his military campaigns to give out to people. That if you eat one chocolate chip, it gives an adult enough energy to walk 150 feet. So all you need is 35 chocolate chips to walk a mile or 875,000 to walk around the world. That's good chocolate info for you. We all know that chocolate can be lethal to animals, to dogs especially, and that actually it's a myth that chocolate causes acne. It does not. Consumers spend seven billion dollars on chocolate every year. Now I don't know if you're like me, but I probably spend a billion of that myself. I love chocolate. Chocolate ice cream, chocolate bars, chocolate malt. That's got to be one of my favorites. Anything covered in chocolate, that's just heaven for me. I'm a chocoholic, you could say, and that the average consumption of chocolate is 12 pounds of chocolate per person in America. Wow, that's a lot of chocolate chips. That's a lot of chocolate. Now I give you all this information on chocolate to, you know, store away in the back of your brain for needless information, but to remind you of how important chocolate is and how good chocolate tastes. Any chocoholics raise your hand? You know, I'm one of those, I like chocolate fudge chunk ice cream with chocolate syrup and chocolate sprinkles on top. That's what I like. I love chocolate. You know, Cocoa Puffs, ooh, that's the best cereal in the world. Cocoa Krispies, mmm. Then you get the chocolate milk. When you have chocolate cereal, then you get chocolate milk to drink afterwards. That is so good. Chocolate cake. Okay, I'm going to stop. I'm going to stop. Aren't we glad that chocolate is kosher? Amen? Praise Yahweh for that. Well, Rabbi Noah Weinberg, one of the greatest rabbis of Israel, he once taught this. I want to quote him. He said that Yahweh did not come to take away the chocolate that he brought us. Instead, Yahweh came to teach us how to truly enjoy it. Yahweh did not come to take away the chocolate that he had given us, but to teach us how to truly enjoy it. Yahweh has given us his Torah to teach us how to truly enjoy life. Yahweh's never said that you can't enjoy life, you can't enjoy chocolate, you can't enjoy food. He has simply said, you need to do it in these parameters. He said, I'm the owner of the world, I'm the creator of mankind, here's your owner's manual, and it is what? The Torah, the first five books of the Bible. I've never eaten the chocolate Bible before, but I would be tempted to do so. Well, the giving of the commandments was to show us how life was meant to be lived here on earth. We all know this. That we were created to manifest the presence and power of Yahweh in this world, to reflect him to the world. We are told in the newer testament that we are to be in the world, but what? Not of the world. In the world, but not of the world. In 2 Corinthians 5, 7, we're told to walk by faith, not by sight. And we as believers, we long to run after his will, and we desire to have a fulfilling relationship with Yahweh. I believe that's true for everyone here, everyone listening on the internet and by CD. You want to have a fulfilling relationship with Yahweh. Amen? Amen to that. So we understand the importance of following Yeshua and his example of the Torah. However, however, if we're all honest, yet if we're all honest, we all struggle with living our faith in this modern world. That the ancient precepts of Torah are directly opposed to today's fast-paced rat race of dirty politics, broken promises, and all those problems that we have. It's hard to walk Torah when you got your peeps wanting to do something else. Amen? For half of the room that doesn't know what I was saying, it's hard to walk Torah when those around you, your friends, go the other way. I mean, we have to overcome something around every corner, do we not? Cars have to be fixed, families have to be fed, animals have to be taken care of, houses have to be cleaned, babies changed, bills paid, clocks punched, bosses satisfied, bosses punched, meals made, on and on and on. Our days are busy. Regardless of persecution we may face, we're busy. So the challenge is to live a spiritual life in the material world. Now we're not going to talk about Kabbalah and Madonna and material girl. We're going to talk about how to do this, how to stay spiritual in the natural world. How do we keep our focus on Him when you go to work at Babylon? Let's think about it. When you're driving that bus, when you're counting whatever it is that you count, when you're playing Homer Simpson at the nuclear power plant, when you're working at GameStop or counting all the money at Walmart, when we're working, when we're busy at home, when we're planning, when we're doing what we're doing, how do we stay spiritual? Now for most, there are a couple roads I want to go down and explain. The first of those is just being a devoted believer. There are many devoted believers out there and many of these devoted believers equate busyness with spiritual maturity. The busier you are, the more spiritual you must be. The more meetings you attend, the better you are. And many of these people, they do daily devotions, they get up in the morning, they have their quiet time, they attend services whenever the days are open, listen to Christian radio, they're busy, busy, busy, busy with church deeds and good deeds, and that's okay, but that's not quite living a spiritual life. That's being busy. Amen? Now then we have the super spiritual saint. Have you ever heard of this before? The super spiritual saint is led by the spirit for every decision throughout the day. Not just a devotion in the morning, but breakfast with the Trinity. Good morning, Holy Spirit, and then the Savior's making the sunny side up eggs. I know people like this. You know, there are some evangelicals out there that are just like this, that they've got to listen to the spirit regarding every decision from what color software to what value menu to purchase at McDonald's. I was borderline a super spiritual saint at one time. There's also the reclusive follower. The reclusive follower. Now this is a person who is, they follow Yahweh, they seek to know him, however, they seem to be too righteous to fellowship with others. They pull their family away from other groups and other people to spare the possibility of evil influences. Have we met some of these people before? We sure have. That some commandments are followed, a hint of Hebraic worship is given out, but these people easily find fault with any type of spiritual authority and would rather do it by themselves at their home, many times led by the wife, and many times when they do join with others, disrupt the teaching of truth. So we've got the devoted believer. We've got the super spiritual saint. We've got the reclusive follower. And now you may be a combination of these or personalities, and there are others, of course, and many of these are sincere. Yet how many know you can be sincere and you can be sincerely wrong? You can be sincere and you can be sincerely wrong. Now, the goal of our faith should be to build our relationship with Yahweh and with his people to do so. And many times that's traded for either busyness, reclusiveness, or super saint power. People, they've got to tell you their title before they show you some love. Now I know this because I was there. I was a Sunday school teacher, all at the same time, let me tell you what I was doing at our Baptist Apostle Church, that's Baptist plus Pentecostal equals confused Baptist Apostle. I was a Sunday school teacher. I was a youth minister. I was a worship leader, led the praise and worship. I manager of a Christian bookstore. I was the church janitor. I actually led a Christian radio program, a four-hour program. I was a DJ, played music, and gave inspiration. All of this at the same time. Talk about busyness. I would preach on Sunday nights for the pastor if he was too tired to do so. My life was the church, and the church was my life. I went to Christian concerts. I was always reading Christian books. I bought Christian candles, Christian bath soap, I mean you name it, I had it. But there was a void of any real meaning for me. I was busy, busy, busy, and I was super saint busy. I'd read Benny Hinn's book, Good Morning Holy Spirit, you know, remember that one? But there was a gigantic hole in my heart as I saw the shortcomings of a religious system that taunted power to change people's lives, but seldom did. Now I'm not bashing on the church or everybody in the church because there are a lot of good ministries out there that are changing lives. And our church brothers and sisters have an inbred tour written on their hearts as it says in Romans chapter 3. Yet where I was, and the place I was at, I saw the same people go down to the aisle, go down the aisle, go down to the altar, fall out on the floor every week, and go back to their sinful ways. And on Sunday morning it was S-S-D-D, same sermon, different day. You remember that? Here's what we would hear. We would hear the same sermon on tithing and against smoking and drinking. The pastor would pound the pulpit about abundant life, but hardly would show us how to do it. So frustrated and tired, when the truth was shown to me, I was open. But the truth of my lost heritage, my forgotten Hebrew roots, shattered my many, many, many, many, many man-made doctrines. You been there, done that? The revelation of Yahweh Yeshua's name corrected my theologies of a God in three persons, blessed Trinity, or this whole instance of God the Father mad at the world, Jesus coming to save us from the Father, or coming to save us from Judaism. That's what I thought. The truth of the Torah as the eternal word and will of Yahweh rearranged my entire life from the way I dressed, to what I ate, to what I said, to what I did. Now as we return to true worship, as we learn about our Hebrew roots, we begin to see the impact and the importance of the commandments. Amen? That's really what changes us. But these aren't just rules to learn and then file away in our brain of knowledge like chocolate facts. You don't just learn Hebrew roots, you do them. Let me say that again, you don't just learn Hebrew roots, you do them. But the commandments are followed. As our way of walking by faith, they are not followed for salvation, we do not follow the commandments for salvation, we are saved by grace through faith in Yeshua alone. Can I get amen? Amen. However, the commandments teach us how to behave, how to act once we are born again. Otherwise, we make it up as we go. The commandments keep us on the straight and narrow and define sin for us. That's what the word says. If I had not known Torah, I would not have known sin. It doesn't mean Torah is sin, that means Torah violation is sin. Yahweh has given us life and life in abundance, and we have to be very careful to understand and recognize that, that we don't earn our salvation, we don't earn anything. You could say as far as we don't earn our salvation from Yahweh by obedience. The mitzvot, that's a Hebrew word for the commandments, were given to us to connect to Yahweh. But Yahweh didn't just save us so we could go to heaven. Anybody agree? Your silence is deafening. All right. Yahweh did not save us just so we could go to heaven. He didn't save us just so we could get on the rapture bus and have our ticket. If that was the case, as soon as we were born again, what would have happened? We would have been whisked away to heaven. Instead, we were born again to shine His light in the world, to give Him the glory. And the way we do that is by the mitzvot, by the commandments. The commandments He's given us are to teach us how to enjoy life and to live life to the fullest. He didn't give us chocolate to take it away. He didn't give us nice clothing or beautiful music or dance or sense of humor or love or money or long life to take them away from us. But He gave us all the many blessings to show us how to enjoy them. So think of any perversion of the world. And there are religious groups out there that say that's bad, that's evil, that's wrong. Think of sex, for example. You know, there are those out there, that's wrong, that's bad, that's evil. And yet Yahweh has given us that to enjoy it, amen, in the right relationships. Through every minute of our day, every second of our life, we can glorify Yahweh. And we do this through His mitzvot, through His commandments. But the commandments connect us to Yahweh. Yeshua prayed this. He said, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Well, the truth is, we bring His kingdom to earth when we do His will on earth. Doesn't that make sense? That His kingdom comes when His will is done. Now, the word translated for commandments in our English Bibles is the Hebrew word mitzvot, or a single singular would be mitzvah. Mitzvah is a commandment. Commandments would be mitzvot. And this term literally means to command, to combine, or to connect. To command, to combine, or to connect. Now, through obedience to the commands of Yahweh, to the mitzvot, we combine our life to His, and we connect to His will. Now, Hebrew words are made up of, are usually compound words made up of a root word. And the root word for mitzvot is zavta, zavta. And the word zavta literally means to join. And it's similar to the word zavet, which means team, like teamwork, like a baseball team. So, it is through the mitzvot, through the commandments of the Torah, that we can take the divinity and the power of Yahweh, we can draw closer to that, we can fulfill the biblical mitzvot, and we can team up with Him, we can connect to Him, that these actions empower our world and allow our ordinary actions to become supernatural actions. Amen? Our mundane world can be transformed into divine space by knowing and by fulfilling and focusing on His commands. Now, that doesn't mean we become super spiritual saints. That means that we focus on His commands. So, the reason why the commandments were given to us is so we could connect to Yahweh. They were not, everybody say, not, they were not given to punish or restrict us. They were given to show us the proper path for a relationship with Yahweh and with each other. The Torah is for our benefit and not for our punishment. So, we are not given to punish or restrict us, we are given to show us the proper path for a relationship with Yahweh and with each other. This is the teaching you can share with others, because Yeshua made this very clear when He said, the Shabbat, the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. What He was saying was, the commandments are given to man, for man, to benefit man, to benefit you and me. We're not just here to follow a bunch of rules to benefit something else. That the Shabbat is given at a time and space to connect to Yahweh, and each of our mitzvot are times and spaces to connect to Yahweh. Now, the Midrash tells the story of Elijah the prophet meeting up with the fishermen. This is really good. The Midrash tells the story of Elijah the prophet meeting up with the fishermen, and Elijah asked him, he says, do you study Torah? And the fishermen said, no, I'm just a simple man. I'm not endowed with any measure of talent or intelligence. I'm not called to be a rabbi. I don't really study it. So Elijah looked at him and he said, well, tell me something, how is it that you prepare your fishing net? Well, said the man, it's actually quite complicated. First, I select the proper gauge of rope, and then I have to weave the net in a particular pattern to ensure that it has the proper balance of strength and flexibility. And so Elijah inquired, he said, how do you go about actually catching a fish? Oh, oh, said the man, he was getting excited. He said, that too is quite complex. There are many factors involved, including the season of the year, the time of the day, the where the moon is, the type of fish, the water depth, the temperature, the speed of the current. So Elijah looked at the man, he said, when you get to heaven, you're going to testify that you didn't study Torah because you're just a simple man, that you weren't called to be a rabbi, that that's not your thing, but you are not endowed with any special talent or intelligence. Is that right? Don't you think that if Yahweh gave you the brains to be a fisherman, that he gave you the brains to learn Torah? The story goes that the fishermen realized that Elijah was right. He was devastated and began to cry uncontrollably and said he would never pick up a fishing net again. And Elijah said, no, no, no, no, no. That's not what you're supposed to do. He said, don't be so upset. He said, I'm going to tell you a secret. Everyone uses this excuse in one way or another. We all expect that we're going to get upstairs, we're going to say, all right, Yahweh, I wanted to change the world, I wanted to know all of Torah, I wanted to love humanity, but you didn't give me enough intelligence, you didn't give me enough patience, you didn't give me enough strength, you didn't give me enough personality, you didn't give me enough time. And Yahweh is going to turn to each of us and say, your actions contradict your words, because when it came to something that you care about, whether making money or building a home, then you figured out how to do it. You became an expert at something, but obviously Torah didn't concern you enough. Wow, what a story, what a story. That just got all over my toes when I read it and I have to share that with you because I think that's part of our problem. We don't take Torah seriously enough. Wow. So it's time we learn, it's time we become students and it's time we obey. Now, that doesn't mean we just get busy with dead work and obey, obey, obey. But we begin here with our heart and here with our mind and we fix our thoughts and prepare our mind for obedience. You know, I've often said that people have money to do what they want to do. Very few people don't have any money. You know, people work, they have money and they decide to do with that money whatever they want to do. I know people who don't pay their bills, but they buy cartons of cigarettes. They have money to do what they want to do, for example. We have time to do what we want to do with our time. The question is, do we want to do it? And many times we don't want to do Torah or we don't want to study Torah or build our relationship with Yahweh because of how it's been presented in the past. And yet now Yahweh is opening us up, how we can turn our day, our life into divine space. That's the title of today's teaching, divine space. Everybody say divine space, divine space. Now, the mitzvot, the Torah, are the way that we fix our will and the way that we receive pleasure from Yahweh. They're kind of like an extension cord from a power source to an adapter. That's what the mitzvot are. They're to be followed, not for salvation, but to connect us to the Savior. Like chocolate, they bring pleasure and meaning. Amen? All right. When it says in Psalm 34, 8, to taste and see that Yahweh is good, the way that we taste his goodness is by the commandments. The commandments bring us closer. Rabbi Schneerson, who is one of the great rabbis of Judaism, he said this. This is really good. The primary reason we study Torah and perform the commandments is to reveal Yahweh to the world. It follows that every commandment produces its own specific illumination of divinity. Every mitzvah we do creates its own paradise reserved to benefit the person who did it. He says that we are told that a mitzvah's reward is not given in this world. The inference is that we enjoy its benefit only in the world to come. The Mishnah vote confirms a mitzvah's reward is the commandment itself. By observing the mitzvot, we reveal the Garden of Eden in this physical world. Wow. That's a powerful insight. It's a powerful insight. So let me ask you this, how do you focus on the commandments when you've got a hunger craving for dark chocolate? How do you focus on Yahweh when you've got an eight hour work shift or a 12 hour work shift or a 14 hour work shift? How do you keep the Torah when you're changing diapers or teaching children? Now, we know that the Torah has 613 commands in it. The first five books of the Bible. How do you keep all of these when you're driving a school bus? Many of the commandments of the Torah are relative to our place in this world. Did you know that? For example, some of the commandments, some of the mitzvot were only for priests. Some are only for women. Some are only for farmers. Many of the commandments can only be obeyed in the land of Israel under biblical rule. Sacrifices had to be in the temple. Truth be told, you've got 613 mitzvot, very few of those actually apply to us today. And even those commandments elude us in our postmodern society. So how do we keep every single commandment every single second of our day? We are told, Psalm 113 verse 3, from the rising of the sun to the going down of the same, the name of Yahweh is to be praised. This is done, this is brought to fruition, not by showing up at synagogue or going to a 24 hour worship service and being there all day long. We all have lives, amen? How do we keep the mitzvot all throughout our days? Well, if the mitzvot are connections, connectors, then we have to begin by not just getting busy, we're going to get serious about Torah. Because, you know, I'm serious about work. I work really hard. I'm serious about my children. I need to be serious about Torah, amen? You're serious about your hobbies, you're serious about your labors, we need to be serious about Torah. We are to transform first our state of mind from one of worrying about self to this, Yahweh consciousness. That is called living in divine space. That we can actually create and manifest divine space by focusing our attention on six specific commandments in the Bible. These are called the six constant mitzvot. The six constant mitzvot. Now, it has been said that the surest way to develop and maintain a close relationship with Yahweh is by learning and internalizing the message of the six constant mitzvot. But these commandments we're going to talk about today are the basic components of your connection to Yahweh. That you might have been told, well, there's 613, you might have been told there are ten commandments, you might have been told there are two commandments, love Yahweh, love your neighbor, but there are six and I call these the goal mitzvot. And they are more or less a state of being, a state of being, they are the fabric of our relationship, the energy that infuses our actions. That they help us to attain a closer relationship and internalize their message, we will begin to be closer to Yahweh. Now, notice I've used the word internalize a couple of times. These are not outward commandments that other people see that draw attention to us. Instead, these are internal constant mitzvot that are intentions of our mind, amen, that as our focus on these six mitzvot begin to change and we begin to focus on these, our entire outlook on life begins to change. Now, while the Torah is full of commandments, now it's been said that there are 613 commandments in the first five books of the Bible and over 1,200 in the four gospels. And they say we're in the legalism anyway. That might be the requirements of our faith, but these six that we're going to talk about today are the essence of our faith. You could call these the cocoa beans of our dark chocolate relationship with Yahweh. How about that? Don't stone me for that reference. Consider what we're going to talk about to be six walls. That surround you, reminding you to always focus on Yahweh. To be in the world, but not of the world, six commandments. The very first one is considered to be above us. And this is the commandment to know Yahweh. To know Yahweh. And this would be if you were drawing a cube, this would be the area above you right now, the area above you to know Yahweh, how do you know it? What's above you, your head? To know him, to get to know him. To study, to read, to build your basic knowledge of him, to pray, to learn, to know him. This, by the way, is the first of the 10 commandments. It tells us in Exodus chapter 20, verse two, I am Yahweh, your Elohim, who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. That's Yahweh. Don't get the cart before the horse. Don't try to obey all this other stuff. You can't love your neighbor as you love yourself. You can't even love Yahweh until you know him. We got to know him. There's a wise person and there's a fool. And a rabbi goes to him, he says, take this Torah and learn it. The fool says, that's like trying to move a mountain. I can't move a mountain into the sea. Even if I work all day and night, I could not possibly finish it. So what does that fool do? He takes one bucket, he fills it up with dirt and he lays down and he goes to sleep. The wise person, he says, I get paid by the bucket. The wise person, he says, I get paid by the bucket. And if I make an effort, I get paid. I can't imagine how I'm going to move this mountain into the sea. But if the rabbi said to do it, if Yahweh said to do it, I might as well try. So he takes a bucket, he puts it in the sea. He takes another bucket, he puts it in the sea. He takes another bucket, he puts it into the sea. The fool yells at him, hey, what are you doing? The wise man says, I'm getting paid. And he keeps on going, another bucket, another bucket, until it comes to a big stone. In the mountain, and it begins to push that stone, which starts a landslide. And guess what? The whole mountain slides into the sea. That's what we're doing. When we begin to learn the Torah, when we begin to know Yahweh, we're just doing one bucket at a time, one dollar at a time, one mitzvot at a time. One day at a time, Yeshua, that's all I'm asking from you. That's it. To work on that mountain. Now, what did Yeshua say? Because that's a story out of the Midrash. It's been told by rabbis for thousands of years. What did Yeshua say? He said, if you speak to that mountain, be thou removed, be cast into the sea, it shall occur. Wow. I wonder if the rabbis have been talking about that when Yeshua referenced that. Brings new meaning. The Torah is not too difficult. In fact, it's just the opposite. Deuteronomy chapter 30, verse 14. It says, the Torah is very close to you, very nigh unto thee. It is in your mouth, in your heart, that you may do it. Yahweh gave them the Ten Commandments. Did Yahweh keep them? No, they were given to man. The Torah was given to man. It's not up in the heavens that we can't know it. It's not down in the depths that we can't understand it. It's here. It's in our heart. It's in our mouth that we may do it. To know Yahweh. How do we know Yahweh? By getting into the Word. Amen. Not the bed. I call my bed the Word. You ever call me and I say I'm in the Word? I'm asleep in the bed. All right. Not the bed. So the first commandment is above us and it is to know Yahweh. The next commandment, if you're drawing a cube or so, would be below us. And this is the commandment to have no other gods. To revere no other Elohim. It's below us and it should be below us to have other gods. Amen. It should be below us to think that we are too good. That we are not to recognize or worship anything else. That we are not to sink to the level of those of this world. It's below us, the second constant mitzvot. But remain focused on Yahweh. That means even while you're at work, even while you're helping someone, even while you're doing anything, that you've got this in mind, that that's not going to become a god to you. There are many gods in this world, and I'm not talking about demons. I'm talking about stuff. I'm talking about hobbies. I'm talking about children. I'm talking about things to do. I'm talking about our flesh. That it says in the book of Hebrews, it says, May the Yahweh of peace crush Satan under your feet, under us, no other gods. Anything that would exalt itself over the knowledge of Yahweh, we are to cast down. That's what it says. 2 Corinthians chapter 10. It says to take every thought captive to the obedience of Yeshua. To stomp out the enemy below us. I believe the biggest god we face is who? Ourselves. Ourselves. I'm not going to worship a statue of Buddha. But I might worship myself. Or yes or hurrah, our flesh. Yahweh warned of this in Deuteronomy 8 chapter 12 through 17. He said, perhaps you will eat and become full. You will build nice homes and become settled. You will become very rich and have plenty of everything. And then you will become arrogant for getting Yahweh. And then you may say, my power, the strength of my hand made me all of this wealth. Is that not America today? Is that not the world today? Is that not many of our friends and our family members? But all they're focused on is the next sale or the next paycheck or whatever it's going to be. And we think, oh, it's me. It's not about us. Amen? There's an old riddle. It says, what is the difference between the righteous and the wicked? What is the difference between the righteous and the wicked? The wicked are under control of their flesh. While the righteous have their flesh under their control. That's the difference. Here's what Yeshua said, Mark chapter 7, verse 20 through 23. That which comes out of a man is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adultery, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, mischievousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile the man. Is that not the God within us? Have no other gods before thee. So our six consumments, we're talking about living in divine space. Number three. Number three. Is to recognize Yahweh is Echad. Bet you never heard that from your Sunday school teacher. To live in divine space, we create this with our thoughts. And this would be before us, in the front of our cube, you could say. To recognize that Yahweh is Echad. That this realization that Yahweh is one should stay in front of us at all times. That in the beginning, everything came from what? Yahweh. Yahweh is one. It tells us in Deuteronomy 6 verse 4. Here O Israel, Yahweh is our Elohim, Yahweh is one. In Hebrew, Shema Israel, Yahweh Eloheinu, Yahweh Echad. In Matthew chapter 19, verses 3 through 6, Yeshua says that when a man and a woman are married, the two become Echad Basar. One flesh. Echad Basar. One flesh. They are united, they are joined, they are wrapped together like cords of a rope. They have a singleness of purpose and marriage that no man should try to destroy that unity. However, that unity does not destroy the diversity of them. That is the picture. That Yahweh is Echad, that we are to be one with Him. We are to be one with Him. That is the very essence, the idea of the Shema. So when it said, Here O Israel, Yahweh is our Elohim, Yahweh is one. It is saying, hear and understand that Yahweh is Elohim of unity and we are to be unified with Him. Was that not the prayer of Yeshua in John chapter 15? I am the vine, you are the branches. He said, Father, may they be one as we are one. Echad. You know, if I keep that thought in front of me all day long, I am probably going to be nicer to people around me. I am probably going to have a little more patience with other believers. Echad. To recognize that Yahweh is Echad. Now to our left and to our right, if we are drawing this cube, above us is what? The commandment to know Yahweh. Below us is no other gods. In front of us is to recognize that Yahweh is Echad. And to our left and to our right are two specific commandments. One of which is to love Yahweh. That would be number four. A constant misquote. To love Yahweh. Ahasuer Yahweh. Ahasuer Yahweh. This is the fourth constant commandment. The fourth constant commandment is to love Yahweh and guess what it is balanced out by? The fifth constant commandment is to fear Him. So we have love and we have fear. What does it really mean to love Yahweh? Do we love Him just by going to church or by coming to synagogue? Do we love Him by doing religious acts? What does it mean to really love Him? Matthew 22, 37. Thou shalt love Yahweh your Elohim with all your heart. With all your soul. With all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. The word there in Hebrew is Ahava. Ahava. It means to totally give yourself to. To be totally consumed. To be totally committed. We'll put Yahweh first. We'll put Yahweh first. To become one with it. Listen to a couple of scriptures about this. John 3, 9. Yochanan 3, 9. Men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. Couldn't it also say that men loved light rather than darkness because their deeds were good? Hmm. In Yochanan, John 12, verse 43, it says, For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of Yahweh. 1 John 2, 15. It says, Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world. When we love Yahweh, what did He say? If you love me, keep my commandments. Isn't that what He said? If you love me, keep my commandments. What are the commandments? The mitzvot. Starting first with the six here. The constant mitzvot. To keep His word. But to keep His word, we've got to know His word. And how did they begin? To know Yahweh. To have no other gods. To recognize He's a God. And to love Him. To love Him. That would actually be on our right. To love Yahweh. And then to our left would be to fear Yahweh. In Hebrew, it's Yisar Yahweh. There's a great teaching on the fear of Yahweh in that ministry's website. Called, The Fear Factor. The Fear Factor. When we fear Yahweh, we have respect for Him. When we fear sin, we don't want to go there. It tells us in Proverbs 1, 7. The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge. Da'at. But fools despise wisdom, chokmah, and discipline. Gevurah. It says in Job 28, 28. The fear of Yahweh, that is wisdom. And to depart from Yahweh, that is understanding. So in Hebrew, it would say, the Yisar of Yahweh, that is chokmah. To depart from evil is binah. Understanding. In Proverbs 8, verse 13, it says the fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. If you want to know what it means to fear Yahweh, that's it right there. It's to hate evil. Doesn't that go right along with loving Yahweh? If you love Yahweh, you keep His commands. And you're going to hate evil. In Proverbs 16, 6, it says by the fear of Yahweh, men depart from evil. Proverbs 3, 8. Do not be wise in your own eyes. But fear Yahweh and turn away from evil. It's that idea again of avinu melkeinu. Our father, avinu, I love you. Melkeinu, I fear you, my king. Avinu, I fear you, my king. See how it all comes together? And then finally, the sixth commandment, if we have to know Yahweh is above us, to have no other gods before us, below us. To recognize Yahweh as a God is in front of us. To love and fear on our left and our right. And finally, behind us, we have to keep this in mind. Do not trust your heart and eyes. This is the last commandment. Do not trust your heart and your eyes. Not trust what you see. Not trust what you hear. Not trust what you feel. Not trust what you smell. Don't trust your senses. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? Hebrews 5.14, strong meat belongs to those who, by reason of use, have exercised their senses to discern, determine between both good and evil. Now this comes to us from Numbers chapter 15, verse 39. And in Numbers chapter 15, these are the commandments concerning the tassels, the tzitziot. And it says you ought to wear them on the four corners of your garment. Two in front, two in the back. Where is this commandment? It's in the back, isn't it? The two tzitziot in the back remind us to not trust what we feel. Not trust what we see. It says in Numbers chapter 15, verse 39, it says, Remember all the mitzvot, the commandments of Yahweh, and do them, that you do not seek after your own heart and your own eyes, which you used to go a-whoring. To put that behind us. To put that life behind us. And we're going to develop our sixth sense, that sense of faith, emunah. We're going to walk by faith, not by sight, 2 Corinthians 5.7. And we're going to remember the commandments. If you want to walk by faith, if you want to not go a-whoring after your lusts of your eyes and your pride of life, you've got to remember the mitzvot. James 1.14 says that each one of us is led astray by our own desires. Dragged away and enticed. Don't trust what you see. Don't trust what you feel. Don't trust your senses. Trust Yahweh and His Word. When we keep these six mitzvot, notice I didn't say you've got to keep 5,000 or 2,000 or even 600. These are six. It creates a type of different living for us. When we keep these mitzvot in mind and we walk in them, we are in essence living in divine space. We are actually creating a cube around us. Above us. Below us. To the front. To the behind. To our left and to our right. Now, I encourage you to begin to pray every day over these mitzvot in the morning. And as you wake up, to just imagine that cube surrounding you. Maybe even as you lay in bed. That divine space of Yahweh. And say, Yahweh, that's just a good word picture for us. Amen. And see that. Now, a cube is symbolic in the Torah of the tenth of the Feast of Tabernacles. Yahweh commanded Israel to dwell seven days in Sukkot. In the Tabernacles. Amen. Now, during Sukkot, we dwell outside in a temporary booth. Leviticus 23 talks about this. And while we're doing this, we are reminded of the 40-year journey of the Israelites through the wilderness. Y'all get this. When we are in Sukkot, we are living in divine space. When we are keeping these six mitzvot in our mind, we are reminded of the 40-year journey. When what did Yahweh do? Our minds recall the frailty of life. The miracles of Yahweh. The power of depending on Yahweh. In the wilderness, they trusted Yahweh for their food, for their shelter, for their protection, for their water, for their clothing. Everything else. This is the essence of living in divine space. Of keeping Yahweh before us. And this cube helps us make a connection to Him. Come near to Yahweh, and He will come near to you. The Kotsur Rabbi said this. He said, Where is Yahweh? Wherever you let Him in. Makes good sense to me. That our intentions throughout the day are to be focused here. What does it say? Whether you eat or drink or whatsoever you do, do it all as to the glory of Yahweh. Now here is what is interesting. We have six mitzvot. These mitzvot also become for us cities of refuge. As they protect us from evil, they protect us from the evil influence of sin and of the world. Now in the Torah, there were six cities that were designated as cities of refuge given to the nation of Israel. These were cities set apart. If you were maybe to murder someone accidentally or kill them accidentally. That you could flee to the city. And in essence live a free life. It was like you were being pardoned. These were cities of refuge for the guilty who had been pardoned by Yahweh. Given grace. Is that not our life? A life of pardon? A life of redemption thanks to Yeshua? Does not it say the name of Yahweh is a strong tower? The righteous run into it and are safe? If you want to be safe. If you want to live that abundant life. We run into this strong tower. The six mitzvot. And we are safe. We take refuge in Yahweh. And when we do this, the enemy has no power over us. Can I get a big amen? Amen. We do not have to spend our day rebuking Satan when we walk in his mitzvot. Because what happens? Yahweh is going to rebuke him for us. Think about that. But when we do not have these six constant mitzvot, what happens? We have inroads many times. We are led astray. Romans 6.16 makes this clear. It says, Do not you know? Do not you know? That to whom you yield yourself slaves to obey, his servant you become? Whether you are a slave of sin to death or obedience to righteousness. Do not you know that? We know that, do not we? Do not you know that? Romans 6.16. That through the six constant mitzvot, we create this cube. And in essence, we can realize the presence and power of Yahweh. But in Revelation chapter 21, it says that there was a new heavens and a new earth ascending from Yahweh. And when you read this, we see that there were twelve gates on that cube. The twelve tribes of the nation of Israel. Amen? And we read in Revelation 21. It says, I saw a new heavens and a new earth. For the first heavens and new earth had passed away. There was no more sea. Could that not be us? As we walk in Yahweh and keep these six constant mitzvot before us, that no longer is it the same old Martha. But it's a new Martha. In the new heavens and in the new earth. It's a new David. In the new heavens and the new earth. And it says in verse 2, And I saw the holy city, the renewed Jerusalem, coming down from Yahweh, prepared like a bride. Is that not what we want? And I heard a great voice out of the heavens saying, See, the sukkah, the tabernacle of Yahweh, is with men. And he will dwell with them, they shall be his people, and Yahweh himself shall be with them. And you go on to read, you're going to see that this city was an exact cube. Was an exact cube coming down from heaven. A picture.