Truth or Dare Savior

The Finding Emet radio program focuses on understanding and living the truth of the Bible from a Hebrew perspective. The host, Brother Daniel Rintleman, challenges listeners to dare to accept the truth about Jesus and learn more about his nature and purpose. Many disciples abandoned Jesus when they found his teachings difficult to accept. Understanding the story of Adam can help us understand Jesus as the second Adam. Adam was created perfect but disobeyed God's instructions, leading to the concept of sin, which can be defined as selfishness. Sin is a violation of God's teachings and leads to a desire to receive for oneself alone. Adam's sin caused him to hide from God's presence. 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 Rintleman 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 Rintleman, as he helps us find the Emet. The name of this teaching is called Truth or Dare Savior. Truth or Dare Savior. Have you ever played Truth or Dare before? The game, Truth or Dare. Do you know what the Truth or Dare game is? Truth or Dare game is a game mostly children play, I guess some adults could play. I've heard it's popular at some bars. But Truth or Dare is a game where you have someone and you ask them truth or dare. And then they choose whether they want to tell you something truthfully, answer any question in the world or whether they will take a dare and they have to do either one of the two. So you either say something secret or you do something daring. I remember as a child, one time we got together and played Truth or Dare and it was an interesting experience, one of those life-changing moments. Not really, but I remember that we were in the backyard and it came down to truth or dare and it came down to my turn and of course I didn't want to expose my deep dark secrets of my eight years of childhood. So I, of course, chose the dare. It was my turn and they said truth or dare, Daniel, and I said dare. So I took the dare and I did something really stupid. It was truth or dare time, I said dare. And the dare was pretty simple. I simply just had to, I had to go to the neighbor's house and ring the doorbell and let them come out and let them shut the door and ring the doorbell again and let them shut the door and I had to do that ten times without being caught. The problem was I was at a friend's house and their neighbor was grouchy. He was one of these redneck neighbors that would sit on his porch with a shotgun and we just, if we'd kick a ball over the fence and it'd go in his yard, we'd never go back for it. I mean, he would shoot it just to have fun. And I said dare and that's what I had to do. Well, I got through about five times and he turned red in the face and he sat on the porch. He would not let me come back and I'm hiding behind the bushes trying to get out. I finally kind of scoot myself around the back of the yard and there are my friends laughing at me hysterically because they're sitting over there on the other side of the fence watching every bit of it. So if someone ever wants you to play truth or dare, say truth if you have a bad neighbor. That is, say truth. Truth if you have a bad neighbor. That was fun. That was fun. But when considering our Savior, Messiah, Yeshua, today's teaching is called truth or dare Savior and my challenge to you is will we dare to accept the truth about him, about his nature, about coming to earth, about what he's done for us? Will we dare, will you dare, to open yourself up to better understanding, having a renewed break understanding in a view of Messiah, Yeshua? What we know about Yeshua mostly comes from what? Pastors, Sunday school class, books we've read, evangelists, the internet. Now we've already changed our mind or at least had our mind renewed to several things about Messiah. Amen? We know that his name, he was never called Jesus while he walked the face of the earth. We know that his true Hebrew name is Yeshua and that is what his parents called him. That was the name given by the angel to his parents in the book of Luke chapter 1. We've already accepted that he did not come to do away with the law or the Torah as it says in Matthew chapter 5, he did not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it, to show us how to fulfill it. We've accepted the fact that he was a rabbi. He wasn't just a carpenter from Galilee but he was a rabbi, that he was a teacher of Torah. We've accepted the fact that he had many opportunities to say, keep Sunday as the Sabbath and stop celebrating Shabbat on Saturday and he never did that. So we've already had our mind changed a lot. We've been renewed to the fact that Yeshua wore a beard, that he was a full Jew of Jews, king of the Jews you could say. He didn't have blue eyes, he didn't have blonde hair, he didn't have dreadlocks probably. We've acknowledged this about Yeshua. So today I'm going to dare you to be open to a greater revelation of his power and purpose even more. And what I'm going to share can be easily misunderstood and it can be difficult to accept because it goes against what we've already been taught. It goes against what we've already been taught so we've got to make sure that we are open and not closed. Now what we're going to talk about today is what Yeshua was talking about in Yochanan in the book of John chapter 6 and it's interesting how those who heard his message responded because in Yochanan or John chapter 6 verse 60, John 6 verse 60 it says, Therefore, many of his disciples, when they heard this, they said, Oye, this is hard saying, who can understand it? They readily acknowledged this was difficult, verse 61, when Yeshua knew in himself that his disciples complained about it, he said to them, does this offend you? Then in verse 66 it says, from that time on, many of his disciples went back and walked with him no more. Now to walk with someone is a Hebraic idiom which means to follow them, to submit to their leadership and because of what Yeshua was teaching them, what we're going to talk about today, many rejected him as Savior, as Messiah and it was too difficult. They were offended and they left. So hopefully that won't be you today. You won't fill in or you won't play that part but you'll play the part of the disciples who would say this to Yeshua, where else can we go? Where else can we go in view of the Ammit, in view of the truth? So we know a lot already about Yeshua, that he came to offer salvation. We know in Yochanan chapter 3 it says, unless you are born again, you cannot inherit the kingdom of Yahweh. He said in John 14, 6, I am the way, the truth and the life. He said, I am the way, I am the truth and the life. No man comes to the Father but by me. We know that he shed his blood, amen, he gave his life's blood to us so that we could experience eternal life. We know that he was a rabbi, he taught the heart of Torah. We know it says in 1 John chapter 5, excuse me, chapter 3 verse 8, that he came to destroy the works of the devil, amen, that's one of my favorite things about Yeshua, that he came to restore the relationship that we have with Yahweh, to regain what was lost by Adam with Yahweh, to right the wrong of Adam, amen, that indeed the Bible actually calls Yeshua the what? The second Adam. Therefore, to truly grasp and understand the second Adam, what do we need? We need to have a true biblical understanding of the first Adam. Now I'm not going to tell you like who is it, the Mormons that believe that Jesus and Adam were brothers and we're not going there so don't worry about that, wipe the sweat off your brow, that's not your day or today. But we're going to look at Adam a little bit, Adam in Hebrew and try to understand him because by understanding the first Adam, we can understand a little bit more about the second Adam. Adam in Hebrew was created perfect, agree? He was perfect, he was created perfect, he was a being of light, he was created and given dominion and power and all of his needs were met. Everything was met for him and his creation and he was given instructions and the Hebrew word for instructions, Torah, he was given the teaching and he was told to guard the garden, he was told do not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and we know that what did Adam do? I mean he was given one instruction and he disobeyed. He broke the Torah that was given to him by Abba Yahweh. He did not follow the instructions, he disobeyed and that's what we call paradise lost. He fell from perfection and this disobedience is what is called sin, sin. Now if I were to define sin, I would call sin one word, selfishness, selfishness. That's a great definition for sin. Now the Bible says in 1 John chapter 3 verse 4 that whoever commits sin commits lawlessness because sin is lawlessness. Now we know that the word for law is Torah. That's what Adam did. He violated the Torah, the law or the instructions, teachings of Yahweh. Therefore to sin is to have less of Torah in your life. That's what he did. Now notice how you spell sin, S-I-N, there's always an I in the middle of every sin. There's an I there, that's the selfishness that comes into being and comes into play. You could call sin this, the desire to receive for self alone. He wanted to be as the serpent said. He wanted to have knowledge as the serpent said and we know if we read in Bereshit or in the book of Genesis, so turn with me there to Genesis chapter 1 and chapter 2, we see here about the fall of Adam and in chapter 2, let's just go on over to chapter 3. How about that? Chapter 3, we see here that Adam violated the Torah or the teachings and instructions of Yahweh and it says in chapter 3 verse 7, and the eyes of both of them were opened. They knew that they were naked and sewed fig leaves together, made themselves aprons and they heard the voice of Yahweh Elohim walking in the garden in the cool of the day and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh Elohim among the trees of the garden. So his sin caused him to hide. This is a picture of the separation that sin brings in our life. Sin separates us from Yahweh as we see here that man was separated from Yahweh here in the garden and we know that because of this sin, some things also happened. If you look at verse 24 of chapter 3, it says that he drove man out of the garden and he placed there a flaming sword and the angels that were there. Not only that, but because of this sin, there was curses. When you sin, what happens? Are you choosing blessings or curses? You're choosing curses. And so Adam chose these curses here and it tells us that there would be enmity between you and the woman. Guys, don't we know that? Maybe that was the curse of the serpent. Sorry, sorry. So there were curses against the serpent, there were curses against Adam, there were curses about his wife. The ground would be cursed for their sake, it says. In sorrow shall you eat from it all the days of your life, thorns and thistles it shall bring. It says that in Genesis chapter 3 verse 19, by the sweat of your face shall you eat bread. Remember that. Until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken, for dust you are and dust you shall return. Hmm. And we know about the curse upon the woman with difficulty in childbirth, I can get a few amens about that. Because of the fall, there was separation and there was death. He said, dust you are and dust you shall return. Now we know it says in Romans chapter 3 verse 23, the wages of sin, the payment of sin is death. You get what you pay for, you get what you work for and you work your life and you sin. And therefore there must be death. So death entered the picture. Pretty clear, nothing groundbreaking yet. Adam tried to cover his sin and how did he do that? By doing his own deeds, by putting together some fig leaves. You could say he was a seamstress. But he failed to handle the issue of sin. Did he not? Did the fig leaves work? No. The fig leaves did not work. Man, you and I, cannot deal with the issue of sin. Nothing we do can deal with that. All the good deeds in the world, all the obedience of Torah that we do, whatever that we try cannot deal effectively with the issue of sin. Adam tried and it fell short. Isn't that what the word says? All have sinned and what? Fallen short of the glory of Yahweh. No matter what we try to do, it's always going to be short. No matter how...