Vitamin S

The Finding Emet radio program aims to help listeners understand and live the truth of the Bible from a Hebrew perspective. The program features the teaching ministry of Brother Daniel Rendleman and offers additional resources on the Emet Ministries website. Today's teaching is called The Vitamin S Deficiency, which applies to all aspects of life and emphasizes the importance of spiritual health for growth. The teaching addresses the tendency to focus on numbers and growth rather than on the overall health of the body of believers. Feasting on distractions and spiritual junk food can hinder spiritual growth, so it's important to nourish the spirit with healthy spiritual practices. 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 requests. 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 today's teaching is going to encourage you, and it's going to give you a true path of spiritual growth. So do you want to grow in your faith, or are you happy where you're at? So if you want to grow in your faith, then really listen up today. If you're happy where you are, then tune me out. But if you're going to listen, you may want some steel-toed boots, because it's going to step on your toes. And I can tell you that as a teacher, guess whose toes it steps on first? Mine. So I've been having to learn some lessons here. So the name of this teaching is called The Vitamin S Deficiency. Say it with me. The Vitamin S Deficiency. That's what it's called. And today's teaching is going to apply to every bit of your life. You know, sometimes you hear something, it's like, okay, well, I'll just put that here. Or that was needless information, or whatever it is. Today's teaching is going to apply to everything. Your family, your children, your marriage, different relationships that you have, spiritual growth, and any ministry you are ever involved with or worship with. Not specific just to this congregation or to this ministry, but to any ministry you are ever involved with, this is what this message is going to speak to. Now, it's going to sound like everything I'm going to say today may sound like I'm pertaining only to our local congregation. But this teaching is recorded, it's put on the internet, heard by thousands of people online. I just recently got letters from Ghana, from England, from Australia last week, from all over, people listening to the CDs, listening to the audio, and learning. And I sent out a teaching called The Top Ten Lives of the Church, and got an email from someone in Israel about it. So this is going out, and it applies to anyone and everywhere that you go and people that you worship with. It's called the Vitamin S Deficiency. What's it called? The Vitamin S Deficiency. Now we know that for the body to be healthy, the body needs certain vitamins, minerals, even hormones. Or what happens? The body breaks down. Isn't that right? If you don't get Vitamin C or Vitamin D, you might get sick. You might have symptoms of sickness if you don't have certain vitamins that you need. So we know that this is the truth. We know that if you don't have Vitamin D, you might get, what is it, rickets? Your bones will break. If you don't get calcium, what's going to happen? Your bones may break. Your baby might cry. Don't get the calcium, the milk. These things are going to happen. What about Vitamin B? As in, boy, it's good for the nervous system. If you have a lack of Vitamin B, then your nerves are going to, oh, you're just going to go crazy maybe. So you may need some Vitamin D. Vitamin C, Vitamin E, we know is, what, Vitamin C is orange juice. Today I was playing with the sun. It gives us Vitamin C, doesn't it? Today I was playing with Isaiah. Now, he's only two. We were going over colors, and I had a yellow ball, and I said, Isaiah, what color? He said, orange juice. I said, no, what color? He said, orange juice. So I picked up an orange ball. Guess what he said? Orange juice. That's right. He said, orange juice. So anyway, he thinks that's a color. Orange juice is good. The sun is good for Vitamin C, Vitamin E, good for your immune system, enzymes, hormones, all these things. And we also know that the physical body is kind of parallel to the spiritual body, that the spiritual body works very similar as the physical body does. There are certain essentials, certain things that we need to function, amen, and to fight off viruses and infections of the enemy, because we do have a true enemy, an enemy of our souls, the adversary. We do have a real enemy, and he seeks to steal, kill, and destroy, Yochanan, John 10, verse 10. It's very clear. We have a true enemy, and he seeks to destroy, yet we know Yeshua said, I've come that you might have life and life in abundance. Now, we are supposed to be the body of Messiah, the body of Yeshua, and so we've got to fight off these infections that the enemy tries to put upon us. Now, so many groups try to fight off those infections by focusing on money or numbers, not the book of numbers, but the number of people in their church or in their synagogue or whatever. How many of you remember back in the old days when you had the board up in the church that said attendance at Sunday school, attendance at worship service, attendance at discipleship training? We even had a place sometimes for offerings. I was at a little Baptist church. We had offerings up there. We decided to take it down. We couldn't find a negative sign. It was really bad. It was really bad, so we took that part of it down. However, we know this, and it's like ministries and people and even families sometimes think the bigger, the better. Joel Osteen has 25,000 members in his church. Can you imagine Joel Osteen? Don't you know who Joel Osteen is? You've never seen. Well, hello. I'm Joel Osteen. Isn't this Joel Osteen? This is Joel Osteen and the Lord has plans for you. Isn't that him? Tomatoes. Uh oh. That's Joel Osteen. That is him. OK. But megachurches focus on numbers, and this type of mentality is that the more people we have, the more we can do, the more money we can have, and the better things are. And that type of mentality really dwarfs the body, and it makes the body of Yeshua sick. And most of the time, messianic groups are small. However, when it comes down to it, many people kind of focus on growth. You know? Now think about it for a minute. Who just wants to be bigger, wants to be taller, so he stretches, he pops his knuckles, maybe he even wears high heels, so he's taller. All he does is focus on being taller. Now Nicholas, if somebody's trying to get taller, and they stretch, they do this, are they going to get any bigger? No. They're really not. The efforts are in vain. No matter what you do, you are that height. Now you can wear some platform shoes. You know, Tom Cruise does that, by the way. I read that. He wears platform shoes, because he looks taller. He's only three foot two. So you've got to, you can do anything you can to try to be bigger, to be taller. And many times, our spiritual lives, we focus on certain things, we focus on growth, and we do everything but growth. Take, for example, my wife. She was pregnant recently, and she had a growth in her. That was a good type of growth, wasn't it? But what if it wasn't a baby? What if it was a tumor? It is a tumor. Okay, what if it was a big tumor growing inside of her? Would that be good? So growth is not always good, is it? So what does it take for a spiritual body to grow? If the physical body is like the spiritual body, if your life needs to grow in the spirit realm, if our ministry should grow in the spirit realm, what does it take? Well, we need to be focused on health and not growth. A plant, a person, even a ministry grows as it's healthy. Does that make sense? A byproduct of health is growth. If you have a healthy baby, the baby is going to grow. I've never seen a tree that's just out there saying, I've got to get taller, got to get taller, got to get taller. It's not focusing on getting taller. It's focusing on its health, knowing that as it's healthy, it's going to grow. And as we properly nourish our spirit man, guess what? We're going to grow. And as our spiritual life grows, guess what else grows? The whole body grows. We as a congregation and the collective body of Messiah. Now, the bad news is the body of Messiah has a molecular disease that's dwarfing us. It's called the vitamin S deficiency. So we're going to talk about today finding a personal trainer to help you be healthy. A personal trainer. That's how Oprah loses all that weight. She has her own chef and a personal trainer. She has someone else to eat the junk food for her, tells her what it tastes like. I mean, that would be nice, wouldn't it? A personal trainer. We're going to talk about that today. It's going to help us because we've got this molecular disease that, yes, we are born again in our spirit. Our spirit is made to be like Yahweh, Yeshua. But how many know that our spiritual health is determined by what we feed our spirit? If you eat Cinnabon all day long, maybe if you eat Cinnabon once a day, once a week, I don't know, you're not going to be very healthy. If you focus on, you know, all the sweets or all of this, take a look. Hamburgers, that's a triple burger, donuts, french fries, ketchup. I saw a shirt, I almost bought it for Steven at the beach. It said, I put ketchup on my ketchup. He loves ketchup. Many of us feast on spiritual junk food. We get focused on distractions, things that distract us, maybe even spiritual things that distract us, maybe even doctrines or ideas that distract us. Personal convictions, oh, well, this person didn't do this. How about work? Doesn't that stop us? Babylon sometimes. Personal issues, busyness of life, pride. These things hinder our growth because they hinder our health. And if our spiritual life is not healthy, we're not going to grow. Why have we been infected? Why have we been infected? Because we've been feasting on this plethora of spiritual junk food. Now, I believe that Yahweh wants to take us great places as a family, as individuals, as a ministry, as the body of Messiah. If we truly believe that we are in the end of days, then that means not only is there going to be a great falling away, but it also means that we're going to have the opportunity to let our light shine before men, that they may see our good deeds and glorify our Father, which is in heaven. So we have this sickness. Because we're not healthy, we might look mature. The person sitting beside you might look healthy, they might look blessed, they might even act that way. But without vitamin S, our spirit is sick. So everybody say, I need come on, I need some vitamin S. We might look healthy, but what is our true condition? So vitamin S, what is vitamin S? We've got the sickness. There's plenty of pride out there. We know there's rebellion. We know there's people doing their own things. We need some vitamin S. Vitamin S that we all need a healthy dose of is submission. To each other, to leadership, to the five-fold ministry, to families, to Yahweh and His Word. Submission. Now as soon as I say submission, many of you right there just put up a border. It would be easier for me to get across the border of Mexico than to get to you right now. In some places, that's pretty easy from what I hear. I could walk into Fort Knox easier than I could get to you today, or this message could get to you today, because we hear the word submission and some of us have been abused by some of this in the past, or we have these ideas about, oh, submission's a negative thing. So I want to ask you to tear those down. Tear down those walls and let's see what the Word of Yahweh has to say. If we take a little bit of vitamin S, we're going to cure and solve a lot of issues. Now submission, let's be honest, is a touchy subject. Everybody say touchy. Touchy. It's a touchy subject because people have been abused and the world equates submission to weakness. Isn't that what the Feminazi movement is about? I don't call it feminist, it's Feminazi. It's a type of, you know, it's weak if you submit. Mike Huckabee was running for president and they came out and said, the Southern Baptist Convention believes that women should submit to their husbands. You're a Southern Baptist preacher, do you agree with this? He said yes, and his name was Mud. It made a big deal out of it. The world equates submission with weakness, but the kingdom of Yahweh, submission is strength. Submission is power. So what are we talking about here? Not understanding, not about lording over somebody, I'm not talking about blind obedience, I'm talking about accountability, growth, and respect, you follow me? Spiritual submission is to ordain a spirit-filled person to speak truth into your life and hold you accountable. That's what spiritual submission is all about. That's what we're going to talk about today, ordaining a person to speak truth into your life and hold you accountable. And as you're held accountable through love, you will grow spiritually. Now Yahweh already has levels of submission set up in the scriptures. We're going to look at some of those levels of submission. However, you could ordain your friend or your neighbor or the person sitting right beside you and say, Brother Will, I want to ask you, because the word says submit yourselves to one another. If you will help me, will you be my friend? Can I submit to you and will you help me hold me accountable? If I miss Shabbat, will you call me? If I'm struggling with something, can I call you? Can I email you? Will you keep me on the path because I'm going astray? Now the great thing is Yahweh's already built some of these in place. Don and Maggie, married for how many years? We get two different answers, that's always a bad thing. So Maggie says one, Don says the other. You know, so Yahweh's already set up a spiritual submission and authority for you guys. And we know that's husbands and wives. However, it goes both ways, as we'll talk about and discuss. Spiritual submission is Yeshua's model for us. The entire universe exists through the power of submission. All creation is submitted to Yahweh and to Yeshua. And we know about this, it tells us this in the book of James or Yaakov, chapter 4, verse 7. In Hebrews, chapter 12, verse 9. In 1 Corinthians, chapter 15, verse 28. That all of creation is subject to Yahweh and Yeshua. Hebrews 12, 9. Talks about this as well. 1 Corinthians 15, 27-28 and on and on and on. You can go through and study that. Creation is submitted to Yeshua and what is Yeshua submitted to? To Yahweh. Now that's a great mystery because we believe they are Echad, don't we? They are one, Shema Yisrael, Devarim 6-4, Yahweh is our Elohim, Yahweh is one. However, we know that Yeshua submitted to Yahweh. It's a mystery of the ages in understanding that. But we know that that is emmets, that is something that took place. In 1 Corinthians 15, 28, it goes and shares a little more about that. Now, we could do a whole two hour study just on greater and lesser Yahweh or understanding this. It's not what this is about. We know that in 1 Corinthians 15, 28, it says when all things shall be subdued under Yeshua, then shall the Son also be subject to the Father and put all things under Him so that Yahweh may be all in all. So there is even some submission there. Think about Yeshua and His Talmudim and the submission that took place there. Yeshua was a spiritual leader. He was called a rabbi. They came to Him and they didn't say, Yo, Yeshua, did they? They said, Rabbi, Rabbi, Rabbi, they called Him. And the example that He gave us was His disciples followed Him. They memorized His words. They listened to Him and He said, Matthew chapter 28, going into all the world, teaching them everything I have commanded you. They didn't have tape recorders back then. They had to memorize it. They had to take His word through the ruach and go forward. In Hebrews or Ephraim 13, 7, it says, Remember your leaders, those who have spoken Yahweh's word to you, think about the impact of their lives and imitate their faith. Now again, we've seen this to be abused, but the word tells us here that we are to imitate spiritual leaders. Think about their impact because spiritual submission to spiritual authority is just one type of submission. Yeshua gave us a great example of that. The pattern is throughout the scriptures. Now the adversary has a counterfeit, doesn't he? Everything Yahweh has, Yeshua. Everything Yahweh, Yeshua has, the adversary has a counterfeit for. The word Islam is Arabic for submission. That's a fault type of submission that is out there. So Hasatan has a counterfeit, a reproduction of a dangerous religion that calls people to do what? Openly obey, blindly obey, to fight others, to literally sacrifice their own lives to kill others. And in these end days, Yahweh is restoring all things, amen, which is spiritual submission, true spiritual submission. And as he's doing that, Hasatan is coming at the world with a type of false submission called Islam. It's a false diet that brings sickness to the world. Their type of submission is, don't agree with me, I kill you. That's their type of submission, right? It's not Yahweh's will. It's a false dietary supplement. True spiritual vitamin S results in this, say it with me, freedom, growth, maturity, blessing, fulfillment, anointing, power. If Yeshua was submitted to Yahweh and the Talmudim were submitted to Yeshua and the pattern that he gave us was that, why do we think things are different? You know, there are people that have left our synagogue, not to go anywhere, and they're kind of road warrior, just, it's just themselves. Again, I'm not pointing fingers, because we've seen a lot of people come through those doors, I mean, but it's real hard to keep Torah by yourself, if not impossible. That's why you guys drive two and a half hours every week, right? Because it's so hard to keep Torah by yourself. That's why you guys do it. That's why you guys drive an hour and a half. No, we drive 20 minutes, because we've got to learn to submit. And though we all need some vitamin S, we don't really like it, do we? We'd rather taste rebellion than submit. And I'm not just talking about in a congregation, but any type of submission. It seems to have a bitter taste. Have you ever taken a vitamin or some medicine and it has a bad aftertaste? It's like, ah, I just don't want to taste anymore. Sometimes that's what submission is like. Do you know why? Because it goes against the flesh. Yeshua says, submit to one another. Now as a body, there's lots of messy antics out there, right? Let's be honest. And it makes it hard. But many times when asked to submit, to serve or to silence our beliefs for the benefit of the body, we kind of do this. We scream. We cry. We moan. We're like a baby tasting table food for the first time. What does that baby do? Does the baby just eat it all up? No! They spit it out! And whoever's trying to feed them, what do they do? They make a mess all over them. And it goes against the taste buds of our flesh. And so here we are, we're tasting broccoli for the first time, we're asked to submit or we're asked to do this or whatever it happens to be, and we spit it out and we make a mess all over the person feeding us. Because you know why? What does the flesh say? Me. Mine. I. I don't agree. I don't agree. We had a guy visit with us from Canada and kept Shabbat with us. He was here for two weeks. So he lives in a town in Canada and there are thirty something Jews that live around him. He keeps Torah. But he does it differently than the Jews. He does it differently than us. He keeps what's called the Lunar Sabbath. Every month his Sabbath starts over. Sometimes his Sabbath is on Tuesdays. Sometimes it's on Thursdays. Sometimes it's on Monday. And I have some major problems with that. Major issues with that. You know when he was here, he didn't say a word about it. He submitted. He worshipped with us twice. He loved us. He helped us. Why? Even though his personal conviction said totally different, he went along with what we did. That was pretty awesome. That was pretty awesome. Because what could he have done? He could have come in here and said, Daniel, I'm older, because he was older. I mean, everybody's older than me. I mean, let's be honest. He could have said, I've studied this before. I'm older than you. My way is right. I don't agree. I know better. He could have created a scene. He could have come against me. Whatever. But he didn't. He submitted and he served. That's powerful. What's the opposite of submission? Rebellion. Rebellion. Now get this. Submission is for the believer, not for the person in authority. Dean, you give your child a vitamin. Who gets the benefit? Your child does, doesn't he? You give your child a vitamin. Who gets the benefit? Your child does, doesn't he? You give your child a vitamin. Who gets the benefit? Your child does, doesn't he? You give your child a vitamin. Who gets the benefit? Your child does, doesn't he? You give your child a vitamin. Who gets the benefit? Your child does, doesn't he? You give your child a vitamin. Who gets the benefit? Your child does, doesn't he? You give your child a vitamin. Who gets the benefit? 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And you should respect and submit to her as if it's coming from him. Makes good sense to me. I like that. And look at how Yahweh, kids, do you think it's important to keep Shabbat? Yeah? Well, look at what he puts it on parallel with. On the same plane as respecting your father and your mother. Wow. Vitamin S is key to a healthy spiritual life. Now we know in 1 Corinthians chapter 10 it tells us that the things that occurred in the Exodus and that occurred while they were in the wilderness occurred for examples for us and warnings for us. They're not just bedtime stories. But they're so that we could learn. It tells us in Corinthians 10 verse 12, if you think you're standing firm, be careful that you don't fall in learning from the examples that we see in the wilderness. So we've got to be careful. But Tanakh was our example. And we know that in the Scriptures and in the story of coming out of the wilderness, Aaron, Miriam, even Joshua, they all in the leadership of Israel were submitted to Moshe. The children of Israel were submitted to the leadership. But what happened when they rebelled over and over again? One time it says the earth opened up and swallowed them alive. Korach? One time there was a plague of snakes. One time all they were doing was having KFC. They were having a quail dinner and they got sick to their stomach. Do you remember that? Because of their rebellion. But what do we know about this list? Aaron, Miriam, Joshua, the leadership. We know the Scriptures say that one of these guys had a different spirit, didn't he? Yahoshua. He had a different spirit. Joshua was the exception. He wasn't the rule. Joshua and Caleb. They saw in faith, not in doubt. When they were gone to spy out the land, they saw in faith. And he went into the promised land and Joshua later led the armies around Jericho. And of course, Yahoshua, Joshua, is the picture of who? Yahshua. Yahshua was submitted to his father even though they are echad, even though they are one. And don't we know, in fact we'll read today, that Joshua was discipled by who? Moses. Moshe. It was his Talmudim, which gives us another picture of Moses of Yahweh. Picture of Joshua as Yahshua submitting, learning, and doing his will. It's a perfect picture. And when they had submission, there was a divine flow of power. There was a divine flow of healing, of miracles, of teaching, of anointing. Didn't Yahshua say, all authority on heaven and earth has been given to me. Now I give it to you. Now go. And when they went, what do we read in the book of Acts? They turned the world upside down. They were submitted to their leadership, submitted to Yahshua, and they went with power. So what is vitamin S? It's ordaining someone to speak into your life. It's laying aside yourself in obedience. It's submitting to those in Yahweh's order. And it's ordaining someone to hold you accountable. Knowing that it takes time. Everybody say time. Time. Turn to your neighbor and say, you're not perfect. Come on, Melanie, you know you enjoy doing that to mama. You're not perfect. To grow in the spirit realm, we have to understand that it takes training and accountability. And if we're faithful in the little things, Yahweh will make us master over the big things. So if we want power, if we want authority, if we want growth, if we want anointing, if we want to reach out to the nations, heck, if we want to reach next door, we need to take some of this submission supplement. So what does that mean? What does that mean? I know that Yahweh's already speaking to you right now about what it means. You're already sitting there saying, I know He ain't going to go there. I know this. I know that. Well, what does He mean? That's what it means. Because you can't submit to Yahweh without submitting to His people. What was that in the back? What was that in the back? Alright. Doesn't it say that they rebelled against Moshe and then Yahweh got mad? There are many lessons we can learn. And there are some lessons we can only learn by fellowshipping and worshipping and submitting with others. That's why people drive so long to be here. Now, Hebrews 13, 7, we read it says, Obey your leaders and submit to them. Let them do this with joy, not with sighing, for that would be harmful to you. Hebrews 15, 17. There are many levels that Torah already gives us. So let's take a look. Number one is Yeshua to Yahweh. All of creation to Yahweh and Yeshua. The believing assembly to Yeshua. The believing assembly to its leadership. Believers to other believers. Husbands are to submit to Yeshua. Wives are to submit to their husbands. Children to their parents. And even slaves to their masters. And we could add a few more. This is a picture and it's not, oh, greater importance and lesser importance. This is submission. These are some of the levels that Yahweh has already given us. Spiritual authority shows us this. Now, we'll talk about that for a few minutes. Submission to spiritual authority does not mean you have to be a drone or a clone. But what it does mean is you work with your spiritual leader and you found a spiritual leader whose heart after Yahweh and vision. And you work with that spiritual leader and you don't work against him. You support, you pray, you help. And when there's something you don't agree with, you pray for him. Because Yahweh will correct that person. If the person is after Yahweh's own heart, Yahweh will correct them. It's not Bob's job to fix the rabbi. Right? It's Yahweh's job to fix the rabbi. If Yahweh doesn't fix him, then he'll replace him. But what we have in the church system that we've all come from is what? If we don't like the preacher, we vote him out. If we get a new one every two years anyway, we'll just go ahead and get him out real soon. Right? Now who usually decides that? It's the deacons. They meet and they'll decide, oh, we're going to have a voting. We're going to do that. Now who usually decides that? The people that give the money. Right? Who usually decides that? The Jezebel spirit that's spreading all the gossip and the rumors and the lies. I've seen a church I was a part of split because they said that the preacher was taking silverware from the church and using it at his home. Literally. They split because of that. Children are to submit to their parents. So kids, listen up. FTI, Ephesians 6, 1-4. Children, obey your parents in Yahweh, for this is right. Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment, with the promise that it may go well with you and you may enjoy long life on the earth. Fathers, do not provoke or exasperate your children. Instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of Yahweh. What does this mean? It means that kids, if you're at home, you're under their roof, and you should submit. Daddy's word goes. It means that kids, if you're out of the home and you have your own home, then you should be submitting to Yahweh's leadership and authority. However, no matter what age the children are, no matter what age we are, we are to honor our father and mother. When it comes down to submitting to them, we submit to Yahweh, we submit to our parents. Now fathers, we are supposed to be an example and a picture of Yahweh to our children. You hear me? So we're not to provoke them or exasperate them or pick at them and push their buttons. I know what irritates Judah, okay? Or Nicholas. I can tell you. I can make them mad in just a minute. But the Word tells me not to do that. But to bring them up in training and instruction of Yahweh. Training them what? Spiritual authority. Spiritual submission. Because if they learn it in the home, when they go to the workplace, when they go to school, when they go to synagogue, they'll be able to submit respectfully. You know what submitting does? It causes you to bite your tongue. Right children? Right adults? It does. It causes you to think before you speak. It causes you to say what? I'm going to submit to this person as I'm submitting to Yahweh. As if Yahweh Himself said those very words. Yahweh Himself said, take out the trash. Nicholas, take out the trash. Eli, clean your room. And though you hear your mother, you hear the voice of Yahweh. And you learn obedience there. So let's talk a little bit where it says wives, submit to your husbands as to Yahweh. I wish we had that. That was only in the Bible where the men couldn't even see it. Because that Word is to the women. It's not to the men. And if I throw it in my wife's face, then I've got a problem. Okay? And we've all done it. Right? Probably done it today. Right? But if we throw it in our wife's face, we're the one that has the problem. Because if we're loving them the way Yeshua loved the assembly, it's not an issue. It's not an issue. Now, wives, you've got an important job. Because you are to reflect how Yeshua and the assembly, the congregation, what we'd call the church, the relationship there. But the wives are a picture of the bride. And the husband is a picture of Yeshua. So if you rebel, and if you cause problems, and you bicker, and you murmur, and you nag, what's going to happen? They're going to get a picture. Oh, that's how the church is supposed to be. The synagogue is supposed to be. Whatever that is. Like a constant dripping on a rainy day is a wife who nags, is what Proverbs says. You know what that means? It's raining outside, but yet you've got like a dripping in the house, and you can't get it to stop. And it keeps dripping and dripping and dripping. Nagging women was the first type of waterboarding. Okay? Isn't that right? Come on now. It was a type of torture. I know a dear woman that nagged her husband so much that he walked away from the faith. Wives, submit to your husbands as unto Yahweh. Now here's the problem though. If you've got issues with Yahweh, you're going to have issues with your husband. Doesn't that make sense? Because your husband should be reflecting the love of Yahweh, therefore, you should hear Yahweh's voice behind your husband's voice. Because the husband is the head of the wife, as Yeshua is the head of the assembly. His body. Now as the assembly submits to Messiah, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Now husbands, now ladies you can just close your ears, but husbands, you are to love your wife as Yeshua loved the assembly and gave himself for her. So husbands, come on wives, give them the elbow. Husbands, give them the elbow ladies. Give your husband the elbow. Husbands, our job is to love our wives as Yeshua loved the assembly. And if we're having to push them or force them or bicker with them, that's not as Yeshua loved the assembly. How did Yeshua love the assembly? He gave himself totally for her. He said, you know what? Whatever you need, I am that. Even while they were spitting in His face. What did He do for the assembly? He gave His very life's blood. So husbands, say what you can about the wives, it's a bigger responsibility. Because it's our job to be, in Ephesians 5, verse 1, be imitators of Yahweh. Now what does that mean? That means we lead our family like Yeshua leads the assembly. Does He come down on us every single time we step out of line? Does He strike us with a lightning bolt? Does He send us to our room? Oh, never mind. He doesn't do these things. And yet sometimes His husbands are like, if you don't submit, by golly, if you don't submit to me, I'm the head of this household. I make the decision. I believe that if we're loving our wife as Yeshua loved the assembly, we should never have to say those words. Women know what the word says. They know what says submit, don't they? Now you do. So guys, our job is to love them. What does it mean to love? It's ahava in Hebrew. It's a verb. It means to meet their needs. So if I'm so focused on meeting April's needs, and she's focused on meeting my needs, is submission really an issue? Not a bit. But when I get my eyes off of my job, which is loving her as Yeshua loved the assembly, guess what? I'm going to nag and nitpick her. But she's going to nag and nitpick me. Now sometimes there's a learning curve, right? Guys and ladies. And that's where the fruit of the Spirit comes in. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. We all need to have a little more mercy. Amen? When it comes to our relationships. Our level of spirituality is directly equal to our level of submission. We're all to submit. What does it mean to love your wife as Yeshua loved the assembly? Do unto others as you would have her do unto you. Let me say this. If you feel, guys, listen to me. Guys. Everybody, guys, raise your hand. Even you kids. Guys, raise your hand because this is important. Guys, if you feel you're not being loved, or you feel like, oh, they don't love me, you need to show love. And once you show love, guess what's going to happen? Your wife is going to reflect it back to you. Yeshua submitted Himself to wash the feet of His disciples. So do we submit to serve as He did? Literally and spiritually. Now most of us come from that background void of vitamin S. The money controls the deacons. The deacon controls the elders. The elders control the pastor, right? But the amet is, now I've got to go there, it's easy to submit when things are good. Nancy, when you agree with Bill, it's easy. Isn't it? I mean, it is. But when you disagree, then that's the test, isn't it? Where you say, I yield. I yield. The true test of submission is do you submit when you don't agree? The true test of submission is do you submit respectfully when you don't agree? There are things that have come out in the Messianic movement, and I'm like, oh, I don't know about this. My job at that point is to say, am I going to submit or am I going to rebel? Same thing with you guys and ladies and children. The true test of submission is what do you do when you don't agree? Do you humble yourself as Yeshua did? True unity comes from submission. Let's go back here to this real quick. There should be very few fellowship breakers. Now, if you're like me, you've left a church or a ministry before. We've all been through different things, had to deal with issues. But what I've learned is that there should be very few fellowship breakers. If you found a man after Yahweh's heart that you can submit to and follow, a leadership, a ministry, then there shouldn't be a lot of things that should separate you. That's hard because especially in this movement, people will divide over anything. Oh, you say Yahshua, we say Yeshua, you say Yahoshua. Boom, boom, boom. There's four different groups right there. Those who say Yeshua, those who say Yahoshua, those who say Yahshua, and those who don't know. And then you know what happens in that group? They break up a couple weeks or months later. Boom, boom, boom. You've got eight. And half of those people aren't even keeping Shabbat anymore. It happens every week probably in this movement. And it's sad. I think it comes from sincere hearts. People want to do what's right. They want to keep Torah perfectly. But they don't take vitamin S and it doesn't fix their hormones. Because their hormone is, I've got to get it all right. But vitamin S balances that out and says, you know what? I'm never going to find a rabbi or a leader who doesn't have it all right. And I don't have it all right. So we might as well get together. We might as well yield to one another. Instead of dividing when we don't agree, we should strive for unity. Now my opinion, now notice how I'll preface this, my opinion, is that fellowship breakers should be blasphemy or heresy in regards to salvation. Some of these other issues of personal convictions we should be able to work around. Now Yahweh may lead you out for a time and a season. We know He did that with Yeshua in the wilderness, 40 days. But I believe the majority of time, unless it's one of those major issues, we should work together. The true test of submission is, what do we do when we don't agree? Now let me ask you this. Let's say a decree went out and we said, when you walk in the door of a synagogue, you have to have your head covered. Just wait. When you walk in the door of a synagogue, you have to have your head covered. If you don't have your head covered, you can't come in. We're going to have somebody at the door checking. They're going to have a shotgun. You don't cross the line. Do not come in unless you have your head covered. If we were to do that, think about for a minute how we would respond. Because head coverings are a physical picture of spiritual submission. Did you know that? They are. So let's say that it goes out and says, you have to wear a head covering or you can't come in. How would you respond? How would you respond? Because you're going to respond one of three ways. The decree goes out. The email goes out. Now some people are going to say, yeah, that makes sense. I've been waiting on the rabbi all the time. I wear my head covering every day. See? There it is. No problem. Oh, I love Rabbi Daniel. He's so cool. That's some people. Everybody say some people. Some people. They're going to wonder, what's the rabbi been waiting on? Now other people who have a submissive spirit are going to say to themselves, everybody say self. Self. I don't really understand this. But my teacher does. And I'm going to submit and I'm going to ask the ruach, the spirit, for greater understanding. Who are they talking to? Their self. That's some people. They've got a submissive spirit. Then there are others. And they say to someone, everybody say someone, they say to someone, I can't believe this. Who does he think he is? I'm not doing it. He's wrong. I can't believe this. Maybe these people have studied the issue out. Maybe they are sincere. And just the thought immediately irritates them. Have you ever been asked to do something by a leader and he just immediately I can't believe you said that. I know I have. You might be perfect, but I know I have. That's that rebellion coming out. Even if you have a totally different opinion, it's like I don't know about this. And these people say to someone, so what are they doing? They're not only rebelling, what are they doing? They're speaking lashon hara and they're causing other people to rebel. Now let's go back and talk about head coverings for a minute. Head coverings are a physical picture of spiritual submission. In the Tanakh, in the Older Testament, priests were commanded to cover their head at all times. All times. The high priests were to keep it on at all times as well. We know that Rebekah wore a head covering. The bride wore a head covering. We know Moshe, David, Daniel, Isaiah, all wore head coverings. It actually says while they were in Babylon, they were thrown into the fire with their head coverings on. They wouldn't eat the king's fine foods. They wouldn't bow down and worship the idol and they wouldn't take their head coverings off. The high priest had to wear his head covering. Don't we know Yeshua was our high priest? I've got to believe he always kept his head covered. Now the common practice in biblical times is for the woman to have her head covered at all times. We know in 1 Corinthians 11, the woman is told to cover her hair. Now get this. This is wow. In the concise encyclopedia of Greek and Roman mythology by Savin Oswald, page 261, here's what it says. A sacrifice was made to Saturnus, Satan, Hallel, in his temple with uncovered heads according to the Greek observance that the Greeks, remember, even the Egyptians would worship with uncovered heads. So what does that mean? You've got Yahweh's priests that wore their head covering. You've got Greek priests sacrificing to Saturn that had their heads uncovered. When we come to worship, I keep my head covered. When I'm not openly worshiping, I don't cover my head. I change my mind. I cover my head at all times. I think it's important for ladies, especially while we're praying. So there are those that say, well, it says ladies, when you are to prophesy or to pray, you should have your head covered. So then there's a verse that says pray at all times. So there are those that keep their head covered at all times. Here's what I'm going to say about that, about head coverings. What does it hurt but the pride? Does it hurt anything else but your pride? So maybe we need to pray about that. This isn't a teaching on head coverings, but I wanted you to see its scriptural foundation. So let me ask you, how would you respond? The person that rebelled and went to someone else and said, I'm not doing this, they did not have a head covering problem. Do you know what they had? They had a submission problem. They had a submission problem. When a person acts like this, that's what they have, a vitamin S deficiency. So the only way to overcome this is to take some vitamin S. The issue is not perfection, righteousness, or correct doctrine. Ladies, your husbands will never be perfect. Bill was telling me a story about how we were talking about this, how he shouldn't be henpecked by his wife. And I told him, you know, you don't need to do this. You know what happened? He rushed home that day, he slammed the door, he shaked his fist in Nancy's face. He said, from now on, you're taking orders from me. I want my supper right now. When you get on the table, go polish my shoes. Tonight, I'm going out with the boys. You're going to stay at home where you belong. And another thing, guess who's going to comb my hair, give me a shave, and tie my tie tonight? Nancy looked at him and said, the undertaker. Isn't that what happened? Something like that. Okay, that's what would happen. The issue is submission for a greater good. Yahweh will correct the husband and the leader, we pray. So if we want to walk in all that Yahweh has for us, we've got to change our diet. We've got to stop eating junk food. The junk food of rebellion that has no vitamins and minerals and feast on what Yahweh has. So I want to show you three areas that we've got to work on as we close. Number one is junk food of pride. Everybody say pride. Pride. Pride is thinking too highly of yourself. It expresses itself through opinions. It expresses itself through opinions. It brings condemnation and says, well, I don't agree with that. I don't have that opinion. Pride says they really need to work on this. Yahweh says humble yourself in the sight of Yahweh and He will lift you up. Pride. And pride is tough. It's thinking everybody else is wrong and you're right. This word says that Yahweh resists the proud. Pride says I have this knowledge. And it expresses itself through opinions. That person that said I don't agree with the rabbi about the head covering. Do you know what he was doing? He was opinionating on someone. He was expressing his opinion and opinions weren't really asked, were they? So we've got to be careful with that. Here's another junk food. You ready? Strife. Everybody say strife. Strife. James 4.11 says do not speak evil of your brother. Matthew 18. If you have a problem with someone, go to them. Don't speak evil of them. Strife is anger. It's fear. It's an arguing spirit. It's disagreements. Strife says you really need to talk to this person. A person, this junk food of strife, we eat it when we're easily offended. And if you're easily offended, please, you know, just say goodbye today because I'm going to offend you. And you're going to get offended. We've got to get past the strife. James 3.16. The book of James 3.16 says where there is envy and strife, there is confusion and every evil work. If you have strife in your family, then there is every evil work taking place and we need to take authority over that. Strife is a bad attitude. James 1.19 says be quick to listen, slow to speak. Do not get angry easily. Proverbs 15.1 says a soft answer turns away wrath, but harsh words calls quarrels. If you go to a rock quarrel, what are you doing? You're just beating rocks, aren't you? When we quarrel, that's what we're doing. And it's useless. So we've got to get rid of that out of our diet. The next type of junk food is disrespect. Disrespect. Disrespect is simple. It's not loving your neighbor as yourself. And many times it shows itself through words. We are to hold up each other. Don't put somebody on a pedestal, but hold them up. As greater, as better, as worthy of honor. Disrespect brings shame, brings rebellion, brings rudeness. Romans 12.10 says honor one another above yourselves. Sounds like a commandment, doesn't it? Does it sound like an option? 1 Timothy 5.17 says that the Torah teacher is worth double honor. The Torah teacher is worth double honor. Now that's hard, but we are to honor and show respect because disrespect, when you eat a bunch of jelly beans, what's going to happen? Are you going to be healthy and go run a race? No. But when you feast on disrespect, it hurts the body and the body can't be healthy. To be healthy, we've got to have a proper diet. We need, say it with me, prayer, Torah study, corporate worship, obedience, evangelism, fellowship with sinners and saints, and vitamin S submission. Yes, I put sinners and saints. Yeshua ate with the sinners. He hung out with the tax collectors. If he was around today, he'd have lunch with Don. I guarantee you. To be healthy, we've got to have a proper diet. Void of junk food, of strife, and disrespect. Do you know what the neat thing about vitamins is? That for a vitamin to be effective, you have to take it regularly. Isn't that right? You've got to take it regularly or the vitamin is not really any good to you. It doesn't take a couple days for the vitamin to get in your system, usually a couple days. Well, guess what? This message is going to take a few days. Once you hear it now, it's getting in your flesh. You've got to maybe study it some more, get it into your spirit. We need to submit to Yahweh and His levels of submission. I want to ask you this right now. Who can you submit to in your life? Who can you ask to hold you accountable? Who can you ordain today? Today is ordination day. Go to Joni. Go to Brie. Who are you? Who do you hold me accountable? I'm kind of weak in this area. I need a friend. I need someone to pray with. I need to build a relationship. Just go to someone. We've got husbands and wives. We've got husbands. We've got guys. We could go to one another. Children. Begin to really put this into action. We've got to take it regularly. So who can you appoint or ordain to speak over your life? And then do something about it. That's called teshuva. Not just saying, oh, that's a good message, Daniel. Thanks a lot. But doing something about it. Love Yahweh first. Love your neighbor. Submit to those in authority. Fellowship with true unity and experience spiritual and physical growth. That's the pattern of vitamin S. If you want to know what's in that vitamin S capsule, it's this right here. Loving Yahweh. Loving your neighbor as yourself. Submitting to those authority. Fellowshiping with true unity. And then you can experience spiritual and physical growth. So I want everybody here to take a minute. We're going to pray. And I want you to pray about this message. Because we said at the very beginning that it applies to all the areas of your life. I want you to consider that. Right now. Father Yahweh, we come before you. And we know that this word that we've heard applies to our family, our children, our marriage, our relationships, our friendships, our spiritual growth in any ministry we ever visit or are a part of. So Father, we pray right now that you would lead someone on our mind. You would put someone on our mind that we could appoint and ordain and say, will you help me? Will you help me? Will you help me? I want to submit. I want to be a part. I know I'm weak. I know I'm not perfect. Father Yahweh, you'd lead those people into our minds right now. You'd give us the courage and the strength to go to them. Father, you'd forgive us for rebelling against our families, against our wives, against our husbands, against our children, for rebelling against spiritual authority, for rebelling against your government, for rebelling against you. We ask you to wipe the slate clean. Father, we would put personal convictions aside and when we come together, we would come together to hear your word, to experience true worship in unity. Father, unity is a byproduct of submission. That health in our spiritual growth is a byproduct of submission. Father, teach us this. For the children, help them to obey their parents. For the wives, help them to submit to their husband. And for husbands, help us to love our wives and submit to you as we should. Father, as your word says in Romans 12, that we should submit ourselves to one another. Father, may we do something about that. Not just hear the word, because your word tells us in Luke chapter 11, verse 28, it says, Blessed are those who hear the word of Yahweh and obey it. May we hear the word today and may we obey it and may we be blessed coming and going. Forgive us for pushing ourselves on others, for pushing ourselves on our wives. Help us all. We pray. Hashem Yeshua, Hamashiach. Amen. For the Finding E-Met radio program, please visit our website to learn more about the E-Met, the truth of the Scriptures, search the Bible, submit your prayer request, or read an article on various subjects. The website is www.findemet.com That's www.findemet.com CD copies of this teaching are available for free by submitting a request at the website, or write to us at E-Met Ministries, 1310 Trent Street, Newberry, SC 29108 That's E-Met Ministries, 1310 Trent Street, Newberry, SC 29108 Thank you again for listening to Finding E-Met with Daniel Rendlin. May you find the E-Met and may the E-Met, may the truth, set you free.