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This is a study on biblical fasting, Isaiah 58, walking in accordance with the spirit of God, putting on the full armor of God, a day pleasing to the Lord, how to crucify the flesh with its passions. This is a Biblical video. A Bible study.
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00:00Good morning. I want to read something to you guys here that is going to help you understand the gospel a little better and our mission as ministers of the Lord, as disciples of the ineffable majesty on high.
00:16So, my name is Asa. We're going to be looking at a couple of verses here, a few verses. Chapter Isaiah 58 says that then you will be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to dwell in.
00:32This is very significant. Or the repairer of ancient paths for people to walk in. This is concerning the day that is pleasing to the Lord, a day where cords are cut, cords of bondage are cut, where yokes are smashed, bars of oppression are broken.
00:55And it has to do with something that you're going to change the channel because I'm going to say an evil word here for a lot of people. It's called fasting.
01:05But you're going to want to understand why this is so significant. How is it that we can be called the repairers of the breach?
01:13People that fast for worshiping God because it is an act of worship. It's a declaration of dependence upon Him.
01:20It is the only place in the Bible that I know of where it says this is a day pleasing to the Lord.
01:25So, that being said, it says then we will delight ourselves and the Lord will be fed with the inheritance of our father Jacob, God Himself.
01:34It ties to the Sabbath rest. Very significant.
01:39It's a day when your healing shall quickly appear.
01:44And it's an explosive word. The healing is like exploding out of you from deep within and coming out.
01:51And so, and that speaks in the original text of like resurrection.
02:01It's when your light will shine forth like the noon day, which is another explosive Hebrew idiom.
02:07It was used when dams would break.
02:10It was used when seeds would burst open and life would come.
02:14Very significant because we're told to let your light shine.
02:18And now we're going to learn how to do this in the strength of His might according to Scripture
02:23and not being a fake fruit factory or a fake light factory.
02:28So, because that's a heavy burden that a lot of pastors lay on their parishioners.
02:32And I don't want to do that to you.
02:34I'd rather tell you how rather than just what.
02:36Because if I just tell you what, it's not going to benefit you.
02:40I need to tell you how as well.
02:43So, chapter 61, Isaiah.
02:47You're going to remember this from Christ.
02:50The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor.
02:55Let me digress a little here.
02:57When Jesus came down from the Mount of Transfiguration,
03:00the father of the demoniac kids came to him and said,
03:03I brought my son to you.
03:06Well, he was up on the mountain.
03:08The disciples were down here.
03:09So, we see how Scripture ties Christ and His disciples are one.
03:14Just like the Father and Him are one.
03:16God Himself, Jesus, prayed that we would be one as well with each other and Him.
03:21We don't focus on unity.
03:22We focus on Christ.
03:24Like Tozer says,
03:25if you have a hundred pianos and they're all tuned to the same fork,
03:28then they're all in unity.
03:30So, this is very significant.
03:32So, the Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor.
03:39He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
03:42to proclaim liberty to the captives,
03:44and the opening of the prison to those who are bound.
03:47This is Jubilee language.
03:48We're going to get to that here in a minute.
03:50To proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.
03:54So, when Jesus quoted this in Luke,
03:58when he quoted it in Luke 16.21,
04:04he stops mid-sentence.
04:06He stops right there,
04:07indicating that his mission was a Jubilee proclamation.
04:11So, we're going to find out a little bit about Jubilee and how this ties into the gospel because the gospel is everywhere.
04:18But, I'm going to finish this and then we'll go to that.
04:23All right.
04:24To grant those who mourn in Zion.
04:28It says to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor and the day of vengeance of our God.
04:33To comfort all who mourn.
04:35To grant to those who mourn in Zion.
04:37To give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes.
04:41The oil of gladness instead of mourning.
04:44The garment of praise instead of a faint spirit.
04:47That they may be called oaks of righteousness.
04:51The planting of the Lord.
04:53That the Lord may be glorified.
04:57They shall build up the ancient ruins.
05:00This calls back to Isaiah 58.
05:03They shall raise up the former devastations.
05:06They shall repair the ruined cities.
05:10The devastations of many generations.
05:13Strangers shall stand and tend your flocks.
05:15Foreigners shall be your plowmen in vinedresses.
05:19But you shall be called priests of the Lord.
05:21They shall speak of you as the ministers of our God.
05:25You shall eat the wealth of the nations.
05:28And in their glory you shall boast.
05:30Instead of your shame there shall be a double portion.
05:34Instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their lot.
05:39Therefore the land they shall possess.
05:41In their land they shall possess a double portion.
05:43They shall have everlasting joy.
05:47Land that drinks in the rain often falling upon it.
05:50That produces a crop useful to those for whom it has been farmed.
05:53Receives the blessings of God.
05:55So I want to tell you what Jubilee actually means.
06:00Jubilee means the blowing of the ram's horn.
06:03This is very significant.
06:05Scripture tells us to when you blow the horn.
06:08You are rallying the armies of Israel.
06:11The angels of the ineffable majesty on high.
06:15So scripture tells us you are consecrating yourself.
06:18When you blow the horn.
06:20When you fast.
06:21Joel 2 tells us declare a fast.
06:24Blow the horn in Zion.
06:26This is very significant.
06:28Jesus himself said that his disciples will fast.
06:31More than likely because it ties us in to this blowing of the ram's horn.
06:37Which is what literally Jubilee means.
06:40Late over time it became the word Yovel in Hebrew came to refer to the entire event of Jubilee.
06:48That the horn announced.
06:50It comes from etymology.
06:52Etymologically in Latin Juileus Anonus.
06:56Short for joy.
06:59Jubilee's radical social design prevented generational.
07:02This is important.
07:04Prevented generational poverty and permanent slavery.
07:07It protected family inheritance.
07:10Land was not to be sold permanently.
07:12Leviticus 25, 23.
07:13Because the Lord says it is mine.
07:16The land is mine.
07:17He's the landlord.
07:18So this is part of the gospel.
07:22This is beautiful.
07:25The year of Jubilee occurred every 50th year on the day of atonement.
07:29Following seven cycles of seven years.
07:31It was declared on the day of atonement.
07:33The most important holy day of the Israeli calendar.
07:38And there's a reason why.
07:40So certain things happened on this day.
07:44The blowing of the ram's horn.
07:47The shofar.
07:48Was throughout the land.
07:49It was a joyous, joyous event.
07:53The slaves were set free.
07:55The land was returned to the original family owners.
07:57Debts were forgiven.
07:59No sowing or reaping.
08:01This was a Sabbath rest.
08:03And the Lord promised to provide a triple provision on the sixth year or the 49th year.
08:12Because it happened every seven.
08:14But the accumulation was at the 49th year.
08:18The 50th year was the year of jubilation.
08:20So on the 49th year, the seven cycles of seven years.
08:25And it was building up to this.
08:27People looked forward to it.
08:29It depended.
08:31Their selling of property was dependent upon this year.
08:36And so God, in Leviticus 25, 21, he promises to give a triple produce on that year, that year before jubilee, so that they could, so the land wouldn't have to be sowed.
08:49And so we already went over that.
08:53He liberates this jubilee that he was proclaiming.
08:58He said he, because he said he came to proclaim this.
09:01And we just read how this ties into us.
09:05Because he said that his disciples will fast.
09:08It ties it into us entering into this ministry as we blow the trumpet in Zion and we declare a fast.
09:14And we enter into this ministry of rebuilding the age-old foundations as to you be called the repairer of the breach, the restore of streets to dwell in.
09:22Now, listen to this, though.
09:24In Ezekiel, Ezekiel was condemning, rebuking the false teachers who were preaching the word in just word.
09:34And I say that because in Thessalonians, we see that you can preach the word in power and word, or you can preach it in just word.
09:46And so I believe that Ezekiel's rebuke of these false teachers was because they were just plastering over it without a hardened plaster.
09:55They just put some easy believism, cheap grace over it, over the whole breach in the wall or the breach in the hedge.
10:04And then anybody could push through it, Ezekiel says.
10:08And so it looked nice, it looked great, but there was no sustenance to it.
10:13There was no protection there for what the wall was guarding.
10:16And so this year of jubilee, Jesus was proclaiming that we are to proclaim through the fast that he has chosen, a day pleasing to the Lord.
10:29His disciples will fast, they will.
10:32It was a day where people were liberated, people were liberated from sin and demonic oppression.
10:41It's a day when we see that demonic bondage, we see that in Luke 13, 16, John 8, 36.
10:51He cancels debts, Colossians 2, 14, Matthew 6, 12.
10:58He restores inheritance, eternal life, and sonship, Ephesians 1, 11, Romans 8, 17.
11:04He is our Sabbath rest, Hebrews 4, 9.
11:07So this is very, very significant.
11:12This is a very beautiful study, a beautiful, it gives us a glimpse into our responsibilities as pastors, as ministers of the Lord.
11:25And the massive responsibility it is, we can't just, we can't be like these false teachers who just plaster the wounds of the Lord's people over with cheap grace.
11:41And when we look at the benefits of this fast that the Lord has chosen, because the fasting isn't a work, it is a grace.
11:56In fact, it is the Lord's weapon.
11:58He chose it.
12:00He's the one who said, we'll do it.
12:01He's the one that decreed it and demands it of those who call on the Lord and sit in the seat of Moses, who are to be the friends of the bridegroom, the sons of the bride chamber, who guard the bride.
12:18This is such a massive, massive responsibility, and it should not be taken lightly.
12:25It should not be taken lightly.
12:26I get, I get indignant, not with the parishioners, but with the leaders of these churches, when it's obvious that they're, it's just obvious they're not standing in that gap.
12:40Man cannot talk to man until he's first talked to God about the man.
12:44Unless you, if you're going to preach for an hour, you better pray for four.
12:48If you're going to preach on Sunday, you better fast on Friday.
12:52You better fast on Saturday.
12:53Because we've got to let God make you that well-watered garden.
13:00This is a touchstone for finding out if your pastor is an imposter or a real pastor.
13:12And this isn't to say, oh, I'm the real one and everybody else is wrong.
13:15No, I don't care about that.
13:17What I care about is, Paul even said, don't I not burn with indignation?
13:22Who was Paul frustrated with?
13:24He was, Jesus was frustrated with the religious leaders of the day because it's a massive responsibility.
13:32Paul, Spurgeon would say that when he would, before he would preach, he said his knees would knock.
13:37He's thrown back upon his, he's got an acute awareness of his inability to do this.
13:44We are speaking, we're declaring the ineffable majesty on high.
13:50We're trying to articulate the incomprehensible.
13:54We're doing an impossible task.
13:56When you look at how the original writers of Holy Writ, when they try to describe God, when he shows up, the manifest presence, the hierophany, they're grasping for words.
14:07Paul's grasping for words when he's trying to describe the same power that raised Christ from the dead.
14:13Death is working within us.
14:16He uses four Greek words.
14:18One we get electricity, one we get the word dynamite.
14:20I don't remember the other two.
14:21But you can just see in the original text that the authors are just grasping for words to try, when they're trying to articulate the incomprehensible majesty on high.
14:34So, this is not to be taken lightly.
14:37You don't just go have, we cannot, we cannot, don't rely on your own strength.
14:46We have to rely on the strength of his might.
14:48And I just, I get frustrated sometimes.
14:56So, I want to read, again, this part here, chapter 61, where it says that they shall build up the ancient ruins.
15:09They shall raise up the former devastations.
15:13They shall repair the ruined cities, the devastations of many generations.
15:17And this is Jesus, this is Holy Writ, quoting, this is Isaiah talking about the Lord, Christ, and his disciples.
15:28And Christ confirms this in Luke 16, excuse me, yeah, Luke 4, 16-21.
15:39And so, this is absolutely vital.
15:44If your pastor is not spinning himself and pouring himself out for the afflicted in his congregation,
15:51then it's probably because he just doesn't know, more than likely.
15:58He just probably just doesn't know.
16:00And so, I would encourage you to ask your pastor, is he pouring himself out for his congregation, Isaiah 58, 10?
16:13Is he feeding on Christ?
16:15Is he eating the portion of Jacob?
16:18Is he allowing God to feed him with the bread of heaven so that he can be a well-watered garden?
16:24His waters do not fail.
16:25Because I'm sure he wants to have prevailing preaching.
16:29I'm sure he wants to see people truly converted.
16:35I almost guarantee that 99.9% of the time that is the case with the pastors.
16:44And they just don't know how.
16:47This is a work of the Lord.
16:48This is a day for us to rest in the Lord.
16:53Jubilee.
16:56Blowing the ram's horn.
16:58Rallying the armies of God.
17:00In the beginning, God.
17:03The path of a thousand miles starts with the first step.
17:08And so, we have to take these first steps in allowing God to form his son inside of us.
17:16And allow us to become this well-watered garden.
17:19Because those who believe on Christ or depend upon Christ, which is what fasting is, is declaration of dependence.
17:25It's the soul's cry.
17:27I cannot live on bread alone.
17:30But only by the word of the mouth of the Lord.
17:32The word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
17:33For as his ways are higher than our ways, and his thoughts higher than our thoughts, his word will not return to him void.
17:41As the snow and rain come down to produce seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
17:44so is the word that proceed out of the mouth of the Lord.
17:46It will not return to him void, but will accomplish the purpose for which he has sent in.
17:50And prosper in the thing.
17:53His word is alive and active.
17:55Sharpen the two-jee's soul and labor.
17:56Penetrate soul and center.
17:57Separate bone and marrow.
17:58Look at how Moses transcended his earthly existence and was sustained by the very breath of God.
18:07That theosis, that pre-fall condition, where God breathed the breath of life into Adam and he became a living soul.
18:15We must allow the Lord to breathe on us.
18:19And we do this by blowing the ram's horn, consecrating a fast, declaring a fast, participating in a day pleasing to the Lord.
18:25You want your light to shine forth.
18:27You want your healing to quickly appear for your congregation.
18:32You want to rally people around you because they hear the word truth in your mouth.
18:38Not just academically.
18:40Academia is an avenue we travel on in the vehicles of both grace and faith to the Holy Spirit's revelation.
18:46Because if I learn something academically, at best it might change my outward behavior.
18:50But if I learn something through the revelation of the living God, this changes my inward nature.
18:54And in order for there being a fellowship between two communities, there has to be an agreement between their two natures.
19:01Words are given to us to carry ideas.
19:03Mind was given to us to grasp ideas through the use of intellect, rationale, and reason.
19:08But there is a truth that is above the ability for words to even carry.
19:16Words must always smash and be crushed under the weight of God.
19:20There is an understanding that comes from fellowship and communing with Him.
19:29One of the main reasons why I believe Holy Writ is because we have a God, a triune God.
19:39God the Spirit, God the Son, God the Father, co-equal, co-eternal, all three to be worshipped eternally.
19:46Three persons in one, three persons, one essence, not to be confused or confounded or mixed.
19:56And if I were able to articulate Him comprehensively, then that would mean that my tongue or my mind were equal to or greater than God,
20:04and then we would not be speaking of God anymore.
20:06So to have this incomprehensible, triune Godhead that our minds cannot fully grasp,
20:16and our tones cannot even come close to articulating comprehensively,
20:21nobody could have thought this up, because nobody can comprehend it.
20:27Think about that.
20:28May God bless you.
20:31May God cause His face to shine upon you.
20:34May He bless you and yours as you proclaim Jubilee,
20:38the gospel of the ineffable majesty on high.
20:43May He strengthen you with power by the Holy Spirit for His glory and honor
20:48to proclaim His word in truth and with power.
20:53And may we see revival come to this nation.
21:02If you're a minister, I urge you to blow the trumpet in Zion.
21:07Proclaim the year of Jubilee like Christ did, like Christ said we would.
21:14Please.
21:15And I will continue to make videos to explain what this day pleasing to the Lord,
21:23how beautiful it is.
21:25And I will continue to make videos to explain what this day pleasing to the Lord,
21:27how beautiful it is.
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