210220 Joe Schmoe - Seder 45

Your words of you received. That your spirit would guide us and how we are to live. What we are to do. We ask this in Jesus name. Amen. title kind of curious Joe Schmo and all lives matter

Why would you call a sermon Joe Schmo? well

Yes, Joseph so a new king arose who didn't know Joseph. In his mind Joe is reduced to an average Joe. No different from anybody else.

And that could mean either everyone had elevated to the status of Joseph's wisdom with God or everyone was just regular without the wisdom of God. Now one thing that I've learned as a Christian in a body of believers. When we're all operating under the spirit of God, are we ever exactly alike? No, we're all unique. God has created us. Absolutely unique. Yes. We're stamped In His Image identical image and yet were you unique. Can't explain it. It's just the truth. So. We don't want to be Joe Schmo. We want the world to recognize us as people. And dwelt with the wisdom of God. And the joy of God the joy of the Lord. and the face Etc. Amen. Amen

There's my controls we can. all lives matter to start off our Bible tells us of two baby boys who the reigning Kings wanted dead in order to preserve their power and authority

The mothers who helped the babies live. Take those two babies out of the Bible. You got no Bible. You got no gospel. You got no joy, you got no presence of God, really really important that they're there if it's a sign you shall kill him Daryl says and they were to kill all the male children in Bethlehem in the entire region who were two years old or under it's possible that Pharaoh when he gave the second order to kill the babies was speaking to the Egyptian nation. And the whole idea was if you saw a baby Hebrew boy, you would kill the Hebrew boy the baby Hebrew voice who is engendering this absolute hatred for the Hebrew people. I mean, you can't you can't do anything worse than killing someone's son. That's about as bad as you can be. These aren't the only two stories are there are dozens of stories about musicians and artists who should have been dead, but their mother wanted them alive or their father wanted them alive. And so they were kept alive in the world is a better place because of their beautiful music the beautiful art, etc, etc.

Danny Sullivan is one of these people. He made it he was kept alive. I praise the Lord for knowing him. And his two sons who were here today. all lives matter all lives matter

Sanhedrin 37a so I'm going to read this just cuz it's worthy of reading when you go into a court case judging a capital law. This is read to the court the court must be read these words in in Jewish tradition Capital laws. Not like monetary law in monetary law if you cause someone harm you can pay back the money. Capital law taking a life. You cannot pay back the life. It's different than monetary way different. If one testifies falsely the blood of the accused and the blood of his offspring not born. This is true or a scribe to the witness's testimony until eternity. If you rule someone guilty of a capital crime and you are one of the people putting them to death the blood of that person and the blood of his possible offspring are on you. This is how serious capital law is in ancient times. This is Genesis 4:10 the voice of your brother's Bloods. If you check it out. It's actually plural. It's not the voice of your brother's blood. It's the voice of your brother's Bloods. And that's where they get this teaching just teaches the loss of his brother's blood and the blood of all his brother's Offspring or scribe to cane your brother's Blood also teaches that blood was splattered all around it. It was just like a holocaust splattering of blood all around.

I would like to missing one the Supreme King of Kings the Holy One Blessed Be he stamped all people with the Seal of Adam the first man as all of them are his offspring and not one of them is similar to another we've already spoken of this therefore since all Humanity descends from one person each and every person is obligated to say the world was created for me.

Jesus died for me.

I'm down important to God.

As one person can be the source of all humanity and recognized. the significance of his actions

In other words according to modern science, and this is our best information now, we're all descended from one father and we're all descended from one mother. Another another another study says that we're all descended from three or four men depending on the chromosomal evidence. There is no such thing in a world such as ours that has one Creator God. And one man one woman descendant form created. There is no place in this world to believe in race. There is a basis in this world to appreciate ethnic differences tribal alliances National ideas, but there is no such thing as race.

This is not a political sermon.

I don't intend it to be. But this issue has become so political it breaks my heart.

Breaks my heart. I don't know what to do about it. We have mistreated people wrongly. as a nation as a body of believers and it's because we were taught lies from people who believe something different than this the Bible does not teach this with the Bible teaches this the Bible does not teach something different than this. I saw a sketch of Darwin's what do you call this family tree of humanity and it has like x y

couple of the things and then at the top erates, I think that's the best Darwin came up with. Almost printed it out here today, but from all that from that all of the various family trees of showing that we've descended from Google to you by way of the zoo. or or different colored apes or whatever. They're completely invalid. Ancient cultures didn't understand this or relate to it, but sometime in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, we got this idea that some species of humans were inferior to other species of humans. And we attributed that often times to their gods. And I'm not going to go there anymore. That's enough said on that. Okay? Yes. Okay. So now we're going to the text and we're mainly just going to read The Exodus account yet the Nae Israel the house of Israel were fruitful. They made lots of babies and they increased abundantly multiplied and grew extremely numerous. So the land was filled with them that when we read this we say hello all of Egypt. That's a big place not likely they were pretty much congregated in this place called ghost. And as well as we can figure out Goshen is either that entire Nile Delta or the east side of that Nile Delta. So that's where all these Israelites were gathered. And this is where they left from later on in the story. queso I was reading the the Parsha this week or the Seder and I go Ministries just like the newspapers. This is crazy cancel culture. Joseph was blotted out from Egypt history by this Pharaoh. Pharaoh orders cancel culture. Not just on Joseph. But also on Joseph's God he did. Vero issues and unlawful order. I'm from the generation that dealt with the me Lai Massacre. That was one of the first times in In military history in my generation. Anyway were where it was said that you could you could you could commit and that someone could issue you an unlawful order. And so this is something I thought a lot about. I'll tell you why I was in Saudi Arabia and one day we heard that the Ambassador had ruled there would be no more Christian worship in Saudi Arabia.

And I was a leader of the House Church and people said so what are you going to do Rob? Cuz I was in you know the community with other leaders of house churches. What are you going to do Rob? And I said, I don't know what I'm going to do. What do you mean? You don't know the Ambassador has ruled this I said, that's very interesting. I haven't been given an order. And if I were given an order. I'm pretty sure it would be an unlawful order.

I'm not going to tell you any more of the story, but we met that week and we weren't arrested. So Farrell issued the first recorded that I know of unlawful order an order that there's something greater above the order the king the ruler that is more important to know. This is how Nazis were found to be war criminals after the war. But I was just carrying out orders know it was an unlawful order. You should have known better and three women. In the story of Moses practice civil disobedience.

Does this sound like the headlines? And the Supreme Court of all time rules across time and beyond all lives matter. Amen, it's called the Egypt Egypt Echo roughly fit 1450 to 12:50. BC. It cost about five grains and the subtitle is history Rewritten daily.

Does likes the best sound like today? But Pharaoh said who is the Lord? So this is this is later on in the story, but it shows you the mindset of pharaoh. He issued a cancel culture on God, who is Yahweh that I should be mindful of him. I don't know this guy he knew of him. This was not an unknown name of God. It was well-known and in the in the world at by that time as recorded in our scripture, but Ferris is I don't know this guy. He's nothing to me. I've issued a cancel culture on them and I will not let Israel go. Now there arose a new king over Egypt who did not know Joseph. He knew who he was. There's no way you couldn't have known what he was a king arose who didn't know Joseph. The word is yada doesn't mean a history. I don't know the history. That doesn't mean that means he didn't have relational a relationship understanding of what Joseph was and what Joseph's God was so he didn't have a relationship so he didn't know I don't know. I don't know if you say so okay. He knew Joseph was he just made himself as if he didn't know Rashi makes that comment Joseph hadn't just saved Egypt from famine, which he had done. He also transferred. I want to say almost all the world's wealth in the Pharaohs hands. He made Pharaoh the richest most powerful ruler the world has ever known. How could you not know who did that? He knew. He just didn't want to know. He decided.

Choosing to not know was an effect choosing to ignore the significant significance of Joseph Scott. Then Pharaoh said to a service can a man like this be found? This is when Joseph is interpreting the dreams and this is also known can a man like this before found one and who is God's spirit? So there was a pharaoh who knew about God's spirit. Then Pharaoh said to Joseph since God has made all this known to you. There will be no one Discerning there is no one is Discerning and wise because you're being led by the Living God, you will be over my house over my people and will pay and and my people will pay homage to you only in relation to my Throne will I be greater than you I'm reading from the Tree of Life version generally here. It's new Messianic Bible came out about 5 years ago. It's promoted pretty heavily by the union of Messianic Jewish congregations, and some of you may be reading books on shalom in the Psalms or something. They're quoting that version of the Bible. So it's a book that's known by this congregation. It's I've just never quoted it from the pulpit before and it's it's a good it's a good read.

So back in history, the Egyptians sold all their horses their flocks to hers or donkeys for food and then they sold their land and then they even sold themselves. So Pharaoh didn't just own everything. He owned all the land and he owned all the people. Beyond everything including the people including your souls

Joseph made Pharaoh very powerful

this new Pharaoh. He said to his people look the people of the House of Israel or too numerous into powerful come. We must deal shrewdly with them or else they will grow even more numerous. If a war breaks out they may join our enemies fight against us and then either escaped from the land or take over the land. It can be read different ways. So they said slave masters over them. We can solve this problem by just subjecting them to terrible. slavery That sounds sort of.

a little bit like the history of America in the south

And they don't fit some and Ramses the storage cities for Pharaoh. But the more they affect flicted them the more they multiplied in the more they spread so the Egyptians dreaded the presence of the House of Israel. Now once once you have a subservient person in a superior person and this this relationship of I'm in power over you and you're lower than dirt kind of thing going on. You lose the personage of both people. The person who says he's better than the other person has stopped being a man. And the person who doesn't feel he's as good as the other person has kind of stop being a man. We're supposed to be men one of those things and cookie and vote is in a place where there are no men. Try to be a man. Stand up do the right thing. What we've been talking about all day take action.

But they work them harshly and made their lives better with hard labor and mortar and brick doing all sorts of work in the fields and all their labors. They did it with cruelty cruelty cruelty more were the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives who maybe Gyptian or maybe Hebrew there the appointed midwives over the Hebrew women. They might be one nationality or the other. We're not sure. One of whom was named shiphrah and the other pool and said when you help Tabor women during childbirth, look at the sex if it's a son then kill him, but if it's a daughter she may live. This is kind of incredulous that Midwife who's trained to preserve life would be ordered to do this. And I think that women who've been trained to preserve life would begin to realize that's an unlawful order. Maybe that's what happened regardless what their nationality was. I don't know.

This is what I know you at The Midwives feared God so they did not do is the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the boys live. The king of Egypt some of the midwives and demanded of them why have you done this and what the boys live The Midwives answered Pharaoh. It's because the Hebrew women aren't like Egyptian women. They're full of life. They go out in the field have a baby bring it home. It's already 3 months old.

are involved in agriculture

They're not like Egyptian women. They don't sit on the couch and watch TV. Aren't like Egyptian when they go into labor and give birth before the Midwife arrives. Oh, sorry, you were three months late or they had their babies at 6 months.

So God was good to The Midwives and the people multiplied growing very numerous because of the Midwest because the midwives feared God he gave them families dynasties houses of their own but Pharaoh charged all his people saying you are to cast every Sunday at is born into the river. But let every daughter live the way I read. This is pharaohs so scared of the Hebrews, but he's decided to tell his whole nation if you see a young Hebrew boy kill him. I think that's what this says. I could be wrong. I don't know. I think that's what it says. Now. I'm a man from the house of Levi took as his wife a daughter of Levi the woman conceived and gave birth to a son cool. Now when she saw that he was delightful which some people believe that's the original name of Moses delightful. She hid him for three months.

We have a problem here. Moses family took Yoko bed as his wife. She bore him Aaron and Moses and Miriam we know this and we know that Miriam is the oldest and we know that Aaron aharon is the second but then it's recorded. Then it's recorded after that because it's the rest of that's not said before now after that they took a while. He took a wife and had a baby.

the question is I thought they were married before they got two kids what's going on here? Well, the sages have one way of. Explaining this I think it's a good explanation. The slavery was so terrible in Egypt. So bitter so hard so cruel that amram said I don't want to bring any more children into this world. Any divorced his wife. with two babies

What happened? Huh? Well.

The women believe there's going to be a savior. And the women know there can't be a savior if we're not having babies.

I'm going to make myself beautiful for my husband and see if I can talk him into getting back together.

And that's recorded in many Traditions is what took place. Look up bed made herself beautiful and convinced amram to join with her and have a son. I like it. the proof text for this Is actually Exodus 38:8. You remember when they're creating or forming or building the Tabernacle that they make a bronze Basin that the levite that has to wash his hands in and his feet before he goes either to the altar or into the 10th. He has to do this every time he walks into the courtyard before he goes that way or that way and here's this brass Basin bronze Basin. It's recorded. This is made from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

It's also recorded that Moses had an argument or discussion with God. He said this isn't right God you shouldn't make this wonderful cleansing object out of objects of vanity that women used to print themselves with that's crazy and God said

Women making themselves beautiful for the husband's is a great Act of Faith. Believe if you will that God would bring a redeemer through the women bearing children their vs. Link this through the Bible if you think about it just a little bit. I'm not going to go there but that's the proof text amram and Yoko bed were married. They had two children that got a divorce. They got married again. They had Moses. That's how I have to read it. But when she could no longer hide the baby it's recorded later on that it was three months that she hit him. She took a basket of Papyrus Reeds coat it with tar and Pitch put the child inside lated in the Reeds by the bank of the Nile and his sister stood off at a distance to see what would happen to him. Now. You have to realize the Nile River is crocodile-infested. Who would like to go have a baptism in a crocodile-infested river?

Takes a lot of days. Takes a lot of faith in the hand of God, either that or the hand of some Egyptians who are making sure there are no crocodiles near the area where the daughter of pharaoh is bathing. So this is a protected Inlet of the river must be there aren't that many of them?

There has to be a very limited number of these places that the daughter of pharaoh could go bathing in and I think there was one. And Miriam and Yoko bed knew where this was. That's the only way this story makes any sense. They took Moses in a basket to the place where the daughter of pharaoh is going to be bathing. The didn't have crocodiles that was protected that was safe. It didn't make that makes I hope God protects him from the crocodiles as possible possible, but I don't go there. With me, yep good. Okay, we like James to so this is Yoko bed and Baby Moses. I think that the two so I was a little bit influenced by 18th and 19th century beliefs about what her skin color was.

She looks a little white. My idea of what was actually going on here. Then the daughter of pharaoh came down two days while her maidens walked Along by the Riverside while she saw the bat when she saw the basket among the Ritchie Center handmaiden to fetch it and here is a show you this picture before this is dura-europos synagogue around 2:40, but beautiful synagogue discovered in Syria pretty much untouched. And it has some neat neat cool things. And right over in here right in there is a is this image? I'm going to show you now which is at a 240 ad picture of what this would have look like. I think the skin tone here is a little bit closer to what it would have been then but that's that's the daughter of pharaoh bought parole with Moses and his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter. Should I go and call a nurse from the Hebrews to nurse the child for you girls daughter told her? Yeah. That's a good idea. I don't have any milk.

Pharaoh's daughter shoulder go so the girl went and called the child's mother. Now. Here's what woman who wants to nurse her child.

and she's been called to do so. That's hand of God stuff.

Again skin tell colors just a little bit off.

Then throws daughter said to her take this child of nursing for me and I will pay you your wages. Not only do you get to do what you want to do you get up salary for IT. Well, that's good. Yeah, this is the modern stimulus package.

After the boy Grew Older she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son. She Drew. It's just she named him Moses thing because I drew him out of the water. It's a word play. It's kind of like a triple word play here with the with the name Moses going on here. So what's in a name Moses Moses and the Egyptian means child or born? I'll give you one one example of the use of the word Moses Moses Ramses. Means the Son of God the child of raw or God has fashion. Tim raw has fashion Tim. They did believe in a supreme god. so it kind of fits that is named in the Egyptian might actually be Son of God or child of God or God fashion this baby, I don't know Heber wordplay I drew him out of the water the city who Moses out of the water literally when you play with this word and say, what's it mean it means he who draws out or she who draws out or he will draw a sword could mean that Moses name is actually making a claim that he's the one that's going to draw the Israelites out of Egypt. Just come like a triple maybe quadruple wordplay going on and I think it's all very cool. Thought you'd enjoy that.

This is the best picture we have of pharaohs Egyptian mother. In in The Exodus reading today. She's called bought Paro the daughter of pharaoh in in archaeology. She's known as hot Shay hot Hatshepsut Hatshepsut for most of the noble. Ladies. This was a very well-known woman in Egypt's history. She was the daughter of pharaoh.

Her father's the son of pharaoh. Her mother was the daughter of a pharaoh and she became a pharaoh. So she ruled Egypt for I think 20 or 30 years and she established incredible trade routes through that area. So she was a well-known powerful woman a Jewish tradition and in a few verses in the Bible called her beat. Yah. But yeah daughter of Yahweh. And the tradition records that because she adopted Moses. She took Moses and his her child got took her in as his child. I like that it kind of fits. I don't know if it's true.

I'm no 18th Dynasty ish? So we have each been created in the image of God oppression the means and the most both the perpetrator and the sufferer we talked about this earlier it robs each of his stature as having been created in the image of the of the Divine. This is one of my favorite rabbis Rabbi Riskin. He wrote this in 2013. I was reading his commentaries back then do his will as though it were your will. This is pure kavod hallel. Do not separate yourself from the community. Do not judge your fellow man. A brute doesn't fierce in an ignorant isn't pilot Ingrid person isn't plas of timid person can't leave learn do an impatient person teach in a place where there are no men strive to be a man. So that's the verse I told you about earlier in a place where there are no men strive to be a man. Boat 2 verses 4 and 5. The time is always right to do what is right. I think this is a quote from. From the letter from the Birmingham Jail does anyone remember the Birmingham Jail event that happened with Martin Luther King? No.

Okay. Some civil rights leaders in in, Alabama. Have been corresponding with Martin Luther King for some time and they wanted to get together and have him form a peaceful demonstration.

In Birmingham and So at their invitation which was not it's not a one-person invitation. This was a a group of people invited this man to speak and be part of a peaceful demonstration in Birmingham. And so he went down and he spoke it was a big basically a peaceful like I kind of like a sit-in kind of thing and he was arrested and thrown in prison and treated like dirt. And I was 12 years old.

and one of the things that I did every day was I Getting ready for dinner. I don't know what I was doing setting the table or whatever, but I'm my dad's in the room. He's sitting in his chair. I think I probably took him a glass of water or something and I heard him say with this this event. That's not right.

What they're doing to this man is not right now. My dad was a bigot and he was a racist but he knew what was right and what was wrong. And he wasn't going to live that way. He may have lived in a culture. That was that way but he wasn't going to be that way today. We have many people who claim to love other races, but actually don't. And lie and put on a good face. And I've learned that. Speech from a bigot isn't always racist and speech from a apparently tolerant non bigot can be absolutely racist. You have to examine the actions over a lifetime to know what the person is actually living like.

Enough said on that. Yep enough said on that. So these are some quotes from the Birmingham Jail letter. He was invited to go there by several leaders and he's responding to a criticism that he received from I believe eight ministers. They wrote him a letter telling him. He should not have come that he was out of line that he was an outside agitator, and he didn't he didn't belong in their world.

They were apparently tolerant of black people but their lives demonstrated that they were not.

And so he's in jail being mistreated and he began to write a letter. On the margin of a piece of newspaper you found on the cell floor. And then he continued writing the letter on other scraps of paper that he was able to find because people final term paper and eventually his lawyer gave him a pad when he was finally allowed to give him a pad and he finished the letter.

famous letter

I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states in these United States Injustice. Anywhere is a threat to Justice everywhere.

We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.

As the body of Christ we are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality when one person hurts all people hurt. When one person is joyous all people are joyous. We take care of each other.

tied in a single Garment of Destiny whatever affects one directly affects all directly or indirectly anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within the bounds of the United States. I love it's a great letter. If you want to read it. I've got the full text here. Who is like you? I don't know why so Pharaoh says who is y'all way that I should listen to him that I should be mindful of him meet Yahweh. Yahweh. Who is the Lord later on at the sea Moses and Miriam sing this wonderful song me, Yahweh. His answer the Pharaoh meet Yahweh. Who's the Lord? His answer is who is like unto thee O Lord. Becoming your way among the gods who is like you glorious and Holiness awesome and Praises doing wonders or Lord and I think I could go to this song right now. So we're going to close with the kingdom times.

What's the date of Leo Love by Ed? forever and ever what's the price without money without price? Is it News Change Daily? Nope, it's eternally true. forever's headlines Yahweh speaks Hallelujah His orders are right good and true. Hallelujah civil obedience is practiced to lawful orders with your all of his orders. No one is canceled. There's no cancel culture in the Kingdom of Supreme Court rules forever and ever all lives matter. Love the Lord each other and even your enemies.