Heidi Cooper 2026 Torah Sisters Retreat “Yeshua is our Redeemer”

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If Yeshua walked into this room right now, would you recognize him? What if you only had the descriptions in the Old Testament to compare him to? How would you do then? I was really challenged by this. Can you all hear me? Good. I'm gonna make sure I'm holding this right. We were going through the Gospels in our local fellowship. We were reading the book of John, and I realized I would not have a very good answer to this question. I don't think I would have been able to tell you where in the Old Testament it described the Messiah. And then Amy gave us this year's topic. And I knew I had to start studying hard. So my husband and I did that. We spent a lot of mornings with our coffee going through verses and figuring this out so that I could answer this question. Because we need to know who our Messiah is. We need to recognize where he was in the Old Testament and who he is in the New Testament. John the Baptist had quite a few disciples. He was a rabbi, a teacher. He had his own disciples, and they were able to recognize Yeshua really quickly. So I want you to go in your Bibles to John chapter 1. That's where we're going to start today. John chapter 1, I'm going to start reading at verse 29 about John the Baptist's disciples. It says, The next day he saw Yeshua coming toward him and said, Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. This is he of whom I said, After me comes a man who ranks before me, because he was before me. I myself did not know him, but for this purpose I came baptizing with water, that he might be revealed to Israel. And John bore witness, I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him. I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit, and I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God. The next day, again, John was standing with two of his disciples, and he looked at Yeshua as he walked by and said, Behold, the Lamb of God. The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Yeshua. Just like that. Just like that. They had learned from John the Baptist what to expect, and we he said, This is the Lamb of God. They're like, Okay, we're with him. They literally left John and said, You know, it's been great. We've learned a lot, but we're with him. They knew he was the one, just like that. I don't know that I could have done that. And then it goes on to say, Yeshua turned and saw them following and said to them, What are you seeking? And they said to him, Rabbi, which means teacher, where are you staying? He said to them, Come and you will see. So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day, for it was about the tenth hour. One of the two who heard John speak and followed Yeshua was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, We have found the Messiah, which means Christ. Just like that, they saw him. John said, He's the Lamb of God, and they're like, We've got him. He's the guy. He's the guy. That is, oh, that is so cool. That just one day they saw his baptism. John taught them what to look for, and they're like, it was great, John, but he's the guy. And I hope that today I can help you to get to that point where you would recognize him just like that. Okay. Yeshua himself took some time and explained everything in the Old Testament that pointed to him. You guys are probably familiar with the conversation he had with the disciples on the road to Emmaus. Is that a conversation maybe we would have liked to have been a fly on the wall? Because he doesn't actually say what verses or what he pointed to, but he explained it all to them. I'm going to just read a little bit of that. It's in found in Luke chapter 24, starting at verse 13. It says, That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and they were talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing together, Yeshua himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were kept from recognizing him. And he said to them, What is this conversation that you are holding with each other as you walk? I love his sense of humor. And they stood still, looking sad. Then one of them named Cleopus answered him, Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened in these days? And he said to them, What thanks? And they said to him, Concerning Yeshua of Nazareth, a man who was a prophet, mighty indeed and word before God and all the people, and how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death and crucified him. But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened. Moreover, some women of our company amazed us. They were at the tomb early in the morning, and when they did not find his body, they came back, saying that they had even seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive. Some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but him they did not see. And he said to them, O foolish ones, and slow of heart, to believe all that the prophets have spoken. Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory? And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them in the scriptures all the things concerning himself. You see, Yeshua was like on a covert mission. He had to keep it a secret so that no one could get in the way and thwart it. So he had to be kind of secretive about it, which is, I think, why so many times he says, Don't tell anybody who I am. It wasn't time yet for it. It all had to work out. But all of this brings to mind two very important questions. First of all, how can we know, like those disciples, that Yeshua is in fact the Redeemer? How can we know? And secondly, why is it so important? The Old Testament is full of clues right here that help us identify who the Messiah is. But as Amy so eloquently told us yesterday, there are people who want to convince you otherwise. They want you to think that Yeshua is not the redeemer. I've even heard people say that, oh, he came, but he failed. Or he's not divine. There's just no words for how frustrating that is. We need to know what scripture says before they show up in your homeschool co-op, before they show up in your local fellowship, before they show up at your kitchen table. You need to know who Yeshua is. That's what we're gonna do today. Because I wasn't sure eight months ago that I could that I could even find the verses. So we're gonna go through a whole lot of them today. We're gonna just walk through them because so much is at stake. Because what happens if you no longer believe that Yeshua is the redeemer? You no longer have redemption. We need a savior. And if he didn't do it, we're lost. We're lost without hope. This is important. Um but the redemption plan, and this is this is a part that I think is so cool. It did not happen by chance. Um, when when Adam and Eve were in the garden and they decided to eat that fruit, there wasn't this moment where yes and oh no, what am I gonna do? I so did not see this coming. What are we gonna do? You know, and then in all in a panic, he's like, we've got to figure this out. That's so not what happened. So not what happened. Before he even created us, before he laid the foundation of the world, the father and the son, they knew these people that we're going to create, they're going to mess up. It is inevitable. Like my husband says, inevitable. And if you think just for one second that if you were in that garden, you would have made different choices. It's just a matter of time. It is literally just how long you would hold out. It was inevitable that we would fall into sin. And they knew that. They knew that before they created us. And they made a plan where it says that it was predestined, that plan was laid out in its entirety before any of us were on the scene. Thank you. That it's just unfathomable that before he even started Genesis 1:1, he says, we're going to have to give people a way back to the Father because we're going to mess it up. But he did. He did. It was not an afterthought, it was not panic. That's why, starting right at the beginning of this book, the very first time we have a hint of a Messiah is Genesis 3:15, right at the beginning, because it was no surprise to him that we would need a way back. We would need a way to get back into right relationship with him. We were promised a redeemer all the way through the Old Testament. I gave you a handout today. And all these clues are laid out so that we know who the Messiah is. And they're all fulfilled in Yeshua. And we're going to look at some of these proofs today, but I want you to know this is not an exhaustive list. I only scratch the surface. So if you look like on the second or third page, you'll notice there's a blank chart. Your homework is to fill it in. I want you to keep going. I want you to find as many as you can because they are all through the Old Testament. Amos chapter three. I'm actually gonna look at that one. Amos chapter three. I don't think that's on there, so you might want to write this one down. If I can find it, that is. Oh, here we go. I found it. Amos chapter 3 and verse 7. For the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants, the prophets. So I want you to picture this. He does nothing without putting it in this book first. But it's a covert mission. So Yeshua not only had to fulfill everything that was prophesied, he had to do it without Satan catching on.

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It's so awesome. All right, so we're gonna start, and these are not in any particular order. We're gonna start with the promise that he would be born of a virgin. And that's found in Isaiah chapter 7, verse 14. It says, Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign, Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Emmanuel. In Matthew chapter 1, verse 23, it says, Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which means God with us. We were promised that he would be divine and that he would have an eternal reign. We find that in Isaiah chapter 9 and verse 6. Um, all these verses are on your handout, so you don't have to rush to write them down. It says, For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called wonderful counselor, mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. We find in Revelation chapter 11, verse 15, then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven saying, The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever. John chapter 1, verse 1. The whole all of John chapter 1 is amazing, but I'm gonna read verses 1 and 14. It says, In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. And down at verse 14, and the word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. Yeshua fulfilled it perfectly, and John recorded it for us. Uh, the next one is found in Deuteronomy 18. He would be a prophet like Moses. Deuteronomy chapter 18, verses 15 to 19. The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers. It is to him you shall listen. Just as you desired of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, or see this great fire any more, lest I die. And the Lord said to me, They are right in what they have spoken. I will raise up for them a prophet, like you, from among their brothers, and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him. And whoever will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him. Now the really cool thing is that this was fulfilled at the Mount of Transfiguration, and that's found in Matthew 17. He literally transfigures right before their eyes, so that he looks like how he's described in Revelation. And Moses and Elijah are right there with him. Right there, he's connected to the prophet like Moses. But the really cool thing about this is that let me find the right spot here. Here it is. He said about Yeshua, this is the Moses who said to the Israelites, God will raise up for you, a prophet like me from your brothers. He connected it as well. Um, some of these are like big neon signs. Some of them you have to look a little more, but some of them it's like so obvious. Like, hello, people, can you see it? The next one is found in Isaiah 61. He had a mission of redemption. Isaiah 61, verses 1 through 3. I just sloshed myself. The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, to grant to those who mourn in Zion, to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit, that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified. Luke chapter 4, very, very cool, very cool. Luke chapter 4, verse 16, Yeshua actually tells us that he's fulfilling Isaiah 61. It says, He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written. And he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him, and he began to say to them, Today the scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing. What's really, really interesting though about this passage, if you'll notice he didn't read the whole passage from Isaiah, did he? He stopped right before a very key phrase and the day of vengeance of our God, which tells us right here he has two missions. The first one was a mission of redemption. The second one, you might want to be on his side because he's coming with vengeance the next time. And he told us right there, I've got two jobs, and I'm not doing everything the first time. The people in Nazareth were kind of thick schooled, they didn't get it because they knew him as a kid. He spoke in parables. We were told that in Psalm 78. I will open my mouth in a parable, I will utter dark sayings from of old. In Matthew 13, it says, All these things Yeshua said to the crowds in parables. Indeed, he said nothing to them without a parable. This was to fill what was spoken by the prophet. I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter what has been hidden since the foundation of the world. I love how a lot of the time he literally says, Hey, in case you missed it, I'm fulfilling this one right here. I mean, he literally, like, it's right there, it's right there. He worked miracles. Isaiah 35 says, Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, the ears of the deaf unstopped, then shall the lame man leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute sing for joy, for waters break forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert. I'll just let you go through all four gospels to find those, because there's lots of them. He is the fiery serpent. Numbers 21. The Lord sent fiery serpents among the people. They bit the people, so many people of Israel died. And the people came to Moses and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you. Pray to the Lord that he take away the serpents from us. So Moses prayed for the people, and the Lord said to Moses, Make a fiery serpent, set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten when he sees it shall live. So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent and live. And he comes along in John chapter 3, talking to Nicodemus, and he says, And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up. Again, he's like, Nicodemus, you're you're like up in the religious circles. You should know this. It's right here. So he pointed back to Numbers, which happens to be in the Torah. He is the Lamb of God. That's what we started with. John the Baptist described him as the Lamb of God. John 129, 1.29. The next day he saw Yeshua coming toward him and said, Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. Isaiah 53 has a whole bunch about him being the Lamb of God. There's a lot of pictures that specifically point to him being the Lamb of God in his last week of his life. For example, he came in on his triumphal entry. It would have been the tenth day of the month. Just like the Lamb was brought in for examination on the tenth day of the month, that whole week the Pharisites, the Pharisites, that's their new name. The Pharisees were grilling him and drilling him and questioning him. They were examining the Lamb of God. He went in to the temple and he flipped those tables. What was he doing? He was cleaning out the leaven. That's right. And there's a whole bunch more. But there's just that in that one week, there's so many things that point to him being the Lamb of God, the Redeemer, the Messiah. We were told he would be the chief cornerstone. That's found in Psalms 118. The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is the Lord's doing. It is marvelous in our eyes. Matthew 21, 42 says, Yeshua said to them, Again, he's going to point right to where it is. Have you never read in the scriptures? And if we haven't, shame on us. The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes. And I'm going to list a few more just quickly. I did include all of the references on the paper, but again, there are so many that I didn't even touch. I just didn't have time. He would be the descendant of Judah. He would be born in Bethlehem. He would be preceded by a voice in the wilderness. He would be anointed with the Spirit. He would be sinless. He had to be sinless. If he wasn't sinless, whose sin would he be paying for? Not mine. Very important, he was sinless. He would enter Jerusalem on a donkey. He would be rejected by his own people. He would be sold for 30 pieces of silver. He would be spit on. How's that for detail? He would atone for our sins. He would be buried with the rich. He would be betrayed by a friend. That's found in Psalms 41, verse 9. Even my close friend, in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me. And we know, of course, that Judas did that very thing. He would be given vinegar to drink. Isaiah 41, verse 9, yes. He would be given vinegar to drink. It says in Psalm 69, 21, they gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink. Matthew 27, it says, They offered him wine to drink, mixed with gall, but when he tasted it, he would not drink it. And then in verse 48, it says, One of them at once ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine, and put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink. Now, a lot of these, he actually said, I am fulfilling this prophecy. So I guess some critics could say, Well, he's just, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. He's just declaring it. So what about the vinegar? The Romans were helping him fulfill prophecy. This little detail is put in Psalms, and some Roman soldier comes and hands him vinegar to drink. Every single detail was fulfilled, even when it was not in his like direct control. A Roman soldier did this, and it was fulfilled perfectly. The crucifixion, so many details in Psalms 22, perfectly fulfilled, right down to they cast lots for his garment instead of tearing it up. It's all in there. The resurrection. Amen. Psalms 16, verse 10 for you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption. Acts chapter 2, Peter explains it quite clearly. It says, You will not abandon my soul to Hades or let your holy one see corruption. He was resurrected and reigns forever. That goes right into my next one. He has an eternal throne. Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness. You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. That's found in Psalms 45. And in Hebrews chapter 1, we're told, But of the Son, he says, Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore, God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions. It so bothers me when you see crucifixes where their savior's still on the cross. Not mine, my savior's alive. Yeshua's life was all about redemption. He came here, put on this so that he could redeem you and me. That's everything he did was to save us. But how did he actually live? How many of you came from a church? We learned some things wrong. The first one being that he did away with Torah. That was a big misconception. It's not true. So I want to show you some examples of how Yeshua actually lived that'll help us to understand better how we're supposed to live and follow his example. And if his life was all about redeeming us, our lives should all be all about helping others to find that redemption too. Our lives should be all about redemption. So I've got eight examples from Yeshua's life that I think we can follow to help us bring others to redemption and help them find their way back to that right relationship with the Father. Okay. But first I'm going to get a drink because microphones do something weird. And I just lodged myself again. In your handout, I have these questions with some space. I want to encourage you to take some time and kind of think through where you're at on these, what you might need to improve on, maybe work on. Okay. Okay, so the first one, he kept Torah perfectly. And sometimes I think we can get confused because it looks like he's saying not to obey the law, but he's actually pointing at man-made traditions. So when he says, Oh, you know, they're doing that, but we're doing this, the conflict is not with Torah. The conflict is with them adding all of these things to try to make it impossible to actually keep Torah. So I want to ask you, how are you doing at that? Obviously, we can't do it perfectly, but how are we doing? Are we known when people talk about us, you know, behind our back? Would they describe us like Daniel? Would they have to work really hard to find something that we're doing wrong? Is that how you are known? Because remember, Daniel was so upright, they literally had to make prayer against the law to trip him up. I would hope that people would describe me the same way that you have to look that hard. Yeah, there's faults. There's there's faults here. I've already had to apologize to people here, like in the last day, because we all have faults. But overall, would they describe you like Daniel that they have to work really hard to find your hangups and your trips and falls? I hope that would be the case. Are you actively working on your besetting sins? Are you trying to do better? Are you setting up accountability around yourself? If you know you struggle with someone, do you have someone praying for you and checking on you? Are you checking on them? That's something we need to do for each other is hold each other accountable. Um not sure why I wrote those verses down, so we're gonna skip those. We want to be known as upright people. We want to be known as people who are keeping Torah, who are doing what we say we're doing, not one thing comes out of our mouth and another thing comes from our hands and our feet. Another thing that really jumped out at me when I was looking at Yeshua's life is the fact that he honored his earthly mother. We are told in the Ten Commandments to honor our father and our mother, and that's actually the one with promise. We know that. He honored his mother so much. He was hanging on the cross, and he pointed to his mother, and he says, John, make sure she's taken care of. I mean, he's literally dying, and he says, Make sure my mother's taken care of. Are we showing that kind of honor to our parents? I'm gonna get a little personal here for a minute. Um, okay, I'll try to. My mother passed away about three years ago, which means my dad no longer has a wife. So we do our very best to take care of him. And sometimes it's hard, but that's something you can do to show honor. There's widows in our life that we check on, we make sure they have soup when they're sick because they need someone looking out for them, they need someone to show them honor. Are you doing that? What if your parents don't keep Torah? You still need to show honor to them because that builds bridges. They need to see you being the hands and feet of Messiah, even if they don't believe the same way you do. Can you can you go to them and say, hey, I want to make sure that you've got your bills paid? Do you need me to take you to the doctor's appointment? Even if they don't keep Torah. Are we willing to build that bridge to them to maybe bring them to redemption? Yeshua did it. We need to follow that example. Okay, give me a second here. Okay, he spoke in questions. Have you noticed how many times the Pharisees would come to him with a question, and what did he do? He threw a question right back. This is actually a really, really good conversational tactic. I highly recommend you learn how to do it. Because when you don't just give an answer, you force them to find out the answer for themselves. And as a wife, I know that there is a level of strategy in making sure that your husband thinks it was his idea and then praising him for it. When we're talking to people about spiritual things, we want them to find the answers and own them for themselves. We don't want to just tell them, well, this is this is what it says. They need to find out that that's what it says. So challenge them with questions. For example, if you're having a conversation about Sabbath, instead of saying, Well, here's where it says, say, hey, um, can you show me where it where it says that it got changed to Sunday? That is literally how I came to Torah. Thank you, Leslie. Because she figured it out before I did. And my husband, who wasn't, he wasn't there yet, but he thought the whole thing was wildly amusing because I was so bothered by it. Um, that you know, she's doing this like Sabbath thing and hasn't she regulations? And so my husband just looks at me and he says, prove her wrong. He offered me a question. He basically said, Well, you go, you go prove it then. And so I did. I went in on our computer program and looked it up 10 minutes later. I come out and I go, Well, she's not wrong. Challenge people with questions instead of answers. That can be a huge tool to help people see the truth for themselves and own it. They can understand it if they found it. You're just kind of prodding them a bit, guiding them, but letting them discover it for themselves. He spoke as one having authority. And I looked this up. That phrase is used like 30 times in the New Testament, and the idea of him having authority is like 50 times. He spoke as one having authority. 12 years old, he's in the temple, and they were marveling that this kid knew what he was talking about, like Yeshua did, because he spoke as one having authority. So, my question to you is when you are talking about something about this book right here that I can't pick up. This book, do you know what you're talking about? And if you don't, study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. If you don't know what you're talking about, find out. Study. Get in this book. I had to, because I did not have a satisfactory answer to who the Messiah was, how he was described in the Old Testament. I had to study. Now I know. Now I know without a doubt, he is the divine redeemer. No doubt, but I had to study. So if you don't know what you're talking about, get in this book. Study. That would be my starting place. If you don't know that Yeshua is the Redeemer, start there. I gave you all these verses to get you started. Finish, find the rest so that you know what you're talking about. You don't have to be some, you know, everything, you're well spoken, all of that. You just need to know truth. You need to confidently know what you believe. And the only way to do that is to study. Yeshua also had this wonderful knack for being able to talk to well-studied scholars and farmers and fishermen. He could talk to both. He met people right where they are. He could talk in their language. When he was talking to a farmer, he's going to talk about seeds and plowing and fruit and grafting. When he talked to the scholars, well, he just threw questions at them. But he met them at that high academic level. He could do that. Now, Paul, on the other hand, that's why we often have trouble with him because he could only talk to the scholars. He had a hard time talking to the lay people, which is why sometimes we struggle, because we're not that. We need to be able to meet our audience where they are and be able to match it to what they understand. Can we illustrate a point in actual everyday language that people can understand without relying solely on our Bible words? Can we do it? It's a skill that we want to practice. We want to actually have conversational skills if we want to be able to share the story of redemption with other people. We want to be able to explain it in a way they'll understand. We don't want to just talk on our, you know, in our Torah language. We want to meet them where they are. I think this is this is a topic that ends up in every talk now, but it is what it is. Yeshua knew how to sit with people in their grief and their sadness. My favorite story after my mom passed away was the story when he rose, when he raised, rose, rised. What is that word? When Lazarus came back alive. I love that story. He was dead in the tomb, and Yeshua was told that Lazarus was dead. And he went to Mary and to Martha, and they're upset. They're crying, everyone's wailing. He knew, he knew in five minutes he was going to walk over that tomb. He was going to call Lazarus out. He was going to come out and everyone's going to be happy again. But did he go right to doing that? No, that is the verse where we find Yeshua wept. He spent that moment with Mary and Martha and felt that grief with them because Lazarus was his friend. Mary and Martha were his friends, and he knew that that pain that they were feeling at that moment, they could not hear or see or understand anything beyond that. That was that was where they were. And he sat with them in that and he cried with them. He felt that pain. And when we go to people who are hurting, and we just try to start throwing truth at them, they don't hear anything. They don't hear anything outside of their pain. They need us to come to them and sit with them where they are emotionally. They need us to meet them there because until they get through that, they can't hear what's in this book. They've got to be met emotionally first. And Yeshua taught us that. We need to sit there and allow them to feel. We need to allow ourselves to feel too. But then we can bring, then we can bring truth to them. But they need us to sit with them first. So I just want to encourage you. If you know people that are hurting, meet them there first. Then bring them truth. And now on the other end of the emotional spectrum, he turns tables to maintain holiness and righteousness. That is when I think I would probably have a hard time following the example. But he went out and he cleaned out that leaven. He kicked him out. He flipped the tables, and I'm pretty sure one of the passages says he had a whip. Do we stand up for truth? Are we able to discern when to stand up and when maybe isn't the right time? That it's not time yet. But are we willing to stand on truth? Like Amy said, do we have our big girl shoes on? Are we willing to be courageous and say, this is what it says? And you and that is wrong. That's a tough one. Um, but it's something that he did, and we need to follow his example. We need to stand for truth regardless. And the last one uh I want to share with you is that he welcomed children. Now, this what I what I want to share right now. I think us as Torah women, I think we often we slip up on this one. We teach our children the Torah portion every Sabbath, we teach them to wear the titsis, we have the Passover Seder. But do your children know who Yeshua is? Do they know what his life was like? Do they know the miracles he did? Have we taught our children who the Savior is? I know sometimes I know I did it. We left the church, and that pendulum went now, it's just the first five books, and we kind of forgot over here, and it took a few years to realize um they need to know who Yeshua is, and it's my job to teach them. And I just want to remind you, in case you didn't know, this book from Genesis to Revelation, this is truth. This is truth, nothing else. This, but it's also this in its entirety. We need to be teaching our children front to back, front to back. And if you're not, you need to get started. It's not too late. It's not too late to start teaching them who Yeshua is. Um, our fellowship, they um they took a year and we went through the gospels so that we knew that our children know who Yeshua is, and I'm so thankful for that. That they were walked right through the whole thing. You can do that with your children. Just read the gospels together. If your children are old enough to read, start them in Mark because it's like a comic book, it's super action packed. Start them in Mark. Let them read it a chapter a day so that they know. Who Yeshua is. It's so important because if we don't have Yeshua, what don't we have? We don't have redemption. We don't have salvation. Our children need to know who he is. He welcomes them. He says, bring them over, put them on my knee. They need to know. We're told that even the sucklings were to listen to the reading of scripture as to code. They are never too young. They're not too loud. They're not nothing, none of that applies. We're to teach them this book, especially don't forget to teach them Yeshua. Don't forget to teach them that. So now we come all the way back full circle to the question I started with. If Yeshua walked into this room right now, would you recognize him? Before the foundation of the earth, Yeshua knew the plan to take on earthly flesh for a time to become your redeemer. And in his time on earth, he not only fulfilled every prophecy perfectly about being the Messiah, but he lived a life that brought people to redemption. Are you living a life that brings others to Yeshua, the Redeemer, the Messiah, the Savior? Are you working to keep Torah? Are you honoring your earthly parents or widows or whoever fits that category? Are you learning to speak in questions so other people can discover the truth on their own? Do you speak as one having authority because you actually know what you're talking about? Are you able to talk to scholars and lay people? Do you know how to sit with people in their pain and their sadness? Do you know how to stand up for holiness and righteousness? Are you teaching your children about Yeshua? John chapter 17. Go ahead and turn there. John chapter 17. John chapter 17 is where Yeshua prays for us. I'm going to read verses twenty and twenty-one. I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word. That's you. That they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they may also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. Our job is to show the world that Yeshua is the Redeemer. That's our job. I mean, we are literally the people described in this verse. It's your job, it's my job to live a life that reflects Yeshua and shows them the way back to the Father. So my desire for each of you today is that you recognize and love Yeshua, your Redeemer, and that you bring others to him at the same time.