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What is the Truth About Israel? · The Curt Landry Podcast

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Hey everyone, you're listening to the Curt Landry podcast where we're going to help you
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discover your kingdom destiny.
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My name is Darrell and sitting right beside me is Rabbi Curt Landry.
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And in this episode, we're going to be discussing why we stand and why you should stand with
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Israel.
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But before we jump into this episode, Rabbi, how was your weekend?
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Oh, man, it's been great.
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You know, this is an interesting time of year in Oklahoma.
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Of course, it's cold, but I can tell you that the whole snow, they call this area of Oklahoma,
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call it green country.
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And of course, it is very green here most of the year.
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But it's just, it's almost, I don't know, it's like everything changes when the snow
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falls.
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And the lake is steaming because of the temperature of the water compared to the air and everything's
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covered in white.
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It's beautiful.
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So I, you know, there's a certain amount of, I don't like the cold weather particularly,
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but I sure is beautiful, at least for a short period of time, have the fire and it's a great
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atmosphere to cook spaghetti sauce in.
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I can tell you that.
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Yeah.
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Nathan told me earlier that this is like a day or so ago.
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It was the coldest day recorded in Tulsa history.
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So it is very frigid for sure around this part of Oklahoma in this time of year.
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So Rabbi, as we jump into this, you know, one thing that we want to kind of lead with
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is that if you got questions, you can send it over to podcasts at curtlandry.com.
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You know, if it's prayer requests, things that we can pray into, things and titles and
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descriptions and I mean, anything you want to send over, it's just over a podcast at
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curtlandry.com.
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Another thing that I want to remind people, you can get your free download for Goals to
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Grow.
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Just go to curtlandry.com forward slash goals 2024.
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We'll put those two links in this episode's show notes description.
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So Rabbi, this episode, it's going to be titled something like Why We Stand With Israel, but
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the question that I started us off with, and I'll just ask it to you and then we can break
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it down, but it's as simple as why do we stand and why should you, the listener, stand with
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Israel?
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So like, let's start from a real base level biblical understanding of this question.
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Okay, so let's do something a little different.
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I'm going to spring something on you, Teru.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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So let me ask you a couple questions.
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You know your Bible.
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So okay, God created man.
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Okay, Adam and Eve.
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Adam and Eve, what happened?
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They fell, right?
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Yeah.
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So what happened is the covenant with God, God gave them authority over everything.
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Covenant is broken and they're cast out of the garden.
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So would you agree with that?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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So now, okay, now God has to restore covenant.
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So when he restores covenant, he restores covenant with the man named Abram, right?
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Okay, so when Abram, when he restores it, Abram obviously becomes Abraham.
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And when his name is changed to Abraham from Abram means the father of many nations.
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Okay.
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But he also became the first Jew.
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So he was circumcised.
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He tithed to this king, priest, Melchizedek, and basically the restoration of covenant
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authority of the garden was restored to Abraham and his seed.
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Okay, would you agree with that?
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Yes.
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Okay.
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So now, the reason I'm asking this is because people have to understand that when Jesus
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Christ hung on the cross, he hung on the cross as a covenant act.
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It was a covenant act to restore all the nations.
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But in the covenant restoration story, God gave all authority to Adam.
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He failed and now he's going to restore it and he goes to Abram.
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So now if you go to Genesis chapter 12 verse 1, it says, now the Lord said to Abram, get
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out of the country from your family and from your father's house to a land I will show
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you.
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Now this is the actual land of Israel.
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I will make you a great nation and I will bless you.
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I will make your name great and you shall be a blessing.
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Now understand Abram is already a wealthy guy.
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He already has a great name and God is now speaking this to him.
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And in Genesis 12 3, it says, I will bless those who bless you, who's blessing Abraham,
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this Jewish guy, the first Jew, and I will curse those who curse you.
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So that's the main issue here is that blessing and cursing on the earth is determined and
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most people struggle with this, but listen, this is how it works.
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God blesses those who bless his choice and curses those who reject his choice.
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And he says, and all the families of the earth shall be blessed through this blessing of
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Abraham.
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And it's a difficult concept, but what people need to understand, God had to restore covenant.
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So now if you go to 2 Chronicles 7 14, it says, if my people who are called by my name
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will humble themselves and pray, I will hear from heaven and I will heal their land.
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So what's happening?
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Who is the spirit of the Lord speaking to?
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The Jewish people.
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That's why when you have 2 Chronicles 7 14, you need to have repentive Jews in the mix
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along with the Gentiles.
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So now the next major covenant act in the Bible goes to Jesus Christ.
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Jesus Christ comes, he's the Son of God, he is God incarnate on earth, and he is the
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seed of David.
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He is in the lineage of Abraham through the seed of David.
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And so now he dies, he at Passover, he is the lamb of God who takes away the sins of
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the earth.
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But then he opens it up to all the nations because all the families, they were separated
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from the commonwealth of Israel.
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They were strangers to the promise.
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But Jesus said, all who call on my name shall be saved.
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So now the Gentiles, the non-Jewish people, have access to God's covenant.
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So the reason that we bless Israel is because it is our root.
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It is where we come from.
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In common sense, you cannot curse the root of a plant, a tree, or a person and expect
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to be blessed.
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So you bless the root and you get to eat the fruit.
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So here's a different question in perspective versus reality.
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So like one thing that I probably do too much of, and my wife Morgan would agree that I
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use terminology like, well, perception of this versus the actual reality.
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But for me, on how I conceive and break down scenarios, I use this a lot.
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And so I want to use one for saying the question and the thought process behind this is that
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I've been to a lot of different types of churches in senses of denominations.
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Obviously about two years ago, we came on here full time and moved to Oklahoma and started
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working for Curt Landry Ministries.
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But I think one thing that, I mean, some listeners might disagree with me, but most of the churches
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that I've been to and attended, some that I would say would be very healthy and
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some that would not be, and they would be on one side of the denominational side, that
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they don't really mention in their Sunday to Sunday or Wednesday to small group time,
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whatever you want to do that, they don't really mention too much about blessing Israel and
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about doing aid to Israel.
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And the ones that do kind of mention it here and there will have, like they'll do partnerships
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and projects to do, say, this one thing, and then you don't really hear about it.
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Why do you think that is?
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Because to me, I think it's pretty common.
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And I think a lot of people listening to this podcast will probably have a lot of experiences
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in different churches and stuff that would probably say the perception versus reality
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is that unfortunately, it's probably too much reality that there's just too many churches
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and too many pastors and leaders that don't preach in the sense of, hey, this is something
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we've got to do and like this needs to be a focus.
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Why do you think that is?
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Well, the root of it comes from traditional separation of the church from its Jewish roots,
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which happened 1700 years ago with Constantine.
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So you have a ruler in Rome who's wanting to overthrow the world and his problem is he
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can overthrow most of the world with different gods, but he can't overthrow the Jewish people
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because these monolithic people who believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, their
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traditions, their calendar, and all these things, not only does it keep him blessed,
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but here's the key, Darrell, it keeps him with this identity.
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And so what he has to do, if you're going to control people, you have to change their
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identity and he couldn't change the Jewish identity.
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And now the early church from the time of Jesus' resurrection up until this Constantine
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period was a messianic, one new man, Hebraic church, followed the Jewish calendar and interpreted
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scripture through a Jewish filter.
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And when Constantine comes and passes a law, makes it illegal to celebrate Passover, illegal
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for Shabbat, illegal to even have circumcision, all these types of things, he was trying to
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separate the people from, no, we're going to have this Roman Catholic type situation.
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And really what he was attacking was the identity.
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And so from that came a theology called replacement theology, where different theologians started
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teaching that the blessings that you read about in the Abrahamic covenant that I just
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read were only given, since the Jews, quote, killed Jesus, which they didn't, every sinner
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on the earth killed Jesus, he died for our sins.
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But let's take this narrative, the Jews killed Jesus, so they forfeit their covenant promise
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and anti-Semitism arises.
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And then the next thing that happens is the church has replacement theology and they start
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translating and there's commentary all over the place with the church is now the Israel
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of God.
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And the problem that you have with that when you read the prophets is the prophets are
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very specific about real estate and boundaries in the promised land.
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And so how in the world do all the Christians and all the different denominations actually
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possess the covenant God made with Abraham in regards to the boundaries?
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I mean, they wouldn't even fit in the boundaries of Israel.
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So obviously the land and the people have a covenant and we are grafted in healthy,
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as Christians were grafted into that according to Romans 11.
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But it's interesting that Paul, even back then, before the Constantine period, he said,
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I desire that you be not ignorant of this mystery, that blindness in part happened to
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the Jewish people until the fullness of the Gentiles have come.
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I think that the reason most churches don't preach about it, they don't understand it,
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most theological seminaries do not teach it or preach it.
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And the reason that I, well, first of all, it's my calling to preach it, but my motivation
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is, listen, I was an orphan.
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I was conceived out of wedlock.
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I didn't know my biological parents.
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At 36, I get saved.
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At 37, I get reconnected to my biological father.
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I find out I have a Jewish mother.
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And so what happened is I was adopted, but then I got grafted in back into my actual
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biological life through my understanding who my biological father and mother.
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That brought so much fullness to me at 37.
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You have no idea.
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But the same thing, I just equated that into my born-again experience.
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So when I read the Bible and I read about Abraham and I read about Nehemiah and I read
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about Isaiah, these are brothers to me because I'm Jewish.
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There's no separation from me, but people who are non-Jewish and are born again, you
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are part of the household of faith.
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You are part of the seed of Abraham through faith.
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And that's the reason I preach this message.
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The big thrust of why I do this for 33 years is this, is as someone who comes from a corporate
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behavioral-trained background, you can equip people all you want with positive motivation
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in their purpose, and they will excel.
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But at some point, they'll burn out.
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If you don't want to burn out, then what you have to do is find your spiritual identity
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that creates your purpose, which creates your destiny.
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Supernatural inheritance starts to be released in your life, and then you can leave a legacy.
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So you don't burn out.
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So I'm 68 years old.
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I'm in ministry all these years.
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I'm probably more on fire for what I do right now at 68 than I was when I was, let's say,
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38.
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And the reason is, is because my identity and my purpose are married together as one.
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So I understand, I don't waste time doing something that somebody else is supposed to
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do.
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It's identity-driven.
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And so for every Christian, I would recommend that you go buy my book, Reclaiming Our Forgotten
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Heritage, understand the journey of finding identity.
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And the reason that I think people should find their identity is because your identity
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will release the synergy with your creative nature in God.
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And that is absolutely a key.
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And it's very important, particularly in this world of anti-Semitism right now.
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If you think about it, look at Harvard University, which was a Christian university, and here
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they are allowing pro-Palestinian anti-Semitic activity and not even understanding that it's
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evil.
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So what happened is they lost their roots.
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Harvard University and that leadership is they may be Christian in name, but they're
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not in spirit because it says right here, it says, I will curse those who curse you.
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So what you're doing is it's important to remember where we came from.
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And we are a Jew, our nation, the United States of America, is a Judeo-Christian nation founded
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on a constitutional republic that has a constitution that is grounded and founded in biblical Judeo
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principles.
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That's how this country was founded.
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That's how this country is being blessed.
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And the enemies of this country know if they want to overthrow it, they have to uproot
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us and plant us in something else.
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And once we lose our identity, and it's not going to happen, I'll tell you right now.
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But anyway, they're going to take a pretty good shot at it.
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That's why this message and this podcast and our ministry is important to me is to let
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them know that we are the seed of Abraham grafted in, whether you're Jew or Gentile.
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Podcast at curtlandrew.com, send your questions to us there.
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It's going to go straight to our inbox.
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Just make sure you put something in the title and subject line.
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Rabbi, I can't say that enough how many times we're going to get emails and ones that have
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come in that don't have anything in the title or subject line, and they just go to the place
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where emails go.
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That happens.
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It's kind of hard to thumb through it.
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So just make sure you do that.
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Also, if you want to find out how you can stand with us and stand with Israel, you can
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go to curtlandrew.com forward slash stand with Israel.
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Of course, we'll have all the links in the show notes of this episode.
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So Rabbi, I want to kind of transition to the thought that let's say we have some spiritual
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leaders listening to this podcast.
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We have some pastors listening.
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We have some preachers, and they want to know, I want to say technique, but like a couple
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different ideas maybe, right, on how they can implement this biblical truth of standing
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with Israel, blessing Israel into their messaging, into their church culture.
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What's a couple tips that you have for those?
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I think probably sharing Jesus in a way that they understand that this is a Jewish rabbi.
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I think that they have to understand that Jesus Christ of Nazareth, first of all, His
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real name is Yeshua.
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The letter J wasn't even a letter until several hundred years ago.
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So like if you're talking to a learned Hebraic, like a Jewish guy or an Arab, and you say
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Jesus, and I've had this happen, so I'm just sharing, they'll say, well, that can't be
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His name.
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It didn't even have J's until whenever, you know?
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And I say, I know, but His name is Yeshua, like Yah-she-wah, like Joshua, and then they
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all know what that is.
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So again, you need to understand that you're looking at Jesus.
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He is a circumcised, Sabbath-keeping, feast-keeping rabbi, and they called Him rabbi.
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And I think that when you hear Him say these words, like how He's going to judge the whole
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world, He says, when you do it unto the least of these, my brethren, the Jewish people,
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you do it unto me.
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I said, what did we do?
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Like when I was hungry, you fed me.
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That's why we do humanitarian aid.
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You know, one of the patterns that I followed as a businessman, listen, the Lord revealed
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this to me in the early 90s.
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And so I went to my business partners.
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I was in the fruit business at the time, and I said, man, look at this in the book of Acts.
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It says, we are to be witnesses first in Judea, Samaria, and then all ends of the earth, Jerusalem,
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Judea, Samaria.
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And I said, we should follow that pattern.
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So we started actually sowing seed as fruit brokers into Jerusalem, then Judea and Samaria.
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And we still do it to this day, Curt Lander Ministries.
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We have safe houses and Holocaust survivors and lone soldiers' houses in Jerusalem.
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We support the city of Me'el D'Amin, which is Judea and Samaria.
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We plant trees.
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We take care of their security there and their safe houses in that city.
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We work in all these places.
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We plant trees.
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And then, you know, we work in Africa.
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We just got done taking care of 500 orphans in Kenya.
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So the pattern of our seed sowing is Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and all ends of the earth.
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So to answer your question, I think that I would speak about Jesus and His identity as
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a Jew.
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And what did He ask us to do?
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He asks us to be a witness for Him.
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And the Scripture is very clear, it's to the Jew first.
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So I don't know if that's too deep, but no, no.
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So let's take it from this angle.
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For people listening that want to spread and tell their friends and family about this,
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right?
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How would you go about them if you had a little piece of advice on how to introduce it and
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kind of back up maybe with a little piece of Scripture for them?
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Okay, I would do just listen, one of the things that happens, and I've watched it, you know,
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I've been doing this 33 years now.
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Like myself, when I first discovered my Jewish roots, and a lot of people do, they go nuts.
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And what happens is the people who haven't had the experience think, oh my gosh, you're
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Judaizing me.
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Or you know, you've become a Jew.
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What's the matter with you, you crazy?
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You know, I mean, literally, I get it, I get it.
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It happened to me, and it happens to a lot of people.
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So I would just say, first of all, you just need to understand that the, listen, I work
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with First Nations people.
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I'm actually an ordained peace chief with the First Nations tribes.
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So one of the biggest things that I share with them when I share with the Jewish roots
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with them is that you're not going to cease being native because you're following the
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Jewish roots.
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And the reason it's important, they need to know that God honors the indigenous people
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as being Indians.
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There's no shame in that.
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They don't get saved and become Jews.
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And the reason that's so important, if you look at the history, what happened with the
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missionaries when they came to the Indians, they said, okay, now that you're a Christian,
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cut your hair, lose the language, change these clothes, put on this.
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And so what happened is it was shaming them to say, okay, if you're going to be a Christian,
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you're not good enough as an Indian.
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You've got to become a Christian.
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Here's your clothes and here's your language and all that.
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And it's left a deep wound in the people.
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But the same thing has happened with Jewish people.
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Like, if you become a Christian, you've got to quit doing the feasts.
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You don't have to do Shabbat and all those types of things.
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So I think the key is when a Gentile discovers the Jewish roots of the faith, you don't
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have to become Jewish.
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You can still be a good Gentile and observe Shabbat, celebrate the feast.
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And when you're sharing it with people, you need to share the fruit of the blessing of
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it for the fulfillment of finding your own identity.
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And it draws you into more intimacy by the Holy Spirit to find Christ.
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And allow the fruit of that to be there and that you're not Judaizing people.
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You're not telling people, it's never good to go to somebody and say, you know what,
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you're not good enough the way you're doing it and now you need to do it my way.
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That's a very poor, socially dysfunctional way to evangelize.
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So another resource that we have is another podcast.
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It's called Generations at the Table with Megan Marcelino.
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Probably somewhere in this episode, you've probably heard an ad for it.
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As we're having this discussion, it's an awesome podcast with Megan.
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She teaches powerful message of faith and the teachings that come with that, that link
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everything from the Jewish roots in Christianity and how that can actually be so impactful
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for your walk with the Father.
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And so just search Generations at the Table.
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You can find that wherever you listen to podcasts.
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It's also the first podcast on the One New Man Network.
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So Rabbi, what's...
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Let's say that someone is now into a position to where they want to sow into the projects
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that we have, that we're currently doing.
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Why should they consider that?
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And then anybody listening, again, in the show notes, curtlandry.com forward slash stand
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with Israel, you can see what we're doing with that current campaign for the war efforts
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in Israel.
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But what would you tell someone that, hey, search your heart.
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Financially you have an opportunity to bless Israel.
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Why should they bless Israel through Curtlandry Ministries?
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First of all, if the Holy Spirit's leading you to give to us, that would be the first
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thing.
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Listen, I have people all the time.
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I've had people come with large checks and people say, you know, they don't even know
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me.
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I don't know them.
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And they'll say, yeah, the Lord told me to give you your ministry $25,000.
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And I'm going, okay.
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It's very reassuring to me.
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So you have to ask yourself, why would the Holy Spirit do that?
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Listen, Steve Schultz was on the air with me at Elijah List.
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And so, you know, I was talking to him about what we were doing in Israel and it was probably
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like two minutes into the conversation on the phone and Christie was...
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We were on speaker and we're friends for years and years.
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And he said, okay.
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He said, oh, wow, Kurt, oh, I'm going to give you 50 grand.
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I said, well, great, praise God.
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So then we went another few minutes and he said, no, I'm going to give you 100 grand.
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And I said, Steve, I feel like an auctioneer here.
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Let's talk longer.
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Okay, 150, 150, 150.
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And he's joking because we're friends.
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Okay.
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But anyway, he did.
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He ended up giving several hundred thousand dollars and like his ministry...
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Why did he do that?
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Because he understands the principle of what I just said.
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He wanted the blessing of blessing Israel.
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He also trusts us.
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So why would Steve Schultz of the Elijah List do that?
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Okay, he's known me 25 years and this is the reason.
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If you give designated funds to go to Israel, listen, in 35 days we delivered...
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In 30 days we delivered $975,000.80 or something, the exact amount Bob was telling me.
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You know how Bob is.
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All right, $0.80.
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Well, praise God for that.
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But anyway, in 35 days, over a million dollars delivered.
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Now, why is that important?
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First of all, the war effort, the things were urgent, but the fact that Sam and our team
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can actually physically pick up a million dollars worth the bulletproof helmets, bulletproof
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vest, the special lights that they need, the special medical bandages that coagulate blood
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from surface wounds and all that type of stuff.
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I mean, expensive stuff.
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Food for the soldiers.
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The reservists that came didn't have the right food, boots, boots and gloves.
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Then they didn't have the right uniforms, special, like the uniforms, coats, it goes
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on and on and on.
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All this stuff, personal care items, toothbrush brushes, it's like deodorant, battery packs
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to keep their phone solar charged so that they can call home to their family.
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They've been separated from them for 30 days.
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All that stuff, whatever it is they needed, other stuff I can't talk about.
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But whatever, listen, these commanders are like my sons and they've known me and they
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ask me and I say yes.
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But the thing is, if you give $100, then that $100 goes to that project.
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No different than, I'll give you an example.
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Like for us, we have a program we've been doing for about 12 years and you met the kids,
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it's called Bridge to Independence, where we take care of kids when they age out of
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the social programs in Israel at 18, at the end of 18 when they turn 19, then they're
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out on the street.
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So they're out of the foster program that they have in Israel.
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They don't call it that.
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So anyway, we started a program 12 years called Bridge to Independence, where we take care
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of them from 19 to 24.
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So I always tell people, listen, if you have an identity problem, and this is a biblical
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principle I've used, sow to what you need.
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Okay, you need your identity in the Lord, enhanced, sow into these kids.
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It's critical.
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Listen, we've interviewed these kids.
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The first interview I ever did with this one young girl, I called her Mighty Mouse, and
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I asked her, I said, if you didn't have the Bridge to Independence program, you didn't
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have our apartment that we have in Jerusalem, where would you be?
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And she just looked at me and she said, I'd be dead.
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And what she was saying is, I would have committed suicide.
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So man, this is serious.
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So if you sow a seed into the safe house program, then what you're doing is you sow the seed
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and then you say this, Father God, I am sowing the seed into the apple of God's eye.
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I'm sowing a seed unto the least of these, his brethren that they have four year program
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in a safe house with, so to say, like adoptive parents and supervision and mentors.
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And we provide for them to be able to grow up in an accountability and a place to make
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good decisions to become good adults.
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And Lord, that's what I need.
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I want to be a mature Christian.
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I want to function.
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So I'm going to bless Israel in a special way.
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I'm going to sow into these young men and women that they find their way so I can find
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my way.
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It's probably if you, if the Lord, if you'll sow to where you need to grow, God always
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pours out abundant blessing.
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And we'll be right back.
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It's a new year and a new you.
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Meaning that Matthew 6 33 positions us for success in this year ahead.
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That seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all other things will
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be added on to us.
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The fruit of the Spirit is evident in His covenant.
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Know this, that if you can establish His covenant in your heart and in your mind, you will be
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There are some projects that really touch your heart and this is interesting because
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our son-in-law Paul Marcelino, his dad, Yocanon Marcelino helped to produce this book and
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the whole purpose of this book, Jerusalem Rising, is to be able to bring visual evidence
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that Jerusalem and Israel actually belongs to the children of the God of Abraham, Isaac
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and Jacob.
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That this is the land of Isaac and the miracle power.
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Hey, one more thing.
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on the One New Man Network and that's called Generations at the Table with Megan Marcelino.
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This show is perfect for discovering how to grow your family in faith by knowing your
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Jewish roots.
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Megan breaks down all of her knowledge on how to unlock your family's kingdom destiny
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by honoring Yeshua.
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You can find her show on the One New Man Network on your favorite podcast app.
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All right, now back to the show.
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That's so good.
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Curtlandry.com forward slash Stand with Israel, you can also look at all the other projects
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that we have available right now that we're currently doing.
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You can just do curtlandry.com and you can see all those as well.
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Rabbi, as we kind of transition towards the end of this podcast, what's your prayer for
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people listening to really gain from the education of this podcast?
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It's super in-depth.
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I mean, like, you know, he went straight historian on me, which you have to, to understand why
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the landscape is and the messaging and the vibes now in churches that we know it in 2024.
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But what's that prayer for the listener, people listening to this podcast on what they can
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take away from this episode?
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Well first of all, if you are trying to find yourself, please order my book, Reclaiming
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Our Forgotten Heritage.
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Okay, and just read it.
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It was a work of love.
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Megan and I wrote it.
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And the reason I'm sharing that with you is I'm going to give you just a story.
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I like to tell stories so you understand where I'm coming from.
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My adoptive father, Ray Landry, he used to say things to me like this.
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He'd go like, in regards to food, I like to cook, I'm a foodie, he's not.
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And Ray used to say, Curtis, I don't know where you get this from.
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And because, you know, I'm not his DNA.
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I don't know where you get this.
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And I'd say, and I didn't know, but when I was 37, just saved a year in the Lord, the
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Lord miraculously reconnected me to my biological father, Joe McKay.
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And when I met him, I all of a sudden knew, oh my gosh, literally, I was in a cafe in
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Palm Beach, Florida, and I'm sitting there, it was all glass.
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I'm looking out in the parking lot.
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And here comes my biological father.
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I've never seen him before.
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And I see this guy drive up.
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He's in a red Mercedes and convertible.
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He gets out of the car and the way he walks, anybody that sees it, I walk a little different,
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kind of waddle.
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He's waddling out of the car and I'm going, oh my gosh, it's me.
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You don't need any DNA tests.
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Look, here he comes.
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And you know, and he's from Palm Beach and he's a Palm Beacher, you know, he's a wealthy.
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Did your heart sink?
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You know, I mean, like what was the physical side of that?
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My heart was beating out of my chest.
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But here's the thing, what happened is when we were together, he started sharing who he
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was.
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It settled to who I am and a peace came.
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The same thing about the Jewish roots of the faith.
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The reason I teach it, for every Christian, the more you understand your own roots, the
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more you'll have that heart throbbing experience with God himself.
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See people, I think people forget about the relationship side of the Bible.
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I was blessed.
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I was blessed in several ways.
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When I read it, I become Nehemiah.
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When I'm reading, I become Joseph.
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When I'm reading it, I become Peter.
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So I think what people have to understand is that this is a relationship.
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Yes, we're talking about covenant.
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Yes, we're talking about blessing Israel and blessing the God of Israel.
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But God wants to bless you.
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And the biggest blessing of the Bible is to have a presence of God in peace and not have
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to fear what the world is doing, knowing that God will take care of you and he'll meet
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all of your needs according to Jesus, his riches and glory through Yeshua.
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And so my journey of finding my way and having peace in the storm was being reconnected to
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God and then finding out who I really am.
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And that's my prayer.
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All the ministry material, everything we do at One New Man, everything we do at Curt Landry
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Ministries is driven to unlock your identity.
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That's my joy.
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If I could lay hands on every person, let's say, and I was dying, and they said, all right,
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you got five minutes and you're going home to be with the Lord and there's a bunch of
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people praying there, what would you pray over them?
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I'd lay hands right on your forehead and I'd say, Father God, in Yeshua's name, unlock
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their identity in you.
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Powerful.
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Don't really know where to go from here other than to say if this podcast has helped you,
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if it's been impactful during this episode or just in general for the Curt Landry podcast,
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we'd love for you to leave a star review, leave a comment on Apple Podcasts, on Spotify,
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just wherever you're listening.
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It could be Amazon Music, it could be YouTube.
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We're pretty much everywhere.
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So if you can just let us know, just rank this podcast, it's going to help us get the
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message out, Rabbi, and kind of break through some of those algorithms and we just really,
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really appreciate it.
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Any questions you have?
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You can send it over to podcasts at curtlandry.com.
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All right, Rabbi, let's wrap up.
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People made it to the deep end of this episode.
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What's your lasting thought for them?
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You know, Jesus and Moses had two things about identity.
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Moses, he's getting ready to go.
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He's had a rough life and he's on the side of the mountain.
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Think about it.
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He's at Mount Sinai and the bush is burning but not being consumed.
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And here's God empowering somebody who stutters, somebody who had failed in Egypt, tending
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sheep, kind of so to say, minding his own business.
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And he says to God, he goes, okay, I'll do it.
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But who do you say, what should I say, who sent me?
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And God said to Moses, I am that I am.
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And if you think about it in Matthew 20, 22, verse 41, while the Pharisees were gathered,
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Jesus asked them, saying, what do you think about the Christ?
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Whose son is he?
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And they said to him, the son of David.
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Wow.
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So what the Pharisees knew that this Messiah was going to come through the lineage of King
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David, that is the Jewish roots of the faith.
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In the book of Revelation, it talks about the end time church of Philadelphia and it
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has the key of David.
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And I'll leave this with deep thought with you.
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I pray the Lord would release the key of David in your life because that key to your own
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Jewish roots is the identity to release your destiny in Yeshua's name.
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Man, Rabbi, it's been a good podcast.
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It's been a really good discussion.
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Of course, we hope that this show, this format is super beneficial to you in your physical
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and spiritual life and journey.
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And, you know, if this podcast has helped you, please share it with anyone that you
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know.
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Send it to social media, send it in text, just get it out there if this show has helped
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you.
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All right, Rabbi, man, that was a good episode.
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Good.
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The Lord blessed me to share it.
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And I think one of the reasons it's a good episode is I know what my inner heart desire
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is.
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It blessed me to unlock my identity and it brought so much fullness to me, you know,
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33 years ago now.
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And I pray for each and every one that follows us that your destiny be unlocked and that
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you find that joy of being just who God called you to be and that the workmanship he has
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prepared beforehand that you would be able to be about that work and that business in
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Yeshua's name.
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All right, that's going to wrap it up for this episode.
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Rabbi, until next time.
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Yeah, thank you.
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Good luck.