Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] What hope has been delayed in your life?
[00:00:03] Personally? We have the big picture of the kingdom and the hope deferred. What about you in your life?
[00:00:11] What hope has been deferred in your life? And there's a lot of people watching online right now, and I know there's lots of situations of people who have hope that has been delayed. At one point in your life, did you hold on to hope for something in particular, a particular person or situation?
[00:00:31] And do you still have that hope? Or have you reinterpreted that hope based on the absence of either progress or payoff?
[00:00:41] Have you been crushed by the relentless voice of doubt?
[00:00:46] If your hope is misplaced, then maybe you should re evaluate the promise.
[00:00:53] Because sometimes we misinterpret what the promise is and we hold onto something that God hasn't told us. God hasn't promised for us.
[00:01:02] That's happened a lot within Jewish gentile relationships and reinterpreting the scriptures of gentiles, holding on to what belongs to Israel.
[00:01:11] But if you're confident of that promise, then you need to do everything in your power to hold onto it.
[00:01:17] But we, as humans, we usually give up way too easily.
[00:01:22] Once again, hope deferred makes the heart sick. But a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
[00:01:30] We have to remember that Hashem plays the long game.
[00:01:36] We are finite. He is infinite.
[00:01:39] Our timeframe is not his time frame.
[00:01:46] So let me start this off.
[00:01:48] Who, everybody, I mean, who has children in here, Okay? I know you girls don't, okay? But you've been one once, right?
[00:01:58] But if you've ever been on a long road trip with your children, especially for like something like a family vacation, you know, the question that will inevitably come up, what is it?
[00:02:10] Are we there yet?
[00:02:12] Or how much longer or how much further? Right?
[00:02:16] And at the core, what they're asking is, when will we be there?
[00:02:22] Or when will the drive be over so that we can get on with the fun stuff, right? That's what we're asking.
[00:02:32] And so when we're pursuing something we desire, we don't usually like to be told to wait.
[00:02:39] It can be really frustrating. Waiting is not fun at all when it's something we have a deep desire for. And some examples I can think of right off the bat are marriage. I mean, people who really have a desire to be married and aren't, that can be a really big struggle.
[00:02:58] Having a baby, getting a job, different things. And I apologize. You know, what's that?
[00:03:09] Graduating. There you go, Moving on with life. Okay? All these things, it can be very frustrating. If we're told. Hold on. Okay.
[00:03:18] So I can tell you a story after story of people who are in that station of life and they are struggling with that. And I've know people that have struggled with that in the past. Now, I've struggled with that in the past, and I think we've all struggled on some level.
[00:03:35] You can just feel that time ticking away and think, will this ever happen? You know, I don't believe it'll ever happen. Will I ever get married? Will I ever get a job? So forth.
[00:03:52] But sometimes the question turns from will I? Or when will I? To will I ever?
[00:03:59] Okay? And then a resolute, I will never.
[00:04:04] And you give in to that.
[00:04:07] That feeling that life is hopeless, that you'll never get to that point, you'll never accomplish, you'll never be, or whatever.
[00:04:16] And so, you know, I apologize if I'm opening any wounds. Hope to put a little salve on it, though, okay. As we go on.
[00:04:26] But here's the deal. Everyone, I say everyone, enjoys a little suspense. Who enjoys a little suspense? Especially when it comes to movies, books, all that kind of stuff, okay? Because when you are waiting and everything builds up and it hits at the right time, you're like, yes, right?
[00:04:46] But what happens if it just keeps being prolonged and prolonged?
[00:04:51] You're frustrated, right? Okay? It just builds up frustration, that payoff and never lands. And you just. It doesn't. It's. It's not good. Okay?
[00:05:02] And many of you guys know that I'm a fan of fantasy and science fiction. One of my favorite authors has a philosophy about story structure and how a good novel should be built around three primary elements. And some of you guys may know this if Tobias is in here. So these three things is promises progression and then payoff. Now, this may seem unrelated, but bear with me for just a second.
[00:05:35] Promises progress and payoff builds a good story. Okay? And so let me explain this. At the beginning of a book, you have an intro or a prologue or the first chapter or whatever.
[00:05:51] There's a fight scene and there are dragons or whatever, but then you never see any of that. The rest of the book, that's going to be a letdown. Okay? Or if you start the book and there's romance and that's what you're expecting, there's none in the rest of the story. Whatever they promise, they build this sort of first chapter or the prologue or the beginning of the book on. That's sort of like a promise to say, this is what the rest of the book is going to be. Like.
[00:06:17] But then when you don't see any progress in that, it becomes a letdown, becomes a disappointment, and then the payoff you don't really care about anymore. Okay? So a good storyteller, a good writer, will set it up to where there's a good promise at the beginning that you can connect with. Then you see progress toward that throughout the book, and then there's a big payoff at the end of how all this stuff comes together. Okay? And then you're like, yes, you know, he got the girl, he slayed the dragon or whatever. You know, he blew up a mechanical planet, a death star. That's it.
[00:06:59] Okay? And so you have all this stuff, and it makes for good storytelling.
[00:07:04] But the average novel loses a lot of people's attention because they don't have those elements.
[00:07:13] They get readers frustrated because they miss one of these sort of three points. Something's missing, something's not established properly, or they point in the wrong direction, and people have expectations, and it never happens.
[00:07:28] Well, life can sometimes feel very much like a poorly written novel if we have a certain mental framework or perspective that we're looking at it through.
[00:07:40] We hear all these promises, but we hardly ever see any progress, and definitely not payoff. We feel that our entire life is simply the Waiting game. And that's the title of the message today, the Waiting Game.
[00:07:54] We wait and we wait and we wait and we wait and we wait and we wait for Hashem to do something. And the longer we wait, the more disappointing life becomes.
[00:08:07] Well, the children of Israel felt the same way as they wandered through the wilderness for 40 years. Okay, think about that.
[00:08:15] I mean, a lot of you guys in here, some of you guys are not even 40 years old, right? Think about wandering around without purpose for that long 40 years.
[00:08:28] They were asking Hashem, when will you bring us into the land that you promised?
[00:08:34] When?
[00:08:36] Why can't you just do it now?
[00:08:39] They were going in circles for 40 years without any sign of progress. And then finally, they were at the doorstep of the land that God had promised to them. And they are about to finally see the payoff. And then what happens?
[00:08:52] If you've ever read any books, especially science fiction, sometimes fantasy, there's what's called an info dump sometimes. Have you heard of that?
[00:09:03] What is that?
[00:09:05] It's where they try to explain a lot of things in one setting, and it doesn't fit.
[00:09:12] It doesn't help the storyline, doesn't help the progression of the story. It's just downloading information so you can understand the strategy the magic system, the politics, or whatever it is in the story. And you're just like, stop, let's move on, okay? That info dump is just like TMI at the moment.
[00:09:35] And that's exactly what Moses does in our Torah portion today.
[00:09:41] He sort of just at the doorstep of the Promised Land, he info dumps on the children of Israel.
[00:09:50] He says, basically, guys, I've got to rehash everything that just happened for the last 40 years.
[00:09:56] And let me just break it down into the detail for you, okay? And so he spends, I think they say, like 30 days or whatever rehashing all this stuff. I can't remember exactly how long, but he spends a lot of time talking. And this is like one continuous speech. And then in this week's Torah portion, he actually pours a little salt in the wound.
[00:10:18] He says, these are the statutes and rules that they shall be careful to do in the land that the Lord your God your fathers, has given you to possess all the days that you live on earth. You shall not do according to all that we do here today, everyone doing what is right in his own eyes. For you have not yet come to the rest and the inheritance that the Lord your God is giving you. Did you hear that? You guys haven't got there yet, okay? But when you go over the Jordan and live in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to inheritance, and when he gives you rest from all your enemies around, you're really having trouble right now.
[00:10:58] So that you live in safety, you shall do this thing and says, then you shall then to the place the Lord your God will choose, you shall make his that to make his name known there. Then you shall bring all that I command. And he goes into sacrifices.
[00:11:14] So Moshe is telling them about all the great stuff that will eventually happen and everything they will need to do after they get settled in.
[00:11:26] But all they wanted to know is when.
[00:11:29] When can we finally settle into this land that God has promised? He promised hundreds of years ago to our father Abraham.
[00:11:41] And the great sage Hillel asked a similar question. He said, if not now, when?
[00:11:47] But guess what? He didn't mean it in the way that we might think he did. Last week, we talked about something that he said is actually the beginning of this teaching. He said, if I am not for me, who will be for me?
[00:12:01] And this is the way he concludes that he said, and if not now, when? So in context, he's not asking when, when Hashem is going to do his thing.
[00:12:11] He's asking, when do we need to step up to the plate.
[00:12:18] And so are we talking about waiting on Hashem or are we talking about knowing when we're supposed to do something?
[00:12:26] Well, if you know anything about Judaism, what's the answer?
[00:12:29] Yes. Right. Okay, so let me explain, see if I can explain how it works. In the first century, because of the Roman occupation and a number of other factors, that the messianic hope was in an all time, at an all time high, the question that was on the tip of everyone's tongue was, when?
[00:12:51] When are you going to deliver us Hashem? When?
[00:12:55] And they saw a glimpse of hope when this guy named John the Immerser came, announcing the kingdom of Messiah and proclaiming the good news of this coming kingdom.
[00:13:07] And then when Yeshua came, he quietly announced himself as the long waited Messiah and he took up John's same message.
[00:13:16] Repent for the kingdom of heaven is what at hand.
[00:13:22] But then there's a setback. What happens? John's thrown into prison and hope begins to sink.
[00:13:31] John actually begins to question himself. He says, was I wrong?
[00:13:36] Was my timing off?
[00:13:38] Is Yeshua really who I thought he was?
[00:13:43] And out of desperation, he sends some of his disciples to Yeshua to ask him, are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another, some desperation?
[00:13:58] It can be interpreted in a few different ways, but I'm going to go with that right now.
[00:14:03] And later, just as his disciples were hoping that Yeshua would make his identity public and lead the charge against the Romans, what happens?
[00:14:15] He's handed over to the executioner, beaten nearly to death, and then nailed to a Roman cross.
[00:14:24] All hope is lost.
[00:14:29] The when turned to why.
[00:14:34] Okay, so if you are a reader, if you enjoy novels, when is the story about to get good?
[00:14:43] When all hope is lost, right? You think it can't get any worse than this, and then it does.
[00:14:53] And then you think it can't get any worse. And then it does. And then you're like, okay, there's no way.
[00:14:58] And then that's when hope shows up.
[00:15:02] And in our current story, three days later, the script was flipped and there was a huge payoff. Yeshua, as we know, was resurrected.
[00:15:11] He had defeated the ultimate enemy of man, one more powerful and more sinister than the Roman Empire.
[00:15:20] He had defeated death himself.
[00:15:23] So in their excitement, they returned. The disciples returned to their most important pressing question just before Yeshua's ascension.
[00:15:32] And they asked him, master, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?
[00:15:41] What was his answer?
[00:15:44] Nunya, right? Nunya business.
[00:15:48] He said, it's not up to me. It's not up to you.
[00:15:52] He said, just do your job.
[00:15:54] And then he left.
[00:15:57] But Yeshua had been preparing his disciples for that long wait that was ahead of them. He anticipated the struggles that they were going to have, and his disciples had to have something to give them hope through this long prolonged time as they awaited his kingdom and they awaited his return. So he taught them this. And this is a passage from Luke that I'm going to read here.
[00:16:26] And I forgot to put my reference down.
[00:16:30] I think It's Luke chapter 12 says, Stay dressed for action and keep your lamps burning and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes.
[00:16:51] Truly, I say to you, he will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them. If he comes in the second watch or in the third and finds them awake, Blessed are those servants. But know this. If the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into.
[00:17:11] So you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
[00:17:17] Now, Peter, of course Peter always has an objection. He says, lord, are you telling this parable for all of us? Is this some kind of secret thing that we need to be clued in on? And Yeshua said, who then is the faithful and wise manager whom his master will set over his household to give them their portion of food at the proper time? Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will set himself over all his possessions. But if that servant says to him to himself, my master is delayed in coming, and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk. The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him in an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful. And that servant who knew his master's will, but did not do it, did not get ready or act according according to his will, he will receive a severe beating.
[00:18:22] But the one who did not know and didn't did what deserving.
[00:18:28] But the one who did not know and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating.
[00:18:34] Everyone to whom much is given, of him much will be required and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.
[00:18:45] So after Yeshua left and he ascended to heaven, left his disciples all alone.
[00:18:58] The world just seemed to go to pot.
[00:19:02] As the years passed and his disciples anticipated the kingdom, lots of disappointing things happen. First of all, James was executed, the brother of Yeshua, Peter was executed, martyred Paul, Jerusalem fell in 70 A.D.
[00:19:21] temple was destroyed.
[00:19:24] Days became years, and decades turned to centuries. And so the kingdom was still missing and the waiting game was in full swing.
[00:19:35] So the obvious question that showed up on the forefront of people's minds was, if the kingdom hasn't come yet in all of these years, what do we do with all these promises?
[00:19:52] And the way that question was answered subsequently changed history.
[00:20:04] Because what happened is when they reinterpreted, when they answered that question, the Church basically said, if God hasn't established the kingdom by now, then we must have misunderstood the kingdom.
[00:20:21] It's not literal, it's not physical.
[00:20:24] He's not really literally coming back, setting up his kingdom, reigning from Jerusalem. The kingdom must be the church, and we must be living in it now.
[00:20:36] The age of the church.
[00:20:40] Proverbs 13:12 says, Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
[00:20:53] So that deferred hope became the impetus for reinterpreting Yeshua's teachings about the kingdom, particularly those that seem the most illogical.
[00:21:06] And it was that lost hope that eventually and gradually shifted the Church to a more supersessionist reading of the Scripture and to a theological perspective that as we've taught about many times, we call replacement theology.
[00:21:22] And so let me flip this back and bring it back to us in our daily lives, because I don't want us making the same mistakes.
[00:21:31] What hope has been delayed in your life?
[00:21:36] Personally, we have the big picture of the kingdom and the hope deferred. What about you in your life?
[00:21:45] What hope has been deferred in your life? And there's a lot of people watching online right now, and I know there's lots of situations of people who have hope that has been delayed.
[00:22:00] At one point in your life, did you hold on to hope for something in particular, a particular person or situation?
[00:22:08] And do you still have that hope?
[00:22:11] Or have you reinterpreted that hope based on the absence of either progress or payoff?
[00:22:21] Have you been crushed by the relentless voice of doubt?
[00:22:26] If your hope is misplaced, then maybe you should re evaluate the promise, because sometimes we misinterpret what the promise is and we hold onto something that God hasn't told us. God hasn't promised for us.
[00:22:42] That's happened a lot within Jewish gentile relationships and reinterpreting the scriptures of gentiles, holding on to what belongs to Israel.
[00:22:52] But if you're confident of that promise, then you need to do everything in your power to hold onto it.
[00:22:58] But we as humans, we usually give up way too easily.
[00:23:03] Once again, hope deferred makes the heart sick. But a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
[00:23:11] We have to remember that Hashem plays the long game.
[00:23:16] We are finite. He is infinite.
[00:23:20] Our time frame is not his time frame.
[00:23:24] How many of you guys have ever worked on a project that seemed like it would never end?
[00:23:31] Yes, I see the programmer raising his hand. That's my main illustration. I have a friend of blessed memory that he once told me he was a programmer. I think it was for an insurance company or something or some kind of medical company.
[00:23:47] And he had been working on developing a project they were going to roll out. And he had been on that team working on that project for years.
[00:23:58] And I think they ended up just scrubbing. It never came out.
[00:24:05] I mean, this is like Holocaust type stuff, right? I mean, doing labor for no reason.
[00:24:14] You know, software engineers face this all the time.
[00:24:19] Authors face a similar challenge.
[00:24:23] They research, they plot, they write, and they rewrite for years on a project, many times before finally completing their first draft.
[00:24:33] And as many of you know, I've released a book recently, and by the time I hand it over to my editor months ago, I was done.
[00:24:41] D O N e done.
[00:24:46] I didn't want to look at that thing again.
[00:24:49] Just to think about it was enough.
[00:24:52] But then I had hundreds of pages of edits to go through, right?
[00:25:01] If it would have been in pen and paper or the old way, you print it and you do the red ink, he would have handed me a red manuscript, which I'm thankful for, actually.
[00:25:12] But it's just one of those things. If you've invested so much of your life into something and then you think you're done and. And then it's just the first step.
[00:25:23] Whoa, that's heavy.
[00:25:25] I've never had a baby. Confession, True confession.
[00:25:30] But they say having a baby is like that.
[00:25:34] Sabrina and I went through the Bradley method when we had our children.
[00:25:41] And one of the last signposts before the actual birthday is the doubt phase. And you women who have had children, naturally, then you know, that doubt phase, it's like, get this kid out of me.
[00:25:59] Is it ever coming out right?
[00:26:02] And when my wife got to that point, I was like, yes, we are here.
[00:26:10] Because it was right around the corner, you know, to her it was. It was, you know, this will never happen, but I knew it was right around the corner. And that's the same thing when all. All of our situations, when we have somebody else that can see from a different perspective, it makes things so different because they can see what we can't. They can see that I've almost turned the corner and everything that I'm looking for is right around the corner, but I can't see that it's just infinite nothingness and there's never an end ahead of me.
[00:26:48] Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
[00:26:59] My point is delay, setbacks or unexpected obstacles can seriously affect the human heart and make us think and do some crazy things.
[00:27:14] But we can't lose hope.
[00:27:16] Whether it's for our own personal promise or the ultimate promise that Hashem has given us as his people. We have to look for the progress.
[00:27:28] We have to look for the progress in our personal lives and in the bigger picture of the kingdom. Okay, progress in the kingdom is something like the reestablishment of the State of Israel, right? I mean, who would have thought that?
[00:27:42] And we have to hold on to the promise that one day Hashem will re establish his kingdom and Messiah Yeshua will sit upon the throne in Jerusalem. Literally.
[00:27:54] But what do we do in the meantime?
[00:27:57] We hearken to the primary teaching of our master Yeshua, which I'll go back to over and over and over again.
[00:28:06] Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. And this is so important, I cannot emphasize it enough.
[00:28:13] This is Yeshua saying that we have the power, if you will, to bring the kingdom we don't have. We don't take it seriously enough. Self examination and repentance are what we do between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, right?
[00:28:30] Sometimes we just relegate it to that. But this is where we need to also hear the words of Hillel.
[00:28:35] If not now, when?
[00:28:39] In other words, we need to turn our questions around rather than asking Hashem when.
[00:28:46] We need to ask ourselves when.
[00:28:49] When will we stand up and do our part? When will we take responsibility for ourselves? When will we turn away from the distractions and entanglements, this life, flee from sin and pursue righteousness.
[00:29:05] We are bringing the kingdom near. When we do this, when we simply eat, drink and indulge in the flesh, we're pushing the kingdom away.
[00:29:16] And if you've put your spiritual life on pause, I want you to hear these words.
[00:29:23] If not now, when?
[00:29:27] When you're older, I'm just a kid.
[00:29:32] I don't need to take this spiritual stuff serious. I've got plenty of time. I'm going to have some fun.
[00:29:38] When.
[00:29:40] When you're older, wiser, when you've got more money, got more time, when you don't have so much on your plate, when you're less distracted, when you're more distracted, when you're more entangled, more confused and frustrated. Putting anything off will only make it difficult in the long run. I think you guys know that. But you know what? We make choices that don't reflect that knowledge. A lot of times we put things off. And so you guys may know this Hebrew word, but I'm going to review it with you real quick. Everybody repeat after me. Say zerzuot.
[00:30:19] All right? Zerzuot. I think I've mentioned this before, but when I first learned this Hebrew word, I looked it up and it said it means alacrity. I said, gee, that really helps, because I don't know that word either.
[00:30:31] So alacrity or zerzu is brisk and cheerful readiness. When you have a task, do it now, don't delay, and do it with your whole heart. Okay, so zera zoot is what we need to do.
[00:30:48] Who attended Camp Tadi? Anybody in here? Okay, yeah, we got several people.
[00:30:52] The theme of this year's Camp Tzadi was the unseen war.
[00:30:57] And it's the truth. This is a really big thing. I'm glad they. They taught on this and they had the camp around this theme, because there is an unseen war raging, a war over what tomorrow will look like. And whether you like it or not, you're right in the middle of it. Will tomorrow be another day of brokenness like today? Or will it be what the prophets foresaw? And Yeshua was preparing his disciples for the messianic kingdom. Will it be a type of Groundhog Day or a time loop where we endlessly repeat our days because they aren't important enough to change? Or will we break the cycle, break out of the loop, and enter a new reality, one that God has promised and one that Yeshua taught his disciples to prepare for and anticipate.
[00:31:46] But that preparation and anticipation fell along the wayside as the gentiles came in and, sorry, I'm a gentile, so I'm talking about myself, too. And gradually replaced the Jewish disciples.
[00:32:01] They lost what Yeshua had valued so dearly and he had ingrained into his disciples.
[00:32:10] And as much as I enjoy this life and all that comes with it, the machut hasamayim the kingdom of heaven or the messianic era is what we should be longing for, praying for, pining for, hoping for, praying for daily. If we're not working toward it now, then when do we start?
[00:32:29] So there are times in our lives that are more challenging than others. And some days we just don't want to get out of bed.
[00:32:38] I've had one of those recently.
[00:32:40] Maybe it's because of circumstances, maybe it's because of illness or some kind of hormonal imbalance.
[00:32:46] Maybe it's just that life has beaten you down.
[00:32:49] You're doing your best to tread water, but the waves continue to crash down, throwing you against the rocks, time after time after time. And you wonder, will this ever end?
[00:33:06] So let's go back to promises, progress and payoffs. Sometimes an author does all of these really well, and some people just don't enjoy the book.
[00:33:16] Sometimes it's because they don't like the characters or the setting or whatever. But sometimes it's for another reason.
[00:33:22] It's not that the story is broken, but it's that they've either not paid close attention enough, or they misunderstood the promise or missed the progression.
[00:33:37] Okay. I actually do a lot of my fiction reading on audio, and I'm working while I'm doing this, so a lot of times I'll miss parts.
[00:33:47] And so I did that with a book, oh, a year or so ago, and I was like, I didn't care for that book.
[00:33:52] And then somebody said something about it again. I went back and I was reread it, paid a little more clinician. I was like, that's the most amazing book I've ever read.
[00:33:59] It's because I missed the promises and the progress, and I didn't understand the payoff when it came time for it. Okay.
[00:34:10] Sometimes life is that way as well. We either misunderstand or misinterpret the promises that the Lord is making to us.
[00:34:19] We don't see the progress developing in our lives.
[00:34:23] But I want to remind you, Hashem is the greatest storyteller ever, and he's writing your story every single day.
[00:34:38] And your story's not broken.
[00:34:42] If you don't hear anything that I say, listen to this. Your story is not broken.
[00:34:50] He has written it from before you were born until after this life.
[00:34:58] And he has got an amazing plan for you.
[00:35:02] So if you're frustrated with life or aren't happy with your current situation, and you're currently asking Hashem when, then the first thing you need to do is go back and re examine what you believe. God has promised.
[00:35:16] See if you may have a misconception about that promise. The second thing is to review. Review your life and see what progress points you've missed along the way. Maybe Hashem has been doing something, but you just missed it.
[00:35:36] Been there, done that.
[00:35:40] Some of the times that we struggle with the most are the times that Hashem is using to create the fertile soil that he can do amazing things in us and produce the best fruit in us.
[00:35:54] Because even what at first may appear to be a setback can actually be steps of progress if we view them through the right lens. So whether you like it or not, we're all playing this waiting game together.
[00:36:09] The question is, will you give up?
[00:36:12] Will you take the next step that brings the kingdom? Because the waiting game is almost over.
[00:36:19] I know you've heard that before though, for 2,000 years. It's almost there, right?
[00:36:26] But you will be the big winner if you hang on to the end.
[00:36:30] We just need to change our perspective. From our perspective, we've been waiting forever. But from Hashem's perspective, it's perfect timing because God is not slow in keeping his promises, as some understand slowness to be. If you've not read Second Peter Chapter three in a while, I encourage you to go back. Just read that whole chapter. It's amazing.
[00:36:55] He talks about this principle of waiting on the Lord and His timing being different from ours. So whatever you're holding onto, strengthen your grip rather than asking when, remind yourself that his timing is perfect timing and then ask yourself if it's time for you to get busy. Because if you don't start now, then when Shabbat Shalom I'm Darren with Shalom Macon. If you enjoyed this teaching, I want to ask you to take the next step. Start by making sure you're subscribed to our channel. Next, make sure you hit the like button on this video so that others know it's worth their time to watch.
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