When the Going Gets Tough – Keith Johnson (Open Door Series – Part 10)

Keith Johnson speaks about "When the Going Gets Tough" in the Open Door Series Part 10

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When the Going Gets Tough - Keith Johnson (Open Door Series - Part 10)

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Keith: I’m going to ask you to roll up your sleeves. If you’re real, real comfortable, I’m going to ask you to get a little uncomfortable, because I’m about to share something with you that will be just a little bit tough. And if that’s all right, say amen.

Audience: Amen.

Keith: And if that’s not, you can leave. [laughter] But the reason I need to share this with you is because it is something that has certainly changed my life, and is changing people’s lives around the world. I’m so glad Nehemia talked about our book, A Prayer to Our Father: The Hebrew Origins of the Lord’s Prayer, because it is changing not only our lives, but the lives of people around the world. But one of the reasons it’s so radical is that we’re actually saying that we have an opportunity to taste, to smell, to feel that which was originally spoken by the one named “Yeshua”, or “Yehoshua”. Why is that so important? Because I think most of the people here would say they would love to be able to understand His words in the original language, history, and context. However, let me tell you something. His words in the original language, history, and context are tough. Say, “tough”.

Audience: Tough.

Keith: Now, if you’re still willing to hear His language, even though it’s tough, just raise your hand. Put it down. The second more important question is, if we were able to confirm that His language is tough, would you ever be willing to do it? You see, what I’m concerned about is, I come from a tradition where we don’t spend as much time in that which is original, we spend more time in that which has been presented to us. And I have to say something. That which has been presented to us doesn’t always call us to what is tough. Say, “tough”.

Audience: Tough.

Keith: When I read this particular passage that I’m going to share with you from the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, it will cause you to understand a little bit better what I call the perspective of just who our Father is, and who the one whom we call Yeshua, what it is that He actually came to do.

The copy of the book I have up on the screen, and one of the things I love about this is that we never intended to write a book. All Nehemia Gordon and I did was study the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew together. When I introduced myself to him and he accepted my friendship, he finally came back to me and he said, “Listen, Keith. I only have two rules. The first rule is, you don’t try to convert me, and I don’t try to convert you.” And I said, “No problem.” The second rule was, “We’re only going to study the Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible. None of that New Testament stuff. None of that Jesus stuff.” [laughter]

Six or seven years later, I get a phone call and it’s Nehemia Gordon, who still had had the door shut, so he was speaking in the Litvak Jew sort of voice. “Keith, this is Nehemia.” “Yeah, Nehemia. What’s goin’ on?” “I’d like to suspend one of the rules.” [laughter] “Are you kidding me? Which one of the rules do you want to suspend? Conversion or New Testament? Either way, I win.” [laughter and applause] And he said in his Litvak Jew sort of voice, he said, “I’d like to study the New Testament with you.” And I put the phone down and said, “Yes, Nehemia. I’d be glad to do that.”

After I got off the phone I shouted, and I said, “Father, You are about to do something powerful amongst Your people. You are going to connect the Methodist with a Karaite Jew who’s studied the Tanakh, the very Bible that Yeshua read. Now we’re going to take the system of study that we’ve put in place over years and years and years and we’re going to incorporate that study in the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew.” [applause]

Now, I have to tell you something that I mentioned to Michael this morning. We have not even begun to share the treasures that have been found in the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew. There are so many things that jump off the page, out of the book, that would knock a Karaite Jew down and put a Methodist slain in the spirit. [laughter] And one of the things that I’ve decided to do at Yom Teruah, the weekend, is to bring forward for you further revelation from the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew. [applause] I will tell you something. This morning was important for me because we were teaching in terms of responding to not only the man that sent the letter to me on 2 Corinthians chapter 6, but many of my Methodist brothers and sisters, and many of my other brothers and sisters that are saying, “What are you doing hanging out with this guy?”

Now, what I’m going to do is give you just a little application from the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, but you need to pray for me for tomorrow. You need to truly pray for me for tomorrow, because tomorrow, if the Father will allow it, I will share something with you that can bless you at the very core of your being.

However, I am convinced that if I make it through tomorrow, and we get to that session, it will probably not go over so well with the religious police. [laughter] But I’ve learned something about the religious police. Their secondary Hebrew term name is the Hounds of Hell, and they yell and they scream and they shout and they lift up their badges that do not have authority, because I will tell you something. I would rather be in the midst of the One who gives true authority than to fall prey to those who have false authority. [applause]

Now, back to what’s going to happen tonight. Have you rolled up your sleeves? I want to share with you something that’s out of the prayer that Nehemia and I taught, based on the Hebrew origins of the Lord’s Prayer. There’s a line in the prayer, and what Nehemia and I actually did is, we went to Israel, he came to the United States, we went back and forth with each other. We spent days, hours, weeks, months studying the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew in Hebrew, in Greek, in English, in Aramaic, in any other thing you can imagine. When we came to this particular section, we realized something very important. It was not good enough for he and I to keep this to ourselves. We had to share it with others, so we took all of our study and just went to one prayer. And I will tell you something, we have only scratched the surface of this prayer. The first phrase of the prayer is Avinu. Say, “Avinu”.

Audience: Avinu.

Keith: Our Father. And my friend, the Litvak Jew, when we sat down to study, you know, we sat down to study together, we were in Charlotte. We had about four computers with us, all sorts of books, all sorts of Greek, he had German and English, and everything. We had all sorts, I mean, things you just could not imagine. Nehemia says to me in the beginning, he says, “Listen, this first phrase, Avinu, Our Father, you just do that. That doesn’t apply to me, as the Jewish person. You know, I mean, our Father, you guys call Him Father, you’ve got the Son. Hey, we don’t call him ‘Father’ until…” Say, “until”.

Audience: Until.

Keith: …we opened up the book that Yeshua read. And guess what we found, over, and over, and over, He is called “Father” even for the Jew. [applause]

The second phrase, “Yitkadesh shimkha”, say, “Yitkadesh”.

Audience: Yitkadesh.

Keith: Shimkha.

Audience: Shimkha.

Keith: Your name be sanctified, a call to action. This put me into a situation where I was literally arrested for over a year, after we came out with this book. We went out to try to just simply teach the prayer, and every single time, I would get stuck on Yitkadesh Shimkha, because I knew that that phrase, unlike the poetic term, “Hallowed be Thy name,” “Yitkadesh Shimkha” is a call to action.

How could I be teaching people this particular prayer if I did not want to move into action regarding His name? So what I did was for about a month-and-a-half, I was fasting, and praying, and I literally was arrested in my place, in my home, studying again all of the time that I had spent with my friend, Nehemia Gordon, learning about the name that my Jewish brothers and sisters said were too holy to pronounce, too powerful to handle, too profound to understand. Therefore, I was prohibited from speaking it, but my Jewish friend, Nehemia Gordon, who reads the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Hebrew manuscripts, the Aleppo, the Leningrad, like I read the USA Today, he chose to give me the key to the treasure.

And when he gave me the key to the treasure, it was not good enough for me to keep this little flame for me and my friend. What I was called to was to make that information available to the world. And over the next year, 500 people from around the world, including our friend Andrew Hodkinson, received the study, went over the study. I even have study partners here in New Mexico, who had the study and they would make comments. And they would say, “What about this, and what about that, and what about this, and what about that?” They then sent it back to me, I went and changed everything based on the Scriptures. Then after that, I handed it to my Hebrew scholar, Nehemia Gordon from the Hebrew University, and he messed up and said this. I don’t know if he had wine. I don’t know if he was tired. [laughter] I don’t know why he said it, but he said to me, “Keith, this is a magnificent masterpiece.”

Audience: [laughter]

Keith: And because it already came out of his mouth, he tried to get it and put it back in, but somebody say, “He already said it!”

Audience: He already said it.

Keith: Then he messed around, and travelled with me to South Africa. Boy, I’m going to tell you something. I’ve got to tell this story. We went to South Africa, and as we were in South Africa, Nehemia got sick. Say, “sick”.

Audience: Sick.

Keith: When Nehemia got sick, I took advantage of the opportunity to go out by myself. And my friend, Andrew Hodkinson, took me to a place where there were Zulu warriors. You may have heard about it before, but the end result was simply this. As I was amongst these Zulu warriors, and they were singing and they were dancing, they shouted out three Hebrew words. And those three Hebrew words, I’ve got to believe somebody in the distant past must have learned these three Hebrew words and shared it with the next person, and shared it with the next generation, and the next generation.

So when I’m there with Andrew Hodkinson, and after the end of the singing and the dancing, they give these three Hebrew words in this order. “Amen! Hallelu! Yah.” Now, let me tell you why this is a big deal, and I ain’t got a slide for it, so just bear with me.

When they said, “Amen! Hallelu! Yah!” in that order, it only shows up one time in the Bible that Yeshua read. These Zulu brothers and sisters had the shortened, poetic form of God’s name in their generation, in the exact order of the Psalms. Somebody say, “There must be people all over the world that have been scattered. And yet, they still are yearning to call upon the name of our Creator!” Amen?

Audience: Woo-hoo. [applause]

Keith: Oh, my goodness. So Yitkadesh Shimkha, that one phrase caused me to write 226 pages, 80 different descriptions in Hebrew in the back of the book, 616 verses that make up the book. And I will tell you something that most people don’t know - in the back of the book, there’s a bonus section on what about the name Jesus? Oh, you’d better get it. [laughter]

Now, for the presentation. As we’re going over this prayer, we made a radical decision. What if we actually went to the places where the prayer was actually created? So I went over to Israel, and the first thing we did is we went down in the basement and looked at the Hebrew manuscripts that were based on manuscripts. You all, I’m going to talk a little bit more about it tomorrow, but it is amazing what my friend Nehemia was able to share with me so that we can share it with you.

This is information that the Greek scholars cannot read, and the Hebrew scholars do not care about. But God called a Litvak to hook up with a Methodist so that you could be blessed today. [applause]

Now, there’s a line in the prayer that I’m going to simply share with you tonight in the spirit of what I believe is happening around the world. I have a picture up here that I would like you to take a look at. This picture is called The Wilderness. Say, “wilderness”.

Audience: Wilderness.

Keith: Nehemia and I did a radical thing. We actually went out into the wilderness to see if we could experience what it would be like for Yeshua, or in my tradition whom they would call Jesus, what it would be like for Him during the time of what I learned to be the Temptation. So Nehemia and I went out there, and Nehemia warned me, he said, “Keith, now listen. Out here, it’s very, very dry. It’s the kind of thing where you’re going to need to bring plenty of water.” And I said, “Hey, listen. I used to be with the Vikings. I’m in shape. I’m still in shape today, I’m fine. Let me just have my one bottle of water.” Until about two-and-a-half hours in the desert, and I’m so glad that Nehemia was willing to share with me his water. Here is a picture of us. That’s Nehemia before he went on the 40-day fast in the wilderness. [laughter] That’s me after I actually have some water. And the reason that we’re there, we’re there trying to experience the situation that Yeshua was in.

And as we were there, there were things, you all, that happened that were just radical. Now, I’m going to share with you right now some of this. There’s a word, if you open up your Bibles into Matthew chapter 6, the normal statement is this. “Lead us not into temptation.” Say, “temptation”.

Audience: Temptation.

Keith: The idea being that Yeshua is teaching the people that there is this idea of temptation, and that He’s going to his Father and saying, “Father, please don’t lead us into temptation.” Now, that’s fine if we want to stay right there, but we learned this morning this really radical idea to…

Audience: Keep reading.

Keith: …keep reading. So what do I want to read? I want to go to the Greek, and I want to understand what the Greek says. So if I put up here, “Lead us not into temptation,” I find that that is the word “parasmon”. Say, “parasmon”.

Audience: Parasmon.

Keith: Now, if I see the Greek “parasmon” and I see the English “temptation”, I’m still trying to find out what was the actual word that Yeshua used? Here’s what I’ve done. Here’s the prayer, right here. I’m going to share it with you, but one of the things I love about this, this particular prayer is in the font of the 1st century. In other words, that if Yeshua was walking in the 1st century and, I don’t know, there might be a story like this, where maybe someone has him kneel down and write in the sand, if he was writing in Hebrew, you’re actually looking at the actual Hebrew letters in the way he would write them in the 1st century. And how do we know this? Because of the Dead Sea Scrolls, where we actually have scrolls where we’re writing actually in this font. This is important, because in this particular prayer, there’s a line that kind of rocks my world regarding the issue of temptation. It says, “Do not bring us into the hands of a test.” Can you say, “test”?

Audience: Test.

Keith: Now, if I find out what that word means in the Bible that Yeshua reads, I find this word. It is the word “nisa”, say, “nisa”.

Audience: Nisa.

Keith: Okay, why is this important, you all? Because again, what we want to do is, we want to go back in time. We want to try to get an idea of the language, history, and context of this particular prayer. There’s a word that he uses in the prayer that is connected to the word “nisa”, and I’m going to actually share with you this phrase. I cannot take the time to share the entire prayer with you, but I want to share this with you. I want you to say, “ve’al”.

Audience: Ve’al.

Keith: Ve’al.

Audience: Ve’al.

Keith: Tevieynu.

Audience: Tevieynu.

Keith: Lidei.

Audience: Lidei.

Keith: Nisayon.

Audience: Nisayon.

Keith: Which means, not simply, “Lead us not into temptation.” Yeshua is looking up at his heavenly Father and he’s saying, “Do not bring us…” say, “us”.

Audience: Us.

Keith: “…into the hands of a test.” You all, I’m going to tell you, this is exciting to me. Why is it exciting to me? Because if I open up my Torah scroll that I received in the Land of Israel, and I get to the section that is read around the world during the time of Yom Teruah in Jewish synagogues around the world, they will open up their Torah scroll, and if I was there, I would raise my hand and I would say, “Can I read this section? I’m about to speak to a whole bunch of folks in New Mexico during the time of Yom Teruah,” and they would say, “Yes, come,” hopefully. And if I were to open and to read all around the world in the second day of their reading - because they do two days, the first day they read one section, the second day they read a second section. And I have to stop and say, thank you to our friend, Ira in Florida, Rabbi Ira, who actually shared this with me. He actually did the dance in his room. He also is the one who has decided to incorporate the name Yehovah into the singing and the chanting of the Priestly Benediction. [applause]

He finds this and he says, “Keith, you’ve got to tell the people this, that all over the world, people are unrolling the scroll, and this is what they’re seeing.” I’m going to show you a picture. This is the scroll, that’s my scroll right there that I have in my house. I love to be able to open it and read it for myself, so I can see what it says.

But this is what they would read in the synagogue. “Now, it came about after these things that God tested Abraham and said to him, ‘Abraham…’” and he said three words that I wish my Church denomination would learn to say, “Here I am.” Now, leave the screen up there for just a second.

If I open my scroll, I find out that now it came about after these things that God nisa Abraham and said to him, “Abraham,” and He said still, “Here I am.” So what’s the connection? “Then Jesus was led up into the Spirit, into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.” That is what it says in the King James Version. If I open up the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, if you’ll keep the screen, here is what it says. “Then Yeshua was led up of the Ruakh Hakodesh into the desert to be nisa by haSatan.” Do you see the difference? Lead us not into temptation. Do not bring us into the hands of a test.

Now’s where it gets exciting. When the going gets tough, what do the tough do?

Audience: Get going.

Keith: When the going gets tough, what do the tough do? I’m going to tell you what I’m going to do. First thing they do is they roll up their sleeves. And I think one of the things that we can do tonight is this; let’s see what the tough one named Yeshua did when the going got tough. Let’s use Yeshua to see what he does when the going gets tough.

There are three universal tests, I like to say this. There are three universal tests, and the first test that we’re going to talk about is exactly the test that haSatan, the devil, used against the one named Yeshua. Now, what I like about right now is you all are getting real quiet. I sense that some of you in this house have gone, or are going presently through a test. If I were to have you raise your hands, and I won’t, I would guarantee you that there are some of you that are presently in a test, and I will guarantee you that most of you will take the route of that test back to one of these universal tests. The first one, somebody say, “provision”.

Audience: Provision.

Keith: You know what I’m talking about. Can I get an amen?

Audience: Amen.

Keith: Let me make it easier for you. For me, this is a real test. Father, where are you at when the provision is scarce? And I know, probably here in New Mexico, you guys don’t have financial issues. [laughter] I’m sure some of you are thinking, “What are you talking about? I’ve got all the money I need. I’ve got all the finance. I’ve got all the situation.” But are there one or two people that would understand the issue of the test regarding provision? Here’s what happened. “When he had fasted 40 days, say, ‘40 days…’”

Audience: 40 days.

Keith: “…and 40 nights, He was afterward,” and I’m using the King James Version, “He was hungry.” Makes sense. And then it says, “And when the tempter came to Him, He said…” now, I think this is interesting, if I could stop for a moment. Yeshua was hungry. And it’s interesting - the tester didn’t come to him in day one. The tester didn’t come to him in week one. The tester waited until the end of the 40 days… it seems like the tester almost knows where the potential weakness would be.

You know, that’s why we get quiet sometimes, because with you, some of you that are here, he waits until you are weak and then he comes to you and says, “Take care of it yourself.” And when the tempter came to him he said, “If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But He answered…” [laughing] this is Yeshua, it says, “but He answered the tester with three simple words. ‘It is written.’”

Audience: It is written.

Keith: When the going gets tough, the tough get to the word. Is anyone tougher than Yeshua? I’ve met some tough people. The rabbi last week, Ira - tough. Nehemia Gordon on the camel - not so tough. [laughter] But when I read about the one whom they call Yeshua, is there anyone that you’ve read about that is more tough?

And yet, in the midst of the tempter, tester, the actual introduction of the test, he says these three words that I wish my Methodist brothers and sisters, and my Messianic brothers and sisters, and my Baptist - come on somebody - brothers and sisters, and my Catholic brothers and sisters, and all the denominations, and all the Jewish synagogues around the world, would learn to say what Yeshua said. “When the going gets tough,” the tough get to the word, “It is written.”

Audience: It is written.

Keith: And then he does something. Now, you all, I can’t help it. I’m sorry, I just have to do this. Can I open up the Bible that he read? “For He said, ‘It is written.’” Now, if he said, “It is written,” something interesting happens. I’m going to open up this Bible and I’m going to go to the section that Yeshua pulled out the “it is written” from. What I’m holding here is the Hebrew Bible. Of course, his was not leather-bound. He would read scrolls. What this represents is the oldest, most complete Hebrew Bible in the world, called the Aleppo Codex, which also has the Leningrad Codex, which is the oldest, most complete vocalized Hebrew Bible in the world, which is based on your English Old Testament. So we’ve got two witnesses, say, “two”.

Audience: Two.

Keith: If I open up this Bible, here’s what I would see. It says here, in I think Deuteronomy chapter 8, you mean Yeshua quoted from the Torah? That seems radical. “All the commandments which I command you this day, you should be careful to do, in order that you might live and you might increase, and you might enter, and you might possess the land which…” oh, my goodness, “Yud-Hey-Vav-Hey,” oh, my goodness. I have to say it, if it’s all right with you. Or maybe I should just say, “Lord”. But since I’m reading from the Hebrew Bible, I’d better say it the way we find it in the Aleppo Codex. It says, “which Yehovah has sworn to your fathers, you shall remember all of the ways in which Yehovah has led you this 40 years.”

Yeshua is about to do something radical. He’s reading in Deuteronomy chapter 8 this context. And from this context he pulls out his response to the tester. 40 years, 40 days. And it says, “40 days in the desert, in order to afflict you,” oh, my goodness, “and to test you,” and I love this part, “to know what is in your heart.” Oh, somebody’s going through a test. Somebody’s dealing with a test of provision, and Daddy knows all about it. But sometimes, say, “sometimes”.

Audience: Sometimes.

Keith: He’ll use the test to find out what is in your heart, “to see whether or not you will keep His commandments or not. You were afflicted. You were hungry, and He fed you with manna.” Say, “manna…”

Audience: Manna.

Keith: “…which you did not know, and your fathers did not know, in order that you might know.” And then it says this, if I could just change this here. I need to bring it to you just the way he said it to the tempter, or the tester. Deuteronomy chapter 8 verse 3, you all know what it says there in English. What he does, he does not speak English. So I’m imagining something. He’s there and he’s remembering in Deuteronomy chapter 8 from his Bible, and not to be overly dramatic, but I want you to imagine that it’s 40 days, and 40 nights, and he’s tired. The Bible said, “He was hungry,” and I can hear him in my mind, in the wilderness, because I’ve been there. I can imagine him standing before the one who is the tester. And I hear him with sort of a raspy voice maybe saying, “Ki lo al halekhem levado ikhiyeh ha’adam ki al…” and I can hear his voice getting louder for this section, “ki al kol motza pi…” and does he stop and say, “Should I say ‘Hashem?” Does he stop and say, “Well, the rabbis say, maybe I should say Adonai?” Or does he say what he read in the Bible that he understood?

I think his voice started out, “Ki lo al halekhem levado ikhiyeh ha’adam…” and then, I could hear him say, “ki al kol motza pi Yehovah ikhiyeh ha’adam.” “A man does not live by bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of My Daddy who has a name.”

Test number one - provision. Why does he bring this out? Because he understands something. Even Satan, haSatan, knew something about the book. Can I get an amen?

Audience: Amen.

Keith: In fact, I’ll go so far to say that haSatan knows more about the Hebrew Bible than my bishop. And I don’t mind saying that, because I love everybody that I’m connected to, but I also will continue to challenge everybody I’m connected to, to get back to this.

Test number two - this is one that’s probably a little more difficult. I call this test, the test of pride. Say, “pride”.

Audience: Pride.

Keith: The first one, provision, dealing with our need, our physical need. And of course, haSatan coming to Yeshua saying, “Hey, do something about it yourself.” And some of you have heard that. God has forgotten you. Do something about provision yourself. Turn that which you are not to turn into something that you need. And this is the problem presently in the Church, and may I even go so far, even in the synagogue. Maybe we get impatient with the fact that what we need we don’t have now, so we rely on ourselves for our own provision. But because you all are so quiet, let’s move to pride.

“Then the devil took Him…” oh, I love this. Now, wait a minute. He just whooped you with the word. “Then the devil took Him?” Wait a minute. You mean to say the devil has patience? You mean to say, the devil has perseverance? You mean to say, even after he heard a “no”, he kept knocking at the door? “Then the devil took Him into the Holy City and had Him stand on the pinnacle of the Temple and said to Him, ‘If You are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for Satan himself said, For it is written.’”

You mean to tell me he knows what is written? “He will command his angels concerning You, and on their hands they will bear You up so that You will not strike Your foot against a stone.” Problem - the devil takes Scripture out of context. You all can relax now. “For it is written, ‘He will command His angels concerning You and on their hands they will bear you up so that You will not strike Your foot against a stone.’”

If I open up the Bible Yeshua read, I would say, “For He will give His angels charge concerning You, to guard You in all Your ways. They will bear You up in their hands that You do not strike Your foot against a stone.”

Now, let’s do this wonderful thing that I wish more people do, and that is to keep reading. You cannot build a denomination off a verse, though there are many that have.

Can I say it again? Come on Arthur Bailey. Bishop, can you tell me something, apostle? So are there not denominations, I think they say there are like 30,000 denominations, and many of those denominations will pick one verse and say, “We stand on the word of God without context, but we stand on it. And if we want to bring the entire context, we’re not interested in that, because we’re just like haSatan, when it’s time to prove what we want to prove, we’ll do with Scripture anything we want to do with Scripture.”

When will we learn that when He gave His word, He gave it in context? Oh, I wish I had somebody in here. “No evil will befall you.” Now, because I think Yeshua understood context, “nor will any plague come near your tent. You will tread upon the lion and the cobra. The young lion…” I wonder if he realized this, “The young lion and the serpent, You will trample down.” And then, here comes old Satan, pulling out of this particular passage his verse, to try to prove what it is that he’s telling Yeshua to do. “Yeshua, if you’re the Son of God, God must really need You. I’ll tell you what we’re going to do. We’re going to go to the highest point of the Temple,” which just happens to be the place where under it would have been the Holy of Holies. He’s standing up on the Temple, and he’s saying to him, “You are some bad dude. You are tough, Yeshua. You are amazing. God must really need You right now. I think You could act the fool. Throw Yourself down, and because You’re so important in the religious movement that’s taking place, God will charge His angels to help fix your mess.”

Sounds… somebody say, “familiar”.

Audience: Familiar.

Keith: Oh, there are so many religious leaders that the Father will allow to grow so far, and then they’ll get on top of the Temple. You know, the TV ratings are good. Come on, somebody. You know, they got plenty of tithes and plenty of offerings, and they’re flying in planes, and riding on trains. And they have two or three automobiles, and they’re thinking, “You know what? I have got the shizzle. I am somebody. I can act the fool. I can throw myself down.” And they’re listening to Satan, and they’re thinking that they’re so important to God that they can make a Scripture that does not even mean what it means. And so they throw themselves down, act the fool and say, “God, bless this mess.” And you know what? It is exactly what is taking place today.

Woman: Yes.

Keith: He takes it out of context. They apply it into their lives, but if we continue reading, it says this. “Because He has loved Me, therefore I will deliver Him. I will set Him securely on high.” Not on high of your religious movement. I’ll set him securely on high where I want him to be, “because He has known My name. He will call upon Me, and I will answer Him. I will be with Him in trouble…” Say, “trouble”.

Audience: Trouble.

Keith: “I will rescue him and honor him with a long life. I will satisfy him and let him see My salvation.” That is the context of the proof text. I’m not so sure that Satan should’ve used that proof text, because Yeshua did something. In my King James Bible it says, “Jesus said to him, ‘On the other hand, it is written…’”

Audience: It is written.

Keith: Now, you all, I have to do something again. Can I open up the Bible? And if I’m thinking right, “He would be again…” in sync with Deuteronomy. And I think this time, he would be in Deuteronomy, oh, I think it would be around verse 13. In English it says, “You shall not put the Lord, your God, to the test.” Now, I love this. In verse 16, yes, it’s 16 - I’m not as good on the memorization of the Hebrew Bible as Yeshua. You didn’t get that. In Hebrew, he would say to haSatan, and at this point, he’s probably now on top of the Temple, as it says, and maybe he can kind of feel something - maybe the leftovers of what it was like when the Ark of the Covenant used to be in the Temple, because you know that by the time that Satan took him to the top of the Temple, there was no Ark of the Covenant, which is called by the name, in the Holy of Holies, but it was still considered the Holy of Holies by many people.

And so Satan has got him up there, and I can imagine him maybe feeling, “This is a very holy place that I’m at.” And then he says, in Hebrew, maybe feeling a little better, “Lo tenasu et Yehovah Eloheikhem.” What does that mean? He stopped in the middle of the verse. According to my English Bible, he stopped in the middle of the verse. But in the Hebrew Bible, he had to have known the second phrase of the verse. It says, “Lo tenasu et Yehovah Eloheikhem ka’asher nisitem bamasa.” Can I show you what it says?

Deuteronomy 6:16, you see three words, “tenasu”, say that.

Audience: Tenasu.

Keith: Say, “nisitem”.

Audience: Nisitem.

Keith: Say, “bamasa”.

Audience: Bamasa.

Keith: Why did Yeshua pick this response to the tester? Because three times in this verse is the word “nisa”, “test”. “You shall not test Yehovah, your God, as when you tested Him at tests.” What are you talking about, at tests? It doesn’t say, “at tests”. Well, if you read the Bible in its original language, history, and context, you find out that the place “masa” which was actually named by Moshe, was called “nisa bamasa,” is test. Say, “test”.

Audience: Test.

Keith: Yeshua is picking a verse to remind himself three times, three different tests. This is test, this is test, this is test, this is test, this is test. And you all, I wish you’d learn to be able to say this, “This is test.” This is test. Somebody say it - “this is test”.

Audience: This is test.

Keith: This is test.

Audience: This is test.

Keith: And we want to pass the test. Third verse, third test. First of all, provision. Second of all, pride. But I have to tell you, the third one is probably the most controversial. I’m sure some of you that are here will probably guess what the third one is. Provision, we kind of understand. Pride, we can put that off on the religious leaders. But this one, we call “power”. And there are people here that are struggling in this area of this test. Here’s what Satan does. Again, say, “again...”

Audience: Again.

Keith: “The devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.” Now, remember something. Before we go any further, when the going gets tough, the tough get to the word. I said, when the going gets tough, the tough…

Audience: Get to the word.

Keith: Why? Because the real power is in the word. HaSatan comes and he shows him all of this stuff. And all of these things he says, “I shall give You.” Now, I’ve got to stop here for a second, because there’s something I want to tell people that have fallen into the failure of this test. He will promise you the world, but I’ve got to tell you a secret. Every time he speaks, he lies. I said, every time he speaks, he lies. And he’s been whispering to some men in this place, telling some men in this place, “I’ll give it to you, if you do it my way.” But I’ve got to tell you something, men. He lies. Oh, there’s women in this place where he’s whispered in your ear, “If you just do it this way, I will…” and you need to know something, women - every time he speaks, he lies.

Oh, the real tough people are going to want to understand what it says in the word of God. He said, “All of these things, I will give you if you fall down and worship me.” Can I open Hebrew Matthew for a second? Is it all right with you?

Now, understand something. Hebrew Matthew is not popular with the Aramaic folks. I don’t know if you know it or not, but there’s an official Aramaic Bible of the Messianic movement. And they have decided the witness of the Hebrew doesn’t match the Aramaic, and so they don’t so much want you to learn the Hebrew, because then you might decide that you want to do what Nehemia and I have done. We want to compare the Hebrew, the Greek, the Aramaic, the English, the versions. We want all of the witnesses, but the Aramaic people are saying, “No, there’s only one witness.” That, to me, is a problem, especially since the reason you don’t want anyone to look at the Hebrew is because the Aramaic is $59.95. It’s about power. It’s about money. It’s about the wrong things. They have been whispered in their ear from haSatan, that has said, “It is more important for you to have the power than to give the people the option to know the truth.”

I don’t mind saying it. You know why I don’t mind saying it? Because they already came at me, and they asked me, “If you bow down to the Aramaic, we’ll keep you on television.”

Audience: Oh!

Keith: It is written. [applause] Hello, somebody. Here’s what it says in Hebrew Matthew, and if I can make it to tomorrow, Father, would you let me live till tomorrow, so I can give these people this information? [laughter]

I’m not laughing. I’m dead serious. Would you let me live till tomorrow, to give these people this information? But before that, can I share what it says in Hebrew Matthew?

Audience: Yes.

Keith: It says this. “If you bare Your head to me.” Satan says, “Look, all I need to see is Your bald head.” And how will You bare Your head to me? By going like this. That’s all he wants. That’s all he wants. Don’t keep erect. Don’t keep your head up, even though provision is funny. Keep your head up when pride ain’t around. Keep your head up when they’re trying to offer you power that ain’t real power. Keep your head up. I will not bare my bald head to you. [laughter]

Oh, I wish there were more people. Tyler, do me a favor, Tyler. You know, earlier today, for the television cameras, for the television cameras, I saw Tyler do something I’ve never seen him do. My friend, Andrew, was up here singing, and he was singing, and Tyler thought, “What a great shot. This is a great TV shot.” Tyler leapt behind his computer and ran down to the front saying, “Rise, get up. Come on, you’re on TV.” You all, don’t you know I’m talking about something that’s better than TV right now? Do you know what we’re talking about is having an opportunity to respond, to have an encounter with the very words of Yeshua? Yeshua himself said, “Father, ve’al tevieynu lidei nisayon.” “Do not bring us into the hands of a test.” But if You do, when the going gets tough, the tough…

Audience: Get to the word.

Keith: You all don’t even get excited. Boy, I wish I was in a Methodist church right now. Oh, I miss the Methodist church right now, because you know, I could just open my mouth and say one or two little words, they’d say, “Hey, pastor!” The Messianic movement, boy you’re tough. [laughter] You guys are hard. I don’t know if it’s because you’ve been so wrecked and messed up in the church that you think, “I’m not listening to that pastor. He comes from the church.” Guess what? Truth is truth, wherever it comes from. [applause]

Let me move on, because I’m going to try my best to get to the end of this. I love what Yeshua said to Satan. If you don’t learn nothing else from what I’m talking about, could you learn these words? Can you put it up again? Four simple words, the letters Yud-Hey-Vav-Hey, okay? Those are four letters, you all got that? Say, “Yud”.

Audience: Yud.

Keith: Hey.

Audience: Hey.

Keith: Vav

Audience: Vav.

Keith: Hey.

Audience: Hey.

Keith: Oh, you all know how to do that. Oh, I mean, the Messianic movement, Yud-Hey-Vav-Hey, you all know the letters, but I wish you all would also learn, “Away from me, Satan.” Do you know that you can actually tell him to hit the road? The tough one teaches us that when he’s had enough of this particular conversation and dialogue, he finally says, “Away from me, Satan.” For then, he does this, “It is written.” I love this. Can I one more time open up the book?

Audience: Yes.

Keith: I think it is in 6 and round about 13. I can imagine the first time he’s saying, “Man does not live by bread alone.” And the second time, as he’s on the Temple, I can hear him getting a little more energy. But by the third time, I think he’s saying this. “Yehovah Eloheikha tirah ve’eto ta’avod.” “Yehovah, your God, you shall fear and Him, you shall serve.”

I can hear him doing a Holy Ghost dance in the presence of Satan. “Oh, you want me to bare my head? Oh, let me bare my head to Him. And you would be wise, Satan, to learn to do the same thing,” because there’s only one God that you should serve. Though they will tell you, “You can go to this mosque, and you can go to this temple, and you can go to this special place of a saint, and you can go to this special appearance of Mary, and you can go to the special…” Come one, somebody. “And you can go here, and you can go there, and you can go there. And as long as it feels good to you, you are serving, and you are worshipping. You’re being spiritual.” But let me tell you something. Satan loves spiritual people. He loves people that like to get spiritual, because he’ll slip in sometimes, and act like he’s Mary.

And he’ll slip in sometimes and act like he’s Buddha. Come on, somebody. He’ll slip in sometimes, and act… Oh, I’d better stop. You all ain’t feeling it. Just as long as you will bare your head to anyone other than him, Satan is happy. But I love the fact that there are two more words in the verse in the Bible that Yeshua read. Oh, I love this so much. It says, “Yehovah, your God, you shall fear, and Him you shall serve.” And the English translators of the New Testament could not put the next two words in your English Bible. Here are the next two words. I guess I should… can I show them to you?

Audience: Yeah.

Keith: Are you all still with me here?

Audience: Yeah.

Keith: Because you all are quiet. The next two words in Deuteronomy 13 are “u’vishmoh tishaveah”. Let me just slow down, because now I’ve really got to slow down. He’s talking to the tester. The tester’s come against him in provision, and when the going gets tough, the tough…

Audience: Get to the word.

Keith: And then he brings pride. But when the going gets tough, the tough…

Audience: Get to the word.

Keith: But then the third one, power. He brings this verse, “Yehovah Eloheikha, tira ve’oto ta’avod, u’vishmoh tishaveah.” “And in His name, you shall swear.” Nehemia, my Jewish brother, would you get excited for me over the fact that Yeshua is quoting from a verse that in the original verse that he would be quoting, he would understand the significance of swearing in the name?

Nehemia: Woo-hoo!

[applause]

Keith: You see, the reason that you all don’t understand the significance of this is, you have been conditioned that you’re never supposed to swear, neither yes or no is all you’re supposed to do. However, if you look in the Hebrew version of the Gospel of Matthew which Nehemia and I have read, you will find out that he said, “You should not swear falsely.” Please learn to swear in His name, because when you swear in His name, you shall be built up.

Audience: Woo! [applause]

Keith: I talk about this in the book, and it’s something that I learned that radically changed my life. Do you know that the Father in Heaven actually wants His children to learn to swear in His name? And let me tell you why - because if you learn to swear in His name, He knows you won’t mess with lying. Because if you swear in His name and you lie, there ain’t no help for you. So if my wife pushes me to the end and says, “Keith, but did that really happen?” “Yes, baby. It happened.” “Keith, did it really happen like that?” “Yes, baby, it happened.” She’ll say this to me. “Will you swear in His name?” And I’ll raise my right hand to heaven, and I will say, “Andrea, I swear in the name Yehovah that that is what happened.” And she knows that if Keith raises his hand to swear in His name, it’s life or death.

When Satan saw Yeshua bring this verse, he didn’t have any choice but to get up of there. He had to leave at that point, because Yeshua’s saying, “You can come to me with provision,” and Satan’s thinking, “Well, maybe I can get you to do what Moses did. Maybe I can get you to do something outside of what God has commanded you to do.” You know, with Moses, it says in Exodus 17 they called it “masa”, but in Numbers 20 Moses decided to take it into his own hands, God said, “Take the staff. Go again, speak to the rock.” Moses got caught up and struck the rock two times. And Satan probably thought, “If I could just get Yeshua to strike the rock, if I could just get him to make the provision himself, maybe he will be kept from the promised land.” But Yeshua had read the story of Moshe. He had read the story of Genesis and Exodus. Come on, somebody, Leviticus, and Numbers, and Deuteronomy. And he ain’t like some of us. After he reads it, he understands it. “I’m not going to be tricked. I will not take my own power from my provision. I will not fall down and do something stupid and ask God to fix it. I’m not throwing myself from the Temple. I’m not a fool.”

But when it came to power, Yeshua understood where the real power is. And if it’s possible, just possible, that Yeshua had what I call “the power of perspective.” Let me end this thing like this. I want you to open your Bibles to this verse. I’m rolling up my sleeves, because it’s going to get real interesting now. “Now, there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Yud-Hey-Vav-Hey,” but in English, “the LORD”, and Satan also came among them. The LORD said to Satan, ‘From where do you come?’”

Now, some of us think that Satan has his own will that is outside the will of when the Father wants him to do something. When God asks Satan a question, Satan couldn’t say, “I’m Satan. I don’t want to answer Your question.” I mean, Satan could have done that, right? Except he’s in the presence of the Almighty. When the Almighty says, “Question,” Satan knows, “I’d better answer.” Now you all have gone real quiet, and that’s okay. “From where do you come from?” Then Satan answers the Lord and said, “From roaming about the earth, walking around on it,” and then a radical line that most people do not like to read. But before I get to the line, I should give you the picture. He roams around the earth. He’s not omniscient. He’s not omnipresent. If he’s not in this room, look at your neighbor and say, “He ain’t here.”

Audience: He ain’t here.

Keith: If he’s in this room, he’s not in your hotel room. If he’s in your hotel room, he can’t also be at your house. He can only be in one place at a time, because I’ve got to give you all a secret. Satan is not God.

Audience: Yeah. [applause]

Keith: From roaming about on the earth and walking around in it, checking, looking, seeing, if I could find somebody to fall to the test. “Have you considered my servant, Job?” Can I stop here for a minute? The Creator of the universe is talking to haSatan, the adversary, and He’s saying, “Have you considered my servant, Job?” Wait a minute. You mean to say that God brought the idea of test to the adversary about his servant, Job? Come to find out that that’s exactly what happened. Satan said this. “Oh yeah, sure. Job. He’s got it going on. He’s got a good house, a good wife, got a good bank account, got a good family. He’s got flocks, and herds, and all that stuff. But if You let me do what I can do, he’ll curse You to Your face.” And the Father says this, “Very well. But only this far.”

And normally, Tyler should be running around the room in revival when I told you what I just told you, because what you need to know is this - Satan has a leash.

Audience: Woo! [applause]

Keith: And let me tell you who’s on the other end of Satan’s leash. Oh, he doesn’t like this, I can guarantee he ain’t in the room right now. I think Yeshua knows the story of Job, and I think Yeshua knew that his Father is the one that will decide who will be tested and for how much they will be tested. I love the fact, when I think about the picture of Satan saying, “Well, how far can I go?” And He says, “You can only go this far.” “But I want to go further.” “You can only go this far.” So guess what Satan does? You think Satan says, “Well, hey. I’m Satan. I’m going to do what I want. I’m going to go beyond the line.” Guess what? “Here’s as far as you can go.”

And so after that, Job doesn’t fall into the situation, so Satan comes back, the Sons of God, present themselves before God, and Satan also comes in. And I can hear God’s with kind of a smirk on His face. “Satan, you who know all things, have you considered my servant, Job?” He says, “Yeah, but listen. Let me touch his body.” I know this is very uncomfortable for you all, but “Let me touch his body.” And God says this, “Very well. You can touch my servant Job’s body.” Satan went out and he could only go this far. And yet, in the end, Job did not curse God, and Satan lost. [applause]

I’m telling you, somebody’s got to hear me. Somebody’s got to hear me. Somebody’s got to hear me. Now, you guys, listen to me, just listen to me, bear with me. I’m going to get through this. There is one God who sits high and looks low. He’s not cowering in heaven, saying, “What am I going to do about Satan? I have no authority. I have no power. But if enough people would just pray, maybe My will shall be done.” I’m not trying to be funny, but I’m telling you something. There are too many Methodists that think like this. Bear with me, just for a second. “Maybe if we pray enough, maybe God will do something… maybe Satan will…”

Listen, let me tell you something. Satan does not have the authority of God. [applause] Thank you, sister. Here again, you keep standing. You keep standing, and maybe they’re going to catch up with you. Some of you are cowering. Some of you are backing down. Some of you are saying, “He’s got too much power.” But somebody has got to hear me today. There is one God, and it is not Satan! [applause] Oh, listen to me now. Listen to me, listen to what I’m saying. There’s only one. There’s only one. There’s one that you bare your head to. There’s one that gives you provision. There’s one that has all the power, and it is not Satan!

I’m going to do something. Stay standing. Stay standing, if you will, because maybe the internet crowd is understanding what I’m saying. Maybe some of them are running around the room saying, “You mean to say there’s really only one I should fear? You mean to say, there’s really only one I should serve? And you mean to tell me that even Yeshua at the third point of his test did not even say, ‘In My name,’ but rather he said, ‘I’ve learned to swear in His name.’” Why is that important? Because he understood there was only one thing you do when the going gets tough, the tough get the word.

Audience: Get the word.

Keith: Hold on, now. I’m going to say something radical, and I’m so glad this is the last time I’m speaking, because I’m sure now I’m in trouble. They might not let me back tomorrow. I’ve got to tell you something. When Yeshua is standing before Satan, based on what our understanding is in Western Christianity, you would have thought he’d have done something else.

I told Michael this morning this. We were outside of the hotel and I said, “You know what, Michael? I’m convinced of something. If Yeshua walked on the streets of Albuquerque, New Mexico on a Sunday morning, and he walked into most Methodist churches, he would walk into the Methodist church and he would say, ‘What are you doing?’ He would say, ‘What are you all only singing to me?’”

Oh, Lord, have mercy. Could somebody pray for me, right now? Just pray for me, right now. I am convinced that Yeshua would walk into most Methodist churches on Sunday morning and say, “Are you all ever going to focus on the One that we’re to fear, and the One that we’re to worship?” And I am convinced that most Methodist pastors would tell Yeshua, “You sound a little too Jewish. Get out.”

Audience: Oh!

Keith: Now, why do I say this? I love the ministry and work and life of Yeshua. I love what he did. I love what he said. I love the miracles. I love the marvellous power. I love that he was clothed, that the Holy Spirit was indwelling in him. I love all of that. But more than anything that I love about Yeshua is this - he continued to point people to his Father.

[applause]

I have to got to end this now, and I’m going to end it this way. I don’t know if my sister Karen is even here. But if she is, I want her to come forward. I’m going to close with this Scripture. Here it is, you guys, Isaiah 55:9. “‘For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,’ declares Yehovah. ‘For as the heavens are higher than the earth,’” so are My ways higher than the religious institutions, the Messianic movement, the denominations, the Jewish synagogues. My ways are higher than your ways, and My thoughts are higher than the Litvak Jew. My thoughts are higher than my seminary professors. My thoughts are higher than the Hebrew University folks. My thoughts are higher even than those.

[applause]

Give it to me, again. “My thoughts are higher than your thoughts. For as the rain, and the snow come down from heaven and do not return without their watering the earth, and making it there, and sprout and furnishing seeds for the sower and bread to the eater.” If you can let me say amen, if I can continue, just say amen.

Audience: Amen.

Keith: I’m going to the book now. Just say, “Keith, if you can just let me give you the next slides,” say amen.

Audience: Amen.

Keith: Here is the next slide. “So will My word which goes forth from My mouth it will not return to Me empty without accomplishing what I desire, without proceeding in the manner in which I said,” when the going gets tough, the tough go to the word. [applause] Oh. Oh. Oh. Hey, somebody. Oh, my goodness.

Why is it, in closing, why is it, in closing. Oh, my God. There’s something in my gut, I’m trying to get it out. I’m trying to preach it out.

Man: Go on.

Keith: I’m trying to say it, so I won’t have to… You got to bear with me, you all. I just want to get it out so that I can… But you’ve got to understand something. Our Father, He loves us so much. He decided to speak that which is on His mind, to come out of His mouth and put it on paper. And we have people who’ve decided, “You know what? I don’t want to know that. I want to be religious. I want to be spiritual. I want to be in charge, but I do not want an encounter with the word of God.”

Why is it that when the going gets tough, that the tough get the word? I’m going to show you why. Yehovah’s word represents what is in Yehovah’s mind, spoken through Yehovah’s mouth, and now is available in written form in Yehovah’s Torah.

[applause]

Would you bear with me? Would you bear with me, I’ll just tell you one last story? I want you to sit down for a second. And sister Karen, I want you to stay here. There’s something that’s calling people like me from all over the world. We’re being called back to the original language, history, and context of our Bibles. There are some people that will say, “Keith cannot come because he’s a Methodist,” not realizing that God is using the Methodist denomination to get a hold of me.

Sometimes, the Father will use things that we don’t even imagine that He will use, to awaken us. When I was 14 years old, I became a Christian. When I was 15, I was in the church, and they used to sing this song that I never understood why the song moved me so much, and the song was called Amazing Grace. And when they would sing Amazing Grace, I would be moved sometimes to tears.

About a month ago, my sister-in-law was making a joke with me about a man named Whitley Phipps. When I was 15, 16, and 17 years old, Whitley Phipps would come in our church. He had the craziest hairdo you’ve ever seen, and he would sing old Negro spirituals. And I would laugh at Whitley Phipps. So we were laughing about what his name was, and she finds him online, and came to find out that Whitley Phipps now looks like Nehemia - bald - but he tells this story that I have to tell you, in closing. He says that when the slaves came over from Africa, most, if not all Negro spirituals are played only on the black notes. If we had a piano here and it was on, I would go over and play Negro spirituals that only used five black notes. [sings] “Swing low, sweet chariot, comin’ for to carry me home.” No white notes, all black notes. Now, some of you are getting nervous - this sounds racial. Why the black notes? I don’t know, maybe it’s because of the five Books of Moses, I don’t know. [laughter]

But there’s a story that he tells about a man who wrote Amazing Grace. And this man that wrote Amazing Grace is given credit for the words. But it says that the music is unknown. Musicologists have now done studies and gone over to West Africa and found out there’s a tomb that is the basis for Amazing Grace. It is a mourning chant by West Africans; so this slave, a ship captive, wrote Amazing Grace. But the music came from down below in the ship. [hums Amazing Grace]. Can you hear it? Can you feel it? Down in the ship, on boats like the ship named “Jesus”, that stopped at the shores of West Africa, put them in boats after baptizing them in the water, chaining them like sardines, and all they could do was chant the mourn. And the ship’s captain took words and put them over the chant. And this black man, who’s a Methodist, hears the song. And all I think about is those brothers and sisters in the ship singing something like [sings Amazing Grace].

And so we can take present-day Christianity and take words and layer them over sounds that really don’t even match. And so when I come and try to give you access to His name, and when my brother Andrew comes and he sings and combines the name with the music, some of you say, “No, no, no, no, no, it doesn’t match.”

But I’m here to tell you something. It matches in heaven. And there are some of you here today that in your gut, you feel in your gut, that He is calling you back to His name.

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  • Paige says:

    tears moved out in library

  • Barbara Jayne says:

    I love that Yehovah called this ministry. May Israel be blessed by it.

  • Margaret Pretorius says:

    Very moving – gut wrenching!