In the open of the show Michael and Daniel go over some follow-up messages we received regarding the discussion on prayer that clarified the difference between prayers of petition and communal prayer. We examine the prayer life of Christ, looking at his own declarations about why he prayed.
Then we continue our study on the 7 World Religion’s Hermeneutics, this week examining Judaism. This one perhaps being the hermeneutics that sets a foundation that all other world religions build their hermeneutics upon. We examine the difference between the promise (of Abraham) and Judaism and the difference between Judaism (Jews) and Israel.
We found the common thread between all hermeneutics that we have examined so far and that is the need for a mediator. But Gospel Hermeneutics doesn’t require a mediator because it is divine to divine. We look at Paul’s statement that declares Christ is the mediator of ONE.
Thank you for sharing this message, Michael. You invited me to listen, and I’m truly doing so with an open and peaceful heart. I know your journey, I have listened to it since 1994 and because I’ve walked that path too. I used to believe the Father had wrath, that Jesus absorbed it, and that peace was the result of a transaction. But what I’ve come to see now—without anger or argument—is this:
If I am one with God, then I am the prayer. I am the peace. I am the one. Not because I earned it, not because something changed at a point in time such as blood, but because nothing ever changed. No separation ever existed in God’s eyes. All before the foundations of the world. No beginning and no end. I and all humanity all things have always been one. So separation, no difference. I am the voice. I am the incarnation of Christ still walking this earth in flesh. He/We never left this planet.
The Cross didn’t create ONE. If it did then is created God. It revealed God.
The Cross didn’t create peace. It revealed it.
The blood didn’t buy love. It unveiled it.
And prayer isn’t a reaching out. It’s a remembering within.
This isn’t against the Scriptures—it’s deeper into them. I don’t discard the Law, Psalms, or Prophets. I just read them now through the eyes of YESHUA, who said, “You search the Scriptures, thinking they give you life… but they point to Me.” He is the peace. He is the union. And as He is, so am I. AS HE IS SO AM I. ALWAYS HAVE BEEN.
Much love to all who are wrestling with these truths.
Barry Laney
Hello Michael & Daniel: Just wanting to let you know I’m still here and listen in every now and then. The evolution of my understanding of our total oneness continues. Thanks for continuing the webcasts.
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