Have you ever confronted someone, maybe even a child, asked them why they did a certain thing, and their answer kept changing?  What you can be sure of in that situation is that whatever they tell you, it’s not the truth.  Sometimes there’s a smidgen of truth underneath all the lies, a smidgen on which the lies are based, but sometimes there’s not. We’re certainly not seeing anything like this publicly in the world today, right?  What we’re going to do this week is not talk t

This week, we’re going to do somewhat of a continuation from last week’s study.  We talked about asking ourselves what we are slaves to today in our lives, and we looked at the account of Israel being delivered from slavery in Egypt as a pattern for how YHWH delivers us from spiritual slavery.  We’re going to continue along those same lines this week, but we’re going to take a look at something much earlier in the timeline: the account of Hagar and Sarah. We’ve covered the ci

We’re going to look at what scripture talks about regarding slavery this week.  Not what it says about slavery of one man to another, but spiritual slavery in our lives and the pattern of how YHWH delivers us from it.  However, first I want to talk about a recent realization I had, and it actually ties in somewhat to this week’s topic. I’ve mentioned, in previous weeks, that there is a group of believers out there that doesn’t believe in a physical returning of Yeshua.  They