My friends, let me tell you, when I say, 'Sh'ma Yisrael, hear oh Israel, hear and obey, hear and do,' if you're not Israel, then you're not part of Abraham. Israel is what G-d changed Jacob's name to when Jacob was doing the right thing, and if you're in the Abrahamic Covenant, then "Israel" means you.

Abraham made a covenant with G-d by faith; G-d made a covenant with Abraham. Then, Abraham broke the covenant because he swore an oath to Abimelech, the King of the Philistines, who is the god of the Philistines. And when Abraham made this oath with Abimelech, G-d automatically cut Abraham out.

Immediately after Abraham made the covenant with Abimelech, G-d told Abraham to take his only son Isaac up to the mountain and sacrifice him. We know Abraham actually did sacrifice him and that Isaac was probably in the grave for three years.

And when Isaac came out of the grave, the covenant was renewed in Isaac by G-d. And then he messed up and chose his son Esau over Jacob. And because they knew what Jacob was going to be before he was even born, he was given the name "Jacob" which means "deceiver."

We have learned that Jacob ran away and didn't accept G-d until he came back into the land. He believed in the G-d of Abraham and Isaac, the G-d of his fathers, but he never called Him his G-d. Then, when he finally came into the land, we saw that he built a sacrificial altar to G-d and called it "the altar to the G-d of Jacob, the G-d of Israel."

So, this is why in Judaism we don't say "the G-d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob." We say, "the G-d of Abraham, the G-d of Isaac and the G-d of Jacob." The three patriarchs were each fathers. And each one of them picked up and ran with the covenant. Now let me show you something:

Israel (Jacob) had twelve children. Each one of them carried on Torah. Each carried on G-d's will. Each did the Commandments of G-d. Therefore, we don't ever again need another covenant. And when people say, "Well, I have nothing to do with Israel, I'm not Israeli," realize that we're not talking about the land of Israel, we're talking about Israel who is Jacob. We're talking about the son of Isaac. That's one thing I really want you to understand because it's very important for you to understand that to understand who you are in Yeshua HaMeshiach.

We're getting into a time when people really want to know who they are so let's start finding out who we are. Let's stop with all this "spiritually Jewish," and "spiritually Israel," stuff. If you're part of the Abrahamic Covenant, you are Israel. That's all I can say to you. Are you the land of Israel? No, but guess what? That covenant G-d made with Abraham also includes the land of Israel. Praise the L-rd, Praise the L-rd.

Ok. Listen. I've got a very, very exciting teaching as far as I'm concerned, anyway. I want to write about something that has been bounced around and bounced around and I want to write about, "Did Yeshua redeem us from the Law?" Did Yeshua redeem us from the Law? Isn't that what everybody teaches us? Isn't that what we hear in every church, from every pulpit, from every pastor? Yeshua redeemed us from the curse of the Law; Yeshua certainly did not redeem us from the Torah, which people mistakenly call the Law.

Well, my friends, it's been a real picnic with this subject because we always hear people say, "Well, I'm not under the Law." We need to know what Law we're talking about here. You know, Romans 8:2 says, "For the Law of the spirit of life in Christ Yeshua has made me free from the Law of Sin." He did not set us free from the Torah, the Word of G-d. He set us free from the Law of sin and death! I hope you understand the difference here.