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Speaker 1: 0:05

Hi there and welcome to Proverbs 31 Wannabe, where we discuss Biblical womanhood and are constantly busy and sometimes crazy daily life. I’m Alexis Heaslip and, as a wife and mom of two, I am always striving and praying to be a Proverbs 31 woman of faith. We are on episode 15 of our 16-week journey into studying and diving into Messianic prophecy from Old to New Testament, and connecting the dots to show how the Bible is one unified book that is timeless for all. And we are coming to the conclusion part of all of these prophecies, the final pictures coming together of what our Messiah has done, what he will do and the times to come for us. So let’s dive on in together and learn how our Messiah is the cornerstone for all believers. Alright, so, as we are wrapping up this discussion, as we are coming to a conclusion of all of the things that our Messiah is, the first point we need to talk about today is that our Messiah is to be the cornerstone for the Messianic Jewish community. This is the first point and it will expand to more than just the Messianic Jewish community. But first let’s focus in on this idea, and we can find this throughout the Old Testament, and we’re going to start in the book of Isaiah, chapter 28, where we really hear this idea of how Messiah is going to be this precious cornerstone. Speaker 1: 2:12

So, if you’ll turn with me Isaiah 28, and we’re going to start at verse 16, and this verse tells us therefore thus says Adonai, elohim, behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone, a costly cornerstone, a firm foundation. Whoever trusts will not flee in haste, but I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. Hail will sweep away the refuge of lies and water will overflow the hiding places. Your covenant with death is annulled and your pact with Sheol will not stand and overflowing scourge will pass through and you will be its trampling place. And then we look, just jump down a couple of verses 2, verse 21. For Adonai will rise up at Mount Perizim, he will quake with awe at the valley of Gibeam to do his deed, his strange deed, and to work his work, his extraordinary work. So all of chapter 28 of Isaiah talks about a cornerstone of Zion and, as we read, this cornerstone is to be a precious cornerstone and the cornerstone of Zion will be a firm foundation for all who believe, a firm foundation. And we got to remember at this time when Isaiah was getting these prophecies. Israel was not in a good place. People were idol worshiping, people were sacrificing to other gods, they were ignoring the Torah, they were marrying people from other nations who didn’t believe in our Lord. And even with all of this and it made God so sad and angry even with all of this, he remembers the promises that he made to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and says although death is coming to those who do not follow me, and although you have disappointed me and made me sad, I’m not going to turn my face away from you. I will make and remember and be reminded of this precious pact with you. I will be your cornerstone and all who believe in me will be on a firm foundation. And we hear this again echoed, and we’re going to really look at this Psalm throughout today’s discussion. Speaker 1: 5:32

Psalm 118,. I know we’ve talked about this Psalm before, but it’s one that’s so important that we’re going to talk about it again and we’re going to focus right now on verses 21 through 23. So if you turn with me to Psalm 118, and these verses tell us this, I give you thanks because you have answered me and have become my salvation. The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone. It is from Adonai. It is marvelous in our eyes. This is the day that Adonai has made lettuce for Joyce and be glad in it. I love how different Bibles have different headings for different sections, and the title, the heading that the Tree of Life version gives for this whole Psalm, is that his has said his love endures forever. And that is so true because Jesus was rejected by many, but yet his love endures forever and he is this chief cornerstone and we have now the opportunity to rejoice in this and I think that’s just beautiful. And Jesus is our symbol. This cornerstone that the psalm has talked about is a symbol of our salvation and we can rejoice and be glad in it. Speaker 1: 7:36

And Jesus, in his parables, looked at this psalm and told parables, told stories to help people understand why Messiah is the cornerstone, why he is our cornerstone. And if you look in the book of Matthew, we’ll look at this example that Jesus gives to us If you’ll turn with me to Matthew 21. Now there are actually a couple of series of parables that we could look at, but we’re just gonna look at the one, and it’s the parable of oops. It’s the parable of the landowner who owned a vineyard. So we’re gonna start at Matthew 21, verse 33. And the parable before and the parable after also go along with this idea of how Jesus is the cornerstone. But I want it to look specifically at this one. Listen to another parable. Speaker 1: 8:54

There was a master of a household who had planted a vineyard. He put a hedge around it, dug a wine press in it and built a tower. So based off of these verses alone, we know that it sounds like this is a vineyard that be well protected. Then he leased it to some tenant farmers and went on a journey. Now, when fruit season drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit. But, grabbing his servants, the tenants beat one up, killed another and stoned another Again. The master sent other servants, even more than the first, and they did the same thing to them. Finally, he sent his son to them, saying they will respect my son. But when the tenants saw the son, they said among themselves this is the heir, come on, let us kill him and get his inheritance. So, grabbing him, they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. Speaker 1: 10:10

Therefore, when the master of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants? He will bring those miserable men to a miserable end. They said to him, and will lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the fruits in their seasons. Yeshua said to them have you never read in the scriptures? The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone, that this came from Adonai, and it is marvelous in our eyes. Therefore, I say to you, the kingdom of heaven will be taken away from you and given to people producing its fruits. Whoever falls upon the stone will be shattered, but the one upon whom it falls, it will crush him. Speaker 1: 11:11

When the ruling priests and Pharisees heard Jesus’s parables, they realized he was talking about them. Although they were trying to seize him, they feared the crowds because they regarded him as a prophet. So here we really see Jesus using this idea of the cornerstone to show that it’s not just for the religious leaders to have a relationship with God. No, it is not. If you reject the prophets which, if you look at the Old Testament and you read time and time again, the prophets that God sent to the people were rejected, they were murdered, they were exiled, they were taken advantage of, they were imprisoned and then Jesus himself came in the flesh and was taken out of the city, out of the gate, out of the vineyard, out of Jerusalem, and was crucified and murdered. Speaker 1: 12:28

But, unlike the prophets, jesus doesn’t stay dead. He redeems us all and is made alive and resurrects and ascends to the Father in heaven and he wants us to come to him. He wants us to bear his fruit, he wants the Jewish people to bear his fruit, but he’s also saying that anyone who produces the fruit, anyone who comes and follows me, will be invited into the fold, because he is the cornerstone for everyone, for everyone. Yes, the Jewish people are God’s chosen people and Jesus is acknowledging that. But he’s also acknowledging that I want anyone who comes to me to be saved, and I like how Peter reflects on this as well. Speaker 1: 13:30

If you’ll turn with me to first Peter and we’re gonna be in first Peter, chapter 2, I’m flipping there myself and we’re gonna look at verses 5, we’re gonna start actually, let’s start at verse 4, and it says this as you come to him, a living stone, rejected by men but chosen by God and precious you also as living stones, are to be built up as a spiritual house, a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Messiah Yeshua, for it says in Scripture behold, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen, precious cornerstone. Whoever trusts in him will never be put to shame. Now the value is for you who keep trusting, but for those who do not trust the stone which the builders rejected, this one, this one, has become the chief cornerstone, and this is what is so important for us to realize. This is the stone. Messiah, jesus is the chief cornerstone. Speaker 1: 15:11

If you want to learn more about this, this concept, highly highly recommend going over the book of Hebrews again, because one of the whole themes of the book of Hebrews is that Jesus is the cornerstone. It’s the essence of the book of Hebrews and those who were accept and come to belief in Messiah Jesus as a Lord, and the Jewish people. That concept was the cornerstone for the Jewish community, but not just the Jewish community. And here’s the second point is that our cornerstone, messiah, was sought out by both Jew and Gentile and, honestly, this goes all the way back, all the way back to creation, and you’re probably wondering what are you talking about? How does this concept go all the way back to creation? But listen to this turn with me. Speaker 1: 16:33

Genesis 1, verse 26, 27. Then God said let us make man in our image. Notice it doesn’t say let us make the Jewish people in our image. No, no, no. Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, let them rule over the fish of the sea, over the flying creatures of the sky, over the livestock, over the whole earth and over every crawling creature that crawls on the land. God created human kind, human kind, and his image in the image of God. He created them, male and female. He created them. You see, my friends, all people, all people, are created in the image and likeness of God, all people. Speaker 1: 17:35

So, of course, our Messiah, from the beginning of time and his mighty plan was that all people, of every nation and of every tongue, will have the chance to be redeemed. We see this echoed throughout the book of Isaiah, for example, isaiah chapter 11. We read this, I’m flipping to it Isaiah 11, verse 10, tells us this it will also come about In that day that the root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek for him and his resting place will be glorious. Notice that it’s not just the Jewish people that are going to be seeking for him, but all of the nations will be seeking him, because Messiah is for all of the nations. If you flip ahead a couple of chapters in Isaiah to Isaiah 42, we hear more of the picture of what this means for all the nations to search for and be ruled by our Messiah. Speaker 1: 19:16

Isaiah 42 tells us this in verse 1, 1, behold my servant whom I uphold, my chosen one and whom my soul delights. I have put my rewok, my spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations. And again, a couple of chapters over Isaiah 49 verse 9, verse 8 and 9 tell us this thus says Adonai, in a time of favor, I will answer you. In a day of salvation, I will help you, I will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people to restore the land and to make them possess its desolate inheritance. Saying to the prisoners I come out. And to those in darkness be shown. Speaker 1: 20:28

And look back at verse 6, who are the people? So he says it is to trifling a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and restore the preserved ones of Israel. So I will give you as a light for the nations that you should be my salvation to the ends of the earth. And verse 7, thus says Adonai, the Redeemer of Israel, their holy one, to the one despised, to the one the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers, kings will see and arise. Princes will also bow down because of Adonai, who was faithful, the holy one of Israel, who was chosen, you. So not only is Messiah for all nations, but Messiah will bring justice to all of the nations, all of the nations, whether they bow down to him or not. There will be justice for all of the nations, and we see this throughout the book of Acts, how all people from all of the nations are brought to know the Lord, people from all nations. If you’ll turn with me to Acts, chapter 10, this is where we see this first encounter of it. Acts 10, 34 through 48, we read this. Speaker 1: 22:24

Then Peter opened up his mouth and said I truly understand that God does not want to show favoritism, but in every nation, the one who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. You know the message he sent to Israel, proclaiming Shalom through Messiah Yeshua. He is Lord of all. You know the message that has spread throughout all of Judea, beginning from Galilee and after the immersion of John proclaimed. You know how God anointed Yeshua of Nazareth with the Ruach, the Holy Spirit and power, how he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with him. We are witnesses to all he did, both in the Judean countryside and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree, but God raised him up on the third day and caused him to be visible, not to all the people, but to us witnesses who were chosen before him by God. We ate and drank with him after he rose, and he commanded us to proclaim to the people and to testify that he is the one ordained by God to judge the living and the dead. All of the prophets testify about him that everyone, everyone who puts his trust in him, receives forgiveness of sins through his name, peter. If you see, he’s not saying that only Jewish people will receive forgiveness of sins, but everyone who comes to him will receive this forgiveness, and so the whole, and we’ll receive the Spirit, we’ll receive the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit is not just poured out onto the Jewish people, but is poured out to the Gentiles as well. In Acts 13,. Speaker 1: 24:46

Look at verse 44, which tells us this the following Shabbat, almost the entire city came together to hear the word of the Lord. When the Jewish leaders saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and tried to contradict what Paul was saying by reviling him. Both Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and said it was necessary for the word of God to be spoken to you first, since you rejected and judged yourselves unfit for eternal life. Behold, we turn to the Gentiles, for the Lord has commanded us. I have placed you as a light to the nations so that you may bring salvation to the end of the earth. Now listen to this. When the Gentiles heard this, they were thrilled and glorified the word of the Lord and as many as have been inscribed for eternal life be weaved and the word of the Lord spread throughout the whole region. So you see, the Gentiles rejoiced because they too have eternal life in Messiah. And you gotta remember, these Gentiles had not heard this message before. This was all brand new to them. They were used to paganism and child sacrifice and death and loneliness, and up until this point these Gentile people have lived this life of constantly searching. But now they can rejoice because they have eternal life in Messiah. And we read this, this joy, in the book of Ephesians. Speaker 1: 26:32

If you’ll turn with me to Ephesians, let me get there. Ephesians, chapter two. I’m getting there myself, starting at verse 14. For he, jesus, is our shalom, the one who made two and two one and broke down the middle wall of separation. Within his flesh, he made powerless the hostility, the law code of the Mitzvot contained in regulations. He did this in order to create within himself one new man from the two groups making Shalom and to reconcile both to God in one body through the cross, by which he put hostility to death. And he came and proclaimed Shalom to you who were far away, and Shalom to those who were near, for through him we, both Jew and Gentile, have access to the Father by the same Spirit. So, then, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household. You have been built on the foundation made up of the emissaries and prophets, with Messiah Yeshua himself being the cornerstone and him. The whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple for the Lord and him. You are also being built together into God’s dwelling place in the Spirit. Speaker 1: 28:28

The Book of Ephesians is beautiful because a big chunk of the theme is how Jew and Gentile come together as one community of believers who worship the Lord, and that is so beautiful. Is that, jew and Gentile? We are supposed to be united in Messiah? Messiah establishes Shalom, creating one body of believers, and as Christians we need to be living out Christian unity, and we have not been doing a great job at that. The church in America has not not not been doing a good job at that. We like our separation. The Baptists, the Catholics, the Methodists, the Messianic Jews, we kind of all keep to our separate little corners. We never come together, but we really need to, because this fragmentation damages the body of the church, it damages our communities and it leads to disunity and is leading to an affront on our Christian faith. Speaker 1: 29:57

We need to be coming together with our love for Messiah instead of being torn apart by man’s traditions, because one day we might not have the freedom to worship our Lord like we do now. We might not have the freedom to tell others about the gospel. We might not have the freedom to say that no abortion is wrong or no transitioning children is wrong. We might one day have to rely more on our brothers and sisters who worship differently than us but still worship Messiah. Why not build these relationships now, when we still have the ability to use our voice in freedom? And we need to be able to teach this and live it out for our children, this Shema and Shalom, so that they can know how to live united in our faith, even if we have to do it underground one day. We have to be united. The body doesn’t work when parts of the body are disjointed. We need to be united and this third part through this united that Messiah is accepted by the Gentiles. Isaiah 42 really emphasizes this point that the Gentiles will come to know the Lord. So if you’ll turn with me, isaiah 42, I know we read the first couple verses, but let’s keep going. Speaker 1: 32:01

Behold my servant who I uphold, my chosen one who my soul delights. I’ve put my ruach on him. He’ll bring justice to the nations. He will not cry out or raise his voice or make his voice heard on the street A bruised reed. He will not break A smoldering wick. He will not snuff out. He will faithfully bring forth justice. He will not beat his heart in a crushed. Until he is established, justice on earth, the islands will wait for His Torah. Speaker 1: 32:32

Thus says God at a nigh who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and ruach to those who walk in it. I, at a nigh, called you in righteousness. I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and give you a covenant to the people, as a light to the nations, by opening blind eyes, bringing prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out of the prison house. I am at a nigh. This is my name, my glory. I will not give to another or my praise to a graven image. Behold the former things have come to pass. Now I declare new things Before they spring forth. I announce them to you Seeing a new song to Adonai, his praise from the end of the earth. Speaker 1: 33:27

You who go down to the sea with all of its fullness, islands and their inhabitants, let the desert and the cities exult. The villages that Kadar inhabits, let the dwellers of Seyla sing for joy. Let them shout for joy to the top of the mountains, let them give glory to Adonai and declare his praise in the islands. Adonai goes out as a mighty one. He stirs up his zeal like a man of war. He will shout yes, raise a war cry, he will prevail over his enemies. You see, my friends, people from all the ends of the earth will come and restore Israel and sing eternal praises to God. We are to go to all the nations, we are told all the nations and proclaim the good news and baptize people in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. This is our great commission. This is our great commission and this is what’s taking place. The good news didn’t stay in Jerusalem. It was spread out to all of the earth, and Jesus talks about this. Speaker 1: 34:46

If you’ll turn with me to Matthew, chapter 12, starting at verse eight, I’m getting there, and this passage is one where Jesus is saying that he is the Lord of Shabbat. He is a Lord and that he brings forth justice and victory to all the nations and is a hope for all the nations. I won’t read it all because we’re going over time, but the point is that he is a Lord of Shabbat and he brings forth justice and hope to all the nations, and the book of Romans beautifully echoes this sentiment that we all need hope and our hope, whether Jew or Gentile, is found in our Messiah Jesus. Verse nine 30 says and those whom he predestined he also called. And those who he called he justified. And those he justified is glorified. What shall we say then? Skipping ahead, that Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness attain righteousness? That is a righteousness of faith. A righteousness of faith. Speaker 1: 36:39

Jump down in Romans 10, verse six, that the righteousness based on faith speaks in this way. So let’s get some clarifying information. Do not say in your heart he will go up to heaven or he will go down to the abyss, but what does it say? The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart. That is the word of faith that we are proclaiming, for if you confess with your mouth that Yeshua is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart it is believed for righteousness and with the mouth it is confessed for salvation. For the scripture says whoever trusts in him will not be put to shame, for there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all, richly generous to all who call on him. For everyone who calls on the name of Anani will be saved. Everyone who calls on Anani will be saved. The word of faith brings salvation to all, to all. Speaker 1: 37:55

It has to be a genuine faith, though. It’s not just for those, and I feel like this is where a lot of the Pharisees got chipped up, because they thought, as long as they are super legalistic and following Torah, even if they don’t have the heart behind it, that that was good enough. But that’s not what genuine faith is. It has to be a genuine faith in the Messiah, not just doing a ritual because you’re told to do so, or else it’s about your heart. It’s about having this faith and trust and confessing with your mouth that Jesus is Lord. Speaker 1: 38:38

And then, in Romans 11, starting at 11, we hear this I say then they did not stumble so as to fall, did they? May it never be. He says he. Israel’s not rejected, is what he’s saying? But their false step salvation has become to the Gentiles to provoke Israel to jealousy, which is amazing. Now, if their transgression leads to riches for the world and their loss riches for the Gentiles, then how much more their fullness. Speaker 1: 39:14

But I am speaking to you that are Gentiles in so far as I, paul, and I am an emissary to the Gentiles. I spotlight my ministry of somehow I might provoke to jealousy, my own flesh and blood and save some of them, for if their rejection leads to the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? You see, paul wants all people to come to Jesus. He doesn’t boast about Jews who are lost. He is weeping for them, he’s sad for them and he instead wants us Gentiles to be such fruit bearers that the Jewish people realize their error and repent to Messiah. Speaker 1: 40:06

And we need to be doing such a better job at this, my friends. We need to be evangelizing to, discipling, to becoming friends with and praying for our Jewish neighbors who are lost and looking for Messiah. And I’m going to put some links down below of a beautiful ministry called Jews for Jesus, who are Jewish people who believe in Messiah. They work with Gentile believers and they go out and evangelize to the Jewish people. It’s a beautiful ministry. I hope you check them out. Speaker 1: 40:45

But that is what we need to be doing. We need to be praying for and ministering to the chosen people who have been blinded by lies and deceit and deception. And this leads to what Paul wrote in Romans 15. Romans 15 now. May the God of patience and encouragement grant you to be like minded with one another and the manner of Messiah Yeshua, so that, together, with one voice, you may glorify God, the Father of our Lord. Yeshua. Messiah, therefore, accept one another, just as Messiah also accepted you, to the glory of God, for I declare that Messiah has become a servant to the circumcised for the sake of God’s truth, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs and for the Gentiles to glorify God for his mercy. That’s what it’s all about, my friends. Speaker 1: 42:02

Jesus did not come to start a new religion. He did not come to start a new religion. He. He came to fulfill the Jewish prophecies, the Jewish scriptures, the Jewish Torah, and we, as Gentiles, have hope now because we are grafted in as his people, as his holy people, into the family of Israel. If that doesn’t bring your heart, shalom, oh, I don’t know what will what? Let’s end on this note. Shabbat Shalom, my friends, we have one more week left about Messianic prophecy and then comes Holy Week and we’ll do an Easter special. But until then, this is Alexis, he slip. I pray you have a wonderful rest of your day, shabbat Shalom, god bless.