Reset! Series

you about all things.” I’m thinking, wow, what a great verse to have. Every 60 minutes. I mean

some of us do well if we have a Bible study at some point in the course of the week. Every 60

minutes, reset yourself because what you want to do is you want the code to rebuild inside of

your life. Where does that code come from? It comes from God's word. So we embed ourselves

in God's word in order to do that. I encourage you to try that, to find it, to discover what God

might do in your life.

Well, let's figure out what they found. Let's go with the believers there. As they open up the word

it's going to affect their day timer now, their planner. It's going to affect their calendar and their

to-do list. That's what the Bible should do in our lives. They open it up and they start reading and

they learn about this feast, the Feast of Tabernacles. We haven't celebrated that. Well look at

that. Isn't it interesting? It's supposed to happen on the seventh. This is the seventh month. Wow.

Remarkable, isn't it how God's word changes us in the moment? They say, wow, we're going to

go do this. We're going to go and celebrate the Feast of Booths.

When I saw this passage last Sunday, when I opened the Bible, and I saw this is what I'm going

to be teaching on, I said, “Lord, I want to ask you to bring me across a Jewish person this week.”

Because the Jews celebrate this even today and I want to hear how they do this. How this family

or whoever I talked to, how they celebrate this. And so I'm on the lookout.

So Monday morning, I go to the gym and I see my answer to prayer. He’s right there. There's a

guy had covering, big gray beard. And so I go up to him and I say, “Are you Jewish?” He says,

“No, I'm Sikh.” I said, “Oh, well, you're not going to be able to help me.” But I made a friend at

the gym on Monday. On Tuesday I was in a Zoom meeting with faith leaders in the community

of all kinds of different denominations, churches, whatever. And there is a Jewish rabbi in the

Zoom meeting. His name is Rabbi Yaakov. And so at the end of our Zoom meeting, I said,

“Rabbi, could you stay a little bit later after the Zoom meeting is over so I can ask you a

question?” He said, “Sure.” So he and I are on the Zoom meeting now. And he's got his kids all

crawling all over him while he's talking to me. I said, “I'm going to teach this Sunday about

Sukkot.” Sukkot is the name for this particular feast. “Could you tell me how you celebrate

Sukkot?” And oh, he was delighted to tell me.

Here's what he said. The most important thing you need to remember about Sukkot is it is a feast

of rejoicing. It is a feast of joy. Because we just came off of two holidays. The second one, Yom

Kippur, is a very solemn holiday. And so now we're in this feast of rejoicing, which reminds me

of the text there. It says there in verse 17 – and there was great rejoicing. He says, so what we do

as we go out and build this hut somewhere. The only thing above it can be the sky. It has to be