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Caption transcript for Esther: “The Triumph of God in Human History” (8/8)

• 00:22 ♪OUT OF ZION...ZION♪
• 00:26 ♪COMES YOUR SALVATION♪
• 00:31 ♪AND A NATION WILL BE FORMED OUT OF HIM♪
• 00:35 ♪YEAH AND A PEOPLE WILL BE BORN OUT OF HIM♪
• 00:40 ♪OUT OF ZION...ZION♪
• 00:44 ♪COMES YOUR SALVATION♪
• 00:55 HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 00:57 JEFFREY SEIF HERE
• 00:58 PLEASED TO WELCOME YOU AGAIN
• 01:01 TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 01:03 TODAY WE'RE PRESENTING THE EIGHTH OF AN EIGHT PART TREATMENT
• 01:06 OF THE FASCINATING BOOK OF ESTHER.
• 01:09 WHAT A WOMAN!
• 01:11 WHAT A STORY!
• 01:13 THERE'S VIRTUE AND THERE'S VICE...
• 01:15 A WICKED HAMAN HAS COME TO A MUCH DESERVED INGLORIOUS END
• 01:21 AND NOW MORDECAI WHO IS RISEN IN THE REALM
• 01:25 IS SPEAKING TO THE JEWS ABOUT THAT AND GOOD THINGS TO COME.
• 01:33 PUR...A SIMPLE CUBE LIKE OBJECT.
• 01:37 PUR HAD BEEN USED TO DETERMINE THE DATE OF DEATH FOR EVERY JEW IN THE PERSIAN EMPIRE.
• 01:43 NOW, ONE YEAR LATER, MORDECAI CONSIDERS A BRIGHTER DAY.
• 02:27 WITH THE ROLL OF THE DICE
• 02:28 IT WAS DECREED
• 02:29 THAT ON A CERTAIN DAY
• 02:31 A CERTAIN PEOPLE
• 02:32 WOULD BE ANNIHILATED.
• 02:35 SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING FROM WORLD WAR II WHEN I THINK OF GENOCIDE
• 02:39 BUT IT'S A STORY THAT GOES BACK TO THE BIBLE WHEN IN SHUSHAN, THE CAPITAL,
• 02:46 THERE WAS A WICKED MAN HAMAN WHO THREW THE DICE AND DETERMINED WITH IT
• 02:52 THAT A PEOPLE WOULD COME TO AN END.
• 02:55 TRAGIC...HORRIBLE...
• 02:58 THAT SOMEONE COULD BE SO WICKED.
• 03:01 BUT EVEN IN A DARK WORLD LIKE THAT GOD RAISED UP SOMEONE
• 03:05 AND BROUGHT ABOUT DELIVERANCE FOR THE PEOPLE
• 03:08 WITH A NET RESULT THAT AS THAT THOSE WHO HAD GRIEF
• 03:12 WERE ABLE TO EXPERIENCE THEIR GRIEF,
• 03:14 THEIR SADNESS TURNED INTO GLADNESS.
• 03:17 IT SAYS IT EXPLICITLY IN CHAPTER 9, VERSE 22.
• 03:20 I'LL READ IT IN MY VERSION.
• 03:21 TAKE A PEAK IN YOURS...
• 03:23 WE'RE TOLD,
• 03:48 WHAT A STORY HERE.
• 03:50 INDIVIDUALS THAT THOUGHT ALL IS LOST GOT A NEW LEASE ON LIFE.
• 03:57 AND THAT MY FRIENDS IS THE GOSPEL STORY IN A NUTSHELL...
• 04:03 THAT INDIVIDUALS WHO THROUGH SIN AND CIRCUMSTANCE CAN BE FINISHED
• 04:08 BY VIRTUE OF WHAT JESUS DID INDIVIDUALS ARE ABLE TO SECURE A NEW LEASE ON LIFE.
• 04:17 OH THAT'S THE STORY IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER
• 04:19 IN WHICH CASE HERE WHAT HAPPENED IS GOD RAISED UP A WOMAN...
• 04:23 THE WOMAN'S NAME WAS "HADASSAH",
• 04:27 "ESTHER",
• 04:29 AND SHE WAS PLACED FOR SUCH A TIME TO AFFECT A VERY GREAT DELIVERANCE.
• 04:35 IT COULD BE THAT THERE ARE SOME WITHIN THE SOUND OF MY VOICE THAT NEED A DELIVERANCE.
• 04:40 I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT WOULD MEAN TO YOU.
• 04:43 BUT SPEAKING TO YOU WITH THE BIBLE ON ONE HAND
• 04:46 AND THE COMING TO YOU FROM THE MOUNT OF OLIVES HERE IN ISRAEL,
• 04:51 I WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT THERE IS A GOD WHO LIVES;
• 04:56 THERE IS A GOD WHO CAN TURN YOUR SORROW INTO REJOICING.
• 05:54 FROM MY EARLIEST MEMORIES AS A CHILD
• 05:56 I RECALL THE CELEBRATION OF PURIM.
• 06:00 WE READ IN THE TEXT HOW IT WAS DECREED THE JEWS SHOULD CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAY...
• 06:04 AND CELEBRATE IT WE DO FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION.
• 06:09 WE USED TO EAT SPECIAL FOODS.
• 06:11 THERE WAS THIS HOMENTASH
• 06:12 AND THIS FOOD THAT WE'D EAT TO REMIND US OF THE HAT THAT HAMAN WAS ALLEGED TO HAVE WORN.
• 06:18 WE HAVE SPECIAL CELEBRATIONS IN THE SYNAGOGUE ON THE HOLIDAY...
• 06:22 DIFFERENT THINGS THAT WE DO TO REMEMBER THE EVENT.
• 06:26 BEFORE GETTING AWAY FROM THE EVENT...
• 06:29 AN EVENT WHERE ESTHER GETS A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF RECOGNITION AND RIGHTLY SO...
• 06:34 BUT BEFORE WE GET AWAY FROM HER IN THE STORY I WANT TO ALIGHT UPON MORDECAI SOME.
• 06:39 AND THE REASON WHY I WANT TO DO THAT IS BECAUSE THE TEXT DOES THAT.
• 06:43 IN THE 10TH CHAPTER THE BOOK FINISHES OFF BY TALKING ABOUT MORDECAI,
• 06:49 A FELLOW WHO WE KNOW BECAME GREAT.
• 06:52 AFTER HAMAN'S DEMISE WE SEE MORDECAI'S RISE WHERE ALL OF HAMAN'S HOLDINGS...
• 06:58 AND THEY WERE VAST...
• 06:59 WENT UNDER MORDECAI'S SUPERINTENDENCY.
• 07:02 SO THIS WAS A MAN WHO LIKE ESTHER WENT FROM RAGS TO RICHES.
• 07:07 SOMETIMES WHEN PEOPLE FAIR WELL
• 07:09 THEY FORGET THOSE THAT ARE LESS FORTUNATE...
• 07:12 BUT NOT SO WITH MORDECAI.
• 07:15 LET'S CONSIDER THE WAY THE STORY ENDS.
• 07:17 WE'RE TOLD OF HIM THAT HE IT SAYS,
• 07:34 WHY WAS HE GREAT?
• 07:36 WHY WAS HE ESTEEMED?
• 07:38 WELL WE'RE TOLD HERE IN THE TEXT,
• 07:56 THE TEXT TELLS US THAT MORDECAI, AS GREAT AS HE BECAME,
• 08:00 HE REMEMBERED THOSE THAT WERE LESS FORTUNATE.
• 08:05 AND AS I NOTED, SOME PEOPLE WHEN THEY ELEVATE IN LIFE
• 08:09 THEY'RE SO ANXIOUS TO LEAVE THEIR HUMBLE ORIGINS
• 08:12 THEY FORGET THE PEOPLE,
• 08:14 THEY FORGET THE RACE,
• 08:15 THEY FORGET THE SOCIAL STRATA OF THOSE THAT ARE LESS FORTUNATE...
• 08:19 NOT SO WITH MORDECAI...
• 08:21 AS HE BECAME GREAT HE REMEMBERED THE NEEDS OF HIS BRETHREN.
• 08:27 AND SO IT IS WE'RE TOLD AS WE GET AWAY FROM THE STORY
• 08:30 THAT THERE WAS A MAN WHO WAS HELD IN HIGH ESTEEM
• 08:34 BECAUSE OF HIS SHARING,
• 08:35 BECAUSE OF HIS CARING.
• 08:37 I HOPE SOME OF YOU WILL TAKE THAT AS A CHALLENGE
• 08:40 AS YOU ASK YOURSELF THE QUESTION
• 08:42 HOW YOU CAN CONCEIVABLY USE YOUR INFLUENCE AND RESOURCE
• 08:46 TO BE A BLESSING IN THE WORLD.
• 08:49 MORDECAI WAS LIKE THAT
• 08:51 AND HE'S REMEMBERED HERE IN THE BIBLICAL TEXT
• 08:53 AND WE'RE TOLD THAT THOSE OF US THAT ARE LIKE THAT,
• 08:56 WE'RE GOING TO BE REMEMBERED TOO.
• 08:59 CERTAINLY BY VIRTUE OF OUR ACCEPTING JESUS
• 09:01 WE HAVE OUR NAME WRITTEN IN THE LAMB'S BOOK OF LIFE
• 09:04 AND OUR GOOD WORKS FOLLOW US TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GRAVE
• 09:09 WHEN WE AWAKEN TO HEAR THE WORDS...
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• 10:02 A LAND OF FIG TREES AND POMEGRANATES;
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• 10:10 ARISE, WALK THROUGH THE LAND
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• 10:36 I'M IN AND OUT OF ISRAEL ALL THE TIME.
• 10:40 I WON'T BENEFIT IF YOU GO
• 10:41 BUT YOU WILL
• 10:43 AND THAT'S THE GOD'S HONEST TRUTH. ISN'T IT?
• 10:45 IT IS.
• 10:46 I HAVE HEARD STORY AFTER STORY
• 10:47 FROM OUR PASSENGERS THIS LAST YEAR
• 10:48 ABOUT HOW IT'S CHANGED THEIR LIFE.
• 10:50 PEOPLE ARE AFRAID IT'S GOING TO CHANGE THEIR LIFE...
• 10:52 THEY'RE GONNA GET BLOWN UP
• 10:53 AND THAT'LL BE THE END OF IT.
• 10:54 THE FEAR IS THE BIG INHIBITOR ISN'T IT?
• 10:56 ABSOLUTELY
• 10:57 AND WHAT I WANT TO TELL OUR VIEWERS
• 10:59 IS THAT IN 27 YEARS
• 11:00 WE'VE NEVER HAD ONE PROBLEM.
• 11:02 WE HAVE NEVER CANCELLED ONE TOUR.
• 11:04 IN FACT, OUR VIEWERS NEED TO KNOW
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• 11:09 WE'RE GOING.
• 11:10 WE'RE ALL ABOUT ISRAEL WHETHER THE GROUPS ARE BIG OR SMALL
• 11:12 BECAUSE WE WANT PEOPLE TO SEE THE LAND
• 11:14 AND WE WANT THEM TO BE FILLING UP THEIR HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS.
• 11:16 AND WHAT'S NEAT ABOUT OUR TOUR
• 11:17 IS AS YOU KNOW DR. SEIF
• 11:18 IS THAT BECAUSE WE GO THREE TIMES A YEAR
• 11:20 THE TOURS ARE SMALL.
• 11:21 A LADY I JUST TALKED WITH WENT ON A TOUR...
• 11:23 28 BUSES.
• 11:25 RIGHT...YOU CAN GET A TELEVANGELIST OR WHATEVER SAYING,
• 11:27 "COME WITH ME TO ISRAEL"
• 11:28 BUT YOU'LL NEVER SEE THE GUY BUT WITH BINOCULARS, IT'S SO BIG.
• 11:31 WE DO IT A COUPLE TIMES A YEAR
• 11:33 BECAUSE IT KEEPS IT SMALL...TWO...THREE BUSES.
• 11:36 ITS MANAGEABLE...
• 11:37 YOU GET TO KNOW PEOPLE.
• 11:38 RIGHT AND WHAT I WANT OUR VIEWERS TO KNOW...
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• 11:43 YES...JEFF IS ON EVERY TOUR.
• 11:45 AND SO MANY PASSENGERS WANT THAT AND WHAT DR. SEIF WILL DO IS
• 11:48 HE'S GOING TO OPEN UP THE WORD DEVOTIONALLY
• 11:50 AT ALL THE KEY HISTORICAL SITES,
• 11:52 DO DEVOTIONS IN THE EVENING.
• 11:53 WE'RE GOING TO REALLY BOND AS A GROUP
• 11:55 AND I WANT YOU TO COME WITH US.
• 11:56 PLEASE...
• 11:57 YOU HEARD WHAT THE LADY SAID.
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• 12:14 I HOPE YOU'LL SEND US A DONATION TO PAY FOR THE POSTAGE
• 12:16 BUT WE'LL JUST GET THAT TO YOU TO GET THE BALL ROLLING.
• 12:20 TALK ABOUT ROLLING
• 12:21 THERE'S A STEAM ROLLER ROLLING OVER THE MIDDLE EASTERN WORLD.
• 12:24 IS FANATIC ISLAM A GLOBAL THREAT?
• 12:27 I WANT TO OFFER YOU THE BOOK.
• 12:29 I'LL JUST TELL YOU ON THE FRONT END THE ANSWER IS "YES".
• 12:31 THE OFFER FOR THE PROGRAM
• 12:34 IS THE SERIES...A DVD SERIES
• 12:35 ON "ESTHER,"
• 12:36 "FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS"...
• 12:38 DVDS...8 PROGRAMS...
• 12:40 YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE IT.
• 12:42 AND NOW ESTHER AND MORDECAI LOOK OVER A LIFE WELL LIVED AND USED
• 12:47 AT THE HAND OF GOD IN THEIR LIFE AND AFFAIRS.
• 12:50 OFF TO THAT STORY WE GO.
• 13:28 THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL LIVE.
• 13:31 IT'S NOT TO SAY
• 13:32 THERE AREN'T FORCES BENT
• 13:34 ON TRYING TO SEE THAT WE DON'T,
• 13:35 BUT WE DO.
• 13:37 AND THE REASON WHY WE LIVE IS BECAUSE GOD LIVES.
• 13:39 AND THAT'S THE REASON WE SING A SONG...JEWS THAT IS...
• 13:42 FROM HERE IN ISRAEL AND ALL OVER THE WORLD...
• 13:45 "THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL LIVE".
• 13:48 WELL THE STORY IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER TAKES PLACE
• 13:52 AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF SOMEONE ENDEAVORING TO SEE TO IT THAT WE DON'T LIVE.
• 13:57 YOU CAN RECALL THERE'S HAMAN...
• 14:00 SOMETHING OF A WICKED SORT...
• 14:02 BENT ON DESTROYING THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 14:04 HE HATED MORDECAI
• 14:07 AND NOT JUST MORDECAI
• 14:08 BUT BY EXTENSION ALL JEWS EVERYWHERE.
• 14:12 AND HE UTILIZED HIS INFLUENCE TO ENACT A SCHEME TO ANNIHILATE THE JEWS.
• 14:20 AND SO DISPATCHED FROM THE CAPITAL OF SHUSHAN WERE COURIERS
• 14:24 THAT TOOK MESSAGES ALL OVER THIS VAST MEDIA-PERSIAN EMPIRE
• 14:30 EXTENDING FROM INDIA ON THE ONE HAND
• 14:33 ALL THE WAY TO ETHIOPIA ON THE OTHER.
• 14:36 JEWS WERE SCATTERED ABOUT
• 14:37 BUT IT WAS DECREED INTO LAW THAT A DAY WOULD BE SET ASIDE
• 14:43 TO DESTROY THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 14:46 SEEMS, HOWEVER, THAT DIFFICULTIES IN THE WORLD ASIDE,
• 14:49 GOD ALWAYS HAS HIS OWN.
• 14:52 IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER WE'RE TOLD THERE WAS A FELLOW MORDECAI
• 14:56 WHO PUSHED HIS CHARGE FORWARD...
• 14:59 HER NAME WAS "HADASSAH" IN HEBREW.
• 15:02 IT'S A BEAUTIFUL NAME FOR A BEAUTIFUL GIRL.
• 15:04 IT COMES FROM THE WORD FOR A PARTICULAR KIND OF TREE...
• 15:07 A MYRTLE TREE.
• 15:08 COMING HERE
• 15:10 FROM THE MOUNT OF OLIVES WHERE THERE'S GREENERY ROUND ABOUT
• 15:13 HADASSAH ARGUABLY HAD A LITTLE OLIVE TINT IN HER SKIN...
• 15:16 A LITTLE SOMETHING SPECIAL.
• 15:18 IN FACT SHE'S SO SPECIAL
• 15:20 THAT SHE HAS WORKED HER WAY INTO THE JEWISH PSYCHE FOR LOVELINESS AND CARING AND SHARING
• 15:24 SO MUCH SO THAT IN ISRAEL HERE
• 15:26 THERE'S EVEN A HOSPITAL NAMED AFTER HER CALLED HADASSAH HOSPITAL.
• 15:31 WELL HER CARING AND SHARING CAME TO BLOOM IN THE STORY IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER
• 15:35 WHEN SHE WAS FORTUITOUSLY ELEVATED TO BECOME QUEEN.
• 15:40 SPEAK OF RAGS TO RICHES,
• 15:42 HERE'S A GIRL WHO NOT JUST BECAUSE OF HER BEAUTY
• 15:45 BUT BECAUSE OF AN INNER BEAUTY
• 15:47 SHE HAD SOMETHING A LITTLE EXTRA
• 15:49 AND SHE CAUGHT THE ATTENTION OF A KING NAMED XERXES.
• 15:53 THE NET RESULT IS THAT SHE BECOMES QUEEN
• 15:56 AND THEN WHEN IN THE EMPIRE HAMAN ENACTS HIS SCHEME TO DESTROY THE JEWS
• 16:03 SHE'S WELL PLACED TO UTILIZE HER INFLUENCE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
• 16:08 OH I'M REMINDED OF WHEN MORDECAI PETITIONS HER "PLEASE DEAR YOU HAVE TO"
• 16:13 AND SHE SAYS "I CAN'T, I CAN'T"...
• 16:15 BUT THEN SHE'S REMINDED THAT SHE HAD COME INTO THE KINGDOM FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS.
• 16:22 ALL OVER THE WORLD TODAY
• 16:25 JEWISH PEOPLE REMEMBER ESTHER AND MORDECAI AND THE FEAST OF PURIM
• 16:30 THAT COMMEMORATES WHEN THE JEWS WERE GIVEN PERMISSION TO DEFEND THEMSELVES
• 16:36 AGAINST THOSE THAT WOULD LOOK TO DESTROY THEM.
• 16:40 AND IN SYNAGOGUES TODAY THE WORLD OVER JEWS READ THE STORY OF THE BOOK OF ESTHER
• 16:45 AND EVERY TIME MORDECAI'S NAME IS MENTIONED WE GO "HOORAH...HOORAH"...
• 16:50 IT'S QUITE A PARTY ATMOSPHERE.
• 16:52 EVERY TIME HAMAN IS MENTIONED WE GO "BOOH...BOOH...BOOH".
• 16:56 THE STORY THAT I WANT TO LEAVE YOU WITH, HOWEVER,
• 16:58 IS THE STORY OF ONE WOMAN WHO UTILIZED HER INFLUENCE
• 17:02 AND CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY BY VIRTUE OF HER SO DOING
• 17:07 AND SHE'S ALWAYS REMEMBERED THEN AS A WOMAN WHO TOOK A STAND
• 17:11 "FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS."
• 17:19 ♪OVER HERE IN EGYPT,♪
• 17:21 ♪WE'VE BEEN HERE WAY TOO LONG♪
• 17:25 ♪JUST WAITING FOR A SAVIOUR♪
• 17:26 ♪OR SOMEONE TO COME AND TAKE US HOME♪
• 17:30 ♪CAUSE YOU KNOW WE'VE BEEN HURTING HERE,♪
• 17:32 ♪ENSLAVED FOR FAR TOO LONG♪
• 17:36 ♪AND WE HEARD OF A FAR OFF LAND♪
• 17:38 ♪WHERE MILK AND HONEY FLOW♪
• 17:41 ♪WE WANNA GO,♪
• 17:43 ♪WE WANNA GO TO THE PROMISED LAND♪
• 17:53 ♪SO HERE COMES YOUNG MOSES WITH FIRE IN HIS EYES♪
• 17:58 ♪IT TOOK A BURNING BUSH TO MAKE HIM REALIZE♪
• 18:04 ♪FOR THE ONE WHOM GOD HAS CALLED♪
• 18:06 ♪NO HE CANNOT BE DENIED♪
• 18:09 ♪SO HE WENT TO THE PHARAOH WANTING FREEDOM♪
• 18:12 ♪OR HE WOULD SEE DEMISE♪
• 18:14 ♪LET EM GO,♪
• 18:17 ♪LET MY PEOPLE GO♪
• 18:20 ♪PHARAOH SAID NO♪
• 18:26 ♪HAD HE BROUGHT US OUT FROM EGYPT♪
• 18:29 ♪BUT NOT SPLIT THE SEA BEFORE US♪
• 18:32 ♪IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH♪
• 18:34 ♪IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH♪
• 18:37 ♪HAD HE BROUGHT US TO THE MOUNTAIN♪
• 18:40 ♪BUT NOT GIVEN US COMMANDMENTS♪
• 18:42 ♪IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH♪
• 18:45 ♪IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH♪
• 18:52 ♪BEEN IN THE DESERT TRADING IDOLS FOR OUR TEARS♪
• 18:57 ♪HOW COULD WE ALREADY FORGET♪
• 19:00 ♪IT WAS YOUR MIRACLES THAT BROUGHT US HERE♪
• 19:04 ♪PILLAR OF FIRE, AND MANNA FROM ABOVE♪
• 19:09 ♪YOU EVEN GAVE US YOUR WORD IN STONE,♪
• 19:11 ♪IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH♪
• 19:14 ♪SHOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH♪
• 19:16 ♪REMEMBER WHAT HE'S DONE♪
• 19:19 ♪IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH♪
• 19:25 ♪HAD HE GIVEN US COMMANDMENTS♪
• 19:28 ♪BUT NOT LED US INTO ZION♪
• 19:30 ♪IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH♪
• 19:33 ♪IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH♪
• 19:36 ♪HAD HE LED US INTO ZION♪
• 19:39 ♪BUT NOT GIVEN US THE PROPHETS♪
• 19:42 ♪IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH♪
• 19:45 ♪IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH♪
• 19:50 ♪WHOAAAAOO♪
• 19:55 ♪WHOAAAAO YEAH♪
• 20:02 ♪WELL ARE YOU SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB?♪
• 20:05 ♪ARE YOU SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB?♪
• 20:08 ♪ARE YOU SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB?♪
• 20:10 ♪OHHHH YEAH♪
• 20:13 ♪WE ARE WASHED BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB♪
• 20:16 ♪WE ARE WASHED BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB♪
• 20:19 ♪WE ARE WASHED BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB♪
• 20:21 ♪OHHHH YEAH♪
• 20:23 ♪HAD HE WALKED UPON THE WATER♪
• 20:27 ♪HAD HE CALMED THE STORMY SEA♪
• 20:30 ♪IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH♪
• 20:33 ♪IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH♪
• 20:35 ♪HAD HE FED THE FIVE THOUSAND♪
• 20:38 ♪HAD HE RAISED THEM FROM THE DEAD♪
• 20:41 ♪IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH♪
• 20:44 ♪IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH♪
• 20:47 ♪WHEN HE DIED FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS♪
• 20:50 ♪WHEN HE SET THE CAPTIVES FREE♪
• 20:52 ♪OH IT WAS ENOUGH♪
• 20:55 ♪YEAH...IT WAS ENOUGH♪
• 20:57 ♪OHH LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI♪
• 21:02 ♪LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI♪
• 21:04 ♪OH IT WAS ENOUGH♪
• 21:06 ♪YEAH IT WAS ENOUGH♪
• 21:09 ♪OHH LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI♪
• 21:13 ♪LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI♪
• 21:15 ♪LORD YOU ARE ENOUGH♪
• 21:18 ♪MORE THAN ENOUGH♪
• 21:24 ♪MORE THAN ENOUGH♪
• 21:31 SHE SINGS,
• 21:32 SHE TALKS
• 21:33 AND SHE'S BACK.
• 21:34 HELLO SHARON >>HELLO AGAIN
• 21:36 WHAT A GREAT LADY.
• 21:39 TELL ME ABOUT THAT SONG.
• 21:40 I THINK I'VE HEARD IT BEFORE.
• 21:41 YOU PROBABLY HAVE HEARD
• 21:43 SOME OF THE LYRICS BEFORE.
• 21:45 WE ACTUALLY FOR THE CHORUS OF THAT SONG
• 21:46 WE TOOK THE DIRECT ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF "DAYENU"
• 21:50 WHICH IS A PASSOVER SONG THAT THE JEWISH PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SINGING FOR YEARS AND YEARS.
• 21:54 AND THE CONCEPT OF IT IS
• 21:56 "IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH"
• 21:58 YOU KNOW GOD HAS DONE SO MANY MIRACLES THROUGHOUT TIME
• 22:00 WHETHER IT'S THE PURIM STORY...
• 22:01 THE PASSOVER STORY...
• 22:03 AND IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH
• 22:04 IF HE NEVER DID ONE MORE THING FOR US.
• 22:06 IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH.
• 22:07 BUT AS WE KNOW HE CONTINUES TO BLESS US.
• 22:09 AND THE HEBREW FOR THAT IS "DAYENU"... >>"DAYENU"
• 22:13 IT IS SUFFICIENT.
• 22:14 WE CELEBRATE GOD'S SUFFICIENCY IN MEMORY IN OUR JEWISH HOLIDAYS
• 22:19 AND ZOLA LEVITT'S GOING TO TAKE US INTO THE "SHUL", INTO THE SYNAGOGUE
• 22:22 AND TALK TO US ABOUT HOW WE JEWS CELEBRATE PURIM.
• 22:28 THE CANTOR TO BEGIN WITH
• 22:29 IS CHANTING FROM THE MEGILLAH,
• 22:31 FROM THE BOOK OF ESTHER.
• 22:33 NOW WATCH WHAT HAPPENS
• 22:35 WHEN HE COMES TO HAMAN'S NAME.
• 22:44 (CHILDREN YELLING AND SCREAMING AND MAKING NOISE)
• 22:47 HAMAN WANTED TO WIPE OUT THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 22:50 AND HE DIDN'T SUCCEED IN DOING THAT.
• 22:52 AS A MATTER OF FACT
• 22:53 HE'S VERY WELL REMEMBERED BY THE JEWISH PEOPLE AS YOU CAN SEE.
• 22:56 WATCH WHAT THE RING LEADER UP HERE DOES.
• 22:58 HE'S THE INSTIGATOR...
• 23:00 OF ALL THE RACKET.
• 23:06 AND I MEAN IT WAS ALL STOPS OUT.
• 23:07 WHEN I WAS A LITTLE KID
• 23:09 WE RAN THROUGH THE SYNAGOGUE UP AND DOWN THE AISLES
• 23:11 SO WE WERE SOAKING WET AND WE WERE SCREAMING.
• 23:17 NOW THESE FOLKS ARE BAKING "HOMENTASHEN"
• 23:20 WHICH IS A SPECIAL DELICACY...
• 23:22 FRUITS, SEEDS, PRUNES....
• 23:24 A DELICIOUS FILLING IN THE MIDST OF PASTRIES
• 23:29 AND THEY'RE VERY, VERY LOVELY TO EAT.
• 23:34 IT'S HAND WORK...
• 23:35 YOU DON'T GET MUCH HAND WORK THESE DAYS
• 23:37 BUT THESE FOLKS WHO WORK AT THE KOSHER BAKERY HAVE CLEAN HANDS AND A PURE HEART
• 23:41 AND THEY MAKE THESE THINGS BY HAND.
• 23:46 AND YOU LOOK LIKE A PRINCESS.
• 23:48 WELL AND YOU LOOK LIKE A JOKER.
• 23:49 WELL THANK YOU VERY MUCH
• 23:51 AND AREN'T WE ALL PLAYING LIKE LITTLE KIDDOS? >>YES WE ARE.
• 23:54 I KNOW THIS IS SO FUN.
• 23:55 WE HAVE NOISE MAKERS HERE.
• 23:58 IT'S A PARTY IN THE STUDIO RIGHT NOW.
• 24:01 YEAH ALL OVER THE JEWISH WORLD
• 24:03 WE JUST KIND OF GET INTO THIS.
• 24:08 THE GRAGGERS...
• 24:09 ALL THE PARTY STUFF...
• 24:10 YEAH ITS FUN!
• 24:11 IN THE SYNAGOGUE WHENEVER HAMAN'S NAME IS MENTIONED
• 24:14 WE GO "BOOO...BOOO" AND STAMP OUR FEET >>YEP!
• 24:17 AND WHEN MORDECAI IS MENTIONED
• 24:18 WE GO "HEY...HEY" >>SURE...YEAH"
• 24:20 TO REMEMBER... WHY DO WE MAKE FOOLS OUT OF OURSELVES?
• 24:23 WELL TO CELEBRATE.
• 24:25 TO CELEBRATE THE INCREDIBLE STORY THAT IS PURIM...
• 24:28 GOD SAVING HIS PEOPLE.
• 24:31 I REMEMBER THAT TO WATCH ADULTS TO DRESS UP LIKE THIS IS STRIKING. >>HMMMHMMM
• 24:36 LITTLE KIDS DRESS UP AND THEY LOVE IT >>OH YES!
• 24:38 BUT IT LEAVES AN IMPRESSION ON THE KIDDOS...
• 24:41 "WHY ARE MY PARENTS ACTING SO WEIRD?"
• 24:44 ...OR WEIDER THAN NORMAL.
• 24:45 BUT WE'RE KIND OF CELEBRATING A GREAT MIRACLE.
• 24:49 WHAT'S THE MIRACLE?
• 24:50 YOU KNOW THERE WAS A DECREE OUT
• 24:53 TO DESTROY THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 24:54 AS WE'VE SEEN THROUGH HISTORY
• 24:56 THAT WAS NOT THE LAST TIME
• 24:57 THAT THERE HAS BEEN SOMETHING THAT HAS TRIED TO DESTROY OUR PEOPLE
• 25:00 BUT JEREMIAH 31 STATES
• 25:03 THAT AS LONG AS THERE'S STARS IN THE SKIES
• 25:05 THE JEWISH PEOPLE WILL BE HERE.
• 25:07 AND THAT SPEAKS TO ALL OF GOD'S CHILDREN.
• 25:08 HE PROTECTS US...
• 25:10 HE PRESERVES US YESTERDAY, TODAY AND IN YEARS TO COME.
• 25:13 WELL I LIKE THE SONG "THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL LIVE"
• 25:16 AND GOD ONLY KNOWS PEOPLE HAVE TRIED TO PREVENT US LVING
• 25:20 FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL
• 25:21 FROM BIBLE DAYS AS PER THE BOOK OF ESTHER
• 25:24 RIGHT UP TO THE PRESENT. >>EXACTLY.
• 25:25 IT'S SPOOKY...
• 25:27 IT'S DEMONIC
• 25:28 IT REALLY IS...IT IS.
• 25:29 BUT WE CAN REST ASSURED
• 25:31 WE KNOW THE END OF THE STORY
• 25:32 AND GOD PROTECTS US.
• 25:34 HE'S PRESERVED US
• 25:35 AND HE'S GOING TO CONTINUE TO.
• 25:37 AND THAT'S GOOD NEWS FOR JEWS, >>YES
• 25:38 AND IT'S GOOD NEWS FOR "YOUS".
• 25:42 I SAY THAT BECAUSE GOD'S PRESERVING POWER ISN'T LIMITED TO A RACE...
• 25:48 IF YOU'LL MAKE SPACE...
• 25:50 IF YOU'LL MAKE A PLACE FOR HIM IN YOUR HEART.
• 25:52 THE SAME LORD IS LORD OF ALL ISN'T HE? >>YES
• 25:56 AND HE BESTOWS HIS RICHES UPON ALL WHO CALL UPON HIM. >>YES
• 26:00 THAT MEANS ME...YOU... ALL OF US TOGETHER.
• 26:04 SHARON IT'S BEEN A THRILL HAVING YOU WITH US.
• 26:06 IT'S BEEN SO MUCH FUN.
• 26:08 SO THANKS FOR INVITING ME.
• 26:10 WE NEED TO DO THIS AGAIN.
• 26:11 I JUST COULDN'T THINK OF A BETTER PERSON TO TELL THE ESTHER STORY THAN YOU.
• 26:14 WELL THANK YOU.
• 26:15 THIS IS MY FAVORITE STORY TO TELL
• 26:16 SO I'M HONORED TO BE HERE.
• 26:17 AND LIKE ESTHER IN HER DAY
• 26:18 YOU'RE A RISING STAR IN YOUR DAY AND OUR DAY
• 26:20 AND I LOOK FORWARD TO FOLLOWING YOUR CAREER.
• 26:23 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
• 26:24 I'LL LOOK FORWARD TO FOLLOWING YOURS TOO YOU KNOW
• 26:26 BECAUSE GOD RAISES UP PEOPLE...
• 26:28 ME...YOU...SHARON...
• 26:29 ALL OF US...
• 26:31 SO DO CONSIDER TURNING YOUR HEARTS TOWARD HIM AND SEEING WHERE HE LEADS YOU.
• 26:34 IF HE LEADS YOU TO US
• 26:36 YOU CAN FIND US.
• 26:36 YOU CAN FIND US ON FACEBOOK,
• 26:38 YOUTUBE,
• 26:39 WE'RE ALL ABOUT GETTING OUT THERE.
• 26:40 AND AS YOU GO WITH US ON THE JOURNEY WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT WEEK.
• 26:42 AND AS YOU GO NOW,
• 26:43 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:45 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM