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• 00:03 David Hart: Welcome to "Our Jewish Roots," with insightful
• 00:06 Bible teaching by Dr. Jeffrey Seif.
• 00:08 This week, we travel to Corinth and then Rome as we follow "In
• 00:12 the Footsteps of the Rabbi from Tarsus."
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• 01:16 David: We're so glad you've joined us
• 01:18 today, I am David Hart.
• 01:19 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 01:20 Jeffrey Seif: I am ecstatic.
• 01:22 Jeffrey Seif here, coming from the city of Corinth.
• 01:25 It is so cool to go back to the Bible places.
• 01:28 David: Not just Corinth, but ancient.
• 01:31 A lot of biblical history in this.
• 01:32 I know you're excited about today's series, today's program.
• 01:35 Jeffrey: It's so cool, you know.
• 01:36 Most professors, pastors, get a podium somewhere in a room.
• 01:42 Our viewers are gonna go to Corinth.
• 01:44 It's great to go to the places, mmm.
• 01:46 Kirsten: And the spots are still there where Paul
• 01:48 himself taught and walked.
• 01:51 Jeffrey: And our viewers walk with us, I love it.
• 01:54 Kirsten: That's a good thing.
• 01:55 David: Dr. Seif is there right now, ancient Corinth.
• 01:58 Let's go there now.
• 02:01 Jeffrey: Welcome to ancient Corinth, where ancient worlds
• 02:07 collided and where people collided within those worlds.
• 02:13 Evidence of this multicultural environment is still gleaned
• 02:18 from this site 2000 years after the biblical story
• 02:22 was played out here.
• 02:23 Even it extends way beyond that.
• 02:25 We have the once-great temple to Apollos to my west.
• 02:31 We have a sanctuary to my east where the Greeks were looking
• 02:37 over to the edge of life, over the edge, in fact, to the grave.
• 02:42 You can see a laurel wreath where a ferryman is tendering a
• 02:48 boat to take the dead to Hades.
• 02:51 We can find just to my north what was the site
• 02:56 of the temple of Aphrodite's.
• 03:00 Just straight away is the Ionian Sea, which took sailors
• 03:04 due west to Italy.
• 03:06 And then not far from here, there's a port where ancient
• 03:11 Corinth could, in a reasonably short period of time, get
• 03:14 connected to the Aegean Sea and, by virtue of that,
• 03:18 Asia Minor and points East.
• 03:21 Corinth, it was a vast city.
• 03:24 A few hundred thousand people lived here, and it's estimated
• 03:27 by some that 200,000 of them were Jews.
• 03:32 All kinds of people came to this place and all kinds of ideas
• 03:36 were represented in this place.
• 03:40 On Paul's second missionary journey, Paul injected a new
• 03:45 way of thinking into this world as he, we're told in Acts
• 03:50 chapter 18, he made his way to Corinth after Athens.
• 03:54 And there he, we're told, entered into a synagogue.
• 03:58 He always could get a speaking engagement.
• 04:00 He was a member of the Perushim,
• 04:02 the Pharisees, so he could get invited in,
• 04:04 but then he taught strange new things and invoked the ire of
• 04:08 some by virtue of his so doing.
• 04:10 Still, prominent Jews had come to faith and Luke tells us that
• 04:14 the head Zekenim, the head elder of the synagogue,
• 04:19 the arch synagogos, to use a Greek expression, had come
• 04:22 to faith as well, creating quite a stir, I'd imagine.
• 04:26 So Paul, as his custom was, he goes into synagogues and people
• 04:31 come to faith in him, but then there's quite a stir.
• 04:36 Well, he labored for the better part of 18 months here in
• 04:39 Corinth to establish a congregation, but then he moves
• 04:43 on down the road and he writes this document called
• 04:49 1 Corinthians from the city of Ephesus.
• 04:53 We've taken you there.
• 04:55 You'll see Ephesus in all of its ancient glandor as well.
• 04:58 Well, what happens is Paul gets word.
• 05:01 We're told in 1 Corinthians chapter 1, verse 11, that
• 05:06 members from Chloe's household, probably a leading member
• 05:10 of the congregation here, had gotten a letter off
• 05:13 to Paul that things have cratered in Corinth.
• 05:16 Paul was very disconcerted that not everyone was minded
• 05:19 to respond to his authority.
• 05:21 Some said, "I belong to Paul."
• 05:23 Some said, "I belong to Apollos."
• 05:25 A noteworthy teacher from Alexandria,
• 05:28 Egypt, in antiquity, a guy who had come to faith in Jesus,
• 05:31 some say, "I belong to Paul," "I belong to Apollos," "I belong to
• 05:34 this and that," and Paul is wrapped around the axle.
• 05:37 He is not a happy camper because his
• 05:39 authority has been questioned.
• 05:41 Beyond that, Paul learns of sexual impropriety,
• 05:45 that it was rife in Corinth.
• 05:48 It's understandable at one level.
• 05:50 We're all wired with sexual impulses, but the Corinthians
• 05:53 were given to give free vent to their interests and expressions.
• 05:57 This is so much the case that to refer to someone as a Corinthian
• 06:01 was, in effect, to say that they were loose
• 06:03 with their sexual favors.
• 06:05 This is made popular in history, in fact,
• 06:08 because of a temple that I alluded to earlier,
• 06:11 to Aphrodites, where Strabo, an ancient historian,
• 06:14 says there were the better part of 1000 temple prostitutes that
• 06:19 used to wear on the heels of their shoes a little sign that
• 06:21 said, "Follow me," and they'd lead people off
• 06:24 to attend to their business.
• 06:26 Well, the Greeks and the Romans weren't very squeamish about
• 06:30 sexuality; and here in Corinth, licentiousness seems to have
• 06:34 been celebrated, so what happens is some people come to faith in
• 06:38 Jesus, but they bring their old way of being
• 06:40 into the new economy, and the net result is that Paul
• 06:43 deals with a church where there's sexual related issues
• 06:47 that need to be attended to, as is amply reflected
• 06:49 in his document that we call 1 Corinthians.
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• 07:02 Jeffrey: It was a fractured church, it was a divided church.
• 07:05 And the business of the different parts of the body
• 07:09 being scattered and fractured seems amply attested,
• 07:12 not just in the verbiage, in the literature from this ancient
• 07:15 Corinthian document, but even in Corinth itself.
• 07:19 Here there was a shrine to Asclepius,
• 07:22 the god of healing, and therein, the people that were afflicted
• 07:27 with sicknesses would take a body part that was ill and they
• 07:30 would just give a cast of that to try and get the attention of
• 07:33 a god to say, "Look at this body part."
• 07:34 So there are a variety of body parts that were uncovered here
• 07:37 when it was excavated, some of which,
• 07:39 in fact, are being displayed right now.
• 07:42 Well, the image of body parts scattered about,
• 07:44 Paul uses it in the language of the text to say,
• 07:48 "Don't say I'm better than this and that.
• 07:50 We're all one body, organically linked together."
• 07:54 'Course, Paul was challenging that body to come together
• 07:57 because they were going a variety of different directions.
• 08:00 Speaking of different directions,
• 08:02 Paul who writes from Ephesus, was minded to cross the Aegean
• 08:06 Sea and come and see them.
• 08:07 However, he was not wanting to do so at this juncture.
• 08:11 He wanted to given them a tense letter,
• 08:13 a rebuke, the kind of a rebuke that a father will give in order
• 08:17 to try and correct the wayward children.
• 08:19 I love the way he ends, and let me end on that note as well.
• 08:22 He shares travel plans here in 1 Corinthians
• 08:26 chapter 16, verse 5.
• 08:28 He says, "I'm planning on coming to you when I pass through
• 08:31 Macedonia," northern Greece.
• 08:33 He wants to come back this way.
• 08:35 He says, "It may be that I'm gonna remain and spend some time
• 08:38 and I'd even spend the winter there."
• 08:40 He says in verse 7 something that's revealing, I believe.
• 08:43 He says, "But I do not wish to see you now."
• 08:47 This was a rebuke.
• 08:50 The rabbi from Tarsus was disconcerted by information that
• 08:54 he received relevant to the Corinthian church, and he wanted
• 08:58 them to mend their ways in order that when he came to them,
• 09:02 he might not have to have such a tense disposition, but can share
• 09:05 some of the affection that he wanted.
• 09:08 Well, it's all about growing and glowing, and
• 09:10 here, Paul, as we follow in his footsteps,
• 09:13 we see him writing, exhorting, disciplining, but loving amidst
• 09:17 it all as he looks to help people walk
• 09:20 in the footsteps of Jesus.
• 09:21 This we see as we walk in the footsteps
• 09:24 of the rabbi from Tarsus.
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• 09:45 Jeffrey: 1 Corinthians was a blistering critique and 2
• 09:49 Corinthians was mild by comparison.
• 09:52 And in 2 Corinthians chapter 7, Paul notes in verse 5 that when
• 09:58 he came to Macedonia, he was pressed.
• 10:01 But then in verse 6, he gives voice to a comfort that he
• 10:04 received when Titus came to him bringing good news,
• 10:09 good news that the Corinthians were minded
• 10:12 to reconnect with Paul.
• 10:14 And so here Paul says that he's learned of their desire,
• 10:19 their mourning, their zeal for him,
• 10:21 with the net result, Paul says, "that I rejoiced even more."
• 10:25 Here, Paul's a happy camper.
• 10:26 His spirits are lifted.
• 10:28 His confidence is risen.
• 10:31 And then he proceeds to follow through with something
• 10:35 that was implemented previously.
• 10:37 Previously, Paul the apostle to the Gentiles, had encouraged
• 10:41 the church in Corinth to help the brethren in Judea.
• 10:46 Paul was interested in reaching beyond Judea, but he wanted the
• 10:49 non-Jewish congregations to reach back to Judea.
• 10:52 Now, isn't that something that's lacking today?
• 10:55 And then in chapters 8 and 9 he proceeds to
• 10:57 advocate for an offering.
• 11:05 Yeah, Paul said in chapter 9 of 2 Corinthians,
• 11:10 "Concerning the ministering of the saints,
• 11:12 it's superfluous for me to write to you."
• 11:15 Hey, I don't need to talk to you about money.
• 11:16 You know, it's all not even necessary.
• 11:19 He goes on to say, "For I know your willingness,
• 11:22 about which I boast to you to the Macedonians."
• 11:25 Interesting, here in Corinth, this is Achaia.
• 11:30 Macedonia is on the mainland.
• 11:32 There was a lot of spirited competition between the
• 11:35 Achaians and the Macedonians.
• 11:37 Paul says, "Listen, relative to this offering, you know, I was
• 11:39 boasting to the Macedonians that you guys are getting after it."
• 11:44 See, he's in part playing one against the other 'cause the
• 11:46 Macedonians gave a good offering and he wants
• 11:49 them to do likewise.
• 11:50 An offering for what?
• 11:52 Interestingly, in chapters 8 and 9 of 2 Corinthians,
• 11:56 on better footing as he is, Paul is leaning on them
• 12:00 to be gracious financially.
• 12:02 But what's he leaning on 'em to do?
• 12:04 Does he need a new car to travel about in his apostolic journeys?
• 12:07 Does he wanna buy a boat?
• 12:09 Does First Baptist Church of Corinth need
• 12:11 a new education building?
• 12:13 No, he's raising money because he wants to help support the
• 12:18 work of the Lord amongst the Jewish people.
• 12:21 As I said a moment ago, I love it.
• 12:23 The apostle of the Gentiles still had a heart of the Jews.
• 12:26 Would that spirit prevail in the church today?
• 12:30 I'd certainly be a happy camper.
• 12:32 And it certainly would be congruent with what this
• 12:34 apostle was all about.
• 12:36 But don't take my word for it.
• 12:37 Open your Bibles, please, to 2 Corinthians chapter 9, and let's
• 12:42 look at his argument.
• 12:44 He says in verse 6, "But this I say to you: he who sows
• 12:50 sparingly will reap sparingly, and he who sows
• 12:53 bountifully will reap bountifully."
• 12:56 This is where you get the old "What you sow is what you reap."
• 12:59 You give a little, you get a little;
• 13:00 you give a lot, you get a lot.
• 13:02 This conversation is played out against the backdrop of trying
• 13:06 to raise missions money to get the Corinthians to help
• 13:09 the brethren in Judea.
• 13:13 He says in verse 7, "Let each one give as he purposes in his
• 13:16 heart, not grudgingly or of necessity;
• 13:19 for the Lord loves a cheerful giver."
• 13:21 Paul, here, is going after the fact.
• 13:23 He's kind of harking back to a text in Moses where people were
• 13:27 asked to give willingly from the heart,
• 13:28 not out of a sense of compulsion,
• 13:30 and they indeed did just that.
• 13:32 Here, Paul, in like manner, wants the believers here in
• 13:35 Corinth in the shadow of the temple.
• 13:38 You can see the pillars to the former temple
• 13:41 to Apollos behind me.
• 13:43 And here in Corinth you can see vestiges,
• 13:46 footprints, of things Greek and of things Jewish.
• 13:50 It was a sizable population here of Jews,
• 13:53 interestingly, some 200,000 settled in Corinth proper in
• 13:57 Paul days, almost matching the number of non-Jewish people.
• 14:01 This was a cosmopolitan city, it was a Hellenistic city.
• 14:04 The Jewish folk that were here were not of Judean extract
• 14:07 themselves, but they belonged to the Diaspora, to the Galut.
• 14:12 Paul wanted the Jews here to be connected to the Jews in Israel.
• 14:16 He wanted the non-Jews here that have come to faith in the
• 14:19 Messiah of Israel to be connected to the Jews in Israel,
• 14:22 to help them as they find themselves pressed amidst the
• 14:26 turbulence of trying times.
• 14:27 Paul says, "Let's rise up and show fidelity.
• 14:30 Let's show that we're not wanting to break away from the
• 14:32 Jewish people, and let's show that tangibly with an offering.
• 14:36 And so they did.
• 14:37 Paul was so pleased by all of this,
• 14:40 in the Romans correspondence, he even harks to it.
• 14:44 If you look in Romans chapter 15: "But now I'm going to
• 14:47 Jerusalem to minister to the saints."
• 14:50 He's writing to the Romans and he's expressing his travel plans
• 14:53 to go to the Jewish people.
• 14:54 He says in 26, "For it pleased those
• 14:56 from Macedonia and Achaia."
• 14:58 Achaia being here.
• 15:00 He writes after the fact and says,
• 15:01 "You know, those folk in Macedonia and Achaia,
• 15:03 they really rose to the occasion.
• 15:05 Now, come on, Romans, we want you to do it much the same."
• 15:08 We're told, "It pleased those from Macedonia and Achaia
• 15:10 to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints
• 15:14 who are in Jerusalem.
• 15:16 It pleased them indeed, and they are their debtors."
• 15:18 And he goes on to encourage them in like manner to be of service
• 15:22 to the saints in Jerusalem.
• 15:26 So what have we here?
• 15:27 1 Corinthians, Paul's going after the Corinthians.
• 15:29 Why is that?
• 15:31 Because the thing is spiraling out of control.
• 15:33 Paul writes, 2 Corinthians, he realizes he gets control.
• 15:37 Things settle down. Things calm down.
• 15:40 Paul reasserts his authority and he exhorts them to continue
• 15:44 with their plans to love the Jewish people.
• 15:47 I know I've said that a little bit earlier in this teaching
• 15:50 segment, but I'm of the belief if it's not worth saying 100
• 15:52 times, it's not worth saying once.
• 15:55 Would that the church today cared for the Jews as much as
• 15:58 the apostle to the Gentiles urged them to here
• 16:01 when he wrote 2 Corinthians.
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• 16:46 Jeffrey: Bible teaching is timeless, and it's a thrill to
• 16:50 go back and follow in Paul's footsteps,
• 16:53 something that I did 13 years ago.
• 16:56 While biblical teaching is timeless, we find ourselves
• 17:00 at a place now where we need to interrupt it,
• 17:03 but briefly, to speak to something that's timely.
• 17:07 We find ourselves at a point in time when we're all in the
• 17:11 throes of legitimate concerns associated with a pandemic,
• 17:16 and I know that you're concerned about it and its implication,
• 17:20 as are we here at Our Jewish Roots.
• 17:24 We work indefatigably to get the news out,
• 17:27 but we can't turn it around in 24 hours.
• 17:30 I've spent the better part of today and yesterday doing a
• 17:32 series on Revelation that'll come to you in short order,
• 17:36 but we want to get information to you on the quick.
• 17:38 First, I want to thank you for going with us on the journey.
• 17:42 We appreciate our friends and want you to know that if you'll
• 17:45 access our internet sites, you know,
• 17:48 Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, we have messages there that speak
• 17:52 more directly to the moment.
• 17:54 We want to give you good news through the eyes of the Jews,
• 17:57 and we live in a world today where good news is in very high
• 18:00 demand and very short supply.
• 18:03 We're on it, we care about it.
• 18:05 Thank you for letting us interpret the
• 18:07 biblical Word to you.
• 18:09 Off we go with the apostle Paul.
• 18:11 Go with us into the future as we walk down life's highways
• 18:15 together through hills, valleys,
• 18:17 mountains, and cross streams.
• 18:19 God bless.
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• 18:32 Jeffrey: 'Tis the glory that was Rome,
• 18:33 I'm coming to you from the belly of the Roman forum.
• 18:38 It's easy to be here, and it's like going back into a time
• 18:41 machine and journeying back to Rome when it was splendid.
• 18:46 Rome at its zenith, at its high water mark where Rome was--left
• 18:51 an indelible mark on the pages of history.
• 18:55 In Rome we have tributes to Caesars and senates.
• 18:59 There's arches that bespeak previous triumphs,
• 19:03 and now it's all faded.
• 19:04 But there's one story from Rome that continues to shine.
• 19:09 It illuminates, it impacts, and that is a book that was written
• 19:13 to the Romans, not from Rome.
• 19:16 Actually, when Paul penned Romans, he'd never been here.
• 19:19 Apparently, folk were here in the days of Pentecost in Acts
• 19:23 chapter 2, and they came back to the city, and the net result is
• 19:26 that a movement got started off here and Paul put pen
• 19:29 to paper to write them.
• 19:31 He starts off in his opening to his Romans Epistle saying how
• 19:36 things were so very debauched in Rome, so very licentious.
• 19:40 People were given to egregious sexual sins.
• 19:43 It so much reminds me of the world today in so many respects.
• 19:47 And Paul wrote to the church at Rome and he said that, "All have
• 19:50 sinned and fall short of the glory of God."
• 19:53 Women and men of Jewish extract have sinned,
• 19:55 individuals of non-Jewish extract have sinned and,
• 19:58 as a result, they've been bit by the viper.
• 20:02 Sin has made its entrance onto the stage of the human drama and
• 20:06 the net result is that the race is defiled, it's vitiated.
• 20:10 So much for the bad news.
• 20:12 The good news, despite the fact that the wages of sin is death,
• 20:16 and that the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus,
• 20:19 rather, despite the wages of sin,
• 20:22 the good news is, is that there's a remedy,
• 20:24 there's a medicinal potion in order to heal what ails and that
• 20:28 is through the blood of Jesus, according to Paul.
• 20:32 And Paul wrote the Christians at Rome to encourage them in faith.
• 20:37 Not only in faith, apparently there were some
• 20:39 problems between Christians in Rome of non-Jewish extract
• 20:44 and people of Jewish extract, and the question is how can we
• 20:47 get these people on the same page.
• 20:50 What had happened in Rome in advance of Paul's writing his
• 20:53 Epistle was the Jews that lived in the city
• 20:56 of Rome were kicked out.
• 20:58 Luke tells us in Acts 18:2 that Claudius who was emperor had
• 21:03 forced all the Jews to leave.
• 21:05 When Paul wrote Romans, however, Nero's in power, and one of the
• 21:08 things that Nero did is he allowed Jews to return.
• 21:12 So we had a unique situation here in Rome, and that is that
• 21:16 the church--Paul's churches were typically constituted
• 21:20 principally by women and men of Jewish extract
• 21:22 with smatterings of non-Jews.
• 21:24 But here's the church that developed almost entirely a
• 21:27 non-Jewish culture given the fact that there
• 21:29 were no Jews in Rome.
• 21:31 But then when Jews started making their way back to Rome,
• 21:34 then they come back into a church that had kind of
• 21:36 solidified, institutionalized, along non-Jewish lines with the
• 21:42 net result there was some ethnic tension.
• 21:44 Arguably, Paul heard about it and wanted to address it and so,
• 21:48 though he wasn't an apostle to the church at Rome,
• 21:51 he kind of employed his apostolic savvy and
• 21:54 authorization and wrote them and encouraged them to make peace,
• 21:58 one with another, that is Jews and non-Jews.
• 22:00 He spoke about the strong and the weak,
• 22:02 and probably he's referencing Jews and non-Jews,
• 22:05 learning to come to terms and not unduly offend each other.
• 22:09 It's interesting, too, if you look at the very heart of the
• 22:11 letter, Paul there underscores in Romans 9:10 and 11,
• 22:15 for the Gentile churches, that--the Gentile Christians
• 22:17 rather, that they must need to be reminded that God
• 22:20 has a plan for the Jewish people.
• 22:21 He has an endearing--an enduring love for the Jewish people that
• 22:24 apparently was diminishing somewhat.
• 22:26 So Paul wrote them and encouraged them to encourage the
• 22:30 church to love the Jewish people,
• 22:32 to connect with their Jewish brethren that were making their
• 22:35 way back into the city.
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• 22:46 Jeffrey: When Paul wrote his letter to the Romans, you
• 22:49 can sense the passion.
• 22:52 The letter is effusive. It's dripping with feeling.
• 22:55 Paul says, "My heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is
• 23:00 that they might be saved."
• 23:02 He's so very gracious.
• 23:03 He says, "I bear them witness they have a zeal for God,
• 23:07 but it's not according to knowledge."
• 23:09 Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles,
• 23:12 had a love for his Jewish brethren.
• 23:16 In fact, the Epistle even begins,
• 23:19 he says in chapter 1 that the gospel is for the Jew first
• 23:23 and also for the Greek.
• 23:26 It seems to me that the church has gone,
• 23:28 has its various traditions, but we do well to open up the
• 23:32 primary literature, and therein when we read Paul's writings,
• 23:36 we can sense his heart.
• 23:39 Better it is, it seems to me, that we get in touch with what
• 23:41 he had to say over and against what the traditions
• 23:44 of the day might be.
• 23:46 And so for that reason, I advocate that we do well to walk
• 23:50 in the footsteps of the rabbi from Tarsus,
• 23:54 to read his word, and to follow his example because that is
• 23:58 truly where we learn what it means to be Christian.
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• 24:19 David: We hope you're enjoying this series as much
• 24:21 as Kirsten and I are.
• 24:22 Dr. Seif, love the locations that you've been teaching at.
• 24:26 It must be amazing to stand in these places where Paul was.
• 24:29 Jeffrey: It's a little bit of heaven.
• 24:30 I hope our viewers get some thrill out of seeing the places
• 24:34 via the miracle that is television.
• 24:35 Walking there is great for all tourists and pilgrims.
• 24:38 For me, it's a thrill to teach from the place.
• 24:40 David: Not everybody can go; but when we watch,
• 24:44 we can join you.
• 24:45 Jeffrey: You know, 40 years, this television program has
• 24:47 taken people to the location and the fascinating city of Rome.
• 24:53 Those stones still speak, and you can see vestiges
• 24:56 of the former empire, it's fascinating.
• 24:58 Kirsten: And that's a signature of our program,
• 25:01 that we actually go on location; and it's wonderful to read
• 25:06 Paul's words, to hear his messages;
• 25:09 but to see the life that he lived and,
• 25:12 oh my gosh, his journeys.
• 25:13 It just didn't take one day or two hours and he was there.
• 25:17 There was some intense journeying
• 25:19 to get these messages out.
• 25:20 Jeffrey: There is and the question is how to get this
• 25:23 message out to the next generation that
• 25:25 is so visually stimulated.
• 25:28 You know, one of the benefits of television on location is if
• 25:33 our--let's say if an older viewer sees it,
• 25:36 and I'm not--I'm older, I'm 64, that the young see and the more
• 25:42 so they're moved by these images.
• 25:44 If we can capture the imagination of a younger
• 25:48 generation, and that's what you help us do when we do this.
• 25:53 You know that the young are always watching devices and
• 25:57 pictures and clips.
• 26:00 It is the communication mode for the next generation.
• 26:04 They, like you, are gonna be thrilled to visit here.
• 26:08 I wanna, just on the quick, a verse in Romans, chapter 15.
• 26:13 Paul says, "For if the Gentile have shared in the spiritual
• 26:17 blessings of the Jews, they ought to serve them
• 26:21 in material blessings."
• 26:23 That is, Paul's raising money to advocate for missions
• 26:26 money to the Jews.
• 26:28 I'm asking you here please do support us, get behind us.
• 26:32 And I wanna promise you every dollar you send, it's
• 26:35 not going into my pocket.
• 26:37 It is going to pay the expenses associated with the
• 26:41 program, not the personnel.
• 26:42 Appreciate your help in advance.
• 26:44 David: We have two more programs in the series.
• 26:47 Little snippet maybe of what's coming up next week?
• 26:49 Jeffrey: We're following the mail man.
• 26:50 Paul sends out some letters.
• 26:52 The same carrier delivered a text to Ephesus and to Colossea,
• 26:59 and another mail man took it up to Philippi.
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