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• 00:04 ♪♪♪ male announcer: Welcome to "Our Jewish Roots," with insightful
• 00:07 Bible teaching by Dr. Jeffrey Seif.
• 00:10 This week, the Old Testament meets the New as we connect the
• 00:13 Jewish Passover to Resurrection Sunday.
• 00:18 ♪♪♪
• 00:53 David Hart: We're so glad you've joined us today.
• 00:55 I am David Hart.
• 00:56 Kirsten Hart: I am Kirsten Hart.
• 00:58 Jeffrey Seif: And I am Jeffrey Seif.
• 01:00 And Jeffrey Seif is thrilled.
• 01:02 I don't want you to pass over the opportunity to learn about
• 01:05 Passover and its Easter connection.
• 01:09 I say that, you might have seen pictures of the Last
• 01:11 Supper, Jesus.
• 01:13 There's the Feast of Unleavened Bread, we got that.
• 01:15 Remember, he broke it, he gave it to the disciples, and said,
• 01:18 "This is my body."
• 01:20 The Jewish plate there with lots of food, it all means something.
• 01:23 We want to connect the dots between the Jewish story and the
• 01:26 new story, and it's coming to you now here on this exclusive.
• 01:30 David: Celebration that we've been practicing for a long time,
• 01:33 over 3,000 years.
• 01:35 Jeffrey: Jews going back 3,000 years, more than that.
• 01:37 Christian people--Jews go back and remember Moses in
• 01:40 the Passover.
• 01:41 Christian people go back and remember Jesus and the
• 01:43 Last Supper.
• 01:45 We connect the dots.
• 01:46 David: I have heard it said that like Passover is like their
• 01:48 Independence Day.
• 01:49 Jeffrey: It really is.
• 01:51 There's the deliverance from oppression in a literal,
• 01:53 political sense, in a spiritual sense with the cross.
• 01:56 Kirsten: So much more about this feast and this meal, but now
• 01:58 first let's learn about the foods of the Passover.
• 02:03 ♪♪♪
• 02:09 Jeffrey: In case you're thinking that's maybe what a
• 02:11 Jewish chef looks like, and I can assure you that I'm not one,
• 02:15 this actually is the garment that's worn by dads, fathers,
• 02:21 husbands during the Passover.
• 02:24 Our home is our castle, it's our temple, our sanctuary, and the
• 02:30 man is the priest of the home.
• 02:32 And so it is that we don priestly garment, the kittel.
• 02:36 Similarly, the priestly mitre.
• 02:39 What's interesting is that it's the father's responsibility to
• 02:42 teach, to inculcate into the young what it means to be
• 02:46 Jewish, to keep alive the story, to tell of God's redemptive
• 02:51 acts, and so it is to do so at this special Passover, dad
• 02:57 dresses for the occasion.
• 02:59 These foods help dress the occasion as well.
• 03:01 Let me explain them to you before we walk through them.
• 03:04 You've heard me to say already that the Passover commemorates
• 03:06 our freedom from slavery.
• 03:10 We have food that we eat here that's called charoses.
• 03:14 It's an admixture of nuts and apples and honey.
• 03:18 It's to remind individuals of the mortar.
• 03:21 It used to be that when we were slaves, we were beaten into
• 03:26 manufacturing bricks to build up somebody else's empire.
• 03:30 And we eat this at the Passover to remind us of that.
• 03:34 Similarly, we eat something called maror.
• 03:39 It comes from the Hebrew word for bitterness.
• 03:42 In fact, I'm getting a little teary-eyed, and my eyes water
• 03:45 not because of the sentiment of the moment, but simply because
• 03:48 this is so harsh.
• 03:51 The bitter herbs, the horseradish is affecting my tear
• 03:54 ducts, interestingly.
• 03:56 And Jewish people eat this at Passover.
• 04:00 It reminds us of the bitterness of slavery.
• 04:03 And I got news for you, this is Jewish antihistamine.
• 04:05 You eat this stuff, it's going Give you a jolt and clear out
• 04:09 your sinuses quick.
• 04:11 We have a karpas that we eat as well.
• 04:15 You might recall that when God said to get a lamb without spot
• 04:19 or blemish, he said to take the blood and put it in a basin, and
• 04:22 to dip some grass in there and use it as an effect like a
• 04:26 paintbrush and then to, you know, use it to spread the blood
• 04:30 on the house, and this karpas is a reminder of that, of the grass
• 04:35 that was used.
• 04:38 The Lord said, "Get a lamb without spot or blemish."
• 04:41 It's interesting, for my money in both Old and New Testaments
• 04:44 that salvation comes through the agency of an unblemished lamb.
• 04:50 Well, since the temple has been destroyed, Jewish people no
• 04:54 longer have a place for sacrifice, but we remember the
• 04:56 sacrifice of that lamb every year.
• 04:59 In every Jewish household, this table is set with these foods,
• 05:03 and there's the shank bone of a lamb to remind us of that
• 05:06 spotless lamb's sacrifice.
• 05:09 We also have salt water that's used to remind how we used to
• 05:15 cry, there are tears that are shed in bondage.
• 05:21 It could very well be that some of you are shedding tears over
• 05:25 one thing or another.
• 05:27 And slavery causes bitterness, and bitterness causes tears, and
• 05:31 we remember that when we dip and we taste the salt water.
• 05:36 There's an egg as well.
• 05:39 And by the way, if you take Zola Levitt at his word, and you'll
• 05:44 hear at the end of the program how there's an offer on the
• 05:47 program for his lengthy treatment of the Passover, two
• 05:51 programs worth.
• 05:53 He goes into the egg in more detail, as well as all of
• 05:55 this stuff.
• 05:56 We'll be hearing him a little bit later on.
• 05:58 The egg is a symbol that, interestingly, is part of the
• 06:00 Jewish Passover today, but it's something that got slipped
• 06:03 in yesterday.
• 06:05 If you want more of that, you'll have to hear Zola on that.
• 06:09 There are other things here, and we'll hear from Zola in a moment
• 06:12 as well.
• 06:14 Passover is called the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
• 06:17 And you can recall, that is New Testament readers can recall how
• 06:20 at the Last Supper, Jesus took the bread, and he blessed it,
• 06:24 and he broke it.
• 06:25 And he said, "Take, eat, this is my body."
• 06:27 He would have been eating matzo, and a lot of this stuff is
• 06:31 passed around at the Passover.
• 06:34 Similarly, Jewish people drink wine at the Passover.
• 06:38 Actually, there's four cups of wine.
• 06:40 And in as much as Yeshua, Jesus is on record saying, "Take, eat,
• 06:44 this is my body," similarly he passes the cup and he says,
• 06:50 "Drink, this is my blood."
• 06:53 Again, the usage of body and blood, bread and wine, imagery
• 06:58 is ubiquitous, it's everywhere.
• 07:00 It's part of the Jewish Passover.
• 07:03 We're going to come back in a minute after we hear from Zola,
• 07:06 and we're going to see exactly where in the Passover dinner,
• 07:12 which goes on for hours, we are going to alight upon the moment
• 07:16 when Jesus gave communion.
• 07:19 And we're going to see how an understanding of these foods and
• 07:23 this process illuminates the communion story.
• 07:27 Zola Levitt: This is a long evening, I can tell you.
• 07:30 And at the end of this, this meal, the last thing eaten is
• 07:35 that hidden afikoman.
• 07:37 You remember the piece of bread we broke last week?
• 07:39 We took the middle piece out of this bag, broke it, wrapped it
• 07:42 up in a white cloth, hid it away.
• 07:45 Father now brings it forth again, gets it out of its
• 07:50 hiding place.
• 07:54 And this piece of bread and the third cup of wine, the cup of
• 07:59 redemption, is the Lord's Supper.
• 08:03 It's not like it, it is it, it's original.
• 08:05 It's the communion, the Eucharist, whatever you want to
• 08:11 call it.
• 08:12 This red--and this particular wine.
• 08:14 You can see I told you, you can see the whole service, you'll
• 08:17 appreciate it better.
• 08:19 So, this is--this is how it comes out of the service.
• 08:22 And let me say a few words about the bread and the wine.
• 08:26 We can pick up Jesus doing this in the Gospel of Matthew 26:26.
• 08:32 It says, "As they were eating, he took bread, blessed it, broke
• 08:37 it, and gave it to them, said, 'Take, eat, this is my body.'"
• 08:42 Jeffrey: Zola just gave us a beautiful window into the
• 08:45 connection between the Last Supper and the Passover.
• 08:50 I don't know that they got it at the first.
• 08:53 We have a beautiful plate, a Seder plate that's employed at
• 08:58 the Passover.
• 08:59 The foods that I spoke about earlier are set on the plate.
• 09:03 There's no room for me to be able to do that and hold it
• 09:05 all up.
• 09:07 But that night, I believed, and you heard Zola to say as much,
• 09:10 that Jesus was serving up something special that they
• 09:13 didn't quite expect.
• 09:15 Let's open up our Bibles, please.
• 09:17 I want to begin in the Gospel of Matthew chapter 26, verse 26.
• 09:23 Therein, we get a moment when communion was given, we're told
• 09:28 in verse 26, "As they were eating, Jesus took the bread,
• 09:34 and blessed it, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples,
• 09:37 and said, 'Take, eat, this is my body.'"
• 09:42 What's interesting is that Jesus interrupted the meal.
• 09:45 It was at the very end of the meal, actually, they're
• 09:48 finishing up.
• 09:49 And Jesus takes a piece of bread, and he breaks it, and he
• 09:53 says, "Take, eat, this is my body."
• 09:55 Now, at a Jewish Passover, we have a matzo tash, a container
• 10:00 here for unleavened bread.
• 10:02 And during the dinner, the father determines that someone
• 10:06 should go in there and take a piece of bread and break it.
• 10:10 And he's going to take it then and put it in a special
• 10:13 compartment.
• 10:16 This is a card from a Jewish bookstore.
• 10:19 It says on it afikoman in Hebrew.
• 10:22 Now, what happens is right after supper, or as it's winding down,
• 10:27 this is retrieved.
• 10:30 And then the father or whoever is leading the Passover Seder is
• 10:34 going to take this piece of bread, and he's going to break
• 10:38 it and give everybody at the table to eat.
• 10:43 Standard Jewish practice right at the edge of the meal.
• 10:47 Similarly, the goblets will be poured again.
• 10:51 There's actually four cups of wine.
• 10:53 And the third cup will be poured, and at this juncture
• 10:55 then at the table, dinner concludes with the eating of the
• 11:00 afikoman and drinking the third cup.
• 11:04 And this is striking it seems to me.
• 11:07 We're told in the Matthew Gospel that while they were eating,
• 11:11 Jesus took the bread and the cup, so it tells you we're
• 11:14 working with the third cup of wine and the afikomen.
• 11:18 And he says that he broke it and he gave it to them, and
• 11:20 said, "Eat."
• 11:23 This is striking.
• 11:26 And you heard Zola Levitt, the late Zola Levitt to
• 11:29 reference it.
• 11:31 And what's the it again?
• 11:33 This is a point in the Jewish Passover Seder where
• 11:36 participants are remembering the body of the lamb that was slain,
• 11:41 as well as the blood of the lamb that was slain.
• 11:44 Once upon a time in a land far away, Israelites were in a land
• 11:49 far away, in fact, in Egypt in servitude.
• 11:52 And they were in trouble, and they couldn't--they couldn't
• 11:55 break the yoke.
• 11:57 You know, they were just in a bad way.
• 11:59 And they cried out to God, and God had them to get a spotless
• 12:01 lamb and to apply the blood of that lamb.
• 12:04 And by virtue of their so doing, they were set free.
• 12:08 In as much as these various Jewish foods here tell the story
• 12:12 of the Exodus, here we're at the point in the Passover Seder
• 12:16 where individuals are remembering the foods that
• 12:19 relate to the body of that lamb and the cup of redemption in the
• 12:24 Jewish Passover, the blood of that lamb.
• 12:27 And isn't it fascinating when Jesus is going through the Last
• 12:32 Supper with his disciples, he says, "Hey guys, that's my body.
• 12:36 Hey guys, that's my blood."
• 12:40 What's his point?
• 12:44 I want you to get the point, and I think it's a good one.
• 12:48 Back then, there was Pharaoh the ruler of that world, and people
• 12:53 were enslaved to him.
• 12:55 Bad politics, lots of misery.
• 12:58 The tide wasn't going their way, and there's nothing they could
• 13:01 do to fix it.
• 13:03 But God loved them.
• 13:05 God said get a lamb without spot or blemish and slay it, and
• 13:08 apply the blood of that lamb, and you will be set free from
• 13:12 Pharaoh, the ruler of that world through the agency of a spotless
• 13:17 lamb and through the application of its blood.
• 13:21 Friends, that's Bible 101 in the Old Testament.
• 13:24 And in the New Testament, salvation 101 is a story about
• 13:28 Satan, who's the ruler of this world to use the language of
• 13:32 the text.
• 13:33 And you know what?
• 13:35 People are enslaved to him.
• 13:38 That's the bad news, they're oppressed, afflicted, addicted,
• 13:44 disconcerted, woeful, mournful, can't fix it.
• 13:49 Just weeping in silence, weeping in secret.
• 13:55 But the good news today, as yesterday, is that God has
• 13:59 provided a lamb.
• 14:01 The New Testament story is that God so loved the world that he
• 14:05 sent his Son into the world to be that Passover Lamb.
• 14:11 I find it interesting in the gospels that it was at Passover
• 14:14 time when Jesus first articulates an awareness of his
• 14:17 ministry as a young boy.
• 14:20 When his mother thinking he got lost in the crowd finds him in
• 14:22 the temple and he says, "I've got to be about my
• 14:25 Father's business."
• 14:27 And what was Dad's business?
• 14:29 In that house, in that day, it was the slaughter of the lambs.
• 14:32 And isn't it interesting if you look in Luke chapter 22, verse
• 14:36 1, we're told the Passover, the Last Supper, is the Feast of
• 14:40 Unleavened Bread, it's all around that event.
• 14:43 Jesus begins his ministry in the gospel publicly giving voice to
• 14:45 it anyway with a reference to the Passover season.
• 14:49 And similarly, his public ministry comes to an end then
• 14:52 too right at the Passover time.
• 14:55 And when all the lambs are getting set for the slaughter
• 14:58 for Passover, so it is that Jesus, the Lamb of God, the
• 15:02 Passover Lamb, sits down with his disciples.
• 15:05 And as he goes through the Passover with them, they're
• 15:07 oblivious to the fact that that he's the fulfillment of those
• 15:10 Old Testament things.
• 15:12 Jesus goes through all this with them, and when everyone is just
• 15:16 looking at the Passover lamb, Jesus says, "Time out, guys."
• 15:20 He says, "Wake up and smell the coffee, that's me."
• 15:24 Much as there was Pharaoh, the ruler of that world, people were
• 15:26 enslaved to him, so too there's Satan, the ruler of this world,
• 15:30 and people are enslaved to him.
• 15:33 Much as God said, "Get a lamb without spot or blemish, and
• 15:37 apply it, and you'll be set free," in the Exodus story, so
• 15:42 too that in today's story says Jesus that he is the Lamb.
• 15:47 And he will be sacrificed, and the blood will be applied, with
• 15:51 the net result that people can be set free.
• 15:56 And so, what have we here?
• 15:58 Communion, Eucharist, Lord's Supper, call it what you will.
• 16:04 This decidedly Christian reenactment is a story that
• 16:09 evolves out of the Jewish Passover, and it's all about
• 16:13 freedom for Jews yesterday, for Jesus' disciples yesterday, and
• 16:20 for me and you today.
• 16:25 ♪♪♪
• 16:30 Jeffrey: Some of my earliest childhood memories take me back
• 16:34 to celebrating the Passover in my Jewish family.
• 16:39 It was a major celebration.
• 16:41 I went to a religious Jewish school, Yeshiva so-called, and
• 16:45 we were gearing up for it there.
• 16:47 But it was the time at home when my parents were alive and my
• 16:51 grandmother was there.
• 16:53 Mom and grandma were smuggled out of Nazi Germany, came over
• 16:56 here to the New World, and I just remember fondly the time
• 17:01 when we celebrated a deliverance in the Hebrew Bible.
• 17:06 But I can tell you this, the way that we celebrated it back then
• 17:10 had nothing to do with what I talked about in my
• 17:14 teaching segment.
• 17:16 Well, I shouldn't say had nothing to do, it was obscured.
• 17:20 And by that, I mean I find it tragic that my Jewish friends
• 17:26 don't see how the story that took place under Moses so
• 17:33 wonderfully portents the story to come in the person of Yeshua,
• 17:39 of Jesus.
• 17:41 Similarly, it saddens me that my Christian friends in celebrating
• 17:45 communion, the Eucharist, and remembering during Holy Week
• 17:50 Jesus' death, his burial, his resurrection, and his Last
• 17:55 Supper that kicks all that off, it saddens me that many don't
• 17:59 see the Jewish connection.
• 18:02 Now, we're not the only television program that talks
• 18:08 about the Jewish connection to the Jesus story.
• 18:11 We're not the only one, but we're the oldest one, and we've
• 18:15 been at it for a long, long time because transformed people have
• 18:21 found value in connecting the dots between the testaments.
• 18:26 And I'll tell you the value of it in short, one
• 18:30 word: "transformation."
• 18:34 There's a Greek word, "metamorphosis."
• 18:37 Well, in English metamorphosis from meta, which means change,
• 18:41 and morphe, which means form.
• 18:45 There's an ugly caterpillar, goes into a cocoon.
• 18:48 It dissolves therein and comes out a new and beautiful kind
• 18:54 of species.
• 18:55 Do you know that's a picture of what's made available to us
• 18:59 through the story that's being told today?
• 19:04 And by that, I mean I don't care if you've got a lot of ugly
• 19:08 caterpillar written all over you.
• 19:11 When you look in the mirror, you might say, "Ugly caterpillar."
• 19:15 When you think of your circumstance, you might say,
• 19:18 "Ugly caterpillar."
• 19:20 But what I have to say is spin a cocoon, go into it, and come out
• 19:26 a new, beautiful flying creature.
• 19:30 And that's the story of Easter.
• 19:33 It's not just Jesus who rose from the dead.
• 19:37 It's by virtue of his death, by virtue of his sacrifice, by
• 19:42 virtue of who he is and what he did, he affords the opportunity
• 19:47 for us to rise from our graves, whatever they may be.
• 19:54 The Bible tells that story from pillar to post, from one end to
• 20:00 the other.
• 20:01 And we love to tell it the most as we look at the good news
• 20:06 through the eyes of the Jews.
• 20:08 More to come.
• 20:11 ♪♪♪
• 20:17 Jeffrey: Our resource this week, the "Miracle of Passover"
• 20:20 on DVD.
• 20:22 These two programs presented by Zola Levitt detail how the
• 20:25 highest of holidays for the Jewish people, the Passover, is
• 20:29 full of symbolism which points to the Lamb of God, the
• 20:33 Messiah himself.
• 20:35 Get a copy for yourself or to share with friends.
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• 20:42 "The Miracle of Passover."
• 20:46 ♪♪♪
• 20:48 ♪ On the holy mountain in Jerusalem ♪
• 20:51 ♪ Take my Son, my Son, my only Son ♪
• 20:56 ♪ Slay him there and show me in Jerusalem of thy faith ♪
• 21:01 ♪ Thy faith that God is one ♪
• 21:04 ♪ Oh my God, my only Son, but ask of me and it is done ♪
• 21:12 ♪ For in my mercy, for in my name ♪
• 21:16 ♪ I know for me you'll do the same ♪
• 21:20 ♪♪♪
• 21:26 ♪ On the holy mountain in Jerusalem ♪
• 21:30 ♪ Take my Son, my Son, my only Son ♪
• 21:34 ♪ Slay him there and tell the world, Jerusalem ♪
• 21:38 ♪ Of thy faith, thy faith that it is done ♪
• 21:43 ♪ For it is done, we have the Son ♪
• 21:46 ♪ The blessed one, his only Son ♪
• 21:50 ♪ Believe on him and it is done ♪
• 21:54 ♪ And always pray sha'alu shalom ♪
• 21:59 ♪♪♪
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• 23:29 Kirsten: Yes, I know you're going to talk about it, it's
• 23:30 Passover meal.
• 23:32 We've been talking about the upper room, where we visit a
• 23:34 site where they believe could have been the upper room where
• 23:37 Jesus had a Passover meal with his disciples.
• 23:40 Jeffrey: Yes, and in the gospels, you get
• 23:42 the anticipation.
• 23:43 Jesus tells them to go to this upper room and prepare
• 23:46 the place.
• 23:47 I mean, it's not just accidental they sit down, "Okay, who
• 23:50 brought the hamburger?"
• 23:52 I mean it really is very intentional.
• 23:54 It's set up in advance 'cause it's really important.
• 23:56 Kirsten: And the symbolism is just beautiful.
• 23:59 We in the church miss out if we just take some bread and just
• 24:02 take some wine.
• 24:05 We don't get the full effect, and that's what's so beautiful
• 24:07 and wonderful about having this teaching today.
• 24:11 Jeffrey: Well, you're kind to say it.
• 24:13 You know, I look at the gospel, it comes across even if you
• 24:15 don't know the Jewish connection.
• 24:17 But I liken it to watching a television program in black
• 24:20 and white.
• 24:21 You can get the program, you can get the picture, but if you have
• 24:24 the opportunity to get it in Technicolor with Dolby sound,
• 24:26 why not?
• 24:28 And the Jewish background to the story adds dimension and depth
• 24:31 that wouldn't otherwise be there, in my opinion.
• 24:33 Kirsten: And we love this symbolism of the Passover meal.
• 24:37 The symbols that the church has for this Easter were off a
• 24:43 little bit.
• 24:45 I mean, we have eggs, we have Easter baskets, we have
• 24:46 chocolate bunnies.
• 24:48 Where did all of that come from?
• 24:49 Jeffrey: Well, it emerges out of the root of the word
• 24:51 "Easter" itself.
• 24:52 It harks to spring festivals that celebrate fertility.
• 24:56 You know, the earth comes to life.
• 24:58 And the reason why the bunny got traction in it is because
• 25:01 they're known to be very fertile.
• 25:03 A male bunny looks at female bunny, the next morning there's
• 25:06 20 little rabbits in the litter.
• 25:08 Now, granted that's overstated, but at the time, if you go back
• 25:11 to agrarians, when people lived off the land as farmers, they
• 25:14 wanted the earth to be productive.
• 25:17 And the rabbit depicted that.
• 25:20 And the season, the spring, it all kind of worked together.
• 25:23 So, Jesus was, you know, attached to the reason for the
• 25:26 season and the opportunity for new life, and growth, and
• 25:29 possibilities, and there's some beauty to it.
• 25:32 You know, I don't want to, you know, take the bunny and shoot
• 25:34 it in the head and put Easter to bed.
• 25:36 Kirsten: I'll eat it, I'll eat the chocolate bunny.
• 25:38 Jeffrey: I don't want to do that.
• 25:40 I just want to add the Jewish component to the story.
• 25:41 I'm glad for anybody to remember Jesus.
• 25:43 And whatever ceremony and symbol helps, I'm good with that.
• 25:46 But I think something is seriously lost when we neglect
• 25:50 the Jewish ewes associated with the good news.
• 25:53 David: I think we need to learn so much more, and you've taught
• 25:56 it so well in this series.
• 25:57 Jeffrey: Well, you're kind to say.
• 25:59 You know, people come and teach, and not everybody remembers.
• 26:01 But I'm glad that you're excited about all this.
• 26:04 I know that I am, and our viewers are as well.
• 26:06 If it resonates with you, by the way, please give us a holler,
• 26:09 send us a dollar.
• 26:10 It ain't cheap to rent this airspace, but I don't want to
• 26:13 cheapen the moment by making a financial pitch.
• 26:16 But when we remember Jesus, who died on the cross, he gave his
• 26:19 blood so that life could be dispensed to others.
• 26:23 If you can help us to tell this story, to pay the rent so that
• 26:25 others might similarly develop an appreciation for the good
• 26:29 news through the eyes of the Jews, we surely would
• 26:31 appreciate it.
• 26:32 David: There's a takeaway from this.
• 26:34 Tell us what that might be.
• 26:35 Jeffrey: Relevant to the Passover itself?
• 26:37 Well, it harks back to what you said at the beginning of this
• 26:39 take, that is miracle.
• 26:42 God makes a way, whether it's going to Israel or going
• 26:44 anywhere, I think nothing is impossible if we have
• 26:47 Jesus Christ.
• 26:49 That's the reason for the season, that's the message for
• 26:51 the moment, that all things are yes in him.
• 26:54 Kirsten: That's good and we remember.
• 26:56 That's why he said, "Do this, do this, do this, remember all
• 27:00 the time."
• 27:02 Jeffrey: Yes.
• 27:03 David: Amen.
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