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Episode: “God’s Material Provisions (Matthew 6:24–7:6)”
Jesus challenges followers to serve either God or possessions. Blessings abound to those who serve Him. Being forgiven, we must not rush to judge others.
Series: “Sar Shalom (2021)”
Prince of Peace
Explore what it means to walk in the footsteps of Israel’s Messiah through dramatic re-enactments produced in Israel and performed by Israelis.

Caption transcript for Sar Shalom (2021): “God’s Material Provisions (Matthew 6:24–7:6)” (6/8)

  • 00:04 ♪♪♪ male announcer: Welcome to "Our Jewish Roots," with insightful
  • 00:06 Bible teaching from Israel by Dr. Jeffrey Seif.
  • 00:09 This week, we look at Jesus' teachings on who we serve and
  • 00:12 how blessed we are as we continue our series "Sar Shalom:
  • 00:15 Prince of Peace."
  • 00:20 ♪♪♪
  • 00:40 [indistinct conversation]
  • 00:43 ♪♪♪
  • 00:46 [indistinct conversation]
  • 00:52 ♪♪♪
  • 01:18 David: Thank you so much for joining us today.
  • 01:20 I'm David Hart.
  • 01:22 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
  • 01:24 Jeffrey Seif: I am Jeffrey Seif, and we are really glad
  • 01:26 you're here.
  • 01:27 I hope you will be as well. It's great to see you.
  • 01:31 I'm glad you're looking at us.
  • 01:33 I hope you're looking at someone who you think looks like a
  • 01:34 normal human being, but I would hope that normal human being is
  • 01:36 not normal on the inside.
  • 01:38 There's some things that are different about us because the
  • 01:40 Lord lives within us.
  • 01:42 One of those differences is the way we're oriented towards
  • 01:45 things of the world, and the Lord gets into it in today's
  • 01:48 word, yes?
  • 01:50 Kirsten: What are you starting out with?
  • 01:52 Jeffrey: Well, he says here that you can't serve two masters and
  • 01:54 that gets right down to the issue of decide who you're gonna
  • 01:56 be and how you're gonna be in this world.
  • 01:59 Kirsten: That's good.
  • 02:01 David: Our notes say practical ways of living which the
  • 02:03 Scripture today, practical, practice, possibly?
  • 02:07 Jeffrey: Yes, to be sure.
  • 02:09 David: We're practicing every day.
  • 02:11 Jeffrey: You know, there's another word "praxis," that's
  • 02:13 comparable to it.
  • 02:15 Now I'm taking you into a theological seminary.
  • 02:16 P-R-A-X-I-X.
  • 02:18 That harks to the kind of things that we do directly as a result
  • 02:20 of a theological conviction, that is, there's a worldview
  • 02:24 that informs what we do.
  • 02:27 And we're beckoned in biblical literature to be unlike animals
  • 02:30 who are just driven by base instincts.
  • 02:32 Rather, we have base instincts to seize, to acquire, and all
  • 02:36 of that.
  • 02:38 We have that but we have more than that because we have the
  • 02:41 Lord in us and thus we're propelled to be more than just
  • 02:44 an animal.
  • 02:46 Kirsten: And I can bring your university teaching right back
  • 02:48 down: walking it out.
  • 02:51 Walk out your faith.
  • 02:52 How we walk it out to be different.
  • 02:54 Jeffrey: There you go.
  • 02:56 David: That's good.
  • 02:58 We go now to the Galilee for today's teaching, "Sar Shalom:
  • 02:59 Prince of Peace."
  • 03:02 Jesus: [speaking foreign language]
  • 03:17 ♪♪♪
  • 03:31 Jesus: [speaking foreign language]
  • 03:37 Jeffrey: Jesus was all about giving, wasn't he?
  • 03:43 Didn't just give money.
  • 03:45 Didn't just give time.
  • 03:48 He gave his life.
  • 03:52 And I'm sure when he was bleeding out on Calvary's cross,
  • 03:58 that he could have used every drop of blood in his own body.
  • 04:05 I'm sure there were tissues screaming for oxygenated blood,
  • 04:10 but that blood was spent for people like me and you.
  • 04:19 In advance of Jesus paying such a high price himself, he went on
  • 04:24 record talking about money in different ways and some of those
  • 04:29 ways are summarized here in what's called, quote, "the
  • 04:34 Sermon on the Mount."
  • 04:37 And I want to look at one such example with you.
  • 04:41 Jesus said, "No one can serve two masters; for either he will
  • 04:48 hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the
  • 04:53 one and despise the other."
  • 04:56 And then very forcefully and emphatically he said, "You
  • 05:02 simply cannot serve God and mammon."
  • 05:08 It's interesting that Jesus was so forceful about it but not
  • 05:13 only are his words ignored, but what some people try and do is
  • 05:20 manipulate him to serve their own interest in mammon.
  • 05:27 Again, just going directly against what the Lord is saying.
  • 05:31 But what's he saying?
  • 05:34 Well, it's clear enough.
  • 05:36 Why is he saying it?
  • 05:38 Well, to begin to take a peek at that, let me say that what he's
  • 05:41 saying, he's drawing from concepts that are not uniquely
  • 05:45 his own.
  • 05:48 What do I mean by that?
  • 05:51 In the Jewish world, there is a concept called tikkun olam which
  • 05:55 means to repair the world.
  • 05:59 It's incumbent upon the righteous, it's incumbent upon
  • 06:04 the tzadik, the righteous person, to be engaged in tikkun
  • 06:09 olam, in repairing the world.
  • 06:12 There's an understanding that everybody has that obligation.
  • 06:16 It's not just about me, but the Lord says it's about we.
  • 06:24 Yeshua, Jesus, of course, is the best example of that, giving
  • 06:28 what he gave, the way he gave it, bleeding out entirely, but
  • 06:33 all of us are to share in the giving.
  • 06:37 The Lord is emphatic: we just can't serve God and mammon.
  • 06:42 We just can't put money first, the things of this life first.
  • 06:48 Jesus went on record saying the heavenly Father knows that you
  • 06:52 need all that.
  • 06:55 You need stuff.
  • 06:57 We do, and we even want stuff, and God's not about depriving us
  • 07:00 of that.
  • 07:03 But we don't wanna just live for our own bellies, now do we?
  • 07:07 Paul spoke of individuals who were believers at one point, he
  • 07:10 says, but now "their god is their belly and their end
  • 07:13 is destruction."
  • 07:16 Let it not be just about me.
  • 07:19 Let it be about we.
  • 07:21 Let's just not serve the self, but let's serve the Creator who
  • 07:25 gave us our lives.
  • 07:27 And by virtue of our so doing, we're gonna discover that the
  • 07:30 Creator of all can take care of us as we're busy about the
  • 07:35 business of putting him first.
  • 07:39 Jesus: [speaking foreign language]
  • 07:59 narrator: "Look at the birds of the air for they neither sow nor
  • 08:01 reap nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
  • 08:08 Are you not of more value than they?
  • 08:11 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
  • 08:16 Why worry about clothing?
  • 08:19 Consider the lilies of the field.
  • 08:22 They neither toil nor spin, and yet I say to you that Solomon in
  • 08:26 all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
  • 08:30 If God clothes the grass of the field, will he not much more
  • 08:34 clothe you, O you of little faith?"
  • 08:40 Jeffrey: I'm a big city guy personally.
  • 08:45 Lived in New York City for years, Philadelphia, Detroit,
  • 08:49 Chicago, and now Dallas.
  • 08:52 Oriented toward the faster life as I am, one of the benefits of
  • 08:56 coming to Israel, and there are a number, one of them is that I
  • 09:00 get to get a little bit closer to nature and, frankly, it does
  • 09:04 me good.
  • 09:07 And here with the Sea of Galilee behind me and these beautiful
  • 09:10 flowers and the wind blowing in my face, and the whole open air,
  • 09:15 there's a feeling to it that has a way of calming me personally.
  • 09:20 And I'm the kind of person, by nature, that can get ramped up
  • 09:23 or down rather easily, but here you can kind of open up, breathe
  • 09:27 a little.
  • 09:30 The reason why I say that is when Jesus was speaking from
  • 09:32 here some 2000 years ago, he was talking about opening up and
  • 09:36 breathing a little.
  • 09:39 So many of us are all wrapped up, we're tightened up with
  • 09:41 fears of this life, and surely there are challenges of this
  • 09:45 life that give rise to concerns.
  • 09:48 Still, if I understand the Lord correctly, he says, "You know,
  • 09:52 if you'll follow me, you needn't worry so much about your life,
  • 09:56 what you shall put on, what you shall wear."
  • 10:00 He says that in nature we discover that, whether it's the
  • 10:04 birds or the flowers, God has a way of clothing and feeding.
  • 10:09 I was thinking of that, by the way, this morning.
  • 10:12 There, overlooking the Sea of Galilee, seeing the birds fly
  • 10:15 over, and I thought, "You know, life gets tense sometime but God
  • 10:18 has a way of taking care of Creation and that means that he
  • 10:22 will, in fact, take care of me.
  • 10:25 If you're a little restless in the world that we live in I want
  • 10:28 you to know there's reasons to be restless, but let me show you
  • 10:31 right now why there's a reason why I believe that we can be
  • 10:34 at rest.
  • 10:35 Jesus said, "Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your
  • 10:39 life, what you shall eat, what you'll drink; about your body,
  • 10:44 what you'll put on.
  • 10:47 Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?"
  • 10:50 God's honest truth is that's the stuff that we really worry
  • 10:53 about: our life, our future.
  • 10:57 What does it mean when Jesus says, "Don't worry so much"?
  • 11:02 Or like a friend of mine, Svee, says, "Don't worry; be happy."
  • 11:07 What does Jesus mean by that?
  • 11:09 Maybe he means exactly what he says.
  • 11:11 Prior to this, he's spoken about people that don't lay up for
  • 11:15 themselves treasures in heaven.
  • 11:18 They covet it here on earth.
  • 11:20 People are stingy, they're not loving, they're not gracious.
  • 11:23 They're not charitable.
  • 11:26 Jesus says, "Chill.
  • 11:28 You needn't hold on so tight because when we hold it on--when
  • 11:33 we hold on to it all so tight, it has a way of tightening
  • 11:35 us up.
  • 11:37 Conversely, if we have a way of giving it up, the Lord has a way
  • 11:42 of loosening us up.
  • 11:45 And as we're looser and kinder and more open to others and the
  • 11:48 Lord, the Lord has a way of pouring more blessings into us.
  • 11:53 It's perhaps for that reason that he finishes up saying, and
  • 11:57 you've probably heard this before, "Seek first God's
  • 12:00 kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be
  • 12:04 added unto you," the stuff of life.
  • 12:08 The Lord says, "Seek me first."
  • 12:12 He's not about the business of depriving us of the things that
  • 12:15 we need in life or even things that we desire in life.
  • 12:18 He's not in the business of getting in the way of our
  • 12:20 success in life, but rather, Jesus is an enhancer.
  • 12:24 He's a lover of people and he loves you.
  • 12:26 And he wants you to be a giver and he wants me to be a giver,
  • 12:30 not to deprive us of something but in order that we can get
  • 12:33 more from him, his blessings, which will come to us in
  • 12:36 manifold ways.
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  • 13:57 David: We hope you're enjoying the dramatic reenactments that
  • 13:59 we're bringing to you in this series.
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  • 14:14 Kirsten: Go ahead.
  • 14:16 David: You learned--we learned something about the Sea
  • 14:17 of Galilee.
  • 14:19 Kirsten: We have learned a lot of things.
  • 14:20 As you will on a Zola Tour.
  • 14:22 We learned--this is just kind of fun, this is just for you--that
  • 14:23 it's not actually a sea.
  • 14:25 It's a lake.
  • 14:26 It's Lake Kinneret and Kinneret is a Hebrew word for harp,
  • 14:30 H-A-R-P, like David played, because the Sea of Galilee is
  • 14:34 shaped like King David's harp.
  • 14:37 That was free for you today, free information.
  • 14:40 Now let's go back to that beautiful gorgeous location
  • 14:44 to hear more about the Prince of Peace.
  • 14:48 Jesus: [speaking foreign language]
  • 14:54 narrator: For many of those who had gathered at the feet of
  • 14:56 Jesus, the Sermon on the Mount was a lesson in humility.
  • 15:00 "Judge not that you be not judged," he said.
  • 15:04 "For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and
  • 15:08 with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you."
  • 15:13 Two weary fishermen have returned from their long day's
  • 15:18 efforts with empty nets, exhausted and disheartened.
  • 15:23 They had tried their best but to no avail.
  • 15:27 The owner of the boat rips into them.
  • 15:30 male: [speaking foreign language]
  • 15:32 narrator: He wrongfully assumes his workers have been slack in
  • 15:34 their efforts and blames them for not returning with baskets
  • 15:38 full of fish.
  • 15:43 "With what judgment you judge, you will be judged," says
  • 15:46 the Lord.
  • 15:48 "And with the measure you use, it will be measured back
  • 15:52 to you."
  • 15:58 Jeffrey: Some people talk way too much and they talk about
  • 16:04 things they have no business talking about.
  • 16:08 There is a Hebrew expression called "lashon hara" which means
  • 16:12 an evil tongue and speaks to the habit of people uttering
  • 16:18 bad speech.
  • 16:20 There is one type of speech that's particularly egregious
  • 16:25 and that's blame.
  • 16:28 When people point the finger.
  • 16:33 As far as I'm concerned, there's room in the world for two types
  • 16:37 to point the finger.
  • 16:40 I make room for children to blame others because they're
  • 16:42 kids, they don't know any better.
  • 16:46 And on the other hand, I make room for God to blame because he
  • 16:49 does know better.
  • 16:51 He knows all the facts.
  • 16:53 So he can spell it out and put people where they need to
  • 16:54 be put.
  • 16:56 But for those of us that are somewhere between being children
  • 16:58 on the one hand and God on the other, we'd do well, it seems to
  • 17:03 me, to be a tad bit more discriminate in the use of
  • 17:07 speech, lest we go around hurting people talking about
  • 17:12 things that we just simply do not understand.
  • 17:18 Never mind my opinion, however, if I understand Jesus correctly
  • 17:21 in Matthew chapter 7, verse 1, he says, and I quote, "Don't
  • 17:25 judge, lest you be judged."
  • 17:29 Don't be so quick to point the finger and make assertions about
  • 17:32 things when you don't know what you're talking about, lest it
  • 17:35 come back to bite you.
  • 17:38 And talking about coming back and biting, later on Jesus
  • 17:43 weighs in even stronger yet.
  • 17:47 You know, he says, "Now, don't be taking the speck out of
  • 17:48 everyone else's eye, going around correcting everybody and
  • 17:52 not seeing how you yourself have this enormous plank in your
  • 17:55 own eye."
  • 17:57 Funny how you can't see that.
  • 17:59 Well, after Jesus making a point about not doing that, he says,
  • 18:02 "You hypocrite."
  • 18:05 In the Hebrew version of Matthew, the word "hypocrite,"
  • 18:10 harks to the word "hyena," something of a ravenous beast.
  • 18:17 And it seems to me that people are like that with a bad tongue.
  • 18:21 They just go and nitpick and harangue and get in the way of
  • 18:26 decent people.
  • 18:29 If I understand the Lord correctly, he says, "Don't judge
  • 18:33 lest you be judged."
  • 18:37 If I understand, we'd do well to rein in the tendency to make
  • 18:42 judgments without having the facts, to make, quote,
  • 18:44 "snap judgments."
  • 18:47 We think we're describing the world around us, but when we do
  • 18:50 that, what we wind up doing is describing the world that's
  • 18:53 interior to us.
  • 18:56 We're not describing the world around us.
  • 18:59 Rather, we're telegraphing to those round about us that we
  • 19:02 have a mean-spirited disposition, that we're pushy,
  • 19:07 that we talk about things that we don't know, we're pushing
  • 19:11 everyone else around, when the truth of the matter we're not
  • 19:14 describing the world as it is, we're describing the world as we
  • 19:18 is, intentional grammar there, right, for effect.
  • 19:23 As we are.
  • 19:25 We describe the world, it says more about us than the world.
  • 19:28 Let's be patient with others.
  • 19:31 Let's hear Jesus on this and be more gracious, more disposed to
  • 19:35 monitor our own interior worlds, and less inclined to go around
  • 19:39 and correct the world around us, and prove to the world around us
  • 19:43 that the problem isn't the world around us as much as the problem
  • 19:46 is the world that's interior to us.
  • 19:49 This is an important teaching of Jesus.
  • 19:54 ♪♪♪
  • 19:57 Kirsten: I think sometimes we think the Bible has information
  • 20:00 or stories that are so far above our day-to-day life and we've
  • 20:04 been talking about judge not and how you treat someone else, and
  • 20:09 I just have to admit to you, years ago actually, I got on you
  • 20:14 because you accidentally backed up into another car.
  • 20:19 David: Ah, she found out.
  • 20:22 Kirsten: And I remember--that happened and I was so mad
  • 20:23 at you.
  • 20:25 Honestly, this was years ago.
  • 20:26 And I said, "How in the world did you not see that truck.
  • 20:29 You backed up into that car and we have damage."
  • 20:33 And then the very next week, I scraped the whole side of our
  • 20:37 car and we had horrible damage.
  • 20:40 So it was very easy, Dr. Seif, you're talking about kind of the
  • 20:43 blame game today.
  • 20:45 David: Judging.
  • 20:47 Kirsten: And judging, and I got on him and then the next week, I
  • 20:49 did the same thing and I have to say--
  • 20:52 David: And I didn't judge her.
  • 20:53 Kirsten: He was very gracious to me.
  • 20:55 So this is practical stuff.
  • 20:57 David: It is.
  • 20:58 Jeffrey: Yes, and speaking of practical, when we go for lunch,
  • 21:00 neither of you are driving, by the way.
  • 21:01 Kirsten: Thank you.
  • 21:03 Jeffrey: And just, while we get onto it.
  • 21:04 Joking aside, it really does speak to the point and that is
  • 21:07 we're all busy seeing what's wrong with others, you know.
  • 21:10 It's human nature to do that.
  • 21:13 You know, picking on a pastor is like a sport, ha, ha.
  • 21:16 "Well, you know, they should have done this and that
  • 21:17 and this."
  • 21:19 And you know, the only way to avoid criticism is to say
  • 21:21 nothing, be nothing, and do nothing.
  • 21:23 You know, those of us who have to get out and stand up in the
  • 21:26 land of the living and say something and be something and
  • 21:28 do something are forever being checkered by criticism.
  • 21:32 I think the Lord wants us to put that genie in the bottle and to
  • 21:35 be disinclined to entertain the sport of what's wrong with
  • 21:40 everything and everyone around you.
  • 21:42 Kirsten: And I almost think what happened with us, with that
  • 21:45 story, it was a great lesson for me.
  • 21:48 I mean, that was something that has been a lesson for the rest
  • 21:51 of our lives, not that I'm perfect and I can pick up things
  • 21:55 on him, in his eye, and I have a log in mine, but it's almost
  • 21:59 like God going, "You know, you put the blame on someone else.
  • 22:03 You have stuff too."
  • 22:05 We all have things.
  • 22:06 It's learning to be gracious to those.
  • 22:08 Jeffrey: Yes, it's the natural tendency, the fact that we see
  • 22:10 something wrong in someone, whether it's real or imagined,
  • 22:14 is a human tendency that happens within webs of relationships,
  • 22:19 but the Lord beckons us to, you know, keep that thing tapped,
  • 22:23 keep that in the bottle.
  • 22:25 David: There's also, I think, a healing when we forgive.
  • 22:28 There's a saying that I needed back in the day from a pastor,
  • 22:31 "If you can't forgive, you can't be forgiven."
  • 22:35 And that changed my life in some things in my life that I had to
  • 22:37 deal with, my family back in the day.
  • 22:40 Jeffrey: Absolutely, earlier in this message, the Lord says,
  • 22:42 "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass
  • 22:45 against us."
  • 22:47 Well, it's explicit, by the way.
  • 22:49 The truth of the matter is we make mistakes and mistakes are
  • 22:52 made toward us.
  • 22:54 Better it is that we not just be overly reactive to all of that.
  • 22:58 David: That's right.
  • 23:00 Kirsten: I agree.
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  • 23:39 Sarah Liberman: Shalom haverim.
  • 23:41 One of the most easy and regularly used words here in
  • 23:45 Israel is the word "slicha," and it means "I'm sorry" or "I beg
  • 23:50 your pardon," depending on how you use it.
  • 23:53 So let's say that I bump into somebody and I want to say, "I'm
  • 23:57 sorry," I would say, "slicha."
  • 24:01 But if somebody said something to me that I didn't hear or
  • 24:05 didn't understand, I could say, "Slicha?"
  • 24:09 which means "I'm sorry, I didn't understand" or "I beg
  • 24:12 your pardon?"
  • 24:14 So as you travel throughout the land, or as you bump into
  • 24:17 people, you can also use this word "slicha."
  • 24:23 David: The first time we were with our son, Ryan, who lived in
  • 24:25 Jerusalem for three years, said, "Mom and Dad, you really need to
  • 24:28 learn this word," that we just learned today.
  • 24:31 And we've used it.
  • 24:32 Kirsten: Slicha, yes.
  • 24:34 Thank you, Sarah, so much for Hebrew lessons.
  • 24:35 She is such a wonderful person, worship leader, boots on the
  • 24:39 ground in Israel, and slicha, excuse me, excuse me.
  • 24:44 No, it's actually something we use all the time in Israel.
  • 24:47 David: Yup.
  • 24:48 Kirsten: Slicha, excuse me.
  • 24:50 Jeffrey: I think people should use it more, to tell you
  • 24:51 the truth.
  • 24:53 We're all so self--we're all so pious and this self-righteous,
  • 24:55 and, you know, but we need to say, "Excuse me."
  • 24:58 If you say, "Excuse me," it means in your own mind you
  • 25:02 realize you've bumped into someone inappropriately and it's
  • 25:05 your fault, not theirs.
  • 25:06 And as we make our journey through the highway of life,
  • 25:09 down the highway of life, we all do bump into it.
  • 25:11 It's like bumper cars.
  • 25:12 Remember that old thing?
  • 25:14 Kirsten: Yes.
  • 25:15 Jeffrey: You know, back in the carnivals and the fairs, and to
  • 25:17 learn to say "Excuse me," that shows a biblical constitution.
  • 25:20 David: You said the word "learned."
  • 25:21 I think we're still learning every day as we get into
  • 25:24 the Scripture.
  • 25:26 Jeffrey: Well, I tell my students as a professor the word
  • 25:27 "doctor"--the word "scholar" comes from the Latin word
  • 25:30 meaning "in school."
  • 25:32 You know, they call you "doctor," it means learned, but
  • 25:33 scholar means in school, that is you're a perpetual learner.
  • 25:38 And the only people I have time for in the world are people who
  • 25:40 are perpetual learners, not for people who think they know.
  • 25:44 Kirsten: And I love the graciousness, giving grace.
  • 25:47 The Lord himself gave the ultimate grace to us to forgive
  • 25:50 us for all this--all the sins that we carry, and he took it
  • 25:55 away from us.
  • 25:57 Jeffrey: You got it.
  • 25:58 Kirsten: Beautiful things.
  • 26:00 David: We hope you've enjoyed Dr. Seif's teaching today, our
  • 26:01 dramatic reenactments.
  • 26:02 More to come, but we leave you with a song from our founder,
  • 26:05 Zola Levitt today.
  • 26:06 Jeffrey: And a word from the Bible: "Shaalu
  • 26:08 shalom Yerushalayim."
  • 26:10 David: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
  • 26:12 ♪♪♪
  • 26:15 ♪ For Zion's sake, I will not keep silent ♪
  • 26:18 ♪ For Jerusalem I'll pray ♪
  • 26:21 ♪ For Zion's sake, will my heart be burdened ♪
  • 26:25 ♪ In my spirit I will say ♪
  • 26:29 ♪ He came to us and to all the nations ♪
  • 26:33 ♪ He came that we might all be one ♪
  • 26:36 ♪ For Zion's sake, I will not keep silent ♪
  • 26:40 ♪ For Zion's sake, I'll preach the Son ♪
  • 26:44 ♪ Hear O Israel, the Lord our God is one ♪
  • 26:51 ♪ He gave to us his law ♪
  • 26:55 ♪ He gave to us his Son ♪
  • 26:58 ♪ Moriah, on Moriah, he gave his only Son ♪
  • 27:06 ♪ Moriah, on Moriah, the sacrifice is done ♪
  • 27:13 ♪♪♪
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Episodes in this series

  1. Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:1–16)
  2. Crimes of the Heart (Matthew 5:17–30)
  3. The Law Brought to Life (Matthew 5:31–42)
  4. Models of Behavior (Matthew 5:43–6:15)
  5. Eternal Investments (Matthew 6:16–23)
  6. God’s Material Provisions (Matthew 6:24–7:6)
  7. God’s Spiritual Provisions (Matthew 7:7–20)
  8. Yeshua: Foundation Sufficient for Salvation (Matthew 7:21–29)

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