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• 00:01 ♪♪♪ male announcer: Welcome to "Our Jewish Roots." The Word of God has given us
• 00:12 examples of faith that have shaped virtually every aspect of the believer's life today.
• 00:17 Where would we be without the examples of Noah,
• 00:20 Abraham and Isaac David and, ultimately,
• 00:25 that of Yeshua, Jesus?
• 00:28 Faith is woven into the fabric of America as well.
• 00:32 From the pilgrims to John Adams,
• 00:34 to Patrick Henry and George Washington,
• 00:38 God's providential hand remained highly esteemed and honored
• 00:42 above all.
• 00:44 Faith unshakable, faith unstoppable,
• 00:48 faith of our Fathers.
• 00:53 David Hart: We're so glad you've joined us today,
• 00:54 I am David Hart.
• 00:56 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 00:57 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I am Jeffrey Seif,
• 00:58 and we are looking at the Bible.
• 01:01 Yes, the Bible, not just the Bible,
• 01:03 we're interested in our Founding Fathers,
• 01:05 but goodness, King David is going to come to the floor in
• 01:09 today's program, a man full of faith.
• 01:12 David: He had faith as a little boy,
• 01:14 way back in the day.
• 01:16 He listened to God's voice.
• 01:17 Jeffrey: Yes.
• 01:18 Kirsten: As you did, David, when you were a boy, too.
• 01:20 Jeffrey: When he proposed to you, no doubt.
• 01:22 Kirsten: He had some big faith on that one.
• 01:25 Now let's go to today's teaching as Jeff tells
• 01:29 us about the faith of our biblical father:
• 01:32 King David.
• 01:35 Jeffrey: If David had so much faith,
• 01:37 some wonder, Why did he take more than one stone?
• 01:42 We know in the biblical text that he picked up a few.
• 01:46 We don't know why.
• 01:47 I don't, some think maybe Goliath had a few brothers.
• 01:51 I don't know.
• 01:53 But I'm going to tell you what I do know,
• 01:56 and there's a lot to know when we look at leadership and faith.
• 02:00 David's a go-to guy, isn't he?
• 02:03 Let's go have a look at the book and see what he has to say.
• 02:06 ♪♪♪
• 02:15 Jeffrey: Men like David take risks,
• 02:21 but risk isn't just what men do; women take risks, too.
• 02:26 The reason why I mention that is David's
• 02:28 great-great-grandmother Ruth, she took a risk,
• 02:32 now didn't she?
• 02:34 She was a foreigner.
• 02:35 She left Moab with two nickels to rub together,
• 02:41 not much more, and came with her mother-in-law to Bethlehem,
• 02:45 it means house of bread.
• 02:47 You see this grain here?
• 02:48 Well, David bent down, picked up some stones,
• 02:51 and the rest is history.
• 02:53 Ruth bent down, picked up some wheat,
• 02:56 got the attention of Boaz, and the rest is history.
• 03:01 You know what they have in common beyond their bloodline?
• 03:03 I'll tell you what it is right now.
• 03:05 That if you look at this wheat right here,
• 03:07 it comes from seeds right here.
• 03:10 The seed of faith, you've probably heard the term.
• 03:15 David sowed seeds of faith and he made his way onto
• 03:18 the biblical pages.
• 03:20 Ruth sowed seeds of faith and made her way in the
• 03:24 story through the ages.
• 03:26 We see it in the Bible.
• 03:28 Speaking of which, he says in Psalm 27:1,
• 03:31 "The Lord is my light and my salvation."
• 03:36 His faith pierces through the darkness,
• 03:38 and when he speaks of God being his salvation,
• 03:41 he's not thinking about life on the other side of the grave as
• 03:45 much as God keeping him out of the grave this side.
• 03:49 He says, "The Lord is my light and my salvation."
• 03:51 Helped him in so many ways, through so many battles.
• 03:54 "Whom shall I fear?"
• 03:57 He said, "The Lord is the stronghold of my life."
• 04:00 It's a military term.
• 04:02 "Of whom shall I dread?"
• 04:05 There are things to fear. There are things to dread.
• 04:07 But he learned that God is a shelter amidst the storm.
• 04:11 He says, "When evildoers approached me to devour my
• 04:16 flesh, my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell."
• 04:24 It seems to me that sometimes God's people can get in a little
• 04:29 bit of trouble.
• 04:30 We're looking for God to lead us away from difficulties.
• 04:33 What happens when he leads us to them?
• 04:35 But leaders go to them and through them,
• 04:38 and we develop our metal in the process of so doing.
• 04:42 In fact, it's not just the case with men,
• 04:45 it is the case with plants, and I mentioned this.
• 04:48 You might remember in the Johannim Gospel,
• 04:51 in John chapter 12, verse 24, Jesus said,
• 04:55 "Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies,
• 05:00 it remains alone.
• 05:02 But if it dies, it bears much fruit."
• 05:06 There's a sense in which these grains have to disconnect from
• 05:09 security in order to get on to business with their destiny.
• 05:15 Now, we've seen it; I've alighted upon it so far
• 05:17 in this segment.
• 05:19 We know with David's great-great-grandmother--
• 05:21 and Ruth was indeed great--
• 05:23 she disconnected from her security in Moab.
• 05:27 David had a comfortable gig in his father's farm,
• 05:30 but no, he takes on Goliath.
• 05:33 It seems to me that God prompts his people to go after the
• 05:38 pursuit of their destinies.
• 05:40 It's the way they're oriented,
• 05:42 and we see that God helps in the process.
• 05:46 We're gonna see that later on in the program,
• 05:48 by the way, when we consider noteworthies in our own culture
• 05:53 who similarly were guided by a biblical vision--
• 05:58 never mind biblical virtue-- but a vision for the Lord
• 06:04 as a protector and as a leader against the troubles of the day.
• 06:10 This author says, "Though an army besieges me,
• 06:15 my heart will not fear."
• 06:18 And there was a war that was fought and, indeed, armies did
• 06:22 besiege those colonial soldiers, did they not?
• 06:25 He says, "Though war breaks out against me," he says,
• 06:29 "In this I will be confident."
• 06:32 And the word "confidence" comes from the Latin "confide."
• 06:36 It means "with faith."
• 06:39 He says, and I quote, "One thing I have asked of the Lord," well,
• 06:43 I'm sure he had more than one prayer request,
• 06:45 but it's the principle thing.
• 06:48 And he says, "And that will I seek after,
• 06:51 to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life."
• 06:55 Now, it's a poetic figure of speech.
• 06:57 He doesn't live his life in church,
• 06:59 but the point is he is a seeker after God's own heart,
• 07:03 wants to seek his face.
• 07:05 He wants to behold, he says, "The beauty of the Lord and
• 07:09 meditate in his temple."
• 07:11 He goes on to say, and I'm reading a lot of text,
• 07:14 but I don't mind doing it.
• 07:15 He says, "In the day of trouble, he will hide me in his sukkah"--
• 07:22 that is, in his tabernacle.
• 07:25 "He will be a pavilion of protection for me."
• 07:30 And battles rage, don't they?
• 07:33 That's the bad news.
• 07:35 The good news, however, is the promise in Scripture that
• 07:38 "No weapon formed against you will prosper."
• 07:43 Here we're told in the Psalm, he says,
• 07:47 "In the day of trouble, God will hide me," he'll conceal me,
• 07:51 he'll, "Set me high upon a rock."
• 07:54 There's faith in the ultimate deliverance.
• 07:57 And then, finally, the last verse that I'll read here in
• 08:00 verse 6, "Then will my head be high above my enemies around me.
• 08:07 In his tabernacle, I will offer sacrifices with shouts of joy,
• 08:13 and I will sing yes, I will sing praises to the Lord."
• 08:18 I find this in biblical text, individuals look to the Lord
• 08:22 and are delivered, but I've learned through studies of
• 08:25 history that it's just not in biblical text alone.
• 08:30 Individuals who look to the Lord,
• 08:32 who are marked by destiny are marked by protection as well.
• 08:37 We're gonna see that as we go, as we take a look at the
• 08:41 Founders of our culture when we look at the story of the faith
• 08:45 of our Fathers.
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• 10:06 Kirsten: Jeff was teaching today about little David,
• 10:09 little King David, fighting Goliath,
• 10:11 killing Goliath, and we've learned something on tour,
• 10:14 haven't we?
• 10:15 It's just kind of one of those fascinating things--
• 10:17 that the northern-most point in Israel,
• 10:20 Mount Hermon, they found giant bones.
• 10:24 David: They still are.
• 10:25 Kirsten: Right, they're still finding giant bones.
• 10:26 So, it's just kind of neat.
• 10:28 Goliath was real; there are real bones there.
• 10:30 Here's one fascinating fact.
• 10:32 On our tours, on a Zola tour, we actually go up north where you
• 10:37 will be at the base of Mount Hermon,
• 10:38 and that's where those giant bones are.
• 10:41 Jeffrey: Yes, thank you for helping us to slay the giants,
• 10:44 by the way.
• 10:45 And for us, giants come in the form of bills associated with
• 10:49 air time.
• 10:50 Costs a fortune, but you know, Israelites paid in blood to push
• 10:55 back the Philistines and to fight the giants of their day,
• 10:58 and we pay it as well today to make God's will and work known
• 11:03 in the earth.
• 11:05 And again, thank you for you who help,
• 11:07 because you, too, are a giant slayer.
• 11:11 David: Let's step back in time now to 1776 when formative
• 11:15 steps were taken in the birth of a new nation.
• 11:18 In his Philadelphia study, a dedicated clergyman takes time
• 11:22 to uncover some remarkable nuggets of godly faith
• 11:25 and virtue.
• 11:27 ♪♪♪
• 11:36 ♪♪♪
• 11:37 male: Good day, Betsy.
• 11:39 Betsy Ross: Good day, sir.
• 11:41 male: Betsy, I know we've already mentioned
• 11:45 Mr. Washington, but I must read an event that I consider to be a
• 11:50 divine miracle, as reflected in his correspondence.
• 11:53 Betsy: Oh, I want to hear about it, sir.
• 11:58 male: Twenty years ago, during the French and Indian
• 12:01 wars, Mr. Washington rode back and forth on horseback
• 12:05 delivering orders during battle.
• 12:08 He would later write, to his brother,
• 12:12 "But by all powerful dispensations of providence,
• 12:16 I have been protected beyond all human probability
• 12:19 or expectation.
• 12:22 For I had four bullets through my coat,
• 12:24 and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt,
• 12:28 although death was leveling my companions on every side
• 12:31 of me."
• 12:32 Betsy: I believe I've heard tell of this event.
• 12:35 Surely, it must have been divine intervention.
• 12:40 male: But have you heard of the remarkable meeting that
• 12:43 took place some 15 years later regarding this event?
• 12:47 Betsy: No, sir.
• 12:49 male: Well, as Washington was traveling through this
• 12:53 very battle site, he encountered an old Indian chief.
• 12:57 Hear the words of that chief as he recounted
• 12:59 the battle to Washington.
• 13:02 "Quick, let your aim be certain and he dies.
• 13:07 Our rifles were leveled,
• 13:08 rifles which but for you knew not how to miss.
• 13:11 'Twas all in vain.
• 13:13 A power mightier far than we shielded you."
• 13:16 Betsy: Mightier, indeed.
• 13:19 male: "Seeing you were under the special guardianship of
• 13:22 the Great Spirit, we immediately ceased to fire at you.
• 13:26 Something bids me speak in the voice of prophecy."
• 13:31 Betsy: Prophecy, from an Indian?
• 13:34 male: Listen, "The Great Spirit protects that man
• 13:39 and guides his destinies.
• 13:42 He will become the chief of nations and a people yet
• 13:46 unborn will hail him as the founder of a mighty empire.
• 13:52 I am come to pay homage to the man who is the particular
• 13:56 favorite of heaven and who can never die in battle."
• 14:01 Betsy: Extraordinary, makes one wonder.
• 14:05 male: And yet another Indian warrior from the same battle
• 14:09 wrote, "Washington was never born to be killed by a bullet.
• 14:16 I had 17 fair fires at him with my rifle,
• 14:19 and after all could not bring him to the ground."
• 14:26 Betsy: It is no wonder, sir, that the six boats under his
• 14:31 command fly this flag aboard their vessels.
• 14:35 Clearly, heaven has earthly plans for Mr. Washington.
• 14:43 Jeffrey: I love history and love bringing to you an expert
• 14:47 who knows it better than me,
• 14:50 particularly when it comes to early America.
• 14:53 David Barton shines a flashlight on George Washington.
• 14:57 We know him, but there's all kinds of interesting things
• 15:01 that we don't know about him, at least not till now.
• 15:05 Here we go.
• 15:08 Jeffrey: I think it must have been an exciting time
• 15:10 to be alive.
• 15:12 Individuals that are drawing upon biblical vision,
• 15:15 value, virtue, and before them is a new world.
• 15:19 And when I look at the picture you brought with,
• 15:21 I think of these people that are so much informed by a biblical
• 15:24 world view.
• 15:25 David Barton: They were informed by biblical world view, and they
• 15:27 really saw biblical destiny and purpose in a lot of
• 15:30 what happened.
• 15:31 George Washington, this last episode was on George
• 15:33 Washington; he's a great example.
• 15:35 And what we saw in that episode was so much of
• 15:38 his young commander mode, when he was a young colonel in the
• 15:42 French and Indian War.
• 15:44 And even the Indian chief saying
• 15:45 "Hey, you were born to never be killed by a bullet."
• 15:49 It's interesting, that is what launched George Washington into
• 15:53 international notoriety.
• 15:54 That's where he became known in England as well as here,
• 15:57 and part of the reason was a sermon like this.
• 16:00 This is a sermon; this is actually from 1755.
• 16:03 It's preached by Samuel Davies, and it has a little footnote
• 16:06 down here, and it says we've just heard about this young
• 16:09 man named George Washington, and we've heard the miraculous
• 16:12 intervention that occurred where God saved his life.
• 16:15 And he says when God performed such great miracles for someone
• 16:20 that young, we need to keep our eyes on this guy.
• 16:22 He's probably gonna be somebody special someday.
• 16:24 And so, that's the early introduction to America
• 16:27 and to England of George Washington.
• 16:29 And of course he became a military figure,
• 16:31 what he did as a young man.
• 16:34 This actually is a military order given by Abraham Lincoln.
• 16:38 So, this is Lincoln's military order,
• 16:40 but what's interesting is he's quoting George Washington.
• 16:42 He's just reissuing Washington's order,
• 16:45 and here's what it says.
• 16:46 It says, "The general hopes and trusts that every officer and
• 16:49 man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian
• 16:52 soldier defending our dearest rights
• 16:54 and liberties to our country."
• 16:56 So Washington, even at the very beginning,
• 16:58 when he became commander-in-chief in the
• 16:59 American Revolution, he says okay, guys, I want you to live
• 17:03 and act like a Christian soldier.
• 17:05 I want your behavior to be right.
• 17:07 He told 'em in some of his orders,
• 17:09 he said we can't win against the British without God's help.
• 17:13 And we can't get God's help if we take him off.
• 17:16 So, here's the deal: no profanity allowed anywhere
• 17:18 in the military, because that violates
• 17:20 one of the commandments.
• 17:21 And he just went through the commands and said,
• 17:23 "Here's what God says, that's what we're gonna do,
• 17:25 'cause we can't get his blessing if we don't do that."
• 17:27 So the tone of Washington from the very beginning was strongly
• 17:30 biblical, strongly religious.
• 17:32 Jeffrey: Yes, and he was open to others.
• 17:34 In fact, he was open to Jewish people.
• 17:37 He wrote a famous letter to the synagogue in Rhode Island,
• 17:40 but beyond that, he petitioned Jews to help him when he was
• 17:44 holed up in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
• 17:46 Haym Solomon, a Jewish financier in Philadelphia raised the money
• 17:50 on the quick to help retool them.
• 17:53 David: There were so many Jewish patriots
• 17:55 in the American Revolution.
• 17:57 You have the leader of patriot forces in Georgia
• 18:00 was Mordecai Sheftall.
• 18:03 You had so many Jewish leaders that were close to Washington,
• 18:07 and it's interesting his inauguration,
• 18:09 he was inaugurated in 1789, first president,
• 18:12 there were 14 religious leaders who set up his inauguration,
• 18:16 had seven religious activities in it,
• 18:18 and it was made up of both rabbis and Christian ministers.
• 18:22 And they set that inauguration up,
• 18:23 and so, you even mentioned that letter that he sent
• 18:26 to the Hebrew congregation in Newport, 1790.
• 18:30 That letter is two sentences long,
• 18:33 and in it, Washington quotes ten Bible verses in two sentences.
• 18:37 One of the most amazing letters I've ever seen,
• 18:39 and his knowledge to the Bible came through when he wrote,
• 18:42 and he quoted so many Old Testament promises as he
• 18:45 was writing that congregation.
• 18:46 Jeffrey: Yeah, well, let's just tear him down and make
• 18:48 him a racist.
• 18:49 We see him hundreds of years--
• 18:50 I'm saying that facetiously, you know.
• 18:52 Hundreds of years ago, we see him extending his arms beyond
• 18:55 his own personal, intellectual, emotional,
• 18:58 and spiritual horizons as an extension of Christian faith
• 19:01 and virtue to welcome the brother from another mother.
• 19:04 David: That's right, and it's interesting,
• 19:06 I mean, you look at Washington.
• 19:08 He did own slaves, but it was very much against his will.
• 19:11 He started inheriting slaves when he was 11,
• 19:13 and he lived in a state that would not allow him to free
• 19:15 his own slaves.
• 19:17 They finally, after the Revolution,
• 19:18 passed an exception and said,
• 19:20 "When you die, you can free your slaves, and he did.
• 19:22 When he died, he freed 'em, but it's interesting that as
• 19:24 president, he signed two national anti-slavery laws.
• 19:29 He actually signed the law that said no other territory in the
• 19:32 United States can have slaves, and that's why Ohio
• 19:35 and Indiana and Illinois and other states came in as
• 19:37 anti-slave states, but he did not like slavery.
• 19:40 He fought against it, but he inherited slaves,
• 19:42 and his state wouldn't let him free 'em,
• 19:44 and so now we condemn him as being a racist when he actually
• 19:47 fought against slavery.
• 19:49 And so, because we say well, he wasn't a good guy,
• 19:52 he couldn't have been religious.
• 19:53 Actually, there are so many of his generals and his officers
• 19:58 who gave testimony that this book came out in 1919,
• 20:01 it's called "George Washington the Christian."
• 20:03 And it's nothing but the eyewitness testimony of all
• 20:06 those who were with him.
• 20:08 But before this book came out, this one came out in 1832.
• 20:12 There's actually 12 volumes of this.
• 20:13 I brought volume 12.
• 20:15 These are the writings of George Washington.
• 20:17 These are the first set of letters they had of his,
• 20:20 and this was done by the president of Harvard University,
• 20:23 Jared Sparks, who was a historian.
• 20:25 And in the last part of volume 12,
• 20:27 the last half here, he says, "You know,
• 20:30 there's people who question whether Washington really
• 20:32 was a Christian or not."
• 20:34 And so he wrote to the people who knew him,
• 20:35 and he wrote to George Washington's daughter
• 20:38 Nellie; she was actually the granddaughter,
• 20:40 but her parents died, so Washington adopted her,
• 20:42 and he said, "Look, you lived with Washington 20 years in
• 20:44 Mount Vernon, was he really a Christian?
• 20:48 And so, Nellie went through and said,
• 20:49 "Well, one time my aunt was sick, lying in front of the
• 20:52 fireplace, actually died.
• 20:54 Washington didn't know she died; he came through and laid hands
• 20:56 on her and prayed for her, prayed that God would heal her."
• 20:59 She said she went through all this religious stuff Washington
• 21:03 did out of the public eye.
• 21:05 She said, "You might as well question his patriotism as
• 21:07 question his Christianity.
• 21:09 And nobody was gonna question his patriotism."
• 21:11 So we knew he was a Christian then,
• 21:13 but today we've so demeaned him, and so pushed him aside that
• 21:16 he's no longer the figure he should be.
• 21:18 Jeffrey: Yeah, I don't think it's fair to judge people from
• 21:20 1776 by standards that prevail in 1976.
• 21:24 Slavery was ubiquitous in culture.
• 21:26 Was he kind? Was he brutal?
• 21:29 Does he look at these as employees as opposed to
• 21:32 property to be abused?
• 21:34 I think we need to look a little deeper.
• 21:36 David: We do, and that's always part of the context,
• 21:39 because we know things now that they didn't know back then.
• 21:42 And you don't judge people today by their standards,
• 21:45 which is why I think it's significant in the Bible,
• 21:47 it says Noah was righteous in his generation.
• 21:51 Because if you look at Noah after he got off the ship
• 21:54 with the vineyard, he got fall down, dead drunk and was naked
• 21:56 in front of his kids, got the kids in trouble.
• 21:58 That's not great, but he's not that generation where they were
• 22:01 killing and murdering and raping so bad that God said
• 22:04 "Let's just wipe 'em all out and save Noah and his family."
• 22:06 He was righteous in his generation.
• 22:08 And that's the way Washington was.
• 22:10 He's not where we are today, but man,
• 22:12 when you compare him to everything else going
• 22:14 on back then, he is so far ahead in what he did,
• 22:17 even with the slaves.
• 22:18 He paid them for their work.
• 22:20 He did not consider them, you know,
• 22:23 what you owe to me, he allowed them to earn money so they could
• 22:26 be free.
• 22:27 So far ahead of where most slave masters were then.
• 22:30 And again, he did free his slaves when the law let him
• 22:32 do so.
• 22:34 Jeffrey: Yes, you know, just lost history,
• 22:36 and fools just tear his statues down.
• 22:41 "Let's just rage."
• 22:43 David: Well, there's a good likelihood you can
• 22:46 say that America would not exist today without George Washington.
• 22:50 He's the only man elected president
• 22:51 with no opposition ever.
• 22:53 He was the unanimous choice, the only unanimous choice.
• 22:56 The Constitution would not have happened without him.
• 22:59 I mean, you can say he's got flaws,
• 23:01 and he did, but God used him to create a great nation.
• 23:04 Jeffrey: Well, I don't wanna correct you, the historian.
• 23:06 My understanding of the only opposition was himself.
• 23:10 He didn't want it at first, they had to rope him into it.
• 23:13 He wasn't going after power.
• 23:15 David: No, he would love to have retired back to his farm,
• 23:18 and been there at the farm, but he said,
• 23:20 "You know, my life is not my own.
• 23:21 If the people call me to serve 'em,
• 23:22 God wants me to serve people," and that's what he did.
• 23:25 But he would have preferred to be on his farm.
• 23:27 Jeffrey: Yeah, the word "ministry" comes from
• 23:28 the Latin "minus," which means "less than."
• 23:31 It's great to be of service, a Christian virtue.
• 23:33 Thank you for helping us to explore the faith
• 23:36 of our Fathers.
• 23:38 David: My pleasure, Jeff, thanks.
• 23:41 announcer: Our resources this week:
• 23:43 two books by Christian historian David Barton.
• 23:46 First, "America's Godly Heritage."
• 23:49 This book details what the Founding Fathers intended
• 23:51 for America and what can be done to return to its original
• 23:55 guiding philosophy, or "The Bulletproof George Washington."
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• 24:02 of the young solider who later became our first president.
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• 24:11 David: Quite the history lesson today for all of us,
• 24:14 and we just need to get this out of the way.
• 24:15 One thing that we didn't really realize or think about too much
• 24:19 is George Washington, he had slaves.
• 24:22 Kirsten: It's what they did back then, right?
• 24:24 We don't condone it as a ministry.
• 24:26 We're not pro-slavery, but even in the Bible times,
• 24:30 there were slaves in the Bible times, right?
• 24:32 Jeffrey: Yes, but they weren't allowed to be
• 24:33 whipped cruelly.
• 24:35 It's more like employer, employee--
• 24:38 someone who works for you,
• 24:39 a blue-collar worker, rather than it is some human cattle
• 24:42 that you just exploit.
• 24:44 Kirsten: All right, well David Barton was also saying that
• 24:46 didn't George Washington pay his slaves?
• 24:49 I mean, he took care of them very well.
• 24:50 Jeffrey: Yes, it's radical for its day and time,
• 24:52 and it's worthy of bringing attention to, to your point.
• 24:57 Similarly, there was someone else in the day,
• 24:59 his name was Uriah Levy, the first Jew in the American Navy
• 25:06 to rise to the rank of commodore,
• 25:09 which is comparable to admiral.
• 25:12 Guess what he did?
• 25:13 He abolished flogging in the Navy,
• 25:16 which was a common disciplinary practice.
• 25:19 He got rid of that.
• 25:20 He wrote the first book on Naval discipline and administration,
• 25:25 got rid of it--
• 25:26 a Jew in the early Navy, interesting, yes?
• 25:29 Kirsten: Showing love, showing God's love to people and
• 25:32 taking care of people.
• 25:33 Jeffrey: Yes, you know, there's always godly people
• 25:36 around in different places, spotlights are never shined
• 25:40 on them.
• 25:41 That's why I'm glad that you're here watching this program,
• 25:45 not just watching us, per say, but David Barton,
• 25:47 going back to the original sources,
• 25:49 learning new things, how biblical faith and virtue
• 25:52 is so much part of America in the early days.
• 25:55 It's a worthy story to tell, and it's been lost.
• 25:57 Kirsten: And the good news is that George Washington,
• 26:00 upon his death, freed his slaves.
• 26:03 He redeemed them, just as we serve someone named Yeshua,
• 26:08 named Jesus Christ, who redeemed the world.
• 26:12 All you have to do is ask him to come into your life.
• 26:14 You can't ask George Washington to come into your life,
• 26:17 but we have a Savior that can change us and redeem us.
• 26:20 Jeffrey: To that point, you know,
• 26:21 a president of the United States is not our Savior,
• 26:23 but it's good to have a president who is in tune
• 26:26 with biblical values and vision, like our first.
• 26:29 Kirsten: Great program today, thank you.
• 26:31 David: It has been.
• 26:32 Thank you so much for joining us today.
• 26:34 We end this program with a song from our founder, Zola Levitt.
• 26:36 Jeffrey: And a Word from the Scripture.
• 26:38 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 26:40 Kirsten: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
• 26:43 ♪♪♪
• 26:45 ♪ Giving us our heart's desire. ♪
• 26:46 ♪ May all the people praise you, ♪
• 26:49 ♪ sing and dance before you. ♪
• 26:51 ♪ Make a joyful noise unto the Lord. ♪
• 26:56 ♪ You have made us now your people, ♪
• 26:58 ♪ brought us back from all the nations. ♪
• 27:00 ♪ You were teaching us in exile how to love you undefiled. ♪
• 27:05 ♪ All the people praise you, ♪
• 27:07 ♪ sing and dance before you. ♪
• 27:09 ♪ Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, ♪
• 27:14 ♪ King of all the kingdoms, Creator of creation, ♪
• 27:18 ♪ author of salvation, armies strong in heaven. ♪
• 27:23 ♪ We are called to be your people for eternity, ♪
• 27:26 ♪ your nation. ♪
• 27:28 ♪ Make a joyful noise unto the Lord. ♪
• 27:31 ♪♪♪
• 27:41 ♪♪♪
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• 27:53 ♪ May all the people praise you, ♪
• 27:55 ♪ sing and dance before you. ♪
• 27:57 ♪ Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, ♪
• 28:02 ♪ King of all the kingdoms, Creator of creation, ♪
• 28:06 ♪ author of salvation, armies strong in heaven. ♪
• 28:11 ♪ We are called to be your people for eternity, ♪
• 28:14 ♪ your nation. ♪
• 28:15 ♪ Make a joyful noise. ♪
• 28:17 ♪ Make a joyful noise. ♪
• 28:20 ♪ Make a joyful noise unto the Lord. ♪♪