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Episode: “Faith Requires Boldness”
During a storm, Peter was the only disciple to step out of the boat and walk on the water to Jesus. Faith prompts Believers to do daring things. And even when we fail, Jesus is there to help us continue following Him.
Series: “Much Like Peter”
On the shore of the Sea of Galilee, Yeshua began His ministry by calling disciples to follow Him. One of these was Peter — who often acted before thinking. Even so, the Messiah foresaw that this simple fisherman would become the leader of the Apostles and a powerful voice for the Gospel.

This series features teaching by Dr. Jeffrey Seif, reenactments by Israeli actors, David and Kirsten Hart singing songs by Zola on location in Israel, interviews with Israeli Believers, and modern life applications with the Harts. Each program reveals that many of us who follow the Lord are “much like Peter.”

Caption transcript for Much Like Peter: “Faith Requires Boldness” (2/9)

  • 00:01 David Hart: Shalom.
  • 00:02 Coming up next, we take a closer look at the Apostle Peter
  • 00:06 getting out of the boat and walking on the water to Jesus,
  • 00:09 next, on "Our Jewish Roots,"
  • 00:12 with Bible teaching by Dr. Jeffrey Seif.
  • 00:15 ♪♪♪
  • 00:19 male narrator: Sunrise on the Galilee,
  • 00:22 Simon Peter prepares his nets for a day at sea.
  • 00:26 Much like the sea, Peter is unpredictable--calm and steady,
  • 00:32 and then, in an instant, tempestuous.
  • 00:35 As we reflect upon the Lord's most intriguing disciple,
  • 00:39 we can see ourselves because we, too,
  • 00:42 have been broken and then restored.
  • 00:46 We, too, in so many ways, are "Much Like Peter."
  • 00:52 ♪♪♪
  • 00:56 David: We're so glad you've joined us today, I'm David Hart.
  • 00:58 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
  • 01:00 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: And I am Jeffrey Seif.
  • 01:01 David: So, in our first program, Peter received a new name
  • 01:04 from Yeshua--I love the name-- "Rock."
  • 01:07 Wow, what a name.
  • 01:08 Today we're back at the Sea of Galilee.
  • 01:11 Lots happened on the sea.
  • 01:14 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I mean, when I looked at Peter initially,
  • 01:16 I wouldn't call him "Pebble," never mind "Rock."
  • 01:19 I mean, the Lord saw potential there that I didn't get at first
  • 01:22 blush, but isn't that like the Lord?
  • 01:23 Kirsten: Can I say something? Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Sure.
  • 01:26 Kirsten: Rocks sink, but Peter didn't.
  • 01:28 Ooh, he's walkin' on the water today, isn't he?
  • 01:31 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: That kind of goes with the story, doesn't it?
  • 01:32 Kirsten: It does. Dr. Jeffrey Seif: That's good.
  • 01:34 Kirsten: It's a good one. Who else defied gravity?
  • 01:36 Peter did, and the Messiah did.
  • 01:38 Oh, there's so much. This is a good program today.
  • 01:41 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: It is. Kirsten: We're excited for it.
  • 01:43 David: Right now, we take you to that beautiful place,
  • 01:44 the waters of the Galilee.
  • 01:46 Let's go there now.
  • 01:49 narrator: The Sea of Galilee, quiet, still.
  • 01:53 Then, in an instant, thunderous.
  • 01:57 Peter's walk upon these waters will be recalled with wonder and
  • 02:00 doubt as he seeks confirmation about what really happened that
  • 02:04 stormy night upon the sea.
  • 02:14 Peter: [speaking foreign language]
  • 02:20 Andrew: [speaking foreign language]
  • 02:29 Peter: [speaking foreign language]
  • 02:35 Andrew: [speaking foreign language]
  • 02:44 Peter: [speaking foreign language]
  • 02:57 Andrew: [speaking foreign language]
  • 03:01 Peter: [speaking foreign language]
  • 03:22 Andrew: [speaking foreign language]
  • 03:34 Peter: [speaking foreign language]
  • 03:52 ♪♪♪
  • 04:03 Peter: [speaking foreign language]
  • 04:14 Andrew: [speaking foreign language]
  • 04:17 Peter: [speaking foreign language]
  • 04:47 ♪♪♪
  • 04:55 ♪♪♪
  • 05:02 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: It's a beautiful morning
  • 05:04 here in the Sea of Galilee.
  • 05:06 It's great to be here, isn't it?
  • 05:08 Wasn't so good to be here 2,000 years ago.
  • 05:11 It was between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m.
  • 05:14 in the morning, and the water was extremely turbulent,
  • 05:19 and those fishermen who were in a boat,
  • 05:22 much akin to this--the boat that I'm in right now is an actual
  • 05:27 replica of the boats that they actually used 2,000 years ago.
  • 05:32 Yeshua, Jesus, would've been in one like this.
  • 05:35 Well, he wasn't in it at the time.
  • 05:37 His "talmidim," his disciples were, and they were terrified.
  • 05:42 It's not just that the waters were very turbulent and
  • 05:46 precarious, but they thought they saw a ghost.
  • 05:51 In a moment, we're gonna look
  • 05:53 at the story in the Matthean gospel.
  • 05:56 Mattityahu was his name.
  • 05:58 We know him more commonly as "Matthew."
  • 06:00 We're gonna take a look at the book and see it from our eyes.
  • 06:05 I'd like to note, however, on the front end,
  • 06:08 that, if you look at the Matthean gospel,
  • 06:10 we're looking at literature that actually circulated initially in
  • 06:15 and around Syria.
  • 06:17 I mention that because of the Galil,
  • 06:19 the Galilee, where we are right now,
  • 06:21 was managed out of Syria, and in the aftermath of the Jewish War,
  • 06:27 in the '70s, people fled up to Syria.
  • 06:31 We're going to look at a story where Peter gets out of the
  • 06:36 boat, and he sinks.
  • 06:38 He starts to sink into the water,
  • 06:42 and Yeshua lifts him up.
  • 06:44 I mention this because the first hearers of the Matthean gospel,
  • 06:50 they were all sinking on land.
  • 06:53 If you look at those first disciples,
  • 06:55 those who first read the literature,
  • 06:57 we're looking at refugees, we're looking at displaced persons who
  • 07:01 flee the Judean War and make their way up to Syria.
  • 07:05 These are the first.
  • 07:07 They're gonna take a look at the book,
  • 07:08 a story that we're gonna look at right now.
  • 07:12 ♪♪♪
  • 07:17 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Mattityahu tells us that they were really
  • 07:20 in trouble and far away from land,
  • 07:23 in fact, and in verse 24, we're told they were a long way out
  • 07:27 a number of stadia, many stadia.
  • 07:30 "Stadia," in antiquity, harks to a term about 600 feet.
  • 07:35 We're looking at two football fields,
  • 07:37 and they were many stadia out.
  • 07:39 They were in a bad way. They were in trouble.
  • 07:41 The sea was storm-tossed, and these were hardened fishermen.
  • 07:46 You know, they could handle tough terrain in the water,
  • 07:48 but they were far out, and it was in the middle of the night,
  • 07:50 you know, 3 to 6 a.m.
  • 07:52 They did what the Lord told them to do,
  • 07:54 but they sailed into trouble.
  • 07:56 We're told, in verse 25, then, "The fourth watch
  • 07:59 of the night,"
  • 08:01 again, this is using
  • 08:02 terms in antiquity.
  • 08:04 "Three to six a.m.,
  • 08:06 Yeshua came to them,
  • 08:07 walking on the sea," according to the story.
  • 08:10 Fascinating.
  • 08:12 "And they cried out with fear."
  • 08:13 You know, the Bible speaks of fear, "yare' Adonai."
  • 08:17 It's "reverence," this is panic, it's not reverence.
  • 08:19 They're already in a bad way 'cause of their circumstances,
  • 08:22 but now things seem to have gotten worse.
  • 08:25 We're told in verse 27, "Immediately,
  • 08:28 Yeshua spoke to them."
  • 08:29 The word "immediately" is used in number of occasions
  • 08:32 in the gospels.
  • 08:33 "Eutheos," in the Greek, 42 times it's used
  • 08:35 in the Markan gospel, and Matthew was borrowing Mark,
  • 08:38 by the way, in the telling of this story.
  • 08:41 We're told that "Yeshua spoke to them and said,
  • 08:44 'Take courage,'" you know, "chazaq," be strong.
  • 08:49 Peter, then, in verse 28--
  • 08:51 and Peter is an interesting character.
  • 08:53 If you look at the talmidim, the disciples,
  • 08:56 Peter--you have the inner circle of the 12,
  • 08:59 Peter, James, and John, and Peter is always mentioned first,
  • 09:01 and he has more speaking parts.
  • 09:03 Peter, first, he says in verse 28,
  • 09:05 "Master, if it's You, command me to come to You on the water."
  • 09:11 Now, that's audacious.
  • 09:12 That is so bold, you know, stepping up.
  • 09:14 "Look, let me come out there with You."
  • 09:15 I don't know about you. I wouldn't have done that.
  • 09:18 You know, that's a little beyond me.
  • 09:19 It seems rather foolish at one level, but Peter was kind of,
  • 09:24 sort of, like that,
  • 09:26 a little bit of foolish, a little bit of faith.
  • 09:28 He says, "Let me come out."
  • 09:31 In response, which the Lord says,
  • 09:32 in Hebrew, "Bo," "Come."
  • 09:35 It's a verb, but it's a command verb,
  • 09:38 "Bo," "Come," "Come to Me," "Come on."
  • 09:41 "And Peter--" we're told in verse 29-- "got out of the boat
  • 09:45 and walked on the water to go to Yeshua."
  • 09:49 It's a fascinating story.
  • 09:51 It's an interesting story.
  • 09:53 Who would've done it?
  • 09:54 Now, we'll look at the story, and people are going to say,
  • 09:56 "Well, look at that Peter.
  • 09:58 You know, it wasn't a day like today where the waters are calm.
  • 10:03 You know, he goes out there, he's walking,
  • 10:05 and the waves are kicking up and polygon.
  • 10:09 He's miserable.
  • 10:11 You know, he's upset, and he fears," and people say,
  • 10:13 "Oh, look at that Peter.
  • 10:15 You know, he took his eyes off the Lord, and he sank.
  • 10:17 Bad man."
  • 10:19 Well, that is true to the narrative.
  • 10:22 He is rebuked for taking his eyes off the Lord and looking at
  • 10:25 the waves, but before we pick on him,
  • 10:28 let me ask you a question;
  • 10:29 Did you note, with me, that no one else bothered
  • 10:32 to get out of the boat?
  • 10:33 You know, it's easy to criticize the fellow, to be sure,
  • 10:38 but no one else did it, you know, and faith, it seems to me,
  • 10:44 it prompts people to do things that are audacious.
  • 10:47 I was speaking to the fellow who built this boat,
  • 10:51 which is, in effect, a replica, and it might've been audacious.
  • 10:56 He wasn't a boatbuilder, he said, by profession.
  • 10:59 He just looked very carefully at the original
  • 11:02 and endeavored to construct.
  • 11:04 Some can say, "Look, what do you know?
  • 11:06 You're not a boat builder.
  • 11:07 But sometimes people do things as an urge, as an inclination.
  • 11:11 There's a sense, "Let's do it," and it's bold.
  • 11:13 Whether it's building a boat, whether it's stepping out of
  • 11:16 a boat, different people do different things,
  • 11:18 and so many days and so many ways,
  • 11:21 what becomes of them in life is determined by the bold steps
  • 11:24 that they take.
  • 11:26 Well, it's a fascinating story.
  • 11:28 Peter gets out there.
  • 11:30 He walks on the water and subsequent to which he sinks.
  • 11:34 He's invited back into the boat.
  • 11:36 We see then, in verse 33, finally, they're all awestruck.
  • 11:39 You know, the waves cease.
  • 11:41 Peter's back in the boat, and we're told that they worshiped
  • 11:44 him, the Lord, and said, "Truly are been Ben-Elohim,"
  • 11:48 the Son of God.
  • 11:50 Now, when it says, "They worshiped Him," I wanna hark
  • 11:52 on that as I close here.
  • 11:54 The word "worship" comes from two words,
  • 11:57 a "ship of worth," "worth ship."
  • 12:02 They were mariners, they were sea men,
  • 12:04 these early disciples, and they found a "boat of worth" that is,
  • 12:10 ascribing value to Jesus.
  • 12:12 They "worth shipped" him.
  • 12:15 They realized that, by virtue of their going with him,
  • 12:18 with all that entailed, all the supernatural associated with it,
  • 12:22 they knew they could make the crossing through life,
  • 12:24 that he was a "ship of worth," they can get on board with him
  • 12:28 and go into the future.
  • 12:30 They realized that then.
  • 12:31 I hope that you can realize that now.
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  • 13:30 Kirsten: Jeff Seif teaching on the Sea of Galilee,
  • 13:36 it doesn't get much better than that, and here's the--
  • 13:39 I'm gonna say the word "glorious" part of that.
  • 13:42 You could do that too.
  • 13:44 Well, maybe not be filmed for our program,
  • 13:46 teaching on the sea, but you get to ride on a Jesus boat.
  • 13:51 It's the highlight of our tours to Israel.
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  • 13:57 David: Speaking of Dr. Seif, he has so many more series
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  • 14:08 so thank you for helping us to go to Israel and
  • 14:10 Dr. Seif's teaching every week.
  • 14:13 Thank you so much for that.
  • 14:14 Right now, we continue our story of Peter as Andrew
  • 14:17 seeks to find out more about Peter's miraculous encounter
  • 14:20 with Yeshua.
  • 14:23 ♪♪♪
  • 14:30 Andrew: [speaking foreign language]
  • 14:37 Peter: [speaking foreign language]
  • 14:54 Andrew: [speaking foreign language]
  • 15:08 Peter: [speaking foreign language]
  • 15:21 ♪♪♪
  • 15:29 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I opened this program by pivoting
  • 15:32 from something in the drama, a line that,
  • 15:36 in so many ways, people can be sinking on land.
  • 15:39 I think that's profoundly significant because a lot of
  • 15:44 life is sinking on land.
  • 15:46 We lose heart.
  • 15:48 The bottom drops out of our own world in so many ways because
  • 15:52 life can be very precarious.
  • 15:55 Here on the Sea of Galilee, I'm on the fishing boat that's
  • 15:58 a facsimile to the one Jesus was in with his disciples,
  • 16:01 and it is--you know, it moves around a little bit.
  • 16:04 It's precarious even when the waters are calm.
  • 16:06 I can imagine what it's like when it's choppy and when
  • 16:09 there's a haul of fish on board, particularly precarious.
  • 16:13 It's not just the boat can overturn,
  • 16:14 and people can lose the fish.
  • 16:16 People can lose their lives in the process,
  • 16:17 and sometimes life is lived that way.
  • 16:21 I'd mentioned earlier that the first hearers of this story were
  • 16:26 living in a precarious way as well.
  • 16:28 These were refugees that fled the Hebrew war that are first
  • 16:31 reading the Matthean gospel in Syria,
  • 16:34 refugees, and hearing about you can walk through the storms of
  • 16:39 life, but if you walk with Yeshua,
  • 16:41 he can lift you up.
  • 16:43 You can find success even amidst the turbulence of trying times.
  • 16:49 I think that would've been particularly important for them,
  • 16:53 I think, significant as well, and it's a subtle point,
  • 16:56 walking on water, walking on land.
  • 16:59 The religious life in the Jewish world,
  • 17:04 it's depicted as a walk.
  • 17:08 In fact, "halacha,*" is the term to be an obedient Jew,
  • 17:13 to live by the precepts of the rabbis.
  • 17:15 It's to follow "halacha," and it comes from the Hebrew "halakh,"
  • 17:20 which means "to walk."
  • 17:22 Walking on water, walking on land,
  • 17:25 of course, it's symbolic on the water, but it harks to
  • 17:28 the precariousness of human experience.
  • 17:30 The point is, if we walk with the Lord,
  • 17:33 he can lead us through the waters.
  • 17:36 It's the story that goes back to Shemot, to Exodus,
  • 17:39 when Moshe Rabbeinu, when Moses leads them out of Egypt.
  • 17:43 Jesus is the new Shepherd who leads us out of our sin
  • 17:46 and circumstance.
  • 17:48 It's just good news for modern man to know that he lives,
  • 17:52 he helps, he's all about helping us to live,
  • 17:56 that, as we walk with him, we can get the better of
  • 17:59 the precariousness of human experience,
  • 18:02 walk in the newness of life, and we can walk victoriously.
  • 18:06 ♪♪♪
  • 18:10 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: People talk about going witnessing,
  • 18:13 and it's in church work.
  • 18:15 It's scheduled. "We're gonna go out witnessing."
  • 18:17 There wasn't a plan to go out witnessing.
  • 18:20 They weren't told to do it.
  • 18:21 They just did it.
  • 18:23 These people were amazed at what the Lord had done,
  • 18:28 and they bore witness to it.
  • 18:31 We're told word spread-- in chapter 14, verse 35.
  • 18:36 "Word spread throughout the surrounding region,"
  • 18:39 and people come, and it spread because people testify to it.
  • 18:45 You know, in the Jewish world, the Shema is the one statement
  • 18:50 in Hebrew Scripture that speaks to,
  • 18:52 for, and about what Jewish religion is all about:
  • 18:55 "Shema Y'srael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad."
  • 18:58 In the Hebrew script, the last letter of the first word,
  • 19:03 an "ayin," and the last letter of the last word,
  • 19:07 "dalet," are boldfaced.
  • 19:09 They're much bigger than the others so that,
  • 19:12 when someone reads the Shema, the "ayin" and the "dalet"
  • 19:16 stands out, and "ayin" and "dalet" combine the word "ed,"
  • 19:19 means to "witness."
  • 19:21 The point is, in monotheism, Hebrew peoples are to witness to
  • 19:25 this, to bear witness to this.
  • 19:27 Here, what we see, is people are bearing witness to miracle that
  • 19:33 God is manifesting himself in a certain way through a certain
  • 19:37 person and touching persons.
  • 19:39 It's a beautiful story, and people come.
  • 19:42 We're told that those that were in a bad way,
  • 19:46 those that were in bad shape, they came.
  • 19:51 It's interesting that the "pericope," the passage begins--
  • 19:56 "pericope" is a word for a "standalone story," and there
  • 20:00 are a variety of standalone stories in biblical literature.
  • 20:04 The story begins with Peter seeking permission,
  • 20:08 and Yeshua saying, "Come," inviting Peter to him,
  • 20:14 and here you have the story ending,
  • 20:16 the miracles themselves command
  • 20:19 people to come to Yeshua.
  • 20:23 I wanna close this segment in the Johannine gospel,
  • 20:27 the 10th chapter.
  • 20:30 Yeshua, Jesus, is on record saying, "If I don't do
  • 20:33 the works of My Father, then do not believe Me.
  • 20:36 But if I do them, even though you don't believe Me,
  • 20:39 believe the works that you may know and understand that I am
  • 20:42 in the Father, and the Father is in Me."
  • 20:44 There is miracle that accompanies the Yeshua story,
  • 20:49 the Jesus story.
  • 20:51 There's bodies transformed.
  • 20:53 There are circumstances that are turned around.
  • 20:56 People find themselves in the choppy waters of life,
  • 20:59 and God can calm those seas.
  • 21:01 People find themself sinking, and the Lord has a way of
  • 21:05 resurrecting them and building them up.
  • 21:07 Whether it's the circumstances of your life,
  • 21:10 whether it's the body that you live your life in,
  • 21:12 whatever it is, in the literature,
  • 21:14 we're told that the Lord can help people get the better of
  • 21:17 that, and not just something physical or material,
  • 21:21 but the stories have turned around lives,
  • 21:23 people that have had an encounter with the Lord and come
  • 21:26 up a different kind of person.
  • 21:30 We see marvel and mystery in biblical literature,
  • 21:33 all being transmitted through the person of Jesus.
  • 21:35 Doesn't just happen in the pages.
  • 21:37 It happens throughout the ages for those who reach up to him.
  • 21:41 Peter learned a lesson in this story.
  • 21:43 You know, he walked, he sunk, he was lifted back up again,
  • 21:46 and, in that sense, in many ways, we're all much like Peter.
  • 21:49 We try, we stumble, we fall, we get back up.
  • 21:52 If that's you--I know it's me--like I said,
  • 21:55 we're all like Peter in so many ways.
  • 21:57 Let's get back up, let's get in the boat,
  • 21:59 and let's follow the Lord.
  • 22:00 God bless.
  • 22:02 ♪♪♪
  • 22:12 David: So, Dr. Seif, I believe that you said
  • 22:14 Peter's coming to faith was a process, yes, for him?
  • 22:19 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, you know, we just see him there,
  • 22:23 at a moment, responding to Jesus.
  • 22:25 There may well have been previous moments, but
  • 22:27 the Bible doesn't record a lot, but, arguably, he would've heard
  • 22:31 something and known about Jesus before that moment.
  • 22:33 Well, what's interesting, by the way,
  • 22:35 as we look at this program, the experience with Jesus prompted
  • 22:39 people to go out and tell others about Jesus.
  • 22:42 To that end, let me speak to you for a moment,
  • 22:45 and I don't wanna offer a corrective.
  • 22:47 Someone did say to me recently, "I really like your program."
  • 22:51 I appreciate it.
  • 22:53 I mean that sincerely, but it's less a "me thing" than
  • 22:56 it is a "we thing," but it's not even really us.
  • 23:00 I think it's better to say, if you derive benefit,
  • 23:02 "I like the program."
  • 23:04 The reason why is there's no ownership of the material here.
  • 23:08 This is just straight out of the Bible that the task at hand is
  • 23:12 to go into the biblical text to graphically depict it,
  • 23:15 to give a Jewish perspective on it,
  • 23:17 and to move it forward with the mind to hope that people will
  • 23:22 respond to Jesus the more so.
  • 23:24 If you find value in what we do, please help us in the doing.
  • 23:31 We read in Scripture "the word spread," and the reason why
  • 23:35 "the word spread" is because people spread it.
  • 23:37 They went out of the way to use their energies
  • 23:39 to advance the Jesus story.
  • 23:42 Please help us do that.
  • 23:44 I believe there's a blessing in it for you, and there's
  • 23:48 a blessing in it through you in ways you'll never know.
  • 23:52 Kirsten: Well, you've blessed us through this series,
  • 23:54 and there's more to come.
  • 23:56 I just wanna be a little cheerleader.
  • 23:58 I'm gonna go, "Go, Peter."
  • 24:00 He did it.
  • 24:02 He defied gravity.
  • 24:04 He had the faith.
  • 24:06 He saw Messiah, and he said, "I'm coming for you."
  • 24:08 And everyone jumps on Peter and says,
  • 24:12 "Oh, he lost his faith, and he went down on the water."
  • 24:14 I'm like, "Hey, hang on a second."
  • 24:16 Yeshua reached down, pull him up.
  • 24:18 They had to get back to the boat, right?
  • 24:20 And it never says they swam and through the waves.
  • 24:23 I think--I don't know, but I think they walked back to the
  • 24:27 boat, but we kind of cut Peter.
  • 24:29 I'm like, "Who else had the faith?"
  • 24:30 He jumped out of the boat. He did it.
  • 24:33 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: That's true. What a good point.
  • 24:35 It takes courage to face the future--doesn't it--?
  • 24:37 To live life, and Peter had courage.
  • 24:40 He kind of took his eyes off for a second,
  • 24:42 but he's commended, to me, in my mind's eye,
  • 24:46 for the reason that you stated.
  • 24:47 David: We've done the same thing.
  • 24:49 I know I have in my life, taking my eyes off of him.
  • 24:51 Doesn't work.
  • 24:52 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: No, and isn't it great that the Lord
  • 24:54 doesn't let him sink, and say, "You moron"?
  • 24:56 He reached out his hand and took him to the boat, you know?
  • 24:59 Kirsten: Yes, that's it because he can do that to all of
  • 25:01 us, and we do have the ability to live a supernatural life.
  • 25:05 We can defy gravity.
  • 25:08 We can defy the things of the earth when we keep our eyes
  • 25:10 on him, and Peter did it.
  • 25:12 We can too.
  • 25:14 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah, you know, I think about it.
  • 25:16 It's a little self-correcting.
  • 25:17 It's easy for me, in my webs of relationship,
  • 25:20 to think about people that have disappointed me,
  • 25:23 and they've sunk, but it's good to turn around and be gracious
  • 25:26 to give 'em a hand to get back on the saddle as well, isn't it?
  • 25:28 Kirsten: That's good. We can be the ones to reach out.
  • 25:30 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: At the end of the day, we wanna be
  • 25:32 the reach-out, reconciling group, don't we?
  • 25:34 Kirsten: Yes, that's good.
  • 25:35 David: The dramatic reenactments coming up are amazing.
  • 25:37 We get to sing on the Sea of Galilee.
  • 25:40 You're teaching.
  • 25:41 So much more to come, but it's time to go.
  • 25:43 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah, so much more to come,
  • 25:44 and it's such a thrill to do it.
  • 25:45 Thanks for helpin' us. We'll do it again next week.
  • 25:48 Come back, please, and as you go now,
  • 25:50 Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalayim.
  • 25:52 Kirsten: Pray for peace of Jerusalem.
  • 25:56 ♪♪♪
  • 26:08 ♪ Teach me to walk on water ♪
  • 26:13 ♪ even when I can't stand. ♪
  • 26:19 ♪ Help me to know it's You I follow. ♪
  • 26:24 ♪ Help me to understand. ♪
  • 26:30 ♪ Teach me to walk on water, ♪
  • 26:35 ♪ to reach out and take Your hand. ♪
  • 26:41 ♪ In seasons of doubt, I'll reach out. ♪
  • 26:46 ♪ Lead me to the Promised Land. ♪
  • 26:52 ♪ Storms were raging through the night. ♪
  • 26:57 ♪ Waves of fear were pounding. ♪
  • 27:03 ♪ Alone, we rode with all our might, ♪
  • 27:08 ♪ streaks of wind resounding. ♪
  • 27:14 ♪ We spied a spirit coming toward us, ♪
  • 27:19 ♪ holy and divine. ♪
  • 27:24 ♪ He bid me to walk on water. ♪
  • 27:29 ♪ He told me, "Never doubt." ♪
  • 27:38 ♪ Teach me to walk on water ♪
  • 27:43 ♪ even when I can't stand. ♪
  • 27:49 ♪ Help me to know it's You I follow. ♪
  • 27:54 ♪ Help me to understand. ♪
  • 28:00 ♪ Teach me to walk on water, ♪
  • 28:05 ♪ to reach out and take Your hand. ♪
  • 28:11 ♪ In seasons of doubt, I'll reach out. ♪
  • 28:17 ♪ Lead me to ♪
  • 28:18 ♪ the Promised Land. ♪♪

Episodes in this series

  1. Foundation of Faith
  2. Faith Requires Boldness
  3. Who are You, Yeshua?
  4. Divine Apparently
  5. I Don’t Know Him
  6. Do You Love Me?
  7. Tongues of Fire
  8. Beyond Israel’s borders
  9. Bonus interviews

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