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• 00:01 David Hart: Shalom, and welcome to "Our Jewish Roots," with Bible teaching from Israel with Dr. Jeffrey Seif. Today we begin our series
• 00:10 "The God of Miracles," coming up next.
• 00:11 ♪♪♪
• 00:18 male narrator: To believe in the Bible
• 00:20 is to believe in miracles.
• 00:22 From Genesis to Revelation, the impossible became possible.
• 00:26 As God's hand moved across space and time,
• 00:30 land and seas were created, graves opened,
• 00:34 water turned to wine, the sick and lame healed,
• 00:38 the land of Israel completely restored.
• 00:43 Past, present, and future, he's the Alpha and Omega.
• 00:47 He is "The God of Miracles."
• 00:51 ♪♪♪
• 00:57 David: Thank you so much for joining us today.
• 00:59 I'm David Hart.
• 01:00 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 01:02 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I'm Jeffrey Seif.
• 01:03 Kirsten: This is a new series all about "The God of Miracles."
• 01:07 You brought it home at home run.
• 01:09 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, it's just reading the Bible.
• 01:10 It's miracles from Genesis to Revelation.
• 01:13 Kirsten: And that's what we like: watching everything
• 01:15 that you've taught.
• 01:16 It's not just--not "just," but the Jesus miracles.
• 01:20 You have expansive miracles that you touch on and teach on.
• 01:24 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, again, Genesis to Revelation,
• 01:25 the miracle story doesn't just begin
• 01:27 in Matthew, and people need miracles today.
• 01:30 People wanna know if there's help from heaven for life's
• 01:33 stuff, and you can't engage biblical literature without
• 01:38 being confronted with that and hearing, "Yes, there is."
• 01:41 Kirsten: And today you're teaching on the Holy Spirit.
• 01:43 We really don't think of the Holy Spirit as a
• 01:45 miracle, per se.
• 01:47 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: No, I get into it a little in the teaching
• 01:49 segment in the series that most people think the Holy Spirit
• 01:51 showed up and got to work in Acts chapter 2,
• 01:53 but that's very overly simplistic.
• 01:55 Right there, in early Genesis, the Holy Spirit is bringing life
• 01:58 forms out of darkness and chaos.
• 02:00 He did it in Genesis 1.
• 02:01 He does it in this century today.
• 02:04 Kirsten: And even to right now, to today.
• 02:05 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: For us, people like me and you.
• 02:07 Kirsten: That's good. That's good.
• 02:08 We're excited for you to go on this journey with us through
• 02:11 "The God of Miracles," and so many experiences and miracles
• 02:14 that we'll learn about.
• 02:15 David: Right now, we take you to the Western Wall in Jerusalem
• 02:18 with Dr. Seif's teaching.
• 02:20 Let's go there now.
• 02:21 ♪♪♪
• 02:30 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: It's common,
• 02:31 in making television, for the producer to say,
• 02:33 "All quiet on the set."
• 02:35 Well, that's not going to happen here.
• 02:38 Why do I say that?
• 02:40 Because I'm at the epicenter of religious enthusiasm in the
• 02:47 world, Jerusalem, but not just there.
• 02:49 I'm coming to you from the Kotel,
• 02:53 which is the plaza here in front of the Western Wall of the old
• 02:58 temple complex, and Jews come to pray here.
• 03:01 This is the day after the Day of Atonement,
• 03:05 and the place is abuzz with activity.
• 03:09 There's a lot of bar mitzvahs going on, too,
• 03:11 where there's a celebration
• 03:13 of the rite of passage into puberty.
• 03:16 I don't wanna talk to you about procreation, however, much as I
• 03:19 wanna talk to you about the miracle of Creation.
• 03:24 The appropriation, a new life, and new generations is what's
• 03:27 being celebrated around me as well as the God of Israel,
• 03:31 specifically, but I wanna turn to the literature.
• 03:34 I wanna begin to look at miracles,
• 03:36 and you can't go far in the Bible when you're in Genesis
• 03:39 chapter 1, verse 1.
• 03:41 It starts off, "Bereshit," which means,
• 03:43 "In the beginning," and then it says
• 03:44 "bara Elohim et hashamayim ve'et ha'aretz."
• 03:47 "Bara" in Hebrew, "Bet," "Resh," "Aleph," isn't just "create."
• 03:53 It's "He created."
• 03:55 That is to say, "In the beginning He created--"
• 03:58 Elohim, that is, God--"the heavens and the earth."
• 04:02 Now, that is indeed the ultimate miracle.
• 04:06 And the question is, "Can he who created the world with a miracle
• 04:13 carry on with miracles in the world?"
• 04:17 I want to explore that in the series,
• 04:19 and as you might well anticipate,
• 04:21 the answer, to be sure, is yes.
• 04:24 At the Creation narrative, we're told there was darkness,
• 04:27 "choshek," but then we're told--
• 04:29 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 04:32 "the Spirit of God hovered over the face of those waters,"
• 04:36 over the darkness, dispelled the darkness,
• 04:38 created life and light.
• 04:41 It's so much his nature to do that,
• 04:43 to bring life and light into the world.
• 04:47 In fact, that creative energy, it says that "the Spirit hovered
• 04:50 over" and created as evidenced in the newer testament when you
• 04:55 look at the beginnings of the Jesus people.
• 04:57 There's a story there about on the day of Shavuot,
• 05:01 or Pentecost, we're told that the Ruach HaKodesh,
• 05:04 the Holy Spirit, came down, and there's the creation of this
• 05:08 organism that we call the church,
• 05:10 individuals empowered with the Holy Spirit.
• 05:13 Well, we first see the power of the Holy Spirit
• 05:15 not in Acts chapter 2 but in Genesis chapter 1,
• 05:18 there involved in Creation.
• 05:20 In this series, I wanna explore the miracles that come through
• 05:23 the agency of God, the Holy Spirit,
• 05:26 and I wanna look not just at how miracles can happen but how they
• 05:29 can happen to you.
• 05:32 ♪♪♪
• 05:35 ♪♪♪
• 05:45 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: There's a song,
• 05:47 "We Are Standing on Holy Ground."
• 05:50 When it comes to this place, that's the God's honest truth.
• 05:54 I'm here in the temple complex in Jerusalem.
• 05:58 In fact, right by the Southern Steps,
• 06:01 the wall behind me goes back to Jesus's day.
• 06:04 You can see different arches in it.
• 06:06 This goes back to entrances and exits in Jesus's day,
• 06:10 the Southern Steps.
• 06:11 Jesus walked this way.
• 06:14 People talk about following in the footsteps of Jesus.
• 06:17 Well, literally, that is the God's honest truth.
• 06:21 But I wanna tell a story that's not just from yesterday.
• 06:23 It is.
• 06:25 I'm gonna open up the Bible and go back to yesterday,
• 06:26 2,000 years, but it's one that has implications for today.
• 06:30 It speaks to the supernatural, and it speaks of miracle.
• 06:35 You know the story, I'd imagine, Acts chapter 2.
• 06:38 They gather together in one place,
• 06:41 and all of a sudden, the Ruach HaKodesh,
• 06:43 the Holy Spirit, falls upon them.
• 06:46 There's some manifest presence with fire and what have you,
• 06:50 and something changes internal to them.
• 06:53 They have a new language.
• 06:55 They have a new disposition.
• 06:57 I say, "language," because it's apparent in the literature.
• 07:00 I say, "disposition," because Peter,
• 07:02 who was cowering, who was sheepish,
• 07:04 is gonna show himself with some chutzpah in short order to get
• 07:07 up and speak and not be afraid of giving a voice to the Jesus
• 07:11 story and be concerned about the implications of his so doing.
• 07:14 I'm interested in the implications of the story in
• 07:17 Acts chapter 2, in verse 4, when we're told,
• 07:20 "They were all filled with the Holy Spirit," 'cause that's a
• 07:25 miracle moment, to tell you the truth,
• 07:26 something internal coming into you,
• 07:28 Divine presence, the Ruach Elohim,
• 07:32 the Spirit of God, we're told.
• 07:33 We looked at it in the previous section, the--
• 07:35 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 07:37 "And the Spirit of God is hovering over the
• 07:39 face of the waters."
• 07:40 Now he's hovering over human beings,
• 07:43 and if Jesus is to be taken literally and seriously,
• 07:47 he breathes into them; they receive the Holy Ghost.
• 07:50 It's not just a miracle in them, but it's a miracle through them.
• 07:56 It's one of the reasons, by the way,
• 07:57 why I say that individuals that are Bible-believers but kind of
• 08:02 remove the supernatural from the Bible,
• 08:05 they really don't have a biblical story left.
• 08:08 Now, it's not sufficient for me just to tell the story of
• 08:11 miracles of yesteryear, and we're gonna be looking at that
• 08:13 in Scripture, going back to Bible miracles and looking at
• 08:16 the miracle of modern Israel, and I'm standing in that today.
• 08:19 But it's important, the miracle that is you,
• 08:23 I want you to know that, because he lives and if he lives in you,
• 08:28 if the Ruach Elohim, if the Spirit of God, is in you and
• 08:32 dwells in you, that the prospects for your life
• 08:35 are immeasurable.
• 08:37 It's not even a question of where he found you initially or
• 08:40 where you find yourself right now,
• 08:42 but there's great prospects for the future for someone that can
• 08:46 take "choshek," darkness, and bring forth life.
• 08:49 That's the Genesis story at the beginning of the older
• 08:52 testament, and that's the story here
• 08:54 in the beginning of the new, that God is in the miracle
• 08:57 business, and he transforms people like me and like you.
• 09:03 ♪♪♪
• 09:04 ♪♪♪
• 09:16 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: There is no way to talk or think about
• 09:20 miracles without looking at the doctrine of the person and work
• 09:25 of the Holy Spirit in Scripture, Ruach HaKodesh,
• 09:30 the Holy Spirit.
• 09:31 There's just no way around it.
• 09:34 Jesus said he'd send the Spirit.
• 09:36 There's different words to describe a Comforter,
• 09:40 someone who lifts us up and helps us through the battle.
• 09:44 There's different ways to unpack what the Holy Spirit does,
• 09:47 but it is miraculous.
• 09:49 It defies observation at one level.
• 09:52 In the third chapter of the Gospel of John,
• 09:54 Jesus said, "The wind blows where it wills,
• 09:56 and you hear the sound of it, but you don't know whence it
• 09:59 comes and whether it goes, for so it is with everyone who is
• 10:01 born of the Holy Spirit."
• 10:03 You can't see the Holy Spirit, but you can see the effect that
• 10:06 the Holy Spirit has on objects.
• 10:08 Like the wind, you don't see the wind.
• 10:09 You can see that the leaves blowing around.
• 10:12 You can feel it blowing against you.
• 10:14 It's like that with the Holy Spirit.
• 10:17 In the Gospel of John, Jesus breathed on them and said,
• 10:21 "Receive the Holy Spirit."
• 10:24 Now, church work is very compartmentalized, you know?
• 10:28 I mean, it could be said those that are into the Father
• 10:30 go to a synagogue where Jews talk about God
• 10:33 the Father, God the Father.
• 10:34 You go to a Baptist church: the Son,
• 10:35 the Son, the Son.
• 10:37 You go to a Pentecostal church: the Spirit, Spirit, Spirit.
• 10:39 Go to a Catholic church: the mother,
• 10:40 the mother, the mother.
• 10:42 I mean, there's gotta be a way to stitch this together.
• 10:44 But the Holy Spirit is just so intrinsic,
• 10:49 and if you're at a place in your life where you need a miracle in
• 10:54 your life, what you need is the Holy Spirit to blow on you.
• 10:59 You need a touch.
• 11:01 I remember when I finished school,
• 11:04 my doctoral supervisor, who was out of Asbury Seminary,
• 11:08 initially, where revival winds have blown,
• 11:12 then he went to Oxford University to get his doctorate,
• 11:15 he gave me a book written by Harvey Cox at Harvard
• 11:18 University, looking at Christianity in the 21st
• 11:21 century, and Harvey Cox, as a professor of sociology,
• 11:25 looked at the whole Spirit renewal movement
• 11:28 on planet Earth, has reshaped Christianity in the last 120,
• 11:32 130 years, and not only is the Holy Spirit in the business of
• 11:37 reshaping a global movement.
• 11:41 He's in the business of reshaping you.
• 11:45 That's why you and I and we need to receive the Holy Spirit
• 11:49 because with the Holy Spirit--and I'm finishing up on
• 11:52 this in the Gospel of John.
• 11:54 Jesus says, in chapter 1, verse 12,
• 11:56 "But as many as received Him, who believed in His name,
• 11:59 He gave power to become children of God."
• 12:03 In the receiving of Jesus, there's a certain kind of power
• 12:07 that can transform people, that can transform circumstances.
• 12:12 It happened in the Old Testament.
• 12:14 It happened in the New Testament.
• 12:16 It happened in the world of biblical characters,
• 12:18 and it happens in the world today,
• 12:22 and, yes, change and miracle can even happen for you.
• 12:27 What say the hearts?
• 12:28 Kirsten: Ooh, that was good.
• 12:31 Here's my question, and we've been
• 12:34 in many different denominations.
• 12:37 We believe that when we receive and ask the Holy Spirit to come
• 12:41 in within us, he's in us, but then you also hear,
• 12:44 "Holy Spirit, fall on me."
• 12:47 So what's the difference if we ask him to "fall on us," but
• 12:51 he's already in us?
• 12:53 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, you're part of the praise and
• 12:55 worship world and hymns, and "Holy Spirit Fall on Me" is a
• 12:58 song, I think, you're harking to.
• 13:00 My understanding is what worshipers are asking for is
• 13:04 presence, feeling.
• 13:06 There's an emotive element associated with worship.
• 13:10 For some, worship is just coming in and hearing a speech and let
• 13:13 someone unpack what words mean in the Hebrew and Greek.
• 13:17 Others are more inclined to look at worship as an encounter,
• 13:20 as an experience.
• 13:22 I say it's good to have a little bit of both, you know?
• 13:24 I'm an academic, but at the end of the day,
• 13:26 I believe in experiential religion.
• 13:28 That is, it's when people have an encounter with the Lord,
• 13:32 just up close and personal and there.
• 13:34 Then there's a kind of experience and a kind of miracle
• 13:38 work that wouldn't otherwise be there
• 13:40 that's there because of that.
• 13:42 That's how I see it.
• 13:43 David: And there are millions that have not experienced that
• 13:45 in their lives.
• 13:46 I can't imagine not having the Holy Spirit in our lives to
• 13:49 direct us in all that we do in our life, but millions--
• 13:52 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I read a book by Jenkins,
• 13:55 who's a sociologist, again, Cambridge University Press
• 13:59 looking at Christian revivalism in this century,
• 14:02 an academic piece well-documented.
• 14:05 He observes if you look at a lot of flow,
• 14:08 a lot of power, a lot of where Christianity really is just
• 14:11 knocking down doors at south of the equator,
• 14:14 and it's all signs and wonders where people need a miracle.
• 14:21 They're seeking God, and they're experiencing one.
• 14:24 And, you know, there's a lot of good missionary folk that go out
• 14:27 and do different things and have small little works,
• 14:29 but if you wanna see where the energy is--
• 14:32 and I mean no disrespect to any denomination.
• 14:35 A lot of it is associated with that believing in the miracle
• 14:39 power associated with the Holy Spirit.
• 14:42 David: Here's a question with some of that revival that we've
• 14:44 seen going on.
• 14:46 Did they ask for it, or did it just fall, do you think?
• 14:50 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: My understanding--
• 14:51 and there's some criticism associated with that,
• 14:53 that there was this asking the Holy Spirit
• 14:55 specifically to come.
• 14:57 Now, I don't know if there's a specific prayer that's--
• 15:00 you know, a revival, I don't know that anybody can just say
• 15:03 the right formula, and voila, there we are, you know?
• 15:07 David: We all want it.
• 15:09 Kirsten: But isn't he already in us?
• 15:10 Don't we all have revival, the capacity
• 15:13 for revival right inside?
• 15:15 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah, but you know what?
• 15:16 If I took my iPhone, all the power's in there,
• 15:17 but I only use a little bit of it 'cause I don't know all the
• 15:19 particulars associated with it--
• 15:21 Kirsten: Oh, so tapping into it.
• 15:22 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I mean, there's a sense in which,
• 15:23 when people receive Jesus, there's a lot more that they
• 15:25 have, but like my iPhone, they just don't know how to use it.
• 15:29 I mean, I have an iPhone, an iPad, a MacBook Pro.
• 15:32 I don't know how to use it, but I'm a college professor.
• 15:34 I just get up in front of kids, and it looks cool.
• 15:36 They know how to use that stuff, but I think there's a lot of
• 15:39 potential that believers are not tapping.
• 15:43 David: And, hopefully, this program will,
• 15:44 kind of, be a map to help us get to that place.
• 15:48 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah, principally because what I wanna
• 15:51 do, I mean, the genius of the program and,
• 15:53 I think, the genius of the miracle of the ministry is that
• 15:58 what we do is look at biblical stories and unpack them
• 16:01 with a Hebraic perspective, dramatic vignettes,
• 16:04 but I hope the exposure to a variety of miracles might
• 16:07 stimulate something in the hearts and minds of viewers that
• 16:10 wouldn't otherwise be there.
• 16:12 David: That's good.
• 16:13 We've got a lot more to talk to you about that.
• 16:14 We will be right back.
• 16:17 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Our Creator chose certain places on the
• 16:19 planet to reveal himself and his message of redemption to us.
• 16:25 Mount Sinai, Moriah, Olives, the Mount of Beatitudes,
• 16:29 as well as various seas, rivers, and deserts--
• 16:32 these were the places.
• 16:34 Some are now only ruins, yet they continue to tell of the
• 16:38 Lord's faithfulness and love.
• 16:41 These sacred backdrops had been beautifully captured in our
• 16:44 resource this week, the book "Heaven and Earth: Landmarks of
• 16:50 the Bible from Genesis to Revelation."
• 16:54 Our producer and director, Ken Berg,
• 16:56 has assembled some of his favorite photographs taken
• 16:59 during his four decades of travel
• 17:03 through the lands of the Bible.
• 17:06 Contact us and ask for the book "Heaven and Earth."
• 17:12 Kirsten: Here's a little bit of insider scoop
• 17:14 on our social media sites.
• 17:17 You can watch today's program before it even airs on the
• 17:22 television, and that's what--
• 17:23 David: I do that.
• 17:24 Kirsten: You do.
• 17:26 And my parents, Greg and Betty, you guys are wonderful.
• 17:27 They stay up every night till 11,
• 17:29 but you can watch it earlier in the day if you'd like to.
• 17:33 David: Right now, let's go back to the old city for more of
• 17:35 "God of Miracles."
• 17:39 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: As we were talking toward the Southern
• 17:41 Steps of the Temple Mount, we saw a musical group of harpists
• 17:45 from around the world, 144 harpists,
• 17:49 by the way, and who was leading them?
• 17:52 None other than our very good friend,
• 17:55 messianic musician and songwriter Joshua Aaron.
• 18:01 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: So I'm at the Southern Steps of the temple
• 18:03 complex in Jerusalem, and I see a concert,
• 18:05 140-some harpists being led by none other than messianic Jewish
• 18:10 artist Joshua Aaron.
• 18:13 Joshua Aaron: It's nice to run into you, my brother.
• 18:14 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah, this wasn't planned, but you're here.
• 18:17 Josh, we're talkin' about miracles.
• 18:18 Anything in that resonate with you?
• 18:20 Joshua: Well, we're standing in a miracle country, Israel.
• 18:24 I'm living here with my wife and my five kids,
• 18:25 but, for me, it goes back to my mom.
• 18:28 My grandmother fled the Holocaust in the early '40s.
• 18:31 My uncle was born here, my mom's brother, in Jerusalem.
• 18:33 And then my mom was born in January of 1948, in Haifa.
• 18:37 So, for us, I remind my kids all the time about living
• 18:39 in the land of miracles.
• 18:41 Israel is a land that should not exist.
• 18:44 Historically, it's never happened where a people
• 18:46 were scattered and brought back together again,
• 18:48 and that's the first miracle that comes to mind
• 18:50 as we're standing here right now.
• 18:51 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: And, sure, it's a big one,
• 18:52 and we've develop that in the series.
• 18:54 Anything personal, familial?
• 18:56 Anything in your webs of relationships that you see as
• 18:59 just the hand of God, an anomaly,
• 19:01 out of the ordinary?
• 19:02 Joshua: I think there's just a life--God's divine direction
• 19:07 on every little thing where, for me,
• 19:09 it's always hearing his still, small voice.
• 19:12 I wish I've heard his audible voice,
• 19:15 but it's always just finding the way to follow God
• 19:18 with all your heart.
• 19:20 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, talk about hearing a voice,
• 19:22 you're like one of these up-and-coming,
• 19:24 super-well-known Messianic Jewish music artists.
• 19:28 Did you see that in the stars?
• 19:29 Do you see the hand of God elevating you up out of
• 19:32 something to make you something you didn't expect?
• 19:34 Joshua: Well, I just--you know,
• 19:35 I've been doing this for 13 years,
• 19:36 full time, and I knew I was gonna do it no matter how--
• 19:39 who knew me or who didn't know me.
• 19:40 I just wanted to sing God's praises and to share his
• 19:42 salvation through song my whole life.
• 19:44 I didn't know that YouTube would catch traction and we'd have all
• 19:47 these millions of views, but I am grateful.
• 19:50 And it could only be God because I know who I am.
• 19:52 I know how incapable I am.
• 19:54 It could only be God, that God would use somebody like me.
• 19:56 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well in closing,
• 19:58 I am walking around the Southern Steps of the temple complex.
• 20:01 I see 100 harpists, and I look into the crowd.
• 20:04 Low and behold, you're leading them.
• 20:06 What a miracle. What a blessing.
• 20:07 What a voice.
• 20:09 Joshua: Thank you very much. Thanks for havin' me.
• 20:10 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Thanks for bein' with us.
• 20:11 Joshua: So good to see you here.
• 20:13 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes. Joshua: Blessings.
• 20:15 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: We talked to one of the harpists,
• 20:17 Tina Mwale from Zambia, about the miracle in her life.
• 20:24 Tina Mwale: What happened was that I had suddenly just started
• 20:28 not feeling too well in my body, and I had been to the doctor's.
• 20:33 It started with, kind of, seizures,
• 20:36 which were unexplainable as the doctors were trying to figure
• 20:39 out what it was.
• 20:40 When I was having these seizures,
• 20:42 I could not even walk properly.
• 20:44 I used to have dizziness and haziness.
• 20:48 When I go to the hospitals, it was not described.
• 20:50 They kept on telling me, "You are just okay.
• 20:52 There's nothing wrong with you," but I couldn't even walk
• 20:55 straight, but I kept on forging ahead and walking every day with
• 21:00 that kind of dizziness like I am walking drunk,
• 21:04 but it wasn't.
• 21:05 I was told that I had also a heart issue,
• 21:08 a heart problem, which I had a hole,
• 21:11 which was not shown to me, and when I went to the hospital,
• 21:17 they told me that the machines that were supposed to have been
• 21:21 used for them to detect what the problem was with my heart was
• 21:27 not working, and it was the only one in Lusaka,
• 21:29 Zambia, at that time, which was 2017.
• 21:33 The doctors are trying to define what it is,
• 21:35 but they can't find what it is.
• 21:37 I prayed and asked God, to say, "Lord,
• 21:39 if you created me, I need to see your hand in my life
• 21:44 and your touch."
• 21:46 And so, at that point, which was about 02,
• 21:50 I was--we were praying and praising God and worshiping God,
• 21:54 and then there was such a presence that I have never felt
• 21:57 before, which my sister-in-law, who was seated,
• 22:03 had to come close to me, and she had the presence of God upon
• 22:07 her, and she held me, and she said to me,
• 22:10 "God is saying you are healed."
• 22:12 And so, when I sat back there,
• 22:15 I was "God is saying we are healed?
• 22:16 How come he didn't speak to me?"
• 22:18 And I was a baby Christian, so I didn't really know what miracles
• 22:23 were like, but I prayed to God and asked for him to touch me.
• 22:27 And so, when that happened, I heard him,
• 22:31 at that point, tell me, "Do not limit me.
• 22:34 I am God."
• 22:36 And with that word is what I ran with from that point in time.
• 22:40 When God touched me that day, I took the word that he told me,
• 22:44 "Do not limit me," and with the next day,
• 22:46 I stood up and said, "Lord, you are the same God that told me--
• 22:49 that healed me last night as of this morning,
• 22:52 and I tell myself, I'll stand on this same word that you have
• 22:55 told me today not to ever limit you."
• 22:58 And eventually, I saw the fading of what was in my body at that
• 23:04 time till today, and that's the glory I share as a testimony of
• 23:10 what God has done for me in my life.
• 23:13 That's one of them, but many others.
• 23:15 That's one of them.
• 23:17 ♪♪♪
• 23:18 ♪♪♪
• 23:28 David: Have you heard the saying,
• 23:29 "If that don't light your fire, your wood is wet"?
• 23:33 Dr. Seif, have you heard that before?
• 23:34 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: No, I have never heard that before,
• 23:35 but I like it.
• 23:37 David: That testimony was life-changing,
• 23:38 goose bumps, amazing.
• 23:40 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: There's a lot of wet wood out there.
• 23:41 Kirsten: There is, but there's also a lot of revival
• 23:44 going on from every country in the world,
• 23:46 and I think we Americans--and I know you watch from across the
• 23:50 world--some, in America, we're almost kind of behind the times
• 23:54 of the Holy Spirit moving.
• 23:56 All different countries are on fire.
• 23:59 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, I think we need to wake up and
• 24:00 smell the coffee.
• 24:02 God is at work in the world.
• 24:03 He's been doing it since the beginning of the world,
• 24:06 and it has to do with the renewal and the moving of the
• 24:09 Holy Spirit, and there's miracles with all that.
• 24:12 Kirsten: And you talked about the miracle in the New Testament
• 24:15 about the disciples and the apostles and those that were
• 24:18 there on the day of Shavuot, Pentecost,
• 24:21 that that Spirit came down that they could see flames.
• 24:24 I mean, that's incredible.
• 24:26 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I'm proud of you that that Hebrew word,
• 24:27 Shavuot, is second nature to you.
• 24:29 Kirsten: Almost seven years, I finally learned it.
• 24:30 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: You don't have that scripted.
• 24:32 You're, just, you're startin' to sound Jewish.
• 24:33 Kirsten: Look at that.
• 24:34 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: You're comin' around, girl--I like that.
• 24:36 Kirsten: You're rubbin' off on me, hah-hah-hah.
• 24:37 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I like that.
• 24:38 David: I was gonna say, something that's really amazing
• 24:40 to us, when we go to Israel, we hear so many different languages
• 24:45 represented in the Holy Land, and we invite you to come and
• 24:49 join us on a tour to Israel.
• 24:51 Life-changing.
• 24:53 People from all over the world go there.
• 24:55 Kirsten: The spots where Jeff Seif,
• 24:57 where you taught today, are places that we go on our tours.
• 25:01 You get to step on the Southern Steps just like you did
• 25:04 with the harp players.
• 25:06 We get to go there and experience,
• 25:08 hopefully, a brand-new touch, if we can have a brand-new touch of
• 25:12 that Holy Spirit there in the land.
• 25:14 David: And it is happening from all over the world.
• 25:16 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I thought it was so cool,
• 25:18 144 harpists from all over the world.
• 25:21 We just kind of bumped into that.
• 25:23 Now, I know Joshua Aaron personally,
• 25:24 and he said, "Hey, Jeff," or the voice come out of the crowd.
• 25:27 I didn't realize--we didn't realize what we bumped into.
• 25:30 We were just heading up the Southern Steps,
• 25:32 but 144 harpists from all over the world,
• 25:35 that really was incredible.
• 25:37 Where do you see that?
• 25:38 Kirsten: Or hear that.
• 25:39 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: You know, right.
• 25:41 You can go to some--there are famous music halls in Sydney,
• 25:44 Australia, and different places of the world.
• 25:46 You know, it was just really something to behold.
• 25:48 David: Yes. Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah.
• 25:50 Kirsten: Good--and to hear.
• 25:51 Thank you for what you brought to us today,
• 25:53 and I know it doesn't come cheap.
• 25:55 I know it's expensive to fly over,
• 25:57 and we have food and hotels and a lot behind production of what
• 26:01 you brought to us today.
• 26:02 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, it's our friends that make that happen.
• 26:04 Thank you for it, you know.
• 26:05 We don't make a lot of money on it, quite frankly.
• 26:08 We're not in it for the money, but the money that you send
• 26:11 helps us do what we do, and we appreciate it.
• 26:13 Kirsten: Another program next week.
• 26:14 More on "The God of Miracles."
• 26:15 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: We'll be comin'.
• 26:17 See ya then. How about that?
• 26:18 Till then--sha'alu shalom Yerushalayim.
• 26:21 David: "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem."
• 26:26 ♪ "I will pour out my Spirit. ♪
• 26:32 ♪ I will pour out my Spirit ♪
• 26:38 ♪ in the last days," saith the Lord. ♪
• 26:44 ♪ "I will pour out my Spirit, ♪
• 26:50 ♪ and whoever calls my name, ♪
• 26:57 ♪ whoever calls my name ♪
• 27:02 ♪ in the last days," saith the Lord, ♪
• 27:08 ♪ "shall be saved." ♪♪
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