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• 00:01 David Hart: Today we look at the Lord as our deliverer,
• 00:03 both in the Old and the New Testament.
• 00:05 Join us on "Our Jewish Roots" with Bible teaching
• 00:08 from Israel with Dr. Jeffrey Seif.
• 00:11 Join us.
• 00:12 ♪♪♪
• 00:19 narrator: "To believe in the Bible is to believe in miracles
• 00:22 from Genesis to Revelation, the impossible became possible.
• 00:27 As God's hand moved across space and time, land and the seas were
• 00:32 created, graves opened, water turned to wine, the sick and
• 00:37 lame healed.
• 00:39 The land of Israel completely restored.
• 00:42 Past, present, and future, he's the Alpha and Omega.
• 00:48 He is the God of Miracles.
• 00:51 ♪♪♪
• 00:57 David: Thank you so much for joining us today.
• 00:59 I am David Hart.
• 01:01 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 01:02 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Jeffrey Seif.
• 01:04 Kirsten: Welcome back to our series on "Miracles."
• 01:06 Today is the biggie, one of the big ones, right?
• 01:07 The Exodus, "Let my people go."
• 01:09 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, certainly, when you're in the
• 01:11 Exodus story, God showing up to Moses miraculously, raising him
• 01:14 up to effect a great deliverance.
• 01:16 It's--certainly that whole Exodus story is the biggie in
• 01:18 the Older Testament.
• 01:20 Not the only story, but the biggest.
• 01:22 Kirsten: Right, and I have to say, I think you know this,
• 01:24 Moses is one of my favorites.
• 01:26 That he's one of those I wanna meet when I get to heaven.
• 01:29 And to hear what he walked through in the middle of this
• 01:32 miracle is gonna be fascinating.
• 01:34 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah, I like him because he's--he
• 01:36 reminds me of a regular guy, you know.
• 01:37 He's struggling to come to terms with his calling and, you know,
• 01:41 he's not perfect, but God works his perfect will to accomplish
• 01:45 deliverance for and through imperfect people.
• 01:47 It's a great story, it's there in the Bible.
• 01:49 Kirsten: That's good.
• 01:50 David: We're gonna hear from you right now,
• 01:52 all the way from Israel.
• 01:53 Here's Dr. Seif's teaching.
• 01:56 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Sure, you're familiar with the word
• 01:58 "Arab."
• 01:59 I have a number of Arab friends.
• 02:02 The word "Arab" itself derives from a word "Arabah,"
• 02:05 which speaks of the dry lands.
• 02:07 You can imagine why I'm mentioning that at the outset.
• 02:10 Look at where we are.
• 02:12 We are, indeed, in the Holy Land.
• 02:16 We are in the Middle East, and we are in some dry land.
• 02:22 Even in desolate places like this, in the Bible the Lord is
• 02:27 known to do miracles.
• 02:30 In fact, you might recall, it's noted in Exodus 17, verse 6,
• 02:34 you can look it up, the people were crying out.
• 02:36 Why?
• 02:37 Because in the dry lands, they had parched thirst.
• 02:41 Their tongues were dry and they cried out, and Moses made water
• 02:46 to come out of a rock.
• 02:47 Now, by the way, I'm not claiming that's the rock.
• 02:50 In fact, I'm not even here to talk about the rock, though I do
• 02:52 want you to know that God can bring grace and refreshment to
• 02:56 you in difficult times.
• 02:59 But I'm looking at the beginning of the story, not something in
• 03:01 the middle of it.
• 03:03 In fact, earlier in Exodus, therein we're told that Moshe
• 03:08 Rabbeinu was tending flocks in a place like this,
• 03:12 in the wilderness.
• 03:13 Now, there's different gradations of dry lands.
• 03:17 There's the absolute dry, the desert lands.
• 03:20 Wilderness goes by another word, "midbar."
• 03:23 The landscape is very difficult, but there are resources there.
• 03:28 You just have to know how to survive in the land: something I
• 03:31 couldn't do very long out here.
• 03:33 But Moses knew the world out here and, once upon a time, he's
• 03:38 out here, and I'm thinking of the story in Exodus chapter 3,
• 03:44 where he's out in the wilderness.
• 03:46 And there was this bush.
• 03:48 Not only am I not claiming that's the rock behind me
• 03:51 the water came out of, I'm not claiming
• 03:53 that's the bush back there.
• 03:55 You can see some green behind me which means
• 03:57 there's some water source there.
• 04:00 Moses had seen a lot out here.
• 04:03 He needed to survive but he saw something he never saw before:
• 04:06 a miracle.
• 04:07 Again, a miracle is, in effect, a suspension of the laws
• 04:10 of nature.
• 04:11 He sees a bush that's burning, but it is not consumed.
• 04:17 Now that would get anybody's attention, never mind the fact
• 04:20 when you look at the story, there's a voice that comes out
• 04:23 of the bush.
• 04:24 We're told in the Bible in Exodus chapter 3, verse 2, that
• 04:28 "the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from
• 04:33 within a bush."
• 04:35 Angel, the word "malach" from a ergative verb "lech," to send.
• 04:40 There's a dispatch to him, and there's a word that's spoken,
• 04:45 that's representative of the Lord, in effect, the Lord in the
• 04:48 bush speaking to him, calling to him.
• 04:51 And what is it that got Moses's attention?
• 04:53 It was what we call miracle.
• 04:58 And miracle really changed the trajectory of that man's life.
• 05:06 It took him into things he'd never imagined.
• 05:09 And you know, that's not just something that God does for
• 05:12 Bible people way back then on the pages.
• 05:16 It's done throughout the ages.
• 05:18 People have an experience with the divine, a message of the
• 05:22 Lord, associated with supernatural.
• 05:25 You find it in Genesis, all the way through Revelation.
• 05:29 And beyond the pages of Revelation, we find it in the
• 05:32 world today as God is watching over his Word to perform it and
• 05:37 doing signs and wonders in the process.
• 05:40 It's all about miracles, and I want you to know that God may
• 05:43 have a miracle for you even yet.
• 05:49 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Our viewers send me to fascinating places.
• 05:52 Here, just south of the City of David, across from the Kidron
• 05:56 Valley, where here, a remnant of Nehemiah's wall.
• 06:02 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: "Stony the road we trod," is the theme song
• 06:07 for the NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement
• 06:12 of Colored People.
• 06:13 I mention that here 'cause I thought of it just getting to
• 06:16 this place right here.
• 06:17 Stony is the road our camera crew trod.
• 06:21 And it's very precarious, by the way.
• 06:23 It's not on camera right now but there's a precipice just right
• 06:26 next to me.
• 06:28 I don't wanna get anywhere near it 'cause it's a long drop to
• 06:30 the bottom.
• 06:31 Well, I didn't bring you here to tell you about my problems.
• 06:34 I wanna talk to you about that wall because, behind me, is
• 06:37 proof positive that supports a biblical narrative.
• 06:42 And Nechemia, Nehemiah, whose name means God comforts,
• 06:46 returned to the ancestral homeland many years ago and
• 06:49 built a wall, against all odds.
• 06:52 And there were all kinds of obstacles,
• 06:53 but he got to the task.
• 06:55 It's right behind me.
• 06:57 Isn't that fascinating?
• 06:59 It's one of the beauties of biblical archeology.
• 07:01 It was a field that was under-developed 'til 150 or so
• 07:05 years ago, and now you can come to the land and dig it all up.
• 07:09 Not just in Israel, but Greece and Turkey and elsewhere, and
• 07:13 there are different ways that it corroborates the Bible story.
• 07:17 Well, in this series, in particular, I'm interested, as
• 07:19 you know, in talking about miracles and I like the Nehemiah
• 07:24 text in part because there's an example of getting on board with
• 07:29 the miracle that God is doing.
• 07:31 Nechemia, in his day, going back to the beginning of his book,
• 07:35 was chagrined because God had providentially afforded an
• 07:38 opportunity for Judeans to return to the ancestral
• 07:42 homeland, but he was chagrined because things were in a
• 07:45 deplorable state.
• 07:47 There was a miracle, but it wasn't being developed.
• 07:49 He came back and got to developing it, and foremost of
• 07:53 his tasks, at least initially, was constructing this wall
• 07:56 behind me.
• 07:58 Nehemiah's exemplary for a variety of reasons, one of which
• 08:01 is his servant leadership.
• 08:03 This is noted in chapter 2, by the way, in verse 17 when he
• 08:10 gives voice to the fact at the outset: "Things are really in a
• 08:13 bad situation.
• 08:15 Don't you see it?"
• 08:16 And indeed, they did.
• 08:18 And he says, "[speaking in Hebrew]
• 08:19 Come!
• 08:21 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 08:22 Come, build the wall."
• 08:26 And there was a miracle that God had afforded the opportunity for
• 08:29 them to return to the ancestral homeland, but there was still
• 08:33 work to be done once they got there.
• 08:38 I think that's where people trip up in part.
• 08:40 Even those of us that believe in miracles, sometimes neglect the
• 08:43 fact of our own participation in what God, in fact, is doing.
• 08:49 The verse begins in verse 17, he says, "Come on, you see the bad
• 08:55 situation we are in."
• 08:58 Well, from their vantage point, you know, the city was in ruins
• 09:02 and there were enemies round about, you know, that something
• 09:04 needed to be done.
• 09:06 And the problem was, is that even those who'd returned under
• 09:09 Zerubbabel and Ezra, the initial returnees, they kind of
• 09:15 neglected the things of the Lord and got busy building
• 09:17 up their own business.
• 09:19 The capital city was in ruins still,
• 09:22 certainly the wall around it.
• 09:24 There was no protection.
• 09:25 And he says, "Look, c'mon, you see the bad situation we're in,"
• 09:29 and there's that leadership, "C'mon, let's build."
• 09:33 It's one of the things, by the way, I like about Peter.
• 09:35 I like Peter because he's, "C'mon, guys."
• 09:38 He's, "Let's go." It takes that, you know.
• 09:42 C'mon, bringing someone to church, you know, someone's in a
• 09:45 bad way, they need to turn around in their life, it's not
• 09:49 just telling them, "You need to turn around in your life,"
• 09:52 it's, "C'mon, come with me. Come."
• 09:54 Lead 'em to a place of prayer or just lead 'em to prayer.
• 09:58 I mean, don't be ashamed to do that.
• 10:00 He says, "Come, let's do this," and he finishes, "So that we may
• 10:04 no longer be a disgrace."
• 10:09 Again, people can find themselves in abysmal
• 10:12 circumstances, but God works through
• 10:15 that entrepreneurial spirit.
• 10:17 He's watching over his word to perform it, and he's working
• 10:22 through people in the performance.
• 10:25 I think, by the way, when I look at those wall blocks behind me,
• 10:30 I'm glad I wasn't around to build 'em back then.
• 10:32 It's tough work, arduous work.
• 10:35 It's hot out now, just sitting in the sun, telling the story,
• 10:38 never mind making the story behind me that was made
• 10:41 thousands of years ago.
• 10:43 But sometimes, it takes that rolling up the sleeves and get
• 10:45 to work, and take this as a little chiding, if you need it.
• 10:49 I want you to know that God blesses but he's more prone to
• 10:54 work with people that are active in the enterprise as opposed
• 10:58 that are passive.
• 11:00 To underscore the point, it's not just a dogged determination
• 11:03 and human enterprise.
• 11:05 We're told in verse 18 of chapter 2, he says in the
• 11:08 Hebrew, "[speaking in Hebrew]
• 11:11 And I told them," that is Nehemiah speaking,
• 11:13 "[speaking in Hebrew]
• 11:16 that the hand of my God [speaking in Hebrew]
• 11:19 which was for good [speaking in Hebrew]
• 11:22 was upon me."
• 11:24 He gives voice to the fact it's the hand of the Lord that was
• 11:30 upon him.
• 11:32 Now that's what's called an anthropomorphism, that is to say
• 11:33 anthro, man, morphe, God, you know, the hand of God is a
• 11:38 poetic figure of speech.
• 11:40 But that's what we want.
• 11:42 A miracle comes from that.
• 11:45 We're told in the Bible that the Lord reached out
• 11:48 and touched them.
• 11:50 There's a miracle touch.
• 11:52 The hand of God involved in the enterprise.
• 11:56 And by the way, the hand of God isn't just involved in stones
• 11:59 and sticks and bricks and construction.
• 12:02 Even more than all that, he's interested in building and
• 12:05 rebuilding human lives.
• 12:12 And I want you to know whoever you are, wherever you are,
• 12:14 there's nothing that can't get turned around when the hand of
• 12:18 the Lord is upon.
• 12:21 Bear with this brief word from Nechemia, Nehemiah, who said,
• 12:24 "Come, let's go.
• 12:27 God's here."
• 12:28 I hope this serves as a little stirring if you need it.
• 12:30 I want you to know there is great hope for the future and
• 12:34 the reason why that is because God does miracles even today.
• 12:40 ♪♪♪
• 12:50 David: I'm inspired by hearing miracles that happen in
• 12:53 our lifetime, but miracles have been happening for a very long
• 12:57 time, from the beginning of the Bible.
• 13:00 Kirsten: Mm-hm.
• 13:02 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Indeed, yes, and here, Nechemia, you
• 13:04 know, we're toward the end of it, I mean, certainly the
• 13:06 Bible's a miracle story in Genesis and here, as well,
• 13:10 they're in the land but they're really discouraged because
• 13:13 circumstances are abysmal and they're really looking for
• 13:16 heaven's help for life's unfortunate circumstances, and
• 13:20 they reach up to God and they get it, but they gotta reach
• 13:23 into themselves and get up to go after it as well.
• 13:25 That's part of the story.
• 13:27 Kirsten: I applaud you 'cause that spoke
• 13:29 to me in your teaching.
• 13:31 You were talking about Nehemiah's participation and if
• 13:34 I can just take one little second, and you know my little
• 13:37 journey, I had foot surgery this past summer, and then a month
• 13:40 ago I broke my big toe on the foot surgery foot, but through
• 13:44 that I discovered that I have high--I'll talk to you,
• 13:48 high blood pressure.
• 13:49 That's something that I didn't know.
• 13:51 And Jeff was teaching about we have to do our part
• 13:56 in God's miracle.
• 13:58 So I learned that I have high blood pressure.
• 14:00 I could pray that "God, take my blood pressure away,"
• 14:03 but I need to do my part.
• 14:05 I need to eat right, I need to do heart healthy activities, and
• 14:09 so, interesting, how we try to make the Bible stories
• 14:13 relate to us.
• 14:14 I relate to that part. We need--I need to do my part.
• 14:17 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah, and we do wanna relate
• 14:18 to the Scripture.
• 14:20 That's how we find healing and hope and help in it, and in the
• 14:22 context in Nehemiah's day, people were living in grief and
• 14:27 shame, you know, they were really downcast because of their
• 14:31 abysmal circumstances, and sometimes, less than hoped for
• 14:35 circumstances prompts us to dig a little deeper, to look up to
• 14:39 the Lord a little longer, and we find new things, new life forms
• 14:44 come out of the decay and the despair.
• 14:46 That's what happened here.
• 14:48 David: Not always an instant miracle, that we have to really
• 14:51 trust the Lord and pray about his miracles for us.
• 14:55 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: That's right, you know, and I think
• 14:57 that, I mean, there's different kinds of miracles in the Bible.
• 15:00 They're done different ways, and not all of it is instant.
• 15:03 It can be incremental.
• 15:05 You know, I think of the time in Caesarea Philippi just before
• 15:10 Peter first acknowledges that Jesus is the Messiah, there's a
• 15:13 miracle there with vision, where the Lord does a vision miracle
• 15:18 but they see fuzzily.
• 15:20 He said--the man says, "What do you see?"
• 15:21 "Well, they look like trees walking."
• 15:23 And then he does another, and then he sees clearly.
• 15:26 In other words, it's incremental.
• 15:28 That's what's happening here in the Nehemiah story.
• 15:31 This thing is pacing out, and individuals are beckoned to
• 15:34 reach within and participate in the restoration.
• 15:37 Kirsten: And I think there's something in us.
• 15:39 There is a satisfaction, should I say, of doing what we can.
• 15:44 I mean, God could have built Nehemiah's wall.
• 15:47 He could have, bam, and the wall's up, but our participation
• 15:50 in that, with God's help, that combo, there's something about
• 15:54 it and it gives us strength.
• 15:56 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: You're right, and--but I get it,
• 15:57 you know.
• 15:59 People turn to the Lord for problems because they've been
• 16:00 wrestling with it and haven't found a solution.
• 16:02 They just want out, you know?
• 16:04 And so the story of well, you have to walk this out, is not
• 16:10 what people--what we wanna hear by nature.
• 16:12 But God watches over his word to perform it, and he has his way
• 16:16 of using trials to build us into what he wants us to be.
• 16:21 David: I wonder how many times we've given up, right
• 16:23 before that miracle takes place.
• 16:25 Have you ever experienced that in your life?
• 16:27 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: There's a story about a swimmer in the fog
• 16:29 who gave up and they were right up against the finish line and
• 16:31 didn't realize it, and that's what I think of when I hear a
• 16:35 story like that.
• 16:36 Kirsten: But I love your teaching on Nehemiah's wall that
• 16:38 God can do instantaneous miracles and we have
• 16:41 that in our program.
• 16:43 We're gonna be talking about that in our series.
• 16:44 But today, we had to do our part.
• 16:47 Like, I'm doing my part with high blood pressure.
• 16:49 No sugar for a month. I'm still alive.
• 16:52 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: In Nehemiah's world, people are
• 16:53 gonna mock: "You people, what do you think you're doing?
• 16:55 This is impossible. This is ridiculous.
• 16:57 This is stupid." No, it's not.
• 16:58 God is on the throne.
• 16:59 David: That's right. We'll be right back.
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• 18:03 David: And now, Dr. Seif interviews the owner
• 18:05 of Sar-El Tours.
• 18:07 His name is Samuel Smadja.
• 18:09 Let's go there now.
• 18:12 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Sam Smadja, it is such an honor to be with
• 18:14 you personally, and I mean that sincerely.
• 18:17 Sam Smadja: Thank you, Jeffrey.
• 18:19 Thank you.
• 18:20 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Second generation Messianic Jew, born
• 18:22 and raised in Israel, and you're involved in a lot of things in
• 18:26 Israel, correct?
• 18:28 I'd like you to speak to ways that you perceive God to have
• 18:32 been involved with you as you've made your journey through life
• 18:36 or anything that smacks of miracle that you
• 18:39 think's important.
• 18:41 Sam: First of all, thank you for having me on your show.
• 18:44 When we talk about miracles in Israel, so, the subject in
• 18:47 Israel of miracle is not if you believe in miracles or if you
• 18:51 don't believe in miracles.
• 18:52 The question is can you live without miracles?
• 18:57 If you live in the Middle East, and if you see what is going on
• 19:01 in Israel, but if you believe that there is a God, you have to
• 19:04 believe in miracles because if you don't believe in miracles,
• 19:09 you-- wrong because you cannot survive in this country.
• 19:13 We, as Israel, we cannot survive without a miracle of God.
• 19:17 I believe that the whole return of the Jewish people
• 19:18 is a miracle.
• 19:20 I believe sustaining 70-something years here in the
• 19:23 lands, soon 75 years in the land, is a miracle.
• 19:27 When you walk on the streets of Israel, and you look around and
• 19:32 you see where the Israeli society is, where Israeli
• 19:34 economy is, where is the Israeli technology,
• 19:38 everything about Israel is a miracle.
• 19:42 And you know, I grew up in a Messianic family.
• 19:44 Both my parents came from Tunisia, North Africa.
• 19:47 They started the Messianic movement in this country with
• 19:52 some other brothers and sister.
• 19:56 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: So original pioneers.
• 19:58 Sam: Original pioneers.
• 20:00 Both my parents, we're talking about the--at the end of the
• 20:02 '50s, 1956, they came here.
• 20:05 My father was a real pioneer and for those who know what pioneer
• 20:08 means, pioneer is somebody that, when there is a wall and there
• 20:12 is a door, he chooses to go headfirst through the wall, even
• 20:16 if there is a door, because he believes he needs to get to the
• 20:19 other side.
• 20:20 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah, now there's a movement of Messianic
• 20:21 Jews in Israel.
• 20:23 Back in his day, you could count 'em on your hands.
• 20:25 Sam: Yeah, when my parents came, there were maybe 20 Jewish
• 20:28 believers in this whole country.
• 20:31 So, growing up in this environment and seeing where the
• 20:34 movement is today, I can tell you that's another miracle.
• 20:39 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: So you've discussed the emergence of the
• 20:41 modern nation state and pivoted to the emergence of Messianic
• 20:45 Jewish experience in the state.
• 20:48 Miracles both in their own right, to be sure.
• 20:50 What about your own life?
• 20:51 What resonates with you, when you personally think of miracle?
• 20:54 Sam: When I look upon my life, it's a story of miracle
• 20:58 combined with the grace of God.
• 21:01 As I said, I grew up in this house.
• 21:03 I grew up dyslexic. I could hardly spell my name.
• 21:08 My father forced me to stay in school just for the sake
• 21:11 of staying in school.
• 21:14 I graduated but they put me in a class of girls, 'cause I was not
• 21:17 good in anything, of tourism.
• 21:21 But I flunk.
• 21:23 So I went to look for a job as a tour operator.
• 21:25 Everywhere I went, they asked me, "Can you write in English?"
• 21:28 I said, "No."
• 21:29 I went through all the agencies in Israel--in Jerusalem, sorry,
• 21:33 'til I got to a very small, tiny agency, a three-people agency.
• 21:39 And I went to the guy and I say, "I came for to work for a job--I
• 21:43 came to look for a job, but I'll work for you for free.
• 21:47 And if I'll make money, we'll share the profit."
• 21:49 He looked at me and says, "Are you sure?
• 21:52 'Cause there's no free meals in Israel.
• 21:55 What do you mean, you'll work for me for free?"
• 21:57 So I work for this guy for free for 2 years.
• 22:00 After 7 years, my department became bigger than his office.
• 22:05 So that was a miracle.
• 22:08 It's like, I cannot tell you, I didn't have any business plan.
• 22:12 I didn't know what I was doing, but everything
• 22:14 I touched turn into gold.
• 22:18 It's really the favor of God. It's, really, it's a miracle.
• 22:23 After being with the gentleman for 7 years, he
• 22:26 came to me and he says, "I think it's time for you to open
• 22:28 your own company."
• 22:30 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: You're a guy that couldn't put a sentence
• 22:32 together, couldn't get a job.
• 22:34 You're one of the major tour operators,
• 22:37 Sar-El Tours, in Israel.
• 22:40 Beyond that, in construction you're putting a luxury
• 22:44 five-star hotel up right by where the Mount of Beatitudes
• 22:48 is, beyond, you've done construction for congregations,
• 22:53 you pastor a congregation.
• 22:55 People can see you weekly on TBN.
• 22:58 What's the name of your program?
• 23:00 Sam: "Insights: Israel and the Middle East."
• 23:02 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: "Insights: Israel and the Middle East."
• 23:04 You're gone from not being able to read communication, to being
• 23:06 a major communicator.
• 23:08 You went from not being able to get a job in a tour company, to
• 23:11 being the president of the biggest one.
• 23:14 And other things on top.
• 23:16 Sam: That's why I believe in miracle.
• 23:17 For me, I don't believe in miracle.
• 23:19 I wanna correct it. I live the miracle.
• 23:22 I don't wanna leave my house without a miracle.
• 23:25 That's how much I believe in miracles.
• 23:27 And I wanna encourage our viewers, those that watch us,
• 23:29 those that struggle, those that are feeling that they're alone,
• 23:34 that they are in this valley or in this tunnel, there is a light
• 23:37 at the end of the tunnel.
• 23:40 God put you, God called you, he will carry you through.
• 23:45 And we have to believe, because we believe in a living God that
• 23:49 makes miracles every day.
• 23:52 Don't leave your house without a miracle.
• 23:53 Expect him to receive a miracle.
• 23:55 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: You know, they say a picture is worth
• 23:57 a thousand words.
• 23:58 And a turned around life is worth a thousand sermons on
• 24:01 God's potential for turning round a life.
• 24:05 And it's such a wonderful story.
• 24:07 Thank you for taking the time to come and share it
• 24:09 with me and the world.
• 24:10 Sam: Thank you.
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• 24:15 David: We've made a lot of friends since we've
• 24:17 been going to Israel.
• 24:18 Dr. Seif, I believe Sam Smadja, is that how you say it?
• 24:22 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Smadja, yeah, Shmuel or Shmule, Shmuli,
• 24:24 as he's called, he comes from a pioneering family.
• 24:27 His father was one of the first, you know, he's second generation
• 24:31 Messianic Jew in Israel.
• 24:33 Kirsten: And that is such an honor.
• 24:35 You've been going to Israel for years and meeting people there.
• 24:38 We wanna give you the opportunity to come with us and
• 24:42 meet some of these people that you're seeing on our program.
• 24:45 We go there, we get in the land.
• 24:48 Go to our website, levitt.com, for more information
• 24:50 about our tours.
• 24:52 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes, and if you can't go there,
• 24:54 we'll bring it to you.
• 24:56 Please help us do it.
• 24:59 We go coast to coast, actually, around the world on Christian
• 25:02 television and it's expensive.
• 25:05 Lord loves a cheerful giver.
• 25:06 Please--I know you love the Lord, or you wouldn't be
• 25:08 watching Christian television.
• 25:10 I know you love the Jews or you wouldn't be watching us.
• 25:12 Please get behind and help.
• 25:13 I believe the Lord will bless you in so doing.
• 25:16 Kirsten: And it's a miracle that we have been on air for
• 25:19 about 40 years.
• 25:20 That's incredible.
• 25:22 What a gift that people have made this possible, as we're in
• 25:24 this series of miracles.
• 25:26 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: It's a good point.
• 25:27 David: So much more in this series, "The God of Miracles."
• 25:30 It's time to go, right now.
• 25:31 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes, it is.
• 25:33 Until next week, Shaalu shalom Yerushalayim.
• 25:36 David: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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• 25:59 ♪ Brethren, will you come and see the Holy Land ♪
• 26:04 ♪ Does it make our heart leap up with joy ♪
• 26:09 ♪ Sing with us a hymn unto ♪
• 26:14 ♪ the King of Israel ♪
• 26:24 ♪ Brothers, we are needing your-- ♪
• 26:31 ♪ Sisters, we are needing your love ♪
• 26:38 ♪ Israel by divine right God ♪
• 26:44 ♪ is calling us home Israel ♪
• 26:55 ♪ by divine right ♪
• 26:59 ♪ Our God is calling us home ♪♪
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