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• 00:01 David Hart: Today we continue our series "The God of Miracles," with the biggest one of all. You think you know
• 00:07 which one it is? Find out next on "Our Jewish Roots" with Bible teaching
• 00:10 from Israel with Dr. Jeffrey Seif.
• 00:13 ♪♪♪
• 00:18 male announcer: To believe in the Bible
• 00:19 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, land and seas were
• 00:31 created, graves opened, water turned to wine, the sick and
• 00:37 lame healed, 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: We're so glad you've joined us today.
• 00:58 I am David Hart.
• 00:59 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 01:01 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Jeffrey Seif.
• 01:02 David: Well, there's so many places that we take
• 01:03 you both on tours and on our programs.
• 01:06 I've gotta say that today's program was
• 01:08 life-changing for me, Dr. Seif.
• 01:10 Where you stood and taught at Bethlehem
• 01:13 and Shepherds' Field-- life-changing for us, yes?
• 01:16 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Why?
• 01:18 David: I mean, we sing about it
• 01:19 at Christmastime where Yeshua was born.
• 01:22 Come on, that's probably--
• 01:23 Kirsten: And stand there, yeah.
• 01:24 David: The biggest miracle of all, wouldn't you say?
• 01:26 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes, I would.
• 01:27 I just wanted to hear what it was that tapped
• 01:30 into your heart, and, certainly, you know,
• 01:32 people debate about when Jesus was born.
• 01:34 The Bible says he was born, and to take some time to reconstruct
• 01:38 that and invite people to revisit the story is a good
• 01:41 thing, but to your point, to go to Israel and do it, hey, it
• 01:45 doesn't get any better than that.
• 01:46 Kirsten: Right, that had never happened before.
• 01:48 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah.
• 01:49 Kirsten: And, I mean, many miracles in the Bible,
• 01:51 obviously, it never happened, but this was the big one, the
• 01:54 Messiah being born of a virgin, and that's what
• 01:57 you're teaching on in this next segment.
• 01:59 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes, and his arrival, the
• 02:01 implications for humankind are profound.
• 02:05 His birth is a miracle, and what he can
• 02:07 do in our lives is miraculous.
• 02:10 David: Right now, we take you to that wonderful spot,
• 02:12 Bethlehem, for Dr. Seif's teaching.
• 02:15 Let's go there now.
• 02:16 ♪♪♪
• 02:25 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: For good reasons, this is one of the most
• 02:28 famous pilgrim spots in the world.
• 02:32 For over a millennia and a half, people have been visiting here,
• 02:37 and you're gonna see people in the background, no doubt, as
• 02:40 they are making their way into the church that marks the spot
• 02:45 inside where Jesus Christ was born and, with that,
• 02:51 arguably, the greatest miracle in history.
• 02:56 It's hard to say "greatest," of course.
• 02:57 His resurrection from the dead is quite significant in
• 03:01 and of itself, but certainly, his birth, and
• 03:04 with his birth came hope for the world.
• 03:08 The story is told here in the Matthean gospel.
• 03:11 Actually, I'll read it from the English, but Matthew, of all the
• 03:14 gospels, was known to have had a Semitic original.
• 03:19 Starts off, "[speaking in Hebrew]."
• 03:23 Translates, "The book of the genealogy of Jesus, the Christ,
• 03:27 the Messiah, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham."
• 03:31 Inarguably, he was born here in Bethlehem.
• 03:37 The story is told here in the Matthean
• 03:41 gospel, chapter 2, verse 1.
• 03:43 We're told "Jesus was born in Bethlehem of
• 03:48 Judea," and it was a miracle birth.
• 03:51 The author here, in verse 6, goes on to quote a text in Micah
• 03:55 that predicted that the Savior would come from Bethlehem.
• 04:00 We're told that individuals alighted upon that.
• 04:03 A few, in particular, make their way to Bethlehem bearing
• 04:07 gifts, gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
• 04:10 It never says there were three wise men.
• 04:13 It just says wise men came.
• 04:14 The reason why we say three is because there
• 04:16 are three commodities that are noted.
• 04:19 These are valuables, gold, of course, frankincense,
• 04:22 and myrrh, very small, very valuable.
• 04:25 These commodities were presented to Jesus, and the family would
• 04:28 need the money, by the way, because in short order,
• 04:31 a decree from the king, Herod, who's not
• 04:34 kindly disposed is going to beckon them.
• 04:37 An angel will beckon them to take leave, to go to Egypt, and,
• 04:40 of course, they'll be supported, among other things,
• 04:43 by the revenue associated with that.
• 04:46 It's a wonderful story, and it's a story about hope
• 04:50 that made its way into the world through the person
• 04:53 of Israel's Messiah who came into the world.
• 04:56 He came into the world miraculously,
• 04:59 and he came into the world here.
• 05:04 People frequent the site, to visit the miracle.
• 05:06 I wish they remembered miracle when they left it because the
• 05:09 same God who brought a miracle with bringing Jesus into the
• 05:13 world similarly does miracles with his being in the world.
• 05:18 Certainly, it's noted in biblical literature.
• 05:20 You can't be a believer in the Bible without just stumbling
• 05:24 into miracles every time you turn the page.
• 05:26 I mean, that's true in the Old Testament.
• 05:27 It's very manifest in the new as well.
• 05:30 And it's not just that miracles belong in the pages.
• 05:32 They belong through the ages, and miracle things have been
• 05:36 happening ever since Jesus made his way out of his mother's womb
• 05:41 and as he made his way into the hearts of people, like me and
• 05:45 you, and I hope he's done that for you, by the way,
• 05:48 because miracles can happen for you.
• 05:51 If you look at the story of a virgin
• 05:53 birth, who can explain it, really?
• 05:55 It defies the laws of nature, but that's what God does.
• 05:59 A miracle is defined as a suspension of a law of nature,
• 06:02 and God does that because he's greater than nature, that God is
• 06:05 greater than nature, is greater than your circumstances.
• 06:08 He's greater than your problems, and he brings solutions to those
• 06:12 problems, and he brought the solution to the world's problems
• 06:15 here at a place called Bethlehem.
• 06:19 ♪♪♪
• 06:29 ♪♪♪
• 06:32 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Harking back to the Matthew text,
• 06:34 therein, he's on record citing Micah, who had
• 06:38 predicted, in the 5th chapter, that the Messiah
• 06:41 would be a shepherd for all people.
• 06:44 It's interesting, by the way, that the first of the people to
• 06:48 acknowledge him were shepherds, and I'm coming to
• 06:51 you from a place right now where those shepherds
• 06:54 were located, the Shepherds' Fields.
• 06:57 Here we are in Bethlehem, Israel.
• 07:00 Well, here I am, but I'm taking you there.
• 07:03 The hills behind me don't look like they support sheep,
• 07:05 but it's rather warm right now.
• 07:07 The grass comes later, and the grazing follows in short order,
• 07:10 but here we are to graze on the biblical text.
• 07:13 In Luke chapter 2, the author gives voice to the fact there
• 07:16 were shepherds living out on the fields.
• 07:19 The fact that they were out in the fields at the
• 07:21 time argues against a December Christmas, by
• 07:26 the way, but that's an aside here.
• 07:28 We're told in verse 9, "Suddenly an angel
• 07:31 of the Lord stood before them."
• 07:34 And here again, we're looking at a miraculous, not just the
• 07:36 miraculous birth of Jesus, but there's miraculous associated
• 07:41 with it, angelic visitation with words to speak
• 07:45 about things to come, prophetic words.
• 07:48 It's fascinating.
• 07:49 And the word that's fascinating, among other
• 07:51 things, he says of the Messiah, in verse 10, that
• 07:55 he will bring great joy to all people.
• 08:01 There's a kind of universalism in the message.
• 08:03 It's not just to Jewish people.
• 08:05 Jewish people are waiting for a Messiah.
• 08:08 That didn't exist beyond a Hebrew culture, but God exists
• 08:13 beyond Jewish culture and Hebrew culture, beyond all things, and
• 08:17 his purpose was for the restoration of all things.
• 08:21 And so, you know, there's a starburst of energy.
• 08:24 There's appearances in the heaven.
• 08:26 In verse 14, you have the angelic choir that's mentioned
• 08:31 just before, saying, "Glory to God in the highest,
• 08:35 and on earth shalom to men of good will."
• 08:38 Now, note, "to men on earth, shalom, peace," in other words,
• 08:44 not just men of Judea, not just men of Bethlehem.
• 08:48 That's all peoples, all nations, all tongues, all tribes.
• 08:53 In fact, the point there is even noted elsewhere as we make our
• 08:59 way through the text in the second chapter.
• 09:02 We're pivoting from the shepherds now, and this fellow,
• 09:06 Simeon, who has a prophetic unction--
• 09:09 we can speak about spiritual gifts.
• 09:11 We can talk about proddings of God, to give voice
• 09:15 to the things of God, and there he is.
• 09:17 We're told in verse 25 that "the Ruach ha-Kodesh
• 09:23 was upon him," the Holy Spirit.
• 09:25 "And it was revealed to him," it says, "by the Ruach ha-Kodesh
• 09:28 that he would see the Anointed One," the Mashiach.
• 09:32 And we're told that he gives a prophetic word in verse 32
• 09:37 that this Messiah of the Jews wasn't just for the Jews.
• 09:42 He's for you, as I mentioned that, because he's described
• 09:45 with a starburst of prophecy, and, again, to speak of
• 09:49 prophecy, we're speaking of miracle.
• 09:52 We're speaking of supernatural.
• 09:54 And it says of him that he's gonna be
• 09:56 "'A light for revelation to the nations' and
• 10:00 the glory of Your people Israel."
• 10:04 You see that "first in Israel" reminds me of the Acts text
• 10:08 beginning in Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria
• 10:12 and going out throughout the world.
• 10:15 The plan all along was that to use the language of the text, "A
• 10:20 light for revelation to the nations, to the people."
• 10:25 And I sure hope that light has shined on you.
• 10:30 There was a starburst of light in the heavens, some shepherds
• 10:34 saw it here some 2,000 years ago, and
• 10:38 this really is an "X marks the spot."
• 10:40 We're in Bethlehem.
• 10:42 We're by the shepherds' fields here.
• 10:45 I hope that same light that appeared to them,
• 10:47 in some sense, has also appeared to you.
• 10:51 ♪♪♪
• 11:00 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: You ever heard of the Holiday Inn?
• 11:03 Well, this is the Holy Day Inn, heh-heh.
• 11:06 It's the hotel where the shepherds stayed.
• 11:09 "What shepherds are you talking about, Jeffrey?"
• 11:11 I'm coming to you from Bethlehem, Israel.
• 11:13 What other shepherds would I be talking about?
• 11:16 The shepherds who had sheep, and they had a marvelous visitation.
• 11:24 I mentioned that a moment ago in the previous segment.
• 11:27 What I wanna do here is come from a cave, shepherds' cave,
• 11:33 that, for obvious reasons, was transformed into a chapel.
• 11:37 People to visit the site wanna come and have some
• 11:41 devotional reflection, and that's what I
• 11:44 wanna do in this segment, by the way.
• 11:46 Oftentimes, the way that I minister is I will speak about
• 11:52 the history and the background and all of that,
• 11:55 but if you'll permit for three minutes, I wanna be
• 11:57 a bit more pastoral than historical.
• 12:01 Now, there's novelty associated with taking you vis-a-vis the
• 12:05 miracle that is television to Holy Land sites, but I wanna
• 12:09 take you to a text in the scripture I've mentioned
• 12:11 earlier, but I wanna unpack it because there's something in
• 12:14 here that is in very high demand but in very short supply, and
• 12:20 that is the angelic choir that's noted in the Lukan text
• 12:27 in announcing Jesus says, "Glory to God in the highest, and on
• 12:33 earth peace to men of good will."
• 12:39 Now, peace that comes to men of good will.
• 12:44 To those that are not of good will, whatever their pangs of
• 12:46 conscience are, they have it coming.
• 12:48 But I wanna talk to you about peace.
• 12:51 It's that which is in very high demand and very short supply.
• 12:55 Jesus came to bring peace.
• 12:59 The reason why we bring you to these Holy Land sites is in the
• 13:07 hopes of bringing the hero of the site into your living room,
• 13:11 not just your living room but into your own heart that lives
• 13:15 in that room that you call a living room.
• 13:18 Lot of people live in living rooms, but
• 13:20 they're dying in their living rooms.
• 13:21 Why is that? Because they don't have peace.
• 13:26 In the gospel of John, Yeshua said, "Shalom."
• 13:29 He said, "Peace I give unto you."
• 13:33 And I hope that, as a result of your exploring the supernatural
• 13:37 with us, miracle with us as we're looking
• 13:40 at it in the biblical text in this series,
• 13:43 I want you to know there's miracles.
• 13:46 I want you to know there's biblical
• 13:48 medicine for life's assorted hurts.
• 13:51 I want you to know there's help from heaven,
• 13:54 and that's the principal point in this program on miracles.
• 13:59 ♪♪♪
• 14:06 Kirsten: The prophesied yet very unexpected Prince of Peace
• 14:11 was born, and we say, peace, but that's shalom in Hebrew.
• 14:16 It's more than just peace, isn't it?
• 14:17 That's a deep word that we really don't have in English.
• 14:21 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, shalom for Jews is hello
• 14:23 and goodbye, but the word peace is
• 14:26 associated with the Word, and, you know, peace
• 14:29 is in such high demand and short supply.
• 14:32 Isn't it great the Lord came to give peace?
• 14:34 People need peace.
• 14:35 They need a piece of peace in their life.
• 14:37 Kirsten: That's good. It's true.
• 14:39 We need peace, and I love how you were in the Shepherds'
• 14:43 Field, and we go there on tour every time that we go.
• 14:47 It's such a beautiful, peaceful spot in the middle of a city.
• 14:51 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes.
• 14:52 Kirsten: And that, I mean, it was a busy
• 14:53 city even when he was born.
• 14:55 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: And the city Bethlehem is in the
• 14:57 middle of an area that really needs peace.
• 14:59 Kirsten: Mm-hmm.
• 15:00 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: You know, it's, like I say,
• 15:02 it's in such short supply.
• 15:05 You know, it's in such high demand,
• 15:06 but the Lord delivers it.
• 15:07 That's why he came.
• 15:09 Kirsten: And-- David: But it's--
• 15:10 Kirsten: Go ahead, yeah.
• 15:11 David: I was just gonna say, it's also preserved right there,
• 15:13 so when you--when we go there and sing these songs about our
• 15:15 Prince of Peace, it's like we were there 2,000 years ago.
• 15:18 I just picture that miracle time when God spoke.
• 15:22 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: You know, and people wanna go to Israel
• 15:24 today, but they're afraid to go there.
• 15:26 They're afraid they're gonna be upended, and in
• 15:28 particular to go to Bethlehem because it's
• 15:30 part of the Palestinian Authority there.
• 15:33 People are afraid that "If I go, I'm gonna get hurt."
• 15:36 But actually, everyone there, the Palestinian Authority and
• 15:39 the Israeli authorities, everybody wants to keep it safe
• 15:42 for pilgrims to go to the Holy Land in general and Bethlehem
• 15:46 in particular, because so much of the economy
• 15:49 there is based on tourist traffic.
• 15:51 It's a great place to visit.
• 15:52 Kirsten: It is, and, like, you just said, there's something
• 15:56 special about that Shepherds' Field where you were, and we get
• 16:00 to go in there as a group when we bring tours, and we sing
• 16:04 "Silent Night," and you like to sing "Angels--"
• 16:07 or, no, "Go Tell It On the Mountain."
• 16:08 David: Yes.
• 16:10 Kirsten: But tell the world about this peace, and that's
• 16:12 what we're trying to do through our program.
• 16:14 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes, sometimes, within the Messianic
• 16:16 Jewish world, some people that love things
• 16:19 Jewish are down on things Christmas.
• 16:23 But Messianic Jews don't disparage Christmas on the
• 16:25 whole, while there's some question about December 25, and
• 16:29 I'm not altogether convinced, nevertheless, just to celebrate
• 16:34 that his arrival onto the stage of the human drama,
• 16:37 it's beautiful, and we support it.
• 16:40 Kirsten: One of the most amazing miracles
• 16:42 in the Bible, and thank you for teaching us
• 16:44 from a beautiful spot as well.
• 16:46 David: More to come about our Prince of Peace.
• 16:48 We'll be right back.
• 16:51 David: Our resource this week, the series
• 16:53 "The God of Miracles," on DVD.
• 16:55 In this nine-part series, we show our miraculous God at work,
• 16:59 from Genesis to Revelation, with teaching from
• 17:02 the Holy Land by Dr. Jeffrey Seif.
• 17:05 We also hear testimonials from those who have experienced the
• 17:08 Lord's supernatural hand in their own lives.
• 17:11 Contact us and ask for "The God of Miracles" series on DVD.
• 17:16 Remember to connect with us on social media
• 17:19 for so much extra content.
• 17:21 Find us at Our Jewish Roots.
• 17:24 David: We do hope that you're receiving the "Levitt Letter."
• 17:27 It's full of insightful information.
• 17:29 It's free, and I've just gotta say one thing to that.
• 17:33 I'm kind of proud of Kirsten over here.
• 17:34 She's part of writing monthly for the "Levitt Letter."
• 17:38 It's great.
• 17:39 Kirsten: Thank you.
• 17:41 I enjoy it, part of my job, should I say, under
• 17:44 the umbrella of our whole ministry.
• 17:46 Also, I get to edit every periodical monthly, and it's an
• 17:50 honor to bring you the "Levitt Letter" and the personal letter.
• 17:54 It's also an honor to hear stories of what people have
• 17:58 walked through, and our own Caleb Colson from the "Bearded
• 18:03 Bible Brothers" had the opportunity to chat with a woman
• 18:07 that has walked through infertility.
• 18:10 Here's her story now.
• 18:13 Caleb Colson: Hello, Brittni, long time no see.
• 18:15 Brittni Greenberg: Yeah, happy to be back.
• 18:16 Caleb: You are no stranger to the ministry,
• 18:19 Zola Levitt Ministries.
• 18:20 You were around--was it, like, a decade ago?
• 18:23 Brittni: Yeah.
• 18:24 Caleb: How were you involved with us?
• 18:25 Brittni: I was a social media marketer for a few years.
• 18:27 Caleb: That's right, and you helped us
• 18:29 get started on social media.
• 18:30 Brittni: I did.
• 18:32 So I took over the Facebook page and all our social media when
• 18:34 they had about 500 likes, and in the span of 2 years,
• 18:39 we grew it to over 100,000 likes.
• 18:41 So it was probably the most fun I
• 18:44 ever had on social media, honestly.
• 18:46 Caleb: You got paid for having fun.
• 18:47 Brittni: I did, I did.
• 18:48 Caleb: Jobs shouldn't be like that, I hear.
• 18:50 Brittni: Yeah.
• 18:51 Caleb: Amazing--you have an amazing testimony
• 18:52 that you're here to tell me today.
• 18:54 Brittni: Yeah.
• 18:55 Caleb: And I just wanna jump into it because doctors give bad
• 18:58 reports all the time, but God's report supersedes
• 19:01 the bad reports and the doctors.
• 19:02 Yes. What happened?
• 19:04 Brittni: By the time I was 12 years old, I had went to the
• 19:07 doctor, and they told me that I have this condition that's
• 19:11 pretty--it's pretty common in women but to never expect to
• 19:15 have children, and every doctor I've seen after
• 19:18 that up until, you know, in my late 20s,
• 19:22 they all told me never expect to have children.
• 19:25 Make other plans.
• 19:26 Caleb: You don't have to tell me what the condition is.
• 19:27 Do you want to--just for the women.
• 19:29 Brittni: It's called PCOS, polycystic ovarian syndrome.
• 19:31 Caleb: Okay, my wife probably knows what it is.
• 19:32 She's a nurse.
• 19:33 She works with high-risk pregnancies and stuff like that,
• 19:36 but, yeah, never tell a woman she can't do
• 19:38 something or she can't have something.
• 19:39 That's tough.
• 19:41 Brittni: Yeah, yeah, that was really tough.
• 19:42 Caleb: And that either breaks your heart or makes
• 19:43 you more determined to get what you want.
• 19:45 Brittni: Absolutely.
• 19:46 I had decided to really just invest my entire life
• 19:49 in, you know, in my career, in ministry.
• 19:51 You know, if I can't have my own family,
• 19:53 I'm going to serve God no matter what.
• 19:56 To any capacity that he wants me to do, I'm here to do it.
• 20:00 And so I came to Bible college, and my first semester, I had a
• 20:04 dream that I was standing in the kitchen, and I was looking--so
• 20:10 there was a man cooking breakfast, you know, and I
• 20:13 knew--in the dream, I didn't know who this person was, but I
• 20:16 knew in the dream that this is, you know, a future husband.
• 20:19 And so I knew that I was going to get married
• 20:21 again, so he was, you know, cooking eggs.
• 20:24 I could only see the back of his head, and sitting at the bar,
• 20:27 like, the island, rather, sitting at the island were two
• 20:30 little children, and they were eating their breakfast, and I
• 20:32 could just see the backs of their heads, and just that image
• 20:37 forever just, you know, stuck in my mind, and I know that God
• 20:41 said, "Brittni, you're going to have a
• 20:43 family, and these are your children."
• 20:45 And so I was like--
• 20:47 Caleb: Not a lot of people get that kind of vision or
• 20:48 dream, that foreknowing of something.
• 20:50 That's a big thing.
• 20:51 Brittni: Yeah, and so it just--I mean, that was a promise
• 20:54 from God that I held onto for years and--but, you know, going
• 20:58 through Bible college, I just kept saying, you know,
• 21:01 "I don't know what this looks like."
• 21:03 You know, these could be adopted children.
• 21:04 These could be foster children.
• 21:06 Like, whatever children God gives me,
• 21:08 they're going to be mine, you know?
• 21:10 And so, you know, I continue on in ministry.
• 21:13 You know, I devote myself to God's calling,
• 21:16 and I'll do whatever he wants me to do.
• 21:19 And so, you know, couple years later, I graduate from Bible
• 21:22 college, and, you know, I meet a nice Jewish boy.
• 21:25 Caleb: And you told him, "Hey, turn around so
• 21:26 I look at the back of your head.
• 21:27 "Was that the same guy I saw in my dream?
• 21:29 Yes, he was."
• 21:31 I get you, I get you.
• 21:32 Brittni: So, you know, we end up getting married.
• 21:35 His name is Joseph.
• 21:36 And a few years later, we are, you know, going to synagogue.
• 21:40 His dad was a rabbi, so we were going to synagogue, and there
• 21:44 was an elder there who's a nutritionist, and so we were
• 21:47 talking to the elder, and I told him, you know, "I have PCOS.
• 21:51 I was told I could never have children, and, you know, that's
• 21:53 not just something I really ever counted on."
• 21:57 And so he said--he looked me right in the face, and he said,
• 21:59 "Brittni, you know that's not true.
• 22:02 We serve a God who is so much bigger
• 22:05 than that doctor's diagnosis."
• 22:07 He's like, "You have no idea what's going to happen.
• 22:10 You have no idea what God has in store for you,
• 22:12 but you have to believe and choose life, that God
• 22:15 has a plan and a purpose for you."
• 22:18 And so I went into his office the next day, and, you know, we
• 22:22 started on, you know, kind of, like, a holistic regimen because
• 22:25 he was very well acquainted with PCOS.
• 22:27 Caleb: Well, that's a blessing right there.
• 22:28 He knew what to do.
• 22:30 Brittni: Yeah, yeah, it was just God who was aligning
• 22:31 people, you know, in my paths to come along and help me in ways
• 22:36 that I need--didn't know I needed.
• 22:38 And so, you know, I'm on this regimen at least, you know, a
• 22:41 year, and I'm still thinking, "I'm probably
• 22:44 not gonna get pregnant," you know?
• 22:45 'Cause there's--it's a very emotional thing for women.
• 22:48 Caleb: Oh, I understand.
• 22:49 Brittni: That's what we were created to do.
• 22:51 Caleb: That's right.
• 22:52 Brittni: And so I just kept it in the
• 22:53 back of my mind like, "You know what?
• 22:55 This probably isn't gonna happen, but I trust you, God."
• 22:56 And so, you know, six months later, I woke
• 22:59 up sick one morning, and I took a pregnancy test,
• 23:03 and sure enough, it was positive.
• 23:04 And I was shocked, you know?
• 23:08 This is just not a moment I ever thought I was going to have.
• 23:11 I had a wonderful birth.
• 23:13 I had a beautiful, healthy baby girl and--
• 23:16 Caleb: Thank you, Jesus.
• 23:17 Brittni: And, you know, God was just--God's hand was on us
• 23:20 every step of the way, and I have this wonderful husband, and
• 23:23 I had a beautiful baby girl, and I'm, like,
• 23:26 I'm sitting here, going, "Oh, my goodness."
• 23:28 Like, I had no idea this is what my
• 23:29 life was gonna turn out to be.
• 23:31 And a year later, you know, I'm still takin'
• 23:34 this regimen from this nutritionist--
• 23:35 Caleb: Baby number two?
• 23:36 Brittni: I had baby number two.
• 23:38 Caleb: Baby number two, yes.
• 23:39 Brittni: I had another little girl.
• 23:40 Brittni: And so God has been tremendously,
• 23:43 tremendously faithful to his promises.
• 23:46 Just like there are two trees in the garden of Eden, there's a
• 23:48 tree of knowledge and evil, and there's the tree of life.
• 23:52 Choose life every single time.
• 23:55 Choose God every single time.
• 23:57 You know, don't choose the other tree
• 23:58 where you think you know better.
• 24:00 The other tree could be a doctor's diagnosis.
• 24:02 It could be someone full of doubt.
• 24:03 It could be someone saying, "Wasn't in the cards for you.
• 24:06 It's not gonna work out."
• 24:07 Always choose the tree of life because God has a peace and a
• 24:11 shalom that surpasses all understanding, and
• 24:14 he has his hand on your family always.
• 24:19 David: Such a powerful testimony that you just heard.
• 24:21 I have a feeling, as we sit here today, that, as you're watching,
• 24:26 you may have a maybe similar testimony that someone maybe not
• 24:30 around the world but next door needs to hear.
• 24:33 Share your story, your testimony that--the miracle
• 24:36 that God has given to you in your life.
• 24:38 What a great story Brittni has for us today.
• 24:40 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah, it's a great woman.
• 24:42 David: Yes.
• 24:43 Kirsten: And you know her from school.
• 24:44 You wear many, many hats, but a professor is one of them.
• 24:48 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I've been a Bible college seminary professor
• 24:50 for about 33 years, had about 20,000 students.
• 24:53 I was lecturing 209 of them this morning, and once upon a time,
• 24:58 years ago, Brittni was in the crowd.
• 25:00 Actually, she went to Bible college
• 25:03 because she came to faith in Jesus.
• 25:04 She came to faith through watching
• 25:05 this television program.
• 25:08 She showed up at school, and then she goes, "Oh, goodness, I
• 25:11 think I know that guy," this professor that's thrown in front
• 25:14 of her, and so we became friends, and then, you know, I
• 25:18 was pastoring a messianic congregation.
• 25:19 She was very much involved, so I knew her well.
• 25:22 Kirsten: I bet some of those students were surprised to see
• 25:24 you at school because people probably think you live in
• 25:27 Israel 'cause that's where we see you.
• 25:29 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah, people are surprised.
• 25:30 They think I live in Israel.
• 25:32 They see me on TV, and then they bump into me there,
• 25:34 and, yeah, you get into--that happens.
• 25:38 Kirsten: I know what she walked through.
• 25:40 Infertility is something that isn't just a situation now.
• 25:45 I mean, Hannah in the Old Testament was infertile,
• 25:48 and God gave her a miracle also.
• 25:50 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: And so, as not to overstated it, in
• 25:51 Brittni's case, it wasn't quite a virgin birth.
• 25:54 Actually, I introduced her to her
• 25:56 husband and helped set that up.
• 25:59 Kirsten: Did they name any children after you?
• 26:00 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: No, but, you know,
• 26:01 I'm waiting, I'm waiting.
• 26:03 I still want them to, you know, keep on goin',
• 26:04 and you never know, but not yet.
• 26:06 No, but just a wonderful story.
• 26:08 And, by the way, sometimes, for the miracle in your life,
• 26:12 sometimes there's a friend behind the
• 26:13 scene that nudges it into existence.
• 26:16 David: I was gonna say also, people may be
• 26:17 praying for her behind the scenes that she
• 26:19 didn't even know about in her life.
• 26:21 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: That's true, that's true.
• 26:22 You never know, you never know.
• 26:24 But, you know, everyone's rootin' for her.
• 26:26 She married into a great family.
• 26:28 A great ministry she has, and it's a miraculous story.
• 26:32 Kirsten: I mentioned Hannah and her miracle
• 26:34 story at Shiloh, the ancient site.
• 26:37 You might call it Shiloh, where the
• 26:39 tabernacle stood for hundreds of years.
• 26:42 We get to visit that site on tour, and there have been many
• 26:46 women, I've heard, that go to that site and pray Hannah's
• 26:49 prayer for a miracle to come out of infertility
• 26:53 and to have the gift of a child.
• 26:55 We go up multiple times a year.
• 26:57 Levitt.com, you can find information about our tours.
• 27:00 David: Life-changing. Kirsten: Yes, it is.
• 27:02 David: Can't believe it's time to go.
• 27:04 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Where does time go?
• 27:06 Kirsten: It flies.
• 27:07 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Hey, we'll be back next week if you will,
• 27:09 but until then, Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalayim.
• 27:12 Kirsten: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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