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• 00:01 David Hart: On today's program, we've talked about "Our Greatest
• 00:06 Need," in the series "God of Miracles," coming up next on "Our Jewish Roots," with Bible
• 00:10 teaching from Israel with Dr. Jeffrey Seif.
• 00:13 ♪♪♪
• 00:18 male narrator: To believe in the Bible is to believe
• 00:20 in miracles.
• 00:22 From Genesis to Revelation, the impossible became possible.
• 00:27 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,
• 00:39 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."
• 00:52 ♪♪♪
• 00:54 CC by Aberdeen Captioning 1-800-688-6621 www.abercap.com
• 00:57 David: Thank you so much for joining us today.
• 00:58 I'm David Hart.
• 01:00 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 01:01 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Jeffrey Seif.
• 01:03 Kirsten: This whole series has been about miracles,
• 01:05 and I've heard people say, "Oh, I got a small miracle,"
• 01:09 as compared to a large miracle, but I have to say,
• 01:12 if you are the recipient of a small miracle,
• 01:15 it's your whole world.
• 01:18 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: And if you look at things that the Lord
• 01:21 did, some of 'em are small miracles.
• 01:23 You know, he gave 'em a free lunch out of a few pieces of
• 01:25 bread and a bunch of fish.
• 01:26 They're gonna be hungry the next day,
• 01:28 but nevertheless, the recipients of miracles are impressed by the
• 01:32 fact that God sees us and is mindful and takes care.
• 01:35 Kirsten: For them, it was everything.
• 01:37 I mentioned before that I had foot surgery,
• 01:39 and I've also had a broken toe, and you might not see someone's
• 01:42 broken toe, but that might be everything to someone if God
• 01:46 heals that toe.
• 01:48 I know this sounds so silly, but that toe,
• 01:50 if God heals it, it's your whole,
• 01:52 whole world, and I love that Yeshua has compassion for people
• 01:56 regardless if it's a big problem or a little problem.
• 02:03 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah, now, the Bible serves up both.
• 02:05 We notice the big problems understandably so.
• 02:08 Someone's blind.
• 02:10 They get vision.
• 02:11 Oh, my word.
• 02:13 We just so--can be so blessed because of the Lord's help.
• 02:18 David: In this whole series, we've seen you stand in places
• 02:21 where these miracles took place.
• 02:23 Here's another one right now.
• 02:25 We take you to Israel with Dr. Seif's teaching.
• 02:27 ♪♪♪
• 02:31 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I wanna be careful walking down here
• 02:34 in the Pool of Siloam.
• 02:37 If it was the Pool of Bethesda, I wouldn't worry so much.
• 02:41 Jesus healed a paralytic by there,
• 02:43 but here, if I fall, the main story we know about isn't
• 02:45 someone who is paralyzed but someone who was blind
• 02:50 from birth.
• 02:53 It's a fascinating story in the Gospel of John,
• 02:57 the 9th chapter.
• 02:59 Jesus is on record, speaking to this fellow,
• 03:02 who was well known in the city.
• 03:04 I mean, he didn't just show up on a bus.
• 03:06 He's been there from birth, and, you know,
• 03:10 people would've known the boy and the family.
• 03:12 And Jesus didn't just heal him.
• 03:15 He told him to come here.
• 03:18 Now, it's interesting.
• 03:20 One could argue the Pool of Siloam itself is related to
• 03:23 healing because the water to the pool comes from the Gihon
• 03:28 Spring, and the Gihon is the one river that's noted in the garden
• 03:35 of Eden that is still noted.
• 03:37 You might recall at the end of the Bible in Revelation,
• 03:40 the water of life is for the healing of the nations.
• 03:43 Well, the Gihon feeds this pool or did once upon a time,
• 03:47 and people came here.
• 03:49 And one of Jesus's people came here,
• 03:51 in fact, and we know the story: Jesus healed,
• 03:54 and he put mud in the eye and what have you.
• 03:56 It's an interesting story.
• 03:58 We're told that he spread mud on the eyes,
• 04:00 and he told the man, "Go wash in the Pool of Siloam," and he came
• 04:06 here and washed, and he came up, seeing.
• 04:09 There are a number of people around here.
• 04:11 People frequent the site.
• 04:12 Maybe you can hear some voices because we're in a tourist area,
• 04:14 but in Jesus's day, it wasn't a tourist area.
• 04:17 It was a place of desperation.
• 04:19 People wanted help and this one blind man who came here,
• 04:22 you know, and Jesus told him to do what I just described.
• 04:26 It reminds me, by the way, when it comes to miracles--
• 04:29 and God does miracles-- it's not, you know,
• 04:32 a "one size fits all."
• 04:35 There's different ways.
• 04:37 You get books today, "Seven Steps to Get Your Miracles,"
• 04:39 you know?
• 04:40 I'd save the money, personally, because he does different things
• 04:42 with different people.
• 04:44 We're gonna see that in the next story.
• 04:46 I'm gonna read the verse now, and then we'll sit down and have
• 04:48 a look at it.
• 04:49 There was a woman who wasn't sick from birth,
• 04:51 but she contracted something after spending some time on the
• 04:55 planet, a flow of blood.
• 04:57 No one would touch her.
• 04:59 And Jesus said to her in verse 48,
• 05:00 of the 8th chapter of the Gospel of Luke,
• 05:02 "He said to her, 'Daughter, your faith has made you well.
• 05:07 Go in peace.'"
• 05:09 She wasn't told to go to the pool.
• 05:10 She was just told to go.
• 05:12 Let's go have a look at the story.
• 05:14 ♪♪♪
• 05:19 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: A lot of Bible readers are familiar with
• 05:22 this story, but I wanna slow down the frame and unpack
• 05:25 some particulars that Jewish perspective gives to look
• 05:28 at this great miracle that people are familiar with but,
• 05:32 oftentimes, not like this.
• 05:34 In the Gospel of Luke, the 8th chapter,
• 05:36 verse 43, we're told there was a woman that had a flow of blood
• 05:39 for 12 years.
• 05:40 Couldn't be healed.
• 05:42 Some manuscripts note she spent all her money on doctors.
• 05:44 Some of us have done that.
• 05:46 No joking matter here.
• 05:47 The fact that she had a flow of blood wasn't just the
• 05:50 sickness itself.
• 05:51 There's social ramifications.
• 05:53 Individuals wouldn't touch her.
• 05:54 Her husband wouldn't touch her.
• 05:56 People wouldn't touch her, so she was alone in the world.
• 06:00 She's not just betrayed by her own body,
• 06:03 in some sense; that is, she feels her body's betrayed her
• 06:06 with a sickness, but she would have a sense of disappointment
• 06:10 with other human beings who wouldn't touch her.
• 06:12 We're told this bold woman has a lot of chutzpah in verse 44.
• 06:15 Even though individuals won't touch her,
• 06:18 we're told that she goes through--or she presses through
• 06:20 a crowd, so she's coming in contact with other people,
• 06:24 and she touches the Great Rabbi.
• 06:26 We're told that she touches his tzitzit,
• 06:28 the fringe of his garments, which would've been construed
• 06:31 as a no-no.
• 06:32 She was supposed to keep her distance from people,
• 06:34 never mind defile a Great Rabbi, but she has word.
• 06:37 People know on the street that Yeshua does miracles and that
• 06:42 he cares about people that are disenfranchised
• 06:44 and are getting a bad deal.
• 06:46 So even though it goes against the conventions of culture,
• 06:51 there she is, pressing through the crowd.
• 06:53 We're told in the text that the Lord realized power
• 06:56 had gone forth from him and said, "Who touched me?"
• 06:58 And she didn't wanna talk for the reasons
• 07:01 that I just explained.
• 07:03 She didn't wanna come out.
• 07:04 Jesus kind of had to smoke her out in a way.
• 07:06 Finally, when she realized the gig was up,
• 07:09 then she gave voice to what she did.
• 07:10 Yeshua, Jesus, wasn't the least bit disturbed with her.
• 07:14 He wanted to heal her.
• 07:15 Jesus loves women, women that find themselves in a bad way.
• 07:19 They find themselves something of a social outcast,
• 07:21 alone, not in contact with people.
• 07:24 They have a particular problem, and with a flow of blood,
• 07:27 it's particularly embarrassing for a woman.
• 07:29 Jesus isn't embarrassed by any of this stuff.
• 07:32 He cares about human beings, and there's a beautiful story about
• 07:35 him caring about a woman, and he refers to her in verse 48,
• 07:38 and I love it.
• 07:39 He says to her, "Daughter."
• 07:41 "Daughter."
• 07:43 The familial language.
• 07:44 It's the--one of the things that I like about the Jesus story,
• 07:47 you know, religion kind of has an impersonal God.
• 07:50 He's out there in the world, and people are respectful of
• 07:53 a distant God and go to church for weddings and funerals,
• 07:56 baby dedications.
• 07:58 They go to synagogues or bar mitzvahs,
• 08:00 but God's far away.
• 08:02 But if you look at the God who reveals himself in the Bible,
• 08:04 he's personal, not distant.
• 08:06 Here he is, referring to her as "Daughter," not just to say that
• 08:09 to her but to say it to you and me, a son.
• 08:12 "He says to her, 'Daughter, your faith has made you well.
• 08:16 Go in peace.'"
• 08:17 She didn't have to go to the Pool of Siloam and wash.
• 08:21 He just did it for her.
• 08:23 Now, was there something special about her?
• 08:26 Well, she does have some dogged determination,
• 08:27 some chutzpah.
• 08:29 She has some guts, but never mind what she has.
• 08:31 What does God have? He has love for her.
• 08:34 She's in an impossible situation.
• 08:35 She's in a bad way in a variety of ways,
• 08:37 and God loves her.
• 08:38 And you know what?
• 08:40 She might not be the only woman in the world.
• 08:42 She's this woman in the Word right now,
• 08:44 I gave voice to, but you're listening to me right now.
• 08:46 Listen, I don't know who you are,
• 08:48 where you are, what you are, but I know life,
• 08:50 and sometimes it seems that we get dealt a bad hand of cards,
• 08:55 bad cards in the hand, you know, that are hard to play with at
• 08:58 the end of the day.
• 08:59 I don't know what your story is, but I know this story,
• 09:01 and from pillar to post, the story is there for a miraculous
• 09:05 God who reaches out and helps people because he loves people,
• 09:08 and he wants to make his will and ways known on planet Earth,
• 09:11 and his will was that people who would come to him and his ways.
• 09:15 They do it on their knees.
• 09:16 If you haven't done it, do it, and you too can discover a God
• 09:19 who does miracles even for you.
• 09:23 ♪♪♪
• 09:28 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: It is the greatest story ever told,
• 09:32 and the implications are absolutely profound.
• 09:35 It's known in the Hebrew world as "t'chiyat hameitim," which
• 09:40 means "the resurrection of the dead," and I'm coming to
• 09:43 you from a very special place in Jerusalem.
• 09:47 It's a garden, and behind me is a tomb,
• 09:51 a vacated tomb, actually.
• 09:54 The place is referred to as the Garden Tomb,
• 09:56 and it's understood that Jesus Christ was buried
• 09:59 in that tomb behind me and that he rose again.
• 10:04 He came up from it. What a story.
• 10:08 What a pleasure it is to bring it to you.
• 10:11 Of course, it's brought to us in biblical literature,
• 10:14 in the Matthew Gospel.
• 10:16 People came in 28:6, that--or they're informed,
• 10:20 "He is not here.
• 10:21 He is risen."
• 10:25 This is the spot from which he raised.
• 10:27 So goes the argument.
• 10:29 What a fascinating story.
• 10:31 And I wouldn't wanna finish up on miracles without talking
• 10:34 about it, and I say that because,
• 10:37 if you look at biblical literature from Genesis to maps,
• 10:40 as my wife likes to say, it's just full of miracles.
• 10:44 A supernatural God created the world,
• 10:46 and he does miracles all the way for people that are making their
• 10:50 way through the world.
• 10:52 When I think of the Hebrew people,
• 10:53 never mind the Christian religion,
• 10:55 of course, the resurrected Lord is the origin of the
• 10:57 Jesus people, but when I think of the Jewish people,
• 11:00 Sarah couldn't have a child.
• 11:02 The Lord did a miracle there.
• 11:04 Rebekah couldn't have a child.
• 11:06 The Lord did a miracle there.
• 11:08 Rachel couldn't have a child.
• 11:10 The Lord did a miracle there.
• 11:12 Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the fathers of the Hebrew people,
• 11:14 it all came from miracle wombs.
• 11:16 It doesn't surprise me when I think of the Jesus story,
• 11:19 a story that comes from a miracle womb,
• 11:22 but with a woman named Miriam, fascinating story.
• 11:26 He didn't just miraculously come from a womb,
• 11:28 but he miraculously came from a tomb.
• 11:32 A fascinating story, and it's not one that just speaks to our
• 11:35 own eventual rise from our deteriorated situation.
• 11:40 We will die one day, and our hope is that we will arise.
• 11:45 He's the firstborn of many brethren.
• 11:48 The argument is there'll be a second and a third and
• 11:51 a millionth, et cetera, and we're part of that number,
• 11:53 but it's not just that resurrection power speaks
• 11:55 to life on the other side of the grave.
• 11:58 There's implications for it now which is why I wanted
• 12:01 to look at miracles.
• 12:03 At the end of a series is the time to give a wrap on it.
• 12:07 We considered a variety of stories in biblical text,
• 12:09 all of which speak to, for, and about a capable God who's not
• 12:14 just capable but desirous to help humanity,
• 12:19 people like me and you, if we would only but turn to him.
• 12:22 I hope you're inclined to do that.
• 12:25 I hope your faith is built up 'cause I don't know where
• 12:29 I find you as you're watching this program.
• 12:31 People can be disoriented through life's circumstances.
• 12:33 I'm staring at 67.
• 12:35 My body doesn't perform like it did at 27.
• 12:38 I look in my billfold, and, you know, life's precarious.
• 12:41 The economy goes up and down.
• 12:43 When I think of the political experience today,
• 12:46 goodness, it's distressing in so many ways,
• 12:48 and it doesn't take much for people to get distressed over it
• 12:51 all, but it's good to know that our ultimate hope
• 12:54 isn't in politics.
• 12:55 It's not in finances.
• 12:57 It's not even in our body, but there's a good God,
• 12:58 who is more than able and willing to help us.
• 13:01 Isn't that the truth?
• 13:03 It's a miracle, and I'm pleased to tell you this story from this
• 13:07 place of a miracle, the Garden Tomb,
• 13:09 from which Jesus rose from the dead.
• 13:11 ♪♪♪
• 13:17 David: Communion is one of the things that we do every time
• 13:20 that we go to the Garden Tomb, and as I take that Communion,
• 13:23 the bread and the wine, I think about the miracles that have
• 13:27 taken place in my life, and I'm so thankful.
• 13:29 It could be a big miracle, a small miracle that
• 13:32 maybe you're going through in your life.
• 13:34 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I've done that a number of occasions,
• 13:36 too, to take the Lord's Supper against the backdrop of the tomb
• 13:40 from which there's a responsible argument he emerged.
• 13:43 Reminds me, by the way, that miracles still happen.
• 13:48 Whether you're there, taking the Lord's Supper in a serene place
• 13:52 or whether you find yourself in abysmal circumstances today,
• 13:56 I want you to know that God is in the business of bringing
• 14:00 things to life.
• 14:02 That's the story of the Garden Tomb.
• 14:04 That's the story of Communion.
• 14:06 Jesus said, "Take this as my body," you know,
• 14:08 to remember his death, but then, as believers,
• 14:10 we remember his Resurrection to life.
• 14:12 I want you to know that you can come to life too.
• 14:15 If you just reach out to him in prayer,
• 14:18 and make your way to a Bible-believing congregation,
• 14:21 there's a whole new life and a miracle ahead of you.
• 14:27 Kirsten: Dr. Seif, just mentioned "miracles" and the
• 14:30 word "life," and Dave and I have discussed what are the greatest
• 14:34 miracles that we've had in our lives.
• 14:36 And when I was 41 years old, I found out that I had been
• 14:40 adopted, and I also found out that my birth mother had gone
• 14:44 to the country of Sweden to obtain an abortion,
• 14:47 but it would've been my abortion,
• 14:50 and I am so thankful for the miracle that happened in Sweden
• 14:53 that no abortion happened, and I'm thankful for life.
• 14:57 So, so many miracles, and we--I think we need to stop and take
• 15:03 inventory of our lives and see what God has done in us
• 15:07 and through us, and that's our testimony.
• 15:09 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah, and some people are
• 15:11 going the wrong way.
• 15:12 Like, your mom, she went there to do something,
• 15:13 and there was a stop sign somewhere there.
• 15:15 Maybe you're in a stop sign right now.
• 15:18 Turn to the Lord. Turn in the right direction.
• 15:22 You'll be happy.
• 15:24 David: And even think, for all of us sitting at this table
• 15:27 right now, that there are miracles probably waiting for us
• 15:31 to happen that we don't even know about yet.
• 15:33 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: It's not just yesterday's news.
• 15:34 I mean, Jesus is the same today, yesterday,
• 15:36 and forever, and we look at the Bibles of yesteryear with a mind
• 15:40 to encourage people.
• 15:41 There is this thing called tomorrow,
• 15:44 and with the good Lord's help, we can face tomorrow
• 15:46 and experience Bible days in our own.
• 15:49 Kirsten: And you've taught throughout this whole
• 15:52 series--this is our last program in the series,
• 15:53 which makes me a little bit sad, but every miracle
• 15:56 has been different.
• 15:57 It's God ordains different ways to reach and to perform
• 16:02 a miracle in people's lives.
• 16:04 It's not just the same way every time.
• 16:06 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: No, they're customized to specific people
• 16:09 in circumstances, and so different people in different
• 16:12 circumstances can find themselves in those stories.
• 16:15 David: It's good. Kirsten: It's good news.
• 16:18 David: Yes, we'll be right back.
• 16:20 David: Our resources this week,
• 16:21 "Glory: The Future of the Believers."
• 16:23 In this booklet, Zola Levitt explains the coming Rapture,
• 16:26 our time in heaven, the kingdom on earth, and eternity.
• 16:32 Call 1-800-WONDERS, or visit us at Levitt.com.
• 16:36 Remember to connect with us on social media
• 16:38 for so much extra content.
• 16:42 Find us @OurJewishRoots.
• 16:48 David: If you read the "Levitt Letter," you know that
• 16:50 you can write in with questions or even thoughts that you
• 16:53 may have about our program.
• 16:56 I would love--actually, Kirsten and I would love
• 16:58 to hear from you.
• 17:00 If you have received a miracle in your life,
• 17:02 please let us know about something life-changing,
• 17:06 a miracle that has happened to you.
• 17:08 Kirsten: And don't disregard your miracle.
• 17:10 God can work a miracle even through challenges in your life,
• 17:15 and we're gonna bring you a story right now,
• 17:17 the rest of the interview from last week with our Caleb
• 17:19 from the "Bearded Bible Brothers."
• 17:22 Here's the rest of the miracle story.
• 17:28 Caleb Colson: Jill, it's awesome to be with you today.
• 17:30 We got to hear your mother's testimony previously and how
• 17:34 she believed in faith for your miraculous healing when
• 17:38 you were just a baby.
• 17:39 You didn't know what was goin' on.
• 17:40 You're just, you know, on the tube,
• 17:42 and all these things are connected to you,
• 17:43 but she believed.
• 17:45 Your family believed.
• 17:46 You got a church praying for you.
• 17:48 You're here with me today, but comes a time when you
• 17:52 have to start believing for yourself even as a child.
• 17:54 You had another bad diagnosis given to you when you
• 17:57 were two years old.
• 17:59 Can you tell me about that?
• 18:00 Jill Odieny: Yes, so the doctors finally diagnosed me
• 18:02 with cerebral palsy when I was two years old,
• 18:05 and they waited that long, back then,
• 18:08 because they wanted to make sure that there weren't other
• 18:10 developmental things in play.
• 18:12 So they finally diagnosed me with spastic diplegia cerebral
• 18:17 palsy when I was two, and essentially,
• 18:20 what that means is that all of my muscles are in a constant
• 18:24 state of contraction from the waist down,
• 18:27 so I'm fighting my hips, my legs,
• 18:31 my knees, my ankle, and that makes my walking gait really
• 18:36 unsteady, extremely awkward, very inefficient,
• 18:42 and my balance is extremely poor.
• 18:45 So, I do walk with a walker now, which is normal
• 18:49 for a 40-year-old living with cerebral palsy,
• 18:52 but it should be said that all of the things that the doctor
• 18:56 said I would never be able to do,
• 18:59 I do all of those things.
• 19:00 Caleb: You do it all. That's right.
• 19:02 Jill: None of them perfectly, but I do all of those things.
• 19:05 Caleb: Because that was the testimony of man.
• 19:07 They said, "This is what you're gonna be," and God's Word is
• 19:09 true, and he says, "That doesn't matter what they say.
• 19:12 It matters what I say," right.
• 19:13 Jill: Right, exactly.
• 19:15 Caleb: And so you grew up with this,
• 19:17 you know, prognosis, but you still had to work through to get
• 19:22 this level of functionality that you have now to work into that
• 19:25 healing that he's done for you and being functional.
• 19:28 Was it hard growing up like this?
• 19:30 Jill: Yes.
• 19:31 Caleb: Tell me know that felt.
• 19:33 Jill: Yes, it was extremely hard.
• 19:34 When I look back on my childhood,
• 19:35 I don't remember having fun.
• 19:37 I remember a lot of physical therapy,
• 19:41 a lot of occupational therapy, a lot of doctor's appointments,
• 19:45 and a lot of tutoring inside of school,
• 19:50 outside of school, and then homework when I was done
• 19:53 with school because that was how much work it took for me
• 19:58 and my parents.
• 20:01 You know, they had to put in the work,
• 20:03 too, because an eight-year-old doesn't know what she's
• 20:05 supposed to do.
• 20:06 So they were working along with me to try to make me
• 20:09 into the most independent person that I could be.
• 20:13 And then there were surgeries that were done early in my
• 20:16 childhood to help me to learn how to walk and then give me
• 20:22 more mobility, so, yes, it was a lot of work even though
• 20:26 the initial healing took place as my mom described.
• 20:32 There was more work that I, as a person,
• 20:36 had to do in order to become the person that you
• 20:39 see sitting here today.
• 20:41 Caleb: That's right.
• 20:42 And, like you said, what they said you wouldn't be able to do,
• 20:46 you do now, and one of the things,
• 20:49 you told me, they said that you would basically
• 20:50 be mentally retarded.
• 20:52 Jill: Yeah.
• 20:53 Caleb: But none of this has ever affected your brain.
• 20:54 Jill: No.
• 20:56 Caleb: Exactly. You're smart.
• 20:58 You're intelligent. You have a degree.
• 21:00 Tell me what you've done with your life that you would not be
• 21:04 able to do according to a doctor's standards of,
• 21:06 you know, "your ailments."
• 21:08 Jill: So, I graduated with high honors from high school,
• 21:12 college, and seminary, and--
• 21:14 Caleb: Wow.
• 21:16 Jill: Yeah, I'm a huge theological nerd,
• 21:18 and I decided to follow in my father's footsteps--
• 21:21 Caleb: That's awesome.
• 21:23 Jill: --and go to seminary from 2007 to 2010,
• 21:25 and now I've used my postgraduate career in various
• 21:29 ministry and mission opportunities for the last
• 21:35 13 years to serve God and his church and the world who doesn't
• 21:42 know him because there's a reason why I'm still here,
• 21:47 and I say that not only because of what my birth story was like
• 21:51 but because of what the rest of my life was like.
• 21:56 Caleb: I find that amazing.
• 21:58 It just brought to mind the story of Hannah and Samuel.
• 22:02 She just wanted a child, but the price was giving that child back
• 22:08 to God, and she was willing to pay the price.
• 22:10 God did a miracle for her.
• 22:11 You spent your life, it sounds like now,
• 22:13 giving back to God because that's what the enemy
• 22:15 was trying to stop.
• 22:16 Jill: Yes.
• 22:18 Caleb: I believe he can see into the spirit,
• 22:19 you know, and he can see the light that's on us.
• 22:22 He can see that destiny that God has stamped on our lives,
• 22:24 and he tries to snuff us out even from our youth.
• 22:27 Even when we're in the mother's womb,
• 22:29 he tries that, but God has the last word in these things,
• 22:33 and it's amazing.
• 22:35 You're married now.
• 22:36 Jill: Yes. Caleb: You're married now.
• 22:37 Caleb: That's amazing, and you're doing ministry work,
• 22:40 telling other people about Yeshua,
• 22:42 about Jesus, that he can heal, deliver, and set free.
• 22:45 Is there anything--take this last moment.
• 22:49 I'd like you to talk to the camera to tell others who don't
• 22:53 know Jesus why they should believe in our Messiah,
• 22:57 what does he have to offer them.
• 22:59 Jill: Jesus will never fail you.
• 23:01 Jesus loves you more than you can possibly comprehend,
• 23:05 so much so that he gave his life for you,
• 23:09 and that doesn't mean that your life isn't going to be hard,
• 23:13 and Jesus literally talks about that,
• 23:16 but what you have, when you decide to believe in Jesus,
• 23:20 is the assurance that the resurrection power of the risen
• 23:25 Jesus Christ comes to live within you.
• 23:32 I really hope you won't say, "No," to that because,
• 23:35 if you decide to live for Jesus, I promise you,
• 23:38 it's a decision you'll never regret.
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• 23:50 Kirsten: Recognizing God's miracles in our lives is a gift
• 23:56 of worship to him as we are full of gratitude,
• 24:02 but we need to acknowledge that God did something miraculous
• 24:05 in our lives.
• 24:06 If you enjoyed Jill's story, please go on our
• 24:09 social media outlets.
• 24:10 We have more of her interview available on there.
• 24:15 We are wrapping up another series.
• 24:18 It always makes me a little sad to see this end,
• 24:22 to see something end.
• 24:23 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: You know, and I really loved doing
• 24:25 a series on miracles, personally.
• 24:28 In fact, the nation of Israel, the pictures behind us,
• 24:30 it's a miracle done on the globe,
• 24:33 but the Lord does miracles for individuals,
• 24:37 and I'm so thrilled to have had the opportunity to participate
• 24:41 with you in telling the story.
• 24:43 David: I was gonna say, I think we need a lot more than
• 24:45 eight programs to talk about miracles in the Bible
• 24:47 and what's going on now.
• 24:49 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Listen, if we just picked every miracle in
• 24:51 the Bible, we'd need a weekly program that covered
• 24:55 a bunch in one program.
• 24:57 There's so many.
• 24:58 David: It's good.
• 24:59 Kirsten: I love where it says that,
• 25:01 if all the stories were written, the miracles that Jesus did,
• 25:05 there aren't enough books to hold all of that.
• 25:08 I mean, amazing, but we still have to learn when
• 25:10 we get to heaven.
• 25:12 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Right, the world itself
• 25:13 couldn't contain it.
• 25:14 And there, in the Gospel of John,
• 25:16 you know, there are a number of "I am" statements,
• 25:18 "I am the way," "I am the door," "I am the resurrection."
• 25:21 The word "Yahweh" or "Jehovah," associated with Jesus,
• 25:25 God in the flesh, who lives to do breakthroughs on our behalf,
• 25:32 that is so important.
• 25:34 Kirsten: I don't know how you happened upon our program.
• 25:37 Perhaps you watch every week, perhaps,
• 25:39 somehow, you just turned this program on,
• 25:42 or maybe you're on social media right now.
• 25:44 We, from "Our Jewish Roots," from this program,
• 25:48 would love to pray for your miracle.
• 25:51 What do you need God to do in your life?
• 25:55 And we will agree, as we're on a television set,
• 25:58 that that would happen for you.
• 26:00 Put your trust in him, in the risen Savior,
• 26:04 and watch the miracles he does, and give thanks to him.
• 26:08 That's worship to him in gratitude.
• 26:10 David: Amen, that's good.
• 26:12 Also, as you were just saying that,
• 26:13 I was thinking that there may be some of you watching today that
• 26:16 need a miracle to be able to go to Israel.
• 26:20 Some of you have never been, and you'd love to go,
• 26:24 but you think there's no way that you could get there
• 26:26 financially or health.
• 26:28 Pray for that miracle.
• 26:30 We will take you to the Garden Tomb,
• 26:32 where you saw Dr. Seif teaching today.
• 26:34 The Pool of Siloam, we take you.
• 26:36 So many life-changing places.
• 26:38 You can find all the information on levitt.com.
• 26:40 Join us. It's time to go.
• 26:42 Kirsten: Wrap it up, wrap it up real quick.
• 26:43 David: Yeah.
• 26:45 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes, and it's hard to put a bow
• 26:47 on such a beautiful series, Bible teaching,
• 26:50 great testimonies, but there's more to come.
• 26:54 See, we wanna talk you into believing that there's a miracle
• 26:57 even for you, and so, next week, we have individual testimonies,
• 27:02 glorious testimonies.
• 27:04 We wanna get faith to arise in you.
• 27:06 Come back in a week.
• 27:07 Till then--
• 27:09 [speaking in Hebrew] Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalayim.
• 27:11 Kirsten: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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