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• 00:02 male announcer: Welcome to "Our Jewish Roots" with Bible teaching from Israel by Dr. Jeffrey Seif. On today's program, we wrap up
• 00:11 our look at the women of the Bible in our series, "She Shall Be Called Woman."
• 00:18 ♪♪♪
• 00:27 female: I came forth from a man.
• 00:29 female: But I found favor with him.
• 00:30 female: Successful, and true success is not measured in
• 00:33 wealth and power, but in the estate of one's heart.
• 00:37 female: I've never been happier and more fulfilled.
• 00:41 female: I raised him up strictly in the faith,
• 00:43 the law, and the prophets.
• 00:45 female: And now I want to give something back.
• 00:46 female: I believe Elohim meant it to be this way.
• 00:49 female: She's still a cornerstone of wisdom
• 00:50 to the family.
• 00:52 female: But you are always in my heart.
• 00:54 ♪♪♪
• 00:56 ♪♪♪
• 01:06 David Hart: Thank you so much for joining us today,
• 01:07 I am David Hart.
• 01:09 Kristen Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 01:10 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Jeffrey Seif.
• 01:11 Kristen: And I appreciate you for taking these four programs
• 01:14 to focus on some very important women in the Bible.
• 01:17 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: You know, we're gonna begin with widows
• 01:19 in this program.
• 01:20 I was a widower, it's really tough place to be when your
• 01:26 other half goes on, you know, and let's take a look at the
• 01:30 book, see what we can find.
• 01:31 Kristien: And I appreciate that and I'm sorry for what
• 01:33 you've walked through and so many of our viewers,
• 01:36 but we know that God provides special place and widows are
• 01:41 special place in his heart also.
• 01:43 Let's go to Israel.
• 01:48 female: For three years, the heavens were shut and refused
• 01:52 to give rain.
• 01:54 All because of this prophet.
• 01:58 He met me at the city gate and asked me for a drink and some
• 02:01 bread, but I had none to give, only a handful with flour
• 02:08 and some oil.
• 02:11 But he insisted saying Yahweh would bless me with an abundance
• 02:14 if only I would believe
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• 02:19 ♪♪♪
• 02:29 female: I had planned on baking the last morsel of bread
• 02:31 for my son and for me, we were ready to eat our last meal
• 02:36 and die.
• 02:40 My husband passed away years before and I had no means of
• 02:44 support, especially in the time of famine.
• 02:53 But in my most desperate hour, God made himself known
• 02:57 as my provider.
• 03:01 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 03:09 female: "His grace is sufficient for me."
• 03:12 ♪♪♪
• 03:19 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: In the book of "Malechim," Kings,
• 03:22 Bible readers learn that King Ahab married poorly.
• 03:27 He married Jezebel, a Sidonian princess,
• 03:31 and by virtue of his marrying wrong,
• 03:34 he brought untold miseries upon his world.
• 03:38 Women were depressed and why should they be happy?
• 03:42 The men were miserable too, there was nothing to do.
• 03:46 As a punishment, prosperity was driven out of the land.
• 03:50 The water didn't water the earth,
• 03:52 all there was roundabout was dust and dirt,
• 03:56 no need make ready the instruments of harvest because
• 04:00 there was nothing to be gleaned from the earth.
• 04:03 And so it is the men weren't working,
• 04:07 the children weren't playing,
• 04:09 and the women were miserable roundabout.
• 04:13 Who would protect them?
• 04:15 Who would change this abysmal state of affairs?
• 04:19 Here's a shomuha, a tower, a watchtower from the word
• 04:23 shomer, where a watchman would be placed.
• 04:27 What is this watchman going to look out for?
• 04:30 Because in this case the enemy isn't an army that would
• 04:33 encroach upon his village, the enemy or so it seemed was God,
• 04:38 who was withholding prosperity from his people.
• 04:42 There's a vine that grew up against this tower once upon
• 04:45 a time, but there's no leaves or grapes,
• 04:47 and why is that?
• 04:48 Because life in effect has ceased.
• 04:51 People aren't eating and drinking,
• 04:53 the animals aren't fairing well either,
• 04:55 this is a world gone bad.
• 05:00 Eliyyahu, Elijah the prophet entered into this world.
• 05:04 In fact, it was through his ministry that this world was
• 05:07 brought about.
• 05:09 Our story looks at Elijah's contact with a woman at the
• 05:14 ragged edge of despair.
• 05:17 Eliyyahu was told to go to a village in Israel where they're
• 05:21 right at the ragged edge of misery and there he encounters
• 05:25 a woman who's making ready for her last supper.
• 05:29 No, this isn't Jesus in the Passover meal,
• 05:32 this is a woman who Eliyyahu encounters and he says,
• 05:36 "Give me a drink and fetch me something to eat."
• 05:39 And her response is, "I'm about to die,
• 05:41 this is my last supper."
• 05:44 But the prophet says, "Listen, you're not going to die,
• 05:46 do something for me instead."
• 05:49 And she takes part of her meager provisions.
• 05:53 She gives it over to God, if you will.
• 05:55 She gives it over to the prophet,
• 05:56 the man of God, and her world is transformed in the process.
• 06:01 This series looks at women, this program looks at widows.
• 06:06 And we're going to see how in a world gone bad,
• 06:09 God rises up and champions the cause of women who are hard
• 06:14 pressed amidst the turbulence of trying times.
• 06:20 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Every kitchen has a pantry.
• 06:22 Here's the storage closet for this home but unfortunately it's
• 06:26 not very well kept.
• 06:27 Why should it be? There's nothing in it.
• 06:30 In fact, the vine that just protrudes from it here looks
• 06:33 as dead as dead can be.
• 06:35 And that of itself bespeaks the nature of life here
• 06:39 in Northern Israel, why?
• 06:41 Because a drought has come.
• 06:42 Well, so much for the bad news.
• 06:45 People can start to look up a little bit roundabout.
• 06:47 You know why?
• 06:48 Because God has visited the city.
• 06:51 In fact, the prophet Eliyyahu came here.
• 06:54 Amidst the turbulence of trying times he engaged a woman.
• 06:58 He wanted to radically transform her life.
• 07:00 And what did he say? It was a strange saying indeed.
• 07:04 A woman pressed to the edge of despair, preparing her last
• 07:08 supper in effect.
• 07:09 The prophet shows up and in chapter 17 there
• 07:13 in verse 9, he says,
• 07:15 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 07:18 He says, "I've commanded this woman, "almanah," a widow,
• 07:24 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 07:25 "to sustain thee."
• 07:28 The Lord says to the prophet, "Go to that place because
• 07:32 there's a woman there."
• 07:34 And the word to her is that she's going to take care of you.
• 07:37 Seems rather odd.
• 07:39 Here's a woman pushed to the brink.
• 07:40 She has nothing for her own cupboard and her meager food
• 07:43 staples now are to be shared with the prophet.
• 07:46 Well, what happens is, you know, Eliyyahu comes to this woman
• 07:51 despairing as she is and he has a word for her we're told in
• 07:55 verse 13, and again, I'm looking here
• 07:57 at the 17th chapter, 1 Kings
• 07:59 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 08:04 "Don't fear."
• 08:06 And isn't that what happens sometimes?
• 08:08 We see our security drying up, we're at the ragged edge,
• 08:13 and the tendency is to fear.
• 08:16 In fact, the senses roundabout say,
• 08:18 "Fear, there's no rain, there's no grain.
• 08:22 The only thing that's growing roundabout is pain and things
• 08:25 aren't looking any better."
• 08:27 But then God shows up and when God shows up,
• 08:31 things can begin to change up.
• 08:33 We're told in the book "Tehillim," the Psalms, that he
• 08:36 can take a desert and turn it into a garden,
• 08:40 and that he can take a garden and turn it into a desert.
• 08:45 Well, what happens here, the woman says,
• 08:47 "Goodness, sir, I have nothing but these meager staples."
• 08:50 And what does the prophet say?
• 08:52 "Take that and give part of that to God's service.
• 08:57 And the net result will be that you will never run out."
• 09:01 I love the way it reads as we go on in the text.
• 09:04 In verse 16, well, what happens is the woman does that and
• 09:08 observes a miracle.
• 09:09 She makes a meal, gives some to the prophet,
• 09:11 and gives, and gives, and gives, but the blessing keeps coming,
• 09:16 and coming, and coming.
• 09:17 What a great story, what a miracle.
• 09:20 It's no wonder that Jews, the world over saying.
• 09:22 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 09:26 "This prophet who made a name for himself
• 09:29 by helping distraught women."
• 09:31 Or would it be that others within the sound of my voice
• 09:35 would learn that God cares about the widow,
• 09:37 God cares about the afflicted.
• 09:40 Here in fact, as this woman keeps giving,
• 09:42 she keeps getting.
• 09:43 In chapter 17 verse 16, we're told
• 09:46 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 09:50 "The jar of meal," the food staple,
• 09:53 "was not spent,
• 09:55 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 09:58 "that the cruse of oil was not spent.
• 10:00 And this,"
• 10:02 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 10:04 "this according to the Word of the Lord that was given through,
• 10:09 and to Elijah."
• 10:11 And friends that's a word I believe that's given to us
• 10:15 through the scripture.
• 10:16 That is, in as much as God cared about the widow who served him.
• 10:21 I want you to hear me on this.
• 10:23 In a world where women are abandoned by men,
• 10:27 a lot of people think, "Well, I'm the man,
• 10:28 boy, I have all these women and all these kids."
• 10:31 No, all that proves is that you're a male.
• 10:33 Now, if you're a man, what that means is that you are going to
• 10:37 take care of a woman.
• 10:39 Notice, here's a woman who serves the Lord in response to
• 10:43 which the Lord looks out for her interests.
• 10:46 While God does that miraculously I don't doubt.
• 10:50 A moral in the story is in as much as he does that to the
• 10:54 woman that serves him, so too those of us that wanna walk in
• 11:00 God's footsteps, if you will, and follow his examples,
• 11:03 we too are to be of service to the woman who's minded to be of
• 11:07 service to us.
• 11:09 It's for this reason in part when I go over
• 11:11 to the New Testament.
• 11:13 Therein there's a book called "Ya'kov."
• 11:15 Now you say, "Well, there's no book in the New Testament
• 11:17 called "Ya'kov."
• 11:18 That's only because you're not used to looking at the New
• 11:20 Testament through Jewish eyes.
• 11:22 And if you wonder why should you look at the New Testament
• 11:24 through Jewish eyes?
• 11:25 It's because Jesus was a Jew, all of his talmidim, his
• 11:28 disciples, were Jews, and the story took place in Israel,
• 11:31 the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people where I am
• 11:34 broadcasting from right now.
• 11:36 Here "Ya'kov" or James writes and he says in chapter
• 11:39 1 verse 27.
• 11:41 He says that, "Pure and true religion is to among other
• 11:44 things, visit widows and orphans in their affliction."
• 11:49 In as much as God does it, God would have those that follow in
• 11:52 his footsteps to do it.
• 11:54 And so it is we consider here the story of women in the world
• 11:58 in general, but in particular we wanna underscore God's concern
• 12:02 for women who are marginalized,
• 12:04 depressed, and distraught.
• 12:05 Let's get behind 'em and help 'em and abandon them no more.
• 12:11 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I remember when my first wife went on to be
• 12:14 with the Lord after 30 years together, sitting down at my
• 12:19 kitchen table, friends and family had left, I'm just
• 12:23 sitting there and I'm thinking, "My God, what am I gonna do?"
• 12:27 Letters started coming in, bills.
• 12:29 I hadn't written a check in 30 years,
• 12:32 she took care of everything.
• 12:34 And I remember just feeling so alone and vulnerable.
• 12:38 Fortunately, the Lord graced me with a helpmate,
• 12:42 Barri came on and we just finished seven years together.
• 12:45 But I remember that experience of wondering,
• 12:48 "How am I gonna get through this?"
• 12:49 I felt so ill-equipped.
• 12:51 The same is true with ministry, I should say, that is to say,
• 12:54 every month, whether it's a local church pastor or
• 12:57 television concern, we go, "How are we gonna do this?
• 13:00 You know, the rent's due."
• 13:02 I mentioned that because the bills are astronomical and
• 13:05 sometimes you wonder, goodness, are you gonna be able to find
• 13:08 the resource you need to get on down the road?
• 13:12 I wondered that as a widower and I wondered that as a minister on
• 13:17 more than one occasion too.
• 13:18 Fortunately for us, however, God speaks to hearts of people just
• 13:23 like you.
• 13:25 If you find value in what we do please don't leave us alone,
• 13:30 we need your extensions of grace not to feather our own pillows,
• 13:36 but in order to get this story out coast to coast and around
• 13:39 the world, it takes a dime and a dollar,
• 13:42 and we get it from caring people like you.
• 13:44 God notices when you do it, please do it because we could
• 13:48 use the help now.
• 13:51 David: Our resources this week,
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• 13:59 our time in heaven, the kingdom on earth,
• 14:02 and eternity.
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• 14:11 for so much extra content.
• 14:14 Find us at "Our Jewish Roots."
• 14:23 Esther: This was the second banquet I had prepared
• 14:25 for my king and a treacherous man, Haman.
• 14:31 I was chosen as queen of Persia, but now the lives of my people
• 14:36 and of my own were threatened with extinction.
• 14:41 I did my best to select the finest food and wine
• 14:44 for my enemy.
• 14:46 He tricked the king into signing an edict to eradicate the Jews,
• 14:51 but he didn't know I was one of them.
• 14:54 I had already risked my life once by going before the king
• 14:58 uninvited, an act punishable by death, but I found favor with
• 15:03 him, and now it was time for me to petition for my people and
• 15:09 reveal who I really was.
• 15:12 Perhaps Elohim did put me here for such a time as this,
• 15:17 for within the moment I pleaded before my King, Haman's fate was
• 15:22 already sealed...
• 15:23 ♪♪♪
• 15:32 at the gallows.
• 15:33 ♪♪♪
• 15:42 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: It's great to be noticed,
• 15:44 it's great to be chosen, isn't it?
• 15:47 Little girls grow up wondering who it'll be that they'll spend
• 15:51 the rest of their life with.
• 15:53 The concept of being chosen factors in the female psyche so
• 15:57 very significantly, not that I know from experience, having
• 16:01 raised but boys only, but I know boys and my boys are on the hunt
• 16:07 looking for that special lady, the one that will get their
• 16:10 attention and then hold it as they make their journey from the
• 16:15 womb to the tomb.
• 16:16 It's a great story, great to be blessed,
• 16:19 great to be noticed, great to be doted upon,
• 16:22 great to be counted special.
• 16:25 People want it, at a certain level people need it.
• 16:28 Some are blessed by it at levels more than others,
• 16:31 whether the object of pampering and attention,
• 16:34 the expenditure of resource.
• 16:36 You know, in the Bible, the Jewish people are referred to as
• 16:40 the chosen people and by association the church as well
• 16:44 was grafted into that concept, that is that God has his eye
• 16:49 upon these people referred to as his bride both in the New
• 16:53 Testament sense as well as in the Old Testament as well.
• 16:56 His bride, his love, the object of his particular affections.
• 17:02 Our story today alights upon Esther who providentially was
• 17:09 brought into the king's presence and she secured his favor and
• 17:15 her lot in life greatly was enhanced by virtue
• 17:18 of her so doing.
• 17:19 The King Caesar favors her
• 17:22 and we're told in Esther chapter 2 verse 17,
• 17:25 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 17:31 that "the king loved her above all women."
• 17:35 He noticed that she was particularly beautiful,
• 17:39 beyond that she had other characteristics that made her
• 17:42 altogether desirable.
• 17:44 And the net result again is that she had come into a fortunate
• 17:49 set of circumstances.
• 17:51 Some are more fortunate than others,
• 17:53 some are endowed with beauty in excess of others
• 17:57 or so it's perceived.
• 17:59 Some come into financial means better than others
• 18:02 or so it is perceived.
• 18:04 Of course, it's all relative, there's always someone more
• 18:06 beautiful, there's always someone richer,
• 18:08 there's always someone who's more powerful.
• 18:10 Instead, however, of going after just raw beauty and raw power,
• 18:14 the Bible asks a question and that is,
• 18:16 "How do we use our influence?"
• 18:20 I never raised girls, only boys, but if I had daughters,
• 18:23 I'd put the question to them, beautiful as they are,
• 18:26 how do you want to use that?
• 18:28 What do you wanna do with that?
• 18:30 And we're gonna consider that story as we explore women in
• 18:35 power in this series on women in the Bible.
• 18:40 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: If God has blessed us,
• 18:41 seems to me good to do more in life than simply seek
• 18:45 to be more blessed.
• 18:47 In the case of Esther, Mordecai says to her,
• 18:52 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 18:57 "Dear, how do you know that God hasn't done this for you
• 19:00 for such a time as this."
• 19:04 If I understand him correctly he's saying in effect,
• 19:06 "Listen, you have found yourself with a favorable set of
• 19:11 circumstances in life, would you not do well to use your
• 19:15 influence now for the betterment of others?"
• 19:19 This is preferred over forever looking to absorb more and more
• 19:23 and more out of life.
• 19:25 I think this is the essence of what it is to be a genuinely
• 19:30 beautiful human being--
• 19:33 that is to say, someone who has power they come upon it,
• 19:37 but they opt to use it for good as they should over and again
• 19:43 simply looking to leverage more attention,
• 19:45 more things, whatever, out of the environment,
• 19:49 that individuals can be transformed in this regard as
• 19:52 attested in the New Testament, as well as was noted just a
• 19:56 moment ago, in the Old.
• 19:57 In the 16th chapter of the Book of Acts,
• 20:02 there's an orthodox rabbi on a journey.
• 20:05 "Rav Sha'ul," the apostle Paul so-called is traveling about and
• 20:11 he has not found it in his heart to be ministering
• 20:14 in Israel proper.
• 20:16 He uses his energies to invest himself in expanding the
• 20:23 Messiah's kingdom beyond Israel's borders.
• 20:25 And this the apostle to the Gentiles forever goes into towns
• 20:30 and villages and he finds Jewish synagogues there and at such a
• 20:34 time as this, he's in a place called Philippi.
• 20:37 It's a Greco Roman city but he happens upon some Jews
• 20:41 that are meeting.
• 20:42 I wanna pick up in chapter 16 verse 13 where it's a Sabbath
• 20:47 and he goes out to, quote, "sit down and speak to women that
• 20:51 were meeting around the synagogue."
• 20:54 He happens upon one in particular, Luke tells us,
• 20:57 "A certain woman named Lydia,
• 20:59 heard us and she was a seller of purple."
• 21:02 In noting that she was a seller of purple,
• 21:05 this isn't underscoring that if you go into her shop, all she
• 21:07 has is purple goods, actually, there's an expression in Roman
• 21:12 culture to wear the purple.
• 21:14 This bespeaks those that have means, wealth.
• 21:18 Typically it's an emblem of royalty and this is a woman
• 21:22 who's a seller of purple, she is a fine clothier,
• 21:26 and she's a woman of means herself.
• 21:29 We're told in the text that "the Lord opened her heart to heed
• 21:34 the things that were spoken by Paul."
• 21:37 This is a woman who's part of Jewish communal life in the
• 21:41 Greco-Roman world.
• 21:42 Paul, a Jewish rabbi come to faith, is sharing the message of
• 21:46 Israel's Messiah and here in a Roman colony,
• 21:50 her heart is opened.
• 21:51 A woman of means and what does she do?
• 21:55 We're told in verse 15 that
• 21:58 "she and her household were baptized."
• 22:01 Of course, the mikvah is a ritual bath.
• 22:04 It was used for purification purposes in the Jewish world.
• 22:08 Individuals were immersed through the mikvah
• 22:12 in anticipation of marriage, sacred days,
• 22:15 and here now individuals are baptized in the wake of their
• 22:21 responding to the message of Israel's Messiah,
• 22:24 the message that the Messiah has come.
• 22:27 Now worthy of note here is that this woman heeds the call and
• 22:32 she invests her energy such that her family now gets caught up in
• 22:36 her momentum.
• 22:38 But not only that we're told as well that in the wake of her
• 22:41 being baptized, she begged us.
• 22:45 Luke is speaking of himself and Paul and those in the party.
• 22:48 She says, "Please," earnestly, she says,
• 22:51 "please," quote, "come to my house and stay."
• 22:56 She has a sizable home, she has a successful business,
• 23:00 she has influence and what does she do?
• 23:05 She's using it.
• 23:07 Could it be that within the sound of my voice they're
• 23:10 individuals, women, men, and you count yourself fortunate?
• 23:15 Others may well count you fortunate through beauty,
• 23:18 through wealth, through where you are in the social ladder.
• 23:21 Let me ask you a question, when is enough enough?
• 23:27 Let me answer that for you, and that is that if someone really
• 23:30 has the Ruach HaKodesh, the Holy Spirit in their heart,
• 23:34 I think we get to the point where the Lord would have us tap
• 23:37 on the brakes a little bit.
• 23:39 It's not about going faster through life,
• 23:41 it's not about going further.
• 23:43 One of the things that we learned from Esther,
• 23:46 and one of the things that we learned from Lydia,
• 23:48 and one of the things that we learned from salvation
• 23:50 experience, it's not all about building barns and tearing 'em
• 23:54 down and building bigger barns, the get to a point where we
• 23:59 reach a point.
• 24:00 When we're a child, we act like a child,
• 24:02 we think and we function like one but then when we mature,
• 24:06 we put away childish ways and we learn it's about loving others
• 24:09 not just absorbing so much of it ourselves.
• 24:13 I count myself blessed and ask the question,
• 24:16 "How can I do well in this world to serve God and others?"
• 24:19 My prayer is that you would do likewise as we consider the just
• 24:23 and equitable use of power and beauty in this, our series on
• 24:27 women in the Bible.
• 24:30 Kristen: As a woman participating in this series,
• 24:34 my greatest takeaway, I've got to say, is
• 24:37 that we as women can use our strengths,
• 24:41 our gifts, our abilities for good.
• 24:46 We learned and you taught about Delilah,
• 24:48 she used her strengths not for good,
• 24:51 for bad, but we have the opportunity and power within us
• 24:55 that we can do good things.
• 24:57 Queen Esther used her abilities, everything that she had inside
• 25:01 of her, to save the Jewish people.
• 25:04 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Right, for such a time as this.
• 25:06 And I think in a lot of churches,
• 25:08 by the way, it's the women that in so many ways are the pillars.
• 25:12 There's an old saying, "If you want something said,
• 25:14 talk to a man; if you want something done,
• 25:15 talk to a woman."
• 25:17 That--in so many ways, it's the women behind the scenes
• 25:20 to make it all work.
• 25:22 David: I was just thinking about our courting days,
• 25:24 33 years ago.
• 25:26 It was all good and everything was wonderful,
• 25:30 you really have no idea what you're getting into years later
• 25:33 in marriage but both of us are very thankful that we got--
• 25:36 Kristen: Oh, phew, I'm glad you went to a good place
• 25:38 with that--
• 25:39 I thought, where are you going with that?
• 25:40 David: You never know, you don't know.
• 25:42 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I was wondering if you were gonna go
• 25:43 to a dark place there.
• 25:45 David: I want that Proverbs 31 woman right there.
• 25:46 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: You want it, you got it,
• 25:47 right, mail order, I'm telling you.
• 25:49 Now we both did good and doesn't it do your heart good?
• 25:52 I know for me, whatever challenges I face in the world
• 25:55 and I do, I'm not wrestling with these relational entanglements
• 26:01 and dissatisfaction, because God graced me with
• 26:04 the Proverbs 31 plus.
• 26:06 Kristien: And might I jump in and say it does--
• 26:08 it is a partnership, it does take two for--
• 26:12 we talked about Lois and Eunice, and raising the children,
• 26:15 and teaching the children.
• 26:17 You know, you always said it's not 50-50,
• 26:19 it's 100-100 and we each have our roles but we do it together
• 26:23 and that I think is where the power is and the blessing is.
• 26:27 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah, and I think it's important to look at
• 26:28 roles too 'cause there's so much role confusion
• 26:30 in the modern world.
• 26:31 And young people, they're just not biblically aware and thus
• 26:38 the value in ministries like this--and thank you by the way,
• 26:41 for helping us to get the story out, really, all of us together
• 26:45 to bring the biblical testimony to life in the modern world.
• 26:49 David: We really don't hear about these women a lot in the
• 26:52 pulpit on Sunday mornings, but you brought it to life in this
• 26:55 series so we thank you for that.
• 26:57 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, whatever's in the book ought to
• 26:58 be in the church and it ought to to be in religious television.
• 27:00 We need to tell these stories, the men,
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• 27:04 David: Right.
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• 27:07 Another series but until then.
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