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Caption transcript for The First Christians (2019): “The Home” (2/9)

• 00:01 ♪♪♪
• 00:05 male announcer: Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer
• 00:07 to God for Israel is that they might be saved,
• 00:11 for there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek
• 00:14 for the same Lord over all is rich unto all
• 00:17 that call upon him.
• 00:20 "Zola Levitt Presents."
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• 00:38 David Hart: Thank you for joining us today
• 00:39 on "Zola Levitt Presents," I'm David Hart.
• 00:41 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 00:42 Jeffrey Seif: And I am Jeffrey Seif, and we want
• 00:45 to talk to you about getting some shalom in the home, peace
• 00:48 in the home, speaking of which we're going to look at where
• 00:51 life was played out in the ancient world.
• 00:53 David: I think things have changed since
• 00:56 the 1st century to now in a big way.
• 00:59 Jeffrey: In a big way, yes.
• 01:00 Today people can have 2,500 square feet.
• 01:02 Back then, you didn't necessarily have five.
• 01:04 Kirsten: But it worked. Jeffrey: It worked.
• 01:06 People learned to work together back then,
• 01:08 and there's something to be said for that.
• 01:09 Kirsten: Yes, and actually, right now we're going to go
• 01:12 on location in the Golan Heights to see what a home
• 01:16 might have been like in the 1st century.
• 01:21 Zvi Maoz: Well, I'm Zvi Maoz.
• 01:23 I was the chief archaeologist, the director of the excavation
• 01:25 here, and we are standing at the facade of the synagogue
• 01:28 of the ancient Qasrin and here you can see how the synagogue
• 01:31 is so close, how the houses of the village are encroaching
• 01:34 on the synagogue.
• 01:36 And you must understand that this is one of the only places
• 01:39 in Israel we can see such a combination of houses and
• 01:43 synagogue, and this is very true to reality because in the
• 01:47 ancient time the synagogue was very much a part
• 01:50 of the tissue of the ancient village.
• 01:52 And people used to go there very many times.
• 01:55 And the males used to go three times a week, Monday, Thursday,
• 01:58 and the family on the Saturday morning, and they would go pray.
• 02:02 But not only for praying they go, they went also for all sorts
• 02:06 of other community gatherings such as politics,
• 02:09 such as raising finances, celebrations, weddings,
• 02:13 bar mitzvahs, and things like that.
• 02:14 Everything that was communal in the village was
• 02:17 in the synagogues.
• 02:22 Now that we've seen how close the houses of the village are
• 02:26 to the synagogue, let's take a closer look at the house
• 02:29 adjacent to the synagogue.
• 02:33 Zola Levitt: Zvi and other archaeologists estimate
• 02:35 that 300 people lived in 75 homes located
• 02:38 here in Qasrin.
• 02:40 Zvi: I'm standing at the entrance to the house,
• 02:43 and as you can see there was a mezuzah here.
• 02:46 We are not certain that the mezuzah of the 1st century see
• 02:49 was exactly like this one.
• 02:51 It may have been some kind of a leather parchment dangling from
• 02:54 the wall or attached to one side, but there is no question
• 02:57 that they would have had one in the 1st century and later,
• 03:00 because that's the law.
• 03:02 The wooden door is similar to what they had in these years.
• 03:06 We reconstructed here a similar door.
• 03:08 Behind me is the outside oven which was used mostly
• 03:14 in the summer, but also in cases where it's--
• 03:16 when it was needed to bake the bread in.
• 03:18 It's a sort of a pit lined with clay on the outside.
• 03:21 They would put heat inside and would bake the bread.
• 03:24 We can also see from the outside of the house that in many cases,
• 03:28 these houses were divided into two storeys.
• 03:31 The main living room was two-storeys high
• 03:33 and on the side rooms, they many--
• 03:35 in many cases had balconies, which they could use.
• 03:38 These balconies and rooftops in the ancient time were very
• 03:42 important because this was a place not only for sleeping in
• 03:45 the heat of the summer, but also for drying foods, figs, grapes,
• 03:50 dates, everything which would--
• 03:52 to be conserved, foods that had to be conserved,
• 03:54 had to be dried, and this was done on the roof.
• 03:57 So the roof was a most important part
• 03:59 of the ancient house of that time.
• 04:03 It's true to say that Jesus and his disciples have seen houses
• 04:06 exactly like these, made of the same material.
• 04:11 The construction of a house in a village was a big event,
• 04:15 and the carpenter was always a very important part of the team,
• 04:18 who would supposed to build the scaffolding and all sorts
• 04:21 of semi support and interim support.
• 04:24 Then there would be the mason himself who would lay the stones
• 04:27 one by one on the courses, usually working by himself
• 04:31 according to the sources we have.
• 04:37 Almost every family in ancient time had a few animals
• 04:40 in the household not inside the house, but in some sort of
• 04:44 a shed of a colt that they had.
• 04:48 So this was average five, six animals for--per household.
• 04:51 This was the average of the house.
• 04:53 In the winter, they would have brought them into the house
• 04:56 and sometimes if the weather was really very bad.
• 04:58 There were families that specialized in growing animals
• 05:02 on the fringe of the village, and they would send the cheese
• 05:06 for the rest of the village in return for cereals
• 05:09 or for olive oil.
• 05:13 Zola: Bread was the basis of every meal in ancient times.
• 05:16 The process of making bread began with taking grain
• 05:19 from a storage area and grinding it into flour.
• 05:22 The flour was then mixed with salt and water
• 05:24 and kneaded by hand using a wooden bowl or plank.
• 05:28 Usually the dough was shaped into what we would call
• 05:31 pita bread; round, thin pieces that baked quickly using
• 05:35 very little heat.
• 05:39 Zvi: The typical house always comprising of living room
• 05:44 in which the family gathers, in which the family performs
• 05:47 all its role.
• 05:48 That's where they gather to eat.
• 05:50 That's where you find the table, usually not in the center
• 05:52 of the house.
• 05:53 It's usually stashed one side and brought to the center
• 05:55 only when it's needed.
• 05:58 Zola: In the 1st century, it was important to wash
• 06:00 the hands before eating since there were no utensils
• 06:03 like knives and forks.
• 06:04 By this time, the Pharisees had insisted that Jews follow
• 06:08 a prescribed procedure for hand washing.
• 06:11 Jesus's disciples did not always follow the ritual of the
• 06:13 Pharisees, but they did wash their hands before eating.
• 06:16 It was also customary to give thanks before the meal.
• 06:21 [speaking foreign language]
• 06:25 Zola: Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, king of the
• 06:28 universe, creator of the fruit of the vine.
• 06:33 [speaking foreign language]
• 06:38 Zola: Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, king of the
• 06:40 universe who bringeth forth bread from the earth.
• 06:44 These prayers have been said by the Jewish people for millennium
• 06:48 and are still in use today.
• 06:50 At the Last Supper, our Lord Jesus said the same these
• 06:53 prayers before partaking of the elements in the Passover meal.
• 07:10 Zola: Well, as Zvi was telling us, the people liked
• 07:12 to live in stone houses close into the synagogue.
• 07:17 They came off into worship.
• 07:19 People came daily--several times a day and some still do,
• 07:23 and they built their houses out of stone.
• 07:25 They built in a permanent way in Israel.
• 07:28 They still do that too.
• 07:29 It's a municipal law today in Jerusalem that all the buildings
• 07:32 have to be made of the natural stone found in the land,
• 07:36 the limestone.
• 07:38 So they built this way and the walls are still standing.
• 07:41 The houses had small rooms, a roof of straw and palm branches,
• 07:46 which is a good insulator.
• 07:48 And although the roofs are gone over time,
• 07:50 these stone wall houses remain.
• 07:56 Inside the house, the table was often set with at least
• 08:01 the staples of the diet of the day.
• 08:05 The bread, the peculiar flat bread baked in the earthen
• 08:09 ovens and of course the fruit of the vine always available.
• 08:14 And these were not only sacramental things,
• 08:19 as the Lord consecrated them, but they were the everyday fare
• 08:21 of the people.
• 08:23 In the house, a fire was going in the kitchen.
• 08:25 It was also for heat as well as for cooking,
• 08:28 and the house with its flat roof was really very serviceable.
• 08:33 In the village of Silwan today, just south of the temple wall
• 08:36 in Jerusalem, we can see flat roofs in an extraordinary
• 08:40 display of how they build on mountainsides.
• 08:43 And if you're going to live in a place like Jerusalem,
• 08:45 that is necessary.
• 08:47 Now, those flat roofs came in handy.
• 08:49 When Peter was visiting Simon the tanner in Acts 10--
• 08:53 and Acts 10 of course is an important chapter
• 08:55 we've taught many times,
• 08:57 the beginning of Gentile salvation.
• 08:59 Peter was visiting in Joppa and Caesarea--
• 09:02 that is Cornelius.
• 09:05 It says Caesarea sent for him.
• 09:07 Where do you think they found him?
• 09:09 It says, "On the morrow, as they went on their journey,"
• 09:11 that's Cornelius's men, "and drew nigh unto the city,
• 09:15 Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour."
• 09:20 So the flat roof got you out of the way of the family, the
• 09:24 children, the animals, and so on and gave you a place
• 09:27 to commune with the Lord.
• 09:29 It was regarded as a sort of a porch.
• 09:32 People actually put tubs of water out there and bathed
• 09:36 in a hot climate, in the sunny day, or in the evening.
• 09:42 And the story of David spying Bathsheba on her roof
• 09:47 in her bath, it's clear now if you consider these roofs
• 09:51 and how they worked that that could be seen.
• 09:54 The palace was the highest point in the city, and her roof
• 09:57 was just one of many that he could see.
• 10:02 We mentioned that the houses were well-built,
• 10:03 but there's a wonderful illustration in the Bible
• 10:05 of just how well-built.
• 10:07 In Israel, there are ancient cities going back very far.
• 10:12 At Megiddo you find Canaanite ruins from--
• 10:14 gosh, they were there, I suppose,
• 10:16 when Abraham arrived or thereafter.
• 10:19 And the Philistines built particularly well.
• 10:23 Along the coastline, they built stone houses facing the sea
• 10:27 breeze so that they were comfortable in the evenings
• 10:30 when the wind came in and they could relax
• 10:32 in these wonderful stone houses.
• 10:34 Well, the Israelis built a new city for immigrants across the
• 10:38 road called New Ashkelon and it filled up very fast as more
• 10:42 and more immigrants came over time.
• 10:45 And as new ones came speaking the same language, they too
• 10:50 wanted to live in New Ashkelon, but the services had run out.
• 10:53 The air conditioning, the electricity,
• 10:55 the water was overburdened.
• 10:58 They volunteered for a while that they would live in the
• 11:01 ruins of the Philistines, imagine that, in the houses that
• 11:04 were still there so well built 3,000 years before literally
• 11:10 in the reign of David and Solomon.
• 11:14 And so they were allowed to do that.
• 11:16 And I came once on a tour in a bus that went by that area,
• 11:20 seeing children's toys in the yard and laundry hanging by
• 11:26 the old ruins, and the Bible teacher on that tour shared
• 11:31 with us the wonderful verse Zephaniah 2:7 which says this:
• 11:36 "And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah.
• 11:40 They shall feed thereupon; in the houses of Ashkelon shall
• 11:44 they lie down in the evening, for the Lord their God
• 11:47 shall visit them and turn away their captivity."
• 11:50 Imagine God remembered all this time his people out there,
• 11:54 brought them back, and put them in those houses just
• 11:56 as the prophet foretold.
• 11:58 That prophecy has a range of 2,700 years and lands
• 12:03 in one little town.
• 12:05 ♪♪♪
• 12:15 Jeffrey: Our Creator shows certain places on the planet to
• 12:18 reveal himself and his message of redemption to us:
• 12:23 Mount Sinai, Moriah, Olives, the Mount of Beatitudes
• 12:27 as well as various seas, rivers, and deserts.
• 12:30 These were the places.
• 12:32 Some are now only ruins yet they continue to tell
• 12:35 of the Lord's faithfulness and love.
• 12:38 These sacred backdrops have been beautifully captured
• 12:42 in our resource this week, the book "Heaven and Earth:
• 12:47 Landmarks of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation."
• 12:51 Our producer and director, Ken Berg, has assembled some
• 12:55 of his favorite photographs taken during his four decades
• 12:59 of travel through the lands of the Bible.
• 13:04 Contact us and ask for the book "Heaven and Earth."
• 13:10 ♪♪♪
• 13:20 [singing foreign language]
• 13:28 ♪ In the holy city of Jerusalem, ♪
• 13:34 ♪ we will pray for peace. ♪
• 13:37 ♪ Shalom. ♪
• 13:47 David: If you love worshiping as much as we love to lead
• 13:49 worship, we would love for you to join us on a tour to Israel,
• 13:53 Greece, even Petra.
• 13:55 Everywhere we go, we lead you in worship.
• 13:58 Join us.
• 13:59 You can find all the information on levitt.com.
• 14:01 Right now let's go back to Zola's teaching in Israel.
• 14:06 Zola: Well, the door of the house was a special thing
• 14:08 too--the very door jamb because it had Scripture
• 14:12 on it in a box called a mezuzah.
• 14:14 Every Jewish home has this now.
• 14:17 In Israel, every single hotel room has this little box
• 14:20 of Scripture on the side of the door and in there is the
• 14:24 Scripture from the law, most likely Deuteronomy 6:4
• 14:29 [speaking foreign language]
• 14:32 "Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God,
• 14:34 the Lord is one."
• 14:36 The lentils of the door, the trim on the jamb,
• 14:39 was used in Egypt on Passover night.
• 14:41 As you know, they were told to put blood on the lentils
• 14:44 and swabbing the door with the blood.
• 14:46 They put it on either side and on the top, and of course if you
• 14:50 join those with lines somehow you make a cross.
• 14:54 The floors of the house were very important, that they be
• 14:56 strong, build on a strong foundation as the Lord advised.
• 15:01 One method was to soak soil constantly with oil and pack it
• 15:05 down and pack it down until you virtually had a waterproof floor
• 15:09 as if it were covered with linoleum.
• 15:12 In any case, the Lord made a parable about the man
• 15:15 who built his house upon rock.
• 15:17 You can't get a stronger floor than that.
• 15:19 And the parable teaches that that is the way to build,
• 15:22 and that is the way they built.
• 15:25 The table sometimes was just a mat laid on the floor
• 15:30 sometimes with a small table.
• 15:32 Some houses, if they admired the Roman culture, had the
• 15:35 three-sided triclinium table in the grander houses.
• 15:38 But in a religious house, you would probably find a table
• 15:41 very, very simple, maybe something like this,
• 15:44 maybe lower.
• 15:46 But in any case, just serviceable,
• 15:48 not fancy at least in religious homes.
• 15:53 The oil lamp could be found just everywhere,
• 15:56 and we have a small one here.
• 15:59 It's an ancient.
• 16:01 At that time, it was an ancient fixture of the house.
• 16:04 Oil lamps have been found from 4,000 years ago and going back.
• 16:07 It's one of the simplest and most useful tools
• 16:11 that man has ever developed.
• 16:13 And the Lord love the idea of oil as the Holy Spirit,
• 16:17 and throughout the Scripture we see the believer characterized
• 16:22 as a kind of an oil lamp.
• 16:24 In 2 Corinthians 4, we are characterized as
• 16:28 but earthen vessels but having a flame within.
• 16:32 The church eventually is called a candlestick,
• 16:34 which is another kind of oil lamp.
• 16:37 In the Revelation 2 and 3, the Lord threatens,
• 16:39 "I'll remove your candlestick if you don't do these things
• 16:42 or if you remain guilty of these things."
• 16:45 There's a wonderful parable in Matthew 25 about
• 16:49 the ten virgins.
• 16:51 Five had oil for their lamps and five did not, you'll recall.
• 16:54 The oil was all important to a young bride.
• 16:57 We've often told the story of the bridegroom coming
• 17:00 to propose, pouring her a cup of wine.
• 17:02 She drinks it and he says, "I go to prepare a place for you."
• 17:05 He goes back to his father's house to build her a mansion,
• 17:08 a little bridal chamber for their honeymoon,
• 17:11 and she for her part has to trim her oil lamp
• 17:13 every night because the wedding contract said he
• 17:16 can come for her any night and take her away.
• 17:20 She's his from the moment she drinks the cup, but he does have
• 17:23 to finish this chamber, she doesn't know when he's coming,
• 17:26 and so she waits.
• 17:28 And she waits particularly with this oil lamp trimmed
• 17:32 at night because they like to come at midnight.
• 17:35 They like to steal the bride out of her bed in the middle
• 17:37 of the night, wake her and take her away.
• 17:41 And so it says in the parable, it was midnight
• 17:43 and a cry was made.
• 17:45 Well, you have unusual situation that the Lord proposed
• 17:47 in this parable.
• 17:49 There are ten virgins and they're supposed to be ready
• 17:53 to go when their bridegroom comes.
• 17:55 It seems to characterize the peoples of the church perhaps,
• 17:58 and the bridegroom does come at midnight.
• 18:01 But it says five had oil and five did not,
• 18:04 and the ones that did not could not go with him.
• 18:06 The idea is--it's pitch dark outside and they're going to be
• 18:09 running through the rugged fields of Israel,
• 18:12 which are rocky and dangerous and hilly.
• 18:17 And so the idea was that she had to have a lamp in her hand
• 18:21 or it's just asking for a broken ankle or something.
• 18:23 She'll never get to the chamber.
• 18:25 That was the story.
• 18:27 And so it says the five that had no oil went out to buy some oil.
• 18:31 They knew what they needed.
• 18:32 That teaches a wonderful lesson.
• 18:34 They knew who the bridegroom was.
• 18:36 They weren't surprised to hear the shouts:
• 18:38 "The bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet him."
• 18:40 They knew they needed oil so they went out to buy some.
• 18:44 Virgins want to get married.
• 18:46 What was their mistake?
• 18:48 Only that they didn't think he was coming that night.
• 18:51 They probably would have gone during the day, the next day
• 18:53 to get some oil, but they failed to have it at that very night.
• 18:58 And so I guess it teaches there should never be a night
• 19:02 when we do not think the Lord can come.
• 19:05 He can come any night.
• 19:07 I always like to say more likely tonight than last night.
• 19:09 He didn't come last night.
• 19:12 There will be a night that he comes.
• 19:13 He's paid a terrific price for this bride,
• 19:15 and he will be back to take us so that we can be there
• 19:18 where he is.
• 19:20 He said all that at the upper room, and we have to be very,
• 19:24 very touched.
• 19:26 Passover itself is a very good example of how
• 19:30 the home was used.
• 19:32 The in-laws, the children that had made,
• 19:34 their children would come, everybody would come,
• 19:36 even though it's a small room crowding.
• 19:39 And you recall, the Lord and his men having Passover
• 19:42 in an upper room.
• 19:43 When we go to Israel and see the upper room,
• 19:46 the traditionally accepted, it is a very large upper room.
• 19:50 But I imagine in many towns, somebody lent a room to--
• 19:55 singles to people that weren't with their family,
• 19:58 to people away from home to have a Passover.
• 20:00 They probably held Passover in bedrooms.
• 20:03 Passover has been held in jail cells,
• 20:04 in concentration camps, in cellars, in the ghettos.
• 20:09 The Jews always celebrate Passover one form or another
• 20:12 on the first full moon of spring no matter where they are,
• 20:15 who has them captive, or whatever,
• 20:17 and the house of course was critical.
• 20:20 There was always a mat or a nicer table and special
• 20:25 artifacts, nice dishes, and the cloth that come with Passover,
• 20:30 a much touch for keeping the hidden piece of bread.
• 20:34 Of course they wouldn't use this bread because it has leaven
• 20:39 the round bread, but they would bake without leaven.
• 20:40 So they'd have a perfectly flat sheet with stripes because they
• 20:45 would grill it and pierced with holes so that the heat would go
• 20:50 through it without any rising agent to--
• 20:53 in order to cook through,
• 20:55 you had to punch it like a pie crust.
• 20:56 And so you would end up with that Passover matzah, pierced,
• 21:01 striped, pure, really the body of the Lord.
• 21:05 The Lord said, "This is my body and so you have it unleavened."
• 21:08 Leaven in the Bible is sin.
• 21:09 So unleavened bread is his body, sinless.
• 21:13 "By his stripes are we healed."
• 21:15 They shall look upon me whom they have pierced.
• 21:17 And then the fruit of the vine always be served,
• 21:21 but on Passover a special wine.
• 21:24 Today there's Passover wines that are said
• 21:27 to be kosher for Passover.
• 21:29 [speaking foreign language]
• 21:31 as we said in my household.
• 21:32 And this wine is different.
• 21:35 It's better than the year round wine, and that's an important
• 21:38 point because when the Lord when he put his cup down
• 21:40 at the Passover table said, "I'll not drink of this wine,"
• 21:44 this Passover wine, "until I drink it new with you
• 21:47 in my Father's Kingdom."
• 21:49 Not just any wine, but he would not take of this particular cup,
• 21:53 meaning that we will celebrate Passover
• 21:55 in his father's kingdom.
• 21:57 Scripture is clear that we'll do the Feast of Tabernacles
• 21:59 in Zechariah 14:16.
• 22:01 We'll do the high feasts throughout the kingdom.
• 22:05 Gosh, people have written in saying
• 22:07 how can I say they'll do sacrifices in the kingdom?
• 22:10 I didn't say that. God said that.
• 22:13 If you look in Ezekiel 43 and 45, you will see sacrifices
• 22:16 of a memorial nature, even in the millennial kingdom
• 22:20 just as we do this bread and wine in a memorial style
• 22:24 at Passover remembering the Lord's sacrifice
• 22:27 and what he said on that Passover night
• 22:30 in that upper room, in that house where
• 22:32 they offered such wonderful hospitality.
• 22:35 Hospitality is legendary in the Middle East.
• 22:39 Strangers can come, they are welcome.
• 22:41 Bowls of water for their feet.
• 22:43 Foot washing was very common.
• 22:44 You come off the hot road or the desert and a good host
• 22:47 would actually do you this service which is so relieving.
• 22:52 And once I went to a Bedouin tent--
• 22:55 they are famous for receiving strangers graciously.
• 22:59 We were making the program.
• 23:00 They gave us the best place to sit,
• 23:02 a stone in the doorway where the breeze blew by.
• 23:06 They served us tea, and we took an Arabic interpreter with us
• 23:12 and I asked his advice when I went into the tent.
• 23:16 "Can I discuss any subject with my Bedouin host that might be
• 23:21 of interest to our viewers?"
• 23:23 And he said, "Well, talk about anything you like."
• 23:25 This was during the Lebanon campaign and politics
• 23:28 in Israel were hansy as usual.
• 23:31 I said to him, "Can I discuss politics with them?"
• 23:35 Whatever you like, you will receive simply perfect
• 23:38 hospitality in the tent.
• 23:40 If you've offended him in any way, when you leave and get
• 23:43 beyond a certain perimeter outside the camp,
• 23:45 he'll come after you and kill you.
• 23:47 So he told me.
• 23:49 And so I thought, "Well, maybe he's hinting that I shouldn't
• 23:51 discuss politics," and I didn't on that occasion.
• 23:56 You would certainly be served bread, lahem,
• 23:59 the staple of life.
• 24:01 The Lord said, "I am the bread of life."
• 24:03 It was bread that God fed the children of Israel on out there
• 24:06 in the Exodus and it was--it's bread that the Lord actually was
• 24:14 when that unleavened piece was broken and wrapped and buried as
• 24:20 it is every Passover ceremony and brought forth again
• 24:24 at the third cup.
• 24:26 ♪♪♪
• 24:36 ♪♪♪
• 24:46 ♪♪♪
• 24:56 ♪♪♪
• 25:06 ♪♪♪
• 25:16 ♪♪♪
• 25:23 Jeffrey: And that was Zola.
• 25:26 For that matter, this is, as you know, "Zola Levitt Presents."
• 25:31 Truth be known, Zola hasn't presented for a dozen years,
• 25:36 but still the legacy carries on.
• 25:40 We're not just going on the steam that Zola generated
• 25:44 in his day.
• 25:45 Of course he built this house.
• 25:47 I wrote a book with him when I was apprenticing with him called
• 25:50 "The House That God Built."
• 25:52 It was on the tabernacle.
• 25:54 Truth be known, this is the house that he built, and I know
• 25:56 that I and Dave and Kirsten, we are inhabiting a home
• 26:02 that someone else constructed.
• 26:04 And the reason why that home stands and the reason why we
• 26:08 inhabit it is because you find value in it.
• 26:12 Those of us that have spent time on the planet know that people
• 26:15 come and people go.
• 26:17 It's a fact of life, and it's a fact of the Christian life
• 26:21 as well that when someone lays down the torch,
• 26:24 someone picks it up and carries it.
• 26:27 And I want to thank you for helping us to burn bright
• 26:32 and shine the light in this lighthouse that was
• 26:35 a house that Zola Levitt built.
• 26:38 Great ministry, isn't it?
• 26:40 David: Home, very important to us.
• 26:42 Kirsten: We share one. David: Takes some work, right?
• 26:44 Kirsten It does. It does.
• 26:46 You have to build it.
• 26:47 Jeffrey: Yes it does, and people working together
• 26:48 in the home so love can permeate and God's graces can--
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• 26:55 Jeffrey: Make your way.
• 26:56 Kirsten: Talking about work, building house takes work.
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