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Caption transcript for Champions of Faith: “Worship — Abel” (1/11)

• 00:06 HEBREWS 11 HONORS THE CHAMPIONS
• 00:08 OF FAITH WHO WANDERED IN DESERTS
• 00:10 AND IN MOUNTAINS AND CAVES OF THE EARTH.
• 00:13 BECAUSE OF THIS CLOUD OF WITNESSES,
• 00:15 WE CAN RUN WITH PATIENCE THE RACE THAT IS SET BEFORE US.
• 00:18 ♪♪
• 00:51 SHALOM, HELLO AGAIN, WELCOME TO OUR NEW SERIES.
• 00:53 IT IS ON FAITH.
• 00:56 AND YOU KNOW, I'VE HEARD IT SAID
• 00:58 WHY ISN'T THERE A CHAPTER IN THE BIBLE ON FAITH?
• 00:59 THERE REALLY IS.
• 01:02 HEBREWS 11 IS WHAT WE ARE GOING TO COVER IN THIS SERIES AND THAT'S ABOUT FAITH.
• 01:05 THE ESSENCE OF FAITH AND THE USES OF FAITH AND THE EXAMPLES OF FAITH.
• 01:09 FAITH IS THE SURENESS,
• 01:13 THE HOPE OF THINGS THAT WE DON'T SEE OR TO PUT IT IN SCRIPTURAL WORDS,
• 01:33 AND THE OLD TESTAMENT PERSONALITIES BY MEANS OF THIS
• 01:35 FAITH SERVED GOD WELL.
• 01:38 AND THEN THE CHAPTER GOES ON AND IT ILLUSTRATES HOW
• 01:43 THE OLD TESTAMENT PERSONALITIES DID THIS.
• 01:46 YOU KNOW, IT SAYS BY FAITH THE UNIVERSE WAS FORMED BY GOD
• 01:49 SO THAT THINGS THAT ARE SEEN
• 01:51 ARE MADE OF THINGS THAT ARE NOT VISIBLE.
• 02:07 WHEN I WAS IN CAMPUS CRUSADE,
• 02:08 THE TEACHER STRESSED HOW WE HAVE DISCOVERED ONLY RECENTLY
• 02:12 THE MOLECULAR AND ATOMIC THEORY AND FOUND OUT LITERALLY
• 02:16 THE THINGS WE SEE ARE MADE UP OF THINGS WE CAN'T SEE.
• 02:20 I DON'T THINK WITH OUR BEST ELECTRON MICROSCOPES WE HAVE
• 02:23 EVER REALLY SEEN AN ATOM,
• 02:25 WE HAVE SEEN HOW ATOMS ACT AND HOW THEY PERFORM.
• 02:28 BUT THE THINGS WE SEE IN LIFE, A BUILDING, A CHAIR OR PERSON
• 02:33 ARE MADE OF THESE THINGS WE ARE NOT VISIBLE AND WE CAN NEVER SEE.
• 02:37 IT IS AN INTERESTING REFERENCE FROM AN ANCIENT SOURCE.
• 02:40 WELL, THE CHAPTER GOES ON FROM THERE COMMENDING CERTAIN PERSONALITIES.
• 02:46 IT GOES TO ABEL.
• 02:49 BY FAITH HE OFFERED UNTO GOD A BETTER SACRIFICE.
• 02:52 HE WAS COMMENDED FOR HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS BECAUSE HE
• 02:55 GAVE THE BLOOD, HE SACRIFICED A LAMB.
• 02:59 AND THE CHAPTER POINTS OUT THAT ABEL'S BLOOD STILL SPEAKS TO US BY FAITH.
• 03:03 BY FAITH, ENOCH WAS TAKEN UP.
• 03:06 HE DIDN'T DIE.
• 03:07 IT SAYS HE HAD NO DEATH.
• 03:09 HE'S ONE WHO PLEASED GOD AND WAS TAKEN UP IN TRANSLATION.
• 03:13 A TYPE, AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE CHURCH WHICH
• 03:16 SHALL BE DIRECTLY TRANSLATED TO GOD.
• 03:19 PERHAPS, ENOCH IS ONE OF THE TWO WITNESSES THAT WE READ
• 03:22 ABOUT IN REVELATION 11
• 03:24 WHO EVIDENTLY STILL HAVE A MISSION TO DO IN THE END TIMES.
• 03:27 ONE MAY BE ENOCH AND ONE ELIJAH
• 03:29 BECAUSE THOSE TWO DID NOT DIE ON EARTH.
• 03:34 THEY WERE TAKEN UP BY GOD AND YET THE SCRIPTURES SAYS IT IS
• 03:38 APPOINTED UNTO EACH MAN ONCE TO DIE.
• 03:41 SO THOSE TWO MEN HAVE NOT DIED YET.
• 03:44 IT IS ONLY A THEORY.
• 03:45 THEY MAY BE THE TWO WITNESSES.
• 03:47 OTHERS SAY THE TWO WITNESSES WILL BE MOSES AND ELIJAH
• 03:49 BECAUSE THE TWO WITNESSES DO MIRACLES THAT THOSE TWO PERSONALITIES DID.
• 03:53 I AM NOT INSISTING ON IT,
• 03:55 BUT IT IS VERY INTERESTING THAT ENOCH LIKE ELIJAH WAS TRANSLATED.
• 04:00 AND IT SAYS WITHOUT FAITH, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE GOD.
• 04:04 HE REWARDS THOSE WHO SEEK HIM.
• 04:07 AND THEN THE EXAMPLE OF NOAH IS GIVEN.
• 04:09 I AM NOT COVERING EVERY PERSONALITY GIVEN.
• 04:11 BUT NOAH IS GIVEN COMMENDATION FOR BUILDING THE ARK.
• 04:15 MY GOODNESS, WHAT AN EXAMPLE OF FAITH.
• 04:17 IT HAD NEVER RAINED.
• 04:19 TALK ABOUT WORKS.
• 04:20 NOAH IS CONVINCED OF THE LORD'S WARNING OF THE FLOOD
• 04:24 AND HE BEGINS TO BUILD A BOAT, A SHIP, AN ARK.
• 04:27 AND PEOPLE ARE SAYING WHAT ARE YOU BUILDING AND EVEN WHEN IT
• 04:30 IS FINISHED HAVING NO IDEA WHAT IT IS.
• 04:33 RIDICULING HIM ALL THE WAY AS HE DID THIS WORK BY FAITH.
• 04:38 AND THEN BY FAITH, ABRAHAM CHANGED COUNTRIES,
• 04:41 700 MILES OR SO HE CAME
• 04:45 FROM UROF THE CHALDEES TO CANAAN.
• 04:49 AND THERE HE OFFERED ISAAC IN SACRIFICE.
• 04:53 TALK ABOUT AN ACT OF FAITH.
• 04:54 HE WAS ABSOLUTELY PREPARED TO KILL HIS SON,
• 04:59 HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON WITH HIS
• 05:01 WIFE SARAH WHO GOD HAD PROMISED WOULD CONTINUE THE COVENANT.
• 05:07 HE HAD TO BELIEVE THAT GOD WOULD RESURRECT ISAAC FROM THE
• 05:09 DEAD AND STILL HE WAS WILLING TO SACRIFICE HIM BY FAITH.
• 05:13 AND BY FAITH, ISAAC GAVE THE BLESSING
• 05:16 TO HIS YOUNGER SON OF THE TWINS.
• 05:18 HE GAVE IT TO JACOB AND NOT ESAU.
• 05:20 THAT WAS GOD'S WILL.
• 05:21 BY FAITH, HE DUG WELLS.
• 05:23 HE WAS THE WELL DIGGER.
• 05:25 HE PREPARED THE LAND FOR PEOPLE AFTER HIM.
• 05:27 HE WAS THE FIRST BORN JEWISH PERSON.
• 05:30 IMAGINE BEING CONVINCED THAT A COUNTRY BELONGS TO YOUR PEOPLE
• 05:34 AND YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE.
• 05:36 YOU ARE THE ONLY PERSON OF THE JEWS AND THAT'S YOUR COUNTRY.
• 05:42 AND YET, I AM STANDING IN A JEWISH COUNTRY IN ISRAEL TODAY.
• 05:44 ISAAC HAD THE FAITH TO BELIEVE THAT WHEN HE WAS VIRTUALLY ALONE HERE.
• 05:48 BY FAITH, MOSES SAW GOD.
• 05:51 IMAGINE, HE'S THE ONLY MAN WHO EVER SAW GOD.
• 05:53 HE BEHELD ALMIGHTY GOD AND COVERED HIS FACE WITH A VEIL.
• 05:57 HE LEAD THE EXODUS BY FAITH.
• 05:59 40 YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS.
• 06:02 AND BY FAITH, JOSHUA AND RAHAB BELIEVED IN THE LAND AND IN THE
• 06:08 PROMISES THAT THE JEWS WOULD OCCUPY THIS CANAAN AND CALL IT ISRAEL.
• 06:13 AND THE TWO OF THEM -- YOU KNOW, JOSHUA WAS ONE OF THE
• 06:15 SPIES THAT IN AT KADESH-BARNEA EARLY IN THE EXODUS,
• 06:20 AND ESTIMATED THAT THE HEBREWS COULD TAKE THE LAND.
• 06:23 10 SAID, "NO, YOU COULDN'T."
• 06:27 BUT JOSHUA AND CALEB SAID, "YES, YOU CAN WITH GOD'S HELP."
• 06:30 AND HE BELIEVED IN THE LAND.
• 06:32 RAHAB, THE HARLOT OF JERICHO, A GENTILE WOMAN
• 06:36 AND MEDIOCRE WOMAN, BUT SHE SAID LOOKING THE JEWS IN THE FACE,
• 06:41 "I KNOW THE LORD HATH GIVEN YOU THE LAND."
• 06:47 OH, THAT THE GENTILES PEOPLE OF TODAY WOULD OPEN THEIR MOUTHS
• 06:49 AND SAY, "I KNOW THAT THE LORD HATH GIVEN THE JEWS THE LAND."
• 06:52 THE NEW TESTAMENT PERSONALITIES AREN'T MENTIONED.
• 06:54 THIS BOOK IS HEBREWS WRITTEN IN THE NEW TESTAMENT TO THE JEWS
• 06:57 WHO ARE READING THE OLD TESTAMENT,
• 06:59 SO IT COVERS OLD TESTAMENT PERSONALITIES.
• 07:01 BUT WE COULD AS WELL GO ON WITH PAUL'S SUFFERING FOR THE FAITH.
• 07:05 MY GOODNESS, HE SPENT MANY A NIGHT IN JAIL AND HE WAS WHIPPED,
• 07:08 RUN FROM PLACE TO PLACE AND SUFFERED A GREAT DEAL FOR THE FAITH.
• 07:12 AND STEPHEN, THE FIRST MARTYR,
• 07:15 STONED TO DEATH AND YET TESTIFYING AS HE DIED TO THE FAITH.
• 07:19 THESE PEOPLE MADE THEIR FAITH REALLY COUNT FOR SOMETHING AND IT COUNTED WITH GOD.
• 07:28 AND ABEL GATHERED STONES FROM THE EARTH TO BUILD AN ALTAR TO JEHOVAH.
• 07:37 HE BROUGHT KINDLING AND LIT THE SACRIFICIAL FIRE.
• 07:47 AS HE TENDED HIS FLOCK, HE THOUGHT OF WHAT HE COULD
• 07:50 OFFER UNTO THE MOST HIGH GOD THAT WOULD BE WORTHY.
• 07:54 WHAT SHOULD IT BE?
• 07:56 THE GOD OF THE UNIVERSE HAD FORMED THE WORLD AND EVERYTHING IN IT.
• 08:05 EVERYTHING IN THE HEAVENS AND ON THE EARTH CAME FROM GOD.
• 08:10 ABEL'S BROTHER CAIN WOULD OFFER THE FRUIT OF THE GROUND.
• 08:13 BUT ABEL GAVE HIS MOST PRECIOUS POSSESSION,
• 08:17 THE BEST THAT HE HAD.
• 08:23 THE HERDSMAN SEARCHED HIS FLOCK AND CHOSE ONE SPOTLESS LAMB TO GIVE GLORY AND HONOR TO GOD.
• 08:37 AND THE LORD, WHO WALKED IN THE GARDEN WITH ABEL'S FATHER, ADAM
• 08:40 LOOKED UPON ABEL'S HEART AND FOUND IT GOOD.
• 08:48 THE SHEDDING OF BLOOD WOULD BE ACCEPTABLE IN GOD'S SIGHT.
• 08:53 BY FAITH, HE WAS COMMENDED AS A RIGHTEOUS MAN.
• 08:57 WHEN GOD SPOKE WELL OF THE SACRIFICIAL OFFERING.
• 09:06 WELL, AS ITS FIRST EXAMPLE OF FAITH IN ACTION,
• 09:09 HEBREWS 11 PRESENTS THE STORY OF ABEL AND WE ALL KNOW THAT STORY.
• 09:32 AND THE POINT IS MADE VERY, VERY QUICKLY THAT IT IS
• 09:35 THE BLOOD THAT GOD WANTS FOR REMISSION OF SINS.
• 09:39 LEVITICUS 17:11, I HAVE GIVEN THE BLOOD FOR REMISSION OF SINS.
• 09:44 AND RIGHT OFF IN GENESIS WE SEE THE PRINCIPLE.
• 09:48 GENESIS IS THE BOOK OF FIRSTS, FIRST THINGS.
• 09:53 AND WE SAW THE FIRST SIN WHEN EVE ATE OF THE FRUIT
• 09:57 AND SHE GAVE IT TO ADAM AND GOD SAID,
• 09:59 "ADAM, WHAT HAPPENED HERE?"
• 10:01 AND HE SAID, "IT WAS THE WOMAN,"
• 10:02 NOT JUST THAT, BUT IT WAS, "THE WOMAN YOUGAVE ME,"
• 10:06 TRYING TO SHIFT THE BLAME BACK TO GOD.
• 10:10 AND THAT WAS MAN VERSUS GOD.
• 10:12 AND WITH CAIN AND ABEL WE HAVE THE SIN OF MAN VERSUS MAN.
• 10:16 THEY ARE BROTHERS, OF COURSE, BUT THE FIRST DEATH RESULTS
• 10:20 FROM THEIR FIRST ACT OF WORSHIP.
• 10:23 ABEL, IT IS A BIGGER POINT BEING MADE.
• 10:26 HE WAS IN A RIGHT RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD.
• 10:28 HE UNDERSTOOD WHAT GOD WANTED.
• 10:30 AND GOD HAD CURSED THE GROUND AND YET,
• 10:34 CAIN GAVE OF THE GROUND AND ABEL'S SACRIFICE HAD THE BLOOD
• 10:40 AND THIS IS LATER PROVED PERFECT IN THE BIBLE AS A SACRIFICE.
• 10:44 BUT THE FIRST MURDER RESULTS FROM CAIN'S CHOICE AND GOD'S PREFERENCE.
• 10:49 AND YOU KNOW, THE PRINCIPLE ALWAYS CONTINUES IN HISTORY.
• 10:54 "CAIN PEOPLE" ALWAYS KILL "ABEL PEOPLE" SO TO SPEAK.
• 10:58 THE WORLD IS MADE UP --
• 10:59 IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT THAT WAY,
• 11:01 PEOPLE, WHO LIKE CAIN,
• 11:02 CANNOT BELIEVE IN GOD AND CANNOT DO GOD'S WAY OF THINGS.
• 11:05 AND OF ABEL PEOPLE WHO DO BELIEVE IN GOD AND HAVE FAITH.
• 11:10 LOOK AT THE WORLD VERSUS THE CHURCH.
• 11:12 IN EVERY GENERATION, YOU HAVE WORLDLY PEOPLE VERSUS THE RELIGIOUS PEOPLE.
• 11:18 LOOK AT IN OUR TIME. ISLAM VERSUS ISRAEL,
• 11:23 AS THOUGH THE PRESENCE OF RELATIVE HANDFUL OF JEWISH
• 11:27 PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST IS INTERRUPTING THE PROGRESS
• 11:30 OF 21 OR 22 ARAB DICTATORSHIPS AND YET,
• 11:34 THE ANIMOSITY GOES ON AND ON.
• 11:37 RELIGIOUS-KIND OF ANIMOSITY.
• 11:40 "CAIN PEOPLE" VERSUS "ABEL PEOPLE."
• 11:43 AND THE MEDIA VERSUS ISRAEL.
• 11:45 AND THE SAME BIAS CONTINUES AND CONTINUES.
• 11:49 AND PREFERENCE OF A DICTATORSHIP OVER A DEMOCRACY
• 11:54 AND THE PREFERENCE FOR A POLICE STATE
• 11:56 OVER AN ALLY OF THE UNITED STATES AND SO ON.
• 12:01 AND THE MEDIA CONTINUING.
• 12:03 IT IS CAIN VERSUS ABEL ALL OVER AGAIN.
• 12:06 YOU KNOW, WHEN THE LORD ENCOUNTERED THE SAMARITAN WOMAN
• 12:10 YOU HAD AN INTERESTING WORLDLY PERSON VERSUS MESSIAH HIMSELF IN
• 12:15 A DISCUSSION AND THAT IS A MOST INTERESTING DISCUSSION.
• 12:19 YOU KNOW, THE SAMARITAN WOMAN TRIES TO INVOLVE THE LORD IN THEOLOGICAL TANGLES.
• 12:24 SHE SAID, "WE HAVE ALWAYS WORSHIPED IN THIS MOUNTAIN
• 12:26 "WHERE OUR FATHER JACOB WAS."
• 12:30 AND YOU SAY -- YOU JEWS SAY --
• 12:33 IN EFFECT, SHE'S SAYING TO JESUS, THAT WE SHOULD WORSHIP IN JERUSALEM.
• 12:36 AND HE ANSWERS HER IN A MOST POWERFUL WAY.
• 13:02 THAT'S AN INTERESTING STATEMENT.
• 13:03 AND IT'S A ANOTHER WHOLE PROGRAM IN THAT ONE.
• 13:07 WHEN GOD CHOOSES DISCIPLES OR PROPHETS OR APOSTLES HE CHOOSES
• 13:11 JEWS AND IN THE TRIBULATION PERIOD TO COME HE WILL CHOOSE
• 13:14 144,000 JEWISH PEOPLE TO TESTIFY.
• 13:18 AND SO IT GOES THROUGH HISTORY.
• 13:20 YOU KNOW, JESUS GAVE HER A PERFECT WITNESS IN JOHN 4:10.
• 13:43 THAT IS THE CHRISTIAN IDEAL IN ONE VERSE.
• 13:46 FIRST, YOU NEED TO KNOW THE GIFT OF GOD.
• 13:50 YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT SALVATION IS.
• 13:52 AND WHO IT IS THAT SAYS, GIVE ME TO DRINK.
• 13:55 IN OTHER WORDS, YOU HAVE TO KNOW WHAT PERSON TO GO TO FOR YOUR SALVATION.
• 14:00 IN THIS CASE, OF COURSE, THE MESSIAH.
• 14:02 AND THEN THOU WOULDST ASK OF HIM.
• 14:05 WE MUST ASK INDIVIDUALLY FOR THIS SALVATION.
• 14:07 NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO BE BAPTIZED AS A BABY OR ATTEND A CHURCH
• 14:11 THAT SAYS IT IS THE CORRECT ONE.
• 14:13 WE MUST ASK OF OUR SALVATION OF JESUS CHRIST AND HE WOULD HAVE GIVEN THEE LIVING WATER.
• 14:19 IT IS FREE.
• 14:20 IT'S SIMPLY GIVEN WHEN ASKED FOR IT.
• 14:24 AND THAT'S WHAT JESUS TOLD THE SAMARITAN WOMAN ON THAT OCCASION.
• 14:28 LIKE ABEL, BY FAITH, WE CHOOSE THE RIGHT SACRIFICE WHEN WE CHOOSE JESUS.
• 14:34 THE ANSWER TO THE AGE-OLD QUESTION,
• 14:36 WHAT ABOUT THE HEATHEN AND WHAT ABOUT THE JEW AND THE MUSLIM AND THE GOOD MAN?
• 14:42 HE NEEDS THE RIGHT SACRIFICE.
• 14:44 NOT TO BE SUBSERVIENT TO A PRIESTHOOD
• 14:48 OR SUBSERVIENT TO A CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES,
• 14:50 AND NOT SUBSERVIENT TO DOING WORKS
• 14:52 AND NOT SUBSERVIENT TO KEEPING LAWS
• 14:55 AND NOT SUBSERVIENT TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL
• 14:58 OR SUBSERVIENT TO FALSE PROPHETS OR FALSE CHRISTS WHICH ARE SIGNS OF THESE END TIMES.
• 15:03 BUT TO COME TO JESUS CHRIST BY FAITH.
• 15:24 WALK DOWN THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.
• 15:27 SAIL ACROSS THE SEA OF GALILEE.
• 15:32 RIDE TO THE SUMMIT OF MASADA.
• 15:35 FLOAT IN THE DEAD SEA.
• 15:39 FIND THE TREASURES OF PETRA.
• 15:43 TOUR THE HOLY LAND WITH ZOLA LEVITT.
• 15:55 YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU SEE ISRAEL ON THE NEWS,
• 15:56 THEY USUALLY REPRESENT IT WITH DUSTY STREETS AND SMALL VILLAGES AND SO ON.
• 16:01 BUT THE ISRAEL IN OUR TOUR SPOTS AND THE ISRAEL IN THE EARLIER PART OF THE PROGRAM,
• 16:05 THAT'S ISRAEL, TOO.
• 16:07 WE ARE GOING NOW TO TESTIMONIALS FROM ISRAEL AND FROM AMERICA.
• 16:12 A JEW AND A GENTILE.
• 16:13 THE FAITH OF ABEL IS THE SAME TODAY.
• 16:16 PEOPLE RELATE TO GOD IN THE SAME WAYS AND WE CAN SHOW THAT WITH MODERN TESTIMONIES.
• 16:22 AND NOW BACK TO ISRAEL.
• 16:27 THIS IS ONE OF THE MESSIANIC CONGREGATIONS THAT ASSEMBLES
• 16:32 EVERY SATURDAY FOR PRAISE AND WORSHIP.
• 16:35 THEY MEET HERE IN ISRAEL SOME 6,000 YEARS AFTER ABEL
• 16:38 FIRST WORSHIPPED THE SAME GOD OF ISRAEL.
• 16:42 ♪♪
• 16:49 WORSHIP IS VITAL TO THESE BELIEVERS,
• 16:51 AS IT HELPS TO SUSTAIN THEIR FAITH FROM ONE DIFFICULT WEEK TO THE NEXT.
• 16:54 ♪♪
• 17:03 I THINK WORSHIPING GOD, ESPECIALLY BEFORE WE START SERVICE IS IMPORTANT.
• 17:07 FOR ME TO BE ABLE TO REALLY LEAVE EVERYTHING ELSE BEHIND ME
• 17:13 AND JUST GET TO A PLACE WHERE I -- IT IS JUST ME WITH GOD.
• 17:18 ADI GREENMAN SHE WAS BORN IN ISRAEL AND A MEMBER OF THE FELLOWSHIP.
• 17:22 SHE TELLS HOW SHE CAME TO FAITH IN YESHUA,JESUS.
• 17:25 MY SISTER BECAME A BELIEVER ABOUT 15 YEARS AGO
• 17:28 AND WHEN SHE CAME BACK TO ISRAEL, SHE TOLD US ABOUT IT.
• 17:34 AND I WAS ABOUT 8-YEARS-OLD THEN AND IT WAS VERY HARD FOR ME TO
• 17:38 UNDERSTAND WHAT SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT.
• 17:41 BUT, I ALWAYS KNEW THAT GOD EXIST,
• 17:45 AND I REMEMBER MYSELF PRAYING AND ASKING GOD TO SHOW ME THE TRUTH.
• 17:49 AND IF SHE WAS WRONG, TO GIVE ME THE TOOLS TO SHOW HER SHE'S WRONG.
• 17:54 AND IF SHE'S RIGHT, SHOW ME THE WAY I NEED TO GO.
• 17:58 AND IT TOOK ME A FEW YEARS AND I GOT TO A POINT
• 18:02 WHERE I KNEW IT WAS TRUE, BUT I DIDN'T WANT TO AGREE WITH IT.
• 18:06 I DIDN'T WANT TO GIVE UP THINGS IN MY LIFE.
• 18:09 WHEN I WAS IN THE ARMY, I HAD DIFFICULT TIMES.
• 18:17 I KIND OF FACED UP TO WHAT I AM
• 18:21 AND WHO I AM AND THE WAY I LIVE MY LIFE
• 18:23 AND I FIGURED OUT THAT THERE WAS NO BETTER TIME OR PLACE
• 18:27 IN MY LIFE FOR ME TO COME AND TO GIVE MY LIFE TO GOD IN ALL.
• 18:35 JUST EVERYTHING.
• 18:36 AND I JUST DID IT.
• 18:39 I SAID, "THAT'S IT."
• 18:41 I DON'T WANT TO LIVE ACCORDING TO THE WORLD, BUT ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF GOD.
• 18:44 AND SO IT WAS NOT A CANCER BECAUSE OF SOMETHING,
• 18:49 AN ABUSE OF SOME KIND.
• 18:51 DEBBIE MASON IS A GENTILE BELIEVER.
• 18:53 HER FAITH IN GOD DURING A BOUT OF CANCER WAS A MATTER OF LIFE OR DEATH.
• 18:57 TO HAVE A THIRD OF MY TONGUE REMOVED,
• 18:59 ALL OF MY LYMPH NODES REMOVED AND SIX MONTHS LATER,
• 19:02 THE CANCER RE-OCCURRED AND I HAD TWO-THIRDS OF MY JAW REMOVED
• 19:08 AND THEN, 30 RADIATION TREATMENTS.
• 19:12 AND FOR BEING SO YOUNG,
• 19:17 THEY HAD TO BE VERY RADICAL ABOUT THE SURGERY.
• 19:22 AND SO I LOST A GOOD BIT PART OF MY FACE AND HOW FAITH PLAYED A PART IN THAT,
• 19:29 THAT IS PROBABLY THE MOST DEVASTATING THING THAT CAN HAPPEN TO A PERSON,
• 19:35 TO HAVE A SMALL CHILD AND TO BE YOUNG AND TO BE DIAGNOSED WITH
• 19:38 CANCER AND SO THAT RELATIONSHIP AND THAT WORSHIP
• 19:42 THAT I'VE ALWAYS BEEN INVOLVED IN WAS MY ROCK TO STAND ON AND
• 19:52 I KNEW THAT IT WAS AN ATTACK OF THE ENEMY.
• 19:54 IT WAS NOT SOMETHING THAT GOD PUT ON ME.
• 19:57 AND IT WAS A TEST OF MY FAITH.
• 20:01 YOU KNOW, A LOT OF TIMES WE WANT TO HAVE GREAT FAITH BUT WE DON'T
• 20:05 WANT TO GET THERE WITHOUT BEING TESTED.
• 20:08 DEBBIE'S HUSBAND BOB, FOUND HIS FAITH WAS TESTED AS WELL.
• 20:11 I DON'T KNOW IF SHE REMEMBERS IT,
• 20:13 SHE WAS IN INTENSIVE CARE RECOVERY AND IN AND OUT OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
• 20:18 AND SHE WROTE ON THE PAD, "I AM OKAY, GOD IS MINISTERING TO ME.
• 20:22 "PRAY THAT MY PHYSICAL BODY CAN HANDLE THE WEAR AND TEAR ON THE BODY."
• 20:28 WE JUST CONTINUED TO PRAY AND FAST AND SEEK GOD.
• 20:31 AND WE ABSOLUTELY REFUSED TO ACCEPT ANY THOUGHTS OF HER DYING.
• 20:39 AND WHEN THE DOCTORS TOLD ME AFTER THE CANCER CAME BACK THE
• 20:42 SECOND TIME, THEY SAID, "BOB, WE CANNOT SAVE HER LIFE."
• 20:45 I REALLY GOT TO KNOW GOD.
• 20:48 YOU KNOW, FAITH IS KNOWING GOD.
• 20:50 AND EVERY TIME THAT THE ISRAELITES SAID JEHOVAH ROCK
• 20:55 OR JEHOVAH SHALOM IT WAS BECAUSE THEY KNEW GOD IN SOME NEW ASPECT.
• 21:01 AND I GOT TO KNOW GOD AS THE GOD WHO IS THERE
• 21:06 AND ALWAYS WITH US AND HE'S THE HEALER.
• 21:10 AND WORD OF GOD IS WHAT BRINGS FAITH TO US.
• 21:12 FAITH COMES BY HEARING.
• 21:14 AND SO I SATURATED MYSELF WITH SCRIPTURES OF PROMISE.
• 21:18 AND I KEPT A JOURNAL OF ALL OF THE COMMENTS THAT GOD GAVE ME
• 21:23 AND THROUGH THAT, MY FAITH LEVEL WAS ALWAYS HIGH.
• 21:27 DESPITE THE DOCTOR'S PROGNOSIS,
• 21:29 DEBBIE'S BODY IS NOW TOTALLY FREE OF CANCER.
• 21:32 AND SHE ATTRIBUTES THIS TO HER FAITH IN GOD.
• 21:36 ♪♪
• 21:38 ♪ IF I COULD ASK WHAT I'VE DONE, WOULD YOU TELL ME? ♪
• 21:51 ♪ LORD, I CRY. ♪
• 21:56 ♪ WHERE ARE YOU? ♪
• 21:58 ♪ LORD, HELP ME. ♪
• 22:00 ♪ GIVE ME AN ANSWER. ♪
• 22:08 ♪ FORSAKEN, AND BROKEN, I'M SO AFRAID. ♪
• 22:11 ♪ DAY AND NIGHT, I CRY TO YOU, ♪
• 22:15 ♪ MY VERY DEEPEST NEED, LET ME HEAR YOUR VOICE. ♪
• 22:26 ♪♪
• 22:59 ♪ LORD, IF I SIN, YOU'LL FORGIVE MY OFFENSES. ♪
• 23:15 ♪ LORD, DON'T FORGET. ♪
• 23:22 ♪ OR FORSAKE ME, YOUR SERVANT. ♪
• 23:31 ♪ O, MY GOD. ♪
• 23:35 ♪♪
• 23:44 ♪ ACQUAINTED WITH SORROW, A MAN WHO KNOWS GRIEF. ♪
• 23:57 ♪ FAMILIAR WITH SUFFERING, A MAN LIKE ME. ♪
• 23:59 ♪ SURELY HE WILL COME TO ME, MEET MY DEEPEST NEEDS. ♪
• 24:07 ♪ GOD HAS ANSWERED ME. ♪
• 24:15 ♪ GOD HAS ANSWERED ME. ♪♪
• 24:36 WELL, PROPER WORSHIP IS OUR SUBJECT IN THIS PROGRAM TONIGHT.
• 24:40 AND ABEL IS ONE WHO GOT IT RIGHT.
• 24:42 HE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST TO HAVE A CHOICE AND HE BROUGHT THE RIGHT SACRIFICE.
• 24:46 YOU KNOW, THE LORD DISCUSSED PROPER WORSHIP WITH A WOMAN OF SAMARIA AND HE SAYS,
• 25:26 WELL, FIRST OFF, JESUS DID CLAIM TO BE THE MESSIAH.
• 25:28 LATELY JEWISH RECONVERSION CENTERS,
• 25:32 RABBIS THAT TEACH JEWS HOW TO CONFRONT THE MISSIONARIES AND SO ON
• 25:35 HAVE BEEN SAYING THAT JESUS NEVER CLAIMED TO THE MESSIAH.
• 25:38 THESE WORDS WERE PUT IN HIS WORDS BY THE GENTILES.
• 25:42 BUT OF COURSE, HE DID.
• 25:44 "I THAT SPEAK UNTO THEE AM HE."
• 25:48 AND FURTHERMORE, THE SAMARITAN WOMAN WAS SOMEONE HE CHOSE TO REVEAL HIMSELF TO.
• 25:53 AND LOOK WHO THIS WAS.
• 25:55 SHE WAS A RATHER MEDIOCRE WOMAN.
• 25:57 SHE HAD, THE CHAPTER REVEALS,
• 25:59 FIVE PREVIOUS HUSBANDS AND LIVING WITH A MAN WHO WAS NOT HER HUSBAND.
• 26:03 SHE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN THE CHOICE OF TODAY'S CHURCH, MAN,
• 26:07 AND PERHAPS GO OUT AND WITNESS TO.
• 26:11 AND SHE SHOULD BE, THE SON OF MAN CAME TO SEEK AND SAVE THAT WHICH WAS LOST.
• 26:16 "IT IS THE SICK THAT NEEDS A PHYSICIAN,"
• 26:19 I AM QUOTING THE LORD.
• 26:21 HE ACTUALLY WENT THROUGH SAMARIA ON THIS OCCASION.
• 26:23 THAT WAS NOT HIS USUAL CHOICE.
• 26:25 AND NOT THE JEWISH ROUTE TO GALILEE.
• 26:26 THE SAMARITANS WERE DIFFERENT PEOPLE ALMOST LIKE THE
• 26:31 PALESTINIANS OF TODAY WHO OCCUPY THE WEST BANK AND TOUR BUSES
• 26:36 AND JEWISH PEOPLE RATHER PREFER TO DRIVE AROUND THROUGH THE
• 26:40 JORDAN RIVER VALLEY OR THROUGH THE ROAD BY THE SEA ON THE WEST
• 26:46 SIDE DOWN NEAR TEL AVIV TO GO TO GALILEE TO JERUSALEM BUT THEY
• 26:51 RARELY GO OVER THE MOUNTAINS THROUGH SAMARIA AND THEY DIDN'T BACK THEN EITHER.
• 26:56 BUT THE LORD ON THIS OCCASION --
• 26:57 IT IS AN IMPLICATION THAT HE WENT THERE TO MEET HER
• 27:00 AND THE PEOPLE OF HER TOWN WERE SAVED AND THAT WAS A REMARKABLE
• 27:04 BENEVOLENCE ON THE PART OF THE LORD WHO SAID,
• 27:06 "GO NOT INTO ANY CITY OF THE SAMARITANS OR GENTILES,
• 27:09 "ENTER YE NOT FOR I AM SENT ONLY UNTO THE LOST SHEEP OF ISRAEL."
• 27:15 NEXT WEEK WE WILL TAKE UP THE SUBJECT OF ENOCH,
• 27:17 ANOTHER EARLY BELIEVER WHO GOT IT RIGHT.
• 27:20 IT IS A FASCINATING STORY.
• 27:22 OUR OFFER TONIGHT IS
• 27:24 SIMPLY OUR NEWSLETTER.
• 27:25 THE LEVITT LETTER.
• 27:26 IT IS VERY INFORMATIVE.
• 27:27 I WRITE SOME OF IT MYSELF.
• 27:29 WE PRINT ARTICLES THAT ARE RELEVANT TO ISRAEL AND PROPHECY
• 27:33 AND THINGS WHICH COME UP WHICH MAY INVOLVE THE END OF THE WORLD.
• 27:38 THERE IS NO MORE IMPORTANT SUBJECT THAN THAT.
• 27:39 THERE IS NO CHARGE FOR THIS.
• 27:41 JUST SEND YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS AND ASK FOR THE LEVITT LETTER.
• 27:43 AND SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
• 27:46 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.