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Caption transcript for Champions of Faith: “Music Program” (11/11)

• 00:05 HEBREWS 11 HONORS
• 00:06 THE CHAMPIONS OF FAITH WHO WANDERED IN DESERTS
• 00:08 AND IN MOUNTAINS AND CAVES OF THE EARTH.
• 00:12 BECAUSE OF THIS CLOUD OF WITNESSES,
• 00:13 WE CAN RUN WITH PATIENCE THE RACE THAT IS SET BEFORE US.
• 00:17 ♪♪
• 00:48 SHALOM, HELLO AGAIN.
• 00:50 WELL, HERE'S THE LAST PROGRAM ON OUR CHAMPIONS OF FAITH SERIES.
• 00:54 WE TOOK UP THE PERSONALITIES DEALT WITH IN THE CHAPTER --
• 00:58 HEBREWS 11 WHICH IS ABOUT FAITH.
• 01:01 THAT CHAPTER BEGINS LIKE THIS.
• 01:23 I REMEMBER AN EARLY BIBLE LESSON WHERE I WAS WITH CAMPUS CRUSADE
• 01:27 AND THE TEACHER SAID, "YOU KNOW, THINGS ARE MADE OF ATOMS.
• 01:29 "WE CAN'T SEE THOSE ATOMS.
• 01:30 "NOBODY HAS EVER SEEN THEM BUT THE THINGS WE DO SEE ARE MADE
• 01:34 "OF THINGS WHICH DO NOT APPEAR."
• 01:36 THAT WAS INTERESTING.
• 01:38 WE DRAMATIZED SOME OF THIS.
• 01:41 WE GOT ISRAELI ACTORS AND COSTUMES OF THEIR PERIODS
• 01:45 AND DRESSED THEM AS THE HEROS OF CHAPTER.
• 01:50 ABEL, ENOCH, NOAH, ABRAHAM AND SO ON,
• 01:53 THE EXAMPLES OF FAITH GIVEN IN THE CHAPTER
• 01:56 AND SO WE'LL GO NOW TO SOME OF THOSE DRAMAS
• 01:59 AND ALSO TO THE SONGS THAT I COMPOSED FOR THIS SERIES.
• 02:04 SO WE'LL BEGIN WITH ABEL AND THEN ENOCH AND NOAH.
• 02:13 AND ABLE GATHERED STONES FROM THE EARTH TO BUILD AN ALTAR TO JEHOVAH.
• 02:19 HE BROUGHT KINDLING AND LIT THE SACRIFICIAL FIRE.
• 02:31 AS HE TENDED HIS FLOCK,
• 02:33 HE THOUGHT OF WHAT HE COULD OFFER UNTO THE MOST HIGH GOD
• 02:35 THAT WOULD BE WORTHY.
• 02:38 WHAT SHOULD IT BE?
• 02:40 THE GOD OF THE UNIVERSE HAD FORMED THE WORLD AND EVERYTHING IN IT.
• 02:49 EVERYTHING IN THE HEAVENS AND ON THE EARTH CAME FROM GOD.
• 02:53 ABEL'S BROTHER CAIN, WOULD OFFER THE FRUIT OF THE GROUND.
• 02:57 BUT ABEL WOULD GIVE HIS MOST PRECIOUS POSSESSION,
• 03:01 THE BEST THAT HE HAD.
• 03:05 THE HERDSMAN SEARCHED HIS FLOCK
• 03:08 AND CHOSE ONE SPOTLESS AND WITHOUT BLEMISH
• 03:11 TO GIVE GLORY AND HONOR TO GOD.
• 03:21 AND THE LORD WHO WALKED IN THE GARDEN WITH ABEL'S FATHER ADAM,
• 03:24 LOOKED UPON ABEL'S HEART AND FOUND IT GOOD.
• 03:32 THE SHEDDING OF BLOOD WOULD BE ACCEPTABLE IN GOD'S SIGHT.
• 03:37 BY FAITH, HE WAS COMMENDED AS A RIGHTEOUS MAN WHEN GOD
• 03:41 SPOKE WELL OF THE SACRIFICIAL OFFERING.
• 03:48 ♪♪
• 03:49 ♪ WHERE ARE YOU? ♪
• 03:51 ♪ LORD HELP ME, GIVE ME AN ANSWER. ♪
• 03:56 ♪ FORSAKEN, AND BROKEN, I'M SO AFRAID. ♪
• 04:04 ♪ DAY AND NIGHT I CRY TO YOU, MY VERY DEEPEST NEED. ♪
• 04:12 ♪ LET ME HEAR YOUR VOICE. ♪♪
• 04:21 ♪♪
• 04:52 ♪♪
• 05:00 ♪ COME AND TALK WITH ME IN THE COOL OF THE DAY. ♪
• 05:05 ♪ TAKE A WALK IN THE GARDEN, LET ME SHOW YOU THE WAY. ♪
• 05:13 ♪ WHEN YOU SEEK ME, YOU WILL FIND ME, ♪
• 05:19 ♪ I'LL BE THERE BY YOUR SIDE. ♪
• 05:26 ♪♪
• 05:27 ♪ SIMPLY ASK AND BE GIVEN IF YOUR HEART I'LL ABIDE. ♪
• 05:37 ♪♪
• 05:39 ♪ SPEAK TO ME, O LORD, I'M LISTENING. ♪
• 05:46 ♪ HEARING YOU, LORD, AS YOU CALL ME. ♪
• 05:55 ♪ I WILL BE YOUR MAN IN THE WILDERNESS. ♪
• 06:01 ♪ I WILL BE THE KING BY YOUR POWER AND GRACE. ♪
• 06:14 ♪ SPEAK TO ME, O LORD, I'M LISTENING. ♪
• 06:25 ♪♪
• 06:27 ♪ SPEAK TO ME, I NEED YOU. ♪
• 06:35 ♪ I NEED YOU. ♪♪
• 06:49 WELL, OUR NEXT HEROS OF THE FAITH ARE THE PATRIARCHS OF
• 06:51 THE JEWISH PEOPLE, ABRAHAM AND ISAAC.
• 06:54 WE'RE GOING TO START WITH THE SONG, "A NIGHT WITH ABRAHAM."
• 06:59 YOU KNOW, I WAS AN OBOE PLAYER WHEN THE LORD CALLED ME
• 07:04 AND I'VE KEPT IT UP THROUGH THE YEARS.
• 07:07 AND I PLAYED OBOE ON ALL OF THESE SONGS AND WE RECORDED SOME
• 07:10 OF THEM IN THE STUDIO AND YOU CAN SEE THAT GOING ON.
• 07:14 AT LEAST YOU CAN SEE WHAT AN OBOE IS,
• 07:15 SOME PEOPLE WRITE IN AND ASK WHAT IT IS.
• 07:17 SO YOU CAN SEE WHAT IT IS.
• 07:18 IT IS LIKE A CLARINET.
• 07:19 BUT IN WRITING THE SONGS, YOU KNOW, I ALWAYS SAY GOD
• 07:24 JUST SENDS THEM, I'M THE STENOGRAPHER.
• 07:26 I DON'T MIND BRAGGING ON THEM.
• 07:27 BECAUSE THEY'RE REALLY NOT MINE.
• 07:29 I WRITE THEM DOWN, SO TO SPEAK.
• 07:31 I KIND OF KNOW HOW THE SCRIPTURE WRITERS FELT BECAUSE THEY COME
• 07:34 VERY EASILY; I KNOW WHEN THEY'RE RIGHT AND SOMETIMES IT TAKES
• 07:37 LITERALLY 5 OR 10 MINUTES TO MAKE A SONG.
• 07:40 WELL, NOW TO ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND A NIGHT WITH ABRAHAM.
• 07:49 ♪ NOW I DON'T KNOW WHICH WAY YOU'D HAVE ME TO GO. ♪
• 07:51 ♪ HOW CAN I TRUST THAT I KNOW YOUR WAY? ♪
• 07:56 ♪ I LONG TO HEAR YOU. ♪
• 08:01 ♪ HOW WILL I KNOW? ♪
• 08:10 ♪ O LORD, I STAND AMAZED IN YOUR PRESENCE. ♪
• 08:15 ♪ WILLING TO STAND THE TEST. ♪
• 08:20 ♪ SEEING, KNOWING, I HAVE YOUR PROMISES. ♪♪
• 08:31 ♪♪
• 08:46 AND THE SKINS OF GOATS WERE PLACED UPON JACOB'S HAND
• 08:49 AND UPON THE SMOOTH OF HIS NECK
• 08:50 AS HE DISGUISED HIMSELF AS ESAU, HIS BROTHER.
• 08:55 HIS MOTHER REBECCA, HAD DEVISED THE PLAN
• 08:57 TO DECEIVE HIS FATHER, ISAAC.
• 09:01 AS JACOB ENTERED THE TENT,
• 09:02 HE BROUGHT FORTH A MEAL OF WILD GAME WHICH HIS FATHER
• 09:05 HAD REQUESTED OF HIS BROTHER ESAU.
• 09:08 ISAAC WAS OLD AND WEAK AND HIS EYES WERE DIM.
• 09:12 HE WOULD BELIEVE THE DECEPTION.
• 09:15 "COME NEAR I PRAY THEE, THAT I MAY FEEL THEE, MY SON,
• 09:19 " WHITHER THOU BE MY VERY SON ESAU.
• 09:23 "ART THOU MY SON ESAU?"
• 09:25 AND JACOB SAID, "I AM."
• 09:29 JACOB GAVE THE SAVORY MEAT AND BREAD TO HIS FATHER
• 09:32 WHO ATE IT AND WAS PLEASED.
• 09:44 REASSURING ISAAC THAT HE WAS ESAU, JACOB ASKED HIS FATHER
• 09:46 FOR THE BLESSING THAT WAS RIGHTFULLY HIS BROTHER'S.
• 09:51 MAY GOD BESTOW HIS BLESSINGS ON YOU FROM HEAVEN AND THE EARTH.
• 10:00 FOR BY FAITH, ISAAC GAVE HIS BLESSING
• 10:03 REGARDING THINGS TO COME.
• 10:09 ♪♪
• 10:11 ♪ ALL THROUGHOUT IN THE WILDERNESS, 40 YEARS IN ALL. ♪
• 10:16 ♪ GUIDED BY THY PRESENCE. ♪
• 10:20 ♪ LIVING BY THY LAW. ♪
• 10:23 ♪ I CHOOSE AMONG THE PEOPLES. ♪
• 10:26 ♪ I CHOOSE AMONG THE LANDS. ♪
• 10:31 ♪ I ALWAYS KEEP MY PROMISES, I HOLD THEM IN MY HAND. ♪
• 10:38 ♪ I AM THE LORD ALMIGHTY. ♪
• 10:41 ♪ KING OF ALL THE KINGS. ♪
• 10:45 ♪ I'M FAITHFUL FOREVER. ♪
• 10:49 ♪ MY MERCIES HAVE NO END, NO END. ♪♪
• 11:06 WALK DOWN THE MOUNT OF OLIVES,
• 11:10 SAIL ACROSS THE SEA OF GALILEE,
• 11:14 RIDE TO THE SUMMIT OF MASADA.
• 11:18 FLOAT IN THE DEAD SEA.
• 11:21 FIND THE TREASURES OF PETRA.
• 11:26 EXPLORE THE HOLY LAND FOR YOURSELF.
• 11:28 JOIN ME ON OUR NEXT TOUR TO ISRAEL.
• 11:32 COME WALK WITH US IN THE SHADOWS OF
• 11:35 ABRAHAM AND DAVID, PAUL, THE CHAMPIONS OF FAITH.
• 11:40 TRAVEL THE LENGTH AND BREADTH OF THE PROMISED LAND.
• 11:44 DISCOVER THE JEWISH ROOTS OF YOUR CHRISTIAN FAITH.
• 11:48 FROM BAPTISM IN THE JORDAN RIVER
• 11:50 TO COMMUNION IN THE GARDEN TOMB,
• 11:53 YOUR TRIP TO ISRAEL WILL BE
• 11:54 A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE YOU'LL NEVER FORGET.
• 11:56 COME, JOIN US.
• 11:59 TOUR THE HOLY LAND WITH ZOLA LEVITT.
• 12:06 WELL, THAT'S ISRAEL, THE PLACE WHERE MOST OF OUR CHAMPIONS OF
• 12:10 FAITH RESIDED AND WHERE THE BOOK ABOUT THEM WAS CERTAINLY WRITTEN.
• 12:14 AND WE ARE REVIEWING ALL OF THE PROGRAMS ON THIS PARTICULAR PROGRAM.
• 12:20 THERE'S 10 PROGRAMS IN ALL IN THE SERIES,
• 12:22 AND IT IS AVAILABLE ON VIDEOTAPE.
• 12:25 ALSO YOU CAN OBTAIN A CASSETTE OF ALL OF THE SONGS.
• 12:28 AN AUDIO CASSETTE.
• 12:31 I THINK THE VIDEOTAPES IS THE WAY TO GO.
• 12:33 I'LL TELL YOU MORE ABOUT THAT LATER.
• 12:35 THE OPEN OF A PROGRAM IS VERY IMPORTANT
• 12:38 AND TO CHOOSE A DRAMA FOR THAT,
• 12:40 WE PICKED GIDEON AND HIS ARMY OF MEN.
• 12:45 YOU KNOW, HE HAD A REMARKABLE PLAN WHICH THE LORD GAVE HIM.
• 12:48 YOU KNOW THE STORY, HE PUT OUT THE FLEECE.
• 12:49 HE WASN'T SURE HE WAS CALLED.
• 12:51 HE WAS NOT PARTICULARLY THE LEADER OF ISRAEL
• 12:54 OR A GREAT GENERAL, BUT GOD PICKED HIM FOR THE JOB
• 12:56 AS HE WILL DO THAT WITH US SOMETIMES.
• 12:58 AND WHEN HE HAD DETERMINED THAT IT REALLY WAS THE VOICE OF GOD,
• 13:02 HE CALLED HIS MEN TOGETHER
• 13:04 AND HE EXPLAINED TO THEM THE REMARKABLE PLAN THAT THE LORD PROPOSED.
• 13:08 THE LORD MADE HIS ARMY VERY SMALL.
• 13:10 SO HE WENT FORTH WITH A FEW GOOD MEN AND A VERY SPECIAL
• 13:14 PLAN WHICH WE SHOWED IN OUR OPENING DRAMA.
• 13:17 LET'S GO TO THAT RIGHT NOW.
• 13:22 ENCOURAGED AND INSTRUCTED BY JEHOVAH, GIDEON,
• 13:25 COMMANDER OF THE ISRAELITES,
• 13:27 WENT TO HIS MEN, BRINGING THE BATTLE PLAN THE LORD HATH LAID OUT FOR THEM.
• 13:31 GIDEON DIVIDED HIS ARMY IN THREE COMPANIES.
• 13:34 THE PLAN WAS TO DISTRIBUTE EMPTY WATER JUGS TO EACH
• 13:37 OF HIS MEN IN WHICH A TORCH OF BURNING OIL WOULD BE PLACED.
• 13:41 JARS WOULD BE BROKEN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
• 13:44 AT HIS COMMAND AS THEY SURROUNDED THE ENEMY IN A SURPRISE ATTACK.
• 13:48 GIDEON'S SMALL GROUP OF 300 MEN
• 13:51 HAD BEEN REDUCED FROM 32,000 MEN.
• 13:54 IT WAS GOD'S PLAN.
• 13:56 THE MIDIANITE FORCES WERE SO STRONG THEY APPEARED AS THICK
• 14:01 AS LOCUSTS IN THE VALLEY BELOW.
• 14:03 THEIR CAMELS, AS MANY AS THE SAND BY THE SEA.
• 14:05 GIDEON BLEW HIS TRUMPET, IT WOULD BE THE SIGNAL
• 14:08 FOR HIS MEN TO JOIN HIM IN BLOWING THEIR TRUMPETS
• 14:10 AND BREAKING THEIR JARS.
• 14:13 ARMED WITH MORE FAITH THAN WEAPONS,
• 14:15 GIDEON WOULD LEAD HIS SMALL BAND OF SOLDIERS TO VICTORY FOR JEHOVAH.
• 14:19 THEIR BATTLE CRY:
• 14:21 THE SWORD OF THE LORD AND OF GIDEON.
• 14:24 BY FAITH, THEIR WEAKNESS WAS TURNED TO STRENGTH
• 14:28 AND THEY BECAME POWERFUL IN BATTLE AND ROUTED FOREIGN ARMIES.
• 14:31 ♪♪
• 14:42 MANY OF OUR VIEWERS WOULD RECOGNIZE SUZANNE DAVIS FROM
• 14:45 "BELOVED THIEF" AND THE AFTER "CHRISTMAS MUSICAL."
• 14:48 HERE ARE THREE OF THE SONGS SHE SANG FOR US.
• 14:52 ♪♪
• 14:54 ♪ YOUR HAND OUTSTRETCHED ON THE CROSS, ♪
• 14:57 ♪ REACHING FOR THE SONS OF MEN. ♪
• 15:01 ♪ LORD, I HEAR YOU PRAYING FOR THOSE WHO STILL ARE LOST. ♪
• 15:10 ♪ TO SIMPLY ASK, FORGIVE ME, LORD. ♪
• 15:15 ♪ I UNDERSTAND THE COST. ♪
• 15:20 ♪ LORD, I HEAR YOU PRAYING FOR THOSE WHO STILL ARE LOST. ♪
• 15:30 ♪ TO SIMPLY ASK FORGIVE ME, LORD, ♪
• 15:36 ♪ I UNDERSTAND THE COST. ♪♪
• 15:50 ♪ WHEN I SHOULD HAVE RUN, LOST EVERYTHING I OWN. ♪
• 16:01 ♪ WHEREIN IN THE PROMISES I SEEK MY JORDAN TO CROSS OVER ♪
• 16:15 ♪ AND WHEN I REALLY HAVE THE STRENGTH TO REST UPON HIM. ♪
• 16:29 ♪♪
• 16:47 ♪ MOSES, WHAT WAS IT LIKE TO BE CLOTHED BY GOD, MY FRIEND? ♪
• 16:59 ♪ TO BEHOLD OUR LORD WHILE HE PASSED BY TO LEAD AN EXODUS OF MEN. ♪
• 17:14 ♪ YOU WERE A HERO OF FAITH, WHAT WE ALL HOPE TO BE. ♪
• 17:29 ♪ FELLOW WITH FRIENDS, LEADERS OF MEN, ♪
• 17:32 ♪ LOVING GOD AS GOD LOVES ME. ♪♪
• 17:46 THERE CERTAINLY WERE CHAMPIONS OF FAITH IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
• 17:49 AS WELL AS THE OLD TESTAMENT,
• 17:50 AND SO WE TOOK UP THE LIVES OF TWO WHO REALLY SUFFERED FOR THE FAITH.
• 17:55 PAUL AND THE MARTYR STEPHEN.
• 17:59 AND WE TOLD THEIR STORIES.
• 18:01 AS A MATTER OF FACT, WE USED THEIR VERY DRAMATIC STORIES FOR DRAMAS.
• 18:06 LET'S GO TO THOSE NOW.
• 18:11 AN INSTRUMENT OF TORTURE.
• 18:14 A PLACE OF REPROACH.
• 18:17 A ROMAN WHIP.
• 18:19 A COLD, DARK PRISON CELL.
• 18:22 FOR THE APOSTLE PAUL AND MANY OF THE 1st CENTURY CHRISTIANS,
• 18:27 THESE WERE THE INSTRUMENTS OF FAITH.
• 18:32 THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND WERE OFTEN THE VICTIMS OF SCOURGING,
• 18:36 A FORM OF PUNISHMENT THAT WAS OFTEN FATAL.
• 18:38 THE NUMBER OF LASHES WAS DETERMINED BY THE
• 18:41 SEVERITY OF THE CRIME.
• 18:42 IN THE CASE OF PAUL, THE WHIPPING WOULD BE
• 18:45 THE RESULT OF MALICIOUS CHARGES AGAINST AN INNOCENT MAN.
• 18:52 PAUL SAID UNTO THEM,
• 18:55 THEY HAVE BEATEN US OPENLY, UNCONDEMNED, BEING ROMANS
• 18:59 AND HAVE CAST US INTO PRISON.
• 19:02 FIVE TIMES I RECEIVED 40 STRIPES SAVE ONE.
• 19:07 AND TWICE I WAS BEATEN WITH RODS.
• 19:09 ONCE I WAS STONED.
• 19:11 THRICE SUFFERED SHIPWRECK,
• 19:13 A NIGHT AND A DAY I HAVE BEEN IN THE DEEP.
• 19:17 REMEMBER JESUS CHRIST, RAISED FROM THE DEAD
• 19:20 DESCENDED FROM DAVID.
• 19:23 THIS IS MY GOSPEL FOR WHICH I AM SUFFERING EVEN UNTO THE
• 19:26 POINT OF BEING CHAINED LIKE A CRIMINAL.
• 19:34 BUT GOD'S WORD IS NOT CHAINED,
• 19:37 THEREFORE, I ENDURE EVERYTHING
• 19:38 FOR THE SAKE OF THE ELECT THAT THEY, TOO, MAY OBTAIN
• 19:42 THE SALVATION THAT IS IN CHRIST JESUS.
• 19:51 AND STEPHEN, FULL OF FAITH AND POWER DID GREAT WONDERS
• 19:55 AND MIRACLES AMONG THE PEOPLE.
• 19:57 THE NUMBER OF DISCIPLES MULTIPLIED IN JERUSALEM.
• 20:01 THEN, THERE AROSE CERTAIN OF THE SYNAGOGUE AND THEY STIRRED
• 20:05 UP THE PEOPLE AND THE ELDERS AND THE SCRIBES AND CAME UPON
• 20:08 HIM AND CHARGING HIM FALSELY OF BLASPHEMY AND CRIED OUT WITH A
• 20:13 LOUD VOICE AND RAN UPON HIM WITH ONE ACCORD AND THEY CAST
• 20:18 HIM OUT OF THE CITY AND STONED HIM.
• 20:23 [ angry shouts ]
• 21:00 AND STEPHEN CRIED OUT,
• 21:02 LORD, LAY NOT THIS SIN TO THEIR CHARGE.
• 21:09 ♪♪
• 21:23 ♪ WOULD YOU LISTEN TO THE MASTER ♪
• 21:25 ♪ WHEN THERE'S NO RELIEF IN SIGHT? ♪
• 21:27 ♪ FROM THE HEAT OF THE DAY TO THE DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT. ♪
• 21:32 ♪ WOULD YOU LISTEN WHEN YOU'RE TIRED, ♪
• 21:35 ♪ WHEN IT'S BEEN A LONG HARD DAY. ♪
• 21:37 ♪ WOULD YOU PAY HIM CLOSE ATTENTION ♪
• 21:40 ♪ AND HEAR EVERYTHING HE SAYS. ♪
• 21:44 ♪♪
• 21:46 ♪ WOULD YOU CROSS A BARREN DESERT ♪
• 21:48 ♪ WITH THE SICK OR EVEN BLIND? ♪
• 21:51 ♪ WOULD YOU HURRY ON AHEAD, ♪
• 21:53 ♪ LEAVING ALL THE LAME BEHIND? ♪
• 21:56 ♪ VERY QUICKLY TO THE TEACHER, ♪
• 21:58 ♪ TAKING EVERYONE YOU CAN, ♪
• 22:01 ♪ THIS IS ONE OF THESE COMMANDMENTS, ♪
• 22:03 ♪ YOU MUST LOVE YOUR FELLOW MAN. ♪
• 22:07 ♪♪
• 22:11 ♪ LISTEN CLOSELY TO THE MASTER. ♪
• 22:18 ♪ NOT YOUR COMFORT AND YOUR PRIDE. ♪
• 22:24 ♪ FOR TO DIE TO WHO YOU THINK YOU ARE ♪
• 22:30 ♪ IS TO FINALLY BE ALIVE. ♪
• 22:40 ♪ LET ME BE A RIGHTEOUS GENTILE THROUGH FLOOD AND EVEN FIRE. ♪
• 22:50 ♪ FOR IF YOU SAVE THE LIFE OF ONE, ♪
• 22:54 ♪ YOU WILL SAVE THE WORLD IN TIME. ♪
• 23:02 ♪ LET ME BE A RIGHTEOUS GENTILE. ♪
• 23:08 ♪ GRAPHED TO THE OLIVE TREE, ♪
• 23:13 ♪ BEARING FRUIT FOR ANY SEASON, LET THIS BE SAID OF ME. ♪
• 23:24 ♪ LET ME BE A RIGHTEOUS GENTILE. ♪
• 23:28 ♪ AND EXTEND A HELPING HAND. ♪
• 23:34 ♪ NEVER COUNTING WHAT IT COSTS ME ♪
• 23:40 ♪ TO HELP MY FELLOW MAN. ♪♪
• 23:52 WELL, THERE'S A MODERN COMEDIAN THAT HAS A TOP 10 LIST ON HIS PROGRAM.
• 23:56 THAT'S OUR TOP 10 --
• 23:59 TOP 10 OF THE FAITH OUT OF HEBREWS 11
• 24:01 AND WITH THE ADMISSION OF PAUL AND STEPHEN.
• 24:03 BUT YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT,
• 24:06 IF YOU'VE HEARD CHRISTIAN TESTIMONIES, YOU KNOW THAT THERE
• 24:09 ARE MILLIONS OF SAID STORIES.
• 24:10 THERE REALLY ARE.
• 24:12 THERE ARE EVEN MORE DRAMATIC STORIES THAN ARE TOLD IN SCRIPTURES.
• 24:16 GENERALS HAVE BEEN CALLED WHO ARE AS TENTATIVE AS GIDEON
• 24:20 AND YOUNG BOYS HAVE GONE FORTH LIKE DAVID AND SLEW
• 24:25 THEIR GOLIATHS AND IT'S A NORMAL PART OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE.
• 24:30 WELL, WE GAVE TEACHINGS ON EACH OF THE CHARACTERS IN THE SCRIPTURE.
• 24:35 WE WERE ON LOCATION IN ISRAEL.
• 24:37 AND WE HAD INTERVIEWS WITH BELIEVERS WHO EXPERIENCED
• 24:42 SOME OF THE SAME TESTS IN THEIR OWN WALK OF FAITH THAT THE
• 24:45 PATRIARCHS AND THE GENERALS AND THE PEOPLE WE SELECTED EXPERIENCED.
• 24:50 FOR EACH PROGRAM, WE CHOSE A JEWISH BELIEVER AND A GENTILE BELIEVER,
• 24:56 BUT I WANT TO STRESS THERE'S REALLY NO SUCH EXPRESSION.
• 24:59 THERE'S NEITHER JEW NOR GREEK IN CHRIST.
• 25:02 ONCE A PERSON IS A BELIEVER, AS A MATTER OF FACT,
• 25:05 TO BE TECHNICAL, WE'RE ALL ADOPTED IN THE ISRAELI HERITAGE.
• 25:10 THE GENTILES ARE NO MORE GENTILES BECAUSE THAT WORD MEANS PAGAN.
• 25:15 WHEN THE LORD USED EXPRESSIONS YOU GREET YOUR FRIENDS,
• 25:18 ONLY EVEN THE GENTILES DO THAT.
• 25:21 HE MEANT THAT UNBELIEVERS DO THAT, NOT SIMPLY NONJEWS.
• 25:24 SO IN REALITY, WE'RE ALL THE SAME IN CHRIST,
• 25:28 ALL SUBJECTS OF HIS KINGDOM, ALL ADOPTED INTO THE FAMILY OF ISRAEL.
• 25:33 THE TESTS THAT WERE SUFFERED BACK THEN AND ARE BEING SUFFERED TODAY,
• 25:39 TESTS OF COURAGE, TESTS OF SUFFERING.
• 25:41 TESTS OF TRUE BELIEF.
• 25:43 YOU KNOW THE CHURCH IN CHINA HAS BEEN PERSECUTED.
• 25:46 GOSH, I KNOW SO MANY STORIES,
• 25:48 I GUESS, I'VE TOLD IT BEFORE,
• 25:49 BUT A STORY THAT THRILLED ME IS WHEN COMMUNIST RUSSIA
• 25:52 WAS CRUSHING POLAND AND THEY STOPPED CHURCH SERVICES.
• 25:57 AND IN ONE CHURCH, TWO YOUNG MEN CAME IN WITH RIFLES AND SAID
• 26:00 "THE CHURCH IS CLOSED, EVERYONE OUT."
• 26:02 AND NOBODY MOVED AT FIRST.
• 26:05 THEY SAID, "ALL RIGHT, WE'LL GIVE YOU FIVE MINUTES.
• 26:06 "ANYBODY WHO IS N THE BUILDING IN FIVE MINUTES WILL BE SHOT."
• 26:11 AND THERE THE BELIEVERS HAD A REAL TEST.
• 26:14 AND I UNDERSTAND THAT SOME OF THEM GOT UP AND LEFT,
• 26:16 BUT NOT ALL OF THEM.
• 26:17 IN FACT, NOT EVEN HALF OF THEM.
• 26:19 MOST OF THE CHURCH WAS STILL SEATED AFTER FIVE MINUTES
• 26:22 AND THE YOUNG MEN CLOSED THE DOORS AND THEN THEY PUT THEIR
• 26:24 RIFLES DOWN AND THEY SAID,
• 26:27 "BROTHERS AND SISTERS, WE'RE SORRY FOR THIS HARD TEST.
• 26:30 "BUT WE'RE TRUE BELIEVERS, TOO, AND AT A TIME LIKE THIS,
• 26:34 "WE WANTED TO PRAY WITH ONLY THE TRULY FAITHFUL."
• 26:36 I DON'T KNOW IF I WOULD HAVE GOT UP AND LEFT THAT CHURCH,
• 26:39 BUT THAT'S QUITE A TEST.
• 26:41 EACH OF US IS GIVEN HOWEVER THE GIFTS FOR THE WALK
• 26:44 WE ARE WALKING IN THE LORD.
• 26:46 AND I PRESUME WE ARE GIVEN THE COURAGE IT TAKES TO MEET THOSE TESTS.
• 26:49 YOU CAN GET THE WHOLE
• 26:51 SERIES ON VIDEOTAPES.
• 26:52 10 PROGRAMS PLUS THE MUSIC
• 26:55 PROGRAM, REALLY 11 IN ALL.
• 26:57 $99 FOR THE VIDEOS
• 26:59 AND THAT IS COMPLETE, EVERYTHING
• 27:01 YOU SAW ON THE SHOW JUST
• 27:02 AS WE SHOWED IT ON THE AIR.
• 27:04 YOU CAN GET THE CASSETTE
• 27:05 OF THE SONGS, CHAMPIONS OF FAITH
• 27:07 HAS THE SAME NAME.
• 27:09 THAT'S $12 FOR ALL OF THE MUSIC.
• 27:11 NOW REALLY THERE'S MORE MUSIC
• 27:12 ON THE CASSETTE THAN YOU
• 27:14 SAW ON TELEVISION.
• 27:15 WE CAN'T TAKE THE TELEVISION
• 27:16 TIME TO PLAY EACH SONG
• 27:17 IN ITS ENTIRETY,
• 27:18 WE JUST KIND OF CUT THEM IN A BIT.
• 27:20 SO YOU'LL HEAR MORE ON
• 27:21 THE CASSETTE THAN YOU HEARD
• 27:22 ON THE TV PROGRAMS.
• 27:24 AND FOLKS, NOW THAT WE ARE AT THE END OF THE SERIES,
• 27:26 I HAVE TO ASK YOU TO HELP US WITH THE FUNDS.
• 27:29 YOUR GIFT NOW IS ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL.
• 27:31 WE ARE WAY DOWN IN OUR RESERVES TO PAY FOR THIS POST PRODUCTION.
• 27:36 THANKS FOR THINKING OF THAT.
• 27:38 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM,
• 27:41 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.