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Caption transcript for The Gospel According to Isaiah: “Rebounding from Devastation” (7/8)

• 00:13 HE IS DESPISED AND REJECTED OF MEN
• 00:17 WOUNDED FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS AND BRUISED FOR OUR INIQUITIES
• 00:24 HE IS BROUGHT AS A LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER
• 00:29 WRITTEN 700 YEARS BEFORE CHRIST, ISAIAH KNEW THAT THIS PROPHETIC SCRIPTURE
• 00:34 WOULD ONE DAY BE FULFILLED IN THE LAMB OF GOD,...JESUS
• 00:47 A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 00:49 JEFFREY SEIF HERE WITH MY GOOD FRIEND SANDRA LEVITT.
• 00:52 SHALOM JEFF. HOW ARE YOU DOING?
• 00:53 AND ON THE MENU TODAY WE'RE LOOKING AT ISAIAH.
• 00:56 ISAIAH.
• 00:58 ISN'T ISAIAH WONDERFUL INSPIRATION OF HOPE
• 01:00 AND REBOUNDING AND REBUILDING
• 01:02 THAT GOD DOES IN OUR LIVES?
• 01:03 RIGHT.
• 01:04 AND THAT'S THE STORY ON THE MENU FOR TODAY.
• 01:06 LOOKING OUT OF ISAIAH CHAPTER 61
• 01:08 WE'RE GOING TO SHOW YOU A DRAMA. WE'RE GOING TO SHOW YOU A TEXT.
• 01:11 IT'S ALL ABOUT HOW GOD CAN RAISE US UP FROM A RUINED ESTATE.
• 01:15 THAT'S WHAT MAKES THE "GOOD NEWS" SO GOOD,
• 01:17 THAT WE CAN MAKE A LIFE SO BAD WITH SIN, DESPAIR, DECAY AND DISORIENTATION,
• 01:23 BUT GOD CAN, WILL AND DOES TURN IT AROUND AS PREDICTED BY ISAIAH THE PROPHET...
• 01:33 "THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON YOU,"
• 01:35 "BECAUSE THE LORD HATH ANOINTED YOU TO PREACH GOOD TIDINGS UNTO THE MEEK."
• 01:40 "HE HATH SENT THEE TO BIND UP THE BROKEN ONE."
• 01:43 "TO PROCLAIM LIBERTY TO THE CAPTIVES."
• 01:46 "AND THE OPENING OF THE PRISON TO THEM THAT ARE BOUND."
• 01:49 "TO GIVE UNT0 THEM BEAUTY FOR ASHES, THE GARMENT OF PRAISE FOR THE SPIRIT OF HEAVINESS."
• 01:58 I'M WONDERING IF THEY FLED DOWN HERE.WONDERING AS THE FOREIGNERS OVERRAN JERUSALEM,
• 02:07 WHEN THEY ARE SCURRYING FOR PLACES TO HIDE, KNOWING THAT THEIR LIVES HUNG IN THE BALANCE.
• 02:17 THEY KNEW THEY COULDN'T WIN SO THEY PROBABLY RAN TO DIFFERENT CRACKS AND CREVICES IN THE CITY
• 02:24 TO HIDE AND HOPE THAT THE WHOLE THING WOULD PASS THEM.
• 02:30 BUT I DOUBT THERE WERE MANY SURVIVORS IN THIS HOUSE.
• 02:35 THIS WAS A FINE HOUSE RIGHT UP CLOSE TO THE "BEIT HA-MIKDASH".
• 02:45 THIS IS THE HOME OF A JEWISH ARISTOCRAT.YOU CAN TELL THESE FINE MOSAICS,
• 02:52 AND I KNOW THEY WERE TORAH OBSERVANT TOO.
• 02:55 THERE'S "MIKVAOT", RITUAL BATHS, ALL OVER THE PLACE.
• 02:59 AND I'M SURE THERE WAS FINE FOOD IN THIS HOME.I'M SURE THERE WAS FINE MUSIC
• 03:06 AND I'M SURE THOSE WHO LIVED HERE COUNTED THEMSELVES FORTUNATE.
• 03:11 THAT IS UNTIL THE WORLD WENT SOUR.
• 03:15 UNTIL IT ALL TURNED UPSIDE DOWN AND WHAT WAS A HOME OF SONG AND JOY BECAME A HOUSE OF TERROR.
• 03:24 MANY DIED, MOST, IF NOT ALL.
• 03:30 AND THE BEST THAT THOSE COULD HOPE FOR THAT SURVIVED THE DEBACLE WOULD BE...
• 03:35 TO BE CARTED OFF INTO SLAVERY IN A FOREIGN LAND.
• 03:40 AND THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED TO THE FORTUNATE.
• 03:43 WELL SO MUCH FOR THE BAD NEWS.
• 03:46 STANDING HERE ON THIS RUIN, PEOPLE DON'T WALK HERE ANYMORE, THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO.
• 03:53 WE HAD TO SECURE PERMISSION FOR ME JUST TO COME AND STAND ON THESE STONES.
• 03:58 SOME OF THE LAST PEOPLE THAT WOULD STAND HERE WERE THOSE THAT LIVED HERE AND HAD THEIR LIVES
• 04:04 INTERRUPTED BY THE SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS THAT I JUST DESCRIBED. WELL SO MUCH FOR THE BAD NEWS.
• 04:12 THE GOOD NEWS IS...
• 04:14 ...IF WE CAN FIND GOOD NEWS OUT OF THIS RUIN.
• 04:18 THE GOOD NEWS IS, EIGHT CENTURIES BEFORE IT ALL HAPPENED
• 04:24 THERE WAS A PROPHET ISAIAH, THE GREATEST PROPHET IN OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY.
• 04:30 IN THE 53RD CHAPTER AND ELSEWHERE,
• 04:32 HE DESCRIBES IT AS SOME POINT IN TIME GOD IS GOING TO SEND...
• 04:40 ...THE "MASHIACH" AND IN THIS SERIES
• 04:42 WE HAVE BEEN DESCRIBING SOME OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THIS MESSIAH.
• 04:48 HERE WE NOTE IN CHAPTER 53, VERSE 10...
• 05:04 RHETORICALLY I WANT TO ASK THE QUESTION,
• 05:07 "WHAT ARE THE PURPOSES FOR THIS PERSON, FOR THIS DELIVERER?"
• 05:12 IF YOU'LL TURN WITH ME PLEASE IN YOUR BIBLES TO ISAIAH CHAPTER 61,
• 05:18 WE'RE MOVING TOWARD THE END OF THE STORY AND HERE HE SAYS...
• 05:42 I THINK IT'S A FASCINATING STORY
• 05:44 THAT THOUGH THROUGH SAD CIRCUMSTANCES AND PERSONAL MISFORTUNES,
• 05:49 INDIVIDUALS FIND THEMSELVES AMIDST THE TURBULENCE OF TRYING TIMES,
• 05:54 OVERRUN BY FORCES THAT THEY'RE POWERLESS TO HOLD AT BAY,
• 05:59 IT'S GREAT TO KNOW THERE'S A GOD THAT LOOKS OVER HIS WORD, THAT HE LOOKS OVER HIS PEOPLE
• 06:05 AND HE HAS A MIND TO PROCLAIM LIBERTY TO THEM, TO OPEN THE EYES OF THOSE THAT ARE BOUND
• 06:13 AND TO PROCLAIM THE YEAR OF THE LORD'S GOOD PLEASURE.AS HE SAYS HERE...
• 06:19 "SPEAKING HEBREW"
• 06:23 AND DON'T WE WANT THE GOOD LORD SINGING OVER US LIKE THAT?
• 06:28 SOMETIMES LIFE CAN BE SO HARD. WE'RE BETRAYED BY PEOPLE, IF NOT DISAPPOINTED.
• 06:36 WE'RE BETRAYED BY CIRCUMSTANCES.
• 06:38 SOMETIMES WE CAN FEEL THAT WE'RE BETRAYED BY OUR OWN BODY WITH ILL HEALTH,
• 06:43 WE'RE BETRAYED BY CLOSE FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES. SOMETIMES THE WORLD CAN TURN UPSIDE DOWN.
• 06:48 THE PROPHET GOES ON TO SAY...
• 07:25 ISN'T THAT A GREAT STORY?HERE IN ISAIAH, EIGHT CENTURIES BEFORE JESUS CAME,
• 07:33 PREDICTED IS THAT THE MESSIAH IS GOING TO COME TO ACCOMPLISH A GOOD PURPOSE.
• 07:40 AND WHAT'S THAT PURPOSE?
• 07:42 WELL ISAIAH GOES ON TO DESCRIBE THAT THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON THIS MESSIAH.
• 07:46 AND WHAT DOES HE DO?
• 07:48 HE PROCLAIMS THE YEAR OF THE LORD'S FAVOR UPON THOSE
• 07:52 WHO FEEL THAT LIFE HAS SET THEM IN A PLACE OF DISFAVOR.
• 07:58 THAT'S WHY THE GOSPEL IS CALLED "GOOD NEWS".
• 08:00 WE CAN FIND OURSELVES AMIDST RUINS AS I STAND HERE TODAY, SO MUCH FOR THE BAD NEWS;
• 08:07 THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT THE GOOD GOD RAISES US UP FROM THOSE RUINS,
• 08:12 ENABLING US TO WALK IN THE NEWNESS OF LIFE
• 08:15 AND EXPERIENCE NEW CIRCUMSTANCES IN CONJUNCTION WITH THAT NEW LIFE.
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• 09:06 IF THESE STONES COULD TALK,
• 09:09 WHAT WOULD THEY SAY?
• 09:12 WOULD THIS ONE SAY... "AH, ONCE UPON A TIME KING HEROD LEANED AGAINST ME."
• 09:19 WOULD THIS STEP SAY... "AH, ONCE UPON A TIME PONTIUS PILOT WALKED ON ME."
• 09:26 WOULD THIS ONE SAY... "AH, I GOT YOU BEAT."
• 09:29 "ONCE THE SHADOW OF JESUS HIMSELF WAS CAST AGAINST ME."
• 09:35 WOULD THEY ALL SAY... "AH, BUT LISTEN TO ME AS WELL,"
• 09:38 "THAT MANY YEARS BEFORE JESUS, THE PROPHET ISAIAH WALKED AMONGST US,"
• 09:45 "AND HIS SHADOW AND HIS FOOTPRINT IS FOUND ALL OVER THESE ROCKS."
• 09:49 YOU KNOW THEY'RE ALL RIGHT.
• 09:52 WE'RE IN THE CITY OF JERUSALEM NOT FAR FROM WHERE THE TEMPLE MOUNT WAS.
• 09:57 THIS IS THE NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE THE JEWISH ELITE RESIDED.
• 10:01 ISAIAH HIMSELF WAS CUT FROM ROYAL CLOTH AND SO HE WOULD HAVE ENJOYED THIS LIFE OR A SEASON.
• 10:09 ISAIAH FOR HIS PART GAVE UP ON THE LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS.
• 10:14 CALLED AS HE WAS TO BE A PROPHET,
• 10:17 HE LEFT HIS FORTUNATE ESTATE TO DWELL AMONGST COMMONERS
• 10:23 AND PROCLAIM THE MESSAGE OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD, AND OH WHAT A MESSAGE IT WAS!
• 10:28 BEFORE THE BREAK WE CONSIDERED THAT ISAIAH HAD NOTED
• 10:31 THAT WHEN THE MESSIAH COMES THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE A...
• 10:35 ...HOW CAN I PUT THIS?
• 10:38 THERE'S GOING TO BE A FALLING. THESE GREAT HOUSES WILL FALL,
• 10:42 BUT THEN THIS "MASHIACH", THIS MESSIAH WILL RAISE UP INDIVIDUALS FROM THOSE RUINS.
• 10:47 WHAT A GREAT STORY!
• 10:49 WHAT I WANT TO DO IS TURN TO ANOTHER WRITER
• 10:51 HAVING LOOKED AT ISAIAH AND HIS PROMISES OF A NEW LIFE THAT'S AVAILABLE TO WOMEN AND MEN.
• 10:58 WHAT I WANT TO DO IS PRACTICALLY SEE HOW THAT'S FLESHED OUT IN THE TEACHING OF JESUS.
• 11:03 IF YOU'LL LOOK IN YOUR BIBLES PLEASE TO THE GOSPEL OF LUKE,
• 11:07 THE DISCIPLES IN EFFECT CAME TO THE LORD AND SAID,
• 11:09 "HEY, HOW CAN WE GET A HOLD OF SOME OF THAT KINGDOM POWER?"
• 11:13 WHEN THEY CAME AND THEY SAID, "LORD TEACH US HOW TO PRAY" WHAT THEY'RE ASKING FOR IS,
• 11:18 "HOW CAN I TAP INTO THE RESOURCE BASE THAT'S AVAILABLE IN HEAVEN"
• 11:21 "TO GET SOME HELP WITH SOME VEXING EARTHLY SITUATIONS?"
• 11:25 AND HE SAID "WHEN YOU PRAY" IN CHAPTER 11, VERSE 2, "DO IT LIKE THIS."HE SAYS...
• 11:36 SEE GOD WASN'T JUST JESUS' FATHER,
• 11:38 THROUGH JESUS GOD IS OUR FATHER,
• 11:40 WE'RE ALL GRAFTED INTO A FAMILY AND I'LL GET TO THAT IN A MOMENT.
• 11:43 WHEN MY KIDS COME TO ME I WANT TO DO THE BEST I CAN FOR THEM.
• 11:47 AND OUR HEAVENLY FATHER IS OF THE SAME PERSUASION. PRAY LIKE THIS...
• 11:59 IT'S LOST TO MANY CHRISTIANS, BUT IN THE JEWISH WORLD
• 12:03 THERE'S A DOCTRINE OF PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE.IT'S CALLED...
• 12:12 IT'S INCUMBENT UPON JEWISH PEOPLE TO MAKE GOD'S NAME LOOK GOOD UPON THE EARTH.
• 12:17 IT'S NOT ALWAYS BORNE OUT IN PRACTICE BUT IT'S ALWAYS TOLD IN THEORY
• 12:21 THAT IT'S INCUMBENT UPON THOSE OF THE COVENANT TO MAKE GOD'S NAME LOOK GOOD.
• 12:26 IN FACT, ISRAEL BEARS GOD'S NAME.
• 12:28 THE SUFFIX "EL" MEANS GOD AND THOSE THAT CARRY THE NAME SHOULD CARRY IT WELL.
• 12:34 WELL HERE THE PRAYER IS...
• 12:47 YOU MIGHT RECALL ELSEWHERE THE LORD SAYS,
• 12:49 "THOSE OF US THAT LOVE OUR LIFE WILL LOSE IT. BUT THOSE THAT LOSE IT WILL FIND IT."
• 12:54 WE'RE SO VERY CONCERNED FOR OUR LIVES,
• 12:56 IF WE JUST LEARNED TO SACRIFICE AND SERVE OTHERS, SERVE A HIGHER PURPOSE,
• 13:01 BE COMMITTED TO GOD WITH OUR TIME, ENERGIES, RESOURCES, AND BE COMMITTED TO OTHER PEOPLE.
• 13:07 WE'RE SO MUCH OUT FOR OURSELVES.
• 13:10 WIRED LIKE THAT, WE MISS THE KINGDOM PRINCIPLE THAT IF WE LOVE OUR LIFE WE'LL LOSE IT.
• 13:14 IF WE'RE ADVOCATES FOR HIS KINGDOM, IF WE SAY
• 13:17 "LORD MAY YOUR NAME BE GREAT UPON THE EARTH AND LET ME USE MY ENERGIES TO FACILITATE THAT",
• 13:22 IF WE'D BE LIKE THAT, THEN OUR HEAVENLY FATHER WOULD USE HIS RESOURCES
• 13:27 TO HELP US GET FURTHER ON DOWN THE ROAD IN LIFE.
• 13:30 T'S JUST SO VERY CONTRARY TO NATURE BECAUSE HUMAN NATURE TENDS JUST TO BE OUT FOR ITSELF.
• 13:35 OH, BUT IF THAT NEW NATURE IS WITHIN YOU,
• 13:39 THE NATURE,THAT NEW BIRTH, THAT COMES FROM GOD, THE HOLY SPIRIT.
• 13:42 IF WE COULD JUST LEARN TO RESPOND TO THOSE IMPULSES
• 13:45 INSTEAD OF OUR OWN BASE IMPULSES WE'D BE THE BETTER FOR IT.
• 13:47 AND IF WE WOULD PRAY,
• 13:49 "LORD MAY YOUR KINGDOM COME AND MAY YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN",
• 13:56 AH SUCH A WONDERFUL KEY THERE. THE PRAYER GOES ON...
• 14:04 I WANT TO MAKE NOTE AT THIS POINT PARTICULARLY BECAUSE,
• 14:07 REMEMBER THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE ENSLAVED IN "MITZRAYIM", IN EGYPT.
• 14:11 THEN GOD DELIVERED THEM FROM EGYPT, BUT IT TOOK YEARS TO ACTUALLY GET TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 14:17 IN ROUTE THEY WERE IN A WORLD WHERE
• 14:20 THERE WERE SPARTAN RESOURCES THERE IN THE WILDERNESS
• 14:22 AND WHAT DID GOD DO?
• 14:23 HE PROVIDED FOR THEM MIRACULOUSLY.
• 14:25 AND SOMETIMES WE'RE AT A PLACE WE NEED GOD'S MIRACULOUS PROVISION.
• 14:30 IT'S GOOD TO KNOW IT'S THERE. HE EVEN SAID TO PRAY FOR IT,
• 14:32 PRAY THAT GOD WILL GIVE US OUR DAILY BREAD AND THAT HARKS BACK TO THE MANNA.
• 14:36 HE GOES ON TO SAY...
• 14:48 IF WE'RE JUST PLAIN HONEST HERE
• 14:50 AND WE JUST THINK ABOUT IT,
• 14:52 A LOT OF US GO THROUGH LIFE, WE DON'T FORGIVE OTHER PEOPLE.
• 14:55 WE'RE ANGRY AT THEM.WE'VE BEEN DISAPPOINTED BY SOME PEOPLE, BETRAYED, ABANDONED.
• 15:02 WHAT HAPPENS IS WE JUST GIVE UP ON PEOPLE AND GO THROUGH LIFE ANGRY.
• 15:08 EVEN IF WE'RE NOT HAVING TANTRUMS ALL THE TIME,
• 15:10 THERE CAN BE THIS SLOW, SIMMERING ANGST BECAUSE WE'RE JUST ANGRY AT THE WORLD.
• 15:16 WELL WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THIS?
• 15:18 I READ HERE THAT HE SAYS THE LORD....
• 15:20 "FORGIVES US OUR TRESPASSES AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO TRESPASS AGAINST US."
• 15:27 YOU'VE GOT TO HEAR ME ON THIS; YOU'VE GOT TO BE THIS WAY.
• 15:30 SEE, TRUTH IS, WE WALK AROUND ALL HOLIER THAN THOU LIKE WE DON'T HAVE ANY PROBLEMS,
• 15:35 BUT GOD'S HONEST TRUTH IS THAT SIN IS JUST PART OF HUMAN NATURE,
• 15:38 IT'S PART OF THE EXPERIENCE AND SOMETIMES SIN RAISES IT'S HOARY HEAD
• 15:42 AND WHAT WE'VE GOT TO DO IS GO TO GOD AND SAY...
• 15:44 "LORD, LISTEN, I'M ASKING YOU GOD...MY PERFORMANCE HASN'T BEEN QUITE PERFECT"
• 15:48 "AND I'M SAYING LORD I WANT TO OWN UP TO IT, CONFESS IT LORD,"
• 15:52 "I WANT YOU TO FORGIVE ME FOR THAT."
• 15:54 AND IF WE DO THAT, AND WE NEED TO DO THAT IN OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD,
• 15:57 AND WE SHOULD EXPECT HIM TO FORGIVE US BECAUSE HE PROMISES THAT HE WILL.
• 16:01 WELL IF THAT'S THE NATURE OF OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM,
• 16:03 IF I UNDERSTAND THE LORD CORRECTLY,
• 16:05 THAT SHOULD BE OUR RELATIONSHIP TOWARD OTHER PEOPLE AS WELL.
• 16:08 NOW HEAR THAT PRINCIPLE IF YOU FORGET ANYTHING ELSE THAT I'VE TOLD YOU...I'VE...TOLD YOU.
• 16:12 WELL I HOPE THAT YOU'LL CONSTRUE THAT THIS IS THE BIBLE TALKING TO YOU NOT ME.
• 16:15 I'M JUST THE MESSENGER.
• 16:18 WE'VE BEEN LOOKING AT ISAIAH WHO PROMISED IN THE EIGHTH CENTURY BEFORE CHRIST,
• 16:21 THAT MESSIAH IS GOING TO COME AND HE'S GOING TO RAISE UP FORMER DEVASTATIONS,
• 16:25 HE'S GOING TO BUILD RUINS, HE'S GOING TO REBUILD LIVES.
• 16:29 AND I'M PRACTICALLY HERE JUST LOOKING AT SOME TEXT THAT TELLS HOW HE'S GOING TO DO THAT.
• 16:32 HE'S NOT JUST GOING TO WAVE THE MAGIC WAND OVER US
• 16:35 AND "PRESTO" AND ALL THE SPARKLIES COME DOWN AND WE HAVE A PERFECT LIFE.
• 16:39 TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS, WHAT WE GET WHEN WE ASK CHRIST INTO OUR HEART,
• 16:42 WE'RE TOLD THAT HIS DIVINE POWER HAS GRANTED US ALL THINGS THAT PERTAIN TO LIFE AND GODLINESS.
• 16:48 WE'RE TOLD THAT WE HAVE THE SEED THAT'S PLANTED WITHIN US, THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
• 16:51 BUT LIKE ANY SEED IT'S GOT TO BE WATERED.AND IF WE WATER IT, IT GROWS.
• 16:55 THIS IS SEED WATER RIGHT HERE.
• 16:58 HEY, I HOPE YOU'VE HEARD FROM ISAIAH AND I HOPE YOU'VE HEARD FROM JESUS.
• 17:02 IT'S GOOD NEWS INDEED ISN'T IT, THAT HE RAISES UP THE FORMER DEVASTATIONS?
• 18:02 THAT'S ISRAEL AND THAT'S THE WAY WE SEE IT.
• 18:04 WE SEE THESE RUINS ON THE TOUR. THEY ARE WONDERFUL VISUALS FOR US JEFF.
• 18:09 OUT OF THOSE RUINS COMES OUR SALVATION.
• 18:12 IT'S TRUE. THEY TELL THE STORY OF BIBLE, EVENTS IN DAYS PAST.
• 18:17 BUT LOOK AT THE REGENERATION OF ISRAEL.
• 18:19 LOOK AT THE WAY IT'S BEING REBUILT
• 18:21 AND HEARTS ARE BEING REBUILT
• 18:23 AND IT'S WONDERFUL TO SEE.
• 18:25 YES, BECAUSE GOD'S WORD IS THE SAME TODAY, YESTERDAY AND FOREVER
• 18:29 AND HE PROMISES TO BE WITH THE PEOPLE.
• 18:32 THOUGH THEY FALL, THEY RISE AGAIN.
• 18:34 THAT'S RIGHT, AND ISN'T THAT ENCOURAGING FOR ALL OF US?
• 18:36 I BELIEVE THAT IT IS.
• 18:38 IN A MOMENT WE'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM RA'ANAN GISSIN,
• 18:41 AND WE'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM OUR BELOVED FRIEND ZOLA LEVITT WHO INTERVIEWED HIM.
• 18:45 I THINK IT'S AMAZING PERSONALLY, ZOLA WAS ABLE TO GET IN FRONT OF A LOT OF PEOPLE.
• 18:50 THIS FELLOW WAS A FORMER CHIEF ADVISOR TO ARIEL SHARON AND HE IS GOING TO, IN HIS OWN WORDS,
• 18:56 TELL THE STORY OF ISRAEL'S COMING BACK TO LIFE IN THE MODERN WORLD.
• 19:02 IT'S A VIBRANT SOCIETY THAT WHERE YOU SEE PERHAPS INSOLVABLE CONFLICTS
• 19:09 AND THE POSSIBILITY OF FALLING APART AT THE SEAMS
• 19:12 AND YOU ALSO SEE A REGENERATION OF THE SOCIETY
• 19:17 AND THAT REGENERATION COMES ABOUT BECAUSE OF IMMIGRATION THAT COMES TO ISRAEL.
• 19:22 ABOUT 1.2 MILLION IMMIGRANTS CAME FROM THE FORMER SOVIET UNION
• 19:26 AND FROM ETHIOPIA IN LESS THAN TEN YEARS.
• 19:29 IN OTHER WORDS, TEN, TWELVE YEARS AGO, WE WERE 4 MILLION JEWS IN THIS COUNTRY.
• 19:34 NOW WE'RE OVER 5.4 MILLION AND ALL TOGETHER 6.5 MILLION PEOPLE LIVE IN THIS STATE.
• 19:41 SO, WITH ALL THOSE DOOMSAYERS THAT SAY
• 19:43 "WELL YOU KNOW ISRAEL IS FALLING APART AT THE SEAMS, ISRAEL HAS NO FUTURE,"
• 19:48 "EVENTUALLY IT IS GOING TO
• 19:49 DISINTEGRATE OR TURN INTO A
• 19:51 BI-NATIONAL STATE",
• 19:54 I JUST DRAW YOU TO THE STATISTICS.
• 19:55 IN 1948, TODAY 55 YEARS AGO, THERE WERE ONLY 600,000
• 20:00 AND IN THE 30'S THERE WERE ONLY 400,000 LIVING HERE.
• 20:04 AND TODAY IT'S A SOCIETY OF 6.5 MILLION PEOPLE,
• 20:08 A VIBRANT ECONOMY, PEOPLE WHO ARE LEADING TODAY IN THE HIGH TECH INDUSTRY, IN MEDICINE.
• 20:15 WE BUILT SCIENTIFIC AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS,
• 20:18 WE REVIVED THE LANGUAGE THAT WAS 2,000 YEARS DEAD,THE HEBREW LANGUAGE,
• 20:23 BECAUSE WE OBSERVED PEOPLE COMING FROM 102 COUNTRIES SPEAKING 82 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES.
• 20:32 WHAT LANGUAGE COULD THEY SPEAK?
• 20:33 ONE OF THE GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS I WOULD SAY,
• 20:36 WAS REVIVING THE HEBREW LANGUAGE WHICH IS THE COMMON LANGUAGE OF THESE PEOPLE
• 20:41 COMING FROM ALL DIFFERENT PLACES AROUND THE WORLD.
• 20:52 ♪(FLUTE PLAYING)♪
• 21:01 ♪(ORCHESTRA PLAYING)♪
• 21:25 ♪OUR FATHER WHICH ART IN HEAVEN,♪
• 21:40 ♪HALLOWED BE THY NAME.♪
• 21:56 ♪THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE♪
• 22:06 ♪ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.♪
• 22:17 ♪GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD.♪
• 22:26 ♪AND FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS AS WE FORGIVE OUR DEBTORS.♪
• 22:37 ♪OUR FATHER WHICH ART IN HEAVEN♪
• 22:51 ♪HALLOWED BE THY NAME.♪
• 23:08 ♪AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION♪
• 23:19 ♪BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL.♪
• 23:29 ♪FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM AND THE POWER AND THE GLORY♪
• 23:51 ♪FOREVER.♪
• 24:15 ♪AMEN.♪
• 24:20 JEFF, I LOVE YOUR TEACHING ON THE LORD'S PRAYER.
• 24:23 I LOVE THE WAY YOU TAKE THE TEXT
• 24:24 AND YOU BREAK IT DOWN INTO HEBREW.
• 24:26 OF COURSE I SAY THIS ABOUT EVERY ONE OF ZOLA'S MUSIC,
• 24:29 BUT THE MUSIC FROM THE LORD'S PRAYER,
• 24:32 THAT ZOLA PUT MUSIC TO THE LORD'S PRAYER,
• 24:34 REALLY DOES MOVE MY HEART.
• 24:36 YES, AND THE LORD'S PRAYER IS MUSIC INDEED.
• 24:39 IT'S MUSIC TO THE SOUL.
• 24:41 IN THIS PROGRAM WE'VE LOOKED AT SOME POLITICAL ISSUES,
• 24:44 HOW THE LORD IS WORKING IN ISRAEL, ITS REBOUNDING AS A NATION STATE.
• 24:49 BUT WHEN I THINK RESTORATION, I DON'T THINK AS MUCH POLITICAL AT ONE LEVEL AS I DO PERSONAL,
• 24:56 AND I'M MINDFUL OF THE TRANSFORMATION THAT'S AVAILABLE.
• 24:59 BEFORE WE CLOSE IN THIS PROGRAM I WANT TO RAISE THE QUESTION,
• 25:02 "AND HOW IS IT SOMEONE GETS THAT TRANSFORMATION?"
• 25:07 AMEN. ASK, SEEK, KNOCK. ASK.
• 25:10 RIGHT.
• 25:11 ASK.
• 25:12 IT IS SO IMPORTANT THAT INDIVIDUALS DO THAT.
• 25:14 THIS IS A MINISTRY IT'S NOT JUST FOX NEWS.
• 25:17 WE'RE GLAD TO TEACH YOU THE NEWS FROM A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE BUT WE WANT GOOD NEWS IN YOU.
• 25:21 IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 7 THE LORD SAYS, "ASK" AS SANDRA REMINDED US.
• 25:27 "ASK AND YOU WILL RECEIVE, SEEK AND YOU WILL FIND, KNOCK AND IT WILL BE OPEN TO YOU."
• 25:33 IF THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS KNOCKING ON YOUR HEART
• 25:36 AND YOU'RE FEELING WITHIN YOU IMPULSES RESONATING,
• 25:40 PROMPTING YOU TO TURN YOUR HEART TOWARD THE LORD,
• 25:42 WHY NOT DO THAT TODAY?ISN'T THAT THE MOST IMPORTANT DECISION ANYONE CAN MAKE?
• 25:47 WE SAY TIME IS SHORT. WE'RE NOT KIDDING.
• 25:50 I ALWAYS SAY THE LINE WILL BE DRAWN IN THE SAND.
• 25:54 GOD'S GOING TO SAY SOMETIME,
• 25:55 "THAT'S IT. MAKE A CHOICE"
• 25:57 "OR I'LL MAKE IT FOR YOU."
• 25:58 RIGHT. I BELIEVE THAT THE OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME
• 26:01 NEEDS TO BE SEIZED WITHIN THE LIFETIME OF THE OPPORTUNITY, AND FOR SOME RIGHT NOW,
• 26:07 THIS IS THE DAY.
• 26:09 THIS PROGRAM GOES OFF THE AIR IN A MINUTE,
• 26:11 BUT THIS CAN BE THE BEGINNING OF A WONDERFUL NEW WORLD FOR YOU
• 26:14 IF YOU'D ONLY GET ON YOUR KNEES AND PRAY AND ASK GOD TO COME IN YOUR HEART
• 26:18 AND GIVE YOU SOME OF THAT RESTORATION DESCRIBED IN THE TEXT.
• 26:22 NOT ONLY RESTORATION OF ISRAEL BUT RESTORATION OF OUR LIVES
• 26:25 AND THAT'S REALLY THE GOOD NEWS.
• 26:27 THANK YOU FOR WATCHING
• 26:29 AND SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM,
• 26:31 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.