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Caption transcript for She Shall Be Called Woman: “Widows” (7/8)

• 00:04 WITH DR. JEFFREY SEIF AND SANDRA LEVITT
• 00:09 SHE SHALL BE CALLED WOMAN
• 00:12 I CAME FORTH FROM A MAN...
• 00:15 BUT I FOUND FAVOR WITH HIM...
• 00:17 AND TRUE SUCCESS IS NOT MEASURED IN WEALTH AND POWER BUT IN THE ESTATE OF ONE'S HEART...
• 00:22 I'VE NEVER BEEN HAPPIER AND MORE FULFILLED...
• 00:26 I RAISED HIM UP STRICTLY IN THE FAITH, THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS...
• 00:31 AND NOW I WANT TO GIVE SOMETHING BACK...
• 00:32 I BELIEVE ELOHIM MEANT IT TO BE THIS WAY...
• 00:35 SHE'S STILL A CORNERSTONE OF WISDOM TO THE FAMILY...
• 00:38 BUT YOU ARE ALWAYS IN MY HEART...
• 00:55 FOR THREE YEARS THE HEAVENS WERE SHUT AND REFUSED TO GIVE RAIN
• 01:01 ALL BECAUSE OF THIS PROPHET.
• 01:04 HE MET ME AT THE CITY GATE AND ASKED ME FOR A DRINK AND SOME BREAD.
• 01:10 BUT I HAD NONE TO GIVE, ONLY A HANDFUL OF FLOUR AND SOME OIL.
• 01:17 BUT HE INSISTED SAYING YAHWEH WOULD BLESS ME WITH AN ABUNDANCE IF ONLY I WOULD BELIEVE.
• 01:36 I HAD PLANNED ON BAKING THE LAST MORSEL OF BREAD FOR MY SON AND FOR ME.
• 01:41 WE WERE READY TO EAT OUR LAST MEAL AND DIE.
• 01:46 MY HUSBAND PASSED AWAY YEARS BEFORE AND I HAD NO MEANS OF SUPPORT,
• 01:52 ESPECIALLY IN THE TIME OF FAMINE.
• 02:00 BUT IN MY MOST DESPERATE HOUR, GOD MADE HIMSELF KNOWN AS MY PROVIDER.
• 02:16 HIS GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR ME.
• 02:27 A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 02:29 JEFFREY SEIF HERE, WITH MY FRIEND SANDRA LEVITT.
• 02:30 SHALOM
• 02:31 WELCOME TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 02:33 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WIDOWS TODAY, JEFF,
• 02:34 AND THAT DRAMA THAT WE JUST SAW
• 02:37 IS SO TOUCHING FOR ME BEING A WIDOW.
• 02:40 WATCHING THIS WOMAN WALK AND JUST THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD ON HER SHOULDERS.
• 02:44 SHE DOESN'T KNOW THAT THIS PROPHET IS ELIJAH.
• 02:47 THIS IS ELIJAH.
• 02:49 THIS MAN MADE THE RAIN STOP.
• 02:51 IT'S A GREAT STORY BECAUSE GOD COMES TO HER AID.
• 02:53 BUT SHE IS CARRYING THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD ON HER SHOULDERS.
• 02:56 WHAT'S THAT LIKE?
• 02:58 THIS IS ONE OF THOSE PROGRAMS THAT I REALLY WANTED TO MAKE,
• 03:03 BUT I REALLY WALKED INTO IT VERY QUIETLY BECAUSE
• 03:06 IT'S SO RAW FOR ME AT TIMES.
• 03:09 YOU ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOU'RE A WIDOW.
• 03:12 PART OF YOU IS GONE.
• 03:14 PART OF YOU IS JUST GONE.
• 03:15 AND I'M GLAD WE MADE IT BECAUSE
• 03:17 "WIDOW" IS UNNAMED.
• 03:19 AND SHE'S UNNAMED BECAUSE WE LOSE SOMEBODY ALL THE TIME
• 03:24 AND I THINK GOD COMFORTS US
• 03:26 AND THAT'S WHAT WE NEED.
• 03:27 WE'RE GOING TO ISRAEL.
• 03:29 JEFF IN TEACHING; TEACHING ABOUT THE WIDOW AND ELIJAH.
• 03:32 BACK AFTER THIS.
• 03:36 IN THE BOOK OF MELAKHIM (KINGS), BIBLE READERS LEARN THAT KING AHAB MARRIED POORLY.
• 03:44 HE MARRIED JEZEBEL, A SIDONIAN PRINCESS.
• 03:48 AND BY VIRTUE OF HIS MARRYING WRONG, HE BROUGHT UNTOLD MISERIES UPON HIS WORLD.
• 03:55 WOMEN WERE DEPRESSED AND WHY SHOULD THEY BE HAPPY?
• 03:59 THE MEN WERE MISERABLE TOO.
• 04:01 THERE WAS NOTHING TO DO.
• 04:03 AS A PUNISHMENT PROSPERITY WAS DRIVEN OUT OF THE LAND.
• 04:07 THE WATER DIDN'T WATER THE EARTH.
• 04:09 ALL THERE WAS ROUND ABOUT WAS DUST AND DIRT.
• 04:13 NO NEED MAKE READY THE INSTRUMENTS OF HARVEST
• 04:17 BECAUSE THERE WAS NOTHING TO BE GLEANED FROM THE EARTH.
• 04:20 AND SO IT IS THE MEN WEREN'T WORKING;
• 04:23 THE CHILDREN WEREN'T PLAYING;
• 04:27 AND THE WOMEN WERE MISERABLE ROUND ABOUT.
• 04:30 WHO WOULD PROTECT THEM?
• 04:32 WHO WOULD CHANGE THIS ABYSMAL STATE OF AFFAIRS?
• 04:36 HERE IS A SHOMERA [TOWER],
• 04:39 A WATCHTOWER,
• 04:40 FROM THE WORD SHOMER WHERE WATCHMEN WOULD BE PLACED.
• 04:44 WHAT IS THIS WATCHMAN GOING TO LOOKOUT FOR?
• 04:48 BECAUSE IN THIS CASE THE ENEMY ISN'T AN ARMY THAT WOULD ENCROACH UPON HIS VILLAGE.
• 04:52 THE ENEMY, OR SO IT SEEMED, WAS GOD, WHO WAS WITHHOLDING PROSPERITY FROM HIS PEOPLE.
• 04:59 THERE'S A VINE THAT GREW UP AGAINST THIS TOWER ONCE UPON A TIME,
• 05:03 BUT THERE'S NO LEAVES OR GRAPES.
• 05:05 WHY IS THAT?
• 05:06 BECAUSE LIFE IN EFFECT HAS CEASED.
• 05:08 PEOPLE AREN'T EATING AND DRINKING.
• 05:10 THE ANIMALS AREN'T FAIRING WELL EITHER.
• 05:12 THIS IS A WORLD GONE BAD.
• 05:17 ELIYAHU [ELIJAH], THE PROPHET, ENTERED INTO THIS WORLD.
• 05:21 IN FACT, IT WAS THROUGH HIS MINISTRY THAT THIS WORLD WAS BROUGHT ABOUT.
• 05:26 OUR STORY LOOKS AT ELIJAH'S CONTACT WITH A WOMAN AT THE RAGGED EDGE OF DESPAIR.
• 05:34 ELIYAHU WAS TOLD TO GO TO A VILLAGE IN ISRAEL WHERE THEY'RE RIGHT AT THE RAGGED EDGE OF MISERY
• 05:41 AND THERE HE ENCOUNTERS A WOMAN WHO'S MAKING READY FOR HER LAST SUPPER.
• 05:46 NO, THIS ISN'T JESUS AND THE PASSOVER MEAL,
• 05:49 THIS IS A WOMAN WHO ELIYAHU ENCOUNTERS AND HE SAYS,
• 05:53 GIVE ME A DRINK AND FETCH ME SOMETHING TO EAT.
• 05:56 HER RESPONSE IS, "I'M ABOUT TO DIE. THIS IS MY LAST SUPPER."
• 06:00 BUT THE PROPHET SAYS, LISTEN, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO DIE.
• 06:04 DO SOMETHING FOR ME INSTEAD.
• 06:07 AND SHE TAKES PART OF HER MEAGER PROVISIONS;
• 06:10 SHE GIVES IT OVER TO GOD, IF YOU WILL.
• 06:12 SHE GIVES IT OVER TO THE PROPHET, THE MAN OF GOD,
• 06:15 AND HER WORLD IS TRANSFORMED IN THE PROCESS.
• 06:18 THIS SERIES LOOKS AT WOMEN.
• 06:20 THIS PROGRAM LOOKS AT WIDOWS.
• 06:23 AND WE'RE GOING TO SEE HOW IN A WORLD GONE BAD GOD RISES UP AND CHAMPIONS THE CAUSE OF WOMEN
• 06:31 WHO ARE HARD PRESSED AMIDST THE TURBULENCE OF TRYING TIMES.
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• 07:10 EVERY KITCHEN HAS A PANTRY.
• 07:12 HERE'S THE STORAGE CLOSET FOR THIS HOME, BUT UNFORTUNATELY IT'S NOT VERY WELL KEPT.
• 07:17 WHY SHOULD IT BE?
• 07:18 THERE'S NOTHING IN IT.
• 07:20 IN FACT THE VINE THAT JUST PROTRUDES FROM IT HERE LOOKS AS DEAD AS DEAD CAN BE.
• 07:25 AND THAT OF ITSELF BESPEAKS THE NATURE OF LIFE HERE IN NORTHERN ISRAEL.
• 07:30 WHY? BECAUSE A DROUGHT HAS COME.
• 07:32 WELL, SO MUCH FOR THE BAD NEWS.
• 07:34 PEOPLE CAN START TO LOOK UP A LITTLE BIT ROUND ABOUT.
• 07:37 YOU KNOW WHY?
• 07:38 BECAUSE GOD HAS VISITED THE CITY.
• 07:40 IN FACT, THE PROPHET ELIYAHU CAME HERE.
• 07:43 AMIDST THE TURBULENCE OF TRYING TIMES HE ENGAGED A WOMAN.
• 07:47 HE WANTED TO RADICALLY TRANSFORM HER LIFE.
• 07:50 AND WHAT DID HE SAY?
• 07:51 IT WAS A STRANGE SAYING INDEED.
• 07:54 A WOMAN PRESSED TO THE EDGE OF DESPAIR, PREPARING HER LAST SUPPER IN EFFECT.
• 07:59 THE PROPHET SHOWS UP AND IN CHAPTER 17, THERE IN VERSE 9 HE SAYS:
• 08:05 (Speaking Hebrew)
• 08:16 THE LORD SAYS TO THE PROPHET; GO TO THAT PLACE
• 08:21 BECAUSE THERE IS A WOMAN THERE AND THE WORD TO HER IS THAT SHE'S GOING TO TAKE CARE OF YOU.
• 08:27 IT SEEMS RATHER ODD.
• 08:28 HERE'S A WOMAN PUSHED TO THE BRINK.
• 08:30 SHE HAS NOTHING FOR HER OWN CUPBOARD
• 08:32 AND HER MEAGER FOOD STAPLES NOW ARE TO BE SHARED WITH THE PROPHET.
• 08:36 WELL WHAT HAPPENS IS ELIYAHU COMES TO THIS WOMAN DESPAIRING AS SHE IS
• 08:42 AND HE HAS A WORD FOR HER.
• 08:44 WE'RE TOLD IN VERSE 13, AND AGAIN I'M LOOKING HERE AT THE 17TH CHAPTER OF 1ST KINGS.
• 08:51 (Speaking Hebrew)
• 08:53 DON'T FEAR
• 08:55 ISN'T THAT WHAT HAPPENS SOMETIMES?
• 08:58 WE SEE OUR SECURITY DRYING UP WITH THE RAGGED AND THE TENDENCY IS TO FEAR.
• 09:05 IN FACT, THE SENSES ROUND ABOUT SAY FEAR.
• 09:08 THERE IS NO RAIN.
• 09:10 THERE IS NO GRAIN.
• 09:12 THE ONLY THING GROWING ROUND ABOUT IS PAIN AND THINGS AREN'T LOOKING ANY BETTER.
• 09:17 BUT THEN GOD SHOWS UP.
• 09:19 AND WHEN GOD SHOWS UP, THINGS CAN BEGIN TO CHANGE UP.
• 09:23 WE'RE TOLD IN THE BOOK TEHILLIM
• 09:25 [IN THE PSALMS]
• 09:26 THAT HE CAN TAKE A DESERT AND TURN IT INTO A GARDEN
• 09:30 AND THAT HE CAN TAKE A GARDEN AND TURN IT INTO A DESERT.
• 09:34 WELL WHAT HAPPENS HERE?
• 09:36 THE WOMAN SAYS, GOODNESS SIR, I HAVE NOTHING BUT THESE MEAGER STAPLES.
• 09:40 AND WHAT DOES THE PROPHET SAY?
• 09:42 TAKE THAT AND GIVE PART OF THAT TO GOD'S SERVICE
• 09:46 AND THE NET RESULT WILL BE THAT YOU WILL NEVER RUN OUT.
• 09:51 I LOVE THE WAY IT READS AS WE GO ON IN THE TEXT.
• 09:54 IN VERSE 16.
• 09:55 WELL,WHAT HAPPENS IS, THE WOMAN DOES THAT AND OBSERVES A MIRACLE.
• 09:58 SHE MAKES A MEAL, GIVES SOME TO THE PROPHET AND GIVES AND GIVES AND GIVES,
• 10:03 BUT THE BLESSING KEEPS COMING AND COMING AND COMING.
• 10:07 WHAT A GREAT STORY!
• 10:08 WHAT A MIRACLE!
• 10:09 IT'S NO WONDER THAT JEWS THE WORLD OVER SANG,
• 10:12 ELIYAHU HA-NAVI,
• 10:14 ELIYAHU HA-TISHBE.
• 10:17 THIS PROPHET WHO MADE A NAME FOR HIMSELF BY HELPING DISTRAUGHT WOMEN.
• 10:21 OH WOULD IT BE THAT OTHERS WITHIN THE SOUND OF MY VOICE
• 10:24 WOULD LEARN THAT GOD CARES ABOUT THE WIDOW.
• 10:27 GOD CARES ABOUT THE AFFLICTED.
• 10:29 HERE IN FACT AS THIS WOMAN KEEPS GIVING, SHE KEEPS GETTING.
• 10:33 IN CHAPTER 17, VERSE 16 WE'RE TOLD:
• 10:36 (Speaking Hebrew)
• 10:45 (Speaking Hebrew)
• 10:51 (Speaking Hebrew)
• 10:54 AND THIS ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF THE LORD THAT WAS GIVEN THROUGH AND TO ELIJAH.
• 11:00 AND FRIENDS, THAT'S A WORD I BELIEVE THAT'S GIVEN TO US THROUGH THE SCRIPTURE.
• 11:06 THAT IS, INASMUCH AS GOD CARED ABOUT THE WIDOW WHO SERVED HIM,
• 11:11 AND I WANT YOU TO HEAR ME ON THIS;
• 11:13 IN A WORLD WHERE WOMEN ARE ABANDONED BY MEN...
• 11:17 A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK, WELL, I'M THE MAN.
• 11:18 BOY, I HAVE ALL THESE WOMEN AND ALL THESE KIDS.
• 11:20 NO!ALL THAT PROVES IS THAT YOU'RE A MALE.
• 11:23 NOW IF YOU'RE A MAN, WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT YOU ARE GOING TO TAKE CARE OF A WOMAN.
• 11:28 NOTICE HERE IS A WOMAN WHO SERVES THE LORD IN RESPONSE TO WHICH THE LORD LOOKS OUT FOR HER INTERESTS.
• 11:36 WHILE GOD DOES THAT MIRACULOUSLY I DON'T DOUBT,
• 11:40 A MORAL IN THE STORY IS IN AS MUCH AS HE DOES THAT TO THE WOMAN THAT SERVES HIM,
• 11:46 SO TOO THOSE OF US THAT WANT TO WALK IN GOD'S FOOTSTEPS IF YOU WILL AND FOLLOW HIS EXAMPLES,
• 11:52 WE TOO ARE TO BE OF SERVICE OF THE WOMAN WHO'S MINDED TO BE OF SERVICE TO US.
• 11:58 IT'S FOR THIS REASON IN PART WHEN I GO OVER TO THE NEW TESTAMENT;
• 12:02 THEREIN THERE'S A BOOK CALLED JAAKOV.
• 12:05 NOW YOU SAY WELL THERE'S NO BOOK IN THE NEW TESTAMENT CALLED JAAKOV.
• 12:07 THAT'S ONLY BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT USED TO LOOKING AT THE NEW TESTAMENT THROUGH JEWISH EYES.
• 12:12 AND IF YOU WONDER WHY SHOULD YOU LOOK AT THE NEW TESTAMENT THROUGH JEWISH EYES,
• 12:15 IT'S BECAUSE JESUS WAS A JEW, ALL OF HIS TALMIDIM, HIS DISCIPLES, WERE JEWS
• 12:19 AND THE STORY TOOK PLACE IN ISRAEL,
• 12:21 THE ANCESTRAL HOMELAND OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE WHERE I AM BROADCASTING FROM RIGHT NOW.
• 12:26 HERE, JAAKOV [OR JAMES] WRITES AND HE SAYS IN CHAPTER 1, VERSE 27:
• 12:39 INASHMUCH AS GOD DOES IT, GOD WOULD HAVE THOSE THAT FOLLOW IN HIS FOOTSTEPS TO DO IT.
• 12:44 AND SO IT IS WE CONSIDER HERE THE STORY OF WOMEN IN THE WORLD IN GENERAL,
• 12:48 BUT IN PARTICULAR WE WANT TO UNDERSCORE GOD'S CONCERN FOR WOMEN WHO ARE MARGINALIZED, DEPRESSED AND DISTRAUGHT.
• 12:55 LET'S GET BEHIND THEM AND HELP THEM AND ABANDON THEM NO MORE.
• 13:00 JEFF, I LOVE YOUR TEACHING ON THE WIDOWS.
• 13:02 YOU'RE RIGHT.
• 13:04 PEOPLE NEED TO TAKE CARE OF WIDOWS.
• 13:06 AND THAT REALLY HELPED ME GET THROUGH THE HARD...
• 13:09 THE FIRST YEAR WAS SO HARD.
• 13:11 AND YET PEOPLE WOULD COME
• 13:12 AND THEY WOULD SAY, "ARE YOU OKAY?"
• 13:14 THEY WOULD OFFER THEIR SYMPATHY.
• 13:15 THEY WOULD OFFER THEIR EAR TO TALK TO ME, WHICH WAS REALLY, REALLY KIND.
• 13:18 WE DO NEED TO NOT FORGET THE WIDOWS.
• 13:21 IT WAS A GOOD TEACHING.
• 13:22 YES. I LIKE TO INCULCATE IN MY BOYS HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO SUPPORT WOMEN.
• 13:26 AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE MALE DIES? >>RIGHT
• 13:31 I MEAN SHE'S PUT IN A PRECARIOUS PLACE.
• 13:33 WELL AND THE SCRIPTURE YOU USED,
• 13:34 JAMES 1, WAS A WONDERFUL SCRIPTURE.
• 13:36 THE OTHER SCRIPTURE I LIKE IS IN PSALMS WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT GOD IS A FATHER TO THE FATHERLESS
• 13:40 AND A HELPER TO THE WIDOW.
• 13:41 HE SAYS HE'S A JUDGE OF THE WIDOWS,
• 13:43 HE TAKES CARE OF HIS WIDOWS
• 13:45 AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT.
• 13:47 I BELIEVE THAT BIBLICAL FAITH IS AT ITS BEST
• 13:49 WHEN WE'RE MEETING THE NEEDS IN THE WORLD.
• 13:51 BUT WE EVEN KNOW THAT THERE'S A NEED IS REALLY IMPORTANT ALSO.
• 13:55 SOMETIMES PEOPLE JUST...I KNOW FOR ME, I HEARD PEOPLE SAY,
• 13:59 "WELL I DIDN'T CALL YOU BECAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW IF YOU WERE OKAY."
• 14:03 OR, "I DIDN'T CALL BECAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW IF YOU WERE NOT TAKING CALLS."
• 14:06 THEY WERE CONCERNED ABOUT ME, BUT I REALLY APPRECIATED THE PRAYERS, THE LETTERS, THE CALLS.
• 14:11 I REALLY APPRECIATED IT.
• 14:12 THERE'S A STORY WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT IN A MOMENT
• 14:15 WITH A WOMAN WHO'S MUCH TO BE APPRECIATED, FREDA LINDSAY.
• 14:18 OH, SHE WAS TERRIFIC. I LOVED INTERVIEWING HER.
• 14:20 SHE CO-LABORED WITH HER HUSBAND AND THEN HE...
• 14:24 SHE'LL TELL THE STORY. >>RIGHT. RIGHT
• 14:27 HE DIES ON THE STAGE THERE AFTER HE JUST GETS BACK FROM ISRAEL.
• 14:30 HE'S SPEAKING TO THE STUDENT BODY AT THE COLLEGE WHERE THEY WERE.
• 14:32 THE BOTTOM DROPS OUT FROM UNDERNEATH HER.
• 14:35 YOU KNOW HE'S BEEN DEAD 34 YEARS.
• 14:38 AND SHE IS 93 YEARS OLD
• 14:40 AND IS JUST A LOVELY, LOVELY WOMAN.
• 14:43 IT WAS AN ENCOURAGEMENT FOR ME.
• 14:45 I THINK IT'LL BE AN ENCOURAGEMENT FOR EVERYONE ELSE TOO.
• 14:47 WE'RE GOING TO GO TO FREDA LINDSAY, A GREAT STORY,
• 14:49 A GREAT EXAMPLE OF A WIDOW THAT KEPT ON WORKING AND GOD KEPT ON WORKING FOR HER.
• 14:56 HE WAS IN THE SERVICE AND SITTING BEHIND ME.
• 15:00 AND ALL OF A SUDDEN I NOTICED THAT SOME OF THE TEACHERS WERE WALKING ON THE PLATFORM
• 15:06 AND I THOUGHT, WHY ARE THEY COMING UP HERE?
• 15:09 YEAH.
• 15:11 SO I TURNED AROUND AND LOOKED OVER MY SHOULDER
• 15:16 AND THERE HE WAS LIKE THIS,
• 15:18 JUST WITH HIS HEAD ON HIS SHOULDER AND WAS GONE.
• 15:23 THE NEXT MORNING I TRIED TO GET UP OUT OF BED AND I WAS SO WEAK I JUST DIDN'T FEEL I COULD.
• 15:29 SO I SAID, CAROL; I CALL HER CAROL.THAT'S WHAT WE CALL HER.
• 15:35 IN ISRAEL THEY CALL HER SHIRA, WHICH MEANS SONG. >>RIGHT.
• 15:38 YOU SING A CAROL.
• 15:40 SO, I SAID, CAROL, I CAN'T GET OUT OF BED THIS MORNING.
• 15:45 THIS WAS THE NEXT DAY AFTER GORDON DIED.
• 15:48 AND SHE SAID, MOM, LET ME HELP YOU.
• 15:56 SHE SAID, LET'S PRAY FOR ENOUGH STRENGTH JUST FOR ONE DAY.
• 15:59 JUST FOR ONE DAY - TODAY. JUST FOR TODAY.
• 16:02 THAT IS RIGHT.
• 16:03 AND SO THE LORD HELPED ME AND I'VE BEEN GOING EVER SINCE.
• 16:08 EVERY DAY. AND WE WERE TALKING EARLY,
• 16:10 THE FIRST YEAR JUST THE ABSOLUTE WORST.
• 16:13 AND YET GOD IS THE SUSTAINER AND IS EVERYDAY,
• 16:17 YOU'RE RIGHT. IT'S ONE FOOT IN FRONT OF THE OTHER.
• 16:20 AND THERE ARE DAYS THAT I KNOW THAT
• 16:22 I WANTED JUST TO PULL THE COVERS OVER MY HEAD >>YES
• 16:25 AND LET THE WORLD JUST GO PAST ME. >>RIGHT.
• 16:27 I DON'T CARE. >>UM HMM
• 16:29 BUT GOD ALWAYS PROMPTED ME TO KEEP ON GOING
• 16:32 AND I PROMISED ZOLA THAT I WOULD KEEP ON GOING.
• 16:36 AND I KNOW THAT BEFORE DR. LINDSAY DIED YOU PROBABLY
• 16:41 MADE THAT TALK ALSO OF THE MINISTRY GOES ON.
• 16:44 THAT'S TRUE. IT HAS TO. >>IT HAS TO.
• 16:47 I'M SURE THAT'S KEPT YOU AND ME GOING BECAUSE THERE WAS THIS SCHOOL TO...
• 16:53 WHO WAS GOING TO RUN IT? >>YES. THAT'S RIGHT. THAT'S RIGHT.
• 16:56 AND THEN THE NEXT DAY AFTER WE HAD THE FUNERAL,
• 17:02 THE BOARD VOTED ME SO THAT I WAS TO SUCCEED GORDON.
• 17:07 AND I THOUGHT HOW IN THE WORLD CAN I SUCCEED HIM?
• 17:12 AND I REMEMBER SITTING THERE THINKING,
• 17:15 GOD, I CAN'T WRITE.
• 17:17 GORDON'S WRITTEN 250 BOOKS.
• 17:20 HOW CAN I WRITE?
• 17:23 HE'S WRITTEN ONE BOOK A MONTH.
• 17:25 I CAN'T DO THAT, LORD.
• 17:26 AND THEN ALL THE OTHER THINGS I LISTED.
• 17:28 AND I SAID, HE SPEAKS ALL OVER THE WORLD. >>(Sandra laughing)
• 17:31 AND LORD, I'M NO GREAT SPEAKER.
• 17:34 AND I LISTED A BUNCH OF THINGS.
• 17:36 I WAS TELLING THIS TO THE LORD PRIVATELY.
• 17:39 AND THEN WHEN I FINISHED, IT WAS LIKE THE LORD SAID, THERE'S A FEW MORE THINGS YOU CAN'T DO.
• 17:44 (Sandra laughing)
• 17:45 I'LL ADD THOSE TO THE LIST.
• 17:47 THANKS SO MUCH FOR THAT.
• 17:50 YES.BUT ANYWAY, THE FIRST YEAR IS THE HARDEST.
• 17:52 THE FIRST YEAR THEY WERE GOING TO HAVE A GORDON LINDSAY DAY.
• 17:55 SO I MADE AN ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE STUDENTS.
• 17:59 I SAID, NOW A YEAR HAS GONE BY.
• 18:01 IT'S TIME TO QUIT CRYING NOW. NO MORE CRYING.
• 18:05 AND I SAID NOW WHAT DO YOU THINK THE LORD'S DOING HERE ON THIS GORDON LINDSAY DAY?
• 18:10 THEY'RE PROBABLY HAVING A JUBILEE DANCE UP THERE.
• 18:13 RIGHT.
• 18:14 AND SO I DON'T WANT ANYBODY CRYING ON GORDON LINDSAY DAY.
• 18:18 I WANT US TO BE HAPPY THAT HE'S IN A PLACE - HE MADE IT!
• 18:21 WHAT WOULD BE THE GREATEST DESIRE THAT YOU WOULD HAVE FOR ANY MEMBER OF YOUR FAMILY?
• 18:27 IT WOULD BE THAT THEY WOULD MAKE HEAVEN.
• 18:29 THAT'S RIGHT.
• 18:30 HOW HORRIBLE WOULD IT BE
• 18:33 TO THINK THAT YOUR LOVED ONE
• 18:34 DIED NOT KNOWING WHERE THEY WERE GOING TO GO
• 18:36 FOR THEIR ETERNAL LIFE.
• 18:38 ABSOLUTELY TRUE.
• 18:39 WOULDN'T THAT BE JUST THE ABSOLUTE WORST.
• 18:40 AWFUL, AWFUL, AWFUL.
• 18:41 SO, THAT IS A COMFORT FOR ME.
• 18:43 IT IS A REAL COMFORT FOR ME.
• 18:45 YES, THAT THEY MADE IT. THAT THEY MADE IT. THEY MADE IT.
• 18:47 HERE I LAUGH AND I ALWAYS SAY, ZOLA'S TALKING TO JEREMIAH AND KING DAVID,
• 18:51 BUT HE'S ALSO TALKING TO SAMMY SNEED AND BOBBY JONES AND BYRON NELSON, THE GOLF GREATS.
• 18:56 MY HUSBAND LOVED TO GOLF.
• 18:58 YES, MINE DID TOO.
• 19:00 THEY'RE HAVING A GREAT TIME.
• 19:01 YES, IT'S SO IMPORTANT THAT WE KEEP OUR HEARTS FULL OF THE WORD OF GOD.
• 19:07 LIKE I SAID, I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYBODY READING THE BIBLE EVERYDAY THAT GOES DEEP INTO SIN.
• 19:14 IT JUST DOESN'T HAPPEN.
• 19:16 WHAT GREAT STORIES OF REDEMPTION;
• 19:19 OF MAN'S REDEMPTION, OF WOMEN'S REDEMPTION, OF OUR REDEMPTION, OF OUR SALVATION.
• 19:23 WHAT WONDERFUL INSIGHT, WHAT WONDERFUL ENCOURAGEMENT FOR US.
• 19:28 I THINK THE BIBLE IS... WHENEVER I HAVE ANY QUESTIONS I GO RIGHT TO THE SOURCE.
• 19:31 THAT'S TRUE.AND THE GREAT WOMEN IN THE BIBLE.
• 19:35 ABSOLUTELY. WHO'S YOUR FAVORITE WOMAN?
• 19:37 I LOVE HANNAH. >>DO YOU REALLY?
• 19:39 I DO, HANNAH.
• 19:40 WHY?
• 19:42 WELL, HANNAH, SHE WAS THE NEGLECTED WIFE IN A SENSE. >>RIGHT.
• 19:47 THE OTHER WOMAN THAT BORE ALL THE CHILDREN,
• 19:49 PENNINNAH
• 19:51 SHE GOT THE FLOWERS AND EVERYTHING.
• 19:54 SO, WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE WIDOWS?
• 19:56 WHAT WOULD YOU TELL WIDOWS?
• 19:57 I WOULD SAY DO WHAT I DID WHEN I STARTED BIBLE SCHOOL.
• 20:01 THIS BAPTIST TEACHER SAID, READ THE BIBLE EVERYDAY 3 CHAPTERS...
• 20:08 AND I HAVE OUR STUDENTS GO 3 CHAPTERS A DAY, 5 ON SUNDAY.
• 20:12 WHEN I'D WALK ON THE TRACK;
• 20:14 WE HAVE A TRACK BEHIND THIS STUDENT CENTER,
• 20:17 AND I'D WALK ON THE TRACK.
• 20:20 I'D SEE OUR STUDENTS COMING AROUND THE TRACK.
• 20:23 THEY'D BE EXERCISING.
• 20:25 I'D GO LIKE THIS - 3 AND 5.
• 20:30 IF THEY'RE DOING IT THEY'D SAY, YEAH, YEAH, 3, 5.
• 20:34 THREE CHAPTERS A DAY, FIVE CHAPTERS ON SUNDAY.
• 20:37 AND IF I'D SAY IT, 3 CHAPTERS, 5 CHAPTERS.
• 20:43 OH, THEY WEREN'T DOING IT.
• 20:44 THEY WEREN'T DOING IT.
• 20:46 AND I'D SAY, AH, CAUGHT YA. >>GOT YA.
• 20:48 I GOT YA THIS TIME.
• 20:50 SO, ANYWAY, IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE FORM HABITS.
• 20:56 YOU KNOW, I HAVE NEVER MET ANYBODY THAT HAS TOLD ME THAT I READ THE BIBLE EVERYDAY THAT HAS GONE INTO SIN.
• 21:04 NOW MAYBE I MISSED ONE OR TWO, BUT I JUST HAVEN'T.
• 21:07 IT'S PRETTY CONVICTING. >>GOD'S WORD IS PRETTY CONVICTING. >>IT IS.
• 21:10 IT IS.I MEAN YOU READ IT THROUGH AND THERE'S PLACES WHERE YOU JUST BETTER SAY,
• 21:16 WELL, I THINK I'LL SKIP TODAY OR SOMETHING.
• 21:20 YOU BETTER NOT THOUGH.
• 21:21 GOD BLESS YOU. THANK YOU FOR TALKING WITH US.
• 21:24 AND WE'LL TALK TO YOU LATER.
• 21:26 BLESS YOU. THANK YOU FOR ASKING ME TO COME.
• 21:30 WELL THAT'S FREDA LINDSAY
• 21:32 AND SHE'S QUITE A WOMAN.
• 21:33 ISN'T SHE SANDRA?
• 21:34 SHE WAS A CHARACTER,
• 21:35 BUT SHE WAS SO ENCOURAGING, JEFF.
• 21:37 I DIDN'T REALLY KNOW IF I WAS GOING TO MAKE IT.
• 21:39 AND HERE SHE'S TELLING THE STORY OF HER SAYING, I COULDN'T WRITE, I HAD NEVER SPOKEN.
• 21:43 AND I'M THINKING, THAT WAS ME, THAT WAS ME.
• 21:46 AND SHE SAID, AND GOD SAID, OH, BY THE WAY, YOU CAN'T DO THESE THINGS EITHER!
• 21:49 I'M THINKING, OH GOSH, THAT'S ME TOO.
• 21:51 IT WAS REAL ENCOURAGING.
• 21:52 LIFE DOES GO ON.
• 21:54 AND I THINK THAT'S THE MESSAGE THAT GOD HAS FOR ALL OF US.
• 21:56 LIFE DOES GO ON.
• 21:57 AND WE CAN ALL MEET GOD IN THE FUTURE BY THE WAY.
• 21:59 IT'S NEVER OVER UNTIL IT'S OVER.
• 22:02 WE HAVE A GOD WHO LOVES US.
• 22:03 HE CARES FOR US AND HAS A WONDERFUL PLAN FOR OUR LIVES.
• 22:06 IT DOESN'T ALWAYS FEEL THAT WAY THOUGH DOES IT?
• 22:08 IT DOESN'T. I REALLY DID NOT KNOW WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN TO ME.
• 22:11 I DIDN'T KNOW.
• 22:12 AND GOD MADE ALL THESE PLANS AND HERE WE ARE.
• 22:14 I MEAN I WAS REALLY HAPPY BEING ZOLA'S WIFE.
• 22:18 I WAS REALLY HAPPY BEING IN THE BACKGROUND
• 22:20 AND MAKING SURE THAT HIS SHIRT AND HIS PANTS ALL MATCHED.
• 22:23 I WAS REALLY HAPPY DOING THAT. >>YES.
• 22:25 BUT GOD HAS A SENSE OF HUMOR IS WHAT I ALWAYS SAY.
• 22:28 HE HAS A SENSE OF HUMOR.
• 22:29 GOD IS GOOD.
• 22:31 GOD IS WONDERFUL.
• 22:31 IT DOESN'T ALWAYS FEEL GOOD,
• 22:33 BUT LIFE IS GOOD WITH GOD.
• 22:34 WE'LL BE BACK IN A MOMENT.
• 22:37 SHALOM FROM JERUSALEM.
• 22:38 ACTUALLY, WE'RE IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE.
• 22:41 WE'RE LOOKING AT THE OLIVE TREES, JEFF.
• 22:43 OUR PEOPLE ARE BEHIND.
• 22:44 THEY'RE LISTENING TO OUR GUIDE, ZVI TALK
• 22:46 AND GETTING READY TO DO A BIBLE STUDY.
• 22:48 AND THEY ARE HAVING A TRIP OF A LIFETIME.
• 22:50 IF YOU FEEL THE LORD BECKONING YOU
• 22:52 AND MYSTERIOUS IS THE BECKONING
• 22:54 THAT HAVE BEEN DRAWING BELIEVERS TO THIS LAND FOR MILLENNIA,
• 22:58 DO JOIN US, PLEASE, FOR THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME.
• 23:00 SANDRA AND I KNOW YOU WILL BE BLESSED.
• 23:03 FOR YOUR FREE BROCHURE ON OUR NEXT TOUR, CALL
• 24:44 THAT WAS ZOLA'S MUSIC.
• 24:45 IT WAS HIS VALENTINE'S SONG TO ME.
• 24:47 EVERY YEAR ON VALENTINE'S
• 24:48 HE WOULD WRITE ME A SONG.
• 24:50 WE HAD A LITTLE JOKE.
• 24:52 HE WOULD SAY, IT'S BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE TO GO OUT AND BUY ANYTHING.
• 24:54 BUT I KNEW IT WAS REALLY...
• 24:55 (Jeff laughing) THAT SOUNDS LIKE HIM TOO!
• 24:58 YEAH.BUT I KNEW IT WAS HIS HEART.
• 24:59 AND EACH SONG EVERY YEAR GOT DIFFERENT.
• 25:02 HE WOULD SAY IT'S BECAUSE IT'S WHERE OUR RELATIONSHIP IS
• 25:04 AND WHERE WE ARE AND WHO YOU ARE.
• 25:07 IT WAS REALLY VERY, VERY TOUCHING.
• 25:08 IT WAS THE LAST THING HE WROTE
• 25:10 AND IT WAS VERY SPECIAL.
• 25:12 YOU KNOW THE BIBLE IN SOME RESPECTS
• 25:14 IS A LOVE SONG TO HUMANKIND AS WELL.
• 25:16 AND I WOULD IMAGINE THAT THE STORY OF GOD'S LOVE FOR WIDOWS
• 25:19 IS A TUNE AS WELL THAT LIGHTENS A HEAVY HEART.
• 25:23 HAVING CONSIDERED THAT SOME IN THIS PROGRAM LET ME REMIND WHERE WE BEGAN.
• 25:28 WE LOOKED AT A STORY INITIALLY IN A DRAMA ABOUT A WOMAN WHO'S PRESSED AGAINST THE TURBULENCE OF TRYING TIMES.
• 25:34 BUT SHE IS VISITED BY THE PROPHET ELIJAH.
• 25:37 SHE HERSELF CONTINUES SHARING AND CARING
• 25:40 AND THEN DISCOVERS A GOD WHO HASN'T ABANDONED HER
• 25:43 THOUGH SHE FELT THAT LIFE'S CIRCUMSTANCES HAD.
• 25:46 THEN, BEYOND THE DRAMA WE CONSIDERED A REAL LIFE DRAMA
• 25:49 THAT IS IN THE STORY OF FREDA LINDSAY.
• 25:52 WE SEE ONE WHO WAS HERSELF CAUGHT BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE AND GOD DELIVERED HER.
• 25:57 AND OF COURSE I'M SITTING NEXT TO SANDRA LEVITT HERSELF
• 26:01 WHO HAS HER OWN ANECDOTAL STORY HERE
• 26:03 THAT'S VERY CLOSE TO HOME ABOUT ZOLA WHO DIED A YEAR AGO.
• 26:06 OUR PROGRAM CARRIES HIS NAME AND HIS MEMORY.
• 26:09 IT'S ALL TOUGH.
• 26:11 LIFE CAN GET TOUGH SOMETIMES, BUT IT'S GOOD NEWS I BELIEVE,
• 26:14 WHEN WE CONSIDER THAT GOD'S VISITS THOSE WHO FIND THEMSELVES PRESSED AMIDST THE TURBULENCE OF TRYING TIMES.
• 26:22 IT MAY WELL BE THAT THERE'S SOMEONE WITHIN THE SOUND OF MY VOICE THAT CAN RELATE TO THAT PERSONALLY.
• 26:27 THE GOOD NEWS IS GOD HASN'T CHANGED EVEN THOUGH LIFE'S CIRCUMSTANCES CAN
• 26:31 AND WE CAN EXPERIENCE A GOD WHO SAVES US, CAN'T WE?
• 26:34 I CAN'T NOT IMAGINE
• 26:35 HAVING GONE THROUGH THIS PAST YEAR OF WIDOWHOOD
• 26:38 NOT HAVING GOD IN MY LIFE.
• 26:42 I CAN'T IMAGINE WHAT WOMEN WOULD DO WITHOUT GOD IN THEIR LIVES.
• 26:45 IT HAS MADE ALL THE DIFFERENCE FOR ME.
• 26:46 I WANT YOU TO JOIN US NEXT WEEK.
• 26:48 WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT QUEEN ESTHER.
• 26:50 AND AS YOU GO,
• 26:51 "SHA' ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM"
• 26:53 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.