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Caption transcript for She Shall Be Called Woman: “Queens / Esther” (8/8)

• 00:04 WITH DR. JEFFREY SEIF AND SANDRA LEVITT
• 00:09 SHE SHALL BE CALLED WOMAN
• 00:13 I CAME FORTH FROM A MAN...
• 00:14 BUT I FOUND FAVOR WITH HIM...
• 00:16 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...
• 00:25 I RAISED HIM UP STRICTLY IN THE FAITH, THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS...
• 00:30 AND NOW I WANT TO GIVE SOMETHING BACK...
• 00:32 I BELIEVE ELOHIM MEANT IT TO BE THIS WAY...
• 00:34 SHE'S STILL A CORNERSTONE OF WISDOM TO THE FAMILY...
• 00:37 BUT YOU ARE ALWAYS IN MY HEART...
• 00:56 THIS WAS THE 2ND BANQUET I HAD PREPARED FOR MY KING
• 00:59 AND A TREACHEROUS MAN, HAMAN.
• 01:01 I WAS CHOSEN AS QUEEN OF PERSIA
• 01:05 BUT NOW THE LIVES OF MY PEOPLE AND OF MY OWN WERE THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION.
• 01:12 I DID MY BEST TO SELECT THE FINEST FOOD AND WINE FOR MY ENEMY.
• 01:17 HE TRICKED THE KING INTO SIGNING AN EDICT TO ERADICATE THE JEWS
• 01:22 BUT HE DIDN'T KNOW I WAS ONE OF THEM.
• 01:26 I HAD ALREADY RISKED MY LIFE ONCE COMING BEFORE THE KING UNINVITED,
• 01:30 AN ACT PUNISHABLE BY DEATH.
• 01:33 BUT I FOUND FAVOR WITH HIM
• 01:36 AND NOW IT WAS TIME FOR ME TO PETITION FOR MY PEOPLE
• 01:40 AND REVEAL WHO I REALLY WAS.
• 01:43 PERHAPS ELOHIM DID PUT ME HERE FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS.
• 01:48 FOR WITHIN THE MOMENT I PLEADED BEFORE MY KING, HAMAN'S FATE WAS ALREADY SEALED...
• 02:04 ...AT THE GALLOWS.
• 02:16 A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 02:18 JEFFREY SEIF HERE, WITH MY FRIEND SANDRA LEVITT.
• 02:21 SHALOM WELCOME BACK
• 02:22 WE'RE LOOKING AT A DRAMA OF ESTHER
• 02:25 OR"HADASSAH" IN HEBREW.
• 02:26 ESTHER, THE QUEEN...
• 02:27 ...THE QUEEN!
• 02:29 SHE WASN'T ALWAYS LIKE THAT WAS SHE?
• 02:30 NO, SHE STARTED OUT VERY HUMBLE.
• 02:32 YES
• 02:33 I LIKED IT BECAUSE SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL INSIDE AND OUT.
• 02:36 YES AND I THINK WHAT HAPPENED TO HER WAS VERY DELIGHTFUL IN FACT.
• 02:39 AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT GOOD THINGS CAN HAPPEN IN THIS WORLD.
• 02:44 THE LORD HAD PROVIDENTIALLY, FORTUITOUSLY SHINED HIS LIGHT UPON HER
• 02:49 AND HER STATION IN LIFE WAS RATCHETED UP CONSIDERABLY.
• 02:53 SHE WAS VERY FORTUNATE BUT SHE USED HER INFLUENCE TO A NOBLE END.
• 02:57 WOULD THAT WE ALL WERE SO MINDED.
• 02:59 ABSOLUTELY.
• 03:00 SHE DID,
• 03:01 SHE DID EXACTLY AS SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO DO
• 03:03 FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS.
• 03:05 WE'RE GOING TO ISRAEL
• 03:06 AND WE'RE GOING TO WATCH JEFF TEACH ABOUT QUEEN ESTHER.
• 03:08 BACK AFTER THIS.
• 03:09 SHE SHALL BE CALLED WOMAN.
• 03:13 ITS GREAT TO BE NOTICED.
• 03:14 ITS GREAT TO BE CHOSEN ISN'T IT?
• 03:18 LITTLE GIRLS GROW UP WONDERING WHO WILL IT BE THAT THEY'LL SPEND THE REST OF THEIR LIFE WITH.
• 03:23 THE CONCEPT OF BEING CHOSEN.
• 03:26 FACTORS IN THE FEMALE PSYCHE SO VERY SIGNIFICANTLY,
• 03:29 NOT THAT I KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE HAVING RAISED BUT BOYS ONLY.
• 03:33 BUT I KNOW BOYS AND MY BOYS ARE ON THE HUNT LOOKING FOR THAT SPECIAL LADY,
• 03:39 THE ONE THAT WILL GET THE ATTENTION AND THEN HOLD IT AS THEY MAKE THEIR JOURNEY FROM THE WOMB TO THE TOMB.
• 03:47 IT'S A GREAT STORY, GREAT TO BE BLESSED, GREAT TO BE NOTICED,
• 03:51 GREAT TO BE DOTED UPON, GREAT TO BE COUNTED SPECIAL.
• 03:55 PEOPLE WANT IT AND ON A CERTAIN LEVEL PEOPLE NEED IT.
• 03:58 SOME ARE BLESSED BY IT AT LEVELS MORE THAN OTHERS
• 04:02 WHERE THEY'RE THE OBJECT OF PAMPERING AND ATTENTION, THE EXPENDITURE OF RESOURCE.
• 04:07 YOU KNOW IN THE BIBLE THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE REFERRED TO AS THE "CHOSEN PEOPLE"
• 04:12 AND BY ASSOCIATION THE CHURCH AS WELL IS GRAFTED INTO THAT CONCEPT.
• 04:16 THAT IS THAT GOD HAS HIS EYE UPON THESE PEOPLE,
• 04:21 REFERRED TO AS HIS BRIDE BOTH IN THE NEW TESTAMENT SENSE
• 04:24 AS WELL AS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AS WELL, HIS BRIDE, HIS LOVE,
• 04:29 THE OBJECT OF HIS PARTICULAR AFFECTIONS.
• 04:32 OUR STORY TODAY ALIGHTS UPON ESTHER WHO PROVIDENTIALLY WAS BROUGHT INTO THE KING'S PRESENCE
• 04:41 AND SHE SECURED HIS FAVOR AND HER LOT IN LIFE GREATLY WAS ENHANCED BY VIRTUE OF HER SO DOING.
• 04:50 THE KINGS SEES HER, FAVORS HER AND WE'RE TOLD IN ESTHER, CHAPTER 2, VERSE 17
• 04:57 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 05:06 HE NOTICED THAT SHE WAS PARTICULARLY BEAUTIFUL,
• 05:09 BEYOND THAT SHE HAD OTHER CHARACTERISTICS THAT MADE HER ALL TOGETHER DESIRABLE.
• 05:15 AND THE NET RESULT AGAIN IS THAT SHE HAD COME INTO A FORTUNATE SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES.
• 05:21 SOME ARE MORE FORTUNATE THAN OTHERS.
• 05:24 SOME ARE ENDOWED WITH BEAUTY IN EXCESS OF OTHERS OR SO ITS PERCEIVED.
• 05:29 SOME COME INTO FINANCIAL MEANS BETTER THAN OTHERS, OR SO IT IS PERCEIVED.
• 05:34 OF COURSE ITS ALL RELATIVE, THERE'S ALWAYS SOMEONE MORE BEAUTIFUL.
• 05:37 THERE'S ALWAYS SOMEONE RICHER.
• 05:38 THERE'S ALWAYS SOMEONE WHO'S MORE POWERFUL.
• 05:41 INSTEAD, HOWEVER, OF GOING AFTER JUST RAW BEAUTY AND RAW POWER,
• 05:44 THE BIBLE ASKS A QUESTION AND THAT IS, "HOW DO WE USE OUR INFLUENCE?"
• 05:50 I NEVER RAISED GIRLS, ONLY BOYS,
• 05:53 BUT IF I HAD DAUGHTERS I'D PUT THE QUESTION TO THEM, BEAUTIFUL AS THEY ARE,
• 05:56 "HOW DO YOU WANT TO USE THAT?",
• 05:59 "WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO WITH THAT?"
• 06:00 AND WE'RE GOING TO CONSIDER THIS STORY
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• 06:43 GOD HAS BLESSED US.
• 06:45 IT SEEMS TO ME GOOD TO DO MORE IN LIFE THAN SIMPLY SEEK TO BE MORE BLESSED.
• 06:50 IN THE CASE OF ESTHER, MORDECAI SAYS TO HER,
• 06:54 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 07:07 IF I UNDERSTAND HIM CORRECTLY HE'S SAYING IN EFFECT,
• 07:10 "LISTEN, YOU HAVE FOUND YOURSELF WITH A FAVORABLE SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES IN LIFE."
• 07:16 "WOULD YOU NOT DO WELL TO USE YOUR INFLUENCE NOW FOR THE BETTERMENT OF OTHERS?"
• 07:22 THIS IS PREFERRED OVER FOREVER LOOKING TO ABSORB MORE AND MORE AND MORE OUT OF LIFE.
• 07:28 I THINK THIS IS THE ESSENCE OF WHAT IT IS TO BE A GENUINELY BEAUTIFUL HUMAN BEING.
• 07:36 THAT IS TO SAY, SOMEONE WHO HAS POWER, THEY COME UPON IT,
• 07:40 BUT THEY OPT TO USE IT FOR GOOD AS THEY SHOULD OVER AND AGAIN
• 07:46 SIMPLY LOOKING TO LEVERAGE MORE ATTENTION,
• 07:48 MORE THINGS, WHATEVER, OUT OF THE ENVIRONMENT.
• 07:52 THAT INDIVIDUALS CAN BE TRANSFORMED IN THIS REGARD AS ATTESTED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
• 07:57 AS WELL AS WAS JUST NOTED A MOMENT AGO IN THE OLD.
• 08:01 IN THE 16TH CHAPTER OF THE BOOK OF ACTS THERE'S AN ORTHODOX RABBI ON A JOURNEY.
• 08:09 "RAV SHAUL", THE APOSTLE PAUL SO CALLED IS TRAVELING ABOUT
• 08:13 AND HE HAS NOT FOUND IT IN HIS HEART TO BE MINISTERING ISRAEL PROPER.
• 08:19 HE USES HIS ENERGIES TO INVEST HIMSELF IN EXPANDING THE MESSIAH'S KINGDOM BEYOND ISRAEL'S BORDERS.
• 08:29 AND THIS THE APOSTLE TO THE GENTILES FOREVER GOES INTO TOWNS AND VILLAGES
• 08:34 AND HE FINDS JEWISH SYNAGOGUES THERE AND AT SUCH A TIME AS THIS HE'S IN A PLACE CALLED PHILLIPI.
• 08:41 IT'S A GRECO-ROMAN CITY
• 08:43 BUT HE HAPPENS UPON SOME JEWS THAT ARE MEETING.
• 08:45 I WANT TO PICK UP IN CHAPTER 16, VERSE 13 WHERE IT'S THE SABBATH AND HE GOES OUT TO QUOTE,
• 08:52 "SIT DOWN AND SPEAK TO WOMEN THAT WERE MEETING AROUND THE SYNAGOGUE."
• 08:56 HE HAPPENS UPON ONE IN PARTICULAR LUKE TELLS US,
• 09:06 IN NOTING THAT SHE WAS A SELLER OF PURPLE
• 09:08 THIS ISN'T UNDERSCORING THAT IF YOU GO INTO HER SHOP ALL SHE HAS IS PURPLE GOODS.
• 09:12 ACTUALLY THERE'S AN EXPRESSION IN ROMAN CULTURE TO WEAR THE PURPLE.
• 09:17 THIS BESPEAKS THOSE THAT HAVE MEANS, WEALTH, TYPICALLY ITS AN EMBLEM OF ROYALTY
• 09:24 AND THIS IS A WOMAN WHO'S A SELLER OF PURPLE.
• 09:27 SHE IS A FINE CLOTHIER AND SHE'S A WOMAN OF MEANS HERSELF.
• 09:32 WE'RE TOLD IN THE TEXT...
• 09:41 THIS IS A WOMAN WHO'S PART OF JEWISH COMMUNAL LIFE IN THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD.
• 09:45 PAUL, A JEWISH RABBI COME TO FAITH IS SHARING THE MESSAGE OF ISRAEL'S MESSIAH
• 09:51 AND HERE IN THE ROMAN COLONY HER HEART IS OPENED.
• 09:55 A WOMAN OF MEANS, AND WHAT DOES SHE DO?
• 09:58 WE'RE TOLD IN VERSE 15...
• 10:05 COURSE THE MIKVAH IS A RITUAL BATH,
• 10:09 IT WAS USED FOR PURIFICATION PURPOSES IN THE JEWISH WORLD.
• 10:12 INDIVIDUALS WERE IMMERSED THROUGH THE MIKVAH
• 10:15 IN ANTICIPATION OF MARRIAGE, SACRED DAYS
• 10:19 AND HERE NOW INDIVIDUALS ARE BAPTIZED
• 10:23 IN THE WAKE OF THEIR RESPONDING TO THE MESSAGE OF ISRAEL'S MESSIAH,
• 10:27 THE MESSAGE THAT THE MESSIAH HAS COME.
• 10:30 NOW WORTHY OF NOTE HERE IS THAT THIS WOMAN HEEDS THE CALL
• 10:34 AND SHE INVESTS HER ENERGIES SUCH THAT HER FAMILY NOW GETS CAUGHT UP IN HER MOMENTUM.
• 10:41 BUT NOT ONLY THAT, WE'RE TOLD AS WELL THAT IN THE WAKE OF HER BEING BAPTIZED, "SHE BEGGED US".
• 10:48 LUKE IS SPEAKING OF HIMSELF AND PAUL AND THOSE IN THE PARTY.
• 10:52 SHE SAYS "PLEASE", EARNESTLY SHE SAYS....
• 10:59 SHE HAS A SIZEABLE HOME, SHE HAS A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS, SHE HAS INFLUENCE.
• 11:06 AND WHAT DOES SHE DO?
• 11:07 SHE'S USING IT.
• 11:10 COULD IT BE THAT WITHIN THE SOUND OF MY VOICE THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS, WOMEN, MEN
• 11:15 AND YOU COUNT YOURSELF FORTUNATE.
• 11:18 OTHERS MAY WELL COUNT YOU FORTUNATE THROUGH BEAUTY,
• 11:21 THROUGH WEALTH, THROUGH WHERE YOU ARE IN THE SOCIAL LADDER.
• 11:25 LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION.
• 11:26 WHEN IS ENOUGH, ENOUGH?
• 11:30 LET ME ANSWER THAT FOR YOU.
• 11:32 AND THAT IS IF SOMEONE REALLY HAS THE "RUACH HAKODESH", THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THEIR HEART
• 11:37 I THINK WE GET TO THE POINT WHERE THE LORD WOULD HAVE US TAP ON THE BRAKES A LITTLE BIT.
• 11:41 ITS NOT ABOUT GOING FASTER THROUGH LIFE, ITS NOT ABOUT GOING FURTHER.
• 11:46 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE LEARN FROM ESTHER AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE LEARN FROM LYDIA
• 11:51 AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE LEARN FROM SALVATION EXPERIENCE,
• 11:55 ITS NOT ALL ABOUT BUILDING BARNS AND TEARING THEM DOWN AND BUILDING BIGGER BARNS.
• 12:01 WE GET TO A POINT WHERE WE REACH A POINT.
• 12:04 WHEN WE WERE A CHILD WE ACT LIKE A CHILD, WE THINK AND WE FUNCTION LIKE ONE
• 12:07 BUT THEN WHEN WE MATURE WE PUT AWAY CHILDISH WAYS
• 12:11 AND WE LEARN ITS ABOUT LOVING OTHERS, NOT JUST ABSORBING SO MUCH OF IT OURSELVES.
• 12:16 I COUNT MYSELF BLESSED AND ASK THE QUESTION,
• 12:19 HOW CAN I DO WELL IN THIS WORLD TO SERVE GOD AND OTHERS?
• 12:22 MY PRAYER IS THAT YOU WOULD DO LIKEWISE AS WE CONSIDER
• 12:26 THE JUST AND EQUITABLE USE OF POWER AND BEAUTY IN THIS OUR SERIES ON WOMEN IN THE BIBLE.
• 12:34 THAT'S JEFF TALKING ABOUT LYDIA AND ESTHER.
• 12:37 ESTHER AND LYDIA,
• 12:38 SAME KIND OF WOMAN;
• 12:40 GOD USES EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE
• 12:42 TO HIS GLORY.
• 12:43 LYDIA WAS VERY WEALTHY
• 12:45 AND SHE USED THAT TO FURTHER THE GLORY OF GOD.
• 12:47 HERE ESTHER WAS, MADE QUEEN
• 12:50 AND USED THAT TO PROTECT HER PEOPLE.
• 12:52 SO GOD USES ALL OF US IN OUR CIRCUMSTANCES.
• 12:54 ITS SEEMS TO ME THAT SO MANY HAVE AN INSATIABLE APPETITE,
• 12:57 WE NEED MORE CLOTHES, MORE WARDROBE,
• 12:59 MORE OF THIS AND MORE OF THAT. >>RIGHT, RIGHT
• 13:01 MORE BEAUTY PRODUCT, >>MORE BARNS.
• 13:02 MORE WHATEVER.
• 13:04 THESE WOMEN WERE ABLE TO PUT THE BREAKS ON AND SAY, ENOUGH'S, ENOUGH,
• 13:06 I WANT TO USE WHAT I'M ALL ABOUT FOR SOMETHING BEYOND WHAT I'M ALL ABOUT.
• 13:09 AND RECOGNIZE THAT.
• 13:11 THAT WAS THE OTHER PART.
• 13:13 LYDIA RECOGNIZED WHO PAUL WAS AND RECOGNIZED THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB
• 13:17 AND THEN HERE IS ESTHER KNOWING THAT SHE WAS JEWISH,
• 13:20 KNOWING WHAT HER ROOTS WERE AND STANDING UP FOR IT.
• 13:23 SO THOSE ARE GREAT WOMEN TO ME.
• 13:26 YES THEY ARE
• 13:27 AND WOULD THAT MORE INDIVIDUALS, WOMEN AND MEN ALIKE,
• 13:30 WERE MINDED TO PERFORM AT THAT LEVEL.
• 13:32 NOW HEAR ME, ITS JUST NOT ALL ABOUT YOU,
• 13:34 ITS NOT JUST ALL ABOUT ME
• 13:37 AND AS SANDRA REMINDED
• 13:38 ITS NOT JUST ABOUT TEARING DOWN BARNS
• 13:40 AND BUILDING BIGGER BARNS,
• 13:42 ITS NOT ALL ABOUT WHO DIES WITH THE MOST TOYS WINS. >>RIGHT, RIGHT.
• 13:45 AT THE NAME OF THE GAME WE DO WELL TO HAVE A LIFE BEYOND OURSELVES
• 13:50 AND THESE WOMEN DO THAT QUITE WELL.
• 13:51 AND HOW SATISFIED MUST THEY HAVE FELT KNOWING THEY WERE DOING GOD'S WORK?
• 13:55 THERE'S NOTHING BETTER FOR ME I KNOW,
• 13:58 THAT WHEN I'M IN HIS WILL AND THAT I'M DOING HIS WORK THIS MAKES ME REALLY HAPPY.
• 14:03 WE LIKE TO PAMPER OURSELVES A LITTLE.
• 14:04 WE ALL HAVE OUR LITTLE NICETIES BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY THAT CAN'T BE EVERYTHING.
• 14:09 BUT ITS NOT, LETS TALK ABOUT PAMPERING HERE.
• 14:11 HOW DID YOU TALK ME INTO THIS? >>(SANDRA LAUGHING)
• 14:13 WE'RE GOING TO A SPA IN ISRAEL.
• 14:15 JEFF WAS SUCH A GREAT GUY ABOUT THIS.
• 14:18 WE PUT MUD ALL OVER JEFF AND PUT HIM IN A SPA
• 14:21 BECAUSE I REALLY WANTED YOU TO FEEL LIKE
• 14:24 WHAT WOMEN REALLY GO THROUGH.
• 14:26 IT WAS SO....
• 14:27 YOU WERE REALLY A GOOD SPORT!
• 14:28 I HAVE A FRESH PERSPECTIVE. >>(SANDRA LAUGHING)
• 14:30 ALL THIS BEAUTY TREATMENT STUFF. PLEASE.
• 14:32 IT WAS REALLY FUN, WE HAD A GOOD TIME DOING IT.
• 14:34 I THINK YOU'LL ENJOY JEFF IN THE SPA.
• 14:45 WE'RE AT THE MOUNT ZION HOTEL
• 14:47 IN JERUSALEM, ISRAEL
• 14:49 AND MY FRIEND JEFF
• 14:51 HAS AGREED TO VOLUNTEER TO GET A MUD FACIAL TONIGHT.
• 14:54 THIS IS SOMETHING THAT PROBABLY ESTHER WOULD HAVE DONE
• 14:57 PREPARING TO VISIT HER KING.
• 15:00 WE'RE IN A WONDERFUL SPA
• 15:02 AND LOOKING AROUND THERE ARE, LOOKS LIKE PERSIAN LAMPS
• 15:06 AND I THINK THIS IS GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT YOU'LL REALLY ENJOY.
• 15:10 JEFF?
• 15:11 I HOPE THEY LIKE IT BETTER THAN ME. >>(SANDRA LAUGHING)
• 15:13 I THINK I'LL LIKE.
• 15:14 IT WILL BE GREAT.
• 15:16 WOMEN GO THROUGH A WHOLE LOT OF THINGS
• 15:17 THINK ABOUT WHAT ESTHER WENT THROUGH.
• 15:19 SHE WAS MASSAGED WITH MYRRH,
• 15:20 OIL OF MYRRH, FOR 6 MONTHS
• 15:23 AND THEN SHE HAD COSMETICS AND BEAUTY TREATMENTS.
• 15:26 AVI IS GOING TO PUT MUD YOUR FACE
• 15:29 AND ITS JUST KIND OF A FEELING
• 15:31 OF WHAT WOMEN MIGHT HAVE GONE THROUGH.
• 15:33 WE'VE GOT SOME PEOPLE ON THE TOUR WITH US
• 15:36 THAT ARE KIND OF WATCHING US
• 15:37 AND WE'RE JUST GOING TO HAVE A GOOD TIME WITH ESTHER
• 15:39 AND TALKING ABOUT MUD ON YOUR FACE.
• 15:42 SO AVI, MAKE ME LOOK BETTER FOR MY WIFE.
• 15:45 I WILL, I WILL.
• 15:46 THE MUD IS WARM.
• 15:48 THE MUD IS WARM AND WE WILL...
• 15:50 REMEMBER THAT ESTHER WAS MASSAGED,
• 15:51 SHE WAS TAKEN CARE OF,
• 15:54 SHE WAS PAMPERED,
• 15:56 SHE WAS WONDERFULLY TREATED.
• 16:00 SO FOR MY WIFE PATTY,
• 16:01 "DEAR I'M DOING THIS FOR YOU."
• 16:03 ALRIGHT JEFF ARE YOU READY?
• 16:05 YES, SIR.
• 16:06 ALRIGHT, THE TORTURE WILL START NOW.
• 16:08 OKAY DOC
• 16:10 OH, HE'S MASSAGING.
• 16:12 (WHISPERING) OH, THIS IS GREAT!
• 16:15 THE MUD IS ON.
• 16:16 WERE IN A TILE SPA
• 16:19 SO ITS GETS VERY QUITE,
• 16:21 VERY PEACEFUL....
• 16:26 THE MUD IS FULL OF MINERALS
• 16:28 I RUB IT ON THE FACE
• 16:30 TO GET IN THE SKIN
• 16:31 AND UNDER THE SKIN
• 16:33 TO CIRCULATE THE BLOOD BETTER
• 16:36 AND THEN TO TAKE OUT ALL THE DEAD CELLS FROM THE BODY
• 16:40 BECAUSE THERE'S SO MUCH MINERAL IN THE MUD.
• 16:46 IS THE MUD FROM THE DEAD SEA?
• 16:48 OF COURSE, IN THE DEAD SEA
• 16:49 AND IT'S A GOOD QUALITY AND FULL OF GOOD THINGS.
• 16:52 WHAT IS IN IT?
• 16:54 WHAT IS IN THIS MUD?
• 16:55 EVERYTHING OR ..?
• 16:56 THERE'S A LOT OF SALT,
• 16:58 A LOT OF SEA MINERALS BASICALLY
• 17:01 THAT IS VERY, VERY TINY
• 17:03 THAT CAN GO THROUGH THE SKIN
• 17:06 AND TAKE OFF THE WHOLE DEAD CELLS.
• 17:11 I'M GOING TO THE BONES AND INTO THE MUSCLES
• 17:14 AND GIVE THE MUSCLES AND THE BONES
• 17:16 THE MINERAL OIL THAT NEED TO HELP.
• 17:19 AND YOUR MASSAGING HIM AS YOU GO.
• 17:21 AND I'M MASSAGING IT INTO THE SKIN,
• 17:23 DEEP ENOUGH TO GO THROUGH IT.
• 17:27 WELL HE LOOKS LIKE HE'S ENJOYING IT,
• 17:28 HE'S RESTING A LITTLE BIT.
• 17:30 RIGHT
• 17:33 6 TO 12 MONTHS ESTHER WOULD HAVE DONE THIS.
• 17:35 SHE WOULD HAVE GOTTEN A MASSAGE,
• 17:37 SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN PAMPERED,
• 17:38 SHE WOULD HAVE... BEEN OIL ON HER FACE,
• 17:42 THE COSMETICS, BEAUTY TREATMENTS.
• 17:44 THIS IS WHAT SHE WOULD HAVE DONE
• 17:47 EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR A YEAR
• 17:50 GETTING READY TO MEET HER KING.
• 17:52 I'M REMINDED OF THE PARALLEL
• 17:54 THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO DO THE OUTSIDE MUD,
• 17:57 WE CAN COME TO MESSIAH JUST THE WAY WE ARE.
• 18:01 HE KNOWS OUR HEARTS,
• 18:02 HE KNOWS WHAT WE LOOK LIKE ON THE INSIDE.
• 18:05 IN ESTHER IT SAYS THAT SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL IN FORM AND IN FIGURE.
• 18:09 SHE WAS LOVELY TO BEGIN WITH
• 18:11 SO THE COSMETIC TREATMENT PROBABLY JUST ENHANCED HER BEAUTY.
• 18:16 SHE GAINED FAVOR WHEREVER SHE WENT.
• 18:18 PEOPLE LOVED HER.
• 18:20 HER HEART WAS GOOD.
• 18:23 SHE WAS A BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL WOMAN INSIDE AND OUT.
• 18:28 OH, YOU'RE LOOKING GOOD JEFF.
• 18:30 THAT MUD IS ALL OVER YOUR FACE.
• 18:33 THIS IS GREAT!
• 18:34 OH, THIS IS GOOD!
• 18:42 SO HOW OFTEN WOULD YOU DO THIS AVI?
• 18:43 HOW OFTEN?
• 18:45 I'D SAY, EVERY MONTH
• 18:48 ITS LIKE A COSMETIC TREATMENT
• 18:50 JUST NATURAL TREATMENT FROM THE DEAD SEA.
• 18:52 YOU NEED TO BE AROUND THE DEAD SEA TO HAVE IT SO OFTEN,
• 18:55 BUT IF YOU CAN DO IT AS OFTEN AS YOU CAN IT WILL BE GOOD ENOUGH.
• 19:06 HOW IS IT FEELING JEFF?
• 19:08 I'VE NEVER HAD THIS FEELING BEFORE!
• 19:11 BUT YOU KNOW DOWN IN THE DEAD TO SEA,
• 19:12 WE GO TO THE DEAD SEA
• 19:13 AND THERE ARE THESE VATS OF MUD
• 19:16 AND PEOPLE TAKE THE MUD,
• 19:17 THEY PUT IT ALL OVER THEIR BODIES
• 19:19 AND THEY GO DOWN TO THE DEAD SEA TO GO WASH IT OFF.
• 19:21 THEIR SKIN IS GORGEOUS!
• 19:23 YOUR NOT GOING TO BELIEVE HOW GORGEOUS
• 19:25 YOUR SKIN'S GOING TO BE.
• 19:26 WELL YOU'RE GOING TO SEND ME HOME
• 19:27 TO MY WIFE PATTY AND MY FRIENDS
• 19:28 ALL LOOKING BETTER HUH?
• 19:30 I THINK SO.
• 19:31 YOU KNOW ITS AMAZING WHAT A WOMAN WILL GO THROUGH.
• 19:33 ESTHER IN THE BIBLE WENT THROUGH THIS COSMETIC TREATMENT
• 19:37 FOR THE BETTER PART OF A YEAR.
• 19:39 EVERY DAY FOR A YEAR
• 19:41 SHE DID SOMETHING,
• 19:42 SOME KIND OF COSMETIC
• 19:43 OR A MASSAGE OR SPECIAL FOOD,
• 19:45 SHE WAS TREATED WELL.
• 19:48 ALL IN THE INTEREST OF SECURING THE FANCY OF A MALE.
• 19:51 WELL BUT SHE HAD ONE CHANCE.
• 19:53 SHE HAD ONE CHANCE TO BECOME QUEEN.
• 19:56 YEAH I THINK KING SAW SOMETHING IN HER BEYOND SKIN DEEP,
• 19:59 SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL IN HER OWN LIGHT
• 20:01 BUT SHE HAD AN INNER BEAUTY THAT EVEN CAME FORTH
• 20:03 THAT WASN'T DEVELOPED THROUGH ALL OF THIS.
• 20:05 AND DID YOU KNOW WHEN SHE WENT BEFORE THE KING
• 20:07 SHE WORE VERY LITTLE JEWELRY.
• 20:09 HE SAW ONLY HER
• 20:12 AND I THINK THAT'S SUCH A TALE FOR US
• 20:15 THAT WE NEED TO COME BEFORE MESSIAH WITH OURSELVES.
• 20:18 WELL, I'M MORE UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT A WOMAN GOES THROUGH, HOWEVER,
• 20:23 AFTER GOING THROUGH THIS BRIEFLY FOR THE FIRST TIME.
• 20:25 BUT THAT'S THE POINT.
• 20:27 THAT'S THE POINT THAT I THINK WE WANTED PEOPLE
• 20:28 TO SEE WHAT PEOPLE WOULD GO THROUGH
• 20:31 TO DO WHAT THEY HAVE TO DO.
• 20:33 JUST A DAYS WORK FOR A WOMAN TO GET UP IN THE MORNING
• 20:35 I'M MORE SYMPATHETIC TO THE WHOLE THING OF PUTTING ON MAKEUP TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH.
• 20:39 FOR ME IT'S A QUICK SHAVE AROUND THE NECK AND I'M GONE.
• 20:41 THAT IS TRUE.
• 20:42 WOMEN ARE DIFFERENT THEN MEN.
• 20:44 JUST TO PLEASE THE MALE, AMAZING,
• 20:46 OR MAYBE THAT'S OVER SIMPLISTIC,
• 20:48 JUST TO FEEL PRESENTABLE.
• 20:50 RIGHT, TO FEEL PRETTY,
• 20:52 WE'RE PRETTY ON THE INSIDE
• 20:54 AND PRETTY ON THE OUTSIDE
• 20:55 AND THAT'S WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT I GUESS.
• 20:57 WELL I'VE LEARNED SOMETHING HERE.
• 20:59 THANK YOU.
• 21:00 YOU'RE WELCOME
• 21:01 THANK YOU FOR BEING A GOOD SPORT!
• 21:02 PATTY WILL LOVE IT!
• 21:03 I'LL LET YOU KNOW WHAT SHE SAYS.
• 21:08 THAT'S JEFF IN THE SPA.
• 21:10 SO TELL ME WHAT DID YOU THINK ABOUT IT?
• 21:12 NOT VERY MUCH.
• 21:13 I KNOW, IT WAS FUNNY.
• 21:14 IT WASN'T MY FAVORITE EXPERIENCE TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH.
• 21:17 I KNOW YOU WERE LAYING THERE...
• 21:19 IT WAS KIND OF LIKE
• 21:20 IF YOU COULD GET UP AND GOT OUT YOU WOULD HAVE GONE.
• 21:22 I JUST DON'T DO THAT SORT OF THING.
• 21:23 YOU KNOW I CUT MY OWN HAIR,
• 21:25 I'M NOT GIVEN TO ALL THAT PAMPERING.
• 21:27 WELL I KNOW BUT THAT WAS THE WHOLE POINT THAT YOU FELT WHAT SHE FELT.
• 21:30 THAT WAS THE WHOLE POINT.
• 21:31 IN THAT SENSE IT AMAZES ME
• 21:32 THAT WHAT A WOMAN GOES THROUGH.
• 21:34 OF COURSE I SEE MY WIFE PATTY
• 21:35 PUTTING HER MAKEUP IN THE MORNING AND WHAT HAVE YOU.
• 21:37 BUT THERE'S A LOT OF ENERGY INVESTED
• 21:40 IN WANTING TO DO OUR BEST TO LOOK OUR BEST,
• 21:42 TO GO OUT THERE IN THE WORLD
• 21:43 AND WOULD HOPE TO SECURE A MALE'S ATTENTION,
• 21:46 I DON'T THINK INDIVIDUALS SHOULD DO THAT IN ORDER OR THAT.
• 21:48 I THINK WE SHOULD JUST WANT TO LOOK OUR BEST FOR OURSELVES.
• 21:51 RIGHT, I AGREE.
• 21:52 ITS AMAZING WHAT PEOPLE GO THROUGH.
• 21:53 I AGREE BUT THE VISUAL IS GOOD.
• 21:55 I LIKE THE VISUAL WITH IT.
• 21:56 BACK AFTER THIS.
• 21:59 ♪MOUNTING WITH WINGS AS EAGLES♪
• 22:06 ♪READY TO RUN THE RACE♪
• 22:43 ♪FOR THOSE WHO WAIT UPON ME TO THEM I GIVE MY GRACE♪
• 22:55 ♪MOUNTING WITH WINGS AS EAGLES♪
• 23:02 ♪READY TO RUN THE RACE♪
• 23:10 IN A MOMENT WE'RE GONNA PUT A WRAP ON THIS SERIES.
• 23:14 BEFORE DOING SO I'D LIKE TO UNDERSCORE
• 23:16 THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING A BIBLICAL WORLD VIEW.
• 23:20 AND THAT'S WHAT WE WANTED TO ACCOMPLISH HERE.
• 23:22 WE WANTED TO VISIT THE HEBREW BIBLE PRINCIPALLY
• 23:25 THOUGH NOT EXCLUSIVELY
• 23:26 AND SEE THE KIND OF IMAGES THAT EMERGE
• 23:29 FOR A MOTHER, FOR A WOMAN,
• 23:31 AND WE EXPLORED A NUMBER OF VENUES HERE
• 23:34 AND WE HOPE ITS HELPFUL.
• 23:36 BECAUSE ITS IMPORTANT FOR US TO LEARN HOW TO BE IN THIS WORLD
• 23:38 AS MEN AND WOMEN. CORRECT?
• 23:40 AND THAT WAS THE POINT OF THE WHOLE SERIES WAS A GUIDELINE, SORT OF A BLUEPRINT OF WOMEN.
• 23:45 WE TALKED ABOUT EVE, THE WIFE, WHAT IS THE WIFE TO DO?
• 23:48 TO BE BY HER HUSBAND'S SIDE, BE NEXT TO HIM.
• 23:51 MOTHER, HANNAH.
• 23:53 HANNAH A WONDERFUL MOTHER, DEVOTED MOTHER,
• 23:54 THESE ARE WOMEN THAT WE CAN ASPIRE TO BE
• 23:58 NOT THAT THEY'RE PERFECT BUT THEY GIVE US SOME GREAT GUIDELINES.
• 24:01 WE TALKED ABOUT THE UNNAMED WIDOW, THE FAITH THAT SHE HAD.
• 24:05 THE FAITH THAT SHE HAD.
• 24:07 WE TALKED LOIS AND EUNICE,
• 24:08 THEY'RE WONDERFUL EDUCATORS,
• 24:10 EDUCATORS OF TIMOTHY AND HIS HEART AND SOUL.
• 24:13 THOSE WERE WONDERFUL WOMEN.
• 24:15 ESTHER, THE QUEEN, THE QUEEN.
• 24:16 SAVED ALL HER PEOPLE.
• 24:19 QUEEN INSIDE AND OUT.
• 24:21 AGAIN, JUST, I THINK, TERRIFIC.
• 24:22 AND THEN WE TALK ABOUT ABIGAIL
• 24:24 BEING A VERY, VERY SMART COUNSELOR.
• 24:26 KNEW THAT DAVID WAS GOING TO BE KING, KNEW WHO HE WAS.
• 24:31 SO SHE DID WELL.
• 24:32 I LOVE THAT THE BIBLE IS FULL OF NARRATIVE TOO,
• 24:34 NOT JUST LECTURES ABOUT HOW TO BE,
• 24:36 BUT THEY'RE STORIES
• 24:38 AND A MAN AND A WOMAN CAN ENTER INTO THE WORLD OF THE STORIES
• 24:41 AND GET CUES FOR HOW TO BE IN LIFE.
• 24:44 AND ALSO HOW NOT TO BE.
• 24:46 WE LOOKED AT DELILAH
• 24:48 WHO WAS THE WORST POSSIBLE THING THAT COULD HAPPEN TO A MAN
• 24:52 TO HAVE A HORRIBLE WOMAN IN HIS LIFE.
• 24:55 YES, I THINK ITS TRAGIC,
• 24:57 SO MANY INDIVIDUALS ARE RUDDERLESS.
• 24:59 AND WHAT I WANT TO DO IS SPEAK TO YOU FOR A MOMENT.
• 25:03 IF YOU FIND YOURSELF DISORIENTED IN LIFE
• 25:06 I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT I BELIEVE THAT YOU COULD OPEN UP THE PAGES OF SCRIPTURES
• 25:10 AND YOU CAN GET A CUE FOR HOW TO BE IN LIFE.
• 25:13 BUT ITS NOT JUST INTELLECTUAL ENDEAVOR,
• 25:16 LET ME ENCOURAGE YOU AT THE FIRST TO OPEN UP YOUR HEART TO THE REALITY
• 25:20 THAT SIN MAKES A SEPARATION BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN AND GOD
• 25:26 AND THE WAY THAT YOU RECTIFY THAT
• 25:27 IS BY APPEALING TO THE ONE WHO CAME TO BE AN OFFERING FOR SIN
• 25:31 AND THAT'S JESUS.
• 25:33 ONE CAN BE FORGIVEN BY VIRTUE OF REACHING UP TO HIM AND OUT INTO THE FUTURE,
• 25:36 THERE CAN BE THE FORGIVENESS OF SIN, THE FILLING WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND A NEW LIFE.
• 25:42 AND WITH THAT NEW LIFE AVAILABLE WE CAN OPEN UP THE BIBLE
• 25:46 AND FIND AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL HERE REPLETE WITH MANY STORIES
• 25:50 TO HELP US COME TO TERMS WITH WHO WE OUGHT TO BE IN THE WORLD.
• 25:53 OH I WISH YOU WOULD DO THAT RIGHT NOW.
• 25:56 THIS IS BIBLICAL BROADCASTING.
• 25:58 WE DO IT NOT TO MAKE IT INTERESTING.
• 26:00 WE'RE NOT JUST INTERESTED IN INFORMATION, WE'RE INTERESTED IN TRANSFORMATION.
• 26:04 AND WOULD THAT YOU WOULD RESPOND, WE WOULD INDEED BE PLEASED.
• 26:08 I REALLY COULD NOT HAVE SAID IT ANY BETTER JEFF.
• 26:11 WE ARE SINNERS.
• 26:13 WE NEED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT SIN AND THAT YESHUA HAMASHIACH DIED FOR THOSE SINS.
• 26:19 WE ARE CLEANSED, WE ARE PURE AGAIN.
• 26:22 WE PUT ON THE ROBE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS,
• 26:24 WE ARE THE QUEEN OF THE KING.
• 26:27 RIGHT, A MAN CAN LEARN HOW TO BE AT LIFE, START ALL OVER AGAIN
• 26:30 AND A WOMAN CAN LEARN AS WELL.
• 26:32 ALL PEOPLE, THERE'S NEW BEGINNINGS.
• 26:33 AMEN, THANK FOR WATCHING.
• 26:35 THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES,
• 26:37 AND AS YOU GO,
• 26:39 "SHA' ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM"
• 26:40 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.