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Caption transcript for The Warrior King: “Celebrated Warrior King” (5/8)

• 00:53 A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 00:56 JEFFREY SEIF HERE PLEASED TO WELCOME YOU AGAIN TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 01:01 SOME TIME AGO A SONG CAME OUT CALLED, "A LONG AND WINDING ROAD,"
• 01:06 AND SOMETIMES IT CAN SEEM THAT WAY BUT WHEN WE WALK WITH GOD HE LEADS US TO SOME PLACE GOOD.
• 01:13 WE'RE GOING TO CONSIDER DAVID NOW AFTER A LONG STRUGGLE; HE FINALLY CAME INTO HIS OWN.
• 01:19 AND I BELIEVE THAT AFTER OUR STRUGGLES WE CAN COME INTO OUR OWN AS WELL.
• 01:26 I WAS AMONG THE LEADERS OF THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL THAT DAY WHEN WE GATHERED IN HEBRON.
• 01:32 KING SAUL WAS DEAD, HAVING TAKEN HIS OWN LIFE ON THE BATTLE FIELD.
• 01:38 WE HAD ASSEMBLED AT THIS PLACE TO ANOINT DAVID AS OUR NEW KING.
• 01:44 DAVID HAD PROVEN HIMSELF TO BE A WORTHY LEADER AND A MIGHTY WARRIOR.
• 01:50 THE COVENANT HE SHARED WITH US THAT DAY ASSURED US
• 01:54 THAT THE LORD WOULD CONTINUE TO BE OUR SOURCE IN THE DAYS AHEAD.
• 01:57 HE PLEDGED HIS DEVOTION AND WE PROMISED THE SAME IN RETURN.
• 02:08 IN THE ANOINTING OF DAVID WE WITNESSED THE BIRTH OF A NEW KINGDOM,
• 02:13 A KINGDOM WHICH WE PRAYED WOULD NEVER PASS AWAY.
• 02:43 I'M COMING TO YOU FROM THE CITY OF DAVID.
• 02:47 AT THE SOUTHERN PART OF WHAT'S KNOWN AS THE TEMPLE COMPLEX
• 02:51 TODAY LIE THESE RUINS THAT HAVE BEEN HERE FOR CENTURIES.
• 02:56 SOME DECADES AGO THEY BEGAN TO BE UNEARTHED.
• 03:00 KATHLEEN KENYON,
• 03:02 A FAMOUS ARCHEOLOGIST
• 03:04 PUT HER AX INTO THE SOIL HERE, AS HAVE OTHERS,
• 03:07 TO TRY AND RECONSTRUCT DAVID'S PALACE.
• 03:11 AND I'M COMING TO YOU YES FROM THE ACROPOLIS,
• 03:14 THE VERY PLACE, IF YOU CAN IMAGINE THAT.
• 03:18 IT'S ONE OF THE BENEFITS OF TEACHING HERE FROM ISRAEL.
• 03:21 WE DON'T JUST TELL THE BIBLE STORY WE CAN GIVE INDIVIDUALS A WINDOW INTO IT.
• 03:25 AND WHAT A STORY THIS IS.
• 03:28 I WONDER WHAT DAVID WOULD'VE FELT LIKE FRANKLY.
• 03:30 HE'D BEEN ON THE RUN FROM SAUL FOR THE BETTER PART OF 13 YEARS IF YOU CAN IMAGINE THAT.
• 03:36 IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE SAMUEL SHOWED UP AND ANOINTED HIM,
• 03:40 CALLED HIM OUT FROM HIS FATHER,
• 03:42 SET HIM UP IN THE MIDST OF HIS BROTHERS AND SAID THAT YOU HAVE AN APPOINTMENT WITH DESTINY.
• 03:50 I DON'T THINK IT GOT TO DAVID'S HEAD BECAUSE HE WASN'T WALKING AROUND LIKE ROYALTY AFTERWARDS,
• 03:55 IN FACT HE WAS TEASED AND PUSHED AROUND BY HIS BROTHERS AND DISRESPECTED IN THE FAMILY.
• 04:01 AND NOT ONLY THAT, HE WOUND UP AFTER...YOU KNOW THE STORY OF DAVID AND GOLIATH
• 04:06 AFTER ALL THAT HE WINDS UP BEING ON THE RUN FROM SAUL.
• 04:09 SO JUST BECAUSE HE WAS ANOINTED BY THAT PROPHET
• 04:12 DIDN'T MEAN THAT HE WAS GOING TO PROFIT FROM IT ANYTIME SOON.
• 04:15 BUT IT SEEMS THE CASE THAT GOD DOES HAVE HIS APPOINTMENTS FOR PEOPLE
• 04:19 AND IF YOU CAN IMAGINE THE BETTER PART OF 13 YEARS AFTER
• 04:24 HE WAS BUSY TAKING FLIGHT FROM SAUL.
• 04:27 ACTUALLY, 13 YEARS ON THE RUN, FINALLY THIS MAN COMES INTO HIS DESTINY,
• 04:33 AT LEAST THE FIRST STEP OF IT WHEN ELDERS GATHERED TOGETHER AT HEBRON
• 04:38 AND THEY APPOINT DAVID AS KING, THEY ANOINT HIM.
• 04:42 THIS STORY IS TOLD IN 2 SAMUEL CHAPTER 5 AND IT READS LIKE THIS,
• 05:05 THIS ACTUALLY CAME TO HIM IN STAGES.
• 05:07 IN FACT DAVID'S LIFE CAME TO HIM IN STAGES.
• 05:10 AND WE'RE TOLD HERE THAT FIRST AT HEBRON
• 05:12 WHERE HE'S GOING TO ADMINISTRATE FROM FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS, THAT THE ELDERS...
• 05:17 THE WORD ELDER, "ZAKIN" IN HEBREW IS "BEARDED ONE"
• 05:22 AND WHAT HAPPENS IS THAT THOSE WITH "SMARTS", THEY REALIZE,
• 05:27 THEY COME TO TERMS WITH WHO THIS MAN IS AND THEY'RE ACKNOWLEDGING HIM AND DAVID IS ANOINTED
• 05:32 AND WE SEE THAT HE COMES INTO HIS KINGDOM IN STAGES.
• 05:36 I THINK THIS IS A GOOD POINT TO UNDERSCORE THE FACT
• 05:40 THAT A LOT OF TIMES PEOPLE COME INTO THEIR VICTORIES IN STAGES.
• 05:46 THIS IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSCORE IN A WORLD WHERE WE MICROWAVE EVERYTHING,
• 05:52 WE WANT IT IMMEDIATELY.
• 05:54 INSTANT HAPPINESS, INSTANT FORTUNE, INSTANCE SUCCESS IN LIFE,
• 05:58 THAT WE WANT TO BELIEVE GOD'S PROMISES FOR OUR LIFE AND WE WANT IT INSTANTLY.
• 06:04 THE PROBLEM WITH THAT IS IN REALITY IT'S JUST NOT LIKE THAT.
• 06:09 YOU MIGHT FIND A CHURCH THAT'LL BLOW STAR DUST IN YOUR FACE
• 06:13 AND TELL YOU THAT SUCCESS IN LIFE IS YOURS JUST FOR SITTING IN THE PEW FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS
• 06:17 AND PUTTING YOUR MONEY IN THE OFFERING PLATE,
• 06:19 BUT I THINK THAT'S OVERLY SIMPLISTIC PERSONALLY
• 06:21 AND TO MY WAY OF THINKING, IF SOMETHING SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, IT PROBABLY IS.
• 06:26 WHEN WE LOOK AT THE STORY OF DAVID,
• 06:28 WE LEARN OF A MAN WHO HAD MANY TRIALS ON THE WAY TO THE TOP.
• 06:32 AND HERE I AM NOT AT THE TOP BUT CLOSE TO THE TOP AS I'M MAKING MY WAY UP THIS LITTLE MOUNT HERE
• 06:40 THAT TAKES ME UP TO WHERE THE TEMPLE MOUNT IS.
• 06:43 AND THIS IS THE PLACE ACTUALLY WHERE DAVID IS LATER ON GOING TO MAKE HIS NAME KNOWN THROUGH HIS CAPITAL CITY HERE IN JERUSALEM.
• 06:51 AND AGAIN AS WE LOOK INTO DAVID'S WORLD...AND WE'VE BEEN DOING THAT GENERALLY,
• 06:56 BUT PARTICULARLY IN THIS PROGRAM WE'RE BEGINNING BY LOOKING AT HIS ANOINTING.
• 07:01 AND THEN WE'LL FINISH UP BY LOOKING AT DAVID'S EXCITEMENT WHEN THE ARK WAS BROUGHT INTO HIS CITY.
• 07:10 HE WAS JUST SO ECSTATIC BECAUSE DAVID HAD A LOT OF CHALLENGES IN HIS LIFE
• 07:14 BUT HE LEARNED THROUGH IT ALL THAT IF HE WOULD FOLLOW THE LORD
• 07:18 THE LORD WOULD LEAD HIM ON SUCCESSFULLY.
• 07:20 LIKE PAUL SAID,
• 07:21 "THANKS BE TO GOD"
• 07:23 "WHO ALWAYS LEADS US IN TRIUMPH."
• 07:25 AND I'M REMINDED OF THAT HERE AS I STAND IN THE ANCIENT CITY OF DAVID.
• 07:33 IT WAS COLD DARK AND FOREBODING,
• 07:36 BUT THE KING SHOWED US THAT THE SECRET TO TAKING JERUSALEM
• 07:39 WOULD BE THROUGH THIS WATER PASSAGE UNDER THE CITY.
• 07:42 IN DEFIANCE THE JEBUSITES HAD STATIONED THE BLIND AND THE LAME AROUND THE CITY
• 07:48 LITTLE SUSPECTING AN UNDERGROUND ATTACK.
• 07:50 BUT KING DAVID WAS SHREWD.
• 07:53 THE BRAVE WARRIOR LISTENED TO THE LORD FOR DIRECTION.
• 07:56 WE TOOK THE STRONGHOLD OF ZION THAT DAY
• 07:59 AND IT BECAME THE CITY OF DAVID WHERE THE KING WOULD RULE FOR 33 YEARS.
• 08:10 ALMOST DIRECTLY BENEATH ME HERE IN THE CITY OF DAVID
• 08:14 IS A VERY FAMOUS TUNNEL,
• 08:16 ONE THAT DAVID REMEMBERED HIS ENTIRE LIFE.
• 08:20 BECAUSE AFTER HE WAS ANOINTED KING IN HEBRON
• 08:24 IT CAME TO HIM TO CONTEND FOR THE CITY OF JERUSALEM.
• 08:30 WE'RE TOLD IN THIS CHAPTER THAT I BEGAN READING IN THE PREVIOUS SEGMENT, VERSE 6 AND ON
• 08:36 THAT DAVID WANTED JERUSALEM AND THE JEBUSITES TAUNTED HIM SAYING,
• 08:44 "THIS DOG WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO ENTER INTO OUR STRONGHOLD."
• 08:48 THEY HAD THE HIGH PLACE AND WELL FORTIFIED,
• 08:51 BUT THE LORD GAVE DAVID A STRATEGY, NOT JUST A VISION.
• 08:56 HE HAD A VISION FOR A CAPITOL CITY.
• 08:58 AND AFTER TAKING IT BY THE WAY,
• 09:00 WE'RE TOLD THAT THE LORD
• 09:02 MADE HIS NAME GREAT.
• 09:04 ACTUALLY IT'S THE WAY THIS LITTLE SECTION FINISHES UP IN VERSE 10.
• 09:07 SO DAVID WENT ON AND BECOME GREAT THERE FROM HIS CAPITAL CITY,
• 09:12 BUT THE LORD DIDN'T JUST GIVE HIM A VISION, HE GAVE HIM A STRATEGY FOR ACCOMPLISHING IT.
• 09:18 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 09:19 BECAUSE THE ROAD TO SUCCESS IN LIFE IS MARKED WITH MANY PERILS.
• 09:24 IT SEEMS THAT SUCCESS DOESN'T JUST OPEN UP TO US MAGICALLY.
• 09:28 I KNOW YOU MAY WELL FIND A CHURCH OR SOME PLACE TO SIT AND A PREACHER WILL SAY,
• 09:33 "LISTEN JUST BELIEVE THIS DOCTRINE"
• 09:36 "AND SIT HERE AND PUT YOUR MONEY IN THE OFFERING PLATE"
• 09:38 "AND PRESTO LIFE'S JUST GONNA COME UP FOR YOU GOOD."
• 09:43 WELL I DO BELIEVE THAT GOD HAS A GOOD PLAN FOR OUR LIFE TO BE SURE,
• 09:47 BUT COMING HERE FROM THE CITY OF DAVID,
• 09:52 COMING HERE FROM JUST ATOP THE TUNNEL THAT HIS MEN WENT INTO TO FIGHT,
• 09:58 I WANNA TELL YOU THAT WHILE GOD HAS A GOOD PLAN FOR US
• 10:01 IT STILL IS INCUMBENT UPON US TO CONTEND FOR IT IF WE WANT TO BE DAVID-LIKE LEADERS.
• 10:09 IT SEEMS TO ME THAT ESPECIALLY, BY THE WAY, IN THE DAY IN TIME IN WHICH WE LIVE.
• 10:14 I BELIEVE THAT GODLY PEOPLE NEED TO RECOVER THAT CONTENDING AND WHY IS THAT?
• 10:20 BECAUSE WE HAVE WORK TO DO.
• 10:24 MY CONCERN IS, FRANKLY, THAT CHRISTIAN FAITH AND VIRTUE IS GETTING AWAY FROM US.
• 10:30 I BELIEVE THAT OUR GOVERNMENT IS GETTING AWAY FROM US;
• 10:34 I BELIEVE THAT FAMILY VALUES ARE GETTING AWAY FROM US.
• 10:38 I BELIEVE THAT PERSONAL RIGHTEOUSNESS IS GETTING AWAY FROM US,
• 10:41 AND WE NEED TO HAVE THAT MILITANT EDGE,
• 10:45 BE GIVEN TO CONTENDING FOR OUR DESTINY IN GOD.
• 10:48 I BELIEVE THOSE THAT ARE THUS MINDED CAN ENJOY GOOD SUCCESS
• 10:52 BY VIRTUE OF THEY'RE BEING ARMED WITH THAT PARTICULAR DISPOSITION.
• 10:56 IN ANY CASE HERE WE'RE LOOKING AT A STORY WHERE DAVID TELLS HIS MEN,
• 10:59 "LET'S ARM UP AND GO FOR IT GUYS."
• 11:01 THERE'S A VISION AND THERE'S A STRATEGY, HE SAYS IN VERSE 7.
• 11:04 ON VERSE 6 AT THE END THEY SAID, "DAVID CAN'T COME HERE."
• 11:08 BUT WE'RE TOLD,
• 11:14 HE TOOK IT, HE CEASED IT.
• 11:22 JUST BENEATH ME HERE AND DEFEATS THEM.
• 11:26 WELL THIS IS WHERE COMMAND IS...SUCCESS IN LIFE,
• 11:29 WE'RE TOLD IN THE TEXT IS GONNA GO TO THOSE WHO CONTEND FOR IT.
• 11:32 NOW I WANT YOU TO HEAR ME ON THIS PLEASE.
• 11:35 I BELIEVE THAT IN AMERICA WE HAVE IT WAY TO EASY AND MANY OF US ARE WAY TOO SPOILED.
• 11:40 WE THINK WE'RE ENTITLED TO SUCCESS IN LIFE.
• 11:43 DAVID DIDN'T JUST GIVE AWAY COMMANDS IN HIS ARMY,
• 11:47 IT WENT TO THE BRAVE, IT WENT TO THE COURAGEOUS, IT WENT TO THOSE THAT WANTED TO SERVE HIM
• 11:54 AND WHO BY DINT OF DETERMINATION THEY ARMED UP FOR THE STRUGGLE
• 11:58 AND THEY TOOK SOME RISKS IN ORDER TO ACCOMPLISH IT AND GOD WAS WITH THEM.
• 12:03 AND DAVID HONORED THAT.
• 12:06 WHY IS THAT?
• 12:07 BECAUSE FUNDAMENTALLY HE WAS THAT.
• 12:10 AND WHAT'S THAT?
• 12:11 AN ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT, A WINNING ATTITUDE,
• 12:15 SOMEONE THAT WANTS TO BELIEVE GOD AND GO FOR IT,
• 12:18 TO STAND FOR SOMETHING, TO GO AGAINST SOMETHING, TO CONTEND, TO PRESS IN.
• 12:23 WHERE IS THAT?
• 12:26 BY THE WAY, I BELIEVE THAT WE NEED THAT NOW MORE THAN EVER.
• 12:33 THE MALES IN OUR CULTURE ARE ACCULTURATED INTO BEING EFFEMINATE WORRIERS,
• 12:37 NOT WARRIORS.
• 12:39 WE NEED TO HAVE THAT BELIEVING, GOING FOR IT,
• 12:43 THAT DOGGED DETERMINATION TO BELIEVE GOD FOR A GREAT FUTURE,
• 12:47 TO SERVE TO CARVE OUT SPACE IN THIS WORLD.
• 12:51 I'M OF THE ILK THAT STILL BELIEVES EVEN IN A DIFFICULT GOLIATH-LIKE WORLD
• 12:57 I BELIEVE THAT DAVID-LIKE FOLK CAN HAVE SUCCESS IN LIFE.
• 13:00 AND I'M REMINDED OF THAT AS I SIT IN THIS HISTORIC PLACE
• 13:05 MADE FAMOUS BECAUSE OF THE BRAVERY AND COURAGE OF DAVID AND HIS MEN MANY THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO.
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• 14:25 THAT WHILE WE WERE THERE DISCOVERIES WERE GOING TO BEGIN TO BE UNFOLDING.
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• 15:39 AND OFF WE GO AGAIN TO LOOK AT THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD AS WE CONSIDER THE WARRIOR KING.
• 15:49 THE CITY OF DAVID WAS A FITTING PLACE FOR A KING
• 15:52 BUT THE CROWN JEWEL WAS MISSING.
• 15:55 DAVID'S DESIRE WAS THAT THE VERY PRESENCE OF GOD BE BROUGHT TO HIS CITY.
• 15:59 AND SO IT WAS THAT WE WERE AMONG HIS APPOINTED
• 16:02 TO ESCORT THE GOLDEN ARK OF THE COVENANT TO JERUSALEM.
• 16:11 OUR DELIGHT THAT DAY WAS IN THE LORD.
• 16:13 AS DAVID DANCED IN THE STREETS OF JERUSALEM OUR HEARTS LEAPED FOR JOY.
• 16:18 JERUSALEM HAD BECOME THE CITY OF THE LIVING GOD.
• 16:46 HE DIDN'T DO A VERY GOOD JOB OF CONTAINING HIMSELF, NOW DID HE?
• 16:49 HE INVOKED THE IRE OF HIS WIFE
• 16:52 WHO THOUGHT HE WAS PLAYING THE FOOL IN FRONT OF THE MASSES.
• 16:55 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 16:57 BECAUSE DAVID WAS SO VERY ECSTATIC WHEN THE ARK WAS BROUGHT INTO THE CITY
• 17:03 AND HE WAS BESIDE HIMSELF.
• 17:05 AND THE REASON IS BECAUSE HE KNEW THAT IT WAS THE LORD WHO PLACE HIM WHERE HE WAS.
• 17:10 HE CREDITED THE LORD WITH HIS SUCCESS.
• 17:14 THE LORD GAVE HIM FAVOR WITH THE NET RESULT HE WAS ABLE TO CARVE OUT A KINGDOM.
• 17:19 AND HERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW IN THE PLACE WHERE HE MADE HIS NAME TO DWELL.
• 17:26 HERE IN THE CITY OF DAVID.
• 17:29 THIS IS JUST ONE LITTLE CORNER OF A BIG ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE.
• 17:34 FRIENDS, I'M COMING TO YOU FROM THE PALACE OF DAVID, IF YOU CAN IMAGINE THAT.
• 17:41 OH THE PLACE IS ABUZZ WITH ACTIVITY, THE SITE ITSELF.
• 17:46 NOW, TOURISTS CAN'T COME RIGHT HERE.
• 17:49 WE'RE BENEATH THE SCAFFOLDING.
• 17:51 WE GOT PERMISSION TO COME AND TAKE YOU WHERE PEOPLE DON'T VENTURE TO GO,
• 17:55 BUT THAT'S A ZOLA LEVITT TRADEMARK ISN'T IT?
• 17:59 WE HAVE A CISTERN OVER HERE,
• 18:01 VARIOUS STOREROOMS, RESTROOMS, BEDROOMS, LIVING ROOMS, CLOSETS, WHATEVER.
• 18:09 WHATEVER THE STUFF OF A PALACE IS MADE OF, DAVID'S PALACE IN PARTICULAR, HERE WE ARE.
• 18:17 I'D LIKE YOU TO TURN IN YOUR BIBLES, PLEASE TO GIVE YOU A BIBLICAL ADDRESS.
• 18:23 USUALLY HOMES HAVE AN ADDRESS.
• 18:26 WELL THERE'S A BIBLICAL ADDRESS ATTACHED TO THE STORY FOR TODAY.
• 18:30 IN 2ND SAMUEL CHAPTER 6, VERSE 14,
• 19:00 LET ME SPEAK TO YOU ABOUT THIS FOR A SECOND.
• 19:03 IT SEEMS TO ME THAT DAVID WASN'T JUST THE KIND OF GUY WHOSE WIFE DRUG HIM TO CHURCH ON SUNDAYS.
• 19:09 WELL IT WASN'T A CHURCH BACK THEN...FELT LIKE HIS WIFE IS NUDGING HIM.
• 19:13 USUALLY IT'S...YOU KNOW... THE LADY OF THE HOUSE IS RELIGIOUS
• 19:16 AND THE GUY JUST KIND OF GETS SHOOED ALONG FOR THE SAKE OF THE KIDS OR WHATEVER.
• 19:20 NO, THIS IS A GUY WHO REALLY IS THRILLED.
• 19:24 DAVID SEEMS TO BE EXPERIENCING AN ECSTATIC MOMENT HERE, THERE'S ABANDON.
• 19:31 HE DOESN'T REALLY CARE WHAT HIS WIFE THINKS, WHAT PEOPLE THINK,
• 19:33 HE'S JUST SO EXCITED AND WHY IS THAT?
• 19:36 BECAUSE DAVID MORE THAN ANYONE CREDITS GOD WITH HIS SUCCESS IN LIFE.
• 19:44 NOW I WANT YOU TO HEAR ME ON THIS PLEASE
• 19:46 THAT YOU KNOW FOR SOME PEOPLE IT'S JUST RELIGIOUS TRADITION,
• 19:50 BUT I BELIEVE THAT IF WE'LL WALK WITH GOD...
• 19:53 IT'S NOT AN EASY ROAD.
• 19:55 AND IT'S NOT A QUICK ROAD, BUT YOU'RE GONNA BE BETTER OFF IN LIFE IF YOU WALK WITH HIM
• 20:00 THAN IF YOU DISREGARD HIM AND JUST BREAK OUT YOUR OWN MACHETE
• 20:04 AND CARVE A PATH THROUGH THE WILDERNESS OF THIS WORLD.
• 20:06 DAVID LEARNED THAT... BEGAN THIS PROGRAM BY REMINDING
• 20:10 THAT THOUGH HE HAD HIS CHALLENGES, FIRST WITH GOLIATH...
• 20:13 WELL FIRST WITH HIS FAMILY THAT DIDN'T BELIEVE IN HIM
• 20:16 AND THEN GOLIATH AND HIS BROTHERS WERE TAUNTING HIM OUT THERE ON THE FIELD
• 20:20 AND THEN HE RUNS FROM SAUL IF YOU CAN IMAGINE THAT.
• 20:23 13 YEARS ON THE RUN, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT?
• 20:26 GOD USED THE EXPERIENCE TO BUILD HIM UP.
• 20:28 NOW I WANT YOU TO HEAR ME.
• 20:30 I BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE A GOD WHO LEADS US IN TRIUMPH
• 20:33 AND I BELIEVE THAT THE MALES OF OUR SPECIES NEED TO RECOVER THAT KIND OF TRIUMPHALISM,
• 20:39 THAT BELIEVING GOD FOR GREAT THINGS
• 20:41 AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT WE'LL PUT GOD FIRST...
• 20:45 THERE'S A VERSE THAT YESHUA SAID,
• 20:55 HERE IN THE CITY OF DAVID THAT WAS CARVED OUT MANY YEARS AGO,
• 20:59 I'M REMINDED OF THE FACT THAT THIS GOD WHO IS THE SAME TODAY, YESTERDAY, AND FOREVER
• 21:04 WANTS TO MAKE A NAME FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS TO CAST THEIR NAME AMONG HIS DISCIPLES.
• 21:10 AND WHY DON'T YOU DO THAT?
• 21:12 I BELIEVE THAT WE LIVE IN GOLIATH-LIKE TIMES,
• 21:15 BUT DAVID-LIKE MEN AND WOMEN WHO STAND UP, WHO CONTEND,
• 21:18 I BELIEVE THAT WE CAN EXPECT GOOD THINGS FROM GOD
• 21:22 EVEN IN A WORLD WHERE GOOD NEWS IS IN HIGH DEMAND BUT SHORT SUPPLY.
• 21:28 (Jeff speaking) WE CAN GET THE BETTER OF LIFE'S VEXING DILEMMAS.
• 21:32 THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT IT AND PAUL WILBUR SINGS ABOUT IT.
• 21:35 AND NOW OFF WE GO TO PAUL WORSHIPPING GOD SINGING,
• 21:38 "IT IS GOOD."
• 21:42 ♪IT IS GOOD TO PRAISE THE LORD♪
• 21:46 ♪AND MAKE MUSIC TO YOUR NAME♪
• 21:50 ♪O GOD MOST HIGH♪
• 21:54 ♪TO PROCLAIM YOUR LOVE AND FAITHFULNESS♪
• 22:00 ♪ALL THE DAY AND THROUGH THE NIGHT♪
• 22:04 ♪LAI LAI LAI♪
• 22:05 ♪LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI♪
• 22:07 ♪LAI LAI LAI LAI♪
• 22:09 ♪LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI♪
• 22:11 ♪LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI..♪
• 22:13 ♪LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI♪
• 22:17 ♪YOU MAKE ME GLAD BY YOUR DEEDS OH LORD♪
• 22:20 ♪SO I SING FOR JOY AT ALL YOUR HANDS HAVE MADE♪
• 22:24 ♪I WILL PRAISE ALL YOUR WORKS OH LORD♪
• 22:26 ♪ELOHIM BARUCH HASHEM♪
• 22:30 ♪LAI LAI LAI♪
• 22:31 ♪LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI♪
• 22:33 ♪LAI LAI LAI LAI♪
• 22:35 ♪LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI♪
• 22:37 ♪LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI...♪
• 22:40 ♪LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI♪
• 22:43 ♪MAY I DWELL IN YOUR COURTS OH LORD♪
• 22:46 ♪THERE TO FLOURISH LIKE THE TREES OF LEBANON♪
• 22:50 ♪PLANTED IN THE HOUSE OF ADONAI♪
• 22:53 ♪THERE TO LIVE FOREVERMORE♪
• 22:56 ♪LAI LAI LAI♪
• 22:58 ♪LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI♪
• 22:59 ♪LAI LAI LAI LAI♪
• 23:01 ♪LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI♪
• 23:04 ♪LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI...♪
• 23:06 ♪LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI♪
• 23:09 ♪LAI LAI LAI♪
• 23:11 ♪LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI♪
• 23:13 ♪LAI LAI LAI LAI♪
• 23:14 ♪LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI♪
• 23:17 ♪LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI...♪
• 23:19 ♪LAI LAI LAI LAI LAI♪
• 23:22 ♪LAI.......LAI♪
• 23:32 THE BIBLE'S A GREAT BOOK,
• 23:35 ISRAEL'S A GREAT PLACE,
• 23:37 JERUSALEM'S A GREAT CAPITAL,
• 23:39 AND WE LIKE TO TAKE YOU TO GREAT PLACES, TO THE GREAT CAPITAL, TO TALK TO GREAT PEOPLE.
• 23:44 HERE ZOLA LEVITT INTERVIEWS YITZHAK SHAMIR, THE FORMER PRIME MINISTER
• 23:49 AND HE RAISES AN INTERESTING QUESTION,
• 23:51 "WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THOSE WHO SAY THAT JERUSALEM IS THEIR CAPITAL?"
• 23:57 IF SOMEBODY WANTS TO GET YOUR CAPITAL
• 24:00 AND TO MAKE IT HIS CAPITAL
• 24:04 YOU CAN NOT MAKE PEACE WITH HIM.
• 24:06 WELL THE WAY THE STORY GOES
• 24:07 IS I GUESS HE WOULD SAY
• 24:09 WE'VE ALWAYS BEEN HERE,
• 24:10 THE JEWS CAME LATE, JERUSALEM WAS OURS...
• 24:12 THAT'S NOT IT.
• 24:13 WHOSE?
• 24:15 THE PALESTINIANS HAVE NEVER BEEN HERE AS A NATION,
• 24:20 NOT IN ISRAEL, NOT IN JERUSALEM.
• 24:22 THEY'VE NEVER HAD A NATION,
• 24:25 HAD AN INDEPENDENT STATE
• 24:27 AND JERUSALEM WAS NEVER AN ARAB CAPITAL,
• 24:30 NEVER IN ITS HISTORY FOR 3,000 YEARS.
• 24:35 KING DAVID ACTUALLY MADE IT THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL..
• 24:37 SURE, SURE. >>3,000 YEARS AGO.
• 24:39 OUR SERIES OF PROGRAMS
• 24:40 FOCUSES ON THAT TIME,
• 24:42 BECAUSE IT'S SORT OF SIMILAR TO THIS TIME.
• 24:44 HE WAS TRYING TO MAKE A PEACE PROCESS WITH ENEMIES
• 24:47 ON THE BORDERS AND IN THE COUNTRY AND SO ON.
• 24:51 GOD SAID IN THE BIBLE
• 24:53 THAT THERE WOULD ALWAYS BE A RULER
• 24:55 OF KING DAVID'S HOUSE TO TAKE CARE OF ISRAEL.
• 24:58 YES OF COURSE.
• 24:59 DOES IT SEEM TO YOU
• 25:00 THAT WE'RE WITH PEACE AND EVERYTHING ELSE?
• 25:03 IS THERE A MESSIANIC AGE COMING?
• 25:05 ARE THINGS GOING TO GET BETTER?
• 25:06 I THINK WE WILL HAVE OUR STATE HERE,
• 25:11 WE WILL HAVE A MANY IMMIGRANTS, OUR POPULATION...
• 25:15 OUR JEWISH POPULATION WILL GROW
• 25:18 AND WE WILL HAVE HERE A STATE OF 10 MILLION OR MORE
• 25:24 AND IT WILL BE A VERY PROSPEROUS STATE,
• 25:28 A STRONG STATE,
• 25:31 AND IT WILL EXIST FOREVER.
• 25:36 YITZHAK SHIMIR WAS VERY OPTIMISTIC WHEN TALKING TO ZOLA
• 25:40 BELIEVING THAT ISRAEL IS DESTINED TO STAY, TO PROSPER, TO POPULATE.
• 25:46 AND YOU KNOW WHAT?
• 25:48 I BELIEVE THAT BIBLICAL WORDS TURN INTO SUCCESS IN LIFE FOR NATION STATES AND FOR PEOPLE.
• 25:56 AND IT'S FOR THAT REASON AS I CLOSE
• 25:58 I'M PLEASED TO SPEAK TO YOU AND SAY GOD WHO'S IN THE BUSINESS IS PROSPERING HIS PEOPLE ISRAEL,
• 26:03 THAT SAME GOD IS IN THE BUSINESS OF PROSPERING YOU.
• 26:08 SCRIPTURE SAYS THE LORD WATCHES OVER HIS WORD TO PERFORM IT
• 26:13 AND IF YOU WOULD MAKE YOUR WAY INTO HIS SHEEPFOLD
• 26:15 THE GOOD SHEPHERD WOULD BE WATCHING OVER YOU AS WELL.
• 26:19 WHY DON'T YOU DO THAT?
• 26:21 GOD IS GOOD AND HE HAS A GREAT PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE,
• 26:24 TO TURN YOUR WEAKNESS INTO STRENGTH.
• 26:27 I BELIEVE GOD CAN DO THAT AND WILL DO THAT,
• 26:30 BUT YOU'VE GOTTA REACH UP TO HIM AND ASK HIM TO DO THAT FOR YOU
• 26:34 AND THEN WALK WITH HIM THROUGH THE PROCESS.
• 26:37 MAKE YOUR WAY TO A GOOD BIBLE BELIEVING CONGREGATION
• 26:40 AND I BELIEVE THAT YOU'RE GONNA EXPERIENCE A TRANSFORMATION
• 26:44 THAT'S MADE AVAILABLE FOR PEOPLE, FOR STATES, FOR EVERYONE AND ANYONE.
• 26:49 AND AS YOU GO LET ME SAY THANK YOU FOR GOING ON THE JOURNEY WITH US.
• 26:53 AND AS THE LATE ZOLA LEVITT USED TO CLOSE,
• 26:56 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:59 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM