Caption transcript for Esther: “Undone by a Woman” (4/8)

• 00:21 ♪OUT OF ZION...ZION♪
• 00:24 ♪COMES YOUR SALVATION♪
• 00:30 ♪AND A NATION WILL BE FORMED OUT OF HIM♪
• 00:34 ♪YEAH AND A PEOPLE WILL BE BORN OUT OF HIM♪
• 00:39 ♪OUT OF ZION...ZION♪
• 00:43 ♪COMES YOUR SALVATION♪
• 00:54 HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 00:56 JEFFREY SEIF HERE
• 00:57 PLEASED TO WELCOME YOU AGAIN
• 00:59 TO ANOTHER EDITION OF ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 01:02 THIS WEEK PRESENTING THE 4TH OF AN 8 PART TREATMENT OF THE BOOK OF ESTHER.
• 01:07 YOU EVER NOTICE HOW LIFE PRESENTS WITH CERTAIN CHALLENGES, DANGERS
• 01:13 AND WE NEED TO TAKE CERTAIN RISKS.
• 01:16 IN SOME WAYS WE THROW THE DICE AGAINST AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE...
• 01:19 SEE HOW IT'LL ALL TURN OUT.
• 01:21 ESTHER DID THAT WITH GOD BEHIND HER...
• 01:23 LET'S SEE HOW THAT TURNED OUT.
• 01:28 QUEEN ESTHER HAD WRESTLED WITH THE THOUGHT FOR SOME TIME.
• 01:33 SHE HAD CONSIDERED THE CONSEQUENCES.
• 01:35 GOING BEFORE THE KING UNINVITED COULD RESULT IN ESTHER'S DEATH.
• 01:41 ON THE OTHER HAND,
• 01:43 NOT TO APPEAL BEFORE THE KING WOULD MEAN CERTAIN DEATH FOR ALL HER FELLOW JEWS.
• 02:32 THE FORCES OF ANTI-LIFE WERE AT WORK THEN AS NOW.
• 02:37 AND THEN ESTHER WAS PLACED TO STAND IN THE GAP AND HOLD BACK THE PREVAILING FORCES
• 02:44 THAT IF THEY HAD THEIR WAY WOULD LEND THEMSELVES TO THE ANNIHILATION OF THE JEWS.
• 02:50 NO ONE STOOD IN THE GAP HERE YEARS AGO WHEN THESE STONES WERE FELLED,
• 02:56 WHEN THE BEIT HAMIKTOSH, THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM, WAS DESTROYED BY THE ROMANS.
• 03:02 AND I'M COMING TO YOU FROM THAT VERY PLACE NOW.
• 03:07 AND I WANT TO OPEN UP BIBLICAL TEXT AND TELL YOU A STORY THAT TOOK PLACE WELL BEFORE THIS
• 03:14 WHEN ESTHER FOUND HERSELF AT A PLACE WHERE SHE WAS ABLE TO UTILIZE INFLUENCE
• 03:20 "FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS".
• 03:23 WE'RE TOLD IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER, CHAPTER 5; VERSE 2,
• 03:29 THERE'S A STATEMENT HERE...
• 03:30 I WANT TO READ IT TO YOU IN THE HEBREW AND THEN THE ENGLISH,
• 03:32 IT'S SO VERY PROFOUND,
• 03:34 WE'RE TOLD,
• 03:44 AND THE "SIGHT" WAS IN THE EYES OF THE KING.
• 03:47 ESTHER WAS GUARANTEED NOTHING.
• 03:49 SHE KNEW SHE NEEDED TO DO SOMETHING
• 03:52 AND PROMPTED BY MORDECAI, CONSCIENCE AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD COMBINED,
• 03:56 NEVER MIND HER OWN INNER RESTLESSNESS,
• 03:59 FEELING THAT SHE NEEDED TO DO SOMETHING
• 04:01 SHE THREW THE DICE AGAINST AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE AND SAID
• 04:04 "I'M GOING TO APPROACH THIS POWERFUL KING"
• 04:07 "THAT DOESN'T WANT PEOPLE APPROACHING HIM UNINVITED"
• 04:10 "AND I'M GOING TO SEE WHAT I CAN DO."
• 04:13 AND WHAT DID SHE DO?
• 04:14 SHE CALLED FORTH AN EVENT THAT WOULD LEND ITSELF FINALLY
• 04:17 TO HAMAN'S CONFRONTATION AND DEMISE.
• 04:21 MINDFUL OF HER STORY, IF YOU'LL PERMIT,
• 04:23 I WANT TO ASK THE QUESTION OF YOU, AND THAT IS
• 04:26 "HOW CAN YOU USE YOUR INFLUENCE TO BE AN AMBASSADOR"
• 04:30 "FOR GOD'S GOOD KINGDOM PURPOSES ON THE EARTH?"
• 04:34 IT'S AN IMPORTANT STORY,
• 04:35 A STORY I WANT TO EXPLORE AS WE LOOK AT THIS SERIES
• 04:39 "FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS."
• 04:55 THE WINE FLOWED FREELY AT ESTHER'S FEAST.
• 04:58 THE KING AND QUEEN EXCHANGED PLEASANTRIES WHILE HAMAN MUSED.
• 05:04 THINGS WERE WORKING OUT JUST AS HE HAD PLANNED, OR SO IT SEEMED.
• 05:37 HAMAN WAS ONE HAPPY CAMPER.
• 05:41 HE WAS HIMSELF VERY IMPRESSED BY HIMSELF ALL THE MORE SO
• 05:46 NOW THAT ESTHER HERSELF SEEMS TO BE MINDED TO BRING HIM INTO THE LOOP
• 05:51 AND HE KNEW THAT HE HAD DESTINY ALL OVER HIM.
• 05:55 BUT LITTLE DID HE KNOW
• 05:56 THAT THERE WAS SOMEONE GREATER THAN HIM THAT WAS WATCHING OUT FOR ISRAEL'S AFFAIRS
• 06:01 WHO IS GOING TO WORK THROUGH A WOMAN NAMED ESTHER.
• 06:06 VAST WAS THE EMPIRE OF PERSIA.
• 06:10 THE MEDO PERSIAN REALM EXTENDED TO THE EAST ALL THE WAY TO INDIA
• 06:17 AND THEN WENT WESTWARD SWEEPING ACROSS THE EUPHRATES,
• 06:22 THE LEVANT, EXTENDING INTO NORTHERN AFRICA
• 06:25 ALL THE WAY TO ETHIOPIA,
• 06:28 2 MILLION SQUARE MILES,
• 06:32 A VAST EXPANSE NOW AS THEN IN THAT PRIMITIVE WORLD.
• 06:38 AND THERE WAS ONE MAN THAT HELD THE KEY TO IT
• 06:42 BUT IT SEEMS THERE WAS ONE WOMAN WHO HELD THE KEY TO THAT MAN...
• 06:47 A WOMAN WHO DECIDED TO USE HER INFLUENCE.
• 06:53 WE READ IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER, THE 5TH CHAPTER, THE 8TH VERSE,
• 07:26 THERE SHE WAS PROVIDENTIALLY WELL PLACED.
• 07:32 IT WAS A GOD-THING ACTUALLY
• 07:35 AND THAT IS THAT THE LORD HAD RAISED HER UP ACCORDING TO THE TEXT "FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS."
• 07:45 AND BECAUSE SHE WAS THERE SHE WAS ABLE TO BE EMPLOYED THERE FOR GOD'S GOOD PURPOSES.
• 07:53 IT SEEMS TO ME AS I HAD SAID A FEW MOMENTS AGO
• 07:56 THAT THE FORCES OF ANTI-LIFE,
• 07:59 THE FORCES OF ANTI-SEMITISM ARE RIFE IN HISTORY.
• 08:04 THEY JUST COME AROUND TIME AND TIME AGAIN.
• 08:08 STANDING HERE AT THE RUINS IN JERUSALEM THAT HARK BACK TO WARS OF DAYS GONE PAST
• 08:15 REMINDS ME AFRESH, VISUALLY, THAT JEWS FIND THEMSELVES...
• 08:20 WE FIND OURSELVES PRECARIOUSLY PERCHED IN A VERY DIFFICULT WORLD.
• 08:25 I FIND THAT WHEN I LOOK AT THE ROCKS ROUND ABOUT ME.
• 08:28 I FIND THAT WHEN I WANT TO STAND ON THE ROCK
• 08:30 AND FIND THE GOD OF ISRAEL IN THE BIBLICAL TESTIMONY.
• 08:33 HERE I SEE AS WELL THAT THERE ARE FORCES AT WORK TO DESTROY GOD'S PURPOSES...
• 08:38 TO DESTROY JEWS.
• 08:40 LET ME TALK ABOUT YOU FOR A MINUTE IF YOU WILL
• 08:43 WHILE I'M THINKING ABOUT ESTHER
• 08:45 TO RAISE THE QUESTION OF YOU THAT WAS RAISED OF HER
• 08:47 AND THAT IS, "ARE YOU PERSONALLY GAME TO USE YOUR INFLUENCE?"
• 08:55 CAN YOU STAND UP IN YOUR CHURCHES?
• 08:56 CAN YOU STAND UP IN YOUR CONGREGATIONS,
• 08:58 IN YOUR WEBS OF RELATIONSHIPS
• 09:00 AND SAY "LET'S STAND UP FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE?"
• 09:03 USE THAT INFLUENCE AND SEE HOW IT IS THAT AS WITH ESTHER SO IT WILL BE WITH YOU
• 09:08 AND THAT IS YOU'LL DISCOVER THAT GOD IS WILLING TO USE YOU "FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS".
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• 10:03 FOR THE LORD THY GOD BRINGETH THEE INTO A GOOD LAND;
• 10:08 A LAND OF FIG TREES AND POMEGRANATES;
• 10:11 A LAND OF OLIVE OIL AND HONEY.
• 10:15 ARISE, WALK THROUGH THE LAND
• 10:18 FOR ALL THE LAND WHICH THOU SEEST
• 10:21 TO THEE WILL I GIVE IT
• 10:24 AND TO THY SEED FOREVER.
• 10:28 WORSHIP IN THE SHADOWS OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB
• 10:34 BEHOLD THE LAND OF THE COVENANT
• 10:44 ISRAEL IS AN ENCHANTING LAND
• 10:47 AND MORE THAN JUST ENCHANTMENT
• 10:48 IT'S A LAND OF MIRACLES...
• 10:49 ...MIRACLES THAT HAPPEN INSIDE OF PEOPLE WHEN THEY GO, RIGHT?
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• 10:54 AND YOU'RE INVOLVED IN HELPING US GET PEOPLE TO GO
• 10:56 IF THEY WANT TO GO WITH US.
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• 11:01 FOR ZOLA TOURS,
• 11:02 I'VE BEEN THERE A YEAR,
• 11:04 AND I HAVE BEEN TO ISRAEL THREE TIMES
• 11:05 AND IT IS THE MOST LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE EVER.
• 11:07 AND BEFORE YOU EVER GOT TO ISRAEL YOU OPENED UP THE BIBLE BOOKS...
• 11:10 YOU WENT TO DALLAS SEMINARY AND YOU STUDIED ALL ABOUT THE LAND.
• 11:13 WHAT'S IT LIKE TO ACTUALLY GO?
• 11:15 I WOULD TRADE MY FIVE YEARS AT DALLAS SEMINARY FOR 10 DAYS IN ISRAEL.
• 11:19 I HOPE THEY'RE NOT LISTENING.
• 11:21 I KNOW... I HOPE SO TOO.
• 11:22 BUT I TELL YOU WHAT
• 11:23 WHEN YOU TOUCH THAT WAILING WALL,
• 11:24 WHEN YOU GET BAPTIZED IN THE JORDAN RIVER
• 11:26 EVERYTHING THAT YOU'VE READ IN THE BIBLE COMES TO LIFE
• 11:29 AND I WOULD TRADE ALL MY EARTHLY POSSESSIONS TO BE IN ISRAEL...
• 11:33 ITS AMAZING.
• 11:34 PEOPLE CAN STUDY BUT THEY NEED AN EXPERIENCE WITH THE LORD
• 11:37 AND THE LAND OF THE BIBLE FACILITATES THAT DOES IT NOT?
• 11:39 THEY DO...THEY DO.
• 11:40 AND WHAT I LOVE IS THE FACT THAT I TAKE CARE OF ALL THE LOGISTICS...
• 11:42 I'VE DONE BIG EVENTS FOR 20 YEARS
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• 11:49 AND THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE A NEWNESS AND A FRESHNESS
• 11:52 AND AN INTIMACY WITH CHRIST THAT THEY NEVER THOUGHT WAS POSSIBLE.
• 11:54 AND THEY JUST CALL
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• 12:00 THAT'S RIGHT... ABSOLUTELY.
• 12:01 THANKS TRACIE...
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• 12:21 THERE'S SO MUCH PREJUDICE AGAINST THE JEWS
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• 12:38 "IS FANATIC ISLAM A GLOBAL THREAT?"
• 12:41 THE ANSWER IS "YES" IF YOU DON'T WANT TO READ THE BOOK,
• 12:43 BUT IT'S A GOOD BOOK TO READ AND IT'S YOURS,
• 12:45 THE OFFER WILL BE COMING LATER IN THE PROGRAM.
• 12:48 SPEAKING OF THE OFFER,
• 12:50 HAMAN OFFERED HIS SERVICES TO DESTROY THE JEWS
• 12:52 BUT IT WASN'T GOING SO WELL.
• 12:54 HE GOES TO HIS WIFE...
• 12:56 HE'S SO VERY VEXED.
• 12:58 LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS
• 12:59 AS WE GET BACK TO THE BOOK OF ESTHER.
• 14:20 HAMAN FOR REASONS THAT WERE UNIQUELY HIS OWN
• 14:24 ABSOLUTELY DISDAINED ONE JEW IN PARTICULAR...
• 14:27 MORDECAI...
• 14:29 AND ALL JEWS.
• 14:31 THIS ANTI-SEMITISM GOT DEEP IN HIS GUT
• 14:36 AND HE WAS JUST GRIPPED BY IT.
• 14:40 AND HE LIVED WITH THAT TILL THE DAY THAT HE DIED.
• 14:45 I'M STANDING IN A CEMETERY RIGHT NOW,
• 14:48 OF COURSE A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN LAID TO REST HERE.
• 14:51 FOR MY PURPOSES THE ONE THAT'S REMEMBERED THE MOST IS THE ONE I'M STANDING BESIDE RIGHT NOW
• 14:59 AND THAT IS OSCAR SCHINDLER.
• 15:03 HE LIVED IN A WORLD WHERE THERE WAS A HAMAN AND HE DID HIS PART TO TAKE A STAND IN THAT WORLD.
• 15:10 AND NOW TO REMEMBER HIM LONG AFTER HIS DEATH...
• 15:14 HE DIED IN 1974...
• 15:16 LONG AFTER INDIVIDUALS COME AND REMEMBER HIM BY LAYING A STONE AT HIS GRAVE SITE.
• 15:24 HERE IN THE BIBLICAL TEXT WE'RE LOOKING AT THE STORY IN ESTHER CHAPTER 5
• 15:28 WHERE HAMAN'S UTTER DISTAIN FOR THE JEWS IS NOTED.
• 15:32 WE'RE TOLD IN CHAPTER 5, VERSE 9,
• 15:45 BUT THEN HE HAPPENED UPON MORDECAI AND JUST THE SIGHT OF HIM COMPLETELY TURNED HIS MOOD.
• 15:52 WE'RE TOLD,
• 16:03 AND OF COURSE THAT WRATH WOULD FIND EXPRESSION IN SCHEMES FOR HIS UTTER DEMISE.
• 16:11 AS HAPPY AS HE WAS IN DIFFERENT WAYS THERE WAS NO WAY TO ASSUAGE HIS AGGRAVATION.
• 16:16 IN HIS OWN WORD IN THE 13TH VERSE HE SAYS,
• 16:19 IN THE HEBREW FIRST,
• 16:34 AGAIN, THERE WAS NO WAY...
• 16:36 THIS HAMAN WAS IN THE GRIP
• 16:39 AND THERE WAS NO WAY THAT HE WAS GOING TO BE TRANSFORMED AND THAT HE WAS GOING TO BE CHANGED
• 16:45 AND HE TOOK HIS HATRED OF JEWS TO THE GRAVE.
• 16:48 OSCAR SCHINDLER TOOK HIS STANDING WITH THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO THE GRAVE...
• 16:55 JUST AN ORDINARY GUY IN GERMANY THAT DECIDED TO STAND UP.
• 16:58 AND HERE HE IS BURIED IN JERUSALEM NOT FAR FROM THE CITY OF DAVID.
• 17:05 OUTSIDE OF THE WALLS HE'S REMEMBERED
• 17:08 AND JEWISH PEOPLE COME HERE,
• 17:10 CHRISTIAN PEOPLE COME HERE,
• 17:12 OF COURSE HIS STORY WAS MADE FAMOUS BY STEPHEN SPIELBERG.
• 17:17 BUT I THINK EVEN WITHOUT US KNOWING HIM THROUGH SPIELBERG'S MOVIE,
• 17:21 I THINK THAT THE LORD WOULD KNOW, WHO JUDGES MEN AND WHO ASSESSES LIES,
• 17:26 THAT HE WOULD KNOW THAT TRULY THIS WAS A GOOD MAN...
• 17:30 A MAN THAT'S BURIED HERE...
• 17:32 OSCAR SCHINDLER.
• 17:54 ♪THERE IS A WRESTLING♪
• 17:56 ♪FEEL IT INSIDE ME♪
• 17:58 ♪TRYING TO MOVE ON WITHOUT ANY FEAR♪
• 18:03 ♪I WANNA BE STRONG,♪
• 18:05 ♪BELIEVE WHAT I CAN'T SEE♪
• 18:07 ♪BUT COURAGE IS SOMETHING THAT HAS NEVER REALLY BEEN THERE.♪
• 18:15 ♪OO...OO...OOOH♪
• 18:20 ♪I'LL CARRY ON♪
• 18:22 ♪I WANT TO BE SOMEONE♪
• 18:24 ♪WHO ISN'T HELD BACK BY THE THINGS THAT I'M AFRAID OF♪
• 18:29 ♪SOMETIMES MY SOUL GETS LOST IN THE TWILIGHT♪
• 18:33 ♪I FIND MYSELF ASKING ALL THESE QUESTIONS, I DON'T KNOW WHY♪
• 18:40 ♪FATHER OF LIGHTS,♪
• 18:42 ♪SHOW ME YOUR FACE♪
• 18:44 ♪LIGHT UP THE DARKNESS HERE IN THIS PLACE♪
• 18:48 ♪SPIRIT OF GOD♪ CAST OUT ALL FEAR♪
• 18:52 ♪ANYTHING NOT OF YOU TAKE IT FROM HERE♪
• 18:57 ♪CAUSE MY SHADOWS TO FADE♪
• 19:00 ♪FOR YOU ARE THE FATHER OF LIGHTS♪
• 19:04 ♪...FOR YOU ARE THE FATHER OF LIGHTS♪
• 19:10 ♪SO HERE I AM♪
• 19:12 ♪I HESITATE♪
• 19:14 ♪ALL THE WHILE KNOWING I'M RIGHT WHERE YOU WANT ME♪
• 19:18 ♪THERE'S SOMETHING INSIDE AND I FEEL IT RISING♪
• 19:23 ♪LORD GIVE ME STRENGTH JUST TO FALL ON MY KNEES♪
• 19:27 ♪FINALLY HERE,♪
• 19:29 ♪NOW I CAN SEE♪
• 19:32 ♪THAT I DON'T NEED EVERYTHING LAID OUT BEFORE ME♪
• 19:36 ♪MAYBE IT'S FAITH,♪
• 19:38 ♪DOUBTLESS BELIEVING♪
• 19:40 ♪MAYBE IT'S YOUR WORDS I'M ANTICIPATING♪
• 19:47 ♪FATHER OF LIGHTS♪
• 19:49 ♪SHOW ME YOUR FACE♪
• 19:51 ♪LIGHT UP THE DARKNESS HERE IN THIS PLACE♪
• 19:55 ♪SPIRIT OF GOD CAST OUT ALL FEAR♪
• 20:00 ♪ANYTHING NOT OF YOU TAKE IT FROM HERE♪
• 20:04 ♪CAUSE MY SHADOWS TO FADE♪
• 20:07 ♪FOR YOU ARE THE FATHER OF LIGHTS♪
• 20:11 ♪YEAH YOU ARE THE FATHER OF LIGHTS♪
• 20:16 ♪ABBA FATHER PIERCE THIS DARKNESS♪
• 20:20 ♪SHINE DOWN YOUR LIGHT ON ME♪
• 20:25 ♪LORD YOU'RE ALL I NEED TO KNOW♪
• 20:32 ♪FATHER OF LIGHTS♪
• 20:37 ♪SHOW ME YOUR FACE♪
• 20:41 ♪SPIRIT OF GOD HERE IN THIS PLACE♪
• 20:49 ♪FATHER OF LIGHTS, SHOW ME YOUR FACE♪
• 20:54 ♪LIGHT UP THE DARKNESS HERE IN THIS PLACE♪
• 20:58 ♪SPIRIT OF GOD CAST OUT ALL FEAR♪
• 21:03 ♪ANYTHING NOT OF YOU TAKE IT FROM HERE♪
• 21:07 ♪CAUSE MY SHADOWS TO FADE♪
• 21:10 ♪FOR YOU ARE THE FATHER OF LIGHTS♪
• 21:14 ♪YEAH YOU ARE THE FATHER OF LIGHTS♪
• 21:24 ♪YOU ARE...♪
• 21:27 ♪YOU ARE THE FATHER...♪
• 21:33 SHARON SINGS SO WELL
• 21:35 AND SHE'S GOING TO BE WITH US NEXT WEEK ACTUALLY.
• 21:38 BUT THIS WEEK AGAIN DR. BARRI MALLIN
• 21:41 WE JUST SO MUCH LOVE YOU IN THE LORD AND GLAD YOU'RE HERE.
• 21:44 IT'S BEEN A BLESSING.
• 21:45 YOU KNOW WHEN I TAUGHT IN THE LAST SEGMENT
• 21:47 I WAS THERE AT OSCAR SCHINDLER'S GRAVE...
• 21:50 THAT WAS MOVING.
• 21:52 HAVE YOU EVER HAD ANY EXPERIENCES WHEN YOU WERE IN ISRAEL
• 21:54 BEING AROUND THE MEMORY OF OSCAR SCHINDLER?
• 21:57 DEFINITELY
• 21:58 AT YAD VASHEM MUSEUM,
• 22:00 THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM IN JERUSALEM
• 22:02 AND COMING UPON THE TREE ALONG THE COURT OF THE RIGHTEOUS GENTILES
• 22:06 THERE ALONG WITH CORRIE TEN BOOM
• 22:08 THAT PRESERVES THE MEMORY OF THOSE GENTILES,
• 22:12 THOSE RIGHTEOUS GENTILES WHO PUT THEIR LIVES ON THEIR OWN LINE.
• 22:17 I ALWAYS FOUND IT MOVING THAT THERE IN THE SITE
• 22:20 WHERE JEWS REMEMBER THE HOLOCAUST
• 22:22 AND GOING INTO IT WE REMEMBER OUR CHRISTIAN FRIENDS
• 22:24 WHO HAD HELPED US IN A DARK TIME IN HISTORY.
• 22:28 ISN'T THAT MOVING?
• 22:29 YES AND IT'S ALWAYS A BLESSING TO KNOW
• 22:31 THAT THERE IS STILL PEOPLE LIKE THAT EVEN TODAY.
• 22:33 SOMETIMES THEY FEEL FAR AND FEW BETWEEN.
• 22:35 IT'S SCAREY OUT HERE AT ONE LEVEL.
• 22:37 I KNOW FOR OUR MINISTRY TO STAND UP FOR JESUS
• 22:40 WITH JEWISH SETS OF EYES AND EARS, FOR ISRAEL...
• 22:43 BOY THERE'S ALL KINDS OF STUFF THAT COMES AGAINST US,
• 22:45 MY MINISTRY AND YOURS YES?
• 22:46 YES AND YET WHY DID MESSIAH SAY
• 22:48 "BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO ARE PERSECUTED"
• 22:50 "FOR THEIRS IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN"
• 22:52 YES HE ALSO SAID THERE'S A BLESSING
• 22:54 FOR THOSE THAT GIVE A DISCIPLE A CUP OF COLD WATER.
• 22:56 AND OSCAR SCHINDLER WAS SUCH A SORT WHERE HE WANTED TO BE A BLESSING
• 23:00 AND WANT TO HELP THOSE THAT WERE REALLY GETTING GROUND INTO POWDER.
• 23:04 AMEN...AMEN
• 23:05 THEN CORRIE TEN BOOM...
• 23:07 OTHER RIGHTEOUS GENTILES.
• 23:09 YES, SO MANY THEN AS NOW.
• 23:11 ZOLA LEVITT SPOKE OF INDIVIDUALS LIKE OSCAR SCHINDLER
• 23:16 WHO REMINDED US OF THEIR LOVE FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 23:21 AND THEIR WILLING TO TAKE A RISK IN ORDER TO BE HELPFUL TO THEM.
• 23:25 OH I WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO FOLLOW THAT EXAMPLE
• 23:27 BUT NEVER MIND ME...
• 23:28 RIGHT NOW LETS GO TO THE LATE ZOLA LEVITT
• 23:31 AND HEAR HOW HE WEIGHS IN ON OSCAR SCHINDLER AND CHRISTIANS WHO SUPPORT JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 23:38 AS THE MOVIE SAID,
• 23:40 A QUOTE FROM THE TALMUD,
• 23:42 "HE WHO SAVES ONE LIFE"
• 23:44 "SAVES THE WORLD ENTIRE".
• 23:47 OSCAR SCHINDLER LOVED THE QUOTE...I DO TOO.
• 23:49 AND YOU SHOULD DO IT...
• 23:51 BLESS ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE...WHY NOT?
• 23:53 GOD SAID IN GENESIS CHAPTER 12, VERSE 3,
• 23:56 "I'LL BLESS THOSE WHO BLESS YOU" TO ABRAHAM "AND TO YOUR SEED".
• 23:59 IN ROMANS CHAPTER 11, THE PASSAGE OFTEN TAUGHT,
• 24:03 OFTEN MIS-TAUGHT TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH...
• 24:05 THERE'S ALOT OF REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY THAT TRIES TO COME AROUND ROMANS CHAPTER 11...
• 24:09 I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY HOPE TO DO IT...
• 24:12 RESIST THOSE KIND OF SYSTEMS
• 24:14 BUT UNDERSTAND THIS...
• 24:16 PAUL SAYS, ROMANS CHAPTER 11, VERSE 13,
• 24:28 HE SAYS, "IT'S THE HIGHEST CALLING OF MY OFFICE"
• 24:31 "THAT I TEACH YOU GENTILES TO LOVE THE JEWISH PEOPLE UNTIL THEY'RE SAVED".
• 24:35 HE SAYS,
• 24:42 HE CONTRASTS THE HOLINESS IN THE JEWISH...
• 24:49 THE GENTILES...THE CHURCH IS HOLY.
• 24:50 IF THE ROOT CAN BE HOLY SO ARE THE BRANCHES.
• 24:55 PAUL REMINDS THAT GOD'S IN THE BUSINESS OF RECONCILING THE WORLD TO HIMSELF
• 24:59 HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH JESUS...
• 25:01 HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH JEWS...
• 25:03 HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH "YOU'S".
• 25:05 ALL OF US ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SALVATION DRAMA AREN'T WE?
• 25:08 AMEN
• 25:10 AND WE READ THE STORY IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER...
• 25:11 THERE'S PEOPLE BACK THEN...
• 25:13 BUT IT'S NOT JUST THEN...ITS NOW.
• 25:14 YES...YES, ESPECIALLY
• 25:16 AS WE LOOK AT
• 25:17 PERILOUS TIMES AROUND US.
• 25:19 GOD USES PEOPLE
• 25:20 TO STEP FORTH...
• 25:22 SHARE AND REALLY SPEAK ON HIS BEHALF
• 25:25 ESPECIALLY ON SALVATION.
• 25:27 WELL AS MESSIANIC MINISTER,
• 25:29 DR. BARRI MALLIN SPEAKS ON GOD'S BEHALF.
• 25:32 AS YOU LOOK BACK ON THE ESTHER STORY
• 25:34 WHAT'S REALLY...
• 25:35 WHAT'S SALIENT FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE...
• 25:38 WHAT REALLY RESONATES WITH YOU?
• 25:39 THAT SHE WAS THE QUINTESSENTIAL JEW.
• 25:41 SHE WAS THE MODEL JEW...
• 25:42 SHE CAME FROM HUMBLE BEGINNINGS
• 25:44 AND SAW HOW GOD TOOK HER AND ELEVATED HER TO A PLACE OF POSITION
• 25:49 EVEN IN THE FACE OF POSSIBLE DEATH...
• 25:51 NOT ANY EASY THING TO DO BACK THEN OR EVEN TODAY.
• 25:54 YES, SHE HAD TO ROLL THE DICE
• 25:57 AGAINST AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE ON OCCASION DIDN'T SHE?
• 25:59 YES AND IT WASN'T JUST AN ORDINARY DICE GAME EITHER,
• 26:01 IT WAS ONE OF PERILOUS.
• 26:02 YES, IT WAS SERIOUS.
• 26:04 GOD PROMPTS US IT SEEMS TO ME...
• 26:05 FAITH GETS US TO GO WHERE WE WOULDN'T NECESSARILY GO
• 26:08 WITH OUR NATURAL EYES SOMETIMES.
• 26:09 AMEN
• 26:11 FAITH PROMPTS US TO DO THINGS WITH OUR MONEY...
• 26:12 WITH OUR ENERGY
• 26:14 THAT MIGHT BE CONSTRUED AS RECKLESS
• 26:15 BUT IT'S THE WAY THAT GOD JUST USES US
• 26:17 AND POSITIONS US FOR HIS GOOD PURPOSES.
• 26:19 AMEN
• 26:20 WELL I'M SO GLAD THAT THAT POSITIONING FOR HIS GOOD PURPOSES
• 26:23 ENTAILED YOU BEING WITH US AGAIN.
• 26:24 WE'LL NEED TO DO THIS AGAIN SOMETIME.
• 26:26 AS GOD LEADS AND BE ALL THE GLORY.
• 26:28 YES AND IT IS SUCH A PLEASURE WORKING WITH YOU DR. BARRIE.
• 26:32 THANK YOU
• 26:33 AND LET ME SPEAK OF WORKING WITH YOU
• 26:35 AND REMIND THAT GOD DOES HAVE A WAY OF REWARDING THE RIGHTEOUS.
• 26:38 IN FACT THIS WE'LL BE SEEING NEXT WEEK
• 26:41 WHEN WE LOOK AT MORDECAI INASMUCH AS GOD RAISED ESTHER OUT OF OBSCURITY...
• 26:46 GOD RAISED HIM TOO.
• 26:48 OH THERE'S A GREAT STORY HOW GOD BRINGS BLESSINGS TO HIS PEOPLE AND WILL LOOK AT THAT.
• 26:53 AND AS YOU GO NOW,
• 26:54 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:56 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM