Caption transcript for Psalms of Ascent: “Psalms 128 & 129” (5/8)

• 00:09 ♪PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM♪
• 00:14 ♪JERUSALEM♪
• 00:17 ♪MAY THEY PROSPER WHO LOVE YOU♪
• 00:21 ♪JERUSALEM♪
• 00:24 ♪IT'S FOR THEM MY BRETHREN AND COMPANION'S SAKE♪
• 00:30 ♪I WILL PRAY FOR YOU♪
• 00:34 ♪JERUSALEM♪
• 00:47 SHALOM AND WELCOME TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 00:50 I'M SANDRA.
• 00:51 WELL WE'RE MIDWAY IN THE SERIES OF OUR PSALMS OF ASCENT...
• 00:54 PSALMS 120 THROUGH 134.
• 00:57 WE'VE SEEN THE WONDERFUL PROMISES OF JOY, OF VICTORY AND RESTORATION IN GOD.
• 01:02 MY GOOD FRIEND DR. JEFFREY SEIF WILL BE DOING THE TEACHING
• 01:06 ON PSALMS 128 AND 129 IN THIS PROGRAM.
• 01:09 AND MARTY GOETZ WILL JOIN US LATER ALSO.
• 01:11 LET'S GO NOW TO ISRAEL
• 01:14 AND THE PSALMS OF ASCENT.
• 01:20 "BLESSED IS EVERYONE THAT FEARETH THE LORD"
• 01:22 "THAT WALKETH IN HIS WAYS"
• 01:25 "FOR THOU SHALT EAT THE LABOR OF THINE HANDS"
• 01:28 "HAPPY SHALT THOU BE"
• 01:30 "AND IT SHALL BE WELL WITH THEE."
• 01:32 "THY WIFE SHALL BE AS A FRUITFUL VINE BY THE SIDES OF THINE HOUSE"
• 01:36 "THY CHILDREN LIKE OLIVE PLANTS ROUND ABOUT THY TABLE."
• 01:41 "BEHOLD, THUS SHALL THE MAN BE BLESSED THAT FEARETH THE LORD"
• 01:46 "YEA, THOU SHALT SEE THY CHILDREN'S CHILDREN AT PEACE UPON ISRAEL."
• 01:57 "FOCUS ON THE FAMILY" IS A VERY FAMOUS MINISTRY IN NORTH AMERICA
• 02:02 AND I'D IMAGINE THE WORLD OVER.
• 02:04 ONE COULD WONDER WHY THERE'D BE
• 02:05 A "FOCUS ON THE FAMILY" PSALM
• 02:07 IN WHAT'S CALLED THE "PSALM OF ASCENTS",
• 02:09 A PSALM RECITED BY ISRAELITES
• 02:11 AS THEY'RE MAKING THEIR WAY TO AND THROUGH JERUSALEM ON THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME.
• 02:16 ONE WOULD EXPECT AT ONE LEVEL THE PSALM OF ASCENTS TO BE RIFE WITH NATIONALIST FERVOR
• 02:24 AND FEELING AND PRAYERS FOR THE CAPITAL.
• 02:28 IT'S INTERESTING PSALM 128 AS A PSALM OF ASCENT AS IT SPEAKS OF BLESSINGS FROM JERUSALEM
• 02:35 STILL LOOKS AT THE FAMILY.
• 02:37 AND THE REASON WHY THIS IS CORRELATED IN MY MIND'S EYE
• 02:40 IS BECAUSE IN ORDER FOR FAMILIES TO BE SECURE AND STRONG IN A CULTURE, IN A COUNTRY,
• 02:46 THERE HAS TO BE A STRONG CAPITAL.
• 02:48 IF THIS GETS OVERRUN,
• 02:49 IF JERUSALEM IS OVERRUN,
• 02:51 THEN SO MUCH FOR FAMILY LIFE.
• 02:53 THINGS ARE THROWN INTO DISARRAY AND DECAY TO PUT IT MILDLY.
• 02:57 TRUTH BE KNOWN, IF THE BARBARIANS GET THE BETTER IN ANCIENT ISRAEL,
• 03:01 PEOPLE ARE TAKEN, THEY'RE SLAUGHTERED, THEY'RE SOLD OFF IN A SLAVE MARKET...
• 03:05 SO MUCH FOR HAPPY FAMILIES.
• 03:07 BUT HERE WHEN THEY MADE THEIR WAY TO JERUSALEM
• 03:10 THEY'RE SEEKING GOD THERE AND THEY ENCOUNTER THE LORD
• 03:13 AND THEY SING THESE SONGS AND THERE ARE THINGS THAT HIT THEM WHEN THEY DO.
• 03:17 LET ME WALK THROUGH SOME OF THIS WITH YOU PLEASE.
• 03:20 IN PSALM 128, VERSE 1
• 03:30 AND ISN'T THAT HOW THE BOOK OF PSALMS OPENS UP IN THE FIRST PLACE?
• 03:35 WHERE HE SAYS (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 03:38 "BLESSED IS THE MAN"
• 03:39 OR "HAPPY IS THE MAN".
• 03:42 DIDN'T THE LORD HIMSELF SAY, "BLESSED ARE THE POOR... BLESSED ARE THIS",
• 03:46 IT'S THE GREEK MAKARIOS, BUT REALLY IT COMES BY WAY OF THE HEBREW, "ASHREY", "HAPPINESS".
• 03:52 THERE'S A KIND OF PERSONAL HAPPINESS
• 03:55 AND THIS HAPPINESS MANIFESTS IN A LIFE THAT DEVELOPS IN HOME.
• 04:02 THUS THIS HAPPINESS IS AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE.
• 04:06 AND TALKING ABOUT THE HAPPINESS FROM A GOOD FAMILY,
• 04:10 LOVELY CHILDREN, ENDURING GENERATIONS...
• 04:13 THIS IS SOMETHING THAT EVERYBODY CAN RELATE TO.
• 04:17 IN VERSE 2 WE'RE TOLD THAT SOMEONE WHO'S BLESSED IN THE LORD, WHO FEARS THE LORD,
• 04:23 WILL ENJOY THE FRUITS OF THE LABOR OF THEIR HAND.
• 04:26 HE SAYS,
• 04:34 AND AGAIN AS I'D SAID EARLIER,
• 04:35 AT THE END OF THE DAY ISN'T THAT WHAT PEOPLE WANT?
• 04:38 HE SAYS IN VERSE 3
• 04:39 "THAT YOUR WIFE WILL BE A FRUITFUL VINE.
• 04:42 AND THUS THE DRAMATIC VIGNETTE THAT YOU SAW WITH THE CHILDREN ROUND ABOUT.
• 04:46 PERSONALLY, I AM RIGHT ON THE HEELS OF A MARRIAGE IN MY OWN FAMILY,
• 04:50 MY ELDEST SON'S GETTING MARRIED AND OH MY WHOLE WORLD IS SO RICH WITH HOPES FOR THE FUTURE
• 04:56 AND SO HAPPY IN WANTING TO SEE NEW GENERATIONS EMERGE.
• 05:00 I KNOW THAT THESE IMPULSES RESONATE WITHIN THE PSALMIST.
• 05:04 HE SAYS HERE IN VERSE 4,
• 05:06 "SURELY THUS SHALL THE MAN BE BLESSED".
• 05:10 DID YOU KNOW THAT GOD IN FACT HAS A BLESSING FOR YOU?
• 05:13 IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THE PSALMIST WANTS PEOPLE TO BE REMINDED OF THAT.
• 05:17 AND THEN TO LOOK AT VERSE 5,
• 05:19 AND I WANT TO CAMP THERE FOR A MOMENT,
• 05:20 LET ME GIVE IT TO YOU FIRST IN MY VERSION
• 05:22 AND THEN WE'LL THROW IN THE LANGUAGE YOU CAN UNDERSTAND.
• 05:24 HE SAYS,
• 05:45 IT'S NOT JUST PRAYERS FOR PERSONAL WELL BEING,
• 05:48 BUT AS I'D SAID EARLIER IN SO MANY WAYS, UNDERSTANDABLE WAYS,
• 05:53 PERSONAL HAPPINESS,
• 05:54 FAMILIAL WELL-BEING
• 05:56 IS INEXTRICABLY RELATED TO THE OVERALL SUCCESS OF THE COMMONWEALTH
• 06:02 OF WHICH THE CONDITION OF THE CAPITAL IS SO TELLING.
• 06:06 THAT IS, IF THE CAPITAL IS STRONG, IF JERUSALEM IS STRONG
• 06:10 IT'S LIKE THE DEWS AT MOUNT HERMON THAT DESCEND THEN
• 06:13 AND WATER EVERYTHING DOWN THE MOUNTAIN AT THE BASE AND POINTS NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST.
• 06:21 THERE NEEDS TO BE A STRONG CAPITAL.
• 06:24 THIS CAN TRANSLATE IN OUR OWN CULTURE WHERE WE WANT TO HAVE A GOVERNMENT IN WASHINGTON D.C.
• 06:31 THAT SEEMS TO REFLECT THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VALUES
• 06:34 THAT MANY OF THOSE THAT WATCH THIS PROGRAM WOULD SUBSCRIBE TO.
• 06:37 THERE'S A SENSE IN WHICH IF IT'S GOD'S MAN,
• 06:41 IF THERE'S GOD'S VALUES AND VIRTUES,
• 06:44 THEN THERE'S THE CHANCE THAT THIS CAN DISSEMINATE ROUND ABOUT IN OUR CULTURE.
• 06:48 CONVERSELY, A SENSE THAT THINGS ARE GOING AWRY IN THE CAPITAL
• 06:53 HAS AFFECTS AS IT TRICKLES DOWN OUT OF WASHINGTON D.C. IN OUR WORLD...
• 06:58 AFFECTS SOCIALLY THE KIND OF MORAL VISION THAT'S CAST.
• 07:02 THERE'S ECONOMIC CONCOMITANCE TO THAT AS WELL AS THERE'S CONCERNS.
• 07:06 GOODNESS, IF WE'RE VEERING AWAY FROM GOD IN THE CAPITAL...
• 07:10 THEN GOODNESS, THIS CAN BE FELT STREET LEVEL.
• 07:13 AND SO HERE WHEN THEY MAKE THEIR WAY TO AND THROUGH JERUSALEM FOR THESE SPECIAL PILGRIMAGES
• 07:20 THAT PILGRIM'S GIVE VOICE TO
• 07:29 "AND MAY YOU SEE THE GOOD OF JERUSALEM ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE."
• 07:34 FRIENDS, AS YOU KNOW, WE CLOSE THESE PROGRAMS PRAYING FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.
• 07:40 CERTAINLY WE WANT GOD'S KINGDOM TO COME AND HIS WILL BE DONE ON EARTH HERE AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.
• 07:49 OH WE WANT TO SEE GOD'S WILL DONE IN ISRAEL
• 07:51 AND THERE'S SOME WORK THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE IN A WORLD THAT SEEMS TO BE CASCADING OUT OF CONTROL.
• 07:56 BUT I BELIEVE THAT GOD IN FACT IS GOING TO HAVE THIS WORD OF THE LORD FROM JERUSALEM.
• 08:01 WE'RE GOING TO SEE, EVENTUALLY, STABILITY IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD.
• 08:05 TILL SUCH TIME AS THAT THOUGH
• 08:06 IT'S GOOD TO KNOW THAT WE CAN SEE STABILITY
• 08:08 AS GOD REACHES INTO OUR FAMILIES AND STRENGTHENS AND NURTURES.
• 08:12 HE CAN DO IT FOR ME.
• 08:14 HE'D DO IT FOR YOU.
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• 09:00 PLEASE CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION.
• 09:05 I LOVE HEARING ABOUT JEFF'S SON GETTING MARRIED.
• 09:07 IT MAKES ME REALLY HAPPY BECAUSE MY SON TOO IS GETTING MARRIED.
• 09:11 ALL WITHIN ABOUT A WEEK OF EACH OTHER...
• 09:13 IT'S SUCH A JOYOUS OCCASION.
• 09:15 "FOCUS ON THE FAMILY" FOR ME WAS ALSO A WONDERFUL, GODLY RESOURCE WHEN MY SON WAS GROWING UP.
• 09:20 I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT.
• 09:22 FOR FAMILIES, THEY NEED GODLY RESOURCES.
• 09:26 BACK TO ISRAEL AND PSALM 129
• 09:33 BULLYING HAS BEEN AROUND FOREVER.
• 09:36 REPAIRING A FISHING NET IS HARD ENOUGH WITHOUT HECKLERS PESTERING YOU...MOCKING YOU.
• 09:43 THIS IS A PICTURE OF ISRAEL, BULLIED AND RIDICULED BY NATIONS THAT SEEK THEIR DEMISE.
• 09:50 "MANY A TIME HAVE THEY AFFLICTED ME FROM MY YOUTH", SAYS THE PSALMIST,
• 09:55 "YET THEY HAVE NOT PREVAILED AGAINST ME."
• 09:58 "THE LORD IS RIGHTEOUS..."
• 10:01 "HE HATH CUT ASUNDER THE CHORDS OF THE WICKED."
• 10:04 "LET THEM ALL BE CONFOUNDED AND TURNED BACK THAT HATE ZION."
• 10:13 BULLIES HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR A LONG, LONG TIME.
• 10:18 MANY A BOY AND GIRL HAVE BEEN VEXED BY BULLIES
• 10:23 AND FELT THE NEED TO STAND UP AND SAY, "ENOUGH ALREADY!"
• 10:28 MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE CASE WITH YOU OR SOMEONE WITHIN YOUR FAMILY.
• 10:32 CERTAINLY WITHIN THE JEWISH FAMILY WE HAVE FELT THE NEED TO STAND UP AND SAY,
• 10:37 "ENOUGH ALREADY!"
• 10:40 ANYONE WHO HAS READ THE BIBLE...
• 10:43 AND FOR ME THE BIBLE AMONG OTHER THINGS IS THE JEWISH FAMILY DIARY.
• 10:49 IT TELLS LOTS OF STORIES OF PEOPLE PREVAILING,
• 10:53 ASSAILING RATHER, AGAINST THE JEWS AND THE JEWS STANDING UP.
• 10:59 SPEAKING OF STANDING UP
• 11:02 I AM STANDING UP IN A PLACE RIGHT NOW THAT'S REMEMBERED IN ISRAEL
• 11:07 AS A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE TAKE A STAND AND MAKE A STAND.
• 11:12 IT'S LATRUN.
• 11:14 IT'S A MUSEUM THAT COMMEMORATES
• 11:16 THE ARMORED DIVISIONS
• 11:18 IN THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES.
• 11:22 AND HERE THERE'S A STORY THAT SEEMS TO TELL IT ALL DOESN'T IT?
• 11:27 BRAVE MEN OUT FROM THE ARMOR, JUMPING DOWN, READY TO ENGAGE...
• 11:34 WHETHER ITS ENGAGING INDIVIDUALS FROM WITHIN THE TANK OR STEPPING OUT AND ENGAGING OUTSIDE...
• 11:40 THE POINT IS... IS SOMETIMES WE NEED TO ENGAGE.
• 11:44 IT'S A SCARY BUSINESS...
• 11:46 IT'S AN UNPLEASANT BUSINESS.
• 11:48 MY SON ZACHARY ONCE QUOTED SHAKESPEARE
• 11:50 WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE NEED FOR MEN TO STAND UP.
• 11:53 AND HE LOOKED AT ME AND I WAS NEVER PROUDER THAN WHEN ZAK SAID,
• 11:56 "DAD YOU KNOW SHAKESPEARE SAID, 'A COWARD DIES A THOUSAND DEATHS BUT THE VALIANT DIE ONLY ONCE'."
• 12:06 IT WAS SHAKESPEARE'S WAY OF COURSE OF GIVING VOICE
• 12:09 TO THE NEED FOR COURAGE AND PERSISTENCE.
• 12:13 I DON'T GET ON TELEVISION TO TALK ABOUT SHAKESPEARE;
• 12:15 I HAVE ANOTHER AUTHOR TO REFER TO IN PSALM CHAPTER 129.
• 12:21 THAT'S A LITTLE CLOSER TO HOME TO WHAT I'M ALL ABOUT.
• 12:24 IN PSALM CHAPTER 129
• 12:26 THE PSALMIST TALKS ABOUT HOW THE ENEMIES KEEP COMING AND COMING AND COMING
• 12:32 AND ITS LIKE IT DOESN'T STOP,
• 12:34 IT'S PERENNIAL.
• 12:35 BUT THERE'S A STATEMENT HERE IN PSALM 129, VERSE 2.
• 12:39 I WANT TO GIVE IT TO YOU IN HEBREW AND THEN IN ENGLISH.
• 12:41 IN HEBREW,
• 12:50 BEFORE THAT "MANY TIMES FROM MY YOUTH THEY'VE COME... AND THIS AND THAT..."
• 12:54 "BUT THEY HAVE NOT PREVAILED AGAINST ME."
• 13:00 LET'S DO A WHIRLWIND TOUR OF THE BIBLE...
• 13:04 NOT TO COVER EVERY SUBJECT IN FOUR MINUTES
• 13:07 BUT YOU KNOW THE STORY.
• 13:10 THERE WAS A TIME WHEN THE ISRAELITES WERE BESTED BY THE EGYPTIANS...
• 13:14 VERY, VERY UNFAIR IN THE CLUTCHES OF "PARO MELECH MITZRAYIM",
• 13:19 PHARAOH THE KING OF EGYPT.
• 13:21 AND YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED?
• 13:23 A GREAT MIRACLE...
• 13:24 GOD SENT "MOSHE RABANU", MOSES AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE DELIVERED FROM EGYPT.
• 13:30 ESTHER OF COURSE IS A STORY IN THE HEBREW BIBLE
• 13:33 ABOUT A WOMAN WHO WAS WELL PLACED "FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS"
• 13:37 AND WHAT WAS THE TIME?
• 13:39 WELL, THERE IN THE PERSIAN REALM THERE WAS A FELLOW "HAMAN"
• 13:42 WHO WAS HELL BENT ON DESTROYING THE JEWS.
• 13:45 IN FACT, IT COULD HAVE HAPPENED.
• 13:47 SHE INTERCEDED AND THE JEWS WERE AFFORDED THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A SPIRITED DEFENSE.
• 13:53 AND JEWS DID AND THE NET RESULT IS THAT GOD GAVE US FAVOR.
• 13:57 OH IT'S A JOY TO CELEBRATE PURIM IN A JEWISH HOME,
• 14:02 IN A JEWISH SYNAGOGUE, HERE IN THE JEWISH HOMELAND....
• 14:05 TO SEE ALL THE JOY THAT GOES ALONG WITH THE HOLIDAY.
• 14:08 IT'S SOMETHING TO BEHOLD.
• 14:10 PURIM IS ONE EXAMPLE,
• 14:12 PASSOVER, THE EGYPTIAN DEBACLE, IS ANOTHER.
• 14:14 GOD DELIVERED US FROM THAT.
• 14:16 THE STORY OF HANUKKAH IS CELEBRATED IN THE JEWISH WORLD
• 14:20 WHEN THE SYRIANS WERE BENT ON DESTROYING THE JEWISH PEOPLE,
• 14:24 "NES GADOL HAYAH SHAM",
• 14:26 A GREAT MIRACLE HAPPENED THERE,
• 14:29 THAT THE STORY IS PLAYED OUT IN THE INTERTESTAMENTAL PERIOD
• 14:32 BETWEEN THE OLD AND THE NEW TESTAMENTS THAT IS,
• 14:36 AND IT TELLS OF A TIME WHEN ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES
• 14:38 RAN OVER THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ENDEAVORED TO DESTROY US.
• 14:42 BUT YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED?
• 14:43 PEOPLE STOOD UP AND MADE A SPIRITED DEFENSE
• 14:49 IT SEEMS THAT IN EVERY GENERATION
• 14:51 OR IN MANY GENERATIONS
• 14:52 GOD CALLS PEOPLE TO STAND UP.
• 14:54 AND THAT IS WHY I LOVE THE EXPRESSION IN THE HEBREW BIBLE,
• 15:05 STANDING UP, CONTENDING...
• 15:07 I THINK SOMETIMES WE JUST ARE A LITTLE TOO COMFORTABLE AND WE PREFER LIFE THAT'S EASY.
• 15:15 YOU CAN FIND A CHURCH WHERE THE REVEREND SAYS
• 15:17 "JUST SIT YOUR TUCHAS HERE IN THE PEW AND EVERYTHING'S GOING TO BE GOOD FOR YOU."
• 15:22 ITS OVERLY SIMPLISTIC.
• 15:24 OR A REVEREND CAN SAY
• 15:25 "JUST READ THIS BOOK AND SAY THIS PRAYER THIS WAY"
• 15:28 "AND THEN THE TRIALS ARE GOING TO EVAPORATE."
• 15:30 IT DOESN'T ALWAYS GO AWAY QUICK,
• 15:33 IT DOESN'T ALWAYS GO AWAY EASY.
• 15:35 COMING FROM LATRUN I WANT TO TELL YOU, HOWEVER,
• 15:38 THAT IF YOU'VE GOT GOD ON YOUR SIDE YOU ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO SAY LIKE THE PSALMIST SAID,
• 15:44 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 15:47 "THEY HAVE NOT PREVAILED AGAINST ME."
• 16:01 ♪SHA' A' LU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM♪
• 16:05 ♪SHA' A' LU, SHA' A' LU SHALOM♪
• 16:09 ♪IN THE HOLY CITY OF JERUSALEM♪
• 16:16 ♪WE WILL PRAY FOR PEACE...♪
• 16:19 ♪SHA' A' LU SHALOM♪
• 16:29 JEFF IS SO RIGHT,
• 16:31 BULLIES ARE ALWAYS WITH US,
• 16:32 HAVE ALWAYS BEEN WITH US.
• 16:34 BUT I LOVE PSALM 129 TOO WHERE IT SAYS,
• 16:37 "MANY A TIME THEY HAVE AFFLICTED ME FROM MY YOUTH YET THEY HAVE NOT PREVAILED AGAINST ME."
• 16:44 IT REMINDS ME OF OUR BUS DRIVER IN ISRAEL.
• 16:46 IN FACT, WE CALL HIM KING DAVID IN KING DAVID'S BUS.
• 16:49 HE ONCE TOLD ME, HE SAID,
• 16:51 "SANDRA, AN UNBELIEVER DIES EVERY SINGLE DAY OF COWARDNESS, BUT A BELIEVER NEVER DIES."
• 16:58 TRACIE HE IS SO WONDERFUL.
• 17:01 I LOVE ALL OUR PEOPLE ON THE GROUND IN ISRAEL.
• 17:03 THEY ARE SO AMAZING SANDRA.
• 17:04 AND JUST AS YOU SAID TO ME EARLIER
• 17:07 THAT DAVID BECAME A CHRISTIAN
• 17:08 AS A PART OF OUR TOUR.
• 17:10 WHAT A HEARTWARMING STORY.
• 17:11 AND I THINK THAT WHAT IS SO NEAT
• 17:13 AND REALLY THE MARK OF OUR TOURS IS THAT
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• 17:17 PEOPLE THAT WATCH THIS TV SHOW.
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• 17:23 BUT WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW
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• 17:38 I'M IN THE OFFICE EVERY DAY
• 17:38 AND WANT TO TALK TO YOU.
• 17:40 OH IT'S WONDERFUL AND IT'S FAMILY.
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• 17:43 I WOULDN'T HAVE IT ANY OTHER WAY.
• 17:45 OUR OFFER THIS WEEK
• 17:46 IS THE LEVITT LETTER.
• 17:47 I'D LOVE FOR YOU ALL TO HAVE IT.
• 17:49 IT'S INFORMATIVE.
• 17:50 IT'S EVEN GOT INFORMATION
• 17:52 ABOUT OUR TOURS.
• 17:53 IT HAS INFORMATION ABOUT ISRAEL.
• 17:55 WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT MINISTERING AND CONGREGATIONS
• 17:59 AND EITAN SHISHKOFF IN ISRAEL TALKS ABOUT THE MESSIANIC CONGREGATIONS
• 18:03 AND HOW THEY HAVE REALLY GROWN IN ISRAEL.
• 18:07 HERE'S EITAN.
• 18:10 SHALOM, I'M EITAN SHISKOFF
• 18:12 AND I WANT TO WELCOME YOU
• 18:13 TO ISRAEL.
• 18:14 BEHIND ME IS QUITE AN HISTORIC PORTION OF ISRAEL,
• 18:17 IT'S THE TOWN OF ACRE (AKKO) THAT DATES BACK 5,000 YEARS.
• 18:20 CURRENTLY YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE OLD CITY PORTION.
• 18:24 ACRE'S A FASCINATING TOWN,
• 18:25 IT HAS BOTH ARAB-ISRAELIS AND JEWISH-ISRAELIS,
• 18:28 AND IN THE 1ST CENTURY IT WAS A STOPOVER POINT FOR THE APOSTLE PAUL.
• 18:32 IN ACTS CHAPTER 21 WE READ ABOUT THE TOWN,
• 18:35 THEN IT WAS CALLED "PTOLEMAIS" IN GREEK,
• 18:38 AND APPARENTLY THERE WAS A MESSIANIC JEWISH GROUP THERE,
• 18:41 AT LEAST HOUSE GROUP.
• 18:43 WELL TODAY WE'RE SEEING A REPEAT IN THE 21ST CENTURY
• 18:46 OF WHAT HAPPENED IN THE 1ST CENTURY
• 18:48 AND THAT IS THAT MESSIANIC JEWISH HEBREW SPEAKING CONGREGATIONS
• 18:51 ARE BEING PLANTED AROUND ISRAEL.
• 18:53 AND SOME FIVE YEARS AGO WE HAD THE PRIVILEGE
• 18:55 OF PLANTING AND SPONSORING A CONGREGATION HERE IN ACRE.
• 18:59 ITS LED BY A YOUNG MAN NAMED GUY COHEN
• 19:01 WHO IS A NATIVE ISRAELI WHO GREW UP IN THE TOWN OF ACRE
• 19:04 AND SO HIS TESTIMONY ALSO
• 19:06 AS A MAN WHO WAS A PART OF AN ORTHODOX JEWISH EDUCATION FOR SOME YEARS,
• 19:12 HAS A GREAT DEAL OF CREDIBILITY
• 19:14 AND I WANT TO SAY THAT PART OF WHAT GOD IS DOING IN ISRAEL TODAY
• 19:18 IS RAISING UP YOUNG LEADERS.
• 19:20 I FIND MYSELF, AS A MAN NOT BORN IN ISRAEL BUT CAME HERE 18 YEARS AGO AS AN IMMIGRANT,
• 19:26 IN A POSITION TO BE ABLE TO TRAIN AND MENTOR, FATHER AND COACH THESE YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN
• 19:31 AND IT'S THE MOST FULFILLING THING THAT I COULD POSSIBLY BE DOING.
• 19:36 WE'RE RELEASING THESE YOUNG LEADERS TO PLANT FRESH CONGREGATIONS
• 19:39 AND TO MOVE INTO THE SOCIETY IN AREAS OF EDUCATION, LAW, BUSINESS
• 19:44 AND WE SEE THAT THIS IS THE WAY THAT THE MESSIAH'S GOING TO BE WORKING IN THIS TIME IN ISRAEL.
• 19:51 THE CONCEPT OF PLANTING CONGREGATIONS AND OF SPREADING OUT
• 19:55 IS ONE THAT OF COURSE IS COMMON IN THE BOOK OF ACTS
• 19:58 WHERE THE FIRST MESSIANIC JEWISH MESSENGERS GATHERED TOGETHER.
• 20:02 FOR INSTANCE IN ACTS CHAPTER 13 THEY SOUGHT THE LORD,
• 20:06 THEY PRAYED AND THE HOLY SPIRIT SPOKE TO THEM AND SAID
• 20:09 "I WANT PAUL AND BARNABAS TO GO OUT, I HAVE WORK FOR THEM TO DO."
• 20:13 AND THEY SPREAD OUT INTO THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD OF THAT DAY.
• 20:16 THIS IS REALLY THE SPIRIT OF THE ORIGINAL MESSIANIC JEWISH COMMUNITY
• 20:21 AND WE ARE THRILLED TO BE ABLE TO WALK IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS NOW IN THE 21ST CENTURY.
• 20:26 WE INVITE YOU TO JOIN US THROUGH PRAYER AND PARTICIPATION,
• 20:30 TO BE A PART OF THIS TREMENDOUS RENEWAL AND RESTORATION
• 20:35 OF WHAT THE LORD DID SOME 2,000 YEARS AGO.
• 20:59 ♪THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD♪
• 21:03 ♪I SHALL NOT WANT♪
• 21:09 ♪HE MAKETH ME TO LIE DOWN♪
• 21:14 ♪IN GREEN PASTURES♪
• 21:17 ♪HE LEADETH ME BY THE STILL WATERS♪
• 21:22 ♪HE RESTORETH MY SOUL♪
• 21:28 ♪HE LEADETH ME IN THE PATHS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS♪
• 21:33 ♪FOR HIS NAMES SAKE♪
• 21:41 ♪YEA, THOUGH I WALK♪
• 21:43 ♪THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH♪
• 21:48 ♪I WILL FEAR NO EVIL♪
• 21:52 ♪FOR THOU ART WITH ME♪
• 21:56 ♪THY ROD AND THEY STAFF♪
• 21:59 ♪THEY COMFORT ME♪
• 22:07 ♪THOU PREPAREST A TABLE FOR ME♪
• 22:11 ♪IN THE PRESENCE OF MINE ENEMIES♪
• 22:16 ♪THOU ANOINTEST MY HEAD WITH OIL♪
• 22:19 ♪MY CUP RUNNETH OVER♪
• 22:25 ♪SURELY GOODNESS AND MERCY♪
• 22:30 ♪SHALL FOLLOW ME♪
• 22:32 ♪ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE♪
• 22:39 ♪AND I WILL DWELL IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD♪
• 22:49 ♪FOREVER♪
• 22:53 ♪AND EVER♪
• 23:19 PSALM 23 IS THE MUSIC THAT YOU'RE HEARING FROM OUR GUEST MARTY GOETZ.
• 23:23 BUT BEFORE THAT WE LISTENED TO EITAN TALK ABOUT THE MESSIANICS IN ISRAEL.
• 23:28 THEY NEED YOUR PRAYERS.
• 23:29 AND IF YOU FEEL SO LED TO PRAY FOR THEM PLEASE DO SO.
• 23:33 IF YOU FEEL LED TO GIVE THEM FINANCIAL HELP,
• 23:35 IF YOU WILL SEND IT TO ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES
• 23:38 I PROMISE YOU 100 PER CENT OF IT WILL GO TO EITAN AND HIS "TENTS OF MERCY".
• 23:44 MARTY I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE MESSIANICS IN ISRAEL.
• 23:46 WHAT DO YOU THINK...GROWING?
• 23:48 WELL THAT'S A WORTHY CAUSE
• 23:49 BECAUSE THERE ARE
• 23:51 A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE
• 23:53 RAISING MONEY FOR ISRAEL
• 23:54 OR GO TO ISRAEL,
• 23:55 OR KNOW PEOPLE IN ISRAEL...
• 23:57 LIKE PEOPLE THAT ARE
• 23:58 IN THE GOVERNMENT
• 23:59 AND THINGS LIKE THAT...
• 24:00 THAT'S GOOD.
• 24:01 BUT THE MESSIANIC BELIEVERS
• 24:03 IS WHERE CHRISTIAN'S AND BELIEVER'S MONEY SHOULD BE GOING.
• 24:06 BECAUSE THEY'RE BUILDING UP JERUSALEM.
• 24:09 THEY'RE BUILDING UP THE KINGDOM IN THE LAND.
• 24:12 I THINK THAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT THING.
• 24:13 FOR A CENTURY >>ABSOLUTELY
• 24:15 IT'S DELIGHTFUL
• 24:17 AND A LOT OF THOSE OTHER PEOPLE
• 24:18 TURN PEOPLE AWAY FROM YESHUA AND FROM FAITH IN THE NEW COVENANT...
• 24:23 AND THAT'S NOT A GOOD THING.
• 24:24 AND BELIEVERS...
• 24:25 IF YOU'RE REALLY GIVING TO THE LORD
• 24:28 YOU'RE GIVING TO THE LORD
• 24:31 AND YOU MONEY IS GOING WHERE IT SHOULD BE GOING...
• 24:33 NOT TO UNBELIEVERS OR TO CAUSES
• 24:36 THAT DON'T REALLY SUPPORT YOUR CHRISTIAN OR JUDEO-CHRISTIAN BELIEFS.
• 24:43 AND THAT'S NOT A SLIGHT ON THE WORK THAT OTHER PEOPLE DO >>NO ITS NOT
• 24:45 BUT I THINK IF BELIEVERS REALLY WANT TO BUILD UP ZION,
• 24:48 THE MESSIANIC BELIEVERS
• 24:50 IS WHERE THEY SHOULD BE FOCUSING. >>BOY I AGREE
• 24:52 PEOPLE LIKE EITAN
• 24:53 AND IT'S GROWN,
• 24:54 THE MESSIANIC CONGREGATIONS HAVE GROWN IN ISRAEL
• 24:56 THEY HAVE GROWN AND GROWN.
• 24:57 WHEN I WAS FIRST A BELIEVER THERE WAS JUST A HANDFUL
• 24:59 AND NOW THEY'RE ALL OVER THE PLACE.
• 25:00 PEOPLE ARE HAVING REVELATION OF YESHUA JUST ON THEIR OWN
• 25:05 AND IT'S AMAZING.
• 25:06 IT'S THAT HOPE
• 25:07 HE IS OUR HOPE
• 25:08 IT'S WONDERFUL ISN'T IT?
• 25:09 AMEN...HATIKVAH
• 25:11 SO WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE?
• 25:13 WE HAVE AN ANTIPHONAL PSALM
• 25:15 I LOVE IT
• 25:17 YES BECAUSE THE SCRIPTURE SAYS
• 25:18 WE SHOULD SPEAK TO ONE ANOTHER
• 25:20 IN PSALMS, HYMNS AND SPIRITUAL SONGS.
• 25:23 THAT WAS AN IDEA FROM KIM. >>THAT IS CORRECT.
• 25:25 JUST WANT TO GIVE HER CREDIT FOR THAT.
• 25:27 HERE'S THE OTHER THING,
• 25:29 THE PILGRIMS AS THEY WENT UP TO ISRAEL
• 25:31 ARE SINGING THESE PSALMS BACK AND FORTH TO EACH OTHER.
• 25:34 I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE BEEN LIKE AT THE BACK OF SOME BIG CROWD
• 25:38 AND HEARD SOMEBODY AT THE FRONT SAYING
• 25:40 "THIS IS MY JOY" AND THE BACK SAYING "YES, THIS I MY JOY"
• 25:44 ...I WOULD LOVE IT.
• 25:45 LET'S JUST GET INTO THIS AND SEE HOW WE GO.
• 25:47 DO YOU WANT TO START OR DO YOU WANT ME TO START?
• 25:49 I'LL BEGIN.
• 25:50 OK
• 25:51 "MANY A TIME THEY HAVE AFFLICTED ME FROM MY YOUTH"
• 25:53 "LET ISRAEL NOW SAY,"
• 25:55 "MANY A TIME THEY HAVE AFFLICTED ME FROM MY YOUTH"
• 25:57 "YET THEY HAVE NOT PREVAILED AGAINST ME."
• 26:00 "THE PLOWERS PLOWED ON MY BACK,"
• 26:01 "THEY MADE THEIR FURROWS LONG."
• 26:03 "THE LORD IS RIGHTEOUS; HE HATH CUT ASUNDER THE CHORDS OF THE WICKED."
• 26:08 LET ALL THOSE WHO HATE ZION"
• 26:10 "BE PUT TO SHAME AND TURNED BACK."
• 26:12 "LET THEM BE AS GRASS UPON THE HOUSETOP"
• 26:15 "WHICH WITHERETH BEFORE IT GROWETH UP."
• 26:18 "WITH WHICH THE REAPER DOES NOT FILL HIS HAND"
• 26:20 "NOR HE WHO BINDS SHEAVES HIS ARMS."
• 26:23 "NEITHER DO THEY WHICH GO BY SAY,"
• 26:25 "'THE BLESSING OF THE LORD BE UPON YOU'"
• 26:27 (Sandra and Marty) "WE BLESS YOU IN THE NAME OF THE LORD."
• 26:30 HOW TERRIFIC IS THAT?
• 26:32 FANTASTIC
• 26:33 OKAY, NEXT WEEK WE'RE GOING TO DO PSALM 130 AND 131.
• 26:36 WILL YOU WALK IN THE WAYS OF THE LORD AND CLAIM YOUR VICTORY?
• 26:41 GOD BLESS YOU,
• 26:42 AND, SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:44 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM