Caption transcript for Acts: Then and Now — “To Hear Something New” (3/8)

• 00:13 GO YE THEREFORE AND TEACH ALL NATIONS,
• 00:16 BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, AND OF THE SON, AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
• 00:21 TEACHING THEM TO OBSERVE ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER I HAVE COMMANDED YOU.
• 00:25 AND LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS,
• 00:28 EVEN UNTO THE END OF THE WORLD.
• 00:42 SHALOM, AND WELCOME
• 00:44 TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 00:45 I'M MYLES WEISS.
• 00:46 THIS IS MY CO-HOST
• 00:47 AND MY WIFE, KATHARINE WEISS.
• 00:48 WE ARE GLAD TODAY TO BRING YOU THE NEXT PROGRAM IN OUR SERIES,
• 00:52 ACTS, THEN AND NOW, THE STORY CONTINUES.
• 00:55 IT'S SO AMAZING TO SEE THE GOSPEL LEAVING JERUSALEM AND GOING INTO THE NATIONS
• 00:59 JUST AS GOD PROPHESIED THAT IT WOULD.
• 01:02 AND WE SEE TODAY, PAUL, BRINGING THIS NEW MESSAGE TO THE ATHENIANS, WHO WERE PHILOSOPHERS.
• 01:08 AND PAUL'S OWN LIFE REALLY MIRRORED THE TENACH, OR THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES.
• 01:12 THERE'S THE LAW, THE PROPHET, AND THE WISDOM BOOKS
• 01:16 ARE THE 3 SECTIONS OF THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES.
• 01:19 IN A SENSE PAUL LIVED THAT WAY.
• 01:20 HE WAS A MAN OF THE LAW.
• 01:22 HE BECAME A PROPHETIC VOICE FOR YESHUA,
• 01:24 AND THEN HE LIVED HIS LIFE TOWARD THE END OF HIS LIFE AS A MAN OF WISDOM
• 01:27 WHO HAD BEEN SHAPED BY THE EXPERIENCES THAT GOD HAD BROUGHT HIM THROUGH.
• 01:31 SO WE'RE REALLY GOING TO SEE A CHANGE
• 01:33 AS HE BRINGS THE WORD INTO THE NATIONS.
• 01:35 YEAH, HE BRINGS IT TO THE ATHENIANS IN A WHOLE OTHER DIMENSION.
• 01:39 THEY WERE USED TO JUST HAVING PHILOSOPHIES
• 01:41 AND LISTENING AND HEARING THE NEXT GREATEST WISDOM OF A MAN.
• 01:45 BUT GOD WAS TALKING TO THE ATHENIANS THROUGH PAUL
• 01:48 AND HE,WAS BRINGING THEM THIS MESSAGE OF HOLINESS
• 01:51 AND THIS MESSAGE OF KNOW NOTHING BUT CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED.
• 01:55 AND THIS MESSAGE OF FAITH AND THIS MESSAGE THAT CALLED THEM TO SOMETHING OF GOOD WORKS.
• 01:59 SO LET'S GO NOW AND HEAR FROM MYLES IN ATHENS.
• 02:20 WE ARE HERE ON MARS HILL.
• 02:22 THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK OF ACTS.
• 02:25 SOME SAY THAT LUKE WAS THE WRITER,
• 02:27 BUT WE KNOW THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE AUTHOR AND HE'S STILL WRITING THE STORY TODAY.
• 02:30 ALTHOUGH THERE ARE 28 CHAPTERS IN THE BOOK OF ACTS, THE STORY IS STILL CONTINUING.
• 02:35 WE HOPE IN THIS SERIES TO SHOW YOU HOW, IN FACT, THAT STORY IS UNFOLDING EVEN TODAY
• 02:40 IN THE MIDDLE EAST, AND ESPECIALLY IN ISRAEL.
• 02:43 WE'RE GOING TO BE INTERVIEWING SOME GREAT FRIENDS IN ISRAEL
• 02:46 TO LET YOU SEE HOW THIS STORY UNFOLDS FROM THE BEGINNING OF TIME
• 02:50 FROM THE BEGINNING OF THIS GREAT CIVILIZATION IN GREECE,
• 02:53 AND HOW PAUL CAME HERE IN 51 AD RIGHT HERE TO MARS HILL.
• 02:58 IN ACTS 17 WE SEE THAT.
• 03:00 NOW WE KNOW THAT LUKE WAS THE AUTHOR OR THE WRITER OF THIS BOOK
• 03:03 BECAUSE HE MAKES REFERENCE TO HIS EARLIER TREATISE TO THEOPHILUS.
• 03:07 WE BELIEVE HE WROTE IT IN AROUND 62 AD.
• 03:10 MOST SCHOLARS AGREE THAT THAT'S WHEN IT WAS PENNED.
• 03:12 PAUL ARRIVES HERE ON MARS HILL
• 03:15 AND HE'S DISTURBED BY THE BLUSTERY WINDS THAT ARE BLOWING
• 03:21 OF DIFFERENT GODS AND GODDESSES AND THE IDOLATRY THAT'S TAKING PLACE HERE.
• 03:26 MANY THINK OF GREECE AS THE CRADLE OF CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION.
• 03:29 BUT IMAGINE WHAT IT WAS LIKE FOR THIS HEBREW APOSTLE TO ARRIVE HERE BRINGING THIS NEW THING,
• 03:36 THIS NEW TEACHING SO CALLED,
• 03:38 THAT IN FACT WAS THE TEACHING OF THE RESURRECTION OF YESHUA HAMASHIACH, JESUS OUR MESSIAH.
• 03:44 WHEN HE CAME TO MARS HILL IN ACTS 17
• 03:47 WE READ THAT HE WAS CONFRONTED BY THE EPICUREANS AND THE STOICS AS SOON AS HE ARRIVED HERE.
• 04:10 NOW THIS WAS PAUL'S PATTERN.
• 04:12 HE ALWAYS WENT TO THE JEWS FIRST.
• 04:14 HE WENT TO THE SYNAGOGUES AND THEN HE ALSO WENT TO THE MARKETPLACE.
• 04:17 I THINK THAT THAT'S A PICTURE FOR US TODAY THAT THE GOSPEL,
• 04:21 IN FACT, IS TO THE JEWS FIRST ACCORDING TO ROMANS 1:16, AND ALSO TO THE GREEKS.
• 04:27 GOD INTENDS US TO BE REACHING OUT TO OUR JEWISH NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS
• 04:31 WITH THE GOOD NEWS OF JESUS CHRIST,
• 04:33 BUT ALSO TO TAKE THIS GOSPEL TO THE MARKETPLACE
• 04:36 WHERE EVERYONE HAS A CHANCE TO HEAR ABOUT JESUS.
• 04:40 LISTEN TO THIS CONFRONTATION:
• 04:57 WELL, THE EPICUREANS AND THE STOICS WERE LONG STANDING PHILOSOPHERS IN THIS AREA.
• 05:02 THE EPICUREANS BELIEVED THAT LIFE WAS QUICK, WAS OVER QUICKLY.
• 05:06 WE SHOULD JUST EAT, DRINK AND BE MERRY BECAUSE TOMORROW WE MAY DIE.
• 05:09 THE STOICS TOOK A DIFFERENT APPROACH,
• 05:11 BELIEVING THAT THEY SHOULD AFFLICT THEIR FLESH AND LIVE IN AN ASCETIC KIND OF WAY.
• 05:16 AND HERE COMES PAUL WITH THIS NEW THING, THIS NEW IDEA OF RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD.
• 05:23 NO ONE HAD HEARD OF THIS QUITE THIS WAY.
• 05:26 IT'S INTERESTING THAT PAUL ACTUALLY QUOTES ONE OF THE GREEK PHILOSOPHERS,
• 05:29 A POET FROM CENTURIES EARLIER WHO SPOKE OF THIS 'MANY GOD CITY'
• 05:34 AS A QUEST THAT IS IN THE HEART OF MAN, A QUEST FOR FATHERING,
• 05:39 A QUEST TO UNDERSTAND WHERE WE COME FROM.
• 05:42 ALL THOSE GODS THAT WERE DIFFERENT KINDS,
• 05:45 DIFFERENT EMPHASIS, DIFFERENT STRENGTHS, DIFFERENT WEAKNESSES,
• 05:48 THEY WERE ALL A PICTURE OF MAN'S QUEST FOR A FATHER.
• 05:52 THAT'S WHY WHEN HE CAME HERE HE FOUND IN THIS AREA, ON THIS HILL, HE FOUND A PLAQUE,
• 05:58 A STATUE TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.
• 06:02 AND HE SAID, I KNOW THAT YOU ARE RELIGIOUS IN NATURE
• 06:05 AND I KNOW THAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR THIS UNKNOWN GOD.
• 06:09 IN FACT HE CAME WITH AN UNDERSTANDING
• 06:12 THAT HE WAS BRINGING THE ANSWER TO THOSE PRAYERS,
• 06:16 THE ANSWER TO THE QUEST THAT'S IN THE HEART OF MAN,
• 06:19 SOMETHING IN OUR VERY DNA THAT'S REACHING OUT FOR A FATHER FROM ABOVE.
• 06:23 WE'RE LOST.
• 06:24 WE'RE HELPLESS IN THIS UNIVERSE.
• 06:26 WE'RE ALONE, BUT THANKS BE TO GOD BECAUSE OF THE FINISHED WORK OF THE CROSS.
• 06:30 BACK IN JERUSALEM PAUL COULD ARRIVE WITH THE GOOD NEWS OF THE ANSWER FOR THE UNKNOWN GOD.
• 06:38 IN FACT, I BRING YOU NEWS OF THE RESURRECTION.
• 06:41 I BRING YOU NEWS THAT YESHUA HAMASHIACH, JESUS CHRIST HAS RISEN FROM THE DEAD
• 06:47 AND PAUL IS SPEAKING TO THEM THAT THEY IN FACT HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS UNKNOWN GOD.
• 06:53 LISTEN TO WHAT HE SAYS TO THEM REGARDING THE GODS THAT THEY HAVE BEEN SERVING.
• 07:08 NO, GOD IS AGELESS AND FORMLESS.
• 07:11 HE IS A SPIRIT, AND PAUL IS BRINGING THEM THIS GOOD NEWS
• 07:15 THAT NO WORK OF THE FLESH,
• 07:17 NO WORK OF MAN, NO ARTIFACT,
• 07:19 NO IDOL, NO STATUE
• 07:21 CAN BRING THEM TO THAT HEART CRY THAT IS WITHIN THEM
• 07:25 TO BE CALLED THE CHILDREN OF GOD.
• 07:27 WELL THIS STIRS UP AN INCREDIBLE TO DO HERE IN ATHENS.
• 07:31 SOME SAID THIS MAN IS A BABBLER AND WE DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANYTHING MORE FROM HIM.
• 07:36 OTHERS SAID QUITE THE CONTRARY, WE'LL HERE MORE OF THIS.
• 07:40 THAT'S HOW THIS CHAPTER ENDS IN FACT.
• 07:42 THIS CHAPTER OF ACTS 17 ENDS WITH PAUL IN THE CONTROVERSY OF SOME PEOPLE SAYING
• 07:48 WE WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS UNKNOWN GOD AND OTHERS SAYING TURN HIM AWAY.
• 07:52 ISN'T THAT THE WAY IT IS IN THE WORLD TODAY?
• 07:54 THE SEED COMES.
• 07:55 THE WORD COMES.
• 07:57 AND WE HAVE TO DECIDE WHETHER TO CONTINUE TO SERVE THOSE THINGS WHICH WE HAVE BEEN SERVING,
• 08:01 OR AS PAUL SAYS HERE,
• 08:03 THE DIFFERENCE IS THAT NOW, BECAUSE OF THE FINISHED WORK OF THE CROSS,
• 08:07 BECAUSE OF THIS MAN CHRIST JESUS,
• 08:09 NOW GOD EVERYWHERE CALLS MEN TO REPENT AND TURN FROM IDOLS.
• 08:15 TURN FROM WHATEVER IT IS THEY ARE SERVING TO SERVE, TO KNOW,
• 08:19 TO LOVE, TO BECOME SONS OF THIS UNKNOWN GOD.
• 08:23 NO CHURCH BELLS, NO WORKS OF MAN, NO RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS
• 08:30 CAN SUBSTITUTE FOR A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST.
• 08:34 AND THAT IS WHAT PAUL IS BRINGING TO THE ATHENIANS AT THAT TIME.
• 08:57 FOR INSIGHTFUL PERSPECTIVES OF ISRAEL AND BIBLE PROPHECY
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• 09:37 WE'RE STANDING IN FRONT OF A ROMAN THEATRE BUILT AFTER THE GREEK STYLE.
• 09:41 THIS ACTUALLY WAS BUILT A CENTURY LATER.
• 09:43 BUT IT IS SO MUCH THE STORY OF THE CONFLICT BETWEEN A HEBRAIC MINDSET
• 09:48 AND A GREEK OR ROMAN MINDSET.
• 09:51 THAT IS THE STORY OF THE GOSPEL GOING WEST.
• 09:53 REMEMBER THAT PAUL WAS FORBIDDEN TO GO TO ASIA
• 09:56 AND IN THAT WAY GOD SET HIS ACTS IN MOTION
• 09:59 BY SENDING THE GOSPEL WEST AND SENDING IT AROUND THE WORLD
• 10:03 WHERE IT IS NOW RISING IN THE EAST.
• 10:06 LISTEN TO THIS PASSAGE FROM ACTS WHEN PAUL WAS ON MARS HILL
• 10:11 AND IN THE AREA HE SAID AGAIN THAT A LIVING GOD,
• 10:14 THE GOD WHO MADE THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH AND THE SEA AND ALL THAT IS IN THEM
• 10:20 IS THE ONE THAT HE WAS PREACHING.
• 10:22 WHAT A DIFFERENCE COMPARED TO THE GODS MADE OF STONE AND MADE OF BRASS AND MADE OF GOLD.
• 10:27 THIS WAS THE GOD THAT WAS UNSEEN, "THE UNKNOWN GOD" AS THE GREEKS CALLED HIM.
• 10:32 AND HE WAS THE ONE WHO WAS PREACHING IT.
• 10:35 IT REALLY SETS UP FOR US THE PROBLEM OF A HEBRAIC MINDSET
• 10:40 TRYING TO COME INTO A PAGAN WORLD.
• 10:43 WHAT A CHORE FOR PAUL.
• 10:44 NOW PAUL WAS VERSED IN ALL THE LANGUAGES OF THE DAY.
• 10:47 HE SPOKE GREEK.
• 10:48 HE SPOKE ALL OF THE NATIVE LANGUAGES
• 10:50 AND YET HE HAD TO BRING A MINDSET TO THOSE WHO WERE WITHOUT THE WORD.
• 10:54 WHAT A CHORE FOR HIM.
• 10:56 AND SO MUCH SO IT IS TODAY THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT A ROMAN THEATRE
• 11:00 BECAUSE LIFE IS LIKE A CHALLENGE FOR US EVEN AS BELIEVERS TO GO AFTER THAT WHICH BELONGS TO GOD
• 11:08 AS OPPOSED TO THAT WHICH IS BUILT ON ENTERTAINMENT
• 11:11 AND OBSERVATION OF SELF AND WORSHIP OF SELF.
• 11:15 REALLY THIS THEATRE IS A TESTIMONY TO THAT.
• 11:18 THIS IS AN AMAZING, LARGE THEATRE
• 11:20 WHERE NO DOUBT GAMES AND THEATRE AND ASPECTS OF THE ROMAN AND GRECO LIFE WOULD TAKE PLACE.
• 11:26 AND IT WAS A TOTALLY NEW THING TO REALIZE
• 11:28 THAT WE WERE NO LONGER TO SERVE OURSELVES AND OUR BODIES AND OUR PLEASURES,
• 11:33 BUT WE WERE TO SERVE HIM, THE GOD WHO WAS, AS HE SAID ON MARS HILL, "THE UNKNOWN GOD".
• 11:38 THAT'S REALLY THE CONFLICT THAT EXISTS TODAY IN THE WORLD.
• 11:42 THERE'S SO MUCH GOING ON EVEN WITHIN THE CHURCH WORLD
• 11:45 WHERE THINGS CAN BE BUILT ON ENTERTAINMENT.
• 11:48 THAT'S WHY IT'S SO HARD TO BRING HOME A MESSAGE
• 11:50 REGARDING THE IMPORTANCE OF ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 11:54 AND TO HAVE THAT COME THROUGH TO THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS AND TO THE NON-BELIEVING WORLD.
• 11:59 THAT'S WHY WE ENCOURAGE YOU HERE AT ZLM TO STAY WITH US
• 12:04 AS WE CONTINUE TO BRING THE HEBREW UNDERSTANDING OF THE GOSPEL
• 12:07 AND THE HEBREW UNDERSTANDING OF THE BIBLE.
• 12:10 BECAUSE WE'RE LOOKING TO SERVE "ADON OLAM" IN HEBREW,
• 12:13 "THE LORD OF THE WORLD",
• 12:15 NOT JUST SOME DEMIGOD.
• 12:16 NOT JUST A HUMANISTIC GOD.
• 12:18 NOT JUST A GOD OF THIS WORLD,
• 12:20 BUT RATHER HE WHO CREATED THE ENTIRE WORLD -
• 12:23 ADON OLAM, LORD OF THE WORLD.
• 12:26 THAT'S THE MESSAGE THAT PAUL BROUGHT HERE.
• 12:28 SO WHEN THE DISCIPLES ASKED, ARE YOU GOING TO SET UP YOUR KINGDOM NOW,
• 12:32 THINKING, OF COURSE, OF THE OPPRESSION OF ROME
• 12:35 AND THE DESIRE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO COME OUT FROM UNDER THE ROMAN YOKE,
• 12:40 HE SAID TO THEM, NO, I WILL NOT SET UP MY KINGDOM NOW,
• 12:43 BUT I WILL SET IT UP WHEN YOU SAY, BARUCH HABA B'SHEM ADONAI -
• 12:48 BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD.
• 12:51 AND THAT'S WERE WE ARE TODAY IN TIME.
• 12:52 THESE WORLDS ARE STILL COLLIDING.
• 12:54 THERE'S STILL A CLASH BETWEEN THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD AND THE HEBRAIC WORLD.
• 12:59 THERE'S STILL THIS DESIRE IN THE HEART OF GOD TO HEAR HIS PEOPLE,
• 13:03 JEW AND GENTILE TOGETHER CRY OUT - BARUCH HABA B'SHEM ADONAI -
• 13:08 BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD.
• 13:28 THE BIBLE LANDS -
• 13:29 YOU'VE READ ABOUT THEM.
• 13:31 NOW ENCOUNTER THEM FOR YOURSELF.
• 13:34 WALK IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF JESUS
• 13:35 AT THE JORDAN,
• 13:37 GALILEE,
• 13:38 JERUSALEM.
• 13:39 JOURNEY IN THE SHADOW OF PAUL
• 13:41 TO ATHENS, CORINTH, EPHESUS.
• 13:43 JOIN MYLES AND KATHARINE WEISS ON A TOUR OF THE BIBLE LANDS.
• 13:48 AND WITNESS THE WORD COME TO LIFE AS NEVER BEFORE.
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• 13:59 THAT'S ISRAEL.
• 14:01 IT'S BEAUTIFUL.
• 14:02 IT FEELS LIKE HOME EVERY TIME THAT WE GO THERE.
• 14:04 AND I KNOW YOU'LL FEEL THE SAME THING WHEN YOU COME.
• 14:06 REALLY.
• 14:07 THE BIBLE REALLY COMES ALIVE WHEN YOU'RE IN THE LAND.
• 14:09 WE WANT TO INVITE YOU TO COME WITH US.
• 14:11 AND IN BETWEEN THE TIMES WHEN WE TELL YOU ABOUT IT,
• 14:14 WHEN YOU DO GET TO COME,
• 14:15 A GOOD WAY TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON IN ISRAEL
• 14:17 AND TO KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE AT THE MINISTRY
• 14:19 IS BY RECEIVING OUR FREE NEWSLETTER,
• 14:21 THE LEVITT LETTER.
• 14:22 IT'S FULL OF CURRENT EVENTS
• 14:23 AND SPIRITUAL ARTICLES
• 14:25 ABOUT THE LAND, THE PEOPLE,
• 14:26 AND THE FUTURE.
• 14:27 IT'S REALLY WELL WRITTEN.
• 14:29 IT REALLY DOES THE JOB
• 14:30 OF DISTILLING DOWN
• 14:31 ALL THE IMPORTANT NEWS
• 14:32 ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST
• 14:33 AND ISRAEL FOR YOU.
• 14:35 SO THAT'S FREE TO YOU.
• 14:36 ALSO THIS WEEK OUR OFFER IS
• 14:38 "THE WITNESSING SERIES"
• 14:40 BY ZOLA LEVITT.
• 14:41 ZOLA DID A GREAT JOB
• 14:42 BEFORE HE WENT TO HEAVEN
• 14:44 OF TEACHING US ABOUT THE WAY
• 14:46 TO CONTEXTUALIZE THE GOSPEL.
• 14:48 JUST AS PAUL DID
• 14:49 FOR THE ATHENIANS,
• 14:50 ZOLA DOES IT FOR YOU
• 14:51 TO SPEAK TO YOUR JEWISH FRIENDS
• 14:53 AND ALSO TO YOUR GENTILE FRIENDS
• 14:55 ABOUT HOW THEY CAN KNOW YESHUA,
• 14:56 KNOW OUR MESSIAH.
• 14:58 SO WE HAD A CHANCE WHEN WE WERE IN JERUSALEM TO INTERVIEW DR. DANIEL JUSTER.
• 15:03 HE'S A LEADER IN THE MESSIANIC MOVEMENT
• 15:05 AND HE WAS REALLY FULL OF INSIGHT
• 15:07 ABOUT THE CLASH BETWEEN GREEK THOUGHT AND HEBREW THOUGHT,
• 15:10 AND ALSO SOME OF THE WAYS IT COMES TOGETHER.
• 15:13 SO LET'S GO TO MY INTERVIEW WITH DANIEL JUSTER IN JERUSALEM ABOUT GREEK AND HEBREW THOUGHT
• 15:18 RIGHT NOW.
• 15:21 DAN, WE'VE JUST COME FROM ATHENS
• 15:22 WHERE I SPOKE ON MARS HILL.
• 15:24 TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT THE COMPLEXITY
• 15:27 OF THE GREEK MINDSET AND THE HEBREW MINDSET.
• 15:29 THE GREEK AND HEBREW MINDSET
• 15:31 ARE NOT TOTALLY APART
• 15:33 FROM EACH OTHER AND OPPOSED
• 15:34 LIKE SOME TEACHERS PUT IT.
• 15:36 THERE ARE GOOD THINGS IN GREEK CULTURE
• 15:38 AND SOMETIMES THOSE GOOD THINGS DO FIND THEIR WAY INTO THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 15:42 FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN JESUS AND PAUL USE LOGICAL ARGUMENTS
• 15:46 SOMETIMES THOSE ARGUMENTS, WHICH BECAME PART OF RABBINIC JUDAISM,
• 15:50 HAD THERE ORIGINS IN GREEK PHILOSOPHICAL SCHOOLS.
• 15:53 AND YOU SEE THE YESHIVA IN JUDAISM PROBABLY IS ROOTED IN THE GREEK ACADEMIES.
• 15:59 BUT THERE WAS A DIFFERENCE WHEN YOU GO BACK BEFORE THE 1ST CENTURY
• 16:03 TO A MORE ANCIENT HEBRAIC MINDSET AND AN ANCIENT GREEK MINDSET.
• 16:07 THESE TWO MINDSETS BY THE WAY ARE VERY INFLUENTIAL TODAY IN TERMS OF THE ORIENTATION.
• 16:13 IT'S FROM THE GREEKS WE GET A RATIONALISTIC MINDSET
• 16:16 WHERE EVERYTHING CAN BE EXPLAINED BY CAUSE AND EFFECT.
• 16:19 MATERIAL CAUSE AND EFFECT IS ONE PARTICULAR KIND OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY, MORE LIKE ARISTOTLE.
• 16:26 AND THEREFORE DOUBT CONCERNING THE SUPERNATURAL AND THE INTUITIVE AND THE PROPHETIC
• 16:33 IS VERY MUCH PART OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION.
• 16:36 WHERE AS IN THE HEBRAIC MINDSET, WHICH YOU FIND IN SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE CHRISTIANITY,
• 16:42 GOD INTERVENES, GOD SHOWS YOU HIS WILL INTUITIVELY.
• 16:47 GOD GOES BEYOND THE RATIONAL TO IMPACT YOU WITH DREAMS AND VISIONS AND INTUITIVE INSIGHT
• 16:54 INTO TRUTH THAT YOU JUST KNOW INTUITIVELY
• 16:58 AND DOESN'T COME ABOUT AS THE PROCESS OF LOGICAL REASONING.
• 17:01 SO YOU SEE THIS CLASH EVEN TODAY.
• 17:03 I THINK YOU JUMPED AHEAD TO WHAT I WAS GOING TO ASK YOU NEXT
• 17:06 WHICH IS HOW DOES THIS AFFECT THE CHURCH TODAY?
• 17:09 IS IT JUST COOL CLIMATES AND WARM CLIMATES?
• 17:11 IT'S EVERYWHERE.
• 17:12 WELL, IT'S EVERYWHERE.
• 17:13 YOU KNOW ORIGINALLY
• 17:15 WHEN THE CHURCH RECEIVED THE BAPTISM IN THE HOLY SPIRIT IN ACTS CHAPTER 2,
• 17:20 THERE WAS A MASSIVE LEVEL OF GROWTH THAT TOOK PLACE
• 17:24 BECAUSE OF THE SUPERNATURAL AND THE SIGNS AND THE WONDERS AND EVERYTHING.
• 17:28 WE FIND THIS TO BE ABSOLUTELY THE CASE TODAY ON THE CUTTING EDGE OF CHRISTIANITY.
• 17:33 YOU SEE THIS IN PHILIP JENKINS GREAT BOOK ON THIS SUBJECT CALLED "THE NEXT CHRISTENDOM"
• 17:41 WHERE HE CATALOGS THIS.
• 17:42 WHERE AS IN THE WEST, BECAUSE OF THE STRONG AFFECT OF LOGICAL CATEGORIES
• 17:47 AND CAUSE AND EFFECT SCIENTIFIC REASONING,THERE'S A MUCH HIGHER LEVEL OF DOUBT.
• 17:53 THEREFORE THE CHURCH TENDS TO KIND OF BE MORE OF A RATIONALLY WORKED OUT AFFAIR.
• 17:58 DO YOU THINK IT MAKES IT HARDER TO PREACH THE GOSPEL IN AMERICA OR IN THE WEST?
• 18:02 ESPECIALLY IT MAKES IT HARDER
• 18:04 BECAUSE THE OLD PROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
• 18:08 AND THE WAY GOD WAS APPROACHED IN THAT RATIONALISTIC IDEA
• 18:11 HAVE LOST THE CONFIDENCE OF THE INTELLECTUAL CULTURE.
• 18:15 SO INSTEAD OF A RATIONALISTIC BELIEF IN GOD,
• 18:20 NOW WE HAVE A RATIONALISTIC UNBELIEF THAT'S BASED ON EVERYTHING BEING EXPLAINABLE
• 18:25 FROM NATURALISTIC EVOLUTION AND SCIENTIFIC CAUSE AND EFFECT,
• 18:29 ALL OF WHICH HAVE A PREDECESSOR IN ONE OF THE GREEK SCHOOLS,
• 18:34 ESPECIALLY EPICUREANISM IN THIS CASE.
• 18:37 SO WE DO HAVE THIS BATTLE
• 18:40 AND IT'S GOING TO TAKE A SUPERNATURAL BREAKTHROUGH TO SEE THE CHURCH ADVANCE.
• 18:45 DO YOU THINK THAT SUPERNATURAL BREAKTHROUGH
• 18:48 WILL BE CAUSED BY SUFFERING IN SOME WAY
• 18:50 TO CAUSE US TO REACH OUT IN A NEW WAY?
• 18:53 I THINK THAT BEING MARGINALIZED, WHICH IS WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE CHURCH IN THE WEST,
• 18:58 IS NOT YET AT THE PLACE OF SUFFERING,
• 19:01 AND MAYBE IT'S BECAUSE OUR CHRISTIANITY IS TOO MILD.
• 19:04 ACTUALLY I THINK THAT WHEN WE STAND UP FOR MORAL VALUES,
• 19:08 THINGS LIKE GAY RIGHTS,
• 19:09 IF WE SAY MARRIAGE IS INTENDED FOR 1 MAN AND 1 WOMAN, THAT'S HATE SPEECH NOW.
• 19:14 WHEN WE COMBINE A MORAL STAND WITH SUPERNATURAL POWER,
• 19:21 IT WILL BRING PERSECUTION FROM THIS SOCIETY.
• 19:24 I THINK SUFFERING WILL LEAD TO MORE OF A SUPERNATURAL STAND.
• 19:28 DAN, YOU'VE BEEN IN THIS MOVEMENT AS A LEADER FOR ALMOST 40 YEARS.
• 19:32 YOU'VE SEEN IT ALL.
• 19:33 YOU'VE BEEN A PASTOR TO MANY OF THE LEADERS THAT WE SEE TODAY.
• 19:36 TELL US ABOUT YOUR PERSONAL JOURNEY IN COMING TO ISRAEL.
• 19:39 WELL, YOU KNOW, I CAME TO THE LORD AFTER A PERIOD OF SKEPTICISM,
• 19:45 HAVING BEEN A VERY SOLID BELIEVER AND THEN GOING THROUGH A PERIOD OF DOUBT.
• 19:51 THEN I GOT INTO THE MESSIANIC JEWISH MOVEMENT.
• 19:53 I CAME TO THAT FOUNDATIONAL CONVICTION THAT JEWS WHO COME TO FAITH IN YESHUA
• 19:58 ARE CALLED TO LIVE AND IDENTIFY AS PART OF THEIR PEOPLE.
• 20:02 THAT WAS THE BIG TRANSFORMATIVE CONVICTION FROM THE EARLY 70S.
• 20:06 WE WERE LEADING CONGREGATIONS,
• 20:09 ASSOCIATIONS OF CONGREGATIONS,
• 20:11 WRITING BOOKS FOR MANY YEARS,
• 20:13 AND REALLY WERE NOT ORIENTED TOWARD MOVING TO ISRAEL.
• 20:18 WE HAD SO MUCH IN THE UNITED STATES.
• 20:20 THEN IN 1998 OUR 4TH CHILD, OUR YOUNGEST SON, DIED IN A TRAGIC HOUSE FIRE... IN 1998.
• 20:29 IN 1999 WE BEGAN TO WONDER IF THE LORD WAS CALLING US TO SPEND MORE TIME IN ISRAEL.
• 20:38 OUR RESPONSE WAS, BECAUSE WE'D BEEN HIT WITH A REAL BLOW FROM THE ENEMY,
• 20:44 WE NEED TO HIT HIM WITH A BLOW BACK.
• 20:47 IT WAS A STRANGE THING, BUT WE JUST FELT THIS LITTLE BIT OF A PULL.
• 20:53 WE BEGAN TO COBBLE TOGETHER SOME DOCUMENTS FOR POSSIBLE CITIZENSHIP IN 1999.
• 21:01 THEN JOHN DAWSON, THE PRESIDENT OF YWAM TODAY,
• 21:04 GAVE US THIS REALLY STRONG WORD
• 21:06 THAT WE WERE CALLED TO BE HALF TIME IN ISRAEL AND TO LIVE IN JERUSALEM
• 21:09 I THINK YOU'VE DONE THAT.
• 21:11 I THINK YOUR WORK HERE...
• 21:12 BECAUSE TIKKUN, YOUR MINISTRY,
• 21:14 IS CONNECTED WITH OTHER MINISTRIES.
• 21:16 YOU'VE BEEN A FOUNDATIONAL TEACHER IN HOW BODY LIFE SHOULD WORK.
• 21:19 AND YOU'RE LIVING THAT BY WORKING TOGETHER WITH OTHER LEADERS HERE.
• 21:23 THAT'S RIGHT.
• 21:25 IN 1992 WE SENT OUR MOST SENIOR LEADERS TO BE HERE IN ISRAEL -
• 21:29 EITAN SHISHKOFF AND ASHER INTRATER.
• 21:32 NOW THEY EACH FORMED THEIR OWN CONGREGATIONS AND NETWORKS HERE IN THEIR OWN NAMES
• 21:38 BUT LINKED TO US RELATIONALLY AND SUPPORT-WISE.
• 21:42 SO IN THE NORTH EITAN STARTED MUCH EARLIER THAN ASHER WITH OHALEI RHAMIM,FIVE CONGREGATIONS
• 21:49 AND THERE WILL BE MORE.
• 21:50 AND THEY ARE SUCCESSFUL, FRUITFUL.
• 21:52 ASHER, ONLY A FEW YEARS AGO -
• 21:55 7 YEARS AGO REALLY,
• 21:56 REVIVE ISRAEL,
• 21:57 AND THE CONGREGATION IS ONLY 5 YEARS OLD.
• 22:00 BUT ITS VIBRANT.
• 22:01 IT'S 120 MOSTLY JEWISH PEOPLE AND HEBREW WITH NO TRANSLATION.
• 22:05 SO MY WIFE AND I HAVE TO WORK HARD ON THAT.
• 22:07 I'VE BEEN THERE.
• 22:09 AND THEY'RE ALSO SENDING OUT PEOPLE TO MINISTER TO OTHER COUNTRIES FROM JERUSALEM.
• 22:13 THIS IS RIGHT.
• 22:15 PART OF ASHER'S VISION IS THAT THE WORD OF THE LORD IS TO GO FORTH FROM JERUSALEM
• 22:19 AND THAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO HELP IN STRENGTHENING THE CHURCH IN REVIVAL AND IN WORLD EVANGELISM.
• 22:25 THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT WHAT COMES FROM ISRAEL THAT WILL BRING BLESSING TO THE CHURCH
• 22:30 THAT'S CAPTURED ASHER'S HEART.
• 22:33 NOW FOR OUR VIEWERS,
• 22:34 THEY NEED TO KNOW THAT OVER 30 YEARS AGO
• 22:36 YOU AND ZOLA WERE ROOMMATES AT A CONFERENCE.
• 22:39 BEYOND THAT, IF YOU HAD TO SAY ONE THING TO THE VIEWERS OF ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS,
• 22:44 WHAT WOULD YOU SAY?
• 22:45 ZOLA LEVITT WAS A MAN ALMOST LIKE THOSE JEWS OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE
• 22:49 WHO HAD THAT KIND OF RAW, BASIC JEWISH HUMOR
• 22:53 AND HE BROUGHT THAT INTO HIS PERCEPTION OF SPIRITUAL THINGS.
• 22:58 SO THAT HE WAS ABLE TO SEE ANGLES AND USE HUMOR TO BRING TRUTH ACROSS TO PEOPLE.
• 23:05 HE WAS QUITE AN AMAZING GUY.
• 23:06 YEAH, HE WAS. THANK YOU, DAN.
• 23:15 ♪YOM ZEH L'YISRAEL...♪
• 23:18 ♪YOM ZEH L'YISRAEL♪
• 23:22 ♪YOM ZEH L'YISRAEL, ORAH V' SIMCHA...♪
• 23:26 ♪YOM ZEH L'YISRAEL, ORAH V' SIMCHA♪
• 23:30 ♪ORAH V' SIMCHA♪
• 23:34 ♪SHABBAT M'NUCHA♪
• 23:37 ♪YOM ZEH L'YISRAEL, ORAH V' SIMCHA♪
• 23:41 ♪SHABBAT M'NUCHA...♪
• 23:43 ♪SHABBAT M'NUCHA♪
• 23:51 ♪YOM ZEH L'YISRAEL...♪
• 23:54 ♪YOM ZEH L'YISRAEL♪
• 23:58 ♪YOM ZEH L'YISRAEL, ORAH V' SIMCHA...♪
• 24:02 ♪YOM ZEH L'YISRAEL, ORAH V' SIMCHA♪
• 24:06 ♪ORAH V' SIMCHA♪
• 24:10 ♪SHABBAT M'NUCHA♪
• 24:13 ♪YOM ZEH L'YISRAEL, ORAH V' SIMCHA♪
• 24:17 ♪SHABBAT M'NUCHA...♪
• 24:19 ♪SHABBAT M'NUCHA♪
• 24:23 ♪HEY!♪
• 24:47 ♪YOM ZEH L'YISRAEL...♪
• 24:51 ♪YOM ZEH L'YISRAEL♪
• 24:54 ♪YOM ZEH L'YISRAEL, ORAH V' SIMCHA...♪
• 24:58 ♪YOM ZEH L'YISRAEL, ORAH V' SIMCHA♪
• 25:02 ♪ORAH V' SIMCHA♪
• 25:06 ♪SHABBAT M'NUCHA♪
• 25:10 ♪YOM ZEH L'YISRAEL, ORAH V' SIMCHA♪
• 25:13 ♪SHABBAT M'NUCHA...♪
• 25:15 ♪SHABBAT M'NUCHA♪
• 25:24 I LOVED HEARING DAN TEACH US
• 25:26 ABOUT THE CONFLICT BETWEEN GREEK THOUGHT AND HEBREW THOUGHT
• 25:29 AND REALLY SEE HOW WHEN THE GOSPEL COMES FORWARD
• 25:32 IT'S SUPPOSED TO CHANGE AND IS INTENDED TO CHANGE AN ENTIRE WORLD, THE CULTURE.
• 25:36 ISN'T IT?
• 25:37 IT DOES CHANGE IT.
• 25:38 IT DOES CHANGE WHEREVER IT GOES.
• 25:40 WE SEE HOW MUCH GREECE NEEDS THAT REVIVAL OR THAT AWAKENING TODAY.
• 25:45 IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO GO VISIT OUTWARDLY,
• 25:47 BUT IT NEEDS THAT AWAKENING.
• 25:49 YEAH, IT'S REALLY EVIDENT RIGHT NOW IN ALL THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD.
• 25:52 DAN WAS SPEAKING OF THE UNITY THAT HE EXPERIENCES,
• 25:56 SIMILAR TO WHAT WE HAVE AT HOME WHERE WE MINISTER.
• 25:59 PASTORS COMING TOGETHER AND WORKING TOGETHER ACROSS DENOMINATIONAL LINES.
• 26:03 I KNOW THAT DAN WORKS WITH ASHER INTRATER AND EITAN SHISHKOFF
• 26:07 AND TOGETHER THEY'RE REALLY TRYING TO BRING A MANIFESTATION OF PSALM 133
• 26:13 BEHOLD HOW GOOD AND HOW PLEASANT IT IS
• 26:15 WHEN THE BRETHREN DWELL TOGETHER IN UNITY - JOHN 17
• 26:18 ABOUT WHEN THE BRETHREN DWELL TOGETHER
• 26:20 THE WORD GOES FORTH AND INCREASES AROUND THE WORLD.
• 26:23 SO WE SEE THAT WHEN THOSE PARTNERSHIPS TAKE PLACE
• 26:26 AN ENTIRE WORLD CAN BE AFFECTED BY THE GOSPEL GOING FORWARD
• 26:31 BECAUSE GOD COMMANDS THE BLESSING WHERE THERE IS UNITY.
• 26:35 YES
• 26:36 WE ARE SO GRATEFUL TO BE ABLE TO BRING YOU THESE PROGRAMS.
• 26:39 WE CAN'T DO IT WITHOUT YOUR GIFTS OF FUNDS.
• 26:41 WE REALLY NEED YOU TO PLEASE CONTINUE TO SUPPORT US SO THAT WE CAN GO TO ISRAEL,
• 26:46 GO TO THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD
• 26:47 AND BRING YOU THESE UP TO THE MINUTE MESSAGES.
• 26:50 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
• 26:51 AND AS WE GO TODAY WE WANT TO REMIND YOU
• 26:55 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:57 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM