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

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