Caption transcript for Acts: Then and Now — “The Word Goes Forth From Zion” (4/8)

• 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,
• 00:28 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 WIFE
• 00:46 AND MY CO-HOST KATHARINE
• 00:48 AND WE'RE CONTINUING TODAY WITH OUR SERIES
• 00:49 "ACTS, THEN AND NOW... THE STORY CONTINUES"
• 00:52 THE GOSPEL NOW IN OUR SERIES HAS LEFT JERUSALEM;
• 00:55 TRAVELING THROUGH THE WORLD WE SAW PAUL AT ATHENS;
• 00:57 AND AFTER ATHENS HE DETERMINED NOT TO KNOW ANYTHING BUT CHRIST CRUCIFIED.
• 01:02 AND THAT'S THE MESSAGE THAT HE BROUGHT TO CORINTH.
• 01:04 CORINTH WAS A PORT CITY.
• 01:05 PAUL WAS THERE.
• 01:07 PAUL BROUGHT THE MESSAGE SO DEAR TO HIS HEART
• 01:09 AND THE MESSIANIC PROMISES ARE NOW OPEN TO THE GENTILES.
• 01:14 AND HE HAD A BURDEN IN HIS HEART TO SHARE.
• 01:17 SO LET'S GO NOW AND HEAR MYLES IN GREECE.
• 01:21 FROM ATHENS PAUL CAME HERE TO CORINTH.
• 01:23 IN ADDITION TO THE PHILOSOPHIES OF MEN
• 01:26 NOW HE WAS FACED WITH THE LUST AND THE LASCIVIOUSNESS OF A PORT CITY.
• 01:30 TWO SEAS COME TOGETHER HERE IN CORINTH
• 01:33 AND SO IT WAS A PLACE FULL OF MERCHANDISE,
• 01:35 FULL OF ALL KINDS OF ACTIVITY,
• 01:37 NOT THE LEAST IN WHICH WAS THE INCREDIBLE GIVING OVER TO THE LUST OF THE FLESH.
• 01:42 AND SO PAUL WAS FACED WITH AGAIN...LIVING HIS LIFE AS AN OPEN BOOK
• 01:46 HE SAYS, "I DETERMINED TO KNOW NOTHING OTHER THAN CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED".
• 01:50 AFTER THE PHILOSOPHIES OF ATHENS
• 01:52 HE WAS CONVINCED THAT IT WAS ONLY THE CROSS
• 01:55 THAT COULD CONVINCE MEN OF THE RESURRECTION AND OF WHO JESUS IS.
• 01:59 NOW HERE AT CORINTH THERE WAS EVERY KIND OF PROBLEM THAT PAUL HAD TO FACE.
• 02:04 HE WROTE TWO LETTERS TO THE CORINTHIANS
• 02:06 BECAUSE HE WAS DEALING WITH SUCH A DEEP, DEEP ISSUE OF DIVISION IN THE CHURCH
• 02:12 AND DIFFERENT KINDS OF LUST
• 02:14 AND THE WORLD ITSELF SEEPING INTO THE CHURCH.
• 02:17 AND SO HE HAD TO BRING A CLEAR MARK OF DIVISION BETWEEN THIS WORLD AND THE NEXT;
• 02:23 BETWEEN THE WORLD OF THE KINGDOM AND THE WORLD AS THEY FOUND IT HERE IN CORINTH.
• 02:27 AND WHAT A MARKED DIFFERENCE IT WAS.
• 02:29 I LOVE THE WAY PAUL LIVES HIS LIFE AS AN OPEN BOOK.
• 02:33 IN FACT, YOU COULD SAY THAT HE IS A PICTURE OF THE HEBREW BIBLE HIMSELF.
• 02:38 REMEMBER HE CALLED HIMSELF A HEBREW OF THE HEBREWS.
• 02:40 AND THE HEBREW TANAKH, THE HEBREW BIBLE IS BROKEN UP INTO THREE SECTIONS.
• 02:45 IT HAS THE TORAH...THE LAW.
• 02:47 IT HAS THE NEVI'IM... THE PROPHETS
• 02:50 AND ALSO THE KETUVIM... THE WISDOM BOOKS.
• 02:54 AND ISN'T THAT ALMOST THE WAY PAUL LIVED HIS LIFE?
• 02:56 HE STARTED AS A ZEALOT FOR THE LAW;
• 02:58 HE BECAME A PROPHETIC VOICE FOR THE LORD
• 03:01 AND LIVED HIS LIFE IN SUCH A WAY
• 03:03 THAT AT THE END OF HIS LIFE HE WAS SO FULL OF WISDOM AND GRACE.
• 03:07 IT'S ALMOST AS IF HIS LIFE MIRRORED THE VERY BOOK THAT HE BROKE OPEN;
• 03:11 THE VERY PERSON OF THE BOOK THAT HE PREACHED...
• 03:14 YESHUA HAMASHIACH...
• 03:16 JESUS CHRIST.
• 03:17 AND IT'S AN AMAZING PARALLEL FOR PAUL AND HIS LIFE WITH THE BOOK THAT HE SO LOVED.
• 03:23 NOW HERE IN CORINTH THERE'S SUCH A PROBLEM WITH DIVISION THAT HE HAD TO ADDRESS IT RIGHT AWAY.
• 03:28 IN FACT, HE TELLS THE CORINTHIANS,
• 03:30 "SOME OF YOU SAY YOU'RE OF PAUL AND SOME OF PETER"
• 03:34 "AND SOME OF APOLLOS AND THAT'S NOT HOW WE'RE TO BE."
• 03:37 "IF WE'RE GOING TO BE LIKE THAT WE MIGHT AS WELL WALK LIKE NORMAL MEN."
• 03:39 WHAT A LESSON FOR THE CHURCH TODAY;
• 03:41 WHAT A LESSON FOR BELIEVERS TODAY
• 03:43 THAT WE NEED TO LEARN TO WALK IN UNITY, TO WALK TOGETHER,
• 03:47 ALL SERVING THE LORD TOGETHER TO WALK IN LOVE.
• 03:50 AND THE LETTERS TO THE CORINTHIANS
• 03:52 ARE FULL OF INSTRUCTION ON HOW A CHURCH SHOULD BE;
• 03:55 HOW A CONGREGATION, A KEHILAT IN HEBREW,
• 03:58 HOW IT SHOULD OPERATE TOGETHER.
• 04:00 AND HERE AT CORINTH WAS THE PERFECT PLACE TO SEE THAT WORKED OUT
• 04:04 BECAUSE THERE WAS SO MANY PROBLEMS WITH DIVISION;
• 04:07 SO MANY PROBLEMS WITH DIFFERENT FACTIONS.
• 04:10 I WOULD SAY THE PINNACLE PERHAPS OF THE FIRST CORINTHIAN LETTER
• 04:14 IS I CORINTHIANS 13 WHERE PAUL SAYS,
• 04:18 "WITHOUT DOUBT THAT IT IS LOVE THAT SHOULD BE THE GUIDE OF ALL."
• 04:22 "LOVE IS THE GREATEST OF THE GIFTS."
• 04:24 SO WE SEE THAT HE'S COMING IN STRENGTH AND IN POWER
• 04:27 BUT NOT HIS OWN STRENGTH AND POWER;
• 04:30 NOT THE INTELLECTUAL CAPABILITY THAT HE HAD AND THAT HE DEMONSTRATED IN ATHENS
• 04:34 BUT RATHER CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED.
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• 05:24 HERE WE ARE IN CORINTH WHERE A WORLD'S IN CONFLICT FOR WHAT FACED PAUL.
• 05:28 HE HAD COME WITH A MESSAGE OF HOLINESS;
• 05:30 HE HAD JUST LEFT ATHENS WHERE HE ONLY TWO CONVERTS
• 05:34 AND WHEN HE CAME HERE HE DETERMINED TO ONLY PREACH CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED.
• 05:38 AND WHAT A CONFLICT IT BROUGHT.
• 05:40 THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN THE SYNAGOGUES WERE NOT RECEIVING HIS MESSAGE.
• 05:43 IN FACT HE WAS BROUGHT BEFORE THE LOCAL PROCONSUL RIGHT NEARBY HERE.
• 05:48 AT THE BEMA SEAT HE WAS BROUGHT BEFORE THE PROCONSUL
• 05:51 AND GOD IN HIS SOVEREIGNTY MADE SURE THAT THE PROCONSUL WAS A NEW MAN NAMED GALLIO
• 05:57 WHO WAS NOT ONLY THE OVERSEER OF THIS PARTICULAR CITY BUT OF THE ENTIRE REGION.
• 06:03 SO THE DECISION HE MADE IN PAUL'S FAVOR STOOD FOR HERE AND ALSO FOR THE SURROUNDING REGION.
• 06:10 AND THAT WAS VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE OF THE NATURE OF THE MESSAGE THAT PAUL WAS BRINGING.
• 06:15 IT'S SUCH A MESSAGE FOR US TODAY
• 06:17 THAT HOLINESS IS WHAT COMES WITH THE CROSS.
• 06:21 THERE WAS LOTS OF RELIGIOSITY HERE;
• 06:23 THERE WERE TEMPLE PROSTITUTES;
• 06:24 THERE WAS A RELIGIOUS SERVICE THAT INCLUDED LUST AND PROSTITUTION
• 06:29 AND PAUL WAS BRINGING A NEW MESSAGE BECAUSE OF THE CROSS.
• 06:32 BECAUSE OF THE RESURRECTION THERE WAS NOW A GOD WHO WANTED TO RELATE TO US PERSONALLY
• 06:37 AND BRING US INTO PERSONAL HOLINESS.
• 06:40 AND THAT'S ONE OF THE MESSAGES THAT HE WAS BRINGING
• 06:42 THAT GOT HIM INTO SO MUCH CONFLICT HERE IN THIS MAJOR PORT CITY.
• 06:46 WHAT A PLACE CORINTH IS.
• 06:48 IT WAS WHERE WORLD'S CAME TOGETHER;
• 06:50 MERCHANDISE AND EVERY KIND OF RACE; EVERY KIND OF CULTURE WAS TOGETHER HERE IN THIS ONE PLACE.
• 06:57 AND PAUL WAS INTIMIDATED BY THE OPPOSITION THAT HE REACHED HERE
• 07:02 BUT LISTEN TO THE WORD OF THE LORD THAT CAME TO HIM.
• 07:04 HE WAS IN FACT LIVING OFF THIS WORD.
• 07:07 IN ACTS CHAPTER 18 IN VERSE 9 AND 10
• 07:10 HE HEARS THE VOICE OF THE LORD COME TO HIM IN THE NIGHT BY A VISION SAYING
• 07:15 "DO NOT BE AFRAID ANY LONGER BUT GO ON SPEAKING"
• 07:18 "AND DO NOT BE SILENT FOR I AM WITH YOU"
• 07:22 "AND NO MAN WILL ATTACK YOU IN ORDER TO HARM YOU"
• 07:25 "FOR I HAVE MANY PEOPLE IN THIS CITY."
• 07:28 ISN'T THAT AMAZING?
• 07:29 IN THE CITY OF CORINTH WHERE EVERY MANNER OF LUST WAS TOLERATED;
• 07:33 WHERE EVERYTHING LUSTFUL WAS PROMOTED
• 07:35 GOD WAS SAYING TO PAUL
• 07:37 "GO FORWARD WITH THE MESSAGE OF THE GOSPEL BECAUSE I HAVE MANY PEOPLE IN THIS CITY."
• 07:43 NOW...I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE
• 07:46 BUT IF YOU LIVE IN A CITY TODAY THAT IS A MODERN, WESTERNIZED,
• 07:49 INDUSTRIALIZED TECHNOLOGICAL PLACE,
• 07:51 IT'S LIKELY THAT THE GOSPEL IS MEETING THE SAME KIND OF OPPOSITION THAT PAUL MET HERE.
• 07:56 BUT I HAVE GOOD NEWS FOR YOU.
• 07:58 JUST AS PAUL DID IN CORINTH...
• 08:00 HE HAD THE WORD OF THE LORD THAT HE COULD MARCH THROUGH HELL ON
• 08:03 WHICH WAS "DO NOT BE AFRAID I HAVE MUCH PEOPLE IN THIS CITY".
• 08:07 AND THERE ARE PEOPLE IN YOUR CITY AS WELL.
• 08:09 THERE ARE PEOPLE ALONG SIDE YOU SEEN AND UNSEEN
• 08:12 WHO ARE PREACHING THE SAME WORD
• 08:14 AND STANDING FOR THE SAME MESSAGE THAT PAUL WAS BRINGING TO THE CORINTHIANS.
• 08:19 BACK IN THAT DAY THE VERY WORD "CORINTHIAN" MEANT A FORNICATOR
• 08:23 OR SOMEONE WHO WAS GIVEN OVER TO LUST.
• 08:25 AND HERE WAS PAUL BRINGING THIS GOSPEL, THE RESURRECTION
• 08:28 WHICH INCLUDED AND PROVIDED THE MEANS FOR HOLINESS TO BE PART OF OUR SPIRITUAL ENDEAVOR.
• 08:35 WHAT A NEW WORD;
• 08:36 WHAT A NEW MESSAGE.
• 08:37 AND THE CORINTHIANS NEEDED IT MORE THAN EVER.
• 08:39 IT'S REALLY INSTRUCTIONAL FOR CHURCHES TODAY.
• 08:42 SO AS WE CLOSE OUR TIME HERE IN CORINTH IT'S AN AMAZING PARALLEL WITH THE CHURCH TODAY.
• 08:50 IT HOLDS AMAZING LESSONS AND TEACHING FOR US IN EVERY CONGREGATION THAT WE'RE IN TODAY
• 08:56 THAT GOD IS A GOD OF HOLINESS;
• 08:57 THAT HE HAS PROVISION FOR US;
• 08:59 THAT HE'LL BRING THOSE ALONG SIDE US
• 09:01 LIKE PRISCILLA AND AQUILA THAT CAME ALONG SIDE PAUL.
• 09:04 AND THAT IN SPITE OF OPPOSITION, NO MATTER WHAT YOU'RE FACING,
• 09:08 GOD INTENDS FOR YOU TO TRIUMPH JUST AS HE INTENDED FOR PAUL TO TRIUMPH IN CORINTH
• 09:14 BECAUSE THE GOSPEL WOULD GO FORWARD AND COMPLETELY GO AROUND THE WORLD UNTIL IT CAME TO YOU.
• 09:33 THE BIBLE LANDS -
• 09:35 YOU'VE READ ABOUT THEM.
• 09:37 NOW ENCOUNTER THEM FOR YOURSELF.
• 09:40 WALK IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF JESUS
• 09:41 AT THE JORDAN,
• 09:43 GALILEE,
• 09:44 JERUSALEM
• 09:45 JOURNEY IN THE SHADOW OF PAUL
• 09:47 TO ATHENS,
• 09:48 CORINTH,
• 09:49 EPHESUS
• 09:51 JOIN MYLES AND KATHARINE WEISS ON A TOUR OF THE BIBLE LANDS.
• 09:54 AND WITNESS THE WORD COME TO LIFE AS NEVER BEFORE.
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• 10:06 THAT'S OUR BELOVED ISRAEL.
• 10:08 WE LOVE IT.
• 10:09 WE LOVE TO TAKE PEOPLE THERE
• 10:10 SO COME WITH US TO THE LAND OF HIS COVENANT.
• 10:13 IT'S ALWAYS A LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE.
• 10:14 THE BIBLE WILL COME ALIVE FOR YOU AS YOU WALK THROUGH THE LAND WITH US.
• 10:18 A REALLY GOOD WAY TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON HERE AT LEVITT MINISTRIES
• 10:21 IS TO RECEIVE OUR
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• 10:26 THE PRIVILEGE OF WRITING
• 10:27 FOR THIS LETTER
• 10:28 AND IT'S FULL
• 10:29 OF UP TO THE MINUTE NEWS
• 10:30 OUT OF ISRAEL
• 10:31 AS WELL AS THE PROPHETIC VIEW
• 10:32 OF WHERE WE ARE IN TIME
• 10:34 AND HOW GOD IS FULFILLING
• 10:35 HIS WORD IN OUR DAY.
• 10:37 ALSO, OUR OFFER THIS WEEK
• 10:38 IS ZOLA'S WORK
• 10:40 "THE SONS OF ISRAEL"
• 10:41 ABOUT GOD'S KEY MEN
• 10:43 FROM THE BIBLE AND THE IMPACT
• 10:44 THAT THEY HAD ON THE WORLD.
• 10:46 TODAY THERE ARE BELIEVERS IN THE LAND WHO ARE HAVING PROFOUND IMPACT ON ISRAEL
• 10:51 AND ON THE WORLD AROUND US.
• 10:54 THE WORD SAYS "U'DVAR ADONAI MI'YERUSHALAYIM".
• 10:57 BOTH ISAIAH AND MICAH TOLD US THAT THE WORD WOULD GO FORTH FROM JERUSALEM.
• 11:02 AND THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING.
• 11:03 ONE OF OUR FRIENDS THERE, ASHER INTRATER,
• 11:05 HAS A WORK CALLED "REVIVE ISRAEL" ALONG WITH HIS SON SOLOMON.
• 11:10 THEY'VE BEEN BRINGING THE WORD TO THE NEXT GENERATION OF SABERS, OF NATIVE ISRAELIS,
• 11:15 AS WELL AS SENDING THE WORD OUT FROM JERUSALEM TO THE NATIONS.
• 11:19 I HAD A CHANCE TO INTERVIEW THEM WHEN WE WERE IN ISRAEL LAST
• 11:22 AND SO I'D LIKE TO SHOW YOU THIS INTERVIEW OF SOLOMON AND ASHER INTRATER.
• 11:30 ASHER I LOVE THE STORY OF YOUR HARVARD GRADUATION
• 11:33 AND HOW GOD SET YOU UP FOR ENTRANCE INTO HIS LIFE.
• 11:36 CAN YOU TELL OUR VIEWERS ABOUT THAT?
• 11:37 WELL IT'S INTERESTING
• 11:39 AS A YOUNG JEWISH MAN...
• 11:41 GREW UP IN A SYNAGOGUE
• 11:42 AND DID WELL IN MY STUDIES...
• 11:46 WAS ACCEPTED TO HARVARD.
• 11:47 AND WHEN I GOT THERE LIKE AS MANY YOUNG PEOPLE DID
• 11:50 I BEGAN TO SEARCH FOR TRUTH
• 11:52 AND BEGAN TO STUDY PHILOSOPHY, ANCIENT LITERATURES,
• 11:55 AND COMPARATIVE RELIGIONS AT HARVARD.
• 11:57 AND I NEVER FELT THAT I FOUND SOMETHING.
• 12:02 AND I REMEMBER THAT I WAS STANDING THERE READY TO GET MY DEGREE AFTER FOUR YEARS...
• 12:06 VERY FORMAL CEREMONY...
• 12:07 MY PARENTS IN THE AUDIENCE...
• 12:10 WITH THE CAP AND GOWN ON...
• 12:11 AND I WAS STANDING IN LINE AND I HAD THIS MOMENT OF REPENTANCE.
• 12:15 I THOUGHT "WHAT DID I DO WITH ALL THIS TIME AND ALL THIS MONEY?"
• 12:18 AND I DIDN'T REALLY BELIEVE IN GOD AT THAT TIME BUT I SORT OF LOOKED UP IN THE AIR AND SAID,
• 12:23 "GOD IF YOU'RE THERE"
• 12:25 "I JUST REPENT THAT I SPENT ALL MY PARENT'S MONEY AND SPENT ALL THIS TIME."
• 12:29 "AND I ONLY LEARNED ONE THING,"
• 12:31 "THAT FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE"
• 12:33 "I'LL NEVER THINK JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE IS A PROFESSOR OR A DOCTOR OR HAS SOME TITLE"
• 12:37 "THAT HE REALLY KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT THE MEANING OF LIFE."
• 12:39 AND WHEN I SAID THAT IT WAS FUNNY...
• 12:42 I HEARD A VOICE ON THE INSIDE.
• 12:44 IT SAID TO ME, "FOR THE PLANS THAT I HAVE FOR YOUR LIFE"
• 12:48 "ALL THAT TIME AND ALL THAT MONEY WAS WORTH IT FOR YOU TO LEARN JUST THAT ONE THING."
• 12:53 I HAD NO IDEA WHAT THAT WAS.
• 12:56 I STILL DIDN'T KNOW.
• 12:58 SEVERAL YEARS LATER WHEN I CAME TO THE LORD AND I RECOGNIZED HIS VOICE I SAID,
• 13:02 "AH THAT WAS YOU THAT TALKED TO ME."
• 13:04 AND I UNDERSTOOD THAT THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT THE LORD TOUCHED ME
• 13:07 AND BEGAN TO CALL ME FOR HIS KINGDOM.
• 13:10 THAT'S WONDERFUL. YOUR WORK HERE IN ISRAEL...
• 13:12 YOU ARE VERY INVOLVED WITH RAISING UP THE NEXT GENERATION.
• 13:15 TELL US ABOUT THAT.
• 13:16 YES...SO WE BELIEVE AS IT SAYS IN EPHESIANS CHAPTER 4
• 13:19 THAT THE APOSTLES AND PROPHETS,
• 13:20 EVANGELISTS, PASTORS AND TEACHERS...
• 13:22 OUR JOB IS TO EQUIP THE SAINTS.
• 13:24 WELL LET'S MAKE THAT A LITTLE MORE MODERN LANGUAGE.
• 13:27 IT MEANS THAT WE NEED TO TRAIN THE UP AND COMING GENERATION;
• 13:31 THAT THEY ARE GOING TO TAKE THE WORK OF THE MINISTRY AND GO FORTH.
• 13:34 AND HERE IN ISRAEL THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT
• 13:36 BECAUSE THE BODY OF MESSIAH HERE, THE MESSIANIC REMNANT, IS JUST BEING ESTABLISHED.
• 13:43 AND THE YOUNG PEOPLE THAT ARE GROWING UP HERE...
• 13:45 THEY REALLY HAVE MUCH MORE OF THE SKILLS,
• 13:47 THE RELATIONAL SKILLS,
• 13:48 THE LINGUISTIC SKILLS,
• 13:50 THE CULTURE...
• 13:51 THEY'RE HERE,
• 13:52 THEY'VE SERVED IN THE ARMY,
• 13:53 THE KNOW...
• 13:54 AND AS WE TRAIN THEM THERE'S GOING TO BE A GREATER BREAKTHROUGH
• 13:58 BOTH FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND HERE IN ISRAEL.
• 13:59 BUT NOT ONLY THAT, TO GO OUT FROM ISRAEL TO ALL THE WORLD.
• 14:04 ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS WE TRAIN THESE YOUNG PEOPLE IN
• 14:06 IS THAT ACTS CHAPTER 1 VERSE 8,
• 14:08 "YOU WILL RECEIVE POWER WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES UPON YOU"
• 14:11 AND YOU WILL BE WITNESSES OF ME IN JERUSALEM, JUDEA, SAMARIA AND TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH."
• 14:15 AND ISRAELI YOUNG PEOPLE INCLUDING MESSIANIC YOUNG PEOPLE
• 14:18 AFTER THEY SERVE IN THE ARMY THEY LOVE TO GO OUT TO THE WHOLE WORLD.
• 14:22 AND SO WE SEND YOUNG ISRAELI BELIEVERS OUT SHORT TERMS...
• 14:25 TWO, THREE WEEKS AT A TIME
• 14:26 TO INDIA, TO THE FAR EAST,
• 14:28 TO SOUTH AMERICA, TO EUROPE,
• 14:29 TO AFRICA...EVERYWHERE
• 14:32 SENDING THEM OUT JUST WHAT THAT VISION IS TO SEND THE LIGHT FROM JERUSALEM OUT TO ALL THE WORLD.
• 14:37 THAT'S THE CALL ON US AS JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 14:39 SO WHAT ABOUT THE BODY LIFE ITSELF HERE?
• 14:43 HOW DO THE CONGREGATIONS WORK?
• 14:45 YOU HAVE A HEBREW SPEAKING CONGREGATION.
• 14:46 TELL US ABOUT THE WORKING OF THE LOCAL CONGREGATION.
• 14:50 WELL THERE'S OVER 100 CONGREGATIONS IN ISRAEL.
• 14:55 MOST OF THEM ARE FAIRLY SMALL
• 14:57 AND YET THEY'RE VERY VARIED ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY.
• 15:02 EVERY DIFFERENT TYPE OF STREAM, YOU'LL FIND THAT HERE.
• 15:06 AND ACTUALLY I BELIEVE THERE'S A LOT OF UNITY IN THE COUNTRY.
• 15:10 I SERVE ON THE BOARD OF OUR NATIONAL ALLIANCE
• 15:12 AND WE HAVE A CLOSED NETWORK IN WHICH ALL OF THE PASTORS WRITE TO ONE ANOTHER ON THE EMAIL.
• 15:18 NOW, WE'RE JEWS, WHICH MEANS OUR NATIONAL SPORT IS TO ARGUE AND SO WE HAVE A LOT OF ARGUMENTS...
• 15:23 PASSIONATE ARGUMENTS.
• 15:26 IF PEOPLE WE'RE TO LOOK AT US
• 15:28 THEY WOULD SAY WE HAVE NO UNITY AT ALL.
• 15:29 BUT THAT'S NOT ACTUALLY TRUE.
• 15:30 WE'RE PASSIONATE PEOPLE.
• 15:32 WE ACTUALLY ARE HELPED IN SOME WAYS FOR OUR UNITY
• 15:36 IN THE FACT THAT THE RELIGIOUS, THE ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOUS LEADERSHIP MOSTLY ATTACK US.
• 15:42 SO THAT PUTS US...
• 15:44 AND THEY CAN'T TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OUR DIFFERENT STREAMS,
• 15:45 THEY JUST ATTACK ALL OF US.
• 15:47 SO IT SORT OF PUTS US ALL IN THE SAME SITUATION.
• 15:49 AND THEN OF COURSE ALL THE ATTACKS OF ISLAM IS FOR US BEING JEWS AND BEING ISRAELIS.
• 15:54 WE HAVE THAT.
• 15:55 SO THESE OUTWARD, NEGATIVE FORCES HELP US TOO
• 15:57 BUT WERE ALSO BROUGHT TOGETHER UNTO ONE BECAUSE WE ALL LOVE YESHUA.
• 16:02 WE ALL WANT TO SEE THE GOSPEL GO TO OUR PEOPLE AS IT SAYS, "ALL ISRAEL WILL BE SAVED".
• 16:08 WE ALL WANT TO SEE YESHUA COME BACK AS IT SAID,
• 16:10 "BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD."
• 16:12 SO THERE ARE THESE MAJOR THEMES...
• 16:15 PROPHETIC THEMES OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ISRAEL AND THE ENDS TIMES
• 16:19 THAT UNITE US DESPITE OF OUR SORT OF ARGUMENTATIVE PERSONALITY.
• 16:24 THERE'S SO MUCH PRESSURE ON THE MESSIANIC BODY.
• 16:27 YOU SPOKE ABOUT ISLAM
• 16:29 AND EVEN FROM WITHIN THE COUNTRY IT'S HARD TO DO WHAT YOU'RE DOING HERE.
• 16:32 HOW DOES THAT AFFECT BODY LIFE AND UNITY OF THE CONGREGATIONS?
• 16:36 WELL IT'S INTERESTING THAT IN ISRAEL
• 16:39 THE MESSIANIC JEWS LIVE IN SOME WAYS BETWEEN THE RELIGIOUS WORLD AND THE SECULAR WORLD.
• 16:44 THERE'S A REAL SPLIT IN ISRAEL'S SOCIETY BETWEEN THE RELIGIOUS WORLD AND THE SECULAR WORLD.
• 16:50 THE RELIGIOUS ARE VERY RELIGIOUS
• 16:52 AND THE SECULAR ARE VERY SECULAR.
• 16:53 AND IT'S INTERESTING THAT AMONG THE SECULAR WORLD THEY BELIEVE IN FREEDOM AND OPENNESS
• 16:59 SO WE HAVE A LITTLE MORE FREEDOM TO OPERATE THERE
• 17:01 BUT OF COURSE THE RELIGIOUS WORLD, THEY BELIEVE IN THE TORAH
• 17:03 AND THEY BELIEVE IN THE COVENANTS OF GOD
• 17:06 SO WE HAVE SOME VALUES THAT ARE MORE SIMILAR TO THEM.
• 17:09 BUT WE'RE KIND OF CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE IN THAT WAY A LITTLE BIT.
• 17:12 AND IT'S INTERESTING THAT FROM THE ORTHODOX WORLD
• 17:15 WE VERY MUCH LOVE THEM,
• 17:17 WE FEEL A PART OF THEM,
• 17:19 BUT THEY DON'T FEEL THE SAME WAY TOWARD US OBVIOUSLY AND WE UNDERSTAND THAT.
• 17:22 THEY THINK THAT WE ARE BETRAYING THEM AND BETRAYING OUR NATION
• 17:26 SO THEY TEND TO BRING A TYPE OF PERSECUTION AGAINST US,
• 17:31 A TYPE OF INTIMIDATION, SOCIAL REJECTION AND SO ON.
• 17:35 BUT IT'S INTERESTING WE FOUND THAT AS LONG AS WE STAY IN A PLACE OF LOVE,
• 17:40 STAY IN A PLACE THAT IS POSITIVE...
• 17:41 WE SEE THIS IN THE HEART OF YESHUA AND ALL OF HIS DISCIPLES
• 17:45 THAT DESPITE THE OPPOSITION FROM THE RELIGIOUS AROUND THEM THEY STAY IN A PLACE OF LOVE.
• 17:50 THEY ALWAYS TURNED THEM AND SAID, "BROTHERS...FATHERS"
• 17:54 AND THAT'S THE WAY WE TURN TO THEM.
• 17:56 WE ACTUALLY WENT THROUGH A GOOD BIT OF PERSECUTION THIS YEAR...
• 18:00 DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST US...
• 18:03 TAKEN TO THE POLICE...
• 18:04 TAKEN TO THE COURTROOM...
• 18:06 THREATS AGAINST US
• 18:08 BUT SOMEHOW IT JUST DIDN'T BOTHER US...
• 18:10 WE HAD A PEACE BECAUSE WE KNOW THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND US YET
• 18:14 AND IF THEY COULD UNDERSTAND US WE BELIEVE THEY WOULD LOVE IT...
• 18:16 WOULD LOVE WHAT WE HAVE TO SAY.
• 18:19 SO WE REMAIN IN A PLACE OF PEACE AND LOVE.
• 18:22 AND WITH THAT IT'S INTERESTING THAT PERSECUTION MAKES FOR PUBLICITY
• 18:28 AND SO ACTUALLY ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS STAY IN A PLACE OF LOVE
• 18:31 AND WHAT THEY DO ACTUALLY PUBLICIZES THE GOOD NEWS FOR US
• 18:36 EVEN THOUGH THEY MEAN IT SOMETHING NEGATIVELY
• 18:38 BUT THE LORD WORKS IT OUT TO BE SOMETHING POSITIVE.
• 18:41 SO WE WANT TO STAY IN A PLACE OF BEING POSITIVE ALL THE TIME
• 18:44 AND JUST BEING IN A PLACE OF LOVE WITH THEM.
• 18:48 (Myles speaking) ASHER CONDUCTS A DAILY BIBLE STUDY IN HEBREW
• 18:51 WITH A SMALL GROUP OF DEDICATED BELIEVERS.
• 18:54 THESE ARE AMONG THE MANY FUTURE LEADERS IN THE GROWING MESSIANIC MOVEMENT IN ISRAEL.
• 18:58 SOLOMON, ASHER'S SON, WORKS ALONG WITH HIS FATHER
• 19:02 INTERPRETING FOR US HERE IN ENGLISH.
• 19:04 HE TOO HAS A HEART FOR HIS PEOPLE
• 19:06 AS WELL AS THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD.
• 19:10 SOLOMON SO MUCH OF THE MINISTRY HERE
• 19:12 IS ABOUT RAISING UP THE NEXT GENERATION.
• 19:14 CAN YOU TELL OUR VIEWERS WHAT YOU SEE CHANGING AND WHAT'S COMING UP?
• 19:18 THE BODY OF MESSIAH IN ISRAEL
• 19:20 IS GOING THROUGH
• 19:22 A LOT OF CHANGES.
• 19:23 THE LEADERS UP UNTIL NOW,
• 19:25 AND THEY STILL ARE THE LEADERS,
• 19:26 HAVE BEEN PIONEERS.
• 19:27 SO THERE'S A LOT OF CHANGES THAT ARE NATURALLY HAPPENING
• 19:30 FOR PEOPLE LIKE MYSELF AND OTHER YOUNG LEADERS IN MY GENERATION
• 19:33 AFTER GROWING UP HERE THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT WE'RE WANTING TO CHANGE,
• 19:38 WANTING TO DO DIFFERENTLY...
• 19:39 A LOT THINGS THAT WE NEED TO FIGURE IT OUT OURSELVES.
• 19:42 FOR EXAMPLE, I AM AT SCHOOL AND OTHER PEOPLE ARE STUDYING
• 19:45 AND TALKING ABOUT WHAT IS OUR THEOLOGY...
• 19:47 HOW DO WE DEFINE OUR OWN IDENTITY?
• 19:49 A LOT OF THE THINGS THAT WE ARE FIGURING OUT IS FOR THE SAKE OF OUR OWN IDENTITY FIRST
• 19:55 AND NOT JUST FOR MINISTRY'S SAKE.
• 19:56 THE MINISTRY WOULD NATURALLY GROW OUT OF WHO WE ARE
• 19:59 AND HOW WE UNDERSTAND IT AND PIECE THINGS TOGETHER.
• 20:03 AND IS IT TRUE THAT YOU'LL BE BRANCHING OUT
• 20:05 FROM PULPIT MINISTRY INTO THE MARKET PLACE... POLITICS...WHEREVER?
• 20:09 YEAH, DEFINITELY
• 20:11 A LOT OF OUR LEADERS AND OUR FAMILIES LIKE MY OWN FAMILY IS AN IMMIGRANT FAMILY.
• 20:14 WE MOVED HERE AND I GREW UP HERE
• 20:16 SO THERE'S A NATURAL PROCESS OF US GROWING UP AND BEING INSIDE SOCIETY.
• 20:19 I MEAN WE WANT TO BE IN SOCIETY JUST BECAUSE WE WANT TO.
• 20:23 IT'S WHO WE ARE.
• 20:25 AND IN DOING SO WE WILL DEVELOP RELATIONSHIPS AND STUFF
• 20:28 AND WE WANT TO INFLUENCE AND WE WANT TO BRING KINGDOM VALUES TO THE NATION
• 20:33 EVEN WHEN IT'S NOT ACTUAL MINISTRY SO TO SPEAK.
• 20:40 SO BEYOND THE PULPIT
• 20:42 YEAH, BEYOND THE PULPIT
• 20:44 WE WANT TO DO MORE RELATIONAL
• 20:46 AND A LOT OF GETTING INSIDE THINGS
• 20:48 AND JUST BE WHO WE ARE IN THE PLACES THAT GOD'S PLACED US
• 20:52 AND HE WILL USE US AND THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT.
• 20:55 AND DEFINITELY A LOT OF CHANGES...
• 20:57 BREAKING OUT OF THE TRADITIONAL MINISTRY KIND OF SET UP.
• 20:59 WHICH I DON'T THINK WORKS ONE ON ONE IN ISRAEL.
• 21:04 IT DOESN'T QUITE ADAPT EXACTLY.
• 21:07 SO YOU'RE LOOKING AT TRANSFORMING SOCIETY HERE.
• 21:11 YEAH...I MEAN I THINK THAT'S WHAT GOD IS ABOUT.
• 21:16 I'M NOT INTO IT...
• 21:18 I MEAN GOD IS INTO IT
• 21:19 AND WE'RE JUST TRYING TO BE WHO WE ARE
• 21:22 WHICH IS THE CHILDREN OF GOD AND HE WILL USE US.
• 21:34 ♪HEAR MY PRAYER, O LORD♪
• 21:36 ♪AND LET MY CRY COME UNTO YOU♪
• 21:42 ♪PLEASE DON'T HIDE YOUR FACE FROM ME♪
• 21:45 ♪IN THE DAY OF MY TROUBLE♪
• 21:50 ♪SHEMA YISRAEL YOU HAVE NOT BEEN FORGOTTEN♪
• 21:56 ♪OH YOUR TIME IS COME!♪
• 22:01 ♪SHEMA YISRAEL YOU WILL NOT BE FORSAKEN♪
• 22:05 ♪O THE TIME TO FAVOR ZION...♪
• 22:07 ♪THE TIME TO FAVOR ZION HAS COME♪
• 22:13 ♪FOR MY DAYS ARE LIKE SMOKE♪
• 22:15 ♪AND ALL MY BONES ARE IN THE FURNACE♪
• 22:22 ♪MY HEART SO STRICKEN AND WITHERED♪
• 22:24 ♪I CAN'T EVEN EAT MY BREAD ...NO♪
• 22:29 ♪SHEMA YISRAEL YOU HAVE NOT BEEN FORGOTTEN♪
• 22:35 ♪OH YOUR TIME IS COME!♪
• 22:40 ♪SHEMA YISRAEL YOU WILL NOT BE FORSAKEN♪
• 22:44 ♪O THE TIME TO FAVOR ZION...♪
• 22:46 ♪THE TIME TO FAVOR ZION HAS COME♪
• 23:09 ♪OHHHHH♪
• 23:32 ♪FOR THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE DECLARED IN ZION,♪
• 23:37 ♪AND HIS PRAISE IN JERU...SA...LEM♪
• 23:47 ♪JERU...SA...LEM♪
• 23:57 ♪THIS SHALL BE WRITTEN♪
• 23:58 ♪FOR A FUTURE GENERATION TO COME♪
• 24:01 ♪WHO KNOWS THE TIME TO FAVOR ZION HAS COME♪
• 24:05 ♪AND FOR A PEOPLE YET CREATED WHO WOULD PRAISE THE LORD♪
• 24:10 ♪THE TIME TO FAVOR ZION HAS COME♪
• 24:15 ♪SHEMA YISRAEL♪
• 24:24 ♪SHEMA YISRAEL♪
• 24:28 ♪THE TIME TO FAVOR ZION...♪
• 24:30 ♪THE TIME TO FAVOR ZION HAS COME♪
• 24:35 ♪THE TIME TO FAVOR ZION...♪
• 24:37 ♪THE TIME TO FAVOR ZION HAS COME♪
• 24:43 ♪THE TIME HAS COME♪
• 24:50 BEAUTIFUL MUSIC FROM TED
• 24:52 I LOVE HEARING HIS PASSION FOR THE LORD
• 24:55 AND THE WORSHIP THAT HE SINGS.
• 24:57 YOU KNOW THIS WHOLE STORY THAT WE SEE IN THESE INTERVIEWS FROM ASHER AND SOLOMON
• 25:01 REALLY SPEAKS ABOUT THE ARC OF JEWISH HISTORY
• 25:04 AND THE WAY THE GOSPEL COMES IN
• 25:06 AND REALLY LAUNCHES THE LIFE OF ISRAEL INTO THE WHOLE WORLD.
• 25:11 WE HAVE SUCH A MISUNDERSTANDING OF THE WORD "MISSIONARY".
• 25:13 REALLY IT'S APPLIED TO PAUL.
• 25:15 AND TODAY MY PEOPLE ARE AFRAID THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE TURNED INTO GENTILES.
• 25:18 WELL PAUL WENT TO TURN THE GENTILES INTO THE COMMONWEALTH OF ISRAEL...
• 25:21 TO TURN THEM TO THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB.
• 25:25 THAT'S WHAT ASHER AND OTHERS ARE DOING FROM JERUSALEM TO THE WORLD.
• 25:29 YOU KNOW WE SEE IN THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL
• 25:31 THERE WAS THE CHOOSING OF ABRAHAM, THEN THE BLESSING OF ABRAHAM,
• 25:35 HOW THE LAND WAS GIVEN TO ABRAHAM.
• 25:37 WE SEE THE HISTORY OF THE SCATTERING AND THEN THE INGATHERING
• 25:40 ESPECIALLY COMING INTO THE 20TH CENTURY
• 25:43 1948 WHEN THE STATE OF ISRAEL WAS RENEWED
• 25:46 AND THEN THE RESTORATION HAS BEGUN
• 25:49 AND SOON WE'RE GOING TO SEE THE REDEMPTION OF ISRAEL.
• 25:52 IT'S STARTING WITH HERE AND THERE, NOW AND THEN
• 25:55 BELIEVERS ARISING IN THE LAND
• 25:57 BUT NOW THOSE BELIEVERS ARE LEAVENING THE WHOLE LUMP
• 26:00 AND SANCTIFYING THE STATE
• 26:02 AND EVENTUALLY EVERY KNEE WILL BOW AND EVERY TONGUE CONFESS THAT JESUS IS LORD.
• 26:07 THE RESTORATION IS ALIVE AND WELL TODAY IN ISRAEL.
• 26:11 AND ALL GOD'S PROMISES ARE "YES" AND "AMEN"
• 26:14 AND WE NEED TO HOLD FAST TO THOSE PROMISES
• 26:16 AS WE SEE THE DAYS APPROACHING WITH THE THREATS AGAINST ISRAEL.
• 26:19 YOU KNOW GOD HAS PROMISED THAT HE WILL NOT SLUMBER NOR SLEEP
• 26:23 BUT THAT HE WOULD KEEP THEM AS THE APPLE OF HIS EYE
• 26:26 AND NO MORE TO BE PLUCKED OUT OF THE LAND.
• 26:28 THERE'S SO MANY TRUE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING
• 26:30 AND WE'RE SEEING
• 26:32 AND WE'RE WITNESSING
• 26:32 AND WE'RE BRINGING THEM TO YOU.
• 26:34 AND IN ORDER FOR US TO BRING THEM TO YOU
• 26:36 IT'S IMPORTANT THAT YOU REMEMBER GIFTS OF FUNDS
• 26:38 THAT'S THE SUPPORT THAT WE NEED TO CONTINUE
• 26:41 TO BRING THESE PROGRAMS TO YOU FROM THE LAND,
• 26:43 FROM THE NATIONS.
• 26:45 AND UNTIL WE SEE YOU AGAIN PLEASE REMEMBER,
• 26:47 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:49 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM