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

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