Caption transcript for Abraham: Father of Faith — “A Domestic Conflict for the Ages” (4/8)

• 00:01 (♪ Theme Music ♪)
• 00:24 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 00:33 ♪ ♪
• 00:49 Myles: SHALOM AND WELCOME TO
• 00:50 ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 00:51 I'M MYLES WEISS.
• 00:52 Katharine: AND I'M
• 00:53 KATHARINE WEISS AND WE WANT TO
• 00:54 WELCOME YOU BACK TO OUR SHOW,
• 00:57 "FATHER OF FAITH."
• 00:58 WE BEGAN THIS JOURNEY
• 01:00 IN GENESIS 12.
• 01:02 GOD MAKES A COVENANT
• 01:03 WITH ABRAHAM AND HE ESTABLISHES
• 01:05 THAT HE'S GOING TO BE A BLESSING
• 01:06 AND HE'S GOING TO
• 01:07 BLESS THOSE THAT BLESS HIM
• 01:08 AND CURSE THOSE WHO CURSE HIM.
• 01:09 Myles: THAT'S TRUE.
• 01:10 Katharine: AND WE'VE ALREADY
• 01:11 GONE THROUGH SEVERAL CHAPTERS
• 01:12 AND NOW WE ARE IN CHAPTER 16
• 01:15 AND THE COVENANT
• 01:17 HAD COME TO ABRAHAM.
• 01:18 HE'S CONFIRMED IT,
• 01:19 HE'S DONE EVERYTHING
• 01:20 BUT THERE'S BEEN THIS LONG TIME.
• 01:22 SARAH HAS NOT CONCEIVED.
• 01:24 IT'S BEEN 10 YEARS
• 01:26 AND SHE'S FINALLY SAYING,
• 01:27 "ABRAHAM, IT'S BEEN TOO LONG.
• 01:29 I DON'T KNOW HOW WE'RE GOING TO
• 01:30 BRING THIS TO PASS.
• 01:32 TAKE MY MAID; TAKE HAGAR."
• 01:35 Myles: RIGHT, SHE TRIES TO MAKE
• 01:36 PROVISION IN THE FLESH
• 01:37 AND WE'RE GOING TO SEE
• 01:38 HOW COMPLICATED THAT BECOMES.
• 01:40 Katharine: FOR CENTURIES.
• 01:41 Myles: YES, SO LET'S GO
• 01:42 TO OUR DRAMA RIGHT NOW,
• 01:43 AS WE PICK UP THE STORY OF
• 01:44 "ABRAHAM: THE FATHER OF FAITH."
• 01:57 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 03:30 Myles: TALK ABOUT
• 03:31 THE PLOT THICKENING,
• 03:32 WE ARE SEEING SOME INCREDIBLE
• 03:34 COMPLEXITY COME INTO THE LIFE
• 03:36 OF ABRAM AND SARAI; I MEAN,
• 03:39 HERE, THE SCRIPTURE TELLS US,
• 03:41 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 03:44 IT HAD BEEN YEARS
• 03:45 AND THEY HAD NOT HAD CHILDREN.
• 03:47 SARAI DID NOT GIVE ABRAM
• 03:49 CHILDREN AND THAT'S
• 03:50 A REAL DILEMMA FOR ANYONE BUT
• 03:52 CERTAINLY BACK IN THE DAY--
• 03:53 Katharine: IT HAD ACTUALLY BEEN
• 03:54 10 YEARS AND SARAH WAS
• 03:56 NOW FEELING LIKE...BLAME.
• 03:58 SHE SAID THE LORD HAS SHUT UP
• 04:00 MY WOMB, SO SHE WAS IN QUITE
• 04:02 CONSTERNATION AND SO SHE TURNS
• 04:04 AND OFFERS ABRAM
• 04:05 HER MAIDSERVANT AND SHE SAYS,
• 04:07 "HERE, TAKE MY MAIDSERVANT."
• 04:09 IN OUR DAY WE COULDN'T THINK
• 04:11 OF DOING THAT WITH OUR HUSBAND
• 04:13 BUT IT'S KIND OF LIKE
• 04:14 YOU WOULD A SURROGATE,
• 04:16 AND IN THE CULTURE OF THAT DAY,
• 04:19 THERE WAS A SYRIAN LAW
• 04:22 THAT IF THEY HADN'T HAD A CHILD
• 04:24 WITHIN TWO YEARS,
• 04:25 THEY COULD GIVE THEIR
• 04:26 MAIDSERVANT TO THEIR HUSBAND.
• 04:28 Myles: AND ISN'T A MAIDSERVANT
• 04:29 CLOSER IN AND MORE
• 04:31 OF AN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP
• 04:33 WITH THE MISTRESS?
• 04:34 Katharine: WELL, I THINK THERE
• 04:35 MIGHT HAVE EVEN BEEN
• 04:36 A REALLY SWEET RELATIONSHIP
• 04:38 BETWEEN HAGAR AND SARAI.
• 04:40 THEY HAD ACQUIRED HAGAR
• 04:42 IN EGYPT WHEN THEY WENT DOWN.
• 04:44 IT SEEMED TO ME THAT THERE WAS
• 04:45 A WORKING RELATIONSHIP,
• 04:47 A VERY "ON" RELATIONSHIP FOR HER
• 04:49 TO EVEN OFFER HER MAIDSERVANT
• 04:50 TO ABRAHAM.
• 04:51 Myles: IT STARTED THAT WAY,
• 04:52 BUT IT BECAME VERY CONTENTIOUS
• 04:54 AS ONE MIGHT IMAGINE.
• 04:55 WHEN HAGAR CONCEIVED,
• 04:58 THAT BECAME A REPROACH
• 05:00 FOR SARAI AND THEY HAVE WORDS
• 05:01 WITH EACH OTHER, IN FACT,
• 05:02 SARAI HAS REAL STRONG SAYINGS
• 05:05 TOWARDS ABRAM, DOESN'T SHE?
• 05:07 Katharine: ONCE SHE CONCEIVES,
• 05:09 HAGAR DESPISES HER MISTRESS.
• 05:12 SO I CAN SEE HER..."HERE I AM,
• 05:14 MY BELLY'S FULL AND LOOK AT YOU.
• 05:16 THERE'S NOTHING
• 05:17 THAT YOU HAVE TO OFFER ABRAM.
• 05:18 I AM NOW SUPERIOR."
• 05:20 SO NOW, WE'RE IN THIS CONFLICT.
• 05:22 SARAI'S MADE A MESS, AND SO
• 05:24 SHE GOES TO ABRAHAM AND SAYS,
• 05:27 "YOU FIX IT...YOU SUCCUMBED
• 05:30 TO MY WORDS AND NOW YOU FIX IT."
• 05:32 Myles: IT REALLY IS
• 05:33 A PICTURE FOR US
• 05:34 OF NOT WAITING ON GOD'S PROMISE
• 05:36 BUT RUSHING AHEAD
• 05:37 AND TRYING TO FULFILL SOMETHING
• 05:38 IN THE NATURAL WAY,
• 05:40 IN A BIOLOGICAL WAY, THAT GOD IS
• 05:42 WANTING TO DO SUPERNATURALLY,
• 05:44 AND SO, BETWEEN THEM,
• 05:45 THEY CREATE THIS ALTERNATIVE,
• 05:47 WHICH IS ISHMAEL.
• 05:49 NOW THIS IS A TOUCHY SUBJECT,
• 05:51 BECAUSE ISHMAEL
• 05:53 WILL ALSO BE BLESSED BY GOD
• 05:55 AS A SON OF ABRAM.
• 05:56 BUT WHAT IT DOES SET UP
• 05:58 IS THIS CONTENTION BETWEEN
• 05:59 THE SON OF PROMISE, ISAAC,
• 06:02 AND THE SON OF THE NATURAL LIFE,
• 06:03 ISHMAEL, WHICH WILL HAVE
• 06:05 INCREDIBLE REPERCUSSIONS
• 06:06 OVER THE CENTURIES
• 06:08 AND EVEN INTO OUR DAY.
• 06:09 WE'RE LIVING WITH THE
• 06:10 REPERCUSSIONS OF THAT CHOICE.
• 06:13 AND ONE THING THAT HAPPENS
• 06:14 IS THE DE-PERSONALIZING
• 06:16 THAT WE SEE IN THE WORDS
• 06:17 THAT ABRAM AND SARAI USE
• 06:19 REGARDING HAGAR.
• 06:20 IN ORDER TO GET THROUGH
• 06:21 THIS DILEMMA THEY START SAYING
• 06:23 "THAT HANDMAID,"
• 06:25 "YOUR HANDMAID,"
• 06:26 "SHE," "HER" AND THEY REALLY TAKE
• 06:27 AWAY THE NAME AND TAKE AWAY
• 06:30 THE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
• 06:32 IN ORDER TO DISTANCE THEMSELVES
• 06:33 FROM HER.
• 06:35 I THINK THAT THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS
• 06:36 WHENEVER THERE'S OPPRESSION,
• 06:38 WHENEVER THERE'S A GROUP
• 06:39 THAT'S SINGLED OUT,
• 06:40 THE FIRST THING THAT TAKES PLACE
• 06:42 IS A DE-PERSONALIZING.
• 06:44 AND THAT'S REALLY
• 06:45 WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE
• 06:46 IS THAT SARAI AND ABRAM
• 06:48 ARE TRYING TO FIND THEIR WAY
• 06:49 THROUGH THIS AND IN ORDER
• 06:50 TO FIND THEIR WAY THROUGH,
• 06:51 THEY HAVE TO DISTANCE
• 06:52 THEMSELVES FROM THE EFFECT
• 06:54 OF THEIR OWN CHOICES.
• 06:55 Katharine: NO MATTER WHAT WE DO,
• 06:57 IF WE FALL OR IF WE STUMBLE,
• 06:59 IF WE TURN TO THE LORD,
• 07:00 HE CAN MAKE IT RIGHT.
• 07:01 HE CAN WORK IT TOGETHER
• 07:02 FOR GOOD.
• 07:03 Myles: RIGHT,
• 07:04 AND WE'RE GOING TO SEE THAT
• 07:06 IN THE UPCOMING STORY HOW GOD
• 07:08 IS GOING TO TAKE ALL OF THIS
• 07:09 SEEMING MESS AND DYSFUNCTION
• 07:10 AND USE IT FOR GOOD FOR
• 07:12 ABRAHAM: THE FATHER OF FAITH.
• 07:21 Announcer: FOR INSIGHTFUL
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• 07:57 Narrator: AND ABRAM
• 07:58 SAID UNTO SARAI,
• 08:01 "BEHOLD THY MAID
• 08:02 IS IN THY HAND.
• 08:04 DO TO HER AS IT PLEASES THEE."
• 08:07 AND WHEN SARAI DEALT HARSHLY
• 08:09 WITH HAGAR, SHE FLED
• 08:11 FROM THE FACE OF SARAI.
• 08:14 AND THE ANGEL OF THE LORD
• 08:15 FOUND HER BY A FOUNTAIN
• 08:17 OF WATER IN THE WILDERNESS,
• 08:19 BY THE FOUNTAIN
• 08:20 ON THE WAY TO SHUR.
• 08:22 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 10:04 Myles: OUT OF ALL THE PERSONAL
• 10:05 DIFFICULTIES, OUT OF THE TENSION
• 10:08 IN THE RELATIONSHIPS
• 10:09 WE'RE ABOUT TO SEE,
• 10:10 AN INCREDIBLE INTERVENTION
• 10:12 BY GOD HIMSELF,
• 10:13 AND HAGAR IS SENT OUT.
• 10:15 AND SHE WILL HAVE
• 10:16 AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE LORD
• 10:18 THROUGH HIS ANGELIC PRESENCE.
• 10:20 IT'S AMAZING.
• 10:21 Katharine: WELL,
• 10:22 SARAH WAS UNDONE.
• 10:23 SHE SAID, "I'VE MADE A MESS;
• 10:25 YOU FIX IT ABRAHAM."
• 10:27 AND THEN HE SAYS,
• 10:28 "YOU DO WHAT YOU WANT
• 10:29 WITH YOUR HANDMAIDEN."
• 10:30 SO SHE DEALT WITH HER HARSHLY
• 10:32 THE SCRIPTURE SAYS,
• 10:33 SO HAGAR FLED AND SHE BEGAN
• 10:35 TO GO BACK TOWARDS EGYPT.
• 10:38 AND HERE SHE WAS WITH CHILD,
• 10:39 VERY LITTLE WATER...
• 10:41 BUT WHAT HAPPENS IS A MIRACLE.
• 10:43 GOD APPEARS TO HAGAR
• 10:45 AND HE SAYS,
• 10:46 "I AM THE GOD THAT SEES YOU."
• 10:49 IN THIS STORY THAT WE'VE LEARNED
• 10:51 ABOUT ABRAHAM,
• 10:52 WE SEE THAT GOD CALLS ABRAHAM
• 10:55 OUT OF THE WORSHIP OF MANY GODS
• 10:57 TO REVEAL HIMSELF AS THE ONE
• 10:59 TRUE GOD WITH MANY NAMES.
• 11:01 AND WHAT'S SO AMAZING
• 11:03 ABOUT THIS STORY IS THAT HAGAR
• 11:06 IS THE ONLY ONE IN SCRIPTURE
• 11:07 THAT ACTUALLY GIVES GOD A NAME.
• 11:10 Myles: IT SAYS IN SCRIPTURE...
• 11:12 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 11:18 AND SHE CALLED
• 11:19 THE NAME OF THE LORD,
• 11:20 "YOU ARE THE GOD WHO SEES ME."
• 11:21 SHE GETS TO NAME GOD AND SAYS,
• 11:23 "YOU'VE SEEN ME."
• 11:25 AND JUST IN TIME, I WOULD SAY.
• 11:27 SHE WAS GOING TO DIE OF THIRST
• 11:30 AND THE ANGEL OF THE LORD COMES
• 11:31 TO HER, RESCUES HER AND ISHMAEL
• 11:34 AND THEN GOD NAMES ISHMAEL.
• 11:37 Katharine: HE SAYS TO HAGAR,
• 11:38 "HAGAR, YOU ARE WITH CHILD."
• 11:41 SHE KNEW SHE WAS WITH CHILD.
• 11:42 AND HE SAYS, "IT IS A BOY
• 11:43 AND HIS NAME IS ISHMAEL."
• 11:46 AND HE EVEN DESCRIBES
• 11:47 WHAT KIND OF MAN HE WILL BE.
• 11:49 Myles: RIGHT, GOD PROPHESIES
• 11:51 OVER HER THAT ISHMAEL
• 11:53 WILL BE A WILD MAN.
• 11:55 HIS HAND WILL BE AGAINST HIS
• 11:56 BROTHER AS HE WILL BE A WILD MAN
• 11:58 IN THE EARTH AND REALLY GIVES
• 11:59 A DESCRIPTION OF WHAT IS
• 12:01 GOING TO COME TO PASS THROUGH
• 12:02 THE CENTURIES AND THROUGH
• 12:03 THE GENERATIONS OF THE SONS
• 12:05 OF ISHMAEL, NOT THE LEAST OF
• 12:06 WHICH IS THE TENSION THAT WE SEE
• 12:09 EVEN IN OUR DAY, OF THE TENSION
• 12:10 BETWEEN THE SONS OF ISHMAEL
• 12:12 AND THE SONS OF ISAAC.
• 12:14 HE TELLS HER
• 12:15 THAT THERE WILL BE 12 TRIBES,
• 12:16 12 SONS, THAT WILL COME FROM HIM
• 12:18 AND GOD HAS BLESSED ISHMAEL.
• 12:20 EVEN TODAY WE CAN SEE
• 12:22 THAT GOD HAS BLESSED ISHMAEL
• 12:24 WITH INCOMPARABLE WEALTH.
• 12:26 WHEN THIS LITTLE NATION
• 12:27 OF ISRAEL, SURROUNDED BY
• 12:29 THE SONS OF ISHMAEL,
• 12:30 THE NEIGHBORS AROUND
• 12:31 THIS NATION, 22 NATIONS
• 12:34 THAT ARE GIVEN TO THE RELIGION
• 12:35 OF ISLAM, WHICH HAS BEEN
• 12:36 APPROPRIATED AS THE RELIGION
• 12:38 OF THE SONS OF ISHMAEL,
• 12:40 BY AND LARGE, BUT IT IS
• 12:42 THIS TINY SLIVER OF LAND
• 12:44 GIVEN TO THE SONS OF ISAAC
• 12:45 AND THE INCREDIBLE TENSION
• 12:47 OVER THESE PROVISIONS,
• 12:49 THE PROVISION TO ISAAC
• 12:50 AND THE PROVISION
• 12:52 TO THE SONS OF ISHMAEL.
• 12:53 BUT GOD SAYS SOMETHING
• 12:54 PRETTY AMAZING TO HAGAR.
• 12:57 HE TELLS HER TO GO HOME
• 12:58 AND SUBMIT.
• 13:00 Katharine: WE CONTINUALLY SEE
• 13:03 GOD'S ORDER...
• 13:04 GO HOME AND SUBMIT
• 13:05 TO YOUR HANDMAIDEN SARAI
• 13:07 AND I WILL BLESS YOU.
• 13:09 AND THERE'S EVEN A PROPHETIC
• 13:11 NUDGING IN THIS VERY DECREE
• 13:14 THAT GOD SAYS BECAUSE
• 13:15 IF THE ISHMAELITES WOULD
• 13:17 SUBMIT TO SARAIS, GOD WILL BRING
• 13:21 AN INCREDIBLE BLESSING.
• 13:23 Myles: THE WAY WE COULD SAY IT
• 13:24 IN MODERN LANGUAGE
• 13:25 COULD BE THAT IF THE SONS
• 13:27 OF ISHMAEL WOULD COME IN
• 13:29 THROUGH THE SAME DOOR,
• 13:31 THAT IS YESHUA,
• 13:32 THAT THE SONS OF ISAAC
• 13:33 NEED TO COME IN THROUGH...
• 13:34 YOU SEE, GOD PROMISED THE SEED
• 13:37 OF ABRAHAM WOULD BE A BLESSING
• 13:39 IN ALL THE EARTH.
• 13:40 WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
• 13:41 IT MEANS THE BLESSING WOULD
• 13:43 COME THROUGH THE LINE OF ISAAC,
• 13:44 THE PROMISED SON,
• 13:45 AND THE GREATEST BLESSING
• 13:46 OF ALL WOULD BE THE MESSIAH,
• 13:48 THE JEWISH MASHIACH, OR MESSIAH.
• 13:50 THE SONS OF ISHMAEL
• 13:52 CAN PARTAKE OF THAT BLESSING
• 13:54 BY COMING IN THROUGH THE DOOR
• 13:56 OF THE MESSIAH,
• 13:57 AND THAT IS OUR PRAYER TODAY,
• 13:59 THAT THE SONS OF ISHMAEL WOULD
• 14:01 SAY "YES" TO THE JEWISH MESSIAH.
• 14:04 WHEN THEY DO THAT--AND
• 14:05 WE'VE SEEN THIS IN OUR LIVES--
• 14:06 WHEN THEY DO THAT, THEY ARE
• 14:08 FILLED WITH LOVE FOR THE JEWS
• 14:10 AND FOR THE CHRISTIANS.
• 14:11 THEY'RE FILLED WITH LOVE THAT
• 14:13 IS NOT THERE BEFORE THEY SAY
• 14:15 "YES" TO THE PROMISED MESSIAH.
• 14:18 AND IF THE SONS OF ISHMAEL
• 14:19 WOULD DO THAT, THERE WOULD
• 14:20 BE PEACE IN THE WORLD.
• 14:21 REALLY, THE ENTIRE CONFLICTS
• 14:22 THAT WE SEE IN SO MANY
• 14:24 OF THE WARS IN THE WORLD ARE
• 14:26 BASED ON THE RELIGION OF ISLAM.
• 14:27 IF THESE SONS OF ISHMAEL
• 14:29 WOULD ONLY, LIKE HAGAR,
• 14:31 GO HOME AND SUBMIT.
• 14:32 IF THEY WOULD ONLY COME HOME
• 14:33 AND SUBMIT TO THE GOD
• 14:36 OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB,
• 14:37 TO THE GOD OF ISRAEL,
• 14:39 THERE WOULD BE PEACE
• 14:40 IN THIS WORLD.
• 14:41 AND I THINK THAT WILL HAPPEN
• 14:43 WHEN SAR SHALOM APPEARS,
• 14:44 WHEN THE PRINCE OF PEACE
• 14:45 APPEARS,
• 14:46 WE'LL ACTUALLY SEE PEACE.
• 14:48 FOR NOW, ONE BY ONE,
• 14:50 LITTLE BY LITTLE,
• 14:51 HERE A LITTLE, THERE A LITTLE,
• 14:52 THE SONS OF ISHMAEL STILL HAVE
• 14:55 THE OPPORTUNITY TO SAY "YES"
• 14:57 TO THE GOD OF ABRAHAM
• 14:59 AND WE'RE PRAYING THAT
• 15:00 THEY WILL CONTINUE TO DO THAT.
• 15:03 ♪ ♪
• 15:37 Myles: WE LOVE ISRAEL.
• 15:38 WE WOULD LOVE TO HOST YOU
• 15:39 IN ISRAEL.
• 15:40 IN FACT, WE MAKE IT
• 15:41 AS EASY AS POSSIBLE.
• 15:43 AND IN ORDER TO MAKE THAT
• 15:44 EASIER FOR YOU,
• 15:45 WE HAVE WITH US TODAY,
• 15:46 TRACIE, OUR TRAVEL MANAGER.
• 15:47 TRACIE, WHAT'S GOING ON
• 15:48 WITH THE TOURS THESE DAYS?
• 15:49 Tracie: MYLES, WE JUST POSTED
• 15:51 SOME BRAND-NEW VIDEO ONLINE.
• 15:52 I INVITE YOU TO GO
• 15:53 ON levitt.com.
• 15:56 WE ADDRESS THE THREE COMMONLY
• 15:58 ASKED QUESTIONS THAT I GET.
• 15:59 Myles: WHICH ARE?
• 16:01 Tracie: WHY ZOLA TOURS?
• 16:02 I KNOW THAT YOU AND KATHARINE
• 16:03 ARE A BIG PART
• 16:04 OF WHAT MAKES THAT.
• 16:05 I TALK ABOUT THE FIVE REASONS
• 16:06 YOU SHOULD COME WITH US
• 16:07 AND ONE IS THE EXCELLENT
• 16:08 SPIRITUAL COMPONENT.
• 16:10 DO YOU KNOW THAT
• 16:11 MOST TOURS DON'T OFFER
• 16:12 THE MESSIANIC COMPONENT
• 16:13 THAT YOU AND KATHARINE BRING?
• 16:14 IT'S AMAZING.
• 16:15 I ALSO TALK ABOUT...
• 16:17 IS ISRAEL EVEN SAFE?
• 16:18 IT ABSOLUTELY IS
• 16:19 AND I INVITE YOU
• 16:20 TO WATCH THAT VIDEO.
• 16:21 ALSO, ARE WE GOING TO GREECE
• 16:23 THIS YEAR, WITH EVERYTHING
• 16:24 GOING ON OVER THERE?
• 16:25 AND WE ARE.
• 16:26 YOU KNOW, MYLES, WE HAVE NEVER
• 16:27 CANCELED ONE TOUR IN 28 YEARS.
• 16:29 Myles: I LOVE THAT.
• 16:30 Tracie: AND IT'S REALLY A JOY
• 16:31 TO HAVE YOU AND KATHARINE.
• 16:32 I KNOW THAT THE EVALUATIONS
• 16:33 CONTINUE TO COME BACK
• 16:34 EXCELLENT, AND YOU'RE A BIG PART
• 16:36 OF THAT, YOU AND KATHARINE.
• 16:37 AND, SPEAKING OF THAT,
• 16:39 I KNOW THAT YOU AND SHE HAVE
• 16:40 SERVED IN A MINISTRY AT CHURCH
• 16:42 FOR 25 YEARS IN THE PASTORATE,
• 16:44 AND YOU MAY KNOW THAT WE HAVE
• 16:46 A SPECIAL HEART FOR YOU PASTORS
• 16:48 OUT THERE WHO WANT
• 16:49 TO GET A GROUP TOGETHER.
• 16:50 YOU GET 10 PAYING PASSENGERS
• 16:52 AND YOU COME FREE.
• 16:53 WE'D LOVE YOU TO HAVE
• 16:54 20 PAYING PASSENGERS
• 16:55 AND YOU AND YOUR WIFE
• 16:56 CAN COME FREE.
• 16:57 I HANDLE ALL THE LOGISTICS
• 16:58 AND I KNOW THAT YOU KNOW AS
• 16:59 A PASTOR HOW IMPORTANT THAT IS.
• 17:01 Myles: OH, IT MAKES
• 17:02 ALL THE DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD,
• 17:03 HAVING SET UP TOURS,
• 17:04 TO HAVE YOU THERE.
• 17:05 AND THE FEEDBACK WE GET
• 17:06 FROM THE PILGRIMS,
• 17:07 IS TRACIE HANDLED EVERYTHING,
• 17:09 SHE MADE IT SEAMLESS FOR US.
• 17:11 SO THAT'S JUST YOUR GIFT
• 17:12 TO THE MINISTRY.
• 17:13 Tracie: WELL, IT'S A JOY
• 17:14 TO HAVE YOU AND KATHARINE.
• 17:15 I WANT TO INVITE YOU TO GO TO
• 17:16 OUR WEBSITE AND LOOK AT THOSE
• 17:17 THREE MOST COMMONLY ASKED
• 17:18 QUESTIONS AND CALL ME ANYTIME.
• 17:20 I'D LOVE TO TALK WITH YOU
• 17:21 PERSONALLY.
• 17:22 Myles: THAT'S GREAT. THANK YOU,
• 17:23 TRACIE; IT'S WONDERFUL TO HAVE
• 17:24 YOU DOING THIS AND OUR PILGRIMS
• 17:25 ARE ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT
• 17:26 HOW YOU MAKE IT SO EASY
• 17:27 FOR THEM TO COME WITH US.
• 17:29 AND YOU REALLY WANT TO COME
• 17:30 WITH US ON THESE TOURS.
• 17:31 THEY'RE INCREDIBLE....
• 17:32 LIFE-CHANGING.
• 17:33 ISRAEL IS THE CENTER
• 17:35 OF THE UNIVERSE; NO QUESTION.
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• 17:43 WE ALSO HAVE OUR OFFER
• 17:44 THIS WEEK:
• 17:45 "ABRAHAM: FATHER OF FAITH."
• 17:47 THE VERY SERIES THAT YOU'RE
• 17:48 SEEING IS AVAILABLE TO YOU.
• 17:49 OUR ANNOUNCER AT THE END
• 17:51 OF THE PROGRAM WILL TELL YOU
• 17:52 HOW TO GET AHOLD OF IT.
• 17:53 WE'D LOVE TO GET THAT INTO
• 17:54 YOUR HANDS, AS WELL, SO THAT YOU
• 17:56 CAN REALLY WALK THROUGH
• 17:57 THE WAY OF THE PATRIARCHS
• 17:59 AND UNDERSTAND
• 18:00 THE CONFLICT IN ISRAEL,
• 18:01 BUT THE HOPE THAT IS THERE
• 18:03 BECAUSE GOD HIMSELF
• 18:04 HAS GIVEN THE LAND.
• 18:06 SO LET'S RETURN TO OUR DRAMA
• 18:08 AS ABRAHAM AND SARAI
• 18:10 CONTINUE ON THE WALK OF FAITH.
• 18:15 Narrator: AND WHEN ABRAM
• 18:16 WAS 99 YEARS OLD,
• 18:18 THE LORD APPEARED TO HIM
• 18:19 AND SAID,
• 18:21 "I AM THE ALMIGHTY GOD.
• 18:24 WALK BEFORE ME
• 18:25 AND BE THOU PERFECT
• 18:28 AND I WILL MAKE MY COVENANT
• 18:29 BETWEEN ME AND THEE AND WILL
• 18:31 MULTIPLE THEE EXCEEDINGLY."
• 18:35 AND ABRAM FELL ON HIS FACE
• 18:38 AND GOD TALKED WITH HIM SAYING,
• 18:40 "BEHOLD, MY COVENANT
• 18:42 IS WITH THEE
• 18:44 AND THOU SHALT BE A FATHER
• 18:45 OF MANY NATIONS.
• 18:47 YOUR NAME
• 18:48 SHALL NO LONGER BE ABRAM
• 18:50 BUT THY NAME SHALL BE 'ABRAHAM'
• 18:54 FOR A FATHER OF NATIONS
• 18:55 HAVE I MADE THEE AND I WILL
• 18:58 MAKE THEE EXCEEDINGLY FRUITFUL.
• 19:01 AND I WILL MAKE NATIONS OF THEE
• 19:04 AND KINGS SHALL COME OUT OF
• 19:06 THEE AND I WILL GIVE UNTO THEE
• 19:09 AND THY SEED AFTER THEE
• 19:11 THE LAND WHEREIN
• 19:12 THOU ART A STRANGER...
• 19:15 ALL THE LAND OF CANAAN
• 19:17 FOR AN EVERLASTING POSSESSION
• 19:20 AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD.
• 19:23 EVERY MALE
• 19:24 SHALL BE CIRCUMCISED.
• 19:26 AS FOR SARAI, THEY WIFE,
• 19:29 THOU SHALT NOT
• 19:30 CALL HER NAME SARAI,
• 19:32 BUT 'SARAH' HER NAME SHALL BE.
• 19:36 AND I WILL BLESS HER AND
• 19:38 GIVE THEE A SON ALSO OF HER
• 19:40 AND SHE SHALL BE
• 19:42 A MOTHER OF NATIONS.
• 19:45 KINGS OF PEOPLE
• 19:46 SHALL BE OF HER."
• 19:47 ( Abraham Laughing )
• 19:57 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 20:14 Myles: TALK ABOUT
• 20:15 THE GRACE OF GOD,
• 20:17 ABRAHAM IS OVERWHELMED
• 20:19 BY THESE ENCOUNTERS
• 20:20 WITH THE LORD.
• 20:21 GOD KEEPS COMING TO HIM
• 20:23 CALLING HIM FORWARD, PROMISING
• 20:25 HIM GREAT AND MIGHTY THINGS.
• 20:27 IN FACT, NOW EVEN REVEALING
• 20:29 HIMSELF AS EL SHADDAI.
• 20:31 INCREDIBLE.
• 20:32 THE NAME "SHADDAI,"
• 20:34 "THE ONE THAT NOURISHES,"
• 20:36 "THE ONE THAT TAKES CARE OF,"
• 20:37 "THE ONE IN WHOM WE CAN
• 20:38 COMPLETELY TRUST AND REST."
• 20:41 "SHADDAI" AS,
• 20:42 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 20:44 ...THE "S" SOUND, THE "D" SOUND
• 20:46 AND THE "I" SOUND,"
• 20:47 SHADDAI."
• 20:48 AND IT'S, ACTUALLY, THE MEZUZAH.
• 20:50 THE DOORPOST HOLDS
• 20:52 THE SCRIPTURE THAT SPEAKS
• 20:53 OF EL SHADDAI.
• 20:54 AND IT IS REALLY A PLACE
• 20:56 WHERE GOD COVERS US,
• 20:57 WATCHES OVER US,
• 20:59 CALLS US TO HIMSELF.
• 21:01 AND THAT'S REALLY THE PICTURE
• 21:02 THAT ABRAM'S EXPERIENCING NOW.
• 21:04 NOT ONLY IS GOD CALLING HIM
• 21:05 TO WALK WITH HIM AND BE PERFECT,
• 21:09 WHICH MEANS "WHOLE" OR "ENTIRE,"
• 21:11 BUT HE'S ALSO PROMISING HIM
• 21:12 A SON FROM HIS OWN LOINS
• 21:15 WHICH IS, OF COURSE,
• 21:16 ON A CERTAIN LEVEL, HILARIOUS.
• 21:18 ABRAHAM'S ALMOST 100 YEARS OLD
• 21:20 AND HIS WIFE IS BEYOND
• 21:21 CHILD-BEARING AGE ALSO.
• 21:23 AND YET TOGETHER THEY'RE HAVING
• 21:25 TO BELIEVE INTO THIS PROMISE
• 21:27 THAT WILL AFFECT
• 21:28 ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY,
• 21:30 BECAUSE IT WILL BE
• 21:31 THROUGH THIS LINE,
• 21:33 THROUGH ABRAHAM,
• 21:34 THAT THE PROMISED SEED
• 21:36 WILL COME.
• 21:37 THE "SEED," THE "MESSIAH,"
• 21:39 "JESUS," "YESHUA HA' MASHIACH,"
• 21:41 "JESUS CHRIST,"
• 21:42 WILL COME THROUGH
• 21:43 THIS LINE OF ABRAHAM AND SARAH.
• 21:44 GOD, IN HIS GRACE, GOES EVEN
• 21:47 FURTHER AND CHANGES THEIR
• 21:48 NAMES FROM ABRAM TO ABRAHAM;
• 21:52 FROM SARAI TO SARAH.
• 21:54 AND, IN THAT, HE PUTS HIS FIFTH
• 21:56 LETTER OF THE HEBREW ALPHABET,
• 21:58 THE "HAY" LETTER.
• 21:59 IT IS THE FIFTH LETTER,
• 22:01 FIVE BEING THE NUMBER OF GRACE
• 22:03 HE BREATHES THAT
• 22:04 INTO THEIR NAMES.
• 22:06 AND THAT REALLY IS
• 22:07 WHAT THAT WORD IS ABOUT.
• 22:08 THAT LETTER IS A BREATH SOUND.
• 22:10 YOU CAN GO LIKE THIS..."
• 22:11 HAAAA"...YOU CAN HEAR
• 22:13 THE SOUND OF GOD BREATHING LIKE
• 22:15 THE RUACH HAKODESH,
• 22:16 THE HOLY SPIRIT,
• 22:18 BREATHING SOMETHING OF HIMSELF
• 22:19 INTO ABRAM AND SARAI
• 22:22 TRANSFORMING THEM
• 22:23 INTO ABRAHAM AND SARAH.
• 22:25 FIVE, THE NUMBER OF GRACE,
• 22:27 APPEARS THROUGHOUT
• 22:28 THE SCRIPTURES AS A NUMBER
• 22:30 REFERRING TO THE GRACE OF GOD.
• 22:32 FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES...
• 22:34 FIVE LOAVES AND FISH...
• 22:36 FIVE LEVITICAL OFFERINGS...
• 22:39 FIVE WOMEN
• 22:40 IN THE GENEALOGY OF JESUS.
• 22:42 FIVE APPEARS OVER AND OVER AGAIN
• 22:45 AND IT ALWAYS REFERS TO GRACE.
• 22:47 AND THAT'S WHAT ABRAHAM
• 22:49 AND SARAH ARE FINDING NOW.
• 22:50 THEIR NAMES ARE BEING CHANGED.
• 22:51 NAMES ARE VERY IMPORTANT AND IT
• 22:53 CONCLUDES THE TRANSFORMATION.
• 22:55 IT SPEAKS OF A TRANSFORMATION
• 22:56 IN CHARACTER,
• 22:58 THEY'RE GROWING CLOSER
• 22:59 TO THE LORD AND HE'S ASKING THEM
• 23:00 TO WALK BEFORE HIM
• 23:02 AND BE ENTIRE, BE WHOLE.
• 23:05 WALK IN THE SHALOM,
• 23:06 THE FULLNESS, THE PEACE OF GOD.
• 23:08 THE REPERCUSSIONS FOR US
• 23:10 ARE INCREDIBLE.
• 23:11 IN FACT, HE TELLS SARAH THAT
• 23:13 IN THIS NAME CHANGE SHE WILL
• 23:15 NOT ONLY BE A PRINCESS BUT OUT
• 23:17 OF HER LOINS, KINGS WILL COME,
• 23:20 SPEAKING OF THOSE THAT WILL BE
• 23:22 OF THE LINE OF ISAAC AND THOSE,
• 23:24 LIKE YOU, THAT ARE KNITTED INTO
• 23:26 THE LINE OF ISAAC THROUGH THE
• 23:28 GRAFTING THAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU
• 23:30 SAY "YES" TO THE JEWISH MESSIAH.
• 23:33 GOD ALSO INSTITUTES
• 23:36 CIRCUMCISION.
• 23:37 ABRAHAM AND HIS SON ISHMAEL
• 23:40 ARE CIRCUMCISED IMMEDIATELY.
• 23:42 ABRAHAM AT HIS OLD AGE
• 23:44 AND ISHMAEL AT 13 YEARS OLD.
• 23:46 AND TO THIS DAY,
• 23:47 THE SONS OF ISHMAEL,
• 23:48 THE ARABIC PEOPLES
• 23:49 ARE CIRCUMCISED AT 13 YEARS OLD.
• 23:52 THE JEWISH PEOPLE,
• 23:53 SONS OF ISAAC, 8 DAYS OLD.
• 23:55 THIS CIRCUMCISION IS ALWAYS
• 23:57 TO BE A SIGN OF COVENANT
• 23:59 BETWEEN MANKIND AND GOD.
• 24:01 IT'S BLOODY, PERSONAL,
• 24:02 PAINFUL, BUT IT SPEAKS
• 24:04 OF GOD'S COMMITMENT TO US
• 24:06 AND HIS DESIRE THAT WE WOULD BE
• 24:08 COMMITTED TO HIM.
• 24:09 ABRAHAM IS ALWAYS
• 24:10 GOING TO LOVE ISHMAEL.
• 24:12 IN FACT, YOU SEE HIM
• 24:13 CRYING OUT TO GOD THAT ISHMAEL
• 24:15 MIGHT LIVE BEFORE HIM.
• 24:17 IT'S NEVER BEEN ABOUT
• 24:18 CHOOSING ISAAC
• 24:19 AND DEFERRING AGAINST ISHMAEL.
• 24:21 IT'S THAT ISAAC AND THE SEED
• 24:22 OF ISAAC HAS BEEN CHOSEN FOR
• 24:25 A SPECIFIC PURPOSE AND ISHMAEL
• 24:27 FOR DIFFERENT PURPOSES.
• 24:29 SO ABRAHAM IS THE FATHER
• 24:30 OF MANY NATIONS
• 24:31 AND HIS NAME CHANGE
• 24:33 INCLUDES THAT UNDERSTANDING
• 24:35 THAT HE WAS NO LONGER THE
• 24:37 FATHER BUT NOW HE'S THE FATHER
• 24:38 OF MANY NATIONS, AND OUT OF
• 24:40 HIS LOINS COME THOSE WHO WILL
• 24:42 WALK WITH THE GOD OF ABRAHAM,
• 24:45 ISAAC AND ISRAEL.
• 24:49 THIS IS SUCH A DRAMATIC PART
• 24:52 OF THE BIBLE,
• 24:53 WHERE WE SEE THIS CONFLICT
• 24:54 BETWEEN ISAAC AND ISHMAEL,
• 24:56 THE HEART OF ABRAHAM
• 24:58 FOR BOTH SONS...
• 24:59 THE PROMISE OF THE ISAAC
• 25:01 AND THE BLESSING OF ISHMAEL AND
• 25:03 ABRAHAM'S HEART FOR ISHMAEL.
• 25:05 IT'S SO AMAZING THAT WE SAW
• 25:07 IN THE SCRIPTURE THAT THE LORD
• 25:09 DESCRIBES ISHMAEL IN THIS WAY.
• 25:11 IN VERSE 12 OF CHAPTER 16
• 25:13 HE SAYS:
• 25:14 ( Speaking Hebrew )
• 25:16 HE WILL BE A WILD MAN.
• 25:18 AND WE'RE CERTAINLY SEEING THAT
• 25:19 IN THE DAY IN WHICH WE LIVE,
• 25:21 WHERE THE SONS OF ISHMAEL HAVE
• 25:23 DRIFTED SO SADLY FROM THE GOD
• 25:26 OF ABRAHAM AND ARE SERVING,
• 25:27 MOST OF THEM, ANOTHER GOD.
• 25:29 IT'S VERY SAD.
• 25:30 Katharine: YEAH, THE MOON GOD,
• 25:31 THEY'RE WANTING TO GO TOTALLY
• 25:33 AGAINST WHAT THE GOD
• 25:35 OF ABRAHAM DESIRED FOR THEM,
• 25:36 THAT THEY WOULD BE
• 25:37 PART OF THE COVENANT.
• 25:38 THEY JUST HAVE TO COME THROUGH
• 25:39 THE LINE THAT HE'S ESTABLISHED.
• 25:41 Myles: THAT'S REALLY IT,
• 25:42 ISN'T IT?
• 25:43 TO COME IN THE SAME DOOR
• 25:44 THAT WE ALL HAVE TO GO THROUGH,
• 25:45 WHICH IS THROUGH THE DOOR
• 25:47 OF THE MESSIAH.
• 25:48 Katharine: AND THROUGH THE
• 25:49 PROMISE THAT HE'S GIVEN US,
• 25:50 THE PROMISE THAT GOD
• 25:52 WOULD HAVE A SON.
• 25:53 THE PROMISE IS IN ISAAC BUT IT'S
• 25:55 ALSO IN YESHUA HA' MASHIACH,
• 25:57 JESUS THE MESSIAH.
• 25:59 SO HE IS THE ONE.
• 26:00 WE WANT TO REMIND YOU
• 26:02 THAT YOU CAN CONTACT US
• 26:04 THROUGH FACEBOOK...TWITTER...
• 26:06 WE WOULD LOVE
• 26:07 TO HEAR FROM YOU.
• 26:08 WE WOULD LOVE
• 26:09 TO DIALOGUE WITH YOU ABOUT
• 26:10 ANY OF THESE QUESTIONS THAT
• 26:11 YOU MIGHT HAVE OR ANYTHING
• 26:13 THAT'S ON YOUR HEART TO KNOW
• 26:15 MORE ABOUT THIS SAVING FAITH OR
• 26:17 MORE ABOUT THE CONFLICT
• 26:19 THAT'S GOING ON
• 26:20 BETWEEN ISHMAEL AND ISAAC.
• 26:21 MYLES, YOU AND I PRAY
• 26:22 FOR BOTH SIDES ALL THE TIME.
• 26:24 Myles: WE DO.
• 26:25 Katharine: WE'VE SEEN SALVATION
• 26:26 ON BOTH SIDES...JEWS AND ARABS,
• 26:29 AND THAT IS GOD'S HEART,
• 26:31 THAT THEY BE ONE NEW MAN.
• 26:32 Myles: IT IS.
• 26:33 GOD'S HEART IS THAT
• 26:34 WE WOULD LOVE WHAT HE LOVES.
• 26:35 AND SO AS WE GO TODAY
• 26:37 WE WANT TO REMIND YOU,
• 26:39 SHAL'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:41 Katharine: PRAY FOR
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• 26:56 "ABRAHAM: FATHER OF FAITH."
• 26:59 HE LEFT WITH ALL HE HAD
• 27:00 FOR A LAND UNKNOWN
• 27:02 NOTHING COULD STOP HIM.
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