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

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