Caption transcript for In The Footsteps of The Rabbi From Tarsus (intermission): “Inclusion” (2/3)

• 00:04 WITH DR. JEFFERY SEIF AND SANDRA LEVITT
• 01:00 A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 01:02 JEFFERY SEIF HERE WITH MY FRIEND SANDRA LEVITT.
• 01:04 SHALOM
• 01:05 AND WELCOME BACK TO THE 2ND PART
• 01:07 OF THE 3 PART SERIES.
• 01:08 PAUL,
• 01:10 IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE RABBI FROM TARSUS.
• 01:11 LAST WEEK WE TALKED ABOUT THE FEISTINESS OF PAUL,
• 01:15 AND THIS WEEK WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT HOW PAUL REALLY INCLUDES ALL OF US.
• 01:19 ALL OF US ARE SINNERS, NOT MAN, NOT WOMAN, NOT GREEK, NOT JEW, I LOVE IT.
• 01:22 YES IN THE FIRST SECTION WE LOOKED AT INTRUSION.
• 01:26 INTRUSION
• 01:27 AND HERE WE'RE INTERESTED IN INCLUSION.
• 01:30 I THINK IT'S KEY TO PAUL, HE WAS NOT ONLY PROPHETIC AND ENGAGING,
• 01:34 BUT HE WAS INVITING.
• 01:36 YOU DON'T ALWAYS FIND BOTH THOSE CHARACTERISTICS
• 01:38 IN THE SAME PERSON.
• 01:39 NO, BUT THINK ABOUT IT, HERE HE IS A JEW, HE'S COME TO KNOW THE MESSIAH,
• 01:43 SO NOW HE'S CONSIDERED AN OUTSIDER,
• 01:45 AND YET HE DISCOVERS IT'S NOT ABOUT FOOD, IT'S NOT ABOUT BEING AN OUTSIDER,
• 01:50 IT'S ABOUT BEING, HAVING A SINFUL NATURE
• 01:52 AND THAT GOD FORGIVES OUR SINS, BECAUSE OF YESHUA.
• 01:55 REAL SIMPLE.
• 01:57 SO HE FORGIVES US OF OUR SINS AND HE BRINGS US INTO A NEW FAMILY.
• 02:00 A NEW FAMILY.
• 02:01 AND THE DOOR IS OPEN FOR ANYONE WHO WOULD REPENT.
• 02:04 IT SEEMS THAT PAUL WAS GIVEN TO FORCEFULLY ADVOCATING
• 02:07 THAT PEOPLE NEEDED TO REPENT.
• 02:09 AND THEN HAVING DONE SO PAUL WAS GIVEN TO MAKING ROOM FOR REPENTANT PEOPLE
• 02:15 IN THE NEW ECONOMY.
• 02:16 AND WHY WOULDN'T HE?
• 02:18 PAUL WAS THE FOREMOST OF SINNERS HIMSELF, WASN'T HE?
• 02:19 OH MY, OH MY GOODNESS.
• 02:21 SAT THERE WHILE STEPHEN WAS BEING STONED.
• 02:23 HELD HIS CLOTHES, WENT OUT AND PERSECUTED,
• 02:26 WENT OUT LOOKING FOR PEOPLE OF "THE WAY".
• 02:29 I LOVE THE NAME OF THAT.
• 02:30 THE NEW CHRISTIANS WERE CALLED, "THE WAY."
• 02:32 THAT'S RIGHT, HE LOOKED TO DESTROY "THE WAY."
• 02:34 AND THEN HE BECAME THE CONDUIT FOR WHICH GOD SHOWED A NEW WAY
• 02:38 FOR ALL PEOPLE NOT JUST JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 02:41 IF YOU'LL OPEN UP YOUR BIBLES PLEASE TO THE BOOK OF GALATIANS.
• 02:44 THIS IS ARGUABLY HIS FIRST WRITING.
• 02:48 WE'VE CONSIDERED HIS MOVEMENTS PREVIOUSLY.
• 02:50 WE'LL CONSIDER HIS WRITINGS IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS, BUT HERE JUST TO TAP INTO A CORE VALUE OF HIS.
• 03:22 THE ANCIENT WORLD WAS VERY STRATIFIED.
• 03:25 THERE WERE THE HAVES, THE HAVES NOTS.
• 03:27 YOU WERE BORN INTO A SOCIAL CLASS AND THERE YOU REMAINED.
• 03:30 IT SEEMS THAT THE HIERARCHAL PYRAMID COLLAPSES.
• 03:33 THERE'S A NEW ECONOMY, THERE'S A NEW WAY, WHERE DIFFERENT PEOPLE,
• 03:37 SOME OF WHOM WOULD'VE BEEN DISENFRANCHISED,
• 03:40 ARE NOW ABLE TO LOCK ARMS WITH THOSE THAT ARE OF A HIGHER ILK.
• 03:45 GOOD NEW FOR ALL OF "YOUS," CORRECT?
• 03:47 THAT'S WHAT'S SO WONDERFUL ABOUT PAUL.
• 03:49 HE MAKES IT NOT ABOUT A MAN, NOT ABOUT A FEMALE,
• 03:52 HE MAKES IT THAT WE ARE ALL SINNERS.
• 03:54 AND THAT, I CAN'T STRESS THAT ENOUGH.
• 03:56 WELL IN A WORLD, AND I ADMIT TO THIS, THAT I'VE BEEN PUT ON EDGE
• 04:01 BY AIRPLANES FLYING INTO TOWERS, OUR COUNTRIES IN TUMULT.
• 04:09 I'M OF JEWISH EXTRACT.
• 04:11 I HAVE SUCH AFFINITIES FOR THE ISRAELI BID THERE
• 04:13 IN THE ANCESTRAL HOMELAND
• 04:15 AND TO BE SURROUNDED ROUND ABOUT
• 04:17 BY ENEMIES THAT ARE OF AN ISLAMIC PERSUASION.
• 04:20 AND THEN I THINK OF AHMADINEJAD AND OTHERS WITH NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES.
• 04:26 AND I ADMIT THAT I'M TENSE AND I'M SET ON EDGE.
• 04:29 BUT DOES A GUY LIKE ME STILL, IF I HEAR THIS MAN CORRECTLY,
• 04:34 DO I NEED TO FIND A WAY TO MAKE ROOM FOR ALL PEOPLE IN MY WORLD?
• 04:38 I THINK WHAT PAUL IS SAYING, IT'S NOT ABOUT THAT.
• 04:42 IT'S ABOUT US BEING INDIVIDUALLY BEING SINNERS.
• 04:45 DO I NEED TO MAKE ROOM FOR PEOPLE IN MY LIFE?
• 04:47 YES I THINK WE NEED TO WITNESS.
• 04:49 I THINK WE NEED TO TALK TO PEOPLE ABOUT THE BELIEFS THAT WE HAVE.
• 04:52 BUT I'M LIKE YOU.
• 04:53 I AM SO SHELLSHOCKED BY MUSLIM RADICALS,
• 04:58 IF YOU WANNA CALL THEM RADICALS.
• 04:59 I DON'T THINK THEY'RE RADICALS.
• 05:00 I THINK THEY ARE, IF THEY ARE REALLY MUSLIMS,
• 05:02 THEY ARE SUPPOSE TO EITHER KILL US OR CONVERT US.
• 05:05 AND I THINK THAT'S THEIR AGENDA.
• 05:08 AND I TOO, IT'S A KNEE JERK REACTION.
• 05:10 I GET ON AN AIRPLANE,
• 05:12 I'M NOT LOOKING AT THE LITTLE OLD LADY SITTING NEXT TO ME,
• 05:13 I'M LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY THAT LOOKS SUSPICIOUS.
• 05:16 AND CALL IT PROFILING, I DON'T CARE.
• 05:18 I AM TERRIFIED OF WHAT THESE PEOPLE CAN DO.
• 05:21 INCLUDE 'EM, I'D LIKE TO WITNESS TO THEM.
• 05:24 I DON'T KNOW IF I WANNA INCLUDE THEM IN EVERYTHING I DO.
• 05:26 MY PERSPECTIVE IS THERE'S A LOT OF ISLAMIC PEOPLE THAT WAKE UP IN THE MORNING,
• 05:30 AND THEY'RE NOT SO MUCH DRIVEN BY ALL THAT,
• 05:33 BUT THERE'S A CERTAIN PERCENTAGE THAT ARE AND THERE'S A THREAT THERE.
• 05:36 BUT STILL ARE WE BETTER TO BE THE KIND OF PEOPLE THAT TRIES TO MAKE ROOM FOR PEOPLE?
• 05:41 PAUL OPTS FOR A NONE DISCRIMINATORY POLICY.
• 05:46 OF COURSE THIS IS FOR PEOPLE THAT COME INTO THE CHURCH.
• 05:49 THAT WE ALL REPENT OF OUR SINS AND BECOME A PART OF THIS NEW FELLOWSHIP.
• 05:53 IT'S EASY TO TREAT EACH OTHER AS BROTHERS AND SISTERS,
• 05:56 BUT WE DO WELL TO DEVELOP AN APTITUDE TO TRY
• 06:00 AND BE OPEN TO ALL PEOPLE FOR AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE?
• 06:02 BUT CAN WE?
• 06:04 CAN WE?
• 06:05 IS THERE NOT AN ELEMENT OF EVIL THAT WE HAVE TO BE AWARE OF?
• 06:08 IS THERE NOT, DOES IT NOT,
• 06:09 THE BIBLE TEACH US THAT EVIL BRINGS GOOD DOWN?
• 06:12 ARE WE SUPPOSE TO BE AWARE OF WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE STAND FOR?
• 06:16 YES THAT REMINDS ME IN OUR MAGAZINE, BY THE WAY,
• 06:19 AND IF YOU WANT IT:
• 06:20 WWW.LEVITT.COM IS WHERE YOU'LL GO TO GET IT.
• 06:26 OR YOU CAN CALL:
• 06:29 GOOD FRIEND MARK LEVITT HAS SOMETHING IN THERE CALLED,
• 06:32 "WISE AS A SERPENT."
• 06:34 JESUS SAID THAT WE NEED TO BE WISE AS A SERPENT AND INNOCENT AS A DOVE.
• 06:38 AND ON THE WISE AS A SERPENT SIDE,
• 06:40 I THINK WE DO NEED TO BE SOMEWHAT CAUTIOUS IN THE WORLD AT LARGE, BUT IN THE CHURCH.
• 06:45 BUT IN THE CHURCH IS A WHOLE NOTHER STORY.
• 06:48 HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE BEEN IN CHURCHES AND WE KNOW,
• 06:51 OR I'VE BEEN SOME PLACE OUT, I KNOW A BELIEVER WHEN I SEE A BELIEVER.
• 06:54 IT'S SOMETHING, WE ARE A FAMILY, WE ARE NEW CREATIONS,
• 06:58 AND WE'RE A FAMILY. >>WELL,
• 07:00 IN THEORY NOT ALWAYS IN PRACTICE.
• 07:02 I KNOW THERE ARE SOME PREACHERS THAT SAID, I'LL NEVER LET, NOT
• 07:05 TRYING TO RIP OFF OLD WOUNDS, BUT I'LL NEVER LET A BLACK PERSON IN THIS CHURCH.
• 07:08 THAT IS JUST ABSOLUTELY PATHETIC.
• 07:11 I MEAN PAUL WOULD TURN OVER IN HIS GRAVE. >>NO, A BELIEVER IS A BELIEVER.
• 07:13 OH YEAH, NO.
• 07:14 WELL HE'S TALKING ABOUT GREEKS,
• 07:15 HE'S TALKING ABOUT JEWS, HE'S TALKING ABOUT OTHER BELIEVERS.
• 07:18 HE'S NOT TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE THAT REALLY COME TO BE BELIEVERS.
• 07:21 AND HEAR ME ON THIS AS I SPEAK FORCEFULLY TO THIS, THAT IS,
• 07:25 THAT IRRESPECTIVE OF WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU'VE DONE,
• 07:30 I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT THE RABBI FROM TARSUS MAKES ROOM FOR YOU IN HIS WORLD,
• 07:37 BECAUSE JESUS MADE ROOM FOR YOU IN HIS.
• 07:40 WHEN HE WAS ON THE CROSS, HE SAID, "FATHER FORGIVE THEM FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO."
• 07:45 YOU DRIVEN BY ANGERS, PASSIONS, AND THE LIKE IN SPIRITS, YOU CAN BE FORGIVEN
• 07:50 AND FIND A NEW LIFE AND YOU CAN BE ON EQUAL FOOTING OF ALL THE SAINTS,
• 07:55 IF YOU WOULD REPENT OF YOUR SINS AND INVITE JESUS INTO YOUR HEART,
• 08:00 YOU CAN HAVE A NEW START IN LIFE.
• 08:01 BACK IN A MOMENT.
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• 08:29 OUR CORRESPONDENCE COURSE, "THE INSTITUTE OF JEWISH CHRISTIAN STUDIES" INCLUDES:
• 08:33 READING PACKETS, TEACHING CDs, AND MAIL IN TESTS.
• 08:37 YOU MAY WANNA JOIN US ON AN UPCOMING TOUR OF ISRAEL AND PETRA.
• 08:40 OR CRUISE THE MEDITERRANEAN, VISITING GREECE AND EPHESUS.
• 08:44 PLEASE CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION.
• 08:49 THE GREEKS HAVE A SAYING, "FIVE SENSES TO A DOOR, ONE COUNTRY TO EXPLORE."
• 08:54 JEFF WE'RE EXPLORING GREECE.
• 08:55 WE'RE STANDING HERE IN CORINTH, IT'S JUST BEAUTIFUL.
• 08:58 I WANT EVERYONE TO COME SEE IT.
• 08:59 WELL YOU HEARD WHAT THE LADY SAID.
• 09:01 COME TO CORINTH AND WALK IN PAUL'S FOOTSTEPS.
• 09:04 IT'S A GOOD EXPERIENCE, ISN'T IT?
• 09:05 IT WOULD BE OUR PLEASURE TO SHOW YOU GREECE.
• 09:08 ALL THE BIBLE SITES COME ALIVE WHEN YOU SEE THEM IN PERSON.
• 09:12 JEFF THEY COME ALIVE.
• 09:13 I'M SO EXCITED TO SHOW PEOPLE GREECE AND ISRAEL.
• 09:16 I'M SO EXCITED.
• 09:17 YES, YOU'LL LOVE IT.
• 09:19 IT'LL BE INFORMATIONAL, INSPIRATIONAL.
• 09:21 BE TRANSFORMED WITH THE TRANSATLANTIC TRIP HERE
• 09:25 AND WALK IN THE BIBLE LANDS.
• 09:29 WE LOOK AT GREECE AGAIN.
• 09:32 I DON'T KNOW THAT I CAN LOOK AT IT TOO MANY TIMES.
• 09:34 I LOVE TAKING YOU TO GREECE.
• 09:35 JEFF LOVES TAKING YOU TO GREECE.
• 09:37 WE WOULD LOVE TO TAKE YOU TO GREECE, TO ISRAEL, TO JORDAN WITH US.
• 09:41 WE WOULD LOVE TO SHOW YOU THE FOOTSTEPS OF PAUL.
• 09:44 WE'D LOVE TO SHOW YOU THE BIBLE AND LET IT COME ALIVE FOR YOU.
• 09:47 YES AND SPEAKING OF SHOWING AND STEPS,
• 09:50 WHAT'S INTERESTING TO ME ABOUT THE RABBI FROM TARSUS,
• 09:53 IS HE WAS A TEACHER, BUT HE WASN'T A UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR TYPE,
• 09:57 WHERE PEOPLE CAME AND TOOK COURSES.
• 09:58 HE TAUGHT AND WORKED WITH PEOPLE THAT WERE TRAVELING
• 10:02 AND CO-LABORING WITH HIM,
• 10:03 AS HE MADE HIS WAY ABOUT THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
• 10:06 ADVANCING FOR ISRAEL'S MESSIAH.
• 10:08 THESE PEOPLE THAT HE WROTE WERE CO-LABORERS
• 10:11 THAT WERE TRAVELING ABOUT WITH HIM.
• 10:13 WELL THE FIRST THING HE DID,
• 10:14 WHAT IS THE FIRST THING HE DID WHEN HE WENT TO A TOWN?
• 10:16 HE WENT INTO A SYNAGOGUE.
• 10:17 THEY WELCOMED HIM IN BECAUSE HE HAD ON WHAT?
• 10:19 HE HAD ON HIS TALLITH, HE HAD ON HIS PRAYER SHAWL,
• 10:21 THEY KNEW HE WAS A JEW.
• 10:22 THEY WERE EXCITED TO HEAR WHAT HE HAD TO SAY.
• 10:25 AND THEN HE WOULD START PREACHING,
• 10:27 AND THEN THEY WOULD BE NOT QUITE SO EXCITED
• 10:29 AT WHAT HE HAD TO SAY.
• 10:30 BUT STILL HE TAUGHT.
• 10:31 AND HIS BIOGRAPHER LUKE SAYS, THAT AFTER HE MINISTERED,
• 10:34 THAT THERE WERE GREEKS AND JEWS AND MEN AND WOMEN
• 10:37 THAT GAVE HIM A HEARING TO OPEN UP THEIR MIND AND HEART,
• 10:40 WHO BECAME THE NUCLEUS OF THIS NEW COMMUNITY.
• 10:43 WELL AND THEY ASKED HIM TO COME BACK.
• 10:45 HOW MANY OF THE TIMES WHEN HE WENT TO TOWNS THEY,
• 10:47 OH WE WANNA HEAR MORE, WE WANNA HEAR MORE?
• 10:49 THERE WERE BELIEVERS WHO BELIEVED.
• 10:50 YES TO ME IT WAS STRIKING, BY THE WAY,
• 10:53 THAT WOMEN SEEM TO FACTOR SIGNIFICANT IN PAUL'S WORLD.
• 10:57 LUKE TELLS US THERE WERE LEADING WOMEN WHO PARTICIPATED.
• 11:01 I'M WONDERING IF THEY SAW SOMETHING IN HIM,
• 11:04 THEY HEARD SOMETHING FROM HIM,
• 11:05 THAT GAVE THEM RISE TO THE BELIEF THAT THERE WAS ROOM FOR THEM,
• 11:09 IN THIS MANS WORLD.
• 11:11 I'M THINKING YOU'RE RIGHT.
• 11:13 I'M THINKING THEY THOUGHT THE SAME THING I THOUGHT,
• 11:15 THIS IS NOT ABOUT BEING A GREEK OR A JEW
• 11:18 OR A MAN OR A WOMAN,
• 11:19 IT'S ABOUT BEING A SINNER
• 11:21 AND HOW CAN I MAKE MY LIFE BETTER?
• 11:23 AND PAUL LAYS IT OUT.
• 11:25 HE GIVES THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS, HE TELLS THEM,
• 11:28 THIS IS WHAT YOU'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR.
• 11:29 YOU'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THE MESSIAH,
• 11:30 HE'S COME AND NOW WE NEED TO FOLLOW.
• 11:32 IT SEEMS TO ME THAT HUMANS BEING STRATIFY.
• 11:35 THAT THERE'S, WE GRADE PEOPLE, WE VALUE PEOPLE, YOU'RE A TEN, YOU'RE A NINE.
• 11:41 WHETHER IT'S ON LOOKS, WHETHER IT'S ON INTELLECTUAL SAVVY
• 11:45 AND THERE'S THE HAVES AND THE HAVES NOTS, BUT PAUL COLLAPSES ALL OF THAT.
• 11:50 AND INDIVIDUALS SEE THAT THEY CAN COME INTO HIS WORLD AND LIVE AND BREATHE AND BE
• 11:55 AND THAT IT'S NOT JUST HIS WORLD, BUT RATHER IT'S THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM.
• 11:59 BUT IT'S A FREEDOM.
• 12:00 I THINK HE'S TEACHING ALSO OF A FREEDOM.
• 12:03 NOT JUST FROM FREEDOM FROM THE ROMANS
• 12:05 OR FREEDOM FROM WHOEVER'S OPPRESSING THEM,
• 12:07 THE OPPRESSORS OF THE DAY,
• 12:08 BUT IT'S THE FREEDOM THAT YOU HAVE IN MESSIAH.
• 12:11 I THINK THAT'S WHAT THEY SAW.
• 12:13 I THINK THEY SEE AS YOU SAID, THEY ARE A NEW CREATION.
• 12:15 I THINK THEY SEE THAT NEW CREATION IN HIM.
• 12:17 SO WOMEN AND MEN, JEWS AND NON JEWS, AND THE RICH AND POOR.
• 12:22 SPEAKING OF FREEDOM PAUL'S WRITING A LETTER AND WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT THIS.
• 12:25 IN THE NEXT HALF OF OUR SERIES,
• 12:28 WHERE HE ADVOCATES FOR THE FREEING OF THE SLAVES. >>THAT'S RIGHT.
• 12:33 PERNICIOUS, RIGHT.
• 12:34 PAUL TAKES IT VERY SERIOUSLY.
• 12:36 HE BEGGED AND SAID DON'T DO THIS, DON'T DO THAT,
• 12:40 PLEASE FREE THE SLAVES,
• 12:41 DON'T.. SLAVES WERE TO BE KILLED IF THEY HAD RUN WAY,
• 12:44 THEY WERE TO BE KILLED.
• 12:45 AND YET HE'S TAKING THE TACT OF
• 12:47 THERE'S FREEDOM IN BEING A SLAVE.
• 12:50 THERE IS FREEDOM IN FORGIVING THIS GUY.
• 12:53 IT SEEMS TO ME THAT PAUL WAS A RADICAL.
• 12:57 I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY THEY CUT HIS HEAD OFF.
• 12:59 IN A WORLD WHERE THE ROMANS OWNED PROPERTY AND NOW HE'S SAYING,
• 13:03 THESE ARE HUMAN BEINGS, THIS ISN'T YOUR PROPERTY, THIS IS YOUR BROTHER.
• 13:06 PEOPLE DON'T ABIDE THAT.
• 13:08 IN A WORLD WHERE THE MEN WOULD DOMINEER OVER THE WOMEN, PAUL SAYS,
• 13:12 LISTEN YOU'RE TO SERVE ONE ANOTHER.
• 13:14 IN A WORLD WHERE THE JEWS AND THE GREEKS EACH THOUGHT THEY HAD IT OVER ON EACH OTHER
• 13:18 PAUL SAID YOU'RE BOTH LIVING IN SIN FOR THAT ARROGANCE.
• 13:20 THAT'S STRIKING.
• 13:22 WELL, EVERYONE'S JOCKEYING FOR POSITION
• 13:24 AND PAUL IS SAYING, THERE IS NO POSITION.
• 13:27 WE ARE ALL EQUAL AT THE CROSS.
• 13:29 AND I THINK THAT'S GREAT.
• 13:30 PROBABLY TO MINIMALIZE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND VIRTUE,
• 13:35 WE LIVE IN A WORLD TODAY WHERE SOME HAVE AN AGENDA TO MAKE PAUL OUT TO BE A SEXIST AND A RACIST.
• 13:40 IT'S STRIKING THE WAY SECULAR CULTURE ATTACKS BIBLICAL VISION.
• 13:45 AND THAT PAUL WOULD BE THE OBJECT OF THAT ATTACK FOR MY MONEY IS STRIKING,
• 13:51 BECAUSE IT SEEMS TO ME THAT PAUL MORE THAN ANYONE,
• 13:55 WHEN YOU CONSIDER HIS LIFE AND HIS LITERATURE,
• 13:57 THAT HE'S ADVOCATING FOR EQUALITY AMONGST PEOPLE.
• 14:01 PAUL MADE ROOM FOR PEOPLE IN HIS WORLD.
• 14:05 THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY I'M THRILLED WITH SANDRA,
• 14:09 TO DEVELOP FOR YOU A SERIES ENTITLED, "IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE RABBI FROM TARSUS."
• 14:15 AND IN LIKE MANNER, IT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY I WROTE A BOOK,
• 14:18 "IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE RABBI FROM TARSUS."
• 14:22 AND IF YOU'D LIKE TO CONTACT US AT:
• 14:27 AND IF YOU'RE WONDERING ABOUT THIS BOOK,
• 14:29 WE'RE GLAD TO GET IT TO YOU
• 14:30 OR IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO VISIT OUR WEBSITE:
• 14:38 WE HAVE IT THERE FOR YOU TO LEARN ABOUT THIS INCLUSIVE RABBI.
• 14:42 THIS JEW WHO LOVED ALL OF YOU NAMED, PAUL.
• 14:45 AMEN.
• 14:46 I ALSO WANNA SAY THIS,
• 14:47 AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MINISTRY ZOLA MADE THE DECISION
• 14:50 THAT EVERYBODY SHOULD GET A FREE LEVITT LETTER, SHOULD GET FREE INFORMATION ABOUT THE MINISTRY,
• 14:55 AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I'M PROUD TO KEEP ON, KEEPING ON WITH WHAT HE STARTED.
• 15:00 IT WAS WONDERFUL.
• 15:01 YES WE DON'T WANNA MAKE MONEY AN OBJECT.
• 15:03 WE NEED TO PAY OUR BILLS, BUT WE'RE REALLY CONCERNED
• 15:06 TO GET INFORMATION TO YOU IF YOU WANT IT.
• 15:08 WE HOPE YOU'LL CATCH UP AND MINIMALLY PAY THE POSTAGE,
• 15:11 BUY AGAIN WE HAVE IT THROUGH OUR MAGAZINE, "THE LEVITT LETTER."
• 15:16 IT'S ALL ABOUT JEWS IN THE NEWS AND IT'S STUFF YOU CAN USE.
• 15:18 WE'RE LOOKING AT STORIES THERE THAT RESONATE.
• 15:21 THEY'RE CRISP,
• 15:22 THEY TALK ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WORLD.
• 15:24 THEY GIVE INSIGHTS INTO THE WORD AND IT'S YOURS FOR THE ASKING.
• 15:27 AGAIN SOME OF YOU MAKE DONATIONS PLEASE TO HELP US PAY FOR IT,
• 15:30 BUT WE WANNA GET THIS TO YOU.
• 15:32 WELL AND THE BOOK IS WONDERFUL.
• 15:34 THE BOOK,"IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE RABBI FROM TARSUS."
• 15:36 IT'S REALLY GOOD.
• 15:37 IT IS A MUST READ FOR ALL OF YOU.
• 15:38 I JUST HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT.
• 15:39 AS A THEOLOGIAN I'M HAPPY TO WRITE BOOKS AND DEVELOP ARTICLES,
• 15:43 BUT YOU KNOW THE MUST READ BOOK IS THE BIBLE ITSELF.
• 15:46 I AGREE AND THAT'S WHERE IT ALL COMES FROM.
• 15:47 WE'RE SO PLEASED BY THE WAY TO HELP YOU
• 15:49 TO GET A JEWISH VIEW ON THE LITERATURE.
• 15:53 MOST HAVE MADE PAUL EITHER CATHOLIC, HE'S ST. PAUL, THE CATHOLIC BISHOP,
• 15:58 IF YOU'RE A BAPTIST HE'S BROTHER PAUL OR WHATEVER.
• 16:00 BUT I LIKE RABBI PAUL PERSONALLY,
• 16:04 BECAUSE IT UNDERSCORES THE FACT THIS IS A JEWISH MAN WHO CAME TO FAITH.
• 16:09 AND WE'D LOVE TO BLESS YOU BY GIVING YOU THAT PERSPECTIVE.
• 16:12 AND IN THIS CASE WE WANNA UNDERSCORE
• 16:14 THAT THIS JEWISH RABBI WANTED THE WHOLE WORLD TO PARTICIPATE.
• 16:20 HOW DOES THAT RESONATE WITH YOU?
• 16:22 HOW EXCITING?
• 16:23 HOW EXCITING TO KNOW THE MESSIAH
• 16:24 AND TO TELL PEOPLE THIS IS THE MESSIAH?
• 16:26 I LOVE IT.
• 16:27 RABBI, TEACHER.
• 16:28 RABBI MEANS, "TEACHER."
• 16:29 HE TAUGHT, NOT JUST A PREACHER,
• 16:32 BUT HE TAUGHT THEM WHAT THEY NEEDED TO KNOW.
• 16:34 WE'RE GONNA GO TO, LISTEN TO SOME OF ZOLA'S MUSIC.
• 16:37 IT IS TERRIFIC.
• 16:39 HE DOES A WONDERFUL JOB WITH PUTTING THE MUSIC AND THE SCENES TOGETHER.
• 16:43 AND YOU'LL SEE SOME OF GREECE.
• 16:44 I THINK YOU'LL LIKE THIS.
• 16:56 ♪(Orchestra Playing)♪
• 18:09 THAT WAS ZOLA'S MUSIC.
• 18:10 I ENJOYED IT, I KNOW YOU DID TOO.
• 18:12 WE'RE LOOKING AT ALSO SCENES IN CORINTH.
• 18:14 CORINTH IS A WONDERFUL HISTORICAL PLACE THAT WE GO TO ON THE TOUR.
• 18:18 AGAIN JEFF AND I ADVISE YOU TO COME ON THE TOUR.
• 18:20 BUT SPEAKING OF A TOURS, I WANNA TALK ABOUT LETTERS.
• 18:23 WE GET LETTERS, THOUSANDS OF LETTERS,
• 18:25 WE GOT A COUPLE I REALLY WANNA TALK ABOUT.
• 18:27 THIS SWEET LADY SAYS:
• 18:40 THAT'S A GREAT OBSERVATION.
• 18:41 YES IT SEEMED TO ME THAT A LOT OF THE ORIGINAL DISCIPLES OF JESUS,
• 18:45 THEY'RE FROM THE GALILEE,
• 18:48 THEY COME FROM THE JEWISH WORLD
• 18:50 AND THERE'S FERMENTING ANTI-ROMAN DISCONTENT BREWING THERE.
• 18:54 AND THEY'RE ALL PART AND PARTIAL TO THEIR CULTURE.
• 18:57 PAUL WAS FROM... HE WASN'T FROM ISRAEL PROPER,
• 19:01 HE WAS FROM TARSUS, IT WAS A UNIVERSITY CITY.
• 19:04 HE WAS VERY OPEN.
• 19:05 HE HAD HIS FEET IN DIFFERENT CULTURES
• 19:08 AND ENABLED HIM TO BE MORE VERSATILE AND MORE OPEN TO OTHERS.
• 19:12 WELL, "TO THE GREEK I BECAME A GREEK
• 19:15 AND TO A JEW I BECAME A JEW."
• 19:16 HE WAS AS YOU SAY BENDABLE, HE DID NOT BREAK.
• 19:18 YES HE WAS WIRED LIKE THAT.
• 19:20 YOU KNOW THERE'S AN OLD SAYING,
• 19:22 "BLESSED ARE THE FLEXIBLE, THE WILL NOT BE BROKEN."
• 19:23 SOMETIMES THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT,
• 19:26 IF YOU DON'T DOT EVERY "I" THE WAY THEY DO
• 19:29 AND CROSS EVERY "T" THE WAY THEY DO,
• 19:31 THEY GET ALL NASTY WITH YOU.
• 19:33 I DON'T THINK PAUL WAS LIKE THAT.
• 19:35 PAUL FOUGHT FOR CORE PRINCIPALS.
• 19:38 BUT HE WAS VERY OPEN, VERY FLEXIBLE
• 19:41 AND ABLE TO REACH SO MANY PEOPLE BECAUSE OF IT.
• 19:43 BUT THINK ABOUT IT, 13, 14 BOOKS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT ARE HIS,
• 19:46 THAT HE WROTE.
• 19:47 LETTERS TO PEOPLE TELLING THEM,
• 19:49 THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED TO DO.
• 19:51 IT'S OK TO BELIEVE THIS WAY, THE RAPTURE HAS NOT COME.
• 19:54 HE WAS REALLY INSTRUMENTAL
• 19:57 IN GETTING THIS RELIGION GOING.
• 19:58 RIGHT AND I THINK THAT'S SO IMPORTANT,
• 20:00 BECAUSE HE'S THE PREMIERE WRITER,
• 20:02 BUT HE WOULD ARGUABLY BE THE ONE WHO'D KNOW THE LEAST,
• 20:05 BECAUSE HE WASN'T WITH JESUS.
• 20:06 PAUL NEVER TASTED ANY WATER TURNED TO WINE,
• 20:08 HE NO EXPERIENCE. >>FAITH.
• 20:11 AND WHAT HAPPENED IS HE RECEIVED THE HOLY SPIRIT
• 20:13 AND HE DID CHECK IN WITH THE DISCIPLES AND GET SOME TUTELAGE.
• 20:17 BUT IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THOSE
• 20:21 THAT ARE MORE OPEN TO OTHERS, AS APPOSED TO BEING NARROW.
• 20:24 AND PAUL MODELED THAT.
• 20:26 HE DID, HE WAS WONDERFUL.
• 20:27 I LOVE THIS LADY'S LETTER, IT GOES ON, IT SAYS:
• 20:31 AND THAT'S THE TRUTH, THE BATTLE IS NOT OURS, IT IS GOD'S BATTLE.
• 20:33 RIGHT AND GOD'S WARRIORS FIGHT IT BETTER
• 20:36 IF WE CAN BE MORE BROADLY CONSTITUTED.
• 20:39 AND HERE'S A LETTER FROM SOMEONE
• 20:41 AND THIS GUY WRITES AND HE SAYS:
• 20:48 YIPPY, YAY!!!
• 20:49 LOVE THAT?
• 20:50 OH, I LOVE IT.
• 20:54 AND HE GOES ON, HE CAME TO FAITH,
• 20:57 BUT THEN HE TAKES US TO TASK AND HE'S NOT A HAPPY CAMPER. >>WHY?
• 21:00 WELL, FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE, YOU KNOW,
• 21:05 SUNDAY'S NOT THE DAY, SATURDAY IT IS.
• 21:07 CHRISTIANS GO TO CHURCH ON THE WRONG DAY, THE WRONG HOLIDAYS.
• 21:12 AND THIS GUY BELIEVES AND SOME DO BY THE WAY,
• 21:17 YOU KNOW WHEN WE DID THE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL,
• 21:19 SOME MONTHS BACK AND YOU REMINDED
• 21:22 THAT ZOLA USE TO ALWAYS DRESS UP FOR CHRISTMAS.
• 21:25 SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT HE HOPPED IN THE BED WITH THE DEVIL
• 21:27 TO KINDA BUY INTO THAT PAGAN HOLIDAY.
• 21:30 AND ZOLA TRIED TO BE AS FRIENDLY AS HE COULD TO THE REGNANT CULTURE.
• 21:35 BUT THIS PERSON BELIEVES THAT WE'RE SELLING OUT TO THE DEVIL.
• 21:38 WHAT SAYS YOU?
• 21:40 I GUESS I JUST DON'T EVEN BELIEVE THIS.
• 21:42 IT'S OK TO CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS.
• 21:44 IT'S NOT THAT WE WORSHIP THOSE HOLIDAY,
• 21:47 WE CELEBRATE THOSE HOLIDAYS.
• 21:48 I MEAN I'M ALMOST AT A LOST FOR WORDS.
• 21:50 IT'S NOT CONTINGENT ON MY SALVATION IF I CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS
• 21:54 OR IF I CELEBRATE HANUKKAH
• 21:56 IT'S NOT GONNA MEAN MY SALVATION'S IN ANY PERIL AT ALL.
• 22:00 I THINK WE DISAPPOINT PEOPLE ON THE ONE HAND,
• 22:02 BECAUSE PEOPLE THAT LOVE THE JEWS AND LOVE BIBLICAL VIEWS
• 22:05 THROUGH THE EYES OF THE JEWS,
• 22:06 TURN INTO ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES
• 22:07 AND THEY HEAR US TEACH ABOUT THE JEWISH ROOTS OF THE FAITH.
• 22:11 AND THEY'RE GOOD TO GO ABOUT THOSE JEWISH FEASTS AND RESTORING THE JEWISHNESS TO THE GOSPEL,
• 22:15 BUT THEN WHEN WE'RE KINDLY DISPOSED TOWARD CHRISTMAS OR EASTER,
• 22:20 WE'RE JUST HOPPING IN BED WITH THE DEVIL.
• 22:21 BECAUSE WE SHOULD BE RESISTING AND TELLING THE WORLD NO.
• 22:25 NO MY MESSAGE TO THE WORLD LIKE PAUL AND HEAR ME ON THIS IS, LET'S NOT MAJOR ON MINORS.
• 22:33 DO I PERSONALLY BELIEVE THAT JESUS WAS BORN ON DECEMBER THE 25TH?
• 22:38 NO, BUT I'M GLAD TO REMEMBER JESUS' ENTRANCE INTO THE WORLD.
• 22:43 DO I PARTICULARLY BELIEVE THAT JESUS ROSE ON WHAT WE CALL EASTER SUNDAY?
• 22:47 HEY LISTEN, I'M GLAD TO HAVE A POINT IN THE CULTURE TO TALK ABOUT THE RESURRECTION.
• 22:53 FIRST FRUITS. >>FIRST FRUITS.
• 22:55 FIRST FRUITS, LET'S CALL THE REAL NAME.
• 22:57 AND I'M HAPPY TO DO IT FROM A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE,
• 23:01 BUT TO MY WAY OF THINKING, I BELIEVE THAT WE JUST HAVE TO BE MODERATE.
• 23:05 I'M SYMPATHETIC TO THIS GUY HERE, BUT PERSONALLY...
• 23:10 IT'S NOT AN ISSUE FOR ME.
• 23:12 THE ISSUE IS NOT THE ISSUE.
• 23:13 WHAT IS THE ISSUE THAT SOMEBODY WORSHIPS ON SUNDAY?
• 23:15 OK, PAUL REALLY SAID WE SHOULD WORSHIP EVERYDAY.
• 23:19 IF WE'RE REALLY DOING WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSE TO BE DOING,
• 23:22 WE'RE SUPPOSE TO BE WORSHIPPING EVERY SINGLE DAY.
• 23:24 SO THIS IS JUST NOT AN ISSUE.
• 23:25 THE HOLIDAYS ARE JUST A PICTURE OF MESSIAH.
• 23:28 CAN WE NOT CELEBRATE THE PICTURE
• 23:30 AND THE SYMBOLISM OF MESSIAH IN THESE HOLIDAYS?
• 23:32 I THINK THOSE ARE WONDERFUL.
• 23:34 I THINK WE CAN, BUT I WOULD ADVOCATE HERE AS WELL THAT
• 23:39 THE BEST SNAP SHOT FOR GETTING A LOOK AT THE STORY OF JESUS THROUGH CELEBRATIONS,
• 23:48 WOULD BE THROUGH, NOW HEAR ME ON THIS, LEARNING ABOUT THE SEVEN FEASTS OF ISRAEL.
• 23:54 I KNOW SOME OF YOU'VE NEVER HEARD THAT BEFORE.
• 23:56 OUR FOUNDER ZOLA LEVITT WROTE A BOOK, "THE SEVEN FEASTS OF ISRAEL," AS HAVE OTHERS.
• 24:01 OH, WHAT A PIECE?
• 24:03 TO LOOK AT THE OLD TESTAMENT HOLIDAYS, PASSOVER, GOING TO UNLEAVENED BREAD,
• 24:09 FIRST FRUITS, THE FEAST OF WEEKS,
• 24:12 AND GOING ON THROUGH AND SEEING HOW THE NEW TESTAMENT EVENTS
• 24:16 OF JESUS' DEATH, BURIAL, AND RESURRECTION,
• 24:19 THE OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT COINCIDES PERFECTLY.
• 24:22 AND WHAT'S COMING NEXT?
• 24:23 YES THE PROPHETIC FEAST. >>THE TRUMPETS,
• 24:25 THE TRUMPETS AMEN >>THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS, THE RAPTURE.
• 24:27 I MEAN, IT IS TRUE THAT THE BEST WAY TO REALLY SEE JESUS ARE THROUGH THE FEASTS OF THE BIBLE.
• 24:33 NOT THROUGH THESE LATER MADE FEASTS.
• 24:35 PAGAN FEASTS. >>YES
• 24:37 LET'S GET THAT, MOST OF THEM PAGAN FEASTS.
• 24:39 THEY'RE STILL OK, IT DOESN'T, IF I WORSHIP CORRECTLY,
• 24:44 IT'S NOT GONNA HURT MY SALVATION.
• 24:46 IF I CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS, IT'S JUST NOT.
• 24:48 I'M GRATEFUL THAT THERE'S A MESSIAH THAT WAS BORN,
• 24:51 I'M GRATEFUL THAT I CAN CELEBRATE HIS BIRTH.
• 24:53 REMINDS ME OF COURSE, THIS PROGRAM
• 24:55 IS COMING TO YOU IN THE EASTER SEASON YOU MIGHT RECALL.
• 24:58 FIRST FRUITS.
• 25:00 FIRST FRUITS.
• 25:01 YOU MIGHT RECALL THE STORY OF THE WOMAN AT THE WELL.
• 25:05 HOW DO WE WORSHIP, IS IT ON THIS MOUNTAIN OR ON THAT MOUNTAIN?
• 25:10 HOW DO WE DO THIS THING?
• 25:11 AND IF UNDERSTAND YESHUA CORRECTLY HE SAYS,
• 25:14 LISTEN GOD IS SPIRIT AND THOSE WHO WORSHIP HIM MUST WORSHIP
• 25:18 IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH.
• 25:19 EVEN IF THERE'S A NUANCE WITH A FEAST AND A NEW CELEBRATION
• 25:22 THAT ISN'T COMPLETELY IN ACCORD,
• 25:24 I'M GLAD THAT PEOPLE ARE WORSHIPPING YESHUA IN SPIRIT.
• 25:27 ABSOLUTELY.
• 25:28 AND EVERY TIME THAT I'VE TAUGHT SEVEN FEASTS
• 25:30 OR A CHRISTIAN LOVE STORY,
• 25:32 PEOPLE ARE REALLY BLOWN AWAY BY HOW JEWISH THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IS.
• 25:38 THEY'RE JUST REALLY, IT MAKES EVERY THING COME TOGETHER FOR THEM IN THE BIBLE, IT'S GREAT.
• 25:42 YES AND LET ME ASK AS WELL, MOVING ON AS WE LOOK AT
• 25:49 LOOKING AT THE BIBLE FROM A JEWISH PERSPECTIVE,
• 25:52 AND AS WE CONSIDER INCLUSIVENESS,
• 25:54 LET ME TAKE YOU TO A LETTER FROM SOMEONE OF THE FORGOTTEN PEOPLE.
• 25:59 THIS FELLOW WRITES BECAUSE A FRIEND OF HIS SUGGESTED THAT HE GET THE ZOLA LEVITT MATERIAL,
• 26:06 BECAUSE I'M NOT MESSIANIC, HE SAYS, I'M JEWISH.
• 26:09 AND THIS PERSON'S IN PRISON AND HE HAD CONTACTED US TO RECEIVE SOME OF OUR INFORMATION.
• 26:20 HE SAYS HERE:
• 26:29 AND HE GOES ON HERE.
• 26:31 I THINK THAT AS WE CONSIDER PAUL'S BEING INCLUSIVE,
• 26:36 WE NEED TO REMEMBER THE FORGOTTEN PEOPLE.
• 26:40 CERTAINLY THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 26:41 THERE'S NOT TOO MANY PEOPLE IN PRISONS.
• 26:43 IT'S NOT THAT WE DON'T GET CAUGHT IT'S JUST THAT,
• 26:45 THERE'S NOT THAT MANY JEWISH PEOPLE IN PRISONS.
• 26:47 BUT THIS GUY'S THERE
• 26:48 AND SOMEONE WITNESSED TO HIM.
• 26:51 OUR MINISTRY GOES INTO THE PRISONS.
• 26:54 PEOPLE DON'T HAVE MUCH TO DO EXCEPT TO READ AND WRITE AND WATCH TELEVISION ON OCCASION.
• 27:00 AND PEOPLE WATCH OUR PROGRAM AND THEY READ OUR LEVITT LETTER.
• 27:05 FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE IN PRISON, JEW, NON-JEW, BLACK, WHITE, HISPANIC, I DON'T CARE.
• 27:10 IF YOU WANNA CONTACT US:
• 27:15 WE CONSIDER IT A PRIVILEGE TO GET OUR INFORMATION TO YOU.
• 27:22 THE POST OFFICE BOX APPEARS ON THE SCREEN AS WELL.
• 27:26 AND IF YOU WANNA HEAR FROM US, WE WANNA SPEAK TO YOU.
• 27:29 PAUL WAS VERY INCLUSIVE.
• 27:31 WE'RE ALL GUILTY AS CHARGED, EVERYONE OF US.
• 27:33 MYSELF, SANDRA, WE'RE ALL SINNERS SAVED BY GRACE.
• 27:36 I WASN'T CAUGHT.
• 27:38 AND THE ONLY CONVICTION I GOT WAS THE CONVICTION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND I REPENTED THAT WAY,
• 27:41 YOU'VE COME TO IT YOUR WAY.
• 27:43 AT THE END OF THE DAY I DON'T SEE A WHOLE LOT OF DIFFERENCE.
• 27:46 WE LOVE YAH.
• 27:48 WE DO.
• 27:48 PLEASE STAY TUNED.
• 27:50 NEXT WEEK WE'LL HAVE SOME MORE LETTERS.
• 27:51 WE'RE GONNA TALK SOME MORE ABOUT PAUL.
• 27:53 AND AS YOU GO,
• 27:54 SHA 'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
• 27:55 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.