Caption transcript for Divine Deliverance: “David” (7/12)

• 00:01 Kirsten Hart: The good news of
• 00:02 the day is, even if you have
• 00:03 lied and purposely deceived people, God can still use you
• 00:08 and call you a man after his own heart.
• 00:11 Today on "Zola Levitt Presents."
• 00:17 male announcer: From the beginning, our creator revealed
• 00:21 his will to the common man.
• 00:23 Individuals listened to his call and responded in obedience.
• 00:29 From the first Hebrew Avraham to the culmination of salvation in
• 00:34 Messiah himself, the Lord faithfully intervenes with
• 00:38 his divine deliverance.
• 00:50 David Hart: We're so glad you've joined us today
• 00:52 on "Zola Levitt Presents."
• 00:53 I'm David Hart.
• 00:54 Kirsten: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 00:55 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: And I'm Jeffrey Seif, and we've got one
• 00:58 for you today on "Divine Deliverance."
• 01:01 A man after God's own heart, King David, what a fascinating
• 01:05 person, yes?
• 01:06 David: I love his story.
• 01:08 Kirsten: I love his name.
• 01:09 It's your name.
• 01:10 It's a good strong name.
• 01:11 And I think one of the things I love about him is one of
• 01:14 the first stories we see is he slew Goliath, but it was just
• 01:18 a simple thing.
• 01:19 He faced his giant with just a little sling and a rock.
• 01:22 Jeffrey: Yes, many run from their problems.
• 01:24 This one ran to it and God worked through it.
• 01:28 Kirsten: What a great example and person to study today.
• 01:31 Now, let's go watch this story of King David and hear teaching
• 01:35 by Dr. Jeffrey Seif.
• 01:40 male: David only needed one smooth stone, but he selected
• 01:45 five.
• 01:49 Waiting for him is the biggest man anyone had ever seen.
• 01:54 Over 9 feet tall, his armor alone weighed as much as a man.
• 01:58 His iron spear was greater than 15 pounds.
• 02:03 Goliath had taunted us unmercifully for 40 days.
• 02:09 Then one day this shepherd boy, David, the son of Jesse,
• 02:13 confronted the Philistine beast with his sling and that one
• 02:17 single stone.
• 02:22 ♪♪♪
• 02:28 [cheering]
• 02:29 male: It was a day that all Israel shall never forget.
• 02:32 How proud we were.
• 02:34 We were serving in the army of the living God.
• 02:37 ♪♪♪
• 02:48 female: [speaking in Hebrew]
• 02:50 female: We will never forget that day.
• 02:52 Our hearts leaped for joy at the sight of him.
• 02:55 David the giant killer had returned.
• 02:58 The Philistines thought that Goliath could never be defeated,
• 03:02 but David had proven them wrong.
• 03:04 What faith, how bold, he went to battle with a few small stones
• 03:09 and returned with the sword of a giant.
• 03:13 King Saul has done well in selecting him.
• 03:15 Our enemies have been slain by the tens of thousands.
• 03:19 Because of David, we now have peace within our walls.
• 03:25 ♪♪♪
• 03:32 Jeffrey: I just gotta tell you I love this guy.
• 03:38 Probably gonna get some bad mail from people that don't love this
• 03:41 segment because people are minded to think religious people
• 03:44 are just forever sheepish and passive and letting the world
• 03:47 roll over them.
• 03:48 Well, the guy that threw these rocks didn't believe that way.
• 03:51 And when he picked up a sword and took a head off, he didn't
• 03:53 think that way either.
• 03:54 And, you know, as a guy, the story, truth be known, really
• 03:59 resonates with me today.
• 04:02 When I was growing up, we sang a song.
• 04:03 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 04:07 And David, the king of Israel, lives forever.
• 04:10 And that courage, that confidence, that verve.
• 04:14 And by the way, the word "confidence" itself comes from
• 04:17 the Latin "confides."
• 04:19 It means "with faith."
• 04:22 And men need that to throw themselves against the
• 04:25 challenges of the day.
• 04:27 David did it in his day.
• 04:29 He did it his way.
• 04:31 We need to do it in ours.
• 04:35 Oops, I forgot.
• 04:37 Some have said it's just one big myth, David never existed, that
• 04:42 he's just the Sylvester Stallone, the Rocky of the
• 04:46 biblical drama.
• 04:49 They said, "It didn't happen."
• 04:51 And then, once upon a time, in a place called Tel Dan in northern
• 04:56 Israel, a tablet was found with an ancient inscription where a
• 05:02 king of a neighboring country spoke of "The House of David,"
• 05:07 "Bet-David."
• 05:08 What that did is it leant credence to the notion that
• 05:14 there really was a David.
• 05:18 We need to fend off insults in different ways, whether it's
• 05:22 insults to the veracity of the biblical testimony.
• 05:25 "Veracity" comes from the Latin word "veritáé.
• 05:27 It means "truth."
• 05:29 Individuals question the essence and substance of biblical faith.
• 05:34 Individuals need to contend for that.
• 05:36 Is it problematic to contend for an ancestral God-given homeland?
• 05:41 Is it problematic to contend for America?
• 05:44 I think not.
• 05:45 And once again, as I said at the opening of this segment, the guy
• 05:51 who carried stones here and a sword here who's noted here, he
• 05:57 didn't think so either.
• 06:03 male: I was among the leaders of the tribes of Israel that day
• 06:07 when we gathered in Hebron.
• 06:10 King Saul was dead, having taken his own life on the battlefield.
• 06:14 We had assembled at this place to anoint David as our new king.
• 06:20 David had proven himself to be a worthy leader
• 06:24 and a mighty warrior.
• 06:28 The covenant he shared with us that day assured us that the
• 06:31 Lord would continue to be our source in the days ahead.
• 06:35 He pledged his devotion, and we promised the same in return.
• 06:45 In the anointing of David, we witnessed the birth of a new
• 06:49 kingdom, a kingdom which we prayed would never pass away.
• 06:54 ♪♪♪
• 07:05 Jeffrey: We're so thrilled to be able to bring these
• 07:07 fascinating dramatic vignettes to you.
• 07:11 Before unpacking some of the particulars of the pictures that
• 07:15 offers a telling of the biblical text, I wanna speak to a text I
• 07:19 alluded to earlier, this one written in stone, a little
• 07:24 sidebar to this famous piece of discovery.
• 07:28 You know, biblical archaeology is a wonderful discipline.
• 07:33 You dig up the land and it verifies the biblical testimony.
• 07:38 That's true, and what's fascinating when bringing this
• 07:42 to you, truth be known, there was a professor.
• 07:45 His name was Avraham Biran, who was head of the expedition in
• 07:50 northern Israel, Tel Dan, in 1993 and '94.
• 07:53 And this stone was discovered then.
• 07:57 Tells the story of Hazael, Hazel, a king of Aram, and a
• 08:03 military engagement he's involved in.
• 08:06 This stone was sitting in the professor's crate, and along
• 08:09 comes Berg Production, who has produced the Zola Levitt
• 08:13 Ministries story for over 40 years.
• 08:16 And Ken Berg and Clayton are sitting there with him, and this
• 08:19 is in a mill crate in the professor's office, very humble.
• 08:23 And what happened is Ken Berg said, "Don't you think you need
• 08:26 to get this out?"
• 08:27 Well, it sits proudly in a museum now.
• 08:30 This is just a facsimile of it.
• 08:32 But the dollars that you contribute to "Zola Levitt
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• 08:45 Now, for the story at hand, the anointing, it's a fascinating
• 08:51 story in the book Shmuel, Samuel, 1 Samuel 16, after
• 08:57 describing that David didn't have a lot going for him.
• 09:00 In fact, his brothers kinda gave him up, didn't take him
• 09:03 seriously, and even his father kind of pushed him to
• 09:06 the margins.
• 09:07 But there was something in him.
• 09:09 There was a call, and he's brought before the prophet.
• 09:12 And we're told in the text, chapter 16, verse 12:
• 09:18 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 09:20 "And God said, 'Qum,'" arise," misha hehu, "and anoint him."
• 09:30 That word, by the way, "misha hehu," or "misha hahu,"
• 09:36 excuse me, actually, you might hear the word "Mashiach"
• 09:40 in that.
• 09:41 I kinda conflated that.
• 09:43 It's where we get the word "Messiah."
• 09:46 People speak, and rightly so, of Jesus the Messiah, more commonly
• 09:51 known as English, as Jesus Christ.
• 09:55 People think his father and mother were Mr. and Mrs. Christ,
• 09:58 that his birth certificate read: "Christ," comma,
• 10:01 "J," for "Jesus."
• 10:02 When actually, the word "Christ" itself is a Greek for the Hebrew
• 10:08 "Mashiach" or "Messiah."
• 10:11 And the word "Messiah" itself means "Anointed One."
• 10:18 So, let's bring it together.
• 10:19 You saw the picture of David, who was anointed.
• 10:25 The prophet poured the anointing oil on his head,
• 10:30 and the rest is history.
• 10:35 Well, there were different history makers that were
• 10:36 anointed.
• 10:37 Prophets were anointed, kings, priests.
• 10:42 David himself here, of course, anointed, in effect, as king.
• 10:48 He, in effect, was a great deliverer in ancient Israel,
• 10:54 and his story is in the past.
• 10:56 But the one that he presages belongs to the future in
• 11:02 perpetuity. And who am I referring to?
• 11:07 Jesus, called "Yeshua," actually in Hebrew, from a verb
• 11:14 "to save, to deliver, or to redeem."
• 11:19 This series is all about deliverance.
• 11:23 And when I think of deliverance, there's the ultimate Deliverer.
• 11:28 Oh, friends, this story talks about David of the past.
• 11:33 But, you know, Jews sing, [speaking in Hebrew]
• 11:39 "David, the king of Israel, lives forever."
• 11:42 Now, he's remembered forever.
• 11:44 Even the star, that is the Star of David, that is affixed to
• 11:48 Jewish jewelry and the flag of Israel itself reminds us of
• 11:55 the triumphs of David in days gone by.
• 11:58 But in saying, "David lives forever," he doesn't just live
• 12:02 in memory.
• 12:03 He doesn't just inspire a kind of confidence, but if the
• 12:07 biblical testimony, both testaments, is to be taken
• 12:11 seriously, David lives forever because that energy, that
• 12:17 anointing, is personified in the person who lives forever who
• 12:21 died, who was crucified, buried, and three days later, that
• 12:28 anointed one rose from the dead.
• 12:32 This Deliverer who lives to make intercession for us, this
• 12:38 Deliverer who facilitates a great deliverance, he himself
• 12:43 was delivered from death.
• 12:45 And right into the future, he delivers us from death as well.
• 12:53 male announcer: Our resource this week,
• 12:54 the DVD series "The Warrior King, David-Like Leadership
• 12:58 in Goliath-Like Times."
• 13:00 This series from 2009 includes 8 programs taught by
• 13:05 Dr. Jeffrey Seif,
• 13:06 and include dramatic reenactments from Israel.
• 13:10 With challenges larger than Goliath all around us,
• 13:13 we need Bible-based leaders now more than ever.
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• 14:37 male announcer: Matthew 1: "The book of the generation of
• 14:41 Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham...
• 14:47 All of the generations to David are fourteen generations;
• 14:53 from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen
• 14:58 generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto
• 15:02 Christ are fourteen generations."
• 15:08 "And in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God
• 15:13 unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin espoused
• 15:19 to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the
• 15:25 virgin's name was Mary.
• 15:28 And the angel came in unto her, and said, 'Hail, thou that art
• 15:33 highly favored, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among
• 15:38 women...Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favor with God.
• 15:43 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth
• 15:46 a son, and shalt call his name Jesus.
• 15:51 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest:
• 15:55 and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father
• 15:59 David: and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever;
• 16:03 and of his kingdom there shall be no end.'"
• 16:10 Jeffrey: We began this program with women celebrating David.
• 16:16 Well, that's just a foretaste of a glory divine.
• 16:20 I mention this because the angel Gavriel, meaning "my strength,"
• 16:26 comes to the royal couple.
• 16:29 Well, they're peasant stock, to be sure, but they're gonna give
• 16:31 birth to the King of kings.
• 16:33 And speaks that through their son, the anointed one, a
• 16:38 descendant of David, will come one whose kingdom there will be
• 16:42 no end.
• 16:43 Now, that's cause to celebrate.
• 16:47 By way of contrast, it's worth noting that Miriam, Mary, comes
• 16:53 from Hebrew "Maryam," which means "sea of bitterness," or
• 16:59 "sea of sorrows."
• 17:00 "Mar" is "bitterness" and "yam" is "sea."
• 17:03 Well, talk about her life--granted, that she had the
• 17:09 sorrowful of experience of being, now doubt, criticized for
• 17:13 being pregnant before marriage.
• 17:15 You know, a little bit of a scandal there.
• 17:18 Ands similarly, she had the pain to carry of watching her son
• 17:24 come to an inglorious end.
• 17:27 She's there at the cross with the Lord, and there's sorrow.
• 17:30 But, you know, that sorrow was turned to joy.
• 17:36 And it's not just something that happened to the mother.
• 17:42 It can happen to the other, and I'm talking to people like me
• 17:47 and you.
• 17:49 I'll look at the Matthean text.
• 17:50 We're told in verse 20 of the 1st chapter that an angel, a
• 17:55 messenger came.
• 17:56 The angel, by the way, in Luke chapter 1:26, is named
• 17:59 "Gavriel."
• 18:01 I like to conflate the testimonies to get all the
• 18:03 information.
• 18:05 "The angel of the Lord appears to Yosef in a dream and says,
• 18:10 'Joseph, son of David--'" You know, he was of peasant stock,
• 18:16 but he's descended from a king.
• 18:18 And by the way, parenthetically, that's what happens.
• 18:21 You and I can have very humble circumstances.
• 18:24 We're born again.
• 18:25 We're descended from a King.
• 18:27 We're inputted with this genetic code descended from greatness.
• 18:33 I think we'd do well to live it.
• 18:34 Well, he says, "Joseph, son of David, don't be afraid to take
• 18:38 your Miriam."
• 18:40 He goes on to note that "the Child within her has been
• 18:43 conceived by the Ruach ha-Kodesh.
• 18:47 She will give birth to a son; and you shall call his name
• 18:53 Yeshua," or Jesus.
• 18:56 And then there's a conjunction, "For he shall save his people
• 19:02 from their sins."
• 19:03 Conjunctions: and, but, or, for, or nor.
• 19:06 It's joined here, and I mention this because absent an
• 19:10 understanding of the Hebrew, it doesn't really make sense.
• 19:12 "You shall call his name Yeshua," which in Hebrew means
• 19:17 "Deliverer."
• 19:19 He says, "You shall call his name Yeshua, for he will deliver
• 19:25 his people from their sins."
• 19:29 See, by understanding the Jewish background, it brings something
• 19:35 forth that wouldn't otherwise be there.
• 19:38 I think you can look at the Bible without understanding the
• 19:42 Jewish roots and it's like looking at it in black and
• 19:45 white.
• 19:46 It's dramatic and it's great.
• 19:47 But when you look at the Jewish background to it, it brings it
• 19:51 forth in technicolor.
• 19:52 It gives it views and use which wouldn't otherwise be there, and
• 19:58 that's our trademark.
• 20:00 Speaking of trademarks, you know what Jesus's trademark is?
• 20:07 Forgiving people of their sins.
• 20:12 There's nothing you've done that can exempt you from
• 20:20 the opportunity to get a fresh start and a new life.
• 20:25 I wanna speak slowly, deliberately, and gently.
• 20:31 People go through life, they carry shame and guilt and other
• 20:37 concomitants to that, things that weigh them down in their
• 20:42 life.
• 20:43 There's little, if any, cause to celebrate.
• 20:46 I wanna know that God can change your mourning into gladness, and
• 20:52 that comes about by your experience with the anointed one
• 20:58 to deliver himself, who came not just to die for the sins of the
• 21:03 world, but to save you in the world.
• 21:06 Not just so you can have life after death, but so that you can
• 21:11 experience life before death, a new life invigorated with the
• 21:17 power of the Holy Spirit and a clear conscience.
• 21:23 David: David was anointed, and I can't imagine going
• 21:26 through the things that he went through in his life without that
• 21:28 anointing.
• 21:30 Jeffrey: Yes, so true, David.
• 21:33 We need the Lord's presence in our life.
• 21:37 It's interesting, in the Bible, God guides with fire and a
• 21:40 cloud.
• 21:41 He leads people into the future in the older testament.
• 21:45 Similarly, in the New Testament, there's the promise of divine
• 21:48 guidance for divine deliverance.
• 21:51 David's led along the narrow path.
• 21:54 David: It's that small voice that we listen to to help us
• 21:58 through things that we're going through, to help people worship.
• 22:02 Jeffrey: Yes, and that still small voice isn't just a word
• 22:09 for worship leaders.
• 22:10 It's a word for worshipers, women and men who find value in
• 22:16 what the Lord is all about.
• 22:18 Wise men seek him, and we hear that still small voice and get
• 22:23 direction for life, yes?
• 22:25 David: Here's a question I have.
• 22:26 Do you think we need to ask for that anointing, or does it just
• 22:28 come to us?
• 22:30 Jeffrey: I think, you know--the Bible says, you know,
• 22:32 "Seek, and you'll find; knock, and it will be opened."
• 22:37 I think we find ourselves in life where we're perplexed by
• 22:41 circumstance and we'd do well to seek God, to navigate around the
• 22:47 exigent circumstances, the problems that are so inherent in
• 22:51 human experience.
• 22:52 David, God bless him, had so many problems, and the good Lord
• 22:57 saw him through them all.
• 23:00 Kirsten: And even today we still talk about his greatness,
• 23:04 even with all of the faults.
• 23:06 Just like he does with us, that's the beauty of the Lord
• 23:09 that we serve.
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• 24:39 ♪♪♪
• 24:40 ♪ Speak to me, O Lord, I'm listening. ♪
• 24:47 ♪ Hearing you, Lord, as you call me. ♪
• 24:54 ♪ Help me live my life in the wilderness. ♪
• 25:02 ♪ Let be a man after your own heart. ♪
• 25:10 ♪ Hear me, Lord. ♪
• 25:13 ♪ It's now I need you. ♪
• 25:17 ♪ Lord, I want to walk beside you. ♪
• 25:24 ♪ Through the toils and trials, ♪
• 25:28 ♪ through the times I doubt, ♪
• 25:32 ♪ I will call your name, ♪
• 25:35 ♪ Lord, as I cry out. ♪
• 25:44 ♪ Lord, I know that you are near. ♪
• 25:49 ♪ Lord, I know that you will hear. ♪
• 25:53 ♪ Listening closely to my needs, ♪
• 25:58 ♪ watching carefully over me. ♪
• 26:02 ♪ O Lord, I sing and dance to you with praise, ♪
• 26:06 ♪ in love and worship all my days. ♪
• 26:11 ♪ Even in my darkest hour, I'll know your voice, ♪
• 26:17 ♪ I'll feel your power. ♪
• 26:23 ♪ Talk to me, O Lord, I need you. ♪
• 26:30 ♪ I need you. ♪♪
• 26:39 Jeffrey: It's great to hear Zola's music.
• 26:42 He was a wonderful classical musician.
• 26:45 The story today is a classic too, known by many,
• 26:50 the story of King David.
• 26:51 It's hard to walk away from him, but, guys, gals, time is up.
• 26:55 Kirsten: Well, he was a warrior, and then he had this
• 26:58 soft heart.
• 26:59 He was a musician, and he was such a worshiper also.
• 27:02 David: I think that makes him a hero, correct?
• 27:04 Jeffrey: Yes, in so many ways.
• 27:05 He's a hero to so many, and rightly so, the man after God's
• 27:10 own heart.
• 27:12 Let's do this again next week.
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