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

• 00:01 David Hart: He's the Alpha
• 00:02 and Omega, beginning and the end.
• 00:04 Today, it's all about Yeshua on "Zola Levitt Presents."
• 00:08 ♪♪♪
• 00:14 male announcer: From the beginning, our Creator revealed
• 00:16 his will to the common man.
• 00:19 Individuals listened to his call and responded in obedience.
• 00:25 From the first Hebrew Avraham to the culmination of salvation in
• 00:30 Messiah himself, the Lord faithfully intervenes with his
• 00:35 divine deliverance.
• 00:42 ♪♪♪
• 00:45 David: We're so glad you've joined us today on
• 00:47 "Zola Levitt Presents."
• 00:49 I'm David Hart.
• 00:50 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart. Jeffrey Seif: Jeffrey Seif.
• 00:52 Kirsten: We are here at the final program in our brand new
• 00:55 series, "Divine Deliverance."
• 00:58 Every person that we've studied, that we've seen dramatic
• 01:01 reenactments about, they've all been a prototype leading up to
• 01:05 today's person.
• 01:07 It's the one and only Yeshua HaMashiach, the Messiah, Jesus.
• 01:12 Jeffrey: Yes, and even though this is the final program for
• 01:14 us, this can be a whole new beginning for people watching
• 01:21 because Jesus is all about that divine deliverer helps people
• 01:25 push the reset button in their own lives and have a glorious
• 01:29 new program to walk out themselves, yes.
• 01:32 Kirsten: And that's why we've done this whole series.
• 01:33 David: That's right.
• 01:35 It's the greatest story ever told.
• 01:36 Right now, let's go to the Galilee for our dramatic
• 01:39 reenactment.
• 01:43 male: "And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their
• 01:46 synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom.
• 01:50 Seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain and his
• 01:55 disciples came unto him and he taught them, saying--
• 01:59 [speaking Hebrew]
• 03:11 Jeffrey: He who said, "Blessed are those who hunger
• 03:14 and thirst," wanted to be remembered by a meal.
• 03:21 I think that's very interesting.
• 03:23 I have to wrestle with the question how to finish up a
• 03:26 teaching program on deliverance in the Bible as we've walked
• 03:30 through from Avraham to Yeshua, we've surveyed the Older
• 03:34 Testament and now we're landing on the New.
• 03:37 Affords me the opportunity to talk about he who
• 03:40 is the deliverer.
• 03:44 I wonder the extent to which I should be doing all the talking.
• 03:47 You should just push "rewind" and look at those videos, just
• 03:51 the words of Yeshua speaking.
• 03:54 Our friends sent money to help us make that.
• 03:58 We built a village on the Sea of Galilee.
• 04:00 We hired those actors and actresses.
• 04:03 The dramatic vignettes with Jesus there in the Galilee on
• 04:07 the mountain were all facilitated by your gifts and by
• 04:12 Israeli actors and actresses.
• 04:14 Thank you for that.
• 04:15 The story that I wanna bring to you today comes right from the
• 04:19 pages of the Newer Testament.
• 04:22 Therein, and we can look at it from different places in the
• 04:26 Matthean Gospel, the Gospel of Matthew.
• 04:30 We're told the Yeshua sees the crowds and he goes up on a
• 04:33 mountain, subsequent to which he gives this great message.
• 04:38 It's called the Sermon on the Mount.
• 04:40 I never liked the term "sermon" so much; it sounds
• 04:42 kind of boring.
• 04:44 Really, there is stitched together here a variety of
• 04:47 [speaking Hebrew]
• 04:49 pearls of wisdom, insights into what it means to
• 04:52 be authentically religious.
• 04:55 And beautiful it is.
• 04:58 If you don't have time to read the whole Bible, can I encourage
• 05:00 you just to take a look at Matthew chapter 5, 6, and 7.
• 05:06 And with that, you should be able to figure out
• 05:08 what it's all about.
• 05:10 Not only is it my hope that you'll understand what it means
• 05:14 to be Christian, it's my hope you'll understand who is the
• 05:17 person of Christ, the one we call Christ, in Hebrew Mashiach,
• 05:24 the Messiah, the Anointed One, the Deliverer.
• 05:28 Before he left, he took bread and he broke it.
• 05:31 He was a Hebrew, it was Passover time and he said to the hungry,
• 05:36 "Take, eat, this is my body."
• 05:39 And if you look at this unleavened bread, it really is
• 05:42 very equivalent to what it would have looked like back then.
• 05:45 It's put on a grill on the quick.
• 05:47 There's holes that are punched into it so that the heat rises
• 05:50 from it and, because it's placed on a grill, it's striped.
• 05:54 When Yeshua said, "This is my body," there's a picture
• 05:57 here of the cross.
• 06:00 Similarly, when he said, "Drink, this is my blood,"
• 06:03 taken together, we know what he's referring to.
• 06:06 Actually, when they had that supper, they didn't.
• 06:10 Why not?
• 06:13 Well, in the Jewish Passover time, there's a special meal
• 06:16 called the Seder and everyone eats matzah, there's unleavened
• 06:20 bread, everyone drinks various cups of wine, and they just
• 06:24 figured Yeshua was being proverbial and speaking
• 06:28 in parables.
• 06:29 You know, he's been known to say things that not everybody
• 06:31 understands.
• 06:33 But really, he was giving a picture of that
• 06:36 which was to come.
• 06:38 And it wasn't prophecy belonging to the distant future.
• 06:42 It was prophecy belonging to when the sun rises high
• 06:47 in the sky the very next day.
• 06:51 It's called the Last Supper because there he had them
• 06:56 gathered and there he gave a final word to them.
• 06:59 Actually, we're looking at the Sermon on the Mount where
• 07:02 there's the basic instruction of what it means to
• 07:05 walk with the Lord.
• 07:06 If one looks at the Johannine Gospel, 13, 14, 15, and 16
• 07:12 therein, it gets to the gist similarly of what it means to
• 07:15 walk with the Lord.
• 07:17 I'd encourage you to take a look at the book.
• 07:19 But now, as we put a wrap on a series that deals with
• 07:25 deliverance, I want to close by encouraging you to open up the
• 07:31 heart, take a fresh look at the book.
• 07:34 Go through the journey again, discover Jesus, and by virtue of
• 07:38 the discovery of him, walk through the door into a brand
• 07:43 new life.
• 07:48 male: "And seeing the multitudes, he went up on
• 07:50 a mountain and he taught them as one having authority.
• 07:57 'Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
• 08:01 You are the light of the world.
• 08:05 Whoever compels you to go a mile, go with him two.
• 08:11 Love your enemies.
• 08:13 Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth.
• 08:18 Judge not that you be not judged.
• 08:22 Knock and it will be opened to you.
• 08:28 You will know them by their fruits.
• 08:31 Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, saying,
• 08:35 "What shall we eat?
• 08:37 Or what shall we drink?
• 08:38 Or what shall we wear?"
• 08:41 For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things
• 08:45 but seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and
• 08:50 all of these things shall be added to you.'"
• 08:57 Jeffrey: When I look at those dramatic vignettes I am struck
• 09:00 by the beauty, the simplicity, and the profundity.
• 09:06 There's a whole new world.
• 09:09 People are living so wrong in modernity.
• 09:12 We can correct it by going back to the Savior who came in
• 09:18 antiquity and applying what he taught to modern
• 09:21 life and circumstance.
• 09:23 There's so much.
• 09:25 It's all so very rich.
• 09:28 In the Johannine Gospel and I wanna go there, I wanna pivot
• 09:33 away from Matthew where you have the Sermon on the Mount.
• 09:36 In the 10th chapter, the 9th verse, Yeshua, Jesus, says, "I
• 09:41 am the gate," or I am the door.
• 09:44 The door.
• 09:46 "If anyone comes in through me, he will be delivered," or saved.
• 09:54 Actually, the Greek word there, sozo, is saved, delivered,
• 09:59 healed, put back together again.
• 10:02 And it's not just the soul and church people talk about
• 10:06 soul-winning and I appreciate that.
• 10:08 We talk about getting the soul saved so when we die
• 10:11 we can experience eternal life.
• 10:13 I get that. I believe that.
• 10:16 The fact, however, is today people aren't asking as much
• 10:18 whether there's life after death.
• 10:20 People wanna know if there's life before death, and the word
• 10:23 "saved" as in come to Jesus and be saved, doesn't just speak to
• 10:28 the issues of the soul.
• 10:29 It speaks to the issues of life, body, soul, spirit, can apply to
• 10:36 finances, relationships, a myriad of things.
• 10:40 And myriad literally means thousands.
• 10:43 The number is vast.
• 10:45 Jesus said, "I am the gate, I am the doorway,
• 10:49 into a whole new life."
• 10:51 He says, "Those who come through and walk the path too,
• 10:57 will be delivered."
• 11:01 At the outset of this series, I had thought and said that,
• 11:06 initially, I and we just wanted to name this "Deliverance."
• 11:11 But we knew that if the series was just titled, "Deliverance,"
• 11:14 then it would play back to a Burt Reynolds movie and some
• 11:17 things that were less than religious in all that so we
• 11:20 wanted to go with "Divine Deliverance" so people know
• 11:25 we're not talking about that; we're talking about this.
• 11:28 It's a shame, by the way, that the word "deliverance" has kind
• 11:30 of been hijacked in the language such that people might go to
• 11:34 that when they really need to go to this.
• 11:36 And not just this, as in a page, they need to go to him, the
• 11:40 person who's noted on the page.
• 11:43 Truth of the matter, there is a whole new life.
• 11:49 Here, we're talking about a passageway.
• 11:51 In the Sermon on the Mount we're talking about a path.
• 11:56 It's interesting, in the Jewish religion, the religious way is
• 12:00 referred to as a path and to walk the way, it's called
• 12:04 halicha from the Hebrew verb, halak, which means to walk.
• 12:09 Even the expression that we hear in the Matthean Gospel, the
• 12:13 Gospel of Matthew, when Yeshua entered by the narrow way "for
• 12:17 the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and
• 12:21 those who find it are few," that's even borrowing from a
• 12:24 Hebraic expression that the way is a narrow path
• 12:27 and those who walk it are few.
• 12:30 Conversely, the heathen way is a broad way and many go to it to
• 12:34 their own destruction.
• 12:36 Here, we're talking about a new way of being.
• 12:39 Yeshua says, "I am the gate," or I am the door.
• 12:42 "If anyone comes in through me, he will be saved.
• 12:46 And will go in and out and find pasture."
• 12:50 I don't know what you think of when you hear the word "anyone."
• 12:57 You might be the kind of person that thinks that this
• 13:00 all applies to someone else but not you.
• 13:03 Maybe you're too lost, maybe you did it before
• 13:06 and you turned away.
• 13:07 Maybe you just find yourself at a place you just have trouble
• 13:11 with it all anymore and you've got yourself in big trouble.
• 13:15 Maybe you're the only one who knows it.
• 13:17 When he says, "If anyone comes through me, he will be saved,"
• 13:21 is he talking to you or just people that
• 13:23 show up on television.
• 13:25 Friends, I think he's talking to you.
• 13:29 Take it as a personal invitation.
• 13:35 announcer: Our offer on this program: the eight-part series,
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• 13:43 What does it mean to walk in the footsteps of Israel's Messiah?
• 13:47 To search out an answer, Dr. Jeffrey Seif takes viewers to
• 13:50 the Galilee region of Northern Israel where our Lord delivered
• 13:53 his magnificent Sermon on the Mount.
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• 14:42 Kirsten: Because of your faithful monthly support of
• 14:45 "Zola Levitt Presents," we've been able to bring you a brand
• 14:48 new series, "Divine Deliverance."
• 14:50 We hope you've enjoyed it as much as we've enjoyed
• 14:53 bringing it to you.
• 14:55 Now, let's go back to the Holy Land where Yeshua is teaching.
• 15:02 [speaking Hebrew]
• 15:16 male: As the Lord concludes his teaching on the mount, he
• 15:19 likens those who apply his precepts to a wise man who
• 15:23 builds his house on the rock.
• 15:27 A strong sturdy house is the result of diligent work and
• 15:31 careful attention to detail.
• 15:34 A solid foundation is paramount.
• 15:37 Once completed, such a house will withstand
• 15:39 all manner of storms.
• 15:42 "And the rain descended.
• 15:46 The floods came and the winds blew and beat on the house.
• 15:50 And the house stood strong.
• 15:53 But the foolish man built his house upon the sand and great
• 15:58 was its fall."
• 16:04 Jeffrey: In John chapter 10, Jesus said, "I am the door."
• 16:07 And we enter by him.
• 16:10 In John chapter 8, verse 12,
• 16:12 Jesus said, "I am the light of the world.
• 16:15 And he who follows me will not walk in darkness, but have the
• 16:18 light of life."
• 16:20 In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says to the disciples,
• 16:24 "You are the light of the world."
• 16:25 You know, two lights. It's him and us.
• 16:28 Or better, it is him shining through us.
• 16:32 That's the way to do life as per my understanding.
• 16:36 He finishes up his very famous sermon in chapter 7, verse 24,
• 16:41 talking about, "Those who hear his words and they do them."
• 16:48 It's all in the application, to my way of thinking.
• 16:53 It's not just hearing his words, but it's finding a way to apply
• 16:58 them, to live them out.
• 17:01 I think it's tragic, by the way.
• 17:03 Jews ask the question, "What does it take to apply the
• 17:05 literature," and then we're accused of being legalistic or
• 17:09 people tell me I'm trying to earn my salvation.
• 17:12 No, I'm just trying to walk it out.
• 17:15 Jesus says, "He who hears and does," and this person is
• 17:21 equated to a wise man who builds his or her house on a rock.
• 17:30 At my age, 63, I've seen lives and I've seen people become
• 17:37 road kill on the highway of life.
• 17:41 I've seen people begin lives and I've seen them
• 17:44 deteriorate in life.
• 17:48 I've seen them build houses and I've seen houses crumble.
• 17:54 I want to follow Jesus.
• 17:59 People say, "Well, you religious people are weak."
• 18:02 Okay, call me weak.
• 18:04 "You religious people lean on a crutch."
• 18:07 You can call me lean-in.
• 18:10 I want you to call me a believer.
• 18:13 I want you to call me someone who hears these words and does
• 18:17 them and never mind me, let's talk about you.
• 18:24 It's hard to climb into people's worlds because you're
• 18:27 worlds away.
• 18:29 I'm just speaking to cameras.
• 18:30 But the question is, is God speaking to you?
• 18:34 There's a whole series here on deliverance and this
• 18:36 is the capstone on that series.
• 18:39 Twelve programs, three biblical moments each, trying to look
• 18:44 at deliverance from Abraham all the way to Yeshua.
• 18:48 There's a beautiful tapestry, it makes for a gorgeous
• 18:50 Oriental rug.
• 18:52 You know, you can go into a home and there's a beautiful carpet.
• 18:55 People go, "Wow, it's great to sit on that."
• 18:57 Well, if you look at the story of salvation in the Bible,
• 19:00 great, it's great to rest on that.
• 19:02 It really is.
• 19:04 It's a wonderful story about renewal, regeneration,
• 19:08 individuals receiving a new constitution, and not just new
• 19:13 ways of thinking, and not just new ways of being, but there's
• 19:18 empowerment to walk in the new way.
• 19:23 When he says, "He who hears these words of mine and does
• 19:27 them," there is a kind of intentionality in all of that,
• 19:31 to be sure.
• 19:32 But through the agency of the Holy Spirit whom he sends to
• 19:35 those who reach up to him and ask for forgiveness, he enables
• 19:38 us to have the power to live it out and he graces us with the
• 19:42 forgiveness when we don't.
• 19:47 "Zola Levitt Presents" really isn't presenting Zola Levitt.
• 19:51 Zola Levitt lived and ran and held a torch in his generation.
• 19:55 It's my job and our job who teach here to carry the torch in
• 19:59 our generation and it's your job and your way is to carry
• 20:03 the torch in yours.
• 20:05 May it be that salvation has come to your house.
• 20:11 As I put a wrap on this series of "Deliverance," my prayer is
• 20:15 that you have experienced it.
• 20:19 I know there's a great new life on the other side of the
• 20:22 sinner's prayer.
• 20:24 When we come to him earnestly and honestly and say, "Lord,
• 20:27 forgive me for my sins, it's my bad, I own it.
• 20:31 Forgive me.
• 20:33 Help me with it," and we turn and we walk in the newness of
• 20:37 life toward the one who we know, in fact, is the ultimate
• 20:41 deliverance.
• 20:46 David: Well, it's all about the ultimate deliverer, Yeshua.
• 20:49 We love that name.
• 20:50 He lives in our hearts.
• 20:52 And we're so glad he lives in your heart too.
• 20:55 Jeffrey: Yeah, how does he take up residency?
• 20:56 Kirsten: Oh, that's good.
• 20:58 You have to give him your all.
• 21:02 I mean, he desires that--I love how you picked the name
• 21:04 "Deliverer" and "Deliverance," 'cause there's so much that we
• 21:08 need to be delivered from and only one person can do that and
• 21:13 his name is--we know him as Jesus.
• 21:15 Hebrew is Yeshua.
• 21:17 Only one person that ever walked this earth can take all of that
• 21:20 from us.
• 21:22 Only one person that walked this earth can change your life.
• 21:25 This Jewish guy walking the streets in Pennsylvania and
• 21:27 someone goes, "Hey, have you read this?"
• 21:29 It wasn't the words.
• 21:31 It was him that wanted to make your life different and come in
• 21:35 and breathe new life to you.
• 21:37 Jeffrey: Yes, and he does it special whether we tell the
• 21:39 story on television or whether we tell it to our kin in our
• 21:43 webs of relationships.
• 21:45 It's great to tell the story of the divine deliverer, be it on
• 21:48 TV or in a living room or in a church, correct?
• 21:51 David: We have to know that either on a mountaintop
• 21:54 experience in our lives, which we have right now, or maybe
• 21:58 you're in a deep valley to not give up and know that he cares
• 22:02 so much for you and your family.
• 22:04 He loves you with his whole heart.
• 22:07 Jeffrey: People, when they're beset by abysmal circumstances,
• 22:12 really have trouble believing that, don't they?
• 22:14 People abandon 'em, they think God's abandoned 'em.
• 22:18 They're just all alone in a really dark place.
• 22:21 It's my hope, it's our hope, that a little sunshine shines
• 22:29 into your life, you see a little ray of hope.
• 22:33 Truth be known, divine deliverance isn't a television
• 22:37 program per se, though this one comes to you with that title.
• 22:42 It's a job description of the greatest Jew who ever lived,
• 22:47 that is Jesus.
• 22:49 He wants to do something great for you.
• 22:52 Kirsten: And I don't know how you turned this program on
• 22:55 today, whether you're watching it on TV or on your computer and
• 22:58 somehow got to "Zola Levitt Presents."
• 23:01 I don't believe it's by accident.
• 23:02 The three of us don't believe it's by accident.
• 23:04 Perhaps you're in a place where you are looking for someone to
• 23:08 deliver you from everything that's in your life right now.
• 23:11 We're here to tell you it's real.
• 23:14 We're not just like putting on a TV show.
• 23:17 If it was a show, we wouldn't be here.
• 23:19 This is a program about truth and deliverance and it is real
• 23:24 as this desk.
• 23:25 Jeffrey: David, she said "everything."
• 23:27 What are some of those things with "every"?
• 23:29 Can God deliver us from financial straits?
• 23:31 David: Yes, he has us.
• 23:33 Jeffrey: Sickness?
• 23:34 David: Yes, we believe that.
• 23:35 Jeffrey: A guilty conscience?
• 23:37 Kirsten: Oh, that's good.
• 23:38 Jeffrey: It's all there, isn't it?
• 23:40 David: That's right. You speak truth today, amen.
• 23:42 Thank you, Dr. Seif. We will be right back.
• 23:46 ♪♪♪
• 24:19 Kirsten: We're coming to you as two parents of a young man
• 24:21 that lives in Jerusalem in the Holy Land and he has never once
• 24:25 in three years of living there felt unsafe.
• 24:28 Has he?
• 24:29 David: And we've never felt that for him, either.
• 24:31 Kirsten: Not one moment or us being there.
• 24:33 So please, don't be afraid to go to the Holy Land.
• 24:35 Those are wrong voices and words you're hearing.
• 24:38 Listen to God's voice. He's beckoning you to come.
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• 24:42 David: Right now, let's go to a song by our founder,
• 24:44 Zola Levitt.
• 24:46 ♪♪♪
• 24:56 ♪ Father, Father, take this sheep. ♪
• 25:00 ♪ Take one more unworthy sheep. ♪
• 25:04 ♪ In my heart thy word I keep. ♪
• 25:08 ♪ Father, take this sheep. ♪
• 25:26 ♪ For I long to see the kingdom come ♪
• 25:30 ♪ and in praise and prayers I sing. ♪
• 25:34 ♪ And my life is yours 'til the end of time ♪
• 25:38 ♪ for the service of the King. ♪
• 25:55 ♪ Father, Father, take this sheep. ♪
• 25:58 ♪ Take one more unworthy sheep. ♪
• 26:03 ♪ In my heart thy word I keep. ♪
• 26:07 ♪ Father, take this sheep. ♪
• 26:11 ♪ Father, take this sheep. ♪♪
• 26:32 Jeffrey: This is the end of a program.
• 26:34 It's the end of a series.
• 26:36 It's my hope, it's our hope, that this end be a brand new
• 26:40 start for you.
• 26:42 Go back and look at the series.
• 26:45 If you haven't seen all the programs in this series, check
• 26:49 the different ones out.
• 26:50 It's all about good news for you.
• 26:53 Kirsten: We've enjoyed doing this with you.
• 26:55 Thank you for the insight and your teaching and wisdom,
• 26:57 and it's a treat.
• 26:58 David: And for you, just to know that Yeshua loves you with
• 27:00 all of his heart.
• 27:02 He cares about you, he loves the times of your mountaintop
• 27:05 experience and even in the valley.
• 27:08 He's with you. He's with us.
• 27:10 Jeffrey: He's there in the valley.
• 27:11 Thank you for going with us and, as you go now,
• 27:14 shaalu shalom Yerushalayim.
• 27:17 David: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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