Caption transcript for Joshua: “The Spy” (2/8)

• 00:00 ♪♪♪
• 00:03 David Hart: Welcome to "Our Jewish Roots" with insightful
• 00:07 Bible teaching from Israel with Dr. Jeffrey Seif.
• 00:10 This week, how to conquer your fears, and move forward
• 00:13 in faith.
• 00:15 On "Joshua, More Than A Conqueror."
• 00:54 David: Welcome to "Our Jewish Roots," I'm David Hart.
• 00:57 Kirsten: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 00:58 Jeffrey Seif: And I am Jeffrey Seif.
• 01:00 Guess where we're going today?
• 01:02 We have a story to tell, that talks about grapes and fruits
• 01:05 and God's bounty.
• 01:07 What's it all about?
• 01:09 Kirsten: We're going somewhere where the Israelites
• 01:10 could've gone, but 10 we're afraid to go to.
• 01:14 Jeffrey Seif: Oh, no!
• 01:15 You mean, the goodies are out there, but some are afraid
• 01:18 to go get them?
• 01:19 Kirsten: Ooh.
• 01:21 That's good!
• 01:22 That's very pertinent to right now.
• 01:23 Jeffrey Seif: Is that a problem for Jews back then, or is it
• 01:25 a problem for you's?
• 01:26 David what do you think?
• 01:28 David: I want to partake in that.
• 01:31 Dr. Seif's gonna teach on location.
• 01:34 But right now, let's go to Joshua, and hear about his
• 01:36 report from the other spies.
• 01:38 ♪♪♪
• 01:41 Joshua: Despite the reports of naysayers, Caleb and I had
• 01:44 seen with our own eyes, the rich bountiful land of Canaan.
• 01:50 The Lord's anchor kindles against those who've questioned,
• 01:53 those who murmur of giants and walled cities in our
• 01:57 Promised Land.
• 01:59 My efforts to convince them remain a daunting task even
• 02:03 within the confines of my own tent.
• 02:16 Joshua: Thank you for your help.
• 02:18 Caleb will oversee the remainder.
• 02:21 There's a murmur in the camp...
• 02:24 again.
• 02:26 They would like to stone me.
• 02:27 male: I think that's a bit extreme.
• 02:31 Joshua: Is it not enough that he delivered us from the hand's
• 02:33 of the Pharaoh?
• 02:35 That he parted the Red Sea?
• 02:37 That we prevailed against the Amalekites?
• 02:44 Enormous vines, wheat, barley, fig trees, pomegranates, it's
• 02:49 all there just waiting for us.
• 02:52 As the Lord told Moses, while we were still in Egypt, "The land
• 02:55 flows with milk and honey."
• 02:58 male: I can understand their concern.
• 03:00 Joshua: No. No!
• 03:04 The reports are misleading.
• 03:06 For 40 days, Caleb and I witnessed the very same things
• 03:08 that they did.
• 03:10 Yes, we saw the walled cities.
• 03:12 And yes, we saw the strength of the Antikeen,
• 03:14 and the Canaanites, and all of the rest.
• 03:18 But the arm of the Lord is so much stronger.
• 03:23 We will devour them like bread, and possess the land!
• 03:30 male: But what about...
• 03:33 the giants?
• 03:34 Joshua: Listen to me.
• 03:37 I pray you do not die here in the desert, as all the others
• 03:41 who have questioned the Lord.
• 03:43 Do not long for the land of the past as others do.
• 03:46 Egypt is behind us.
• 03:47 The promise is before us!
• 03:49 Long for the land of your children.
• 03:58 Jeffrey Seif: The land of milk and honey was ever so close
• 04:01 for the children of Israel, but despite the favorable
• 04:05 reports of Joshua and Caleb, there were those who questioned
• 04:08 the decision to possess the land.
• 04:10 We came here to the Valley of Eshcol, or Mamre, just south
• 04:14 of Jerusalem, to walk upon one of the very sites that Joshua
• 04:18 and Caleb first beheld in their mission as spies in the land
• 04:23 of Canaan.
• 04:27 Jeffrey Seif: It's known as the land of "ha-lav oo-d'vash."
• 04:30 In Hebrew, land of milk and honey.
• 04:34 Of course, there's more than just milk and honey.
• 04:37 All kinds of fruits.
• 04:38 I think that the milk and honey language was popularized because
• 04:42 if there's milk, there's animals that are producing it.
• 04:45 And if animals are producing it, the land is verdant, it's green.
• 04:50 And if there's honey, it means there's bees, there's
• 04:52 pollination, there's flowers.
• 04:54 It speaks of a land that's alive.
• 04:58 With milk, with honey, with great pomegranate, fig,
• 05:01 and other fruits of the Earth as well.
• 05:06 I look at these fruits of the Earth as soda machines.
• 05:08 You know, it's a hot day, and you just grab some of this
• 05:12 and you drink, and it is so very delightful.
• 05:17 If you can just think of a primitive person.
• 05:19 We're told Adam and Chawwah were in a garden and the fruit was
• 05:23 there for the picking.
• 05:25 Sin made its entrance on the stage of the drama, they
• 05:28 were kicked out and told they were gonna eat out a living.
• 05:31 They were going to eke it out, with the sweat of their brow.
• 05:35 Here, you're walking down the street and you're
• 05:37 picking the fruits, and you're getting the delights.
• 05:41 It's no wonder that people would compete for this part
• 05:45 of the world in [speaking in Hebrew],
• 05:48 here at the southwestern part
• 05:50 of the Fertile Crescent.
• 05:51 You might recall, Les Benet Isra-El made their way
• 05:54 out of Egypt, and finally, to a place Kadesh Barnea that
• 05:57 Joshua, well Moses actually dispatched spies; Joshua
• 06:02 was one.
• 06:03 And they came to the land.
• 06:05 And they came here, Mamre.
• 06:06 Actually, they explored the width, the height and they
• 06:10 came back with the fruits of the land.
• 06:13 And of course, the fruits were exotic to people that were
• 06:17 slave-stock, that didn't know these kind of luxuries.
• 06:20 And they're told that these big fruits are here.
• 06:23 They're also told something else.
• 06:25 And that is, there's trouble in River City.
• 06:29 Not only were the fruits big, but so were the people that
• 06:33 consume them.
• 06:35 I want to get to the report and I'll get to that
• 06:37 in a minute, and it's important by the way, because the people
• 06:40 turn back and the fact that they turned back from the challenge,
• 06:46 that negated their being able to get the benefits of the
• 06:50 real estate.
• 06:51 And I wonder, if you'll just permit an application, could it
• 06:54 be that God has all kinds of fruits and blessings for you?
• 06:59 Not just for you, but in you, to be produced out of you.
• 07:03 I mention that because in the New Testament context,
• 07:06 we're told to bear fruit.
• 07:08 We're construed as, in effect, the earth.
• 07:10 And God pours his ruach hakodesh into our Earth and there's
• 07:15 an outgrowth as a result of that.
• 07:17 We water the seed of faith that's planted, and then it
• 07:21 grows into something and bears fruit.
• 07:23 Well, if you go into the older Testament, there's the land--
• 07:26 there's different words for land.
• 07:28 There's eretz, which is land.
• 07:30 There's aphar, which is dust.
• 07:31 There's adamah, speaking of the soil.
• 07:34 In fact, Adam, man, Adam came from adamah,
• 07:38 from the soil.
• 07:40 But other things come from the soil as well,
• 07:41 other forms of life.
• 07:43 There is the land of promise, the promise land and it bore
• 07:48 special fruits.
• 07:49 Or there are people that bear fruit.
• 07:51 I mean, there's a fruitful existence, if we have God
• 07:54 in our life.
• 07:55 And the question is, are you bearing and cultivating fruit?
• 07:57 It's a reasonable question.
• 07:59 We're gonna look how we can be more than a conqueror, and learn
• 08:02 to bear fruit and more.
• 08:04 But before we get to that, we have to go through the
• 08:08 Valley of Despair.
• 08:10 And commenting on those that got close, they got to it, but they
• 08:14 never got into it.
• 08:17 People say, "How long did it take the children of Israel
• 08:19 to get to Canaan?"
• 08:21 People say 40 years.
• 08:22 No.
• 08:23 It took them 40 years to get into it.
• 08:25 Actually, they were there at the second year.
• 08:27 They left Mitsryan, Egypt.
• 08:29 They went to Sinai.
• 08:31 They group there, built the mishcon, the portable
• 08:33 worship facility.
• 08:35 And then they went up north to the southern border.
• 08:37 They sent dispatches in to do what was supposed to be
• 08:42 a reconnaissance mission.
• 08:44 They went in there for reconnaissance, to gather
• 08:46 information.
• 08:48 But what was supposed to be a reconnaissance mission, turned
• 08:51 into a feasibility study.
• 08:54 It wasn't supposed to be that.
• 08:56 But subsequent to that, the whole thing spiraled
• 09:00 out of control.
• 09:01 And so all there was in front of them was a promise
• 09:04 of a better existence, but it's a life they never, ever entered.
• 09:10 They just died and root.
• 09:12 We'll consider the genesis of the problem in the heart
• 09:16 of man.
• 09:17 God wants us to be more than a conqueror.
• 09:19 He wants us to be a conqueror, not the conquered.
• 09:23 He wants us to be a victor, not a victim.
• 09:26 He wants us to be the head, and not the tail.
• 09:29 It doesn't always work out that way.
• 09:32 It's been said that a wise person learns from their
• 09:35 mistakes.
• 09:36 Well in this case, let's learn from somebody else's.
• 09:39 As we look more deeply into the story of Joshua
• 09:42 and the spies, and learn about being more than
• 09:46 a conqueror.
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• 11:32 Right now, let's go back to Dr. Seif's teaching in Israel.
• 11:38 Jeffrey Seif: Coming to you from the Valley of Mamre.
• 11:41 Thank you for bringing me here to the land of Israel.
• 11:46 Walking in the footsteps of the fathers that went
• 11:48 before us.
• 11:49 Particularly, this juncture, spies who traverse this valley
• 11:53 and others.
• 11:54 The leaders in the camp at Kadesh Barnea came back
• 11:57 and brought back a report and brought back fruits,
• 12:01 like the fig right here.
• 12:03 Earlier, we saw a pomegranate and grape, but there's all kinds
• 12:07 of fruits here in the Holy land.
• 12:08 Figs, by the way, as in these, are noteworthy.
• 12:11 They're referred to in the Bible and the older Testament.
• 12:14 Security is everyone dwelling under his fig tree.
• 12:18 Interestingly and similarly in the newer Testament
• 12:21 in the Johannine Gospel, chapter 2, Jesus speaks of a man says,
• 12:25 "I saw you under the fig tree."
• 12:29 Again, the land is so much associated with fruits.
• 12:33 But the story here with these fruits is associated with a bad
• 12:38 news story.
• 12:39 And I don't like to tell it, but it's in the book.
• 12:43 And there's a window here into pathology, into being
• 12:47 toxic, learning how things can go horribly wrong in life.
• 12:55 I want to pick up in the book [speaking Hebrew]
• 12:57 in the wilderness, we know it as Numbers.
• 12:59 In the 13th chapter, we're told that the spies, who had come
• 13:05 into this area, in Eretz Canaan to do a reconnaissance mission.
• 13:12 That is to say, they're supposed to gather information.
• 13:15 If an army is coming this way, they need to know where there's
• 13:18 orchards, water supply, major cities, populations, et cetera.
• 13:22 They need a general idea of where they're going.
• 13:26 They came here to do reconnaissance, but they did
• 13:29 more than that.
• 13:31 They came here on a reconnaissance missions,
• 13:33 they returned with a feasibility study.
• 13:38 They told [speaking Hebrew]
• 13:40 mother, Moses and others, "Listen, yeah!
• 13:42 The land is this and that, but we can't do it, those people
• 13:46 are just way too big."
• 13:48 It's a bad story.
• 13:50 In chapter 13:31, we're told, [speaking Hebrew]
• 13:57 "The men that went up," that is the spies.
• 14:01 Came up and said, and I quote,
• 14:04 [speaking Hebrew]
• 14:08 "We are not able to go up against this people.
• 14:12 We can't do it."
• 14:16 They go on to say, [speaking Hebrew]
• 14:23 "Because they are stronger than we."
• 14:27 They feared.
• 14:29 These were people who not long before were slave-stock
• 14:31 in the land of Egypt, and they left Egypt.
• 14:36 God was their soldier.
• 14:37 The waters parted, they walk through.
• 14:39 It wasn't as a result of their agency.
• 14:41 They would just swept up into circumstances
• 14:44 beyond their control.
• 14:45 But now they're facing a situation where they have
• 14:48 to bear arms for a specific purpose.
• 14:52 But they just wince away from doing so, they are fearful,
• 14:56 they lack confidence.
• 15:00 Confides, with faith.
• 15:01 They go on to report, "The people are just so big.
• 15:05 And if that's not bad enough, they're skilled in war, and were
• 15:10 novices.
• 15:11 And if that's not bad enough, they have military advantage
• 15:15 behind ramparts, behind walls, and walled cities."
• 15:18 It didn't look good and when they put it all together, they
• 15:22 said, "It can't be done."
• 15:25 We're told, by the way, in 32, they go on to say,
• 15:27 [speaking Hebrew]
• 15:32 He goes on to say, "They spread an evil report."
• 15:37 An evil report.
• 15:41 The rabbis, I should say, and looking at that, they go
• 15:44 beyond an evil report and say, that they invented a lie.
• 15:51 They invented a lie.
• 15:54 And when you live with that lie, it becomes a self-fulfilling
• 16:01 prophecy.
• 16:02 They go on to exaggerate and say, "Listen, they're
• 16:04 so big, and we're like grasshoppers."
• 16:06 They just they spiral out of control.
• 16:09 "We can't do it."
• 16:10 Well the last I checked, they couldn't get out of Egypt
• 16:12 either, but guess what?
• 16:14 There was heaven's help for life's vexing problems.
• 16:18 'Cause God who calls you, can lead you successfully
• 16:21 into the future, and he did just that then.
• 16:24 But oh my, did they forget.
• 16:26 Now I don't want to talk about them, I want to talk
• 16:28 about you and I want to talk about me.
• 16:30 That is to say, because these aren't the only ones that turn
• 16:36 away from challenges.
• 16:38 And when you turn away from it by the way, you can get so close
• 16:41 to the promised land, but never get into it.
• 16:44 And I wonder, how many people are watching this and hearing
• 16:48 me, that keep going around the same old mountain?
• 16:50 That is to say, you kind of believe in God, you have
• 16:53 religious conviction.
• 16:54 But it seems that success in life is 13-inches away,
• 16:56 and you only have a 12-inch reach.
• 16:58 For some reason, you just can't quite get to it.
• 17:03 Fear prompts people to turn back.
• 17:04 I know that, I live that.
• 17:06 It's one of the reasons why it took me to the 30 to get
• 17:10 married, because I was afraid to ask.
• 17:12 I was afraid I'd get rejected.
• 17:14 I was afraid that they would say no.
• 17:15 So I lived alone.
• 17:16 In other words, fear became a prison.
• 17:19 It was the same thing with school.
• 17:20 You know, I wound up becoming a college professor.
• 17:23 But interestingly, it took me till 26 or so to get
• 17:25 into college.
• 17:27 Why is that?
• 17:28 'Cause I did so poorly in high school.
• 17:29 Why is that? Because of fear.
• 17:32 I had to learn to say no to fear, and yes to a good God,
• 17:35 and a good future.
• 17:37 And I know, from firsthand experience, that if you hold
• 17:41 tight to fear, it ruins your life.
• 17:43 We could be so much further along in life.
• 17:46 I have 30 years under my belt as a college professor, among
• 17:50 other things.
• 17:51 Worked with a lot of young people and I would tell them all
• 17:53 shoot for the moon!
• 17:55 Lift up your eyes! Dream big!
• 17:58 Shoot for the moon, and even if you miss the mark, you'll land
• 18:01 somewhere among the stars.
• 18:03 And be so much better off in life then had you dared
• 18:07 not to dream in the first place.
• 18:09 I believe in dream stuff.
• 18:11 Especially if I believe that we're redeemed people.
• 18:15 That if Jesus lives in us and the Holy Spirit guides us,
• 18:21 then we are people with a future.
• 18:24 Would we dared to dream.
• 18:26 Would that we didn't turn back, but we move forward.
• 18:29 And the process of so doing, we learned what it is to be more
• 18:33 than a conqueror.
• 18:38 Jeffrey Seif: For the Israeli Defense Forces, the saying,
• 18:42 "More than conquerors" is more than a slogan.
• 18:46 My good friend, Chaim Malespin who serves with the Israeli
• 18:49 Defense Forces, is gonna give us a window into how the Israeli
• 18:53 army is taught to go forth and slay the giants.
• 18:57 Jeffrey Seif: Sarge, when I look in the Bible, these spies are
• 19:01 dispatched to go into the land and those people are so big,
• 19:04 the fortifications are so high.
• 19:06 They're afraid.
• 19:07 There's some that have confidence.
• 19:09 What did they teach you in the Israeli Defense Forces
• 19:12 about looking beyond the current malaise, and believing
• 19:15 for a successful outcome?
• 19:17 Chaim Malespin: Well, I'll give you a story my Commander
• 19:19 gave me.
• 19:21 Commanding officer, he calls everyone in one day and he says,
• 19:22 "Hey, you guys, do you have any complaints?"
• 19:24 One of the soldiers came and he said, "Our thermal vision,"
• 19:26 we had this little refrigerator, that cool thermal vision, so you
• 19:29 can see a heat imprint.
• 19:30 And he said, "Sometimes I can't see the heat imprint properly.
• 19:33 I don't want to go out to war."
• 19:34 And he said, "Let me tell you a story.
• 19:36 In 1948, War of Independence, when Israel was reborn."
• 19:39 Well guess what?
• 19:40 He said, "My grandfather went out and he fought with only
• 19:43 a shovel.
• 19:44 He believed in the cause that we're all here.
• 19:46 In this Defense Force, we're here to defend the defenseless.
• 19:49 We can't give up.
• 19:50 And so, sometimes you see the giants in the land."
• 19:53 And there were giants in the time of Joshua.
• 19:55 There are giants now.
• 19:56 Some of those giants could even be within you.
• 19:58 But if you know how to say, "I am going to look beyond that.
• 20:00 I'm going to look towards the mission,
• 20:02 and tenacity to that mission."
• 20:03 Again, one of our core competencies, our core values,
• 20:07 the tenacity to the mission.
• 20:08 It doesn't matter.
• 20:09 It's one of our slangs, or our mottos is, this is what we have,
• 20:13 and with this we shall succeed.
• 20:15 Jeffrey Seif: Well Sarge, at the Israeli Defense Forces,
• 20:19 under Moses initially, they didn't have that disposition.
• 20:21 It didn't work very well for them as a result, did it?
• 20:24 Chaim Malespin: No.
• 20:26 And I know the spies, when they came back as you mentioned, they
• 20:28 brought a bad report and that delayed their success.
• 20:31 Jeffrey Seif: Have you seen bad reports in Israeli Defense
• 20:34 Forces?
• 20:35 And have you seen people blow out because they just weren't
• 20:37 made of the right stuff, they didn't have confidence?
• 20:40 Chaim Malespin: It's true.
• 20:42 Some people say, "This journey is just too hard for me."
• 20:44 I know one guy that said, okay.
• 20:45 He had to drop, and give 100 pushups.
• 20:48 And at one point he just says, "I'm not doin' this."
• 20:50 You know?
• 20:52 And in our elite unit, all you have to do is sign, "I quit."
• 20:53 You write, "I quit." That's all, and you hand it in.
• 20:56 And you can then go to the regular battalions;
• 20:59 the regular company.
• 21:00 And so they would always come to me and say, "Hey, you
• 21:02 look tired.
• 21:04 Would you like to use write those two words?"
• 21:05 And I would say, "Absolutely not.
• 21:07 Take that hamburger and french fries away from me.
• 21:09 I will eat nasty army food."
• 21:11 Jeffrey Seif: You're looking through the Eye of the Tiger,
• 21:13 that vision of faith, correct?
• 21:14 Chaim Malespin: That's correct.
• 21:16 David: Thanks, Sarge.
• 21:18 ♪♪♪
• 21:25 ♪ For he and he alone will come to rule his own ♪
• 21:34 ♪ A thousand years a thousand years ♪
• 21:39 ♪ He'll come to rule his own ♪
• 21:44 ♪ The King will come to dwell ♪
• 21:49 [singing in Hebrew]
• 21:53 ♪ A thousand years a thousand years ♪
• 21:59 ♪ The King will come to dwell ♪
• 22:08 ♪ Jerusalem, I've come at last. ♪
• 22:11 ♪ And when a thousand years have finally passed, ♪
• 22:15 ♪ I will see the new Jerusalem descending, ♪
• 22:19 ♪ I will be there for the grand and glorious ending. ♪
• 22:23 ♪ Out of heaven, I will see a city come ♪
• 22:26 ♪ and I will live forever in Jerusalem. ♪
• 22:36 ♪ And then Jerusalem ♪
• 22:40 [singing in Hebrew]
• 22:44 ♪ A thousand years a thousand years ♪
• 22:49 [singing in Hebrew]
• 22:55 ♪ Your King who came before ♪
• 22:59 ♪ Your King forevermore ♪
• 23:03 ♪ A thousand years a thousand years ♪
• 23:08 ♪ Your King forevermore ♪
• 23:18 ♪ forevermore ♪♪
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• 23:31 What are you doing over here?
• 23:33 What--did you, were you eating while we were singing?
• 23:36 Jeffrey Seif: Listen, I can resist,
• 23:38 but, who can resist to tell you the truth.
• 23:40 It was right in front of me. Good stuff.
• 23:43 Here, you do it.
• 23:44 You say well I know, we're supposed to be earning a living
• 23:46 right now.
• 23:47 That's good, and you know, when I look at the fruit, it reminds
• 23:50 me, we're beckoned to bear fruit.
• 23:52 And it's a play on words, the spies bore that fruit
• 23:56 and they brought it into the land.
• 23:57 But in a new covenant context, we bear fruit, in a sense,
• 24:02 grapes too to go with the Johannine analogy
• 24:04 in the 15th chapter.
• 24:05 There's a kind of fruit that's supposed to come out of us and I
• 24:08 know that as worship leaders, you spent your life trying
• 24:11 to elicit that.
• 24:12 Yes?
• 24:14 Kirsten: We do. Honestly, we try to--
• 24:16 Jeffrey Seif: Pardon me, you talk for a while.
• 24:18 Kirsten: No, you're good!
• 24:19 Jeffrey Seif: You talk for a while.
• 24:20 Kirsten: Focus on Joshua and Caleb.
• 24:22 They brought in this good report, we can do this.
• 24:25 And unfortunately, we deal with, I love you all.
• 24:27 I love you all.
• 24:29 We hear so much of the the 10 spies, who said, "Too hard.
• 24:34 Can't do it. Let's just stay here."
• 24:37 And they focus on the negative report versus the positivity of,
• 24:42 look at what's ahead for us.
• 24:43 David: And I think we see that, we see that happening even
• 24:47 in church as we worship.
• 24:49 That I don't know if people get, but they can receive
• 24:53 through the good gift of what Joshua has taught us.
• 24:56 Jeffrey Seif: I think God has a wonderful life for us,
• 25:01 and it's tragic that a lot of people lives are withering
• 25:06 on the vine.
• 25:09 And, I, and you, and we, we're looking at this bounty.
• 25:14 And I want to ask you the question, could it be that
• 25:18 God has something more for you?
• 25:20 By the way, it's a rhetorical question.
• 25:23 Not just because you can't answer it because you're in your
• 25:25 living room or wherever.
• 25:27 It's a rhetorical question 'cause I know the answer
• 25:30 before I ask it.
• 25:31 Nine of ten to give it and the answer is, yes.
• 25:33 Scripture says, "In Him, all things are yes."
• 25:37 And I believe that God wants to move us along and make us
• 25:42 better than when we started.
• 25:43 But in as much as the children of Israel weren't the children
• 25:49 of Israel, they were in, the children of Israel by name
• 25:52 only, they had to go into Canaan and call it Israel.
• 25:54 They had to claim it.
• 25:56 They had to reach beyond their doubts and fears and do it.
• 26:01 They had to exercise themselves.
• 26:04 Similarly, I think there are ways that believers need
• 26:09 to exercise themselves, to bear fruit and so prove
• 26:12 to be disciples.
• 26:14 That includes embracing the disciplines that come
• 26:16 along with being a disciple.
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• 26:45 Exercise that fruit. That sacrificial giving.
• 26:47 God can bless you a thousand-fold and you can bear
• 26:51 fruit in ways you can't anticipate as you sit there
• 26:54 right now.
• 26:55 Kirsten: That's good. Walk into the new land.
• 26:59 David: Right, and, we will believe the report of the Lord.
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