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Isaiah
“He was despised… by His stripes we are healed … all we like sheep have gone astray” (Isaiah 53:3, 5, 6). The most quoted prophet of the Old Testament, Isaiah’s writings point many to the deliverance found only in Yeshua/Jesus.
Air dates: 2020-Oct-21
Production Code: 2041
Episode 8 of 11 in the series “Divine Deliverance (2020)”
Duration: 28:30
Year: 2020
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Caption transcript for Divine Deliverance (2020): “Isaiah” (8/11)
- 00:03 ♪♪♪ male announcer: Welcome to "Our Jewish Roots" with insightful
 - 00:06 Bible teaching by Dr. Jeffrey Seif.
 - 00:08 In this program, the most-quoted prophet in the Old Testament
 - 00:12 pointed to a suffering servant, who is the Savior of the world.
 - 00:15 Our focus is on Isaiah today on divine deliverance.
 - 00:22 announcer: From the beginning, our creator revealed his will to
 - 00:25 the common man.
 - 00:28 Individuals listened to his call and responded in obedience; from
 - 00:32 the first Hebrew, Avraham, to the culmination of salvation and
 - 00:37 Messiah himself.
 - 00:39 The Lord faithfully intervenes with his divine deliverance.
 - 00:47 ♪♪♪
 - 00:55 David Hart: We are so glad you've joined us today.
 - 00:57 I am David Hart.
 - 00:59 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
 - 01:01 Jeffrey Seif: And I am Jeffrey Seif.
 - 01:03 I remember back, 2006, when I was first asked to take the helm
 - 01:06 as the teacher on television.
 - 01:09 I sat down with the producer Ken Berg and the question is, what
 - 01:11 do we want to do?
 - 01:13 And we came up with the series on Isaiah.
 - 01:16 Isaiah is so important in the New Testament, so important in
 - 01:18 the Old Testament, so important to me, and now you're going to
 - 01:21 see why.
 - 01:24 David: You have your Bible opened to Isaiah.
 - 01:26 We've sung his words many times in our life.
 - 01:28 Love it when they put it to music.
 - 01:30 Kirsten: Right.
 - 01:32 We sung the Messiah, but we really honestly don't know that
 - 01:34 much about his life.
 - 01:37 Jeffrey: Well, we don't know a lot because he doesn't speak a
 - 01:39 lot, but there is some autobiographical material in
 - 01:41 here in the historical literature and we can learn
 - 01:45 something about the prophet.
 - 01:47 I'm excited to take you on a journey back to his world
 - 01:49 and word.
 - 01:51 David: That's good.
 - 01:54 Let's watch now as Isaiah pins his prophecies.
 - 01:56 male: He is despised and rejected of men, wounded for our
 - 01:59 transgressions and bruised for our iniquities.
 - 02:05 He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter.
 - 02:11 Written 700 years before Christ, Isaiah knew that this prophetic
 - 02:16 Scripture would one day be fulfilled in the Lamb of
 - 02:18 God, Jesus.
 - 02:25 Jeffrey: New Testament authors got a lot of utility out of the
 - 02:29 prophet Isaiah.
 - 02:31 He is the most quoted of all the older testament prophets and the
 - 02:35 newer testament.
 - 02:38 Speaking of Isaiah and utility, more Jewish people have come to
 - 02:42 believe in Jesus through a reading of Isaiah 53 than any
 - 02:45 other passage because it's so explicit in connecting the dots
 - 02:50 between salvation as it's depicted in the older testament
 - 02:54 and fulfilled in the newer.
 - 02:57 Isaiah is very popular among some, but not all.
 - 03:04 In fact, in his own day and time, Isaiah was killed by
 - 03:07 Manasseh, an Israelite king.
 - 03:11 He didn't like him.
 - 03:13 He cut him in two.
 - 03:16 The author of Hebrews says in his hall of fame chapter--you
 - 03:19 know, the greats in the 11th chapter of Hebrews, he speaks of
 - 03:22 some who were, quote, sawn in two.
 - 03:25 That's a reference to Isaiah.
 - 03:28 They didn't saw him in two this way.
 - 03:30 They started down here and sawed him in two that way, and they've
 - 03:33 been sawing Isaiah in two ever since.
 - 03:36 You know, some people think there wasn't an Isaiah, there's
 - 03:38 two or three Isaiahs; that the book that we look at and call
 - 03:42 Isaiah is a composite of a few writers.
 - 03:45 Well, my purpose here isn't to get into that as much as it is
 - 03:49 to look to the particulars of the writing itself.
 - 03:53 I want you to fasten your seatbelt because when we take a
 - 03:56 look at this book, we're going into the very guts of
 - 03:59 deliverance as it is told and foretold in the Hebrew Bible and
 - 04:05 fulfilled in the new.
 - 04:08 I want you to take a look with me with an open heart, with an
 - 04:11 open mind and see what you find.
 - 04:15 You might find a gateway to heaven, a passageway to a brand
 - 04:17 new life.
 - 04:21 male: He was despised and rejected of men, a man of
 - 04:25 sorrows and acquainted with grief, and we hid as it were our
 - 04:29 faces from him.
 - 04:31 He was despised, but we esteemed him not.
 - 04:34 Surely he have borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we
 - 04:37 did esteem him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted.
 - 04:41 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised
 - 04:44 for our iniquities, the chastisement of our peace was
 - 04:47 upon him, and with his stripes we are healed.
 - 04:53 All we, like sheep, have gone astray.
 - 04:56 We have turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord hath laid
 - 04:59 on him the iniquity of us all.
 - 05:03 He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened not
 - 05:07 his mouth.
 - 05:09 He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter; and as a sheep before
 - 05:12 her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
 - 05:16 He was numbered with the transgressors, and he bare the
 - 05:19 sin of man and made intercession for the transgressors.
 - 05:29 Jeffrey: This is an English Bible.
 - 05:31 It was written first in Hebrew.
 - 05:34 And when Isaiah wrote this, that is the Hebrew text that's just a
 - 05:38 facsimile of it, he said [speaking foreign language],
 - 05:44 translated in 53:6, "We all like sheep have gone astray."
 - 05:52 And to my way of thinking in those words, just three in the
 - 05:57 Hebrew--in those words, it kind of says it all.
 - 06:03 People see that waywardness in dealing with others in their
 - 06:07 webs of relationships.
 - 06:09 People see that wayward proclivity, that tendency just
 - 06:13 when they open up and read the Bible the very first pages for
 - 06:17 the very first time.
 - 06:21 There's a verse in Job it says that man tends toward evil like
 - 06:25 the sparks fly upward.
 - 06:28 There's just this proclivity, this inclination.
 - 06:32 Not that I should joke about it, but when I think of the Lord's
 - 06:35 Prayer, saying--when they said, "How should we pray?"
 - 06:38 He said, "Pray like this.
 - 06:40 You know, our Father, etc. Lead us not into temptation, but
 - 06:42 deliver us from evil--or from the evil one."
 - 06:46 Relative to the phrase lead us not into temptation, I've often
 - 06:49 said; yes, for that we don't need leadership.
 - 06:52 We can find it all by ourselves.
 - 06:56 The question is, can we find some help for the inner world
 - 07:02 that tends to go bad?
 - 07:04 This author says so, and his name says it all.
 - 07:08 In fact, Isaiah as we know him as wasn't even employed until
 - 07:14 the Protestant Reformation, and that began--the historic date is
 - 07:18 October the 31st, 1517.
 - 07:20 His name, Yasha, in Hebrew means to save.
 - 07:25 And Yasha Yahu or Isaiah really means in effect God saves.
 - 07:33 The question isn't whether he does it; the question is, how
 - 07:38 does he do it?
 - 07:40 Now, in this series, and we've just kind of passed midway,
 - 07:43 we've looked at deliverance in the literature.
 - 07:48 Here right around the middle of it, there's a wonderful
 - 07:52 unpacking of the particulars of it that is the ultimate
 - 07:56 deliverance in the person of the ultimate deliverer.
 - 08:02 What does he do with the problem of all we like sheep have
 - 08:07 gone astray?
 - 08:09 Listen, I can unpack human waywardness.
 - 08:12 I don't think it needs a lot of telling.
 - 08:14 I can do that just 'cause I've lived for 63 years.
 - 08:17 I can do it because I've 20 years in a police uniform of
 - 08:19 all that.
 - 08:21 Believe me, I've seen it.
 - 08:23 But I don't need to tell you about it because you've seen
 - 08:25 it, too.
 - 08:26 The question is, is there a way to turn the ship around?
 - 08:30 Is there deliverance?
 - 08:33 And the answer is yes.
 - 08:36 It says in Isaiah chapter 52, verse 13--speaks about this
 - 08:41 servant who's coming.
 - 08:43 In chapter 53, verse 1 he says--and ain't no one going to
 - 08:47 believe this.
 - 08:49 In fact, we're told--it's a question that's
 - 08:50 asked rhetorically.
 - 08:53 Who's going to believe this report, and to whom will the arm
 - 08:55 of the Lord--the strength of the Lord be revealed?"
 - 08:59 Goes on to talk in a very singular form for he; third
 - 09:06 person, masculine, singular he.
 - 09:09 He grew up.
 - 09:13 He had no form of comeliness, no majesty that we should look at
 - 09:15 him, no beauty that we should desire him.
 - 09:20 There's a depiction here of God's servant, the
 - 09:23 ultimate deliverer.
 - 09:26 We're told as well, and the author gets very explicit, that
 - 09:29 he was despised and rejected by men, that he was a man of
 - 09:34 sorrows and acquainted with grief.
 - 09:37 I'll tell you, the 63 years of living, I have been acquainted
 - 09:40 with more than one sorrow and some grief.
 - 09:43 If you spend any time on this planet--you know, if you lift a
 - 09:46 shirt up, there's lots of wound marks there, and that's for men
 - 09:49 and women alike.
 - 09:52 You just don't go through living experience unscathed.
 - 09:55 Now, we have sorrows, but it's not quite like this.
 - 09:58 This person that's described particularly is a man that's
 - 10:03 characterized by sorrows and grief and rejection.
 - 10:06 He goes on to note, "One from whom people hide their faces."
 - 10:12 There's a kind of disengagement from him for wanting to know
 - 10:17 nothing about him.
 - 10:20 And even church folk--you know, there's 168 hours in a week.
 - 10:23 It seems at best we can handle 2 hours of being engaged by Jesus
 - 10:26 and then we kind of go on down the road of life.
 - 10:29 Well, I think it's best to open up the Bible not just on--when
 - 10:32 we go to a worship service, but to make it a habit.
 - 10:36 We're told this deliverer, the servant of the Lord is eschewed.
 - 10:40 He's pushed to the margins.
 - 10:43 We're told that he was despised again, and we didn't esteem him.
 - 10:47 That is he's lowly-esteemed.
 - 10:50 Certainly in his day and time, he wasn't particularly respected
 - 10:53 and that's particularly noteworthy in the way he was
 - 10:57 graphically decimated before his death.
 - 11:01 We're told in verse 4, however, that with all that that this
 - 11:04 person has borne our griefs and that he has carried our sorrows,
 - 11:10 our pains, and that we esteemed him stricken by God,
 - 11:15 and afflicted.
 - 11:19 Now, it's interesting the notion that Jesus died for our sins
 - 11:24 sounds so very Christian.
 - 11:27 Jesus died for our sins, Jews can say Hocus Pocus.
 - 11:30 I don't buy that, I'm Jewish.
 - 11:33 The description of the ultimate deliverer here, it says that he
 - 11:36 was stricken for our transgressions.
 - 11:39 He was pierced because of our transgressions, specifically
 - 11:43 crushed for our iniquities.
 - 11:46 Now, the Christian expression that he died for your sins isn't
 - 11:50 really a Christian expression.
 - 11:55 At the outset, I noted that this text gets a lot of utility and
 - 12:00 modernity amongst Jewish women and men, folk like me who
 - 12:04 initially were predisposed to look at the Jesus story as a
 - 12:07 Gentile story, but this gives pause.
 - 12:10 We go, "Wait a minute.
 - 12:14 Who is this person that's being described?
 - 12:17 Could it really be that Jesus is the Messiah?
 - 12:24 Can it really be that he's the solution?"
 - 12:27 Because the prophet goes on to say in verse 5, "The
 - 12:31 chastisement for our shalom," for our peace, "was upon him,
 - 12:36 and with his stripes we are healed."
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 - 13:42 Now let's hear the words of Isaiah.
 - 13:46 Isaiah: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because the Lord hath
 - 13:49 anointed me to preach good tithings unto the meek.
 - 13:53 He hath sent me to bind up the broken, to proclaim liberty to
 - 13:57 the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are
 - 14:01 bound; to give unto them beauty for ashes, the garment of praise
 - 14:06 for the spirit of heaviness.
 - 14:12 Jeffrey: All we like sheep have gone astray.
 - 14:16 So I've said previously.
 - 14:18 I don't need to talk about that in great measure.
 - 14:20 We know what that is; what we don't know is how to get out
 - 14:26 of it.
 - 14:29 People know how to get bound up and jammed up and they find
 - 14:31 themselves pinned by sin and circumstance and the million
 - 14:36 dollar question is, "Is there a way to fix this?"
 - 14:41 Well, Isaiah spoke about a deliverer who came.
 - 14:46 He was despised and rejected, and he facilitates a
 - 14:50 great healing.
 - 14:53 He goes on to say then that we like sheep have gone astray and
 - 14:55 the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
 - 14:58 In Isaiah 61 there's another story, one that's worth having a
 - 15:03 look at.
 - 15:05 What a great story it is.
 - 15:07 Isaiah chapter 61, verse 1, "The Ruach of Adonai Elohim is
 - 15:11 upon me."
 - 15:13 The Spirit of the Lord God is on me.
 - 15:16 And even there when Jews hear about the Spirit, "Well, that's
 - 15:18 just Trinitarian Catholic stuff.
 - 15:20 You know, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
 - 15:23 Well, that's just Pentecostal talk."
 - 15:25 The Spirit is in the Hebrew Bible.
 - 15:27 It starts off the first breath in Genesis.
 - 15:30 [speaking foreign language]
 - 15:31 The Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters to
 - 15:37 deliver from chaos and darkness.
 - 15:41 Well, here the spirit is employed on me, a personality,
 - 15:46 because according to the text Adonai has anointed me to do
 - 15:52 what?
 - 15:56 To proclaim the good news.
 - 16:00 "Oh, those Christians talk about good news.
 - 16:02 That's Christian talk."
 - 16:05 The word gospel, by the way, comes from good news.
 - 16:07 "Oh, that's just Christian talk.
 - 16:09 That's Jesus talk.
 - 16:11 We're Jewish."
 - 16:13 The anointed one proclaims--the word in Hebrew is basiere*.
 - 16:16 In fact, Jews and Hebrew refer to the New Testament as
 - 16:19 the besorah.
 - 16:21 That is to say it's the good news.
 - 16:24 It comes from--there's the word bashar in Hebrew for flesh.
 - 16:27 It's the substance of it.
 - 16:29 It's the essence of it.
 - 16:32 And there's an understanding that the words in the Hebrew
 - 16:34 Bible become flesh and take on form.
 - 16:39 It's incarnated.
 - 16:41 The word incarnation, Latin carne, flesh, meat, the beef,
 - 16:47 the essence, the substance, that this servant of the Lord who's
 - 16:52 anointed by the Spirit of the Lord proclaims good news to who?
 - 16:59 To the poor.
 - 17:03 If we open up the New Testament, Jesus said, "Blessed are the
 - 17:05 poor, for theirs is the kingdom," etc. "That just sounds
 - 17:08 like, you know, the Beatitudes, I guess."
 - 17:11 It comes from the Hebrew Bible.
 - 17:13 To proclaim liberty to the captives.
 - 17:18 Now, not to mix vocations, but when I think of prisoners and
 - 17:23 captives--I got 20 years in a police uniform.
 - 17:26 I've taken more than one person to jail.
 - 17:29 People do--they commit the crime, they do time, and they're
 - 17:33 jammed up.
 - 17:35 There's a lot of people that aren't in jail who are in jail.
 - 17:38 "What do you mean by that?"
 - 17:40 Captive to sin and circumstance; sins bested by the darker side
 - 17:45 of your own nature, a life that's out of control, drugs,
 - 17:48 alcohol, various addictions and fixations that you can't get the
 - 17:53 better of.
 - 17:55 It's gotten the better of you and diminished you, your life,
 - 17:58 your circumstance.
 - 17:59 It's depleting your money.
 - 18:01 It's depleting your relationship with others.
 - 18:04 It's depleting your self-confidence.
 - 18:05 It's rendering you in a hole somewhere.
 - 18:07 The question is, is there a way to fix that?
 - 18:11 That's what this series is all about.
 - 18:13 It's all about deliverance.
 - 18:17 Here, this author speaks of, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon
 - 18:20 me to bring good news."
 - 18:23 And by the way, what I'm reading you in the Hebrew Bible is noted
 - 18:27 specifically in the Gospel of Luke chapter 6, verses--excuse
 - 18:32 me--chapter 4, verses 18 and 19.
 - 18:35 Therein, Yeshua goes in the synagogue and tells the very
 - 18:39 same story, and he says, "Guess what, ladies and gentlemen, boys
 - 18:44 and girls?
 - 18:46 This is talking about me."
 - 18:49 I don't want to just talk about him, I do--I want to talk
 - 18:52 about you.
 - 18:54 It says here this person comes to proclaim liberty to the
 - 18:57 captives and the opening of the prison to those who are bound.
 - 19:05 You know, I've heard it said and you've heard it and believe it,
 - 19:08 I'd imagine, to a certain degree.
 - 19:10 People say, "Well, you know, preachers make people
 - 19:11 feel guilty.
 - 19:14 I go to that church or that congregation, guy always makes
 - 19:17 me feel guilty."
 - 19:19 Listen, I don't think preachers should be all about helping to
 - 19:23 make people feel guilty, and the reason why is people don't need
 - 19:27 a whole lot of help with that.
 - 19:31 When it comes to guilt, I think people can find it all
 - 19:34 by themselves.
 - 19:37 What people can't find by themselves is good news.
 - 19:40 That's why we exist to bring good news through the eyes of
 - 19:44 the Jews, and those that support us sacrificially do so because
 - 19:48 they find value in it.
 - 19:52 They find value in the one who gave himself sacrificially
 - 19:55 for us.
 - 19:58 It's the mystery of the ages.
 - 20:01 It's salvation in the ages from the ages that's buried in
 - 20:03 biblical pages, and we bring it to light.
 - 20:07 I hope the light has shined on you and that you're minded to
 - 20:12 take some steps and do something with it.
 - 20:17 David: Our hope in this series is that you maybe relate to
 - 20:21 something from someone that you've heard in the Bible.
 - 20:24 Today, I relate to this story.
 - 20:27 I'm a pastor's son, who a couple years of my life tried to make
 - 20:32 it on my own.
 - 20:34 I felt like I was in chains and bound.
 - 20:37 Finally listened to the Lord and followed his voice.
 - 20:40 You know what I'm talking about.
 - 20:42 When I did that, I was set free.
 - 20:44 Dr. Seif, I think Isaiah--you're open to it again right now.
 - 20:48 I think Isaiah has some meaning in your life with what you've
 - 20:52 been through.
 - 20:54 Jeffrey: He surely does, but I wasn't a pastor's kid.
 - 20:57 I come from German-Jewish extract from both parents in the
 - 21:01 aftermath of World War II, and I lived in the Jewish community
 - 21:04 and was kind of cordoned off from an understanding of the
 - 21:08 Jesus story.
 - 21:10 Especially post Holocaust, we were particularly insular and I
 - 21:14 didn't know much about Jesus.
 - 21:16 I remember walking down the street, however, as a teenager
 - 21:19 and people would petition me to give me some literature, want to
 - 21:22 talk to me about Jesus.
 - 21:24 And one time a fellow came up to me, wanted to talk about Jesus,
 - 21:26 and I said, "Look, I'm a Jew, I don't believe in Jesus."
 - 21:28 He said, "Why not?"
 - 21:30 I said, "I don't know, we just don't, you know."
 - 21:33 And he said, "Well, do you have any proof that Jesus is not
 - 21:35 the Messiah?"
 - 21:37 I said, "No."
 - 21:39 He said, "You know what the Bible says about the Messiah?"
 - 21:41 I said, "Not really."
 - 21:43 And he said, "Well, would you like to find out?"
 - 21:45 And I said, "Well, you know--"
 - 21:47 And he whips out a Bible and opens it to Isaiah.
 - 21:51 And I'll tell you this, that not just with me--I think the Lord
 - 21:59 has gotten more utility out of Isaiah with Jewish people than
 - 22:03 any other writer in the older testament.
 - 22:06 I know in the New Testament Isaiah is very representative,
 - 22:10 particularly around the cross, in the way the New Testament
 - 22:13 authors give voice to Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection.
 - 22:16 But I know from opening the book that--and looking at text
 - 22:21 therein that the Lord spoke to me and the guy was a little on
 - 22:25 the pushy side, impressed me and I prayed and asked the Lord into
 - 22:29 my heart.
 - 22:31 Same with my wife Barrie, of Jewish extract herself.
 - 22:34 Isaiah.
 - 22:38 And so many others that I've talked to.
 - 22:41 But it's not just for Jews and it's not just Isaiah, it's
 - 22:42 for you.
 - 22:45 I believe that those that call upon the name of the Lord,
 - 22:47 whether you're a pastor's kid in chains 'cause of guilt and shame
 - 22:49 or a Jewish person that knew nothing about the Jesus story,
 - 22:52 the Lord is there to those who call upon him.
 - 22:54 David: Can I ask you a question real quick?
 - 22:56 How did your family take you conversion?
 - 22:58 Jeffrey: Well, they weren't particularly pleased.
 - 23:01 I don't use the language.
 - 23:03 People come up to me and they say, "Jeff, how long have you
 - 23:05 been a converted Jew?"
 - 23:07 And I say, "I'm not a converted Jew, I'm a converted sinner.
 - 23:09 It's not a sin to be a Jew."
 - 23:11 We Jewish people like to talk about by accepting Yeshua we
 - 23:13 haven't opted out of what it is to be Jewish as much as there's
 - 23:15 a full realization of it by experiencing Israel's Messiah.
 - 23:19 I wish I could talk, but we're so out of time.
 - 23:21 Kirsten: Now as you say, I wish we had so much more time because
 - 23:23 I love hearing your story.
 - 23:25 Stay with us, we'll be right back.
 - 23:28 announcer: Our resource this week, the series "Divine
 - 23:30 Deliverance" on DVD.
 - 23:32 These 12 programs examine how the Lord offered a message of
 - 23:35 salvation through significant Bible characters, beginning with
 - 23:40 faithful Abraham and ending with the Messiah himself.
 - 23:44 Each program includes location teaching, discussions of
 - 23:47 applications, plus the music of Zola Levitt.
 - 23:52 Contact us for the DVD series, "Divine Deliverance."
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 - 24:31 David: Please consider going with us on a tour to Israel.
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 - 24:40 Kirsten: I am enjoying this whole series and my personal
 - 24:43 takeaway, if it matters at all, is it's interesting that we
 - 24:46 don't honestly have books about who Isaiah was, but we know
 - 24:50 his words.
 - 24:53 And I'm a grandma, you're a grandpa, you're a grandpa.
 - 24:56 I don't really care down in history that people remember me,
 - 24:59 but if I plant anything positive in this world by my words, I
 - 25:04 hope people remember that.
 - 25:06 Jeffrey: Where he is autobiographical is in the sixth
 - 25:08 chapter where he speaks about his own worth--unworthiness.
 - 25:12 And if we just remember him by his humility, we've done well,
 - 25:16 I think.
 - 25:18 Kirsten: That's good.
 - 25:19 And his words, they encourage us today and they give freedom to
 - 25:23 the captives.
 - 25:25 That's a good message.
 - 25:27 David: Can't believe it's over today.
 - 25:28 We leave you with a song by our founder, Zola Levitt.
 - 25:30 Jeffrey: And we leave you with a word from the Scripture.
 - 25:33 Shaalu shalom Yerushalayim.
 - 25:35 David: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
 - 25:38 ♪ Before you--make joyful noise unto the Lord ♪
 - 25:43 ♪ You have made us now your people ♪
 - 25:45 ♪ Brought us back from all the nations ♪
 - 25:48 ♪ You were teaching us in exile ♪
 - 25:50 ♪ How to love you undefiled ♪
 - 25:52 ♪ All the people praise you, sing and dance before you ♪
 - 25:56 ♪ Make a joyful noise unto the Lord ♪
 - 26:01 ♪ King of all the kingdoms, creator of creations ♪
 - 26:05 ♪ Author of salvation on his throne in heaven ♪
 - 26:10 ♪ We are called to be your people ♪
 - 26:12 ♪ For eternity your nation ♪
 - 26:15 ♪ Make a joyful noise unto the Lord ♪
 - 26:19 ♪♪♪
 - 26:40 ♪ May all the people praise you ♪
 - 26:42 ♪ Sing and dance before you ♪
 - 26:44 ♪ Make a joyful noise unto the Lord ♪
 - 26:48 ♪ King of all the kingdoms, creator of creation ♪
 - 26:53 ♪ Author of salvation on his throne in heaven ♪
 - 26:58 ♪ We are called to be your people ♪
 - 27:00 ♪ For eternity your nation ♪
 - 27:03 ♪ Make a joyful noise ♪
 - 27:05 ♪ Make a joyful noise ♪
 - 27:07 ♪ Make a joyful noise unto the Lord ♪♪
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