Caption transcript for The God of Miracles: “Our Daily Bread” (6/9)

• 00:01 David Hart: On today's program, we see how the Lord takes care of his children, even in
• 00:07 the simple ways of daily life. Join us on "Our Jewish Roots" with Bible
• 00:09 teaching in Israel by Dr. Jeffrey Seif.
• 00:18 male announcer: To believe in the Bible
• 00:20 is to believe in miracles.
• 00:22 From Genesis to Revelation, the impossible became possible as
• 00:27 God's hand moved across space and time.
• 00:30 Land and seas were created, graves opened, water
• 00:35 turned to wine, the sick and lame healed,
• 00:39 the land of Israel completely restored.
• 00:43 Past, present, and future, he's the Alpha and Omega.
• 00:48 He is the God of miracles.
• 00:57 David: We are so glad you've joined us today.
• 00:59 I'm David Hart.
• 01:00 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 01:01 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I am Jeffrey Seif.
• 01:03 Kirsten: Okay, Dr. Seif, today you titled the program
• 01:06 "Our Daily Bread," we're trying to do no carb and low carb, and
• 01:10 I'm gonna be really hungry throughout this whole program.
• 01:13 Bread, bread, bread.
• 01:14 David: My vest is feeling better.
• 01:16 Low carbs, yes.
• 01:18 Kirsten: From doing no bread, but this is a
• 01:19 different kind of bread, kind of, daily bread.
• 01:21 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, not really, you know, the ancient
• 01:25 weren't as hung up on all that figure-perfect stuff, and bread
• 01:28 was a basic food staple in antiquity.
• 01:31 Kirsten: And we're supposed to pray for the daily bread and
• 01:34 that he provides when our needs are present, not
• 01:38 for the future, future, but today.
• 01:40 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: We worry.
• 01:41 I mean, a lot of us live just on the--we live with this anxiety
• 01:46 in our minds and hearts, and we assess we're
• 01:49 just at the edge of annihilation.
• 01:52 The money's gonna wear out, the this and the that.
• 01:54 And the story of a God who provides is extremely important.
• 02:00 Kirsten: There's an old song, gospel song, he--
• 02:03 that says he's an on-time God, and he is an on-time God.
• 02:07 He--it may not be till the minute we need it, but he's not
• 02:10 late, but he's not really early sometimes.
• 02:14 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: That's what I was gonna interject.
• 02:16 You know, he has his own reasons to grow us in our faith.
• 02:18 And on a number of occasions, Jesus let him get to the ragged
• 02:22 edge and he'd say fear not O men and women of
• 02:25 little faith, but he does come through.
• 02:28 David: Amen.
• 02:30 Kirsten: That's a good thing.
• 02:31 David: Amen.
• 02:32 Right now we take you to Jerusalem where
• 02:34 Dr. Seif is teaching on miracles.
• 02:39 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I'm coming out of what is arguably the most
• 02:43 prestigious Protestant parish in the Middle East.
• 02:48 Christ Church is situated right around the corner from Jaffa
• 02:52 Gate, a main entrance into Jerusalem.
• 02:56 It was built in the 1800s by money raised by Christian
• 03:00 Zionists out of Europe that believed that God was going to
• 03:05 prophetically reestablish the nation state.
• 03:08 They invested a lot of love, a lot of money in the construction
• 03:12 of a church that was built in effect like a synagogue.
• 03:17 Very interesting, the artwork in is very Jewish.
• 03:20 The way it's situated internally is much like a synagogue.
• 03:24 And the person they installed as the pastor,
• 03:27 Bishop Alexander, was a Jewish Christian.
• 03:31 And here we are coming from this place.
• 03:34 I'm reminded of the fact that God does miracles in
• 03:38 establishing new things according to his purposes.
• 03:42 It's amply attested in the literature that
• 03:45 he's more than willing and able to do that.
• 03:46 I mentioned that 'cause I'm looking at a story here
• 03:49 in the gospel of Mark the 8th chapter.
• 03:52 And we're told here there was a very
• 03:53 large crowd with nothing to eat.
• 03:57 Actually, the large crowd is numbered
• 03:59 later on in the passage with 4,000 men.
• 04:02 In the Matthew version of the story in chapter 5, we're told
• 04:06 that it was 4,000 men, including women and children,
• 04:10 families, we're looking in the vicinity of 10,000
• 04:12 people that have been following Jesus at a certain
• 04:16 moment and they have nothing to eat.
• 04:19 Reminds me there's some kitchen noise in the background here
• 04:22 because Christ Church is a church, there's a guest house,
• 04:25 people are eating, people are coming and going.
• 04:28 They go to the kitchen, I can hear it as I speak.
• 04:31 Well, here Jesus cooked up a meal, and he did it miraculously
• 04:36 and there was a question that was raised to him, and that is
• 04:39 from verse 4, "How can anyone satisfy these
• 04:43 people with bread here in the wasteland?"
• 04:48 That's a question that people ask today.
• 04:51 They can look at life culture as something of a wasteland.
• 04:55 The prospects are extremely difficult and the question is,
• 04:59 how are we gonna get our needs met here?
• 05:03 Well, Yeshua, Jesus, goes on to perform a
• 05:07 miracle that attest that he can do that.
• 05:10 Someone with a few loaves of bread and a few fishes, what
• 05:12 happens is he does a miracle and he
• 05:15 feeds the equivalent of 10,000 people.
• 05:19 We're told then in verse 8, "They ate and were satisfied,
• 05:23 and they picked up the broken pieces left over--
• 05:26 seven baskets."
• 05:28 Very, very interesting that not only were they satiated out of a
• 05:34 miracle from a few pieces of bread and fish, 10,000 people,
• 05:39 but then he beckoned his disciples
• 05:41 to do some KP afterwards, to clean up.
• 05:45 And so they went around and policed the area and
• 05:48 got seven baskets full of leftovers.
• 05:52 What's a takeaway from this story?
• 05:54 Well, I'll tell you what a takeaway
• 05:55 is, that God can provide.
• 05:58 There's an old song, Jehovah Jireh, my provider.
• 06:01 It comes from a Genesis story.
• 06:03 Here we find it in Mark and we find it elsewhere in the
• 06:05 New Testament, that miracles are possible, God can provide.
• 06:09 How do I know it?
• 06:11 He wanted to show it, and so it is
• 06:13 from the miracle that is Christ Church.
• 06:15 I'm here telling the story to you.
• 06:20 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Can God provide?
• 06:21 That's the million-dollar question.
• 06:23 Whether food in one text or finances in another, God shows
• 06:29 up and he helps us as we make our way through life.
• 06:36 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: It is a beautiful morning here at the
• 06:39 Mount of Olives, on the Mount of Olives.
• 06:42 I'm adjacent to the garden of Gethsemane, weather is perfect,
• 06:46 and like I said, I am in a very good mood.
• 06:50 Do you know what the number one mood killer is, however?
• 06:56 It's a word referred to in Yiddish,
• 06:59 a Jewish dialect, as gelt.
• 07:04 It is said that it's what married
• 07:06 couples fight over the most.
• 07:09 And it is said, it is what makes people
• 07:11 as individuals anxious the most, gelt.
• 07:17 And what is gelt?
• 07:18 It's this thing called money.
• 07:23 As we're considering this series on miracles, the question I want
• 07:28 to put to you is, does God have anything to say about that?
• 07:33 Is there help for you with that?
• 07:37 Is there heaven's help for life's difficult stuff?
• 07:44 We're gonna take a look at the book and you're gonna find out
• 07:47 the answer to it, but I'll tell you on the front end right now,
• 07:51 the answer in no uncertain terms is yes.
• 07:55 ♪♪♪
• 08:04 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Looking at the fish,
• 08:06 you might anticipate the story.
• 08:08 Matthew tells it in the 17th chapter in verse 24, that folk
• 08:13 came from Kfar Nahum, Capernaum, Kfar village in Nahum.
• 08:18 The prophet is what named after.
• 08:20 And they were collectors of the temple tax.
• 08:23 By the way, I mentioned earlier, I'm coming to you from the Mount
• 08:26 of Olives, the garden of Gethsemane is
• 08:28 right over there, right next to the old temple
• 08:30 complex, in Jesus's day, a big, big complex.
• 08:35 Well, individuals came and inquired in verse 25,
• 08:39 "Hey, does your rabbi pay the tax?"
• 08:42 I mentioned that because it was incumbent upon Jews in the day
• 08:46 to pay annually a half-shekel tax.
• 08:51 Now, in today's currency, a half shekel
• 08:54 would amount to about $50 or $75.
• 08:58 And the question is, does--is he gonna pay that?
• 09:02 It's maintenance for this big temple complex.
• 09:07 Peter says in verse 25, "Yes."
• 09:09 And then he goes and asks.
• 09:11 I--you know, I love it.
• 09:14 He answers the question then inquires about it.
• 09:17 So subsequent to that, then there's some conversation with
• 09:20 Yeshua, with Jesus, and in order to pay the tax,
• 09:27 Jesus sets it up to perform a miracle.
• 09:29 He tells Peter in verse 27, "Go to the sea and throw out a hook,
• 09:36 and take up the first fish that comes up."
• 09:39 Well, take up the first fish that comes up.
• 09:41 It's probably a better way to say that, but in the first fish
• 09:44 that comes up, there's gonna be something in it.
• 09:49 I'm gonna pick it up in a second, but we have a shekel, a
• 09:53 modern shekel, in the mouth of this fish right here.
• 09:56 That's what happened. The money came from a miracle.
• 10:01 It's interesting, by the way, it seems to me in the Mattian text,
• 10:05 it says that there was a stater in the mouth.
• 10:08 A stater is an old Greek coin, the equivalent in
• 10:11 the day then of four drachmas or a shekel.
• 10:17 Now, the question was, are you and
• 10:19 your master going to pay this tax?
• 10:23 And it was a half shekel each.
• 10:25 What happens is Peter is instructed to go,
• 10:30 and he goes, and he pulls out a fish, and in the mouth
• 10:34 of the fish is the answer to the question.
• 10:40 And it's not just an answer to the question, though it is, but
• 10:44 it's an attestation that God can and does
• 10:48 work even with something little called money.
• 10:55 Now, it's not little at one level, I mean,
• 10:57 I'd mentioned at the outset that it's a thing
• 11:00 that concerns us the most in so many ways.
• 11:03 Married couples fight over it, we worry about it.
• 11:06 It's just on our mind, it might be on your mind right now.
• 11:09 In fact, you might be needing a breakthrough right now.
• 11:12 You might be needing some heaven's help for your stuff.
• 11:16 And the question is, is it available?
• 11:21 Well, the answer to that question is yes.
• 11:30 Jesus tells them, "Get the coin, take it,
• 11:33 and give it to them for me and you."
• 11:37 That is to say, Jesus provides a financial resource
• 11:43 to deal with the obligations of the day.
• 11:47 That's what he did yesterday.
• 11:49 Now, the question is, does he do it today?
• 11:53 If he's the same today, yesterday, and
• 11:55 forever, the answer to the question is in
• 11:57 the statement, but how does that work?
• 12:00 I think it's often misunderstood,
• 12:02 it's misconstrued.
• 12:04 Now, beyond working in television, and that's the way
• 12:07 you see me, I have over 30 years as a Bible college and seminary
• 12:12 professor, and I remember one time I was out and about by my
• 12:16 office, more than one time I'm in my office, but there was a
• 12:20 young student, maybe 19 or 20 years old, I
• 12:22 always saw him meandering around the halls.
• 12:24 It was in the library, so I'm glad
• 12:26 he is there, that's where my office was.
• 12:28 But I saw him all the time and I asked him
• 12:30 what his plans were for the summer once.
• 12:31 And he said, "Well, I'm planning on going on a missions trip."
• 12:35 And I asked him how he was planning on paying for it.
• 12:38 And he says, "Well, you know, I'm gonna write
• 12:41 letters home to friends and family, and
• 12:43 I'm trusting that the Lord will provide."
• 12:47 Well, let me tell you what
• 12:48 bothered me about that statement.
• 12:50 I'm wondering why a 18, 19, 20, 21-year-old male can meander
• 12:56 around all the day and not work and then expect people that work
• 13:01 hard then just to give him money.
• 13:03 There's a Jewish expression, "Don't beg for
• 13:05 that which you have the power to earn."
• 13:08 And to my way of thinking, there's
• 13:10 too much of that in his mind.
• 13:11 Well, he's spiritual and the Lord is just gonna bring the
• 13:15 money spiritually without any effort on his part.
• 13:18 Now, he's not here to defend himself, the reason why I make
• 13:21 the point is not just that the Lord provided a miracle,
• 13:26 but he told Peter to go ply his trade.
• 13:30 Peter was a fisherman, and that in the process of his exerting
• 13:34 himself in that capacity to do what he does, what he's
• 13:37 trained to do, it's within that context
• 13:40 he's going to discover God providing for him.
• 13:44 And in so many ways with people with faith,
• 13:46 that can be the missing ingredient.
• 13:49 In effect, Jesus said to Peter, "Go to work, and I'm
• 13:53 gonna show you something special there."
• 13:55 And we see it not just here in this story, Peter saw it again.
• 13:59 If you look at the Johannine gospel at the end, Peter says to
• 14:03 some of the guys, "Let's go fishing."
• 14:06 They came up empty after night's work, and they hear a voice from
• 14:09 the shore, "Throw out the net again."
• 14:12 And it's counterintuitive, I would've just said,
• 14:14 sorry, you know, the season's over.
• 14:16 I'm going to bed I've been up all night,
• 14:17 but you know, he threw it in.
• 14:19 All of a sudden there's this motherlode of fish.
• 14:23 Peter experienced miracles with money.
• 14:27 Now, if you're a fisherman, fish equals money.
• 14:30 This is a fish, of course, but within the
• 14:32 fish, there was this thing called money.
• 14:34 I want you to know for the reasons that I just stated that
• 14:37 I believe that God can look out for us.
• 14:42 It's not at all unreasonable to expect
• 14:45 us to participate in the process.
• 14:47 Paul had mentioned in his earlier writings,
• 14:49 in fact, he castigated some religious males.
• 14:52 He said they're some real spiritual,
• 14:54 they're not minded to work.
• 14:56 And he says, "Don't deal with those people,
• 14:59 discipline them, that behavior's not acceptable.
• 15:02 If a man doesn't work, he shouldn't eat.
• 15:04 If a man doesn't labor to provide for his own
• 15:06 household, he's worse than an unbeliever."
• 15:09 I mean, Paul's rather firm and fixed on it because sometimes
• 15:12 spirituality can cause us to be a little too dreamy.
• 15:16 "Well, I know God will provide."
• 15:18 Well, I know God will provide too.
• 15:19 It says it here in the book, and Peter learned it with a hook
• 15:23 when he pulled that--not that fish out of the water, when he
• 15:25 pulled a fish out of the water that is noted here.
• 15:28 God has a way of doing it, but I want you to be entrepreneurial
• 15:32 and work in the process and find the miracle in
• 15:35 the things that you do, whatever you do.
• 15:39 Now, if you're discouraged, you can stop the doing.
• 15:41 "You know, well, I'm tired of putting out resumes, you know,
• 15:44 it's not working," and people can depress,
• 15:48 and I don't want you to do that.
• 15:51 I want you to be engaged, I want you to be entrepreneurial, and I
• 15:55 want you to see God at work in your life in a way that touches
• 16:00 your pocketbook, and I'm telling you, it can happen.
• 16:04 And you needn't take my word for it.
• 16:06 It's not even me that's telling you that it can happen, it's the
• 16:09 Bible telling you that the miracle can happen.
• 16:13 And I don't want you to just see it in these ancient documents, I
• 16:17 want you to see it in your modern experience.
• 16:21 God is good and he cares for us, he can provide for us.
• 16:25 That's Bible 101.
• 16:26 When he led the Hebrews through the
• 16:27 wilderness, he made manna come down.
• 16:29 You know, they didn't have any other resource,
• 16:31 he found a way to take care of them.
• 16:34 And he's found ways to take care of people ever since from
• 16:37 Genesis to maps, from one end of the Bible to the other.
• 16:40 That testimony is reiterated over and over and again, and I
• 16:45 believe that you can see that story come true with you.
• 16:48 And why is that?
• 16:50 Because when it comes to money, yes, even
• 16:52 with money, I believe in miracles.
• 16:57 ♪♪♪
• 17:06 David: I am reminded of an old chorus in this
• 17:08 series that you may have heard before.
• 17:10 It goes, ♪ Jehovah Jireh, my provider his grace is sufficient
• 17:15 for me, for me, and you, and you. ♪♪
• 17:19 Do you believe that?
• 17:20 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes.
• 17:21 David: I know you do. Kirsten: That's good.
• 17:23 I--that's a great song, and I really thought
• 17:24 about that through all your teaching.
• 17:25 How does God provide? But he does.
• 17:28 And you've taught on he provides money.
• 17:31 Isn't the love of money a sin though?
• 17:34 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, it--the love of money is a sin,
• 17:36 but I like it especially when bills come
• 17:37 current at the beginning of the month.
• 17:39 If you love what we're doing, please be gracious.
• 17:43 When God provides in situations such as these, it's because he
• 17:48 stirs the hearts and minds of individuals that like the good
• 17:52 news through the eyes of the Jews.
• 17:53 And if you believe in what we're doing and you care to share,
• 17:58 please, if the Lord speaks to you, please open
• 18:01 up your heart and open up your purse and help us
• 18:04 do what we do, goes all over the world.
• 18:06 And I believe there's blessings in store for those that
• 18:10 participate in the gospel's advancement, even you and me.
• 18:14 Kirsten: I've gotta say, I love the
• 18:16 miracle of the coin in the fish's mouth.
• 18:20 I--you know, we don't know, did that fishes eat the coin, or did
• 18:24 God's miraculously have that appear?
• 18:26 He--did he know which fish to pick?
• 18:28 But the point is that we don't think--we don't associate God
• 18:34 with money because so many ministries have overdone the
• 18:39 money aspect, but yet we need money to survive.
• 18:43 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: You know, it's the thing that I like
• 18:45 least in ministry, pastoral ministry and on
• 18:48 television, saying can you please help?
• 18:51 Because I'm humbled, I feel like a beggar.
• 18:54 And there's been so much bad in that regard.
• 18:58 We're humble, we're meager, we don't draw big salaries.
• 19:02 And really the money that goes in really goes into getting the
• 19:05 ministry out, I'm not lining my pockets with it and--but
• 19:11 people are familiar with bad examples.
• 19:14 Kirsten: Right, and it's beautiful to see Jesus didn't
• 19:17 have a fish, you know, mouth full of coins,
• 19:20 it was enough for the job that needed to be done.
• 19:22 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: And what was interesting is the responses
• 19:25 to the question, "Hey, are we gonna pay the tax?"
• 19:28 And as I note, they needed a miracle just to come up with
• 19:32 that little amount of money, which argues that Jesus and
• 19:35 company, they're not traveling around with loads of cash on
• 19:38 hand, that we needed a miracle just to
• 19:41 fix that little moment there and then.
• 19:44 David: Just to know that God is our Father and he wants the
• 19:47 best for us, both in food and money.
• 19:50 He cares for us.
• 19:52 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah, and to the point
• 19:53 raised earlier, he doesn't spoil us.
• 19:55 And you know, if you have too much in hand, you get
• 19:57 spoiled but we have to day by day--
• 20:00 David: And depend on him. Excuse me, yes.
• 20:01 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Walk it out, yes.
• 20:02 No, interrupt.
• 20:04 Kirsten: That's good. We'll be right back.
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• 20:43 Kirsten: Also, we have many, many interviews on our social
• 20:46 media sites, and we get to meet up with different people,
• 20:51 interview them, for this program it's been all about miracles.
• 20:54 And Dr. Seif was in Israel and met up with an
• 20:57 Israeli believer who has experienced real-life
• 21:01 miracles both in healing and financial.
• 21:05 Let's go to Jerusalem right now.
• 21:09 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Avi Mizrachi, I've known you for years.
• 21:12 I want America to get to know you a little more.
• 21:14 Avi Mizrachi: Thank you.
• 21:16 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Here we are in Jerusalem.
• 21:17 I know you live in Israel.
• 21:18 I'm here doing a series on miracles.
• 21:20 Have you ever had a miracle in your life?
• 21:23 Avi: Yes. I have four daughters.
• 21:26 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Four daughters.
• 21:27 Avi: Four daughters and eight grandchildren.
• 21:30 I'm blessed.
• 21:31 Well, my daughter, Voa, about three years ago she
• 21:35 gave birth to a beautiful daughter, Hadas.
• 21:38 But before that, they--their doctors were concerned with her
• 21:41 blood and they said, "We're gonna monitor you."
• 21:45 And when she gave birth, that's what happened.
• 21:47 After she gave birth, she had a eclampsia, there was
• 21:50 like poison in the blood, and she fainted, and
• 21:53 the doctors thought they're gonna lose her.
• 21:55 And we knew that problems, so we were outside praying, and the
• 22:00 doctors quickly did what they did, and she came back to life.
• 22:05 And we prayed and prayed that there won't be any side effects.
• 22:09 And later on, like half an hour later,
• 22:12 one hour later, her husband came out.
• 22:14 He said, "She's okay, she's fine."
• 22:17 And we knew that while we were standing outside
• 22:21 there where she was giving birth,
• 22:23 as we pray to Yeshua, we cried out to the Lord for a miracle.
• 22:26 God touched her and even the doctor said,
• 22:30 "We were afraid we're gonna lose her."
• 22:32 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: It's great to hear that God is in the
• 22:34 business of solving problems that have been around for many,
• 22:37 many years and I'm glad mom and baby are okay.
• 22:39 Avi: Yeah.
• 22:40 And I really believe when you pray, you and your wife you pray
• 22:43 in agreement and trust God for a miracle for your children, he
• 22:47 hears our cry and he does it, and he gets all the glory.
• 22:51 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Amen.
• 22:52 And you're over here in Israel with a ministry, Dugit.
• 22:55 And it really is a miracle.
• 22:57 So many miracles through your ministry.
• 22:59 Can you speak to that?
• 23:00 Avi: After I got saved and finished Bible school, all I
• 23:03 wanted to do is come back home to Tel Aviv
• 23:04 and preach the gospel, make disciples.
• 23:07 So at that time, the Southern Baptist, they had
• 23:11 a gallery in bookstore named Dugit, they
• 23:15 were looking for someone to work there.
• 23:17 So that's how I started after finishing Bible school, and my
• 23:21 heart was, of course, to meet every Israeli, speak in Hebrews,
• 23:24 share the good news with them, get them to salvation.
• 23:28 And then a few years late--a few years
• 23:29 later, the Baptist, they closed the place.
• 23:32 And so I had to look for another place, but they came to a place
• 23:36 where every time we rent, the landlords will find out we are
• 23:39 believers, they will not renew the contract and kick us out.
• 23:43 And then the religious orthodox will pressure on them.
• 23:45 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: So you needed to buy
• 23:47 a place, and it's expensive.
• 23:48 Avi: Exactly. Tel Aviv.
• 23:49 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: How expensive? Like, millions?
• 23:51 Avi: Tel Aviv is one of the most expensive cities in the world.
• 23:53 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: You had a dream and a vision, but then the
• 23:55 Lord brought resource to make it happen.
• 23:57 Avi: And that's the miracle.
• 23:59 It's like for a year or so, we were closed and the Lord spoke
• 24:02 to me very clearly that you need to put your
• 24:05 foot on--the roots on the ground.
• 24:08 So I've been going around speaking different
• 24:10 places, sharing our vision and hope.
• 24:13 And lo and behold, in his perfect timing, God provided the
• 24:17 money and we went--I went to the same place, the new landlord who
• 24:21 bought the place, I went to the same place
• 24:24 and I was able to purchase the same place where
• 24:27 I started 30 years or 35 years ago.
• 24:29 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, your website's gonna go up on our
• 24:31 program, we want people to know about you.
• 24:33 Sorry, this has to be so brief, but I hope our friends visit
• 24:37 your website and learn more about you.
• 24:38 Thanks for giving us a few minutes here, Avi.
• 24:40 Avi: Thank you, Jeff.
• 24:51 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Like all people, Avi Mizrachi can worry
• 24:54 about his children's health, finances, and particular needs.
• 24:59 Avi in many ways is unlike many people, he
• 25:02 is an Israeli, messianic Jew who came to faith
• 25:07 in the Lord who ministers there, wonderful guy.
• 25:11 David: Sweet spirit.
• 25:12 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: He really is sweet, yeah.
• 25:13 Kirsten: Right, and his story about his daughter, I had some
• 25:16 preeclampsia with our firstborn and we had--it was--it can be
• 25:21 touch and go, and I love the miracle
• 25:24 that he experienced through that.
• 25:25 He had a miracle of a financial incredible blessing.
• 25:29 His financial need was great and God gave him a great blessing.
• 25:35 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: He's really out on the limb there, you know,
• 25:37 it's a precarious existence doing mission-related work in
• 25:42 Israel, he and all the messianic believers.
• 25:45 And by the way, those that support us, a
• 25:47 certain percentage of monies goes to support
• 25:50 a variety of messianic works in Israel.
• 25:54 And he's one of our friends, and we're
• 25:55 happy to extend largest direction.
• 25:57 Kirsten: And that's why I appreciate our ministry.
• 25:59 We hope that you know we're talking kind of about little
• 26:03 money miracles today that I believe that the miracle of God
• 26:08 giving us gifts is for us to give to others
• 26:11 and spread the gospel and spread the Word.
• 26:13 We do that when you give to this ministry and God gives greatly,
• 26:18 and then it's on us to also give greatly.
• 26:21 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes, and there's Christian
• 26:22 monies God blessed that go to Israel to
• 26:24 support various Jewish agencies, to help build hospitals and do
• 26:29 other things, it's all good, but it's not
• 26:31 directly related to sharing the good news through the
• 26:34 eyes of the Jews in the Jewish homeland.
• 26:36 That's a distinctive associated with "Our Jewish Roots."
• 26:39 David: One of the other things that we've been talking
• 26:41 about in this program today is food in Israel, bread.
• 26:45 When we go to Israel, I know that right here she loves--
• 26:49 Kirsten: The hala bread. David: The food of Israel.
• 26:51 Kirsten: In Israel, there nothing better.
• 26:52 We would love for you to go with us sometime.
• 26:55 Travel to Israel, and we have the
• 26:58 opportunity to host you in the land.
• 27:01 And we have to finish up our program now.
• 27:03 Time is out already.
• 27:06 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: If you can't come to
• 27:07 Israel, we'll keep bringing it to you.
• 27:08 We'll do it again next week, till then, [speaking in Hebrew].
• 27:12 David: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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