Caption transcript for “England and the Great Awakening”

• 00:01 [music]
• 00:06 Caleb Colson: Hirchie, I looked everywhere for Josh.
• 00:10 Can't find him.
• 00:12 Lost in the middle of London.
• 00:13 I mean, I kept track of him in Syria.
• 00:16 Even when he tried to sneak into the Gaza Strip, I stopped
• 00:18 him there.
• 00:20 Even when we got stuck on Demon Mountain.
• 00:23 We have deadlines.
• 00:24 I mean, little old grandma's money is on the line.
• 00:28 The ministry is depending on us to film the perfect program here
• 00:32 in London, and he's off jolly well, having a jolly good
• 00:37 show somewhere.
• 00:38 Hirchie Schaffner: You know, I know, look, just relax, because
• 00:41 if we know Josh, and we we all know Josh, he's out doing
• 00:45 something he shouldn't be.
• 00:46 But I wanted to let you know, I was gonna tell you earlier,
• 00:49 I actually found a list of Josh's to-dos.
• 00:53 It was body surfing a double-decker bus,
• 00:57 which he already marked off.
• 00:58 Don't know when he did that.
• 01:00 He's eaten all the bangers and mash that anybody could
• 01:02 possibly stomach.
• 01:04 Caleb: Yeah, I saw that.
• 01:05 Hirchie: Earlier, I saw him being chased by a fish and
• 01:07 chips guy.
• 01:08 I don't think he paid for it, and because he was yelling
• 01:10 something at him.
• 01:11 So you know, the last thing, though, on the list that I'm a
• 01:13 little bit nervous about was he was going to let them know how
• 01:16 proud of an American he is.
• 01:18 I don't know what that means, but I'm a little worried myself.
• 01:22 Caleb: All right I think we--oh no.
• 01:24 Is that?
• 01:26 [Joshua Colson singing] ♪ And the rockets red glare ♪
• 01:28 ♪ the bombs bursting in air ♪
• 01:30 ♪ gave proof to the night, that our flag was still there ♪
• 01:35 Caleb: Josh, what are you doing?
• 01:37 Joshua: I am showing the king that 249 1/2 years ago we kicked
• 01:42 their butt.
• 01:43 And on 250, if it's necessary, we'll do it again.
• 01:45 Caleb: Buckingham Palace is right there.
• 01:48 Joshua: That's?
• 01:50 Caleb: Yeah, I don't even know what this is.
• 01:51 This is like the gate of Canada or something.
• 01:54 Joshua: That's the Canadian gate?
• 01:56 Caleb: Yeah, sure, whatever.
• 01:57 [Joshua singing] ♪ And the rockets red glare ♪
• 01:58 ♪ That Canadian air is not anything more ♪
• 02:02 ♪ than a top hat up there ♪
• 02:03 Caleb: There goes all our Canadian friends.
• 02:07 Joshua: They're okay. They're in North America.
• 02:10 What?
• 02:12 [music]
• 02:23 [music]
• 02:25 Caleb: In John 1:46, Nathaniel asked, "Can anything good come
• 02:29 from Nazareth?"
• 02:30 To which Philip replied, "Come and see."
• 02:33 We asked the same question to ourselves concerning the
• 02:36 United Kingdom.
• 02:37 With anti-Semitism plaguing Europe and the Islamization of
• 02:40 England at an all-time high, we wanted to look back at a time
• 02:43 when God used the British people to pour out his spirit and begin
• 02:47 a great awakening.
• 02:49 Joining us on this adventure is our good friend and Messianic
• 02:52 Jew, Hirchie Schaffner of 516 Ministries.
• 02:55 Having pastored for over three decades, Hirchie is also an
• 02:58 expert on the past moves of God that changed our world.
• 03:02 Join us on this unprecedented mission to London.
• 03:08 Joshua: Ha-ha-ha-ha, that's right.
• 03:10 When you watch the "BBB," you don't get a green screen with
• 03:13 Big Ben in the background.
• 03:14 You get to see two Jewish dudes standing in front of Big Ben.
• 03:19 I love history.
• 03:21 I love studying history, but I love talking about it at the
• 03:23 place it happened, right here on this series, series?
• 03:27 Caleb: Series of episodes. Joshua: Series of episodes.
• 03:30 We are going to examine past revivals, great awakenings,
• 03:34 moves of God, Why?
• 03:36 Because we want to understand what it was that spawned
• 03:39 these events.
• 03:40 Was it just an isolated move of God that he decided was his
• 03:43 Moedim moment, or was there something that the men and women
• 03:45 of God did, something that they gave up of themselves in a way
• 03:49 that they pursued him that caused it to happen?
• 03:52 So we're in this series going to talk about the great awakenings
• 03:56 of our time.
• 03:57 Caleb: Now if anybody is familiar with the spiritual
• 04:00 climate in Great Britain, you would probably be shocked to
• 04:04 know that many great revivals and outpourings of the Holy
• 04:07 Spirit began right here.
• 04:10 And it's really shocking.
• 04:11 Josh, when you look at Great Britain today, it's a
• 04:15 post-Christian nation.
• 04:18 Not only post-Christian, it's secular, some would say atheist,
• 04:22 and even more alarming, Islamic.
• 04:25 And so that's why during these next two weeks, like Josh said,
• 04:28 we're gonna go over the history of these great moves of God, how
• 04:32 they occurred here, and how we believe something good is coming
• 04:35 in the future.
• 04:36 Joshua: Check it out.
• 04:38 I'm gonna go see what time it is.
• 04:42 Okay, got it.
• 04:49 Joshua: Now that is either Disney's Magic Kingdom, or that
• 04:53 is a church, right?
• 04:54 I mean, when it comes to buildings, this is the epic one.
• 04:58 Too bad God doesn't look at that.
• 04:59 That right there, that's Westminster Abbey, pretty famous
• 05:02 church as a matter of fact, Why?
• 05:04 Because it's the coronation site of 40 monarchs since 1066, even
• 05:07 18 are buried there.
• 05:09 Royal weddings happen.
• 05:11 This is the place to be if you are the Anglican Church
• 05:13 of England.
• 05:15 Caleb: You know, the Church of England was the first to break
• 05:18 away from the heretical and tyrannical grip of a Roman
• 05:21 Catholic Church near the end of the medieval era.
• 05:24 It was very interesting because in 1517, Martin Luther nailed
• 05:28 his 95 Theses to the church door in Germany, and that just opened
• 05:32 wide the doors for man to finally understand the Bible
• 05:36 for himself.
• 05:37 And God even used the the lust of King Henry VIII wanting
• 05:42 to divorce his wife, to eventually escalate to King
• 05:46 James translating the Bible into the English tongue, so that all
• 05:50 modern men could read it for themselves.
• 05:53 Oh, that's, [mumbling]
• 06:03 Hirchie: You know, even though the Anglican Church was birthed
• 06:06 out of the Reformation, you know, sadly it began to take on
• 06:10 the theology and the concepts of the high church, much like the
• 06:14 Catholic Church they had been removed from.
• 06:17 You know, along with that, as joyous as it was, there were
• 06:20 some other things that came out of there in the Protestant
• 06:22 movement that kind of were deceptive, such as the teachings
• 06:25 of Calvinism.
• 06:27 Caleb: Yeah, and then comes the Age of Enlightenment, or the Age
• 06:30 of Reason, and that would completely squash any notion of
• 06:33 faith, because this modern philosophy and intellectualism
• 06:40 would make man the god, his own intellect.
• 06:43 He had no need for a higher being or higher power because
• 06:47 that came from himself.
• 06:49 And he saw that eventually there would be Freemasonry, the
• 06:53 occult, the Illuminati.
• 06:56 All these new-age doctrines would supplant any notion of
• 07:02 biblical faith, because with the Age of Enlightenment, man turned
• 07:08 against the monarchy, turned against, like you said, the high
• 07:11 church, state-run churches, any faith in general, and morality
• 07:16 came to an all-time low.
• 07:23 Caleb: And we're in front of a very iconic and
• 07:25 important building.
• 07:26 This is Methodist Central Hall, the head of the Methodist Church
• 07:30 in the UK.
• 07:32 You know, Methodism in the past, Hirchie, it was birthed out of
• 07:35 the first Great Awakening, and not very many people know that
• 07:39 this outpouring of the Holy Spirit that swept over the UK
• 07:43 and even into America to the 13 colonies.
• 07:46 Hirchie: Yeah, you know, today the United Methodist Church has
• 07:49 gone through a lot of changes.
• 07:52 Actually went through a split over their recognition and
• 07:57 desire to allow homosexuality, actually even in the pulpits, in
• 08:00 their clergy.
• 08:02 And it's quite a change from where John Wesley started.
• 08:06 But you know, in the midst of it, it's amazing to know the
• 08:11 roots of it, to know the backstory of where
• 08:15 it all started.
• 08:16 For us, for our church, we actually share space
• 08:19 with a global Methodist church.
• 08:22 We meet on Saturdays in their congregation, and that pastor
• 08:25 has such a desire to see the things of God once again.
• 08:30 And so, you know, here we are in this telling the story of John
• 08:34 Wesley, because they started out with such a desire and a passion
• 08:38 for holiness and the experience in the encounters of the Holy
• 08:42 Spirit to take place.
• 08:44 And they were the first fruits of what we see that became the
• 08:47 Pentecostal movement, even in the United States of America.
• 08:51 Caleb: That's right.
• 08:53 A lot happened back then, and we're gonna tell you that story.
• 08:56 Caleb: Ephesians 2:8-9, "For by grace you have been saved
• 09:00 through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of
• 09:04 God, not of works, lest anyone should boast."
• 09:10 Caleb: John and Charles Wesley were born into a family of 19
• 09:13 children, but infant mortality was high back then.
• 09:16 Only nine survived.
• 09:18 His father was an Anglican minister, a poet, a preacher,
• 09:22 a singer, and he was in charge of a local parish.
• 09:26 Now when John was five years old, the family's house
• 09:31 burned down.
• 09:32 He was actually asleep upstairs when they gathered all the
• 09:35 children out and realized that he was stuck upstairs.
• 09:37 But supernaturally, he was able to escape out the window, and
• 09:41 his mother believed that God had ordained him and destined him
• 09:44 for an incredible purpose since he survived.
• 09:48 Joshua: Susanna, his mother, couldn't afford to send all the
• 09:51 kids to school.
• 09:52 It's a lot of kids, so she started the Wesley Family School
• 09:55 from 9 to 5.
• 09:56 They didn't have any textbooks.
• 09:58 They didn't have math and science and history.
• 10:00 They had one book, and that book was the Bible.
• 10:03 And having that one book encouraged the children to
• 10:05 memorize large portions of God's word, which would stick with
• 10:08 them for the rest of their lives.
• 10:11 Caleb: Galatians 2:16, "Know that a person is not justified
• 10:15 by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ.
• 10:19 Because by the works of the law no one will be justified."
• 10:23 Caleb: So John Wesley started attending Christ Church in
• 10:26 Oxford in England.
• 10:28 It was a university.
• 10:30 And his brother Charles had already been there for a number
• 10:33 of years and was starting a club, a club of other believers
• 10:37 that could get together.
• 10:39 And they were mockingly referred to as the Holiness Club because
• 10:42 they would literally meet for three hours a day, pray every
• 10:47 hour on the hour, and they despised the perversion, the
• 10:52 darkness that was going on in England of the times, the
• 10:55 moral depravity.
• 10:56 And so they they created a methodical checklist of things
• 11:01 that they could do to gain holiness, you know, and they
• 11:05 would check off that list every day so that they could get
• 11:08 closer to God through these acts of righteousness.
• 11:11 That's why they were lovingly referred to as the
• 11:13 Methodists originally.
• 11:15 Joshua: Even though they had committed to prayer and fasting,
• 11:17 these things that have typically brought about revival, they were
• 11:20 putting their faith in these things.
• 11:22 They didn't understand the process of justification by
• 11:24 faith to Yeshua.
• 11:26 That wasn't being taught in the English Church at that time.
• 11:28 And because of that focus on the acts, it was, well, just acts,
• 11:34 and not God that was gonna bring it about.
• 11:38 But John and Charles would become clergy in the Church of
• 11:40 England, and they would travel to the New World, heading to
• 11:43 Savannah, Georgia.
• 11:44 It was a long trip at that time period by boat.
• 11:47 They encountered a storm that nearly ripped that boat in half.
• 11:51 Caleb: It was terrifying.
• 11:53 But during that storm, John went down beneath the boat, and he
• 11:56 found a group of Moravian Christians from Bohemia that
• 11:59 were singing and praising God.
• 12:01 And he was shocked they weren't afraid.
• 12:04 They had an inner peace that he did not have.
• 12:07 Something was special about 'em, and it just, he couldn't
• 12:10 shake it.
• 12:11 You know, how did they have this peace?
• 12:13 How were they secure in their salvation?
• 12:14 He didn't have that security.
• 12:16 And so when he went to Georgia, and for two years he was the
• 12:19 head of his church, people hated him.
• 12:22 It was terrible.
• 12:24 It was all the law, all control, all religion, and it was just
• 12:31 a disaster.
• 12:32 He ended up having to return to England because there was
• 12:36 no success.
• 12:37 There was no anointing behind it.
• 12:38 It was all legalism.
• 12:41 Caleb: Galatians 3:23-25, "Before the coming of this
• 12:46 faith, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until
• 12:49 the faith that was to come would be revealed.
• 12:53 So the law was our guardian until Christ came that we might
• 12:56 be justified by faith.
• 12:58 Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian."
• 13:03 Caleb: John Wesley would never forget those Moravian Christians
• 13:06 that he met so many years ago who believed in salvation by
• 13:10 faith, justification by faith, and not by works, not
• 13:14 by christening.
• 13:15 And it tormented him for so many years, until one day his
• 13:19 brother, Charles, became born again, believed by faith, and
• 13:23 that even troubled him some more.
• 13:25 He was very angry and upset with Charles.
• 13:27 Hirchie: Yeah, one instance where John was actually given
• 13:30 the opportunity to lead a man to Christ, to faith, right before
• 13:35 he's being hanged.
• 13:37 And he talks about how he saw this man go to his end on this
• 13:42 Earth with such peace and such tranquility, and it blew his
• 13:46 mind because there was no way for this man to do the works
• 13:49 that he had taught for so long, but he had received Jesus
• 13:53 by faith.
• 13:55 And in those moments, along with these episodes with the
• 13:57 Moravians, it transformed him to know that there was more than
• 14:01 just the works of it, but the grace and faith of the Lord
• 14:05 Jesus Christ really transforming lives.
• 14:07 Caleb: Amen.
• 14:13 Caleb: On May 25, 1738, John Wesley was attending one of
• 14:17 those Moravian prayer meetings, you know, at Aldersgate Street.
• 14:22 It was here in London, and they were reading a commentary from
• 14:27 Martin Luther on the book of Romans.
• 14:29 And as he listened to how Paul explained that justification can
• 14:35 come by faith, even to the Gentiles, his eyes were open,
• 14:39 and he understood justification by faith.
• 14:41 He received salvation by faith in the Lord Yeshua, and he
• 14:45 finally received that peace he was hoping for, for all
• 14:47 those years.
• 14:49 Hirchie: Yeah, it was at that moment that the Holy Spirit
• 14:51 filled his life, and he was really transformed in such a
• 14:57 way, because now he was truly born again.
• 15:01 It wasn't just trying to do the works to get to heaven, but it
• 15:04 was actually by grace through faith that he received Yeshua
• 15:08 Jesus as his Lord and savior.
• 15:10 His life would never be the same.
• 15:12 His message would continue to grow in the understanding of
• 15:18 justification by faith, and the power of the Holy Spirit would
• 15:22 transform his life and through him transform
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• 15:59 Joshua: You know when a really cool movie comes out, and they
• 16:01 make a novelization of it, which goes into way more depth than
• 16:04 the movie's time allotted, but then the book ends up sucking?
• 16:06 Well, this is not that scenario.
• 16:08 This week we're offering the book, "Josiah and the Last
• 16:11 Reformation," written by my little brother.
• 16:13 Caleb lays out the companion guide to our hit series, even
• 16:16 giving behind the scenes details of how we filmed our series at
• 16:19 the onslaught of the war with Hamas.
• 16:21 Learn more about idol smashing in "Josiah and the
• 16:23 Last Reformation."
• 16:25 Like I'd even read.
• 16:26 Caleb: Josh, we're still recording.
• 16:28 Joshua: Uh-oh.
• 16:30 Caleb: Mark 16:15, 17-18, "And he [Yeshua]
• 16:36 said to them, 'Go into all the world and preach the gospel to
• 16:39 every creature...
• 16:41 And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name
• 16:44 they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues;
• 16:48 they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly,
• 16:51 it will by no means hurt them; and they will recover.'"
• 16:54 Joshua: Even though there were pockets of revival happening in
• 16:57 America at this time period, you would see John Wesley, his
• 17:00 brother Charles, and George Whitfield, these three
• 17:03 Englishmen traveling across England and Ireland, spreading
• 17:06 the word of God and beginning this evangelical revival.
• 17:10 Caleb: Now, John Wesley would go from community to community on
• 17:16 horseback, and he would lead people to Yeshua.
• 17:20 They would become born again, and these pockets of communities
• 17:23 would end up creating congregations.
• 17:25 They would call themselves Methodists.
• 17:27 But the Church of England did not accept them or this new
• 17:30 doctrine, justification by faith, and mobs of people tried
• 17:34 to harm them again and again and again.
• 17:37 It was very traumatic.
• 17:39 They were kicked out of Anglican churches like this when they
• 17:41 tried to preach to people.
• 17:43 And so, eventually, George Whitfield, who was a natural
• 17:46 orator, he was very charismatic, taught them to speak in the
• 17:49 countrysides, out in the open, to project and garner the
• 17:53 attention of people, so more and more people could actually come
• 17:56 to hear of him in these open-air venues, and more and more people
• 18:00 came to Yeshua.
• 18:07 Caleb: Now, John began to witness the supernatural in
• 18:10 his meetings.
• 18:11 People would literally fall to the ground in the presence of
• 18:14 the Lord.
• 18:15 He didn't understand what it was, but he knew they were
• 18:16 connecting to God.
• 18:18 When people came, they would just weep and cry out for mercy,
• 18:21 or they would praise the Lord.
• 18:22 They would rejoice.
• 18:23 This was the beginning of him seeing many miracles and many
• 18:28 healings within these meetings.
• 18:30 And in fact, there was even many moments where he would be
• 18:33 afflicted with a fever or a sickness.
• 18:35 He didn't feel like he could make it through.
• 18:37 He pushed through as he was teaching, and the presence of
• 18:40 God would overtake him, would literally incinerate that fever,
• 18:43 that sickness within him, and he would be completely whole,
• 18:46 standing in front of crowds of thousands.
• 18:49 Joshua: John would also teach practical, healthy habits for
• 18:52 the people that he prayed for, so that they could actually be
• 18:56 wise in how they stewarded their own bodies.
• 18:58 But they did see the supernatural, even on one
• 19:00 occasion with the three of them going to a home and raising a
• 19:04 man from the dead.
• 19:05 Caleb: Yeah, it's possible.
• 19:07 Joshua: And incredible.
• 19:09 Caleb: Romans 2:4, "Or do you despise the riches of His
• 19:13 goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that
• 19:17 the goodness of God leads you to repentance?"
• 19:20 Joshua: George Whitfield's reach was incredible.
• 19:23 He would travel to America during the time of the
• 19:25 Great Awakening.
• 19:27 He began to preach across the colonies.
• 19:29 In one year's time, he preached 500,000 miles, 350 sermons to
• 19:35 Americans, even joined by guys like Jonathan Edwards.
• 19:39 He would preach to anyone, whether they were a slave,
• 19:41 a native.
• 19:43 He even became friends with Benjamin Franklin at one point.
• 19:46 He went about preaching the unashamed word of God.
• 19:50 The man was a powerhouse.
• 19:51 Caleb: That's right.
• 19:52 And John Wesley, over the course of 50 years traveling around the
• 19:55 United Kingdom on horseback, covered 400,000 miles.
• 19:59 He preached over 40,000 sermons leading people to Yeshua.
• 20:04 His little brother, Charles Wesley, also spread the gospel,
• 20:09 also strengthened the Methodist movement, even composing 6,500
• 20:14 hymns, many of which we still sing today.
• 20:18 Joshua: It's incredible.
• 20:21 Did you also notice the door fits our height, too?
• 20:27 Caleb: James 1:27, "Pure and undefiled religion before God
• 20:32 and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their
• 20:35 trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world."
• 20:40 Hirchie: You know, John Wesley was so challenged by the truth
• 20:43 of the gospel that he didn't just preach the gospel, but he
• 20:47 actually did good works.
• 20:49 You know, he and his Methodists were responsible for feeding the
• 20:52 poor, taking care of those who were in poverty and homeless,
• 20:57 reaching out into the city, even into the government.
• 21:01 And going into the government, they were strongly against the
• 21:04 bribery and the corruption that was taking place in
• 21:07 the government.
• 21:08 He was very vocal about that.
• 21:10 You know, he didn't believe that church was only on Sunday.
• 21:12 He believed that the church was supposed to affect the
• 21:15 entire world.
• 21:16 And in his actions, in all these works, he gave away so much of
• 21:22 his time, his efforts, his money, and he utilized the
• 21:26 fullness of the kingdom, along with those who followed him, to
• 21:29 be able to really make a difference in the lives of
• 21:32 everyone that he came in contact with.
• 21:34 Caleb: It's incredible that he died in 1791 impoverished,
• 21:38 completely poor, because he gave away his entire wealth during
• 21:43 his lifetime and the wealth that he acquired by writing over
• 21:46 400 books.
• 21:48 He had $30,000, it's estimated, in his lifetime.
• 21:53 And in modern day numbers that would be $120 million, but his
• 21:59 heart was always moved toward compassion to those who didn't
• 22:02 have anything, and so he gave it all away.
• 22:05 And he's buried at Wesley Chapel here in London to this day, and
• 22:09 you can go and visit it if you're ever here in the area.
• 22:13 But there's a man who, I believe when you look back at his life,
• 22:17 has no regrets.
• 22:19 He lived well, and he died well.
• 22:22 Hirchie: Hopefully, we can all do that, to truly make
• 22:25 a difference.
• 22:31 Caleb: In America, the Great Awakening led to a godly
• 22:34 understanding of religious liberty and freedom that the
• 22:37 colonists carried with them into the Revolutionary War, fighting
• 22:41 for freedom from a tyrannical England at that time.
• 22:45 They wanted to be free to worship God in their own way,
• 22:48 and they gained that freedom.
• 22:49 And now we in America live autonomous to this very day.
• 22:53 [Joshua singing] ♪ America, Betsy Ross, Betsy Ross ♪
• 22:59 ♪ Colonies, colonies ♪
• 23:03 Caleb: In Europe, however, the Age of Enlightenment, led by the
• 23:07 Freemasons and the Illuminati, resulted in bloody revolutions
• 23:12 of governments being toppled by free people fighting
• 23:17 against aristocracy.
• 23:18 We saw the fall of Germany, France, Italy, Austria.
• 23:23 All these people and the governments rebelled.
• 23:26 And even though there was corrupt governments, it just led
• 23:30 to anarchy, because that's really what the spirit of
• 23:33 Antichrist is, it's chaos, it's anarchy, this disorder.
• 23:37 Yet, in England, they were the only government in Europe that
• 23:42 did not rebel, that kept order even in the face to corruption,
• 23:46 that even worked in their government to better themselves,
• 23:50 to remove the corruption and the depravity and the filth.
• 23:54 That is thanks to the lasting effect, 100 years after people
• 23:59 like the Wesley brothers and George Whitfield had with this
• 24:02 Great Awakening.
• 24:03 It truly resonated and rippled and carried on through
• 24:07 the generations.
• 24:09 Caleb: Galatians 4:3-7, "Even so we, when we were children, were
• 24:14 in bondage under the elements of the world.
• 24:17 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth
• 24:20 His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those
• 24:24 who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption
• 24:28 as sons.
• 24:29 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His
• 24:33 Son into your hearts, crying out, 'Abba, Father!'
• 24:36 Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son,
• 24:40 then an heir of God through Christ."
• 24:44 Caleb: One of the many reasons that God called us to go to
• 24:46 England this time, he always has a dual purpose in the way he
• 24:49 does things, not just to film stories, but for a personal
• 24:52 story linked with our family's history.
• 24:55 As many people know, our mother is Jewish.
• 24:57 She was a Jewish orphan originally from the area of
• 25:00 Austria, Germany, but our father is mostly Gentile.
• 25:04 He's a little bit of Jew in him, but he's from the area of the UK
• 25:07 here in England, Ireland, and Scotland.
• 25:10 And so we came here knowing that our ancestry, Colson, is derived
• 25:18 from Nicholas.
• 25:19 See, Nicholas's nickname was Cole.
• 25:21 This is going back, Josh, to like the 13th century.
• 25:25 And Nicholas surname ended up being son of Cole, Cole's son.
• 25:32 And this area is where Colson's derived from.
• 25:37 They actually were lords, you know, landowners, leaders in
• 25:42 their community.
• 25:43 They also were believers in God, and they sought God.
• 25:47 And during times of religious persecution, many of the
• 25:51 Colsons fled here and went to France where there are plenty of
• 25:54 Colsons to this day.
• 25:56 Joshua: That's crazy.
• 25:57 This is one of three, or is it one of four?
• 25:58 Caleb: One of three different Colston--
• 26:00 Joshua: One of three different Colson villages in England.
• 26:04 This one is near Wiltshire.
• 26:06 It's 133 people in this town, and it's wonderful.
• 26:09 I don't know who I have to sign up with to get to stay because
• 26:12 it's so peaceful and amazing.
• 26:14 But what's really incredible is at that time period, three men,
• 26:18 three Gentiles during the Great Awakening, the impact that they
• 26:20 had on this Earth.
• 26:22 Just think what three Jews, me, you, and that guy behind
• 26:24 the camera--
• 26:26 Caleb: Hirchie.
• 26:27 Joshua: Hirchie could do if we just took on the mantle of what
• 26:31 God had for us.
• 26:32 I truly believe that while there are times and purposes, the
• 26:35 Moedim that you've talked about, that God unleashes things.
• 26:38 A lot of times it's just about what we prioritize our
• 26:40 life with.
• 26:42 Will you be willing to lay everything else down today and
• 26:44 prioritize whatever it is the Father has for you in the
• 26:46 moment, drawing a line in the sand and not let anything
• 26:48 else in?
• 26:50 Caleb: Amen.
• 26:55 Joshua: That was incredible stories.
• 26:58 I love studying the histories of the move of God, because in
• 27:02 history there's so many things that happened, a lot of bad.
• 27:04 I don't wanna focus on the bad.
• 27:05 I love hearing the power of God because Satan wants to snuff out
• 27:08 the memory of everything that God's already done.
• 27:12 And you get to generations where we feel like they've never
• 27:15 actually seen God's true power, and so you have young kids today
• 27:18 and stuff who don't even really know what God can do.
• 27:21 You know, much less doctrines that teach that he's incapable
• 27:24 or unwilling to do the things today that he's been doing the
• 27:28 entire time.
• 27:30 Because he's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
• 27:31 Next week we're gonna talk about, mm, anti-Semitism, its
• 27:36 rise, Islamic nonsense, trying to snuff out the Jews.
• 27:41 This is an ongoing thing, but it's gonna be brought to a fever
• 27:46 pitch soon.
• 27:47 We're gonna talk about that next week.
• 27:49 As we go, remember, Sha'alu shalom Yerushalayim.
• 27:52 Caleb: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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• 28:27 And as always, pray for the peace of Jerusalem.