Caption transcript for “Catch Me Lucky Jews: The Origin of St. Patrick,” Part 1

• 00:06 ♪♪♪ Caleb Colson: Hey, Josh. Get in here.
• 00:09 Joshua Colson: Don’t summon me.
• 00:10 Caleb: I’ve got some very important news.
• 00:13 Joshua: Very important news, huh?
• 00:15 Awesome.
• 00:17 Did the ministry finally approved my kosher sashimi bar
• 00:19 for the break area?
• 00:20 Caleb: No, no, no, no.
• 00:22 Remember when we were trying to figure out an important place
• 00:24 that we need to lay over on our way to Israel?
• 00:27 I’ve been praying and really asking the Holy Spirit, and I
• 00:30 think he finally told me the place that we need to go.
• 00:34 This is significant.
• 00:35 It’s gonna be awesome, I promise.
• 00:37 Joshua: You think you know where we’re supposed to go?
• 00:38 Caleb: Yeah.
• 00:40 Joshua: Like, when we were supposed to go to Istanbul
• 00:41 in the middle of a civil war and it’s 30 degrees outside
• 00:43 and all you have on is shorts?
• 00:44 Or like, when we were gonna fly to Israel, but there’s no
• 00:46 flights that are gonna go to Israel?
• 00:47 Or maybe when we have to, you know, go to war-torn Syria and I
• 00:50 get scurvy and everything’s exploding out of all my
• 00:51 body parts.
• 00:53 Maybe Israel at the largest death toll that they’ve ever had
• 00:57 since the Holocaust?
• 00:59 Where could he be sending us, brother?
• 01:02 Caleb: Yeah, those weren’t the easiest trips, but I think
• 01:05 you’re gonna think differently about where God’s sending us
• 01:08 this time.
• 01:10 On our way to Israel, we have a stopover in Ireland.
• 01:20 ♪♪♪
• 01:23 Josh?
• 01:25 [Josh giggling]
• 01:28 Where’d you go?
• 01:30 ♪♪♪
• 01:42 Caleb: Matthew 28:19-20, “Therefore go and make disciples
• 01:47 of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of
• 01:51 the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey
• 01:56 everything I have commanded you.
• 01:57 And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
• 02:03 ♪♪♪
• 02:11 Caleb: Over the centuries, Ireland has played a pivotal
• 02:13 role in the spread of Christianity going all the way
• 02:16 back to 5th century AD, influencing global evangelism
• 02:20 during the Celtic Christian era.
• 02:22 Now, we’re here to explore how this island nation fits the
• 02:25 God’s plan of redemption, examine its unique history
• 02:28 of faith, conflict, and revival.
• 02:32 And yeah, there’s a hidden Jewish connection too.
• 02:35 Did you forget?
• 02:36 Jews were called to be a light unto the Gentiles.
• 02:38 ♪♪♪
• 02:45 Caleb: It isn’t cool enough just to go to a cool place like
• 02:48 Ireland, but you have to bring your coolest friend.
• 02:51 Here is our Messianic Jewish minister Hirchie Schaffner.
• 02:55 Thank you for joining us.
• 02:56 Hirchie Schaffner: Man, I’m excited to be here.
• 02:58 I’ve never been to Northern Ireland, so this is a first for
• 02:59 me as well.
• 03:01 So we’re gonna have some fun out here.
• 03:03 Caleb: Now is time to find Josh, and we’re gonna meet up with
• 03:05 Josh’s old friend Pastor Dave Pavey.
• 03:09 Hirchie: Josh has friends?
• 03:10 ♪♪♪
• 03:15 Joshua: Hello, and welcome.
• 03:18 My name’s Joshua.
• 03:19 You may remember me from such trips to Belfast as almost 30
• 03:23 years ago.
• 03:25 Today we are back and we are following Pastor Dave Pavey, the
• 03:29 very first pastor that I ever worked with and doing
• 03:31 missions work.
• 03:33 He’s still having to put up with me because we sent him to the
• 03:37 wrong airport and had him doing loops in a roundabout in this
• 03:40 airport to try to find him ’cause we’re really good at
• 03:43 traveling in the UK.
• 03:45 But now we’re following him, and we plan not to lose any parts of
• 03:48 our car or end up on a pig farm, unintentionally at least.
• 03:53 Joshua: You know, it’s been over 25 years since I stood in these
• 03:55 streets with you, and it is so incredible, Dave, to be back.
• 03:59 I have known my entire life that God’s called me to missions, and
• 04:02 I had no idea growing up that the first place he was gonna
• 04:04 send me was the country of Northern Ireland.
• 04:07 And so when I started coming here in the late ’90s and
• 04:10 realizing that there was this issue that had, you know,
• 04:13 started in the ’70s, I was really blown away.
• 04:15 Why don’t you kinda fill us in about what was happening with
• 04:18 Protestants versus Catholics and then some of what came out of
• 04:22 that era.
• 04:24 Dave Pavey: Sure, Josh.
• 04:25 So I’ll caveat it by saying, came here to this beautiful
• 04:27 country 34 years ago and it’s still raining.
• 04:32 And so this is my perspective on the Protestant-Catholic issue
• 04:36 that we have here.
• 04:37 There was a massive, massive protest back in the early ’70s
• 04:41 and a lot of contention around it.
• 04:44 In fact, it’s still going on today.
• 04:45 There’s still stuff going on in the courts.
• 04:48 I know people who were around in those days.
• 04:51 And it was shocking, but it was part of life in those days.
• 04:54 My wife, who grew up here, she’s used to it.
• 04:57 Her dad was a fireman in Belfast.
• 05:00 He’s now a man 82 years old, wonderful fellow, but suffering
• 05:04 from PTSD because of what happened 40, 50 years ago on
• 05:08 these very streets.
• 05:10 So it’s been really contentious these last 50 years.
• 05:12 But recent times, this last 10, 15, even maybe 20 years, things
• 05:17 are starting to settle.
• 05:18 Now, I think part of that is because we’re in this sort of
• 05:21 post-Christian era maybe, and so people aren’t really so defined
• 05:25 by their Protestantism or their Catholic–Catholicism.
• 05:29 In fact, I’ve got a 16-year-old.
• 05:31 He asked me not that long ago, a year or 2 ago, “Dad, what is
• 05:34 a Protestant?
• 05:35 What is a Catholic?”
• 05:36 He had no idea.
• 05:38 You know, so we now have a generation who are growing
• 05:39 up outside of those communities who don’t know.
• 05:43 Joshua: What do you think is the importance today, places like
• 05:46 this who have been defined by a legalistic idea of religion
• 05:50 versus relationship?
• 05:52 What do those who know Jesus need to do today?
• 05:54 Dave: I think walk in the freedom, walk in the freedom
• 05:57 that Jesus has bought and paid for.
• 05:58 The Lord is moving.
• 06:00 The Lord is moving in this place, and it’s becoming more
• 06:02 and more about Jesus and not the process of how do we come
• 06:07 to Jesus.
• 06:08 It’s him.
• 06:09 I love the verse from the Song of Songs where the Shulamite
• 06:11 woman says to Solomon or the church or prophetically says to
• 06:16 Jesus, “I love you, but I’ve slumbered in my devotion to you.
• 06:20 And I’ve slumbered in my devotion to you.”
• 06:22 And I think that for the church here, we’re waking up from our
• 06:27 slumber to devotion to Jesus.
• 06:30 And it’s starting to–we’re starting to see people gather to
• 06:33 pray who have been nominal Christians.
• 06:36 People are starting to understand the significance of
• 06:39 surrender and devotion to him.
• 06:42 Ultimate freedom comes from ultimate slavery to Jesus,
• 06:47 doesn’t it?
• 06:49 If we wanna walk in freedom, we’ve gotta completely lay our
• 06:51 lives down.
• 06:52 I just know that this door is open for us.
• 06:55 Isaiah 61:8, “You know, I have come to set the captives free.”
• 06:59 The door is open.
• 07:00 We get to choose whether we walk through it or not.
• 07:03 And so many of us live in this fear, and so many still live in
• 07:07 fear around here.
• 07:09 And Jesus says, “I have come to set the captives free
• 07:12 from fear.”
• 07:13 And so my heart is, “Lord, lead me.
• 07:16 Lead me through that door.
• 07:17 Lord, I know I wanna bring anybody I can through that door
• 07:21 of freedom to freedom.”
• 07:23 And it starts with devotion and surrender to him.
• 07:26 The Lord’s been sharing with me recently is the word if.
• 07:29 You know, it’s a tiny word, but it’s such a big word.
• 07:31 “You know, if you seek me with all of your heart–” Jeremiah
• 07:34 29:13 says, “If you seek me with all of your heart you will
• 07:38 find me.”
• 07:39 Do you know 2 Chronicles 7:14?
• 07:41 “If my people will humble themselves and pray.”
• 07:44 And Psalm 91.
• 07:45 Do you know that?
• 07:47 If we make him our refuge.
• 07:48 Do you know there’s–it’s on us.
• 07:51 It’s on us to do this, to surrender, to lay ourselves down
• 07:56 for his sake and for the sake of others.
• 07:59 Joshua: I’m incredibly excited.
• 08:02 I want you to show me around your country.
• 08:04 I wanna–I want you to show the history.
• 08:06 And I think it’s time for the world to see what God’s got in
• 08:09 store for Northern Ireland.
• 08:16 Caleb: Before we venture north from Belfast into the pristine
• 08:19 Irish countryside, it’s time to reveal our true mission in
• 08:23 coming to this country, and it has nothing to do with
• 08:25 leprechauns, pots of gold, four-leaf clovers, or magical
• 08:28 marshmallow cereal.
• 08:31 Joshua: It’s so beautiful.
• 08:33 I’m not sweating.
• 08:34 There’s no sand.
• 08:35 Nobody’s yelling at me, saying Ali Akbar or anything else
• 08:38 like that.
• 08:39 Like, I love Northern Ireland so much.
• 08:40 Caleb: Now, I know you love this place, Josh, but that’s not the
• 08:43 only reason that we came here.
• 08:45 I believe God has a very important message that’s focused
• 08:49 here in Ireland, and I’m finally gonna reveal to you.
• 08:52 Joshua: You wanna talk about Saint Patrick.
• 08:54 Caleb: How did you know?
• 08:56 Joshua: How did I not?
• 08:57 Hirchie told me the whole thing, gave me the notes, the whole
• 08:59 breakdown, the history of it.
• 09:00 Caleb: Hirchie, it was a secret.
• 09:02 Joshua: You gotta tell him these things.
• 09:03 He doesn’t read your mind.
• 09:05 Caleb: We gotta go to all the key hotspots that Saint Patrick
• 09:08 is linked with in Ireland.
• 09:09 Dave, you’re a local.
• 09:11 Can you be our guide?
• 09:12 Dave: Certainly.
• 09:13 And we are standing here outside his very famous church, which
• 09:17 they named after him.
• 09:18 Which is called?
• 09:19 Caleb: Saint Patrick’s Church?
• 09:21 Dave: That’s correct. Apparently it’s unique.
• 09:23 So unique that they actually have them in lots of other towns
• 09:26 in Northern Ireland too ’cause he’s a big deal.
• 09:29 Caleb: Well, we’re in the perfect location to talk about
• 09:31 Saint Patrick.
• 09:33 Dave: All right, lads, come on. Caleb: Okay.
• 09:36 Caleb: This land of Ireland, formerly known as Hibernia, land
• 09:39 of winter, was literally a den of paganism.
• 09:43 This is the furthest northwest of the known world at the time
• 09:46 Yeshua gave the Great Commission.
• 09:48 Northern Ireland is also where Saint Patrick’s journey to faith
• 09:50 and destiny would begin.
• 09:52 His birth is estimated around 387 AD, and his name was
• 09:56 actually Maewyn Succat.
• 09:59 Joshua: Maewyn who? But suck what?
• 10:02 Caleb: Okay, Josh, Maewyn wasn’t from Ireland.
• 10:05 He lived in Britain, Roman-controlled territory.
• 10:08 But in the early 5th century AD, Rome was dealing with conflicts
• 10:12 from the Celts, northern tribes in Scotland beyond Hadrian’s
• 10:15 Wall, and invaders from Central Asia.
• 10:17 They were calling back most of their legions, so much of Great
• 10:20 Britain was left unguarded.
• 10:22 Raiders came and captured people in the thousands to sell
• 10:25 as slaves.
• 10:26 They brought many of the slaves here to sell to the Druids.
• 10:29 Maewyn was one of those slaves, only 16 years old at the time.
• 10:35 Joshua: Our journey leads us approximately 28 miles north of
• 10:38 Belfast to old Slemish Mountain.
• 10:41 Slemish?
• 10:42 They got really cool accents, but I have no idea what
• 10:44 they’re saying.
• 10:45 It’s an extinct volcano.
• 10:47 It’s 437 meters tall, and it was right here amidst all the harsh
• 10:52 weather, the rugged terrain that Patrick endured 6 years of
• 10:56 captivity as a slave.
• 10:57 Professor Joel Leakey, who’s the evangelism and outreach
• 11:00 coordinator at Causeway Coast Vineyards, is joining us on this
• 11:04 crazy Slemish Mountain windy day to talk about Saint Patrick and
• 11:09 his history at this site.
• 11:11 Joel Leakey: This is Slemish Mountain, although it’s not much
• 11:13 of a mountain, you can tell.
• 11:15 It’s about as big as we get over here in Northern Ireland.
• 11:18 Patrick was brought here as a slave and he was given to a guy
• 11:21 called Melkey, who would have had a settlement around here.
• 11:25 And then Patrick he sent up to tend sheep in the low hills.
• 11:29 Weather right now is pretty representative.
• 11:31 He would have been out in this at night as well as at daytime.
• 11:34 He talks in his confession that he wrote that he wasn’t somebody
• 11:38 of great knowledge, he wasn’t somebody who had been educated
• 11:41 when he was younger.
• 11:42 He claims that he would have been tutored pretty directly
• 11:46 from divine revelation as he got into the Scriptures for himself.
• 11:49 A lot of that would have been here when he was young.
• 11:52 Caleb: You know, reading his confession and the suffering
• 11:54 that he endured, the snow at night, you know, the constant
• 11:58 raining, the wild animals, he had to become dependent on God.
• 12:03 Then he said he get to the point where he would pray a hundred
• 12:05 times a day and even so at night, and that’s how he drew
• 12:08 closer to God.
• 12:10 But he said that after 6 years he clearly heard the voice of
• 12:14 God, you know, through the Holy Spirit telling him it’s
• 12:16 time to go, and he went out on foot 200 miles to Dublin.
• 12:22 And what happened from that point?
• 12:24 Joel: Yeah, you know, there are scholars who just don’t believe
• 12:27 any of Patrick’s story because they think, “Well, how could he
• 12:30 have made it through bandit country, through the weather,
• 12:32 through all of that?”
• 12:34 And it has to be miraculous when you view this history through
• 12:36 the eyes of faith.
• 12:38 You know that Patrick’s journey from here was one that God was
• 12:40 providing for him.
• 12:41 He was caring for him.
• 12:43 Joshua: Patrick set out on a grueling 200-mile–again, I
• 12:46 don’t know how many kilometers.
• 12:48 I gotta learn that.
• 12:49 It was a 200-mile journey, if you’re watching in America, on
• 12:51 foot through dangerous druid countryside, treacherous
• 12:54 terrain, unforgiving weather, guided solely by his faith in
• 12:57 God’s protection.
• 12:59 And after making it to the coast of Dublin, a ship of Celtic
• 13:02 sailors were stirred with compassion by God and they took
• 13:06 Patrick aboard.
• 13:07 During their journey back to Britain, they became stranded on
• 13:10 a strange island on the verge of starvation with no food
• 13:12 in sight.
• 13:14 That is my worst nightmare.
• 13:16 Joel: He prayed that they would be provided for.
• 13:18 While they were thinking they were gonna starve, Patrick had
• 13:20 trust and faith that God was gonna provide for these people
• 13:22 making their way across this journey.
• 13:24 And lo and behold, a herd of pigs came past and they were
• 13:27 able to eat and be provided for.
• 13:29 So it was even at that early age he was demonstrating the faith
• 13:32 in God that led the peoples around him to experience the
• 13:36 blessing of God, even though he was still barely out of
• 13:38 captivity at that stage.
• 13:40 Caleb: They challenged him in his faith.
• 13:42 And he prayed and God did provide those pigs to which they
• 13:45 could finally eat and they wouldn’t starve on this island
• 13:47 that they were stranded on.
• 13:49 And it’s just ironic to me being a Jew that God used an unclean
• 13:54 animal, the pig, unkosher, to bring salvation,
• 13:58 to bring sustenance.
• 14:01 “What God has called clean let no man call unclean.”
• 14:05 And it’s showing that he’s willing to reach out to anyone
• 14:08 in their point of need to prove that he loves us.
• 14:12 Joshua: You know, after the miraculous provision of Lucky
• 14:14 Charms, where the Lord brought down a bowl before them laden
• 14:18 with marshmallows–I’m sorry.
• 14:20 I’m diverging right now.
• 14:21 Lucky swine.
• 14:23 He brought them a lucky swine.
• 14:24 Patrick continued his perilous journey and eventually he made
• 14:27 it back to his homeland of Britain.
• 14:29 There he immersed himself in studying the Bible, deepening
• 14:32 his faith, and preparing for ministry.
• 14:34 Yet in a profound turn, the Holy Spirit called him to
• 14:38 return to Ireland.
• 14:41 Caleb: He was held captive by Druids, he was sold into slavery
• 14:44 to them.
• 14:45 And these weren’t nice people, to impose their will upon
• 14:49 people, their slaves to keep them subdued, put heads on pikes
• 14:53 and on fence posts.
• 14:55 Who were the druids to Saint Patrick?
• 14:58 Joel: There’s a beautiful paradox with Patrick’s story.
• 15:01 His experience in Ireland was of slavery and of mistreatment.
• 15:06 When he was older, he heard a voice saying, “Come back and
• 15:09 share the gospel with us.”
• 15:11 And his heart was so softened over the years that he was able
• 15:13 to say with his whole heart, “I wanna come back and I wanna
• 15:15 share the gospel with these people who treated me horribly.”
• 15:18 And he did. He came back and did that.
• 15:20 Something transformative had happened to him here.
• 15:22 Caleb: Yeah.
• 15:23 Caleb: “‘And He, God, watched over me before I knew Him, and
• 15:27 before I learned sense, or even distinguished between good and
• 15:30 evil, and He protected me and consoled me as a Father would
• 15:33 his son.
• 15:35 Therefore indeed, I cannot keep silent, nor would it be proper.
• 15:38 So many favors and graces has the Lord deigned to bestow on me
• 15:42 in the land of my captivity, for after chastisement from God, in
• 15:47 recognizing Him, our way to repay Him is to exalt Him and
• 15:50 confess His wonders before every nation under heaven.'”
• 15:54 From the “Confession of Saint Patrick.”
• 15:56 Joel: He was able to communicate the gospel to people by finding
• 16:01 common ground.
• 16:03 So you’ll see where churches that were planted by Patrick and
• 16:06 by his contemporaries and those who came later, those churches
• 16:09 were planted on top of pagan altars and sites of worship.
• 16:13 So he found points of commonality and said, “Well, you
• 16:15 worship there?
• 16:16 I’m gonna plant a church on top of that ’cause
• 16:18 you know to go there.”
• 16:19 And people here love nature, and it was part of their
• 16:21 religious culture.
• 16:23 Patrick drew, you know, illustrations from nature, would
• 16:26 speak to them about the gospels through the environment.
• 16:29 So there was the positive side of that.
• 16:30 The negative side of that, relationship of pagan people at
• 16:33 the time to their gods wouldn’t have been anything like the
• 16:36 relationship of Christians to their gods.
• 16:38 There wasn’t a Creator Father thing going on.
• 16:41 This was much more something you had to keep in line, you had to
• 16:43 keep things right.
• 16:44 So that was something that Patrick would have been exposed
• 16:46 to too.
• 16:48 And I imagine when he came back there was an urgency in how he
• 16:50 shared the gospel, ’cause he saw that they were under
• 16:53 a tyrannical form of religion that was keeping its foot on
• 16:55 their necks.
• 16:58 Joshua: And as we left the Slemish–fle–Slemish Mountains
• 17:02 and headed further north, you can see countless churches
• 17:05 scattered across the Irish countryside.
• 17:07 This is a reflection of Patrick’s enduring legacy.
• 17:10 “This is my island.
• 17:12 Seriously, I own it.
• 17:13 It’s mine.”
• 17:15 Great movie. You should watch it.
• 17:16 It’s breathtakingly beautiful, yet in Patrick’s Day, full of
• 17:19 danger, tribal wars, murderous druids, all kinds of things, and
• 17:23 nothing like the cereal.
• 17:24 But isn’t it like God to redeem a man from enslavement and
• 17:27 suffering in order to plant the mission in his heart to
• 17:30 evangelize an entire nation?
• 17:35 Caleb: Psalm 27:1-2, “The Lord is my light and my salvation,
• 17:39 whom shall I fear?
• 17:41 The Lord is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?
• 17:45 When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes came upon me to eat
• 17:49 up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.”
• 17:53 Caleb: Well, this is an amazing location you brought us
• 17:56 to, Dave.
• 17:57 This is the Giant’s Causeway.
• 17:59 We’re at the northern tip of Northern Ireland.
• 18:02 Dave: It is pretty impressive, a World Heritage site.
• 18:04 People come from all over the world to visit this place which
• 18:08 is on our doorstep.
• 18:09 It is a beautiful, stunning place and full of mystery too.
• 18:13 Caleb: There’s legends here linked with giants.
• 18:15 I wanna talk about Saint Patrick again, Maewyn Succat.
• 18:18 It took his suffering, it took his persecution, it took those
• 18:21 long nights of freezing, you know, out in this weather to
• 18:24 finally understand that God loved him and that he wanted to
• 18:28 surrender his life to him.
• 18:29 Hirchie: It’s amazing to see that in our lives, even in our
• 18:31 darkest moments, like, to see what the Lord is doing.
• 18:35 That he’s actually cultivating something in us that we may not
• 18:38 see for, you know, decades down the road, but it creates
• 18:41 something that is lasting.
• 18:42 That even in the darkest moments we see the faithfulness of God.
• 18:45 Dave: It’s in that intimacy of growing to know God.
• 18:50 All hell can be breaking loose around you, as it was in
• 18:54 Patrick’s day, but when you know him, there’s a resilience that
• 18:58 comes from knowing him that–you know, and I’ve been thinking
• 19:01 about this recently.
• 19:03 You know, people can be in the middle of stage 4 cancer, and if
• 19:06 they know the Lord, they’re not shaken by it.
• 19:09 It’s surrendering, isn’t it?
• 19:10 Surrendering everything we have to him so that he creates space
• 19:14 in us for him to fill us with everything that he has.
• 19:17 And yet if I’m holding on to stuff, there’s no room.
• 19:20 Hirchie: Yeah.
• 19:22 And to me, again, going back to–I look at these lives and I
• 19:24 see Joseph.
• 19:26 I do.
• 19:27 I just see the parallels of being sold as a prisoner,
• 19:29 a slave.
• 19:30 And Psalm 105:19 is one of my favorite Scriptures.
• 19:33 Actually says the Word of the Lord tested Joseph until the day
• 19:37 it came to pass.
• 19:38 And those things we know that God is doing, sometimes when we
• 19:40 don’t see it in the moment, we can become full of despair and
• 19:44 questioning, but it’s in those quiet moments, that intimate
• 19:47 place, like you said, where we’re reminded he’s a good
• 19:50 Father and he always cares for us and he never leaves us or
• 19:53 forsakes us.
• 19:54 Caleb: Amen.
• 19:56 Saint Patrick, he didn’t recognize himself as a Catholic
• 19:58 or a Protestant.
• 19:59 Just a sinner who had been redeemed by the grace of Jesus.
• 20:04 And it’s funny that today everybody’s kinda battling with
• 20:07 was Saint Patrick a Catholic or a Protestant.
• 20:10 When you look back at the time period that he was born into and
• 20:13 lived in, it was so early.
• 20:15 You’re talking about Constantine in 313 AD when he legalized
• 20:20 Christianity and made it acceptable.
• 20:23 He was a pretender, I believe, pretending to be a Christian,
• 20:26 pretending to be a believer because he was still persecuting
• 20:28 the Jewish people and creating all these false doctrines, but
• 20:31 his successor Theodosius I, basically overnight made
• 20:37 Christianity the state religion of Rome.
• 20:39 So if you were a Roman citizen, you’re automatically
• 20:42 a Christian.
• 20:43 And that was Satan’s greatest victory, that no longer is it
• 20:46 a decision by faith, you know, justification by faith, it’s
• 20:49 just something you’re born into.
• 20:50 And we all know that it’s false, but that basically snuffed out
• 20:54 the growth of Christianity overnight.
• 20:57 And so when you see Saint Patrick and his writings and the
• 21:00 things he did, he had an understanding beyond what the
• 21:03 Romans did of what true Christianity was, which
• 21:05 meant that he had a window into the Bible,
• 21:10 into God’s Word and knowing what that meant.
• 21:13 Hirchie: And what I love about the story of Patrick is he came
• 21:16 from nothing.
• 21:17 He was broken.
• 21:19 He said, “I’m just a sinner who encountered the living God.”
• 21:22 It pushed him to the Word and to know the truth.
• 21:24 And that’s the reality, is–of what we need.
• 21:26 We need the depth of the Word and the power of the
• 21:29 Holy Spirit, ’cause it’s the only thing that’ll change
• 21:32 America, the UK, and the rest of the world.
• 21:34 Dave: It’s this realization that Patrick has, that’s it’s about
• 21:38 actually coming to Jesus, having that life-giving fullness of
• 21:42 life that only comes from Jesus, and surrendering our life to
• 21:46 him, and then living out of that overflow of our hearts from
• 21:51 his overflow.
• 21:52 And that’s–when I read about Patrick, that’s what I see in
• 21:55 his life.
• 21:57 He doesn’t get caught up in the religiosity of it, which is so
• 22:00 easily done, isn’t it?
• 22:02 Jesus says, “Come, follow me.
• 22:04 Put it all aside and come follow me.”
• 22:08 Caleb: Joel 2:23, “Be glad then you children of Zion, rejoice in
• 22:13 the Lord your God, for He has given you the former rain
• 22:16 faithfully, and He will cause the rain to come down for you,
• 22:20 the former rain and the latter rain in the first month.”
• 22:25 Caleb: Our next stop was the city of Coleraine, where Dave’s
• 22:28 church is located.
• 22:29 That night Dave shared with us the stories of a past revival
• 22:33 that shook Ireland just shortly after the Great Awakening that
• 22:36 started with John and Charles Wesley and George Whitefield
• 22:39 in England.
• 22:40 Coleraine became ground zero for the Ulster Revival of 1859, with
• 22:44 folks coming to Messiah in massive numbers, around 100,000
• 22:48 souls in Ulster province alone.
• 22:51 Pastor Dave didn’t just want to tell us what happened that
• 22:53 fateful night, he wanted to show us.
• 22:56 So at 6 a.m. we gathered
• 22:57 with local believers for their weekly prayer meeting,
• 23:00 an essential step that led to the outpouring of the
• 23:03 Holy Spirit in the past.
• 23:05 [speaking in tongues]
• 23:15 On June 7th, 1859, after 7 p.m., masses of people from around the
• 23:20 country came to Coleraine Square, and what happened next
• 23:24 changed Ireland forever.
• 23:26 Dave: The Lord opened the floodgates of heaven, if you
• 23:28 like, and started to touch people’s hearts.
• 23:31 And so people would walk literally along these streets
• 23:34 and they would fall down.
• 23:36 This is documented in the local press.
• 23:38 They would fall down under the presence of the Lord.
• 23:41 More and more people became understanding of their sin.
• 23:45 There was a real conviction of sin in this town to the point
• 23:48 where where we’re standing now, there were times where it was
• 23:51 packed with thousands of people.
• 23:53 There would be a preacher on each corner because nobody was
• 23:56 loud enough for the thousands and thousands of people to hear,
• 24:00 preaching to the crowds that were gathered here.
• 24:02 Brothels closed, public houses closed, you know, and it was
• 24:07 just this remarkable time, but it ended.
• 24:11 And we’re standing by this well.
• 24:13 Underneath Coleraine is an underground river.
• 24:16 There’s a river that flows that way.
• 24:18 It’s called the Bann, the River Bann.
• 24:19 It flows into the sea down in Portstewart.
• 24:22 And there’s two points where there are wells or springs where
• 24:25 that water comes up, and one of them is this.
• 24:28 And this well is blocked.
• 24:33 There’s actually–if you go around here there’s, like, a
• 24:34 font there and there’s no water coming out.
• 24:38 However, if you go 200 yards that way, there’s a little pump
• 24:44 that for the last 130 years fresh spring water has been
• 24:48 constantly coming out of.
• 24:49 Now, it doesn’t look anything like this.
• 24:51 It’s just a pump.
• 24:53 And I felt the Lord say, “What do you wanna be?
• 24:57 Do you wanna be the one that looks like they’re doing the
• 24:59 stuff or do you wanna be the one that does the stuff?”
• 25:02 Do you know, this looks right, but it’s dry.
• 25:07 I think it’s John 7 where Jesus is at the Feast of Tabernacles.
• 25:12 Remember?
• 25:13 And on the last day the priests get the water and they chuck it
• 25:16 down the steps of the temple to represent Ezekiel 47 and the
• 25:20 river of God.
• 25:21 And Jesus stands up and he goes, “It’s me, right?
• 25:25 It’s me.
• 25:26 I am. It’s me.
• 25:27 You know, out of–if you believe in me, out of you will flow
• 25:30 rivers of living water.”
• 25:33 And I went, “That’s it, Lord.
• 25:34 I don’t just wanna be a monument for you, I wanna flow with
• 25:40 everything that you have for me and for those around me and for
• 25:44 this place where you have positioned me and put me here
• 25:48 for whatever reason, Lord, but to shine as brightly as I can
• 25:51 for you.”
• 25:52 Joshua: Our rabbi was a carpenter, right?
• 25:55 He took objects of stone and of wood that looked of no value to
• 26:01 anyone else, and he was trained vocationally as he looked at it
• 26:05 to take something lifeless and create life in it again and to
• 26:11 shape it into not just something that looked good but something
• 26:14 that was functional.
• 26:16 God doesn’t want us to just be good-looking Christians, he
• 26:18 wants us to be functional.
• 26:20 He wants us to be a table that can hold dinner.
• 26:23 He wants us to be a chair that supports peoples.
• 26:26 He wants us to be something that is used as a benefit to
• 26:30 someone else.
• 26:32 You can’t just get up there and say, “Jesus loves you,” and then
• 26:36 go home and hide in your closet so that none of the evil comes
• 26:38 near you.
• 26:40 You have to get dirty.
• 26:41 You have to go up.
• 26:43 You have to pick people up off the ground and love them and get
• 26:46 where the sin is so that the sin can get out.
• 26:49 And, man, there’s nothing more inspiring than remember how you
• 26:52 inspired me through your life almost 30 years ago.
• 26:55 And here it’s like one day past listening to you again.
• 26:59 I’m like a 20-year-old kid again just so giddy listening to the
• 27:03 fervor you have, and you’ve lived a lifetime in between now.
• 27:06 Dave: So, Lord, let us again.
• 27:07 Let us again.
• 27:09 Let us again flow with your Holy Spirit.
• 27:13 Rivers of living water flow through us in Jesus’s name.
• 27:18 Praise the Lord. Come on.
• 27:20 [both chuckle]
• 27:21 ♪♪♪
• 27:26 Joshua: Next week on the “Bearded Bible Brothers.”
• 27:28 Hirchie: We’re here at the Hill of Tara.
• 27:30 This was the darkest place for the Druids of Ireland.
• 27:34 Caleb: Those guys who were sinning against God, they ended
• 27:37 up coming here.
• 27:38 They’re not entirely human.
• 27:39 They had Nephilim blood, demon blood in them.
• 27:42 If they had made these monuments, they’re just riddled
• 27:45 with demonic activity.
• 27:48 Hirchie: These are ancient tombs.
• 27:50 These are spots where they would hold ceremonies for hunting and
• 27:54 even alignment of the stars where they could worship
• 27:58 false deities.
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• 28:27 And as always, pray for the peace of Jerusalem.