Caption transcript for Champions of Faith: “Endurance — Moses” (6/11)

• 60:01 HEBREWS 11 HONORS
• 60:03 THE CHAMPIONS OF FAITH WHO WANDERED IN DESERTS
• 60:06 AND IN MOUNTAINS AND CAVES OF THE EARTH.
• 60:09 BECAUSE OF THIS CLOUD OF WITNESSES,
• 60:10 WE CAN RUN WITH PATIENCE THE RACE THAT IS SET BEFORE US.
• 60:15 ♪♪
• 60:45 AS THE GOD OF HEAVEN HAD CHOSEN A PEOPLE TO CALL HIS OWN,
• 60:50 SO ALSO HE CHOSE THE MAN MOSES TO BE THEIR DELIVERER,
• 60:54 ONE WHO WOULD GIVE HIS LAW, HIS TESTIMONY.
• 60:58 [ speaking Hebrew ]
• 61:01 BLESSED BE THE LORD OUR GOD,
• 61:03 BLESSED BE THE GOD OF OUR FOREFATHERS,
• 61:06 THE GOD OF ISRAEL, ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB, I THANK YOU.
• 61:13 AND THE TWO TABLETS OF TESTIMONY WERE THE WRITING OF
• 61:16 GOD WRITTEN IN STONE UPON BOTH SIDES.
• 61:22 OUT OF THE OPPRESSION IN BONDAGE OF EGYPT, MOSES LED THE
• 61:26 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, TOOK THE LAW TO THE PEOPLE.
• 61:33 OFTEN ALONE AND WITHOUT SUPPORT FROM A NATION IN EXODUS,
• 61:37 MOSES ENDURED IN THE WILDERNESS ON THE STRENGTH OF HIS FAITH AND THE TRUST IN THE GREAT
• 61:45 "I AM," A FRIEND OF GOD AND CHAMPION OF FAITH,
• 61:48 MOSES LOOKED TOWARD THE FUTURE AND THE PROMISE OF THE REWARD THAT AWAITED HIM.
• 61:54 HE PERSEVERED BECAUSE HE SAW HIM WHO WAS INVISIBLE
• 61:57 AND HE HAS LEFT TO ALL THAT WOULD FOLLOW THE ENDURING WORD OF THE LORD.
• 62:05 WELL, OUR TOPIC TODAY IS MOSES AND ENDURANCE.
• 62:09 SHALOM, HELLO AGAIN.
• 62:10 WELCOME BACK TO OUR SERIES ON FAITH.
• 62:12 WE ARE GOING THROUGH HEBREWS 11 AND THE VARIOUS HEROS IN THE
• 62:15 OLD TESTAMENT AND THE CHARACTERISTICS
• 62:18 OF THEIR WALK WITH THE LORD.
• 62:20 YOU SAW MOSES WALKING DOWN THE MOUNTAIN AFTER HE CONFRONTED GOD IN OUR DRAMA.
• 62:27 HIS STORY IS GIVEN IN BRIEF IN HEBREWS 11.
• 62:46 IMAGINE WHAT A COMFORTABLE LIFE MOSES REALLY WOULD HAVE HAD
• 62:50 GROWING UP IN THE EGYPTIAN PALACE,
• 62:52 NOT MERELY LIKE A COURTIER OR LIKE A MEMBER OF THE KING'S ENTOURAGE,
• 62:59 BUT PHAROAH'S DAUGHTER'S SON, IMAGINE THAT.
• 63:04 HE WOULD BE IN THE INTIMATE COMPANY OF THE HIGHEST RULERS
• 63:08 OF EGYPT WHICH AT THAT TIME VIRTUALLY RULED THE KNOWN WORLD.
• 63:13 INSTEAD HE WENT WITH THE CHOSEN PEOPLE.
• 63:16 WHAT A CHOICE, WENT WITH SLAVES.
• 63:27 WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
• 63:28 DID MOSES KNOW CHRIST?
• 63:29 NOT EXACTLY.
• 63:31 THE WORD "CHRIST" IS MESSIAH AND IT WAS ALREADY WELL PUBLISHED
• 63:34 AND WITHIN THE KNOWLEDGE OF MOSES
• 63:36 THAT MESSIAH WOULD COME ONE DAY AND WOULD FORGIVE
• 63:39 AN UNREGENERATE PEOPLE WHO HAVE FILED THEIR SACRIFICES,
• 63:44 DONE THEIR OBEDIENCE, KEPT THEIR FAITH IN ORDER.
• 63:47 AND HE ESTEEMED THE MESSIAH'S ESTIMATION OF HIM GREATER THAN
• 63:52 THE RICHES OF THE COURT OF EGYPT,
• 63:55 WHICH IS QUITE A STATEMENT.
• 64:03 ROMANS 3:25, GOD WOULD GO ON WITH AN UNREGENERATE PEOPLE
• 64:06 UNTIL THE COMING OF MESSIAH.
• 64:08 MOSES HAD AN EYE FOR THE COMING OF MESSIAH AND THAT WAS INDEED A GOOD THING TO DO.
• 64:38 YOU KNOW, WHEN WE ARE TIRED OF OBEYING,
• 64:41 THINK OF CHRIST'S OBEDIENCE.
• 64:43 WHEN WE ARE TIRED OF CONFRONTING SIN AROUND US,
• 64:45 THINK OF HOW HE CONFRONTED SIN.
• 64:48 AND AS FAR AS ENDURANCE GOES, I THINK THE BIBLICAL CHAMPION REALLY MUST BE JOB.
• 64:54 JOB WAS IN HIS GRAVE A LONG, LONG TIME AND HE WAS
• 64:58 WAITING FOR RESURRECTION FOR A LONG, LONG TIME.
• 65:01 I AM GOING TO JOB 14, VERSE 11.
• 65:05 HE SAYS TO GOD,
• 65:19 IF WE STOPPED READING THERE, WE WOULD SAY JOB IS MERELY OBSERVING ALL THINGS DIE,
• 65:24 EVERYTHING IN NATURE, MEN DIE AND FLOODS GO AWAY EVEN.
• 65:43 THIS WORD "SET TIME" IN HEBREW IS AN EXACT TIME.
• 65:47 AS A MATTER OF FACT, IT IS USED BY THE MILITARY
• 65:50 TO ADDRESS THE LENGTH OF YOUR HITCH IN THE ARMY.
• 65:55 THAT IS UP AT A CERTAIN HOUR AND A CERTAIN DAY,
• 65:58 EVERY SOLDIER KNOWS IT AND THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT.
• 66:02 JOB IS SAYING ASSIGN ME AN APPOINTED TIME TO BE IN MY GRAVE.
• 66:07 WHY DOES HE SAY THAT?
• 66:17 AS THOUGH HE'S GOING TO CALL JOB FORTH FROM THE GRAVE.
• 66:20 I TELL YOU WHAT, HE IS.
• 66:44 HE SAYS "I WILL SEE HIM WITH THESE EYES, MY EYES,"
• 66:47 JOB'S EYES, NOT SOME OTHER -- HE'S NOT TALKING ABOUT REINCARNATION, NO.
• 66:52 HE COMES BACK AS SOMETHING ELSE, NO, JOB, HE WILL LIVE.
• 66:55 GOD WILL DESIRE THE WORK OF HIS HANDS AND HE WILL TAKE HIM
• 66:59 FORTH FROM THE GRAVE AT AN APPOINTED TIME AND HE WILL SEE
• 67:02 HIS REDEEMER WITH HIS OWN EYES.
• 67:06 WELL, THIS IS ENDURANCE,
• 67:08 WELL, HE HAS BEEN DOWN ON HIS GRAVE 4,000 YEARS
• 67:11 AND HE'S AWAITING THE FUTURE RESURRECTION.
• 67:14 IMAGINE.
• 67:16 THE ULTIMATE CHRISTIAN FAITH IS THE SAME AS JOB'S FAITH.
• 67:20 IT IS IN A RESURRECTION TO COME.
• 67:23 WE ARE SURE IN MATTHEW 5:8 IN THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT,
• 67:26 "THE PURE SHALL SEE GOD," THE LORD SAID.
• 67:30 IN WITH 1 CORINTHIANS 2:9,
• 67:32 "EYE HATH NOT SEEN NOR EAR HEARD NOR HEART PERCEIVED WHAT GOD HAS PREPARED FOR US."
• 67:38 WE WILL EVENTUALLY SEE GOD FACE TO FACE.
• 67:41 AND II CORINTHIANS 5:10 SAYS
• 67:43 "ALL MUST APPEAR BEFORE THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST."
• 67:47 THEREFORE, WE WILL STAND WITH OUR BRIDEGROOM,
• 67:49 FACE TO FACE WITH THE MESSIAH, WITH THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.
• 67:54 SEEING THE LORD FACE TO FACE IS A SCRIPTURAL MATTER OF THE UTMOST GRAVITY.
• 67:59 THIS IS THE PROMISE WE HAVE IN OUR FUTURE IN ETERNITY,
• 68:04 TO BE ONE WITH GOD AND SEE HIM AND BE WITH HIM AS WE WILL BE
• 68:09 WITH CHRIST IN THE JUDGMENT SEAT FACE TO FACE, REVIEWING OUR WORKS.
• 68:13 YOU KNOW, WHEN MOSES SAW GOD, HIS FACE KIND OF GLOWED.
• 68:54 IT PICTURES IN A WAY OUR MARRIAGE TO THE LORD,
• 68:58 YOU KNOW, IN THE JEWISH WEDDING,
• 69:00 THE NIGHT THAT THE BRIDEGROOM COMES LIKE A THIEF IN A NIGHT
• 69:04 AND STEALS THE BRIDE AWAY, HER FACE IS VEILED.
• 69:09 BECAUSE THROUGH THE ENTIRE ENGAGEMENT,
• 69:11 WHENEVER SHE WENT OUT SHE WORE A VEIL,
• 69:13 SHE WAS ALREADY SPOKEN FOR.
• 69:15 THAT'S THE WAY THEY MARKED ENGAGED GIRLS.
• 69:17 EVEN IN THE NIGHT WHEN HE PICKS HER UP,
• 69:20 HE TAKES HER THROUGH THE STREETS AND THE GUESTS ARE ASSEMBLED,
• 69:25 THE GUESTS CANNOT SEE THE BRIDE'S FACE,
• 69:28 BECAUSE SHE WEARS THE VEIL.
• 69:30 WHEN SHE GOES INTO THE CHAMBER WITH HER BRIDEGROOM,
• 69:33 THEN SHE REMOVES THE VEIL.
• 69:37 THEY DON'T SEE HER FACE AT THE END OF THE MARRIAGE SUPPER,
• 69:40 WHAT WE CALLED THE RECEPTION AT THE END OF SEVEN DAYS,
• 69:43 THEN THEY CAN SEE HER FACE.
• 69:44 WE ARE VEILED IN FRONT OF THE WORLD.
• 69:47 THE VEIL IS OUR FAITH.
• 69:48 IT IS WHAT SEPARATES US FROM THE WORLD
• 69:50 AND WE WILL BE VEILED UNTIL WE ARE WITH CHRIST
• 69:53 IN WHICH CASE, OUR VEIL IS OFF WHICH IS TO SAY YOU KNOW,
• 69:57 WE ARE VERY GOOD CHRISTIANS FOR EACH OTHER DOWN HERE,
• 70:00 BUT WHEN WE ARE WITH HIM, HE KNOWS OUR WORK WELL.
• 70:03 EVERY WORK WE HAVE DONE, GOOD OR BAD,
• 70:05 AND HE REVIEWS THOSE WITH US IN THE JUDGMENT SEAT.
• 70:07 AND SO THE CONGREGATION COULD NOT SEE THE FACE OF MOSES AFTER HE SAW GOD,
• 70:13 THE WEDDING GUESTS CANNOT SEE THE FACE OF THE BRIDE,
• 70:16 WHEN HER BRIDEGROOM BRINGS HER.
• 70:18 ONLY HE SEES HER FACE IN THE BRIDAL CHAMBER.
• 70:22 WELL, IT IS A BEAUTIFUL IMAGE.
• 70:24 THE IDEA OF ENDURANCE IS ALSO EXPRESSED IN LUKE 22:31-32
• 70:32 WHERE THE LORD SPEAKS OF STRENGTHENING THE BRETHREN.
• 70:35 HE TALKING WITH PETER, HE SAYS, "SIMON --"
• 70:37 HE CALLS HIM SIMON --
• 70:39 HE SAID, "KEEP YOUR FAITH AND STRENGTHEN THE BRETHREN."
• 70:45 THE LORD KNOWS WHAT ENDURANCE CHRISTIANITY TAKES.
• 70:49 YOU KNOW, IF WE WEREN'T TO DO SOME ASSIGNMENT,
• 70:53 TO USE OUR GIFTS TO ACCOMPLISH GOOD WORKS,
• 70:55 WE COULD GO ON TO HEAVEN THE DAY WE WERE SAVED.
• 70:58 THERE IS NO REASON TO STAY DOWN IN THIS WORLD AND BE SEPARATED,
• 71:01 WEAR A VEIL, BE WORKERS IN A FIELD, SOLDIERS IN A ARMY,
• 71:04 OTHER THAN IF WE WIN MORE SOULS, IF WE TESTIFY OF HIM.
• 71:09 OUR GOOD WORKS IMPRESS THE WORLD TO COME TO GOD,
• 71:13 TO SEE GOD AS WE ARE GOING TO SEE GOD FACE TO FACE.
• 71:16 AND THE IMAGES THAT WE MUST ENDURE A LONG TIME.
• 71:22 AND THE LORD CAUTIONS PETER TO START WITH, TO ENDURE,
• 71:27 AND UNFORTUNATELY THAT PASSAGE ENDS WITH PETER SAYING,
• 71:30 "I WILL ENDURE ANYTHING FOR YOU."
• 71:32 AND THE LORD WILL SAY, "WILL YOU?
• 71:33 "YOU WILL DENY ME THREE TIMES."
• 71:35 AND THAT DOES HAPPEN.
• 71:37 AN IMMEDIATE EXAMPLE OF KIND OF A PHONY ASSURANCE OF FAITH
• 71:42 CAN LEAD TO AND HOW HARD IT IS TO REALLY KEEP THE PUREST FAITH.
• 71:49 AND THE PASSAGE ADDRESSED TO THE JEWS, MATTHEW 24:13,
• 71:53 THIS IS ABOUT THE SIGNS OF THE END.
• 71:57 THE DISCIPLES ASKED THE LORD WHAT WILL BE THE SIGNS OF THY COMING AND THE END OF THE AGE.
• 72:01 AND THE LORD LISTS OUT A BUNCH OF THEM.
• 72:03 WE ARE VERY FAMILIAR.
• 72:05 FALSE CHRISTS, FALSE PROPHETS, WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS,
• 72:08 FAMINES, PESTILENCE, EARTHQUAKES IN DIVERSE PLACES AND TRAVAIL AND BETRAYAL AND INIQUITY,
• 72:17 OF SO MANY THINGS THAT ARE CHARACTERISTIC OF THE
• 72:20 TRIBULATION PERIOD AND HE IS TALKING TO THE JEWS.
• 72:31 MOST EMPHATICALLY WE RECOGNIZE ISRAEL IN THERE.
• 72:33 ISRAEL IS HATED OF ALL NATIONS OTHER THAN OUR OWN NATION
• 72:37 I SUPPOSE, AND I SOMETIMES WONDER ABOUT US.
• 72:41 AND THERE IS NO OTHER NATION SO LARGE OR SMALL,
• 72:43 ESPECIALLY SO SMALL AS ISRAEL,
• 72:45 THAT IS HATED BY ALL NATIONS,
• 72:47 BUT YOU KNOW, THE UNITED NATIONS
• 72:49 HOLDS SPECIAL MEETINGS TO TALK ABOUT EVERY MOVE OF THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT.
• 72:52 NOT CARING THAT THOUSANDS OF CHRISTIANS ARE KILLED,
• 72:56 THOUSANDS OF MUSLIMS ARE KILLED IN DIFFERENT WARS
• 72:59 AND DIFFERENT REVOLUTIONS AROUND THE EASTERN HEMISPHERE
• 73:04 AND SO ON, BUT CARING THAT THE ISRAELIS ARE BUILDING APARTMENT BUILDINGS.
• 73:08 THIS IS HATRED.
• 73:09 HATRED OF ALL NATIONS, BETRAYAL, OFFENSE.
• 73:13 AND THERE'S AN INTERESTING PASSAGE TOWARD THE END OF THE CHAPTER, WELL, IN MATTHEW 24:13.
• 73:26 THIS IS WHY IT IS NOT ADDRESSED TO THE CHURCH.
• 73:28 THE CHURCH IS SAVED NOW AND DOESN'T HAVE TO ENDURE UNTIL THE END OF THE TRIBULATION.
• 73:31 I BELIEVE THE CHURCH IS GOING IN THE RAPTURE BEFORE THE TRIBULATION PERIOD.
• 73:35 BUT THE JEWS WHO ARE NOT SAVED NOW AND WHO WE DON'T WITNESS TO
• 73:39 OR DON'T WITNESS TO SUCCESSFULLY
• 73:41 MUST SOMEHOW IF THEY ARE TO BE SAVED,
• 73:44 ENDURE ALL THE WAY TO THE END,
• 73:47 THAT IS, TO WHEN THE SECOND COMING IS AT THE END
• 73:49 OF ALL OF THIS TRIBULATION AND THE START OF THE KINGDOM.
• 73:51 IN ORDER TO BE SAVED, IN ORDER TO BE THERE WHEN
• 73:53 HE COMES DOWN ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES
• 73:55 AND THEY CAN LOOK UPON HIM WHOM THEY PIERCED,
• 73:58 MOURN FOR HIM AS FOR AN ONLY SON AND SO IT IS FOR THE JEWS.
• 74:02 AND FOR THE CHURCH, IT IS UP TO US TO ENDURE TO THE RAPTURE.
• 74:23 WALK DOWN THE MOUNT OF OLIVES,
• 74:27 SAIL ACROSS THE SEA OF GALILEE,
• 74:31 RIDE TO THE SUMMIT OF MASADA.
• 74:35 FLOAT IN THE DEAD SEA.
• 74:38 FIND THE TREASURES OF PETRA.
• 74:43 EXPLORE THE HOLY LAND FOR YOURSELF.
• 74:46 JOIN ME ON OUR NEXT TOUR TO ISRAEL.
• 74:50 COME WALK WITH US IN THE SHADOWS OF ABRAHAM, DAVID,
• 74:53 PAUL, THE CHAMPIONS OF FAITH.
• 74:57 TRAVEL THE LENGTH AND BREADTH OF THE PROMISED LAND.
• 75:01 DISCOVER THE JEWISH ROOTS OF YOUR CHRISTIAN FAITH.
• 75:05 FROM BAPTISM IN THE JORDAN RIVER TO COMMUNION AT THE GARDEN TOMB.
• 75:09 YOUR TRIP TO ISRAEL WILL BE A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE
• 75:12 YOU'LL NEVER FORGET, COME, JOIN US.
• 75:17 TOUR THE HOLY LAND WITH ZOLA LEVITT.
• 75:24 WELL, OUR LOCATION WAS IN THE BEAUTIFUL JUDEAN WILDERNESS.
• 75:28 THERE IS REAL DESERT JUST PRACTICALLY OUTSIDE OF JERUSALEM
• 75:32 AND REMINDS US OF THE GREAT DAYS OF MOSES.
• 75:35 NOW WE'RE GOING TO TESTIMONIES OF JEWISH AND GENTILE BELIEVERS,
• 75:41 THAT COME RIGHT OUT OF THE BOOK OF HEBREWS.
• 75:42 SAME LIVES OF FAITH.
• 75:46 THIS IS ROBERT KAPLAN WHO FOUND
• 75:47 ENDURING FAITH WHEN HE ACCEPTED
• 75:49 YESHUA AS HIS LORD.
• 75:51 I CAME OUT OF WHAT I AM GOING TO CALL A FAIRLY STANDARD,
• 75:54 AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE JEWISH BACKGROUND WITH AN EDUCATION
• 75:58 THAT LET ME KNOW WITH NO QUESTIONS ASKED,
• 76:01 I AM JEWISH, I AM A JEW, I AM HAPPY ABOUT THAT, I AM PROUD ABOUT THAT.
• 76:06 THE FACT THAT WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE, AS AN EXAMPLE,
• 76:10 I MET A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO TRAINED ME PROFESSIONALLY TO BECOME A MEDIUM.
• 76:15 IF YOU ASKED ME AT THAT TIME IF YOU ARE A JEW?
• 76:18 I WOULD SHRUG AND GO "OF COURSE."
• 76:19 I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT DEUTERONOMY 18.
• 76:21 IF I HAD I WOULDN'T HAVE TAKEN IT SERIOUSLY.
• 76:24 IT IS JUST STUFF THAT I LEARNED ABOUT.
• 76:26 LATER ON I WENT TO ISRAEL.
• 76:30 AND I LIVED IN ISRAEL FOR A YEAR.
• 76:32 I LIVED AND STUDIED FOR A WHILE IN MEA SHEARIM.
• 76:34 AND THERE WAS A RABBI, USING AN ORANGE,
• 76:42 YOU KNOW, HE SAID, "HOW MUCH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT WOULD
• 76:46 "IT TAKE FOR US TO CREATE THIS ORANGE?
• 76:48 "THEREFORE, LET'S LOOK AT THE HAND,
• 76:51 "AND NOW, LET'S TALK ABOUT GOD."
• 76:53 AND I SAID, "WOW, YOU'RE RIGHT, OKAY."
• 76:57 AND AT THAT TIME, I RETURNED BACK TO AMERICA,
• 77:02 AND WITHIN A FEW MONTHS I HAD A VISION, AN EXTREMELY POWERFUL VISION.
• 77:07 THE VISION TOOK ME THROUGH WHAT I AM ASSUMING WAS THE WRATH
• 77:10 OF GOD AND THE DISSOLVING OF THE ELEMENTS OF THE EARTH.
• 77:13 THE REASON THE VISION OCCURRED WAS BECAUSE I HAD JUST COMPLETED
• 77:17 AT THE AGE OF 21 READING THE BOOK OF MATTHEW FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE.
• 77:21 SO I READ THE BOOK OF MATTHEW, I FELL ASLEEP,
• 77:23 I HAD THIS VISION, THAT MY KNEE STILL BOTHERS ME FROM.
• 77:27 THERE WAS AN INCIDENT IN THE VISION WHEN MY KNEE WAS HURT.
• 77:29 MY KNEE STILL BOTHERS ME FROM THAT.
• 77:31 I CALL IT MY SIN KNEE, SO I KNEW AT THAT POINT,
• 77:35 THERE WAS NO DOUBT AND NEVER HAS BEEN FROM THAT POINT,
• 77:37 JESUS IS YESHUA,IS GOD, IS LORD.
• 77:40 HOW HE DOES IT, I DON'T KNOW.
• 77:44 FOR A WHILE BECAUSE OF MY THEOLOGY,
• 77:46 I THOUGHT I COULD UNDERSTAND IT.
• 77:47 DURING THIS TIME, I MET A JEWISH LADY.
• 77:50 WE BECAME MARRIED.
• 77:51 BECAUSE OF MY INTELLECT, I WAS ABLE TO THEOLOGICALLY
• 77:53 COMFORT HER FROM TIME TO TIME, AND SAY, "DON'T WORRY ABOUT THIS."
• 77:57 YOU KNOW, I CAN EXPLAIN IT TO YOU.
• 77:59 OUR DAUGHTER WAS BORN.
• 78:01 WHEN OUR DAUGHTER WAS VERBAL ENOUGH TO ACTUALLY HEAR ME
• 78:03 TEACHING HER ABOUT YESHUA, MY WIFE BECAME FRANTIC
• 78:06 AND OUR RELATIONSHIP SOURED BEYOND RECONCILIATION.
• 78:10 AS A MATTER OF FACT, AT ONE POINT I WAS TEACHING
• 78:12 JEWISH HISTORY AT A REFORM SYNAGOGUE IN TEXAS
• 78:15 AND MY WIFE FINKED ON ME TO THE RABBI
• 78:17 AND I WAS FIRED FROM THIS JOB.
• 78:18 NONETHELESS, I KNEW THE LORD HAS ME,
• 78:22 I AM GOING TO KEEP MOVING FORWARD.
• 78:24 THAT MARRIAGE EVENTUALLY ENDED IN A DIVORCE.
• 78:27 I LOST, IN ESSENCE, CUSTODY OF MY DAUGHTER.
• 78:31 MY WIFE TRIED TO KEEP ME AWAY FROM HER.
• 78:33 SHE DIDN'T WANT THIS GIRL CORRUPTED BY THESE INSANE TEACHINGS OF MINE.
• 78:37 I AM JEWISH AND YET THIS STUFF ABOUT JESUS.
• 78:41 I DON'T CARE IF YOU CALL HIM YESHUAOR HOWDY DOODY,
• 78:44 YOU KNOW, YOU'RE GOING TO DRIVE YOUR DAUGHTER AS CRAZY AS I BELIEVE YOU TO BE.
• 78:48 THEN SOMETHING OCCURRED IN HER LIFE.
• 78:50 I DON'T KNOW WHETHER IT WAS A VOICE OR A VISION
• 78:52 OR A CONVICTION, BUT SHE SAID,
• 78:55 "I THINK I HAVE BEEN TREATING YOU TOO HARSHLY WITH THESE CONVICTIONS,
• 78:58 "CAN I TRY AND UNDERSTAND SOMETHING NOW OF WHAT YOU BELIEVE?"
• 79:02 WE RECONCILED AND REMARRIED.
• 79:04 MY DAUGHTER THEN HAD A MESSIANIC UPBRINGING FROM THAT POINT.
• 79:08 MY ENDURANCE IS STILL MY ENDURANCE.
• 79:12 AND THE LORD IS STILL THE LORD AND MY LIFE,
• 79:13 THANK GOD, IS STILL HIS, NOT MINE.
• 79:16 CHRISTINE AND LORNE THOMAS CAN
• 79:18 RELATE TO MOSES AND ENDURING FAITH BECAUSE THEY, TOO,
• 79:20 HAVE HAD TO WALK THROUGH THE WILDERNESS.
• 79:23 SOME SAID THEIR NEWBORN BABY WOULD NEVER SURVIVE.
• 79:26 IT BEGAN WHEN WE CONCEIVED AND THERE WAS DIFFICULTY WITH THE PREGNANCY.
• 79:30 AND ON INTO HER BIRTH, AND THEN A YEAR AND HALF
• 79:33 AFTER HER BIRTH WITH DIFFERENT SURGERIES THAT THE BABY
• 79:37 WENT THROUGH AND EACH TIME, YOU THINK, LORD,
• 79:40 IS THIS THE END OF OUR TRIAL, THE END OF OUR TEST?
• 79:44 BUT WE JUST HAD TO KEEP ENDURING AND KEEP GOING.
• 79:49 MOSES LED THE ISRAELITES THROUGH THE WILDERNESS AND THEY THOUGHT
• 79:52 LORD, IS THIS THE LAST LAP?
• 79:54 AND HE WOULD SAY, "NO, YOU NEED TO FINISH THE COURSE, KEEP GOING.
• 79:58 "I WILL LEAD YOU OUT WHEN IT'S TIME."
• 80:00 WE NEVER KNEW WHEN THE TIME OUT WAS GOING TO BE.
• 80:02 BUT WE WOULD SAY WE MADE IT THIS FAR, ANOTHER LAP.
• 80:06 WE CAN ENDURE ANOTHER ONE.
• 80:09 THERE WAS NOT MUCH CHOICE.
• 80:12 WHEN YOU ARE GOING THROUGH SOMETHING LIKE THAT,
• 80:14 YOU ARE CONSUMED WITH THE CIRCUMSTANCES AROUND YOU.
• 80:17 THE LAST THING YOU WANT TO DO IS PRAY.
• 80:19 THE LAST THING YOU WANT TO DO IS GET ALONE
• 80:21 WITH GOD AND BUILD YOUR FAITH AT THAT TIME.
• 80:24 BUT IT'S SO IMPORTANT THAT YOU CONTINUE ON AND DO THAT BECAUSE
• 80:26 THAT'S WHAT IS GOING TO CARRY YOU,
• 80:28 THAT AND THE PRAYERS OF OTHER PEOPLE.
• 80:30 WE KEPT AT IT AND KEPT PRAYING,
• 80:32 BUT THE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT WERE GOING ON AT THE TIME
• 80:35 WERE VERY POWERFUL AND IT IS EASY TO GET OFF FOCUS
• 80:38 AND NOT UNDERSTAND THAT GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.
• 80:42 WE STILL NEED TO GET BACK TO HIM.
• 80:45 THE BABY WAS BORN TWO AND HALF MONTHS EARLY.
• 80:47 AND SO SHE WAS IN THE HOSPITAL TWO MONTHS BEFORE WE COULD BRING HER HOME.
• 80:52 WHEN WE BROUGHT HER HOME, SHE WAS WITH US ONE WEEK
• 80:55 BEFORE SHE GOT SICK AND HAD TO GO BACK IN.
• 80:58 WE THOUGHT SURELY, LORD, THIS IS THE END.
• 81:01 WE'LL HAVE OUR BABY HOME WITH US.
• 81:03 ENDURING NIGHTS OF EMERGENCY ROOM TRIPS
• 81:06 AND GOING TO THE HOSPITAL, BLEEDING --
• 81:09 THINKING THAT THE CHILD WAS LOST.
• 81:11 AND SO THEY HAD TO DO AN OPERATION TO OPEN UP
• 81:13 HER WINDPIPE AND AT THAT TIME,
• 81:15 SHE WAS IN ICUUNIT FOR WEEKS
• 81:18 AND SHE WAS PARALYZED SO SHE COULD HEAL
• 81:21 FROM THE OPERATION, THE SURGERY TO HER THROAT
• 81:24 AND THEN AFTER THAT, THE HEALING WAS NOT AS EXPECTED
• 81:30 THERE WAS SCAR TISSUE FORMED AND THEY HAD TO GO BACK IN.
• 81:33 WE KEPT PUTTING ON OUR ARMOR, WE KEEP THE SHIELD OF FAITH UP
• 81:39 THERE BLOCKING THE DOUBT AND DEPRESSION AND DISCOURAGEMENT THAT CAME IN.
• 81:45 THERE WAS A SCRIPTURE IN ACTS THAT WE TAPED TO HER LITTLE
• 81:50 INCUBATOR THAT SHE WAS IN.
• 81:52 WHEN SHE WAS BORN IN THE HOSPITAL.
• 81:54 IT TALKED ABOUT HOW:
• 82:02 AND WE KNEW THAT HE HAD OUR BABY IN HIS HANDS
• 82:05 AND WE HAD TO SURRENDER HER TO HIM.
• 82:07 WE HAD TO NOT LET IT BE DEPENDENT ON US
• 82:11 BUT GIVE IT UP AND GIVE IT TO GOD.
• 82:13 SAY, "GOD, IT'S IN YOUR HANDS,"
• 82:15 SHE WAS YOUR CHILD BEFORE SHE WAS OUR CHILD.
• 82:18 CELESTE IS A PICTURE OF PICTURE AND A WALKING MIRACLE
• 82:23 AND SHE BLESSES US EVERY TIME WE SEE HER.
• 82:25 AND WE FORGET WHERE GOD HAS BROUGHT US,
• 82:28 WE JUST LOOK AT HER AND REALIZE THE LITTLE TRIAL WE ARE GOING
• 82:31 THROUGH NOW IS MINUSCULE COMPARED TO WHAT HE BROUGHT US THROUGH.
• 82:36 SHE'S A JOY TO HAVE IN OUR FAMILY NOW.
• 82:40 ♪♪
• 82:51 ♪ LORD, I HEAR YOU CRYING FOR JERUSALEM, YOUR LAND ♪
• 82:59 ♪ LOOKING DOWN FROM ON THE HILL, ♪
• 83:05 ♪ YOUR SACRIFICE AT HAND ♪
• 83:10 ♪ LORD, I HEAR YOU WEEPING ♪
• 83:14 ♪ SORROW FOR WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN ♪
• 83:19 ♪ YOUR HAND OUTSTRETCHED UPON THE CROSS ♪
• 83:23 ♪ REACHING FOR THE SONS OF MEN ♪
• 83:28 ♪ LORD, I HEAR YOU PRAYING FOR THOSE WHO STILL ARE LOST ♪
• 83:37 ♪ TO SIMPLY ASK FORGIVE ME, LORD, ♪
• 83:42 ♪ I UNDERSTAND THE COST ♪
• 83:48 ♪♪
• 84:20 ♪ LORD, I HEAR YOU WEEPING ♪
• 84:25 ♪ SORROW FOR WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN ♪
• 84:29 ♪ YOUR HAND OUTSTRETCHED UPON THE CROSS ♪
• 84:33 ♪ REACHING FOR THE SONS OF MEN ♪
• 84:37 ♪ LORD, I HEAR YOU PRAYING FOR THOSE WHO STILL ARE LOST ♪
• 84:46 ♪ TO SIMPLY ASK FORGIVE ME, LORD, I UNDERSTAND THE COST ♪
• 84:57 ♪ LORD, I HEAR YOU PRAYING FOR THOSE WHO STILL ARE LOST ♪
• 85:07 ♪ TO SIMPLY ASK FORGIVE ME, LORD, I UNDERSTAND THE COST ♪♪
• 85:29 WELL, YOU KNOW, OUT IN A RESTAURANT
• 85:31 THEY TELL YOU THE CHEF'S SUGGESTION.
• 85:32 WELL, THAT SONG IS THE COMPOSER'S SUGGESTION ON THIS ALBUM.
• 85:36 "HEARING YOU."
• 85:37 I COMPOSED THAT WHEN I WAS A GUEST IN A HOUSE
• 85:40 THAT OVERLOOKED THE PACIFIC OCEAN.
• 85:43 I WAS JUST LOOKING AT UNENDING,
• 85:45 THE BEAUTY OF GOD'S CREATION AT PEACE AND QUIET
• 85:50 AND JUST I DON'T KNOW, THE SONG CAME TO ME THERE
• 85:53 AND IT IS A REALLY SPECIAL ONE.
• 85:56 SUZANNE DAVIS IS THE SINGER.
• 85:59 SHE MARRIED DANNY DAVIS.
• 86:00 THEY WERE IN "BELOVED THIEF" TOGETHER.
• 86:02 IF YOU HAVE SEEN THE MUSICAL,
• 86:04 HE KEPT POURING A CUP FOR HER AND PUTTING IT IN FRONT OF HER
• 86:06 AND SHE KEPT LIFTING IT AND LIFTING IT,
• 86:08 AND AFTER THE SHOW WAS OVER, THEY DECIDED TO GET MARRIED.
• 86:10 AND THEY HAVE TWO CHILDREN NOW AND THAT WAS 10 YEARS AGO OR MAYBE MORE.
• 86:14 AND SUZANNE HAS COME BACK TO SING FOR US.
• 86:17 AND SHE WAS ALSO IN THE ROLE OF MARY IN OUR CHRISTMAS MUSICAL,
• 86:22 "MINE EYES HAVE SEEN."
• 86:25 NOW, THE BOOK OF HEBREWS COMMENDS MOSES' MINISTRY.
• 86:28 IN HEBREWS 11:29,
• 86:41 AND HE IS SPECIALLY COMMENDED IN THIS CHAPTER ON FAITH.
• 86:46 WELL, NEXT WEEK, WE'LL TAKE UP JOSHUA AND RAHAB.
• 86:49 A VERY EXCITING STORY.
• 86:51 WHENEVER I MENTION RAHAB, I LIKE TO SAY WHAT SHE SAID
• 86:54 AS A GENTILE IN THE LAND, NOT A JEW.
• 86:56 SHE SAID, "I KNOW THAT THE LORD HATH GIVEN YOU THE LAND,"
• 87:00 SHE SAID TO JOSHUA.
• 87:03 WELL, YOU CAN GET THE VIDEO SERIES NOW.
• 87:04 WE'LL HAVE IT READY.
• 87:05 10 PROGRAMS, PLUS THE EXTRA,
• 87:08 THE MUSIC SHOW WITH THE VIDEO FOOTAGE
• 87:10 OF THE ACTORS AND SO ON,
• 87:12 REALLY 11 PROGRAMS FOR $99.
• 87:14 AND I THINK THAT'S A PRETTY GOOD DEAL.
• 87:16 IT IS THE WAY TO STUDY.
• 87:18 YOU CAN STOP THE TAPE,
• 87:19 YOU CAN PLAY IT ANY TIME.
• 87:20 YOU CAN BRING FRIENDS IN
• 87:21 AND SHOW IT TO THEM
• 87:23 AND SO GET THE VIDEO SERIES.
• 87:24 IF YOU DON'T HAVE A VCR,
• 87:26 IT IS A GOOD TIME TO GET ONE.
• 87:27 THE PRICES HAVE FALLEN.
• 87:28 I REALLY RECOMMEND IT.
• 87:29 WE CAN SUPPLY ANY OF OUR
• 87:30 PROGRAMS TO YOU ON
• 87:32 VIDEOTAPE AT ANY TIME.
• 87:33 AND OUR LEVITT LETTER AND OUR CATALOG ALWAYS FREE OF CHARGE.
• 87:37 AND REMEMBER THE FUNDS, FOLKS, WE NEED THE HELP.
• 87:40 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM,
• 87:42 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.