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

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