Caption transcript for In The Footsteps of The Rabbi From Tarsus: “Letters to Philemon, the Colossians, and the Ephesians” (10/12)

• 00:03 WITH DR. JEFFERY SEIF AND SANDRA LEVITT
• 00:59 A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 01:01 JEFFERY SEIF HERE WITH MY FRIEND SANDRA LEVITT.
• 01:03 SHALOM
• 01:05 AND WELCOME TO IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE RABBI FROM TARSUS.
• 01:07 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PAUL.
• 01:09 IN THE BEGINNING HIS NAME WAS RABBI SAUL
• 01:11 AND HE CHANGED HIS NAME.
• 01:13 HE HAD A NEW MISSION.
• 01:14 HE CHANGED HIS NAME TO PAUL.
• 01:15 WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT PHILEMON,
• 01:17 COLOSSIANS, EPHESIANS TODAY.
• 01:20 JEFF I HAVE A QUESTION, WHY ARE WE GOING IN THIS ORDER?
• 01:22 WHY DID WE NOT START WITH ROMANS AND CORINTHIANS?
• 01:24 WHY DID WE START THIS WAY?
• 01:26 IT'S A FUNNY ORDER. >>YEAH
• 01:27 OUR MINDS ARE ORIENTED TO THE NEW TESTAMENT AS IT'S COME DOWN TO US. >>RIGHT
• 01:30 THEREIN WE HAVE WHAT'S REFERRED TO THE PAULINE CORPUS
• 01:33 THAT IS THE TEXT THAT BEAR PAUL'S SIGNATURE.
• 01:37 THESE ARE DIVIDED
• 01:38 INTO WHAT'S CALLED THE DOCTRINAL OR CHURCH EPISTLES
• 01:40 AND THE PASTORAL EPISTLES.
• 01:42 IN THE 1ST CASE HE'S WRITING TO COMMUNITIES
• 01:44 AND THE 2ND TO INDIVIDUALS.
• 01:46 AND WE HAVE ROMANS, 1ST AND 2ND CORINTHIANS,
• 01:49 GALATIANS, EPHESIANS,
• 01:50 AND YOU'RE SAYING JEFF,
• 01:52 WHY AREN'T WE DOING IT IN THAT ORDER,
• 01:53 BECAUSE THE ORDER THAT IT APPEARS IN THE BOOK
• 01:55 IS NOT THE ORDER IN WHICH IT WAS WRITTEN.
• 01:57 AND IN THE INTEREST OF RECONSTRUCTING PAUL'S FOOTSTEPS
• 02:01 WE'RE MINDED TO CONSIDER WHAT HE WROTE
• 02:04 IN THE ORDER IN WHICH HE WROTE IT.
• 02:06 WHICH MAKES SENSE, BECAUSE WE GET A FEEL FOR WHERE HE IS IN THE TRAVELS THAT HE'S GONE.
• 02:11 IT REALLY DOES MAKE SENSE.
• 02:12 RIGHT CAUSE WE'RE INTERESTED IN THAT
• 02:14 NOW WHEN THE NEW TESTAMENT'S COMPILED.
• 02:16 THANK GOD THAT WE GOT A HOLD OF PAUL'S LITERATURE,
• 02:19 BUT THEY'RE NOT INTERESTED IN CHRONOLOGY >>RIGHT
• 02:22 THEY'RE INTERESTED IN JUST ORGANIZING,
• 02:24 THIS IS WHAT HE WROTE TO COMMUNITIES,
• 02:25 THIS IS WHAT HE WROTE TO INDIVIDUALS
• 02:27 AND IN THE CASE OF THE DOCTRINAL EPISTLES,
• 02:30 ROMANS, 1ST CORINTHIANS, ETC...
• 02:32 IT JUST GOES FROM THE LONGEST TO THE SHORTEST.
• 02:34 I KNOW, IT MAKES NO SENSE TO ME THAT WAY.
• 02:37 I UNDERSTAND IT GOES LONG TO SHORT,
• 02:39 I LIKE THE WAY THAT IT'S DONE
• 02:40 ACCORDING TO THE YEAR THAT HE WROTE IT.
• 02:42 YES
• 02:43 IN FACT, WE'RE GONNA GO TO YOU AND YOU'RE GONNA DO SOME TEACHING FOR US.
• 02:46 HERE'S JEFF ON LOCATION.
• 02:50 ONE STEP AT A TIME.
• 02:52 THAT'S WHAT THEY SAY.
• 02:54 IT'S THE WAY LIFE OUGHT TO BE LIVED, JUST ONE STEP AT TIME.
• 02:58 JUDAISM SAGES PICKED UP ON THAT, THAT THE RELIGIOUS LIFE,
• 03:02 THE WAY TO LIVE IT AND WALK IT IS CALLED "HALAHA" FROM THE VERB "HALAK" WHICH MEANS TO WALK.
• 03:07 PAUL TOOK A LOT OF STEPS DIDN'T HE? THIS RABBI FROM TARSUS, SHAUL.
• 03:11 HIS STEPS TOOK HIM TO A LOT OF PLACES.
• 03:15 MOST RECENTLY HE WOUND UP IN CAESAREA MARITIME, HE WAS IN PRISON THERE ACTUALLY.
• 03:20 IT WAS THE TAIL END OF HIS MISSIONARY JOURNEY.
• 03:23 HE MADE HIS WAY TO YERUSHALAYIM, TO JERUSALEM.
• 03:25 HE LOVED JERUSALEM.
• 03:27 THE APOSTLE TO THE GENTILES HAD A HEART FOR HE JEWS AND TROUBLE BROKE OUT IN RIVER CITY
• 03:32 AND HE WOUND UP GETTING ARRESTED.
• 03:34 FROM CAESAREA MARITIME HE APPEALED TO ROME.
• 03:36 AND IN AS MUCH AS AT VARIOUS TIMES HE HAD TO BEGET HIS OWN VOYAGE,
• 03:40 THIS TIME IT WAS PROVIDED FOR AND COURTESY OF THE EMPIRE.
• 03:43 HE MAKES HIS WAY TO ROME AND THERE HE IS IN PRISON.
• 03:45 YOU KNOW A LOT OF TIMES PEOPLE THAT ARE IN PRISON
• 03:48 THEIR MINDS ARE JUST ALL ABSORBED INTO THEIR OWN PROBLEMS,
• 03:51 BUT PAUL, HE WASN'T JUST ABSORBED INTO HIS OWN PROBLEMS,
• 03:54 HE THOUGHT OF THE WORLD BEYOND HIM.
• 03:55 AND WHAT DOES HE DO?
• 03:57 HE WRITES LETTERS.
• 03:58 HE WRITES LETTERS TO THOSE FAR AWAY PLACES.
• 04:00 HE'S LOOKING TO REACH OUT AND BRING OTHER PEOPLE INTO HIS WORLD THROUGH MAIL.
• 04:04 NOT ONLY THAT, LUKES TELLS US IN ACTS THAT WHEN HE'S IMPRISONED HE'S ABLE TO GET SOME WORD OUT
• 04:09 AND THE CITY OF ROME'S JEWISH LEADERS COME TO HIM AND PAUL SAYS,
• 04:12 LISTEN THERE'S BEEN A BIG MISUNDERSTANDING HERE,
• 04:15 BECAUSE I HAVE DONE NOTHING AGAINST THE TEACHING, AGAINST THE TRADITIONS OF OUR FATHERS.
• 04:19 I AM A JEW AMONG JEWS, I BELIEVE THE MESSIAH HAS COME, TRUE,
• 04:23 BUT HE NEVER UNDERSTOOD THAT AS MAKING HIM NON-JEWISH
• 04:25 OR OFFENDING THE CULTURAL MORES THAT GO ALONG WITH BEING JEWISH.
• 04:28 PAUL WAS IN VERY CONCILIATORY MOOD WHEN HE DEALT WITH THE ROMANS,
• 04:32 HE WAS ALSO IN A VERY CONCILIATORY MOOD WHEN HE PICKED UP HIS PEN
• 04:37 AS EVIDENCED BY SOME OF THE LETTERS THAT HE WROTE.
• 04:39 THERE FOR HIS IMPRISONMENT HE WROTE TO A CHURCH THAT MET IN A RICH MAN'S HOUSE.
• 04:43 COMPARABLE TO THIS ONE RIGHT HERE IN ASIA FROM WHERE I'M SPEAKING FROM TODAY.
• 04:48 THIS FELLOW HAD A HOUSE GROUP THAT MET THERE IN COLOSSAE,
• 04:52 THIS WAS A CITY SOME MILES DUE EAST OF EPHESUS.
• 04:56 EPHESUS WAS ONE OF THE MAJOR CITIES IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
• 05:00 PAUL WAS AN URBAN PLANTER HE WOULD ESTABLISH CONGREGATIONS IN BIG CITIES
• 05:05 AND THEN SATELLITES WOULD SPRING OUT.
• 05:07 WELL HERE IN ROME HE'S WRITING TO ONE OF THOSE SATELLITES IN COLOSSAE.
• 05:11 THERE'S A VERY WELL TO DO INDIVIDUAL NAMED PHILEMON,
• 05:14 A SLAVE OWNER IN FACT WHO'S COME TO FAITH.
• 05:17 AND FAITH CAME INTO HIS HEART AND HIS CIRCUMSTANCES WERE REORGANIZED.
• 05:21 PAUL WHEN HE WROTE TO THE COLOSSIANS IN GENERAL
• 05:24 AND WHEN HE WROTE TO PHILEMON IN PARTICULAR, HE ADDRESSED A THEME OF RECONCILIATION.
• 05:28 HE WAS INTERESTED IN ESTRANGED PARTIES COMING TOGETHER.
• 05:31 FIRST INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE ESTRANGED FROM GOD,
• 05:33 SECONDLY INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE ESTRANGED ONE FROM ANOTHER.
• 05:37 I WANT YOU TO OPEN YOUR BIBLES PLEASE TO COLOSSIANS,
• 05:39 YOU'LL SEE IT THERE IN CHAPTER 1, PICKING UP IN VERSE 19,
• 05:42 AND WHAT DOES THIS RABBI FROM TARSUS SAY?
• 05:46 HE SAYS:
• 05:52 HE HAS JUST SAID THAT THIS YESHUA, THIS MESSIAH, JESUS, IS ALL THINGS
• 05:56 AND THE GREEK HERE IS PLEROMA OR THE FULLNESS.
• 05:59 THIS JESUS IS VERY POTENT, VERY POWERFUL.
• 06:01 IN HIM, THIS FULLNESS DWELLS IN VERSE 20:
• 06:14 THAT IS INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE ESTRANGED FROM GOD CAN BE BROUGHT NEAR TO GOD,
• 06:18 THROUGH THE PERSON OF JESUS.
• 06:19 INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE ESTRANGED ONE FROM ANOTHER CAN DO MUCH THE SAME.
• 06:22 HE SAYS IN VERSE 21:
• 06:32 I LEARNED ABOUT RECONCILIATION FROM DIFFERENT TUTORS,
• 06:35 A MARRIAGE BY THE WAY HAS TUTORED ME JUST A LITTLE BIT.
• 06:37 I'VE LEARNED THAT WHEN MY WIFE AND I AT OUR ODDS WITH EACH OTHER,
• 06:41 THE FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION ISN'T WHO'S GONNA WIN THE ARGUMENT,
• 06:44 WHO'S MOST PROFOUND IN THEIR DIATRIBE.
• 06:48 WHAT BRINGS ABOUT PEACE IS WHEN SOMEONE DECIDES TO STOP FIGHTING.
• 06:53 WHEN SOMEONE IS IN A CONCILIATORY MOOD AND TAKES THAT POSTURE,
• 06:57 IT HAS A WAY OF DEESCALATING WHEN OTHERWISE TENDS SIMPLY TO ESCALATE UP.
• 07:02 MARRIAGE HAS TAUGHT ME ABOUT RECONCILIATION, SO HAS MINISTRY, SO HAS THE RABBI FROM TARSUS.
• 07:09 IF YOU'LL LOOK IN COLOSSIANS CHAPTER 3 HE PICKS UP ON THE THEME, HE SAYS HERE:
• 07:25 THERE'S A JEWISH EXPRESSION, (speaking Hebrew) THAT HIS MERCIES ENDURE FOREVER.
• 07:31 AND IN AS MUCH AS GOD IN THE HEBREW BIBLE
• 07:34 IS REPRESENTED AS BEING GIVEN TOWARD MERCY, TOWARD COMPASSION, "RACHAMANUT"
• 07:38 IN AS MUCH AS HE'S ORIENTED THAT WAY,
• 07:41 THE ARGUMENT IS THAT THOSE OF US THAT WANT TO ORIENT OURSELVES THAT WAY
• 07:45 WOULD DO WELL TO FOLLOW THAT EXAMPLE.
• 07:48 AND THIS OF COURSE IS WHAT PAUL IS ADVOCATING FOR WHEN HE GOES ON TO SAY:
• 07:56 THE WORD FORGIVING IS INTERESTING, IT MEANS THAT WE ARE FOR GIVING.
• 08:00 INDIVIDUALS ARE ON THE TAKE, PEOPLE GO THROUGH LIFE WITH A CLOSED HAND,
• 08:05 BUT TO BE FORGIVING INVESTS A KIND OF ENERGY IN ONES DISPOSITION,
• 08:11 WHERE WE'RE MINDED TO GIVE INDIVIDUALS A BREAK.
• 08:13 IT'S HARD TO BE FORGIVING TOWARD SOMEONE IF THEY'RE AT WAR WITH US.
• 08:18 SOMETIMES CIRCUMSTANCES PREVAIL UPON US AND WE HAVE TO TAKE A DEFENSIVE POSTURE.
• 08:23 I KNEW THAT AS A CAREER IN A POLICE OFFICER.
• 08:25 SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO ENGAGE AND BRING JUSTICE TO BEAR.
• 08:29 SO I DON'T BEGRUDGE INDIVIDUALS THAT NEED TO GET REDRESSED FOR THEIR GRIEVANCE,
• 08:34 BUT STILL BETTER IT IS THAT WE'RE THE KIND OF INDIVIDUAL
• 08:36 THAT'S MINDED FOR AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE TO BE GRACIOUS.
• 08:39 HE SAYS HERE IN VERSE 14:
• 08:45 THE VERB IN HEBREW, LOVE "AHAVAH" WE ENCOUNTER THIS AFFECTIONATELY.
• 08:57 WE ARE SENTIENT BEING, WE HAVE FEELINGS,
• 09:00 BUT THE VERB LOVE MEANS TO DO GOOD ON THE BEHALF OF.
• 09:03 AND PAUL ADVOCATES WHEN HE WRITES THE CHURCH IN GENERAL
• 09:07 THAT THEY DO WELL TO BE THUS MINDED.
• 09:08 BUT NOT JUST THAT, APPARENTLY WHEN HE WROTE THE COLOSSIAN CHURCH,
• 09:12 THE POSTMAN DELIVERED MORE THAN ONE LETTER,
• 09:14 BECAUSE AT THE SAME TIME PHILEMON GOT A PERSONAL LETTER.
• 09:18 AND PHILEMON WAS THE RICH GUY.
• 09:19 HE WAS REALLY THE HOMEOWNER THERE.
• 09:21 APPARENTLY WHEN PAUL WAS INCARCERATED IN ROME
• 09:26 HE HAD DEVELOPED AN ACQUAINTANCE WITH A FELLOW NAMED ONESIMUS WHO WAS A RUNAWAY SLAVE.
• 09:30 AND WHAT HAPPENS IS HE WINDS UP LEADING ONESIMUS TO THE LORD.
• 09:37 HE'S GONNA ACCEPT JESUS.
• 09:39 AND WHAT HE'S GONNA DO THAT'S STRIKING, THAT'S FASCINATING IS HE'S GONNA ADVOCATE
• 09:43 THAT THIS FELLOW PHILEMON TAKE BACK THE RUNAWAY SLAVE AND FORGIVE HIM.
• 09:50 IT'S FASCINATING.
• 09:51 IN THE ANCIENT WORLD SLAVES WERE CONSIDERED AS UTILITIES.
• 09:54 THEY WERE JUST ARTICULATE BEASTS BY ROMAN LAW.
• 09:57 THEY HAD NO RIGHTS WHATSOEVER.
• 09:59 A MASTER COULD CRUCIFY A SLAVE.
• 10:01 IT MEANT NOTHING.
• 10:02 THEY WERE JUST THE PROPERTY OF THEIR OWNER.
• 10:04 IT'S FASCINATING HERE, ONESIMUS OFFENDED PHILEMON.
• 10:08 PHILEMON HOWEVER CAME TO FAITH IN JESUS.
• 10:11 AND SO DID ONESIMSUS INTERESTINGLY AND WHAT HAPPENS IS
• 10:14 PAUL THEN, NOT ONLY WRITES THE CHURCH OF COLOSSAE, BUT HE SENDS PHILEMON BACK WITH THE LETTER.
• 10:21 AND HE SAYS LISTEN, I WANT YOU TO FORGIVE THIS GUY.
• 10:23 YOU KNOW THE GOSPEL IS PROFOUND THE WAY THAT LIVES CAN BE TRANSFORMED.
• 10:28 AND THE NEWNESS OF LIFE BRINGS NEWNESS IN BEHAVIOR, DOES IN NOT?
• 10:31 SUCH AS THE TEACHING OF THE FAMOUS RABBI FROM TARSUS.
• 10:43 YOU WILL LOVE OUR 12 PROGRAM 3 DVD SET.
• 10:48 IF YOU'D LIKE TO WALK WITH US DOWN LIFE'S HIGHWAY,
• 10:50 1-800-WONDERS IS THE NUMBER TO CALL.
• 10:53 YOU CAN GET OUR FREE LEVITT LETTER, OUR MAGAZINE.
• 10:56 YOU CAN ORDER THE DVD SERIES AND MORE.
• 11:00 AND IF YOU'D LIKE TO TRAVEL WITH US TO JEWISH LANDS, ISRAEL,
• 11:04 AND TO LANDS WHERE PAUL TRAVELED IN GREECE.
• 11:11 NOT ONLY CAN YOU WALK IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF PAUL IN EPHESUS AND GREECE,
• 11:15 BUT YOU CAN WALK IN HIS FOOTSTEPS WITH US IN ISRAEL.
• 11:19 IN FACT JEFF, ONE OF MY FAVORITE PRODUCTS COMES OUT OF ISRAEL.
• 11:23 IT'S CALLED "AHAVAH" AND YOU USED THAT IN THE TEACHING,
• 11:25 OH, I LOVED IT.
• 11:26 AHAVA, LOVE AND THE POTIONS AND LOTIONS
• 11:28 THAT ARE IN ISRAEL THAT WE LOVE, AHAVAH.
• 11:31 YEAH, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT PEOPLE ENJOY WHEN THEY GO TO ISRAEL
• 11:34 IS SOME OF THE NATURAL PRODUCTS THERE, SKIN CARE,
• 11:36 AND AHAVAH HAS A GREAT LINE.
• 11:38 IT IS A GREAT LINE.
• 11:39 NOT ONLY, IT'S A BIG BUSINESS.
• 11:40 I THINK I HEARD THAT IT'S A MILLION DOLLARS A MONTH
• 11:43 THAT THEY EXPORT OUT OF THERE.
• 11:45 THAT'S HOW MUCH THE DEAD SEA PRODUCTS ARE.
• 11:47 IT'S AMAZING.
• 11:48 THERE'S ALWAYS GOOD PRODUCTS COMING FROM ISRAEL,
• 11:50 THE BEST OF WHICH IS THE BIBLE ITSELF, ISN'T IT? >>WELL, AMEN.
• 11:53 THAT'S A PRODUCT FROM THE HOLY LAND
• 11:55 AND PRAISE GOD WE GET TO, NOT SELL THAT, BUT TO PROCLAIM IT.
• 11:58 BUT, WE GET TO SEE IT.
• 12:00 WE GET TO SEE IT, TOUCH IT, FEEL IT, SMELL IT, ...
• 12:02 WE USE ALL THE SENSES IN ISRAEL.
• 12:03 WE'RE GONNA GO BACK TO LOCATION IN EPHESUS.
• 12:06 JEFF'S GONNA CONTINUE TEACHING.
• 12:07 HERE'S JEFF.
• 12:10 "HOSHECH", IT'S THE HEBREW WORD FOR DARKNESS.
• 12:15 "OR," IS THE HEBREW WORD FOR LIGHT.
• 12:20 THERE'S A CONCEPT COMING OUT OF DARKNESS INTO THE LIGHT.
• 12:24 IN THE MODERN WORLD PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THEMSELVES TO BE ENLIGHTENED.
• 12:29 AND IN THE ANCIENT WORLD, IN EPHESUS PARTICULARLY, PEOPLE THOUGHT THE LIGHT SHINED BRIGHT.
• 12:36 COMING TO YOU FROM EPHESUS NOW, A GREAT CITY IN WHAT WAS ONCE ASIA MINOR, NOW MODERN TURKEY.
• 12:45 EPHESUS, ONE OF THE 4 MAIN CITIES OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE WITH ANTIOCH TO THE EAST,
• 12:52 WITH ALEXANDRIA SOUTH AND WEST, AND WITH ROME ITSELF, ONE OF THE CITIES, ONE OF THE GREAT CITIES.
• 13:00 TODAY YOU CAN COME HERE AND OUR TOURS COME HERE ANNUALLY TO LOOK AT THE GREAT CARDO,
• 13:07 THE REMANENCE OF THE MARKETPLACE, THE LIBRARY, THE TEMPLE THAT ONCE STOOD HERE.
• 13:14 NOT SO GREAT IN MY OPINION, BUT I'M A LITTLE BIAS NOW AREN'T I?
• 13:18 THE THEATRE THAT WOULD SEAT IN THE VICINITY OF 24,000 INDIVIDUALS.
• 13:24 EPHESUS, A HOME TO HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS WHO ARE PROUD TO BE HERE.
• 13:29 PAUL LOVED EPHESUS.
• 13:31 HE STOPPED BY HERE ON THE WAY AS HE WAS FINISHING UP HIS 2ND MISSIONARY JOURNEY.
• 13:37 AND THEN ON HIS 3RD MISSIONARY JOURNEY HE MADE IT A POINT TO GET HERE
• 13:42 AND STAY HERE FOR A SEASON.
• 13:44 HE PLANTED A CONGREGATION HERE AS WE KNOW
• 13:47 AND THEN HE IS GOING TO SEE TO IT THAT OTHER CONGREGATIONS WERE ESTABLISHED ROUND ABOUT.
• 13:53 IN COLOSSAE AS WE CONSIDER IT AND ELSEWHERE.
• 13:56 WELL OUR STORY TAKES PLACE TODAY WITH PAUL HAVING FINISHED UP HIS VARIOUS JOURNEYS.
• 14:03 AND HE HAS MADE HIS WAY TO PRISON.
• 14:05 LAST WEEK WE NOTED HOW HE WAS IN ROME.
• 14:08 HE WAS INTERRED THERE AND HE WRITES LETTERS.
• 14:11 IN AS MUCH AS HE WROTE PHILEMON AND THE COLOSSIANS, HE WROTE TO THE CHURCH AT EPHESUS.
• 14:15 I WANT YOU TO OPEN UP YOUR BIBLES IF YOU WILL
• 14:17 AND I WANT YOU TO SEE HOW HE TELLS THE EPHESIANS BOTH JEWS AND NON-JEWS ALIKE,
• 14:21 THAT GOD HAS BUILT A NEW HOUSE.
• 14:25 HE SAYS IN CHAPTER 2 THAT A NEW HOUSE HAS BEEN BUILT AND JEWS AND GENTILES ALIKE
• 14:31 AS EQUALS ARE PILLARS IN THE NEW HOUSE AND BRETHREN AND FRIENDS IN THE NEW ECONOMY.
• 14:36 HE SAYS IN CHAPTER 2, VERSE 1:
• 14:47 THE WORD TO SEND, ETYMOLOGICALLY IN THE HEBREW BIBLE COMES FROM A WORD "TO STRAY,"
• 14:52 TO MISS THE MARK.
• 14:54 IT'S LIKE AN ARROW YOU SHOOT FOR THE TARGET BUT IT VEERS OFF.
• 14:57 THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS THAT MISS THE MARK IN LIFE, THEY SIN.
• 15:00 PARTICULARLY HE SAYS IN VERSE 2:
• 15:06 AND HE GOES ON TO DENOTE THEM LIVING, IN VERSE 3:
• 15:13 BY THE WAY HERE IN THIS HOME IN EPHESUS, I NEEDED TO BE CAREFUL WHERE WE PUT THE CAMERA.
• 15:17 IN THE ROOM ADJACENT TO THIS ONE, YOU WOULD THINK YOU WERE IN A GALLERY
• 15:21 IN HUGH HEFNER'S MANSION IN CALIFORNIA TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH.
• 15:23 IT LOOKS LIKE A PLAY...I MEAN I WAS EMBARRASSED TO GO IN THERE
• 15:26 TO TELL YOU THE GOD'S HONEST TRUTH.
• 15:27 WELL HE SAYS TO THE EPHESIANS HERE WHO CELEBRATED SEXUALITY,
• 15:30 HE SAID, LISTEN YOU WANNA COME TO THE GOD OF ISRAEL WE NEED TO LEARN A LITTLE ABOUT HOLINESS.
• 15:34 WE NEED TO SAY NO TO VISE AND YES TO VIRUE
• 15:37 THAT INDIVIDUALS THAT WERE LIVING IN THE DARKNESS THAT IS FULFILLING SINS IN THE DARKNESS,
• 15:42 NEEDED TO COME INTO THE LIGHT AND BEGIN TO THEN WALK IN THE LIGHT.
• 15:45 HE SAYS HERE IN VERSE 14, THAT JEWS AND NON-JEWS THAT WERE ALIENATED ONE FROM ANOTHER
• 16:02 HE GOES ON IN VERSE 19 TO UNDERSCORE
• 16:04 THAT INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE ACCEPTED YESHUA
• 16:10 PAUL LOVED THE CONCEPT OF THE HOUSE.
• 16:12 IN FACT WE'RE IN A BEAUTIFUL HOUSE IN EPHESUS RIGHT NOW.
• 16:15 LOTS OF ROOM, IN FACT ROMAN CULTURE MADE ROOM FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THEIR HOUSE.
• 16:20 IT WAS VERY SYNCHRONISTIC.
• 16:22 THERE WERE A LOT OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF PEOPLE THAT WERE ABLE TO GET CITIZENSHIP IN THE HOUSE
• 16:26 AND THE ROMANS CAST A VISION FOR A SOCIETY OF EQUALS IF YOU BECAME A CITIZEN.
• 16:30 HERE WE'RE IN A BEAUTIFUL HOUSE OF A ROMAN CITIZEN OF A BY GONE ERA,
• 16:34 BUT WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT THIS HOUSE IS THAT THERE WAS WATER RUNNING TO THE HOUSE.
• 16:38 THE ROMANS WERE FANTASTIC IN THEIR INNOVATIONS.
• 16:41 THEY LEARNED TO MANAGE WATER, THEY WERE VERY, VERY MODERN.
• 16:45 TRAGICALLY, HOWEVER, THE ROMANS HAD A VISION FOR COMMUNITY AND UNITY,
• 16:50 BUT THEY DIDN'T HAVE LIVING WATER GOING TO THEIR HOUSE.
• 16:52 SEE THAT WATER IS AVAILABLE, THE "MAYIM CHAYIM", THAT KIND OF WATER WE GET FROM THE MESSIAH, YESHUA,
• 16:59 FROM JESUS AND PAUL TOLD THAT STORY.
• 17:01 AND THE WAY INDIVIDUALS GET WATER IS THAT THEY HAVE TO TURN, THEY HAVE TO REPENT.
• 17:06 THE HEBREW WORD FOR REPENTANCE IN FACT IS THE WORD "TESHUVA" IT MEANS TO TURN,
• 17:12 IT MEANS TO CHANGE YOUR DIRECTION.
• 17:14 THE GREEK WORD FOR REPENT IS "METANOIA."
• 17:19 IT COMES FROM "META" WHICH MEANS CHANGE AND "NOIA" OR "NOSIS" MIND, CHANGE YOUR MIND.
• 17:24 CHANGE YOUR DIRECTION, CHANGE YOUR MIND.
• 17:27 IN THE BIBLICAL VISION INDIVIDUALS ARE LIVING THE WRONG WAY
• 17:31 AND INDIVIDUALS MUST NEEDS CHANGE.
• 17:35 PAUL WRITES TO INDIVIDUALS IN EPHESUS WHO IN FACT HAVE CHANGED.
• 17:39 AND HE REMINDS THEM OF THE PEOPLE THEY OUGHT TO BE.
• 17:43 NO LONGER STRANGERS OR FOREIGNERS,
• 17:45 BUT NOW LIKE SONS AND DAUGHTERS LIVING IN THE HOUSE.
• 17:48 AND WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
• 17:50 IF YOU LOOK IN CHAPTER 5, VERSE 1 AND ON HE MORALIZES AS RABBIS ARE GIVEN TO DO.
• 17:55 HE TALKS HERE IN LISTS, HE TALKS ABOUT VICE AND HE TALKS ABOUT VIRTUE.
• 18:00 HE NOTES IN VERSE 1:
• 18:17 HE ADVOCATES FOR COMPORTMENT,
• 18:19 THAT PEOPLE THAT WALK THE WALK, TALK THE TALK, AND THEY LIVE RIGHT.
• 18:22 AND HE LIKEWISE THEN AFTER NOTING THE LIST OF VICES,
• 18:27 HE THEN UNDERSCORES THE IMPORTANCE OF VIRTUE.
• 18:35 PAUL HAS THIS VISION OF PUTTING OFF VICE AND LIVING BY VIRTUE,
• 18:40 BUT THAT VISION ISN'T UNIQUE TO HIM.
• 18:43 WHAT'S UNIQUE IS THAT HE'S TALKING TO NON-JEWS ABOUT IT, TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH.
• 18:46 THAT VISION COMES FROM THE JEWISH WORLD.
• 18:48 JEWS UNDERSTOOD INDIVIDUALS ANTHROPOLOGICALLY TO HAVE SOMETHING OF A DILEMMA
• 18:52 OF A HUMAN CONDITION WAS ASSAULTED ON 2 SIDES.
• 18:55 THERE WAS YETZER HARA FROM RAH IN HEBREW WHICH MEANS EVIL.
• 18:59 YETZER HARA MEANS THE EVIL INCLINATION, YETZER HATOV IS THE GOOD INCLINATION.
• 19:04 INDIVIDUALS HAVE A STRUGGLE BETWEEN
• 19:06 VICE AND VIRTUE, BETWEEN FLESH AND SPIRIT.
• 19:11 TO USE THE PAULINE PARADIGM HERE.
• 19:14 INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF GOD
• 19:16 MUST NEEDS WALK IN THE SPIRIT AND HE UNDERSCORES THAT HERE.
• 19:20 AND IT'S SO IMPORTANT BY THE WAY, THE MESSAGE THAT HE TOLD THE EPHESIANS.
• 19:24 YOU USE TO LIVE IN SIN, BUT NOW YOU'VE COME OUT OF...
• 19:27 YOU'VE COME OUT OF THE COUNTRYSIDE INTO THE HOUSE.
• 19:30 IF YOU'RE GONNA LIVE IN THE HOUSE, ACT LIKE A CHILD THAT BELONGS IN THE HOUSE.
• 19:33 IT'S A GREAT STORY.
• 19:35 AND THE RABBI FROM TARSUS WROTE ABOUT IT TO THE EPHESIANS, SOME 2,000 YEARS AGO.
• 19:48 YESHUA SAID, "I AM THE LIVING WATER.
• 19:51 I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE."
• 19:54 JEFF I LOVE WATCHING YOUR TEACHING
• 19:55 AND TALKING ABOUT THE WATER AND THE PIPES.
• 19:57 WHAT A GREAT VISUAL FOR EVERYONE.
• 19:58 WELL,
• 20:00 I'M REMINDED, BY THE WAY THANKS FOR THE COMPLIMENT.
• 20:02 I'M REMINDED THAT BIBLE TEACHING IS SIMPLE.
• 20:04 YESHUA, JESUS SAID,
• 20:06 "I AM THE LIGHT, I AM THE DOOR, I AM THE BREAD, I AM THE WATER."
• 20:09 WHY DO PEOPLE MAKE THINGS SO COMPLEX?
• 20:12 AND IT'S SIMPLE.
• 20:13 IT'S RIGHT HERE, IT DOESN'T NEED ANYTHING ELSE.
• 20:16 IT DOESN'T NEED ANY BOWS, ANY RIBBONS, IT JUST NEEDS TO BE REALLY SIMPLE.
• 20:20 NOT ONLY THAT, BUT YOU KNOW ANYBODY COULD LISTEN TO IT.
• 20:23 A KING,
• 20:24 A FARMER, ANYBODY COULD UNDERSTAND THE MESSAGE.
• 20:27 YES, AND LIKE THE HOUSE WHERE WE SHOT, >>RIGHT
• 20:31 LET ME SAY THAT WE WANNA BRING LIVING WATER INTO YOUR HOME.
• 20:36 WE WANNA BE THE PLUMBING,
• 20:38 THE CONDUIT THROUGH WHICH LIVING WATER GETS TO YOU.
• 20:42 AND WE TRUST YOU'RE BLESSED BY OUR SERIES AS WE'RE BRINGING PAUL TO YOU.
• 20:47 AND NOW WE GO TO AN OLD FRIEND, RABBI DR. JOHN FISCHER,
• 20:52 AN EXPERT IN THINGS JEWISH, AN EXPERT IN NEW TESTAMENT AND HE HELPS US BRING IT ALL TOGETHER.
• 20:58 AND NOW TO DR. FISCHER
• 21:00 AS WE COME TO KNOW BETTER, THE RABBI FROM TARSUS.
• 21:06 PAUL IS A MISSIONARY.
• 21:07 HE'S GOT A MISSIONARIES HEART,
• 21:09 HE WRITES LETTERS,
• 21:10 HE MAKES SURE HIS PEOPLE ARE OK.
• 21:13 HE IS A RABBI, RABBI.
• 21:14 HE IS A RABBI TO HIS PEOPLE.
• 21:17 HE NEVER FORGETS HIS PEOPLE.
• 21:18 AND THEY HAVE QUESTIONS OR THEY HAVE ISSUES, HE ALWAYS RESPONDS TO THEM
• 21:22 AND THAT'S REALLY A MARK OF A MISSIONARY.
• 21:24 IT'S A WONDERFUL TRAIT.
• 21:26 IT'S THE WAY IN WHICH
• 21:27 A TEACHER OR A RABBI SHOULD BE.
• 21:29 NOT ALL OF US LIVE UP
• 21:31 TO THAT KIND OF BILLING,
• 21:32 BUT THAT IS OF COURSE THE IDEAL OR THE MODEL.
• 21:34 AND HE DOES IT SO WONDERFULLY IN SO MANY DIFFERENT PLACES,
• 21:38 IN SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS.
• 21:39 HE'S ABLE TO ADAPT TO EACH OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES
• 21:42 OR SITUATIONS THAT HE'S FACED WITH
• 21:43 OR HIS STUDENTS ARE FACED WITH. >>HIS STUDENTS.
• 21:46 YEAH
• 21:47 AND THEY'RE NOT NECESSARILY STUDENTS.
• 21:48 WELL THEY ARE STUDENTS, BUT THEY'RE REAL PEOPLE.
• 21:49 THEY HAVE REAL PROBLEMS, REAL ISSUES, REAL CONCERNS.
• 21:53 HAS THE RAPTURE COME, HAS THE RAPTURE NOT COME?
• 21:54 WHAT DO I DO ABOUT RECONCILIATION?
• 21:57 HE'S IN EPHESUS, HE TALKS, HE WRITES LETTERS TO THEM.
• 22:00 OH YEAH AND IN SOME OF THE MOST INTERESTING
• 22:04 AND EXOTIC KINDS OF PLACES.
• 22:06 YOU MENTIONED EPHESUS, TALK ABOUT A MAJOR CENTER. >>OH, YEAH.
• 22:09 THAT WAS A MAJOR CENTER. >>IT'S BEAUTIFUL.
• 22:11 AND NOT ONLY OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE,
• 22:14 BUT OF ALL THE TRADE ROUTES THAT GO THROUGH THERE AND AROUND THERE.
• 22:18 IF YOU WERE GONNA TRAVEL IN THAT PART OF ROME, YOU HAVE TO TRAVEL THROUGH EPHESUS.
• 22:21 AND THERE WERE JEWS, GENTILES, ALL KINDS OF GROUPS OF PEOPLE
• 22:25 THAT WERE THERE THAT NEEDED TO LEARN HOW TO GET TOGETHER, LEARN HOW TO BE PART OF ONE ANOTHER.
• 22:30 SO SOME OF THE MOST AMAZING THINGS HE WRITES,
• 22:32 HE WRITES TO THESE GROUPS THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE AREA OF EPHESUS.
• 22:37 ONE OF THE STRIKING PASSAGES
• 22:40 RIGHT IN THE HEART OF THE BOOK OF EPHESIANS,
• 22:42 TALKS ABOUT
• 22:43 AN APPROACH TO GOD THAT WE'RE ABLE TO MAKE BOTH AS JEWS AND GENTILES.
• 22:48 JEWS, WE ALWAYS HAD THE TEMPLE,
• 22:50 WE CAME THROUGH THE TEMPLE IN EPHESIANS CHAPTER 2.
• 22:52 NOW IN EPHESIANS CHAPTER 2 BY WAY OF IMAGERY,
• 22:55 HE'S TELLING THE NON-JEWS WHO ARE NOW FOLLOWERS OF THIS JEWISH MESSIAH,
• 22:59 THAT IN A SENSE THEY TOO COME IN A TEMPLE KIND OF WAY
• 23:02 THAT THEY'RE NO LONGER ON THE FRINGES OF THE TEMPLE
• 23:05 THEY NOW GET TO GO THROUGH THE HEART OF THE TEMPLE PROCESS.
• 23:08 IN FACT, ALL GET TO OPERATE VERY MUCH AS PRIESTS.
• 23:11 ALL OF THIS IS WONDERFUL JEWISH IMAGERY THAT'S BEING SHARED WITH THIS GROUP IN EPHESUS.
• 23:16 A GROUP THAT, GOSH, AGAIN GREW OUT OF THE SYNAGOGUE,
• 23:20 RIGHT
• 23:21 OUT OF THE SCHOOL NEXT TO THE SYNAGOGUE. >>RIGHT
• 23:22 SO ALL THOROUGHLY JEWISHLY EDUCATED,
• 23:24 BECAUSE APART FROM THAT JEWISH EDUCATION THIS TEMPLE IMAGERY WOULD'VE MADE NO SENSE AT ALL.
• 23:29 AND THEN ON THE OTHER SIDE YOU GET THIS PLACE CALLED COLOSSAE THAT,
• 23:32 WOW, BOY DID THEY HAVE STRANGE THINGS GOING ON OVER THERE.
• 23:38 THEY BROKE INTO THE WORSHIP OF ANGELS.
• 23:40 AND DON'T TOUCH, DON'T TASTE, DON'T HANDLE THIS KIND OF STUFF,
• 23:45 WHICH WAS ALL STRIKINGLY NON-JEWISH AND YET THEY TOO MANAGE TO BRING
• 23:52 THEY TWISTED IT AROUND ON IT
• 23:54 YEAH THEY TWISTED IT AROUND.
• 23:55 SO THERE HE'S NOT DEALING WITH JEWISH STUFF,
• 23:58 THERE HE'S DEALING WITH WHAT WE CALL,
• 24:00 EARLIER PRE-GNOSTIC KIND OF STUFF.
• 24:01 SO MAN, HE GOES RIGHT AT THEM TOO.
• 24:04 NO GOOD JEW WOULD BE WORSHIPPING ANGELS,
• 24:08 YOU GUYS SHOULDN'T BE EITHER.
• 24:09 SO THAT'S A SHORT OF A VERY LONG STORY, YEAH.
• 24:12 THAT'S THE SHORT.
• 24:13 IT IS.
• 24:14 THANK YOU.
• 24:15 YOU'RE WELCOME.
• 24:22 MUSIC
• 24:48 IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT THE LONG ARM OF THE PEN REACHES BEYOND THE GRAVE.
• 24:52 THAT'S TRUE FOR PEOPLE THAT WROTE MUSIC AS WELL.
• 24:54 AND I KNOW YOU WERE BLESSED BY HEARING ZOLA.
• 24:56 AND SPEAKING OF BLESSING AND SPEAKING OF THE LONG ARM OF THE PEN,
• 25:00 WE'RE INDEBTED TO THE RABBI FROM TARSUS.
• 25:02 AS HE WROTE THESE DOCUMENTS AND HE CAN STILL SPEAK TO US, CAN'T HE?
• 25:06 HE CAN.
• 25:07 AND ONE OF MY FAVORITE PARTS
• 25:09 IN ALL OF EPHESIANS IS IN CHAPTER 6.
• 25:12 I LOVE THE VISUAL, BUT I'M A VISUAL LEARNER ANYWAY.
• 25:14 BUT IN EPHESIANS 6:10 IT SAYS:
• 25:51 IT'S JUST BEAUTIFUL.
• 25:52 IT'S A FULL PICTURE OF WHAT WE NEED TO BE DOING.
• 25:54 YOU KNOW I'M PLEASED THAT YOU,
• 25:57 YOUR EYES ARE RIGHT UPON THAT, BECAUSE THAT'S A GUY IMAGE, SOLDIER IMAGE.
• 26:00 THIS IS TAKING... >>IT'S A CLOTHES IMAGE.
• 26:03 I CAN GET BEHIND THE CLOTHES IMAGE.
• 26:04 IT'S A PRAYER THAT >>WE CAN PUT ON, YEAH. >>ARMOR AND EVERYTHING
• 26:06 WELL I'LL TELL YOU WHAT HITS ME WHEN I READ IT.
• 26:08 I REMEMBER IN DAYS BY IN A POLICE CAREER I WAS ALWAYS GIVEN A KEVLAR VEST TO WEAR.
• 26:13 WE DIDN'T HAVE TO WEAR IT, BUT WE WERE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO DO SO.
• 26:18 AND I THOUGHT,
• 26:19 HOW FOOLISH WOULD IT BE TO GO OUT INTO THE PRECARIOUSNESS
• 26:23 OF THE BIG CITY WITHOUT HAVING ALL THE PROTECTION?
• 26:25 BUT THAT'S THE VERY THING THAT WE DO IN SO MANY RESPECTS THAT HE CAUTIONS AGAINST.
• 26:29 WE GO INTO LIFE WITHOUT THE SPIRITUAL ARMOR THAT WE NEED.
• 26:33 WE WANNA HELP IN FACT
• 26:35 SO WE PUMP THAT LIVING WATER INTO THOSE LIVING ROOMS. >>ABSOLUTELY.
• 26:37 IN ORDER THAT PEOPLE MIGHT BE UNDERGIRDED
• 26:39 WITH BIBLICAL KNOWLEDGE.
• 26:40 AND HERE IT IS.
• 26:42 IT'S SO SIMPLE AND WE TRY TO MAKE IT SO HARD.
• 26:44 I WANT YOU TO STAY TUNED NEXT WEEK.
• 26:47 WE'RE GOING INTO PHILIPPIANS AND WE'RE GONNA SEE OTHER TEACHING
• 26:52 AND I THINK YOU'LL REALLY ENJOY WHAT'S COMING UP.
• 26:53 AND AS YOU GO.
• 26:54 SHA 'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
• 26:56 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.