Caption transcript for The Warrior King: “The Call” (1/8)

• 00:52 A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU,
• 00:55 JEFFREY SEIF HERE,
• 00:57 AND I AM PLEASED TO WELCOME TO YOU TO A BRAND NEW SERIES THAT WE'VE PRODUCED JUST FOR YOU,
• 01:04 A WORD FOR THE WORLD THAT WE LIVE IN,
• 01:08 A SERIES ENTITLED "THE WARRIOR KING"
• 01:12 AND A THEME DEVELOPED ALONG THE LINES OF THE NEED FOR
• 01:15 DAVID-LIKE LEADERSHIP IN THESE GOLIATH-LIKE TIMES.
• 01:20 OFF WE GO NOW FOR 30 MINUTES OF TV WORTH WATCHING
• 01:25 AS WE CONSIDER DAVID'S STORY AND NOTE ITS IMPORTANCE FOR A WORLD JUST LIKE OUR VERY OWN.
• 01:39 (Woman speaking) WE WILL NEVER FORGET THAT DAY.
• 01:42 OUR HEARTS LEAPED FOR JOY AT THE SIGHT OF HIM.
• 01:45 DAVID, THE GIANT KILLER HAD RETURNED.
• 01:48 THE PHILISTINES THOUGHT THAT GOLIATH COULD NEVER BE DEFEATED BUT DAVID HAD PROVEN THEM WRONG.
• 01:54 WHAT FAITH, HOW BOLD!
• 01:57 HE WENT TO BATTLE WITH A FEW SMALL STONES AND RETURNED WITH THE SWORD OF A GIANT!
• 02:02 KING SAUL HAS DONE WELL IN SELECTING HIM.
• 02:05 OUR ENEMIES HAVE BEEN SLAIN BY THE TENS OF THOUSANDS.
• 02:09 BECAUSE OF DAVID WE NOW HAVE PEACE WITHIN OUR WALLS.
• 02:27 THERE WAS ELECTRICITY IN THE AIR IF YOU WILL.
• 02:30 PEOPLE WERE BRISTLING WITH EXCITEMENT.
• 02:34 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 02:36 BECAUSE THERE WAS A SENSE IN ISRAEL THAT THERE WAS A NEW DAY DAWNING.
• 02:39 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 02:40 BECAUSE A NEW PERSONALITY WAS EMERGING.
• 02:44 DAVID WAS BEGINNING TO MAKE HIS MARK ON ISRAELITE HISTORY
• 02:49 AND PEOPLE HAD A SENSE THAT THEY'D BE THE BETTER FOR IT.
• 02:53 IT HAD BEEN HUNDREDS OF YEARS SINCE ISRAEL HAD SOMEONE LIKE HIM.
• 02:58 MOSHE RABANU, MOSES, WAS A RELIGIOUS SORT BUT HE WAS A SPIRITED SOLDIER.
• 03:04 JOSHUA FIRED UP THE NATIONAL SPIRIT WITH ENTHUSIASM
• 03:09 AS HE WITH HIS INTREPID BOLD SPIRIT FOLLOWED IN MOSES' FOOTSTEPS.
• 03:15 BUT AFTER THAT THE WHOLE THING FELL APART.
• 03:18 FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS THERE WASN'T A NATIONAL HERO
• 03:23 AND PEOPLE JUST WENT TO THEIR OWN HOMES, THEY WENT THEIR OWN WAY
• 03:27 AND ISRAELITE LIFE SLIPPED INTO DECAY, DESPAIR AND DISORIENTATION.
• 03:35 SAUL HELD THE BANNER FOR A SEASON
• 03:38 AND IT WAS HIS JOB TO TAKE THE SWORD OUT OF THE SHEATH AND FIGHT ISRAEL'S BATTLES
• 03:44 BUT SAUL WAS INDEPENDENT MINDED AND HE LOST THE JOB.
• 03:49 GOD SAID, "ENOUGH ALREADY".
• 03:51 HE PROVED HIMSELF UN-MANAGEABLE, UN-TEACHABLE, COULDN'T WORK WITH HIM,
• 03:56 MORE CONCERNED WITH WHAT PEOPLE THOUGHT THAN WHAT GOD THOUGHT
• 04:00 AND SO ATTENTION SHIFTED TO THE HOUSE OF JESSE
• 04:03 WHERE THE LORD ALIGHTED UPON A FELLOW NAMED DAVID.
• 04:09 THE WORD "DAVID"
• 04:10 COMES FROM THE WORD
• 04:11 MEANING "BELOVED"
• 04:14 AND BELOVED DAVID WORKED HIS WAY INTO THE HEARTS OF ISRAEL AND ISRAEL WAS THE BETTER FOR IT.
• 04:21 BUT THERE WAS ONE HEART THAT WAS NOT THE LEAST BIT KINDLY DISPOSED TOWARD HIS ARRIVAL.
• 04:28 WE READ HERE...AND BY HERE I MEAN IN I SAMUEL, CHAPTER 18,
• 04:33 THAT FOLLOWING A SKIRMISH WITH THE PHILISTINES WE'RE TOLD IN VERSE 7
• 04:41 THAT THE WOMEN CAME OUT WITH TAMBOURINE IN HAND, CELEBRATED, AND THEY SANG AND I QUOTE...
• 04:50 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 04:59 YOU GO SAUL!
• 05:01 AND THEN,
• 05:03 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 05:10 AND LISTEN TO ME, SAUL WAS FIT TO BE TIED.
• 05:15 I DON'T KNOW IF WOMEN UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH OF AN AFFECT THAT THEY HAVE ON THE MALES OF THE SPECIES IN SO MANY WAYS.
• 05:21 SAUL WAS SO SENSITIVE TO HOW THE WOMEN PERCEIVED HIM
• 05:25 AND BEING WRAPPED UP IN HIMSELF AS HE WAS, HE KNEW THAT HE WAS ON THE OUTS WITH GOD.
• 05:31 AND WHEN HE SAW DAVID'S RISE HE BECAME DAVID'S ENEMY HENCEFORTH AND FOREVERMORE ALL THE WAY TO THE GRAVE.
• 05:42 DIFFICULTIES NOT WITHSTANDING AGAINST THE BACKDROP
• 05:45 OF A MONARCH WHO IS FOREVER TRYING TO KILL HIM
• 05:48 DAVID STILL ROSE AND GREW HIGHER AND HIGHER AND HIGHER.
• 05:53 AND MY WORD TO YOU IS YOU MAY WELL HAVE A SAUL IN YOUR LIFE
• 05:56 OR A SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES THAT'S HOLDING YOU BACK THAT'S INDEED ADVERSARIAL.
• 06:02 EVERY TIME YOU TURN AROUND SOMEONE FOR REASONS OF THEIR OWN
• 06:05 IS LOOKING TO KNOCK THE LEGS OUT FROM UNDERNEATH YOU.
• 06:08 DIFFICULTIES NOT WITHSTANDING WHEN WE LOOK AT THE WARRIOR KING
• 06:12 WE'RE GOING TO SEE A STORY OF A MAN WHO WAS NOT TO BE STOPPED.
• 06:16 WE'RE GOING TO SEE A STORY OF A MAN WHO OVERCAME ADVERSITY, WHO OVERCAME THE "SAULS" IN HIS LIFE
• 06:22 AND HE HAD MORE THAN ONE PROBLEM,
• 06:24 SAUL WAS A PERENNIAL ONE, BUT WHEN SAUL DISSIPATED THERE WERE OTHERS.
• 06:28 BUT DIFFICULTIES NOT WITHSTANDING AT THE END OF DAVID'S ADMINISTRATION
• 06:32 ISRAEL WHICH WAS 6,000 MILES WAS THEN 60,000 MILES.
• 06:38 DAVID LEFT HIS MARK THROUGH SONG AND MANY OF THEM WERE SUNG IN HIS WAKE
• 06:43 WHERE DAVID UNDER HIS ADMINISTRATION TAUGHT PEOPLE
• 06:46 THAT WITH GOD WE CAN OVERCOME LIFE'S OBSTACLES
• 06:50 AND GET THE BETTER OF LIFE'S VEXING DILEMMAS.
• 06:55 AT FIRST OUR LEADERS WERE FEARFUL ABOUT THE PROPHET'S VISIT TO BETHLEHEM.
• 06:59 BUT FATHER ASSURED US THAT THIS MAN OF GOD, SAMUEL, WAS HERE ON A HOLY MISSION.
• 07:05 GOD HAD TOLD HIM THAT ONE OF US WOULD BE SELECTED AS ISRAEL'S NEXT KING.
• 07:11 FATHER WAS SURE THAT IT WOULD BE MY BROTHER ELIAB
• 07:15 BUT THE PROPHET ASKED TO SEE MY NEXT BROTHER AND THEN THE NEXT.
• 07:20 HE LOOKED AT ALL MY BROTHERS AND IN EACH CASE SAID "THE LORD HAS NOT CHOSEN THIS MAN".
• 07:27 FINALLY THE PROPHET SAID TO FATHER, "DO YOU HAVE ANYMORE SONS?"
• 07:33 FATHER TOLD HIM HE HAD ONE MORE.
• 07:36 DAVID WAS YOUNG AND HANDSOME AND ACCORDING TO SAMUEL WAS THE ONE GOD HAD CHOSEN TO BE ANOINTED.
• 07:54 THINGS CHANGED FOREVER THAT DAY FOR MY BROTHER DAVID AND FOR ALL OF ISRAEL.
• 08:04 I BELIEVE THAT THE NEW TESTAMENT IS A VERY, VERY, VERY JEWISH STORY.
• 08:08 WELL I'M KIND OF DIFFERENT.
• 08:09 NOT EVERYBODY SEES IT THAT WAY.
• 08:11 THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW ACTUALLY IS WRITTEN IN HEBREW FIRST.
• 08:14 WE ONLY HAVE GREEK TEXT NOW. IT STARTS OFF,
• 08:17 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 08:30 I THINK IT'S A GREAT STORY.
• 08:31 JESUS CHRIST...
• 08:33 YOU KNOW WHEN I GREW UP I THOUGHT HIS FATHER AND MOTHER WERE MR. AND MRS. "CHRIST".
• 08:37 BUT I WAS MINDED THAT ACTUALLY "CHRIST" ITSELF IS A GREEK TELLING OF THE HEBREW "MASHIACH", "MESSIAH".
• 08:46 AND THE WORD "MESSIAH" ITSELF COMES FROM A WORD IN HEBREW "ANOINTED ONE".
• 08:52 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 08:54 BECAUSE IN THE TORAH THERE WERE INDIVIDUALS THAT WHEN THEY CAME TO OFFICE THEY WERE ANOINTED,
• 09:01 PROPHETS, PRIESTS AND KINGS AND THEY WERE ANOINTED WITH OIL.
• 09:05 AND HERE WE ARE IN AN OIL MAKING FACTORY JUST LIKE IT WAS IN BIBLE DAYS.
• 09:14 AND HERE THE OLIVES ARE PUT IN AND THEY'RE GROUND DOWN.
• 09:18 THERE'S A NUMBER OF GRINDING DOWN PROCESSES TO GET THE FRUIT OF THE OLIVE,
• 09:24 TO PUT THE OLIVES UNDER PRESSURE.
• 09:27 AND YOU KNOW ON ONE LEVEL IT KIND OF WORKS TO MY WAY OF THINKING
• 09:32 THAT LEADERS GET UNDER THE OLIVE OIL, YOU KNOW,
• 09:37 THAT WHICH IS PRODUCED THROUGH ALL THIS PRESSURE.
• 09:39 CAUSE THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS WHEN INDIVIDUALS STEP UP TO LEAD
• 09:44 THEY STEP UP INTO A WORLD WHERE THERE'S LOTS OF PRESSURES.
• 09:49 OUR STORY TAKES PLACE TODAY AGAINST THE BACKDROP
• 09:53 OF DAVID BEING VISITED BY SAMUEL THE PROPHET.
• 09:59 CAME TO BETHLEHEM AND HE CAME TO THE HOUSE OF JESSE AND HE SAID, "LET ME SEE YOUR BOYS".
• 10:06 "SOMETHING TELLS ME I'M IN FOR SOMETHING GOOD" SAYS JESSE.
• 10:10 THOSE BOYS ARE MARCHED ONE AFTER THE OTHER.
• 10:12 "I'M PLANNING ON ANOINTING ONE" SAYS THE PROPHET...BUT NOTHING.
• 10:16 FINALLY AFTER COMING UP EMPTY THE PROPHET LOOKS AT DAD
• 10:19 AND SAYS "DON'T YOU HAVE ANYBODY ELSE?"
• 10:22 "WELL, COME TO THINK OF IT WE DO."
• 10:25 "WE HAVE DAVIE, THAT KID, OUT THERE."
• 10:26 TO ME ITS STRIKING THAT HIS OWN FATHER DIDN'T THINK HIGHLY OF HIM,
• 10:31 THAT DAVID WAS A LOSER IN HIS FATHER'S EYES SO MUCH SO
• 10:34 THAT WHEN THE PROPHET CAME TO THE HOUSE AND SAID,
• 10:38 "LET ME SEE YOUR BOYS"
• 10:39 DAVID WASN'T EVEN INCLUDED IN THE LIST.
• 10:41 AND THE FACT THAT DAVID IS DISRESPECTED
• 10:42 NOT JUST BY THE FATHER BUT BY HIS BROTHERS LATER ON
• 10:46 WHEN DAVID COMES TO THE ARMY BRINGING FOOD STAPLES.
• 10:48 TALKING ABOUT TAKING ON GOLIATH, HIS BROTHERS...
• 10:51 "OH SHUT UP DAVID!"
• 10:53 "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?"
• 10:54 "GO TEND TO YOUR LOUSY LITTLE SHEEP."
• 10:55 THE KIND OF DISRESPECT THAT DAVID HAD IS STRIKING.
• 10:58 GOD TAKES THIS GUY OUT OF NOWHERE WHO'S A NOBODY
• 11:02 AND BRINGS HIM SOMEWHERE AND TURNS HIM INTO A SOMEBODY.
• 11:05 AND LET ME TELL YOU THAT'S ALL ABOUT THE CALL OF GOD.
• 11:08 THE RABBIS EXPLAIN WHY IT IS THAT DAVID WAS SO MARGINALIZED IN HIS FAMILY SYSTEM.
• 11:15 THERE ARE VARIOUS ARGUMENTS PUT FORTH,
• 11:17 ONE OF WHICH IS THAT DAVID HIMSELF WAS BORN OUT OF AN ADULTEROUS RELATIONSHIP
• 11:22 WHICH WOULD EXPLAIN WHY HIS BROTHERS
• 11:24 WHO CONSTRUED THEIR COMING INTO THE FAMILY MORE LEGITIMATELY
• 11:27 WOULD LOOK AT HIM DISPARAGINGLY.
• 11:29 YOU MIGHT RECALL THE PSALM WHERE DAVID SAYS,
• 11:34 AND AGAIN SOME RABBIS ATTRIBUTE IT TO JUST THAT.
• 11:37 OTHERS ARGUE THAT MUCH AS DAVID'S GRANDMOTHER WAS A MOABITESS,
• 11:41 SO WAS HIS MOTHER OF NON-JEWISH EXTRACT HERSELF.
• 11:44 THIS COULD EXPLAIN WHY SOME OF THE OTHER BROTHERS MARGINALIZED DAVID.
• 11:48 THE REASON WHY SOME PUT THAT FORTH IS BECAUSE WHEN DAVID WAS ON THE RUN FROM SAUL
• 11:52 HE GOES AND LEAVES HIS MOM WITH THE MOABITES AND THAT GIVES CREDENCE TO THAT NOTION.
• 11:57 IN ANY CASE WE'RE HERE IN THE TEXT WHERE THE PROPHET COMES TO THE HOUSE.
• 12:05 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 12:08 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 12:10 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 12:15 DAVID, THAT NOBODY GUY, GETS THE OIL.
• 12:19 WE'RE TOLD,
• 12:19 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 12:26 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 12:34 AND THEN,
• 12:35 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 12:43 GOD CALLS ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE.
• 12:46 WE HAVE PEOPLE THAT ARE APPOINTED AS LEADERS
• 12:49 AND HERE WE HAVE PEOPLE THAT ARE ANOINTED.
• 12:51 I SAY THREE CHEERS FOR THE CALL OF GOD!
• 12:54 IT'S AVAILABLE NOT JUST FOR DAVID AND FOR ME BUT FOR YOU.
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• 13:42 OH, I TELL YOU,
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• 13:45 IT'S JUST SUCH A PRIVILEGE
• 13:48 TO BE ABLE TO COME
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• 14:39 AN OFFER THAT'S COMING LATER IN THIS PROGRAM IS A BOOK THAT I WROTE SOME TIME AGO,
• 14:43 NOT LONG AGO CALLED "GUNS AND MOSES".
• 14:46 IT'S ABOUT THE LEGITIMACY OF THE USE OF FORCE.
• 14:50 UNPLEASANT AS IT IS SOMETIMES A MAN'S GOT TO DO WHAT A MAN'S GOT TO DO.
• 14:55 SOMETIMES A BIBLICAL MAN HAS TO STAND UP AND DECIDE WHAT'S WORTH CONTENDING FOR
• 15:00 AND I BELIEVE IN THAT PERSONALLY.
• 15:02 AND FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT THINK THAT'S NOT BIBLICAL,
• 15:05 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE THINKING THAT AFTER YOU READ "GUNS AND MOSES".
• 15:09 WELL NEVER MIND MY BOOK, BACK TO GOD'S BOOK NOW AS WE CONSIDER THE STORY OF DAVID AND GOLIATH.
• 15:16 OH HE FOUGHT HIM AND BROUGHT HIM DOWN;
• 15:19 GOD WAS WITH HIM IN THE PROCESS
• 15:20 AND OFF TO THAT STORY WE GO AS WE LOOK AT THE WARRIOR KING DAVID
• 15:25 AND CONSIDER THE NEED FOR DAVID-LIKE LEADERSHIP IN GOLIATH-LIKE TIMES.
• 15:32 DAVID ONLY NEEDED ONE SMOOTH STONE BUT HE SELECTED FIVE.
• 15:42 WAITING FOR HIM WAS THE BIGGEST MAN ANYONE HAD EVER SEEN.
• 15:46 OVER NINE FEET TALL HIS ARMOR ALONE WEIGHED AS MUCH AS A MAN.
• 15:50 HIS IRON SPEAR WAS GREATER THAN FIFTEEN POUNDS.
• 15:54 GOLIATH HAD TAUNTED US UNMERCIFULLY FOR FORTY DAYS!
• 16:00 THEN ONE DAY THE SHEPHERD BOY, DAVID, THE SON OF JESSE,
• 16:06 CONFRONTED THE PHILISTINE BEAST WITH HIS SLING AND THAT ONE SINGLE STONE.
• 16:22 IT WAS A DAY THAT ALL ISRAEL SHALL NEVER FORGET.
• 16:24 HOW PROUD WE WERE.
• 16:26 WE WERE SERVING IN THE ARMY OF THE LIVING GOD.
• 16:36 THE WORD "SEIF" COMES FROM THE GERMAN MEANING "SOAP".
• 16:42 IT DOESN'T BRING OUT THE MACHISMO SPIRIT IN ME TO BE SURE
• 16:45 BUT MY PARENTS ARE OF GERMAN-JEWISH EXTRACT.
• 16:47 THE WORD "SEIF" HAS ANOTHER NAME IN ARABIC, IT MEANS "SWORD".
• 16:52 I PREFER THAT BUT I CAN'T CLAIM THAT.
• 16:54 HOWEVER, WHEN I THINK OF THE FAITH THAT I HAVE THROUGH THE MESSIAH, THROUGH THE SCRIPTURE,
• 17:00 I CAN CLAIM THAT "SWORD" KIND OF VALIANT SPIRIT
• 17:03 AND THE REASON IS, IS BECAUSE I WANT TO WALK IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF DAVID.
• 17:07 WE ARE CONSIDERING A MAN WHO AGAINST ALL ODDS
• 17:12 JUMPED INTO THE FRAY AND ACCOMPLISHED GREAT THINGS IN LIFE.
• 17:18 I BELIEVE BY THE WAY THAT HE NEEDN'T BE AN ANOMALY.
• 17:21 I THINK ALL OF US CAN DO MUCH THE SAME.
• 17:24 DAVID DIDN'T HAVE MUCH TO BEGIN WITH.
• 17:26 HE DIDN'T HAVE A SWORD IN HAND.
• 17:27 IN FACT DAVID WAS KNOWN FOR A STONE.
• 17:31 DAVID DIDN'T KILL GOLIATH WITH A STONE AS IS OFTEN SUPPOSED.
• 17:37 HE STUNNED HIM WITH IT.
• 17:39 IN FACT, I THINK GOLIATH WAS CAUGHT OFF GUARD IN SO MANY WAYS THAT DAY WASN'T HE?
• 17:44 HE STUNNED HIM WITH IT, KNOCKED HIM OUT.
• 17:45 AND IT MAY WELL BE THAT AS GOLIATH WAS COMING TO,
• 17:50 HE JUST LIVED TO SEE THE INGLORIOUS MOMENT WHEN HE WAS SLAIN BY HIS OWN SWORD.
• 17:57 DAVID THEN TOOK THE SWORD AS WELL AS THE HEAD AS TROPHIES, AS BOOTIES, AS A PLUNDER OF WAR.
• 18:02 THERE'S A GREAT STORY THERE, NOT THAT I GLORY IN ANY DEATH,
• 18:06 BUT I AM REMINDED OF A BASIC BIBLICAL PRINCIPLE...THIS IS BIBLE 101...
• 18:10 AND THAT IS THAT FAITH CAN, DOES AND WILL MOVE MOUNTAINS.
• 18:15 IT'S ALL ABOUT US AT ONE LEVEL.
• 18:17 BY THAT I MEAN...DO WE WANT TO EXERCISE FAITH AND GET ON WITH THE PURSUIT OF THE FUTURE?
• 18:22 THE WORD "CONFIDENCE" COMES FROM THE LATIN WORD "CON FIDES",
• 18:27 A CONFLATION OF WORDS MEANING "WITH FAITH".
• 18:31 WE'RE LOOKING AT A STORY HERE WHERE DAVID LEARNED IT THAT DAY ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE.
• 18:35 AND LET ME TELL YOU THAT SO MANY THINGS IN LIFE ARE REALLY LEARNED ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE.
• 18:40 IF WE WANT TO HAVE TESTIMONY WITH THE LORD, WELL THAT'S GREAT,
• 18:44 IT'S GOOD TO HAVE A TESTIMONY.
• 18:46 BUT IF WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A TESTIMONY WE GOT TO HAVE A, QUOTE, "TEST" FIRST.
• 18:49 AND LIFE PRESENTS WITH A LOT OF CHALLENGES BUT CHALLENGES ARE OPPORTUNITIES WITH WORK CLOTHES.
• 18:54 WE JUST HAVE TO RISE UP AND MEET THEM HEAD ON.
• 18:56 AND DAVID DID THAT DIDN'T HE?
• 18:58 OTHERS WERE AFRAID... THEY WERE DAUNTED BY THIS TOWERING GOLIATH.
• 19:03 BUT DAVID REALLY THOUGHT THAT THE BIGGER THEY WERE THE HARDER THEY FALL
• 19:05 AND HE JUST JUMPED INTO THE FRAY AND THE REST IS HISTORY.
• 19:10 IN THE BOOK, SAMUEL, CHAPTER 17
• 19:14 I WANT YOU TO READ WITH ME HERE. WE'RE TOLD,
• 19:18 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 19:25 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 19:32 BUT THEN WHAT HE SAYS AS A FOLLOW UP IS JUST EMBLAZONED IN BIBLICAL MEMORY.
• 19:37 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 19:46 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 19:48 "...THE LORD OF THE ARMIES."
• 19:50 I WANT YOU TO HEAR ME FOR A SECOND.
• 19:52 WE LIVE IN PRECARIOUS TIMES
• 19:57 AND I'M NOT JUST SPEAKING ABOUT WORLD CULTURE AND INDIVIDUAL NATION STATES.
• 20:02 BUT THE WORLD IS A VERY PRECARIOUS PLACE
• 20:05 AND VARIOUS NATIONS ARE IN THE THROWS OF DESPAIR IN SO MANY WAYS.
• 20:09 WHEN I THINK OF HOUSEHOLD UNITS THAT ARE BASIC BUILDING BLOCKS OF ANY SOCIETY
• 20:14 JUST LIKE THERE'S PILLARS HERE HOLDING UP THIS HOUSE,
• 20:17 SO TOO THE FAMILY IS A BASIC BUILDING BLOCK.
• 20:20 THE FAMILY IS BEING ASSAILED, THERE ARE CHALLENGES TODAY.
• 20:23 WELL WHO IS OR ISN'T PRESIDENT ISN'T AS IMPORTANT.
• 20:27 WHAT SOCIAL PROGRAMS ARE ON THE TABLE ISN'T AS IMPORTANT.
• 20:30 WHAT'S IMPORTANT IS THAT WE LIKE DAVID RISE UP WITH FAITH
• 20:35 BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT FAITH CAN AND WILL PAY DIVIDENDS, FAITH IN JESUS, ISRAEL'S MESSIAH.
• 20:45 (Jeff speaking) AND NOW...
• 20:47 FROM THE BEAUTIFUL SANCTUARY OF THE KING OF KINGS PAVILION IN THE HEART OF JERUSALEM
• 20:53 PAUL WILBUR JOINS US IN SONG.
• 21:03 ♪LET GOD ARISE♪
• 21:08 ♪LET GOD ARISE♪
• 21:13 ♪LET GOD ARISE♪
• 21:18 ♪LET GOD ARISE♪
• 21:24 ♪LET HIS ENEMIES BE SEVERED♪
• 21:27 ♪AND LET THE RIGHTEOUS BE GLAD
• 21:30 ♪YES, LET THEM REJOICE WITH GLADNESS♪
• 21:34 ♪GOD HAS TRIUMPHED MIGHTILY♪
• 21:39 ♪LET GOD ARISE♪
• 21:44 ♪LET GOD ARISE♪
• 21:49 ♪LET GOD ARISE♪
• 21:54 ♪LET GOD ARISE♪
• 21:59 ♪LET GOD ARISE♪
• 22:04 ♪LET GOD ARISE♪
• 22:09 ♪RONI RONI BAT ZION♪
• 22:13 ♪HARIU YISRAEL♪
• 22:17 ♪SIMCHI V'ALTISI B'CHOL LEV♪
• 22:20 ♪BAT YERUSHALAYIM♪
• 22:23 ♪REJOICE, REJOICE♪
• 22:25 ♪DAUGHTER OF ZION♪
• 22:27 ♪SHOUT OUT ALOUD ISRAEL♪
• 22:30 ♪SING, REJOICE WITH ALL YOUR HEART O JERUSALEM♪
• 22:36 ♪FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD IN THE MIDST OF YOU♪
• 22:40 ♪MIGHTY IS HIS NAME♪
• 22:44 ♪REJOICING OVER YOU WITH SONGS OF GLADNESS SINGING JOYFULLY♪
• 22:48 ♪HE WILL SAVE US♪
• 22:50 ♪REJOICE, REJOICE♪
• 22:52 ♪DAUGHTER OF ZION♪
• 22:53 ♪SHOUT OUT ALOUD ISRAEL♪
• 22:56 ♪SING, REJOICE WITH ALL YOUR HEART O JERUSALEM♪
• 23:03 ♪RONI RONI BAT ZION♪
• 23:07 ♪HARIU YISRAEL♪
• 23:10 ♪SIMCHI V'ALTISI B'CHOL LEV♪
• 23:13 ♪BAT YERUSHALAYIM♪
• 23:17 ♪BAT YERUSHALAYIM♪
• 23:20 ♪BAT YERUSHALAYIM♪ ♪
• 23:25 HALLELUJAH! (CROWD CHEERS)
• 23:32 THAT WAS PAUL WILBUR.
• 23:33 AND IN CASE YOU DON'T KNOW THAT INTEGRITY RECORDING ARTIST,
• 23:37 I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT PAUL IS ONE OF THE MOST BELOVED PRAISE AND WORSHIP ARTISTS
• 23:44 IN CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIANITY TODAY...A MESSIANIC JEW I MIGHT ADD
• 23:50 AND A LONG STANDING FRIEND OF MINE,
• 23:52 A FRIEND OF THIS MINISTRY AND NOW TO YOU A NEW FRIEND
• 23:56 AS PAUL JOINS US ON THIS 8 PART SERIES WHERE WE LOOK AT ANOTHER MESSIANIC JEWISH SONGWRITER, DAVID HIMSELF.
• 24:08 AND TALK ABOUT JEWISH SONGWRITERS
• 24:10 OFF WE GO NOW TO ZOLA LEVITT, NOT IN SONG THIS TIME
• 24:15 BUT AS ZOLA REMINDS US WHEN HE LOOKS AT THE BIBLE BEGINNING WITH DAVID AND GOLIATH
• 24:20 AND GOING ON FROM THERE THAT WE NEED NOT FEAR WHEN WE'RE WALKING WITH THE LORD.
• 24:26 (Zola speaking)
• 24:58 AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED,
• 25:00 WE ALL KNOW THAT STORY.
• 25:02 FELLED THE GIANT WITH ONE SMOOTH STONE RIGHT IN THE FOREHEAD,
• 25:06 TOOK THE MAMMOTH'S OWN SWORD, DECAPITATED HIM AND THE BATTLE WAS THE LORD'S AGAIN.
• 25:12 YOU KNOW EVEN IN THE GOSPEL THE DISCIPLES LOSE THEIR COURAGE FROM TIME TO TIME.
• 25:19 THERE'S THE STORY OF THE BOAT IN LUKE, CHAPTER 8...IT SAYS,
• 25:31 AND ANYWAY THAT STORM COMES UP...THE LORD SPEAKS TO THE WIND AND TO THE STORM
• 25:35 AND HE TELLS IT "PEACE BE STILL" AND THEY SAY,
• 25:38 "WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS"
• 25:40 "THAT HE COULD TALK TO THE STORM"
• 25:42 "AND IT LISTENS TO HIM?"
• 25:44 THE LESSON IS WRAPPED UP IN HEBREWS, CHAPTER 13;
• 25:47 VERSE 5 SAYS JUST THIS...
• 26:04 THE SERIES SUBTITLE,
• 26:06 "DAVID-LIKE LEADERSHIP FOR GOLIATH-LIKE TIMES"
• 26:08 CATCHES ME AS INTERESTING
• 26:11 AND I HOPE IT CATCHES YOU.
• 26:14 AND I HOPE IT PROMPTS YOU TO YOUR KNEES
• 26:18 BECAUSE BY VIRTUE OF YOUR MAKING PEACE WITH YOUR MAKER
• 26:22 YOU CAN BECOME THAT DAVID-LIKE BIBLICAL LEADER
• 26:26 AND HAVE RESOURCES TO CONFRONT YOUR GOLIATH-LIKE TIMES.
• 26:31 WHETHER YOU'RE CONTENDING WITH YOUR OWN NATURE,
• 26:35 WHETHER YOU'RE CONTENDING WITH CIRCUMSTANCES AROUND YOU
• 26:38 I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT WE HAVE A GOD WHO LOVES YOU,
• 26:42 WHO HAS A WONDERFUL AND PERFECT PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE
• 26:46 AND THAT PLAN BEGINS WHEN YOU BEGIN.
• 26:51 SO AS I CLOSE LET ME REMIND YOU
• 26:53 THAT IF YOU WALK WITH GOD THERE'S BRAND NEW BEGINNINGS.
• 26:56 PRAY TO HIM, SEEK HIM, FIND A GOOD CHURCH
• 26:59 AND AS YOU GO NOW, SHA 'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
• 27:03 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.