Caption transcript for Sar Shalom: “Sermon on the Mount” (1/8)

• 01:01 A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 01:03 JEFFREY SEIF HERE
• 01:04 AND I AM PLEASED, THRILLED IN FACT,
• 01:06 TO WELCOME YOU TO ANOTHER EDITION OF ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 01:10 WHAT ARE WE PRESENTING?
• 01:12 A STORY ON JESUS.
• 01:14 WE CALL HIM YESHUA FROM THE HEBREW, JESUS IN THE ENGLISH.
• 01:19 I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU CALL HIM
• 01:20 I JUST CARE THAT YOU GET TO KNOW HIM
• 01:23 AND TO THAT END WE GO NOW TO THE SEA OF GALILEE
• 01:26 AT AREAS ROUND ABOUT TO LOOK AT THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD.
• 01:34 AND JESUS WENT ABOUT ALL GALILEE TEACHING IN THEIR SYNAGOGUES
• 01:38 AND PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM.
• 01:41 SEEING THE MULTITUDES HE WENT UP INTO A MOUNTAIN
• 01:46 AND HIS DISCIPLES CAME UNTO HIM AND HE TAUGHT THEM SAYING,
• 03:04 HIS NAME IS YESHUA,
• 03:06 IT'S A HEBREW NAME.
• 03:08 IT COMES FROM A HEBREW VERB MEANING TO SAVE, TO DELIVER OR TO REDEEM.
• 03:13 AND IF THERE EVER WAS A PERSON WHO LIVED UP TO THEIR NAME,
• 03:17 THIS WAS THAT PERSON.
• 03:20 WORD OF HIS DOING JUST THAT, HELPING, HEALING, MAKING WHOLE, DELIVERING...
• 03:26 WORD OF ALL THAT WENT OUT IN ADVANCE OF HIM
• 03:30 WITH THE NET RESULT THAT THOUSANDS THRONGED TO HIM.
• 03:34 MATTHEW TELLS US IN CHAPTER 4, VERSES 23-25, THAT THEY CAME,
• 03:39 PEOPLE HEARD THAT HE HEALED AND THEY WERE DESPAIRING, THEY WERE VEXED, PERPLEXED...
• 03:45 THEY NEEDED SOME HELP AND THEY HEARD THAT HE DELIVERED,
• 03:49 AND HE DID DELIVER
• 03:51 NOT JUST WORDS BUT DEEDS.
• 03:52 BUT BECAUSE HE WAS KINDLY DISPOSED TOWARD THEM,
• 03:56 BECAUSE THEY BENEFITED BY VIRTUE OF THEIR BRIEF ASSOCIATION WITH THEM,
• 04:00 THEY WERE A MIND TO COME TO THIS PLACE AND HEAR WHAT HE HAD TO SAY.
• 04:06 AND WHAT IS THIS PLACE?
• 04:08 WELL THERE'S THE GALILEE ON ONE SIDE,
• 04:10 THE MOUNT WHERE THE SO-CALLED SERMON ON THE MOUNT WAS TRANSACTED ON THE OTHER.
• 04:16 PERSONALLY, THE TERM "SERMON ON THE MOUNT" DOESN'T ABIDE WITH ME...
• 04:20 IN PART BECAUSE IT JUST SOUNDS SO BORING LIKE...
• 04:23 "SERMON ON THE MOUNT" AS IF JESUS IS THERE LECTURING PEOPLE.
• 04:28 ACTUALLY I'D PREFER "TORAH FROM THE TOP"
• 04:31 AND THE WORD "TORAH" IS A HEBREW WORD FOR "TEACHING".
• 04:35 THERE YESHUA WENT UP TO THE MOUNTAIN AND HE OPENED HIS MOUTH
• 04:39 AND I THINK WE DO WELL TO BEGIN TO CONSIDER EXACTLY WHAT HE HAD TO SAY.
• 04:44 LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION.
• 04:45 IN AS MUCH AS YESHUA, JESUS, OPENED UP HIS MOUTH TO SPEAK TO THEM,
• 04:51 CAN YOU BE AT A PLACE IN YOUR LIFE...
• 04:54 YES YOUR VERY, VERY, VERY BUSY LIFE
• 04:57 WHERE YOU CAN OPEN UP YOUR HEART TO LISTEN...
• 05:01 TO LISTEN DEEPLY...
• 05:03 NOT TO ME BUT TO WHAT THE LORD MIGHT BE SAYING TO YOU
• 05:08 AS YOU EXAMINE WITH ME THE ESSENCE AND THE SUBSTANCE
• 05:12 OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AUTHENTICALLY CHRISTIAN
• 05:16 OR "CHRIST-LIKE" IN THIS WORLD.
• 05:19 THE REASON WHY I SAY THAT IS BECAUSE CHURCHES CAN AND DO,
• 05:24 AND UNDERSTANDABLY SO, DEVELOP VARIOUS CREEDS.
• 05:28 BUT HERE WE HEAR FROM THE BOSS HIMSELF ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS TO BE CHRISTIAN.
• 05:33 I'VE OFTEN SAID THAT IF YOU WERE ON AN OCEAN LINER
• 05:36 AND YOU JUST OPENED UP THE BIBLE
• 05:38 AND CUT OUT MATTHEW CHAPTER 5, 6 AND 7,
• 05:41 STUFFED IT IN A BOTTLE,
• 05:43 PUT A CORK ON IT AND THREW IT OVERBOARD,
• 05:46 AND IF SOMEONE ON SOME DESERT ISLAND SOMEWHERE
• 05:48 WHO WAS MAROONED ON A BEACH
• 05:50 SAW THIS BOTTLE SWEEP ON TO THE SHORE AND OPENED IT UP
• 05:53 AND IF THEY READ IT,
• 05:54 IF THEY KNEW NOTHING ABOUT JESUS BEFOREHAND,
• 05:57 JUST BY READING THIS SO-CALLED SERMON ON THE MOUNT AND COMING TO TERMS WITH IT
• 06:01 THEY COULD UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A ESSENTIALLY A FOLLOWER OF JESUS.
• 06:08 IT'S AN IMPORTANT STORY, THIS SO-CALLED SERMON ON THE MOUNT.
• 06:12 I'M GLAD THAT YOU'VE OPTED TO GO ON THE JOURNEY WITH ME IF FOR BUT A HALF HOUR
• 06:17 TO BEGIN TO EXPLORE WHAT JESUS SAID.
• 06:20 I HONESTLY BELIEVE THAT YOU'LL BE BETTER BY VIRTUE OF SO DOING
• 06:25 AND I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME
• 06:27 AND INVESTING THE ENERGIES TO WANT TO SIT DOWN AND HEAR WHAT JESUS HAS TO SAY
• 06:32 AS I SPEAK TO YOU FROM THIS PLACE, THE PLACE OF THE ONCE GREAT SERMON ON THE MOUNT.
• 06:44 BLESSED ARE THE POOR IN SPIRIT
• 06:47 BLESSED ARE THE MEEK, THE MERCIFUL, THE PURE IN HEART
• 06:56 ON A BLEAK WINTER'S DAY A HELPLESS MAN SITS AT THE CITY GATE
• 07:00 SHIVERING IN THE BITTER COLD.
• 07:04 ONE BY ONE THEY PASS HIM,
• 07:06 THIS WRETCHED SOUL,
• 07:09 THIS OUTCAST.
• 07:11 AND THEN FROM THE SHADOWS
• 07:13 STEPS ONE WHO'S HEART IS PURE
• 07:16 AND WHO'S CLOAK IS WARM.
• 07:21 REJOICE AND BE GLAD
• 07:24 FOR GREAT IS YOUR REWARD IN HEAVEN.
• 07:34 WHAT DID THE LORD SAY WHEN HE OPENED UP THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT?
• 07:37 HE GOES ON RECORD WITH AND I QUOTE,
• 07:40 "BLESSED ARE THE POOR IN SPIRIT,"
• 07:42 "BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO MOURN,"
• 07:44 "BLESSED ARE THE MEEK..."
• 07:46 I'VE ASKED MYSELF ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION,
• 07:48 "PRAY TELL WHAT'S THE BLESSING IN BEING ALL MISERABLE?"
• 07:53 WELL, FIRST OF ALL BY WAY OF RESPONSE
• 07:57 THERE'S NOT A WHOLE LOT OF BLESSING IN BEING MISERABLE.
• 07:59 THE POINT HERE IS THAT WHAT WE CAN BE BLESSED ABOUT
• 08:02 IS THE FACT THAT THE POOR ARE GOING TO BE REWARDED;
• 08:05 THE MEEK ARE GOING TO INHERIT.
• 08:08 THE POINT IS WE CAN BE BLESSED BECAUSE THERE'S A BLESSING THAT'S COMING,
• 08:12 BECAUSE IF WE COME GOD'S WAY HE COMES OUR WAY,
• 08:16 HE DELIVERS US, HE HELPS US,
• 08:18 HE LIFTS PEOPLE UP OUT OF DIRE STRAIGHTS
• 08:21 AND ITS FOR THAT REASON THAT WE CAN BE BLESSED...
• 08:24 THAT'S JESUS' POINT IF I UNDERSTAND HIM CORRECTLY.
• 08:28 I THINK THE WORD "BLESSED" BY THE WAY CAN SOMEWHAT OBSCURE THE POINT.
• 08:33 THE REASON WHY I SAY THAT IS
• 08:34 THE "BLESSED" EXPRESSION IN THE ENGLISH BIBLE
• 08:37 COMES BY THE WAY OF THE GREEK "MAKARIOS"
• 08:41 WHICH ITSELF IF BETTER RENDERED FROM THE HEBREW "ASHREI"
• 08:45 WHICH MEANS NOT, BLESSED IN SOME RELIGIOUS SENSE,
• 08:47 BUT IT'S THE WORD "HAPPY".
• 08:50 HAPPY ARE THE POOR,
• 08:52 HAPPY ARE THE DISENFRANCHISED...
• 08:54 NOT BECAUSE THERE'S GREAT HAPPINESS IN BEING POOR AND DISENFRANCHISED,
• 08:57 BUT WHEN WE'RE BORN ANEW WE'RE BORN OF THE SON,
• 09:01 WE BECOME A KING'S RELATIVE AND THERE ARE BLESSINGS.
• 09:04 HE'S NOT GOING TO LEAVE US JUST WRAPPED AROUND THE AXLE...
• 09:08 THAT'S HIS POINT.
• 09:10 AND BY THE WAY THE POINT THAT JESUS MAKES
• 09:12 IN THE OPENING HERE IN THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT
• 09:14 IS VERY MUCH AKIN TO A POINT HE MAKES IN PSALM CHAPTER 1 WHICH I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU RIGHT NOW.
• 09:33 YOU MIGHT HAVE HEARD THAT BEFORE.
• 09:35 IN THE HEBREW IT BEGINS LIKE THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT.
• 09:38 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 09:40 HAPPY IS THE MAN WHO WALKS WITH THE LORD,
• 09:44 WHO DOESN'T ASSOCIATE WITH THE UNSCRUPULOUS.
• 09:47 AND WHY CAN THIS PERSON BE HAPPY?
• 09:50 OH HEAR THIS, IT IS SUCH A GOOD WORD ESPECIALLY FOR TODAY.
• 09:54 THE PSALMIST SAYS THIS PERSON IS LIKE A TREE
• 09:57 PLANTED BY RIVERS OF WATER
• 10:00 THAT BRINGS FORTH FRUIT IN ITS SEASON.
• 10:03 HE DESCRIBES AS WELL THAT IT TAKES ROOTS DEEP UNDER THE GROUND.
• 10:07 ABOVE GROUND THERE CAN BE A LACK OF RAIN,
• 10:11 THERE CAN BE SCORCHING HEAT,
• 10:13 THERE CAN BE DIFFICULTY
• 10:15 BUT THIS MAN WHO'S DELIGHT IS IN THE LORD AND HIS WAYS AND HIS PEOPLE...
• 10:18 HE IS CONNECTED TO A SOURCE THAT GIVES HIM NOURISHMENT
• 10:22 EVEN IF IT'S NOT AVAILABLE IN THE GENERAL ENVIRONMENT.
• 10:26 THE REASON WHY I SAY THAT AND THE REASON WHY I THINK THE LORD SAID THIS
• 10:30 IS BECAUSE PEOPLE CAN FIND THEMSELVES BESTED BY CIRCUMSTANCES.
• 10:34 THIS SURELY WAS THE CASE IN JESUS' DAY AND TODAY AS WELL.
• 10:38 GOODNESS, WE INHABIT A WORLD THAT'S RACKED BY ALL KINDS OF PROBLEMS.
• 10:43 THAT' S THE BAD NEWS
• 10:45 BUT THIS IS THE GOOD NEWS
• 10:48 AND THE GOOD NEWS ACCORDING TO YESHUA, JESUS,
• 10:51 HERE ON THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT
• 10:52 IS THAT GOD'S GOT A GOOD PLAN FOR YOU.
• 10:55 THAT'S THE WORD OF THE PSALMS AS WELL
• 10:57 THAT IF WE WALK WITH GOD,
• 10:58 IF WE TAKE HIM SERIOUSLY
• 11:00 THEN SIMILARLY HE IS GOING TO WALK WITH US AND PROVIDE FOR US,
• 11:04 DIFFICULTIES IN LIFE NOT WITHSTANDING.
• 11:08 THIS IS IN EFFECT THE GOOD NEWS
• 11:11 AND BY THE WAY
• 11:13 THE TERM "GOOD NEWS"
• 11:14 IN HEBREW "BSOWRAH",
• 11:17 IT SOUNDS LIKE A RELIGIOUS TERM,
• 11:18 THE GOOD NEWS, "BSOWRAH"
• 11:21 COMES FROM THE HEBREW "BASAR"
• 11:22 WHICH MEANS "FLESH"...
• 11:24 THAT IS TO SAY "SUBSTANCE"...
• 11:26 IT'S NOT JUST FLOWERY RHETORIC.
• 11:28 IN THE REAL WORLD ACCORDING TO THE TEXT IS A REAL GOD
• 11:32 AND HE'S REALLY INTERESTED IN TAKING CARE OF YOU.
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• 13:01 I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE THINKING AND FEELING IN LIFE
• 13:04 AND HOW COULD I?
• 13:05 BUT I KNOW THIS,
• 13:07 THAT IF YOU'D GO WITH ME THERE TO THE LAND OF JESUS,
• 13:11 JUST BEING THERE HAS A WAY OF CLEARING THE AIR
• 13:15 GIVING YOU A NEW HEAD FILLING YOU WITH INSPIRATION
• 13:19 AND INFORMATION TO HELP YOU MEET THE TROUBLES OF THE DAY.
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• 13:28 THE LATE ZOLA LEVITT AND DR. TOM MCCALL WROTE
• 13:31 "THE PROPHESIED MESSIAH"
• 13:34 THAT YOU MIGHT COME TO KNOW HIM IN THE MIND AND IN THE HEART.
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• 14:18 AND OFF WE GO BACK NOW TO THE LAND OF JESUS.
• 14:39 YOU ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
• 14:42 A LAMP IS NOT LIT TO BE PLACED UNDER A BASKET
• 14:46 BUT ON A LAMP STAND
• 14:48 AND IT GIVES LIGHT TO ALL WHO ARE IN THE HOUSE.
• 14:51 LET YOUR LIGHT SO SHINE BEFORE MEN
• 14:55 THAT THEY MAY SEE YOUR GOOD WORKS
• 14:58 AND GLORIFY YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN.
• 15:07 AT THE BASE OF THE MOUNT OF OLIVES
• 15:09 THERE'S A GARDEN CALLED "GAT SHAMNIE"
• 15:12 IN HEBREW...GETHSEMANE.
• 15:14 YOU MIGHT RECALL YESHUA, JESUS, WENT THERE TO PRAY
• 15:17 AND HE SWEAT BLOOD THAT LAST NIGHT,
• 15:20 THAT FATEFUL NIGHT.
• 15:21 IT'S INTERESTING IT SEEMS TO ME
• 15:24 THAT "SHEMEN" OR "OIL"
• 15:26 IS PRODUCED BY GETTING THE OLIVES TOGETHER AND PUTTING THEM UNDER PRESSURE.
• 15:30 AND THIS OIL IS EXTRACTED
• 15:33 THAT'S THEN USED TO MAKE "OHR"
• 15:35 FOR IN HEBREW "OHR" IS "LIGHT".
• 15:39 LIGHT FACTORS IN VARIOUS WAYS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT STORY.
• 15:43 THERE ARE MAIDENS THAT CARRY THE LIGHT TO PIERCE THE DARKNESS.
• 15:46 IN THE PASSAGE THAT I WANT TO CONSIDER WITH YOU IN THIS SEGMENT,
• 15:50 JESUS SAYS TO HIS "TALMIDIM",
• 15:52 TO HIS "DISCIPLES", QUOTE,
• 15:54 "YOU ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD."
• 15:57 HE DOESN'T JUST SAY THAT,
• 15:59 HE SAYS SIMILARLY IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 5,
• 16:01 THAT "YOU ARE "MELACH HA'ARETZ"
• 16:04 "YOU ARE THE SALT OF THE EARTH"
• 16:06 WHAT DOES THE LORD MEAN WHEN HE TELLS THE DISCIPLES THAT THEY'RE LIGHT, THAT THEY'RE SALT?
• 16:13 IT'S A REASONABLE QUESTION.
• 16:15 THAT THIS COMES ON THE HEELS OF JESUS TALKING ABOUT
• 16:18 "YOU'RE GOING TO EXPERIENCE PERSECUTION, REVILING, DIFFICULTIES"
• 16:22 ...SO FORTH AND SO ON,
• 16:24 IT'S NOT A VERY GOOD STORY
• 16:25 BUT TO FOLLOW UP AND SAY "LISTEN YOU'RE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD".
• 16:29 IT'S AN INTERESTING JUXTAPOSITION OF THEMES IT SEEMS TO ME
• 16:33 AND WHAT I GATHER FROM IT IS THAT THE SUFFERING,
• 16:37 THE TRIALS THAT WE CAN EXPERIENCE
• 16:40 PRODUCE SOMETHING IN US THAT ENABLE OTHERS TO SEE SOMETHING IN US
• 16:47 AND THUS TO THEN HAVE HOPE AND DIRECTION THROUGH US.
• 16:52 WHY DO I SAY THAT?
• 16:55 WELL I DIDN'T SAY IT,
• 16:56 JOHN WESLEY IN HIS OWN WAYS SAYS,
• 16:58 "IF YOU SET YOURSELF ON FIRE OTHER PEOPLE WILL COME TO SEE YOU BURN".
• 17:04 AND I'M NOT A BUDDHIST MONK OPTING FOR THAT KIND OF BUSINESS
• 17:08 BUT THE POINT IS THAT IF YOU'RE REALLY GOING THROUGH THE THICK OF IT
• 17:11 AND YOU KEEP YOUR GAME FACE ON, YOUR VIRTUE UP, YOUR FAITH, HOPE, YOUR LOVE...
• 17:16 EVEN AMIDST THE TURBULENCE OF TRYING TIMES
• 17:19 OTHERS ARE GOING TO COME AND TAKE A DEEP LOOK AT YOU AND SAY,
• 17:22 "WHAT DOES THAT PERSON HAVE?"
• 17:25 "THERE'S SOME WORTH THAT THAT PERSON POSSESSES."
• 17:29 THE REASON WHY I MENTION THAT,
• 17:32 AND THIS IS LOST TO MODERNS,
• 17:33 WHEN JESUS TELLS HIS DISCIPLES THAT "YOU ARE THE SALT OF THE EARTH"
• 17:38 HE'S TALKING ABOUT WORTH...
• 17:40 THE REASON WHY I SAY THAT IS THE TERM FOR SALT IS WHERE YOU GET THE TERM "SALARY" FROM,
• 17:47 THOUGH THAT'S LOST TO MODERNS.
• 17:49 DID YOU EVER HEAR THE OLD EXPRESSION "SO AND SO IS WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN SALT"?
• 17:54 THEY USED TO DIVVY OUT PAYMENTS TO ROMAN SOLDIERS IN INCREMENTS OF SALT...
• 17:59 AGAIN THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO MODERNS
• 18:02 BUT LOOK IT UP IF YOU THINK I'M LYIN.
• 18:05 TO SAY THAT YOU ARE THE SALT OF THE EARTH UNDERSCORES
• 18:07 THAT YOU HAVE A PARTICULAR KIND OF WORTH,
• 18:10 EVEN IF YOU FEEL WORTHLESS.
• 18:14 I MENTION THAT BECAUSE YOU CAN GO THROUGH ALL SORTS OF TRIALS
• 18:17 AND YOU'RE JUST SPENT THROUGH IT ALL.
• 18:20 AFTER DESCRIBING THAT THE DISCIPLES ARE GOING TO BE SPENT ACCORDINGLY
• 18:23 FOR JESUS TO FOLLOW AND SAY
• 18:25 "HEY, LISTEN YOU'RE THE SALT OF THE EARTH",
• 18:27 "YOU'RE THE THING THAT PRESERVES AND GIVES VALUE",
• 18:31 "YOU'RE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD",
• 18:33 THAT "YOU GIVE DIRECTION",
• 18:34 "OTHERS SEE HOPE AND THEY SEE ME THROUGH YOU".
• 18:37 FRIENDS HERE FROM THE GALILEE LET ME ENCOURAGE YOU TO WALK WITH THE LORD
• 18:43 EVEN THROUGH DIFFICULTIES...
• 18:45 CAUSE THE LORD HAS A WAY OF WORKING THROUGH IT FOR HIS OWN GOOD PURPOSES,
• 18:50 FOR HIS OWN GOOD PLEASURE.
• 18:55 AND NOW MESSIANIC MUSIC ARTIST, TED PEARCE,
• 18:58 SINGS ABOUT THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.
• 19:03 ♪COME HOUSE OF JACOB LET US WALK IN THE LIGHT♪
• 19:08 ♪WALK IN THE LIGHT♪
• 19:10 ♪WALK IN THE LIGHT♪
• 19:13 ♪COME HOUSE OF JACOB LET US WALK IN THE LIGHT♪
• 19:17 ♪WALK IN THE LIGHT OF THE LORD
• 19:22 ♪COME HOUSE OF JACOB LET US WALK IN THE LIGHT♪
• 19:26 ♪WALK IN THE LIGHT♪
• 19:28 ♪WALK IN THE LIGHT♪
• 19:31 ♪COME HOUSE OF JACOB LET US WALK IN THE LIGHT♪
• 19:35 ♪WALK IN THE LIGHT OF THE LORD♪
• 19:39 ♪THE HAUGHTY MAN IS HUMBLED♪
• 19:41 ♪THE LOFTY ONE BROUGHT LOW♪
• 19:43 ♪FOR THE LORD ALONE WILL BE EXALTED IN THAT DAY♪
• 19:48 ♪WHEN EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW♪
• 19:50 ♪AND EVERY TONGUE CONFESS♪
• 19:52 ♪THAT YESHUA IS THE LORD UNTO THE GLORY OF GOD♪
• 20:01 ♪COME HOUSE OF JACOB LET US WALK IN THE LIGHT♪
• 20:05 ♪WALK IN THE LIGHT♪
• 20:08 ♪WALK IN THE LIGHT♪
• 20:10 ♪COME HOUSE OF JACOB LET US WALK IN THE LIGHT♪
• 20:14 ♪WALK IN THE LIGHT OF THE LORD
• 20:17 ♪WE'RE GONNA WALK♪
• 20:20 ♪(WE'RE GONNA WALK)♪
• 20:22 ♪WALK IN THE LIGHT♪
• 20:24 ♪(WALK IN THE LIGHT)♪
• 20:27 ♪WE'RE GONNA WALK, WALK, WALK♪
• 20:29 ♪(WE'RE GONNA WALK)♪
• 20:31 ♪WALK IN THE LIGHT♪
• 20:33 ♪(WALK IN THE LIGHT)♪
• 20:34 ♪YEAHEY..HEY..HEY..HEY♪
• 20:54 ♪HEY HEY♪
• 20:55 ♪COME HOUSE OF JACOB LET US WALK IN THE LIGHT♪
• 20:59 ♪WALK IN THE LIGHT♪
• 21:01 ♪WALK IN THE LIGHT♪
• 21:04 ♪COME HOUSE OF JACOB LET US WALK IN THE LIGHT♪
• 21:08 ♪WALK IN THE LIGHT OF THE LORD
• 21:12 ♪WE'RE GONNA♪
• 21:13 ♪WALK IN THE LIGHT OF THE LORD
• 21:16 ♪COME ON AND♪
• 21:17 ♪WALK IN THE LIGHT OF THE LORD♪
• 21:26 I REMEMBER LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY
• 21:28 WHEN TED TOLD ME THAT HE FELT THE LORD CALLING HIM INTO MINISTRY.
• 21:32 AND NOW HE TRAVELS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY
• 21:34 AND ALL OVER THE WORLD SHARING ABOUT JESUS.
• 21:36 IT BEGAN WITH HIM HAVING A LOOK AT WHAT JESUS WAS SAYING
• 21:39 AND CONSIDERING THE IMPLICATIONS FOR HIS OWN LIFE.
• 21:42 I HOPE YOU DO THAT.
• 21:44 AS YOU MIGHT WELL IMAGINE THE EARLY DISCIPLES HEARD JESUS TEACH THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT
• 21:48 AND OTHER TEACHINGS
• 21:50 AND THEY WOULD PONDER AMONGST THEMSELVES
• 21:52 AND WRESTLE WITH WHAT HE WAS SAYING
• 21:54 AND WHAT THE PERSONAL IMPLICATIONS WERE FOR THEM.
• 21:57 AND NOW OFF WE GO TO HEAR FROM THE LATE ZOLA LEVITT
• 22:01 AS HE REFLECTS ON THAT AND MORE
• 22:03 AS HE LOOKS AT THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT.
• 22:09 THE DISCIPLE MATTHEW WITH HIS FRIENDS
• 22:11 REFLECTED UPON THE MAGNIFICENT SERMON
• 22:13 THAT HAD SO ASTONISHED THEM HERE UPON THE MOUNT OF BEATITUDES.
• 23:29 OUR LOCATION THIS MORNING IS NORTHWEST OF THE SEA OF GALILEE,
• 23:33 QUITE CLOSE TO CAPERNAUM IN THE MOUNTAINS.
• 23:36 WE SAW MATTHEW WRITING THE SERMON
• 23:39 AND READING WHAT HE HAD WRITTEN
• 23:41 AND WE'VE COME TO THE SPOT OF THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT
• 23:44 TO TAKE A LOOK AT IT.
• 23:46 YOU KNOW ITS OLD COVENANT PRINCIPLES
• 23:48 RAISED TO KINGDOM PROPORTIONS.
• 23:51 JESUS DOESN'T DEPART FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT.
• 23:53 THE JEWISH LAW EVEN TODAY IS THE ONLY INTERNATIONAL LAW.
• 23:58 IT WAS 1500 YEARS OLD IN JESUS TIME
• 24:01 AND 3500 YEARS OLD NOW.
• 24:03 NOW WHEN I SAY "INTERNATIONAL LAW"
• 24:05 I MEAN THAT IF I HAVE A DISPUTE WITH A JEWISH NEIGHBOR
• 24:08 AND I GO TO A RABBI IN DALLAS,
• 24:10 I WILL GET THE SAME JUDGMENT AS I WOULD GET IN NEW YORK
• 24:13 OR IN PEKING OR IN JOHANNESBURG
• 24:15 OR ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD
• 24:17 BECAUSE ALL OF THE RABBIS WOULD CONSULT THE SAME LAW.
• 24:20 AND IT IS THE LAW...
• 24:22 WELL IT'S BEEN ADDED TO WITH COMMENTARIES AND SO ON...
• 24:24 BUT THE PRINCIPLES OF IT WERE THE LAW IN JESUS' TIME.
• 24:28 HE DID NOT DEPART FROM IT.
• 24:31 I BELIEVE THAT ZOLA LEVITT WAS ABSOLUTELY CORRECT
• 24:35 IN SAYING AND OBSERVING
• 24:36 THAT JESUS DIDN'T COME TO ABOLISH THINGS JEWISH AS MUCH AS
• 24:41 TO BUILD ON TOP OF THEM.
• 24:44 IT BOTHERS ME PERSONALLY THAT SO MANY HAVE NOT GOTTEN THAT MESSAGE
• 24:49 AND THUS IN THE WORLD TODAY JESUS IS BEING REPRESENTED AS ANTI-JEWISH
• 24:54 WHEN TRUTH BE KNOWN FOR MY MONEY
• 24:56 WITH THE LITERAL READING IN THE BIBLICAL TEXT
• 24:59 THAT HE WAS THE GREATEST JEW THAT EVER LIVED.
• 25:03 AND WOULD THAT YOU WOULD COME TO KNOW HIM...
• 25:07 TO KNOW HIM IN A WAY THAT'S MORE THAN JUST INFORMATIONAL.
• 25:11 AND I HOPE THAT YOU FIND THE INFORMATION GOOD
• 25:14 AS WE PUT A NEW VIEW ON THIS WORLD'S GREATEST JEW,
• 25:18 THE JEW BEING JESUS
• 25:20 AND THE NEW VIEW BEING LOOKING AT HIM IN THE CONTEXT OF HIS OWN PEOPLE AND CULTURE.
• 25:26 JESUS WASN'T ANTI-JEWISH,
• 25:29 HE WAS FOR JEWS
• 25:31 AND IRRESPECTIVE OF YOUR SIN AND CIRCUMSTANCE
• 25:33 JESUS ISN'T AGAINST YOU
• 25:35 HE'S FOR YOU.
• 25:36 BUT IN ORDER TO GET HIM WORKING ON YOUR BEHALF
• 25:40 WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO
• 25:41 IS COME CLEAN ON WHAT YOU'RE DOING IN YOUR OWN BEHALF.
• 25:44 AND THAT SAID,
• 25:45 IN CONSIDERING ANY TREATMENT OF JESUS
• 25:48 I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMIND THAT THE WAY PEOPLE REALLY GET TO KNOW HIM
• 25:52 ISN'T BY VIRTUE OF THE SHOW.
• 25:55 YOU DON'T GET TO KNOW THROUGH THE SHOW,
• 25:57 YOU GET TO KNOW JESUS ON YOUR KNEES.
• 26:00 AND IT BEGINS WITH REPENTANCE,
• 26:03 "LORD FORGIVE ME FOR MY SINS"
• 26:05 AND BELIEVE ME FRIENDS I'VE HAD TO DO THAT PERSONALLY ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION.
• 26:09 BUT FOR ME IT ALL BEGAN MANY YEARS AGO WHEN SOMEONE SHOWED ME THE BIBLE
• 26:13 AND THE EYES OF MY HEART WERE OPENED AND I REPENTED
• 26:18 AND I ASKED HIM TO COME INTO MY HEART
• 26:20 AND OH, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, IT WAS A FANTASTIC NEW BEGINNING
• 26:24 AND THAT FRIEND IS A NEW BEGINNING FOR YOU.
• 26:28 I'M GLAD TO BE ABLE TO CONTRIBUTE TO YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF JESUS...THANK YOU.
• 26:32 THIS IS BUT THE FIRST OF AN EIGHT PART TREATMENT OF JESUS,
• 26:36 SAR SHALOM, PRINCE OF PEACE
• 26:38 AND MAY YOU EXPERIENCE THAT PEACE YOURSELF IN THE PROCESS.
• 26:43 BEFORE WE GO
• 26:44 AS WE GO LET ME SAY WHAT WE ALWAYS SAY WHEN WE GO...
• 26:48 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:50 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM