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

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