Caption transcript for Sar Shalom: “Crimes of the Heart” (2/8)

• 01:02 A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 01:05 JEFFREY SEIF HERE.
• 01:10 I'M PLEASED TO WELCOME YOU AGAIN TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 01:11 PRESENTING THE SECOND OF AN EIGHT PART TREATMENT OF JESUS.
• 01:14 AND IT'S A JOY TO BRING JESUS TO YOU.
• 01:18 IT'S A JOY TO COME INTO YOUR WORLD AND DO SO IN A WAY THAT TAKES YOU BACK TO JESUS' WORLD,
• 01:24 THE GALILEE, THE HOLY LAND AND TO HEAR AND TO SEE JESUS,
• 01:29 TO HEAR HIS WORDS AND TO SEE HIM RE-ENACTED.
• 01:33 IN THIS PROGRAM WE'RE GOING TO SEE A NUMBER OF THINGS,
• 01:35 ONE OF WHICH IS THE FACT THAT JESUS DIDN'T COME TO DESTROY BUT TO BUILD.
• 01:40 JESUS IS IN THE CONSTRUCTION BUSINESS, NOT THE DESTRUCTION BUSINESS.
• 01:45 SIN TAKES ITS OWN TOLL ON THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE BUT JESUS CAME TO BUILD AND TO REBUILD.
• 01:52 OFF WE GO TO CONSIDER THAT AND MORE.
• 02:23 AND HE CAME TO NAZARETH
• 02:25 AND AS HIS CUSTOM WAS HE WENT INTO THE SYNAGOGUE ON THE SABBATH DAY
• 02:29 AND STOOD UP TO READ
• 02:31 AND THERE WAS DELIVERED UNTO HIM THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH.
• 02:53 I THINK HE WASN'T JUST BEING SPECIFIC, I THINK HE WAS BEING EMPHATIC WHEN HE SAID,
• 02:59 "DO NOT THINK I HAVE COME TO ABOLISH THE TORAH".
• 03:05 "I DIDN'T COME TO ABOLISH THE TORAH OR THE NEVI'IM, 'THE LAW OR THE PROPHETS'",
• 03:09 "I CAME TO FULFILL THEM"
• 03:13 AGAIN NOT JUST A SPECIFIC STATEMENT BUT PROBABLY THERE'S AN EXCLAMATION POINT ATTACHED.
• 03:18 THE REASON BEING THAT OF COURSE JESUS DIDN'T COME TO THROW AWAY THINGS JEWISH.
• 03:23 I MEAN, IT'S A SIMPLE POINT, TRUE,
• 03:26 BUT MANY DIDN'T GET IT GOING THROUGH THE FIRST CENTURY INTO THE SECOND CENTURY
• 03:31 MANY CHRISTIANS WERE SO CONVINCED
• 03:33 THAT OBVIOUSLY JESUS WANTS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE HEBREW BIBLE,
• 03:38 THAT IT WAS NOT EVEN CONSIDERED PART OF SACRED LITERATURE.
• 03:41 IT TOOK A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF ENERGY FOR THE CHURCH TO COME TO TERMS WITH THE FACT
• 03:46 THAT THE HEBREW BIBLE WAS STILL PART OF THE CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY IF YOU CAN IMAGINE THAT.
• 03:52 IT IS SO BAZAAR BUT SAD TO SAY IT IS SO VERY TRUE
• 03:55 AND THE REASON WHY I MENTION THAT IS BECAUSE IT'S AMAZING
• 03:58 HOW INDIVIDUALS WHO WANT TO FOLLOW JESUS
• 04:01 CAN BE SO UNAWARE OF THE ESSENCE AND THE SUBSTANCE OF WHAT HE'S REALLY TALKING ABOUT.
• 04:06 JESUS DIDN'T COME TO KNOCK THE LEGS OUT OF THINGS JEWISH
• 04:08 BUT TO OFFER FULFILLMENT TO THE HOPES AND THE ASPIRATIONS
• 04:12 AND THE LITERATURE, THE DIVINE LITERATURE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 04:15 ONE NEEDN'T TAKE MY WORD FOR IT.
• 04:18 JUST VISIT THE LITERATURE WHERE HE SAID AGAIN,
• 04:28 JESUS ISN'T ABOUT DESTROYING PEOPLE AND DESTROYING STUFF,
• 04:33 JEWISH PEOPLE, JEWISH STUFF, OLD TESTAMENT STUFF.
• 04:38 JESUS DIDN'T COME TO PUT ALL THAT DOWN.
• 04:42 TRAGICALLY, HOWEVER, THAT HAS NOT BEEN THE CHURCH'S STORY.
• 04:46 ONE CAN LOOK AT MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE.
• 04:51 IN CHURCHES AROUND EUROPE THERE'S STATUES DEPICTING ONE WOMAN, 'ECCLESIA TRUMPHANS',
• 04:57 THE PICTURE OF THE CHURCH TRIUMPHANT PROUD AND STRONG.
• 05:01 AND NEXT TO HER IS A STATUE OF THIS WOMAN THAT'S SHAMED,
• 05:06 THAT'S DOWNCAST, LOOKING DOWN,
• 05:08 DEPICTING THE SYNAGOGUE.
• 05:11 IT'S TRAGIC HOW IT WENT THAT WAY
• 05:13 BECAUSE JESUS, ACCORDING TO HIS OWN WORDS NEVER WANTED IT TO GO THAT WAY.
• 05:18 HE RATHER WAS GAME TO SHOW PEOPLE, TO USE THE PAULINE LANGUAGE, A MORE EXCELLENT WAY.
• 05:25 JESUS DIDN'T COME TO TROUNCE ALL THAT BUT RATHER TO FULFILL IT,
• 05:29 TO SHOW INDIVIDUALS HOW TO LIVE IT OUT
• 05:32 AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HE DOES IN THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT BY SAYING
• 05:37 "HERE'S THE WAY.OTHERS HAVE UNDERSTOOD THAT BUT LET ME TELL YOU WHAT IT REALLY MEANS."
• 05:42 "LET ME SHOW YOU HOW IT'S FULFILLED."
• 05:44 "LET ME SHOW YOU HOW YOU CAN MIND THE BIBLICAL STORY"
• 05:47 "AND FIND PRACTICAL STREET LEVEL VALUE."
• 05:51 JESUS' POINT, IF THERE'S ANY CRITICISM, HE SAYS WHEN HE FINISHES,
• 06:03 THE PROBLEM ISN'T WITH THE LITERATURE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT SENSE
• 06:06 AS MUCH AS IT IS THE WAY THE PEOPLE WERE MISCONSTRUING IT.
• 06:09 JESUS CAME TO SET THAT RIGHT
• 06:11 AND IN THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT HE DOES JUST THAT BY UNPACKING THE ESSENCE AND THE SUBSTANCE
• 06:19 OF WHAT IT MEANS TO WALK WITH GOD ACCORDING TO THE OLD TESTAMENT,
• 06:23 ACCORDING TO THE NEW.
• 06:46 A SIMPLE DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN NEIGHBORS
• 06:49 AND THE RESULTING HEATED EXCHANGE.
• 06:56 NEITHER SIDE WILL BACK DOWN AS THE BITTERNESS HAS LED TO ANGER.
• 07:03 ANGER HAS LED TO FERMENTING RAGE.
• 07:08 AND NOW ALL COMMON SENSE IS GONE.
• 07:11 WHAT BEGAN IN THE HEART HAS LED TO THIS.
• 07:19 I'VE SEEN ANGER.
• 07:21 FRANKLY, I'VE SEEN MURDER
• 07:23 AND I WANT TO TELL YOU IT DOESN'T LOOK GOOD.
• 07:25 IF YOU KNOW OF ANY POLICE OFFICERS, FIREFIGHTERS, PARAMEDICS,
• 07:31 TALK TO THEM ABOUT IT.
• 07:32 BECAUSE THERE ISN'T A ONE THAT HASN'T GONE TO A CRIME SCENE TO
• 07:36 SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE ANGER GENIE IS LET OUT OF THE BOTTLE.
• 07:41 THE REASON WHY I MENTION THAT
• 07:42 IS THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT JESUS IS TALKING ABOUT.
• 07:45 HE SAYS HERE,
• 07:49 AND HE GOES ON TO GIVE VOICE TO THAT AND MORE HERE WHEN HE SAYS,
• 07:58 AND FRANKLY I LIKE THE "WITHOUT A CAUSE" CLAUSE
• 08:01 BECAUSE SOMETIMES THERE IS A KIND OF JUSTIFIED ANGER,
• 08:04 BUT NOT OF THE SORT THAT LEADS TO WHAT HE GOES ON TO DESCRIBE HERE.
• 08:08 HE SAYS,
• 08:16 WHICH IS A TERM MEANING TO SPIT.
• 08:20 THAT IS, THINGS DETERIORATE TO THE POINT WHERE
• 08:23 PEOPLE ARE PERFORMING IN WAYS THAT ARE JUST GHASTLY,
• 08:28 IT'S BOMBASTIC.
• 08:29 HE SAYS,
• 08:35 IF I UNDERSTAND JESUS CORRECTLY
• 08:38 HE IS TAPPING INTO, NOT JUST THAT PEOPLE COMMIT ACTS OF MURDER,
• 08:43 BUT THAT THE IMPULSES THAT PROMPT FRACTURE AND SOCIAL DECAY,
• 08:50 THOSE IMPULSES RESIDE IN OUR HEARTS
• 08:53 AS WE INTERACT WITH OTHER PEOPLE,
• 08:55 SOMETIMES IMPROPERLY
• 08:57 AND WE ALLOW THIS STUFF JUST TO UNRAVEL
• 09:00 AND JESUS ISN'T AS MUCH CONCERNED AT THIS JUNCTURE ABOUT THE ACT OF MURDER
• 09:05 AS MUCH AS THE DETERIORATION WITHIN THAT PRECIPITATES IT.
• 09:10 WELL WE ALL HAVE HUMAN NATURES,
• 09:12 WE ALL WORK WITH PEOPLE,
• 09:14 AND HOW SHOULD WE WORK WITH PEOPLE IF WE'RE TO WALK MORE CLOSELY BEHIND JESUS?
• 09:18 WELL HE SAYS IN VERSE 24, HE GIVES A STORY HERE, HE SAYS
• 09:36 I THINK THERE'S SOME REAL PROFUNDITY HERE
• 09:39 AND THERE'S IMPLICATIONS FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE INVOLVED IN CHRISTIAN MINISTRY,
• 09:44 CHRISTIAN LIFE.
• 09:46 IN CHURCH WE OFFER OUR VARIOUS GIFTS
• 09:48 AND THE CONTEXT HERE IS
• 09:50 SOMEONE'S ABOUT TO OFFER A GIFT IN THE TEMPLE,
• 09:53 SOME RELIGIOUS SACRIFICE,
• 09:55 SOME EXTENSION OF PIETY,
• 09:57 AND THE LORD SAYS,
• 09:59 "BUT IF YOU'RE ALL WRAPPED AROUND THE AXLE WITH A BROTHER AND SISTER,"
• 10:03 "TAKE CARE OF THAT FIRST AND THEN TAKE CARE OF YOUR RELIGIOUS OBLIGATION".
• 10:09 THE POINT IS THAT IT IS INCUMBENT UPON INDIVIDUALS TO MAINTAIN RELATIONSHIP,
• 10:14 HENCE HE SAYS, QUOTE,
• 10:15 "FIRST BE RECONCILED TO YOUR BROTHER".
• 10:20 IF I UNDERSTAND JESUS,
• 10:22 HE WOULD PREFER THAT WE DEVELOP MECHANISMS TO STAY IN COMMUNION ONE WITH ANOTHER,
• 10:28 TO STAY IN COMMUNITY.
• 10:30 WE LIVE IN A CULTURE TRAGICALLY WHERE THERE'S SO MUCH RUPTURE,
• 10:33 THERE'S SO MUCH DISORIENTATION
• 10:36 AND IT SENDS PEOPLE OUT OF CONTROL INDIVIDUALLY,
• 10:39 HUSBANDS, WIVES, GO SEPARATE WAYS,
• 10:41 THE KIDS FALL THROUGH THE CRACKS,
• 10:43 CHURCHES FRACTURE,
• 10:45 THINGS CRATER,
• 10:46 IT'S REALLY HORRIBLE FRANKLY.
• 10:48 WE'VE GOT TO PUT AN END TO THIS
• 10:49 AND HOW DO WE DO THAT?
• 10:51 WELL JESUS SAYS THAT WE NEED TO PLACE A PREMIUM ON RECONCILIATION.
• 10:56 HERE ME ON THIS AS I CLOSE,
• 10:58 IT'S EASY TO FIND WHAT'S WRONG WITH A PERSON,
• 11:00 IT'S HARDER TO FIND WHAT'S RIGHT.
• 11:02 LET'S FIND WHAT'S RIGHT,
• 11:04 LET'S DO WHAT'S RIGHT,
• 11:05 LET'S LOOK TO BE RECONCILED
• 11:06 AND BY VIRTUE OF OUR SO DOING
• 11:08 WE'RE GOING TO PLEASE JESUS WHO SAID
• 11:10 "BETTER TO BE RECONCILED TO YOUR BROTHER".
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• 12:18 WHEN IT COMES TO TRIPS TO ISRAEL
• 12:21 THE KEYWORD IS "BLESSING".
• 12:24 IT'S SUCH A WIN, WIN SITUATION,
• 12:26 WHY IS THAT?
• 12:27 BECAUSE ISRAEL IS BLESSED BY YOUR PARTICIPATION.
• 12:31 JUST YOU'RE GOING TO ISRAEL IN THESE TIMES IS A WITNESS
• 12:34 AND OF COURSE PEOPLE ARE BLESSED IN THE PROCESS TO WALK IN JESUS' FOOTSTEPS.
• 12:39 IF YOU GO WITH US I'M BLESSED
• 12:41 CAUSE I GET TO MAKE SOME NEW FRIENDS
• 12:43 AND RIGHT NOW IT'S EASY JUST TO STARE AT CAMERAS
• 12:46 AND I KNOW IN THEORY THAT THERE'S MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ON THE OTHER END OF IT
• 12:50 AND I SURE LOVE GETTING TO KNOW EM',
• 12:53 SO BY ALL MEANS, CONSIDER COMING TO ISRAEL WITH ME.
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• 13:16 WE HAVE TWO THINGS HERE
• 13:17 PARTICULARLY, THE LATE ZOLA LEVITT WROTE,
• 13:19 "JESUS, THE JEW'S JEW".
• 13:22 OH, WE JUST LOVE LOOKING AT JESUS FROM A JEWISH PERSPECTIVE,
• 13:26 IT'S A PERSPECTIVE THAT IS SO TRUE BUT IT IS SO OFT IGNORED.
• 13:30 ZOLA TEACHES IN A CHURCH ON JESUS, THE JEW'S JEW,
• 13:33 YOU MIGHT WANT THAT AS WELL
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• 13:47 BUT OFF WE GO NOW BACK TO JESUS' WORLD
• 13:50 IN AND AROUND THE SEA OF GALILEE
• 13:52 AS WE CONSIDER THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT.
• 14:16 IT'S THE CLOSE OF A PEACEFUL, WARM SUMMER'S DAY.
• 14:20 FOR SOME...IT'S A TIME WHEN ALL IS RIGHT.
• 14:24 AND FOR SOME...IT'S A TIME WHEN ALL IS WRONG.
• 14:28 AND THE LORD SPOKE UNTO THE MULTITUDE....
• 14:30 "YOU HAVE HEARD IT SAID, THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY,"
• 14:36 "BUT I SAY TO YOU"
• 14:38 "THAT WHOEVER LOOKS AT A WOMAN TO LUST FOR HER"
• 14:41 "HAS ALREADY COMMITTED ADULTERY WITH HER IN HIS HEART."
• 14:50 JESUS WENT ON RECORD SAYING THAT WHOEVER LOOKS AT A WOMAN LUSTFULLY
• 14:55 HAS ALREADY COMMITTED ADULTERY WITH HER IN HIS HEART.
• 15:02 OF COURSE, I'VE NEVER LOOKED AT A WOMAN TWICE
• 15:06 AND YOU KNOW I'VE NEVER HAD AN ISSUE LIKE THAT,
• 15:09 HENCE I'M IN A POSITION TO SPEAK IN AN INFORMED WAY ABOUT WHAT JESUS IS TALKING ABOUT HERE...
• 15:14 HAVING BEEN ALL HEALED AND DELIVERED.
• 15:18 WELL THAT'S NOT TRUE IS IT?
• 15:21 AT THE END OF THE DAY
• 15:23 YOU CAN PUT REVEREND, DOCTOR, PASTOR, TELEVANGELIST IN FRONT OF A GUY
• 15:28 BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY
• 15:30 A MAN IS STILL A MAN,
• 15:32 A WOMAN IS STILL A WOMAN,
• 15:34 A HUMAN IS STILL A HUMAN
• 15:36 AND WE ALL HAVE THESE SEXUAL ENERGIES WITHIN US.
• 15:40 PRAY TELL THEN
• 15:41 WHAT IS JESUS TALKING ABOUT?
• 15:45 HE GOES ON TO SAY
• 15:47 THAT AFTER INFORMING THAT INDIVIDUALS DO HAVE THOSE TENSIONS AND ENERGIES WITHIN,
• 15:54 HE GOES ON TO SAY THAT IF SOMETHING CAUSES YOU TO SIN...
• 15:58 CUT IT OFF...
• 16:00 IF YOUR RIGHT EYE CAUSES YOU TO SIN...
• 16:03 PLUCK IT OUT...
• 16:06 THOSE ARE SOME INTERESTING EXPRESSIONS
• 16:09 AND I MIGHT ADD THEY HAVE NOT ALWAYS BEEN UNDERSTOOD CORRECTLY BY ENTHUSIASTIC CHURCH MEN.
• 16:15 ONE FELLOW IN PARTICULAR
• 16:16 NAMED ORIGEN
• 16:18 CASTRATED HIMSELF...
• 16:20 WELL THAT'S INSANE ISN'T IT?
• 16:23 YOU KNOW I APPRECIATE ENTHUSIASM I MIGHT ADD...
• 16:26 BUT THAT'S TAKING IT A LITTLE BIT TOO FAR.
• 16:29 WHAT'S JESUS TALKING ABOUT WHEN HE SAYS
• 16:33 YOU'VE HEARD IT WAS SAID DON'T COMMIT ADULTERY
• 16:35 BUT I'M TELLING YOU...
• 16:37 AND HE TELLS YOU THE THINGS THAT I JUST REMINDED YOU OF.
• 16:40 WHAT DOES HE MEAN BY THAT?
• 16:42 AND WHEN HE SAYS,
• 16:43 LISTEN, IF SOMETHING CAUSES YOU TO SIN, GET RID OF IT.
• 16:46 IS THE MAKER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH AND THE HUMANS UPON THE EARTH
• 16:50 WHO GAVE US SEXUAL ENERGIES THAT PROPEL US AND THE SPECIES FORWARD...
• 16:55 HAVING MADE THAT WITHIN US,
• 16:57 IS HE NOW TELLING US THAT IT'S ACCEPTABLE FOR THAT TO BE WITHIN US?
• 17:00 FRANKLY I THINK NOT.
• 17:04 WHAT THEN?
• 17:06 IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT HAVING THOSE PASSIONS AND THOSE INTERESTS AS WE DO,
• 17:12 WE DO WELL TO TAKE PAINS TO KEEP THE GENIE IN THE BOTTLE UNTIL THE TIME.
• 17:19 AND WHAT DO I MEAN BY THAT?
• 17:21 THERE IS A LEGITIMATE WAY TO HAVE SEXUAL EXPRESSION...
• 17:25 IT'S CALLED THE UNION OF MARRIAGE.
• 17:28 IF I UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE CORRECTLY
• 17:29 THERE'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE SEXUAL CONTACT WITHOUT A CONTRACT.
• 17:34 ABSENT THAT, "HANDS OFF" IS THE POLICY.
• 17:38 BUT THERE'S CERTAIN THINGS THAT PEOPLE DO THAT INFLAME THE
• 17:41 PASSIONS WITHIN...PORNOGRAPHY IS AN EXAMPLE OF THAT.
• 17:46 WHEN YOU HEAR JESUS SAYING,
• 17:47 IF SOMETHING CAUSES YOU TO SIN CUT IT OFF,
• 17:51 GETTING RID OF THAT MIGHT BE A GOOD WAY TO GO.
• 17:55 SIMILARLY IN THE WAY THAT WE DRESS...
• 17:58 IF ONE DRESSES IN A WAY IN ORDER TO EVOKE SIN IN OTHERS
• 18:02 IT'S BEST THEY NIP THAT IN THE BUD
• 18:04 AND CONDUCT THEMSELVES IN A MANNER THAT MORE BEFITS CHRISTIAN RESOLUTION.
• 18:09 THERE ARE DIFFERENT WAYS THAT DIFFERENT PEOPLE CAN DO DIFFERENT THINGS.
• 18:13 THE POINT IS WE'RE SUPPOSED TO LOOK AT MARRIAGE AS HOLY
• 18:17 AND WE'RE SUPPOSED TO LOOK AT SEXUAL ACTIVITY AS HOLY WITHIN THE CONFINES OF MARRIAGE
• 18:23 AND TO TAKE PAINS TO INSURE
• 18:25 THAT WE'RE WORKING WITHIN THAT PARTICULAR FRAME OF REFERENCE.
• 18:30 I'VE OFTEN SAID WITH MY BOYS,
• 18:32 I CAN LABOR TO RAISE THEM FOR 20 YEARS
• 18:34 AND THE WRONG GIRL CAN UNDO THAT IN ABOUT 2O SECONDS.
• 18:38 MEN...WOMEN...
• 18:40 LET'S ALL OF US TAKE PAINS TO WALK BEFORE THE LORD IN HOLINESS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS.
• 18:44 IF WE DO THAT WE'LL FIND THE LOVE WE'RE LOOKING FOR...
• 18:47 IF WE DON'T, WE WON'T.
• 18:51 AND NOW FOR AN ALL TIME FAVORITE CLASSIC,
• 18:54 TED PEARCE SINGS HIS RENDITION OF "PSALM 23".
• 19:01 ♪THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD I SHALL NOT WANT♪
• 19:06 ♪HE MAKES ME LIE DOWN IN GREEN PASTURES♪
• 19:12 ♪HE LEADS ME BESIDE STILL WATERS♪
• 19:17 ♪HE RESTORETH MY SOUL♪
• 19:22 ♪AND YE THOUGH I WALK♪
• 19:24 ♪THROUGH THE VALLEY♪
• 19:26 ♪AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH♪
• 19:29 ♪I WILL FEAR NO EVIL♪
• 19:33 ♪FOR THOU ART WITH ME♪
• 19:35 ♪THY ROD AND THEY STAFF♪
• 19:38 ♪THEY COMFORT ME♪
• 19:49 ♪THOU PREPAREST A TABLE BEFORE ME♪
• 19:54 ♪IN THE PRESENCE OF MINE ENEMIES♪
• 19:59 ♪THOU ANOINTEST MY HEAD WITH OIL♪
• 20:05 ♪MY CUP RUNNETH OVER♪
• 20:10 ♪AND SURELY GOODNESS AND MERCY WILL FOLLOW ME ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE♪
• 20:21 ♪AND I WILL DWELL IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD FOREVER♪
• 20:32 ♪FOREVER♪
• 20:58 ♪AND YE THOUGH I WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH♪
• 21:05 ♪I WILL FEAR NO EVIL♪
• 21:09 ♪FOR THOU ART WITH ME♪
• 21:12 ♪THY ROD AND THE STAFF♪
• 21:14 ♪THEY COMFORT ME♪
• 21:20 ♪AND SURELY GOODNESS AND MERCY WILL FOLLOW ME♪
• 21:25 ♪ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE♪
• 21:30 ♪AND I WILL DWELL IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD FOREVER♪
• 21:41 ♪THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD I SHALL NOT WANT♪
• 21:46 ♪ONLY HE RESTORETH MY SOUL♪
• 21:58 TED PEARCE IS ONE OF A NUMBER OF MESSIANIC ARTISTS
• 22:01 THAT ARE BENT ON HELPING PEOPLE WORSHIP JESUS IN A JEWISH LIGHT.
• 22:06 SPEAKING OF JEWISH LIGHT,
• 22:08 I'M ONE OF A NUMBER OF OTHERS THAT ARE HELPING TO EXPLORE JESUS IN A JEWISH LIGHT.
• 22:13 I'M SO THRILLED THAT YOU WANT TO GO WITH US ON THE JOURNEY
• 22:16 AND LEARN ABOUT JESUS IN THE CONTEXT OF HIS OWN DAY AND TIME.
• 22:20 THE LATE ZOLA LEVITT HELPED US UNDERSTAND
• 22:24 THAT JESUS CAME TO FULFILL THE TORAH, NOT TO ABOLISH.
• 22:29 THE TORAH, THE OLD TESTAMENT,
• 22:31 WAS WRITTEN IN STONE,
• 22:32 BUT JESUS CUTS TO THE BONE,
• 22:33 HE GETS TO THE HEART OF THE MATTER.
• 22:36 I'M SO GLAD THAT HE GOT INTO MY HEART AND PAST DEFENSIVE MATTER
• 22:40 AND I BECAME A NEW CREATURE IN THE PROCESS.
• 22:42 OFF WE GO NOW TO HEAR ZOLA
• 22:44 AS HE TEACHES ABOUT JESUS, THE JEWISH MESSIAH.
• 22:49 TO CONTRAST THE OLD COVENANT AND THE NEW,
• 22:52 THE LAW IN THE OLD COVENANT WAS CARVED IN STONE...AS ON MOUNT SINAI.
• 22:56 IN THE NEW COVENANT THE LAW IS WRITTEN ON OUR HEARTS.
• 23:00 IN THE OLD COVENANT IMPORTANT ACTS EXTERNAL ARE WHAT COUNTS...MURDER.
• 23:06 IN THE NEW COVENANT THE INTERNAL MOTIVES...ANGER.
• 23:11 IN THE OLD COVENANT IT ALWAYS SAYS THOU SHALT NOT.
• 23:14 IN THE NEW COVENANT BLESSED ART THOU.
• 23:18 WITH THE OLD COVENANT THERE'S NOT ANYTHING OF WHAT WE THINK OF AS ASSURANCE.
• 23:23 THERE IS THE SACRIFICES,
• 23:25 THE KEEPING OF THE LAWS,
• 23:27 THE CONSTANT PRAYER AND SO ON...
• 23:29 BUT ALWAYS A WORKING ON THE SALVATION.
• 23:32 BUT THIS OLD COVENANT ENDS AT DEATH.
• 23:36 THE NEW COVENANT GIVES NEW LIFE FOR NEW CREATURES.
• 23:39 AND THE NEW COVENANT DEFEATS WHAT THE BIBLE CALLS "THE LAST ENEMY"...DEATH.
• 23:44 JESUS CAME TO FULFILL THIS NEW COVENANT
• 23:47 AND TO SIGN IT IN BLOOD.
• 23:49 HE SAID THE KINGDOM WAS AT HAND.
• 23:51 "AT HAND" BIBLICALLY MEANS THERE'S NO EVENT THAT HAS TO INTERVENE BEFORE THE KINGDOM.
• 23:57 IN OTHER WORDS THERE REALLY DIDN'T HAVE TO BE A CHURCH AGE
• 24:01 HAD THE PEOPLE ACCEPTED THE KINGDOM AND TAKEN IT THEN.
• 24:04 THE SERMON HERE GAVE THEM THE PRECEPTS OF THE KINGDOM...
• 24:08 THEY UNDERSTOOD IT.
• 24:09 PEOPLE KNEW ABOUT THE KINGDOM
• 24:11 BECAUSE THE PROPHECY AND DESCRIPTIONS ABOUT THE KINGDOM ARE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT...
• 24:16 IN THE BOOKS OF ISAIAH,
• 24:17 EZEKIEL CHAPTERS 40 TO 48,
• 24:19 THE DESCRIPTION OF THIS KINGDOM PALACE,
• 24:22 THE TEMPLE THAT WILL BE BUILT FOR THE THOUSAND YEAR REIGN...
• 24:26 OR ZECHARIAH'S REMARKS ABOUT...
• 24:28 EVERYONE SHALL COME UP FROM YEAR TO YEAR TO JERUSALEM
• 24:31 TO WORSHIP THE LORD
• 24:33 AND CELEBRATE THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES...
• 24:35 ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 14, VERSE 16...
• 24:36 THAT CHRISTIANS ARE DOING THAT NOW COMING UP TO JERUSALEM EVERY YEAR AT TABERNACLES
• 24:41 GETTING USED TO THIS VERY PLEASANT DUTY OF THE KINGDOM TO COME.
• 24:47 ZOLA WAS ABSOLUTELY CORRECT...
• 24:49 IN THE FALL EVERY YEAR
• 24:51 CHRISTIANS COME BY THE THOUSANDS...
• 24:55 PARADE PERMITS ARE GOTTEN SO CHRISTIANS CAN MARCH THROUGH THE STREETS...
• 25:00 THERE'S A BIG CONCERT VENUE...
• 25:02 THE HOTELS FILL UP.
• 25:07 OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WHAT A WONDERFUL TESTIMONY OF THE LOVE OF GOD
• 25:11 AS CHRISTIANS MAKE THEIR WAY TO JERUSALEM.
• 25:14 INTERESTINGLY AND TRAGICALLY
• 25:18 THE INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN EMBASSY IS REALLY IN EFFECT
• 25:23 THE ONLY EMBASSY IN JERUSALEM
• 25:25 AS MANY NATIONS OF THE WORLD JUST REFUSE TO RECOGNIZE ISRAEL'S CAPITOL.
• 25:32 BUT WE BIBLE BELIEVERS RECOGNIZE IT AND WE GIVE HONOR TO IT.
• 25:37 AND I WANT TO GIVE HONOR TO YOU...
• 25:41 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WATCHING THIS PROGRAM.
• 25:45 THE FACT THAT YOU WATCH US SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT US...TRUE.
• 25:49 BUT IT SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT YOU.
• 25:52 IN A WORLD WHERE ANOTHER TELEVISION PROGRAM IS JUST A CLICK AWAY,
• 25:55 THE FACT THAT YOU TUNE ON TO US SPEAKS OF YOUR OWN TUNING ON TO JESUS A LITTLE BIT.
• 26:01 YOU'RE INTERESTED IN WHAT JESUS HAD TO SAY
• 26:03 AND YOU'RE INTERESTED IN OUR PERSPECTIVE.
• 26:06 THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.
• 26:08 I HOPE YOU'RE LEARNING SOMETHING BY LEARNING ABOUT JESUS FROM A JEWISH PERSPECTIVE,
• 26:13 BUT I HOPE YOU EXPERIENCE SOMETHING AS WELL AT THE FEELING LEVEL
• 26:18 NOT JUST THE INTELLECTUAL LEVEL.
• 26:20 THE REASON WHY I SAY THAT...
• 26:21 AS INTERESTING AS INFORMATION CAN BE,
• 26:25 REALLY THIS IS ALL ABOUT TRANSFORMATION,
• 26:27 IT'S ALL ABOUT COMING TO KNOW THE PERSON OF JESUS
• 26:29 NOT JUST THE WORD OF JESUS.
• 26:31 AND THE WAY THAT YOU DO THAT IS BY REACHING UP TO HIM IN PRAYER
• 26:34 AND REACHING OUT TO THE FUTURE
• 26:37 AND JESUS WILL GO WITH YOU,
• 26:38 HE'LL LEAD YOU ON LIFE'S JOURNEY.
• 26:40 THANK YOU FOR TUNING US IN.
• 26:42 WE'LL BE HERE NEXT WEEK
• 26:44 AND AS YOU GO NOW
• 26:45 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:47 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM