Caption transcript for Sar Shalom: “The Law Brought to Life” (3/8)

• 01:01 HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 01:02 JEFFREY SEIF HERE.
• 01:04 I AM PLEASED TO WELCOME YOU AGAIN TO ANOTHER EDITION OF ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 01:09 IN THIS CASE THE THIRD OF AN 8 PART TREATMENT OF JESUS
• 01:13 CALLED "SAR SHALOM - PRINCE OF PEACE"
• 01:16 JESUS WANTS TO BRING YOU PEACE IN SO MANY WAYS,
• 01:18 ONE OF WHICH IS IN YOUR MARRIAGES AND MY MARRIAGE.
• 01:22 HE'S ALL ABOUT PEACE.
• 01:24 HE'S ALL ABOUT KEEPING IT TOGETHER.
• 01:26 I SO MUCH WANT YOU TO LEARN ABOUT THE PEACE IN JESUS AS IT RELATES TO RELATIONSHIPS,
• 01:30 SO OFF WE GO NOW TO HEAR FROM OUR LORD.
• 01:35 AND THERE FOLLOWED HIM GREAT MULTITUDES OF PEOPLE...
• 01:39 OLD AND YOUNG...
• 01:40 HUSBANDS AND WIVES.
• 01:43 PERHAPS THERE WERE SOME GATHERED ON THE MOUNT THAT DAY WHO WONDERED...
• 01:49 WOULD THEIR MARRIAGE LAST?
• 01:51 WHAT ABOUT DIVORCE?
• 01:54 AND NOW THE LORD HAD MADE IT VERY CLEAR...
• 01:58 MARRIAGE IS SACRED AND, EXCEPT FOR INFIDELITY,
• 02:02 IS BINDING FOR A LIFETIME.
• 02:08 A MAN SHALL CLEAVE UNTO HIS WIFE AND THEY SHALL BE ONE,
• 02:13 BONE OF MY BONES AND FLESH OF MY FLESH.
• 02:23 IT'S CALLED A "GET".
• 02:25 SOME PEOPLE WANT TO GET A, QUOTE, "GET".
• 02:30 AND PRAY TELL WHAT'S A "GET"?
• 02:33 IT'S A HEBREW TERM FOR A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT.
• 02:37 SOME PEOPLE MARRY FOR AN IDEAL,
• 02:40 THEY THINK THEY GOT A RAW DEAL,
• 02:42 AND THEY GO SEARCHING FOR A NEW DEAL.
• 02:45 HERE, THE LORD HIMSELF WEIGHS IN ON THAT SAYING,
• 02:50 "YOU'VE HEARD IT WAS SAID TO THE MEN OF OLD"....
• 02:53 AND WHAT'S SAID TO THE MEN OF OLD?
• 02:56 HE SAID, "WHOEVER DIVORCES HIS WIFE LET HIM GIVE HER A 'GET'
• 03:02 "AND TELL HER TO GET GOING".
• 03:05 THERE'S SOME LEGITIMATE WAY TO JUST DISSOLVE THIS CORPORATION.
• 03:10 I'VE BEEN MARRIED APPROACHING 24 YEARS NOW TO MY WIFE PATTY.
• 03:17 KIDS HAVE GROWN UP AND MOVED ON.
• 03:20 WE'VE HAD MORE THAN ONE FIGHT ON OCCASION,
• 03:24 DIVORCE WAS NEVER AN ISSUE.
• 03:26 AND NOW THAT THE KIDDOS HAVE KINDA SORTA MOVED ON
• 03:30 AND I LOOK AT HER AGAIN,
• 03:32 FRANKLY I'M JUST GLAD THAT WE WEATHERED THE STORMS
• 03:35 AND WE'RE THERE AND IMPERFECT AS I AM I BELIEVE,
• 03:39 AND SHE'D AGREE AS WELL,
• 03:40 THAT WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF FALLING IN LOVE ALL OVER AGAIN.
• 03:44 HOW SAD IT IS THAT MANY NEVER MAKE IT TO THAT MOMENT.
• 03:49 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 03:50 WELL, WHEN THEY HIT ROAD BUMPS IN THE HIGHWAY OF LIFE
• 03:53 THEY LOOK TO GET OUT OF DODGE.
• 03:55 AND WHAT THEY DO IS THEY FIND SOME WAY TO SANCTION IT LEGALLY
• 03:59 OR RELIGIOUSLY
• 04:01 SO THAT THEY CAN CUT LOOSE AND GET ON DOWN THE ROAD.
• 04:04 WHILE PEOPLE CAN DO THAT
• 04:05 AND WHILE IT'S ACCEPTABLE IN THE CULTURE,
• 04:07 YOU'RE GOING TO SEE WITH ME AS WE READ SCRIPTURE
• 04:10 HOW IT'S NOT ALTOGETHER ACCEPTABLE TO THE LORD.
• 04:13 AND HE SAID,
• 04:26 THE WORD "SEXUAL IMMORALITY" IN THE GREEK IS "PORNEAS"
• 04:29 WHERE ONE GETS "PORNOGRAPHY".
• 04:31 IN AS MUCH AS PEOPLE ARE RATHER CASUAL
• 04:34 ABOUT GETTING IN AND OUT OF LOVE,
• 04:37 GETTING IN AND OUT OF THE COMMITMENTS THAT GO ALONG WITH LOVE,
• 04:41 JESUS SAYS, "NOT SO QUICK GUYS".
• 04:43 "IF ANYBODY WANTS TO INITIATE DIVORCE"
• 04:46 "EXCEPT FOR ISSUES OF SEXUAL IMMORALITY,"
• 04:49 "THAT'S NOT KOSHER,"
• 04:51 "IT'S NOT LEGITIMATE,"
• 04:52 "REALLY IT ISN'T."
• 04:53 OF COURSE THE ISSUE WITH SEXUAL IMMORALITY IS THE ONE PARTNER,
• 04:58 THEY THEMSELVES HAVE BROKEN THE UNION.
• 05:01 THEY ENTERED INTO A CONTRACT
• 05:03 WHERE THE TWO BECAME ONE FLESH,
• 05:05 BUT NOW THEY'VE BECOME ANOTHER ONE FLESH
• 05:07 IN WHICH CASE THEN YOU HAVEN'T INITIATED THE DIVORCE
• 05:10 IT'S ALREADY HAPPENED,
• 05:12 YOU JUST DECIDED TO NAME IT AND CLAIM IT AND MOVE ON.
• 05:15 EGREGIOUS AS THAT IN DIVORCE HERE IS LEGITIMIZED
• 05:19 THOUGH IT'S NOT THE PREFERENCE STILL.
• 05:23 WHAT DO I UNDERSTAND JESUS TO BE SAYING HERE AS ELSEWHERE?
• 05:27 BETTER IT IS TO CULTIVATE THE BONDS OF UNION.
• 05:31 PREVIOUSLY HE UNDERSCORED THAT
• 05:34 "BROTHERS, WE HAVE GOT TO LEARN TO GET ALONG"
• 05:38 "BECAUSE ANGER CAN BE VERY HARMFUL IN RUPTURING COMMUNITY".
• 05:42 SIMILARLY, VARIOUS ISSUES CAN COME UP IN MARRIAGE
• 05:45 AND PEOPLE CAN KIND OF WASH THEIR HANDS CLEAN OF IT.
• 05:48 YOU TALK TO ONE PREACHER,
• 05:50 HE DOESN'T GRANT IT,
• 05:51 WELL FIND SOMEBODY ELSE LIKE A DOCTOR,
• 05:53 GO GET A SECOND OPINION...
• 05:55 AND YOU CAN AND YOU WILL...
• 05:57 YOU'LL FINALLY GET WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR.
• 06:00 BUT WHAT'S JESUS LOOKING FOR?
• 06:03 HE'S LOOKING FOR US
• 06:04 TO GO THE DISTANCE FROM THE WOMB TO THE TOMB.
• 06:08 I HAVEN'T MADE IT ALL THE WAY YET,
• 06:10 BUT 24 YEARS INTO THE PROCESS OR APPROACHING 24 YEARS,
• 06:14 I CAN TELL YOU THAT IT GETS BETTER AS IT GETS LONGER.
• 06:18 LEARN TO LOVE AND FORGIVE
• 06:20 AND LET'S KEEP OUR MARRIAGES SACRED.
• 06:42 AND THE LORD SPOKE UNTO THEM,
• 06:45 "YOU HAVE HEARD THAT IT WAS SAID TO THOSE OF OLD,"
• 06:48 'YOU SHALL NOT SWEAR FALSELY BUT SHALL PERFORM YOUR OATHS TO THE LORD'
• 06:54 "BUT I SAY TO YOU"
• 06:57 "DO NOT SWEAR AT ALL,"
• 06:59 "NEITHER BY HEAVEN FOR IT'S GOD THRONE,"
• 07:02 "NOR BY THE EARTH FOR IT IS HIS FOOTSTOOL,"
• 07:06 "NOR BY JERUSALEM FOR IT IS THE CITY OF THE GREAT KING."
• 07:10 "NOR SHALL YOU SWEAR BY YOUR HEAD"
• 07:13 "BECAUSE YOU CAN NOT MAKE ONE HAIR WHITE OR BLACK,"
• 07:18 "BUT LET YOUR 'YES' BE 'YES' AND YOUR 'NO' ...'NO',"
• 07:24 "FOR WHATEVER IS MORE THAN THESE IS FROM THE EVIL ONE."
• 07:35 THE TERM "FELLOWSHIP"
• 07:36 HARKS TO A BUNCH OF FELLOWS IN THE SAME SHIP
• 07:39 ACTUALLY ROWING TOGETHER
• 07:42 AND IT'S IMPORTANT THAT EACH ONE DOES THEIR PART IS IT NOT?
• 07:46 I THINK IN DIFFERENT WAYS AND ON DIFFERENT DAYS
• 07:50 JESUS WAS REALLY SERIOUS ABOUT WEIGHING IN
• 07:53 ON THE NEED FOR PEOPLE TO PERFORM THEIR OBLIGATIONS.
• 07:57 WE SAW IN THE PREVIOUS SEGMENT
• 07:59 HOW MARRIAGE IS A COMMITMENT,
• 08:02 IT'S AN OATH AND IT'S BINDING IN PERPETUITY,
• 08:05 THAT'S THE PREFERRED SCENARIO OF COURSE
• 08:07 FOR A VARIETY OF OBVIOUS REASONS.
• 08:09 SIMILARLY INDIVIDUALS HAVE TO BE COUNTED UPON
• 08:12 TO BE ABLE TO PERFORM THEIR COMMITMENTS
• 08:15 IN A VARIETY OF OTHER HUMAN ENDEAVORS AS WELL.
• 08:19 I'M SURE THAT YESHUA...
• 08:21 I'M SURE JESUS HAD A STERN LOOK IN HIS FACE
• 08:24 IN UNDERSCORING THE NEED TO BE FORTHRIGHT, HONEST, EARNEST,
• 08:30 DILIGENT TO PERFORM COMMITMENTS
• 08:32 AND NOT HAVE TO EMBELLISH IT ALL WITH A LOT OF SWEARING.
• 08:35 JESUS SAYS IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 5, VERSE 33,
• 08:49 AND HE MAKES A POINT
• 08:51 AND FINISHES IT SAYING,
• 08:52 "LISTEN, LET YOUR 'YES' BE 'YES' AND YOUR 'NO' BE 'NO'."
• 08:57 THIS FRIENDS, IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT.
• 09:00 THE HEBREW WORD FOR "TRUTH", "EMET"
• 09:04 COMES THE FIRST LETTER OF THE HEBREW ALPHABET "ALEF".
• 09:09 THE MIDDLE ONE IS "MEM"
• 09:11 AND THE LAST LETTER IS "TAV"
• 09:14 AND TOGETHER IT'S THE WORD "EMET"
• 09:16 WHICH MEANS "TRUTH" IN HEBREW
• 09:18 WHICH SPEAKS OF IN EFFECT,
• 09:20 "THE SUM OF ALL THINGS".
• 09:22 WHEN WE SPEAK WE SHOULD SPEAK THE TRUTH.
• 09:25 AND THE SUM OF ALL THINGS
• 09:26 IS THAT THERE SHOULD BE CONGRUITY BETWEEN WHAT WE SAY
• 09:29 AND THE WAY THAT WE PERFORM.
• 09:32 I'VE TOLD MY BOYS,
• 09:33 IF YOU HAVE A COMMITMENT TO MEET A GIRL FOR A DATE
• 09:37 AND YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE THERE AT 6 O'CLOCK,
• 09:39 BE THERE AT 6 O'CLOCK.
• 09:41 IF THERE'S A YOUNG LADY
• 09:42 OR ANOTHER GUY THAT'S SUPPOSED TO MEET YOU AT 4 O'CLOCK
• 09:45 AND THEY SAY THEIR GOING TO BE THERE AT 4,
• 09:46 IF THEY DON'T SHOW AND THIS BECOMES HABITUAL,
• 09:49 YOU NEED TO CONSTRUE THAT AS A PERSONALITY FLUKE.
• 09:52 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 09:53 IT'S BECAUSE IT'S NOT BEYOND THE PALE OF REASON
• 09:55 TO EXPECT THAT PEOPLE WE'LL ACTUALLY PERFORM WHAT THAT SAY.
• 10:00 AND HEAR ME ON THIS;
• 10:02 RATHER...
• 10:03 HEAR YESHUA ON THIS.
• 10:04 THEN AS NOW WE LIVE IN A WORLD
• 10:06 WHERE PEOPLE ALL TOO OFTEN DON'T PERFORM WHAT THEY SAY.
• 10:10 AND HENCE IN ORDER TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY...
• 10:13 "I SWEAR TO GOD"...
• 10:14 "I SWEAR THIS AND SWEAR THAT"...
• 10:16 IF SOMEONE'S IN A PLACE
• 10:17 WHERE THEY NEED TO EMBELLISH THEIR WORD
• 10:19 WITH ALL OF THIS EXTRA ENERGY
• 10:21 SOMETHING'S WRONG.
• 10:23 THAT PERSON IN THEIR OWN MIND,
• 10:24 THEY REALIZE THERE'S SOMETHING OF A CHARACTER DEFICIT
• 10:27 IN ORDER TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY THEY'VE GOT TO PUMP IT UP
• 10:30 WITH SWEARING BY THIS AND THAT AND SO FORTH AND SO ON.
• 10:33 IT OUGHT NOT TO BE THAT WAY.
• 10:36 THE LORD WENT ON RECORD TELLING HIS DISCIPLES AND ME AND YOU BY ASSOCIATION THEN
• 10:42 THAT THERE HAS TO BE CONGRUITY
• 10:45 BETWEEN WHAT WE SAY AND THE WAY THAT WE PERFORM.
• 10:49 OR TO PUT IT IN MODERN VOCABULARY,
• 10:52 "A MAN'S WORD SHOULD BE HIS BOND", SO TOO WITH A WOMAN.
• 10:57 BE THAT KIND OF PERSON FRIEND
• 10:59 THAT KEEPS YOUR WORD
• 11:00 AND BY VIRTUE OF YOUR SO DOING
• 11:02 THE LORD WILL BE PLEASED BECAUSE HE SAID,
• 11:04 "DON'T SWEAR EITHER BY HEAVEN OR BY EARTH."
• 11:07 "LET YOUR 'YES' BE 'YES' AND YOUR 'NO' BE 'NO'."
• 11:10 FRIENDS LET IT BE SO.
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• 11:56 AS JESUS WALKED BY THE SEA OF GALILEE
• 11:58 HE SAW SIMON AND ANDREW CASTING THEIR NET INTO THE SEA
• 12:02 FOR THEY WERE FISHERMEN.
• 12:04 TODAY THE GALILEE STILL BECKONS
• 12:07 AS DO THE FISHERMEN LIKE DANIEL CARMEL
• 12:12 SHALOM
• 12:14 I WANT TO INVITE YOU
• 12:15 FOR A BOAT RIDE ON THE SEA OF GALILEE
• 12:17 ON "THE SEA OF GALILEE WORSHIP BOATS".
• 12:19 JOIN US IN WORSHIP ON THE GALILEE
• 12:30 GOING TO ISRAEL
• 12:31 IS AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE.
• 12:34 THERE MAY WELL BE SOME
• 12:36 WITHIN THE SOUND OF MY VOICE
• 12:37 THAT YOU'RE PRAYING
• 12:39 FOR SOMEONE IN YOUR WEBS OF RELATIONSHIP
• 12:41 TO EXPERIENCE JESUS IN A WAY
• 12:43 THAT'S MORE DEEP
• 12:45 AND MORE MEANINGFUL.
• 12:46 WHY NOT TAKE THEM TO ISRAEL?
• 12:49 YOU CAN'T LECTURE PEOPLE INTO TRANSFORMATION
• 12:52 BUT SOMETIMES JUST TO WALK WHERE JESUS WALKED,
• 12:55 TO GO THERE,
• 12:57 TO EXPERIENCE IT ALL...
• 12:58 YOU MIGHT HAVE HEARD IT SAID
• 13:00 THAT A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS.
• 13:02 WELL HOW ABOUT HUNDREDS OF PICTURES
• 13:04 FROM A TRIP OF A LIFETIME?
• 13:07 OH, IT CAN MAKE SUCH A DIFFERENCE IN SOMEONE'S LIFETIME.
• 13:09 PEOPLE SEE MANY THINGS WHEN THEY GO TO ISRAEL WITH US,
• 13:13 WE PASS KIBBUTZ EIN GEV...
• 13:15 THAT'S A PLACE THAT HASN'T CHANGED FOR 2000 YEARS
• 13:18 AND THEY WERE SO GRACIOUS TO ALLOW US TO FILM THERE
• 13:21 AND I KNOW YOU WOULD BE BLESSED TO SEE THAT
• 13:23 AS WE GO PAST THAT AS WELL AS THE MANY OTHER SITES.
• 13:26 AND SPEAKING OF SEEING IN A DIFFERENT VENUE,
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• 14:10 SO OFF WE GO NOW AGAIN TO HIS LAND, TO HIS WORLD,
• 14:14 WE'LL ENTER INTO THAT WORLD NOW
• 14:16 AND CONSIDER HOW IT MIGHT RELATE TO OUR VERY OWN.
• 14:39 FOR UNTOLD GENERATIONS IT HAD ALL SEEMED SO NATURAL.
• 14:43 AN EYE FOR AN EYE...
• 14:45 A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH.
• 14:48 BUT NOW THE LORD WAS SAYING QUITE THE OPPOSITE...
• 14:51 GO THE SECOND MILE.
• 14:54 REGARDLESS OF THE CIRCUMSTANCE
• 14:55 GIVE TO HIM WHO ASKS YOU
• 14:58 AND THEN...
• 15:00 GIVE HIM MORE.
• 15:15 THE LATIN EXPRESSION "LEX TALIONIS"
• 15:18 HARKS TO THE TERM FOR THE LAW OF RETALIATION.
• 15:22 "YOU CAN'T TAKE THAT FROM PEOPLE!"
• 15:25 THERE'S THE BIBLICAL EXPRESSION,
• 15:28 AN EYE FOR AN EYE AND A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH.
• 15:31 WE FIND IT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT,
• 15:33 WE FIND IT IN ANCIENT LAW CODES
• 15:36 AND HERE JESUS BEGINS BY HARKING TO IT...
• 15:38 "YOU'VE HEARD THAT IT WAS SAID TO THE MEN OF OLD"
• 15:41 "AN EYE FOR AN EYE"
• 15:43 BY GOLLY YOU CAN'T LET PEOPLE PUSH YOU AROUND;
• 15:45 YOU'VE GOT TO STAND YOUR GROUND.
• 15:48 I GRANT THAT THERE'S SOMETHING TO BE SAID FOR THAT OF COURSE.
• 15:53 SIMILARLY, ONCE HERE IN ISRAEL
• 15:56 I LEARNED AN EXPRESSION THAT I WANT TO COMMEND TO YOU
• 15:59 BECAUSE I THINK IT SUMS UP WHAT THE LORD IS TALKING ABOUT HERE AS HE GOES ON.
• 16:03 I HEARD THE EXPRESSION HERE...
• 16:04 "BLESSED ARE THE FLEXIBLE, THEY WILL NOT BE BROKEN".
• 16:09 ISN'T IT THE GOD'S HONEST TRUTH THAT WE'VE GOT TO LEARN TO BEND A LITTLE BIT?
• 16:13 WE CAN'T JUST FOR EVER BE STANDING UP FOR OUR RIGHTS
• 16:17 AND LETTING THE WORLD KNOW THAT THEY'VE DONE US DIRTY.
• 16:20 I MEAN THERE ARE ENOUGH PEOPLE THAT WILL DO YOU DIRTY IN LIFE
• 16:23 THAT IT'S GOING TO MAKE YOU BITTER, NOT BETTER
• 16:25 IF YOU ALWAYS HAVE THAT ATTITUDE...
• 16:27 "BY GOLLY I'M GOING TO TELL THEM".
• 16:29 IT SEEMS TO ME...
• 16:31 NEVER MIND ME...WHAT DO I KNOW?
• 16:32 IT SEEMS TO THE LORD
• 16:34 WE DO WELL TO BE A LITTLE FLEXIBLE, A LITTLE GRACIOUS.
• 16:37 SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO BEAR UP UNDER PETTY INSULTS...
• 16:40 YOU KNOW... TURN THE OTHER CHEEK...
• 16:43 BEING WILLING TO HENCE GO THE EXTRA MILE,
• 16:47 WHICH BY THE WAY IT'S NOTED HERE IN THE PASSAGE,
• 16:49 IF SOMEONE BECKONS YOU TO GO ONE MILE...GO TWO.
• 16:53 AND IT HARKS TO AN OLD ROMAN PRACTICE
• 16:55 WHERE THE ROMAN MILITARY USED TO BE ABLE TO JUST HAVE CIVILIAN FOLK
• 16:58 CARRY BAGGAGE FOR THEM FOR CERTAIN DISTANCE
• 17:01 AND THEY MIGHT NOT WANT TO DO IT
• 17:03 BUT THEY'RE KIND OF FORCED INTO SERVICE.
• 17:05 HERE PEOPLE ARE BEING FORCED INTO THINGS
• 17:08 AND JESUS IS TELLING THEM TO DO A LITTLE BIT OF AN ATTITUDE CHECK.
• 17:12 BUT NEVER MIND BEING FORCED,
• 17:15 THERE'S A HEBREW EXPRESSION "MITZVAH"...MEANS COMMANDMENT
• 17:20 AND IT IS APPLIED TO BEING A BLESSING.
• 17:24 THE LORD WOULD HAVE HIS PEOPLE TO DO MITZVAHOT,
• 17:27 TO DO BLESSINGS.
• 17:29 AND HENCE IF YOU SEE SOMEONE IN NEED,
• 17:31 INSTEAD OF WAITING TO BE BECKONED INTO SERVICE,
• 17:35 WHY NOT OF YOUR OWN ACCORD TAKE THE INITIATIVE
• 17:38 TO ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVES AND JUST GO HELP.
• 17:42 AND IF WE'RE BECKONED TO GO WHERE WE DON'T WISH TO GO,
• 17:46 AND WE'RE UNABLE TO REMOVE OURSELVES FROM THAT SITUATION,
• 17:50 WHY NOT GO WITH SOMETHING OF A GOOD ATTITUDE AND BE A WITNESS TO THE LOVE OF GOD?
• 17:57 THIS IS WHAT THE LORD IS TALKING ABOUT HERE.
• 17:59 HE'S TALKING TO INDIVIDUALS LIKE ME AND YOU,
• 18:02 HE'S TALKING TO THEM.
• 18:03 THEY DIDN'T LIVE IN A PERFECT WORLD,
• 18:05 THERE WERE ABUSERS IN THE WORLD,
• 18:07 THERE WERE MEAN PEOPLE IN THAT WORLD,
• 18:09 MANIPULATORS, PLAYERS IN THAT WORLD.
• 18:11 AND NOT EVERYONE CAN JUST EXTRICATE THEMSELVES FROM ALL THAT,
• 18:15 SOMETIMES WE'VE GOT LEARN HOW TO FUNCTION IN A LESS THAN PERFECT ENVIRONMENT.
• 18:20 RAV SHAUL, RABBI PAUL, IN HIS OWN WAY SAID,
• 18:25 "IF WE'RE ONLY GOING TO DEAL WITH THE RIGHTEOUS MEN,"
• 18:28 "WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO LEAVE THIS WORLD".
• 18:31 HIS POINT WAS THERE'S PLENTY OF IMPERFECT PEOPLE AROUND
• 18:35 AND THAT'S A CHALLENGE FOR US TO BE PERFECT.
• 18:39 IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT OUR PERFORMANCE NEVER WANES
• 18:41 BUT WE WANT TO BE RESOLUTE IN OUR DECISION TO BE LOVING AND KIND,
• 18:46 DIFFICULTIES WITH OTHERS NOTWITHSTANDING.
• 18:48 THAT'S A LESSON THAT PAUL TAUGHT...THAT JESUS TAUGHT.
• 18:51 IT'S A LESSON THAT I WANT TO COMMEND TO YOU
• 18:53 MINDFUL OF THEIR WORDS HERE FROM THE SEA OF GALILEE.
• 18:59 IT'S A NEW SOUND, MESSIANIC JEWISH MUSIC,
• 19:02 AND HERE'S TED PEARCE TO BRING IT TO YOU.
• 19:06 ♪OPEN TO ME♪
• 19:08 ♪OPEN TO ME♪
• 19:11 ♪OPEN TO ME♪
• 19:13 ♪THE GATES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS LORD♪
• 19:15 ♪OPEN TO ME♪
• 19:18 ♪OPEN TO ME♪
• 19:20 ♪OPEN TO ME♪
• 19:22 ♪THE GATES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND♪
• 19:26 ♪I WILL GO TO HIM♪
• 19:30 ♪I WILL PRAISE THE LORD♪
• 19:35 ♪I WILL GO TO HIM♪
• 19:40 ♪I WILL PRAISE THE LORD♪
• 19:44 ♪OPEN TO ME♪
• 19:47 ♪OPEN TO ME♪
• 19:49 ♪OPEN TO ME♪
• 19:51 ♪THE GATES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS OH♪
• 19:54 ♪OPEN TO ME♪
• 19:56 ♪OPEN TO ME♪
• 19:59 ♪OPEN TO ME♪
• 20:01 ♪THE GATES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS♪
• 20:12 ♪OPEN UP♪
• 20:14 ♪(OPEN UP)♪
• 20:15 ♪OPEN UP♪
• 20:16 ♪(OPEN UP)♪
• 20:17 ♪OPEN UP♪
• 20:46 ♪I WILL GO THROUGH THE GATES♪
• 20:50 ♪THE GATES RIGHTEOUSNESS♪
• 20:55 ♪I'M GOING THROUGH THE GATES NOW♪
• 21:02 ♪I WILL GO THROUGH THEM♪
• 21:06 ♪I WILL PRAISE THE LORD♪
• 21:11 ♪I WILL GO THROUGH THEM♪
• 21:16 ♪I WILL PRAISE THE LORD♪
• 21:21 ♪I WILL GO THROUGH THEM♪
• 21:26 ♪I WILL PRAISE THE LORD♪
• 21:30 ♪I WILL GO THROUGH THEM♪
• 21:35 ♪I WILL PRAISE THE LORD♪
• 21:39 ♪OPEN TO ME....♪
• 21:44 TED DESCRIBES HIMSELF AS REGULAR FOLK, AS A REGULAR GUY.
• 21:49 THE LORD USED THIS ORDINARY GUY TO DO EXTRAORDINARY THINGS.
• 21:54 AND IN A WORLD WHERE TV CAN BE SO SHOWY AND GLOWY
• 21:58 IT'S JUST GREAT TO SEE REGULAR PEOPLE
• 22:01 AND I WANT TO BE THAT REGULAR PEOPLE.
• 22:03 JESUS SAID, AND WE'RE GOING TO HEAR ZOLA LEVITT WEIGH IN ON THIS,
• 22:07 THAT THE LORD CAME TO BUILD A GOVERNMENT FOR, AROUND AND ABOUT REGULAR PEOPLE
• 22:14 WHERE THE POWERFUL AND THOSE THAT ARE FULL OF THEMSELVES
• 22:18 ARE MARGINALIZED FINALLY TO MAKE ROOM FOR THE REST OF US...
• 22:21 FOLK WITH FEET OF CLAY FROM THE NECK DOWN
• 22:24 WHO WANT TO FOLLOW JESUS.
• 22:26 HERE IS ZOLA LEVITT TO TALK ABOUT THAT AND MORE
• 22:28 AS HE TEACHES US ON THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT.
• 22:32 NOW THE SERMON THOUGH SPEAKS
• 22:34 TO THE BEHAVIOR OF THE SUBJECTS.
• 22:37 IT'S THE DIVINE CONSTITUTION
• 22:39 FOR RIGHTEOUS GOVERNMENT
• 22:41 ON THE EARTH AT LAST.
• 22:43 IT'S DESIGNED PECULIARLY FOR THE POOR IN SPIRIT AND THE MEEK.
• 22:48 THE BEATITUDES ARE FULL OF THAT
• 22:51 "BLESSED ARE THE POOR IN SPIRIT",
• 22:52 "BLESSED ARE THE MEEK THAT WILL INHERIT THE EARTH".
• 22:55 PSALM 72 IS ALSO FULL OF THAT
• 22:58 AND IT'S A VERY MESSIANIC,
• 23:00 VERY MUCH A KINGDOM PSALM.
• 23:01 FROM THE FIRST VERSE,
• 23:04 "GIVE THE KING THY JUDGMENTS O GOD AND THY RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO THE KING'S SON."
• 23:10 IT'S INTERESTING, DAVID IS THE ONE WRITING...
• 23:12 HE IS THE KING HERE
• 23:14 AND THE KING'S SON IS MASHIACH BEN DAVID...
• 23:17 THE MESSIAH, THE SON OF DAVID.
• 23:19 "HE SHALL JUDGE THY PEOPLE WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS AND THY POOR WITH JUDGMENT"
• 23:24 NOW TO VERSE 11,
• 23:26 AND NOTICE HOW IT SINGLES OUT THE POOR...
• 23:28 "YE, ALL KINGS SHALL FALL DOWN BEFORE HIM."
• 23:31 "ALL NATIONS SHALL SERVE HIM."
• 23:33 "FOR HE SHALL DELIVER THE NEEDY WHEN HE CRIETH,"
• 23:36 "THE POOR ALSO AND HIM THAT HATH NO HELPER."
• 23:38 "HE SHALL SPARE THE POOR AND NEEDY"
• 23:41 "AND SHALL SAVE THE SOULS OF THE NEEDY."
• 23:44 CERTAINLY THEY COULD SEE THAT THE PSALM WAS FULL OF THAT.
• 23:47 JOEL CHAPTER 2, VERSE 29,
• 23:49 "I'LL POUR OUT MY SPIRIT UPON YOUR HANDMAIDS AND SERVANTS",
• 23:54 THIS KINGDOM IS FOR THE POOR IN SPIRIT AND NOT THE PROUD.
• 23:57 IT'S FOR THOSE WHO MOURN BECAUSE OF THEIR SINS,
• 24:00 THOSE WHO ARE MEEK IN CONSCIOUSNESS OF THEIR SINS;
• 24:03 THESE ARE THE PEOPLE FOR WHOM THE KINGDOM WILL BE PREPARED.
• 24:08 ZOLA LEVITT IS ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.
• 24:12 THE LORD IS GAME TO PREPARE FOR US A KINGDOM.
• 24:17 OH I WANT YOU TO THINK ABOUT HOW PROFOUND THAT IS
• 24:21 BECAUSE YESHUA, BECAUSE JESUS SAID AS MUCH IN SO MANY WAYS ON VARIOUS DAYS.
• 24:27 THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT IS THE CONSTITUTION FOR A NEW WAY OF LIVING NOW.
• 24:34 JESUS SAID THAT "I'VE GONE TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU LATER".
• 24:40 ISN'T IT GREAT JUST TO THINK ABOUT HIM GOING BEFORE US
• 24:45 AND BUILDING A BETTER WORLD FOR US?
• 24:48 AND YOU KNOW WHEN THAT BETTER WORLD BEGINS?
• 24:51 IT BEGINS NOW.
• 24:54 FOR US THE KINGDOM BEGINS TRULY
• 24:58 WHEN WE DECIDE TO MAKE HIM KING TRULY.
• 25:04 AND YOU COULD BE SITTING ON YOUR THRONE RIGHT NOW IN YOUR LIVING ROOM WITH YOUR...
• 25:09 IT'S NOT EXACTLY YOUR SCEPTER,
• 25:11 BUT YOUR CHANNEL SURFER,
• 25:12 AND THEY SAY THAT A MAN'S HOME IS IN HIS OWN CASTLE,
• 25:17 YOU MAY WELL BE THE KING OF YOUR CASTLE
• 25:20 BUT THE LORD MIGHT NOT BE THE KING OF THE KING
• 25:24 AND HE WANTS TO COME INTO YOUR HOME FRIEND
• 25:27 AND HE WANTS TO COME INTO YOU PERSONALLY.
• 25:30 AND THEN WITH HIM RESIDENT WITHIN YOU HE WANTS TO THEN GO BEFORE YOU
• 25:36 AND ENABLE YOU TO BUILD A WORLD THAT'S BETTER
• 25:39 BOTH IN THIS LIFE AND IN THE LIFE TO COME.
• 25:44 THE PRINCE OF PEACE IS ANXIOUS TO BRING PEACE
• 25:47 BUT THE FIRST THING THAT WE NEED TO DO IS
• 25:51 WE NEED TO MAKE PEACE WITH HIM.
• 25:55 I HOPE YOU'RE LEARNING SOMETHING ABOUT THAT, I REALLY DO,
• 25:59 AS YOU CONSIDER THIS SERIES
• 26:02 AS WE TOGETHER ENTER INTO A TIME MACHINE
• 26:05 AND JOURNEY BACK TO THE UNFOLDING OF THE BIBLICAL DRAMA.
• 26:09 THIS IS THE THIRD OF AN 8 PART SERIES
• 26:12 AND WE'RE GOING ON IN THE JOURNEY.
• 26:14 BUT IF YOU HAVEN'T GOTTEN ON YOUR KNEES
• 26:16 AND ASKED THE KING INTO YOUR HEART TO MAKE HIM KING,
• 26:19 WHY DON'T YOU DO THAT NOW?
• 26:20 BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T DO IT,
• 26:22 THIS SERIES ISN'T GOING TO DO YOU A WHOLE LOT OF GOOD.
• 26:25 AND IF YOU HAVE DONE THAT
• 26:27 THIS SERIES WILL FEED YOU HOPEFULLY, PRAYERFULLY
• 26:31 AS YOU'LL COME TO KNOW MORE ABOUT JESUS WILL AND HIS WAYS.
• 26:35 WELL THANK YOU FOR STAYING TUNED TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 26:39 IN A WORLD WITH TUNING OPTIONS
• 26:41 I'M HONORED THAT YOU'VE TUNED IN.
• 26:43 THANK YOU FOR WATCHING ME.
• 26:44 AS YOU GO NOW
• 26:46 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:48 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM