Caption transcript for Sar Shalom: “God’s Material Provisions” (6/8)

• 01:00 HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 01:02 JEFFREY SEIF HERE WITH ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 01:05 PRESENTING NOW THE 6TH OF AN 8 PART TREATMENT
• 01:08 OF JESUS ON THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT.
• 01:11 WE'RE GETTING INTO SOME INTERESTING STUFF NOW
• 01:13 AS WE GO TO JESUS' TEACHING ON OUR RELATIONSHIP TO STUFF.
• 01:18 WE'RE SPIRITUAL BEINGS IF WE KNOW THE LORD.
• 01:21 WE'RE MATERIAL BEINGS AS WELL IF WE'RE HUMAN BEINGS.
• 01:24 WHAT ABOUT THE TENSION BETWEEN THE TWO?
• 01:26 HOW OUGHT WE TO LIVE?
• 01:28 LET'S HEAR JESUS ON THAT NOW AND MORE.
• 02:08 JESUS WAS ALL ABOUT GIVING WASN'T HE?
• 02:11 DIDN'T JUST GIVE MONEY...
• 02:14 DIDN'T JUST GIVE TIME...
• 02:18 HE GAVE HIS LIFE.
• 02:21 AND I'M SURE WHEN HE WAS BLEEDING OUT ON CALVARY'S CROSS
• 02:27 THAT HE COULD HAVE USED EVERY DROP OF BLOOD IN HIS OWN BODY.
• 02:34 I'M SURE THERE WERE TISSUES SCREAMING FOR OXYGENATED BLOOD
• 02:40 BUT THAT BLOOD WAS SPENT FOR PEOPLE LIKE ME AND YOU.
• 02:48 IN ADVANCE OF JESUS PAYING SUCH A HIGH PRICE HIMSELF
• 02:53 HE WENT ON RECORD TALKING ABOUT MONEY IN DIFFERENT WAYS
• 02:58 AND SOME OF THOSE WAYS ARE SUMMARIZED HERE
• 03:01 IN WHAT'S CALLED "THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT"
• 03:06 AND I WANT TO LOOK AT ONE SUCH EXAMPLE WITH YOU.
• 03:10 JESUS SAID "NO ONE CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS"
• 03:15 "FOR EITHER HE WILL HATE THE ONE AND LOVE THE OTHER"
• 03:20 "OR ELSE HE WILL BE LOYAL TO THE ONE AND DESPISE THE OTHER."
• 03:25 AND THEN VERY FORCEFULLY AND EMPHATICALLY HE SAID
• 03:31 "YOU SIMPLY CANNOT SERVE GOD AND MAMMON".
• 03:37 IT'S INTERESTING THAT JESUS WAS SO FORCEFUL ABOUT IT.
• 03:43 NOT ONLY ARE HIS WORDS IGNORED
• 03:47 BUT WHAT SOME PEOPLE TRY AND DO
• 03:49 IS MANIPULATE HIM TO SERVE THEIR OWN INTERESTS IN MAMMON;
• 03:56 AGAIN JUST GOING DIRECTLY AGAINST WHAT THE LORD IS SAYING.
• 04:01 WELL WHAT'S HE SAYING?
• 04:02 IT'S CLEAR ENOUGH.
• 04:04 WHY IS HE SAYING IT?
• 04:06 TO BEGIN TO TAKE A PEEK AT THAT
• 04:09 LET ME SAY THAT WHAT HE'S SAYING,
• 04:10 HE'S DRAWING FROM CONCEPTS THAT ARE NOT UNIQUELY HIS OWN.
• 04:16 WHAT DO I MEAN BY THAT?
• 04:18 IN THE JEWISH WORLD THERE'S A CONCEPT CALLED "TIKKUN OLAM"
• 04:25 WHICH MEANS TO REPAIR THE WORLD.
• 04:29 IT'S INCUMBENT UPON THE RIGHTEOUS;
• 04:32 IT'S INCUMBENT UPON THE "TZADDIK", THE RIGHTEOUS PERSON,
• 04:36 TO BE ENGAGED IN "TIKKUN OLAM" IN REPAIRING THE WORLD.
• 04:42 THERE'S AN UNDERSTANDING THAT EVERYBODY HAS THAT OBLIGATION,
• 04:45 IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT "ME".
• 04:49 BUT THE LORD SAYS IT'S ABOUT "WE".
• 04:53 YESHUA, JESUS, OF COURSE IS THE BEST EXAMPLE OF THAT
• 04:57 GIVING WHAT HE GAVE, THE WAY HE GAVE IT, BLEEDING OUT ENTIRELY,
• 05:02 BUT ALL OF US ARE TO SHARE IN THE GIVING.
• 05:06 THE LORD IS EMPHATIC, WE JUST CAN'T SERVE GOD AND MAMMON,
• 05:11 WE JUST CAN'T PUT MONEY FIRST,
• 05:14 THE THINGS OF THIS LIFE FIRST.
• 05:17 JESUS WENT ON RECORD SAYING
• 05:20 "THE HEAVENLY FATHER KNOWS THAT YOU NEED ALL OF THAT",
• 05:24 "YOU NEED STUFF",
• 05:25 WE DO AND WE EVEN WANT STUFF
• 05:28 AND GOD'S NOT ABOUT DEPRIVING US OF THAT.
• 05:31 BUT WE DON'T WANT TO JUST LIVE FOR OUR OWN BELLIES NOW DO WE?
• 05:36 PAUL SPOKE OF INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE BELIEVERS
• 05:38 AT ONE POINT HE SAYS,
• 05:39 "BUT NOW THEIR GOD IS THEIR BELLY"
• 05:42 "AND THEIR END IS DESTRUCTION".
• 05:45 LET IT NOT BE JUST ABOUT "ME"
• 05:48 LET IT BE ABOUT "WE",
• 05:50 LETS JUST NOT SERVE THE SELF
• 05:52 BUT LETS SERVE THE CREATOR WHO GAVE US OUR LIVES
• 05:56 AND BY VIRTUE OF OUR SO DOING WE'RE GOING TO DISCOVER
• 06:00 THAT THE CREATOR OF ALL CAN TAKE CARE OF US
• 06:03 AS WE'RE BUSY ABOUT THE BUSINESS OF PUTTING HIM FIRST.
• 06:29 LOOK AT THE BIRDS OF THE AIR
• 06:31 FOR THEY NEITHER SOW NOR REAP,
• 06:33 NOR GATHER INTO BARNS,
• 06:35 YET YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER FEEDS THEM.
• 06:38 ARE YOU NOT OF MORE VALUE THAN THEY?
• 06:41 WHICH OF YOU BY WORRYING CAN ADD ONE CUBIT TO HIS STATURE?
• 06:46 WHY WORRY ABOUT CLOTHING?
• 06:49 CONSIDER THE LILIES OF THE FIELD,
• 06:51 THEY NEITHER TOIL NOR SPIN
• 06:53 AND YET I SAY TO YOU
• 06:55 THAT SOLOMON IN ALL HIS GLORY
• 06:58 WAS NOT ARRAYED LIKE ONE OF THESE.
• 07:00 IF GOD CLOTHES THE GRASS OF FIELD
• 07:03 WILL HE NOT MUCH MORE CLOTH YOU,
• 07:06 O YOU OF LITTLE FAITH?
• 07:12 I'M A BIG CITY GUY PERSONALLY...
• 07:15 LIVED IN NEW YORK CITY FOR YEARS...
• 07:17 PHILADELPHIA, DETROIT, CHICAGO AND NOW DALLAS...
• 07:21 ORIENTED TOWARDS THE FASTER LIFE AS I AM,
• 07:25 ONE OF THE BENEFITS OF COMING TO ISRAEL, AND THERE ARE A NUMBER,
• 07:28 ONE OF THEM IS THAT I GET TO GET A LITTLE BIT CLOSER TO NATURE
• 07:33 AND FRANKLY IT DOES ME GOOD.
• 07:36 AND HERE WITH THE SEA OF GALILEE BEHIND ME
• 07:39 AND THESE BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS AND THE WIND BLOWING IN MY FACE
• 07:43 AND THE WHOLE OPEN AIR,
• 07:45 THERE'S A FEELING TO IT THAT HAS A WAY OF CALMING ME PERSONALLY.
• 07:50 AND I'M THE KIND OF PERSON BY NATURE
• 07:52 THAT CAN GET RAMPED UP OR DOWN RATHER EASILY
• 07:55 BUT HERE YOU CAN KIND OF OPEN UP, BREATHE A LITTLE...
• 07:58 THE REASON WHY I SAY THAT IS
• 08:00 WHEN JESUS WAS SPEAKING FROM HERE SOME 2000 YEARS AGO
• 08:04 HE WAS TALKING ABOUT OPENING UP AND BREATHING A LITTLE.
• 08:08 SO MANY OF US ARE ALL WRAPPED UP, WE'RE TIGHTENED UP WITH
• 08:11 FEARS OF THIS LIFE,
• 08:13 AND SURELY THERE ARE CHALLENGES OF THIS LIFE
• 08:15 THAT GIVE RISE TO CONCERNS.
• 08:18 STILL, IF I UNDERSTAND THE LORD CORRECTLY, HE SAYS
• 08:22 "IF YOU'LL FOLLOW ME YOU NEEDN'T WORRY SO MUCH ABOUT YOUR LIFE,"
• 08:27 "WHAT YOU SHALL PUT ON, WHAT YOU SHALL WEAR",
• 08:31 HE SAYS THAT IN NATURE
• 08:32 WE DISCOVER THAT WHETHER IT'S THE BIRDS OR THE FLOWERS
• 08:35 GOD HAS A WAY OF CLOTHING AND FEEDING.
• 08:38 I WAS THINKING OF THAT BY THE WAY THIS MORNING
• 08:41 THERE OVERLOOKING THE SEA OF GALILEE
• 08:44 SEEING THE BIRDS FLY OVER
• 08:45 AND I THOUGHT
• 08:47 "YOU KNOW LIFE GETS TENSE SOMETIMES"
• 08:49 "BUT GOD HAS A WAY OF TAKING CARE OF CREATION"
• 08:51 "AND THAT MEANS THAT HE WILL IN FACT TAKE CARE OF ME."
• 08:55 IF YOU'RE A LITTLE RESTLESS IN THE WORLD THAT WE LIVE
• 08:57 I WANT YOU TO KNOW THERE'S REASONS TO BE RESTLESS.
• 09:01 BUT LET ME SHOW YOU RIGHT NOW WHY THERE'S A REASON
• 09:03 WHY I BELIEVE WE CAN BE AT REST.
• 09:05 JESUS SAID,
• 09:06 "THEREFORE I SAY TO YOU DO NOT WORRY ABOUT YOUR LIFE,"
• 09:09 "WHAT YOU SHALL EAT, WHAT YOU'LL DRINK,
• 09:12 "ABOUT YOUR BODY, WHAT YOU'LL PUT ON."
• 09:15 "IS NOT LIFE MORE THAN FOOD AND THE BODY MORE THAN CLOTHING?"
• 09:19 GOD'S HONEST TRUTH IS
• 09:22 THAT'S THE STUFF THAT WE REALLY WORRY ABOUT...
• 09:25 OUR LIFE, OUR FUTURE...
• 09:28 WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHEN JESUS SAYS "DON'T WORRY SO MUCH"?
• 09:31 OR LIKE A FRIEND OF MINE, ZVI, SAYS "DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY".
• 09:36 WHAT DOES JESUS MEAN BY THAT?
• 09:38 MAYBE HE MEANS EXACTLY WHAT HE SAYS.
• 09:41 PRIOR TO THIS HE'S SPOKEN ABOUT
• 09:43 PEOPLE THAT DON'T LAY UP FOR THEMSELVES TREASURES IN HEAVEN,
• 09:47 THEY COVET IT HERE ON EARTH,
• 09:49 PEOPLE ARE STINGY,
• 09:51 THEY'RE NOT LOVING,
• 09:52 THEY'RE NOT GRACIOUS,
• 09:53 THEY'RE NOT CHARITABLE.
• 09:54 JESUS SAYS
• 09:55 "CHILL...YOU NEEDN'T HOLD ON SO TIGHT".
• 09:59 BECAUSE WHEN WE HOLD ON TO IT ALL SO TIGHT
• 10:04 IT HAS A WAY OF TIGHTENING US UP.
• 10:07 CONVERSELY, IF WE HAVE A WAY OF GIVING IT UP
• 10:11 THE LORD HAS A WAY OF LOOSENING US UP.
• 10:14 AND AS WE'RE LOOSER
• 10:16 AND KINDER AND MORE OPENED TO OTHERS IN THE LORD
• 10:18 THE LORD HAS A WAY OF POURING MORE BLESSINGS INTO US.
• 10:23 IT'S PERHAPS FOR THAT REASON THAT HE FINISHES UP SAYING,
• 10:26 AND YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD THIS BEFORE,
• 10:28 "SEEK FIRST GOD'S KINGDOM AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS"
• 10:31 "AND ALL THESE THINGS WILL BE ADDED UNTO YOU".
• 10:34 THE STUFF OF LIFE...THE LORD SAYS "SEEK ME FIRST".
• 10:40 HE'S NOT ABOUT THE BUSINESS OF DEPRIVING US OF THE THINGS
• 10:43 THAT WE NEED IN LIFE OR EVEN THINGS THAT WE DESIRE IN LIFE.
• 10:47 HE'S NOT IN THE BUSINESS OF GETTING IN THE WAY OF OUR SUCCESS IN LIFE
• 10:50 BUT RATHER JESUS IS AN ENHANCER,
• 10:53 HE'S A LOVER OF PEOPLE
• 10:55 AND HE LOVES YOU
• 10:56 AND HE WANTS YOU TO BE A GIVER
• 10:58 AND HE WANTS ME TO BE A GIVER,
• 11:00 NOT TO DEPRIVE US OF SOMETHING
• 11:02 BUT IN ORDER THAT WE CAN GET MORE FROM HIM,
• 11:04 HIS BLESSINGS WHICH WILL COME TO US IN MANIFOLD WAYS.
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• 11:47 AS JESUS WALKED BY THE SEA OF GALILEE
• 11:50 HE SAW SIMON AND ANDREW CASTING A NET INTO THE SEA
• 11:53 FOR THEY WERE FISHERMEN.
• 11:57 TODAY THE GALILEE STILL BECKONS
• 11:59 AS DO THE FISHERMEN LIKE DANIEL CARMEL.
• 12:03 SHALOM.
• 12:05 I WANT TO INVITE YOU FOR A BOAT RIDE ON THE SEA OF GALILEE
• 12:08 ON THE SEA OF GALILEE WORSHIP BOATS.
• 12:10 JOIN US IN WORSHIP ON THE GALILEE.
• 12:25 I HAVE BEEN TO ISRAEL MANY, MANY TIMES WITH MANY, MANY PEOPLE,
• 12:31 THE BETTER PART OF WHOM REPORT
• 12:34 THAT IT WAS THE TRIP TO THE SEA OF GALILEE PARTICULARLY
• 12:38 THAT SEEMED TO MAKE THE TRIP WORTHWHILE.
• 12:41 TO GO THERE AND GET THE AIR IN THE FACE,
• 12:44 THE WATER, THE AMBIANCE, IT IS JUST ABSOLUTELY REFRESHING.
• 12:50 THE BIBLE SPEAKS OF TIMES OF REFRESHING
• 12:54 AND IT'S GREAT TO GO BACK
• 12:56 TO THE WORLD WHERE THE GREATEST REFRESHMENT CAME.
• 12:59 JESUS DESCRIBED HIMSELF AS LIVING WATERS.
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• 13:51 AND NOW WE'RE GOING TO PICK UP ON JESUS AGAIN
• 13:54 TEACHING ON THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT.
• 14:03 FOR MANY OF THOSE WHO HAD GATHERED AT THE FEET OF JESUS
• 14:06 THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT WAS A LESSON IN HUMILITY.
• 14:10 "JUDGE NOT THAT YOU BE NOT JUDGED" HE SAID.
• 14:13 "FOR WITH WHAT JUDGMENT YOU JUDGE...YOU WILL BE JUDGED"
• 14:18 "AND WITH THE MEASURE YOU USE..."
• 14:20 "IT WILL BE MEASURED BACK TO YOU"
• 14:23 TWO WEARY FISHERMEN
• 14:26 HAVE RETURNED FROM THEIR LONG DAYS' EFFORTS
• 14:28 WITH EMPTY NETS,
• 14:30 EXHAUSTED AND DISHEARTENED.
• 14:32 THEY'VE TRIED THEIR BEST
• 14:34 BUT TO NO AVAIL.
• 14:36 THE OWNER OF THE BOAT RIPS INTO THEM...
• 14:42 HE WRONGLY ASSUMES HIS WORKERS HAVE BEEN SLACK IN THEIR EFFORTS
• 14:45 AND BLAMES THEM FOR NOT RETURNING WITH BASKETS FULL OF FISH.
• 14:52 "FOR WHAT JUDGMENT YOU JUDGE..."
• 14:55 "YOU WILL BE JUDGED" SAYS THE LORD.
• 14:57 "AND WITH THE MEASURE YOU USE..."
• 15:00 "IT WILL BE MEASURED BACK TO YOU."
• 15:08 SOME PEOPLE TALK WAY TOO MUCH.
• 15:12 AND THEY TALK ABOUT THINGS THEY HAVE NO BUSINESS TALKING ABOUT.
• 15:16 THERE IS A HEBREW EXPRESSION CALLED "LASHON HARA"
• 15:22 WHICH MEANS "AN EVIL TONGUE"
• 15:25 AND SPEAKS TO THE HABIT OF PEOPLE UTTERING BAD SPEECH.
• 15:28 THERE IS ONE TYPE OF SPEECH THAT'S PARTICULARLY EGREGIOUS
• 15:33 AND THAT'S BLAME,
• 15:37 WHEN PEOPLE POINT THE FINGER.
• 15:41 AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED
• 15:44 THERE'S ROOM IN THE WORLD FOR TWO TYPES TO POINT THE FINGER.
• 15:48 I MAKE ROOM FOR CHILDREN TO BLAME OTHERS BECAUSE THEY'RE KIDS, THEY DON'T KNOW ANY BETTER
• 15:54 AND ON THE OTHER HAND I MAKE ROOM FOR GOD TO BLAME BECAUSE HE DOES KNOW BETTER,
• 16:00 HE KNOWS ALL THE FACTS,
• 16:02 SO HE CAN SPELL IT OUT
• 16:03 AND PUT PEOPLE WHERE THEY NEED TO BE PUT.
• 16:05 BUT FOR THOSE OF US THAT ARE SOMEWHERE BETWEEN
• 16:08 BEING CHILDREN ON THE ONE HAND AND GOD ON THE OTHER,
• 16:11 WE DO WELL IT SEEMS TO ME TO BE A TAD BIT MORE DISCRIMINATE IN THE USE OF SPEECH
• 16:18 LEST WE GO AROUND HURTING PEOPLE
• 16:21 TALKING ABOUT THINGS THAT WE JUST SIMPLY DO NOT UNDERSTAND.
• 16:26 NEVER MIND MY OPINION, HOWEVER,
• 16:28 IF I UNDERSTAND JESUS CORRECTLY
• 16:31 IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 7, VERSE 1, HE SAYS,
• 16:33 "DON'T JUDGE LEST YOU BE JUDGED",
• 16:38 "DON'T BE SO QUICK TO POINT THE FINGER"
• 16:41 "AND MAKE ASSERTIONS ABOUT THINGS"
• 16:43 "WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT"
• 16:45 "LEST IT COME BACK TO BITE YOU."
• 16:48 AND TALK ABOUT COMING BACK AND BITING,
• 16:51 LATER ON JESUS WEIGHS IN EVEN STRONGER YET.
• 16:55 HE SAYS,
• 16:57 "DON'T BE TAKING THE SPECK OUT OF EVERYONE ELSE'S EYE,"
• 17:00 "GOING AROUND CORRECTING EVERYBODY"
• 17:02 "AND NOT SEEING HOW YOU YOURSELF HAVE THIS ENORMOUS PLANK IN YOUR OWN EYE."
• 17:06 FUNNY HOW YOU CAN'T SEE THAT.
• 17:08 WELL AFTER JESUS MAKING A POINT ABOUT NOT DOING THAT HE SAYS,
• 17:12 "YOU HYPOCRITE".
• 17:15 IN THE HEBREW VERSION OF MATTHEW
• 17:19 THE WORD "HYPOCRITE" HARKS TO THE WORD "HYENA",
• 17:23 SOMETHING OF A RAVENOUS BEAST.
• 17:25 AND IT SEEMS TO ME THAT PEOPLE ARE LIKE THAT WITH THE BAD TONGUE,
• 17:30 THEY JUST GO AND NITPICK AND HARANGUE
• 17:34 AND GET IN THE WAY OF DESCENT PEOPLE.
• 17:37 IF I UNDERSTAND THE LORD CORRECTLY, HE SAYS,
• 17:41 "DON'T JUDGE LEST YOU BE JUDGED".
• 17:46 IF I UNDERSTAND,
• 17:48 WE DO WELL TO REIN IN THE TENDENCY TO MAKE JUDGMENTS
• 17:51 WITHOUT HAVING THE FACTS,
• 17:53 TO MAKE "SNAP" JUDGMENTS.
• 17:55 WE THINK WE'RE DESCRIBING THE WORLD AROUND US
• 17:59 BUT WHEN WE DO THAT
• 18:01 WHAT WE WIND UP DOING IS DESCRIBING THE WORLD THAT'S INTERIOR TO US.
• 18:06 WE'RE NOT DESCRIBING THE WORLD AROUND US,
• 18:08 RATHER WE'RE TELEGRAPHING TO THOSE ROUND ABOUT US
• 18:11 THAT WE HAVE A MEAN SPIRITED DISPOSITION,
• 18:15 THAT WE'RE PUSHY,
• 18:16 THAT WE TALKED ABOUT THINGS THAT WE DON'T KNOW,
• 18:19 WE'RE PUSHING EVERYONE ELSE AROUND,
• 18:22 WHEN THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER,
• 18:23 WE'RE NOT DESCRIBING THE WORLD AS IT IS,
• 18:25 WE'RE DESCRIBING THE WORLD AS "WE" IS,
• 18:29 INTENTIONAL THE GRAMMAR THERE FOR EFFECT,
• 18:32 AS WE ARE.
• 18:33 WE DESCRIBE THE WORLD...
• 18:34 IT SAYS MORE ABOUT US THAN THE WORLD.
• 18:36 LET'S BE PATIENT WITH OTHERS.
• 18:39 LET'S HEAR JESUS ON THIS AND BE MORE GRACIOUS,
• 18:42 MORE DISPOSED TO MONITOR OUR OWN INTERIOR WORLDS
• 18:47 AND LESS INCLINED TO GO AROUND AND CORRECT THE WORLD AROUND US
• 18:51 AND PROVE TO THE WORLD AROUND US
• 18:52 THAT THE PROBLEM ISN'T THE WORLD AROUND US
• 18:55 AS MUCH AS THE PROBLEM IS THE WORLD THAT'S INTERIOR TO US.
• 18:59 THIS IS AN IMPORTANT TEACHING OF JESUS.
• 19:04 AND HERE'S TED PEARCE SINGING "GLORIOUS OH GOD"
• 19:09 ♪YOU ARE GLORIOUS OH GOD♪
• 19:13 ♪GLORIOUS OH GOD♪
• 19:16 ♪AWESOME IN YOUR POWER AND PRAISE♪
• 19:22 ♪YOU ARE GLORIOUS OH GOD♪
• 19:27 ♪GLORIOUS OH GOD♪
• 19:30 ♪GLORIOUS IN ALL OF YOUR WAYS♪
• 19:36 ♪OH YOU ARE GLORIOUS OH GOD♪
• 19:40 ♪GLORIOUS OH GOD♪
• 19:44 ♪GLORIOUS IN ALL OF YOUR WAYS♪
• 19:50 ♪AND YOU ARE HOLY♪
• 19:54 ♪THERE IS NONE LIKE YOU♪
• 19:57 ♪YOU ARE WORTHY♪
• 20:00 ♪OF MORE THAN I COULD EVER DO♪
• 20:03 ♪AND YOUR GLORY♪
• 20:08 ♪FILLS THE UNIVERSE♪
• 20:11 ♪AND YET YOU HAVE CONSIDERED ME♪
• 20:32 ♪AND YOU ARE HOLY♪
• 20:36 ♪OH THERE IS NONE LIKE YOU♪
• 20:39 ♪YOU ARE WORTHY♪
• 20:43 ♪OF MORE THAN I COULD EVER DO♪
• 20:46 ♪AND YOUR GLORY♪
• 20:50 ♪OH IT FILLS THE UNIVERSE♪
• 20:54 ♪AND YET YOU HAVE CONSIDERED ME♪
• 21:02 ♪HOW I LOVE TO BE WITH YOU♪
• 21:05 ♪I LOVE TO BE WITH YOU♪
• 21:14 ♪YOU SHOW ME LOVE IN SO MANY WAYS♪ ♪THAT'S WHY I LOVE TO BE WITH YOU♪
• 21:19 ♪OH I NEED TO BE WITH YOU♪
• 21:23 ♪YOU FILL ME WITH THANKSGIVING AND PRAISE♪
• 21:29 ♪OH YOU ARE GLORIOUS OH GOD♪
• 21:33 ♪GLORIOUS OH GOD♪
• 21:37 ♪AND GLORIOUS YOU SHALL EVER BE♪
• 21:42 ♪FOR YOU ARE GLORIOUS OH GOD♪
• 21:52 SOMETIMES I NEED TO GET MY MIND OFF MY MIND
• 21:56 AND MUSIC HAS A WAY OF TAMING THE SAVAGE BEAST NOW DOESN'T IT?
• 22:01 WITH ME...WITH YOU
• 22:03 WORSHIP MUSIC HAS A WAY OF HELPING US TAKE LEAVE
• 22:06 OF OUR TROUBLES, OUR TRIALS, OUR CIRCUMSTANCE
• 22:09 AND HELPING US TO ENTER INTO GOD'S PRESENCE
• 22:13 WHERE WE CAN RECEIVE GOD'S PRESENTS.
• 22:17 OH THERE ARE ANSWERS, WOULD THAT WE WOULD SEEK HIM.
• 22:20 AND SPEAKING ABOUT SEEKING HIM
• 22:23 AND TAKING LEAVE OF THE MOMENT TO ENTER INTO GOD'S WORLD,
• 22:27 PRAYER IS HELPFUL TOO NOW ISN'T IT?
• 22:30 AND JESUS TAUGHT US HOW TO PRAY
• 22:33 AND THE LATE ZOLA LEVITT IS POINTING US TO JESUS.
• 22:37 YOU KNOW, WE'RE STUBBORN PEOPLE,
• 22:39 I KNOW I AM,
• 22:40 AND SOMETIMES MY OWN WILL AND WAY AND MIND
• 22:42 GETS IN THE WAY OF GOD'S GOOD PURPOSES.
• 22:45 BETTER THAT WE LEARN TO SEEK HIS KINGDOM
• 22:47 AND PUT THAT FIRST INSTEAD OF OUR OWN.
• 22:49 HERE'S ZOLA...
• 22:51 REMINDS US OF WHAT JESUS SAID ON THAT AND MORE.
• 22:56 AS FOR NOW WE SHOULD BE PRAYING THE WAY THAT JESUS TAUGHT US,
• 23:00 "THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE".
• 23:02 HE TAUGHT US TO PRAY "OUR FATHER", "AVINU",
• 23:06 NOT "MY FATHER", "AVI",
• 23:08 BUT "OUR FATHER".
• 23:10 AFTER ALL JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD.
• 23:13 HOW DO WE BECOME CHILDREN OF GOD?
• 23:15 JOHN CHAPTER 1, VERSE 12 AND 13,
• 23:17 "TO ALL THOSE WHO RECEIVED HIM"
• 23:18 "HE GAVE THE POWER TO BE CHILDREN OF GOD".
• 23:21 CHRISTIANS ARE SAID TO BE BORN AGAIN AS JESUS TOLD NICODEMUS IN JOHN CHAPTER 3, VERSE 3,
• 23:26 "WE BECOME LITTLE CHILDREN AGAIN" AND TRULY GOD'S CHILDREN.
• 23:30 JESUS SAID IN JOHN CHAPTER 20, VERSE 17,
• 23:33 "I ASCEND TO MY FATHER AND YOUR FATHER, MY GOD AND YOUR GOD".
• 23:37 AND AS PAUL EXALTED IN ROMANS, CHAPTER 8, VERSE 15,
• 23:41 CONCERNING THE FACT THAT WE'RE JUST ADOPTED INTO THIS FAMILY,
• 23:44 "BUT YE HAVE RECEIVED THE SPIRIT OF ADOPTION"
• 23:47 "WHEREBY WE CRY 'ABBA FATHER'."
• 23:51 "HALLOWED BE THY NAME" THE PRAYER GOES ON.
• 23:53 HOW DO WE HALLOW JEHOVAH'S NAME AND MAKE IT HOLY?
• 23:56 JEHOVAH TOLD MOSES HIS NAME WAS "I AM".
• 24:00 IN THE WILDERNESS CHILDREN OF ISRAEL STARTED TO THINK HIS NAME WAS "I WAS".
• 24:04 THEY SAID,
• 24:06 "DID YOU BRING US OUT HERE BECAUSE THERE WEREN'T GRAVES ENOUGH IN EGYPT?"
• 24:08 WE CAN SYMPATHIZE; WE'RE ALL MAKING AN EXODUS JOURNEY.
• 24:10 WE'RE IN A WILDERNESS
• 24:12 PROGRESSING SLOWLY TOWARD JERICHO, HEAVEN ON EARTH, AND THE PROMISED LAND.
• 24:16 WE'RE COUNTING ON "I AM" TO PULL US THROUGH.
• 24:18 HIS NAME IS VERY SPECIAL.
• 24:20 THE JEWS DON'T WRITE IT OR SPEAK IT.
• 24:22 WHEN THEY WANT TO PRAISE THE LORD THEY SAY, "BARUCH HASHEM",
• 24:24 "BLESSED IS THE NAME",
• 24:26 "HASHEM", "THE NAME".
• 24:28 THEY DON'T WRITE IT DOWN "G..O..D",
• 24:31 THEY WRITE "G-D"
• 24:33 SO THAT THEY DON'T PROFANE HIS NAME BY WRITING IT.
• 24:35 BUT WHAT REALLY HALLOWS HIS NAME IS BY LIVING HIS WAY
• 24:41 AND SHOWING THAT "I AM" REALLY MEANS "HE IS",
• 24:45 HE'S EFFECTIVE,
• 24:46 HE'S IN A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH US.
• 24:49 AND HE IS EVER WITH US IN TIMES OF TROUBLE.
• 24:55 AND HE SAID THAT IF WE SEEK HIM WITH ALL OF OUR HEART
• 24:59 WE'LL FIND HIM.
• 25:01 THAT IF WE KNOCK
• 25:02 IT WILL OPEN TO US.
• 25:05 OH, GOODNESS, THE BIBLICAL TESTIMONY IS JUST FULL OF GOOD NEWS FOR MODERN MAN.
• 25:12 ZOLA REMINDED US THAT HIS NAME IS "I AM".
• 25:17 AND FOR ME THAT'S PROFOUND.
• 25:19 THE NAME ISN'T "I WAS" OR "I WILL BE".
• 25:22 THERE'S A KIND OF PRESENCE NOW FOR THOSE WHO SEEK HIM.
• 25:29 WOULD THAT WE WOULD DO SO THE MORE SO.
• 25:33 ME AND YOU.
• 25:35 I KNOW MY MIND CLUTTERS UP MY WORLD SOMETIME.
• 25:39 THE MIND IS A GOOD THING,
• 25:41 IT HELPS US TO PROBLEM SOLVE.
• 25:43 BUT SOMETIMES MY CREATIVE IMAGINATION GETS IN MY WAY.
• 25:47 AND IT COULD BE THAT SOMETIMES YOUR THINKING BECOMES STINKING
• 25:51 AND IT GETS IN YOUR WAY AS WELL.
• 25:53 AND SO IN THIS PROGRAM
• 25:55 WE LOOKED AT WORSHIP
• 25:56 AND DISCUSSED THAT AND PRAYER AND SEEKING GOD.
• 26:00 IF JESUS IS TRUE TO HIS WORD, AND I BELIEVE THAT HE IS,
• 26:04 THEN THERE ARE ANSWERS FOR VEXING HUMAN DILEMMAS.
• 26:12 IN THIS PROGRAM WE'RE ALL ABOUT PRESENTING THE PRINCE OF PEACE.
• 26:17 AND THE WAY HE BRINGS PEACE
• 26:19 IS BY SOLVING THAT WHICH WARS AGAINST US.
• 26:23 IF YOU NEED TO, PLEASE GET ON HIS SIDE OF THE STRUGGLE.
• 26:28 SOMETIMES OUR BASE PASSIONS AND TENDENCIES WORK AGAINST WHAT HE WANTS TO ACCOMPLISH IN US.
• 26:36 IT'S TRUE FOR ME,
• 26:37 IT'S TRUE FOR YOU,
• 26:38 BUT FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT OF THE FAITH.
• 26:41 I HOPE ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS IS HELPING YOU
• 26:44 AND THAT YOU'LL JOIN US NEXT WEEK.
• 26:45 AND AS YOU GO NOW,
• 26:47 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:49 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM