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

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