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Episode: “Undone by a Woman”
Unbeknownst to the scheming Haman, our story’s courageous heroine hatches her own plan to thwart him. The once-sheepish Esther stands up as a shepherdess. She boldly takes on the wolf, thus guiding the saga to its peaceful conclusion.
Series: “Esther”
For Such A Time As This
The Book of Esther is one of the Jewish people’s favorites. In this eight-program television series, Dr. Jeffrey Seif explains its details, and points out that, like Esther herself, we Believers may be alive for such a time as this.

Note: A newer version of this series is available.

Caption transcript for Esther: “Undone by a Woman” (4/8)

  • 00:21 ♪OUT OF ZION...ZION♪
  • 00:24 ♪COMES YOUR SALVATION♪
  • 00:30 ♪AND A NATION WILL BE FORMED OUT OF HIM♪
  • 00:34 ♪YEAH AND A PEOPLE WILL BE BORN OUT OF HIM♪
  • 00:39 ♪OUT OF ZION...ZION♪
  • 00:43 ♪COMES YOUR SALVATION♪
  • 00:54 HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
  • 00:56 JEFFREY SEIF HERE
  • 00:57 PLEASED TO WELCOME YOU AGAIN
  • 00:59 TO ANOTHER EDITION OF ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
  • 01:02 THIS WEEK PRESENTING THE 4TH OF AN 8 PART TREATMENT OF THE BOOK OF ESTHER.
  • 01:07 YOU EVER NOTICE HOW LIFE PRESENTS WITH CERTAIN CHALLENGES, DANGERS
  • 01:13 AND WE NEED TO TAKE CERTAIN RISKS.
  • 01:16 IN SOME WAYS WE THROW THE DICE AGAINST AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE...
  • 01:19 SEE HOW IT'LL ALL TURN OUT.
  • 01:21 ESTHER DID THAT WITH GOD BEHIND HER...
  • 01:23 LET'S SEE HOW THAT TURNED OUT.
  • 01:28 QUEEN ESTHER HAD WRESTLED WITH THE THOUGHT FOR SOME TIME.
  • 01:33 SHE HAD CONSIDERED THE CONSEQUENCES.
  • 01:35 GOING BEFORE THE KING UNINVITED COULD RESULT IN ESTHER'S DEATH.
  • 01:41 ON THE OTHER HAND,
  • 01:43 NOT TO APPEAL BEFORE THE KING WOULD MEAN CERTAIN DEATH FOR ALL HER FELLOW JEWS.
  • 02:32 THE FORCES OF ANTI-LIFE WERE AT WORK THEN AS NOW.
  • 02:37 AND THEN ESTHER WAS PLACED TO STAND IN THE GAP AND HOLD BACK THE PREVAILING FORCES
  • 02:44 THAT IF THEY HAD THEIR WAY WOULD LEND THEMSELVES TO THE ANNIHILATION OF THE JEWS.
  • 02:50 NO ONE STOOD IN THE GAP HERE YEARS AGO WHEN THESE STONES WERE FELLED,
  • 02:56 WHEN THE BEIT HAMIKTOSH, THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM, WAS DESTROYED BY THE ROMANS.
  • 03:02 AND I'M COMING TO YOU FROM THAT VERY PLACE NOW.
  • 03:07 AND I WANT TO OPEN UP BIBLICAL TEXT AND TELL YOU A STORY THAT TOOK PLACE WELL BEFORE THIS
  • 03:14 WHEN ESTHER FOUND HERSELF AT A PLACE WHERE SHE WAS ABLE TO UTILIZE INFLUENCE
  • 03:20 "FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS".
  • 03:23 WE'RE TOLD IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER, CHAPTER 5; VERSE 2,
  • 03:29 THERE'S A STATEMENT HERE...
  • 03:30 I WANT TO READ IT TO YOU IN THE HEBREW AND THEN THE ENGLISH,
  • 03:32 IT'S SO VERY PROFOUND,
  • 03:34 WE'RE TOLD,
  • 03:44 AND THE "SIGHT" WAS IN THE EYES OF THE KING.
  • 03:47 ESTHER WAS GUARANTEED NOTHING.
  • 03:49 SHE KNEW SHE NEEDED TO DO SOMETHING
  • 03:52 AND PROMPTED BY MORDECAI, CONSCIENCE AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD COMBINED,
  • 03:56 NEVER MIND HER OWN INNER RESTLESSNESS,
  • 03:59 FEELING THAT SHE NEEDED TO DO SOMETHING
  • 04:01 SHE THREW THE DICE AGAINST AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE AND SAID
  • 04:04 "I'M GOING TO APPROACH THIS POWERFUL KING"
  • 04:07 "THAT DOESN'T WANT PEOPLE APPROACHING HIM UNINVITED"
  • 04:10 "AND I'M GOING TO SEE WHAT I CAN DO."
  • 04:13 AND WHAT DID SHE DO?
  • 04:14 SHE CALLED FORTH AN EVENT THAT WOULD LEND ITSELF FINALLY
  • 04:17 TO HAMAN'S CONFRONTATION AND DEMISE.
  • 04:21 MINDFUL OF HER STORY, IF YOU'LL PERMIT,
  • 04:23 I WANT TO ASK THE QUESTION OF YOU, AND THAT IS
  • 04:26 "HOW CAN YOU USE YOUR INFLUENCE TO BE AN AMBASSADOR"
  • 04:30 "FOR GOD'S GOOD KINGDOM PURPOSES ON THE EARTH?"
  • 04:34 IT'S AN IMPORTANT STORY,
  • 04:35 A STORY I WANT TO EXPLORE AS WE LOOK AT THIS SERIES
  • 04:39 "FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS."
  • 04:55 THE WINE FLOWED FREELY AT ESTHER'S FEAST.
  • 04:58 THE KING AND QUEEN EXCHANGED PLEASANTRIES WHILE HAMAN MUSED.
  • 05:04 THINGS WERE WORKING OUT JUST AS HE HAD PLANNED, OR SO IT SEEMED.
  • 05:37 HAMAN WAS ONE HAPPY CAMPER.
  • 05:41 HE WAS HIMSELF VERY IMPRESSED BY HIMSELF ALL THE MORE SO
  • 05:46 NOW THAT ESTHER HERSELF SEEMS TO BE MINDED TO BRING HIM INTO THE LOOP
  • 05:51 AND HE KNEW THAT HE HAD DESTINY ALL OVER HIM.
  • 05:55 BUT LITTLE DID HE KNOW
  • 05:56 THAT THERE WAS SOMEONE GREATER THAN HIM THAT WAS WATCHING OUT FOR ISRAEL'S AFFAIRS
  • 06:01 WHO IS GOING TO WORK THROUGH A WOMAN NAMED ESTHER.
  • 06:06 VAST WAS THE EMPIRE OF PERSIA.
  • 06:10 THE MEDO PERSIAN REALM EXTENDED TO THE EAST ALL THE WAY TO INDIA
  • 06:17 AND THEN WENT WESTWARD SWEEPING ACROSS THE EUPHRATES,
  • 06:22 THE LEVANT, EXTENDING INTO NORTHERN AFRICA
  • 06:25 ALL THE WAY TO ETHIOPIA,
  • 06:28 2 MILLION SQUARE MILES,
  • 06:32 A VAST EXPANSE NOW AS THEN IN THAT PRIMITIVE WORLD.
  • 06:38 AND THERE WAS ONE MAN THAT HELD THE KEY TO IT
  • 06:42 BUT IT SEEMS THERE WAS ONE WOMAN WHO HELD THE KEY TO THAT MAN...
  • 06:47 A WOMAN WHO DECIDED TO USE HER INFLUENCE.
  • 06:53 WE READ IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER, THE 5TH CHAPTER, THE 8TH VERSE,
  • 07:26 THERE SHE WAS PROVIDENTIALLY WELL PLACED.
  • 07:32 IT WAS A GOD-THING ACTUALLY
  • 07:35 AND THAT IS THAT THE LORD HAD RAISED HER UP ACCORDING TO THE TEXT "FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS."
  • 07:45 AND BECAUSE SHE WAS THERE SHE WAS ABLE TO BE EMPLOYED THERE FOR GOD'S GOOD PURPOSES.
  • 07:53 IT SEEMS TO ME AS I HAD SAID A FEW MOMENTS AGO
  • 07:56 THAT THE FORCES OF ANTI-LIFE,
  • 07:59 THE FORCES OF ANTI-SEMITISM ARE RIFE IN HISTORY.
  • 08:04 THEY JUST COME AROUND TIME AND TIME AGAIN.
  • 08:08 STANDING HERE AT THE RUINS IN JERUSALEM THAT HARK BACK TO WARS OF DAYS GONE PAST
  • 08:15 REMINDS ME AFRESH, VISUALLY, THAT JEWS FIND THEMSELVES...
  • 08:20 WE FIND OURSELVES PRECARIOUSLY PERCHED IN A VERY DIFFICULT WORLD.
  • 08:25 I FIND THAT WHEN I LOOK AT THE ROCKS ROUND ABOUT ME.
  • 08:28 I FIND THAT WHEN I WANT TO STAND ON THE ROCK
  • 08:30 AND FIND THE GOD OF ISRAEL IN THE BIBLICAL TESTIMONY.
  • 08:33 HERE I SEE AS WELL THAT THERE ARE FORCES AT WORK TO DESTROY GOD'S PURPOSES...
  • 08:38 TO DESTROY JEWS.
  • 08:40 LET ME TALK ABOUT YOU FOR A MINUTE IF YOU WILL
  • 08:43 WHILE I'M THINKING ABOUT ESTHER
  • 08:45 TO RAISE THE QUESTION OF YOU THAT WAS RAISED OF HER
  • 08:47 AND THAT IS, "ARE YOU PERSONALLY GAME TO USE YOUR INFLUENCE?"
  • 08:55 CAN YOU STAND UP IN YOUR CHURCHES?
  • 08:56 CAN YOU STAND UP IN YOUR CONGREGATIONS,
  • 08:58 IN YOUR WEBS OF RELATIONSHIPS
  • 09:00 AND SAY "LET'S STAND UP FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE?"
  • 09:03 USE THAT INFLUENCE AND SEE HOW IT IS THAT AS WITH ESTHER SO IT WILL BE WITH YOU
  • 09:08 AND THAT IS YOU'LL DISCOVER THAT GOD IS WILLING TO USE YOU "FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS".
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  • 10:03 FOR THE LORD THY GOD BRINGETH THEE INTO A GOOD LAND;
  • 10:08 A LAND OF FIG TREES AND POMEGRANATES;
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  • 10:15 ARISE, WALK THROUGH THE LAND
  • 10:18 FOR ALL THE LAND WHICH THOU SEEST
  • 10:21 TO THEE WILL I GIVE IT
  • 10:24 AND TO THY SEED FOREVER.
  • 10:28 WORSHIP IN THE SHADOWS OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB
  • 10:34 BEHOLD THE LAND OF THE COVENANT
  • 10:44 ISRAEL IS AN ENCHANTING LAND
  • 10:47 AND MORE THAN JUST ENCHANTMENT
  • 10:48 IT'S A LAND OF MIRACLES...
  • 10:49 ...MIRACLES THAT HAPPEN INSIDE OF PEOPLE WHEN THEY GO, RIGHT?
  • 10:52 THEY DO DR. SEIF, ABSOLUTELY.
  • 10:54 AND YOU'RE INVOLVED IN HELPING US GET PEOPLE TO GO
  • 10:56 IF THEY WANT TO GO WITH US.
  • 10:57 THAT'S RIGHT.
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  • 10:59 AND I AM THE TOUR MANAGER
  • 11:01 FOR ZOLA TOURS,
  • 11:02 I'VE BEEN THERE A YEAR,
  • 11:04 AND I HAVE BEEN TO ISRAEL THREE TIMES
  • 11:05 AND IT IS THE MOST LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE EVER.
  • 11:07 AND BEFORE YOU EVER GOT TO ISRAEL YOU OPENED UP THE BIBLE BOOKS...
  • 11:10 YOU WENT TO DALLAS SEMINARY AND YOU STUDIED ALL ABOUT THE LAND.
  • 11:13 WHAT'S IT LIKE TO ACTUALLY GO?
  • 11:15 I WOULD TRADE MY FIVE YEARS AT DALLAS SEMINARY FOR 10 DAYS IN ISRAEL.
  • 11:19 I HOPE THEY'RE NOT LISTENING.
  • 11:21 I KNOW... I HOPE SO TOO.
  • 11:22 BUT I TELL YOU WHAT
  • 11:23 WHEN YOU TOUCH THAT WAILING WALL,
  • 11:24 WHEN YOU GET BAPTIZED IN THE JORDAN RIVER
  • 11:26 EVERYTHING THAT YOU'VE READ IN THE BIBLE COMES TO LIFE
  • 11:29 AND I WOULD TRADE ALL MY EARTHLY POSSESSIONS TO BE IN ISRAEL...
  • 11:33 ITS AMAZING.
  • 11:34 PEOPLE CAN STUDY BUT THEY NEED AN EXPERIENCE WITH THE LORD
  • 11:37 AND THE LAND OF THE BIBLE FACILITATES THAT DOES IT NOT?
  • 11:39 THEY DO...THEY DO.
  • 11:40 AND WHAT I LOVE IS THE FACT THAT I TAKE CARE OF ALL THE LOGISTICS...
  • 11:42 I'VE DONE BIG EVENTS FOR 20 YEARS
  • 11:44 AND I TAKE CARE OF ALL THE LOGISTICS,
  • 11:46 OUR PASSENGERS COME,
  • 11:47 THEY EXPERIENCE CHRIST
  • 11:49 AND THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE A NEWNESS AND A FRESHNESS
  • 11:52 AND AN INTIMACY WITH CHRIST THAT THEY NEVER THOUGHT WAS POSSIBLE.
  • 11:54 AND THEY JUST CALL
  • 11:56 AND THEY WILL GET TO YOU
  • 11:57 AND YOU CAN LET PEOPLE KNOW WHAT THEY NEED TO DO RIGHT?
  • 12:00 THAT'S RIGHT... ABSOLUTELY.
  • 12:01 THANKS TRACIE...
  • 12:02 IT'S A PLEASURE WORKING WITH YOU.
  • 12:04 WE WANT TO BE OF SERVICE TO YOU
  • 12:07 AND WE DO THAT IN DIFFERENT WAYS.
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  • 12:34 SPEAKING OF GETTING IT,
  • 12:35 THE OFFER ON THE PROGRAM TODAY
  • 12:37 IS A BOOK
  • 12:38 "IS FANATIC ISLAM A GLOBAL THREAT?"
  • 12:41 THE ANSWER IS "YES" IF YOU DON'T WANT TO READ THE BOOK,
  • 12:43 BUT IT'S A GOOD BOOK TO READ AND IT'S YOURS,
  • 12:45 THE OFFER WILL BE COMING LATER IN THE PROGRAM.
  • 12:48 SPEAKING OF THE OFFER,
  • 12:50 HAMAN OFFERED HIS SERVICES TO DESTROY THE JEWS
  • 12:52 BUT IT WASN'T GOING SO WELL.
  • 12:54 HE GOES TO HIS WIFE...
  • 12:56 HE'S SO VERY VEXED.
  • 12:58 LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS
  • 12:59 AS WE GET BACK TO THE BOOK OF ESTHER.
  • 14:20 HAMAN FOR REASONS THAT WERE UNIQUELY HIS OWN
  • 14:24 ABSOLUTELY DISDAINED ONE JEW IN PARTICULAR...
  • 14:27 MORDECAI...
  • 14:29 AND ALL JEWS.
  • 14:31 THIS ANTI-SEMITISM GOT DEEP IN HIS GUT
  • 14:36 AND HE WAS JUST GRIPPED BY IT.
  • 14:40 AND HE LIVED WITH THAT TILL THE DAY THAT HE DIED.
  • 14:45 I'M STANDING IN A CEMETERY RIGHT NOW,
  • 14:48 OF COURSE A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN LAID TO REST HERE.
  • 14:51 FOR MY PURPOSES THE ONE THAT'S REMEMBERED THE MOST IS THE ONE I'M STANDING BESIDE RIGHT NOW
  • 14:59 AND THAT IS OSCAR SCHINDLER.
  • 15:03 HE LIVED IN A WORLD WHERE THERE WAS A HAMAN AND HE DID HIS PART TO TAKE A STAND IN THAT WORLD.
  • 15:10 AND NOW TO REMEMBER HIM LONG AFTER HIS DEATH...
  • 15:14 HE DIED IN 1974...
  • 15:16 LONG AFTER INDIVIDUALS COME AND REMEMBER HIM BY LAYING A STONE AT HIS GRAVE SITE.
  • 15:24 HERE IN THE BIBLICAL TEXT WE'RE LOOKING AT THE STORY IN ESTHER CHAPTER 5
  • 15:28 WHERE HAMAN'S UTTER DISTAIN FOR THE JEWS IS NOTED.
  • 15:32 WE'RE TOLD IN CHAPTER 5, VERSE 9,
  • 15:45 BUT THEN HE HAPPENED UPON MORDECAI AND JUST THE SIGHT OF HIM COMPLETELY TURNED HIS MOOD.
  • 15:52 WE'RE TOLD,
  • 16:03 AND OF COURSE THAT WRATH WOULD FIND EXPRESSION IN SCHEMES FOR HIS UTTER DEMISE.
  • 16:11 AS HAPPY AS HE WAS IN DIFFERENT WAYS THERE WAS NO WAY TO ASSUAGE HIS AGGRAVATION.
  • 16:16 IN HIS OWN WORD IN THE 13TH VERSE HE SAYS,
  • 16:19 IN THE HEBREW FIRST,
  • 16:34 AGAIN, THERE WAS NO WAY...
  • 16:36 THIS HAMAN WAS IN THE GRIP
  • 16:39 AND THERE WAS NO WAY THAT HE WAS GOING TO BE TRANSFORMED AND THAT HE WAS GOING TO BE CHANGED
  • 16:45 AND HE TOOK HIS HATRED OF JEWS TO THE GRAVE.
  • 16:48 OSCAR SCHINDLER TOOK HIS STANDING WITH THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO THE GRAVE...
  • 16:55 JUST AN ORDINARY GUY IN GERMANY THAT DECIDED TO STAND UP.
  • 16:58 AND HERE HE IS BURIED IN JERUSALEM NOT FAR FROM THE CITY OF DAVID.
  • 17:05 OUTSIDE OF THE WALLS HE'S REMEMBERED
  • 17:08 AND JEWISH PEOPLE COME HERE,
  • 17:10 CHRISTIAN PEOPLE COME HERE,
  • 17:12 OF COURSE HIS STORY WAS MADE FAMOUS BY STEPHEN SPIELBERG.
  • 17:17 BUT I THINK EVEN WITHOUT US KNOWING HIM THROUGH SPIELBERG'S MOVIE,
  • 17:21 I THINK THAT THE LORD WOULD KNOW, WHO JUDGES MEN AND WHO ASSESSES LIES,
  • 17:26 THAT HE WOULD KNOW THAT TRULY THIS WAS A GOOD MAN...
  • 17:30 A MAN THAT'S BURIED HERE...
  • 17:32 OSCAR SCHINDLER.
  • 17:54 ♪THERE IS A WRESTLING♪
  • 17:56 ♪FEEL IT INSIDE ME♪
  • 17:58 ♪TRYING TO MOVE ON WITHOUT ANY FEAR♪
  • 18:03 ♪I WANNA BE STRONG,♪
  • 18:05 ♪BELIEVE WHAT I CAN'T SEE♪
  • 18:07 ♪BUT COURAGE IS SOMETHING THAT HAS NEVER REALLY BEEN THERE.♪
  • 18:15 ♪OO...OO...OOOH♪
  • 18:20 ♪I'LL CARRY ON♪
  • 18:22 ♪I WANT TO BE SOMEONE♪
  • 18:24 ♪WHO ISN'T HELD BACK BY THE THINGS THAT I'M AFRAID OF♪
  • 18:29 ♪SOMETIMES MY SOUL GETS LOST IN THE TWILIGHT♪
  • 18:33 ♪I FIND MYSELF ASKING ALL THESE QUESTIONS, I DON'T KNOW WHY♪
  • 18:40 ♪FATHER OF LIGHTS,♪
  • 18:42 ♪SHOW ME YOUR FACE♪
  • 18:44 ♪LIGHT UP THE DARKNESS HERE IN THIS PLACE♪
  • 18:48 ♪SPIRIT OF GOD♪ CAST OUT ALL FEAR♪
  • 18:52 ♪ANYTHING NOT OF YOU TAKE IT FROM HERE♪
  • 18:57 ♪CAUSE MY SHADOWS TO FADE♪
  • 19:00 ♪FOR YOU ARE THE FATHER OF LIGHTS♪
  • 19:04 ♪...FOR YOU ARE THE FATHER OF LIGHTS♪
  • 19:10 ♪SO HERE I AM♪
  • 19:12 ♪I HESITATE♪
  • 19:14 ♪ALL THE WHILE KNOWING I'M RIGHT WHERE YOU WANT ME♪
  • 19:18 ♪THERE'S SOMETHING INSIDE AND I FEEL IT RISING♪
  • 19:23 ♪LORD GIVE ME STRENGTH JUST TO FALL ON MY KNEES♪
  • 19:27 ♪FINALLY HERE,♪
  • 19:29 ♪NOW I CAN SEE♪
  • 19:32 ♪THAT I DON'T NEED EVERYTHING LAID OUT BEFORE ME♪
  • 19:36 ♪MAYBE IT'S FAITH,♪
  • 19:38 ♪DOUBTLESS BELIEVING♪
  • 19:40 ♪MAYBE IT'S YOUR WORDS I'M ANTICIPATING♪
  • 19:47 ♪FATHER OF LIGHTS♪
  • 19:49 ♪SHOW ME YOUR FACE♪
  • 19:51 ♪LIGHT UP THE DARKNESS HERE IN THIS PLACE♪
  • 19:55 ♪SPIRIT OF GOD CAST OUT ALL FEAR♪
  • 20:00 ♪ANYTHING NOT OF YOU TAKE IT FROM HERE♪
  • 20:04 ♪CAUSE MY SHADOWS TO FADE♪
  • 20:07 ♪FOR YOU ARE THE FATHER OF LIGHTS♪
  • 20:11 ♪YEAH YOU ARE THE FATHER OF LIGHTS♪
  • 20:16 ♪ABBA FATHER PIERCE THIS DARKNESS♪
  • 20:20 ♪SHINE DOWN YOUR LIGHT ON ME♪
  • 20:25 ♪LORD YOU'RE ALL I NEED TO KNOW♪
  • 20:32 ♪FATHER OF LIGHTS♪
  • 20:37 ♪SHOW ME YOUR FACE♪
  • 20:41 ♪SPIRIT OF GOD HERE IN THIS PLACE♪
  • 20:49 ♪FATHER OF LIGHTS, SHOW ME YOUR FACE♪
  • 20:54 ♪LIGHT UP THE DARKNESS HERE IN THIS PLACE♪
  • 20:58 ♪SPIRIT OF GOD CAST OUT ALL FEAR♪
  • 21:03 ♪ANYTHING NOT OF YOU TAKE IT FROM HERE♪
  • 21:07 ♪CAUSE MY SHADOWS TO FADE♪
  • 21:10 ♪FOR YOU ARE THE FATHER OF LIGHTS♪
  • 21:14 ♪YEAH YOU ARE THE FATHER OF LIGHTS♪
  • 21:24 ♪YOU ARE...♪
  • 21:27 ♪YOU ARE THE FATHER...♪
  • 21:33 SHARON SINGS SO WELL
  • 21:35 AND SHE'S GOING TO BE WITH US NEXT WEEK ACTUALLY.
  • 21:38 BUT THIS WEEK AGAIN DR. BARRI MALLIN
  • 21:41 WE JUST SO MUCH LOVE YOU IN THE LORD AND GLAD YOU'RE HERE.
  • 21:44 IT'S BEEN A BLESSING.
  • 21:45 YOU KNOW WHEN I TAUGHT IN THE LAST SEGMENT
  • 21:47 I WAS THERE AT OSCAR SCHINDLER'S GRAVE...
  • 21:50 THAT WAS MOVING.
  • 21:52 HAVE YOU EVER HAD ANY EXPERIENCES WHEN YOU WERE IN ISRAEL
  • 21:54 BEING AROUND THE MEMORY OF OSCAR SCHINDLER?
  • 21:57 DEFINITELY
  • 21:58 AT YAD VASHEM MUSEUM,
  • 22:00 THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM IN JERUSALEM
  • 22:02 AND COMING UPON THE TREE ALONG THE COURT OF THE RIGHTEOUS GENTILES
  • 22:06 THERE ALONG WITH CORRIE TEN BOOM
  • 22:08 THAT PRESERVES THE MEMORY OF THOSE GENTILES,
  • 22:12 THOSE RIGHTEOUS GENTILES WHO PUT THEIR LIVES ON THEIR OWN LINE.
  • 22:17 I ALWAYS FOUND IT MOVING THAT THERE IN THE SITE
  • 22:20 WHERE JEWS REMEMBER THE HOLOCAUST
  • 22:22 AND GOING INTO IT WE REMEMBER OUR CHRISTIAN FRIENDS
  • 22:24 WHO HAD HELPED US IN A DARK TIME IN HISTORY.
  • 22:28 ISN'T THAT MOVING?
  • 22:29 YES AND IT'S ALWAYS A BLESSING TO KNOW
  • 22:31 THAT THERE IS STILL PEOPLE LIKE THAT EVEN TODAY.
  • 22:33 SOMETIMES THEY FEEL FAR AND FEW BETWEEN.
  • 22:35 IT'S SCAREY OUT HERE AT ONE LEVEL.
  • 22:37 I KNOW FOR OUR MINISTRY TO STAND UP FOR JESUS
  • 22:40 WITH JEWISH SETS OF EYES AND EARS, FOR ISRAEL...
  • 22:43 BOY THERE'S ALL KINDS OF STUFF THAT COMES AGAINST US,
  • 22:45 MY MINISTRY AND YOURS YES?
  • 22:46 YES AND YET WHY DID MESSIAH SAY
  • 22:48 "BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO ARE PERSECUTED"
  • 22:50 "FOR THEIRS IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN"
  • 22:52 YES HE ALSO SAID THERE'S A BLESSING
  • 22:54 FOR THOSE THAT GIVE A DISCIPLE A CUP OF COLD WATER.
  • 22:56 AND OSCAR SCHINDLER WAS SUCH A SORT WHERE HE WANTED TO BE A BLESSING
  • 23:00 AND WANT TO HELP THOSE THAT WERE REALLY GETTING GROUND INTO POWDER.
  • 23:04 AMEN...AMEN
  • 23:05 THEN CORRIE TEN BOOM...
  • 23:07 OTHER RIGHTEOUS GENTILES.
  • 23:09 YES, SO MANY THEN AS NOW.
  • 23:11 ZOLA LEVITT SPOKE OF INDIVIDUALS LIKE OSCAR SCHINDLER
  • 23:16 WHO REMINDED US OF THEIR LOVE FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE
  • 23:21 AND THEIR WILLING TO TAKE A RISK IN ORDER TO BE HELPFUL TO THEM.
  • 23:25 OH I WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO FOLLOW THAT EXAMPLE
  • 23:27 BUT NEVER MIND ME...
  • 23:28 RIGHT NOW LETS GO TO THE LATE ZOLA LEVITT
  • 23:31 AND HEAR HOW HE WEIGHS IN ON OSCAR SCHINDLER AND CHRISTIANS WHO SUPPORT JEWISH PEOPLE.
  • 23:38 AS THE MOVIE SAID,
  • 23:40 A QUOTE FROM THE TALMUD,
  • 23:42 "HE WHO SAVES ONE LIFE"
  • 23:44 "SAVES THE WORLD ENTIRE".
  • 23:47 OSCAR SCHINDLER LOVED THE QUOTE...I DO TOO.
  • 23:49 AND YOU SHOULD DO IT...
  • 23:51 BLESS ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE...WHY NOT?
  • 23:53 GOD SAID IN GENESIS CHAPTER 12, VERSE 3,
  • 23:56 "I'LL BLESS THOSE WHO BLESS YOU" TO ABRAHAM "AND TO YOUR SEED".
  • 23:59 IN ROMANS CHAPTER 11, THE PASSAGE OFTEN TAUGHT,
  • 24:03 OFTEN MIS-TAUGHT TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH...
  • 24:05 THERE'S ALOT OF REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY THAT TRIES TO COME AROUND ROMANS CHAPTER 11...
  • 24:09 I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY HOPE TO DO IT...
  • 24:12 RESIST THOSE KIND OF SYSTEMS
  • 24:14 BUT UNDERSTAND THIS...
  • 24:16 PAUL SAYS, ROMANS CHAPTER 11, VERSE 13,
  • 24:28 HE SAYS, "IT'S THE HIGHEST CALLING OF MY OFFICE"
  • 24:31 "THAT I TEACH YOU GENTILES TO LOVE THE JEWISH PEOPLE UNTIL THEY'RE SAVED".
  • 24:35 HE SAYS,
  • 24:42 HE CONTRASTS THE HOLINESS IN THE JEWISH...
  • 24:49 THE GENTILES...THE CHURCH IS HOLY.
  • 24:50 IF THE ROOT CAN BE HOLY SO ARE THE BRANCHES.
  • 24:55 PAUL REMINDS THAT GOD'S IN THE BUSINESS OF RECONCILING THE WORLD TO HIMSELF
  • 24:59 HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH JESUS...
  • 25:01 HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH JEWS...
  • 25:03 HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH "YOU'S".
  • 25:05 ALL OF US ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SALVATION DRAMA AREN'T WE?
  • 25:08 AMEN
  • 25:10 AND WE READ THE STORY IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER...
  • 25:11 THERE'S PEOPLE BACK THEN...
  • 25:13 BUT IT'S NOT JUST THEN...ITS NOW.
  • 25:14 YES...YES, ESPECIALLY
  • 25:16 AS WE LOOK AT
  • 25:17 PERILOUS TIMES AROUND US.
  • 25:19 GOD USES PEOPLE
  • 25:20 TO STEP FORTH...
  • 25:22 SHARE AND REALLY SPEAK ON HIS BEHALF
  • 25:25 ESPECIALLY ON SALVATION.
  • 25:27 WELL AS MESSIANIC MINISTER,
  • 25:29 DR. BARRI MALLIN SPEAKS ON GOD'S BEHALF.
  • 25:32 AS YOU LOOK BACK ON THE ESTHER STORY
  • 25:34 WHAT'S REALLY...
  • 25:35 WHAT'S SALIENT FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE...
  • 25:38 WHAT REALLY RESONATES WITH YOU?
  • 25:39 THAT SHE WAS THE QUINTESSENTIAL JEW.
  • 25:41 SHE WAS THE MODEL JEW...
  • 25:42 SHE CAME FROM HUMBLE BEGINNINGS
  • 25:44 AND SAW HOW GOD TOOK HER AND ELEVATED HER TO A PLACE OF POSITION
  • 25:49 EVEN IN THE FACE OF POSSIBLE DEATH...
  • 25:51 NOT ANY EASY THING TO DO BACK THEN OR EVEN TODAY.
  • 25:54 YES, SHE HAD TO ROLL THE DICE
  • 25:57 AGAINST AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE ON OCCASION DIDN'T SHE?
  • 25:59 YES AND IT WASN'T JUST AN ORDINARY DICE GAME EITHER,
  • 26:01 IT WAS ONE OF PERILOUS.
  • 26:02 YES, IT WAS SERIOUS.
  • 26:04 GOD PROMPTS US IT SEEMS TO ME...
  • 26:05 FAITH GETS US TO GO WHERE WE WOULDN'T NECESSARILY GO
  • 26:08 WITH OUR NATURAL EYES SOMETIMES.
  • 26:09 AMEN
  • 26:11 FAITH PROMPTS US TO DO THINGS WITH OUR MONEY...
  • 26:12 WITH OUR ENERGY
  • 26:14 THAT MIGHT BE CONSTRUED AS RECKLESS
  • 26:15 BUT IT'S THE WAY THAT GOD JUST USES US
  • 26:17 AND POSITIONS US FOR HIS GOOD PURPOSES.
  • 26:19 AMEN
  • 26:20 WELL I'M SO GLAD THAT THAT POSITIONING FOR HIS GOOD PURPOSES
  • 26:23 ENTAILED YOU BEING WITH US AGAIN.
  • 26:24 WE'LL NEED TO DO THIS AGAIN SOMETIME.
  • 26:26 AS GOD LEADS AND BE ALL THE GLORY.
  • 26:28 YES AND IT IS SUCH A PLEASURE WORKING WITH YOU DR. BARRIE.
  • 26:32 THANK YOU
  • 26:33 AND LET ME SPEAK OF WORKING WITH YOU
  • 26:35 AND REMIND THAT GOD DOES HAVE A WAY OF REWARDING THE RIGHTEOUS.
  • 26:38 IN FACT THIS WE'LL BE SEEING NEXT WEEK
  • 26:41 WHEN WE LOOK AT MORDECAI INASMUCH AS GOD RAISED ESTHER OUT OF OBSCURITY...
  • 26:46 GOD RAISED HIM TOO.
  • 26:48 OH THERE'S A GREAT STORY HOW GOD BRINGS BLESSINGS TO HIS PEOPLE AND WILL LOOK AT THAT.
  • 26:53 AND AS YOU GO NOW,
  • 26:54 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
  • 26:56 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM

Episodes in this series

  1. Beautiful Inside and Out
  2. Chosen for a Purpose
  3. Called to be Courageous
  4. Undone by a Woman
  5. God Rewards the Righteous
  6. Justice at Last!
  7. Fight We Must!
  8. The Triumph of God in Human History

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