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Caption transcript for Psalms of Ascent: “Psalms 126 & 127” (4/8)

• 00:09 ♪PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM♪
• 00:14 ♪JERUSALEM♪
• 00:17 ♪MAY THEY PROSPER WHO LOVE YOU♪
• 00:21 ♪JERUSALEM♪
• 00:24 ♪IT'S FOR THEM MY BRETHREN AND COMPANION'S SAKE♪
• 00:30 ♪I WILL PRAY FOR YOU♪
• 00:34 ♪JERUSALEM♪
• 00:48 SHALOM AND WELCOME TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 00:50 I'M SANDRA AND I AM SO GLAD THAT YOU ARE JOINING US TO WATCH THE PSALMS OF ASCENT,
• 00:55 PSALMS 120 THROUGH 134.
• 00:58 IF YOU'VE BEEN WATCHING
• 01:00 YOU'VE SEEN GOD'S PROTECTION AND HIS PROVISION NOT ONLY FOR ISRAEL BUT FOR US TOO.
• 01:05 MY GOOD FRIEND, DR. JEFFREY SEIF, WILL BE TEACHING THIS PROGRAM
• 01:08 ON PSALMS 126, 127... DELIVERANCE AND RELIANCE.
• 01:14 OUR GOOD FRIEND MARTY GOETZ WILL BE BACK WITH GREAT, GREAT MUSIC...UPLIFTING...
• 01:19 I KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO ENJOY THIS.
• 01:21 NOW TO ISRAEL AND THE PSALM 126
• 01:27 "WHEN THE LORD TURNED AGAIN THE CAPTIVITY OF ZION WE WERE LIKE THEM THAT DREAM."
• 01:32 "THEN WAS OUR MOUTH FILLED WITH LAUGHTER AND OUR TONGUE WITH SINGING."
• 01:37 "THE LORD HATH DONE GREAT THINGS FOR US WHEREOF WE ARE GLAD."
• 01:42 "TURN AGAIN OUR CAPTIVITY O LORD AS THE STREAMS IN THE SOUTH."
• 01:47 "THEY THAT SOW IN TEARS SHALL REAP IN JOY."
• 01:51 "HE THAT GOETH FORTH AND WEEPETH BEARING PRECIOUS SEED"
• 01:55 "SHALL DOUBTLESS COME AGAIN WITH REJOICING BRINING HIS SHEAVES WITH HIM."
• 02:02 IT'S SO GREAT TO SEE ISRAEL
• 02:04 COMING BACK TO LIFE.
• 02:05 HERE AT A SITE
• 02:07 NOT FAR FROM JERUSALEM THAT WAS
• 02:08 BUILT UP IN THE 4TH CENTURY,
• 02:10 DESTROYED BY THE PERSIANS,
• 02:12 AND NOW ONCE AGAIN ISRAELIS ARE COMING HERE.
• 02:15 IN THIS CASE, BEHIND ME
• 02:16 A FIELD TRIP OF YOUNG ISRAELI SCHOOL CHILDREN
• 02:19 MAKING THEIR WAY,
• 02:20 LEARNING, STUDYING
• 02:22 AND WALKING THE ANCIENT ROADS.
• 02:25 OH HOW EXCITED THEY WERE WHEN THEY FIRST HEARD THE DECREE IN EZRA
• 02:29 THAT THOSE IN EXILE COULD MAKE THEIR WAY BACK TO THE ANCESTRAL HOMELAND.
• 02:34 GIVING VOICE TO THAT,
• 02:36 THE PSALMIST IN CHAPTER 126 SAYS, IN HEBREW,
• 02:50 THEY WERE SO HAPPY!
• 02:52 IN FACT IN VERSE 3 HE SAYS,
• 03:01 THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE SAYING BACK HERE.
• 03:03 IN FACT, THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ALL OVER ISRAEL.
• 03:05 HERE THE PSALMIST GIVES VOICE TO THE JOY THAT ATTENDS THE RETURN FROM THE EXILE.
• 03:11 BUT THEN THERE'S A SHIFT,
• 03:13 AN INTERESTING SHIFT IN FACT.
• 03:15 HE SAYS IN VERSE 4,
• 03:29 AND EXPOSITORS HAVE WONDERED IN THIS PSALM OF ASCENT
• 03:32 WHY IT BEGINS WITH THE ECSTASY OF RETURNING FROM EXILE
• 03:39 AND THEN BEGGING IN THE MIDDLE OF IT
• 03:41 "LORD, PLEASE, RETURN US FROM EXILE."
• 03:44 WHAT SEEMS LIKE AN INCONSISTENCY CAN BE READILY UNDERSTOOD
• 03:48 WHEN WE LOOK AT THE TEXT IN THE CONTEXT WITHIN WHICH IT WAS FIRST VOICED.
• 03:53 AND THAT IS, ISRAELITES MADE THEIR WAY BACK FROM PERSIA ONCE UPON A TIME
• 03:58 AT THE DECREE OF EZRA IN THE DAYS OF NEHEMIAH.
• 04:02 THEY CAME BACK AND REBUILT.
• 04:04 AND THEY WERE SO THRILLED TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME
• 04:07 BUT WHEN THEY CAME THEY EXPERIENCE "TZOROS", "DIFFICULTIES".
• 04:12 THEY LEARNED THERE WERE PROBLEMS IN THE LAND.
• 04:15 THEY LEARNED THERE WERE PROBLEM PEOPLE
• 04:17 BENT ON PROHIBITING THEM FROM MOVING FORWARD AND REBUILDING THE ANCESTRAL HOMELAND.
• 04:22 THOSE PROBLEMS THAT EXISTED BACK THEN EXIST TODAY
• 04:26 AND THESE PILGRIMS BEHIND ME FACE IT.
• 04:29 AND IF YOU WATCH THE NEWS YOU KNOW IT.
• 04:31 AND SO ON THE ONE HAND HERE THE PSALMIST SAYS
• 04:33 "OH WE WERE SO HAPPY WHEN WE LEARNED WE COULD COME BACK".
• 04:37 BUT THEN THERE'S THE STARK REALITY OF THOSE WHO RETURNED.
• 04:41 THE ECSTASY TURNS TO AGONY
• 04:43 WHEN INDIVIDUALS ARE MINDED TO CONSIDER THE PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH ENDEAVORING TO REBUILD.
• 04:51 WHAT'S THE RECIPE FOR PEOPLE LIKE ME AND YOU
• 04:53 WHEN WE FIND OURSELVES IN THAT INTERMEDIATE PLACE?
• 04:57 SOMEPLACE BETWEEN THE PROBLEMS OF LIFE AND THE EXPECTED FULFILLMENT OF JOY
• 05:03 WE FIND OURSELVES IN A HARD WAY RATHER DEPRESSED.
• 05:07 WHAT OUGHT WE TO DO?
• 05:08 WELL THE PSALMIST SAYS WHAT WE OUGHT TO DO
• 05:10 IS WE SHOULD GO FORTH WEEPING BEARING THE SEED FOR SOWING
• 05:14 KNOWING THAT WE WILL HAVE SUCCESS AT THE END OF THE DAY
• 05:17 AND THAT WE'LL BRING IN THE SHEAVES.
• 05:20 THERE'S AN ENCOURAGEMENT HERE TO PERSEVERE.
• 05:23 AND GOODNESS, WE'RE LIVING IN THE MIRACLE OF MODERN ISRAEL TODAY.
• 05:27 INDIVIDUALS CAME BACK BUT YOU KNOW WHAT?
• 05:29 ISRAELITES NEED TO PERSEVERE.
• 05:32 AND IT CAN BE FOR YOU AS WELL IN YOUR OWN CIRCUMSTANCES IN LIFE
• 05:36 THAT YOU'VE EXPERIENCED A DELIVERANCE FROM YOUR OWN BONDAGE
• 05:40 AND NOW YOU'RE LOOKING TO FIND YOUR WAY TO YOUR OWN PROMISED LAND WHAT GOD HAS FOR YOU.
• 05:46 AND IT MIGHT BE A LITTLE SLOW IN COMING
• 05:48 OR YOU MAY HAVE ENTERED THAT LAND BUT GOODNESS,
• 05:51 IT SEEMS SO HARD TO INHABIT IT AND DEVELOP IT.
• 05:54 WHAT'S THE WORD FOR YOU?
• 05:56 THE WORD FOR YOU IS THE WORD TO THEM
• 05:58 AND THAT IS TO PERSEVERE, TO ENDURE.
• 06:01 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 06:02 BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY THERE'S A GOOD GOD
• 06:04 AND HE STANDS POISED AND READY TO ENABLE HIS PEOPLE
• 06:09 TO EXPERIENCE THE TRIUMPH THAT IS THEIRS IN HUMAN HISTORY.
• 06:13 "OH, WAIT ON THE LORD",
• 06:15 THE PSALMIST SAYS ELSEWHERE,
• 06:16 THAT SAME PSALMIST WHO SAID
• 06:18 THAT, "MY HELP WILL COME FROM THE LORD WHO MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH."
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• 07:08 JEFF IS SO RIGHT.
• 07:09 OUR HELP COMES FROM THE LORD WHO MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH.
• 07:12 I WAS TELLING SOME PEOPLE THE OTHER DAY,
• 07:14 IF GOD, MY GOD, CAN MAKE HEAVEN AND EARTH
• 07:17 I THINK HE CAN PROBABLY HELP ME WITH ANYTHING THAT COMES ALONG IN MY LIFE.
• 07:21 LET'S JOIN JEFF NOW ON PSALM 127.
• 07:25 WE ARE BACK IN ISRAEL AND OUR RELIANCE...
• 07:28 WE SEE WHERE OUR RELIANCE ON GOD REALLY COMES FROM.
• 07:34 IN THE FIRST CENTURY THE LABORERS WERE VERY MUCH AT THE MERCY OF THEIR LIMITATIONS...
• 07:40 PULLEYS THAT OFTEN DIDN'T WORK...
• 07:43 SAWS THAT DIDN'T CUT.
• 07:45 SOMETIMES DUE TO THE LACK OF PLANNING AND TEAMWORK
• 07:49 THE LABORERS WERE THEMSELVES THE BIGGEST OBSTACLE.
• 07:53 WITHOUT DEDICATION TO SOUND PRINCIPLES AND A JUST CAUSE
• 07:58 THE BUILDING WAS DOOMED.
• 08:00 IN THE WORDS OF THE PSALMIST,
• 08:02 "EXCEPT THE LORD BUILD THE HOUSE"
• 08:06 "THEY LABOR IN VAIN THAT BUILD IT."
• 08:11 (Jeff speaking) BUILDING CAN BE VERY FRUSTRATING.
• 08:15 SOMETIMES IT'S BECAUSE
• 08:16 THE BUILDERS
• 08:17 DON'T BUILD IT RIGHT.
• 08:19 OTHER TIMES
• 08:20 IT'S BECAUSE THE PIECES
• 08:22 DON'T COME IN PLACE CORRECTLY...
• 08:23 THERE'S A LOT TO COORDINATE.
• 08:26 THAT'S IN PART WHY THE PSALMIST SAID,
• 08:34 SPEAKING OF HOUSES AND SPEAKING OF BUILDINGS
• 08:37 YOU'RE LOOKING HERE AT AN APPARATUS THAT WAS USED TO BUILD A HOUSE.
• 08:43 AND A HOUSE WHERE?
• 08:45 HERE IN JERUSALEM COMING FROM THE VERY SOUTHERN PART OF THE TEMPLE COMPLEX
• 08:50 AND IT WAS HERE WHERE STONES LIKE THIS WERE MOVED ABOUT ON WHEELS LIKE THIS.
• 08:56 AND THEY WERE HOISTED IN PLACE THEN...
• 08:58 YOU CAN SEE BEHIND ME AN APPARATUS...
• 09:00 THERE'S LEVERS...PULLEYS...
• 09:02 THERE'S MEANS TO MOVE THESE STONES AROUND AND GET THEM IN PLACE.
• 09:06 GET THEM IN PLACE WHY?
• 09:08 BECAUSE THERE'S WAS A BIG PROJECT HERE.
• 09:10 BACK IN BIBLE DAYS SOLOMON WAS VESTED WITH RESPONSIBILITY TO BUILD THE HOUSE OF THE LORD.
• 09:19 AND TO BE SURE, HE USED INSTRUMENTS LIKE THE ONES YOU'RE SEEING RIGHT NOW.
• 09:24 I'D LIKE YOU TO OPEN UP YOUR BIBLES PLEASE TO PSALMS CHAPTER 127.
• 09:29 OF ALL THE PSALMS OF ASCENT THIS IS ONE THAT'S DEDICATED.
• 09:33 IT SAYS,
• 09:33 (SPEAKING IN HEBREW)
• 09:35 "IT'S A PSALM OF ASCENTS,"
• 09:37 (SPEAKING IN HEBREW)
• 09:38 "OF SOLOMON"
• 09:39 INTERESTINGLY ITS NOT THAT HE WROTE IT
• 09:41 BUT IT'S ATTRIBUTED TO THE PROJECT THAT HE WAS ENGAGED IN.
• 09:45 AND WHAT WAS THE PROJECT?
• 09:46 BUILDING GOD'S HOUSE
• 09:49 AND ITS HERE WHERE WE READ,
• 10:17 IN BOTH CASES HERE, BOTH PARTS OF VERSE ONE,
• 10:19 IT SPEAKS OF "BEIT" - "HOUSE"
• 10:20 AND "IR" - "CITY"
• 10:22 AND IT'S A HOUSE AND IT'S A CITY.
• 10:24 THE HEBREW DOESN'T SAY "THE" HOUSE AND "THE" CITY.
• 10:27 BUT EVEN THIS ENGLISH RENDERING FROM THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY THAT I'M EMPLOYING,
• 10:32 IT SAYS "THE" HOUSE AND "THE" CITY,
• 10:34 TO HELP READERS ALONG TO UNDERSTAND THAT BY IMPLICATION
• 10:38 FIRST IT MEANS JERUSALEM ITSELF.
• 10:41 THE IDEA IS OF COURSE THE LORD WATCHES OVER THE CITY AND THE HOUSE THAT HE BUILDS HERE.
• 10:48 BUT IT DOESN'T JUST APPLY TO THAT,
• 10:50 THOUGH CERTAINLY THAT'S THE INITIAL CONTEXT,
• 10:52 FOR IT COULD MEAN THE LORD WATCHING OVER ANY HOUSE AND ANY CITY.
• 10:57 AND IT'S IN THAT SENSE THE TEXT THAT HARKS INITIALLY TO THIS REGAL CITY
• 11:01 SPEAKS TO THE LESS THAN REGAL HOMES THAT PEOPLE LIKE ME AND YOU BUILD.
• 11:07 THAT'S WHY THE PSALMIST SHIFTS
• 11:09 AND TALKS ABOUT FAMILY LIFE THEN, NOT JUST ABOUT TEMPLE LIFE.
• 11:12 HE SAYS IN VERSE 3,
• 11:28 WELL IT BEGS THE QUESTION
• 11:30 AND IT REALLY IS WORTH ASKING RHETORICALLY.
• 11:33 HOW CAN WE GET GOD'S BLESSING ON OUR HOUSE?
• 11:37 AND I DON'T JUST MEAN STICKS AND BRICKS,
• 11:39 THOUGH CERTAINLY YOU WANT GOD'S BLESSINGS ON A SAFE AND SECURE DWELLING.
• 11:43 BUT HOW CAN WE GET BLESSINGS ON OUR HOUSEHOLD OR CHILDREN?
• 11:46 WE'RE TOLD HERE THAT UNLESS THE LORD WATCHES OVER IT THAT IT'S IN VAIN FOR US TO DO SO.
• 11:52 WHAT CONTRIBUTES TOWARDS HIS BLESSINGS ON OUR AFFAIRS?
• 11:56 THREE THINGS THAT I'D LIKE TO UNDERSCORE THAT ARE DERIVED FROM THE PSALM,
• 12:00 NUMBER ONE - PRAYER.
• 12:02 THE BIBLE SAYS IF WE SEEK HIM WE FIND HIM
• 12:04 AND WE DO WELL TO PRAY FOR OUR PROGENY, FOR OUR CHILDREN.
• 12:09 THIS SONG IS IN AFFECT, A SINGING PRAYER.
• 12:12 SECONDLY, TO CONGREGATE TOGETHER,
• 12:15 THAT THERE'S VALUE IN PEOPLE GETTING AWAY FROM JUST PRIVATIZED RELIGION
• 12:20 AND TO BE SURE WE DO WELL TO GO INTO OUR PRIVATE CLOSETS AND PRAY,
• 12:24 BUT NOT JUST DO THAT INDIVIDUALLY
• 12:26 BUT COLLECTIVELY.
• 12:28 JERUSALEM IS ESTABLISHED AND THE TEMPLE IS ESTABLISHED
• 12:30 AS A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE CAN COME AND WORSHIP CORPORATELY.
• 12:34 THIRDLY, LET ME UNDERSCORE SIMPLY READING THE SCRIPTURES
• 12:38 HAS A WAY OF GETTING GOD'S MIND AND HIS HEART INTO PEOPLE
• 12:42 WHICH SECURES GOD'S BLESSINGS.
• 12:44 I SAY THAT BECAUSE RIGHT NOW WHAT I'M DOING, THOUGH I'M STANDING HERE IN JERUSALEM
• 12:48 AND THOUGH YOU'RE SEEING WONDERFUL THINGS BEHIND ME THAT HARK TO THE BIBLE DAYS,
• 12:53 WE CAN OPEN UP THE TEXT AND GET THE BIBLICAL STORY
• 12:56 EVEN IF WE DON'T GET IT FROM HERE
• 12:58 THERE'S A SENSE IN WHICH WHEN WE OPEN UP THE BIBLE
• 13:00 WE'RE TRANSPORTED BACK INTO GOD'S WORLD WHERE WE CAN HEAR HIS WORD AND LEARN OF HIS WAYS
• 13:06 AND THAT CONTRIBUTES TOWARD OUR SUCCESS IN LIFE AND HIS BLESSINGS.
• 13:10 SO THREE THINGS IN RESPONSE TO THE QUESTION,
• 13:13 MINDFUL THAT UNLESS THE LORD BUILDS THE HOUSE
• 13:16 THEY LABOR IN VAIN WHO BUILD IT...
• 13:18 THE QUESTION IS "HOW CAN WE SECURE GOD'S BLESSINGS IN OUR OWN AFFAIRS?
• 13:22 PRAYER, I THINK IS IMPORTANT...
• 13:24 SECONDLY CONGREGATING WITH OTHERS IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD IS SUPREMELY IMPORTANT...
• 13:30 THIRDLY, READING THE SCRIPTURES.
• 13:33 THOSE THREE COMBINE IN DIFFERENT WAYS
• 13:36 TO GET BIBLICAL VALUE AND VIRTUE IN OUR MIND AND IN OUR HEART.
• 13:40 AND THAT INVARIABLY CONTRIBUTES TOWARD GIVING GOD A PLACE WHERE HE CAN DIRECT US.
• 13:45 WELL THE PSALMS ARE A GOOD PLACE TO GO
• 13:48 AND HERE WE ARE IN THE PSALMS OF ASCENT
• 13:50 WORKING OUR WAY THROUGH IT
• 13:52 AND I TRUST YOU'RE BLESSED BY VIRTUE OF YOUR FRESH ENGAGEMENT WITH THE TEXT THAT BEGINS WITH
• 13:56 "UNLESS THE LORD BUILDS THE HOUSE THEY LABOR IN VAIN WHO BUILD IT."
• 14:13 ♪SHA' A' LU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM♪
• 14:17 ♪SHA' A' LU, SHA' A' LU SHALOM♪
• 14:21 ♪IN THE HOLY CITY OF JERUSALEM♪
• 14:28 ♪WE WILL PRAY FOR PEACE...♪
• 14:31 ♪SHA' A' LU SHALOM♪
• 14:41 TRUST AND RELIANCE ON SOMEONE IS ONE OF THE KEYSTONES TO A RELATIONSHIP,
• 14:46 TO A FRIENDSHIP...
• 14:47 TRACIE, THEY TRUST US...
• 14:49 OUR PILGRIMS TRUST US
• 14:51 TO TAKE THEM SAFELY TO ISRAEL
• 14:53 AND BRING THEM SAFELY HOME. >>ABSOLUTELY
• 14:55 I LOVE THAT PICTURE OF GOD AND TRUSTING.
• 14:58 AND HERE... THEY TRUST US.
• 14:59 THEY DO TRUST US.
• 15:01 TWO MAIN REASONS,
• 15:02 I THINK ONE AS YOU KNOW,
• 15:03 WE'VE NEVER CANCELLED
• 15:04 A TOUR IN 28 YEARS. >>THAT IS TRUE
• 15:05 YOU BOOK WITH US,
• 15:06 WE'RE GOING,
• 15:07 YOU CAN TRUST US.
• 15:08 THE SECOND REASON IS THAT WE HAVE A PASSENGER LIAISON ON EACH BUS...
• 15:12 THAT IS VERY UNCUSTOMARY.
• 15:14 SO OUR PEOPLE CAN KNOW THAT IF ANYTHING HAPPENS
• 15:17 ...THEY GET SICK,
• 15:18 THEY HAVE SOMETHING COME UP,
• 15:19 THEY NEED TO USE A PHONE....
• 15:20 WE ARE THERE WITH THEM EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.
• 15:22 AND IT REALLY MAKES THEM TRUST ZOLA TOURS >>YEAH
• 15:26 THAT THEY KNOW THAT A MEMBER OF THE STAFF IS GOING ON EACH TRIP.
• 15:29 THAT IS VERY UNCUSTOMARY.
• 15:30 BUT THEY'RE FAR FROM HOME,
• 15:31 THERE'S DIFFERENT FOOD,
• 15:32 IT'S A WHOLE OTHER LANGUAGE,
• 15:34 "I DON'T KNOW THIS AIRPORT",
• 15:35 "HOW AM I GOING TO GET THERE?",
• 15:36 "HOW I'M I NOT GOING TO...."
• 15:38 THERE'S SO MANY THINGS
• 15:39 AND TO PUT THEY'RE TRUST IS WONDERFUL,
• 15:41 I LOVE THE PICTURE.
• 15:43 WE HAVE ABOUT 5 STAFF PEOPLE
• 15:44 WORKING AROUND THE CLOCK IN ISRAEL, >>AND THAT'S GREAT
• 15:46 A TOUR PASTOR,
• 15:47 A PASSENGER LIAISON,
• 15:48 PEOPLE AT THE HOTEL...
• 15:49 AND ONE THING I WANT TO
• 15:50 TELL OUR VIEWERS ABOUT
• 15:51 IS WE HAVE A PROGRAM
• 15:53 AS MOST COMPANIES DO
• 15:54 WHERE IF YOU HAVE
• 15:56 10 PAYING PASSENGERS,
• 15:57 ONE GOES FREE.
• 15:58 A LOT OF TIMES PASTORS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS AS YOU WELL KNOW SANDRA.
• 16:00 AND THEY SHOULD >>ABSOLUTELY
• 16:02 EVERY PASTOR SHOULD BE IN ISRAEL.
• 16:03 LISTEN TO ME AS I TELL YOU THIS...
• 16:04 GO TO ISRAEL PASTORS.
• 16:06 THAT'S MY BIG THING.
• 16:08 I THINK THE REASON YOU SHOULD COME WITH US
• 16:10 IS BECAUSE WHAT WE DO IS,
• 16:11 BECAUSE WE HAVE PASSENGER LIAISON ON EACH BUS
• 16:13 THE LOGISTICS AREN'T GOING TO FALL TO YOU
• 16:15 AS THEY OFTEN DO IN CHURCH SETTINGS,
• 16:18 SO THE PASTOR CAN GO,
• 16:20 HE CAN REALLY BOND WITH HIS PEOPLE...
• 16:21 HE CAN BE A PASTOR >>YES
• 16:23 OR HE CAN NOT BE A PASTOR, HE CAN BE A PERSON.
• 16:26 I THINK THAT IS WONDERFUL.
• 16:28 OUR OFFER THIS WEEK IS MARTY GOETZ.
• 16:30 IF YOU'VE LISTENED TO HIS MUSIC,
• 16:32 YOU'VD HEARD IT, IT'S WONDERFUL,
• 16:33 IT'S INSPIRATIONAL,
• 16:35 IT'S UPLIFTING.
• 16:36 LATER IN THE PROGRAM WE'LL HAVE
• 16:37 A WAY YOU CAN ORDER THIS
• 16:39 AND I KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO ENJOY IT.
• 16:42 OUR FRIEND EITAN IN HAIFA, ISRAEL LOVES BELIEVERS,
• 16:45 LOVES SEEING THEM COME TOGETHER...
• 16:47 HE HELPS THEM COME TOGETHER.
• 16:49 WE SHOULD ALL COME TOGETHER AS BELIEVERS.
• 16:51 HERE'S EITAN.
• 16:55 SHALOM, I'M EITAN SHISHKOFF
• 16:56 AND WE'RE STANDING
• 16:57 IN THE INDUSTRIAL ZONE
• 16:59 OF A HAIFA BAY AREA CITY
• 17:00 WHERE OUR CONGREGATION FOUND A HOME SOME FIFTEEN YEARS AGO.
• 17:04 WE HAVE BEEN A COLLECTION OF SMALL BIBLE STUDIES
• 17:08 AND WERE PRAYING AND LOOKING AROUND
• 17:10 AND THIS WAS THE AREA TO WHICH WERE LED,
• 17:12 WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IT EXISTED.
• 17:14 WE FOUND ONE OF THE WAREHOUSES THAT'S BEHIND ME ON THIS SIDE AND RENTED IT.
• 17:17 TWO YEARS AFTER THAT AS THE CONGREGATION WAS GROWING AND GATHERING SOME MOMENTUM,
• 17:22 ONE EVENING I WAS SURPRISED TO RECEIVE A PHONE CALL THAT SAID,
• 17:25 "THE WAREHOUSE IS ON FIRE".
• 17:27 I RUSHED DOWN HERE,
• 17:28 I DON'T LIVE TO FAR AWAY,
• 17:30 AND SURE ENOUGH THERE WERE FLAMES LEAPING OUT OF THE ROOF.
• 17:33 WE HAD THE HELP OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT TO PUT OUT THE FIRE
• 17:37 BUT BEFORE IT COULD BE PUT OUT
• 17:39 EQUIPMENT WAS MELTED,
• 17:41 OUR ENTIRE OFFICE WAS DESTROYED,
• 17:42 THE HUMANITARIAN AIDE THAT WE WERE BEGINNING TO DISTRIBUTE
• 17:45 HAD BEEN REALLY ALL SMOKED DAMAGED.
• 17:49 BUT WHAT WE FOUND WAS WHAT'S SAID IN THE SCRIPTURES ABOUT JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS
• 17:55 THAT WHAT ONE PORTION OF THE COMMUNITY MEANT FOR EVIL, GOD MEANT FOR GOOD.
• 18:00 AND REALLY THESE WERE OUR BROTHERS.
• 18:02 WE DID NOT HOLD IT AGAINST THEM.
• 18:04 WE UNDERSTAND THAT IT'S A VERY CONTROVERSIAL REALTY TO BE IN ISRAEL,
• 18:08 TO BE RENEWING FAITH IN YESHUA,
• 18:10 TO COME RIGHT OUT AND SAY "THIS IS A JEWISH THING TO DO...A JEWISH THING TO BELIEVE."
• 18:15 AND OUT OF THAT PERSECUTION AND THAT FIRE BOMBING THAT TOOK PLACE IN 1997,
• 18:20 THE BUILDING THAT'S BACK IN THE BACKGROUND ON THIS SIDE OF ME,
• 18:23 SEVERAL STORIES AS YOU SEE, OPENED UP.
• 18:27 IT WAS JUST BEING CONSTRUCTED AT THAT TIME
• 18:29 AND SINCE THEN THROUGH THE GIFTS OF GOD'S PEOPLE WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO PURCHASE THAT BUILDING.
• 18:34 WE'VE NOW BEEN IN IT FOR WELL OVER TEN YEARS
• 18:38 AND WHAT WE'VE SEEN IS JUST A WONDERFUL GROWTH
• 18:42 AND AS TIME HAS GONE ON WE'VE MADE GOOD RELATIONSHIPS WITH OUR NEIGHBORS HERE IN THIS AREA
• 18:48 AND WE FEEL THAT THIS IS A SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY.
• 18:51 I ALSO REMEMBER THAT WHEN THE DISCIPLES,
• 18:56 THE ORIGINAL JEWISH BELIEVERS IN YESHUA IN THE FIRST CENTURY
• 18:58 WERE PERSECUTED FOR THEIR FAITH AND HEAVILY PERSECUTED... THROWN INTO JAIL,
• 19:04 SOME OF THEM BECAME MARTYRS...
• 19:05 WE'RE NO WHERE NEAR THAT LEVEL OF PERSECUTION AT THIS TIME...
• 19:09 THAT THEY THANKED THE LORD AND SAID THANK YOU FOR COUNTING US WORTHY TO SUFFER FOR YOUR NAME.
• 19:14 WE FEEL THAT IT'S A PRIVILEGE.
• 19:16 WE'RE NOT IN ANTAGONISTIC RELATIONSHIP,
• 19:19 WE ARE... I'M AN ISRAELI CITIZEN...
• 19:21 THIS IS OUR COUNTRY.
• 19:23 AND WHAT WE REALIZE IS THAT THOUGH THERE ARE POCKETS OF PERSECUTION AROUND ISRAEL...
• 19:28 PEOPLE IN OTHER CITIES, DEMONSTRATIONS TAKING PLACE AGAINST MESSIANIC JEWS,
• 19:30 THE LOCAL PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY COMING TO OUR DEFENSE AND SAYING, "NO YOU'RE WRONG..."
• 19:37 "THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT TRYING TO CHANGE AND CONVERT OUR PEOPLE"
• 19:40 "TO ANOTHER RELIGION, ANOTHER IDENTITY..."
• 19:43 "THEY'RE ISRAELIS AND THEY'RE GOOD ISRAELIS."
• 19:46 SO WE'RE THANKFUL TO BE HERE...
• 19:48 WE FEEL THAT WE'RE PART OF A MIRACULOUS RESTORATION
• 19:51 THAT'S TAKING PLACE BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD.
• 19:55 ♪MY SOUL♪
• 19:57 ♪WAIT THOU ONLY,♪
• 19:59 ♪ONLY UPON GOD♪
• 20:02 ♪FOR FROM HIM♪
• 20:04 ♪IS MY EXPECTATION♪
• 20:10 ♪MY SOUL WAIT THOU ONLY,♪
• 20:14 ♪ONLY UPON GOD♪
• 20:17 ♪FOR FROM HIM♪
• 20:19 ♪IS MY EXPECTATION♪
• 20:30 ♪HE IS MY DEFENSE♪
• 20:32 ♪I SHALL NOT BE MOVED♪
• 20:37 ♪HE IS MY DEFENSE♪
• 20:39 ♪I SHALL NOT BE MOVED♪
• 20:43 ♪HE IS MY DEFENSE♪
• 20:46 ♪I SHALL NOT BE MOVED♪
• 20:49 ♪HE IS MY DEFENSE♪
• 20:52 ♪I SHALL NOT BE MOVED♪
• 21:02 ♪MY MESSIAH ONLY,♪
• 21:05 ♪HE ONLY IS MY ROCK♪
• 21:08 ♪HE'S THE HORN OF MY SALVATION♪
• 21:15 ♪MY LORD YESHUA ONLY♪
• 21:19 ♪HE ONLY IS MY ROCK♪
• 21:22 ♪HE IS THE HORN OF MY SALVATION♪
• 21:35 ♪OH... HE IS MY DEFENSE♪
• 21:37 ♪I SHALL NOT BE MOVED♪
• 21:41 ♪HE IS MY DEFENSE♪
• 21:44 ♪I SHALL NOT BE MOVED♪
• 21:48 ♪HE IS MY DEFENSE♪
• 21:50 ♪I SHALL NOT BE MOVED♪
• 21:55 ♪HE IS MY DEFENSE♪
• 21:57 ♪I SHALL NOT BE MOVED♪
• 22:07 ♪SH'MA YISRAEL♪
• 22:11 ♪ADONAI ELOHENU♪
• 22:15 ♪ADONAI, ADONAI ECHAD♪
• 22:25 ♪BARUCH SHEM K'VOD MALCHUTO♪
• 22:32 ♪L'OLAM VAED♪
• 22:45 ♪HE...IS...MY DEFENSE♪
• 22:48 ♪AND I SHALL NOT...BE...MOVED♪
• 22:54 ♪HE IS MY DEFENSE♪
• 22:56 ♪I SHALL NOT BE MOVED♪
• 23:02 ♪HE IS MY DEFENSE♪
• 23:05 ♪I SHALL NOT BE MOVED♪
• 23:09 ♪HE IS MY DEFENSE♪
• 23:11 ♪I SHALL NOT BE MOVED♪
• 23:14 ♪HE IS MY DEFENSE♪
• 23:17 ♪I SHALL NOT BE MOVED♪
• 23:22 ♪HE IS MY DEFENSE♪
• 23:24 ♪I SHALL NOT BE MOVED...♪
• 23:27 ♪I SHALL NOT BE MOVED♪
• 23:30 ♪NO... I SHALL NOT♪
• 23:33 ♪BE... MOVED♪
• 23:48 PSALM 127, VERSE 1 SAYS,
• 23:55 IT IS SO GOOD TO SEE A RE-BUILDING OF A CONGREGATION
• 23:59 THAT HAD TROUBLE BEING REBUILT MARTY.
• 24:01 YOU KNEW THE STORY... YOU KNEW EITAN.
• 24:03 YEAH...I KNOW EITAN.
• 24:05 I'VE KNOWN HIM SINCE HE WAS IN THE UNITED STATES. >>OH, WOW.
• 24:07 MOVED OVER THERE A FEW YEARS AGO...
• 24:09 HE'S AN AMAZING FELLOW.
• 24:11 HE WAS A HIPPIE... >>OH, MY GOODNESS
• 24:12 AND LIVED IN A CAVE
• 24:14 AND BASICALLY
• 24:15 BECAME A BELIEVER
• 24:16 AND A PREACHER
• 24:17 AND HAS A BEAUTIFUL FAMILY
• 24:19 AND THEY BUILT A SYNAGOGUE
• 24:20 AND HE REACHES OUT TO RUSSIANS AND ARABS
• 24:23 AND HE JUST HAS LOVE FOR EVERYBODY.
• 24:25 AND HIS SYNAGOGUE WAS BOMBED.
• 24:28 AND THEY JUST REBUILT
• 24:30 AND JUST BETTER THAN EVER...
• 24:32 STRONGER THAN EVER.
• 24:33 IT'S THE PERSECUTION THING OF BELIEVERS.
• 24:35 PEOPLE JUST DON'T WANT TO HEAR THE WORD OF GOD. >>YEAH
• 24:39 SORT OF LIKE FIRST CENTURY WHEN EVERYONE WAS...
• 24:42 WELL YESHUA SAID...
• 24:43 JESUS SAID THAT IF HE SUFFERED
• 24:46 THEN WE'RE GOING TO SUFFER
• 24:48 AND IF THEY TREATED HIM LIKE THAT,
• 24:50 THEY'RE GOING TO TREAT US LIKE THAT.
• 24:51 AND WHAT DOES HE SAY?
• 24:52 HE SAYS, "REJOICE AND BE EXCEEDINGLY GLAD"
• 24:55 "FOR GREAT IS YOUR REWARD IN HEAVEN."
• 24:56 SO EITAN HAS A LOT OF REWARDS
• 24:58 AS WELL AS HIS CONGREGATION.
• 25:00 PROBABLY A LITTLE MORE THAN I DO (LAUGHING)
• 25:02 AND MORE THAN I AS WELL
• 25:03 BUT I THINK GOD USES EVERYTHING.
• 25:05 HE USES YOUR MUSIC...
• 25:06 THIS SONG "HE IS MY DEFENSE"...
• 25:07 IT SAYS EVERYTHING IN LIKE ONE WORD DOESN'T IT? >>YEAH
• 25:10 HE IS MY DEFENSE
• 25:12 I SHALL NOT BE MOVED.
• 25:13 THAT'S RIGHT
• 25:14 I SHALL NOT BE MOVED.
• 25:16 AND THESE DAYS ITS GOING TO BE MORE IMPORTANT TO RELY ON THE LORD
• 25:18 BECAUSE ALL THE WORD'S CONVERGING AGAINST ISRAEL EVEN AS WE SPEAK
• 25:21 AND JEWISH BELIEVERS IN PARTICULAR,
• 25:23 BECAUSE THEY REPRESENT SOMETHING EVEN MORE.
• 25:26 THEY REPRESENT THE KINGDOM OF YESHUA...
• 25:29 THE REAL KING.
• 25:30 AND THEY DIDN'T LIKE THE KING.
• 25:32 NO...
• 25:33 THE FIRST TIME AROUND >>THEY DIDN'T LIKE HIM.
• 25:35 SO THEY'RE ENTERING INTO HIS SUFFERINGS
• 25:38 WHICH IS REALLY WHAT WE'RE CALLED TO DO.
• 25:41 IT IS AND EXCEPT LORD BUILDS IT...
• 25:44 TO SEE THE RE-BUILDING
• 25:46 AND THE RE-BUILDING IN ISRAEL
• 25:47 AND THE RE-BUILDING OF OUR LIVES THAT GOD DOES IS INCREDIBLE.
• 25:51 SO YOU'RE FAMILY WAS OKAY WITH YOU BEING A MESSIANIC.
• 25:54 MY FAMILY DIDN'T LIKE IT...
• 25:56 THEY WERE VERY DISAPPOINTED...
• 25:57 I COULDN'T SAY I SUFFERED PERSECUTION
• 25:59 BUT I SUFFERED A LOT OF STRANGE...
• 26:03 "HERE'S MY CRAZY SON.... >>YES, YES....
• 26:04 "MASHUGANA" AS THEY SAY
• 26:06 YEAH... THEY ALL THINK I'M CRAZY.
• 26:08 MY FATHER UNFORTUNATELY NEVER CAME TO FAITH, THAT I KNOW OF...
• 26:10 HE'S DECEASED.
• 26:12 MY MOTHER'S STILL ALIVE...
• 26:13 SHE'S 90 YEARS OLD
• 26:14 AND SHE STILL CAN'T STAND THE FACT THAT...
• 26:17 WHAT'D SHE DO WRONG?
• 26:18 WHAT DID I DO WRONG THAT HE WENT OVER TO THE OTHER SIDE?
• 26:21 AREN'T THEY FUNNY? >>YES
• 26:22 I'M SO TICKLED THAT YOU'RE ON THE PROGRAM
• 26:24 AND YOUR MUSIC IS REALLY... >>THANK YOU
• 26:26 WE WERE TALKING ABOUT IT...
• 26:27 UPLIFTING...
• 26:28 INSPIRATIONAL...
• 26:29 IT IS WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL.
• 26:31 ARE WE TRUSTING IN THE LORD THAT HE IS REALLY OUR DEFENSE AND REALLY OUR FOUNDATION?
• 26:35 I WANT YOU THINK ABOUT IT THIS WEEK.
• 26:37 AND JOIN US NEXT WEEK...
• 26:38 PSALM 128 AND 129
• 26:40 GOD BLESS YOU,
• 26:41 AND AS YOU GO, SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:44 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM