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Episode: “Isaiah”
“He was despised… by His stripes we are healed … all we like sheep have gone astray” (Isaiah 53:3, 5, 6). The most quoted prophet of the Old Testament, Isaiah’s writings point many to the deliverance found only in Yeshua/Jesus.
Series: “Divine Deliverance (2020)”
from Avraham to Yeshua
In this series, we examine how the Lord offered a message of deliverance through 12 significant Bible characters, beginning with faithful Abraham and culminating with Messiah Himself. Dr. Jeffrey Seif teaches on location in Israel and discusses the lesson’s application with David and Kirsten Hart in the studio. We enjoy enlightening dramatic re-enactments from past series, along with Zola’s music, completely re-orchestrated and sung by David and Kirsten.

Caption transcript for Divine Deliverance (2020): “Isaiah” (8/11)

  • 00:03 ♪♪♪ male announcer: Welcome to "Our Jewish Roots" with insightful
  • 00:06 Bible teaching by Dr. Jeffrey Seif.
  • 00:08 In this program, the most-quoted prophet in the Old Testament
  • 00:12 pointed to a suffering servant, who is the Savior of the world.
  • 00:15 Our focus is on Isaiah today on divine deliverance.
  • 00:22 announcer: From the beginning, our creator revealed his will to
  • 00:25 the common man.
  • 00:28 Individuals listened to his call and responded in obedience; from
  • 00:32 the first Hebrew, Avraham, to the culmination of salvation and
  • 00:37 Messiah himself.
  • 00:39 The Lord faithfully intervenes with his divine deliverance.
  • 00:47 ♪♪♪
  • 00:55 David Hart: We are so glad you've joined us today.
  • 00:57 I am David Hart.
  • 00:59 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
  • 01:01 Jeffrey Seif: And I am Jeffrey Seif.
  • 01:03 I remember back, 2006, when I was first asked to take the helm
  • 01:06 as the teacher on television.
  • 01:09 I sat down with the producer Ken Berg and the question is, what
  • 01:11 do we want to do?
  • 01:13 And we came up with the series on Isaiah.
  • 01:16 Isaiah is so important in the New Testament, so important in
  • 01:18 the Old Testament, so important to me, and now you're going to
  • 01:21 see why.
  • 01:24 David: You have your Bible opened to Isaiah.
  • 01:26 We've sung his words many times in our life.
  • 01:28 Love it when they put it to music.
  • 01:30 Kirsten: Right.
  • 01:32 We sung the Messiah, but we really honestly don't know that
  • 01:34 much about his life.
  • 01:37 Jeffrey: Well, we don't know a lot because he doesn't speak a
  • 01:39 lot, but there is some autobiographical material in
  • 01:41 here in the historical literature and we can learn
  • 01:45 something about the prophet.
  • 01:47 I'm excited to take you on a journey back to his world
  • 01:49 and word.
  • 01:51 David: That's good.
  • 01:54 Let's watch now as Isaiah pins his prophecies.
  • 01:56 male: He is despised and rejected of men, wounded for our
  • 01:59 transgressions and bruised for our iniquities.
  • 02:05 He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter.
  • 02:11 Written 700 years before Christ, Isaiah knew that this prophetic
  • 02:16 Scripture would one day be fulfilled in the Lamb of
  • 02:18 God, Jesus.
  • 02:25 Jeffrey: New Testament authors got a lot of utility out of the
  • 02:29 prophet Isaiah.
  • 02:31 He is the most quoted of all the older testament prophets and the
  • 02:35 newer testament.
  • 02:38 Speaking of Isaiah and utility, more Jewish people have come to
  • 02:42 believe in Jesus through a reading of Isaiah 53 than any
  • 02:45 other passage because it's so explicit in connecting the dots
  • 02:50 between salvation as it's depicted in the older testament
  • 02:54 and fulfilled in the newer.
  • 02:57 Isaiah is very popular among some, but not all.
  • 03:04 In fact, in his own day and time, Isaiah was killed by
  • 03:07 Manasseh, an Israelite king.
  • 03:11 He didn't like him.
  • 03:13 He cut him in two.
  • 03:16 The author of Hebrews says in his hall of fame chapter--you
  • 03:19 know, the greats in the 11th chapter of Hebrews, he speaks of
  • 03:22 some who were, quote, sawn in two.
  • 03:25 That's a reference to Isaiah.
  • 03:28 They didn't saw him in two this way.
  • 03:30 They started down here and sawed him in two that way, and they've
  • 03:33 been sawing Isaiah in two ever since.
  • 03:36 You know, some people think there wasn't an Isaiah, there's
  • 03:38 two or three Isaiahs; that the book that we look at and call
  • 03:42 Isaiah is a composite of a few writers.
  • 03:45 Well, my purpose here isn't to get into that as much as it is
  • 03:49 to look to the particulars of the writing itself.
  • 03:53 I want you to fasten your seatbelt because when we take a
  • 03:56 look at this book, we're going into the very guts of
  • 03:59 deliverance as it is told and foretold in the Hebrew Bible and
  • 04:05 fulfilled in the new.
  • 04:08 I want you to take a look with me with an open heart, with an
  • 04:11 open mind and see what you find.
  • 04:15 You might find a gateway to heaven, a passageway to a brand
  • 04:17 new life.
  • 04:21 male: He was despised and rejected of men, a man of
  • 04:25 sorrows and acquainted with grief, and we hid as it were our
  • 04:29 faces from him.
  • 04:31 He was despised, but we esteemed him not.
  • 04:34 Surely he have borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we
  • 04:37 did esteem him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted.
  • 04:41 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised
  • 04:44 for our iniquities, the chastisement of our peace was
  • 04:47 upon him, and with his stripes we are healed.
  • 04:53 All we, like sheep, have gone astray.
  • 04:56 We have turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord hath laid
  • 04:59 on him the iniquity of us all.
  • 05:03 He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened not
  • 05:07 his mouth.
  • 05:09 He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter; and as a sheep before
  • 05:12 her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
  • 05:16 He was numbered with the transgressors, and he bare the
  • 05:19 sin of man and made intercession for the transgressors.
  • 05:29 Jeffrey: This is an English Bible.
  • 05:31 It was written first in Hebrew.
  • 05:34 And when Isaiah wrote this, that is the Hebrew text that's just a
  • 05:38 facsimile of it, he said [speaking foreign language],
  • 05:44 translated in 53:6, "We all like sheep have gone astray."
  • 05:52 And to my way of thinking in those words, just three in the
  • 05:57 Hebrew--in those words, it kind of says it all.
  • 06:03 People see that waywardness in dealing with others in their
  • 06:07 webs of relationships.
  • 06:09 People see that wayward proclivity, that tendency just
  • 06:13 when they open up and read the Bible the very first pages for
  • 06:17 the very first time.
  • 06:21 There's a verse in Job it says that man tends toward evil like
  • 06:25 the sparks fly upward.
  • 06:28 There's just this proclivity, this inclination.
  • 06:32 Not that I should joke about it, but when I think of the Lord's
  • 06:35 Prayer, saying--when they said, "How should we pray?"
  • 06:38 He said, "Pray like this.
  • 06:40 You know, our Father, etc. Lead us not into temptation, but
  • 06:42 deliver us from evil--or from the evil one."
  • 06:46 Relative to the phrase lead us not into temptation, I've often
  • 06:49 said; yes, for that we don't need leadership.
  • 06:52 We can find it all by ourselves.
  • 06:56 The question is, can we find some help for the inner world
  • 07:02 that tends to go bad?
  • 07:04 This author says so, and his name says it all.
  • 07:08 In fact, Isaiah as we know him as wasn't even employed until
  • 07:14 the Protestant Reformation, and that began--the historic date is
  • 07:18 October the 31st, 1517.
  • 07:20 His name, Yasha, in Hebrew means to save.
  • 07:25 And Yasha Yahu or Isaiah really means in effect God saves.
  • 07:33 The question isn't whether he does it; the question is, how
  • 07:38 does he do it?
  • 07:40 Now, in this series, and we've just kind of passed midway,
  • 07:43 we've looked at deliverance in the literature.
  • 07:48 Here right around the middle of it, there's a wonderful
  • 07:52 unpacking of the particulars of it that is the ultimate
  • 07:56 deliverance in the person of the ultimate deliverer.
  • 08:02 What does he do with the problem of all we like sheep have
  • 08:07 gone astray?
  • 08:09 Listen, I can unpack human waywardness.
  • 08:12 I don't think it needs a lot of telling.
  • 08:14 I can do that just 'cause I've lived for 63 years.
  • 08:17 I can do it because I've 20 years in a police uniform of
  • 08:19 all that.
  • 08:21 Believe me, I've seen it.
  • 08:23 But I don't need to tell you about it because you've seen
  • 08:25 it, too.
  • 08:26 The question is, is there a way to turn the ship around?
  • 08:30 Is there deliverance?
  • 08:33 And the answer is yes.
  • 08:36 It says in Isaiah chapter 52, verse 13--speaks about this
  • 08:41 servant who's coming.
  • 08:43 In chapter 53, verse 1 he says--and ain't no one going to
  • 08:47 believe this.
  • 08:49 In fact, we're told--it's a question that's
  • 08:50 asked rhetorically.
  • 08:53 Who's going to believe this report, and to whom will the arm
  • 08:55 of the Lord--the strength of the Lord be revealed?"
  • 08:59 Goes on to talk in a very singular form for he; third
  • 09:06 person, masculine, singular he.
  • 09:09 He grew up.
  • 09:13 He had no form of comeliness, no majesty that we should look at
  • 09:15 him, no beauty that we should desire him.
  • 09:20 There's a depiction here of God's servant, the
  • 09:23 ultimate deliverer.
  • 09:26 We're told as well, and the author gets very explicit, that
  • 09:29 he was despised and rejected by men, that he was a man of
  • 09:34 sorrows and acquainted with grief.
  • 09:37 I'll tell you, the 63 years of living, I have been acquainted
  • 09:40 with more than one sorrow and some grief.
  • 09:43 If you spend any time on this planet--you know, if you lift a
  • 09:46 shirt up, there's lots of wound marks there, and that's for men
  • 09:49 and women alike.
  • 09:52 You just don't go through living experience unscathed.
  • 09:55 Now, we have sorrows, but it's not quite like this.
  • 09:58 This person that's described particularly is a man that's
  • 10:03 characterized by sorrows and grief and rejection.
  • 10:06 He goes on to note, "One from whom people hide their faces."
  • 10:12 There's a kind of disengagement from him for wanting to know
  • 10:17 nothing about him.
  • 10:20 And even church folk--you know, there's 168 hours in a week.
  • 10:23 It seems at best we can handle 2 hours of being engaged by Jesus
  • 10:26 and then we kind of go on down the road of life.
  • 10:29 Well, I think it's best to open up the Bible not just on--when
  • 10:32 we go to a worship service, but to make it a habit.
  • 10:36 We're told this deliverer, the servant of the Lord is eschewed.
  • 10:40 He's pushed to the margins.
  • 10:43 We're told that he was despised again, and we didn't esteem him.
  • 10:47 That is he's lowly-esteemed.
  • 10:50 Certainly in his day and time, he wasn't particularly respected
  • 10:53 and that's particularly noteworthy in the way he was
  • 10:57 graphically decimated before his death.
  • 11:01 We're told in verse 4, however, that with all that that this
  • 11:04 person has borne our griefs and that he has carried our sorrows,
  • 11:10 our pains, and that we esteemed him stricken by God,
  • 11:15 and afflicted.
  • 11:19 Now, it's interesting the notion that Jesus died for our sins
  • 11:24 sounds so very Christian.
  • 11:27 Jesus died for our sins, Jews can say Hocus Pocus.
  • 11:30 I don't buy that, I'm Jewish.
  • 11:33 The description of the ultimate deliverer here, it says that he
  • 11:36 was stricken for our transgressions.
  • 11:39 He was pierced because of our transgressions, specifically
  • 11:43 crushed for our iniquities.
  • 11:46 Now, the Christian expression that he died for your sins isn't
  • 11:50 really a Christian expression.
  • 11:55 At the outset, I noted that this text gets a lot of utility and
  • 12:00 modernity amongst Jewish women and men, folk like me who
  • 12:04 initially were predisposed to look at the Jesus story as a
  • 12:07 Gentile story, but this gives pause.
  • 12:10 We go, "Wait a minute.
  • 12:14 Who is this person that's being described?
  • 12:17 Could it really be that Jesus is the Messiah?
  • 12:24 Can it really be that he's the solution?"
  • 12:27 Because the prophet goes on to say in verse 5, "The
  • 12:31 chastisement for our shalom," for our peace, "was upon him,
  • 12:36 and with his stripes we are healed."
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  • 13:42 Now let's hear the words of Isaiah.
  • 13:46 Isaiah: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because the Lord hath
  • 13:49 anointed me to preach good tithings unto the meek.
  • 13:53 He hath sent me to bind up the broken, to proclaim liberty to
  • 13:57 the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are
  • 14:01 bound; to give unto them beauty for ashes, the garment of praise
  • 14:06 for the spirit of heaviness.
  • 14:12 Jeffrey: All we like sheep have gone astray.
  • 14:16 So I've said previously.
  • 14:18 I don't need to talk about that in great measure.
  • 14:20 We know what that is; what we don't know is how to get out
  • 14:26 of it.
  • 14:29 People know how to get bound up and jammed up and they find
  • 14:31 themselves pinned by sin and circumstance and the million
  • 14:36 dollar question is, "Is there a way to fix this?"
  • 14:41 Well, Isaiah spoke about a deliverer who came.
  • 14:46 He was despised and rejected, and he facilitates a
  • 14:50 great healing.
  • 14:53 He goes on to say then that we like sheep have gone astray and
  • 14:55 the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
  • 14:58 In Isaiah 61 there's another story, one that's worth having a
  • 15:03 look at.
  • 15:05 What a great story it is.
  • 15:07 Isaiah chapter 61, verse 1, "The Ruach of Adonai Elohim is
  • 15:11 upon me."
  • 15:13 The Spirit of the Lord God is on me.
  • 15:16 And even there when Jews hear about the Spirit, "Well, that's
  • 15:18 just Trinitarian Catholic stuff.
  • 15:20 You know, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
  • 15:23 Well, that's just Pentecostal talk."
  • 15:25 The Spirit is in the Hebrew Bible.
  • 15:27 It starts off the first breath in Genesis.
  • 15:30 [speaking foreign language]
  • 15:31 The Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters to
  • 15:37 deliver from chaos and darkness.
  • 15:41 Well, here the spirit is employed on me, a personality,
  • 15:46 because according to the text Adonai has anointed me to do
  • 15:52 what?
  • 15:56 To proclaim the good news.
  • 16:00 "Oh, those Christians talk about good news.
  • 16:02 That's Christian talk."
  • 16:05 The word gospel, by the way, comes from good news.
  • 16:07 "Oh, that's just Christian talk.
  • 16:09 That's Jesus talk.
  • 16:11 We're Jewish."
  • 16:13 The anointed one proclaims--the word in Hebrew is basiere*.
  • 16:16 In fact, Jews and Hebrew refer to the New Testament as
  • 16:19 the besorah.
  • 16:21 That is to say it's the good news.
  • 16:24 It comes from--there's the word bashar in Hebrew for flesh.
  • 16:27 It's the substance of it.
  • 16:29 It's the essence of it.
  • 16:32 And there's an understanding that the words in the Hebrew
  • 16:34 Bible become flesh and take on form.
  • 16:39 It's incarnated.
  • 16:41 The word incarnation, Latin carne, flesh, meat, the beef,
  • 16:47 the essence, the substance, that this servant of the Lord who's
  • 16:52 anointed by the Spirit of the Lord proclaims good news to who?
  • 16:59 To the poor.
  • 17:03 If we open up the New Testament, Jesus said, "Blessed are the
  • 17:05 poor, for theirs is the kingdom," etc. "That just sounds
  • 17:08 like, you know, the Beatitudes, I guess."
  • 17:11 It comes from the Hebrew Bible.
  • 17:13 To proclaim liberty to the captives.
  • 17:18 Now, not to mix vocations, but when I think of prisoners and
  • 17:23 captives--I got 20 years in a police uniform.
  • 17:26 I've taken more than one person to jail.
  • 17:29 People do--they commit the crime, they do time, and they're
  • 17:33 jammed up.
  • 17:35 There's a lot of people that aren't in jail who are in jail.
  • 17:38 "What do you mean by that?"
  • 17:40 Captive to sin and circumstance; sins bested by the darker side
  • 17:45 of your own nature, a life that's out of control, drugs,
  • 17:48 alcohol, various addictions and fixations that you can't get the
  • 17:53 better of.
  • 17:55 It's gotten the better of you and diminished you, your life,
  • 17:58 your circumstance.
  • 17:59 It's depleting your money.
  • 18:01 It's depleting your relationship with others.
  • 18:04 It's depleting your self-confidence.
  • 18:05 It's rendering you in a hole somewhere.
  • 18:07 The question is, is there a way to fix that?
  • 18:11 That's what this series is all about.
  • 18:13 It's all about deliverance.
  • 18:17 Here, this author speaks of, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon
  • 18:20 me to bring good news."
  • 18:23 And by the way, what I'm reading you in the Hebrew Bible is noted
  • 18:27 specifically in the Gospel of Luke chapter 6, verses--excuse
  • 18:32 me--chapter 4, verses 18 and 19.
  • 18:35 Therein, Yeshua goes in the synagogue and tells the very
  • 18:39 same story, and he says, "Guess what, ladies and gentlemen, boys
  • 18:44 and girls?
  • 18:46 This is talking about me."
  • 18:49 I don't want to just talk about him, I do--I want to talk
  • 18:52 about you.
  • 18:54 It says here this person comes to proclaim liberty to the
  • 18:57 captives and the opening of the prison to those who are bound.
  • 19:05 You know, I've heard it said and you've heard it and believe it,
  • 19:08 I'd imagine, to a certain degree.
  • 19:10 People say, "Well, you know, preachers make people
  • 19:11 feel guilty.
  • 19:14 I go to that church or that congregation, guy always makes
  • 19:17 me feel guilty."
  • 19:19 Listen, I don't think preachers should be all about helping to
  • 19:23 make people feel guilty, and the reason why is people don't need
  • 19:27 a whole lot of help with that.
  • 19:31 When it comes to guilt, I think people can find it all
  • 19:34 by themselves.
  • 19:37 What people can't find by themselves is good news.
  • 19:40 That's why we exist to bring good news through the eyes of
  • 19:44 the Jews, and those that support us sacrificially do so because
  • 19:48 they find value in it.
  • 19:52 They find value in the one who gave himself sacrificially
  • 19:55 for us.
  • 19:58 It's the mystery of the ages.
  • 20:01 It's salvation in the ages from the ages that's buried in
  • 20:03 biblical pages, and we bring it to light.
  • 20:07 I hope the light has shined on you and that you're minded to
  • 20:12 take some steps and do something with it.
  • 20:17 David: Our hope in this series is that you maybe relate to
  • 20:21 something from someone that you've heard in the Bible.
  • 20:24 Today, I relate to this story.
  • 20:27 I'm a pastor's son, who a couple years of my life tried to make
  • 20:32 it on my own.
  • 20:34 I felt like I was in chains and bound.
  • 20:37 Finally listened to the Lord and followed his voice.
  • 20:40 You know what I'm talking about.
  • 20:42 When I did that, I was set free.
  • 20:44 Dr. Seif, I think Isaiah--you're open to it again right now.
  • 20:48 I think Isaiah has some meaning in your life with what you've
  • 20:52 been through.
  • 20:54 Jeffrey: He surely does, but I wasn't a pastor's kid.
  • 20:57 I come from German-Jewish extract from both parents in the
  • 21:01 aftermath of World War II, and I lived in the Jewish community
  • 21:04 and was kind of cordoned off from an understanding of the
  • 21:08 Jesus story.
  • 21:10 Especially post Holocaust, we were particularly insular and I
  • 21:14 didn't know much about Jesus.
  • 21:16 I remember walking down the street, however, as a teenager
  • 21:19 and people would petition me to give me some literature, want to
  • 21:22 talk to me about Jesus.
  • 21:24 And one time a fellow came up to me, wanted to talk about Jesus,
  • 21:26 and I said, "Look, I'm a Jew, I don't believe in Jesus."
  • 21:28 He said, "Why not?"
  • 21:30 I said, "I don't know, we just don't, you know."
  • 21:33 And he said, "Well, do you have any proof that Jesus is not
  • 21:35 the Messiah?"
  • 21:37 I said, "No."
  • 21:39 He said, "You know what the Bible says about the Messiah?"
  • 21:41 I said, "Not really."
  • 21:43 And he said, "Well, would you like to find out?"
  • 21:45 And I said, "Well, you know--"
  • 21:47 And he whips out a Bible and opens it to Isaiah.
  • 21:51 And I'll tell you this, that not just with me--I think the Lord
  • 21:59 has gotten more utility out of Isaiah with Jewish people than
  • 22:03 any other writer in the older testament.
  • 22:06 I know in the New Testament Isaiah is very representative,
  • 22:10 particularly around the cross, in the way the New Testament
  • 22:13 authors give voice to Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection.
  • 22:16 But I know from opening the book that--and looking at text
  • 22:21 therein that the Lord spoke to me and the guy was a little on
  • 22:25 the pushy side, impressed me and I prayed and asked the Lord into
  • 22:29 my heart.
  • 22:31 Same with my wife Barrie, of Jewish extract herself.
  • 22:34 Isaiah.
  • 22:38 And so many others that I've talked to.
  • 22:41 But it's not just for Jews and it's not just Isaiah, it's
  • 22:42 for you.
  • 22:45 I believe that those that call upon the name of the Lord,
  • 22:47 whether you're a pastor's kid in chains 'cause of guilt and shame
  • 22:49 or a Jewish person that knew nothing about the Jesus story,
  • 22:52 the Lord is there to those who call upon him.
  • 22:54 David: Can I ask you a question real quick?
  • 22:56 How did your family take you conversion?
  • 22:58 Jeffrey: Well, they weren't particularly pleased.
  • 23:01 I don't use the language.
  • 23:03 People come up to me and they say, "Jeff, how long have you
  • 23:05 been a converted Jew?"
  • 23:07 And I say, "I'm not a converted Jew, I'm a converted sinner.
  • 23:09 It's not a sin to be a Jew."
  • 23:11 We Jewish people like to talk about by accepting Yeshua we
  • 23:13 haven't opted out of what it is to be Jewish as much as there's
  • 23:15 a full realization of it by experiencing Israel's Messiah.
  • 23:19 I wish I could talk, but we're so out of time.
  • 23:21 Kirsten: Now as you say, I wish we had so much more time because
  • 23:23 I love hearing your story.
  • 23:25 Stay with us, we'll be right back.
  • 23:28 announcer: Our resource this week, the series "Divine
  • 23:30 Deliverance" on DVD.
  • 23:32 These 12 programs examine how the Lord offered a message of
  • 23:35 salvation through significant Bible characters, beginning with
  • 23:40 faithful Abraham and ending with the Messiah himself.
  • 23:44 Each program includes location teaching, discussions of
  • 23:47 applications, plus the music of Zola Levitt.
  • 23:52 Contact us for the DVD series, "Divine Deliverance."
  • 23:56 ♪♪♪
  • 24:31 David: Please consider going with us on a tour to Israel.
  • 24:34 We go twice a year, both in the fall and the spring.
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  • 24:40 Kirsten: I am enjoying this whole series and my personal
  • 24:43 takeaway, if it matters at all, is it's interesting that we
  • 24:46 don't honestly have books about who Isaiah was, but we know
  • 24:50 his words.
  • 24:53 And I'm a grandma, you're a grandpa, you're a grandpa.
  • 24:56 I don't really care down in history that people remember me,
  • 24:59 but if I plant anything positive in this world by my words, I
  • 25:04 hope people remember that.
  • 25:06 Jeffrey: Where he is autobiographical is in the sixth
  • 25:08 chapter where he speaks about his own worth--unworthiness.
  • 25:12 And if we just remember him by his humility, we've done well,
  • 25:16 I think.
  • 25:18 Kirsten: That's good.
  • 25:19 And his words, they encourage us today and they give freedom to
  • 25:23 the captives.
  • 25:25 That's a good message.
  • 25:27 David: Can't believe it's over today.
  • 25:28 We leave you with a song by our founder, Zola Levitt.
  • 25:30 Jeffrey: And we leave you with a word from the Scripture.
  • 25:33 Shaalu shalom Yerushalayim.
  • 25:35 David: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
  • 25:38 ♪ Before you--make joyful noise unto the Lord ♪
  • 25:43 ♪ You have made us now your people ♪
  • 25:45 ♪ Brought us back from all the nations ♪
  • 25:48 ♪ You were teaching us in exile ♪
  • 25:50 ♪ How to love you undefiled ♪
  • 25:52 ♪ All the people praise you, sing and dance before you ♪
  • 25:56 ♪ Make a joyful noise unto the Lord ♪
  • 26:01 ♪ King of all the kingdoms, creator of creations ♪
  • 26:05 ♪ Author of salvation on his throne in heaven ♪
  • 26:10 ♪ We are called to be your people ♪
  • 26:12 ♪ For eternity your nation ♪
  • 26:15 ♪ Make a joyful noise unto the Lord ♪
  • 26:19 ♪♪♪
  • 26:40 ♪ May all the people praise you ♪
  • 26:42 ♪ Sing and dance before you ♪
  • 26:44 ♪ Make a joyful noise unto the Lord ♪
  • 26:48 ♪ King of all the kingdoms, creator of creation ♪
  • 26:53 ♪ Author of salvation on his throne in heaven ♪
  • 26:58 ♪ We are called to be your people ♪
  • 27:00 ♪ For eternity your nation ♪
  • 27:03 ♪ Make a joyful noise ♪
  • 27:05 ♪ Make a joyful noise ♪
  • 27:07 ♪ Make a joyful noise unto the Lord ♪♪
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Episodes in this series

  1. Abraham
  2. Isaac
  3. Jacob
  4. Joseph
  5. Moses
  6. Ruth
  7. David
  8. Isaiah
  9. Ezekiel
  10. Daniel
  11. Esther
  12. Jesus

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