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Episode: “Facing Goliath”
Overlooked by his family, young David was selected to be the next King of Israel by the prophet Samuel. He was catapulted to renown after the amazing battle against the Philistine giant Goliath.
Series: “The Warrior King (2022)”
David-like Leadership for Goliath-like times
This series originally produced in 2009, Warrior King: David-like Leadership in Goliath-like Times, not only tells the story of King David’s time but also the story of our own time. With challenges larger than Goliath all around us, we need Bible-based leaders now more than ever. Dr. Jeffrey Seif taught this eight-part series from Israel. David and Kirsten Hart join Jeff in the studio for up-to-date analysis of each program’s teachings. We also get location reports from Chaim Malespin and hear the music of Zola Levitt.

Caption transcript for The Warrior King (2022): “Facing Goliath” (1/8)

  • 00:03 David Hart: Welcome to "Our Jewish Roots,"
  • 00:06 with insightful Bible teaching by Dr. Jeffrey Seif.
  • 00:09 Today, we discover how David captured the heart of Israel
  • 00:12 on "Warrior King."
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  • 01:03 David: We are so glad you've joined us today.
  • 01:04 I'm David Hart.
  • 01:06 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
  • 01:07 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: And I am Jeffrey Seif.
  • 01:09 And the word for today is "lohem," warrior,
  • 01:13 "The Warrior King."
  • 01:15 We're gonna roll out a series again.
  • 01:16 It was a great one.
  • 01:18 Kirsten: It's all about King David and, dare I say, he was
  • 01:21 sort of a renaissance man before the renaissance came.
  • 01:25 He did everything.
  • 01:27 He fought, he was leadership, he wrote songs.
  • 01:30 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah, you don't always get that in one
  • 01:33 person: a warrior and a poet at the same time.
  • 01:36 David: Right now we take you to our dramatic reenactment in
  • 01:38 Israel, followed by teaching from Dr. Seif in Israel also.
  • 01:43 Let's go there now.
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  • 01:51 female: We will never forget that day.
  • 01:53 Our hearts leaped for joy at the sight of him.
  • 01:57 David, the giant killer, had returned.
  • 02:00 The Philistines thought that Goliath could never be defeated,
  • 02:03 but David had proven them wrong.
  • 02:06 What faith.
  • 02:07 How bold.
  • 02:09 He went to battle with a few small stones and returned with
  • 02:12 the sword of a giant.
  • 02:14 King Saul had done well in selecting him.
  • 02:17 Our enemies have been slain by the tens of thousands.
  • 02:22 Because of David we now have peace within our walls.
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  • 02:39 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: There was electricity in the air,
  • 02:41 if you will.
  • 02:42 People were bristling with excitement.
  • 02:46 And why is that?
  • 02:47 Because there was a sense in Israel that there was a new day
  • 02:50 dawning and why is that?
  • 02:52 Because a new personality was emerging.
  • 02:57 David was beginning to make his mark on Israelite history
  • 03:01 and people had a sense that they'd be the better for it.
  • 03:05 It had been hundreds of years since Israel
  • 03:08 had someone like him.
  • 03:11 [speaking foreign language]
  • 03:12 Moses was a religious sort, but he was a spirited soldier.
  • 03:16 Joshua fired up the national spirit with enthusiasm as he,
  • 03:22 with his intrepid bold spirit, followed in Moses's footsteps,
  • 03:27 but after that, the whole thing fell apart.
  • 03:30 For hundreds of years, there wasn't a national hero and
  • 03:35 people just went to their own homes, they went their own way,
  • 03:39 and Israelite life slipped into decay, despair,
  • 03:44 and disorientation.
  • 03:48 Saul held the banner for a season and it was his job to
  • 03:52 take the sword out of the sheath and fight Israel's battles,
  • 03:56 but Saul was independent minded and he lost the job.
  • 04:02 God said, "Enough already."
  • 04:04 He proved himself unmanageable, unteachable, couldn't work with
  • 04:08 him, more concerned with what people thought
  • 04:10 than what God thought.
  • 04:12 And so, attention shifted to the house of Jesse where the Lord
  • 04:17 alighted upon a fella named David.
  • 04:21 The word "David" comes from a word meaning beloved.
  • 04:24 And beloved David worked his way into the hearts of Israel,
  • 04:31 and Israel was the better for it.
  • 04:33 But there was one heart that was not the least bit kindly
  • 04:38 disposed toward his arrival.
  • 04:40 We read here, and by here I mean in 1 Samuel chapter 18, that
  • 04:46 following a skirmish with the Pelishti, with the Philistines,
  • 04:52 we're told in verse 7 that the women came out with tambourine
  • 04:56 in hand, celebrating, and they sang and I quote,
  • 05:02 [speaking foreign language]
  • 05:06 "Then Saul has slain his thousands."
  • 05:11 You go, Saul, and then
  • 05:14 [speaking foreign language]
  • 05:17 "and David his tens of thousands."
  • 05:22 And listen to me.
  • 05:23 Saul was fit to be tied.
  • 05:27 I don't know if women understand how much of an effect that they
  • 05:30 have on the males of the species in so many ways.
  • 05:34 Saul was so sensitive to how the women perceived him and being
  • 05:38 wrapped up in himself as he was, he knew that he was on the outs
  • 05:42 with God and when he saw David's rise, he became David's enemy
  • 05:48 henceforth and forever more, all the way to the grave.
  • 05:54 Difficulties notwithstanding, against the backdrop of a
  • 05:57 monarch who is forever trying to kill him, David still rose and
  • 06:02 grew higher and higher and higher.
  • 06:05 And my word to you is you may well have a Saul in your life or
  • 06:09 a set of circumstances that's holding you back, that's indeed
  • 06:12 adversarial.
  • 06:14 Every time you turn around, someone for reasons of their own
  • 06:17 is looking to knock the legs out from underneath you.
  • 06:20 Difficulties notwithstanding, when we look at the Warrior
  • 06:23 King, we're gonna see a story of a man who was not to be stopped.
  • 06:28 We're gonna see a story of a man who overcame adversity, who
  • 06:32 overcame the Sauls in his life, and he had more than one
  • 06:35 problem.
  • 06:37 Saul was a perennial one, but when Saul dissipated,
  • 06:39 there were others.
  • 06:41 But difficulties notwithstanding, at the end of
  • 06:43 David's administration, Israel which was 6000 miles
  • 06:48 was then 60,000 miles.
  • 06:50 David left his mark through song and many of them were sung in
  • 06:54 his wake where David, under his administration, taught people
  • 06:58 that with God we can overcome life's obstacles and get the
  • 07:02 better of life's vexing dilemmas.
  • 07:07 male: At first, our leaders were fearful about the prophet's
  • 07:10 visit to Bethlehem.
  • 07:12 But father assured us that this man of God, Samuel, was here on
  • 07:16 a holy mission.
  • 07:18 God had told him that one of us would be selected as Israel's
  • 07:22 next king.
  • 07:24 Father was sure that it would be my brother, Eliab, but the
  • 07:28 prophet asked to see my next brother, and then the next.
  • 07:33 He looked at all my brothers and in each case said, "The Lord has
  • 07:37 not chosen this man."
  • 07:40 Finally, the prophet said to father, "Do you have any more
  • 07:43 sons?"
  • 07:45 Father told him he had one more.
  • 07:49 David was young and handsome and, according to Samuel, was
  • 07:54 the one God had chosen to be anointed.
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  • 08:06 male: Things changed forever that day for my brother David
  • 08:10 and for all of Israel.
  • 08:16 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I believe the New Testament is a very,
  • 08:18 very, very Jewish story.
  • 08:20 Oh, I'm kind of different; not everybody sees it that way.
  • 08:23 The gospel of Matthew, actually, was written in Hebrew first.
  • 08:26 We only have Greek texts now, but starts off,
  • 08:29 [speaking foreign language]
  • 08:34 "The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David,
  • 08:40 ben David, and the Son of Abraham."
  • 08:43 Think it's a great story.
  • 08:45 Jesus Christ, you know, when I grew up I thought his father and
  • 08:47 mother were Mr. and Mrs. Christ.
  • 08:49 Then I was reminded that, actually, "Christ" itself is a
  • 08:53 Greek telling of the Hebrew Mashiach, Messiah.
  • 08:59 And the word "Messiah" itself comes from a word in Hebrew,
  • 09:03 "Anointed One."
  • 09:05 And why is that?
  • 09:07 Because in the Torah, there were individuals that when they came
  • 09:10 to office, they were anointed: prophets, priests, and kings.
  • 09:15 And they were anointed with oil.
  • 09:18 And here we are in an oil-making factory,
  • 09:23 just like it was in Bible days.
  • 09:26 And here, the olives are put in and they're ground down.
  • 09:30 There's a number of grinding down processes
  • 09:33 to get the fruit of the olive.
  • 09:36 They put the olives under pressure.
  • 09:39 And you know, on one level it kind of works, to my way of
  • 09:44 thinking, that leaders get under the olive oil, you know, that
  • 09:49 which is produced through all this pressure, 'cause the truth
  • 09:52 of the matter is when individuals step up to lead,
  • 09:57 they step up into a world where there's lots of pressures.
  • 10:02 Our story takes place today against the backdrop of David
  • 10:07 being visited by Shemu'el.
  • 10:10 Samuel the prophet came to Bet Lehem, Bethlehem, and he came to
  • 10:15 the house of Jesse and he said, "Let me see your boys."
  • 10:19 "Something tells me I'm in for something good," says Jesse.
  • 10:22 Those boys are marched one after the other.
  • 10:24 "I'm planning on anointing one," says the prophet, but nothing.
  • 10:29 Finally, after coming up empty, the prophet looks at Dad and
  • 10:32 says, you know, "Don't you have anybody else?"
  • 10:34 "Well, come to think of it, we do.
  • 10:37 We have David, that kid out there."
  • 10:39 To me, it's striking that his own father didn't think highly
  • 10:42 of him, that David was a loser in his father's eyes, so much so
  • 10:46 that when the prophet came to the house and said, "Let me see
  • 10:50 your boys," David wasn't even included in the list.
  • 10:53 And the fact that David is respected--disrespected, not
  • 10:55 just by the father, but by his brothers later on when David
  • 10:58 comes to the army, bringing food staples, talking about taking on
  • 11:02 Goliath, his brothers, "Oh, shut up, David.
  • 11:04 Who do you think you are?
  • 11:06 Go tend to your lousy little sheep."
  • 11:08 The kind of disrespect that David had is striking.
  • 11:11 God takes this guy out of nowhere, who's a nobody, and
  • 11:15 brings him somewhere and turns him into a somebody.
  • 11:17 Let me tell you, that's all about the call of God.
  • 11:21 The rabbis explain why it is that David was so marginalized
  • 11:25 in his family system.
  • 11:27 There are various arguments put forth, one of which is that
  • 11:30 David himself was born out of an adulterous relationship, which
  • 11:34 would explain why his brothers who construed their coming into
  • 11:38 the family more legitimately, would look at him disparagingly.
  • 11:42 You might recall the Psalm where David says, "In sin did my
  • 11:44 mother conceive me."
  • 11:46 And again, some rabbis attribute it to just that.
  • 11:49 Others argue that much as David's grandmother was a
  • 11:52 Moabitess, so was his mother.
  • 11:55 Of non-Jewish extract herself, this could explain why some of
  • 11:58 the other brothers marginalized David.
  • 12:00 The reason why some put that forth is because when David was
  • 12:03 on the run from Saul, he goes and leaves his mom with the
  • 12:06 Moabites and that gives credence to that notion.
  • 12:09 In any case, we're here in the text where the prophet comes to
  • 12:15 the house.
  • 12:17 [speaking foreign language]
  • 12:20 And the LORD said [speaking foreign language]
  • 12:22 'Arise, [speaking foreign language]
  • 12:24 and anoint him; for this is he!'"
  • 12:27 David, that nobody guy, gets the oil.
  • 12:31 We're told, [speaking foreign language]
  • 12:35 Then Samuel took the horn of oil [speaking foreign language]
  • 12:42 "And he anointed him in the midst of his brethren."
  • 12:46 And then, [speaking foreign language]
  • 12:50 "And the Spirit of the LORD fell mightily upon David."
  • 12:55 God calls all kinds of people.
  • 12:58 We have people that are appointed as leaders, and here
  • 13:01 we have people that are anointed.
  • 13:04 I say three cheers for the call of God.
  • 13:06 It's available not just for David and for me, but for you.
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  • 13:20 Old Testament inspired a future generation to carve out a
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  • 13:31 interviews with Christian historian David Barton, plus
  • 13:34 dramatic reenactments of colonial times.
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  • 14:31 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: In a moment we're going to go to a
  • 14:33 fascinating dramatic reenactment when David takes
  • 14:37 on Golyat, Goliath.
  • 14:40 David did that once.
  • 14:43 We have to take on Goliath once a month when the rent
  • 14:48 is due on television.
  • 14:51 Let me, in advance, thank you for those who care to share, to
  • 14:57 put some stones in our slingshot to throw against
  • 15:01 these massive bills.
  • 15:04 Television isn't cheap.
  • 15:06 We're so glad to be on the air to tell this story.
  • 15:09 So people can know it, we show it.
  • 15:12 Off now to a fascinating enactment of a story I trust you
  • 15:17 all know: David and Goliath.
  • 15:24 male: David only needed one smooth stone,
  • 15:28 but he selected five.
  • 15:33 Waiting for him was the biggest man anyone had ever seen.
  • 15:38 Over 9 feet tall, his armor alone weighed as much as a man.
  • 15:42 His iron spear was greater than 15 pounds.
  • 15:47 Goliath had taunted us unmercifully for 40 days.
  • 15:52 Then one day, the shepherd boy, David, the son of Jesse,
  • 15:57 confronted the Philistine beast with his sling
  • 16:00 and that one single stone.
  • 16:11 [cheering]
  • 16:13 male: It was a day that all Israel shall never forget.
  • 16:16 How proud we were.
  • 16:18 We were serving in the army of the living God.
  • 16:28 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: The word "seif" comes from the German
  • 16:31 meaning soap.
  • 16:33 Doesn't bring out the machismo spirit in me, to be sure.
  • 16:36 But my parents are of German-Jewish extract.
  • 16:39 The word "seif" has another name in Arabic.
  • 16:41 It means "sword."
  • 16:43 I prefer that, but I can't claim that.
  • 16:46 However, when I think of the faith that I have through the
  • 16:49 Messiah, through the Scripture, I can claim that sword kind of
  • 16:53 valiant spirit, and the reason is, is because I wanna walk in
  • 16:57 the footsteps of David.
  • 16:59 We are considering a man who, against all odds, jumped into
  • 17:05 the fray and accomplished great things in life.
  • 17:10 I believe, by the way, that he needn't be an anomaly.
  • 17:13 I think all of us can do much the same.
  • 17:15 David didn't have much to begin with.
  • 17:17 He didn't have a sword in hand.
  • 17:19 In fact, David was known for a stone.
  • 17:22 David didn't kill Goliath with a stone, as is oftenly--often
  • 17:27 supposed.
  • 17:28 He didn't. He stunned him with it.
  • 17:31 In fact, I think Goliath was caught off guard in so many ways
  • 17:34 that day, wasn't he?
  • 17:36 He stunned him with it, knocked him out.
  • 17:38 And I--it may well be that as Goliath was coming to, he just
  • 17:41 lived to see the inglorious moment when he was slain
  • 17:45 by his own sword.
  • 17:48 David then took the sword as well as the head as trophies,
  • 17:51 as booties, as plunder of war.
  • 17:53 There's a great story there, not that I glory in any death,
  • 17:57 but I am reminded of a basic biblical principle.
  • 18:00 This is Bible 101, and that is that faith can, does,
  • 18:05 and will move mountains.
  • 18:07 It's all about us at one level.
  • 18:09 By that I mean, do we wanna exercise faith and get on with
  • 18:12 the pursuit of the future?
  • 18:14 The word "confidence" comes from the Latin word "confides," or
  • 18:18 conflation of words meaning "with faith."
  • 18:22 We're looking at a story here where David learned it that day
  • 18:25 in the field of battle.
  • 18:27 And let me tell you that so many things in life are really
  • 18:30 learned in the field of battle.
  • 18:32 You know, if we wanna have a testimony with the Lord, that's
  • 18:35 great, it's good to have a testimony, but if we're gonna
  • 18:36 have a testimony, we've gotta have a, quote, "test," first.
  • 18:40 And life presents with a lot of challenges, but challenges are
  • 18:43 opportunities with work clothes.
  • 18:45 We just have to rise up and meet them head on.
  • 18:48 And David did that, didn't he?
  • 18:50 Others were afraid, they were daunted by this towering
  • 18:53 Goliath.
  • 18:54 But David really thought that the bigger they were, the harder
  • 18:56 they fall.
  • 18:58 And he just jumped into the fray and the rest is history.
  • 19:01 In the book Shemu'el, in Samuel chapter 17,
  • 19:06 I want you to read with me here.
  • 19:09 We're told,
  • 19:10 [speaking foreign language]
  • 19:14 Then David said to the Philistine,
  • 19:16 [speaking foreign language]
  • 19:19 'You come to me with sword and spear and javelin, et cetera.'"
  • 19:24 But then what he says as a follow-up is just emblazoned in
  • 19:27 biblical memory:
  • 19:28 [speaking foreign language]
  • 19:32 But I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts."
  • 19:38 [speaking foreign language]
  • 19:39 The Lord of the armies.
  • 19:41 Now I want you to hear me for a second.
  • 19:44 We live in precarious times.
  • 19:48 And I'm not just speaking about world culture
  • 19:52 and individual nation states.
  • 19:54 The world is a very precarious place and various nations are in
  • 19:58 the throes of despair in so many ways.
  • 20:01 When I think of household units that are basic building blocks
  • 20:05 of any society, just like these pillars here are holding up this
  • 20:08 house, so too the family is a basic building block.
  • 20:11 The family is being assailed.
  • 20:13 There are challenges today.
  • 20:15 Well, who is or isn't president isn't as important, what social
  • 20:19 programs are on the table isn't as important.
  • 20:22 What's important is that we, like David, rise up with faith
  • 20:27 because I believe that faith can and will pay dividends;
  • 20:32 faith in Jesus, Israel's Messiah.
  • 20:36 David: David was just a boy when that stone hit Goliath.
  • 20:40 I have a feeling that that wasn't the first time he's had
  • 20:42 a slingshot in his hand.
  • 20:44 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I don't think so.
  • 20:46 He had a lot of practice beforehand,
  • 20:47 out there in the field.
  • 20:48 Kirsten: I just have to say, I always like to kind of bring
  • 20:51 it home for all of you viewers.
  • 20:54 How does this apply, this story, this Bible story,
  • 20:57 apply to us today?
  • 20:59 And I think, maybe I think you'll agree and you'll agree,
  • 21:03 that is a beautiful story that God chooses the overlooked.
  • 21:08 Even David's father didn't even think about him.
  • 21:11 Yeah, who are you gonna anoint?
  • 21:13 Ah, that one out in the field, but God chose him.
  • 21:16 He was the overlooked son, but he was the chosen one.
  • 21:19 I think that's good.
  • 21:21 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: It's a great point, you know.
  • 21:23 His high school year book didn't have him in
  • 21:24 as "Most Likely to Succeed."
  • 21:28 His father disrespected him, his brothers threw him
  • 21:31 under the bus.
  • 21:32 Great point.
  • 21:34 David: In this whole series about David, there's a lot of
  • 21:36 ups and downs, kind of a rollercoaster ride in his life,
  • 21:39 and I hope that we can apply this to our lives also.
  • 21:43 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, you know, to that point, David
  • 21:46 really resonates with me personally, that Warrior King
  • 21:51 thing, that edge to throw yourself against
  • 21:55 the troubles of the day.
  • 21:56 I have that type A personality to do it.
  • 22:00 But sometimes, David gets himself in trouble with it.
  • 22:04 And the Bible, unlike other biographies, you know, if you
  • 22:07 look at historiography in antiquity, the people that write
  • 22:10 about the kings just blow stardust in their face about how
  • 22:13 great they are, about their exploits.
  • 22:16 But the Bible gives the bad and the ugly, not just the good.
  • 22:20 In the Older Testament with David, yes, and in the Newer
  • 22:22 Testament with the likes of Peter and Paul.
  • 22:25 You know, we see both sides: the humanity and we see God
  • 22:28 at work through it.
  • 22:30 David: I was actually thinking about you during
  • 22:33 getting ready for this series, that you also are kind of like a
  • 22:38 warrior in your job during the week.
  • 22:41 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, you know, I mean,
  • 22:42 I've always had two vocations.
  • 22:44 I've been to Bible college and a seminary professor, and then
  • 22:46 part-time police and it's kind of gone back and forth.
  • 22:49 You know, I have about 20, 25 years in policing, and you know,
  • 22:55 I've had opportunity to go out there and throw some stones at
  • 22:57 Goliath, put it like that.
  • 22:59 David: But on the other hand, David played the harp,
  • 23:03 he was a--
  • 23:04 Kirsten: Psalmist, wrote songs.
  • 23:06 David: Psalmist, so I kind of like what you and your wife do
  • 23:08 at night sometimes.
  • 23:10 You're a ballroom dancer.
  • 23:11 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, yeah.
  • 23:13 Kirsten: Oh, this is getting good now, ha, ha, ha.
  • 23:15 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Okay, yeah, but--so, yeah, I'm the lover but
  • 23:16 I'll leave the music with you guys, you know,
  • 23:18 I'm not very poetic.
  • 23:19 I'm not as good with words, romancing,
  • 23:21 the language of the heart.
  • 23:22 At the end of the day, I come home, my wife says,
  • 23:25 "How was your day?" I say, "Good."
  • 23:27 She says, "I'm your wife. I need more."
  • 23:29 "Okay, it was really good."
  • 23:30 You know what I mean?
  • 23:32 I don't have a lot of vocabulary there.
  • 23:33 I bet you guys do, because you musician artists are in touch
  • 23:36 with all of that stuff, yes?
  • 23:38 Kirsten: Well, it's keeping--it's being balanced, I
  • 23:39 think, and as we saw in David's life and we will see more, he
  • 23:44 was balanced but ultimately he was a man after God's own heart.
  • 23:49 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: That's true.
  • 23:51 That was his saving grace, and ours too.
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  • 25:08 If the doors are open, we go.
  • 25:11 One of our favorite spots in the Holy Land is the Galilee.
  • 25:15 That's one of your favorites, isn't it?
  • 25:16 David: It is.
  • 25:18 We have a good friend who actually lives there.
  • 25:19 Many friends that we've made in the past five years that we've
  • 25:21 been on this program, Chaim Malespin, who you've seen
  • 25:24 before, is in this next segment.
  • 25:27 Let's go to him right now in Tiberius.
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  • 25:39 Chaim Malespin: All of us Israelis serve in the army, guys
  • 25:40 three years, girls two years, mandatory.
  • 25:43 We have to get together and defend the defenseless in this
  • 25:46 one democracy in the Middle East.
  • 25:48 I serve with the Combat Engineer Corp, the elite unit for special
  • 25:50 operations and missions.
  • 25:53 And it comes down to faith sometimes,
  • 25:56 when it's truly a dangerous scenario.
  • 25:59 We know that he never slumbers nor sleeps
  • 26:00 who watches over Israel.
  • 26:02 But do we know that when we're in the face of discomfort
  • 26:05 or danger?
  • 26:06 I know that there's that moment where you have ten minutes
  • 26:08 to phone your family.
  • 26:10 You can't tell them you're about to go into a very
  • 26:11 life-threatening situation but you just say, "I love you.
  • 26:14 I'll see you later."
  • 26:15 And that may be the last call you ever have.
  • 26:18 But that faith had to become real for me.
  • 26:20 My challenge is now, will our faith become real as we step
  • 26:25 into God's prophetic plan unfolding right now?
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  • 27:16 Kirsten: God has a specific call on Chaim Malespin's life,
  • 27:20 as he had on King David's.
  • 27:22 It was for his time and he rose to the occasion, didn't he?
  • 27:26 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes, and we need some of that for this time.
  • 27:29 David-like leadership for Goliath-like times.
  • 27:32 I see Goliath when I look around.
  • 27:35 Kirsten: It's not easy.
  • 27:36 We've discussed everything that people have been walking through
  • 27:39 in the world.
  • 27:40 It is hard.
  • 27:42 And we need those people to rise up with a few stones and say,
  • 27:45 "I'm gonna take that down.
  • 27:46 That doesn't scare me."
  • 27:47 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: That's right.
  • 27:49 Kirsten: Yeah, and rise to the occasion.
  • 27:50 David: Yes, hopefully this series will help you.
  • 27:52 Invite a friend.
  • 27:53 We have so much more in this series to come.
  • 27:55 Join us next week.
  • 27:56 We always end our program with this.
  • 27:58 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Shaalu shalom Yerushalayim.
  • 28:00 David: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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  • 28:25 male announcer: This has been a paid program, brought to you
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Episodes in this series

  1. Facing Goliath
  2. The Lord’s Annointed
  3. Disobedient and Destracted
  4. Fighting for Israel
  5. Ascending the Throne
  6. Royal Lineage
  7. Poetry and Psalms
  8. The Ultimate Son

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