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Episode: “Death and Life”
Some troubles are matters of life and death. Elijah resurrected the widow’s son. Jesus resurrected His friend Lazarus. From Lazarus’ Tomb to Bethany Church, Dr. Jeff Seif teaches of the Lord’s power over life and death, both physical and spiritual.
Series: “The God of Miracles”
We can’t go far in the Bible without encountering a miracle. When the universe was created, the Spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters (Genesis 1:2). When all seemed hopeless, Jesus rose from the dead on the third day (Matthew 28:6). In this nine-part series, we show our miraculous God at work from Genesis to Revelation, with teachings from the Holy Land by Dr. Jeffrey Seif. We also hear testimonials from those who have experienced the Lord’s supernatural hand in their own lives.

Caption transcript for The God of Miracles: “Death and Life” (3/9)

  • 00:01 David Hart: On today's program we look at the Lord's
  • 00:05 power over life and death. That's coming up on "Our Jewish Roots" with Bible teaching in
  • 00:08 Israel by Dr. Jeffrey Seif.
  • 00:12 ♪♪♪
  • 00:18 narrator: To believe in the Bible is to believe in miracles.
  • 00:21 From Genesis to Revelation, the impossible became possible.
  • 00:26 As God's hand moved across space and time, land and seas
  • 00:31 were created, graves opened, water turned to wine,
  • 00:35 the sick and lame healed.
  • 00:38 The land of Israel completely restored.
  • 00:42 Past, present, and future, he's the Alpha and Omega.
  • 00:47 He is the God of Miracles.
  • 00:51 ♪♪♪
  • 00:56 David: Thank you so much for joining us today.
  • 00:58 I am David Hart.
  • 00:59 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
  • 01:00 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I'm Jeffrey Seif.
  • 01:02 David: So our program today is on miracles about life and
  • 01:05 even death, yes?
  • 01:06 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes, and turning that around as well.
  • 01:08 You know, he brings a life out of death.
  • 01:11 Kirsten: That's good because I was thinking about this.
  • 01:15 Usually we see, if someone's brought back to life,
  • 01:17 that's the miracle.
  • 01:19 But we don't see death as a miracle.
  • 01:21 We see that as an unanswer.
  • 01:23 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, death is a door, and we go through to
  • 01:25 a great miracle and principally, of course, we're interested in
  • 01:29 can God rearrange the laws of nature to help us until
  • 01:34 such time as we get to that final door.
  • 01:36 And the answer is yes. We see it today.
  • 01:38 We see it in Scripture.
  • 01:39 Kirsten: And the greatest miracle of all is through death,
  • 01:42 what we go to.
  • 01:44 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes, but God wants to show of to let
  • 01:45 people know they turn to him, there's help for life.
  • 01:48 Kirsten: Today we're talking about widows, and we have
  • 01:50 a special heart for those that are left here
  • 01:52 without their spouse, and we'll see
  • 01:55 what God does through those widows.
  • 01:57 David: Yes, right now we take you to Israel with Dr. Seif's
  • 01:59 teaching, "In the Wilderness."
  • 02:02 ♪♪♪
  • 02:05 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I've long observed that in the Bible
  • 02:08 greats often came up out of the wilderness, and look where I am.
  • 02:14 This is wilderness.
  • 02:16 You might recall from Scripture that Jesus spent 40 days
  • 02:19 in the wilderness, out here, by the way.
  • 02:21 Subsequent to which his ministry in effect launched.
  • 02:25 We know Moshe Rabbeinu, Moses, spent 40 years in the wilderness
  • 02:30 in the context of which his ministry was then launched.
  • 02:35 Lesser known are the persons of Elijah and Elisha,
  • 02:41 whom I want to make the object of our attention now.
  • 02:45 They're lesser known, not because they're not important
  • 02:47 but because they didn't write.
  • 02:50 What we know in the book, Melachim, 1 and 2 Kings,
  • 02:54 about them is known because someone else wrote it.
  • 02:57 But these prophets who began in the environs of this very place,
  • 03:03 I'm not far from Jericho.
  • 03:06 Jericho's not far from Jordan.
  • 03:09 You take a look at the ministries of Elijah and Elisha,
  • 03:12 they were here.
  • 03:15 And now I want to come to you from here and talk to you about
  • 03:19 something that would be important to people that
  • 03:21 frequented this place, and that is miracles.
  • 03:26 It's not an easy life out here, but there's a way that,
  • 03:30 with God's help, people get to the business of living
  • 03:34 and through it and to a place called success in life.
  • 03:38 I want to open up the book and have a look and give you
  • 03:42 examples and cues to help you get miracles in your own life.
  • 03:47 ♪♪♪
  • 03:54 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: When I think of miracles, I think of
  • 03:56 the name Elijah and Elisha.
  • 04:00 Eliyahu in Hebrew, Elijah, it means God is my God.
  • 04:05 Elisha means God is salvation.
  • 04:08 Just in the names, there's something personal there.
  • 04:12 Religious people have an impersonal relationship
  • 04:16 with the divine.
  • 04:18 "You know, I go to church, you know, on Christmas and Easter,
  • 04:20 every now and again."
  • 04:21 But it's not really part of their world.
  • 04:23 It's not integrated in.
  • 04:25 And it's hard to really experience God if one just keeps
  • 04:29 a perennial distance from him.
  • 04:32 Well, there was a woman who felt far away.
  • 04:34 Her circumstances were abysmal.
  • 04:36 We're told in 1 Kings 17 she was a widow and both stories I want
  • 04:41 to look at in this program segment have to do with God
  • 04:45 rescuing widows, God rescuing widows.
  • 04:48 This woman was at her wit's end, just about to starve.
  • 04:51 There was no more food in the cupboard, and the Lord shows up
  • 04:55 in the person of Elijah whose name is God is my God.
  • 05:00 So God is my God shows up, and he tells her in verse 13,
  • 05:06 "Fear not!"
  • 05:08 Well, I can understand 100% why she was fearful, 'cause she had
  • 05:12 a lot to be concerned about, but the Lord planned to do good
  • 05:15 for her and there's a wonderful miracle.
  • 05:18 What she does is she prepares bread for the prophet and then
  • 05:21 bread, bread, bread.
  • 05:23 She supplied in abundance.
  • 05:25 And I mention this because if you were a widow in antiquity,
  • 05:29 your principal supplier was your husband but when the husband's
  • 05:33 gone, the supply can be gone.
  • 05:36 Some people can find themselves in life's circumstances where
  • 05:39 they're really in trouble, they're really in a bad way,
  • 05:42 and that was the story of this widow.
  • 05:45 But preserved in Scripture was that God, yes, God had a way
  • 05:50 of taking care of her.
  • 05:52 The promise was that "the jar of flour that she had would not be
  • 05:56 exhausted, the jug of oil that she had wouldn't become empty,
  • 06:00 according to the Word of the Lord,"
  • 06:03 which is spoken by the prophet Elijah.
  • 06:06 God's special love for widows is attested here in the literature
  • 06:10 and in a variety of other places.
  • 06:12 And in this program on miracles, if you're a widow,
  • 06:15 I want to tell you don't give up, because,
  • 06:17 yes, God, even God can have a miracle for you.
  • 06:20 Yes, even you.
  • 06:24 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: God's concern for women is amply
  • 06:26 attested in both Testaments, whether it's grieving widows in
  • 06:30 the Older Testament or grieving sisters in the New, we see God
  • 06:35 at work doing miracles in his way and his day.
  • 06:42 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: In TV talk, this is what we call a wide shot
  • 06:47 in a tight spot.
  • 06:50 The reason why I say that, as I am in a very tight spot
  • 06:54 and you would expect it to be the case.
  • 06:56 I'm coming to you from a tomb.
  • 06:58 Doesn't need to be very big.
  • 07:00 Inhabitants don't live here, they settle here.
  • 07:04 When I tell you where "here" is, then you'll probably recall.
  • 07:08 The place is called Bethany.
  • 07:11 And Bible readers know that a great miracle happened here, one
  • 07:17 that was extremely famous or infamous,
  • 07:20 depending on where you stood.
  • 07:23 Jesus was known to be a miracle worker.
  • 07:25 Early in the Gospel of John chapter 3, Nicodemus comes to
  • 07:28 him and says, "Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher,
  • 07:31 have come from God.
  • 07:33 For no one can do the signs that You do unless God is with Him!"
  • 07:37 So he was known for signs and wonders, but the world ain't
  • 07:40 seen nothing like this.
  • 07:42 The story starts off slow enough.
  • 07:45 Martha and Mary, who were very close to Yeshua, with their
  • 07:50 brother Eleazar, Jesus was close to the family.
  • 07:54 They sent word to him and they say,
  • 07:56 "Lazarus whom you love is sick,"
  • 08:01 and he's at the point of death and Jesus didn't make haste
  • 08:04 to get to him, interestingly.
  • 08:06 He let him die.
  • 08:08 One could say, you know, friends like this, who needs enemies.
  • 08:12 I'm sure they were very disappointed, but Jesus knew
  • 08:17 what he was about to do and when he did it,
  • 08:20 believers were excited.
  • 08:23 Those that were on the fence became believers.
  • 08:26 Those that were disdainful toward him said, "Enough
  • 08:29 already, this has gotta stop," because his popularity is
  • 08:34 spreading everywhere and they were very, very chagrined.
  • 08:41 It's a marvelous story.
  • 08:44 In the 17th verse of the 11th chapter, Yeshua shows up,
  • 08:49 and we're told there that he had been dead already for 4 days.
  • 08:55 It says as much here in verse 17.
  • 08:58 "He discovered Lazarus was in the tomb four days."
  • 09:01 Now, that's not insignificant, by the way.
  • 09:04 From a Jewish perspective, there was a belief in antiquity
  • 09:07 that the spirit hovered around for 3 days.
  • 09:10 On the 4th day, that's dead, dead.
  • 09:14 If Jesus would have come and done the miracle on the 2nd day,
  • 09:17 they would have referred to it perhaps as a resuscitation, but
  • 09:21 in no uncertain terms Jesus wanted to demonstrate his power
  • 09:25 over death in a way that they would see and they saw all
  • 09:30 right, and they saw it here, and the world knows the story
  • 09:36 because of what happened here when Lazarus was called forth,
  • 09:41 and he came out of the tomb.
  • 09:44 ♪♪♪
  • 09:51 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yesterday, today, and forever God is in
  • 09:56 the business of bringing people to life in various ways.
  • 10:02 I'm not the least bit surprised that they built a church right
  • 10:06 next to Lazarus's tomb.
  • 10:10 And why wouldn't they?
  • 10:11 It is such a famous story and pilgrims would want to come
  • 10:15 to see when it was played out.
  • 10:20 In a moment what I want to do is look at an aspect of the story
  • 10:25 and consider how it plays out, not 2,000 years ago, but how it
  • 10:30 can even play out today.
  • 10:34 Well, in the 11th chapter of the Gospel of John,
  • 10:38 Jesus cries out in verse 43.
  • 10:41 He says, "Lazarus, come out!"
  • 10:45 Subsequent to which it says that he came out.
  • 10:48 Now, I came out of the tomb.
  • 10:50 You saw me in it and leaving it, and I'm telling you it's not
  • 10:54 easy to get out, and I'm not all bound up.
  • 10:59 You know, he must have wormed out like a caterpillar
  • 11:02 or something 'cause he's bound up in grave cloths
  • 11:04 and what have you.
  • 11:06 The reason why I know he's bound up is 'cause later on Jesus
  • 11:08 said, "Unbind him," you know, cut him loose,
  • 11:10 and I'll look at that in the text.
  • 11:12 But he must have struggled to come out.
  • 11:14 You know, life force is within him, but he's still bound up in
  • 11:19 the trappings associated with his death.
  • 11:23 And you kind of have to struggle to get through that, not just to
  • 11:25 get out of the tomb, but to get out of the grave wrappings.
  • 11:30 I mention that here because what I just noted is described here.
  • 11:35 I'm looking at the literature.
  • 11:36 He gets out we're told in verse 44, he's wrapped up in burial
  • 11:41 clothing, subsequent to which Jesus tells them,
  • 11:46 "Cut him loose, and let him go!"
  • 11:52 Now, of course, you can understand that and you should
  • 11:56 hear it initially just in the context of the moment.
  • 11:58 He's bound up in his death robes, but he's alive now.
  • 12:04 And he's asked to--he asked others to cut him out of that,
  • 12:10 so that way he'd go on and function as a human being.
  • 12:14 It's a fascinating miracle from yesteryear.
  • 12:18 And as I mentioned earlier, it really caught around,
  • 12:20 and why wouldn't it?
  • 12:22 It's so fascinating.
  • 12:23 He was dead, going, going, and gone.
  • 12:25 And his coming to life just invoked faith and ire too.
  • 12:30 Some said, "Enough already, oh goodness.
  • 12:32 You know, we gotta do something about this guy.
  • 12:33 Everyone's going to follow him."
  • 12:36 He was enjoying so much popularity of the rank and file.
  • 12:39 But a question that I want to put to table is what might some
  • 12:43 of the implications of this be now for people like me and you?
  • 12:48 I mention that because we can be born anew and receive new life,
  • 12:53 and we indeed have, but there still is something of a process
  • 12:58 of getting out of the old wrappings of death.
  • 13:02 It doesn't happen immediately.
  • 13:06 It can happen incrementally, at different speeds.
  • 13:09 I say that because it wasn't immediate here.
  • 13:12 He didn't just walk out of the tomb like he did before he died.
  • 13:17 I mean, he came out with the stuff.
  • 13:20 And the truth of the matter is that a lot of people are born
  • 13:23 again, we come out of the spiritual womb,
  • 13:27 and we still have the stuff.
  • 13:30 And there is the process then of unbinding and cutting loose.
  • 13:37 Now I say that because I want to give you some grace for the
  • 13:42 moment because it could be that you've come alive in Christ, but
  • 13:45 if you're like me, not all is well, you know.
  • 13:49 We're just not perfect people.
  • 13:52 Perfection isn't achieved on this side of the grave and
  • 13:55 especially for a lifetime, being invested in lifestyles, we have
  • 13:59 memories burned into our thought processes and the like.
  • 14:02 And I'm not trying to make light of that, as much as to say that
  • 14:07 there is a means to be delivered from it, which is why I want to
  • 14:11 continue to carry on with the Lord, imperfections and all.
  • 14:17 You know, Jesus, when he was asked to teach to pray, he
  • 14:20 mentioned, "Pray like this, you know, 'Forgive us our trespasses
  • 14:24 as we forgive those who trespass against us.'"
  • 14:28 I think we'd do well to give people a break,
  • 14:30 because God gives us a break because we're not perfect yet.
  • 14:33 We're all construction processes.
  • 14:35 And it might be it's for that reason that this site here,
  • 14:39 behind me is a church as I mentioned earlier,
  • 14:41 and next to the church is a grave that's now empty.
  • 14:44 People frequent it, imperfect people, and reminded of that,
  • 14:48 that Jesus indeed raises people to a new life, and then he
  • 14:53 bears with them as they unravel out of their death cloth.
  • 14:57 What a miracle. What a story.
  • 15:00 I'm glad to bring it to you from here.
  • 15:05 Kirsten: We just saw Dr. Seif outside of the Church
  • 15:09 of Lazarus, and I want to say it's a miracle that you climbed
  • 15:13 out of that tomb, and you weren't all scratched up
  • 15:16 and you didn't caught down there.
  • 15:18 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: It was smaller than I expected
  • 15:20 it would be, quite frankly.
  • 15:22 Kirsten: Very tiny, but it was a miracle, a miracle,
  • 15:25 that Lazarus, wrapped up, got out of there.
  • 15:28 I mean, of course, you know, it was different back then,
  • 15:31 but the miracle of life from death.
  • 15:35 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah, and that's the principal point
  • 15:37 because people are wrapped up in death in so many ways, and the
  • 15:41 question is can we take that cloth off and have new life,
  • 15:45 and the answer is yes.
  • 15:47 Kirsten: And also, with the widow, with Elijah,
  • 15:50 she was at the end of everything she had.
  • 15:55 Absolute end.
  • 15:57 Very few of us know what that feels like.
  • 15:59 And then God stepped in as he does.
  • 16:02 He steps in where we just can't do anymore.
  • 16:06 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: That's right and that's the beauty.
  • 16:08 You know, we call out to God in our weakness, and he shows up
  • 16:13 because we need some help in life sometimes.
  • 16:16 It's just the nature of the thing and these widows were
  • 16:19 really in a bad way, you know, and these sisters in the case
  • 16:24 of Lazarus, they were just in a bad way,
  • 16:26 and God graced them with blessing.
  • 16:30 David: I know it's about widows, but I've just gotta
  • 16:32 say, and I've been thinking about you during this, that you
  • 16:34 were a widower, and God helped you through that time
  • 16:37 in your life.
  • 16:39 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah, I say Barri is the way, the truth,
  • 16:40 and the wife.
  • 16:42 And I know Jesus is going to kind of pull me aside in heaven
  • 16:44 and say, "Jeffrey, that verse was for me."
  • 16:46 But you know, her presence is God's gracing someone.
  • 16:50 I was lost, and I'm so thankful to the Lord for Barri,
  • 16:55 and Patty, may she rest in peace.
  • 16:57 Kirsten: Mm-hmm, and he rescued--just going to say, he
  • 16:59 rescued your heart and gave you a miracle of new life and joy.
  • 17:03 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I was lost actually when, you know,
  • 17:05 I was just really lost.
  • 17:06 David: And your story's for somebody today.
  • 17:08 Stay tuned, we'll be right back.
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  • 17:49 Kirsten: And interviews.
  • 17:51 I don't know if you've already seen our interview one-on-one
  • 17:53 with Israel Hanna, but recently we got to talk with him
  • 17:57 more on this set about his miracle story.
  • 18:02 Actually, story of miracles in his life.
  • 18:06 And here's part of that interview.
  • 18:07 I think you'll enjoy Israel's story.
  • 18:11 Kirsten: You grew up Catholic, which we have some
  • 18:13 incredible, wonderful Catholic friends.
  • 18:15 Israel Hanna: Yes.
  • 18:17 Kirsten: But it was not a personal relationship
  • 18:18 with the Lord.
  • 18:20 You had a miraculous time of your life where God just
  • 18:24 literally opened up the door for you to know him.
  • 18:27 Israel: Yes, and it was a miracle.
  • 18:29 David: Can I say this before you start?
  • 18:30 Israel: Yes.
  • 18:31 David: We watched your testimony last night again,
  • 18:34 and you made me cry again.
  • 18:36 It's powerful, it's incredible, so just kind of share
  • 18:40 a little bit of--
  • 18:42 Kirsten: Your miracle story, yes.
  • 18:44 Israel: That little DVD, David, has reached over
  • 18:45 10 million people and it's--everybody that watches it
  • 18:49 says exactly what you said.
  • 18:51 It touches them.
  • 18:53 So, the way that happened is I came at age of 33 to--
  • 18:59 just about 33, to the end of myself.
  • 19:01 I was suicidal.
  • 19:03 I got a gun up to my head ready to shoot myself.
  • 19:05 Kirsten: Literally?
  • 19:07 Israel: Yes, and so I went into AA for that--
  • 19:13 I came out of that time.
  • 19:16 Went into AA, got sober, and then even as a sober person,
  • 19:20 I felt there was something missing and one night in
  • 19:24 February in Northern Minnesota,
  • 19:26 I was at my wit's end again, even as--even though I
  • 19:29 was sober, and I--the Lord directed me to a little cabin
  • 19:33 in the woods, 30 below in February, a full moon,
  • 19:38 and I knocked on the door.
  • 19:40 They weren't total strangers, but they--I said, "I don't know
  • 19:45 who brought me here, but the Lord sent me here tonight to--"
  • 19:49 And they said, "We're Christians, and we've been--"
  • 19:52 Almost like they were waiting for somebody to show up.
  • 19:54 And they led me to the Lord.
  • 19:56 David: Angels.
  • 19:58 Israel: In my--yes.
  • 19:59 And it changed--that night changed my whole life.
  • 20:01 David: Were you married at the time?
  • 20:02 And did you have kids, or were you--
  • 20:04 Israel: I was married and--but I was still struggling
  • 20:07 with life, but I was married at that time, yes, I was.
  • 20:11 And--but God has done so many good things.
  • 20:14 And one of them including returning my Bible, actually,
  • 20:17 to me, that was lost in a car accident, years later
  • 20:20 after that experience.
  • 20:22 David: As we've been sitting here chatting with you,
  • 20:24 I can't help look at what you've got sitting there.
  • 20:26 You look like Moses sitting there.
  • 20:28 Israel: My walking stick.
  • 20:29 David: Has that--was that a snake before or--
  • 20:32 Israel: Yeah, I don't dare drop it because it turns into--
  • 20:34 Kirsten: Yeah, it could, it could.
  • 20:35 David: It's got Hebrew on it.
  • 20:37 Tell me real quick what--
  • 20:38 Israel: It's Isaiah chapter 43.
  • 20:40 I've been through, like I said, 26 documented
  • 20:43 near-death experiences.
  • 20:45 My grandfather-- I was hit by a train,
  • 20:48 80 miles an hour broadside with it.
  • 20:50 My grandfather--was raised by my grandfather.
  • 20:53 And my grandfather said he'd give his life for me.
  • 20:55 Three days after being hit by the train, I woke up in the
  • 20:58 hospital, and I was greeted by these words:
  • 21:00 "A strange thing has happened.
  • 21:02 Your grandfather died at the exact same time you hit
  • 21:05 that car--that train--or hit by the train."
  • 21:08 My grandfather's words, you know,
  • 21:10 "I will give my life for you if I ever have to."
  • 21:12 He gave his life for me.
  • 21:14 Twenty years later, I'm hit broadside by a semi-truck
  • 21:17 and trapped in the car.
  • 21:20 I wake up in intensive care, and I'm greeted by these words,
  • 21:22 "Mr. Hanna, it's a miracle you're alive,
  • 21:24 but your 11-year-old daughter, Jessie,
  • 21:27 had died in the accident."
  • 21:29 On this stick that was given to me is Isaiah 43 that the man
  • 21:34 wrote on this stick verses 1 through 6, "Because, my son,
  • 21:38 you are precious in my sight, I have traded
  • 21:41 other men's lives for yours."
  • 21:44 And that's on this walking stick.
  • 21:46 And that's why it's so important to me.
  • 21:48 And the way it was given to me is a whole 'nother story
  • 21:51 that we can talk about someday.
  • 21:53 ♪♪♪
  • 21:58 David: Many of you know already about my testimony
  • 22:01 as a child becoming a Christian.
  • 22:04 Kirsten and I both grew up in the church.
  • 22:06 Every time the doors were open, we were there.
  • 22:09 And Israel Hanna, his story is dramatic, it's miraculous,
  • 22:13 and so different from how we grew up as being in the church.
  • 22:18 Kirsten: Church babies.
  • 22:20 Synagogue baby.
  • 22:22 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah, I wasn't raised in--
  • 22:23 I wasn't raised in the church.
  • 22:25 I can't comment.
  • 22:26 Kirsten: Right, but it's the gift, and the miracle,
  • 22:28 we're talk--our whole series is on miracles.
  • 22:31 The miracle of salvation, the greatest miracle of all,
  • 22:34 a changed heart.
  • 22:36 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes, and what helped change my heart,
  • 22:38 by the way, was miracles, literal.
  • 22:40 That is, when someone comes to terms with the fact
  • 22:44 that the Lord does miracles in Jesus's name,
  • 22:47 it's not just a religious idea.
  • 22:49 It's not just schooling.
  • 22:50 One is confronted with the supernatural,
  • 22:52 with the God behind the supernatural,
  • 22:54 and very, very transformative for me.
  • 22:56 Kirsten: We talk--I mean, we're teaching today
  • 22:59 about the widows.
  • 23:01 We're talking about Lazarus coming back to life.
  • 23:03 And we think that's only in the Bible, and--
  • 23:06 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: No, no, no, no, no.
  • 23:07 Kirsten: Right, it's everywhere.
  • 23:09 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: That's right.
  • 23:10 Yesterday, today, and forever is Jesus, and he said,
  • 23:12 "If I do not do the works of my Father, do not believe me.
  • 23:14 But if I do them, if you don't believe me, believe the works
  • 23:18 that you may know and understand that I am in the Father,
  • 23:20 and the Father is in me."
  • 23:22 Kirsten: And we have the power through the Holy Spirit,
  • 23:24 you've already taught on that, to do even greater works,
  • 23:27 Yeshua said, than he did.
  • 23:29 That's amazing.
  • 23:31 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: When you think about it, when Jesus
  • 23:33 was talking, he's got a few fishermen
  • 23:34 on a countryside somewhere.
  • 23:36 Now we're all over the world, 2,000 years later.
  • 23:37 You want to talk about a great miracle, just the fact
  • 23:39 the church exists for you to grow up in is a miracle.
  • 23:42 Kirsten: That's a good way to end our program.
  • 23:44 Miracle miracles, look for them and expect them, in our hearts,
  • 23:49 and around us in our lives.
  • 23:51 David: We actually end with a song from our founder,
  • 23:53 Zola Levitt, all about miracles, and also--
  • 23:56 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Til next time,
  • 23:58 Shaalu shalom Yerushalayim.
  • 24:00 Kirsten: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
  • 24:03 ♪♪♪
  • 24:07 ♪ Why are you looking among the dead? ♪
  • 24:13 ♪ Yeshua is risen just as he said ♪
  • 24:21 ♪ Go quickly and tell it to Peter and John ♪
  • 24:27 ♪ The sepulcher is empty, the body is gone ♪
  • 24:37 ♪♪♪
  • 24:46 ♪ He lives once again as he did before ♪
  • 24:52 ♪ Alive is he always, forevermore ♪
  • 24:58 ♪ Yeshua is risen just as he said ♪
  • 25:04 ♪ Look not for the living among the dead ♪
  • 25:12 ♪ Seek him among us alive instead ♪
  • 25:17 ♪ Seek how the truly believe are led ♪
  • 25:23 ♪ The suffering are healed, the hungry are fed ♪
  • 25:28 ♪ Yeshua is risen just as he said ♪
  • 25:34 ♪ Look to the kingdom, look always ahead ♪
  • 25:39 ♪ Look to the time when the bride will be wed ♪
  • 25:44 ♪ Look to the King, he is no longer dead ♪
  • 25:50 ♪ Yeshua is risen just as he said ♪
  • 25:57 ♪♪♪
  • 26:02 ♪♪♪
  • 26:09 ♪ Why are you looking among the dead? ♪
  • 26:13 ♪ Yeshua is risen just as he said ♪
  • 26:17 ♪ Go quickly and tell it to Peter and John ♪
  • 26:21 ♪ The sepulcher is empty, the body is gone ♪
  • 26:25 ♪ He lives once again as he did before ♪
  • 26:29 ♪ Alive is he always, forevermore ♪
  • 26:33 ♪ Yeshua is risen just as he said ♪
  • 26:37 ♪ Look not for the living among the dead ♪
  • 26:40 ♪ Why are you looking among the dead? ♪
  • 26:43 ♪ Yeshua is risen just as he said ♪
  • 26:47 ♪ Go quickly and tell it to Peter and John ♪
  • 26:50 ♪ The sepulcher is empty, the body is gone ♪
  • 26:53 ♪ He lives once again as he did before ♪
  • 26:57 ♪ Alive is he always, forevermore ♪
  • 27:00 ♪ Yeshua is risen just as he said ♪
  • 27:03 ♪ Look not for the living among the dead ♪
  • 27:06 ♪ Don't look among the dead ♪
  • 27:08 ♪ Yeshua is risen! ♪♪
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Episodes in this series

  1. The Holy Spirit
  2. The Exodus
  3. Death and Life
  4. Exile and Return
  5. The Incarnation
  6. Our Daily Bread
  7. The Physical Realm
  8. Our Greatest Need
  9. Bonus interviews

Guest organizations and links