1 00:00:29,860 --> 00:00:30,820 Shalom, Shalom. 2 00:00:32,820 --> 00:00:34,020 Well, y' all didn't sound much. 3 00:00:34,020 --> 00:00:39,380 There I was preaching a conference at a church, been a few 4 00:00:39,380 --> 00:00:39,940 years now. 5 00:00:40,740 --> 00:00:43,340 And each night of the conference I always said, shalom, 6 00:00:43,340 --> 00:00:43,860 shalom. 7 00:00:44,660 --> 00:00:47,060 And they did like you, they just sat there and stared. 8 00:00:48,340 --> 00:00:54,020 Finally, one gentleman about three quarters of the way back looked 9 00:00:54,020 --> 00:00:57,800 at me and said, when I said, shalom, shalom, he looked at me and 10 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:00,440 said, what does shalom mean? 11 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:04,960 He shouted out and I said, shalom means I looked him straight 12 00:01:04,960 --> 00:01:07,200 in the eye that you owe me a thousand dollars. 13 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:10,560 Yeah, that's all I got was laughter. 14 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:13,840 Of course, you know, I noticed I said it twice, didn't you? 15 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:18,640 So if I can't get one, I tried for two, but neither one worked. 16 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:20,720 But hey, you know, it means peace. 17 00:01:21,210 --> 00:01:21,690 It means. 18 00:01:23,050 --> 00:01:27,010 It also has the connotation of hello, goodbye, but it literally 19 00:01:27,010 --> 00:01:27,490 means peace. 20 00:01:27,490 --> 00:01:30,890 And of course, as a believer, we have the peace that passes all 21 00:01:30,890 --> 00:01:32,330 understanding, do we not? 22 00:01:32,890 --> 00:01:36,969 So it's a greeting that of course in Hebrew that's typically 23 00:01:36,969 --> 00:01:37,330 done. 24 00:01:37,330 --> 00:01:39,290 My name is Phil Savoloski. 25 00:01:39,450 --> 00:01:42,730 I'm the founder and director of the Olive Tree Ministry International. 26 00:01:43,610 --> 00:01:48,090 We are a church based independent Baptist Jewish Outreach 27 00:01:48,090 --> 00:01:52,310 ministry out of the Victory Baptist Church in Weatherford, Texas. 28 00:01:52,310 --> 00:01:53,950 I think you're familiar with that church. 29 00:01:54,350 --> 00:01:56,030 My wife Deborah, if you'll stand. 30 00:01:57,310 --> 00:01:59,790 My wife Deborah, I do ask for prayer. 31 00:01:59,790 --> 00:02:01,910 She's leaving tomorrow to Ohio. 32 00:02:01,910 --> 00:02:06,670 Her dad is a longtime pastor, over 51 years the same church. 33 00:02:07,070 --> 00:02:10,030 And he's having a little bit of. 34 00:02:10,030 --> 00:02:13,110 He has Alzheimer's and having struggles and she's going up to help. 35 00:02:13,110 --> 00:02:14,670 So I would ask for your prayer. 36 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:16,760 I always ask for prayer. 37 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:18,800 We just celebrated our 50th anniversary. 38 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:22,360 We're almost at our 51st anniversary and you have to know 39 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:22,960 the background. 40 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:26,800 See, when I married her, she had two strikes against her. 41 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:33,840 She's a gentile now, if you didn't know it, I'm a Jew, but gasp. 42 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:38,960 Her second strike was that she's a Yankee from Ohio. 43 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:45,200 Of course, I'm a Southern Jew, so you can see what's going on here. 44 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:48,080 But the good news is she has never got the third strike. 45 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:51,240 I probably have gotten it many times, but she has never gotten the 46 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:51,840 third strike. 47 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:54,920 So the Lord's been so good, you might go ahead and turn your 48 00:02:54,920 --> 00:02:59,840 Bibles to Matthew chapter 19 as I get prepared here a little bit. 49 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:03,000 But as you're turning to that, I want to talk a little bit about 50 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:03,560 our ministry. 51 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:07,200 You all have supported our ministry for a number of years now, 52 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:11,850 and we appreciate your prayers and appreciate your support and I'M 53 00:03:11,850 --> 00:03:14,530 honored to be able to opportunity to just tell you a little 54 00:03:14,530 --> 00:03:16,010 bit what Olive Tree is doing. 55 00:03:17,290 --> 00:03:20,570 Y' all took the clock out, so I will do this. 56 00:03:21,370 --> 00:03:22,930 I thought I saw a clock somewhere. 57 00:03:22,930 --> 00:03:24,490 But anyway, we'll just do it this way. 58 00:03:24,650 --> 00:03:30,930 But anyway, Olive Tree ministry is 33 years going there 59 00:03:30,930 --> 00:03:31,370 it is. 60 00:03:31,690 --> 00:03:34,330 And trying to let me know what time it is. 61 00:03:34,410 --> 00:03:37,770 So not that it means anything, but at least I know I'm going late. 62 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:39,720 I'm a good Baptist preacher. 63 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:40,400 But anyway. 64 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:45,280 But olive tree ministry, 33 years. 65 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:52,280 And in the that we've been doing this ministry, we believe it's 66 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:54,880 the local church that's been commissioned to reach the lost. 67 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:59,920 And we work through other independent Baptist sister churches, 68 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:02,000 encourage them to reach their Jewish friends. 69 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:04,480 How many have a Jewish friend that know of a Jewish friend? 70 00:04:04,820 --> 00:04:05,700 Would you raise your hand? 71 00:04:05,860 --> 00:04:07,100 Oh, see a lot of hands. 72 00:04:07,100 --> 00:04:08,340 Would you do me a favor? 73 00:04:08,820 --> 00:04:10,020 Would you do me a favor? 74 00:04:10,100 --> 00:04:14,100 Would you write down on the back of something, a piece of paper 75 00:04:14,260 --> 00:04:19,260 if you have a Jewish friend, I would like to have their name and 76 00:04:19,260 --> 00:04:25,860 then put JF and then put your name and that would be CM Church 77 00:04:25,860 --> 00:04:26,180 member. 78 00:04:26,660 --> 00:04:31,180 So there was a guy that did this and we prayed for almost a year 79 00:04:31,180 --> 00:04:34,320 and a half till I found out we were praying for the person who was 80 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:37,160 the church member, thinking that that was the Jewish person. 81 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:39,000 But anyhow, would you do that? 82 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:40,280 I would appreciate that. 83 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:44,040 We have a prayer list that we give out to many churches as well. 84 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:48,560 And if you send in an extra hundred dollars, we'll lay hands 85 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:48,920 on it. 86 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:51,080 Oh, I'm sorry, that's my TV ministry. 87 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:56,440 I'm teasing if you didn't know it, but I like to have a little fun 88 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:57,440 in doing what we do. 89 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:00,250 But those guys on the tv, they just crazy and all. 90 00:05:00,250 --> 00:05:02,730 But anyway, we pray for it. 91 00:05:03,130 --> 00:05:04,130 Olive Tree ministry. 92 00:05:04,130 --> 00:05:08,090 We have a once a month virtual tour of Israel. 93 00:05:08,330 --> 00:05:12,370 I've led 15 trips to Israel and so once a month I teach through 94 00:05:12,370 --> 00:05:12,890 Zoom. 95 00:05:13,130 --> 00:05:17,530 And the good news, it's free and been doing now for four years, 96 00:05:17,530 --> 00:05:21,930 ever since COVID hit back in 2022, I think it is. 97 00:05:22,730 --> 00:05:28,460 So we have a the class once a month and that we try to pray when 98 00:05:28,460 --> 00:05:32,660 we can for the people that we add to the list as well as we teach 99 00:05:32,660 --> 00:05:35,700 on different things as if we were going to Israel as a virtual 100 00:05:35,700 --> 00:05:36,020 tour. 101 00:05:36,660 --> 00:05:37,780 And we've been. 102 00:05:38,020 --> 00:05:38,660 We have. 103 00:05:38,900 --> 00:05:42,780 We have a flash drive in the back that you can purchase that is 104 00:05:42,780 --> 00:05:48,060 video because we video the class and it's available for the 105 00:05:48,060 --> 00:05:48,620 offering there. 106 00:05:48,620 --> 00:05:54,440 Olive Tree Ministry sees our ministry is basically two parts Real 107 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:56,120 simple Jewish evangelism. 108 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:59,320 We believe that the local church has been commissioned to reach 109 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:01,000 the Jewish people with the gospel. 110 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:03,160 And so we go to churches and help. 111 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:07,800 Last church I was at, they had a Jewish man, a man that was witnessing 112 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:08,600 to a Jewish man. 113 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:12,280 And we were able to give them material and help understand and 114 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:13,400 explain things. 115 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:20,030 And we'll be helping him in the future as well with the material 116 00:06:20,030 --> 00:06:20,390 as well. 117 00:06:20,390 --> 00:06:23,910 So we work with churches, helping, encouraging, seeing Jewish 118 00:06:23,910 --> 00:06:24,830 people with the gospel. 119 00:06:24,830 --> 00:06:28,710 We've seen a number of Jewish people get saved through Jewish people 120 00:06:28,710 --> 00:06:30,950 who were friends and members of a church. 121 00:06:31,750 --> 00:06:36,590 We have the second part, besides evangelism and our virtual 122 00:06:36,590 --> 00:06:40,390 tour as well, is seeing the Bible through Jewish eyes. 123 00:06:40,950 --> 00:06:44,390 I have the privilege to teach at Norris Bible Baptist Seminary, 124 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:48,880 teach just a couple days a week, and I get the easy classes. 125 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:53,640 I teach the book of Revelation and eschatology and prophetical books 126 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:55,120 and general epistles. 127 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:58,680 And so when the semester comes, it changes as we go. 128 00:06:58,840 --> 00:07:00,120 The Lord is so blessed. 129 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:02,880 And so it's a joy to be there and to teach that. 130 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:05,560 We also travel and speak. 131 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:07,440 I do a lot of prophecy conferences. 132 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:09,160 I do a lot of feast conferences. 133 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:14,580 We have the Passover that we do demonstration on, and we do with 134 00:07:14,580 --> 00:07:15,660 the other feasts as well. 135 00:07:15,660 --> 00:07:19,500 The greatest prophetical book is a book rarely read. 136 00:07:19,500 --> 00:07:22,180 It's Leviticus, the Book of Leviticus. 137 00:07:22,180 --> 00:07:26,540 And so we enjoy doing that as we travel and speak all over the 138 00:07:26,540 --> 00:07:28,020 United States as well as outside. 139 00:07:28,740 --> 00:07:31,700 We also have the privilege to lead trips to Israel. 140 00:07:31,860 --> 00:07:37,950 We've led 15 trips since 2001, and we did. 141 00:07:38,100 --> 00:07:39,540 Did one this June. 142 00:07:39,780 --> 00:07:42,780 Unfortunately, we could only go to Greece because we could not 143 00:07:42,780 --> 00:07:44,580 go to Israel because of the battle. 144 00:07:44,740 --> 00:07:46,780 But so anyhow, we do trips. 145 00:07:46,780 --> 00:07:48,980 If you've never gone, you ought to want to go. 146 00:07:49,300 --> 00:07:53,700 And so Olive Tree Ministry, it's a ministry that we're working 147 00:07:53,859 --> 00:07:56,220 with churches to reach their Jewish friends. 148 00:07:56,220 --> 00:07:57,780 We believe that's the best way. 149 00:07:57,940 --> 00:08:00,100 That's the way God's commissioned to do it. 150 00:08:00,260 --> 00:08:03,540 And so that's how we do it with Olive Tree Ministry. 151 00:08:06,050 --> 00:08:08,290 This morning I'll be speaking just a second. 152 00:08:08,450 --> 00:08:10,610 This evening I'll be speaking as well. 153 00:08:11,410 --> 00:08:13,410 And we'll have the message. 154 00:08:14,610 --> 00:08:20,050 This evening is probably one of those messages that is so impactful 155 00:08:20,050 --> 00:08:23,530 that will help you understand what we're doing, what we're to be 156 00:08:23,530 --> 00:08:27,890 doing today, and why I don't want to give the title out, because 157 00:08:27,890 --> 00:08:30,700 if I do, you'll go, oh, I know that, but do you? 158 00:08:30,700 --> 00:08:33,900 And so we'll hopefully come back tonight and we'll be talking 159 00:08:34,220 --> 00:08:39,340 a very, very Important topic dealing with why we do what we do. 160 00:08:39,980 --> 00:08:41,820 So we're in Matthew, chapter 19. 161 00:08:42,700 --> 00:08:44,460 This is my life's testimony. 162 00:08:44,460 --> 00:08:47,060 The title of the message of this morning that I can give you 163 00:08:47,060 --> 00:08:53,420 that now is from the Shema and Shadows to Shiloh and Shalom. 164 00:08:54,140 --> 00:08:57,780 Now, most people, when they hear the title, they always go, I 165 00:08:57,780 --> 00:08:59,580 wish this Jew would speak English. 166 00:09:00,620 --> 00:09:01,420 Well, we will. 167 00:09:01,420 --> 00:09:02,940 Now, would you do me a favor? 168 00:09:03,100 --> 00:09:07,940 Would you stand one last time as we read the word of God in the 169 00:09:07,940 --> 00:09:10,140 book of Nehemiah, chapter 8? 170 00:09:10,620 --> 00:09:12,060 Ezra was on the platform. 171 00:09:12,060 --> 00:09:14,700 Of course, I'm no Ezra, but I am on a platform. 172 00:09:15,020 --> 00:09:18,340 He was in front of a pulpit of wood, and I am in front of a pulpit 173 00:09:18,340 --> 00:09:18,860 of wood. 174 00:09:19,260 --> 00:09:24,020 And he had six guys on his right, and he had seven guys on his 175 00:09:24,020 --> 00:09:24,380 left. 176 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:26,680 And he was going to be speaking Hebrew. 177 00:09:26,680 --> 00:09:29,200 And of course they had pretty well lost the language. 178 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:34,000 And so they would go out to translate what Ezra was saying. 179 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:36,160 Now, hopefully we don't need translators. 180 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:37,920 My English will hopefully be good enough. 181 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:41,200 But the Bible says when it was opened, the people stood. 182 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:42,720 And I've always liked that. 183 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:44,880 So we're in Matthew, chapter 19. 184 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:47,200 We're in verse 27. 185 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:52,010 The Bible says, then answered Peter and said unto him, behold, 186 00:09:52,730 --> 00:09:56,010 we have forsaken all and follow thee. 187 00:09:56,810 --> 00:09:58,010 What shall we have? 188 00:09:58,010 --> 00:10:00,370 Therefore jump to verse 29. 189 00:10:00,370 --> 00:10:01,850 This is my life's verse. 190 00:10:02,010 --> 00:10:03,850 Everybody ought to have a life's verse. 191 00:10:04,090 --> 00:10:05,050 This is mine. 192 00:10:05,370 --> 00:10:11,770 And everyone that had forsaken houses or brethren or sisters or 193 00:10:11,850 --> 00:10:15,630 father or mother or wife or children or. 194 00:10:15,780 --> 00:10:16,620 Or lands. 195 00:10:16,620 --> 00:10:17,620 And here's the key. 196 00:10:18,260 --> 00:10:23,540 For my name's sake shall receive a hundredfold and shall inherit 197 00:10:24,020 --> 00:10:25,020 everlasting life. 198 00:10:25,020 --> 00:10:25,500 Let's pray. 199 00:10:25,500 --> 00:10:28,420 Our gracious Heavenly Father, thank you again for this opportunity 200 00:10:28,420 --> 00:10:30,180 privilege to be in this great church. 201 00:10:30,420 --> 00:10:32,740 Lord, I ask that you hide me behind the cross. 202 00:10:33,060 --> 00:10:35,540 Let them not see me, but see Christ in me. 203 00:10:35,860 --> 00:10:41,780 May they see the power of the Gospel has the power to change lives, 204 00:10:42,770 --> 00:10:43,370 impact us. 205 00:10:43,370 --> 00:10:45,970 This morning, in Jesus name I pray and with thanksgiving. 206 00:10:46,290 --> 00:10:46,770 Amen. 207 00:10:46,770 --> 00:10:47,650 You may be seated. 208 00:10:53,330 --> 00:10:57,570 Before I begin, I mentioned in my prayer, one of the biggest things 209 00:10:57,570 --> 00:11:04,090 I think we forget in our going to church and reading the Bible is 210 00:11:04,090 --> 00:11:08,900 how the Bible, the scriptures, impacts our life. 211 00:11:10,340 --> 00:11:14,940 Please see in my testimony, not me, but how in Christ we can 212 00:11:14,940 --> 00:11:16,260 truly do all things. 213 00:11:16,900 --> 00:11:19,460 The truth of the matter is most of us think, well, you know 214 00:11:19,460 --> 00:11:21,140 God, he just does the big things. 215 00:11:21,860 --> 00:11:24,660 I'm way down here, just a little person on earth. 216 00:11:24,740 --> 00:11:26,260 What's God want from me? 217 00:11:26,660 --> 00:11:29,620 And so we think of too little of what God can do. 218 00:11:30,420 --> 00:11:32,580 See, I believe Your testimony. 219 00:11:32,660 --> 00:11:34,260 I believe my testimony. 220 00:11:35,270 --> 00:11:36,390 You know, a deep subject. 221 00:11:36,390 --> 00:11:38,310 Your pastor is always talking about theology. 222 00:11:39,190 --> 00:11:40,110 I think your test. 223 00:11:40,110 --> 00:11:41,150 I believe your testimony. 224 00:11:41,150 --> 00:11:45,190 My testimony is theology in action. 225 00:11:46,630 --> 00:11:49,350 It's where the rubber meets the road. 226 00:11:50,150 --> 00:11:52,150 If you know Spanish, that doesn't work. 227 00:11:52,470 --> 00:11:56,070 I spoke in Honduras one time and I said those words. 228 00:11:56,070 --> 00:11:58,710 And the translator, Leslie, probably looked at me and said, brother 229 00:11:58,710 --> 00:12:00,710 Savloski, I'm sorry, that doesn't work in Spanish. 230 00:12:00,710 --> 00:12:02,150 Rubber meets the roads is a. 231 00:12:02,710 --> 00:12:03,590 Anyway, I go on. 232 00:12:03,670 --> 00:12:06,470 So it's why we do what we do. 233 00:12:06,470 --> 00:12:10,590 We look at the world today not from what the newspaper says, not 234 00:12:10,590 --> 00:12:13,910 what the TV say, not what the President of the United States says. 235 00:12:13,910 --> 00:12:16,470 We look today in the world through biblical eyes. 236 00:12:17,190 --> 00:12:19,030 The Bible is our guide. 237 00:12:19,430 --> 00:12:22,550 And the Bible tells us how we're to do, what we're to do, when 238 00:12:22,550 --> 00:12:23,350 we're to do it. 239 00:12:23,590 --> 00:12:28,320 And that's how our theology is in action now, years ago, many, many 240 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:32,320 years ago, as we've been doing 33 years of ministry, but we had 241 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:34,040 just started Olive Tree Ministry. 242 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:35,360 God taught me a lesson. 243 00:12:35,680 --> 00:12:37,040 We had just bought a car. 244 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:40,080 We bought a car, basically, we were going to be using for deputation 245 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:43,360 to preach and teach and start Olive Tree ministry. 246 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:45,080 Believe God had called us to do that. 247 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:49,400 And that morning, my wife had left with the car, and I was typically 248 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:52,120 what I do in the morning, I'm on the computer studying, working, 249 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:53,680 things like that, when the phone rang. 250 00:12:54,260 --> 00:12:58,420 I picked up the phone, and my wife of then 15 years. 251 00:12:59,300 --> 00:13:04,540 First words I heard when I picked up the phone was, honey, I'm 252 00:13:04,540 --> 00:13:05,060 all right. 253 00:13:05,940 --> 00:13:08,380 I don't know how you would react if that's the first thing you 254 00:13:08,380 --> 00:13:09,620 heard your spouse say. 255 00:13:10,020 --> 00:13:11,860 But my reaction was, how all right? 256 00:13:11,860 --> 00:13:12,820 Are you all right? 257 00:13:13,220 --> 00:13:18,460 And she said, well, a man ran a red light and smacked into the 258 00:13:18,460 --> 00:13:21,630 car, but I'm okay, but could you come down and help? 259 00:13:22,110 --> 00:13:25,590 And so I immediately ran down and got in the other car and I drove 260 00:13:25,590 --> 00:13:28,910 where she was at, looked her up and down, she was fine, the guy 261 00:13:28,910 --> 00:13:29,630 was okay. 262 00:13:29,950 --> 00:13:33,030 And then I began and looked over at that car, that car we had 263 00:13:33,030 --> 00:13:37,030 prayed over, that car that we were going to use for Lord, I began 264 00:13:37,030 --> 00:13:37,790 to have a party. 265 00:13:38,430 --> 00:13:39,950 You ever been to one of those parties? 266 00:13:40,270 --> 00:13:41,870 It's always a party of one. 267 00:13:42,670 --> 00:13:43,790 It's called a pity party. 268 00:13:43,790 --> 00:13:44,670 Oh, you've been there. 269 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:49,560 And so I began going, why begin, you know, lord, we did this 270 00:13:49,560 --> 00:13:50,120 for you. 271 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:51,240 We bought this for you. 272 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:51,720 Why? 273 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:56,840 And some Bible verses began to jump into my mind. 274 00:13:56,840 --> 00:13:57,960 Galatians 6. 275 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:05,120 For the Bible says, for I bear in my body the marks the impact of 276 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:06,120 the Lord Jesus. 277 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:10,200 Paul had stated earlier, I am crucified. 278 00:14:11,070 --> 00:14:14,350 I am impacted with Christ. 279 00:14:14,350 --> 00:14:15,310 Nevertheless, I live. 280 00:14:15,310 --> 00:14:17,630 Yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. 281 00:14:17,790 --> 00:14:21,990 And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith of 282 00:14:21,990 --> 00:14:23,430 the Son, of a God who loved me. 283 00:14:23,430 --> 00:14:28,110 I like that part and gave himself for me from the Shema and 284 00:14:28,110 --> 00:14:28,590 shadows. 285 00:14:28,590 --> 00:14:29,430 Well, let's learn like this. 286 00:14:29,430 --> 00:14:33,070 I like a testimony that teaches and preaches as well as testimony. 287 00:14:33,070 --> 00:14:36,550 Turn with me to the book of Deuteronomy and we're going to begin 288 00:14:36,550 --> 00:14:38,680 chapter six real quickly. 289 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:44,040 And I want you to see this in Deuteronomy, because this is the 290 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:49,480 foundation of the Jewish faith and it's what will help us to understand 291 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:53,960 how Jewish people see and think things. 292 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:57,240 So we're in Deuteronomy chapter 6. 293 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:00,600 It's a verse of Scripture that you're well known. 294 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:02,160 It's in verse four. 295 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:03,400 Deuteronomy, chapter six. 296 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:04,240 Now stay with me. 297 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:05,160 Now look at the verse. 298 00:15:05,650 --> 00:15:06,490 Follow along with me. 299 00:15:06,490 --> 00:15:07,650 Let me quote it for you. 300 00:15:07,810 --> 00:15:09,890 Deuteronomy, chapter 6, verse 4. 301 00:15:09,890 --> 00:15:15,570 The Bible says Shema yisroel adonoheinu ad. 302 00:15:16,610 --> 00:15:18,130 Why are y' all looking at me so funny? 303 00:15:19,410 --> 00:15:20,690 Doesn't your Bible say that? 304 00:15:21,249 --> 00:15:22,290 Well, sure it does. 305 00:15:22,530 --> 00:15:25,890 I just quoted in Hebrew and you're looking at the English. 306 00:15:25,890 --> 00:15:27,810 Okay, I'll say it in English so you can follow along. 307 00:15:27,890 --> 00:15:29,170 The first word is Shema. 308 00:15:29,250 --> 00:15:30,530 Here it's command. 309 00:15:31,580 --> 00:15:37,460 Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord, and thou shalt love 310 00:15:37,460 --> 00:15:42,980 the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with 311 00:15:42,980 --> 00:15:43,980 all thy might. 312 00:15:44,380 --> 00:15:48,220 From the Shema and the shadows, Jesus dealt with this verse 313 00:15:48,220 --> 00:15:49,660 of Deuteronomy chapter 6. 314 00:15:50,060 --> 00:15:52,060 So turn with me to Matthew 22. 315 00:15:52,780 --> 00:15:55,580 I want you to see how Jesus dealt with this verse. 316 00:15:55,980 --> 00:15:59,100 Because it's the foundation of monotheism. 317 00:15:59,740 --> 00:16:04,460 It's the teaching of understanding that there is one Lord. 318 00:16:04,700 --> 00:16:08,300 And that's the key doctrine, that the triunity of the Godhead 319 00:16:08,300 --> 00:16:11,180 is the most important doctrine of all doctrines. 320 00:16:11,740 --> 00:16:13,580 You lose the Trinity, you lose everything. 321 00:16:14,140 --> 00:16:22,380 And so During Matthew chapter 22, Jesus speaks to the certain groups 322 00:16:22,460 --> 00:16:27,070 and I have to do something to teach on this Matthew 22. 323 00:16:27,070 --> 00:16:28,430 So let me do it this way. 324 00:16:29,230 --> 00:16:31,750 I have to split the church for just for a second. 325 00:16:31,750 --> 00:16:39,550 I'll bring you back together and I'll make this side be the Sadducees. 326 00:16:40,270 --> 00:16:43,390 If you didn't know it, they were the liberal of that time period. 327 00:16:43,390 --> 00:16:44,430 They were the liberals. 328 00:16:44,750 --> 00:16:46,990 And I normally put someone with a beard. 329 00:16:46,990 --> 00:16:48,230 Gentleman over there has got a beard. 330 00:16:48,230 --> 00:16:49,870 I Pick someone with a beard over there. 331 00:16:49,950 --> 00:16:51,470 You don't have to go up and do anything. 332 00:16:51,470 --> 00:16:51,750 But. 333 00:16:51,900 --> 00:16:55,900 But this is the Pharisees, and one's got to have a beard. 334 00:16:55,900 --> 00:16:58,500 And we'll talk about that gentleman, just not him personally, 335 00:16:58,500 --> 00:16:59,900 but the Bible gentleman. 336 00:16:59,900 --> 00:17:01,420 But I got to point someone out. 337 00:17:01,580 --> 00:17:02,620 But anyhow. 338 00:17:02,780 --> 00:17:06,540 And Jesus is talking to the Sadducees in Matthew 22. 339 00:17:07,900 --> 00:17:12,540 He is not physically but spiritually slapping them upside 340 00:17:12,540 --> 00:17:13,020 the head. 341 00:17:13,580 --> 00:17:20,560 I mean, look what it says in Matthew 22 when it says verse 28, 342 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:23,920 therefore in the resurrection, whose wife shall she be of the 7? 343 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:25,520 For they all had her. 344 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:28,360 And so they're asking about the resurrection, which. 345 00:17:28,360 --> 00:17:31,200 The Sadducees didn't believe in a resurrection. 346 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:33,160 So they want to know who he is. 347 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:35,760 If he's with our group, are you with the other group? 348 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:37,760 And they thought they had him. 349 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:43,480 And in verse 29, Jesus answered and said to them, ye do 350 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:46,270 err not knowing the Scriptures. 351 00:17:46,510 --> 00:17:50,030 And who likes to be told that you did something in error? 352 00:17:50,990 --> 00:17:52,430 I mean, you, you. 353 00:17:52,750 --> 00:17:55,310 Someone says, do you realize you did something wrong? 354 00:17:55,550 --> 00:17:58,070 You said something wrong, you taught something wrong, you said 355 00:17:58,070 --> 00:17:58,350 so. 356 00:17:58,350 --> 00:17:59,230 No one likes that. 357 00:17:59,390 --> 00:18:00,430 And that's bad. 358 00:18:01,230 --> 00:18:01,950 What's worse? 359 00:18:01,950 --> 00:18:05,550 Then he says, not only do you err knowing the Scriptures, nor the 360 00:18:05,550 --> 00:18:07,150 power of God. 361 00:18:08,350 --> 00:18:08,830 Wow. 362 00:18:09,070 --> 00:18:11,910 In other words, you don't know the Bible and you don't know the 363 00:18:11,910 --> 00:18:12,830 God of the Bible. 364 00:18:13,610 --> 00:18:15,370 I mean, can you slap somebody harder? 365 00:18:15,850 --> 00:18:17,770 I mean, that's about as bad as it gets. 366 00:18:18,170 --> 00:18:19,570 And he explains what happens. 367 00:18:19,570 --> 00:18:21,770 And we'll not go into that, for that's a different message. 368 00:18:22,010 --> 00:18:25,210 But while Jesus is talking to the Sadducees like this, showing 369 00:18:25,210 --> 00:18:28,929 them up, this group over here, they're looking at Jesus and they're 370 00:18:28,929 --> 00:18:30,810 going, yeah, I don't like that group either. 371 00:18:31,370 --> 00:18:33,370 Of course they don't like Jesus, but that's okay. 372 00:18:33,370 --> 00:18:35,810 And as a matter of fact, they're glad Jesus is putting them 373 00:18:35,810 --> 00:18:36,330 to shame. 374 00:18:36,890 --> 00:18:39,010 And there's one over there, our dear friend with the beard there. 375 00:18:39,010 --> 00:18:40,370 You didn't know about this guy. 376 00:18:40,370 --> 00:18:45,010 This guy has his ba, his bs, his thm, thd, and all sorts of books. 377 00:18:45,010 --> 00:18:46,730 He was a teacher of the teachers back then. 378 00:18:46,890 --> 00:18:48,410 And this guy was brilliant. 379 00:18:48,810 --> 00:18:51,210 He was one of those professors that just knew everything. 380 00:18:51,850 --> 00:18:53,370 You ever had one like that in school? 381 00:18:55,610 --> 00:18:58,130 And so he comes up to speak to Jesus. 382 00:18:58,130 --> 00:18:59,130 I mean, he's gone. 383 00:18:59,610 --> 00:19:02,010 He's going to put everything in proper perspective. 384 00:19:02,330 --> 00:19:03,450 And he's done this before. 385 00:19:03,610 --> 00:19:05,050 He's one of these type of teachers. 386 00:19:05,050 --> 00:19:07,850 Maybe you had one like this before who loves to put people to 387 00:19:07,850 --> 00:19:08,250 shame. 388 00:19:09,820 --> 00:19:11,420 Ask A question that can't be answered. 389 00:19:11,740 --> 00:19:12,940 You know, can. 390 00:19:12,940 --> 00:19:15,980 Can God make a stone that's so heavy even he can't pick it up? 391 00:19:15,980 --> 00:19:16,780 Something like that. 392 00:19:17,100 --> 00:19:22,500 And so the Pharisees had heard that he put the Sadducees to silence. 393 00:19:22,500 --> 00:19:25,699 They're gathered together, and then one of them, which was a lawyer, 394 00:19:25,699 --> 00:19:26,820 and a lawyer means speaking. 395 00:19:26,820 --> 00:19:28,700 Someone taught the law of Moses. 396 00:19:28,700 --> 00:19:29,740 He would have a beard. 397 00:19:29,740 --> 00:19:30,620 And he would be. 398 00:19:30,620 --> 00:19:34,380 For good luck, he would be rubbing his beard like this. 399 00:19:34,620 --> 00:19:38,190 And I can see him just look back to his group going, I got this. 400 00:19:38,990 --> 00:19:42,270 And it says, Scriptures, then says, he says to Jesus. 401 00:19:42,830 --> 00:19:45,350 And then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, 402 00:19:45,350 --> 00:19:50,590 tempted him and saying, master, which is the great commandment 403 00:19:50,590 --> 00:19:51,230 in the law. 404 00:19:51,790 --> 00:19:53,710 Now, how many laws were in the Bible? 405 00:19:55,310 --> 00:19:56,510 Well, you know, the 10. 406 00:19:58,270 --> 00:19:59,470 Anybody want to say more? 407 00:20:00,830 --> 00:20:02,670 613, to be exact. 408 00:20:03,070 --> 00:20:06,510 But you know, the 10 he's asking, which is the great commandment? 409 00:20:07,150 --> 00:20:08,910 Which is the great commandment of law? 410 00:20:09,390 --> 00:20:12,830 Typical rabbinical response would have been, well, honor thy 411 00:20:12,830 --> 00:20:13,710 mother and father. 412 00:20:14,110 --> 00:20:15,790 But that wasn't the proper one. 413 00:20:16,190 --> 00:20:20,430 And Jesus, understanding what's going on here, pulls back 414 00:20:20,430 --> 00:20:24,150 to Deuteronomy, chapter 6, where he says, thou shalt love the 415 00:20:24,150 --> 00:20:28,430 Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with 416 00:20:28,430 --> 00:20:29,390 all thy mind. 417 00:20:29,890 --> 00:20:31,890 This is the first and great commandment. 418 00:20:32,290 --> 00:20:37,010 Now, have you ever had someone ask you a question and they're really 419 00:20:37,010 --> 00:20:40,890 not waiting for you to answer, they're just waiting for you to take 420 00:20:40,890 --> 00:20:41,410 a breath? 421 00:20:42,050 --> 00:20:44,930 And as soon as you take the breath, they go, let me tell you 422 00:20:44,930 --> 00:20:45,890 what the real answer is. 423 00:20:46,130 --> 00:20:47,170 You're not going to get it. 424 00:20:47,650 --> 00:20:49,090 And that's what's going on here. 425 00:20:50,450 --> 00:20:52,330 He's just waiting for Jesus to take the breath. 426 00:20:52,330 --> 00:20:53,730 And I think it's fascinating. 427 00:20:54,210 --> 00:20:58,380 And you guys English majors, never start a sentence with a conjunction 428 00:20:58,380 --> 00:21:00,660 because verse 39 says, and. 429 00:21:00,820 --> 00:21:04,420 And I can just picture in my mind, because Jesus knows what he's 430 00:21:04,420 --> 00:21:05,140 wanting to say. 431 00:21:05,700 --> 00:21:12,020 And he says, and the second is likened it, thou shall love thy neighbor 432 00:21:12,020 --> 00:21:12,980 as thyself. 433 00:21:13,940 --> 00:21:17,540 And then I can just see that lawyer, that scholar thinks he knows 434 00:21:17,540 --> 00:21:17,860 everything. 435 00:21:17,860 --> 00:21:21,100 All of a sudden, his mouth dropping open, going, I never heard 436 00:21:21,100 --> 00:21:21,540 this before. 437 00:21:23,090 --> 00:21:26,930 Then Jesus nails it shut, so to speak, when he says in verse 40, 438 00:21:26,930 --> 00:21:33,410 on these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. 439 00:21:33,570 --> 00:21:36,530 Your relationship with God, Verse four. 440 00:21:37,410 --> 00:21:38,009 Relationship. 441 00:21:38,009 --> 00:21:40,130 Your fellow man, by the way, I won't go. 442 00:21:40,130 --> 00:21:42,010 Time to go first John 4. 443 00:21:42,010 --> 00:21:45,970 But if you're not right with your fellow men, fellow believers, 444 00:21:46,850 --> 00:21:50,030 I don't care how much you read your Bible, I Don't care how much 445 00:21:50,030 --> 00:21:51,910 you pray, you're not right with God. 446 00:21:52,230 --> 00:21:53,590 Go read First John 4. 447 00:21:55,750 --> 00:21:57,310 It's you've got to be it. 448 00:21:57,310 --> 00:22:00,390 Show what your relationship with God's got to be shown your relationship 449 00:22:00,390 --> 00:22:00,870 with others. 450 00:22:01,110 --> 00:22:03,350 And as everybody knows, there's always some in the church 451 00:22:03,350 --> 00:22:06,150 that are hard to get along with and you have to learn to love 452 00:22:06,150 --> 00:22:06,470 them. 453 00:22:07,350 --> 00:22:09,590 So we see the Shema and the shadows. 454 00:22:09,590 --> 00:22:11,750 Shadows Speaking of Hebrews, chapter 10. 455 00:22:11,910 --> 00:22:17,170 For the law having a shadow of good things to come and not the very 456 00:22:17,170 --> 00:22:17,930 image of things. 457 00:22:17,930 --> 00:22:21,250 The purpose of the Mosaic Law was to bring you to the Christ. 458 00:22:21,250 --> 00:22:22,450 It's your schoolmaster. 459 00:22:22,450 --> 00:22:27,010 Galatians says, I was raised in a concert Orthodox Jewish home. 460 00:22:27,730 --> 00:22:33,410 My brother was a rabbi, Orthodox labavich Rabbi, you say? 461 00:22:33,410 --> 00:22:34,370 Well, what does that mean? 462 00:22:34,370 --> 00:22:37,250 Well, we would call that from the New Testament Pharisee. 463 00:22:37,250 --> 00:22:38,610 Of course they don't use that word. 464 00:22:38,930 --> 00:22:40,890 But he was an orthodox rabbi. 465 00:22:40,890 --> 00:22:49,760 He died in and during COVID and my dad at one time had thoughts 466 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:51,000 about being a rabbi. 467 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:57,280 My mother was a secretary at a synagogue and my sister, and it's 468 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:03,120 only my sister who's living today, she's been a principal of 469 00:23:03,120 --> 00:23:05,400 a Jewish day school for many years. 470 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,920 And so I was raised in a consular Orthodox Jewish home. 471 00:23:09,110 --> 00:23:10,300 And at the age of 13. 472 00:23:10,300 --> 00:23:11,980 You have any 13 year olds here? 473 00:23:12,620 --> 00:23:13,820 Any 13 year olds? 474 00:23:14,620 --> 00:23:18,020 Well, at the age of 13 you're probably in the children's thing, 475 00:23:18,020 --> 00:23:21,660 but at the age of 13 you have what's called a bar mitzvah. 476 00:23:22,060 --> 00:23:25,700 And so at the age of 13 you would actually come up in front of 477 00:23:25,700 --> 00:23:29,260 the synagogue and you would read from the Torah and then you 478 00:23:29,260 --> 00:23:31,100 would preach a message. 479 00:23:31,580 --> 00:23:34,860 But the good news, just as my wife gave me a message, gives me 480 00:23:34,860 --> 00:23:35,500 my messages. 481 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:38,960 No, not really, but they did give me my message when I was 13. 482 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:42,320 It was based on Psalms 119, 105. 483 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:46,880 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. 484 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:51,520 I was soon to find out who that lamp was that shineth the light. 485 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:59,360 See, despite all my religious upbringing as a Jew, despite all 486 00:23:59,360 --> 00:24:02,400 that, I had the God, little God of America. 487 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:03,880 What is that? 488 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:08,440 Well, it happens every Sunday during NFL sports. 489 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:10,280 People love their sports. 490 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:15,400 It is a religion when someone hits a home run or wins a game on 491 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:20,040 last play, people actually in the stands doing like that, worshiping 492 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:22,800 those, they worship what they do and everything they say and they 493 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:24,520 go on commercials and things like that. 494 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,080 And I had that God as a kid. 495 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:33,280 When I was young, I didn't smoke, I didn't drink, I didn't do 496 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:33,640 drugs. 497 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:36,920 Not because I thought I was wrong, because I thought I couldn't 498 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:37,680 play sports. 499 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:39,760 See, I excelled in sports. 500 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:43,120 Now you might be looking at me going now, brother Sabuloski, Really? 501 00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:45,040 You thought you were going to play football? 502 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:50,560 Well, when you're 13, 14, 15 years of age. 503 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:53,920 And back then I was tall, thin and handsome. 504 00:24:55,050 --> 00:24:56,050 What are y' all laughing at? 505 00:24:56,050 --> 00:24:56,890 Hurt my feelings. 506 00:24:57,130 --> 00:24:59,930 Okay, when you get to be my age, you're short, fat and dumpy. 507 00:25:00,090 --> 00:25:02,810 But you'll understand that when you get to be my age. 508 00:25:03,130 --> 00:25:08,210 And so anyway, I was gonna play pro sports, get that million 509 00:25:08,210 --> 00:25:10,250 dollar contract and see how long ago that was. 510 00:25:10,970 --> 00:25:12,610 But it was everything to me. 511 00:25:12,610 --> 00:25:17,690 Matter of fact, I got hurt one game, homecoming game. 512 00:25:18,170 --> 00:25:19,130 And the. 513 00:25:21,140 --> 00:25:25,580 My mom had come up at the hospital and there was a girl who 514 00:25:25,580 --> 00:25:30,180 was a girl I was dating at the time, without my parents knowledge 515 00:25:30,180 --> 00:25:36,420 and permission, asked me, who is that girl in the waiting room? 516 00:25:37,060 --> 00:25:41,860 And I said, I don't know, mom, she must be a fan or something, come 517 00:25:41,860 --> 00:25:42,820 up with a quick lie. 518 00:25:43,460 --> 00:25:47,000 But it was sports was everything to me. 519 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:51,880 So from the shema here to listen to what God's word is, shadows 520 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:54,400 the coming of Christ to Shiloh. 521 00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:57,280 Shiloh found in Genesis 49. 522 00:25:57,440 --> 00:25:58,560 We've got to hurry. 523 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:01,840 Says who is that brings peace? 524 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:07,360 Ezekiel also says as well, Shiloh is the one that brings shalom, 525 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:09,760 which is, as I said earlier, peace. 526 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:15,300 And so everything in my life at one time was going great until 527 00:26:15,300 --> 00:26:16,100 it wasn't. 528 00:26:16,340 --> 00:26:17,620 I was hurt again. 529 00:26:18,180 --> 00:26:21,420 And the doctor looked at me and said, phil, if you were 6 foot 530 00:26:21,420 --> 00:26:26,100 1, 220, a first round draft choice, I'd strap you up and send 531 00:26:26,100 --> 00:26:26,700 you back out. 532 00:26:26,700 --> 00:26:31,540 But you're five foot five at that time, 150, it's time you get 533 00:26:31,540 --> 00:26:33,620 another profession, another. 534 00:26:35,300 --> 00:26:36,740 You should be doing something else. 535 00:26:37,550 --> 00:26:41,310 And so everything I built my young life on was on sports now is 536 00:26:41,310 --> 00:26:41,710 gone. 537 00:26:42,190 --> 00:26:43,870 So I did what every good Jew does. 538 00:26:44,190 --> 00:26:46,670 I began going back into the synagogue. 539 00:26:46,990 --> 00:26:50,590 I began going through all the rituals that the synagogue requires. 540 00:26:50,990 --> 00:26:56,350 And I come to find out that religion will make you look better. 541 00:26:56,830 --> 00:26:58,670 It will make you look good on the outside. 542 00:26:59,310 --> 00:27:02,630 You can have the short hair, carry the Bible, wear the proper 543 00:27:02,630 --> 00:27:05,550 clothes and all say the right words and it will make you look good 544 00:27:05,550 --> 00:27:09,470 on the outside, but it cannot change an inward heart. 545 00:27:10,670 --> 00:27:11,790 That's what religion does. 546 00:27:11,790 --> 00:27:13,550 It makes you look good just on the outside. 547 00:27:16,430 --> 00:27:21,870 So I was empty in that respect, couldn't play sports. 548 00:27:22,190 --> 00:27:26,270 And that girl that I was dating, she was the first person 549 00:27:26,270 --> 00:27:28,030 to ever tell me about Jesus. 550 00:27:28,830 --> 00:27:29,710 Can you imagine that? 551 00:27:29,710 --> 00:27:34,000 This is in America, this is where the Gospels around every corner, 552 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:35,360 especially in the southern state. 553 00:27:35,360 --> 00:27:36,560 We lived in Florida. 554 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:42,400 There were 25 churches within a 25 mile or 30 mile radius of our 555 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:42,720 house. 556 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:45,200 And you had never heard the gospel. 557 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:49,760 Typically, most Jews don't hear the gospel today unless you 558 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:50,560 bring it to them. 559 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:56,960 She was the first one to tell me about Isaiah 7:14, Micah 5, 2, 560 00:27:58,060 --> 00:27:59,180 Isaiah 53. 561 00:27:59,740 --> 00:28:03,820 I did what any typical Jew does when you talk about the Bible. 562 00:28:04,220 --> 00:28:09,500 I went and said, rabbi, what do these verses mean? 563 00:28:10,380 --> 00:28:14,580 He looked at me and said, chayim, my Hebrew name is Chayim 564 00:28:14,580 --> 00:28:18,940 Dov I ben Alteram Yaakov, or just call me Brother Phil and I'll 565 00:28:18,940 --> 00:28:19,820 still come to eat. 566 00:28:20,540 --> 00:28:25,780 But he said, chaim, you must understand the Old Testament. 567 00:28:25,780 --> 00:28:28,060 Jews don't like to call the Bible Old Testament. 568 00:28:28,060 --> 00:28:29,380 Who likes to be called Old. 569 00:28:29,860 --> 00:28:33,740 And so they'll call it the Hebrew Scriptures, they'll call it 570 00:28:33,740 --> 00:28:34,740 the Tanakh. 571 00:28:35,460 --> 00:28:41,740 And he said the Tanakh is for the Jew and the New Testament, that's 572 00:28:41,740 --> 00:28:42,820 for the Gentiles. 573 00:28:44,100 --> 00:28:45,780 And he turned around and walked away. 574 00:28:46,740 --> 00:28:52,420 I began doing something that was so important, began reading the 575 00:28:52,420 --> 00:28:53,220 Word of God. 576 00:28:54,100 --> 00:28:57,620 The Word of God is what is more powerful than any two edged 577 00:28:57,620 --> 00:28:58,100 sword. 578 00:28:58,340 --> 00:29:02,180 It's the word of God that does more than our stories and our thought 579 00:29:02,180 --> 00:29:05,780 processes and our philosophical viewpoints. 580 00:29:06,099 --> 00:29:07,180 It's the word of God. 581 00:29:07,180 --> 00:29:11,660 You want to get someone who's lost to hear what the Scriptures 582 00:29:11,660 --> 00:29:12,180 were saying. 583 00:29:12,500 --> 00:29:17,550 And so I began reading the Bible and I finally came at the end 584 00:29:17,550 --> 00:29:21,230 of almost a year of reading the Bible, came to the conclusion 585 00:29:22,190 --> 00:29:25,550 that Jesus was a promised Messiah. 586 00:29:26,190 --> 00:29:27,070 Isn't that nice? 587 00:29:28,430 --> 00:29:30,190 But what does that got to do with me? 588 00:29:31,070 --> 00:29:32,109 I'm a Jew. 589 00:29:32,590 --> 00:29:36,030 The Bible says the Jew is the apple of God's eye. 590 00:29:36,590 --> 00:29:37,950 And you know what that is. 591 00:29:38,750 --> 00:29:42,690 Talk about your grandkids, great grandkids, talk about your 592 00:29:42,690 --> 00:29:43,090 wife. 593 00:29:43,250 --> 00:29:45,570 They're the apple of your eye and that's why Israel. 594 00:29:45,570 --> 00:29:47,650 And so I, I didn't see the connection. 595 00:29:48,370 --> 00:29:50,210 And so I put the Bible down. 596 00:29:50,210 --> 00:29:54,410 School started back up and there was a couple students that 597 00:29:54,410 --> 00:29:58,810 were talking about, we were in at school there. 598 00:29:58,810 --> 00:30:01,370 When I went there, the school started back up and I heard two guys 599 00:30:01,370 --> 00:30:05,330 talking and I heard one of the guys talking to the other one who 600 00:30:05,330 --> 00:30:06,530 I played sports with. 601 00:30:06,610 --> 00:30:10,890 And they were going to go see a man by the name of Nicky Cruz. 602 00:30:11,690 --> 00:30:13,250 And a cross and a switchblade. 603 00:30:13,250 --> 00:30:15,450 How many have ever heard of Nikki Cruz? 604 00:30:15,690 --> 00:30:16,810 Cross and switchblade. 605 00:30:16,810 --> 00:30:19,050 See a hand or two for you that don't know it. 606 00:30:19,690 --> 00:30:23,370 Back in the late 60s, a preacher went to the gangs of New 607 00:30:23,370 --> 00:30:27,890 York and won after putting his life on the line. 608 00:30:27,890 --> 00:30:32,330 He was witnessing to the gangs and he put his and he ended up leading 609 00:30:32,490 --> 00:30:34,570 the worst of the worst named Nikki Cruz. 610 00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:38,800 They made a movie out of his life story. 611 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,600 I said Nikki Cruz, the Cross and the Switchblade. 612 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:45,120 You mean it's true? 613 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,960 Now you might be saying, well how would I know who Nikki Cruz is? 614 00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:52,560 Well, God always plants his seed. 615 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:57,800 A year earlier, before I got hurt, back when I was a captain of 616 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:04,260 the undefeated junior varsity football team, I had an English class 617 00:31:04,260 --> 00:31:06,820 and the teacher, I need some help from you younger people here, 618 00:31:06,820 --> 00:31:07,300 okay? 619 00:31:08,100 --> 00:31:12,060 I was in class and the teacher asked how many you would like to 620 00:31:12,060 --> 00:31:14,260 get out of school to go see a movie. 621 00:31:14,260 --> 00:31:14,980 Raise your hand. 622 00:31:15,940 --> 00:31:18,340 What self respecting kid would not say yes? 623 00:31:18,740 --> 00:31:20,980 And of course did it matter what the movie was? 624 00:31:21,220 --> 00:31:21,620 No. 625 00:31:21,940 --> 00:31:24,660 And so we went to see the Cross and Switchblade. 626 00:31:24,740 --> 00:31:27,460 Now it was public school, don't know how they allowed to do 627 00:31:27,460 --> 00:31:28,260 that, but they did. 628 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:35,040 And so we went and I thought it was just a nice story, didn't 629 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:38,600 think anything of it, didn't even come to my mind until that very 630 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:43,320 moment where I had been hurt, could not play sports football any 631 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:43,840 longer. 632 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:49,520 And my whole life has been turned upside down and told about 633 00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:50,080 the gospel. 634 00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:53,760 Began reading the word of God and oh, just by happen chance I walk 635 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:57,430 in, I'm teasing there, they're talking about Nikki Cruz. 636 00:31:57,750 --> 00:31:58,790 And I said it's real. 637 00:31:58,790 --> 00:31:59,750 And they said yes. 638 00:32:00,790 --> 00:32:02,790 I said you're going to hear him speak? 639 00:32:02,790 --> 00:32:03,190 Yes. 640 00:32:04,150 --> 00:32:05,750 And I guess I didn't know it. 641 00:32:05,750 --> 00:32:09,430 The, the one guy who I played on sports team was a pk. 642 00:32:09,430 --> 00:32:11,350 I didn't know that preacher's kid. 643 00:32:11,590 --> 00:32:13,670 And he looked at me and said would you like to come? 644 00:32:13,670 --> 00:32:15,830 And I said well where are you meeting? 645 00:32:16,310 --> 00:32:17,830 He said well we're going to meet at the church. 646 00:32:17,830 --> 00:32:19,830 I said no, not going to get in one of them places. 647 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:24,760 See I heard about churches, people rolling down the aisle, bats 648 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:25,440 flying around. 649 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:28,680 You may laugh, but I was at church. 650 00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:32,600 My wife will verify we were at church in Oklahoma, had just preached, 651 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:34,800 went in the back room talking to some of the people with my books 652 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:35,840 and other things like that. 653 00:32:35,919 --> 00:32:40,000 And all of a sudden we heard a kapow pastor walked around with a 654 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,680 gun and he had a bat problem coming out of the baptistry. 655 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:47,120 And so I guess you can have bats come around. 656 00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:49,920 But anyhow I said now you're not going to get me one of them places. 657 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,480 And they said well we're just going to meet at the church and we're 658 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,200 going to take a bus from St. Petersburg, Florida to Clearwater, 659 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:55,680 Florida. 660 00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:57,840 There's a Coliseum, we can go there. 661 00:32:58,080 --> 00:32:59,720 And I said, okay, I can do that. 662 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:03,760 And so I went that Friday night to the Coliseum, to the church. 663 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,240 And by the bus we went to see Coliseum. 664 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:07,160 They were good Baptists. 665 00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:08,000 They got there late. 666 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:11,920 It was so packed out that you couldn't hear in the auditorium. 667 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,360 So they had a side room that had closed circuit TV. 668 00:33:16,070 --> 00:33:17,670 This is 1972. 669 00:33:18,390 --> 00:33:19,750 That's a long time ago. 670 00:33:20,150 --> 00:33:22,310 And so Closed circuit was high tech. 671 00:33:22,710 --> 00:33:24,870 And so he was already preaching. 672 00:33:25,590 --> 00:33:28,150 And I listened him preach. 673 00:33:28,710 --> 00:33:34,470 And Nicky Cruz talked about how that Paul had said in the Bible 674 00:33:34,470 --> 00:33:36,550 that he was the chief of sinners. 675 00:33:36,950 --> 00:33:37,990 Paul said that? 676 00:33:38,310 --> 00:33:42,280 And Nikki Cruz said, well, if he is a chief of sinners, then he, 677 00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:44,600 Nicky Cruz, was second in command. 678 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:48,800 And that's when I realized that though I was a Jew, the apple 679 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:54,360 of God's eye, that if Nicky was second, I must be third. 680 00:33:54,760 --> 00:34:00,800 The death of my sin drove me to the front, went forward and realized 681 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:04,960 now I know why I need a savior, the Messiah, because of my 682 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:07,240 sin and accepted Christ as my savior. 683 00:34:08,130 --> 00:34:08,690 That night. 684 00:34:09,170 --> 00:34:13,490 Well, we went home and began wanting to come to church. 685 00:34:13,890 --> 00:34:14,290 Why? 686 00:34:15,170 --> 00:34:16,770 Why would I want to go to church? 687 00:34:17,010 --> 00:34:19,170 Because that's where the word of God is taught. 688 00:34:19,410 --> 00:34:21,090 That's where I meet God. 689 00:34:21,090 --> 00:34:25,090 And when I'm studying the word and being guided to understand it. 690 00:34:25,570 --> 00:34:27,090 That's why I wanted to go there. 691 00:34:27,730 --> 00:34:31,770 But I knew I couldn't walk out in a suit, tie and that kind of stuff. 692 00:34:31,770 --> 00:34:35,820 So I wore jeans and a T shirt, drove around the corner, then changed 693 00:34:35,820 --> 00:34:39,900 clothes and then went to the church for the first time, scared 694 00:34:39,900 --> 00:34:40,260 to death. 695 00:34:40,260 --> 00:34:41,460 I'm 16 years old. 696 00:34:41,940 --> 00:34:43,060 Any ushers here? 697 00:34:43,700 --> 00:34:46,300 You don't know who's going to walk through those doors on any given 698 00:34:46,300 --> 00:34:46,660 Sunday. 699 00:34:47,540 --> 00:34:50,780 I got there and I was going to leave the car running because I thought 700 00:34:50,780 --> 00:34:52,260 if they start chasing me, I could. 701 00:34:52,340 --> 00:34:55,780 I'd run to the car and I can get away pretty quick. 702 00:34:55,780 --> 00:34:57,460 I was in good condition back then. 703 00:34:57,780 --> 00:35:00,660 But I thought, no, someone might steal if I leave the car on. 704 00:35:01,050 --> 00:35:01,810 So it was dad's car. 705 00:35:01,810 --> 00:35:04,650 And so I cut it off, locked it up, made my escape route. 706 00:35:04,730 --> 00:35:07,450 If they touch my car, I'll have dad call the police. 707 00:35:08,010 --> 00:35:09,530 And so I go walking in again. 708 00:35:09,530 --> 00:35:11,770 I'm making a good Baptist because I'm coming late. 709 00:35:12,810 --> 00:35:18,050 And I come into the auditorium and just as I open the door, scared 710 00:35:18,050 --> 00:35:22,010 to death, I step in some over ancient usher comes running up going, 711 00:35:22,010 --> 00:35:24,850 hello brother, it sure is good seeing you. 712 00:35:24,850 --> 00:35:25,410 We are praying. 713 00:35:25,410 --> 00:35:29,429 You will be this morning, man, if I had been a catch, I'd been on 714 00:35:29,429 --> 00:35:31,229 the roof, scared me to death. 715 00:35:32,509 --> 00:35:36,829 Ushers, don't be too anxious, just appreciate, say a nice voice. 716 00:35:36,909 --> 00:35:38,749 16 year old kid doesn't know what's going on. 717 00:35:38,989 --> 00:35:43,869 I came onto the church preacher, preached, he gave the invitation, 718 00:35:43,869 --> 00:35:46,309 said if you accepted Christ as your savior, you need to make it 719 00:35:46,309 --> 00:35:46,589 public. 720 00:35:46,989 --> 00:35:49,029 I don't understand these people that want to argue with the 721 00:35:49,029 --> 00:35:49,549 pastor. 722 00:35:49,629 --> 00:35:52,749 So I came forward, making public what happened in my life, 723 00:35:52,749 --> 00:35:55,669 began attending every time the door was open because I wanted to 724 00:35:55,669 --> 00:35:56,909 hear the word of God taught. 725 00:35:58,830 --> 00:36:05,470 Now, unbeknownst to me, my mom worked with a lady at that church. 726 00:36:05,550 --> 00:36:08,670 I was a member of that church and here I'm going all the time. 727 00:36:09,390 --> 00:36:12,190 Finally, after three months, the pastor came up, said, brother 728 00:36:12,190 --> 00:36:15,470 Savloski, we think it's time you get baptized showing the death, 729 00:36:15,470 --> 00:36:16,750 burial and resurrection of Christ. 730 00:36:16,750 --> 00:36:18,270 I said, yes sir, be glad to. 731 00:36:18,750 --> 00:36:21,310 And so that Sunday night I was gloriously baptized. 732 00:36:22,350 --> 00:36:26,330 And then that Monday morning, that lady looked at my mom and said, 733 00:36:26,330 --> 00:36:32,250 you know, we just enjoy your son coming to church every Sunday 734 00:36:33,370 --> 00:36:37,010 for the last three months and to see him get baptized last night 735 00:36:37,010 --> 00:36:37,650 was so great. 736 00:36:37,650 --> 00:36:39,530 We just love brother Phil. 737 00:36:41,450 --> 00:36:42,730 Don't get ahead of the story. 738 00:36:42,730 --> 00:36:43,690 I know it better. 739 00:36:45,130 --> 00:36:48,650 Now, you can read the book if you want, but I know the story better. 740 00:36:49,210 --> 00:36:54,200 And so that Monday I come home from school, first thing I noticed 741 00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:55,800 is my brother and sister weren't there. 742 00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:58,200 Second thing I noticed was dad was home. 743 00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:00,160 Dad never gets home at 3 o'. 744 00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:00,360 Clock. 745 00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:06,280 And so I opened the door, walk in and there was my mom and my dad. 746 00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:09,640 And they had gone through my dresser drawers looking as you would 747 00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:10,680 for drugs. 748 00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:13,160 And I had found my Bible, complete Bible. 749 00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:14,520 And they had on table. 750 00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:19,200 We had a nice discussion, a nice little calm, calm discussion. 751 00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:20,280 I'm being facetious here. 752 00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:22,720 No, they were screaming and yelling and all that stuff. 753 00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:25,040 And finally I was given the ultimatum. 754 00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:28,800 Either I renounced what I had done or I had to leave home. 755 00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:33,920 I'm 16 years old, just been saved three months. 756 00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:40,480 And so I remember walking out, not sure what to do and began praying. 757 00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:42,800 Someone asked me, well, what were you expecting? 758 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,440 I don't know, I haven't been saved that long, didn't know much 759 00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:45,800 Bible. 760 00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:47,760 Put a fleece out, Lord, you're going to have to show me. 761 00:37:48,460 --> 00:37:52,780 And so I went to the youth center and sat down where I played 762 00:37:52,780 --> 00:37:53,500 sports at. 763 00:37:53,500 --> 00:37:56,220 Felt something on my leg and felt something on my leg. 764 00:37:56,220 --> 00:37:59,820 I jumped up because it was getting dark now there was ants right 765 00:37:59,820 --> 00:38:00,140 there. 766 00:38:00,540 --> 00:38:03,300 And so I Go running away from them to the other side of the youth 767 00:38:03,300 --> 00:38:03,740 center. 768 00:38:04,380 --> 00:38:05,740 Sat there in another tree. 769 00:38:05,820 --> 00:38:07,660 Felt something in my leg again. 770 00:38:08,060 --> 00:38:12,700 I thought, man, I've got to get away from my antagonist and seek 771 00:38:12,700 --> 00:38:13,340 higher ground. 772 00:38:14,090 --> 00:38:15,210 And so there was a slide. 773 00:38:15,530 --> 00:38:16,610 And so I got on the slide. 774 00:38:16,610 --> 00:38:18,850 Now what it had done, it had taken me from one side of the youth 775 00:38:18,850 --> 00:38:21,690 center all the way to the other side by the parking lot. 776 00:38:22,250 --> 00:38:27,770 I hadn't been there very long when I heard somebody singing in 777 00:38:27,770 --> 00:38:28,570 the parking lot. 778 00:38:28,970 --> 00:38:34,010 I looked over, man, I saw this old man with a guitar singing. 779 00:38:34,330 --> 00:38:35,290 This guy was old. 780 00:38:35,450 --> 00:38:38,170 He had to be at least 40 years old. 781 00:38:39,700 --> 00:38:44,820 Now, we know that's young now, but when you're 16, 40 looks old. 782 00:38:45,220 --> 00:38:46,820 And so I walked up to him. 783 00:38:47,140 --> 00:38:49,060 Never said a word, just saw the clock here. 784 00:38:49,460 --> 00:38:54,500 I like this clock better, it's slower. 785 00:38:56,100 --> 00:39:03,060 And so I walked up to him and he was singing gospel songs which 786 00:39:03,060 --> 00:39:04,180 I'd never heard of. 787 00:39:04,420 --> 00:39:04,680 And. 788 00:39:04,910 --> 00:39:07,950 And finally he put the guitar down. 789 00:39:07,950 --> 00:39:11,590 He began telling his testimony that a year earlier he had gotten 790 00:39:11,590 --> 00:39:14,110 saved, accepted Christ as his savior. 791 00:39:14,510 --> 00:39:16,070 But his wife wasn't saved. 792 00:39:16,070 --> 00:39:19,630 And when things got difficult at home, he'd come to the youth center 793 00:39:19,630 --> 00:39:23,230 every blue moon, so to speak, and worship and praise the Lord and 794 00:39:23,230 --> 00:39:24,750 thank him for their salvation. 795 00:39:25,950 --> 00:39:27,390 I didn't say a word to the man. 796 00:39:27,870 --> 00:39:28,830 I just listened. 797 00:39:29,230 --> 00:39:32,590 And then I turned away and left to go back to the house. 798 00:39:32,750 --> 00:39:34,350 Because I knew that. 799 00:39:34,350 --> 00:39:35,790 I knew that. 800 00:39:35,790 --> 00:39:36,990 I knew that. 801 00:39:36,990 --> 00:39:42,350 I knew that what happened in my life was real. 802 00:39:42,830 --> 00:39:45,310 And he had saved my soul. 803 00:39:45,870 --> 00:39:48,510 The impact of the Scriptures. 804 00:39:49,390 --> 00:39:52,270 You got problems with your neighbors, you got problems with 805 00:39:52,270 --> 00:39:54,910 your friends, you got problems with politicians. 806 00:39:54,990 --> 00:39:59,040 If they get the gospel and get truly born again, you'll not have 807 00:39:59,040 --> 00:39:59,880 those problems. 808 00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:04,480 We have the answer to all that needs, from the shema and shadows 809 00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:07,760 of Shiloh and Shalom to finally to the sharing of the shaft 810 00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:10,120 of the olive tree with other grafted branches. 811 00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:11,640 It was difficult. 812 00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:13,400 I got saved. 813 00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:17,240 I understood I need to leave home. 814 00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:20,040 Borrowed the car and went on my own. 815 00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:24,710 The age of 16, went on to Bible college, met my wife because 816 00:40:24,710 --> 00:40:25,590 I got saved. 817 00:40:25,590 --> 00:40:26,830 We had two kids. 818 00:40:27,230 --> 00:40:29,550 They're both saved and serving God. 819 00:40:30,510 --> 00:40:34,910 My son has a master in theology. 820 00:40:35,950 --> 00:40:38,830 My daughter serves the Lord where she's at. 821 00:40:39,070 --> 00:40:41,070 I have five grandchildren. 822 00:40:41,390 --> 00:40:42,310 Let me tell you about that. 823 00:40:42,310 --> 00:40:42,910 Not now. 824 00:40:43,310 --> 00:40:44,510 Five grandchildren. 825 00:40:44,670 --> 00:40:46,910 And they're all saved, born again. 826 00:40:47,390 --> 00:40:52,110 Because as a 16 year old, someone presented the gospel to me 827 00:40:52,430 --> 00:40:54,510 and it changed my life. 828 00:40:54,590 --> 00:40:56,550 It impacted leaves. 829 00:40:56,550 --> 00:41:00,790 Brother, sister, mother and father, for my name's sake shall 830 00:41:00,790 --> 00:41:02,110 receive a hundredfold. 831 00:41:02,750 --> 00:41:06,510 Now, if you go into the Greek, the word hundredfold means thousand. 832 00:41:07,390 --> 00:41:08,190 No, it doesn't. 833 00:41:08,590 --> 00:41:11,070 It means a hundred, just like the translator said. 834 00:41:11,470 --> 00:41:12,990 But I believe I've been blessed. 835 00:41:12,990 --> 00:41:14,510 You understand why I'm coming with this. 836 00:41:14,510 --> 00:41:16,170 I've been blessed a thousand fold. 837 00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:18,800 Ministry that's been going for 33 years. 838 00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:23,720 A ministry of my children, grandchildren, all walking after 839 00:41:23,720 --> 00:41:28,680 righteous walking after the Lord, serving God, seeing people 840 00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:33,120 get saved, privileged to teach at Norris, seeing students get more 841 00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:36,360 understanding, learning the Bible from God's word. 842 00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:38,800 All because that's what the gospel does. 843 00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:40,960 With your head bowed and your eyes closed. 844 00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:44,560 As we go to invitation time, the musicians come to the front. 845 00:41:46,100 --> 00:41:49,780 We are both partakers, both the Jew and the Gentile. 846 00:41:49,780 --> 00:41:51,140 How does a Jew get saved? 847 00:41:51,460 --> 00:41:53,620 The same as a Gentile. 848 00:41:53,860 --> 00:41:58,660 Only through the death, burial and the resurrection of the shed 849 00:41:58,660 --> 00:42:02,820 blood of Jesus, who was a messiah prophesied in the Old Testament. 850 00:42:03,140 --> 00:42:05,380 Only through Christ can we get saved. 851 00:42:06,020 --> 00:42:09,860 This is a salvation that changes us forever. 852 00:42:10,830 --> 00:42:11,790 We're never the same. 853 00:42:12,590 --> 00:42:18,030 We're never going to walk the same paths as we did before. 854 00:42:20,110 --> 00:42:22,350 My family never got saved. 855 00:42:23,550 --> 00:42:27,950 I did what I could, the best I could, and it saddens me. 856 00:42:29,710 --> 00:42:30,990 We've got to do better. 857 00:42:31,710 --> 00:42:33,630 This church has got to do better. 858 00:42:33,950 --> 00:42:37,980 There are neighbors who live less than a half a mile away. 859 00:42:37,980 --> 00:42:39,340 They've never heard the gospel. 860 00:42:39,580 --> 00:42:42,420 They're busy living the life that the world says they need to 861 00:42:42,420 --> 00:42:42,700 live. 862 00:42:43,020 --> 00:42:45,900 We got family, we got relatives that are not saved. 863 00:42:46,620 --> 00:42:50,380 Oh, we need to reach our Jerusalem. 864 00:42:50,700 --> 00:42:53,860 We need supporting more missionaries so we can reach the 865 00:42:53,860 --> 00:42:54,140 world. 866 00:42:54,140 --> 00:42:55,340 The time is short. 867 00:42:55,740 --> 00:42:58,900 If we're going to do something for the cause of Christ, we need 868 00:42:58,900 --> 00:42:59,540 to do it now. 869 00:42:59,540 --> 00:43:01,580 Lord, impact at the invitation. 870 00:43:01,740 --> 00:43:05,100 In Jesus name I pray and with thanksgiving, Amen.