HE WAS DEFINITELY A

GOD-FEARING MAN, A

BELIEVING MAN, BUT HE WAS

NOT A SYNAGOGUE JEW.

Gordon: AFTER HIGH

SCHOOL, HE BROKE THE NEWS

TO HIS MOTHER: HE WANTED

TO BE A DOCTOR, NOT A

RABBI.

SO HE WENT TO THE SORBON

IN PARIS, WHERE HE STUDIED

MEDICINE, JEWISH HISTORY,

AND PHILOSOPHY.

HE ALSO DISCOVERED A

MOVEMENT THAT WOULD LATER

BE KNOWN AS ZIONISM.

THERE WAS NO ZIONISM AT

THE TIME.

HERZL WAS STILL 20 YEARS

AWAY FROM WRITING HIS

FAMOUS JEWISH STATE.

BUT LE EZIR WAS THERE, AND

HE WAS ADVOCATING FOR A

JEWISH STATE.

LET'S GO BACK THERE.

LET'S REESTABLISH

OURSELVES IN THAT LAND.

LET US REVIVE THE HEBREW,

WHICH IS THE LANGUAGE IN

WHICH GOD SPOKE TO US.

THEN WE WILL RESUME OUR

PROPER PLACE.

IN THE SCHEME

OF THINGS.

Gordon: BEN UHUDA'S

PLANS STOPPED WHEN HE

DEVELOPED TUBERCULOSIS.

HE WENT TO A CLINIC AND

THERE THE DOCTORS EXAMINED

HIM AND TOLD HIM THAT HE'S

DOOMED.

HE WILL NOT LIVE TO

CELEBRATE HIS NEXT

BIRTHDAY.

HE SAID, YOU BETTER MAKE

YOUR PEACE WITH THE WORLD

BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT GOING

TO LIVE LONG.

Gordon: AS HE FACED

THE IDEA OF DEATH, HE

REMEMBERED HIS VISION

SEVERAL YEARS EARLIER, OF

GOD CALLING HIM TO THE

PROMISED LAND.

THAT IS WHEN HE

DECIDED, WHEN HE, YOU

KNOW, APPARENTLY SAW THE

WRITING ON THE WALL, AND

HE SAID, GOD DOESN'T WANT

ME TO BE IN PARIS.

GOD WANTS ME TO BE WHAT HE

SHOWED ME.

Gordon: BEFORE HE

LEFT, HE BROKE THE NEWS TO

HIS FIANCEE, WHO WAS STILL

BACK IN RUSSIA. BUT

INSTEAD OF WRITING TO HER

DIRECTLY, HE WROTE TO HER

FATHER.

HE SAID, "DEAR SIR, I'M

WRITING YOU THIS LETTER

BECAUSE I WANT YOU TO

BREAK THE NEWS TO YOUR

DAUGHTER THAT I HAVE A

MORTAL DISEASE AND I WILL

NOT BE ABLE TO MARRY HER."

Gordon: SHE REFUSED

TO BE JILTED AND FOLLOWED

HIM TO JERUSALEM.

AND SO THEY GOT

MARRIED.

THEY CAME TO ISRAEL

TOGETHER.

AND BEN HUDA CLAIMED THAT

HE WAS BORN AGAIN IN

JERUSALEM.

Gordon: IN 1881,

PALESTINE DIDN'T LOOK LIKE

THEIR IDEA OF THE PROMISED

LAND.

JERUSALEM AND ALL OF

THE LAND OF ISRAEL WAS

DESERTED.

IT WAS DESERTED BY PEOPLE.

IT WAS DESERTED BY NATURE.

AND WHEN LE EZIR CAME

BACK, HE SAID, WE HAVE TO

BRING GOD BACK TO THE

LAND.

Gordon: THE LAND WAS

DESERTED, AND THE PEOPLE

WERE DIVIDED.

UNTIL HE STARTED

TALKING HEBREW IN

JERUSALEM, THE JEWS THAT

CAME FROM POLAND ONLY

DEALT WITH OTHER PEOPLE

WHO CAME FROM POLAND

BECAUSE THEY SPOKE THE

SAME LANGUAGE.

AND THE PEOPLE WHO CAME

FROM ROMANIA ONLY SPOKE

WITH OTHER PEOPLE WHO CAME

FROM ROMANIA.

Gordon: TO HELP UNIFY

THE PEOPLE, HE STARTED

PUBLISHING A NEWSPAPER

ENTIRELY IN HEBREW.

AT THE TIME, THERE WASN'T

EVEN A HEBREW WORD FOR

NEWSPAPER, FO OR FOR THE

DICTIONARY HE WOULD

COMPILE LATER.

SO HE COINED THE NEW WORDS

HE WOULD USE HIMSELF.

USE HEBREW AND ARABIC.

THE WORD "ET" FOR TIME,

BECOME "E TONE" FOR

NEWSPAPER, SINCE THE

NEWSPAPER IS A

TIME-SENSITIVE

PUBLICATION.

A DICTIONARY IS A

COLLECTION OF WORD.

AND A WORD IN HEBREW IS

"MILA."

HE WOULD WRITE ARTICLES

FOR THE PAPER AND HE WAS

SAY, THERE WAS A HUGE FIRE

IN JERUSALEM.

ONLY PEOPLE DIDN'T KNOW

THE WORD FOR FIRE.

IN THE BACK OF HIS

NEWSPAPER, HE PUT A LITTLE

LIST OF WORDS.

AND HE TOLD PEOPLE, I WILL

ONLY HAVE IT LISTED ONCE.

SO IF YOU DON'T REMEMBER

IT, PLEASE CUT THIS LIST

AND KEEP IT.

Gordon: SOON HIS

READERS STARTED SENDING

REQUESTS FOR A FULL

DICTIONARY.

SO BEN UHUDA STARTED

COMPILING ONE.

ONE EXAMPLE IS THE WORD

FOF "PISTOL."

HE TRIED TO FIND ROOTS

IN OLD WORDS.

THERE IS A WORD IN IN EZEKIEL

THAT SPEAKS ABOUT CERTAIN

STONES, AND THE TEXT CALLS

THAT AGNA AGDOF.

AND WE ALSO KNOW ABOUT A

YOUNG LAD WHO COULD DO

WONDERS ABOUT USING HIS

SLING WITH A COUPLE OF

GOOD STONES.

AND SO HE PUT HIS MIND TO

IT AND HE SAYS, THOSE

STONES PUT THE HOLE IN THE

HEAD OF GOLIATH.

TODAY YOU CAN USE THIS

PISTOL AND YOU CAN PUT A

NICE HOLE IN SOMEBODY'S

HEAD, WHICH WILL KIND OF

SLOW HIM DOWN, JUST LIKE

HE DID WITH GOLIATH.

SO HE DECIDED TO CALL THAT

THING E GDOF E GDOF, AND THAT'S

WHAT THEY CALL IT TO

TODAY.

Gordon: AND HE

CREATED A COMMITTEE TO

HELP HIM WITH SPECIALIZED

WORDS.

HE INVITED PEOPLE WHO

COULD TELL HIM WHAT WORDS

ARE NECESSARY.

FOR EXAMPLE, HE HAD A

DOCTOR.

AND THE DOCTOR SAID TO

HIM, WE NEED A WORD FOR

SYRINGE.

Gordon: FOR HIS

FAMILY AND FRIENDS, HE HAD

A STRICT RULE: HEBREW

ONLY.

THIS POSED A CHALLENGE FOR

HIS WIFE, WHO KNEW

RUSSIAN, FRENCH, AND

GERMAN, BUT VERY LITTLE

HEBREW.

HE SAID TO HIS WIFE, IF

NOBODY WANTS TO TALK

HEBREW WITH YOU, THEN

YOU'RE GOING TO BE WITHOUT

FRIENDS.

I'M REALLY SORRY.

Reporter: THAT RULE

ALSO APPLIED TO HIS SON,

WHICH HE NAMED BENZION, OR

SON OF ZION.

EVEN AS A BABY, HE WAS

KEPT AT HOME SO HE

WOULDN'T BE EXPOSED TO

OTHER LANGUAGES.

HE WAS ALMOST THREE

YEARS OLD AND DIDN'T SAY A

WORD.

AND EVERYBODY IN TOWN WAS

WHISPERING BEHIND THEIR

BACKS IS THAT THE REASON

WAS IS THEY WERE ONLY

TALKING HEBREW TO THEM.

THE MOTHER WAS MUCH MORE

AFFECTED, APPARENTLY, BY

THE RUMOURS THAN THE

HUSBAND.

SO ONE DAY WHEN HE WAS

ALONE AT HOME, SHE WAS

SITTING, HOLDING THE BABY,

AND HE WAS CRYING.

AND SHE WAS TRYING TO

CONSOLE HIM AND GET HIM TO

QUIET DOWN.

AND FINALLY STARTED

SINGING HIM A LULLABY THAT

HER MOTHER SANG TO HER

WHEN SHE WAS A BABY.

AND IT WAS A RUSSIAN

LULLABY.

Gordon: AT THAT

MOMENT, BEN UHUDA WALKED

IN.

AND, OF COURSE, HE

RAISED THE ROOF -- OR AT

LEAST THE CEILING.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

YOU'RE RUINING EVERYTHING?

HERE I WORKED SO HARD AND

I'VE DONE ALL OF THIS,

ETC.

HE WAS JUST HOLLERING AT

HER.

AND SUDDENLY THE CHILD

OPENED UP HIS MOUTH AND

SAID, "ENOUGH ALREADY,

FATH."

IT IS "DIE," WHICH MEANS

STOP IN HEBREW.

ENOUGH.

Gordon: SEVERAL YEARS

LATER, TRAGEDY STRUCK THE

FAMILY.

DEVORA CONTRACTED

TUBERCULOSIS, AND TWO

YEARS LATER SHE DIED.

HE FELT A TREMENDOUS

SENSE OF GUILT.

AND WITHIN 90 DAYS OF HER

DEATH, THREE OUT OF THE

FIVE CHILDREN DIED, ALSO.

NOT OF TUBERCULOSIS, BUT

OF A FLU EPIDEMIC.

Gordon: BEFORE SHE

DIED, DEVORA HAD WRITTEN A

LETTER TO HER YOUNGER

SISTER, HEMDA, WHO STILL

LIVED IN RUSSIA.

SHE SAID, I'M GOING TO

BE GONE VERY SOON, AND

IT'S GOING TO BE YOUR

TURN.

AND THEN SHE PUT IN

ANOTHER LINE, AND SHE

SAID, IF YOU WANT TO BE A

PRINCESS, COME TO

JERUSALEM AND MARRY MY EL

EZIR.

Gordon: HEMDA

FOLLOWED HER CENTER SISTER'S

ADVICE AND WROTE TO HIM.

HE REFUSED TO MARRY HER,

FEARING HE WOULD GIVE HER

THE DISEASE AS WELL.

BUT HEMDA, LIKE HER

SISTER, WOULDN'T TAKE NO

FOR AN ANSWER.

AND SO SHE KIND OF

FORCED HIS HAND, AND HE

MARRIED HER.

AND SHE LIVED WITH HIM 30

YEARS.

AND SHE HAD SIX CHILDREN

WITH HIM, THREE OF WHOM

DIED.

THE TWO CHILDREN THAT

SURVIVED FROM HER SISTER,

SHE RAISED.

AND SHE WAS MY

GRANDMOTHER.

HIS FIRST WIFE WAS THE

LOVE OF HIS LIFE.

HE ALSO ADORED AND LOVED

HIS SECOND WIFE.

BUT HIS SECOND WIFE WAS

NOT, YOU KNOW, BY A BIG

ROMANCE, LOVE AFFAIR TYPE

OF THING.

HIS SECOND WIFE WAS HIS

HELP MATE.

IF HE WOULD HAVE CONTINUED

THE WAY HE WAS WITH HIS

FIRST WIFE, HE WOULD HAVE

NEVER FINISHED THE WORK,

AND PROBABLY THE WHOLE

THING WOULD HAVE FAILED.

GOD HAD PREPARED THIS

WOMAN FOR HIM.

WHEN HEMDA CAME AND SAW

HIS JOURNALS, SHE SAID,

HOW DO YOU KNOW WHERE THE

WORDS ARE?

HOW HAVE YOU GOING TO AL

ALPHABETIZE THEM?

AND HE SAID, WHAT DO YOU

THINK?

AND SHE SAID ALL OF THE

WORDS ARE HERE AND HERE,

AND NOW YOU'RE READY TO DO

A DICTIONARY.

Gordon: BEN UHUDA WAS

OFTEN TARGETED BY THE

ORTHODOX JEWS, WHO

LABELLED HIM A HERTITIC.

THEY CONSIDERED HEBREW TO

BE A HOLY LANGUAGE, AND

REJECTED TO USING IT FOR

WHAT HE CALLED IDLE

CHATTER.

AND HE WASN'T POPULAR WITH

THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT,

EITHER.

THEWHEN HERZL TOURED

PALESTINE IN 1898, HE TOOK

JUST FIVE MINUTES TO MEET

WITH BEN UHUDA.

AND HE MENTIONED HIS

MEETING IN HIS DIARY.

I MET THE YOUNG

FANATIC, WHO TRIED TO

CONVINCE ME THAT WHAT OUR

MOVEMENT NEEDS IS TO ADOPT

HEBREW AS OUR NATIONAL

LANGUAGE.

IT IS, OF COURSE,

RIDICULOUS.

Gordon: BUT BEN UHUDA

NEVER STRAYED FROM THIS

MISSION.

HE SPENT THE NEXT TWO

DECADES WORKING FEVERISHLY

TO FINISH HIS DICTIONARY.

SOMETIMES 17 HOURS DAY.

THE MAJORITY OF JEWS IN

JERUSALEM WERE NOW

SPEAKING HEBREW.

AND IN 1921, IT BECAME ONE

OF THE THREE OFFICIAL

LANGUAGES OF BRITISH-RULED

PALESTINE, ALONG WITH

ENGLISH AND ARABIC.

BY THEN, BEN UHUDA'S WORK

HAD TAKEN A FATAL TOLL ON

THIS FRAGILE HEALTH.

HE DIED IN THE MONTH OF

DECEMBER, IN THE SECOND

NIGHT OF HANUKKAH.

MY GRANDMOTHER HAD A

SALON.

SHE WAS ALWAYS

ENTERTAINING FRIENDS, AND

BEN UHUDA PARTICIPATING

WITH THEM.

AND THEN HE EXCUSED

HIMSELF AND HE WENT BACK

TO HIS STUDY.

AND HE WAS WORKING FOR A

WHILE.

AND THEN HE LAID DOWN AND

HE JUST COULDN'T WAKE UP.

WHEN THE PEOPLE LEFT,

HEMDA CAME INTO HIS ROOM,

AND SHE SAW HIM LYING

THERE.

AND SHE STARTED TO TALK TO

HIM AND HE DIDN'T ANSWER.

HE JUST RETURNED HIS SOUL

TO GOD, A MERE 40 YEARS

AFTER HE HAD BEEN TOLD HE

HAD NO FUTURE.

Gordon: 30,000 PEOPLE

FOLLOWED HIS FUNERAL

PROCESSION FROM THE OLD

CITY OF JERUSALEM TO THE

MOUNT OF OLIVES, WHERE HE

WAS BURIED.

AND TODAY ONE OF THE

CITY'S MOST POPULAR

STREETS BEARS HIS NAME, A

TRIBUTE TO THE MAN WHO

GAVE THE JEWISH PEOPLE

BACK THEIR LANGUAGE.

AS ONE MAN PUT IT, BEFORE

BEN UHUDA, JEWS COULD

SPEAK HEBREW.

AFTER HIM, THEY DID.

IMAGINE THERE HAD NOT

BEEN A BEN UHUDA, AND YOU

WOULD HAVE HAD JEWS LIVING

IN ISRAEL SPEAKING 70 TO

80 LANGUAGES.

IT WOULD HAVE NEVER

WORKED.

THE LANGUAGE WAS

ABSOLUTELY PART OF THE

REBIRTH.

IT WAS NECESSARY, AS

BREATHEING IS NECESSARBREATHING IS NECESSARY TO

SURVIVE.

AND BEN UHUDA IS THE MAN

THAT GOD APPOINTED TO MAKE

THAT POSSIBLE.

Gordon: IT ALL BEGAN

WITH A VISION TO A YOUNG

BOY WHO WAS LIVING IN

RUSSIA AT THE TIME.

AND GOD GO SPOKE TO HIM THE

RESTORATION OF THE

LANGUAGE AND THE PEOPLE TO

THE LAND.

WELL, HIS STORY IS ONE OF

THE MANY YOU'LL BE SEEING

OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS,

ABOUT THE FOUNDING OF THE

STATE OF ISRAEL.

TOMORROW WE'RE GOING TO BE

TELLING THE STORY OF

WINSTON CHURCHILL AND HOW

INSTRUMENTAL HE WAS IN

PROTECTING ISRAEL,

PROTECTING THE DREAM OF

THE JEWISH STATE.

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TERRY?

Terry: STILL TO COME,

HE IS A JEWISH BELIEVER IN

JESUS AND HOST OF THE SHOW

"THE SUPERNATURAL."

BUT THAT WASN'T ALWAYS THE

CASE.

I LEFT MY WIFE, I LEFT

MY CHILDREN, I LEFT MY JOB

AND I WENT SEARCHING FOR

HAPPINESS.

Terry: SEE HOW THAT

SEARCH NEARLY COST HIM HIS

LIFE, WHEN WE COME BACK.

Terry: SID ROTH WAS

RAISED IN A JEWISH

HOUSEHOLD, ATTENDED

SYNAGOGUE, AND DREAMED OF

BEING A MILLIONAIRE.

AT 29 YEARS OLD, HE FOUND

HIMSELF WITH A BEAUTIFUL

FAMILY, A GREAT JOB, AND

PLENTY OF WEALTH.

YET IT WASN'T ENOUGH.

SO HE WALKED AWAY FROM IT

ALL.

I WAS RAISED IN A

JEWISH HOME.

WE WENT TO AN ORTHODOX

SYNAGOGUE.

I REMEMBER AS A YOUNG KID,

MY PARENTS WERE INTO

ATHLETICS.

THEIR PARTICULAR SPORT WAS

POKER.

AND THEY WERE OUT LATE AT

NIGHT, AND I WAS HOME

ALONE.

AND I REMEMBER, LIKE A

LITTLE KID WOULD DO, I

WOULD SAY OVER AND OVER

AGAIN, I WISH THEY WOULD

COME HOME.

AND ONE NIGHT WHEN I WAS

SAYING, I WISH THEY WOULD

COME HOME, A THOUGHT

POPPED IN MY MIND: WHAT

HAPPENS WHEN YOU DIE.

IN JUDAISM, WE DON'T TALK

ABOUT DEATH.

I HAD NEVER EVEN PONDERED

THAT THOUGHT.

THE ONLY CONCLUSION I

COULD COME UP WITH IS YOU

CEASE TO EXIST.

BUT IT WAS SUCH AN

OBJECTIONABLE THOUGHT, I

BLOCKED IT FROM MY MIND

FOR MANY, MANY YEARS.

I BLINKED MY EYES A FEW

TIMES, AND I GRADUATED

COLLEGE, AND I WROTE A

SONG CALLED "THERE MUST BE

SOMETHING MORE."

I REMEMBER THE WORDS.

"BECAUSE I WORK EACH WEEK,

AND THAT'S THE WAY IT

GOES.

BECAUSE I WORK, EACH,

SLEEP, AND THAT'S THE WAY

IT GOES.

BECAUSE I WORK, EAT,

SLEEP, AND THERE MUST BE

MORE."

I BLINKED MY EYES A FEW

TIMES AND I WAS MARRIED.

AND I BLINKED MY EYES A

FEW TIMES, AND I HAD

WONDERFUL DAUGHTER.

AND I BLINKED MY EYES AND

I HAD A JOB ON WALL

STREET.

I WAS 29 AND A

MILLIONAIRE, AND I MUST BE

HAPPY.

BUT I'M NOT HAPPY.

I LEFT MY WIFE, I LEFT MY

DAUGHTER, I LEFT MY JOB,

AND I WENT SEARCHING FOR

HAPPINESS.

IT IS A BIG WORLD OUT

THERE IF YOU DON'T KNOW

WHAT YOU'RE SEARCHING FOR.

AT THE END OF THE YEAR,

THINGS WERE WORSE.

I TOOK A COURSE, A MIND

EXPANSION COURSE, WHERE

THEY TOLD M PROMISED ME BY THE

END OF THE ONE-WEEK COURSE

I WOULD KNOW THINGS I

NEVER PROGRAMMED IN MY

BRAIN.

AND IT WORKED AND I WAS SO

EXCITED.

I WOULD SAY, I WOULD LIKE

TO GO INTO BUSINESS FOR

MYSELF, COUNSELLOR, AND A

MAN CASUALLY CAME INTO MY

OFFICE AND SAID, SID, IF

YOU EVER WANT TO GO INTO

BUSINESS FOR YOURSELF, WE

HAVE EXTRA SPACE.

WE'LL LET YOU USE OUR

SECRETARY AND OUR OFFICES.

BUT THIS BUSINESSMAN

TURNED OUT TO BE A

BORN-AGAIN CHRISTIAN.

HE INVITED ME TO BIBLE

STUDY.

AND HE LOOKED AT ME AND

SAID, SID, DO YOU REALIZE

WHAT YOU'RE DOING IS AN AB

BOABOMINATION TO GOD?

I SAID, COME ON.

HE SAID, YOU'RE INTO

FORTUNE-TELLERS AND IT

LISTED ALL OF THE THINGS I

WAS DOING.

AND THIS KIND OF SCARED

ME.

SO I DECIDED I WOULD PUT

IT ON HOLD FOR A MINUTE,

MAYBE READ THIS BIBLE.

I DIDN'T KNOW THE TORAH.

AT THAT TIME I WENT INTO A

BOOKSTORE, AND I WENT INTO

THE NEW AGE SECTION, AND

THERE WAS A BOOK CALLED "A

JEW AND THE SUPERNAC SUPERNATURAL."

I READ THE BOOK, AND IT

SAYS THERE IS AN AB BOM

ABOMINATION FOR ANYONE TO

BE INVOLVED IN CUTS AND

THE NEW AGE.

IT LISTED FAMOUS JEWISH

PEOPLE THAT DABBLED IN THE

NEW AGE, LIKE I WAS DOING,

AND LOST THEIR LIVES.

THE ONE THAT REALLY HIT ME

WAS BRIAN EPSTEIN.

HE WAS THE JEWISH MANAGER

OF A GROUP CALLED THE

BEATLES.

THEY WENT TO THE

HIMALAYANS, AND AT THAT

TIME, ONLY ONE DECIDE, THE

JEW, BRIAN EPSTEIN.

HE HAD EVERYTHING I WAS

LOOKING FOR, FAME, MONEY,

EVERYTHING HE WANTED, BUT

HE IS DEAD.

THIS REALLY SCARED ME.

ABOUT THAT TIME I BECAME

CONVINCED I HAD SOMETHING

EVIL INSIDE OF ME, AND I

WANTED IT OUT.

I REACHED MY POINT, MY

ABSOLUTE LIMIT.

LIFE WAS TOO HARD.

I GAVE UP.

DEATH LOOKED BETTER THAN

LIFE.

AND SO ONE NIGHT I DIDN'T

WANT TO LIVE ANYMORE, BUT

I PRAYED A TWO-WORD PRAYER

FROM A BROKEN HEART.

JESUS, HELP.

AND WHEN I WOKE UP IN THE

MORNING, I WAS SHOCKED I

WAS ALIVE.

BUT MORE THAN ALIVE.

THERE WAS SOMETHING IN MY

ROOM.

THE WHOLE ATMOSPHERE WAS

ALIVE WITH THE LOVE OF

GOD.

I HAD NEVER EXPERIENCED

ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE.

AND I KNEW THAT THAT EVIL

INSIDE OF ME, IT WAS GONE.

AND I KNEW IT HAD TO DO

WITH THAT PRAYER, JESUS.

AND THEN I HEARD THE

AUDIBLE VOICE OF GOD FOR

THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE.

AND YOU KNOW WHAT HE SAID

TO ME?

HE SAID, I HATE DIVORCE.

RETURN TO YOUR WIFE AND

DAUGHTER.

AND GOD RESTORED MY

MARRIAGE AND GAVE ME BACK

MY DAUGHTER.

AND MY WIFE AND I HAVE NOW

CELEBRATED MY 51st

WEDDING ANNIVERSARY.

I KNOW WHEN I MAKE A

MISTAKE, HE NOT ONLY WILL

GIVE ME THE POWER TO

OVERCOME, BUT HE'LL WASH

IT AWAY.

AND THERE IS NOTHING

DISTURBING.

THIS INTIMACY, THIS LOVE

OF GOD, WHEN YOU KNOW GOD,

YOU KNOW EVERYTHING.

WHEN YOU JUST KNOW ABOUT

HIM, YOU HAVE NOTHING.

WHAT DO YOU HAVE?

Terry: WHAT DO YOU

HAVE?

SID SAYS IT SO ELOQUENTLY.

WE WERE CREATED TO HAVE A

RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR

CREATOR.

WE WERE CREATED TO WALK IN

THE COOL OF THE EVENING

WITH A BEAUTIFUL GARDEN

WITH HIM.

AND THEN WE WENT OUR OWN

WAY.

AND EVEN IN THAT, GOD HAS

MADE A PLAN.

HE WANTS SO MUCH FOR YOU

AND FOR ME TO HAVE AN

INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP WITH

HIM.

HE KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT

US ALREADY.

THE NUMBER OF HAIRS ON OUR

HEAD, THE DESIRES IN OUR

HEART.

EVEN THE THINGS WE CHOOSE

TO DO BEFORE WE DO THEM.

EVEN THE THINGS WE HAVE

DONE DELIBERATELY, KNOWING

THEY WERE WRONG, AND HE

MAKES A WAY.

HE SENT JESUS, WHO DIED

UNDER THE BURDEN -- THE

HEAVY BURDEN AND LOAD OF

THE SIN OF ALL MANKIND,

BUT SPECIFICALLY FOR

YOURS, FOR MINE.

SO WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO

DO WITH THAT INFORMATION?

HOW IS YOUR LIFE GOING?

DO YOU HAVE THE KIND OF

RELATIONSHIP THAT SID WAS

TALKING ABOUT?

YOU CAN HAVE, YOU KNOW?

GOD WAITS.

HE WAITS PATIENTLY.

HE WAITS LOVINGLY.

HE WAITS HOPEFULLY FOR YOU

AND ME.

FOR YOU TO SAY, GOD, I'M

DONE.

I'M DONE DOING THIS

MYSELF.

I'M DONE STRIVING.

I'M DONE LONGING.

I'M HERE.

NOW I GET IT.

I WANT YOU TO BE MY

SAVIOR.

I WANT YOU TO BE THE LORD

OF MY LIFE.

THAT'S WHAT IT IS ALL

ABOUT.

AND THE MOMENT YOU INVENT INVITE

YOU -- HE IS ALREADY WITH

YOU, BUT HE COMES INTO

YOU.

AND THAT'S WHAT SID WAS

TALKING ABOUT.

WHEN HE WOKE UP THE NEXT

MORNING, THE BURDEN WAS

GONE.

THE INABILITY TO FELL

CONTENT, TO FEEL

SATISFIED, TO FEEL THAT

KIND OF JOY, DEEP JOY,

WHICH IS NOT ABOUT HAPPY;

IT'S BIGGER THAN THAT.

INVITE JESUS INTO YOUR

LIFE.

ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR NEED,

SURRENDER YOUR WILL, AND

JUST RECEIVE.

JUST RECEIVE TODAY, ALL OF

THE JOY, ALL OF THE LOVE,

ALL OF THE PEACE, ALL OF

THE HOPE THAT GOD PROMISES

TO THOSE WHO CALL UPON HIS

NAME.

AND IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO

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GORDON?

Gordon: WELL, WE

LEAVE YOU WITH THESE WORDS

FROM ROMANS 1: "FOR I AM

NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL

OF CHRIST, FOR IT IS THE

POWER OF GOD TO SALVATION

FOR EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES.

FOR THE JEW FIRST AND ALSO

FOR THE GREEK, FOR IN IT

THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD

IS REVEALED FROM FAITH TO

FAITH."

BELIEVE TODAY.

THAT'S THE KEY.

BELIEVE, AND YOU'LL HAVE

IT.

BELIEVE THAT JESUS CAME.

BELIEVE THAT HE DIED FOR

YOU.

BELIEVE THAT HE ROSE AGAIN

FROM THE GRAVE.

AND YOU, TOO, CAN HAVE THE

RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD.

GOD BLESS YOU.