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Speaker 1 (00:02):
I just want to do God will. What you're seeking
is a blessing from God. You must expect a miracle.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You have the power of choice. Believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ. Welcome to life today, Libry and Robinson. Good
to have you here. Happy Veterans Day. And before we
get into the topic, I do want to say that
if you haven't seen the special video music video we
produced four veterans on this Veterans Day, it is available
(00:31):
at the stream stream dot org. You can see it
right there. It's called Live Don't Die for a Lie.
And we've gotten a lot of great buzz and views
on that, so I wanted to mention that up top
stream dot org. But today, oh we got a good one.
I got a fun one today. I have Tony Evans
and Priscilla Shire live with me right now, and well,
(00:53):
I'll just tell you it's a holiday around here, and
so I'm the only it's me and the security guard
at the office today and I was like, I got
Tony Evans and Priscilla Shire. I'm working today because I
got to bring this to you guys. I'm excited. There's
an event coming up next week. It's a film. It's
called Journey with Jesus. It'll be in theaters next Monday, Tuesday,
and Wednesday. That's November fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth. And so
(01:17):
you should make plans right now to go see this
because it'll change your life, I think. And so we're
going to talk about it, but first to get you
into it, here's a trailer for the movie. Check this
out and we'll be back live with doctor Tony Evans
and Priscilla Shyer. Now watch this, Dad.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I cannot believe where we're standing right now. It's not
just in Israel, but like behind the Sea of Galilee.
What it reminds me of is the beauty and the
grandeur of the fact that the word became flesh.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
But in the journey of life and in the journey
of obedience, why you a smack, Dad, In the will
of God, the storms do come.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
When Jesus invites you on a journey, you have no
idea that where He's taken you to is something that
is beyond what you're comprehending at the time that you
start out.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
He needed his friends.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Often we discount the strength of community and our journey
to Jesus.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
This is a church of the Holy sepplic of where
we believe that His greatest power was demonstrated the power
of a sin and death.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
No, I've never been so excited to see nothing in
all of my life.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
The power of emptiness right there, with the power of
Jesus helps you to overcome what looks like is overcoming you.
So I know somebody tonight is going home through.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
A consuming fire. So that's practice right now. Praising in
the fitst of your problem. Praise him and the fens
of your childnge. Praise him by his glory, and then
serve the Lord with gladness.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
And let's watch.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Heaven come down and glory fill our souls.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
That is journey with Jesus. You can get tickets now.
It's in theaters next week. And now Welcome to Life
Today Live doctor Tony Evans and Priscilla Shire. Great to
have you, guys.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
We're glad to be here. Good to see you always,
good to see you. Thank you all.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Right now, my first question is probably not the first
question everybody would have, but I'm like, when did you
go to Israel with the COVID and stuff? When did
you kind of fit this in?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah, well it was two and a half years ago. Yeah,
it was two and a half years ago.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
So this film was supposed to come out much sooner,
but of course the world shut down. So but gratefully
the Lord allowed us to go before that happened, and
so we were able to capture this footage and now
be able to present it to you.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Was it the first time for either one of you
or for Crystal as well, any of you guys or
have you guys been there many times?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I've been there about five times.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
He's been there a lot of times. I've only been
there twice. So it was great to be able to
tag along again with our parents.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
So I've never actually been. I've been all over the world,
and I get people give me grief for this all
the time. I've never actually been to Israel.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
What is it like walking around and seeing the places
where Jesus walked?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Well, first of all, that means you need to be
one of the first ones to buy your ticket, says
you ain't.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Never visit it.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
But it lifts the truth of the Bible off of
the pages of scripture and into your visual and emotional
and spiritual experience. It allows the Bible, as true as
it is, to come and to give you a rama
experience where God is speaking to you. Because the atmosphere
(04:45):
in which you are rehearsing biblical truth is in the
same location where the actual event events happened in the
Holy Land. So it gives you another emotive level of
relating to God's word and to God himself. That's why
it is such transformational trip.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah, I think I get that because you know, going
when we're talking about missions, it changes when we go
to Africa. Yeah, you see it. It's not you just
the pictures, it's the people. It's the smell, it's the touch,
it's all that. And the SAME's true when I've been
to other places, you know, around the world, like Ireland
or China. I mean you really, you really get something.
(05:27):
What did you get out of it, Priscilla, Well.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Oh my goodness, it's a laundry list of things that
I got out of But like that said, one of
the main things is just now, when I read the text,
when I read the scriptures, particularly the Gospels, where Jesus
is preaching and teaching, or it says where Jesus went
somewhere from one location to the next location, and you're
able to just get a visual of how close those
locations were, or maybe how long it would have taken
(05:52):
by foot, because you're able to kind of see the
direct line he would have traveled when he made that journey,
or looking at the Sea of Galilee, so that when Jesus.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Said to the disciples, let us go over to the.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Other side, and you can kind of see the other
side is right there and have a visual of what
that would have looked like. Or when Jesus was standing
on the shoreline of the Sea of Galilee to preach
or to teach a crowd of people a multitude of people.
Having context for that and visual for that is just
a phenomenal perspective to bring to the reading of scriptures.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, I can totally see that. Since travel is a
little difficult these days, it's really kind of cool that
the next best thing, I guess would be no substitute,
but being able to go to a movie theater and
see this on the big screen and walk with you guys. Hey,
(06:45):
if you can't fly, you can at least go to
the movie theater. Yeah, what do you think people are
going to get by sitting in a theater and seeing
you guys walk where Jesus walked.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Well, it's the next best thing.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
I mean, you know, obviously to be there physically, but
to join me and me join them and then with
my family. I think it will engender a desire to
grow closer to the Lord because you will have this
greater sense of his reality and the context of his reality.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
So if it.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Fosters a greater faith, a greater sense of reality, spiritual reality,
then I think if they walk out with that greater sense,
then it will have served its purpose because it will
have ignited something. It will have set a fire in
motion beyond what they already come into the theater with,
to grow spiritually, to know more, and to experience more
(07:42):
of the Lord. So that is what we hope comes
out of this experience with journey with Jesus.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Is there anything that you saw that maybe you hadn't
seen before, especially you, Priscilla, haven't you know your dad's
a little more familiar with the area. It was there
anything that you saw that maybe you didn't know or
had considered that being there showed you.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Well.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
At the very end of our time in Israel, they
took us to what was going to be a new
site that they had sort of the archaeologists had recently
dug up and it was in Nazareth, so this would
have been where Jesus.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Was in his younger years. And there they were able.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
To tour you through what a garden would have looked
like then, or where the people would have planted, what
it looked like one of the military stage the watch towers,
they were able to find one that they were able
to let us see. And then as a tour guide
was taking us through, they had people stationed throughout that
were actually doing things, implementing things like dying wool, so
(08:42):
that we could see how fabric would have gotten different colors,
or what a shepherd would have been doing, or a
wine dresser would have been doing in that day and age,
again bringing life to these principles in the scripture. And
one of them that I will never forget. I'm sure
you remember this two Dad, the guy that was dying
the pieces of wool to make thread for their garments.
(09:03):
While all the different colors there was somebody there showing
how they would diet. But this one color scarlet he
dyed the wool scarlet, and he told us that of
all of the colors, this is the only one that
could not be changed once it was dyed. It wouldn't dull,
it wouldn't it couldn't be kind of converted to another color.
It was just dyed permanently, which brings so much life
(09:26):
to that picture. Where though our sins be as scarlet,
not another color, but this one that is permanent, he
can wash us white as snow. So hearing that and
seeing that within the context of what it would have
meant to those people at that time again cements the
love of Jesus for us, and it heightens our friendship
(09:48):
and our appreciation for all that God has.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Done for us.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah, you know, I actually hadn't considered that, in addition
to seeing some of the sites that are still remaining,
because many of them are not, but yeah, they can
re enact. Yeah, and kind of like I don't know,
Jamestown here in the United States or something, just being there,
even if it's not the real people, right, you at
least get a sense of the culture. I'm guessing that
(10:11):
you really do get a sense of culture, because let's
face it, here in the West and the United States
we have we're very far from the first century Jewish culture.
How much does that context really bring to life. Oh
you know, I don't know the parables and things like that.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
You know a lot because.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
When we read the Bible, we often don't get the
backstory of the things that influence what was taking place there.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
We just see the information. We just see the truth,
which is good.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
But whenever you get the backstory of something, you get
greater illumination of why things happened and what was what
was behind it. You just take for example, the birth
of Christ and the shepherds, well, these aren't just general
shepherds taking care of sheep. These are shepherds taking care
(11:10):
of sheep that are going to be offered.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
So when you understand that it's not just.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Sheep, it's sheep that are going to be offered for
sacrificial purposes.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Then when you hear that Jesus is.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
The is the you know, Lamb of God that taketh
away the sins of the world, and the shepherds show
up at his bird, then it takes their presence to
a deeper level in our understanding of scriptures.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
So it takes you deeper.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, no, I love that.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Now.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
In the trailer, doctor Evans, uh, we heard a lot
of preaching. Are you do you preach some sermons in
the film.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Yeah, just in teaching along the way and at certain
sites what happened at that site, what biblical story was
taking place at that particular location, So that we connect
the written word with the location and people can see
where what they read or are reading actually happened.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
And of course that makes the sight of dynamic as
part of the proclamation.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah, that's very very cool. All right, we're talking about
this right here. Journey with Jesus. It is a movie
in theaters next week for three nights only, November fifteen,
sixteen seventeen monthday, Tuesday and Wednesday. You can go to
a Journey with jesusmovie dot com. I'll put that in
the chat for those of you who are watching chat
and naval channels, and you can go pick up tickets,
(12:37):
see where it is in your area and join doctor
Evans Priscilla Shire as well as Crystal Evans Hurst in Israel,
in the Holy Land and the places where Jesus walked.
And why don't you guys drag Anthony over there with you.
He missed out all over.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
There he did. He did some singing over there, yeah,
he did, and some music.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
So we got we got Anthony Evans music in this
movie as well.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
I think so, yeah, I think it's what one. I
think that's a clip of him too. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
And in fact, you know, this was the last trip
my late wife Lois got to go on, so there
clips of her too.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
So no, yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I did not realize, and we know people that don't.
I mean, we were life outreach of National Life. Today
we're close with the evans Is. And I got it.
I loved Lois. I mean I didn't know where real well,
but had plenty of chance to sit down and talk
with you here in one of the sweetest Is it
hard for you to watch this film with her in it?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Well, they're they're.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
There are portions of it that you know, go back
some tender moments and fond memories. But but I'm glad
that we were together as a family for that because
that makes it extra.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Special, no doubt, no doubt. Well wow, well, thank you
for sharing that with us, just the whole family. I mean,
I I love it. I love the whole concept. What
do you hoping people really get when they go to this,
you know, cinematic experience aside from you know, just seeing
the pictures which is worth going right, there is there
(14:14):
something you hope that they will just really come home.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
With that their faith is real, that this is not
a pie in the sky, This is not ethereal. This
is real stuff in real life. Jesus was a real
person in a real place, doing real miracles, teaching real truth.
And you have a real Savior, that reality of Christ
(14:38):
coming through loud and clear.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
And in living color.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
You know what I love. Another aspect that is undercurrent
of this that I love is you know, doctor Evans,
You've you've dedicated your life bridging cultures here in the
United States, but now you're over here in Israel, whole
other culture. And I just love the fact that the
Gospel trans ends any age, any culture, male, female. It's
(15:06):
what unites us. And so I love I love the whole,
the whole emphasis here. And I know that you're going
to say, if I ask this, this is something that
everybody can enjoy. This is something that brings us together
under Christ.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Well, the beautiful thing about it is the group we
took with us black, white, male, female, Hispanic. We we
were all celebrating the one Savior. Yeah, it Israel, and
so in a disunified culture, we should be able to
rally around a unified feet.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I love it. Okay, I got one question from the audience,
and I like this question because you know we're in
production here. There's always something that that happens behind the
scenes that is a memorable story but doesn't make it
into the film typically anyway, is there anything that happened
over there that we won't see in the in the movie,
(16:07):
but that is uh is worth a little behind the
scenes peak here on life today life.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Oh, that's a that's a good question. I will say.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
The first thing that popped into my mind when you
asked that question was there is some incredible food in Israel.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
I will tell you we went from Magdala to a.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Little spot in Magdala that our friend Steve Dick took
us to our family too for lunch one day. And
I'm telling you that the Mediterranean vibes of the food
that they provide there. Man, we were chowing down and
enjoying ourselves, and we knew there were no cameras at
that particular lunch.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
We really enjoyed us. We didn't have to eat delicately,
we could just sort of chow down.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
That's worth the plane ticket right there. All right, Well, man,
I appreciate what you guys are doing. I love what
you guys are doing. I know you've got a lot
of interviews, so I'll to go pretty quick. Is there
anything else you want to add that? And we need
to know about the movie or the experience. I just
want to give you guys the closing word here.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
I just want to invite everybody to come take a
look at it. You a great evening out for you,
your family, your small group, your Sonday's good class. Uh
to just just walk with us as we walk with
the Lord in the Holy Land, and let's all get
excited about our Savior together.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
So uh, hope you come and check it out and
hope you're impacted by it.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
And also we love you and we love your family,
and we're so grateful that you all would spend time
with us again today.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Oh you're very kind, very kind. Love of the Evans family,
all of them. Appreciate your time, Appreciate you guys watching.
Check out the Journey with jesusmovie dot com and get
a great You got the weekend, You've got plenty of time.
Take them out, check us.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Love it.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
We'll see again tomorrow. Here on life.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
But more
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Hi, just come as a bankrupt center, saying Lord, have
mercy on me.
I just want to do God will. What you're seeking
is a blessing from God. You must expect a miracle.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You have the power of choice. Believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ. Welcome to life today, Libry and Robinson. Good
to have you here. Happy Veterans Day. And before we
get into the topic, I do want to say that
if you haven't seen the special video music video we
produced four veterans on this Veterans Day, it is available
(00:31):
at the stream stream dot org. You can see it
right there. It's called Live Don't Die for a Lie.
And we've gotten a lot of great buzz and views
on that, so I wanted to mention that up top
stream dot org. But today, oh we got a good one.
I got a fun one today. I have Tony Evans
and Priscilla Shire live with me right now, and well,
(00:53):
I'll just tell you it's a holiday around here, and
so I'm the only it's me and the security guard
at the office today and I was like, I got
Tony Evans and Priscilla Shire. I'm working today because I
got to bring this to you guys. I'm excited. There's
an event coming up next week. It's a film. It's
called Journey with Jesus. It'll be in theaters next Monday, Tuesday,
and Wednesday. That's November fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth. And so
(01:17):
you should make plans right now to go see this
because it'll change your life, I think. And so we're
going to talk about it, but first to get you
into it, here's a trailer for the movie. Check this
out and we'll be back live with doctor Tony Evans
and Priscilla Shyer. Now watch this, Dad.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I cannot believe where we're standing right now. It's not
just in Israel, but like behind the Sea of Galilee.
What it reminds me of is the beauty and the
grandeur of the fact that the word became flesh.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
But in the journey of life and in the journey
of obedience, why you a smack, Dad, In the will
of God, the storms do come.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
When Jesus invites you on a journey, you have no
idea that where He's taken you to is something that
is beyond what you're comprehending at the time that you
start out.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
He needed his friends.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Often we discount the strength of community and our journey
to Jesus.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
This is a church of the Holy sepplic of where
we believe that His greatest power was demonstrated the power
of a sin and death.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
No, I've never been so excited to see nothing in
all of my life.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
The power of emptiness right there, with the power of
Jesus helps you to overcome what looks like is overcoming you.
So I know somebody tonight is going home through.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
A consuming fire. So that's practice right now. Praising in
the fitst of your problem. Praise him and the fens
of your childnge. Praise him by his glory, and then
serve the Lord with gladness.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
And let's watch.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Heaven come down and glory fill our souls.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
That is journey with Jesus. You can get tickets now.
It's in theaters next week. And now Welcome to Life
Today Live doctor Tony Evans and Priscilla Shire. Great to
have you, guys.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
We're glad to be here. Good to see you always,
good to see you. Thank you all.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Right now, my first question is probably not the first
question everybody would have, but I'm like, when did you
go to Israel with the COVID and stuff? When did
you kind of fit this in?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah, well it was two and a half years ago. Yeah,
it was two and a half years ago.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
So this film was supposed to come out much sooner,
but of course the world shut down. So but gratefully
the Lord allowed us to go before that happened, and
so we were able to capture this footage and now
be able to present it to you.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Was it the first time for either one of you
or for Crystal as well, any of you guys or
have you guys been there many times?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I've been there about five times.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
He's been there a lot of times. I've only been
there twice. So it was great to be able to
tag along again with our parents.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
So I've never actually been. I've been all over the world,
and I get people give me grief for this all
the time. I've never actually been to Israel.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
What is it like walking around and seeing the places
where Jesus walked?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Well, first of all, that means you need to be
one of the first ones to buy your ticket, says
you ain't.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Never visit it.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
But it lifts the truth of the Bible off of
the pages of scripture and into your visual and emotional
and spiritual experience. It allows the Bible, as true as
it is, to come and to give you a rama
experience where God is speaking to you. Because the atmosphere
(04:45):
in which you are rehearsing biblical truth is in the
same location where the actual event events happened in the
Holy Land. So it gives you another emotive level of
relating to God's word and to God himself. That's why
it is such transformational trip.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah, I think I get that because you know, going
when we're talking about missions, it changes when we go
to Africa. Yeah, you see it. It's not you just
the pictures, it's the people. It's the smell, it's the touch,
it's all that. And the SAME's true when I've been
to other places, you know, around the world, like Ireland
or China. I mean you really, you really get something.
(05:27):
What did you get out of it, Priscilla, Well.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Oh my goodness, it's a laundry list of things that
I got out of But like that said, one of
the main things is just now, when I read the text,
when I read the scriptures, particularly the Gospels, where Jesus
is preaching and teaching, or it says where Jesus went
somewhere from one location to the next location, and you're
able to just get a visual of how close those
locations were, or maybe how long it would have taken
(05:52):
by foot, because you're able to kind of see the
direct line he would have traveled when he made that journey,
or looking at the Sea of Galilee, so that when Jesus.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Said to the disciples, let us go over to the.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Other side, and you can kind of see the other
side is right there and have a visual of what
that would have looked like. Or when Jesus was standing
on the shoreline of the Sea of Galilee to preach
or to teach a crowd of people a multitude of people.
Having context for that and visual for that is just
a phenomenal perspective to bring to the reading of scriptures.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, I can totally see that. Since travel is a
little difficult these days, it's really kind of cool that
the next best thing, I guess would be no substitute,
but being able to go to a movie theater and
see this on the big screen and walk with you guys. Hey,
(06:45):
if you can't fly, you can at least go to
the movie theater. Yeah, what do you think people are
going to get by sitting in a theater and seeing
you guys walk where Jesus walked.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Well, it's the next best thing.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
I mean, you know, obviously to be there physically, but
to join me and me join them and then with
my family. I think it will engender a desire to
grow closer to the Lord because you will have this
greater sense of his reality and the context of his reality.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
So if it.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Fosters a greater faith, a greater sense of reality, spiritual reality,
then I think if they walk out with that greater sense,
then it will have served its purpose because it will
have ignited something. It will have set a fire in
motion beyond what they already come into the theater with,
to grow spiritually, to know more, and to experience more
(07:42):
of the Lord. So that is what we hope comes
out of this experience with journey with Jesus.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Is there anything that you saw that maybe you hadn't
seen before, especially you, Priscilla, haven't you know your dad's
a little more familiar with the area. It was there
anything that you saw that maybe you didn't know or
had considered that being there showed you.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Well.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
At the very end of our time in Israel, they
took us to what was going to be a new
site that they had sort of the archaeologists had recently
dug up and it was in Nazareth, so this would
have been where Jesus.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Was in his younger years. And there they were able.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
To tour you through what a garden would have looked
like then, or where the people would have planted, what
it looked like one of the military stage the watch towers,
they were able to find one that they were able
to let us see. And then as a tour guide
was taking us through, they had people stationed throughout that
were actually doing things, implementing things like dying wool, so
(08:42):
that we could see how fabric would have gotten different colors,
or what a shepherd would have been doing, or a
wine dresser would have been doing in that day and age,
again bringing life to these principles in the scripture. And
one of them that I will never forget. I'm sure
you remember this two Dad, the guy that was dying
the pieces of wool to make thread for their garments.
(09:03):
While all the different colors there was somebody there showing
how they would diet. But this one color scarlet he
dyed the wool scarlet, and he told us that of
all of the colors, this is the only one that
could not be changed once it was dyed. It wouldn't dull,
it wouldn't it couldn't be kind of converted to another color.
It was just dyed permanently, which brings so much life
(09:26):
to that picture. Where though our sins be as scarlet,
not another color, but this one that is permanent, he
can wash us white as snow. So hearing that and
seeing that within the context of what it would have
meant to those people at that time again cements the
love of Jesus for us, and it heightens our friendship
(09:48):
and our appreciation for all that God has.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Done for us.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah, you know, I actually hadn't considered that, in addition
to seeing some of the sites that are still remaining,
because many of them are not, but yeah, they can
re enact. Yeah, and kind of like I don't know,
Jamestown here in the United States or something, just being there,
even if it's not the real people, right, you at
least get a sense of the culture. I'm guessing that
(10:11):
you really do get a sense of culture, because let's
face it, here in the West and the United States
we have we're very far from the first century Jewish culture.
How much does that context really bring to life. Oh
you know, I don't know the parables and things like that.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
You know a lot because.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
When we read the Bible, we often don't get the
backstory of the things that influence what was taking place there.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
We just see the information. We just see the truth,
which is good.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
But whenever you get the backstory of something, you get
greater illumination of why things happened and what was what
was behind it. You just take for example, the birth
of Christ and the shepherds, well, these aren't just general
shepherds taking care of sheep. These are shepherds taking care
(11:10):
of sheep that are going to be offered.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
So when you understand that it's not just.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Sheep, it's sheep that are going to be offered for
sacrificial purposes.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Then when you hear that Jesus is.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
The is the you know, Lamb of God that taketh
away the sins of the world, and the shepherds show
up at his bird, then it takes their presence to
a deeper level in our understanding of scriptures.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
So it takes you deeper.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, no, I love that.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Now.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
In the trailer, doctor Evans, uh, we heard a lot
of preaching. Are you do you preach some sermons in
the film.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Yeah, just in teaching along the way and at certain
sites what happened at that site, what biblical story was
taking place at that particular location, So that we connect
the written word with the location and people can see
where what they read or are reading actually happened.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
And of course that makes the sight of dynamic as
part of the proclamation.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah, that's very very cool. All right, we're talking about
this right here. Journey with Jesus. It is a movie
in theaters next week for three nights only, November fifteen,
sixteen seventeen monthday, Tuesday and Wednesday. You can go to
a Journey with jesusmovie dot com. I'll put that in
the chat for those of you who are watching chat
and naval channels, and you can go pick up tickets,
(12:37):
see where it is in your area and join doctor
Evans Priscilla Shire as well as Crystal Evans Hurst in Israel,
in the Holy Land and the places where Jesus walked.
And why don't you guys drag Anthony over there with you.
He missed out all over.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
There he did. He did some singing over there, yeah,
he did, and some music.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
So we got we got Anthony Evans music in this
movie as well.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
I think so, yeah, I think it's what one. I
think that's a clip of him too. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
And in fact, you know, this was the last trip
my late wife Lois got to go on, so there
clips of her too.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
So no, yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I did not realize, and we know people that don't.
I mean, we were life outreach of National Life. Today
we're close with the evans Is. And I got it.
I loved Lois. I mean I didn't know where real well,
but had plenty of chance to sit down and talk
with you here in one of the sweetest Is it
hard for you to watch this film with her in it?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Well, they're they're.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
There are portions of it that you know, go back
some tender moments and fond memories. But but I'm glad
that we were together as a family for that because
that makes it extra.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Special, no doubt, no doubt. Well wow, well, thank you
for sharing that with us, just the whole family. I mean,
I I love it. I love the whole concept. What
do you hoping people really get when they go to this,
you know, cinematic experience aside from you know, just seeing
the pictures which is worth going right, there is there
(14:14):
something you hope that they will just really come home.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
With that their faith is real, that this is not
a pie in the sky, This is not ethereal. This
is real stuff in real life. Jesus was a real
person in a real place, doing real miracles, teaching real truth.
And you have a real Savior, that reality of Christ
(14:38):
coming through loud and clear.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
And in living color.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
You know what I love. Another aspect that is undercurrent
of this that I love is you know, doctor Evans,
You've you've dedicated your life bridging cultures here in the
United States, but now you're over here in Israel, whole
other culture. And I just love the fact that the
Gospel trans ends any age, any culture, male, female. It's
(15:06):
what unites us. And so I love I love the whole,
the whole emphasis here. And I know that you're going
to say, if I ask this, this is something that
everybody can enjoy. This is something that brings us together
under Christ.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Well, the beautiful thing about it is the group we
took with us black, white, male, female, Hispanic. We we
were all celebrating the one Savior. Yeah, it Israel, and
so in a disunified culture, we should be able to
rally around a unified feet.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I love it. Okay, I got one question from the audience,
and I like this question because you know we're in
production here. There's always something that that happens behind the
scenes that is a memorable story but doesn't make it
into the film typically anyway, is there anything that happened
over there that we won't see in the in the movie,
(16:07):
but that is uh is worth a little behind the
scenes peak here on life today life.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Oh, that's a that's a good question. I will say.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
The first thing that popped into my mind when you
asked that question was there is some incredible food in Israel.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
I will tell you we went from Magdala to a.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Little spot in Magdala that our friend Steve Dick took
us to our family too for lunch one day. And
I'm telling you that the Mediterranean vibes of the food
that they provide there. Man, we were chowing down and
enjoying ourselves, and we knew there were no cameras at
that particular lunch.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
We really enjoyed us. We didn't have to eat delicately,
we could just sort of chow down.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
That's worth the plane ticket right there. All right, Well, man,
I appreciate what you guys are doing. I love what
you guys are doing. I know you've got a lot
of interviews, so I'll to go pretty quick. Is there
anything else you want to add that? And we need
to know about the movie or the experience. I just
want to give you guys the closing word here.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
I just want to invite everybody to come take a
look at it. You a great evening out for you,
your family, your small group, your Sonday's good class. Uh
to just just walk with us as we walk with
the Lord in the Holy Land, and let's all get
excited about our Savior together.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
So uh, hope you come and check it out and
hope you're impacted by it.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
And also we love you and we love your family,
and we're so grateful that you all would spend time
with us again today.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Oh you're very kind, very kind. Love of the Evans family,
all of them. Appreciate your time, Appreciate you guys watching.
Check out the Journey with jesusmovie dot com and get
a great You got the weekend, You've got plenty of time.
Take them out, check us.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Love it.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
We'll see again tomorrow. Here on life.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
But more
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Hi, just come as a bankrupt center, saying Lord, have
mercy on me.
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