Mission in Papua New Guinea,
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mission in the
Waldensian Valleys
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and mission right here in
the Amazon region of Brazil
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coming up next.
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Just before He
went up to heaven,
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Jesus gave us a command.
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He gave us a mission.
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Jesus said "Go,
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go unto all the world
telling them of His love."
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This is our mission.
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This is our Global Mission.
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Hello and welcome to
Global Mission Snapshots.
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Coming to you today
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from the city of
Manaus in Northern Brazil.
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Manaus is a large city
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and if you are in
the center of the city,
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you have no idea
that you are literally
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surrounded by jungle.
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In fact, the only
way to get to this city
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is by boat or by plane.
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Unless you're very adventurous,
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and you can try
a four wheel drive.
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Manaus is the
gateway to the Amazon
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and of course for
Seventh-day Adventist,
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who know their mission history.
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It's the place where the
Halliwells pioneered work
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on a missionary boat the Luzero.
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On today's program,
we'll be talking about
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mission right here.
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We'll be traveling to
Italy, to the Waldensian Valley,
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we'll be talking about
13th Sabbath Offerings.
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But first up, let's
travel to Papua New Guinea
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and meet a young
women name Marrium.
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In early 2013,
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Marrium traveled from
Papua New Guinea to Brisbane,
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Australia for the
South Pacific Divisions,
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World Changers Youth Congress.
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At the congress,
Marrium asked God,
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how she could change the world?
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One night, she dreamed
of trees full of fruit,
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with no one to harvest them.
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After the dream,
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she thought of her
father's old village
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back in the
highlands of Papua New Guinea.
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She felt convicted,
this was the village
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God wanted to
her change for Jesus.
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Back home, Marrium shared
her dream with her church,
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and asked if
anyone would go with her.
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Only one person responded,
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a nine year old boy.
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The next day, the
two set out alone.
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For two and half
days they walked,
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until they
arrived at the village,
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just before
sunset Friday evening.
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Marrium's aunt and
uncle were waiting for her,
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and said we
knew you were coming.
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And you got good news for us.
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Marrium was shocked,
because she hadn't told anyone
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she was coming.
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But she certainly
did have good news,
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and she eagerly
shared her testimony
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with every
family in that village.
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After listening to Marrium,
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the blind 80 year-old
village chief rose to his feet
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and he asked her to
come back and bring her
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Adventist church
to their village.
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That day
salvation came to a village,
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because of a
nine-year-old boy and a girl
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who followed her dream,
and pray to change the world.
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My guest is Dr.
Reinaldo Siqueira
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who for many years has
studied the Jewish faith.
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And in fact,
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was instrumental in
starting a center in Sao Paulo
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which we'll
learn some more about.
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Dr. Siqueira,
thanks for joining us.
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I'm glad to be here, Gary.
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Now, where did your
interest in Judaism start?
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Well, it was actually
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when I
discovered in college that
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Brazil has a large
Jewish background history.
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And many Brazilians do have some
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Jewish background back away.
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In the Portugal,
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in the time of inquisition
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and things like that,
actually Brazil is pretty much
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a country related to
this kind of history.
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And knowing this, I became
really interested in study,
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you know, a
little bit more about.
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So, what sort of studies
have you been involved in?
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Well,
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languages, Hebrew,
your languages, literature,
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specially the Bible,
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but also all kind of literature,
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Jewish literature,
you know, Jewish culture,
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religion and all.
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And I built up a lot of
friendship with Jewish people.
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I live in Israel,
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so I kind of get
to know people in the,
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in the way of living and all.
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Yes, now.
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Christianity of course is
greatly indebted to Judaism.
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What do Seventh-day Adventists
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have in common with Jews?
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Well, you see,
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actually the most
visible things are Sabbath,
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we think.
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For us, Sabbath
is a God's holy day
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you know as for Jewish people.
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Food another way we eat,
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is very close to
the Jewish because
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we eat according to
the laws of Leviticus 11,
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but they are more
quest for education,
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family values, you
know, a view of life,
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you know, is very interesting.
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And some for example,
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Seventh-day Adventist
believe that the people,
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God will judge people by
their knowledge, you know.
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Even people does not
completely know the Bible,
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the biblical message with,
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you be judged accordingly by God
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and now you have
surprise in heaven.
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Actually most of the Christians
don't think like this.
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But Jewish people do
think like this, you know.
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Okay, that's very interesting.
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Yeah.
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So, it's kind of we are
judged according to the light
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we have been given.
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Exactly, exactly.
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And these are some...
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There's a common point
between Jewish and Adventist,
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which most people
don't know, you know.
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Right.
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Now, we know that
throughout history,
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there has often
been tension between
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Christians and Jewish
people, and with good reason,
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Jewish people can be
very suspicious of Christians
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who have been prejudice.
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What sort of
prejudices still exists today?
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Well, you see,
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we carry a lot
of loads of heritage
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from this kind of time,
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even from the
Middle Ages or earlier.
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Like for example, all
Jewish people are genius.
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This is not true.
There are some genius,
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but there are people
who are common people.
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And there're some
about dumb you know,
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just like anyone else.
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Our average Jewish
people is a millionaire,
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is rich, you know.
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There are lot of poor
Jewish people you know.
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Every Jewish is a greedy person.
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This is not true, is
that of a common person.
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Problem would be
for most of our people
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in the church and outside,
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they have friends and
they work in the school.
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That look common people,
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they are Jewish,
and they don't know.
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Because they look so
much alike, you know.
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Yes, yes.
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Now, a few weeks ago,
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I joined with you at the opening
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of a special
center in Sao Paulo.
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Tell us about that center?
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Well, we have a center.
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Were as the
Seventh-day Adventist center,
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where Jewish
people and Adventist meet.
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We have their cultural programs.
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You know, speeches,
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studies that the, both
Jewish and Christian side,
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especially the Christian
Adventist side, you know.
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And these place also had,
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do have a chapel for worship
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where some of our members
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who are from Jewish background
can keep their identity,
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their, you know, their culture,
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teach to their children.
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Some are mixed merged,
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a person, Jewish
person met one a non-Jewish,
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they can come worship together.
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You know, be respected know,
but people can really be open,
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exchange openly their ideas
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and in order to build this
kind of friendship and approach
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between
Adventists and Jewish people.
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Now you have been
instrumental in putting together
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a special liturgy that
actually kind of bridges across
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that is of interest to people
from the Jewish background
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and also to Christian people.
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Describe that?
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Well, you see,
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since this center is focused
on Jewish heritage and all
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and for Christian we do
have most of our worship,
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we have a many
Jewish elements come up.
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But it will be
interesting to know
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that probably what we do there,
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we'll be closer to
watch Paul and Jesus
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and the early
disciple experience.
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Right.
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Because you know, they
both, all of them were Jewish.
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Yes.
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So they went to
synagogue Jewish.
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Jesus read from
the scroll of Isaiah
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and know Paul
preached in the synagogues know
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every Sabbath and so,
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all kind of
worship there really,
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probably not exactly
but many elements go back
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all the way to
the first century,
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where this kind of
worship was implemented
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in many of its aspect of today.
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Yeah, well,
it's certainly for me
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a very enriching worship
service to participate in.
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And you know what, we do know
that there are elements there
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since we started to do this
together with Jewish friends,
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Seventh-day Adventists
who are from Jewish background
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and other Seventh-day Adventist
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who show an interest
for the Jewish culture.
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We just got that many
elements in the New Testament
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do reflect this kind of worship.
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Right.
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It's very surprising, you
know, for example, in Hebrews 4,
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that the Apostle Paul
speak about the Sabbath
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and he used this
a very set of verse.
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Psalm, you know, Genesis
2, when you look at that,
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this is the Jewish
liturgy for Sabbath reception
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in Friday night.
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Oh!
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Actually he do use all
the elements of the Friday
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worship service to
speak about Sabbath
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and salvation and
these why we're surprised,
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you know, do it and this evolve,
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it's like to
what is written here.
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Yeah.
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That's kind of situation.
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Yeah, I think
it's wonderful because
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you're not just
sitting there listening,
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you're actually participating,
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you're reading aloud etcetera.
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So,
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thank you so much for
sharing just a little bit,
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I'd like to talk to
you for a lot longer.
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But thank you so much for
sharing with us Dr. Siqueira.
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Oh, my
pleasure, Gary. Thank you.
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And viewers at home,
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make sure that you
enrich your experience
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by getting to know
some Jewish neighbors,
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some people in your community,
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there's a lot to learn.
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We'll be right
back after this break.
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