Sid: On yesterday’s broadcast I pointed out to what is God’s law of evangelism go to the Jew first, use signs and wonders and it opens up a supernatural door of evangelism to all people. And I told you that I’d been Jewish believer in the Messiah for over 30 years and the Holy Spirit is showing me that if you’ll understand me you’ll understand my people. I’m a classic American Jew my father born in Poland, my mother Rochester New York. And I was raised in a home that went to a traditional Jewish synagogue. I’ll tell you my first anti-Semitic recollections, we would go to the beach and at the beach that we went to there was sign and it said “No dogs, or Jews, or (It didn’t say the word blacks but it did say the “N” word) allowed.”
Isn’t it interesting that the devil, and that’s who did that sign, loves Jews and African Americans together. I don’t believe that’s an accident that the devil, the Ku Klux Klan, the anti-Semites all lump Jews and African American’s together.
I’ll tell you what the Holy Spirit’s been showing me there is a special destiny between African American Christians and Jews. Why do you think there seems to be hostility between Jew and African Americans in many large US cities? It’s the devil that’s causing this knowing that there’s a destiny a special call on African Americans to reach out to Jewish people. In the civil rights days whose blood was shed along with African Americans in the forefront of these marches? You look it over you’ll see it was Jews that went arm and arm we shall overcome remember that? Anyway Holy Spirit wanted you to know that.
I also know something else that the next great move of God’s Spirit it’s going to start in Israel and it’s going to touch Hispanic Jews. There’s something going on in the Spirit with Hispanic Jews we’re going to see them coming to the Lord as quickly as Russian Jews have been coming to the Lord. So I didn’t have a great deal of anti-Semitism but I can tell you although I didn’t have a great deal of anti-Semitism being raised there was something in my blood in my genes if you will that had a them and us mentality. And worse we Jews are superior to you Gentiles and you Gentiles there’s something wrong with this Jesus; there’s something wrong with this Christianity and if you asked me I could not give you an answer I didn’t know anything about Jesus.
I’ll tell you about what my great source book for Jesus was one day I was reading a book and at the top of the book was “Ripley’s Believe it or Not His Most Amazing Facts.” So I went through and I found it pretty interesting and I found one that got me outraged. I remember running to my mother and saying “The nerve of the Mr. Ripley look what he says he says ‘Jesus is Jewish!’ How in the world…” because again it was the them and us and I didn’t see anything Jewish about Christians, I didn’t see anything Jewish about Jesus, I didn’t see anything the Christians had that I wanted to be quite candid with you I didn’t know anything. I didn’t know about the anti-Semitism over the centuries, I didn’t know anything about Jesus, I never read the New Testament. Tell you the truth I had never even read the Old Testament, oh I knew the Bible stories and I knew how to read Hebrew didn’t understand a word of what I was reading. But something in me, something deep within me had a separation, or as the Bible calls it a middle wall of separation between myself and Gentiles.
So you got to understand this you would bump into a Jewish person like me and I have to tell you I was turned off with the hypocrisy of the synagogue. I would only go on High Holidays. Why? To please my parents God wasn’t in the equation it had nothing to do with God I would go for social reasons or to please my parents not for God. And oh I was told “Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, we Jews fast and pray that our sins are forgiven” but I wasn’t even sure about anything personal with God I wasn’t sure about happened when you died. I didn’t even think about things like that.
So even though I was turned off on religion of Judaism, even though I was never thinking about God if you would come up to me as I’m reminded one Christian came up to my father and started witnessing when he found out he was my father my dad, I tell you that Christian might never witness again after my father got through with him. Although I didn’t understand any of that I was zero interested in Jesus I had bought the lie. And the lie is “You can’t be Jewish and believe in Jesus.” But the better statement is that’s almost like saying “You can’t be Jewish and believe in the Messiah.” And you know… you want to hear something crazy “If you won’t believe the truth you believe the lie.” There’s a whole group of Jewish people they’re Chasidic Jews they’re a sect called Lubavitcher and they believe, I mean in New York alone there’s like 100,000 of them. They believe that the Messiah was their rabbi who died and he’s coming back from the dead, his name was Schneerson. Now there’s some good news and some bad news with that the good news is for the first time a group of Jewish people are actually believing what the Bible has to say that the Messiah would rise from the dead that’s good. The bad news is they have the wrong Messiah it wasn’t Schneerson we know as a fact Schneerson never even went on a trip to Israel let alone lived in Israel. And the Jewish prophet Micah tells us where the Messiah would be born; He’d be born in Bethlehem, of course there were 5 Bethlehems at the time Jesus was born. So that’s why Micah said “He’d be born in Bethlehem of Judea.” Jesus just happened to be born in Bethlehem of Judea.
So don’t get the idea that just because I don’t like the hypocrisy I see in the synagogue as much as you don’t like the hypocrisy you see perhaps in churches don’t get the idea because I don’t care for the religion of Judaism; don’t get the idea that I’m not proud of being a Jew. Don’t get the idea that I don’t want to be a Jew; listen God put something in Jewish people’s DNA I’m convinced of this. And if you could you know those little doll babies you punch in the stomach and they something well if I well if I was one of those doll babies and you punched me in the stomach this is what would come out of my mouth. “I was born a Jew and I will die a Jew.” It’s an instinct don’t ask me why I can just tell you that that is inside of me. So you may think I’m not so interested in being Jewish because of my attitude towards religion but you’re wrong, get that and get that straight. I was born a Jew and I will die a Jew and even as a believer in Jesus which I am, and even as a sold-out believer in Jesus and let me tell you something if I had a choice of being Jewish or being a believer in Jesus I would take being a believer in Jesus any day. But I’d still have that tape recording inside of me. Because it came from God and if you really want to understand that if you turn to Jeremiah the 31st chapter you can find out exactly why that’s inside of me, why God did it. Listen to this, Jeremiah chapter 31 verse 35 “Thus says the Lord who gives the sun for light by day and the ordinances of the moon and the stars for light by night; who disturbs the sea and it’s waves roar the Lord of hosts is His name; if those ordinances depart from before me says the Lord then the seed of Israel shall also cease from being a nation before me forever.” In other words, what is God saying when you don’t see the waves in the sea and the stars and the sun and the moon and the natural order of things you will not see the Jew. But as long as you see the natural order of things on planet earth there will be a physical Jew on planet earth. And I’ll tell you one of the greatest proofs that the Bible is from God or one of the greatest proofs that the Bible is not from God involves the Jew. If there were not Jews on the face of this earth then the Bible would be a fraud a phony. But against impossible odds when you think about it for a moment in the year 70 AD we lost our temple and then we lost our city and then we lost our country and then we were scattered to the four corners of the earth. And as a matter of fact here let me read something to you, Deuteronomy chapter 28 tells you exactly what was going to happen to us it says “It shall be (I’m starting in the last part of 63rd verse) and you shall be plucked from off the land which you go to possess and then the Lord will scattered you from all people from one end of the earth to the other and there you shall serve other gods which neither you or your fathers have known wood and stone. And among those nations you shall find no rest nor shall the soul of your foot have a resting place but there the Lord will give you a trembling heart failing eyes, anguish of soul and your life shall be in doubt before you. You shall fear day and night and have no assurance of life. In the morning you shall say ‘Oh that it was evening” and in the evening you shall say ‘Oh that it was morning’ because of the fear which terrifies your heart.” And this has been the history of my Jewish people. We’re out of time right now I’ll pick up right here.