I remember around I was small child and
my sweet mom and teaching me shameiess
read scheme' destroyed adonai eloheynu
Adonai a hot I had went to Jewish school
in Tehran learning Hebrew English Farsi
they talked and more about faith and
what it is to know who this God is God
of Abraham is kakaako I remember every
night praying the shaman then just uh
openly talking to God
and our family these things were going
wrong
my parents were out of sorts fighting
with each other I had a tremendous ear
ache and I remember my grandmother
telling my dad you need to bring the
lamb a sheep and have the rabbi come and
say braja and I sacrificed the lamp we
gathered around and we laid hands on the
sheep the rabbi prayed in Hebrew and
always distinctively remembered that was
for a wound for for a since the minute
that he slaughtered the the lamb
something amazing happen Meir wake went
away it was a big prestige thing in in
Iran for the kids to come to America and
I was fortunate enough that I was able
to come here I went to an American
school just a whole new world I felt
like I can do anything I wanted to do my
parents weren't looking over my shoulder
and have to be accountable to anybody I
still remember that you know there was a
10th commandment that it said somewhere
in there do not commit adultery and
things like this but I thought to myself
maybe that's really for the olden people
I'm a software developer by a trade and
collaboration with some friends
on the side we start working on on the
business project some of the business
contacts that we have were people of
faith
I love the strength of their faith and
the way they talked about this man Jesus
is as if he was God himself and that was
really offensive to me and one thing
that challenged me is that they knew my
Jewish Bible better than I did you know
having heard all these debates in my
head and friends and obviously reading
articles books archaeology and so on and
so forth but what Moses did this and
Jesus did this and Muhammad did this you
know what I really need to go to the
source I'm gonna go read the Jewish
Bible one thing I had realized in as I
was reading the Torah
it was amazing to me that when the
Jewish people went through did what they
witnessed with God opening the sea and
went through and they saw these unusual
happenings that Moses himself says you
were all witnesses you saw these things
your children haven't seen him but you
saw on just remember this yet they
forgot about it and for 40 years
we just spun around the desert over and
over and over and I thought to myself is
it possible that you know last time is
40 years maybe this stuff's been 2,000
years they were spinning around the way
the this world chasing our own tails and
trying to figure out what's up and sure
enough as I start reading this passage
Isaiah 53 and it starts talking about
that
had this man died for our sins and he
was uh he was bruised and threw his on
stripes we are healed talked about how
like a lamb um he was taken to sacrifice
like a lamb like that same sheep dad was
brought to our yard one thing that
occurred to me as I talked to the rabbi
and the rabbi said how could God become
a human being and I occurred to me if
God of Abraham is soccer a Yaakov
who's that powerful God who opened the
sea if he could do that Who am I to say
that he wanted to show up in form of a
human being on earth Who am I to stop
him I could feel myself you know what he
is the Messiah
he's the mushiya he's not a Gentile he's
Jewish it was the straw that broke the
camel's back that passage once I read
that passage it was like okay basically
it sealed the deal
he's the Messiah and I believed it I
never wanted to hurt my family so I
stayed silent then a short while ago
something happened that turned me upside
down again my own son I was driving back
from his internship program long
business that night we were waiting for
him at home nine o'clock is when we were
expecting him getting the knock on the
door to police our local police like
okay he said that your son
has been taken it's been flown to a
hospital went down not knowing what to
expect because as far as they knew there
there was brain injury but I do remember
it's praying to God and asking him God
you have to give him back to us whole
each hour we saw an improvement to the
point that by the third or fourth day
God brought this child back to us
what that did reminded me of a story
about a young girl 12 year old who the
family and friends thought she was dead
and this man who ran a synagogue chased
down found this teacher who was known in
the region north of Israel at the time
and begged him come and heal my daughter
and this man went down to the Sun that's
other man's house and raised the little
girl back to life
the man whose daughter was healed who
cut could not shut up anymore I love my
family but I can't shut up about who
this Jesus is anymore this jesus healed
my son brought him back to life he was
good
gracious to watch over my son when I
couldn't and I did know
I feel like that man his daughter was
healed I can't show up anymore I have to
tell the story I have to tell the story
you