When the rabbi spoke
he never talked about God.
Even in this conservative synagogue
it felt more secular
than it felt like we were really
worshiping God.
It felt fake.
There was no foundation there for me
and it wasn't like I was searching for God
but why go if you don't really believe?
It doesn't make sense. Does it?
Growing up, kind of secluded
I thought that you were either
Jewish or you were a Christian.
I didn't know much about the Bible
even as a Jew
even having been bar Mitzvahed.
I was Reformed, so we had
celebrated Passover and Yom Kippur
and other holidays
but my father wasn't religious.
He wasn't really a great believer in God
and I think more of a cultural Jew
so after my bar mitzvah, I said to my dad
"Dad, I'm finished with synagogue."
"It's over. I'm not going anymore."
In high school the thing that I
really enjoyed were girls.
I loved to date.
I dated from a young age.
When I was 18, I went to the movies
and I saw this movie called
"The Greatest Story Ever Told".
And I can't tell you what happened
there were no bombs going off
no whistles, no anything!
Nothing happened, except
I walked out and I believed that
Yeshua, Jesus, was the Messiah.
I don't ever remember having met
a Christian person.
Nobody ever shared with me their faith.
I'm Jewish!
You know, that just doesn't happen.
But I walked out a believer in Yeshua.
All of a sudden
I had this passion for God.
I had this passion
for other people to know God.
I had this passion for reading the Bible
which I hadn't done.
It was such a change in my spirit
in my mind, in my heart.
And so I started reading
the book of John in the New Covenant
and I was so enamored.
I just was amazed with the love of Yeshua
and the teachings - how he taught
this idea of loving your neighbor
and being able to give your life
for someone else...
It just touched me at my core.
I think one of the most difficult things
to get over as a Jew
is that there's only one way to God
but as I started looking at Scripture
and I realized that
there was only one way in Egypt
for the firstborn not to die,
which was to put the blood of the Lamb
over the doorpost.
That's equally unfair.
And I thought okay,
there's a foundation for this.
There's a foundation at Yom Kippur
that there's a way to receive atonement
and there are other ways that people
think about, but there was only one way
to receive God's atonement.
I realized that it's natural
that there is only one way
to receive atonement for our sins,
and that is the final Lamb.
The final atonement.
You have a father
who loves you.
But you have a second Father
who loves you even more.
And you have to receive His love.
So I want you to understand
that Yeshua is the Messiah
because He is the Way
we get to the Father.
To share that love.
And when you receive Yeshua
He will fill your heart with love
and he will take away and
push out the infirmities and
you will feel life.
You will feel whole.