Caption transcript for “Behold Your God” with Jhan Moskowitz of Jews for Jesus

• 00:00 B
• 00:08 BRETHREN, MY HEART'S DESIRE AND PRAYER TO GOD FOR ISRAEL IS THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED.
• 00:14 THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE JEW AND THE GENTILE,
• 00:17 FOR THE SAME LORD OVERALL IS RICH UNTO ALL THAT CALL UPON HIM.
• 00:24 ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS WITH SANDRA LEVITT AND DR. JEFFREY SEIF.
• 00:31 SHALOM, HELLO AGAIN. I'M SANDRA LEVITT.
• 00:34 WELCOME TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 00:36 I'D LIKE TO READ SOME SCRIPTURE TO YOU.
• 00:38 IT COMES OUT OF ISAIAH 40:9
• 00:54 ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT PEOPLE WOULD ASK ZOLA AND I WHEN WE WERE TRAVELING WOULD BE,
• 00:58 "HOW DO I WITNESS TO MY JEWISH FRIENDS? HOW DO I WITNESS TO MY JEWISH DOCTOR?"
• 01:02 WE ALWAYS USED TO KIND OF LAUGH AND SAY THERE'S ALWAYS A JEWISH DOCTOR IN THERE SOMEWHERE.
• 01:06 BUT, HE WOULD ALWAYS SAY TO THEM, TELL THEM THAT JESUS,
• 01:10 YESHUA, IS THE MESSIAH AND THAT'S WHAT WE DID.
• 01:13 IT IS MY PRIVILEGE TODAY TO HAVE WITH ME JHAN MOSKOVITZ.
• 01:17 HE IS WITH JEWS FOR JESUS.
• 01:18 HE IS WONDERFUL AND I THINK YOU ARE GOING TO ENJOY MEETING HIM.
• 01:22 THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT DOING A CAMPAIGN IN NEW YORK CITY THIS SUMMER
• 01:26 AND IT IS CALLED "BEHOLD YOUR GOD".
• 01:29 THAT IS PART OF THE REASON I READ ISAIAH TO YOU.
• 01:32 JHAN, WELCOME TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 01:34 THANK YOU SANDRA.
• 01:35 IT'S A PRIVILEGE TO BE HERE.
• 01:36 I KNOW THAT PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS WONDERING HOW DID A JEW, HOW WAS A JEW SAVED.
• 01:41 I'D LOVE TO HEAR HOW IT HAPPENED.
• 01:42 I WAS RAISED IN NEW YORK CITY. OH, MY.
• 01:46 IN FACT I'M THE FIRSTBORN OF MY FAMILY IN THE UNITED STATES.
• 01:50 MY FATHER AND MOTHER CAME TO UNITED STATES AFTER WWII.
• 01:53 MY FATHER SPENT 4 1/2 YEARS IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP
• 01:57 AND MY MOTHER SPENT 1 1/2 YEARS, SO BOTH OF THEM ARE HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS
• 02:01 AND I GUESS I GREW UP IN A TRADITIONAL JEWISH HOME IN NEW YORK.
• 02:05 WE WENT TO A CONSERVATIVE, KIND OF ORTHODOX, SYNAGOGUE.
• 02:10 LIKE I SAY, I GREW UP KNOWING I WAS JEWISH.
• 02:14 I REMEMBER I MUST HAVE BEEN ABOUT 3 OR 4 YEARS OLD WHEN I SAID,
• 02:17 I CRAWLED INTO MY DADDY'S LAP AND I SAID, "DADDY, WHAT IS THAT NUMBER ON YOUR ARM?"
• 02:21 AND HE SAID, IT'S WHAT THE NAZIS DID TO US AND HOW THEY BRANDED US AND SENT TO CAMPS.
• 02:28 SO, I GUESS, EARLY ON IN MY LIFE, I KNEW I WAS JEWISH.
• 02:31 EARLY ON IN MY LIFE I KNEW THERE WAS "US, THE JEWISH PEOPLE" AND EVERYBODY ELSE.
• 02:35 I WENT TO HEBREW SCHOOL LIKE EVERY OTHER JEWISH KID GROWING UP IN NEW YORK
• 02:40 AND I WAS BAR MITZVAHED.
• 02:42 AFTER MY BAR MITZVAH, I KIND OF GOT LESS INVOLVED IN MY JEWISH IDENTITY AS A RELIGIOUS JEW
• 02:49 AND SAW MY JEWISH IDENTITY WRAPPED UP IN THE NATION OF ISRAEL.
• 02:51 SO, IN 1967, WHEN THE WAR IN ISRAEL BROKE OUT,
• 02:55 I MIXED MY SENSE OF ADVENTURE AND MY SENSE OF ZIONISM
• 02:58 AND I RAN OFF AND JOINED THE ISRAELI ARMY.
• 03:00 DON'T GET TOO EXCITED, BY THE TIME I GOT THERE, THE WAR WAS OVER.
• 03:04 (LAUGHING)
• 03:06 AS YOU KNOW, MY PEOPLE HAVE THIS THING ABOUT 6 DAYS, ON THE 7TH DAY, THEY REST.
• 03:08 IT WAS A SHORT WAR.
• 03:10 OR THEY HAVE TO PAY RENT ON THE TANKS.
• 03:11 THAT'S WHAT ZOLA ALWAYS USED SAY.
• 03:13 THAT'S RIGHT.
• 03:14 AT ANY RATE, I WOUND UP IN ISRAEL, IT WAS AFTER THE 6 DAY WAR,
• 03:18 I WAS ON A KIBBUTZ AND BECAUSE I WAS IN THE VOLUNTEER UNIT,
• 03:23 I WAS ONE OF THE FIRST GROUPS TO GET TO THE LIBERATED CITY OF JERUSALEM.
• 03:28 YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND SOMETHING, SANDRA,
• 03:30 WHEN I WENT TO ISRAEL, I WAS REALLY AN ATHEIST.
• 03:33 I WAS 18 OR 19 AT THE TIME.
• 03:35 I KIND OF REJECTED, I NEVER REJECTED MY JEWISH IDENTITY,
• 03:39 BUT I DIDN'T REALLY BELIEVE IN THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB.
• 03:43 IT WAS AT THE WALL THAT SOMETHING HAPPENED.
• 03:45 I HAD JUST GOTTEN THERE AND I GUESS THE WALL HAD BEEN LIBERATED A WEEK OR SO EARLIER
• 03:49 AND WE HAD GOTTEN THERE AND I STOOD AT THE WALL AND I STARTED TO CRY.
• 03:55 THE TEARS WELLED UP IN MY EYES AND THE QUESTION CAME ABOUT,
• 04:01 COULD THIS BE AN ACCIDENT OF HISTORY?
• 04:03 COULD THE CHILD OF SURVIVORS OF THE HOLOCAUST NOW STAND AT A WALL THAT'S LIBERATED?
• 04:08 IT WAS AT THAT POINT THAT I SAID, THERE MIGHT REALLY BE A GOD,
• 04:12 THERE MIGHT REALLY BE A DESTINY FOR MY PEOPLE AND IT WAS THEN THAT I STARTED SEARCHING.
• 04:16 I KNOW THAT WESTERN WALL.
• 04:17 I HAVE STOOD THERE AND CRIED MANY TIMES MYSELF.
• 04:19 IT'S SOMETHING JUST GOES INTO YOUR SOUL. REMARKABLE.
• 04:23 IT REALLY DOES.
• 04:24 IT STARTED MY QUEST AND AS A RESULT OF THAT OVER A PERIOD OF 3 OR 4 YEARS
• 04:28 I GOT INVOLVED IN SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS.
• 04:30 I GOT INVOLVED IN JEWISH MYSTICISM.
• 04:32 I GOT INVOLVED IN EASTERN MYSTICISM.
• 04:34 I GOT INVOLVED IN THE HIPPIE SUB-CULTURE AND I WOUND UP LIKE ALL GOOD HIPPIES,
• 04:38 MAKING IT OUT TO THE MECCA OF HIPPIEDOM, SAN FRANCISCO.
• 04:42 ABSOLUTELY.
• 04:44 IT WAS 1969, 70 AND I AND A NUMBER OF JEWISH BOYS FROM NEW YORK
• 04:48 BUILT A HOUSEBOAT IN SAUSALITO, CA.
• 04:50 NOW, I SHOULD PROBABLY TELL YOU THE TRUTH.
• 04:52 IT WASN'T REALLY A HOUSEBOAT; IT WAS MORE LIKE A SHACK ON BARRELS.
• 04:55 IF MY WIFE WERE HERE, SHE WOULD INSIST THAT I TELL THE TRUTH, IT WAS NOT EVEN THAT.
• 05:00 THE BOARD OF HEALTH CALLED IT A PUBLIC NUISANCE AND MADE US RIP IT DOWN.
• 05:03 YOU MAY BE WONDERING WHY I'M TELLING YOU THAT STORY,
• 05:05 WELL, SOME VERY STRANGE THINGS HAPPENED AS A RESULT OF RIPPING THAT HOUSEBOAT DOWN.
• 05:08 3 OF THOSE 4 NICE JEWISH BOYS, INCLUDING MYSELF THAT WENT OUT THERE BECAME BELIEVERS IN JESUS.
• 05:16 THERE WAS A 5TH FELLOW WHO CAME OUT THERE, AN AFRICAN AMERICAN FROM BROOKLYN,
• 05:20 WHO STUCK AN OVERDOSE OF HEROIN IN HIS ARM AND DIED.
• 05:23 THAT LEFT ME BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL WITH A DECISION TO MAKE.
• 05:27 HERE WERE MY JEWISH FRIENDS WHO'D BECOME BELIEVERS AND HERE WAS MY AFRICAN AMERICAN FRIEND
• 05:31 WHO HAD PAID THE ULTIMATE PRICE FOR LIVING THAT LIFESTYLE.
• 05:35 AND HERE I WAS.
• 05:37 AND WHAT IS THE CHOICE?
• 05:38 AND WHAT WAS THE CHOICE?
• 05:40 WELL, THAT'S THE WAY GOD WORKS.
• 05:41 FOR 3 MONTHS I STARTED RUNNING, TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM THE CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY
• 05:45 OF MY JEWISH FRIENDS, BUT THE STRANGEST COINCIDENCES STARTED HAPPENING.
• 05:49 YOU DO KNOW WHAT A COINCIDENCE IS?
• 05:51 I DON'T REALLY BELIEVE IN COINCIDENCES, I BELIEVE THAT GOD MAKES THEM..
• 05:54 IT'S WHEN GOD ACTS AND CHOOSES TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS AND THAT WAS WHAT WAS HAPPENING.
• 05:57 WHEREVER I WENT, IT WAS LIKE I WAS BEING HAUNTED BY THIS GHOST, THE HOLY GHOST.
• 06:02 I WOUND UP BACK IN SAN FRANCISCO AFTER 3 MONTHS OF RUNNING AWAY FROM GOD
• 06:07 AND RAN ACROSS MY JEWISH FRIENDS WHO HAD BECOME BELIEVERS IN JESUS AND THEY SAID,
• 06:11 "WELL, WOULD YOU LIKE TO COME TO A PRAYER MEETING?"
• 06:13 I SAID, WELL, I GOT NOTHING AGAINST CHRISTIANS
• 06:15 OTHER THAN THE FACT THAT THEY'RE ALWAYS SMILING.
• 06:17 I GUESS I COULD LIVE WITH THAT.
• 06:19 I WENT TO THIS PRAYER MEETING AND THE FIRST THING THEY SAID IS WELL, DO YOU BELIEVE?
• 06:22 I LOOKED AT THEM AND I SAID, LOOK, I WOULD LIKE TO BELIEVE, DON'T GET ME WRONG,
• 06:26 BUT, THIS GOD YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, IF HE'S REAL, HE'S GOING TO HAVE TO MOVE A MOUNTAIN.
• 06:31 I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT MOUNTAIN WAS IN MY HEART.
• 06:34 THAT'S EXACTLY WHERE IT IS.
• 06:35 I'M GOING TO STOP YOU RIGHT HERE.
• 06:37 I KNOW YOU'RE REALLY GOOD FRIENDS WITH JEFF SEIF AND HE'S GOING TO BE WITH US IN A MINUTE.
• 06:39 I WANT YOU TO TALK ABOUT YOUR JEWS FOR JESUS DAYS.
• 06:41 OK. THESE ARE JUST GREAT STORIES.
• 06:44 BACK AFTER THIS.
• 07:08 FOR INSIGHTFUL PERSPECTIVES OF ISRAEL AND BIBLE PROPHECY,
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• 07:21 OUR CORRESPONDENCE COURSE, THE INSTITUTE OF JEWISH-CHRISTIAN STUDIES INCLUDES
• 07:26 READING PACKETS, TEACHING CASSETTES AND MAIL-IN TESTS.
• 07:30 YOU MAY WANT TO JOIN US ON AN UPCOMING TOUR OF ISRAEL, GREECE
• 07:32 OR THE HOLY LAND EXPERIENCE THEME PARK IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA.
• 07:36 PLEASE CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION.
• 07:38 WELCOME BACK.
• 07:41 I'M PLEASED TO HAVE MY OLD FRIEND, JHAN MOSKOWITZ WITH US,
• 07:45 WHO'S BEEN SHARING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW HE CAME TO KNOW THE LORD.
• 07:48 JHAN.
• 07:49 JEFF, IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN, TOO.
• 07:51 AS I WAS SAYING TO SANDRA, I HAD GONE TO THIS PRAYER MEETING AND MY FRIENDS, MY JEWISH FRIENDS,
• 07:58 WHO HAD BROUGHT ME TO THE PRAYER MEETING ASKED ME IF, WELL, DO YOU BELIEVE?
• 08:02 AND WENT, LOOK, WELL, I'D LIKE TO BELIEVE, BUT I JUST CAN'T PSYCH MYSELF UP INTO THIS THING.
• 08:06 IF GOD'S REAL, HE'S GOING TO HAVE TO MOVE A MOUNTAIN, AS I SAID.
• 08:09 WELL, THEY STARTED PRAYING FOR ME AND WITHIN 2 WEEKS OF THE TIME THEY PRAYED FOR ME,
• 08:13 THESE "COINCIDENCES" CAME TOGETHER AND ONE NIGHT I JUST KNEW GOD WAS REAL.
• 08:18 I MEAN, I KNEW IT.
• 08:20 YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND, UP UNTIL THIS TIME,
• 08:21 I THOUGHT GOD WAS JUST AN EXTENSION OF MY OVERACTIVE IMAGINATION.
• 08:25 I NEVER REALLY THOUGHT OF GOD AS SOMEONE SEPARATE,
• 08:28 ANOTHER PERSONALITY AND HERE I WAS CONFRONTED WITH THAT.
• 08:32 I RAN ACROSS ONE OF MY JEWISH FRIENDS WHERE I WAS LIVING IN SAN FRANCISCO
• 08:36 AND I GRABBED HIM AND I SAID, THIS GOD YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, HE REALLY IS REAL.
• 08:39 WHAT DO I DO?
• 08:41 WELL, HE SAID, MAYBE YOU OUGHT TO OPEN UP COMMUNICATIONS WITH HIM.
• 08:44 SO, I WENT OUT GOLDEN GATE PARK IN SAN FRANCISCO PARK WITH MY JEWISH FRIENDS
• 08:48 AND I GOT DOWN ON MY KNEES AND PRAYED.
• 08:52 I WAS ABOUT TO GIVE GOD THIS GREAT EXCUSE FOR THE WAY I LIVED MY LIFE
• 08:56 AND THEN I REALIZED I WAS TALKING TO THE ONE WHO KNEW MY INNERMOST THOUGHTS
• 09:01 AND I HAD NO EXCUSE FOR THE WAY I LIVED MY LIFE.
• 09:03 THE ONLY WORDS THAT WOULD COME TO MY MOUTH WERE, "LORD, I'M SORRY, PLEASE FORGIVE ME."
• 09:08 THAT NIGHT, 35 YEARS AGO, I WAS FILLED WITH FORGIVENESS.
• 09:13 PERHAPS ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE THINGS FROM THAT EVENT,
• 09:16 THOSE NICE JEWISH BOYS AND MYSELF MET MOISHE ROSEN
• 09:19 AND MOISHE AND MY FRIENDS AND I STARTED AN ORGANIZATION CALLED "JEWS FOR JESUS".
• 09:26 YOU'RE ONE OF THE FOUNDERS.
• 09:27 I'M ONE OF THE FOUNDERS.
• 09:29 ME AND THOSE BOYS FROM THE HOUSEBOAT
• 09:31 AND A COUPLE OF OTHER HIPPIE-DIPPIE TYPE KIDS THAT MET MOISHE OUT IN SAN FRANCISCO.
• 09:36 I HEARD YOU JUST STARTED WITH A LITTLE MIMEOGRAPH MACHINE OR PHOTOCOPIER,
• 09:40 MADE SOME OF THESE REALLY INTERESTING TRACTS THAT WERE VERY ENGAGING
• 09:43 AND THE REST IS HISTORY.
• 09:45 PRETTY MUCH, WELL, HE HAD THE MIMEOGRAPH MACHINE, SO WE LET HIM BE IN CHARGE.
• 09:47 MOISHE.
• 09:49 THAT WAS IT. MOISHE, AND THAT'S HOW IT STARTED
• 09:51 (LAUGHING)
• 09:52 SO, WHERE ARE WE NOW FROM THE HUMBLE BEGINNINGS 35 YEARS AGO,
• 09:56 NEW YORK CITY WITH 130 OR SO STAFF?
• 10:00 YES.
• 10:01 FINISHING UP A MAJOR CAMPAIGN.
• 10:03 "JEWS FOR JESUS" HAS GONE THROUGH SOME BIG CHANGES
• 10:07 SINCE MOISHE RESIGNED AS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR.
• 10:11 HE CONTINUES IN THE POSITION OF FOUNDER
• 10:13 AND WITH THE NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, DAVID BRICKNER,
• 10:15 WE TOOK ON SOME DIFFERENT CHALLENGES, NEW DIRECTIONS
• 10:18 AND ONE OF THE CHALLENGES WE TOOK ON WAS A 5 YEAR PLAN
• 10:22 TO REACH CITIES AROUND THE WORLD WITH A POPULATION OF 25,000 JEWS OR MORE.
• 10:28 WE WANTED TO HAVE AN INTENSE EVANGELISTIC CAMPAIGN IN EACH OF THOSE CITIES
• 10:31 TO LEAVE SOME KIND OF CONTINUING WORK AMONG THOSE 25,000 JEWS.
• 10:37 60 CITIES AROUND THE WORLD.
• 10:39 AFTER 5 YEARS, WE'RE CULMINATING THAT PROGRAM,
• 10:43 OUR "BEHOLD YOUR GOD" CAMPAIGN IN THE STREETS OF NEW YORK.
• 10:46 SO, THIS IS LIKE FIREWORKS, THIS..
• 10:48 THIS IS THE BIG ENDING.
• 10:49 THIS IS THE BIG ENDING.
• 10:51 THIS IS WHERE EVERYBODY COMES IN, AS YOU SAID.
• 10:53 WE HAVE ABOUT 135 STAFF AROUND THE WORLD; THEY ARE COMING INTO NEW YORK CITY.
• 10:56 WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO? WHAT'S THE PLAN?
• 10:58 WELL, THE PLAN IS TO REACH, NOT JUST MANHATTAN, WE'VE ALWAYS HAD CAMPAIGNS IN MANHATTAN,
• 11:03 WHAT WE'RE PLANNING TO DO IS EACH BOROUGH AND EACH SUBURB IS GOING TO HAVE ITS OWN CAMPAIGN
• 11:10 WITH ITS OWN TEAM AND ITS OWN TEAM LEADER AND ITS OWN STRATEGY.
• 11:13 OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, "JEWS FOR JESUS" IS WELL KNOWN IN TRACT DISTRIBUTION.
• 11:17 WE HAND OUT MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF GOSPEL TRACTS EVERY YEAR
• 11:20 AND MANY OF THOSE MILLIONS ARE ON THE STREETS OF NEW YORK
• 11:23 AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO HAND OUT THOSE GOSPEL TRACTS.
• 11:25 GOSPEL TRACTS PUTS US IN THE PATH OF PEOPLE TRAVELING TO AND FROM WORK
• 11:31 AND TAKING BREAKS DURING LUNCH AND IT GIVES US AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TO THEM.
• 11:33 IT GIVES US AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET THEIR NAME AND ADDRESS
• 11:36 AND THEN FOLLOW UP ON A MORE LEISURELY TIME
• 11:39 WHERE WE CAN OPEN THE SCRIPTURES AND SHOW HOW CHRIST IS MESSIAH.
• 11:44 LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION.
• 11:46 MILLIONS OF PEOPLE HAVE RECEIVED LITERATURE FROM "JEWS FROM JESUS"
• 11:49 AND USUALLY WE SEE SOMEONE FROM "JEWS FOR JESUS" PASSING OUT TRACTS,
• 11:52 MAYBE WE TALK, MAYBE WE DON'T, WHAT'S A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A "JEWS FOR JESUS" PERSON?
• 11:56 WHAT DO YOU GUYS DO?
• 11:58 ON CAMPAIGN, WHAT THE "BEHOLD YOUR GOD" CAMPAIGN WILL BE, WILL BE VERY VARIED.
• 12:02 SOME PEOPLE WILL DO A LOT OF TRACT DISTRIBUTION,
• 12:04 BUT THERE WILL BE OTHERS WHERE WE'LL DO DOOR TO DOOR,
• 12:08 WE'LL ACTUALLY GO KNOCKING ON DOORS WITHIN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY
• 12:12 AND WE'LL PRESENT THE GOSPEL, MAYBE TAKE A SURVEY, SAY,
• 12:15 WELL, HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF "JEWS FOR JESUS"?
• 12:17 WHAT DO YOU THINK OF "JEWS FOR JESUS"?
• 12:19 WHO DO YOU THINK JESUS IS?
• 12:20 MAY I ASK YOU A QUESTION?
• 12:22 WHO DO YOU THINK JESUS IS?
• 12:24 WHO DO YOU THINK JESUS IS?
• 12:25 WHO DO YOU THINK JESUS IS?
• 12:27 WHO DO YOU THINK JESUS IS?
• 12:29 ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING THINGS THAT'S HAPPENING IN OUR "BEHOLD YOUR GOD" CAMPAIGN
• 12:32 IN NEW YORK IS NOT ONLY ARE WE REACHING THE SUBURBS LIKE WESTCHESTER, LONG ISLAND
• 12:38 AND NEW JERSEY, BUT WE'RE REACHING CERTAIN GROUPS OF PEOPLE
• 12:41 THAT HAVE BEEN IGNORED IN THE PAST.
• 12:43 ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING THINGS WE'RE DOING IS REACHING THE HASIDIC COMMUNITY OF NEW YORK.
• 12:47 I HEARD A STORY, TELL US THAT.
• 12:49 IN FACT, JUST LAST WEEK 80,000 COPIES OF THE JESUS FILM.
• 12:57 IS THIS THE ONE THAT WAS DONE WITH CAMPUS CRUSADE?
• 12:59 THAT'S RIGHT, EXCEPT IT WAS DUBBED IN YIDDISH.
• 13:03 IN YIDDISH, WHICH IS THE PRIMARY LANGUAGE OF THE HASIDIC COMMUNITY.
• 13:05 80,000 OF THEM WERE MAILED OUT TO THE HASIDIC COMMUNITY OF BROOKLYN.
• 13:11 BOY, THAT'S REALLY GUTSY AND I BET IT'S EXPENSIVE, TOO.
• 13:14 WELL, IT'S GUTSY AND THE INTERESTING THING IS THAT
• 13:18 WHEN THE HASIDIC COMMUNITY GOT THE TAPE INITIALLY,
• 13:23 THE TAPE WAS SENT OUT UNDER THE NAME OF THE ORGANIZATION THAT PRODUCED IT.
• 13:29 "JEWS FOR JESUS" WASN'T VERY PROMINENT ON THE TAPE
• 13:32 AND YET THE HASIDIC COMMUNITY IMMEDIATELY KNEW WHO TO CALL.
• 13:36 THEY WERE CALLING US AND THEY WERE SAYING, DID YOU GUYS SEND A TAPE?
• 13:40 AND WE, SAID, WHO ELSE WOULD SEND YOU A TAPE?
• 13:42 WE WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT THE GOSPEL.
• 13:44 WE WANT YOU TO HEAR THE GOSPEL.
• 13:45 SO MANY OF YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN EXPOSED TO
• 13:48 OR KNOW THE STORY OF JESUS AND WE WANTED YOU TO HEAR IT.
• 13:51 THAT'S WHAT YOU SAID.
• 13:52 WHAT DO THEY SAY IN RESPONSE?
• 13:53 SOME OF THEM I CAN'T REPEAT ON TELEVISION.
• 13:55 (LAUGHING)
• 13:57 BUT, LET ME SAY THIS, WHENEVER YOU PREACH THE GOSPEL
• 13:59 AS WE SAID EARLIER, THERE'S ALWAYS A REACTION AND A RESPONSE.
• 14:02 MANY ARE RESPONDING, MANY ARE SAYING..
• 14:06 THERE'S A STORY OF ONE JEWISH WOMAN WHO CALLED ON THE SABBATH,
• 14:08 WHICH TO YOUR VIEWERS, THIS IS A SIGNIFICANT THING
• 14:12 BECAUSE THEY'D NEVER USE THE TELEPHONE ON THE SABBATH,
• 14:14 BUT THEY CALLED ON THE SABBATH BECAUSE THEY COULD HAVE ANONYMITY
• 14:17 AND NO ONE WOULD KNOW ABOUT IT AND THE WOMAN CALLED AND SAID,
• 14:20 NO ONE MUST KNOW THAT I AM CALLING, BUT I DESPERATELY NEED TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS JESUS.
• 14:26 YET, WE GET ANOTHER PHONE CALL ON SUNDAY FROM AN ORTHODOX WHO SAYS TO US,
• 14:32 WE THINK THE YIDDISH IS FINE, THEY CRITIQUE THE MOVIE, WHICH I THOUGHT WAS INTERESTING
• 14:39 AND THEN THEY SAID, BUT WE DON'T NEED TO HEAR ANYTHING FROM YOU.
• 14:42 WE HAVE NO SPIRITUAL HUNGER.
• 14:44 WHATEVER THE RABBI SAYS IS ALL WE NEED TO KNOW.
• 14:47 SO, WE HAVE BOTH.
• 14:48 THEN OF COURSE, WE HAVE THE TYPICAL IRATE CALLS,
• 14:53 HOW CAN YOU DO THIS, WHY DO YOU DO THIS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
• 14:56 SO, AGAIN, YOU HAVE A REACTION AND A RESPONSE.
• 14:58 WE'RE VERY EXCITED AND THE CAMPAIGN HASN'T OFFICIALLY STARTED YET.
• 15:02 IT STARTS IN JULY.
• 15:04 SO, DEFINITELY PART OF WHAT WE'LL BE DOING IS FOLLOWING UP ON THOSE PHONE CALLS
• 15:08 AND WE'LL BE MAKING OTHER PHONE CALLS.
• 15:10 WE HAVE A SPECIAL GROUP THERE THAT IS GOING TO BE DESIGNED TO REACH ISRAELIS,
• 15:15 THERE'S THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS OF ISRAELIS LIVING IN NEW YORK CITY.
• 15:19 SO WE'VE GOT A GROUP OF OUR MISSIONARIES FROM ISRAEL WHO SPEAK HEBREW
• 15:22 AND THEY WILL BE THE STREETS OF NEW YORK JUST GOING TO THE CLUBS
• 15:26 AND TO THE PLACES WHERE ISRAELIS MEET.
• 15:28 YOU KNOW, THAT REMINDS ME, I WAS IN ISRAEL NOT LONG AGO
• 15:30 AND READ AN ARTICLE ABOUT SO MANY ISRAELIS, WHEN THEY GET OUT OF THE MILITARY, YOUNGSTERS,
• 15:34 THEY GO OFF TO INDIA, THEY'RE AFTER EASTERN RELIGIONS,
• 15:37 NEVER MIND THIS, WAIT, WE'RE NOT MISSING ANYTHING.
• 15:39 WE DON'T FEEL ANY SPIRITUAL HUNGER.
• 15:42 THAT DOESN'T SEEM TO BE REFLECTIVE OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AS I UNDERSTAND IT.
• 15:45 YES, AND WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE ABLE TO ENGAGE THEM.
• 15:49 SO, WE'LL BE ON THE STREETS, WE'LL BE HANDING OUT GOSPEL TRACTS.
• 15:53 WE'LL BE ON THE TELEPHONE.
• 15:54 WE'LL BE VISITING PEOPLE.
• 15:55 WE'LL BE GOING DOOR TO DOOR.
• 15:57 WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?
• 15:59 PEOPLE THINK YOU'RE JOB IS TO GO TALK THEM OUT OF BEING JEWISH.
• 16:02 ARE YOU INTO THAT SORT OF THING?
• 16:03 MY JOB IS TO PRESENT THE GOSPEL.
• 16:05 MY JOB IS TO SIMPLY PRESENT THE GOSPEL.
• 16:08 GOD IS THE ONE WHO CONVINCES THEIR HEARTS.
• 16:11 BEING JEWISH IS THE MOST NATURAL THING IN THE WORLD TO BELIEVE IN THE MESSIAH.
• 16:15 SO, IT ISN'T A MATTER OF TALKING SOMEBODY INTO OR OUT OF ANYTHING,
• 16:18 IT'S A MATTER OF HELPING THEM SEE THAT JESUS IS THE MESSIAH.
• 16:21 JESUS, HE WASN'T A BUDDHIST MONK, HE WAS A JEW.
• 16:25 HE LIVED IN ISRAEL.
• 16:27 RIGHT, WE TELL THAT STORY ALL THE TIME.
• 16:28 YES, WE DO.
• 16:30 I THINK YOU AND I BOTH KNOW THIS AND MAYBE YOUR VIEWERS PROBABLY MAY KNOW THIS,
• 16:37 BUT, MOST JEWISH PEOPLE ARE DEALING WITH A CARICATURE OF JESUS.
• 16:41 THEY'RE NOT REALLY DEALING WITH THE REAL JESUS.
• 16:43 THEY DON'T REALLY KNOW THE JEWISH JESUS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
• 16:46 AND THEY HAVEN'T HEARD THE TRUE GOSPEL AND OUR JOB IS TO PROCLAIM IT.
• 16:51 OUR JOB IS TO GET ON THE HIGH PLACES AND SAY TO THE CITIES OF JUDAH, "BEHOLD YOUR GOD".
• 16:57 THERE YOU GO.
• 16:59 OK, SO NOW A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE PERSON WHO'S MINDED TO DO THAT.
• 17:01 NEW YORK CITY, COUPLE HUNDRED STAFF, VOLUNTEERS HITTING THE STREETS,
• 17:06 ARMED WITH MILLIONS OF PAMPHLETS, CREATIVE AND INTERESTING,
• 17:09 EARLY UP, LATE DOWN AT NIGHT.
• 17:12 I MEAN, WHAT'S THE PLAN, WHAT'S IT LIKE?
• 17:13 WELL, MANY WILL BE ON THE STREETS JUST HANDING OUT GOSPEL TRACTS,
• 17:16 INTERACTING WITH THE PEOPLE THAT COME BY AND I MIGHT ADD,
• 17:20 MANY OF THEM ARE GENTILES WHO STOP AND ASK US QUESTIONS
• 17:23 AND MANY OF THE GENTILES THAT WE SPEAK TO WILL PRAY WITH US,
• 17:27 GIVE THEIR NAMES AND ADDRESSES AND WE FIND LOCAL CHURCHES THAT WILL FOLLOW UP ON THEM.
• 17:31 SO, WE SEE MORE GENTILES COMING TO FAITH IN A CAMPAIGN THAN JEWS BECAUSE THERE'S SO MANY,
• 17:36 BUT WE'LL INTERACT WITH THEM ON THE STREETS,
• 17:38 WE'LL VISIT WITH THEM AND THEN WE'LL HAVE DIFFERENT SPECIAL EVENTS.
• 17:42 FOR INSTANCE, WE HAVE A SPECIAL EVENT COMING UP WHERE WE'LL HAVE A PRESENTATION OF SURVIVORS,
• 17:49 WHICH IS A VIDEO TAPE OF SEVEN SURVIVORS FROM THE HOLOCAUST
• 17:53 WHO BECAME BELIEVERS IN JESUS
• 17:55 AND WE'RE PLANNING ON PUTTING THAT IN SOME OF THE LIBRARIES IN SOME OF THE AREAS
• 17:59 AND SENDING OUT AN INVITATION TO THE JEWISH COMMUNITIES.
• 18:02 IT'S CALLED "SURVIVORS"?
• 18:03 IT'S CALLED THE "THE SURVIVOR STORIES"
• 18:05 AND THEN WE'RE PLANNING ON HAVING A PRESENTATION OF MARC CHAGALL.
• 18:09 WE'RE DEBATING WHETHER WE'LL USE THIS TITLE OR NOT,
• 18:12 MARC CHAGALL, JEW FOR JESUS?
• 18:14 BECAUSE HE'S USED SO MUCH CHRISTIAN IMAGERY IN HIS ART.
• 18:20 SO, WHAT WE'LL BE DOING IS WE'LL BE HAVING..
• 18:22 I MEAN JEWISH PEOPLE ARE INTO ART AND WE'D LIKE TO HAVE AN ART SHOW
• 18:27 AND HAVE A DEMONSTRATION OF THE WORK OF MARC CHAGALL
• 18:30 AND THEN HAVE A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE CHRISTIAN SYMBOLS IN MARC CHAGALL
• 18:35 AND GIVE US A CHANCE FOR A TESTIMONY.
• 18:37 WE'LL BE PUTTING ADS IN THE PAPER.
• 18:38 WE'LL BE DOING RADIO SPOTS, ANY WAY IN WHICH WE CAN COMMUNICATE THE GOSPEL.
• 18:43 WE'LL BE HAVING KIOSKS IN MALLS.
• 18:46 WE'LL BE HAVING TABLES IN CULTURAL FESTIVALS AND SWAP MEETS
• 18:52 AND WHATEVER, WHEREVER THERE ARE PEOPLE, WHERE THERE ARE GATHERINGS OF PEOPLE,
• 18:57 WE'LL HAVE SOMETHING WHETHER IT'S HANDING OUT TRACTS, A BOOK TABLE,
• 19:01 A BANNER WHERE YOU CAN'T REACH THE JEWISH COMMUNITY,
• 19:04 WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A BANNER BY THE BEGINNING OF A MAJOR INTERSECTION
• 19:10 GOING ON THE HIGHWAY THAT SAYS "JEWS FOR JESUS".
• 19:13 SO, YOU'LL HAVE 130 STAFF THERE, AS MANY MINIMALLY VOLUNTEERS ARE GOING TO ROLL UP THEIR SLEEVES
• 19:18 AND COME TO DO IT JUST FOR THE LOVE OF.. WHY?
• 19:22 PEOPLE WILL SAY, YOU KNOW, WELL, YOU GUYS ARE TOO AGGRESSIVE,
• 19:24 BUT LOOK AT ALL THESE PLANS, ALL THIS ENERGY.
• 19:26 YOU'RE PART OF THE EXECUTIVE APPARATUS.
• 19:27 YOU GUYS MEET AND PLAN HOW TO DO ALL THIS STUFF.
• 19:30 WHY, BECAUSE MY PEOPLE ARE PERISHING,
• 19:32 BECAUSE THE GREATEST FORM OF ANTI-SEMITISM IS WITHHOLDING THE GOSPEL FROM THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 19:37 IF WE TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY, THERE'S NO NAME UNDER HEAVEN
• 19:40 WHEREBY MEN MUST BE SAVED THAN THE NAME OF JESUS.
• 19:43 WHAT SHOULD WE DO, JUST SIT BACK AND, GOD COMPELS US.
• 19:47 NOW, AGAIN, REMEMBER IT'S NOT OUR JOB TO BRING THEM TO FAITH.
• 19:51 IT'S OUR JOB TO PRESENT THE FAITH, ONLY GOD CAN DO THAT.
• 19:54 WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THOSE WHO SAY, "YOU'RE NOT JUST PRESENTING THE FAITH,
• 19:56 YOU'RE GIVING THEM AN EXIT OUT OF BEING JEWISH TO JOIN SOME ALIEN CULTURE"?
• 20:00 HOW DO YOU RESPOND?
• 20:01 YOU CALL YOURSELVES "JEWS FOR JESUS",
• 20:03 I MEAN, YOU KEEP JEWISH AND JESUS TOGETHER.
• 20:05 I THINK THAT'S THE ANSWER.
• 20:07 WE DON'T REPRESENT CHRISTIANITY IN THE SENSE OF GENTILE CHRISTIANITY.
• 20:16 WE REPRESENT JESUS.
• 20:17 WE'RE PRESENTING JESUS.
• 20:20 WE'RE PRESENTING THE NEW TESTAMENT MESSIAH, SON OF GOD,
• 20:23 THE JEWISH MESSIAH TO OUR JEWISH PEOPLE, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE PRESENTING.
• 20:27 WE BELIEVE THAT WHEN A PERSON COMES TO FAITH,
• 20:32 THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL WORK IN THAT PERSON'S LIFE AND WORK OUT WHAT THAT IDENTITY IS.
• 20:37 WHEN YOU HELPED ME, I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS ROAD KILL ON THE HIGHWAY OF LIFE
• 20:42 AND I REMEMBER I WALKED INTO YOUR BIBLE STUDY IN CHICAGO YEARS AGO
• 20:46 AND YOU OPENED UP THE BIBLE AND YOU HELPED ME LEARN ABOUT THE MESSIAH JESUS.
• 20:52 YOU HELPED ME LEARN BIBLICAL LITERATURE.
• 20:54 YOU MODELED FOR ME A WAY TO BE IN LIFE AND YOU WERE MY HERO.
• 20:57 YOU KNOW, JEFF, YOUR TESTIMONY IS A GOOD EXAMPLE
• 21:01 OF WHAT WE WANT TO SEE REPRODUCED OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN,
• 21:06 RUNNING INTO YOUNG JEWISH PEOPLE WHO HAVE A HUNGER TO KNOW THE THINGS OF GOD
• 21:10 AND BE ABLE TO FILL THAT HUNGER WITH THE SCRIPTURES
• 21:12 AND THEN TO WATCH THE HOLY SPIRIT TRANSFORM THEM INTO THE PEOPLE THEY ARE TODAY.
• 21:17 I WAS A TROUBLED GUY IN NEW YORK CITY.
• 21:19 I GOT BESTED BY CIRCUMSTANCES THAT TOOK ME TO THE BOTTOM OF THE LAKE
• 21:23 AND I RAN INTO A WOMAN THERE NAMED RUTHIE
• 21:25 WHO WAS PASSING OUT TRACTS, WHO I STOPPED AND TALKED TO.
• 21:29 I WASN'T GOING TO PRAY WITH HER THEN, BUT, BOY THAT OPENED A DOOR TO A WHOLE NEW WORLD
• 21:33 AND WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT TO SEE A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE COME TO KNOW THE LORD THAT WAY.
• 21:36 WELL, ONE OF THE REASONS I'M HERE AND SPEAKING TO YOU
• 21:41 IS I'M HOPING AND PRAYING THAT YOUR VIEWERS WILL JOIN US
• 21:45 IN PRAYER AND JOIN US IN THIS EXCITING OUTREACH.
• 21:50 NO WORK OF GOD CAN HAPPEN WITHOUT GOD'S PEOPLE PRAYING
• 21:53 AND THIS WORK IN NEW YORK IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN UNLESS GOD'S PEOPLE GET BEHIND IT AND PRAY.
• 21:58 SO, I WANT, I'M LOOKING FOR AS MUCH PRAYER SUPPORT AS WE CAN GET.
• 22:01 WE'RE ALL IN IT TOGETHER AREN'T WE?
• 22:02 YES, WE ARE.
• 22:04 ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES, "JEWS FOR JESUS", IT ALL FLIES UNDER DIFFERENT BANNERS,
• 22:07 BUT ANY WAY, WE'RE ALL SUPPORTING THE SAME TESTIMONY.
• 22:12 THAT'S RIGHT.
• 22:13 WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL.
• 22:15 JHAN, IT'S BEEN GREAT TO BE WITH YOU AGAIN.
• 22:17 LOOK OUT NEW YORK CITY, WE'RE COMING.
• 22:20 I KNOW THAT MANY ARE GOING TO BE BLESSED.
• 22:23 IN A MOMENT, YOU'LL BE HEARING FROM SANDRA.
• 22:26 SHE'S COMING BACK.
• 22:27 GOD BLESS YOU.
• 22:46 MASHIACH
• 22:52 YESHUA
• 23:01 MATZIL
• 23:07 L'ALOM
• 23:18 B'NISHMATI
• 23:21 ANEE M'AMIN
• 23:25 ANEE M'AMIN
• 23:38 MESSIAH ♪MESSIAH
• 23:46 YESHUA ♪YESHUA
• 23:53 SAVIOR ♪SAVIOR
• 24:00 FOREVER ♪FOREVER
• 24:08 IN MY HEART, I BELIEVE ♪I BELIEVE
• 24:18 I BELIEVE
• 24:22 ♪I BELIEVE, I BELIEVE
• 24:37 I BELIEVE
• 24:45 FOR THE LORD THY GOD BRINGETH THEE INTO A GOOD LAND.
• 24:49 A LAND OF FIG TREES AND POMEGRANATES, A LAND OF OLIVE OIL AND HONEY.
• 24:56 ARISE, WALK THROUGH THE LAND, FOR ALL THE LAND WHICH THOU SEEST,
• 25:03 TO THEE WILL I GIVE IT AND TO THY SEED FOREVER.
• 25:09 WORSHIP IN THE SHADOWS OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB.
• 25:16 BEHOLD THE LAND OF THE COVENANT.
• 25:25 WELL, THAT'S ISRAEL.
• 25:28 I KNOW THAT ZOLA AND I BOTH,
• 25:29 BEFORE THE NIGHT BEFORE WE GO TO ISRAEL, WE BOTH CANNOT SLEEP.
• 25:32 IT IS SO EXCITING TO BE IN ISRAEL.
• 25:35 WE'RE GOING TO LIVE THERE 1000 YEARS OR MORE.
• 25:37 GO AND SEE YOUR HOME.
• 25:39 I HAVE MORE SCRIPTURE I WANT TO READ TO YOU.
• 25:41 IT COMES OUT OF ISAIAH 42.
• 25:59 THOSE WHO DO NOT BELIEVE ARE IN DARKNESS.
• 26:01 THAT IS THE MISSION FOR US TO WITNESS, TO BE GOOD WITNESSES TO BOTH THE JEW AND THE GENTILE.
• 26:08 IN A FEW WEEKS, JEFF AND I ARE GOING TO ISRAEL.
• 26:10 WE'RE GOING TO MAKE SOME PROGRAMS.
• 26:12 I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO REALLY ENJOY THEM.
• 26:13 IN THE NEAR FUTURE, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE SOME PROGRAMS
• 26:15 THAT ZOLA MADE BEFORE HE DIED, VERY MUCH, I THINK, TIMELY.
• 26:20 THEN YOU WILL SEE SOME HIGHLIGHTS OF 27 YEARS OF ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES.
• 26:26 I THINK YOU'LL REALLY ENJOY THAT AND AS ALWAYS
• 26:29 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM, PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.