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March 29, 2018 - Brother Nathanael
05:13
How To Preach Jesus To Jews
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You have to know who you're dealing with.
I'm talking about 2,000 years of Jewish unbelief.
I've often wondered if Jews have coded into their DNA a hardened spirit against the Gospel.
Worse, when you're dealing with bad attitudes, you're at a frightful disadvantage.
Everybody blames the Jews for killing Christ, and then the Jews try to pass it off on the Romans.
You know, I'm one of the few people that believes it was the blacks.
I don't care.
Good. I hope the Jews did kill Christ.
I'd do it again. I'd fucking do it again in a second.
Not only bad attitudes, but crass mockery Here's the
That's a real issue.
What's that? This?
Yeah. This is a nail.
I bought this on the internet.
It's from The Passion of the Christ.
What, are you kidding? No.
Kind of interesting. You got one of those Christ nails from the movie?
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Have you seen it?
I didn't see it. You're nuts about this Jesus guy, aren't you?
Yeah. Well, I have a personal relationship with Christ.
Really? Yeah. See, I can see worshiping Jesus if you were a girl.
Like if God had a daughter.
Jane. I worship a Jane.
No. But, you know, to worship a guy...
Like a little kind of, you know, it's a little gay, isn't it?
Okay. The son of God, what's the matter with you?
No! Mary David, like most Jews, can't bring himself to worship a mere man, which is Judaism's view of Jesus.
But like most Jews, he's ignorant of the divine man-figure in the Old Testament.
These are called theophanies.
God appeared as this man-figure to Abraham who served him a meal and worshipped him.
God also appeared as captain of the Lord's army to Joshua, who removed his shoes, bowed down, and worshipped.
These were pre-incarnate appearances of the eternal Son of God, who, as predicted by Moses and the prophets, would come as a man to bear our sins and conquer death by his cross and resurrection.
Perhaps this is too much theology for Jews.
Jewish unbelief is pretty straightforward.
The rabbis don't believe in Jesus, we were told as kids.
End of story. Why do we believe that Moses led the Jews to the Red Sea, but we don't believe that Jesus walked on water?
This answer is very, very simple, because, that is very important to know, the big difference between the Jewish tradition and the non-Christian or any other religion tradition is, That at the time that God gave the Torah to Mount Sinai, there were millions of people that witnessed it.
They saw God coming down with the lightning and the thunder, speaking to Moshe Rabbeinu.
And all the action that happened at that time, that God spoke to them, they heard His voice speaking to them, was witnessed by millions of people.
By any other religion, for instance, Yashkar, I don't want to say his name, Yashkar that you're talking about, He was not witnessed by anybody.
Maybe one or two of us had five disciples.
And they decided that he is God's son.
Pathetic and historically mindless.
First of all, there is no Moshe Rabbeinu in the Old Testament.
Moses is cited as a priest and prophet, not a rabbi.
You see, the rabbis of the Talmud gave Moses this title about 200 A.D. to make him a rabbi like themselves, since rabbis don't appear anywhere in Scripture.
This way they palm themselves off as peers of the Holy Moses.
And it was only Moses, no one else, who recorded his eyewitness encounter with God on Mount Sinai.
Millions did not see God.
These millions only saw a dark cloud descend on Sinai, not God himself, and heard thunder that filled them with terror and told Moses to deal with God far away from them.
With Jesus, thousands experienced his sojourn on earth, not one or two, four eyewitnesses recording it in writing, and with many preaching his resurrection, which they saw, the account even documented by the Jewish historian Josephus.
Scholarship is not the rabbi's field.
So, how do we preach Jesus to Jews?
It's risky business.
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