The Need for Evangelism with Sid Roth

SO SID, TELL US, LET'S GO BACK TO WHAT KIND OF HOME WERE YOU RAISED IN, WERE YOU AROUND ANY KIND OF RELIGION, AND THEN HOW DID YOU END UP IN THIS DEMONIC PLACE THAT GOD SUPERNATURALLY SAVED YOU FROM?

SO I WOULD READ THE WHOLE DAY IN THE SYNAGOGUE ON YOM KIPPUR NOT UNDERSTANDING A WORD I WAS SAYING. SO YOU COULD SEE HOW YOU GET DISINTERESTED, AND THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED WITH MOST AMERICAN JEWS. AND SO I REMEMBER ONE THING I WANTED TO TELL YOU, THOUGH, BECCA, IS WHEN I WAS A YOUNG KID -- THIS HAS TO DO WITH GOD -- I REMEMBER MY PARENTS, WHO WERE GREAT ATHLETES. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE INTO ATHLETICS OR NOT, BUT LIKE MY PARENTS WERE, BUT THEIR SPORT OF CHOICE WAS THE GREAT SPORT OF POKER.

THAT WAS THEIR SPORT. AND THEY WOULD BE UP LATE AT NIGHT. YOU KNOW THE MOVIEHOME ALONE? I COULD HAVE WRITTEN THE SCRIPT. AND I REMEMBER ONE NIGHT I WAS HOME ALONE BECAUSE MY FOLKS WERE OUT IN THEIR SPORTING EVENT, AND SOMEHOW SOMETHING POPPED IN MY HEAD. TODAY I KNOW WHERE IT CAME FROM, BUT BACK THEN, I HAD NO PARAGON FOR IT, NOTHING, THAT A QUESTION POPPED IN MY HEAD: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DIE? NOW, WE JEWS, IT'S THE RELIGION OF L'CHAIM, TO LIFE! NOT TO DEATH. WE DON'T TALK ABOUT DEATH.

BUT THAT WAS THE QUESTION. AND SO I TRIED TO GET AN ANSWER, LIKE A SIX-YEAR-OLD BOY, HOME ALONE. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DIE? AND I STARTED HAVING THE MOST GROSS THOUGHTS, AND I GOT THE FEELING I CEASE TO EXIST, AND I -- WHATEVER IS ME, I DIDN'T WANT IT TO BE SNUFFED OUT, I DIDN'T WANT TO CEASE TO EXIST. AND SO I DID THE ONLY INTELLIGENT THING A SIX-YEAR-OLD BOY CAN DO AT THAT POINT: I BLOCKED IT FROM MY MIND AND I STOPPED THINKING ABOUT IT UNTIL MANY YEARS LATER.

SO FAST-FORWARD, GRADUATE COLLEGE, MARRIED, CHILD, HAVE A JOB WITH THE LARGEST STOCK BROKERAGE FIRM IN THE WORLD. MY GREAT DESIRE IN LIFE -- I WAS TAUGHT THIS BY TELEVISION, BY THE WAY -- IS I COULD HAVE HAPPINESS IF I COULD HAVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. SO MY GOAL WAS TO MAKE BACK THEN A MILLION DOLLARS BY 30.

I WROTE A BOOK CALLED THERE MUST BE SOMETHING MORE BASED ON A SONG THAT I WROTE, "THERE MUST BE SOMETHING MORE", WHICH WAS REALLY THE SONG IN MY HEART WHICH I HAPPENED TO BELIEVE UNLESS, EVEN IF YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN, IF YOU DON'T HAVE EXPERIENTIAL KNOWLEDGE WITH GOD THROUGH JESUS, IN QUOTES, "EXPERIENTIAL" KNOWLEDGE WITH GOD, YOU'VE GOT TO BE SHOUTING, THERE MUST BE SOMETHING MORE, THERE MUST BE SOMETHING MORE! AND SO THAT'S WHERE I WAS AT. AND SO I GOT INVOLVED IN A NEW AGE MEDITATION COURSE.

THEY DISGUISED IT AS SOMETHING, SELF-HELP AND STUFF LIKE THAT. IT'S NOTHING MORE THAN A DEMON FACTORY WHERE YOU GET DEMONS INSERTED BASED ON YOU BREAKING SPIRITUAL LAWS, THINGS YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW EXIST THAT ARE IF YOU'RE JEWISH, THEY OWN YOU A JEWISH BIBLE, IF YOU'RE CHRISTIAN, THEY'RE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE OLD TESTAMENT. BUT TO ACTUALLY, THE BIBLE CALLS IT IN DEUTERONOMY 18 AN ABOMINATION TO BE INVOLVED IN A LOT OF THESE NEW AGE PRACTICES AND WITCHCRAFT PRACTICES. BUT WHAT DID I KNOW?

THEY WERE RUN BY CHRISTIANS, A LOT OF THESE COURSES, SO-CALLED. SO I TOOK THIS COURSE AND THEY TOLD ME TO INVITE A COUNSELOR INSIDE OF ME, WHICH IS A NICE "TERM" FOR DEMON.

I DIDN'T PRAY, I WASN'T PRAYING, BUT JUST HEARD WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DIE? I DIDN'T WANT TO DIE, BUT LIFE WAS TOO HARD, AND I HAPPENED TO BELIEVE THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE WATCHING US RIGHT NOW THAT LIFE IS TOO HARD, AND I UNDERSTAND IT. WE HUMANS WERE DESIGNED TO NEED GOD. WE WEREN'T DESIGNED TO DO IT OURSELVES. SO OF COURSE LIFE IS TOO HARD. SO ANYWAY, I WAS GIVEN A LITTLE BOOKLET, THE FOUR SPIRITUAL LAWS. YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN THEM.

AND I READ THROUGH IT, MADE NO SENSE WHATSOEVER TO ME, BUT I DID SAY THAT PRAYER. NOTHING, NO LIGHTNING, NO THUNDER. THAT DIDN'T WORK. THAT CHRISTIAN PRAYER IS NOTHING. BUT I WAS TOLD BY MY CHRISTIAN FRIENDS THAT GAVE ME THAT BOOKLET THAT IF I WOULD PRAY TO GOD IN THE NAME OF THE JEWISH MESSIAH JESUS, I COULD GET SET FREE OF ANY CRISIS. SO IF YOU'RE SINKING IN THE OCEAN, BECCA, YOU DON'T CARE WHO THROWS YOU A ROPE, ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE GOING DOWN FOR THE THIRD TIME. AND MY ROPE WAS JESUS.

SO I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT I WAS DOING, BUT I PRAYED A SIMPLE TWO-WORD PRAYER. NOT A FANCY PRAYER. MY PRAYER WAS, AND I WAS AT BOTTOM, AND THAT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH IT. I HAD NOWHERE ELSE TO GO AND I KNEW IT, AND I WAS GOING DOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN MYSELF FOR THE THIRD TIME, AND I CRIED OUT A PRAYER, JESUS, HELP! AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED TO ME FIFTY YEARS AGO, BUT IT'S AS REAL AS IT WAS YESTERDAY, BECCA.

FIFTY YEARS AGO, I WENT TO BED BECAUSE LIFE WAS TOO ROUGH, AND I DIDN'T WANT TO WAKE UP. BUT I DID WAKE UP. AND I FELT THE GREATEST PRESENCE OF PEACE IN ME, AROUND ME. EVERYWHERE IN THE BEDROOM THAT I'D EVER EXPERIENCED IN MY LIFE. I HAD NO PARADIGM FOR IT, I HAD NEVER BEEN INTO DRUGS, I'D NEVER BEEN AN ALCOHOLIC. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THOSE HIGHS ARE LIKE. BUT I CAN TELL YOU THIS: WHATEVER THEY ARE, IT'S NOTHING COMPARED TO EXPERIENCING WHAT I EXPERIENCED.

NOW I KNOW, I DIDN'T KNOW IT AT THE TIME, I JUST KNOW I WENT FROM CHAOS AND NOT WANTING TO LIVE TO THE GREATEST FEELING I'D EVER HAD IN MY LIFE. IT WAS THE PURE LOVE OF GOD. NOT LOVE, NOT HUMAN LOVE, NOT A LOVE OF A MOTHER FOR A CHILD -- THAT'S WONDERFUL -- NOT A LOVE OF A HUSBAND FOR A WIFE -- THAT'S WONDERFUL -- BUT IT WAS A HUNDRED PERCENT PURE LOVE, AND IT WAS GOD.

AND THEN I HEARD THE AUDIBLE VOICE OF GOD BECAUSE I'D LEFT MY WIFE AND DAUGHTER, AND HE SAID, HE QUOTED MALACHI -- I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT MALACHI SAID -- AND HE QUOTED MALACHI AND HE SAID, I HATE DIVORCE! RETURN TO YOUR WIFE AND DAUGHTER. AND YOU KNOW WHAT I SAID, BECCA? YES, SIR. THAT'S WHAT I SAID. AND GOD RESTORED MY MIND, MY MARRIAGE, MY PEACE, MY PURPOSE. AND THEN I FOUND OUT SOMETHING FASCINATING. SO EVERYTHING WAS RESTORED IN MY LIFE.

I CAN TELL YOU EVERY MEMBER OF MY IMMEDIATE FAMILY HAS NOW BECOME A BELIEVER IN THE MESSIAH.

AND IT'S CRAZY BECAUSE GROWING UP IN CHURCH, I DID NOT UNDERSTAND THAT BECAUSE IT WAS NOT TAUGHT TO ME. AND WHEN I BEGAN TO UNDERSTAND NOW IS THAT ISRAEL IS KIND OF EVERYTHING. JESUS IS EVERYTHING, BUT ISRAEL IS SUCH A SIGNIFICANT PART. THEY'RE GOD'S PEOPLE AND HE STILL HAS A DESTINY AND A PURPOSE FOR THEM. SO CAN YOU TALK ABOUT WHAT IT'S BEEN LIKE ALMOST BEING IN THE MIDDLE, BEING RAISED JEWISH AND KNOWING THAT BUT THEN BEING IN THE CHRISTIAN WORLD?

AND ANOTHER GROUP OF JEWS THAT FOLLOWED TRADITIONAL JUDAISM. BUT THEN A GREAT CRISIS OCCURRED IN 70 A.D.; IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO FOLLOW TRADITIONAL JUDAISM. THE TEMPLE WAS DESTROYED. OF COURSE, THEY DIDN'T READ IN DANIEL THAT SAID, THE MESSIAH WILL COME AND DIE, BE CUT OFF, AND THEN THE TEMPLE WILL BE DESTROYED. SO IF THE TEMPLE WAS TO RESTORE, THE MESSIAH HAD ALREADY COME. BUT THEY DIDN'T PUT THAT TOGETHER.

SO ONE GROUP OF JEWS REINVENTED JUDAISM NOT BASED COMPLETELY ON THE TORAH BUT HE GOES IF YOU BASE IT ON THE TORAH, YOU NEED A TEMPLE, YOU NEED ANIMAL SACRIFICE. IT COULDN'T BE. AND SO I UNDERSTAND WHY THEY DID IT. IF YOU DON'T ACCEPT GOD'S WAY, YOU HAVE TO REINVENT. THEY REINVENTED JUDAISM. IT'S BEAUTIFUL TODAY. IT'S FAMILY. IT'S THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CULTURE IN THE WORLD AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED. HOWEVER, IF IT BLINDS YOU TO KNOWING THE TRUTH OF GOD, WHAT'S MORE IMPORTANT?

THIS LIFE IS A BLINK OF THE EYE. KNOWING GOD IS ETERNITY. AND AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED, I HAVE DISTRIBUTED MILLIONS OF BOOKS AND BOOKLETS TO JEWISH PEOPLE. WE MAILED A MILLION BOOKS ABOUT WHO JESUS IS TO JEWISH FAMILIES THROUGHOUT NORTH AMERICA. I HAVE ONE HERE THAT I WROTE, THERE MUST BE SOMETHING MORE. WE DESIGNED THIS JUST FOR MILLENNIALS. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? YOU NEED THE GLORY OF GOD. AND GUESS WHAT? THE GLORY OF GOD IS THE NEXT MOVE OF GOD'S SPIRIT TO AN INTENSITY.

LIKE A FRIEND OF MINE WROTE A BOOK AND I WROTE AN ENDORSEMENT FOR IT, AND HE SAYS WE'RE GOING BACK TO PENTECOST. NO, WE'RE NOT. WE'RE GOING BACK TO A MILLION TIMES GREATER THAN PENTECOST. HOW COULD IT BE GREATER? WELL, EVEN JESUS KNEW IT WOULD BE GREATER. HE SAID, YOU WILL DO THE SAME WORKS I HAVE DONE, AND EVEN GREATER. GOD SAYS IN GENESIS 12:3, I, GOD, WILL BLESS THOSE WHO BLESS THE JEWISH PEOPLE, I, GOD, WILL CURSE THOSE WHO CURSE THEM.

IF YOU STUDIED HISTORY, YOU WILL SEE GOD IS NOT A MAN THAT HE SHOULD LIE. AND EVERY NATION THAT HAS TURNED AGAINST ISRAEL HAS BEEN FLATTENED BY GOD. AND EVERY NATION THAT HAS BLESSED ISRAEL, AND I'LL TAKE ONE IN PARTICULAR WE'RE ALL FAMILIAR WITH, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA -- THAT'S ACTUALLY IN THE NAME JERUSALEM, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE EVER NOTICED IT, YOU SPELL JERUSALEM, USA IS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SPELLING OF JERUSALEM, WE HAVE BEEN THE BEST FRIENDS TO ISRAEL.

AS A MATTER OF FACT, I'M A LITTLE CONCERNED ABOUT AMERICA RIGHT NOW BECAUSE FROM ADMINISTRATION TO ADMINISTRATION, THEY'RE EITHER PRO-ISRAEL OR AGAINST ISRAEL OR NEUTRAL, BUT AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED, THIS COUNTRY HAS TURNED RAPIDLY AGAINST ISRAEL AND WE'RE REAPING THE PENALTIES OF THAT. BUT I'LL TELL YOU, IN THE MIDST OF THE -- I'M NOT WORRIED ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCE, WHETHER IT'S IN THE UNITED STATES OR WHETHER IT'S IN ANOTHER COUNTRY.

I AM GOING TO BE IN THE CENTER OF THE GLORY OF GOD, AND I CAN TELL YOU THIS,

AND YOU CAN. AND IT'S GOD'S GREAT HEART DESIRE. HE WANTS YOU TO KNOW HIM, TO HAVE YOUR OWN EXPERIENTIAL KNOWLEDGE WITH HIM. AND BECCA, CAN I LEAD PEOPLE IN A PRAYER RIGHT NOW?

OUT LOUD. DEAR GOD, I'M A SINNER AND I'M SO SORRY. I BELIEVE THE BLOOD OF JESUS WASHES AWAY ALL OF MY SINS AND I AM CLEAN. AND NOW THAT I'M CLEAN, JESUS COME AND LIVE INSIDE OF ME. THANK YOU FOR SAVING ME. I MAKE YOU MY LORD. HELP ME TO EXPERIENCE YOU. HELP ME TO FEEL YOUR LOVE. AMEN!

I SEE HOW ZEALOUS THEY ARE FOR ORTHODOX JUDAISM, WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THEY HAVE THEIR OWN ENCOUNTER WITH GOD? THEIR OWN ENCOUNTER WITH THE LIVING GOD. CAN YOU PICTURE WHAT WILL HAPPEN WITH TEN THOUSAND YOUNG MILLENNIAL JEWS RUNNING TO THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH AND SPREADING THE GOSPEL? I BELIEVE JUST AS GOD USED THE JEWS AT THE FIRST COMING OF JESUS, HE'S GOING TO USE THE JEWS AT THE RETURN. I BELIEVE THAT THE NATION OF ISRAEL WILL BE ABLAZE FOR JESUS.

I BELIEVE THERE WILL BE ENTIRE COUNTRIES THAT ARE GOING TO TURN TO THE LORD. WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO RETIRE OR DIE RIGHT NOW? IF YOU HAVE A HEART TO SEE ALL ISRAEL SAVED THAT WHEN ALL ISRAEL IS SAVED, THE WHOLE WORLD WILL BE SAVED, AND I'LL TELL YOU WHY: BECAUSE ALL ISRAEL HAS BEEN SPREAD ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE TO THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH AND THE LAST DAYS THEY WILL COME BACK FROM THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH TO ISRAEL.

DO YOU KNOW EVEN IN THE WORST TIMES IN COVID THIS PAST YEAR, ALIYAH, THAT'S THE RETURN FROM THE NATIONS OF JEWS, HAS INCREASED ALMOST 30% COMPARED TO THE YEAR BEFORE? JEWS ARE BEGINNING TO REALIZE THE ONLY SAFE PLACE FOR A JEW USED TO BE THE U.S. I DON'T THINK IT'S GOING TO BE THAT IF THINGS CONTINUE MUCH LONGER THE WAY THEY'RE TURNING. BUT IN MANY COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD, IT'S NOT SAFE TO DEMONSTRATE THAT YOU'RE JEWISH, AND THE ONLY SAFE PLACE IS ISRAEL.

SO EVEN IN THE DAYS OF THE WORST OF COVID, THE ALIYAH IS INCREASING DRAMATICALLY. SO ANY CHRISTIAN, REMEMBER THAT ONE SCRIPTURE I JUST SAID FROM ZACHARIAH, I THINK IT'S THE SECOND CHAPTER OF THE LIVING BIBLE,

WE'RE EQUAL IN JESUS BECAUSE IT SAYS REALLY THAT THERE'S ALWAYS A PHYSICAL JEW, JUST AS THERE'S ALWAYS A PHYSICAL FEMALE, A PHYSICAL MALE, A PHYSICAL JEW, A PHYSICAL GENTILE, THAT MEANS SOMEONE BORN FROM SOMEPLACE OUTSIDE OF ISRAEL. THE BIBLE SAYS IN THE LAST DAYS THERE WILL BE A NEW SPECIES OF BEING, ONE THAT NEVER EXISTED BEFORE. IT'LL BE CALLED THE ONE NEW MAN. AND IN THE ORIGINAL GREEK, IT'S THE ONE NEW HUMANITY. THE ONE NEW HUMANITY.

AND THIS ONE NEW HUMANITY IS ALL OF US OPERATING IN THE LOVE OF MESSIAH, THE COMPASSION OF MESSIAH, THE UNITY, THE ONENESS, THE LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER. AND IT WILL ASTOUND THE WORLD. AND YOU KNOW THIS SONG, ♪ THEY'LL KNOW WE ARE BELIEVERS ♪ ♪ BY OUR LOVE, BY OUR LOVE ♪ ♪ THEY WILL KNOW WE ARE BELIEVERS ♪ ♪ BY OUR LOVE THAT'S COMING WITH THE GLORY.

YOUR PRAYERS SHOULD BE THE MOSES PRAYER. GOD, SHOW ME YOUR GLORY. AND I WOULD PRAY THIS SEVERAL TIMES DURING THE DAY. WHAT I'M BEGINNING TO FIND OUT IS THE MORE YOU PRAISE SCRIPTURE, THE MORE GOD OPERATES IN YOUR LIFE. ONE OF THE MESSAGES OF THE HOUR RIGHT NOW, BECCA, IS PRAY THE WORD OF GOD. STALK THE WORD OF GOD. SING THE WORD OF GOD. THAT IS SO MANY PEOPLE, THEY SAY, GOD, WHY AREN'T YOU DOING THIS FOR ME? WHY AREN'T YOU -- THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND THE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN MAN AND GOD.

WE SPEAK IT, GOD DOES IT. WE DON'T SPEAK IT, GOD DOESN'T DO IT. I DON'T BELIEVE ANYONE COMES TO THE LORD WITHOUT SOMEONE HAVING PRAYED FOR THEM. THEY'RE SAYING, WELL, HOW DO THE JEWISH PEOPLE COME TO THE LORD WITHOUT SOMEONE PRAYING FOR THEM? GOD JUST TOUCHES SOMEONE LIKE BECCA LAMB WEISS AND SAYS, PRAY FOR THAT DOCTOR OVER THERE, PRAY FOR THAT ATTORNEY OVER THERE, PRAY FOR THAT FORMER SCHOOLMATE OVER THERE THAT'S JEWISH.

AND I'LL TELL YOU THIS, I LIKE TO TEACH ON SOMETHING CALLED, I CALL IT THE LAW OF EVANGELISM. STARTED WITH GOD THE FATHER. WHEN GOD WANTED TO REACH THE WHOLE WORLD, NOT JUST THE JEW, WHO DID HE GO TO FIRST? ABRAM THE FIRST JEW. WHEN JESUS WANTED TO REACH THE WHOLE WORLD, HE DIED FOR THE SINS OF THE WHOLE WORLD, WHAT DID HE SAY? I GO ONLY TO THE LOST SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL.

PAUL, THE APOSTLE TO THE GENTILES, SUMMARIZED IT ALL, AND HE SAID, I'M NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL: BECAUSE THE GOSPEL IS THE POWER OF GOD UNTO SALVATION TO EVERY ONE WHO BELIEVES; TO THE JEW FIRST. NOT JUST THE HISTORICAL ORDER, BUT GOD'S SPIRITUAL ORDER. I CAN TELL YOU AS A FACT, WHEN I HAVE GONE TO THE JEW FIRST, I'VE REACHED MORE GENTILES THAN IF I'D GONE TO THE GENTILE FIRST. IT'S CALLED THE LAW OF EVANGELISM, BECCA.