NRB Chronicles - A Cultural Jew Comes To Christ Story

Oh I can't tell you how fun it is that God gives us a chance to be your convention, Florida National religious broadcasters convention and that so often you know I get to see old friends visiting from here a long time and one of those people that I would just elect was not to be seen. Jeffrey Miller, my friend who does the sailors and messianic ministry tried and Jeffrey so great to see.

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Donnie Rob given the name of your face, and I know you yet is a Jew who believes in Jesus is a messianic Jew, although it's quick aside. It's really funny in full-time traveling ministry for over 30 years been a church is where I get introduced as a Masonic to serve others lime juice that are Masons little different of the Messiah, so man I know every people that know me well know how much I love Hebrew culture Jewish the Hebrew language, how much I love that part of the Old Testament is lived there. So the thing is just absolutely surprised me the first time ever batch it surprises me even more.

How do they miss it.

Jeffrey will you know there's the unwritten law in Judaism, a BJ anything but Jesus and in his truth.

What will I grew up as a reformed Jew, but it totally Jewish household and without question it was well God may be I guess you know probably cultural Jews, like most Jewish people are today, and Israel is full of apostate Jewish people as well.

People that just don't know. There really is a God who loves Jewish people don't see God is a loving father. That's not part of what they the religion Schultz, a loving father that that's the love of the father gets demonstrated at the cross, birth, death and resurrection of Jesus. That's with a loving father really blossom in Jewish people see that part so they see God as well.

If they believe in him at all.

If they believe in them is more than just a creator who Satan back watching and laughing at us.

They they just don't see the love, love, well, I never saw the love growing up was as Jewish home either. And so when you say how can they miss.

This is because they don't they get CM paradigm shift get all the looking at the other side of this shift instead of saying the loving side of the ship so that anything but Jesus, it's embedded I mean it is so strong, even as an unwritten rule but little is a spoken rule bullet can't be Jesus white because it can't put. But why because we don't believe that.

Why don't you believe it because it's not true. Why do you know is not true because it can't be circular right and that's why I say Robbie, the Holy Spirit doesn't work, you know, we say we brought someone salvation. We did when we kicked the door and maybe or gently opened the door, but it was the Holy Spirit and Jewish people don't know from the Holy Spirit working in your life you will you know is rather amazing, because I was an atheist 24 year someone raised Jewish home.

My parents were Jewish. Their parents rejoice far as we know, my sister did one of those genetic tests.

The DNA testing. Whatever.

And it showed 97% European Jewish background so not pure a lot. A lot. Member Solomon had many wives does but we do know that we have a significant Jewish Jewish or Gentile ghettos, reformed, or so we were very strict liberal cultural Jews and them. But at the age of 12 in synagogue during a Hebrew prayer service.

I decided there was no God in Robbie. It wasn't hard it was dead as a 12-year-old very precocious voice thinking thinking thinking thinking and analyzing all my life. Even as a 12-year-old and I set these people believe what they're praying out of the prayerbook. This adore the Hebrew prayerbook.

They don't believe this stuff why they sing these first. Why am I saying these prayers and I decided there was no God and I stayed in and I became an atheist. My state an atheist 24 years in my mid-30s and my mid-30s I was a runaround bachelor in the worst sense of the word was better. Looking back, that I might add its radios but I was a runaround bachelor and a divorced man and had sworn off marriages said marriage is stupid. I proved it and I'm never going to get married again but I'm in a runaround and enjoy women like never smoke, drink or use drugs, but I did other stuff right that was clearly sin and will so working radio secular radio and television much my don't like most of my adult life I was a rock 'n' roll this document. I started back in my early 20s became a news man became a TV news anchor TV news man and I work at this TV station next to me on the new steam is a born-again Christian, very attractive working side-by-side with me born-again Christian born-again Christian atheist you.

We surely had different ideas about life, about almost every I'm sure we started to date all odd couple.

We started dating and I didn't know this would shortly after we started dating. The Lord spoke. She said she spoke to the Lord and said, God help with this guy I am. This is no good. I got yoked ability and this is an open shot. Not even a test necessary so she said that in the spirit of God spoke into her heart, not enter it.

She never heard affordably in her heart. Don't worry about Jeff.

That's me. Don't worry about Jeff. He's going to come to know me and the two of you will be married and praise God. She had the wisdom to not tell me, but she prayed for my jewelry praying for me, but she prayed more diligently that she prayed and she prayed and she prayed and two years later I was worse. Lemon two years we were dating and little on-and-off. He woke up, but she was saying that I don't get it, but I'm not given up and one day. Two years later at the TV station after the late news that an outlet in our car in the parking lot. I said to her name is Karen Isaac Karen I am so sure there's no God you are wrong and I've been telling electric, but I am so sure that I'm right. I'm going to prove it. I will find the nothingness of God by searching for him and not finding and then you'll know you can still be whatever you want but you will know there is no God. And I'm right and don't even talk to me about Jesus because if there is no God. So that that's open shut off, so I set out to search for God not to find, but to prove that he wasn't there and I knew I was right and then think this would take a week to 10 days of practice is no time at all is so she gave me stuff to read.

She told me to pray. I used to pray, it was the emptiness. Ever heard in your life but I said the words and like Barry said it right so it's done, and them nothing, nothing, nothing, found nothing, nothing, nothing, but I'm still searching. Six weeks later still going through the process. Still, finding zeros as big as you can imagine then one night it was a late night of July 1983 I was working week we consider radiused on TV. What can we consider radio station and had a late night shift, but I really loved radio and I'm reading a book that should give me by the Walt Disney movie actor Dean John people remember him from Herbie the love bug that darn cat and Betty was world-famous and had everything a man could want. And it was a mess, found Jesus turned his life book about. She gave me this book to read. I never want to read that you could've paid me to read that, but I said I'm searching for God so should give me other stuff to renumbering this.

I'm at the radio station microphone turned off the music playing him in between my SSO and I'm reading the book, blah, blah, blah. Literally lab lab lab that was like a mid-thought was talking to the book Robbie. I was said this is stupid. Dean, how could you be so stupid to write this book like this try to say that God is real, what I thought you were smart man. You know, and I'm reading the book. As I read the book, I had zero faith. Yeah, I had faith that there was no God that was in. I read some simple words and and it surely is sitting here before you, Robbie and I told her the story before. Over the years it were, as if lightning struck. I mean, Pam, something hit me.

I didn't see anything. I did hear anything but up and down my body ran the strongest sensation I've ever felt my entire life like being on the highest roller coaster you can imagine a coming down so it was amazing and I had no what is going on, but the tears gushed out of my eyes and I'm crying standing there in this radio station not knowing what was going on and the next thing I knew, crying my eyes out and shaking in the sensation going up and down my body. I lifted up my hand so you know the Bible says lift your hands in the sanctuary and praise the Lord. I never heard that I never seen it. I had no idea zero but my hands went up and I looked up at the drop ceiling that radio studio and to my shock and amazement.

This atheist you cried out Jesus probably and inside my head as I cried out those words inside my head. My mind said what so I will be. What were the words you said you read these words, what were okay with it.

It was about healing. It was about healing Dean Jones fiancé had been prayed over to church for physical ailments she had and it went one way and I had a physical problem that had bothered me all of my adult life and I was 36-year-old during those six weeks that I was searching for God when away. Just a minute just one way it didn't.

It wasn't magical, dynamic, powerful, just it wasn't there. I knew it going when I thought I looked out I had nothing to do with God. I just know that wow this is new anymore and there I am in the studio and I read these the words that are in the book were. Don't you see God healed God healed me as I read those words, God healed me that That's what happened and the first thing I said when I lifted up my hands was Lord God and I'm saying, Lord God, I see you, and then I said thank you Jesus.

I mean most shocked man on the planet right here that I ripped all my good this time. So we gotta now I know the whole audience is guided not so tells about the conversation that followed. Called her the next Wilford, let me just quickly say that night when I got home I walked into my bedroom and I just dropped to my knees and I said Lord God I'm a sinner never thought I send. I was an atheist, I thought I'd I said Lord Gautama sinner. Forgive me for my sin and then I prayed a little bit. I had never prayed and I was praying and I said Jesus I want you in my life I give my heart nobody told me to pray that as words came out from my spirit called Karen my born-again Christian girlfriend of the telephone. The next day said to her while I had this experience. I told her what happened. She said you're born-again.

I said no I'm not. I'm not a Jesus freak like but I was and I became one and took me two more years, but we got married story. Wow, I was not expecting this this morning but I'm so glad I'll think about all my work before they have ever heard so eloquently as you shared this morning again my friend Jeff Miller and his ministry's messianic ministries. How do people get up with joyless jeopardy. Miller ministries act Jeff Miller ministries are radio program's messianic minute. Other stations than for students, investor will see the light of the drop ceiling that yes oh Jeffrey D. Miller.com Jeffrey D. Miller.com.

Believe me, this man all this is got a lot of stuff that websites got videos and teaching like your membership.

Thank you Jeffrey God bless Robbie God bless you fellow shalom.

I love that we want to add this statement from Jeffrey on the current situation in Israel and I can't well is really clear that the biblical mandate is not about what God is thought might be, but what God said would be and what he said it would be was the descendents of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

I've given this land for ever as as they covenant it's a covenant guy can't break I can't break a promise. God says one word is true, it's greater than any geopolitical influences that there may be what what about the Palestinians, God loves Palestinians he loves him but in getting the land he gave the land of the descendents may minimize project is Israel always right now all make mistakes just like everybody else, sometimes huge ones but they still are the descendents of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to whom the land of Israel was promised to believe a word we have to believe Israel is a holy land. God said that he never called any other land.

Holy: Washington DC mating call Mecca whole Jerusalem and Israel are holy land and the Jewish people are deeded and the good news is, there will be a revival at some point Jewish people will welcome Jesus as their Messiah.

It's in the Bible will be pray to