Sid Roth
Sid: On yesterday’s broadcast I ended with Isaiah 43:19 “For I am about to do something new, see I’ve already begun, do you not see it?” And the new is the One New Man which I’ve been literally a voice in the wilderness shouting the One New Man.
It kind of reminds me I was involved and I was a brand new Jewish believer and one of the first Messianic Jewish Congregations in modern day history and boy were persecuted for that. And then I’ve been talking for the last almost two decades on the One New Man and believe it or not, no I won’t go into it, I’m persecuted for that. It seems as though God shows me something before it happens and I get all the flack and then the people that gave me the flack they join in once they see that it’s God. But I can tell you exactly what Isaiah said “I’m about to do this new thing and it’s already begun do you not see it?” It’s found in John 17:21; now you’ve heard this preached many different ways, but here’s how I believe the Spirit of God is showing me and it’s Jesus’ prayer. “That they also may be one,” who is they? There were only two people groups at that time Jews and Gentiles that’s who that they is. Some people say “Oh Baptist, or Catholics.” No, they didn’t even exist, this was before Jesus died and rose from the dead and they Jew and Gentile also maybe one. And what’s the repercussion when Jew and Gentile become one? Nothing short of that the world may believe. God is telling us somehow in the spirit realm when Jew and Gentile become one in Jesus the world is going to believe. It’s going to release a glory; well the next verse explains it John 17:22 Jesus is saying to you “And the glory which you gave Me Father God I have given them.” In other words, the same glory that was available to Jesus is going to be on us. When? When Jew and Gentile become one in Jesus, that’s what Paul is talking about in Ephesians Chapter 2 verse 14-15 and then the last verse 22. It’s talking about Jesus “For He Himself is our peace, who has made both;” again who’s both? Jew and Gentile. “One and has broken down the middle wall of separation so as to create in Himself One New Man” and in the Greek it really says “One New Humanity.” But most translations say man so I use that, “So as to create in Himself One New Man from the two thus making peace.” And of course Paul was very Jewish so assuming that he knew the Hebrew for peace, which of course he did it’s shalom. The word shalom has many meanings but here I believe it means completeness.
So what happens when the two become one? It’s complete, what is complete? That last verse now in Ephesians 2:22. Now you are also being built together for a… I’m going to put the word complete and it isn’t there it was in the earlier verse but it helps you understand it… “In whom you also are also are being built together for a complete dwelling place of God in the Spirit.” How would you like a complete dwelling place of God in the Spirit? “I pray that they…Jew and Gentile…might be one so the glory that was on Jesus will be on you so that the world will believe.” Can you see why Paul got so excited? And I’m getting pretty excited right now come to think of it. The same thing in Psalm 122:6; only city in scripture we’re commanded to pray for, did you know that? That’s quite a profound statement. The only city in scripture we’re commanded to pray for is Jerusalem. This is the command “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem” and many people say “What does peace mean? Well I believe that it’s that same Hebrew word completeness, “Pray for the completeness of Jerusalem,” what’s the completeness of Jerusalem? Nothing short of Jesus coming to rule and reign the world. And the completeness of Jerusalem so the world will believe means Jewish people coming back into the Jewish olive tree it’s that simple. That’s what you’re doing when you’re praying for the completeness of Jerusalem. And God if it’s necessary bribes us, He says “If you’ll do that, may they prosper that love thee.” That’s what it says in Psalm 122:6, and the word prosper in the Hebrew means “Heart peace.” “May you have heart peace that evangelize the Jew so we can have true peace in Jerusalem.” Wow I could speak on that the whole time, but then it get even better. How could it get better? Well, come with me on a little trip to Ezekiel 47 verse 9. I’m reading from the Amplified Bible other Bibles put this in foot note, I like the Amplified because it spells it out, it’s talking about the river and this is amazing river, the river of God. It says “Wherever the double river shall go.” What’s the double river? I already told you Jew and Gentile “Wherever the double river shall go every living creature shall live and everything shall live where ever the river goes.” Well Jesus defined that river under the new covenant He said “We’re going to have rivers of living water pouring out of our belly,” that’s that thing that’s about ready to happen I can feel it and we’re going to see the greatest move of God’s Spirit. But I’m getting a little bit a heard of myself. Roman’s 11:15 describes it, “For if there being cast away,” whose there? The Jewish people, “For if the Jewish people being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead.” In other words Paul is saying “When Jewish people come to the Lord,” well when they were cast away the whole world was reconciled. I mean if it was a blessing the Jewish people rejected their Messiah, Paul says “How much greater blessing when they receive their Messiah it’s going to be life from the dead,” resurrection power, creative miracles like the world has never seen, a release of miracles like the world has never seen.
What you say “What Sid what’s the big deal with the miracles I mean why do you make such a big deal about it?” Well, you would make a big deal about it if you saw that when miracles happen people are open to the gospel, the spiritual scales are removed from the eyes of Jewish people. People from other religions are totally wide open to the gospel, the purpose of the miracle is to demonstrate there is a living God whose concerned about every hair on our head. I get excited but these creative miracles happening I can just see someone that was recently came back from war and is missing both of their legs, and modern science praise God is doing wonderful things and their even able to run in Olympic type events with artificial legs. But what if God gave us brand new legs, that’s a sign and a wonder; that’s the life from the dead resurrection power that’s about ready to be released.
But you have to understand the law of evangelism. The law of evangelism is started with God the Father, when God wanted to reach the world because God so loved the whole world, what did He do? He went to the Jew first, Abraham, right? Now when Jesus wanted to reach the world many people don’t understand this but Jesus Himself said “I go only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” Was that only because He was only interested in Jewish people? No, He knew that when he planted a seed in a Jew Genesis 12:3 would come forth and there would be a great Gentile revival. Paul the apostle to the Gentiles, what does he say in Roman’s 1:16 “I’m not ashamed of the gospel because the gospel is the power of God… someone’s hip was just healed in Jesus name. The gospel is the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes. Paul the Apostle to the Gentile’s and then says to the Jew first, you see when the patterns right the glory shows up. The pattern is God went to the Jew first to reach the world; Jesus went to the Jew first to reach the world. Paul went to the Jew first to reach the world. What you must understand is there’s a spiritual law it’s called the law of evangelism; when you go to the Jew first it opens up a greater door of revival among Gentiles than if you went to the Gentile first.
Amos speaking revival, have you ever read about the greatest revival to ever hit planet earth. Amos 9 verse 11 to 13 tells us about it; well unfortunately I’ve got to stop right now but I’ll start right here on tomorrow’s broadcast. And what I have tell you is so important, you see many years ago I had a dream from God and God said, commissioned me literally to write a book of Jewish testimonies, and he said, “More Jewish people would come to know him through this book than anything I’d ever done.”
