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Who am I? Where did I come from? Everyone longs to know the truth of their identity. Rabbi Schneider answers these questions and more.
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Rabbi Schneider is equipping the body of Christ, building the church, and evangelizing the world. From the Old and New Testament, learn the biblical roots of Christianity and Jesus' Jewish heritage.
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0:09 Reaching Israel. Reaching Israel and the world.0:23 Beloved, today's episode is weighty and important. I'm calling this episode, WhoAmI dot com. In it, you're gonna learn number 1, how to effectively share your faith with0:35 others. And then secondly, I'm gonna give you a supernatural, cutting edge tool that you can simply post on your Facebook and other social media sites, which will allow0:47 you to be instantly an evangelist. Now I'm gonna take you through a series of 3 short videos. The first video is gonna answer the question, who am I? The second video is gonna answer the questions,0:59 why am I here and is there more than this? And then finally, in the third video, I'm gonna help you to show others how to take the next step and give people an opportunity to1:11 take the next step in their own home, as you post this link on your social media platform. Beloved, let's go. SCHNEIDER1:26 Deep inside almost everybody is searching to better understand who they are. In recent times we've seen the phenomenon of so many companies that are1:38 helping people understand their roots take off. In other words, people are sending in their saliva samples to get tested so that companies that test these types of samples can determine where the1:50 individual came from. In other words, the saliva sample test is coming back. Well you're partially Jewish, or you have roots from Russia, or you have roots from Asia, or you have roots that are Slavic.2:02 People are longing to understand who they are and they believe that if they know where they came from, they believe if they know who their ancestors are, they'll better be able to understand and2:14 appreciate who they are. People are looking for identity. But you know, at the end of the day that information doesn't go a long2:26 way or doesn't have great depth in really helping us understand our identity or who we are. But the question and looking to understand our roots are valid.2:38 I wanna suggest this, that a company that is selling us information about our ancestry can never give us the identity that we're looking for. To2:50 understand who we are we need to go back farther, farther than our ancestors, farther than understanding what parts of the world our ancestors came from. We need to go back to the very beginning,3:02 which brings us to this basic question. Did you and I come simply because there was an explosion in space that happened according to some scientists3:14 13000000000 years ago and for no divine cause other than the fact that it just happened? Or does our beginning start with a3:26 cause that was initiated by a creator? And I wanna suggest that when you and I answer that question, it's gonna give us a big key that is very important3:37 in helping us answer the question, who am I? So I wanna focus on this and then we're gonna keep going deeper and we're gonna answer the other questions as well. Why am I here? Is there more to life than3:49 this? But I want you to consider this with me, Does it make sense that there was an explosion that happened 13000000000 years ago in some type of outer space4:01 that didn't even exist yet? Does it make sense that that happened without a cause? If we say that there was an explosion that happened 13000000000 years ago, we have to ask our self the4:13 question, what caused the explosion? And if we can answer explosion, then we have to ask the same question again. Well what caused that thing that4:24 caused the explosion? In other words, we ask the question forever, well what caused that? What caused that? What caused the explosion? Then well what caused that thing that caused the explosion? You see4:36 our mind is designed, we function in the law of cause and effect. But to answer the mystery of creation we have to come to a conclusion that if we don't have4:48 something that existed without cause, if we don't have a being that was self existent, then we're gonna keep asking the question, what caused that forever?5:00 It had to start somewhere. It's the only logical explanation. I wanna take this a different angle with you. Consider this, when you look in creation, although we do5:12 see chaos at times, if we're honest I think we'll also admit that we see intelligent design in creation. For example, birds automatically know when to fly south for the5:24 winter. We see for example, that when our body gets an infection it automatically creates antibodies and the antibodies combat foreign invaders to our5:36 system. How does our body know to create antibodies to combat infections and viruses and foreign invaders? There's built in intelligence in our body.5:47 There's built in intelligence in creation. How do even primitive animals know how to take care of their young? How does a chimpanzee know how to5:59 feed her young? There's intelligence built in creation. And the reason that there's intelligence built in creation, it's because there's an intelligent designer behind6:11 creation. Let's look at an illustration. You have a garage and on this picnic table you've got 3 different cans of paint, because you're doing some painting. And you're walking in the6:23 garage during this project and by accident you're not paying attention and you hit the picnic table. You walk into it. You slam into it by accident. The 3 cans of paint spill on the ground, the cement floor of6:34 the garage. And lo and behold, when you look on the floor and see the way the paint spilled, it's a perfect picture. You look on your cement floor in the garage now and you've got a beautiful6:46 house that the paint created when it spilled. You've got a mom, a dad and a little child standing on the front porch. There's a big fence around the yard. There's a little dog running in the yard and there's6:58 a sun in the sky. Now does that make any sense that 3 cans of paint that randomly spilled because you knocked the table would fall on the ground in such a way that it created a beautiful picture?7:10 Absolutely not, because that picture took intelligent design. Intelligence is built into creation. Consider this with me, you and7:22 I deep down inside we can agree that certain things are right and certain things are wrong. For example, deep down inside we all know that it's right to help7:34 somebody that's suffering. And in fact we have outrage in us when we see people that are being abused or mistreated and no 1 is doing anything to stop it. For example, the horrendous7:46 situation that too often occurs when a child is being abused. All of us know this is wrong. It has to be stopped. How would we know there's such a thing as right and wrong if we didn't7:58 have an internal compass? If somehow inside, deep down, we didn't know the difference between right and wrong. You see inside us there's a sense of8:10 justice. When we discover for example that someone has been behind bars because he was faultily convicted of a crime, there's a sense of outrage or justice that cries forth from our heart. That's wrong. He8:21 should not be imprisoned for something that he didn't do. Why do we have that sense of justice? Because there's a sense of morality that is built inside human beings. But how could we have a sense of8:33 morality unless we were created by a moral God, a God Himself that has within Himself as 1 of His internal principles, justice. We have8:45 consciousness. Can we explain the fact that you and I as human beings are self aware? Can we explain self consciousness and self awareness by an8:56 explosion that took place billions of years ago that was nothing more than some type of scientific explosion without any spirituality behind it that had no cause? No. Consider9:08 this, you and I have the capacity to love. Where does love come from? We truly have the ability to love, to take9:20 care of people. I just was watching about a man that was at a concert and during this country concert there was a serial killer, someone that came and just started, just started shooting at people.9:32 Like 50 people were killed. But there was 1 soul there. He saw a woman that had been shot. And as this man started running from the bullets and he saw that woman lying on the ground that was shot, he turned9:44 around. He went back to rescue that woman. How do you explain that? This love he felt, this desire to connect and to protect. It's only explained because there's a God who9:56 is love that put within humanity the capacity to love. We have consciousness. We have the ability to love. Beloved, this cannot be explained by a10:07 random explosion that happened for no reason. It can only be explained by the fact that you and I were created by a self existent God who's a moral being and has a10:19 purpose and a destiny for you and I. As you've seen and heard from the first video that we just watched, Who Am I? People are brought to the10:31 logical conclusion that they originated from an intelligent designer. And when people realize they were created by God, it really helps them get10:43 a better handle on how to figure out why they're here. So in this next video that you're about to watch, I'm gonna answer the 2 questions, why am I here10:54 and is there more than this? Why am I here? For some of us if we examined our lives, we would think that the reason that we're here is to become11:06 successful, or to get a promotion, to find a mate, etcetera. But why are we here at the most basic level? At the end of the day success will11:18 never absolutely satisfy. Money can never completely fulfill us. But if we look at our lives, many of us, we get up in the morning, we quickly get a cup of coffee, We run out the door. We come to11:30 work. We work all day. We come back home. We have dinner. We watch TV for a few hours. We run back to work the next morning. We're on this rat race, almost like a hamster on a wheel, spinning, spinning, spinning,11:41 spinning, spinning, spinning, spinning, as if money, success, fame could fulfill us. But it never can. And as somebody once said, the only people that think that money is the11:52 answer are people that have never had money. Cause anybody that has money realize, although it's a lot easier to have money than not have money, and although money does solve a lot of problems, it can12:04 never satisfy our soul. So why are we here? It gets down to relationship. Relationship is what brings depth in our soul. It's what12:16 brings contentment. It's what brings fulfillment. If you recently for example had a grandchild or a baby born into your family, the joy that you felt having this little12:28 precious child born into your life brought such satisfaction. There was such an intimacy there. There was such a sense of peace associated with that. Nothing in the world can compare to that.12:40 So many today, they're looking to find a soul mate. They're looking to find a significant other. Of course this is why dating apps are so popular today. People are looking to connect. Why are12:52 people so longing to connect with somebody else, to develop an intimate relationship? They want it more than anything else in life. Why? Because relationship more fully13:03 satisfies and more fully completes us than anything else. And human relationships are just a hint towards the divine. Even13:15 as we desire intimacy with another human being, God who created us in his likeness, he also is looking for relationship with you and I. He created13:27 us to have relationship with him and that is why we are here, to develop intimacy with the 1 that created us. And in13:39 this is true fulfillment found. Love, joy, peace and security are found when we truly come to know the13:50 God that created us for Himself. Is there more than this? In other words, is there more to reality that what we can perceive with our 5 senses14:03 in this present world. You know there's a tremendous amount of research that's been done in what is known as near death experiences. I'm not talking about hokey14:14 research. I'm talking about medical doctors and PhDs that have done a tremendous amount of investigation into what people experience when their body has been14:26 pronounced clinically dead, but they're resuscitated back to life. And what we find is there are tremendous similarities. People experience leaving their14:38 body, being able to look down at their body. In other words, they're not in their body anymore. They're existing now in some type of spirit form. They can see even the doctors that are14:50 trying to resuscitate them back to life. And then often times there's a life review and they encounter a being of divine light. There is more to life15:02 than this. What we are experiencing with our 5 senses in the 80, 90, 70 years, whatever it is that we live on this planet, what we're experiencing here is less than15:14 1 percent of what is really real. Consider this analogy, you look at somebody, you look at another human being. You can see what color that person's hair is. You can see if they're a man or a woman. You can15:26 see their approximate age. You can see how tall they are, but you can't see their physical organs. Those are buried on their inside. You can't see their thoughts. You can't see what makes15:37 them who they are. You only see their skin. We only see the surface and that is the same thing that is happening right now in terms of what we're experiencing in15:49 a sliver of reality on this earth. There is so much more than this. You see, we're born into this world and as we first begin to16:01 experience life as young people everything is new. Right? Nature is so fresh and so new when we're young. And then we begin to everything is so new when we begin to enter the dating world as16:13 teenagers. And then we're experiencing our first career. Everything is new at first, but if you're like me eventually the newness wears off.16:25 And in this world that becomes an analogy for what life is. Pretty soon you've been there, you've done that. The question is, is there more than this? There16:37 absolutely is. You see, when we expire, when our body passes away, something in us is still alive. It's called our soul. And our soul16:49 now meets the 1 that created it. Now I encourage you, watch the last video to discover more.17:00 As you're sensing from the texture of the 2 videos that you just watched, they were created to reach people that are non religious, even people that have convinced17:11 themselves that there is no God. We're leading people to the logical conclusion that there is a God and we're attempting to do it beloved ones, in a very logical objective17:23 way. These truths that we're presenting to people, these existential questions that we're asking open people's hearts and it leads them to the conclusion that there is a17:35 God and as a result they need to make a decision as to what they're gonna do about it. So in this next video called, What's Next? I'm gonna show people how they can make a decision17:47 to enter into a real and living relationship with their Creator. Let's watch. God is spirit and there's only 117:58 God. And the God who is spirit has made a way into fellowship with him. That way is through his son that died on the cross for the18:10 sins of humanity. Jesus said, unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins. There is no other name under heaven18:21 by which you and I can be saved, but through the name of Jesus. Now what do I mean by being saved? Saved has both a past element to it. In other words, we're saved from the18:33 consequences of our past sin, everything that we thought that wasn't according to the will of God, everything that we said that wasn't according to the will of God, everything that we've done that wasn't according to the18:45 will of God. So first of all, we're saved through the blood of Jesus from the consequences of our past sin. Secondly, we're saved in the present.18:57 That through Jesus, God's Son, and our relationship with God through Him, we're presently being saved. We're being saved from darkness. We're being saved19:08 from the effects in this world that are working against us. We're being delivered over that which could overcome us. God is saving us in the present. He's imparting his life to us. He's19:20 imparting his presence to us. He's imparting his spirit to us, even to our bodies. So we're saved from the past. We're being saved and delivered in the19:31 present. And finally, there's a future element to being saved, which is that when our soul leaves our body, when our body expires, our soul goes in to the19:43 presence of God. Before Jesus went to the cross he said this, he said, I'm going to prepare a place for you. If it wasn't so he said, I would not tell you it is. He19:55 said, I'm going to prepare a place for you. In my Father's house are many mansions. In other words, there's many dwelling places. Jesus either was who He said He20:06 was, which was the way, the truth and the life and the only way into the presence of the Father. He either was who He said He was or He was a liar.20:19 Purposely deceiving people for his own purposes, or he was a lunatic, he was crazy. As a famous theologian once said, he was either a liar,20:31 a lunatic, or the Lord. I have discovered after over 40 years of seeking God through Jesus, that God is real, he's20:42 here, he's supernatural, he's present and he makes himself known in very powerful ways in the lives of those that are seeking Him.20:54 So what do we have to do to come to God through Jesus? We have to do 2 things. The Bible talks about a word called repentance. It sounds like kind of an old fashioned word,21:06 but what the root meaning of the word is, is to simply change directions. Jesus said, unless you repent you're gonna pass away. So to repent means we21:18 turn away from following the course of the world, meaning we don't get programmed by the world's mindset. And many of us are aware enough to see that a lot of what's happening in the world today is21:30 destructive. People are living from the outside in rather than the inside out. In other words, you go to a restaurant, you look around the restaurant and rather than talking to the person across from them at the table,21:41 everybody's talking to somebody on their phone in some kind of a pseudo reality. So Jesus says, repent, come out of the world and follow me. Again, change directions. So we're not following the course of the world21:53 anymore. We're not getting our cues as to what's right and what's wrong from the world. But instead we turn to Jesus to follow God's way. So number 1, Jesus said, you need to repent, you need to turn to me,22:05 follow me and I'm gonna give you the grace to obey me. And we need to believe. What do we need to believe? We need to believe that Jesus is who He said He is, that He died on the cross for22:17 our sins, and that He's God incarnate. In other words, that Jesus was God Himself that clothed Himself in humanity to come to the earth to die on the cross for our22:29 sins. And by the innocent 1, God in the flesh, dying in the place of the guilty, humanity, and receiving God's gift of his death on the cross for us, we could be22:40 forgiven, become blameless before him, innocent, and be able to enter into a relationship with him. So number 1, we believe Jesus is who he said he is and that he rose from the dead. And22:52 then secondly, we turn to him and follow him. I'm giving you an opportunity right now to do that. It doesn't have to be anything fancy. It's very simple. You23:04 just say, God, I am ready to follow you. I believe what I'm hearing right now is true. Father, I'm ready to follow you. I'm tired of going my own direction. I wanna give23:16 my life to you and follow you right now. I ask you to come into my life, forgive me and save me, both from the past, save me in the present, and father, save me for future glory.23:28 If you've done that with a sincere heart, I wanna tell you, you just began a brand new life and the God of glory is gonna make himself real to you. I want to encourage23:40 you now. Go to our website, DiscoveringTheJewishJesus dot com and click the Find Jesus link. Also visit us on YouTube. I'd love to continue to connect with you.23:54 Beloved, this cutting edge evangelistic campaign that we've called Who Am I? Was actually launched in the middle of Times Square with a huge billboard right above24:06 Good Morning America. The reason we started in Times Square is because we wanted to stake this campaign to reach the entire world and we felt that Times Square was a marked place to reach24:17 people living in secular society that don't know Jesus. And that's what we're trying to do at Discovering the Jewish Jesus. You would understand that it cost us thousands of24:29 dollars to be able to do this. But we're spending the money because we believe it's imperative that we reach the whole world with the gospel of King Yeshua. I can't do24:41 it without you. It's only because your love and sacrificial financial support that we're able to do things like the evangelistic Who Am I campaign. I wanna urge you, make a financial24:52 sacrifice today to Discovering the Jewish Jesus, so together we can reach the world.24:58 Here's how you can donate or become a monthly partner. Send your tax deductible gift to Discovering the Jewish Jesus, PO Box 7 77, Blissfield, Michigan, 49228.25:10 Visit discoveringthejewishjesus dot com, call 1 807 7 7 7 8 3 5, or text the keyword, rabbi, to 45777. To show our25:22 appreciation, we'll send you an audio CD and download of Rabbi's message of the month and our most recent newsletter. Your gift is bringing salvation, healing, and deliverance to Israel and the world25:34 through television, internet, and crusade outreaches. Finally, many of us have been faithful to the Lord with our finances while living. For those of you who like to remember the Lord in your finances when you go to25:45 heaven, click Will and Estate Gifts at discovering the Jewish Jesus dot com.25:52 Join Rabbi for Passover, April seventh through ninth in Toledo, Ohio. Passover, past, present, and future fulfillment. On Friday and Sunday, there'll be special services with26:04 teaching from Rabbi Schneider at Lion of Judah World Outreach Center at 5 7 3 2 Douglas Road in Toledo. On Saturday, April eighth, join us for a special celebration with a Passover Seder dinner held at the26:16 Perrysburg Hilton Garden Inn. Advance registration is required. All 3 events will feature Israeli worship leader Sigalit Miller. Visit lion of judah talido dot org for more information or to register for the seder.26:27 You can also call 4 1 9 4 7 4 2 3 2 8.26:32 I'm on the Mount of Olives and I wanna close the broadcast today by speaking the blessing that Father God said should be spoken over his people. In the book of Numbers chapter 6, the Lord told26:44 Moses and Aaron, speak these words over my people and I will place my name upon them and bless them.27:33 Shalom.27:40 May Father God, Yahweh, the God of Israel, bless you and keep you. May the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you. May the Lord your Father lift27:52 you up by his countenance. And Father God is gonna continue, his beloved child, to give you his peace.28:02 Start every day with a faith boost. Be equipped to overcome your obstacles and challenges by beginning each morning with an anointed word from rabbi sent directly to your28:14 inbox.
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