Discovering The Jewish Jesus

Rabbi K.A. Schneider: It's part of God's end-times plan that the whole church focuses on reaching Jewish people. The end will not come, beloved ones, until there's a massive Jewish people that have received Jesus as their Lord and Savior.

I've got an important message for you that I think will really be new information for many. For some of you that know this and you've heard it before but it never really sunk in, I think today is going to be an important day for all of us to get our hearts and our thinking into alignment with the part of God's word that is often not stressed enough in contemporary preaching.

But we're not going to get our cues from what is contemporary. We're going to get our foundation of theology from what the written word of God teaches. So Father, we ask You now to visit us in power. Father, may Your word, which is sharper than a two-edged sword, cut deep today into our psyches, hearts, and spirits. Bring us into alignment with the mind and heart of Yeshua and of Your kingdom, Abba.

Now we're going to be looking today at the book of Romans. Many times when we read the book of Romans or have heard the book of Romans taught, we hear it taught as the pathway to salvation. But I want you to understand that when Paul wrote the book of Romans, he wasn't just addressing the need to be saved. He wasn't just writing it so that people would understand why they need to be saved or how they could get saved. Rather, beloved ones, in the center of Paul's heart when he wrote the book of Romans was the salvation of Israel.

So let's begin here to understand the message that God has for us that He wants us to incorporate today so we'll come into alignment with His thoughts and plan for Israel. Hear the word of God. Romans 9, beginning in verse 1: "I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying. My conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit."

What's happening right now is Paul is about to tell us what his thoughts are and what his heart is. As he's doing so, he's bringing the Holy Spirit into us, helping us to understand that his burden and his heart, the words he's about to speak to us or write for us, are in fellowship with the Holy Spirit.

He continues on and says, "I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart." What this means is the Holy Spirit is grieving also. He continues, "For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh who are Israelites, of whom belong the adoption as sons and daughters, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple service, and the promises." Paul's burden is for Israel.

Now as Paul continues in chapter 10: "Brothers and sisters, my heart's desire, my prayer to God for them is for their salvation. For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not in accordance with knowledge. For not knowing about God's righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes."

Paul is saying that his heart's desire and prayer for Israel is that they be saved. Then Paul says, "I bear them witness concerning their zeal for God." They're sincere. They're passionate. But they're misaligned. They're on the wrong path. They got off track. They sought to find God by establishing their own righteousness. This is why Paul thought it was so critical that they heard the gospel so they could be saved.

Paul continues. That's how he began: "My heart's prayer for them is for their salvation." He said they're zealous, but they've missed it. Jesus talked about the same thing when He talked about the stone that the builders rejected, meaning Himself.

Now in chapter 11 Paul continues: "I say then, they did not stumble as to fall, did they?" Paul's saying even though they missed it, even though the massive Jewish people in Paul's time and even today have not yet received Jesus, Paul goes on to tell us in Romans 11 that yet God has not forsaken them. They're still elect in God's eyes. They're still a treasure to the Lord.

God has a specific call on Israel that is from the very beginning all the way back to Abraham. So Paul said, "I say then, they did not stumble as to fall, did they? Far from it. But by their wrongdoing salvation has come to the Gentiles to make them jealous." In other words, God had a plan that because the Jewish people rejected, Paul was sent to the Gentiles. As a result, the Gentile world came to salvation.

But it's not over yet because Paul says the salvation of the Gentiles will provoke Jewish people to jealousy when they see the passion that Gentiles have for the Lord and the intimate relationship they have. Paul continues, "Now if their wrongdoing proves to be riches for the world and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fulfillment be? But I'm speaking to you who are Gentiles. Therefore, insofar as I'm an apostle of Gentiles, I magnify my ministry if somehow I may move my own countrymen to jealousy and save some of them."

Paul was the apostle to the Gentiles. Paul said, "I magnify my ministry to the Gentiles because through them Jewish people will be provoked to jealousy. For if their rejection proves to be the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?" Paul says when they rejected Jesus, salvation went to the Gentiles. He said think what it's going to be like when the Jewish people receive the gospel. It's going to be like life from the dead for the entire world.

So it is so critical, beloved, that the whole church focuses on reaching Jewish people. It's part of God's end-times plan. The end will not come until there's a massive Jewish people that have received Jesus as their Lord and Savior.

This is so important because there's a demonic message that's being taught today that the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are not true Jews. A message is being taught far and wide today called replacement theology, that God's covenant with the Jewish people is no longer in effect. I'm not sure if you're hearing any of this. I'm seeing a lot of it on YouTube. There is a lot of hatred out there.

We know that antisemitism is rising. Not only is antisemitism rising because of the recent wars in Gaza and Israel, and not only is that part of the antisemitism where people have turned against Israel because of the wars that are going on, but there's been a subtle shift that is also antisemitic. The shift that I'm referring to is this notion that God no longer has a special plan for Jewish people, that they broke the covenant with God, and therefore they forfeited their role in God's redemptive plan.

Even further than that, there's teaching going forth now that Ashkenazi Jews, which are Jews that have come to Israel and the US from Russian-speaking countries, are not real Jews. It's just from the pit of hell. We need to understand the heart of God, that God will not fulfill His purposes for the earth until the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are saved.

The Jews that have made aliyah to Israel from Russian-speaking countries, Ashkenazi Jews, make up most of the Jewish population in the United States. These are real Jews. These are the true descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. There's no message that they need to hear more than the message of Yeshua the Messiah.

Beloved, we are disruptive. We have to disrupt if we're going to make a difference. When you start sharing with Jewish people that Jesus is the Messiah, you will be disrupted and you'll be rejected, but God has called me to do it. In fact, He's called you and the whole church to do it.

Now listen to these testimonies. These are real-life testimonies that Discovering The Jewish Jesus is receiving. These are Jewish people that have really found the Lord through my ministry.

"Up until 2021, I'd been a practicing Jew at a reform congregation in the Boston area where I live. I'd been watching Rabbi on Discovering The Jewish Jesus regularly for a couple of years while still attending the reform Jewish congregation. As the months went by, I felt that something was missing each time I attended. During this period, I realized that the missing component I sought was Yeshua. I attribute my decision to a great extent to the teaching I received from watching Rabbi Schneider."

Once again, that's Howard from Boston. Continuing on, a new testimony. This one's from a woman that came to the Lord when I was in Jerusalem doing an outreach preaching the gospel.

I remember preaching and I was looking over the 500 Jewish people that were listening as I articulated the gospel of Messiah Yeshua. While I was preaching, I felt so anointed. I felt the power of God. But when I looked at the 500 Jewish souls I was preaching to, it looked like I wasn't making one bit of difference at all. Their faces were straight, blank—no smile, no emotion, nothing. I felt really empowered, but it looked like I was having zero impact.

I was getting to the end of my message. I had about two minutes left. Right as I'm getting to the close, beloved, I see a woman in the front row. I see a tear coming down her face. She was the first Jewish soul there. She actually started shaking. At the end of my message, I asked if you want to receive Jesus, Yeshua, today as your Messiah, raise your hand. She raised her hand. Her name was Anna. Let's roll that clip.

Anna: I am Jewish. Honestly, how do I explain this? I just started crying. It was emotional. I receive You as my Messiah, Yeshua. I feel like my heart is warm.

Rabbi K.A. Schneider: Jesus loves you. He really does. He'll do for you what He did for me. He gave me hope and a brand new future.

After she raised her hand, many other hands went up. Then I said if you raised your hand and want to receive Yeshua today—this is in Jerusalem and I'm speaking to Jewish people—if you want to receive Yeshua as your Messiah, stand up. Literally a third of the Jewish people there stood up and prayed to receive Jesus as their Messiah.

Another Jewish soul that came to Jesus as a result, beloved, of Discovering The Jewish Jesus. Thank you for your prayers and love and support. Here's another one. This one came in through Facebook. "How can a Jew believe in Jesus without losing their Jewish identity? I prayed for help. I turned on the TV and there was Rabbi talking to me. I will forever be grateful to Rabbi Schneider." She wrote this on Facebook, but she received the Lord as she was watching me teach on television.

I could go on. Let me share this last one with you. This is a very radical one. This is from Ryan in New York. He said this: "Shalom. I was born a Jew in New York City. My testimony is rather radical. I was an atheist filled with bitterness and anger. I was also bullied by Christians for being Jewish, further building bitterness and hatred towards God. It has been seven years with Yeshua and He radically delivered me and healed the brokenness deep down inside of my heart. Rabbi Schneider's videos and teachings were the first that tremendously helped me understand the Jewish Jesus. Yeshua has now given me the privilege and honor to lead multiple Jews to Yeshua and disciple them."

So here's a Jewish man who came to faith under my ministry. Not only did he get radically saved and delivered himself, now he's leading other Jewish people to the Lord. This is what God is doing through this ministry, beloved. I want to encourage you. Let's believe for a critical mass of Jewish people to come to Messiah in faith and call upon Him to return because this is what's going to usher in the return of Messiah Jesus, your Savior and my Messiah, so that He becomes the Lord of the world and the new millennium is ushered in.

Let me tell you what we're doing right now to further this mass salvation that we're believing for and which scripture promises of Jewish people coming to faith. So much has been done for Israel in terms of blessing them materially, blessing them through the wars, showing them love. But you know what? There's not enough going on to actually preach the gospel and share the good news of the kingdom with Jewish people.

Ultimately, I think we all agree this is the most important thing. It's like Yeshua said: what does a man profit if he gains the whole world but loses his own soul? The Apostle Paul said about Jewish people that he would give up his own salvation if they would come to faith because he realized it's a life-and-death matter.

So what are we doing about it to be on the ground literally sharing the gospel with Jewish people in Israel? We've developed a genius strategy—and I'm not giving myself the credit because this strategy actually was developed by one of my team members here—this specific saying. The saying is: "What if He is right?"

What Discovering The Jewish Jesus is doing is we've launched a digital campaign in Israel with an ad. What the ad looks like is a man you can't quite see who he is; you just see his eyes. Then it says in Hebrew, "What if He is right?" People are looking at that thinking, "What if who's right?"

Then what they do is they go to the website, whatifhesright.com in Hebrew, or they can scan the QR code on the digital ad and also on the billboards that we have in Israel. When they go to the website through the domain name or through the QR code, they have to be 18 years or older just because we can't proselytize children in Israel, it's against the law. They say, "Yes, I'm 18 or older," and then they're brought to a video.

They're brought to a short video listing the most foundational Messianic prophecies in the Torah. For example, that there would be one who was going to be born in Bethlehem and that His going forth would be from long ago, from the days of eternity. This is an everlasting one born in Bethlehem. It's just showing my beloved Jewish brothers and sisters the Messianic prophecies in the Hebrew Bible.

Then we have portions of Isaiah 53. After the four Messianic prophecies, the picture that they saw when they clicked on the ad or on the billboard suddenly comes into focus. It comes into focus with a man with thorns on his head. In other words, the picture that they saw originally on the billboard they couldn't tell who it was. All they saw was his eyes. But now that man becomes full-blown. They can see who it is, and there's a crown of thorns on his head and blood dripping down his face because Messiah Yeshua died and shed His blood for our sins.

They see who it is, and then it says at the very bottom, "For a free download of the book Messianic Prophecy Revealed, just click here." I've written a book called Messianic Prophecy Revealed. It goes through 21 Messianic prophecies in the Hebrew Bible, and they can download the book for absolutely no cost. It's free. My publisher blessed me by saying, "Rabbi, we believe in what you're doing. You can offer this free to everybody in Israel."

So we, beloved, we're doing something. We're preaching the gospel. God has given me a mandate, a supernatural mandate. He spoke to me, I heard His voice on September 1st, 2023, and He challenged me to challenge Israel. Not just to be polite, but to literally challenge them in His love with the truth that Yeshua of Nazareth is the Messiah.

When the Lord spoke to me that night, He actually quoted to me Acts 2:22, which says: "Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by miracles, signs, and wonders, just as you yourselves know. You put to death by the predetermined plan of God through godless men, but God raised Him up again since the grave could not hold Him in its power."

Peter is lifting up Messiah Yeshua who was crucified by the religious leaders of Israel, and Peter was proclaiming He is the chosen one and He is your Messiah. Beloved, that's what we're doing. That's what I'm doing. I want to ask you to believe with me for a mass salvation of Jewish souls because this will usher in Jesus' return.

Just before Jesus was crucified, as He was on His way to the cross, He looked at the Jewish people He loved so much. He said, "How often I wanted to gather you under my arms like a hen gathers her chicks under her wings." Jesus was reaching His arms out towards Israel and He said, "But you would not."

Then Jesus said, "Behold, you will not see Me again until you're saying Baruch Haba B'Shem Adonai," which is translated in English as "Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord." What this means, beloved, is Jesus isn't coming back until there is a critical mass of Jewish people that are calling upon Him to return. This is what's going to usher in the return of your Messiah and my Messiah.

Holy brothers and sisters, we're doing it. We're going to the Jewish people and we're bringing them the truth that Yeshua of Nazareth is their Messiah. When Yeshua walked upon the earth, He went only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. We read about it in Matthew chapter 15. All through the book of Romans, we read that Paul said the gospel is to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

But much of the church has forgotten about the Jewish people. Beloved, this is an opportunity for you to partner with a ministry that actually is going to the Jewish people. Not only are we going, but we're seeing fruit. With your help, we'll continue to go.

It does cost money to do the things that we're doing: putting up billboards in Israel, putting digital marketing out. We're really doing something and we're seeing fruit from it, but we can't do it without you. I want to ask you to partner with the heart of God and do something to reach Jewish people with the good news of their Messiah. There are not many ministries that are doing what we're doing, certainly not at the scale that we're doing it.

You have an opportunity, if you feel the witness of the Holy Spirit on your heart, to partner with us and to become part of an end-times evangelistic ministry that is really reaching Jewish people. Will you partner with us? Will you support us, beloved, with your money and your prayers?

Dustin Roberts: Amen. Support this outreach today. Visit discoveringthejewishjesus.com or give us a call at 800-777-7835. What Rabbi just shared about reaching Jewish people with the gospel is so close to his heart, and I think you could hear it.

This ministry, as he shared, we're launching our most ambitious outreach in Israel today. It's called the Israel Awakening Initiative, and we're using billboards, digital advertising, and lots of strategic media placement. We're bringing the message of Messiah to millions of Jewish people in Israel and all over the world.

We're seeing real fruit. Jewish people are discovering who Jesus is, and it's because of friends like you who pray for and support this ministry. So thank you. Again, if you want to be a part of reaching Jewish people with the gospel, visit us and give at discoveringthejewishjesus.com. Now here's Rabbi with God's special blessing.

Rabbi K.A. Schneider: In the book of Numbers chapter 6, the Lord gave instructions to Moses and Aaron to speak this blessing over His people. The Lord said, "When you speak these words over my people, I will place my name on them and bless them." Receive the impartation of the Lord's blessing.

[Sings Aaronic Blessing in Hebrew]

The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift you up with His countenance and the Lord give you, beloved ones, His peace. God bless you and Shalom.

Dustin Roberts: I'm your host Dustin Roberts, and this program is produced and sponsored by Discovering The Jewish Jesus. Join us again next time when Rabbi Schneider explains why faith is a gift. That's coming up Tuesday on Discovering The Jewish Jesus.