Well, praise God, it's been a great joy to be here this weekend and wonderful to be with you today.

God's doing some amazing things in our midst.

As Pastor Albert mentioned, though, I didn't start out as Dr Michael Brown.

And there's a picture of somewhere along the journey.

As my hair was starting to grow out and my drug bear nickname came about I want you to think of something we're going to leave that up for a second but not too long I want you to picture in the mind of God the angels coming together before the Lord and saying,

Father, we have a need that rabbis are raising very serious objections about faith in your son Jesus.

And we need someone that can be sharp enough to earn a doctorate in

Semitic languages and study and write 1500 pages of material to refute the

rabbis and debate them publicly and God said I've got just a man.

Now Nancy did not know me at that stage of my life,

but some years after meeting me she saw that picture and she started laughing.

And I said, now you're laughing because I looked like a woman.

She said, no, I'm laughing because you looked like an ugly woman.

So we're done with that picture, thank you.

So I get to tell my story from LSD to PhD.

When the Messiah Jesus was born, the angel of the Lord told his parents,

he'll call his name Jesus, Yeshua, for he will save his people from their sins.

I'm an example of a transformed life by the power of God.

I was born in 1955 in New York City. I have an older sister. My mom and dad, my family is a Jewish family. My dad was a lawyer in the New York Supreme Court. My mom and dad up to the time my father's death were

happily married, wonderfully married. I had a very stable upbringing, totally loved

and affirmed by my parents. We moved to Long Island when I was almost seven years old and I started living just a typical suburban Long Island,

mildly Jewish life, come home from school, play sports with my friends.

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