Shalom, yol. That's a combination of Hebrew and Texan for those of you who didn't know.

So, if you'll just open your Bibles to two major scriptures that I'm going to focus on,

Psalm 22 and Jeremiah 31, we're going to turn to those in a few minutes, but first I'm going to

share my testimony for a while and the scripture that has meant so much to me over the years

of course there's many but one that really stands out is John 1516 that says you did not choose me but I chose you and appointed you that you might go and bear fruit and that means so much to me because although with all of us, God shows us.

Now the fact that God shows us doesn't mean that we are robots and that you are

either sort of destined for one way or the other, but what it means is that God draws us and then we respond to that drawing.

But in my case especially, God chose me because I didn't believe in him.

I believed in God, but I didn't believe in Jesus.

And so God's hand was on me, and so as I share my testimony, you're going to see basically what a Jewish person has to go through

and all the obstacles that we have to overcome in order to receive Jesus as our Messiah.

And I know this might be hard for you to believe, but I don't know if you ever heard a preacher condense his testimony into six words.

But I can actually condense my testimony into six words, and then I'm going to elaborate a little bit.

And here's the six words.

I'm a Jewish Christian, African American.

I give it a while. I can tell you very intelligent because you know you laugh pretty quickly I'm very impressed

First of all I'm Jewish because both my parents are Jewish

I'm a Christian or a Masianic Jew because I believe in Jesus. I'm an African because I was born and raised in Africa and I lived there 25 years and I'm an American because I live in America.

And so I can reach almost any people group because I got something of every people group in me.

And another thing I was kind of thinking the other day I could probably qualify for about every, what do you call that,

every welfare check that's available to mankind.

But I'm not going to take advantage of that I leave that for somebody else.

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