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Wherever you are right now in the country, you can participate. We'll give you some more details about that, but it's my pleasure to welcome Dr. Mitch Glaser to the program. Dr. Mitch, welcome. Good to have you, sir.

Good to be here, Pastor Greg. Shalom. Shalom. Shalom. Boy, I wish we had more shalom going on. We need a good dose of it. Boy, we sure do.

We sure do. My last guest that was on, I don't know if you've ever been introduced to Al-Rasouli, but he is an expert in Islam. He's studied it for 30 years, memorized portions of the Qur'an and the Hadith, and we were talking about the danger of Islam that the West is just so blind to. And I was sharing, you know, we do this, number one, because we need Christians to reject this allowing Sharia in our country.

It doesn't work here. But also to share the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ to people who are believing in a false religion in hopes that they might come to know Christ. I think in some ways, being a Messianic Jew, having been raised in sort of a modern Orthodox Jewish home, I'm not going to start comparing Judaism to Islam, but I will say that it's easier for me to understand some things. For example, when some people ask me, so is Judaism a religion, or is it an ethnicity, or is it a people group? And of course, my New York Jewish answer is yes. Exactly, right?

And I don't mean to be a smart aleck, but it's really true. And so, you know, I understand tribalism, because I'm part of a, I'm still Jews think pretty tribally, you know, and people ask, are there a lot of Jewish orphans? You know, and the answer to that is, no, we always take care of our own, you know, and so it's a different story. And I think also that we have a lot of understanding of religious ritual and how it's mixed into life and how it impacts politics. Judaism is very, very holistic. And, for example, I mean, why do most Jewish people not believe in Jesus? Probably the main reason is because if you believe in Jesus, then the Jewish community rejects you. And so we're going to have a number of former Muslim, well, we have two, I think, at the conference, which begins tonight.

And they have such phenomenal testimonies. But you can't be a Saudi Arabian Muslim and part of the community believe in Jesus and not have repercussions. You can't be a Jewish person raised in a traditional Jewish community with your family, with your community, and just, you know, get up and smile and say, Hey, I believe in Jesus.

Now, everybody cool with that? You know, it just, it doesn't work like that. And so I'm just saying, when we, Muslims and Jewish people are, we're gospel resistant. And I think that one of the messages of the day is that the church not only needs to understand Islam and probably Judaism, not only understand it, but particularly Islam because of the threatening nature of ideology and radicalism and all that kind of thing. But, and the militancy, but people need, if we're going to get the gospel, the gospel resistant people, then we're going to have to do two or three things. You have to understand them. And then we have to love them. Jesus said, love your enemy. So we have to understand them. We have to love them. And then we have to be willing to undergo a real difficulty and hardship in trying to reach these people for Jesus. Because let me tell you, that is the only solution for this world. And the only solution for individuals is to find Jesus as their savior, no matter who you are. Well, absolutely. And I think one of the things that we talked about was the millions right now in Iran that are turning to Christianity, going underground in doing so, but they're turning to Christianity because they look at and begin to understand what Christianity talks about. The freedom, the liberty, the freedom from sin, the transformation that comes. Sorry, Greg.

Go ahead. At our conference, we have Hormoz Sharayat giving his testimony. And I don't know if you've met Hormoz, he lives in Dallas now. But, oh, man, he is on fire for the Lord. He's Iranian, came to the US, went to get a PhD in computer technology, got saved, and became a pastor in San Jose and some other places.

And then moved to Dallas and his program is called Iran Alive. And what a dynamic Christian. And the interesting thing I have found, this is the weirdest thing, is when people get saved, maybe before they get saved, but when they get saved, they read their Bibles.

And it kind of goes together, right? And when you read your Bible, and they take the Bible, so interesting, so literally. And new believers, especially adult converts, so to speak, you read it and you just either you believe it.

And it's not like you park your brain, it's just you've decided this is the authority, so I'm going to accept it. And it talks about Israel and the Jewish people. And so far, Hormoz and this other brother from Saudi Arabia, who don't even know each other, we're going to see their testimonies over the next couple of days.

And you can see them online if you join us for the conference. And both of them, we didn't ask them to do it. Both of them talk about their love for Israel and for the Jewish people because the Bible says that the Jewish people are still God's chosen people. Absolutely. Well, and I've talked with some of my Jewish friends who've talked about that Jewish people feel as though Christianity is somehow a repudiation or a rejection of Judaism. And that's just, from what I have heard from them, that's another one of the challenges, the hurdles, is that it's as though it's a rejection. And of course, my response is no, it's not a rejection at all.

It's a fulfillment, but not a rejection. If anything, Gentiles become more Jewish. Absolutely.

Absolutely. And our Romans 11. But I think that, again, I was raised in a home in New York City. I was born in Brooklyn, raised in the borough of Queens. We have two million Jews in New York City. That's where our chosen people headquarters is. People ask me, why are you in New York?

I said, you know what I do for a living, you know? And so there is the attitude towards Christianity that most Jewish people in New York and Israel and many other countries have. So much of it was formed and shaped, believe it or not, in Europe, even prior to the Holocaust. And many Jews, I mean, over two and a half million Jewish people emigrated from Eastern Europe between 1880 and World War I to the United States. And they became the fountainhead of attitudes about Christianity, both in North America and also in Israel, because so many of them became leaders in Israel. And basically, you have the Crusades, you have the Russian pokhrams, where Jewish people were killed, and then you have the Holocaust.

And all of those terrible tragedies are, the blame is laid at the feet of Christianity, because Jewish people do not know the difference between institutional, nominal Christianity, which in my book is not Christianity at all, and a true, born-again, authentic Christian. And so, when you accept Jesus, you join the side of the enemy. My grandmother, when I told her I became a believer in Jesus, she said, well, and she actually stopped talking to me, she never talked to me again. But when I told her I became a believer in Jesus, she said, you become a Christian? We left Europe to get away from Christians because they were killing us.

And now you've become one of them. Now, Greg, how do you explain that rationally to someone, that that's so totally untrue? But that's the perception of Jewish people, and so there's this tension between Jews and Christians. So, it's one of the reasons online evangelism is so helpful, because no Jewish person, until they get saved and really stand for the Lord, is going to want someone looking over their shoulder when they're thinking about Jesus.

The threat of rejection is too high. Well, it's, yeah, and I hear what she's saying, because, you know, there was the perception that the Holocaust, in part, was Christian, you know, there was some Christian connection. Because the churches in Europe, by and large, the churches in Germany didn't stand up against Hitler and Nazism. When they did, they got killed. Yes, yeah, like Bonhoeffer, right?

I mean, they had no trouble figuring out how to silence voices. And let's face it, you have wars between the 8th century and today between Islam and Christianity, too. And so, a lot of Muslims look at Christianity as the enemy, and we have to show, we have a lot of responsibility, and the privilege of showing those who are hostile to Jesus, and hostile to the gospel, we have the privilege of showing them the difference. And you know, every Jewish person I've met, Greg, without fail, and every former Muslim who has come to Christ, every one of them I've met has been touched by the love of a real born-again Christian. Right, right.

Everyone. Yeah, and both, you know, even as we share what we're telling folks is the truth about that so that we understand the threat of it, the love part of it is just what you're talking about. My friend Kamal Saleem was saved because he came over here to perform civilization jihad, he was in the midst of that when he got into a terrible car accident, and it was a Christian family that took him in and nursed him back to health. And it blew his mind, why are these people that I'm here to kill, that I'm here to destroy, giving me love?

I don't understand it. But, you know, obviously it came to him, and he grasped it, and he came to Christ. And, you know, you're dealing also with the power of the Holy Spirit, drawing people, and so everybody constantly asks me, you know, and I guess at my age and experience in ministry and being Jewish, you know, I'm now an expert in what I know I can't humanly do, so, you know, that 25 cents doesn't get you coffee.

But people ask me, so what's the best way to do this? And my answer is honest, and that is love never fails. If you want an evangelistic strategy, try love. And, you know, the thing is, if you hate people, you won't pray for them. If you hate people, you won't share the gospel with them. If you hate people, you're only going to perpetuate the lie that Christianity is a religion of hate. It's not a religion of hate. It's a religion of love. And I think that's the most powerful evangelistic strategy for gospel-resistant people like Muslims and Jews. That's being very truthful. Well, and the reason that our founders chose Christianity as the foundational principles for America was because Christianity gives you the protections to be able to explore it and still have your own what you believe.

And, you know, they saw over history that as people draw closer to Christ, like you said, there's more love that is exuded as a result of that drawing closer to Him. And I want to, because we're going to take a break and then we're going to come back, but I want to, I'm going to play, well, I don't know if I have time to play it. I want to encourage you folks to go to chosenpeople.com, the website, chosenpeople.com, so you can get signed up for this conference. I'll be back with more with Dr. Mitch Glaser right after this brief break. Are you getting up in the morning feeling like you and your bed had a bad night, still tired? Stop!

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And welcome back to Chosen Generation Radio. My guest is Dr. Mitch Glaser and Chosen People Ministries. I encourage you to go over to chosenpeople.com chosenpeople.com and you can register for the conference, 9-11 and the New Middle East Conference is sponsored by the Chosen People Ministries and the Alliance for the Peace of Jerusalem. And tell me what folks should expect as they listen to the speakers and what is kind of the objective of the conference?

Two-fold. One is to honor our first responders and also to figure out from Scripture and through the experiences of people like Joel Rosenberg and Mike Widelnick from Moody and to sort of figure out what the future might hold with this new Middle East, with the Abraham Accords and with everything else that's been going on with the retaking of Afghanistan by the Taliban. And so we're going to address all of these and we have great experts on it. We're kicking the conference off, however, with Anne Graham Watts and she's got a great message not only on how to pray for Jerusalem, but why the gospel is the answer to peace, to unrest in the Middle East. I mean, how do you find peace in a broken world? Do you find peace through Jesus Christ, who's the Prince of Peace? How do nations find peace? Well, they turn to the Lord, you know, and some people call me simplistic, you know. You're saying that if everybody believes in Jesus, things will be better. I said, yeah, you've done right.

Hello. And I've seen it. I've seen it because, you know, I've chosen people as 25 workers in Israel and most of them Israelis. And I've spent lots and lots of time in Israel and prayer meetings and worship services with Palestinians and Jews who believe in Jesus. And let me tell you, there is a huge difference where our offices are about 20 blocks from the Israeli embassy.

And, you know, at least 10 times a year I pass a major protest. And with such unrest, people, you know, really knock each other out. And let me tell you, when you walk into a prayer meeting where both Palestinians and Jews love Jesus, you've never seen anything like it. Muslims and Jews, one in Christ, it's a beautiful thing. And Jesus makes that difference. So we're going to talk about how we can reach our world for Jesus. And we've got interesting people also speaking. The guy who led the Southern Baptists relief work after 9-11, and they did such a fabulous job. They put in hundreds of people, really. He'll be speaking with us as well as the same person with a similar role who led the efforts of Samaritan's Purse and Billy Graham in New York City. So we're going to see God's back story to what happened after 9-11.

And there's a lot to see. ChosenPeople.com is the website to go to. ChosenPeople.com, you can register today. Conference starts this evening. What time? 7 p.m. Eastern Standard. 7 p.m. Eastern, so you've still got plenty of time to get registered. You can do it when you get home after work. Have your dinner and then enjoy the conference starting at 7 o'clock Eastern tonight.

Register at ChosenPeople.com. I'm your host, Pastor Greg. Have a wonderful, wonderful weekend. And let's remember what sacrifices have been made for the freedoms that we enjoy. God bless you. I'll be back with you on Monday.

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