How Can you Jewish Friend Know the Messiah? Dr. Richard Elofer

How Can Jews Know the Messiah? 1. He has to recognize that God loves him and wants him to have peace. “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving- kindness” (Jeremiah 31:3) “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart” (Jeremiah 29:11-13).

How Can you Jewish Friend Know the Messiah? 2. He has to recognize that it is our own sins that separate us from God. “Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save, nor His ear too dull to hear. But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear” (Isaiah 59:1-2).

How Can you Jewish Friend Know the Messiah? 3. He has to recognize the need for atonement through sacrifice. “For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; It is the blood that makes atonement for one’s life” (Leviticus 17:11). God commanded that once the temple mount was designated as the place of worship, all the sacrifices of God’s people were to be brought there. Yet God in His mercy has not left us without atonement.

How Can you Jewish Friend Know the Messiah? 4. He has to recognize that Yeshua (Jesus) became our atonement according to the plan of God. “Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered Him stricken by God, …. But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him” (Isaiah 53:4-6). “He sacrificed for their sins once for all when He offered Himself” (Hebrews 7:27).

How Can you Jewish Friend Know the Messiah? 5. He has to receive Yeshua into his life through prayer. A prayer with a Jew has to be addressed directly to God the Father. We can start the prayer in a Jewish way: “Bless are you Lord, our God, king of the Universe, God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob…”

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