Inspiring Evangelism Encounter

How old are you, young lady? I'm 20. Are you? Yeah. And you're a

Christian? Yes. What do you need birth control for?

Are you married? No, not yet. Well, you need to check that because you're not supposed to be having sex outside of marriage anyway.

That's understandable. What's your name?

Shai. What's it? Shai. Shai is a beautiful name. How do you spell that? S -H -Y.

Oh, just like, okay. It's a nickname. My full name is Shaimani. Oh, okay, okay.

When people see it, they'll be like, hi. That's a beautiful name. So, I'm Jeff.

I'm a pastor. We come out here to try to plead for the lives of some of these children.

We've saved hundreds of children. This man has saved literally thousands of children from Planned Parenthood and other abortion facilities.

You said you're a Christian. I think that's wonderful. Do you know what it means to be? What's it mean to be a Christian to you? Well, actually,

I'm not really a Christian, so to say. Okay. I believe in God.

That's why I wear my cross. I feel a lot safe with it on me. But I'm a Hebrew Israelite.

A Hebrew Israelite? That's what I am. Interesting. I won't say

I'm deep into it. I'm learning a lot. Can I point you to, were you raised in church?

I was, but I recently stopped going because there was a lot of stuff going on with moving back and forth.

Where are you from? I'm from Michigan. Oh, Michigan. Okay. I've only been out here for about a year. Okay. Yeah.

Okay. So, what kind of church were you going to before? A Christian church. Okay. I didn't really like it.

I was a child, so I didn't really understand it. It was just a lot of yelling, and it was too many people.

It was one of the big churches. And I didn't feel like that was for me. Yeah. Well, there's definitely a lot of yelling in Hebrew Israelite culture as well.

I would just want to share with you just one thing. I know you don't really know. She came out here, and we're trying to encourage you. And I just want you to hear one thing.

My name is, again, Jeff. And whatever you heard about Christ and the gospel before, even what you've heard from the

Hebrew Israelites, the Bible has a really, really clear, consistent message about who Jesus is and what it means to have peace with God.

And ultimately, listen, here's the thing. If you came here today, and you were even here for an abortion, it would be the same thing we want you to know.

And that is the love of God and the forgiveness and salvation and the peace with God that's available in Jesus.

So I just want to give you the message. And that's that Jesus is God in the flesh. It was promised that God was coming as a man to take upon himself the sins of his people.

Now, you've probably heard that before. Jesus died for sinners and rose again from the dead. But he came specifically to live a perfect life, to die the death that you and I both deserve.

And he rose again from the dead. The call of the gospel is very different in Scripture from what is commonly heard today in America in terms of, like, a

Jesus movement. You know, there's this really nice guy named Jesus, kind of a cool, hippie, white guy.

Sometimes in some cultures, you know, might teach that sort of a thing. And Hebrew Israelites a lot of times think the

Christian culture might teach that sort of a thing. But the message of Jesus is not that he wants to just be your friend or be sort of an accessory to your life.

The message of Jesus is that we're all sinners and that we all deserve hell. There's none of us who are righteous before God.

We're not good. We'll never be good enough because God is too holy. And all of our sins separate us from him.

And the message of Jesus is that life, forgiveness, and peace is only through faith in him, through turning to him and trusting in him.

The common thing you might hear today in maybe some churches is that, you know, here's what Jesus did. And if you just believe mentally that he did those things, then you're good to go.

But the call of Jesus was actually to turn from sin, to trust in him, and to trust in him as Savior from your sin, and to be your

Lord, your God. The message of Jesus was calling to him to life, coming to him for life and forgiveness and peace.

All of us on this street right now, we're not good. We're not better than you. We're not better than anybody.

We're saved, redeemed people. And it was a gift of God through faith in Jesus. So I just want to encourage you to hear that message.

You can have peace with God today. The call is to turn from sin, to trust in Jesus as Savior and as Lord.

And you can have peace with God, forgiveness for all eternity, eternal life. That's the gift. That's the gift.

And I wanted to say, I have a heart for you. You mentioned Hebrew -Israelite. I want to encourage you to know that that particular cult really started in the last century, and a lot of really wonderful people in it.

I've met some guys that are deeply connected to that movement, really great guys. But I want to warn you, the message that they have about Jesus is very different from Scripture, the way that Jesus says that he is.

And it's very different in terms of how you can know God and be forgiven. The message of Jesus is much better than you think it is.

It's much more amazing. There's more peace. There's more life. There's more beauty than anything else can offer you.

Sex outside of marriage, Hebrew -Israelite, it doesn't matter what it is. Jesus is enough.

And we want you to know him. I appreciate that message.

Absolutely. Thank you for listening. Thank you for giving me a hearing. Do you have a phone with YouTube or anything on it?

We actually also have a ministry... Oh, there you go. We have a ministry that does a lot of engagement and discussions on hard issues like Hebrew -Israelites, things like that.

And I'll just give you something to type in, and you can look up and you can listen to a discussion between one of our pastors and a really well -known

Hebrew -Israelite, and you kind of hear the issues over a course of a couple hours. So as you're investigating and thinking, you'll be able to sort of hear both sides.

So what you want to look up is... Actually, are you on YouTube right now?

Yeah. If you want, I'll pull it up for you, and I'll sort of save it for you. It was a long discussion.

Oh, goodness. I think my brightness might be... Oh, that's okay. My phone's the same way. And I just cracked my phone this week, too.

All right. You know, one thing to remember, young lady, is that this is no accident that you are here today, and Pastor Jeff's here today, and all these people are here today.

It's no accident. It really isn't. God doesn't do accidents. Yeah, I already know. This is like a divine appointment for you.

Everything happens for a reason. Yes. That's exactly right. Okay. So I'm going to go ahead and click on it.

So it's dialogue with elder right here. It's this one. It's... There's, I think, several days of it.

So there you go. Perfect. So I'll just keep that up for you. There's a couple of them, so it's like hours.

And the most important thing is this. There are so many people... Thank you for letting me do that. There's so many people that claim to believe in Jesus, to say, you know,

I know... This is who Jesus is. This is how you know him. But the real question is, what does God say in his word, right?

Can I just give you a parallel real fast? And I know you're probably hot. I'll let you on your way. Mormons teach. They say, I believe in Jesus.

But what they teach about Jesus is that he's Satan's brother and that he's one God among many gods.

And the ultimate goal is to become a god of your own planet one day and have endless celestial sex. It's not the message of the

Bible, right? It's the figment of Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism's imagination, right? Jesus was clear about who he is and clear about how we can know him.

And with Hebrew Israelites, it's the same kind of situation as like a Joseph Smith or Charles Taze Russell with the

Jehovah's Witnesses. It's people that came up and they said, no, no, I'm going to tell you who Jesus is.

It's not what this says. It's my portrait of Jesus. It's my way to Jesus. And the Bible warns us about things like that.

False Christ, false ways of salvation. Jesus is God in the flesh. He is the way to forgiveness and peace with God.

That gift of peace is a gift. You can't earn it. It's through turning to him in faith and receiving him as Savior and Lord, not just knowing things about Jesus.

I have a lot of family that's sort of like part of that Christian culture that sort of says, oh, I'm Christian.

Why? Because, well, I've been in church my whole life. I know the story of Jesus kind of a thing. But they don't know Jesus. They've never turned to him to be saved.

And that's what we want for you, Chai. Beautiful name. There's just a track with some information on it.

My name is Jeff, by the way. And I'd love to talk to you more.

You can get connected to us even through that video that I gave to you as well.

Okay, thank you, guys. Thank you for talking to us. It was an honor. Can we pray for you? Sure.

Why don't you pray for us? Yeah, absolutely. Would you mind? Can I put my hand on you? Is that okay? Okay, all right.

Father, I want to thank you so much for the gift of being able to talk to Chai today. Thank you, Lord, that she was so gracious to us.

And her heart was so open to hearing your message of life and peace. And pray for her, Lord, that you would bless her with the knowledge of you.

Bless her, keep her safe, protected. Fill her with your truth, God. We thank you so much for the love that she showed us today.

And we just pray that you would open her eyes to the truth and grant to her grace and mercy and peace. In Jesus' name, amen.