1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,560 Hey everyone, you're listening to the Curt Landry podcast where we're going to help you 2 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:11,600 discover your kingdom destiny. 3 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:15,800 My name is Darrell and sitting right beside me is Rabbi Curt Landry. 4 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:21,400 And in this episode, we're going to be discussing why we stand and why you should stand with 5 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:22,400 Israel. 6 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:26,840 But before we jump into this episode, Rabbi, how was your weekend? 7 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:28,880 Oh, man, it's been great. 8 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:32,160 You know, this is an interesting time of year in Oklahoma. 9 00:00:32,160 --> 00:00:41,520 Of course, it's cold, but I can tell you that the whole snow, they call this area of Oklahoma, 10 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:42,520 call it green country. 11 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:46,760 And of course, it is very green here most of the year. 12 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:53,280 But it's just, it's almost, I don't know, it's like everything changes when the snow 13 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:54,520 falls. 14 00:00:54,520 --> 00:01:01,040 And the lake is steaming because of the temperature of the water compared to the air and everything's 15 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:02,040 covered in white. 16 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:03,040 It's beautiful. 17 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:09,120 So I, you know, there's a certain amount of, I don't like the cold weather particularly, 18 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:13,980 but I sure is beautiful, at least for a short period of time, have the fire and it's a great 19 00:01:13,980 --> 00:01:16,640 atmosphere to cook spaghetti sauce in. 20 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:18,160 I can tell you that. 21 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:19,160 Yeah. 22 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:23,320 Nathan told me earlier that this is like a day or so ago. 23 00:01:23,320 --> 00:01:27,360 It was the coldest day recorded in Tulsa history. 24 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:33,360 So it is very frigid for sure around this part of Oklahoma in this time of year. 25 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:38,560 So Rabbi, as we jump into this, you know, one thing that we want to kind of lead with 26 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:44,040 is that if you got questions, you can send it over to podcasts at curtlandry.com. 27 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:46,600 Anything you want to send, go ahead and send it to us. 28 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:48,360 It could be topic of conversation. 29 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:55,120 You know, if it's prayer requests, things that we can pray into, things and titles and 30 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:59,060 descriptions and I mean, anything you want to send over, it's just over a podcast at 31 00:01:59,060 --> 00:02:01,720 curtlandry.com. 32 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:06,760 Another thing that I want to remind people, you can get your free download for Goals to 33 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:07,760 Grow. 34 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:12,960 Just go to curtlandry.com forward slash goals 2024. 35 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:17,960 We'll put those two links in this episode's show notes description. 36 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:26,120 So Rabbi, this episode, it's going to be titled something like Why We Stand With Israel, but 37 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:31,900 the question that I started us off with, and I'll just ask it to you and then we can break 38 00:02:31,900 --> 00:02:41,080 it down, but it's as simple as why do we stand and why should you, the listener, stand with 39 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:42,080 Israel? 40 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:46,040 So like, let's start from a real base level biblical understanding of this question. 41 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:48,400 Okay, so let's do something a little different. 42 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:51,040 I'm going to spring something on you, Teru. 43 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:52,040 Okay. 44 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:53,040 Okay. 45 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:58,360 So let me ask you a couple questions. 46 00:02:58,360 --> 00:02:59,680 You know your Bible. 47 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:04,760 So okay, God created man. 48 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:07,280 Okay, Adam and Eve. 49 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:08,900 Adam and Eve, what happened? 50 00:03:08,900 --> 00:03:10,640 They fell, right? 51 00:03:10,640 --> 00:03:11,880 Yeah. 52 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:19,440 So what happened is the covenant with God, God gave them authority over everything. 53 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:22,240 Covenant is broken and they're cast out of the garden. 54 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:23,640 So would you agree with that? 55 00:03:23,640 --> 00:03:24,640 Yeah. 56 00:03:24,640 --> 00:03:25,640 Okay. 57 00:03:25,640 --> 00:03:31,640 So now, okay, now God has to restore covenant. 58 00:03:31,640 --> 00:03:37,080 So when he restores covenant, he restores covenant with the man named Abram, right? 59 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:42,760 Okay, so when Abram, when he restores it, Abram obviously becomes Abraham. 60 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:48,680 And when his name is changed to Abraham from Abram means the father of many nations. 61 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:49,880 Okay. 62 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:53,880 But he also became the first Jew. 63 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:59,560 So he was circumcised. 64 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:10,620 He tithed to this king, priest, Melchizedek, and basically the restoration of covenant 65 00:04:10,620 --> 00:04:18,040 authority of the garden was restored to Abraham and his seed. 66 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:20,200 Okay, would you agree with that? 67 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:21,200 Yes. 68 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:22,200 Okay. 69 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:27,000 So now, the reason I'm asking this is because people have to understand that when Jesus 70 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:32,960 Christ hung on the cross, he hung on the cross as a covenant act. 71 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:37,420 It was a covenant act to restore all the nations. 72 00:04:37,420 --> 00:04:44,540 But in the covenant restoration story, God gave all authority to Adam. 73 00:04:44,540 --> 00:04:50,160 He failed and now he's going to restore it and he goes to Abram. 74 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:56,480 So now if you go to Genesis chapter 12 verse 1, it says, now the Lord said to Abram, get 75 00:04:56,480 --> 00:05:03,200 out of the country from your family and from your father's house to a land I will show 76 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:04,200 you. 77 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:06,560 Now this is the actual land of Israel. 78 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:11,120 I will make you a great nation and I will bless you. 79 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:15,800 I will make your name great and you shall be a blessing. 80 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,800 Now understand Abram is already a wealthy guy. 81 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:23,520 He already has a great name and God is now speaking this to him. 82 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:29,560 And in Genesis 12 3, it says, I will bless those who bless you, who's blessing Abraham, 83 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:34,360 this Jewish guy, the first Jew, and I will curse those who curse you. 84 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:40,840 So that's the main issue here is that blessing and cursing on the earth is determined and 85 00:05:40,840 --> 00:05:47,200 most people struggle with this, but listen, this is how it works. 86 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:54,400 God blesses those who bless his choice and curses those who reject his choice. 87 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:59,800 And he says, and all the families of the earth shall be blessed through this blessing of 88 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:01,160 Abraham. 89 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:08,400 And it's a difficult concept, but what people need to understand, God had to restore covenant. 90 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:17,560 So now if you go to 2 Chronicles 7 14, it says, if my people who are called by my name 91 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:23,440 will humble themselves and pray, I will hear from heaven and I will heal their land. 92 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:24,440 So what's happening? 93 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:26,720 Who is the spirit of the Lord speaking to? 94 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:28,100 The Jewish people. 95 00:06:28,100 --> 00:06:34,760 That's why when you have 2 Chronicles 7 14, you need to have repentive Jews in the mix 96 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:37,520 along with the Gentiles. 97 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:44,120 So now the next major covenant act in the Bible goes to Jesus Christ. 98 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:49,640 Jesus Christ comes, he's the Son of God, he is God incarnate on earth, and he is the 99 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:50,880 seed of David. 100 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:56,720 He is in the lineage of Abraham through the seed of David. 101 00:06:56,720 --> 00:07:02,560 And so now he dies, he at Passover, he is the lamb of God who takes away the sins of 102 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:03,620 the earth. 103 00:07:03,620 --> 00:07:09,160 But then he opens it up to all the nations because all the families, they were separated 104 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:11,520 from the commonwealth of Israel. 105 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:13,800 They were strangers to the promise. 106 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:17,440 But Jesus said, all who call on my name shall be saved. 107 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:22,700 So now the Gentiles, the non-Jewish people, have access to God's covenant. 108 00:07:22,700 --> 00:07:28,640 So the reason that we bless Israel is because it is our root. 109 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:31,320 It is where we come from. 110 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:38,720 In common sense, you cannot curse the root of a plant, a tree, or a person and expect 111 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:40,060 to be blessed. 112 00:07:40,060 --> 00:07:45,320 So you bless the root and you get to eat the fruit. 113 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:51,960 So here's a different question in perspective versus reality. 114 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:58,280 So like one thing that I probably do too much of, and my wife Morgan would agree that I 115 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:03,720 use terminology like, well, perception of this versus the actual reality. 116 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:12,800 But for me, on how I conceive and break down scenarios, I use this a lot. 117 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:20,440 And so I want to use one for saying the question and the thought process behind this is that 118 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:29,280 I've been to a lot of different types of churches in senses of denominations. 119 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:35,160 Obviously about two years ago, we came on here full time and moved to Oklahoma and started 120 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:37,280 working for Curt Landry Ministries. 121 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:44,260 But I think one thing that, I mean, some listeners might disagree with me, but most of the churches 122 00:08:44,260 --> 00:08:50,400 that I've been to and attended, some that I would say would be very healthy and 123 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:59,560 some that would not be, and they would be on one side of the denominational side, that 124 00:08:59,560 --> 00:09:06,760 they don't really mention in their Sunday to Sunday or Wednesday to small group time, 125 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:13,160 whatever you want to do that, they don't really mention too much about blessing Israel and 126 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:16,440 about doing aid to Israel. 127 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:22,800 And the ones that do kind of mention it here and there will have, like they'll do partnerships 128 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:28,680 and projects to do, say, this one thing, and then you don't really hear about it. 129 00:09:28,680 --> 00:09:30,720 Why do you think that is? 130 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:32,880 Because to me, I think it's pretty common. 131 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:37,200 And I think a lot of people listening to this podcast will probably have a lot of experiences 132 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:42,940 in different churches and stuff that would probably say the perception versus reality 133 00:09:42,940 --> 00:09:48,920 is that unfortunately, it's probably too much reality that there's just too many churches 134 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:56,000 and too many pastors and leaders that don't preach in the sense of, hey, this is something 135 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:58,600 we've got to do and like this needs to be a focus. 136 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:00,160 Why do you think that is? 137 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:09,160 Well, the root of it comes from traditional separation of the church from its Jewish roots, 138 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:14,800 which happened 1700 years ago with Constantine. 139 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:19,760 So you have a ruler in Rome who's wanting to overthrow the world and his problem is he 140 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:25,760 can overthrow most of the world with different gods, but he can't overthrow the Jewish people 141 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:31,360 because these monolithic people who believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, their 142 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:37,000 traditions, their calendar, and all these things, not only does it keep him blessed, 143 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,260 but here's the key, Darrell, it keeps him with this identity. 144 00:10:40,260 --> 00:10:43,360 And so what he has to do, if you're going to control people, you have to change their 145 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:47,240 identity and he couldn't change the Jewish identity. 146 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:53,640 And now the early church from the time of Jesus' resurrection up until this Constantine 147 00:10:53,640 --> 00:11:03,420 period was a messianic, one new man, Hebraic church, followed the Jewish calendar and interpreted 148 00:11:03,420 --> 00:11:06,560 scripture through a Jewish filter. 149 00:11:06,560 --> 00:11:12,160 And when Constantine comes and passes a law, makes it illegal to celebrate Passover, illegal 150 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:18,240 for Shabbat, illegal to even have circumcision, all these types of things, he was trying to 151 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:26,240 separate the people from, no, we're going to have this Roman Catholic type situation. 152 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:29,440 And really what he was attacking was the identity. 153 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:37,840 And so from that came a theology called replacement theology, where different theologians started 154 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:43,140 teaching that the blessings that you read about in the Abrahamic covenant that I just 155 00:11:43,140 --> 00:11:50,560 read were only given, since the Jews, quote, killed Jesus, which they didn't, every sinner 156 00:11:50,560 --> 00:11:53,880 on the earth killed Jesus, he died for our sins. 157 00:11:53,880 --> 00:12:02,280 But let's take this narrative, the Jews killed Jesus, so they forfeit their covenant promise 158 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:04,760 and anti-Semitism arises. 159 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:09,480 And then the next thing that happens is the church has replacement theology and they start 160 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:15,320 translating and there's commentary all over the place with the church is now the Israel 161 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:16,640 of God. 162 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:21,400 And the problem that you have with that when you read the prophets is the prophets are 163 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:25,840 very specific about real estate and boundaries in the promised land. 164 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:30,240 And so how in the world do all the Christians and all the different denominations actually 165 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:34,800 possess the covenant God made with Abraham in regards to the boundaries? 166 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:38,200 I mean, they wouldn't even fit in the boundaries of Israel. 167 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:45,920 So obviously the land and the people have a covenant and we are grafted in healthy, 168 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:49,460 as Christians were grafted into that according to Romans 11. 169 00:12:49,460 --> 00:12:56,320 But it's interesting that Paul, even back then, before the Constantine period, he said, 170 00:12:56,320 --> 00:13:00,120 I desire that you be not ignorant of this mystery, that blindness in part happened to 171 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:04,680 the Jewish people until the fullness of the Gentiles have come. 172 00:13:04,680 --> 00:13:10,560 I think that the reason most churches don't preach about it, they don't understand it, 173 00:13:10,560 --> 00:13:15,720 most theological seminaries do not teach it or preach it. 174 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:21,640 And the reason that I, well, first of all, it's my calling to preach it, but my motivation 175 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:23,600 is, listen, I was an orphan. 176 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:25,320 I was conceived out of wedlock. 177 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:27,800 I didn't know my biological parents. 178 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:29,360 At 36, I get saved. 179 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:33,640 At 37, I get reconnected to my biological father. 180 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:35,880 I find out I have a Jewish mother. 181 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:41,440 And so what happened is I was adopted, but then I got grafted in back into my actual 182 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:50,400 biological life through my understanding who my biological father and mother. 183 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:53,080 That brought so much fullness to me at 37. 184 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:54,360 You have no idea. 185 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:58,840 But the same thing, I just equated that into my born-again experience. 186 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:03,440 So when I read the Bible and I read about Abraham and I read about Nehemiah and I read 187 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:09,240 about Isaiah, these are brothers to me because I'm Jewish. 188 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:14,480 There's no separation from me, but people who are non-Jewish and are born again, you 189 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:16,940 are part of the household of faith. 190 00:14:16,940 --> 00:14:20,000 You are part of the seed of Abraham through faith. 191 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,200 And that's the reason I preach this message. 192 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:30,120 The big thrust of why I do this for 33 years is this, is as someone who comes from a corporate 193 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:37,240 behavioral-trained background, you can equip people all you want with positive motivation 194 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:42,400 in their purpose, and they will excel. 195 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:44,180 But at some point, they'll burn out. 196 00:14:44,180 --> 00:14:49,000 If you don't want to burn out, then what you have to do is find your spiritual identity 197 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:53,640 that creates your purpose, which creates your destiny. 198 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:57,880 Supernatural inheritance starts to be released in your life, and then you can leave a legacy. 199 00:14:57,880 --> 00:14:59,280 So you don't burn out. 200 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:00,880 So I'm 68 years old. 201 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:02,400 I'm in ministry all these years. 202 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:09,040 I'm probably more on fire for what I do right now at 68 than I was when I was, let's say, 203 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:10,040 38. 204 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:15,740 And the reason is, is because my identity and my purpose are married together as one. 205 00:15:15,740 --> 00:15:19,920 So I understand, I don't waste time doing something that somebody else is supposed to 206 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:20,920 do. 207 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:22,640 It's identity-driven. 208 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:27,680 And so for every Christian, I would recommend that you go buy my book, Reclaiming Our Forgotten 209 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:31,400 Heritage, understand the journey of finding identity. 210 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:36,760 And the reason that I think people should find their identity is because your identity 211 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:42,760 will release the synergy with your creative nature in God. 212 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:46,560 And that is absolutely a key. 213 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:52,400 And it's very important, particularly in this world of anti-Semitism right now. 214 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:57,720 If you think about it, look at Harvard University, which was a Christian university, and here 215 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:04,560 they are allowing pro-Palestinian anti-Semitic activity and not even understanding that it's 216 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:06,520 evil. 217 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:09,520 So what happened is they lost their roots. 218 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:14,920 Harvard University and that leadership is they may be Christian in name, but they're 219 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:21,920 not in spirit because it says right here, it says, I will curse those who curse you. 220 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:26,280 So what you're doing is it's important to remember where we came from. 221 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:34,760 And we are a Jew, our nation, the United States of America, is a Judeo-Christian nation founded 222 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:44,280 on a constitutional republic that has a constitution that is grounded and founded in biblical Judeo 223 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:45,560 principles. 224 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:47,740 That's how this country was founded. 225 00:16:47,740 --> 00:16:49,920 That's how this country is being blessed. 226 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:54,320 And the enemies of this country know if they want to overthrow it, they have to uproot 227 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:57,120 us and plant us in something else. 228 00:16:57,120 --> 00:17:01,520 And once we lose our identity, and it's not going to happen, I'll tell you right now. 229 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:04,520 But anyway, they're going to take a pretty good shot at it. 230 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:09,440 That's why this message and this podcast and our ministry is important to me is to let 231 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:18,840 them know that we are the seed of Abraham grafted in, whether you're Jew or Gentile. 232 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:22,880 Podcast at curtlandrew.com, send your questions to us there. 233 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:24,440 It's going to go straight to our inbox. 234 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:28,320 Just make sure you put something in the title and subject line. 235 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:33,160 Rabbi, I can't say that enough how many times we're going to get emails and ones that have 236 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:40,600 come in that don't have anything in the title or subject line, and they just go to the place 237 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:42,140 where emails go. 238 00:17:42,140 --> 00:17:44,300 That happens. 239 00:17:44,300 --> 00:17:45,560 It's kind of hard to thumb through it. 240 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:47,480 So just make sure you do that. 241 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:53,320 Also, if you want to find out how you can stand with us and stand with Israel, you can 242 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:57,840 go to curtlandrew.com forward slash stand with Israel. 243 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:02,920 Of course, we'll have all the links in the show notes of this episode. 244 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:11,240 So Rabbi, I want to kind of transition to the thought that let's say we have some spiritual 245 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:13,520 leaders listening to this podcast. 246 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:15,000 We have some pastors listening. 247 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:23,800 We have some preachers, and they want to know, I want to say technique, but like a couple 248 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:32,080 different ideas maybe, right, on how they can implement this biblical truth of standing 249 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:39,400 with Israel, blessing Israel into their messaging, into their church culture. 250 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:42,720 What's a couple tips that you have for those? 251 00:18:42,720 --> 00:19:00,520 I think probably sharing Jesus in a way that they understand that this is a Jewish rabbi. 252 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:07,160 I think that they have to understand that Jesus Christ of Nazareth, first of all, His 253 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:11,520 real name is Yeshua. 254 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:19,560 The letter J wasn't even a letter until several hundred years ago. 255 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:27,780 So like if you're talking to a learned Hebraic, like a Jewish guy or an Arab, and you say 256 00:19:27,780 --> 00:19:33,480 Jesus, and I've had this happen, so I'm just sharing, they'll say, well, that can't be 257 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:34,480 His name. 258 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:38,320 It didn't even have J's until whenever, you know? 259 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:43,560 And I say, I know, but His name is Yeshua, like Yah-she-wah, like Joshua, and then they 260 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:46,160 all know what that is. 261 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:51,440 So again, you need to understand that you're looking at Jesus. 262 00:19:51,440 --> 00:20:01,280 He is a circumcised, Sabbath-keeping, feast-keeping rabbi, and they called Him rabbi. 263 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:06,480 And I think that when you hear Him say these words, like how He's going to judge the whole 264 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:10,800 world, He says, when you do it unto the least of these, my brethren, the Jewish people, 265 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:11,800 you do it unto me. 266 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:14,240 I said, what did we do? 267 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:15,680 Like when I was hungry, you fed me. 268 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:18,400 That's why we do humanitarian aid. 269 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:22,240 You know, one of the patterns that I followed as a businessman, listen, the Lord revealed 270 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:24,760 this to me in the early 90s. 271 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:26,320 And so I went to my business partners. 272 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:29,980 I was in the fruit business at the time, and I said, man, look at this in the book of Acts. 273 00:20:29,980 --> 00:20:35,200 It says, we are to be witnesses first in Judea, Samaria, and then all ends of the earth, Jerusalem, 274 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:36,400 Judea, Samaria. 275 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:38,680 And I said, we should follow that pattern. 276 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:45,400 So we started actually sowing seed as fruit brokers into Jerusalem, then Judea and Samaria. 277 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:48,840 And we still do it to this day, Curt Lander Ministries. 278 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:54,200 We have safe houses and Holocaust survivors and lone soldiers' houses in Jerusalem. 279 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:58,220 We support the city of Me'el D'Amin, which is Judea and Samaria. 280 00:20:58,220 --> 00:20:59,480 We plant trees. 281 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:05,360 We take care of their security there and their safe houses in that city. 282 00:21:05,360 --> 00:21:08,160 We work in all these places. 283 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:09,160 We plant trees. 284 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:11,440 And then, you know, we work in Africa. 285 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:14,800 We just got done taking care of 500 orphans in Kenya. 286 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:20,320 So the pattern of our seed sowing is Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and all ends of the earth. 287 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:26,280 So to answer your question, I think that I would speak about Jesus and His identity as 288 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:28,200 a Jew. 289 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:30,320 And what did He ask us to do? 290 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:33,600 He asks us to be a witness for Him. 291 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:36,440 And the Scripture is very clear, it's to the Jew first. 292 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:40,760 So I don't know if that's too deep, but no, no. 293 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:43,440 So let's take it from this angle. 294 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:51,320 For people listening that want to spread and tell their friends and family about this, 295 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:52,320 right? 296 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:58,680 How would you go about them if you had a little piece of advice on how to introduce it and 297 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:01,880 kind of back up maybe with a little piece of Scripture for them? 298 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:08,560 Okay, I would do just listen, one of the things that happens, and I've watched it, you know, 299 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:13,040 I've been doing this 33 years now. 300 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:20,560 Like myself, when I first discovered my Jewish roots, and a lot of people do, they go nuts. 301 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:24,240 And what happens is the people who haven't had the experience think, oh my gosh, you're 302 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:26,000 Judaizing me. 303 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,920 Or you know, you've become a Jew. 304 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:30,800 What's the matter with you, you crazy? 305 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:33,120 You know, I mean, literally, I get it, I get it. 306 00:22:33,120 --> 00:22:35,800 It happened to me, and it happens to a lot of people. 307 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:42,760 So I would just say, first of all, you just need to understand that the, listen, I work 308 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:45,000 with First Nations people. 309 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:49,440 I'm actually an ordained peace chief with the First Nations tribes. 310 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:54,360 So one of the biggest things that I share with them when I share with the Jewish roots 311 00:22:54,360 --> 00:22:59,920 with them is that you're not going to cease being native because you're following the 312 00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:02,080 Jewish roots. 313 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:08,680 And the reason it's important, they need to know that God honors the indigenous people 314 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:10,280 as being Indians. 315 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:12,000 There's no shame in that. 316 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,400 They don't get saved and become Jews. 317 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:17,320 And the reason that's so important, if you look at the history, what happened with the 318 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:23,000 missionaries when they came to the Indians, they said, okay, now that you're a Christian, 319 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:28,280 cut your hair, lose the language, change these clothes, put on this. 320 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:32,440 And so what happened is it was shaming them to say, okay, if you're going to be a Christian, 321 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:34,160 you're not good enough as an Indian. 322 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:35,520 You've got to become a Christian. 323 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:38,600 Here's your clothes and here's your language and all that. 324 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:41,900 And it's left a deep wound in the people. 325 00:23:41,900 --> 00:23:43,680 But the same thing has happened with Jewish people. 326 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:47,480 Like, if you become a Christian, you've got to quit doing the feasts. 327 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:51,440 You don't have to do Shabbat and all those types of things. 328 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:56,560 So I think the key is when a Gentile discovers the Jewish roots of the faith, you don't 329 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:57,640 have to become Jewish. 330 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:03,560 You can still be a good Gentile and observe Shabbat, celebrate the feast. 331 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:06,880 And when you're sharing it with people, you need to share the fruit of the blessing of 332 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:09,960 it for the fulfillment of finding your own identity. 333 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:15,360 And it draws you into more intimacy by the Holy Spirit to find Christ. 334 00:24:15,360 --> 00:24:20,920 And allow the fruit of that to be there and that you're not Judaizing people. 335 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:25,720 You're not telling people, it's never good to go to somebody and say, you know what, 336 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:30,920 you're not good enough the way you're doing it and now you need to do it my way. 337 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:37,240 That's a very poor, socially dysfunctional way to evangelize. 338 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:41,640 So another resource that we have is another podcast. 339 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:46,480 It's called Generations at the Table with Megan Marcelino. 340 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:50,080 Probably somewhere in this episode, you've probably heard an ad for it. 341 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:56,600 As we're having this discussion, it's an awesome podcast with Megan. 342 00:24:56,600 --> 00:25:03,760 She teaches powerful message of faith and the teachings that come with that, that link 343 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:08,880 everything from the Jewish roots in Christianity and how that can actually be so impactful 344 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:10,360 for your walk with the Father. 345 00:25:10,360 --> 00:25:14,080 And so just search Generations at the Table. 346 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,860 You can find that wherever you listen to podcasts. 347 00:25:16,860 --> 00:25:21,800 It's also the first podcast on the One New Man Network. 348 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:26,580 So Rabbi, what's... 349 00:25:26,580 --> 00:25:36,000 Let's say that someone is now into a position to where they want to sow into the projects 350 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:41,320 that we have, that we're currently doing. 351 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:46,120 Why should they consider that? 352 00:25:46,120 --> 00:25:50,320 And then anybody listening, again, in the show notes, curtlandry.com forward slash stand 353 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:54,800 with Israel, you can see what we're doing with that current campaign for the war efforts 354 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:55,800 in Israel. 355 00:25:55,800 --> 00:26:04,160 But what would you tell someone that, hey, search your heart. 356 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:09,440 Financially you have an opportunity to bless Israel. 357 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:16,300 Why should they bless Israel through Curtlandry Ministries? 358 00:26:16,300 --> 00:26:22,320 First of all, if the Holy Spirit's leading you to give to us, that would be the first 359 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:23,320 thing. 360 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:25,800 Listen, I have people all the time. 361 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:31,760 I've had people come with large checks and people say, you know, they don't even know 362 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:32,760 me. 363 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:33,760 I don't know them. 364 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:39,720 And they'll say, yeah, the Lord told me to give you your ministry $25,000. 365 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:43,160 And I'm going, okay. 366 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:45,040 It's very reassuring to me. 367 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:48,120 So you have to ask yourself, why would the Holy Spirit do that? 368 00:26:48,120 --> 00:26:53,540 Listen, Steve Schultz was on the air with me at Elijah List. 369 00:26:53,540 --> 00:26:58,200 And so, you know, I was talking to him about what we were doing in Israel and it was probably 370 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:02,760 like two minutes into the conversation on the phone and Christie was... 371 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:05,480 We were on speaker and we're friends for years and years. 372 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:06,480 And he said, okay. 373 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:09,040 He said, oh, wow, Kurt, oh, I'm going to give you 50 grand. 374 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:11,000 I said, well, great, praise God. 375 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:16,480 So then we went another few minutes and he said, no, I'm going to give you 100 grand. 376 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:18,640 And I said, Steve, I feel like an auctioneer here. 377 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:19,640 Let's talk longer. 378 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:20,640 Okay, 150, 150, 150. 379 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:22,680 And he's joking because we're friends. 380 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:23,680 Okay. 381 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:24,680 But anyway, he did. 382 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:30,340 He ended up giving several hundred thousand dollars and like his ministry... 383 00:27:30,340 --> 00:27:31,860 Why did he do that? 384 00:27:31,860 --> 00:27:35,240 Because he understands the principle of what I just said. 385 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,080 He wanted the blessing of blessing Israel. 386 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:38,580 He also trusts us. 387 00:27:38,580 --> 00:27:40,840 So why would Steve Schultz of the Elijah List do that? 388 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:45,040 Okay, he's known me 25 years and this is the reason. 389 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:53,460 If you give designated funds to go to Israel, listen, in 35 days we delivered... 390 00:27:53,460 --> 00:28:04,640 In 30 days we delivered $975,000.80 or something, the exact amount Bob was telling me. 391 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:05,640 You know how Bob is. 392 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:06,640 All right, $0.80. 393 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:07,920 Well, praise God for that. 394 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:11,440 But anyway, in 35 days, over a million dollars delivered. 395 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:13,720 Now, why is that important? 396 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:17,960 First of all, the war effort, the things were urgent, but the fact that Sam and our team 397 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:25,680 can actually physically pick up a million dollars worth the bulletproof helmets, bulletproof 398 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:34,120 vest, the special lights that they need, the special medical bandages that coagulate blood 399 00:28:34,120 --> 00:28:38,360 from surface wounds and all that type of stuff. 400 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:41,560 I mean, expensive stuff. 401 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:44,720 Food for the soldiers. 402 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:50,760 The reservists that came didn't have the right food, boots, boots and gloves. 403 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:56,160 Then they didn't have the right uniforms, special, like the uniforms, coats, it goes 404 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:57,520 on and on and on. 405 00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:07,240 All this stuff, personal care items, toothbrush brushes, it's like deodorant, battery packs 406 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:11,800 to keep their phone solar charged so that they can call home to their family. 407 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:13,960 They've been separated from them for 30 days. 408 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:18,080 All that stuff, whatever it is they needed, other stuff I can't talk about. 409 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:23,000 But whatever, listen, these commanders are like my sons and they've known me and they 410 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,000 ask me and I say yes. 411 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:30,980 But the thing is, if you give $100, then that $100 goes to that project. 412 00:29:30,980 --> 00:29:34,080 No different than, I'll give you an example. 413 00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:38,500 Like for us, we have a program we've been doing for about 12 years and you met the kids, 414 00:29:38,500 --> 00:29:43,320 it's called Bridge to Independence, where we take care of kids when they age out of 415 00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:50,520 the social programs in Israel at 18, at the end of 18 when they turn 19, then they're 416 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:52,480 out on the street. 417 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:57,720 So they're out of the foster program that they have in Israel. 418 00:29:57,720 --> 00:29:59,720 They don't call it that. 419 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:03,880 So anyway, we started a program 12 years called Bridge to Independence, where we take care 420 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:06,920 of them from 19 to 24. 421 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:11,720 So I always tell people, listen, if you have an identity problem, and this is a biblical 422 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:15,440 principle I've used, sow to what you need. 423 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:22,580 Okay, you need your identity in the Lord, enhanced, sow into these kids. 424 00:30:22,580 --> 00:30:24,080 It's critical. 425 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:26,280 Listen, we've interviewed these kids. 426 00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:30,320 The first interview I ever did with this one young girl, I called her Mighty Mouse, and 427 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:34,800 I asked her, I said, if you didn't have the Bridge to Independence program, you didn't 428 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:40,640 have our apartment that we have in Jerusalem, where would you be? 429 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:45,440 And she just looked at me and she said, I'd be dead. 430 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:49,840 And what she was saying is, I would have committed suicide. 431 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,540 So man, this is serious. 432 00:30:52,540 --> 00:30:57,360 So if you sow a seed into the safe house program, then what you're doing is you sow the seed 433 00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:01,640 and then you say this, Father God, I am sowing the seed into the apple of God's eye. 434 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:07,400 I'm sowing a seed unto the least of these, his brethren that they have four year program 435 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:15,920 in a safe house with, so to say, like adoptive parents and supervision and mentors. 436 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:20,400 And we provide for them to be able to grow up in an accountability and a place to make 437 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:22,900 good decisions to become good adults. 438 00:31:22,900 --> 00:31:23,900 And Lord, that's what I need. 439 00:31:23,900 --> 00:31:25,920 I want to be a mature Christian. 440 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:27,220 I want to function. 441 00:31:27,220 --> 00:31:29,520 So I'm going to bless Israel in a special way. 442 00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:34,040 I'm going to sow into these young men and women that they find their way so I can find 443 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:35,080 my way. 444 00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:41,320 It's probably if you, if the Lord, if you'll sow to where you need to grow, God always 445 00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:44,280 pours out abundant blessing. 446 00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:46,360 And we'll be right back. 447 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:48,800 It's a new year and a new you. 448 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:55,960 Have you ever wondered how to stay consistent with growing spiritually, but also winning 449 00:31:55,960 --> 00:32:00,600 and achieving your goals you have for yourself this year? 450 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:08,720 Get your free download of My Goals to Grow by visiting curtlandry.com forward slash grow 451 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:11,440 2024. 452 00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:18,400 That's curtlandry.com forward slash grow 2024. 453 00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,880 I'll help answer questions like where do I start? 454 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,040 How do I walk in the spirit? 455 00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,800 Or how do I do spiritual warfare? 456 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:30,160 Or how do I believe that I'm more than a conqueror? 457 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:37,440 Meaning that Matthew 6 33 positions us for success in this year ahead. 458 00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:42,040 That seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all other things will 459 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:43,640 be added on to us. 460 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:47,000 The fruit of the Spirit is evident in His covenant. 461 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:53,720 Know this, that if you can establish His covenant in your heart and in your mind, you will be 462 00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:56,920 successful this coming year. 463 00:32:56,920 --> 00:33:05,480 So get your free download for Goals to Grow 2024 by visiting curtlandry.com forward slash 464 00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:12,560 grow 2024 or visit the show notes in this episode. 465 00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:16,640 There are some projects that really touch your heart and this is interesting because 466 00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:23,600 our son-in-law Paul Marcelino, his dad, Yocanon Marcelino helped to produce this book and 467 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:32,960 the whole purpose of this book, Jerusalem Rising, is to be able to bring visual evidence 468 00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:39,880 that Jerusalem and Israel actually belongs to the children of the God of Abraham, Isaac 469 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:41,280 and Jacob. 470 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:47,520 That this is the land of Isaac and the miracle power. 471 00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:54,060 They say that a picture is worth a thousand words and this book captures that. 472 00:33:54,060 --> 00:34:00,100 So listen, I'm really blessed for a limited time and while supplies last, you can get 473 00:34:00,100 --> 00:34:06,000 a 30% discount by entering the promo code of Rising. 474 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:13,760 And so what you need to do is go to curtlandry.com forward slash Rising and you can be able to 475 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:17,680 claim your discounted copy of Jerusalem Rising. 476 00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:21,360 So that's curtlandry.com forward slash Rising. 477 00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:25,640 Get a 30% discount now while supplies last. 478 00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:28,880 Hey, one more thing. 479 00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:34,300 After this episode, I would love for you to go and download and listen to another podcast 480 00:34:34,300 --> 00:34:40,480 on the One New Man Network and that's called Generations at the Table with Megan Marcelino. 481 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:45,240 This show is perfect for discovering how to grow your family in faith by knowing your 482 00:34:45,240 --> 00:34:46,520 Jewish roots. 483 00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:52,160 Megan breaks down all of her knowledge on how to unlock your family's kingdom destiny 484 00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:54,040 by honoring Yeshua. 485 00:34:54,040 --> 00:35:00,880 You can find her show on the One New Man Network on your favorite podcast app. 486 00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:04,400 All right, now back to the show. 487 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:06,400 That's so good. 488 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:11,800 Curtlandry.com forward slash Stand with Israel, you can also look at all the other projects 489 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:17,640 that we have available right now that we're currently doing. 490 00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:22,200 You can just do curtlandry.com and you can see all those as well. 491 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:32,360 Rabbi, as we kind of transition towards the end of this podcast, what's your prayer for 492 00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:42,240 people listening to really gain from the education of this podcast? 493 00:35:42,240 --> 00:35:43,240 It's super in-depth. 494 00:35:43,240 --> 00:35:50,960 I mean, like, you know, he went straight historian on me, which you have to, to understand why 495 00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:58,080 the landscape is and the messaging and the vibes now in churches that we know it in 2024. 496 00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:06,880 But what's that prayer for the listener, people listening to this podcast on what they can 497 00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:10,720 take away from this episode? 498 00:36:10,720 --> 00:36:18,480 Well first of all, if you are trying to find yourself, please order my book, Reclaiming 499 00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:20,160 Our Forgotten Heritage. 500 00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:24,120 Okay, and just read it. 501 00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:25,920 It was a work of love. 502 00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:30,280 Megan and I wrote it. 503 00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:35,120 And the reason I'm sharing that with you is I'm going to give you just a story. 504 00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:38,520 I like to tell stories so you understand where I'm coming from. 505 00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:43,240 My adoptive father, Ray Landry, he used to say things to me like this. 506 00:36:43,240 --> 00:36:49,360 He'd go like, in regards to food, I like to cook, I'm a foodie, he's not. 507 00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:54,960 And Ray used to say, Curtis, I don't know where you get this from. 508 00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,920 And because, you know, I'm not his DNA. 509 00:36:57,920 --> 00:36:59,700 I don't know where you get this. 510 00:36:59,700 --> 00:37:06,760 And I'd say, and I didn't know, but when I was 37, just saved a year in the Lord, the 511 00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:12,040 Lord miraculously reconnected me to my biological father, Joe McKay. 512 00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:21,760 And when I met him, I all of a sudden knew, oh my gosh, literally, I was in a cafe in 513 00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:26,960 Palm Beach, Florida, and I'm sitting there, it was all glass. 514 00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,560 I'm looking out in the parking lot. 515 00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:31,280 And here comes my biological father. 516 00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:33,240 I've never seen him before. 517 00:37:33,240 --> 00:37:34,800 And I see this guy drive up. 518 00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:40,720 He's in a red Mercedes and convertible. 519 00:37:40,720 --> 00:37:45,160 He gets out of the car and the way he walks, anybody that sees it, I walk a little different, 520 00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:46,520 kind of waddle. 521 00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:51,280 He's waddling out of the car and I'm going, oh my gosh, it's me. 522 00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:52,720 You don't need any DNA tests. 523 00:37:52,720 --> 00:37:54,760 Look, here he comes. 524 00:37:54,760 --> 00:38:00,920 And you know, and he's from Palm Beach and he's a Palm Beacher, you know, he's a wealthy. 525 00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:02,880 Did your heart sink? 526 00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:06,920 You know, I mean, like what was the physical side of that? 527 00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:10,640 My heart was beating out of my chest. 528 00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:16,560 But here's the thing, what happened is when we were together, he started sharing who he 529 00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:18,280 was. 530 00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:23,160 It settled to who I am and a peace came. 531 00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:25,200 The same thing about the Jewish roots of the faith. 532 00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:30,960 The reason I teach it, for every Christian, the more you understand your own roots, the 533 00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:36,680 more you'll have that heart throbbing experience with God himself. 534 00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:46,480 See people, I think people forget about the relationship side of the Bible. 535 00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:47,480 I was blessed. 536 00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:48,480 I was blessed in several ways. 537 00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:50,520 When I read it, I become Nehemiah. 538 00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:52,480 When I'm reading, I become Joseph. 539 00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:57,080 When I'm reading it, I become Peter. 540 00:38:57,080 --> 00:39:02,200 So I think what people have to understand is that this is a relationship. 541 00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:03,880 Yes, we're talking about covenant. 542 00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:08,440 Yes, we're talking about blessing Israel and blessing the God of Israel. 543 00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:11,000 But God wants to bless you. 544 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:18,640 And the biggest blessing of the Bible is to have a presence of God in peace and not have 545 00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:23,920 to fear what the world is doing, knowing that God will take care of you and he'll meet 546 00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:30,600 all of your needs according to Jesus, his riches and glory through Yeshua. 547 00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:37,980 And so my journey of finding my way and having peace in the storm was being reconnected to 548 00:39:37,980 --> 00:39:40,920 God and then finding out who I really am. 549 00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:42,280 And that's my prayer. 550 00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:47,360 All the ministry material, everything we do at One New Man, everything we do at Curt Landry 551 00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:53,460 Ministries is driven to unlock your identity. 552 00:39:53,460 --> 00:39:55,160 That's my joy. 553 00:39:55,160 --> 00:40:02,980 If I could lay hands on every person, let's say, and I was dying, and they said, all right, 554 00:40:02,980 --> 00:40:06,120 you got five minutes and you're going home to be with the Lord and there's a bunch of 555 00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:08,920 people praying there, what would you pray over them? 556 00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:14,400 I'd lay hands right on your forehead and I'd say, Father God, in Yeshua's name, unlock 557 00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:18,280 their identity in you. 558 00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:20,680 Powerful. 559 00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:29,000 Don't really know where to go from here other than to say if this podcast has helped you, 560 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:36,760 if it's been impactful during this episode or just in general for the Curt Landry podcast, 561 00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:43,160 we'd love for you to leave a star review, leave a comment on Apple Podcasts, on Spotify, 562 00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:44,440 just wherever you're listening. 563 00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:47,860 It could be Amazon Music, it could be YouTube. 564 00:40:47,860 --> 00:40:49,020 We're pretty much everywhere. 565 00:40:49,020 --> 00:40:54,600 So if you can just let us know, just rank this podcast, it's going to help us get the 566 00:40:54,600 --> 00:41:01,720 message out, Rabbi, and kind of break through some of those algorithms and we just really, 567 00:41:01,720 --> 00:41:04,280 really appreciate it. 568 00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:05,560 Any questions you have? 569 00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:08,120 You can send it over to podcasts at curtlandry.com. 570 00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:11,880 All right, Rabbi, let's wrap up. 571 00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:15,240 People made it to the deep end of this episode. 572 00:41:15,240 --> 00:41:17,960 What's your lasting thought for them? 573 00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:24,840 You know, Jesus and Moses had two things about identity. 574 00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:27,480 Moses, he's getting ready to go. 575 00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:32,520 He's had a rough life and he's on the side of the mountain. 576 00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:33,520 Think about it. 577 00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:38,660 He's at Mount Sinai and the bush is burning but not being consumed. 578 00:41:38,660 --> 00:41:45,840 And here's God empowering somebody who stutters, somebody who had failed in Egypt, tending 579 00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:49,880 sheep, kind of so to say, minding his own business. 580 00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:53,900 And he says to God, he goes, okay, I'll do it. 581 00:41:53,900 --> 00:41:58,800 But who do you say, what should I say, who sent me? 582 00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:04,600 And God said to Moses, I am that I am. 583 00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:13,400 And if you think about it in Matthew 20, 22, verse 41, while the Pharisees were gathered, 584 00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:19,760 Jesus asked them, saying, what do you think about the Christ? 585 00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,000 Whose son is he? 586 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:27,040 And they said to him, the son of David. 587 00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:28,720 Wow. 588 00:42:28,720 --> 00:42:35,040 So what the Pharisees knew that this Messiah was going to come through the lineage of King 589 00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:39,700 David, that is the Jewish roots of the faith. 590 00:42:39,700 --> 00:42:45,520 In the book of Revelation, it talks about the end time church of Philadelphia and it 591 00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:48,340 has the key of David. 592 00:42:48,340 --> 00:42:50,720 And I'll leave this with deep thought with you. 593 00:42:50,720 --> 00:42:56,200 I pray the Lord would release the key of David in your life because that key to your own 594 00:42:56,200 --> 00:43:03,360 Jewish roots is the identity to release your destiny in Yeshua's name. 595 00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:09,960 Man, Rabbi, it's been a good podcast. 596 00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:11,800 It's been a really good discussion. 597 00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:20,480 Of course, we hope that this show, this format is super beneficial to you in your physical 598 00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:22,880 and spiritual life and journey. 599 00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:29,240 And, you know, if this podcast has helped you, please share it with anyone that you 600 00:43:29,240 --> 00:43:30,240 know. 601 00:43:30,240 --> 00:43:36,640 Send it to social media, send it in text, just get it out there if this show has helped 602 00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:37,640 you. 603 00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:41,240 All right, Rabbi, man, that was a good episode. 604 00:43:41,240 --> 00:43:42,240 Good. 605 00:43:42,240 --> 00:43:46,280 The Lord blessed me to share it. 606 00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:53,640 And I think one of the reasons it's a good episode is I know what my inner heart desire 607 00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:54,640 is. 608 00:43:54,640 --> 00:44:00,560 It blessed me to unlock my identity and it brought so much fullness to me, you know, 609 00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:03,040 33 years ago now. 610 00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:09,240 And I pray for each and every one that follows us that your destiny be unlocked and that 611 00:44:09,240 --> 00:44:15,800 you find that joy of being just who God called you to be and that the workmanship he has 612 00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:22,240 prepared beforehand that you would be able to be about that work and that business in 613 00:44:22,240 --> 00:44:23,240 Yeshua's name. 614 00:44:23,240 --> 00:44:26,120 All right, that's going to wrap it up for this episode. 615 00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:27,760 Rabbi, until next time. 616 00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:28,760 Yeah, thank you. 617 00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:56,120 Good luck.