Sid: And I have someone Red Hot for the Messiah, Co Producer of Its Supernatural Television and Messianic Vision Radio, Janie DuVall. And we’re going to spend this week bringing you up to date on what God did in my life and if you understand me you will understand Jewish people. I’m going to take you after I became a believer; I got saved in the early 70’s right at the height of the Charismatic Movement and when I got saved I was instantly Red Hot for Jesus. As you’ll find out I had an encounter with the devil and I knew his reality and I don’t understand how anyone can even entertain being backslidden if they understand where they slide back to. And I understood and I was one grateful Jewish man that believed in Jesus.
Janie: You know Sid, when you say that you were grateful, I’ve heard you since the late seventies on the radio. I’m from New York and I listened to you in New York and I heard this Jewish man, and I’m Jewish and I heard this Jewish man you on the radio so hungry, I mean so hungry for more of God. But then, when you said the big transition that happened you would always tell me and you would tell the listeners how you were just so Red Hot even as an early believer, but I didn’t know you then. So I was watching when you were on Kathryn Kulman’s TV program and Kathryn Kulman moved in miracles, she had a miracle ministry that was incredible from the late forties to about the seventies. And you were on her program just a year after you became a believer and I’ll tell you every time I look at that clip, the TV program, it’s amazing, one year knowing Jesus and you were so radically changed, it was like it was in your blood. That’s why now I see why you just can’t understand how someone could say that little prayer with Billy and then no change and they’re just doing, living life the same way I mean which actually to me is really boring; when you look at you, and it was so interesting. I want everyone to hear when Kathryn Kulman was so amazed by you because she said, “Here’s this Jewish successful Businessman and look at him, look at the change that happened!” And the change didn’t just happen then, it’s like I’ve known you all these years now and you’re still so radically Red Hot. Let’s listen to that, a little excerpt from that TV program when you were on Kathryn Kulman.
Kathryn Kulman excerpt: When I tell you that the name of my guest is Sid Roth that’s thrilling in itself! Ha-ha and I’m so excited about it because Sid Roth is one of those wonderful young Businessmen from Washington, DC who a had this glorious experience of knowing the Messiah in the forgiveness of his sins. Well Sid, the Washington Daily News classes you with other very prominent young men in business in our Nation’s Capital as “White Collar Jesus Freaks.” I think that that that’s the greatest complement they there could be in fellowship, really. How in the world did you ever get involved with Jesus Christ?
Sid: Well, considering that I come from an Orthodox Jewish Background it would take more than a couple of seconds to give you an answer.
Kathryn: I know, and you’re a very successful Stockbroker in Washington, DC, you’ve been in this business for how many years?
Sid: Well, I’m thirty-one years old and I’ve been in the stock business about eight years, and I’ve been in the business of Jesus Christ about one year. I’m one year old in the Lord.
Kathryn: What was your experience that moment, that new birth experience? It was the most beautiful thing in the world to ya.
Sid: Jesus Christ is as real to me as you are sitting right opposite me.
Kathryn: I know what you’re talking about.
Sid: And you know the thing I want to emphasize is I had, because I guess I was Jewish and He just had to hit me over the head, over and over and over. I like to tell my story because he did. I want to emphasize the point, that the Bible says, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard seed.” Which is a tiny, tiny little seed and you take Jesus Christ, which is this tiny little seed and you put Him into your heart and you feed Him with the Word and He’ll grow. Just like that acorn isn’t an oak tree, instantaneously Jesus Christ doesn’t grow instanteously He grows on faith and I know from my own personal experience and from the experience of many of my friends that if you’ll invite Him into your heart. He’s on the outside, it’s sort of like you’re driving an automobile you know, He has a difficult time driving your car from the outside, but he can do it because He’s God and look what He did to my life. But you know when you invite Him inside that automobile you know what happens? It is a heck of a lot easier for Him and that’s where He wants to go. And boy, I’m so grateful to Him and I feel like I can’t do Him enough justice for what He’s done for me.
Kathryn: Do you know that this is a very successful Stockbroker who’s talking, this is a businessman from our Nation’s Capital, a successful Stockbroker, but Sid it’s real, it’s now. It isn’t something in the past, its Jesus now; this wonderful relationship now.
Sid: This is what’s so exciting, in other words, like I’m telling you what happened a year ago, but you know if I can’t tell you what happened yesterday or the day before, two days ago I’m in serious trouble with God because He’s so real every single day He influences my life.
End of clip from Kathryn Kulman
Sid: You know Janie, to kind of set the stage, I’m a brand new believer in the Messiah, there are not many Jewish, it’s not like today. There were very, very, few Jewish believers in the Messiah at that time. And I got interviewed by a major secular newspaper and I really got sabotaged when I did that because the reporter was Jewish.
Janie: Ought oh!
Sid: And I kept saying to him, now I’m going to tell you something, but it will be off the record and every time I said off the record, it…
Janie: It was on the record.
Sid: And I remember calling him after my Uncle had called and said, “How could you do this to your Father? And I called the reporter and said, “How could you do that to me? I told you, you told me that it was off the record? And he said, “Yeah, but it sounded so good, that was his answer to me.”
Janie: Ought oh, but there were repercussions with you Father then.
Sid: There were repercussions with my family, but there were also repercussions for good things, Kathryn Kulman who had the greatest miracle ministry back then, and I really believe that I haven’t seen one since as high a level as Kathryn Kulman.
Janie: And we’ve even interviewed so many people who were healed in her ministry.
Sid: Right, and that’s coming back again. That anointing is coming back again and that I’m positive of. But as a result of that secular newspaper article which sold more newspapers than any newspaper in their history. She found out about it.
Janie: That’s how.
Sid: And I became a guest on her television show and then that opened up speaking for me all over.
Janie: Because everyone was amazed because this Jewish man believing in Jesus.
Sid: Yeah, and it was highly unusual back then and the thing that I’m amazed Janie is that I survived because before I had even read the entire Bible I was on the speaking circuit as the expert in the Bible.
Janie: Well, you are really a sign and wonder because the more Jewish people who believe in Jesus, Jesus is coming back soon, so you are really a sign and a wonder.
Sid: But, back then it wasn’t that there was so many coming to Jesus, there were really so few. And I remember we had a picnic lunch. We had an organization it was called the Hebrew Christian Alliance of the Washington, DC area and I was the President of it. And a new Jewish believer by the name of Paul Lieberman, who now is the Editor of the Messianic Jewish Times, had a problem. His wife would not go to a church because they are both Jewish and she was uncomfortable in a church. So he said, “Let’s start a Jewish service.” And I thought, “That is the most ridiculous idea I have ever heard of, but we’ll put it to a vote.” So we had a picnic one day and I said, “Everyone that would like to try one service,” I wouldn’t commit for more than one, “Everyone that would like to try one service raise your hand.” And the majority of the people raised their hand, so I was stuck. I remember going to my father and saying, “Dad, can you teach me how to do a Shabbat Service?” And he looked at me, he was now very upset with me because I was an outspoken believer in Yeshua as the Messiah and he thought I was making fun of him and he kicked me out of the house.
Janie: Oh no.
Sid: But here’s the amazing thing, we walked right into a revival, a major move of God’s Spirit and when we started.
Janie: And what were the meetings like when you say revival?
Sid: They were totally dependent, 100% dependent on God. I knew nothing, and I was one of the Leaders. But every week Jewish people would come to the Lord and then the next week the Jewish person that came to the Lord the week before would be sharing his testimony and another Jewish person would come to the Lord. I’ve tasted Jewish revival and it’s coming back.