I got my PhD in the field
of organic chemistry Postdoc at Stanford University I join the group of
a man who was gonna win a Nobel
Prize in chemistry. Voted one of the top 50 most influential minds
in the world I was a visiting scholar
at Harvard University I've spoken at every
major university in this country (US) have over 650 research
publications voted the R&D Magazine
'Scientist of the Year' I'm in the National
Academy of Inventors I'm a member of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science Over 120 patents started, 7 or 8 companies... We work in areas that
range from medicine to material science to electronics, computer memory,
medical devices... We work across a broad
range of areas. But more than any of that what means the most to me is that I'm a Jew, who believes that Jesus is the Messiah! I grew up just outside
of New York City I thought everybody was Jewish I didn't even know there was anything else. I had no particular interest in that, other than
when all my friends were getting bar mitzvahed
or bat mitzvahed and then I would attend
of course every week. There was never really
any excitement for me. I remember once I even tried to talk to a rabbi he just brushed me off. There was very little
explanation for me. I remember when
I went to college I started meeting a
number of people that said they were 'Born-again
Christians' which was sort of an odd term. What's 'Born-again'? What do you mean,
'born again'? One person saw me in
the laundry room and he said, "Do you mind
if i give you" "an illustration
of the gospel?" And I remember, we sat
there and he actually started to
draw a picture. A cliff with a man on one side and he drew a little
man and then another cliff with
God on the other side and a big chasm in between that he labelled with "sin". I looked at him, and I said, "I'm not a sinner!" "I've never killed anyone," "I never robbed a bank..." "How could I be a sinner?" And he had me read a verse from the Bible: "For all have sinned" "and fall short of
the glory of God." In modern Judaism
we never really talked about sin.
I don't remember ever talking about
sin in my home. So he turned to
another passage: Jesus said, "I say to you" "that everyone who looks upon" "a woman with lust for
her has already" "committed adultery with
her in his heart." Pow! I felt... just as if I'd been punched right in the chest! Here I was, new in college I didn't think anybody knew! I would pick up
these magazines and I became addicted
to pornography it was just through
those magazines and all of a sudden something that's written
in the Bible somebody who lived
2,000 years ago was calling me out on it! And I felt immediately
convicted and now I realized
I was a sinner. When I read in the Scriptures
what sin is then I knew I was a sinner. How am I gonna get to God? We Jews know this better than anyone else. Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness
of sin. This description in Isaiah 53 of how He will bear
upon Himself my sin... The things that I had done... This was Him! This was the man that took this upon
Himself on the cross. The perfect God comes and gives Himself for us. He is the one that gives
Himself for us. I started to realize how Jewish the New Testament is. This book is so Jewish! The New Testament is so Jewish! It's all about Jewish people! And then on November 7th 1977 I was all alone in my room. The realization that Yeshua is the one who died
on the cross and I said, "Lord,
I am a sinner" "please forgive me,
come into my life!" Then all of a sudden someone was in my room. And I opened my eyes -
I was on my knees i opened, my eyes who
was in my room? That man, Jesus Christ stood in my room. This amazing sense of God Jesus was in my room! and I wasn't scared all I started doing
was just weeping. The presence was so glorious because He was there
in my room on that day. And I didn't want to get up and this amazing sense
of forgiveness just started to come upon me. That was Him. Finally I got up. I didn't
know what to do I didn't know who to tell... Here's this Jewish kid
from NY city What am I going to say? My cousins were shocked. "How could you do that?" "You're Jewish!" Telling my mother how I had invited Jesus into my life, she didn't say much. She was weeping. She told my father. They weren't happy at all. And she said, "I don't
blame them" "for killing Jesus after
the things he said." "Who is he to come against" "these religious leaders
that have" "dedicated their lives
to helping people" "and to tell them that" "they are whitewashed tombs?!" "Who is he, this young
man in his 30s" "to say this to these
scholars?" "He got what he deserved!" And my mother's
a very deep, pensive, careful reader. She read from Genesis right on
through the Tanakh. The whole thing. When she got done, I said, "What did you think?"
She said, "God warned us over
and over again." "He warned us!" When my daughter was about 15, my mother and father
came to visit us. At one point my mother
went into her room for several hours. She came out and said, "That's quite a young
girl you have!" "She talked to me for
a long time." She started reading
the Bible again, both the Old and the
New Testament. One day not long after that, she called me on the phone. At the age of 72 she said, "Jimmy, you wouldn't believe
what happened!" I said "What happened?" She said, "I was just reading" "and it hit me!" "It hit me - the way,
He gave His life!" "I believe it now." "Jesus is the Son of God!"
