Sid Roth appears on Kathryn Kuhlman’s television program, “I Believe in Miracles” in 1972.
I believe in miracles
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I don’t have to tell you
I don’t even have to recite you know
that I believe in miracles and I feel
sorry to the human being today who does
not believe in a supernatural power of
Almighty God we forget sometimes that
God is still God Almighty and there is
no such thing as failure with you
oh good adequate is time today when I
tell you that the name my guest is Sid
Roth that’s surely in itself and so
excited about it because this Roth is
one of those wonderful young businessmen
from Washington DC who has had this
growth experience of knowing the Messiah
in the forgiveness pieces
Sid Roth first of all I want you to know
how wonderful it is to have you as my
guest today I’m privileged to have be
leave me and to know that we’re related
now there’ll be thousands of books who
understand that somebody with a name
like Kathryn Kuhlman and a man with a
name like Sid Roth and they went around
the world we could be related we belong
the same family heirs of God and
joint-heirs with Christ Jesus that in
itself is a miracle you know it well
said the Washington Daily News classes
you with the other very prominent young
men in business in our nation’s capital
as white-collar Jesus
freaks I think the greatest compliment
that they could pay you that was really
how in the world did you ever get
involved with Jesus Christ
considering that I come from an Orthodox
Jewish background
I saw take more than a couple of seconds
to give you an answer
I know and you’re a very successful
stockbroker in Washington DC you’ve been
in this business for how many years
well I’m 31 years old and I’ve been in a
stock business about eight years and
I’ve been in the business of Jesus
Christ about one year when you’re old
now and you’re a great success boat as a
Christian and as a stock broker a very
successful Christian and a very
successful stockbroker well tell me all
right get about your early trainee as an
Orthodox Jew well coming from a family
where my father is a deep believer in
God he gave me the traditional
background of training I went to skulk
later Hebrew school I was Bar Mitzvah at
13 that’s when a Jewish boy becomes a
man and my family was steeped and deep
in the ritual and tradition of Judaism
and I feel actually today I feel more
Jewish than I’ve ever felt in my life
because right now that’s all said please
I feel the same way about a do coming
and accepting net price of true Messiah
you are a better deal than you have in
your life abort right I believe that now
I’m truly an Orthodox Jew I’ll hold you
right weightless so do I so being
brought up in an orthodox as an Orthodox
Jew and
how did you ever get involved well you
know to me the Jewish religion as proud
as I am of it it’s not today the way it
started it’s not God centered it’s more
man centered and I never felt for thirty
years of my life a need or closeness or
reality of God and today I do
fortunately for me God knew my heart and
he put me in a position you see up being
a Salesman successful in sales I’ve read
every book I’m positive thinking and I
began to believe that the man the
individual can do anything and so what
God did is he backed me into a corner
stripped me of everything he got me
involved in the psychic world and I
didn’t realize I was tying in with the
devil when I was involved in astrology
and in mind-control I got involved with
that I was looking for power
I found a power there I found that
astrology isn’t fake it works the
brilliant mind you have a mind that
works very quickly it is you’d like to
explore the unknown I was looking for
power and I found it let me tell you
about some of the things that I was able
to do and I’m not saying that I’m
bragging I’m trying to explain it to you
I was able to open up a dictionary and
ask myself a specific question and just
turn at random and point to a word and
I’d have an exact answer to my question
I was able to close my eyes and you
someone would give me the name of
someone I’d never heard of before and I
could describe them and tell you what
was wrong with them physically and I
thought that this power was really
tremendous I began to be able to impose
my will on people then all of a sudden
within me a feeling said where is the
power coming from and I went to the
instructor that taught me the course and
I said where’s the power coming from and
he didn’t know so he sent me to the
instructor for the Oval eastcoast for
this particular course and I asked him
the same question and he wasn’t able to
answer my question and I remember at the
time
I had met a lot of born-again Christians
and they started tell me about
Deuteronomy 18 in which the Lord Jesus
Christ forbids having anything to do
with this sort of activity and I asked
him about it at the time
and he said to me said the only evil is
in your mind that’s the only hang-up
there’s no such thing as the devil and I
walked away from that man not being
completely satisfied because the loi
told me what it wasn’t he didn’t tell me
what it was he didn’t tell me who I was
tied into and then he was like nah Jesus
Christ he’s you know he knew how cuz it
was being a Jew to get to me and I
praise him for what he did
time after time little things like I go
to my car and find a tract about Jesus
just happened to be laying nearby there
I quit I quit my job in this search for
power and I decided to hang up my own
shingle to go into the investment
business for myself and because I had
this great ability why should I work for
someone else and the first fellow I
bumped into says said I’ve got an extra
office a secretary a desk I’ll let you
have it at no charge until you get on
your feet telephone would you like it
sure you know this this was my mind I
felt it was God turns out this fellow
though he was in the computer business
was a born-again Christian had prayer
meetings their morning noon and night
more born-again Christians were walking
in and out of those doors holding prayer
meetings for me fasting for me you know
it I didn’t know it and I and the thing
is this is how beautiful that God works
I had nothing to do with this this was
God laying it on their heart to brave
for me and then God had a few other
things happen within the occult to me
for instance I remember one day I was in
a seance type meeting and I had my eyes
closed and all of a sudden I saw
something come out of my body and it was
me and I told the lady next to me and
she says oh that’s terrific that’s your
astral soul that has just come out of
your body but be very careful because
sometimes when you knew at this your
astral soul won’t find its way back into
your body and this scared the heck out
of me and then the next day next day I
talked to someone and they said by the
way said and you know this is a
completely different person they say if
this astral soul of yours comes out of
your body while your
it was explained to me that while you’re
sleeping your astral soul goes out of
your body and you don’t even know this
and so now here my soul is going out of
my body I don’t know it I may wake up
and my soul won’t be back in and I’m
really worried at this point and then I
get a hold of a book which the Lord gave
to me I went into a bookstore to get
some books on psychic phenomena and I
saw one book called the Bible the Jew
and the supernatural didn’t know a thing
about it but you know I was interested
in I was Jewish on in Supernatural so I
started reading this book and it talks
about Brian Epstein by the Beatles and a
number of other prominent Jews that have
lost their lives
the reason being they fooled with the
occult because it’s a sin for anyone to
fool what the occult but it’s a greater
sin for a Jew to fool with it and you
know we’re so prone to do this being
Jews looking for power and not having
had it for 2,000 years because we we
didn’t realize that Jesus Christ was our
Messiah but anyway these things kept
happening I read this book and it
described it was sort of like God when
you break into the occult there’s a
manhole cover and you can take one step
over that manhole cover and get into the
supernatural world but the only way back
is straight down into hell and I
remember all of these things happening
to man I came home at night I had a
mezuzah that’s a Jewish thing with the
Torah in it
around my neck I had a Bible which I’d
gotten by that point I put that under my
pillow I said to my wife who was born
Baptist and converted to Judaism
I knew she knew more about God knighted
say a prayer for me so so I had the
Jewish guide I had her saying a prayer
to Jesus I had the Bible until I was
afraid to close my eyes because of the
fear of this thing about my soul leaving
that God did this now looking back it’s
you know I can laugh and joke at it but
it was a very serious thing and I all
though I didn’t say it with my mouth
with my heart I say God you’re the only
one I can turn to and you know something
he was there he was there and praise God
so many beautiful things have been
happening since I’ve invited them into
my heart
what was your experience
that moment that new birthday experience
it was the most real thing in the world
do you Jesus Christ is as real to me as
you are sitting right opposite me and
you know the thing I want to emphasize
is I had because I guess I was Jewish
and he just kind of hit me over the head
over and over and over and I’d 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 them into
your heart and you feed them with the
word and he’ll grow just like that acorn
isn’t an oak tree instantaneously Jesus
Christ doesn’t grow instantaneously he
grows on faith and I know for my own
personal experience 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 driving an
automobile you know and he has a
difficult time driving your car from the
outside but he can do it because he’s
got look what he did to my life but you
know when you invite them inside that
automobile you know what happens it’s a
heck of a lot easier for him and that’s
where he wants to go and why I’m just so
grateful to him and I feel like I can’t
do him enough justice for what he’s done
for me
do you know that this is a very
successful stockbroker who’s talking
this is a businessman from our nation’s
capital a successful book but sit it’s
real it’s now it has been something the
past if Jesus now this wonderful
relationship now that 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 just a couple days
ago I was giving a talk at a junior
college for mutual funds this was an
adult education class and the professor
was a client of mine he said said I know
where you stand with God don’t don’t
give anything about God during this time
because it’s a school you know
and I said okay these are the ground
rules fine but I wore a little pin that
said PTL and the very last question from
the from the students was what is PTL
stand for it
phrase God you know he planted that
question and I said well the professor
has said I cannot comment on this until
after class however anyone that’s
interested in staying I’m going to tell
you about the most important thing in my
life and ten students stayed and I
talked for about an hour about PTL which
is praise the Lord and two people
accepted Jesus Christ one was Jewish and
I it’s just this is Jesus Christ now you
see I
I had nothing whatsoever to do it
there’s a matter of fact that particular
Monday night I was asked to talk at a
church for a bunch of Christians that
most of them were not born again and not
going through this experience that I’m
talking about and I really wanted to go
to that church more than talking about
investments and I was trying to figure
out some way in my mind to get out of
that talk but you see how beautiful God
is instead of me doing my will God block
me I could get out of that talk for
anything I had to give that talk into
Souls came to Jesus Christ your mother’s
attitude about all this well either an
understanding a mother is a mother yes
there’s an understanding but when it
comes to Judaism there’s something
ingrained they saw it’s a shame that so
many people think of Christianity in the
light of what it really isn’t in other
words when you read the Bible and find
out what a Christian is you know most of
the things that have gone on for the
last hundred years in the name of
Christianity really aren’t I’ve got a
cousin that was was in Germany when
Hitler was there and she had twin
children and she the Gestapo took one of
the children and threw him out the
window and died and in her mind this is
Christianity this is the Christians did
it they don’t understand a lot of people
take the title Christian but they’re
none unless you’re born again and know
Jesus Christ
it doesn’t matter where you’re born
doesn’t matter what you’re born in a
Jewish home or a Christian home it’s a
new birth it’s a brand new experience
and if you haven’t had it you haven’t
you haven’t had life you have you
haven’t experienced anything as the
businessmen in that article they’re all
very very successful and money just
can’t buy what I’m talking about
and most people can I can’t put it in
words you have to experience Jesus
Christ tell them to come into your heart
and take over your life
the scripture says flesh and blood hath
not revealed it unto thee but my father
which is in heaven
it’s a spiritual revelation it’s not the
intellect yeah you you depended on the
intellect for so long videos that’s
right you’re a brilliant young man just
from very short time that I have had an
association with you
Sid Roth your ability demand you’ve
always known that you had its ability
when it would come to the mind and you
suck everything through the mind but you
don’t get this experience to the mind
gotta approach the kingdom of heaven
like a child it’s a heart is it changed
you completely well my wife says you’re
not the man that I’m married I’m a
completely new person and I praised by
the way because I didn’t care for the he
look Sid Roth and your new the old Sid
Rowse better than anyone else that’s it
every prisoner has delivered himself and
kick you and I would be amazed but a
mask most folk
covering the real prisoner there that’s
what’s so beautiful about Jesus you
don’t have to cover up you don’t even
have to direct because he becomes your
Lord he just takes this hunk of dust
which he created and he tells us what to
do he’s my boss and he’s boy he’s doing
such a beautiful job and run in my life
I wouldn’t want to take it over again
for anything
he’s look at this here’s a Jewish boy
that knew nothing about Jesus Christ you
know the only thing I knew about Jesus
Christ i read a ripley’s believe it or
not book and it said Jesus Christ was a
Jew and I remember going to my parents
with that and saying is that true and I
got so mad Jews today don’t know about
Jesus Christ they don’t know about the
scriptures in the Old Testament the
Bible says the scriptures say the Jews
will have spiritual scales over their
eyes and it’s unfortunate now you see I
had an excuse although I had an Orthodox
training I never read the scriptures I
never searched them I knew the Bible
stories and things of that nature but I
never searched them now I’m searching
them I’m reading the Old Testament and
page after page is nothing more than
prophecy about Jesus Christ it’s all
God’s Word the Old Testament the New
Testament and if a Jew if a Christian if
anyone will just search the Scriptures
its life what does they say in John in
the beginning was the word and he was
with God and he was God and the word
became flesh well this is God this is
God and if someone will just read it
they’ll experience that new birth it’s a
very personal type thing it’s it’s
between you and God it’s not between you
Sid Roth or you Kathryn Kuhlman and God
you can go directly to God by reading
his word and the last few people that
have come to know Jesus Christ that I
had a chance to testify to came to
Christ from only one way I gave them
enough and seeing what the changes
occurred to me to want to read the word
and when they read the word they met
Jesus Christ
and Sid Roth good day you’re a better
dude than you have ever been in your
life I like to use the term completed –
yes you and I are members of the same
family same Heavenly Father the same
Messiah the same wonderful Holy Spirit
how better can we tell you I sit here so
deeply moved by the words
Sid Roth his book
he has told you better than I have the
ability to tell and yet neither one of
us can tell it as the Holy Spirit will
reveal it to you whether you’re George
Gentile jesus said you must be born
he must be there’s no other way Jesus is
all these dentists he was a very similar
God
the cruel Messiah won’t you judge now
whether you’re kneeling whether you’re
seated just look up just a little child
come to you miss did rod came to him and
just look up and say dear Jesus I want
to know you and that one is experiences
I want peace of mind and peace of soul
please come into my simple so simple
your tape of skills from of your high
you’ll know him in we have attained
necklace is an example but the Derry
person of the son of God you Messiah
when you know you’re like that then you
yes
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