you cannot come to Jesus and just patronize him as a noble good Jewish teacher because he crossed a line he crossed a severe line and the Jews saw that either he's the Messiah or he is a blasphemer and he needs to be put to death and those are really the choices you have so you're about to witness a rare moment where Ben Shapiro he gets humbled on his own show the Ben Shapiro show when Pastor John MacArthur comes on here and completely corrects him on his misunderstandings of Jesus and even goes on to show him
the Old Testament prophecies in Isaiah 53 that directly show the prediction of Jesus's coming it gets very interesting here I'm going to let this one play out and then I'm going to give my thoughts in the back end let's get into it when I read the New Testament myself and I obviously not a believer in the Divinity of Jesus but when I see what Jesus actually has to say about the Old Testament it seems to me very similar to the stuff that Zechariah is saying or that Jeremiah is saying right Jeremiah says that the the
sacrifices themselves are based basically of no use unless there's actual meaning behind the sacrifices God wasn't there because he likes the barbecue right it actually has to have some meaning and when Jesus comes along and he says you're focusing in on all the details of the Sabbath without actually recognizing the rationale for the Sabbath and then he exaggerates it beyond the it's interesting Ling God with all your heart soul mind and strength right exactly and then he even to make a point exaggerates it beyond the scope of what Jewish law would permit so for example
when he says you're going to leave a guy to diey in a ditch on the Sabbath that's against Jewish law you can't do that you have to violate the Sabbath in order to Save a Life this is like Basic Black letter Jewish law but he's making a point which is you guys are ignoring what's important in order to focus in on the mundane aspect of of practice like that is that's not unique to Jesus in other words there's there's a long prophetic tradition of people saying exactly that and in the modern Jewish world it's called
muser it's basically just telling people what they should understand about the values beyond the Beyond the Black letter law and this is why I think it's it's fascinating to me when I talk with people who are real Biblical scholars in the from the Christian side that all the a lot not I won't say all a lot of the areas where Christian Scholars think that Christianity has departed dramatically from Judaism I think are not really dramatic departures they seem to be reflections of Judaism from a slightly different angle even so far as a lot of the
stuff in the Sermon on the Mount about you know love when when it says that you're supposed to uh love thy brother as thyself and and you're supposed to um and you're supposed to uh treat your brother as you would wish to be treated and all all this I mean that's that's present in the Old Testament too no I I think what Jesus did in The Sermon on the Mount was Elevate the teaching of the rabbis elevated he went above them yep he he said um well you you've been told you shouldn't commit adultery I'm
telling you if you look at a woman to lust after her you've committed adultery in your heart he got to the heart of the law uh they were content with the the practical application of the law he was not content with that so I I I would say that Jesus was the purest Jew that ever lived because he understood the the the elevation of the law to the heart and the Soul um it would be a it would be a monstrous responsibility for some committee to have invented Jesus uh you know when you hear even
the people in his time saying never a man spoke like this man that he is a person that doesn't seem to have been a product of human invention and you could say well Jesus is a good teacher but good teachers don't claim to be God they don't say I and God are one they don't say I created the universe that that's not a good teacher that's somebody who's crazy as a lunatic or somebody who's trying to pull off a huge deception so you you you cannot come to Jesus and just patronize him as a noble
good Jewish teacher because he crossed a line he crossed a severe line and the Jews saw that either he's the Messiah or he is a blasphemer and he needs to be put to death and those are really the choices you have so when you ask me to show the the variation between Judaism and Christianity morally no there's none and in terms of God the same we don't have the same God as Muslims Allah is not the same God as Jehovah we don't have the same Gods as any other false religion but we have the same
God as Jews and Christians he is the one true Creator God the one true Living God he has a seity that is he is eternal by his own nature he is uncreated the uncreated one we believe he is he is more than one person in one God that's why Genesis says let us make man in our own image and relationship comes from a God who has relationship within himself but the distinction between Christianity and Judaism is what we do with Jesus Christ um the writer of Hebrew Hebrews says if a sacrifice had been enough to
atone for sin they would have stopped making them but they never stopped morning and evening morning and evening morning and evening morning and evening you know basically a priest was a butcher he had blood up to his waist I mean he was a butcher he had blood up to his waist and the frustration of it even on yam Kapur the day of atonement all the blood letting uh and year after year after year after year this goes on this goes on it goes on you have this most amazing thing you come to the death of
Jesus Christ and at the death of Christ the veil in the temple is rent from top to bottom the holy of holies is thrown open wow that's a statement from God because it couldn't have been ripped by men from the top down the way to God is open there's no more barriers because a a suitable sacrifice has been found this is the Lamb of God and amazingly soon after that the whole sacrificial system ends because that's the final sacrifice and God God validates that Sacrifice by raising him from the dead the resurrection is a provable
historical fact so I think that's the issue um it's what do you do with Jesus he was God's lamb uh a spotless lamb without blemish God put on him the sins of us all this is a stunning theological truth because all the people who will ever believe through human history their sins are covered by Christ even those who believed going back to Adam all of them had to have a sacrifice that paid the price for their sins whether it happened before Christ their belief or after Christ Christ is the focal point so he bears in
his body all the sins of all who would ever believe through human history this is a stunning thing to think about um God putting all the sin and all the punishment on him people say what how could one person bear that um the answer is because he's he's he's he's a cosmic person he's he's an eternal being he's he's vast Beyond us with a capacity to take that punishment so he gathers up all the punishment for all the sins of all the people because sin must be punished God is Holy and uh that frees God
satisfying his Justice to offer Grace to all who believe in him um I think that the Jewish Believers in the Old Testament who are True Believers in God and who did repent were waiting for that sacrifice knowing that no animal sacrifice ever did it because they had to go back and make another one and another one and another one when is the one sacrifice going to come and that's why that Isaiah 53 chapter is so critical because that's the focal point that's the focal point of Isaiah by the way anyway Isaiah interesting book 66 chapters
like the Bible the first 40 um are judgment like kind of like the Old Testament first 39 like the Old Testament and the 27 New Testament are about salvation the 27 chapters about salvation the first nine are the the salvation of Israel from Nations around it the back nine are the salvation of the planet in the new Heaven and the new Earth and the middle nine are the salvation of people personally and individually and in the middle of the middle nine you have Isaiah 53 it's unbelievable what that book of Isaiah it's it's it pulls
it all together and as you narrow down and you end up with he was wounded for our transgressions and this becomes the confession of all who believe in Christ including one day Israel so um I I want to say this to you personally um you are a testimony to um the glory of God in man I I see the beauty of God's creation in you I see um he's starting to tear up a little bit I I see the use of reason and compassion and care I I I see so many things in you so
I I don't I'm not denying that reflection of God in you but I'm saying you either believe Jesus is the savior or you don't and that's the distinction now I have a question and that's what is stopping Jews like Ben Shapiro here from seeing Jesus as the Messiah despite all the compelling arguments in favor of him and so there's a few things to talk about here one being that Jews don't believe that Jesus properly fulfilled the Messianic prophecies a big one that I see talked about online is the prophecy in Ezekiel that's about the building
the Third Temple of Israel I mean Jesus there wasn't any Third Temple construction constructed when Jesus was along here so it seems like maybe he didn't fulfill this well Christians counter this by saying two things here one in the book of matth Matthew when he's talking about he will destroy if you destroy the temple he will raise it up in 3 days they're saying that could mean the Third Temple or conversely it could also mean that Jesus is going to create the Third Temple during his second coming and there's a few other prophecies about this
like an era of peace and then another one that's about bringing the knowledge of the god of Israel to all people and Christians also say that that is going to come during the second coming then there's another thing that Jews hold against Jesus and it's that they don't believe that Jesus embodies the personal qualifications to be the Messiah for one they believe that Jesus contradicted the Torah which I mean like on dealings with the Sabbath which would make him a false prophet and they there's verses about this in the Old Testament like in Deuteronomy I'll
put it on screen or something but Christians counter and even Jesus himself said that he did not come to change the law or to replace the law but to fulfill the law and the new the New Testament even records that Jews had a misunderstanding of the Mosaic Covenant and twisted it into this sort of legalism that Jesus came to restore not all Jews but the Pharisees the Sadducees you read about it there another thing that's interesting is they also don't believe that Jesus was a descendant of David and this is interesting because Jesus since he
came from God through the Virgin birth in Mary he technically has no biological father so and in that time the culture was you inherit your bloodline through your father so how could he be a descendant of David well there's genealogies recorded in the gospels about Joseph that show that he is part of the bloodline of David and the Jews say well adoption into the davidic bloodline isn't enough the Christians say adoption into it is enough and there's also a whole lot of debate about the genealogies but that's really complicated we're not going to get into
that here and another thing that they that Jews hold against Jesus is that they believe that the biblical verse the iconic ones referring to Jesus are mistranslations so for example the the prophecy that's about predicting him being birthed from a virgin well that text can also be interpreted as him being born of a young woman it doesn't have to be virgin and another one is that Jesus will be crucified but you can also translate it that just his enemies will surround him because that word for gouged can also mean like a lion and there are
many other objections to Jesus that rabinal Jews I think I'm saying that right have against Jesus but I mean both sides they're going to disagree on things and people are going to find ways to use the evidence to support their beliefs and I think what's underlying all of these intellectual duels going on surrounding Jesus and Christianity versus Judaism it's something much deeper going on here and it's that in Judaism Jews don't believe that they need a personal savior they don't believe that they are born in a state of sin but the truth is is that
we are all born into a fallen State and that we all need a savior and you can keep doing those sacrifices over and over like recorded in the Mosaic Covenant but that is not is that's not what's going to bring you the Everlasting savior the one true savior that can cover all sins for your whole lifetime he can clothe you in righteousness and that is the Lamb of God it's Jesus he is the ultimate fulfillment of everything that has led up to this and to accept Jesus as your lord and savior you just need to
believe in him and trust in him to be the only Lord of your life and to turn from any unrighteous ways that are in your life and just pursue him God said that he gave Israel its spiritual blindness in the Book of Romans it's New Testament so Jews I mean they're not they don't believe this here but it said that um he would cover their eyes from seeing and cover their ears from hear hearing and so the best thing that we can do here is to pray for them pray for all of the people in
Israel pray for all of the Jews who don't know Jesus at their lord and savior that they will come to in communion with him and receive everlasting life and if you want to learn more about the evidence for God I recommend checking out the video on screen right about there have a great day happy New Year too
