The day I was "zapped" by the Holy Spirit in mid-January 1995, I suddenly KNEW what it was I had detected in those few born-again Christians! It was a holy, clean, strange, and wonderful feeling that made me WANT to be a better person immediately! I realized that, just because somebody calls himself a Christian (or an Orthodox Jew), it does not automatically mean he is "saved". It simply means he knows ABOUT God and the Bible. Anybody can learn ABOUT Him, but not everybody seems to GET Him. The "getting Him" happens when you push aside your human intellect and mindset, and allow God to work in you - and when your mind and your heart FINALLY connect, THAT is when you are "saved"! (Matthew 18:2-4 says we must be like a child to enter the kingdom of heaven. Just as little children trust and love their parents unconditionally and without question, THAT is how we need to depend on God! It's called "faith".) The second you give your heart and soul to God and ask Him to do His will in you, you can almost feel the "rush". It's a feeling that can knock you off your feet because you can literally SENSE being "inhabited" by the Holy Spirit as that "veil" is lifted from your "spiritual eyes" and, for the first time, you can actually SEE what you've been missing. I would NEVER have believed it if I hadn't experienced it myself!
Being "saved" is not just blindly following an emotion. It is a REAL and tangible thing. I wouldn't trade my belief in Yeshua for ANYTHING in the entire universe. I love the Torah, and I keep it to the best of my ability, but Torah isn't what gets you into heaven. Belief in the shed blood of our Savior is. Yeshua was foreshadowed throughout the entire Tanach; He is God's New Covenant, promised in Jeremiah 31:31-34
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