
My
name is Sid Roth. I am a Jew. Both of my parents
were Jewish.
I have Israeli and American
citizenship. I attended a traditional synagogue
where I was bar mitzvah. Like most American
Jews, I found organized religion irrelevant to my
life. I was proud of being Jewish, but bored with
religion.
To be
honest, my god was money. My goal was to be a
millionaire by age 30. By 29, I had graduated
college, was married, was the father of one
daughter, and was an account executive for Merrill
Lynch. Although I had
a wonderful life and career, I
felt I was a failure because I was not a
millionaire.
I did
something I am not proud of. I left my wife,
daughter and Merrill Lynch and went searching for
happiness. My search led me to Eastern meditation,
the New Age. During this search, I almost lost my
mind. Life was too difficult.
A
Christian businessman challenged me that my Jewish
Bible condemned my occult practices and told me that
Jesus was the Jewish Messiah that my Orthodox Jewish
upbringing had carefully hidden from me. I was
stunned.
So I
began to read the Jewish Scriptures for myself and I
got the shock of my life. What he had said might
well be true. No sooner had that thought formed in
my mind than the New Age spirit guide that
I had
surrendered to began to curse me from inside that
same mind!
Previously, I thought I controlled this New Age
spirit guide, but I now knew that was not true. I
had a power, a strong power, and it was evil. I went
to sleep that night so full of fear, I wanted to
die! In desperation I prayed, “Jesus, help!” I still
did not know if Jesus was real, but I had nowhere
else to turn.
The
next morning when I woke up, I knew immediately that
the evil that had been inside of me was gone!
Even my fear was gone! I knew it was that
prayer I had prayed the night before! In place of
fear and desperation, I had a tangible peace and
feeling of love that I had never experienced before.
And I knew that Jesus was real.
Not
only did He reach down to save me and restore me to
my right mind, but He also restored my marriage and
gave me back my wonderful wife, Joy, and my precious
daughter, Leigh. My entire immediate Jewish family,
including my father, mother, sister and
brother-in-law, came to know Jesus. And since 1972,
I have devoted my life to telling Jewish people
Jesus is our Messiah!
Watch
a
video “docudrama”
of Sid’s story online!