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looked into it, the rabbi's here to hear you say you'll give up Jesus, and we can get you out of prison in six months on good behaviour.' here.' "The rabbi said, 'Yes, Bob, if you'll just recant, we'll get to work on this. The lawyer's "But Bob drew himself up to his full height and said, 'Dad' very lovingly he spoke to his father -- 'Dad, all my life you've kicked me around. You never cared what happened to me. You never cared that I was in the reformatory. You didn't even answer my letters. And now this Jesus has come into my life. He's made a man out of me, Dad. When I get out of the penitentiary this time, I'm going straight, for I'm living straight in here. No, Dad, I'd rather finish my sentence and hammer away at rocks behind prison walls than be on the outside denying Jesus Christ.'" After that, when I would go to the prison -- one time it was on Mother's Day, and I was sitting on the platform, for I was to speak -- I would see those hundreds of men filing in. Some were old men, tottering with canes, the lines of sin drawn deep on their faces. Some were young men with the spring of life still in their steps, but incarcerated because of their sin. Somewhere in that great multitude a hand would be raised, and I'd see a tall youth wave. It would be my son in the Lord Jesus Christ. Bob served his term. I have lost all trace of him now, but it is so good to commit such as these to the Lord Jesus Christ. Many people have asked, "What is the proper way to approach a Jew about Jesus? How do you go about it?" There is only one answer. There is just one way that they can be won, and that is through love -- real, genuine, Christlike love. Love speaks a language that can break down every barrier, a language that can cause people to listen -- not always right at first, but when love in all its sincerity is proven to them, they will listen to what is said. I was in a midwestern city, visiting in the home of a Gentile Christian family. They loved the Jews very much. The mother told an incident which shows what love will do. Her little son, Joel, who was about nine or ten years of age at that time, was walking down the street and as he passed a synagogue, he saw an elderly rabbi standing on the outside. The rabbi was a dear little old man with a long, white beard, and was dressed in the traditional garb of the Chasidim, the holy ones, the ultra-orthodox group. Joel stopped in front of this stern-looking rabbi and, looking up into his face, he said, "Rabbi, I love you." The rabbi looked down at him and said, "What did you say, little boy?" "I love you, Rabbi." "You love me? Why do you love me?" "Because you're a Jew. That's why I love you."
"But who told you to love the Jews?" "My mother and daddy. They love the Jews too." "Little boy, why do they love the Jews?" "Because Jesus was a Jew and they love Jesus. And so they love the Jews. That's why I love the Jews -- because I love Jesus." The rabbi was touched. "Little boy," he said, "where do you live?" "Down the street, around the comer to the right, the third house." "Take me home with you. Will you, little boy? I want to meet your father and mother." The rabbi went home with the little boy and eventually came to know the Lord Jesus Christ as his Saviour, all because a little boy dared to look up into his face and say, "I love you." * * * * * * * 5 THE BREAD THAT SATISFIES A friend and I felt led to talk to a Jewish businessman. He said he was quite busy, but that he was going out to lunch and if we would go with him, he would listen to us. As we were eating in the restaurant and I was witnessing to him, he looked up and said, "Well, here comes a friend of mine. We'll call him over here to join us for lunch." He called the man over and introduced us. The man said, "I'm in the dry cleaning business." "O are you?" I said. "I have a Friend who is also in the dry cleaning business. He not only dry cleans, but does other kinds of cleaning." "You do?" "Yes, He's one of the most famous cleaners in all the world." Then I asked, "Are there some spots and stains in clothes that you can't get out?" "O sure," he said, "there isn't a stain remover or cleansing agent made that will take out every spot." "You're wrong," I countered. "There is. This Cleaner whom I know has a cleansing agent that can remove every spot and stain so that there's none left, nor any signs of it. That's how thoroughly He cleans."
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