Sid Roth welcomes Bruce Marchiano

SID: Sid Roth here with Bruce Marchiano, and Bruce, one of the things that I’ve noticed, in your life, as a result of playing the role of Jesus, and in the movie, is what’s going on right now: your smile, your joy. Tell me about the joy that Jesus had.

BRUCE: I remember my first meeting with the director. He was an intensely praying man, and he pointed me to a scripture, Hebrews 1:9, that actually quotes Psalm 45:7 about Jesus. It says “He was anointed with the oil of joy above anyone else.” In other words, this was the most joy-filled Man that ever walked the planet. And that was a bit of a shock to me, because my religious background was anything… I mean you could use joy in a song, but you’d better not do it, otherwise they’ll kick you out. But in my prayer life and in my study of the word, suddenly I just saw joy everywhere. I think of Jesus the night He was arrested, one of the last things He said to His apostles was “I have told you all of these things so that My joy might be in you, and that your joy might be complete.”

SID: Now, my staff, just unsolicited, said to me “You know, when I talk to this guy Bruce on the telephone, he just has a lot of joy.” What a wonderful gift.

BRUCE: It is a gift. And you know, it’s just excitement. If we had time, I could tell you that I’m a guy who, I had no life, and Jesus gave me one. I had no purpose, and Jesus gave me purpose. And every day for me is just a grand adventure.

SID: Let’s see a grand adventure of the leper. Do you know how leprosy is? You don’t want to touch someone with leprosy. It’s contagious. I mean it was a pox. You don’t want anything to do with a leper. Watch what Bruce does.

A man with leprosy came and knelt before Him and said
Lord! If You are willing, You can make me clean.

Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man.
I am willing He said. Be clean.
Immediately he was cured of his leprosy.
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SID: Now that is joy! Bruce you had a revelation about leprosy.

BRUCE: Yeah I remember thinking about that hole thing once and it just hit me the only thing he had to offer Jesus was his dirt his disease his filth the wreck that his life was he didn’t come with Bible knowledge or religious background all he had to offer Jesus was his dirt that line in the Bible that says the sacrifices of God are a broken heart contrite spirit and its my brokenness that he wants.

SID: Did you hear that? The only thing that the leper could offer God was his leprosy. The only thing you can do is offer your sins. That was the revelation Bruce had. When you speak in prison and schools in South Africa specifically were you expecting the result you got?

BRUCE: No not at all it’s all a surprise.

SID: Were you praying for people to get healed?

BRUCE: Not at all.

SID: Tell me what happen?

BRUCE: I just, well it all started out as a promotional thing they wanted to publicize the video so they put on a speaking tour and I just starting touching people lives in dramatic ways and I would tell the stories like I’m telling you today. So I kind of got swept up in the middle of this.

SID: So give me some specific things that people where healed and you where shocked as them.

BRUCE: Yeah um you know what I have been doing a lot of lately in South Africa is literal and we would call them crusade situation you know you speak in a stadium and 1000 of people are there and there have just been countless reports of people experiencing physical healing.

SID: Give me some specifics.

BRUCE: One time I was standing outside of the stadium just relaxing between services and this women came to me and she said, well they call me pastor there and she said Pastor Bruce and I said yeah she says God healed me when you preaching last night and I said really and she said yeah I had a stroke and I couldn’t move my left arm now look at me and she said thank you very much and just walked off and that boggles my mind.

SID: How about blind people?

BRUCE: I have seen blind eyes open Sid I’ve seen it a couple times.

SID: I mean you’re just talking and these miracles take place.

BRUCE: Yeah I remember one time praying for a women after speaking and she was blind and she just fell on the floor I have no explanation for the things Sid she fell on the ground while I was praying for her and I was concern for her and I turned her over and she could see.

SID: Bruce look in the camera and tell people how much Jesus loves them give them a message for Jesus.

BRUCE: it would be a pleasure uh you know I am often asked if you could nut shell all the thing you learned in walking through the gospel of Mathew and playing Jesus and studying the word you know it all boils down to these three words and the sad thing is its so cliché but please if you could just hear them in your heart because of the biggest words you will ever hear he loves you he loves you no matter what you think of him no matter if you scorn or laugh at him, you know he is the son of the living God you know he loves you, you will never be able to change that there is not a thing you can do to change the love in his heart for you and his constant heart cry to everyone who hears my voice his constant heart cry to me everyday of my life is come to me I think of words I have spoke in a film come to me Jesus said I am gentle I’m humble at heart so in other words I am not who you think I am I’m not this big ogre with lighting bolts in my arms I’m gentle and humble in my heart and you will find rest in your soul and so I would just on his behalf on your behalf not for me I don’t gain anything by you coming to Jesus but you gain everything you gain his kingdom he loves you.

SID: you know Bruce there is a Hebrew world that Hebrew word is Shalom and in Hebrew that word means complete less you are incomplete with out having the King of the Jews Yeshua Jesus the messiah are righteousness literally come inside of you live inside of you haven’t you felt there is a certain incompleteness in your life haven’t you thought the song of your heart hasn’t it been when you are all alone at night and your not and actor on a stage and there must be something more because I work eat and sleep and that’s the way it goes and then you watch TV. There must be something more. There’s something more you’ll never find in religion. You’ll only find it in knowing for yourself the King of the Jews, the One that loves you unconditionally, the One that is worth you saying “I am sorry for any sin separating me from You, and I believe You died for those sins, and by Your blood I am healed. I make You my Lord. I make You my Lord.”