| A brief Testimony for those who want to know. By The_truth [message #44] |
Sat, 31 December 2005 20:24  |
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IIPeter3: 9. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
As I look back upon my life I can see how this verse is true. When I was growing up I attended church once in awhile and I always believed in God and assumed that so did everyone else. As I got older I realized that that wasnt' the case. By the age of 11 I had started drinking smoking pot and looking at pornography It started out with a couple of sips from my uncles when my mother wasn't around which gave me the taste for it.Then I started sneaking sips from bottles that where in the cubboard stealing a beer here and there. I even broke into someones car and stole a case when I was 12. By the age of 17 I was drinking smoking pot and looking at pornographic movies and magazines almost everyday. Often I would go to school drunk Dont ask me how I was never caught. For the next 5 years that was my life I started babysitting for my sister and stayed drunk pretty much for that time period.
Now all this time I believed in God and Jesus and unfortunately like most people I thought that this was enough to get me into heaven.. I mean I wasn't bad I had never killed anyone or anything so I thought I was good so why would God send me to Hell, but the Bible says in Proverbs 16:2. All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits. and again in Proverbs 21:2. Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the Lord pondereth the hearts.
I said the sinners when I was 17 but nothing changed. fortunatley I attended a good bible believing church once in a while and occasionally read my Bible Although most of the time I was drunk. But the Word of GOd eventually started to penetrate into my heart. when I was 22 I finally realized that it it was more that believing in God and Jesus that got you to heaven The Bible says in James 2:19. Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. and I also realized that it wasn't trying to live a good life The BIbles says in Is 64:6. But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. I sincerely repented of my sins and asked Jesus to help me change the way I was living and Praise God he did
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| Re: A brief Testimony for those who want to know. By The_truth [message #63 is a reply to message #44 ] |
Tue, 23 May 2006 14:41  |
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For those of you who would like to know. This is my testimony I just changed usernames. God bless. 
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