%% Good ; sometimes instant, sometimes in time. And that's the way in the Bible also; Lord God took 6 days , in 7 days period, for creation miracles. We're doing that study in Sunday school=Genesis .
he wants us to know he's coming he's coming now and we need to get ready or we're going to get left behind and yeah believe me guys you don't want to get left behind during this tribulation it's it's going to be hell on Earth sometimes I'll have really good Witnesses once you can explain to them what's happening in the world and connect it to what the Bible says will happen in the end days like a lot of times it's like a light switch goes on in their head and you know it just all makes sense to them do you know what I find the easiest way that I can convince people that God's real is I let them know hey like the rulers of this world like you think they're bad like you have no idea how bad they are and I just let them know that you know this world's run by satanic Elite they're all occults like they're all you know all their celebrities that people worship and adore they're all they're all Illuminati they all do it and a lot of people are kind of awake and know a little bit about it and as soon as you can connect that to say hey like all the world's you know kings and queens and celebrities and politicians and like you know all the people with power and influence if they all worship Satan isn't it pretty obvious that if the rulers of the world worship Satan that there's there's a God because the Bible said that the rulers of the world worship Satan the Bible says Satan's are all over this world you know and and he gives people fame money Fortune power and in return they fulfill his will they groom everyone through television and media and all their influences to groom everyone into thinking sin looks cool to groom everyone into thinking oh Satan's is a really good guy
- for Mormons, if you sin ------- you have to go and literally physically confess my sins to my Mormon leadership similar to you know Catholicism and so I'd have to you know share what I had done and what rules I had broken and then I would have to be prescribed this process of penitence which would you know sometimes mean certain punishments ------ Zeal for god but misplaced -------- Many religious people - sincere devout religious people - you know Jehovah's Witnesses. Catholics. Mormons like they have a sincere Zeal for God but it's misplaced it's not according to the knowledge of God and the knowledge of God is Christ and it is his one act of righteousness on the cross that saves us. ------ the challenge ------ The meeting ended with this pastor giving me a very simple but ultimately a life-changing Challenge.That challenge was go home and read the Bible for yourself and I remember he said specifically read it like a child (and I think what that meant was just to remove my religious preconceived notions). -------- what he did ----- reading the Bible and in particular I was reading the New Testament I made a commitment to read from Matthew to Revelation for the first time of my life I'd never done that all the way through and so I started and I remember getting to the end of Revelation. In total I ended up reading the New Testament uh 12 times over those 20 months. What God was doing in my heart was he was revealing to me ultimately the same thing that Pastor Benson had so passionately shared with me and that was that Christ Alone was sufficient to save me from my sins and that the work that he had finished on the cross that he had done everything necessary for my salvation and all he was doing was asking me to trust that Jesus was enough. ---------- the result ---------- Whoever calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved that if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead you will be saved and that's what I did I confessed and I believed I put my hope and my trust and my faith in Christ alone ----------- his testimony to the Mormons --- so I I got up there and just to God's glory to his strength and by his grace I shared what God had done in my life and and I publicly declared the Salvation that I had found in Christ alone and uh basically said that you know I didn't need any church or religious institution or man or authority or anything to be saved that I had found the security and the Assurance of my salvation in Jesus Christ alone and that I'd come to know for the first time of my life that I was saved and I was forgiven -------- Conclusion---- I found something infinitely and eternally greater than a religion.. that something is Christ I want you to know that all of those things in religion they cannot save and they cannot bring you into a right standing with God that only trusting in Jesus alone can. --------- Final words --------- If you're a afraid of losing something or giving something up or a cost that may come from knowing Jesus let me tell you that he's worth it that that what you will find in Christ will be of greater value than anything in this world than any relationship than any burden of sin that you may have than any lifestyle that is not according to the word of God that giving that up for the sake of Christ it is and will always be worth the trade and that you will find life in him that that you cannot find anywhere else and Jesus came to give life and to give it abundantly and that doesn't mean an abundance of worldly things it doesn't mean an abundance of comfort in this world it means the spiritual life that he gives us and the promise that we have that we will be in his kingdom forever. https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=F7luUgzwNwE