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My story...
I spent five years delving deeply into the Occult before I became a Christian. I had accepted Christ at a young age, and had been attending what I considered to be a stagnant Baptist church, a church that seemed to me to be more of a social hall, than a church. As a result, I fell away after a while and did the second of two of the stupidest things that I have ever done.
I told the Lord, "I've tried your side of the fence....I don't like it. I'm going to try the other side of the coin, and when I've learned all that I want to, THEN I'll decide who I want to follow."
That was many years ago, and I STILL shudder at the arrogance that I showed toward the Lord at that time. But God is a just and merciful God, and would not violate my free will in the matter. I then became deeply involved in the Black Arts and then did the first of the two stupidest things I've ever done.
I told the spirit world, "I don't know what's out there, but come on in and show me." At that point I had unknowingly invited Satan into my life, and I had given demons permission to enter me and dwell within me. In short, I became possessed.
Five years later, I had established quite a reputation for wielding weird powers. But the Lord, remembering my statement five years earlier brought me to the point of decision, forcing me to choose whom I would follow as Master and Lord.
I'd had people from other religions such as Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Dianetics, etc. all try to convert me, and I'd laugh and walk away. But when I met a true Christian, I knew it immediately! I could FEEL the presence of the Holy Spirit inside of them. When that happened, I was the one who would walk away.....usually as fast as I could.
One night while I was in the Navy serving aboard the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk, I met a young man who asked me about my powers, saying he'd heard of me and wanted to ask me a few questions. I agreed. He then stated he was a Christian, and that God had given him the ability to tell when a person was possessed. He looked into my eyes, and something shrank into a cold knot in my chest and darted about like it was trying to hide. Needless to say I was stunned, and immediately left a vapor trail getting out of there!
But the incident started me thinking, and remembering my promise to God I realized I had come to the point of decision. I then asked the Lord, "Get me out of this! Please! I want to come back!" And God in His infinite and tender mercy got me off of the ship and sent me to a Naval Air station.
BUT, let it never be said that God doesn't have a sense of humor! The electronics shop I found myself in was crowded with Christians! They soon found out what I was, and for six months I couldn't escape these people!
But after six months, they started getting through. However I still couldn't bring myself to take the step of accepting the Lord. I told Him that I wanted to, but for some reason I just couldn't. The demons within me were actively restraining my will.
That night I had one of the worst dreams I think I have ever had. I dreamed that I had died, and was floating down a long dark gray tunnel. There was a bright light at the end of it, and I knew that it was the entrance to Hell.
I knew I was going there, and I knew I was going there by my own choice! I was also able to look back at all of the chances I'd had to accept Jesus as my Savior, and hadn't, and I knew it was too late to go back and do so now. If you die without Jesus, there is no redemption for sins after death, no matter how much you repent!
The worst part of this dream was the total lack of hope. There was absolutely no hope ever of turning back, of doing it over again. I had made my choice for eternity, and I was going to burn in Hell. Forever! By choice!
I awoke shaking with fright, sweating, tears of terror rolling down my face. I was so afraid to go back to sleep for fear that I'd go back to that awful place again, and this time would not be able to come back. But when I prayed to God, He gave me a deep peace, and I was able to go to sleep again.
The following night, I got down on my knees and gave my life back to Him. And when I did, it felt as if 10,000 tons fell away from my spirit as Jesus Christ cleansed me of my sins and restored me again as a son of the Kingdom. And I'm not ashamed to admit that I cried, I felt so happy to be released from bondage.
I have since read of people who have died and have been resuscitated, describing that they traveled down a long dark tunnel whose description sounds almost identical to the one I saw. I honestly think that Jesus allowed me to actually experience what happens to people who die without Him in their lives.
To you who read this, please understand that Jesus will accept you no matter HOW evil you have been! He wants you just the way you are. You cannot clean up your life first, as only He can do that. There is only one sin that cannot be forgiven, and that is calling the Holy Spirit a demon.
Jesus Himself said,
MATTHEW 12:31-32
31 Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men.
32 Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come.
And;
JOHN 6:37
37 All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no
means cast out.
If you haven't yet made Jesus Master and Lord of your life, please accept Him before it's too late! And for those who question why we have to accept Jesus, please see the study on the fall of Man in this Web site.
But know this above all else. The Lord was merciful to me because I did what I did in ignorance. That does not mean that others can fall away from Christianity, willfully enter the Occult, do what they want and accept Jesus later. Those who enter the Occult pay a terrible price in their lives while in the Occult, and I paid a price later as punishment from the Lord for my disobedience, namely five bouts with pneumonia, one for each year I was in the Occult, the last of which almost killed me. I've never been so sick in my life as I was then, and I pray that I never become that sick again. But I thank God through His Son Jesus Christ that my punishment was temporary here on Earth, rather than eternal in Hell.
This is not something to be taken lightly. Many who have dabbled in the Occult are now in insane asylums, or are in deep spiritual bondage, and cannot get out without intervention from the Lord. Others are trapped in Satanist organizations like the Brotherhood who try to kill those who attempt to leave. Still others are so hungry for the crumbs of power that Satan gives to them that they will do anything for more power, and are led deeper into bondage.
This not a game! Either you are for Jesus, or you are against Him. There is no middle ground.As in any war, you must choose sides. Adam sold all of us to Satan in the Garden of Eden through his disobedience. And if there had been any other choice in the matter, Jesus would not have had to pay the hideous price He did on the cross. The choice is yours. If you choose not to accept Jesus as Lord and Master of your life, you have already chosen to make Satan your master.
Satan has already lost the war, and he knows it. But he is determined to take as many with him to Hell as he can before his time comes. God gave us a free will to choose whom we will serve just as He did with the angels. One third of the angels chose to serve Satan, and God forced them to serve Satan. As a result they are totally corrupt, and there is no redemption for them.
But salvation is free to those who choose to accept it, and God's commandments aren't as burdensome as people like to believe. The choice is simple. Will you choose the winning side and live with Jesus forever, or will you follow Satan into his eternal punishment?
Remember, God didn't create Hell for Man, but for Satan and his demons.
As Jesus Himself states;
MATTHEW 25:31-46
31 When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory.
32 All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats.
33 And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.
34 Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
35 for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in;
36 I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.’
37 Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink?
38 When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You?
39 Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’
40 And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’
41 Then He will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels:
42 for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink;
43 I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’
44 Then they also will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’
45 Then He will answer them, saying, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’
46 And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.
Now, for the rest of the story.
About fifteen years ago The Lord called me to teach high-school Sunday school at the church I was attending. I started teaching, and noted immediately that the young people were bored and weren't paying attention. I then looked more closely at the materials the church had given them to use and realized that they were essentially spiritual milk, and that the young adults in the class needed something stronger.
I put the materials aside and began teaching straight Scripture, and these young people's minds were like sponges, eagerly taking in the Word and asking me questions that forced me deep into the Scriptures for answers. Basically God was teaching ALL of us during that time.
Several weeks later I was shocked to find out that I had adults who wanted to take my class, as their children were talking to them about what they had learned in class, and the adults became hungry for Scriptural meat too. I was surprised and saddened, as this meant that they were apparently not receiving what they needed from the pastor.
I then told the Lord I wanted to be a preacher, so I could teach others who were so hungry for His Word. He proceeded to ask me what I wanted to do. I told Him that I wanted to reach as many people as I could for Him, teaching them what He had taught me. I still remember His response to this day.
He told me, "A preacher preaches to his flock. They are his responsibility, and he takes care of them. But as a teacher, the world is your flock". Essentially a preacher is location-bound. A teacher can teach anywhere. At least that's what I assumed He had meant.
I was recently humbled and stunned when I realized that God had essentially given me a prophetic promise. Back then, the Internet was virtually unknown to the world, and personal computers didn't exist yet. I in my limited wisdom had mistakenly assumed that God meant for me to teach as I traveled (I was in the Navy at the time).
And when He called me to set up this Web site, I suddenly realized that I can now literally teach the Word of God worldwide in fulfillment of His promise, and I have heard from people literally around the world who have seen the web site!
And I praise, honor and glorify God the Father through His Son Jesus Christ for His infinite wisdom and foresight! Truly He does declare the end of a thing from the beginning!
ISAIAH 46:9-10
9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God and there is none like me,
10 declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times the things that are not yet
done, saying, My counsel shall stand and I will do all my pleasure:
Like I said, this is not a game. The great "falling away" that the Apostle Paul spoke of is already happening, and Christian leaders are leading their followers into the trap of the poisonous Ecumenical Movement, where different denominations are seeking “common ground” in order to worship together.
This sounds good on the surface but some churches and denominations are in serious violation of God’s written Word and the Ecumenical movement would allow poisonous doctrines to enter God’s true churches.
We must be strong and contend for the faith, for soon we will be in the minority, and will be persecuted. And if your faith isn't firmly grounded by then, it never will be. In building a fortress, you don't wait until the enemy attacks to start building. Noah certainly didn't wait for the rain to start falling to build the Ark.
And when the persecution starts, you will have two choices: continue to follow Jesus even if it
costs you your life, or you can fall away.
The choice is yours.
May God show you the truth of these things and grant you the discernment to distinguish truth from error!!!
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