solookup
11-20-2007, 10:33 AM
Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107
So look up
a Testimony
I think that in order to really understand a persons testimony, a
life story is necessarily involved. To be able to learn the 'why'
for a persons decision for Christ ,it is helpful to see how they got to
the decision in the first place. The path walked so to speak.
So, forgive, me and be for-warned, this may be long winded.
I was conceived on Guam. As in the island Guam.
Father was an radar man in the air force.
Going back to any island has always been my main
wish from the time i was born. I was born in San Jose
California in 1961. I had white / choctawcherokee / black
blood. The scales tipped at a scrawny 6.7 lbs, blue/blnd.
Asthma,,, real bad. I.C.U. bad.
I was an ugly baby.
No, really,, a really ugly baby. My sister cried.
She was so looking forward to having a cute lil brother that she
was devastated with my looks.
Go ahead and laugh,, its ok. Because its true.
Lived in and out of the hospital until i was about three.
My parents could NOT spank me ALL THAT TIME.
Needless to say, as the youngest of three, i was a
monster.
By the time i was five or so and had been healthy for
a couple years my parents started to discipline me.
Within two years, 7, i knew full well what was expected
of me and how to behave in public.
Father wasn't a Christian at that time, Mother was.
(My father accepted Christ around 1981, after the
children had all left the house) He worked for the
B.P.A. , shift work, so we didn't see him much.
About the age of seven, my father and all of us joined
the L.D.S. It was not a good time, and my father
declared he would never step foot in another church
again. He couldn't reconcile what the Bible taught with
L.D.S.church doctrine and swore off all churches totally.
( It took me YEARS to get my name off the
rolls.I was baptized in the mormon church.
I have also in-cured the blood curse of
the L.D.S. for leaving the church.
Lots of my family is STILL mormon.
I KNOW what I'm talking about when
i talk about mormonism)
My mother always had a bible in the house,,, and
she read it constantly. So even though i wasn't
brought up in a church,, i had lots of exposure to
the scripture. Mostly in the form of mothers
instruction in how to treat others the way God wants
us to.
Finally , when i was 12 my mother took me to
St.Matthews lutheran church in port angles Washington.
There was a Sr. youth group with out a leader, and
the pastor asked my mother to take the youth group
because she was so popular with all the teens.
So she took it. It was about the time i had finished
confirmation class. Well, my mother has no formal
training, just common sense. Have set 'fun activities'
like go bowling and have set BIBLE STUDIES.
Its, funny,, in the end those two things became one.
Bible study WAS our fun !
Within a month we had all learned that salvation was
by Grace through Faith,,,, problem was,, that was in
direct violation of lutheran Doctrine that baptism is
what saves. I admit i am the one the pointed this
out in a bible study the group was having at our house.
Confirmation class was clear,, and i had just passed
it with flying colors. It was one or the other.
There were about 8 kids that got kicked out of the lutheran
church with my mother over this. Excommunicated,, damned.
At that time i hadn't even accepted Christ yet , and i was
being booted for having correct doctrine. The book said
what it said. I didn't write the Bible. I could read it however.
The bible studies continued in our house. And as i learned
the simple gospel , i knew from what the bible said
that i wasn't saved. Until that time i had the impression that as long as you were 'good' and got baptized, you were saved.
When i realized i had no 'good' in me, and that
baptism didn't save , i realized i needed Gods help. I needed Jesus.
You cant get saved if you think there isn't any thing to be saved from.
I knew i needed to be saved from something worse than hell,
i needed to be saved from the wretched human i knew i was.
(Please dint ask me what made me so wretched,, just take
my word for it )
All i could think about was the skates i stole from my
best friend when i was five,, i took them back the next
morning , bawling my head off , screeching how sorry i was.
I had never stolen anything before but the sin remained.
And that was just the First sin i could remember, there were
lots more.
I had learned Godly Sorrow for MY SIN.
The good news, of the Gospel, is that that is the first step
to repentance,, and with repentance comes salvation !
I had learned these things at the bible study.
I had watched , one by one, week by week, each one of them
come to Christ. I know what the first love looks like and
have never forgotten. When i saw that look on my sisters
face the moment she took Christ into her heart, I knew
it was time.
So i took the step. Man, it was just like i was five again
with the skates. Bawling 'I'm soooo sorry Lord, PLEEEASE
forgive me ". The weight of my sins in an instant were gone,
and i could feel Him inside me and a whoooole lot of joy.
I can remember thinking,, knowing really, that at that point
in time i WAS WITHOUT SIN,, innocent for the first time
in my life. Even though i knew i was still going to fail and sin
some time before i died,, at that moment i felt clean.
Like i had been born again. /-)
So, that is how i became a Jesus freak at 12..
The first burden the Lord put on my heart was for the lost,
and the thing that made the lost sooo lost was their total
lack of knowing what the bible has to say.
The mormons, the lutherans had taught me there were lots
of people saying they were 'Christian' when what their church
taught was plainly unbiblical.
I still have this burden. To defend the faith , and its
doctrines, against all compromise and apostasy.
The mainline denominations are ordaining women
and homosexuals to the pulpit,, the seminaries are
cemeteries. Christianity has become see no evil
hear no evil speak no evil... apostate.
Some may see the fierceness of my defense of the faith
and only see hate,,, but the hate they see is for false
doctrine only, not the person teaching it.
The failure to maintain correct doctrine is the reason the
church has become apostate , and the sole reason this
tree of liberty, the USA, has fallen away from
biblical and constitutional foundations.
You cant have one with out the other. Or at least
not a nation that will survive.
When you see these things beginning to come to pass
raise your head
look up
that's what i do,, i look up and i see prophecy coming on fast.
and i weep for the lost people and their lost nation
for lack of anyone willing to hold the line.
doctrinally
spiritually
i am trying to rejoice that my salvation draws nigh, but its difficult.
The Christian life is not for the feint of heart. Count the cost.
Thank God for Jesus.
Jesus is my final answer
and that's my testimony.
//
MARANATHA
So look up
a Testimony
I think that in order to really understand a persons testimony, a
life story is necessarily involved. To be able to learn the 'why'
for a persons decision for Christ ,it is helpful to see how they got to
the decision in the first place. The path walked so to speak.
So, forgive, me and be for-warned, this may be long winded.
I was conceived on Guam. As in the island Guam.
Father was an radar man in the air force.
Going back to any island has always been my main
wish from the time i was born. I was born in San Jose
California in 1961. I had white / choctawcherokee / black
blood. The scales tipped at a scrawny 6.7 lbs, blue/blnd.
Asthma,,, real bad. I.C.U. bad.
I was an ugly baby.
No, really,, a really ugly baby. My sister cried.
She was so looking forward to having a cute lil brother that she
was devastated with my looks.
Go ahead and laugh,, its ok. Because its true.
Lived in and out of the hospital until i was about three.
My parents could NOT spank me ALL THAT TIME.
Needless to say, as the youngest of three, i was a
monster.
By the time i was five or so and had been healthy for
a couple years my parents started to discipline me.
Within two years, 7, i knew full well what was expected
of me and how to behave in public.
Father wasn't a Christian at that time, Mother was.
(My father accepted Christ around 1981, after the
children had all left the house) He worked for the
B.P.A. , shift work, so we didn't see him much.
About the age of seven, my father and all of us joined
the L.D.S. It was not a good time, and my father
declared he would never step foot in another church
again. He couldn't reconcile what the Bible taught with
L.D.S.church doctrine and swore off all churches totally.
( It took me YEARS to get my name off the
rolls.I was baptized in the mormon church.
I have also in-cured the blood curse of
the L.D.S. for leaving the church.
Lots of my family is STILL mormon.
I KNOW what I'm talking about when
i talk about mormonism)
My mother always had a bible in the house,,, and
she read it constantly. So even though i wasn't
brought up in a church,, i had lots of exposure to
the scripture. Mostly in the form of mothers
instruction in how to treat others the way God wants
us to.
Finally , when i was 12 my mother took me to
St.Matthews lutheran church in port angles Washington.
There was a Sr. youth group with out a leader, and
the pastor asked my mother to take the youth group
because she was so popular with all the teens.
So she took it. It was about the time i had finished
confirmation class. Well, my mother has no formal
training, just common sense. Have set 'fun activities'
like go bowling and have set BIBLE STUDIES.
Its, funny,, in the end those two things became one.
Bible study WAS our fun !
Within a month we had all learned that salvation was
by Grace through Faith,,,, problem was,, that was in
direct violation of lutheran Doctrine that baptism is
what saves. I admit i am the one the pointed this
out in a bible study the group was having at our house.
Confirmation class was clear,, and i had just passed
it with flying colors. It was one or the other.
There were about 8 kids that got kicked out of the lutheran
church with my mother over this. Excommunicated,, damned.
At that time i hadn't even accepted Christ yet , and i was
being booted for having correct doctrine. The book said
what it said. I didn't write the Bible. I could read it however.
The bible studies continued in our house. And as i learned
the simple gospel , i knew from what the bible said
that i wasn't saved. Until that time i had the impression that as long as you were 'good' and got baptized, you were saved.
When i realized i had no 'good' in me, and that
baptism didn't save , i realized i needed Gods help. I needed Jesus.
You cant get saved if you think there isn't any thing to be saved from.
I knew i needed to be saved from something worse than hell,
i needed to be saved from the wretched human i knew i was.
(Please dint ask me what made me so wretched,, just take
my word for it )
All i could think about was the skates i stole from my
best friend when i was five,, i took them back the next
morning , bawling my head off , screeching how sorry i was.
I had never stolen anything before but the sin remained.
And that was just the First sin i could remember, there were
lots more.
I had learned Godly Sorrow for MY SIN.
The good news, of the Gospel, is that that is the first step
to repentance,, and with repentance comes salvation !
I had learned these things at the bible study.
I had watched , one by one, week by week, each one of them
come to Christ. I know what the first love looks like and
have never forgotten. When i saw that look on my sisters
face the moment she took Christ into her heart, I knew
it was time.
So i took the step. Man, it was just like i was five again
with the skates. Bawling 'I'm soooo sorry Lord, PLEEEASE
forgive me ". The weight of my sins in an instant were gone,
and i could feel Him inside me and a whoooole lot of joy.
I can remember thinking,, knowing really, that at that point
in time i WAS WITHOUT SIN,, innocent for the first time
in my life. Even though i knew i was still going to fail and sin
some time before i died,, at that moment i felt clean.
Like i had been born again. /-)
So, that is how i became a Jesus freak at 12..
The first burden the Lord put on my heart was for the lost,
and the thing that made the lost sooo lost was their total
lack of knowing what the bible has to say.
The mormons, the lutherans had taught me there were lots
of people saying they were 'Christian' when what their church
taught was plainly unbiblical.
I still have this burden. To defend the faith , and its
doctrines, against all compromise and apostasy.
The mainline denominations are ordaining women
and homosexuals to the pulpit,, the seminaries are
cemeteries. Christianity has become see no evil
hear no evil speak no evil... apostate.
Some may see the fierceness of my defense of the faith
and only see hate,,, but the hate they see is for false
doctrine only, not the person teaching it.
The failure to maintain correct doctrine is the reason the
church has become apostate , and the sole reason this
tree of liberty, the USA, has fallen away from
biblical and constitutional foundations.
You cant have one with out the other. Or at least
not a nation that will survive.
When you see these things beginning to come to pass
raise your head
look up
that's what i do,, i look up and i see prophecy coming on fast.
and i weep for the lost people and their lost nation
for lack of anyone willing to hold the line.
doctrinally
spiritually
i am trying to rejoice that my salvation draws nigh, but its difficult.
The Christian life is not for the feint of heart. Count the cost.
Thank God for Jesus.
Jesus is my final answer
and that's my testimony.
//
MARANATHA