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I was born in Detroit, Michigan; the third of five children. When I was seven, we moved to Ann Arbor.
Note: How many times have you had to move? Did you like each move, or did you wish that you had made better plans? My friend, make plans now for eternity, lest you face eternal regrets. “And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” (Holy Bible, Revelation 20:15 , KJV)
When I was a child, we went to church a couple of times, and I liked Sunday School. I went to church one time with my grandmother, but she passed away when I was 13.
In school, I really enjoyed
Math, Science, & English.
I excelled in college prep classes. I also liked drafting, so that made me start thinking about pursuing a career in engineering. I ended up graduating from college with a major in structural engineering.
At 25 years old, I was a structural engineer making big bucks, and owned my own home.
Note: Everything great in your life? Look ahead: “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” (Holy Bible, Mark 8:36, KJV)
In college, I met a young man studying to be a medical doctor. Five years later, we were married. We lived in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and were blessed with two children. My life was centered around our home and my work. One weekend, the lady in charge of a softball team I had joined, invited me and the children to go along with her to a fair. On the way there, she tried to give me her testimony of how she became a Christian. I was polite, but told her that was nice for her, but that it was just not for me.
Monday morning, I got
some devastating news.
Note: What news might devastate you Monday? “Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth” (Holy Bible, Proverbs 27:1, KJV)
I went to work, but I was in no shape to do anything. The boss gave me the day off, and I found myself driving around the streets of Grand Rapids. I ended up at the doorstep of my new-found friend. Little did I know that she had been praying that God would bring people to her home, so that she could tell them about Jesus. She quietly listened to the flood of words that flowed out of my mouth. She said, “You need Jesus.” I said, “That is nice, but I have so many troubles.”
I was 31 years old facing a load that I could not engineer any-thing to support. I needed help.
She then asked me, “If you were to die today, would you go to heaven?” I looked at her, and surprisingly said, “You know, I do not know why, but I think that I am going to hell.” I soon found myself getting down on my knees, and asking the Lord Jesus Christ to forgive me of my sins, and to save me. For the first time in my life, I felt that someone truly loved me.
Who is the Lord Jesus Christ, and how can He save us?
He can save us, because He is God in the flesh, perfect and sinless, our Creator. The wages of our sin is death (Holy Bible, Romans 6:23), and Jesus was willing to come and die in our place, suffering the punishment for our sins. “While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” (Holy Bible, Romans 5:8b, KJV) “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree” (the cross). (Holy Bible, 1 Peter 2:24a), KJV) The proof that Jesus successfully paid the wages of our sin (death), is the fact that He arose from the grave. (Holy Bible, 1 Corinthians 15:4b, KJV)
1) Repent of your sin. “For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.” (Holy Bible, Psalm 38:18, KJV) “For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation.” (Holy Bible, 2 Corinthians 7:10, KJV)
2) Ask the Lord Jesus to save you. From your heart, ask the Lord Jesus to forgive you, and to save you. “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the LORD JESUS, and shalt BELIEVE in thine HEART that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be SAVED.” “For whosoever shall CALL upon the NAME of the LORD shall be SAVED.” (Holy Bible, Romans 10:9, 13, KJV)
3) Testify before others that you are now saved. The first thing that God asks us to do after we get saved, is to get baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Baptism does not save us. When we are placed down under the water, it pictures Jesus’ death and burial; and when we are brought up out of the water, it pictures His resurrection. This picture is a testimony that we now desire to live a new life for God. “Even so we also should walk in newness of life.” (Romans 6:4b, KJV)
Yes, I just asked the Lord Jesus Christ to forgive me and to save me, and I do want to now walk in that newness of life.
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