Born again 1974. Didn't even know who Jesus was until a Christiaan Hippy asked me to pray in his VW

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Then I had no idea what to do, I had never met a Christian before. I really was basically a heathen. I was a jock in school, never did drugs or booze.

Then to my shock I had a vision like Paul says in the body or not I do not know. But I was no longer at my parents house.

That kinda sealed the deal for me, I was pretty sure God was definitely real. Then in school while in class He spoke to me, and I looked behind me thinking there was someone talking to me. He asked me to share Jesus with these kids, but I had no idea who Jesus was. He said don't worry, just open your mouth, and I will give you the words to speak.

That is how it began for me...

A few months later hitch hiking, He spoke again and in a 20 minute drive, all 5 kids in this car that picked me up were crying hysterically and prayed to receive Jesus into their hearts. All except the driver, which did scare me a little bit.

Then a few months after that He spoke, and I disobeyed His spoke voice... That sent me into a very long, and very bad, backslidden, sinful lifestyle for decades.

Then after 30+ years of that mess, He spoke again, and said I am sovereign over your life, do you have a problem with me USING sin to accomplish my will.

He made me free from my daily, sinful, lifestyle, that was 20 years ago +/- and I have had no failure, or temptation since. He revealed Romans to me, and Hebrews CH 4 (rest from your own works as God did from His)
 
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RodMc7777777 said:
Then I had no idea what to do, I had never met a Christian before. I really was basically a heathen. I was a jock in school, never did drugs or booze.

Then to my shock I had a vision like Paul says in the body or not I do not know. But I was no longer at my parents house.

That kinda sealed the deal for me, I was pretty sure God was definitely real. Then in school while in class He spoke to me, and I looked behind me thinking there was someone talking to me. He asked me to share Jesus with these kids, but I had no idea who Jesus was. He said don't worry, just open your mouth, and I will give you the words to speak.

That is how it began for me...

A few months later hitch hiking, He spoke again and in a 20 minute drive, all 5 kids in this car that picked me up were crying hysterically and prayed to receive Jesus into their hearts. All except the driver, which did scare me a little bit.

Then a few months after that He spoke, and I disobeyed His spoke voice... That sent me into a very long, and very bad, backslidden, sinful lifestyle for decades.

Then after 30+ years of that mess, He spoke again, and said I am sovereign over your life, do you have a problem with me USING sin to accomplish my will.

He made me free from my daily, sinful, lifestyle, that was 20 years ago +/- and I have had no failure, or temptation since. He revealed Romans to me, and Hebrews CH 4 (rest from your own works as God did from His)
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hello and welcome!. great story on how you met the Lord Jesus! God bless you!
 
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Romans 7:19
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19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.

Romans 7:24-25
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24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.
 
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Romans 7:19
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19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.

Romans 7:24-25
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24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.
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SOOOOOO TRUE. In this body of flesh is the sin nature, and that is why The Father has made us new creatures. It's kind of like this: you and I want to fly, but we are in a car. The car will NEVER be able to fly. So God says "Let's ditch that old thing, that old creation, that funny, weak, car. I am going to make you a plane, with this plane you can fly to the heavens. So Paul says reckon this to be true, why? because it is true. We are a new creation. Sin, the law, and death have ben obliterated. Now we walk in newness of life. No one wants to sin, as a believer, but that is all the flesh coupled with the sinful nature is good at. It drinks, has sex, gets mad. All those are acts right out of the sinful nature play book. But we turn our eyes from that thing, this body of flesh that is dying daily. We are called now to cease from our works, we cannot add to the works of Christ. We can't make God more pleased with us, than He was when Christ rose, and said I have made that great exchange, all that are mine I will lose none. Then The Spirit begins that life long process of forming Christ in us, making us one new man. Sin, means nothing, it frightens us no longer, same with death. We pay them no mind at all. We just walk on. Hebrew CH 4... That is my life now. Can;t even tell you how I got there, woke up one day about 15 years ago, and I was somehow resting in HIM. Been there ever since.
 
Luke 9:23
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23 Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.

1 John 4:18
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18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

John 16:13
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13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.

Micah 6:8
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8 He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly[a] with your God.
 
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