The fact that SO MANY of these amazing testimonies are out there, yet people ignore tham and persist in unbelief and rebellion, confirms my Calvinist belief in the utter inability of anyone but the predestined Elect to be saved in Christ. Trust Jesus or go to hell. That’s the Gospel, sorry…
Called and predestined in Christ for a purpose greater than our personal destiny, beyond our current ability to comprehend, but fully realized in the completed Revelation of Jesus Christ. I couldn’t find your email, Chado unless, it was the one about Blue Grass, that I read and haven’t had time or space to watch. I’m going through some stuff and my thoughts are a bit scattered. Hope you’re doing well.
I also, died when I was 18, by my own hand. I ingested morphine, heroin, tulenol, and valium. The crazy thing is I gained consciousness, and though I don’t remember it, I called into work, then lost consciousness on the phone. I frightened my co-worker and she and our boss rushed over, I wasn’t even in my own apartment but next door, guess went door to door looking for me. They found me dead, wrapped in a sheet. The paramedics came and shocked my heart back to beating. I don’t know how long I was dead, but I only remember dark nothingness, and I cried when I woke up alive, still in my daily, living hell…the description of that hell is enough to fill a book…I accepted Christ a year later, after descending much further into the self-abuse of drugs. I wasn’t even thinking of a future Heaven or Hell, I had no religious background but I knew I was sinful. I referred to myself as a bag of vices. I believed my life was ruined beyond retrieval (having your boss find you dead of an overdose has consequences, I couldn’t find work, and for a time, I was homeless). I was so full of darkness, and knew only darkness, I longed to be swallowed by the darkness and simple, vanish. When I accepted Christ believing in rescue from my sins, His Light came on inside me and it was like seeing the beauty of the world for the first time. My whole attituded switched, from dark to Light, from death to Light. Now, spiritually, I comprehend that I was never predestined to darkness and death, but to life in Christ Jesus.
An interesting word study is the word, hell, it’s literal meaning, and how the King James translators used it to simplify more complex concepts literally, expressed in the original scriptures. It literally was a place where root vegetables were stored in pre-Christian England, and it is a theological word in which a more nuanced view of the destiny of the damned is stored and covered. If you’re interested, it is a very interesting study. For me, it expanded my understanding of how God is using everyone, to complete His Purpose of reclaiming His Creation from sin, death, and Satan. Our destination is only the beginning of our Purpose in Christ. I don’t know who is destined for the Lake of Fire, Judgement isn’t mine, I’m a vessel of God’s Mercy and if He can save me, He can save anyone. My purpose is small in the fullness of the dispensations of time. Our brains are wee little, Chado but God is massive!
Wow. Quite a war story… I had no idea.
Thank you for sharing that.
God gave you another chance so you could testify to His truth.
(And also live out your Hillbilly calling in all its splendor ☺)
Yep, and old desert hill Billie back in my Ozark homeland. I have lots of war stories lol I am an old christian soldier looking forward to a rest in that old soldier’s retirement home. lol God is good. I wonder what my assignment will be in that new world coming. Won’t it be something? when the tally of our numbers days equals one infinite day in eternity? So much more than our caterpiller brains can comprehend!
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Called and predestined in Christ for a purpose greater than our personal destiny, beyond our current ability to comprehend, but fully realized in the completed Revelation of Jesus Christ. I couldn’t find your email, Chado unless, it was the one about Blue Grass, that I read and haven’t had time or space to watch. I’m going through some stuff and my thoughts are a bit scattered. Hope you’re doing well.
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I just sent it again.
BTW this testimony is one of the most inspiring I have yet found.
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Guess what? I have a bit of quiet space to watch it lol
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I also, died when I was 18, by my own hand. I ingested morphine, heroin, tulenol, and valium. The crazy thing is I gained consciousness, and though I don’t remember it, I called into work, then lost consciousness on the phone. I frightened my co-worker and she and our boss rushed over, I wasn’t even in my own apartment but next door, guess went door to door looking for me. They found me dead, wrapped in a sheet. The paramedics came and shocked my heart back to beating. I don’t know how long I was dead, but I only remember dark nothingness, and I cried when I woke up alive, still in my daily, living hell…the description of that hell is enough to fill a book…I accepted Christ a year later, after descending much further into the self-abuse of drugs. I wasn’t even thinking of a future Heaven or Hell, I had no religious background but I knew I was sinful. I referred to myself as a bag of vices. I believed my life was ruined beyond retrieval (having your boss find you dead of an overdose has consequences, I couldn’t find work, and for a time, I was homeless). I was so full of darkness, and knew only darkness, I longed to be swallowed by the darkness and simple, vanish. When I accepted Christ believing in rescue from my sins, His Light came on inside me and it was like seeing the beauty of the world for the first time. My whole attituded switched, from dark to Light, from death to Light. Now, spiritually, I comprehend that I was never predestined to darkness and death, but to life in Christ Jesus.
An interesting word study is the word, hell, it’s literal meaning, and how the King James translators used it to simplify more complex concepts literally, expressed in the original scriptures. It literally was a place where root vegetables were stored in pre-Christian England, and it is a theological word in which a more nuanced view of the destiny of the damned is stored and covered. If you’re interested, it is a very interesting study. For me, it expanded my understanding of how God is using everyone, to complete His Purpose of reclaiming His Creation from sin, death, and Satan. Our destination is only the beginning of our Purpose in Christ. I don’t know who is destined for the Lake of Fire, Judgement isn’t mine, I’m a vessel of God’s Mercy and if He can save me, He can save anyone. My purpose is small in the fullness of the dispensations of time. Our brains are wee little, Chado but God is massive!
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Wow. Quite a war story… I had no idea.
Thank you for sharing that.
God gave you another chance so you could testify to His truth.
(And also live out your Hillbilly calling in all its splendor ☺)
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Yep, and old desert hill Billie back in my Ozark homeland. I have lots of war stories lol I am an old christian soldier looking forward to a rest in that old soldier’s retirement home. lol God is good. I wonder what my assignment will be in that new world coming. Won’t it be something? when the tally of our numbers days equals one infinite day in eternity? So much more than our caterpiller brains can comprehend!
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