By Kingsley Baehr
IF THE SON MAKES YOU FREE, YOU SHALL BE FREE INDEED – John 8:36
“By the time I was five years old, I was abused in every way possible and when I was ten, I was told that I would never be able to have children.”
“Until I was nineteen years old, no one had ever made a place for me.”
“I hated my life. I hated everybody. I hated my drugs and alcohol. I hated me.”
“I tried Satanism.”
“My parents were divorced when I was three.”
“My parents were alcoholics, but we went to church every Sunday.”
“My mother was a drug addict.”
But here they were,
singing their hearts out,
praising God and
showing by their attitudes,
their faces,
their voices, and
their joy
how JESUS CHRIST had revolutionized their lives
since they found that HE loved them and
had made a place for them in HIS family.
What had produced such a dramatic change in their lives?
THEY CHOSE LIFE!
“JESUS SAID, ‘I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE...’” – John 14:6
THEY CHOSE JESUS CHRIST!
What will you choose?
“I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you,
LIFE and DEATH,
BLESSING and CURSING;
therefore
CHOOSE LIFE...
THAT YOU MAY LOVE THE LORD, YOUR GOD,
THAT YOU MAY OBEY HIS VOICE,
AND THAT YOU MAY CLING TO HIM,
FOR HE IS YOUR LIFE.”
- Deuteronomy 30:19,20a
The New Life Singers from Freedom Village U.S.A. visited our church a few years ago and presented a program of Gospel music and testimonies of how Jesus Christ had changed their lives. Here are some quotes from those testi-monies:
“By the time I was five years old, I was abused in every way possible and when I was ten, I was told that I would never be able to have children.”
“Until I was nineteen years old, no one had ever made a place for me.”
“I hated my life. I hated everybody. I hated my drugs and alcohol. I hated me.”
“I tried Satanism.”
“My parents were divorced when I was three.”
“My parents were alcoholics, but we went to church every Sunday.”
“My mother was a drug addict.”
But here they were,
singing their hearts out,
praising God and
showing by their attitudes,
their faces,
their voices, and
their joy
how JESUS CHRIST had revolutionized their lives
since they found that HE loved them and
had made a place for them in HIS family.
What had produced such a dramatic change in their lives?
THEY CHOSE LIFE!
“JESUS SAID, ‘I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE...’” – John 14:6
THEY CHOSE JESUS CHRIST!
What will you choose?
“I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you,
LIFE and DEATH,
BLESSING and CURSING;
therefore
CHOOSE LIFE...
THAT YOU MAY LOVE THE LORD, YOUR GOD,
THAT YOU MAY OBEY HIS VOICE,
AND THAT YOU MAY CLING TO HIM,
FOR HE IS YOUR LIFE.”
- Deuteronomy 30:19,20a