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My Testimony
I was born in Baltimore Maryland, my father’s company transferred him from Alamance County to Maryland while my mother was pregnant with yours truly.
I was a premature baby weighing in at 2 pounds (you can see I’ve come a long way).
My parents moved back to Alamance County when I was about one year old.
I was raised on highway 49 north of Haw River near Mebane Shrubbery.
I had one brother and sister who along with my parents have all passed away.
I attended Pleasant Grove Elementary School and Graham High School.
I wasn’t interested in learning and usually made low grades except for the times the teacher’s showed grace.
I couldn’t focus on things that I thought would never be needed, so my mind wandered a lot through school.
Somehow, I finish high school though not exactly on time.
I found that I would need about an extra year to finish so I turn to the Technical Institute of Alamance, currently ACC.
I was able to get my high school diploma in about six months.
It was there that I started taking an interest in learning and after that I completed a two-year program in electricity at Guilford Technical Institute.
It was then that I labored to learn and made good grades.
After that, I got a job in electrical construction for a couple of years.
Then I worked for PJ Coble Construction for about a year then went into house building where I continued until the housing crash of 2008.
Buddy Warner got me a job at Woodworker’s Supply in Graham of which I remained for six years until they shut the doors in 2016.
Currently, I’m self-employed as an owner of Country Acres Mobile Home Park of which I inherited from my mother.
As far as I can remember rarely did I have thoughts of God.
My parents would rarely take us to church, maybe on Easter and Christmas.
I remember going to Vacation Bible School at an early age, making things from popsicle sticks and coloring with crayons.
My first interest in God is when I walked into my brother’s bedroom and he was reading the Bible.
I asked him what was going on in which he replied that he started attending meetings at someone’s house.
It was called something like Teens for Christ.
Though I never attended with him it did spark an interest in me.
I was around 14 years of age then.
I started reading the Bible for long periods at a time but couldn’t remember much of it, so I started copying the Bible with pencil and paper thinking It would get into my mind better.
It seems that I finished most of Genesis and gave up my interest in God.
A few years later I got my license and started drinking, driving and smoking pot.
About a year later I started having an interest in God.
I can’t remember what stoked that interest, probably thinking there was more to life than what I was doing.
I went to Faith Book Store and bought a bible and a necklace with a big cross on it.
I was excited about my newfound direction in my life.
I went to work for my mother, she owned a gift store, in Chapel Hill wearing that big cross around my neck, it went well with my afro, I looked sort of like a white Jimmy Hendricks.
In those days, I kind of fit in because those were the hippie days and in Chapel Hill about anything was accepted.
I remember going to work and stopping to help a woman fix her flat tire and feeling so good about it.
I can’t remember if I attended church, I don’t think so.
I was sincere in what I was doing but I didn’t really have an understanding of the Bible.
I thought to become a Christian that I should start doing good things and quit the bad things, so that’s what I did.
I still had a major problem but didn’t realized it at the time.
I was still in bondage to the flesh.
I believed but not true bible belief.
A cardinal mistake: thinking to become a Christian all you do is start doing things that Christians do.
It was similar to a bible character whose name was Simon the sorcerer.
The Bible says that Philip went down to the city of Samaria preaching the Word and performing many miracles.
The Bible says that many people heard and saw the miracles that took place and there was great joy there.
There was a man there name Simon the Sorcerer who heard and saw the miracles and also believed and was baptized.
The Bible emphasizes that he had his eyes on the miracles and signs that were done.
This was similar to what he was doing before when he practiced his sorceries, for the Bible says that when he performed his sorcery that the people said he had the power of God.
But now Simon saw the real power of God and was amazed.
He wanted the same thing so he believed and was baptized continuing to behold the miracles.
Then the Apostles heard about the work in Samaria and Peter and John went there.
They realize that none there had received the Holy Spirit after believing so they lay their hands on them and the Holy Spirit falls on them.
Before they get to Simon, he offered Peter money for the same power that he may be able to do the same thing.
Peter discerned he was lost and said to the man, “May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!
You have no part or share in this ministry, because your heart is not right before God.
Repent of this wickedness and pray to the Lord in the hope that he may forgive you for having such a thought in your heart.
For I see that you are full of bitterness and captive to sin.”” (, NIV)
The Bible addresses true and false belief, true discipleship and false.
Simon believed but he skipped the repentance part.
Notice what Peter says, that he was still full of bitterness and captive to sin.
Simon didn’t realize that what he was asking of Peter revealed his wicked heart.
He believed because he wanted the gift of signs and miracles, he was never interested in or saw the need for repentance.
All he wanted was a new bang for his previous profession.
In the gospel of John, John writes the account where Jesus reveals false discipleship.
This account is where Jesus is talking to the crowd in the synagogue in Capernaum about the requirement to drink His blood and eat His flesh.
It says that many of His disciples complained because His saying was too difficult to understand.
They kept their complaint to themselves but Jesus knew what their thoughts were.
Have class follow in their Bibles.
Use the word “disciple” at underlines.
it says, “When Jesus knew in Himself that His disciples complained about this, He said to them, “Does this offend you?
What then if you should see the Son of Man ascend where He was before?
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing.
The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.
But there are some of you who do not believe.”
For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who would betray Him.” (, NKJV)
Jesus explained to them that He was using a tangible, material illustration to teach a spiritual truth.
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