Blue Collar Conversion: From Sin to the Holy Spirit

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Welcome to the Blue Collar Truth Podcast. Thank you for listening,
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and I hope you enjoy today's episode. Hello again.
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So, I have been a Christian for about 20 years now, and not always a good one.
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And I think now it's time to tell my story of how I got to where I am today. At least the beginning.
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So i was dating a girl and,
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a church that she used to attend was having revival and she asked me if i would
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go i didn't have any interest at all going but,
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i thought well if i go then maybe there will be some extra benefits for myself and,
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so we go the first night they're on monday and you know,
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singing all that good stuff and there's a guest preacher i'm just kind of there,
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tuesday we go back same thing,
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wednesday we go back and that night was different,
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Because even though I didn't want to be there, and it in fact was a sinful nature
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that got me there, I felt the Holy Spirit that night.
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And that changed my entire life. And it's, you can try to describe it.
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But it's nothing like you have ever felt in an earthly way.
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And it's incredible. It really is. And, you know, we tell people about Jesus
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and how much he loves us and how much joy he can bring.
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And, you know, the, you know, the big part, you know, the salvation,
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the only way to the father is through him.
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And, you know, he, he lived on the earth.
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He died for us To cleanse us of our sin,
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And he took all that sin And he took it to the grave And he left it there He left the sin in the grave,
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That means he's not there. That means that he rose from the grave,
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he left the sin, and he is now at the right hand of the Father.
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And that was for us.
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And we should not only acknowledge that, we should praise him for that. Because he is worthy.
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He is the only one who is worthy of our praise.
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And in the past 20 years, I have not been great with that.
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And that's.
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I don't know what to say I know I need to do better I'm going to do better I'm going to,
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do better at worshiping my God and letting him know that he is worthy,
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that he is his love does not go unrecipably reciprocated and,
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that he is loved as much as he loves us and i'm going to do better about showing that love,
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by loving others by accepting others by opening my heart and my eyes and my ears and by speaking,
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speak love speak acceptance speak joy leave all the negativity behind there's no room for that and,
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moving forward you will be hearing more about Jesus on these podcasts and hopefully,
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hopefully we can plant a seed so that.
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If you have not felt the power of the Holy Spirit, then you will feel it.
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And it too will be changed like I was. And.
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It's not an outward change. It's an inward change. And it's not something that
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you do. It's something that he does for you.
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In fact in fact,
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after i was saved,
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someone who knew me very well we were talking one night and they said you've changed,
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i didn't know that i had changed to the point where it was noticeable by anyone
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else but it was and that's what happens we don't we don't realize the change
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that we're going through,
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because it's not of us. It's of him.
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And it's wonderful. It's glorious.
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And it's amazing.
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So if you don't know our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, I ask you, why not?
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Open up your heart. Open up your mind.
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Sit down and talk with him for a while.
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If you have a Bible, Read your Bible. And.
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I can say from experience that reading the Bible before you accept Christ and
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reading the Bible after, it's two different books.
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I mean, it's the same book, but it's two different books.
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After you accept Christ, you have more of a desire to read and learn what's in the Bible.
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And you know when you when you read you know pray and ask the holy spirit to
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help you understand what you're reading and it will happen,
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now you're not always going to understand everything not not the first time you read it,
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there's things i've read 20 times and the 21st time it clicked I'm like I got
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it now you know there's many many things I still don't understand and,
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I'm currently learning the true meaning of worship.
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And I just never really thought about it. Yeah, go to church, sing the songs.
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Do the worship stuff. But I never really understood the magnitude of the importance of it until now.
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And I'm going to keep learning. I'm going to keep sharing. and I hope that you all keep listening.
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Thank you everyone and have a blessed day.