So have you been going to church all your life?
No
Okay.
So you discovered Christianity and God later?
When I was 44 of age.
Oh, wow
I was a man that was in the world, of the world, loved the world.
For 44 years of my life
Uh-huh
And on April 13th, 1980
My eyes were opened.
My earthly eyes have been opened since the day I was born.
My spiritual eyes were closed.
And I was living in darkness, because I had not yet had my spiritual eyes opened.
And when my spiritual eyes were opened, I started seeing things of the spirit, not just of the flesh.
And when my spiritual eyes were opened, my spiritual ears were opened.
And I became connected on the frequency that the lord broadcasts on and I could hear his small voice.
And what was the event that opened all the spiritualness?
Because I lived in darkness for so long
And I lived in a mancave
In the darkest recesses of the mancave.
And I could look out and see the light, but I didn't want to go into the light.
The light would reveal my darkness.
And I didn't want my friends seeing how dark I really was
And were you an artist? What kind of mancave were you living in?
No, no. It was a worldly mancave!
Loving the world
I would come out of my mancave when it got dark because I was living in darkness.
Darkness didn't expose who I was
But I didn't come out during the daytime because it would expose who I was
And I got tired of living in that dark mancave
And I cried out to the Lord, "Lord, I'm tired of living in a dark mancave."
I want to come out.
How do I come out of this cave and into the light?
And he interceded into my life
And let me out of that cave
When I came out of the cave, I came into the light and I saw the light
And I loved the light because the bible says that "He is the light of the world."
And I never re-entered into that darkness after 44 years of living into it.
I did not go back into that mancave.
And that didn't make me a perfect man, and there's no halo over my head
But it made me a man that was complete
In God's plan of salvation of lost man.
Because I was lost, and he sent his song Jesus
To seek and save that which he was lost.
And he found me in my mancave
And I worship him because he is my savior, my Lord.
And he wants to be that same person upon every human being upon planet Earth.
And what he did upon the Cross of Calvary
2,000 years before I was born.
He hung on a cross
The greatest expression that God could make a man
Of how much he loved us.
He came from Heaven
Put on the body of a baby born in a stable , wrapped in swaddling clothes
Laid in a manger...they had no room for him at the inn.
So he came humbly into the world, teaching us....
That the king of kings, the lord of lords
Was very humble
But he's coming someday in his great power and might
on a great white horse
And all of those that have received him
What he has to offer as a free gift already paid for
We can all receive that
If we can receive what he said from the cross, "It is finished."
Everything that his father had sent him to do
To complete the redemptive work
The reconciliation of fallen man back to the father
Was complete at the Cross of Calvary.
And to the Glory of God, that's the first half of the greatest love story ever written.
On the third day that they buried him, he came out of the grave.
And that completes the love story.
Death paid the sin debt of all human beings.
And the resurrection is the promise to everyone that receives him
That we too shall be resurrected
Onto eternal life in his presence.