![]() As I was trying to say goodbye, I knew I was going down into that place. I began to descend - down, down, into a pit, like you'd go down into a well, cavern, or cave. I had it in my mind to say goodbye to Mommy, Granny, and my little brother, but I leaped out of my body before I could get the words out fully. I could see my family in the room, but I couldn't contact them. ![]() I leaped out of my body like a diver would leap off of a diving board into a swimming pool. This numbness spread to my feet, my ankles, my knees, my hips, my stomach, my heart - and then I leaped out of my body. And I could feel, faster than you could snap your fingers, the blood cease to circulate down at the end of my toes. Just as Grandpa's clock struck 7:30, my heart stopped beating within my chest. Remember, in 1933, doctors made house calls! My mother, grandmother and youngest brother, Pat, were sitting there in the room with me, for I had taken a turn for the worse. It was 20 minutes before 8 o'clock on a Saturday night. But it was there that I was born again on the 22nd day of April 1933 in my bedroom in the city of McKinney, Texas. Five doctors said that I would die, and that I couldn't live. When I was 15 years old, I became very ill. ![]() Nevertheless, I did survive, but I never ran and played like other little children. In my day, more than 75 years ago, they didn't have incubators to put premature babies in, so the possibility of me living was practically none. I was born prematurely with a deformed heart. I said say to myself, "I'm already saved. Later, when I was in an evangelistic-type service the Holy Spirit began to deal with me about being saved. And I really, actually, thought I was a Christian. ![]() We joined the church and were baptised in water. Since we all wanted to go to Heaven, when the invitation was given, several of us marched right down to the front and shook hands with the preacher. So the Sunday School teacher said, 'When the pastor gives the invitation this morning, you just go down to the front.' The reason I joined was because my Sunday School teacher said to all of us boys, 'How many of you want to go to Heaven?' Well, every one of us wanted to go to Heaven. I joined the church when I was nine years old. We've got too many people who think that they are a Christians just because they are members of a church. But you know you can be a church member and not be a Christian.Įven though I am a member of a church and believe in going to church, just going to church won't save you or make you a Christian any more than going to the barn will make you a cow! Being a member of a church won't make you a Christian any more than being a member of a country club will make you a Christian. I had never heard any Baptist say that!īeing born and raised Southern Baptist, I felt sorry for everybody who wasn't Baptist. I read the Bible one day and decided that Paul couldn't have been Baptist, because he said, "I thank my God I speak with tongues" (I Corinthians 14:18). It came as a real shock k to me when I found out that they weren't. I thought the Lord Jesus Christ and all of His disciples were Southern Baptist. But, it was only later that he found out the truth. Kenneth Hagin thought that he had done all that was necessary to get a place in Heaven by the time he was nine.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |