How many of you were addicts
to drugs? Heroin, cocaine, whatever. How many of you? You know we're
having a hundred people die every day from the heroin epidemic. And you have a testimony. Think
about how long it's been since you used that the power greater
in you. Sinners saved by the grace of
God. Some of you had to go to the crack house to find you.
Amen. You're converted now. You know
Christ. Probably if I was going to really
emphasize a person, the need of personal testimony, it's to
all of you who were addicts. You have a real testimony. You
know, the United States of America does not know how to purge this
heroin epidemic. But you have the answer. It takes
a mighty God to come to a sinner and regenerate them, convert
them in the power of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and they become
new creatures. You know, you might just bump
into a person out there who is a heroin addict, who's lost all
hope. But you have hope and you have
a good hope. Don't keep it to yourself. Share it. Something happened to the Apostle
Paul subjectively on the inside. Has something happened to you?
On the inside. You've come to love what you
once hated and hate what you once loved. Something subjective
happened to you on the Damascus Road Something happened to Paul
that he never got over and that's the kind of conversion and the
kind of testimony That we need today. I know that salvation
is objective and subjective and Objective I mean that God loved
us before the foundation of the world Christ died for us in our
stead and when he had Finished the work. He said it's finished.
It's it's accomplished but in time we came into the world and
the hound of heaven got on our trail and sought us out of our
loady bar and quickened us Regenerated us did something on the inside
of us To faith in Jesus Christ. Is that what happened to you?
Oh Puritan writer said oh, what a wonder that Jesus found me
Do you feel that way? Then you ought to clap a little.
That's the way I feel. That's me. Out in the darkness,
no light could I see. Oh, I was blind as a bat. He put His great arm under, and
wonder of wonders, I love this part, He saved even me. Sometimes it's hard to believe
that you're actually saved, isn't it? Me, that He loved me. Why would He love me? Wonders
of the grace of God. Marveling at that. And that's
what you ought to tell. And you ought to be saying things
like this. If He saved me, He can save you. Boy, what a need there is for
this congregation to tell out their testimonies. Don't you
know we're living in a hopeless situation here as far as this
drug use, heroin epidemic? that we really need people like
yourself who've been converted to tell what happened to you.
I was out there stooped and lost. And when I could not and would
not come to Him, He came to me. What a wonder. You ought to be
excited about it. Amen.