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Hello, I am a 24 year old man, I am a born again, bible believing, sin hating, God loving, bible obeying Christian who believes the bible is the inspired word of God and that our main source of information comes directly from God's word, and I believe that Jesus meant every word he said and that every word in the bible meant what it meant when taken into context. I have no denomination.
This is my testimony of when I used to be and was a hypocrite sinner who called myself a "Christian" but lived in hypocrisy, VS coming to the real understanding of obeying Jesus Christ and the God of the bible, when I became a real Biblical Christian and how I over came my hypocrisy
First of all, lets point out that when it comes to information about God, I get my information from the bible alone and from what God has revealed to us through his word. Yes, I use logic, creation, reasoning and all of those things, but when it comes to understanding God without error I turn to his word. If it wasn't for God's word written down anyone could just make up rules and lies about God and how we should live without being able to prove it. The bible allows me to check God's word to see if someone is making a false claim about God or is being honest. Someone who gives me a claim that is not found in God's word are simply making claims, anyone can do that, anyone can claim God is a Pink Elephant, without God's word on the matter we are left to speculate, because we have Gods written word we can tell who is lying and who is being honest.
This is my testimony
I was raised Roman Catholic. My mothers side of the family are mostly Roman Catholic and as a kid the only understanding I got from God was due to my mother, or the times I went to church with my family. I took some classes as a Kid but did not care much and found it very boring and wanting to study about God was the least of my concerns as a kid. Everything I was taught was under the assumption I am being told what is accurate about God, meaning, as a kid I believed whatever it was a priest told me, a mom told me, a family member told and other church members told me, never once though my pre teen years or early teen years did I ever think to open up the bible and look into it for myself to see if what I have been taught is accurate or not.
My life was that of a wicked sinner. As a child I was pretty good, I got good grades, I was friendly and I didn't do much wrong if any that I can think of. By the time I got into the 8th grade which is when most people start having questions, doubts and trying to understand the world around them, this is when I became a very rebellious teen and on my way to a life of sin that most people would never recover from.
For a little more back story I was raised in the projects, to my mothers credit she did a very good job for the best that she knew about God to keep me from not engaging in most of the things other kids/teens were doing at the time. (I am a white male, if that matters, just for context of the story)
I lived around sin, sin that was more available to engage in because of where I lived, I got to see the worst of the worst in people, I lived in a place where there was no fear of God, no respect for God and this eventually caught up with me and lead me into sin because I did not have the word of God in my heart.
I started to curse my mother, I would give her a hard time and stay out late and not come home on time, I would hang out with trouble makers and partake in dangerous activities. I would get peer pressured and get drunk/high for trying to act/be cool. All of these things lead me down the path of destruction and with each sin I chose with my own free will to partake in. I never once thought it was right, and the guilt became to weigh on my mind.
The more sins I committed the more I started to care less, care less about other people, care less about myself, care less about everything. It even came to a point where I was walking across town to fight people at their own homes and going to court over it, yet God gave my mercy and I had charges dropped.
My own mother cried in the courtroom and for one of the first times I started asking myself "What have I become" and started to think about the little innocent kid I used to be, where I was happy and didn't go around living in sin.
Yet, even after that I still lived in my sin and practiced it daily, as I would sin I would ask myself, "Why am I so cold" "Why am I doing this" "What am I missing in my life"
I started engaging in wicked things like becoming addicted to watching pornography and other things I would be ashamed off after doing such sinful things. It became very apparent that I was a lonely person, that I was both dead spiritually and both relationship wise. I started not to care anymore and just told myself "I know I am a hypocrite" I am on my way to hell and I do not care. This mindset was implanted in my since I could understand words, becasue I actually believed I had to stay a sinner and live in this life of sin, I was spoon fed this as a kid and it had taken complete control of me.
I have cried out to God many times asking why must I live in this sin, is it even possible to stop sinning, or must I sin like I have been told by so many other people who go to church. Over the years I started doubting, doubting the word of God because of all the hypocrites who claim to love God yet live in sin, including myself. I was baptized in the Roman Catholic church as a kid but never once did I feel like I was saved through my teen years, I knew I was a sinner on my way to hell for purposely being a sinner.
I started watching debates on God's word, I started watching debates on evolution, I started hearing people argue over God and calling each other liars and each denomination saying they are right and the other is wrong. Until eventually someone called me out for being a hypocrite sinner who claims to believe in God yet lives in sin. When I heard this I was furious!!! I thought to myself, I am a Roman Catholic, there is no way I am wrong, all of the people in church have taught me all I believe about God, who are you to tell me I am wrong.
As humans we do not like to admit that we could be wrong, and as a prideful teen who hates defeat I did not want to accept that I could be wrong on something as important as God's word. I had people tell me that I was just a Roman Catholic because I was raised to be one, and they were making arguments that if I was raised from another Church I would be dumb and naive to believe what I was told too.
Well reality kicked in, I told myself, you know what.... these people are right... if I just trust I've been told the truth and never look into it myself how will I really know who is telling me the truth or if I am living a lie?
At the time I was a Roman Catholic who believed that everything I knew at the time was right and everyone else was wrong, that there is no way I could be wrong because I was the one in truth and it was other people who were the idiots.
I was fed up with my sinful life, I was fed up at being a hypocrite, I knew I was a hypocrite, my mind beared witness against my sinful life and I knew I was not living a life of God, I was fed up and disappointed in myself and everything began to collapse beneath me.
Where the change starts
For the first time in my life, I became humble enough to start all over and look at the evidence for myself with nobody else speaking it into my ear, with no other influences or people trying to point fingers and say who is right and who is wrong.
I was dead set on knowing the truth no matter what it meant, even if it meant that God was a lie and I have been brainwashed to believe a lie. I was probably around age 19 on this day. I opened up my Catholic Bible and began to read it for myself to see what Jesus himself said about sin, about my life and began to read with no other people trying to force their view on me, what it actually said.
As I opened my bible and before I read it, I prayed to God and said in similar words "Please God, I am a sinner, I am a hypocrite, I do not know what is true anymore, I've been taught to believe in these things based on the assumptions that everything I've been told about you is true, I want the truth, even if it means I am wrong, just give me the truth and I will follow the truth wherever it leads me"
To my utter disbelief and great shock!!!
Not everything, but most of what I have been taught growing up about sin, God and basic general ideas about Jesus and what he expects were lies. I searched my bible for verses to back up my old beliefs and could find none. I was left with no foundation for my old beliefs about sin, about people, about God. I tried my hardest to google search verses to prove my old beliefs I have been taught about God were true and no verses to support what I have been taught were there...
For the first time I humbled myself before God and said "Okay lord, I see no where in your word has the things I been taught found in your word, so show me what you expect from me"
It was at this time I began reading the teachings of Jesus and what he actually said with his own lips to people, and as I began reading the teaches of Jesus I was in shock that I cannot believe I have been so naive to believe that I could not stop sinning when Jesus was saying the exact opposite.
I started reading about how Jesus was angry at the hypocrites who claimed to know God but in works deny him, who claim to be "Holy" and "followers of God" yet live in hypocrisy and wickedness, in sinful lives.
It was around this time that I fell to my knees and told God "I am a hypocrite sinner" "I live in sin daily yet I profess to know you and live in my hypocrisy" It was the first time I truly understood that I am not right with God and I have been a hypocrite, the very hypocrite who Jesus himself would have called out, I was one of those.
The next question I started asking myself was "Okay Lord, I am a hypocrite, and I admit it, now I need to know if it is possible for me to stop being a sinner or if I am forced to live in sin and be a hypocrite for the rest of my life"
It was at this very moment that was a make or break deal for me, if I found that I had to be a hypocrite I would have just gave up hope and closed the bible and never touched in again, but if it was true that I could stop being a hypocrite and live holy and not practice sin, that was the answer I was looking for, that was my hope.
The change from hypocrisy to born again Jesus obeying Christian
Over the months, years I read nothing but arguments always double checking I had the truth and that I was not becoming arrogant. When someone gave me a claim about sin and myself or God I always asked them "Please provide me a bible verses where you got that information about sin and God please" when they could not provide such verses it showed me what was reality and what were lies.
At the age of 19 around that time, I became a born again Christian who gave up my life of hypocrisy, and over the next few years I have had even more knowledge from God revealed to me so that I could give up "every" sin in my life.
The fruits of a true Christian
I am proud to say that I do not practice sin and live in sin like I once did when I was a hypocrite sinner claimer to be a "Christian" Jesus has DELIVERED me from my sin and has given me victory over sin in my life through his power alone, he strengthens me daily.
As you see in my signature there is a powerful bible verse that converted me to give up my sin, it was the verses that stated "He who does not keep my commandments, is a liar and the truth is not in him"
That verse calls all who do not keep the commandments of God a liar, and the truth is not in that person, and that is exactly what I was when I was a filthy sinner, I was a liar with no truth and did not know God.
This was the verses that converted me from my life of hypocrisy.
How I live my life now and victory in Christ
I no longer get drunk, I no longer smoke weed, I no longer steal, I no longer curse at my parents, I no longer disobey my parents, I no longer have hatred in my heart towards people, I no longer hang out with trouble makers, I no longer start fights or instigate them, I have given up my porn watching and lustful thoughts about women whom do not belong to me, I have even given up my rap career which I was going to pursue because I knew it was wrong to make music about killing people, and glorifying wicked sins.
Jesus Christ has delivered me from my sins and I no longer practice sin. I am proud to say I am a hypocrite no longer and now I live my life to Glorify the lord and to help others who were like me, who were lost and living a life of hypocrisy on their way to hell.
My life has been so much better since I stopped being a sinner, I am much more happy, everything is moving in a good direction and God has even answered my prayers and given me a young woman in my life whom I plan to Marry. When I was a wicked sinner none of my prayers came true, now they are happening ever since I started obeying Jesus and gave up the sins I loved so much. I prayed for years for a wife and the lord has sent me a woman whom I have fallen in love with and whom is a blessing to my life.
We are both virgins, she doesn't smoke, she doesn't drink, she doesn't do drugs, she doesn't cause drama, she is just like me, she is beautiful and isn't prideful or is mean. She is compassionate and understanding and does not live a life of sin like most women in the world do.
Life has just been so much better as a Christian instead of a hypocrite.
Other so called Christians who call me a liar
The worst part about telling my testimony to people are the hypocrite believers who try to put their sin on me. I come at them in love showing them that Christ has given me victory over sin in my life and they mock me and call me a liar for obeying Jesus saying it is not possible to give up sin, and they put their sin on me as if their sin means I am doing it as well.
It is so sad to see how people want to place their sin upon me for giving me my testimony. When I ask them for proof of my current sin they give me no proof that I am in sin any longer. I tell them clearly "Yes, I have sinned in the past" "But no I am not sinning right now" and I will get fingers pointed at me saying "Bull crap it is impossible to stop sinning" yet they cannot give account of one sin I am doing yet they disbelieve me.
This is the most troubling to me and the most saddening, that as followers of Christ we are commanded to live holy lives, that Jesus himself wants us to give up sin and even commanded it, and it saddens me to see other claimers of Christ to disbelief a former sinner cannot stop sinning as if they are calling me a liar and blaming me for their own sin.
None of them ever do give me an example of my sin when I ask them to show me my sin I am committing.
This is why I share my testimony because many hypocrites who were just like me are deceived into thinking they cannot stop sinning, and this was the trap I fell into as a kid, as teen. If you do not believe it is possible to stop you NEVER will and will forever be a hypocrite just as I was in the past. But when you read Jesus Christ words for yourself you will see it is possible and he gives the power to over come sin.
I hope my testimony helps someone, maybe there is a hypocrite out there who is reading this who will wake up like I did years ago and repent of their sins and give them up.
Bible verses that lead me out my hypocrisy, that showed me you can indeed stop sinning and stop being a hypocrite
1 John 2
2 My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2 And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.
The Test of Knowing Him
3 Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. 4 He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. 6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.
^^^ Notice the verses are written so that we "May NOT sin" and the mindset is not "when" we sin but "if" we sin. When I was a hypocrite my mindset was "when I sin" now as a non hypocrite my mindset is "If" I sin I must repent.
The 3 verses clearly teaches that we can be sure we know God if we are keeping his commandments and that the person who does not keep his commandments which is the hypocrite is a "Lair and the truth is not in him"
It was this verse that showed me it is possible to live holy and that living in sin is HYPOCRISY!!!
John 8:11
11 She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.”
^^^ Jesus told the adulterer to "Go and sin no more" this was another powerful verses that showed me Jesus commanded the POSSIBLE!!!
Jesus would not have commanded a human to go and sin no more if it was not possible, that would make Jesus a liar and God is not a liar. Jesus did not say "strive to not sin" Jesus did not say "try not to sin" Jesus did not say "go and sin SOME more" Jesus clearly told the women to "go and sin NO more"
Was Jesus joking around playing a prank? No, Jesus meant it, I believe in Jesus that he meant what he said and Jesus commands the possible showing you do not have to be a hypocrite.
1 John 3:8
8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.
^^^ Jesus didn't only come to save us from hell and punishment, he also came to destroy the works of the devil (sin) in our life!!! If we are living as hypocrites it proves we have no victory over sin and are a slave to it. A true Christian life style should have VICTORY of sin not DEFEAT in it.
A POWERFUL VERSE AND WARNING FOR HYPOCRITES
You Will Know Them by Their Fruits
15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them.
^^^ The way we can tell a hypocrite from a real Christian is that a hypocrites life style bears bad fruits (they live in sin) and a true Christian does not practice sin but bears good fruits (lives holy). Christians do not bear bad fruits, they are suppose to be following Jesus and Jesus does not lead people to sin.
Hypocrites will be cast into the lake of fire for bearing bad fruits as stated in the verses above.
God does not throw sin into hell, God throws sinners into hell.
GODS FINAL WARNING TO HYPOCRITES
I Never Knew You
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’
^^^ Perhaps the most scariest fearful verses all hypocrites should read, this is the one that got me, it talks about HYPOCRITES who claim to know god (aka sinning hypocrite claimers that claim to be Christians) that will tell God about how they did good works in his name and done many wonders, but live in sin and practice sin.
It shows that God will look at those hypocrite sinners and say "Depart from me, I never knew you" and is talking about sinners who practice "lawlessness" which are sinners living in sin.
No where in the bible does it state we have to keep being a sinner, no where does it state in the bible that we cannot stop sinning. Jesus out of his own mouth said the opposite and I believe Jesus over men or women on this Earth.
My life is a testimony you can forsake your sin and obey Jesus Christ and stop being a hypocrite.
What the bible states is that all have sinned and fallen short which is past tense, what the bible never states is that you have to stay that way, Jesus Christ commands us to obey him and go and live holy and thats what we outta do.
God Bless all of you, Let God guide you in truth and read the scriptures for yourself and see that YOU CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST THAT STRENGTHENS YOU
AMEN, I live in victory now through Christ!!! I am no longer a hypocrite!!!
This is my testimony of when I used to be and was a hypocrite sinner who called myself a "Christian" but lived in hypocrisy, VS coming to the real understanding of obeying Jesus Christ and the God of the bible, when I became a real Biblical Christian and how I over came my hypocrisy
First of all, lets point out that when it comes to information about God, I get my information from the bible alone and from what God has revealed to us through his word. Yes, I use logic, creation, reasoning and all of those things, but when it comes to understanding God without error I turn to his word. If it wasn't for God's word written down anyone could just make up rules and lies about God and how we should live without being able to prove it. The bible allows me to check God's word to see if someone is making a false claim about God or is being honest. Someone who gives me a claim that is not found in God's word are simply making claims, anyone can do that, anyone can claim God is a Pink Elephant, without God's word on the matter we are left to speculate, because we have Gods written word we can tell who is lying and who is being honest.
This is my testimony
I was raised Roman Catholic. My mothers side of the family are mostly Roman Catholic and as a kid the only understanding I got from God was due to my mother, or the times I went to church with my family. I took some classes as a Kid but did not care much and found it very boring and wanting to study about God was the least of my concerns as a kid. Everything I was taught was under the assumption I am being told what is accurate about God, meaning, as a kid I believed whatever it was a priest told me, a mom told me, a family member told and other church members told me, never once though my pre teen years or early teen years did I ever think to open up the bible and look into it for myself to see if what I have been taught is accurate or not.
My life was that of a wicked sinner. As a child I was pretty good, I got good grades, I was friendly and I didn't do much wrong if any that I can think of. By the time I got into the 8th grade which is when most people start having questions, doubts and trying to understand the world around them, this is when I became a very rebellious teen and on my way to a life of sin that most people would never recover from.
For a little more back story I was raised in the projects, to my mothers credit she did a very good job for the best that she knew about God to keep me from not engaging in most of the things other kids/teens were doing at the time. (I am a white male, if that matters, just for context of the story)
I lived around sin, sin that was more available to engage in because of where I lived, I got to see the worst of the worst in people, I lived in a place where there was no fear of God, no respect for God and this eventually caught up with me and lead me into sin because I did not have the word of God in my heart.
I started to curse my mother, I would give her a hard time and stay out late and not come home on time, I would hang out with trouble makers and partake in dangerous activities. I would get peer pressured and get drunk/high for trying to act/be cool. All of these things lead me down the path of destruction and with each sin I chose with my own free will to partake in. I never once thought it was right, and the guilt became to weigh on my mind.
The more sins I committed the more I started to care less, care less about other people, care less about myself, care less about everything. It even came to a point where I was walking across town to fight people at their own homes and going to court over it, yet God gave my mercy and I had charges dropped.
My own mother cried in the courtroom and for one of the first times I started asking myself "What have I become" and started to think about the little innocent kid I used to be, where I was happy and didn't go around living in sin.
Yet, even after that I still lived in my sin and practiced it daily, as I would sin I would ask myself, "Why am I so cold" "Why am I doing this" "What am I missing in my life"
I started engaging in wicked things like becoming addicted to watching pornography and other things I would be ashamed off after doing such sinful things. It became very apparent that I was a lonely person, that I was both dead spiritually and both relationship wise. I started not to care anymore and just told myself "I know I am a hypocrite" I am on my way to hell and I do not care. This mindset was implanted in my since I could understand words, becasue I actually believed I had to stay a sinner and live in this life of sin, I was spoon fed this as a kid and it had taken complete control of me.
I have cried out to God many times asking why must I live in this sin, is it even possible to stop sinning, or must I sin like I have been told by so many other people who go to church. Over the years I started doubting, doubting the word of God because of all the hypocrites who claim to love God yet live in sin, including myself. I was baptized in the Roman Catholic church as a kid but never once did I feel like I was saved through my teen years, I knew I was a sinner on my way to hell for purposely being a sinner.
I started watching debates on God's word, I started watching debates on evolution, I started hearing people argue over God and calling each other liars and each denomination saying they are right and the other is wrong. Until eventually someone called me out for being a hypocrite sinner who claims to believe in God yet lives in sin. When I heard this I was furious!!! I thought to myself, I am a Roman Catholic, there is no way I am wrong, all of the people in church have taught me all I believe about God, who are you to tell me I am wrong.
As humans we do not like to admit that we could be wrong, and as a prideful teen who hates defeat I did not want to accept that I could be wrong on something as important as God's word. I had people tell me that I was just a Roman Catholic because I was raised to be one, and they were making arguments that if I was raised from another Church I would be dumb and naive to believe what I was told too.
Well reality kicked in, I told myself, you know what.... these people are right... if I just trust I've been told the truth and never look into it myself how will I really know who is telling me the truth or if I am living a lie?
At the time I was a Roman Catholic who believed that everything I knew at the time was right and everyone else was wrong, that there is no way I could be wrong because I was the one in truth and it was other people who were the idiots.
I was fed up with my sinful life, I was fed up at being a hypocrite, I knew I was a hypocrite, my mind beared witness against my sinful life and I knew I was not living a life of God, I was fed up and disappointed in myself and everything began to collapse beneath me.
Where the change starts
For the first time in my life, I became humble enough to start all over and look at the evidence for myself with nobody else speaking it into my ear, with no other influences or people trying to point fingers and say who is right and who is wrong.
I was dead set on knowing the truth no matter what it meant, even if it meant that God was a lie and I have been brainwashed to believe a lie. I was probably around age 19 on this day. I opened up my Catholic Bible and began to read it for myself to see what Jesus himself said about sin, about my life and began to read with no other people trying to force their view on me, what it actually said.
As I opened my bible and before I read it, I prayed to God and said in similar words "Please God, I am a sinner, I am a hypocrite, I do not know what is true anymore, I've been taught to believe in these things based on the assumptions that everything I've been told about you is true, I want the truth, even if it means I am wrong, just give me the truth and I will follow the truth wherever it leads me"
To my utter disbelief and great shock!!!
Not everything, but most of what I have been taught growing up about sin, God and basic general ideas about Jesus and what he expects were lies. I searched my bible for verses to back up my old beliefs and could find none. I was left with no foundation for my old beliefs about sin, about people, about God. I tried my hardest to google search verses to prove my old beliefs I have been taught about God were true and no verses to support what I have been taught were there...
For the first time I humbled myself before God and said "Okay lord, I see no where in your word has the things I been taught found in your word, so show me what you expect from me"
It was at this time I began reading the teachings of Jesus and what he actually said with his own lips to people, and as I began reading the teaches of Jesus I was in shock that I cannot believe I have been so naive to believe that I could not stop sinning when Jesus was saying the exact opposite.
I started reading about how Jesus was angry at the hypocrites who claimed to know God but in works deny him, who claim to be "Holy" and "followers of God" yet live in hypocrisy and wickedness, in sinful lives.
It was around this time that I fell to my knees and told God "I am a hypocrite sinner" "I live in sin daily yet I profess to know you and live in my hypocrisy" It was the first time I truly understood that I am not right with God and I have been a hypocrite, the very hypocrite who Jesus himself would have called out, I was one of those.
The next question I started asking myself was "Okay Lord, I am a hypocrite, and I admit it, now I need to know if it is possible for me to stop being a sinner or if I am forced to live in sin and be a hypocrite for the rest of my life"
It was at this very moment that was a make or break deal for me, if I found that I had to be a hypocrite I would have just gave up hope and closed the bible and never touched in again, but if it was true that I could stop being a hypocrite and live holy and not practice sin, that was the answer I was looking for, that was my hope.
The change from hypocrisy to born again Jesus obeying Christian
Over the months, years I read nothing but arguments always double checking I had the truth and that I was not becoming arrogant. When someone gave me a claim about sin and myself or God I always asked them "Please provide me a bible verses where you got that information about sin and God please" when they could not provide such verses it showed me what was reality and what were lies.
At the age of 19 around that time, I became a born again Christian who gave up my life of hypocrisy, and over the next few years I have had even more knowledge from God revealed to me so that I could give up "every" sin in my life.
The fruits of a true Christian
I am proud to say that I do not practice sin and live in sin like I once did when I was a hypocrite sinner claimer to be a "Christian" Jesus has DELIVERED me from my sin and has given me victory over sin in my life through his power alone, he strengthens me daily.
As you see in my signature there is a powerful bible verse that converted me to give up my sin, it was the verses that stated "He who does not keep my commandments, is a liar and the truth is not in him"
That verse calls all who do not keep the commandments of God a liar, and the truth is not in that person, and that is exactly what I was when I was a filthy sinner, I was a liar with no truth and did not know God.
This was the verses that converted me from my life of hypocrisy.
How I live my life now and victory in Christ
I no longer get drunk, I no longer smoke weed, I no longer steal, I no longer curse at my parents, I no longer disobey my parents, I no longer have hatred in my heart towards people, I no longer hang out with trouble makers, I no longer start fights or instigate them, I have given up my porn watching and lustful thoughts about women whom do not belong to me, I have even given up my rap career which I was going to pursue because I knew it was wrong to make music about killing people, and glorifying wicked sins.
Jesus Christ has delivered me from my sins and I no longer practice sin. I am proud to say I am a hypocrite no longer and now I live my life to Glorify the lord and to help others who were like me, who were lost and living a life of hypocrisy on their way to hell.
My life has been so much better since I stopped being a sinner, I am much more happy, everything is moving in a good direction and God has even answered my prayers and given me a young woman in my life whom I plan to Marry. When I was a wicked sinner none of my prayers came true, now they are happening ever since I started obeying Jesus and gave up the sins I loved so much. I prayed for years for a wife and the lord has sent me a woman whom I have fallen in love with and whom is a blessing to my life.
We are both virgins, she doesn't smoke, she doesn't drink, she doesn't do drugs, she doesn't cause drama, she is just like me, she is beautiful and isn't prideful or is mean. She is compassionate and understanding and does not live a life of sin like most women in the world do.
Life has just been so much better as a Christian instead of a hypocrite.
Other so called Christians who call me a liar
The worst part about telling my testimony to people are the hypocrite believers who try to put their sin on me. I come at them in love showing them that Christ has given me victory over sin in my life and they mock me and call me a liar for obeying Jesus saying it is not possible to give up sin, and they put their sin on me as if their sin means I am doing it as well.
It is so sad to see how people want to place their sin upon me for giving me my testimony. When I ask them for proof of my current sin they give me no proof that I am in sin any longer. I tell them clearly "Yes, I have sinned in the past" "But no I am not sinning right now" and I will get fingers pointed at me saying "Bull crap it is impossible to stop sinning" yet they cannot give account of one sin I am doing yet they disbelieve me.
This is the most troubling to me and the most saddening, that as followers of Christ we are commanded to live holy lives, that Jesus himself wants us to give up sin and even commanded it, and it saddens me to see other claimers of Christ to disbelief a former sinner cannot stop sinning as if they are calling me a liar and blaming me for their own sin.
None of them ever do give me an example of my sin when I ask them to show me my sin I am committing.
This is why I share my testimony because many hypocrites who were just like me are deceived into thinking they cannot stop sinning, and this was the trap I fell into as a kid, as teen. If you do not believe it is possible to stop you NEVER will and will forever be a hypocrite just as I was in the past. But when you read Jesus Christ words for yourself you will see it is possible and he gives the power to over come sin.
I hope my testimony helps someone, maybe there is a hypocrite out there who is reading this who will wake up like I did years ago and repent of their sins and give them up.
Bible verses that lead me out my hypocrisy, that showed me you can indeed stop sinning and stop being a hypocrite
1 John 2
2 My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2 And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.
The Test of Knowing Him
3 Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. 4 He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. 6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.
^^^ Notice the verses are written so that we "May NOT sin" and the mindset is not "when" we sin but "if" we sin. When I was a hypocrite my mindset was "when I sin" now as a non hypocrite my mindset is "If" I sin I must repent.
The 3 verses clearly teaches that we can be sure we know God if we are keeping his commandments and that the person who does not keep his commandments which is the hypocrite is a "Lair and the truth is not in him"
It was this verse that showed me it is possible to live holy and that living in sin is HYPOCRISY!!!
John 8:11
11 She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.”
^^^ Jesus told the adulterer to "Go and sin no more" this was another powerful verses that showed me Jesus commanded the POSSIBLE!!!
Jesus would not have commanded a human to go and sin no more if it was not possible, that would make Jesus a liar and God is not a liar. Jesus did not say "strive to not sin" Jesus did not say "try not to sin" Jesus did not say "go and sin SOME more" Jesus clearly told the women to "go and sin NO more"
Was Jesus joking around playing a prank? No, Jesus meant it, I believe in Jesus that he meant what he said and Jesus commands the possible showing you do not have to be a hypocrite.
1 John 3:8
8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.
^^^ Jesus didn't only come to save us from hell and punishment, he also came to destroy the works of the devil (sin) in our life!!! If we are living as hypocrites it proves we have no victory over sin and are a slave to it. A true Christian life style should have VICTORY of sin not DEFEAT in it.
A POWERFUL VERSE AND WARNING FOR HYPOCRITES
You Will Know Them by Their Fruits
15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them.
^^^ The way we can tell a hypocrite from a real Christian is that a hypocrites life style bears bad fruits (they live in sin) and a true Christian does not practice sin but bears good fruits (lives holy). Christians do not bear bad fruits, they are suppose to be following Jesus and Jesus does not lead people to sin.
Hypocrites will be cast into the lake of fire for bearing bad fruits as stated in the verses above.
God does not throw sin into hell, God throws sinners into hell.
GODS FINAL WARNING TO HYPOCRITES
I Never Knew You
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’
^^^ Perhaps the most scariest fearful verses all hypocrites should read, this is the one that got me, it talks about HYPOCRITES who claim to know god (aka sinning hypocrite claimers that claim to be Christians) that will tell God about how they did good works in his name and done many wonders, but live in sin and practice sin.
It shows that God will look at those hypocrite sinners and say "Depart from me, I never knew you" and is talking about sinners who practice "lawlessness" which are sinners living in sin.
No where in the bible does it state we have to keep being a sinner, no where does it state in the bible that we cannot stop sinning. Jesus out of his own mouth said the opposite and I believe Jesus over men or women on this Earth.
My life is a testimony you can forsake your sin and obey Jesus Christ and stop being a hypocrite.
What the bible states is that all have sinned and fallen short which is past tense, what the bible never states is that you have to stay that way, Jesus Christ commands us to obey him and go and live holy and thats what we outta do.
God Bless all of you, Let God guide you in truth and read the scriptures for yourself and see that YOU CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST THAT STRENGTHENS YOU
AMEN, I live in victory now through Christ!!! I am no longer a hypocrite!!!
