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Date Posted: 10:01:27 07/13/08 Sun
Author: Mickey R Mullen
Subject: Born Again

In a previous message I talked about being born again, but today I want to write about what it takes to be successful. You will only find the way to the kingdom in St John. St Matthew 7;13 Enter ye in at the straight gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in there-at. 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

When I decided to give the church a go I was 30 years old and had gotten out of the Navy about a year earlier. My Dad was a preacher for about five years and we attended protestant churches until I was nine years old. During that time I had felt the spirit of convection but never did anything about it. When I started going to church on Sunday night only, for about two months, I was looking for the convictive spirit that I felt as a child. I never read a word in the Bible and never had one in the house. My life stile had not changed with drinking, smoking, swearing, etc. The Saturday before I was saved I took a girl home from a bar and had sex.

After going to about four different churches, one night I felt the spirit of convection. I went to the Alter for salvation the first time in my life. It supprised me that I never felt something. When I got up from the Alter, several in the congregation was calling me (Brother).

I went out to the car and drove around some, and went to a Car Wash that I was buying, got some change, went next door to a outside telephone on the wall of a service station and called my mother. I told her that I went to the Alter and she said, "pray for dad and me." By this time Dad was an alcoholic and Mom had rheumatoid arthritis. At that instant I was hit in the back by a spirit that removed my heart, (as I found out later in the Bible.) My shoulders sank toward the center of my body and out of my left eye I saw a long stream of white light filling my body, it was about nine PM after the church service. Nothing took place with my parents, and it wasn't until 30 days later that I received the Holy Ghost driving to work on a Monday morning. In the 30 days, the best verse that describes what took place, is found in Ezekiel 36;25. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean; from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

The Lord made me open my mouth with a vision, after I said, (God help that boy, on the word boy your mouth is the most open.)The Holy Ghost, white, "as a dove went in my mouth and down my Throat." Jesus received the Holy Ghost on the first breath that He took when He was baptized by John. St Matthew 3;16 It never lit on Him but went in His mouth and down His throat. St Matthew 20;23 (Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with:---.

There is only three verses in St John that has the way to the kingdom of God and in this life what else is their. I found the verses after my Mother sent me a King James Bible of 1611. You have to receive the Holy Ghost, being only born again is not enough.

St John 10;37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. 38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him. 14;11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works sake.

I believed the works of Jesus healing people, as He walked on the earth. There appears to be two kinds of people in verse 11.

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