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Well, good morning. All right. So a few, well, about a year ago, brother Tim came to us and he told us, he's like, we would like you to give your testimony in the couples class and eventually in the church. And, um, you know, public speaking is a real hard thing. You know, you're kind of nervous and like we are right now and it's not something you just wanna jump up here and do all the time. And so to deal with that, we just left his ministry team and went to another. And that's the reasonable thing to do, right? And a couple months later, Brother Mitch came to us and he was like, we would really like it if you guys give a testimony. And we can't leave the church, so. So here we are, and it's a great pleasure to be up here, and we're excited for this. And for those of you who don't know, my name is Daniel Bradshaw, and this is my wife, Tara Bradshaw. So this is our testimony. I'm going to go first, and I would like to start off with my salvation testimony. So I was, what's that? Yeah, why don't we open up in prayer? That's a great idea. Dear Lord, thank you so much for the opportunity to be here this morning in this great church, Lord. Thank you for it. Please help our testimony, Lord, and the words we have to speak this morning be a blessing. Please help us to say what you want us to say. Let your will be done tonight and this morning, Lord. Please bless the fellowship later. This afternoon help it to be a blessing to all and thank you so much for this opportunity Lord Please help us to do your will and your work Lord in Jesus name. Amen All right, so I was saved on August 25th in 1997 in my childhood home in Monette, Missouri and I was raised in a Christian home. My dad was a pastor there. He still is a pastor there in Monette, Missouri. And by grace, I was fully immersed in a Christian culture, very much like Brother Disney has been talking about with the woman at the well. I was surrounded by the Bible, by gospel, and hymns, and church, and everything. I'm thankfully a product of that culture, which helped me understand that I needed to be saved at a very early age. The night I got saved, I was seven years old and had been struggling with my salvation for a little over a year. I had a constant fear of dying and reoccurring dreams that I would die or get in a car wreck. The one that always got me is I felt like a robber was going to come through, break through our window, and I would die and he would kill me. As a kid, that really got to me. So I knew that I needed to be saved. And I knew that God was talking to me and drawing me closer to him and telling me, hey, you need to be saved. But I was resisting his conviction. And in my head, I always said that I would be saved when I'm eight. When I turn eight, I'll get saved. I'm going to push it off. I'll take care of it. It'll be when I get turned eight. I used that as an excuse and rejected God with that. But deep down, I knew I was a sinner and that the payment for sin was eternal death in hell. And I knew that I would be separated from God and from my parents. That really, really bothered me that I'd be separated from my parents and wouldn't be able to see them. And at a young age, that scared me to death and kept me awake at night. I knew that Jesus was the solution and had come to earth to pay that debt and could save my soul from eternal hell. All I had to do was believe that he could save me and to ask for it, ask for salvation. Thankfully, I was taught the Romans Road many times as a child, and God used that as the main scriptures to help me understand salvation and how to be saved. And so for anybody that doesn't know, the Romans Road is a list of verses in the book of Romans that helps deal with salvation, helps show people how to get saved. And it starts off, the simple version of it starts off in Romans chapter 3 and verse 23. And it says, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. And this helped tell me, you know, we're all sinners. We all have a problem of sin and we have to deal with it. And the next verse, Romans 6, 23, says, for the wages of sin is death. So we are all sinners, and we all have a payment. And that payment is death. This is a serious thing. But that verse continues, and it says, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. So there's a solution. God's given us a solution. He's given us a way out of our sin. And Romans chapter 5 and verse 8 It says, but God commendeth his love toward us, and that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. So even though we are all sinners, he has come and he has died for us, and he has paid that sin debt so that we can be saved and live eternally with him. And so how do we get saved? Romans chapter 10, verse 9, it says that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Verse 10, for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. And verse 13 says, for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. We just need to confess and talk to God and ask for salvation. And the solution is easy. And like it said in the verse, it's a gift. He wants you to have it. It's right there. It's prepared. It's all packaged up, ready to go. He's ready to give it to you. You just need to ask for it. And so this night, August 25th in 97, um, I was terrified that someone was going to kill me and it was really bugging me that, you know, I was destined for hell. And I went to my mother and I told her I need to be saved. And my mother sat down with me and, and started to go through the Romans road with me. And, uh, I knew before we even got started that I needed to be saved and that my time was short. I knew my life could end at any moment, and that thought weighed heavy on my heart. But I knew that if I would pray to God, he could save me. I knew he could save me. So I interrupted my mom halfway through going through the Romans Road. And I said that I knew what I needed to do, and I knew what needed to be done. And I couldn't wait any longer. I remembered that I was not sure what to pray, but my mom helped give me some pointers. I can't remember exactly what those were, but I do remember when I prayed, I felt like I was talking directly to God. I felt like He was just right there, like I was talking to Him in the same room. And I asked Him to forgive my sins, and I believe that He died on the cross and paid that sin debt for me. And I asked Him to save me. And once I asked him to save me, there was just a complete rush of joy and happiness that just completely overtook me, beyond any words could describe or any testimony can give. But the feeling was wonderful and fantastic. I felt changed. I felt different. I was not the same person I was a couple minutes before. Something new had happened. Something had changed. I was a new person. I knew that God had saved me and I would go to heaven and I could I could feel his presence in me, and I felt his love. And I will never forget the joy and the change that happened in my life that day. And it has been a constant reminder. It's been a monument in my life, a good memory that I've kept back for many years and has given me My assurance of salvation helped remind me I am saved and this is real. It's funny, the verses Brother Kenny keeps reading keeps lining up perfectly with this. I struggled with salvation a little bit when I was about 10 years old. And one of the verses that helped me with that struggle was 1 John chapter 5, verse 11 through 13. And it says there that he that hath a son hath life. And that was the difference for me. I knew I got saved. I knew something had changed. I knew I had Christ in my heart. And when I read that verse, I knew I was saved. There was no doubt. And I haven't doubted it ever since. But what a great day in my life that was. And I was raised in a Christian home and had a great background. But that background didn't save me. It didn't do anything for me to get me saved. My works and my religion, my church, my family couldn't save me. It had to be Jesus Christ and him alone. He's the reason I'm here today. He's the reason I'm saved. And he's the reason I can give this testimony. And we have a wonderful church, fantastic church. And a lot of children here are very blessed to be in this culture, this Christian culture. But this is not what's going to save you. This cannot save you. It's going to be, if you're relying on your church and your parents to save you, it's not going to get anything for you. Matthew chapter 7 verse 21 gives a testimony of people that are relying on their religion and the things that they have done for their salvation. And in Matthew 7, 21, it says, not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. So even if you know him and you think you're a Christian, that's not what saves you. That's not what's going to get you saved. But he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. You have to be saved. You have to do his will in order to get saved. Just like it talked about there in Romans, you have to confess with your heart and believe that he has raised him from the dead. Thou shalt be saved. And if you don't do it, and you do it your way, or believe in your good works, verse 22 says, many will say unto me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And then thy name hath cast out devils, and in thy name done many wonderful works. And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you. Depart unto me, ye that work iniquity. For those that are relying on their parents, or their church, or their culture to save them, that's going to be the outcome. God's going to look you in the face and say, I don't know you. Depart from me. You're cursed. And so I do not want that to be your testimony. I want you to be a testimony of relying on God, and Jesus Christ, and him to save you. And so that's my testimony. And so the next part I'd like to talk about is how me and Tara met. So we've known each other forever. We've known each other for so long, I can't remember when we met. My memories don't go that far back. So some of my early childhood memories of Tara are going to church and seeing her at church and playing with her at church. And I remember inviting her to my seventh birthday party and hanging out there. It was a good time. And we have been friends as far back as my memories go. And we've had our ups and downs, but we've always been close friends. And she's always meant a lot to me. And at the beginning, I showed her my affection by teasing her and picking on her. And not much has changed since then. When I was younger, I was pretty obnoxious. And again, nothing has really changed. So it's a miracle that we're even friends even today. But she's stuck with me the whole time. As older teenagers, I remember texting her every now and then on my old phone back when texting first came out you know when you had to click the buttons every single time had to click it 10 times just to spell one little word. So those were those were good messages and they were very precious to me and I look forward to getting those from her and This is also about the time that I realized that I liked her and she liked me. And the first day I realized this, We were at church in the parking lot, and I was talking to some of my friends. And she walked by me and patted me on the back and looked at me as she was walking away. And I was just, I'm like, that's not an everyday goodbye kind of thing. And anyway, from that moment, that kind of stuck in my head. I'm like, oh, there might be something there. So I kept that tucked away. And Tara's going to give her testimony. And she'll explain this a little bit more. She did end up leaving the church, and that was a very sad day for me. I felt lost, but also, you know, just trusting in God that he was in control. During this time, one of our favorite memories was we were hanging out at my grandma's house, and we went fishing at her house there on the lake. And I went to go show her our fishing spot that was next to her house, and she caught a nice little catfish there. And I thought it was an OK catfish. She thought it was like the biggest fish in the entire lake and screamed out, yes, when she caught it and everything. In fact, she was so excited. It was way more exciting than our first kiss on the altar. Don't ask me. So that's a funny story that you'll have to ask her about. Way more excited about the fish. Apparently, she'd been fishing for a long time, for years before that, and really hadn't had any success. And so I was able to help her catch her first real fish. And so that was a real good memory for us. We had a lot of fun with that. We didn't get real serious until I came back from my trip to Mexico, which I'll talk about later. But I returned from travels ready to start life and get a real job, get a wife, and get life going. And at this point, I really liked Tara, but didn't commit to having a relationship with her beyond just friendship. But that quickly changed once she returned to church. And she did that while I was in Mexico. And I quickly fell in love with her. And we started to talk and hang out more and more. And that relationship grew pretty quick. We already had deep roots. We'd known each other forever. So it didn't take very long to get up to speed and know each other. For some of our first times we were hanging out slash turning into dates, we actually would come to this church. And we visited a couple of times. I had visited a couple of times previous and really liked it and brought her down here and she started to like it as well. And. It didn't take long for us to realize we wanted to get married. And within a year of returning to Mexico, we were married. And there's a lot more story, but to cut it short, we lived in Monette for about nine years, raised some kids, some chickens, some fish, and kept a garden, and then moved here. So you know it was it was it was we actually ended up getting married at the at that lake house where we caught the fish. That's kind of kind of nice. So the next part that I have is how that I got to know the church and how we got to know the church. And so it really started when with me when I graduated college I had a had a degree some some schooling in Spanish. And I wanted to further develop my Spanish and get to know it a little bit better. And I contacted a couple missionaries that our church supported and asked them if I could stay with them and try and get some hands-on, some real-life Spanish training, get to use it for real. And Brother Creech responded. He was the only one that responded, actually, and said, just come on down any time. He was very welcoming, very friendly. When he invited me to come down, I accepted his offer. And so I came down to this church. That was some of my first visits to this church was to come see Robert and plan out the trip and go over details and stuff like that. And so I got to know Robert, some of the people in the church, Brother Disney, and other people. A side story, one thing that always got me with this church was how Brother Disney, no matter when I came to church here, he always knew I was here. And he always knew my name. And so that really meant a lot to me, Brother. And he could have been doing his rounds. in the back, going from class to class, and come in here in the last five minutes and go, Brother Daniel, nice to see you over there. Close us in prayer. Yeah, could you close us in prayer? And he always knew I was there, no matter how long he'd been in the church or not. He always knew I was there. I always knew my name. And so that's just a great memory of this church and such a blessing. And with Brother Creech. He recommended that I come down and visit him during the pastor's conference there in Panama. And so he's like, during that conference, all the pastors and missionaries are going to come down. You can meet all kinds of people all at once. And so I'm like, sounds great. Let's do that. So I ended up going down to the pastor's conference there in Santiago. I got to meet Brother Aya, Cristobal Yanez. I got to meet Michael Lee and Juan Arellano, the pastor there in Mexico. I got to meet him, Oscar Chavez, Alexis Gordon, all kinds of people. I got to meet a whole bunch of people down there. It was a real blessing. Because of that, I really got to know the church by proxy through your missionaries and the works that this church has done. So that really helped draw me closer to this church and get me connected to this church. During my stay in Panama, I got to know Brother Cristobal and Brother Creech very well, as well as Panama and the works that they did down there. It was absolutely fantastic. I really got to see how missions work, works in action. I was there to try and see Spanish in action. I got to see a church in action, a missionary in action. And that's really a blessing. If you haven't had the tour with anybody in Panama, I highly recommend it. It's fantastic. They can take you through all the churches. And there's a road now, so you can just drive down it with them. We had to go down with a boat when I was there, which I would not change that for the world. But you can go see all the works and the churches. The people there are lovely. They would love you to death. And they're very fantastic. And during my stay at the pastor's conference, I got to know Juan Arellano very well. He was about my age, so we hit it off really well and got to become friends very quickly. And he was only there for a couple days for that meeting, but in that time we got real close bond. And he invited me to his house. He's like, you ever want to come to Mexico, just come on down. Everything will be provided. You don't worry about anything. Just get on down. So I ended up taking him up on that offer, and I spent five months in Mexico as well. And during that time, again, I got to see the work, develop my Spanish. And the church there in Texcoco was a mission, and Juan Ariana wasn't ordained yet. And so I got to see the church go from a mission to a church and see Brother Juan ordained. And so during that ordination, A lot of the leadership from this church came down. We had Brother Disney, Robert, Michael Lee, Pat, Kenny, and also Johnny Tittle. So I'm very grateful that he came down there for that trip. I got to know him. in the short time that he had left. And that was a blessing. But I got to know the leadership of the church through that visit and hang out with some of them during that visit and help guide some of them around and go see sites in Mexico City and stuff. And it was a lot of fun. But it was truly a wonderful church experience, something I will never forget. And I'm very grateful for that. And after I returned from Mexico, Like I said, we started to get to know each other more and more. And when I returned from Mexico, having that connection to this church was really strong at the time. And so I'm like, you got to come see this church. Bring it to it. And that's when she first came to the church and met everybody. And we've been in love with the church ever since. And I mean, that's why we're here. So we've always had a draw to this church. We've always wanted to be here. We'd prayed about it several times, you know, can we join this church? Can we come down to Arkansas? And I always got a no. And for nine years there in Mexico, we got a no. And about, in Monette, in Monette, Mexico, oh my goodness, sorry. In Monette, we kept getting, we kept praying, getting the answer of no. And for nine years, we got no. And about two years ago, the Lord said, yes, you can go. And so immediately called my dad and talked to him about this and I called brother Pat and I'm like, we got the yes, we're coming down. And so we put our house up for sale immediately and started looking for a house and we just, we've got the yes and God had been working on me that when I want you to do something, I want you to do it now. And he was working on me at that time. And so this is something we wanted. He gave us the yes, and so we went immediately. We didn't hold back. We had no house. We needed to sell our old house. There was still a lot of questions to answer, but we went. And we're so glad that we did. God worked out everything. We didn't have a place set up. Tara was out looking at a place about 20 minutes from here, and was like, I want to see what the drive from that house to the church is like. So as she was driving here to the church, she passed by a little house on the side of the road that the lady was literally hammering in the for rent sign. And she's like, well, I got to go ask her about that house. So she went in and called her, and they got a meeting set up that afternoon. She looked at the house. She called me. She's like, this is it. This would be great. This is exactly like our house, about the same size. It would be perfect. We were really worried about being in an apartment. We got a lot of rowdy kids, as you know. and it's hard to keep them calm down in an apartment. So we got our own house to ourselves. They could be loud, run around in the backyard, have fun, do whatever they wanted, and we were free to do that. And so the house has been a tremendous blessing, and we're just right here. And so it's just, you know, God works it all out, and we're very, very blessed, very, very thankful to be here. And Tara has her testimony. He went off the notes. I don't go off notes. I wrote it down and I'm gonna read it. That's how I'm gonna do. Okay. I started writing my testimony down because I do love pen and paper. But I spilled some stuff on it. I lost it once. And I think the other time it just got thrown away by somebody. So I typed it. and now it's printed, and this will help keep me on track. When working on writing my testimony, although it wasn't my first time telling my testimony, I did find that the devil was so much more involved than I anticipated. God has given me a long, extensive story, but today I just want to briefly hit the highlights of the parts that I think are the most influential in bringing me to Christ. You don't want to know where I've been, and I don't want to tell you from a pulpit the things that I've been through. We all have our baggage, and if you ever want to chat, hit me up. I'll bring the espresso and we can talk." Brianna knows that. It's so easy to get caught up in the details and the overwhelm of being vulnerable, and then you start talking about things that just don't matter. Then it sounds like Jesus is just a small part of your story, when in fact, he's the biggest part of the whole thing. I accepted Christ as my Savior in April of 1996, not long after being adopted into a new family, but like an earthly family. With that adoption being so fresh, I had a solid understanding of what God was offering me. Essentially, an adoption into his family, like it says in Ephesians 4, he has chosen us in him and predestined us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ himself, which is just so cool. I did understand that. But what I remember most about accepting Christ was my overwhelming understanding that I needed a Savior. Even at just seven years old, I had already seen enough of life to understand that this world is broken. Excuse me. Sin is real. Your nerves get you up here. I'm going to fall over. And I couldn't fix it. No matter how much better I tried to be, when I learned that Jesus had already done what I could never do. And even as a young age, I had tried. I knew that I needed the home in heaven that he was offering me. At the time, I was going through a basic truth Bible study in my home. So Bible studies, I want to tell you, are so important. So Daniel's dad was actually leading that study, and another gentleman from our old church, I couldn't remember if it was Brother Mike. It was Brother Mike, okay. So Daniel's dad always says it's funny because I taught him that just because you get to the end of the study where they're supposed to accept Christ, not everybody will. Because at the end, he said, we got to the end where you normally get saved and I didn't want to do it. And so he came back, it was a weekly study, he came back the next week and was kind of like, Well, do you have any questions? He didn't know what to do next. So it's just kind of, he always tells us it's funny. But I think that's funny because I'm still that way. I don't do something, I'm not going to do something because you want me to do it. Not in a rebellious way, but I know how to say no. I think that's a good practice and a good boundary. And I have no problems not doing something out of obligation. And if I don't understand, I get stuck right there. That is something that has never changed. I just think it's interesting that you were like that as a kid. And then it's the same. So, I did not feel that I could accept Christ's gift of salvation because I knew that I would still mess up. I was so unworthy and there was no way I would be able to stay in that family of God for very long. A few verses that helped me gain a full understanding of this, of why that's not the case, is 1 John 1.9. If we confess our sins, he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins. and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. That means yesterday, today, and tomorrow. And in Colossians 2.13, it talks about you being dead in your sins and how he has quickened us together or made us alive with him and has forgiven us all trespasses. I've recently come to the understanding that it's a lot like a plant. You know that you plant the seed and it dies and then a plant comes up and that plant's just not really perfect, but It didn't make itself, you know, the Lord gave it a plant and you have to prune it. And I understand now that that's what that's like. It's not that you're failing or falling out of the love of the Lord. It's just a part of pruning or going through the fire, becoming gold. One of the biggest truths that helped me come to Christ was understanding that his forgiveness is not limited. He forgives yesterday, today, and tomorrow. God's grace is not about our worth, it's about his mercy. And even today, that continues to humble me. It's only by his mercy that we are not consumed, like it says in Limitations. Once I understood that God's forgiveness was forever and I couldn't do anything at all to keep myself in God's love, I remembered praying, God, if you have time, I want to be in your family. Please live in my heart, be my father and save me. And he did. I felt lighter, joyful, hopeful. And from that day on, I truly never saw life or people the same way again. One of my favorite hymns says that heaven above is softer blue. Earth around is sweet or green. Something lives in every hue that Christless eyes have never seen. Birds with gladder songs overflow. Flowers with deeper beauties shine. Since I know, as now I know, I am his and he is mine. Even though I found that song as an adult, it describes perfectly how I felt after being saved. I just remember being transported back to that day with that song. I heard it at a church in Kansas City, Missouri. After my salvation, I struggled to find my place in the church. I battled with the legalism of others and the hypocrisy and the feeling that I had to earn a calling from God in order to be I had to earn the calling from God in order to become more than just a Christian. I never felt I could measure up to be useful for the work of God. I went through a lot as a child and as a young adult, and even though I truly believe God could use my story for good like he promises us in 2 Corinthians 1. I don't know if it's truly a promise, but it feels like a promise to me. He says he comforts us so that we can comfort others, and that verse got me through for a very long time. When I say I've been through a lot, I've been through a lot. The proverbial last straw for me was when my best friend and only Christian friend in the public school unexpectedly took his own life. I gave up and I walked away. I remembered telling the Lord, I can't, I can't do this. If this is a Christian walk, I'm done. I couldn't measure up and I wasn't worthy enough to be the good Christian or the missionary's wife or the whatever, the piano player, none of this stuff. So I wanted my ticket to heaven and I was out. And that's kind of how it went. If you remember the prodigal son, he took his inheritance and he took off. That's a lot like me. So that started a cycle of bad decisions. And then I was lovingly disciplined from the church for some life choices I had made. And people have a very strong opinion of church discipline. I want you to know it's a good, good thing. It's a good thing. Sometimes nobody's going to stand up and tell you you're doing wrong. I mean, you guys, I look around and I know a lot of you have two parents at home and you were raised in church and that's great. A lot of people aren't. And so no one is standing there saying, this is a bad decision. So they lovingly showed me from the Bible why this was a bad decision. I disagreed. And in 1 Corinthians 5.5, it says, you have to deliver such in one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. You have to give them up and give them over. And I understand that's a hard thing to do. Brother John Creech, so I watched a lot of testimonies to prep myself because I need like an outline. I need to know exactly what's happening. That's why the off the notes thing about fell over. But Brother John Creech had mentioned in his testimony that some of us have to have our head bashed into the concrete a few times before God gets a hold of us. And that's true, that's me. I never doubted that I belonged to the Lord. I knew I couldn't lose my salvation, but I definitely lost my way. I'm very confident in the wonderful day that Jesus saved me. But it wasn't until 23 that I fully surrendered my life back to the Lord. I understood that I needed to try to have a personal relationship with him, and I didn't know anything about relationships. I had reached rock bottom, or I had to reach rock bottom to understand that God's ability to use me didn't depend on my performance. Even in my lowest moments, I still saw glimpses of him, reminders that he never left me, and that I was the one running away. One time I heard a sermon from Lon Solomon, saying that he had tried to witness while he was still tangled up in his old life and it didn't go well. And that was me for seven years, trying to run from all of my experiences and some of the hypocrisy I had seen and misunderstandings, which turned me into a hypocrite myself. I would often get asked, well, why are you here? You know, running in those circles that I've run with. You know, you can't witness to those circles. And deep down, I knew I didn't belong there. So eventually, like Joshua after the defeat at Ai, I fell on my face before the Lord, and he said, get up, clean up your camp, and get on track. And that's what I did. Each day I sifted through my life, dealt with my sin, and returned to the covering of the Lord. And I'm so thankful that his mercies are new every morning, again, and lamentations. After that, when I felt a little more stable, I came back to the church. I asked for forgiveness, and I shared my testimony using Psalm 51. I told the church that, yes, I had caused them pain, and I was sorry for that. But more than anything, I had sinned against my Lord, and I was seeking to restore the joy of my salvation. and I missed being close to my Savior. And the Lord, in His grace, welcomed me back like the prodigal daughter I was. I rejoined the church, and at that time Daniel was actually in Mexico. We had been friends our whole lives, but just taking different paths. We started talking again, and honestly, it was about a year later, we got married in 2014. I don't know if you have figured it out yet, but I'm very similar to a robot. It's kind of a joke at our house. I don't very often get personal, and I try not to feel anything if I don't have to. So you're not going to get much out of me about our love story, but he's my lobster. And if you know, you know. Marriage has been beautiful and hard, mostly because I'm a lot to handle. And he jokes a lot, like a lot. Some things don't change. I'm only 12 years sober. I'm still learning to surrender. I'm loud and I'm entirely self-focused, and I'm married to a quiet, humble, selfless man. The song that I picked for our wedding said, teach me to love you, Lord, more than I love him. And I know that I can love him more. And I still feel that way. It's true. Each year gets sweeter as the Lord grows us. He gives grace and he continues to write a beautiful story for our family. I don't really have any marriage advice. Brother Tim said, how you met how you met Jesus, how you met each other, how you came to the church, and then any marriage advice, which I don't have any really, except to keep chasing the Lord and He'll work out the rest. You gotta let go of the dumb stuff. And that's really in all life, especially in a church. which is like a marriage in a way. Before I close, I just want to say this. Don't wait to get right with God. If you're not saved, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. That's an ax. This life is short, but eternity is real. And if you are saved, but you've wandered, I promise you it's not too late. Draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you. Please don't wait to hit rock bottom. Just come home. He's waiting. All right. Thank you very much.
Testimony-Dan and Tara Bradshaw
Series Testimonies
Worship Service @MissionBlvdBaptistChurch
Sermon ID | 6925136302365 |
Duration | 37:54 |
Date | |
Category | Testimony |
Bible Text | Romans 3:23; Romans 6:23 |
Language | English |
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