A Sermon

How many times had the voice of the Lord tried to get through to me before that desperate night in 1977, I cannot say. I know that He had tried to convict me long before the government finally did, and I surely must have believed I could beat His case against me like I had managed to do in most of the courtrooms in Canada. But in that final moment of unbelief, when I knew I would be found dead at sunrise, that Presence which had followed me from the day I was born was there in that cell waiting for me once again. And I believed.

Well, Moses and I were kind of the same. He rose up against Pharaoh, whom he had served, and killed one of his men. Knowing that he was in big trouble with the law, he went on the lam, heading east to Midian. When he got there, this fellow Jethro gave him a pretty good job tending his sheep. And he also gave Moses one of his seven daughters to be his wife.

Folks tried to help me, too. I'd land a pretty good job, get off the alcohol for a few days or so, but I always returned t

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ll of fish, mountains topped with snow. Day follows night, spring follows winter, summer follows spring. This could not have happened all by itself. I know God exists because He took the most vile person I ever knew and completely straightened his life out. He did that for me. In the days, weeks, months, and years since I surrendered to His invitation, He has strengthened me, allowing me to resist the temptation of drugs and alcohol. Every time I felt weak and asked Him to lift me up, He did so without fail. And He continues to do so for me daily. God knows He exists. He speaks to us in the first-person, and in the present-tense: "I AM THE I AM." And we were created in His image. We are God-like in the respect that when we freely accept His gracious gift of salvation, we rise to a newness of life which is set apart for His purpose. In my case, God has burdened my heart with the desire to set free those who are now like I was only a few years ago--He has opened up the prison gates for me to enter and reveal His truth to you. "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8). Christ sets us free from the power of sin--from bondage to the powers whic
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