back to index2020-07-26 Samantha Lee Baptism
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- Hi, my name is Samantha Lee and I'm Tyler's sister. 00:00:05.000 |
I'm currently a fourth year in college studying business. 00:00:11.620 |
I grew up in a Christian household with Christian parents 00:00:14.720 |
who brought me to church faithfully ever since I was a baby. 00:00:20.500 |
and at age five, proclaimed Jesus Christ as my savior. 00:00:28.160 |
Then it seemed like every Sunday school after, 00:00:30.000 |
I would pray the salvation prayer with my teacher 00:00:54.160 |
not realizing that I was rotting in the comfort 00:00:59.720 |
All along, I justified sin by the flawed logic, 00:01:07.480 |
Plus, I would even out my sin debt with good deeds, 00:01:11.640 |
who would in turn receive a ticket out of hell. 00:01:16.600 |
independent of any need for Christ's sacrifice on the cross. 00:01:23.040 |
where I could just fulfill my Christianly social needs. 00:01:26.280 |
My worth was in my own strength to follow God's laws 00:01:31.020 |
but when these were abruptly stripped away from me 00:01:33.580 |
and I was left to sustain my own faith, I failed. 00:01:36.780 |
The more that I forced myself to follow God's commandments, 00:01:41.400 |
to the point where I couldn't even uphold my own standards. 00:01:46.780 |
and how it has destroyed this world from the inside out. 00:01:55.500 |
for the truth of my existence and I awed it back to God. 00:02:04.300 |
are to be co-heirs with Christ in heaven forever. 00:02:07.700 |
What did mankind do to deserve a glorified place 00:02:13.060 |
It was at the beginning of this year when I was saved. 00:02:30.260 |
Jesus knew how painful His journey to earth would be, 00:02:35.300 |
He still came and died for those who murdered Him. 00:02:40.480 |
as He rose victoriously alive three days later, 00:02:53.260 |
Christ has changed me to become more genuine, 00:02:55.940 |
helping me work through my struggles with others 00:02:58.100 |
instead of secretly wallowing in self-pity and bitterness. 00:03:01.940 |
I can live each day freely building a relationship 00:03:04.480 |
with my Creator because I'm secured by His gift. 00:03:09.420 |
and there is no power in man or hell that can take it away. 00:03:12.980 |
I will gladly consider my own kingdom and life as foolish 00:03:16.480 |
in comparison to receiving an everlasting relationship 00:03:19.340 |
with God who's prepared a beautiful place for His people, 00:03:22.500 |
asking nothing in return but their broken hearts. 00:03:28.540 |
"More than that, I count all things to be lost 00:03:34.740 |
for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, 00:03:37.440 |
and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ. 00:03:41.960 |
not having a righteousness of my own derived from the law, 00:03:58.260 |
I accept Christ as my eternal King and Savior 00:04:05.060 |
so that I might be His treasured daughter forever.