Being Set Free From A False Conversion With Christ - A Testimony — Edgar Reich

Thank you for joining me again this afternoon. It's a pleasure and an honor to share with you. I have a very, very important message this afternoon. That is of being set free. I lost 20 years of my life, not believing that God was able to help us with sin.

The Danger of a False Conversion

I walked away from God. I incurred a great hurt in my life. I nearly died and I nearly went to hell for eternity. But God had mercy on my soul. And so I'd like to share that back when I was in my 20s, I accepted the Lord Jesus Christ, I thought.

I went forward, but I was not saved at that time point, I believe. For the next 20 years, I lived as a hypocrite in the church and went to church and did things that appeared to be good. But I had no power over sin.

Wrestling With Sin and Abandoning Faith

And so there came a day in my life, I was in my office and started to wrestle with evil starting about noon. And for the next five to six hours, I was wrestling with evil, being overcome by evil. And I said no, and I quoted scripture.

I quoted the blood of Christ. And none of these things would help me and evil thoughts would not leave my mind. Finally, I gave in to sin. But I said to God, God, I had asked you to set me free and you didn't.

So I will no longer believe in you. This was the worst decision in my whole life. I ended up in deep sin. I ended up walking away from my family. There was a divorce. And then after the divorce, of course, I went into further sin.

Repentance and Rescue From Destruction

And I should have died. I should have gone to hell. Then came that morning when Jesus came. I was in a vision of a grave where I was to go into eternity, into hell. And the Son of God came and rescued me and I knelt and I prayed and I repented of my sin and I asked him to come into my life.

And that was the day when everything started to change. But part of the problem was that during this period of time, I had not been taught the correct way to understand myself. I had always thought that the whole person must be saved and that there would be no more sin after that that would attack me.

The Inner and Outer Man in the Battle With Sin

I did not understand that the inner man, the inward man, is born again through the Spirit of God and that the outer man, who is the old flesh, must fall away and be put to death daily. And so also, beloved young people, if you watch this, even so you have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, you need to walk in daily dependence on him because Christ is the victor and you must surrender to him.

Surrendering to Christ Against Sin, Satan, and the World

If you do not surrender to him and you try to oppose sin in your own self, in your own strength, you will not succeed because sin, Satan and the world, they conspire against you to defeat you and to bring unbelief, to take hope away from you, to take your joy away from you.

Christ's Victory Over Sin's Penalty and Power

But 1 Corinthians 15 .57 says Christ is the victory. He is the Son of the living God. He has not only set us free from the penalty of sin, but he has also set us free from the power of sin. Praise God.

As you repent, as you ask Christ to come into your life, and as you surrender to him fully, you will have that joy, you will have victory in your life through the victor, Jesus Christ. Thank you for joining me.