What Will You Do with Jesus？

Surrendering to Jesus as Lord

Yes, Lord! Yes, Lord! Yes, Lord! Yes, Jesus! Holy Ghost! Holy Ghost! Have your way, Lord! I'd like for everyone to pray the same prayer we've been praying since Father's Day with me tonight. Those of you in the chapel, those of you at home, I want you to pray this prayer.

Just a few minutes ago, the Lord spoke to my heart about hundreds of you in this room that have made Jesus Christ your Savior, but you're not serving Him, and He's not governing your life. And I want to warn you tonight about that.

That is a false religion. You can't live like that, friend, where you want to be saved from punishment. You want to be saved from hell. You want security for heaven, but you're not serving Him. And you think you're going to heaven, friend, but I'm warning you tonight, Jesus Christ wants to be your Lord.

He wants to govern your life. He wants to govern your life. And people come up to me all the time after reading that little booklet, Stone Cold Heart, and they say, Brother Steve, how is it that change has come about in you, and you've been able to travel and do the things you've done, and especially Teen Challenge guys come up all the time, and they ask me that because they see such a radical change.

I want to tell you how, friend. I've made Him Lord of my life. He saved me. I remember. I remember when He saved me. I remember when He saved me. In two days, it'll be 21 years that He saved me. But, friend, I also remember when I started learning about the Lordship of Christ, that I was no longer my own.

Believers Belong to Christ

You are not your own. You are bought with a price. You belong to Jesus. Young people, look at me. You have absolutely no right planning your future. Listen to me in the chapel. You can't plan your future.

You can't go out looking for a mate. You can't go out looking for this and looking for that. See, you are a slave child of the Lord. You belong to Jesus. You're bought with a price. He knows. And I meet people.

I meet people all the time, friend. They tell me, I'm going to do this. I'm going to do that. I'm going here. I'm going there. And it's like they govern their own lives. One of the things I love so much about the language in Argentina, the Castellano, they always say, si Dios quiere, si Dios quiere, if God permits, if He allows.

I would say, you want to go there tomorrow? They'd always go, si Dios quiere. See, if God permits, we'll go there tomorrow. And I remember hearing that over and over and over again. And it became embedded in my mind that, yeah, that's the truth.

If God allows me, then I'll do this and that. So tonight, in just a few minutes, I'm going to be giving an altar call. Many people, I've already met people here that don't know the Lord. You're going to come to Jesus, but others of you, others of you in this room that maybe you've gotten saved before, but He does not govern your life, friend, you're going to be one of those in those last days.

The Warning of “I Never Knew You”

He's going to look at you. You're going to be expecting. You're going to be expecting a welcome. You're going to be expecting an entrance, an open door, and you're going to say, but Jesus, I cast out demons in your name.

But Jesus, I healed the sick in your name. But Jesus, I ran the orphanage. But Jesus, I worked a soup line for Thanksgiving at the mission. But Jesus, I taught Sunday school. But Jesus, I pastored. But Jesus, my youth group was running 275.

But Jesus, and He's going to say, depart from me. I never knew you. And that has to do, friend, with just living on your own in rebellion. You just did your own thing. Never questioning the Lord of the harvest about a thing.

What does He want? Everyone pray this prayer with me in the chapel, in this auditorium. Lord, those of you at home, you are not exempt from this prayer. Somebody gave you this tape, and you're so kind to have watched it.

You're watching it right now. But, sir, I'm telling you, this is not just another video. This is a Word of God coming into your home, and it's about time. And, ma 'am, sir, you're going to pray this prayer with us.

You're going to ask the Lord to speak to your heart and to change your life. Would you pray with me right now? Dear Jesus, speak to my heart. Change my life. In your precious name, amen. You may be seated.

Divine Appointment and the Conviction of the Holy Spirit

Three things I am sure of tonight, friend. Everyone is here under divine appointment. Look at me, folks. I don't care how you got here. It makes no difference. If somebody drug you into this place, I remember the other day, some parents came up to me with a young girl, and, I mean, she was queen snot.

She hated me. She hated this revival. She was one of those kids that got drug here. Probably the parents said in Kentucky, honey, do you want to go to Disney World? Do you want to go to Florida? And they stopped for gas here, you know, type of thing.

But she didn't want to be here. And if you're here tonight like that, you don't want to be here, friend. This is a divine appointment for you. Just a few weeks ago, we had the police pull up outside with three people they had arrested on the streets, and rather than take them to jail, they brought them to the revival.

Think about that. Think about that. You're sitting in the squad car, you know, behind the cage, sitting back there, thinking about, man, what's this going to be like? I'm going to jail, you know. They pull up at the church, and they say, get out.

And I remember, they marched them. When the altar call was given, two of the three got saved that night, hallelujah. So they were here. That was a divine appointment. No, the cops brought me here. No, friend, God used the cops.

It is a divine appointment. Everyone here is under divine appointment. If you've been coming to the revival a lot, and you just happened to come tonight, you didn't happen to come, friend. This is God's plan for you tonight.

I don't know how you take life, but I don't take it circumstantial. I don't take it like things sort of happen. I believe in divine flat tires. I believe everything that happens has a purpose, everything.

Nothing takes God by surprise. We say he's omnipresent. That means he's everywhere. Nothing takes him by surprise, friend. He knows what's going on out there. Don't live some mystical life, friend. God knows what's going on.

He's there with you. He's brought you here tonight. I also know that what I'm sharing tonight is God's message for you. The Lord knows how to prepare the heart for the message and the message for the heart.

How many say amen? Amen. And many of you tonight will be hit by the arrows of the Lord. And I hurt for those of you that do not respond. The arrows of the Lord are sharp. The Word of God says they are sharp.

They strike like lightning. Pastors, this is a great word study if you want to do it. The arrows of the Lord are sharp. They strike like lightning and they stick fast. The only one that can remove the arrow of the Lord, and that means when the conviction of God hits you tonight, the arrow pierces your heart and it begins beating.

Or like a girl said the other night, began just hurting. Her heart was hurting. Some, it pounds out of their chest. That's conviction, friend. If I was talking about Harley Davidson's or the Florida State Seminoles or something else like that, your heart wouldn't be doing that.

I could talk about golf and bass fishing. Your heart wouldn't do that. Some of you would. Get all excited. But most of you wouldn't fall under conviction. But you start talking about God and you start mentioning sin and sins.

And as soon as we mention sins in this room, friend, you should see what we see. Heads begin to bow. People begin to go, honey, I gotta go to the bathroom. I gotta get a drink of water. That's conviction, friend.

Why do you suddenly have to get a drink of water? Why do you suddenly have to go to the bathroom? Why all through the service you've got your head up and suddenly it's down in your lap? It's called conviction, friend.

It's the arrow of the Lord and it's pricked your heart. And the only one that can remove that arrow is the Holy Ghost. He's the only one that can remove the arrow. I meet people all the time. How many folks have met folks out on the streets and in the restaurants, at work, that live sort of under conviction?

And as soon as you bring up Jesus and something, they start changing the subject. How many have backsliders? They're everywhere. They got arrows sticking out of them, friend. That's why people can't sleep at night.

You can't sleep with an arrow sticking out of your body. They roll over. They toss and they turn all night long because they're full of guilt. They're not free. So tonight, many of you are gonna be pricked by the arrows of the Lord.

You need to respond to the Lord tonight. Turn with me to Matthew 27. Last night was awesome. How many were here last night? Friend, this building, God moved so mightily here in the chapel across the street.

Dick, I know you're over there with a group of folks. In the chapel across the street, the whole front filled up and all the aisles filled up. In the cafeteria, 180 people came forward. Friend, it was awesome last night.

Pilate’s Question: What Will You Do with Jesus?

Matthew, Matthew 27. I'd like to speak to you for a few minutes on the question. The question. Verse 11, Matthew 27. Now Jesus stood before the governor. This is Jesus before Pilate. And the governor questioned him saying, Are you the king of the Jews?

And Jesus said to him, It is as you say. And while he was being accused by the chief priests and elders, he made no answer. Then Pilate said to him, Do you not hear how many things they testify against you?

And he did not answer him with regard to even a single charge so that the governor was quite amazed. Now at the feast, the governor was accustomed to release for the multitude any one prisoner whom they wanted.

And they were holding at that time a notorious prisoner called Barabbas. When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, Whom do you want me to release for you, Barabbas or Jesus who is called Christ?

For he knew that because of envy they had delivered him up. And while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife said to him saying, Have nothing to do with that righteous man for last night I suffered greatly in a dream because of him.

Now if you want to picture that friend, she had an arrow sticking out of her. That woman was under conviction. Her heart was doing this. She was under conviction. So close yet not saved. But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas and to put Jesus to death.

But the governor answered and said to them, Which of the two do you want me to release for you? And they said, Barabbas. Pilate said to them, Then what shall I do with Jesus who is called the Christ? They all said, Let him be crucified.

And when Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but rather that a riot was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the multitude saying, I am innocent of this man's blood. See to that yourselves.

And all the people answered and said, His blood be on us and on our children. Then he released Barabbas for them. But after having Jesus scourged, he delivered him to be crucified. Look with me back at verse 22.

This is the question. Then what shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ? Everybody has got to answer that question. Look at me, folks. Everybody. Now we have visitors from South Africa. God bless you, brethren from South Africa.

Every man, woman, and child is going to have to answer that question in Africa. What am I going to do with Jesus who is called the Christ? We have visitors here from Australia. Every Australian from east to west, north to south is going to have to answer that question.

What shall I do with Jesus who is called the Christ? The question is not, what will I do with the assemblies of God? The question is not, what shall I do with the communion of the Lutheran church? The question is, should I be confirmed in the Episcopalian church?

The question is not, should I be baptized at Cottage Hill Baptist? The question is not, should I attend the United Methodist Church? The question is not, should I do this or should I do that? The question is, friend, what should I do with Jesus who is called the Christ?

Everyone has got to answer that. And the Lord is pressing this question. If you've noticed in this revival and around America, he is sticking this question in our face. He could care less about our religion.

He could care less about our denominations. He could care less about our membership roles. He is saying, what are you going to do with me? I am the one that your denomination at one time was all about.

Now I'm calling you back to your roots. And what are you going to do with me? What are you going to do with Jesus who is called the Christ? Everybody is going to have to answer this. When you're dead and gone, people are going to know what your answer was.

People know right now what your answer is, friend. Some of you live such a wishy-washy life, it scares me. It scares me, friend. Let me tell you something. For those of you that call yourself Christian and don't live up to the standards of Christ, don't use that name anymore.

Don't use that name. Call yourself heathen. Don't call yourself Christian because you're an embarrassment to the church. And when the people stand there and smell the whiskey on your breath or they listen to your cursings or they hear your vile jokes and then you say, listen, I've got to go because tomorrow I've got to be in church.

My family are Christian. What you've done is destroyed the testimony in this country. This country no longer knows what Christianity is, friend. There is no deciphering between Christians and the world.

They can't tell the difference, but it's changing, friend. It's changing, and it's changing rapidly. It's never going to be the same again. It's never going to be the same again. I want to tell you, this is prophetic.

By the year 2000, when you say I'm a Christian, people are going to tremble. Listen to me, friend. When you say that you're a Christian, you are automatically setting yourself up in front of them as one of them, one of them.

There's a great divide coming to the church. Watch it happen. There's going to be a civil war like no civil war. You think the one back in the 1800s was violent. Wait to see what happens to the church, friend, and it's time.

It is time. God is sending his son back for a holy remnant. Jesus is coming back for a bride, a holy church, separated, clean, spotless, set apart, set apart, set apart. Hallelujah. You're going to have to make up your mind tonight.

Historical Testimonies to Faith in Christ

President Rutherford B. Hayes, our 19th President of the United States, he said this. I'm talking about what are you going to do with Jesus, which is called the Christ. I publicly am a firm believer in the divine teachings, the perfect example, and the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

Robert E. Lee says, I can only say that I am a poor sinner trusting in Christ alone for salvation. Scientist Pascal said, We know God only through Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ.

Except by Jesus Christ, we know not what life is, what our death is, what God is, what we ourselves are. Without Jesus Christ, man must be in sin and misery. With Jesus Christ, man is exempt from sin and misery.

I wonder what he meant, friend. I think this guy knew God. We know God only through Jesus Christ. He made up his mind, a scientist in the 1600s, made up his mind what he was going to do with Jesus, which is called the Christ.

And other scientists who worked around him I'm sure said, You are a foolish man. How can one so wise with earthly wisdom be so ignorant in spiritual things? Don't you know there's nothing out there? He said, No, sir.

I don't know that. I know that we know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Sir Isaac Newton, how many know about him? Remember the apple? Must be his nephew. Brother Newton, he gave us the law of universal gravitation.

He said this, We are to worship the Father alone as God almighty and Jesus alone as the Lord, the Messiah, the great King, the Lamb of God who was slain and hath redeemed us with his blood and made us kings and priests.

I wonder, friend, I wonder why they don't teach that in school. This generation knows all about Sir Isaac Newton. Every one of them know. But what they don't know is that he said, You gotta be washed in the blood of the Lamb.

What they don't know, what they don't know is that little apple that fell from the tree. Sir Isaac Newton was saying, God made that apple. Hallelujah. Charles Dickens wrote in his will, I commit my soul to the mercy of God through our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Alexander Hamilton said, one of our founding fathers, he said, I have a tender reliance on the mercy of the almighty through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am a sinner and I look to him alone for mercy.

Now, I'm reading to you some of our leaders, our founding fathers, some of our great historians, friend. They did not say, I believe in God. They didn't say, I believe in a supreme being. That's hogwash, friend.

And young people, if they let you pray in school and they say, do it generic, there ain't no such thing. You either pray through Jesus Christ because there's only one way to the Father and that's through him.

So, if they say, just stand and pray a prayer like this, Oh God, touch us all now. Amen. No, friend. That could be for everybody. That could be every religion in the world. But when you say, Oh God, have mercy on us through your son, Jesus Christ.

Have mercy on this school. Have mercy on my soul. Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the U .S. said this, the atonement of Jesus Christ is the only remedy and rest for my soul. And I love old Noah Webster.

Don't get me started on this brother. And he's a brother. This guy's a brother. Those of you that have been in these meetings, I read. You got the dictionary with you, Charlie? I read from this thing all the time.

This is Noah Webster's. This is from the 1840s. And this is, we may start a petition for Noah, for Miriam Webster to get Webster's name off that dictionary because I want to tell you, ain't got nothing to do with Noah.

Noah, he'd freak. If he saw what the dictionary was today and what he had back then. And I was just looking the other day. You can look up almost any word in here. And all he gives is scripture references, just one after another.

And I looked up. I thought, well, I'm going to look up clean. I did this yesterday morning. I'll look up clean. And he puts, yeah, to be free from dirt. That's what clean means. But he doesn't stop there, friend.

Then he goes, to be free from moral impurity, to be innocent. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Job chapter 14, Acts chapter 18. That's, wait, wait, wait, wait. Then he goes, he says to be free from ceremonial defilement, Numbers 19, Leviticus 10.

Free from guilt, sanctified, holy, John chapter 13, Psalm 51. To be clean, totally clean, Luke chapter 11. To be, look at this guy. That's clean. That's cleaner than clean. I looked up walk. You know, it's to move one foot in front of the other.

He gives a standard definition. Then he says, to walk after the flesh, to walk in the Spirit, to walk after God, to walk in the light. Just one after another, all these Scriptures. Noah said this, I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I've committed unto him against that day.

Noah Webster, Noah Webster answered that question. He answered that question. We're going to answer it tonight over the next few minutes. Everyone in this room. Now, we're going to have a little grammar lesson.

The Simplicity of the Gospel

First, Charlie, I want you to help me with these. Bring those things out, would you? It's Saturday night and you need help. More than you, I need help. If this is too dumb for you, then relax. The person sitting next to you needs it.

But the Lord told me as an evangelist, friend, listen to me. As an evangelist, he spoke to me years ago. He said, Steve, if an eight-year-old can understand it, if a child can understand it, then everyone in the room can understand it.

And I began reading the sermons of the great revivalists of years gone by. I've got thousands of sermons in my libraries and I read through them. I look at them and I go, dear God, the simplicity of the gospel, the Argentine revival, friend, two million people have come to the Lord and the basic messages, God loves you, has a plan for your life, won't you come?

Over and over again, man, just, and I watch it and I watch thousands and thousands come to the Lord every night. God loves you, has a plan for your life, won't you come? Jesus died on the cross for you.

He shed his blood for you. What are you gonna do for him? Simplicity of the gospel. So he told me, Steve, don't try to impress anyone. Preach my word and preach it with power. Well, we got, this is a grammar lesson.

Now, teachers, I know you appreciate this. Trying to help you here, kids. This is a period. It's not a Frisbee, it's a period. This point, this is a point that marks the end of a complete sentence, amen?

A period, a complete sentence. That's what it is, not a dot, it's a period. John 14, six says this, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but through me. There's no question.

There's no however, there's no comma. However, there's no comma, but it is period. And Simon Peter one day said, after Jesus says, but who do you say that I am? Simon Peter answered and said, thou art the Christ, the son of the living God.

No question about it, friend. It's a complete statement. Is anybody understanding this? Hello, I'm still having a hard time, Brother Steve. Stick with me, Bubba. We're gonna make it. We're gonna help you.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. Question about it, friend. This is not an intense word study or phrase.

Trust me. Relax, I'm not Michael Brown. This is an exclamation mark. Exclamation is a word expressing passion, an emphatical utterance. We know what it means. If I screamed out to my little son who was running across the street and I saw a car coming, I would say, Ryan, stop.

That's what that is. Y 'all having a hard time saying explanation, aren't you? Exclamation, say it. Exclamation. John 1 29. Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. Friend, he didn't say, just did not say, behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.

He didn't say that, friend. He said, behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. It expresses passion. Don't look all these up, friend. They're in there. Trust me. Matthew 27, 54. Now the centurion, this was at the death of Christ.

Now the centurion, all those who were with him keeping guard over Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and the things that were happening, became very frightened and said, truly, this was the Son of God.

Could you imagine? Could you imagine? The earth is cracking open. The skies have darkened. People are jumping out of the graves and they're going, surely, no friend, surely this was the Son of God. And there's many uses in the Word of God of this grammatical, what do you call it, teachers?

Punctuation point. When blind Bartimaeus was going after God in Mark chapter 10, crying out for a touch from Jesus, the Bible says he was screaming out, Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me, friend. Jesus, Son of David.

He was screaming it, friend. It was emphatical, a passionate cry. Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me. Have mercy on me. The poor man cried and the Lord delivered him out of all his distresses. Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me, friend.

That is the exclamation mark. Now, we're moving on. Question, that is something proposed which must have an answer. Jesus in Matthew 16, 15 said to the people, to his disciples, after everybody else had left, you remember the story?

Jesus turned to them. I'm gonna tell you something. The Lord asked a lot of questions. He would nail you in a heartbeat. You think the Lord was passive? No, sir. He wasn't passive at all. He looked at the people and they kept walking around.

Some of you are so dedicated to getting God's hand. Richard said this so much in this revival. Richard Crisco, our youth pastor. He said some of you are after his hand, his hand, his hand, and God wants you to be after his face, his presence, but you're always after his hand and that's Jesus had crowds.

He had crowds. They were always hanging around him to heal the sick, to feed them, to clothe them, to do whatever he could for them and he finally turned to them and he said, drink my blood, eat my flesh, and they said, this is a hard saying and they all left.

They all left and then Jesus said this. He said this question, friend, but who? He said, you do not want to go away also, do you? Question. Peter, John, looks like popularity just left. We're all alone, guys.

You know, we had a lot of admirers a few minutes ago, but thousands just walked off and left us alone here. Pastors, I'm going to warn you about revival. You better be on that boat with Jesus. You better be alone with the Lord.

When he turns around, all these folks walk off, he turns around and says, you're not going to leave me too, are you? You can't skirt that, friend. You can't skirt that. He's asking you a question. Now, we're going to touch on this tonight, friend.

You remember when folks are saying, well, Jesus is this. He's Elijah. He's this. He's that. This is what the people are saying about you, Messiah. This is what they're saying, but who do you say that I am?

Question. Who do you say that I am? America, who is he? One of our major denominations, and some of you are represented in this church tonight. One of our major denominations just voted, the leader of the denomination just voted to permit homosexuals to pastor their congregations.

You probably heard it in the news. Someone came and told me that. I'm asking you this question, priest, pastor. Who do you say that he is? Who is he to your church organization? Who do you say that he is, friend?

A Personal Response to Christ

Jesus asked Peter, after he had denied him three times around the fires of the ungodly, friend, you start warming yourself around the fires of the ungodly, you'll step into denial in a heartbeat. That's one of the steps of betrayal.

You remember what Judas did right before he betrayed Jesus? He went to the ungodly. That's a sign of betrayal, and some of you, that's where you're at right now in your Christian life. You're talking to unsaved people about your walk with God, maybe about a church situation, and they're saying, yeah, you need to get out of church.

You don't need to go there. Some of you talk to the unsaved about this revival. You let an unsaved brother or an unsaved sister or an unsaved dad or mom talk you out of coming several times. Who are they?

What do they know? Jesus said, after Peter had denied him three times, he said, Simon, son of John, do you love me? Simon, son of John, do you love me? Love me. Now, I'm going to tell you something about this question tonight before we close in this meeting.

Charity, you ready? Then what shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ? Number one, this is a personal question. Look at me, folks. This is a personal question. It is not a corporate question. It is personal.

Young people, what are you going to do? Pilate said, what do I do with Jesus who is called the Christ? His wife came up. It was his wife, wasn't it? And said, I've suffered greatly in a dream about this man.

But Pilate made up his mind what he was going to do with Jesus, what he was going to do with this man who called himself the Christ. It is a personal question. If I can get anything across to this crowd tonight, is that this is not a buddy system.

This is one-on-one, and the Lord is going to ask you tonight, what are you going to do with Jesus who is called the Christ? What are you going to do with him? I'm not asking you, are you going to go to church?

I'm not asking you, are you going to join a local assembly? I'm not asking you, are you going to give an offering? I'm not asking you, are you going to pay tithes? In the chapel, I'm asking you, what are you going to do with Jesus?

It is a personal thing. Backslider, this question is in your face tonight. In your face. What are you going to do about your relationship with Christ? What are you going to do with this Jesus who is called the Christ?

I don't care who's hurt you. I don't care what you've gone through. Dear God, you're such a wimp. Men, those of you that have backslidden, those of you that have slid away from God, that stinks in the nostrils of God, act like a man and be strong.

Come back to God. Come back to God. Come back to God. I meet so many people that have been disillusioned by some stupid little thing that took place in a church. They backslid, totally left Christ, left the church, left oppression, discontentment, ungodliness, why?

Because of some idiotic situation in a church somewhere. They owned a brick company, and the church was building a new building, and they wanted the church to buy their bricks. But they, the church, didn't want to buy their bricks.

They wanted to buy it from some other place. I want to tell you something, friend. I was probably wise counsel. I'm going to tell you why. Because if you left over that, if you left the church over that, I sure wouldn't want your bricks on that building.

I'm not talking to you about your little donations. I'm not talking to you about your church membership. I'm talking about what are you going to do with Jesus tonight? Are you going to make him Lord of your life?

Are you going to make him the center of your family? Is he going to be everything to you? You're going to have to make up your mind tonight, friends. I love this revival because thousands and thousands and thousands are making up their minds.

They're making up their minds. See, the curtain's closing, friends. There ain't a whole lot of time. There's not a lot of acts left in this play. It's closing, friend. It's closing and it's decision time.

What are you going to do? It's a personal question. I read to you a few minutes ago, some of our leaders, and I could read to you hundreds and hundreds of men and women through the ages that decided it was a personal thing and this is what they're going to do.

Steve Hill’s Testimony of Conversion

I remember when I did that. Back in October of 1975, there had been several times where I rejected Christ. Young people, listen to me. I rejected Christ as my Savior. People talked to me and I turned them down.

I was there when some of my friends fell under conviction and got saved. I was there in jail when I saw some of my friends get saved. I've seen some stuff. I remember the Jesus movement. For several years of the Jesus movement, my friends were getting saved in the late 60s and early 70s and I detested it.

I hated it because they were no longer drug dealers and they were no longer doing, smoking dope and running cocaine and they were no longer getting high with me and it bothered me. I made up my mind what I was going to do with Christ.

I was going to reject him, but there came a time, bless the Lord, where a man came into my room, October 28th, 1975 at 11 o 'clock in the morning and he sat at the edge of my bed and I was going through convulsions from years of drug abuse, from years of tormenting this body, tormenting this mind.

I had been shaking violently for three days. My body was wracked with pain and he looked at me and he said, Steve, Jesus can save and heal you. And I looked at him, I was laying on my bed and I looked up at him and I said, but I don't believe in Jesus.