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2 Cor 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become
new.
My name is Danny Smith; I have a wonderful wife and five children. I work at a respectable company. My wife and I are foster
parents. We are your average family. On an outward appearance we seem like very good people. We have never been arrested or
in trouble with the law. Most of the time we would try and do what was right. Like most everyone we basically believed that
we were very good people. In March of 2002 something happened to my wife and I that changed us forever. I came across the
knowledge that I was not a good person. I was confronted with Gods standard the Ten Commandments. I took a test called the
The Good Test. The test asked if we have kept the Ten Commandments? It said if I told a lie(no matter how small) I was a liar and if I
ever had stolen anything that I was a thief. The one that really knocked me for a loop was the seventh commandment (Thou shalt
not commit adultery) I had never done that, but Jesus said that whoever even looked at a women with lust had committed adultery
with her in his heart. I was floored to discover that I had sinned against God and he was angry at me. You see when I examined
myself by God standard I realized that I had broken all of Gods Commandments. I had lied, stolen, lusted, I discovered that
hatred is the same as murder, I had not put God first in my life, and I had broken the second commandment, I had created an
image of God in my mind that I was comfortable with and not the true God of the bible. I thought the good things I did would
outweigh the bad on judgment day, but they won't. I had even taken Gods name in vain. I used the name of my creator and the
creator of this universe as a four letter filth word to express discuss. I realized that I had to face God on Judgment day
and that I would be guilty by his standard and would end up in Hell. While I was in so much sorrow and guilt thinking about
how I had sinned against almighty God and how I was headed for hell and that I deserved it, I read the best news of my life.
I read that God did something so that I did not have to go to hell. God sent his only begotten son Jesus Christ to pay the
price for my sins, so that I could have eternal life. All I had to do was to repent (turn) from my sins and ask God to forgive
me for sinning against him and to trust and believe in Jesus as my lord and savior. That is exactly what I did and then I
then began to read my bible and to learn more about God and his wonderful Grace.
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