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Post by messengermicah on Apr 8, 2009 22:59:33 GMT -5
Who calls girls whores to get a crowd Tony?
Who are you talking about?
I am clueless.
I do not know any preachers who do such a thing.
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Post by messengermicah on Apr 8, 2009 22:54:07 GMT -5
osubamey,
I believe you are genuinely interested in true journalism and reporting the facts without bias and I respect and appreciate you for that.
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Post by messengermicah on Apr 8, 2009 22:50:26 GMT -5
Yes, Tony I realize that comes as a big surprise to you being an Obama voter yourself under Obamanosis not knowing pro wrestling was fake. Yes it annoys me enough to start a thread on it.
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Post by messengermicah on Apr 7, 2009 23:40:20 GMT -5
How come almost everytime I go to yahoo to check email there is some stupid article about what Michelle Obama wears?
Who cares?
This shows the mindset of all those who are under Obamanosis and elected him.
They are the kind who sit around and watch things like Jerry Springer and talk about things like what hairdo so and so has and who got their nails done.
No substance.
Life is all about what happened on Jerry Springer, what the National Enquirer said and what happened on pro wrestling the other night.
They probably still think pro wrestling is real and not fake. I mean they believed everything Obama said.
I think all of this nonsense about what Michelle Obama is wearing is a ploy to distract us from all the things Obama is trying to do.
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Post by messengermicah on Apr 7, 2009 23:11:45 GMT -5
Thank you all fellow street preachers for your encouragement and support.
I was not discouraged at all by what happened and did not really think it was a big deal.
I think what happened to Mike Anderson was a big deal.
I did not post this report until two weeks after it happened.
I expect to be physically assaulted at times but I trust the Lord will protect me enough to continue preaching and finish my course.
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Post by messengermicah on Apr 7, 2009 23:05:34 GMT -5
osubamey,
If she began talking to me and interacting with me by saying things to me then in the first place she is not a random girl walking by minding her own business.
I do not ever call people names who are just walking by and say nothing to me. NEVER! Nor do I condone such a thing.
Now please show me where I have ever done that.
Go back and read your original post and read my original post.
Someone making comments to me and telling me what they believe is not a random person walking by.
You do know what random means don't you?
By the way I appreciate you being honest enough to write the letter.
Yes things are not always as they appear and you wrongly judged the situation and falsely accused me initially.
This should be a lesson for you not to immediately believe without question everything you read or hear about me.
So whitey is not a racist remark huh?
Is the "n" word a racist remark?
Would the majority of black people think it was?
How about "jungle bunny"?
How about "tar baby"?
The problem I have with you is if someone made racist remarks about black people you would be on them "like white on rice".
However it is ok for people to make racist remarks about white people.
The term "whitey" does not offend me either neither does "bread", "cracker" or any other supposedly racist term.
My identity is not wrapped up in the color of my skin but in my Savior Jesus Christ.
What bothers me is how it is ok for some racial remarks against some races to be ok but not for others.
I believe we need to be consistent and be against all racism.
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Post by messengermicah on Apr 6, 2009 18:57:46 GMT -5
Here you go and let the facts speak for themselves: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag2_4ACrjeYThere is another video from the same day that shows him walking into my face into my crowd.
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Post by messengermicah on Apr 6, 2009 18:50:43 GMT -5
Show me one video where I have ever called a random girl walking by minding her own business a whore.
Put up or shut up.
Since when are journalists "objective"?
You mean the presidential election campaign was "objective"?
Yes, can you read. I agree the term "whitey" is a racist remark about whites.
I am against all forms of racism unlike yourself who is only against racism that is politically correct (it is ok to be racist against whites but not against blacks).
Unlike you I am against all forms of racism.
This is the second time I am explaining this but if it is still too complicated for you to understand let me know and I will try it again.
Would you like to see the video of where "honest Abe" walked up into my space, stole my water jug, slugged it and then slammed it on the ground?
Somehow the "objective" reporting from your journalist colleagues failed to report that.
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Post by messengermicah on Apr 2, 2009 19:58:14 GMT -5
Wednesday March 18, 2009-Florida State University-Tallahassee, Florida: Fresh from the beating I received at Panama City Beach from the spring break revelers I decided not to go back again today.
Unfortunately, I forgot to factor in the time difference from the panhandle area and Tallahassee. I was almost two hours from Tallahassee to begin with and lost an hour on the way due to the time change.
Sister Elizabeth and I arrived on campus and I began preaching around 2:00 PM in the “new” free speech area, which is about 30 yards from the old area.
I soon gathered a crowd of about 30-40. I seemed to gain some sympathy/respect from the crowd due to my black eye from the day before at Panama City Beach. As the afternoon grew on the crowd grew to around 120-130 at the largest point.
It was a day of straightforward preaching, questions and answers. The needy homosexual who always shows up to disrupt our meetings who calls himself “Sparkles” but whose real name is Daniel also showed up. He continually tried to disrupt and turn the meeting into a circus but the meeting stayed on a civil, sober level for the most part. The crowd all but ignored Dan (Sparkles) most of the day.
The black bisexual, Akeem who seems to accompany him much of the time also showed up and listened intently most of the day. My first visit this year he gave me a very hard smack on the backside but now always shows up and listens intently. I believe God is dealing with him and please pray for him.
The students who had done some filming of our preaching in the past also showed up to do more filming.
By 5:00 PM I still had a good sized crowd of 40-60 but deliberately stopped the preaching so we could begin to make the nearly two hour journey back to where we were staying for a church service.
From 5:00 PM to 5:30 PM, Sister Elizabeth and I had some very good conversation with several students who claim to be Christians on campus. It seemed they agreed with our message and seemed to have a much better understanding and appreciation for what we were trying to accomplish on campus after our conversation.
We headed back to the vehicle around 5:30 PM.
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Post by messengermicah on Apr 2, 2009 19:55:04 GMT -5
He is not a kid but a grown man.
Why do you assume I was insulting him?
He was making comments about not wanting anymore whiteys as president (referring to Obama).
He was saying it loud enough so I could hear him. I have no idea why because the subject I was preaching about had nothing to do with Obama.
I pointed out his obvious racial comments.
You are not in favor of racism are you? I am certainly not even when it is against whites. It is all wrong.
He then ran up and got in my face. Take a look at the picture. The crowd is around me. He had no crowd. He was being ignored.
I knew Abe Lincoln was a racist but most people do not realize he was. This guy was a racist.
He later stole my water jug, slugged out of it and then slammed it on the ground.
Not too honest of Ole Abe to steal.
For more details read my report from University of Florida on 2/12/09.
I realize you are a politically correct coward from your previous posts so I am sure you would have seen my actions as totally justified if someone was making racist comments about black people.
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Post by messengermicah on Mar 31, 2009 17:33:49 GMT -5
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Post by messengermicah on Mar 31, 2009 17:22:41 GMT -5
Tuesday March 17, 2009-Panama City Beach, Florida: One of the campuses we seemed to have had the biggest impact on and the most favor at (University of Alabama) supposedly changed their free speech policy this year and went to a sponsorship only policy.
This means that in order for someone like ourselves to preach on the campus we must be sponsored by a campus group. The chances of any student group wanting to sponsor our “hell-fire-and brimstone, holiness or hell, repent or perish” preaching is slim and none.
The University of Alabama was on spring break this week and many of these students celebrate in revelry in the Panama City Beach area. I was in the area and thought it would be a good opportunity to get a chance to preach to the students at the University of Alabama without having to waste time, money and energy trying to go through the sponsorship only policy.
Sister Elizabeth and I drove down to the Panama City Beach area and tried to spy out a good area to preach. I was looking for an area with lots of foot traffic, a wide sidewalk or boardwalk, which was public property. It was difficult to find any such area. All I seemed to see was the beach area and hotels with nothing in between.
After driving around for some time Sister Elizabeth and I parked and began our trek walking. We found our way down to an area near the beach where they were having a huge concert on the beach. The beach and hotel area was not the place to preach but there was a sidewalk in front of the hotel where most of the crowds would enter towards the beach area.
It was not a great spot but it was getting late and seemed to be the best spot. It was a narrow sidewalk and there were not huge crowds of people passing by but a steady stream of small groups would walk by to and from the hotel/beach area where the concert was going on.
I donned my sandwich board and began preaching simple short sermons to the passersby. Many of the passersby were carrying cases of beer and wearing bathing suits. It seemed almost everyone I encountered was either drunk, had been drunk, or was hung over.
As soon as I began preaching around 3:00 PM, I was constantly threatened with violence, shoved, or punched. One young man began shoving me all over the grass area and finally pushed me down the hill into a ditch area. He then punched me several times in the face and a large knot swelled up under my right eye. My wife came to talk to me for a minute and told me there was blood all over my teeth.
I continued preaching and the young man who had punched me continued to hang around, listening, making threats and shoving me.
Soon another young man began shoving me around and punched me several times in the face and head area. His girlfriend stole the hat off of my head. I then reached out to try to grab my hat back and her boyfriend shoved me and tried to punch me. Thankfully he made the girl give the hat back.
The whole time this fiasco was going on the police were about 50 yards away but did nothing but turn a deaf ear and a blind eye. At one point a police car came driving up and looked as if they would stop but they just turned around in our area and went the other way.
The whole time I was being shoved, threatened and punched, a drunken girl who cursed like a gangster rapper stood in front of me claiming she was a Christian, loved God and quoted scriptures out of context she felt justified her continuing in sin because she was now “saved and forgiven”.
Soon the girl who stole my hat came running at me like a wild woman out of control swinging fists, tried to rip my sandwich board off from me and pull off my camelback. I continued to preach as best I could but now some of the boys who were friends of the boys who hit me began to surrounded my wife, threaten her, demanded she put away the camera and mobile phone. Around 4:00 PM I decided to leave the area.
One the way back I stopped at a restaurant to get ice for my swollen eye now turning black. A large young man recognized my wife and told her he apologized for the way we were treated. We thanked him and I am sure many others felt the same way but none would seem to take a stand and step out to defend us.
We are living in a day and hour where “he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey” (Isaiah 59:15).
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Post by messengermicah on Mar 28, 2009 17:36:19 GMT -5
Friday March 6, 2009-Florida State University-Tallahassee, Florida: This was the day before Florida State University goes on spring break. The group from this school who had been filming me at University of Central Florida and University of Florida wanted to do an interview with me. Sister Elizabeth and I drove down from Georgia in the morning.
We arrived on campus just before 11:00 AM. The film crew met us and we went into the studio.
From 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM they asked me questions in the studio about my upbringing, religious background, conversion, my start in open air preaching, and all kinds of questions concerning the message and method. It seemed to be a very profitable time of Biblical discussion, teaching and explanation. We had originally planned to have an open air meeting on the campus. The interview concluded at 12:30 PM and we were far from the free speech area. It was also the day before spring break, so most of the students were already heading home or gone. We decided to postpone the open air meeting for another day.
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Post by messengermicah on Mar 26, 2009 18:16:22 GMT -5
Praise the Lord!
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Post by messengermicah on Mar 25, 2009 12:05:31 GMT -5
Received this testimony from a University of Florida Student recently:
For background, as a kid I was brought up Christian and once I was old enough to attend service, my parents took me to church nearly every Sunday. I’ve always believed in God and the Jesus is my savior, but as a little kid, church obviously wasn’t the best part of my week. To make a long story short, our church ended up being really corrupt: They built a new church which was really big, but didn’t have the funds to complete it, so nearly every week their sermons were about donating more money to the church. Then to top it all off, the minister in charge got brought down in a big adultery scandal with one of his secretaries and all this, so by the time I was a teenager, I was alienated from Christianity, and filled with mistrust.
I always professed to be a Christian, but those words and my belief in Jesus were about all I had. Here at UF, I started wanting to try to develop my religion, but I was still filled with mistrust about organized religion, so I set out on reading the bible on my own. There are many reasons why I come to listen to your preaching and why it makes me extremely happy to see you around. I was basically a fair weather Christian for a while, I would use god when it was convenient to give me a leg up, and that was about it. Your message was basically the only one I heard that expressly said “It doesn’t matter if you believe, if you REALLY believe, you actually serve god.” After having explored the bible and listened to what you said, I know that your message is 100% supported by biblical text.
I don’t claim to yet be leading a sin-free life, sometimes old habits are hard to break; but I am working toward stamping out the sin in my life and dedicating myself to the glory of god. And this leads to many other reasons why your preaching is so enriching. Sometimes it’s easy to think “well, maybe god doesn’t REALLY care if I sin, I mean, I can just stop later” so it’s always good to get a jolt out of my selfish apathy from your very potent message. Further watching you gives me the vision of what I hope to someday possess. You really have to boldness of a lion to defend the word and preach it even when the situation seems hopeless. I also hope to be as biblically versed as you are, so that I can refute the false beliefs of my fellow Christians without having to search and search to backup what I want to say.
That also leads to another reason I so much love when you’re around, when the crowd grows to immense size, sometimes I basically piggyback off you, and move in the crowd discussing the word and beliefs with those who are listening. I try to help bring fellow Christians around who might be afraid of the real message. I feel god has endowed me with many gifts to spread his word (I have a quick mind, and I’m extremely well versed in both science and religion), and since I don’t’ yet have your boldness, you basically provide me a little place to both listen and learn, and to teach to some who are unsure of their faith.
So, essentially, those are the main reasons your teaching has such a profound effect on me. You helped me to start on the path of actually walking the walk, not just talking the talk. You show me how the word can be spread, and what I really should know, and then you provide me with a ready-made opportunity to speak to a few people out of the 100s you gather. Hopefully someday I will have the courage to actually preach the word, but right now this small-scale teaching helps to better confirm to me that I’m at least on the right path. I don’t agree with EVERYTHING you say, but as to the biblical message, I feel you are totally on point.
I hope that gives some more insight into the effect of your preaching, I hope I wasn't overly wordy. Always happy to have you at the UF, and hope you come out again soon.
Thanks, Jason
Tuesday March 3, 2009-University of Florida - Gainesville , Florida : Sister Elizabeth and I drove several hours up from the Tampa area to preach on this campus. We arrived on campus slightly after 1:00 PM . I do not bother to try to begin preaching on this campus before 1:00 PM because there is so much noise in the preaching area from a noisy symphony of bells that ring.
It was somewhat on the cool side as I began preaching.. I began preaching around 1:30 PM . It took a little time but soon I gathered a good crowd of 25-40.
For the remainder of the afternoon, I preached in a straightforward manner to crowds ranging from 25-40. The crowds were civil and sober acting (for the most part), asked good questions and listened attentively. I preached until around 4:00 PM .
FORGIVENESS WITHOUT REPENTANCE?
Sister Elizabeth had talked to two students who claimed last Friday night there was a Campus for Christ sponsored event which had 3,000 of the student body in attendance. The female student said they sang songs and had a Mr. Joel give a sermon/talk. Sister Elizabeth asked, if Mr. Joel preached repentance? It took about two minutes while she reflected, then she asked the male student with her. They finally both responded, NO he never mentioned that.
SIN IN THE CAMP
From 4:00 PM until around 5:15 PM , I answered questions from a group of about 5-15 students. Some listened very sincerely, asked good questions, and seemed to be seeking the truth. Others seemed bent on defending their freedom to keep on sinning while maintaining a relationship with God and right standing.
I found out why later as the two main “sin defenders” who claimed to be Christians walked away holding hands. They then gave each other a passionate kiss on the lips.
The temperature continued to drop on this already “cold for Florida ” day.
Sister Elizabeth and I left the campus around 5:15 PM . We had a good discussion with one student who walked most of the way to our vehicle.
Wednesday March 4, 2009-University of Florida-Gainesville , Florida : It seemed today was going to be a big day. One young man who had filmed me preaching at University of North Florida last November (2008) was driving down from North Carolina to film again. In addition to this, the group who had filmed me preaching at the University of Central Florida a few weeks ago was driving down from Florida State University to film more preaching..
Sister Elizabeth and I drove to campus with the young man. It was great weather for preaching today. I began preaching around 1:30 PM.
There was a male and female student playing cellos promoting their upcoming symphony near the free speech area. I tried to move far enough away from them to not interfere.
I was gathering a few listeners when the Vanilla Ice/Rick Astley dancer from a few weeks ago showed up again and began following me all around dancing. A crowd of around 200-220 formed but as soon as the dancer departed most of the crowd did also.
INTOLERANT HOMOSEXUAL CELLO PLAYER
About 20-30 listeners stayed and continued asking questions and listening. Soon the cello players started playing their instruments near my small crowd and making it difficult to preach. I truthfully told them they could not get their own crowd or anyone interested in listening to them so they had to come and try to steal the crowd I had. I also made it clear to them I saw them in the area and moved far enough away from them so I would not interfere.
It turned out the male player was a homosexual and that was the reason he was so intolerant, disrespectful and tried to stop me from exercising my first amendment rights. My rebukes to them worked and not only did they leave but thereafter, I had more listeners.
The crowd continued to grow and build throughout the afternoon from this point on until it reached around 170-180. It was a great time of preaching. I had lots of opposition from territorial jealous “christianettes” who kept claiming they sinned all the time but it did not matter because Jesus covered their sins. They claimed to live unrighteous lives but it did not matter because there was none righteous (Romans 3:10 ) and we are made righteous based on what Jesus did.
JESUS DOES NOT FORGIVE UNREPENTANT SINS
I told them God’s forgiveness is conditional (Luke 13:3,5, Proverbs 28:13, 1 John 1:7, 1 John 1:9, Acts 3:19), that our sins are only covered and cleansed as we obey God (1 John 1:7, Acts 3:19), and if we are made righteous then we live righteous (1 John 2:29, 1 John 3:7).
The dancer showed up again but this time he was a big hindrance and distraction as the crowd size was already large and interactive. I rebuked him and commanded him to leave in the name of Jesus and he took off.
In spite of all the heckling and opposition it was a great time of preaching. I noticed many familiar faces in the crowd listening intently, some of which were former hecklers.
I continued preaching to the large crowd until around 4:00 PM . By now some of the opposition subsided and the crowd size began to dwindle down. I stood upon one of the planters and began to answer questions. The sin defending “christianettes” played a guitar and sang songs behind me now that the crowd had calmed down and was sincerely seeking the truth.. It made me wonder what the motives of these “christianettes” were.
I answered questions until around 4:30 PM . It seemed it was a good day of filming for both parties filming. Another young man walked almost all the way to our vehicle asking questions.
That evening I preached in a church for about 45 minutes on “The Suffering of a Christian” from 1 Peter 2:19-24.
Thursday March 5, 2009-University of Florida - Gainesville , Florida : Sister Elizabeth, the young man and myself arrived on campus just after 1:00 PM and I began preaching around 1:30 PM . It was another day of great preaching weather.
HYPOCRITE INTERFERES
Today, I began to gather a crowd fairly quickly. Soon, I had a crowd of around 30-40. It seemed the day might really take off but throughout the afternoon I preached to crowds from 30-80. It was another good day of mostly answering questions and straightforward preaching. I think the day could have been better but earlier in the meeting a hypocrite showed up with his Bible and tried to steal the crowd throughout the day.
Many times I would be preaching and making points to attentive listeners and this guy would interrupt, jump in front of me and start preaching about how we are all sinners, Paul sinned all the time, Jesus covers all our sins as long as we try to live right, etc.
HYPOCRITE COMES UP WITH GOOD POINT TO JEWISH STUDENT
He made one good point though to a Jewish student who could not understand the differences in the Jewish scriptures from Jesus first coming and His second coming. The hypocrite read from Daniel 9:24-27 about Messiah being cut off.
Later, in the afternoon the crowd size stayed about the same size but there was little foot traffic. It was obvious many of the students were leaving for their spring break.
BIBLE CONTRADICTIONS
Around 4:00 PM one young girl brought me a list of so called “Bible Contradictions” that she wanted me to explain. I have seen lists like these before and have never found any genuine contradiction although upon first glance it may seem to be a contradiction. I wanted to continue preaching but the crowd demanded I deal with the list.
I took the list and sat down while several of the biggest hecklers, skeptics, atheists, etc. followed me. I began looking at several. I could not give immediate explanations for all of them but promised I would study them and get back to them. They told me I needed to reject the Bible because I could not answer all the questions on the list.
I told them I had utmost confidence in the Bible, had seen these supposed “contradictions” before and always found a perfect explanation after more careful examination.
I debated and discussed with these students until around 5:00 PM and then left the campus.
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Post by messengermicah on Mar 25, 2009 11:34:54 GMT -5
Can you pm me your phone number and a mailing address?
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Post by messengermicah on Mar 24, 2009 13:45:43 GMT -5
No.
God commands us to go and preach.
I may not be very good at it but it is the most effective way to reach the most people in the shortest amount of time at the least expense.
You have never seen me witness one on one so how do you know I am any good at that either?
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Post by messengermicah on Mar 17, 2009 12:55:45 GMT -5
Sunday March 1, 2009: I preached for about 45 minutes in the Sunday evening service of the church of the pastor who had been sick from Job 21:34 and Isaiah 28:14-17 on “No Excuse for Sinning”.
Monday March 2, 2009-Last Wednesday, while I was preaching a student invited me to be on the University radio station.
The show airs on Thursday nights around 7:00 PM. It is a talk show and they always prerecord it so they can edit it. I was unable to show up last Thursday because I had the debate with the Baptist pastor.
The student who invited me to be on the show was able to set up the prerecording for Monday (March 2, 2009) for 12:30 PM. Sister Elizabeth and I met him around 12:15 PM and we headed to the studio.
We were introduced to the 3 other members of the show (all males). There were two other male student interns and one female (she was the radio interviewer’s girlfriend).
We began prerecording around 12:20 PM. They began the show with introductions, personal questions about my childhood, then conversion and how I got started as an open air preacher.
Then they asked me questions about the practical aspects of open air preaching. After, that they asked questions about the Bible, morality, other religions, etc. very much like the discussions we have daily on the campuses.
The hosts asked good questions, were very civil, and allowed me to express myself and answer all the questions. They did a good job asking questions. At times the discussion became intense but remained civil.
We recorded for about 1 hour and 30 minutes. I thought the show was about 30 minutes long and they were going to pull out about 30 minutes of discussion for the show. However, I learned they were recording enough to cover the next 3-4 weeks of shows. Praise the Lord!
At the end of the show they showed appreciation and genuine thankfulness for being their guest and invited me to come back next time.
Sister Elizabeth and I left the studio around 2:00 PM and headed to the free speech area. I arrived in the free speech area around 2:25 PM and began preaching. It was very cool out.
I preached and answered questions to small groups of 10-30 until 4:00 PM.
We met a young man, named George whom we had heard about from another preacher. He had come down from Ohio and had been preaching on this campus on a daily basis for several weeks. He heard me preaching and came over to introduce himself. After I finished preaching Sister Elizabeth and I went and talked to him for about 15 minutes.
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Post by messengermicah on Mar 17, 2009 12:54:47 GMT -5
When I walked into the debate the pastor boldly proclaimed to me that the debate would be all over everywhere. Now he claims the sound is not good and people are walking in front of the cameras.
Fortunately we recorded it also both audio and video but I have no clue how to post them. I am going to work on getting it to someone who can.
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Post by messengermicah on Mar 9, 2009 14:05:09 GMT -5
I do not know how far is too far and I do not want to find out. This I do know though...we can go to far. The Bible warns of this repeatedly.
It is nothing to play around with.
Romans 1:24, 26, 28-God gave them up
Hebrews 12:17-Esau could find no place of repentance though he sought it carefully even with tears.
Hebrews 3:7-8-Hardening of the heart when we resist the Spirit of God
Genesis 6:3-God's Spirit will not always strive with man.
Hebrews 10:26-31
I am not saying the first time someone backslides they are lost forever and can never be saved. It is possible though. I do not know how far is too far and I do not want to experiment and try to find out.
We are warned above we can go too far. That is enough.
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Post by messengermicah on Mar 9, 2009 13:42:48 GMT -5
Here is the response of a student I received who witnessed the debate: Micah,
Thank you for adding me to your message board!
My initial amusement at the astounding lack of reason and reasonable argument from your opponent was replaced by disheartening disappointment as I heard him continue to preach 1-10% Bible-out-of-context, and 90%+ personally-desired-viewpoints, all catering to the pop-culture's relativism and glorification of sinfulness and anti-christianity.
It was sad and difficult to see people nodding blind assent, as though to a cult leader, as he preached opinion after opinion, offering virtually no Bible and contradicting the Bible in almost every single thing that he said (except when he constantly contradicted himself). I saw him preach disjointed, emotionalism, and vagaries, often saying nothing beyond religionistic catch-phrases that are meant to elicit emotional responses. However, when examined, they do not actually state anything coherently specific in the English language. And then I saw a young woman in the audience, on the edge of her seat, with an air of sensuality (a spirit of lust), nodding awed assent at his incoherent religionism.
I furiously (as in rapidly, not angrily) made note after note regarding his statements, affronts to logic, disregard for scripture, and abuse of scripture (as his attempts to promote what can only be described as the Bible does, as "doctrines of devils"). Rather than make all these statements as though I was preaching truth just because I say so, I offer samples of my notes of reasons/reasoning. First of all, I would like to point out some of the most common logical follies used by the false-religion promoters of self, self-indulgence, false religion, and sin: 1. Along the lines of my previous statement, “preaching truth just because I say so,” stating that something is true does not make it true, otherwise those in the insane asylums are right and the rest of us are wrong;
2. Stating that something is true because I am [or any other person(s) is(are)] religious and say it is true, does not make it true, otherwise every crazy cult is right, even if they blatantly and irreconcilably conflict (stating two impossible opposites);
3. Similarly, stating that something is true with “sincerity,” conviction, and/or emotion, does not make it true, otherwise every liar or insane person who excitedly or fervently proclaims false things would then miraculously become right, even if he/she irreconcilably conflicts with others doing the same and who are also therefore “right”;
4. Stating that something is true because lots of others (albeit self-serving, self-deceiving lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God) say it is true, does not make it true, otherwise Islam is right and Christianity is wrong, because they have more followers;
5. Stating that something is true, no matter how much you want it to be true, does not make it true, otherwise everybody would have a magic genie;
6. Stating that something is true, no matter how many times you say it is true, does not make it true, otherwise, again, crazy people who constantly repeat themselves are the only ones who are right;
7. Stating that things which are impossible to be true because they are diametrically opposed or irreconcilable, are actually true but a “mystery,” is not spiritual or meaningful, just insane, presumably by definition of insane (believing to be true what is not and cannot be true); this is actually a statement that God could not figure out how to make things work right, so they don’t actually work right but He just says that they do; stating a lie is lying and this would make God a liar; this is okay with the religiously insane seeking solely for justification of their corruption and depravity.
I know that the list goes on, but I am not an expert in logic nor theology (using merely a minimum of common sense), and these already given cover the super-majority of the (ridiculous) religious arguments. The primary one is like this: “I am a 7-ft-tall green Martian. If you disagree with me, you are abusing me, oppressing me and are WRONG (because I say so).” The problem is that there are objective standards of the English definitions of seven, feet, tall, green, and Martian, and the objective truths are that I am NOT seven-feet-tall, green, nor a Martian. Therefore, when someone makes the previous statement, then there are only a few logical choices. Either he/she is lying in jest (joking), lying period, or believes it (although it CANNOT be and IS NOT true) and is therefore either deluded or insane. My point is that when someone claims to be a Christian, I ask, “On what authority?” or “By what qualifications/standards?” Is it JUST because he/she says-so and so nobody is supposed to question it, even if it means failing to protect him/her from the severest of consequences (hell)? The Bible is the source (text-wise at least) of Christianity and therefore the basis for determination of the definition of Christian. If the Bible says that you are not a Christian and you say that you are, you are either lying, deluded, or crazy. Then the next separation arises: If you are not intentionally lying, and if you sincerely desire God’s truth, then when reading the Bible (and more specifically, when confronted with someone showing the Bible to you), you come across the huge amounts of Bible conflicting with your false/deluded beliefs, you will want to (and therefore will) believe what God says, not what the devils tell you to want to believe. If your true intention, however, is for convenience and self-justification of the flesh, sin, evil (etc.), you will fight it and resist it with every fiber of your being and thoughts, as your entire being and thoughts serve all your lusts and sin and corruption and unrighteousness; there is no love of God in you at all; you hate God because you love your unrighteousness, lusts, and sin so much, and He is their enemy. So you had to choose a side; and you did!
Samples of notes I made regarding the “debate” along with their filling out (notes at the time were minimal due to time-constraint): —Re. not preaching harshly to crowds—the woman at the well: when Mike failed to take into account the difference between preaching publicly to a crowd (warning them of the ultimate and intimate (right word?) danger), versus talking one-on-one with a person, he basically ignored Micah’s differentiation of the two; instead, he tried to just state that Micah was still wrong (i.e. pleading, “Oh, come on, Micah…” Come on what, Mike?). This means he was just assuming the authority reserved for God, and then judged; he did not defer to the authority of God, as presented by scripture. I believe the Bible warns against those who would attempt to sit in God’s seat, take His authority, and try to be Him (Revelations?). If he is going to twist God’s Word, at least he could try to use the actual scripture like the “self-respecting” devil-doctrine creators of the past. I guess/presume he just avoids the Bible because he knows that it contradicts what he WANTS to believe; he really doesn’t want anyone to focus on the proof of his fallacy(s). However, he may just not know it very well, as he seemed VERY intent on relying on his own authority; he has created his own belief system out of his own unrighteous and corrupt desires, and he really doesn’t want to find any invalidation of his fallacy for himself (as opposed to intentionally trying to hide it from others). This option is probably far more likely as it is the norm in so-called “Christianity.” (This version of "Christianity" is not of Christ, not Biblical, and therefore I would not capitalize. But in actuality, still being a name, it might be capitalized (and since this is all about truth, not personal, selfish desires), so I will rather just stick to a more accurate description, like Anti-Christianity, pseudo-Christianity, or nominal-Christianity (although “nominal” just does not seem to sufficiently show the excessive depth of depravity).
—re. name-calling: Mike said, basically, “Jesus didn’t call names. Well, except… .” He just RUINED his own argument! He was trying to use Jesus as the example of how to behave, and then admitted (as he would have to, as he knew Micah would surely point out his failure to know scripture) that the example Jesus did give was the opposite of his point–that his Jesus is not the Jesus of the Bible, but rather “another Jesus” of “another gospel” which we are warned against following or listening to (I know, ending a sentence with a preposition; I’m not an English scholar either, again just having a minimal working knowledge and intention to know the truth, rather than attempting to falsely justify my personal agenda/desires, but, if you cannot prove your false points, then focus, magnify, and harp on the LEAST relevant issues!). He had just pointed out that he was wrong and knew he was wrong, but was rather just arguing to support the religion of “New Age,” “Eastern,” politically-correctness IN DIRECT CONTRADICTION TO JESUS/ GOD AND THE BIBLE! He attempted to keep changing the focus of the debate from the Bible as authority to himself and his feeling and desires and opinions as the absolute authority (specifically the “New Age,” “Eastern,” PC religion of our pop-culture). He also tried to state that God does not do good things, but that when God commits sins, it is magically not sin but rather good, just because He is God and everything He does is good by definition; the definition of good (to him), was not God's WAYS, but WHATEVER God randomly chooses to do! This makes God’s laws not absolute and His standards arbitrary (no problem for a blasphemer); therefore, according to Mike's religion, God is God because He is stronger and “might makes right.” God is not good, but the committer and author of sin. God, therefore, would be the ultimate guilty party of sin and the only one responsible and guilty. He then tried to justify these ludicrous claims by further ignoring what the Bible says on it, again stating his own opinion as authority, and calling it a “mystery.” If a religious person is going to follow Catholic doctrine and practice, by arbitrarily calling any obvious proof of their fallacy “just” a “mystery” of God and therefore not explainable, logical, real or understandable (and therefore they have to prove nothing but just assume the authority of God and sit in His throne), then they should get out of their brand of apostasy and rejoin the “mother” denomination (denomination=separation). However, this is hard to do when he/she will not accept anyone’s authority over him/her; if he/she will not accept God’s authority, he/she will surely not accept the pope’s authority over him/herself. Of course with his/her exorbitant religious pride running rampant through his/her unrighteous self, he/she wants to be the all-powerful, all-assuming dictatorial pope, making him/herself his/her own pope and therefore apostatizing from the mother apostate (or mother of apostatizing).
This was only in reference to two short notes (out of six) on one page (out of nine). I hope I can address more of them in the near future, but need to go for now.
Thank you again, Micah, for calling it straight and sticking to the narrow path instead of following the pop-culture highway (despite the deluge of resistance to truth, reason, good, God and “common” sense). Although you presumably (I hope) do not do it for our thanks, I am glad that someone is out there telling it straight instead of sugar-coating it, hiding it, lying about it, covering it up, falsely “justifying” it, making excuses for insincerity and laziness, and stroking and patting sin on the head.
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Post by messengermicah on Mar 9, 2009 13:17:58 GMT -5
Debate with Baptist Pastor at University of South Florida 2/26/09
Thursday February 26, 2009-University of South Florida-Tampa, Florida: Last year (Jan-Feb-2008) when we preached on this campus a Baptist pastor and campus group ministry leader publicly opposed our preaching of repentance and holiness by saying we cannot stop sinning and cannot live holy.
Last month the same pastor showed up again while we were preaching. He opposed while I was preaching. After preaching we sat down and discussed the Bible, doctrine, and theology. We seemed to have become friends even though we disagreed with each other. He challenged me in front of the students to an official debate. I agreed. We selected a student who professes to be an atheist to be the moderator.
This pastor is somewhat of a John MacArthurite, a seminary graduate and studies Greek.
Since, I was in the area again I remembered the pastor’s challenge. I gave him a call on Saturday (February 21, 2009) and let him know I was in town. His group normally meets on Thursday night at 7:00 PM. He wanted to debate me that night. I agreed.
He reserved a conference room seating about 80 and made up flyers with both of our pictures on them. For the previous two days (February 24-25) while I preached on the campus he handed out flyers and invited students to the debate.
He wanted to debate me on the following two topics: 1) Presentation of the Gospel and 2) How a person is saved.
The format for the debate was as follows:
1) 7:00 PM-7:15 PM-Refreshments and introductions 2) 7:15 PM-7:25 PM-How to present the gospel (5 minutes each person) 3) 7:25 PM-7:35 PM-Rebuttal (5 minutes each person) 4) 7:35 PM-7:45 PM-Questions from the other person (5 minutes each person) 5) 7:45 PM-7:55 PM-How a person is saved (5 minutes each person) 6) 7:55 PM-8:05 PM-Rebuttal (5 minutes each person) 7) 8:05 PM-8:15 PM-Questions from the other person (5 minutes each person) 8) 8:15 PM-8:30 PM-Break (Audience writes down questions and we decide which questions to answer) 9) 8:30 PM-9:00 PM- Questions from the audience (30 minutes)
There were about 80 seats in the room but by 7:15 PM there were more students than seats with students sitting on the cabinets in the back of the room and others standing outside listening in the hallway with the doors of the conference room open.
It was interesting that on this same night there was a presentation in the oval theater in this same building at the same time as the debate called “Darwin’s Legacy”. The people putting on the presentation were from the recent popular documentary “Expelled” which exposes the lies of evolution. It is possible that many students who may have come to the debate went to this presentation instead. During the first topic of the debate the pastor did not really make any clear Bible case for presenting the gospel but just seemed to focus on caricaturing me, criticizing me and comparing me to a self righteous Pharisee. He compared open air preaching to training a child. I defined preaching as being something done publicly (Mark 16:15, Matthew 10:27), and clarified what Biblical preaching was and was not (handing out tracts, inviting people to church, feeding the poor, witnessing, etc.).
I gave Biblical purposes for preaching such as manifesting God’s Word (Titus 1:3) and saving the lost (1 Corinthians 1:21).
I showed from the Bible what we were to be preaching: 1) Repentance (Luke 24:47, Matthew 3:1-2, Matthew 4:17, Mark 1:14-15, Mark 1:1-4, Acts 2:38, Acts 3:19) 2) The whole Word of God (2 Timothy 4:2, Titus 1:3) 3) The Gospel (Mark 1:1-4, Mark 1:14-15, Revelation 14:7) and 4) The law of God (1 Timothy 1:8-9).
I told the pastor and the audience I did not come to make personal attacks but to discuss what the Bible taught.
As the debate went on the pastor became more civil and expressed genuine appreciation for me being there and our debate became more focused on what the Bible taught and less on caricaturing me as a self righteous Pharisee.
After the debate was over we had a very good time of questions and answers from the audience and the whole debate seemed to be profitable and effective in getting the Word of God to the students. Many of the students were hecklers, inquirers, and seekers, who did not profess to be Christians.
As soon as the debate was over a young man came up to shake my hand, thank me and told me he had been greatly challenged. Others came up to ask sincere questions and I had several very good conversations.
Many in the audience who I recognized as hecklers and those who had opposed me in the past shook my hand and told me I had done an excellent job.
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Post by messengermicah on Mar 7, 2009 17:02:37 GMT -5
SLOW DAY AT CENTRAL FLORIDA
Monday February 23, 2009-University of Central Florida-Orlando, Florida: Sister Elizabeth and I drove out to the University of Central Florida and I began preaching in the free speech area around 12:25 PM. I preached for some time and no one stopped.
I continued preaching and a few students came to talk to me and ask me questions. I talked to them and answered their questions for some time and after a while they left. By now it was around 1:30 PM.
I took a short break and then tried preaching again. Still no one stopped. Around 2:00 PM I went into the library and almost decided to call it a day. I decided to give it another try. I went to the vehicle and got the sandwich board sign and continued preaching around 2:30 PM.
FINALLY!
As soon as I started preaching a few students stopped and started asking questions, heckling, and making comments. Soon a small crowd of 20-35 built up. I preached to this crowd for the next few hours. Around 4:30 PM the crowd dwindled down to around 10-15. By now they were closed in around me and I was no longer preaching but just answering questions and talking to them. It was a good time of questions and answers. I concluded the meeting around 5:15 PM.
Tuesday February 24, 2009-University of South Florida-Tampa, Florida: The previous Saturday (February 21, 2009) I had a free oil change in the Tampa area. Instead of traveling after getting the oil change in the afternoon I decided just to stay and spend the night in the Tampa area and go to our church on Sunday.
DEBATING A BAPTIST PASTOR/CAMPUS LEADER
On Saturday, I remembered the last time I preached at the University of South Florida there was a pastor and campus ministry leader from a Baptist organization who had opposed my preaching in the past had challenged me to a formal debate on campus. I gave this pastor a call on Saturday and we set up the debate for Thursday evening (February 26, 2009) at 7:00 PM. That is the night they normally have their campus ministry meeting.
The pastor made up flyers with both of our pictures on them and was going to be handing them out on campus while I was preaching during the week.
Sister Elizabeth and I arrived on campus around 11:40 AM and I began preaching around 11:50 AM wearing my sandwich board sign. Throughout the afternoon I preached to crowds ranging from 30-175.
At one point in the day when the crowd size was smaller a student who had threatened me with violence and gotten in my face in previous visits. He had also threatened a black brother and preacher friend screamed profanity at him and called him racial slurs and to go climb the tree located above the free speech zone. This angry student made comments that I was overweight.
“FAT”, OLD PREACHER MORE FIT THAN STUDENT
I admit, I could be thinner but at this point I don’t think I am overweight. I challenged him to a contest of pushups. He barely did about 34 and I dropped down and breezed through 40 and then stopped. I heard no more comments about my weight after this and the crowd was much more attentive and respectful.
Towards the end of the day as the crowd size was getting smaller several black students stopped to listen. They all claimed to be Christians. A male student with the group sounded very effeminate.
“CHRISTIAN” GIRL BOASTS ABOUT MEN LUSTING AFTER HER
One of the female students with the group with skin tight pants jumped in my face and began following me around and trying to talk over me as I preached while claiming to be a Christian “sinner”. I told her she was not a Christian, because of her immodest clothing which revealed lust in her heart. No Christian would want to tempt someone to sin and immodest clothing tempts people to sin.
She began to boast to the crowd about how she loves her tight pants and men looking at her. I rebuked her sharply (Titus 1:13) and continued preaching. The effeminate male jumped on top of a table and began singing (lisping) “Behold the Lamb of God”.
PRAYERS GOD IGNORES
Around 3:00 PM, this group along with some of the other students gathered in a prayer circle and began singing and praying. By this time a few students came in close and began asking me questions. I continued to talk to them and answer their questions for another 30 minutes while the hypocrites prayed prayers God ignored (Proverbs 15:8, 28:9, Psalm 66:18, John 9:31, 1 Peter 3:12, 1 John 3:22).
As we were leaving, a black male student not with the group came up to me and said I had given him something to think abut. He was raised a Seventh Day Adventist and has some Bible knowledge, asks good questions, listens well and is polite.
CHANGE OF HEART?
On the way out the tight pants wearing girl tried to hand me the phone with her mother on the other line only now she was well behaved and addressing me as “Sir”. I noticed she behaves differently with her mother listening. I did not speak to her mother but Sister Elizabeth did.
Sister Elizabeth and I talked to this girl for another 20 minutes or so before we left. She actually seemed like a pretty nice girl and was pretty open to everything we told her. She agreed to read the scriptures we gave her from Bible passages on modesty and a Bible tract. Praise the Lord!
The pastor I was scheduled to debate had been around all that day handing out flyers and inviting people to the debate.
Wednesday February 25, 2009-University of South Florida-Tampa, Florida: Sister Elizabeth and I arrived on campus around noon and I began preaching wearing the sandwich board sign around 12:15 PM. The pastor was on hand again handing out flyers and inviting people to Thursday night’s debate.
This pastor is somewhat of a John MacArthurite, seminary graduate, and studies Greek.
TOLERANT LIBERAL THINKS MUSLIMS CAN’T THINK FOR THEMSELVES
I preached to crowds of 20-125 throughout the afternoon. At one point about 15 muslim students came around and asked questions. They were pretty civil but it is hard to defend something as ridiculous as islam. They decided to leave fairly quickly when their false religion and its contradictions began to be exposed and a bossy female staff or student said something to them. Of course this liberal, “tolerant”, “accepting” female does not think these muslim students are capable of thinking for themselves.
I stopped preaching around 3:00 PM and a group of about 10-15 students was hanging around asking questions and trying to justify homosexuality and other things God opposes. The pastor came around to listen and then started trying to tell me how to answer.
I decided to let him deal with some of the issues and answer some questions from the students. He rarely directly addresses, nor confronts and exposes what is in the hearts of these students.
OUT OF TOUCH PASTOR SHOCKED BY WICKEDNESS OF STUDENTS
He did ok from what I heard but he was shocked when he asked the students if they thought the world was getting better or worse. The students very frankly and with one accord answered back “It is getting better” as if everyone knows that. He gave me a look of shock. The reason this shocked him is because he is out of touch with what is in the student’s hearts. He is out of touch with what is in their hearts is because he does not address these issues head on in a way that exposes what is in the hearts of the students.
We left the campus around 3:45 PM.
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Post by messengermicah on Mar 7, 2009 15:57:47 GMT -5
Once dead in sins, then saved, and then dead in sins again.
Lost forever.
That is what I believe.
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Post by messengermicah on Mar 7, 2009 15:56:18 GMT -5
Oh now Tony is concerned about scandals all of a sudden after turning a deaf ear and a blind eye to his man BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!!!!!!!!!
Another OBAMATRON UNDER OBAMANOSIS!
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Post by messengermicah on Mar 5, 2009 10:32:42 GMT -5
Kerrigan,
Amen! My experience also!
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Post by messengermicah on Mar 5, 2009 0:39:53 GMT -5
Calvinists filter the Bible through what their favorite writers say (MacArthur, Piper, Sproul, Spurgeon).
You give them all kinds of Bible and they tell you what these guys said.
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Post by messengermicah on Mar 5, 2009 0:09:31 GMT -5
Amen and well said.
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Post by messengermicah on Feb 27, 2009 17:20:13 GMT -5
Saturday February 14, 2009: I had been invited to be a groomsman in a wedding at our church some time ago. This is part of the reason we had left the South Georgia area last week and began heading down into the central Florida area.
A TASTE OF PASTORING
As we were preparing to begin heading down into Florida we learned a pastor friend of ours had become very sick and been hospitalized. We were asked to preach in the church services on Sunday morning and evening, Tuesday, and Thursday.
We attended and participated in the wedding and headed back to the church we where scheduled to preach at.
Sunday February 15, 2009: We attended Sunday services. On Sunday morning there was no preaching and on Sunday evening I preached for about one hour on “Principles of Fruit Bearing” from John 4:35-38.
Monday February 16, 2009-University of Central Florida-Orlando, Florida: Sister Elizabeth and I arrived on campus around noon. There had been preachers preaching on this campus the previous week so I expected it might be more difficult to get the attention of the students.
PUSHED INTO A CORNER
The free speech area was also almost completely taken up with tables, wooden signs, and representatives campaigning for the Student Government Association (SGA) elections.
I began preaching in the corner of the free speech area around 12:20 PM. I preached for about 10 minutes and no one stopped. Soon a student came up and began to ask me questions. I answered his questions and dealt with him concerning his condition before God. The student consistently contradicted himself, could not defend his justification of living against sin and soon left.
I continued preaching and around 12:45 PM, one student hanging around the SGA election campaigners behind me began opposing my preaching. He claimed to be a Christian, yet claimed to be sinning every day.
I began to refute his unbiblical ideas with scripture and soon a few more students began to listen and stop. As others began to ask questions and listen the group gradually grew to around 25-35.
I continued preaching to this small group of listeners until around 2:40 PM. By this time the group had dwindled down to around 10-15.
From 2:40 PM to around 3:15 PM, I continued answering questions and talking to the handful of students who remained. Sister Elizabeth had a small group of students gathered around her most of the day also. She was able to give away a Bible.
Tuesday February 17, 2009: We did not go to the campus today. I have preached many times at this church so I needed to stay home today and prepare for the service.
That evening I preached for about 50 minutes from Matthew 9:36-38 on “Praying for Laborers”.
Wednesday February 18, 2009-University of Central Florida-Orlando, Florida: Sister Elizabeth and I arrived on campus around noon. I began preaching in the free speech area around 12:20 PM wearing my sandwich board sign. The free speech area was again crowded with the SGA candidate promotions and campaigners.
THANK GOD FOR THE LEADING OF THE HOLY GHOST
I preached with virtually no response until around 12:45 PM and then sensed the Spirit of the Lord was leading me to try preaching on the other side of the free speech area. I noticed along the sidewalk facing the large fountain across from the library there were no SGA activities set up. I felt the SGA activities & stop human trafficking display were a hindrance to the preaching but I believed they had the right to be there and did not want to interfere with them.
I walked across the free speech spot and continued preaching wearing my sandwich board sign facing the fountain across from the library. Soon a few students began to stop and ask questions along with some of the students campaigning for SGA.
Although, I honestly did not try to interfere with the SGA campaigns, I thought they actually benefited from me being there as it helped them get more students to vote. At the end of the day, they told me they liked me being there. Some of them asked a good many questions, listened well, and proved to be civil.
The crowd grew fairly quickly to around 50-60 and it was a very good day of preaching, teaching and answering questions.
By 3:15 PM to 3:30 PM the crowd had decreased to around 20-30. By now most of the remaining students had moved in closer to me, so I was not actually preaching to them anymore but just teaching and answering questions until around 4:00 PM.
ANOTHER STUDENT CONVERTED?
One very interesting incident took place during the preaching today. Around 2:30-3:00 PM some of the students were trying to discredit the effectiveness of the preaching by saying in all the time I had been coming there to preach no one had been converted. They asked me if anyone had ever been converted as a result of my preaching at this school. I began to tell them of the one student I knew was converted there who had heard me preaching, got so convicted, went to his room, began reading the Bible, and cried out to be saved. He then finished his semester at UCF and enrolled in a Bible college to begin preparing for the ministry. That is fruits of repentance and fruit that remains (Matthew 3:8, John 15:16).
I first heard about this student’s conversion by another student who introduced himself to me when I was preaching at the University of Florida in December 2007. He told me it was a pleasure to meet me and that his roommate at Bible school was converted after hearing me preach at the University of Central Florida. The student who was converted sent me a testimony of his conversion.
Well, I began to relate the testimony of this student’s conversion as the students asked me if anyone had been converted through the preaching at this university.
A HECKLER TESTIFIES TO THE FRUIT OF THE PREACHING
Before I could respond, a student who has heckled and opposed me preaching on this campus all three years I have preached here interrupted and sincerely defended me by telling the crowd of a female student they knew of who was converted through the preaching and who now wears t-shirts with scriptures dealing with repentance towards God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
I have not been able to verify the conversion of this other student yet but thought it was interesting!
Thursday February 19, 2009: I was not planning on heading to the campus today as I needed to prepare for the evening service; however it ended up raining anyway.
In the evening I preached for about 45 minutes from 1 Peter 2:19-24 on “The Sufferings of a Christian”.
Friday February 20, 2009-University of Central Florida-Orlando, Florida: Yesterday a student from Florida State University who had contacted me the previous week gave me a phone call. He told me he and a group of students were going to drive down to the University of Central Florida to film me for a project they were doing. I gave him directions for how to find the free speech area.
FILM CREW SHOWS UP
It was considerably cooler today with a high around 62 degrees. Sister Elizabeth and I arrived on campus around 11:30 AM. I arrived in the free speech area around 11:45 AM. The student who had phoned me from Florida State University and his crew were already there. We introduced ourselves and they seemed very polite, professional and sincere about doing their best to be unbiased. I don’t generally expect them to be unbiased but it is a plus if they are and earn my respect.
I began preaching around 11:50 AM. I think the presence of several students filming with professional looking equipment helps arouse the curiosity of students. Soon a small group of students began to gather, listen, and ask questions.
One young man was a fierce heckler, who kept telling the crowd I was a fraud and a con man who makes a living by getting students to hit me and then sue them. I noticed some students in the crowd who have been coming out to listen to me for the past three years at this university. I asked one young man if he thought I was here to get students to hit me so I could sue them; he looked at the heckler and said very sincerely something to the effect of “No we know he is not here to do that.” This caused the fierce heckler to listen and quiet down for some time.
THE WORD GOES FORTH WITH POWER
The crowd gradually grew to around 40-60. It ended up being an excellent day of solid, straight forward preaching. The crowd for the most part was subdued and very civil. At several points it seemed Holy Ghost conviction was upon the entire crowd as a question would be asked and I answered the question with long, thorough, scriptural answers none in the crowd could refute. The Word seemed to go forth with power (Luke 4:32) and the crowd could not “resist the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spake” (Acts 6:10). No one heckled, no one said a word, no one moved. The crowd just sat and stood silent and stunned. Many who had been opposing and objecting earlier were convicted and silenced.
I asked for further questions and comments and when there were none I asked if any in the crowd were ready to forsake all sin, turn to the Lord Jesus Christ and serve Him with all the heart, soul, mind, and strength. All seemed to understand but none responded.
As the afternoon wore on the crowd gradually decreased some to 25-35. They slowly moved in close around me and I continued to answer questions and teach. I noticed several who had listened for hours through out the week never asked any questions or opposed.
By 3:00 PM the group was down to around 10-20 moved in close around me. I concluded the day of preaching, teaching, and answering questions around 3:15 PM.
Throughout the afternoon the FSU film crew interviewed students on the sidelines of the open air meeting.
A SINNER AWAKENED AND CONVICTED As usual Sister Elizabeth always had small groups of students surrounding her most of the afternoon. She told me of one male student who had been listening attentively and sincerely for hours and wanted to know of any good churches in the area we knew of. She said the young man was very convicted of his sin of living with his girlfriend and was asking questions of what he needed to do to make things right. He took a Bible and tract from her.
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Post by messengermicah on Feb 27, 2009 16:43:52 GMT -5
Thank you.
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