I realized that I needed mercy, I needed forgiveness.

And now I'm able to explain what took place and the feeling that I had inside of this sorrow, this deep regret for what I have, for the way that I had lived,

and for the way in which I was professing to know him, but just completely denying who he was through the way that I lived.

And so that moment, my life changed. That was July 20 of 2019. And I remember going back to Carolina

during the season, and I remember thinking, okay, I'm a new man. I'm different.

It was a miracle for me.

I ended up getting baptized October 16, 2019.

And that was a really important day for me to just profess publicly what happened internally and really partaken in the death of my old life and being raised to a new life in Christ.

And about a year later, I looked back at my life and I think raised to a new life in Christ. And about a year later, I

look back at my life and I think, wow, my life has changed. What happened? In the past, I tried to

clean up my life, but there were certain areas that I couldn't get a grip on. But the music that I

listened to changed, the way that I looked at, women changed. My affections, my desires, my

motives, everything changed. What happened? You changed. It dawned on me that I had become born again.

That God took my stony heart. He reached into my heart with his invisible hands and he took out that

stony heart and he gave me a heart of flesh. He gave me a heart that no longer loved my sin, but he gave me a heart that loved righteousness.

He gave me a heart that wanted to please him and honor him and obey him.

And I just had this unsatiable desire to want to grow in my relationship with him and to know him and to know his word and to begin to share my faith,

begin to tell people about Jesus. And I didn't really know how to do that, but I just said,

I need to do this.

Do you guys hear that? What?

This sounds glorious.

It does.

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