His family escaped from Iran when he was 9

The Matthew West Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

What does it truly cost to follow Jesus? Evangelist David Nasser joins me for one of the most powerful testimonies ever shared in the Story House. David tells his incredible story of growing up in an Iranian Muslim family, escaping the revolution, and the moment his life changed forever. Let go to the Story House!

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0:00.0	The most devout I ever saw my father as a Muslim was the night I became a Christian.
0:05.3	He instantly was like, you can't be a Christian with Muslims. And I'm like, we are?
0:09.9	We escaped from Iran when I was nine. Wow. When the Aitullah Khomeini and his religious
0:14.9	delets kind of took over our country. And I had a pretty bad taste in my mouth of religion.
0:19.5	I certainly saw people who were unashamed of their religion
0:22.9	kind of destroy our country.
0:24.5	My buddy walks up to the door to make sure I'm going to ask by dad.
0:27.3	He wants to know if tomorrow I can go with him to a Christian church.
0:31.8	He goes, what is the name of it?
0:33.5	Two weeks, bro.
0:34.9	These Christians had shown up at my dad's restaurant
0:37.0	and had served them for free.
0:38.7	Wow.
0:39.3	And instead of saying no, he had seen believers who are believable.
0:43.0	He had seen Christians who were unashamed.
0:44.8	And if you had told me that night, a couple of years later, my whole family would have come to know the Lord, I'd have been like, there's no way.
0:50.2	But God was bigger than my wildest dreams.
0:52.1	Father Matthews my best man,. I'm the Matthew S. Podcast.
0:56.6	He really hope you like it.
0:59.3	I really hope you like it.
1:01.9	What's up, guys?
1:04.0	Welcome to the Matthew West podcast.
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