John Piper’s Testimony

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🗓️ 26 August 2013

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Pastor John shares the story of his testimony. He can’t remember it, yet it is still amazing.

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0:00.0	Pastor John, this week we have received three emails asking if you would share your testimony
0:09.5	of coming to Christ and your earliest memories of being a Christian.
0:13.8	Well, God saved me out of a life of drugs and crime and sex when I was six years old.
0:24.6	Brilliant.
0:26.3	I got that from David Michael.
0:28.0	I love it.
0:30.0	At my mother's knee in a motel in Florida on vacation.
0:37.0	And I am blown away 61 years later.
0:43.1	I was six then, 61 years later.
0:47.1	Even though Tony, I cannot remember it.
0:51.2	And I think I want to encourage people here who don't remember the precise moment of
1:01.2	their conversion.
1:02.2	I want to encourage them.
1:04.2	How can I say it blows me away that God saved me when I was six if I don't remember it?
1:10.5	How can I say that?
1:11.5	Isn't that ridiculous or contradiction?
1:13.8	And I got two answers.
1:16.2	I mean, my answer is no.
1:17.8	It's not a contradiction.
1:19.4	But I got two reasons.
1:21.8	One is the Bible tells me what happened to me, not my memory and not my experience.
1:31.4	And you know what?
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