Zephaniah Part One (1 of 5)
Series: Zephaniah
Duane Bemis
Zephaniah 3:1
''Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted,?To the oppressing city!''
July 1981, Jesus became my Lord and Savior. Shortly thereafter I threw all my pornography away and began reading my Bible. All my secular music also found its way to the garbage can too. Why did I do this crazy thing and throw away all my sin? I threw everything away knowing, in my heart, these items were not beneficial to my new birth in the Spirit.
At the time I did not realize what the Lord had begun in my life.
Next crazy thing was for the first in my life I understood what I was reading in my Bible. Twice before I picked up a Bible and tried to read it but I could not understand what I was reading. One time I was enlisting in the Air Force and they were flying me from Spokane, Washington, to Lackland Air force base in Texas. I received a small pocket size Gideon Bible but I opened it to Proverbs and I could not understand it. There seemed to be a veil over my mind, my eyes, and my understanding.
My childhood was laced with Episcopal Church services on Christmas eve and then again on Easter Sunday. Right after the Christmas service we would open our gifts from Santa Clause. Right after the Easter service we went home and celebrated the Easter Bunny. For me they all seemed like fables and all had nothing to do with truth.
But once I asked Jesus to take ownership of my life I could understand what I read in the Bible. Now, I did not go to church for a couple of months later. In the beginning I began reading the Book of James. The Book of James was practical and I read it five times and I found it easy to comprehend and I started putting the principles into practice.
In the Book of James I found, ''But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. I found the need to read the Word of God and do what it said. And then I read:
If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and ...
Series: Zephaniah
Duane Bemis
Zephaniah 3:1
''Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted,?To the oppressing city!''
July 1981, Jesus became my Lord and Savior. Shortly thereafter I threw all my pornography away and began reading my Bible. All my secular music also found its way to the garbage can too. Why did I do this crazy thing and throw away all my sin? I threw everything away knowing, in my heart, these items were not beneficial to my new birth in the Spirit.
At the time I did not realize what the Lord had begun in my life.
Next crazy thing was for the first in my life I understood what I was reading in my Bible. Twice before I picked up a Bible and tried to read it but I could not understand what I was reading. One time I was enlisting in the Air Force and they were flying me from Spokane, Washington, to Lackland Air force base in Texas. I received a small pocket size Gideon Bible but I opened it to Proverbs and I could not understand it. There seemed to be a veil over my mind, my eyes, and my understanding.
My childhood was laced with Episcopal Church services on Christmas eve and then again on Easter Sunday. Right after the Christmas service we would open our gifts from Santa Clause. Right after the Easter service we went home and celebrated the Easter Bunny. For me they all seemed like fables and all had nothing to do with truth.
But once I asked Jesus to take ownership of my life I could understand what I read in the Bible. Now, I did not go to church for a couple of months later. In the beginning I began reading the Book of James. The Book of James was practical and I read it five times and I found it easy to comprehend and I started putting the principles into practice.
In the Book of James I found, ''But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. I found the need to read the Word of God and do what it said. And then I read:
If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and ...
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