Oláh Gedeon 

 

I knew everyone was a sinner, and I was only hoping that I was good enough to please God. At the age of 31 I came across one of the Bible’s truth which says in Ephesians 2:8-9: “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.” and as Rome 5:12 says: ” Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned” I had to realize that I am too a sinner, and that my path of life is thus towards Hell, and that I need the forgiveness of Jesus who died on the cross for me and took upon Himself the punishment of my sins.

I asked Him for forgiveness of my sins and asked Him to be my personal Saviour through prayer, by this, accepting God’s gift, the eternal life by faith. Since this has happened, I no longer trust in myself, in my goodness, but in the grace of God, through which my eternal life is assured. There are many uncertainities in this life, but one thing I know for certain is that I have eternal life, because of the atoning death of Jesus Christ on the cross, which is why I was able to accept the grace of God.

My will is to share with people about this one and only way of out of damnation, – especially with the ones that still trust themselves or in religion as I have done for so many years -, this is what I put my whole life up for. The solution is available from God’s Word even today, while we are still alive. Jesus said: “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:6) So being a Christian does not mean being religious, nor belonging to a church or denomination, but it means to have a personal relationship with God.

Jesus also said: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:28)

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Oláhné Joli

Until I was 13, I thought that because of this and my parents, I was okay with God and good enough to deserve salvation if my life ever ended. However, during a sermon, it suddenly dawned on me that this is not how it works: God has no grandchildren, only children! I realized that I needed to have a personal relationship with God.

I never doubted God’s existence, but I only had a general idea of ​​Him. I realized that I was a sinner, even though I hadn’t robbed a bank, according to Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:17-48), we are all sinners, because the Law cannot be kept. I understood that “the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23). “Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God” (John 1:12). I knew that all this was for me, and I prayed to Jesus to forgive my sins and be my personal Savior. I didn’t understand everything yet, but I knew that I wanted this eternal life and that I couldn’t be good enough to deserve it.

I have been getting to know Jesus better and better since then by reading the Bible, which also includes the fact that as His child I know that my life path is heading towards Heaven, that He is constantly teaching and giving life, because He is Life itself. This blessed peace and tranquility has been in my heart ever since, because no circumstances can take this away from me. This is a huge treasure that nothing can compare to.

“Good news is only good news if someone hears it in time.” (Carl F. H. Henry)