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Lol, sorry about the link not working. The version I watched was,
The Gospel of Matthew | Full Movie
from the channel Jesus.net. It wasn't in standard movie format though. It was narrated over a background movie. Usually I don't enjoy that style but perhaps in my tired state it worked better.
The Gospel of Matthew | Full Movie
from the channel Jesus.net. It wasn't in standard movie format though. It was narrated over a background movie. Usually I don't enjoy that style but perhaps in my tired state it worked better.
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I used to hate chocolate when I was younger, so I didn't enjoy M&M's. When I first started liking chocolate, I liked peanut M&M's because they weren't too strong in chocolate flavor. Then, I started enjoying almonds and discovered almond M&M's and to this day they remain my favorite. I imagine that people who like chocolate a lot probably won't enjoy them because the chocolate flavor is heavily overpowered by the almond flavor, but I enjoy the combination of light chocolate flavor and heavy almond.
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There is also a word-for-Word gospel of Luke...
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It is in multiple parts...
I am not sure, though I don't think this is the same one I saw in 1988... my life had come crashing down and I was curious about Jesus, so went to a neighborhood church that was showing a movie on the life of Jesus according to the gospel of Luke. I have copied this next part from a previous post of mine, as I have spoken about this several times over my years here, being that it is part of my testimony .
I had been raised in a fairly strict Roman Catholic home, though I was not Christian at the time, and I did not know Jesus - at all. I was in a particularly hurting and broken state then, feeling like a total failure in my life and quite hopeless following, among other things, the breakdown of my marriage subsequent to multiple miscarriages, including the still birth of the child I had gotten married for. I had quit the church half my life-time before this. In fact I was quite set against organized religion, and could not be said to be partial to the Bible in any meaningful way, and yet I was curious to know Who Jesus was, even as I was running from God in rebellion and defiance. I consider myself to have been very lost at that time from my present perspective, but God knew exactly where I was.
During my short time at that church to see the movie (which was being shown in two parts over two Saturday evenings around Passover), and attend a couple of Sunday services, I experienced a Divine intervention/encounter which has become part of my personal testimony.
At some point after watching the movie, I experienced an entire body, mind, and soul experience of God's infilling, being bathed in the Light of His unconditional love and forgiveness for me, and all I had done, realizing all the ways I had messed up my life, all my failings, failures, and mistakes, was seen within His absolute knowledge and understanding of how and why I had become the person I was, illuminated in the Light of His unconditional love and total forgiveness. I felt the fullness, strength, and depth of His love so profoundly, I wept uncontrollably, because I also felt so broken and lost and beyond redemption... and most of all, I felt unworthy.
Though I cherished in my heart the experience of knowing I was loved and forgiven by God (which probably went a long way to saving my life at the time), I did not believe in "that" God, and went on my way from that life-saving experience thinking it was too bad it happened in a church. I had begun a spiritual seeking phase, and carried on in that for another fifteen years, until God once again revealed Himself to me and clearly called me out of what I was doing with another profound and earth-shattering divine intervention, which completely turned my world upside down. Still, even after that clear calling out, my stiff-necked stubbornness was so set against religion, the Bible, and Him, that it took another year following the calling out for me to lay down my opposition and fully surrender my life to Him.
Auto is 720 but 1080 is also available .
It is in multiple parts...
I am not sure, though I don't think this is the same one I saw in 1988... my life had come crashing down and I was curious about Jesus, so went to a neighborhood church that was showing a movie on the life of Jesus according to the gospel of Luke. I have copied this next part from a previous post of mine, as I have spoken about this several times over my years here, being that it is part of my testimony .
I had been raised in a fairly strict Roman Catholic home, though I was not Christian at the time, and I did not know Jesus - at all. I was in a particularly hurting and broken state then, feeling like a total failure in my life and quite hopeless following, among other things, the breakdown of my marriage subsequent to multiple miscarriages, including the still birth of the child I had gotten married for. I had quit the church half my life-time before this. In fact I was quite set against organized religion, and could not be said to be partial to the Bible in any meaningful way, and yet I was curious to know Who Jesus was, even as I was running from God in rebellion and defiance. I consider myself to have been very lost at that time from my present perspective, but God knew exactly where I was.
During my short time at that church to see the movie (which was being shown in two parts over two Saturday evenings around Passover), and attend a couple of Sunday services, I experienced a Divine intervention/encounter which has become part of my personal testimony.
At some point after watching the movie, I experienced an entire body, mind, and soul experience of God's infilling, being bathed in the Light of His unconditional love and forgiveness for me, and all I had done, realizing all the ways I had messed up my life, all my failings, failures, and mistakes, was seen within His absolute knowledge and understanding of how and why I had become the person I was, illuminated in the Light of His unconditional love and total forgiveness. I felt the fullness, strength, and depth of His love so profoundly, I wept uncontrollably, because I also felt so broken and lost and beyond redemption... and most of all, I felt unworthy.
Though I cherished in my heart the experience of knowing I was loved and forgiven by God (which probably went a long way to saving my life at the time), I did not believe in "that" God, and went on my way from that life-saving experience thinking it was too bad it happened in a church. I had begun a spiritual seeking phase, and carried on in that for another fifteen years, until God once again revealed Himself to me and clearly called me out of what I was doing with another profound and earth-shattering divine intervention, which completely turned my world upside down. Still, even after that clear calling out, my stiff-necked stubbornness was so set against religion, the Bible, and Him, that it took another year following the calling out for me to lay down my opposition and fully surrender my life to Him.
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There is also a word-for-Word gospel of Luke...
Auto is 720 but 1080 is also available .
It is in multiple parts...
I am not sure, though I don't think this is the same one I saw in 1988... my life had come crashing down and I was curious about Jesus, so went to a neighborhood church that was showing a movie on the life of Jesus according to the gospel of Luke. I have copied this next part from a previous post of mine, as I have spoken about this several times over my years here, being that it is part of my testimony .
I had been raised in a fairly strict Roman Catholic home, though I was not Christian at the time, and I did not know Jesus - at all. I was in a particularly hurting and broken state then, feeling like a total failure in my life and quite hopeless following, among other things, the breakdown of my marriage subsequent to multiple miscarriages, including the still birth of the child I had gotten married for. I had quit the church half my life-time before this. In fact I was quite set against organized religion, and could not be said to be partial to the Bible in any meaningful way, and yet I was curious to know Who Jesus was, even as I was running from God in rebellion and defiance. I consider myself to have been very lost at that time from my present perspective, but God knew exactly where I was.
During my short time at that church to see the movie (which was being shown in two parts over two Saturday evenings around Passover), and attend a couple of Sunday services, I experienced a Divine intervention/encounter which has become part of my personal testimony.
At some point after watching the movie, I experienced an entire body, mind, and soul experience of God's infilling, being bathed in the Light of His unconditional love and forgiveness for me, and all I had done, realizing all the ways I had messed up my life, all my failings, failures, and mistakes, was seen within His absolute knowledge and understanding of how and why I had become the person I was, illuminated in the Light of His unconditional love and total forgiveness. I felt the fullness, strength, and depth of His love so profoundly, I wept uncontrollably, because I also felt so broken and lost and beyond redemption... and most of all, I felt unworthy.
Though I cherished in my heart the experience of knowing I was loved and forgiven by God (which probably went a long way to saving my life at the time), I did not believe in "that" God, and went on my way from that life-saving experience thinking it was too bad it happened in a church. I had begun a spiritual seeking phase, and carried on in that for another fifteen years, until God once again revealed Himself to me and clearly called me out of what I was doing with another profound and earth-shattering divine intervention, which completely turned my world upside down. Still, even after that clear calling out, my stiff-necked stubbornness was so set against religion, the Bible, and Him, that it took another year following the calling out for me to lay down my opposition and fully surrender my life to Him.
Auto is 720 but 1080 is also available .
It is in multiple parts...
I am not sure, though I don't think this is the same one I saw in 1988... my life had come crashing down and I was curious about Jesus, so went to a neighborhood church that was showing a movie on the life of Jesus according to the gospel of Luke. I have copied this next part from a previous post of mine, as I have spoken about this several times over my years here, being that it is part of my testimony .
I had been raised in a fairly strict Roman Catholic home, though I was not Christian at the time, and I did not know Jesus - at all. I was in a particularly hurting and broken state then, feeling like a total failure in my life and quite hopeless following, among other things, the breakdown of my marriage subsequent to multiple miscarriages, including the still birth of the child I had gotten married for. I had quit the church half my life-time before this. In fact I was quite set against organized religion, and could not be said to be partial to the Bible in any meaningful way, and yet I was curious to know Who Jesus was, even as I was running from God in rebellion and defiance. I consider myself to have been very lost at that time from my present perspective, but God knew exactly where I was.
During my short time at that church to see the movie (which was being shown in two parts over two Saturday evenings around Passover), and attend a couple of Sunday services, I experienced a Divine intervention/encounter which has become part of my personal testimony.
At some point after watching the movie, I experienced an entire body, mind, and soul experience of God's infilling, being bathed in the Light of His unconditional love and forgiveness for me, and all I had done, realizing all the ways I had messed up my life, all my failings, failures, and mistakes, was seen within His absolute knowledge and understanding of how and why I had become the person I was, illuminated in the Light of His unconditional love and total forgiveness. I felt the fullness, strength, and depth of His love so profoundly, I wept uncontrollably, because I also felt so broken and lost and beyond redemption... and most of all, I felt unworthy.
Though I cherished in my heart the experience of knowing I was loved and forgiven by God (which probably went a long way to saving my life at the time), I did not believe in "that" God, and went on my way from that life-saving experience thinking it was too bad it happened in a church. I had begun a spiritual seeking phase, and carried on in that for another fifteen years, until God once again revealed Himself to me and clearly called me out of what I was doing with another profound and earth-shattering divine intervention, which completely turned my world upside down. Still, even after that clear calling out, my stiff-necked stubbornness was so set against religion, the Bible, and Him, that it took another year following the calling out for me to lay down my opposition and fully surrender my life to Him.
I actually did a search on youtube for the 4 gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and they seem to all be there. I loaded up another one before I went to sleep this morning but have left it on pause and haven't got to it yet since I found some interesting videos with an astrophysicist named Hugh Ross who gives scientific examples showing how science proves God. It seemed like something my cousin would be into so I sent him some links and kind of got hooked on his stuff and haven't got around to starting up the others gospels yet. Thanks you for your testimony. I've always found it interesting how so many different events can lead people towards God. Over the years I've heard of how both good and bad things can become a catalyst for people to either finally acknowledge Him or to finally discover Him.
I guess I can share some of my testimony as well of How I got saved, granted, it wasn't until recently that I feel like I truly accepted salvation. I got saved I believe when I was 15 or 16 ( I have horrible memory so I'm not 100% if that's accurate) right before I could go through with a suicide attempt. The furthest back I can remember being depressed was actually when i was around 8 years old and I unfortunately never grew out of my depression. I did not have a great childhood due to always being verbally and sometimes physically abused by my father. I was also always pushed to do my best in everything but whenever I messed up while trying my dad would be highly disappointed in me or just yell at me for not trying harder. Then over the years I was called dumb so much that I just stopped ever trying to do things and grew a defeatist mindset. There's no point in trying to do this or that when I won't succeed so I'll just do nothing instead, was how I decided to live my life. Even in my preteen years I always assumed one day i would be homeless since my family was nearly homeless more times than I can remember. Then Finally I decided there's no point in living since I never enjoyed my life anyways and decided to end it. But as I was just about to do it (won't state how because I figure there's no need for details that could give someone dark ideas), out of nowhere I heard disturbing and loud shrieks, as well as people screaming my name while sounding in a lot of pain. While that was going on my entire field of vision turned from my room into a border of absolute darkness filled in the middle with fire. I instantly could only assume I was either seeing a vision of hell or was just imagining it in an attempt to stop myself from continuing on. But instead of just not going through with it, I decided to pray as well because if that was a vision rather than my imagination, I didn't want to end up there. That may be the first time I truly hoped for change, but unfortunately I quickly went back to how I was because I honestly didn't know how else to be. I read the bible but couldn't really understand much other than how to be saved, yet my mentality made me assume I would mess up like I always did so throughout the years I kept vaguely trying to change my mindset and lifestyle but kept falling back into it. But for the first time in my life, just those couple of days ago, I finally feel like something has truly change in my way of thinking and in my spirit. I finally realized that I will always fail because I am only doing everything by myself and never trusted in God to do things along side me.
I can't quite put into words everything and I'm sure what I've already written has been a jumbled mess that barely makes sense, so I guess I will leave it here. All I can say for now is that I finally trust God to change what he will change in me as I solely focus on him and try not to focus on myself. Because myself has never been close to correct. Also, thanks again for the link, i now have that one lined to watch once I finish my current videos and then finish the gospel of Mark.
I guess I can share some of my testimony as well of How I got saved, granted, it wasn't until recently that I feel like I truly accepted salvation. I got saved I believe when I was 15 or 16 ( I have horrible memory so I'm not 100% if that's accurate) right before I could go through with a suicide attempt. The furthest back I can remember being depressed was actually when i was around 8 years old and I unfortunately never grew out of my depression. I did not have a great childhood due to always being verbally and sometimes physically abused by my father. I was also always pushed to do my best in everything but whenever I messed up while trying my dad would be highly disappointed in me or just yell at me for not trying harder. Then over the years I was called dumb so much that I just stopped ever trying to do things and grew a defeatist mindset. There's no point in trying to do this or that when I won't succeed so I'll just do nothing instead, was how I decided to live my life. Even in my preteen years I always assumed one day i would be homeless since my family was nearly homeless more times than I can remember. Then Finally I decided there's no point in living since I never enjoyed my life anyways and decided to end it. But as I was just about to do it (won't state how because I figure there's no need for details that could give someone dark ideas), out of nowhere I heard disturbing and loud shrieks, as well as people screaming my name while sounding in a lot of pain. While that was going on my entire field of vision turned from my room into a border of absolute darkness filled in the middle with fire. I instantly could only assume I was either seeing a vision of hell or was just imagining it in an attempt to stop myself from continuing on. But instead of just not going through with it, I decided to pray as well because if that was a vision rather than my imagination, I didn't want to end up there. That may be the first time I truly hoped for change, but unfortunately I quickly went back to how I was because I honestly didn't know how else to be. I read the bible but couldn't really understand much other than how to be saved, yet my mentality made me assume I would mess up like I always did so throughout the years I kept vaguely trying to change my mindset and lifestyle but kept falling back into it. But for the first time in my life, just those couple of days ago, I finally feel like something has truly change in my way of thinking and in my spirit. I finally realized that I will always fail because I am only doing everything by myself and never trusted in God to do things along side me.
I can't quite put into words everything and I'm sure what I've already written has been a jumbled mess that barely makes sense, so I guess I will leave it here. All I can say for now is that I finally trust God to change what he will change in me as I solely focus on him and try not to focus on myself. Because myself has never been close to correct. Also, thanks again for the link, i now have that one lined to watch once I finish my current videos and then finish the gospel of Mark.
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By the time I was 39, I had been drinking and drugging for 24 years, and been in multiple failed relationships
which left me in a very hurting place that I could not seem to break the cycle of. I had been attending Alcoholics
Anonymous (but not stopped substance abuse) and also Emotions Anonymous looking for help, and had many
counselors and therapists, most of whom I no doubt hid my alcohol and drug abuse from, but at some point,
while following one of the suggestions to write down how I was feeling, I was simply so sick and tired of feeling
sick and tired, and just wanted the pain to stop... it was like a cry welled up from the depth of my being, please,
God, help me. Literally within days I was directed to Narcotics Anonymous and miraculously, after 24 years, lost
the desire to use, and entered into a recovery phase where I more diligently worked the steps and followed the
suggestions of those who had come before me, seeking to improve my conscious contact with God through prayer
and mediation even though I did not yet believe in that God, the same One Who had revealed Himself to me @ 33.
I relapsed after eight years, still a non-believer, and then was eight years in and out, getting many months and
sometimes years of sobriety and clean time anew before picking up my drug of choice yet again... during which
I had another profound encounter with God, and this one turned my whole world upside down, partly because
I was very stubborn and all along had been sort of secretly hoping that there was something else besides that
God. How silly we can be LOL. The 12step program has God front and center for a very good reason.
Praise the Lord
which left me in a very hurting place that I could not seem to break the cycle of. I had been attending Alcoholics
Anonymous (but not stopped substance abuse) and also Emotions Anonymous looking for help, and had many
counselors and therapists, most of whom I no doubt hid my alcohol and drug abuse from, but at some point,
while following one of the suggestions to write down how I was feeling, I was simply so sick and tired of feeling
sick and tired, and just wanted the pain to stop... it was like a cry welled up from the depth of my being, please,
God, help me. Literally within days I was directed to Narcotics Anonymous and miraculously, after 24 years, lost
the desire to use, and entered into a recovery phase where I more diligently worked the steps and followed the
suggestions of those who had come before me, seeking to improve my conscious contact with God through prayer
and mediation even though I did not yet believe in that God, the same One Who had revealed Himself to me @ 33.
I relapsed after eight years, still a non-believer, and then was eight years in and out, getting many months and
sometimes years of sobriety and clean time anew before picking up my drug of choice yet again... during which
I had another profound encounter with God, and this one turned my whole world upside down, partly because
I was very stubborn and all along had been sort of secretly hoping that there was something else besides that
God. How silly we can be LOL. The 12step program has God front and center for a very good reason.
Praise the Lord
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You're welcome. I haven't actually thought about my story for a long. It was a bit weird to remember things clearly from my past. like I said, I was mostly coasting through my life while still in sin. I had made the decision to stop trying to think about anything important and ignore any meaningful thoughts because of how much I never liked my life. If that's the correct way to describe it, I also didn't re-read my own post or read it while writing because I'm sure with how unintelligent I've always been that it made no sense, and if I tried to fix it, it would have just turned out worse. Ever since I was a young teen I started listening to music almost the entire time I was awake to just have something to focus on instead of my own thoughts. Now that I'm actually trying my best to focus solely on God and only take in information that will bring me closer to Him or help me grow in spirit, I find it slightly jarring in how I'm supposed to act. I still catch myself trying to turn on music throughout the day but I have no music apps or songs bookmarked. As soon as I notice what I'm doing I remember, oh yeah, not part of my life anymore. Even trying to talk in these various post feels weird because I'm used to just giving short replies in verbal and typed communication while I continue to listen to or think about various songs. Everything's so strange but also very new and enjoyable.
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Do you ever listen to praise and worship music/songs? There are so many very wonderful songs that speak of our faith and lift up the Lord. My favourite genre for this is modern praise and worship. There are lots of songs like that available; you can build a new playlist! I just now unsuccessfully tried to find some threads where I have listed many of my top picks; if you would like some recommendations, I can certainly provide some. I know you said you are a bit of a loner, but I would also encourage you to try to find a church home so that you have other like-minded folks to relate to and become involved with, and this too will help build up your new perspectives and purpose.