Short messages
"A Pusher's Change" I'm sure you don't know many Pastors that were in the drug-business. I do
not wish to glorify drugs, or myself, with telling you that story, but only one
thing is in my mind: To give glory to whom it belongs, to the wonderful
Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ!
That night I knelt down on the floor and cried like a baby (for the first time
since I was a child), and I talked to God. " If you exist, Jesus Christ, and if that
is true what I have read in the Bible, then please take my life and do
something. All I did is just wrong and evil and bad and.." In that manner I
begun, and I confessed the sins that I knew of, and asked HIS forgiveness. I
do not know all the details today, but I had a longer talk then with God. As I
look back now, the great miracle was, that HE took me at my word - and I took
HIM at HIS!
I was convicted after having pleaded guilty to a term of 3 ½ years in the
penitentary; in my case a very mild sentence! Because I had spent already
nearly three years in prison waiting for my trial, I was able to leave some
days after my trial on parol. The Bible says: "There is none righteous, no, not one,"(Romans 3.10) and
"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God:" (Romans 3.23).
That is how God sees man, everyone is a sinner, not only criminals and evil-
living people, everyone; and that includes YOU ! And I believe, that God must
punish sin, and every sinner because of his sin. "For the wages of sin is
death," (Romans 6.23a). Here the Bible speaks about the second death, the
spiritual death. Man calls that hell, the Bible also calls it eternal
damnation.I believe that the Bible is Gods word, 100%, and that it is God's
truth. So, I believe, that after the physical death, there is no more possibility
to change one's eternal destiny. 1. Admit that you are a sinner, and that only the Lord Jesus Christ can save
you. (See Romans 3.23)
2. Submit: be willing to turn away from sin and submit to God. (see Luke
13.5)
3. Believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross and shed his blood to
pay the price for your sins, and that he arose again. (See Romans 10.9)
4. Ask God to save you (See Romans 10.13) and Jesus Christ to forgive you
your sins (confess the sins you know, see 1. John 1.9)
5. Ask Jesus Christ to be the Lord (take control) of your life. (See Romans
12.1-2)
If you want to know more about salvation, please read the other"Short messages"
in this site. If you have decided to be saved by the Lord Jesus Christ, please
let us know, we would like to send you a small gift booklet! Send e-mail at:
[email protected].
or: How Jesus Christ changed my life.
by Pastor Hanspeter Künzle
He changed my life from inside out, and I suppose that without Him I would
be dead now - or almost. At the age of 15 I begun to smoke Hashish, and I
enjoyed it! I had a good, solid education in a fine family, and I do not place
the guilt about me becoming a drug user anywhere else than with me. I
wanted to have the drugs, and I knew what I was doing, and neither family
nor education nor circumstances forced me to do anything. You know, it is
very common to seek always to excuse oneself and to blame others, but I
cannot do this with a good conscience.
For about 15 years I smoked regularly (daily!) hashish and marihuana. At the
age of 18 I was occasionally dealing with hashish and a little LSD, like nearly
all of my friends. Whoever had good stuff bought enough to bring also to his
friends. Most drug users do that, and stop there. But I did otherwise, my
business grew. At the age of 27 I was already arrested four times, and two
investigations against me were closed with fines because of the
consumption of illegal drugs. But because I never made my business on the
street, only private, police could not prove that I was a dealer.
During the
years I consumed along with hasish quite a lot of LSD and STP (synthetic
hallucinogens), Psylocibin and Mescalin (hallicunogens in mushrooms,
cactus) and sometimes a little cocain. I did not use heroin; one of the first
killed by heroin in the town of Zurich (Switzerland) was a friend of mine. I
married at the age of 26 a woman from East Asia, while on a long holiday trip.
She did not use drugs, so she kept my consumption down a little bit.
One of my best friends began to deal with cocain, and I helped him a little.
He came to live in my house, and soon I knew his clients and his suppliers.
He had to go to prison for 30 months, and in that time I took his place and
dealt with cocain. When he came out of jail, he wanted to make a lot of
money in short time, so he was soon arrested again, and along with him also
me.
I knew that the investigation could last a long time and I would have a
lot of time alone in my cell. So I took a Bible with me, which I bought some
months before. I had bought it because one of my friends told me, that it
contains a lot of secret knowledge, and I was always seeking secrets. Don't
think, that the drug people are not interested in a lot of things, they are; and
especially the supernatural is seeked. I myself practiced different
meditations techniques, including some that work together with drugs, and
I was very interested in parapsychology.
I was then for 4 ½ month in solitary confinement. During that time, some
things began to become clear. I found that I had betrayed myself for quite a
time. I had "sniffed" cocain for about two years and smoked "freebase-crack" for a little more than 8 months. I always pretended not to be addicted, but
now I found that I was! I suffered a little, had fever and could not sleep for
nearly three month. These nights without sleep, and no light to read, that
was the hardest thing! During the day I could distract my thoughts by
reading, but in the night... I realized for the first time the truth about my life -
and that my life was a disaster. The realization of this was hard! In that time
I read a lot in the Bible, and I begun to think about God.
One night then, after about 2 ½ months in prison, I knew: Now is the time to
decide! I figured out two possibilities. Either I go on as before, try to hide as
much as possible and to be out of prison as soon as possible and live on
with drugs, the same as until now; or everything had to change. I knew
definitely that I would never succeedd in changing my own life. I had tought
a lot about what I had read in the New Testament about Jesus Christ and that
He died for the sins of the world and that He was ready to forgive and that in
Him everything could be made new and...
During my time in prison, I began to study the Bible seriously. I began a
correspondence study in English, and all my studies ended 1996 with my
Master degree in Religious education.
When I came out of prison, I immediately began to work in my Church as
much as I could. I was baptized in prison and also became a member of that
Church. in 1988 I was ordained as lay preacher in that Church, and I
preached spordically at first, then more and more. in 1989 the little
missionary Church in the principality of Liechtenstein asked me to become
their Pastor, when the missionary that founded it left. After much prayer I
agreed, and my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ has carried me through until
today.
I can testify from the bottom of my my heart, that without God the Son, the
Lord Jesus Christ, I would be dead - or in prison - or somwhere in the "mud of
the streets" today. It is HE, and HE only, that changed my life. Without HIM, I
would not be free from drugs and smoking; and never would I have been
able to study the Bible, alongside my normal work schedule. It is only a little
more than a year that I work fulltime for the Church. Until recently I had a
part-time job in a factory to make a living.
I believe, that everybody needs Jesus Christ as his personal Saviour, not
only drug users, criminals and other very bad people. I will show you in the following text, why I believe that and how you can be saved by
believing on the Lord Jesus Christ. Please read it carefully, your eternal life " is at stake"!
But you can change it now!
It is your decision, where you'll spend eternity!
Read the following verses very carefully, please. " I am the resurrection,
and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he
live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
Believest thou this?" (John 11.25-26). Do you believe, what Jesus Christ,
God the Son, says? "I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh
unto the Father, but by me." (John 14.6). The Lord Jesus Christ Himself is
the way, that you should be on, if you want to end in heaven! It is your
decision! "... for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to
destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because strait is
the gate and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there
be that find it." (Matthew 8.13-14) Do you want to find the narrow way? It is
the Lord Jesus Christ himself, "... whosoever believeth in him should not
perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3.16)
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