My Personal Testimony in The Kingdom and Patience of Jesus Christ #discipleship #doctrinematters
Revelation 1:9
“I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.”
Major Disclaimer and Preface to this teaching
In order to truly understand the words, I'm writing here to this young Christian who presumptuously claimed I didn't understand suffering for Jesus Christ while telling me how his coworkers were mistreating him "without cause" you must understand Revelation 1:9 in the Context of the Kingdom Parables of Matthew 13. These are some essential background studies related that honestly, without comprehending these studies - the reader - viewer will either misunderstand this lesson or make false assumptions and be misled by your own carnal mind and vain imagination.
I did not want to write Blog to my audience and to respond to Sy in this manner, however I was compelled on so many levels.
I hesitated sending that to you ashamed but I kept thinking of Paul telling us in his Epistles more than once how much he suffered and how he persecuted the church and was the chiefest of sinners.
I pray this possibly help someone else.
Yes seemingly presumptuous young man telling me that I had no idea of what suffering is like he did because his coworkers didn't like him...
I immediately thought of voluntary humility and his holier than thou pious Pharisee's heart.
Major background studies:
CASE STUDY OF FRUIT INSPECTION - What about Don?
Finding Strength in Suffering: More of the AWE of Paul's Book of Hebrews
The Email:
Feb 26, 2025,
Brother Sy you write:
Quote:
Things does not seem to be as smooth as say before the pandemic.
And even during my work life. I experience non believers actually hating on me for no reason.
But then based on the fact that you seldom discuss on this. I think it is very likely that you probably never experience this.
Of course I can discuss this with people who have the same experience as me but then if you never experience those things. There is no point.
You see. Because I am an enemy of Satan, Satan feels the need to make my life very difficult.
In fact, right now, even my relatives are attacking me for no reason. I asked a simple question. And I get attack by answers that are not even related to what I asked. It's definitely a demonic attack.
But then I do not think you experience this.
Unquote.
My response:
SY:
Unquote.
My response:
SY:
I am asking these questions as rhetorical questions not expecting an answer to show you how I have suffered for my life in Christ Jesus my Lord and how my family and friends have abandoned me and HATED me without Cause.
But in the deepest sense I write this without boasting as did Paul write to the churches of his suffering to show them as a TESTIMONY and not to boast. Of utmost importance however is we MUST UNDERSTAND FAITH BY EXPERIENCE and just read about it.
I hope to show you here in my testimony that I REALLY LEARNED GRACE by applying it to my wretched life as did Paul and look at the author of the song AMAZING GRACE John Newton.
See these studies:
Come Meet my Kinsman Redeemer
My Testimony of God's Amazing Grace
Why God Engineers our circumstances to test us FAR Beyond our Limit
FINALLY, I know for sure you have many terrible experiences as well, many worse than mine. It's all relative.
OF COURSE... I also know my experiences are NOTHING compared to so many others. But I want to share how very little you know about my suffering in the patience of Jesus Christ.
QUESTIONS:
Have you ever spent months up to almost a year away from family and loved ones at sea? And when you return after a very arduous tour come home to find out your wife has been living with another man?
A wife who claimed she loved Jesus and read her bible? A wife who claimed she loved you?
Have you ever just gone into a broken suffering
life knowing that your father had warned you not to marry that woman you SWORE was a godly woman?
Have you ever then went on a downward spiral of drinking and womanizing determined not to ever trust a woman again?
Have you ever had a knife blade stuck into your eye by a savage attack in a subway in Berlin Germany on your way home from work?
Have you ever prayed out loud as you just knew the guy was going to run the blade through your eye while another thug was holding you down?
Have you ever had people shooting at you from a roof top? And pray you don't get it?
Have you ever been on a boat on the ocean off the coast of Lebanon as the officer in charge at night at 2 AM in in the morning and a high speed "threat comes at you" and you're given the order to pursue with ROE and possibly deadly force?
Have you ever prayed that your gunner on the gun mount would not take an innocent life and then at the final second find it was just some drunk teenagers on a joy ride?
Have you ever been on a nuclear submarine under the polar ice cap and been struck full speed by the enemy and think your pressure hull has been breached? Have you ever prayed like you've never prayed before?
Have you experienced the LIFE of John Newton the drunken Sailor who wrote AMAZING GRACE?
Have you LIKE I had on countless days - have you ever awoken numerous days with a terrible hangover from heavy drinking and not knowing how many women you've slept with the night before or if the last one you think is a drug addict may have sexually transmitted disease?
Have you ever run into your corpsman on a nuclear submarine and shoot you with a shot full of strong medicine with a large horse needle to prevent you from getting the clap?
Have you ever been stabbed while in a fight helping a friend who later would not stand with you when you needed help?
Have you ever been beaten up so badly that your face was unrecognizable? And then realize you were helping someone that didn't even bother calling you the next day?
Brief background:
My life which in many ways was much like John Newton the hard-drinking sailor who came to the saving grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and would later write Amazing Grace .
How many times I’ve sung that song with a full heart of unspeakable gratitude in knowing truly how God miraculously saved me from a lost life destined for hell and the eternal lake of fire, living a wretched life of drunken debauchery to bring me into a fullness and joy unspeakable in Him my risen Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I believe I was saved when I was a young child of 7 years of age. I prayed in earnest and invited Jesus Christ into my heart.
However, it wasn’t until December 3, 2001 at the age of 46, that I fully committed myself to Jesus Christ having experienced a gut wrenching personal encounter with Jesus while lying on floor from an alcohol induced illness following years of heavy drinking. That night after my doctor had told me that very day, I was literally killing myself with alcohol. I returned from the doctor’s office and drank a bottle of Jack Daniels. Afterwards, following about 3 cans of beer into a case, I became violently ill and began vomiting.
I stumbled around and fell on the floor and stayed there. I then began crying out to Jesus and told him that I always believed I belonged to him but had never really had a true experience that He was real like the Bible said and that I wanted to completely stop drinking and truly give my life to him. At that moment I knew Jesus Christ was with me. In a deeper sense was in me and I in Him. My heart felt at peace that passes all understanding. For the next 3 days I lay on the floor, watching the sun come up and set. I prayed and prayed between hours of sobbing.
On the afternoon of the third day, I got up and began emptying out my liquor cabinet. That was over 20 years ago and by God's grace, I haven’t had a drink since. My life really got more difficult since that day I began walking with the Lord, but it has been a journey of unspeakable joy as I got deeper and deeper into my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to whom be the glory forever and ever, AMEN!
Have you had members of your family leave you and abandon you? Have you had 2 family members call and send emails repeatedly telling you that you are a loser and F'd up?
Have you had your new wife who had a Bible on her nightstand and claimed to love Jesus leave you calling you a fundamentalists bible reader who takes the bible too literally and call you F'ed Up? Who tells you that your friends all talk about you and know what a loser you are?
Have You had your adult daughter tell you that you are a piece of s%$t and the lies about Jesus Christ are a joke and that you are a f^% loser?
Have you had your adult son go to Seminary after 3 highly decorated combat tours 2 in Iraq and 1 in Afghanistan and go attend a prestigious Theological Seminary (and learn the doctrine of demons) tell you that you work for the Devil and that you are a Loser and need to get in church? And then have that same son kill himself in his own church of over 300 that he pastored?
Have you had another adult son and others tell you that you're a LOSER and that you are JOKE?
Have you had a job where you were sitting and eating with 4 star Admiral where you sit in the study of a retired 4 star General the former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO and tell you stories and hang out with, where Admirals hand pick you to be their staff, where you're ranked one of one among elite engineers on a nuclear submarine and then these same people turn on you and then look at you with contempt and then over and over and over and over again they ask you this: "WHAT'S WRONG? WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU? WHY DID YOU WALK AWAY FROM THIS AND NOW LIVING LIKE A BUM? (this is after I left consulting and went to preach and teach in Vietnam and GET OUT OF CHURCH AND STUDY MY KING JAMES BIBLE).
Have you ever held a position in life where you were in a very good neighborhood making over $30,000, USD per month and then find yourself watching the bank take your home?
Have you ever been in a situation where you are in a Vietnamese hospital with mosquitoes, rats while you're bleeding all over the table where nurses eat their meals because there is nowhere to put you?
Have you ever lain in a overcrowded hospital rat infested stench mosquitoes begging someone to find a doctor to stitch you up while you look at a hole in your hand whereby you can see your knuckle bone?
Have you been told you have lymphatic tuberculosis and might die in Vietnam while your contacts in the US are asking WHY? Are you living there?
Have you ever explained that GOD brought you there and they laugh?
Have you ever heard a woman look you in the eye and swear by God that she will not stop until you are ruined? For no reason other than you called her out in her sin and moved out for consistent adultery.
Have you ever had a woman try to kill you with a hammer? The same woman who was your wife and who you found out from a coworker was sleeping with her ex boyfriend who was also a coke addict?
Have you ever had your wife write a letter to the DIRECTOR of a major command and to a 4 star Navy Admiral that you abandoned your family and never sent support and the children were starving. This is the same woman who was living with another man and the same woman you divorced and the same woman you sent thousands of dollars to take care of your children and you find these children are being poorly kept?
Have you ever experienced spending thousands of dollars defending yourself and proving in court you are providing support?
Have you ever been told by a high ranking individual that he will not provide the necessary information to help you even though he knows exactly what happened?
Have you had friends who are now multi-millionaires call you and ask why you're living where you are? Have you had these same friends KNOW that you were actually in a greater position than they were?
Have you ever had a boss tell you that he hates you and is working overtime to F'd you up and take you out and wipe you out and kick you out..... FOR NO REASON?
Have you ever had your life threatened and have heard countless times how you need to receive physical punishment and someone really needs to to kick your ass? WITHOUT CAUSE other than simply speaking the TRUTH in the KING JAMES BIBLE.
Have you ever stood in front of a vehicle that is blood spattered with the blood of over 20 of your shipmates after a TERRORIST ATTACK that you missed being in by only 20 minutes?
Have you watched where they had removed a man from that vehicle that was driving and he was the man who only 3 weeks earlier told you that you were F' up and a piece of S%$t for NO REASON?
Have you ever had a former friend of over 30 years write a letter behind your back telling terrible lies trying to slander you because you told them they were living in egregis sin and you exposed them. And then tell you that they were going to take you out.?
Have you ever been told by your young child that she HATES you with all her heart and wants you DEAD and then calls the authorities to arrest you because you took down the posters in her room that were demonic and for taking away her phone that had DEMONIC material on it?
Have you ever experienced that same child report you to her school as an old man who is a conservative bible fundamentalist who says crazy things?
Have you ever listened to your young child whom you raised with scripture read out of the KING JAMES BIBLE since she was an infant turn on you and tell you that she is SICK of listening to your stuff?
Have you ever heard your beloved young child whom you raised tell you that she is a FEMINIST and believes in the LGBTQ agendas. That she strongly believes in abortion? that all your doctrine is a lie and you're weird?
Have you ever had the police in your home asking why your child was trying to have you arrested?
Have you ever been told that you're going to be sent to your embassy and be deported because you were telling your students about Jesus?
Have you had several so called close friends leave you because they think you're too conservative and fundamental in your beliefs?
I could go on and on.... But I will stop here.
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