He changed me

He changed me

Bible:Ezekiel 18:21-32

Reading

But if a wicked person . . . does what is just and right, they will save their
life (V.27).

When John, who ran the biggest brothel in London, was found guilty of blackmail and sent to prison, he mistakenly thought, But I’m a good guy. He decided to go to the Bible study at the prison for the cake and coffee, thinking he could also “fill [his] pockets” when the leaders closed their eyes to pray. But while there, he was struck by how happy the guys seemed. He started to cry during one song, and later was given a Bible. Reading Ezekiel 18 changed him, hitting him “like a thunderbolt. I realised I wasn’t a good guy . . . I was wicked and I needed to change.” While praying with the prison chaplain, “I found Jesus Christ and He changed me.” The words John read in the Bible came from a place of pain. They were written by Ezekiel, a priest who should have been working in the temple. But he and the Israelites had been sent away by God because He was judging their sin and selfishness. Yet Ezekiel was given God’s message to His people, “Repent and live!” (EZEKIEL 18:32). God told the Israelites to stop going their own way and to “get a new heart and a new spirit” (V.31). Those words from Ezekiel helped John, although still in prison, to be set free and live a new life as a child of God (SEE JOHN 1:12-13; 8:32).

NONE OF US ARE ‘GOOD’
—THAT’S WHY WE ALL NEED JESUS SO MUCH.

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