Testimony of His Grace - Andy Csillag, June 26, 2005

I was baptized as an infant, went to church and Sunday school, participated in choir, youth group, and was confirmed.  I went on a Vida Nueva weekend in my senior year in high school, and I had read a goodish chunk of the Bible.  By all accounts, I was a Christian, but I wasn't and I didn't get it.

Good morning! Jeremiah 17:9 & 10 says "The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; who can understand it? I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the results of his deeds." I'm here to tell you a story about my heart, what it means to be truly saved, and how the Lord, in His kindness, put it all together for me on June 9th, 2007.
First, Salvation. What does it mean? According to Jesus, salvation is exclusively completed through Himself and only Himself. He makes that very clear throughout the gospels and specifically in John 14:6 when He says,"I am the way and the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me." We cannot have a legitimate relationship with God the Father without Jesus Christ interceding on our behalf. Thankfully, He allows us to recognize proof of His Lordship which is why true believers know beyond the shadow of a doubt with whom they will be spending eternity. Let me explain how the Lord brought me to that place of “beyond a shadow of a doubt.”