What Led Jim-a Devout Baptist Who Opposed the Church-to Become a Latter-day Saint:
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Jim was a devout Baptist. After marrying his wife, a Latter-day Saint, and sending countless children off on their missions, Jim soon realized Heavenly Father had been patiently tapping him on the chest his whole life, waiting for Jim to find what he'd been missing and finally turn his heart to the Gospel.
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Proof that Heavenly Father won’t ever push us but wait for us to choose and ask the right questions. What a lovely man Jim is.
This man's wife is incredibly, enduringly faithful. Her entire family owes her everything. Absolutely everything they all have.
This man's experience shows that the Lord will force no one into his gospel. It happens by love, spiritual witness, and gentle persuasion.
It also shows that those who receive a testimony are those who are willing to submit to God rather than simply demand to be right. The line about “you’re no longer responsible to your earthly father but your Heavenly Father”. Very touching.
I'm a member of the Church and my husband isn't. He was raised Baptist and we struggled hard especially when our kid's were at the age of accountability and wanted to be baptized. It's been 15 year's now, and 7 kid's later. All but the 2 babies are baptized and my husband attends church with us now and has been for the last 4 year's. He isn't ready but I can see him opening up slowly. If I didn't have my own unshakable testimony of the Book of Mormon and the Church I wouldn't have made it through the darkest times of our life.
Life has many struggles, for each of us! We each have our own Gethsemane,so we can 2ach have more love and respect, for what our savior Jesus Christ has gone through for each of us! 💜👱♀️🌷I'm a Temple worker and I get to see ,the miracles of Temple work taking place each week! God know's all of us, by name, he is beyoud incredibe! I'm very happy for you that you're husband is coming around to the gospel! I know it can take time for the spirit of the Lord to open up the hearts of his children. I have a family friend that married outside the church, and it took her husband many years to come to church and be converted, but he eventually excepted the gospel, and joined the church! 💜👱♀️I have two son's serving full time mission's, one in California and one in Canada Winnipeg mission, I asked them why is it so important to serve a mission, to you? They both said they wanted other families to have Eternal families,of there own to be with forever like we have! That brought me so much Joy, knowing they had such love for other's! May the Lord continue to bless you and you're family!👱♀️👍💜🌷
Thank you so much for sharing! Beautiful stories!
Notice that the Lord didn't knock him on the head and tell him to get baptized. He asked him to look into it with a positive perspective. He gently encouraged him.
I think he fell and hit his head for rejecting the real christ for a counterfeit.
@@davidjanbaz7728 If you only knew
@@kevinkiffe i do know!
@@davidjanbaz7728 Sorry, I wasn't trying to hurt your feelings, or anything. We both know the opposite of each other. I guess it will all be settled when He comes back. Until then, we just try our best to follow Christ (according to our knowledge).
I'm crying watching this and feel the spirit testifying to me that it's true!
What is the Spirit saying to you these days
Me too
And the spirit is reminding me of the revelation God gave me of thee fallen angels that lead mormons. The first paragraph in their book proves that
I'm crying because he rejected the true Christ for a counterfeit! So ,sad !
@@davidjanbaz7728 Long before becoming LDS, I already looked at your (supposedly "true") Christianity, and I already rejected it.
What a sweet and humble man. Thank you for sharing your testimony, Jim.
Thank you for sharing your testimony. I too am a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a convert of forty-four plus years. I too, "lost" a son. He was taken from us in a car accident at the age of nineteen. But because he was born in the covenant, it helped me to cope with his departure from this mortal existence. I know that he is serving his mission beyond the veil, of that my sweetheart and I are positive because of experiences that we have been blessed to experience.
Sir, you are so blessed with 7 active temple worthy children.
I was born and raised in the church, served a mission, married in the Temple, pay a full tithe, accept all callings and magnify yet my wife and I to this day watch all three of our children choose another path.
We all have our trials.
😭 yes, I can totally relate. Two out to three in our case. Keep the faith and God keeps his promises to you. You gave them the foundation and they will know where to return when they need to.
With ya
Heavenly Father knows his children by name one by one. This is a great example Jim thank you for humble yourself to learn of his love endures
Hi Jim, when you speak, the spirit speak with you! I know that our Lord Himself will leads all righteousness to the fullness of His gospel!!! Jim, you are among the great ones, the Lord Himself tap your shoulder and leads you!!!
Thank you Jim, may God’s Choicest Blessings be upon you and yours....I have been searching myself and my amazing wifey opposes my searching....I pray to GOD above as our Lord is changing me the more I study, learn and understand about HIS restored church, that she will notice and want to know why......I cannot deny what he is placing in my heart and showing me. 🙏
That was simply beautiful! And it proved that conversion truly comes from the Lord, and our examples of love. Thank you so much Jim, for sharing your story :-)
Congratulations Jim! I’m very happy for you and thank you for sharing your sweet testimony.Families can be forever.
Oh my goodness 🥺🥲 I love this man and his testimony. Thank you so much for sharing! This touches my heart. One of my favorite lines, as he was speaking to his children about wanting to serve a mission, he said "I told them they were no longer responsible to their earthly father, but they were responsible to their heavenly father." Wow. What a beautiful soul.
What a wonderful testimony. I'm thrilled for you and your family because I can imagine how happy they have been through this process. Congrats.
Pretty darn sweet. I can’t even tell you how cool this was. Good on you brother. Father is soooo proud.
What a beautiful man deeply loved by the Lord.
I'm telling you Jim never know you but you just like a Papa or GPA to me.we love you Jim n your family ee.Thank you so much for your Beautiful testimony 😍. May God bless you 🙏 n your family forever Eternally 🙏 ❤
Beautifully said, Lantai!!!
So, Sad !
It is awesome that your wife and children had the patience to let you find the truth on your own during those years. What an incredible story for your legacy!!
What a beautiful story. It really shows how the spirit can touch and change people through time. I could only imagine the feelings his family had after years of waiting and hoping. It really touched me when he said that he didn't want to meet with the missionaries because he had a house full of them, image being the person to teach your father the gospel and to see him be baptized and later be sealed in the temple after years prayers and hope.
Wow! Thank you so much for sharing your experience! So wonderful and touching
Brother Jim, Don't you know you can't fight against the Lord and win. Anyhow I am so happy for you.
I know that if someone truly love the Lord and seek him they'll end up in the true and living restored church of Christ...
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
Jim, thank you for your sincere and moving story. Kids and grandkids will melt most any heart because we want to be with them forever. I don't know you but you're my brother.
This man has a good spirit about him and I can feel his humility. I’m so happy for him and his family.
You are a good man, brother. I love the way you talk about knowing through the Spirit what the Lord wanted you to do.
There is only one who is good.
Validating and being vulnerable is the true love of God and you my brother have truly been Validating with an open heart to let your children choose the gospel and to go on missions! No greater charity is to let go of your pride and listen to God & your heart! Your story and your vulnerability with humility has truly touched my heart and brought tears to my eyes for the joy that I have for you! Thank you for sharing I’m being so honest & vulnerable!
Please pray for me. I am an anti-mormon and am learning to love more
Hi Eric - yes, certainly! Sending love and prayers your way. Many have traveled your same road and have stories to share. I have a list if there was a way to get it to you...! I'm not sure if posting a bunch of links here will work. Focus on your Savior and his love for you. He will always lead you toward light and truth!
Eric I would love to pray for you. Please check out the UA-cam channel God Loves Mormons. There you will find sound doctrine told in a loving way. They are fairly short videos. I'm not lds anymore and I can assure you there is love outside the faith. You don't need to be lds to have it. Trust in Jesus He is Enough. Please let me know what you think of that channel. God bless
Thank you so very much, Jim, for making this beautiful video! And testifying of Heavenly Father & Jesus Christ!!! And testifying of the Bible and the book of Mormon also and Joseph Smith! Wow, what a beautiful testimony!
A sister at church bearing pure testimony of Joseph Smith starts the beautiful revelation to this humble man.
Thanks for sharing your story.
Love you brother, Heavenly Father loves you so much, thanku for sharing your beautiful testimony thanku, love from New Zealand
So does you're heavenly mother Asherah. Wife of Baal.
🌷🍃🌷💜👱♀️I can't imagine how you could LOVE your Spouse so much, and not realize that the reason you love them,is because the church has helped them to be who they are!💜The gospel is True, and U think we need to acknowledge this daily un our lives! 🌷🍃🌷🍃💜👱♀️🏝🏝
Thank you brother. The undeniable power of humility.
Thank you for this! You are a good humble man. I’m so glad you joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I’m so happy your heart and mind were open to hear the spirit of truth.
What a story and a faithful wife who demonstrate enduring to the end.
I stumbled across this video. It is clearly very emotional. It is an emotional story. But as an outsider, it seemed strange to me.
If the guy was so committed to his Baptist faith, why on earth would he marry a Mormon, a people he said were lost? And why would a Mormon marry outside her faith? So much for marry "only in the Lord."
He then tells us that he allowed his children to go to and join the Mormon Church, which he tells us he did not believe in. So much for Christian headship. We then move on to grandchildren etc.
It seems to me that this guy just wanted to be happy with his family.
Youre such a beautiful soul Brother Jim. God bless u and your family! Families are forever ❤
My eyes kept on flowing with tears from your touching testimony brother.. May God continue to bless you every day😇
What a wonderful Giant humble and meekness.. Thou be humble and the Lord thy God shall lead thee by the hand and give thee answer to thy prayers, (Doctrine and Covenant 112:10)
This brought tears to my eyes. I was raised in the LDS Church. My husband is not a member and we have been married almost 52 years. All my children, 5 daughters, have been baptized in my church. One chose to leave to join the baptist church and it breaks my heart. I know in my heart she will see someday that the church is true. I also have a friend who is baptist and has told me that she believes I am a member of a cult because we have the Book of Mormon and that we do weird things in our Temples. I pray one day she will see that is not true and it was very hurtful to me.
I pray you're eyes will be opened!
@@davidjanbaz7728 My eyes are open, I pray my daughter and my friend's eyes will be opened. I pray also that my husband's heart will be softened. I know the church is true. I enjoyed hearing your story.
Thank you for sharing your testimony,so touching!
Proof that "in the ordinances thereof the power of Godliness is made manifest"
Thank you for your wonderful testimony
WITH LOVE AND PATIENCE.. THE TESTIMONY OF A GREAT MAN.. THANK YOU JIM
Keep watching again with tearsssssss of Joy n Peace, Beautiful testimony n God bless you forever Eternally 🙏 ❤ 💖
What a wonderful Husband and Father!
I'm grateful that you were able to support them.
Thank you for sharing your Testimony and experience. 😊❤️🙏🕊️✝️
Thank you, Jim, for being so open to the still, small voice. Welcome, brother.
Thank you Jim. May the Lord Jesus Christ continue to bless and sustain your family.
What a beautiful sweet man❣
Such a beautiful perspective from someone of a different faith.
Thank you for sharing your experience! What an amazing testimony. I'm a convert as well and always love hearing others conversation stories. Again thank you for sharing.
Jim, our spirits have always known one another even though we’ve never met. I love you brother and I am very grateful that your Family conversation preceded yours, so to provide you with the closest individuals one often needs in their corner if they’re ever going to give the Gospel of Jesus Christ more than just a glance through the lens of another faith.
Spirit HUGS🤗& Eternal Affections
-* ONE - LOVE *-
This was so beautiful thank you for sharing. Something I needed to hear today.
Wow. Thank you Jim for sharing this beautiful testimony to the world. God bless you.
What a amazing conversion story! ❤
Beautiful testimony 💜❤️
You are a good man!
Wow what a conversation story. Thanks for sharing.
Love your conversion story and the Spirit of joy that I feel for you
Beautiful
Thank-you all for your Testimonies, It's True and I feel the spirt.
Thank you so much bro. Jim for sharing your testimony, I was in tears while watching this and feeling the truthfulness and sincerity of your story. We too have a member in our ward who was a devout Baptist and was even went to college thru the help of Baptist church. He left his old faith when God showed him the way to the true church in his dream. I would like to ask permission if you can allow me to share your picture and and quote a few words you said in this video. Please let me know.
Would you feel the same way if someone shared their testimony of leaving the lds church for Jesus?
Eduardo, this is JIM. I’m 11 months late answering you and I’m sorry about that but I do very little on social media. The reason I agreed to do share my testimony was the hope that the Lord might use it to help others learn the truth of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. That it may make a difference to those who wish to share it is my prayer.
I'm a former Baptist as well. It's amazing to see more Baptists becoming members of the Church 😁😁😁❤❤❤
That was beautiful!
This is beautiful. 💕💕💕 Thanks for sharing.
Your my hero Jim, welcome aboard brother!
Really needed to hear this. Thanks.
This is conversion to a religion, not a conversion to Christ. If he truly knew Christ in his heart he could not "convert" to anything. He already had it all - the way, the truth, and the life.
Amen amen amen!!
Wonderful.
What a wonderful man!
What a beautiful testimony.
I love to hear Former Pastor David Alexander about became LDS .
I could hug you!
Why do Christian churches say we should not trust our promptings and feelings? The Bible does say the Holy Spirit/Ghost will testify truth to us. The Holy Spirit is called the spirit of truth: John 16:13.
By standing on a solid rock that doesn't change, you should believe that Jesus would not contradict God, and the Holy Spirit will NEVER contradict either. The 3 are in agreement. See 1John 5:7-8. This is why we are called to TEST every Spirit, because Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. God is TESTING everyone read Deuteronomy 13. The enemy is still playing the same DECEPTION as he has from the beginning. He wants us to DISOBEY GOD's COMMANDMENTS and FEASTS. These are God's APPOINTED TIMES, not Christmas and Easter. These are holidays made up by man and are not mentioned in the Bible. Passover , Unleavened Bread, and First Fruits ARE God's Feasts to celebrate Jesus. Pure sacrifice and resurrection; the Feast of Trumpets, Atonement, and Tabernacles is the time of Jesus birth when Angels announced His birth, and He Tabernacled with us.
@@LightSeekers777 its more than agreement or purpose.
John 13:13,14 Jesus told His Apostles that He was (The Lord ) = to the Father.
You add a heavenly mother and a spirit of Christ ( force) .
3 gods turn into 4 ,1 spirit turns into 2 spirits .
Nowhere near what the trinity ( Godhead) is.
@@davidjanbaz7728
Which church do you go to ?
I meant to “Family’s conversions” FIRST, as well as your “Family conversations ...” SECOND - “... taking place WITH them, with prayer & study”. My txting just got way ahead of my thinking 🤔 💭 on this, LOL.
Welcome home Brother.
Awww my mom grew up in Clearfield. I wonder if she knew him.
Scripture is not determined by the feelings or testimony of man. God determines his word.
Truth rescue : actually, the Bible says it is: John 16:13
@@katbos4995 the Holy Spirit would not put forth contrary doctrines to the His word that He gave to the writers of the Bible.
You're interpretations are the ones mistranslated!
Eternity is a long time to be wrong.
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❤🙏😪
The Gospel is the Good news that God The Father sent His only Son Jesus Christ into the world to live a perfect life and die on the cross to pay the penalty for the sins of His people. His body was placed into a tomb and He was raised to life three days later. Anyone who will repent and believe that gospel will be saved. There was nothing about Christ in this whole testimony.
You missed it, don’t fret you’ll get it someday!🙂
@@samnicolds7096 I didn’t miss it, I’m simply pointing out that the LDS religion is a completely different religion from Christianity. Christianity is completely based around the person and work of Christ. LDS is completely around feelings. I’m not hating just sayin.
Jim.
WHY?
Why would you ever consider Mormonism given their long and current history of bigotry?
There is no knowledge of the Truth like that which is confirmed by the witnessing power of The Holy Ghost sent from God the Father. The revelation and confirmation of The Truth is the calling and responsibility of The Holy Ghost and none other. NO MORTAL MAN ever had that power. Adam couldn’t do it, nor Moses or Abraham. The Twelve Apostles didn’t and don’t have that power, nor did Joseph Smith or Brigham Young, nor any other Prophet ancient or modern. Neither did John Wesley have that power, nor did John Calvin or Martin Luther. And no Catholic Pope or Cardinal ever had it either. Confirmation of ETERNAL TRUTHS never has, and never will, come by flesh and blood...
“When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.”
The ancient prophet, Moroni, of the House of Israel’s Tribe of Manasseh, while living in the ancient Americas about the year A.D. 421, recorded the same Truth...
“Now I, Moroni, write somewhat as seemeth me good; and I write unto my brethren, the Lamanites; and I would that they should know that more than four hundred and twenty years have passed away since the sign was given of the coming of Christ. And I seal up these records, after I have spoken a few words by way of exhortation unto you.
Behold, I would exhort you that when ye shall read these things, if it be wisdom in God that ye should read them, that ye would remember how merciful the Lord hath been unto the children of men, from the creation of Adam even down until the time that ye shall receive these things, and ponder it in your hearts. And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost. And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things.
And whatsoever thing is good is just and true; wherefore, nothing that is good denieth the Christ, but acknowledgeth that he is. And ye may know that he is, by the power of the Holy Ghost; wherefore I would exhort you that ye deny not the power of God; for he worketh by power, according to the faith of the children of men, the same today and tomorrow, and forever.”
The good and faithful man bearing his personal witness of Truth in this video was led to the same Truth in the same way the Apostle Peter and the Prophet Moroni did: by the confirming witness of The Holy Ghost sent to him by God The Father in answer to his faithful prayer and honest desire to know.
Why is it that when a LDS becomes Baptist they are full of hatred but when the Baptist becomes LDS their eyes are full of tears. Mormons what did you do to them???
Joey Feliciano, tears are in their eyes because their hearts are softened. And unfortunately too often when they leave, they are full of hatred and their hearts are hardened. It all comes down to where our hearts are.
@@jlarryd
Ah ok!
@@jlarryd no, because you treat them as sons of perdition .
Quit trying to take people out of their church by you're counterfeit view of Apostasy and restoration .
Salvation is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. Full stop. No one will stand before Christ at the great white throne judgment boasting on what they did. Not going to work.
amen!!!
Truth is Truth and Mormons don't have it! He apparently hasn't heard of calling his wife from the grave LOL!
sad, another one deceived, well the scripture says we are not to be unequally yoked, shouldn;t have married a mormon
So sad that this man was bewitched by a false gospel (Gal. 1:6-9). Feelings are not a biblical method of discerning truth.
The book of Morman is a vile heresy.
have you read it I mine read it not just look and make blind commet
It is the most beautiful book I've ever read. God's message for us.
@eric there is no law against a man's beliefs, but I testify to you that the Book of Mormon is true.
Take away hatred and pride from your heart, and you will come to know by the power of the Holy Spirit that it is.