Rooted Testimonies: Jeff Durbin's Story
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- Опубліковано 22 жов 2020
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a few months ago I was agnostic, I could not care less about God. However, I was/am pro-life and started researching the science of life at conception. And, as I researched I would watch pro-life vs pro-abortion debates and I found Apologia. Now, I can confidently say I'm a Christian and Jesus is lord. Thank you so much for guiding me to the light!
God bless you, welcome to the family, millions of angels and saints across the universe have rejoiced and celebrated you coming to Christ and I'm glad to welcome you with love. Thank God the scales have been removed from your eyes.
Amen!!! Praise God!!!
It will come about after this
That I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind;
And your sons and daughters will prophesy,
Your old men will dream dreams,
Your young men will see visions.
“Even on the male and female servants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days.
Joel 2:28-29
I hear more and more testimonies of people coming to Christ! The Holy Spirit will snatch us up and reclaim us out of the hands of the devil just like that. So amazing. When I came into the Faith there were changes in me that were not from me…and it baffled me until I started reading the Bible and studying. God bless you man and welcome to the Body Of Christ and the Kingdom Of God.
For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11
I love to hear this. I pray for you and your journey as you continue to form a relationship with Christ!
This gave me chills...What a blessing and a great tribute to our Lord. I don't know if my wording is right, I'm still learning but this feels like a Celebration, so... Congratulations to finding the greatest gift ever🙏🙌
I was raised mormon and now I've found the real Jesus.
Jesus of the Quran?
@@abdelw 🤨
@@biggs1524 you should point him out to biblical scholars, because he doesn't appear in any contemporaneous documentation. Which is ODD considering all the amazing things he was credited with. 🤔
Praise God! Welcome to the REAL JESUS!!
@Zachary Trent but according to Calvin, he was wrong. According to Luther, he was wrong. According to Marcion, he was wrong.
How do you tell who (if any, or all) were correct?
"Please, just don't kill me yet. Please, be merciful to me." Man, coming from an ex-drug addict, I felt that cry. Thank you, Jesus, for your beautiful mercy. When I cried, "have mercy on me a sinner," the Lord heard my cry.
Halleeeluuuujaaaah
I'm so glad my brother
Amen
God is so good to us and we don’t deserve anything from him. So glad to hear he’s set you free 🙏
@@samanthapowell5080 Thank you. Yes, He is so good. I'm so glad that he had mercy on me. "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound! I once was lost, but now I'm found!"
@@GregChacon same here. I was a heavy drinker, speed, and cocaine addict. Started having panic attacks after binges. Took a few of those and a few “dont kill me yet” prayers to finally get out of that sin.
I'm a born again ex-mormon, and I can't begin to express how blessed I've been by what God has done through Apologia. He's used their ministries to completely transform my life!
That’s awesome! I’ll be praying for you!
He loves those who accept his free gift man. That brings me great joy to hear you have turned to the real Christ who gave everything for you
One mistake all ex-mormons do is to apply an answer to a question as an answer to a question not asked. Please ask yourself if the answer to your questions where for the correct question you made before leaving the LDS Church.
@@alfredomoreno301 I'm not completely sure what you mean by this, perhaps you could give an example?
@@LanceMcMullin One man received missionaries, heard the teaching, felt the spirit and prayed about joining the church. A Pastor came along and he baptized him to his church. The young man asked the right question, received the right answer an applied the wrong decision. Another example is a couple feels that they love each other, he prays and she prays if they should marry, the answer is yes, but any one of them regrets it later because the answer was correct they just did not ask if it was the right person to marry. So is with many ex-mormons, they will feel they are right in their doing because it brings them peace not knowing that even in doing wrong the lord is there to comfort them. but not because they made the right decision.
Im literally a 240 lbs gorilla of a man but this testimony touched my heart and had me squalin' thats appalachian for crying my eyes out
We love you brother..., Jesus loves you more❤🕊
here in Appalachia NC with you bro
I'm athankin ya for that comment. You're awesome in the Kingdom. Keep fighting the good fight. Never give up. the Lord needs you. there's work to do yet!
Lol...some people cry their eyes out, but we southerners are "squallin". These stories always have me squallin.
When I was actually saved, the moment it happened, I found myself on my kitchen floor saying “Thank you” over and over again but then it turned to, “I am so sorry.” In that moment I saw the disgusting things I did over decades so clearly and all I could repeat over and over was, “I am so sorry.” I don’t know how long I was on my face sobbing but my life changed in that moment. I love your story and I understand that saving grace that I certainly don’t deserve. I actually deserve the deepest of hell. Praise Jesus!!
Oh how I can relate to your testimony sister. I still cry when I remember all my disgusting sins against our God. Thank you, Christ Jesus, for your atoning blood, that saved me a lowly sinner. Praise your mighty name forever.
😭
God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance
Romans 2:4
I love that your testimony displays this verse so beautifully and simply!
I love how everyone's testimony is unique, but at the same time, when it is a sound conversion, it's the same story time and time again.
Just take a look t the word you chose to use...
You use the word "unique" as a adjective.. which i do find unique.. I must confess(no pun intended)
You did say they peoples testimonies are all the same but the thing is ..they are "unique"..
Whereas most may say something like "eh ..its merely a coincidence" ... I say that coincidences do not even exist...
What does exist are "miss-understandings, miss-information and miss- interpretations" which mind you are all "aMISS"...
I like that word "unique" ..ill explain why.. and it all goes back to Christ...
It has 2 syllables right?..
But let's look farther into the word...
I actually see 2 words... "uni" & "que"
Well we know that "uni" means 1
And "que" can be said like.. "whats the que?"
That struck me when I read your comment...
Yes .. everyone does have a unique story...
They all have "1" as their basis.. they all share in something Wonderful and in fact that "Wonderful" is what HE is called..
It's CHRIST.. and HE is literally that 1.. that "uni"que.. its Faith in Him and His finished work upon that cross at Calvary that makes it all possible for so many people to have such "unique" testimonies which at the same time sound to " be the same"..
Just a thought... I hope this blesses someone.
All Glory be unto God who is so Wonderful as to provide us all such a unique opportunity to connect.
Convenient right?
Isn't it gut wrenching the grief you feel when you realized you didn't quite "get" the Gospel the first time around ? Happened to me too. Praise God for His mercy and patience with us
Yes!!!
This guy needs to be on the Joe Rogan Experience
He was on Shapiro
Contact Rogan and mention this. He has to be invited.. he's said he'd be glad to if invited by Rogan
@@mrs.garcia6978 no he wasn’t
@@mrs.garcia6978
Shapiro was on his show.
@@michaeljames5881
Shapiro was on his show/ program.
“When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I was raised mormon but by God’s mercy led out and born again in 2009. Watching Jeff engage mormons is mind blowing. No doubt in my spirit that Jeff is being used by the LORD. He has massive knowledge but most importantly the love of God to draw people to the true Biblical Christ. Also, helping true believers see the facade of the pro life movement compared to what the REAL pro life stance is, abolishing abortion, has been huge!! Thank you Jeff for sharing your testimony and for your service in the body of Christ!
Amen
If I may ask, what specific revelation from God made you realize that Mormonism was false?
Welcome to the body of Christ!!
@@wwfera00 Great question! It's helpful for Christians to know specific details about a persons born again experience, especially when that person was caught up in a cult. The way it all happened was a lot like the peeling of an onion. God was already putting people in my life, my husband for one, to really get me to think for myself so to speak. He knew I said I was mormon BUT never went to their meetings and really didn't have anything positive to say about it. It was that brainwashing technique used by cults that was still hanging on to me. In my mind and spirit I didn't see myself going back to the mormon "church" but at the same time I felt trapped in moving forward. What really got me moving out of my stagnation to God was God Himself! He gently warned me in my spirit one day. So, I was just walking in my kitchen and what He said stopped me in my tracks. " Amanda, if you were to die right now you would not be with Me." I knew for a fact that was God speaking to my spirit. I said aloud, " God, I don't know how to "get right" with You but I believe You are going to show me!!" From there it's like He told me to see for myself the false hood of mormonism. For the first time I began listening to "anti-mormon'' teaching as the mormons would call it. It makes sense why they forbid you to read or listen to anything that puts mormonism in a "bad" light. That's where truth is told. satan shudders at it! Here on UA-cam there was a mormon professor who was actually showing the problems with mormonism. I never wrote his name down and I wish I would have. He's probably either excommunicated from mormonism now or has been born again. God used a lot of UA-cam ex-mormon testimonies too. God was very patient with me and He put me in a solid Bible believing, preaching church here in the south. I heard the Gospel presented correctly and was born again on June 18, 2009. As you can see, the biggest thing that happened that released me to move out of my stagnation in search for God's salvation was God Himself. It's like He was breaking those cultic brainwashing chains off of my mind and spirit so I could move forward to see mormonism for what it was. Still praying for my mom, dad, brother and sister in law to break free.
@@patticarey9016 Thank you!!
yup... now i’m crying 😭 what a beautiful testimony! as an ex heroin addict, this was just absolutely amazing. all glory to The Most High!
Interesting testimony. It’s interesting how we all have our struggles with different sins. But God grants us belief, faith, and repentance.
Amen, brother. The war is most certainly real and very difficult for us. But through Christ there is hope for liberation.
Lately listening to these kind of stories has been bringing me to tears. I’m really a big fan of Pastor Jeff
Even do i am glad that your tears are sincere, would you allow me to let you drink a water that has no life in it? After all your tears, and after reading the words of Jesus Christ, when he says that only by being born of water (baptism) and spirit (New Creature by baptism of Fire in other words thru the gift of the Holy Ghost) can you enter the kingdom of God. Would you still believe that he is not at the door with his own doctrine and philosophy preventing you from receiving rights and privileges that only come thru obedience of Jesus Christ Ordinances?
Wow, I can relate to partying with drugs and going back and forth. Now I am also in a place of learning the word and keep having people speak ministry over my life. Trusting where ever he leads
The farther down we are, the more we appreciate getting up. I'm blessed to hear others testimonies, each one gives me more love for Jesus. Jesus Way is the Truth for my Life.
Wow. What a wonderful testament to God’s grace & mercy!
Thank you Lord, for keeping Jeff alive, because I have learned so much truth of your word from his teaching, praise you Jesus.
I never thought I would experience something like you´ve experienced, but I was also amazed when God delivered me from my sin. I finally realized I was a bad person and asked God to take over and that was it. I just couldn´t believe that that thing that had a so strong hold on me was gone next morning. It´s a miracle that still amazes me to this day. God bless you and your family.
I wish I could say the same. I guess I love my sin too much
@@StevenStGelais There is this guy, Ray Confort. He tells a story of a rich merchant on a ship. The ship sinks and the merchant tries to swim, but he has a belt with 8 pounds of gold that is dragging him to the bottom. He has to choose between life and his beloved treasure. In the end he will be where his treasure lays. So I think the most important question to you is to find out if all this Jesus thing is real. Because if it is and if you really believe with you heart, mind, soul and strength, He will know it and set you free. God bless you.
@@ivanbrizida yeah ray Comfort is the one who made me realize I was following a false teacher, Steven furtick. I love his way of Sharing the gospel that so clearly came Straight from the bible
Amen 🙏❤️
I’m praying for the same thing to happen to my husband. He is spiritually blinded, and double minded. Thinking that his works are enough and that he is a good person without fully surrendering his life to Christ or having an intimate relationship. I am praying for God to bring him to the end of himself and open his eyes to the truth. Praying that he sees sin through God’s eyes and finds his identity in God, not in his business and his own abilities. No one is too far gone for God to redeem.
Had that that same moment with God July 28th 2002 waking up in the ER not knowing where I was after 5th Smirnoff and handful valum, remember that voice like yesterday!! That was the last drink, Thank you for your mercy and direction Lord!❤
I've been watching you and admiring what God is doing with you for a few years now. I never knew what your testimony was until now. I could have sworn you were telling mine. Except I did a real job on destroying the family. Thank God you still have yours. I'm 64 now, and all I want to do is live in my camper and be able to move around and cook a meal for a few of the homeless. I almost have a good truck ready. It's going to take a little work, but God Willing, I'll be up and at it soon. I've included traveling to your church to worship with you on my bucket list. God Bless you my brother
Wow! I’ve worked at a camp where we say “One life touched by Christ can change the world.” This is just an example of it. Btw. I own that book as well, and it truly shaped the way I look at the gospel too. It’s a book I always recommend to any believer.
What book is it?
@@s.a3099 I believe it is John MacArthur’s The Gospel According to Jesus. It’s an excellent read.
Im so greatful for Pastor Jeff, he helped me so much, during Covid and an inspiration for me as I fight for the Unborn.
Love You Jeff wanna hug you and tell you how proud I am of you and all you do
Thank you, Pastor Jeff, I will be sharing this with my students, the men's group at our church. I think it is every man and women's battle, to maintain our identity in Christ.
What's so great about this is it's clearly a story of God's grace in your life and not anything you did. Thank you for sharing!
I loved listening to this. I never knew this about Jeff Durban.. what an amazing testimony of Gods grace. 🙏🏼
😭😭😭 what a testimony for a man of God who works wonders for Christianity! This is beautiful and praise God for your prayerful wife and God’s faithfulness
I'm delighted to find this channel today. I was an atheist a few years back. I feel energized. God bless you.
Such a beautiful testimony! Your ministry has been such a blessing to my husband and I. Praise God for His grace and mercy!!!!
Thank You , Father God, for every soul saved
❤️✝️🙏🏻
My story :
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Thank you Brother. Thank you God. Thank you Jesus Christ. Thank you Holy Spirit.
One of the most encouraging testimonies..
There was a guy named Sully. He was the life of the party. Every party called up Sully first. He was the main man. Singing, drinking and smoking was his life. One day he came home drunk after a party, hit the floor in his lounge and called out to God to take his life. He’d had enough. Then he said he felt sober and refreshed. Like God’s grace and mercy fell upon him and from then on he turned his life around. Old party friends now avoided him. No one rang him for parties. And Sully started good work in the neighbourhood helping at risk youth. God helped save him. How many unknown countless lives has God saved throughout history? God is Great.
Thanks Jeff, I so appreciate you and your faithful walk with Jesus!
watching it twice 😭😭 God is so loving and merciful 💜
Wow what a wonderful God we have 🙏praise the lord
Love you Jeff...thankful for what God has done.
You're an awesome soldier for Christ! Love your videos .I was in the Air Force for 21 years.I am now in the "Heir Force !"
Amen, that's how it was with my anxiety it was like click, instant cleansing I felt like water being poured over my head, was not a true believer yet, call His/Jesus's Name He is amazing, He took my heavy burdens and gave me peace and rest. Praise our Father for His Son Jesus Christ Yeshua Amen. GOD IS GOOD ❤
Amen.
@Zachary Trent Brother i will and always study Jesus's Word, I keep Him Close to my heart always Just as I do my Father/God.
Im Happy and at Peace as our Lord always keeps His promise. Amen
Thank you Jesus for saving Jeff Glory to your Holy name
His experience is so much like mine, such a beautiful testimony. The only difference for me is that I had a physical encounter with Christ. I cried out to him, and he came down from heaven in the spirit and saved my life.
When I lost myself, this world died to me; but when I saw him, I knew who I was. I died to myself in finding him, and in finding him, I found myself. He found me. 😇 Praise Jesus ❤️
Exceptional Brother. What a clear Christ honouring Gospel message. Blessings in His name from Ireland.
Such an amazing story for one of Gods most powerful soldiers. Truly incredible and I'm so thankful crying and praising God while watching it for being so good and using this man as an instrument. Thank you God!!!!
Thank you, Jeff!
I had no idea, I have been watching Pastor Durbin witnessing to the Mormon community through Apologia Studios and have been amazed at his method of presenting truth. I loved this story, may God continue to use you for reaching the lost.
I am an ex Muslim converted Christian from Pakistan.
Pastor’s testimony is so beautiful and it helped to strengthen my faith. God bless.
Humble testimony.
I am so inspired to hear your testimony and hope that the message of Christ keeps going out
Thanks for your Great testimony & may the Lord continue using you for His glory!!
My second favorite pastor right now. Number 1 is pastor John MacArthur. God Bless you Pastor Jeff! Keep on proclaiming the gospel boldly!
Amazing story of what God can do in a life that surrenders to him 🙌🙌
What a great story, I loved watching this. Glory to God through Jesus and the power of The Holy Spirit’s mighty work.
A very inspiring testimony. Praise be Lord for Pastor Jeff. Love all the way from Manila Philippines 🇵🇭
We’re not worthy that’s the awesomeness of God‘s love his mercy
Thank you LORD.
Amazing testimony, praise God.
You’re amazing, Pastor Jess. I’m a little older than you and our lives mirror each other in far too many ways. Much like you, I thank God for His mercy in my life and I thank Him often for it. Having said that, tonight I’ll pray for your wife. Why? Because much like my wife, she didn’t leave when life got bad. Stuck around through the drugs, the neglect, the infidelities...believing that I, we, would come around. We did. And I know you appreciate her for that. I’ve heard you say it. But she’s going to get the prayer attention tonight. Along with my girl. God Bless, little brother. You’re chosen of God and are doing great things for His Glory. Right beside my other favorite Christian, Dr. White.....
Praise the Lord!!!
Jesus saved me from the pits of hell in heroin addiction and I am forever grateful!
But please PLEASE pray for me to fully submit, and live out my purpose that I know God has for me. Fear, feeling unworthy amongst many other things holds me back. 🙏🏻
Thank you to anyone who prays!
And thank you Jeff for your story, your teaching and your reverence for the Lord!
Praying for you , sister!
@@Eztliis1 thank you !!! ♥️♥️♥️
The Word of God has the power to transform.
Powerful testimony!! God bless you!! You have an amaizing wife..
I was just thinking I wanted to know Jeff's story. Very encouraging...thank you for posting
No one can understand that supernatural moment when God transforms us, or He opens our eyes to some truth unless it has happened to them. What a testimony, praise His holy name & may He bless you continually.
Glory be to God! Thank you for sharing His testimony in your life!
Wow! Thanks for sharing. I believe God saw you had a humble heart and that’s why He called you to became a pastor. You were not trying to build a big ministry and gain a following - but you were willing to work humbly behind the scenes for His glory! God works through the humble to show his glory! Thank you for your ministry! Glory to God🙌
What a great picture of God’s Grace. He is so good and we are so undeserving!
Ask and you shall receive💗
For Bless you and your family!
Thank you Jesus for saving this wonderful young man!
AND his beautiful family.
AMEN
Love it brother, amazing. Thank you for all you do for The Kingdom!
Incredible testimony! Thank you for sharing Pastor Jeff. I started seeing Apologia videos several years ago when it dawned on me that America needed teachers of the Gospel that are BOLD and stand for God’s Word and prayed about it. God answered that prayer about getting such teachers, with you! It has helped me with my walk with Jesus.
Thank Pastor Jeff, always wanted to hear your story
Been listening to you for years man.
@Jeff, what a powerful story of "so close but so far away" and then God truly brought you home!! Our house is in The Netherlands and have gone to Soesterberg Air Base there many times until my wife retired. I'm trying to do what I can in Holland, still, but during the school year, I teach school in Montenegro. We're trying to get a church going here, a so-called Christian country who worship saint and not Jesus. Thank you for accepting the ministry God is putting before you.
Oh Jeff I follow you time ago because of James white, such a blessing to hear from you guys. I never heard your testimony... I know you don't read all of the comments but your pass life reminds me of my brother Carlos who is in drugs now and I honestly desire God to change his heart and life and be the person God wants him to be, tears come seeing you and seeing my brother and how things God can change in the life of a person if it's God's will. Praise the Lord for your life and many other. I wish I could see my brother bowing down as same as you do for the Lord.
Mumbo?
Amen praise God for his mercy
Thank you for your testimony ❤
Wow just wow! Amen
Amazing story! I have 3 sons I pray that at least one of them someday God use them to spread the gospel.
I've heard your testimony before. I've been watching you for years. I love you Pastor Jeff, your ministries, your church members, and your family. You have been in my prayers for years. I pray the Lord bless, and keep you safe.❤🙏🙏🙏🙌🙌
God bless you! I've learnt a lot from you. I was also used the same drugs but Lord made me clean. Jesus is Lord!
What a beautiful testimony. Thank you for sharing. There is also a testimony here through how your wife stayed by your side, praying for you, and trusting Him to draw you back to Him. Very powerful...
Beautiful testimony.
Praises!!!! God is so good.
Such a raw inspiring testimony Jeff! Praise God!
Amen brother. I was really blessed by it. I'm preaching the gospel with my cousin, and sometimes I lost hope. To hear this remembered what Our Lord can do. He gracious saves the sinner.
Praise God, Jeff for both your literal regeneration on that day in that bed room and for your spiritual regeneration later. You have touched my life in ways that you wouldn’t even know and you have equipped me and continue to equip me in apologetics. I praise God for you
Fantastic what God does in our lives.
I can relate to this story. Really great testimony. I'm still learning and growing, but have always questioned my point of conversion. I've been like the James 1 wavering man most of my life, but can absolutely say God has had his hands in my life. I'm still trying to fall into my calling, but I tend to grapple with the double life trap. God bless you J. D.
If God has His hands in your life then He will not let you go. No need to struggle with a double life. God will struggle for His namesake.
@@quicktoevil In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. (Heb. 12:4)
I'm so glad you're alive Jeff. God surely had a plan for you. As a matter of fact you have been an important part of my life lately as I have rekindled my Bible studies and reading my Devotional. Your videos are great. I enjoy the debates videos and sermons too. Thank you for choosing life. By the way I am also in recovery and by God's grace I'm sober over 29 years. Your ministry is awesome. I don't go a day without watching at least one video.
Come to the UK and do some street preaching we need you! The UK is dying out of true Christians! Please come Jeff we need you!
where are you based in the UK bro?
@@Aeroo123 Near Sheffield (Yorkshire)
@@SirCharles913 I'm in Stoke-on-Trent, my wife lived in Sheffield for 8 years.
@@Aeroo123 Oh right I've been to Newcastle I love Newcastle and the people are great but not been to Stoke-on-Trent
What is a false Christian?
Pastor Jeff, as a prodigal child who thought my sins were way too great to return to God, your Rooted testimony brought me so much hope and peace. Thank you for sharing your life and your heart.
Sensei Jeff, teaching now how to train for Godliness and not "punch the air." Amen for that.
Powerful testimony. Wonderfully humbling. Best of intentions for you and yours.
That was so amazing brother Jeff. You and you're ministry has helped me with my understanding greatly, and after hearing you're testimony my respect and love for you and your church has only strengthened my faith even more, God bless you brother.
Beautiful
Saved out a nude bar with a beer on my hand!! Wondering why am I here and a voice in my head saying get out get out get out.. to God be the glory he saved me… praise God @apologiastudios
I can relate to this testimony in a few ways. Amazing how God has used you Jeff. Thanks so much for all you do 🙏🏻
Thank you for sharing! I also had a strong early will too & I'm praying for God now to use it for His Glory!
I have no idea of who decided to do these type of segments, but I absolutely love them, the ambiance, the cinematic stance, I felt like I was right there in the room with him. Please keep them coming. God bless you all. I have heard you tell your testimony before, but somehow it seems to hit deeper, just can’t explain it. Awesome job well done.
Thank you for sharing and be vulnerable enough to be open to tell your story
This ministry has blessed me and taught me so much. I am so grateful to God for Jeff Durbin and his willingness to be used for His glory.
Glory to God!!!😭🙏🙏