 All right, good afternoon everybody. My name is Adam Thomas. I'm just speaking to Wes and I actually went to school with his brother Just I heard his last name when he was introduced Well, I'm going to keep it short and sweet. I grew up in church Pentecostal charismatic. Thank you, Jesus, one of those type of churches and I've always had a good grasp of the scripts I've always Been able to remember and quote scriptures and everything and you can kind of put it together a little bit and You know, it I just kind of grew up in that in that atmosphere So I kind of knew that I needed to be good and you know, Jesus died for my sin I need to receive him and all that gets up, but there wasn't really a It wasn't really a conviction there. I was kind of I was I was in there But I knew enough not to do anything really bad but There still wasn't that conversion there and this really got brought out in in my college years and I was Again, I knew enough of the Bible to know that I shouldn't, you know I shouldn't engage in the sexual morality and drinking of all that stuff But at the same time it didn't stop me from having a little vodka every now and again, but I went to church, so it was all good But like, you know, like you heard from the others, I can't really say when It was a time toward the end of my college years when Really really just got convicted about living, you know You're being hit with basically You know better quote-unquote, but you're not really living it out You know, it's being a little warm and we all know what happens the Lord's spits about You know, you're causing the Lord, basically I was causing the Lord to wretch you know by by by, you know, by my my hypocrisy and I moved down here and really, you know, I tried to get quote-unquote into church and Mocholedo got involved with another, you know, war of faith, rosemary to church. Yes, that's that's what I grew up in and around 2000 and I say 2000 after 2010 I somehow stumbled across Tom Carthage website when I was at work and started listening to him off and on and He had a strange fire conference I think in 2012 and Listen to it because From what I've known of him he I trust you know, I didn't think you know, he was a heretic I think I thought he knew what he was talking about when I never heard that there was anything bad Well, I grew up in it, you know, I said all of that, you know, I assumed That that was the way Things went off a sign that people running around the church and all this in a while crazy Grew up with that My mom was one of the people that restrained the people when they would catch the holy ghost and go, you know, doing all that stuff So I have never heard. I never realized that there that that was not normal I thought everybody ran when they went to church. I thought everybody shot did all this stuff. So I Listened and the first thing they kind of debunked was I was speaking to Tom saying I was raising Backs chapter two Which is between you and God and everybody has one and that's what you used to pray and long story short found out that wasn't true and that kind of Kind of hurt me, you know, I thought that I was The right path. I thought that I knew what I was doing and I know read x chapter two I found out they were speaking in the earthly language People understood what they were saying And That kind of sitting me on the on the during like okay, I've been wrong About this because we would have all this in college. Now was that guy. Hey, you need to be speaking to talk You need to do all that. I'm like man. I'm off here. So where else? Am I off where else am I wrong and come to find out there's a whole bunch of other things that need to be So I say that that strings fire comes Something was like Try harder, you know, you say this in his prayer you're in there But you know the church does that you can't just say the same spread and go off and do what you want You say the same spread then you try your best You know, you know, you'll let God do this and that so Around that time I really start to get a good grasp of what the gospel is as well Cuz start listening to Paul watch around that time as well I write it up as people at the word faith church when I was at the attorney on Paul washer And I kept listening at some point they stop Understand that you know, even though I knew it, you know Christ now for my sins, you know, he's gracious Kind of the other side of the fence about you know, why God's first years required because you're sinners You know, Jesus said John chapter 3 when we're half the son has life over doesn't have something I see last But the rather God abides upon him like wow that was been in there the whole time, you know, and just knowing that Me trying to do me doing what I thought I was Me doing what I thought was right. I was basically doing works right since I was trying to be good I was trying to do better. I was trying to you know serving in my church and Reading my Bible doing all the right things But there wasn't it was you know, kind of like, you know fire insurance like somebody else mentioned to get out of hell free car Just really Because I've known that scripture I think I was a 64 somewhere in there where since our practices is as filthy rags but Just really going from okay, no Harder to just Because I can't do Radio Just really was Not trying to gas anybody up, but just I've never been in the church, you know, they have accountability We ask you house repair life. How are you doing? You know, you trust me personally, you know doing all these things It's it's it's it's it's you know, it basically caused me to you know, I had to move You know, that's why I'm not at the church. Well, that's why a lot of things that I used to do Speaking times I had to stop that years ago, you know, and just just so I'm just you know Thankful to God for the changes that that that he's been working in my heart and