Luis’ Testimony

I was born in sin and in sin did my mother conceive me. I grew up in East L.A. In the government housing projects “the Ghetto” of Aliso Village that thank God are no longer standing. I was the youngest male of 6 brothers and sisters. My Father and Mother were culturally catholic and went to Church on Sunday even though I stopped going after I was 7yrs old (the services were in Latin). I grew up involved in evil deeds and had evil thoughts since I was 3 years old when my Mother told me that Satan would come for me because of my wickedness. Slowly but surely I hung out with criminal minded and gang affiliated people that my second oldest brother was involved with. I did not hesitate to intimidate, brutally beat if necessary anyone that threatened my families life not to mention plan a murder if it arose to it. My house would get shot up once a month because of my brothers gang affiliation. I would get shot at or chased coming home from school on a normal basis. Every time that happened it was God who protected me when I should have been dead although I did not know it at the time. “For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened” (Romans 1:21 NASB).

I hardened my heart after seeing all the violence, malice, strife, deceit, greed, covetousness, betrayals, envy and all other evil. I did not shed a tear for many years even though very close friends were killed, and others were incarcerated. Yet God was still keeping me alive through it all and He was gracious to me. I still would spit in His face when I would have thoughts of obtaining weapons that would cause massive casualties and my willingness to murder if it came down to it. I terrorized people were ever I would go and school was no exception. I should have died on many occasions. If I died back then I would have ended up in hell and God would have still been just and loving for giving me what I deserve. I could have ended up being locked up in a maximum security prison for killing someone but God restrained my anger at that time. If I would have gotten a hold of the weapons I envisioned I would have made Hitler look like a choir boy. Everyone of us in our unconverted state has that same potential if it were not for the common grace of God withholding us. “for the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth” (Genesis 8:21 NASB) – “The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it?” (Jeremiah 17:9 NASB). I planned to commit suicide many times to end my vile wicked life and to rid humanity of this monster. I was full of hatred toward God. I found escape in worldly knowledge and other sort of vices that only left me empty and in despair. For several seasons I was involved with witchcraft, sorcery, and the like. I was aware of Demonic activity even in the apartments we lived in throughout my life. God graciously got me out of that place and moved me to Orange County to start a new life and I still did not honor nor give Him the praise he deserves.

God gave me a wife who was used by God to change me in ways I never thought possible. I became a business man and God gave me open doors that a person with my background could not get. I then became the youngest executive in the firm I worked for and soon started helping run the everyday to day operations. I was to inherit the company if anything happened to the owner and I thought life was good. However during this time my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2003. I still did not pray to God nor give him thanks and She was spared. In October of 2006 she was diagnosed with a cancerous steak size tumor on her hip. God began to move in my mind and began to convict me of my open rebellion (sin) against Him. So I fell on my knees and cried out to Him in my bedroom and repented (a turning away from sin) of my sin and told Him I will follow Him even if I lose the most precious thing in my life which was my wife. At that time I was not looking for God nor did I want Him in my life but he sovereignly sent his Holy spirit. I soon asked my wife for a Bible and she ordered one online. I never had read the Bible before and I used to hate to read because it left me empty, but once I opened Gods word and Gods Holy spirit helped me understand it I could not put it down. I read from Genesis to Revelation and all the study notes from April to August 13 2007.

Science had failed my wife for she had been told by the Doctor that she only had 6 months to live. The Lord had been preparing me to withstand the loss of my wife if He had sovereignly chosen to take her from me. This was incredible because everyone knew I loved my wife more than anything, but that changed when Christ Jesus Sovereignly saved me I knew I had to Love Him more than her. God gave me a peace that truly passes all understanding and I knew I was a new creature. On March 16, 2007 as I was on my treadmill I began listening to Christian music and got rid of all my secular music. I heard the song Amazing Grace and I started to weep and sob like I never had before as I was thinking about what a wretch I was even though my life was at this time very moral and many people thought about me as the nicest guy they had ever met (because they did not know my past). As I started asking God to forgive my vileness I felt a power which was the Holy Spirit that came upon me and immediately I stopped crying and knew I was at peace with the Creator of All things. In late March of 2007 my wife was told that a miracle had happened and her cancerous tumor was gone. I thanked God and rejoiced in His doing and knew that He was indeed the Sovereign Lord who has control of all things. I left my riches behind and everything else to follow Christ Jesus who is the only truth, the only way and the only life. I read the scriptures daily like the Bereans in the Book of Acts to grow in the knowledge of God so that I can encourage & edify others and become a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to Him.

My life has been changed my heart was regenerated by God. I now lay down my life at the feet of the nail pierced Son of God Christ Jesus who is my Lord and Savior. God chose me by His unmerited grace and He kissed me and I have never been the same since. I was saved from God, by God and for God. I now tell others about Jesus so that God may open their eyes and have them put their whole life & trust in the Lord. The world is already condemned and on its way to Hell even those that call themselves Christians but are not. The Lord is Holy and cannot look upon sin and will not allow it. So if you have ever lied, cheated, stolen, looked with lust, hated, wanted something someone else had, dishonored your parents, did not give honor or praise to God with your life, or even used foul language you are under the fierce wrath of God Almighty and will die in your sins if you do not repent from Sin and believe in the Gospel. Jesus does not ask anyone to ask Him into their heart he commands all men everywhere to repent and believe in the Gospel otherwise you will spend an eternity of eternities being tormented, in a place of outer darkness, with no hope where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth, where the worm does not die the fiery furnace called Hell. This is where the whole world deserves to be, but by the grace of God some will find the narrow way and be born again to see life everlasting with the Lord of Hosts. May the Lamb who was slain receive the reward of His suffering. To God alone be the glory.

A bondslave of Christ
Luis Rosas