This Saturday night was a real blessing! As some of you know God has blessed me with a small office space to host The Way of The Master Seminar’s, located at 8900 N Central Ave Phoenix. I'm still praying for other Church’s to allow this teaching & to offer it to those who attend, so if you attend a church please ask if they wouldn’t mind hosting one.

    So back to the point. I was working in the office most of the day putting up shelves and arrainging stuff when around 5pm I heard some loud music outside. I opened my door & from the third floor where I’m located I could see groups of musicians playing there instruments on the sidewalk across the street. As I looked north I could see several white tents setup in the shopping center.

    I was planning on going to our traditional fishing hole on Mill Ave, but after the long day trying to setup the office I was getting tired. So when I saw all that was happening right across from my office I thanked the Lord for brining the fish to me.

    I called my good friend Al and ask if he could stop by on his way to Tempe to see what he thought of this new fishing hole. He was pleasantly surprised to see how many people were gathering to what I now know to be an art festival that is put on twice a year by the vendors here.

    After passing out several hundred tracts I was able to do an Open Air right where the crowd would be coming & going to the mall parking lot. I stood up on the stool that Al brought & started asking trivia questions & offering money to anyone who could give a correct answer.

    One lady who answered the questions and received the money was also taking my picture. She said she wanted a video of me giving away money & so I asked here if she would like to have $10.00 if she could prove to me that she was a good person. 

    She accepted the challenge, and I proceeded to asked her about God’s Ten Commandments.  She admitted to breaking the four I mentioned & said God would find her guilty, but when I asked her where would He have to send her Heaven or Hell, she said Heaven.

    I then asked her how could a God who is Righteous, Just & who can’t be in the presence of a sinner allow her into Heaven. She now wasn’t so sure and then I gave her the example of someone breaking man’s law, what would the judge have to do as far as making someone pay the fine for what they did. She responded with, “they would have to be punished”; and then I said then how could a Righteous & Just God do any less.

    Remember an earthly Judge could be bribed, but God can’t!  I explained to her what was stated in 1^st Corinthians 6: 9-10 by the Apostle Paul, he stated, “Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, will inherit the Kingdom of God"

    Again I asked her where did she think God would have to send her…this time she said “HELL”, Now her  demeanor was changing as she wasn’t as flippant with her responses. I could see a change in her as I then asked if that concerned her. She said yes, and I responded it did me as well & I don’t even know her. I then asked if she knew what Hell was like & she said not really. I explained to her that the Bible stated where your thirst is never quenched, constant gnashing of teeth, (constant bickering), and where worm’s never die.

    I then asked so what was she going to do? She didn’t know, so I asked if she knew what God did for her so that she wouldn’t have to go to Hell. And again she said she didn’t. I then asked if she would like to know what God did for her so that she wouldn’t have to go to Hell & she said, “YES!”

    I told her that God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son to pay the fine for the crime that she & I committed and that if she would, “REPENT”, turn from her sin, and place her trust in Jesus Christ alone. She couldn't continue to live the life style of sinning the way she had been, that's what being born again is all about. Your desire is now to please God not yourself. His death on the Cross was the final payment for my sin & her sin and by placing her trust in that fact she would be forgiven.

    She the reached up and gave me a big hug and said thank you for sharing as what you have said has touched my heart greatly!

    There were a few others, but, one stands out from the rest and that was two young ladies, one of whom was an exchange student from Italy. They also stopped as AL was doing his magical appearing light show. He then showed them the pink & blue illusion cards, & then, “Which Religion was right card”. The exchange student stated the Pope was the right one & her American friend stated that she really didn’t know, as she had been to several chruches, Catholic, Mormon,Budihst,Jesish & even an Evangelical Church, and they were all the same to her. I then said “WOW”, looks like God is reaching out to you. That’s when I asked them, “wouldn’t you want to know for sure which one is right?” They said yes and I was able to read the back of the card to them.

    The back states, “One common saying is that they are all just different roads leading to the same place and the same God. HOW REDICULOUS A STATEMENT IS THAT?”

I then asked if they would like to take a test to see if they are good enough to get into heaven and they said yes.

    They both found it difficult to accept the fact that just because they had violated some of God’s Laws that they would be punished. The exchange student, who lived in Italy, stated that she would probably end up in Purgatory, and her friend said nothing happens after we die, we just cease to exist.

    I continued with examples of our own justice system and how the Law requires some punishment and they agreed. Once they started to understand the seriousness of what they had done & they did in fact deserve Hell, the exchange student became very upset. She stated that she didn’t want to go to Hell and it was now a terrifying thought to her.

    I then asked if they knew what God had done for them so they wouldn’t have to go to Hell?  Neither one had an answer, as they both turned to each other for help and then back to me and said, NO, please tell us!

    After explaining what Jesus had done for them and they needed to Repent, turn away from sin and place there trust in Him alone, not the Pope or a priest or any other man, not even me, as they needed to read the Bible and then obey what it said. They thanked me form taking the time to share with them as no one had ever done that and they left.

    About an hour later around 10: pm I was getting some ice cream at the store at the mall when they walked in and started asking me more questions. I was amazed how excited they where about hearing this new message about God‘s Commandments and how it could change there lives. I started to think about (Psalms 19: 7) The Law is perfect converting the soul, as well as (Gal. 3:24)  Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

     By the way the store was packed with people waiting in line to get ice cream and needless to say with my hearing problem I was speaking loud enough for everyone to hear. I say this because as I looked around I saw several smiling faces staring at me as I spoke. Before I left I quietly asked if I could pray for them right now & they said, “YES”

    I will close now, but I need to share one more encounter with you. It’s about an 8 yr old boy who was in front of me with his mom waiting for his turn to get his ice cream.  I asked him if I could get ahead of him if I gave him a million dollar bill. His reply amazed me as he stated, “they don’t make a million dollar bill!”

    I agreed with him & told how smart he was to know that but I would like to give it to him anyway as there was a Gospel message on the back and maybe his mom or dad could read it to him. His mom took the bill and started to read it so I gave him one of his own. Now here comes the amazing part, he called out towards the doorway, as the door to the store was open, and shouted out to his young female friend. She came up to him and asked what he wanted and he said her, “I want to give you a million dollars.”

    What amazed me about this is that I have given away thousands of million dollar bills and the common response to some is thanks I’m going to keep this. Where others who claim to be Christians tell me they don’t need it & try to give it back.  I always try to explain that it’s a free gift, just like Christ’s death on the Cross has been offered to them, so maybe they should share God’s word with someone they don’t know just like I did to them.

    So that was the ending to this long day! God showed me a young boy who was given a gift & he had the heart to share with his friend. I pray that as he grows up, God can keep him in that mindset, as Paul stated in Phil. 2:3, that we are to regard one another more important than ourselves. I pray that you are like this 8 yr old boy.