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A new year

I write this after having been in Valdosta for only about a week and seeing God work in some amazing ways through our obedience to Him. A couple days ago I got to meet a now good friend of mine, Brad. Brad, Clay, and I had intended on going out witnessing together but it rained on campus, so we said lets go to the mall. For about 2 hours we were outside of the mall talking with people coming and going about the shortness of their life and their need for a Savior to cleanse their sins before a Holy and Just God. At one time, Clay was talking to about 15 guys about Christ and they were all paying attention. Every person I talked to was very interested and wanted to make sure that they were not leaving earth without a Savior. As the mall closed and everyone was leaving, I walked out the door of the mall and a guy behind me was talking with friends about going out partying. God told me to turn around and talk with this guy, so I did. The guy was now by himself and I was able to ask him the question that no one ever thinks, "If you died tonight, are you 100% sure you would be going to Heaven and he said no. He actually said that he new he needed to repent and that he wanted to get more tracts from me to hand to his buddies. So I gave him a few and assured him that God will judge everyone the same way when they die and that if he didn't have purity through Jesus is God's sight, Hell would be his eternal home. The entire night was so great and we each felt that God was beginning to do a work through us that is going to revolutionize Valdosta.
Last night, Brad, Matt, and I decided to go out witnessing again and many people got to hear about the gospel and they were all interested and wanted to talk for long periods of time. I know that it will not always be this easy, but it was great seeing this one day. We got to talk with two guys named Bobby and Ben. Ben claimed Christianity, but was not aware that his sin absolutely made God sick, whereas Bobby was an agnostic who saw so many hypocrites growing up that he didn't want to be one. I assured them both that when they die, God will judge them and they seemed very interested in this and were willing to talk for a long period of time. We then went and talked with a group of guys sitting on the steps and were able to open their eyes to their absolute need for the Savior and their need of true repentance and trust in Jesus. This was a great conversation, but one guy who talked most of the time and claimed to follow Jesus, cussed constantly and didn't bear a lot of the fruit of being saved. He didn't seem to ever understand his filthiness before a pure God. I have prayed that God would send laborers for the harvest who will go out and water those seeds we've planted and I know that God will not let them go untold. I am not sure however how much mercy (of which none deserve) God will give to these guys because they have already heard an absolutely clear message of the gospel and still want to sin.
My passion has grown for this campus and I desire to share as much as I possibly can with the many lost here.

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