Testimony of Nico O
I was borne and raised in a Christian home in South Africa. My dad got saved at the age of 13, and my mom at age 18, so I have grown up in a Christian home. I got saved in June 1999. It was one night after our family bible study, my mom told me what I had to do to get saved.
She told me that there was no good person in this world, and that we all deserve to go to hell. We are all sinners and its only by God’s grace that He will save us, if we believe on His word, and believe that Jesus is the son of God, and that He came to die for my sins. While she told me this, she pointed out the following verses on salvation.
Rom 3:10-12
As it is written, there is none
righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is
none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are
together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not
one.
Rom 3:23 For
all have sinned, and come
short of the glory of God.
Rom 6:23
For the wages of sin is
death; but the gift of God
is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom 3:20
Therefore by the deeds of
the law there shall no flesh be justified in His sight: for be the law
is the knowledge of sin.
Rom 5:8,9
But God commendeth his
love towards us, in that,
while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Rom 10:9
That if thou shalt confess
with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt
believe in thine heart that
God hath raised Him from the dead, Thou shalt be saved.
After our discussion I realised that I needed a saviour. I went down on my knees in my bedroom and prayed a simple prayer to the Lord, saying that I know I am a sinner and I don’t want to go to hell. I asked Him to save me and on the 25th June 2006 I was baptised in Ireland.
Nico O