耶稣怎样呼召了我(wariningthepeople)
Personal Testimony: How Jesus Called me OUT
原视频：https://youtu.be/rSXYXhlHuqE
2012年1月16日WarningThePeople(Andrew Tiner)
我制作这段视频是为了回应一些人的问题，他们想要听我的个人见证，想知道耶稣从哪里把我带到今天全时间寻求耶稣的生活中，所以这段视频将简单地直接讲述耶稣如何吸引了我。
在我很小的时候，我的整个生活都是在教会中度过的，我的父母在教会中把我带大，我并不是从单一教派的教会中长大，我们从一个教会换到另一个教会，但我在教会中得到了满足。 我的父母做 "敬拜音乐"，我的生活都是在教会和教会各项事工中。 当我高中毕业时，家里有些人鼓励我成为一名牧师，我决定做青少年事工。 所以当时我祷告说："主啊，我想服侍你。"于是我成为浸信会的教会牧师，在浸信会教会当了7年多的牧师。
在这期间，我读了四年大学，获得了圣经研究和文学的学位，还辅修了基督教事工。 与此同时，我一直在讲道，在教会中服务，做青少年和家庭事工，我是一个有执照的牧师。 我以为我知道所有该知道的事情。 大约在一年半前，也许是两年前，我开始问自己："如果我信错了宗教怎么办？" 起初我想；"这是个愚蠢的想法，因为我知道圣经是真实的，我知道我追随的耶稣是真实的。" 但是我想；"难道每个牧师或每个宗教的老师都不相信他们的宗教是真理吗？"我想；"没有人教他们认为是谎言的东西，人们教他们认可的东西，是因为他们相信它是真理。"
因此，我所相信的是真理，一个佛教徒会认为他所信的也是真理，就像一个摩门教徒、耶和华见证人或无神论者一样都认为自己掌握了真理。那么我怎么知道什么是真理呢？ 而你知道，有的人是在某个教派背景下长大的；他们相信他们特定的教派是绝对正确的。 有所有这些不同的教派，他们都使用同一本圣经。 所以我想；"我怎么知道我拥有的是真理？"
我真的开始寻求这个问题，我一度祷告，我记得我问耶稣；"祷告的力量是什么？我真的想知道它是什么，因为我觉得我的祷告是无用的"。你知道，我会祷告，但我什么也听不到。 所以有一天，我写下了，我写道："耶稣，告诉我，祷告的力量是什么？" 我把这句话贴在墙上的一张纸上，我把它粘在墙上，几乎每天我都祈祷，请求他向我揭示这一点，我开始要求他向我揭示他的真理，如果我在谎言中，请他告诉我。 没过多久，主就开始引导我进入真理。
过了很久，我才完全接受这一点。 有很多次，主会给我一个梦，祂会给我看一些东西，我会把它写下来，我会说："这不可能是主，这不可能是。" 在某个时间点，主会对我说话，他说："教堂里的人没有荣耀我。" 我为之挣扎不已，我把这句话记在心里大约一年，但我并没有真正做什么，我只是继续做我正在做的事情，我开始感到越来越被定罪。 但我一直在祈祷。
这时候，我有自己的团契，我的基督徒朋友和导师，他们都在鼓励我。 我也开始为此祷告，我难过；"主啊，如果我的导师和我生命中的所有这些人，如果他们是错的，请让我知道。" 我告诉你；每一个我认为是我生命中的导师的人，每一个人，主耶稣都给了我一个关于他们的具体的梦，每一个人！而且是一个具体的梦。 我知道这不仅仅是一个梦，因为它就发生在我的眼前。 这是一个关于他们的预言，我看着它发生，我知道圣灵正在对我说话。
我说："耶稣，我想跟随你，因为我所有明智的导师们，我所有的朋友都在把我带入了歧途。" 一天晚上，主对我说，我不知道是梦还是异象，但在夜里，我甚至不确定我是睡着了还是醒着，但我在耳朵里或灵里，听到了一个词，"WORMWOOD（茵陈）"。 我不知道那是什么意思，我醒来后，走到电脑前，在谷歌上搜索这个词，并在我的圣经中研究它，我看到的是《旧约》中的一段话，犹太人对上帝的信仰/信心中充满了偶像和假神。
主耶稣指着这件事对我说："教会里有假的偶像和神"。不是单指我所在的教会，也不是指哪个教会，而是指所有的教会，所有的人的教会，他说："他们没有荣耀我。他们是在拜偶像"。他还向我展示了我生命中的偶像。我说："耶稣，我生命中的偶像是什么。" 他让我看到了我生命中的偶像。所有这些偶像我都尽可能快地除掉了。 我之前喜欢看电影，我丢弃了那些影片，扔掉了我的电视，我不再看任何电视或电影或类似的东西。
那时，我还参加了一个乐队，一个摇滚乐队，我听了很多音乐，我去看了很多硬核、金属表演和这些朋克摇滚表演什么的，主在这方面对我说；"那是偶像"，他说；"放弃它吧"。所以我把我所有的CD和iPod都扔掉了。你知道我扔掉了价值几千美元的东西，我很高兴这样做，没有觉得丝毫可惜，因为主给我的信息是如此真实，我不再关心那些了。我说；"耶稣，我会为你放弃一切，因为你对我说话，你对我来说是真实的，我要跟随你。" 我除掉了所有这些偶像，当我这样做时，圣灵开始真正地改变我的思想，改变我所知道的一切。
我在圣经神学/文学方面的全部学位，所有这些，他让我抛弃了，破碎了我拥有的这一切，我的导师在教会里教给我的一切，然后他开始从头开始建立我，圣灵开始重新教导我。他开始充满我。我晚上睡觉的时候，在我里面的圣灵会整晚对我说话，当我醒来的时候，圣灵已经把话放在我的灵里。他在改变我，直到今天我仍然在寻求圣灵，他仍然在照着他的样式塑造我。我说："无论什么代价，我要寻求耶稣"。
接下来，我去找我的牧师，也就是我的老板，说："耶稣呼召了我，他告诉我教会并不荣耀他，我不能在这里做礼拜，也不能再在这里做牧师了。" 他说；"那你要去别的教会吗？" 我说："不，圣灵呼召我出来"。圣灵真的这么做了，圣灵呼召我离开。我向我工作的教会递交了辞呈，我完全照着圣灵呼召我做的去做了，去免费传扬福音。并警告我的家人和朋友们关于即将到来的，对教会和这个世界上不服从耶稣的人的审判。所以在没有任何其他工作时，我放弃了我现有的工作。
我放弃了所有这一切，因为耶稣对我来说是真实的，他确切地向我启示了我需要做的事情。我凭着信心放弃了工作，不知道我将去哪里，周围的人都认为我很可恶。他们认为这是最愚蠢的事情。但我说："耶稣，你会照顾我，我需要你来照顾我，我不想再依赖人了。" 从那一天起，耶稣一直在照顾我。他会给我工作。如果我没有足够的钱，他也会供应我。他一天天地供应，我能继续服侍他，因为他是我的供养者。 他照顾我。他给我要传讲的信息。这些信息也不是来自于我，不是我捏造出来的。圣灵，是他是在我身上的工作，我已经选择跟随他，不管人们怎么想，也不管他们对我做什么，我只注目看耶稣，我也将继续跟随他。所以我希望这个见证能鼓励你。我希望你也能靠着耶稣的圣灵的力量，被他改变。愿耶稣的恩典与你同在。
I'm making this video in response to a few people who have asked me to make my personal testimony of where Jesus brought me from, to where I am today seeking Jesus full time, and so this video is going to be simply on directly how Jesus got my attention. When I was very young my entire life was saturated in church, my parents brought me up in church, I was never raised in a church that was denominational, we moved from church to church, but I was saturated in church. My parents did "Worship music", and all my life I was in church and in church programs. When I was graduating from high school some people in my family encouraged me to become a pastor and I decided I wanted to work with youth. So at that time I prayed and I said; "Lord I want to serve you" and I became a pastor at a Baptist church, and for over 7 years I was a pastor at a Baptist church.
During this time I attended a 4 year university and I got a degree in Biblical Studies and Literature, and I minored in Christian Ministries as well. And throughout all this time I was preaching sermons, I was serving in the church, I was working with youth and with families and I was a licensed minister. I thought I knew everything there was to know. And it was about maybe a year and a half ago now, maybe 2 years ago that I started asking myself; "What if I was in the wrong religion?" And I thought at first; "Well this is a stupid thing to think because I know the Bible is true, and I know the Jesus that I follow is true." But I thought to myself; "Doesn't every pastor or doesn't every teacher of their religion believe that their religion is truth?" and I thought to myself; "No person teaches what they think is a lie, people teach what they think because they believe it IS the truth."
And so what I believe to be the truth, a Buddhist monk is going to think he is in the truth, the same as a Mormon, a Jehovah's Witness, or an Atheist. So how do I know what the truth is? And you know someone who is raised in a certain denominational background; they believe that their specific denomination is absolutely true. There are all these different denominations and they all use, you know, this same Bible. And so I though; "How do I know that I have the truth?" I really started seeking this out and I prayed at one point and I remember I asked Jesus; "What is the power of prayer? I really want to know what it is because I feel like my prayers are useless." You know, I would pray and I would hear nothing. So one day I wrote down, and I wrote: "Jesus tell me what the power of prayer is?" And I put that up on my wall on a sheet of paper and I tacked it to my wall, and almost every day I prayed and ask Him to reveal that to me, and I started asking Him to reveal to me His truth, and if I was in deception to show me. It wasn't very much longer after that the Lord started leading me into truth.
And it was a long time before I completely accepted that. There were many times the Lord would give me a dream, and He would show me something, and I would write it off and I'd say; "That can't be Lord, that can't be." And at some time point the Lord spoke to me and He said; "The people in church are not glorifying Me." And I struggled with that, I kept that in my mind for about a year, and I didn't really do much with it and I just kept on doing what I was doing and I started to feel more and more convicted. But I kept on praying. And at this point, I had myself surround by my fellowship, my Christian friends and mentors who encouraged me. And I also started praying about that, I sad; "Lord if my mentors and all these people I have in my life, if they're wrong let me know." And I'll tell you something; every single one of the people that I considered a mentor in my life, every single one of them, the Lord Jesus gave me a specific dream about them, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM! And a specific dream, and I know it wasn't just a dream either because then it happened before my eyes. It was a prophecy about them and I watched it happen and I KNEW the Holy Spirit was speaking to me. And I said; "Jesus I want to follow you because all my wise counsel, all my friends were leading me astray." One night the Lord spoke to me in, I don't know if it was a dream or a vision, but in the night, I'm not sure even at this point if I was asleep or awake, but I heard in my ears or in my spirit the word, "WORMWOOD". And I didn't know what that meant, and I woke up, I went to my computer and I googled that and I researched it in my Bible and what I came across was a passage in the Old Testament where the Jewish people had let false gods and idols infiltrate their belief/faith in God.
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