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                            Deliverance from Hypocrisy
 
 

 Dear Sir/Madam
 
  I am a refugee from the Congo D.R and have been living in Cape Town (South Africa) for 5
years now.
  I want to share with my fellow Christians my testimony which is about my
spiritual transformation from hypocrisy.
 
 
                                         My testimony
 
I was born in a Christian family, where we were all involved in a certain
ministry and I was involved in the youth ministry. I use to preach, sing and pray
a lot in the overnight prayers that we prayed every Friday.  Everything
was fine until I became a hypocrite.
 
I started doing terrible things in my hypocrisy. I became addicted to
pornographic films and then I began to play around with girls from the
neighborhood and girls from the very youth group I was leading.  After that
I began partying, drinking and doing all the crazy things people my age were
doing, which led me right into the darkness. I remember some people that
knew me as a Christian and they came to talk to me about the terrible things I was
doing, but I ignored them and kept on living the life of sin.
 
It took the life of my father to for me to understand.   And you know what they say “
It’s better to go to a home where there is mourning than to one where there is
a party.”  When I lost my father, my whole world turned up side down. Through

that sorrow and pain, I began to think about my life and about all the bad
things I had done. It’s through that time that the Lord opened my eyes.
 
I always thought that I was doing what Jesus told us in (Matthew 28 : 19)
where he says “Go and make of all nations disciples of mine. But how can one do
that without being transformed spiritually.

(Luke 11: 39) says: you Pharisees clean the outside of a cup and dish, but
inside you are full of greed and wickedness. That’s exactly what I was doing;
cleaning the outside, while the inside was full of sins; which made me even
worst than a pagan. I always use an experiment to clarify that fact.
 
We all know what the bottle of mineral water looks like and I have seen one
with a label that says “ pure water.”  Now if you put tap water in that bottle,
nobody would know that it is tap water until they test it, because the label
describes it to be pure. That’s exactly the kind of person I was, because the
label on me said that I was a Christian, but the water or the spirit in me wasn’t’’                  purified.  Now how could I make disciples with that?
 

(Jeremiah 17:10) says: I the lord, search human minds and test human
hearts. That shows me that I was a Christian, but I wasn’t worthy to be called
a disciple of God, because of my hypocrisy.  The following verses opened my
eyes:
 

(Matthew 7:21- 23) in these verses, the Lord made me realize that
I was wasting my time pretending to be his disciple.
  

(Mark 7: 6- 8) in these verses, the lord describes me as an
hypocrite, because I was holding fast to the traditions of men, which is to look
perfect on the outside.
 

 (John 4 : 23- 24) in these verses, the lord told me to worship Him
in spirit and in truth, because the truth can only be found in the spirit.
 
   (Romans 12 2) in this verse, the Lord told me not to conform to
the pattern of the world, but to be transformed spiritually.
 
  But how can one be transformed spiritually? (Romans 8 : 13- 14) says:” If by the spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you’ll live.
 
  For all who are being led by the spirit of God these are the sons of God.”
 

Putting to death the deeds of the body by the spirit, is basically being
transformed spiritually. And the story of the 4 friends, clarifies that fact.
 
The four friends were Andrew, Ben, Claude and Dave. They use to spend time
together, smoke together and do everything together. But one day, Andrew
decided to quit smoking, so he told the three other guys. Then Ben said to him “
everybody says that, but we’ll just wait and see how far you can go.” Very
sad Andrew went off, thinking that it’s over. Since the quitting couldn’t be
done over night, he was tempted again and ended up smoking secretly. But very
soon Claude saw him and told the other two guys, then together they went to
confront him. As we all know, people in that situation use anger to escape. So
he told his friends to go to hell, and that he would live his life the way he
want to live it. And that very reaction made him even worse. He ended up
smoking even more than he used to smoke on a daily basis.
 
  A few months later Dave also decided to quit smoking. But he was wiser,
because he never told any body. He took one step at the time. From smoking 20
Cigarette a day, he went down to 15 then 10,7,5,3,1 and suddenly he stopped
completely.  When Ben and Claude realized that he wasn’t smoking at all, they
tried to confront him as they did with Andrew, but Dave just smiled and walked
away because he had a secret which was his spiritual transformation.
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  He managed to put to death the deeds of the body by the spirit which is also
what being born again is all about.  He was transformed spiritually by God .
 
  Through this story I realized that, I had to be as wise as Dave, by keeping
my spiritual transformation a secret between me and my God , because once the
secret is revealed, the devil will use the very people you told that very
secret, to get you back to the darkness. And that little secret is our strength
in God.
 
  For just as Samson lost his strength by revealing his secret , so can we.
 
  The spiritual transformation is always done progressively, and I always
compare it to my painting strategy.
 
   There was a time in my life where I was into Art. I would buy a cheap board,
draw on it, paint it, frame it and sale it once done, at the price it worth.
From nothing it became something with a price.
 
  I remember one day, I was right at the beginning of my work, when my brother
walked in the room where
 
  I was working, and said “ I don’t think this one is going to be as beautiful
as the others you did.”
 
  I just smiled, because I could see in my mind what the painting was going to
look like, once done.
 
  The very same thing happens to us (Christians) during our spiritual
transformation.
 
  We actually become the speechless boards and God is the artist with the
vision of what we will turn out to be at the end, who expect us to be patient
and obedient during the process of transformation, despite the fact that we don’
t look good enough to the world.
 
 God want to set us in a position, which is going to be comfortable for him to
do his work in our lives.
 
  He will first take us to an area which is suitable for our spiritual
transformation to be done, then draw his plan on us, paint us and frame us. And
when he takes us out, we’ll be worthy to be called his disciples.
 
  My area of transformation has been the death of my father, which the Lord
used to transform me spiritually.
 
  And through that process I have learned that without Wisdom we can never get
to the spiritual transformation. For Wisdom itself is defined as being prudent
or discerning over matters.
 
  I think of Wisdom whenever I want to cross a busy road because I look to
the right and the left before I actually cross the road. People don’t blindfold                 themselves before crossing a busy road because they don’t want to die and                              wisdom keeps you from dying in sin.
 
  I remember seeing one day a mad person in the middle of the free way with a
trolley full of cardboards, not minding what happening around him. Cars drove
past him very fast from both sides and I was standing on the side of the free
way thinking “Oh,my God, is he mad?” Eventually he was.
 
  I believe that the Lord is watching us, walking in the middle of the free
way, which is the world with trolleys full of our businesses and worries
not minding what happening around us.
 
  Anything can happen anytime in the free way and God is looking down on us
thinking “ Are they mad?”
 
  (Mathew 21: 43) says: The kingdom will be taken away from you and given to a
people that will produce the proper fruit.
 
  The time has come for us Christians to be transformed spiritually while we
still can because life is too short.
 
  During the Tsunami disaster, a journalist said “ where was God when this
happened. “ But some day God will ask “Where were you when the gospel was
around you?”
 
  Whenever I think about this, I thank God. Because, even though I’ve lost my
father, I have found my God.
 
 
 FREDDY KALENGA