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if people call you celebrity then i am too.
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What the Lord is doing in your life is testimony itself of the Truth. Many are responding to the goodess of our Lord as a direct result of the ministry He has entrusted to you. It’s much easier to be a spectator sitting in the stands then to be on the playing field getting hit. He’d do well to stop making excuses for his choice of unbelief and look at the condition of his own heart. The choice not to believe is a personal one, the rejection of God Himself (and the work He is doing in your life), not based upon a person’s PERCEPTION of someone else. Many are coming from the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of Light. That’s the whole point! “I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that I, the Lord, Who call you by your name, Am the God of Israel” Isaiah 45:3

Based on first hand experience – and what an experience it was =0) – you are committed to the battle for souls. “Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses” 1 Thimothy 6:12. We continue to stand with you and your family in prayer! We love y’all!

I’ve been a Christian since 1975, and since then I have failed so many times in so many areas that I can’t remember them all. I learned along the way that my heart is exceedingly wicked, and on my own I can’t even really know it’s hidden issues and agendas fully.
I’ve known Victor since 1991, and I’m not surprised at all that God is using him. What I have seen is that God uses the poor, stupid, sinful, misdirected, cynical, clinical, and you name it when it is least expected or when there is no awareness of it happening.
Victor is like all of us who claim Jesus Christ as our covering. His best day is probably alot like mine…pitiful filthy rags when compared with the righteousness of Christ. Anger…yea, I can see what the guy might be talking about. Acting at times like he is completed even while in this earthly state…yea, that too could and probably is VIctor.

But so it goes with all of us. No matter who you are, my guess is you can’t keep your guard up 24 / 7. I can’t, and for the most part, I quit trying. I never was a success at it. The Victor I know is just a poor dumb guy who doesn’t know any better than to be himself and let his guard down at times. He should be able to keep the image up by now, especially in public and certainly in private, but he just is so limited. He isn’t capable of holding the standard…and I’m glad.

If he really could, I’d be torn up. I’ve bought in to the “all of us gone astray and the ” narrow way thing”. I don’t want to find a Billy Graham that has it all together, because that would only indict me on another plain with my God. If just one “Victor” out there could be a perfect standard bearer, then why not two, four, ten thousand…me? But as we all know…we can’t hang. We are ultimately doomed to pay the price for our poor dumb stupid actions, attitudes, attempts at holding up 24 / 7 through our own efforts.

I don’t know the guy who made the comment, but I’d like to say I understand what he is feeling. The enemy has compared me to some of you in the quiet recesses of my thoughts on many occassions. He has put me into a thought process that questioned every motive you can think of. I’ve been angry at Victor and many more like him on numerous occassions. But in the end, I was only angry at myself for not being able to hold the standard myself. I hate to fail, but it’s too late. If you put $100 bill in the offering Sunday and I see it, I’m probably going to think several thoughts about you and your motive. If I see you talking about leading some person to Christ, I hate to tell you but I’ll probably think words like GRANDSTANDING. If you go down the isle or ask for prayer out loud this week and I hear it, I want each of you to know I’ll try not to let my mind wonder about what it is you are really doing or have done. I’ll try, but I’ll probably be sure in “my heart” that you’re hidding something. It’s those voice inside…you know?

So, if you fail to meet my expectations, I hope someone hits me with a board. But what will most likely happen will be I’ll again put on my robe as “JUNIOR HOLY SPIRIT”. and I’ll judge you. But it doesn’t fit me at all, and pretty soon I’ll hear a voice inside saying something like “You are right Pete, he is a pitiful soul and isn’t it funny he looks just like you…a hopeless sinner in need of a Savior. And then I’ll again stop and plead for the Blood of Christ to Cover and Cleanse me. It’s daily thing with me. I just can’t help it.

Have a wonderful day!

Pete