How an Atheist Met Jesus During a Near-Death Experience

he goes to serve food to this little seven-year-old boy dying of cancer and the little boy said Do You Believe In Jesus and he said no I you know I don't really believe in all that but you know if there is a heaven I'm sure you will go there and he says to him I'm going to pray for you and you'll be there too this CEO he was a pharmaceutical executive and then a CEO of several biomedical companies again these guys are like they got a lot to lose in fact when he first read my book imagine Heaven um and and he he came to me and he was he was nervous about talking publicly about it because he's like my career will be gone and yet they do you know um but he is there with Jesus he he had uh six embolisms travel up his leg and had a a pulmonary embolism blocked his breathing then his body goes into seps shuts down and he finds himself in again this incredibly beautiful place and and he's with Jesus he's walking with him and then Jesus starts to show him these vignettes of his life okay and there was like a Life review now in his case it wasn't everything um but he showed in these different points and this one was um well first he had a really hard upbringing so uh he had no friends he was in and out of the hospital a lot uh he was overweight so he was bullied a lot um and and Jesus is showing him this and he's like why are you showing me this like he's basically like this sucks don't why are you making me relive this because they not only see it you feel it you think it you remember everything as if you were reexperiencing it but not just what you were thinking and feeling what the other people you were interacting with were also thinking and feeling so it's like you experience your life in a relational way from God's perspective that's what's so life altering about it but what was kind of cool in Randy's case is he asked why are you showing me this and then it dawned on him were you there with me and he and he and Jesus looks at him and he says I was always with you just waiting for you to turn to me and and he was basically showing them that you know even in all the suffering he's been there through it he's been there with him and um he goes to another venue where he sees himself now and he became an atheist he went to Northwestern University he tried to disprove God and disprove prove all religions and he went through this whole uh you know he he was a pretty mean atheist for a while and um and so he's working as an orderly in the hospital and he goes to serve food to this little seven-year-old boy dying of cancer so this this is Randy standing with Jesus in this heavenly experience watching and experiencing this scene play out again and the little boy he comes in little boy said I'm dying but I'm going to go to heaven and Randy said well I'm I'm really sorry but you know if there is a heaven I'm sure you will go there and the little boy said Do You Believe In Jesus and he said no I you know I don't really believe in all that but you know I'm glad you do I'm I'm sure you'll you'll be there and the little boy this little seven-year-old dying of cancer right and he says to him I'm going to pray for you and you'll be there too and Randy standing there with Jesus in heaven watching this little boy pray for him who he didn't even know and he realizes that God used even that in all the things of his life to get him there wow and so the reliving these yeah these life reviews what people what people commonly say to me is that it was their whole life and like Dr Mary Neil said it was like my life was laid bare for all it's good and all it's bad and and so they're they're seeing this again now here's the thing Sean is most people fear that you know I have there are things in my life I don't want to sit there and watch before God right and then I started to realize okay wait a second this is God do I really think I've been hiding do I really think he doesn't know everything and that's the reality no he's been with you always and when you start to realize the character of God that that God cares about us like like you care for your little son like I care for my daughter and son my little granddaughters more so infantes more so and he has compassion and mercy and he wants to help us it's not a it's not a condemning that's what Jesus said I didn't come to condemn I came to rescue and so that's what near-death experiencers commonly say I say God was not judging me I was judging myself God was unconditionally l loving me and supporting me through this learning about my life why do you think Humanity does put God in that box that we were discussing at the beginning where where it is Judgment rules it's it's like a I've always viewed him as an authority like a discipline enforcer you know what the cosmic cop yeah the cosmic cop I like that one yeah my friend likes to say you know we look at God like he's sitting up there you know and he's just a little bit perturbed and angry and like is anybody having fun down there well cut it out get back to work yeah where did that come from nothing can be further from the truth you know what the last thing Jesus said his last night on earth before he knew he was going to be crucified which by the way I like to point out he willingly took the bullet for us it wasn't forced on him you know he said you could do nothing to me if it weren't the will of my Father in Heaven he laid he took the bullet and right before that that night before he said um this is in John chapter 15 he said I've told you these things so that my joy would be in you and your joy would overflow so think about it everything we love about this life you know every good thing every beautiful thing all the pleasures all the adventures um all the competition I'm a soccer player I still play uh I love it you know where do we think we got the ability to experience good things like that no matter where you're watching Shan Ryan Show from if you get anything out of this please like comment subscribe and 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Length: 8min 10sec (490 seconds)

Published: Wed May 22 2024