This is the audio version of Liberty Gospel track TRE 113. It's a true life story track. The title is Sorrow Turned to Joy. I was the fourth child out of six in our family. My dad was a farmer, but we moved to the city where he took a factory job. I was almost five years old when my dad got pneumonia and died. He was only thirty-three years old. The Bible says, Go to now, ye that say, today or tomorrow, we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell and get gain. Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow, for what is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." James 4, verses 13 and 14. My mother moved us back near the farm, and worked hard to provide us a home. My grandmother also came to help out, but it was just too much for them. She ended up moving and taking me with her. All of us children were eventually placed in separate homes. I ended up in a small town with a nice family, and their daughter was very kind to me. We went to church every Sunday, but I never remember hearing how to go to heaven. Do you attend church? Have you ever heard how to know for sure that you are going to heaven? The Bible said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. Acts 16 verses 30 and 31. In my teens, I met a nice young man, and we were eventually married. Later, we were blessed with four children. One summer at the trailer park where we lived, a young woman came to the park to hold a Bible club for children. Our two youngest daughters, ages 9 and 11, went to it. They heard that the Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross for us, and they repented of their sins and asked Jesus to save them. Have you repented of your sins and asked the Lord Jesus Christ to save you? The Bible says, but God commendeth his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5 and verse 8. The Bible says 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. Romans 10 verse 9. They came home and told me that they had gotten saved. In December, the Baptist church where the girls attended was having a Christmas program. At the end of it, The pastor gave an invitation for people to raise their hands to indicate if they would like to get saved. I wanted to be saved, but I was afraid to raise my hand. What is hindering you from getting saved? The Bible says, but the fearful and unbelieving shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. Revelation 21 verse 8. I was cleaning out the car on a sunny but cold day in January. When I finished and went inside, I suddenly got very weak and could hardly talk. I told our oldest daughter to call Dad, and he came right home and took me to the doctor. The doctor said it was overexertion. He gave me some pills, but the weakness lasted for weeks. It was during this time that I wanted to stop the worldly lifestyle that I'd been living on Saturday nights. What will it take in your life? The Bible says, before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now have I kept thy word. Psalm 119, verse 67. In April, an evangelist was preaching for three nights on TV. On the second night, I got down on my knees and asked the Lord Jesus Christ to save me. In February, We met with old friends, and she also had gotten saved. Within two months, our husbands got saved and, eventually, my mother and stepfather. God turned my sorrow into joy. Do you desire to repent of your sin and turn to the Lord Jesus Christ? Your good deeds cannot pay for your sins, because the Bible says the wages of sin is death. Jesus, your Creator, is the only one that can pay that death penalty for you. because he loved you enough to die on the cross, giving his pure, sinless blood to pay the wages of your sin. The proof that Jesus successfully paid that is the fact that he arose from the grave. The Bible says he was buried and that he rose again the third day, according to the Scriptures. 1 Corinthians 15, verse 4. To be saved, you must call upon the Lord Jesus from your heart. The Bible says 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. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Romans 10 verses 9 and 13. Call upon the Lord Jesus Christ right now. Ask him to forgive you and to cleanse you and to save you. After we ask the Lord Jesus Christ to save us, then God instructs us to get baptized under the water in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Baptism does not save us. It is the outward testimony that Jesus has saved us, and that we want to now live for Him. Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death, that like as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." Romans 6 verse 4. We have some free Bible study courses we would love to send to you to help you we would ask you today to give us a call. If you've made this decision for Christ, or maybe you're already saved, but you would like to do these free Bible studies, give us a call. Our number is 616-754-7151. That number again is 616-754-7151. Just give us your address and tell us that you would like the free Bible study courses. We'd love to hear from you today, my friend. Give us a call.