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Posted on 03/22/2025 3:43:38 PM PDT by daniel1212
Foreman won the heavyweight title at the age of 24 and then again at the age of 45, becoming the oldest title holder in history. But, he says, it was a near-death incident in between those two titles that changed his life and prompted him to become a pastor.
That life-altering event occurred in 1977. He had already lost his first title (against Muhammad Ali in 1974) and was attempting to reclaim his place in another heavyweight championship bout.
“I was in the dressing room … walking back and forward and saying, ‘I don’t care about this boxing match I lost [to Jimmy Young, in Puerto Rico in 1977] I’m still George Foreman.’ You know, I can win this [next match] and I got my movie career, I got my money in the bank. And I could go home and retire now and die. That sneaked into my conversation – ‘die.’
And I couldn’t get it out. All of a sudden I faced death, and I knew I was about to die,” Foreman told Christian Headlines. “So with that in mind, I heard a voice within me say, ‘You believe in God, why are you scared to die?’ And I was afraid – I really was. And I started fighting to keep my life in me. I eventually lost the fight.”...
“I was gone out of this life. Above me, under me, all around me was nothing. The most sad thoughts that you can even come to mind – multiply it. I was in a dump yard of nothing and sorrowfulness. … I remember thinking there was no hope for me – like someone had dropped me out in a sea. There was no land.”
“I still believe there’s a God!”, he said when suddenly, “a hand reached in and pulled me out of nothing and death.” George Foreman Comes Back to Life
“I was alive [and] breathing in that dressing room,” George said. “… [I] fought eight men to get into the shower. I started screaming, ‘Jesus Christ has come alive in me’ after I saw blood on my head and hands. … They couldn’t stop me. I started kissing everybody in the dressing room. I tried to make a break for the door. They said, ‘George, you don’t have clothes on.’ They had to hold me down. … I got a second chance to live.”...
“The most important thing I’d like for the people who go to the movie to take out is that there is hope. … There’s a living God,” Foreman said. “And I’m proof of it. That’s all – forget about the boxing and the winning and the losing and all of that. Faith in God is what that movie is about,” he concluded.
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/evelknievelccfaithstestimony.htm and give God the glory.
Profound.
Wow!
Very moving. RIP George. BTW my Mom loved your grill to her dying day.
Both testimonies - Foreman and Knievel - were amazing. Thanks for posting!
Note that the "Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith" is a Oneness Pentecostal multi-campus church, which holds to the error of Modalism, also known as Modalistic Monarchianism or Oneness Christology, a theological heresy that deviates from the composite unity (Trinity) of the one true God as the Father, Son and Spirit (all sharing the same nature yet differing in position and function), and instead Modalism holds that God is a single person who reveals Himself in different modes or manifestations, such as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, rather than as three distinct persons.
Since it think most who hold to this do son in ignorance, and yet trusting the risen Divine Lord Jesus who saves penitent believer on His account, then I do not doubt many who done so have been born of the Spirit, even if they somehow reason that the Father essentially sent Himself as the Son and the Spirit.
I do not seek to debate this here, but i will provide this from me, which, per usual could use improvement.
Scriptural substantiation on the Trinity, in a systematic study, by the grace of God
And Knievel?!?
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Where Is That?
Never heard That before now...
Must have It.
Oh, this was wonderful.
I had no idea he was a pastor.
Link was in post 1. Incredible story. I never heard it before either.
Daniel1212 offered lagniappe material. Much obliged.
God kept him alive long enough to get straight with him- He kept him safe during all those terrible wrecks- all those years of wild wild living-
he says he’s so free now from fear that he no longer fears flying lol
Thanks FReepers!
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When “Evil” failed in jumping the Snake river that very afternoon after I watched Him land In the River I landed in Riverside County Jail trying to outrun the
California Hiway Patrol. Evil road Harleys and I had a 750 Honda Four.
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I survived by the Grace of God like many other times ...
Thank You Jesus
See post above: https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4306127/posts?page=1#1
Evil in The Crystal Palace with
Dr. SHULLER....WOW who da Thunk it?
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“This is The Day the Lord has Made
Let Us be Glad and Rejoice in It!”
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The Hour of Power began that Way...
IIRC
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And you could not run from the Lord Jesus.
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Yes, in Divine Providence, thereby souls who likely never heard such a evangelical testimony as his - and his "altar call." I read Shuller went around "baptizing" many as a result, via sprinkling.
Luke Chapter 18:13
And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
You CAN run, but you CAN’T hide.
Just ask Jonah!
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