Thursday at Bilibid Prison

The same brethren as yesterday (Rody Gumpad, Atoy Franco, Ely Ebuanga and Larry Ebuanga) accompanied me for the second day of the gospel meeting at the Bilibid prison. There were 167 present for today’s lectures.

After a song and opening prayer, I preached on “Repentance & the Changed Life” with Willie Pastor interpreting. We began by showing the meaning of “repentance” by letting the Bible define the term itself from several passages. After showing the meaning of repentance, we discussed the change in life that will accompany one who repents. Three areas were examined specifically: (1) ceasing all use of alcohol and other drugs, (2) abstaining from all sexual immorality and (3) stopping all involvement in gambling.

Rody Gumpad then gave a lesson on “The Destiny of Our Life” identifying the different conditions in which one may find himself during life and the eternal result of those conditions. Rody spoke in Tagalog and was very well received by the audience. Since all of the time was used for teaching, no invitation was offered as we planned to finish teaching tomorrow on “Why Baptism?”

We returned to the hotel as quickly as possible so I could meet Jack Jaco there to deliver help sent to him by some brethren in the U.S. who asked me to serve as the messenger. It was good to see him and Adel.