The Pablo Montez Junior Story

The Pablo Montez Junior Story

by Pablo Montez

What I Was

When I was 8 years I started smoking.

At 10 years old I was molested and ashamed, and at 11 years old I started sniffing glue.

At 12 I was stealing cars, breaking into homes, and having sex. I started running away from home, skipping school, and having sex. I was locked up in juvenile homes and put in a foster home.

At 16, along with 6 other teenagers I was in a car accident at the speed of 120 mph. Five were killed. Only two survived - the driver and me.

At 17 I was arrested for breaking into a place of business while carrying a gun. This was my first time in an adult institution.

I got caught selling and doing drugs, and was again locked up in the Detroit House of Correction.

At 21 I began a long addiction to heroin, then cocaine, and then for 20 years I was addicted to crack cocaine.

By the time I was 50 years old I had lost everything - my wife, my home, my job, and most of my family.

I was $25,000 in debt. I was broke to my knees. I was missing something in my life and I had nowhere to turn to but God and His Son Jesus Christ. My life was empty.

What I Am

On a July Sunday morning in 2006 I went to a church.  I started attending faithfully. I got into the choir and started working in the food pantry, feeding people less fortunate than I. Like Paul the Apostle, I felt that I was the biggest sinner of all.

As I kept attending church and doing his work, I felt changes within myself. I no longer needed drugs to find satisfaction. I now had a joy that was springing up from within.

As Jesus was changing my life, my mind, heart, and soul, and my thoughts, the Lord me led to Fellowship Baptist Church. As I attended church the Lord directed me into doing the bus ministry - picking up children to bring them to know the Lord.

I am not where I should be, but I am not where I was. Each day I feel the Lord changing me as I pray and read His Word.

Christ Made the Difference

Jesus Christ made all the difference in my life. Since I have accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and let Him take control of my life, my life has not been the same. My life is worth living now.

If I wasn't walking with Jesus Christ, I would either be a drug addict.. 

or in jail..

or dead and hell bound.

With Jesus Christ in my life, I wake up happy with joy and peace that Jesus Christ gives me.

All the drugs in the world could not replace the joy, happiness, and peace that Jesus Christ gives me.

There is ONE WAY to have Eternal Life.

You must be BORN AGAIN. 

No Priest, Pastor, or Preacher, not even the Pope can get you into Heaven.

You must be BORN AGAIN.

How can you be born again? Know this:

Eternal life is a gift. We don not deserve it and we can not earn it.

"the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 6:23b

"for by grace are ye saved through faith.. it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." Ephesians 2:8,9

All are sinners and under God's judgement

"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." Romans 3:10
"For the wages of sin is death." Romans 6:23b

Christ paid the penalty for our sin

"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8

John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

We receive eternal life by receiving Christ

"But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name." John 1:12
John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

Contact me at 313-748-2070. To listen to a dramatic presentation of my story, go to
http://unshackled.org/media/2013/pgm_040713.asx
http://unshackled.org/media/2013/pgm_041413.asx

I wrote this down, with Pablo's permission, from his tract by the same name.  Mary and I met Pablo at the Big Boy Restaurant in South Lyon Michigan and became friends. - Mike Dittmer