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The testimony of a thief who met God

My name is Cristian Pantea and I was born in 1973. The first part of my life began with a dreadful alienation from God and ended with several criminal offenses for which I was taken to court, convicted and imprisoned five times. The thing that made me go back in prison was always stealing, I have learned to live an irresponsible and easy life, and after each release i became a better expert in doing evil.
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The testimony of a thief who met God
My name is Cristian Pantea and I was born in 1973. The first part of my life began with a dreadful alienation from God and ended with several criminal offenses for which I was taken to court, convicted and imprisoned five times. The thing that made me go back in prison was always stealing, I have learned to live an irresponsible and easy life, and after each release i became a better expert in doing evil. So my life continued until one day when I was released after the fifth time in prison just a few days before Christmas. I looked forward to the holidays to come in order to party. The problem occurred when someone rang the door of the apartment where I lived, there was only an hour before I had to go to the party and wake up with my best friend at the door. I realized that my program will hurt because the friend who had come to visit was a former companion who until recently was committing wrongdoing, but he had found God. I was sure that it would start with his stories about God, I was looking to get rid of him, to postpone for another time ... but no chance. This time the party was held without me, through the witness of my former friend I came to see God. A few hours later, we were both on the chairs in the lobby, I do not even know how many cigarettes I smoked, I woke up with an empty pack but what made it tragic was that i realized that also my soul was empty. I've heard these stories but this was the first time when everything applied just to me. It was the night when God found me and talked to me personally, it was the day when a thief was turned into an honest man, it was the moment from which I began working for the first time. My life has changed radically. It was the year when I became a new man, a man with a criminal record but with a life washed through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. What happened in my life has led me to speak. Since 2013 I joined the work of the Foundation "Rescue" in prisons. I went in and still go in prisons those prisons where police used to take me until recently, but now God leads me to confess what He did to me. Last entry took place in November of 2015 when, together with a group of singers from Toflea, I testified about what God has done in my life to a group of 60 inmates. I can say that I know their feelings, fears and hopes, because I've been there, so I can talk about the new life that only God gives to both thieves and honest people, a transformed life after meeting with God, the God who erases criminal records, gives family to those who are forgetten by their families, who gives a future to those without a chance. I Give glory to God because before him there is no such a thing as thief or unrecoverable sinful man.
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