New life in Christ is a chapter from my E-Book: Buddhist Monk Saved by Jesus. You can download it for free on my Home page ⟶ Buddhist Monk Saved by Jesus
The Joy and Peace After Salvation
In the morning, I woke up in joy remembering everything that had happened the night before, I began to laugh and thank God. What had happened remained; I had received a new life in Christ and personal relationship with God that I never had before. I felt completely different.
Some, who do not want to believe that God, Jesus, heaven, and hell are real, interpret that a person giving their testimony about it only had a flash; that it cannot be known if it is true, and then everything is as it was before.
I was so grateful that this had happened, more than ever before for anything. I got dressed, but I no longer felt comfortable in my monk’s robe. With the head monk, I went into town to gather food. I watched the people who gave us food and knelt before us with joined hands to receive a blessing. I felt sorry for them. I thought to myself, what a pity that they do not know the one true living God.
Realizing the Deception of False Religion
They believe they are on the right path to liberation and knowledge of the truth, yet they live in deception from evil spirits, just as I did before salvation. In my mind, I blessed all people in the name of Jesus and prayed to God that they would receive Salvation, new life in Christ and come to know the truth of the Most High God. I returned and ate breakfast.
I began to walk back and forth along the lake in the beautiful sunny morning. In the Spirit, I felt the strong activity of God. There were many things I did not understand and wanted answers to. I pondered how it is possible that Buddhist teachers are so kind, calm, and helpful to others, yet still live under the powers and deceptions of evil spirits?
The Truth About God, Jesus and Buddha
Immediately, I felt in my head like a strong earthquake, and as if thunder had sounded, a voice in my head said: “I did not send Buddha to speak about God, but Jesus.” I understood that this was about where the knowledge comes from, not just how people behave according to general human standards. Rom. 3:25 God hath set forth Jesus to be a propitiation through faith in his blood,…
God created all of creation; therefore, His Word is the highest or absolute truth, and whatever opposes it is deception. Whether people agree with it or not does not change this. By our standard, some people are good, others are not. However, we judge only by what we see with our very limited knowledge. The less we know the truth from God, the more we believe in the deceptions of Satan and evil spirits who present themselves to people as gods, angels of light, good spirits and they can give us incredible spiritual experiences, as I have had. For those who seek truth and spiritual experiences in false religions, pleasant spiritual experiences can quickly turn into disastrous spiritual experiences and lead a person to madness and suicide.
By the standard or truth of God, we are all sinful; no one is good— only God is good. Only God is all-knowing, all-powerful, perfectly holy, and without sin. God knows the impulses in the heart, the thoughts, words, and actions of every person.
Mat. 19:16 “Good Teacher (Jesus), what good must I do to have eternal life?” He said to him: “Why do you call me good? Only God is good, and no one else.”
Jas. 1:17 “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights.”
1 Kgs. 28:9 “For the LORD searches all hearts and understands every purpose of the mind.”
Buddha was only a human. He created nothing, cannot free anyone from sin, cannot give anyone eternal life, and cannot create a place for eternal life. Only God, who is in heaven, can do this. Buddha did not even give life to himself, just as all other people did not. God gave us life. The foundation of Buddha’s knowledge contradicts the Truth from God. Reincarnation is a lie, his path to enlightenment is a lie, which in reality leads to eternal destruction and not enlightenment.
The Source of Absolute Truth: The Word and Spirit of God
The Holy Scripture is the Word of God, which God gave by His Spirit to the prophets and apostles whom He appointed. Jesus Christ spoke only the Word that he got from God. What is truth and what is not is discerned only by the Word of God. If we do not know the Word of God, then we are seeking in darkness and we perceive all posible lies as truth.
1 Cor. 2:9-15 “What no eye has seen and no ear has heard, and what has not entered into the human heart, the things God has prepared for those who love Him. But God has revealed these things to us through His Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. Who among people knows what is in a person, except the person’s own spirit that is in him? So also no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that God has freely given us. These things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual truths with spiritual words. The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual person, however, judges all things, yet is himself not judged by anyone.”
How Evil Spirits Spread Deception
Satan and evil spirits are masters of lies and deception. People are spiritually blind because they believe in their false knowledge. Evil spirits transfer their knowledge through thoughts and images to certain people, and they then spread it verbally and in writing to large groups of people.
Evil spirits give people knowledge, practices, and rituals so that it enters the lives of those who practice it, and this increases demonic activity and their influence in society. In this way, traditions of deception from the kingdom of the devil are passed down from generation to generation. Anyone who believes and follows these teachings receives spiritual powers and experiences from evil spirits, which are then passed on to others. In this way, people are connected with evil spirits who operate through them. This includes Buddhism, Hinduism, yoga, channeling – evil spirits speak only lies and deceptions through man,… and everything else that is not according to the words from God and the Spirit from God.
We have countless books, teachers, and knowledge that come from evil spirits. People pay large amounts of money to learn and practice what is actually from Satan’s kingdom. They do not realize this because they do not know the truth from God. They do not understand what they are getting into when they join meditation, yoga, or similar groups. They do not understand what is happening or what the consequences will have. They don’t understand – when one of the family members brings figurines or images of false gods into their home and performs all sorts of practices or rituals of meditation, yoga, crystals, fortune telling,… – they bring the power of evil spirits upon themselves and their family.
This is also why most people are not interested in reading the Bible, speaking about God, Jesus, and salvation – which is the only hope unto salvation for every person.
Just as I was, others are convinced that every kind of knowledge is good, that all teachers are good, and that everything is just to help others. Thus, Satan and his evil spirits, through their false knowledge, hide from people so that they do not know that they are following them and working for them to their own destruction and the destruction of other people. Therefore, people often blame God for things caused by evil spirits or other people, while they do not understand the truth from God. Only the Bible fully reveals all truth and deception.
We must urgently come to Salvation, be consequently sealed with the Spirit of God, and have a good understanding of the word of God so that we can come to the knowledge of the truth and then discern what is truth and what is deception. This is the true meaning: “The truth sets a person free.” Today this phrase is used everywhere. People share any knowledge and say that the truth sets a person free, which is not true. Only one truth sets a person free, and that is the Gospel of Our Salvation that God gave for us.
The False Appearance of Light and Peace
People have a completely wrong understanding of how evil spirits operate. They think they can only harm, and that everything that seems beautiful or feels pleasant cannot come from them. They are convinced that their teachers and themselves are not following deceptions of evil spirits. They believe they cannot be deceived and that they are helping others, but in reality, they believe in the deceptions of evil spiritual beings and spread their knowledge to people around them. This was also true for me.
Only the Gospel Brings True Freedom and Salvation
The goal of demonic spirits is to use deception—especially through pleasant spiritual experiences, improved well-being, or healing— to keep people away from the truth and salvation, from knowing eternal life with God and the inheritance in heaven. This can be attained only through faith in Jesus Christ, our Savior.
Even lost people will talk and teach about God, love, morality, and all kinds of things. They will praise others, saying how good and full of light they are, how they help others find peace, health, love, freedom, and a better life. But in reality, they are unknowingly deceived to believe and spread lies, which increases the activity of evil spirits and leads to their destruction and the destruction of others.
2 Cor. 4:3–6 “But if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are lost, whose minds the god of this world (Satan) has blinded, so that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine on them. For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”
If you do not understand the knowledge from God, then you have been following one form of deception or another your whole life. Therefore, the most important thing of all is to receive the Free Gift of Salvation for eternal life and to know this personally. God will speak to you and work in you through His living Word in the Holy Bible, which is life and spirit. For this reason we need to read the Bible.
False Spirituality from Evil Spirits
Then a Thai woman came to our monastery by the lake. She liked bringing food to monks who meditated in the forest and in caves. She asked me if I would like to go with her. I said no, because there were many spirits in the forest and especially in the caves. I had already had enough of that, but she thought I was afraid of them and laughed.
Monk Shalong also invited me, so I changed my mind and joined them. When we arrived in the forest, I immediately felt the strong presence of spirits. Then I saw a monk who had been staying there for several weeks. Now I perceived everything differently; I saw how strongly he was under the influence of evil spirits. He moved very slowly, spoke weakly and slowly, just as I had when I meditated in the cave. However, he was unaware of what was really happening to him. He was experiencing deep inner peace and special spiritual sensations, so he believed it was good.
I went down a stairway into a deep cave and saw an older Westerner who was learning from the monk. I saw that he was completely paralyzed by spirits in an inner state of pleasantness that held him there. The spirits had such great power over them that I said nothing, knowing they were too far into it to understand through words. I asked him, “How do you feel?” He answered, “Very good.” I saw that there was no help for them. I prayed for them the whole time and left. I was deeply saddened when I saw how strongly the evil spirits worked on people, keeping them in bondage without them realizing it, and that there was no other help for them except prayer.
Leaving the Monkhood
Ten days after my salvation, I bought clothes and left monkhood. Those ten days were something very special.
New life in Christ is a chapter from my e-book Buddhist Monk Saved by Jesus. You can download it for free on my Home page ⟶ Buddhist Monk Saved by Jesus.