Kingdom Case 12: A Journey of Faith

Summary

In this episode, Jethro Casie shares his personal journey of faith, detailing his upbringing in the Catholic Church, struggles with identity during college, and eventual transformation through a relationship with Christ. He discusses the importance of understanding sin, personal convictions, and the impact of spiritual growth on his life. Jethro emphasizes the significance of being set apart from worldly influences and the joy that comes from walking with God.

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Transcript

Jethro Casie (00:01.022)
Welcome back to another episode of Case by Casey. Today we're going to be talking about my journey to where I am right now with my walk with Christ. I'm going to try and be transparent. I don't know if I'll give you guys all the details, but be transparent and how God has built me up and trained me and changed me.

over the course of these now two full years, three years of actually walking with Christ. So let's get started. So I was originally saved because, or even before that, the life I was living prior to meeting Christ and encountering Christ is I was raised Catholic. I went to church my pretty much my whole life up until eighth grade when I was 13.

because I had my confirmation and I thought I had the Holy Spirit in me. I didn't really have an understanding of the Holy Spirit, but at that moment I was like, okay, I finished all my sacraments, which in the Catholic Church is kind of progressions to be fully a Christian, which I'm not sure is biblical in terms of like the way of thinking, or maybe I just don't have a good understanding of it. But after that from 14 in high school,

to 18 didn't really have a relationship with God. I went through phases of do I really really believe in God? I would say agnostic in a sense, but I always believed in God. But I never really had a good idea of who Jesus was. if he asked me growing up, like if I believed in Jesus, I think I would say yes, but I wouldn't really understand what that meant. So to say I don't think I was actually saved because I never that's what I realized growing up.

the way I grew up and maybe other people can relate to this as well, depending what type of Christianity you come from is I never confessed that Jesus Christ is Lord and understood what that meant. So I get to college and I'm of the mindset of, just want to have as much fun as possible. And I wanted to find who I am. I get to decide who I am, which in a sense, I think you can do that, but

Jethro Casie (02:27.788)
I know if you'll define yourself as the way that God wants you to find yourself. And the reason why I say that is because there's a Bible verse and let me actually pull it up here. Apologies, I'm by my window guys, the studio's taken today. But the Bible verse is the ways of a man lead to destruction. Doing this in real time, no editing, so let me find it. Lead to.

destruction. And let's see. The verse talks about in Proverbs 1412, there's a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. And what I've realized, and I was literally just reading this in first John, maybe chapter four or five, I could actually go to that one as well. But it talks about what death is and how

Let me find it here.

and talks about what death is because obviously, where it talks about different types of sin and that how all sin leads to death. So let me see if I could find it. This is.

Jethro Casie (03:52.206)
Thank you, Holy Spirit, where is it? Holy Spirit. Okay, perfect. This is 1 John chapter five from verse 16. If you see a fellow believer sinning in a way that does not lead to death, you should pray and God will give that person life. And I was just, this kind of blew my mind and I wanna do a deeper study on this and share to you guys, God willing, what I've learned. But to my understanding, I thought the wages of sin.

are death and I'm sure there's like layers to this but this made me realize that as because as Christians we'll still fall into sin but we only do that when to my understanding when we're not being led by the Holy Spirit because the Bible talks about if you walk in the desires or if you walk in the spirit you'll fulfill desires of spirit but if you walk in desires of your flesh you'll fulfill desires of your flesh so

The wages of sin are death as the Bible says, but it says also that sinning in a way that does not lead to death. And I'm trying to figure out what this is and off the top of my head, it's sinning.

not consciously in the sense of

I would say sinning and not repenting before God and not changing your mind like practicing sin because it says in the next sentence, but there's a sin that leads to death. And I'm not saying you should pray for those who commit it. All wicked actions are sin, but not every sin leads to death. And this is a little confusing to me, but we'll tackle this at a, it's not confusing, but I just don't understand it just yet. We'll tackle that and then a whole nother Bible, Bible breakdown, another soul episode. I'm not sure when, but.

Jethro Casie (05:36.174)
Back to the story. So I'm 18 years old and I said all this day that I was living my own life leading or on the way to path of destruction. And from 18 to 21, joined the fraternity, made some covenants, some rituals, nothing crazy because I think when you hear the word covenant or ritual, people might think it's like we're in like a circle of salt and, you know, like chanting, but

there was things that looking back on it that I came into agreement with and when you come into agreement with the spirit that spirit now has place control over you. So what was that life like? I was drinking all the time. I was never, I was definitely a drunkard. I was never addicted to alcohol, but I was a drunkard. And I came to realize that I was reliant on alcohol a few times. Well, one time in particular was

I was with the guys who were in my fraternity and we were actually sober hanging out for once. And I realized that I had never hung out with them after a amount of time, like once we joined officially, that I had never hung out with them without being sober. And then I realized, ooh, this is a problem. And then the second thing is, I shouldn't say this, but the second thing is I started not to be, I started to go out sober.

not with the intention to like be sober, but the intention, I had to drive home and get home safe. And I realized like how one, I hate being around drunk people when I'm And two, like all these people aren't able to have fun sober. So if I'm like, I'm not able to have fun sober, why would I be coming out type of thing? And obviously I have the understanding now of the Bible verse where it says, keep a sober mind. Cause I don't think it's just about

Because what the Holy Spirit is telling me now is like, that what the world considers fun isn't actually fun.

Jethro Casie (07:43.983)
because my thing is like who determines what fun is because to my understanding all the things that are I believe God has made everything which is good and everything which is evil and fun is definitely something which I think is of heaven I imagine in heaven we're gonna be having a lot of like fun but what the world considers fun is actually evil because Satan is the ruler of this world so there's and that's why people once I became saved which we'll get to

is lot of things I used to consider fun, people were judging me for. Whether if it was them saying it like explicitly or just in how they now shifted their treatment towards me. So I got saved because my girlfriend bought me or I got saved because I first encountered my girlfriend on a retreat. And looking back at it now, she had told me that she saw like a spirit of lust on me.

And she was right. was definitely, I was of the mindset of I'm going to sleep with hundreds of women. That's the type of mindset I had. And as I gave my life to Christ, she bought me a Bible and I started reading it and got convicted of so many different things and had started having encounters. And this is part of the Christian walk and maybe relatable to some of you as well, because one God truly, one I really believed, this is a Bible verse.

Let me find it real quick because it's so good. Thank you, Jesus. Let me find it. The Bible verse says that we already.

chose Christ, I think.

Jethro Casie (09:30.126)
Okay, perfect. This is Ephesians 1 verse 4. Let me go to it. Ephesians.

Jethro Casie (09:43.104)
see verse four even before let's see King James

Jethro Casie (09:52.238)
Having predestinated us onto the adoption of children by Christ Jesus to himself according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. Let me do a different version. Don't worry, it's gonna all come together. Ephesians 1 verse 4, even before he made the world, God loved this and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault.

in his eyes. And this reminds me of Jeremiah now, where it says, from the from your mother's womb, I ordained you a prophet. So I'm starting to believe that.

people who have chosen Christ on this world because everything happens for spiritual before it happens physically. So people who chose Christ before we actually came to earth will be the same people who accept Christ now. That's why there's some people who doesn't matter if you were to call fire down from heaven, they still won't accept Jesus as Lord because they already rejected him before we came here. And I say that to say that

Once I accepted God and His hand was upon my life, things started to change rapidly. Like the scales were lifted off my eyes. I started to hear things that never used to face me. And I believe like even to touch upon spiritual hearing and seeing. I believe spiritual healing, hearing and seeing first starts, depending on how I guess you're gifted you are, but first starts in the physical and then we grow and grow and grow into spiritual.

So like when I first got saved, I started hearing like curse words differently. Like I used to curse in every sentence. I love to curse. But with the word of God in me or me just the Holy Spirit in me, I just didn't sit well with me. I used to listen to secular music and I'm not saying that you shouldn't listen to secular music. I believe that's a personal conviction.

Jethro Casie (11:57.802)
in the sense of I used to love J. Cole, used to love rap music. I was used to listen to all these songs that were setting my heart upon a certain meditation. And what I mean by that is once I started to switch to listening to Christian music, and it was a tough switch, I resisted. And my girlfriend's the one who mentioned it to me. Like I mentioned, this is a personal conviction. And I believe some sin becomes personal to us. And what I'm

I'm gonna go all over the place. But what I mean by that is there's something that will be sent to me that won't be sent to you. So for some people, as the perfect example, Paul talks about how if you were to cause, if you were to eat, let's say, unclean food, or food sacrifice to gods, like gods with a little teeth, right? To a Christian who's new in the faith,

you shouldn't do that because you would cause that person to like either doubt their faith or to fall into sin. Right. But you might not have the personal conviction to not eat food like for example halal food like food that's blessed by that are blessed by Muslims I guess or Allah whatever it is and you might be

okay with that and you don't feel any type of way but there might be another Christian who feels personally convicted not to eat it so you shouldn't judge that person because that's their own conviction. I'd say it's right or wrong but some sins God will... some things God will make you to consider sin and I'm forgetting what I was talking about but as I began to get saved cursing became one of those things listening to rap music like I had to give up J Cole and I used to

love J. Cole. What else? Even the way I looked at specifically like women, like not looking at them, but then this is the Bible verse that convicted me was, Jesus says like, if you were to look at a woman and lust after her, you've already committed the sin. And that was huge for me. And so, so many other ones, but as I began to go through this process, one, I couldn't relate to the world as I once used to.

Jethro Casie (14:18.83)
And that was tough because it wasn't tough because I was happy and glad and I was joyful because I felt I was being set apart and I'm still being set apart. But it was different because that was the first time and I think this is when you know that you're walking with Christ when the Bible verse comes into your mind where it's like I'm in the world but I'm not of it. Because even though was still part of my fraternity a few years ago, so it's about like 21.

I was in the world, but I didn't feel like I was of it. And maybe on part two, I'll talk about the spiritual growth that I made. So we'll come back to part two in about two weeks or so, case by case.