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Themes Repentance ESCAPE AND SURRENDER Dr. Gerhard Dirks was brilliant! His IQ (Intelligent Quotient) was 208. He eventually secured over 140 patents with IBM. To many, he is the father of the computer. He lived in Germany and was trained as a lawyer. Adolph Hitler and his Nazi government came to power and eventually World War II took place. The German government assigned him a job at a company in Prague Czechoslovakia. Dirks realized the Russian army would soon arrive in Prague so he plotted how to get his wife, his children, and his mother out from Nazism and Communism. First he sent his wife and children to a safe place in Germany. Then he memorized every detail of some maps. The day the Russian troops arrived in Prague, Dirks and his mother escaped. They went from village to village following the detailed map in Dirks head until they arrived safely. As Dirks then plotted to leave Germany completely, he began work on a secret project. He wanted to figure out how to store information and retrieve information - exactly what computers do today. For four days in a row, he went to a nearby beach. Each day, he worked 8 hours writing all the math down in the sand and memorizing it. At night, he recorded his work on a tiny scrap of paper. One day, he would make his work come true and he did. Gerhard Dirks did not believe in God because he not understand how there could be a judgment day. He had been working for a long time on trying to store and retrieve data. How could remember every sin from every person? That is a lot of data! After the war, Dirks went to a special medical clinic for treatment. He met an old friend there who had recently gotten saved. Finally he agreed to go to a meeting. The speaker challenged the audience to take four sheets of paper and write every time you lied on page one, everything you hide from people on page two, everything you have done wrong to your friends, and on page four write the name of people for whom you have done something good without hoping or wanting something in return. When he got home, Dirks struggled with the challenge. Finally he began to fill out the four pieces of paper. The first, second, and third pages filled very quickly. The fourth page lay blank. The more he thought, the longer it stayed blank. Suddenly, he realized how God stored the memory of all our sins. Inside Gerhard's head was the memory of all his sins. All God had to do was print it out in the "remembering" part of Dirks' mind. As he looked at the three filled pages and the blank fourth page, Dirks said, "Gerhard, I don't think I like you." Falling to his knees, Gerhard realized his sinfulness and begged God for forgiveness. Recalling the story of the death of christ and that "the blood of jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin" (1 John 1:7). Dirks realized why Christ died - for him. Gerhard Dirks surrendered and would agree "let God be true, but every man a liar" (Romans 3:4). Have you surrendered to the truth?
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