A video of a woman with Parkinson’s disease being baptized at a London church is going viral.
The woman, 77-year-old Susan, is shown being baptized at The Angel Church in London.
“As surely as the devil is a liar, he is also a liar, he is also a loser,” Pastor Regan Burton King said in a tweet about the video. “Jesus always wins.”
Grace Baptist Church Pastor Ryan Burton King shared the video. His brother is the pastor who baptized the woman in the video, The Christian Post reports.
“It has been an excellent day, but this video of my brother, Regan Burton King, baptizing a frail and elderly woman who is newly trusting in Christ, then picking her up and carrying her out of the baptismal pool, has made it. Blessed be the Lord!”
Regan himself also shared the tweet, noting that Susan was once Jewish, Roman Catholic, and agnostic.
She now “trusts Jesus as Messiah and Lord of her life,” he added.
The church wrote of the baptism that it “celebrated the profession of faith in baptism of an elderly sister who has spent her life as cultural[ly] Jewish and practically agnostic. She is now trusting her Messiah.”
“May the Lamb who was slain continue to receive the reward for His sufferings!” the video’s description of the Jan. 22 baptism reads.
The video generated tweets and comments of support, with many remarking on how “beautiful” it was that the woman came to Christ at her age.
“Praise the Lord, there is rejoicing in Heaven … ‘Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.’ Luke 5:10.’”
Another wrote: “If salvation were by works, this would be impossible.”
“I’m in tears. What a beautiful reflection of the love of Jesus that we can come to faith in Him at any age!”
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Amanda Casanova is a writer living in Dallas, Texas. She has covered news for ChristianHeadlines.com since 2014. She has also contributed to The Houston Chronicle, U.S. News and World Report and IBelieve.com. She blogs at The Migraine Runner.