Our Footsteps: An Eternal Investment

Thursday, December 11, 2008

An Eternal Investment

This past week my first-grade Sunday School teacher went to heaven. She was 85 years old. Her obituary said she taught Sunday School for 46 years. It also went on to say that she loved the kids as her own. I believe that... I remember sitting around that classroom table in the basement of the church, learning all those Bible stories of Noah, Abraham, Moses, Samson and David. For me, it was 38 years ago but it seemed like yesterday that I was the recipient of her patience, kindness and commitment. Forty-six years she did that, and for countless other little kids. Did June play a role in God's grand scheme to bring me to where I am today? When I get to the other side, I'll be hunting her down to give her a big hug and tell her thanks. Those years of hard work and labor of love for the kids paid off, at least for me. Every ounce of energy she invested into teaching us is, and will be, paying eternal dividends. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones...

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I Believe...

1). I believe that there is one God. I believe God consists of three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
2). I believe that God is holy, righteous, loving, and just.
3). I believe that mankind is separated from God by sin; that sin entered the world through Adam and death through sin.
4). I believe that, because of sin, man is condemned. Because of God’s utter hatred for sin, there is an eternal conscious punishment in hell for all those who do not come to God on His terms, dealing with their sin.
5). I believe that confessing our sins and confessing Jesus Christ as Lord is the only way to properly deal with the sin that has infected everyone. Jesus Christ paid our sin debt on the cross; reconciliation by substitution. There is nothing we can do to add to the finished work of Christ.
6). I believe in the security of the believer, that once he is truly born-again, there is nothing that would cause him to lose his salvation.
7). I believe that upon the death of a true believer in Christ, that he is ushered immediately into the presence of the Lord, where he will live in everlasting joy in Heaven, experiencing eternal fellowship with God.
8). I believe in believer’s baptism by immersion. I don’t believe baptism is necessary for salvation, but it is a beautiful outward profession of an inward possession.
9). I believe in a literal 6-day creation where God created the heavens and the earth and then rested on the seventh day.
10). I believe that the words written in the Bible are truth. I believe that the Bible is inerrant in its parts and in its whole. I believe that the 66 books that make up the canon of scripture make the Bible complete and that God inspired the words written therein. The things that were written down in the Bible are sufficient for every need we have. Not only is God’s Word sufficient, but it is far superior to any other method of handling the problems that man faces, since He has given us all things pertaining to life and godliness.