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[saint701]

Hello Christianity Oasis, All...

I do hope that you all have a great weekend in the Lord!

Blessings!

Matt: 13 [33] Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

My First Measure of Meal

I asked the Lord what He would have me post on here a couple of evenings ago. He immediately showed me that I should share how I have grown up over the years in His Kingdom. I want you all to know it hasn't all been fun and games, but it all began on a positive note.

I was raised in what was a Christian home way back when. We attended the First Christian Church, (Disciples of Christ). Until age 10 I thought Sunday School and Church were pretty much a form of punishment I had to endure each week, although to some degree I did enjoy singing the various hymns. But come the Summer after I turned ten years old our pastor Ernie Marsh called for a revival and hired the denomination's evangelist, Reverend Snodgrass...(don't remember his first name or his initials). My dad, being the good Christian man that he was for the time, took me each night to hear the good reverend preach it, and preach it he did! Also on the table at the same time and preceding the good reverend's week-long visit was a confirmation class.

In the confirmation class we were taught what, in my opinion, should be taught to every ten-year-old child needing to be converted from a child in the flesh to a child in the spirit. Jesus died on the cross for our sins and was raised up from the dead into Heaven on our behalf, and if we would follow Him up we need to make a statement of belief in Him, that He is Jesus, the Christ, the Son of the Living God, and that God raised Him up from the dead after He died for our sins, and be baptized. I believed what I was taught.

Our journey into the Kingdom of Heaven was to begin on the Sunday morning following the week-long revival. On that Sunday morning those of us in the confirmation class were given white garments to wear for our baptism, then sequestered in the choir's dressing room just around the corner from the baptismal well.

When it was my turn to rest beneath the water and then be raised up in Christ Jesus, Reverend Snodgrass asked me, "Do you, Dennis Cook, believe in Jesus Christ, that He is the Son of God, that He paid for your sins on the Cross, and that God raised Him up from the dead?"

"Yes, I believe," I said.

Part 1 to be continued...


Blessings!
Love, In Christ Jesus, Saint701.