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j g bellett Woollen and Linen - Examples from the scriptures of those who have mixed truth with error.  J G Bellett was a brother from the United Kingdeom who wrote his works in the 1800's.  He examines mixtures in the Bible such as the Parable of the Tares, Lot and Sodom, Jonathan  and the Palace, the Days of Ahab, Jehoshaphat, Obadiah  and others.
Ron Berquist ~ Cleveland, Ohio Print E-mail

           When I was a child, my parents persuaded us to attend Sunday School. However, I do not recall ever hearing the true gospel of the grace of God until much later in life. I went to a Sunday School that did not teach a person could be saved and know it.

            As a young person, I wanted no part of religion. Instead, I looked for all the excitement and passing pleasure I could find. Whenever I thought about God, I wondered if He even existed.

            At the same time, there was much in the world I could not understand. Wars, riots, murders, adulteries were committed openly without seemingly any judgment from Heaven. This puzzled me and whenever I searched for answers in the Bible, I only became more confused. In time, I lost interest in these things and yet lived with a hidden fear that there was a real God.

            One night, I drank too much and got arrested for driving while intoxicated. I spent the night in jail. This was my wake-up call to take a closer look at my life. I began to see I was wasting my life and I was living without meaning. I needed something firm to stand on.

            As I thought about God and the purpose of my life I wondered, “what value am I to the Creator?”

            While reading the Bible and using the book “Good News For Modern Man” as a reference, I learned I was a sinner on the way to hell. This was a very personal concern between God and me. All things appeared hopeless, and that made me weep. The fear of death entered my life and I spent many sleepless nights listening to my heart beat. At times it sounded like it was going to explode. I realized I needed help. Once more I went to the Bible even though I was hesitant because it always brought conviction upon me. While in a state of desperation, I found hope in one word. That word was “awake” in Romans 13:11. I saw that God was trying to tell me there was a way out of my sinful state.

            I determined to attend a church where they taught directly from the Word of God. As I prayed for guidance, God answered by bringing me into contact with an old friend who had himself been saved a few years earlier. He explained God’s wonderful plan of salvation from the Scriptures. He asked me to accompany him on a short trip to New Philadelphia, Ohio to visit his brother who had recently come to know Christ as His Savior. His brother showed me a chart called “The Two Roads and the Two Destinies.” That night, I saw that Jesus Christ is the Savior of sinners. As I looked at the door on the chart, illustrating that Christ is the only Door to Heaven (John 10:9), I trusted Him as my own personal Savior. Truer words were never spoken, “Jesus saith, I am the way the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6).


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