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The
Stakes are High, The Time is Short
Book excerpt from
'Blood and Fireworks'
by Lieutenant Xander
Coleman
Do you know that you and I are in a war?
Sometimes we don’t realise because we can’t see it, but all
around us good forces and evil forces are fighting each other.
God is going to win the war, because He is
Good, and stronger than any evil. But He wants you and me to
help Him fight in this war to save the world from evil.
Before we can do that, though, Jesus needs
to save us.
You see, if I died without knowing Jesus,
I’d go to hell for eternity. And eternity is a VERY long time.
That’s how high the stakes are.
It’s not as if you get a ‘do-over’ or a
mulligan. This life you are living is the only kick at the can
you get. After that, we all face God’s judgement. Time is
short. And it is shorter for some people than for others. At
any moment, my life could be over.
But the Lord Jesus Christ will save me from
hell if I turn away from the evil inside me and believe in Him
to make me new. And then He wants me to help Him rescue all of
the rest of my family, friends, class mates, team mates, and
neighbours before they tumble over the
cliff into hell. It’s the same for you. To
the rescue! The stakes are high, and the time is short!
This picture depicts what we’ve just
explained. And we’ll show you other excellent pictures from
The Salvation Army’s official periodical the War Cry from way
back when your grandparents used to read the paper. We’ve
collected all the best War Cry pictures we could find that
stir up love for God and lost people and we explain them to
you on each page. You can colour them in; you can memorise the
Bible verse of the day; you can do one each day, if you like;
you can share them with your friends. Read the story. Ask God
to help you understand. And then colour away!
The Salvation Army’s way of doing things is
‘Capture, Train, Deploy’. We capture slaves of the devil for
Jesus. We train them up to be warriors of Jesus. And we deploy
them on the fronts of the salvation war.
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