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Postal Carrier
That was Jerry’s occupation. He was born in Greenville, Michigan, on January 20, 1943. Because he carried mail for 32 years, (first, in the neighboring city of Belding, and then in Greenville), his face was well-known in the area. That was a good thing—not a bad thing, because despite the bills that come in the mail, people still look forward to seeing the mailman come. Everyone hopes for a personal letter in the mail that holds good news. “As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country” (Holy Bible, Proverbs 25:25, KJV).
The mailman gets to enjoy the beautiful sunny days outside as he delivers the mail, but he also has to trudge through the rain and snow when that comes. It is sometimes a hard life for the mailman, but people count on him enduring the hardships, so that they might have faithful mail service.
Some wonderful things in life come through the sacrifice of others, and what they endure for our sakes.
Jerry did not really understand about a special sacrifice that was made for him, until he was 34 years old. His wife learned about it, first. Do you know what that sacrifice was?
“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, CHRIST DIED FOR US” (Holy Bible, Romans 5:8, KJV). Why did Jesus Christ die for us on the cross? That verse tells us why, because we are sinners. “Who his own self BARE OUR SINS in his own body on the tree” (Holy Bible, 1 Peter 2:24a, KJV).
Why are we sinners? Did God make us that way? No, God made everything perfect. “And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was VERY GOOD” (Holy Bible, Genesis 1:31, KJV). We were created in God’s image, and He is good, not evil. “GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE” (Holy Bible, Genesis 1:27, KJV).
Then why are we sinners,
and how did we get that way?
God did not create living things as robots. He made us with a free will—the ability to choose. Jerry was
not a robot delivering the
mail—he made the choice
to be a postal carrier.
Angels are NOT robots.
They have the choice to obey,
or to disobey God. Satan is a fallen cherub angel. “Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth… Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee” (Holy Bible, Ezekiel 28:14-15, KJV).
People are NOT robots. We have the choice to obey, or to disobey God. Adam and Eve chose to disobey God’s one and only rule in the Garden of Eden: “Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” (Holy Bible, Genesis 2:16-17, KJV).
When Jerry learned that his wife had repented of her sins, and asked the Lord Jesus Christ to save her, he thought that he had literally lost the love of his life to someone else—but his wife did not start preaching at him. She quietly followed the Bible’s instructions: “Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a MEEK and QUIET SPIRIT, which is in the sight of God of great price” (1 Peter 3:1-4, KJV). God rewarded her by sending an old friend of Jerry’s along who preached the gospel to him. Jerry then repented of his sins, and asked the Lord Jesus Christ to save him.
Jerry’s occupation
was still delivering the mail, but his passion became delivering
the gospel to both
young and old.
“I declare unto you the GOSPEL …that CHRIST DIED FOR OUR SINS according to the scriptures; And that HE WAS BURIED, and that HE ROSE AGAIN THE THIRD DAY according to the scriptures” (1 Corinthians 15:1-4, KJV).
Jerry delivered the gospel message by going door-to-door; by preaching it in the park; by giving it out while riding the Gospel Float in the parades; and by putting together Bible Study Courses that would be shipped around the world.
TURN to the LORD JESUS CHRIST right now, and ask Him to FORGIVE you, and to CLEANSE you, and to SAVE you.
The Lord Jesus Christ is the Son of God; He is Master, Savior, and Messiah; God Almighty in the flesh; the Creator of heaven and earth. He died on the cross for you, and gave His pure, sinless blood to pay your sin debt. The Lord Jesus Christ arose from the grave the third day, proving that His blood fully paid for your sins. To be saved, you must CALL upon Him from your HEART. “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the LORD JESUS, and shalt BELIEVE in thine HEART that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be SAVED.” “For whosoever shall CALL upon the NAME of the LORD shall be SAVED” (Holy Bible, Romans 10:9,13, KJV).
After we ask the Lord Jesus Christ to save us, then God instructs us to openly confess Him by getting baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. When we go under the water, it pictures death to the old life of sin, and when we come up out of the water, it pictures a new life serving the Lord Jesus Christ.
Yes, I just asked the Lord Jesus Christ to save me, and I desire to now live for Him.
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