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From: "Sherry's Inspirational List" <sherrysinspirationallist@hotmail.com>
Date: Aug 10 06:47AM -0400
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He Lives
Author: Roy Allan Anderson
A prominent minister in Los Angeles was holding special revival meetings in
his church a few years ago. Among those attending night after night was a
gentleman obviously unacquainted with the general program. After a few
meetings the preacher made a special point of speaking to him, and
discovered that he was not a Christian.
"What do you think of the Christian religion?" the preacher asked.
"Oh," said the visitor, "Christianity is very interesting as far as it goes,
but I could never be a Christian."
"Why?" asked the minister.
"Because I could never believe that I could get salvation from a dead Jew,"
was his reply.
"Neither do I," said the preacher.
"Oh, yes, you do," he said. "Don't you Christians claim that salvation comes
through the death of Christ?"
"Not through His death alone," said the preacher, "but rather because Christ
rose from the dead."
"Ah," said the visitor, "you can never prove that to me."
Then began a long and interesting discussion. The preacher was well informed
and brought up argument after argument. But all to no avail. The gentleman
held to his position. Realizing that his arguments had failed to convince
him, the preacher said:
"My friend, I have not given you my most important reason. I know that
Christ is living because He lives His life in me."
"What do you mean by that?" asked the man.
For the next hour the preacher told what Christ meant to him, showing from
both the Old and the New Testament how the Holy Spirit operates in the life
of one who yields himself to God.
"I'm beginning to understand," remarked the stranger, "and I must know more
about this. I feel a need in my own life."
Before parting they lifted their hearts to God in prayer. Reaching his home
that night, the minister, Pastor A. H. Ackley, slipped into his study and
penned these well-known lines. The next morning he set them to music, and
thus was born one of our best-known gospel songs. Here are the first stanza
and chorus of those words that so well emphasize the fact that Christ lives.
I serve a risen Saviour, He's in the world today;
I know that He is living, whatever men may say;
I see His hand of mercy, I hear His voice of cheer,
And just the time I need Him He's always near.
He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today!
He walks with me and talks with me along life's narrow way.
He lives, He lives, salvation to impart! You ask me how
I know He lives? He lives within my heart.
The greatest argument in favor of Christianity is not the organization of
the church; not her literature nor her buildings; not her institutions nor
her schools of learning; not even her hospitals nor her far-flung mission
fields. Rather it is the power of God seen in the lives of those who make up
the church.
By Roy Allan Anderson, Signs of the Times, April 1964.
Thanks to Dale E. Galusha Pacific Press Ministries dalgal@pacificpress.com
"I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ
liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith
of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." - Galatians 2:20
"Ek is met Christus gekruisig, en ék leef nie meer nie, maar Christus leef
in my. En wat ek nou in die vlees lewe, leef ek deur die geloof in die Seun
van God wat my liefgehad het en Homself vir my oorgegee het." - Galatians
2:20
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