For one of my college classes I had to write something that included the Romans Road.... this is what I came up with.
“Bam Bam” shouted Bruce, “They’re all dead! We kept
our fort safe!”
Walker and Bruce were best friends and like every
day, they were playing in the tree house by the river. They had just gotten
done playing the Revolutionary War and now sat up there, sweat running down
their faces and totally out of breath. After awhile Walker asked,
“Bruce, do you ever wonder what will happen to you
after you die?”
“Yeah, sometimes but I don’t like thinking about
it.” Both sat there quietly when Walker said, “Let me know how you can know if
we go to heaven or to hell.”
Bruce nodded and Walker continued.
“Well the Bible says ‘As it is written,
There is none righteous, no, not one:
‘ Righteous means holy. And then
it says: ‘For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;’ Have you done bad? You know, like lying to your parents,
cheating on your history test, stealing Taylor’s gum or….”
“Yeah, of course, you know I did.” Bruce cut in
embarrassed by Walker telling all his secrets. “But why do we all do bad?”
“Do you know the story of Adam and Eve, how they ate
the fruit God forbid them to eat. The devil tempted Eve, she ate the fruit and
gave it to Adam and the Bible says “Wherefore, as by
one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon
all men, for that all have sinned” 3 This
one man is talking about Adam.”.
“So
now what”, Bruce asked “I do bad things like everyone else. What is that gonna
change?”
God
tells us “For
the wages of sin is death…” The bad things, our sin, is punished by death.
Not necessarily dying and going into the grave but being separated from God in
hell!” After that Walker exclaimed: “But God commendeth his love toward us, in
that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 5’ God loves you Bruce, so much so that he was
willing to have his son die on the Cross for you.”
“He did? He knows about me?”
“Yes”, answered Walker, “When we
finish the verse from earlier we see that he has a present for you. ‘But
the gift of God is eternal
life through Jesus Christ our Lord.’ God has a
present for you and that is eternal life. Only Jesus Christ can let you live
forever in heaven with him! It’s like a real present: in order to make it yours
you just have to accept it.
“How do I accept this present?”Bruce asked with a trembling voice.
One thing he knew for sure, He didn’t want to go to hell. He heard about it
before: you burn and burn, forever and ever, never ending pain. No, he didn’t
want to go there. So much in thought he missed some of what Walker was
saying but still heard:
“…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.’ Do
you believe that Jesus rose again?
“Yeah, the Bible says he did.”
“OK well then the Bible tells us that ‘For with the heart man believeth unto
righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.’ “
With
a puzzled look on his face Bruce asks “What do I have to do with my mouth?”
With
a giggle Walker explains, “ ‘For whosoever shall call upon the name of
the Lord shall be saved. ’ You just need to tell God that you are
accepting that gift.”
“Can
I do that right here in the tree house or do I have to wait till Sunday?”
“You
can do it right here”, he answered.
After
that Bruce started talking to God, “Jesus, I don’t want to go to hell. I wanna
go to heaven and life forever with you. I believe you rose again. Please
forgive the bad things I did….uhm…Amen”
“Now
where will you go if you were to die?” Walker asked.
“Heaven,
right?!”
“Yes!
The Bible says ‘Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with
God through our Lord Jesus Christ:’Now you have peace with God
“No
more wars?!” Bruce asks laughing.
“Hahaha-nope.
Let’s go inside and drink some lemonade I am
hot and I want to show you a few more verses in the Bible”
The boys walked inside, Bruce poured some
homemade lemonade as Walker got his Bible he had left on the couch that
morning.
“Look here”, he says, “in Romans 8:14-16 we read ‘For as many as are led by the Spirit of
God, they are the sons of God.’ You are now a child of
God like me! “
“So
we are kinda like brothers?”
“Yes.
The Bible says that at salvation we are adopted into God's family. Lets
continue reading ‘For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to
fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba,
Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the
children of God: ‘“
“That is cool!”
“After you accepted God's gift you will always be
saved from hell. Nothing can happen, not even you can do anything after that to
make you lose this gift. You are a child of God forever. If we look farther
down into this chapter, verses 35- 39 we read ‘Who shall separate
us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or
persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written,
For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the
slaughter. Nay, in all these
things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither
death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things
present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature,
shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our
Lord.’ You see nothing can take you away from God
after this!
“That
is so neat! I didn’t even know I was getting a good deal like this when I
prayed.
“I
know. Isn’t God awesome?!”
“Yeah,
he is. Hey, let’s go invite Steve over tomorrow and you can tell him about
this!
“That
sounds like a great idea. Are you ready for another attack on our fort? You
might die in this game.”
“I’m
ready! Now I know I’d go to heaven if I’d died for real!”
So do you know where you would go if you were to die today?
