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Subj: Your Final Words?
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Sent: 180103/0010Z 56519@N0KFQ.#SWMO.MO.USA.NA BPQ6.0.14
Your Final Words?
Jesus said unto him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life:
no man comes unto the Father, but by me." --John 14:6
On Sunday, April 14, 1912, the "unsinkable" ocean liner Titanic
sank to the bottom of the ocean after hitting an iceberg. About
700 people survived, but 1,517 perished in the frigid north
Atlantic because of an insufficient number of lifeboats.
One of the passengers, John Harper, served as pastor of Walworth
Road Baptist Church in London, England. He was a 39 year-old
widower with a six year-old daughter. Harper was en route to
Chicago, where he had been invited to preach for several weeks at
the Moody Church.
His daughter and niece accompanied him on the voyage and survived
the sinking by boarding one of the lifeboats. Harper, however,
refused to save himself and instead helped others onto the
increasingly crowded remaining ones. According to survivors, he
preached the Gospel until his dying breath, first on the sinking
ship and then in the frigid waters.
Three or four years after the Titanic's sinking, a young Scotsman
rose in a meeting in Hamilton, Canada, and said: "I was on the
Titanic when she sank. Drifting along on a spar in the icy water
on that awful night, a wave brought John Harper of Glasgow near
to me. He, too, was holding on to a piece of the wreck.
"Man, are you saved?" he shouted. "No, I am not!" was my
reply. He answered, "Believe on the Lord Jesus and thou
shalt be saved".*
The waves bore him away; but strange to say, a little later he
was washed back alongside of me.
"Are you saved now?" "No!" I replied, "I cannot honestly say
that I am." Once more he repeated the verse, "Believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved." Then losing his
hold he sank.
And there, alone in the night with two miles of water beneath me,
I believed. I am John Harper's last convert."
The story made me think as I enter the year of 2018, what would I
want to be my final words to someone near me? "Believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved!"
How about you?
*Acts 16:31
"What the Bible Says.." By Mike Patrick KI5CT
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