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June 25th 2003, 05:24 PM
Fun Story:
Judgement Might be a little different than you think (http://www.christianity.com/partner/Article_Display_Page/0,,PTID19179|CHID119948|CIID1583568,00.html)
This story starts out with a man who has just died in his sleep and waking up in front of the pearly gates. The man is in awe of the white gates and heavenly songs coming from within. He meets an old man who he would think to be like St. Peter at the gate entrance. Instead of the man standing at a grand pulpit he finds him sitting on an old three-legged stool that creaks every time he moves even the least little bit. Next to him are a couple of milk cartons stacked on top of each other with what looks like an old accountant’s notebook displayed on top. The man asks the gentleman if he can just go on inside and with a sad look he shakes his head no and tells him he needs to first have an accounting of his life. " No one gets to go in without it, We don't do tours you know."
They review several circumstances good and bad about the man's life. And things are not looking so good for him. His bad boy side of life seems to be finally catching up to him and he realizes that this may not turn out the way he thought.
The man starts to beg and plead his case asking if there is anything
that can be done. And again looking sad the gentleman tells him there may not be a thing he can do but he’ll check. He picks up the phone hanging on the wall next to him and has a conversation with someone on the other end. He hangs up the phone and says it’ll be a few minutes. A little later a dirty little kid comes out carrying a big school bag. The kid bounds right up to the older man and sits in his lap. The stool creaks and moans at the added weight but it holds up. The man assumes that this must be one of the neighborhood kids and doesn’t think much about it until the kid pulls out his glasses and a pencil box. The kid takes the time to read through the accountant’s book and starts laughing. The man is embarrassed and a little upset that this kid has just been allowed to read shameful things about his life. Then the man notices the kid has an eraser. He looks over the page the kid is working on and sees that all the bad stuff in his life was written in pencil and the kid is erasing it from the very book with evidence that could keep him from entering heaven. As the boy erases the errors a glow starts to appear around the old gentleman and the boy as well. They start to change a little by little, they become like a bright light and he has a hard time being able to see them.
It is at that moment he realizes he is not in the presence of St
Peter or just an ordinary little kid but the Father and the Son. The old stool changes before his eyes and becomes the great thrown of Judgement mentioned in 2 Corinthians 5! For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each
one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad. (NIV)
And Jesus has sat as the redeemer before God for the man who thought he was lost to heaven.
Moral of the story is Judgement might not be what we expect but if we
are saved Jesus will sit as our intercessor before God at Judgment.
Copyright © 2003 R. Adam Quigley & Debra Smithson
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Judgement Might be a little different than you think (http://www.christianity.com/partner/Article_Display_Page/0,,PTID19179|CHID119948|CIID1583568,00.html)
This story starts out with a man who has just died in his sleep and waking up in front of the pearly gates. The man is in awe of the white gates and heavenly songs coming from within. He meets an old man who he would think to be like St. Peter at the gate entrance. Instead of the man standing at a grand pulpit he finds him sitting on an old three-legged stool that creaks every time he moves even the least little bit. Next to him are a couple of milk cartons stacked on top of each other with what looks like an old accountant’s notebook displayed on top. The man asks the gentleman if he can just go on inside and with a sad look he shakes his head no and tells him he needs to first have an accounting of his life. " No one gets to go in without it, We don't do tours you know."
They review several circumstances good and bad about the man's life. And things are not looking so good for him. His bad boy side of life seems to be finally catching up to him and he realizes that this may not turn out the way he thought.
The man starts to beg and plead his case asking if there is anything
that can be done. And again looking sad the gentleman tells him there may not be a thing he can do but he’ll check. He picks up the phone hanging on the wall next to him and has a conversation with someone on the other end. He hangs up the phone and says it’ll be a few minutes. A little later a dirty little kid comes out carrying a big school bag. The kid bounds right up to the older man and sits in his lap. The stool creaks and moans at the added weight but it holds up. The man assumes that this must be one of the neighborhood kids and doesn’t think much about it until the kid pulls out his glasses and a pencil box. The kid takes the time to read through the accountant’s book and starts laughing. The man is embarrassed and a little upset that this kid has just been allowed to read shameful things about his life. Then the man notices the kid has an eraser. He looks over the page the kid is working on and sees that all the bad stuff in his life was written in pencil and the kid is erasing it from the very book with evidence that could keep him from entering heaven. As the boy erases the errors a glow starts to appear around the old gentleman and the boy as well. They start to change a little by little, they become like a bright light and he has a hard time being able to see them.
It is at that moment he realizes he is not in the presence of St
Peter or just an ordinary little kid but the Father and the Son. The old stool changes before his eyes and becomes the great thrown of Judgement mentioned in 2 Corinthians 5! For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each
one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad. (NIV)
And Jesus has sat as the redeemer before God for the man who thought he was lost to heaven.
Moral of the story is Judgement might not be what we expect but if we
are saved Jesus will sit as our intercessor before God at Judgment.
Copyright © 2003 R. Adam Quigley & Debra Smithson
:hi: