From The Pulpit 

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             Edward Proffitt, Th. D.

         

                     WHAT CAN I TAKE WITH ME 

      "Faith which those hast toward the Lord Jesus'' Phil 3 

                                               Edward Proffitt, Th. D.

 

In the book of Revelation, it tells of the "OVERCOMER". To leave this life with the testimony that I believe is "The victory that overcometh the world" (1 John 5:24). To "OVERCOME" I need to know what it is that will endure the test and what it is that will follow me into a heavenly eternity.

 

There are lots of things that you can not take with you. Paul the Apostles' past had it all; fame, privilege, status, intelligence and power, but after he met Jesus, he stripped himself for the task of the course. By the time he wrote his last epistles he was down to a few parchments and the cloths on his back. He tells what he gave up, "circumcised the eight day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrew's; concerning the law a Pharisee; concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is the law, blameless. But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ" (Philippians 3:5-7).

 

Paul was gifted with talent that produced advantages. He had birth, education, would seem unthinkable to give up, yet Paul said, "these I counted loss for Christ".

 

There was that which was taken from him: his health, he had no wife, home or family. He add no one to depend on to "FOOT THE BILL" ministry. He was a tent maker to provide for his food and lodging. His life was made up of dark damp jail cells, beatings, shipwrecks and desertion from friends. (2 Corinthians 11:23-27).

 

Bitterness, not belief is what would seem more fitting for the occasion. many have started with a fiery experience that fizzled out with a lot less trials. Paul, with all that happened to you, what do you have to say? He speaks from the knowledge of death just days away and says, "the time of my departure is at hand...I have kept the faith" (2 Timothy 4:6-7).

 

The Poet said it this way:

   Faith, a ladder, still is reaching

       From beyond the beckoning skies:

    Charts the douse of every Christian,

        Leads us on to Him.

 

 

One of these days we all will be summoned, and we will know, "the time of my departure is at hand". At that time, there is one thing that I want to take with m-- MY Faith!

      

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