What is a Salvation Plan: Part I

Introduction: The following explanation of "What is a Salvation Plan"  is explained in a story form in a setting of a home visitation of a young couple just starting out in life, and then what that couple as individuals do with the information that they have received.

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Julie and Ian were a young couple just married for one year and have gotten pretty

much on track of setting up their family rules and customs; what they wanted to continue from their family and what they wanted to leave out. How they wanted to raise their children, and how they wanted their children to hopefully turn out.

Ian who had been thinking a lot about the role of a father looked back on his life and what he and his father's relationship was like. In doing this he mentally discarded some of the things his father did... that he did not like or understand such as drinking and harsh discipline. Instead Ian thought that an understanding parent, one who used thought instead of action would be a much better way to raise a child.  Ian's family did not go to church, his father was a stern disciplinarian, and did not show much affection openly to the children, just kind of expected them to know that he loved them.

Julie also was thinking about becoming a mom, "What type of mom will I be. Like my mom?" She asked herself. Maybe, she thought, she would be like her aunt who was friends with her children and all of their friends as well. Julie came from a home where the family really did not communicate very well. They went to church every Sunday, but when they got home it was as if they had never been to church. There was bickering and fighting among the children. The dad would get mad because the kids were loud and interrupted the football or basketball games and mom was so busy cooking Sunday dinner that she did not have time to correct the children. This is not an unusual case as a matter of fact it is the usual case of families to day......they are either in each others face fighting about something or another or in the same room in the house but miles away from each other on the internet, cell phones or digital games.

They both realized how things were so much different being a parent instead of as just a young person. So many more responsibilities come with raising another human being. So figuring out how to raise children and to agree on a method was quite important to them.

On Thursday's FBC, Faith Baptist Church, a local church in their area, would send out soul

workers, two by two, to share God's good word on how to know where a person would spend eternity. Ian and Julie were only concerned about living on this earth and all the pressures of the obligations of life now that they were married and looking forward to having children. Why was it so important to worry abut something that seemed so far off.

But when Benjamin and Isaac came to the door and explained what they were doing Ian asked them to come in, so that maybe they could answer some questions he had been thinking about. Julie offered them something to drink.....they said they were fine.

Then Benjamin asked Ian and Julie if they knew were they were going to spend eternity. As they looked at each other  and said that they were to busy in this life to think about the next if there was one. Benjamin and Isaac were happy and sad for this young couple, happy because this opportunity gave them the chance to share God's word with them, and sad because there was a chance that they would not accept the gift that would be explain and offered to them. They explained to the young couple that we are not promised another moment, day or year on this earth. The bible tells us in  James 4:14 that "Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." As they shared this verse with them the soul workers asked if they could continue.....Ian and Julie agreed.

The first thing that Benjamin and Isaac would have to establish is whether or not Ian and Julie believe that the Bible is the inspired word of God, given to the ancient prophet's to be written down for us. The young couple said that they believe it could be. Julie was more sure than Ian and told the soul workers so. Then Benjamin asked if  Ian ever had a truly close friend.....Ian said he did at one time but then time came between them an they do not talk as much or are as close as they once were. Julie answered and said that she had many close friends and they do a lot of girl talks and support each other in their problems.

Benjamin said that that was good to hear. But he wanted to introduce them to a friend they never knew they had. This made Ian curious and he wanted to hear more. Julie was a little ahead of Benjamin and she said that she had heard something like this in church

As Benjamin went on he explained how God had made the earth [ the bible says in six days the earth animals and man was created, and God saw it was good and He rested on the seventh day].... to be a home for man whom he had made in his image [on the sixth day], and intended for Adam to take care of it and to names all the animals He made  and to play with them as pets( because at that time they were not meat eaters but grazers.)  How exciting that would be to play with all sorts of God's creatures with out the fear of getting hurt.  Ian eyes glistened at the possibility of that thought.

Benjamin went on to explain through free will that God gave to man Adam and Eve sinned. they did this by eating from the tree of  Good and Evil. That fallen angel Lucipher, disguised himself as an beautiful serpant. and enticed Eve to eat of the fruit and said that God was a liar and  that they would not surely die. Only, that old devil was the lair because he did not tell Eve that the death that God was talking about was the spiritual death from God's presents. 

After Eve ate of the fruit she became aware of good and evil and the physical death that she thought  would happen did not. So she offered the fruit to Adam and told him that he would not surely die.....Adam so loved Eve that he did not want to be parted from her-- as he knew God would do because Eve did sin....So he ate of the fruit also and God band them both from the garden of Eden, their beautiful and wonderful home that God had prepared for them. 

God also cursed the land and told Adam that he would have to till the land for food. Eve would have pain in child bearing. Adam and Eve found out that in disobeying God there were consequences to their behavior.  God was so sad because He would not be able to spend time with his beautiful creations any more, the way He did before, in the beautiful garden. 

As Benjamin continued he told Ian and Julie that God posted Angel guards at the gates of the garden so that Adam and Eve or anyone, could not enter back in. You see not only was the tree of Good and Evil in the garden but the tree of Life as well. If they had of eaten from the tree of Life, there would be no way that they could be forgiven from their sins. So God in his wisdom had to banish them from the garden to make a way, in the future, for mankind to be reconciled with Him. 

God loved mankind so much that He did not want to see them suffer with the fallen angels in hell for their sin debt .(John 3:16), ( Romans 5:8) Jesus also loved mankind so much that he was willing to give his life on earth to pay the sin debt so that mankind could be reconciled with God the Father, through His sacrifice of His life. (I John 4:9) Gods word tells us that there is no greater gift or love than a man to lay down his life for his friends. 

To be continued in Part II.