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We Were Here!

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As you look through history, you find remnants of people who preached and believed the Apostolic doctrine. Whether in parts or in whole, the Acts 2:38 message has been found throughout history. I can’t help but think of the countless, precious people who gave their lives in defense of the Apostolic message. People who suffered the death of martyrdom unnoticed. Praying saints who never did see their world come to Christ. Men and women who held on to the promises of God’s Word, in a day and place when it would cost them their lives.

Being Pentecostal is popular today. Even a good Catholic friend of mine recently told me that their services are becoming more Charismatic. I’m not sure what he meant by that, but I guess he was trying to say, that they were embracing the Spirit of worship in Pentecost.

However, time has a way of erasing things. The tide of generations coming and going, dull and even erase people, governments and religions. Why, if we didn’t dig into the earth in the deserts, we wouldn’t even know that some civilizations ever existed. Whole nations have been erased from the earth without anyone even noticing that they were there. People who were once proud and who ruled large kingdoms are only remembered in small bits of history if at all.

What will be said of our generation should the Lord tarry 500 more years? Now, I’m with most of you on this one. I believe the Lord is coming back very soon. However, we do not know this for sure. What will future generations remember about us? What will be in the history books of the future about us?

I don’t believe there has ever been a brighter day for the Church. We are living on a planet with over 6 billion people living on it. If there ever was a day in which God wanted to give a great revival, I believe today is that day. However, we should ask ourselves, are we looking forward? Are we considering the effect of all that we are doing for the Lord, on future people. What will they say about us? Will they remember us?

Some time ago, I read a book about the Nazi concentration camps from World War II. The story was about a little Jewish girl who was too small to work for the Nazis, and had somehow escaped being shot for being too young. It was often their practice to kill someone if they could not work. So, this little girl lived her life through much of the war and many of the concentration camps.

She often talked about the names that were carved into the beds and walls of the camps. She explained that the reason people did this was so that their families and friends who would come after them would know that they were there.

I want that for our future generations. I want them to know that we were here. God forbid that this world would ever sink into another dark ages. A time when the Church would be forgotten. I want to do all I can to tell my children about the Lord. Not only in my conversations with them. But also in the preservation of our doctrine.

We need to write it on the walls. We need to put it into as many books as we can. We need to send it out as far as we can get it.

I was so blessed a few nights ago to find 8 people at 2:00 a.m. who were downloading sermons and Bible Study material from PreachIt.org from China. What a blessing it was to me, to know that on the other side of the planet, in a communist country where it is illegal to purchase a Bible, people were pulling Apostolic doctrine off the web. There is no telling where those messages will end up. I pray that God would allow this resource to spread the message of Jesus even further than it has gone before.

We were here…

  • We told our children about Him.
  • We wrote books about Him.
  • We composed songs about Him.
  • We had web sites for Him.
  • We sent out.
  • We went out.
  • We Were Here!

—Rev. James Smith