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Many of us do not remember our conversion to the Christian Faith.
Maybe it was as a young child.
Maybe as you get further from that time you forget.
Maybe you just cannot pinpoint a specific moment.
So, how then do you know you have been saved?
How can you be assured you are a new creation?
Intro
Illus: Scrooge - A Christmas Carol
Great story of Ebenezer Scrooge by Charles Dickens.
The literary genius between Chapter four and five is a good example of what conversion looks like.
Chapter four ends with Scrooge being converted in his very spirit - going from evil to good.
“Spirit!" he cried, tight clutching at its robe, "hear me!
I am not the man I was.
I will not be the man I must have been but for this intercourse.
Why show me this, if I am past all hope?"
For the first time the hand appeared to shake.
"Good Spirit," he pursued, as down upon the ground he fell before it: "your nature intercedes for me, and pities me.
Assure me that I yet may change these shadows you have shown me by an altered life?"
The kind hand trembled.
"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.
The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.
I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.
Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!"
In his agony, he caught the spectral hand.
It sought to free itself, but he was strong in his entreaty, and detained it.
The Spirit, stronger yet, repulsed him.
Holding up his hands in a last prayer to have his fate reversed, he saw an alteration in the Phantom's hood and dress.
It shrunk, collapsed, and dwindled down into a bedpost.”
Excerpt From: Charles Dickens.
“A Christmas Carol.”
Apple Books.
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