The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Galatians 1:13-16a, “For you have heard of my former manner of life in Judaism, how I used to persecute the

church of God beyond measure, and tried to destroy it;

14 and I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries among my countrymen, being more

extremely zealous for my ancestral traditions.

15 But when He who had set me apart, even from my mother’s womb, and called me through His grace, was

pleased

16 to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles….”

It has been my privilege in life to meet some very notably important people. Were you to ask me if I knew them, the best I could honestly say is, “I have met them.” It’s one thing to meet someone, quite another to truly know them. Paul knew about Jesus. He was Paul’s chief object of scorn, as he labored diligently to erase Him completely from the religious scene. Yet it was quite some time before he came to truly know Him.

There are multiplied thousands of people on Earth today who know about Jesus! Still, many of them do not know Him on a personal and intimate basis. They know about Him, but they do not know Him as He wants to be known!

In our verses above, Paul sketches a bit of his early life. He talks of his life as a Jew and how fervently he sought to erase completely all Christian teaching and God’s people from the Earth. He speaks of his earnest effort to exalt Judaism by eradicating the Christian faith. Then, suddenly, Paul was arrested on the Road to Damascus! It was the LORD’s call clear and unmistakable. It was His call of grace, and it revealed Christ Jesus to him and charged him to proclaim Christ among the Gentiles.

Two personal and extremely relevant questions await your response: one, Do you personally know Jesus Christ? And Does your life reveal Him to others?

If your answer to question one is “No,” then you need to repent of your sins and ask His forgiveness and His salvation.

If your answer to question one is “Yes,” then you move on to question 2: Does your life reveal Christ to others? Hopefully, it does. If it doesn’t, the question is: Why doesn’t it? When we know Him, and yet our lives do not reveal Him and His love to others, there is sin within us that we need Him to remove. Others need to know Him in true salvation! And we need to be rid of sin that masks His life from showing forth. Please give careful attention to your relationship and fellowship with Jesus.

Heartily in Christ Jesus, al

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

Springdale, Arkansas 72764

United States of America

“We never know that Christ is all we need until He becomes all that we have.” – Corrie ten Boom