Secrets from Beyond The Grave

commented about. Along with his name, date of birth, and date of death, are carved into the hard granite four simple words: A MAN OF GOD Shortly after his death, the family met and asked: "What should we place on the marker?" The grandson said, "Put Man of God , because that's what he was to everyone who knew him." He never, I mean never, missed church, even on a snowy day and during holidays. He always paid his tithe up to the day he died, and he was a minister in the same church he had organized and built physically in 1959. It was that little church where I preached my first revival. That man was my granddad, John Franklin Bava. He died in 1996, shortly after having surgery in the Elkins Hospital in Elkins, West Virginia, but we still remember him. What will they remember about you? Will people pass by your earthly remains, say farewell, and in a few days forget you ever existed? Will they whisper in the funeral home and comment, "He sure caused a lot of trouble for his wife and never had much to do with his biological kids." Will the business community have stories to tell of how you were always in debt, would never pay your bills, and left your family holding the burden? What will they say about you? Or will your closest friends be hanging your picture on the mantel for years to come as a reminder of their dear friend who is no longer with them? Will people in the community say, "He was a great example of a good husband and father; I hope I can be like him"? Will business colleagues say, "He had a sharp business mind and always tried to do what was right; he knew how to plan for the future"? Will your children miss you and tell stories of their relationship with you and the fun they had with Dad to their children? How men and women will view your departure is all up to you. You choose your own destiny. You decide the paths you take and where they will ultimately lead you. The same is true concerning your eternal destination. Where will you end up? God has given each person the power to choose between life and death (Josh. 24:15). The plan of redemption, often called the plan of salvation, was set in motion long before Adam ever sinned (1 Pet. 1:19-20). Christ took our sins to the cross, and if we repent and turn to God and receive by faith the finished work of Christ, then we can be delivered from this body of death and spend eternity with the Lord (Rom. 7:24; 8:1-11). The process begins by believing with your heart that Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven. Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. --Acts 4:12 Then we must confess that we are sinners and ask for Christ to forgive us of our sins. As Paul said: For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. --Romans 10:10

This process of believing and confessing leads to an inner transformation, which cannot be explained but has been experienced by hundreds of millions of people over time. From this