The
Dream......................by.......................Harold
Kupp
There once was a man who had
a dream. And in that dream God showed the man how to understand the
true faith that leads to eternal life.
THE
DREAM
I was walking alone when I
heard the roar of a great waterfall.
As I came near I saw it was
Niagara Falls. Many people were
gathered and pointing into
the air. I walked closer and saw that
a tight rope walker had
strung a steel cable across the river a few
yards from where the water
rushed over the edge.
I looked out over the
boiling river and saw a man walking on the
wire and pushing a wheel
barrow as he crossed from the other
side. As he neared the
platform the crowd cheered and I
moved closer to see this
amazing man.
As I approached the wire
walker looked directly at me and
said: "Do you believe that I
could push a man across the
river in my wheel barrow?" I
replied: "Sure, I believe that
you could do
that."
The man looked at me with
piercing eyes and said: "If you
truly believe, then get in
the barrow and I will take you across."
I gasped as my mind beheld
the meaning of true faith.
I awoke suddenly and fell to
my knees asking God to explain
the meaning of this parable
to me. As I prayed a great peace
came over me and I drifted
back to sleep and I saw an angel
of God who spoke to me and
said:
"Listen and I will explain
the dream more fully.
The river is the world of
sin and destruction.
The wire is the Law of
God.
The wheel barrow is the
Kingdom of God.
The man with the barrow is
Jesus Christ."
The angel gently asked me if
I now understood the meaning of
the dream. "Not yet" I
replied, "what must I do to be saved
from the river of
destruction."
The angel said: "When God
calls a man to be saved, He asks
the man to have faith that
Jesus will carry him across the river of
sin. If the man chooses to
get in the barrow, trusting in Jesus and
obedience to the Law of God
to protect him from falling back
into the world of sin, he
will be delivered safely to the salvation
of eternal life.
The only way the man could
be lost would be to jump from
the wheel-barrow (which is
the kingdom of God) back into the
river of sin (which is the
kingdom of Satan). Sadly, many do...
"Why would they ever do
that"? I asked.
The angel told me that the
power of sin was great and that
those who did not "love God
with their whole heart, mind
and soul" would be attracted
to sin and choose to jump from
the kingdom of God back into
the kingdom of Satan.
"How could they be so
foolish?" I asked.
With a deep sigh, the angel
said that many were deceived by
the ministers of Satan who
told them that it was impossible to
keep the Law of God. The
angel took me by the arm and
we went back to the great
falls of Niagara. There, I saw
Jesus asking another man to
"get in the barrow". The man
moved toward Jesus when
suddenly an attractive woman
appeared at his side and
said: "You do not have to cross over
the wire, Jesus has already
done it for you...Jesus walked across
in your place".
The man looked at Jesus and
the swaying wire and then down
into the river of death. He
thought for a moment and then turned
to the seductive woman. "But
Jesus said that I must believe
in Him and get in the wheel
barrow." The woman smiled and
said: "Well, you did
believe, didn't you? You believed that
Jesus could carry you across
and that is all that Jesus wants
from you."
The woman opened her
well-worn bible and pointed to a verse
which said:
"For God so loved the
world,
that he gave his only
begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in
him should not perish,
but have everlasting
life."
John 3:16
The woman lifted her eyes to
the man and said: "You see,
you have believed in Jesus
and you will not perish, you
already have everlasting
life and you do not need to make
that frightening journey
across the river of sin. What if you were
to fall in, it would be
certain death; that is why Jesus did it for
you. When Jesus asked you to
get in the barrow, He did not
really mean it literally, He
just wanted to see if you would do it.
You believed and you started
to get in, that is all that is required.
Remember, the bible
says:
'Believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ and you will be saved.'
If you were to actually get
in the barrow, you would be trusting
in your own works. By not
getting in you are proving that you
truly believe in the
finished work of Christ."
The man's eyes lit up in
understanding. He asked the woman:
"Does that mean that I can
stay here on this side and even if
I were to fall into the
river of sin occasionally, I would not
perish?"
"Why, of course, the woman
said, "By grace you are saved
through faith"! You had
faith that Christ would save you and
you shall never die." The
man hugged the woman, and said:
"Thank you, thank you...you
have saved me from crossing the
river on that narrow, shaky
wire. I am sure I would have fallen
off the barrow. But now I
feel peace. Please let me help you to
teach this message of grace
and serve you until I die."
The woman
smiled...
The angel of God turned to
me and asked if I understood
the vision. I said: "Yes,
now I see how those whom God calls
to cross the river of death
can be tricked by the false teachers
who always use the bible to
lead people away from obedience to
the Law of God."
The dream is clear to me
now. "The way that leads to life is
narrow and few there be that
find it". In order to be
saved from sin and inherit
eternal life, we must enter the Kingdom
of God and trust Jesus to
carry us across the river of sin on
the narrow wire of God's
Law.
As long as we stay on the
wire, we cannot fall into sin. And
Jesus promises that he will
not let us fall. The only way we can
fail is to choose to jump
back into the river of sin through
deliberate disobedience to
any of the Ten Commandments.
The angel said: "Yes, now
you understand. And now knowing
the true way of faith, the
only question left is...Will you get in
the
barrow yourself?"
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