For 4 1/2 years now we have been teaching our children about Jesus! however, it has mostly encompassed the areas of how much He loves us, how He died to save us, and little life lessons on the bible, stories, sin and heaven of course! We had not yet broached the subject of hell for obvious reasons and I really thought I had a year or so before I really would have to. Well, Isaiah never ceases to amaze me with his mind. Today he asks me, "mom, what did Jesus save us from?" I was stunned that his 4 year old mind could really even concieve such a question, but it should not surprise me anymore. I proceeded to tell him that Jesus died to save us from many things. although he did not understand the concept of why blood had to be shed for forgiveness, I told him anyway. I told him all about satan, all about the battle he had with the heavens and how through Jesus and "IN" Jesus we are saved from hell and are given eternal life with Him in heaven. we talked about how the only way to get saved is to believe in Jesus, be baptised because the bible tells us that that is when we have fogiveness of sins, are given eternal life and that that is when the gift of the holy spirit is given to us. Who knows how much he really understood. However, knowing Isaiah in a few weeks he will be telling a sibling the whole thing verbatim and understanding every word. the funny part was when he asked, "why does God just kill satan?" then he proceeded to tell me that "when he grows up he and Ian are gonna go down there and kill him, swat him, take my cutlass and kill him, give him a whippin, shoot him, we won't have to worry about satan ever again!!!" he was quite infatic! then i told him...all you gotta do is love Jesus...nothing makes satan more mad!!!
I can't wait to see where this conversation leads...
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