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OUR DAILY BREAD                    Sunday, November 6, 1994
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READ:  Romans 10:1-15

            "UNDELIVERED MESSAGE"

   "How shall they believe in Him of whom
            they have not heard."

             -- Romans 10:14

George Sweeting, in his book "The No-Guilt Guide for
Witnessing," tells of a man by the name of John Currier
who in 1949 was found guilty of murder and sentenced
to life in prison.  Later he was transferred and paroled
to work on a farm near Nashville, Tennessee.

In 1968, Currier's sentence was terminated, and a letter
bearing the good news was sent to him.  But John never
saw the letter, nor was he told anything about it.  Life
on that farm was hard and without promise for the future.
Yet John kept doing what he was told even after the
farmer for whom he worked had died.

Ten years went by.  Then a state parole officer learned
about Currier's plight, found him, and told him that
his sentence had been terminated.  He was a free man.

Sweeting concluded that story by asking, "Would it
matter to you if someone sent you an important message
the most important in your life -- and year after year
the urgent message was never delivered?"

We who have heard the good news and experienced freedom
through Christ are responsible to proclaim it to others
still enslaved by sin.  Are we doing all we can to make
sure that  people get the message?

  -- Richard W. De Haan

 We who rejoice to know You
 Renew before Your throne
 The solemn pledge we owe You
 To go and make You known.

 - Haughton

 THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

   Keep the faith - but not to yourself.

 THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:  John 7-10

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