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Your Teacher
Novelist
James Michener was once invited to dinner at the White
House with President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Michener graciously declined the invitation in
a letter that contained the following words:
“I received your invitation three days after I had
agreed to speak a few words at a dinner honoring the
wonderful high school teacher who taught me how to
write. I
know you will not miss me at your dinner, but she
might at hers. In
his lifetime, a man lives under fifteen or sixteen
presidents, but a really fine teacher comes into his
life but rarely.” *
According
to the story, Eisenhower wrote back to say that he
understood perfectly.
Christa McAuliffe said: "I touch the
future, I teach."
All
of us have had teachers that have made a difference in
our lives. They
have
helped to prepare us for the rest of our lives. But
the greatest teacher that YOU and I could ever have is
one who points us to the Greatest Teacher of ALL-
JESUS CHRIST.
For it is the instruction of the Great Teacher that
prepares us for ETERNITY!
Jesus
taught the most important teachings in life that were
centered upon the GREATEST NEED in our lives: a
RIGHT RELATIONSHIP with God (cf. Matthew 22:37-38).
He exposed our greatest PROBLEM: SIN (see John
8:24). He
also revealed the SOLUTION to our problem of SIN.
In fact, He IS the Solution!
In order to provide forgiveness, Jesus had to
DIE on the cross for our sins: “He Himself bore
our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having
died to sins, might live for righteousness – by
whose stripes you were healed” (1 Peter 2:24).
In
order to be SAVED from our sins, we must FOLLOW the
instructions of the Teacher: believe
in Him (John 8:24; Acts 16:30-31), repent
of our sins (Luke 13:3; Acts 17:30-31), confess
Him before men (Matthew 10:32; Romans 10:9-10), and be
baptized
(immersed) into Christ for the forgiveness of our sins
(Mark 16:16; Acts 2:38).
Then, we must CONTINUE to follow the Teacher
as a way of life (1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 2:6), and
His blood will continue to cleanse us from our sins (1
John 1:7).
Indeed,
“a really fine teacher comes into his life but
rarely.” Thank
God that JESUS, the Great Teacher, has come and
revealed the way to God (John 14:6).
Have
YOU obeyed the Teacher?
God bless you!
David
A. Sargent, Minister
Church of Christ at Creekwood
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama 36695
* I
heard Dan Winkler use this illustration at a dinner
during the 2006 Freed-Hardeman University Lectures in
honor of one of his Bible Teachers: William Woodson.
I would like to use this illustration to honor
one of my Bible teachers who also happens to be
Dan’s father, Wendell Winkler.
Wendell Winkler passed from this life on
October 23, 2005, but not before impacting many, many
lives for good – including my own – with his life
and his Bible teaching.
“A really fine teacher comes into his life
but rarely.” I
am thankful to have had the honor and privilege of
sitting at the feet of one of those really fine
teachers, Wendell Winkler.
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