Show What Does The Bible Say By Dy REV LEO E E. E RUDEL RUBEL Of the few people of whom the Dible Bible specifically tells us that they are now In heaven one was a criminal IT WAS to a man who had misspent his whole life in sin and shame but who in his Ms dy dye dyeIng ing moments had come to faith in Christ that the Bible says the Savior said Verily 1 I Isay say Bay unto thee Today shall thou be with Me in Paradise There was room even for this dying malefactor a thief thief thief- j In the Fathers Father's house to which Christ was now returning ilEA HEAVEN VEN is like that I It Its mansions are not peopled with those who In this life lifo prided prid- prid ed themselves In their ow own righteousness while rejecting Gods God's forgiveness in Christ but with vast unnumbered throngs of converted dying thieves and penitent publicans cans The Bible says in the tho Book of Revelation that those who find entrance into heaven are not lot those who are relying on their own accomplishments o or progressions but those who have lave come out of great tribulation tribu l lation and have washed their robes and made them white in inthe inthe the he blood of the Lamb ONE OF the two thieves on the he crosses on Calvary was accepted accepted ac ac- ac into paradise because he recognized his enormous guilt gulli and completely threw himself upon the mercy of His Savior Jesus Christ That according tche to tc I the he Bible is the only way ANY man can get to heaven for the Bible says Jesus speaking I I am the Way th the Truth anc and the he Life no man cometh unto the he Father BUT BY ME Because Christ has atoned for or every sin of every man of every age God can offer His universal pardon in the well known words of the Bible Come though your sins be beas beas beas as scarlet they shall be whites white as s snow though they be red like ike crimson they shall be as white as woo wool DOWN through the centuries uncounted millions have en en- ered heaven by the same door which was opened to the dying thIef the door of repentance and faith They like th the dying thief hief rejoiced to see that thai fountain in his day And there have I J as vile as he washed all 11 m my sins away Have you |