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Show COMBINED CLASSIFIEDS The Preston Citizen The Leoder The Cache Citizen The Cache Register The Grace Citizen The News Examiner , 5232 THURSDAY, 24. SERVICE COMPLETE UPHOLSTERY LAKE DECORATING: Wed dings, birthdays, anniversaries, all occasions. Call 752 7627, FURNITURE CUSTOM AUTOMOTIVE LOWE'S 6 NORTH FEB. MOBILE HOME mowing. Alan Beckstead. 852 2437 or Morgan Drive A Way. Call collect, 237 8 - Service Offered 1977 UPHOLSTERY STATE. FRANKLIN INTER-TA- X PHONF MS 731 SERVICES, ItyC. IN PRIVACY OWN HOME. PREPARED OLD FASHIONED OF YOUR COMPUTERIZED. GUARANTEED FULL There AUCTION Call ACCURACY. PROTECTION. AUDIT Tai Is Specialist Near You. A Clair Egbert Good location. $19,000 852 1289. For An 7 p.m. Sharp Homes For Sale f 1 2 paths, two family rooms. Zoned agriculture, fruit trees ni.u in potion. 717 ?55, Weston. Avenue location! Garage, appliances, coved carpet! Contact David Kerr, 852 2288 in Preston. BY OWNER, choice one bed room. Preston only. $10,950. $1,000 down. Details 752 5517, Logan. LOVELY FOUR bedroom home, TRADING POST fruit trees, garden, Preston. on Income property, two homes good size lot, only $20,000. Preston. Cache Valley Realty. River-dale- Consignments Welcome formal dining room, new rambler with acreage. Full basement with outside entrance and fireplace. Many extras, including dishwasher, and fridge. Appraised at $43,100, will sell for $42,500. Call West Fielding. TWO BEDROOM, 723-222- 2 l'i NEWLY REMODELED three bedroom, completely carpeted and draped, with fireplace. Located on large lot with animal Montpelier. TWO YEAR old home. Three bedroom, l3 bath, fireplace, dishwasher, disposal, double garage, nice neighbor- home for newly riqhts Perfect married or retired couple. (208) 852 1622, Preston, after six. over-size- hood. homes::: sh: Smla Springs OWNER: Two bedroom bile home. 17 x 19 living room, awnings, natural gas, city water, swamp cooler, fenced yard, 2V car brick garage, Vi acre. Moving out of state. Priced to sell. Open house all day Feb. 26 and 27. 854 3620. 14' x 65' THREE bedroom, large front room and kitchen. Comes with appliances, curtains, skirting and porch. $8,000.00. Call 279 8545 or 279 8460, Bear River I I V (1 l! Grace Both-wel- garages A( ll<K I.TV 1976, P(,,a'e Showing and Information fns, Tprms rOf F.nanong for Tremon-ton- . two full peted. four bedroom, baths, skirted and set up Box 65 or call 425 3620 or 425 3861, Grace. FOR SALE: 1974 14 x 70 mobile home, three bedrooms, total electric. Dingle, Idaho. Call (208) 847 0438. 12 X 64, two 1974 TAMARACK, bedrooms, partly carpeted, cur tains. 279 8306, Bear River City. FOR SALE: Fleetwood Trailer. Two bedrooms, l''i baths. Re- completely frigerator, stove,included. Livcarpeted. Skirting ed in one year. Call (208) 847 0739, Dingle. 1971 GREENBRIAR, 12 x 64, luxury mobile home, two bedroom, 14 bath, air conditioner. Tremonton. $6200.00. 1972 BRIGHTON, 14 X 64. A 1 shape. Call 279 8550, Bear River 24 x 60 DOUBLE of When I was, seven years old, my parents began taking my brothers and me to Sunday school and church. I began to learn many wonderful Bible truths that answered nagging questions about life after death. There were other things which I learned that troubled me, however. I learned about sin, the holiness of God, the rapture of the Church and about Hell. For a year or more I was often greatly troubled. I knew I had sinned and longed to know that my sins were forgiven. I tried to quit sinning but frankly realized that I was not succeeding in measuring up to the standards set by God. Now as I look back, I do not find fault with God for taking my two sisters. Rather, I see this as an act of mercy used to bring me and my parents to the Lord. I do not criticize my parents for teaching me a bedtime prayer that disturbed me. God used it to bring concern and conviction to my soul, which was all part of the set of circumstances used to bring me to Christ, the greatest thing that ever happened to me! One night when I was eight years old, I TO FEAR OR NOT TO FEAR are afraid of the term "saved." They seem to think that Some people assurance of salvation will cause spiritual indifference and careless living. Such fear results from misunderstanding. When a person is saved, he will not want to continue living in sin. If the experience is real, it will change the life. It will not make a person perfect, but it will produce a change. Paul asked, "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?" (Rom. 6:1,2). In Ephesians 2:10, the Apostle Paul declared, "For we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works..." The saved person works because he is saved and wants to show gratitude to the Lord. There is no greater motive for good works than love. came out of that worried condition into wonderful assurance that my sins were forgiven. The fear melted away as I came to rest upon the promises of God that at death I would without fail go to be in Heaven with the Lord. When the question of my eternal destiny was settled, a tremendous relief flooded my soul. That night I was saved! "BEING SAVED" IS SCRIPTURAL Before I continue telling you how I got saved, I want to establish that there is such a thing as being saved. Jesus spoke about people being saved. He said, "I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved..." (John 10:9). The Apostle Paul wrote much about being saved. He wrote, "But unto us which are saved it is the power of God" (I Cor. 1:18). Several tacts about this saved condition can be established from that verse. First, there is such a thing as being saved NOW.Second, it is obvious that not everybody is saveu, for some are perishing. Third, it is revealed that being saved is related in gome way to the individual's response to the message of the cross. More about that later. If the Bible teaches that one can know that he is saved now, I will not be content to settle for anything less. lot ,11 .0 ttti HOMO m idflnm "two 0 (C rn WroiJ-a v 0J i r n io flOfflJ; ft' In his epistle, James warns that there is a type of shallow faith that does not save. Merely believing facts will not save one. "The devils (demons) also believe and tremble (James 2:19). Real saving faith does work. Anyone who thinks that he is saved, but lacks good works had better wake up to realize that his brand of faith is not saving faith. The Apostle Paul warned, "Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith: prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in yog, except ye be reprobates?" (II Cor. 13:5). There is, however, a comforting side of the issue too. No Christian lives a perfect life, but his safety does not depend upon the fragile thread of his own faithfulness. Jesus said, "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand" (John 10: 27, 28). In John 5:24 Jesus said, "He that mobile home. 14 air conditioned, carpeted, plenty of closet space, unique floor plant. Call 257 5129, Tre monton. FOR SALE: 21 space mobile home court in Tremonton, 257 7248. Real Estate Wanted 13 ABOUT FIVE acres in or near Montpelier, suitable for mobile home. Rt. 2, Box 83A, Hazelton, Idaho 83335. Phone (1 208) l'j carpet all the way through. Lived in two months. Also lot can be sold with it. All set up and ready to move into. For more information call 458 3416, Plymouth after 4:30. Anytime on weekends. ' 80 acres three miles southeast of Preston. Approximately 55 acres cropland with sprinkler (including pump). 140 shares irrigation water and also spring on property. Partially borders Bear River. , $65,000.00. acres in Dayton. One of the top producing farms in Cache Valley. Excellent sprinkler system with wheel moves and fertilizer injection system, home, and outbuildings. Full line of machinery available. $260,000.00. 300 acres in Mink Creek. Beautiful dairy setup for large herd. Home and outbuildings, gravity sprinkler on 70 acres. 70 acres dry cropland and balance in pasture. Spring feeds reservoir and culinary use. $265,000.00. 29 per cent down and contract. Planning Service Custom built homes. Free estimates. Choose from 150 plans. New homes set for construction under speculation basis. Lots Farm Bureau Realty Evenings -852- -2527 646-237- 3 newly refinished - large garden spot Close to town. Scott Beckstead or evenings at 852-236- 4 garage. or 852-236- 4 Contact Scott Beckstead available. Let us help you move into a new home before summer. Phone (208) 2 Bedroom house - 852-248- 9 852-236- 4 852-252- 7 BY: Tremonton Bible Church Rev. Steven A. Barsuhn, pastor P. O. Box 111 Tremonton, Utah 84337 7 Phone: Cache Valley Bible Church Rev. Ira T. Ransom, pastor 257-774- Services conducted in: Edith Bowen School 957 East 7th North Logan, Utah 84321 Phone: 1 Services conducted in: Bear River High School Visual Aid Room Sunday morning, 9:00 a.m. 752-94- Perhaps other children who have said that prayer did so without a serious thought about death, but I learned at an early age that children can and do die, for when I was four years old my two sisters passed away three days apart. One died the day after the other was buried. One was three years old, the other thirteen months old. x 60, wide Ira T. Ransom "Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray Thee, Lord, my soul to keep If J should die before I wake,.. I pray Thee, Lord, my soul to take." Idaho. 1972 ACADEMY extras. Moderately priced. Call Preston. FOR SALE: In the low thirties, three bedroom home, three years old. Full basement, garage under, dishwasher and range, garden spot. Twelve miles north of Preston on highway to Soda partyLoanmay Springs. EligibleHome at assume Farmers low interest rate. Call (208) 852 0164, Preston. rest T mm The Bible even speaks about being saved as a past tense experience. "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost" (Titus 3:5). It is not unscript-ura- l for one to say that he is saved, or even to say, "I was saved on a certain night." If that kind of certainty is offered by the Lord in the Bible, then a person is robbing himself of a great blessing if he goes through life hoping he will be saved or trying to be saved. The Bible has something better to offer! Now for over thirty years, I have been able to put my head on my pillow at night with the assurance that, if I should die before I wake, I'll go to be with the Lord in Heaven. There is nothing more wonderful! condi-tion- er, garbage disposal, deluxe SPONSORED Years ago I was taught a bedtime prayer: 14 x 70. Two IN PRESTON, four bedroom home. Two baths, fireplace, large two car garage and patio. f By 1976 PONDEROSA, beorooms. one bath, air conditioned. $9,800 00. 257 5904, Tre monton. FOR SALE: Three bedroom, 1974 Concord mobile home, 14 x. 70. Furnished and in good (208 ) 847 0719, Montpelier. 12 x 60 MOBILE HOME. Partly furnished, $3500. Take over payments. Call 897 5786, Swan Lake, mobile home. Completely furnished. Three bedrooms, baths, washer, dryer, dishwash- THREE BEDROOM house in Melody Park. Fenced, landscaprange. ed yard, carport. Built-iPriced $22,500.00. Buy this home low for no down payment, closing costs. Call Brigham Realty, throughout. Priced right for Call FOR SALE- - 12 x 64 Melody Home, fully furnished and car City. City. Tremonton. Large living room, large kitchen, two bedrooms and bathroom upstairs. Finished basement with one or two bedrooms, large family room, bathroom with shower and laundry room downstairs. New carpet young couple. $22,000. appointment, 257 3937, mo- BY basement $:m:mio S48.9.i Call & ( & 852 0656, Mobile Homes 12 See and Buy New DKl.U O HOMES In :Miedroom with $38,500 00. Call Preston. 134 or Smithfield. THREE BEDROOM home with walkout basement, perfectly lo, cated on Bear River in 15 fruit trees, 2.5 acre pasture, lawn in. Priced for quick sale by owner. Call 852 1248 for appointment. 120 South Main Brigham FOR SALE: Two bedroom home, full basement, new gas furnace, close to schools. Frame garage shed. $20,000. (208) 847 0391, THREE bedroom, acre corner on 00. 866 2242, Portage. Preston, evenings. Fenced yard, lots bedroom nome! Choice Park RAY'S Kfjyffi SMALL COTTAGE type home in FOR SALE: Four bedroom home, with full unfinished basement on five acres of land in Woodruff, Utah. Call (801) 794 2401 to see home or call (801) to contact owner. BRICK HOME near Sandy, ,,,, Every Thursday Night LARGE condition. Great possibilities. 00. 208) Early Appointment. 11 - FOR SALE by owner: Two acre, four bedroom, two bath, remodeled older, charming home. Berry patch, fruit trees, new kitchen, roof, wiring, good location, immediate occupancy. $39,800. 646 2310, Franklin. HOME FOR sale in Preston. Call Clyde Porter, 646 2209, Franklin. FOR SALE: Older two bedroom home with basement on approximately I acre with garage, shed and nice garden spot in Preston. $21,500. Phone (1 801) 825 2648, Layton. THREE BEDROOM home in Preston, three blocks from town, carpet throughout, large back yard with garden spot. Shop building included. Phone 852 0717, Preston. FIVE ROOM starter home. One bedroom, fireplace, cellar shed, pasture suitable for horses. Good heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life."'By believing, a person receives eternal life. If it could end, it would not be eternal. Furthermore, the promise is made that he will never come into condemnation. CERTAINTY PRODUCES DILIGENCE Certainty of one's eternal destiny produces holiness in living and diligence in service. The Apostle John wrote "My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: and he is the propitiation for our sins..." (I John 2:1,2). Since I have assurance that my failures are not going to rob me of Heaven, I need not get discouraged and give up. If I feared that after trying to serve the Lord faithfully for thirty years (or even seventy years), I might die in a weaker moment and be lost, I would be fearful and inclined to give up now. No such doubts and uncertainties harass me. My eternal destiny is settled, so I serve without fear of losing my salvation in the end. My salvation rests not upon my faithfulness, but rather upon His faithfulness. "Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ." (Phil. 1:6). GROUNDS FOR ASSURANCE will be taken to Heaven to be with the Lord where he will be taken from the very PRESENCE OF SIN. Wonderful salvation! , Furthermore, some day he HOW TO BE SAVED Now the most important question needs to be considered, which is, "How can a person be saved?" Ephesians 2:8,9 states, "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God: Not of works lest any man should boast." This verse is not speaking of resurrection from the grave, which every person will eventually experience. This salvation is NOT automatic or universal. This salvation is conditioned upon faith! Now it should be apparent to the thoughtful person that not all people have faith, for some are atheists and others are simply skeptics. Furthermore, this verse is not talking about what is often called, "exaltation." Bible salvation is not obtained by keeping the commandments, living by the Golden Rule or by observing other rules and regulations. Bible salvation is BY GRACE! It is not deserved. Furthermore, it is a GIFT. It is not worked for or paid for by the receiver. Someone else paid for it completely. Beware! You are missing Bible salvation if you are trusting your works, for God has declared that it is NOT OF WORKS! Only one condition is required to receive this wonderful salvation: FAITH. "For by grace are ye saved through faith..." (Eph. 2:8). This is not the shallow intellectual faith about which James warned. This is genuine, sincere faith that saves the soul. This is faith in a Person, the Lord Jesus How can a person tell whether or not he is really a Christian? That is a very important question. There are three basic tests. First, there is the matter of a DECISION. Can you point back to a time when you trusted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Savior? The Christ. It is faith in his blood shed upon the cross to provide forgiveness. true Christian is trusting Christ completely and putting "no confidence in MORE PRECIOUS PROMISES i the flesh" (Phil. 3:3). Second, a saved person will have new DISCERNMENT The promises of God can bring peace of spiritual truths, especially a better understanding of the Bible. "But the to your soul. Please do not skip over natural man receiveth not the things of the following verses, for they are the most important part of this booklet. the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually "He (Jesus) said to the woman, Thy discerned" (I Cor. 2:14). Third, the laitn nam saveu uiue, go in peace new Christian discovers that his life is (Luke 7:50). DIFFERENT. One man who had been a very profane individual testified "He was in the world, and the world "When I got saved, I lost 90 percent of was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his my vocabulary." Paul wrote, "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a own received him not. But as many as new creature..." (II Cor. 5:17). In the received him, to them gave he power First Epistle of John, one can find a to become the sons of God, even to number of the "signs of life," "evithem that believe on his name (John dences that one has true spiritual life." 1:10-12). "SAVED" DEFINED It is time to define what is meant by being saved. Some people ask, "Saved from what?" The Bible tells us what we are saved from. We are saved from the guilt of sin, from the penalty of sin, from the punishment of sin and from an eternal hell. To be saved from all those things is wonderful, but there is more to salvation. The Christian has been saved from the PENALTY of sin, and in daily life he can experience deliverance from the POWER of sin. , "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 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. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the Son of God" (John only begotten 3:14-18- ). "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins" (I (Note: the above five verses are John 4:10). among the most concise and precise Gospel verses' in the Bible. I would: 'These things have I written unto you suggest that you meditate upon them that believe on the name of the Son of until you really comprehend the messGod; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on age.). the name of the Son of God" (I John "He that believeth on the Son hath, 5:13). everlasting life; and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the If you are sincere in wanting to be wrath of God abideth on him" (John saved, and yet the above Scriptures have not really helped you, I would 3:36). urge you to earnestly pray that God "To him give all the prophets witness, will by His Holy Spirit give you that through his name whosoever understanding to grasp the precious believeth in him shall receive remiss- truths in those verses. Keep praying ion of sins" (Acts 10:43). and keep reading until you KNOW that you have eternal life (salvation). "....Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they (Paul and Silas) said, PAID IN FULL Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved..." (Acts 16:30, 31). During the depression in the 30's a tired looking woman walked into an insurance office in Minneapolis one day. Stopping at the first desk, she showed a life insurance policy to the ouu clerk and stated that she wished to to i jiyp cancel the policy for she just could not continue to make the payments. She in nn Q affirmed that it was all she could do to I I rii n buy food and keep a roof over her min head. After a few moments of examining the policy, the clerk stated, "This is a "I am not ashamed of the gospel of very valuable policy. What does your Christ: for it is the power of God unto husband say about cancelling it? We salvation to everyone that believeth; really need his approval for the policy to the Jew first, and also to the Greek" is in his name." "My husband?" quest(Romans 1:16). ioned the woman. "Oh, he has been dead three years. I have been trying to "Being justified freely by his grace keep up his policy, but I just can't through the redemption that is in make the payments any longer." Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his The insurance company went into blood..." (Romans 3:24, 25). action and soon discovered that she was telling the truth. They refunded "But to him that worketh not, but her unnecessary payments, and paid believeth on him that justifieth the her the face value of the policy, which ungodly, his faith is counted for enabled her to live out the remainder righteousness. Even as David also of her life in comfort. She failed to describeth the blessedness of the man, realize that considerable assets were unto whom God imputeth righteous- available to her because of her husness without works, saying, Blessed band's death. In a similar way, a are they whose iniquities are forgiven, wonderful benefit is"available to us and whose sins are covered" (Romans because of the death of Christ, yet 4:5-7many people keep trying to make payments on a salvation paid for in full "To the praise of the glory of his grace, by the Lord Jesus Christ on Calvary. wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. In whom we have redemp- The night I was saved, the congregation through his blood, the forgiveness tion was singing, "For nothing good of sins..." (Eph. 1:6, 7). have I whereby Thy grace to claim. I'll wash my garments white in the blood "Giving thanks unto the Father which of Calvary's Lamb. Jesus paid it all. All hath made us meet (fit) to be partak- to Him I owe. Sin had left a crimson ers of the inheritance of the saints in stain. He washed it white as snow." light: Who hath delivered us from the While they sang the song, I went to the altar at the front of the church, knelt, power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son : acknowledged that I had many sins, In whom we have redemption through and thanked the Lord for providing a his blood, even the forgiveness of sins" way that my sins could be forgiven. I (Colossians 1:12-14placed my faith in the Lord Jesus that night, and invited Him into my heart. I "This is a faithful saying, and worthy was saved that night! of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of You, too, can be saved! "Wherefore, whom I am chief" (I Tim. 1:15). he is able also to save them to the uttermost thai come unto God by Him, "Neither by the blood of goats and seeing he ever liveth to make Intercalves, but by his own blood he entered cession for them" (Hebrews 7:25). in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us" Indeed, it's great to KNOW you're (Hebrews 9:12). saved! Don't settle for anything less! n ). ). 7 |